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Whether it will silence his critics in the Parliamentary Labour Party is another question. But Labour's retention of the seat by a comfortable margin, and a collapse in the Tory vote, does give its leader some grounds for optimism that his brand of socialism is not electoral poison, as some in his party fear - and that he can win votes in traditional Northern working class heartlands, far from his own London powerbase. Corbyn-sceptic Labour MPs acknowledge it will bolster his position but some fear it will do nothing to resolve the fundamental differences in the party. Some sources go further, saying it will embolden Corbynistas trying to isolate and destroy "moderate" voices in the party. Labour was not expected to lose the seat, that had been held by Mr Corbyn's friend and political ally Michael Meacher for more than 40 years, before his death. Having a strong local candidate, in Jim McMahon, who fought a campaign on bread and butter issues such as tax credits and regeneration, rather than the big international issues that have dominated the week at Westminster, also helped. Some, including one of Jeremy Corbyn's fiercest internal critics, John Mann, have already identified Mr McMahon as a future Labour leader. Reports from the campaign trail in Oldham had suggested Labour was haemorrhaging votes among its traditional white working class supporters, horrified by what one commentator called the party's transformation into a "poncified" party of middle class Metropolitan liberals. This fed directly into Labour fears that their vote in their traditional English strongholds is as brittle as it proved to be in Scotland. And that UKIP, with its tough line on immigration and appeal to patriotic values, was poised to replace it. The London-based away-day pundits have been proved wrong, however. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn: "It shows the way we've driven the Tories back on tax credits, on police cuts, on their whole austerity agenda and narrative. It shows just how strong, how deep-rooted and how broad our party, the Labour Party, is for the whole of Britain." Newly-elected Labour MP Jim McMahon: "This is a truly overwhelming thing for a local lad to represent the town he loves in Westminster is a big, big issue. And I'm very clear I'm sick to death of what the Tories are doing to towns like Oldham. The whole Northern Powerhouse rhetoric is nothing more than write-off of the North to create a poor house. And I'm sick of it. And I think it's about time we showed the Tories that people have had enough." Labour Deputy leader Tom Watson: "If this was a referendum on Jeremy Corbyn, then he has won. It was a decisive victory with our share of the vote going up. I hope our MPs look at this result." UKIP leader Nigel Farage: "As a veteran of over 30 by-elections I have never seen such a perverse result. Serious questions need to be asked." Anti-war Labour MP Paul Flynn: "Real votes by real Oldham people is first public expression of doubt against Cameron's dodgy dossier with his invented bogus battalions." UKIP sought to make the by-election a referendum on Mr Corbyn, portraying him as an unpatriotic security risk, capitalising on headlines about his alleged equivocation over "shoot-to-kill" in particular. But the party played down expectations that it could snatch a famous victory - those days appear to be over for now. It still has strong support in many parts of the North of England but it is in rebuilding mode after a bruising general election result, which saw it gain four million votes but just one MP, and - as leader Nigel Farage conceded - Oldham's large, Labour-voting Asian population was never going to be a happy hunting ground for his party. Mr Farage's decision to cry foul after the result was announced - claiming the ballot was rigged - is a brave one. Oldham is among the areas in the country identified by the Electoral Commission at "greater risk" of electoral fraud. But complaining about the process after the election could sound like sour grapes. The first by-election test is a nerve wracking moment for any new party leader. Doubly so for one attempting to take his party in a new, uncharted direction as Jeremy Corbyn is doing. He will be mightily relieved to have passed it.

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The Conwy man signed the Organ Donor Register in the 1980s after a friend died in a motoring accident. When he died suddenly of a brain haemorrhage in 2012, his wife Glenys said this decision made a very traumatic time slightly easier. In December, Wales will be the first UK country to introduce a soft opt-out system for organ and tissue donation. This system of deemed consent means that if you have not opted out, you will be regarded as having no objection to being an organ donor. Mrs Price, 71, said that even though her husband's death at the age of 74 was "a complete shock", they had discussed organ donation and it was something that was important to them. She said that knowing Harry's life was giving life to others made things slightly more bearable, adding: "The person who received his liver was able to give their daughter away at her wedding." Mrs Price said she was "touched" to receive an Order of St John Award on her husband's behalf, which recognised the gift of life he had given. Ahead of deemed consent becoming law, the Organ Donation Wales Time to Talk public awareness campaign has been launched, encouraging people to discuss their organ donation wishes with their loved ones.

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The funds raised between 22 April and 12 May, published by the Electoral Commission, were more than twice that declared by their Remain rivals. Britain Stronger In Europe, which raised £1,044,476, said this exposed Vote Leave's "hypocrisy" in "their claims about 'the establishment'". Vote Leave said: "The financial support for 'Project Fear' is collapsing." Campaigners on both sides must publish any donations and loans received worth more than £7,500 in four pre-referendum reports from 1 February to the eve of the vote - 22 June 2016. In the latest report, for the three weeks to 12 May, the bulk declared was in donations - with just one loan, of £10,000, received from the EU Referendum Campaign Ltd. Campaigners for the UK to leave the EU declared £3,781,343, of which £3,355,000 was for the designated lead campaign, Vote Leave. The biggest single donation was £850,000 from International Motors Ltd. The various campaigns for the UK to remain in the EU collectively declared £1,573,402 over the same period, the bulk of which was raised by Britain Stronger In Europe. Its largest donations were both for £250,000, one from the Bet365 group and one from Mark Coombs. The group said it had received an "excellent response from across the UK", with more than 13,000 donations of £50 or less. But it said the difference in amounts raised "highlights the hypocrisy of the deep-pocketed Leave campaigns and their claims about 'the establishment', which will ring increasingly hollow as it becomes apparent how well-funded they are". Vote Leave has said it is in a "David and Goliath" fight against the Remain camp - pointing to banks such as Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan that have funded the campaign. It has also accused Ryanair of breaking electoral law in its pro-EU campaign. On Thursday, a spokesman for Vote Leave said the Remain campaign could "still rely on the big banks to fill their coffers" but the public were being "turned off by a campaign to do down the British economy". "The fact that funding is drying up for the In campaign shows that the financial support for 'Project Fear' is collapsing," the Vote Leave spokesman said.

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Media playback is not supported on this device The former British athlete, 41, says she has been implicated by a parliamentary hearing on blood doping, following a Sunday Times investigation. Radcliffe's 'abnormal scores' have been seen by Sky News despite her earlier telling the BBC she would not be "forced" into releasing them. She claims the results are "not even suspicious". The marathon world record holder scored 114.86, 109.86 and 109.3 in three blood test results, which were followed up and cleared by the IAAF at the time they were given. Any score above 103 recorded by a female athlete can trigger further action, but Radcliffe, who set her world best time in 2003, said those three tests analysed by experts employed by the Sunday Times lacked context. Guidelines from world athletics governing body IAAF say readings should not be taken within two hours of exercising. Radcliffe added: "Two of those are invalid because they were taken immediately post-race and they would not be looked at for that reason. "But if they are looked at by qualified experts with the full context, they would say that is totally explainable, that's not even suspicious." Radcliffe says all three samples were taken after periods of altitude training. Earlier on Thursday, when asked by the BBC whether freeing blood data would clear her, Radcliffe said: "I don't need to. I'm clean." Her stance was in accordance with the advice of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada), which maintains that released data for athletes can be misinterpreted. But fellow British athletes Mo Farah and Jo Pavey are among those to have published their personal information to prove they are clean. Radcliffe had said she would not release her data because she wanted to "protect a lot of other innocent athletes". She told the BBC: "I do not want to see another innocent athlete put through what I've been through in the last few months." After believing she was linked with the Sunday Times investigation during a Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee hearing on Tuesday, Radcliffe said she did not want to "enter into a huge battle" with Jesse Norman MP, who suggested London Marathon winners and medallists and "potentially British athletes" were under suspicion. Norman did not mention Radcliffe by name but she responded: "Maybe he didn't understand that to all intents and purposes he may as well have mentioned my name. "My bigger concern is not with that committee. I don't really care what a committee of MPs thinks about a situation that they don't fully understand. "I do believe they should have had representatives from the IAAF there if they were going to attack and besmirch the good work they have carried out and have done in being at the forefront of the anti-doping movement. "If they were going to launch accusations against athletes, they should have invited them." Meanwhile, five-time Olympic champion Sir Steve Redgrave has criticised the treatment of Radcliffe. Redgrave told BBC Sport: "The way Paula is being looked at is wrong. Rumours going around for days and weeks is not the way to handle it." Former 1500m world champion Steve Cram called for parliament to provide funds to aid the fight against cheating in sport. He told BBC Two's Newsnight: "MPs are questioning it and rightly so. But the anti-doping organisations need more funding. "If they are that concerned it would be wonderful if the government in this country set an example and made money available to catch cheats instead of chasing Paula Radcliffe. "It is very hard for her to prove her innocence. We are almost left with trial by public opinion. She hasn't done anything wrong." Cram also told BBC Radio 5 live: "Paula's come out on the front foot and done what any of us would do. "If we spend too much of our time focussing on a sensational story like this, it only benefits one group of people and that's the people who are still cheating."

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Victorino Chua, 49, denies murdering three patients and poisoning 18 others at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport. One alleged victim, Tracey Arden, died after arriving at the hospital in July 2011, Manchester Crown Court heard. Her mother June Arden described the 44-year-old's deterioration. Family members in the public gallery wiped away tears as her statement was read to the court by a barrister. "It was the first time we hadn't been able to make her smile," the statement read. "Tracey was definitely aware of her surroundings. She'd communicate by making noises," Ms Arden, who had suffered from multiple sclerosis since 1999, "had such a happy personality". At the time of her death she could not speak, could not hold her head up and had to be fed through a tube in her stomach, the court heard. Mr Chua, of Churchill Street, Heaton Norris, Stockport, is alleged to have killed his victims by secretly injecting insulin into saline bags. The bags were used by "unsuspecting" nurses while treating patients on wards A1 and A3 at the hospital, the jury was previously told. Jacqueline Martin, a sister on ward A3, also described Ms Arden's deterioration . The nurse said she noticed that a cannula inserted into the patient's arm was not functioning properly, which meant she was not receiving dextrose solution or antibiotics through a saline drip. She called a doctor because Ms Arden was "looking very poorly and was having difficulty breathing" and her chest sounded "rattly". The nurse tried to use suction to clear Ms Arden's lungs without success, although a physiotherapist managed to "clear a lot of secretions." Peter Griffiths QC, defending, told the jury that it was disputed whether insulin was a "causative factor" in Mrs Arden's death. Father-of-two Mr Chua is also accused of killing Arnold Lancaster, 71, and Derek Weaver, 83, at Stepping Hill. The nurse has pleaded not guilty to 37 charges in all, including 25 counts of attempted grievous bodily harm with intent, eight counts of attempting to administer poison and one count of administering poison. The alleged offences happened between June 2011 and January 2012. The trial is expected to last up to four months.

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The hearing is considering plans by Third Energy to frack for shale gas at its existing site near Kirby Misperton in Ryedale. More than 80 people opposed to the plan addressed the council meeting in Northallerton. A decision on the proposals is expected on Monday. Third Energy said it had been producing gas "safely and discreetly" for over 20 years and had a "responsible approach". North Yorkshire county councillors were greeted by placard-waving protesters as they arrived for the planning committee meeting at County Hall. Opening the meeting, committee chairman Peter Sowray said: "It's plainly obvious from the attendance today and by the amount of correspondence received by members, and the press coverage both locally and nationally, that this is by far the most controversial application that we have had to deal with." Ryedale councillor Lyndsay Burr, who was the first scheduled speaker, told committee members: "Ryedale residents do not want to be the first in the UK to allow fracking". She said she feared giving it the go-ahead would "devastate the area" and ruin its reputation as a tourist destination. Baroness McIntosh, the former Conservative MP for the area, told councillors: "There are too many unknowns and there are too many answered questions. "I believe you are being asked to take too much on trust today." Fracking is the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside. Last week, officers at North Yorkshire County Council recommended the granting of permission for Third Energy's application. Thousands have since contacted the authority with representations, with the vast majority against the proposal. The government has said it is going "all out for shale" to boost energy security and the economy. Opponents fear it could cause problems including water contamination, earthquakes, noise and traffic pollution. Environmentalists have also warned pursuing new sources of gas is not compatible with efforts to tackle climate change. No fracking has taken place in the UK since 2011, when tests on the Fylde coast were found to have been the probable cause of minor earthquakes in the area. Since then, two high-profile applications to frack in Lancashire have been rejected by councillors and are now the subject of appeals. Those speaking in favour of the application will be heard by councillors on Monday. If approved, fracking could start by the end of the year. Third Energy has licences to produce gas in North Yorkshire and offshore in the North Sea. In 2013 it drilled an exploratory well near the village of Kirby Misperton, close to the North York Moors National Park. Rasik Valand, chief executive of Third Energy, said: "The planning officer's positive recommendation comes after very detailed scrutiny of the application by the Planning Officer and statutory consultees and taking into account representations by members of the public and other groups. "Third Energy has been drilling wells, producing gas and generating electricity safely and discreetly in North Yorkshire for over 20 years and we will continue to maintain the same responsible approach in the future."

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But the little Italian plumber from Brooklyn is set to be the highlight of his Japanese parent's press conference at the world's biggest video games trade show this week. Nintendo is expected to announce a new Super Mario game for its upcoming Wii U console, as well as provide more details about at least two titles featuring the character for its 3DS handheld games machine. The revelations at the E3 event in Los Angeles will mark the latest evolution of the company's 31-year-old mascot. Mario originally started life as Jumpman, a carpenter with a blue shirt and red overalls whose girlfriend was kidnapped in the game Donkey Kong. He was renamed Mario by his creator Shigeru Miyamoto ahead of the sequel Donkey Kong Jr's launch in the US - a rare instance in which he portrayed the villain. Legend has it he was named after Mario Segale, landlord of a US warehouse rented by the firm. He has since appeared in more than 200 games, including educational titles, sports simulations and, most famously, in a series of side-scrolling platformers alongside his brother Luigi. But Mario's influence extends far beyond his video game cartridges, making him an unlikely cultural icon. Tim Augst, a 24-year-old living in Melbourne, set up a website in 2006 to document all things Mario. Mario Mayhem currently receives about 100,000 unique visits a month, with a cross-section of individuals contacting him to pay homage. "I get a lot of younger kids sending in their Mario drawings and other kinds of art, and then I get the older kids, and even 30-year-old adults, sending in everything from videos to pictures of their tattoos," Mr Augst says. "There are probably a few more guys contacting me than girls, but not by much." The Australian curator and his visitors aren't the only ones with a Mario obsession. Some take it to a deeper level. '"Except for cartoons, Mario was my only escape from the problems at home," Mario Brotha, a New York-based contemporary artist, tells the BBC. Mr Brotha says changing his name to echo Nintendo's protagonist has helped attract attention, giving him a competitive advantage when it comes to winning commissions for magazine fashion shoots and advertising campaigns. "I remember racing home from school everyday just to be Mario for a couple hours. Mario Bros was my first experience with the digital-electronic world. So I chose Mario Brotha as a name to represent how far technology has come in the last 20 years." The character also proved influential to one of the men behind another hit video game series. "Mario is a great character," says Peter Vesterbacka, the chief marketing officer - or "mighty eagle" - at Angry Birds' developer Rovio. "But it's not just about him - it's the whole world that Nintendo has built, with the other great characters and the stories told through its games. "Like Angry Birds, it's a game that both kids and parents can enjoy, and a great example of how games can connect generations." Mario's original design was the result of technological limitations. He was given a big nose and moustache because early video games' graphics were limited to blocky pixels. He has a hat as Mr Miyamoto was not a fan of drawing hair, and the colours red and blue were selected to help him stand out from the background. Since then, little details have been added, such as buttons and the logo on his cap. "As far as things go, there isn't a lot of depth to him," says Professor Jose Zagal, a game designer and academic at DePaul University, Chicago. "He's defined by a few traits and characteristics: Italian-American, a bit tubby, sports a moustache, and is cheerful and brave. That's about it really." Despite his appearance it would be foolish to underestimate Mario's power, says Ed Barton, director of digital media at Strategy Analytics. "He is the most iconic video games character - Super Mario is to games what Mickey Mouse is to cartoons," he says. "Nintendo has been very careful with the intellectual property he represents, keeping the quality of his games not just high but industry-defining. "Super Mario games are a benchmark for all platforming games." So how much is the little guy worth? "A quick back of the envelope calculation comes to around 250 million unit sales, which even with a conservative average sales price comes out at around $10bn (£6.5bn) in new games sales," says Mr Barton. "Obviously the series has generated more through second-hand games sales and licensing." Mario shouldn't need to worry that he will ever have to go back to unblocking drains. But there are some clouds over his future. Nintendo posted a net loss of 43.2bn yen ($553m, £360m) over its last financial year, and some question the firm's refusal to release Mario games on iPhones and Android handsets. "Smartphones are already the biggest device category, but gaming will be on all connected screens," says Mr Vesterbacka. Prof Zagal suggests the character's fate may depend on the success of Nintendo's hardware. "While Nintendo's 3DS sales have picked up, it got off to a rocky start and the upcoming Wii U console seems to have created more confusion than excitement," he says. "On the other hand, Nintendo's Wii was met with great derision when it first launched but ended up soundly trouncing everyone else in terms of sales numbers." But one thing the experts and fans are resolute about is that Mario should keep at his most lucrative activity. "Princess saving is what he seems to do most often and most successfully," states Prof Zagal. But Mr Augst says he wishes he could ask his hero one question: "Is Princess Peach really worth it?"

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American world number one Spieth, who defends his Masters title in two weeks, beat Frenchman Victor Dubuisson 5&4. Northern Ireland's McIlroy beat Smylie Kaufman, of the United States, 3&1. Mickelson won 1 up dramatically against US compatriot Daniel Berger, who pulled out with an injured wrist after striking a rock while trying to play his second shot at the 18th. Australian Jason Day showed no sign of the back injury which troubled him in his opening match against Graeme McDowell on Wednesday with a 5&3 win over Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee. Also recording a second wins in the competition was England's Andy Sullivan, who defeated Matt Jones of Australia 3&1. McDowell and Paul Casey can now not progress to the last-16 knockout stage after they halved their match on Thursday. Every player in the 64-strong field contests three matches in his group in a round-robin format, with 16 players advancing to the knockout phase which starts on Saturday.

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As part of Gad Weil's artistic project "Climate Noah's Ark", two boats travelling along the River Seine carried the art project into Paris, as France prepares for a climate summit. Leaders and important people from around the world will meet in the French capital in November to discuss the issues surrounding climate change.

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Kyles completed their 2-0 defeat of Oban Camanachd in the first quarter of the game while it was well into extra-time before Newtonmore first found the net in their 3-0 victory over Lovat. Kinlochshiel went top of the Marine Harvest Premiership with a 3-0 win at Kilmallie and Kingussie also leapfrogged previous leaders Kyles with victory by the same score at home to Glasgow Mid Argyll. Lochaber cashed in on the defeats of Mid Argyll and Kilmallie to overtake them both from the bottom with a 3-1 home success over Glenurquhart. In the MacAulay Cup South semi-final in Oban, Colin MacDonald opened the scoring after just three minutes and on 23 added a second to effectively seal the tie. It was totally different in the North tie at Beauly where 90 minutes came and went goalless and it was midway through the first period of extra-time before Jamie Robinson eventually got the breakthrough for Newtonmore. Robinson then broke Lovat's hearts with a second just before the turnaround and Michael Russell put the tie to bed with 10 minutes of play remaining. Newtonmore now go into the final at Oban's Mossfield Park on 19 August having recorded comfortable back-to-back league and Camanachd Cup wins over their opponents from Tighnabruaich. In the Premiership, Scott MacLean opened for Kinlochshiel late in the first half and Duncan MacRae made it 2-0 early in the second. A Keith MacRae penalty then confirmed the victory that put Shiel top of the table with 19 points from 11 games, with Kyles on 17 from 10. Splitting these two on 18 points but from 14 outings are Kingussie. Ruaridh Anderson sent them well on their way to victory at the Dell over Glasgow Mid Argyll with a quick-fire double early in the second half and Lee Bain netted late on. Meanwhile, Shaun Nicholson sent Lochaber on their way to victory. James MacPherson equalised for Glenurquhart just after the hour but Stuart Callison responded instantly before Ryan Johnstone confirmed Lochaber's winning cushion. These results leave Kilmallie, who have a slightly inferior goal difference, and Mid Argyll still on five points at the bottom, now two behind Lochaber but with two and three games in hand respectively. The bottom side is relegated while second bottom play off against the National Division runners-up. In the second tier, Caberfeidh and Skye put themselves in pole position for those promotion places. Cabers gained revenge for the previous Saturday's Balliemore Cup final defeat by Fort William with a 1-0 home win over the same opponents. Meanwhile, Skye are also undefeated - a point adrift but with a game in hand - after their 4-0 win at Inveraray. Oban Celtic beat Strathglass 2-1 at Cannich in the other National Division game.

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Theresa May is to publish a new counter-terrorism bill, which includes a requirement for schools, universities and councils to counter radicalisation. But plans to stop some UK fighters returning have been questioned by the independent reviewer of terror laws. Campaigners have also warned the bill threatens civil liberties. It comes as a week-long counter-terrorism awareness campaign enters its third day. The UK's terror threat level remains "severe" after it was upped from "substantial" earlier this year in response to conflicts in Iraq and Syria. Forty terror plots have been foiled in the UK since the 7 July bombings in London in 2005. Speaking ahead of the bill's publication, David Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of terror laws, told parliament the proposal to stop British fighters returning from Syria and Iraq was an "announcement awaiting a policy". The new Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill includes: Speaking ahead of the bill's publication, Mrs May said: "We are in the middle of a generational struggle against a deadly terrorist ideology. These powers are essential to keep up with the very serious and rapidly changing threats we face. "In an open and free society, we can never entirely eliminate the threat from terrorism. "But we must do everything possible in line with our shared values to reduce the risks posed by our enemies. "This bill includes a considered, targeted set of proposals that will help to keep us safe at a time of very significant danger by ensuring we have the powers we need to defend ourselves." But Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights group Liberty, said: "Yet again, politicians resort to high talk and rushed legislation in an attempt to look tough in the face of terrorism. Another chilling recipe for injustice and resentment by closing down the open society you seek to promote." Amnesty International called the powers "draconian", adding none of the measures seemed "properly thought through". But Mrs May has warned that even the new powers will not fully address the threat, reiterating the need for the Communications Data Bill of more wide-ranging web monitoring powers to be enacted. That bill - labelled a snooper's charter by critics - was scrapped following Lib Dem opposition. On Tuesday a report into the killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby concluded the security agencies could not have prevented his death. There were errors in the security operation but they were not "significant enough to have made a difference", the Intelligence and Security Committee report said. Fusilier Rigby was killed on 22 May last year, near Woolwich Barracks in London, at the hands of Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale. David Cameron said internet companies had a "social responsibility" to act on terrorist material posted online after the report detailed how Adebowale spoke on Facebook about wanting to murder a soldier. The social networking site said it did not allow terrorist content and takes steps to prevent it. The report also said the government's Prevent programme, designed to divert individuals from radicalisation, had not been given sufficient priority. The national policing lead for the programme, Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy, said: "The police cannot be in every mosque, college or other community venue monitoring what is discussed and the doctrines which are promoted. Nor would we want Britain to be such a society. "We need parents, schools, partners, friends and colleagues to be aware of the signs that someone is being influenced by extremist messages and have the confidence to report any concerns to the police." This week's national campaign will see more than 6,000 people receive briefings at 80 venues across the country.

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A win for the visitors would have taken them above Ayr United into second but Joe Cardle's strike condemned them to a sixth straight loss. Cardle netted the winner when he converted from Ryan Wallace's pass. The Pars go up to the Championship having finished 18 points clear, while Peterhead will take on Ayr in the promotion play-off semi-final.

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But the Tories and Labour are today behaving as if the risk of another such shock in the current parliament is nil, because in different ways they've both limited their room to offset the impact of one. And history would teach us that the economy tends to go pop when we least expect it. So what have they announced? Well the Tories have said they would legislate within 100 days of forming a government to make it illegal for a chancellor during the life of the next parliament to raise income tax rates, VAT or National Insurance. There are a couple of things to say about this. First some will see it as a blatant admission that what politicians say, in their manifestos and elsewhere during an election campaign, isn't to be trusted. If we need a new law to convince us Tories won't put up taxes, that implies everything else they've promised during the election campaign is in the category of good intentions, which could be abandoned the moment the going gets tough. Which is hardly likely to reinforce our confidence in the political class. David Cameron would probably say he's prepared to take that risk, because he wants to reinforce the so-called brand of the Conservative Party that it will take as little money as necessary from us to maintain the public services we see as essential - and wants to imply that Labour is less responsible with our precious income. But it is odd, perhaps, that he won't make the same legislated commitment not to put up business taxes or rates, given that he has been frantically positioning the Tories as the pro-business party, in contrast to Ed Miliband's putative anti-business stance. But if businesses aren't to get legislated protection for the corporation tax and rates they pay, they might begin to fear they are the thin end of the Conservatives' no-tax-rises wedge. And then there are a couple of points to make about the conventional view of how best to run an economy. First is that orthodoxy in the Treasury for donkey's years has been that no chancellor should have his or her hands bound (one golden day there'll be a "her") in respect of what taxes can be increased or cut - because no chancellor can possibly have the gift of perfect foresight in regard to what economic circumstances may demand. So it is striking that George Osborne - who would presumably remain chancellor if the Tories are re-elected - has agreed that raising more money from income tax, NI and Vat is off limits - it deprives him of revenue-raising flexibility in respect of the three big taxes, which collectively are forecast to raise 65% of all taxation next year. In other words, he has restricted his fiscal room for manoeuvre by two thirds. Now that may or may not reassure voters, but it may not reassure credit rating agencies. How so? Well the UK still has one of the top-notch ratings for its debt, which helps the government to borrow at interest rates which are less than zero (adjusting for inflation). But the AAA and almost-AAA ratings given to us by assorted agencies are based in part on the idea that we have a robust economy able to raise whatever taxes are required to fill a hole, as and when the economy is knocked off track. So it is a bit odd perhaps that the Tories are sending out a signal that there are certain taxes that cannot be adjusted in an upward direction. That said I imagine any no-tax-rises law would contain some kind of force majeure clause, allowing it to be over-ridden in a fully-fledged fiscal crisis. But if that's the case, why bother with the law in the first place. So to get back to where I started, the law is only compelling at all if you believe there can't possibly be a serious economic setback in the next parliament. And that would seem an eccentric assumption to make, after looking around the world - in that the potential for accidents to occur everywhere from Beijing, to Frankfurt to Moscow is not de minimis. To be clear, a similar point can be made about Ed Miliband's pledge today that he would increase tax credits at least in line with inflation every year - in that there may be circumstances when saving a bit of money by being a bit meaner with them would be in the national interest. But in his case he is not planning a law to guarantee these increases. Or at least he hasn't spoken of such a law yet, although there are eight days left of this intriguing election campaign.

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Fiona Anderson, 23, was found dead on 15 April last year next to a multi-storey car park in Lowestoft, Suffolk. Police later discovered the bodies of Levina, 3, Addy, 2, and 11-month-old Kyden, in their mother's bed at their home in London Road South in the town. The inquest heard there was evidence they had been drowned in the bath. When police officers visited Miss Anderson's home, they found she had written on the walls using a green marker pen, the coroner's court in Bury St Edmunds was told. One of the messages read: "I put them to bed with their bear bears - they loved their bears." Another read: "I love them and I'm going to keep them safe." One more said: "They're cuddled up together sleeping. They look so peaceful." Each of the children had a heart drawn on their torso in green ink to create the message "I love you x", Ch Insp Andy Smith told the inquest. Police also found evidence of a lipstick kiss mark on each of their foreheads. The heavily pregnant Miss Anderson had written the names of each child on her own body, along with the name Eve, which she intended to name her unborn daughter, the inquest heard. Ch Insp Smith said the day before the killings, she had argued with the children's father, Craig McClelland, after he began a new relationship. She stabbed him during this confrontation but he initially lied to police and said he had been stabbed in the street by a stranger. Ch Insp Smith said: "He later told us he lied to protect Fiona and stop the children being taken into care. "It is clear that Fiona Anderson loved her children but that she was extremely emotionally disturbed on April 13, 14 and 15." He added a torn-up letter recovered after her death provided "a harrowing insight into her life". "She felt unable to cope with the situation and apologetically outlined her intention to take her children with her," Mr Smith said. "In her words: a mother never abandons her children." The family had been known to a variety of care agencies since she first became pregnant in 2009, coroner Peter Dean said. Child protection plans were in place after concerns over possible physical and emotional neglect were raised. A serious case review by independent expert Ron Lock for Suffolk Local Safeguarding Children Board was read to the hearing. It found the family had been considered "hard to reach" as Miss Anderson had refused to engage with children's services since her first pregnancy. Because of her refusal to co-operate, no mental health assessment could be carried out. "If the children had been placed into care this could have avoided this tragic outcome," Mr Lock said in the report. A post-mortem examination found no evidence the children had been restrained or assaulted. The coroner recorded Miss Anderson took her own life and the three children were unlawfully killed. Mr Dean said he was satisfied Suffolk County Council had done everything it could since the deaths to improve procedures.

A pregnant woman killed her three children before writing " I love you " on their bodies , kissing them and @placeholder them up in bed , an inquest heard .

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Police, paramedics, the fire service and air ambulance were called to an area off Duke Street in Hadleigh on Saturday morning. As reported in the Ipswich Star, he was pulled from the water and attempts were made to resuscitate him. He was taken by ambulance to Ipswich Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. Police are not treating the incident as suspicious.

A man died after he was @placeholder falling into the River Brett in Suffolk .

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The symbols were originally thought to be graffiti, but experts now believe they were carved to ward off evil spirits at Wookey Hole, Somerset. Four new ritual protection marks were found by staff creating a new caving experience at the site. Experts from Bristol University who have studied the markings said they dated from about 1550 to 1750. Chris Binding from the university's speleological society, who helped carry out the survey, said about 50 carvings, which were originally thought to be mason's marks, were identified as being ritual protection marks in 2007. He said the newly discovered markings, which were found in a more inaccessible part of the cave, had "all the characteristics of age". "This is the largest known concentration of ritual protection marks in any cave in Britain," he said. "It was a good luck charm in the medieval era and carried on through to the late 18th Century." He added that most of the marks were in a vertical shaft - known as an aven - leading upward from a cave passage, which would have felt unnaturally cold to people below due to a convection draught. The caves' owner, Daniel Medley, said the find "proved that the route our adventure cavers use is the same one used in the 15th Century, mentioned by William of Worcester in 1470". He added: "It is quite chilling to think that people hundreds of years ago were deep underground carrying flaming torches for light and scratching these symbols on the rocks because they believed it would protect them from the witch and her evil." Many of the symbols appear to be the letter W or the letter M, but it is thought they are double Vs, in reference to the Virgin Mary. The marks will now feature in guided adventure tours at the attraction.

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The private member's bill would have pardoned all men living with UK convictions for same-sex offences committed before the law was changed. There were emotional scenes with one MP fighting back tears during his speech. The government, which has its own plans for posthumous pardons, "talked out" the bill, which will not now go ahead. Minister Sam Gyimah spoke for 25 minutes, reaching the time limit allotted for the debate. There were shouts of "shame" and "shameful" from angry MPs as the seconds ticked down and proceedings came to an end. SNP MP John Nicolson said he had secured government support for his bill, which was withdrawn when the Ministry of Justice published its own commitment to a "Turing's law" on Thursday. During Friday's debate Mr Nicolson accused the government of trying to "hijack" his plans. The government's rival measure, an amendment to the Policing and Crimes Bill announced on Thursday, would grant pardons for those convicted who have since died. Ministers say those who are still alive can go through a "disregard process" to clear their names. The government said it would not support Mr Nicolson's Sexual Offences (Pardons) Bill - which proposes a blanket pardon for the living - because it could lead to some people being cleared of offences that are still crimes. "I understand and support the intentions behind Mr Nicolson's Bill, however I worry that he has not fully thought through the consequences," said justice minister Sam Gyimah. "Our way forward will be both faster and fairer." Speaking during the debate, Mr Nicolson said: "I have to ask the House, should we not prioritise the living over the dead?" His bill would have "set aside" nearly 50,000 convictions, about 15,000 of which apply to men who are still alive today. Mr Nicolson says he was motivated by his work as a BBC journalist in the 1990s: "I made a documentary in the 1990s looking at the discriminatory laws which criminalised gay men. "There were some shocking injustices. Men were arrested aged 21 for having 'under-age sex' with their 20-year-old boyfriends," he said. The bill is intended to set aside only convictions made under: And it would do so only under the conditions that: The debate saw MPs from both government and opposition parties speaking in favour of moving the bill through Parliament. Labour Rhondda MP Chris Bryant made an emotional speech in favour of the bill, recalling gay and bisexual MPs who demanded the right to fight in World War Two, insisting they and others should receive "something that feels like an apology". Conservative MP Iain Stewart said that while he would support the government amendment, he believed it wouldn't go far enough. Mr Stewart said: "We can move forward in a much more symbolic way... a way which will really make a difference to many people in this country." A 2015 petition calling for pardons for the estimated 49,000 men affected by convictions for consensual gay sex was signed by over half a million people, including the actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who played Turing in the 2014 film The Imitation Game. Another signatory was Turing's great-niece Rachel Barnes. Speaking to BBC News in 2015, Ms Barnes said: "We've always considered that it is totally unjust that only Alan was given a pardon. "There were 50,000 other homosexuals who were convicted and not given a pardon. We would really like this to be put right now."

A bill that would have @placeholder clean the criminal records of thousands of gay men has fallen at its first parliamentary hurdle .

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This is a response to the accusation that the corporation is "imperial in its ambitions" made by Chancellor George Osborne (along with several newspapers). Partnerships with cultural bodies, sharing news with local newspapers, opening up the iPlayer to third party content - the mood music is all about co-operation rather than competition. And with £650m being cut from the BBC's income by shifting the cost of free TV licences for the over-75s on to the corporation, there is little scope for any expansion. However, one of the first pieces of information to emerge from this review is the plan to increase broadcasting to North Korea, the Middle East and Russian-speaking populations. The global broadcasting landscape is changing fast. Russia and China have been rapidly expanding their international services. The corporation has also seen its services jammed and blocked in a number of countries. The BBC says it needs to respond especially in countries without a free press and in places that are in turmoil. The World Service has a global reputation - but what does that mean to the next generation? The speed of change in technology and competition could quickly erode any broadcaster's audience. The problem is the BBC is going to have to change and that is going to cost money. The technological tidal wave of the digital revolution is impossible to predict. Ten years ago as the BBC bid for its current charter, there were no smartphones or tablets, YouTube was only a few months old, Amazon was essentially a bookseller. Quite what any media organisation needs to do to stay relevant in such a shifting landscape is anyone's guess. As Armando Iannucci said in his recent speech in Edinburgh about media experts: "Their guess is as good as yours, only more expensive." Apple is challenging Radio One, Amazon has Top Gear's team, Netflix is outbidding the BBC in drama. In the BBC's "Blue Room" - a store of technology about to be released on to the marketplace - you can play with Amazon's voice-activated media player, Facebook's virtual reality system, Oculus Rift and Apple's carplay radio stations. The BBC's prediction is that over the next 10 years its income will shrink from 20% of UK TV revenues to 12%. The plans for bigger and bolder drama and giving people the chance to "binge" watch is a recognition of the new competitive environment. The BBC's problem is looking after its core audience and responding to a technological transformation. "Having to ride two horses" is the phrase used in Tony Hall's speech. Take news for example. Around five million people a night still watch the Six O'Clock News, but for a growing part of the audience the news is a phone-only service. The future, Tony Hall says, is to move from "rolling" to "streaming" - the question is how long you keep the "rolling" part going when you need to fund new "streaming" services. Older audiences still want services such as the News Channel and they are heavy consumers of the BBC and a growing part of the population. Younger, digital first consumers expect something different. Serving two such radically different audiences will take money and the BBC has just taken a £650m cut. Those "tough choices" mentioned in the speech is the theme that has not yet been announced. "We will inevitably have to either close or reduce some services," said Lord Hall. This speech was the BBC showing its friendly co-operative forward-facing persona. The question of which services it has to close or change radically is the topic that was left hanging in the air. The language of the speech about the BBC being a "curator" or a "platform" for British content was aimed at organisations and politicians who see the broadcasting landscape being utterly transformed by largely American technology companies. This, however, is far from the end of the debate about the future of the BBC. Expect more announcements in the weeks to come. Today was the good news, trying to make the positive case for the BBC - the consequences of cuts and technological change will come later.

" This is not an expansionist BBC " is perhaps the key political line in Monday 's announcements from director general Tony Hall , as he @placeholder out the corporation 's plans ahead of the BBC 's charter renewal in 2016 .

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I love chocolate and once I start on a bar I can't stop until it's all gone. One square, or even a few, are never enough. My family know that if they bring chocolate into our house they will have to hide it. So what is it about the food that so many of us find irresistible? And what characteristics does chocolate share with other foods that we simply can't say, "no" to? As part of a new series on the science of food, botanist James Wong and I went looking for answers. Chocolate is made from cocoa beans, which have been grown and consumed in the Americas for thousands of years. The Maya and the Aztecs made a drink out of cocoa beans called xocolatl, which means "bitter water." Can people learn to curb their chocolate cravings? That's because in its raw form cocoa beans are intensely bitter. To get at the beans you first have to crack open the thick husk of the cocoa pod, releasing a pulp that has an intense tropical flavour that's halfway between lemonade and a custard apple. Known as baba de cacao, it's sweet, acidic and very sticky. The beans and pulp are then sweated and allowed to ferment for several days before being dried and roasted. Roasting releases a range of chemical compounds including 3-methylbutanoic acid, which on its own has a sweaty rancid odour, and dimethyl trisulfide, the smell of over-cooked cabbage. The combination of these and other aroma molecules creates a unique chemical signature that our brains love. But the rich, chocolaty smells and the happy memories of youth that those smells provoke, are just part of chocolate's attraction. Chocolate contains a number of interesting psychoactive chemicals. These include anandamide, a neurotransmitter whose name comes from the Sanskrit - "ananda", meaning "joy, bliss, delight". Anandamides stimulate the brain in much the same way that cannabis does. It also contains tyramine and phenylethylamine, both of which have similar effects to amphetamines. Finally, if you look hard enough, you will find small traces of theobromine and caffeine, both of which are well-known stimulants. For a while, some food scientists got very excited about the discovery but to be honest, although chocolate contains these substances, we now know they are only there in trace amounts. Your brain is not going to get much of a chemical rush from eating a few squares. None the less, they may play a small part in seducing our senses. So what else does chocolate have going for it? Well, it also has a creamy viscosity. When you take it out of its wrapper and put a bit in your mouth without biting, you will notice that it rapidly melts on your tongue, leaving a lingering sensation of smoothness. Special touch receptors on our tongues detect this textural change, which then stimulates feelings of pleasure. But the thing that really transformed the cocoa from a bitter and watery drink into the snack we adore today was the addition of sugar and fat. The addition of just the right amount of each is crucial to our enjoyment of chocolate. Look at the side of a packet of milk chocolate and you will see that it is normally contains around 20-25% fat and 40-50% sugar. In nature such high levels of sugar and fat are rarely found, or at least not together. You can get lots of natural sugars from fruits and roots, and there is plenty of fat to be found in nuts or a tasty chunk of salmon, but one of the few places where you will find both together is in milk. Human breast milk is particularly rich in natural sugars, mainly lactose. Roughly 4% of human breast milk is fat, while about 8% is made up of sugars. Formula milk, which is fed to babies, contains a similar ratio of fats to sugars. This ratio, 1g of fat to 2g of sugars, is the same ratio of fats to sugars that you find in milk chocolate. And in biscuits, doughnuts, ice cream. In fact this particular ratio is reflected in many of the foods that we find hard to resist. So why do I love chocolate? For a whole host of reasons. But it may also be that I, and chocoholics like me, are trying to recapture the taste and sense of closeness we got from the first food we ever sampled; human breast milk. The Secrets of Your Food begins on BBC2 at 2100GMT on Friday February 24th. Join the conversation on our Facebook page.

It may seem simple - we like chocolate because it tastes nice . But there 's more to it than that - and it relates to a fat / carbohydrates @placeholder that is set right from the very beginning of our lives .

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Mark Carney, the Bank's governor, averred there could be a "technical recession" - that is six months of economic contraction with all that could mean for job losses and real incomes. Sterling could fall sharply, investment dry up and confidence slump. Today, a different tone - nuanced, maybe, but still significant. Although Mr Carney made it clear that the economic risks were still very visible - and indeed some, such as sterling's slump, were beginning to "materialise" - preparation ahead of the referendum was now paying off. And, yes, he actually used the word "positive" for some of the effects seen post the Big Vote. Financial markets had remained stable, government and business borrowing costs - even for the battered banks - had fallen and the decline in the pound had provided a boost for exporters and businesses that earned revenues overseas. Investors may be concerned with profitability and economic growth, Mr Carney said. What they didn't seem so worried about was the resilience of the whole system, which can be a much more toxic issue - as anyone who went through the 2008 crisis will attest. That is not to suggest that the governor thinks anything much different from what he and members of both the Financial Policy Committee and the Monetary Policy Committee believed before the referendum. It is to suggest that the governor is well aware of his new role post the leave vote to provide reassurance, a one-man stability mechanism during this remarkable episode of political and economic volatility. The governor has not only been very visible since the vote on 23 June - today is his third appearance before the cameras - but he has also been keen to say that the Bank is working as it should to provide all the monetary and financial stability support it can during such uncertain times. That has gone a considerable way to calming market jitters. Of course there are significant risks ahead, the Bank says. It has raised fresh concerns about the debt levels being carried by "vulnerable" consumers who might be affected by job losses or a fall in incomes. It says foreign investment in commercial property developments has declined significantly. And, given that 75% of all lending to smaller businesses uses commercial property as collateral, any fall in prices could have worrying knock-on effects for access to credit. Today's announcement that Aviva has followed Standard Life in stopping people removing their money from its property investment fund for fear of a disorderly "rush for the exit" shows that uncertainty in the commercial office and shops market is having a tangible impact on retail investors. Which could have an impact on broader consumer confidence. Housing transactions have also slowed and the share prices of the major home builders have slumped, raising fears about the government's targets for house building. Which were pretty heroic in the first place. Mr Carney also warned that the UK's large current account deficit meant that foreign investors' confidence in the country's economy had to be maintained. The UK relies on the "kindness of strangers" to service that deficit, as the governor memorably put it earlier this year. Mr Carney's tone has softened. No, he doesn't believe there are necessarily sunny uplands ahead. It's just that his job in a world where there is such little visibility politically or economically on the path ahead has changed. From warning mode. To reassurance.

At the last Inflation Report , published in May , you could hunt high and low with little success for the word " positive " when it came to the Bank of England 's @placeholder of the possible fallout from any vote to leave the European Union .

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They quote a person familiar with SNL's plans as saying Katie Rich was suspended indefinitely. The programme's network, NBC, is yet to comment. On Friday, Ms Rich posted a now-deleted tweet, saying "Barron will be this country's first home-school shooter". An avalanche of criticism on social media followed. Ms Rich later deleted her tweet, suspending her Twitter account. However, on Monday she was back online to issue an apology. One Facebook post in reaction to her previous tweet has been shared nearly three million times. The post read: "NO child deserves to be talked to in such a manner... He is a child, he is to be respected and he is off limits". Chelsea Clinton, a former first child, joined the support for Barron. SNL has made a number of shows in recent months, parodying President Trump. Mr Trump, who took office on 20 January, has described the programme as "not funny" and with "terrible" cast.

A Saturday Night Live writer has been suspended after posting a tweet @placeholder US President Donald Trump 's son Barron , US media reports say .

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The posts are at Tech Mahindra, a firm that provides business support to its client companies. The company, which has its headquarters in India, set up in Northern Ireland in 2007 with the help of Invest NI. The posts are at risk because it has lost a major contract with EE, the mobile and internet provider. The BBC understands its workforce was informed of developments on Monday. The work with EE is due to finish in early January. A spokesman for Tech Mahindra told the BBC the EE contract was the "primary source" of its work in Belfast. He added it was not yet clear how many jobs could be retained. The company has its offices in Lanyon Place. EE announced last month it was no longer going to subcontract work related to its broadband services. That is what is currently done in Belfast by Tech Mahindra staff.

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The raid happened at the Murco garage in Bowhouse, Maddiston, at about 21:45 on Friday. The man, who was wearing a balaclava, threatened staff with a weapon and demanded money. He made off with a number of items. Officers have appealed for witnesses to come forward. The suspect was described as 5ft 8in to 5ft 10in tall and of stocky build. He spoke with a Falkirk accent. He was wearing a grey camouflage jacket, dark trousers, dark trainers with white soles and black gloves. Det Sgt John Burgoyne said: "Although no-one was harmed during this robbery, it was still upsetting for those who witnessed it. "It is essential that we trace this man as soon as possible. Anyone who has information, or recognises the description of the man, is asked to contact Police Scotland immediately."

Police are hunting a @placeholder armed robber who held up staff at a petrol station near Falkirk .

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Michelle Logue said Gerard Mulligan did not see a psychiatrist for weeks after he killed his father, despite being on suicide watch for some of that time. She said Mr Mulligan's solicitor phoned the prison regularly to try to arrange a psychiatric appointment. His first visit with a psychiatrist was on 2 November, Ms Logue said. Mr Mulligan took his own life at the high security jail on Saturday evening. The Prison Service said the PSNI, coroner and prisoner ombudsman have launched investigations into the death. The 44-year-old had been on remand charged with murdering his father, Gerald Mulligan, at his home in Limehurst Way, Lisburn, on 25 September. Ms Logue said in a letter to her from prison, Mr Mulligan said "he had never felt as alone in his entire life". "His solicitor told me he had been ringing... to try and get him an appointment with a psychiatrist, but he only saw the psychiatrist last Wednesday," she told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme. "So he hadn't seen or spoken to anybody about these mental health issues for all those weeks." Prison authorities and staff must show more understanding for inmates, said Ms Logue. "The people in there have done wrong but they have to be treated as human beings," she said. "They have to be more caring and sympathetic. To me they do what they have to do, but no more." Ms Logue said Mr Mulligan had tried to phone her several times on the day he took his life. "I was working on the Saturday morning and he tried to phone me twice," she said. "He tried to phone me four times in two minutes on the Saturday afternoon at 15:30 and I had laid down for a sleep and missed his calls - the same day that he killed himself. "I feel terrible guilt, because I was the love of his life and he told me I was the only thing that was keeping him going. "So I believe maybe if I'd have spoken to him I could have stopped him on that day. But I believe it was inevitable [that he would eventually take his own life]. "I think he thought when he couldn't get through to me that I had fell out with him and that's a very haunting thought for me." Listen again to the interview on Radio Ulster's Talkback programme.

The partner of a man who took his own life in Maghaberry Prison while on remand for the murder of his father has @placeholder the care he received .

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Both Dumfries and Galloway Council (DGC) and National Museums Scotland (NMS) hope to secure the artefacts. The Scottish government has been asked to intervene to resolve the situation. However, a spokesman said the decision lay with the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer and urged both sides to continue discussions. The council hopes to secure the hoard to go on display at a new gallery being built in Kirkcudbright. A campaign has also been launched locally to ensure the treasure - discovered in Galloway - returns to the region. For its part, NMS has said it believed it had put forward a "mutually-beneficial and positive proposal". It would allow part of the hoard to go on display in Kirkcudbright and, on occasion, the whole collection to be hosted by the gallery. It had been hoped a joint bid could be agreed, but so far that has proved impossible. A Scottish government spokesman urged the two groups to hold further talks to try to resolve the situation. "NMS has proposed a collaborative approach with DGC which guarantees the long-term display of a significant portion and, for specific periods of time, all of the Galloway hoard in Kirkcudbright Art Gallery," he said. "The Scottish government would encourage continued discussions to ensure the best outcome for the long-term conservation of the hoard and public access to it across Scotland. "The decision on allocation is made by the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer and the advice of the Scottish Archaeological Finds Allocation Panel, not by ministers." The panel is due to discuss the hoard's future later this month.

The Scottish government has said talks should continue between @placeholder bidding to host a Viking treasure hoard to ensure the " best outcome " .

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More than 80,000 people are expected to attend the event over the weekend, with many camping. The festival is being held at the Perthshire estate after moving from Balado. Acts set to perform include the Libertines, Kasabian, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and David Guetta. The festival moved from its traditional Balado home after fears were raised about an oil pipeline running under the site. But the move sparked some local controversy around Strathallan. After a lengthy planning battle over issues including wildlife and transport, DF Concerts won permission to hold the festival at Strathallan for the next three summers. Coaches are running to the festival grounds near Auchterarder from around Scotland, and provisions have been put in place on the local road network. Police and festival organisers have issued extensive advice to revellers ahead of the event, with strict rules in place including bans on selfie sticks, flagpoles, flares, nitrous oxide and so-called legal highs. The festival arena opens to fans on Friday, although many opt to also camp over on the Thursday night. Weather forecasts predict a mix of rain and sunshine through the weekend. Festival director Geoff Ellis said: "We're starting a new chapter for the festival at Strathallan and creating brand new memories for thousands of music fans. "We have the UK's best line-up and there's no doubt it will be the weekend of the summer. "My message to fans when they get here is to respect the site, look after yourself, your friends and your camping neighbours - and most of all, have a fantastic time."

Music fans have started @placeholder for the T in the Park festival , which is being held for the first time at Strathallan Castle .

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The Huer's Hut on Towan Head, Newquay, was built in the 19th Century as a shelter for fish-spotters called huers. The huer would shout "heva heva" ("here they are") to alert the fishermen in Newquay Harbour. The Grade 2* listed building has been restored after residents set up a campaign group to help raise funds for its repair. Peter Hicks, from The Old Cornwall Society, said: "The huers were watching for signs of pilchards in the bay. They would notice a change in the colour of the water to a dark reddish brown. "They would see seagulls diving in, catching fish. "It was important job because pilchards came through the bay quite quickly." The huer would use a trumpet-type instrument and wave gorse or heather to alert the fishermen. At its height, millions of pilchards were exported from Cornwall before a decline in numbers. Mr Hicks said: "Huer comes from the same derivation as hue and cry when the people of a town or village would see a thief and raise a hue and cry and chase that person." All the repairs have been carried out using original materials such as lime mortar. Local councillor Geoff Brown said: "It is an iconic building and means a lot to people of Newquay. I'm really delighted they've done such a fantastic job of refurbishing it."

A Cornish landmark that is part of fishing @placeholder in the West Country has been restored at a cost of £ 30,000 .

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Jay Shelby, engineer with the 3D printing company Stratasys, presses a button on a machine which is roughly twice the size of a microwave oven. A pale blue light glows inside and a nozzle starts sliding back and forth, spitting out a thin stream of molten plastic. Very slowly, a shape starts to build up. It is an interior strut for a jet-powered drone, or unmanned aerial vehicle, which Stratasys is building entirely out of 3D-printed components, in conjunction with Aurora Flight Sciences. Mr Shelby says: "With the molten plastic, it squirts it out similar to frosting a cake - layer by layer, building up the shape. And as the plastic cools, it starts to solidify, and then you can see the shape form." However quickly the nozzle in the printer darts around, 3D printing is a slow process. Every new layer adds only another quarter of a millimetre to the height. The largest single component on the drone is one metre across, but it takes no fewer than nine days to print. However, 3D printing is a technology that is set to transform aerospace manufacturing, cutting costs and improving the speed and efficiency with which products are made. Traditional methods of plastics-moulding and metal-casting look to be on their way out. Working with metal can take a heavy toll on machines that need constant repair and replacement. 3D printing, or additive layer manufacturing as it is sometimes called, offers the possibility of a far cheaper manufacturing model. That's why a whole section of the Dubai Airshow is taken up with companies and products extolling the benefits of this new technology. Just a few years ago, you'd be lucky to find a single 3D company at airshows trying to persuade the aerospace industry that a manufacturing revolution was underway. And yet, mini 3D machines are now even available to the hobbyist. Several machines were on display at the airshow, with the cheapest costing about $1,000 (£660). Planemakers Boeing and Airbus already use 3D-printed components extensively, as does defence company Lockheed Martin. Airbus' new A350 XWB aircraft is thought to use more 3D-made components than any other passenger jet, at about 1,000. Lockheed and Boeing use them on a joint venture, United Launch Alliance, that sends rockets into space. Drone manufacturers also now use 3D-printed metal components because they are often 25% lighter than ones cast in the traditional way. For the same reason, NASA is using 3D-printed components for its new Space Launch System, which will take astronauts and cargo into space. And Boeing has 300 varieties of 3D-printed components across 10 different types of aircraft. The company says that in the planes it is now building and delivering to customers, there are more than 20,000 3D-printed parts In theory, new components and replacement parts could be produced in printing machines anywhere in the world. Say, for example, a British Airways aircraft on the tarmac in Dubai needed a new component. Someone, be they in Dubai or BA's engineering headquarters in the UK, would transmit the necessary computer instructions to print a part. Mr Shelby says: "You don't have to have a big manufacturing facility. You don't have to have skilled labourers to run these machines. "You just need space to put the machine and a few men to start the jobs. It saves time for aircraft firms in the production cycle because they can build these parts on site, rather than waiting to have them shipped in." Components printed by 3D often prove to be more robust than ones made with the old technology, and more simple to make. "You are able to make more complex parts all in one piece," says Mr. Shelby. "You can make a part which used to be made of 10 separate components and make it as a single component." Stratasys and Aurora Flight Sciences built their jet-powered drone to prove to the aviation industry it is possible to build an entire aircraft out of 3D-printed components. Until a few years ago, the aircraft manufacturers were reluctant to buy 3D-printed components for their planes, because they were untested. Stringent aviation safety regulations means parts have to be particularly robust, able to withstand extremes of speed, temperature and vibration. The 3D aerospace components being used today are generally non-critical parts, although some companies, including GE Aviation, are experimenting with more safety-important parts such as aero-engine components. But the technology is still evolving, and there are currently limitations regarding size, strength and the complexity of products. A report from consultants PwC said that 3D printing could certainly be a game-changer, but that the biggest impediment to mass production was processing speed. Other sceptics have highlighted quality control problems and the need to overcome safety regulation hurdles. Nevertheless, there is clearly an excitement in the industry about 3D printing's potential, including to change the design of aircraft and military equipment by creating more complex shapes. Earlier this year, an executive at French defence firm Dassault, Pierre Marchadier, told his engineers that the arrival of 3D printing meant that a new era had arrived. "Be creative," he said. "There are no limits to your dreams."

Thirty years ago , it was a pipe dream for scientists . How could one make a machine to @placeholder three - dimensional objects ? Here , in the exhibition hall at Dubai Airshow , it happens before your very eyes .

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To secure more rights for people with disabilities, she makes frequent visits to courtrooms where the world of beauty contests is but a dream. But the first Miss Wheelchair India contest in Mumbai in late November changed much of that. She found herself amid the humdrum of the green room, glitter of the stage and the usual chatter one associates with a beauty pageant. But there were some marked differences - the stage was much smaller than the ones set up for Miss India pageant and the contestants were treated as winners even before the event started. Ms Kewlani's reply is an emphatic "no" when asked if the smaller stage and venue dimmed the importance of India's first Miss Wheelchair contest. "Nobody really cared about how many people attended the event or how big the stage was. It was a night to celebrate the courage and fighting spirit of the contestants. We all won that night." She says that her "rich and challenging" life has taken another positive turn after winning the contest. "Polio made me wheelchair-bound early on in life but I never saw it as a disability and worked hard to be trained as a media professional like other normal people in the country. "And winning the pageant is just another way of showing that disability cannot stop you from feeling and looking beautiful," the 41-year-old says. Divya Arora feels her first runner-up crown has strengthened her belief that "beauty is boundless". Ms Arora, who earlier worked for a leading newspaper, says her faith that "disability can never overshadow her beauty and abilities" helped her do well in the pageant. The contest is the idea of tax consultant Sounak Banerjee whose life changed in 2006 when muscular dystrophy forced him to use a wheelchair to get around in the bustling city of Mumbai. Mr Banerjee liked watching Bollywood films and TV shows but often found the absence of people with disabilities in the entertainment industry "disturbing". "Disabled people are also consumers of the entertainment industry but they are seldom represented," he says. He then came up with the idea of the Miss Wheelchair India contest to fill the gap and provide a platform they could call their own. Planning the event was tough due to a lack of funding and human resources, he says but adds that the struggles were forgotten when the final day approached. "I felt satisfied and happy when I saw these women wearing their best costumes and a winning smile. It all came together nicely in the end - I had done something for these courageous contestants," he says. "I found the contest very unique because it honoured beauty irrespective of contestants' physical disabilities," says scientist Gopika Anand, 31, who won the second runner-up crown. Ms Anand met with a road accident while studying engineering and was soon confined to a wheelchair. But she persevered, completed her course and found work as a scientist at a leading consumer manufacturing firm. Shelly Bhutani, another contestant, hopes that the corporate world will take notice of the event in the future. "I feel we too deserve to be in front of the camera and get brand endorsements like Miss India winners," she says. Ms Arora, however, felt the organisers were not well prepared for the event and did not provide the kind of support she had hoped for. Mr Banerjee accepts that a lack of sponsorship made the job of organising the event tough. "I agree that there were problems at the event. We will work harder and hope that more people will support the event next year," he says. But other contestants want to see change at a more basic level. India is not known to be a disabled-friendly country as most public places, monuments and buildings do not have facilities catering to their specific needs. Bhavna Sharma, who won the contest in a category that honoured people who are disabled but not necessarily confined to a wheelchair, says citizens with disabilities do not feel inferior and have achieved success in almost every field. "But it's the country's poor infrastructure for disabled people that lets us down," the 27-year-old says. Some years ago Neenu Kewlani travelled all over India in a chauffer-driven car to highlight the problems faced by those with physical challenges while commuting. She says the problem is even more severe in rural areas and smaller towns where people with disabilities are virtually confined to their homes. Nearly every contestant expressed concern over a lack of sensitivity about disability rights. But not one of them is willing to give up hope. Ms Kewlani says there is a long way to go in making India a disabled-friendly country but "we are not ready to give up as we are fighters". "Facilities are improving in cities but we will continue to put pressure on governments to ensure they provide better opportunities and infrastructure for the disabled," she adds. Calcutta-based Sarmistha Sinha says disability rights activists will have to continue fighting like other marginalised sections of the society. An accident in 2006 confined the 41-year-old doctor to a wheelchair, but she says her "thoughts and ability to stay positive remained free". Ms Sinha won in a category which honoured married women in a wheelchair. But winning was not everything for her as she wanted to use the platform to showcase her talent. The wheelchair dancer saw the contest as an opportunity to present her skills and meet people like herself from all over the country. "I only wanted to dance as such opportunities are rare but the feeling that I have won a beauty pageant is slowly sinking in," she adds. For Gopika Anand the real winning moment came when she saw her father's moist eyes as the results were announced. "I was overwhelmed to see her with the crown. I am very proud today to be recognised as Gopika Anand's father," says Anand Mohan. BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.

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On the drive into Novi Sad you can pick up a ghost on the airwaves. Radio Krajina is a taste of their lost home for the Croatian Serbs who now live in Serbia's third-largest city. There are requests, phone-ins and plenty of turbo-folk, the mash-up of traditional Balkan music and electronic beats that reached its peak popularity during the conflict of the 1990s. It was the soundtrack to the end for the long-standing Serb community in Croatia's Krajina region. In August 1995, more than 200,000 people fled before, during and after Operation Storm - a massive military push by Croatian forces. They came over the border in a ragged convoy of cars, lorries and tractors, carrying whatever possessions and livestock they could. Many ended up settling in Novi Sad and the surrounding region of Vojvodina. Almost two decades later the refugees still come through the doors of the Humanitarian Centre for Integration and Toleration in the city centre. Some clutch plans and land titles for their former homes. A few dream of returning - most just hope to sell up so they can improve their lives in Serbia. Dusan Starcevic is one of them. He says he walked for 11 days with his pregnant wife and infant son after their car broke down as they left Croatia in 1995. Once a judge, he now practises law in Novi Sad - though his jacket and shirt suggest that either he does not care for expensive clothes, or he simply cannot afford them. "Everything has gone," he says, holding back tears, before insisting that he no longer wants to talk about the past. But he is keen to discuss recent events at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. In particular, the decision of the appeal court to acquit two Croatian generals previously convicted of conspiring to drive Serbs out of Krajina. "This verdict is very disappointing and inexplicable," says Mr Starcevic. "As a human being, I'm convinced that relations between people, states and groups are based on ethics and logic. This verdict is a severe attack on both of those." But he admits the decision was not a complete surprise. Like many Serbs, Mr Starcevic is not convinced of the impartiality of the ICTY. The acquittal of the generals means that no Croatians have been convicted of crimes against Serbs during the conflict. The 1995 offensive followed years of conflict between ethnic Serb nationalists and the newly-independent state of Croatia. In 1990-1991 Serbs in Krajina declared their loyalty to the Serbian government led by Slobodan Milosevic and got help from elements in the Yugoslav federal army. Croatia is set to join the European Union next year, and the cynical view here is that the Hague verdict ensures a clean slate. But it leaves Croatian Serbs who suffered during the conflict without justice - or much hope of it ever coming. The founder of the Humanitarian Centre is another Croatian Serb - though Ratko Bubalo left a year before Operation Storm. He offers smiles and a glass of home-made schnapps, before explaining the plight of the refugees. His organisation has dealt with 130,000 of them since 1995. This does not just have local significance - it might shake Europe in the long term. "This does not just have local significance - it might shake Europe in the long term." "They are a very vulnerable part of the population. Sixty-five percent of them don't have resolved housing and there are still some people in refugee centres." Mr Bubalo is still trying to help the refugees recover their former properties - not just in Croatia but Kosovo and Bosnia as well. The proceeds of a sale could make a big difference to the lives of the displaced families. But he says they are no longer expecting much in the way of satisfaction from the ICTY. "Today it is difficult to talk about the tribunal. All hope for international justice faded away. This does not just have local significance - it might shake Europe in the long term." Skourta Redjepi and her daughter Djila admit they no longer follow the tribunal at all. Members of a Roma family, they lived in Jablanica, where the Kosovo Liberation Army established a notorious base. One day in 1998 a masked man came to the family's door and told them they had five minutes to leave. Djila says she hasn't seen her father since. "We could never return to Kosovo - how could we?" she asks, rubbing her face. "We are afraid to go back. There is no justice." In its latest decision, the tribunal cleared Kosovo's former prime minister Ramush Haradinaj of any involvement in atrocities at the Jablanica camp. This prompted celebrations in Pristina - but anger in Belgrade. "Another slap in the face" was the pithy analysis of local media outlet B92. The recent verdicts have left Serbs with little faith in the tribunal's ability to find justice for their suffering in the conflicts of the nineties. Under the Milosevic administration, Serbian forces committed serious crimes in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo - and many of its former leaders have gone on trial in The Hague. But thousands of Serb civilians were also killed, and the ICTY has been rather less successful in holding to account those responsible. As founder of Belgrade's Humanitarian Law Centre, Natasa Kandic campaigned to bring the perpetrators of the atrocities of the Balkans conflict to justice. She handed evidence to the ICTY which helped to convict the Serb perpetrators of the Srebrenica massacres in Bosnia. But now she says the tribunal has failed to help victims come to terms with what happened - and that a new approach is needed for there to be any hope of reconciliation in the region. "We need new thinking - we have to forget hostility and see all victims as equal. It is true that more Muslims, Croats and Albanians were killed than Serbs. But the Serbs who were killed also deserve justice." It now seems unlikely that this will come through the ICTY. But Natasa Kandic believes that moving beyond a judicial process is the best answer to preventing future conflicts. "We need a non-judicial body which will deal with victims, organise public testimony and show respect for all victims. That would change the current culture in our relations to victims. Today all societies in the region only have respect for their own victims." "Without empathy for others, it is impossible to build a future, rule of law and reconciliation."

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Surrey Police are investigating an alleged transfer of about £1m to a charitable account in August last year. One of those arrested is understood to be Will Riches, who quit as federation vice-chairman earlier this week. Scotland Yard has said two of the men are Met police officers on secondment. Two of the men are in their 40s and two are in their 50s. The Police Federation, which represents thousands of officers of constable, sergeant and inspector rank, says it is co-operating with the inquiry. "We are carrying out a detailed and thorough investigation into allegations of fraudulent activity involving significant amounts of money," said Detective Superintendent Karen Mizzi from Surrey police. The federation's chairman, Steve White, general secretary, Andy Fittes, and treasurer, Martyn Mordecai, are understood not to be among those arrested, the BBC's Danny Shaw says. The Independent Police Complaints Commission has also been notified. The Police Federation of England and Wales first raised concerns with Surrey police - the federation's local force - on Tuesday. The federation then made a formal allegation relating to accounts held by the Federation's Constables' Central Committee on Wednesday. Det Supt Mizzi said Surrey police had contacted the relevant police forces to inform them of the arrest of their officers. The force would also be contacting the Charities Commission, she said.

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Five detainees took control of a residential unit at Oberstown Youth Detention Centre after keys were taken from a member of staff. The detainees were joined by three others, and gained access to the roof. A fire began on the roof at 20:00 BST causing extensive damage to the building. Six fire engines were used as rescue workers battled the flames, said the Dublin Fire Brigade. A Garda (Irish police) emergency response unit and ambulances also attended the scene. A Garda police investigation is under way into the cause of the fire. The detention centre had been operating with minimum staff coverage due to strike action, said its director, Pat Bergin. A number of staff had came to the assistance of colleagues from the picket line, but the strike action continued, added Mr Bergin. Irish Minister for Children Katherine Zappone has ordered a report following the fire, called on the facility's staff, management and the unions to resume discussions to resolve their industrial relations dispute as soon as possible. Bats and golf clubs Earlier this month, five detainees escaped overnight from the campus armed with bats and golf clubs. The boys, aged between 15 and 17, were returned to the centre following a police search involving air and dog units. The campus caters for residents under the age of 18, including young offenders and criminals with multiple convictions for serious offences.

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Media playback is not supported on this device Tamsin Greenway and Pamela Cookey, two of the biggest names in English netball, are spearheading two of Britain's three new top-flight clubs. But, while their job titles are the same, their circumstances, approach and recipes for success are somewhat different. Greenway left Surrey Storm after coaching them to a second-successive Grand Final triumph and moved to Coventry to join the Wasps family - or brand, depending on which way you look at it - as one of the country's top rugby union clubs decided to expand into netball. Cookey, the former England captain who played in Greenway's Grand Final-winning Storm side, retired as a player only for her business career to unexpectedly return her to the sport within months as director of netball at Severn Stars - a club formed as a collaboration between the University of Worcester and University of Gloucestershire. "It's exciting and I do love a challenge," Cookey, 32, told BBC Sport. "I want to put my mark on something. And this is something new, something I could bring my ideas to." The task? To help build an elite squad of 12 players, establish three development sides, build community support, a fan base and club identity from scratch in six months. Sat in her first meeting with Wasps powerbrokers, Greenway admits she completely failed to "play it cool" as figures around the table discussed their plans to throw their Premiership-rugby-sized resources - including an exhibition centre - behind one of the Superleague's new clubs. "I couldn't contain myself and think I said, 'oh my God, this is my dream job'," said 34-year-old Greenway. "When I was sat there and they were telling me all these ideas of what they wanted to do, that is what I was thinking - this is what I've worked towards for 10 or 12 years and I can't believe I'm sat here." Greenway, capped 67 times by England between 2004 and 2015, left Surrey after seven years to join Wasps, who identified her as the cornerstone figure of their audacious expansion project. "She was one of the most talented players to play for England, but she's also got the business brain and sporting brain to go with it," said Wasps group chief executive David Armstrong. "The world is her oyster in terms of netball. As the sport grows in popularity and in participation she is bound to be at the forefront of it, so recruiting her as director of netball was probably my best decision of the year. "As a newcomer into the sport, the most important decision was always going to be the recruitment of director of netball or head coach because that is what was going to bring the idea to life and help recruit players. "In Tamsin, we have got that." Likewise, the Stars made sure their first appointment would be one that resonated in the netball world. Even before seven-time Superleague winner Cookey arrived with her 114 England caps, Severn Stars were already being moulded by a former international playing great and new head coach, Mo'onia Gerrard - a two-time World Cup winner with the Australian Diamonds. The pair, once fierce rivals on court, are now the closest of colleagues. "Oh, I had plenty of battles with her on court. She was a pain," said Cookey. "It was weird, the first conversation we had, because it was like we had known each other for years." The Australian's arrival was a "major coup" for the fledgling franchise, says founding director Anita Navin. "She was a massive brand straight away that said we mean business," said Navin. "I'd got an idea early on in terms of what we needed to do to be seen, as I was worried that we would be a new franchise and wouldn't be seen as a critical part of it and we wouldn't recruit players. That became a big issue early on, plenty of sleepless nights about how you build a brand in two weeks. "You can't recruit players without a coach because they want to know the style of the coach. "A lot of our athletes in this country have their own preference of style, they don't like the real authoritarian type of coaching, they want to be empowered, have ownership, so I knew the coach was a real critical appointment for us. "And it couldn't just be someone that has a tiny element of experience at international level, we needed to get someone that had been there and lived it." When Cookey walked off the Copper Box court after helping Surrey Storm defend their title in May 2016, did she expect to start retirement as a senior lecturer at the University of Gloucester and director of netball at the then, yet-to-be identified new franchise? No. "It came at the right time," said Cookey, a figure that Navin had long tried to get involved with the game in Gloucestershire. "I wasn't thinking about any netball jobs at all when I retired. It wasn't on the radar. "This is a nice opportunity to stay in the sport and I could create something with netball and could develop my career on the other side." While Severn Stars might lack Wasps' established professional sporting pedigree, they have the pooled resources of two universities. They will play at the 2,000-seater Worcester Arena, calling on the netball nous of Navin - one of the country's foremost coaching advisors - while utilising communication, marketing, strength and conditioning, performance analysis and sports therapy expertise at the schools. Media playback is not supported on this device As an athlete, Cookey was used to being busy as she effectively lived a double life, juggling an international playing career and club ambitions with business management jobs, which at a time also included commutes from Bristol to France. Unlike Greenway's post at Wasps, Cookey is less focused on what happens on court as she only contributes as a specialist coach, with former Hertfordshire Mavericks head coach Sam Bird coming in as assistant coach. Cookey's job is one that ranges from ensuring the complex partnership between the two universities works to helping sign players, establishing links with grassroots netball clubs, generating corporate support, working on events and helping to make sure that everything adheres to Superleague regulations. She has even had an influence on the creation of Twitter accounts and merchandise. Asked if she could have chosen a tougher job in netball after retiring from the game, she laughed: "Probably not. I tend to do that to myself, I'm never one to do things by half. "This job brings together my talents. It's the right fit for me. I can still be in netball but not be playing or coaching." With franchise bids won and bosses in place, both Wasps and Stars mounted bold recruitment drives. Last season's top scorer Rachel Dunn is among several Surrey players to follow their boss to the Ricoh Arena, while fellow England international Natalie Haythornthwaite moved to Wasps from Manchester and South Africa captain Bongiwe Msomi returns to the English league to reunite with Greenway. "It was nice to get my dream team and honestly this is the pick of who I wanted," said Greenway. "I took a lot of stick for bringing so many players in from different clubs, but I've had relationships with these players, we have worked together a long time. "We brought in big names, we knew we had to get people talking. I think we have become a target, of course we have. "I had to work hard to convince some of them. There are some unknowns, we've still got George Fisher to make her mark, Fran Williams, Lucy Harris, Lucy Parize - these are important players because this is not about a one hit wonder, it's a building process." From the sleepless nights thinking about how to approach and convince players to suit up for the Stars, the club has gone from zero to 100 players - across four teams and development squads and training partners - wearing the Severn colours in six months. Jodie Gibson was the first player to sign and she was one of three England internationals to leave last season's losing finalists Manchester Thunder to join the new franchise. "We needed quick wins before we could market who we were," said Navin. "We wanted the right people to share the identity, and that is the conversation we had with those three." From there, the squad was built, taking in emerging England talent and those with Superleague experience, before looking at players in local trials. "It feels like the jigsaw has come into place," she said.

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Sentinel-2a will take pictures of the planet's surface in visible and infrared light. Its data will track everything from the growth of megacities to the variable yields of the world's most important food crops. The satellite will ship to the Kourou spaceport in the next month. Its launch on a Vega rocket has been scheduled for 12 June. The spacecraft will be the mainstay in a fleet of EU Earth observers that are planned to go into operation by the decade's end. "Sentinel-2 is the workhorse of the system," said Volker Liebig, the European Space Agency's EO director. "It gives us the optical component. Optical imagery is the backbone for most applications in Earth observation." Prof Liebig was speaking at the IABG consultancy in Munich where the platform has been undergoing final testing. Sentinel-2a is essentially Europe's version of the American Landsat mission. The US satellite series - its current flier is named Landsat-8 - pioneered the science of monitoring the planet from orbit. It has assembled a continuous record of the world's fluctuating features that stretches back more than 40 years. In satellite terms, it is the gold standard. Everyone will know Landsat's worth, if only through the use of mapping apps on the web and on smartphones, which all incorporate the data. Now, the US effort is to be bolstered by the new European observer, which has been calibrated in such a way that its pictures will be an excellent match with the American ones. But the European endeavour is far from being a "me too" project. Its imaging instrument will be sensitive across more bands of light (13 multispectral versus eight), allowing it to discern more information about the Earth's surface; and it will "carpet map" a much wider strip of ground (290km versus 185km). Its colour images have a best resolution of 10m, versus Landsat's 30m. Moreover, the whole Sentinel concept envisages paired operation, meaning a second satellite, Sentinel-2b, will follow its sister into orbit in 2016. Tracing the same path but separated by 180 degrees - half the planet - the duo will come back over the same patch of land in rapid fashion. It is a powerful capability that will significantly reduce the time taken to acquire a cloud-free look at a particular location. At the moment, it can take Landsat, on its own, months or even years to get a completely clear view of some places. Important changes at the Earth's surface can be missed as a consequence. "With two satellites we have a re-visit over the equator every five days, and at mid latitudes - like over France and the UK - it is every three days," said Esa's Sentinel-2 project manager Francois Spoto. "This is an extremely frequent re-visit time compared with any sensor currently in orbit. And in our spectral bands, we also have one that allows us to remove light clouds like cirrus." Another good parallel with the American cousin is the data policy. It will be open and free to all users. When the first spacecraft in the new European series was launched last year - a radar satellite called Sentinel-1a - the demand for its more specialised imagery was immense. The interest in Sentinel-2 data is expected to be just as keen, if not more so. And it will be available in large volumes. Roughly 600GB per day of raw data will be downlinked, using a high-speed laser link if required. Once processed into the various useable data products, this translates into about 1.7TB - the equivalent of perhaps a few hundred DVD movies. Heinz Sontag is a project manager with Airbus Defence and Space, which assembled the new satellite: "What Sentinel-2 offers that other optical imagers up there cannot is the continuous ability to image all the surfaces and provide a continuous flow of data, whereas previous missions were only able to take isolated images here and there and you had to mosaic them back together to get a complete picture." Four further Sentinel missions - to monitor the oceans and the composition of the atmosphere - should be in orbit by 2020. European nations have so far committed 7.5bn euros (£5.5bn; $8.5bn) to the constellation and its wider operation, with more promised in the future. The intention is that every Sentinel satellite is replaced at the demise of its mission, ensuring there is continuity of information deep into this century. "In the past, we've had data for only four or five years in the case of some one-off satellites," explained Markus Probeck, whose GAF company in Munich will be developing applications from Sentinel-2 images. "This is a programme that is sure to be there for the very long term. This allows users to move to remote sensing-based services because there is the security of knowing that the data will be sustained and available." The EU's Copernicus programme will launch a range of satellite sensors this decade to monitor the state of Planet Earth

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But midfielder Gary Fraser has signed a new contract until January. Manager Alan Archibald said of the 22-year-old, who has not played this season: "Gary has had a horrendous time with injuries over the last two years. "And we want to give him the chance to prove his fitness and fight for his place in the team." Fraser, who signed from Bolton Wanderers in 2014, has not played since April last year. "He has plenty of football ahead of him and we are hopeful he can put the last 18 months behind him and hit the ground running when we return for pre-season," Archibald told his club website. The manager pointed out that Thistle handed Welsh a similar short-term deal two years ago before the midfielder returned to the first team. Archibald paid special tribute to Welsh despite deciding against offering a new contract to the 27-year-old, who signed from Hibernian in 2012. "Sean has been at the club for more than five years and has been a vital part of the squad throughout that time," he said. "He was instrumental in our promotion bid and was my captain for the first two seasons in the Premiership, playing a massive part in us securing top-six last month. "We are in a much better position than in previous years as we have the majority of this year's squad under contract for next season and, with a number of those players in Sean's position, it means that there isn't the opportunity to offer Sean the contract he would want." Welsh has made 28 appearances this season, scoring four goals, as Thistle finished sixth in the Scottish top flight. Englishman Amoo joined Thistle in 2015 after leaving Carlisle United and the 26-year-old has played 31 times this season. Ridgers has made only one start and one substitute appearance since the 26-year-old signed from Kilmarnock last summer. Wilson made four appearances for Thistle at the start of the season, but the 22-year-old ended the campaign helping Stranraer avoid relegation from League One while on loan. Meanwhile, central defender Niall Keown has returned to parent club Reading after playing 16 times while on loan from the English Championship club.

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Just 61% of Scots have broadband, compared with 74% of people across the whole of the UK. Broadband connection is particularly low in Greater Glasgow, where the figure is just 50%. One reason why take-up is so low may be that a relatively high proportion of Scots never use the internet. Ofcom's Scottish director Vicki Nash warned that with so many public services now available online, Scots were at risk of being left behind. About 30% of adults in Scotland say they do not use the internet in any location, compared with 20% across the UK as a whole. Just under two-thirds of Scots have a computer in their home but across the UK the figure is 77%. Take-up of broadband was particularly low amongst those aged between 16 and 34, people aged 55 and people on a low income or lower down the social scale. 'No need' Although there is some concern about the speed of broadband connections in some parts of the country, this is probably not the reason why such a high proportion of Scots have neither broadband nor a home computer. Ofcom's research also found that the bulk of people who do not have the internet at home did not intend to get it within the next year. Most of them said this was because they did not know how to use a computer, felt there was no need for broadband or even that they were too old to use the internet. However, not all the findings were negative. People in Scotland aged between 35 and 54 were actually slightly more likely to have broadband at home than people across the UK. The internet's increasing importance for both businesses and public services was also highlighted. For instance, many councils are now placing public notices on a website and some observers believe fresh moves to try to remove the legal obligation to place them in the press are likely within the next few years. Ms Nash said: "Despite increasingly sophisticated broadband packages available to more and more Scots, we are less likely than the rest of the UK to take up broadband. "With an ever-increasing range of public services available online and the importance of the digital economy, there is a risk of Scotland being left behind."

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A scar, half an inch wide, stretched from just above the elbow and up over his shoulder. "Our company paid for full medical expenses, so he had an operation," explained his coach, Kang Doh Kyung. "[He] is the best player in StarCraft and has won everything in this field and is still going strong." Repetitive strain had injured Mr Lee's muscles, deforming them and making surgery the only option to save his illustrious career. Holding his arm out so I could have a proper gawp, Mr Lee paused. "It's like a badge of honour," he said. It seemed like the confirmation I'd been expecting - that gaming in South Korea had reached a dangerous place, where professionals and amateurs alike were destroying their lives and their bodies. But Mr Kang sees it very differently. They're athletes, he argues, and injuries happen. One of his colleagues later suggested that if I'd been interviewing the world's most-decorated marathon champion, I wouldn't be surprised if they had damaged knees. Nor would I suggest a footballer needing surgery was "too far", the phrase I'd used to describe Mr Lee's arm. He had a point. Professional gaming - e-sport - is a huge deal in South Korea. There's a government department dedicated to its development. These gamers are like professional footballers, their matches broadcast - on TV and online - in English as well as Korean. The best earn hundreds of thousands of pounds every year: a mixture of salaries, prize money and sponsorship deals. Mr Lee is a Starcraft player for KT Rolster, one of South Korea's bigger teams. The scar is a result of being at the top of his game for 10 years. Read more stories from the South Korea Direct season: Whatever happened to Psy and K-pop's bid to conquer the world? The woman who liberated Korean housewives In Pictures: Fish, fruit and veg in South Korea's markets How good are Kim Jong-un's hackers? On the day I visited, KT Rolster's Starcraft players were training hard to be just like Mr Lee. The noise of their practice produced an almost hypnotic tap-tap-tap-tap backing track in a room which resembled the kind of place you'd be subjected to when sitting a computer-based exam. Each PC in its own cubicle, gamers with their headphones on, the room screamed "do not disturb". The difference here is that these cubicles feel lived in. Family pictures, the remains of snacks, and the odd toothbrush. And then there's the gifts. A lot of gifts. The professional gamers are overwhelmingly male, but their most-obsessive fans are female, lavishing the boys with the kind of attention otherwise reserved for the singing K-Pop stars, the country's other booming entertainment export. But unlike the fad of Gangnam Style, e-sports is something South Korea feels it can bring to the world. "I believe that e-sport has plenty of potential [to be regarded as a proper sport], although perhaps not as much as physical games," Mr Kang said. "E-sports is in the process of becoming a mental sport like chess." Down the hallway - and past a room filled with bottles of "sports" drink Pocari Sweat, another sponsor - I found the training room for KT Rolster's League of Legends team. League of Legends - LoL - is arguably the biggest of the e-sports titles and is all about teamwork and group strategy. The team here joked about going out and drinking beer - and teased about who got the most, and the least, gifts. As well as training together, the teams live together in some digs a short walk from the training office. I'd expected a room full of gadgets and other technology. These are big gamers, after all. But no - aside from a TV, there was very little in the way of gaming entertainment. Here, their charming housekeeper holds fort, and does what she can to keep the team healthy. "They spend most of their time sitting with little exercise," she said, while washing up, "so I wanted to avoid cooking high-calorie foods, but they love naughty foods like that." She loves them, she told me. "They're adorable." At the top-end of gaming, the players are undeniably well looked after, healthy and happy - even if the gruelling routine means they clearly don't enjoy playing anymore. It's work. But for the non-professional, the impact heavy gaming is having on the health and social lives of young Koreans is of great concern to many. After visiting KT Rolster, I went to another part of Seoul to visit what is known as a PC Bang. They're all over South Korea - internet cafes, essentially, but with high-end gaming PCs. Hundreds of them, in a big room kitted out like a club - with its own bar. It's open 24 hours a day. There have been a number of instances where gamers have died in these PC Bangs. They are rare, but make global headlines. South Korea has made numerous attempts to curb the amount of online gaming its young are playing. In 2011, it passed the Shutdown Law - dubbed the Cinderella Law - which prevented children aged 16 or below from playing online games between 10:30pm and 6:00am. The rules were later amended to allow parents to make their own choice about when gaming access should be curtailed in the home. The country is the world leader in treatment for all sorts of technology dependency, but gaming is, by far, the most common issue. It's one that has parents literally dragging their children to addiction centres set up all over South Korea. At KT Rolster, coach Mr Kang is responsible for looking after his team's wellbeing - but he also recognised the negativity around hardcore gaming. "When people immerse themselves in something and become addicted to it, then they can cross the line. "Our bodies might be very tired or in poor condition. These things happen not only while playing games. Even when people work out, some people can have a heart attack." He stopped, keen to move on from what he saw as a predictable, perhaps tedious, line of questioning. During my time with KT Rolster my point of view flip-flopped between seeing gaming as either serious business, or a serious problem. With the relentless tap-tap-tap of keyboards still echoing in my ears, I came to the only reasonable conclusion I could: it's both. Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC

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In July, two hackers revealed they had been able to take control of a Jeep Cherokee via its internet-connected entertainment system. The car firm has been criticised by security experts who say posting a USB stick is "not a good idea". Fiat Chrysler has not yet commented to the BBC. "This is not a good idea. Now they're out there, letters like this will be easy to imitate," said Pete Bassill, chief executive of UK firm Hedgehog Security. "Attackers could send out fake USB sticks and go fishing for victims. It's the equivalent of email users clicking a malicious link or opening a bad attachment. "There should be a method for validating the authenticity of the USB stick to verify it has really come from Fiat Chrysler before it is plugged in." He said that using a device like this had wider implications. "Hackers will be able to pull the data off the USB stick and reverse-engineer it. They'll get an insight into how these cars receive their software updates and may even find new vulnerabilities they can exploit," he told the BBC. In July, security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek demonstrated that it was possible for hackers to control a Jeep Cherokee remotely, using the car's entertainment system which connected to the mobile data network. The flaw affected up to 1.4 million vehicles sold in the US. At the time, Fiat Chrysler issued a voluntary recall so that customers could visit a dealership to have the software updated in affected vehicles. It also made a software update available to download from its website for tech-savvy users. Fiat Chrysler told technology magazine Wired: "Consumer safety and security is our highest priority. We are committed to improving from this experience and working with the industry and with suppliers to develop best practices to address these risks."

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The emergency services were called to the blaze near Glencorse Reservoir, at Flotterstone off the A702, just before noon. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said wind was causing the fire to spread through trees and grass. Crews are using beaters and hoses to fight the fire, which is still well alight. A Scottish Fire and Rescue service spokeswoman said: "Edinburgh operations control received a call just before midday and mobilised two appliances from Penicuik and Sighthill fire stations. "Due to the fire being fanned by the wind, further appliances from Dalkieth, Liberton and West Linton have been mobilised to the scene. "The incident is ongoing and will be for some considerable time. "The area is popular with hill walkers and we would ask if you can avoid the area until fire operations are concluded."

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Stella Kambi, 17, died after going into the water at Thorpe Marshes nature reserve near Norwich to try to save Bonheur Musungay, 14, on 12 August. An inquest, which was opened and adjourned in Norwich, heard that a number of people tried to find them without success. Post-mortem examinations confirmed the teenagers both drowned. At the brief hearing, Norfolk assistant coroner Johanna Thompson said both Stella and Bonheur were in a group of adults and children at the former quarry. She said at about 16:40 BST Bonheur was in the water when he began to get into difficulties. Stella jumped into the water to try and help him but then got into trouble herself, the inquest heard. Onlookers said they saw the pair disappear under the water. Their bodies were eventually found by fire crews at about 19:40 BST. A full inquest will be held in March next year.

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Portraits are central to what makes photography so compelling, offering us a glimpse of our own past, drawing up long-forgotten moments or a glance at the lives of others. Whatever the limits of the camera are, for the most part, you can say that a picture shows something that once was. Mix that with our need to interpret the faces and poses we see in pictures, and good portraits come alive. That's the magic of photography, whereby a still and silent image can evoke far more than any moving pictures with sound ever will. A competition that focuses on this is, as the name suggests, the Portrait Salon and on Thursday, 29 November 2012, it is holding simultaneous projections at four venues across the country. The judges, Karen Newman from Open Eye Gallery, Hat Margolies from Lucid Rep, and photographer Dan Burn-Forti, selected the pictures to be shown from 1,110 entries. As you would expect, there are some cracking pictures on show. Portrait Salon was formed last year and describes itself as a form of Salon des Refuses - an exhibition of works rejected from a juried art show - that aims to showcase the best of the rejected images from the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, which is organised annually by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG). As the founders of Portrait Salon, Carole Evans and James O Jenkins write in the newspaper-style catalogue that accompanies the show, the idea began as an experiment and was not intended to upset or disrupt the Taylor Wessing, but to allow those whose work did not make the walls of the NPG another outlet. They write: "We want to give exposure to those great images that for one reason or another don't make the cut but still deserve recognition." Add to this judge Karen Newman's remarks about the subjective process the act of judging is, and you get a truly delightful mix of pictures on show. You can see a few of them below and if you'd like to see the projection, details can be found on the Portrait Salon website or follow them on Twitter.

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Ms Tiffney was last seen leaving her home in Edinburgh's Dean Village in May 2002. A murder charge against her son Sean Flynn was found not proven by a jury at the High Court in Perth in 2005. The remains were found in an area off the A198, near the entrance to Gosford House in Longniddry. A cyclist called the emergency services when they made the discovery at about 18:30 on Sunday. There are 40 police officers working on the find. It is thought Ms Tiffney was murdered and her body disposed of in the Gosford House area. The bones are still in situ and it is understood it will take a few days to recover them. Det Supt Pat Campbell, of Police Scotland, said: "The recovery will be a painstaking process. "We are consulting with a number of experts to ensure that the remains are recovered in a sensitive and careful manner and no evidence that helps us to establish what happened is damaged or missed. "I understand the anxiety of those who may be waiting for news of a missing loved one, but whilst the identity of the remains is unknown we cannot speculate." He added: "The death is being treated as unexplained and once the remains are recovered, there will be significant, detailed forensic analysis required to establish the cause of death and whether any crime has been committed."

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Yet it's a separate wing of the company, offering something altogether more intangible, that could prove more important to both its long-term future and yours. Amazon Web Services has a lower public profile than the firm's online stores, but it already touches many lives. From young tech titans, including Spotify, Dropbox, Netflix, Pinterest and Airbnb, to more established brands, such as General Electric, Samsung, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and the BBC itself, a long list of organisations are turning to the US firm to provide some or all of their net-based services. It's proving popular too with governments seeking to cut their IT bills. Even the CIA recently became a customer. AWS's products range all the way from storage and data crunching tools to providing the code and computing power needed to offer "cloud-run" products. Many of the functions you might think as belonging to your smartphone apps - including the abilities to stream video, synchronise data between devices and get notification alerts - are frequently carried out by AWS's data centres. If centralising all this work with one company sounds a radical step, Amazon suggests there is precedent. "About 150 years ago lots of companies had their own electricity grids on premises, and that didn't seem like such a strange thing to do," Andy Jassy, chief of the AWS division, tells the BBC. "But then with the advent of the [national] grid, the economies were such that it didn't really make any sense. "The same is happening for computing, where traditionally most companies have had their own data centres. "We believe in the fullness of time, just like what happened with the electricity grid, relatively few companies will own their own data centres. All that computing is going to move to the cloud." Many outsiders agree that the pitch is compelling. "Any new class of application that is built to efficiently use resources only when it needs them is going to move - the economics are just too compelling," says James Staten, an analyst at the Forrester tech consultancy. "It's also incredibly empowering to a developer that so many of the services they want are just sitting there. You don't have to write them, you can simply connect to them and your application is finished." Source: Amazon, unless otherwise stated Amazon pioneered the idea of offering cloud computing as a service after discovering its own staff kept "reinventing the wheel" as they worked on different internal projects. It then figured out it could both use the tools to both streamline its own work and make money by charging others to access them. "There were a lot of pundits and people from larger companies that said, 'Well, nobody will ever use these services for anything real,'" says Mr Jassy. While it's true that many of AWS's first customers initially signed up only to test products behind the scenes, the success of various start-ups that dared employ it to provide public-facing services meant it didn't take long to gain mainstream appeal. "There is a very real chance that in the fullness of time that AWS will be the largest business in Amazon," says Mr Jassy. "It will take time, but it's a pretty significant statement if you think about our retail business being roughly a $70bn [sales a year] business." But the division faces headwinds. AWS no longer has the market to itself. Microsoft, IBM, and Google's rival crowd-computing platforms are smaller but reported to be growing at faster rates. Investors may become impatient. Amazon as a whole posted a $563m (£358m) loss for the last half of the year. That was in part because of all the resources poured into AWS and the fact that the unit keeps cutting its prices. Mr Jassy says the intention is for AWS to be a "high volume, low margin" member of the Amazon family, but several experts advocate its spin-off. Data sovereignty has also become a hot topic - the idea that people's information should be kept in the same country they live in to make sure the companies involved are subject to local privacy laws. AWS is somewhat protected, however, by the fact it has data centres in Germany, Brazil, China and Australia - four of the countries making the most noise about the issue. In fact, the greatest drag on AWS's growth may be lingering doubts about its tech's maturity, particularly for critical services. Amazon and other leading cloud-computing providers suggest that because they operate many data centres, even if there's a problem at one, customers should not experience disruption. But that didn't stop services run on Microsoft's Azure platform dropping offline across the world last month after an update to its software proved problematic. And previously, AWS has faced failures of its own. "At this scale, small errors in operational procedures can have outsized impacts," says Mr Staten. "But each time that happens, the firms learn from those activities and the next time something happens, the likelihood of there being as broad an outage diminishes. "As a customer you have to expect that some of the services will go down periodically, but that also happens in corporate data centres today." And Mr Jassy indicates such worries could, in fact, play to Amazon's advantage. "There's no compression algorithm for experience," he says. "You can't learn the lessons that we've learned until you get to various levels of scale running cloud computing platforms, and none of the other providers have gotten to those levels of scale yet." Being entrusted with others' corporate secrets involves a high level of trust. Amazon stresses that the use of encryption means it can't peer into the files saved to its computers. But it doesn't stop there. No member of staff - not even Mr Jassy - is allowed access to both a physical data centre and the software used to operate it. Moreover, the exact location of the data centres themselves are kept secret and only provided on a need-to-know basis. And special machines are kept on site so that when hard disks fall out of use they can be de-magnetised and ground up to avoid the risk of anyone else retrieving information from the storage when it's disposed of off-site.

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It has raised issues for the six countries, including the Republic of Ireland, which offer US immigration screenings, known as pre-clearance, at their airports. The others are the United Arab Emirates, Bermuda, Canada, Aruba and the Bahamas. The Irish government has ordered a "complete review" of the system in the wake of President Trump's new rules, which temporarily restrict the movement of people from seven mostly Muslim countries - Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen - to the US. Some Irish politicians and human rights organisations are concerned the implementation of the ban on Irish soil could amount to discrimination. More than 600 US law enforcement officers are stationed at 15 locations around the world checking travel documents, passports, visas and making sure travellers abide by strict customs and agriculture importation rules. In total 18m people went through the pre-clearance system around the world last year - 15% of all commercial air travellers flying into the US. Ireland is the only European country with pre-clearance facilities. Its pre-clearance operations take place in Dublin and Shannon airports - a deal between the US and Ireland dates back to 1986, with the County Clare airport offering only immigration checks initially. Last year, border officials processed about 1.18m people in Dublin and 204,000 people in Shannon. These outposts are a little bit of America in Ireland - the staff are all American, there are stars and stripes everywhere and even the vending machines are distinctly American. After filling in security and customs forms, scanning passports and fingerprints, passengers can gleefully skip past the long immigration queues upon arrival, pick up their bags and go. They are effectively treated as domestic arrivals and Dublin Airport says the whole process can save passengers at least two hours. Dublin-based travel writer Mark Evans can remember the days when you needed to prove you had money in the bank and a job to come back to when flying to the US. "Now there's no grilling, no stopping, you just take your cab to Manhattan," he said. He said pre-clearance was all about ease of access for travellers and businesses, both north and south of the border, and other airports in Europe would love to have it. "Dublin Airport was the fifth largest airport in Europe for North American connectivity last year after Heathrow, Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam," he said. "Stockholm is likely to get a pre-clearance facility and Manchester is pushing very hard for one. "The Trump ban is nuts but it's not going to last. Removing pre-clearance would be burning our bridges. Let the politicians do the politics and travellers do the travelling." On Tuesday, Kevin Toland, chief executive of the Dublin Airport Authority, said the pre-clearance facility was a "critical point of competitive advantage for Ireland and Dublin Airport". "US pre-clearance is critically important for this country, critically important for the government, critically important for our airport, and critically important for the US," he said. On its website, the Department of Homeland Security, which operates pre-clearance through its Customs and Border Protection, says operating the system in "strategic locations" enhances security, improves passenger experience and increases economic opportunities for airports and airlines. On Monday, a man was refused pre-clearance into the US from Dublin Airport. The Irish government has said he was lawfully working and resident in Ireland and was entitled to leave Dublin Airport. No information has been released on what passport the passenger was travelling on. The US embassy in Dublin said that decisions on pre-clearance were a matter for the Department of Homeland Security. While Taoiseach Enda Kenny "disagrees" with President Trump's ban, he said the Irish cabinet was very much in favour of retaining US pre-clearance facilities. Ireland's Children's Minister Katherine Zappone has suggested applying the ban on Irish soil "may be unlawful" and said Ireland had a moral obligation to "stand with our fellow human beings against discrimination of this kind". Before the clampdown was made, US authorities had been in talks with several other countries interested in establishing pre-clearance operations. Agreements had been reached late last year for new facilities in Stockholm in Sweden and Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. On Tuesday, the Dutch government said it had ended pre-clearance talks with the US.

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All six places in the section voted for by constituency parties went to members of a pro-Corbyn group, giving the Labour leader a majority on the ruling body. A spokesman for Mr Corbyn's leadership campaign said it showed "a desire for real and genuine change in our party". Prominent Labour supporter Eddie Izzard missed out on getting a place. Meanwhile, in an interview with the Guardian, Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has said Labour is facing infiltration from "Trotsky entryists" who are "twisting young arms" in to supporting Mr Corbyn. The NEC consists of the Labour leader, deputy leader, frontbenchers, trade union representatives, constituency party representatives, councillors and members of the Parliamentary Labour Party. It is the body that governs the Labour Party, but its relationship with the leadership has been under strain in recent months. The NEC's Procedures Committee is to appeal against a High Court ruling giving recent members a vote in its leadership contest between Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith - a decision which has been attacked by shadow chancellor John McDonnell and other allies of Mr Corbyn. On Monday, six NEC seats were up for grabs for representatives from constituency Labour parties - all of which were won by members of the Grassroots Alliance, which is backed by Momentum, Mr Corbyn's network of supporters. Ann Black, chair of the Oxford East Labour Party, topped the ballot, with 100,999 votes, amid a high turnout. Ms Black, Christine Shawcroft, Claudia Webbe, Darren Williams, Rhea Wolfson and Peter Willsman will take up their places on the NEC in October. Blairite group Progress and Labour First, which represents "moderate" Labour members, failed to get their candidates elected in the constituency section but Labour First got two of its candidates elected in the local government section. It is being seen as a boost for the Labour leader, who is fighting a challenge from former shadow work and pensions secretary Mr Smith for the leadership. But these NEC elections have no bearing on the leadership contest itself. A spokesman for the Jeremy for Labour campaign said: "This result clearly shows that there is a desire for real and genuine change in our party under the continued leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, but we are not going to take anything for granted and we will be campaigning for every vote in the leadership contest." Momentum, the Corbyn-supporting grassroots campaign group, also welcomed the results, tweeting: "Well done to the 6 left-wing candidates elected on to Labour's NEC! Thank you to everyone who voted for them." Eddie Izzard, who failed to get a seat on the committee despite receiving 71,000 votes, said he was "obviously disappointed" not to be elected to the NEC but added that: "I'm in this for the long haul. I will carry on being an activist!" Ellie Reeves - sister of former Labour shadow cabinet member Rachel Reeves - lost her seat after 10 years on the NEC, coming seventh in the ballot with 72,514 votes. She told the BBC Radio 4's World at One that having the support of Mr Corbyn and Momentum "seemed to have been a pre-requisite for getting on". She said she was worried that "the voices of some members aren't going to get heard" now and said her defeat showed there had been a "shift in membership". "I've always had broad support and I think the make up of our membership has changed significantly in the past few months," she told the programme. But Rhea Wolfson, one of the six new members to be appointed to the NEC, said they were not a "homogenous group". Asked whether Labour MPs could face mandatory reselection, she told the World at One it is "a conversation that we're going to have to have". There was a "disconnect" between the Parliamentary party, Labour members and unions, she said, and added: "We have to have a much more healthier conversation around reselection if not mandatory reselection." Shadow home secretary Andy Burnham - who has just won Labour's nomination to run for Manchester mayor - said talk of mandatory reselection was "unhelpful". "To pull the rug from under our MPs or other elected representatives I don't think is helpful at this time - it fuels a climate of distrust," he said. Meanwhile, Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has said Labour should scrap its "one member one vote" system for electing a leader, and reinstate the electoral college system - which gave equal weight to the votes of MPs, trade unionists and party members - abolished by Mr Corbyn's predecessor as leader, Ed Miliband. He also wants MPs - not the party leader - to choose who to sit in the shadow cabinet, saying it would help to "reshape and rebuild" the Parliamentary party. In a further signs of the deepening rift in the party, Mr Watson revealed that he now has little contact or communication with Mr Corbyn, bar the "odd text" - mainly about "family stuff".

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Devil populations have been decimated by a highly contagious facial cancer that is transferred when these aggressive animals bite each other. The findings will help researchers select the best individuals to be kept in captivity for eventual re-release. The research is outlined in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Tasmanian devil, Sarcophilus harrisii, gets its name from its high-pitch, blood-curdling squeal, and is renowned for fighting over access to animal carcases, which it grinds with the bone-crushing force of its jaws. In 1996, a wildlife photographer snapped an image of an animal in the far north-east of Tasmania with a peculiar growth on its face. The growth, it turned out, was neither benign, nor isolated to this one individual, but was a highly contagious, fatal cancer that seemed to be spreading through the population at lightning speed. By 2007, conservationists reported that Devil Facial Tumour Disease, DFTD, had wiped out more than 90% of devil populations in the north-east of Tasmania, and was spreading west. A strategy to save the devil from extinction was begun. Now, an international team of genomicists is offering a helping hand. The researchers took advantage of the latest technology to read the genetic sequence of two devils - an uninfected male called Cedric, and an infected female called Spirit - along with smaller segments of DNA from 175 other individuals. The team hopes to use the genomes to pinpoint which individuals should be placed into "protective custody" to wait out the cancerous epidemic before being reintroduced. From their analysis, the scientists predicted how best to capture as much genetic diversity among the individuals put aside for captive breeding, explained lead author Webb Miller, a genomicist from Pennsylvania State University, US. He said that choosing individuals who were very genetically dissimilar should take priority over whether they were resistant to the cancer. "It is a big step forward to actually get the genome sequence from this animal... the [world's largest] remaining carnivorous marsupial," said zoologist David Rollinson from the Natural History Museum, UK. Getting two complete genomes was very valuable, said Dr Rollinson, but getting as many samples as they did, from as many different animals was "just the icing on the cake". Dr Rollinson thinks that a similar approach could be used to study and save other endangered animals. The researchers also sequenced one of the five tumours from Spirit's head for clues to why the Tasmanian devils fail to recognise the cancer as "non-self", and destroy it before it takes hold. Understanding what it is about the devil's immune system that makes it so ineffectual at picking up the facial cancer will not only help treat those already infected, but will hold clues about whether the cancer can jump species. "The greatest worry is that it will jump into another marsupial," said cancer geneticist Elizabeth Murchison from the Welcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK.

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A penalty try and scores from Alex Goode and Chris Wyles gave Sarries a 24-3 lead at half-time. The bonus point was wrapped up four minutes after the break as Maro Itoje crossed, shortly before Richard Wigglesworth touched down. Arthur Aziza went over for Oyonnax but Schalk Brits was awarded a late effort to complete the rout for Saracens. Aziza's try was a deserved consolation for the French side, who were committed and spirited in their first ever home game in the Champions Cup, but were outclassed by a Saracens team that sits nine points clear at the top of Pool One. The Premiership leaders dominated the scrum, until the introduction of a series of replacements in the second half upset their rhythm, and attacked with speed and purpose to signal their credentials as title candidates. New England head coach Eddie Jones will name his first squad next month, and there were plenty of performances from Saracens' English contingent that would have caught the attention of the Australian. But it was Farrell who stood out with creativity and quickness that belied his reputation as a defensive, pragmatic fly-half. The England number 10 crashed through a gap in the Oyonnax rearguard before swinging a looping pass out wide to Wyles, who slipped in Goode for the visitors' second try. And Farrell was central to the next score, popping up an offload from the ground to allow Will Fraser to find the on-rushing Wyles on his way to touching down under the posts. In fact, it may be 26-year-old Fraser who gave Jones the most to think about after this display. The uncapped open-side flanker was impressive with the ball in hand and could provide competition for the England number seven shirt, particularly with the future of England captain Chris Robshaw under scrutiny. Saracens can take a step closer to progressing when they host Oyonnax in the reverse fixture next weekend. Saracens full-back Alex Goode said: "We are really coming alive when we get the ball in good positions at the moment. "We are using our strike runners very well. We are getting them in the game and we are picking them out. "Guys like Chris Ashton are doing brilliantly in terms of the support lines they are running. "We have had a young team over the last few years and we have grown together and added layers to our game. "We have been close in this tournament before, we have our foundations, we are in a good place but we know there is a long journey ahead yet." TEAMS Oyonnax: Etienne; Tian, Bousses, Taufa, Codjo; Clegg, Cibray; Tonga'uiha, Maurouard, Pungea; Power, Fabbri; Ursache, Missoup, Wannenburg. Replacements: Lespinas for Clegg (51), Aziza for Cibray (51), M. Clerc for Pungea (53), Guillamon for Fabbri (63), Faure for Wannenburg (60). Not Used: Bordes, Rapant, Gunther. Saracens: Goode; Ashton, Bosch, Barritt, Wyles; Farrell, Wigglesworth; M. Vunipola, George, Figallo; J. Hamilton, Itoje; Rhodes, Fraser, B. Vunipola. Replacements: Ellery for Wyles (55), Hodgson for Farrell (59), Gill for M. Vunipola (52), Brits for George (52), Du Plessis for Figallo (50), Brown for Itoje (63). Not Used: Wray, De Kock. Attendance: 11,400 Referee: Marius Mitrea (Italy).

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The biennial event is where the world's aerospace and defence (A&D) companies come to talk - and do - business. And, in an industry where cross-border co-operation is vital, much of that talk was forecast to focus on the dire consequences for British A&D in a post-referendum world. Yet, this being Britain, it's the weather that seems to be the main topic on everyone's lips. Evidence of serious concern about Brexit at this international gathering of executives and military top brass was thin on the ground (publicly, at least). Take comments from the Pentagon's chief buyer of weapons, US Defense Under Secretary Frank Kendall. "I don't see any reason why it should fundamentally affect our relationship with the UK or our business deals with the UK," he said. UK and US defence interests are inextricably linked. BAE Systems, the UK's largest arms manufacturer, has a big presence in the US and is a key contractor on the world's most expensive defence programme, the US-led F-35 Joint Strike Fighter project. BAE is also lead contractor on the Eurofighter Typhoon programme, a pan-European project involving defence giants across the continent. Does Brexit put these in doubt? "I personally don't think it does," Ian King, BAE System's chief executive, told the BBC. "We don't trade with the EU as a defence entity, it's with individual nations." He says that the quality of UK technology and capabilities will always be in demand internationally, especially given that defence and security have risen rapidly up the political agenda. BAE had backed continued EU membership. "It was right for the UK to stay part of a coherent trading bloc," he said. And he still wants to see a trade deal done that involves the free movement of capital and people. But now that the British people have spoken, the strategy is to see what can be done "to maintain that continuity in a different form". That's the view among British A&D companies generally. The overwhelming majority of firms wanted to Remain, according to a survey conducted before the referendum by ADS Group, the industry's trade body. They cited access to the European supply chain, skills, and R&D funding among the key benefits. All that is history, though. The challenge now, according to ADS chief executive Paul Everitt, is to achieve continuity - and ram home the message that the UK is open for business. "We are the largest aerospace and defence market in Europe," he said. "The government needs to send a strong signal about the attractiveness of the business environment here." Prime Minister David Cameron tried to do exactly that at the start of the show, in what looked like a carefully choreographed announcement about Boeing's commitment to the UK. The UK government is buying nine Boeing maritime patrol aircraft as part of a £3bn, 10-year partnership that involves generating 2,000 jobs. Boeing will also deliver 50 Apache attack helicopters to the British Army. "Whatever uncertainties our country faces, I want the message to go out loud and clear: the UK will continue to lead the world in both civil and defence aerospace," Mr Cameron said. "We aren't just open for investment, we are a place the global aerospace industry wants to do business - as Boeing's long-term partnership with the UK proves." Boeing's chairman Dennis Muilenburg duly reciprocated. "Boeing is committed to the UK government's prosperity agenda and we share the goals of enhanced economic growth that the prime minister has set," he said. Boeing has doubled its presence in the UK over the past five years, and "we don't really see our plans changing," Mr Muilenburg added. There was a similar message from Raytheon International, the US missiles and electronics company which has a big UK presence. Its chief executive, John Harris, called Brexit a "long play". He told the BBC: "We do not see any immediate impact... The process will take years once Article 50 is filed." Raytheon would adapt to market changes, he said. But the critical issue "is to ensure we remain a trusted partner of the UK government". Among major European companies, too, pre-referendum worries are giving way to post-referendum pragmatism. "We are where we are," said one executive, who had previously privately warned that a Leave vote would be "economic stupidity". "Aerospace is a long-term game. If - and I stress 'if' - there are strategic changes, they will be a long way down the road," he said. Mauro Moretti, chief executive of Italy's Leonardo - formerly Finmeccanica - was especially upbeat about his company's UK operations, which include AgustaWestland helicopters. He said: "We would like to invest [in the UK]. We have in the UK very important facilities. We have a very highly-skilled workforce. "We would like to maintain our presence - to increase our presence," he added. Yet, as the marketing manager of one small UK aerospace supplier pointed out: "It's easier to maintain trade if you are a big defence contractor dealing with governments. It's going to be more difficult if you are further down the supply chain." He didn't want to be named - "it's not in my commercial interest" - but his company supplies equipment that ends up on both Airbus and Boeing aircraft. "I think the uncertainty that is created by leaving the EU is magnified if you are a smaller player in this industry," he said. The message from the Brexiteers is that business will soon be unshackled from EU regulations that hindered the pursuit of more opportunities in the wider world. At Farnborough, with its 1,500 exhibitors and 100,000 trade visitors, companies from all corners of the world are touting for business and doing deals. Among these is China, which has its biggest ever presence at the air show. With its huge aerospace and airline ambitions, China wants to do more business with Britain, says Xu Jin, a minister at the Chinese embassy in London. "The British should not worry about China not being your friend after Brexit," he told a conference on aerospace opportunities in his country. So, China won't desert Britain when it leaves the EU? "Never. This is never going to happen. China is always going to be your friend." Another international perspective came from Akbar Al Baker, chief executive of one of aviation's major players, Qatar Airways. As a big purchaser of Airbus aircraft (whose wings are made in the UK) and a 15% shareholder in IAG, owner of British Airways and Iberia (whose shares tanked after the Brexit vote), Qatar Airways is no mere outside observer. But Mr Al Baker says that the "caution" around Brexit can be overdone. "I'm sure that stable minds in the political arena will prevail. And they will realise that regardless of whether Britain stays in the EU, they will still need each other." He can't understand why such a momentous move was decided on a simple majority at the ballot box, rather than, say, 75%. But in the end, common sense will prevail, he believes. "Trade both ways is massive. They both need each other. At the end of the day, you are all Europeans."

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The 23-year-old former West Ham forward has had loan spells with Portsmouth and Hearts, among others, and will officially join Eastleigh on 1 July. He was Orient's top scorer in League Two this season with 12 goals in 33 appearances in all competitions. However McCallum could not stop the O's from being relegated, and he could play against his old side next term. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.

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Thousands of men then climbed on to what was known as no man's land. This was the first day of the Somme - one of the deadliest battles of World War One. Thousands of soldiers died in a very short amount of time. In total, more than one million soldiers were killed or wounded on both sides of the fight. The people in charge said that the battle had to happen to win the war, but even now people can't agree on whether it was the right decision or a huge mistake. On 4 August 1914, Britain declared war on Germany. It became known as "The Great War" because it affected people all over the world and was the biggest war anyone had ever known. The war was fought between two powerful groups - the Allied Powers, which Britain and France were part of, and the Central Powers, led by Germany with Austria-Hungary. Guide: World War One A lot of the fighting took place along the Western Front where the soldiers had dug out special ditches called trenches. The two sets of trenches faced each other across an area called no man's land. The soldiers lived in the trenches and mounted attacks using things like rifles, machine guns and poison gas. The aim of the Allied attacks were to break through the enemy's trenches and push the German Army back towards the centre of Europe. Breaking through the trenches wasn't easy. So the British and French planned a really big attack that became known as the Battle of the Somme. To weaken the German defences, the Allied forces fired shells from artillery guns. The shelling, called a bombardment, went on for a whole week. When it had finished, the British and French soldiers came out of their trenches and headed towards the German lines. They weren't expecting much of a fight because everyone thought that the shells would have killed the German soldiers. But there was a problem. When the shelling started the Germans hid in special shelters called dug-outs. They waited underground for a week and when the shelling finished they came out and fired machine guns at the advancing Allied troops. The British troops were caught in no man's land and couldn't hide from the German bullets. Many soldiers lost their lives. The fighting started on 1 July 1916. Because it's called a battle you might imagine that it all happened in a few days, but it actually went on for months and finally finished in November 1916. The battle was between the German Army on one side and the British and French on the other. The German Army was thought to be a better fighting force because more of its soldiers had been given full training. They were mostly professional soldiers and trained reservists. The British Army also had professional soldiers but it was mostly made up of volunteers. It was the start of the war so the soldiers who died were those who had been first to volunteer. The British often fought in groups nicknamed Pals Battalions, where everyone in the battalion came from the same towns and villages. More than one million soldiers were killed or wounded in the Battle of the Somme. On the first day of the battle, nearly 20,000 British soldiers were killed, another 40,000 were injured. This was the biggest single loss of life in the history of the British Army. The fighting continued over the next five months and by the end of the battle about 420,000 British soldiers had died. The British and French troops made only a small advance into the German-held areas. Because of this, many people saw it as a failure and thought that General Haig, who was in charge of the British Army, had not done a good job. Most people who study this part of history do agree that the Battle of the Somme drained the German Army and this was an important first step towards the Allied victory in 1918. The Somme is a river in northern France and the fighting was along a 40km line north and south of the river, between Serre and Curlu.

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The Chang'e 4 mission is planned for sometime before 2020, Zou Yongliao from the Chinese Academy of Sciences told state broadcaster CCTV. Mr Zou said the mission's objective would be to study geological conditions on the moon's far side. This could eventually lead to the placement of a radio telescope for use by astronomers. The Moon's far side would be shielded from radio transmissions from Earth, making it an excellent location for sensitive instruments. China's next lunar mission is scheduled for 2017, when it will attempt return samples of lunar soil and rock to Earth. If successful, China would become only the third country after the US and Russia to have successfully carried out such a mission.

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Regenerus - formerly South Sefton Development Trust - is staging the Ten Years of Another Place event at Crosby Lakeside Adventure Centre on Monday. The exhibition, which runs until 1 November, is one of several events. The 100 statues should have gone to New York in 2006 but the council allowed them to remain as a tourist attraction. Regenerus chief executive Cate Murphy said the Another Place exhibition would tell the story of why Antony Gormley - who also created The Angel Of The North - chose Crosby as the location for his artwork, and include many little-known facts about the installation. It will also feature atmospheric images of the iron men taken by acclaimed Crosby-based photographer Ron Davies. The naked cast iron statues, which are more than 6ft high (189cm) and weigh 1,400lbs (650kg), are on a two-mile (3.2km) stretch of beach between Waterloo and Blundellsands. At one time Sefton Council wanted the statues removed due to safety concerns as the coastguard reported people getting cut off by the tide when they visited. The council changed its mind after some of the ones in a more dangerous location were relocated.

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The news comes less than a week after he terminated his contract as Uganda coach over unpaid wages. He has been welcomed back to the club by chairman Irvin Khoza. "When he left, he left graciously. Now, he comes back with a great record and experiences throughout the continent," he said at Sredojevic's unveiling. "We also welcome back Milutin Sredejovic, coach Micho. A man who's integrity I respect" The 47-year-old Sredojevic, who lead to Uganda to the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time since 1978, spent eight months in charge of Pirates from June 2006. Sredojevic replace's Sweden's Kjell Jonevret who resigned on Wednesday. Jonevret only took over the struggling side in February and was unable to change their fortunes as they finished 11th in the Premier Soccer League. "I'd like to thank the Club for the opportunity. It didn't work out as planned. I wish the Club & its supporters all the best," the 54-year-old posted on social media.

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The Scottish Local Government Partnership (SLGP) comprises of Aberdeen, Glasgow, Renfrewshire and South Lanarkshire councils. They broke away from umbrella group Cosla last year. Ms Constance said the government "will only negotiate with one body". Cosla remains the only forum for official government funding negotiations, so the breakaway SLGP lodged papers at the Court of Session on Friday to take legal action to assert their right to be formally consulted. Ms Constance has now written to the SLGP offering a meeting. The group has hailed the move as a "huge breakthrough" in their relations with the Scottish government. Convener Jenny Laing said: "They were never going to give us equal negotiating rights with Cosla straight away but the fact that they have both recognised their statutory duty to talk to all local authorities, combined with the offer of bilaterals with ministers and the SLGP, clearly shows that a process is now under way and that will be welcomed by the 1.3 million people we represent across Scotland." She added: "The members in the SLGP represent 47% of Scotland's economy. We have the ideas, passion and drive to grow Scotland's wealth. All we need now are the powers to do it." "The reason we left Cosla was because we felt powerless to fight the cuts being handed down. "The political landscape is shifting rapidly and we all must work closer together in a new era of collaboration in order to get the best possible deal for ordinary, hard-working families." Responding last week to the SLGP's threat of legal action, a Scottish government spokesman said: "We will only negotiate on the final settlement with Cosla, the representative body for Scotland's local authorities. "However, we have a statutory responsibility to consult all 32 councils on the terms of the local government finance settlement."

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Officer Aml Elsokary, a New York native, was with her son in a Brooklyn neighbourhood when she was allegedly threatened with violence. A man began pushing and shouting at her 16-year-son before telling her to "go back to your country", officials say. On Monday, the mayor of New York praised her service to the city. "In 2014, she ran into a burning building and helped to save a young girl and her grandmother," Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference. "And, then, on Saturday, she had to experience a man allegedly yelling at her and her son, 'Go back to your country,'" said Mr de Blasio. "Well this is Officer Elsokary's country. She is an American. She is a New Yorker. She's already at home." On Monday, Christopher Nelson, 36, was charged with menacing as a hate crime. During the attack, he allegedly used an expletive to call the officer a member of the Islamic State group, and threatened to "cut" Mrs Elsokary's throat. Officer Elsokary said she joined the police force after the attacks of 11 September: "I became a police officer to show the positive side of a New Yorker, a Muslim woman, that can do the job. "I help everybody, no matter what your religion, what's your faith, what you do in New York. I'm born and raised here." Hate crimes have risen in New York by 35%, according to the New York Police Department (NYPD). The NYPD's Hate Crime Task Force has deemed 43 incidents possible hate crimes since Donald Trump was elected a month ago - more than double the number cases reported during the same period last year. Mayor de Blasio said that he believes that Mr Trump is partly responsible for the increase in hate attacks, due to his "hate speech" and the "horrible things" he has said about Muslims. On Monday, a city transit worker wearing a Muslim headscarf was pushed down steps by a man that called her a "terrorist". Over the weekend, racist graffiti was scrawled on subway trains and white supremacist materials were distributed at a rail station, the New York mayor said.

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In the week before Christmas, the GP out of hours service had 20% more calls than in the same period in 2013. There were also more calls on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and the following weekend for the entire week last year. Dr. Sharon Hopkins, of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, asked patients to only use the service in emergencies.

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The DeirEzzor24 website reported that an unidentified jet had dropped cluster bombs on Dablan, about 20km (13 miles) south-east of the town of Mayadin. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at 30. It comes only two days after a US-led coalition strike reportedly killed 42 detainees at an IS prison near Mayadin. The coalition confirmed it had targeted "IS command-and-control elements" in the area on Monday, but said the raid had been "meticulously planned" to avoid harming civilians. There was no immediate comment from the coalition on Wednesday's reported attack. The Russian and Syrian air forces also fly sorties in the region. At the start of June, the coalition said its 21,035 air strikes in Syria and Iraq since 2014 had unintentionally killed at least 484 civilians. However, human rights groups believe the true figure is far higher. Airwars, an organisation that tracks allegations of civilian deaths, said that as of 8 June, the coalition had killed at least 4,118 civilians and perhaps more than 16,000. DeirEzzor24 said the house of a person not connected to IS appeared to have been targeted, and that several nearby buildings had also been destroyed. Women and children were among those killed, it added, warning that the death toll was likely to rise because of the serious condition of some of the injured. Mayadin, which lies in the Euphrates river valley about 45km (28 miles) south-east of the city of Deir al-Zour, has been targeted frequently by coalition aircraft. US intelligence officials believe IS moved most of its leaders to the town in recent months as Iraqi government forces advanced into the Iraqi city of Mosul and a US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters encircled the Syrian city of Raqqa. Meanwhile at least 173 civilians and possibly many more have been killed in air and ground operations against IS this month in Raqqa itself, the UN's human rights chief said. As many as 100,000 civilians were trapped in Raqqa and were being prevented from leaving by IS, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said. "Civilians must not be sacrificed for the sake of rapid military victories," he said. The intense bombardment of the city had reportedly left them "terrified and confused about where they can seek refuge", he added.

At least 15 civilians have been killed and dozens injured in an air strike on a village in eastern Syria @placeholder by so - called Islamic State , activists say .

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It is a well-thumbed copy of Catch 22, Joseph Heller's classic satirical novel on the absurdities of war; not an inappropriate choice for somebody who's spent her entire life amid one of the Middle East's most intractable conflicts. But Rawan's life is about to take a different direction. Currently a student at Gaza's Islamic University, she has just won a scholarship to Oxford University to study linguistics and Italian. She is looking forward to moving from the minarets of Gaza to the city of "dreaming spires". "I'm very excited. I can't wait," she smiles. "It's going to be different but it's going to be fun." Few have made such a journey. But what is even more unusual is that all the other students at Oxford's Jesus College will pay some of the cost of Rawan's studies. As part of the recently established Jesus College Junior Members Scholarship most of the other students have each agreed to pay £3.90 ($5.90) per term towards Rawan's fees. The scholarship was set up by Oxford graduate Emily Dreyfus after she realised that few Gazans had ever had the chance to study at one of Britain's most prestigious universities. She says most other students at Jesus were happy to contribute. "They voted for this from the outset. They recognise that this is a very small contribution to make which has a disproportionately positive benefit." The student contributions will raise around £6,300 a year towards Rawan's living costs. This is only a fraction of the estimated £30,000 annual costs needed to complete the four-year course. But the university has agreed to waive around 60% of the tuition fees. The rest of the costs are being paid for by three charities: The Hani Qaddumi Scholarship Foundation, the AM Qattan Foundation and the Hoping Foundation which supports Palestinian refugees around the world. Rawan still had to apply for and win the place against fierce competition, but she knows the other students at Jesus have given her a rare opportunity. "I really appreciate that Emily believed in people here and she gave somebody like me a life changing chance," she says. Rawan has only once before left the tiny Palestinian territory, when she went on a study trip to the United States. Israel's blockade of Gaza and the ongoing conflict with Hamas which governs here make it difficult for Palestinians to leave through Israel. In the past, Israel has refused permission for Palestinian students to leave Gaza in order to carry out studies abroad. It is likely Rawan will leave Gaza through Egypt in order to travel to Oxford. She is currently completing a degree in English literature studying, among other books, George Orwell's Animal Farm and William Golding's Lord of the Flies. She says her favourite book is Mornings In Jenin by the Palestinian American writer Susan AbulHawa. The novel follows the story of three generations of a Palestinian family who became refugees after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Rawan is also a fan of JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books. "Her style of writing is very subtle. There are little things in her stories that grab your attention." Education is highly valued in Gaza. There are no fewer than seven universities in the territory for a population of 1.7 million people. But Rawan is expecting a different study experience at Oxford. "The education system is completely different. I'm going to have my own tutors not like in Gaza where I am among hundreds of students who have the same teacher." She will also have to get used to mixed education. At the Islamic University, where she studies now, men and women are taught separately. "I don't think it's going to be a problem. The culture there is obviously very different but I'm open to that." Rawan also accepts that she is going to miss home. "Of course I will be homesick. But I have to go through that and get used to it because I have something more important to achieve." Emily Dreyfus expects the young Palestinian will be given a warm welcome. "I'm confident that she's going to have a wonderful time and I know that there are a lot of people at the college eager to meet her and to welcome her to their community." And Rawan is looking forward to telling people about a different side of life in Gaza. "Most people think it's like a war zone here and that everyone here is really depressed and involved in politics," she says. "But it's not always about war. It's also about families, friends and love. It's not only about the conflict with Israel." And despite the chance to broaden her horizons, she is adamant that once she has finished her four years in Oxford, she will return to Gaza. "I still haven't thought about what I'll do after university but I'll definitely come back here. Although it may seem difficult to live here, it's still interesting and adventurous at times," she says with a wry smile. "There is ugliness in Gaza but you can't leave it and turn your back on it."

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The 3,500 capacity venue was to have been built on derelict land in the city centre and was expected to open in 2018. Hull City Council's planning committee rejected the proposal, despite council officers recommending approval. The Labour leader of the authority, Councillor Stephen Brady said he was "incredibly disappointed" at the decision. The council has not yet given a reason for rejecting the application. Mr Brady said the planning application would be resubmitted in the new year, but acknowledged that the committee's decision would "at the very least, mean a delay in commencing the development." "The plans for the Hull Venue have received considerable public support, are hugely important for the development of the city and will put us on the map as a location for major events," he said. "The development is absolutely essential to making Hull a top visitor destination and is an integral component of our legacy planning following on from our year as UK City of Culture in 2017. Documents supporting the planning application claimed the venue would attract 240,000 visitors a year and bring an extra £21m of tourist money into the local economy.

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The assault took place at North High Street, Musselburgh, between 19:15 and 19:40 on Saturday. The victims were taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, where they were treated for minor injuries. Police Scotland described the attack as "vicious" and appealed to anyone who may have information about the incident to come forward. The injured men are described as being white and about 35 years old. One man was of medium build, 5ft 9in tall with short brown hair. He was wearing a dark blue and white top with grey trousers. The second man was 5ft 8in tall and was wearing a black top. There is no description of their attacker.

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A celebrity jumping into a car and singing with James Corden has been a staple of The Late Late Show since he took over as host in March 2015. But now it's becoming a TV series in its own right, with new episodes released every week on Apple Music. The first proper trailer gives us a little taste of what to expect from the 16-episode run. 1. Carpool Karaoke no longer needs to be in a car. Or even on the ground Carpool Karaoke is no longer confined by silly little details like, you know, actually being in a car. "This is the next level," says Will Smith, as he guides James Corden towards a waiting helicopter at one point in the trailer. Gravity schmavity. Appropriately, the first song they sing once they are in said aircraft is, of course, R Kelly's I Believe I Can Fly. Reports that they also belted out a rendition of Westlife's Flying Without Wings could not be immediately confirmed. 2. Ariana Grande and Seth MacFarlane have zero time for parking restrictions At one point, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane and singer and all-round awesome person Ariana Grande are shown standing by the parked car. Earlier in the trailer, they had been seen beautifully singing a song from The Little Shop of Horrors. All sweet and innocent and lovely. But look a little closer - and the plot takes a much darker turn. They appear to have pulled up across TWO disabled parking spaces. Ariana is going to have to give us at least six new masterpieces of Side To Side-level quality to redeem herself. 3. It's strange not having James Corden in the driver's seat Since the dawn of time, James Corden has been a ubiquitous presence in the driver's seat of the Carpool Karaoke automobile. Which is fair enough, since he basically came up with the idea when he first climbed into a car with George Michael for Comic Relief in 2011. But he's now allowed someone else to get behind the wheel, which gives us the extremely exciting prospect of episodes with five-piece bands. Or in this case, four-piece bands, plus a guest. The previous application form was limited to a maximum of four people, which gave us the gift of Carpools featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers and One Direction 2.0. But behold, now we have comedian Billy Eichner hitching a ride with Metallica. We're trying not to get our hopes up but this could technically pave the way for Little Mix giving Ozzy Osbourne a lift to the supermarket. 4. They may need a bigger car "You're going to need a bigger boat," said someone once, in some famous movie or other. In this case, the production team are perhaps going to need a bigger car for two of their more well-built guests. Basketball player Shaquille O'Neal and wrestler John Cena just about managed to squeeze in. We're just relieved it wasn't a Mini. 5. A lot of people mistake John Legend for Pharrell Williams John Legend takes Alicia Keys and Hidden Figures actress Taraji P. Henson on a little spin in the new Carpool series, with the two singers seen belting out Alicia's Fallin'. (Tune). But they also have a nice little chat, during which John Legend reveals that despite being an Actual Legend, people often mistake him for somebody else. "Old white women think I'm Pharrell [Williams] sometimes," he explains. He even briefly belts out the hook of Happy so as not to disappoint this particular fanbase. 6. Blake Shelton and Chelsea Handler are keen to get their five a day A slice of orange, a chunk of pineapple, a quarter of lime - it's fair to say country singer Blake Shelton and comic Chelsea Handler are fans of fruit. Alternatively, it's possible that they're fans of alcohol, which is very often served with fruit. Or they could be auditioning to become the faces of a new fruit and veg campaign, judging by this segment in the trailer. What do you mean a slice of lemon in your drink doesn't count towards your five a day? Why would you ruin this perfectly nice afternoon? 7. Wait. Go back a sec. Is that... a BRASS BAND? Yep. That's a 90-piece brass band. Being conducted from a sun roof by Will Smith. Who is leading them in a rendition of his 1997 treasure Gettin' Jiggy Wit It. I need to lie down. 8. Heavy metal sounds better in the dairy aisle First Blake and Chelsea hit the pub, and look, there's John Legend and Alicia Keys in a laundrette. Straight in at number one in the Look We Can Be Normal chart, however, is Metallica in a supermarket. If you haven't experienced Enter Sandman being performed next to the free range eggs, you've not heard Mozart the way it was meant to be played. Carpool Karaoke is "coming soon" to Apple Music, according to the trailer. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

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Media playback is not supported on this device When Liverpool host Wolves in the FA Cup fourth round, it will be over two years since boyhood Reds fan Coady, now 23, was allowed to leave the club. And he is intent only on helping his side become the third in a week to win at Anfield. "We're going there to win and hopefully take the game to them," he told BBC WM. Coady never got to play a home game in his three years at Anfield, with both his first-team appearances coming on the road, the second as a late sub for Philippe Coutinho in a 3-1 win at Fulham, his only one in the Premier League. After a season-long loan with Sheffield United, he eventually moved on to Huddersfield Town in August 2014 and then Wolves a year later. But Coady knows, from his experience watching the Reds as a boy, that Liverpool do not have many slumps of the current magnitude and Wolves might have timed their trip to Anfield just right. "We've got a great chance the way Liverpool are playing," he said. "They're a top team but they've had quite a lot of games." Since Wolves won 2-0 in the third round at Stoke on 7 January, Paul Lambert's men have only played twice, while Liverpool have been in action six times. Of those six games, they have won only once - the FA Cup third-round replay at League Two side Plymouth - have failed to score in three of them and have lost their last two at home. Following the shock home defeat by Swansea City which damaged their Premier League title hopes, Wednesday's League Cup semi-final exit to Southampton has cast a cloud over Anfield. "We've got to take that into account," said Coady. "We've got go there on the front foot, try to stop them playing, hopefully nick the ball and see if we can get something out of it." And what if Coady himself were to find the net? "It would be what dreams are made of," he grinned. "I'm not one of those who wouldn't celebrate. I'd go ballistic to score for this club. It doesn't happen very often." Wolves boss Lambert knows what it takes to win at Anfield. His Aston Villa side did so in December 2012, and Wolves loan signing Andreas Weimann was one of the Villa scorers that day in a 3-1 victory. So can he do it again? Fourth in the Premier League v 18th in the Championship? "We're up against an iconic club, and we're going to have to handle the atmosphere and the crowd, but I'd be disappointed if we couldn't handle the occasion," Lambert told BBC WM. "If we can do that, we can win the game. And I believe in them. Mentally, they're ready for it. They'll handle it." Lambert is keenly awaiting his reunion with Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, who he first met when they did the Pro Licence coaching course together in Germany in 2004. He was playing for Celtic by then, long after he had helped Borussia Dortmund win the European Cup in 1997 and four years before Klopp took over as Dortmund boss in 2008. "He was also at a club I was fortunate to play for," said Lambert. "There were connections between us and he went on to bring Dortmund back to where they should have been - two league titles, two cups and a kick away from winning the Champions League. "He is a big character and a really top guy. Some interviews at the minute make me laugh."

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The incident happened between 16:30 and 16:45 on Wednesday as the woman was walking home on a path in Silverknowes. The man approached her from behind on the path linking Silverknowes Hill with Silverknowes Road. He was carrying a knife and demanded she hand over her purse, but she refused and then "deterred the attacker" by waving her mobility stick. The man walked away empty handed - heading back towards Silverknowes Hill before being lost from sight. An extensive inquiry is now under way and witnesses are being urged to come forward. The man was described as white, about 6ft tall, with a thin face. He was wearing a dark hooded top with the hood up. Det Insp John Kavanagh, of Police Scotland, said: "Thankfully, the woman was unhurt but it goes without saying that we take a zero tolerance approach towards such despicable crimes. "The incident was carried out during daylight hours and I would hope that someone may have seen the suspect in the area and can provide us with important information."

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There are special effects and stunt doubles all right. But the ageing hero fishes a gun quicker than you can say Kabali; smashes furniture and sends villains flying across the air with lethal kicks, gives chase and hunts down the baddies with characteristic flair. The thalaivar (the boss, as his fans call him) shows no signs of slowing down. The 150-film veteran even gives chase to the villain, played by Taiwanese actor Winston Chao, against the Petronas Towers, one of the world's tallest buildings, in Malaysia. Kabali has all the ingredients of a Rajinikanth entertainer: heroics, smoking guns, bloody fight sequences, Malay and Tamil hip hop and rap music, lots of Tamil regional pride and romance. It also has the angry superstar delivering truisms in his trademark mocking style. How Rajinikanth and Kabali mania swept India Sporting a grey beard, Rajinikanth plays Kabali, a rubber plantation worker who walks out of prison in Malaysia after a 25-year term. He then turns against a group of gangsters who framed him to put him in prison in the first place. Kabali battles the group, led by Chao, who plays a drug lord, and Tamil gangsters who run drug and prostitution rackets in the country. He speaks for the rights of the Tamil migrants in Malaysia. He sets up a foundation to offer education and livelihood for the Tamil youth. His love interest is his strong and independent wife, played by the talented Bollywood actress Radhika Apte. Director Pa Ranjith gets Rajinikanth to address issues of caste, class and race: the superstar is shown reading an English book written by a Dalit (formerly known as untouchables) writer; and he is attired in tuxedos and suits, a nod to the western sartorial style of Dalit icon BR Ambedkar. "Black is power", states Kabali with characteristic swag in the film. "The dark-skinned Tamil is equal to all races; he is no longer a slave in the plantations of Malaysia but one who asks for equal opportunities with education and hard work." But all critics are not impressed. There is very little in Kabali, says one, which sets it apart in tone and tenor from the star's recent outings. And the pace does slacken a little, and sometimes the actor actually looks tired. "Rajinikanth's achievement, as always, is that he manages to hold the audience in thrall even when the film threatens to flag - this despite the fact that he is only peddling time-worn tricks," writes Saibal Chatterjee. But fans are flocking to the film, and Kabali appears to be on its way to becoming another box office hit for the superstar. Even before its release - the film has been dubbed in Telugu, Hindi, Malay and Mandarin - it had mopped up $30m (£20m) in rights sales. Because, in the end, Rajinikanth remains a larger-than-life superstar and a one-man cult. "A lot of fans refer to him as God, or as someone who is beyond human desires. So many fans treat the star in ways that are not unlike how people in India treat gurus or spiritual leaders," says Rinku Kalsy, who made a documentary on his fans.

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The 29-year-old Briton has not played since his surprise second-round defeat at the BNP Paribas Open in early March because of an elbow injury. Swiss Australian Open champion Federer, 35, won 6-3 7-6 (7-5) on Monday. Murray is set for a competitive return at next week's Monte Carlo Masters. "I'm hoping, if I keep progressing as I have with the elbow, to play Monte Carlo," said the Scot. "If not, then I just need to stay patient and I'll try the following week. I'm getting there, I just have to go slowly."

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The shot was fired at the property on Nacton Crescent at 01:35 GMT. The shooting happened after what police described as a "firearms incident" on Fuchsia Lane at on Monday evening and a fire at a flat on Dandalan Close 30 minutes later. Three people have been arrested and police remain on Nacton Crescent. LIVE: Updates on this story and other Suffolk news Suffolk Police said no-one was hurt and they believe those involved know each other. Insp Phil Enderby said: "We do believe that the suspects and the victims in these incidents all know each other and that there is no threat to the general public." The three people in custody were arrested after the Fuchsia Lane incident. Police stopped a Mini Cooper at 20:35 GMT at Alnesbourn Crescent and a handgun was recovered. The vehicle has been seized by police. Police said accelerant was thrown through a window and furniture was set alight at the flat at Dandalan Close. They said the family in the property at Nacton Crescent were safe.

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Britain's Johanna Konta will play, along with Garbine Muguruza, Karolina Pliskova and Angelique Kerber, who will return to world number one on Monday. BBC Sport understands Sharapova will be offered a wildcard for Birmingham. The Russian, who returned from a 15-month doping ban last month, lost to Eugenie Bouchard in Madrid on Monday. Her involvement in Spain, courtesy of another wildcard, ended in the second round courtesy of a 7-5 2-6 6-4 defeat to the Canadian, who had been critical of the Russian, calling her a "cheat" and saying she should never have been allowed to play again. She also received a wildcard for Stuttgart in April, where she reached the last four. The line-up for Birmingham is the strongest ever seen at the grass-court event. Of the current top 10, only Svetlana Kuznetsova and Serena Williams, who recently announced her pregnancy, are missing. The event runs from 17-25 June and is one of three tournaments - along with the Aegon Open in Nottingham and the Aegon International in Eastbourne - in the lead up to Wimbledon in July. Sharapova, who has not played a Wimbledon warm-up event since she reached the final in Birmingham in 2010, remains some way adrift of direct entry into the Wimbledon main draw. She will need to reach the semi-finals in Rome next week to make sure. A first-round defeat could cost her a place in qualifying unless the All England Club offers her a wildcard.

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At the Democrats Abroad watch party in downtown Toronto, the faces were glum. Eric Mintz, a statistician, realised earlier than some that pollsters missed the significance of Donald Trump support, and that the Republican looked likely to clinch the win. He described the atmosphere as "slowly descending into gloom". "It's an extinction moment - he's an extinction candidate," Mr Mintz said, saying he feared that America as it exists now will come to an end. "I think he's extraordinarily dangerous in policy and personality." Canada's immigration website crashes A few blocks away at the swanky Albany Club, a well-heeled crowd of politicians, diplomats and businesspeople were watching with disbelief as the results rolled in. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne had backed Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, but her concern was rooted in more than just politics. "Our fate is absolutely inextricably linked to the United States," the premier of Canada's most populous province told the BBC. "If we have a partner south of the border that isn't interested in getting a softwood lumber deal or making sure we continue our relationship with the auto sector, that's very, very bad for the province and it's bad for the country." Her number one issue in the Canada-US relationship? "Trade." Canada and the US share the longest peaceful border on Earth. Canada's economy, based largely on foreign trade, is tied to that of the US. America is by far the country's largest trading partner, with some CA$2.3bn ($1.7 bn/£1.4bn) in goods and services crossing the Canada-US border daily. So how Mr Trump handles trade, especially the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), matters to Canada. He has called the agreement a "disaster" and has vowed to either renegotiate it or axe it completely. Mr Trump has also said he would pressure allies to pay their fair share into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato). Nato guidelines say member states should spend at least 2% of their gross domestic product on defence. Most countries in the military alliance, including Canada, lag behind on that figure. Canada also shares close ties with the US when it comes to tackling shared national security concerns, climate change, and the war against so-called Islamic State. But Mr Trump is a possible ally on one file: the Keystone XL pipeline, which the Obama administration rejected in 2015. The company behind the controversial Alberta-to-Texas pipeline says it is still committed to the project. Canada had lined up largely behind Clinton. Not everyone though. David Woolley, 26, a communications professional, was proudly sporting a Make America Great Again baseball cap. Once a supporter of Mrs Clinton's primary rival Bernie Sanders, Mr Woolley gravitated towards Trump. He said the real estate mogul held positions similar to Mr Sanders, such as curbing free trade and limiting American interventions abroad. "We're flipping the coin with [Mr Trump], whereas we know Hillary will continue to represent the banksters and represent the neoconservatives," he said. On the other side of the border, Americans were looking northward for hope. Canada's immigration website crashed as Trump wins continued to mount. Can they make it work? Jessica Murphy, Canada editor, BBC News Canadian prime ministers and their US counterparts have not always got along. And from policy to temperament, it can be hard to imagine two men who have less in common than Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump. Mr Trudeau, 44, is young, optimistic, a self-declared feminist. Mr Trump, 70, will be the oldest man ever elected US president. He painted a pessimistic view of America throughout the campaign, and has been forced to defend his treatment of women. Mr Trudeau has made tackling climate change one of his key policy issues. Mr Trump has said he would cut all US federal climate change spending and wants to dismantle the Paris climate agreement. Mr Trudeau has made openness to refugees part of his brand. Mr Trump has warned admitting refugees from certain regions presents a serious threat to US national security. But the two nations are close allies. From national security to the economy, to ensuring goods and people can move across the border, they tend to work in tandem on issues of mutual interest. So while Mr Trudeau's relationship with Mr Trump not be the immediate "bromance" Mr Trudeau formed with Barack Obama, both will have to find a way to make it work.

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He's set to make a cameo appearance in the seventh season of Game of Thrones. What role he'll be playing is still under wraps, but let's hope it won't be as prominent as his album is in the charts or no other actors will get a look in. It's not even Ed's first cameo appearance in a TV show - he previously appeared (and sang) in a 2015 episode of Home and Away. Sheeran is far from the first to make a brief appearance in a film or TV show - here's some other pop star cameos you may not have spotted. Cheryl in What to Expect When You're Expecting Cheryl's experience as a judge on a talent show came in handy when she made a cameo appearance as a judge on a talent show. The currently un-surnamed singer traded in The X Factor for the fictional Celebrity Dance Factor where she judged the performance of Cameron Diaz's character in 2012. Cheryl may well have revisited the movie's subject matter more recently for research purposes. Rihanna in Bring It On: All or Nothing The Bring it On series of films has brought us many stone cold classics - such as Bring it On: In It to Win It and Bring it On: Fight to the Finish. But it was the 2006 masterpiece Bring it On: All or Nothing, starring Hayden Panettiere and Solange Knowles, that gave us a delightful cameo appearance from Rihanna. Four years before she turned to S&M, a younger and more innocent RiRi was in the film offering a prize to budding cheerleading squads. Her cameo saw her announcing that the winners of a high school competition would win an appearance in her new music video. Boy George in The A-Team Boy George appeared in a 1986 episode of The A-Team called Cowboy George playing, you guessed it, the title role. In the episode, Face comes up with a money-making scheme that involves booking bands for gigs, but not actually paying them to perform. The star becomes furious Face is pocketing the profits from a Culture Club gig and turns up demanding what they're due. Highlights of the episode include Boy George kicking down a door and Mr T dancing to Karma Chameleon. Drake in Anchorman 2 To be honest, we could do an entire feature on all the cameo appearances in Anchorman 2. Kanye West, Will Smith, Harrison Ford, Sacha Baron Cohen, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey all crop up in the 2012 film. Many of them appear in the star-studded battle of the news crews at the end of the Will Ferrell movie. But Drake's guest appearance is actually right at the beginning - when his character err... expresses his approval, shall we say, of Christina Applegate's looks. Ian Brown and Jarvis Cocker in the Harry Potter films Hidden deep inside the 19 hours and 40 minutes of Harry Potter films are cameo appearances from some of UK music's biggest stars. Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown and Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker both appear in the big screen adaptations of the JK Rowling franchise. Sadly not together. Brown is briefly seen stirring a cup of tea in The Prisoner of Azkaban while Cocker portrayed Myron Wagtail, the lead singer of The Weird Sisters, in The Goblet of Fire. Ariana Grande in Scream Queens As a rule, cameos are generally short. Ariana Grande's appearance in comedy-horror show Scream Queens certainly fell into this category, as she was so cruelly killed off at the end of her scene. The singer appeared Side to Side with the likes of Lea Michele and Emma Roberts when she starred in the show's 2015 pilot episode. But her foray into acting was short lived as she was murdered by a scary, masked knife-wielding devil. However, Ariana brilliantly came back to life just long enough to send out a tweet to her followers to let them know she was being murdered. Snoop Dogg in basically everything This feature simply wouldn't be complete without Snoop Dogg. If there was an outstanding contribution to cameos award, he should win it. He made a wonderful appearance as himself in 2015's Pitch Perfect 2 and has also cropped up in Bruno, Entourage, Bones and 2004's Starsky & Hutch. His undisputed peak, however, is surely still to come. The rapper has repeatedly said he'd love to appear in Coronation Street. He first mentioned it during a trip to Manchester in 2010. We will simply not rest until we've seen him ordering a pint in The Rovers. Get to work, ITV. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

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The victim is thought to have been saved from serious injury by his glasses in the attack in Great Barr, Birmingham. Up to six youths reportedly restrained the schoolboy during a confrontation in the street. West Midlands Police said the boy was not seriously hurt in last Friday's attack in Birdbrook Road at 15:50 BST. Officers, who appealed for witnesses, are checking CCTV from the area.

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Demonstrators sealed off the port town of Damietta, in a series of protests that have lasted six days. The protests were sparked by concern over pollution from the existing plant and plans to build two more locally. Egypt's ruling military council has announced that the fertiliser plant is to be closed. The BBC Cairo correspondent, Jon Leyne, says the protest is an example of the kind of activism that would probably not have been tolerated under Egypt's former ruler, Hosni Mubarak, but is now happening more and more frequently. The fertiliser plant is jointly owned by state-owned Misr Oil Processing Company and Canada's Agrium. Residents first took to the streets on Tuesday demanding the relocation of the plant. On subsequent days, the city's port on the Mediterranean coast and roads next to it were sealed off. A witness told the Reuters news agency that protesters had taken over an ambulance carrying the corpse of a 21-year-old man killed in the clashes on Sunday, and driven it to the governor's office, chanting anti-government slogans. A medical source said the dead man had been shot. The Egyptian news agency said the port had been reopened on Monday.

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Mr Farron was one of the few who held onto his seat in last week's election, while the rest of his party lost almost 50 seats. He said he felt a sense of anger the election had been fought "on the politics of fear". He is seen as one of the frontrunners to become the next party leader. The Liberal Democrats have set in motion a two-month contest to succeed Nick Clegg after they said a new leader would be elected in July. Mr Clegg is stepping down after a slew of Lib Dems lost their seats including top figures Vince Cable, Simon Hughes and David Laws. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme Mr Farron added: "You always feel anger when you see dozens of mates basically and colleagues lose their seats having had an outstanding record locally and nationally. "And I guess a sense of anger - if that is the right word - against an election that was fought and indeed sadly won on the basis of the politics of fear. "When one looks back at the election and you realise that the best asset David Cameron has is the SNP and the best asset the SNP has is David Cameron. "This was an election fought basis of people terrified of the other. Fear is hugely motivating factor in elections, I'm sad to report." Mr Farron and his colleague Norman Lamb are seen as the frontrunners to take Mr Clegg's place. Greg Mulholland, one of the party's remaining eight MPs, said a new leader must be chosen quickly. "We must not - and will not - wait till July to have a new leader in place. We need strong leadership now," he said. Several senior party figures, including former Liberal leader Lord Steel, have warned it could take decades for the party to recover from its worst election result in its history. The party has been left with a handful of MPs, including one in Scotland, one in Wales and one in London, following a series of defeats which some activists have blamed on Mr Clegg's decision to take the Lib Dems into coalition with the Conservatives in 2010. Nominations for leader will open on 13 May and close on 3 June. Ballot papers will be sent out on 24 June and must be returned by 15 July. The winner will be declared on 16 July. Neither Mr Farron, a former party president, nor Mr Lamb, a former health minister, have declared themselves as candidates. However, they are regarded as the leading contenders and both are expected to stand. Tom Brake, who served as a minister in the last government, has ruled himself out of the running and said the contest must act as a catalyst for debating the future direction of the party. "What will happen during that contest will be that there will be an opportunity to talk about what went wrong and what sort of strategy do we put in place," he told the BBC's Sunday Politics. He said he was not backing anyone at this stage but that either Mr Farron or Mr Lamb would be "fantastic leaders". He added: "We have had 5,000 people join our party in the last 48 hours. They will want to be part of the process." Mr Brake, the party's last remaining MP in London, said the capital needed a "liberal voice" to speak up on behalf of civil liberties and the importance of the UK remaining in the European Union. He said he had been "lucky" to survive the cull of Lib Dem MPs in London, suggesting the Conservatives had redeployed resources from his Carshalton and Wallington seat to higher-profile constituencies in the capital. The Liberal Democrat peer, Lady Williams, said both the Conservatives and Labour had used a "decapitation strategy" against Liberal Democrat MPs including Mr Cable and Mr Hughes. She suggested her party's opponents had poured vast sums of money into the election before official limits on campaign spending came into force and called for a "much longer period" of controls on election campaign expenditure. "All these men and women were targeted in order to be destroyed," she told BBC Radio 4's World This Weekend. "What one's looking at is not just the normal swings and balances of politics. We're looking at something much worse... namely the selling of democracy. "The sums that were poured into this election exceed by a very long mark any of the amounts spent in recent elections."

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Ashya was being treated in hospital in Southampton when his parents took him abroad without telling staff last year. They ignored medical advice and took him to Prague for proton beam therapy. It was later revealed Ashya did not receive subsequent chemotherapy in Prague, a move the team in Southampton say could jeopardise his recovery. Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Dr Peter Wilson, paediatric intensive care consultant at Southampton General Hospital, said: "We are unsure as to exactly what treatment he is receiving but what we do know is... every month that goes by that he's not getting chemotherapy, his outcome worsens. "There are experts in the country that have already quoted figures of halving survival - so survival going from 80% to 40% or 50%, which is quite dramatic." The Kings' version of events last year sparked a public outcry and staff members in Southampton said they received angry emails, letters and phone calls which, at one stage, forced the hospital to shut its switchboard. The King family, who in March said five-year-old Ashya was now cancer free, declined to be interviewed as part of the BBC programme. In March, four months after the proton treatment ended, Brett King told a national newspaper a recent scan showed "no evidence" of the tumour. But cancer experts have told the BBC although it appears Ashya is in remission it is far too early to say he has been completely cured. Oncology specialist Professor Karol Sikora said: "Ashya is not completely out of the woods yet, but 78% of children with this type of rare cancer actually survive and are cured. "The fact he is disease free at this point is great, but it doesn't mean he is cured yet." The breakdown in the relationship between Brett King and the hospital stemmed from his belief that Ashya should not receive radiotherapy and chemotherapy following surgery to remove a brain tumour. Mr King claimed in a YouTube video that staff threatened him with a court order if he refused Ashya's treatment, something the hospital has denied. He told journalists in Spain after his arrest: "They were going to kill him in England or turn him into a vegetable." Through the media, the King family raised tens of thousands of pounds for Ashya's treatment before the NHS agreed to pay for proton therapy in Prague. Dr Nicky Thorp, of the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group of paediatricians, said: "We were dismayed, but on reflection I can see why NHS England agreed to fund that child's case. The child was there, the child needed radiotherapy. "The use of protons does not improve cure rates of tumours... and it saddens me to see the way the truth can be twisted and misunderstood." In Prague, Ashya's parents refused the chemotherapy, which had been recommended by doctors and ordered by the High Court. But in March, four months after the proton treatment ended, Mr King said his son was cancer free. Paediatric oncology consultant Dr Ramya Ramanujachar, who was involved in Ashya's treatment, warned the case could set a worrying precedent. She said: "I don't think the parents can look after their own child with a brain tumour and be not only the carers but also the professionals directing, managing and dictating their child's treatment." Dr Wilson said the case had led to an "impossible situation" for clinicians faced with families in the same situation. "That is deeply unfair when the NHS is always supposed to be about equal healthcare for all," he added. Ashya: The Untold Story is to be broadcast on BBC1 in the South region on Friday at 19:30 BST.

Doctors and nurses who treated cancer patient Ashya King have @placeholder his parents while speaking out for the first time in a BBC documentary .

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Rail, Maritime and Transport union members will vote in the coming weeks amid claims that industrial relations have "comprehensively broken down". The union is also seeking a four-hour cut in the working week to 35 hours. A Southern spokesman said the rail operator was aware of the issues and "dialogue with the union is ongoing". He added that it had received no formal notification from the RMT union that it intended to ballot its members. RMT general secretary Mick Cash said the union would not stand by while "agreed policies, procedures and agreements are unilaterally ripped up by Southern". "Southern is a company intensively under the spotlight over its performance at the moment and RMT will not have our members scapegoated for failures at the top by outrageous and intimidatory demands to meet impossible work targets and through attacks on working conditions. "The union is in no doubt that the pressure on these staff to deliver impossible targets compromises safety in what is clearly a safety-critical environment," he said. Southern runs services between London, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and Kent.

More than 200 @placeholder at Southern rail are to be balloted for industrial action over issues including new rosters and " impossible work targets " .

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Allison Heathcote, 50, survived five gunshot wounds but her husband Philip, 53, died in the attack near Sousse. The pair, from Suffolk, were on their 30th wedding anniversary holiday when Islamist Seifeddine Rezgui opened fire. Mrs Heathcote said she had only realised her husband "had not made it" when he did not answer her. The Heathcoates, who have a son, were on the beach at the Riu Imperial Marhaba Hotel when Rezgui launched his attack on 26 June. The couple "dived into the sand between the sun beds", but were found by the gunman, Mrs Heathcote said in a statement read at the inquest into the deaths of 30 Britons at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. She described feeling "pure fear" as Rezgui wounded her, killed her husband, then walked away to murder others. After being wounded, she said: "I stayed laying on the sand, trying not to move and draw attention to the fact that I was still alive." Once the sound of gunshots faded, Mrs Heathcote said, she asked her husband if he was OK. "At the first opportunity I was asking Philip if he was alright. "There was no response from Philip and I realised he had not made it." Mrs Heathcote was shot in the arm and abdomen and spent a month in an induced coma, the inquest heard. The inquest is set to hear evidence about each of the 30 Britons killed in the attack. Also on the beach was Jim Windass, 66, who had tried in vain to pull his wife Claire, 54, to safety. "It was difficult to walk on the sand, let alone run," he told the inquest. The gunman fired shots as Mr Windass, who was celebrating his 65th birthday, dragged his wife from a sun bed. He described being "on my hands and knees over Claire", a mother-of-two from Hull, to protect her. "But it was clear that something had happened," Mr Windass told the inquest. "There was no pulse. I closed her eyes." Asked what information he had received about the security situation in Tunisia or the Foreign Office travel advice when booking the holiday at a Thomson shop, he said "none whatsoever". Howard Stevens QC, representing Thomson's owner TUI, showed Mr Windass pages from documents sent to the couple after they booked, which contained links to travel advice pages on the Foreign Office website. Mr Windass told the lawyer: "Because we had already been twice before and no-one had mentioned anything untoward, we booked it again." Who were the British victims? Ex-police officer Michael Perry, who went to Tunisia with wife Angela, also spoke to the court in person. The pair were on the beach when Mr Perry saw a "man in black" - the gunman Rezgui - whom he mistook for a policeman. "My initial thought was that this was a police officer and he was dealing with a terrorist," he said. "Then I realised this was the terrorist." Mr Perry, who retired as a Leicestershire police chief superintendent in 1998, told the inquest that the gunman fired in an "uncontrolled manner", suggesting he had the gun in automatic mode - where pulling the trigger results in a hail of bullets. "He was facing in our direction and aiming downwards at people who were in the sun beds," he said. He added that there were no armed guards at the hotel. "The staff were mainly female, [there was a] lot of hysteria and panic and running around," he said. Mr Perry and his wife hid in the basement of the spa building before creeping up to the third floor, where they saw Rezgui shoot three people by the poolside. Another survivor, Keith Hawkes, said he escaped being shot because the gunman was on his mobile phone. Mr Hawkes, a former Gurkha from Highbridge in Somerset, said in a statement that he walked past Rezgui holding an AK-47 assault rifle but assumed he was security. He "ran past the gunman on his left-hand side, two feet from him", but Rezgui did not notice because he was using his phone. Donna Bradley, whose parents Ray and Angie Fisher were shot dead, was the first relative to speak to the court in person. The couple, from Leicester, had been on their third trip to Tunisia, she told the inquest. They had planned to relax and organise their 50th golden wedding anniversary and Mrs Fisher's 70th birthday the following year. "These celebrations were never to be," Ms Bradley said. An eyewitness saw Mr Fisher, a former engineer, as he faced his killer from a few metres away and was shot twice. Onlooker Alan Foster told the hearing in a statement: "He was holding the gun [at] hip level when he shot."

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London's first Lumiere festival will feature illuminations and animations projected at 20 locations in the West End and Kings Cross over four nights. Julian Opie will be among more than two dozen artists taking part. The Durham version has been running since 2009 and attracted 175,000 people in 2013. Almost 180,000 turned out when producers Artichoke staged a Lumiere in Londonderry when it was UK City of Culture the same year. The London event will take place from 14-17 January. Mayor Boris Johnson said it would be "a dazzling new festival for the capital" that would "expel the post-Christmas blues". The first artists to be confirmed for London are: Artichoke director Helen Marriage said: "Lumiere was born in Durham and its incredible success has been recognised across the world. Lumiere London will be a very different event with its own artistic programme, but the principles remain the same." This year's Lumiere will take place in Durham from 12-15 November.

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1 March 2017 Last updated at 08:46 GMT The snowy owl and husky puppy have formed an unusual friendship. They love to hang out together and even give each other kisses. Watch this incredibly cute video! Video from Igor Belyaev

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At a press conference, the company's president Tetsuro Aikawa said there may have been more car models that incorrectly measured fuel efficiency data than initially thought. Meanwhile, US safety authorities have asked the company for more information. Shares in the company have lost 40% of their value since the scandal emerged. On Friday the stock closed at a record low of 504 yen. So far, at least 600,000 Japanese vehicles have been affected in four models: Mitsubishi's ek Wagon and eK Space, as well as Nissan's Dayz and Dayz Roox, which Mitsubishi produces for Nissan. "We believe there were four car models where we saw improper data breaches and we believe there were other car models that were not properly measured," said President Tesuro Aikawa. "We are trying to sort this out." When saying sorry is the only thing to do What did Mitsubishi Motors do wrong? The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told Reuters that it had asked the company for more information on vehicles sold in the US, but did not give details of the models. Japanese authorities raided one of Mitsubishi's offices on Thursday and has demanded a full report by 27 April. On Friday the transport minister, Keiichi Ishii, raised the possibility of buying back the cars in question, as Volkswagen has agreed to do in the US. "We would like encourage Mitsubishi Motors to conduct some serious soul searching for having tarnished the 'Japan Brand' that we have built up over these years," he added.

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I met Starnes, along with Ruth Dewton and Jeanne Moran Gourley, both Vietnam vets, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, known simply as The Wall. They are among more than 1,000 women, non-combatants, who served as line and staff officers and enlisted personnel in the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. Starnes, wearer of a Vietnam veterans' vest, has spent 17 years tracking down those women who served in non-nursing roles for her book, Women Vietnam Veterans: Our Untold Stories. After half a century of silence, these forgotten women are remembered in this monumental anthology. It is long, heavy, etched with their names, but necessary. It is the women's Wall. Starnes served as a translator before becoming a photojournalist and overseeing the publications section at Military Assistance Command Vietnam Office of Information (MACV Observer). ''I went there to see what was going on," says Starnes. "I had to go and look for myself. I saw it was not the military running the war, it was politicians running the war.'' Starnes carried an army-issued Nikon camera and her own Petri camera, shooting on both Kodak colour slide film and black and white. Riding in helicopters to all parts of Vietnam, she soon learned to sit on her flak jacket to protect against the bullets and shrapnel that might hit the undercarriage. Her photos are extreme: firefights in fields of mud and bodies, children at orphanages, tall buildings blasted apart, Bob Hope entertaining the troops and WACs at downtime, their hair in rollers. ''I had no idea how bad it would be. When I took the pictures, I never let myself feel anything," says Starnes. "You had to tune out emotionally. It was only when I got home that I started to realise what I'd seen.'' The photo that sticks in her mind is a picture of a little girl playing inside a roll of barbed wire. ''She could have been ripped apart. She seemed so happy at that moment and yet there were craters around. Overall the kids were so resilient, or maybe they didn't understand the seriousness of it.'' By March 1973 and the withdrawal of US troops and the remaining WACs, an estimated four million people had died in the Vietnam War. For most returning veterans there was no welcome home. Being heckled and spat on at the airport was the beginning of their private aftermath. Women especially learned to keep silent about being in 'Nam. Many just tried to get on with life, careers and families, burying their inward and outwards scars, shame or pride, horror or honour, all mixed up with memories of friendships forged and loves found. Many have died without daring to reveal they served in Vietnam. All believe it changed their lives, for better or worse, but certainly forever. Starnes returned to the US after five tours, and is decorated with the Vietnam Service Medal with Silver Star, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal and Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross. She too tried to bury her memories in work, career and children, but eventually sought help in a group therapy session for Vietnam veterans. She was the only female in the room and was verbally abused by male veterans. She tried to explain that in Vietnam there was no safe area, everybody who served was in combat, but they didn't want to hear. She left feeling ashamed and never again sought help. In 1997, along with fellow veteran Pricilla Landry Wilkewitz she attended the dedication of the Women in Military Service for America memorial (WIMSA). They each wore a blue vest with the dates of their service written on the back, in the hope of being spotted by other women who had served in Vietnam. One thing led to another and in 1999 they formed the non-profit Vietnam Women Veterans (VWV) Inc. So began the long road tracking down others, the aim being to bring recognition for non-nursing women who served in Vietnam. That same year the group held its first Women Vietnam Veterans Conference in Olympia, Washington. For the first time, the women were recognised as Vietnam veterans and were officially told "thank you" and "welcome home". ''When I give my talks to help promote the book I begin with, 'Hi I'm Claire Brisebois Starnes and I'm a Vietnam War veteran'. I have only been able to say that since 1997. I didn't dare say it because no-one really understood. No-one cared, no-one was interested and it hurt too much.'' As I walk through the National Mall, away from the glare of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, people see Claire's vest and drift towards us. One woman, in tears, reaches out to her. Another asks, "Can I hug a vet?" A male veteran selling leaflets for sustenance strokes his throat where shrapnel hit and tells her: ''When I came home they called me a baby killer.''

Claire Brisebois Starnes enlisted in the Signal Corps of the US Army in 1963 as a skinny 17 - year - old who was ordered to eat more bananas to increase her weight . Six years later she @placeholder to travel halfway around the world for a tour of duty in Vietnam .

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The son of a banker, Mr Krasnoff, 23, said that all changed when he was home for the summer after his freshman year at Hamilton College. That's when his childhood friend - and eventual business partner, Daniel Rudyak, 23 - pointed out an industry that was ripe for a shake-up. No, it wasn't taxis or food delivery or home cleaning - the current disruption darlings of Silicon Valley - but something a little more concrete. Well, actually - it was concrete, at least in the form of a cement truck that was trundling in front of Mr Rudyak in 2011 while he was driving in Los Angeles' notorious traffic. That's when inspiration struck. "We realised it's so expensive to use cement trucks," says Mr Krasnoff. So the two began experimenting in Mr Krasnoff's backyard, mixing various types of cement and webbing, trying to figure out if there was a way to make cheap but sturdy rollable cement. The idea was that it could replace expensive mixing trucks in places that need just thin layers of cement. Drainage ditches, canal beds - mostly in developing countries in Africa - were the theoretical target. Four years and a few mishaps later (his parents' driveway still has the odd concrete splotch of a test gone awry), the geosynthetic manufacturing company that the two co-founded after dropping out of college, Cortex Composites, has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in investor funding, and just accepted its first million-dollar contracts. They're part of a growing trend of young entrepreneurs who have found themselves in an unlikely place: at the helm of firms operating in the most traditional of industries - manufacturing. Mr Krasnoff is honest about his parents' dismayed reaction when he told them that it wasn't banking - or even a traditional tech start-up - that was luring him away from university and a stable career. "They thought it was really crazy because manufacturing is a very intense industry - it's not an app where you can go and put it on the internet and people can download it a thousand times," he says. But for Mr Krasnoff the appeal of actually making something tangible was irresistible. He's part of what's been called the "hardware renaissance" of companies looking to move beyond traditional software and into markets like wearable technologies and internet-connected devices. "The barriers to entry for people looking to build a product are coming down - it's faster to build a prototype, social media is making it easier to market your product, and crowdfunding is making it easier to raise that first lump of money," says Noramay Cadena, the co-founder of Make in LA, Los Angeles' first hardware-focused incubator space. Ms Cadena worked for 10 years at traditional manufacturing firms including Boeing before founding Make in LA, which has partnered with a manufacturer, NeoTech, to help its first class of firms get their products made. She says changes in the industry - in which big firms such as Boeing and General Electric have consolidated their businesses to focus on core competencies - have opened the door a bit for quirky, smaller firms looking to enter the manufacturing space. The problem now is finding factories that will manufacture their products, as smaller firms often only place orders in the hundreds or thousands - typically far less than the normal hardware order of millions of iPhones, for example. There are three basic ways that hardware firms have solved this problem. There is the incubator model, like Made in LA, which partners with big manufacturing firms like NeoTech or Flextronics, who agree to take on some of the smaller orders as a long-term growth strategy. Some other firms first raise money via investors or crowdfunding and then use companies like Dragon Innovation, which works as a middle-man connecting firms like watch maker Pebble with contract manufacturers in China. Dragon's Scott Miller says the company primarily focuses on orders of 5,000 or more, when it becomes cost-effective to manufacture abroad. However, he says he has noticed that firms have come to him with smaller orders as of late - which is actually a boon for US manufacturing, because it is often more cost-effective to fulfill those orders here. Then there is the third option - which has also captured younger builders - of building smaller, microfactories that can contract manufacture quickly and cheaply. Jeremy Herrman, 28, and Nick Pinkston, 31, met in 2008 when they bonded of a shared love of tinkering and a mutual fascination with the still-nascent 3D printing industry. After years of hosting hardware meet-ups in cities around the globe, including their hometown of Pittsburgh and new base in San Francisco, the two realised that they were hearing the same complaint over and over again: it was difficult for hardware entrepreneurs to find manufacturers willing to take on their projects. So at the beginning of 2014, the two launched Plethora - a fully vertically integrated factory in the Dogpatch neighbourhood of San Francisco, which they filled with advanced 3D printers, robots and traditional milling machines. They currently have 20 employees and have raised more than $5m (£3.2m) in funding. Crucial to their effort is, of all things, software which the two custom built to allow hardware firms to upload their designs and get feedback on whether or not the object they were hoping to prototype could be built according to their specifications. Mr Hermann says that he thinks there are a lot of young software engineers like him who have turned back to manufacturing, an industry he says "hasn't changed much in 100 years". "I feel like that visceral sense of holding what you build in your hand is a very strong emotion," he says. Something concrete, some might say.

" I really , really wanted to be in finance , " confesses Curren Krasnoff from the head of a table in a @placeholder conference room with a panoramic view of the Los Angeles skyline .

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Theresa May met all the right people, the language differences did not trouble her and she refused to allow the big boys to bully her behind the bike sheds. The prime minister held her own. At the end of the two days, she had managed to speak to almost all the world leaders at the summit. They were interested because she was an unknown quantity and that rare beast, a European leader who is likely to be around for a while. They were also keen to hear what she said about Brexit. She assured them that Britain was open for business and said she had had "pleasing and useful" discussions about future trade deals, in particular with India, Mexico, South Korea, Singapore and Australia. She floated a few ideas of her own: the need for G20 countries to do more to stop foreign fighters dispersing to new failed states once they were squeezed out of Libya, Iraq and Syria; and the need for G20 countries to ensure that the global economy spreads wealth more fairly, an issue the Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, called "civilising capitalism". She also banged the drum for free trade, an increasingly lonely message as electorates around the world urge their leaders to greater protectionism. The prime minister also made it abundantly clear to her fellow leaders that she won't be rushed on Brexit or Hinkley Point, the delayed nuclear plant in Somerset that China wants to invest in as an entree into the UK energy market. She dodged a row over this here by reassuring the Chinese there will be a decision by the end of this month. The message in Hangzhou was clear: Theresa May is her own woman, the Cameron era is over. And yet this summit was in truth not dominated by Brexit and the first signs emerged that Britain is not quite as prominent as it perhaps once was. The real debate was about the changing balance of power between China and the US, as evidenced by the spat over protocol and the media when President Obama arrived at the airport; the continuing uncertainty over how to fix the sluggish global economy; the fruitless talks between the Russians and the Americans over a possible cessation of hostilities in Syria; and even the regional tensions sparked by yet another missile test firing by North Korea. Brexit was a cloud on the G20 horizon, not a current storm. And what interest there was in Mrs May was focused on people's fears about the risks of Brexit. Leaders wanted to know what it would mean for them and Mrs May had few answers. The Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, in particular, made it very clear to her that his country's firms in Britain wanted more certainty. One Italian minister effectively threatened a trade war if EU nationals were stopped entirely from working in the UK. And President Obama was blunt in telling her that Britain would indeed be at the back of the queue when it came to trade deals, behind the EU and countries around the Pacific. The one moment of comfort for Mrs May came when she spotted her old university friend, Malcolm Turnbull, who was gushing in his promise of Australian trade deals and negotiating expertise. And there are signs that the US and the EU are beginning to caucus without the UK round the table: President Obama and his Secretary of State, John Kerry, chose to meet Chancellor Merkel of Germany and President Hollande of France together without inviting Mrs May. And in the official summit "family photo" Mrs May was placed at the distant far left, as befitted either her status as a newcomer or perhaps Britain's status post Brexit. Mrs May insisted that Britain was still playing a "full role" in global politics. It is a role that is certainly changing.

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It started with a strange blue smudge on a computer screen. Now that mysterious blob, spotted by a Dutch primary school teacher during a few idle hours one evening, has become one of the most remarkable recent discoveries in astronomy. Hanny's Voorwerp, named after its discoverer Hanny van Arkel, is providing scientists with a striking new window on the universe. They have found these distant clouds of glowing gas provide a kind of time capsule that can reveal what their neighbouring galaxies have been doing in the previous few thousand years. For Miss van Arkel, it is fitting for the object that now bears her name to be providing such insights - it marks 10 years since she first encountered it during her summer break from teaching. She had been taking part in a citizen science project called Galaxy Zoo, which asked members of the public to classify different types of galaxies from images taken by robotic telescopes. Launched in July 2007, Galaxy Zoo has resulted in 125 million galaxies of a wide variety of shapes and size being identified and produced 60 peer reviewed academic papers. It is an output far beyond any computer or expert, but by harnessing the power of the general public, researchers have gained an unprecedented insight into the Universe around us. "What started as a small project has been completely transformed by the enthusiasm and efforts of the volunteers," said Prof Chris Lintott, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford and co-founder of the Galaxy Zoo project. "It has had a real impact on our understanding of galaxy evolution." Miss van Arkel's own contribution started on a whim. A huge Queen fan, she had been browsing the website of guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May one evening while tinkering on her own guitar. There she saw some images of some distant galaxies May had posted along with a comment urging people to sign up to the project. "He said nobody has seen these galaxies before and that everyone could discover their own," explained Miss van Arkel. "That got me interested and as I was on my summer break I signed up." She had only been taking part for a week when she spotted the bizarre blue blob. "I had no idea what it was," she said. "I thought it could have been a smudge on the camera maybe. There was this tutorial that showed us what we might expect to see but it didn't look anything like those on there so I sent an email to the team to ask about it." She also posted the image on the project's forum, which is where the object earned its name from other members who christened it Hanny's Voorwerp, or Hanny's thing. It turned out to be an entirely new object in space - one that was completely unknown to science at the time. It took almost a year of analysis and research before scientists began to unravel what it was she had found - the blue smudge was an extremely hot gas cloud with no stars in it. They believe the huge cloud of gas, which is 16,000 light-years across, had been excited by material dropping towards the supermassive black hole at the centre of a nearby galaxy, creating a kind of "light echo" that reverberates around inside. When the news broke, it turned Miss van Arkel into a minor celebrity in the astronomy world. "The first time someone asked me for my autograph I thought they were joking," the 34-year-old explained. A decade later, another 20 of these rare intergalactic objects are thought to have been found - although many remain "candidate" voorwerpen until they can be examined more closely. Astronomers have turned some of the most powerful telescopes at their disposal - including the Hubble Space Telescope - towards them in an attempt to find out more. In a new paper published in the Astrophysical Journal, scientists who led the Galaxy Zoo project at the University of Alabama and University of Oxford, have examined eight of these voorwerpen, including the one originally found by van Arkel. They found they could detect variations in luminosity of the gas clouds that appear to correlate with changes in the activity of the neighbouring galaxy. In the voorwerp the researchers could detect distinct bands of brightening and fading in the light echo, which appears correlate to changes that occurred in the galaxy in the past. In the voorwerp next to the distinctive Teacup galaxy, which is 1.1 billion light years from Earth, the researchers saw a brightening and then two periods of fading, which indicate a rise and then drop in activity, all within a period of 55,000 years. They saw similar patterns in the other voorwerp they looked at, including Hanny's Voorwerp, which lies next to a galaxy called IC 2497. "It suggests parts of the Universe where we have active galaxies can change very rapidly," explained Professor Lintott. "When we talk about activity at the centre of galaxies, we're talking about material dropping toward the black hole. This can lead to material being ejected from the centre in the form of jets of material moving close to the speed of light. These jets are what we think excite the gas in the voorwerpen. "If things can change so rapidly in active galaxies, it may cause us to change how we think about our own galaxy, which is thought to be not active. These findings suggest it might have been in the recent past. Those systems close to the galactic centre would not have been pleasant places to be." Peering at galaxies millions of light years away means we are also seeing them millions of years in the past. The voorwerp light echos, however, provide a record of what has happened in a galaxy's recent past - something that would be otherwise impossible to see. "It is fantastic, as we don't have anything else that lets us see what is going on in the Universe on this sort of timescale," said Professor Lintott. "We can see what is going on during a human lifetime and we can look back millions of years at a population of galaxies far away, so this could be really useful as we find more of them." For Miss van Arkel, however, it the beauty of the object she discovered that is still most striking. "The Hubble images have been amazing," said Miss van Arkel. "Some images it is green and kind of looks like a tree frog. You can see these orange spots where the eyes would be and apparently this is where new stars are forming." But the voorwerpen are not the only discovery to have emerged from the Galaxy Zoo project. Strange green balls - which became known as Green Peas by the affable "zooites" involved in the project - were a completely new type of galaxy that was spotted by participants. The eagle-eyed Ms van Arkel was also among the first to notice these too. Galaxy Zoo was so successful it has also spawned a whole family of other citizen science projects that are now conducted under the umbrella of the Zooniverse project. Members of the public can log on to classify everything from snapshots of animals in the Serengeti and count seals in the Weddell Sea to helping computers recognise animal faces and transcribing handwritten documents from the time of Shakespeare. It became so vast it quickly outgrew its old servers at Johns Hopkins University in the US, and now runs off the virtual servers hosted by Amazon Web Services. One offspring project to identify objects in our own galaxy has resulted in another recent discovery - small, round yellow objects scattered throughout the Milky Way. These "Yellow Balls" were found to be extremely massive stars cocooned inside dust. The project has found thousands in our galaxy. But the legacy of Galaxy Zoo could be something even more significant than a handful of new objects - it has changed the way science is done. Dr Karen Masters, an astrophysicist at Portsmouth University and project scientist for Galaxy Zoo said: "We're genuinely asking for help with something we cannot do ourselves and the results have made a big contribution to the field."

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Onetime rival Jeb Bush was fond of saying that the presumptive Republican nominee relied on "the shows" to inform his campaign. While Bush meant it as a putdown, the former Florida governor may have been on to something. Trump is no stranger to "the shows". He's been a frequent guest on talk shows for decades and hosted NBC's Apprentice and its spin-off Celebrity Apprentice for 14 seasons. So have any reality TV techniques crept onto the campaign trail? As seen on TV: (The Real Housewives series) If you're a Real Housewife of wherever, the cocktail party is your battlefield. And America's wealthy socialites always bring back-up - the feistier, the better. Housewives have been known to add a wildcard guest into the mix to throw their rivals off their game (and create plausibility deniability). In season one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Camille Grammer famously invited psychic medium Allison Dubois to a supposedly staid dinner party. "Your husband will never emotionally fulfil you. Ever," she told one of Grammer's flummoxed frenemies. As seen on the campaign trail: Trailing in the polls to Ben Carson and Ted Cruz before the Iowa caucus, Trump needed to shake things up. Enter Sarah Palin. The onetime vice-presidential candidate and former governor of Alaska emerged from the political wilderness to give the Trump campaign a shot in the arm. She endorsed Trump with a mystifying speech. "They didn't want to talk about these issues until he brought 'em up. In fact, they've been wearing a, this, political correctness kind of like a suicide vest," she said among other things. For a whole day the focus was off his rivals. (See also: Knight, Bobby; Arpaio, Joe) As seen on TV: (Survivor) Survivor - where castaways compete in a remote locale with nothing but their wits and a few tools - is credited with ushering in a wave of reality TV in the US. The show became a national phenomenon in the summer of 2000 not because of challenges of the island but because of its politics. Winner Richard Hatch, a pudgy corporate trainer, entered into a pact with three fellow, fitter contestants, keeping him in the game long enough to betray them. As seen on the campaign trail: Although their relationship eventually soured, Trump and Cruz enjoyed a whirlwind "bromance" in the summer of 2015. The two hosted a rally protesting against President Barack Obama's Iran deal in front of the US Capitol and were positively chummy at several of the debates. "I like Donald Trump. He's bold; he's brash... I'm not interested in Republican-on-Republican violence," Cruz said in July. The Texas senator helped Trump clear the crowded field of candidates, only to find himself the victim of Republican-on-Republican violence. As seen on TV: (Project Runway, Top Chef, etc) The phrase "throwing someone under the bus" doesn't involve public transport, but rather stabbing a friend in the back on national television. The phrase is a mainstay in competition shows like Project Runway, Top Chef and America Next Top Model. When contestants are about to be judged, they often target the weakest link to survive. As seen on the campaign trail: Like Cruz, Trump started out as a friend of Carson, the kindly retired neurosurgeon who also ran as an outsider candidate. But Trump changed his tone once Carson crept ahead of him in the polls as the Iowa caucus drew closer. Trump went for the jugular calling him "pathological" and comparing him to child molester. Ouch. As seen on TV: (The Real World) "Find out what happens, when people stop being polite, and start getting real," is how the granddaddy of all American reality TV shows opened on MTV in 1992. The housemates would encamp in "the confessional" - a spare room where they could look directly into the camera and tell the producers exactly how they felt. The behind-the-scenes look help give the impression of a raw unvarnished show. As seen on the campaign trail: While other candidates play to the crowd, Trump's number one priority is the camera and while on camera he leaves little unsaid. Also, no one another candidate in the modern political history has been so enamoured with the process of politics. Trump talks about polls (endlessly), reporters and other candidates' strategies - things that until the 2016 race were the realm of political blogs not stump speeches. But all the while his supporters feel like they're in the loop. As seen on TV: (Almost every reality show produced) It's a poorly kept-secret that reality TV producers love drama. And every reality TV contestant knows, the more drama you create the longer you stay on television. Many a combative star has been saved from the chopping block because of their potential for more bad behaviour. As seen on the campaign trail: Now that Trump knocked out 16 other Republican candidates you'd think he'd take well-deserved break from feuding before tackling Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee. But there's no rest for the cantankerous. In the past few days, Trump has tussled with the New York Times, Senator Elizabeth Warren, CNN, House Speaker Paul Ryan, British Prime Minister David Cameron and London Mayor Sadiq Khan, just to name a few. Follow Tim Swift on Twitter @tim_swift

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Ian Milner, from Driffield, died in the crash on the B1253 near a crossroads in Cowlam on Friday afternoon. The 55-year-old cyclist and Iveco tipper lorry were headed towards Sledmere when the accident occurred. His son Owen was killed about 11 miles away on the B1248 near Wansford in May 2014, Humberside Police said. Officers continue to investigate the circumstances of Friday's crash. The 29-year-old driver of the lorry, from Bridlington, was treated for shock at the scene. Police have appealed for anyone who witnessed the collision or saw either the cyclist or the lorry prior to the crash to make contact.

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The government will now face the challenge of negotiating the terms of the post-exit relationship between the UK and the EU. Many of the issues that will have to be resolved are economic. They will include the kind of trade relationship the UK will have with the remainder of the EU, as well as what access will be available to Europeans wanting to work in the UK. For trade issues there are two groups of countries that the UK will need to think about in the exit negotiations - the other 27 EU members themselves, and the nations that have some sort of trade agreement with the union. For the EU, British exporters currently have access to their markets without tariffs (taxes on traded goods) or other barriers. They in turn have access to the UK. Will that arrangement continue after Britain has left? That is a matter for negotiation and some EU figures have raised serious doubts. Their inclination to take a tough position in the negotiations is to discourage Eurosceptic movements in other countries from believing the grass is greener outside. Leave campaigners argue that another incentive will dominate - the need for their exporters to have access to the UK market. They often mention German cars and French cheese and wine in this context. We have already had a strong hint of this. The German industry association told the BBC that trade barriers would be "very, very foolish". Access for services companies would need to be negotiated. Financial services such as insurance and banking are especially important to the UK economy. Similar questions arise in relation to the non-EU countries with which the bloc has trade agreements that involve various degrees of openness. The countries concerned include Turkey, South Korea and Chile. If Britain is to continue with the benefits of these agreements, negotiations will be necessary. There is also an agreement with Canada awaiting implementation, and one with the US - the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or TTIP - under discussion. If the talks - with the EU and third countries - don't reach a deal before the EU exit takes effect, then under World Trade Organisation rules both the UK and the EU would be obliged to apply to each other the tariffs and other trade restrictions they apply to the rest of the world. That is because the WTO rules only allow countries to discriminate in favour of a trade partner in a limited number of circumstances - including a full bilateral trade deal. There will be decisions to be taken about immigration, especially access to jobs in the UK for workers from the EU. That is required under the trade agreement that Norway, for example, has with the EU. It is certainly possible the EU would seek a similar deal with the UK in return for other concessions, but it would be politically difficult for a British government aware that immigration concerns were such an important factor in the referendum result. There may also be negotiations about the EU budget. Norway contributes to some EU spending programmes, and again, the EU could seek something similar from the UK. That too would be politically challenging as one key theme in the Leave campaign was the financial savings they sought by ending Britain's EU Budget contribution.

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Media playback is not supported on this device The fighters sat with promoters and coaches between them on a long table when Chisora picked it up and threw it, prompting security to intervene. During the event, Whyte told Chisora: "If I see you anywhere, I'm going to attack you - even after the fight." Chisora, 32, said he reacted to what he felt was a threat against his life. "Why should this guy threaten my life right now?" said Chisora, who has six defeats from 32 fights. "Fight talk is fight talk. You can say anything you want about me. But one thing you cannot do is threaten a man's life. Saying you will see me after the fight. Then I get upset. I don't mind the trash talk." Chisora has previously been involved in a controversial news conference when he brawled with David Haye in the aftermath of his 2012 defeat by Vitali Klitschko. Both he and Whyte were initially scheduled to appear at separate news conferences because of the animosity between the two at previous media commitments. During the news conference the fighters repeatedly exchanged insults and after the table was thrown, Whyte's trainer Mark Tibbs appeared to throw an object at Chisora. Whyte, 28, is preparing to defend his British title for the first time and has suffered just one loss in 20 fights as a professional. That defeat came against IBF world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, who headlines the card at Manchester Arena as the Briton makes his second defence against American Eric Molina.

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While thousands of people across Britain were infected with Hepatitis C and HIV through NHS blood products, the inquiry was focused on victims in Scotland. It has been described as the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS. The report looked at people in Scotland who were infected with blood-borne viruses - HIV and Hepatitis C - in the course of medical treatment on the NHS. The period scrutinised by the inquiry began on 1 January 1974 and ended on 1 September 1991, when screening of donated blood for the Hepatitis C virus was introduced throughout the UK. The infections came from blood which had been donated by people who had the viruses. Some were infected during blood transfusions for illness, injury or during childbirth or surgery. In the case of haemophilia therapy it occurred as a result of transfusions of blood products made from large pools of donations and given to remedy the deficiency of clotting factor in a patient's blood. About 2,500 people are thought to have been infected with Hepatitis C by blood transfusion on the NHS in Scotland. At least 18 were infected with HIV. The report said a further 478 bleeding disorder patients (haemophiliacs) are thought to have been infected with hepatitis C, and 60 with HIV, from blood products. A statement from Lord Penrose read out at the publication of the report said: "The state of knowledge of each virus informed the inquiry's assessments of the acting of doctors." HIV was first identified in 1983 but international acceptance did not "crystalise" until 1984. The report said testing for HIV in blood products was not possible before the virus was identified. The Lord Penrose's statement said: "Some commentators believe that more could have been done to prevent infection in particular groups of patients. "Careful consideration of the evidence has however revealed few aspects in which matters should or, more importantly, could have been handled differently. "In relation to HIV/Aids it appeared to the inquiry that when actions in Scotland were subjected to international comparison they held up well. "Once the risk had emerged all that could reasonably be done was done in the areas of donor selection, heat treatment of products and screening of donated blood. "Other than by a general cessation of therapy with concentrates, the infection of haemophilia patients with HIV over the period 1980-1984 could not have been prevented." It said the science of the hepatitis C virus was not understood in the 1970s and identification of the "causative virus" did not take place until 1988. Lord Penrose's statement said: "As with HIV it was not possible to test the native blood for the virus until the virus had been discovered, although alternatives including testing for other indicators of infection were adopted in some countries." The first test kits for hepatitis C virus only became available in November 1989. The inquiry did point to a delay in the introduction of the screening of donated blood for the hepatitis C virus. It said a decision on screening should have been taken by middle of May 1990 rather than in November 1990. It then took 10 months to implement. Issues in England and Wales led to a delay in Scotland, despite it being ready to implement the screening. The last year that blood donations were collected from prisoners in Scotland was 1984. By this time only a small proportion of blood was coming from prisons. The report said the Home Office in the 1970s liked blood donations from prisoners as it was thought they were making "restitution" for their crimes. But there was little information on how many prisoners were drug users and thus a risk of having infections. The inquiry heard from Scottish National Blood Transfusion experts that "with the benefit of hindsight" taking blood from prisoners was "inadvisable and should have stopped earlier". Heat treatment ended the transmission of HIV by NHS blood products in Scotland by October 1985, and from commercial products by about the same time. The report said there may subsequently have been "isolated" infections from donors who had the virus but had not created antibodies. Further developments in heat treatments also made blood products safe against the hepatitis C virus by 1987. The inquiry's single recommendation is that the Scottish government takes all reasonable steps to offer a hepatitis C test to everyone in Scotland who had a blood transfusion before September 1991 and who has not been tested for the disease.

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On a late Sunday afternoon in the Netherlands, Dina Asher-Smith felt like she always does on a start line. "I love to race," she says. "I'm not an adrenaline junkie but I like feeling nervous. I like the thrill. A lot of the coaches laugh at me and tell me I'm crazy." Having finished her first-year exams at King's College London six days earlier, the world junior sprint champion felt free. And as she knelt on the track to prepare for the starter's gun, her coach's words were still reverberating in her ears. John Blackie had used his favourite phrase. "Don't hold the horses," he told his pupil, before sending her into battle. The 19-year-old had no expectations of that summery May day in Hengelo. She isn't one for predictions. All the European indoor 60m silver medallist wanted to do was eradicate some of the inconsistencies which had been bothering her in training. "I wanted to make sure I didn't tighten up, didn't panic, and went through some technical points successfully," says the athlete who only took sprinting seriously after winning world relay bronze in 2013. Bang. The Briton catapults out of the blocks. But, as she rises, she is not at ease. "The start wasn't good, I popped out of my drive. I was thinking 'this is a mess'," she remembers. The Londoner covers 20m, eats up another 30m, but by the time she is halfway down the track European 100m and 200m champion Dafne Schippers is preparing to overtake and Asher-Smith is annoyed: "I was thinking 'this isn't how I wanted it to go'. From that point on, I was just trying to tidy it up." The benefit of being a sprinter is that by the time they wish a race over, it usually is. "I saw the line coming and I really wasn't happy," says the usually sanguine student. Fortunately for the history undergraduate, her team-mate CJ Ujah - the man who last year, on the same track, became the fifth Briton to break the 10-second barrier - was waiting near the finish line. "If he hadn't been there I probably would have left the track," says the Briton. "It wasn't awful, it wasn't abysmal, but it wasn't the race plan I intended to run and I was quite sad." In assuming she had finished third, Asher-Smith looked at the scoreboard and noticed four digits - 11.02 - appear alongside the name of the second-placed athlete. Gloom and regret lingered until Ujah told his friend that it was she who had come second, that it was she who had become the fastest British woman in history, bettering her personal best by 0.12 seconds and breaking the previous national record of 11.05 secs, set by Montell Douglas in 2008. "I started jumping around," Asher-Smith remembers, laughing with ease. "I saw my mum and dad and bounced over to them. I was so so happy. I thought mum was going to cry, and she probably did knowing her. For them both to be there and see me break the British record meant a lot." How does a teenager celebrate running quicker than any British female before her? By sitting in a nondescript room for 90 minutes, drinking, drinking, drinking, until her bladder filled up. "I had to go straight to anti-doping and I couldn't pee," she says, giggling before apologising for being "disgusting", which sparks more laughter. Did the other athletes being tested congratulate her? Was there a fist pump or a high-five, perhaps? No, but she would not have expected them to. "They're from different countries and wouldn't have known it was a national record," she explains. "But my manager was there with me, bouncing up and down. When I got back to the hotel I had some dinner before the restaurant closed, saw a few people, and had to do a warm-down session in the pool. By the time that was finished it was 11pm. I had to be out of the hotel by 4am so I just packed, slept and left." On her return to England there were hundreds of congratulatory messages, from athletes, friends and fans, on Twitter, Facebook and her phone. "It all went crazy," is Asher-Smith's take on the week that followed. For an athlete who likes to respond to every message she receives, the reaction to her record-breaking feat was overwhelming, and there was one message, from a school friend, which made her tearful. "She said I'd made Newstead Wood School proud and so many of my school friends either liked or commented on that message," Asher-Smith says, her voice still disbelieving. "It made me grateful and I realised there are far more people wanting me to do well than I realised." There were those who criticised the media coverage of the sprinter's achievement, saying she did not get the recognition she deserved. But Asher-Smith argues with equanimity on behalf of both sides, referencing the sports she had to compete with that day: the climax of the Premier League season, Test cricket, the Monaco Grand Prix, to name but a few. "I didn't notice and I really don't know what my opinion on it is," she says. "But athletics, and female athletes, do have to battle for headlines." Three years ago, when the nation was giddy on Olympic sports, Asher-Smith was entering and leaving the Olympic stadium as an unknown charged with carrying boxes of kit for those she hoped, one day, to emulate. She accepts she has come a long way in a short time. "I definitely wouldn't have imagined I'd be a British record holder back then, but I don't want to reflect on it too much because you get caught up in the moment," she says, before discussing the difficulties of juggling studying with training. School is out for the summer, allowing Asher-Smith to concentrate on her sport without the distraction of revising, for example, for a module on medieval Europe, which gave her a headache. The intensity of her training will remain the same because the fastest teenager in the world has an elite athlete's regime: usually a two-hour session at Norman Park track in Bromley between 7pm and 9pm after a day of lectures and study. "The training and University schedules have both been challenging, but if I want to do well in both I can't let either slip," she says, hinting at the work ethic which allowed her to achieve straight As in her A-levels last year, whilst also training to become world junior 100m champion and a European 200m finalist. Asked what her targets are for the rest of the season, the fastest woman in Britain does not set her sights on conquering the world but on a place in the national team at this summer's World Championships. Fighting with her for a place in Beijing are a number of high-class sprinters: Jodie Williams, the 200m Commonwealth Games silver medallist, Bianca Williams - a Commonwealth 200m bronze medallist - and European 100m bronze medallist Ashleigh Nelson. Asha Philip, the third quickest British female in history, is also a contender. "It might sound underwhelming but, with how sprinting is now in the UK, it's definitely a challenge to make the team," says Asher-Smith, who will take on Allyson Felix and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the 200m this Sunday at the Birmingham Grand Prix. "Maybe if I was in a different country, a different environment, maybe I could look beyond qualification but I definitely can't take my place on the team for granted." Watch live coverage of the Birmingham Grand Prix online and on BBC Two from 13:30 BST (15:55 in Northern Ireland) on Sunday, 7 June.

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27 August 2016 Last updated at 11:37 BST Although jetpacks aren't anything new, Scott, also known as the Rocketman, was performing the stunt to highlight how the gadget's technology has changed over the years. He also holds the record for the fastest jetpack flight, at 75 miles per hour. Have a look at him in action.

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Glasgow's Queen Street Station handles 20 million passengers a year but this is predicted to grow to 28 million passengers by 2030. The work will see the main entrance at George Square replaced by a huge glass facade. Platforms will also be extended to accommodate longer trains. The redevelopment is expected to be completed by 2019. Although the tender is being issued by Network Rail, the project will be overseen by ScotRail Alliance - a management team created from senior Abellio ScotRail and Network Rail staff for the purposes over overseeing major projects in Scotland. Phil Verster, managing director of ScotRail Alliance, said: "Today we are confirming that one of our busiest and most important stations will also be transformed, making it larger and with much better facilities for our growing number of customers. "The changes we are making in the coming years will make sure that we have a modern fleet, running on improved infrastructure to and from world-class stations. That is a rail network we can all be proud of." Network Rail confirmed that the £112m Queen Street Station development would include: The project is part of the Scottish government's £742m Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP), which aims to reduce journey times and increase capacity on Scotland's main rail routes. EGIP programme director, Rodger Querns, said the issuing of the tender was "further good progress in the delivery of EGIP". "We have already successfully completed a number of key elements of EGIP," he said. "We look forward to delivering this challenging, but exciting project that will realise huge improvements for passengers."

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William Mack, 39, waited for more than 16 hours before killing Leanne Wall, 36, at her home in Bury, Greater Manchester on 12 February. The 36-year-old, of Conway Avenue, died due to compression to the neck. Mack, of no fixed address, must serve a minimum of 16 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder at Manchester Crown Court. Mack, who regularly smoked cannabis, was paranoid that she had cheated on him at a party and murdered her in "a callous pre-meditated and planned killing", the court heard. He threatened to kill Miss Wall the day before and also made clear his intentions to a friend in "chilling" text messages. Relatives and friends of her partner of three years raised concerns over her safety, police said. Miss Wall suspected Mack had been in her house as the kettle was still warm and some of her clothes were missing. The mother of one rang a friend to say she had heard noises in the house but thought it was her dog, the court heard. Mack later surprised Miss Wall when she woke up and killed her. Judge Patrick Field QC said: "You convinced yourself quite wrongly that she had had sex with another man. "You were told on numerous occasions that this was not true. You chose to ignore that advice. "You continued to be driven by jealousy and possessiveness." Senior Investigating Officer Duncan Thorpe said: "Leanne has left behind a one-year-old daughter who will have to grow up without her mum. "

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Tiote, who was 30, died earlier this month after collapsing as he trained with Chinese club Beijing Enterprises. Kanu, who battled heart problems during his career, says it is time to address heart-related problems. "I'm talking to friends so we can do something to create awareness to try to help children in Africa," Kanu said. "Tiote's death was not good news. It's not the first time it is happening. He's been like a father to me, like a mother, he's just been great to me. I am really grateful. "We lost Marc-Vivien Foe. He died and nothing was done. Tiote is gone and nothing is being done." Kanu was sidelined for nine months just after winning Olympic gold in 1996 when doctors at his Italian club Inter Milan found a heart defect. He was allowed to resume his career after a successful operation in Ohio in the United States. The former Arsenal striker had further heart surgery in 2014. The 40-year-old, who also played for Ajax Amsterdam and Portsmouth, is planning to build a $17 million dollar cardiac hospital in Abuja, Nigeria. He also wants to build similar hospitals in east, north and southern Africa. "One man can not do everything. What happened to Tiote is a lesson to us all. We can't let it go on like this," Kanu told BBC Sport. "We should talk more about it, information needs to get out there because the problem is huge. "Our dream is to build a hospital in Nigeria and four other countries in Africa. "The funds have been the issue but if we can make it happen it's going to help a lot because right now we are taking the kids to India and it cost a lot." So far the Kanu Heart Foundation has facilitated 538 successful operations in England, India, Nigeria and Israel. The foundation office in Lagos, Nigeria, receives eight to ten calls everyday from people seeking help to treat heart-related problems. Lagos University student, Enitan Adesola is one of the very first beneficiaries of the help offered by Kanu. "I have to thank him very much for taking a big decision to help me because you can't just not know someone and try to help that person," she said. "He's been like a father to me, like a mother, he's just been great to me. I am really grateful." To raise the funds for the hospital project Kanu is bringing together his team-mates at Ajax, Inter Milan, Arsenal and Portsmouth for two charity matches to be played in Lagos and Johannesburg later this year.

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The driver suffered relatively minor injuries to his face and neck when the car came to rest on top of the 7ft (2.1m) high fence in Dudley. The man, thought to be in his 50s, was lying across the front seats of the car when found. Fire crews had to stabilize it before he could be freed. Ambulance staff said it was "remarkable" he was not more seriously hurt in the crash at about 08:30 GMT. "Remarkably, the man, who remained conscious throughout, had escaped serious injuries but was treated for minor injuries to his face, neck pain and a suspected fractured collarbone," an ambulance spokesman said. The fence was close to a scaffolding yard, so fire crews used equipment from there to get the car stable, a fire spokesman said.

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It was released by China's National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team and Coordination Centre, state-run media said on Monday. It said cyber attacks affected 8.9m computers in 2011, up from 5m in 2010. China is often accused of cyber attacks on foreign government agencies and firms. Beijing routinely denies this. A recent report from a US congressional panel said that China's cyber warfare skills could pose a threat to the United States military. According to Monday's report from the CNCERT, 11,851 foreign internet protocol (IP) addresses had controlled 10,593 Chinese websites in 2011. It said Japan was the top source of attacks, followed by the US and South Korea. Wang Minghua, deputy director of CNCERT's operations department, was quoted by the state-run China Daily as saying that foreign hackers changed the content of 1,116 Chinese websites, including 404 that were run by government agencies. "This shows that Chinese websites still face a serious problem from being maliciously attacked by foreign hackers or IP addresses," he said. He added that there could have been more instances of hacking, but it was difficult to trace. The report also claims that the cyber attacks were aimed at online banking users. Zhou Yonglin, a CNCERT director, added that in some cases, the hackers "had intended to access state networks and steal confidential information".

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The bodies of Sian Blake, 43, Zachary, eight, and Amon, four, were found at their London home on Tuesday. Police are hunting for the children's father, Arthur Simpson-Kent, who travelled to Ghana days after they were reported missing. The Ghanaian Police said their help was requested two days ago. Detectives have been sent to the Cape Coast in the south of the country - where the extended Simpson family is from - as well as to other parts of the Atlantic shoreline. In addition, police checks are in place on all of Ghana's official borders. The authorities said while there is no official immigration record of Mr Simpson-Kent leaving the country, the delay in alerting them means he may have left via the borders into Togo, Burkino Faso or the Ivory Coast. BBC correspondent Alistair Leithead who is in Ghana said while there have been some reported sightings of him, the investigation was low-key and had not been reported in newspapers nor on television. No appeal has been made for his arrest. Ms Blake and the couple's sons were not seen after 13 December but a missing persons inquiry was not launched until 16 December, when the NSPCC raised concerns about their welfare. Police attended the family's home in south-east London and spoke to Mr Simpson-Kent, but that is the last time he was seen. A search at the home uncovered three bodies in the garden on 5 January and police said significant attempts had been made to conceal them. They all died from head and neck injuries, police said. The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating how the Metropolitan Police handled the case. Sian Blake, who had motor neurone disease, played Frankie Pierre in the BBC One soap between 1996 and 1997.

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In a pilot project, South East Coast Ambulance delayed sending help for certain 111 calls and transferred them to the 999 system, thus gaining an additional 10 minutes to respond. Health regulator Monitor said it had not fully considered patient safety. The trust has defended the project but acknowledged the "serious findings". South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (Seacamb) covers Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Brighton and North East Hampshire. As part of the pilot from December 2014 to February, the trust transferred some calls between systems to re-assess what type of advice or treatment patients needed and whether an ambulance was really required. How call handling was changed Secamb provides NHS 111 services across the region and responds to 999 calls. Some NHS 111 calls were transferred to the 999 system to give Secamb more time for more urgent calls. The calls affected were in the second most serious category - Category A Red 2 - which covers conditions like strokes or fits but which are less critical than where people are non responsive. Under NHS rules, calls designated as life-threatening are supposed to receive an ambulance response within eight minutes. The trust allowed itself an extra 10 minutes to deal with some calls by "re-triaging" patients in the 999 system. Monitor said the project was "poorly handled" and there were "reasonable grounds to suspect that the trust is in breach of its licence." It has added a condition to Secamb's licence, so that if insufficient progress is made the leadership team could be changed. Paul Streat, regional director at Monitor, said: "It is understandable that trusts want to explore better ways of delivering the best possible care but this was poorly-managed and done without the proper authorisation and without enough thought given to how it might affect patients." The trust said it had faced "unprecedented call volumes" and "serious hospital handover delays" last winter. Chief Executive Paul Sutton said it had wanted to make sure the most ill patients were responded to promptly, but acknowledged that it had not acted in the right way. "These are serious findings," he said. "We have already begun to take steps to address Monitor's concerns and as part of this process, independent reviews will assess how decisions are made within the trust, governance processes and our approach to patient safety."

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Media playback is not supported on this device City - without needing to be anywhere near their best against the team that took the title race to its final day last season - were already cruising with a two-goal lead when Aguero made his 69th-minute entrance as a substitute for the limping Edin Dzeko. In the space of those few seconds the Argentina forward strolled onto the pitch at Etihad Stadium and right onto the end of Jesus Navas's perfect pass to put the home side out of sight of Liverpool and maintain their 100% start to the season. It was a symbolic, highly impressive demonstration of the power City manager Manuel Pellegrini has at his disposal, made even more emphatic as it was produced against a Liverpool side that had the title in their grasp in late April only to stumble near the finishing line. Watching it all, impassively for the most part, was the man who has been consigned to City's past but who is now entrusted with ensuring Liverpool have a bright future after the departure to Barcelona of last season's 31-goal top scorer Luis Suarez. Mario Balotelli's face was cheered when it appeared on the big screens as he remains a popular figure with City's supporters, but just hours after the 24-year-old was officially confirmed as a Liverpool player he had the size of the task awaiting him laid out by his former employers. Many have predicted the title will be a two-horse race this season - and even though the campaign is only two games old it already looks like City and Chelsea will be the teams best equipped to last the course. Adding to that impression was the fact that the real architect of City's win was another talented individual they were barely able to call upon when they reclaimed the Premier League. Stevan Jovetic came to Liverpool's attention as a teenager when he scored both goals in Fiorentina's shock Champions League win against them in 2009, but injuries have meant a wait to see him look at his best for City after they paid £22m for the Montenegro forward in July 2013. Two goals here - the second a magnificent team creation which he started and finished - hinted that this could be his season if he remains in good health. Jovetic started with Dzeko, allowing Pellegrini to ease Aguero back after his own injury difficulties. If all three stay fit and Alvaro Negredo comes back as he did in the early part of last season, City will be the benchmark for attacking threat. City eventually won with ease after an awkward first 40 minutes. The three points were earned with a comfort they never enjoyed in the 2-1 victory against Liverpool at home last season, remembering they also lost a 3-2 thriller at Anfield. This was routine once Liverpool's poor defending allowed Jovetic to give City the lead. The gap between the sides looked wider than at any point last season, although this must also be placed in context by the early stage of the campaign. For Liverpool and manager Brendan Rodgers, the dilemma has been an obvious one. How can he reassemble his squad to compensate for the loss of Suarez, not just his goals but also the psychological impact and pressure he applied to opposing players and supporters? There will be a sense of relief among opponents that he is not around to torment them, while it will also take his former Anfield team-mates time to get used to not having such a lethal weapon in their armoury. There is rarely any good news in selling your best player but Rodgers is determined not to let this be an issue that overshadows the new arrivals. Of course Suarez would have been banned here anyway, and it is absolutely right that Rodgers is allowed time to see how reinforcements such as Balotelli, Lazar Markovic and, when fit, Adam Lallana fare. He has the nucleus of the squad that did so brilliantly in vain last season, including the attacking gifts of Daniel Sturridge and Raheem Sterling, who will presumably need to dovetail with Balotelli. Rodgers admits he has taken "a calculated risk" on Balotelli. He is banking on the Italian showing hitherto undetected maturity while also accepting the reality that if he fails at Liverpool his career will be regarded as one in decline. Ironically, given the focus on Liverpool's attacking resources and how Suarez can be replaced, it was familiar troubles further back that were actually at the root of their downfall. Rodgers was right to contend that Liverpool were the better team for 40 minutes, but once Jovetic took advantage of Dejan Lovren's poor header and debutant Alberto Moreno's switch-off the game was up. Lovren, the £20m signing from Southampton, had an uncomfortable night, while Moreno - a £12m arrival from Sevilla - was swiftly acquainted with the need for maximum concentration in the Premier League. Liverpool's performances and finishing position last season put Rodgers way ahead of schedule. A top four place - even if it means finishing lower than second - should be regarded as satisfactory. For City, expectation will be the retention of the title and further progress in the Champions League. And what better way to show they mean business by dispensing comfortably with last season's league runners-up without getting anywhere near their top gear. The marker has been placed by City, and placed early.

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Charrissa Loren Brown-Wellington, 31, is accused of killing Philip Carter, 30, who died at the station on Sunday. Ms Brown-Wellington, who wore a red jumper and grey tracksuit bottoms, was remanded in custody at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court. She is due to appear at the city's crown court on Wednesday.

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Authorities say the plane crashed just short of the runway at Tuscaloosa airport, shortly after sending a distress signal. Reports say the couples had been returning to Oxford, Mississippi, after a dental conference in Florida. The Eagle newspaper in Oxford said 11 children were orphaned by the crash. None of the children were on board. The plane sent a distress call at about 11:10 (16:10 GMT) on Sunday, Bobby Herndon, the mayor of the community of Northport near Tuscaloosa, said. It came down in trees close to the airport and rescue crews were on the scene within three minutes, but no-one survived, he said. The Alabama broadcaster WBRC quoted a relative as saying that Jason and Lea Farese, two dentists from Oxford, were among those killed. The Oxford Eagle said they had three children, aged 10, seven and five. The youngest started kindergarten this week, the newspaper said. One other couple on board had five children, it added.

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Cardiff North MP Craig Williams, a member of Parliament's Work and Pensions Committee, said it would give ministers "time to look at the system". George Osborne is due to set out plans to lessen the impact of the cuts in his Autumn Statement on 25 November. His original proposals were rejected by the House of Lords in October. The committee wants the reforms postponed for a year. Mr Williams said the tax credit system was "not sustainable", but added: "We thought the way it's going through now it needed a lot more mitigation in terms of the next financial year especially." "The committee have said there is no easy way to change the tax credit system. "So [the chancellor] is going to have to look more holistically." The committee's report criticised the Treasury for being "unacceptably evasive" during its investigation. Mr Williams told the BBC: "There was a frustration in the committee during these two weeks that we simply don't have all the evidence to hand." On Wednesday, the Treasury said the MPs' report was out of date as the new plans were due. Mr Osborne announced plans to cut £4.4bn from the tax credits system in his summer Budget, as part of plans to save £12bn from the welfare bill. Opponents of the changes, due to come into effect in April, say more than 1m existing recipients - many of whom work but are on low incomes - could be £1,300 a year worse off as a result. In October, Welsh Conservatives leader Andrew RT Davies said he agreed with the principle behind the changes but called for them to be "phased in".

The chancellor should " @placeholder " plans to cut tax credits if he can not soften the impact of the changes immediately , a Welsh Conservative MP has said .

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