They made it together into the same Cardiff schoolboy rugby team of the late 1940s and then they went their separate ways. The boy at number four - the late Joe Erskine - became heavyweight champion of Britain and the Empire, a stylist whose ring career included victories over three world title contenders - Willie Pastrano, Henry Cooper, George Chuvalo. And what became of the boy at number seven Angelina Street? Well, how long have you got because we are talking about the greatest try-scorer in rugby history - union and league - 571 touchdowns in 562 matches. His name is Billy Boston. His mother, Nellie, was Cardiff-Irish, his father, John all five feet four inches of him, was a merchant seaman from Sierra Leone. They had 11 children and Billy came smack in the middle. Media playback is not supported on this device He went to South Church Street School in Butetown and by the time he left his ambition was to play rugby for Cardiff at the Arms Park. He started with the multi-national Cardiff International Athletic Club - the CIACS - in the city's docklands and played for Wales in three boys clubs' internationals and in three more at Youth level. Everyone had heard of him but still nobody at the Arms Park asked him along. Neath did, and they showed their gratitude, according to Billy, by slipping him a white five pound note under the table after every match. Then he went to the north of England to do his National Service and all the Rugby League clubs could hardly believe their luck. Wigan moved quickest of all. They sent chairman Joe Taylor and vice-chairman Billy Gore to Angelina Street on Friday, 13 March 1953. Billy was home on leave. The Wigan bounty hunters offered him £1,000, a fortune 63 years ago. When Mrs Boston rejected the offer, Taylor and Gore upped the offer to £1,500. For effect they spread the white fivers all over the table. Billy had never seen so much money in all his life but he didn't want to go. At this point he and his mother asked to be excused for a moment. Nellie took charge as mother-cum-agent. "Don't worry son, I'll get rid of them for you. I'll ask them for so much that they'll go home." So when they went back into the little front room, Nellie said: "Right pay him £3,000 and he'll sign." Billy thought to himself: "That's a really smart way of getting rid of them. Three grand? Nobody's worth that much." What they had no way of knowing was that before leaving for Cardiff, the Wigan delegation had drawn £3,000 out of the bank. They put their heads together for less than a minute and said: "OK, Mrs Boston we will pay you three thousand pounds. All Billy has to do is sign this contract" Boston didn't want to sign it and his mother had to remind him - Wigan had come up with the money, now they had to keep their word. He signed and years

Summary: Once upon a time long ago, two boys born in the same city in the same year grew up as neighbours - one at number four Angelina Street in the old Tiger Bay area of Cardiff, the other at number seven.


Not only had there been a tense build-up to the game, given that one of Murray's former coaches, Dani Vallverdu, now works with Berdych, but during the match the Scotsman's fiancee Kim Sears was apparently caught on camera swearing in the opposing camp's direction. It has all put the spotlight on players' entourages - those close friends and advisers who can be seen sitting in the VIP boxes at big games. The entourage is the highly motivated family, financial and sporting team driving their man or woman to the top. As with a rock star or an F1 driver, those behind the scenes form a super-professional and well-drilled team, each with a specific role to play to ensure that the player is as well-prepared and supported as possible - physically, mentally, and financially. The more cash a player rakes in through prize money and endorsements, the bigger the potential entourage they can employ, with the top stars paying hundreds of thousands of pounds a year on support staff. The Main Coach They may not work all year round, but the chief coach is the main sporting point of contact with the player, honing his or her skills to a tournament-ready fine-pitch. Often, but not always, a former pro themselves who understands the challenges of battling to Grand Slam finals. They are able to impart the wisdom of their experiences and successes, such as Amelie Mauresmo with Andy Murray, or Boris Becker with Novak Djokovic. However, Rafael Nadal's coach, his Uncle Toni, was never a top-ranked player, nor was Patrick Mouratoglou, coach of Serena Williams. The principal coach is often also a defensive shield, and can provide another "public face" to the star. "Taking an entourage around the world can be incredibly costly," says Simon Chadwick, professor of sports business at Coventry University. "However, there must be a return on investment because if there was no benefit, particularly given the way these players are so carefully financially managed, then these extensive back-up teams would not be there." At the top echelons of the game, most of these specialists will be on a basic financial retainer - plus a bonus from player prize money. Obviously, the specialist's bonus is then bigger should their man or woman pocket a Grand Slam or a top-ranked ATP or WTA title. Different players have differently configured back-room teams and not all of them will have the same-sized entourage, while some roles can be mixed and matched between staff. But a full entourage generally consists of the main coach, a day-to-day coach, a strength and conditioning or fitness coach, physio, manager/agent, and romantic partner. Other entourage members can include a hitting partner, a specialist coach brought in to work on just one stroke (such as Djokovic hiring Mark Woodforde in 2007 to improve his volleys), dieticians, as well as other family members or close friends. As well as providing psychological and moral support by being courtside at their client's games, they are there to monetise the player's brand while they are at the top for the relatively short span

Summary: It is not often a player's entourage makes as many headlines as their on-court performance, but that is what happened to Andy Murray during his Australian Open semi-final win over Tomas Berdych.


The 22-year-old joined Tigers in January 2016 from Bristol, initially on loan before making the move permanent ahead of this season. "Leicester Tigers is a club with a lot of success and a big history," Genge told the club's website. "I feel I have come on a lot since I joined the club, learning all the time working with people like Marcos Ayerza, Dan Cole and now Boris Stankovich." He added: "I just want to play rugby and I am enjoying it at Tigers. It's great to play at Welford Road with crowds over 20,000 every week." Capped by England in the end-of-season game against Wales last year, he was included in the 2017 Six Nations squad and has been named in the tour party for this summer's two-Test trip to Argentina. Leicester, who face Sale Sharks at Welford Road on Saturday, have not confirmed the length of Genge's new deal.

Summary: England prop Ellis Genge has agreed a new contract with Leicester Tigers.


The plan to restrict the promotion of foods high in fat, salt and sugar to under 16s is being consulted on by the Committee of Advertising Practice. It would see the existing ban on TV ads extended to all media, including online outlets, the industry regulator said. Current limits on using celebrities and characters to sell food to children could be relaxed for healthier foods. About one in five children in the England is classed as obese by the end of primary school, according to the Health and Social Care Information Centre. The self-regulatory body, CAP, which sets rules for UK advertising, said the new rules could make a "meaningful contribution to tackling this important health issue". Currently, food and drink deemed unhealthy can be advertised to children in non-broadcast media, unlike television where strict regulation prohibits it through content and scheduling restrictions. Ofcom research suggests that 96% of 12 to 15-year-olds spent more time online than watching TV last year. The advertising industry needed to make sure its regulations reflected changing media habits among young people, CAP said. Evidence showed advertising had a "modest" effect on children's food preferences, it said. However, factors such as parental influence, opportunities for physical exercise and education playing a greater role in solutions to childhood obesity, it argued. Chairman James Best said: "Advertising is just one small factor in a very complex equation but we believe we can play a positive part in addressing an urgent societal challenge. "In proposing new rules, our aim is to strike the right balance between protecting children and enabling businesses to continue advertising their products responsibly." Alex Neill, of consumer watchdog Which?, said a rule change was "long overdue", and vital to tackling childhood obesity. But Children's Food Campaign co-ordinator Malcolm Clark said the proposals had "too many gaps in the detail of the consultation and scope for the rules to be weakened". The regulator had "missed obvious opportunities to make the UK a world leader in putting the protection of children's health above food and advertising industry profits," he said. The consultation closes on 22 July.

Summary: A complete ban on advertising unhealthy foods to children is being considered as a way to reduce childhood obesity.


The 23-year-old from Banbridge clocked 15 minutes, 50.55 seconds to take almost three seconds off Duffy's 1996 mark of 15:53.47. Mitchell was third in the British Milers Club event won by Louise Small of England in 15:42.47. Irish Olympian Kerry O'Flaherty finished seventh in 16:32.56. O'Flaherty said after the race that she sustained a grade two calf tear at the 1800m mark which required hospital treatment. The injury could keep the Newcastle women out for a number of weeks. Mitchell's time was over a minute inside her previous personal best for the distance. The QUB athlete will now attempt to achieve Athletics Northern Ireland's Commonwealth Games consideration time of 15:39.00 before the 30 September deadline. Meanwhile, Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games sprinter Leon Reid showed impressive early-season form as he clocked wind-assisted 100m times of 10.26 and 10.27 in Waterford on Saturday. The 22-year-old, whose mother was born in Belfast, is hoping to switch international eligibility from Great Britain to Ireland and has joined Wexford club Menapians. Reid won a European junior 200m silver medal for Britain in 2013 and also finished second in the same event at the European under-23s two years ago.

Summary: Queen's athlete Emma Mitchell broke Teresa Duffy's 21-year-old Northern Ireland 5,000m record at a meeting in Solihull on Saturday night.


Seau, a 1990s star with the San Diego Chargers, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Wednesday, after his girlfriend found him unconscious. His death followed the 2011 suicide of former Chicago Bears star Dave Duerson. Their deaths have led to questions over the effect of concussions on the brains of professional football players. "They [the family] believe that through allowing this procedure, it will allow the betterment of other individuals and athletes in the years ahead," Pastor Shawn Mitchell, former chaplain for the Chargers, told the Reuters news agency. "Their thought is, if it can benefit others, then it's probably worth going forward with." The San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office said Seau's brain would need to be conducted by outside researchers. Seau's family has not said whether they believe concussions could have played a role in the football star's death. But recent studies have found a connection between repeated concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a disease with symptoms including memory loss and mood swings. On Thursday, a more than a hundred former National Football League players filed a lawsuit claiming the National Football League (NFL) deliberately hid the dangers of concussions from them. They join an additional 1,500 former NFL players who have put their names to similar lawsuits. Duerson's family have already filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the NFL, alleging that the organisation did not do enough to prevent or treat concussions that had damaged his brain. He died in February 2011. Seau's ex-wife, Gina, told the Associated Press news agency that over the course of his 20-year football career, Seau also suffered concussions. But his relatives and friends say they did not know of any issues that may have led to his death. Police have said they did not find a suicide note. In 2010, Seau drove his car off a cliff hours after he had been arrested on suspicion of domestic violence. Seau starred with his hometown San Diego Chargers for 13 years before playing with the Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots. He was inducted into the Chargers Hall of Fame in 2010.

Summary: The family of former American football star Junior Seau has donated his brain for research into the effects of head trauma on football players.


A classified advert in the free newspaper, the UK China Times, available throughout the UK, was used to recruit the women. It is followed by a UK mobile number that leads to a brothel in Belfast. The brothel manager, known as Lisa, who keeps half the earnings, said she was "trying to help" the women. Advert BBC News NI enlisted the help of a Chinese journalist based in London. Posing as a potential recruit, she called the number in the advert and spoke in Mandarin to Lisa. After asking her age, and if she was fat, Lisa agreed to employ the journalist for sex work. She told her to fly to Belfast, bringing high heels, school girl and nurses outfits, and warned against packing too many condoms in her bag to avoid suspicion from the authorities. Lisa told the journalist that she had run two brothels but now only had one. When they met, Lisa discussed a range of sexual activities and said: "When you make money, I make money, too. It's £70 per half hour, £100 per 45 minutes. £130 for an hour. Understand? We go fifty-fifty." She said: "If you can make £1,700 to £1,800 a week, I'll be laughing." When first confronted with allegations of her criminality, Lisa refused to answer the BBC's questions. A white man, in his mid 40s, who had driven Lisa to the encounter, drove off when he saw BBC journalists. Later, Lisa wiped away tears and said in faltering English: "My husband here doesn't know. I have family here." Speaking about sex work she said: "I was just trying to help [this girl]. This time is very difficult, December, January, February, No money, no customers. I'm not working, just sometimes. I didn't put that advert in the paper [since] a long time. I'm a very nice woman." When asked about the two brothels she had run, she said: "I'm not [running] two or three. How can I do this? I'm not a big woman." She responded to the claims she made on the phone saying "it's a wrong number", and "I think your hearing is wrong". The full story can be heard in a BBC Radio Ulster documentary - Vice Girl or Victim - on Sunday at 12:30 GMT and on the iPlayer.

Summary: BBC News NI has uncovered a brothel luring undocumented Asian women to Belfast with the promise of work to pay off people smugglers.


The competition between sides in Jersey and Guernsey was scrapped in 2012 because of inter-island travel costs and too many one-sided encounters. The Jersey Cricket Board (JCB) has confirmed it will return from June until August. "We hope it's going to invigorate the game," said JCB chief executive Chris Minty. "The clubs have now realised that their local domestic cricket is perhaps getting a bit samey and they're looking for other challenges and this presents that challenge. "We've managed with some help from people in Guernsey to overcome, in part, the travel issues of going backwards and forwards." Guernsey only has three sides - Griffins, Cobo and Wanderers - playing one-day cricket, while Jersey has four. However, a number of games have been called off in recent seasons because of a lack of players. "It's no secret that in both islands' clubs have been struggling to put sides out for what we call longer games of cricket at the weekend," Minty told BBC Radio Jersey. "We're hoping this is going to give people a new focus and some slightly different cricket against some slightly different opposition."

Summary: The Channel Islands Cricket League will be reinstated this summer to give players more variety of opposition.


The militants attacked from four sides of the city in the middle of the night. Mahmood Danish, spokesman for the provincial governor, said Afghan forces had repelled the attack. Kunduz was briefly captured by the Taliban last September - the first time the insurgents had taken a major city - but government forces, backed by Nato, recaptured it within days. In southern Helmand province, militants have also taken a strategically important district to the south of Lashkar Gah, killing the local police chief, officials say. A number of other police casualties were also reported. Residents in Kunduz told the BBC they heard heavy fighting and helicopters flying over the strategically important city. Mohammadullah Bahej, head of the police co-ordination office in Kunduz, said the militants had been pushed back but fighting was continuing on the outskirts of the city. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the Taliban had captured several checkpoints in the city. "A massive operation started on Kunduz capital from four directions early this morning," Mr Mujahid said via his official Twitter account. The capture of Kunduz by the Taliban last September was a huge blow to the country's Western-backed government. The militants abandoned the city after four days but they had proved their growing capability. The group raided Tarin Kot, the provincial capital of Uruzgan, earlier this month. Afghan government forces are estimated to have control over no more than two-thirds of Afghanistan. The attacks come ahead of a major international donor conference in Brussels on Tuesday, where Afghanistan's international partners will discuss ongoing funding for the country.

Summary: Taliban militants have launched a co-ordinated attack on the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, officials say.


A 67-year-old man was discovered in a property in East Church Close, just after 08:22 BST on Friday. Police said they were satisfied the man's death was not suspicious. A 41-year-old woman and a 43-year-old man arrested in connection with the man's death have been released without charge. Police say they have not yet established a cause of death.

Summary: A man and woman arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was found in a Southampton house have been released without charge.


The Oxford quintet emerged, bathed in white light, to the haunting piano refrain of Daydreaming, from last year's A Moon Shaped Pool album. Two hours and 25 songs later, they closed with Karma Police, singing: "For a minute there, I lost myself." It felt like a perfect metaphor for the band's power to transport an audience. The performance came on the 20th anniversary of Radiohead's first headline set at Glastonbury. That show, which took place just weeks after they released OK Computer, has often been called the festival's best ever. However, frontman Thom Yorke recently told BBC 6 Music he had been on the verge of walking off the stage, after the band's monitors exploded, meaning they could not hear each other. "I just went over to Ed [O'Brien, guitarist] and said, 'I'm off mate, see you later,'" he recalled. "He turned around and went, 'If you do, you'll probably live the rest of your life regretting it.' I went, 'Good point.'" There were no such problems on Friday night, as the band embarked on a career-spanning set that held their experimental and anthemic qualities in perfect balance. Airbag was thrilling, Pyramid Song devastating, and Everything In It's Right Place a pulsing, twisted Radiohead version of a club classic. They even pulled out the much-maligned Creep - the angsty, teenage anthem that gave them early success, but became a millstone around their necks as they matured into a fearlessly experimental art-rock outfit. Things got political - briefly - during No Surprises, where the lyric "bring down the government, they don't speak for us," elicited a huge cheer from the festival's left-leaning audience. As the song ended, Yorke commented: "See you later, Theresa. Just shut the door on your way out." That aside, the frontman rarely spoke during the set, except to thank Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis "for having us at your lovely farm today". "Thank you very much for coming to this field to listen to us this evening," he added during the encore. "Probably we'll see you in some other fields over the weekend." Radiohead were preceded on the Pyramid Stage by indie-dance band The xx, whose spiralling, hypnotic songs soundtracked dusk on Worthy Farm. Immediately before them, rock group Royal Blood celebrated with champagne on stage as their second album, How Did We Get So Dark, entered the charts at number one. Speaking to the BBC, singer Mike Kerr said the band were bowled over by the two events converging. "We definitely have a sense that this is a one-off thing. It's something I'll look back on as a very special time." Elsewhere on Friday, there were sets from Sleaford Mods, Clean Bandit, Dizzee Rascal, The Lemon Twigs and Flaming Lips. On The Other Stage, pop star Lorde began her set "trapped" inside a clear plastic box that tilted back-and-forth above her band. Once she emerged onto the stage, she dedicated a recently-released song, The Louvre, to anyone in the audience who was harbouring a secret crush. "Shut your eyes and listen to the song, and just will

Summary: Absorbing, challenging and achingly beautiful - Radiohead delivered a typically Radiohead sort of set for Glastonbury's opening night.


Lookman, 19, is expected to have a medical at Everton shortly, after terms were agreed between the clubs. Boss Ronald Koeman will then be keen to secure a deal for Schneiderlin, 27. The France midfielder, who played for the Dutchman at Southampton, has been told he can leave Old Trafford. Schneiderlin, who has also been linked with a return to France at Marseille, has failed to figure under manager Jose Mourinho. It is understood Everton have had a £19m bid turned down but it seems certain they will return with a renewed offer closer to United's asking price. United are keen to recoup most, if not all, of the £24m they paid Southampton in July 2015 and have also rejected an offer from West Bromwich Albion. Koeman wants early recruits with midfielder Idrissa Gueye, arguably Everton's most influential performer this season, now away on international duty with Senegal at the Africa Cup Of Nations, and James McCarthy out injured. Everton also retain an interest in another player marginalised under Mourinho at Old Trafford, Koeman's fellow Dutchman Memphis Depay. Forward Lookman is expected to be first in at Goodison Park, with director of football Steve Walsh making his signing a priority. Everton - with Walsh a key figure - are embarking on a policy of recruiting emerging young talent as well as established players. The Toffees signed teenage striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin from Sheffield United for £1.5m in August and the England youth international started the 3-0 win against Southampton on Monday after several appearances as a substitute but was forced to go off early on with an ankle injury. Charlton had hoped Everton would loan Lookman back to them for the rest of the season but he is seen as someone who could quickly play a part at Goodison Park.

Summary: Everton are close to completing an £11m deal for Charlton Athletic teenager Ademola Lookman - and will then intensify their interest in Manchester United's Morgan Schneiderlin.


The victims' group Wave organised an event at the Lyric Theatre to mark International Disappeared Day. Nine bodies have been recovered in searches to date, but seven of the Disappeared remain missing. A patron of Wave, actor Jimmy Nesbitt, joined victims' families at the commemoration event. Seven white chairs were placed outside the theatre as an installation to represent the seven missing men. "There are still seven families who are here today, who have had a lifetime of loss and not knowing just where their brothers are so they can have a decent burial and they have somewhere to visit," Mr Nesbitt said. "Today we're just making another appeal, another push for the tiniest bit of information. "Just the tiniest piece, with the equipment they have now, could be the final piece of the jigsaw. "Although it's a very long time ago, these are very significant events and I don't think they necessarily disappear from one's memory." The actor said the families' pain had been increased by not being able to visit their loved ones' graves. "It's not that long ago that I had to rush back from New Zealand because my own mother passed away," he said. "As raw as it still is, I never-the-less had the comfort, and will always have the comfort, of knowing where she is buried and I can always visit her. "There are people here today who just don't have that opportunity." He said the families' stories highlighted the unbelievable pain they had gone through. "One of the people we have here today, Philomena (McKee), her mother spent a lifetime with an empty chair in her kitchen - Phil lost her brother (Kevin) in 1972 when she was nine," he said. "Every night there would be an empty place and her mother would give the children a plate of dinner to take up to the hotpress to keep it warm in case he came home. "You can only imagine what damage that does and eventually Phil's mum suffered greatly from mental illness and I think Phil would say part of her mother died that night that he was abducted." Kevin McKee, who was 21 when he was abducted from west Belfast in October 1972, has never been found. "I really think there is a responsibility from those who have only the very kernel of a memory of something that happened, there is a responsibility to come forward with this," Mr Nesbitt said. In 1999 the IRA admitted - after years of denials - that they had abducted and killed nine of the Disappeared, although they are suspected of being responsible for more of the murders." Thursday also marks the 13th anniversary of the founding of the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR). The ICLVR was established in 1999 by an intergovernmental treaty involving the British and Irish governments. The aim was to find a way to gather confidential information which would help to find the bodies.

Summary: The Disappeared - people murdered and secretly buried by republicans during the Troubles - have been commemorated at an event in Belfast.


The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight's Lancaster, known as Thumper, based at RAF Coningsby, took the skies for a test flight on Monday. The Lancaster, one of only two in the world able to fly, missed most of the 2015 display season. Squadron Leader Martin Morris said a schedule for subsequent flights will be announced over the next few weeks. Sqd Ldr Morris, who heads up the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, said: "Spares and parts are difficult to find and some had to be manufactured. "The aluminium for the bulkhead had to be sourced from the same type of aluminium as the original aircraft - so it has not been without challenge - but our engineers have succeeded." Hundreds of people turned out to watch as Thumper took to the skies at about 14:00 BST.

Summary: The last airworthy Lancaster bomber in Britain has flown for the first time since being grounded by a fire in May.


The new gadget toy appears to be selling like hotcakes in China - much to the horror of concerned parents across the country. The tiny crossbows fire toothpicks powerful enough to break cardboard, apples or even soda cans. Some cities worried the toys can cause serious injury have now banned them. According to Chinese media, cities like Chengdu, Kunming and Harbin have already banned sales of the toy, while parents in Hong Kong are also raising concerns. The small crossbows come as a cheap plastic version for about four yuan (Â£0.5; $0.6) while the metal versions of the mini weapon cost around 10 yuan. They are sold in shops and on the streets near schools and are also available online. Reacting to criticism from parents, the country's leading online platforms JD.com and Taobao.com have said they won't allow the toys to be sold any more. While they are indeed no longer available on those two online shops, they can still be found on other websites like 1688.com, which like Taobao belongs to online retail giant Alibaba. According to Chinese media, police are also cracking down on shops near schools selling the dangerous gadgets. Videos on social media showing the crossbows in action have them breaking into cardboard, apples or raw meat. If the toothpick is replaced with a metal needle, it can even crack through a can of soda. While the toys do come with a note saying they should not be aimed at people or animals, the packaging of one product claims it can even fight cockroaches, which many might say is no bad thing.

Summary: If you think fidget spinners can be dangerous toys, wait until you come across a kid playing with a toothpick crossbow - and then take cover.


Media playback is not supported on this device Thanks to a superb defensive display, Britain led 34-25 at half-time and were then always in control in Worcester, stretching their lead after the break. Terry Bywater top-scored with 29 points and was named Most Valuable Player, while Ian Sagar added 17. "These are exciting times for this team," Bywater told BBC Sport. "We have some new talented players coming through combined with veterans like myself and Simon Munn and we play with pride and passion. "I think our start surprised Turkey. They beat us in last year's World Championship quarter-finals in Korea so revenge is sweet." Earlier, the GB women secured their fifth European bronze medal in a row after an easy 69-39 win over France. The home side, who had lost 56-55 to Paralympic champions Germany in Friday's semi-finals, were dominant throughout with Helen Freeman and Jordanna Bartlett leading the scoring on 10 points apiece. Both GB teams had already secured their places at next year's Rio Paralympics thanks to their performances at the tournament.

Summary: Great Britain men's wheelchair basketball team clinched a third consecutive European title after beating Turkey 87-66 in the final.


The scientists found 37 different viruses they believe have the potential to spread across the globe. All of them have shown the ability to spread between people, but have not so far caused a major epidemic. The Mers coronavirus, relatives of the Ebola virus, and several mosquito-borne viruses are singled out by the study. Researchers said these viruses had all caused disease outbreaks in the past and were the cause of "greatest concern". The method the team used to identify the most dangerous viruses has already predicted the threat of both the Ebola and Zika viruses before they emerged to cause major epidemics. These infections are all zoonotic - meaning that they mostly affect animals at present. However, scientists fear they could pose a major threat to human health if they become able to spread more easily between people. The research says surveillance of these viruses should be stepped up to avoid major public health crises, such as that seen in west Africa during the recent Ebola outbreak. Prof Mark Woolhouse, one of the lead authors of the study, said: "Monitoring these infections should be prioritised because relatively minor changes in their ecology could lead to major changes in the threat they pose to public health." A pandemic is generally defined as an epidemic that occurs over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries, and affecting a large number of people. One of the most devastating pandemics was the Black Death, which killed an estimated 50 million people in 1350. Other more recent pandemics include HIV and the H1N1 flu virus outbreaks in 1918 and 2009. The Edinburgh study was published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Summary: Experts at the University of Edinburgh have pinpointed more than 30 infections that are likely candidates for the next major pandemic.


Pawel Lupa, 41, of Gleneagles Drive in Kirkby-in-Ashfield killed his partner Aleksandra Mrozik, 47, at their home in July, Nottingham Crown Court heard. A jury found him guilty of the murder of Ms Mrozik and guilty of the attempted murder of Wojcek Bocek, 32. Lupa attacked his two victims after an altercation at their flat in a "callous attack", Judge Gregory Dickenson said. The judge said Lupa had shown a "total disregard" for his partner's fate, adding: "You did not lift a finger to try to help or to comfort Aleksandra (after the attack)." Updates on this story and more from the East Midlands Lupa's barrister Peter Joyce said all three of the people involved in the argument on 16 July 2016 were "heavy drinkers". "I've never seen a greater consumption of alcohol in any case," he said. The court heard that Lupa threw a meat cleaver at Mr Bocek and then used a different knife to stab Ms Mrozik in the chest and through the arm. She was treated by paramedics in the front garden of their home but died on the way to hospital. Lupa was sentenced to 12 years for attempted murder and will serve the term concurrently with his murder sentence. Det Ch Insp Hayley Williams of East Midlands Special Operations Unit said: "Both victims were subjected to frenzied attacks. "There was blood in every room of the house, on several neighbours' doors as Mr Bocek frantically tried to get help."

Summary: A man who stabbed his partner to death in a "frenzied attack" after a drunken argument has been jailed for 23 years.


They say that the animals, which live in the Taimyr Peninsula in the northernmost tip of Russia, are being affected by rising temperatures and human activity. This is causing the animals to change their annual migration patterns. The research has been presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). "There is a substantial decline - and we are also seeing this with other wild reindeer declining rapidly in other parts of the world," said Andrey Petrov, who runs the Arctic Centre at the University of Northern Iowa, US. The Taimyr herd is one of the most monitored groups of reindeer in the world. The animals have been tracked for nearly 50 years by aerial surveys and more recently by satellite imagery. The population reached a peak of one million in 2000, but this latest research suggests that there are now only 600,000 reindeer. "Climate change is at least one of the variables," explained Prof Petrov. "We know in the last two decades that we have had an increase in temperatures of about 1.5C overall. And that definitely impacts migration patterns." Industrial development is increasing in the region, which is also changing the animals' distribution. The researchers found that in the summer, the reindeer were moving east to avoid human activity. But they were also shifting north and to higher elevations. The team thinks this is to try to get to cooler ground and also to avoid the mosquitoes that are booming as the region gets warmer and wetter. "They just move and move and move to escape them," said Prof Petrov. This is extending the distance that the animals have to migrate between winter and summer. "They now have to travel much longer distances to reach those areas with their newborn calves, and that means there is an increase in calf mortality." He added that rivers in the region were also growing in size, making them more dangerous for the animals as they had to swim rather than walk across them. In addition, food in the summer grounds is becoming more scarce, especially as the animals move to higher elevations. Prof Petrov said it was important to try to halt the decline. "Reindeer are tremendously important for biodiversity - they are part of the Arctic food chain and without them other species would be in trouble," he explained. "But on the other hand, in all the areas they inhabit, they are vital for peopleâ€™s survival. "Thousands and thousands of people rely on wild reindeer; it is the basis of their subsistence economy. So it's about human sustainability too." Follow Rebecca on Twitter @BBCMorelle

Summary: The world's largest wild reindeer herd has fallen by 40% since 2000, scientists have warned.


The 34-year-old South Africa international was sent off in the first half of Saturday's victory over Gloucester for a punch on Nick Wood. Brits pleaded guilty to the charge at a Rugby Football Union disciplinary hearing on Tuesday. He will miss matches against Sale, Northampton and London Irish and will be available to play again on 15 March.

Summary: Saracens hooker Schalk Brits has been banned for three weeks after admitting a charge of striking an opponent.


The aim of the new programme is to reduce the number of Manx women who develop cervical cancer. The additional test would mean more focussed treatment for "higher risk" individuals. A spokesman said abnormalities caused by HPV can easily be treated before becoming dangerous. He added: "With the discovery that HPV causes the majority of cervical cancers and following research and trials over many years, it is now possible to screen for high risk HPV as part of the existing cervical screening programme. The test for high risk HPV is done on the cervical screening sample, which means that women will not notice anything different when they have their regular cervical smear test. All women in the Isle of Man between the ages of 25 and 49 are called for cervical screening every three years. Those between 50 and 64 are called every five years.

Summary: A test for the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is to be included within the Isle of Man's cervical cancer screening programme, says the health department.


The pair from Haverhill have won the UK's second biggest ever lottery prize after being the only winners in Friday's lottery draw. Camelot said the pair would reveal their plans for the future on Tuesday at Down Hall Country House Hotel in Hertfordshire. The lottery organisers said the total prize money won by the couple was £148,656,000. Camelot said the lucky ticket holders would be revealed at the hotel in Hatfield Heath, near Bishop's Stortford, at 11:30 BST. A National Lottery spokeswoman said: "We are looking forward to welcoming the ticket-holder into our millionaires club, joining the 2,900 millionaires created by the National Lottery to date". The ticket is the second biggest National Lottery win behind Colin and Chris Weir from Ayrshire, who scooped £161m in July 2011. It is also the second winning ticket by a couple from East Anglia in less than a year after Dave and Angela Dawes, of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, won £101m in October. The winning numbers were 11, 17, 21, 48 and 50. The lucky stars were 9 and 10. It is the seventh Euromillions jackpot to be won in the UK so far in 2012. In Friday's draw another UK millionaire was created in the Millionaire Raffle Selection game, with the winning code JDW 016965. Camelot said to date Euromillions players have raised £28bn for National Lottery Good Causes. Watch live coverage of the winning couple's TV interview on the BBC News website at 1130

Summary: A couple from Suffolk have won £148m on the Euromillions lottery.


Cambridge University engineering student David Knowles, 22, used the components to assist conservators at the city's Fitzwilliam Museum. The Hor mummy case, dating from the 10th Century BC, had collapsed and Mr Knowles designed internal Lego frames to support it after conservation work. A spokesman described his design as "crucial" to the project's success. The cartonnage mummy case - made of layers of plaster, linen and glue - was found in a temple at Ramesseum in Thebes, Luxor, in 1896. The gilded wooden face had been torn out by robbers and the mummy removed. "It came to the museum pretty much after the excavation, and was certainly displayed, but then its history is a bit mysterious," said Julie Dawson, senior assistant keeper of conservation. Source: BBC History Mummies Around the World From Warrior Women to Female Pharaohs: Careers for Women in Ancient Egypt At some point it had been exposed to damp conditions and had sagged around the chest and face resulting in cracking and instability in the painted decoration. There had been some attempts at repair and restoration, most likely in the cartonnage's early years in the Museum. However, conservators at the Fitzwilliam decided that proper restoration required the services not just of an expert in cartonnage material, but a structural engineer to advise on the stress points of the object, and how it could safely be handled. Mr Knowles volunteered to work with conservator Sophie Rowe as part of his final year project. "I love history and engineering, and this was a great way of combining the two," he said. The museum needed a structure that would safely hold the cartonnage during conservation, and a way of supporting the chest area afterwards. "David made something that looks like an instrument of torture with a sort of helmet, and shoulder pads made of mesh they use in hospitals for making casts. "This could be shaped with heat so we could get a very precise fit and precise support," Ms Dawson said. "The case could then lie face downwards so Sophie could work through the back, very slowly." The delicate operation involved gradually humidifying the case from the inside before bringing the collapsed chest back up into place. "We then needed to support that somehow, and David said he could make some small shapes from Lego that would go inside the case," Ms Dawson said. "He created padded platforms - one at the top and one at the bottom - and between there's a screwthread mechanism so we can alter the height. "The top platform can swivel which means it can adapt itself to the shape of a cartonnage." Mr Knowles, who graduated this year, said: "Lego was one of my favourite toys as a child and we use it for lots of things in the engineering department." He said the support platform took about eight weeks to design and build, but described his Lego platforms as "a couple of flashes of inspiration". Project supervisor, Simon Guest, a reader in structural mechanics in the engineering department, said: "This is such a good

Summary: An Egyptian mummy case stored in a museum basement for about 50 years has been restored with the help of Lego.


Winger Fenby, 30, a qualified chartered accountant, played for Newcastle and Scarlets before joining Irish in 2013. Former Harlequins back-row Guest, 31, brings a 14-year playing career to a close having won the Premiership, European Challenge Cup and LV= Cup. Injuries restricted him to just two Premiership starts this season, his second with London Irish. Fenby scored two Premiership tries this term as well as a hat-trick against Edinburgh in the European Challenge Cup pool stage. "I have really enjoyed my time with London Irish and it's with a heavy heart I've come to make this decision and pursue a new opportunity," he said. Guest made more than 200 appearances for Quins and scored three times for the Exiles and admitted retirement was a tough decision to take. "There are a lot of experiences that will live long in my memory, and I am grateful to have played rugby at the highest level for many years," he added.

Summary: London Irish players Andrew Fenby and Tom Guest have announced their retirement from professional rugby.


The GMB claim half of the staff working at the Glensanda Quarry, north of Oban, face the sack from a new contractor. The union fears Spanish-owned Oban Earth Works will cut 50% of staff when it takes over excavation and haulage operations at the quarry. That work had been carried out by the Hargreaves company on behalf of Aggregate Industries. A spokeswoman for Hargreaves said their contract ended in May, but they would remain during a handover period until the end of July. They say staff have been transferred across to the new company. A spokesman for Aggregate Industries said: "As with any commercial operation, it's important for Aggregate Industries to review and renew our partnerships, to ensure we can offer the best service available. "We are switching load and haul provider at our plant in Glensanda, and as part of that process there are individuals who will be transferred from our current provider Hargreaves, to our new one (FERPI). Unfortunately, due to increasing production efficiencies on site, there are some employees at risk of being made redundant by FERPI. "We understand and appreciate that this is a potentially difficult time for those individuals affected and have been in close contact with FERPI to ensure employees are offered all the support they need throughout the consultation process." The BBC has been unable to speak to anyone from Oban Earth or Aggregate Industries.

Summary: Up to 25 jobs are under threat at Europe's biggest granite quarry in Argyll, according to union leaders.


German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said the measures would ensure German law was applied online. Social media cannot "become a funfair for the far right," he said. The agreement follows reports of a rise in online racism in Germany as the country manages an influx of up to one million migrants and refugees in 2015. Mr Maas said complaints about hate speech would be assessed by "specialist teams" at the three companies, who would also make it easier for such posts to be reported. They would assess complaints using the benchmark of German law "and no longer just the terms of use of each network", he said. "When the limits of free speech are trespassed, when it is about criminal expressions, sedition, incitement to carry out criminal offences that threaten people, such content has to be deleted from the net," Mr Maas said. "And we agree that as a rule this should be possible within 24 hours." Germany's official welcome for hundreds of thousands of refugees - mainly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan - has triggered a backlash from nationalists, including neo-Nazis. Mr Maas and other critics have previously accused Facebook of acting immediately to remove nudity from users' pages, while allowing racist and xenophobic comments to remain online. Facebook has said it relies on its users to report offensive comments that incite hatred.

Summary: Facebook, Google and Twitter have agreed a deal with Germany under which they will remove hate speech posted on their websites within 24 hours.


Scans of 21 people showed the brain was more attracted to food if breakfast was missed so people had more food at lunch. Scientists said it made losing weight challenging as missing meals made calorific food even more appealing. Nutrition experts say breakfast is known to take the edge off appetite. However, researchers were curious about what happened inside the brain to alter the food people choose to eat. Twenty one people, who were all normal weight, were shown pictures of calorie packed foods while they were positioned in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine at Imperial College London. On one day they were given no breakfast before the scans and on a different day they were fed a large, 730 calorie, breakfast an hour and a half before. The researchers said skipping breakfast created a "bias" in the brain in favour of high calorie foods. The results, presented at the Neuroscience 2012 conference, showed the brain changed how it responded to pictures of high calorie foods, but not low calorie foods, when breakfast was skipped. They showed part of the brain thought to be involved in "food appeal", the orbitofrontal cortex, became more active on an empty stomach. When the researchers offered the participants lunch at the end of the study, people ate a fifth more calories if breakfast was missed. Dr Tony Goldstone, from Imperial College London, said: "Through both the participants' MRI results and observations of how much they ate at lunch, we found ample evidence that fasting made people hungrier, and increased the appeal of high calorie foods and the amount people ate. "One reason it is so difficult to lose weight is because the appeal of high calorie food goes up." Dr Catherine Hankey, a senior lecturer in nutrition at the University of Glasgow, said research had shown that breakfast "takes the edge off appetite" and that the latest study was an "interesting" insight. She said breakfast was linked to stable blood sugar levels, which "keeps you on the straight and narrow". Future studies will investigate how obesity affects the same system in the brain.

Summary: Brain scans show that skipping breakfast makes fatty, high calorie foods appear far more attractive later in the day, according to researchers.


Media playback is not supported on this device Five weeks have passed since the 35-year-old was sacked, with the team eighth in the Championship. Scot Neil believes the squad was good enough to return to the top flight, but with the benefit of hindsight admits his mistake. "We had a lot of players at the club for longer than five years, and we needed to start afresh," Neil said. "Thirteen of the 24 players in the first-team squad were over 30, and when we went up the last time they were 28, which is significantly different, it's when you're at your peak. "We needed to re-build and the one thing I blame myself for is that I re-signed all the players to get us back up because they'd done it in the past. I should have taken more time and looked to alter the squad at that stage." Neil makes no concession to self-pity. He admits himself that while he was manager of Hamilton Academical in the Scottish Premiership, nobody would have predicted his move to Norwich, or then immediately guiding them to promotion to the Premier League. At 33, he became the second youngest manager in the Championship, working with some players who were older than him, and plenty who had performed at a higher level. Neil, though, was typically unfazed. He recalls his first words to the squad being to urge them to do better. The players's recollection is that it was more of a blunt ultimatum - shape up or ship out. Results were immediate, with 17 wins from the remaining 25 games, including an unbeaten run of 13 away games, and then promotion via the play-offs. Ipswich were dispatched in the semi-final, after Neil assured his players their opponents would run out of steam in the second leg at Carrow Road because they played at such a high intensity. Norwich scored twice in the second half and then defeated Middlesbrough in the final after Neil told his players that their opponents had only come back from conceding the opening goal once in four years. Norwich scored first. The reward was a windfall for the club, and a rise in status for the manager, but his job only became more challenging. "People think you get £130m put in your bank account the next day, but that's not the case," Neil said. "That money's broken down over the whole season. Norwich are self-sustaining and don't have anybody who invests. So my first signings were the first week in August, because the [play-off] money didn't drop until August." Neil was capable of moments of audacity, such as guiding his team to a 2-1 win over Manchester United at Old Trafford, but of the three promoted sides they invested the least amount ahead of the campaign and ended up dropping back down to the Championship, while Bournemouth and Watford remained in the Premier League. Neil believed he could return Norwich to the top flight and won eight of the opening 12 games this season. He suffered a run of six league games

Summary: Alex Neil bears no grudges, but a sense of regret still lingers about his departure from Norwich City.


The 24-year-old was scheduled to play seven group games, but will now undergo elbow surgery without making an appearance in the competition. The club will instead give their young players a chance to feature. "We are looking forward to seeing how the young players go when given an opportunity," head coach Chris Silverwood said. "As a club we are renowned for investing in youth and we will continue to do so to improve their experiences over the remaining matches of the campaign. Giving them opportunities now will only help them in the future." Meanwhile, bowling coach Donovan Miller has left the club for Caribbean Premier League side Jamaica Tallawahs. Miller played club cricket in the Middlesex, Essex and Hertfordshire leagues from 2000-2012, while completing his coaching qualifications. "I am delighted to be joining the Tallawahs. I have put a lot of effort in over the years to ensure I keep getting better as a coach," he said. Former England one-day wicketkeeper Paul Nixon is Tallawahs head coach.

Summary: Essex will not replace injured New Zealand international fast bowler Adam Milne in their T20 Blast squad.


Both men will contest the opening Superbike and Senior TT races on the SG5 Norton machine. Donald, a two-time winner who has represented the team since 2014, said Norton have made a "huge amount of progress in that time". Fellow countryman Johnson, who made his TT debut in 2010 winning the Newcomers Trophy, is a rising star of the sport. The Adelaide racer said: "It is going to be an incredible experience riding a Norton around the Isle of Man Mountain Course, and with Cameron Donald as my team-mate is a massive honour. "I'm really stoked and will give it my best shot." Stuart Garner, chief executive of Norton Motorcycles, added: "We've made incredible progress since taking Norton back to the TT. "This was always going to be a long-term project and we're definitely on the next stage of our evolution. Running a two-man team will give us the best opportunity to move things forward."

Summary: Norton have signed the Australian duo of Cameron Donald and David Johnson for the 2016 Isle of Man TT races.


Medical director Dr Peter Collins admits it was a difficult decision, but Weston General Hospital, which serves more than 200,000 people in North Somerset, will close its doors at night. More hospitals are likely to follow. The British Medical Association estimates that in 18 areas, health bosses are considering closing or downgrading their A&E departments. Analysis of hospital data at Weston shows one in five patients attended between the hours it is now closed. Those with serious and life-threatening emergencies are being told to dial 999 and ambulances will take them to hospitals in Bristol, 24 miles away, or Taunton, 27 miles away. The NHS insists closures will only happen when there are viable alternatives in place such as longer GP opening hours, or better centralised care elsewhere. For more stories from the BBC England data unit visit our Pinterest board. Four hospitals in England are currently closed overnight for safety reasons due to shortages of staff. Possibly. Just over one in 10 people who go to A&E get discharged without needing treatment. Another third are given "guidance or advice" only, according to NHS Digital. However, in a report in March 2017, health charity The King's Fund said: "This does not mean that all these people are attending A&E unnecessarily or could be cared for elsewhere." It blames a lack of access to GP appointments, access to out of hours care and confusion about where to go. The first port of call when something is not life threatening should be a GP. Out of hours, usually after 18:30 and before 08:00, people can call their surgery and listen to the answerphone message for details of what to do. Often, people will be directed to the non-emergency number, 111, for advice and details of walk-in centres or other services. About a fifth of people who call are either told to go to A&E or have an ambulance dispatched. However, surveys of NHS 111 users suggest about 45% of people would have gone to A&E or called an ambulance if they had not called for advice first. The majority get directed to primary or community care, such as a walk-in clinic. Accident and emergency departments in some hospitals have been replaced with minor injuries units and urgent care centres, usually led by nurses. However, analysis of 138 minor injuries units and 83 urgent care centres found many open 12 hours a day or less with one in seven minor injuries units closed at weekends. The NHS does not make a clear distinction between the two types of centre and what they offer. It warns some cannot treat young children and urges patients to check what is offered "in advance". It says minor injuries and urgent care centres can treat: Source: NHS Tim Gardner, senior policy fellow at the Health Foundation: "The sheer number of different routes to urgent care can be confusing, especially when people are scared, or in pain. The public needs more help to understand where to go to get the right treatment at the right time." Experts are dubious about a

Summary: As a fourth hospital in England closes its casualty ward overnight, and with more downgrades likely to follow, are the alternatives for patients sufficient?


Lincolnshire County Council health watchdog voted to refer the ongoing overnight closure to Jeremy Hunt. The Grantham and District Hospital first reduced the unit's opening hours in August. Melissa Darcy, of Fighting 4 Grantham Hospital, welcomed the decision and said it was the "best scenario and outcome of the meeting". The A&E department currently only opens from 09:00 to 18:30 daily. United Lincolnshire Hospital Trust, which is in charge of Lincolnshire's hospitals, said in September it was trying to recruit more doctors and would fully reopen Grantham's A&E as soon as possible. Christine Talbot, chairman of the Health Scrutiny Committee, said: "We do not believe that overnight A&E services will be reinstated by February 2017, in fact the committee concluded that although indicated as temporary, the closure is in effect permanent." The trust said closing Grantham would enable to it maintain safe staffing levels at its two other A&E departments, both of which take a higher number of patients. Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust operates a daily walk-in service for minor injuries between 18:30 and 23:30 at the hospital. The trust said this service was not a replacement for the A&E department. The decision came at a meeting in Lincoln as anti-closure demonstrators gathered to protest.

Summary: The closure of Grantham's A&E services due to a lack of doctors is to be referred to the health secretary.


Undercover researchers filmed Ashley Commerce College in Ilford sitting or forging exams for untrained students to become security guards or bodyguards. Some 20 courses have now been cancelled while authorities investigate. About 90 would-be students have been refunded. College director Haji Yunis told the BBC he was co-operating with inquiries. Secretly filmed footage had showed Mr Yunis laughing about the scam he presided over. He told the researcher that for Â£1,200 he would "bring you in the back door" and "fast track" him to a bodyguard qualification without any training. Mr Yunis told the researcher not to worry about the police. Fraudulent use of SIA cards in fact carries a maximum six-month prison sentence. Both the exam board whose certification was fraudulently obtained, Industry Qualifications (IQ), and the Security Industry Authority (SIA) are investigating the college. An audit is currently taking place, with the aim of ascertaining how many qualifications awarded at the college to enable security guards to become licensed by the SIA were bogus. Jobseekers must sit mandatory exams to get an SIA card. A statement placed on Ashley Commerce College's website by IQ read: "Following the BBC broadcast, IQ has been working with the regulators Ofqual and the SIA to formulate a plan for identifying learners affected by the fraud. "We do expect to find evidence that some learners have received their qualifications without having done their course or tests properly. These qualifications will be reviewed. "We know that this will leave many learners who attended ACC worried about the authenticity of their qualifications and IQ is working hard to find out how many learners may be affected." The statement said every student who obtained an SIA licence through the college may be affected. The college has been operating since 2010. The statement added: "Where we cannot guarantee that a qualification has not been affected by fraud, we are required to remove the qualification immediately and notify the Security Industry Authority." Mr Yunis would not say how many students' qualifications were now being reviewed. Keith Vaz MP, the chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, called the fraud a "major scandal". A Home Office spokesman has said any criminal behaviour would be addressed.

Summary: All courses on offer at a college exposed selling fraudulent security qualifications for cash have now been cancelled, the BBC has learned.


The new inquests heard Stuart Gray gave John McBrien, of Holywell, Flintshire, heart massage and chest compressions. But the health worker said the 18-year-old was in a "desperate state" and he was "fighting a lost cause". Ninety-six fans were fatally injured in a terrace crush at the FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield on 15 April 1989. Mr Gray, who was the general manager of Kidderminster district health authority and had some first aid training, told the jury he remembers the disaster at the Liverpool v Nottingham Forest match "as vividly today" as he did 26 years ago. He reassured Mr McBrien's family he did not leave the A-Level student's side. "John was lying at my feet. I was sitting up myself, I don't know how I got there. When I came to he was lying at my feet, lying on his back," he said. "I was aware of the fact that it was probably fighting a lost cause, but the point was that he was there and I was just trying to do what I knew was the best thing I could do to see if I could get him breathing again." He said Mr McBrien was "in a desperate state" but added: "I thought that if I got some air into his lungs and I could at get his heart going again, there was at least a chance he may have survived. "So I just kept going, giving him heart massage and compressing his chest for maybe about five minutes." Mr McBrien had a place to study at Liverpool University and his mother, Joan Hope, described him as a "kind, generous and charismatic" son who "excelled academically". The inquests, in Warrington, Cheshire, continue.

Summary: A Liverpool fan who lost consciousness in the crush at Hillsborough told the inquests he "came to" and began trying to save a teenager lying next to him.


Another 11 were injured when the driver lost control of the minibus and ploughed through a crash barrier. Local media said no foreign tourists were among the passengers. Turkish media said the vehicle was heading towards Marmaris for a mother's day event, which is celebrated on Sunday there. The victims are believed to be mainly women and children. Amric Cicek, governor of Mugla province, suggested the brakes may have stopped working. But the mayor of Marmaris, Ali Acar, told Turkish newspaper Hurriyet: "I think that the accident was a result of driver error." Turkey's Andalou news agency said the crash took place on the Mugla-Antalya road at the Sakar Gecidi pass. The vehicle landed on another section of road below after it went through the crash barrier. Rescue teams were dispatched and the injured were taken to hospital, Andalou said.

Summary: At least 23 people have died after a tourist bus fell from a cliff near the southern Turkey seaside resort of Marmaris.


The students at the prestigious Istanbul High School had accused their principal of being too obedient to Turkish officials and not speaking up for their rights. As more and more students joined the protest, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that Turkey did not need a repeat of the Gezi protests that shook the country in 2013. "We see that some forces who have not learnt from the past are trying to provoke the universities, the high schools," he said. The students' demands were similar, as were their complaints. "They are restricting our activities," complained one graduate of Istanbul High School. "They say that the country is going through troubling times so we cannot hold concerts at school. But then the government ran a festival on the anniversary of the conquest of Istanbul. So why restrict our activities? Is there a double standard?" More than 370 Turkish schools have since signed an overtly political declaration by the Turkey High School Students Union TLB, refusing to allow what they see as the spread of fundamentalism in high schools. "They do not allow girls' volleyball teams at the schools because girls are supposed to wear shorts," read the statement. TLB leader Bora Celik complained that there was a movement against secular and mixed education. "They do not permit literature or poetry societies. There are prayer rooms in schools where there are no laboratories. These protests are the result of such oppression," he said. The leader of the main opposition party has backed the students and there are fears that education has become a political football in Turkey's increasingly polarised society. "I would hate to see the tension rise," says Batuhan Aydagul, director of the Education Reform Initiative, an independent think tank. And the school protests do not stop there. In an upper middle-class district in Istanbul, parents of students studying in the Ismail Tarman Secondary School have been staging demonstrations for more than a fortnight. They object to plans to convert their school into an "Imam-Hatip" - a religious school where girls and boys are segregated and taught Sunni Islamic religion and religious practices outside the national curriculum. "I came running to the school as soon as I heard of these plans," says Bengu Bozkurt. "If I wanted my son to have a religious education, then I would have sent him to an Imam-Hatip school already. But I believe in secular education." The Imam-Hatip row has engulfed other schools too since 2012, when the government introduced a contentious 12-year compulsory education system, known in Turkey as 4+4+4. With four-year phases each for primary, secondary and high school levels, this new system had paved the way for religious schools. They virtually severed our carotid artery. Can a person live when his artery is cut? No he cannot" After Turkey's so-called post-modern coup in 1997, such religious schools were largely closed down. At the opening of an Imam-Hatip school in September last year, President Erdogan compared the closures to the severing of an artery. But, he emphasised, "we were patient". A graduate of an Imam-Hatip school himself,

Summary: When a group of high school students in Istanbul turned their backs on their head teacher as he addressed their graduation ceremony, it was the start of a wave of protests that has spread to hundreds of schools across Turkey.


The 30-inch sword was found by Goran Olsen, a hiker who found it when he sat down to rest. Experts say it's in surprisingly good condition after surviving hundreds of years of frost and snow. The ancient weapon will be able to help archaeologist work out how people lived in Viking times. The sword will go on display at the University Museum of Bergen.

Summary: A twelve hundred year old Viking sword has been found buried in rocks in southern Norway.


The MPC will publish its regular decision on borrowing costs at midday. Mr Posen, interviewed on the Today programme on Radio 4, said rates may not rise until next year. "I think they are not going to vote for a rate hike at this time and probably not until at least November and maybe not even until 2018", he said. The Bank last changed interest rates in August last year when it cut its bank rate from 0.5% to 0.25% in the immediate aftermath of the UK's referendum vote to leave the European Union. Mr Posen was asked why the Bank should not raise rates now, given the worrying rise in consumer borrowing and the past year's rise in inflation to 2.6%. He said the Bank's role was to judge where inflation might be in two to three years time - and he said that the Bank's current forecast was "too high". "It is pretty clear the economy is slowing... it's a credit-fuelled expansion and so it's likely to come to an end soon," Mr Posen said. "There's no good reason for the pound to appreciate further right now, particularly against the euro," he added. He also disagreed with the widespread view that the Bank's policy of low interest rates had stoked up excessive consumer borrowing and that this problem should be dealt with by raising rates. "The big lesson of the financial crisis is that the one interest rate the central bank controls doesn't have that much implication for the whole range of financial products and borrowings that exist in a modern economy," he said. "We were unable to stop [the crisis] solely by moving down the interest rate and we've been unable to reflate the economy just by moving the bank's interest rate also," he added. Instead, he argued, the Bank's Financial Policy Committee (FPC) should use its powers to limit the lending of commercial banks where it thought this had got out of hand. In recent months members of the MPC, including the Bank Governor Mark Carney, have differed publicly over whether or not rates should rise soon. For instance, in June Mr Carney said the time was not right for a rate rise. The next day the Bank's chief economist, Andy Haldane, said he favoured increasing the cost of borrowing later this year. Then a week later the Bank's deputy governor, Sir Jon Cunliffe, publicly suggested that now was not in fact the right time for such a move. That flurry of debate reflected the unusually divided vote at the last MPC meeting in June, when its eight members voted by only 5-3 to keep rates at their current level. Mr Posen, who was an MPC member from 2009 to 2012, said there was nothing wrong with close votes as it indicated that active debate was taking place within the committee. And he said there was "no mistaking the fact" that following Brexit, the UK economy would suffer a shock and that in two years' time it would be in "much worse shape" than it is now, with

Summary: A former member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Adam Posen, has predicted that the Bank of England will not change interest rates this month.


The FBI said on Monday that it might have found a way to deal with the password lock set by killer Syed Rizwan Farook, who was behind an attack in San Bernardino, California, in December. An Israeli newspaper has since reported that data forensics experts at Cellebrite are involved in the case. Cellebrite told the BBC that it works with the FBI but would not say more. Its website, however, states that one of its tools can extract and decode data from the iPhone 5C - the model in question - among other locked handsets. Apple has refused to help the FBI do this. "File system extractions, decoding and analysis can be performed on locked iOS devices with a simple or complex passcode," Cellebrite's site states. "Simple passcodes will be recovered during the physical extraction process and enable access to emails and keychain passwords. "If a complex password is set on the device, physical extraction can be performed without access to emails and keychain." The keychain reference relates to a tool on Apple devices that allows all of an owner's log-ins to be revealed if a master password is known. The website does not make clear if the process would work with iPhone 5Cs, whose operating system has been upgraded to iOS9, which Farook's device is thought to be running. Cellebrite, a subsidiary of Japan's Sun Corp, signed a data forensics contract with the FBI in 2013, according to the report in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. Apple has refused to create a special version of iOS that would prevent the contents of a device being wiped if someone made too many incorrect guesses at its passcode. It is not known whether Farook enabled the security setting, but the FBI says it does not want to risk losing "evidence related to the terrorist mass murder of 14 Americans". A federal court had been due to rule on Tuesday whether the FBI could compel Apple to help it. But the hearing was postponed when the Department of Justice announced that it might not need the tech firm's assistance because a third-party had demonstrated a possible extraction method to FBI agents. "I am not able to comment on the identity of the outside party," bureau spokesman Christopher Allen told the BBC. "I would simply refer to the court filing from Monday that says the outside party demonstrated the method on Sunday, March 20." Cellebrite has taken numerous calls from the media asking if it is indeed the unidentified helper. A Twitter user noted the firm signed a fresh $15,000 (£10,600) contract with the FBI two days ago - albeit in Chicago rather than California. A spokesman for Cellebrite said it might have more to say at a later point. The firm recently suggested that it has more than 50% of the North American market in law enforcement digital forensics tools. "When we get devices, we do work on different levels of accessing the data," Ronen Engler, Cellebrite's senior manager of technology and innovation, told the Homeland Security Today website earlier this month. "The logical [data]

Summary: An Israeli cybersecurity firm is under pressure to reveal its involvement in efforts to extract data from an iPhone.


15 August 2016 Last updated at 16:27 BST Shaun Whiter was helping friend Joey Abbs change a tyre near Newmarket, Suffolk, when the pair were struck by a vehicle. Jan Adamec, 40, of Haverhill, admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving. He is on remand and will be sentenced in September. Mr Whiter, 27, said: "Without a doubt it's good to know that the guy is off the streets."

Summary: A footballer who lost both legs in a hit-and-run crash said he is pleased the driver responsible is "off the streets".


President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci met in Nicosia's neutral buffer zone. UN envoy Espen Barth Eide said they "shared their vision for a united Cyprus". Mr Akinci was elected last month. The Turkish-controlled north broke away in 1974 after a brief Greek-inspired coup. Since a Turkish military invasion in 1974 the island has been effectively partitioned, with the northern third inhabited by Turkish Cypriots and the southern two-thirds by Greek Cypriots. Peace negotiations stalled last October, when the Greek Cypriots walked out in protest at the presence of a Turkish ship prospecting for natural gas off the island's south coast. Correspondents say there are hopes that Mr Akinci, a leftist moderate, can push forward the new round of negotiations. "The talks took place in a very positive climate and I believe that working in similar fashion, we can hope for progress," Associated Press quoted Mr Anastasiades as saying after Friday's UN-brokered meeting. In an initial move, Turkish Cypriot authorities agreed to no longer require Greek Cypriots to fill in visa forms at crossing points to northern Cyprus, UN envoy Mr Eide told reporters. Compensation for those displaced by the conflict is expected to be one of the thorniest issues in the talks. UN peacekeeping forces estimate that 165,000 Greek Cypriots fled or were expelled from the north, and 45,000 Turkish Cypriots from the south, although the parties to the conflict say the figures are higher. The self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is diplomatically isolated, recognised only by Turkey.

Summary: The leaders of the divided Greek and Turkish communities in Cyprus have resumed peace talks amid a "climate of optimism", the UN mediator says.


A win over Motherwell was not enough and Foran, who wants to stay on as manager, felt let down by some players. The manager made reference to "two or three bad apples in the dressing room". And he added: "I probably should have got rid of them in January. I stayed loyal to a lot of players and some of them didn't pay me back." Inverness won three of their last four Premiership matches as they fought to finish in the play-off spot. But Hamilton Accies' 4-0 hammering of Dundee on Saturday ensured they will face Dundee United for a spot in the Premiership next term, while Inverness will play Championship football despite their 3-2 win over Well. "It's obviously disappointment," Foran added. "The best clubs in the world get knocked down, it's how you rebuild and come back. I've told the players there are far worse off people in life. "But it happens in football. It is not all rosy. It is not all about winning all the time. I've been part of relegation teams - you stay loyal, you rebuild. You get knocked down, you get back up again. "You need to get rid of the two or three players you don't want, that haven't given 100%, and I look forward to getting rid of those three. "Of the starting 11 today, I would hope to have at least 10 of those for next season [midfielder Greg Tansey is leaving to join Aberdeen]. I am very proud of the players and when we got the right team playing, we could finish well, with guys giving their all for the club." Foran, who was a player at the time, stayed with Inverness when they were relegated from the top flight in 2009. One year into a four-year contract, he hopes to do the same as manager. "I want to be here next season," he said. "I will have a chat with the board probably on Monday or Tuesday and will find out what their thoughts are. But I am 100% behind this club and I expect to be here next season. "There are changes to be made, on and off the field. Personally I want a smaller squad. "I have got to look at myself as well. I haven't performed well enough. I have learned a heck of a lot this season - about myself, about players, the trust of people around you, and people you don't trust. "One of my favourite seasons as a player was getting promoted, because we stuck together. I was part of the relegated team and helped them come straight back up, and I hope to do the same next season." One player who will not be there is Tansey, who signed a pre-contract agreement with Aberdeen in March. The midfielder, 28, was dismayed to leave on the back of relegation but felt he had given his all for the cause. "It is never nice, but I can look myself in the mirror," said Tansey, who scored his seventh goal of the season in the win

Summary: Manager Richie Foran says Inverness Caley Thistle must rid themselves of "two or three bad apples" after they were relegated from the Premiership.


A total of 106 people donated organs in hospitals across Scotland last year compared with 54 in 2007. The statistics showed a 62% increase in organ transplants from deceased donors, with 341 operations carried out. However, about 600 people remain on the transplant waiting list. Some 2,110,881 people living in Scotland have now joined the UK Organ Donor Register. The figure means 40% of the Scottish population has registered, compared to 32% across the UK as a whole. Public Health Minister Michael Matheson said: "First and foremost I want to offer my thanks to every donor and every donor's family in Scotland who have demonstrated such kindness and benevolence in the face of tragic and difficult circumstances. "It is our responsibility to ensure that people's organ donation wishes are respected and to ensure that we make every donation count." Mr Matheson added: "It's important to remember, however, that around 600 people in Scotland are still waiting for an organ and we must be doing all we can to give them hope." Peter McGeehan, 64, from Dunfermline, suffered serious heart failure and was listed for a transplant in 2004. In the ten years since a heart transplant, the father-of-two said he has thought about his donor every day. He said: "People take living for granted, but as I approach the ten-year anniversary I can honestly say there's never a day where I've woken up and haven't thought about my unnamed donor."

Summary: The number of people who donated their organs after death in Scotland has almost doubled over a six-year period, according to government figures.


Thorpe, 23, has made seven appearances for the Millers this season, but last featured in the 5-2 defeat by Ipswich on 7 November. The former Manchester United trainee could make his Bradford debut against Millwall on Saturday. The Bantams are currently seventh in League One, outside the play-offs on goal difference.

Summary: Bradford City have signed Rotherham United defender Tom Thorpe on loan until the end of the season.


The Ramsdens Discount Department Store on Cleethorpe Road was opened in 1946. The company said there would be some redundancies, but added it hoped "to be able to offer alternative employment to some employees". Last year planning permission was granted by North East Lincolnshire Council to redevelop the site into a new retail park. The store is expected to close over the summer. In a statement, the firm's directors said the store had "continued to decline in what has become a very tough and competitive local market". It added its nearby Home Interiors store would continue to trade.

Summary: Up to 47 jobs are at risk after a Grimsby shop confirmed it is to close after nearly 70 years of trading.


The dramatic victory draws Higgins, 40, level with Ronnie O'Sullivan and to within one of Steve Davis's total for ranking tournament wins. Fellow Scot Stephen Hendry leads the way with 36. England's Martin Gould, 33, playing in only his second ranking final, made a break of 138 in the 11th frame. But Higgins held his nerve in the decider to take the £36,000 prize. World-ranked 26 Gould, also helped by a break of 101 in the third frame, led 4-2 before the pair reached the interval locked together at 4-4 with Higgins managing a 112 in the seventh frame. The Scot, ranked 13 in the world, then took three of the first four frames in the evening session. Gould hit back to make it 7-7 before the next two frames were shared with the Londoner taking it into a final frame. But Higgins - whose last tournament win was the Welsh Open in February - responded with a break of 89 to claim the first ranking title of the season.

Summary: John Higgins secured his 27th ranking title with a 9-8 win over Martin Gould in the Australian Open final.


Iranian patrol boats surrounded a US cargo ship in the strait on Friday. Earlier this week, Iranian naval ships reportedly fired warning shots near a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship before seizing it and its crew. The strait connects the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf. The US navy will not be escorting the ships - a different procedure from accompanying them. Instead, it will monitor the area as the ships pass across the strait. The crew of the Marshall Islands-flagged container ship seized by Iran in the strait on Tuesday are safe and "in good spirits", Danish shipping company Maersk said. Maersk said it still did not know the reason why the Marshall Islands-flagged vessel was seized, and noted it had been in an international shipping lane. Iranian media cited an official as saying the ship was seized based on a court order in connection with a complaint made by a private Iranian company about debts. The crew includes a British national, but no Americans, as initial reports suggested. The narrow strait lies partly in Iranian waters. Shipping traffic is allowed to pass through under an internationally-recognised protocol called "innocent passage", so long as the ships are not carrying weapons, collecting intelligence, or violating other restrictions.

Summary: Defence officials have said that US Navy ships will accompany US-flagged commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, to make sure they are not interfered with by Iran.


Number Seven Boat Trips and Bristol Ferry Boats both operate services in the city's harbour. Number Seven Boat Trips said the changes were "unjust". Bristol Ferry Boats disagreed and said the new timetable was "fairer than the previous one". The city council said it was introduced "following feedback from customers". Both companies operate the same route between Temple Meads and Hotwells, at staggered times. Previously, the two boats collected people every 10 minutes in a 20 minute slot - and then one boat picked up passengers over the next 40 minutes. Changes now mean ferries collect at regular 20-minute intervals and passengers can now stay on the same boat for the whole trip, instead of changing in the city centre. Richard Rankin, of Number Seven Boat Trips, said: "We're told to move from our timetable on the Hotwells route - which we've run for 15 years - 10 minutes earlier. "What it does then is, by running two boats close together it maximises the potential for what passengers there are to get on the other side's boats. "That strikes me as being very unjust." But Philippa Bungard, from Bristol Ferry Boats, said feedback indicated the service was "better for everybody". "[It] is much fairer than the previous timetable and everyone so far seems very happy," she added. In a statement, the council said the changes were made to manage journeys in the "most effective way". "The changes have been made following feedback from customers using the services, to ensure timings between the two do not overlap and deliver the best experience for visitors," they explained.

Summary: A ferry boat firm in Bristol is claiming a new timetable "imposed" by the council favours its rival.


Members of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice will no longer be permitted to chase suspects or arrest them. They must instead report observations to security forces personnel. Religious police officers, who roam the streets enforcing strict standards of social behaviour, are frequently accused of abusing their powers. Several were reportedly arrested in February for allegedly assaulting (YouTube video) a young woman outside a shopping centre in the capital, Riyadh. In 2013, four officers were accused of causing a fatal car crash when they pursued two brothers who had refused to turn the radio down in their vehicle. However, a court subsequently acquitted them. The new law governing the religious police was approved by the cabinet on Monday, but was not published by the official Saudi Press Agency until Tuesday. Officers will continue to help enforce strict segregation of the sexes, an absolute prohibition of the sale and consumption of alcohol, a ban on women driving and many other social restrictions. But the new law stipulates that their mission has been amended to "carrying out the duty of promoting virtue and preventing vice in a gentle and humane way, after the model set in this regard by the Prophet [Muhammad] and his rightful successors". They will also be obliged to display clear identification, showing their names, posts, jurisdictions and official working hours. The law stipulates that officers will no longer be permitted to pursue suspects, arrest them or ask for identification - only report suspicious behaviour to regular police and anti-drug units, who will decide whether to take the matter further.

Summary: The Saudi authorities have moved to curb the powers of the notorious religious police, or "mutawa".


The Planet Earth presenter said his work took him away for months at a time when his two children, Susan and Robert, were growing up. Sir David told the Radio Times: "If you have a child of six or eight and you miss three months of his or her life, it's irreplaceable. You miss something. "Perhaps you can't have your cake and eat it." Attenborough said his wife, Jane, who died in 1997, had been very "understanding", however. A month after celebrating his 91st birthday, Sir David told interviewer Louis Theroux that he thinks about his own mortality "all the time", because "it's more and more likely that I'm going to die tomorrow." Asked if he expects anything to happen afterwards, he said simply: "No." On the subject of global warming, Sir David warned: "We should be very, very worried about it.... the land is being scorched, deserts are spreading, and the seas are warming - all those factors cause great changes in our fortunes." When asked which animal he felt a kinship with, Sir David replied: "That has to be an ape. Because our kinship is a reality. I don't feel it with a mosquito or, indeed, a whale." Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

Summary: Sir David Attenborough says his only career regret is missing out on time with his children.


And now he has become Scotland's only Labour MP by retaining his Edinburgh South seat in the face of an SNP landslide in the Westminster election. As the chairman of the Foundation of Hearts, a supporters group which helps to fund the club via monthly donations, Mr Murray had a central role in getting the club out of administration. He was first elected for the seat in 2010 after serving as an Edinburgh councillor between 2003 and 2010 for the capital's Liberton and Gilmerton ward. Mr Murray has served in parliament as a Parliamentary Private Secretary and Shadow Business Minister. Up until the election in May he was the Shadow Minister for Trade and Investment. Murray was born to a cooper father and shop worker mother in August 1976. Brought up in the Wester Hailes area of Edinburgh, he went to Dumbryden primary school, then Wester Hailes Education Centre. Mr Murray studied social policy and Law at Edinburgh University and graduated with an Honours degree at the age of 20. He worked to fund his studies with a part-time job in a local fish and chip shop, where he then set up and ran a pizza delivery service. After graduating in 1997, Mr Murray worked in financial services before setting up an internet television station. He then started his own event management business running large festival events. He has also owned a small bar and hotel business, running several premises. In 2004, Mr Murray organised a charity concert for a Landmine Free World with artists Billy Bragg, Chrissie Hynde, Steve Earle, Joan Baez and Emmylou Harris, which raised more than Â£100,000. Mr Murray, who lives with his partner Hannah, also organised a student exchange programme in Nepal to fund school buildings and staff.

Summary: He is the man who led the campaign to save Hearts Football Club from administration - winning over fans across Edinburgh.


When two countries agree to a free trade agreement, that does not normally mean the complete free movement of goods and services between their economies, with no taxes, quotas or barriers of any kind. If you think about it that is pretty obvious, for instance in agriculture countries have subsidies for farmers, environmental rules, food standards and a dozen other policies. To ensure free trade of agricultural products all those policies would have to be coordinated, if not exactly the same. This is why the issue of chlorinated chicken is suddenly in the headlines; we don't allow it, the Americans do. It is a barrier to free trade and if we cannot agree on a compromise then any free trade deal between the US and UK will not fully cover trade in chickens. The same can be said about genetically-modified (GM) crops, where America thinks the EU approvals process is far too complicated. And what about agricultural subsidies for farmers? You can be pretty sure farmers on both sides of any free trade deal will argue about whether the other side subsidises its farmers unfairly, well, until the cows come home. It is not just agriculture that is affected, removing tariffs on manufactured goods is normally considered the easy part of any trade deal, but what about chemical regulations, car safety and drug testing, to name just three examples? The reason that free trade deals involve years of talks, dozens of expert negotiators, and endless meetings on technical details is because such issues are very complicated and involve a host of issues. In the end they tend to come down to a trade off. The proposed free trade deal between the EU and Japan has, for example, been described as a "cars for cheese" deal. It's an over simplification, but the fact is a major part of the deal is that the EU will allow cars made in Japan to be sold in the EU more easily, and the Japanese will reduce tariffs on European cheeses (and other dairy products). That doesn't sound like much but it is important. Many Japanese carmakers have plants in Europe precisely because it used to be difficult for them to sell Japanese built cars there, as they had to pay a 10% tariff. Meanwhile, the Japanese government has had some of the highest agricultural subsides, tariffs and other barriers, because it has long sought to protect its inefficient farmers. Both sides will win easier access to each others markets, but it is still not totally free trade. For instance some cheeses will be covered by quotas (a limit on how much can be exported to Japan), and car tariffs will take years to totally come down. More from the BBC's series taking an international perspective on trade: Is time up for plain vanilla flavour ice creams? What makes this Kate Spade bag unusual? Where's hot? This summer's most popular holiday spots Read more global trade series here. Also non-tariff barriers are still an important factor in limiting trade. So Japan and the UK, for instance, have

Summary: Ahead of its exit from the European Union, the UK is currently negotiating to secure free trade agreements with several countries, but what does this kind of deal actually mean?


Officials said Mr Guelleh won 87% of Friday's vote, which activists complained was preceded by political repression and curbs on basic freedoms. Mr Guelleh, in power since 1999, begins a fourth five-year term in power. He faced five rivals in the election, but three opposition parties boycotted the poll. The opposition complain of police brutality and media bias under Mr Guelleh's rule. "The people of Djibouti have again entrusted me with the state's highest office," Mr Guelleh, 68, said in a speech on national TV. More on this and other African news stories Djibouti election: What you need to know Djiboutiâ€™s thin-skinned democracy Djibouti's strategic position on the Gulf of Aden means that it is home to US and French military bases. The country is also seen as relatively stable in a region which includes Somalia, where the government does not control the whole country, and Yemen, where there is a civil war. Observers say this explains the muted criticism of President Guelleh from the West. Some 180,000 people were eligible to vote, around a fourth of the population. The opposition were angry that the president rescinded his earlier decision not to seek another term. His main rival, representing the opposition Union for National Salvation (USN) coalition, was Omar Elmi Kaireh, a Djibouti independence hero. He came second, with 7%, according to provisional results announced by Interior Minister Hassan Omar.

Summary: Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh has won a landslide victory in an election criticised by opposition parties and rights groups.


The Regatta Quay development, which includes a 20-storey building known locally as the 'wine rack', was taken over by administrators in 2010. The Irish government owns the site after buying Irish bank debts. The administrators said completing the ??100m buildings was dependent on the property market. Work on Regatta Quay started in 2007, but it stopped as City Living Developments (Ipswich) Ltd, which had borrowed from the Anglo Irish and Allied Irish banks, went into administration. Ben Gummer, Conservative MP for Ipswich, said it was "almost a metaphor" for the British economy. "It's property speculation gone mad and a banking system which is bust, so it's going to take a lot of time to put that right," he said. "The administrators are actively trying to find a developer to take on the work, so things are moving now but I'd like to see them move quicker." Baker Tilly were appointed administrators for Regatta Quay by Ireland's National Asset Management Agency. The accountancy firm is also the administrator for The Mill development next to Regatta Quay. Regatta Quay has 118 flats built, with space for 150 more in the 'wine rack'. The Mill has 194 completed and 140 uncompleted flats. Nigel Millar, from Baker Tilly, said: "It's very difficult to say when building work could resume. "We'll certainly be in administration for two years. How long we'll be in administration depends on how sales progress." Savills, which is the estate agent for the sites, said sale prices for a two-bedroom apartment had dropped from about ??300,000 in 2008 to ??175,000. Andy Redman, from Savills, said: "If we can continue to sell at the rates we're achieving of 3-4 flats a month, then it may bring things forward, but it's dictated by market conditions."

Summary: Administrators say work will not resume on an unfinished block of flats on Ipswich waterfront until 96 completed apartments are sold.