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Burberry reported pre-tax profits of £166m for the year to March. A year ago it made a loss of £16.1m, hit by charges at its Spanish operations.
In the past year it has opened 21 new stores and closed nine. It plans to open 20-30 stores this year worldwide.
The group has also focused on promoting the Burberry brand online.
Sales rose 7% to £1.28bn, with the company recording double-digit sales growth in Europe and Asia Pacific.
Adjusted profit rose 23% to £215m, taking into account one-off items and a favourable exchange rate.
Stores in London in particular benefited from favourable currency movements and increased tourism.
"Looking forward, while mindful of the economic environment, Burberry plans to build on its strong financial position by accelerating investment in growth initiatives in retail, digital and new markets, while continuing to enhance the brand," said chief executive Angela Ahrendts.
Burberry shares were up 7.6% at 659 pence in afternoon trading.
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Scientists at University College London discovered people tend to think that their hands are wider and their fingers are shorter than they truly are.
They say the confusion may lie in the way the brain receives information from different parts of the body.
Distorted perception may dominate in some people, leading to body image problems, a US journal reports.
Lead researcher Dr Matthew Longo said: "These findings may well be relevant to psychiatric conditions involving body image such as anorexia nervosa, as there may be a general bias towards perceiving the body to be wider than it is.
"Our results show dramatic distortions of hand shape, which were highly consistent across participants."
In the study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr Longo's team asked 18 volunteers to take part in an experiment.
The volunteers were asked to put their left hands palm down under a board and judge the location of the covered hand's knuckles and fingertips with a pointer.
This revealed striking distortions - the volunteers tended to misjudge their hands as wider and their fingers as shorter than they actually were.
The researchers say the distortions are subconscious and involve the ability known as position sense that the brain uses to know where all parts of the body are in space even when the eyes are closed.
Dr Longo said: "Of course we know what our hand really looks like, and our participants were very accurate picking out a photo of their own hand from a set of photos with various distortions of hand shape.
"So there is clearly a conscious visual image of the body as well. But that visual image seems not to be used for position sense."
Susan Ringwood, chief executive of the eating disorders charity Beat, said: "We know that one of the features of anorexia nervosa can be distorted body image.
"People affected can truly believe that they are grossly fat, even when they are dangerously underweight.
"They are able to judge other people's bodies quite accurately and would describe someone else the same size as themselves correctly, but still not be able to do that about their own weight and shape.
"This brain study may give some insight into how this could be possible, and could be very motivating for people with eating disorders to know that there was a biological explanation for their experiences, rather than feeling it was their fault."
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Andrew George, who was re-elected Liberal Democrat MP for St Ives in May, is one of four MPs to have tabled an amendment to the finance bill.
It follows the government's budget announcement that from 4 January VAT will rise from 17.5% to 20%.
Mr George wants the government to assess the impact of such a rise on businesses, charities and households.
The other three Liberal Democrat MPs who have put their name to the amendment are Bob Russell who represents Colchester in Essex, Mark Williams who is MP for the Welsh region of Ceredigion and mid-Wales and MP Roger Williams, whose constituency is Brecon and Radnorshire.
Mr George said: "I am not trying to trigger nuclear war and break up the coalition, it's perfectly normal for two parties to have different approaches and values.
"I just want to express my unhappiness with the move and have an open debate."
Mr George also said he hoped a government minister would respond to the amendment on Monday and added he would continue to look for opportunities to press his case.
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The resulting footage is part of a project using hi-tech scanning methods to explore animals' anatomy.
It took 132 hours for the snake to fully digest the rat, the scientists said. Their work has revealed other strange insights into python digestion.
They presented the study at the Society for Experimental Biology's annual meeting in Prague, Czech Republic.
The researchers carried out a computer tomography or CT scan of an anaesthetised 5kg Burmese python one hour after it had devoured the rat whole.
They also used a technique called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study the creature's internal organs.
By using contrast agents, the scientists were able to highlight specific organs and make them appear in different colours.
A series of MRI images revealed the gradual disappearance of the rat's body. At the same time, the snake's intestine expanded, its gall bladder shrank and its heart increased in volume by 25%.
The researchers, Henrik Lauridsen and Kasper Hansen, both from Aarhus University in Denmark, explained that the increase in the size of the snake's heart was probably associated with the energy it needed to digest its meal.
"It's a sit and wait predator," explained Mr Lauridsen. "It fasts for months and then eats a really large meal.
"It can eat the equivalent of up to 50% of its own bodyweight, and in order to get the energy out of the meal, it has to restart the intestinal system very fast."
The researchers, who are both based at the university's Department of Zoophysiology and the MR Research Centre at Aarhus, say that their approach has several advantages over the "subjective and sometimes misleading" interpretations of dissections.
Dissection induces changes, explained Dr Hansen. "For example, after opening the dense bone of a turtle shell, the lungs will collapse due to the change in pressure.
"And to use these techniques you don't have to kill the animal," he added. "We can do this using live animals and revisit the results over and over again."
The images, they say, will be valuable tools in future studies of animal anatomy for both research and education.
As part of the project, they have produced similarly spectacular images of several other species, including frogs, alligators, turtles, swamp eels and bearded dragons.
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In the past year more than 90% of girls aged between 12 and 13 have had the treatment, an NHS spokeswoman said.
The vaccine, which consists of three injections over a six-month period, is given in secondary schools and at community clinics.
HPV causes most types of cervical cancer.
Dr Lincoln Sargeant, consultant in public health medicine at NHS Cambridgeshire said: "We are very pleased with the response to the HPV vaccination programme across the county.
"In the UK cervical cancer is the twelfth most common women's cancer."
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Tests by Southampton University found people's walking patterns - their gait - are so different they could be used to identify individuals.
Researchers used a multi-biometric tunnel with 12 synchronised cameras to capture and translate 25 subjects' gaits to build unique 3D images.
It is hoped the technique could be used for a variety of purposes, including security monitoring at airports.
'Extreme clothing changes'
Darko Matovski, who led the investigation, said: "We have shown for the first time that gait can be used as a reliable biometric trait over time."
The team believes the technique could be used in airport immigration halls where "a simple corridor with cameras" would be enough to identify large flows of people.
Mr Matovski, from the university's school of electronics and computer science, added: "A bank robber may wear a mask so you can't see his face, wear gloves so you can't get fingerprints, wear a hat so you can't get DNA evidence - but he still has to walk into the bank and you can identify him from the walk."
With almost 2,000 walking sequences recorded in a database, Mr Matovski claims a 95% success rate.
Gait can also be measured at a distance - an advantage over other forms of biometric identification.
However researchers found that "extreme changes" in clothing can affect recognition levels.
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The muppet was donated by creator Jim Henson's widow Jane, along with nine other characters from the 1955 TV show Sam and Friends.
Some of the other muppets in the collection include early versions of Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch.
Henson's oldest puppet, Pierre the French Rat, was also donated.
Jane Henson said the original characters provided five minutes of fun each night after the local news where they mostly mimed to popular music.
"I think people realized that if you put Kermit's face up there, it was just as powerful - we were mostly just doing it to entertain ourselves," she said.
The Smithsonian already has a familiar Kermit the Frog puppet made famous on Sesame Street and The Muppet Show.
But the original Kermit looked more like a lizard, made with ping-pong ball eyes and green felt from an old coat thrown out by Henson's mother.
Museum curator Dwight Blocker Bowers said the muppets would be a boon for the museum's collection.
"It certainly shows the muppets at the beginning of the career of a large family of entertainers," he said. "More than anything, I think it shows the genius of Jim Henson."
Bowers said the museum plans to have the original muppets on display by November in the pop culture gallery.
The Hensons are also to give the Smithsonian more puppets in the years to come, possibly including a Miss Piggy to join her amphibian boyfriend.
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There will be a temporary exhibition of the haul, in the Great Hall next summer, Tamworth Borough Council said.
Key pieces of the hoard, the UK's largest find of Anglo-Saxon treasure, will also be shown in Lichfield and Stafford.
A Mercian Trail is also being developed to allow the treasure to be permanently displayed at several places.
These would include Tamworth, Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent and Lichfield.
Councillor Steve Claymore, from Tamworth Borough Council, said: "The news that the Staffordshire Hoard is coming to Tamworth is fantastic news.
"Residents and visitors will be able to see the hoard in its rightful place - the ancient capital of Mercia.
"The touring exhibition could lead to tens of thousands of people discovering the fascinating history of Tamworth and its surrounding area."
The 3,500-piece haul was found in a Staffordshire field in July 2009.
It is now jointly owned by the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the Potteries Museum after £3.3m was raised to keep it in the area.
Cleaned and restored items of the hoard, including a pectoral cross which is one of the signature pieces of the collection, are currently on show at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Hanley.
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The UK's largest bakery chain said like-for-like sales - which excludes new store openings - for its third quarter ending 2 October rose 0.2%.
Greggs said its breakfast bacon roll was now its best-selling sandwich.
It is now adding more breakfast products, including croissants and pains au chocolat.
The 0.2% rise in Greggs' sales for the third quarter was down from the 0.7% growth seen in the first half of its financial year.
Greggs chief executive Ken McMeikan said: "As we expected, the trading environment has been tough and is likely to remain so, with consumer spending continuing to be constrained and inflationary pressures building for next year.
"We anticipate that like-for-like sales in the final quarter will be broadly flat and therefore marginally positive over the year as a whole."
He added that the company was keeping a "very tight focus" on costs.
Greggs currently operates 1,451 shops. It said that its expansion programme was on track, having opened a net 32 new shops in the year to date.
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Why? Because of compound interest.
When you save money, it earns interest.
The lump sum grows from interest being added every year or every month.
Interest added on top of that interest is known as "compound interest" - and means that the longer you save, the better off you are.
So people who leave it late - like Dave in the example above - have compounded their financial problems when it comes to cashing in their savings.
But it is worth remembering that pensions usually depend on the success of investments which, unlike savings, do not guarantee a set level of interest.
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The ??359m Independent Living Fund pays out an average of ??300 a week, to help people pay for carers so they can live at home and not in a care home.
It was already shut to new applicants for this year and will now shut to new claims permanently, said the minister for disabled people, Maria Miller.
Payments to existing users are to continue until 2015.
Ms Miller said: "An independent discretionary trust delivering social care is financially unsustainable."
But Richard Hawkes, chief executive of disability charity Scope, said the decision to phase out the fund was "bemusing".
"The fund is comparatively very small and is designed to support disabled people to live at home rather than in care homes," he said.
"It's hard to see how phasing out this fund will do anything but narrow down options and push people towards greater dependence on the state."
The phased closure was described as "foolhardy and lacking in humanity" by Labour peer Lord Morris of Manchester.
Lord Morris, who was the first minister for the disabled, said: "This will not save money. If you make it harder for disabled people to live at home, it will cost more because more of them will have to be in hospitals and other places of full-time care.
"It will mean far more of them having to be in institutional care at far greater cost to the taxpayer."
The government said local authorities had a statutory responsibility to provide social care support to their residents.
And it said it remained its priority to safeguard the position of the recipients of the fund.
It said it would carry out a formal consultation next year on how best to continue to support existing users.
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Pentagon spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan said there was no evidence to back up Iranian claims that it had shot down "Western spy drones".
Another US official told Reuters news agency that drones had in the past gone down in the Gulf, but that the cause had always been mechanical failure.
There has been no independent corroboration of the Iranian claim.
The head of the Revolutionary Guards' air force wing, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, said on Sunday that two "Western spy drones" had been shot down in the Gulf.
He said "many" other unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) had been shot down over an unspecified period but that this was the first time it had been reported.
But Col Lapan said there were "no recent reports that would corroborate what the Revolutionary Guard said about unmanned aerial vehicles".
The second official, speaking to Reuters on condition on anonymity, said one drone had crashed in the Gulf in early 2009 because of mechanical failings, but landed in international waters.
"We have had cases in which UAVs have gone down in the Gulf ... but I don't have any indication (of a case) where a UAV has been taken down by hostile fire in the Gulf," the official said.
The Revolutionary Guards were set up following the Islamic revolution in 1979, and its commanders have frequently delivered warnings to Israel.
Last August Iran unveiled what it said was its first domestically built drone, the Karrar.
It said it had a range of 1,000km (620 miles) and could carry two 250-pound (115kg) bombs, or a precision bomb of 500 pounds.
The Fifth Fleet of the US navy is based in Bahrain, on the other side of the Gulf from Iran.
Iranian commanders have threatened to block shipping through the strategic Strait of Hormuz if it is attacked.
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The expedition to the north-eastern Antarctic peninsula will study how they reacted to previous climate changes.
The polar experts will collect 100 boxes of rock samples to date how long they have been exposed to sunlight.
A team from Aberystwyth and Swansea universities spent five months studying the Greenland ice sheet last year.
The Antarctic team will be led by Professor Neil Glasser of Aberystwyth University.
Prof Glasser and his colleagues will hunt for clues about how the glaciers and ice sheets behaved in past climates and what we can expect in the future.
The Antarctic peninsula has suffered above average warming over the past 50 years, with around a 2.5°C temperature increase since 1950, said the universities.
This warming is causing glaciers and ice shelves to melt, releasing large volumes of fresh water into the oceans which not only raises sea level, but also influences regional climate change.
However, scientists do not fully understand the relationship between air and sea temperature, and the melting of ice.
It is difficult for them to assess whether the melting being observed at the moment is unprecedented in the context of geological time.
To address these outstanding questions, the team will collect samples of rock to date their exposure to cosmic radiation and analyse how glaciers and ice have retreated since the last ice age, around 20,000 years ago.
"The collapse of Antarctic ice shelves is largely thought to be caused by warming of the atmosphere, but it appears that changes in sea temperature and ice-shelf structure are also important," said Prof Glasser.
"With the climate expected to warm in the future, it is important for us to understand how Antarctic glaciers and ice shelves behaved in the past so we can predict how they will react in years to come if temperatures continue to rise."
The team of three scientists and one British Antarctic Survey (BAS) field assistant will be dropped off by the Royal Research Ship Ernest Shackleton on James Ross Island, just off the Antarctic Peninsula.
They will be heavily laden with equipment including four quad bikes, two trailers, scientific equipment, tents and enough food and fuel to last three months.
"Normally when researchers work in Antarctica they operate from a research ship or at an established station, whereas we will be dropped off with all our kit and left for two months with just radio contact to the rest of the world," said Dr Jonathan Carrivick from the University of Leeds, who will take part in the trip.
The research is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council.
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Mark Glasswell, 34, of Simmons Way, Gipton, bludgeoned one of his victims with a hammer and also set fire to a house with a 78-year-old woman inside.
He pleaded guilty to a number of charges and was jailed for life with a minimum term of six years.
Police described Glasswell as a "despicable individual".
West Yorkshire Police said his crime spree began on 8 September last year by robbing a clothes store on Vicar Lane after threatening a store assistant.
Two days later he went to the home of an 86-year-old woman on Pendas Walk where he hit her several times over the head with a hammer.
The victim suffered two skull fractures and a broken eye socket and had to have 50 stitches in her head.
The following day he ripped the handbag off the shoulder of an 82-year-old woman walking on Beckett Street.
Later that day he returned to Leeds where he went into a shop and threatened a staff member with a plastic handgun.
Police said Glasswell's final offence took place in the early hours of 12 September when 78-year-old Jean Lord was woken in her home by Glasswell, who was stood in the door of her bedroom and threatened her with the same replica firearm.
He dragged her downstairs and threatened to pour boiling water over her head before making off with jewellery and a DVD player.
Leaving Mrs Lord injured on the living-room floor, Glasswell then started two fires as he left, one in front of the main door and the other in front of a desk containing all the keys to the house.
Mrs Lord managed to escape and raise the alarm with a neighbour.
Glasswell admitted aggravated burglary, assault, theft, robbery, attempted robbery, false imprisonment and arson with intent to endanger life.
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Since then the country has seen the creation of a multi-party parliamentary system, a decade-long Maoist insurgency and the abolition of its monarchy.
Flanked by China and India, it is home to eight of the world's highest mountains including Mount Everest, known locally as Sagarmatha.
As one of the world's poorest countries, Nepal's economy relies heavily on aid and tourism.
A devastating earthquake in April 2015 killed thousands of people, flattened villages and reduced numerous heritage sites to ruin.
Since then political infighting has delayed much of the reconstruction despite billions of dollars having been pledged.
Population 31 million
Area 147,181 sq km (56,827 sq miles)
Major languages Nepali
Major religions Hinduism, Buddhism
Life expectancy 68 years (men), 70 years (women)
Currency Nepalese rupee
President: Bidhya Devi Bhandari
Bidhya Devi Bhandari was elected as Nepal's first woman president in a parliamentary vote in October 2015. She is the deputy leader of the ruling Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) and a former defence minister.
She is a campaigner for women's rights and widow of late communist leader Madan Kumar Bhandari.
The post of president is mainly ceremonial.
Prime minister: Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda
Pushpa Kamal Dahal was elected as prime minister for the second time in August 2016.
Better known as Prachanda (Nepali for "fierce one"), he led a decade-long insurgency against the monarchy which culminated in the king relinquishing his absolute powers and being forced to give up his throne in June 2008.
He became the first elected prime minister of Nepal in August 2008 but his government collapsed nine months later in a row over his attempt to dismiss the army chief.
Mr Dahal is the leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre).
Media freedom is restricted by the fact that journalists have been the victims of violence, activists say.
There is a small film industry, nicknamed "Kollywood".
Some key dates in Nepal's history:
1768 - Gurkha ruler Prithvi Narayan Shah conquers Kathmandu and lays foundations for unified kingdom.
1814-16 - Anglo-Nepalese War; culminates in treaty which establishes Nepal's current boundaries.
1846 - Nepal falls under sway of hereditary chief ministers known as Ranas, who dominate the monarchy and cut country off from outside world.
1950 - Anti-Rana forces based in India form alliance with monarch.
1951 - End of Rana rule. Sovereignty of crown restored and anti-Rana rebels in Nepalese Congress Party form government.
1960 - King Mahendra seizes control and suspends parliament, constitution and party politics.
1991 - Nepali Congress Party wins first democratic elections.
1995-2006 - Maoist revolt which kills thousands.
2008 - Nepal becomes a republic after abolition of monarchy.
2015 September - New constitution adopted - the first in Asia to specifically protect gay rights.
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The Tower of Refuge will be lit up in recognition of Rotary International's Thanks For Life campaign.
The Rotary Club in Douglas is holding fundraising activities across the Isle of Man over the next seven days.
Purple was chosen because medical teams stain children's little fingers with a purple dye to show they have been immunised.
The campaign is the final push in the club's campaign to remove polio from the four countries where it is prevalent.
Howard Callow is the chairman of club service at the Rotary Club of Douglas.
He said: "Purple is the chosen colour and thanks to the help from the Department of Infrastructure we will see the Tower of Refuge turning purple, which will be quite a sight.
"It's not the first time that important landmarks have been used, as part of a campaign, the Houses of Parliament in Westminster have been used, Table Mountain in South Africa has been used, so the Tower of Refuge is up there with the world's greatest heritage sights."
Over the last 20 years, polio cases have been cut by 99%, and the condition is close to being eradicated.
It is still endemic in Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan.
And it is present in more than 12 countries altogether.
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Spratt, 25, joins on a one-year deal, and Samson, 23, on a two-year-deal.
Wales international Spratt said: "I'm excited to be joining London Irish. They play an exciting brand of rugby that appeals to me."
Samson, who has played for Scotland at U20 level, said: "I've enjoyed my time at Edinburgh but a chance to play in the Premiership was not to be missed."
The duo will join the Exiles squad this summer for pre-season training.
Jonathan is a strong, powerful runner, with great feet and good distribution skills.
Spratt made his Wales debut in 2009 in a Test against Canada.
The centre also played for Taranaki in New Zealand's domestic rugby tournament, the Air New Zealand Cup in 2008.
He has not played for Ospreys this season, having damaged his anterior cruciate ligament in pre-season, on his return from an earlier injury.
Samson is a product of Newcastle Falcons' academy and has represented Scotland at all age-group levels.
The Edinburgh-born scrum-half featured in the IRB Junior World Championship in 2008 and this season's IRB sevens circuit tournament.
Ross has a strong pass on him, an eye for the gap and he reads the game well.
London Irish head coach Toby Booth said: "Jonathan is a highly talented young player and another very useful addition to our squad.
"He is a strong, powerful runner, with great feet and good distribution skills.
"Ross is an exciting young talent in Scottish rugby. He has a strong pass on him, an eye for the gap and he reads the game well."
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NVA has concluded missives with the Catholic Church for St Peter's Seminary in Cardross, Argyll and Bute.
The A-listed building was designed and built in the 1960s as a training college for priests but it has not been used since the 1980s and is now a ruin.
NVA aims to restore part of the seminary and use it as an art space.
Its plan would stabilise the structure and gradually restore some interior spaces for cultural and educational use.
The charity has already received £100,000 from Creative Scotland's National Lottery Fund towards the project.
It still needs to raise £2m by 2013 to take its proposals forward.
St Peter's Seminary was designed by Glasgow architects Gillespie, Kidd and Coia.
The Roman Catholic seminary, which belonged to the Archdiocese of Glasgow, was completed and consecrated in 1966.
The distinctive zig-zag design and concrete appearance soon brought architectural recognition to the site.
However, as numbers entering the religious life fell and with high maintenance costs, the decision was taken to close the college.
In 1980 the seminary was deconsecrated and fell into a state of disrepair.
The building was Category A listed by Historic Scotland in 1992.
The World Monuments Fund, which works to preserve endangered cultural landmarks, added St Peter's College to its register in June 2007.
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A demonstration was held at the weekend by animal rights campaigners in Derby over the planned facility near Foston.
Midlands Pig Producers (MPP) said allegations its pigs would be kept in cramped conditions were untrue.
The farm would hold 2,500 sows and 20,000 piglets and use biogas from the slurry to produce electricity.
MPP has finished giving extra information to Derbyshire County Council as part of the planning process.
It said it had addressed concerns about animal welfare and emissions.
A company spokesman said: "We are astonished at some of the highly misleading claims and accusations.
"Claims that pigs will be crammed into narrow crates are simply not true.
"Our acclaimed 360 Farrowers were named because the sow can turn around 360 degrees at will.
"We urge people to either contact us, or refer to the planning application so that they may ascertain the facts of the matter for themselves."
About 100 animal rights protesters marched through Derby on Saturday claiming the large-scale development would be cruel to pigs.
Critics said that the only time the pigs would see the outside world would be on their way to slaughter.
It has also been claimed the site could put small-scale farmers in the area out of business.
MPP said the farm would observe the highest welfare standards and pointed out there was already a unit in the UK containing 3,500 sows.
South Derbyshire District Council handed over duties for dealing with the application to the county council because of its waste implications.
If planning permission is given, construction on the farm will take about a year.
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The female swan had a netted bag, used to hold footballs, wrapped around her head and wings at Wyken Slough nature reserve in Coventry.
She remains at Wychbold Swan Rescue, near Droitwich, Worcestershire, following Saturday's rescue.
The RSPCA said fishing line and hooks were also "dangerous hazards".
The swan, which had been seen struggling to keep her head above water, sustained damage to one of her wings and remained under observation on Friday.
RSPCA inspector Helen Smith said the swan was "in complete shock" when she was rescued by members of the West Midlands Fire Service.
"She could have been struggling to free herself for some time and was clearly exhausted," she said.
"The netting... was so tightly wrapped around her body she was in real danger of drowning."
The RSPCA inspector reminded members of the public about dangers to wildlife and wild birds.
She said: "Netting, litter and fishing line and hooks are dangerous hazards to wildlife and I urge people to think of the consequences before they casually discard such items."
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The archive is making available thousands of items too fragile to go on public display.
There will also be pages on the conservation work carried out by the Jersey Heritage Trust as it tries to preserve the past.
The trust looks after over 350,000 artefacts, works of art and information relating to the island's history.
The website also includes Occupation Archive material which was listed on the UNESCO UK memory of the world register in early 2011.
Linda Romeril, Head of Archives and Collections at Jersey Heritage, said the collections were "at the heart of what we do and it is our duty to protect and pass on these unique items to future generations".
"These collections define the Island; they hold the evidence for its historical development and act as the community's memory," she said.
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Apple won a ban on the devices, claiming Samsung had copied its iPhone and iPad.
South Korean Samsung had been unable to sell products in Australia since July.
The two companies are engaged in legal battles in more than 10 countries since April accusing each other of infringing smartphone and tablet patents.
Last month, Samsung won an appeal against a temporary ban on sales.
However, Apple was awarded a stay of the orders. On Friday Apple's bid to extend the ban was turned down by the High Court.
The ruling is a rare win for Samsung as it allows the company to sell its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in time for the busy Christmas shopping season, a lucrative time for the industry.
The decision comes after a US court ruled against Apple's bid to ban Galaxy phones and tablets, another win for Samsung. Apple has appealed against that ruling.
However, the legal tussle in other markets is not going as well for Samsung.
The company said on Friday that a French court had turned down its request to ban sale of the latest iPhone in that country.
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The central bank had originally hoped to lend up to 450bn euros to stop another credit crunch crippling the banking system.
Over 500 banks raced to borrow from the scheme, which was far beyond market expectations.
The euro rose sharply on the news, but then fell back later.
When the plan was announced, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said banks could use the money to invest in eurozone sovereign debt.
However, analysts were uncertain if banks will use the money in this way.
"The very heavy take-up of the ECB's three-year, long-term refinancing operation provides some encouragement that banks' liquidity needs are being amply met," said Jonathan Loynes at Capital Economics.
"But while this might help to address recent signs of renewed tensions in credit markets and support bank lending, we remain sceptical of the idea that the operation will ease the sovereign debt crisis too as banks use the funds to purchase large volumes of peripheral government bonds."
This was the European Central Bank's first offer of three-year loans and was the largest amount of money the central bank has injected into the financial system, beating the 450bn euros it put in with its 2009 one-year loans offer.
By Stephanie FlandersEconomics editor, BBC News
Read Stephanie's blog in full
Although the offer was seen as a success, its impact on the eurozone economy is still uncertain.
"This is good. It's a positive number, at the top end of expectations. You have to regard it as a positive result. But it is still short of covering all of the banks' financing for next year," said James Nixon at Societe Generale.
Borrowing money though the ECB's loans and using it to buy sovereign debt has been dubbed 'Sarkozy trade' after the French president encouraged banks to use the money to buy national debts when the loan offer was announced.
However, some suggest the money will just be used to boost bank balance sheets, especially since the ECB lowered its collateral requirements when it announced the loans, enabling weaker banks to apply for the funds.
"A cash for trash mechanism allowing banks to access cheap funds and buy up more sovereign debt - or more likely just shore up their own finances," is how Justin Urquhart Stewart of Seven Investment Management described the scheme.
By Robert PestonBusiness editor, BBC News
Read Robert's blog in full
Carsten Brzeski at ING, said: "The good news is that banks won't have to worry about liquidity for three years and that it has already pushed down government yields, as banks are buying them to use as collateral".
"However, whether the ECB's hopes that the money will filter through to the real economy will be fulfilled remains to be seen."
The success of the offer initially had a positive impact on European stock markets, but the effect was short-lived and in afternoon trade several markets were trading lower on the day.
The ECB's move comes in the wake of turbulent times for the eurozone that have hit peripheral eurozone economies such as Greece, the Irish Republic and Portugal, and started to affect major economies such as Italy and Spain.
Banks in all these countries have lent large amounts of money to their national governments, and others in the eurozone, by buying sovereign bonds which have, historically, been seen as relatively safe investments.
Interest rates for these bonds, known as yields, have been rising during the past few months, reflecting a higher risk that a country may default. Italian yields, for example, hit a record 7% in November.
The banks that are left holding large amounts of eurozone sovereign debt are in turn seen as risky by money markets who force them to pay more to borrow money.
This situation encourages banks to lend less themselves, which trickles down to consumers and small businesses, which find it harder to get loans.
The ECB's three-year loans are designed to free up lending and avoid the kind of credit crunch that saw inter-bank lending dry up in 2008.
Although the ECB has ruled out lending directly to countries, banks taking the three-year loans at 1% are being encouraged to invest in sovereign debt at 6% to 7%.
This not only provides a lucrative return for the banks, but increases demand for sovereign debt, helping countries such as Italy and Spain that need to raise money.
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The court made the decision after a case was brought by protester Samira Ibrahim.
She accused the Egyptian army of forcing her to undergo a virginity test after she was arrested during a protest in Tahrir Square in March.
Human rights organisations say the Egyptian military has used the practice widely as a punishment.
"The court orders that the execution of the procedure of virginity tests on girls inside military prisons be stopped," judge Aly Fekry, head of Cairo administrative court said, according to Reuters.
The ruling was greeted by cheers from hundreds of activists inside the courtroom.
Activists had demanded that the authorities prosecute anyone responsible for subjecting protesters to such tests.
Earlier this year, an Egyptian general was quoted as acknowledging that the military had conducted such tests, saying that they were used so women would not later claim they had been raped by authorities.
Human rights groups say such tests are a degrading form of abuse and the general's justification a legal absurdity.
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Under the rules, racegoers will also have to wear skirts or dresses of "modest length" falling just above the knee or longer.
For men, a waistcoat and tie will be compulsory in the enclosure and cravats will not be allowed.
Organisers said the decision was part of a move to restore formality.
The annual week-long event in June attracts about 300,000 visitors each year.
The popularity for elaborate fascinators, which are a cross between a hair accessory and a mini hat, continued last year after the Duchess of Cambridge wore a feathered one on her first official engagement in Anglesey.
In the less formal grandstand, which is open to the public, it will now be compulsory for women to wear a hat or fascinator.
In previous years, when female racegoers were simply advised that "many ladies wear hats".
Strapless or sheer-strap tops and dresses will also be banned.
For men, a suit and tie will now be obligatory.
Ascot spokesman Nick Smith said: "It is probably fair to say the dress code hasn't necessarily been enforced quite as rigorously as we might have liked.
"There is no doubt our customers would like to get back to a situation where it is universally acknowledged this is a formal occasion and not an occasion where you might dress as you would at a nightclub."
Charles Barnett, Ascot's chief executive, said the intention was to be "as helpful as possible" to visitors and to help racegoers in understanding what is "cherished" about the dress code at Royal Ascot.
"It isn't a question of elitism and not being modern in a world where there is less and less requirement to dress smartly - far from it," he said.
"We want to see modern and stylish dress at Royal Ascot, just within the parameters of formal wear."
The less formal Silver Ring will not be affected by the changes.
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In January, several major US newspapers took a swipe at him in separate editorials.
"President Rafael Correa of Ecuador is leading a relentless campaign against free speech," said The New York Times.
The Washington Post said the president ought to be known for "the most comprehensive and ruthless assault on free media under way in the Western Hemisphere".
According to various international rights organisations, 2011 was a bad year for freedom of speech in Ecuador, and 2012 does not bode well.
Following a change to the current electoral law, which comes into effect on 4 February, journalists will face restrictions when reporting on the forthcoming campaign for the 2013 presidential election.
The new article prohibits media from "either directly or indirectly promoting any given candidate, proposal, options, electoral preferences or political thesis, through articles, specials or any other form of message".
Several Ecuadorean journalists have said the new regulations amount to censorship.
"It is clear that this is an affront to basic rights," said Ecuadorean media freedom organisation Fundamedios.
But President Correa is adamant that the new legislation is vital.
"Media cannot be political actors," he said during one of his weekly TV and radio broadcasts.
"We have to put an end to the illegitimate, immoral political power that certain media have. All they do every day is a political campaign against the government."
Mr Correa has not yet said whether he will run in the election, currently scheduled for January 2013.
With approval ratings close to 80%, according to a polling firm favoured by the government, he seemingly has the largest support base among potential candidates.
Mr Correa, who is popular in Ecuador thanks to his social programmes that support, among others, the poor and the disabled, has often said media are his "greatest enemy" and a major obstacle in implementing reforms.
In Ecuador, private media have traditionally served the interests of their owners - powerful groups with strong economic interests.
Mr Correa says those elites do not want wealth to be fairly distributed across the country.
Under Mr Correa's leadership, the government has brought in laws to limit media concentration.
In 2008 a number of media outlets, including two TV stations, were seized from bankers on the grounds of corruption.
The government went from controlling only one radio station to running a large network of media, which have the obligation of broadcasting the president's weekly radio and TV shows.
Although the growth of public media is important, the current landscape is far from balanced, according to investigative journalist Juan Carlos Calderon.
"The president has decided to demonise private media, even if it is a legitimate activity, regulated by the constitution," Mr Calderon says.
"The president has created this polarisation. We journalists are the meat in the sandwich."
Mr Calderon is facing a libel trial following the 2010 publication of a book, Big Brother (El Gran Hermano), which detailed government contracts that benefited the president's older brother, Fabricio.
President Correa, who denied knowledge of the contracts and had them cancelled when they came to light, filed a $10m (£6.4m) lawsuit against Mr Calderon and his co-author for attempting to discredit his good name.
For his part, Fabricio Correa has said that all the contracts were the result of public tender.
In 2011, Mr Correa filed another libel suit against El Universo newspaper after former editor Emilio Palacio wrote a column in which he called the president a "dictator."
The newspaper's three directors and Mr Palacio were sentenced to three years in jail with fines totalling $40m.
Their delayed appeal is expected to be heard in February.
If the conviction is upheld, El Universo, one of the oldest newspapers in the country, might have to declare bankruptcy.
In another case, Jaime Mantilla, director of Hoy newspaper, was sentenced in December to three months in jail for failing to reveal the sources of a series of reports that Pedro Delgado, current head of the central bank, and Mr Correa's cousin, said were offensive.
International criticism against President Correa has grown in relation to the growing tension between the executive and representatives of the country's media.
In a 2011 report, the UN's cultural body Unesco stressed the need to repeal libel laws and to modernise the rules regulating free expression in Ecuador.
The Organization of American States' Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression has also voiced concern.
In response, President Correa has called for the remit and the financing of the rapporteur's office to be reviewed.
He has said that the OAS needs a new human rights forum that does not automatically follow the lead of the United States.
"Having successfully run roughshod over the democratic institutions within his own country, Correa is now seeking to employ the same tactics outside his borders," said Joel Simon, executive director of the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists, in a recent opinion piece in the Miami Herald.
While Mr Correa has repeatedly demonstrated that he can deal with opposition at home, this year seems likely to show if he is equally well able to deal with critics abroad.
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The first was for the development of tidal arrays in Alderney's waters.
The second involves the development of an electricity interconnector cable between France, Alderney and Britain.
Paul Clark, chief executive officer, said it was a move towards the creation off Alderney of one of Europe's largest tidal stream developments.
Alderney Renewable Energy (ARE) was set up in 2004 and holds an exclusive licence to commercially develop tidal and wave power around the coast of the northern most of the Channel Islands.
The first agreement was signed with French industrial group DCNS and the second with ARE, its partner Transmission Capital and the French grid operator RTE.
ARE said the electricity interconnector cable between France, Alderney and Britain would enable the export of up to four gigawatts of tidal power from Alderney.
It said the cable, known as the FABLink, could also be used as a power trading link between the two countries.
The agreements were signed at the Anglo-French summit held in Paris, with the French Industry Minister Eric Besson and the UK Energy Secretary Ed Davey signing on the behalf of their governments.
Mr Davey said: "We are determined to promote the potential of marine energies. We welcome the plan for a tidal turbine farm off Alderney in the Channel Islands."
He said: "We believe this project could encourage the emergence of industrial co-operation between France and the UK, while opening up new international prospects.
"We acknowledge the importance of developing new electricity interconnectors between our two countries in order to strengthen further the linking of our grids, improve the security of our energy supplies and facilitate the integration of intermittent energy sources."
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The broadcaster received 118 complaints about the Channel's coverage of the four-hour service on Saturday.
The corporation said it was "part of the News Channel function to be there when major stories take place".
Another 34 complaints were received from people upset that the service had been interrupted.
Live coverage of the service began at 17:00 GMT and continued until just before 20:30 GMT, with the BBC continuing to report on the story afterwards.
"The News Channel's coverage of Whitney Houston's funeral reflected the significant interest in her sudden death as well as acknowledging the impact she had as a global recording artist," said the corporation in a statement.
It acknowledged that "some people felt there was too much coverage" but said BBC One's teatime bulletin, radio bulletins and other services had still given viewers "the best access to the day's other news stories".
Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys and R Kelly performed at the service, which took place in Newark, New Jersey. Actor Kevin Costner, who starred with Houston in The Bodyguard, gave a eulogy.
The 48-year-old singer was found in a bath in her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on 11 February.
The cause of her death will remain unclear until the results of the toxicology tests are announced.
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Shane Hampson, 23, of Lime Grove, Skelmersdale, was convicted at Liverpool Crown Court last month of causing death by dangerous driving.
John Gregory, 49, from Wigan, Greater Manchester, died when the car crashed into the back of his vehicle in Skelmersdale, in February last year.
Hampson was also handed a four-year driving ban.
Police said Mr Gregory was driving his Chrysler Voyager home from work along Grimshaw Road when Hampson crashed into it from behind.
Mr Gregory's car overturned and he died at the scene.
Another car was also struck but the driver escaped unhurt.
Sgt Patrick Worden, from the Road Policing Unit, said: "I am very pleased with the sentence Hampson has been given and I hope this will serve as a warning to those who choose to behave in this manner - you will be punished.
"John Gregory was simply driving home from work when his car was struck from behind by a Volvo driven by Shane Hampson.
"As a result of the collision, the Chrysler overturned during which Mr Gregory was ejected from the car causing him significant injuries."
He added: "It was evident Hampson has been travelling at extremely high speed at the time of the collision and a lengthy investigation followed which identified that Hampson had driven dangerously not only at the time of the collision but within a few miles of the collision site.
"Despite claiming his innocence throughout, Hampson was convicted by a unanimous jury and I hope that this case sends out a strong message about the consequences of speeding."
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The country's consumer watchdog has taken Apple to court for false advertising because the tablet computer does not work on Australia's 4G network.
Apple's lawyers said they were willing to publish a clarification.
However the company does not accept that it misled customers.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said on Tuesday: "Apple's recent promotion of the new 'iPad with wi-fi + 4G' is misleading because it represents to Australian consumers that the product can, with a sim card, connect to a 4G mobile data network in Australia, when this is not the case."
The watchdog then lodged a complaint at the Federal Court in Melbourne.
At a preliminary hearing, Apple lawyer Paul Anastassiou said Apple had never claimed the device would work fully on the current 4G network operated by Telstra.
Apple says the new iPad works on what is globally accepted to be a 4G network.
The matter will go to a full trial on 2 May.
The Apple iPad's third version went on sale earlier this month, with Australia the first country where it was available.
Shoppers lined up by the hundreds at Apple stores on opening day and the company said it had been its strongest iPad launch to date.
The ACCC said it was seeking an injunction on sales as well as a financial penalty against Apple, corrective advertising and refunds to consumers.
On its website, Apple does state that 4G LTE is only supported on selected networks in the US and Canada.
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Surrey Fire Service said it started at about 14:00 BST at a nearby nature reserve and spread across 25 acres.
More than 40 firefighters, six engines and two water tankers were used to deal with the blaze.
Alan Clark, from Surrey Fire and Rescue Service, said "the lack of rain and tinder box dry conditions provided the perfect recipe for wildfires".
He added: "Once they start they can spread quickly, making wildfires notoriously difficult to control."
The Wentworth golf estate regularly hosts major golf tournaments including the PGA championship and World Match Play Championships.
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The agency says more than 700 divers have visited the site, 4,000m under water off the coast of Canada.
The ship will fall under the 2001 Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage once it passes the 100th anniversary of its sinking on 15 April.
The convention aims to prevent unscientific or unethical exploration.
Irina Bokova, director-general of Unesco, said the sinking of the Titanic was "anchored in the memory of humanity" and it was important to protect the site where 1,500 people lost their lives.
"There are thousands of other shipwrecks that need safeguarding as well... We do not tolerate the plundering of cultural sites on land, and the same should be true for our sunken heritage," she added.
The 2001 convention only protects vessels that sank more than a century ago.
The Titanic, built in Belfast, sank on its maiden voyage after setting off from the British port of Southampton.
It hit an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland in Canada en route to New York, sinking two-and-a-half hours later.
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Passengers said it was "chaotic", with huge crowds snaking around corridors and a lack of senior staff.
Airport operator BAA said UK Border Agency's service was "completely unacceptable" but queues were easing.
The agency blamed the Easter holiday for the length of the queues.
BAA said queues began easing after 13:00 BST with passengers in Terminal 5 having to wait the longest - 31 minutes for EU passengers and 51 minutes for Non-EU citizens.
The shortest waiting time was in Terminal 4, where it took four minutes for passengers from the EU to clear the checks and two minutes for non-EU nationals.
BAA said on Friday the longest wait passengers had was 77 minutes at Terminal 3, 75 minutes at Terminal 4, and 54 minutes at Terminals 5 and 1, with non-EU passengers facing the longest wait at the time.
Matthew Donaldson, 38, from Lincolnshire, who arrived on a flight from Cape Town in South Africa at about 06:30, said he had to wait for an hour and 45 minutes to leave passport control at Terminal 5.
He said: "It was complete chaos. Half the escalators were closed to slow down the crowds and when we got to passport control there were snaking queues.
"They gave no reason and there were no senior staff there.
"It was erratic to say the least."
George Galanopoulos, founder of London Executive Aviation which runs private jets, wrote on Twitter: "Just landed at Heathrow T5... total chaos! Embarrassing for London."
Simon Baugh, director of media relations at BAA, said the earlier situation at passport control, which is managed by the UK Border Force, the section of the UK Border Agency in charge of entry to the UK, was "fairly typical" but "completely unacceptable".
He said: "It's the UK's reputation and BAA's that suffers. There's no need for it.
"It's entirely about the level of resourcing the government needs to put in place."
A UK Border Agency spokeswoman said: "We will not compromise border security but we always aim to keep disruption to a minimum by using our staff flexibly to meet demand."
She said there were extra workers at the border over the Easter period.
Culture Select Committee chairman John Whittingdale outlined his committee's concerns about the airport's service in a letter to Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Jeremy Hunt which was made public this week.
The letter, dated 21 March, said waits in excess of an hour might deter tourists from returning to the UK.
The government sets BAA targets for processing departing passengers through security but no contractual service level agreements are in place for arriving passengers, said Mr Baugh.
He said the Home Office sets an "aspirational" waiting time of no longer than 45 minutes for non-EU passengers and 25 minutes for EU passengers.
Mr Baugh said: "That bears no relation to customer experience."
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Researchers from Boston Children's Hospital in Massachusetts found a doubling in the odds of obesity by the time the child was three years old.
The team said birth by C-section might affect bacteria in the gut, which in turn affects the way food is digested.
The study looked at 1,255 pairs of mothers and children from 1999 to 2002.
The mothers joined the study - published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood - before 22 weeks of pregnancy.
Their babies were measured and weighed at birth and this was repeated at the age of three.
About one in four of the deliveries were C-section births and the remainder were vaginal deliveries.
The team found a link between body mass, skin thickness and how a child was born.
They also found that mothers who delivered by C-section tended to weigh more than those delivering traditionally - something which is known to influence obesity.
But the researchers said another possible explanation was the difference in the composition of gut bacteria acquired at birth between the two delivery methods.
They suggested expectant mothers who choose a C-section should be made aware of the obesity risk to their babies.
In the UK just over 23% of births are Caesarean.
Patrick O'Brien, a spokesman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said: "This is an interesting study, but small. It needs to be replicated in a bigger sample."
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An Institute of Directors report hailed the business model as a blueprint for success and indicated that the UK could learn from the Manx example.
According to government figures, the estimated value of the Isle of Man space industry for the three years to 2013 will reach £1.1bn.
Many investors have been attracted by the 0% rate of corporation tax.
The report, published in London on 18 May, said: "The Isle of Man shows how quickly a powerful niche can be built by a very small player."
It adds: "In the new space economy, you can be small and succeed. You don't need astronauts to be in the space business."
There are currently 30 space companies located in the Isle of Man out of a international total of 54.
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The open prison, in Warrington, houses 304 young adults aged 18 to 25.
A report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons found it is "safe", with low absconding rates, low incidence of self-harm and any anti-social behaviour addressed.
However, some prisoners criticised officers as "petty" and complained the food was poor.
The report found security levels were appropriate, but some rules were being used unnecessarily, with disciplinary procedures invoked too hastily.
Most prisoners were engaged in learning and many of those go on to earn qualifications.
Inspector Nick Hardwick said more work was needed to promote diversity and integrate foreign national prisoners.
He added: "In three of our four healthy prison assessments, we have awarded our highest marking, and managers and staff should be commended for this.
"This report highlights a small number of important issues requiring improvement and our recommendations will, hopefully, assist in that process."
Michael Spurr, CEO of the National Offender Management Service, said: "I'm pleased that Thorn Cross has been recognised for its continued good work around preparing the young men for their release."
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They agreed to take control of the two-time European Cup winners after reaching terms to buy the late Nigel Doughty's controlling stake.
"It's an honour and privilege to assume control of this great club," said the Kuwaiti-based family, who plan to hold a news conference on Saturday.
From 1865 to 1982, Nottingham Forest were run as a members club, and were the last Football League club to switch to becoming a limited company.
"You can be assured of our best efforts in bringing the Reds back to the top."
Doughty put Forest up for sale in October but died four months later.
The Al-Hasawi's interest in the club first emerged at the end of May.
Fawaz Al-Hasawi had been chairman of Al-Quadisya Sports Club in his native country, but his decision to step down was a precursor to interest in investment within English football.
"We know there are challenging times ahead of us to bring the club back to its glory days and we look forward with excitement towards a new successful future," added the Al-Hasawi statement.
"Over the next few weeks we will be working closely with our players, on-field and off-field team members in preparation for the forthcoming season."
Doughty, a genuine Forest supporter, helped rebuild the club financially, although recovering past glories has proved difficult.
The former European Cup winners were relegated to League One in 2005. They returned to the Championship after a three-year absence but, after two failed play-off campaigns, they finished 19th last season.
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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
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The Australian navy ship HMAS Maitland and four merchant vessels were involved in rescue operations 75km (45 miles) south-west of Indonesia's Java Island.
The search followed a distress call on Wednesday from a vessel which said it had 150 people on board.
Indonesian teams had searched the waters, but could not locate the boat.
The country's search and rescue agency, Basarnas, sent two boats and a helicopter to the area on Wednesday but found nothing and returned to base.
But on Thursday a merchant vessel said it had found six people in the water, and more survivors were rescued during the day.
"Three survivors have serious injuries, but are in a stable condition. They are on board HMAS Maitland," the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said in a statement.
It added that merchant vessels APL Bahrain, Gwenolen, AR Carelia and Da Ging Xia were involved in the search.
Source: Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship
Captain Manuel Nistorescu from the APL Bahrain ship told the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper that a group of Afghan men he picked up had been in the water for 24 hours.
There were also women and children on the missing boat, he added.
"They had an engine break and the water was coming, and the pump for pumping out the water was not working and the boat sinks. This is what I understand from them," he said.
The number of missing people could not be confirmed, Australia's Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare told reporters.
"We have grave fears for a lot more," he said. ''Don't underestimate how difficult this task is; don't underestimate how big the sea that we're searching is.''
Asylum seekers often target Christmas Island, off Australia's northwest coast, to get to the country. They make the journey from Indonesia in boats that are usually overloaded and poorly maintained.
In June, a boat with 200 asylum seekers sank near the island - 17 bodies were found and another 70 were feared dead after a three-day search. That was the second boat to sink in a week, reigniting the debate on asylum in parliament.
Earlier this month, lawmakers approved the re-opening of offshore processing camps for asylum seekers in Nauru and PNG.
The moves are aimed at deterring asylum seekers from making the dangerous journey to Australia by boat, amid an increasing number of arrivals.
Australia says it will also increase its intake of refugees to 20,000 a year, from the current 13,750, in line with recommendations by an expert panel.
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Prince William made the comment when asked how many children he would like, during the second day of the couple's Diamond Jubilee tour to Singapore.
A teenager at one walkabout said the prince had responded by saying "he was thinking about having two".
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge also said they would like their "superhero superpower" to be invisibility.
The prince, who married Catherine Middleton in April last year, has spoken before about starting a family, but has not mentioned numbers.
After the couple's visit to the Gardens by the Bay attraction, Corine Ackermann, 17, said: "Someone asked him how many children he would like to have, and he said he was thinking about having two."
Jaz Heber Percy, 13, asked the prince what superpower he would like to have if he could be a superhero.
The prince replied: "That's a hard question - I'm not sure. I'll have to think about it. I think invisibility."
The duchess had agreed that she would need to be invisible too, "otherwise he would be able to sneak up on her," Jaz said.
Several people in the 1,000-strong crowd fainted as they waited in sweltering heat for three hours to see the royals.
Local children who had been given the morning off school chanted: "Will, you're brill. Kate, you're great".
The royal couple planted a Pachira glabra variegata tree to mark their visit.
They also visited a Rolls-Royce jet engine factory, where the prince praised the "cutting-edge aerospace technology developed by one of the United Kingdom's great global companies".
During the visit, the duchess fitted the last of 24 fan blades to a Trent 900 engine.
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It follows the release of a report into the disaster which resulted in the death of 96 fans.
Kelvin MacKenzie wrote the headline The Truth on the front-page story which ran four days later.
Trevor Hicks, of the Hillsborough Families Support Group, said it was "too little, too late".
In a statement Mr MacKenzie said: "Today I offer my profuse apologies to the people of Liverpool for that headline.
"I too was totally misled. Twenty-three years ago I was handed a piece of copy from a reputable news agency in Sheffield in which a senior police officer and a senior local MP were making serious allegations against fans in the stadium.
"I had absolutely no reason to believe that these authority figures would lie and deceive over such a disaster.
"As the prime minister has made clear these allegations were wholly untrue and were part of a concerted plot by police officers to discredit the supporters thereby shifting the blame for the tragedy from themselves.
"It has taken more than two decades, 400,000 documents and a two-year inquiry to discover to my horror that it would have been far more accurate had I written the headline The Lies rather than The Truth.
"I published in good faith and I am sorry that it was so wrong."
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The whale, which is about 10m (33ft) in length, was washed up at Shingle Street, near Hollesley shortly after 15:00 BST on Sunday.
The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) said it was a juvenile fin whale and that a post-mortem examination would be carried out on Tuesday.
Suffolk Police warned people to stay clear of the carcass, which has been tied down.
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Rob Deaville, manager of the cetacean stranding investigation programme for ZSL, said fin whales were a "fairly unusual species to be found beached in the UK".
He said that last year, out of 600 strandings in the country, only about five would have been fin whales.
"Looking at photos, it does look a little bit on the thin side, so starvation may be a factor but we have an open mind," he said.
Andrew Capell, of HM Coastguard Search and Rescue, said: "We answered the call and we originally thought it would be a porpoise, because we tend to get them quite a bit.
"But we arrived on the beach to find this rather handsome animal.
"There are a few grazes on it where it has been on the shingle, but there is no other wounds or injuries.
"There's a lot of interest today as it is not the sort of thing you see in Suffolk."
A crew from Aldeburgh Lifeboat station was also called to Shingle Street.
Coxswain Steven Saint said: "Unfortunately it had already died when the crew were there - but there were reports it had been in the water a short time before."
Another whale died after being stranded at a beach in Bridlington, east Yorkshire, on Sunday.
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Tower Hamlets Council said it would sell Draped Seated Woman after "unprecedented" budget cuts.
The work has not yet been valued but a Moore sold for £17m earlier this year.
The council said the rising threat of metal theft and vandalism made it too expensive to insure if it was on show.
The sculpture was bought by the former London County Council for £6,000 in 1960.
The bronze sculpture, nicknamed Old Flo, was installed on the Stifford council estate in 1962 but was vandalised and moved to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 1997.
A council spokesperson said: "With unprecedented cuts to council budgets, the council finds itself in a difficult situation and being forced to make hard decisions.
"As the borough does not have the funds required to insure or maintain the upkeep of the work, releasing these necessary funds will enable the council to support front-line services."
Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman added: "It is with great regret that I take this decision but we are faced with a stark choice in these times of recession."
The sculpture is expected to be auctioned by Christie's in February. No valuation has been made but Tower Hamlets said estimates had ranged from £4m-£17m.
The council is having to make cuts of £100m per year over the next three years.
Richard Calvocoressi, director of the Henry Moore Foundation, said he sympathised with the council's position but added that it would be "very sad" if the sculpture was no longer on public display.
Metal theft has become a major problem in recent years. In 2005, a large Moore work was taken from the foundation in Hertfordshire, while a sundial by the artist was removed from the same location this July.
Last December, a bronze work by Barbara Hepworth was stolen from Dulwich Park in south London.
Tower Hamlets Council had considered moving Draped Seated Woman to private land in Canary Wharf but has instead chosen to "explore options" for a sale.
The auction of council artworks to meet budget shortfalls is normally frowned upon in the art world.
The last significant case was in 2006, when Bury Council was expelled from the Museums Association for selling an LS Lowry painting for £1.4m.
The Museums Association said it could not act in this instance because Draped Seated Woman was an individual piece of public art and not part of a museum collection.
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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.
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Items worth more than £36 sent from the islands will incur VAT from 1 January 2013. The limit was £40.
A gift is defined as an item sent between two private people, such as a birthday or Christmas gift.
Jersey and Guernsey Post allow people to pay the VAT in advance so that the recipient is not charged by the UK Post Office.
A spokesman for Jersey Post said the recipient could have to pay the VAT and an £8 charge set by the Post Office, if the sender did not pre-pay for the item.
VAT is charged on all commercial parcels sent from Jersey to the UK after the end of Low Value Consignment Relief in April 2012. This loophole previously allowed for commercial items worth less than £15 to be sent VAT free.
HM Revenue and Customs says the change is due to a revaluation of the euro compared to the pound.
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However, Mahmud Nacua said it would be at least another year before Libya was in a position to release whatever information it holds.
The move comes on the 24th anniversary of the of bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland, which killed 270 people.
Bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi died this year after being released in 2009.
Megrahi, a Libyan agent, was released by the Scottish government on compassionate grounds, suffering from terminal prostate cancer.
He remains the only person ever convicted of the bombing, but Scottish police hope to pursue other suspects in Libya following the country's revolution and downfall of Colonel Gaddafi in 2011.
Scotland's top prosecutor recently wrote to the new Libyan prime minister for help and the UK government has said it was pressing Tripoli "for swift progress and co-operation" on the Lockerbie case.
Mr Nacua told the BBC no formal agreement had yet been reached, but that Libya would open the files it holds on the case.
He said that would only come when his government had fully established security and stability - a process he believes will take at least a year.
In April of this year, Scotland's Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland travelled to Tripoli with the director of the FBI, Robert Mueller, requesting co-operation after the fall of Gaddafi.
This was followed in May by a meeting with Libya's interim prime minister in London to discuss further inquires into the bombing.
At the time, a Crown Office spokesman said: "The prime minister asked for clarification on a number of issues relating to the conduct of the proposed investigation in Libya and the lord advocate has undertaken to provide this.
"The prime minister made it clear that he recognised the seriousness of this crime and following the clarification he would take this forward as a priority."
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The 3,000m (10,000ft) volcano is in Argentina's south-western Neuquen province, near the Chilean border. It began spewing ash and gas on Saturday morning.
In Argentina, the authorities have told residents of local villages to monitor the situation.
Many people have already left the area as a precaution.
Ash has been raining down on both sides of the border.
The Chilean authorities raised the alert - first issued on Saturday - to the highest level in Biobio region after the Copahue volcano increased seismic activity overnight.
Roads were being cleared for possible evacuation.
The plume of smoke is about 1,500m (5,000ft) high and the wind is pushing it away from Argentina, said Chile's emergency office (Onemi).
Planes flying over the southern Andes have also been warned to avoid the area.
Hundreds of flights were cancelled last year due to the eruption of Puyehue volcano, in Chile.
That eruption caused huge economic damage not only to property in the area but also to tourism in Bariloche and other resorts.
The Copahue eruption comes at the height of the tourism season.
Visitors from all over the world go to the area in the summer months to enjoy the mountains, lakes and also the Copahue and Caviahue thermal spas.
Copahue in the indigenous Mapuche language means "sulphur waters".
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AnÃbal Cavaco Silva said the budget didn't treat citizens fairly, and hit some of them worse than others.
The right-of-centre government has argued that the unprecedented tax increases the budget contains were necessary to meet the terms of the country's eurozone bailout.
It is only the second time a Portuguese head of state has made such a move.
For most Portuguese workers the tax rises that came into effect on January 1 are equivalent to more than a month's wages.
President Cavaco Silva made the surprise announcement in his New Year's speech, the day after signing the budget into law.
"On my initiative, the Constitutional Court will be called on to decide on the conformity of the 2013 state budget with the constitution of the republic," he said.
In his speech he also said the country was in a vicious circle of austerity and recession and acknowledged that Portugal's foreign debt, now twice as high as Portugal's annual output, was unsustainable.
The opposition Socialists had already questioned the validity of the tax hikes and had threatened to take them to the Constitutional Court if the president did not.
Last year the court ruled against a pay cut for civil servants which forced the government to seek alternative sources of revenue.
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Japan called for an end to the raid, summoning the Algerian ambassador to express concern for the lives of the captives and to plead for up-to-date information.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "disappointed" not to have been told about the raid in advance.
But while many details of how events at the In Amenas plant have unfolded remain unclear, Algeria's decision to deal with the kidnappers forcefully and unilaterally fits with a deeply-entrenched and uncompromising approach to counter-terrorism.
"I'd be surprised if they'd reacted any other way," said Jon Marks, an Algeria analyst and head of the Cross-border Information consultancy.
"From the Algerian point of view the attack… was an affront to the prestige of the Algerian military which is a very central part of the Algerian value system."
The military is still seen as the ultimate arbiter of power in Algeria, and has never been placed fully under civilian control.
The army, and the governments it supports, derive much of their legitimacy from largely winning the military battle against Islamist insurgents in the 1990s, during a vicious conflict that left as many as 150,000 people dead.
Algerian authorities have expressed some bitterness that they were left to fight this conflict on their own, before most of the rest of the world was confronted with the threat from Islamist militancy.
But they also take pride in their counter-terrorism experience, their military suppression of armed groups and their publicly-stated reluctance to negotiate or pay ransoms.
"We say that confronted with terrorism, yesterday as today and tomorrow, there will be no negotiation, no blackmail, no let-up in the fight against terrorism," said Algerian Communications Minister Mohamed Said Belaid.
"Those who think we will negotiate with terrorists are delusional."
The conflict in the 1990s was fought in the north of Algeria. Armed groups have only become more active in Algeria's vast southern desert and neighbouring Sahel states in recent years.
They have carried out kidnappings, mainly outside Algeria, and have never launched a major attack on the oil and gas industry that has long been the backbone of Algeria's economy.
However, both the alleged organiser of Wednesday's attack, Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar, and the prospect of a drawn-out kidnapping saga, are darkly familiar to the Algerian authorities.
"They know Mokhtar Belmokhtar and his gang very well and they know very well that these are people who are extremely adept at operating in the Sahara regions," said Jon Marks, referring to reports that the Algerians intervened when some of the kidnappers and hostages tried to leave the plant.
The risk, he said, was that they would take the hostages to a remote part of the desert and then negotiate for ransoms or prisoner exchanges, "and they used the bluntest of instruments, which was air power, to stop those cars".
"With the western governments you've got the view which is predominant that they've got a duty of care towards the hostages," he added. "Whereas in the perception of those people running the operation, it was very much, 'you must deal with the terrorists and not allow this to happen'."
Mr Cameron said the Algerian prime minister had told him that the military had "judged there to be an immediate threat to the lives of the hostages and had felt obliged to respond".
But beyond this explanation, the Algerians appear to have made little initial attempt to consult, let alone reach out for foreign help or advice. British offers to assist the Algerians were reportedly declined.
"Algeria's not a country that would feel comfortable relying on foreign security forces to help liberate the hostages, and that's because of this deep-seated feeling that there should be no foreign military presence in the country," said Robert Parks, director of the Centre for North African Studies in Algeria.
"This goes back to old principles from right after independence of non-intervention. Algerians are very touchy when it comes to questions of national sovereignty. So it was pretty clear from the start that this was going to be resolved by the Algerians only."
Algeria initially opposed international intervention against Islamist militants in northern Mali, though when France - the former colonial power in both Mali and Algeria - intervened last week, Algeria agreed to open its airspace.
But an attack on Algerian soil was a different matter. The fact that the target of the attack was a gas plant operated in part by foreign companies may have made Algeria particularly keen to tackle the problem on its own terms.
The idea that the Algerian elite and their foreign allies might be the main beneficiaries of large oil and gas profits is a common complaint among Algerians.
"It's important for [the authorities] to show to a domestic audience that they're not beholden to the international community, that they actually control their own hydrocarbon resources - that they're not just a puppet government," said Mr Parks.
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Their study of more than 7,000 people suggests exposure to bleach and other chemicals is a factor in one in six cases of adult-onset asthma among British people in their mid-50s .
The study, in Thorax, identified 18 high-risk jobs - four of which involved cleaning.
Top of the list were farmers, followed by aircraft mechanics and typesetters.
General cleaners, office cleaners, domestic helpers and care workers all featured on the list.
So too did hairdressers and laundry workers.
Experts say a person's working environment is to blame rather than their occupation per se.
Hundreds of occupational agents have been linked to asthma. This includes flour and grain as well as detergents.
Fine particles can be inhaled into the airways and cause irritation.
Lead researcher Dr Rebecca Ghosh said cleaning products were starting to be recognised as a potential cause of asthma.
She said there were specific Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) guidelines relating to cleaning products.
Employers are expected to control exposures to hazardous substances and report any cases of occupational asthma.
"Occupational asthma is widely under-recognised by employers, employees and healthcare professionals. Raising awareness that this is an almost entirely preventable disease would be a major step in reducing its incidence," Dr Ghosh said.
Malayka Rahman, of Asthma UK, said: "We advise anyone who works in the industries highlighted in this study and who have experienced breathing problems to discuss this with their GP, and we urge healthcare professionals to make sure they consider possible occupational causes in adult-onset asthma and tailor their advice to people with asthma accordingly."
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The officer, Ahmed al-Mreyssi, died after being repeatedly run over during anti-government protests.
The court upheld a life sentence given to a second man in the case.
Bahrain and its Sunni royal family have been shaken by unrest since pro-democracy protests began in 2011. Most protesters are from the Shia majority.
The death sentence was confirmed on Wednesday for Ali al-Taweel, and the sentence to life imprisonment for Ali Shamlo.
Lawyers for the two men have said they will appeal against the decision at the court of cassation in a final effort to have the sentences reduced.
Bahrain's largest opposition political party Al Wefaq denounced Wednesday's decision and said confessions used as evidence in convicting the two men were extracted by torture.
The Gulf island kingdom has been wracked by nearly two years of violence that followed the clearing of an iconic landmark, Pearl Roundabout, in the capital Manama, in February 2011.
As violence escalated 35 people, including five police officers, were killed. Hundreds more were hurt and thousands jailed - the vast majority Shia Muslims.
Since then, opposition and human rights activists say another 45 people have been killed, a figure which the government disputes.
In October last year two policemen died of injuries sustained during clashes with protesters in villages outside Manama.
Last December, a Bahraini court commuted to life imprisonment the death sentences of two other protesters convicted of killing two policemen in another incident in 2011.
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HIV, which causes Aids, emerged in humans in the 20th Century, but scientists have long known that similar viruses in monkeys and apes have existed for much longer.
A genetic study shows HIV-like viruses arose in African monkeys and apes 5 million to 12 million years ago.
The research may one day lead to a better understanding of HIV and Aids.
HIV affects 34 million people worldwide.
The disease emerged during the 20th century after a HIV-like virus jumped from chimps to humans.
Scientists have long known that similar viruses, known as lentiviruses, are widespread in African primates.
Past genetic research has suggested these "cousins" of HIV arose tens of thousands of years ago, but some experts have suspected this is an underestimate.
Scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle, US, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, also in Seattle, looked at the genetic signatures of HIV-like viruses in a number of primates, including chimps, gorillas, orang utans and macaques.
Changes in genes that have evolved in the immune systems of monkeys and apes in Africa suggest the viruses arose between 5 and 16 million years ago.
The research, published in the journal PLOS Pathogens, gives clues to how the immune systems of our closest relatives evolved to fight infection.
Dr Michael Emerman of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center said: "Our study reveals that, while primate lentiviruses may have modern consequences for human health, they have ancient origins in our non-human primate relatives."
Commenting on the study, Dr Sam Wilson of the MRC - University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research in Glasgow, said: "This kind of research helps us understand how the virus works.
"The hope is that one day this will translate into therapy."
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The house, which is now a museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire, reopens after a refurbishment on Friday.
"It's closer than it's ever looked to how it would have done in the Bronte period," said Bronte Parsonage Museum collections manager Ann Dinsdale.
"Charlotte put her stamp on the house, and there's quite a lot of colour."
Researchers from the University of Lincoln examined sections of the walls, and in some places found 18 layers of paint and wallpaper dating back to the sisters' habitation in the mid-19th Century.
Source: BBC History
"They came up with the strata, all the layers of paints that had been used over the years in the parsonage and they were able to work out which was the Bronte period," Mrs Dinsdale said.
"All the historic rooms, which are part of the original parsonage, have been completely redecorated."
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte lived with their father and brother in the parsonage. Enduring literary masterpieces written there include Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights.
The sisters are particularly remembered for their depictions of the surrounding bleak landscape and their characters' emotional turmoil.
"I think people are possibly going to be quite surprised when they visit the parsonage," Mrs Dinsdale added.
"People have this image of [it] being quite austere with white and grey walls. Actually, it's very clear that they did experiment with colour."
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The crash has closed the A76 Dumfries to Kilmarnock Road at Sanquhar in south west Scotland.
A major clean-up operation is under way and police say the route is expected to be closed for most of the day.
Lengthy diversions are in operation and motorists are being urged to avoid the area. The driver was not hurt.
The glue container burst when the lorry jack-knifed on the road at 05:30, police said.
The incident happened in the town centre and diversions are in place around the affected area in Sanquhar.
Traffic is able to rejoin the A76 either side of the town but the re-routing has caused difficulties for large, industrial vehicles.
A Dumfries and Galloway police spokesman said: "The glue container on the lorry has burst and glue spilling is affecting the road surface.
"Road diversions are being put in place. However, motorists are asked to avoid the area if possible."
A member of police control staff said the road closure is expected to be in place for several hours.
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Mole Valley District Council is consulting on plans to move boundaries to allow the building of up to 2,200 homes over the next 13 years.
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has now started a campaign called Save Surrey's Countryside.
The council said there was insufficient land available in built-up areas for new homes and other development.
Andy Smith, from the Surrey branch of the CPRE, said the group was concerned about development around places like Guildford, Reigate and Leatherhead.
"These areas have been built and built over the years," he said.
"All these towns have expanded to such an extent we have to say enough is enough."
Mole Valley District Council said it was is looking at green belt land around the area's towns and larger villages to see if there was potential for development.
John Northcott, the councillor responsible for planning, said: "This consultation document does not identify sites for development or suggest land that could be taken out of the green belt.
"Instead it sets out a process for reviewing the green belt boundary and we will use the findings of the consultation to help shape our future work."
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People duck in and out of noodle joints, fast food chains and convenience stores before heading home to the warren of apartments nestled in the estate's nineteen tower blocks.
But 10 years ago, this densely populated Hong Kong apartment complex, home to 19,000 people, was an eerie ghost town.
Two hundred residents had contracted a deadly respiratory disease, now known as Sars, within a week and no-one knew how it was spreading.
Rats and cockroaches were touted by the press as possible culprits.
"Taxi drivers refused to come here," Yip Hing Kwok, a long-time resident and now a local councillor, recalls of the deadly 2003 outbreak.
Alarm turned to panic on March 31 when residents of block E, which experienced the densest concentration of cases, woke up to find that they were unable to leave their building as police and medical staff clad in protective suits enforced an emergency quarantine order.
Police were ordered to chase down those who had already left and residents were later moved to two holiday camps.
"We tried to improve the cleaning of the estate but the number of cases kept increasing," says Mr Yip, who did not live in the blighted block. "The situation was uncontrollable."
Amoy Gardens played an unwanted starring role in the 2003 Sars epidemic that infected 8,096 worldwide, and killed 744. The disease, from the same family of viruses as the common cold, emerged in southern China at the end of 2002.
It was carried to Hong Kong by a doctor, whose one-night stay in the Metropole Hotel resulted in seven other guests being infected. These guests then jumped on planes, spreading Sars around the world.
While the disease appeared to spread fast, the number of people killed by the virus was relatively small, especially compared with the half a million people who died of influenza in the same year.
But these facts were not known until the disease had come under control in the summer. In March and early April of 2003, as the epidemic seemed to spiral out of control, Hong Kong was a city gripped by fear.
Surgical masks became hot commodities and the city's usually crowded shopping malls, restaurants and mass transport emptied. Expats fled, schools closed and those who could worked from home.
Back then, working as a reporter in the city, I recall being urged by a contact to head straight for the airport as Hong Kong was to be declared an infectious port and sealed from the outside world. A teenager was later arrested in what turned out to be an April Fool's Day stunt.
On the same day, a hugely popular singer and actor, Leslie Cheung, committed suicide by jumping from the 24th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel in the middle of the financial district, plunging an already anxious Hong Kong into mourning.
Sars stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and was the name given to the respiratory disease by the WHO on March 15, 2003. Like the common cold, it belongs to the coronavirus family.
Scientists think the disease jumped from civet cats, a delicacy in southern China, to humans. It has also been linked to bats.
Of course, Hong Kong was not the only place to suffer during the epidemic.
Singapore, Taipei, Beijing and Toronto were hard hit and China's citizens were kept in the dark about the outbreak as the country's leaders initially refused to acknowledge the extent and severity of the disease.
But it is perhaps in Hong Kong, the city that suffered the greatest number of casualties, that its legacy is felt most keenly.
Hong Kong earned praise for its transparency in reporting the spread of the disease, in sharp contrast to the cover-up in China.
Like the rest of the city, I was glued to the daily 4.30pm televised press conference during the outbreak that detailed the latest death toll and new cases.
However, the government was criticised for its early handling of the outbreak, particularly at Amoy Gardens, where 42 died and 329 were infected.
Hong Kong has taken the lessons to heart, both in its approach to managing new diseases and maintaining hygiene.
Ten years after the outbreak, apartment and office blocks still boast of how many times daily they sanitise lift buttons, hand rails, door knobs and almost all public surfaces. Masks are de rigueur if you have a cold, and a sneezing or coughing fit on public transport meets with disapproving glances.
Kindergartens, like the one my daughter attends, require parents to record their child's body temperature in a special notebook each morning. If we forget, a note comes back admonishing us.
The threat of a new outbreak is taken extremely seriously and measures are taken that might seem excessive elsewhere. In 2009, the city quarantined 286 guests staying at a downtown hotel for seven days after a Mexican traveller was confirmed as contracting swine flu.
And the city is closely monitoring the emergence of a new Sars-like illness after rumours, later proved unfounded, of a case in Hong Kong in February. The disease has infected 12 and killed six people worldwide.
Amoy Gardens, like the rest of Hong Kong, has recovered from the Sars outbreak and the economic downturn it triggered with the panache typical of this fast-paced city.
The apartment complex and shopping plaza has since had a HK$60 million (5.1m; $7.7m) facelift, including changes to the drainage and sewage system that was ultimately found to have played a role in the quick spread of the disease at the estate.
Two-bedroom apartments that once struggled to find buyers in the outbreak's aftermath now fetch HK$3.9m (0.33m; $0.5m) - beneficiaries of a recent property boom.
On a tour of the infamous block E, Mr Yip proudly points out the air purifiers in the marbled lobby, where a cleaning lady stands with detergent and a grey cloth poised to wipe away any germs left by visitors.
But the memories are harder to erase.
Mr Yip said many residents, fed up with the stigma attached to their address, left after the outbreak, and those that remained have asked him to deflect the media attention the 10-year anniversary has attracted.
In the residents' committee office, Mr Yip flips through a binder of old newspaper clippings and stops on a picture of a young quarantined boy peering from a window at the armed policemen encircling the entrance to his home - a photograph he says made a particular impression on him at the time.
"l felt so helpless," he tells me. "We want to forget our unhappy image."
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Joe Lawton, 17, shot himself at his family farm in Greater Manchester two days after his arrest.
His parents, Nick and Jane Lawton, are urging the Government to change the law, which says 17 year-olds are not children in custody.
The Home Office believes current laws are adequate.
Joe was arrested when police stopped him as he drove his new car home from a party last August.
He was kept overnight at Cheadle Heath police station in Greater Manchester without his parents' knowledge because he was not classed as a child.
Two days later he took his own life, using a shotgun from the family farm. The police charge sheet was at his feet when his father found him.
Joe's parents believe they could have given him more support had they been able to see him in a police cell.
In a statement on the change.org website, Mr and Mrs Lawton said: "He was just 17 and had made a bad decision to drive home after a party. Two days later Joe took his own life.
"We were not called when he was arrested or given the opportunity to give him the support he needed."
They added: "The fact that a 17-year-old is treated as an adult whilst in custody is an anomaly of British law. Once they are charged they are then treated as children. This simply does not make sense."
"We believe if the law had been different Joe would still be alive."
A Home Office spokesman said: "We believe the laws in place ensure the appropriate level of care for everyone, including 17-year-olds."
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Until 13 March, he was Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires.
Analysts did not see him as a favourite for the job of succeeding Benedict XVI, and his advanced age - at 76, he is just two years younger than Benedict at the time of his election in 2005 - may have surprised those expecting a younger man as the 266th Pope.
However he appeals to both Church conservatives and reformers, being seen as orthodox on sexual matters, for instance, but liberal on social justice - though far from being a "liberation theologist".
He was born on 17 December 1936 in Buenos Aires, of Italian descent.
According to his official Vatican biography, he was ordained as a Jesuit in 1969 and went on to study in Argentina and Germany.
As a young man he had a lung removed because of an infection, but his health is currently said to be good.
He became a bishop in 1992 and Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998. At the 2005 conclave, he was seen as a contender for the papacy.
His election took many by surprise in his home city, where many had thought his age ruled him out, says the BBC's Marcia Carmo in Buenos Aires.
But any surprise soon gave way to the jubilant blaring of car horns on the streets.
As Cardinal Bergoglio, his sermons always had an impact in Argentina and he often stressed social inclusion, indirectly criticising governments that did not pay attention to those on the margins of society, our correspondent says.
Francesca Ambrogetti, who co-authored a biography of him, told Reuters news agency that part of his public appeal lay in his "sober and austere" humble lifestyle.
In Buenos Aires, he lived in a simple flat. When in Rome, he often preferred to keep his black robe on and is also said to have re-used the cardinal's vest used by his predecessor.
On the morning after his election, BBC Rome correspondent David Willey reported, the new Pope slipped out of Vatican City in a motorcade of unmarked vehicles to pray in a Roman Basilica.
On the way back to the Vatican, he insisted on settling his bill at a hotel for clergy in the centre of the Italian capital, where he had been staying until the Conclave began on Monday.
For the Church establishment, it is a novelty to have a Jesuit in charge - members are supposed to avoid ecclesiastical honours and serve the Pope himself.
As a Jesuit, he is a member of perhaps the most powerful and experienced religious order of the Catholic Church, who are known as expert communicators, writes David Willey.
It appears that few who know him doubt his conservative credentials.
This is how Monsignor Osvaldo Musto, who was at seminary with him, described him in a BBC News article back in 2005: "He's as uncompromising as Pope John Paul II, in terms of the principles of the Church - everything it has defended regarding euthanasia, the death penalty, abortion, the right to life, human rights, celibacy of priests."
His views have been put to the test in Argentina, the first Latin American country to legalise same-sex marriage with a President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who promotes free contraception and artificial insemination.
When he argued that gay adoptions discriminated against children, the president said his tone harked back to "medieval times and the Inquisition".
However she welcomed the election to the papacy of a fellow countryman, noting his choice of name appeared to be "in reference to St Francis of Assisi, the saint of the poor" and boded well for unifying "all humans as equal, with fellowship, with love, with justice and equity".
Aside from his universal significance, the former cardinal appears to be a strong Argentine patriot, telling Argentine veterans of the Falklands War at a Mass last year: "We come to pray for all who have fallen, sons of the Homeland who went out to defend their mother, the Homeland, and to reclaim what is theirs."
One subject of controversy is his role under the Argentine military dictatorship of 1976-1983, when he led the country's Jesuits.
He was accused of effectively delivering two fellow priests into the hands of the military authorities in 1976 by declining to publicly endorse their social work in the slums of Buenos Aires, which infuriated the junta at the time, the BBC's Vladimir Hernandez reports.
Another accusation levelled against him from the "Dirty War" era is that he failed to follow up a request to help find the baby of a woman kidnapped when five months' pregnant and killed in 1977. It is believed the baby was illegally adopted.
The Vatican strenuously denies Pope Francis was guilty of any wrongdoing under the Junta.
It has now emerged that in 2011 he took initial steps towards beatifying Argentine priests murdered under military rule.
In 1976, Franciscan priests Carlos de Dios Murias and Gabriel Longueville, who was French, were killed after confronting local leaders in the western province of La Rioja.
Cardinal Bergoglio approved the beatification cause for both priests and a lay church worker, who was also found dead days later.
"Bergoglio signed it and warned us to be discreet, saying that many Argentine bishops, especially older ones, were against causes based on social engagement," the head of the Franciscan order in Argentina and Uruguay, Carlos Trovarelli, told Italian newspaper La Stampa.
"Thanks to his caution, the process moved forward," he added.
In a separate case, he also put forward for sainthood five Catholic churchmen who were killed at the St Patrick church in Buenos Aires also in 1976.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel, a human rights activist at the time who was jailed and tortured by the regime, told BBC News: "There were some bishops who were in collusion with the military, but Bergoglio is not one of them."
During Argentina's economic crisis of 2001, Cardinal Bergoglio protested at police brutality during the unrest which saw President Fernando de la Rua swept from power.
"We live in the most unequal part of the world, which has grown the most yet reduced misery the least," he was quoted as saying by the National Catholic Reporter at a gathering of Latin American bishops in 2007.
Since becoming pope, he has continued to put his concern about economic inequality at the forefront of his message.
In Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel), the first major work he has written since he became Pope, he says "the worship of the ancient golden calf... has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy".
The document also suggests Pope Francis is planning radical reforms to the Vatican bureaucracy, another theme that has gained prominence in his papacy.
He has put together a team of eight cardinals from outside the Holy See's administration who will look at ways to reshape the bureaucracy.
He has also adopted a markedly less formal tone than his predecessor, underlining his reputation for simplicity and humility.
While marking that the core of Catholic doctrine on sexuality is not up for negotiation, he has said the Church has been too focused on enforcing the rules for human behaviour.
Speaking to reporters in July, he responded to rumours of a "gay lobby" in the Vatican by denying its existence, but added: "If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?"
And in an unprecedented move, he has ordered a survey to be conducted of lay Catholics' opinions on Church teachings on sexual ethics and family life.
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The demonstrators seem oblivious to the searing heat, despite the fact they are dressed in heavy black jackets - a uniform given to them by their union leaders.
The atmosphere is almost festive at times - a traditional workers' song blares from speakers, and a few dozen members of the crowd start singing and dancing.
Protests such as these with workers demanding a higher minimum wage are now a regular occurrence in big cities in Indonesia, taking place on an almost weekly basis.
As the economy has grown, workers, , worried they are getting left behind, want a bigger piece of the pie.
Said Iqbal, the head of Indonesia's confederation of trade unions and the man behind many of the protests, has become a hero of sorts for Indonesia's workers.
Labelled aggressive and uncompromising by industry bosses, he has helped to secure a 40% jump in the minimum wage in some parts of Indonesia - mainly through a combination of organising massive protests and threatening to shut down factories.
But despite this, he wants to keep on fighting.
"What I don't understand is how an Indonesian worker can work for decades and still be poor, while the rich keep getting richer," he says.
"We won't stop protesting until there's justice and prosperity for everybody."
But Indonesian bosses say union leaders like Mr Iqbal are being unrealistic.
They complain the economy has started to slow down, Indonesia's reputation has been damaged abroad because of worker protests, and higher wages would see them losing out to other manufacturing rivals.
"The problem is we are competing not just against ourselves - Indonesian companies - we are competing with Vietnam, China, and the new emerging markets like Cambodia - and soon even Burma will open up and compete with us," Mr Harijanto, the chairman of the Footwear Association in the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce, tells me.
He says the government's decision to increase the minimum wage by 40% this year, could set a dangerous precedent and mean workers expect significant wage increases every year.
2011: 1.27 million Indonesian rupiah
2012: 1.68 million Indonesian rupiah
2013: 2.2 million Indonesian rupiah
Source: KADIN, Indonesian Chamber of Commerce
According to him, the inconsistency in government policy and the higher costs could see some companies go out of business.
"Everybody loses in this situation - the employers, the businesses, the government and the workers," he says.
"If we shut down, then no-one has jobs. But we can't keep operating with these higher salaries because we are uncompetitive in comparison to other nations."
Mr Harijanto says 900,000 jobs will be lost in labour-intensive industries within the next year if the salary raises continue at the pace they have been going, and warns millions more could be affected in years to come.
The minimum wage in Indonesia varies from province to province, and depends on the standard of living in each area. For example, in Jakarta, the minimum wage is now 2.2 million Indonesian rupiah a month ($226; £150) but in West Java it is only 1.25 million rupiah, up from 850,000 rupiah last year.
Mr Harijanto says the wage increase means salaries are now on par with China, or even higher in places like Jakarta.
Many factories are already feeling the impact of having to pay more to their workers.
In West Java, a garment manufacturing hub, the majority of the 900 or so factories in the town of Sukabumi make clothes. More than 100,000 people are employed in factories in the area.
PT Insan Sari Semesta, one of the companies that has had to raise salaries by 40% employs 170 people to makes ladies' blouses for the Indonesian and overseas market.
Owner Ratih Andrianti says: "We've lost 40% of our profit since we started paying the higher wages. But we haven't seen any increase in productivity. If this continues, it doesn't make sense for me to do this business. Where's the benefit in it for me?"
The company says it tried to delay the increase in wages but its plea was rejected because it sent the paperwork to the wrong government department.
One worker who is pleased with the pay raise is Utih, a packer and the main breadwinner for her family of eight.
She relies on this job to look after her children and does not want the factory to shut down - but she also needs the higher wages to meet basic needs.
Her life is anything but luxurious. Her family lives in a tiny shack. Her bathroom doubles up as her kitchen. And she does not have the money to cook with gas, instead she makes her meals burning firewood, choking up her home with black putrid smoke.
Now with more money coming in every month, she feels she has a shot at moving up in life, but adds the company and workers both need to do their part if the wage plan is to be successful.
"I've heard the factory has to shut down," she says. "The bosses keep whispering about it, and we hear the gossip from time to time.
"I think it makes sense for the workers to try and work harder, so as to achieve a higher target for the company, so it can stay alive."
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The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cut its key rate to 2.75% from 3%.
The bank said it expected investment in the resources sector, one of its biggest drivers of growth in recent times, to peak this year.
It added that a rate cut would provide a boost to other areas of the economy and help sustain long-term growth.
"There has been a strengthening in consumption and a modest firming in dwelling investment, and prospects are for some increase in business investment outside the resources sector over the next year," the central bank said in a statement.
"These developments, some of which have been assisted by the reductions in interest rates that began 18 months ago, will all be helpful in sustaining growth."
Australia's economic growth in recent years has been fuelled by the growing demand for its commodities, such as iron ore.
That resulted in a resources boom in Australia and helped it sustain growth through the global financial crisis.
However, as demand from key markets such as China has eased, there have been concerns that Australia's mining sector may see its growth slow.
At the same time, many analysts have pointed out that other areas of the country's economy have not done so well, resulting in what many have termed a two-speed economy.
To make matters worse, the Australian currency has strengthened - making its exports more expensive, as well as affecting sectors such as manufacturing and tourism.
It rose nearly 9% against the US dollar between June 2012 and April 2013.
Amid all these concerns, there have been calls for policymakers to take steps to help boost growth, especially in the non-mining sectors, to ensure that the economy continues to grow.
Analysts said the cut in interest rates, which will help bring down borrowing costs for businesses and consumers, will help to provide some relief to those sectors and allay fears of an economic slowdown.
"Commodity prices have fallen and inflation has come in less than expected, and of course the Australian dollar through all of that has remained surprisingly strong," said Shane Oliver, chief economist with AMP Capital Investors.
"I think it was appropriate for the Reserve to provide a bit more confidence [so that] when the mining investment boom starts to wane the rest of the economy will fill the gap."
The Australian dollar weakened slightly, dipping 0.7% against the US dollar, after the rate cut was announced.
It was trading close to A$0.9808 against the US dollar in Asian trade.
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James Fairburn gave evidence to a Westminster committee on Tuesday.
In February, a consignment of beef being stored at Freeza Meats was found to contain horsemeat.
It did not belong to Freeza Meats and none of their products tested positive for horsemeat.
Mr Fairburn, who is now retired, said the beef belonged to another company, McAdam Foods, and that his firm has suffered.
He told MPs the scandal had led to his firm missing out on multi-million pound orders and had resulted in 31 jobs being lost in Newry.
Quizzed by MPs on the Environment and Rural Affairs Committee about the horsemeat scandal, Mr Fairburn described it as a "fraud" and said it was "being perpetrated by a big organisation".
He also said he suspected it had been "going on for some time".
He told MPs that the illegal meat trade originated in other parts of Europe and did not come from the UK or Ireland.
He rejected a suggestion from the Conservative MP Anne McIntosh that "all roads lead to Ireland".
Asked if the scandal originated in Ireland, Mr Fairburn said "not at all".
Mr Fairburn faced questioning from Conservative and Labour MPs and the South Down SDLP MP Margaret Ritchie.
MPs also heard evidence from the Food Standards Agency.
Tests carried out on the meat stored at Freeza Meats found that samples from the consignment contained about 80% horsemeat.
It followed the discovery of horse DNA at a plant in the Republic of Ireland.
Newry and Mourne Council confirmed that tests on Freeza Meats' burgers were free from horsemeat DNA.
Martin McAdam, whose firm owned the contaminated meat, said there was "clearly an issue" with their Polish supplier.
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Children have been taken hostage, forced to watch torture and even participate in beheadings, it says; others have been killed while fighting.
It says it suspects there are "reasonable grounds" to believe chemical weapons have been deployed.
It urges foreign powers not to increase the availability of arms in Syria.
The issue of arms has been high on the international agenda of late, with the EU lifting an embargo on the sale of arms to Syria while Russia has insisted it is going ahead with the sale of an advanced S-300 surface-to-air missile defence system to Syria.
On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the contract had not yet been fulfilled and Russia did not want to "disturb the balance in the region".
He said he was "disappointed" by the EU move.
Meanwhile, a civilian died when shells exploded near the Russian embassy in Damascus, according to the UK-based activist group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Russia is an ally of President Bashar al-Assad and Syrian rebels have targeted the embassy several times since the uprising against his regime began two years ago.
The international powers are struggling to set a date for a peace conference on Syria, where the conflict is believed to have cost at least 80,000 lives.
The UN Commission of Inquiry has so far been barred from Syria and was forced to rely on first-hand accounts from the country.
Its report says it "documents for the first time the systematic imposition of sieges, the use of chemical agents and forcible displacement" in Syria.
"War crimes and crimes against humanity have become a daily reality," it says.
Syria chemical weapons allegations
The report accuses both sides of abuses, but says rebel actions did not "reach the intensity and scale" of abuses committed by government-allied forces.
Syria's UN ambassador Faysal Khabbaz Hamoui has rejected the report, saying the commission is "excessively exaggerating their conclusions and outcomes" while it "totally neglects the substantial events, or even marginalises them".
"The Committee, despite our warnings, insisted on using sectarian language which is rejected by all brackets of the Syrian society."
In the four months covered by this report - between 15 January and 15 May 2013 - investigators documented 17 suspected massacres, out of a total of 30 since the conflict began.
Sieges - with civilians trapped in their homes and reliant on their captors for food, water, medicines and power - are now being used systematically as weapons of war by government forces and affiliated militia and in some instances by anti-government forces, says the report.
Civilians are now becoming the victims of forced displacement by both sides, where they are threatened with attack if they do not leave the area.
The report documents new violations of children's rights on top of being routinely killed, detained and displaced.
In one attack by government forces on Sanamein, Deraa on 10 April, "children were forced to watch the torture or killing of parents".
In another incident in April, this time in Rastan, Homs, checkpoint personnel "threatened to shoot two girls aged nine and seven who started crying during their father's interrogation".
Anti-government forces were also guilty of kidnapping and other violations of children's rights, the report says.
In the most egregious incident near Deir al-Zor, the report cites the participation of a child in the beheading by rebels of two soldiers.
"Video footage emerged showing a child participating in the beheading of two kidnapped men," says the report. "Following investigation, it is believed that the video is authentic and the men were soldiers, killed as depicted."
It says 86 child combatants fighting on behalf of rebel forces have now been killed in the two-year conflict - nearly half of them in 2013 alone.
The report said sexual violence including rape has been used against women, mainly by government forces.
There are "reasonable grounds" to believe that chemical weapons were used in attacks by government forces in Syria in recent months, the UN says.
The report said there were "reasonable grounds to believe that limited quantities of toxic chemicals were used" during attacks on Khan al-Assal, Aleppo, 19 March; al-Otaybeh, Damascus, 19 March; Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood, Aleppo, 13 April; and Saraqeb, Idlib province, 29 April.
But it adds that it "has not been possible, on the evidence available, to determine the precise chemical agents used, their delivery systems or the perpetrator".
And it was unable to rule out their use by opposition forces. It calls on Damascus to allow a team of UN chemical weapons experts into the country - a request Damascus has so far denied.
But Commission member and former war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte warned reporters not to overemphasise the chemical weapons issue, AFP news agency reports.
"We have so many deaths in Syria now... so please don't make the use of chemical weapons in Syria now the most important issue," she said.
The report concludes that the gravity of offences committed by both sides requires judicial proceedings "at the national and international levels".
It says there can be no military solution, and urges the polarised international community to pursue a negotiated peace.
"There is a human cost to the political impasse that has come to characterise the response of the international community to the war in Syria...
"Increased arm transfers hurt the prospect of a political settlement to the conflict... and have devastating consequences for civilians," it says, in what correspondents say is a pointed message to foreign powers.
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Spectators were joined by pagans and druids at the ancient monument in Wiltshire, but the dense cloud cover meant the sun remained hidden.
Police, who estimated 21,000 people attended, targeted the crowds with sniffer dogs and took 22 people into custody for drugs-related offences.
The solstice has had spiritual significance for thousands of years.
The word itself means a stopping or standing still of the sun.
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A crowd had gathered to spend the night near the giant stones, with police reporting 2,000 people on site by 21:30 BST on Thursday.
The sun then rose at 04:52 on the longest day of the year.
Supt Matt Pullen, from Wiltshire Police, said: "The majority of people respected the conditions of entry and the amnesty bins provided were used.
"Approximately 70 cannabis street warnings were issued. As with previous years, the passive drugs dogs proved very effective."
Twenty-two miles away (35km) at Avebury, where there are three stone circles, the crowd peaked at some 500 people.
BBC Radio Wiltshire reporter Rachel Royce said: "There are some very serious druids here in their long cloaks, taking it very solemnly. There are also some party-goers, and ordinary visitors who love the atmosphere.
"It really is a very peaceful and nice event."
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Emma West, 36, of New Addington, admitted racially-aggravated disorderly behaviour likely to cause harassment or distress at Croydon Crown Court.
West was filmed shouting racist abuse at passengers travelling on a tram between Croydon and Wimbledon.
She was bound over to keep the peace and handed a 24-month community order.
A judge said West was clearly suffering from mental health problems at the time of the outburst.
She received a mental health treatment order for assaulting a constable in a separate incident.
The court heard she was "reeking of alcohol" when she carried out the verbal attack.
Prosecutor Julius Capon said: "She in essence persecuted a number of passengers on the tram, subjecting them to some disgusting racial abuse."
The things she said included "you're not English", "none of you are English" and "get back to your own countries".
Mr Capon said many of the passengers were "upset" by West's behaviour.
"Some of them described themselves as being disgusted, shocked and horrified," he said.
David Martin-Sperry, defending West, said the defendant's offending was out of character, she was taking anti-depressants and she does not harbour any racist views.
Mr Martin-Sperry said she had unwittingly taken two and a half times the recommended dose and drunk a large glass of wine before launching the tirade.
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A child welfare agency and hospital in Pennsylvania have paid Elizabeth Mort $143,500 (£94,500) for the mistake.
Her three-day old daughter, Isabella, was removed from her for five days in April 2010.
The lawsuit argued that the opiate test in question had a far lower threshold than federal guidelines.
Jameson Hospital failed to inform Ms Mort that she had failed the test, then reported it to Lawrence County children and youth services without a secondary test.
"Elizabeth Mort never imagined that the last thing she ate before giving birth to her daughter - a poppy seed bagel - would lead to the loss of her newborn, but that is exactly what happened after the Jameson Health System failed to account for the possibility that her positive urine drug screen was due to her ingestion of poppy seeds," the lawsuit said.
Child welfare officials arrived the day after the family returned from hospital with an emergency protective custody order and took Isabella.
She was later returned after the agency could find no evidence Ms Mort had used illegal drugs.
The lawsuit, which was filed on her behalf by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), was settled on Tuesday.
ACLU officials said Jameson had changed its policy to ensure newborns were not taken from parents solely on the basis of maternal drug test results.
"We hope that this case will encourage hospitals that routinely test pregnant women for drug use to reconsider that practice due to the harm that can result from false positives," said ACLU lawyer Sara Rose.
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A total of 142 postmen and women were attacked in the 12 months to April 2013, down from more than 200 in 2012.
The CF postcode of Cardiff and the south Wales valleys had 31 incidents while the postcodes areas for mid and north east Wales each saw 25 attacks.
Royal Mail and postal unions have urged dog owners to control their pets.
CF postcode (Cardiff area) 31 attacks
SA postcode (Swansea and south west Wales) 21 attacks
SY postcode (Aberystwyth to Shrewsbury) 25 attacks
NP postcode (Newport and Gwent Valleys) 14 attacks
LL postcode (north Wales) 24 attacks
Llandrindod and LD postcode two attacks
CH postcode (Mold and Deeside) 25 attacks
SOURCE: Royal Mail (figures per postcode area in 12 months to April 2013)
Both the Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) warned that postal staff face a higher risk of attack during the summer months as families at home have dogs unsupervised in the garden or the street.
Royal Mail Group safety director Shaun Davis said: "Clearly most dogs are not inherently dangerous, however, even the most placid animal can be prone to attack if it feels its territory is being threatened.
"Our first priority as an employer is to ensure the welfare and safety of our people who provide a valuable service."
The organisation has teamed up with animal charities to highlight the issue across the UK during Dog Awareness Week.
The Dogs Trust is installing letterboxes at its Bridgend centre to train dogs to "learn to love the postman's arrival".
Beverley Price, manager of Dogs Trust Bridgend, said: "We have always ensured that our dogs are as acclimatised as they can be to real life situations that they will come across when they leave our kennels.
"Introducing letterboxes to all of the re-homing centres with training facilities is an obvious next step in providing a 'first class' service."
Royal Mail safety director Senol Ali said: "Last year across the country the number of dog attacks on our people fell.
"However there were still over 140 incidents in Wales and we need to reduce this number further as even one dog attack on our people is one dog attack too many."
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The inquiry, carried out by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, England's NHS medical director, was set up following the Mid-Staffordshire Hospital scandal.
A report into high death rates at two hospitals in Mid-Staffordshire earlier this year found there were hundreds more deaths than expected, with patients let down by poor standards of care.
The table below shows how the 14 NHS trusts covered by the review scored in two measures of mortality. A score much above 100 is higher than the national average.
All of the data has been standardised to take into account the different case-mix at hospitals - for example, hospitals that treat more elderly patients might be expected to have higher death rates.
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The data has been released on the internet for use by the global scientific community.
The ash tree genome map is the latest advance in fighting Chalara, which causes ash dieback.
According to new figures, ash dieback is spreading rapidly in Britain and has been found in more than 200 woods.
Evidence from continental Europe suggests that as many as 90% of ash trees could eventually die from the infection.
Scientists are searching for genetic clues to why some trees appear to be able to survive.
A team at Queen Mary University of London, has mapped the genome of a native ash tree for the first time, as part of the research.
The tree came from a wood in Gloucestershire owned by the Earth Trust.
Dr Richard Buggs of Queen Mary University of London, said it was a big leap forward.
He told the BBC: "This is the best available sequence for ash - and it is therefore a very good reference for anyone working on anything to do with ash trees."
In June, the DNA sequence of a Danish ash tree with resistance to the disease was revealed by a team at the Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) , the John Innes Centre and the Genome Analysis Centre in Norwich.
They have also sequenced the DNA of the fungus.
An online game, Fraxinus, which the public can use to help scientists improve their data analysis, has been launched by the Norwich team.
It has been played by nearly 20,000 people from more than 100 countries.
The long-term goal is to map the genes that give a minority of ash trees resistance to the pathogen.
"The genome sequencing work is really increasing the number of genetic variants we've identified, which will help us to associate sources of variation in the tree with the genetics," said Dr Dan MacLean of TSL.
Ash dieback was first discovered in the UK in February 2012 in an import of nursery stock.
In the autumn, a small number of cases were discovered in ash trees in established woodland in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Forests in the south and east are among the worst affected, and the disease has now spread to woodland and nurseries across the UK, according to the Forestry Commission.
More details of the ash genome sequencing work and an interview with Dr Richard Buggs can be heard at 1100 BST on BBC Radio 4 on Friday, 27 September. Ashes to Ashes is presented by Professor Adam Hart and produced by Ania Lichtarowicz.
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The University of Southampton team looked at available medical studies and found evidence the two were linked.
But there was no proof that one necessarily caused the other.
It may be that people taking anti-depressants put on weight which, in turn, increases their diabetes risk, the team told Diabetes Care journal.
Or the drugs themselves may interfere with blood sugar control.
Their analysis of 22 studies involving thousands of patients on anti-depressants could not single out any class of drug or type of person as high risk.
Prof Richard Holt and colleagues say more research is needed to investigate what factors lie behind the findings.
And they say doctors should keep a closer check for early warning signs of diabetes in patients who have been prescribed these drugs.
With 46 million anti-depressant prescriptions a year in the UK, this potential increased risk is worrying, they say.
Prof Holt said: "Some of this may be coincidence but there's a signal that people who are being treated with anti-depressants then have an increased risk of going on to develop diabetes.
"We need to think about screening and look at means to reduce that risk."
Diabetes is easy to diagnose with a blood test, and Prof Holt says this ought to be part of a doctor's consultation.
"Diabetes is potentially preventable by changing your diet and being more physically active.
"Physical activity is also good for your mental health so there's a double reason to be thinking about lifestyle changes."
Around three million people in the UK are thought to have diabetes, with most cases being type 2.
Dr Matthew Hobbs of Diabetes UK, said: "These findings fall short of being strong evidence that taking anti-depressants directly increases risk of type 2 diabetes. In this review, even the studies that did suggest a link showed only a small effect and just because two things tend to occur together, it doesn't necessarily mean that one is causing the other.
"But what is clear is that some anti-depressants lead to weight gain and that putting on weight increases risk of type 2 diabetes. Anyone who is currently taking, or considering taking, anti-depressants and is concerned about this should discuss their concerns with their GP."
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It is alleged in journalist Matthew d'Ancona's book that Larry is merely a public relations prop.
But a Downing Street spokesman said Larry was "very popular with everyone" in the building.
His lackadaisical approach to mousing has previously led to speculation he would be relieved of his duties.
Larry was brought in to catch rodents, but he was spotted asleep on the job for several hours back in November 2011.
Downing Street confirmed last year, though, that the six-year-old rescue cat - who was re-homed from Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in February 2011 - had recorded his first kill.
Following the latest claims in Mr d'Ancona's book about the inside story of the coalition government, called In it Together, a "savelarry" hashtag became popular on Twitter.
But on Saturday a spokesman for the prime minister said the allegations that Larry was not liked were "totally untrue".
"He is very popular with everyone in the building and we all get on purr-fectly well," he said.
On Saturday, Ladbrokes today gave Mr Cameron 1/2 odds of leaving Downing Street first with Larry the cat on 6/4.
Jessica Bridge of Ladbrokes said: "This is a new low for Cameron during his time as PM, and despite his dislike for the cat, we favour Larry to outlast him at Number 10."
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A team from Strathclyde University in Glasgow tested 22 different brands of compost and found that 14 contained a variety of Legionella species.
It says a larger survey is needed to determine the extent of the issue.
The study, "Legionella spp. in UK composts - a potential public health issue", is published by Clinical Microbiology and Infection.
Dr Beattie, one of those who conducted the study, said: "Disease causing micro-organisms are widespread in the environment, and therefore it is not too surprising that species of Legionella that can cause human disease are present in compost.
"Any environment where you have pathogenic bacteria could be a source of infection, and we already know that compost has been linked to human Legionella infection in countries such as Australia and New Zealand."
Dr Beattie said European produced composts have traditionally been composed of peat, whereas those from Australia and New Zealand had more often used sawdust and bark.
"It may be that the change in composition of composts in the UK, moving away from peat-based products, could be resulting in species such as Legionella longbeachae being present in compost and therefore more cases of infection could occur," she said.
Dr Beattie wants a larger scale survey, covering a wider range of compost products, to be carried out to see if Legionella bacteria are as widespread in composts as her study suggests.
She added: "It should be emphasised though, that although Legionella seem to be common in compost, human infection is very rare, especially if you consider the volume of compost sold and used.
"But with any potential source of infection precautions should always be taken.
"The occurrence of these bacteria in composts in Australia and New Zealand, and the cases of infection that have been traced to compost has resulted in hygiene warnings on compost packaging in these countries, and this is something manufacturers in the UK may wish to consider."
The study was conducted by Dr Tara Beattie, fellow academic Dr Charles Knapp, Strathclyde PhD student Sandra Currie and Dr Diane Lindsay of the Scottish Haemophilus, Legionella, Meningococcus and Pneumococcus Reference Laboratory.
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Parents are only allowed to take children out of school in "exceptional circumstances" or face fines.
Bishop Bronescombe C of E School in St Austell, Cornwall, is creating the extra week at the end of the May half-term holiday.
Cornwall Council said it was up to schools to plan their inset days.
Changes to the law, which came into force on 1 September, mean head teachers no longer have the discretion to grant authorised leave to pupils each year.
The new rules are aimed at preventing children missing vital parts of their education, which the the Department for Education (DfE) said can have a "hugely damaging effect".
But some parents have said they cannot afford to pay the premium prices travel companies charge during official school holidays.
The head of school at Bishop Bronescombe, Katie Dalton, said it would be putting the five teacher training days together in the summer term.
"Lots of our parents are low wage earners, which is typical in Cornwall, and also they are seasonal workers, which makes it very difficult for them to get a family holiday together, that is actually affordable.
"By putting the inset days all together in the summer term, it means they can take advantage of better deals and prices and it improves our attendance figures as well because there are less requests for leave during term time," she said.
Deborah Smith, who has two children at the school, welcomed the move.
"They said they understood lots of the parents down here are seasonal workers and they understand about the current economical climate and that budgets are tight for families, so I thought that was really important that the school were acknowledging and recognising the difficulty of paying for holidays," she said.
In a statement the DfE said: "Poor attendance at school can have a hugely damaging effect, and children who attend school regularly are nearly four times more likely to achieve five or more good GCSEs than those who are regularly absent.
"That is why we have given schools more power to tackle poor attendance and allowed them to intervene much earlier.
"We have also increased the amount parents can be fined for unauthorised absences and cut the amount of time they have to pay."
In July, the government also announced plans to give all schools the autonomy to set their own term dates.
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The Court had postponed the second round of voting amid allegations of electoral fraud.
Mohammed Nasheed, who was forced from office in an alleged coup last year, won 45% of the vote, falling short of the total needed to avoid a run-off.
Mr Nasheed came to power in 2008 in the country's first free elections.
The country's highest court annulled the 7 September result by a majority decision of 4-3, an official told reporters outside the courthouse.
Any run-off vote should be held before 4 November so that a new president can take office by the 11 November deadline, the official said.
Qasim Ibrahim, who came in third in the first round of voting, had asked the court last month to void the results citing electoral fraud.
Local and international observers had described the first round of voting as free and fair.
Mr Nasheed had needed more than 50% to avoid a run-off against his nearest rival, Abdulla Yameen, who won 25% of the vote.
Mr Yameen is the half-brother of the Maldives' former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who led the country for 30 years.
Just hours before the court ruling on Monday, masked men set fire to the studios of pro-opposition television station Raajje TV, which is known to support Mr Nasheed.
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The proposal orders public bathhouses to display signs prohibiting "people with sexually transmitted diseases, Aids and infectious skin diseases".
It has been posted online for public consultation by China's State Council.
But Aids activists and ordinary users of Weibo, China's version of Twitter have strongly criticised the move.
"There is no evidence that people can be infected with HIV in public bathhouses," Wu Hao, from the Beijing Research Centre on Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Aids, was quoted as saying by the Beijing Morning News.
"Apparently, the rule to bar HIV patients from entering public bathhouses is way over the top," he said.
The paper also quoted an unnamed Aids activist as saying he was extremely disappointed with the draft proposal.
"Banning HIV patients from using public bathhouses and spas will only exacerbate people's misunderstanding, discrimination and fear of HIV/Aids, and will not help reduce the transmission of the disease," he said.
The proposal has also been condemned by the United Nations' Aids agency.
Hedia Belhadj, China country coordinator for UNAIDS, said it was concerned by the provision and called for it to be removed, the AFP news agency reports.
She said that there was no risk of transmission of HIV in a spa or bathhouse setting.
"UNAIDS recommends that restrictions preventing people living with HIV from accessing bath houses, spas and other similar facilities be removed from the final draft of this policy," Ms Belhadj told AFP.
The proposal has also drawn strong criticism from China's Weibo users.
One user said that the decision to ban HIV patients using public bathhouses must be based on scientific facts about the ways HIV was transmitted.
"In reality, many public bathhouses have already implemented the ban. The practice is discriminatory and must be stopped, and must not be institutionalised.
"HIV patients are already very vulnerable. They should be protected and respected. We must not further harm them with discrimination," the user said .
But there are also Weibo users who agree with the ban.
One Weibo user said that HIV patients should be advised not to use public bathhouses or at least they should check whether they have any open wounds before entering.
According to government figures released in 2012, China has 430,000 people infected with HIV.
But the United Nations has said that the real figure could be 620,000 to 940,000.
Among them, 146,000 to 162,00 have developed Aids.
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Researchers at St Andrews University said a method using a small circular hole could have wide implications for 3D technology.
The study, published in Psychological Science, also has implications for people who have just one eye or difficulties with double-eye vision.
The method was said to create 3D similar to effects used in film-making.
Researchers said that current thinking was based on the need for two visual images - one from each eye - to be combined in the visual cortex, creating a sense of depth.
But Dr Dhanraj Vishwanath, a psychologist at the university, believes both eyes are not necessary for this "3D experience".
Dr Vishwanath said: "We have demonstrated experimentally, for the first time, that the same 'special way' in which depth is experienced in 3D movies can also be experienced by looking at a normal picture with one eye viewing through a small aperture (circular hole).
"While this effect has been known for a long time, it is usually dismissed.
"Now we have shown that it is in fact real, and the perceptual results are exactly like stereoscopic 3D, the kind seen in 3D movies.
"Based on this finding, we have provided a new hypothesis of what the actual cause of the 3D experience might be."
The university said the 1838 invention of the stereoscope - the technology behind 3D film-making - brought with it the assumption two eyes were necessary for 3D vision.
Dr Vishwanath said: "This work has significant implications for people who don't have normal binocular vision.
"First it could help them experience what it means to see in 3D. Second, it could encourage them to seek therapy to try to regain two-eye 3D vision (which produces the strongest 3D effect in everyday life) once they can see first-hand what 'seeing in 3D' is really like."
Dr Vishwanath and his colleagues are now testing the method with a large group of strabismics, people with misaligned eyes.
He said that nearly 15% of the population, including Hollywood actor Johnny Depp, may have some form of misalignment.
The psychologist also believes his theory suggests a 3D experience could be induced simply by increasing resolution, using ultra-high definition (4K) televisions.
Seeing in 3D with just one eye: Stereopsis without binocular vision is published by Psychological Science. Further research is due to be published later this year.
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The woman, 26, was filmed cycling through the barrier at Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire on 12 September.
Following an appeal by British Transport Police (BTP), she came forward voluntarily, officers said.
At the time of the incident, rail bosses described it as "one of the closest near misses we've seen".
BTP released the CCTV of the Cambridge woman passing the closed barrier and ignoring warning signals and lights.
Hundreds of thousands of people watched the footage of her cycling up to the tracks before slamming on her brakes, and edging backwards as the train sped past.
Moments later the woman was seen mopping her brow before cycling off in the direction she had come from.
Her actions forced the driver of the train to apply the emergency brake when he saw her, operator Greater Anglia said.
More than 100 trains travel through the Waterbeach crossing each day, at speeds of up to 75mph (120km/h).
Since 1 January, there have been 70 reported incidents at level crossings in Cambridgeshire, a BTP spokesman said.
However, incidents such as this one were "extremely rare", he added.
The woman was cautioned under section 36 of the Malicious Damages Act 1861.
The section covers incidents of "obstructing engines or carriages on railways", which carries a maximum sentence of two years in jail.
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It is estimated the new law could raise up to £1m a year for the Welsh NHS.
The bill's sponsor, Labour AM Mick Antoniw, said it would help people whose lives had been blighted by "this terrible disease".
The insurance industry has raised concerns, questioning whether the move is within the assembly's powers.
Before becoming an assembly member, Mr Antoniw was a solicitor at the legal firm which has acted for many asbestos victims and their families.
Speaking before the bill was passed, he said: "It is only right that medical costs incurred by the NHS should be recovered from those who caused the disease and used to give more support to asbestos victims and their families - for example, a cancer nurse costs £50,000 per annum.
"We could employ an additional 20 cancer nurses or a mixture of cancer nurses and counsellors or additional research into the cause and treatment of asbestos disease.
"It is my belief this new Welsh law can make a significant improvement to the quality of life of those whose life is blighted by this terrible disease."
Last December assembly Presiding Officer Rosemary Butler certified that the bill was within the institution's powers, but admitted it was a "finely balanced" decision on some aspects of the legislation.
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) wrote to her and the secretary of state for Wales with a number of what it called "serious concerns" about the bill's lawfulness.
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The Open Society Justice Initiative and Kenya's Muslims for Human Rights said the police often tortured detainees.
Their report said arbitrary arrests and disappearances were also widespread, especially in Mombasa, a city with a large Muslim population.
Officials have not responded, but they have denied similar claims in the past.
The US and UK governments support Kenya's anti-terror police with training and equipment.
In prison with al-Shabab
The report said such assistance should be suspended to any unit where there was credible evidence that the police had committed human rights violations.
The BBC's Africa security correspondent Moses Rono says that would be a difficult decision to take as Kenya's counter-terrorism efforts are key to stemming spreading Islamist militancy in East Africa.
The September attack on the Westgate shopping centre in Kenya's, capital, Nairobi, in which 67 were killed has added pressure on the authorities to act or be seen to be trying to stop terror attacks, he says.
The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab said it was behind the four-day siege.
In the report titled We're Tired of Taking You to the Court researchers spoke to more than 40 people over the last year.
They found that the Anti-Terror Police Unit (APTU) tortured detainees to get them to admit links to terrorism, and arbitrary detentions and disappearances were widespread.
The report called for official investigations to be carried out into the disappearances and killings of at least 20 individuals suspected of terrorism-related activities.
These included the recent assassinations in Mombasa of two Muslim clerics alleged to have links to al-Shabab.
Kenya's security forces have previously denied allegations that they were behind the killings.
According to the report one officer told a detainee at a police station: "We're tired of taking you to the court. Next time we'll finish you off in the field."
The report quoted a lawyer telling a court hearing: "My clients have complained to me that investigators used a pair of pliers to squeeze their private parts."
Such tactics violate human rights and are counterproductive to counter-terrorism efforts, the report said.
The investigation focused primarily on abuses committed in Mombasa in 2012 and 2013, but the report says "the ATPU's broader pattern of rights violations extends back years earlier".
It pointed to illegal renditions to Somalia and Ethiopia in 2007 and at least nine suspects who were rendered to Uganda in 2010 following the World Cup bombings in Kampala.
An anti-terror police officer told the BBC that counter-terrorism was a difficult business and it was not easy to find evidence to link suspects to terrorism.
He said witnesses were often unwilling to testify, some suspects were killed in shootouts, and others fled the country to avoid prosecution.
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The referendum saw 65.3% vote against the plan with 34.7% in favour.
The country is home to a range of giant businesses, including pharmaceutical companies Novartis and Roche, the insurance groups Zurich and Swiss Re and the banks UBS and Credit Suisse.
The rules would have given Switzerland the world's toughest pay rules and some of the lowest executive salaries.
Business leaders said that would limit foreign investment and the government was also opposed to the proposal.
The Young Socialists, who proposed the measure, admitted defeat.
By Imogen FoulkesSwitzerland correspondent, BBC News
The one to 12 initiative was clearly just too radical for many Swiss voters. The big business cantons of Zurich and St Gallen have rejected it outright.
Despite widespread public anger that some Swiss executives are earning hundreds of times the wages of their employees, the government's arguments that such severe salary restrictions would undermine the Swiss economy and deter foreign investment clearly carried weight with voters.
It is the second time this year that Swiss voters have been balloted on the issue.
In March they did back strict limits on bonuses and golden handshakes.
There has been widespread public anger at revelations that some of Switzerland's chief executives are earning more than 200 times what their employees take home.
Some Swiss have been further irritated that these high levels of pay are being given to executives whose firms have been cutting jobs.
Although this proposal has been defeated, the issue of high salaries and a widening wage gap has not gone away.
Early next year, Switzerland will hold another referendum on a guaranteed minimum wage.
Switzerland's system of democracy means citizens can call nationwide votes on issues that concern them.
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Metropolitan Police officers were sent to 166 key junctions during London's rush hour periods as part of Operation Safeway.
It follows the deaths of six cyclists in the city within a two-week period.
Between Monday and Wednesday 1,392 fixed penalty notices were issued to motorists and 755 to cyclists.
The force said the most common reason for motorists being stopped was for using a mobile phone while driving and jumping red lights.
Cyclists were spoken to for jumping red lights, cycling on the footway and having incorrect lights.
Additionally, 28 people were arrested for assault, possessing drugs, driving while disqualified, failing to stop and assaulting a police officer.
Ch Supt Glyn Jones said: "This operation is aimed at getting all road users to behave more safely on the roads, for their benefit and the benefit of others.
"My hope is that as the operation continues, compliance with the law and the highway code will improve and the need to issue fixed penalty notices will diminish."
During the operation, which will run until Christmas before being reviewed, 2,500 officers will hand out advice to anyone seen putting themselves or other road users and pedestrians at risk.
The six cyclists who died between 5 and 18 November are: Brian Holt, 62; Francis Golding, 69; Roger William De Klerk, 43; Venera Minakhmetova, 24; a 21-year-old man from St John's Wood and a man believed to be in his 60s.
The names of two of the victims have not yet been officially released by police.
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The protest, organised by the GMB union, took place outside a meeting of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CPCCG).
The union said outsourcing the multi-million pound contract was a move towards breaking up the NHS.
But the CPCCG said the bidders were a mix of named NHS and private providers.
Steve Sweeney, GMB regional organiser, said the protest near the Masonic Hall in Cambridge was part of its "fight to defend NHS services".
He said: "The NHS should be publicly run, publicly owned and publicly accountable."
Five bidders are in the running:
Clinical lead for the CPCCG's older people's programme Dr Arnold Fertig said: "There is a mix of named NHS and private providers bidding in the procurement process.
"This process is about getting the best possible health services for older people and providing them in joined-up and innovative ways.
"The intention is that older people will experience a much better service than what is currently being offered. We are following a legally agreed procurement process."
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Mr Kejriwal spent Monday night in the open and conducted business with cabinet members from the street.
His administration had accused the police of failing to deal with an alleged drugs and prostitution ring - something they denied.
The chief minister says he has won concessions from central government.
By Soutik BiswasIndia correspondent
India's Arvind Kejriwal's 'anarchic' politics
The government, which commands Delhi's police force, has agreed to send on leave two police officers Mr Kejriwal wants suspended on allegations of misconduct.
"I'm very happy today. Today the people of Delhi have won. I want to congratulate the people of Delhi," AFP news agency quotes Mr Kejriwal as telling supporters.
The protest began on Monday when Mr Kejriwal was prevented from going to the home minister's office to demand the officers' suspension.
He was acting in response to an incident which threatened to become a diplomatic issue, putting his Aam Aadmi Party, the police and members of Delhi's African community at loggerheads.
Last Wednesday Mr Kejriwal's Law Minister, Somnath Bharti, and various party supporters allegedly confronted four Ugandan women in a Delhi neighbourhood, accusing them of prostitution.
Police refused to search a nearby house for evidence of the suspected drugs and prostitution ring because they did not have a warrant.
Mr Bharti and supporters of the Aam Aadmi Party were accused of threatening and intimidating the women, forcing their way into homes and making racist remarks - allegations they deny.
Mr Kejriwal's wider demands include police reform and transferring control of Delhi's police force from the federal authorities.
The chief minister also accuses the police of failing to protect women, following the fatal gang-rape of a student in December 2012.
The Aam Aadmi Party, or Common Man's Party, performed unexpectedly well in state elections on an anti-corruption platform, propelling Mr Kejriwal to the post of chief minister last month.
India's general election must take place by May and the party, only one year old, is expected to field a large number of candidates. The protest in Delhi is thought likely to raise its profile as the national poll approaches.
While hailed as a victory by some, Mr Kejriwal's protest has been criticised by others, who urged him to get off the streets in order to govern as he was elected to do.
His sit-in had caused congestion in central Delhi as police barricaded roads to the site. Police clashed with protesters who had gathered to join him on Tuesday.
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More organisations are now in difficulty, compared with the same point last year.
Budget pressures may partly be due to hospitals hiring more nurses.
But the Department of Health says hard decisions on public finances have meant it has increased the overall NHS budget.
The financial outlook appears to be deteriorating across all types of NHS organisations providing care in England.
There are 102 NHS organisations, mainly hospitals, which have their finances overseen by a new body called the Trust Development Authority.
Recent board papers from the TDA show 33 expect to be overspent by the end of March.
This suggests a number may struggle to demonstrate the standards of financial governance needed to become more independent foundation trusts.
Among the 147 existing foundation trusts, 38 are already known to be expecting overspends, with those figures due to be updated soon by their regulator Monitor.
Some of the increased financial pressure may be due to an increase in the number of nurses employed.
In the year up to October 2013 an additional 2,390 nurses were taken on by trusts in England.
Prof John Appleby, chief economist of the Kings Fund health think-tank, said there was every indication that senior managers were putting the standard of care first.
"We've had terrible incidents like Mid Staffs. We've had a number of reports produced by the NHS, and independently, suggesting that the NHS really needs to get a grips of its quality of care and services.
"And you can see boards making that choice - between perhaps overspending, but maintaining quality."
A recent Kings Fund survey of finance directors suggested a growing number were gloomy about the financial prospects, although it was only a small sample who replied.
At the beginning of the financial year 20% of all types of trusts in England were expecting a deficit, but that has now risen to 29%.
Nick Samuels, the Foundation Trust Network spokesman said " All the evidence we have is that our members are finding it increasingly difficult financially, and the situation is getting worse quickly.
"All NHS trusts have been asked to review their staffing ratios as a result of the response to the Francis report into Mid Staffs.
"We know a very large number of trusts have had to increase number of staff increasing costs.
"For a hospital, between 60-70% of their costs are pay, and that's higher for community and mental health trusts."
Between now and the end of the year the forecast position could either improve, or deteriorate further.
NHS England holds a £60m fund which can be used for one-off help to financially troubled non-foundation trusts this year.
It is small in comparison to the net predicted deficit of £250m, but may be enough to lift those with the smallest financial problems out of deficit.
Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, said the NHS was facing a "growing financial crisis" because focus had switched to reorganisation.
And he warned: "As financial panic spreads, patients will be denied treatments and wards will cut back on staff."
But the Department of Health said the government had taken difficult financial decisions, allowing it to give small real terms increases to the health service.
A spokesman added: "Most trusts are in a healthy financial position while the NHS sees more patients and carries out more operations than ever."
He said productivity had improved for two years running, for the first time in a decade.
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The Labour-led authority said the proposals were part of a number of cuts aimed at combating a budget shortfall of £157m over the next four years.
A range of pupils, from pre-school age to young adults could be asked to pay up to £349 a year.
The move would save the authority £191,500.
Councillor Kevin Gillott, cabinet member for children and younger adults, said: "I know that at a time when families are struggling with rising costs and falling living standards people will be wondering why we are having to consider asking them to pay towards providing transport for their children.
"Sadly, we have no choice as we're being forced by the government to make savings that mean the council will have to cut the amount of money it spends on providing services to Derbyshire families by a third."
The authority is also looking to reduce its housing-related support budget by £9m.
This would affect a range of groups, including people with learning disabilities and those at risk of domestic abuse.
The county council said it would begin its consultation on Monday.
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Events company Sincura Group, which controversially removed another Banksy mural in Tottenham, said it would exhibit the work before selling it for about £500,000.
Director Tony Baxter said the mural on a printing shop in Great Eastern Street would be removed by Sunday.
"It's a very iconic piece," he added.
A man who works in the printing shop said in 12 years he had not seen the Banksy mural because it has been covered with boards.
"I've seen pictures of what this building was like with it on about 15 years ago. Everybody's curious," he said.
Mr Baxter said the mural had become damaged with paint peeling away and would be restored before it was sold.
An image of Girl and Balloon painted onto the cardboard backing of an Ikea frame sold for £73,250 in 2012.
Last week, a developer expected to buy a block of offices from Camden Council was told it must remove a Banksy stencil of a rat and return it to the authority before the sale.
In the last year, two London Banksy murals have been removed from buildings - an image of a boy hunched over a sewing machine in Wood Green and another showing two children playing with a "no ball games" sign in Tottenham.
A spokesman for Banksy declined to comment.
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Reports of the white substance on beaches started appearing last October after one dog died from eating it on a Cornwall beach.
Since then the substance has been seen as far away as south Devon.
Bad weather has washed in large boulder-like clumps of palm oil at Perranporth.
Dog owners are being warned to keep their pets away from the white waxy substance, which smells like diesel.
Chris Gardner, of St Clements Vets in Truro, said: "We have been lucky we haven't lost any dogs through them eating palm oil.
"We were seeing dogs on a daily basis two weeks ago. Then it went quiet in the storms, probably because there weren't so many people on the beaches.
"But we had a dog brought in yesterday from Porthtowan. It is still an ongoing issue."
Reports of the substance had come from Porthtowan and Gwithian.
"I have seen 2ft-diameter lumps," said Mr Gardner. "It has a strong diesel smell, so if you smell it on your dog get advice immediately."
Vets treat poisoned dogs by making them vomit and giving them liquid charcoal to absorb the substance.
The substance was analysed by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
Palm oil has a wide variety of uses and is found in food, soaps and shampoos, and biofuels.
The source has yet to be identified.
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On Thursday, the hospital urged mothers-to-be to ring before arriving as its neonatal cots were full.
It had said only women in advanced stages of labour who could not travel were being admitted.
But on Friday the hospital said the unit was now accepting most mothers-to-be in labour.
Consultants and senior midwives were said to be assessing each case of premature labour to see if they may still need to go elsewhere.
Although the unit remained extremely busy, caesarean sections and inducements were also now going ahead.
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board said: "The neonatal unit, which cares for poorly babies, is still extremely busy but the situation has eased enough for most mums-to-be to have their babies in the hospital.
"Earlier this week the neonatal unit was completely full, meaning that only women who were too advanced in their labour to travel were being accepted and all others were being asked to call ahead in advance.
"The situation is constantly evolving but the service is expected to remain under some pressure for a few days at least."
Women due to give birth at Singleton who go into premature labour - less than 36 weeks into their pregnancy - are asked to call the ward on 01792 205666.
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The DUP leader said he was not prepared to remain as first minister in a power-sharing government "kept in the dark" about such an important matter.
He was speaking after the trial of Donegal man John Downey collapsed.
Mr Downey denied killing four soldiers in the 1982 IRA Hyde Park bombing.
The case collapsed because he was mistakenly told in a letter in 2007 that he was no longer a wanted man, despite the fact that police in Northern Ireland knew he was still being sought by Scotland Yard.
Although police soon realised they had made a mistake, the assurance was never withdrawn.
It said a total of about 200 such letters were distributed - mostly under the previous Labour government - to suspects "on the run".
The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) has confirmed that all the recipients were republicans.
Prime Minister David Cameron told the Commons on Wednesday that Mr Downey should never have been sent the letter and that it had been a "dreadful mistake".
Mr Downey's lawyer said his alleged offences had been categorised as one of the on-the-run cases that would no longer be pursued in the light of progress in the Northern Ireland peace process.
Attorney General Dominic Grieve told the Commons on Wednesday that the judgement would not be appealed.
Mr Robinson called for all letters sent out to be rescinded and "full disclosure" of what had happened.
"I am not prepared to be kept in the dark by Her Majesty's government about matters relevant to Northern Ireland," he told the BBC.
"I want a full judicial inquiry to find out who knew, when they knew and what they knew. I want to know who they are and what crimes they are believed to have committed."
He said he felt deceived by the government, and if he and former DUP leader Ian Paisley had known about this, they would not have entered into power-sharing government with Sinn Féin in 2007.
"I am not prepared to be a stooge for Westminster who keep secrets on matters which are now devolved to Northern Ireland," he said.
Anyone already convicted of paramilitary crimes became eligible for early release under the terms of the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement of 1998.
The agreement did not cover:
Mr Robinson said he would discuss the matter with Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers at a meeting later on Wednesday.
Responding to Mr Robinson's comments, Martin McGuinness, Northern Ireland's deputy first minister, tweeted: "My unionist colleagues need to calm down. We've all come a long way. No sensible person will thank anyone for threatening the institutions."
Denis Bradley, a former vice chairman of the NI Policing Board and who co-chaired a group set up to deal with Northern Ireland's past, said he was surprised when unionists said they were not aware of the issue.
"I don't know who kept who in the dark because it was very much in the public situation," he said.
"It was well briefed at the Policing Board at the time, it may not have been at full board, but it was certainly at a subcommittee which means it would be in the records, in the minutes of some of those board meetings.
"It's in the Eames-Bradley report, it's there to be read, we referred to it, we addressed it, so I don't know who is being kept in the dark."
Jim Allister, leader of the Traditional Unionist Voice party, which is opposed to power-sharing, said that maybe the DUP "did not want to know" about the letters.
He said: "It seems to be a failure on their part to fully interrogate the issues that lay at the heart of the negotiation to get both Sinn Féin and DUP into government.
"Maybe it was a bit of we don't want to know because we're very anxious, as the DUP was, to get into government with Sinn Féin and now it's all coming home to roost."
Ms Villiers admitted that the fall-out from the case had made progress on the Northern Ireland talks chaired by US diplomat Richard Haass more difficult.
The talks - on parades, the past and flags - broke up without agreement in December.
"There was some very important work that has been going on in recent weeks between the party leaders; some real dedication to trying to find a way forward," she said.
"There is no doubt that finding that way forward will be more difficult now given the events of the last 24 hours, but I continue to encourage the parties to do so."
She will meet Northern Ireland Justice Minister David Ford on Thursday.
Mr Ford told the BBC he only became aware of the letters following the outcome of the court case, and it had nothing to do with his department.
He said Ms Villiers "may wish to dump responsibility for the scheme onto her predecessors in the Labour government, and indeed it was them who set it up, but she cannot dump responsibility for it on the Department of Justice which was told nothing about it".
"I am concerned about the whole issue of what this so-called scheme amounts to," he added.
The Alliance leader said that while his party accepted that the issue of on-the-runs had to be dealt with, "what we needed was an open and transparent process".
He said he did not think the government had been honest about the issue.
The NIO has said 38 of the letters were issued by its officials to "individuals who were already under consideration" since the coalition government came into power in 2010.
The last letter was issued in December 2012.
Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt said he had spoken to his party's former leader Lord Trimble earlier on Wednesday.
"David Trimble had no knowledge of these letters until yesterday, he would never have supported an amnesty," he said.
"Dealing with the past is off the agenda for the party leaders' talks until this matter is sorted."
Meanwhile, BBC News Channel's chief political correspondent Norman Smith has said some Conservative MPs want the threat of prosecution of paratroopers involved in Bloody Sunday to be lifted following the collapse of the Downey case.
He said one MP told him: "I'm damned if they should be given an amnesty and former soldiers left hanging there; uncertain over whether they might face prosecution."
Thirteen civilians were killed during the Bloody Sunday shootings in Londonderry in 1972. A 14th died later.
It is understood a letter is to be written to the prime minister calling on him to lift the threat of any criminal prosecution against the paratroopers.
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Alan Wood, 50, was bound and tortured in his home in Lound, near Bourne, in October 2009.
Det Supt Stuart Morrison, who has led the investigation from the start, said he thinks about the case every day.
He said the main focus of the inquiry was to find the person whose DNA profile was left at the scene.
Det Supt Morrison said the profile was not in the UK database and officers were continuing to check international databases.
He said he had taken guidance from Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, the pioneer of DNA profiling, as to whether it would be worth trying to trace which country the person who left the DNA at the murder scene came from.
"Whilst there are companies that will seek to tell you that information, it's not particularly reliable and it covers so many countries that it would be of no particular practical use for us," the detective told BBC Radio Lincolnshire.
Mr Wood, who ran a small gardening business, had no known enemies, according to Lincolnshire Police.
He was subjected to a "brutal and sustained" attack at his home in Lound, during which he had his throat cut a number of times and an attempt was made to decapitate him.
"I have to be optimistic that this person or people will be found. It's an investigation that I turn over in my mind every single day.
"It is something that you want to do [solve the case] for the victim and for the family, so we occupy quite a lot of our time thinking about it," Det Supt Morrison said.
Manor Lodge, where Mr Wood lived, was kept as a crime scene for two years but has recently been demolished.
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Gen Martin Dempsey said the "vast majority" of documents taken by the ex-NSA contractor were military-related.
Since last year, news organisations have published dozens of stories based on the leaked intelligence documents.
Mr Snowden faces spying charges in the US but has been given asylum in Russia.
Gen Dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, told the House armed services committee on Thursday that a mitigation task force had been established to investigate the extent of Mr Snowden's theft and to determine how to overcome it.
"We're working our way through that which we believe he has exfiltrated," Gen Dempsey said. "And we have, I think, a fairly significant amount of knowledge in that regard.
"The vast majority of [the pilfered documents] were related to our military capabilities, operations, tactics, techniques and procedures."
Gen Dempsey said the "magnitude of this challenge" suggested the task force would need to run for about two years.
"I suspect it could cost billions of dollars to overcome the loss of security that has been imposed on us," he said.
Mr Snowden, a former technical contractor for the National Security Agency who fled from the US in June, faces espionage charges in the US.
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Visitors are scouring its pebble beach for fossils and taking photos of the stripes of rock strata embedded in the surrounding cliffs - a visual reminder of millions of years of history.
And they are all asking each other the same question: "What time is it?"
The clocks on our phones have reset themselves to French time, and for the surprising number who are not wearing watches, the confusion is palpable.
Then the phones start beeping. "Welcome to France!" read the incoming text messages. "Your roaming costs are..."
Inadvertent roaming, as it is called, is surprisingly common in this part of the country, despite France itself being a fair distance away - there are 74 miles (119km) between Poole and Cherbourg, a popular ferry route.
Visitors to the surrounding areas, including Portland near Weymouth, can find themselves suddenly connected to French networks, and, if they're not careful, run up their phone bills with every phone call, text and social network update being charged as if it was made from abroad.
It's not only a problem along the south coast of England - residents and visitors along the borders of Northern Ireland face substantial issues with their phones connecting to Irish networks, often without them even realising it.
In 2012 research carried out there by industry regulator Ofcom found that on average those affected were spending £300 a year each on accidental data roaming, and only 11% of them had thought to switch the service off on the phone itself.
The worst affected areas were east and north County Londonderry - notably Portstewart, south County Armagh and south County Down.
"The EU Roaming Regulation requires that mobile operators take reasonable steps to protect their customers from paying roaming charges for inadvertently accessed roaming services while situated in their home member state, and to make information available to their customers on how to avoid inadvertent roaming in border regions," said an Ofcom representative.
With the EU looking to lower the existing cap on data roaming charges this summer, inadvertent roaming may soon become a less expensive accident - and for local residents it can be something of a mixed blessing.
Daff Tambling lives in the popular walkers' haven of Worth Matravers, to the east of Lulworth. The village played a key role in the development of the use of radar during World War Two - but it is no longer a hotspot for communications technology.
"On certain windowsills in certain weather conditions I can just about get enough UK signal to receive a text," she said.
"The phone has to stay at the same angle."
Ms Tambling estimates that most days she will end up with either a French connection - or nothing at all.
"It preserves a stillness - there's something nostalgic and romantic about it. I quite like it on many levels," she added.
"But when it gets irritating is when companies are increasingly relying on texting you. If you need to verify your PayPal account or change your email password... even with deliveries and doctors' appointments, they want to remind you by text. I can't engage with any of that. That can be really frustrating."
She also feels short-changed by deals offered by UK mobile phone providers.
"Tariffs have no value for me at all. They are useless to me. It doesn't matter if I can get 5,000 free UK texts because I can't send them."
So why is the French mobile signal spilling over? The answer is fairly straight forward - but difficult to counter.
"Radio propagation over water is much easier than propagation over land since we don't have the hills and buildings in the way," said Andrew Nix, professor of wireless communication systems at the University of Bristol.
"Base station powers can actually go many tens of kilometres if there are no blocking objects in the way."
"If the French base station can 'see' the coastline they can actually generate quite strong signals in coastal regions of the UK. We've done wi-fi tests over 15km [9 miles] from coastline to coastline, yet I often can't go 7m [23ft] from one end of my house to the other."
Mobile network O2 confirmed that its nearest masts in the Purbeck area were further inland, while EE pointed out that it had no control over French transmitters.
The advice of the mobile phone companies and industry regulator Ofcom is to switch off data roaming - but it's not necessarily something you would think to do within the borders of your home country.
"There are a number of ways that consumers can avoid incurring roaming costs, including by switching their phone to 'manual' rather than 'automatic' network selection," said Ofcom.
"However this may restrict the use of the phone."
It points to a guide on its website that demonstrates how to deactivate specific mobile devices.
The anomaly is also familiar to those who live in Dover.
Sam Wydymus, who owns the cliff-top Coastguard pub, just 23 miles from Calais said: "We keep our phones switched off.
"On the left hand side of the White Cliffs you get a strong French signal but no British one at all. Those who live here and can afford it have French and British mobile phones. They keep the French phone at home and take the British phone when they go to work in London."
British TV and radio reception is equally elusive, Ms Wydymus added.
"We only get [BBC] Radio 4," she said, "and I have never seen EastEnders."
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Labour asked for the data to be released to Parliament.
The government blamed "unacceptably lax" contracts that allow staff to re-join the NHS a month after redundancy.
It says it's working on tough new plans to cap payouts, and has reduced administrative posts overall.
Labour shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said it would be galling for nurses who were battling over pay to see, as he put it, cheques handed out like confetti.
Auditors have previously reported that the average payout was £43,000.
The number of national health service staff estimated to have been made redundant and later re-employed almost doubled in the last year - from 2,200 managers - Ministerial responses to Parliamentary Questions have revealed.
The total now stands at 3,950.
Overall, more than 10,000 full-time workers were made redundant from the NHS in England since the restructuring of the service.
Changes introduced in April 2013 have seen 150 primary care trusts, run by managers, replaced with 211 clinical commissioning groups, led by family doctors.
Health Minister Dr Dan Poulter said: "By reducing managers and administrators by over 21,100, we are freeing up extra resources for patient care - £5.5 billion in this Parliament and £1.5 billion every year thereafter."
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Action on Junk Food Marketing analysed 750 adverts shown during the X Factor on ITV and the Simpsons and Hollyoaks on Channel 4 over 20 hours.
It found one in 10 promoted fast food restaurants, confectionery or supermarket 'junk food'.
But the government said advertising was not to blame for childhood obesity.
The analysis, which was carried out by researchers at the University of Liverpool, found that unhealthy food items accounted for 11% of all adverts and around half of all food adverts.
They said the most frequently shown adverts for unhealthy food products came from supermarkets such as Aldi and Morrisons, followed by fast food chains such as Dominos and Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC).
Chocolate manufacturers like Lindt and Cadbury and brands such as Clover and Flora Buttery were also included on the "unhealthy" ads list.
The researchers looked at adverts shown during 10 hours of X Factor programmes and another 10 hours of early evening Channel 4 programmes during the run-up to Christmas 2013.
The campaign group Action on Junk Food Marketing, whose members include the Children's Food Campaign and the British Heart Foundation, said children's TV viewing peaks around 20:00 but laws to protect children from targeted advertising only cover children's programmes, which tend to be broadcast earlier in the day.
Simon Gillespie, chief executive of the British Heart Foundation, said: "Parents don't expect their children to be bombarded with ads for unhealthy food during primetime TV, but that's exactly what happens.
"Even when the show is over, junk food marketers could be reaching out to young people online. A lack of regulation means companies are free to lure kids into playing games and entering competitions - all with a view to pushing their product."
Prof Mitch Blair, officer for health promotion at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said advertising junk food during family-friendly programmes like the X Factor is known to work.
"Not only are children and young people easily influenced and parents worn down by pester power, but food companies wouldn't spend huge amounts of money if it wasn't effective."
Campaigners want the ban on "junk food" advertising to be extended to 21:00.
"Children should not be commercially exploited and the advertising industry must take some responsibility for helping tackle the growing problem of childhood obesity," Prof Blair said.
The government said advertising was just one aspect in determining children's choice of food and one part of the package aimed at tackling childhood obesity and poor diet. It added that it was keeping "this area under review".
The Advertising Association went further saying the report was "lobbying dressed up as science" and the current rules on advertising were working.
Communications director Ian Barber added: "The UK's evidenced-based approach to the advertising rules works, balancing sensible protections with the freedom to advertise, allowing companies to compete - to the benefit of us all - and providing important funding for free-to-air TV."
But there is general agreement that with around one-third of UK children now overweight or obese, encouraging families and children to eat healthier diets is important.
Dr Alison Tedstone, director of diet and obesity at Public Health England, said they were working with the food industry to promote healthier products on TV through their Change4Life campaign.
"We recognise that we are all influenced by food adverts on TV. We are all eating too many calories and too much salt, fat and sugar which impacts on our health, causing obesity which increases our risk of cardiovascular disease, type-2 diabetes, and some cancers."
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Mr Berezovsky, 67, was found on the bathroom floor of his Ascot home last year with a ligature around his neck.
Berkshire coroner Peter Bedford returned an open verdict, following two days of "contradictory" evidence.
He said he could not prove beyond all reasonable doubt that the businessman either took his own life or was unlawfully killed.
In 2012, the former Kremlin insider lost a £3bn ($4.7bn) damages claim against Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich.
By Richard GalpinBBC News, World Affairs reporter
The evidence presented to the inquest over the past two days by family, friends, doctors, and others who knew Mr Berezovsky had been dominated by one theme.
He had been suffering from depression ever since he had lost a critical court case two years ago in which he tried to sue Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea football club for £3bn.
His depression deepened when his former partner sought financial compensation following their separation.
Mr Berezovsky was apparently a broken man who had lost all his money and had openly discussed committing suicide.
Mr Berezovsky certainly had many enemies - not least, his family said, the Russian government.
The tycoon amassed a fortune in the 1990s following the privatisation of state assets after the collapse of Soviet communism.
In summing up at Windsor Guildhall, Mr Bedford said: "I am not saying Mr Berezovsky took his own life, I am not saying Mr Berezovsky was unlawfully killed.
"What I am saying is that the burden of proof sets such a high standard it is impossible for me to say."
Earlier the court heard a detailed discussion about the knots tied in the scarf that was used as a ligature in Mr Berezovsky's death.
Home Office pathologist, Dr Simon Poole, who carried out a post-mortem examination, said there was nothing to indicate any other people were involved.
But Professor Bernd Brinkmann, who deals with hanging and asphyxiation cases, said the marks on Mr Berezovsky's neck could not have come from hanging.
He said they were "far away from the typical inverse 'V' shape" usually seen, whilst the congestion to his face was also not consistent with hanging.
He said he believed the businessman was strangled by someone else and then hanged from the shower rail in the bathroom.
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But the World Health Organization says all the cases can be traced to the south-east of Guinea, where the outbreak began, and it should not be considered an epidemic.
BBC correspondents in the region explain the effects of the outbreak of the virus, which kills between 25% and 90% of its victims.
The traditional handshake is no longer a part of salutations in Guinea as people are now really terrified of being infected with Ebola.
An infected person, who may not show symptoms for up to 21 days, can pass on the disease through direct contact.
"I no longer go out of the house just so that I do not have cause to shake people's hands," Mohamed Barry, a 65-year-old retired civil servant, said.
The outbreak originated in the southern Forest Region where Geuckedou is thought to be the hardest hit town with more than half of the cases of infection and deaths.
Bats, a local delicacy in the south, are thought be carriers of the virus. Their sale and consumption has been banned by the health ministry along with other bushmeat.
Many health workers - including at least three doctors - were amongst the first victims.
"Most doctors at first treated the infected patients for malaria - hence medical staff treating these patients also got infected," Dr Sakoba Keita, from the health ministry, said.
The capital, Conakry, is the latest place to be hit, with one reported death - but it is here that the situation is most worrying as two million people live in in the city.
The disease has no known cure and no vaccine, so the main advice to people from health officials is to keep one's environment clean and wash hands regularly.
All homes now have bowls or buckets filled with disinfectant at their entrance for both inhabitants and visitors to wash their hands.
The outbreak is also affecting business. Senegal, for example, has closed its land borders with Guinea until further notice, and hundreds of people and their merchandise are stranded in vehicles on the Guinean side.
"Our goods are about to perish," one businessman told a local radio station on Tuesday.
The border is one of Guinea's busiest when it comes to cross-border trade - it shares borders with six countries in total.
Some flights have been affected as well: Air Mauritania has refused to fly Guinean passengers in transit in Dakar to Conakry on the grounds of the Ebola outbreak.
The large number of international medical experts from across the world who are now on the ground are giving people some assurance that the disease will be contained.
But funeral corteges are also getting smaller and smaller as a result of a fear of infection by someone who has had contact with a corpse.
"I don't go to any funeral now whether it is an Ebola-related death or not or whether it is my relation that has died or not," says schoolteacher Mariam Mansare.
When fears about Ebola first started last week, people dismissed it as a way for health officials to solicit funds in the name of a threat. It was not taken at all seriously.
However with the disclosure that four people have died in Liberia, it is now a subject of public discussion in teashops and marketplaces, as well as in the media.
The health ministry has issued guidelines, which include washing hands with soap as often as possible in a day and avoiding fast food bought on the streets.
Some shopping centres in the capital, Monrovia, have made it compulsory for the supermarket employees to wear gloves.
Schools initially closed, but have been ordered to reopen so as not to cause panic.
Liberia's Health Minister Walter Gwenigale raised a laugh on Monday at a press conference when he warned people to stop having sex because the virus was spread via bodily fluids.
"I see some people smiling but we have to tell you all the facts so that you don't get contaminated," he said.
But news of the Ebola outbreak has not yet affected night life in the capital, as the city's clubs remain open till dawn.
Ebola is obviously part of people's conversations but there has not been a change in people's behaviour, perhaps as there have been no report of cases here.
Of course, the government has communicated over the issue and over the weekend it displayed special medical suits that health workers would have to use to handle any suspected case.
Weekly markets near Guinea's border have been suspended to prevent the spread of the disease, and the border has been shut.
In most countries of the region, like in Ivory Coast, the government has advised people not to consume bush meat but it is not been banned and I am told that you can still see it on sale on the side of the road outside the main city Abidjan.
In Sierra Leone, where there are five suspected cases of Ebola, travel restrictions are in place. Travellers have to fill out a questionnaire and indicate if they have suffered from a fever, vomiting or diarrhoea in the last two weeks.
The authorities have also banned relatives from bringing corpses into Sierra Leone from Guinea for burial.
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Ian Elliott is head coach for the City of Coventry Water Polo teams, which compete at the highest national and European levels.
He said the teams were "under threat" from the proposed pool changes.
Coventry City Council said it was considering the inclusion of a 50m pool in its new site proposal.
Ed Ruane, cabinet member for sport at the council, said the current facility costs £2,000 a day to run.
The council believes the existing Fairfax Street sport centre is no longer fit for purpose. Instead it is proposing a new 25m water park.
Mr Elliott said the city's teams had been "supported strongly by Coventry City Council" but did not want to lose the current pool, which "is ideal for water polo".
The pool is home to water polo teams for youths and seniors of both sexes.
They currently have two girls in the academy GB squad and six youths in British water polo regional training.
Charlotte Noble, goalkeeper for the ladies team, said: "Hopefully people can realise how important the pool is to us."
Water polo is just one of the activities that could be affected by the pool closure.
Earl Radtschenko, 17, from Coventry, is a swimmer who hopes to represent Britain in the Rio Olympics.
He said: "I believe the desire to succeed comes from within, but having a 50m pool and an Olympic coach in Coventry has certainly helped."
Adam Ruckwood, the City of Coventry Swimming Club's head coach and a former Olympian, said some swimmers would have to leave the club if the facility closed, "which would be an absolute tragedy".
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The Labour-run council has issued £1.3m fines since August when traffic was banned from Coppergate and Lendal Bridge during the day.
Last week, a traffic adjudicator ruled the roads did not qualify because bus lanes and signage were inadequate.
But James Alexander, the leader of City of York Council, said "the principle of the trial" had been right.
Residents, tourists and businesses had complained about the restrictions from the outset.
Councillor Keith Aspden, Liberal Democrat leader, said: "It was a botched trial from the start which has made congestion worse and damaged local businesses."
In a statement on Monday night, Mr Alexander said lawyers had confirmed the implementation of the trial in August "was legal".
He denied its purpose had been to generate revenue, and said it had been aimed at reducing traffic over the bridge and through the city centre.
"It is clear, however, that the trial has been polarising and we need greater consensus amongst residents and businesses over measures to tackle congestion," Mr Alexander said.
He said he wanted an independently-chaired cross-party commission to look at the data and come up with more consensual suggestions for tackling congestion.
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Heartbleed was one of the worst internet flaws ever uncovered.
The maintenance of the software, which secures around two-thirds of the world's websites, was done by a group of volunteers with very little funding.
The new group set up by the Linux Foundation has a dozen contributors and has so far raised around $3m (£1.7m).
As well as maintaining OpenSSL it will also support development of other crucial open-source software.
Firms supporting the initiative include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Cisco and Amazon. Each will donate $300,000 over the next three years.
The industry has been forced to step up after Heartbleed brought chaos to the tech sector.
Experts estimate that the Heartbleed bug will cost businesses tens of million of dollars in lost productivity as they update systems with safer versions of OpenSSL.
"Sometimes it takes a crisis to do the right thing," Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin told journalists.
The bug exposed more than just people's passwords and credit card details. It also highlighted that the crucial piece of software is maintained by a small group of developers who receive donations averaging about $2,000 a year to support the project.
"It is kind of weird that such crucial software is run by a group of hobbyists on a shoestring budget," said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer with security firm F-Secure.
"This software was invisible, behind the scenes and there are very few volunteers who have the skill and willingness to work on a project like this. There is no recognition, no money and it is very difficult."
The details that have emerged about how the vulnerability came about speaks volumes about how little the industry has cared about the software that was securing their websites, he added.
"The fact that the code change which caused the bug was done by an individual working at 23:00 on a New Year's Eve says a lot. The code simply wasn't reviewed enough and it went undetected for two years," he added.
"Now there is formal and monetary support from the industry I hope we will see a change not just for OpenSSL but for other crucial open source software."
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The wreck of the 3rd Century trading ship Asterix was discovered in the mouth of St Peter Port harbour entrance in the 1980s.
The timbers are to go on display as part of an exhibition about a Celtic hoard of 70,000 coins.
The hoard was found in a field in Jersey by two metal detector enthusiasts in 2012.
The timbers have been undergoing conservation work at the Mary Rose Trust in Portsmouth.
Val Nelson, Jersey Heritage Trust Registrar, said the timbers from the Asterix would be on display with a scale model of the original ship.
She said: "This is the first public airing for the timbers, the restoration work has just been completed.
"The coin hoard will be the major part of the exhibition, but we have borrowed objects from Guernsey, Normandy and Brittany to put the hoard in context and show what was happening in this part of the world at the time.
"As well as the timbers, we will have a very special piece from Normandy that is considered a French national treasure."
The timbers had to be lifted into the museum gallery, on the third floor, using a large crane.
The vessel is the "biggest object from Roman Britain and the most intact sea going ship [of its age] found outside the Mediterranean," said Jason Monaghan, director of Guernsey Museums, which owns the wreck.
The whole ship, for which a permanent home has yet to be found, could not be included in the exhibition as it is too large at about 5m (16ft) wide and 17m (56ft) long.
The exhibition opens at the Jersey Museum in St Helier on 2 June. It will visit Guernsey in 2015.
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