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Blackburn's first match in the third tier since 1980 is an away fixture at Southend, while League Two champions Portsmouth are at home to Rochdale.
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Such words were considered to be harder hitting and carry more emotional impact than "general" swear words.
The study of audience attitudes is the first to be conducted by the broadcasting regulator since 2010.
The results will be shared with broadcasters to help them better understand audience expectations.
Tony Close, director of content standards at Ofcom, said: "People draw the line at racist and discriminatory language - participants felt this was the most unacceptable of all."
"Most people see these words as derogatory and insulting. Many were concerned about them being used in programmes at any time, unless there's very clear justification for it in the programme and how it's presented to the audience."
The study, which was the biggest of its kind ever conducted by Ofcom, looked at 144 words, exploring what people were likely to find unacceptable and why.
As part of the research, the regulator conducted online surveys as well as focus groups and detailed interviews.
Participants were played clips from broadcasts which had been deemed controversial and asked participants how offensive they found the language used.
Recent excerpts from Big Brother and Don't Tell The Bride as well as old episodes of Father Ted and Fawlty Towers were among the clips played to audiences.
The context, intent and tone that offensive language was spoken in were considered important factors to viewers, as well as whether there had been a warning about bad language before broadcast.
For example, a 2014 episode Big Brother was considered acceptable in its original post-watershed slot but offensive when the same episode was repeated in a weekend lunchtime slot.
In the case of Fawlty Towers, audiences also took into account the historical nature of the show and the fact the comedy made fun of the ignorant character using the racist language, but some viewers still took offence.
Sexual terms were viewed as distasteful and often unnecessary, but respondents said they found them more acceptable if used after the watershed, when they would be more prepared.
Another finding of the survey was words which were bleeped out had the power to be as offensive as hearing the word itself.
The research found most people would understand which word was being obscured, especially if repeated.
The survey also suggested audiences felt offensive language was more problematic on radio than TV.
Several participants said they considered radio a "more intimate medium", where offensive language was rarely heard.
As a result, they thought that strong language would feel more intrusive and unexpected on radio than it did on TV.
Radio was also considered more likely to be heard by children, as it was often heard in the background in public spaces.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. | The League One fixtures for 2017-18 have been released.
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The Met Office has issued yellow "be aware" warnings for snow for southern, north east and northern Scotland on Saturday and Sunday.
BBC weather presenter Stav Danaos said -10 was seen in parts of the country with lying snow - with further snow falling on Saturday.
Snow and ice have also been affecting travel in many parts.
Scotland has seen freezing temperatures for several days.
While it has meant challenging travel conditions for some, the weather has also allowed all five of Scotland's snowsports centres to open their slopes for skiing and snowboarding.
Glenshee, Lecht, Glencoe Mountain, CairnGorm Mountain and Nevis Range are preparing to mark World Snow Day on Sunday.
Climbers and hillwalkers, however, have been warned that the risk of avalanches in Scotland's highest hills and mountains has been rated as "considerable".
The Sportscotland Avalanche Information Service has given the rating to the six areas it covers - Northern Cairngorms, Southern Cairngorms, Glen Coe, Torridon, Creag Meagaidh and Lochaber.
Among the least successful films of the year is Snowden, directed by Oliver Stone, alongside Sacha Baron Cohen's Grimsby, according to Forbes.
Sci-fi film Max Steel, which returned 42% of its budget, tops its Hollywood's Biggest Turkeys of 2016 list.
Period drama and horror mash-up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies also features in the top 10.
Snowden, telling the story of whistleblower Edward Snowden's leak of US intelligence, is ranked ninth in the list, which compares worldwide box office totals with the estimated film budgets.
The film, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, has received good reviews but made it to ninth on the list, taking 86% of its $40m (£32m) budget. It is yet to be released in the UK.
Free State of Jones, in which Matthew McConaughey plays an American Civil War fighter, returned less than half of its $50m (£40m) budget, making it second on the list.
In fourth position was comedy Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, starring Lily James and Matt Smith, which made back 58% of its $28m (£23m) budget, followed by computer-animated Ratchet & Clank, which took $11.8m (£9.5m), having had an estimated budget of $20m (£16m).
Comedy action film Grimsby - known as The Brothers Grimsby in the US - is estimated to have had a $35m (£28m) budget. It took $28.7m (£23m) at the international box office, making it the worst box office total of Baron Cohen's career. It was eighth on the list.
Natalie Robehmed of Forbes said that "not all movies flopped because they were bad films", noting that several were well received by critics.
She said: "Movies underperform for a number of reasons, be it marketing, release date timing, poor reviews or a combination of several factors."
Forbes only included films that opened in more than 2,000 cinemas and did not look at those released this month.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. | Scotland has been hit by a big freeze as overnight temperatures plummeted to as low as -10C in places.
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Mohammed al-Ajami's sentence was reduced to 15 years, his lawyer said.
The Supreme Court is due to make a final ruling on his sentence within the next 30 days.
Human rights groups have condemned Mr Ajami's conviction, saying his trial was marred by irregularities, with court sessions held in secret.
The case against Mr Ajami is said to be based on a poem he wrote in 2010 which criticised the Emir, Sheikh Hamad al-Thani.
But activists believe the authorities were angered by a 2011 poem he wrote about authoritarian rule in the region.
In the poem Tunisian Jasmine, which he recited and then uploaded to the internet in January 2011, Mr Ajami expressed his support for the uprising in the North African state, saying: "We are all Tunisia in the face of the repressive elite."
He also denounced "all Arab governments" as "indiscriminate thieves".
Mr Ajami, also known as Mohammed Ibn al-Dheeb, had previously recited a poem that criticised Qatar's emir and was posted online in August 2010.
He said the recital had taken place in front of a small, private audience at his home and not in public, challenging the grounds for being charged with incitement.
Mohammed Ajami, a father-of-four, has never disputed that he is the author of the poem, but has said it was not meant to be offensive or seditious.
As he was led away after the hearing, Mr Ajami shouted "There is no law for this", Reuters news agency reported.
Freedom of expression is strictly controlled in Qatar, which has escaped the kind of unrest sweeping other parts of the Middle East,
Its human rights record has long been been criticised by campaigners and is a thorny issue in relations with its ally the United States, for whom it hosts a major military base.
Reading Borough Council said it had written to Network Rail and Great Western Railway (GWR) demanding action following complaints from residents.
People in Cardiff Road had complained of trains parked in sidings with engines idling.
GWR has previously said the introduction of electric trains in 2019 will reduce the problem.
An online petition set up by residents living close to the GWR depot complained about "low-frequency noise" from trains idling in the early hours of the morning.
The council said it has warned GWR and Network Rail it could face an abatement notice.
Deputy council leader Tony Page said the responses form the companies had so far been "inadequate".
"The council is fully supportive of the huge benefits the realignment of rail lines in and around Reading has brought.
"By the same token, the concerns local residents have [about] noise and air pollution are very real and the council is lobbied on these issues regularly.
"We hope that escalating local concerns to senior management will prove more effective."
Earlier this year, GWR said the noise was within safe levels and it had changed the way it operated trains on the sidings.
Jonathan Dart, chairman of the Bell Tower Community Association, said he warmly welcomed the council's announcement to "put an end to the nuisance being caused to the residents of Cardiff Road".
However, he criticised the time it took the authority to investigate the issue.
"It took nine months and a press campaign for the council to release an officer's report stating that being in part of Cardiff Road at 03:29 was akin to being backstage at the Reading Festival," he said. | A Qatari poet sentenced to life in prison for inciting the overthrow of the government and insulting Qatar's rulers has had his jail term cut.
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The government of the western state of Maharashtra has announced a memorial for the cartoonist, who was cremated with state honours.
Laxman died in hospital of multiple-organ failure, aged 94, on Monday.
He was renowned for chronicling Indian daily life and politics. His daily cartoon appeared in The Times of India for more than 50 years.
He was best known for his iconic "Common Man" character, an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of which was unveiled in Pune in December 2001.
"Laxman was not just a cartoonist. What he said through his cartoons will inspire future governments. Though he is no more, the Common Man he created will live forever," Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said, while announcing the memorial for the cartoonist.
Top political leaders and media personalities attended the cremation.
By Soutik BiswasIndia correspondent
Laxman's daily cartoon in Times of India was known for lampooning political leaders, sparing no-one.
One of those caricatured by Laxman, former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, surprised the cartoonist by ringing him up, not to complain, but to request a signed copy of the cartoon to frame.
In 2005, the government honoured Laxman with the Indian civilian award Padma Vibhushan.
The youngest of six sons, Laxman began drawing as a boy but was turned down to study at Bombay's prestigious Sir JJ School of Art because, it said, he lacked talent.
He began working as a cartoonist in the 1940s, working for The Times of India from 1947 just as the country gained independence from Britain.
The meeting comes after a public outcry over the murder of a former beauty queen and actress, Monica Spear, who was shot dead on Monday.
Mr Maduro urged all politicians to put their differences aside and work together to end rising violence.
Venezuela has one of the highest murder rates in the world.
Ms Spear, 29, was murdered along with her British-born ex-husband Thomas Berry, 39, in their car.
Their five-year-old daughter, who was shot in the leg, is reportedly in a stable condition.
The attack, thought to have been a botched robbery, has highlighted Venezuela's skyrocketing murder rate.
Ahead of the meeting, the president announced he would act "with an iron fist," saying that the full weight of the law would be brought to bear on the perpetrators of the crime.
"The event has undoubtedly touched us all," Mr Maduro said at the presidential palace in the capital, Caracas.
He called on all politicians to find a joint solution to the "key problems of our society".
The Venezuelan opposition leader, Henrique Capriles, who is the governor of Miranda state, also met and shook hands with the president.
It is the first time the two men have met since last year's disputed presidential election. Mr Capriles has never conceded victory to Mr Maduro.
The president's meeting with governors and mayors was announced on Tuesday by Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez.
"The fight against violence has to involve all the authorities so the criminals know they'll face the full rigour of the law, because we've had enough already," he told a news conference.
He said five people had been arrested on suspicion of committing the "vile killing" of Ms Spear, and promised to "use everything we have, the police, the army, against those who will not go down the path of peace".
Armed robberies and kidnappings are not unusual in Venezuela, but the death of the former beauty queen, who was a popular actress after being crowned Miss Venezuela in 2004, has been condemned across the country.
Fans of Ms Spear, actors and others in the entertainment, rallied in Caracas on Wednesday to demand more be done to fight crime.
Mr Capriles posted a message on Twitter addressed to the president calling for a nationwide drive against violence.
"Nicolas Maduro, I suggest we put aside our deep differences and get together to fight the lack of security, as one bloc," he wrote. | The funeral of legendary Indian cartoonist RK Laxman has been held in the western city of Pune.
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WBA and WBO champion Fury called fellow Briton Joshua, 26, "useless" and said boxing was not just about "bodybuilding".
Fury also predicted Joshua would be "knocked out" on Saturday by defending champion Charles Martin when they fight for the IBF title Fury was stripped of.
"They're hating on my beach body," said Olympic champion Joshua.
"If they want, I'll give them some sessions. They can come train with me."
Joshua overcame Dillian Whyte with a seventh-round stoppage in his last fight in December to claim the British heavyweight title.
The bout against American Martin, who beat Vyacheslav Glazkov for the vacant IBF belt in January, will be his 16th fight as a professional. He has won by knockout in the first 15.
Fury was stripped of the IBF title in December after he opted for a rematch against Wladimir Klitschko, rather than face mandatory challenger Glazkov.
Joshua added he had "no comments" on Fury's physique.
"This is just how I am. There's a lot of jealousy, a lot of negativity, so that's why I shut it down and just focus on myself.
"I don't search for their attention. I'm not worried if he backs me or not, because I'll still handle my business. He's not supposed to back me realistically, so I expect no different."
The FCA said it was concerned that many retail investors buying "contract for difference" products did not understand them adequately.
It also noted that 82% of clients lost money on the products.
In the FTSE 250, shares in both CMC Markets and IG Group Holdings sank by more than 30%.
Meanwhile Israel-based Plus 500 saw its shares drop 35% after it said the FCA proposals would "have a material operational and financial impact" on its UK regulated subsidiary, which accounts for about 20% of the group's revenues.
The benchmark FTSE 100 index was up 13.86 points at 6,760.69.
Banking shares helped to lift the index, with shares in HSBC climbing 3.2% after Morgan Stanley upgraded its rating on the company to "equal-weight" from "underweight".
Shares in Drax Group jumped 15% after the power producer said it planned to buy energy supplier Opus Energy for £340m. Drax also announced it would buy four gas turbine projects.
On the currency markets, the pound edged up 0.1% against the dollar to $1.2737, and rose 0.5% against the euro to €1.1883. | Anthony Joshua says Tyson Fury is jealous of his physique and has offered his heavyweight rival help in training.
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The annual Care of Police Survivors (COPS) service was held at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire.
A roll of honour of police officers who have died on duty over the past year was read out, along with readings by family members.
Force representatives laid remembrance wreaths.
Jan Berry, chairman of COPS, said: "The Service of Remembrance is a chance for us all to remember those no longer with us - and also to celebrate the memories we have of them.
"It is a culmination to a weekend of 'healing, love and life renewed' and is all part of the COPS mission - to help rebuild shattered lives."
Peter Colwell, from Capel Uchaf near Clynnog Fawr, was found at the Ship Inn in Llanbedrog at 00:15 GMT on Sunday.
North Wales Police Det Supt Iestyn Davies said the results would help them work out what happened that night.
Four men, who were Mr Colwell's friends, have been bailed and a shotgun was recovered from the scene.
On Monday, Det Supt Davies said while the death was being treated as a murder investigation, "we are keeping an open mind as to the circumstances". | Hundreds of people gathered for a service of remembrance for police officers who have died on duty.
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Jonathon Brown, 37, of Holywell, Flintshire, denies causing the death of Andrew Green, 39, by driving carelessly.
The incident happened at Ffynnongroyw, about five miles east of Prestatyn, Denbighshire, in June 2015.
Mr Brown told Caernarfon Crown Court he was still haunted by the collision.
The court has heard that the bin wagon was stationary and had lights flashing when the coach passed taking children to school, going in the same direction.
The prosecution said on Monday Mr Green crossed the road ahead of the lorry and the bus driver was unable to stop before hitting him.
The court heard how Mr Brown was driving at 33mph in a 30mph zone.
However, on Tuesday, he denied being distracted.
He told the jury: "I don't understand why he ran, that's the bit that haunts me."
The trial continues.
That does not include multiple Wales internationals across both rugby codes.
Webb's selection continues the fine sporting record of the Bridgend school.
"I used to look at the board and see how many British and Irish Lions were on it," Webb told BBC Scrum V Radio.
Webb joins Jack Matthews, JPR Williams, Gareth Williams, Mike Hall, Rob Howley, Dafydd James and Gavin Henson as Lions to have attended the school.
"I knew some of them because they were in my time but some of them I hadn't really heard of, but you always used to count them. It shows what an immense school and breeding ground for talent it is," Webb continued.
"There's still a good rugby base there and a lot of young talent coming up through the ranks, so it's great."
Brynteg is not the only school to celebrate former pupils being called up to Warren Gatland's Lions squad. Wales pair Dan Biggar and Liam Williams both attended Gowerton School in Swansea.
Adam Rosser, head of physical education at Brynteg, says instilling a positive philosophy into the pupils contributes to their success.
"The children have got a good background of what the game is all about and we just tweak it slightly, and encourage them to take part," he told BBC Scrum V Radio.
"We're fully aware that not everybody has got to play rugby union but everybody has got to go to school and when they get to us in September, they know through family of the contribution Brynteg has made."
As well as breeding future talent, Rosser says the school and its students are aware of the impact they, and the wider community, have made.
"We're extremely proud of what the school has done. We know that it's not just the school in isolation. We're supported by the local club game as well," Rosser continued.
"The local clubs in the Bridgend district work their socks off and we're extremely grateful for the contribution that they make."
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Whereas some players have uploaded their joyous reaction to their Lions call-up on social media, Webb says that his own discovery was an experience he went through alone.
"I shot home from training. We had the option to watch it in training but I knew I'd have the house to myself so I put it on pause, gave myself time to have a coffee and a chocolate bar and watched it then," Webb said.
"Then if there was disappointment then I could pout in the house on my own. I made it, so I fist-pumped in the house on my own and give it a big scream. I was over the moon.
"I had no one to hug or high five. Everyone was out and about. Lucky enough my mate called over and we celebrated, and two-and-a-half hours later my mum and dad decided to answer the phone." | A school coach driver whose vehicle was in a fatal collision with a binman has denied being distracted and taking his eye "off the ball".
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To the uninitiated it might look like any other secondary school, but Brynteg Comprehensive School produced its eighth British and Irish Lion when Ospreys and Wales scrum-half Rhys Webb was called up on Wednesday. | 37,622,994 | 861 | 88 | true |
The Save Farm Terrace Allotment group has asked for a judicial review into a decision to allow land behind Watford Football Club to be developed.
Campaigners say the historic allotments could be part of the plan.
Mayor Dorothy Thornhill said that would lead to an "inferior scheme".
Developers behind the Watford Health Campus project on a 30-hectare site say it is designed to regenerate land between the club and the hospital.
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust plans to move key clinics and some surgery there from other parts of the county.
The overall scheme would include shops, a school, new homes and affordable housing, Watford Borough Council said.
Allotment holders won an appeal against the council's first plan last August, when Communities Secretary Eric Pickles reversed his original decision to grant permission to close the allotments.
But this was overturned in December, when a revised scheme was accepted by Mr Pickles.
Sara Jane Trebar from the campaign group said it was challenging this decision on the grounds the secretary of state was "misled" about the allotment land being "critical to the viability of the project".
It believes the allotments could be included "without risking the development".
"The allotments have supported communities throughout centuries and it is very important it stays the green land that it is," she said.
Elected Liberal Democrat mayor Ms Thornhill said the decision to include the allotments in the development area had been taken with "regret and sadness" but the area contributed to the health campus project's "viability".
"[Experts told us] if you want the quality scheme you want, if you want the best shot for the hospital to stay in Watford in the future then we have to include the allotments," she said.
"[If not] it actually means there is a financial risk to the scheme and we would then lose the ability to give the hospital the flexibility it needs to plan its future," she said.
"You would have a completely inferior scheme."
The government's target is 95%, however, figures from September showed only 45% were being seen.
Children's mental health in Kent is handled by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. In Sussex the trust has met the government target.
Clinical Director Dr Saqib Latif said services in Kent were "stretched".
Children are treated for a range of mental health problems including depression, anxiety, ADHD and autism.
Dr Latif said: "We are able to achieve the targets in Sussex, which shows it is achievable... but we are currently stretched beyond our capacity in Kent.
"The number of referrals we're receiving in Kent is much higher than expected by about 25%.
"And the number of emergency referrals in one month is equivalent to what we were expecting to receive in the whole year."
He said extra funding had been agreed to help reduce waiting times.
The Sussex trust took over from Kent and Medway Partnership Trust in 2012, because some patients in West Kent had waited 18 months for an initial assessment.
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of children should be seen within six weeks of referral, according to NHS guidelines
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Lucy Russell, from the charity Young Minds, said services were underfunded, adding that half of mental health problems start before a person is 16 years old.
"They are under incredible pressure and there's been a number of funding cuts and young people being referred to theses services is increasing," she said.
"Having targets like that is a good thing but it doesn't look good when those targets aren't reached." | If a legal fight by a group opposed to building a new health campus on 118-year-old allotments continues it will put the whole plan at risk, a council has said.
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The report, which was compiled by Birmingham City Council's licensing team, contains police allegations that up to £93,042 was taken from customers of Legs 11 on Broad Street.
The council has suspended the club's alcohol licence, pending a full review.
Legs 11 has not responded to a request for a comment.
In the council report Supt Andy Parsons said two men had claimed they were drugged, with one testing positive for methadone with a home testing kit.
The force is also investigating claims large amounts of money was taken from people's bank accounts without their knowledge.
Some customers had paid for dances "in a private area" but additional transactions were taking place that they had not authorised, he said.
One victim claimed he had lost as much as £19,417.
"In this year alone, four fraud offences have been reported totalling £23,965 with two of the victims reporting they had been drugged," he said.
"One of the victims went as far as getting a home drug test kit which indicated he was under the influence of methadone. This victim had £9,000 taken from his credit card."
The club was being investigated over 17 fraud-related allegations since 2013, West Midlands Police said.
Supt Parsons added "intelligence checks" suggested the club was linked to "organised crime groups from Albania".
"These premises are involved in serious criminality and serious offences are being committed at the premises," he said.
The report also contained details of an undercover trading standards investigation, during which officers were offered sexual services in a locked room for a fee of £1,000 and were "rubbed" by naked dancers, contravening the club's licence.
The 30-year-old Germany midfielder is believed to have told Bayern he did not want to extend his contract, which runs until 2016.
United announced in a club statement on Saturday that they had reached an agreement to sign him.
"I hope you understand my decision," Schweinsteiger told fans on Twitter.
The World-Cup winner said he was moving to United to "gain experience at a new club".
"No one can take away the incredible journey we had together. The decision was very hard to make because you and Bayern have, are and will always be an extremely important part of my life," he added.
The Old Trafford club hope to complete the medical to enable Schweinsteiger to be involved in their tour of the US.
Louis van Gaal's men fly out to America on Monday afternoon and will be based in Seattle for their first game against Mexican team Club America on Friday.
Bayern's chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said: "It's regrettable because Bastian meant a great deal to the club.
"He achieved great things but he wants to do something new at the end of his career. He asked that we meet his wishes."
Schweinsteiger has made 536 appearances for Bayern since his debut in 2002 and played under Van Gaal while the Dutchman was in charge at Bayern between 2009 and 2011.
He helped his country win the 2014 World Cup and has one Champions League, eight Bundesliga titles and seven domestic cup triumphs to his name while at the German club.
Bayern defender and former German captain Philipp Lahm said: "We have to simply respect and accept his decision. He's looking for a new challenge, but for me it's an absolute pity he is going."
United identified Schweinsteiger earlier this summer as a high-profile player they were interested in, along with Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos.
United have made two other signings this summer - £31m-winger Memphis Depay arrived from Dutch club PSV Eindhoven in June - and on Saturday Italian defender Matteo Darmian signed for an undisclosed fee from Torino.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | A lap dancing club allegedly drugged customers and charged thousands of pounds of unauthorised transactions to their credit cards, a report claims.
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Sale have complained to the Rugby Football Union that confidential team information was passed to Bristol before their Premiership fixture at the AJ Bell Stadium on 1 January, which the visitors won 24-23.
Sharks director of rugby Steve Diamond confirmed wing Tom Arscott has been suspended since 4 January.
Diamond also told BBC Radio Manchester that there was "no suggestion" from Sale that Bristol, who deny any wrongdoing, had asked one brother to obtain information from the other.
The Sharks have lost their past 10 matches in all competitions.
Tainton, who has been in interim charge of bottom-of-the-table side Bristol since November, said: "We are aware of Sale contacting the RFU with regards to a complaint.
"We have yet to hear from the RFU about this. From what we are aware, we are entirely confident that Bristol Rugby has done nothing wrong and we have not acted in a way that is against the spirit and values of rugby.
"Tom and Luke met on New Year's Eve at the team hotel - which is not unusual for families living in different parts of the country.
"However, following the conversation between the brothers, nothing was said or passed to the Bristol coaches of any sporting value, nor did it change the strategy in which we approached the game in any way, shape or form."
Diamond explained: "For us to do our internal investigation and disciplinary, we have to inform the governing body of what we're doing, and that's where we're at. It is now in the hands of the RFU.
"When you sign a professional contract, team information is sacrosanct to the team's performance and that can't be discussed with opposition teams, that's the top and bottom of it.
"In the contract, the passing of information is forbidden."
Neither Sale's Arscott, who signed from London Welsh in 2013, or Bristol's Arscott, who has previously played for clubs including Exeter Chiefs and Bath, entered the field during the match.
"Luke has carried on training," added Tainton. "We believe that he has done nothing wrong or that jeopardises Bristol rugby."
Alex Hales added just five runs to his overnight score of 136 before he was bowled by Andre Adams (3-93).
The away side benefitted from a last wicket partnership of 47 between Jake Ball and Sam Wood to end on 371.
Hampshire reached 167-4 in response with with Jimmy Adams (61) the top scorer before bad light forced the sides from the pitch early.
The day began well for the home side, with the in-form Hales, Vernon Philander and Will Gidman (34) all falling in quick succession.
However, Ball and Wood's tenth-wicket partnership gave the visitor's some momentum which Philander continued to bowl Liam Dawson in the third over of the reply.
Luke Wood (2-44) then accounted for Michael Carberry (30) and Adams before James Vince was run out trying to push for two.
Will Smith (25 not out) was joined by Adam Wheater before the light closed in and play was brought to a close.
Hampshire all-rounder Andre Adams:
"I think before Vince got out we were nice and poised. We are one partnership away from parity.
"After yesterday's toil it was nice to get a bit of reward from a bowling point of view. I think we bowled very nicely and if we continue, it will stand us in good stead.
"For us we were thinking about how to stop Hales from scoring and dominate today's play, so to get him out early was a bonus."
Nottinghamshire bowler Luke Wood:
"It was a good day for us. We feel like we are on top and can maybe force a win in the next couple of days.
"We bowled well as a collective on a decent wicket but we still have some work to do in the morning.
"It was tough losing Jake Ball early but I think we worked hard and covered for him. It is never easy when you are a bowler light but we dealt with it well."
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust said its former patient records setup was labour intensive and in need of replacement.
The new £7m computerised system means patient details will be accessible on screen to all health professionals.
It has been two years in the planning, and comes into effect on Monday.
Lynne Hodgson, from the trust, said "a massive amount of training has taken place" but they were "still expecting some teething problems".
"We're just asking at this time that patients and relatives bear with us while the new system is bedding in," she added. | Sale's Tom Arscott met Bristol back and brother Luke Arscott before their teams played, but "nothing of any sporting value" was passed on to the coaches, according to Bristol boss Mark Tainton.
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Aiden Webb, 22, from Norwich, set off to climb Fansipan mountain on 3 June.
He died after slipping down a waterfall and his body was found six days after he set off.
His father Trever Webb said he and mother Simone could only "proceed" by returning to thank those who helped find him.
Aiden Webb, an experienced climber, planned to conquer the 3,100m (10,300ft) high mountain alone in a day.
But he died just over 24 hours later as he tried to find his way back to safety after being forced off the main trail by a landslide.
On a Facebook memorial page set up in his son's name, Mr Webb wrote: "We are able to proceed at this moment only by the thought of returning to Sapa, to offer support in any way to the people who helped to find you, son, for us.
"We would want you to be as proud of us as we are of you, Aiden."
Mr Webb had gone to Vietnam with his girlfriend Bluebell Baughan, 24, of White Notley, Essex.
She was in contact with him by phone from the nearby town of Sapa when Mr Webb told her he had fallen into a ravine and had cut his arm open on a rock, hurt his knee and lost his way.
His phone stopped working shortly after 06:15 when he agreed Miss Baughan should raise the alarm.
Vietnamese TV said about 150 people were involved in the search for Mr Webb and a specialist team was brought in.
Investigations showed Mr Webb died on impact after falling 18m (60ft) into a shallow pool at about 07:00 on 4 June.
His parents plan to return to Vietnam at Christmas.
The annual ceremony, now in its 23rd year, celebrates "the most egregious passage of sexual description in a work of fiction".
The former Smiths frontman has been nominated for his first novel, List of the Lost.
It includes a reference to "one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation" and a "bulbous salutation".
Other books nominated so far include Erica Jong's Fear of Dying, which includes the passage: "You raised the kundalini... like an electric snake in your spine", and celebrated screenwriter George Pelecanos' The Martini Shot.
Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott's Call Me Dave, an unauthorised biography of Prime Minister David Cameron, was brought to the judges' attention because of an allegation, by an unnamed source, about an initiation ceremony in which Mr Cameron is said to have taken part.
However, the Review said: "That assertion was so flimsily corroborated as to resemble fiction but, regrettably, the biographers displayed insufficient literary brio to merit serious consideration."
The purpose of the prize is "to draw attention to poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction, and to discourage them".
It does not cover pornographic or expressly erotic literature.
Last year's prize went to Booker Prize winner Ben Okri for The Age of Magic.
The winning content read: "When his hand brushed her nipple it tripped a switch and she came alight. He touched her belly and his hand seemed to burn through her.
"He lavished on her body indirect touches and bitter-sweet sensations flooded her brain."
Other winners of the prize include Melvyn Bragg, Norman Mailer and AA Gill.
This year's award will be announced at the aptly named In and Out Club, in London. | The parents of a backpacker who fell to his death climbing Vietnam's highest mountain plan to return to thank those who tried to save their son.
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The Glasgow-based company said sales leapt by £14m (29%) in the first quarter, compared with the same period last year.
Between January and March, bookings for long-haul destinations grew by 40% while cruise bookings also rose sharply.
Barrhead said travellers had been keen to put the winter behind them.
Chief executive Sharon Munro said: "Scottish holidaymakers have been flocking in their droves to book a summer getaway following the poor weather over the winter months.
"January to March is always a busy time for us, however, this year we've enjoyed an exceptional response from travellers looking to jet off to foreign shores.
"Our Barrhead Travel BA charter flights have been a huge success since we launched them four years ago and as a result we've expanded the routes every year since.
"Through the direct flights we've been able to offer new links to popular cruise departure points like Majorca and Venice - which we doubled this year."
She added: "Long-haul bookings are also always popular and this year, with increased capacity through our suppliers, we've been able to offer new routes through Glasgow and Edinburgh - giving travellers more options than ever."
The average 50mph enforcement cameras on the two-mile stretch went live in January with fines of up to £100.
On average, just under 80 people a day were caught in the first two months with figures peaking at weekends.
The cameras are the first to go into operation on a Welsh section of the M4. During a pilot before Christmas around 700 drivers a day were caught.
Chris Hume, from GoSafe, the Wales Road Casualty Reduction Partnership, said the figures were disappointing.
"Excessive and inappropriate speed remains a factor in collisions, associated fatalities, serious injuries and, in this case, also contributes to the traffic congestion around Junctions 40 and 41," he said.
"On average there are still 80 motorists [on a daily basis] showing a complete disregard for the speed limit and putting lives at risk, especially given the degree of media attention this location has received and the work we have undertaken within the community."
Anyone caught within a certain speed will be offered a speed awareness course at a cost of £85 and will not have points on their licence.
The money goes towards the course and road safety funding.
The other option is three points with a £100 fine. Anyone who goes over that limit will not be eligible for the course. The money from that fine goes to the Treasury.
A Welsh government spokesperson said: "We are assessing the effect of the average speed enforcement system on traffic flows as part of the trial part-time closure of junction 41 westbound on-slip, and the results will form part of the report into the trial, which will be published in due course."
"The Blade" is the first in a series of temporary art pieces marking Hull's year as UK City of Culture.
It was placed in Queen Victoria Square after being transported from the new Siemens turbine factory in east Hull.
The Hull Daily Mail reports that Hull 2017 organisers are now preparing a planning application.
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Hull City Council planning manager, Alex Codd, said: "Nationally, planning permission is not needed on a piece of land that is being used for an event that is to last up to 28 days.
"However, as the installation will be temporarily located in Queen Victoria Square for longer [than] this, we understand the Hull 2017 team are now preparing an application for planning permission, which will then go through our usual planning process."
City of Culture chief executive Martin Green said: "We worked closely with the council and because the artist wanted it to be a surprise we agreed that planning permission would go in after the installation.
"Thousands of people have visited Blade and it has achieved national and international headlines.
"This is a great example of Hull City Council and the Culture Company working together." | Holiday firm Barrhead Travel has reported a surge in sales, following poor weather over the winter months.
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The 22-year-old died at the weekend, two weeks after sustaining a head injury during a night out in Belfast.
The Irish News carries an interview with his brother Brendan, who says the past fortnight has been "pure and utter hell".
He said Conan had made it home that fateful night but the family became concerned by his strange behaviour. He was then taken to hospital and placed in an induced coma.
"We didn't know we would never speak to him again," his brother said. "We were just talking into his ears and just hoping he would wake up."
A 27-year-old was arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm, but has been released on police bail.
While the papers are mostly united on the picture front, it's a real Monday mishmash of stories.
The Belfast Telegraph's front page is dominated by what the paper calls a paramilitary-style attack on a mother and son in Coleraine.
A masked man entered a house in James Street on Sunday evening and shot a man in his 20s in the leg. His mother, who is in her 50s, was shot in the foot.
In its editorial, the paper says there is a "depressing familiarity " about this story, amid concerns about an upsurge in attacks by both loyalist and republican paramilitaries.
It says the attacks show how "paramilitaries are trying to keep their grip on some communities more than 20 years after their ceasefires".
The News Letter's front page says there is pressure on Sinn Féin leader in the north Michelle O'Neill to speak out about fuel laundering after her cousin was convicted of offences last week.
Gareth Malachy Doris, 39, of Coalisland, had denied fraudulent evasion of duty but was found guilty at Dungannon Magistrates' Court last week.
A Sinn Féin spokesman said fuel laundering is wrong and undermines the economy.
It's not often sport makes it on to the front page but Ballymena United's first League Cup historic triumph warrants top picture spot on the News Letter's front page.
It has a picture of manager David Jeffrey dedicating the win to long-serving supporter Trevor Burns, who has missed only a few games in almost six decades as a Sky Blues fan.
Talking of top billing, a Belfast road has been named as the most congested in the UK outside of London. The dubious honour goes to A1 southbound from College Gardens in Belfast to Wallace Park in Lisburn, the Daily Mirror reports.
There's a lot of Assembly election coverage but we'll not be mean on a Monday and keep it to a minimum.
The Belfast Telegraph carries a light-hearted poll aimed at humanising our politicians. Seven high-profile candidates were asked a series of quick-fire questions on subjects ranging from Donald Trump to favourite foods.
The paper concludes: "Most do not have a good word about Donald Trump. Their culinary tastes range from seafood to steak.... and most, though not all, know the price of milk."
Not wanting to name and shame but it was the TUV's Jim Allister who had no idea about the price of milk. "Two litres of milk is... oh... my wife does occasionally say 'bring some milk'."
And who knew that Naomi Long made Irish stew for Princess Anne, or the DUP's Paul Givan was into body boarding, or that Steven Agnew from the Green Party would call his autobiography: Steven Agnew - A Gentle Prod?
The girl was in collision with a Ford Fiesta in Christ Church Street in the city at about 17:50 BST on Friday.
She suffered serious injuries and was taken to the Royal Preston Hospital before being transferred to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool.
Lancashire Police has asked for anyone with information or any witnesses to get in touch. | The smiling face of Conan Anderson beams out from most of the front pages.
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The first was at a landing a block of flats at North Anderson Drive at about 01:20. The second, about 10 minutes later, was at flats at Midstocket View.
Police Scotland said inquiries were at an early stage but it was believed the incidents were linked.
Insp Jon Millar said: "Thankfully no-one was injured. It goes without saying such reckless behaviour could have fatal consequences."
Arriving for work on Wednesday, they found official seals placed across the office entrances, the locks had been changed and the power was cut off.
Amnesty, which has been strongly critical of the human rights situation in Russia, said it hoped there was "a simple administrative explanation".
Moscow's city authority said later that Amnesty's lease had expired.
The office was no longer subject to "contractual relations" and had ignored a debt notice, the council told independent TV internet channel Dozhd. It added that "the presence of third persons in it was illegal".
Amnesty has in the past complained of harassment by the authorities in Russia.
Its Moscow director, Sergei Nikitin, posted photos of the seals and discarded locks on Facebook.
His colleague, Alexander Artemyev, told Dozhd that the organisation had been renting an office belonging to Moscow's department of city property for 20 years and had always paid its rent on time.
The organisation says it is hoping to meet municipal authorities on Thursday to try to resolve the situation.
John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International's Europe director, said the move was an unwelcome surprise and no prior warning was given.
"Given the current climate for civil society work in Russia, there are clearly any number of plausible explanations, but it's too early to draw any conclusions," he said in a statement.
President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said he had no information about what had happened.
"This is the first time I've heard about it," Dmitry Peskov told journalists, according to privately-owned Russian news agency Interfax.
Laws require all NGOs receiving any overseas funding to register as foreign agents and so face restrictions.
The Russian authorities say the law is needed to protect Russia from outside attempts to influence internal politics, but many organisations complain the law is used to try to clamp down on their activities.
Last year, Russia passed a law allowing foreign organisations to be banned from operating in the country if designated as "undesirable" on national security grounds.
At the time, Mr Nikitin condemned the law as "another sobering sign of how the Russian authorities are quickly closing in on fundamental freedoms and the work of independent civil society groups in the country". | Two deliberate fires in Aberdeen are being linked by police.
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Steven Thompson, 39, shot the teenager, who was riding on the back of a motorcycle, in Sunderland in October.
Last month, Thompson admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent and possession of an air rifle without a firearms certificate
The victim suffered a "serious head wound" and was taken to hospital.
He was admitted to hospital in a critical condition and regained consciousness a week later.
In a witness statement read at Newcastle Crown Court, the teenager said he felt he had lost the life he loved as a result of his injuries.
He was said to have been an active boy who loved swimming and going to the Lake District on activity holidays.
Since the shooting he has lost most movement in the left side of his body and can only walk for short spells and uses a wheelchair for longer distances.
The judge praised the determination of the boy, and the support of his family, which has supported him with his recovery.
Detective Inspector Ed Small, said: "This has truly been an awful incident and Thompson's actions have left this poor young man with severe life-changing injuries.
"No 15-year-old should have their freedom or dignity taken away from them in this way."
Thompson, of Hewitt Avenue, also admitted another firearms charge but denied perverting the course of justice.
The driver of the motorbike was not hurt in the attack.
The region near the Burmese border is home to many militant groups and has seen decades of separatist violence. But rights groups accuse the security forces of using the immunity given by The Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) to indulge in "fake encounters" or illegal extrajudicial killings.
Photographer Karen Dias has been meeting the families of those killed and documenting their stories.
Gangarani Kongkhang's husband Deban Kongkhang was killed after bullets were fired into his van allegedly by the Thoubal district police commandos at Patpan Lamkhai in Manipur's capital, Imphal. The government promised to punish the perpetrators and give her a government job and financial compensation, but six years later she has received nothing. Ms Kongkhang, 38, is visually impaired and lives on handouts and takes care of her two children aged seven and 12.
Wangkhem Chandrakala's husband, Namoijan Lukhoi, was shot dead by two unidentified men outside their home on 21 April 2008. She lodged a police complaint but later gave up the case because she feared "repercussions" and worried about the safety of her four school-going children. "Soon after my husband's death, I went into depression and began to lose my senses. I would wander off and find myself in the fields or in the crematorium. My family members and neighbours had to keep an eye on me," she said.
Roni lost her husband Mutum Herojit on 13 October 2008. She found out about his death while watching news on TV. "I want justice for my husband. No other woman's husband should die in the future. I want to tell the government that this killing should stop or else Manipur will become a state of widows," she says. Here, she is photographed with her nine-year-old son, Mutum Mir.
Neena Ningombam's husband Michael Nongmaithem was killed in 2008 by Manipuri police commandos who accused Michael of being a militant and said he was shot while trying to escape. After her husband's death, she joined hands with other widows and founded the Extrajudicial Execution Victims Families Association of Manipur.
The group has filed a petition in the Supreme Court listing 1,528 cases of alleged extra-judicial killings by security forces in Manipur.
Family members of victims pose for a photograph with portraits of their loved ones who were allegedly killed by the armed forces. The association of victims' families provides support and counsels members in dealing with the loss of their husbands and sons and also, with the stigma of a family member being labelled as an underground militant. | A man who admitted shooting a 15-year-old boy in the head has been jailed for 11 years and 10 months.
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Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir has called for "austerity to be binned".
But he accepts the Northern Ireland Executive may have to make do with additional funding for roads.
Ahead of Chancellor Philip Hammond's statement, the Treasury has said the NLW will rise by 30p to £7.50 in April.
About 13,000 Northern Ireland workers are thought to have benefited when it was first introduced this year at £7.20 an hour.
Analysis John Campbell BBC News NI's Economics Editor
This is the chancellor's first major economic policy statement since the vote for Brexit.
But do not expect anything too dramatic.
Phillip Hammond has warned that the UK's debt is still "eye-wateringly" large and that his plans must be "responsible".
That suggests he sees little scope for increasing spending or cutting taxes.
However, there is likely to be a modest increase in infrastructure spending - that would mean tens of million of pounds extra for projects in Northern Ireland.
There will also be measures for what Prime Minister Theresa May describes as families which are just about managing.
But there's unlikely to be a radical reversal of the benefit cuts announced by the last government.
Mr Hammond is also set to make "a significant investment into universal credit", which replaced job seekers' allowance and work-related benefits.
Universal Credit is due to be phased-in for claimants in Northern Ireland next year.
Another measure already heavily trailed is a £1.3bn package for road improvements - targeted mostly at repairs and reducing bottlenecks.
Northern Ireland's spilt of that funding could be about £40m.
But Mr Ó Muilleoir has said UK infrastructure stimulus measures of up to £15bn are needed.
"They [the government] need to invest in infrastructure to give the economy a jolt," he said.
"I hope we see a large stimulus. A Niagra Falls stimulus. Not a garden hose stimulus."
The Autumn Statement presents the government with its first major opportunity to address budget issues since the referendum vote.
It is Mr Hammond's first Autumn Statement since becoming chancellor.
It has already been suggested the government is facing a £100bn black hole in its finances over the next five years due to Brexit.
More than 500 others were injured in the crush, when thousands tried to squeeze through a tunnel that served as the only access to the music festival.
Ten people will now face charges of manslaughter and negligence for the disaster in Duisburg.
A Duesseldorf court overturned the previous decision to drop the case.
The court said the case could be "proven with sufficient probability", based on the available evidence.
Four event organisers and six municipal employees will be tried in the western city of Duisburg, where the techno event took place seven years ago.
In a statement, the regional appeals court said the results of an investigation suggested that "breaches of the duty of care with which the accused are charged were the cause of the deaths and injuries."
Poor design of the entry way and flow capacity for revellers caused the disaster, "and could have been foreseen," it said.
The Love Parade festival that year was attended by about one million people.
A British festivalgoer, Salil Bhate, told the BBC at the time that he saw people lying on the ground with "trample marks on their faces".
"The police and security personnel were more concerned with keeping people away from the edges, rather than helping people," he said.
Mark Knight, a British DJ who performed at the event, said he was told to continue with his set on the main stage, even though it was clear something had gone wrong.
He said the organisers had been "quite adamant" that he should continue to perform.
"They had been liaising with the authorities and the stance that they had taken was that we really cannot make people aware too much of this situation for fear of more panic. So we had to keep playing, which was very odd and a surreal environment."
The Love Parade began in Berlin in 1989, before becoming an annual pilgrimage for millions of techno fans from around the world. | A rise in the National Living Wage (NLW) is to be announced in the Autumn Statement, which Stormont also hopes will deliver extra infrastructure cash.
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The North East county were also given a 48-point deduction for next season.
Collingwood, who has been with the club for 21 years, is currently part of England's coaching staff in Bangladesh.
"The players are seriously unhappy, a lot of anger, a lot of 'whose fault is this?'" the 40-year-old former England all-rounder told journalists in Dhaka.
"The fact is that the players are 100% innocent here. We get asked to win things, and give our best, and stay in the first division, and that's what the club is all about.
"That's why it's such a kick in the teeth because we know how hard it's been to continue our first division status with all the strains that have been on our team in the last few years."
Collingwood, who signed a one-year contract extension with Durham in July, is in Bangladesh with teammate and England all-rounder Ben Stokes.
He admitted that the extent of the club's problems had come as a shock to the players, who had been unaware of the seriousness of the situation.
"I can't believe we are in this position. I don't understand how it can go so far down this road for us to be penalised like this, and how it hasn't been picked up and brought into a sustainable business like it should be," he said.
The ECB have also stripped Durham of the right to host Test cricket at the Riverside as well as imposing a revised salary cap from April 2017-2020, with the level determined annually by the governing body.
However, Collingwood sought positives in the knowledge that Durham had maintained their first-class status and the club can now look forward.
"When I first heard about it I thought it was the end of the world but in some ways you have to understand that the ECB have given us an opportunity to rebuild and refocus."
Durham's director of cricket and former first-team coach Geoff Cook said the severe punishment handed out the club was harsh.
They had to invest a large amount of money to ensure their Riverside ground was up to the standard required to host Tests but have now lost that right.
"This is one of the real tragedies of it," Cook told BBC Radio Newcastle. "In all innocence, all Durham County Cricket Club have tried to fulfil its commitment to the area and provide a great international venue and top-class sport.
"I'm not sure how the club has got itself into this position, but no matter how it has got there on the surface the punishment is extreme."
No 1 Ledbury Road in Hereford is due to close on March 31.
Alternatives proposed by Herefordshire Council are further away, a family says, which will eat into short breaks for relatives with disabilities.
The council said it has commissioned a number of new respite services "as a single Hereford-based centre wasn't suitable for everyone".
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It was initially earmarked for closure in March 2016, but given a year-long extension.
Melissa Boyle's son Fergus, 14, and daughter Gwen, 13, both use the council centre, which is delivered by Wye Valley NHS Trust.
Both have Cockayne Syndrome - a rare genetic disorder which degenerates the body and shortens young lives.
They are both visually and hearing-impaired, cannot eat anything that poses a risk of choking and need help to wash, while Gwen's sleep is often broken by seizures.
Mrs Boyle and husband Ben, who run The Velvet Bean chocolate shop in Ledbury, split their care between them.
Mrs Boyle said the new options for respite include a centre in Worcester, while another in Presteigne, Wales, would mean a journey of two hours from the family home.
"There are gaping holes in this provision," she said.
"What quality of life does it give them if need to spend hours in the car and then to get up at the crack of dawn to go to school the next day when they are away from home for one night for a short break?"
In a statement, Herefordshire Council said it had worked closely with "families, professionals and providers".
Families unhappy with the services available can take a direct payment instead to "allow them to access services they feel better suit their needs", the council added. | Durham's relegation from County Championship Division One over financial issues is a "kick in the teeth", says captain Paul Collingwood.
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The Sweeney/McQuade family want Mr Clarke prosecuted over the December 2014 crash which killed six people.
The families of students Mhairi Convy and Laura Stewart, who were knocked down and killed in Glasgow in 2010, are seeking to prosecute William Payne.
Judges at the High Court in Edinburgh have begun hearing submissions.
Both Mr Clarke and Mr Payne blacked out at the wheel of the vehicles they were driving.
The Crown Office decided not to prosecute either on the basis that they did not commit crimes because they did not know that their medical conditions would have caused them to pass out.
However, the relatives of those who died in the collisions believe that the Crown made the wrong decision.
They now want to bring their own prosecution against the two men and have gone to the High Court to seek permission to start proceedings against the two men.
Much of what was said during Tuesday's hearing, held before judges Lord Carloway, Lord Bracadale and Lady Paton, cannot be reported for legal reasons.
The aircraft, a former military helicopter, crashed at the side of the runway at Breighton Aerodrome, near Selby, at about 18:00 BST on Sunday during a private flight.
All five were taken to hospital - two by air ambulance, police said.
The Air Accident Investigation Branch said: "An investigation is under way and we will report in due course."
The casualties suffered various head, back, chest and leg injuries, officials said.
An eyewitness told the BBC he was about 200 yards away from the scene when he heard a "loud bang" before the helicopter crashed to the ground.
He said he saw people running to help pull the passengers out.
The BBC has been told the aircraft was an Alouette helicopter and was previously owned by the army.
It is also understood the helicopter was coming into land when it crashed.
According to the airfield's website, a 1940's themed event had been taking place over the weekend, which was attended by private owners of classic aircrafts.
North Yorkshire Fire Service said all of the men were out of the helicopter when rescuers arrived.
The wreckage of the helicopter, said to have come down on grass at the side of the runway, has since been taken away.
Breighton Aerodrome is a former World War Two bomber base and is home to a classic aircraft collection. | Bereaved families have launched legal bids to bring private prosecutions against Glasgow bin lorry driver Harry Clarke and another fatal crash driver.
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The men were arrested on the A4119 at Talbot Green at 17:50 BST on Tuesday.
All four were arrested on suspicion of firearms and offensive weapon offences.
South Wales Police said the incident was not terror-related and had no connection to the investigation in Pontyclun which is connected to the attack near Finsbury Park Mosque in north London on Monday.
Police were called to a car wash in Swansea just after 14:40 BST on Tuesday following reports a number of men in a Jeep had threatened people with weapons.
A description of the vehicle was put out, prompting the arrests later that afternoon.
Police also said the arrests were not connected to Talbot Green or the Swansea car wash.
The capabilities of the firm's Project Alloy headset, currently in development, were demoed at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.
Chief executive Brian Krzanich said Intel planned to license the technology to manufacturers by the end of 2017.
But one analyst said VR remained a difficult market to target.
The headset does not require a separate PC or a connection to a power source - both computer and battery are built in, noted Mr Krzanich as he introduced the latest prototype.
Two players in a mock living room demonstrated on stage how the headset could create a virtual replica of the room featuring scanned obstacles such as furniture.
Intel calls this "merged reality".
In the demo, the bookcases and coffee table were then replaced, digitally, by similar-sized scenery more suited to the game - a futuristic spaceship.
Project Alloy was first unveiled in August last year, but this was its most advanced demo yet.
"It was certainly interesting," said tech analyst Brian Blau at Gartner, who also praised the freedom offered by an "all-in-one" headset without a cable.
However, he said it would have been even more impressive had the living room been scanned by the headset itself.
"They did say [the room] was pre-scanned, so I was a little bit disappointed by that."
The device will not be manufactured by Intel, but instead it will offer the technology to other tech firms to build products around.
Intel hopes this process will begin in the final quarter of 2017. But the project's success may rely on others being willing to make content for it.
"They can enable all kinds of stuff but if it is not for the rest of those pieces they'll just have the parts out there," said Mr Blau.
The firm also showed off a variety of other uses for a wide range of VR headsets - including high definition 360-degree video captured at a waterfall in Vietnam.
Mr Blau said the use of volumetric video - which lets viewers peer around objects as though they were really present in the captured scene - was impressive.
"It is something we won't really see en masse for a long time because of its heavy data requirements," Mr Blau added.
Other chip makers besides Intel have been developing virtual reality headset technology.
Nvidia, for example, has been working on software and processors to power computing-intensive experiences.
AMD is developing its Sulon Q headset, which - like Project Alloy - incorporates a computer and battery onboard, meaning no need for tethers or cables.
There is some optimism around the potential for growth within the virtual reality market at CES.
US unit sales of VR headsets are predicted to reach 2.5 million in 2017, according to a presentation at the trade show by the Consumer Technology Association.
But during Intel's event, Mr Krzanich acknowledged that many were still unsure if the technology would become truly popular.
"A lot of people are questioning is virtual reality going to take off, is it going to go anywhere?" he acknowledged
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Follow all our CES coverage at bbc.co.uk/ces2017 | Four men arrested by armed officers on a major road in Rhondda Cynon Taff are still being questioned by police.
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British Transport Police say the railway lines in Blaenau Ffestiniog are being used "like a park".
Patrols are being increased in the area, and those caught trespassing will face on-the-spot fines or arrest.
A 15-year-old girl and a 35-year-old man are currently being dealt with for anti-social behaviour in the area.
"Groups have been hanging about at the station and, worryingly, on the railway tracks, where they're consuming alcohol and drugs, and having barbecues," said Sgt Gemma Jones.
"They have so far shown a complete disregard for the residents who live nearby, as well as for their own safety. Quite simply, this has to stop."
There will be a grace period for projects which already have planning permission, the Department of Energy and Climate Change said.
Energy firms had been facing an end to subsidies in 2017.
The funding for the subsidy comes from the Renewables Obligation, which is funded by levies added to household fuel bills.
After the announcement was made, Fergus Ewing, Scottish minister for business, energy and tourism and member of the Scottish parliament, said he had warned the UK government that the decision could be the subject of a judicial review.
Analysis: Roger Harrabin, environment analyst
The Conservatives promised in their manifesto to hold down bills and increase renewable energy.
But onshore wind is the cheapest readily-available form of clean energy in the UK. That's why some experts have described their decision to kill the onshore wind programme as bizarre and irrational.
Speaking to business leaders in London last night, Amber Rudd said it was time to shift subsidies from onshore wind to other technologies that needed them more. But she did not say what those technologies would be, and the government has not announced compensatory subsidies for other forms of energy.
Some of the business leaders are baffled why ministers will give local people a unique veto over wind turbines, when they cannot veto shale gas fracking or even a nuclear power station on their doorstep.
The government's policies are seen by green groups as nakedly political. Another reason may be partly at play - the right-leaning think tank Policy Exchange calculates that the energy subsidies programme has simply run out of cash.
If this is accurate, it presents a formidable challenge to an energy secretary who says she is committed to transforming the UK into a low-carbon economy.
"The decision by the UK government to end the Renewables Obligation next year is deeply regrettable and will have a disproportionate impact on Scotland, as around 70% of onshore wind projects in the UK planning system are here," he added.
The move was part of a manifesto commitment by the Conservative party ahead of the general election in May.
"We are driving forward our commitment to end new onshore wind subsidies and give local communities the final say over any new wind farms," said Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd.
"Onshore wind is an important part of our energy mix and we now have enough subsidised projects in the pipeline to meet our renewable energy commitments," she said.
5,061
onshore turbines in the UK
18,000 gigawatt hours of electrcity generated by onshore turbines in 2014
5.5 million homes could run for a year on that power
5.6% of the UK total electricity needs
The Conservatives also say that the onshore turbines "often fail to win public support and are unable by themselves to provide the firm capacity that a stable energy system requires".
Some reports estimate that almost 3,000 wind turbines are awaiting planning permission and this announcement could jeopardise those plans.
Friends of the Earth's renewable energy campaigner Alasdair Cameron said: "While the government rolls out the red carpet for fracking, they're pulling the rug out from under onshore wind.
"Proposed changes to the planning system could make it more difficult for local authorities to give the go-ahead to new wind installations - even if it's the local community who want to build and run them."
And Gordon MacDougall, managing director of Renewable Energy Systems, a Sir Robert McAlpine Group company, told the BBC that "what we are seeing is political intervention".
He criticised the intervention in what he says is the cheapest form of low-carbon energy.
The grace period could allow up to 5.2 gigawatts (GW) of wind capacity to go ahead, which could mean hundreds more wind turbines going up across the UK. | Police say they will crackdown on anti-social behaviour at a railway station in Gwynedd - including drug and alcohol abuse and barbecues next to tracks.
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The plan means up to 10 of its 176 UK stores may be closed over the next five years.
A central distribution warehouse and about 10 smaller warehouses could also be shut.
Meanwhile, the group said its half-year pre-tax profits fell by 6.4% to £88m.
Debenhams shares were down by nearly 5% following the announcement.
Chief executive Sergio Bucher, who joined the company last October, said its customers were changing the way they shopped and therefore Debenhams was also changing.
"We will be a destination for social shopping, with mobile the unifying platform for interacting with our customers," said Mr Bucher, who was appointed with a view to shaking up the business.
Debenhams said that leisure activities accounted for an increasing share of consumer spending and that the "leisure experience is an important part of shopping", while "mobile interaction" was growing fast.
In an effort to capture this market, Debenhams plans to step up investment in its in-store cafes, restaurants and beauty services.
Retail analyst Steve Dresser, of Grocery Insight, said it would be tricky for Debenhams to make its new approach work.
"Without a core reason to visit Debenhams, or a point of difference, footfall and sales fall, which in turn impacts profitability," he said.
"Shopping centre locations overcome footfall concerns, but in turn, rents are expensive."
Debenhams said it had no "tail of loss-makers" in its 176 UK store estate and, in fact, many were "highly profitable".
However, it added, it wanted to "ensure they are fit for the future".
The 10 stores under review for closure, if they are deemed not profitable enough, have not been named.
Debenhams said the rest would be "refreshed" and "remerchandised" to raise their profitability.
In January, it began "decluttering" its stores by reducing the number of lines for sale.
It is also switching about 2,000 of the stores' backroom staff to jobs where they deal directly with customers.
The group also has plans to open four new shops in the UK.
Debenhams has 82 stores in 26 other countries.
It said it would leave some "non-core" international markets, with details due to be announced in October.
The department store chain announced earlier this year that it had begun consulting on the closure of one central distribution centre in Northamptonshire which employs about 200 people.
It is hoped all staff will be redeployed.
Debenhams is also consulting on the closure of about about 10 smaller regional warehouses which are connected to stores.
Those staff will be moved into the stores.
Sir Ian Cheshire, the chairman of Debenhams, said "this is a strategy about growth", not job losses, and that the plans should lead to the creation of more jobs.
However, independent retail analyst Nick Bubb said he was "disappointed" that the strategy did not include any targets for sales and profits, despite the talk of growth and efficiency.
Mark Hughes, 33, of Buckley, Flintshire, accidentally let off a shotgun while getting a drink in July 2016, Mold Crown Court heard.
After the gun went off, Hughes was heard screaming and was seen outside his house with a bleeding foot.
He admitted possessing a shotgun and a stun gun, cannabis and cocaine.
The court heard Hughes had wanted to kill himself at the time of the shotgun shooting.
Judge Rhys Rowlands accepted Hughes had been looking after the gun for someone else.
Prosecuting, Anna Price said armed police had gone to the house after the Hughes was seen outside it.
She told the court he had previously been jailed for two years for wounding in 2005 and for four years in 2009 for arson.
Julian Nutter, defending, said Hughes was no longer suicidal and wanted to make something of his life.
Judge Rowlands accepted Hughes had been depressed at the time. He added Hughes was still at risk of losing his foot from what he called a "dreadful injury".
He sentenced Hughes to three years and four months in prison. | Department store group Debenhams has announced a turnaround strategy aimed at boosting its appeal as a "destination" shop and improving its online service.
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The 32-year-old was suing the Magpies for about £2m on the grounds of disability discrimination.
The tribunal also ruled the club made it impossible for Gutierrez to trigger an appearance-based contract extension.
Newcastle say they are "dismayed" by the judgement and are considering further options with their legal team.
Gutierrez's barrister Martin Budworth said: "The tribunal has made it clear that a Premier League football club owes the same duties to a disabled person as any other employer."
Claims of unfavourable treatment and another of harassment related to disability were dismissed.
A further remedy hearing will be held in due course, in which compensation will be addressed.
Although Gutierrez has not released a statement, he did post on social media, saying: "Always in my heart Geordie nation. I love you."
Gutierrez, who joined Newcastle from Real Mallorca in 2008, was diagnosed with testicular cancer in October 2013.
He had been a regular at St James' Park before that time, scoring 10 goals in 177 appearances at the time of the return of the illness and subsequent treatment.
The Argentina international sued Newcastle over the way he was treated following his diagnosis and claimed the Premier League club saw him as a liability after he returned from treatment.
Gutierrez, now playing for Deportivo La Coruna in Spain, also alleged that he was not selected for some of the second half of the 2014-15 season, when the Magpies avoided relegation on the final day of the campaign, so the club would not trigger an automatic one-year contract extension.
The tribunal found that Gutierrez was discriminated against following his diagnosis and subsequent return to fitness as it deemed he was considered part of the club's plans right up to the point of his absence.
The ruling stated:
The tribunal also concluded that Gutierrez was not considered for selection following his return to fitness until he could not achieve the 80 Premier League starts required over the length of his four-year contract to trigger the extension.
As a result of his absence because of cancer, Gutierrez had only 121 games instead of 152 to earn his extended deal and the club had discriminated against him by failing to make reasonable adjustments.
The ruling stated:
Claims of unfavourable treatment were rejected, as his move to Norwich City on loan in January 2014 was consensual.
A claim of harassment which related to Gutierrez training and playing with the under-21s was also dismissed as the tribunal ruled that many players, such as "Davide Santon, Siem de Jong and Gabriel Obertan" were required to do so to gain match fitness after injury.
It is 19 days since Israel launched an offensive against Hamas militants. The death toll has passed 1,000, Palestinian medical officials have said.
Protesters walked from Botanic Gardens in south Belfast to the US Consulate on Saturday afternoon.
Speakers said the turn-out showed how Belfast felt about the conflict.
Gerry Carroll from the People before Profit group, called for Israel to be boycotted and the Israeli ambassador to be removed from the Republic of Ireland. | Midfielder Jonas Gutierrez was dropped by Newcastle United because of his cancer diagnosis, an employment tribunal has found.
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They believe building construction giant Odebrecht inflated the price of the Arena Pernambuco by $12m (£7.8m).
Federal Police have carried out raids in several Brazilian cities.
The company's president, Marcelo Odebrecht, is in jail in connection with a separate corruption scandal.
He was charged last month with corruption and money laundering for allegedly paying bribes to secure contracts with the state-owned oil company, Petrobras.
Mr Odebrecht has denied the charges and said he would appeal.
He is one of dozens of businessmen, civil servants and politicians detained over the past year as part of a major investigation of corruption at Petrobras.
With the information gathered from that investigation, prosecutors have launched Operation Fair Play, focusing on the same building companies.
Federal Police believes the bidding process for the construction of the Arena Pernambuco, near the north-eastern city of Recife, was rigged to favour Odebrecht.
"There wasn't proper competition," Federal Police investigator Marcello Diniz told O Globo newspaper.
He said Odebrecht was invited to take part in the process a year before details were made public.
Other competitors were given only 45 days to prepare their bids.
The official cost of the stadium has never been disclosed, but it is estimated to have cost more than 700m reais ($200m; £130m).
The investigation is also looking into evidence that civil servants were bribed by the building company.
Odebrecht is Latin America's biggest construction company. It employs more than 180,000 people in 21 countries.
Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets in the months that preceded the World Cup to protest against perceived corruption and overspending in the preparations for the event.
Demonstrators objected to the huge cost of the tournament, arguing that more money should have been spent on public services to ease inequality.
Thirty-four grammar schools hosted the Association of Quality Education (AQE) exams for 7,285 pupils.
This year, there are more pupils than ever taking the unregulated tests.
Northern Ireland's Department of Education abolished academic selection with the final official 11-plus test held in 2008.
However, many grammar schools use unregulated transfer tests to select pupils.
There are two unofficial replacement systems for the 11-plus in operation.
The single, multiple choice GL Assessment is used mostly by Catholic schools and the AQE sets a different exam for other schools.
The GL test will be held next week. The number sitting that examination has also increased, to 7,255. That test is free.
There is a charge of £45 for the AQE test, but pupils who get free school meals are exempt.
Attempts to create a single examination have failed.
The 32-year-old was part of the men's four who claimed gold in Rio, having also been part of the team who won in London four years earlier.
He also claimed five World Championship golds in his 12-year career.
"My life as I've known it ever since I can remember has now changed forever and really, honestly, there's no coming back from this," he wrote in his blog.
"I feel now, after 32 years on this big blue planet, that I've reached that point in sport and much to my relief I'm satisfied, happy and content.
"There's probably more I could do but I've reached my limit and this is as far as I'm prepared to go."
George Nash, who was also in the victorious men's four in Rio, announced his retirement in November.
Media playback is not supported on this device | Brazilian prosecutors have launched an investigation into allegations of corruption and overpricing in the construction of a stadium used during last year's football World Cup.
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The military declared that Hit had been "completely liberated" by units of the elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS).
Since it began in mid-March, the assault on the town has been the focus of the government's wider campaign to regain control of Anbar province.
Hit sits on a key supply route linking IS-held territory in Iraq and Syria.
Iraqi military officials and the US-led coalition against IS believe that by clearing the town 150km (93 miles) west of Baghdad, they can build on other recent gains in the vast desert of Anbar.
CTS spokesman Sabah al-Numani told the AFP news agency that troops took complete control of Hit on Thursday, after clearing it of the last remaining gunmen.
IS militants in the town, between Ramadi and Haditha, put up heavy resistance to the assault. Air strikes by coalition warplanes were being called in by troops late into Wednesday night, CTS commander Gen Abdul Ghani al-Asadi told the Associated Press.
Gen Asadi said that in intercepted radio communications IS fighters were heard saying that "this is our headquarters and we will never leave this area".
More than 20,000 civilians fled Hit after the launch of the operation to retake the town last month, but thousands more were believed to be trapped inside during the last stages of the battle.
The offensive on Hit was reportedly delayed by a two-week sit-in protest in Baghdad by supporters of the powerful Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, as forces had to be pulled from Anbar to protect them.
The protesters demanded that Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi move ahead with a plan to replace ministers appointed on the basis of political affiliation with technocrats in a bid to tackle systemic political patronage that has aided corruption.
At the end of March, Mr Abadi submitted a list of non-partisan nominees, but it was rejected by the main parties, who put forward their own candidates,
Mr Abadi submitted a second list with their approval on Tuesday, triggering a sit-in in parliament by dozens of MPs, who demanded an opportunity to vote on the original list.
There were chaotic scenes on Wednesday as a brawl broke out during a debate over the reshuffle, and the speaker Salim al-Jabouri formally called for parliament to be dissolved.
On Thursday, a number of MPs held a vote of no-confidence in Mr Jabouri, a leading Sunni Arab politician and ally of the prime minister. But Mr Jabouri said the session lacked the necessary quorum and was marred by "many legal and constitutional errors".
Stella Downing, 37, admitted murdering 56-year-old Glyn Evans at his home in Walsall Street, Willenhall, on 28 December, 2015.
She and a friend, Martin Stokes, had gone to his home and Downing launched her attack following a row.
Stokes was jailed for a year after lying to police about how long he had been in the house.
The 49-year-old, of St Giles' Road, Willenhall admitted perverting the course of justice at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
Police were called to the house where they found Mr Evans lying slumped against a chest of drawers.
A post mortem revealed he died of stab injuries to the stomach and back.
Alcoholic and unemployed Downing, of no fixed address, and Stokes were arrested by officers near the scene the same night.
Det Insp Jim Munro said the pair had attempted to clear up the bloody scene.
He said: "Glyn was well liked in the local community and I'd like to thank those local people who came forward to assist in this investigation.
"I cannot say what exactly happened in that flat which led to Glyn's death only that evidence suggests he was at no fault whatsoever and was unarmed when attacked by Downing with a knife."
In a statement, Mr Evans' family described him as a "happy-go-lucky chap with a heart of gold".
It said: "He died in tragic circumstances and didn't deserve to die like this.
"He will be sadly missed and the family are still grieving and don't think they will ever get over it. The family are glad justice has been served."
nan | Iraqi troops have recaptured the strategically important western town of Hit from Islamic State militants after weeks of fighting, officials say.
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Nicknamed John Coe, the male orca can be indentified by a notch on its dorsal fin.
The injury to its tail was spotted during a survey by the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust (HWDT).
The trust said consultations with experts suggested that it was "almost certainly" caused by a shark.
John Coe is one of a small community of orcas regularly seen off Scotland's west coast.
Members of the group have also been spotted at times off Peterhead and Girdleness in Aberdeenshire, Ireland's west coast and off Pembrokeshire in Wales.
The group, which is believed to be the UK's only resident population of killer whales, is thought to contain just nine older animals.
There are fears that it will eventually die out after becoming isolated from other killer whale populations.
In a statement, the trust said: "Notable highlights during 2014 included two separate encounters with what is believed to be the UK's only known resident population of killer whales.
"This small, isolated population of orca has never produced offspring since studies began, raising fears that it faces imminent extinction."
It added: "Evidence of drama emerged when one of the group's males - known as John Coe - was observed with a large area of his tail fluke missing.
"Consultations with experts suggest that this was almost certainly the result of a shark attack."
The trust said it could not "realistically speculate" on the kind of shark involved.
HWDT carried out its latest survey of whales, which included a young minke whale, dolphins, porpoises and plankton-feeding basking sharks, between May and October last year.
The trust has now released information on the data it gathered, including a 25% increase in sightings of harbour porpoises and a 33% decline in observations of basking sharks.
More than 80,000 music fans are expected to attend the three-day festival over the weekend.
Scottish synthpop band Prides became the first band to perform at the festival's new home when they took to the main stage soon after the main arena opened to fans.
Other acts on the line-up include The Libertines, Kasabian and David Guetta.
The event was moved across Perthshire to Strathallan after concerns were raised about an oil pipeline running under the festival's long-time home at Balado.
After a lengthy planning battle, organisers DF Concerts won permission to host T in the Park at the estate for the next three summers.
Festival director Geoff Ellis said: "We're delighted with how everything is going so far.
"There's an incredible atmosphere onsite and Prides did Scotland proud with a brilliant opening performance on the main stage."
Organisers urged those heading to the festival over the weekend to plan their journey.
Mr Ellis added: "As it's a brand new site for everyone this year, we ask fans not to assume anything and to take the time to explore and get to know the campsite and the arena.
"We're starting with a blank canvas and we want everyone to respect our beautiful surroundings."
Police Scotland said 12 arrests had been made so far, with a total of 83 crimes recorded, including thefts from tents.
Supt Colin Brown said: "The vast majority of people have enjoyed themselves today and taken our advice and behaved responsibly.
"However, a small number have ignored that advice and have been dealt with. Our advice is simple: look after yourselves and your friends, behave and have a good time."
Selfie sticks, flagpoles and nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, have been banned from the festival site.
Friday's acts at the festival also included Sam Smith, while Saturday sees Avicci, The Libertines and Twin Atlantic take to the stage.
On Sunday, the event will be closed by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds after performances by Stereophonics and The Prodigy. | A shark has been suspected of biting a chunk out of the tail fluke of a killer whale well-known to whale and dolphin watchers in Scotland.
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Kohli was accompanied by team manager Ravi Shastri at the service in Hughes' hometown of Macksville.
Hughes, 25, died on Thursday two days after being struck on the neck by a ball during a domestic cricket match.
His tragic death has prompted the rescheduling of Australia's upcoming Test series with India.
Instead of starting in Brisbane on Thursday, the series will now begin in Adelaide on 9 December.
The changes have been made because of welfare concerns for Australia's players grieving for Hughes.
Around 1,000 people packed into Macksville High School, which Hughes attended, for the 80-minute service as thousands more watched on screens outside
Kohli, along with Shastri and Indian coach Duncan Fletcher, joined cricketers from around the world in the funeral procession after the service.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that Wednesday's service was "heart rending":
And Sambit Bal, editor of ESPNcricinfo.com‎, tweeted that Hughes "died doing what he loved the most":
Indian players, including cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar have paid rich tributes to Hughes in the days after his death.
Batsman Ambati Rayudu, who played with Hughes in the IPL team Mumbai Indians, described his death as "tragic".
"He was always smiling and was a tough competitor. He was very friendly and you can say he was the nicest Australian I knew," Rayudu told The Times of India newspaper.
Southern Health NHS Trust is holding an emergency board meeting after being severely criticised in an official inquiry last month.
A report published by NHS England found it had failed to investigate hundreds of deaths over a four-year period.
The trust has apologised for previous failings and said its systems have since improved.
Southern Health covers Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire and provides services to about 45,000 people.
But its critics have blamed a lack of leadership and demands have grown for the chief executive Katrina Percy to resign.
Last month Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt described the trust's failings as "totally and utterly unacceptable".
Several families will attend the meeting to confront Ms Percy and the rest of the board.
They are led by Sara Ryan, the mother of Connor Sparrowhawk, an 18-year-old with learning disabilities who drowned in a bath in Oxford in 2013 while under the care of Southern Health.
They want the leadership of the trust to resign or be sacked by regulators.
The official inquiry covered a period from April 2011 to June 2015.
It found that many deaths were not investigated, and the quality of the investigations that were carried out were described as poor and much delayed.
The trust was said to have missed opportunities to learn from deaths and to have suffered from a lack of transparency.
BBC News has learned that a former director at the trust has a role at NHS England looking after patient safety.
Dr Martyn Diaper was medical director (quality) at the trust for a year from July 2014.
During the same time, he held two posts at NHS England - head of patient safety (primary care) and chairman of national patient safety expert group for primary care. He retains both posts.
NHS England said it continued to have confidence in Dr Diaper and said his actions had improved systems at the trust, which was recognised in the official report.
In a statement to BBC News, Dr Diaper said: "As a result of my efforts, rapid and significant improvements were made in the way the trust looked at failures in care." | Indian captain Virat Kohli has joined mourners at the funeral of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes in New South Wales.
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Peter Telfer, 25, denies murdering John Baker in the Calton area of Glasgow on 29 June 2016.
Witness Danielle McNaughton told the High Court in Glasgow that Mr Telfer was "hyper" and allegedly had a knife.
Mr Baker's friend later told the jury how the 76-year-old was his "smiling self" the night before he died.
During the probe into Mr Baker's death, Ms McNaughton, 18, had told how she had been out with friends in Glasgow city centre last June 28 and Mr Telfer was there.
She told officers: "He was asking everybody in the group who was up for going to rob somebody with him.
"He was pure hyper and was saying that he was going to slit the person's throat and do them in."
Miss McNaughton added he "looked bouncing".
Asked by prosecutor Iain McSporran QC what she meant, the witness replied: "Under the influence."
Mr Baker's friend Christian Andrews recalled how the pair had spent the evening at a bar in Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street.
He described Mr Baker as popular and said he was in a "very happy mood" when they parted company.
Mr Telfer faces further charges including claims that the same day he tried to rob two women of their handbags.
One of the alleged victims - air hostess Victoria Weston - told how she was near Central Station when a man threatened her with a knife and grabbed her bag.
He also denies these charges.
The trial, before Judge Lord Matthews, continues.
The 24-year-old, racing the distance on the track for only the second time, obliterated the field to finish in 29 minutes 17.45 seconds.
Britain's Jo Pavey was 15th in her fifth Olympics at age 42, setting a season's best time of 31:33.44.
Kenya's Vivian Cheriot, the 2012 bronze medallist, finished second in 29:32.53.
Defending champion Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia only managed third but in a personal best time of 29:42.56 - one of 18 personal bests in the race.
"I found it tough out there," said Pavey.
"I'm so honoured to have competed at my fifth Olympics, but in reality I am getting old. It was fairly humid. I would like to have been more competitive, but I gave my best and that is all I could do."
Ayana, the world champion at 5,000m, recorded the fastest 10,000m debut in history at the Ethiopian Olympic trials in June, clocking 30:07.00.
She becomes the first woman to break a 10,000m world record at an Olympic Games.
Britain's Jess Andrews finished one place behind Pavey in a PB of 31:35.92 and Beth Potter was 34th in 33:04.34.
Paula Radcliffe, Marathon world record holder
"I'm not sure that I can understand that. When I saw the world record set in 1993, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. And Ayana has absolutely blitzed that time."
Brendan Foster, Olympic 10,000m bronze medallist and BBC athletics commentator
"You see things pushed along sometimes - you think of Bob Beamon in the long jump - but I'm not sure what to make of that to be honest. I will be interested to hear what Ayana has to say afterwards."
Steve Cram, Olympic 1500m silver medallist
"Unprecedented. Full stop."
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Northern Ireland Water (NIW) had to shut down five hydrants in the New Lodge and North Queen St areas on Saturday evening because of vandalism.
NIW received about 20 reports from residents who had lost water supply.
It appealed to the community and public representatives to stop children and young people from damaging hydrants.
"Some may see it as 'harmless fun' by kids," the company said in a statement.
"The reality is, as they play in the water, homes and businesses are suffering low water pressure or no water at all."
The firm added: "The whole community needs to help us put a stop to this behaviour before the unthinkable scenario occurs where a fire breaks out and there is no water for the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service to deal with the fire."
Last week, SDLP MLA Nichola Mallon told the BBC disruption to supply began on Sunday, 18 June.
She said it was "particularly hard" for elderly people and parents with young children "when there is no access to water to bath them".
At the time, Ms Mallon called on NI Water to find a "more robust way of securing the hydrants to prevent this abuse".
She asked: "Surely, in this day and age, there must be a way of securing them so they cannot be tampered with?"
However, NI Water replied it had used "vandal-proof" hydrant lids but insisted "if someone has the time and the resources, they can eventually break these open".
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The Democratic Unionist party has indicated its ministers may return to their posts full time if the report says the Provisional IRA has not sanctioned terrorist or criminal acts.
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Fight for the Future's complaint is signed by 14 people who say their details were used without permission to file anti-net neutrality views.
The campaign group says that some of the comments were posted using the names and details of dead people.
The FCC has voted two-to-one to reverse net neutrality laws enacted in 2015.
The vote was the first stage in the process of repealing the legislation designed to force internet service providers to treat all data traffic as equal.
Americans now have until the middle of August to comment on the proposals.
Almost 2.8 million comments have been filed on the FCC's plans since the consultation opened at the end of April.
Last week it was reported that hundreds of thousands of comments supporting the proposals had been posted by bots.
After the FCC vote on 18 May, chairman Ajit Pai told reporters there was "a tension between having an open process where it's easy to comment and preventing questionable comments from being filed", but that the regulator "erred on the side of openness".
But Fight for the Future claims that many of the suspected spam comments have been posted using genuine details that have been stolen.
In their letter to the FCC, the group has called for an investigation into the fake comments, and for the regulator to notify all those whose details have been used to post them.
"Whoever is behind this stole our names and addresses, publicly exposed our private information without our permission, and used our identities to file a political statement we did not sign on to," the letter reads.
"It cannot be the case that the FCC moves forward on such a major public debate without properly investigating this known attack."
Fight for the Future says it has heard from "hundreds" of people who have found comments posted in their names, in favour of revoking net neutrality.
The group's campaign director, Evan Greer, told Motherboard it would add more names to the letter as it verified their claims.
"This letter was something we put together quickly with people who were furious that their personal information had been used and wanted to do something immediately."
The FCC has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment.
Earlier this month, the FCC said it had been targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that led to downtime for the comments system.
This followed a television appearance by comedian John Oliver in which he urged people to post comments against the proposals on the FCC's website.
Surrey doctors asked for an immediate transfer for Mary Muldowney but several units had no beds available last July.
She later had surgery at the Royal London Hospital, but did not survive.
Coroner Mary Hassell said a prompt transfer could have saved the Crawley patient. NHS chief Sir Bruce Keogh said a serious safety issue had been raised.
Ms Muldowney, 57, was first admitted to East Surrey Hospital with a suspected brain bleed and after a scan showed heavy bleeds, doctors requested an immediate transfer to a neurosurgical unit.
Three units - St George's and King's College hospitals in London and the Royal Sussex in Brighton - refused.
Other hospitals also said they had no available intensive care beds.
In a letter to NHS England chiefs, Ms Hassell wrote: "In desperation, knowing of the neurosurgical expertise of a former colleague, one of the East Surrey Hospital doctors went out of area and rang a consultant neurosurgeon at the Royal London Hospital (RLH).
"Ms Muldowney was transferred to the RLH and taken straight to theatre at 4.40pm.
"Unfortunately, her pupils had become fixed and dilated in the ambulance during transfer to the RLH and surgery did not save her.
"If she had been transferred promptly, it probably would have."
The inner north London coroner recorded a narrative verdict.
Sir Bruce said he was "very sorry" to hear of the circumstances.
He said the process of securing a bed added a delay of just less than two hours.
He also said there was a clear "difference in perspective" between doctors at East Surrey and St George's, and a meeting would be held between clinicians at the units.
The findings would be fed into broader work on how patients are referred between hospitals, he added. | A campaign group has complained to the US Federal Communications Commission over its refusal to erase fake comments from a consultation on net neutrality.
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A woman who needed specialist surgery for a brain haemorrhage died after a delay in finding an intensive care bed, a coroner has said. | 40,057,855 | 934 | 65 | true |
"Anger", "outrage", "betrayal" and "shame" are just some of the strong words the Indian media are using in connection with the arrest of Rajasthan Royals players S Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila.
Sreesanth was part of the national team that won the Twenty20 World Cup in 2007 and the one-day international World Cup in 2011.
The cricketers' families have already protested that they are innocent and media reports on Friday quote Sreesanth's lawyer as saying that he is "totally innocent".
The Times of India says that "the dark and ugly face of Indian cricket exposed itself on Thursday".
"Sreesanth puts IPL in a spot, fans in a fix," is the headline of The Hindu newspaper.
"A major clean-up operation is required if cricket in India is to retain the loyalty of its fans," the paper's editorial says.
The Hindustan Times says: "Indian cricket's reputation was dragged through the mud on Thursday and a billion fans were betrayed".
Prominent Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran says the allegations have cast serious doubts over the credibility of cricket in India and that fans will now keenly watch players' actions.
Punjab's leading daily The Tribune writes: "It is a sad day when the uncertainties inherent in sport are undermined by the lure of money."
The Statesman quotes former India captain Sunil Gavaskar: "I am completely shocked. The IPL rewards cricketers quite handsomely, some of them are paid over-handsomely".
In other news, the Supreme Court has asked state governments to be careful in arresting people for posting "objectionable comments" on social networking sites, The New Indian Express reports.
"The courts said that state governments should ensure strict compliance of the federal government's advisory, which said that a person should not be arrested without taking permission from senior police officials," the paper adds.
It goes on to state that the court's advice should be seen "in view of public outrage over people being arrested for making comments or liking posts on Facebook".
Bollywood stars Sanjay Dutt's return to jail for firearms offences linked to the 1993 Mumbai blasts has also been covered extensively in the media.
A picture gallery in The Indian Express shows Dutt's journey from his house to the prison.
Though overshadowed by Dutt's return to jail, Bollywood's tryst with glamour continues and most Indian newspapers and websites are enthusiastically reporting India's presence at the Cannes Film Festival.
The Indian Express shows Bollywood "shining" in a picture gallery with photos of superstar Amitabh Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor and Vidya Balan walking the red carpet.
The Hindustan Times praised Mr Bachchan for addressing the festival audience in Hindi.
"It was a historic moment for Amitabh Bachchan to be invited to open the prestigious Cannes International Film Festival with his The Great Gatsby co-star Leonardo DiCaprio. Big B made the experience more special by addressing the audience in his mother tongue Hindi," the paper said.
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The 20-year-old made his first-team debut for the Scottish Premiership club in August 2013 and has made 25 appearances for the Edinburgh outfit.
But he has been mainly on the bench this season.
Oliver, who has signed a one-year contract, told Hearts' website: "I'm now looking forward to my new challenge and playing regular football."
Hearts signed fellow striker Gavin Reilly from Queens this summer. | "A billion betrayed" - the Times of India sums up the country's mood with this headline on the arrest of three cricketers over spot-fixing allegations in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
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SNP group leader Stuart Bell claimed the Conservative and independent coalition had "gagged" other parties.
The previous council administration did allow opposition groups to occupy some of its most senior posts.
Conservative group leader Michelle Ballantyne said she felt that actually made their role less effective.
"For the last five years we have had opposition positions on the executive," said Mr Bell.
"For two years they were taken up and I think we had better decisions taken in those two years."
However, he said the Conservative opposition at the time had subsequently decided to withdraw from the executive.
"I do not think it is justified to remove the positions simply because the last opposition was ineffective," he said.
"I think opposition will be gagged."
Ms Ballantyne said she did not believe that would be the case.
"We felt that it compromises the position of the opposition - far from giving them a voice, it actually neuters their voice," she said.
"I think the opposition will find that they have a stronger opposition voice when they are not sitting on the executive.
"They will have their own opinion on it. We are giving them, we think, a better position to work from - they obviously don't agree with us but time will tell."
The South African debutant scored two late tries after coming on as a 66th-minute substitute.
George Ford scored all of Bath's 18 points in Todd Blackadder's first league match in charge of the club.
"It was the first run out at the Gardens in front of our fans, who were spectacular like always, so we let them down," he told BBC Radio Northampton.
"And 100 games for Luther Burrell, it was big for us to put in a big performance for him and unfortunately we just came short, so very bleak."
The rain-soaked match was a different experience for Groom, who has previously played in Super Rugby and South African domestic competitions.
"It's going to take a little getting used to, but that's part of the reason I came, to improve myself as a player and experience a different style of playing," he added.
"In a game like this with the weather playing a huge role its the small margins which make a big difference."
The 22-year-old former Accrington man has joined after Dave Richards broke a finger in a reserve match.
Dawber has had spells with Fulham, Aldershot and Bishop's Stortford and spent the first half of the season with National League North side Altrincham.
He has trained with David Artell's side in recent weeks and is set to be on the bench against Newport on Saturday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | A move by Scottish Borders Council's new administration not to include opposition members on its executive has come in for criticism.
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Shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey discussed on Sunday's Andrew Marr Show how Labour would raise money to pay for £63bn of extra spending.
But Mr Corbyn told BBC Radio 4's Today: "I don't recognise the figure.
"Our programme is not complete... the figure that was used on the Marr programme is not one we recognise."
During her interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr, Ms Long-Bailey was repeatedly challenged over how her party would raise the £63bn to pay for promised extra commitments if it got into government.
She said independent research showed that reverses to a series of tax cuts would raise £70bn by 2020: "We certainly wouldn't have made the decisions that this government has, for example, slashing taxes for the most wealthy in society - inheritance tax, capital gains tax, the bank levy, corporation tax."
During an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Corbyn rejected suggestions that Labour would spend £60-70bn more than the Conservatives paid for by taxation, stressing: "I don't recognise the £60bn figure.
"Corporation tax was 28%, it's now dropping and is due to drop to 17% - and indeed both the prime minister and chancellor threatened to drop it even further if Brexit didn't work and they would go down to an Irish figure of 12%.
"On a calculation of OBR figures, [it] shows that by 2022 £70bn will have been given to corporations and the very wealthiest by tax breaks and tax cuts - we would reverse the corporation tax cut, yes, and put corporation tax up."
Mr Corbyn said some of the cash would come from inheritance tax and the threshold for higher paid earners.
"But our programme is not complete - I fully concede that - it could not be, we're still working that out," he said. "So the figure you gave and was used on the Marr programme yesterday was not one we recognise."
On one occasion, Nigel Graham, 56, illegally parked in a disabled space outside a court while he was inside admitting misuse of blue badges.
The BBC filmed the offence in 2015.
The General Osteopathic Council said the "degree and persistence of Mr Graham's dishonesty was fundamentally incompatible with practice as an osteopath".
The council removed him from its register and said he was now unable to practise in the profession.
Graham, of Southbourne, was appearing before Southampton magistrates in June 2015 when his illegally-parked car was given a ticket outside.
The car was driven away with the ticket still attached to the windscreen.
Inside the court, he had pleaded guilty to five counts of false representation to avoid parking fines in Southampton, Bournemouth and Christchurch, and one count of illegally using a disabled person's blue badge.
The badge was in the name of his deceased mother and had been applied for after her death.
Graham was given a suspended jail sentence and ordered to do 120 hours' community service.
The General Osteopathic Council said it noted the strong language used by the magistrate, who said these were "despicable dishonest offences committed... over a long period of time with no regard to bona fide blue badge holders".
The council said when Graham appeared before them in May, he "continued to obfuscate" and showed "no insight into the seriousness of his criminality".
Refugees facing harsh winter conditions "are perhaps the only people with any excuse to wear fur this winter," Peta said.
According to Peta nearly 100 coats and dozens of leather shoes were donated.
Thousands of migrants have been camping in Calais, trying to get across the Channel to the UK.
Some of the coats and shoes will also be sent to camps in Syria.
"While we can't bring back the minks, rabbits, cows, dogs and other animals who were slaughtered... we can help refugees who are struggling to survive," the group said.
Peta runs a donation programme throughout the year and often donates the fur coats they receive from people "who have chosen to drop the cruelly produced items from their wardrobes" to homeless people. | Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said his party's spending plans are not complete, and appeared to contradict his business spokeswoman.
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Their new album, The Day Is My Enemy, outsold the competition - including Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran - despite receiving mixed reviews.
Described as "a full-throated return to form" by The Guardian, it was panned by Rolling Stone magazine, which called the songs "obnoxious and samey".
The Essex band pushed last week's number one, Chaos and the Calm by James Bay, down to number two.
Their previous number one albums are: Music For The Jilted Generation (1994); The Fat Of The Land (1997); Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (2004); Their Law: The Singles 1990-2005 (2005) and Invaders Must Die (2009).
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In the singles chart, Jess Glynne held on to the top spot, despite strong competition from Ed Sheeran and Rudimental, whose track Bloodstream had been the biggest-seller at the start of the week.
Glynne's upbeat pop anthem Hold My Hand sold 80,000 copies over the last seven days - outperforming Sheeran's single by just 5,000 units.
It is British singer's first solo number one. She previously topped the charts as a featured vocalist on songs by Clean Bandit (Rather Be) and Route 94 (My Love).
James Bay was at number three with Hold Back The River, followed by pop newcomers Years & Years, whose single was the most-streamed track of the week.
King notched up 1.96 million plays, putting it just ahead of Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' Uptown Funk, at five.
Elsewhere, Australian pop singer Sia saw a sales boost after performing on the semi-finals of The Voice last week.
Her album, 1,000 Forms of Fear, jumped 19 places to number five; while the song she played on The Voice, Elastic Heart, jumped from 23 to 10.
Sia's 2014 single Chandelier also celebrated its 40th week in the chart by climbing three places to number 29.
Meanwhile, the 90th edition of the Now... That's What I Call Music series sold 264,000 copies last week, topping the compilation charts. | At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws while collecting any kind of media.
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Local elections in eastern Germany on Sunday gave the AfD 12.2% in Brandenburg and 10.6% in Thuringia.
The party entered a regional parliament for the first time two weeks ago in Saxony - another eastern German state.
The AfD is mounting a growing challenge to Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats. It wants to scrap the euro and sees law and order as a priority.
The party is attracting right-wing supporters, while avoiding links with nationalist extremists.
The Social Democrats (SPD) won in Brandenburg with 32% and are set to remain in power in coalition with the socialist Die Linke who polled 18.9%.
The Christian Democrats (CDU), polled 33.5% in Thuringia, only a few points ahead of Die Linke, who won 28% of the vote.
Until now, the CDU has been in coalition with the SPD in Thuringia but could lose the state to Die Linke if the Social Democrats switch allegiances.
The staunchly pro-euro CDU refuses to form any coalition with the AfD.
The AfD was among many Eurosceptic parties which made large gains in the European elections in May.
The AfD, founded just over a year ago, has seven seats now in the European Parliament. Its MEPs sit in the same grouping as the UK Conservatives, demanding fundamental reform of the EU.
The party campaigns against bailouts for southern European countries, angry that taxpayers' money has been used to save the euro.
"We are the force that's renewing the political landscape," said AfD leader Bernd Lucke, 52, an economics professor.
"One can't deny it anymore: the citizens are thirsting for political change," he said.
The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, attacked Bradley Moore outside a McDonald's restaurant in Ashton-under-Lyne on 27 July 2016.
Seconds later, the 43-year-old was struck by Jonathan Carter's car.
Carter, 44, was given a nine-month jail sentence - suspended for two years - at Manchester Crown Court on Monday.
The teenager, found guilty of Mr Moore's manslaughter at trial in January, was sentenced to youth detention.
Found guilty of causing death by careless driving, Carter was also disqualified from driving for two years.
After the trial, senior prosecutor David Hartley said it was "unusual" for two people who did not know each other to both be convicted, but each had "independently contributed" to Mr Moore's death.
He said Mr Moore had been attacked by the boy and three of his friends outside the restaurant, who had thrown "numerous punches and kicks" before the 16-year-old "struck him with one punch which caused him to fall into the road".
They then fled, leaving the 43-year-old "lying prone" on the street and "moments later, Carter - who was having a text argument with his partner - got in his car, and drove away", he added.
Duncan Thorpe, the senior investigating officer, said Carter was "driving the wrong way up a one way street" when he ran over Mr Moore and had told police that he had "felt a bump" but thought he had "clipped the kerb or a tree".
He said Mr Moore died from multiple injuries, including over 30 chest fractures, a tear to his liver, a broken jaw and internal bleeding.
The 16-year-old also pleaded guilty to affray along with three other boys.
They were sentenced to referral orders at an earlier hearing at Tameside Youth Court. | A conservative German anti-euro party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), has won seats in two more regional parliaments.
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The 26-year-old Scot clocked one minute 29.39 seconds to beat South Korean world number one Choi Min-jeong.
Team-mate Kathryn Thomson reached the quarter-finals.
Christie's success in Gangneung follows her double gold in the 500m events in the Chinese World Cup in Shanghai last weekend.
She will have the chance to go for another double gold on South Korea's 2018 Winter Olympics track in the second 1,000m event on Sunday.
Gangneung is the fourth World Cup event of six to be held over 2016-17, with the next taking place in Dresden, Germany on 3-5 February.
Jonathan Bowling admitted attacking Alan Greaves with a pickaxe handle near St Saviour's Church in High Green.
Bowling, 22, who has a long history of violent offending, was told by a judge at Sheffield Crown Court he would serve a minimum of 25 years in prison.
Ashley Foster, 22, of Wesley Road, High Green was sentenced to nine years for manslaughter.
He was cleared of murder on Thursday after a trial.
Sentencing Bowling and Foster, Mr Justice Teare told them: "Why you wished to inflict violence on another human being on Christmas Eve is known only to you."
The judge said: "You chose your victim at random. Alan Greaves happened to be in front of you, on his way to serve the community, as he had always done, and you decided to inflict violence on him.
"Neither of you knew Alan Greaves. He had done nothing to provoke the attack on him.
"His wife, his family and his community have suffered a tragic and horrendous loss."
Mr Greaves's widow, Maureen, said she was "happy" with the sentences.
Outside court she said: "To think Ashley's got nine years is the very best we could have got in the circumstances of the manslaughter.
"To think that Jonathan's got 25 minimum and to think he'll probably never come out, I really am wonderfully pleased with the result."
Mrs Greaves said she would not read a letter Bowling had written to her.
"To put it into my hands the day he was going to get sentenced, I didn't think it was very appropriate," she said.
Mr Greaves, 68, a father of four, died in hospital three days after suffering head injuries in the attack.
Before the sentencing, prosecutor Robert Smith told the judge Bowling's previous convictions included an attack on a 36-year-old jogger when Bowling was 15.
The judge heard how Bowling was also convicted in his teens for brandishing a hammer when a police officer stopped him, threatening a woman with a hammer and headbutting a woman who complained because he was throwing snowballs at her window.
Foster had no previous convictions for violence. | British short track speed skater Elise Christie won the 1,000m gold medal at the World Cup event in South Korea on Saturday.
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Floods in the Chitral district of Pakistan damaged houses and a mosque killing at least 30, officials said.
Another 25 are now known to have died in floods and landslides in India's Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh states in recent days.
Hundreds die in South Asian monsoon season floods every year.
Bad weather has hampered rescue efforts in both countries.
Flash floods hit the village of Arsun, in Chitral, overnight from Saturday to Sunday.
Several people offering special Ramadan evening prayers in the local mosque were killed, local officials said, adding that women and children were among the dead.
A spokesman for the disaster management authority said there was panic in the area as hundreds rushed to flee their homes.
Dozens of houses were also swept away as well as an army post, leaving eight members of the security forces missing.
Chitral is a mountainous area in Pakistan's far north, bordering Afghanistan. Flooding in the same area last year left several dead and destroyed bridges.
In northern India, officials said the death toll after Friday's heavy rains caused flooding and landslides had risen to 15 in Uttarakhand and 10 in Arunachal Pradesh.
Several villages have been buried and a national highway is partially blocked.
Karen Walsh was found guilty in 2011 of killing 81-year-old Maire Rankin.
Ms Rankin was found dead at her home in Newry, County Down, in December 2008, having been beaten with a crucifix.
Judges in Belfast refused Walsh's legal team permission to reopen claims about how her level of drunkenness impacted on any intent to kill the pensioner.
They ruled that no point of law of general importance had been raised worthy of consideration by the Supreme Court in London.
It means Walsh has now exhausted all of her domestic appeal options.
Walsh is currently serving a minimum 20-year prison sentence for carrying out the attack.
Her victim had suffered up to 15 broken ribs during the attack and had also been sexually assaulted.
During Walsh's trial, prosecutors said she arrived at Ms Rankin's home already drunk and with a bottle of vodka.
It was alleged she attacked the Ms Rankin after being spoken to about her drinking.
But Walsh insisted she left the victim's house hours before the attack took place.
Earlier this year, her lawyers appealed the guilty verdict by claiming the jury was misdirected on a key area.
They said her conviction was unsafe and she should be granted a retrial.
That challenge was thrown out, but Walsh's legal team returned to the Court of Appeal seeking leave to take her case to the Supreme Court.
It was argued that the jury was not given proper guidance on whether she can have intended to kill or inflict serious injury to Mrs Rankin based on her level of intoxication.
A defence barrister told the court his client was said to have drank up to a third of a bottle of neat vodka that night.
"The direction that should be issued to the jury is to satisfy itself, being a crime of specific intent, that this accused actually formed the specific intent," he said.
"In this case that was not done, and what I'm asking is that the Supreme Court should actively consider this issue."
But a judge said directions were given to the jury on the alcohol consumption issues.
He dismissed the application and said: "It doesn't seem to us that raises any point of law of general public importance." | At least 55 people have been killed in northern Pakistan and India in flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains.
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Darren Downes said he believes "a lost dog" would have got better treatment than his missing 16-year-old son Ellis.
The teenager disappeared while playing in the River Thames at Culham, Oxfordshire, and private divers found his body nearby two days later.
A police watchdog will now investigate Thames Valley Police over the case.
Updates on this story and more from Oxfordshire
Speaking to BBC Radio Oxford, Mr Downes said on the evening his son went missing his family sat for "hours and hours" without any contact from the police.
He eventually discovered no divers had been used to search the river and his daughter Alex had to ring round private companies.
Thames Valley Police axed its specialist search and recovery team, which carried out underwater operations, as a result of budget cuts in 2014.
Mr Downes said: "We just felt totally left out and shocked, we really thought everything was being done.
"The way everything was handled from start to finish… was horrendous, absolutely horrendous. I think a lost dog would probably get better treatment."
Ellis disappeared on Saturday evening and private dive company Specialist Group International discovered his body at 23:00 BST on Monday, after answering a Facebook appeal.
But Mr Downes said the dive team was initially barred from entering the water, which delayed the search by several hours. Police relented when he threatened to "go down and jump in myself".
He said: "They [Specialist Group International] work all over the world and the police wouldn't let them go in the Thames in Abingdon.
"The police never really helped whatsoever... they were more concerned about where people were parking."
Dive team chief executive Peter Faulding has branded the police's obstruction of his team "disgusting" and said the operation was the worst he had seen in his career.
Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner Anthony Stansfeld also said he has concerns about the search and has asked the chief constable for an explanation.
Assistant Chief Constable Nikki Ross said the force was "aware of the family and community concerns around our actions following this tragic incident".
A spokeswoman said the force has referred itself to the Independent Police Complaints Commission over its handling of the case, so it would be "inappropriate" to comment further.
The feature is designed to be the "modern day baby book", storing all your children's pictures in one place.
The child may then inherit the album when they're old enough to use the social networking site.
This means the next generation could have an online identity on the site if they join up.
Dan Barak, Facebook product manager who designed the feature, said: "I started seeing friends who were parents adding photos of their kids and tagging their partners... we asked and interviewed a bunch of parents and found 65% of partners who share photos of their kids on Facebook [in the US] do this."
He said he realised that people needed a "better way to organise them" so he set up Scrapbook.
"Photos of my son are the most important pictures my wife and I will ever take. It's important to us that we're in control of these photos," Dan said.
Only parents with access to Scrapbook can tag and add photos.
In response to questions regarding safety concerns, a Facebook representative says that it takes safety seriously.
The usual privacy and security controls will apply and the parent can decide what audience to share the Scrapbook photos with.
The feature is still a pilot. Facebook won't automatically transfer Scrapbook into a 13-year-old's new account and Facebook says it will respond to user feedback.
Scrapbook is only available in the US at the moment, on iOS, Android and desktop.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | A drowned teenager's family say they were forced to hire a boat and find private divers to recover his body when they were left without police help.
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The man asked the woman for a cigarette light as she walked on a path at Wychall Reservoir, Birmingham.
Moments later he "grabbed her from behind, dragged her to the floor and assaulted her", police said.
The man who carried out the attack on 18 November was smartly dressed in blue trousers and black pointed shoes and spoke with a Scottish accent.
He was also described as white and in his 30s or 40s. The woman also recalled that her attacker smelled strongly of aftershave.
The assault took place on a path running between Popes Lane and Wychall Road at about 17:00 GMT.
"This is a shocking attack on a woman by a stranger," said Det Con Fay Mason. "We need to identify her attacker as soon as possible."
Anyone with information was urged to contact West Midlands Police.
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The Jamaican, 24, clocked 14.71 seconds, finishing ahead of compatriot Kemar Bailey Cole (15.00 secs).
"It wasn't a good day but to have an injury-free race is good," Blake, returning from injury, told BBC Sport.
Elsewhere, Olympic champion Greg Rutherford won the men's long jump with a best leap of 8.02m.
"It's always nice to win," said Rutherford, who became the British record holder last month with an 8.51m jump in San Diego.
"The performance itself was way down on where I wanted to be. Technically I didn't look good, but it's good to go up against top competitors and pull it out of the bag somehow."
It was Blake - the second fastest man in history and the 2011 100m world champion - who took top billing in Manchester but he was some distance from bettering the world best of 14.35 seconds set by Bolt in 2009.
"I didn't get to warm up properly but I won't use that as an excuse," added Blake, who missed most of last season with a hamstring injury.
"It was Christine Ohuruogu's first race outdoors this season. We don't know what stage she is at in training and it's hard to be critical. She's at a different stage to the other athletes. Christine likes to build her way into the season so I wouldn't read too much into this performance."
World 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu (24.06 secs) was third in the women's 200m, a race won by Britain's Shana Cox in 23.28 seconds.
Britain's World 60m indoor champion Richard Kilty finished third in the men's 100m, behind winner Femi Ogunode (10.10sec ) of Qatar and European junior champion Chijindu Ujah (10.14).
"I only arrived from the States yesterday (Friday) and I felt a little jet-lagged," said Kilty, who clocked 10.19 secs.
"Today was more about enjoying the competition and putting on a good show for the crowd, rather than running a fast time."
The men's 200m hurdles was won by Britain's Andy Turner (22.58 secs) in a closely-fought contest with Olympic 400m hurdles champion Felix Sanchez (22.61 secs).
But it was a commanding 25.05-second victory for Meghan Beesley in the women's 200m hurdles. She dipped home ahead of British team-mate Eilidh Child (25.84).
Tiffany Porter ran an impressive 12.66 secs, the fourth fastest time of the year, to win the women's 100m hurdles, beating Olympic bronze medallist Kellie Wells (12.83) and former Olympic champion Dawn Harper, who stumbled at the third hurdle.
In a close men's 110m hurdles race, Lawrence Clarke came out on top, pipping reigning Commonwealth Games champion Turner to the line by four hundredths of a second.
Clarke, 24, secured the A qualifying standard for the Commonwealth Games with his winning time of 13.51 secs.
Germany's Felix Streng, 19, won the men's IPC 200m T44 in 22.40 seconds, the quickest time of the year.
Earlier, America's Paul Peterson ran 11.47 secs to comfortably win the men's IPC 100m T44, while Marlou van Rhijn also easily won the women's T44 100m in 13.39 secs. | Police are urgently hunting for a man after a serious sexual assault on a 63-year-old woman near a nature reserve.
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Double Olympic silver medallist Yohan Blake won the men's 150m at the Great City Games but failed to break Usain Bolt's world best over the distance. | 38,200,412 | 989 | 70 | true |
They plan to strike on 8 March and on 17 March - St Patrick's Day, which is a national holiday in Ireland.
Last week, the Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union (Siptu) workers stopped work for 48 hours in a dispute over pay.
It caused major disruption for 90,000 commuters in Ireland's capital city.
There are also plans to strike again on Thursday and Friday, 18 and 19 February.
The union said its members believe they are underpaid, particularly when compared to workers doing similar jobs in Irish Rail.
Workers are seeking pay rises ranging from 8% to 53%.
However, Transdev, the private company that operates the Luas, said a workers' pay claim of up to 53% was not sustainable and would add 6m euros (£4.65m ) to its costs.
The Malaysian foreign ministry said the reports of spying could "severely damage" relations.
It said a protest note was handed over.
China and Indonesia have already protested at the claims that Australian embassies were being used to monitor phones and collect data for the US.
Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman said "such activities are not done amongst close friends".
Mr Anifah said his Australian counterpart, Julie Bishop, replied that it was not her government's policy to comment on intelligence matters, but she accepted Malaysia's concerns.
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) has reported that Australian diplomatic posts in Asia were being used to intercept phone calls and data.
The reports were based on a US National Security Agency document leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has declined to comment on the reports.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said: "Every Australian governmental agency, every Australian official... operates in accordance with the law."
Ms Waters, from the left-wing Greens party, fed two-month-old daughter Alia Joy during a vote on Tuesday.
The lower house last year joined the Senate in allowing breastfeeding, but no MPs in either house had done so.
It followed a backlash in 2015 when Kelly O'Dwyer, a government minister, was asked to consider expressing milk to avoid missing parliamentary duties.
Ms Waters told the BBC World Service: "It's frankly ridiculous, really, that feeding one's baby is international news. Women have been breastfeeding for as long as time immemorial.
"I had hoped to not only be able to feed my baby but to send a message to young women that they belong in the parliament."
Earlier on Facebook, she called for "more family-friendly and flexible workplaces, and affordable child care, for everyone".
Labor Senator Katy Gallagher said the moment deserved to be acknowledged.
"Women have been doing it in parliaments around the world," she told Sky News Australia.
"Women are going to continue to have babies and if they want to do their job and be at work and look after their baby... the reality is we are going to have to accommodate that."
Until last year, MPs in the lower House of Representatives could take babies only into parliamentary offices or public galleries.
Politicians have been permitted to breastfeed in the Senate since 2003.
The subject is a sensitive issue in many parliaments around the world. In 2016, Spanish MP Carolina Bescansa, from the Podemos (We Can) party, was both criticised and commended for taking her baby into parliament and breastfeeding him.
Last year, a report on diversity in UK politics recommended that allowing breastfeeding in the House of Commons should be considered.
However, one MP in 2015 warned it could risk ridicule from the tabloid press. | Workers on the Luas, Dublin's tram system are to step up their industrial action.
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The Malaysian government has summoned the heads of the US and Australian diplomatic missions in Kuala Lumpur over a row about an alleged American-led spying network in Asia.
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Australian Senator Larissa Waters has become the first politician to breastfeed in the nation's parliament. | 35,585,527 | 806 | 84 | true |
Kirsty Maxwell, from Livingston, died following a fall from the 10th floor of a hotel in the Spanish resort.
A lawyer for Ms Maxwell's family has said the men were in the room when she fell.
The 27-year-old had recently got married and was in the resort with a group of friends on a hen party.
Following her death, a British man was arrested but then later released by Spanish authorities.
Her husband, Adam Maxwell, described her as his best friend and said he will never stop missing her.
Residents living along the border with the Palestinian territory were told to evacuate their homes so that they can be demolished, local media reports.
Water-filled trenches will also be used to prevent the construction of tunnels.
Egyptian media accuses Gaza's Hamas administration of aiding militants in Sinai. Hamas denies the charge.
Last week, more than 30 Egyptian soldiers were killed in a militant bomb attack on an army post in Sinai.
After the bombing, Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi passed a law authorising the military to protect state facilities - including power plants, main roads and bridges.
He also declared a three-month state of emergency in Sinai. Critics of the move said it allows the army to return to the streets and brings back military trials for civilians.
The planned buffer zone will reportedly stretch along the length of the 13km (8 mile) border.
Officials told the Associated Press news agency that the army had given residents 48 hours to leave their homes, but this ultimatum had been put on hold after protests.
Tunnels linking the Gaza Strip and Sinai have also played a vital role in the economy of the Palestinian territory, which has been struggling to cope with a blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt in 2007 as a measure against Hamas.
Tooting Fire Station manager Sally Harper's daughter Katie Holloway, 22, joined the same south London station where her mother started in 1988.
The service had only seven women firefighters when the Ms Harper joined, compared with more than 300 now.
The new recruit was "immensely proud" of the role of women in the brigade.
Ms Harper said: "Katie may have joined the same station as me, but it has changed so much since the late '80s.
"My locker was in a cupboard, which I had to go through the men's changing rooms to access.
"After giving birth to my first daughter, Joanne, I was the first firefighter to come back to station after having a baby and attitudes towards women in the fire service were sometimes very challenging."
Ms Harper recalled a teacher's reaction at a school play when her daughter said: "I'm driving a fire engine like my mum."
"The teacher tried to correct her and said 'don't you mean your dad?' and Katie came straight back with 'No. Like my mum'," she said.
Ms Holloway, who has just completed her first full tour of duty, said: "I'm immensely proud of the work my mum and others have done for women in the fire service, which makes it a completely different experience to when she joined."
Her mother will be retiring later this year. | A judge in Spain has agreed to formally investigate five British men following the death of a Scottish woman in Benidorm in April.
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Egypt is reportedly planning to create a 500m buffer zone along the border with the Gaza Strip to block the smuggling of weapons.
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The suspect, Brayan Jimenez, had been on the run since last month, when the US issued an arrest warrant for 16 Latin American football officials.
He was detained at a block of flats in the capital, Guatemala City.
His lawyer said he would not fight the extradition request.
"He will prove his innocence in the courts of the United States," said his lawyer, Francisco Garcia Gudiel.
Mr Jimenez was head of the Guatemalan Football Federation (Fedefut) from 2010 until last year.
US prosecutors say he and former Fedefut Secretary-General Hector Trujillo took a "six-digit bribe" to sell the television rights to qualifying matches for the 2018 World Cup.
Mr Trujillo was arrested in the US last month.
The US has now charged some 40 individuals and entities as part of the Fifa investigation.
The Department of Justice said it had asked for the arrests because the alleged offences were "agreed and prepared in the United States" and payments were also processed via American banks.
The first charges, against 14 Fifa executives and associates, were brought in May. Some of them have already been convicted.
Many others were indicted in the following months.
On 3 December, US prosecutors announced new charges focusing on corruption at the South American Football Confederation and Concacaf, which governs the game in North and Central America as well as the Caribbean.
The football executives were accused of receiving bribes worth millions of dollars connected to Copa America tournaments.
Speaking at a Q&A session at Harvard University, the Fed chair said gradual rate rises would be appropriate.
"If the labour market continues to improve, and I expect those things to occur ... in the coming months such a move would be appropriate," she said.
The central bank meets on 14-15 June to discuss raising rates.
The Fed raised interest rates by 0.25% for the first time in nine years last December and has left them unchanged since.
"We saw relatively weak growth last year, but growth looks to be picking up," Ms Yellen said.
On Friday, the US Commerce Department revised its estimate for first quarter GDP growth up to 0.8%, from the sluggish 0.5% originally estimated.
Unemployment was 5.5% in May - a level the Fed regards as good, although Ms Yellen did acknowledge that many part-time workers were still looking for full-time employment.
The Fed also wants to see US inflation rise to 2%. | Police in Guatemala have arrested a former head of the country's football federation as part of a major US corruption investigation into the sport's world governing body, Fifa.
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Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said she expects interest rates to rise in "the coming months" if the US economy continued to improve. | 35,299,194 | 547 | 74 | true |
The plane blew a tyre on take-off from Clarksdale, Mississippi, on Saturday.
The SJ30 jet made a forced landing in Tunica, about 40 miles (65km) away, where it went off the runway.
In a statement, the Shawshank Redemption star said: "Sometimes things don't go as planned and a tyre blew on take-off, which caused other problems."
He continued: "But thanks to my excellent pilot Jimmy Hobson we landed safely without a scratch.
"I cannot say the same about my plane. I appreciate the concern and prayers for our safety."
The 78-year-old has been nominated for seven Oscars for films including Driving Miss Daisy, Street Smart and Invictus, and won in 2005 for his role in Million Dollar Baby.
Natalia Martínez has been at a camp on Mount Logan since Monday, unable to move after strong earthquakes triggered large avalanches, according to reports.
She is said to be healthy and uninjured. Her campsite is safe but the surrounding terrain is unstable.
Storms and high winds have made a helicopter rescue impossible.
"There should be a good weather window happening by Friday, hopefully, if the forecasts are correct," her partner, Camilo Rada, was quoted by CBC as saying.
Rada has been in contact with the 37-year-old climber by phone and text.
In a blog post, he said she had plenty of food and supplies.
She was tired, he added, as she had to leave her tent every few hours to shovel snow piled around her camp. The temperatures in the area have reached -20C.
But in her latest message, the climber said the wind had eased and that she was preparing a "hot meal".
Martínez started a solo ascent of the 5,959 m (19,551 ft) peak last month.
The earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck the western Yukon state early on Monday, Rada said. A few hours later, another tremor, of magnitude 6.3, hit.
Martínez was woken up by a "tremendous roar" and saw that blocs of glacial ice surrounded her tent. She then moved her camp to a safer area, he said.
The Argentine was described as an experienced climber, who had been on Mount Logan before and faced extreme conditions in Patagonia.
She was prepared for severe weather and other challenges, Rada added, but did not expect the earthquakes.
"These have been very difficult days for her, first by finding her route devastated by an earthquake, forcing her to abandon the dream of the summit, then due to a forced wait in the middle of a serious storm," he said.
"However, she is doing extraordinarily well, keeping herself safe even under all this [sic] circumstances."
An average of 25 climbers try to reach the summit of Mount Logan every year.
Another group was on the mountain but no details have been given, according to CBC. | A private plane carrying Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was forced to make an emergency landing, but the star and his pilot were unhurt.
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Tipton fired home on 28 minutes, then added his second in first-half injury-time after goalkeeper Peter Burke was sent-off for fouling Matthew Shevlin.
Chris Curran pulled one back but David Cushley scored with a left-foot drive.
Michael Ruddy and Jim Ervin were then on target, before Tipton slotted in his third spot-kick with six minutes left.
Both sides had early chances in a lively start, Caoimhin Bonner seeing a header cleared off the line by Eoin Kane and Cushley rifling a shot narrowly wide.
Jay Donnelly crashed a header off the bar, before striker Tipton opened the scoring after Shevlin went down under a challenge from Johnny Flynn inside the area.
Burke was shown a red card by referee Tim Marshall after he lost control of the ball and upended Shevlin in the box.
Tipton blasted past makeshift keeper Eamonn Seydak, but Curran gave his side some hope when he headed home from a Stephen Garrett cross four minutes after the interval.
Cushley waltzed through the Reds defence and rifled low into the net, before Ruddy chipped in the fourth after catching Seydak off his line.
Ervin got in on the act with 10 minutes remaining, and Tipton grabbed the sixth, to condemn the visitors to a second successive league defeat.
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Elizabeth Quintana from the military think tank Rusi said swarming drones could be used to take out enemy swarms.
But she said the technology was unlikely to be deployed in practice any time soon.
The Black Cats are one point above the relegation zone after Saturday's 4-0 home defeat by Aston Villa.
"Sadly, we have not made the progress that any of us had hoped for this season," said chairman Ellis Short.
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"We find ourselves battling, once again, at the wrong end of the table. We have therefore made the difficult decision that a change is needed."
A Sunderland statement added that an announcement about Poyet's successor would be made "in due course".
The Wearsiders face a trip to West Ham on Saturday before a derby against Newcastle on 5 April.
Poyet, 47, took training on Monday morning and then met chief executive Margaret Byrne and other board members to learn his fate.
Poyet had taken over from Paolo Di Canio in October 2013 with the club bottom of the Premier League.
But four victories and a draw from their final six league games helped keep them up - a run that included wins at Chelsea and Manchester United, plus a draw at Manchester City.
Uruguayan Poyet, who has managed Brighton, also led the Wearsiders to the 2014 Capital One Cup final, which they lost to City.
"I would like to thank Gus for his endeavours during his time at the club, in particular last season's 'great escape' and cup final appearance, which will live long in the memory of every Sunderland fan," said Short.
This term, Sunderland have just four wins from 29 league matches and were knocked out of the FA Cup by League One Bradford in February.
Following that 2-0 defeat by the Bantams, Poyet wrote an open letter to fans calling for unity to help their battle to stay in the Premier League.
Sunderland were 4-0 down to Villa before half-time on Saturday.
Some angry fans had to be restrained by security staff as they tried to get close to Poyet in the dug-out, while other supporters left the ground early. | Matthew Tipton scored a hat-trick of penalties as Ballymena moved off the bottom of the table by trouncing 10-man Cliftonville at the Showgrounds.
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Julia Muir-Watt, of the Whithorn Trust, described it as their "most ambitious public archaeology yet".
It follows the discovery of the remains of a group of roundhouses at Black Loch of Myrton thought to date back to the fifth century BC.
The scheme has already secured £87,000 of Heritage Lottery Funding.
A planning application has now been lodged to create a replica roundhouse close to the dig site for use as an educational and performance facility.
The Whithorn Trust was the community partner in AOC Archaeology's excavation of a large Iron Age settlement near the town last year.
"The settlement is the largest lochside village so far discovered in Scotland and has yielded finds never before seen from the south west of Scotland Iron Age," Ms Muir-Watt said.
She said that because it was a wetland site it meant the timber was in a "remarkable state of preservation".
"The roundhouse excavated last year was exceptionally large, over 13 metres in diameter, and is one of seven or eight on the site," she said.
"The finds are still in post-excavation but should ultimately enable archaeologists to build a much more complete picture of the south west Scotland Iron Age than from any other site."
Excavations will continue this summer and plans have now been lodged with Dumfries and Galloway Council to recreate a roundhouse.
Ms Muir-Watt said it would be "based entirely on the finds at the Black Loch, and using all authentic materials".
"Craftsmen will work with archaeologists and the public, schools and students, to create the massive structure, which has to be floated on a steel subframe to protect the archaeological layers beneath," she said.
"This is the design challenge which the architect and engineer have been grappling with over the last couple of months."
She said academics from the University of Edinburgh had been debating prehistoric roof structures and the project would allow them to "experiment with prehistoric architectural techniques and tool use".
A full-scale working hearth will also allow a "prehistoric cooking experiment" and it is hoped the site can attract school groups, visitors and craft exhibitions and workshops.
"Accompanying the construction, a new prehistoric and architectural app will be developed by local young people, to guide visitors round the site, through 3,000 years of buildings," said Ms Muir-Watt.
She said the the project would allow the trust to "juxtapose the native wooden roundhouse with the site of the very first Christian church" in the area.
If planning permission is secured it is hoped the reconstruction work - also backed the SSE Community Fund - can start in the summer.
The tooth was found at Arago cave near the village of Tautavel, one of the world's most important prehistoric sites; it has been under excavation for about 50 years.
The owner of the tooth - a very worn lower incisor - lived during a cold and dry period, according to scientists.
They hunted horses, reindeer, bison and rhinoceros.
"A large adult tooth - we can't say if it was from a male or female - was found during excavations of soil we know to be between 550,000 and 580,000 years old, because we used different dating methods," paleoanthropologist Amelie Viallet told the AFP news agency.
"This is a major discovery because we have very few human fossils from this period in Europe," she said.
Volunteer Camille, 16, was working with another young archaeologist when she found the tooth last Thursday.
They were among hundreds of young trainee archaeologists who come to work in the cave every year to study human ancestors during Lower Palaeolithic times.
Older fossils are known from western Europe: remains thought to belong to the species Homo antecessor from Spain are estimated to be 1.2 million years old. | Plans have been submitted to reconstruct an Iron Age roundhouse near the site of the discovery of a major settlement in southern Scotland.
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Ian McGaw, 26, from Galston, went berserk as they tried to arrest him for throwing a firework into a play park in the East Ayrshire town.
Kilmarnock Sheriff Court heard how he hurled five PCs around "like rag dolls" after being sprayed with CS gas and was so powerful he buckled his handcuffs.
Dean Stevenson, 19, who also attacked police, was jailed for two years.
McGaw admitted culpable and reckless conduct by throwing a firework, punching and kicking two officers, assaulting PC Robert McMeeking to the danger of his life and resisting arrest.
Stevenson, who is also from Galston, admitted punching a female officer on the head and assaulting PC McMeeking to the danger of his life.
The court heard how police went to a house in Galston, in October last year, after fireworks had been thrown in a local play park.
As officers confronted a group of males inside, McGaw showed signs of building aggression and two officers attempted to handcuff him.
McGaw managed to pick up a police sergeant and throw him through a closed door into the next room.
Stephanie MacDonald, prosecuting, said: "The sergeant got up and saw five officers being treated, as he described it, like rag dolls."
McGaw dropped to his knees after being sprayed twice with CS gas, while Stevenson punched an officer in the face.
Ms MacDonald added: "McGaw got back on his feet and lunged towards PC Robert McMeeking, grabbed him by the throat with both hands and squeezed his windpipe with both thumbs.
"He was held against a wall and lifted off his feet. The officer estimated he was not breathing for 20-30 seconds and described losing the feeling in his arms and legs."
PC McMeeking passed out and was freed by a colleague, but McGaw spat on him while being restrained.
PC McMeeking was then kicked on the head by Stevenson, while the latter was being handcuffed.
Ms MacDonald said the pair were put in a van and taken to Kilmarnock police office, where McGaw's cuffs were removed and "found to be buckled and unserviceable due to the struggle".
The court was told that PC McMeeking had since suffered loss of vision which had been linked to post-traumatic stress disorder.
Sheriff Alistair Watson said the "terrible and sustained attack on police officers" was so serious he had considered sending it to the High Court for sentencing.
He told McGaw: "You are a man with a history of violence and quite obvious size and strength which you used to press home this attack on the officers, and in particular PC McMeeking.
"The effects on him will be long-lasting, that's obvious to all. The attack was life-threatening and you show no remorse for what you have done."
Sheriff Watson said the sentence should reflect McGaw's "significant risk to the public" and ordered that he be supervised for two years after his release.
He told Stevenson his part in the attack had caused PC McMeeking to lose consciousness, although he had shown remorse and written a letter to the court.
The incident was the second time McGaw had been jailed over a violent confrontation with police.
In 2006, when he was 18, he and co-accused Christopher Quigley, 19, were jailed for a total of seven years after barricading themselves in their burning house and attacking riot police.
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The 200 million year old fossil was hidden away in the museum store room.
It's thought to be the remains of an ichthyosaur - an extinct marine reptile.
The man who found it says scientists now know it lived in the waters around Britain, and that its last meal was a squid.
It is not uncommon to find ichthyosaur fossils in England. The sharp-toothed marine reptiles swam in large numbers in the seas around Britain when the dinosaurs roamed. | A man who throttled a policeman and threw another officer through a door has been jailed for five years.
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The company said a "processing error" led to a number of its customers at "some" stores in the Midlands being charged a second time on Thursday for purchases made on 4 and 7 August.
Some 4% of all transactions made in the UK on those dates were affected by the technical fault, Aldi said.
All affected customers were reimbursed within 24 hours, the supermarket added.
When asked if customers would be refunded for any overdraft fees they might have incurred, a spokesman for the company said it was advising customers to contact their bank.
Shoppers took to Twitter to complain about money being taken from their bank accounts.
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The company said: "We are sorry for this error and any inconvenience caused to our customers.
"The issue is now resolved, but if customers require any further assistance, we advise them to contact our customer services team on 0800 042 0800, or by emailing customer.service@aldi.co.uk."
The American assumed control of Villa in 2006 after a £62.6m takeover was agreed with the club's board.
"I owe it to Villa to move on, and look for fresh, invigorated leadership, if in my heart I feel I can no longer do the job," he said in a statement.
Villa finished the season in 15th position, five points above the relegation zone.
Their Premier League status was only secured with victory over Hull City on 3 May and the future of manager Paul Lambert remains uncertain.
I don't believe it's going to be that easy to sell Aston Villa to Randy Lerner's satisfaction
Lerner, who bought the club in August 2006 from Doug Ellis, had said last month that he would address speculation regarding his own future at the club in the summer.
In his statement issued on Monday, the 51-year-old owner said he had engaged Bank of America Merrill Lynch to advise on the club's sale.
"I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit," he said.
"The last several seasons have been week in, week out battles and having now come through this last season unfortunately limping amidst very meaningful injuries and constant sale rumours, I feel further that now is the time for me to look for new ownership and thus new leadership."
He added: "I am appreciative of the support I have received, even in these last years of comparative struggle when criticism was due, and will look on with others - with fingers crossed - for stronger future performance appropriate to our size and heritage."
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News of the sale was revealed by BBC reporter Pat Murphy, who said the likely asking price would be about £200m - which is £100m less than Lerner's estimated total investment in the club.
Murphy also disclosed the involvement of investment banker Keith Harris, who did the deal in 2006 to bring Lerner to Aston Villa.
"My understanding is Randy Lerner won't sell Aston Villa unless Keith Harris gives him the say-so, such is his respect for Keith Harris," Murphy told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I believe this will move fairly quickly. But don't forget, you're looking at £200m, plus in my opinion £100m for players to save Villa from their annual flirtation against relegation and one of these days they will drop off the edge unless this is sorted out. And where are the multi-billionaires around who would go for what is now, a middle-ranking club in the Premier League?
"I'm not sure it's that attractive a prospect now. I don't believe it's going to be that easy to sell Aston Villa to Randy Lerner's satisfaction."
Villa were sixth three seasons running under manager Martin O'Neill, but have only finished in the top half of the table once in the four campaigns since his resignation.
Lambert, who replaced fellow Scot Alex McLeish, joined from Norwich City two years ago and described keeping the club up this season as "an incredible achievement".
"It needs investment, it's simple," Lambert said after the 3-0 defeat at Tottenham on Sunday. "It smacks you right in the face what the team needs. That's the bottom line." | Aldi has apologised after customers in some Midlands stores were charged twice for purchases made this month.
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A recent Ofcom report suggested 20% of homes in urban areas struggle with poor 4G phone signal.
In rural areas, it's as high as 80%. Little wonder then Britain languishes at 54th place in the global league table of 4G connectivity, behind Albania, Estonia and Peru.
The hunt is now on for test beds to develop new 5G technology - Bristol, Kings College London and the University of Surrey are all said to be interested.
The government has announced a fresh drive to bring us up to speed for the digital age. It has put superfast connections at the heart of its Industrial Strategy, backed up with investment of £1bn.
Inside the Smart Internet Lab at the University of Bristol - I discover just how much progress they've already made.
They've designed a small box that emits 5G. The promise is super-fast, super-reliable connectivity wherever you go.
It's an essential component in the driverless car technology they're also working on here. When you're travelling at 60mph in a car reliant on mobile signals for direction, you can't afford to slip into a digital desert.
Lab director, Professor Dimitra Simeonidou, said: "5G is a revolution. It's not just about having a faster connection in our mobile phones - it's also about creating a seamless connectivity with the network and it's about having complete reliability."
"Often in your home you have great connectivity. Your teenagers might be on YouTube while you're watching programmes streamed on iPlayer. Then you get into your car and you don't even get a 3G service. 5G will stop all of this."
As our data demands climb exponentially we need a network that can support them. Now the race is on to design the framework for that digital dream.
A bus transporting workers collided with a lorry carrying construction materials in the Zakhir district of the oasis city of al-Ain.
According to GulfNews.com, most of the workers were cleaners of Indian, Bangladeshi or Pakistani origin.
Millions of foreign workers, mostly from South Asia, live in the UAE.
The accident took place on the Old Truck Road during morning rush hour.
The lorry ended up on top of the bus, Gen Hussein al-Harithi, director of Abu Dhabi traffic police told state news agency WAM.
He said the lorry had overturned when its brakes failed and that there had not been a safe distance between the two vehicles.
"Twenty-two people were dead at the scene," he said. "There were 24 others injured, and their injuries ranged from minor and moderate to serious."
The lorry was reported to be carrying either gravel or sand.
The per-capita death toll on UAE roads is among the highest in the world, according to the World Health Organization.
The musician, from Dumfries, earned $63m (£51.18m) last year.
Chef Gordon Ramsay is ranked 34th on the Forbes celebrity rich list, with earnings of $54m (£43.87m) in 2016.
The list is topped by pop star Taylor Swift who earns $170m (£138.17m). | British inventors may have pioneered the telephone and the internet but the reliability of those networks in this country is lagging behind.
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At least 22 Asian workers have been killed and 24 injured in a road accident in the United Arab Emirates, police say.
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Scottish DJ Calvin Harris has been named the world's 21st highest-paid celebrity. | 38,895,307 | 718 | 75 | true |
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it is looking into claims the Met's National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit destroyed paperwork in May 2014.
The public inquiry into undercover policing was announced in March 2014.
The Met said it is committed to co-operating with the investigation.
The IPCC said documents should not have been destroyed "without express permission".
IPCC spokeswoman Sarah Green said: "While the evidence indicates that a large number of documents were shredded over a period of days in May 2014, the difficult task ahead for our investigators is to determine what the documentation was, why it was destroyed, whether electronic copies were kept and who may have ordered its destruction."
The then Home Secretary Theresa May ordered the public inquiry following a number of accusations about the conduct of officers deployed to spy on political groups.
The Met said in a statement it had notified the IPCC about the possible shredding of documents by the National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit in May 2016, but the allegation was not recorded until December 2016.
"The reason why it was not progressed further at that stage is unclear and will also be subject of the investigation by the IPCC," the statement said.
"The MPS has briefed the Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing regarding the referral."
Green Party member Baroness Jenny Jones has alleged records relating to her were destroyed or deleted in June 2014.
Her case is "now also subject to independent investigation" and is a separate matter from the May 2014 documents, the IPCC said.
The governing body for the sport is calling for a change in the Highway Code to make drivers turning left give way to cyclists going straight ahead on the passenger side of their vehicle.
Former cycling champion and policy adviser Chris Boardman said the change "reinforces good behaviour".
The Road Haulage Association (RHA) warned it would lead to more accidents.
Mr Boardman has been leading the campaign after his mother Carol was killed in a collision with a pick-up vehicle while cycling in Connah's Quay, north Wales, in July.
The Olympic gold medallist said Britain should follow the European standard where anyone turning at junctions gives way.
"It just creates a duty of care for everybody and it makes it really simple. No-one's quite sure what the rules are," he told the BBC's Breakfast programme.
"It compels people to treat others as human beings and not obstacles."
The proposed amendment would need to be agreed by the Department for Transport (DfT) as part of an expected update of the Highway Code before being presented to Parliament.
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London Cycling Campaign says the vast majority of collisions between all road users including pedestrians happen at junctions.
A spokesman for the group, Simon Munk, told BBC News several factors contributed to this:
He said while "drivers have a responsibility when pedestrians are crossing to be cautious" it is not this way for cyclists.
Duncan Buchanan, RHA's deputy policy director, said the rule change would introduce confusion and sets an "incredibly dangerous precedent".
"It is doing exactly the opposite of what we hope which is to ensure the safety of road users," he told BBC Radio 4's Today.
He added: "This rule while superficially appearing simple in fact makes it much more complicated - it means that you become responsible as the motorist for someone overtaking you on the inside when they have full visibility of what you're doing."
Mr Buchanan said there was a conflict in what was being proposed and what was already written in the Highway Code.
The DfT said it had launched a THINK! campaign warning drivers and cyclists of the dangers when turning left and is "determined to keep all road users safe". | An inquiry has been launched into allegations the Metropolitan Police shredded documents months after a probe into undercover policing began.
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Motorists should always have to give way to cyclists when turning at a junction, says British Cycling. | 38,916,281 | 824 | 52 | true |
A strike on Tuesday has also been suspended, but strike action is still planned for 3 October. The GMB union said a work-to-rule would remain.
Refuse and recycling truck drivers walked out earlier this month over pay, staff grading and responsibility.
The city council said it was pleased strike action had been suspended.
The union is claiming people at the council are doing equivalent jobs to its members, but being paid more.
It also said the authority had failed to "consult meaningfully" over new working practices and long-standing issues over round allocation and distribution.
GMB representative Mark Turner said the union was planning to hold more talks with the council next Tuesday.
In a statement, Brighton and Hove City Council said it was looking at a "full service redesign to ensure we meet the needs of the city and to resolve work-to-rule".
It added: "We cannot favour one group of workers over another and increasing allowances for one group of staff would require us to increase it for many others at great cost to the council's overall pay bill.
"The agreement we reached with our trade unions and staff last year was to better ensure we were equal pay compliant."
A series of strikes last summer led to waste piling up in the streets.
The club have been at their current Plainmoor home, which is owned by Torbay Council, for 105 years, but have been approached by an American firm about building a new ground.
Under the deal, the developers would pay for the stadium in exchange for council land to build housing on.
The new ground would have a synthetic 4G pitch and a capacity of 6,000.
"The developers have met the council, it's at an early stage and it depends on what land can be built on," Torquay chairman David Phillips told BBC Sport.
"The land for housing would be wherever is available, the council have to build 10,000 houses in the next 20 years."
Torquay opened a new stand at Plainmoor in 2012 and have agreed to share their ground with National League South side Truro City next season while the Cornish club builds a new stadium.
The Gulls are currently second-from-bottom of the National League, having been relegated from the Football League two seasons ago.
The club had to make drastic cuts after lottery-winning former owner Thea Bristow left the club last summer, with a new board taking over the club and being forced to close the academy and slash the playing budget.
The planned site for the new stadium would be a 42-acre piece of land in the Barton area of Torquay which has already been earmarked for sport.
It is unlikely that Plainmoor would be redeveloped for housing as the land it occupies is deemed to be a community asset for sport.
"We could be moving within 18 months or two years, the developers feel the building of the stadium would take no more than six months," added Phillips.
Torquay manager Kevin Nicholson has spent the best part of the last decade with the Gulls as both a player and coach.
"It would be a massive step forward for the club," he told BBC Sport.
"Having your own new stadium, you only have to look at Shrewsbury Town, where they dropped to and where they are now and how their new stadium has played a part in that.
"I think the potential there is huge, it really would be a massive thing for the football club's long-term future." | A strike by refuse workers in Brighton and Hove on Thursday has been called off to allow further talks between union leaders and the city council.
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Torquay United are in talks about moving to a new stadium on the outskirts of the town. | 29,354,562 | 748 | 53 | true |
Mr Tsarnaev's lawyers called just four witnesses before ending their defence, in a case that could see their client face the death penalty.
He has pleaded not guilty to all 30 charges he faces, including one related to the killing of a police officer days after the bombing.
The bombings in 2013 were the deadliest terror attack on US soil since 9/11.
Three people, including an eight-year-old boy, were killed after two pressure cooker bombs packed with nails, ball bearings and other shrapnel detonated in April 2013. More than 260 people were injured, with many losing limbs.
At the start of the trial, lawyers stunned the court by admitting his guilt, but said that he was acting under the influence of his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died in the aftermath.
And on Tuesday, they called witnesses to back up that claim, with the focus on data found on the brothers' computers.
A digital forensics expert testified that the older brother researched radio transmitters and guns in the weeks before the attack but no such searches were found on the defendant's.
The defence team's hope is that he will be spared execution, and the jury will elect instead to put him behind bars for the rest of his life.
The prosecution rested its case on Monday, after calling more than 90 witnesses during 15 days of testimony. Those taking the stand included bombing survivors, who described losing limbs in the attack.
Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Henry Nields testified that the youngest victim of the attacks, eight-year-old Martin Richard, received injuries to every part of his body.
The testimony was illustrated by autopsy photos and the child's bloody, torn clothing.
The prosecution also said Mr Tsarnaev, who emigrated with his family from Chechnya, had extremist views and wanted to hit back at the US in revenge for military action in Muslim countries.
The brothers set off a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the crowded finish line.
Mr Tsarnaev was found hiding in a boat in the backyard of a house just outside Boston after a huge police manhunt days after the bombings. He was seriously wounded and taken to hospital.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev died earlier during a chaotic confrontation with police when his brother ran him over and dragged his body up to 30 feet down the street.
Closing arguments in the case are expected to be held on 6 April.
The proposed development would include a 150-bed hotel, 88 flats and 65,000 sq ft of grade A office space.
Robertson Construction (Tayside), has submitted a planning application for the development, in partnership with Dundee City Council.
It will be the first of 12 separate sites at Dundee Waterfront to be developed.
Allan Watt, Dundee Waterfront project director, said: "This is a historically-important planning application for Dundee Waterfront as it marks the start of the first major mixed-use development for the central waterfront area.
"We are receiving a lot of interest from investors, developers and business owners in other sites, but there is no substitute for a full planning application being made to underwrite the scale of ambition for Dundee Waterfront."
Dundee Waterfront is a £1bn regeneration project to transform 240 acres of land along 8km (5miles) of the River Tay.
The £80.1m V&A Museum of Design and a new railway station are currently under construction.
Scaffolding at the museum, which is due to open in 2018, was recently removed, revealing the shape of Japanese architect Kengo Kuma's design. | The defence team for accused Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has rested its case in the first phase of the trial.
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Plans have been lodged for a £40m development opposite Dundee's V&A Museum of Design. | 32,140,877 | 810 | 58 | true |
The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) said Botswana now recognised the spirit as a geographical indication (GI).
The move means only whisky that has been made in Scotland can legally be sold as Scotch in the country.
SWA said the "legal breakthrough" gave consumers a high level of protection against fakes.
Whisky shipments to Botswana increased by 163% last year to reach nearly £457,000, according to SWA figures.
The trade body said it expected to see demand for Scotch increase in African countries in future years as economies on the continent grew.
Chief executive David Frost said: "Botswana recognising Scotch as a GI - a product that must be made in Scotland - is ground-breaking as it's the first product to be given this status.
"It's also the first time Scotch has been successfully registered as a GI anywhere in Africa.
"This move will protect consumers and give a boost to the growth of Scotch exports across Africa."
According to SWA, Scotch is now officially recognised in the laws of more than 70 countries, including the whole of the European Union.
To qualify as a genuine product, Scotch must be made in Scotland from water, cereals and yeast and matured for at least three years.
De Zerbi, 37, previously managed Foggia but left the third-division side in August after two seasons with the club.
Club president Maurizio Zamparini made eight coaching changes last season.
Ballardini was initially sacked as Palermo manager in January 2016 before being reappointed in April as he helped Palermo avoid relegation.
Palermo are 15th in Serie A with one point from two games - above Inter Milan.
Zamparini, who bought Palermo in 2002, has made almost 60 coaching changes in 29 years as club owner.
However, some right-wing European politicians have welcomed the move.
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The 28-year-old made his Munster debut against Connacht in 2010 and has chalked up 84 appearances.
Foley, who has won two Ireland caps, follows former Munster players James Coughlan, Paddy Butler and Sean Dougall in moving to the Top 14 club.
The lock, from Tipperary, will miss the rest of the season as he recovers from a wrist injury.
Foley made his Ireland debut against Georgia in 2014, and has also represented Emerging Ireland on two tours.
Nasar Ahmed, 14, who had severe asthma and allergies, was reported ill last Thursday at Bow School in Tower Hamlets. He died on Monday afternoon.
A post-mortem examination will take place and the coroner has been informed. The Met said his death was being treated as unexplained.
Nasar was in supervised detention with three others in a ground-floor room.
His family told the BBC that he complained he felt ill and paramedics were called when it was discovered he did not have his inhaler or EpiPen.
Nasar's father, Ashrafu Zaman, arrived at the school before his son was taken to Royal London Hospital and said he thought he had already died.
He claimed Nasar would get disorientated so, when the school put him in detention, it did not acknowledge or take this into consideration.
The school, however, said there was a care plan in place which addressed Nasar's medical condition.
A statement from executive head teacher Cath Smith said: "I am very sad to confirm one of our Year 9 pupils, who was taken ill at school last Thursday, has passed away in hospital.
"The whole school community sends our thoughts and prayers to him, and to his family.
"We will continue to offer support to the family, his fellow pupils and teachers at this very difficult time.
"We will, of course, cooperate fully with investigations into the circumstances of this tragic incident and will also carry out a thorough review of what happened ourselves."
Social services have been informed.
The school's latest Ofsted report said it was judged to be "good and improving".
It said significantly more students were from minority ethnic backgrounds than in most schools, with the largest group of Bangladeshi origin.
More than three quarters of students were eligible for the pupil premium, additional funding to raise the attainment of disadvantaged students. | Scotch whisky has been given protected geographical status in Africa for the first time, according to industry representatives.
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Palermo have appointed Roberto de Zerbi as their new coach after Davide Ballardini resigned just two games into the new Serie A season.
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President Donald Trump's decision to halt all refugee admissions and temporarily bar people from seven Muslim-majority countries has been criticised by rights groups and activists around the world.
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Munster second-row Dave Foley is leaving to join French side Pau at the end of the season.
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A schoolboy has died after he was taken ill during detention at an east London school. | 33,366,215 | 984 | 149 | true |
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