{"title": ["Wanted: Top doctor to care for 7 billion people - BBC News", "Premiership semi-final: Wasps 21-20 Leicester Tigers - BBC Sport", "Arsenal miss out on Champions League spot; Liverpool & Man City qualify - BBC Sport", "Novak Djokovic hires Andre Agassi; loses Italian Open final to Alexander Zverev - BBC Sport", "Super League Magic Weekend: Castleford Tigers 29-18 Leeds Rhinos - BBC Sport", "Fernando Alonso fifth in Indy 500 qualifying as Scott Dixon takes pole - BBC Sport", "Hasan Minhaj: Comedy's golden opportunity in Trump era - BBC News", "Liverpool 3-0 Middlesbrough - BBC Sport", "Fernando Alonso makes Indy 500 'fast nine' for pole position battle - BBC Sport", "Premier League: Race for the Champions League and the Golden Boot - BBC Sport", "Celtic 2-0 Heart of Midlothian - BBC Sport", "The struggles of war babies fathered by black GIs - BBC News", "Ian Brady: How the Moors Murderer came to symbolise pure evil - BBC News", "Celtic's unbeaten season: Treble is 'last piece of the puzzle' - Leigh Griffiths - BBC Sport", "Andre Dirrell's uncle Leon Lawson Jr punches opponent Jose Uzcategui after win - BBC Sport", "Premier League quiz: How well do you remember the 2016-17 season? - BBC Sport", "Arsene Wenger says his future was a factor as Arsenal fail to make Champions League - BBC Sport", "Why Swedish workplaces aren't as equal as you think - BBC News", "Iran election: Hassan Rouhani gets big mandate but will he deliver? - BBC News", "Could you last a whole gig without using your phone? - BBC News", "British and Irish Lions 2017: Billy Vunipola withdraws from squad with shoulder injury - BBC Sport", "Chelsea celebrate after lifting Premier League trophy - BBC Sport", "Malaga 0-2 Real Madrid - BBC Sport", "Who is Great Britain's greatest heavyweight? Joshua? Fury? Lewis? You decide - BBC Sport", "What is going on at Fox News, and could it affect Sky bid? - BBC News", "Goldie Sayers: British javelin thrower retires with 'deep sense of injustice' - BBC Sport", "Sulley Muntari: Garth Crooks calls for players in Italy to strike - BBC Sport", "How I funded my studies by digging for Sierra Leone diamonds - BBC News", "Andy Murray: Maria Sharapova likely to get Wimbledon wildcard - BBC Sport", "Fernando Alonso: McLaren driver enjoys 'fun' Indy 500 testing - BBC Sport", "Mike Powell: Long jump world record holder criticises rewrite plans - BBC Sport", "The British pub chain that has banned swearing - BBC Three", "Wimbledon 2017: Ilie Nastase says organisers are 'small-minded' - BBC Sport", "How a university became a battle for Europe's identity - BBC News", "Champions Trophy: Eoin Morgan calls England team 'most talented group I've played with' - BBC Sport", "Fernando Alonso: McLaren driver has private Indianapolis 500 test - BBC Sport", "Real Madrid 3-0 Atletico Madrid - BBC Sport", "Kenny Dalglish: Liverpool to rename Anfield's Centenary Stand after club legend - BBC Sport", "Fidget spinners: the new craze in school playgrounds - BBC News", "How Scottish salmon conquered the world - BBC News", "'Wimbledon qualifying facilities could cope with Maria Sharapova' - BBC Sport", "Uefa: Penalty shootout trial takes place in Euro Women's Under-17 semi-final - BBC Sport", "One-Day Cup: Jonny Bairstow hundred sets up Yorkshire win over Durham - BBC Sport", "Cristiano Ronaldo: Real Madrid forward equal of Pele & George Best - Phil Neville - BBC Sport", "'We sold our home to build a social network' - BBC News", "Are fitness trackers for pets a fad or the future? - BBC News", "BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017: Hedvig Lindahl profile - BBC Sport", "The horse that saved his own life by painting - BBC News", "Ajax 4-1 Lyon - BBC Sport", "EU and UK: Galaxies apart over Brexit? - BBC News", "Ivanka Trump's book: The reviews are in... - BBC News", "Darren Campbell: Rewriting athletics world records would be for 'greater good' - BBC Sport", "Adam Jones: Boston Red Sox apologise for racial abuse of Baltimore Orioles outfielder - BBC Sport", "'Why I went to court for my disability payments' - BBC News", "Iran's Instagram election sees rivals battle on social media - BBC News", "Oh Leuven: Leicester City owner agrees to buy Belgian club - BBC Sport", "Tyson Fury: Frank Warren expects Ukad delay as BBBofC reiterate licence stance - BBC Sport", "Maria Sharapova: French Open wildcard reasoning wrong, say WTA - BBC Sport", "'You don't have to be a squillionaire to buy art' - BBC News", "The man who brokered the deal to release the Chibok girls - BBC News", "Ex-communist states complain of rip-off food in EU - BBC News", "Will a laptop ban make flying more dangerous? - BBC News", "Southampton 0-0 Manchester United - BBC Sport", "Andy Murray beaten by Fabio Fognini in Rome Masters second round - BBC Sport", "Women's Super League One: Chelsea 2-2 Arsenal highlights - BBC Sport", "Italian Open: Andy Murray expects to turn form around after Fabio Fognini defeat - BBC Sport", "Arsenal 2-0 Sunderland - BBC Sport", "Manchester City 3-1 West Bromwich Albion - BBC Sport", "Michael Keane: Man Utd interested in bringing Burnley defender back - BBC Sport", "Tottenham: Mauricio Pochettino says he is staying at the club - BBC Sport", "Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 Huddersfield Town (agg: 1-1, 3-4 pens) - BBC Sport", "Apple's Italian job for finding top talent - BBC News", "Maria Sharapova: French Open decides against giving former champion a wildcard - BBC Sport", "Watford manager Walter Mazzarri to leave after final match of season - BBC Sport", "Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal face play-off prospect for Champions League - BBC Sport", "The transgender tailor who died in Saudi custody - BBC News", "How many people does it take to write a hit song? - BBC News", "The Swiss, the Germans, and the mysterious case of Daniel M - BBC News", "Ian Brady letters: Inside the mind of the Moors Murderer - BBC News", "Nicky Hayden: Ex-MotoGP champion in hospital after cycling accident in Italy - BBC Sport", "General election 2017: The mystery of the three million 'extra' voters - BBC News", "How do you go about crowdfunding for someone you have never met? - BBC News", "Chelsea are Premier League champions: How did Antonio Conte do it? - BBC Sport", "Chelsea are Premier League champions: Antonio Conte targets Double - BBC Sport", "Jonny Brownlee carries bike after crash at Yokohama World Series triathlon - BBC Sport", "Kimi Raikkonen heads final Spanish Grand Prix practice - BBC Sport", "Eurovision Song Contest: Anything can happen, says UK's Lucie Jones - BBC News", "Women's FA Cup final: Birmingham City 1-4 Manchester City - BBC Sport", "The rise of the tweenage vlogger - BBC News", "Aberdeen 1-3 Celtic - BBC Sport", "Manchester City 2-1 Leicester City - BBC Sport", "Chinese lawyer 'wore torture device for a month' - BBC News", "European Champions Cup: Saracens beat Clermont 28-17 to retain European title - BBC Sport", "European Challenge Cup final: Gloucester 17-25 Stade Francais - BBC Sport", "Iran election: Could women decide the next president? - BBC News", "Staying out of spotlight, Trump prepared an ousting - BBC News", "Is my baby too big, or just big? - BBC News", "Stoke City 1-4 Arsenal - BBC Sport", "How a dying man and his son could forge a Lego legacy - BBC News", "Reality Check: Who loves the UK at Eurovision? - BBC News", "Lewis Hamilton on pole position in Spain ahead of Sebastian Vettel - BBC Sport", "Isdal Woman: The mystery death haunting Norway for 46 years - BBC News", "Nicola Adams stops Maryan Salazar in third round of Leeds homecoming - BBC Sport", "Arsenal 2-0 Manchester United - BBC Sport", "Badminton Horse Trials: Andrew Nicholson wins at the 36th attempt - BBC Sport", "Antonio Conte: Chelsea boss says Tottenham have 'advantage' over Blues - BBC Sport", "'Why Arsenal beat Man Utd but nobody really cares' - Phil Neville - BBC Sport", "England v Ireland: John Bracewell says Test issue is putting Irish 'under huge pressure' - BBC Sport", "Scunthorpe United 2-3 Millwall (agg: 2-3) - BBC Sport", "Nottingham Forest 3-0 Ipswich Town - BBC Sport", "Premiership: Wasps 35-15 Saracens - BBC Sport", "Liverpool: Is Brendan Rodgers better than Jurgen Klopp? - BBC Sport", "Liverpool 0-0 Southampton - BBC Sport", "Medhi Benatia: Juventus player stops interview after hearing 'racist' insult - BBC Sport", "Hartlepool United 2-1 Doncaster Rovers - BBC Sport", "Heart of Midlothian 1-2 Aberdeen - BBC Sport", "Brentford 1-3 Blackburn Rovers - BBC Sport", "Swansea City: Players to pay for fans' tickets at Sunderland - BBC Sport", "England v Ireland: Eoin Morgan's moment of fortune at Lord's - BBC Sport", "British and Irish Lions 2017: Ben Youngs withdraws from squad for family reasons - BBC Sport", "Champions Trophy 2017: England deserve to be favourites - Graeme Swann - BBC Sport", "Arsene Wenger: Managers must 'control' criticism of players, says Arsenal boss - BBC Sport", "Swansea City 1-0 Everton - BBC Sport", "Scott Sinclair named SPFA player of the year as Celtic win four awards - BBC Sport", "Newcastle United 3-0 Barnsley - BBC Sport", "Madrid Open: Johanna Konta suffers first-round defeat to Laura Siegemund - BBC Sport", "England v Ireland: Joe Root stars with bat and ball as hosts seal series at Lord's - BBC Sport", "This is why you're addicted to your phone - BBC Three", "Maria Sharapova to face Eugenie Bouchard at Madrid Open - BBC Sport", "Wanted: Top doctor to care for 7 billion people - BBC News", "Premier League 2016-17: Chelsea run clear, Spurs always chasing, Sunderland struggles - BBC Sport", "Wang Quanzhang: The lawyer who simply vanished - BBC News", "Phil McNulty: Premier League end-of-season report and manager ratings - BBC Sport", "Fernando Alonso fifth in Indy 500 qualifying as Scott Dixon takes pole - BBC Sport", "Kumar Sangakkara: Ex-Sri Lanka captain to retire from first-class cricket - BBC Sport", "Arsenal: Stan Kroenke says Gunners shares 'are not, and have never been, for sale' - BBC Sport", "David Moyes will struggle to get another Premier League job - Chris Sutton - BBC Sport", "John Terry: Thousands won on Chelsea captain's 26th-minute substitution - BBC Sport", "Sam Warburton: British & Irish Lions captain fit 'to crack on' - BBC Sport", "Manchester United v Ajax: 'Naive' to expect no trouble in Europa final say police - BBC Sport", "Fancy a four flowers or ginger fried pork pizza? - BBC News", "The tiny pill which gave birth to an economic revolution - BBC News", "Reality Check: Have governments since 2010 borrowed more than Labour ones? - BBC News", "The struggles of war babies fathered by black GIs - BBC News", "Scotland call up Jamie Murphy, Kenny McLean and Mark Reynolds to face England - BBC Sport", "Music festivals: Here's one way to stay dry - BBC News", "Venezuela's irreconcilable visions for the future - BBC News", "Ben Stokes wants more England team-mates in IPL - BBC Sport", "Arsene Wenger says his future was a factor as Arsenal fail to make Champions League - BBC Sport", "Why Swedish workplaces aren't as equal as you think - BBC News", "Nicky Hayden: Ex-MotoGP champion dies after collision - BBC Sport", "Iran election: Hassan Rouhani gets big mandate but will he deliver? - BBC News", "Could you last a whole gig without using your phone? - BBC News", "Antoine Griezmann: Atletico Madrid forward 'ready to go' to win titles - BBC Sport", "Your team of the season: Chelsea and Tottenham dominate selections - BBC Sport", "British and Irish Lions 2017: Billy Vunipola withdraws from squad with shoulder injury - BBC Sport", "Women's World Cup 2017: Sarah Taylor in England squad, Heather Knight captain - BBC Sport", "Nicky Hayden: The backyard racer who conquered the world - BBC Sport", "Malaga 0-2 Real Madrid - BBC Sport", "David Moyes resigns as Sunderland boss after relegation from Premier League - BBC Sport", "Crystal Palace 4-0 Hull City - BBC Sport", "Tottenham Hotspur: Premier League stars of White Hart Lane - BBC Sport", "How do you go about crowdfunding for someone you have never met? - BBC News", "Matt Wallace: World number 242 wins Portugal Open for first European Tour title - BBC Sport", "Australian cricketers could strike over contract dispute - BBC Sport", "Women's FA Cup final: Birmingham City 1-4 Manchester City - BBC Sport", "Antonio Conte: Chelsea boss says team can improve and he can keep best players - BBC Sport", "Chinese lawyer 'wore torture device for a month' - BBC News", "European Champions Cup: Saracens beat Clermont 28-17 to retain European title - BBC Sport", "Venezuela protest victim's parents speak of ordeal - BBC News", "Lewis Hamilton wins spectacular Spanish Grand Prix - BBC Sport", "Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Manchester United - BBC Sport", "Players Championship: Kim Si-woo holds off Ian Poulter to become youngest winner - BBC Sport", "Weapons in schools: 'I used anything I could get' - BBC News", "When a lion prowled the streets of Birmingham - BBC News", "Is my baby too big, or just big? - BBC News", "Stoke City 1-4 Arsenal - BBC Sport", "Eurovision Song Contest: Portugal winner 'didn't understand votes' - BBC News", "How a dying man and his son could forge a Lego legacy - BBC News", "Spring-cleaning India's most magnificent tent - BBC News", "Saracens: Mark McCall says double European champions can get even better - BBC Sport", "West Ham United 0-4 Liverpool - BBC Sport", "Office sauna: Must-have or hot air? - BBC News", "Garth Crooks' team of the week: Alexis Sanchez, Mesut Ozil, Gabriel Jesus, David Luiz - BBC Sport", "Giro d'Italia 2017: Geraint Thomas crashes as Quintana takes charge - BBC Sport", "Isdal Woman: The mystery death haunting Norway for 46 years - BBC News", "Nicola Adams stops Maryan Salazar in third round of Leeds homecoming - BBC Sport", "Harry Redknapp: Birmingham manager to sign one-year contract - BBC Sport", "Chibok girls: What fate awaits the ones set free? - BBC News", "Inside the Corbynista Facebook 'army' - BBC News", "Rugby World Cup 2019: Draw for tournament to take place in Japan - BBC Sport", "Juventus 2-1 Monaco (4-1 agg) - BBC Sport", "Newcastle United: Rafael Benitez 'can have every last penny' to build - Mike Ashley - BBC Sport", "Accrington Stanley chairman Andy Holt stands by Premier League criticism - BBC Sport", "Comey sacking doesn't rise to Watergate levels - BBC News", "The problem with corporation tax - BBC News", "The slimming pills that put me in hospital - BBC News", "General election 2017: Who is the most searched-for party leader? - BBC News", "Juventus: From Serie B to another Champions League final - the Old Lady's rise - BBC Sport", "Giro d'Italia: Geraint Thomas moves to second overall after stage four - BBC Sport", "Robert Miles' Children - the hit written to save clubbers' lives - BBC News", "Atletico Madrid 2-1 Real Madrid (agg 2-4) - BBC Sport", "Southampton 0-2 Arsenal - BBC Sport", "Women's Equality Party proposes free childcare - BBC News", "Madrid Open: Andy Murray beats Marius Copil to reach third round - BBC Sport", "Manchester United: Jose Mourinho says Europa League focus is not a gamble - BBC Sport", "Danny Willett and caddie Jonathan Smart part before Players Championship - BBC Sport", "Australia v England: New Perth stadium not ready for third Ashes Test - BBC Sport", "Inter Milan: Antonio Conte linked with job after Stefano Pioli sacked - BBC Sport", "General election 2017: The maps that reveal where this election could be won - BBC News", "WSL: Barcelona signing Toni Duggan scores 18-minute hat-trick for Man City - BBC Sport", "Election latest: Reaction to CPS decision on 2015 cases - BBC News", "Paul Pogba: Man Utd signing of Juventus midfielder subject of Fifa inquiry - BBC Sport", "Giro d'Italia: Luka Pibernik celebrates stage win a lap early - BBC Sport", "World Cup 2019: Jeremy Guscott on England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland's draws - BBC Sport", "England drawn with France and Argentina in 2019 World Cup pool - BBC Sport", "'Mesearch' - when study really is all about me - BBC News", "Why Three Girls is one of TV's toughest watches - BBC News", "One Show: Theresa and Philip May talk bins and love - BBC News", "Froome crash: How dangerous is cycling on the roads? - BBC News", "Local election results will give clue to national poll - BBC News", "Jose Mourinho: Man Utd boss 'humiliating' his players, says Sutton - BBC Sport", "Monaco 0-2 Juventus - BBC Sport", "BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017: Marta profile - BBC Sport", "Wales local elections 2017 - BBC News", "Sulley Muntari: Garth Crooks calls for players in Italy to strike - BBC Sport", "French election: 'Unworthy' debate was still great viewing - BBC News", "Scotland local elections 2017 - BBC News", "Fernando Alonso: McLaren driver enjoys 'fun' Indy 500 testing - BBC Sport", "Adam Gemili: GB sprinter relishes British 200m competition - BBC Sport", "Sulley Muntari: Italy FA's anti-racism chief 'would go on strike' - BBC Sport", "England v Ireland: Eoin Morgan would be welcome back to Irish set-up says Ed Joyce - BBC Sport", "The midwife who saved intersex babies - BBC News", "Geraint Thomas: Giro d'Italia 'uncharted territory' for Team Sky rider - BBC Sport", "Can't find the right handbag? Just design it yourself - BBC News", "Election 2017: English mayoral candidates - BBC News", "Romain Grosjean replaces Jenson Button at Grand Prix Drivers' Association - BBC Sport", "Celta Vigo 0-1 Manchester United - BBC Sport", "Locked up: How London couple ended up in a Turkish jail - BBC News", "UK General Election 2017 | BBC News", "Kelly Sotherton: Olympic medallist calls for event changes not world record reset - BBC Sport", "Uefa: Penalty shootout trial takes place in Euro Women's Under-17 semi-final - BBC Sport", "One-Day Cup: Jonny Bairstow hundred sets up Yorkshire win over Durham - BBC Sport", "Fernando Alonso: McLaren driver has 'real chance' of debut Indy 500 win - BBC Sport", "England local elections 2017 - BBC News", "Gunfire audio opens new front in crime-fighting - BBC News", "Sulley Muntari: Bologna's Godfred Donsah willing to strike to show solidarity - BBC Sport", "Dragons' Ed Jackson: 'I lost movement in my legs and power in my arms' - BBC Sport", "6 music legends we can't believe never toured the UK - BBC Music", "Formula 1: McLaren-Honda looking for gamer to become simulator driver - BBC Sport", "Ajax 4-1 Lyon - BBC Sport", "Why catwalk Hijabs are upsetting some Muslim women - BBC News", "Ronald Koeman: Everton boss vows to see out contract despite 'dreams' of Barcelona - BBC Sport", "Iran's Instagram election sees rivals battle on social media - BBC News", "Nicky Hayden: Ex-MotoGP champion remains 'extremely critical' after accident - BBC Sport", "Fernando Alonso: McLaren driver fourth fastest in Indy 500 practice - BBC Sport", "Diving bans: Football Association approves retrospective action - BBC Sport", "Screaming into the void - business finds no-one is listening - BBC News", "Sam Allardyce: Crystal Palace manager says diving ban 'utter rubbish' - BBC Sport", "Monaco: Ligue 1 winners gatecrash news conference - BBC Sport", "Rachel Nickell stabbing: 'The day I saw my mum get killed' - BBC News", "Will a laptop ban make flying more dangerous? - BBC News", "Gothenburg v AIK: 'Match-fixing attempt' leads to Swedish fixture postponement - BBC Sport", "Southampton 0-0 Manchester United - BBC Sport", "Mauricio Pochettino: Tottenham will not compete with richer clubs over huge wages - BBC Sport", "Partick Thistle 0-5 Celtic - BBC Sport", "Women's Super League One: Chelsea 2-2 Arsenal highlights - BBC Sport", "The man who helped prevent a nuclear crisis - BBC News", "How a University of Washington researcher discovered an \"information war\" - BBC News", "Premier League Darts: Michael Van Gerwen beats Peter Wright to win third title - BBC Sport", "Maria Sharapova signs two-year Birmingham deal - BBC Sport", "Leicester City 1-6 Tottenham Hotspur - BBC Sport", "Nottingham Forest takeover: Evangelos Marinakis buys club with EFL approval - BBC Sport", "Italian Open: Johanna Konta beaten by Venus Williams as Novak Djokovic through - BBC Sport", "Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 Huddersfield Town (agg: 1-1, 3-4 pens) - BBC Sport", "Chris Cornell - so much more than a grunge star - BBC News", "'I'd back Spurs for the title - if they were staying at White Hart Lane' - Jermaine Jenas - BBC Sport", "British and Irish Lions 2017: Gavin Hastings recalls 1993 New Zealand tour - BBC Sport", "May - more room to borrow and raise taxes - BBC News", "Gaza residents left in the dark amid Palestinian power struggle - BBC News", "Luton Town 3-3 Blackpool (agg: 5-6) - BBC Sport", "Apple's Italian job for finding top talent - BBC News", "Why are millions of Indian women dropping out of work? - BBC News", "Would you carry something abroad for a stranger? - BBC News", "I've agreed Mayweather deal - McGregor - BBC Three", "Nicky Hayden: Ex-MotoGP champion in hospital after cycling accident in Italy - BBC Sport", "Rich List 2017: Six surprising ways to make money - BBC News", "Chapecoense: Brazilian team win first title since plane crash - BBC Sport", "Antonio Conte: Chelsea boss says Tottenham have 'advantage' over Blues - BBC Sport", "British and Irish Lions: Warren Gatland will speak to Mike Brown over omission - BBC Sport", "UKIP will survive, says Nigel Farage - BBC News", "'Why Arsenal beat Man Utd but nobody really cares' - Phil Neville - BBC Sport", "The hospital errors leaving new parents devastated - BBC News", "Why are TV singing contests still popular? - BBC News", "Anne of Green Gables: The most popular redhead in Japan - BBC News", "Arsenal 2-0 Man Utd: Tunnel images annoy Phil Neville and Martin Keown - BBC Sport", "The Falklands penguins that would not explode - BBC News", "George Groves 'struggling' with Eduard Gutknecht's condition - BBC Sport", "Tax is only one part of the deal for those in work - BBC News", "Rupert Murdoch gives robust response to BBC questions - BBC News", "Superstar economics: How the gramophone changed everything - BBC News", "Eugenie Bouchard beats Maria Sharapova at Madrid Open after calling her a \"cheat\" - BBC Sport", "Why May is keeping immigration target - BBC News", "Players Championship: Will Sawgrass event become a major? - BBC Sport", "Liverpool: Is Brendan Rodgers better than Jurgen Klopp? - BBC Sport", "What is Marx's Das Kapital? - BBC News", "Maro Itoje: England, Lions & Saracens forward would be 'proud' to be role model - BBC Sport", "Facebook - the secret election weapon - BBC News", "Sulley Muntari says Fifa and Uefa 'not taking racism seriously' - BBC Sport", "Chelsea 3-0 Middlesbrough - BBC Sport", "Will Macron mean the blues or a boost for Brexit? - BBC News", "Champions Trophy 2017: England deserve to be favourites - Graeme Swann - BBC Sport", "Reality Check: Are there 6,700 fewer mental health staff? - BBC News", "Manchester United: Jose Mourinho says he is happy Arsenal fans can celebrate - BBC Sport", "The man who reportedly faked a terror plot to get out of a holiday - BBC Three", "Kenny Rogers prepares to hang up his microphone - BBC News", "Sulley Muntari: Pescara midfielder who protested at racist abuse has ban overturned - BBC Sport", "Local election results will give clue to national poll - BBC News", "Wales local elections 2017 - BBC News", "BBL: Worcester 195-197 Newcastle (agg) - best five baskets - BBC Sport", "Scotland local elections 2017 - BBC News", "Sulley Muntari: Italy FA's anti-racism chief 'would go on strike' - BBC Sport", "Local elections: UKIP suffers big losses across England - BBC News", "England v Ireland: Eoin Morgan would be welcome back to Irish set-up says Ed Joyce - BBC Sport", "Geraint Thomas: Giro d'Italia 'uncharted territory' for Team Sky rider - BBC Sport", "Election 2017: English mayoral candidates - BBC News", "Tory Tim Bowles elected West of England mayor - BBC News", "UKIP fails to win Essex seat as Tories strengthen hold - BBC News", "Why we still choose to work in our 90s - BBC News", "England v Ireland: Hosts win first one-day international in Bristol - BBC Sport", "Celta Vigo 0-1 Manchester United - BBC Sport", "South Korea's 'life or death' presidential election - BBC News", "Local elections 2017: Tory smiles and Labour grimaces - BBC News", "Jose Mourinho: Man Utd boss to rest players for Arsenal game - BBC Sport", "Is live streaming your life good business or dangerous? - BBC News", "England v Ireland: Eoin Morgan praises Adil Rashid for overcoming 'tough' winter - BBC Sport", "How a row over one word sank an LGBT petition in Australia - BBC News", "Diamond League: Justin Gatlin & Andre de Grasse beaten in Doha 100m - BBC Sport", "How Brad Pitt fixed his image problem with one interview - BBC News", "Novak Djokovic parts with his entire coaching team before Madrid Open - BBC Sport", "UK General Election 2017 | BBC News", "Grand National 2017: 26 jockeys given one-day bans over Aintree false start - BBC Sport", "Local elections 2017: The results mapped - BBC News", "Fernando Alonso: McLaren driver has 'real chance' of debut Indy 500 win - BBC Sport", "Manchester City: Premier League punishes club with academy transfer ban - BBC Sport", "Terror threat: UK upgrades armed police response - BBC News", "England local elections 2017 - BBC News", "Analysis: Where the parties stand... so far - BBC News", "David Moyes: Sunderland manager to stay, but Jermain Defoe could leave - BBC Sport", "Straws deny Conservatives in Northumberland election - BBC News", "West Ham United 1-0 Tottenham Hotspur - BBC Sport", "Short term negatives, long term positives - BBC News", "Offbeat moments on the campaign trail - BBC News", "How do you solve a problem like Somalia? - BBC News", "Lord Bird wants prevention unit for poverty - BBC News", "Accrington Stanley chairman Andy Holt stands by Premier League criticism - BBC Sport", "Comey sacking doesn't rise to Watergate levels - BBC News", "General election: Conservatives pledge above-inflation defence rises - BBC News", "Agent fees: FA and Fifa want issue debated following Pogba deal allegations - BBC Sport", "Why reducing sleep makes you hungry - BBC News", "Atletico Madrid 2-1 Real Madrid (agg 2-4) - BBC Sport", "Reality Check: Why does Labour want to control National Grid? - BBC News", "Andy Murray out in Madrid Open third round, beaten by Borna Coric - BBC Sport", "Southampton 0-2 Arsenal - BBC Sport", "Labour's draft manifesto through a business lens - BBC News", "BBC cameraman's foot run over by Jeremy Corbyn car - BBC News", "The day my child was killed by an elephant - BBC News", "World Triathlon Series: Jonny Brownlee aims to put 2016 'hurt' behind him - BBC Sport", "How Leftfield's Leftism redefined dance music - BBC News", "Andy Murray: Madrid Open exit concerns world number one - BBC Sport", "Ligue des champions: le Real Madrid en finale - BBC News Afrique", "General election 2017: The maps that reveal where this election could be won - BBC News", "Wayne Rooney: Man Utd forward 'most under-appreciated player in England' - BBC Sport", "Free drinking water - what are your rights? - BBC News", "General election 2017: Corbyn's plans emerge in leaked manifesto - BBC News", "General election 2017: Labour's draft manifesto unpicked - BBC News", "World Cup 2019: Jeremy Guscott on England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland's draws - BBC Sport", "Women's Euro 2017: England to face Denmark in final warm-up game - BBC Sport", "Critics are 'Fifa-bashing' and spreading 'fake news' - Gianni Infantino - BBC Sport", "How does draft manifesto compare with Labour's 1983 one? - BBC News", "Ross Barkley: Everton midfielder has until next weekend to sign new deal - BBC Sport", "Nine-month stretch: The rise of prenatal exercise classes - BBC News", "US Open qualifying: Golfer scores 127 at event in Alabama - BBC Sport", "Marco Silva: Hull City boss will meet owner to discuss his future - BBC Sport", "Ian Poulter: Players Championship runner-up upbeat after 'toughest stretch' - BBC Sport", "White Hart Lane: Tottenham immediately begin stadium redevelopment - BBC Sport", "Ben Johnson: Advert featuring disgraced ex-sprinter criticised - BBC Sport", "Andy Murray at 30: Time running out or plenty more to come? - BBC Sport", "Venezuela protest victim's parents speak of ordeal - BBC News", "Chelsea: How Antonio Conte can sustain success at Stamford Bridge - BBC Sport", "Fernando Alonso's Indy 500 odyssey begins here - what can he expect? - BBC Sport", "Lewis Hamilton wins spectacular Spanish Grand Prix - BBC Sport", "Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Manchester United - BBC Sport", "Players Championship: Kim Si-woo holds off Ian Poulter to become youngest winner - BBC Sport", "Weapons in schools: 'I used anything I could get' - BBC News", "David Warner: Australia vice-captain has concerns over contract dispute - BBC Sport", "When a lion prowled the streets of Birmingham - BBC News", "I acted as a man to get work - until I was accused of rape - BBC News", "White Hart Lane: Tottenham players past and present say an emotional farewell to stadium - BBC Sport", "Eurovision Song Contest: Portugal winner 'didn't understand votes' - BBC News", "Spring-cleaning India's most magnificent tent - BBC News", "Child sex abuse: Inquiry team to search through 5,000 boxes of FA archives - BBC Sport", "Is Africa facing a new wave of piracy? - BBC News", "A sex doll that can talk - but is it perfect Harmony? - BBC News", "'Litter police' get bonuses to target public, Panorama finds - BBC News", "The boss who lives as a medieval knight - BBC News", "Reality Check: What's been going on with pay? - BBC News", "Garth Crooks' team of the week: Alexis Sanchez, Mesut Ozil, Gabriel Jesus, David Luiz - BBC Sport", "Chelsea 4-3 Watford - BBC Sport", "TV dinners: The hidden cost of the processed food revolution - BBC News", "Lewis Hamilton & Sebastian Vettel provide 'a scrap between two of the greatest' - BBC Sport", "Europa League: Man Utd must be on front foot against Ajax - Phil Neville - BBC Sport", "Wang Quanzhang: The lawyer who simply vanished - BBC News", "James Anderson: England and Lancashire bowler a doubt for South Africa first Test - BBC Sport", "Scott Dixon robbed at gunpoint hours after winning Indy 500 pole - BBC Sport", "David Moyes will struggle to get another Premier League job - Chris Sutton - BBC Sport", "The DNA detective helping to reunite families - BBC News", "Sam Warburton: British & Irish Lions captain fit 'to crack on' - BBC Sport", "Fancy a four flowers or ginger fried pork pizza? - BBC News", "The tiny pill which gave birth to an economic revolution - BBC News", "Nicky Hayden: The backyard racer who conquered the world - BBC Sport", "Sam Allardyce: Crystal Palace manager resigns after five months in charge - BBC Sport", "Caroline Wozniacki: Top seed pulls out of Strasbourg event with back problem - BBC Sport", "Reality Check: Have governments since 2010 borrowed more than Labour ones? - BBC News", "PGA Championship: 'Wentworth like its old self as European Tour set for huge week' - BBC Sport", "When mum or dad is an alcoholic - BBC News", "Petra Kvitova: Two-time champion 'on track' for Wimbledon after stabbing - BBC Sport", "Europa League final: More Cruyff than Van Gaal - the threat posed by youthful Ajax - BBC Sport", "Sport to conduct security reviews after Manchester attack - BBC Sport", "Music festivals: Here's one way to stay dry - BBC News", "Manchester attack: The next steps for police and MI5 - BBC News", "Business is blooming for women start-ups - BBC News", "Obituary: Sir Roger Moore - BBC News", "Antoine Griezmann: Atletico Madrid forward 'ready to go' to win titles - BBC Sport", "Manchester Arena attack: Man Utd players hold a minute's silence - BBC Sport", "Why are reindeer flying to a remote Alaskan village? - BBC News", "European Athletics proposes rewriting athletics world records after doping scandal - BBC Sport", "Anthony Joshua: World heavyweight champion can replicate 'Tiger Woods effect' - BBC Sport", "What has President Trump said about your country? - BBC News", "Ayrton Senna: Keeping his brand and legacy alive - BBC News", "Valtteri Bottas: Is Russia Grand Prix win start of things to come? - BBC Sport", "'I went to the web to find a new kidney' - BBC News", "BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017: Melanie Behringer profile - BBC Sport", "'Anthony Joshua's win over Wladimir Klitschko makes him part of mainstream' - BBC Sport", "Greater Manchester mayor could change 'insane' bus system - BBC News", "Mauricio Pochettino: 'Victory over Arsenal gives Spurs chance to pressure Chelsea' - BBC Sport", "Mark Selby beats John Higgins to retain his World Championship title - BBC Sport", "BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017: Five nominees up for award - BBC Sport", "Tony Blair's legacy 20 years on - BBC News", "Mr Fixer: The man who can arrange anything for you - BBC News", "Watford 0-1 Liverpool - BBC Sport", "What will happen next in Trump presidency? Reply hazy - BBC News", "World Championship 2017: John Higgins leads Mark Selby in Crucible final - BBC Sport", "Everton 0-3 Chelsea - BBC Sport", "The horse that saved his own life by painting - BBC News", "Six child actors who retired from showbiz - BBC News", "Anthony Joshua: What next for the world heavyweight champion? - BBC Sport", "General election 2017: Could UKIP's immigration policy work? - BBC News", "General election 2017: How much do the parties know about you? - BBC News", "British and Irish Lions: Warren Gatland will speak to Mike Brown over omission - BBC Sport", "Chris Froome: Team Sky rider 'rammed on purpose' by car in France - BBC Sport", "Why were 101 Uzbeks killed in the Netherlands in 1942? - BBC News", "Steve Lansdown: Bristol 'underestimated' Premiership, admits owner - BBC Sport", "Nicola Adams: Double Olympic champion to face Mexican in Leeds over longer rounds - BBC Sport", "Why are TV singing contests still popular? - BBC News", "Anne of Green Gables: The most popular redhead in Japan - BBC News", "Eurovision on front line: Will Russia's absence spoil Ukraine's party? - BBC News", "George Groves 'struggling' with Eduard Gutknecht's condition - BBC Sport", "Giro d'Italia: Geraint Thomas moves to second overall after stage four - BBC Sport", "Sulley Muntari: Italian FA may be disciplined by Fifa over handling of racism claims - BBC Sport", "Rupert Murdoch gives robust response to BBC questions - BBC News", "Antonio Conte: Chelsea boss says his players deserve Premier League title - BBC Sport", "How did the remote French outpost of St Pierre and Miquelon vote? - BBC News", "Dyche, Howe, Allardyce - will an English manager ever win the Premier League? - BBC Sport", "Eugenie Bouchard beats Maria Sharapova at Madrid Open after calling her a \"cheat\" - BBC Sport", "Why May is keeping immigration target - BBC News", "How will history remember the 2015-17 Parliament? - BBC News", "Players Championship: Will Sawgrass event become a major? - BBC Sport", "Madrid Open: Andy Murray beats Marius Copil to reach third round - BBC Sport", "Danny Willett and caddie Jonathan Smart part before Players Championship - BBC Sport", "Is work 'fair and decent'? That's not how the voters see it - BBC News", "Queen's Club: Andy Murray leads field for Aegon Championships in June - BBC Sport", "Andrew Flintoff: Mental health issues should not be called 'a stigma' - BBC Sport", "Facebook - the secret election weapon - BBC News", "Sulley Muntari says Fifa and Uefa 'not taking racism seriously' - BBC Sport", "Arsene Wenger responds to Phil Neville's criticism of Nacho Monreal - BBC Sport", "Election latest: Reaction to CPS decision on 2015 cases - BBC News", "Paul Pogba: Man Utd signing of Juventus midfielder subject of Fifa inquiry - BBC Sport", "Chelsea 3-0 Middlesbrough - BBC Sport", "Will Macron mean the blues or a boost for Brexit? - BBC News", "Would cash prizes make you more likely to vote? - BBC News", "Middlesbrough relegation 'lowest point' for captain Ben Gibson - BBC Sport", "The man who reportedly faked a terror plot to get out of a holiday - BBC Three", "Why Three Girls is one of TV's toughest watches - BBC News", "Jamie Roberts to lead Wales for June Tests against Tonga and Samoa - BBC Sport", "The Japanese manga comic helping Syrian refugee children dream - BBC News", "Maria Sharapova opts against Wimbledon wildcard request to enter qualifying - BBC Sport", "Nicky Hayden: Ex-MotoGP champion remains 'extremely critical' after accident - BBC Sport", "Reality Check: How many pensioners are living in poverty? - BBC News", "Why has Colombia seen a rise in activist murders? - BBC News", "Trump Saudi visit aims to build new relationship - BBC News", "Pro12: Leinster 15-27 Scarlets - BBC Sport", "Partick 0-5 Celtic: Brendan Rodgers targets 'remarkable' unbeaten record - BBC Sport", "The princess, the palace and the shrinking royal line - BBC News", "Why are millions of Indian women dropping out of work? - BBC News", "Advice for Trump on his first trip overseas - BBC News", "Diving bans: Will retrospective action work? - BBC Sport", "More Pritt Stick than Pippa: Why millennials want a DIY wedding - BBC News", "Premier League Darts: Michael Van Gerwen beats Peter Wright to win third title - BBC Sport", "Arsenal: Stan Kroenke 'committed long term' despite Alisher Usmanov bid - BBC Sport", "Treating children with electroconvulsive therapy - BBC News", "Chris Cornell - so much more than a grunge star - BBC News", "What happened to the 276 kidnapped Chibok girls? - BBC News", "Harry Kane: Tottenham striker one of world's best - Mauricio Pochettino - BBC Sport", "May - more room to borrow and raise taxes - BBC News", "WannaCry: What can you do to protect your business? - BBC News", "Jordan Pickford: Sunderland will demand £30m for keeper - David Moyes - BBC Sport", "Alisher Usmanov: Arsenal shareholder makes £1bn takeover bid to Stan Kroenke - BBC Sport", "Leicester City 1-6 Tottenham Hotspur - BBC Sport", "Partick Thistle 0-5 Celtic - BBC Sport", "Arsene Wenger: Arsenal manager's future decided after FA Cup final - BBC Sport", "The man who helped prevent a nuclear crisis - BBC News", "Jose Mourinho: Man Utd boss says youngsters 'not ready' for first team - BBC Sport", "Luton Town 3-3 Blackpool (agg: 5-6) - BBC Sport", "Giro d'Italia: Geraint Thomas pulls out of race after crash on Sunday - BBC Sport", "Sulley Muntari: Pescara midfielder who protested at racist abuse has ban overturned - BBC Sport", "Granada 0-4 Real Madrid - BBC Sport", "Wales local elections 2017 - BBC News", "Black natural hair: Why women are returning to their roots - BBC News", "Scotland local elections 2017 - BBC News", "BBL: Worcester 195-197 Newcastle (agg) - best five baskets - BBC Sport", "Local elections 2017: What should Labour do now? - BBC News", "Mauricio Pochettino: Tottenham boss says title race 'not over' but winning it 'difficult' - BBC Sport", "#Breaking2: Eliud Kipchoge goes close to sub-two hour marathon at Nike event - BBC Sport", "Why we still choose to work in our 90s - BBC News", "Premiership: Wasps 35-15 Saracens - BBC Sport", "England 30-10 Samoa: Wayne Bennett's side record comfortable win - BBC Sport", "Celtic 4-1 St Johnstone - BBC Sport", "Is live streaming your life good business or dangerous? - BBC News", "Local elections 2017: What results mean for Theresa May - BBC News", "England v Ireland: Eoin Morgan praises Adil Rashid for overcoming 'tough' winter - BBC Sport", "How a row over one word sank an LGBT petition in Australia - BBC News", "Hartlepool United 2-1 Doncaster Rovers - BBC Sport", "Lib Dems pledge 1p income tax rise to fund NHS - BBC News", "Diamond League: Justin Gatlin & Andre de Grasse beaten in Doha 100m - BBC Sport", "UK General Election 2017 | BBC News", "Premiership: Home play-offs, fourth place and European spots up for grabs - BBC Sport", "Would you pay a stranger to dump your partner for you? - BBC News", "Tyson Fury: Anthony Joshua will be 'my easiest' fight says former world champion - BBC Sport", "Local elections 2017: The results mapped - BBC News", "England local elections 2017 - BBC News", "Trumplomacy: What does Tillerson's speech mean? - BBC News", "British and Irish Lions 2017: Ben Youngs withdraws from squad for family reasons - BBC Sport", "Arsene Wenger: Managers must 'control' criticism of players, says Arsenal boss - BBC Sport", "Swansea City 1-0 Everton - BBC Sport", "6 music legends we can't believe never toured the UK - BBC Music", "Manchester City 5-0 Crystal Palace - BBC Sport", "Zlatan Ibrahimovic behind Lewis Hamilton on Sunday Times Sport Rich List - BBC Sport", "This is why you're addicted to your phone - BBC Three", "West Ham United 1-0 Tottenham Hotspur - BBC Sport", "Hull City 0-2 Sunderland - BBC Sport", "Short term negatives, long term positives - BBC News", "Chelsea are Premier League champions: How did Antonio Conte do it? - BBC Sport", "Chelsea are Premier League champions: Antonio Conte targets Double - BBC Sport", "Harry Redknapp signs one-year deal to stay on as Birmingham City manager - BBC Sport", "Jose Mourinho: Man Utd season successful even without Europa League - BBC Sport", "Lewis Hamilton top in Spanish Grand Prix practice with upgraded Mercedes - BBC Sport", "British Basketball League's plays of the season - BBC Sport", "Tottenham's White Hart Lane farewell: Saying goodbye to your old ground... - BBC Sport", "Lewis Hamilton fastest in Spain as Fernando Alonso breaks down - BBC Sport", "US Open qualifying: Golfer scores 127 at event in Alabama - BBC Sport", "Aberdeen 1-3 Celtic - BBC Sport", "Reality Check: Why does Labour want to control National Grid? - BBC News", "The day my child was killed by an elephant - BBC News", "West Bromwich Albion 0-1 Chelsea - BBC Sport", "European Challenge Cup final: Gloucester 17-25 Stade Francais - BBC Sport", "World Triathlon Series: Jonny Brownlee aims to put 2016 'hurt' behind him - BBC Sport", "Andy Murray: Madrid Open exit concerns world number one - BBC Sport", "Iran election: Could women decide the next president? - BBC News", "Staying out of spotlight, Trump prepared an ousting - BBC News", "China's big push for its global trade narrative - BBC News", "Free drinking water - what are your rights? - BBC News", "Jose Mourinho: Man Utd boss targets 'perfect' end to season in Europa League - BBC Sport", "Manchester United 1-1 Celta Vigo (2-1 agg) - BBC Sport", "Players Championship: Sergio Garcia hits hole-in-one as Adam Scott blows chance to lead - BBC Sport", "Reality Check: Who loves the UK at Eurovision? - BBC News", "Ross Barkley: Everton midfielder has until next weekend to sign new deal - BBC Sport", "Shorter sets and shot clock to be trialled in ATP youth event trial in Milan - BBC Sport", "Pep Guardiola: Barcelona & Bayern Munich 'would have sacked' Man City boss - BBC Sport", "Italian Open: Johanna Konta beats Yulia Putintseva, Aljaz Bedene loses to Novak Djokovic - BBC Sport", "White Hart Lane: Tottenham immediately begin stadium redevelopment - BBC Sport", "Bebeto's son Mattheus Oliveira signs for Sporting Lisbon - BBC Sport", "FBI chief sacking: Who will replace James Comey? - BBC News", "Reading 1-0 Fulham (agg: 2-1) - BBC Sport", "Andy Murray beaten by Fabio Fognini in Rome Masters second round - BBC Sport", "Rangers should be embarrassed at finishing third, says Derek McInnes - BBC Sport", "How DNA-testing kits are becoming big business - BBC News", "Fernando Alonso's Indy 500 odyssey begins here - what can he expect? - BBC Sport", "We should have listened to the broken teenagers - BBC News", "Is France's Socialist Party dead? - BBC News", "John Terry: Chelsea captain could retire after leaving champions in summer - BBC Sport", "Arsenal 2-0 Sunderland - BBC Sport", "David Warner: Australia vice-captain has concerns over contract dispute - BBC Sport", "UK General Election 2017 | BBC News", "Manchester City 3-1 West Bromwich Albion - BBC Sport", "Etholiad 2017", "WannaCry ransomware cyber-attack 'may have N Korea link' - BBC News", "I acted as a man to get work - until I was accused of rape - BBC News", "Players Championship: Ian Poulter shows fire still burns bright - Iain Carter - BBC Sport", "Roger Federer: Swiss 18-time Grand Slam winner to miss French Open - BBC Sport", "Nicola Adams and Marlen Esparza are in competition to win first world title - BBC Sport", "Ian Brady: The killer who showed no remorse - BBC News", "Child sex abuse: Inquiry team to search through 5,000 boxes of FA archives - BBC Sport", "Maria Sharapova: French Open decides against giving former champion a wildcard - BBC Sport", "Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal face play-off prospect for Champions League - BBC Sport", "'Litter police' get bonuses to target public, Panorama finds - BBC News", "A sex doll that can talk - but is it perfect Harmony? - BBC News", "The boss who lives as a medieval knight - BBC News", "Reality Check: What's been going on with pay? - BBC News", "Fernando Alonso: F1 driver satisfied with 'amazing' Indy 500 practice - BBC Sport", "Chelsea 4-3 Watford - BBC Sport", "TV dinners: The hidden cost of the processed food revolution - BBC News", "Premiership semi-final: Wasps 21-20 Leicester Tigers - BBC Sport", "Steak and ketchup: Homebody Trump ventures abroad - BBC News", "Maria Sharapova opts against Wimbledon wildcard request to enter qualifying - BBC Sport", "Reality Check: How many pensioners are living in poverty? - BBC News", "Inverness Caley Thistle: Richie Foran wants rid of 'bad apples' - BBC Sport", "Pro12: Leinster 15-27 Scarlets - BBC Sport", "Fernando Alonso makes Indy 500 'fast nine' for pole position battle - BBC Sport", "Premier League: Race for the Champions League and the Golden Boot - BBC Sport", "The princess, the palace and the shrinking royal line - BBC News", "Advice for Trump on his first trip overseas - BBC News", "More Pritt Stick than Pippa: Why millennials want a DIY wedding - BBC News", "Arsenal: Stan Kroenke 'committed long term' despite Alisher Usmanov bid - BBC Sport", "Treating children with electroconvulsive therapy - BBC News", "Fernando Alonso: Indianapolis 500 pressure is not a factor - BBC Sport", "Celtic 2-0 Heart of Midlothian - BBC Sport", "The celebrities dishing out random acts of kindness - BBC News", "Bradford City 0-1 Millwall - BBC Sport", "Inverness Caledonian Thistle 3-2 Motherwell - BBC Sport", "Ian Brady: How the Moors Murderer came to symbolise pure evil - BBC News", "Premier League team of the season: Harry Kane? Diego Costa? Choose your XI - BBC Sport", "Is Mike Pence distancing himself from Trump? - BBC News", "Premiership semi-final: Exeter Chiefs 18-16 Saracens - BBC Sport", "The Canary Girls: The workers the war turned yellow - BBC News", "Emre Can: Was Liverpool midfielder's goal the best this season? - BBC Sport", "World Championship: Black-ball mystery frustrates Mark Selby - BBC Sport", "Who is Great Britain's greatest heavyweight? Joshua? Fury? Lewis? You decide - BBC Sport", "Russia puts the Queen centre stage in Moscow's The Audience - BBC News", "European Athletics proposes rewriting athletics world records after doping scandal - BBC Sport", "What is going on at Fox News, and could it affect Sky bid? - BBC News", "Anthony Joshua: World heavyweight champion can replicate 'Tiger Woods effect' - BBC Sport", "Andy Murray: Maria Sharapova likely to get Wimbledon wildcard - BBC Sport", "The British pub chain that has banned swearing - BBC Three", "Paula Radcliffe criticises European Athletics' plans to wipe world and European records - BBC Sport", "Champions Trophy: Eoin Morgan calls England team 'most talented group I've played with' - BBC Sport", "Darren Campbell: Rewriting athletics world records would be for 'greater good' - BBC Sport", "Real Madrid 3-0 Atletico Madrid - BBC Sport", "Celtic dominate PFA Scotland awards with Moussa Dembele shortlisted for two - BBC Sport", "'I went to the web to find a new kidney' - BBC News", "Fidget spinners: the new craze in school playgrounds - BBC News", "Huddersfield Town: EFL writes to Championship side about team selection - BBC Sport", "BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017: Ada Hegerberg profile - BBC Sport", "Zlatan Ibrahimovic: Man Utd striker will play again after 'successful' knee surgery - BBC Sport", "Mark Selby beats John Higgins to retain his World Championship title - BBC Sport", "Tony Blair's legacy 20 years on - BBC News", "World champion Mark Selby delighted to match Davis, Hendry and O'Sullivan - BBC Sport", "Watford 0-1 Liverpool - BBC Sport", "What will happen next in Trump presidency? Reply hazy - BBC News", "European Athletics taskforce apologises to GB athletes over world records - BBC Sport", "Are fitness trackers for pets a fad or the future? - BBC News", "Justin Carney: Salford Red Devils winger banned for eight games for racial abuse - BBC Sport", "The horse that saved his own life by painting - BBC News", "EU and UK: Galaxies apart over Brexit? - BBC News", "Six child actors who retired from showbiz - BBC News", "World records proposal by European Athletics: Which star names would lose out? - BBC Sport", "Adam Jones: Boston Red Sox apologise for racial abuse of Baltimore Orioles outfielder - BBC Sport", "'Why I went to court for my disability payments' - BBC News"], "published_date": ["2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-21", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-03", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-17", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-13", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-07", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-22", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-14", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-10", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-04", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-18", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-08", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-05", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-11", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-15", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-23", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-01", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-09", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-19", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-06", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-12", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-16", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-20", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02", "2017-05-02"], "authors": [["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["Catriona White"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], ["Nick Arnold"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], [], [], ["Nick Arnold"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["Catriona White"], [], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"]], "description": ["The World Health Organization is recruiting a boss. Hear from the three candidates for the top job in their own words.", "Josh Bassett's 78th-minute try sends Wasps to their first Premiership final in nine years thanks to a thrilling win over Leicester.", "Arsenal miss out on Champions League qualification for the first time in 20 years on a dramatic final day of the Premier League season.", "World number two Novak Djokovic says Andre Agassi will be his new coach after the Serb loses in the Italian Open final to Alexander Zverev.", "Greg Eden's second-half hat-trick sets Super League leaders Castleford Tigers up for a hard-fought win over Leeds Rhinos.", "Fernando Alonso will start his first Indianapolis 500 from the middle of the second row of the grid after qualifying fifth.", "The Daily Show's Hasan Minhaj says minority comedians are replying with energy to the US president.", "Liverpool secure their Champions League return after a nervy first half as already relegated Middlesbrough crumble at Anfield.", "Fernando Alonso will compete for pole position at the Indy 500 on Sunday, but ex-F1 driver Sebastien Bourdais is injured in a high-speed crash.", "On Sunday the Premier League season finishes with all 20 clubs playing at 15:00 BST - catch up with the big issues on the final day.", "Leigh Griffiths and Stuart Armstrong score as champions Celtic beat Hearts to complete an unbeaten Scottish Premiership season.", "Many GIs had children with British women but under US laws black servicemen were usually refused permission to marry. So what happened to the children?", "Brady and his crimes were held up as the consequences of moral decay in 1960s Britain.", "Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths sets his sights on the treble after the champions complete an unbeaten Premiership campaign.", "Andre Dirrell apologises after his uncle and coach Leon Lawson Jr punched his opponent Jose Uzcategui after their fight.", "Nine months, 380 games and more than 1,000 goals - how well do you remember the 2016-17 Premier League season?", "Arsene Wenger says his \"professionalism\" cannot be questioned but uncertainty over his future contributed to Arsenal's fifth-place finish.", "The Nordic country's reputation for gender equality is not all it's made out to be.", "The Iranian president has been given a mandate to push through reforms, but how will hardliners react?", "Chris Rock is the latest celebrity to ban smartphones altogether at his upcoming UK shows.", "England and Saracens number eight Billy Vunipola withdraws from the Lions tour to New Zealand with a shoulder injury.", "Chelsea players, including outgoing club legend John Terry, celebrate on the Stamford Bridge pitch after beating Sunderland 5-1 and lifting the Premier League trophy.", "Real Madrid win their first La Liga title since 2012 thanks to a final-day victory at Malaga.", "Great Britain has had a handful of elite heavyweight fighters, but who was the greatest? BBC Sport wants your vote.", "The future of the US media network is up for grabs, and British regulators are watching.", "11-time British javelin champion Goldie Sayers explains the turmoil of waiting to see if she will receive an Olympic medal.", "Garth Crooks says players in the Italian League should strike this weekend unless Sulley Muntari's ban is overturned.", "The BBC's Umaru Fofana tells how diamond mining helped give him his start in life.", "Andy Murray expects Maria Sharapova to receive a wildcard for Wimbledon qualifying if she misses out through her ranking.", "McLaren's Fernando Alonso says his first experience of Indianapolis was \"fun\" as he begins testing for the Indy 500.", "Plans to rewrite world records set before 2005 are \"disrespectful and a slap in the face\", says former long jumper Mike Powell.", "Check out this content on BBC Three.", "Two-time Wimbledon finalist Ilie Nastase says tournament organisers are 'small-minded' for not inviting him to the Royal Box this summer.", "This is a line in the sand that must not be crossed, says the president of a threatened Budapest university.", "England one-day captain Eoin Morgan says the current team is \"the most talented group of players I've ever played with\".", "McLaren driver Fernando Alonso begins testing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway before his debut at the Indy 500 next month", "Cristiano Ronaldo scores another Champions League hat-trick as Real Madrid thrash Atletico Madrid in the semi-final first leg.", "Liverpool are to rename Anfield's Centenary Stand in honour of club legend Kenny Dalglish.", "Forget bottle-flipping and ditch your loom bands, there's a new craze sweeping school playgrounds.", "Salmon is Scotland's biggest food export, but what has driven its success?", "Wimbledon qualifying facilities could cope with the levels of interest should Maria Sharapova take part, the All England Club says.", "Uefa trials a new penalty shootout system for the first time in a competitive game at a European Women's Under-17 semi-final in Norway.", "England's Jonny Bairstow hits 174 off 113 balls as Yorkshire defeat Durham by six wickets in the One-Day Cup.", "Cristiano Ronaldo is on the same level as Pele after his hat-trick against Atletico Madrid, says BBC Radio 5 live's Phil Neville.", "The Hughes family want to take on the tech giants.", "Tech for pets is a booming business, but will it simply encourage us to spend less time with them?", "BBC Sport profiles Sweden and Chelsea goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl, a nominee for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017 award.", "He was once a champion, but it looked as if ill health would soon mean the end for Metro. Then his owner had an unusual idea.", "Ajax take control of their Europa League semi-final as they prove too strong for Lyon at the Amsterdam Arena.", "Two completely different versions of a London dinner - when it comes to Brexit, spin is everywhere.", "Women Who Work, the second book by the US's first daughter, was published today.", "Olympic gold medallist Darren Campbell says a proposal to rewrite the majority of athletics' world records would be for \"the greater good\".", "The Boston Red Sox apologise to Adam Jones after the Baltimore Orioles outfielder was racially abused by fans at Fenway Park.", "Debbie Neal has had a rare kidney disease for 10 years. One day, her disability benefits were stopped.", "In a first for Iran, the main battles in the country's elections are being fought on social media.", "Leicester City owner's King Power International agree to buy OH Leuven, the Belgian club says.", "Tyson Fury's boxing licence will not be reinstated until after his anti-doping hearing - which promoter Frank Warren fears could be in October.", "The basis for the decision not to give Maria Sharapova a French Open wildcard is wrong, says the chief executive of the WTA.", "You don't have to spend millions of pounds to buy an original piece of art.", "The lawyer behind the release of 82 women captured by Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram.", "Food brands sold to Czechs are lower-quality than the same items sold in Germany, shoppers allege.", "Experts warn the risk of fire will increase if there is a laptop ban on flights between Europe and the US.", "Southampton and Manchester United play out a goalless draw with visiting goalkeeper Sergio Romero saving a Manolo Gabbiadini penalty.", "Defending champion Andy Murray is knocked out of the Italian Open in the second round by Italian Fabio Fognini.", "Jordan Nobbs equalises deep into injury time for Arsenal as they draw 2-2 away against Chelsea in the Women's Super League One Spring Series.", "Andy Murray cannot explain his recent struggles after losing in round two at the Italian Open but expects to turn things around.", "Arsenal ensure the top-four race goes down to the final day of the Premier League season with a laboured win against Sunderland.", "Manchester City take a giant step towards Champions League football for next season as they comfortably beat West Brom.", "Manchester United are interested in re-signing defender Michael Keane, who moved to Burnley in 2015 for £2m.", "Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino says he is committed to staying at the club and denies reports of a buy-out in his contract.", "Huddersfield Town beat Sheffield Wednesday 4-3 in a penalty shootout to reach the Championship play-off final.", "Apple is expanding its European academy to find the next generation of coding and app creators.", "Former champion Maria Sharapova will not play at the French Open as tournament officials decide against giving her a wildcard.", "Walter Mazzarri is to leave Watford after Sunday's final game of the season at home to Manchester City.", "Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal face the prospect of a play-off to determine qualification for next season's Champions League.", "Who was Mohammad Amin, or Meeno, the transgender Pakistani who died under arrest in Saudi Arabia?", "Four and a half, according to a new analysis of the top 40. But is that a good thing?", "How a case of alleged espionage highlights the often fractious relationship between the countries.", "What was Ian Brady really like? Journalist Peter Gould gained a unique insight into the Moors Murder's mind through an extraordinary exchange of letters that lasted almost 30 years.", "Former MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden is injured as a result of an accident while cycling in Italy.", "Who were the millions of extra people that voted on Brexit - and what happens if they reappear?", "How and why would someone raise money for a person they have never met?", "Antonio Conte's rejuvenation of Chelsea is considered a miracle by some at Stamford Bridge - so what makes the Italian so impressive?", "Chelsea need to win the FA Cup to turn a \"great season\" into a \"fantastic\" one after clinching the title, says manager Antonio Conte.", "Jonny Brownlee crashes during the bike phase of his first triathlon since collapsing at last year's World Series finale.", "Kimi Raikkonen heads a Ferrari one-two in final practice at the Spanish Grand Prix with Lewis Hamilton third quickest for Mercedes.", "The bookies say the UK can't possibly win - but the former X Factor singer still hopes for an upset.", "Carli Lloyd is among the scorers as Manchester City cruise past Birmingham to win the Women's FA Cup for the first time.", "Nikki Lilly is one of an army of children taking YouTube by storm, but she is not your average vlogger.", "Three goals in the opening 11 minutes help Celtic to victory over Aberdeen as the champions close in on an unbeaten league season.", "Manchester City hold on to beat Leicester and move back into third as Riyad Mahrez's late penalty is disallowed for the Foxes.", "His wife claims Li Heping was force fed with drugs, shackled and beaten.", "Saracens become back-to-back champions of Europe as they beat Clermont Auvergne in a pulsating Champions Cup final at Murrayfield.", "Stade Francais come from 10-0 down to deservedly beat Gloucester and win the European Challenge Cup final at Murrayfield.", "In Iran, women form nearly half the electorate, so presidential candidates are vying for their vote.", "US President Donald Trump stayed out of the public eye before a startling announcement - the firing of the FBI director.", "How big can a baby get and still be considered normal, asks Jordan Dunbar.", "Champions League-chasing Arsenal move within a point of fourth-placed Liverpool with a comfortable Premier League victory over Stoke.", "How a skin cancer sufferer and his son embarked on a poignant campaign from their Sydney home.", "Everyone thinks Ireland are the UK's best friends at Eurovision. Are they right?", "Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton edges out Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel to take pole position for the Spanish Grand Prix.", "How a Nordic mystery death led to a trail of coded messages, disguises, and fake identities.", "Britain's double Olympic gold medallist Nicola Adams stops Mexico's Maryan Salazar in the third round in her home city of Leeds.", "Arsenal end Manchester United's 25-match unbeaten run in the Premier League and keep up their hopes of a top-four spot.", "New Zealand's Andrew Nicholson wins the Badminton Horse Trials at the 36th attempt, two years after suffering a serous neck injury.", "Chelsea boss Antonio Conte says Tottenham \"have an advantage\" over his side because Mauricio Pochettino has been in charge of Spurs since 2014.", "Ex-Manchester United defender Phil Neville says Arsenal's win over his old side was very different to the epic battles between the two teams in the past.", "Ireland coach John Bracewell says the looming decision over possible Test status is putting his team \"under huge pressure\".", "Steve Morison plays a starring role as Millwall come from behind to beat Scunthorpe and reach the League One play-off final.", "Britt Assombalonga scores twice as Nottingham Forest cruise past Ipswich to avoid relegation on goal difference.", "Thomas Young's hat-trick helps Wasps beat Saracens to seal Premiership top spot - and a home semi-final with Leicester.", "Why Norwegians trump Brazilians, where Shawcross ranks among 'own-goal' greats, how Rodgers compares to Klopp, and more of the week's stats.", "James Milner misses a penalty as Liverpool's Premier League top-four hopes are hit in a goalless draw against Southampton.", "Juventus' Morocco defender Medhi Benatia cuts short a post-match TV interview after claiming to hear a racist insult.", "Hartlepool United are relegated out of the English Football League despite coming from behind to beat Doncaster Rovers.", "Aberdeen all but secure second spot in the Premiership with victory over 10-man Hearts at Tynecastle.", "Blackburn are relegated to League One on goal difference, despite beating Brentford, after Nottingham Forest and Birmingham win.", "Swansea's players will cover the cost of 3,000 away tickets for the club's match at Sunderland next Saturday.", "Some good fortune here for Eoin Morgan as the ball hits his stumps but doesn't dislodge the bails, during England's ODI against Ireland at Lord's.", "England and Leicester scrum-half Ben Youngs withdraws from the Lions tour to New Zealand as his sister-in-law has terminal cancer.", "England are \"justified favourites\" for the Champions Trophy on home soil next month, says former spin bowler Graeme Swann.", "Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says managers must be \"careful\" when criticising their own players and \"control what you say\".", "Swansea City climb out of the relegation zone with two games remaining after Fernando Llorente heads the winner against Everton.", "Scott Sinclair leads a clean sweep of awards for Celtic as he is named the Scottish Professional Footballers' player of the year.", "Newcastle clinch the Championship title with victory over Barnsley, after Brighton concede a late equaliser at Aston Villa.", "Johanna Konta's struggles on clay continue as a final-set slump sees her lose to Laura Siegemund in the Madrid Open first round.", "England seal a series whitewash over Ireland in their two-match ODI contest courtesy of an 85-run victory at Lord's.", "Check out this content on BBC Three.", "Maria Sharapova will play Eugenie Bouchard after a first-round win at the Madrid Open on Sunday.", "The World Health Organization is recruiting a boss. Hear from the three candidates for the top job in their own words.", "Jose Mourinho's new low, were Tottenham ever top of the table? And how good are Chelsea? A Premier League season in stats.", "Wang Quanzhang's disappearance may be due to his \"refusal to compromise\"", "Who excelled in adversity? Who was a major flop? And how do Phil McNulty's pre-season predictions bear up?", "Fernando Alonso will start his first Indianapolis 500 from the middle of the second row of the grid after qualifying fifth.", "Former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara says he will retire from first-class cricket after this season.", "Arsenal majority shareholder Stan Kroenke says his shares in the club \"are not, and have never been, for sale\".", "Ex-Sunderland boss David Moyes will struggle to get another job in the Premier League and might end up in China, says Chris Sutton.", "Thousands of pounds are won in bets placed on John Terry being substituted in the 26th minute of his final appearance at Stamford Bridge.", "British and Irish Lions captain Sam Warburton says he is ready to \"crack on\" with the tour of New Zealand after a knee injury.", "A Manchester police chief says it would be \"naive\" to think the Europa League final between Manchester United and Ajax will be trouble free.", "How strict quality control and unusual Asian toppings helped a Japanese expat build a popular pizza chain in Vietnam.", "Contraception wasn’t just socially groundbreaking - it also changed the professional landscape.", "Have the governments since 2010 borrowed more than all Labour governments and is that a fair comparison?", "Many GIs had children with British women but under US laws black servicemen were usually refused permission to marry. So what happened to the children?", "Brighton's Jamie Murphy and Aberdeen duo Kenny McLean and Mark Reynolds are named in Scotland's squad to face England.", "Urban music festivals are on the rise, and some of them boast line-ups to rival the big hitters.", "With the opposition and the government at loggerheads, the crisis in Venezuela looks set to get worse.", "Ben Stokes says he would like to see more of his England team-mates join him in the Twenty20 Indian Premier League.", "Arsene Wenger says his \"professionalism\" cannot be questioned but uncertainty over his future contributed to Arsenal's fifth-place finish.", "The Nordic country's reputation for gender equality is not all it's made out to be.", "Former MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden dies aged 35, five days after being involved in a crash while cycling in Italy.", "The Iranian president has been given a mandate to push through reforms, but how will hardliners react?", "Chris Rock is the latest celebrity to ban smartphones altogether at his upcoming UK shows.", "Antoine Griezmann says he is ready to leave Atletico Madrid to win titles and will decide on his future this summer.", "What formation did you go for? Who plays in goal? Who had the most selections? Check out your team of the season.", "England and Saracens number eight Billy Vunipola withdraws from the Lions tour to New Zealand with a shoulder injury.", "Wicketkeeper Sarah Taylor is named in the England squad for the Women's World Cup this summer.", "Motorcycling and family were the inseparable constants in the life of Nicky Hayden, who has died aged 35.", "Real Madrid win their first La Liga title since 2012 thanks to a final-day victory at Malaga.", "David Moyes resigns as manager of relegated Sunderland after one season in the job.", "Hull City will play in the Championship next season after a thumping 4-0 defeat at Crystal Palace sends them down.", "BBC Sport looks back at some of the great goals scored at White Hart Lane by Tottenham legends during the Premier League era.", "How and why would someone raise money for a person they have never met?", "England's Matt Wallace maintained his lead throughout to win the Portugal Open and his first European Tour title.", "Australian cricketers are \"prepared to strike\" if a contract dispute is not resolved, which could have an impact on the Ashes.", "Carli Lloyd is among the scorers as Manchester City cruise past Birmingham to win the Women's FA Cup for the first time.", "Chelsea can keep improving after winning the Premier League and will try to retain their best players, says boss Antonio Conte.", "His wife claims Li Heping was force fed with drugs, shackled and beaten.", "Saracens become back-to-back champions of Europe as they beat Clermont Auvergne in a pulsating Champions Cup final at Murrayfield.", "The parents of Juan Pablo Pernalete speak of his death during Venezuela's protest-related violence.", "Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes steal a stunning victory in the Spanish Grand Prix from Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel.", "Goals from Victor Wanyama and Harry Kane earn Tottenham victory over Manchester United in their final game at White Hart Lane.", "South Korean Kim Si-woo holds off Ian Poulter's challenge to become the youngest winner of the Players Championship.", "Bali Rodgers carried weapons as an 11-year-old schoolgirl - but changed her life and now counsels troubled youngsters.", "How a lion-tamer tricked a volatile crowd to prevent a riot after the escape of a ferocious big cat.", "How big can a baby get and still be considered normal, asks Jordan Dunbar.", "Champions League-chasing Arsenal move within a point of fourth-placed Liverpool with a comfortable Premier League victory over Stoke.", "'I think that you have to be a mathematician or something to know what's going on.'", "How a skin cancer sufferer and his son embarked on a poignant campaign from their Sydney home.", "Rajasthan's Royal Red Tent is as tall as a double-decker bus - and it's getting its first proper clean in three centuries.", "Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall says there is \"no reason his side can't get better\" after they secured back-to-back European titles on Saturday.", "Liverpool beat West Ham at London Stadium to move back into third place as striker Daniel Sturridge scores his first goal since January.", "The modern office is mixing work and play in a bid to attract staff and improve productivity.", "Which players link up like Brooking and Keegan? Who does Jurgen Klopp need to protect? It's Garth Crooks' team of the week.", "Geraint Thomas' Giro d'Italia hopes suffer a major blow as he is involved in a crash and loses five minutes to new leader Nairo Quintana.", "How a Nordic mystery death led to a trail of coded messages, disguises, and fake identities.", "Britain's double Olympic gold medallist Nicola Adams stops Mexico's Maryan Salazar in the third round in her home city of Leeds.", "Harry Redknapp agrees to stay as Birmingham City manager and is expected to sign a one-year contract later this week.", "Twenty-one Chibok girls released in October 2016 have not been reunited with their families.", "The inside story of how a legion of hard-core Jeremy Corbyn fans are spreading his message online.", "The draw for the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan will be made on Wednesday at 09:00 BST, with England and holders New Zealand among top seeds.", "Juventus reach a second Champions League final in three seasons with a comfortable aggregate victory over Monaco.", "Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez can expect up to £100m to spend on players after \"positive\" talks with owner Mike Ashley.", "Accrington Stanley's Andy Holt refuses to back down despite what he considers a threat from the Premier League after his criticism of spending.", "Trump may have sacked Comey out of pique and spite, but he didn't act above the law.", "Will Labour’s plans to increase the key business tax really bring in £20bn?", "How fake drugs have grown to become a multibillion dollar global industry.", "Redrawing the political map of the UK based around Google searches for the names of party leaders.", "From demotion to Serie B in 2006 to their second Champions League final in three seasons, Juventus' rise has been remarkable.", "Team Sky's Geraint Thomas moves into second place in the Giro d'Italia by finishing third on stage four.", "The late dance DJ hoped his biggest track would help stop Italy's \"Saturday night slaughter\".", "Real Madrid hold off a spirited Atletico Madrid to set up a meeting with Juventus in next month's Champions League final in Cardiff.", "Arsenal stay in the hunt for a top-four finish as second-half goals from Alexis Sanchez and Olivier Giroud earn victory at Southampton.", "It would transform lives, increase tax take and cut welfare, the Women's Equality Party leader says.", "Andy Murray is through to the third round of the Madrid Open with a straight-set victory over Romanian Marius Copil.", "Man Utd boss Jose Mourinho does not believe it is a gamble to prioritise the Europa League over a top-four finish in the Premier League.", "Danny Willett will use a new caddie at the Players Championship as Jonathan Smart has left the role after a disagreement.", "Perth's new stadium will not be finished in time for the third Ashes Test between England and Australia, with the Waca set to host instead.", "Inter Milan refuse to comment on reports they are planning to offer Chelsea boss Antonio Conte a deal to replace the sacked Stefano Pioli.", "What exactly can we tell about where the party leaders have been out to win votes?", "New Barcelona signing Toni Duggan scores an 18-minute hat-trick as Manchester City beat Bristol City 3-0 in the Women's Super League One Spring Series in May.", "The CPS says there will not be charges over the Conservatives' 2015 election spending.", "Paul Pogba's world-record transfer from Juventus to Manchester United last summer is the subject of a Fifa inquiry.", "Slovenian cyclist Luka Pibernik celebrates a lap early on stage five of the Giro d'Italia, failing to realise there were another six kilometres of the course to go.", "England have a tough group, Scotland & Ireland will fight for Pool A supremacy, and Wales face ambitious Georgia - Jeremy Guscott on World Cup draw.", "England are drawn with France and Argentina in a tough pool for the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan plus Scotland and Ireland are in Pool A.", "Can academics really base studies on their own experience? Or is this intellectual narcissism?", "Maxine Peake says her drama about child sex abuse in Rochdale is a story that \"needed to be told\".", "The prime minister and her husband make a rare TV appearance to discuss \"boy jobs\", \"girl jobs\", love - and politics.", "Tour-de-France winner Chris Froome says he was \"rammed\" by a car driver. How dangerous is cycling?", "Local election results don't translate directly to the general election - but they are a significant barometer.", "Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho is \"humiliating players\" by questioning their commitment, says Chris Sutton.", "Gonzalo Higuain scores twice as a confident Juventus win to take control of their Champions League semi-final with Monaco.", "BBC Sport profiles Brazil and Orlando Pride forward Marta, a nominee for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017 award.", "All the latest news about Wales local elections 2017 from the BBC", "Garth Crooks says players in the Italian League should strike this weekend unless Sulley Muntari's ban is overturned.", "Our Paris correspondent evaluates the heated final debate in France's presidential race.", "All the latest news about Scotland local elections 2017 from the BBC", "McLaren's Fernando Alonso says his first experience of Indianapolis was \"fun\" as he begins testing for the Indy 500.", "Adam Gemili says Britain's sprint strength means just making the World Championships team constitutes being \"one of the world's best\".", "Italian Football Federation anti-racism advisor Fiona May says she would strike in protest at the treatment of Sulley Muntari if she were a player.", "Ireland's Ed Joyce says England captain Eoin Morgan would be welcomed back to play for the country of his birth.", "Five years ago a midwife in Kenya delivered a child with male and female sexual organs. The father told her to kill it, but instead she hid it and raised it as her own.", "Welsh cyclist Geraint Thomas will enter \"uncharted territory\" in the Giro d'Italia, which starts on Friday in Sardinia.", "More firms are now offering customers the chance to design their own handbags - we spoke to some of them about the soaring demand.", "Check candidates running in six regions of England which are holding mayoral elections in 2017.", "Romain Grosjean replaces Jenson Button as a director of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association - and will push for extra head protection despite his own misgivings.", "Marcus Rashford's superb free-kick gives Manchester United control of their Europa League semi-final against Celta Vigo.", "Spaniard Jimena Rico and her Egyptian-born girlfriend Shaza Ismail were pursued across borders.", "All the BBC's coverage of the 2017 UK General Election including news, analysis and results.", "Athletics chiefs should tweak events rather than rewrite existing world records, says three-time Olympic bronze medallist Kelly Sotherton.", "Uefa trials a new penalty shootout system for the first time in a competitive game at a European Women's Under-17 semi-final in Norway.", "England's Jonny Bairstow hits 174 off 113 balls as Yorkshire defeat Durham by six wickets in the One-Day Cup.", "Ex-Formula 1 world champion Mario Andretti says Fernando Alonso has a \"real chance\" of winning the Indy 500 on his debut", "All the latest news about England local elections 2017 from the BBC", "Pioneering work that extracts information from audio of gunshots could help solve criminal cases.", "Bologna and Ghana midfielder Godfred Donsah says he would go on strike to show solidarity with Sulley Muntari because racism is \"killing the game\".", "Newport Gwent Dragons forward Ed Jackson reveals he suffered a serious spinal injury diving into a swimming pool.", "From Elvis to TLC, these are the global superstars that got big without having to burn up Britain's motorways", "Formula 1 team McLaren-Honda launch a virtual racing competition, with a job as a simulator driver for the team as the prize.", "Ajax take control of their Europa League semi-final as they prove too strong for Lyon at the Amsterdam Arena.", "How multi national companies are using women in hijab to sell their products.", "Everton boss Ronald Koeman insists he will see out his three-year deal despite admitting he would love to manage Barcelona one day.", "In a first for Iran, the main battles in the country's elections are being fought on social media.", "Former MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden remains in an \"extremely critical\" condition after suffering \"serious cerebral damage\" in a cycling accident.", "Fernando Alonso is fourth fastest in practice for the Indianapolis 500 as strong winds limit the number of laps done by drivers.", "Players who dive in English football will face bans from next season under new Football Association regulations.", "Business leaders say none of the major parties need or want their blessing in the run-up to the election.", "Crystal Palace boss Sam Allardyce says the Football Association's decision to introduce retrospective bans to players who dive is \"utter rubbish\".", "French club AS Monaco celebrate winning Ligue 1 for the first time in 17 years by gatecrashing the post-match press conference.", "The son of Rachel Nickell revisits the site of her killing, 25 years on.", "Experts warn the risk of fire will increase if there is a laptop ban on flights between Europe and the US.", "A Swedish top-flight fixture between Gothenburg and AIK is called off after an alleged match-fixing attempt.", "Southampton and Manchester United play out a goalless draw with visiting goalkeeper Sergio Romero saving a Manolo Gabbiadini penalty.", "Tottenham will take risks on younger players rather than compete with clubs offering huge wages to transfer targets, says boss Mauricio Pochettino.", "Champions Celtic are one game away from an unbeaten Premiership season after a dominant victory over Partick Thistle.", "Jordan Nobbs equalises deep into injury time for Arsenal as they draw 2-2 away against Chelsea in the Women's Super League One Spring Series.", "In 1988 a military scientist from Taiwan sent his wife to Tokyo Disneyland and then defected to the US.", "University of Washington researcher Kate Starbird says online conspiracies are highly politicised.", "World number one Michael van Gerwen beats Scotland's Peter Wright to win his third Premier League Darts title.", "Maria Sharapova signs a deal with the Lawn Tennis Association to play at Birmingham's Aegon Classic for the next two years.", "Harry Kane scores four times as a dominant Tottenham hammer Leicester City to secure their 25th league win of the season.", "Nottingham Forest are bought by Greek shipping magnate Evangelos Marinakis with his takeover passed by the EFL.", "Johanna Konta loses to Venus Williams to miss out on a quarter-final place at the Italian Open as Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal reach last eight.", "Huddersfield Town beat Sheffield Wednesday 4-3 in a penalty shootout to reach the Championship play-off final.", "How Soundgarden's not-so-secret weapon became one of grunge's leading lights.", "Tottenham will continue their progress if they can adjust to playing at Wembley next season, says MOTD pundit Jermaine Jenas.", "Lions must be ready for \"hardest weeks of rugby they will ever have faced\" warns Gavin Hastings, captain on the 1993 New Zealand tour.", "Fears about the incomes squeeze have made this election less about the public finances, and more about the “just about managing”.", "Gaza residents face blackouts of up to 20 hours a day because of a battle between the PA and Hamas.", "Stuart Moore's injury-time own goal sends Blackpool into the League Two play-off final with an aggregate win over Luton Town.", "Apple is expanding its European academy to find the next generation of coding and app creators.", "Rising prosperity and access to education could be causing fewer women to be in work, report says.", "The firms helping travellers to transport goods around the world for complete strangers, and how they overcome security concerns.", "Check out this content on BBC Three.", "Former MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden is injured as a result of an accident while cycling in Italy.", "Egg farmers and pet food makers appear alongside bankers on this year's Sunday Times Rich List.", "Chapecoense win the state championship less than six months after the majority of the team were killed in a plane crash.", "Chelsea boss Antonio Conte says Tottenham \"have an advantage\" over his side because Mauricio Pochettino has been in charge of Spurs since 2014.", "British and Irish Lions head coach Warren Gatland says he is happy to speak to England's Mike Brown about his squad omission.", "UKIP figures rally around leader Paul Nuttall after the party lost 145 seats in local elections.", "Ex-Manchester United defender Phil Neville says Arsenal's win over his old side was very different to the epic battles between the two teams in the past.", "Around 1,400 mistakes are recorded in maternity units in England each week - some of them are life-changing.", "A look at why the format remains so popular as Will Young and Bebe Rehxa gear up for new BBC talent show Pitch Battle.", "The Canadian stories have become a feminist touchstone in Japan and inspired their own Japanese cultural spinoffs.", "Match of the Day 2 pundits Phil Neville and Martin Keown criticise Arsenal and Manchester United players for hugging and laughing in the tunnel before the Gunners' 2-0 victory.", "The minefields laid in the Falkland Islands 35 years ago have been a blessing for penguins, which are not big enough to trigger explosions. But now the time has come for their home to be demined.", "British fighter George Groves tells BBC Radio 5 live of his struggle to deal with the injuries Eduard Gutknecht of Germany suffered in their bout.", "Other issues, such as fair pay and quality of work, are moving up the agenda.", "As Ofcom investigates the planned Sky takeover, Rupert Murdoch remains robust as he answers BBC questions in New York.", "How technology turns small gaps in quality into vast gaps in pay.", "Eugenie Bouchard beats Maria Sharapova - the woman she called a \"cheat\" - in a marathon three-setter in the second round of the Madrid Open.", "Whether it is practically achievable or not, there are clear political reasons for the prime minister to stick with the \"tens of thousands\" goal.", "It is becoming harder to find reasons why this week's Players Championship will not eventually evolve to being a major, writes Iain Carter.", "Why Norwegians trump Brazilians, where Shawcross ranks among 'own-goal' greats, how Rodgers compares to Klopp, and more of the week's stats.", "Labour's John McDonnell says there is much to learn from reading Karl Marx's Das Kapital. What is it?", "Saracens and England forward Maro Itoje says he will be \"proud\" if he can be a role model for young black rugby players.", "The social network is largely unregulated and unaccountable when it comes to politics, critics say.", "Ghanaian midfielder Sulley Muntari says he would walk off the pitch again, adding that Fifa and Uefa are \"not taking racism seriously\".", "Chelsea are one win away from claiming the Premier League title as they relegate Middlesbrough with a dominant victory.", "Emmanuel Macron's role as president of France may not necessarily mean bad news for Brexit.", "England are \"justified favourites\" for the Champions Trophy on home soil next month, says former spin bowler Graeme Swann.", "Labour says the extra planned 10,000 NHS staff should be seen in the context of 6,700 cut since 2010.", "Jose Mourinho says he is \"happy\" for Arsenal fans after the Gunners' 2-0 victory over Manchester United - Arsene Wenger's first in 16 competitive meetings with him.", "Check out this content on BBC Three.", "As he continues on his farewell tour, the country singer looks back on his long music career, business ventures, and sometimes chaotic personal finances.", "Sulley Muntari has had the one-match ban he received after protesting against racist abuse overturned, says world players' union Fifpro.", "Local election results don't translate directly to the general election - but they are a significant barometer.", "All the latest news about Wales local elections 2017 from the BBC", "Newcastle beat Worcester in overtime by two points on aggregate despite the biggest second-leg comeback in BBL play-off history, to reach the BBL play-off final.", "All the latest news about Scotland local elections 2017 from the BBC", "Italian Football Federation anti-racism advisor Fiona May says she would strike in protest at the treatment of Sulley Muntari if she were a player.", "Leader Paul Nuttall is defiant despite losing 145 seats and being wiped out in several English councils.", "Ireland's Ed Joyce says England captain Eoin Morgan would be welcomed back to play for the country of his birth.", "Welsh cyclist Geraint Thomas will enter \"uncharted territory\" in the Giro d'Italia, which starts on Friday in Sardinia.", "Check candidates running in six regions of England which are holding mayoral elections in 2017.", "Tim Bowles becomes first metro mayor for the West, beating Labour candidate in second round of voting.", "Conservatives take an extra 14 seats to increase hold on Essex County Council.", "As Prince Philip retires from public duties, we speak to other nonagenarians who still choose to work.", "England begin their Champions Trophy preparations with an emphatic ODI win in their first home international against Ireland.", "Marcus Rashford's superb free-kick gives Manchester United control of their Europa League semi-final against Celta Vigo.", "Stephen Evans on how South Korea's presidential election could change its policy towards Pyongyang.", "Early results suggest the Conservatives have done well, but it's bad news for Labour and UKIP.", "Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho says he will rest players for Sunday's Premier League trip to Arsenal.", "Live streaming is becoming big business for 'creators' and tech firms alike. But is it dangerous?", "Eoin Morgan says Adil Rashid has learned from a \"tough\" winter after his 5-27 helps England beat Ireland by seven wickets.", "It was a well-meaning campaign to address bullying, but it ended in a passionate row over \"tolerance\".", "South Africa's Akani Simbine continues his impressive start to 2017 by beating Justin Gatlin and Andre de Grasse in Doha.", "A look at the star's confession with GQ Style and the art of image management.", "Novak Djokovic parts company with his entire coaching team, including Marian Vajda, who has been with him all the way through his career.", "All the BBC's coverage of the 2017 UK General Election including news, analysis and results.", "Twenty six jockeys are each given a one-day ban after a false start delayed this year's Grand National.", "The Conservatives have made gains in the local council elections, with Labour and UKIP losing out, as the results are declared.", "Ex-Formula 1 world champion Mario Andretti says Fernando Alonso has a \"real chance\" of winning the Indy 500 on his debut", "Manchester City are banned from signing academy players for two years and fined £300,000 after breaching Premier League rules.", "The UK is embarking on a major programme to upgrade its armed police response to terrorist attacks.", "All the latest news about England local elections 2017 from the BBC", "BBC political correspondent Chris Mason on the results so far in the 2017 local elections.", "David Moyes says he will remain as Sunderland manager next season despite the club's relegation to the Championship.", "Liberal Democrats win a crucial county council seat following two recounts and the drawing of straws.", "Tottenham's hopes of catching Premier League leaders Chelsea are dealt a big blow as Manuel Lanzini earns victory for West Ham.", "The Bank of England says 2017 may be the low point for wage growth and warns financial markets that they may be too dovish on likely interest rate rises.", "Images from around the UK as parties start to launch their election manifestos.", "Can the latest international conference help the troubled state?", "The Big Issue founder is in talks with Theresa May about a new approach to tackling poverty.", "Accrington Stanley's Andy Holt refuses to back down despite what he considers a threat from the Premier League after his criticism of spending.", "Trump may have sacked Comey out of pique and spite, but he didn't act above the law.", "The Conservatives commit to growing defence spending - after military figures say more needs to be done.", "Manchester United are within their rights to pay agents multi-million pound sums, says FA chairman Greg Clarke - but the FA and Fifa want a debate on the issue.", "Dr Michael Mosley investigates the impact of not getting enough sleep.", "Real Madrid hold off a spirited Atletico Madrid to set up a meeting with Juventus in next month's Champions League final in Cardiff.", "Transporting gas and electricity around the country accounts for 29% of energy bills.", "World number one Andy Murray is knocked out of the Madrid Open at the last-16 stage, beaten in straight sets by Borna Coric.", "Arsenal stay in the hunt for a top-four finish as second-half goals from Alexis Sanchez and Olivier Giroud earn victory at Southampton.", "How radical is Labour's draft election manifesto really?", "He suffered two broken toes when the car, being driven by a police officer, ran over his foot.", "Conflict between humans and elephants is more intense in Sri Lanka than anywhere else in the world. When one man was attacked he came round to find his daughter dead beside him.", "Britain's Jonny Brownlee says he is \"hungry\" to put the \"hurt\" of last year's World Series finale behind him.", "Leftfield look back at the making of their seminal debut album, Leftism, which turns 22 this year.", "World number one Andy Murray is \"concerned\" following his defeat by Borna Coric at the Madrid Open but denies being low on confidence.", "Le Real Madrid rejoint la Juventus en finale de la Ligue des champions.", "What exactly can we tell about where the party leaders have been out to win votes?", "Wayne Rooney is the most under-appreciated player in English football, says former Wales international Robbie Savage.", "Most people are unaware of where and when they can claim free drinking water, a survey suggests.", "In a draft of Labour's manifesto is a long, long list of plans - some new, some predictable, some rather more surprising.", "Railways, education, social care and defence - BBC correspondents unpick Labour's pledges.", "England have a tough group, Scotland & Ireland will fight for Pool A supremacy, and Wales face ambitious Georgia - Jeremy Guscott on World Cup draw.", "England Women will play Denmark in Copenhagen in their final match before this summer's European Championship.", "Critics of world football's governing body are spreading \"fake news\" and taking part in \"Fifa bashing\", says president Gianni Infantino.", "How does Labour's draft general election manifesto compare with the plans it set out in 1983?", "Everton midfielder Ross Barkley has until next weekend to sign a new contract or he will be sold, says manager Ronald Koeman.", "A look at the growing popularity around the world of exercise classes for pregnant women.", "An American golfer fails to score a single par and manages just two bogeys as he scores 127 in US Open local qualifying.", "Hull City boss Marco Silva says he will have talks meet about his future following the club's relegation from the Premier League.", "Ian Poulter savours his second-place finish at the Players Championship after a \"miserable\" period out injured.", "Redevelopment of White Hart Lane begins less than 24 hours after Tottenham said an emotional farewell to their home of the past 118 years.", "An advert featuring disgraced ex-sprinter Ben Johnson is criticised for \"making light of the use of performance-enhancing drugs\".", "Not many Grand Slams are won by players in their 30s - as Andy Murray enters his fourth decade, Russell Fuller discusses what the future holds.", "The parents of Juan Pablo Pernalete speak of his death during Venezuela's protest-related violence.", "BBC pundits Ruud Gullit, Pat Nevin, Chris Sutton, Graeme Le Saux and Mark Schwarzer explain how Antonio Conte can take Chelsea to the next level.", "Intimidated? No chance. But Fernando Alonso's Indy 500 odyssey will provide a challenge like no other, writes Andrew Benson.", "Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes steal a stunning victory in the Spanish Grand Prix from Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel.", "Goals from Victor Wanyama and Harry Kane earn Tottenham victory over Manchester United in their final game at White Hart Lane.", "South Korean Kim Si-woo holds off Ian Poulter's challenge to become the youngest winner of the Players Championship.", "Bali Rodgers carried weapons as an 11-year-old schoolgirl - but changed her life and now counsels troubled youngsters.", "Australia's Ashes series against England could be in doubt because of a players' contract dispute, says vice-captain David Warner.", "How a lion-tamer tricked a volatile crowd to prevent a riot after the escape of a ferocious big cat.", "Pili Hussein wanted to make her fortune mining for gemstones in Tanzania, and wasn't put off by the fact that women weren't allowed in the mines", "Past and present Tottenham players say an emotional farewell to White Hart Lane after Spurs beat Manchester United in the last game held there.", "'I think that you have to be a mathematician or something to know what's going on.'", "Rajasthan's Royal Red Tent is as tall as a double-decker bus - and it's getting its first proper clean in three centuries.", "The independent investigation into historical child sex abuse in football may have to sift through five million documents, BBC Sport learns.", "A rise in seizures off the continent raises fears of a new era of maritime crime.", "The BBC visits a factory in California which is making a new AI-enabled sex doll called Harmony.", "Secret filming shows people being fined for dropping orange peel and pouring coffee away.", "Jason Kingsley, the boss of games firm Rebellion, lives his life according to the rules of a medieval knight's chivalric code of honour.", "The TUC boss says living standards have been falling too fast for too long.", "Which players link up like Brooking and Keegan? Who does Jurgen Klopp need to protect? It's Garth Crooks' team of the week.", "Chelsea skipper John Terry scores on what could be his Stamford Bridge farewell as the Blues celebrate winning the Premier League with a victory against Watford.", "The industrialisation of food production has saved us time - but we are paying the price in other ways.", "Lewis Hamilton keeps his cool after Sebastian Vettel's robust defence - but only because he would have done the same.", "Manchester United cannot allow Ajax to grow in confidence in Wednesday's Europa League final, says former defender Phil Neville.", "Wang Quanzhang's disappearance may be due to his \"refusal to compromise\"", "England seamer James Anderson is a doubt for July's first Test of the summer against South Africa with a groin tear.", "Scott Dixon is robbed at gunpoint at a fast-food restaurant hours after winning pole for the Indianapolis 500.", "Ex-Sunderland boss David Moyes will struggle to get another job in the Premier League and might end up in China, says Chris Sutton.", "A man abandoned as a baby 61 years ago traced his family using a DNA detective. But what do they do?", "British and Irish Lions captain Sam Warburton says he is ready to \"crack on\" with the tour of New Zealand after a knee injury.", "How strict quality control and unusual Asian toppings helped a Japanese expat build a popular pizza chain in Vietnam.", "Contraception wasn’t just socially groundbreaking - it also changed the professional landscape.", "Motorcycling and family were the inseparable constants in the life of Nicky Hayden, who has died aged 35.", "Sam Allardyce steps down as Crystal Palace manager five months after joining the Premier League club.", "Top seed Caroline Wozniacki withdraws from the Internationaux de Strasbourg, less than a week before the French Open starts.", "Have the governments since 2010 borrowed more than all Labour governments and is that a fair comparison?", "Wentworth has had a £5m transformation for this week's PGA Championship as the European Tour aims to compete with the PGA Tour, writes Iain Carter", "What's it like to grow up with a parent who drinks? Four women share their stories.", "Petra Kvitova is \"on track\" to play at Wimbledon less than seven months after suffering a career-threatening hand injury.", "From a coach restoring the Ajax tradition to a side brimming with youth - the threat posed by Manchester United's Europa League final opponents.", "Sporting events and venues in England are conducting major security reviews following the Manchester Arena attack.", "Urban music festivals are on the rise, and some of them boast line-ups to rival the big hitters.", "Given that bomb-making requires expertise, how did the attacker get hold of such a device?", "More and more women in the UK are setting up their own firms as a way of reconciling the demands of work and family.", "The life of the debonair actor who brought a lighter touch to the role of James Bond.", "Antoine Griezmann says he is ready to leave Atletico Madrid to win titles and will decide on his future this summer.", "Manchester United players hold a minute's silence in memory of the 22 people who lost their lives in an attack at Manchester Arena.", "As a warming climate threatens traditional food supplies in the Arctic, one rural Alaskan village is flying in hundreds of reindeer by cargo plane. James Cook went to find out why.", "Most of athletics world records could be rewritten under a \"revolutionary\" new proposal from European Athletics.", "World heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua can do for boxing what Tiger Woods has done for golf, says promoter Barry Hearn.", "Find out what President Trump has said about where you live since he became US president.", "Twenty-three years after his tragic death, legendary F1 driver Ayrton Senna is still one of the most valuable brands in sport.", "Bottas' win in Russia means the Formula 1 championship is nicely poised for the start of the European phase of the season, writes Andrew Benson.", "Rather than languishing on a waiting list for an organ transplant, some people are seeking help on the internet.", "BBC Sport profiles German midfielder Melanie Behringer, a nominee for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017 award.", "Whatever the future may bring, Anthony Joshua's victory over Wladimir Klitschko means he will never be forgotten.", "The Greater Manchester mayor has the power to change an 'insane' bus system and put passengers first.", "Tottenham's victory over Arsenal means they can \"put psychological pressure\" on Chelsea, says manager Mauricio Pochettino.", "Mark Selby retains his World Championship title with a stunning comeback to defeat John Higgins 18-15 in the final at the Crucible.", "Voting for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017 is now closed - but check out the five contenders.", "Tony Blair came to power 20 years ago - how did he change the UK and what is his lasting legacy?", "Aaron Simpson and his company Quintessentially, a concierge services provider, organise many aspects of its clients' lives.", "Emre Can scores one of the goals of the season as Liverpool beat Watford to capitalise on favourable results in the race for the Champions League.", "Given what we've seen over the past 100 days, it feels like a Magic 8-ball would be a good predictor.", "Four-time winner John Higgins leads 2016 champion Mark Selby 10-7 after the first day of the World Championship final.", "Premier League leaders Chelsea take a big step towards clinching the title as three second-half goals see off Everton.", "He was once a champion, but it looked as if ill health would soon mean the end for Metro. Then his owner had an unusual idea.", "From Shirley Temple to Mara Wilson, six actors who took their careers in different directions in adulthood.", "A rematch with Wladimir Klitschko? An all-British fight with Tyson Fury? Or a unification bout with American Deontay Wilder? BBC Sport examines Anthony Joshua's options.", "Paul Nuttall says his party would bring UK net migration down to zero, but is this possible?", "From leaflets, to social media posts, election material is increasingly targeted at individual voters.", "British and Irish Lions head coach Warren Gatland says he is happy to speak to England's Mike Brown about his squad omission.", "Britain's three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome claims he was deliberately driven into by a car while out riding near his Monaco home.", "They left their homes in Central Asia to fight against the German army. Why were they taken to Amersfoort before being starved or shot?", "Bristol \"underestimated the Premiership\" after their promotion in 2016, owner Steve Lansdown tells the BBC.", "Nicola Adams wants to impress her home town fans when she takes on Mexico's Maryan Salazar in Leeds on Saturday.", "A look at why the format remains so popular as Will Young and Bebe Rehxa gear up for new BBC talent show Pitch Battle.", "The Canadian stories have become a feminist touchstone in Japan and inspired their own Japanese cultural spinoffs.", "Eurovision is meant to foster unity but 2017 seems to be all about Ukraine's conflict with Russia.", "British fighter George Groves tells BBC Radio 5 live of his struggle to deal with the injuries Eduard Gutknecht of Germany suffered in their bout.", "Team Sky's Geraint Thomas moves into second place in the Giro d'Italia by finishing third on stage four.", "Italian football authorities may face disciplinary action from Fifa following its actions towards Pescara midfielder Sulley Muntari.", "As Ofcom investigates the planned Sky takeover, Rupert Murdoch remains robust as he answers BBC questions in New York.", "Antonio Conte thinks his Chelsea players deserve to be Premier League champions, as they move to within one win of the title.", "Off Newfoundland's southern tip, French residents from St Pierre and Miquelon voted from afar.", "It is 25 years since Howard Wilkinson won the First Division with Leeds United. How close are we to the next English manager lifting the title?", "Eugenie Bouchard beats Maria Sharapova - the woman she called a \"cheat\" - in a marathon three-setter in the second round of the Madrid Open.", "Whether it is practically achievable or not, there are clear political reasons for the prime minister to stick with the \"tens of thousands\" goal.", "Brexit, tragedy, a new PM, the rise of the SNP and a fall in Lib Dems helped shape an eventful two years.", "It is becoming harder to find reasons why this week's Players Championship will not eventually evolve to being a major, writes Iain Carter.", "Andy Murray is through to the third round of the Madrid Open with a straight-set victory over Romanian Marius Copil.", "Danny Willett will use a new caddie at the Players Championship as Jonathan Smart has left the role after a disagreement.", "The head of the government's review into how we work says some businesses' employment practices are damaging the UK economy.", "World number one Andy Murray will defend his title at next month's Aegon Championships as six of the world's top 10 men descend on Queen's Club.", "Former England cricketer Andrew Flintoff, who has suffered from depression, says the word \"stigma\" should not be used when discussing mental health issues.", "The social network is largely unregulated and unaccountable when it comes to politics, critics say.", "Ghanaian midfielder Sulley Muntari says he would walk off the pitch again, adding that Fifa and Uefa are \"not taking racism seriously\".", "Arsene Wenger gives his response to Phil Neville's description of Nacho Monreal looking like he was \"at a christening\" in the tunnel before Arsenal faced Manchester United.", "The CPS says there will not be charges over the Conservatives' 2015 election spending.", "Paul Pogba's world-record transfer from Juventus to Manchester United last summer is the subject of a Fifa inquiry.", "Chelsea are one win away from claiming the Premier League title as they relegate Middlesbrough with a dominant victory.", "Emmanuel Macron's role as president of France may not necessarily mean bad news for Brexit.", "The idea has been trialled in several US cities with promising - if controversial - results.", "Middlesbrough captain Ben Gibson describes his side's relegation from the Premier League as the \"lowest point\" of his life.", "Check out this content on BBC Three.", "Maxine Peake says her drama about child sex abuse in Rochdale is a story that \"needed to be told\".", "Wales name Harlequins centre Jamie Roberts as captain for their summer tour Tests against Tonga in Auckland and Samoa in Apia.", "Arabic translations of a Japanese comic are giving Syrian refugee kids an escape from reality.", "Maria Sharapova opts to enter Wimbledon qualifying rather than request a wildcard entry into the main draw as she continues her comeback from a drugs ban.", "Former MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden remains in an \"extremely critical\" condition after suffering \"serious cerebral damage\" in a cycling accident.", "Labour's John McDonnell criticises Conservative plans to means-test the Winter Fuel Payment.", "The increase bucks a general drop in the murder rate and could be a side effect from the peace deal.", "Riyadh may seem an odd choice for Donald Trump's first trip abroad, but he wants a new relationship.", "Scarlets beat Leinster 27-15 in the Pro12 semi-final in Dublin despite having winger Steffan Evans sent off before half-time.", "Brendan Rodgers primes his title-winning Celtic side to complete an unbeaten Premiership campaign on Sunday after they rout Partick Thistle.", "Why an engagement is reigniting debate about women and the Japanese monarchy.", "Rising prosperity and access to education could be causing fewer women to be in work, report says.", "Trump's first foreign trip comes after 120 days hunkered down at home - but is he up to the challenge?", "The Football Association approves retrospective action to punish players who dive from next season - but will it work?", "Pippa Middleton's big day might have cost £250,000, but spending on the dress, the ring and the event is falling among most young brides.", "World number one Michael van Gerwen beats Scotland's Peter Wright to win his third Premier League Darts title.", "Arsenal majority shareholder Stan Kroenke is committed to Arsenal in the long term, sources tell the BBC.", "ECT has recently been used in some countries as a treatment for children who severely self injure.", "How Soundgarden's not-so-secret weapon became one of grunge's leading lights.", "In April 2014 Islamist militants kidnapped 276 girls from their school in Chibok in north-eastern Nigeria.", "Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino says Harry Kane is \"one of the best strikers in the world\" and Tottenham can keep their best players.", "Fears about the incomes squeeze have made this election less about the public finances, and more about the “just about managing”.", "How can businesses protect themselves against future cyber-attacks?", "Sunderland will only consider offers of about £30m for goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, says boss David Moyes.", "Billionaire Alisher Usmanov makes a £1bn bid to wrest control of Arsenal from majority shareholder Stan Kroenke, who has rejected it.", "Harry Kane scores four times as a dominant Tottenham hammer Leicester City to secure their 25th league win of the season.", "Champions Celtic are one game away from an unbeaten Premiership season after a dominant victory over Partick Thistle.", "Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says his future at the club will be decided after the FA Cup final on 27 May.", "In 1988 a military scientist from Taiwan sent his wife to Tokyo Disneyland and then defected to the US.", "Man Utd boss Jose Mourinho includes eight players who could make their debuts against Crystal Palace - but says they are \"not ready\".", "Stuart Moore's injury-time own goal sends Blackpool into the League Two play-off final with an aggregate win over Luton Town.", "British rider Geraint Thomas. who had been chasing overall victory, pulls out of the Giro d'Italia after crashing on Sunday's stage.", "Sulley Muntari has had the one-match ban he received after protesting against racist abuse overturned, says world players' union Fifpro.", "Real Madrid move level on points with Barcelona at the top of La Liga after thrashing Tony Adams' Granada side.", "All the latest news about Wales local elections 2017 from the BBC", "The politics of black hair and the British women supporting the natural hair movement.", "All the latest news about Scotland local elections 2017 from the BBC", "Newcastle beat Worcester in overtime by two points on aggregate despite the biggest second-leg comeback in BBL play-off history, to reach the BBL play-off final.", "Labour has a plan to avert disaster at the general election - and it means we'll be seeing more of Jeremy Corbyn.", "Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino refuses to concede the title to Chelsea after defeat at West Ham, but says it will be \"difficult\".", "Eliud Kipchoge misses out on breaking two hours for a marathon by 26 seconds but his time will not be a world record.", "As Prince Philip retires from public duties, we speak to other nonagenarians who still choose to work.", "Thomas Young's hat-trick helps Wasps beat Saracens to seal Premiership top spot - and a home semi-final with Leicester.", "England ease to a 30-10 win over Samoa in Sydney in their final warm-up match before October's World Cup.", "Patrick Roberts' brace and a superb Callum McGregor solo effort help Celtic extend their unbeaten domestic record to 43 matches.", "Live streaming is becoming big business for 'creators' and tech firms alike. But is it dangerous?", "Local election results don't necessarily translate into a big Commons majority for Theresa May but the ground is prepared.", "Eoin Morgan says Adil Rashid has learned from a \"tough\" winter after his 5-27 helps England beat Ireland by seven wickets.", "It was a well-meaning campaign to address bullying, but it ended in a passionate row over \"tolerance\".", "Hartlepool United are relegated out of the English Football League despite coming from behind to beat Doncaster Rovers.", "The party says the move would raise around £6bn a year for health and social care costs.", "South Africa's Akani Simbine continues his impressive start to 2017 by beating Justin Gatlin and Andre de Grasse in Doha.", "All the BBC's coverage of the 2017 UK General Election including news, analysis and results.", "BBC Sport takes a look at how the final day of the English Premiership season is shaping up, with plenty still to be decided.", "It is now possible to pay someone to dump your partner, write thank you notes or queue up for you.", "Tyson Fury tells BBC Radio 5 live he would not need a warm-up fight before outclassing unified champion Anthony Joshua.", "The Conservatives have made gains in the local council elections, with Labour and UKIP losing out, as the results are declared.", "All the latest news about England local elections 2017 from the BBC", "State department employees are well-versed in the trade offs between interests and values - so why did the new Secretary of State tell them as much?", "England and Leicester scrum-half Ben Youngs withdraws from the Lions tour to New Zealand as his sister-in-law has terminal cancer.", "Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says managers must be \"careful\" when criticising their own players and \"control what you say\".", "Swansea City climb out of the relegation zone with two games remaining after Fernando Llorente heads the winner against Everton.", "From Elvis to TLC, these are the global superstars that got big without having to burn up Britain's motorways", "David Silva scores on his return from injury as Manchester City hammer Crystal Palace to move up to third in the Premier League.", "Manchester United's Zlatan Ibrahimovic enters the list of the richest sportsmen in the UK in second spot, behind 2016 leader Lewis Hamilton.", "Check out this content on BBC Three.", "Tottenham's hopes of catching Premier League leaders Chelsea are dealt a big blow as Manuel Lanzini earns victory for West Ham.", "Hull drop into the relegation zone as they suffer a first home defeat under Marco Silva against relegated Sunderland.", "The Bank of England says 2017 may be the low point for wage growth and warns financial markets that they may be too dovish on likely interest rate rises.", "Antonio Conte's rejuvenation of Chelsea is considered a miracle by some at Stamford Bridge - so what makes the Italian so impressive?", "Chelsea need to win the FA Cup to turn a \"great season\" into a \"fantastic\" one after clinching the title, says manager Antonio Conte.", "Harry Redknapp signs a one-year contract to stay as Birmingham City manager after they retain their Championship place.", "Manchester United's season will still be a success even if they lose the Europa League final, says manager Jose Mourinho.", "Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas secure a Mercedes one-two in second practice at the Spanish GP, comfortably clear of the Ferraris.", "Watch the top 10 BBL plays of this season before Sunday's play-off finals between Leicester and Newcastle's men, and Sevenoaks and Nottingham's women.", "The logic of Tottenham's move is inescapable, but there will still be sadness as they leave White Hart Lane, writes Tom Fordyce.", "Lewis Hamilton sets the pace in first practice at the Spanish Grand Prix, as Fernando Alonso leaves the circuit after breaking down.", "An American golfer fails to score a single par and manages just two bogeys as he scores 127 in US Open local qualifying.", "Three goals in the opening 11 minutes help Celtic to victory over Aberdeen as the champions close in on an unbeaten league season.", "Transporting gas and electricity around the country accounts for 29% of energy bills.", "Conflict between humans and elephants is more intense in Sri Lanka than anywhere else in the world. When one man was attacked he came round to find his daughter dead beside him.", "Chelsea are crowned Premier League champions as Michy Batshuayi's late goal gives them the win they needed to secure the title at West Brom.", "Stade Francais come from 10-0 down to deservedly beat Gloucester and win the European Challenge Cup final at Murrayfield.", "Britain's Jonny Brownlee says he is \"hungry\" to put the \"hurt\" of last year's World Series finale behind him.", "World number one Andy Murray is \"concerned\" following his defeat by Borna Coric at the Madrid Open but denies being low on confidence.", "In Iran, women form nearly half the electorate, so presidential candidates are vying for their vote.", "US President Donald Trump stayed out of the public eye before a startling announcement - the firing of the FBI director.", "Beijing says its global trade ambitions are good for everyone, but it'll have some convincing to do.", "Most people are unaware of where and when they can claim free drinking water, a survey suggests.", "Winning the Europa League would be the \"perfect\" end to Manchester United's season, says Jose Mourinho after his side see off Celta Vigo to reach the final.", "Manchester United survive a huge late scare to edge past Celta Vigo and set up a Europa League final against Dutch giants Ajax.", "Masters winner Sergio Garcia hit a hole-in-one as Adam Scott blew the chance to take a first-round lead at the Players Championship at Sawgrass.", "Everyone thinks Ireland are the UK's best friends at Eurovision. Are they right?", "Everton midfielder Ross Barkley has until next weekend to sign a new contract or he will be sold, says manager Ronald Koeman.", "Shorter sets and a shot clock will be among new ideas to be trialled at a youth tennis tournament by the sport's ruling body.", "Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he would have been sacked by Barcelona and Bayern Munich after a trophy-less season.", "British number one Johanna Konta makes a strong start at the Italian Open, but Aljaz Bedene loses to Novak Djokovic.", "Redevelopment of White Hart Lane begins less than 24 hours after Tottenham said an emotional farewell to their home of the past 118 years.", "The son of Brazilian World Cup winner Bebeto, subject of the famous 'rocking cradle' celebration in the 1994 World Cup, has signed for Sporting Lisbon.", "President Donald Trump says his pick for FBI chief would be named \"very soon\".", "Yann Kermorgant's second-half penalty gives Reading victory over Fulham to book a spot in the Championship play-off final.", "Defending champion Andy Murray is knocked out of the Italian Open in the second round by Italian Fabio Fognini.", "Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes claims Rangers should be \"embarrassed\" at not finishing second in the Premiership.", "DNA-testing kits for health and fitness are growing in popularity, but is it all hype?", "Intimidated? No chance. But Fernando Alonso's Indy 500 odyssey will provide a challenge like no other, writes Andrew Benson.", "Child sexual abuse has never been a higher police priority. But too many rapists avoid justice, argues former detective Margaret Oliver.", "After a crushing defeat in the first round of the French presidential election, can the PS survive?", "Chelsea captain John Terry says he could retire at the end of the season after leading out the champions in a 4-3 win over Watford.", "Arsenal ensure the top-four race goes down to the final day of the Premier League season with a laboured win against Sunderland.", "Australia's Ashes series against England could be in doubt because of a players' contract dispute, says vice-captain David Warner.", "All the BBC's coverage of the 2017 UK General Election including news, analysis and results.", "Manchester City take a giant step towards Champions League football for next season as they comfortably beat West Brom.", "Gwybodaeth am Etholiad Cyffredinol 2017, gan gynnwys canlyniadau a dadansoddi.", "Experts see apparent similarities between WannaCry and earlier hacks by a suspected North Korea-linked group.", "Pili Hussein wanted to make her fortune mining for gemstones in Tanzania, and wasn't put off by the fact that women weren't allowed in the mines", "After his \"toughest stretch\", Ian Poulter showed at the Players Championship that he is not done yet, writes Iain Carter.", "Eighteen-time major winner Roger Federer will sit out the French Open and the rest of the clay-court season.", "Double Olympic champion Nicola Adams and her partner Marlen Esparza are racing to be first to win a world title.", "Notorious murderer who refused to show any remorse for his crimes dies at the age of 79 in hospital.", "The independent investigation into historical child sex abuse in football may have to sift through five million documents, BBC Sport learns.", "Former champion Maria Sharapova will not play at the French Open as tournament officials decide against giving her a wildcard.", "Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal face the prospect of a play-off to determine qualification for next season's Champions League.", "Secret filming shows people being fined for dropping orange peel and pouring coffee away.", "The BBC visits a factory in California which is making a new AI-enabled sex doll called Harmony.", "Jason Kingsley, the boss of games firm Rebellion, lives his life according to the rules of a medieval knight's chivalric code of honour.", "The TUC boss says living standards have been falling too fast for too long.", "Two-time F1 world champion Fernando Alonso is satisfied with an \"amazing\" first day of official practice for the Indianapolis 500.", "Chelsea skipper John Terry scores on what could be his Stamford Bridge farewell as the Blues celebrate winning the Premier League with a victory against Watford.", "The industrialisation of food production has saved us time - but we are paying the price in other ways.", "Josh Bassett's 78th-minute try sends Wasps to their first Premiership final in nine years thanks to a thrilling win over Leicester.", "A reluctant traveller who misses his own bed, the president faces a gruelling challenge on a nine-day, five country tour.", "Maria Sharapova opts to enter Wimbledon qualifying rather than request a wildcard entry into the main draw as she continues her comeback from a drugs ban.", "Labour's John McDonnell criticises Conservative plans to means-test the Winter Fuel Payment.", "Boss Richie Foran says Inverness must rid themselves of \"two or three bad apples\" after their relegation to the Championship.", "Scarlets beat Leinster 27-15 in the Pro12 semi-final in Dublin despite having winger Steffan Evans sent off before half-time.", "Fernando Alonso will compete for pole position at the Indy 500 on Sunday, but ex-F1 driver Sebastien Bourdais is injured in a high-speed crash.", "On Sunday the Premier League season finishes with all 20 clubs playing at 15:00 BST - catch up with the big issues on the final day.", "Why an engagement is reigniting debate about women and the Japanese monarchy.", "Trump's first foreign trip comes after 120 days hunkered down at home - but is he up to the challenge?", "Pippa Middleton's big day might have cost £250,000, but spending on the dress, the ring and the event is falling among most young brides.", "Arsenal majority shareholder Stan Kroenke is committed to Arsenal in the long term, sources tell the BBC.", "ECT has recently been used in some countries as a treatment for children who severely self injure.", "Fernando Alonso says he does not feel \"much pressure\" as qualifying approaches at the Indianapolis 500 on Saturday.", "Leigh Griffiths and Stuart Armstrong score as champions Celtic beat Hearts to complete an unbeaten Scottish Premiership season.", "Some of the stars doing their bit to give something back.", "Steve Morison scores a late winner as Millwall win promotion with victory over Bradford in the League One play-off final.", "Inverness Caledonian Thistle are relegated from the Scottish Premiership, despite beating Motherwell.", "Brady and his crimes were held up as the consequences of moral decay in 1960s Britain.", "Harry Kane or Diego Costa up front? Jordan Pickford or Tom Heaton in goal? Create your own XI from this season's best players.", "Vice-President Mike Pence has been a team player for Donald Trump - but that may be changing", "Saracens' hopes of consecutive domestic and European titles are dashed as Exeter score a late try in the Premiership semi-final.", "The sacrifice of soldiers killed in the world wars is well-documented, but who were the munitions workers stained yellow by toxic chemicals?", "Emre Can's spectacular overhead kick could prove pivotal in Liverpool's push for a Champions League place, but was it the best of the season?", "Did Mark Selby hit the black ball? Watch the controversial moment from the World Championship final and judge for yourself.", "Great Britain has had a handful of elite heavyweight fighters, but who was the greatest? BBC Sport wants your vote.", "Russian actors relish playing the Queen and British prime ministers in Moscow, Sarah Rainsford reports.", "Most of athletics world records could be rewritten under a \"revolutionary\" new proposal from European Athletics.", "The future of the US media network is up for grabs, and British regulators are watching.", "World heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua can do for boxing what Tiger Woods has done for golf, says promoter Barry Hearn.", "Andy Murray expects Maria Sharapova to receive a wildcard for Wimbledon qualifying if she misses out through her ranking.", "Check out this content on BBC Three.", "Paula Radcliffe criticises proposals by European Athletics to rewrite world and European records from before 2005.", "England one-day captain Eoin Morgan says the current team is \"the most talented group of players I've ever played with\".", "Olympic gold medallist Darren Campbell says a proposal to rewrite the majority of athletics' world records would be for \"the greater good\".", "Cristiano Ronaldo scores another Champions League hat-trick as Real Madrid thrash Atletico Madrid in the semi-final first leg.", "Striker Moussa Dembele is up for the PFA Scotland player and young player awards as Celtic dominate both shortlists.", "Rather than languishing on a waiting list for an organ transplant, some people are seeking help on the internet.", "Forget bottle-flipping and ditch your loom bands, there's a new craze sweeping school playgrounds.", "The English Football League writes to Huddersfield Town about their team selection for Saturday's defeat by Birmingham City.", "BBC Sport profiles Olympique Lyonnais and Norway striker Ada Hegerberg, a nominee for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017 award.", "Man Utd striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic says he feels \"fixed and stronger\" after a successful knee operation in the United States.", "Mark Selby retains his World Championship title with a stunning comeback to defeat John Higgins 18-15 in the final at the Crucible.", "Tony Blair came to power 20 years ago - how did he change the UK and what is his lasting legacy?", "Mark Selby cannot believe he has joined snooker's greats by claiming back-to-back World Championship titles.", "Emre Can scores one of the goals of the season as Liverpool beat Watford to capitalise on favourable results in the race for the Champions League.", "Given what we've seen over the past 100 days, it feels like a Magic 8-ball would be a good predictor.", "European athletics taskforce chief Pierce O'Callaghan apologises to British athletes who may lose their world records under new proposals.", "Tech for pets is a booming business, but will it simply encourage us to spend less time with them?", "Salford Red Devils winger Justin Carney is given an eight-match ban after being found guilty of racial abuse.", "He was once a champion, but it looked as if ill health would soon mean the end for Metro. Then his owner had an unusual idea.", "Two completely different versions of a London dinner - when it comes to Brexit, spin is everywhere.", "From Shirley Temple to Mara Wilson, six actors who took their careers in different directions in adulthood.", "BBC Sport looks at the athletes who could be at risk of losing their world records - and those who stand to be promoted - under a radical new proposal from European Athletics.", "The Boston Red Sox apologise to Adam Jones after the Baltimore Orioles outfielder was racially abused by fans at Fenway Park.", "Debbie Neal has had a rare kidney disease for 10 years. One day, her disability benefits were stopped."], "section": ["Health", null, null, null, null, null, "Entertainment & Arts", null, null, null, null, "Magazine", "UK", null, null, null, null, "Business", "Middle East", "Entertainment & Arts", null, null, null, null, "Entertainment & Arts", null, null, "Africa", null, null, null, null, null, "Business", null, null, null, null, "Scotland", "Business", null, null, null, null, "Technology", "Business", null, "Magazine", null, "Europe", "US & Canada", null, null, "UK", "Middle East", null, null, null, "Business", "Africa", "Europe", "Business", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "Business", null, null, null, "Asia", "Entertainment & Arts", "Europe", "UK", null, "Election 2017", "England", null, null, null, null, "Entertainment & Arts", null, "Technology", null, null, "China blog", null, null, "Middle East", "US & Canada", "Magazine", null, "Australia", "Entertainment & Arts", null, "Europe", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "Health", null, "China blog", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "Business", "Business", "Election 2017", "Magazine", null, "Entertainment & Arts", "Latin America & Caribbean", null, null, "Business", null, "Middle East", "Entertainment & Arts", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "England", null, null, null, null, "China blog", null, "Latin America & Caribbean", null, null, null, "UK", "England", "Magazine", null, "Entertainment & Arts", "Australia", "Magazine", null, null, "Business", null, null, "Europe", null, null, "Africa", "BBC Trending", null, null, null, null, "US & Canada", "Business", "Business", "UK Politics", null, null, "Entertainment & Arts", null, null, "Election 2017", null, null, null, null, null, "Election 2017", null, "Election 2017", null, null, null, null, "Business", "Entertainment & Arts", "Election 2017", "England", "UK Politics", null, null, null, null, null, "Europe", null, null, null, null, null, "Africa", null, "Business", "UK Politics", null, null, "Europe", null, null, null, null, null, null, "Science & Environment", null, null, null, null, null, "BBC Trending", null, "Middle East", null, null, null, "Business", null, null, "UK", "Business", null, null, null, null, null, "Asia", "US & Canada", null, null, null, null, null, null, "Entertainment & Arts", null, null, "Business", "Middle East", null, "Business", "India", "Business", null, null, "Business", null, null, null, "UK Politics", null, "Health", "Entertainment & Arts", "US & Canada", null, "Magazine", null, "Business", "Entertainment & Arts", "Business", null, "UK Politics", null, null, "UK Politics", null, "UK", null, null, "UK Politics", null, "UK Politics", null, null, "Business", null, "UK Politics", null, null, null, null, "UK Politics", null, null, "UK Politics", "Bristol", "Essex", "UK", null, null, "Asia", "UK Politics", null, "Business", null, "Australia", null, "Entertainment & Arts", null, null, null, "Election 2017", null, null, "UK", null, "UK Politics", null, "Tyne & Wear", null, "Business", "In Pictures", "Africa", "Family & Education", null, "US & Canada", "Election 2017", null, "Health", null, "Business", null, null, "Business", "Election 2017", "Magazine", null, "Entertainment & Arts", null, null, "Election 2017", null, "UK", "Election 2017", "Election 2017", null, null, null, "Election 2017", null, "Business", null, null, null, null, null, null, "Latin America & Caribbean", null, null, null, null, null, "UK", null, "England", "Magazine", null, "Entertainment & Arts", "Magazine", null, "Africa", "Technology", "UK", "Business", "Election 2017", null, null, "Business", null, null, "China blog", null, null, null, "UK", null, "Business", "Business", null, null, null, "Election 2017", null, "Magazine", null, null, null, "Entertainment & Arts", "Manchester", "Business", "Entertainment & Arts", null, null, "US & Canada", null, null, "US & Canada", "Business", null, "Health", null, null, "Manchester", null, null, null, "UK Politics", "Business", null, "US & Canada", null, null, "Magazine", "Entertainment & Arts", null, "UK Politics", "UK Politics", null, null, "Magazine", null, null, "Entertainment & Arts", "US & Canada", "Europe", null, null, null, "Entertainment & Arts", null, "US & Canada", null, null, "UK Politics", "Election 2017", null, null, null, "Business", null, null, "UK", null, null, "Election 2017", null, null, "UK Politics", "Magazine", null, null, "Entertainment & Arts", null, "Asia", null, null, "Election 2017", "Latin America & Caribbean", "Middle East", null, null, "Asia", "India", "US & Canada", null, "Business", null, null, "Magazine", "Entertainment & Arts", "Africa", null, "Business", "Business", null, null, null, null, null, "Asia", null, null, null, null, null, null, "England", null, null, "UK Politics", null, null, "UK", null, null, null, "Business", "UK Politics", null, "Australia", null, "Election 2017", null, null, null, "Business", null, "Election 2017", null, "US & Canada", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "Business", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "Business", "Magazine", null, null, null, null, "Middle East", "US & Canada", "China", "UK", null, null, null, "Entertainment & Arts", null, null, null, null, null, null, "US & Canada", null, null, null, "Business", null, "Magazine", "Europe", null, null, null, null, null, null, "Technology", "Magazine", null, null, null, "UK", null, null, null, "UK", "Technology", "Business", "Election 2017", null, null, "Business", null, "US & Canada", null, "Election 2017", null, null, null, null, "Asia", "US & Canada", "Business", null, "Magazine", null, null, "Entertainment & Arts", null, null, "UK", null, "US & Canada", null, "England", null, null, null, "Europe", null, "Entertainment & Arts", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "Health", "Scotland", null, null, null, null, "UK Politics", null, null, "US & Canada", null, "Business", null, "Magazine", "Europe", "Entertainment & Arts", null, null, "UK"], "content": ["The WHO confirmed that Zika virus caused microcephaly or small brains in babies\n\nThere's another big election coming up which will have an impact on hundreds of millions of people all around world - but you probably haven't heard anything about it.\n\nHealth ministers and officials from 194 countries are due to vote for a new director general of the World Health Organization in Geneva on Tuesday.\n\nThe UN agency, founded in 1948, describes itself as the \"global guardian of public health\", but it lost a great deal of credibility and trust over its handling of the Ebola crisis in 2014.\n\nThe new boss could make or break the WHO, which is still trying to prove it is fit for purpose after admitting it was slow to respond to what became the worst Ebola outbreak in history.\n\nHowever, dealing with epidemics is just part of what WHO does.\n\nIts stated goal is to ensure \"the highest attainable level of health for all people\".\n\nIn practice, that means everything from trying to wipe out deadly diseases for good, to trying to deal with the growing number of obesity and diabetes epidemics, to reducing deaths on the roads and saving the lives of mothers and babies during childbirth.\n\nHeading an organisation responsible for the health of all 7.3 billion people on earth is no small task.\n\n\"The word 'health' itself is a burden that it carries,\" said Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at the University of Edinburgh.\n\n\"Improving health worldwide can mean so many things, from mental health to malaria to unintentional injuries… to cancer.\n\n\"It's very hard for one agency, with a very limited and very constrained budget - of around $2bn every year - to achieve all those things. \"\n\nProf Sridhar, who has recently written a book looking at WHO funding, said the US's health protection agency, the CDC, has a budget more than three times that of the WHO.\n\nShe also said most of it comes from donors who earmark their funding for specific projects.\n\nOnly around 20% of the WHO budget comes from compulsory contributions from member states, she said.\n\nWhoever gets the top job will have to be the consummate politician. They will have to get country leaders on board with big - often expensive - global health objectives, while also being above politics and not beholden to the special interests of any particular country.\n\n\"There have been two types of leader at the WHO in the past,\" said Prof David Heymann, a former assistant director at the WHO.\n\n\"Some have tried to build consensus between 194 member countries, then try to implement what those countries have said. Others have been leaders who have been out in front with a vision, and tried to pull 194 countries along with that vision.\"\n\nThere are three candidates left in the running for the $241,000-a-year job.\n\nThe vote will take place at the annual World Health Assembly in Geneva. Whoever is elected will serve a minimum five-year term.\n\nDr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a former health and foreign minister in the Ethiopian government\n\n\"I was born into a poor family. When I was seven, I lost my younger brother, probably to measles. I survived by chance, but it could have been me.\n\n\"For me, this position is about standing up for the rights of the poor.\n\n\"If I became director general, I would be very vocal on the issue of universal healthcare.\n\n\"We complain about emergencies or epidemics, worried it may come to our country. But if we ensure universal health coverage, we can resolve all of those issues.\n\n\"Inequity is a central challenge. The world has all the resources to save every life, as long as we believe every life is important.\n\n\"Those who have, do not care for the have-nots, and unless we confront that reality honestly, I don't think we will make progress.\"\n\nDr Sania Nishtar, cardiologist who set up Heartfelt, which works to improve health systems in Pakistan\n\n\"I was born and brought up in Peshawar on the Afghan border in Pakistan. I was raised in a progressive family. My father encouraged us to swim in the summer and play golf. I was a local golf champion by the time I was 16.\n\n\"When I was 15, my father passed away silently in his sleep - I think that was a turning point in my life.\n\n\"I trained as a cardiologist and I became very disillusioned with the disparity of care between the rich and the poor.\n\n\"My vision for this role centres on regaining the WHO's primacy, and ensuring that it has the world's trust as its lead health agency.\n\n\"Since the Ebola outbreak, the WHO has come under heavy criticism for its inability to... exercise stewardship during health emergencies.\n\n\"I want to make the organisation more accountable and transparent.\n\n\"I want it to focus on its core roles, rather than doing everything under the sun, in a half-baked way. I would lead the WHO very differently.\"\n\nDr David Nabarro, born in the UK, is UN special adviser on the Sustainable Development goals and is former UN Envoy for Ebola\n\n\"My parents are both doctors, and probably because of their influence, I started working outside the UK.\n\n\"It was when I was working in Nepal in 1989, that I found how malnutrition and disease were most likely to come from households that faced particularly difficult circumstances in terms of income, the status of women and their access to sanitation and water.\n\n\"It seemed to me blindingly obvious that I had to work on the underlying determinants of health.\n\n\"My first priority if I become director general of the WHO, is to focus on universal health coverage - everybody being able to access healthcare when and where they need it.\n\n\"My second priority is to make sure people can be defended against outbreaks of disease.\n\n\"Thirdly, we are seeing increasing levels of diabetes, heart disease and mental ill-health. These kinds of non-communicable conditions could be prevented by better work across governments and society.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nJosh Bassett scored a try two minutes from time as Wasps reached their first Premiership final in nine years with a thrilling victory over Leicester.\n\nKurtley Beale helped Wasps build a 10-point lead but Peter Betham's try saw Tigers three points down at half-time.\n\nLeicester led when Telusa Veainu dived over, and Freddie Burns' kick had them four points up and defending bravely.\n\nThomas Young spurned a chance as Wasps pressed but Bassett scored in the corner to set up a final with Exeter.\n\nPremiership player of the year Jimmy Gopperth, who kicked 11 points, missed the conversion but Dai Young's side saw out the closing seconds as Leicester fell at the semi-final stage for the fourth consecutive season.\n\nWasps, who finished top of the regular-season table, will face Exeter - who were second - at Twickenham on Saturday, May 27 at 14:30 BST for the right to become champions.\n• None READ MORE: Exeter shock Sarries to reach second final in a row\n\nWasps have not lost a league match at the Ricoh Arena since December 2015 and were 18 points clear in the final table of their fourth-placed opponents.\n\nHowever, they were moments from being stunned by Matt O'Connor and his Leicester team, with the home side's line-out a constant area of concern.\n\nWith the match in their control, Wasps conceded two quick-fire penalties before the influential Burns, who will join Bath this summer, launched a pinpoint pass for Betham to finish and level.\n\nAn injury forced Australia superstar Beale off early in the second half which further encouraged Leicester, who isolated the largely anonymous Christian Wade to edge in front through Veainu.\n\nThe favourites looked to have missed their chance when back-rower Young misplaced a pass to the onrushing Gopperth after breaking the line, but resilience from Guy Thompson and Joe Launchbury opened things up for Bassett to score the match-winning points.\n\nAt one stage it looked like being a dismal campaign for the 10-time Premiership winners, who sacked director of rugby Richard Cockerill in January after almost eight years at the helm.\n\nThere was a real possibility Leicester would miss out on the play-offs altogether for the first time in 13 seasons, but under O'Connor they put together enough wins to keep that streak intact.\n\nAhead of the semi-final with Wasps the players rallied around captain Tom Youngs, who led out his side just weeks after learning of his wife Tiffany's terminal illness.\n\nThe Lions and England hooker, in his 100th start in a Tigers shirt, was part of a much-improved performance from the Tigers pack as O'Connor's side came within two minutes of reaching the Premiership final at the end of a season of transition.\n\n\"We chucked the kitchen sink at them in the last 20 minutes - we had three or four opportunities and that last pass didn't quite go our way.\n\n\"I'm absolutely thrilled for everybody involved at the club. I'm really looking forward to Twickenham next week - we'll go and enjoy it and if we can get our hands on something, fantastic.\n\n\"Any team could've won that, let's be honest, but thankfully we got over right at the end and we have to enjoy tonight.\n\n\"You've got to give Leicester a lot of credit - I thought they were great.\"\n\n\"It's hard to describe really. We didn't deserve to lose, I thought we did enough.\n\n\"At stages I thought we were fantastic, for the majority of the game. They just asked too many questions of us.\n\n\"This year is about perspective. You dust yourself off and make sure you're better next year.\n\n\"I think results have shown over the past four or five weeks that there's a lot of growth in the individuals we've got.\"\n\nFor the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal failed to qualify for the Champions League for the first time in 20 years despite a 3-1 win over Everton on the final day of the Premier League.\n\nThe Gunners began the day a point behind fourth-place Liverpool and were on course to displace the Reds when they took an eighth-minute lead.\n\nBut Liverpool, needing a win to ensure fourth, broke Middlesbrough resistance just before the break, and won 3-0.\n\nManchester City claimed third with a very easy 5-0 win at Watford.\n• None Reaction from the final day of Premier League action\n\nArsenal's remarkable run of qualifying for the Champions League in 19 consecutive seasons came to its widely anticipated end on Sunday.\n\nHope grew among the home support when Hector Bellerin gave the Gunners an early lead and news filtered through that Liverpool were struggling against the relegated Teessiders.\n\nBut in first-half stoppage time Georginio Wijnaldum put the Reds ahead with a stunning strike, and Jurgen Klopp's men eventually ran out comfortable winners.\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger: \"It is annoying but we had a spell during the season that was difficult and it was difficult for me in my personal situation.\n\n\"We were playing in a hostile environment. The players came back stronger in the last two months and I'm very proud of them for doing that.\"\n\nRelive the action as it happened at the Emirates Stadium\n\nThe Reds will play in the Champions League for the first time since the 2014-15 season.\n\nLiverpool suffered from early nerves at Anfield before Wijnaldum's opener on the stroke of half-time eased the tension.\n\nPhilippe Coutinho added a second after the break with a free-kick, and Adam Lallana slotted in to make it 3-0.\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: \"We've had bigger games - this was the game of the season though.\n\n\"We had this pressure but we are Liverpool and have to deliver.\n\n\"Everyone knows where we missed out on points, but we will improve. A club like Liverpool needs to be in the Champions League.\n\n\"I'm proud of the boys. We work a lot. We are closer together. We have to build together.\"\n\nRelive the action as it happened from Anfield\n\nManchester City sealed third spot and automatic qualification for the Champions League group stage with an emphatic 5-0 win at Watford.\n\nPep Guardiola's side required only a point to secure a top-four place, but instead of sitting back went about dismantling their opponents.\n\nSergio Aguero scored twice, after Vincent Kompany's opener, with Fernandinho and Gabriel Jesus also getting on the scoresheet.\n\nCity boss Pep Guardiola: \"We were under a lot of pressure. Congratulations to Chelsea and to Tottenham, we are so glad to be third.\n\n\"It is not a club with history of playing in Europe like Manchester United or Arsenal. But now we are there five or six years and now we can try to close the gap on the elite.\n\n\"The best teams in Europe will be at the Etihad Stadium next season. I don't know what we need to add. This is one of the best groups I have ever trained - they never gave up. It was a pleasure to be with them.\"\n\nRelive the action as it happened from Vicarage Road", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nWorld number two Novak Djokovic said Andre Agassi will be his new coach after the Serb lost in the Italian Open final to Alexander Zverev.\n\nThe 12-time Grand Slam winner parted company with his entire coaching team earlier in May.\n\nFormer world number one Agassi will be with Djokovic in Paris for the French Open, which starts on 28 May.\n\nThe news was confirmed after German Zverev, 20, stunned Djokovic 6-4 6-3 to win in Rome.\n\nIn the women's event, Ukraine's Elina Svitolina triumphed with a 4-6 7-5 6-1 win over Romania's Simona Halep.\n\nDjokovic had said the \"shock therapy\" of splitting with his backroom team, including Marian Vajda - who has been with him through almost all of his career - would help achieve better results.\n\nBoris Becker, a six-time Grand Slam winner, left in December after three years as the 29-year-old's main coach.\n\nNow he has brought in American Agassi, who retired in 2006 after a career which yielded eight Grand Slam titles wins.\n\n\"I spoke to Andre the last couple weeks on the phone, and we decided to get together in Paris. So he's going to be there,\" said Djokovic.\n\n\"We'll see what the future brings. We are both excited to work together and see where it takes us.\n\n\"We don't have any long-term commitment. It's just us trying to get to know each other in Paris a little bit.\"\n\nAgassi has no top-level coaching experience, but Djokovic could not have made a more exciting choice. The 47-year-old remains hugely popular; a charismatic, and sometimes enigmatic, true great of the game.\n\nHaving benefitted from the counsel of Boris Becker (Djokovic won six Grand Slam titles in their three years together), he is now hoping to build a relationship with Agassi, who like Djokovic, knows how it feels to win each of the Grand Slams.\n\nIf there is to be a more permanent arrangement it is likely to revolve almost exclusively around the Grand Slams. Agassi and wife Steffi Graf have two teenage children, he is heavily involved in his charitable foundation and has indicated in the past that he does not want to be away from his Las Vegas home for too long.\n\nAt 20 years and one month, Zverev is the youngest Masters event champion since Djokovic himself won the 2007 Miami Open.\n\nFearless Zverev, currently ranked 17 in the world but now set to move into the top 10, dominated from the start.\n\nHe did not face a break point and broke the 12-time major winner in the first game and twice in the second set.\n\nDjokovic received a code violation for an audible obscenity in the seventh game of the second set, and later double-faulted to hand Zverev match point.\n\nA long backhand by the Serb, who will celebrate his 30th birthday on Monday, subsequently ensured victory to his highly-rated opponent.\n\nDjokovic's semi-final win over Dominic Thiem had hinted he was close to recovering his best form after a poor year, culminating in the departure of his entire coaching staff earlier this month.\n\nBut Zverev was composed throughout and won in one hour and 21 minutes.\n\n\"It's such an honour being on the court against one of the best ever players,\" said Zverev after his victory.\n\n\"If I have half the career Novak has had, I will be just fine.\"\n\nReferring to the French Open, the second Grand Slam of the year, which begins on 28 May, he added: \"I'm sure he will be one of the favourites in Paris.\"\n\nDjokovic will need to raise his game having hit 27 unforced errors to his opponent's 14, but hinted at a big future for the German.\n\n\"You are definitely on a great path. You played fantastic and deserve it,\" he said.\n\nSvitolina fought back from losing the first set to win her fourth title of the year.\n\nThe 22-year-old is currently ranked 11th in the world, but will return to the top 10 when the rankings are updated on Monday.\n\nHalep, 25, who won the Madrid Open last week, rolled her ankle when leading 5-2 in the first set, but managed to take it 6-4.\n\nThe world number four had her ankle strapped in the second set, which Svitolina took 7-5.\n\nThe third set was a one-sided affair as Svitolina won 6-1 in 30 minutes.\n\nSvitolina, who also called for a trainer in the second set, adds her Rome title to victories in Istanbul, Dubai and Taipei City.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nGreg Eden scored a second-half hat-trick to set Super League leaders Castleford up for a hard-fought win over Leeds in the Magic Weekend finale.\n\nLuke Gale opened the scoring for Tigers, collecting the ball after his high kick was spilled, and after Kallum Watkins hit back with a try, Liam Sutcliffe made it 6-6 with a penalty.\n\nEden's treble and Tom Holmes' score put Castleford 28-6 up after 64 minutes.\n\nJoel Moon and Sutcliff then went over for Leeds, but it was not enough.\n\nVictory restored Castleford's two-point lead at the top of the table after Salford moved equal with them following a convincing win earlier in the day at St James' Park. Defeat leaves Leeds fourth in the table, four points adrift of the summit.\n\nIn a tense first half, the penalty to restore parity before the break summed up the drama, with play brought back and Sutcliffe teed up for the two points after Eden's near length-of-the-field try was disallowed for obstruction.\n\nFor Eden, it meant simply waiting to get the first try of his treble and what would be his second hat-trick against Leeds this season, with the winger grabbing three against them in their record 66-10 win in round three.\n\nThe pick of his tries was the second on 50 minutes, with a sublime behind-the-back flick pass from Michael Shenton sending him clear in the left corner.\n\nThe try came during a devastating 18-minute spell by the competition pacesetters and was the highlight on a day that attracted 30,046, which took the Magic Weekend tally to 65,407.", "Fernando Alonso will start his first Indianapolis 500 from the middle of the second row of the grid after qualifying fifth for the race on 28 May.\n\nThe McLaren Formula 1 driver set an average of 231.300mph on his four-lap qualifying run, while New Zealander Scott Dixon took pole at 232.164mph.\n\nIt was an impressive performance from the two-time F1 champion - he had not driven an IndyCar until this month.\n\nAlonso said he was \"happy\" but had been slightly delayed by an engine issue.\n\n\"I think the car was better than yesterday,\" he said. \"We had an over-boost problem (with the turbocharger) in the final corner, so the engine was like hitting the brakes and I lost a bit.\"\n\nThe Spaniard said this cost him 0.3-0.4mph on his average, which equates to the difference between fifth and either second or third.\n\nAlonso, whose engine needed to be changed between final practice earlier on Sunday and qualifying, added on his Instagram account: \"With everything that has happened today being among the top five is a dream.\n\n\"Fifteen days ago I would never have thought about fighting for the pole. Thanks to the whole team. Now another week of learning and race next weekend.\"\n\nTo put Alonso's performance into context, 1992 F1 world champion Nigel Mansell qualified eighth on his debut in 1993, in what was the Englishman's fourth IndyCar race after switching to the US-based series.\n\nAlonso's first taste of Indianapolis was in his 'rookie' test on 4 May. He is missing next weekend's Monaco Grand Prix to race at the speedway as part of his quest to win the so-called 'triple crown' of Monaco, which he has won twice, Indy and the Le Mans 24 Hours sportscar race.\n\nThe 35-year-old Spaniard is directly behind two former F1 drivers on the grid.\n\nAmerican Alexander Rossi, who had a brief career with the back-of-the-grid Caterham and Marussia teams, was third and Japan's Takuma Sato, who raced in 90 grands prix for the Jordan, BAR and Super Aguri teams, was fourth.\n\nAmerican Ed Carpenter takes the middle slot on the three-car front row.\n\nRossi won the Indy 500 from 11th on the grid last year, an illustration of the fact that qualifying positions are not of great importance in predicting race form at the so-called 'Brickyard'.\n\nThat is because the set-up of the cars is changed significantly between qualifying and race to ensure drivers can run consistently in heavy traffic during a 500-mile race that is usually punctuated by several 'caution' periods in which drivers are restricted to reduced speeds behind a pace car.\n\nAlonso was consistently fast through the days of practice last week, whether running in qualifying or race trim.\n\nNone of the British drivers in the field were in the 'fast nine'. Ed Jones was 11th on his debut, followed by Max Chilton in 15th, Jay Howard in 20th, Jack Harvey in 27th and Pippa Mann in 28th.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hasan Minhaj: 'There's something amazing in the chai'\n\nComedians have a new-found energy in the era of Donald Trump, says a rising US comedy star.\n\nHasan Minhaj hosted the the White House Correspondents' Dinner in April - an event President Trump snubbed.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Minhaj said there was \"something cool\" happening in response to Mr Trump's policies.\n\nHe said the political atmosphere was such that it gave him an unexpected opportunity to host the correspondents' dinner.\n\nSpeaking during a Facebook Live Q&A with the BBC, Minhaj said he would \"probably not\" have been given such an opportunity had Hillary Clinton won last November's election.\n\n\"I think the narrative of the country would have been different,\" he said. \"I think the collective feeling around who the White House Correspondents' Association should choose to represent, and be the comedian that night - that narrative would have been different.\"\n\nMr Trump became the first commander-in-chief to skip the dinner since 1981, when then-President Ronald Reagan was recovering from a gunshot wound.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDuring his election campaign, Mr Trump said he would establish a register of Muslims and since then, he has attempted but failed to introduce bans on people from seven Muslim-majority nations travelling to the US.\n\nThose moves were met with protests, but Minhaj - a Muslim-American - said the policies had sparked a response among Asian-American and Muslim comedians, adding that \"there's something amazing in the chai right now\".\n\n\"What I think is really cool is there's different shades of the narrative,\" said Minhaj, who appears on The Daily Show on Comedy Central. \"People are bringing their own personal perspectives, and everyone's being unapologetically themselves.\"\n\nHasan Minhaj said he would \"probably not\" have hosted the dinner under Hillary Clinton\n\nMinhaj is not the only comedian to have benefited from a Donald Trump presidency - the TV show Saturday Night Live, which has regularly skewered the president and his cabinet, has reported its highest ratings in about 20 years.\n\nWajahat Ali, an author and New York Times contributor who was also a guest of the Facebook session, said he wanted to thank Mr Trump for helping give comedians a voice.\n\nThe policies of the White House had, he said, \"awakened slumbering giants, queens and kings, princes and princesses, who had stayed dormant\". He added: \"Sometimes it takes a crisis to wake up.\"\n• None Six takes from the White House Correspondents' dinner", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLiverpool secured their Champions League return as their initial nerves turned to jubilation and relegated Middlesbrough crumbled at Anfield.\n\nWith top-four rivals Arsenal ahead at Everton, Liverpool were impotent in attack and twitchy at the back for most of the first half.\n\nBut Georginio Wijnaldum eased the tension in injury time, bursting into the box and smashing in a fierce shot at the near post.\n\nPhilippe Coutinho's low curling free-kick six minutes into the second half was quickly followed by Adam Lallana slotting in to give the Reds a comfortable cushion to ride out to full-time.\n\nWith Manchester City thrashing Watford, Liverpool finished fourth in the final Premier League table and will have to negotiate Champions League qualifying at the start of next season.\n\nManager Jurgen Klopp had a beaming smile on the final whistle as he congratulated his players, but his team's display - in front of a watching owner John W Henry - underlined the need for further investment as they prepare to step up to Europe's top table for the first time since 2014-15.\n\nThat campaign ended in the group stages as Brendan Rodgers' side - with talisman Luis Suarez sold to Barcelona - were found wanting.\n\nIf they play like they did in Sunday's first half, the same fate will be the best this version can hope for.\n\nAs so often this season, Liverpool's attackers seemed stumped by deep-lying opposition and the soft centre of their defence was nearly exposed when Patrick Bamford got the wrong side of Dejan Lovren and had a strong claim for a penalty denied.\n\nBut Wijnaldum's powerful opener changed the mood both in the stands and on the pitch. The interplay between Roberto Firmino, Coutinho and Lallana in the second half was close to the scintillating best that they have produced in this campaign.\n\nThey surely need additions to recreate that form more consistently and on bigger stages next season, but Klopp's side collected an impressive 76 points and finished above Arsenal and Manchester United in his first full season in charge.\n\n\"I think it does qualify as a successful season. They set out to reach the Champions League and from a league point of view they've achieved that. They'll be bigger and better next season,\" Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer said.\n\nDaniel Sturridge is the last remaining part of the attacking trio that drove Liverpool close to the Premier League title two seasons ago.\n\nBut after an injury-blighted couple of campaigns and doubts over whether he can find a place in Klopp's high-tempo gameplan, it had been suggested he might follow Suarez and Raheem Sterling out of the club.\n\nStarting successive Premier League games for the first time since September, he added an extra dimension to Liverpool's play with clever movement, a constant penalty-box presence and ability to get a shot away.\n\nHe came closer than any Liverpool player to scoring in the first 45 minutes with a shot just wide, applauded the fans as he headed off with eight to go and exchanged an embrace with Klopp on his way to the bench.\n\n\"There is nothing to discuss really,\" he told Sky Sports, when asked after the match if he would still be at Liverpool next season. \"I have two years left on my deal and I am happy here.\"\n\nWhile Liverpool prepare for the Champions League, Middlesbrough have the different challenge of life in the Championship next season.\n\nChairman Steve Gibson has been bullish about the possibility of an immediate return, saying earlier in the week that he aimed to \"smash the league\" and return as champions.\n\nA starting selection without likely summer departures Alvaro Negredo, Marten de Roon and Adama Traore suggested that caretaker Steve Agnew is already concentrating on the next campaign.\n\nSolidly run off the pitch as well as resolute on it, Boro are well set to back up their chairman's promise, particularly if Gibson can convince his centre-back nephew Ben to stick with the club in the second tier.\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: \"We worked hard to get the first goal. We got more confident. We then scored from the free-kick and got even more confident.\n\n\"The boys then played some fantastic football. I'm really looking forward to next season. I think we have created a wonderful base. The better you're organised, the more you feel free to do special things in offence.\n\n\"I'm really happy about this - what a wonderful day.\"\n\nMiddlesbrough caretaker boss Steve Agnew: \"Liverpool have some top-class players and you wait for moments like that Patrick Bamford penalty shout and that did not go our way.\n\n\"It has been a difficult season and the bottom line is that we have not scored enough goals or won enough games. We need to use this summer to reflect and work out what we need to do to come back.\n\n\"The chairman is the best in my opinion and I'm sure that talks will be progressing over the next few weeks about the future of the club.\"\n\nO Magico pulls the strings - the stats you need to know\n• None Liverpool have finished in the top four of the Premier League for only the second time in the past eight seasons.\n• None Philippe Coutinho has had a hand in 20 Premier League goals for Liverpool this season, more than any other player (13 goals, seven assists).\n• None Coutinho has scored 15 Premier League goals from outside the area, more than any other player.\n• None Middlesbrough are one of three teams to visit Anfield on 10 or more occasions in the Premier League without winning (Sunderland - 16, Middlesbrough - 15 and Bolton - 13).\n• None All 17 of Georginio Wijnaldum's Premier League goals have been scored in home games (six at Anfield and 11 at St James' Park).\n• None Middlesbrough won just 28 points this season, their worst return in a Premier League season.\n• None Attempt saved. Adam Forshaw (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Adam Forshaw (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Álvaro Negredo with a through ball.\n• None Attempt saved. Emre Can (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Adam Lallana.\n• None Attempt blocked. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Roberto Firmino.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Emre Can.\n• None Attempt saved. Adam Lallana (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Fernando Alonso will compete for pole position at the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday after making it through the first qualifying day seventh fastest.\n\nThe McLaren Formula 1 driver produced an impressive performance in his first competitive session on a US oval track.\n\nAlonso, 35, is among the 'fast nine' who will dispute pole on Sunday.\n\nThe Spanish driver's average speed for his four-lap qualifying run on the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway was 230.034mph.\n\nAmerican Ed Carpenter, who ran later in the day, was fastest at 230.468mph. The shootout for pole is due to begin at 22:00 BST.\n\nThe perils of racing on high-speed American oval tracks were emphasised as former F1 driver Sebastien Bourdais suffered multiple fractures to his pelvis and a fracture to his right hip in a high-speed crash.\n\nThe Frenchman, 38, was fastest after the first two laps of his four-lap qualifying run but lost control exiting Turn One, smashed head-on into the barriers and rolled before coming to a rest.\n\nIndyCar said in a statement that Bourdais was due to have surgery on his pelvis on Saturday evening at the Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital.\n\nDale Coyne Racing's team owner said in a statement on Saturday: \"Sebastien is in good hands here at the hospital with the staff and now we just wait for him to recover.\"\n\nBourdais, who drove for F1 team Toro Rosso in 2008 and 2009, had been \"awake and alert\" immediately after the accident and had not lost consciousness.\n\nDrivers are supposed to get several attempts at setting a time on the first day of qualifying at Indy, but a rain storm in the morning delayed running and in the end the session was cut short so that each driver only had one four-lap attempt.\n\nSpeaking before the conclusion of the session, Alonso said: \"It was intense, definitely. With the weather conditions, we only had this attempt, so that creates a little bit of stress on everyone.\n\n\"I think we did OK, and put the laps together but I think there is more to come from the car. We have a little bit more speed than we showed today so hopefully we can put everything together.\n\n\"It felt difficult, it felt tricky. You are going very fast, you feel the degradation of the tyres. Lap one and lap four are very different in terms of the balance and you need to keep your concentration very high every corner, every lap.\n\n\"I need to keep learning, keep progressing. With this being my first qualifying, I saw there were things I could do differently, the preparation of the tyres, the laps, the consistency of the laps. I am happy with today's performance but I think tomorrow will be better.\"\n\nOf the Britons, Ed Jones was quickest in 10th place, followed by Max Chilton in 12th, Jay Howard in 22nd, Jack Harvey in 25th and Pippa Mann in 30th.\n\nQualifying runs over two days this weekend, with Saturday defining the 'fast nine' drivers who compete for pole position on Sunday.\n\nThe remaining 24 drivers also qualify again on Sunday, but only to determine the grid positions from 10th to 33rd. Qualifying pace is determined by a driver's average speed over a four-lap run.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal will compete for England's final two Champions League places as the Premier League season finishes on Sunday.\n\nCity can clinch third spot, and a place in the group stage, by winning at Watford, while Liverpool will secure at least fourth by beating Middlesbrough.\n\nBut Arsenal can sneak into the top four if one of their rivals slips up and they beat Everton at Emirates Stadium.\n\nAll 20 teams are in action, with every match kicking off at 15:00 BST.\n\nSo what are the big issues on the final day - and what is the latest team news?\n• None Select your Premier League team of the season\n• None Quiz: How well do you remember this season?\n\nManchester City need a point at Watford to guarantee a top-four finish - but winning and finishing third will take them straight into next season's Champions League group stages.\n\nThe team in fourth place will go into a two-legged play-off in August, while whoever finishes fifth will receive a place in the Europa League.\n\nWith just six points separating Southampton, in eighth, and 16th-placed Watford, several teams also have the opportunity to improve their league position - and increase their share of Premier League prize money.\n\nBurnley, for instance, could finish as low as 17th, earning £7.6m in prize money, or as high as 11th, which would be worth £19m - a difference of £11.4m.\n\nHarry Kane looks set to win the Premier League Golden Boot, awarded to the competition's leading scorer, thanks to his four goals in Tottenham's 6-1 victory at Leicester on Thursday.\n\nSpurs go to relegated Hull on Sunday with Kane on 26 league goals for the season, two clear of Everton's Romelu Lukaku.\n\nBelgium striker Lukaku and Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez, third in the standings on 23 goals, will face each other at Emirates Stadium as they look to catch Kane.\n\nChelsea get their prize - and chase history\n\nNo team has ever won 30 league matches in a 38-game top-flight season - but Chelsea will be the first to do so if they beat bottom club Sunderland at Stamford Bridge.\n\nAntonio Conte's side secured the Premier League title - the club's fifth in 13 seasons - with a 1-0 victory at West Brom on 12 May, and will receive the trophy after Sunday's game.\n\nChelsea managed 29 league wins in a season, in 2004-05 and 2005-06, twice under Jose Mourinho.\n\nOnly two teams in the history of the English top division have achieved more - Tottenham won 31 games in 1960-61 and Liverpool 30 in 1978-79 - and they both did it in 42-match seasons.\n\nSunderland, Middlesbrough and Hull are all leaving the Premier League after finishing in the bottom three, but there will be individual farewells too.\n\nChelsea captain John Terry is set to end his 22-year stay at Stamford Bridge by playing his 717th game for the club.\n\nAt Watford, manager Walter Mazzarri will take charge for the final time, with his departure having been confirmed on Wednesday.\n\nA number of other players may yet be turning out for their clubs for the final time, with the futures of Wayne Rooney, Ross Barkley, Romelu Lukaku, Michael Keane and Gylfi Sigurdsson among those in doubt.\n\nOne question that will not be answered tomorrow concerns the future of Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger - who is out of contract this summer.\n\nAsked on Friday if he would extend his 21-year reign, Wenger said only that his future would be decided at a board meeting to follow the FA Cup final against Chelsea on 27 May.\n\nAll games kick-off at 15:00 BST on Sunday\n\nAaron Ramsey is fit for Arsenal despite limping off against Sunderland in midweek with a thigh strain.\n\nDefender Laurent Koscielny could again miss out because of a calf problem, while Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is sidelined by a hamstring injury.\n\nEverton manager Ronald Koeman has no new injury concerns.\n\nIt remains to be seen whether the match will mark the final Everton appearance of Romelu Lukaku and Ross Barkley, whose futures at the club are in doubt.\n\nBurnley could welcome back Michael Keane, who has missed their past two games because of a calf injury.\n\nFellow centre-back Ben Mee is again set to miss out with a shin problem.\n\nWest Ham are without centre-back Winston Reid, who has had surgery to treat a knee injury, so 18-year-old Declan Rice may deputise.\n\nFellow defender Angelo Ogbonna, who returned to the match-day squad last weekend after three months out, is also available but lacks match fitness.\n\nChelsea captain Gary Cahill and top scorer Diego Costa are among the players likely to be recalled by the champions after Antonio Conte made nine changes for Monday's win over Watford.\n\nJohn Terry could made his 717th appearance for the Blues in his last game at Stamford Bridge as a player.\n\nRelegated Sunderland will be without 11 injured players.\n\nDefender Lamine Kone and midfielder Didier Ndong are the latest absentees because of dead legs.\n\nHull will be without Evandro, Harry Maguire and Abel Hernandez through injury.\n\nThey join Will Keane, Lazar Markovic, Ryan Mason, David Meyler and Moses Odubajo on the sidelines.\n\nTottenham await news on whether full-backs Kieran Trippier and Kyle Walker will be fit to return.\n\nChristian Eriksen is likely to be recalled after being rested against Leicester on Thursday, while Filip Lesniak could start.\n\nLeicester are again without defender Robert Huth, who is nursing a foot injury, but Andy King could return from a hamstring problem.\n\nBournemouth could welcome back midfielders Dan Gosling and Andrew Surman after their respective calf and knee problems.\n\nThey are definitely without the injured Benik Afobe, while Lewis Cook is away with the England Under-20 side.\n\nLiverpool are hopeful forward Roberto Firmino will be fit to play on Sunday despite a muscle problem.\n\nIf he is unavailable then the Reds could select the same starting line-up that began the 4-0 win at West Ham.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side need a win to guarantee qualification for next season's Champions League.\n\nMiddlesbrough boss Steve Agnew may again be without Daniel Ayala, Gaston Ramirez and Victor Valdes because of injury.\n\nManchester United goalkeeper Joel Pereira is expected to be given his Premier League debut on Sunday.\n\nDemi Mitchell, Angel Gomes, Josh Harrop and Scott McTominay could make their senior bows, while Paul Pogba and Timothy Fosu-Mensah will play.\n\nMarouane Fellaini and Chris Smalling have minor injuries and may be rested for the Europa League final.\n\nJames Tomkins should be fit for Crystal Palace after an ankle problem but Yohan Cabaye is a doubt because of a foot injury.\n\nAndros Townsend will miss the game because of an Achilles injury, while Scott Dann is expected to be absent with a knee problem.\n\nSouthampton's Shane Long will miss out after breaking a bone in his foot at Middlesbrough last week.\n\nCedric Soares faces a fitness test after limping off in midweek and Ryan Bertrand is also a doubt.\n\nStoke's Marko Arnautovic is doubtful because of an elbow problem sustained in last weekend's defeat by Arsenal.\n\nIbrahim Afellay is still recuperating from knee surgery last month, while Stephen Ireland remains out with a long-term leg injury.\n\nSwansea City have no new injury concerns for Sunday's game and Paul Clement could name the same side that beat Sunderland.\n\nStriker Borja Baston faces a fitness test but Wayne Routledge is back in contention after hernia trouble.\n\nWest Brom are likely to be without winger Matt Phillips again as he is still nursing a hamstring injury.\n\nSalomon Rondon and Gareth McAuley should both recover from respective hamstring and thigh problems.\n\nWatford could be without up to six central defenders, with Adrian Mariappa (knee) and Miguel Britos (calf) facing late fitness tests.\n\nSebastian Prodl is suspended while Christian Kabasele, Craig Cathcart and Younes Kaboul are all out injured.\n\nManchester City captain Vincent Kompany should be fit despite being substituted during the 3-1 win over West Brom.\n\nJohn Stones has also recovered from a groin strain and could replace Nicolas Otamendi in defence.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChampions Celtic beat Hearts to become the first team to complete a Scottish top-flight season unbeaten for 118 years.\n\nLeigh Griffiths and Stuart Armstrong secured a 34th win of the campaign for Brendan Rodgers' side, who were then presented with the Premiership trophy.\n\nThe feat was last achieved by Rangers in 1898-99, over an 18-game season.\n\nAnd Celtic join Arsenal (2003-04) and Juventus (2011-12) in being unbeaten over a 38-game league season.\n\nRodgers' side, who won the League Cup in November, will attempt to win the club's first domestic treble since 2001 when they take on Aberdeen in Saturday's Scottish Cup final.\n\nCeltic, who have won six top-flight titles in a row, are unbeaten in 46 domestic games this season (38 in league, eight in cups), and 47 domestic matches overall including the final league game of last season.\n\nAnd they are unbeaten in 31 games in all competitions since losing to Barcelona in the Champions League on 23 November.\n\nWith the win and goals against Hearts, Celtic set new records for the Scottish Premier League/Premiership era, including goals, points, wins and margin of victory.\n\nWith so much anticipated from the hosts, Hearts head coach Ian Cathro sought to frustrate Celtic, restricting them to long-range efforts.\n\nKieran Tierney and Callum McGregor came closest with those and Griffiths sent a free-kick into the side netting.\n\nAnd it could have been Hearts that went in front, Bjorn Johnsen laying a free-kick off for Alexandros Tziolis to strike narrowly over.\n\nWhen Celtic did get into the box, goalkeeper Viktor Noring was in fine form.\n\nThe Swedish stopper made an instinctive block to deny Dedryck Boyata at a corner and then punched away Patrick Roberts' dangerous cut-back.\n\nHowever, Hearts' resistance was broken when Roberts danced clear on the right and set up Griffiths for a confident header.\n\nAnd Griffiths was involved in the second, his cross not properly cleared and falling for Armstrong to finish.\n\nThough sustaining a fourth straight defeat, Hearts competed well in Glasgow and fared much better than their 5-0 home loss to Celtic last month - the match that clinched the title for Rodgers' men.\n\nJohnsen headed against the right-hand post from a Malaury Martin corner as Cathro's men sought consolation.\n\nAnd substitute Martin's volley was then kept out by Craig Gordon late on.\n• None Attempt saved. Malaury Martin (Heart of Midlothian) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Krystian Nowak (Heart of Midlothian) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box.\n• None Attempt blocked. Malaury Martin (Heart of Midlothian) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Euan Henderson (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Attempt missed. Dedryck Boyata (Celtic) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "About 100,000 black GIs were stationed in the UK during the war. Inevitably there were love affairs, but US laws usually prevented black servicemen from marrying. So what happened to the children they fathered? Fiona Clampin met two such children in Dorset, now in their seventies, who have not given up hope of tracing their fathers.\n\nA bottle of champagne has sat on a shelf in Carole Travers's wardrobe for the past 20 years. Wedged between boxes and covered with clothes, it'll be opened only when Carole finds her father. \"There's an outside chance he might still be alive,\" she reflects. \"I've got so many bits of information, but to know the real truth would mean the world to me - to know that I did belong to somebody.\"\n\nThe possibility of Carole tracking down her father becomes more and more remote by the day. Born towards the end of World War Two, Carole, now 72, was the result of a relationship between her white mother and a married African-American or mixed-race soldier stationed in Poole, in Dorset.\n\nWhereas some \"brown babies\" (as the children of black GIs were known in the press) were put up for adoption, Carole's mother, Eleanor Reid, decided to keep her child. The only problem was, she was already married, with a daughter, to a Scot with pale skin and red hair.\n\n\"I had black hair and dark skin,\" says Carole. \"Something obviously wasn't right.\"\n\nThe difference between Carole and her half-siblings only dawned on the young girl at the age of six, when she overheard her parents having an argument. \"Does she know? Well, it's about time she did,\" said her stepfather, in Carole's retelling of the story. She remembers how her mother sat her down at the kitchen table and told Carole the truth about her background.\n\n\"I was chuffed I was different,\" she says. \"I used to tell my friends, 'My dad's an America,' without really knowing what that meant.\"\n\nIn 1950s Dorset there were very few mixed-race or black children, and having one out of wedlock carried a huge stigma. Although Carole doesn't remember any specific racist remarks, she recalls the stares. Parents would shush their children when she and her family got on the bus.\n\nCarole says her \"blackness\" was considered cute when she was a child, but as she grew up she became more aware of her difference. \"I remember once being in a club and there was a comedian who started making jokes about black people. I'm stood there and I'm thinking: 'Everyone's looking at me,'\" she says.\n\n\"I always felt inferior. As a teenager, I would stand back, I thought that nobody would ever want to know me because of my colour.\n\n\"I was going out with one boy, and his mother found out about me. She put a stop to it because she remarked that if we had kids, they would be 'coloured'.\"\n\nSeventy-two-year-old John Stockley, another child of an African-American GI stationed further down the Dorset coast in Weymouth, does remember the racial abuse in striking detail.\n\nJohn was called names to such an extent that at the age of seven he decided he would try to turn his skin pale to be like his classmates.\n\n\"I worked out that if I drank milk of magnesia [a laxative] and ate chalk I would make myself go white,\" he chuckles. \"I think I drank over half the bottle! You can imagine the effect. It wasn't good and it tasted disgusting.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Stockley spoke to Woman's Hour about trying to fit in\n\nIn one playground incident a boy insulted him with the N-word and called him \"dirty\", but when John thrashed him he found himself summoned to the school office.\n\n\"It was a winter's day in the early 1950s,\" John explains.\n\n\"I was playing football and I collided with another guy. By this time I was quite fiery, I wouldn't take it, and a blow was struck. I made his nose bleed. To this day I can see the blood on the snow.\n\n\"My mother lived less than 100 yards from the school, and she was summoned to the office with me. I remember her shaking next to me, holding my hand. The secretary told her what had happened and he said to my mother: 'You have to remember, Mrs Stockley, these people cannot be educated.' That puts my hackles up now.\"\n\nShocking though the racism seems to us today, it was arguably family life which had a more pernicious effect on these mixed-race children. \"Your mum made a mistake,\" one of his aunts once told John Stockley.\n\n\"The 'mistake' is me,\" he says.\n\nJohn's description of his childhood spent living with his grandparents in a village behind Chesil Beach sounds idyllic. But that's to ignore the reason why he went there in the first place. Determined to punish his wife for her double transgression, John's stepfather did not allow him to live in the family home except from Monday to Friday during school term.\n\nEven then, John was not permitted to enter the house by the front door. At weekends he was packed off to his maternal grandparents, who provided him with the stable and loving family life he craved - and a refuge from his stepfather.\n\n\"Of course, coming back from the war and finding his wife with a black child must have been a great shock,\" John acknowledges.\n\n\"And they never had any children together. But there was no love at all for him from me, because of what he did to my mother. She was effectively kept in a position of restraint, and I'd see her go through depression because she wanted to do things she couldn't.\"\n\nJohn says his stepfather - a gambler and philanderer - exercised control over his mother despite the fact that she ran a successful guesthouse. He decided who John's mother could or could not be friends with, John says.\n\n\"And he didn't like us to be too close. If some music came on the radio when he wasn't there, I would dance with her because she loved to jitterbug. But not when he was around. We were told to stop.\"\n\nCarole Travers's stepfather began divorce proceedings when he found out what his wife had done in his absence. However, when it appeared that he wouldn't get custody of their daughter (Carole's half-sister), he returned to the family home and Carole took his surname.\n\nHe appeared to accept Carole on the surface, but towards the end of his life he telephoned her and dropped a bombshell. He wouldn't be leaving her anything in his will, he told her, \"because you're nothing to do with me\".\n\n\"The money didn't matter,\" says Carole. \"But what he said really hurt me. I told him, 'You're my dad, you've always been my dad, and you're the only dad I've ever known'.\"\n\nMarried and with children of her own by this time, Carole started trying to trace her biological father, based on the scraps of information her mother had given her in the weeks before she died. \"It just didn't occur to me to ask questions when I was younger,\" she says, the tone of regret in her voice clear.\n\n\"My stepfather would always bring me up in any argument with my mother, referring to me as 'your bastard', and I learned not to rock the boat. I just got on with my life.\"\n\nDeborah Prior, front row, in the light dress, lived in Holnicote House in Somerset along with other mixed-race children - the photograph was used to attract potential adoptive parents\n\nNot all GI babies were able to stay with their mothers. Dr Deborah Prior was born in 1945, to a widow in Somerset and a black American serviceman. Her mother was persuaded to give her up, and for five years Deborah lived in Holnicote House, a special home for mixed-race children. Deborah spoke to Woman's Hour along with Prof Lucy Bland, who is researching this under-reported chapter of social history.\n\nLike Carole, John Stockley wanted to protect his mother by keeping quiet. \"I could see it was going to upset her if I asked too many questions, and upset her was the last thing I was going to do,\" he says. He would take his chance occasionally, although his mother would always evade his enquiries. But John remembers with characteristic clarity the last time he brought up the subject of his real father.\n\n\"I remember her saying to me in the course of a minor argument between us: 'You don't know what I've been through because of you.'\n\n\"And I said to her: 'You don't know what I've been through because of you!' She went pale, and realised what she'd said and how she'd put her foot in it. But we never went any further than that. She just looked at me in a sad sort of way, and I said, 'Have I ever done anything to make you ashamed of me?' And she said no. And that was the last we ever spoke about it.\"\n\nIt was turning 70 that prompted John to start looking for information about his father, whereas Carole has spent almost half her life searching for a man she knows only as \"Burt\". Neither of them has many facts to go on - Carole believes her stepfather destroyed the only photos and letters that could have helped her identify Burt. But while their searches may come to nothing, they both take solace from the fact that their mothers loved them against all the odds, and that they were born of loving relationships, not one-night stands.\n\n\"My mother told me my father was the only man she ever really loved,\" says Carole. \"And I've had Mum's friends say to me since her death: 'Don't ever feel ashamed of your background, because you were born out of love and your mum wanted you.' She knew he was going back to America and she wanted something of him, something to hold on to.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ian Brady's notoriety and significance goes beyond the criminal to the political and the cultural\n\nIan Brady's mug shot has become visual shorthand for psychopathic evil. With his accomplice Myra Hindley, he occupies an especially ignominious place in our national folklore.\n\nMargaret Thatcher described their crimes as \"the most hideous and evil in modern times\". A BBC News article in 2002 suggested the so-called \"Moors Murderers\" had set \"the benchmark by which other acts of evil are measured\".\n\nBut Brady's notoriety goes beyond the criminal to the political and the cultural.\n\nHe became an important figure in 20th Century British history as a focus for debate about crime and punishment, good and evil, and the permissive society.\n\nBrady and Hindley were charged with their crimes 11 days after the Murder (Abolition of the Death Penalty) Act had received royal assent in 1965.\n\nThey \"cheated the gallows by a year\" according to some, and were placed at the heart of a debate over capital punishment that would rumble on for more than a decade.\n\nThe horrific detail of their apparently motiveless crimes - the abduction, torture and murder of children and young people and the burying of the bodies on what the tabloids called \"fog-shrouded wild moorlands\" - was a horror story in the Gothic tradition that provided the perfect test of public opinion on ending the death penalty.\n\nPolice searches of Saddleworth moor began in the 1960s, including this area where the body of Lesley Downey was found\n\nSuccessive home secretaries sought to reassure the public that, for the most heinous crimes, life imprisonment meant just that.\n\nBut Brady was more than just a debating chip in the argument over the hangman.\n\nFor many, he became a terrifying symbol of social upheaval.\n\nHis slicked back rocker-style hair and sociopathic stare chimed with the moral panic over youth culture.\n\nMod and rocker clashes in the mid-60s were described by one newspaper as a symptom of the \"disintegration of a nation's character\".\n\nBrady and his crimes were held up as the consequences of moral decay.\n\nWriting about the murders, the novelist CP Snow argued that \"permissive attitudes\" were the \"earth out of which the poisonous flower grew\".\n\nBrady's depravity was linked to fears about changing morality in the so-called Swinging 60s\n\nThe novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson - who was married to Snow - made a similar point in her book On Iniquity in 1967.\n\nShe suggested that Brady and Hindley's crimes had been an indictment of 1960s Britain.\n\n\"A wound in the flesh of our society had cracked open,\" she wrote. \"We looked into it, and we smelled the sepsis.\"\n\nBrady helped shape the age-old argument that permissiveness leads to violent crime.\n\nCommentators noted how he had been born \"out of wedlock\" and had begun a life of criminality as a juvenile.\n\nIn the mid-60s, crime was rising rapidly and the face of the bastard Ian Brady was the backdrop.\n\nHe personified \"pure evil\" just as his innocent young victims personified \"pure good\".\n\nFor the press and politicians, the Moors Murderers were powerful examples of the clear but simplistic divide between the criminal underclass and the law-abiding majority, at a time when anxiety about law and order was rising.\n\nBrady's fascination with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis confirmed the sense that he was the epitome of social depravity.\n\nFrom his arrest until the day he died more than 50 years later, his haunting visage - along with that of Myra Hindley - have been routinely deployed as images of the threat.\n\nHe is the child snatcher, the bogeyman, the beast. He is the monster.", "Leigh Griffiths says a domestic treble will be \"the last piece of the puzzle\" for Celtic after they completed an unbeaten Scottish Premiership campaign.\n\nCeltic's 2-0 win over Hearts ensured the champions finished with 34 wins and four draws from their 38 games.\n\nHaving already beaten Aberdeen to win the League Cup, they face the Dons in next Saturday's Scottish Cup final.\n\n\"If we bring our A-game, the treble will be the last piece of the puzzle,\" Griffiths told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"We've been talking about the treble quietly, but as professionals, it's the old cliché - we need to take it one game at a time.\n\n\"But as the season went on, we just kept getting stronger and stronger. It was a fitting tribute today in front of the home fans.\"\n\nThe striker, who has scored 18 goals in all competitions this season, says manager Brendan Rodgers has been instrumental in Celtic's prolific success.\n\n\"I don't think anybody would've thought we'd have gone the season unbeaten,\" Griffiths, 26, said. \"But it just shows the character and mentality we've got in that dressing room.\n\n\"It's all down to the gaffer - he's instilled that from day one, and we can see why he's managed at the top in England.\n\n\"I didn't think in my wildest teams it would be possible for a team to go unbeaten a whole season, but we just try to keep pushing on.\"\n\nManager Rodgers, in his first season at the club, said it was an \"incredible achievement\" for his players to remain unbeaten on their way to the title, the first Scottish team to do so across a 38-game league season.\n\nNo team had stayed unbeaten for a season in Scotland's top flight since Rangers did so in 1888-89, over an 18-game season.\n\n\"The group have worked so hard for all the records they have broken, and they thoroughly deserve it,\" the former Liverpool boss said. \"It's been a great season.\n\n\"You come in and plan to win. However, to perform like we've done is truly remarkable. The club is very much together as one.\n\n\"It's an incredible achievement. I am a Celtic supporter so I know what it feels like. The fans' enjoyment is the most important thing for me and I think they have a good feeling.\"\n\nThe league finale may prove to be Patrick Roberts' final outing at Celtic Park, with the Manchester City winger's loan spell expiring at the end of the season.\n\n\"I'm not going to say anything about my future,\" Roberts said. \"I'm just going to enjoy today, enjoy being invincible, and once we've done that we'll prepare for the (Scottish Cup) final.\n\n\"I can't say much because I don't know what's going to happen. This is an unbelievable club, for me it's up there with the greatest, and I have had the pleasure of playing for them. I just want to say thanks to these beautiful fans.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nAndre Dirrell has apologised after his uncle and coach Leon Lawson Jr punched his opponent Jose Uzcategui after their fight in Oxon Hill, near Washington DC.\n\nAmerican Dirrell claimed the interim IBF super-middleweight title after Venezuela's Uzcategui was disqualified in the eighth round for punching after the bell at the MGM National Harbour.\n\nLawson Jr then entered the ring and sucker-punched Uzcategui.\n\n\"I'm sorry for what my coach has done,\" said Dirrell, 33.\n\nDirrell, who lost to Britain's James DeGale in 2015, added: \"My coach is my family, my uncle, and he was worried. He cares for me. He loves me. Please forgive him.\"\n\nESPN reports that Lawson Jr is now wanted on two assault charges by Prince George's County Police following the clash with Uzcategui.", "Premier League quiz: How well do you remember the 2016-17 season? Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nAfter nine months, 380 games and more than 1,000 goals, another Premier League season grinds to a halt on Sunday. Last August feels like a long time ago and a lot has happened since - how well do you remember the past 39 weeks?", "Arsene Wenger says his \"professionalism or commitment\" cannot be questioned but that uncertainty over his future contributed to Arsenal failing to qualify for the Champions League.\n\nIt is the first time Arsenal, who finished fifth, have failed to qualify for the competition for 20 years.\n\nWenger, whose contract expires this summer, says his future will be decided after the FA Cup final on 27 May.\n\n\"I have said no to every club in the world,\" said the Frenchman, 67.\n\nWenger has been in charge of the Gunners since 1996, winning three Premier Leagues and six FA Cups, but has faced protests from Arsenal supporters this season calling for him to quit.\n\n\"I believe since January we have played in a very difficult environment for different reasons,\" he added.\n\n\"Some you know about and that's very difficult for a group of players to cope with that - and some other reasons we will talk about on another day.\n\n\"Psychologically the atmosphere was absolutely horrendous. It has been difficult, yes, and certainly my personal situation has contributed to that but you can never question my professionalism or commitment.\"\n\nArsenal beat Everton 3-1 on Sunday, but a 3-0 home win for Liverpool against Middlesbrough saw the Gunners finish a point behind Jurgen Klopp's side in fifth.\n\n\"I'm a lot more resigned because it's been coming for a few years and everybody has to focus on the FA Cup,\" former Arsenal striker Ian Wright told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"This is done, we are in the Europa League, there is nothing we can do about it.\"\n\nWenger, whose side face Premier League champions Chelsea in the FA Cup final, said it was \"very sad\" Arsenal will not be playing in Europe's top club competition next season.\n\nHe added: \"We do our job and you are professional and part of the job is being professional when the environment is not positive.\"\n\nSome Arsenal fans also voiced their frustration at majority owner Stan Kroenke.\n\n\"I think you respect everyone in life and I respect Stan Kroenke a lot,\" said Wenger. \"It is not his fault we didn't reach the Champions League, it is the technical department's responsibility for that.\n\n\"A club works when everybody does their job and we live in a society where everybody has an opinion and what moves society forward is when we work and not talk too much.\"\n\nWenger gets support from old rival Ferguson\n\nFormer Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson had a sometimes bitter rivalry with Wenger during his Old Trafford reign, winning 13 Premier League titles with the Red Devils.\n\nScot Ferguson was in charge for 26 years, while Frenchman Wenger is in his 21st year at the north London club.\n\n\"At the moment, of course, with the ridiculous situation of the pressure Arsene is under, I just wonder if they realise the job he's done,\" Ferguson told Sky Sports.\n\n\"The most amazing thing about him is this: he has come through a forest of criticism for months now, and has never bowed. He has seen it right through, he has shown a determination, a stubbornness. I think when you look at that, it's a quality, and I'm not sure they'll ever get another manager like that.\n\n\"It's quite easy to say 'Get rid of him', but who do you get? Who do you get in to keep that club the way they are for the next 20 years?\n\n\"I really feel sorry for him because I think he's shown outstanding qualities, and I think he has handled the whole situation. I don't know many that have done that.\"\n\n'The toxic mood was on show again' - analysis\n\nAs Arsene Wenger sifted through the fall-out from Arsenal's failure to reach the Champions League for the first time in 20 years, he made a stark admission.\n\nWenger, reflecting on the atmosphere around Emirates Stadium, said: \"The psychological environment was absolutely horrendous.\"\n\nHe insisted he was not using this as an excuse for Arsenal's failings but it was clear he felt the over-arching atmosphere had not helped his players as they tried to fight their way into the Premier League's top four.\n\nWenger may have a point - but has he himself not made a major contribution to the mood around the club and has to take his share of responsibility as his own Arsenal future became almost a matter for daily debate?\n\nEven now, although most now assume he will extend his stay as Arsenal manager, he was simply saying his own personal situation would be \"sorted soon\".\n\nThe lack of clarity has cast a cloud over Arsenal's season and provided an unwanted sub-plot when matters should have been solely focused on the pitch.\n\nThe toxic mood was on show again as Arsenal's fate and the realisation that they would be in the Europa League next season became clearer, with chants against American owner Stan Kroenke, who has ignored a £1.3bn takeover bid from Alisher Usmanov, who has a 30% stake in the club.\n\nWenger defended Kroenke but it was obvious he feels factors elsewhere have created this \"horrendous\" psychological environment that has swirled unhelpfully around Arsenal.\n\nThe problem for Wenger is that he takes a big portion of the responsibility - and part of the price he and Arsenal will pay is that they will be out of Europe's elite group next season with their noses pushed against the window as they contemplate life without the Champions League.", "Amanda Lundeteg wants to expose Sweden's lack of equality\n\nSweden may have a global reputation as one of world's most gender equal societies but when it comes to female representation in business, campaigners question whether the Nordic nation is right to keep basking in the spotlight, as progress slows down back home.\n\nAmanda Lundeteg, already a chief executive aged just 32, is in one way a poster girl for gender equality in the Swedish workplace.\n\nShe holds a degree in Business Economics, started her career in banking and has already served on three different boards.\n\nYet the sole reason Allbright, the non-profit company she manages, exists is to expose the limitations in career opportunities for women in Sweden.\n\nDespite giving fathers the right to take paid time off since the 1970s and one of the world's most generous parental leave packages (currently 480 tax-funded days to share between a couple) and heavily subsidized day care - capped at some 1,230 Swedish krona ($141; £108) a month - Ms Lundeteg argues Sweden is less progressive than many might think.\n\n\"We're really good at bragging about how good we are... but if you ask most women in Sweden I definitely don't think that they are satisfied.\"\n\nOn the plus side, more than 80% of mothers work and Sweden leads the industrialised world in terms of public sector gender equality, according to the OECD; but Allbright's research shows the private sector - and the rapidly growing startup scene - is struggling to keep up.\n\nIn 2016, more than 80% of managers at listed Swedish companies were men and not a single new business on the stock market had a woman boss.\n\nMartin Hector: \"There's still a lot of fathers who don't take their parental leave\"\n\nThe main reason for this imbalance is that traditional gender stereotypes prevail, despite decades of legislation designed to even things out, says Ms Lundeteg.\n\n\"It's possible to live a gender-equal life in Sweden, but we don't do it because of traditions.\n\n\"As a man you're supposed to be the one who works and brings home the meat to the cave. It's about stereotypes and privileges that will take time to break down.\"\n\nFigures from Statistics Sweden confirm that women still take more than 80% of a couple's parental leave while their first child is under the age of two.\n\nWomen also remain much more likely to work part-time than men. When it comes to the wage gap, Sweden is close to the OECD average and drops to 35th place on the World Economic Forum's gender equality ranking.\n\nIt isn't difficult to find Swedes who are willing to talk about the discrepancies.\n\n\"There's still a lot of fathers who don't take their parental leave so it's not perfect yet,\" says Martin Hector, 32, as he takes his baby son for a stroll in Ralambshovs park in central Stockholm.\n\n\"Over the summer, for three months or something like that, feels the most common.\"\n\nHe's planning to take a total of nine months off work.\n\nCamilla Dath, a lawyer who is also braving unusually chilly May temperatures of 2C with her seven-month-old, is taking 11 months' leave and says her husband will take a similar period off work.\n\nBut other parents might not have the same opportunities, she argues, if one partner earns substantially more than the other or because they work in organisations with more old-fashioned cultures.\n\n\"I have friends working in big law firms and they have a harder time to take parental leave,\" she says.\n\nLawyer Camilla Dath and her husband may be sharing their parental leave - but many other Swedes are not\n\nWhen it comes to the number of women in management, the biggest discrepancies are still in the traditionally \"male\" industries of manufacturing and technology.\n\nHowever, Allbright's research suggests that financial services and property companies have made \"significant\" improvements in recent years.\n\nRental accommodation firm Heba, for example, recently climbed 100 places in Allbright's rankings after replacing several of its top male executives, resulting in a female majority in management.\n\nHowever its chief executive, Lennart Karlsson, is candid enough to admit that reaching gender equality was not his original goal.\n\n\"I thought competence was the main thing - competence and attitude - not sex, but I've changed my mind. The workplace works better because of the [gender] mix,\" he says.\n\n\"The discussion climate is better, you have a better conversation and a better understanding for each other.\"\n\nAmanda Lundetag argues this should boost his business too, citing several recent studies including a high-profile report for the Peterson Institute for International Economics, which concluded that there is a positive correlation between the presence of women in leadership roles and an organisation's performance.\n\nIt's a link that is definitely not lost on the Swedish politicians spearheading what they've described as \"the first feminist government in the world\".\n\nThe Nordic nation's Left-Green coalition pushed through a new law in 2015, aimed to encourage men to take a greater share of the parental leave. Ninety days are now reserved for fathers on a \"use it or lose\" it basis.\n\n\"What we want to see is an equal participation from the parents in the long run... but we also have to take it slowly so that families will be able to adapt to the changes,\" says Annika Strandhall, Sweden's Minister for Social Security.\n\nSimone French says the law is fine but the traditional culture drove her back to work early\n\nNext year will even see the launch of a new Gender Equality Authority, an admission, according to Ms Strandhall, that Sweden's world-famous feminist initiatives have not been as joined-up as they might have been.\n\nYet while creating equal opportunities for men and women appears largely hard-wired into the national psyche, Sweden is split on the extent to which the state should intervene to pick up the pace.\n\nThe government's attempt to introduce legislation that would fine listed companies which fail to appoint women to at least 40% of board seats was rejected by parliament in January.\n\nThe fear of potential penalties seems to have acted as a catalyst, though; 33% of those put forward for board seats so far in 2017 are women, up 2% on last year, says Allbright, putting Sweden behind only Norway and France, both of which have legally-binding quotas.\n\nHowever, the nationalist Sweden Democrats (currently the second-most popular party in the polls) and the smaller centre-right Christian Democrats -voted against the 90-day parental leave quota for fathers. They want families to have a greater choice when it comes to organising parenting.\n\n\"There is a societal pressure... because everyone goes back to work. I felt I would be going against the norm if I had stayed at home,\" explains Simone French, a 46-year-old who is originally from Australia.\n\nShe says she would have welcomed the opportunity to stay at home until her son started school. Instead she ended up taking just a year off from her digital marketing career amid pressure from her employer and relatives.\n\n\"It was my maternal instinct to be with my son - every fibre in my being fought against going back. It's not really talked about here but I have actually met a couple of Swedish women who felt the same.\"\n\nHowever those cheerleading Sweden's march towards a completely gender equal society argue that evening out parental responsibilities is as much about giving fathers the same chance to bond with their children while they are young, as it is giving women greater opportunities to climb the ladder back in the workplace.\n\nSweden's laws on equality aren't lacking - banking analyst Andreas Lundvick is one of the rare fathers making the most of them\n\n\"You become closer with the children - a better connection,\" says Andreas Lundvick, 38, one of the other fathers back in Ralambshovs park.\n\nHe's taking time out from his job at a major Swedish bank to look after his six-month-old son while his wife is studying full-time, a move he believes will have \"no impact\" on his future career.\n\n\"I feel lucky, when you speak to people from other countries, and you hear about their situation, it's mostly the mum being home with the children. It's a culture thing.\"", "Mr Rouhani has promised to push through reforms but hardliners may obstruct his plans\n\nFrom the outset when the counting of the votes started after midnight in Iran, the early results indicated that President Hassan Rouhani was heading for a landslide.\n\nEven in small rural towns many people preferred the vision that he had put forward, a vision in sharp contrast to the inward looking, traditional and hardline Islamic government promised by his main challenger, Ebrahim Raissi.\n\nPresident Rouhani won 23.5 million votes, or 57%. Turnout was unprecedented - nearly 41 million people voted, or 73.5% of the eligible voters. In Tehran, more than five million people came out to vote, twice the number of 2013.\n\nOne reason for this high turnout was the reports that the hardliners had pulled out all the stops and mobilised their resources to bring out as many of their supporters as possible to vote, a major push to oust President Rouhani. These reports spurred his supporters and all those who favoured moderation or opposed the hardliners to come out in big numbers.\n\nPresident Rouhani's victory means a major defeat for the hardliners. The vote may indicate that they will never be able to take control of the executive branch through the ballot box, as a big majority of Iranians do not favour them or their vision.\n\nIn his first televised message after the victory, President Rouhani praised Iranians who, in his words, had said No to returning to the past. He was echoing his election campaign motto \"We will not go back,\" a reference to his hard-line opponents and their \"backward\" policies.\n\nFriday's vote in Iran was the revenge of the moderates. A rejection of those who had intimidated them, jailed them, executed them, drove them to exile, pushed them out of their jobs.\n\nIn his campaign, President Rouhani promised to put an end to extremism, to open up the political atmosphere, to extend individual and political rights, to free political prisoners, to remove discrimination against women and bring under control all those state institutions that are not accountable.\n\nTo keep and act on these promises, he told his supporters he needed a big mandate, bigger than before.\n\nHe firmly placed himself in the camp of the reformists. Now, with his re-election, Iran is on the path towards change, with a renewed confidence drawn from the emphatic result.\n\nTo his supporters on Saturday, he said he would remain committed to his promises. It is a tall order. The hardliners are not done yet. They will fight tooth and tail at every turn over the next four years to stop or frustrate President Rouhani's efforts to push through his reforms.\n\nIran's hardliner Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has congratulated the Iranians for their big show in the exercise for democracy. But he did not congratulate President Rouhani. There are many Rouhani supporters who are willing to argue that the supreme leader had interfered in the elections by constantly criticising the president in the run-up to the elections.\n\nTurnout in the election was surprisingly high\n\nMr Rouhani has promised to build bridges with the outside world. His election is a huge endorsement for a nuclear deal that his government reached with world powers, which led to the lifting of the crippling sanctions against Iran and saved the country from the threat of a war.\n\nBut the deal has serious opponents in the US, where President Donald Trump and the Congress are reviewing their options. Iranians want the nuclear deal to survive, and the signs are that President Rouhani and Iran will keep to their side of the bargain.\n\nIn big and small cities around the country, millions of Iranians are celebrating the results. There are videos of people dancing in the streets on social media.\n\nIt is a big day in Iran's torturous political development.", "Good luck to the person who tries to take a phone from a Harry Styles fan\n\nChris Rock fans will have their phones locked up during his forthcoming UK shows. Is this the start of no longer seeing a sea of screens at concerts?\n\nGigs in the pre-smartphone age used to be far less complicated.\n\nYou'd turn up. Maybe locate the bar and figure out where the bathrooms were. Flick through a programme or chat to your friends, and then just enjoy the show.\n\nBut these days, such a scene sounds like ancient history.\n\nNow, you turn up. Check yourself in on Facebook. Catch up on emails while you're waiting for the show to start, and then when it does, upload some photos and videos you've taken to Instagram.\n\nBut many concertgoers find the practice irritating, and now some performers are starting to object too.\n\n\"No mobile phones, cameras or recording devices will be allowed at Chris Rock's Total Blackout Tour,\" read a message posted on ticketing websites when the comedian's new UK dates went on sale this month.\n\nChris Rock's upcoming shows will mark the biggest UK use of Yondr to date\n\n\"Upon arrival, all phones and smart watches will be secured in Yondr pouches that will be unlocked at the end of the show.\"\n\nThe term Yondr might make you Wondr what on earth they're talking about.\n\nYondr is a relatively new American company which gives you a pouch as you're going into a gig for you to place your phone in.\n\nThe pouch is then locked, and you keep it with you for the duration of the gig. At the end of the show, or if you need to use your phone during the performance, you can take the pouch outside of the phone-free zone to have it unlocked.\n\n\"We think smartphones have incredible utility, but not in every setting,\" Yondr say.\n\n\"In some situations, they have become a distraction and a crutch - cutting people off from each other and their immediate surroundings.\"\n\nThe company says it aims to \"show people how powerful a moment can be when we aren't focused on documenting or broadcasting it\".\n\nAudience members keep the locked pouches with them throughout the evening\n\nRock's use of Yondr at his upcoming UK dates marks the biggest use of the company's pouches in the UK to date.\n\n\"I think Chris Rock's audiences will probably be disgruntled but compliant,\" says Hattie Collins, features editor at ID.\n\n\"If you're talking about a Harry Styles gig on the other hand, you're going to have a whole world of problems - there's a much younger audience who are used to sharing everything they do.\"\n\nCollins adds that the ubiquity of smartphones has arguably had a damaging effect on music fans who want to connect with an artist.\n\n\"It's created a passivity as a viewer, so you're much less engaged. You're focused on taking the picture, opening up social media, adding an emoji, and by that point you've missed half the song.\"\n\nAsked about the Chris Rock shows, a spokesperson for the SSE Hydro in Glasgow told the BBC: \"Although it isn't standard practice, the artist has requested Yondr be used throughout his tour so we were happy to facilitate.\"\n\nBut are the audience happy with the restrictions, and the potential delays at security?\n\nHaving their jokes posted online can be damaging for comedians\n\nHere's what a few ticket buyers told us:\n\nSome of the fans said they were sympathetic to how problematic it can be for comedians (as opposed to musicians) to have their performances posted online.\n\nIf a comedian's jokes are leaked, it can spoil it for other audiences who were planning to see the same show later in the tour.\n\nIt's arguably less of an issue for musicians, as audiences are already familiar with the material they're performing and reaction will be broadly the same regardless of whether live footage from another show had already been posted online.\n\nAlicia Keys and Dave Chappelle have previously enlisted the help of Yondr\n\nCollins says: \"I'm very torn, because on one hand I feel like it's something of an infringement of your civil liberties, but I appreciate that sounds far-fetched because they're not taking their phone off you, you keep it on you all the time.\"\n\nAll eyes will be on Rock's shows in January to see how the crowds react in person.\n\nHis tour will be the biggest UK test yet for Yondr and audiences, who have been asked to turn up an hour early to allow for extra time to go through metal detectors.\n\nBut Rock isn't the first to use Yondr in the UK - Alicia Keys and Dave Chappelle both utilised it at their London dates last year.\n\nCould a sea of screens at gigs be a thing of the past?\n\nCollins thinks the future of phone restrictions at gigs in the UK is hard to predict, as it largely depends on what kind of concert it is.\n\n\"I went to see Bob Dylan this month, and they asked that nobody take videos or photos, and there were two or three people wandering up and down the side of the auditorium to make sure nobody did,\" she explains.\n\n\"It was quite a refreshing experience, and so much more compelling to watch. Almost quite strange that it was just the stage and not the shadows of 400 mobile phones.\"\n\n\"But then when I saw TLC two nights later everyone messaged me saying 'ahh these pictures are great', they really enjoyed seeing the photos from a gig they didn't go to themselves.\"\n\nShe adds: \"I think it's a shame because part of me agrees it would be nice to have fewer phones, but on the other hand it's really nice to be able to share.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section English Rugby\n\nEngland and Saracens number eight Billy Vunipola has withdrawn from the Lions tour to New Zealand with a shoulder injury.\n\nThe 24-year-old, who has 34 England caps, had been managing the injury but it now requires further treatment.\n\nHe has been replaced by Wasps back row James Haskell, who will join the squad after the Premiership final on 27 May.\n\n\"We really appreciate Billy's honesty in making this decision,\" Lions head coach Warren Gatland said.\n\nVunipola returned to the international setup in March for the Six Nations after a four-month lay off with a knee injury.\n\nHe played for Saracens in their Premiership semi-final defeat by Exeter on Saturday and appeared to be in pain during the match, receiving medical treatment on a couple of occasions.\n\n\"Billy has been carrying an injury and feels he wouldn't be able to contribute fully to the Tour and needs further medical treatment,\" Gatland added.\n\n\"We have called up James to the squad and look forward to welcoming him into camp before we depart.\"\n\nThe Lions play their first match of the New Zealand tour on 3 June.\n\nScrum-half Ben Youngs withdrew from the Lions squad at the start of May after his brother's wife learned that she is terminally ill.\n\nThis is potentially as serious an injury blow as the Lions could have suffered.\n\nMan of the match in the recent Champions Cup final against Clermont, a fully fit and in-form Vunipola would have walked into the Lions Test team.\n\nJames Haskell is deserving of his call-up - while in Taulupe Faletau there is a classy operator at number eight - but for the Lions to somehow beat New Zealand, they can ill-afford injury setbacks such as this.", "Chelsea players, including outgoing club legend John Terry, celebrate on the Stamford Bridge pitch after beating Sunderland 5-1 and lifting the Premier League trophy.\n\nWatch highlights on Match of the Day, 22:30 BST on BBC One, the BBC Sport app and this website.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nReal Madrid won their first La Liga title since 2012 thanks to a final-day victory at Malaga.\n\nCristiano Ronaldo scored early on to settle the nerves, latching onto Isco's through ball to step around Carlos Kameni and tap into an empty net.\n\nKarim Benzema added their second goal after the break after Kameni parried Sergio Ramos' shot.\n\nReal, who had only needed a point, now face Juventus in the Champions League final looking to complete a double.\n• None Relive the action as it happened.\n\nBarcelona, who had won the past two titles, came from 2-0 down to beat Eibar 4-2 but they had needed Real to slip up if they were going to retain the trophy.\n\nThe result means Zinedine Zidane, in his first full season as Real boss, is the first manager to lead Madrid to the Spanish league title since Jose Mourinho five years ago.\n\nIf Real beat Juventus in Cardiff, they will become the first team to successfully defend the Champions League - with Zidane having won the tournament six months into the job last summer.\n\nNever in doubt for Real\n\nReal Madrid are deserved champions, having been the best team in Spain - and probably Europe - for most of the season.\n\nTheir squad is starting to look less reliant on Benzema, Ronaldo and Gareth Bale, who was out injured - even though the first two players scored their goals at Malaga.\n\nIsco, who was impressive again, and Alvaro Morata have shown themselves to be quality players when given the chance.\n\nWhen Barca beat Real in El Clasico on 23 April, it gave renewed hope for an exciting title race - but Real won their last six games to win the league by three points.\n\nAnd there was never any title peril on the final day once Ronaldo rounded Kameni to score the second-minute opener.\n\nMalaga had chances, with former Barca striker Sandro impressive. But with nothing to play for themselves, they never really looked like winning.\n\n'The league is everything'\n\nReal Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane: \"It was very important [to win the league]. It was a lot of years without winning it and we knew that the league is everything.\n\n\"For Real Madrid, because it is the best club in the world, we have to return with this league title.\n\n\"He [Ronaldo] is always there to make the difference and I am happy for him - it is a little different because he is always there to do it.\n\n\"It has been a difficult season that we worked hard for, with some tough moments, but after 38 games we are top and that is it.\n\n\"The Spanish league is the best in my opinion and to win it in this way is incredible - I am very happy.\"\n• None Real have ended their longest run without a title (four seasons) since 1994\n• None Real have scored in all of their games in a single La Liga season for the first time ever\n• None The Whites have scored 58 goals away from home, their best return in a single La Liga season\n• None Real have scored in their last 64 games in all competitions, the best run by a team from the top five European leagues\n• None Cristiano Ronaldo is the all-time top-scorer in the top five European leagues (369), surpassing Jimmy Greaves (366)\n• None 19 different players have scored for Real Madrid in La Liga this season, a joint-record in Europe's top five leagues with Celta Vigo\n• None Real have scored 27 headed goals in La Liga, the most for a team in a single top-flight season since at 2003-04\n• None Zinedine Zidane is the sixth former Real Madrid player to win La Liga as manager, after Bernd Schuster, Vicente del Bosque, Jorge Valdano, Luis Molowny and Miguel Munoz\n• None Offside, Málaga. Recio tries a through ball, but Charles Dias is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Charles Dias (Málaga) header from very close range is too high. Assisted by Gonzalo Castro with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Gonzalo Castro (Málaga) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Fornals.\n• None Attempt missed. Marcelo (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Luka Modric (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Danilo.\n• None Attempt saved. Álvaro Morata (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Mateo Kovacic.\n• None Attempt missed. Marcelo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Luka Modric.\n• None Attempt missed. Charles Dias (Málaga) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Federico Ricca with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Charles Dias (Málaga) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Federico Ricca with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Ignacio Camacho (Málaga) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Gonzalo Castro with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Pablo Fornals (Málaga) right footed shot from outside the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Pablo Fornals (Málaga) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A good heavyweight needs power, grace, stamina and plenty of heart.\n\nThey face off in boxing's glamour division, but only a few are ever good enough to make their mark.\n\nGreat Britain waited nearly 96 years between Bob Fitzsimmons' world heavyweight title win and Lennox Lewis claiming a version of the title in 1992.\n\nAnthony Joshua is the latest to make a telling dent among the sport's biggest men. But who is Britain's greatest heavyweight?\n\nIn a BBC Sport poll, 70% of voters chose Lennox Lewis as Britain's greatest heavyweight.\n\nBorn in Cornwall but largely raised in New Zealand, Fitzsimmons was the first fighter to win titles in three divisions - becoming world champion at middleweight, light-heavyweight and heavyweight.\n\nA blacksmith by trade, he became known as a brutal puncher. In winning the middleweight title in 1891, he reportedly knocked down opponent Jack Dempsey (not the later heavyweight champion of the same name) 13 times.\n\nCooper's trademark left hook - christened 'Enry's 'Ammer' - famously dropped Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) at Wembley Stadium in 1963. The London fighter did not have enough time to close the job in the fourth round and Ali's canny trainer, Angelo Dundee, delayed the start of the fifth, claiming his man's gloves were damaged. A British, Commonwealth and European champion, Cooper was the first person to win BBC Sports Personality of the Year twice.\n\nHungary-born but a naturalised resident of the UK and, later, Australia, Bugner fought for more than 31 years. He lost to Muhammad Ali on points twice, and also took Joe Frazier to the cards. A world title eluded him, although he held European and British belts.\n\nHe lost world title bouts to Tim Witherspoon, Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis before capturing the WBC belt in the penultimate fight of his career - out-pointing Oliver McCall at Wembley in 1995. Much loved by the British public, Bruno was a destructive force, landing 38 wins by knockout.\n\nThe last man to be undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, courtesy of his 1999 victory over Evander Holyfield. His list of conquests includes the likes of Mike Tyson and Vitali Klitschko, brother of Wladimir. Lewis avenged his two defeats by securing knockout wins over Oliver McCall and Hasim Rahman.\n\nA unified champion at cruiserweight, Haye became the first man since Evander Holyfield to also win a world title at heavyweight. He took the WBA belt from Nikolai Valuev in 2009 in a fight in which he weighed in almost seven stones lighter than his opponent. He is now three fights into a return to the sport, losing his most recent bout to Tony Bellew.\n\nFury produced an excellent performance to end Wladimir Klitschko's 11-year unbeaten run and claim the WBA, IBF and WBO titles in November 2015. Fury has since battled personal problems and does not have an active licence to compete at the moment, although has vowed to return. His ascent to world level took in British, Commonwealth and European titles.\n\nLike Lewis, Olympic gold preceded his professional career but it took Joshua just 34 rounds to land the IBF world title. His rapid rise through the professional ranks made him just the second fighter - after Frazier - to hold a world heavyweight title while still reigning as Olympic champion.", "Sexual harassment scandals have rocked Fox News - and led to some top-level departures\n\nThe ancient adage was never wrong, and thanks to Fox News we can now offer an update: to lose one may be considered a misfortune; to lose two is a sign something's up; but to lose three is a sign that something is rotten in America's most watched news network.\n\nThe sacking of ratings juggernaut Bill O'Reilly last month was the most significant departure in the modern history of American cable news. Except that is, for the departure of his boss Roger Ailes last year.\n\nThese two monumental media events - the first, a dismissal of the biggest talent on America's most influential news service; the second, a dismissal of the most influential man in American news media (after his boss, Rupert Murdoch) - have now been followed by another remarkable departure: that of Bill Shine, who ran Fox News with Ailes for two decades, and was appointed co-president to sort the mess out.\n\nThree huge departures within nine months. There is now chatter that Sean Hannity, the senior anchor who tweeted last week that Fox News would be finished without Shine, could be the next to go.\n\nWhat is going on? And could this affect UK communications regulator Ofcom's forthcoming judgement on whether to reject the Murdoch family's bid for the 61% of broadcaster Sky they don't own?\n\nThat is certainly the hope of the cross-party group of MPs who have been lobbying Ofcom, and who would rather not see the Murdochs consolidate their power here in the UK. Interestingly, former business secretary Sir Vince Cable said on BBC Radio 4's World at One that Ofcom told him they were in listening mode. And there is certainly a lot of noise emanating from Fox News HQ in Manhattan right now.\n\nThere is a palpable fear in New York that the sexual harassment scandal which has toppled Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly could be an American version of the phone hacking scandal that dogged Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers. The echoes are eerie.\n\nRoger Ailes - Is he just one rogue individual?\n\nFirst, there is the instinctive blame on one rogue individual. Fox insiders have generally blamed the dominant, strongman personality of Roger Ailes for what went wrong, saying that with his departure the culture would improve. This sounds familiar to those who remember the initial claim that phone hacking was conducted by \"one rogue reporter\".\n\nSecond, there are the wider questions about a corporate culture. I don't mean by this whether or not Fox News leans to the right. I mean whether or not it is well run. Shine, who we're told resigned over the weekend, wasn't accused of sexual or racial harassment himself; but he was accused by multiple individuals of knowing plenty about the behaviour of his boss, and failing to act appropriately.\n\nThird, and related, there are the legal investigations now under way: not one, but two. The bigger one is a federal probe looking at whether or not Fox withheld settlement payments over sexual harassment from investors.\n\nAnd fourth, and worst of all for the Murdochs, there is the time. The phone hacking scandal derailed their last attempt to acquire the part of Sky which they don't already own. Now, with Ofcom's assessment of their latest takeover bid in the long grass until after the UK general election on 8 June, this huge scandal threatens to generate all the wrong headlines. The timing couldn't be worse.\n\nFor all that, it is important to note that Fox's ratings haven't suffered, and the advertising boycott that followed the revelations around O'Reilly - who strenuously denies he's done anything wrong, and is now forging a fresh career as a podcaster - hasn't yet dented Fox revenues in a really significant way.\n\nThe Murdochs' last takeover bid for Sky was derailed by the phone hacking scandal\n\nMoreover, Fox has moved swiftly and decisively in removing toxic individuals, in a way that shows they are extremely alert to potential reputational and commercial damage. It really was unimaginable this time last year that Fox News could exist without Ailes, let alone O'Reilly and even Megyn Kelly, who is probably America's most sought after female anchor, and left the network a few months ago.\n\nThe dominant narrative in American media is that these moves show Rupert's sons, James and Lachlan, imposing their worldview on their father's media giant by decisively rejecting the orthodoxies of his reign.\n\nIn conversations with seasoned observers of Planet Murdoch, individuals at 21st Century Fox, and opponents of that company's bid for the 61% of Sky it doesn't already own, that narrative finds plenty of support.\n\nThat both Ailes and O'Reilly have gone does give credence to the idea that Fox News is being reconfigured by its parent company, 21st Century Fox, where Executive Chairman Lachlan, and CEO James - who are of equal status - want change. Since they acquired this joint status in June 2015, these two have made a concerted effort to modernise their father's firm.\n\nThey have held regular town hall meetings with staff, extended parental leave, and made a habit of sending memos to staff - whether groups or individuals - saying well done: a pillar of right-on modern management.\n\nMore importantly, they have appointed several women to key roles, from Stacey Snider (in charge of 20th Century Fox film studio) to Courteney Monroe (CEO of National Geographic, a particular passion for James). The entertainment division of 21st Century Fox has several women in key executive roles, from Elizabeth Gabler and Nancy Utley to Emma Watts and Vanessa Morrison.\n\nRupert Murdoch still rules the roost - but his sons have moved to modernise the family business\n\nFox insiders are frustrated that the strides made in equality in the entertainment division garner much less publicity than the misdeeds of senior men in the (much smaller and less profitable) news division.\n\nWith commercial titans like Chase Carey, Peter Chernin, and now Ailes out of the picture, and James and Lachlan in the ascendant, there is a sense of a new broom at the company.\n\nBut Rupert still rules the roost. I would urge caution on those who argue that his grip is weakening. Not only was he, as you'd expect, ultimately responsible for the decisions to remove Ailes, Shine and O'Reilly; not only did he install himself as the temporary but very hands-on chairman of Fox News after Ailes left; but the idea that there was a battle of wills between father and sons, who outnumbered and outfoxed their father, is fanciful.\n\nIt is worth bearing in mind how much Rupert would have hated the New York Times felling of O'Reilly. It was their brilliant investigation that revealed the payments made to complainants against O'Reilly, causing a boycott by dozens of advertisers. Murdoch senior coveted the Grey Lady for many years, and paid a huge price for the Wall Street Journal partly because he was so determined to get one over it. The New York Times is the very embodiment of the liberal coastal elite O'Reilly, Shine and Ailes have spent decades bashing. The irony is not lost on either party.\n\nWhat next for Fox News? Hannity's future remains unclear. Former UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, who works for Fox News, told me a fortnight ago that Tucker Carlson, the anchor who has replaced O'Reilly in the key 8pm slot, has long been thought of as his likely successor. In his first few days, Carlson has rated well.\n\nBut the bigger drama is yet to come: the federal probes into whether payments were withheld from investors could intensify just as Ofcom consider whether to approve the Murdochs' bid for Sky. The last bid was of course derailed by the phone hacking scandal; and while Ofcom won't comment on what is a quasi-judicial process, their deliberations aren't taking place in a vacuum.\n\nIn ancient times, before Donald Trump was elected and when some people naively believed Hillary Clinton would be US president, the mood music coming out of New York suggested that the sons would build Fox News around Megyn Kelly, taking it in a more centrist and female-friendly direction. Now she's gone, and Rupert Murdoch is trying to rid his network of the cancer threatening to spread through it.\n\nSuddenly, the future of Fox News is up for grabs - and British regulators are watching.", "Retirement is supposed to signal a full-stop. The end of one life, the start of another. A sense of satisfaction, a sense of closure.\n\nThere should be no limbo. But for Goldie Sayers - the 11-time British javelin champion and three-time Olympian who announced the conclusion of her athletics career on Wednesday - the wondering and \"what ifs\" will follow her into the future.\n\nAfter eight years of waiting, Sayers was told in September that she was being retrospectively awarded Olympic bronze from the 2008 Beijing Games. Mariya Abakumova, the Russian who had finished second and who Sayers had always suspected of cheating, had failed a doping retest for a banned steroid.\n\nSayers, now 34, celebrated with a coffee in Waitrose with her mother, Liz. And then the limbo began: Abakumova appealing against her disqualification, the legal process slowing to a crawl, no medal in the post and no idea of when any of it will end.\n\n\"Initially I was just really happy,\" explained Suffolk-born Sayers. \"I'd been chasing something that had eluded me and then all of a sudden, driving down the M11, I had it.\n\n\"But actually now I'm much angrier about it - and I'm not an angry person at all. There's a deep sense of injustice.\n\n\"I was desperate to draw a line under my career and move on because I think endings are important - but at this rate I'll be drawing my pension before I get an Olympic medal.\"\n\nSayers is not alone. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has now caught 111 athletes with retrospective tests from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, a welcome epidemic of late justice that has brought with it its own chaotic tail.\n\nBecause so many of those who fail retests routinely appeal to the Court for Arbitration for Sport (Cas), regardless of evidence or ethics, those clean athletes promoted in their wake are left somewhere between regret, exasperation and hope: swindled out of their defining sporting moment, denied the financial rewards that a medal would have brought, left hanging by a system that is stumbling towards a cleaner future while trying to mop up the mess of the past.\n\n\"It's all about the moment for me,\" says Sayers, now 34. \"None of the other stuff that would have come with it - sponsorship, profile, the actual medal itself - matters in the same way.\n\n\"I'd love to be able to transport myself back to standing on an Olympic podium, but I won't ever be able to do that. You have had the greatest moment of your life stolen from you.\n\n\"Javelin is literally one moment. The whole of my run-up took 4.45 seconds, the throw itself took 18 hundredths of a second, 80% of my speed of release came from the last hundredth of a second.\n\n\"When your timing is right, and you're mentally and physically at one with your javelin, time effectively stands still. Those moments become exaggerated. The whole world makes sense in that instant.\n\n\"If you've seen the film Limitless - where Bradley Cooper takes a pill and the whole world slows down, and he can problem solve and make things happen - that's what javelin feels like when your timing is on.\n\n\"That's what you miss: the flow through your body, everything separating and moving as one. I miss time standing still.\n\n\"And it's about sharing that moment with other people. I remember celebrating what I knew was a personal best and British record, over the road from the Bird's Nest stadium. My mum, a family friend who'd come over to support, my coach Mark, Steve Backley and his mentor John Trower, Seb Coe. There were a lot of people in that hotel bar.\n\n\"Sharing that moment with all of them, that nearly moment, I was excited, and there was a sense of pride of seeing a plan through. But it would have been incredible, I know, if I had been standing there celebrating as an Olympic medallist - because it would have meant so much to all those people, not just me.\"\n\nThere are nine British athletes from the 2008 Olympics in this strange purgatory: the men's 4x400m relay squad of Andrew Steele, Robert Tobin, Michael Bingham and Martyn Rooney; the women's 4x400m team of Christine Ohuruogu, Kelly Sotherton, Marilyn Okoro and Nicola Sanders; and Sayers.\n\nSotherton, who retired five years ago, is owed two medals - one from the relay, one from the heptathlon, where she initially finished fifth before retrospective bans removed Lyudmila Blonska of Ukraine and Russia's Tatyana Chernova.\n\nNo-one knows when those medals will arrive, or how - prosaically, in the post, as some have in the past, or awarded at a special ceremony at a future athletics meet, maybe this summer's World Championships in London, although that is not an IOC event. Maybe much later, if Cas' procedures drift on and on.\n\nIt is clearly preferable to those retests never having been done, and those cheats never being caught. But it is a flawed process, just as with the proposal to scratch all track and field world records recorded before 2005, clean athletes seemingly punished again for the crimes of those who defrauded them in the first place.\n• None The winners and losers if records are wiped\n\n\"It's a strange place to be,\" said Sayers. \"It would be nice for legal processes to be sped up after someone is caught, because everyone needs to move on. There are going to be more and more athletes who've retired, picking up Olympic medals, thinking, 'If only…'\n\n\"It's getting on. Some of the kids I'm coaching don't even remember those Olympics.\n\n\"You very quickly feel like a has-been in sport. And I don't want to be one of those people talking about something that happened 20 years ago, and that being the best moment of their life.\"\n\nAbakumova was something of an open secret in Beijing. Her physique had changed dramatically over the previous winter, and her distances followed suit: 61.43 metres at the Worlds in 2007, a jump to 70.78m in Beijing.\n\nSayers' British record of 65.75m was only 38 centimetres off the initial bronze. It would also have been good enough for silver at the two subsequent Olympics. It should have brought satisfaction.\n\n\"I remember having to compose myself afterwards and have a series of press interviews where I couldn't say that I'd just been cheated out of an Olympic medal,\" she said.\n\n\"Instead I had to say that it was a surprise that someone had improved five metres, and that the champion nearly had to break the world record to win.\n\n\"It's weird thinking about it now. We would all joke about Russian athletes, and some others, doping. We just had to accept that they were cheating.\n\n\"I had initially tried to remain naive about it, partly because I didn't feel at my own physical or mental peak. I thought, if they're doping they should be throwing further.\n\n\"When you feel you're not throwing as far as you could, you just get on with it. But when you feel like you really have, that's when it hits you: hang on, this really isn't right.\n\n\"I had a conversation with Kelly in the Olympic village in Beijing. I said, 'At least everyone was drug tested, so in a few years, who knows, we might be Olympic medallists.' Because it was just so obvious. So brutally obvious.\n\n\"It's great now that people can openly talk about it. Maybe we were all complicit, because we didn't talk about it in those interviews. But you had no concrete evidence, and so you had no way of policing your own sport. You just had to get on with it.\"\n\nSayers still loves athletics. She has started her own coaching and mentoring website, Javelin Champ, and will be Team GB's deputy chef de mission at the 2017 European Youth Olympic Festival.\n\nLike so many in the sport, she finds herself holding two seemingly contradictory positions: defending what makes athletics so special, and acutely aware of where it has gone wrong.\n\nAnd so the stark question that those many have had to ask themselves in retirement: had she known at the start of her career what she does now, would she still have committed to a life in athletics?\n\n\"Oh no, don't ask me that question! Um… it's really hard,\" she said.\n\n\"When I was first given a javelin to take home over the school Easter holidays I never thought, I'll make a living out of this, go to three Olympics, break the British record. I only thought, how far can I throw this?\n\n\"You become addicted to progress. As long as you keep improving, you keep going.\n\n\"I've beaten people who have been caught cheating. And there are always things you can improve. It just makes it a lot harder to beat them.\n\n\"The biggest problem with doping is that it pushes people who are clean into getting injured. That was my experience. I was guilty of pushing too hard in training, trying to make up the gap. I had seven operations in the eight years after Beijing.\n\n\"I would still do it. But I wouldn't want to know what I know now, because then I wouldn't have given everything to it. And I wouldn't want to be an athlete who didn't give everything to it. I did.\"\n\nAs Sayers prepares to say farewell to that competitive career, she displays little of the bitterness you might expect. She is honest about her own mistakes, hopeful about what might come next for athletics, open to being astonished by remarkable performances rather than cynical.\n\n\"You don't want people thinking everyone is cheating, because they honestly aren't,\" she added. \"There aren't as many cheats as the cynics think there are. It's absolutely possible to make massive improvement in sport, because there are so many facets to it. Good coaching is the biggest performance-enhancer there is.\n\n\"But I do hope that announcing I've retired can be a line in the sand for me. I've wanted to do it for months, but I kept always thinking this legal process would be wrapped up, and I could look forward to a presentation.\"\n\nShe laughs. \"On a positive, if the medal comes, I'll definitely do something. A retirement and medal party. Get together my family, my friends, my coaches, all my support team, and have a party.\n\n\"Everyone can dance round the medal, instead of their handbags. I'll probably have about 10 years to plan it, the way things are going, but still.\"", "Ex-Tottenham striker Garth Crooks has called on players in the Italian league to strike this weekend unless Sulley Muntari's one-match suspension is withdrawn.\n\nPescara midfielder Muntari, 32, was banned after he protested against racist abuse he received from the crowd during Sunday's Serie A match at Cagliari, which earned him a yellow card for dissent before he walked off.\n\nItaly's football chiefs were branded \"gutless\" by anti-discrimination organisation Kick It Out.\n\n\"Those with power in Italy need to take action to stop this happening again,\" Kick It Out tweeted.\n\nCrooks, an independent Kick It Out trustee, told the BBC: \"I'm calling on players in Italy, black and white, to make it absolutely clear to the federation in Italy that their position is unacceptable, and if the decision is not reversed then they withdraw their services until it is.\"\n\nIn a fuller statement on its website, Kick It Out added: \"It's unbelievable that Cagliari escaped punishment as 'only 10' fans were involved. This situation should never be allowed to happen again.\"\n\nEx-Ghana international Muntari was cautioned for dissent after asking the referee to stop the match, and then walked off in protest - which earned him a second yellow card for leaving the field of play without permission.\n\nThe Serie A disciplinary committee which issued Muntari's ban agreed that the fans' actions were \"deplorable\" but said its guidelines meant it could not impose sanctions as only \"approximately 10\" supporters were involved - fewer than 1% of the Cagliari supporters in the ground.\n\nPescara's coach Zdenek Zeman's said that he hopes \"mentalities will change\" with respect to racism.\n\nCrooks added: \"This is not just about black players, we've moved on from that. This is about players.\n\n\"And I'm also a little alarmed that Sulley Muntari's team-mates have not become involved in this. His manager's not said more - he said something but quite frankly what he has said is rather inadequate as far as I'm concerned.\n\n\"So it's about addressing racism together as black players and white players, because that's the only way we're going to get past this problem in football.\"\n\nWorld players' union Fifpro believes Crooks' call for a strike might be difficult to implement but agrees action is needed.\n\nSpokesperson Andrew Orsatti told BBC World Service that the committee's decision was \"appalling, outrageous and poorly managed\".\n\nHe added: \"The message had to be about racism and stamping it out and sending a clear message that Muntari's cry for help was heard. But they failed on both counts, the Italian authorities, and the mind boggles as to how that occurred.\"", "Digging for diamonds is no soft option\n\nIn my teens, I worked as an artisanal miner, waist deep in water, sieving the gravel to find a diamond.\n\nGrowing up in diamond-rich eastern Sierra Leone, it was the natural thing to do.\n\nJobs were, and still are, few and far between, so the gemstones were a magnet. They persuaded many to drop out of school, but I worked as a miner mostly during school holidays and sometimes at weekends.\n\nThe Kono District was densely populated because the sparkling stones could be found virtually everywhere, sometimes through sheer luck.\n\nMy parents joined thousands of people from across the country, as well as The Gambia, Mali, Senegal and even Lebanon, to go to Kono in the hope of making a quick fortune.\n\nI grew up there and my work as a miner was hard. I dug the river beds for gravel and extracted the often muddy earth looking for diamonds.\n\nThe pickaxes and shovels would blister my palms and the sieve would harden or even deaden my fingers, often breaking my fingernails.\n\nAnd because I had to also lift sacks full of dry red tropical gravel, my head and neck were almost always in pain.\n\nDiamond deposits were sometimes so close to the surface in parts of Kono that it was common for people to pick up tiny gemstones that had been loosened by a heavy downpour.\n\nI found a tiny stone once or twice in my birthplace, Bumpeh. I did not know their true worth, but got enough money to see me through for about a week.\n\nThe Star of Sierra Leone, the world's fourth biggest discovery, was found in 1972\n\n4. Star of Sierra Leone, found in Sierra Leone in 1972, weighed 969 carats\n\nAfter doing my school-leaving exams, I took to full-scale mining to help pay for my university studies.\n\nApart from mining in Kono, I also went to Tongo Fields in neighbouring Kenema District. There, I discovered that the life of an artisanal miner was like that of an indentured labourer.\n\nDiamond diggers generally had two layers of sponsorship, and still do. The Group of Geng, or Gang, is what the diggers are called.\n\nIn language which harks back to the days of slavery, each group has a Master who looks over them. He is also in charge of providing food, accommodation and medicine.\n\nBut when I was there, conditions were such that only one square meal a day was assured - and please do not ask how the sauce tasted.\n\nWe often slept on the floor of a room or veranda, with bedbugs and mosquitoes biting us in turns. As for health care, Panadol was all we would get if we fell ill.\n\nThen there was the Supporter - the person who would provide the funds for the Master.\n\nWe rarely got to know him personally. He tended to be a big businessman or diamond dealer, and he provided us with tools and monthly allowances.\n\nLike me, most diggers did not know - and still do not know - the real value of their diamonds. So, it was easy for the Master and the Supporter to connive and dupe us about the price.\n\nIt takes sharp eyes to spot some diamonds\n\nThere is a group known as Gado Geng. They prefer to sponsor themselves and sell their diamonds on their own.\n\nBut my three-member team had a Master. We worked on a licensed plot.\n\nHowever, one day, we went to do illicit mining at an abandoned site belonging to the then state-owned National Diamond Mining Company.\n\nTwo of us were on the sieve, the third shovelling the pile of gravel. I was busy shaking the sieve under the water to wash the mud off the stones.\n\nThen I saw a sparkling object right in the middle of the sieve.\n\nI was not sure if it was a diamond or corundum, a sparkling stone that has little value. I brought up the sieve, to be sure.\n\nI went straight to the spot to try to separate it from the rest of the stones and sand.\n\nMy heart pounded. I excitedly muttered to my colleagues: \"Na diamond,\" a Krio phrase for \"It's a diamond\".\n\nI made sure that I did not say it loudly for fear that someone in the distance would hear me.\n\nThis is one of the few photos Umaru still has of his time at university\n\nMy colleague, Yarpo, dropped the bucket and shovel to verify my find. He agreed that it was a diamond.\n\nWe flung the tools away and dashed into the tall swampy grass. We then fled before anyone could catch us.\n\nObviously, we kept our Master in the dark and sold the two-carat diamond to a local dealer for 100,000 leone. I am not sure how many US dollars that was worth in 1991, but it was a lot of money.\n\nI was the youngest, but the other two diggers treated me fairly. We split the money, and they gave me 34,000 leone, a little more than my share.\n\nUnlike many other diamond diggers, I did not waste any of it on buying brightly-coloured sneakers, jeans, shirts or cassette players.\n\nI had a clear idea what I was going to do with it - pay my first year university fee of around 24,000 leone.\n\nAs I was still awaiting my school exam results, I gave the money to my aunt to add to her capital and do some business.\n\nI went back to concentrate on mining, but it turned out to be the last time that fortune would smile on me as a digger.\n\nI always wanted to become a journalist as I was born with the BBC World Service blaring in our home.\n\nMy dad, who never went to school, was addicted to it. And there were old newspapers and magazines lined up under his mattress and piled up elsewhere in his tiny bedroom.\n\nHowever, Sierra Leone's Fourah Bay College did not offer journalism at the time. So, my instinct told me to study English and French for an international edge.\n\nI graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and went on to work as journalist.\n\nLike me, my children have grown up with the BBC World Service, except that my voice is among the voices that they hear.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nWorld number one Andy Murray expects Maria Sharapova to receive a wildcard for Wimbledon qualifying if she does not make it through her ranking.\n\nThe Russian, 30, returned to action in Stuttgart last month after a 15-month doping ban.\n\nShe needs an invitation to compete at this month's French Open and, with her ranking of 262, at Wimbledon in July.\n\n\"I think there's a good chance Wimbledon would give her one to get into qualifiers,\" Murray said.\n\n\"I'm not sure what they will do but I'm sure they are hoping they don't have to make the decision,\" the 29-year-old Briton told national newspapers.\n\n\"There's a good chance that she can get in by right, which I'm sure is what she's hoping for and that's what Wimbledon would be hoping for.\"\n\nThe All England Club has said \"no decisions on any players will be taken\" until the scheduled wildcard meeting on 20 June.\n\nWimbledon's qualifying tournament, which takes place from 26-29 June at the the Bank of England Sports Grounds in Roehampton, will be ticketed and carry video coverage of one court for the first time.\n\nThere is something to be said for working your way back up the rankings\n\nSharapova needs to be closer to the top 200 for direct entry into Wimbledon qualifying and can improve her ranking at upcoming events in Madrid and Rome, which have also taken the decision to award her wildcards.\n\nThe five-time Grand Slam champion was suspended in 2016 after testing positive for heart disease drug meldonium, and reached the semi-finals on her return to action in Stuttgart.\n\nShe needed to reach the final in Germany to make the world's top 200 and be eligible for French Open qualifying, but defeat by Kristina Mladenovic in the last four pegged her ranking at 262.\n\nThe French tennis federation is set to announce its decision regarding a wildcard for Sharapova on 16 May.\n\nGrand Slams face a \"different decision\" from smaller tournaments over this issue, according to Murray.\n\n\"Loads and loads of press went to Stuttgart to cover the event - whereas the Slams don't need that coverage,\" the Scot said.\n\n\"It probably doesn't change their event much either way, so they have a different decision to make.\"\n\nMurray said the French Open and Wimbledon can do \"whatever they want\" regarding wildcards but added \"there is something to be said for working your way back up\" the rankings.\n\n\"[Sharapova's] playing at a level where she's capable of winning a tournament like Stuttgart already - it would be a three-, four-week period before she'd be competing at the biggest events again,\" he said.\n\n\"To reach the semis in the first tournament back shows that very soon she's going to be back up at the top of the game. It will be a matter of months.\"\n\nMurray added, however, that he \"wouldn't imagine\" Sharapova's form would have any bearing on a Grand Slam tournament's decision to issue a wildcard.\n\nThe decision to assist Sharapova's return to the WTA Tour has been criticised by rival players, with 2014 Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard branding the former world number one \"a cheat\" who should not have been allowed to play again.\n• None 'When you cheat you forgo the privilege to take part in your sport'\n\n'My elbow is always sore'\n\nHaving missed Great Britain's Davis Cup quarter-final defeat by France with an elbow injury before returning in Monte Carlo, Murray continued his comeback at the Barcelona Open where he was beaten by Dominic Thiem in the semi-finals.\n\nHe will next compete on clay at the Madrid Open, starting on Monday, followed by the Italian Open on 15 May.\n\n\"My elbow is always sore, so that's nothing to do with the injury - for the last three or four years, it's always been a bit stiff,\" said Murray, speaking at The Queen's Club, where he will defend his Aegon Championship title next month.\n\n\"It was great in Barcelona for the amount of tennis I played - I pushed it, playing three hours and then having to come back the next day and play again, and the elbow felt really good.\n\n\"I just need to start serving better which hopefully will happen over the next few weeks.\"", "McLaren's Fernando Alonso said his first experience of Indianapolis was \"fun\" as he passed his orientation and began testing for the Indy 500.\n\nAlonso is missing the Monaco Grand Prix this month, where Jenson Button will return to Formula 1 to substitute for him, to race at Indianapolis.\n\nThe Spaniard completed his mandatory 'rookie' test before starting his preparations for the event on 28 May.\n\n\"So far it is a good experience but now starts the real thing,\" Alonso said.\n\n\"It has been a very helpful day in terms of knowing all this different world and getting up to speed a little bit.\n\n\"There's still a long way to go but I am happy with this first step.\"\n\nButton sent his former McLaren team-mate a good-luck message on social media before the test session.\n\nWhy is Alonso doing a 'rookie test'?\n\nAll drivers who race at Indianapolis for the first time are required to complete an initiation test, no matter what their calibre or experience.\n\nTo pass, two-time F1 world champion Alonso had to complete three phases of running - 10 laps each at an average of 205-210mph; followed by 15 at 210-215mph; and 15 at 215-220mph. He completed the requirements in just 50 laps.\n\nAlonso said: \"It is a good way to start to build the speed. It was probably a little bit difficult at the beginning to reach the minimum but then in the phases it felt good.\n\n\"At the beginning, the right foot has its own brain and it was not connected to my brain. I wanted to go flat-out but the foot wouldn't let me. But after a few laps it was fine.\"\n\nWhat else did he do?\n\nAfter passing the rookie test, Alonso began a programme with his Andretti Autosport team to start learning the intricacies of IndyCars on an oval track where each 2.5-mile lap has four left turns that look identical but are each subtly different.\n\nHe ended the test with a fastest lap of 222.548mph. Last year's pole position time for the Indy 500 was 230.760mph.\n\n\"Everything went fine so far,\" Alonso said. \"The circuit looks so narrow when you are at that speed. I was trying different lines but I was not as comfortable as I probably will be in a couple of weeks' time.\"\n\nAlonso is racing in his home grand prix in Spain on 12-14 May before flying back to the States to start the official practice sessions for the Indy 500 the next day.\n\nThe competitors have a total of 30 hours of practice over five days before qualifying weekend on 20-21 May, with pole position decided on the Sunday.\n\nAlonso's F1 team are fully involved in his Indy programme, with the car painted in the company's historic orange colour and given the McLaren name. It is the first time for 38 years that a car branded McLaren has raced at Indy.\n\nHe is taking part because McLaren are struggling in F1 this year as a result of a lack of performance in their Honda engine and Alonso has said one of his ambitions is to win the 'triple crown' of Monaco Grand Prix, which he won in 2006 and '07, Indy 500 and Le Mans 24 Hours.\n\nMcLaren executive director Zak Brown said he wanted to give Alonso the chance to win something after three difficult seasons since joining the team in 2015.\n\n\"We wanted to see Fernando running at the front because that's where he deserves to be,\" Brown said.\n\nBrown revealed that Alonso had already watched about 25 Indy 500s in his preparations, including one entirely from an in-car camera on one particular car.\n\nThe test progressed so quickly that within four hours Andretti already had Alonso testing fuel saving and techniques for running behind a safety car.\n\nBut Alonso said he still had a lot to learn about fine-tuning the car for changing conditions on the track, a key aspect of driving at Indy.\n\n\"The guys make changes all the time to the car,\" he said. \"On that aspect I am not up to speed. I am not yet able to to feel the car because at the moment I am not driving the car, the car is driving me around.\"\n\nMario Andretti, the 1978 F1 world champion, former IndyCar champion and father of ex-F1 and IndyCar driver Michael Andretti who runs the team Alonso is driving for, said: \"He did a perfect job. He's the real deal and I think he's going to be strong this month.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nPlans to rewrite world records set before 2005 are \"disrespectful, an injustice and a slap in the face\", says former long jumper Mike Powell, who stands to lose his own world record.\n\nThe proposals by European Athletics are part of attempts to make a clean break with the sport's doping scandals.\n\nIf the move is approved, world records would only be recognised if they can stand up to strict new criteria.\n\nBut Powell, 53, told BBC World Service he would legally challenge any ruling.\n\n\"I've already contacted my attorney,\" said the American, whose mark of 8.95 metres set in August 1991 has never been bettered.\n\n\"There are some records out there that are kind of questionable, I can see that, but mine is the real deal. It's a story of human heart and guts, one of the greatest moments in the sport's history.\n• None How will world records be recognised?\n• None Which star names would lose out?\n\n\"They would be destroying so many things with this decision, without thinking about it. It's wrong. Regardless of what happens, I am going to fight.\"\n\nLord Coe, president of athletics' governing body the IAAF, called for a \"global debate\" around the issue.\n\nHe told BBC London: \"These proposals will come back to the council and I look forward to maybe counter proposals and maybe changes, maybe thoughts around it.\n\n\"We have to start somewhere. This is a debate the athletes have prompted the administrators to have for far too long.\"\n\nEuropean Athletics set up a taskforce to look into the credibility of world records in January.\n\nIts ruling council has ratified the proposals put forward by the taskforce, and it wants world governing body the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to back them when its council meets in August.\n\nTaskforce chair Pierce O'Callaghan told BBC Sport on Tuesday the plans were about \"restoring credibility\".\n\n\"Obviously this has to stand up to a court of law,\" he added.\n\n\"This is about the sport regaining control of its rules and records. Because in the past there have been threats of legal action when this has been mooted.\"\n\nAsked whether more legal challenges were expected, he said: \"No, we've just changed the rules of the sport. These are sports rules. It would be like somebody challenging the referee in a football game.\"\n\nIAAF President Lord Coe has called for a \"global debate\" around the issue, telling BBC London: \"It's important that we have these discussions.\n\n\"These proposals will come back to the council and I look forward to maybe counter proposals and maybe changes, maybe thoughts around it.\n\n\"We have to start somewhere. This is a debate the athletes have prompted the administrators to have for far too long.\"\n\nPaula Radcliffe, who faces losing her 2003 marathon world record, has called the proposals \"cowardly\".\n\nHowever, fellow British runner Darren Campbell says the move would be \"for the greater good\".\n\nPowell set the long jump world record at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, beating Bob Beamon's mark of 8.90m, which had led the field for 23 years.\n\nTwenty-six years on, only the discus throw (1986), the hammer throw (1986) and shot put (1990) world records have stood for longer in men's outdoor athletics.", "Better watch your F-bombs over a cheeky pint, because Samuel Smiths brewery is reportedly refusing service to any cussing customers.\n\nThe independent brewery, which owns 200 pubs across the UK, has issued guidelines to staff to implement the company’s new ‘zero tolerance’ policy on profanity.\n\nAnd they’re taking it pretty seriously, giving any mouthy punters a ban from the premises.\n\nThe Gazette spoke to one Samuel Smith’s pub manager in Teesside, who confirmed, “It’s the owner of the brewery’s decision, it’s all started from the brewery - all we can do is try our best.”\n\nWhen asked if any customers had actually been barred yet, he responded, “We’ve been told to refuse service to people using bad language, so basically, yes.”\n\nSamuel Smiths pubs have become known for their traditional, \"uncompromisingly Victorian\" aesthetic and their lack of music or TVs.\n\nLooks like this post is no longer available from its original source. It might've been taken down or had its privacy settings changed.\n\nWe wish to inform all of our customers that we have introduced a zero tolerance policy against swearing in all of our pubs.\n\nThe exact amount or calibre of swearing that will earn you the boot has not been confirmed, but if you want to sip your G and T in peace, best keep the conversation PG.\n\nIt’s not the first time a watering hole has made a statement like this.\n\nVarious bars and pubs kicked off last Christmas and banned groups wearing Christmas jumpers, accusing them of being more rowdy.\n\nWetherspoons faced serious backlash when they tried to ban 'sportswear' at a branch in Chatham last summer, claiming they were trying to attract a more upmarket kind of clientele. The residents of Chatham were not impressed.\n\nThe pub chain even weighed in on politics in the run up to the referendum, when founder Tim Martin printed 200,000 beer mats calling for the UK to leave the EU.\n\nThis article was first published in April 2017", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nIlie Nastase says Wimbledon organisers are \"small-minded\" after they announced he will not be invited to the Royal Box at this year's tournament.\n\nRomania's Fed Cup captain, a former world number one, is currently under investigation for comments he made about Serena Williams' unborn child.\n\nWilliams accused Nastase of racism after he was overheard asking if the child would be \"chocolate with milk\".\n\nHe also insulted British player Johanna Konta and captain Anne Keothavong.\n\nAt a news conference on Wednesday, All England Club chairman Philip Brook confirmed 70-year-old Nastase, who reached the Wimbledon final in 1972 and 1976, would not be present.\n\n\"His actions were not very good and we condemn them. In terms of an invitation to the Royal Box, he is not going to receive an invitation this year,\" Brook said.\n\nThe International Tennis Federation (ITF) has launched an investigation into remarks Nastase made during April's Fed Cup match, when he also directed an angry outburst towards Konta that left the British number one in tears.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC later in April, the Romanian defended his remarks about world number one Williams.\n\nAnd following the announcement that his invitation to the Royal Box at Wimbledon this year would be blocked, Nastase accused organisers of treating Romanians like \"morons\".\n\n\"What does Wimbledon have to do with what I said about Serena and at the match in Romania?\" he told Romanian website ProSport.\n\n\"If I did something stupid at Wimbledon then I'd understand if I were then suspended. But in this case, I don't get it.\n\n\"In 1973, when everyone else refused to play at Wimbledon [because of a boycott by the Association of Tennis Professionals] but I did - does that not count for something? Do they not think about that?\n\n\"If they are going to be so small-minded about it, there's nothing I can do.\"\n\nWimbledon also announced record prize money of £31.6m for this year's event on Wednesday's press conference, an increase of 12.5% on 2016.\n\nThe men's and women's singles champions will earn £2.2m each, with an increase to benefit players at each round of the draw. First-round singles losers will earn £35,000.\n\nOverall prize money for the last year's edition was £28.1m, with the singles champions earning £2m.\n\nThis year's event gets under way on 3 July, the latest start since the 1895 edition, when play began on 8 July.", "Protesters this week in Budapest chanted: \"Europe, not Moscow.\"\n\nMichael Ignatieff is not a person you would expect to find at the centre of a global political power play featuring names such as Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.\n\nHe was the rangy intellectual presenter on late night TV arts shows of the early 1990s in the UK, who looked like he might moonlight in an experimental jazz band.\n\nThe author and academic entered politics in his native Canada, becoming leader of the opposition party, before last autumn taking on a job as president of the Central European University in Hungary.\n\nMr Ignatieff, in his late sixties, might have been forgiven for thinking that this was a job before retirement - but instead he has stepped into a political storm.\n\nThe Budapest university has become a symbolic battleground between liberal internationalism and a rising tide of populist nationalism - with loud protests that the Hungarian government is trying to close it down.\n\nMr Ignatieff says it would be the first time a post-War European state had \"got away with shutting down a free university\".\n\n\"That's what makes it unprecedented. That's what makes it shocking.\n\n\"Now that's crossing a line. We haven't been there before.\n\n\"We see absolutely no reason why we should be forced out of Budapest, we think it's outrageous,\" says the university president, speaking in London.\n\nMichael Ignatieff, former TV presenter, is now in charge of the embattled university in Budapest\n\n\"We're a free institution, and this is about a drive to control,\" says Mr Ignatieff.\n\nThe Hungarian government has insisted this is not the case and the university has only to fall in line with new higher education regulations.\n\nAnd over the weekend, there were signs that Hungary's ruling Fidesz party would bow to pressure from the European Parliament's centre-right grouping to protect \"basic freedoms\".\n\nBut this is a dispute with deep roots - not least in relation to the role of the university's funder, George Soros.\n\nThe Budapest-born billionaire and Holocaust survivor has been a prominent backer of liberal causes.\n\nThe university occupies a building that has been an aristocrat's palace and Communist-run offices\n\nAnd Mr Ignatieff says Hungary's Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, has had a \"longstanding vendetta\" against Mr Soros.\n\nMr Orban, in turn, told the European Parliament last week that it was Mr Soros who was the aggressor against Hungary.\n\nHe has called US President Donald Trump a \"con man and would-be dictator\" and has become a hate figure for some of the US president's supporters.\n\nHe has also been a vocal opponent of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.\n\nAnd at the weekend, demonstrators in Budapest were chanting: \"Europe, not Moscow,\" fearing that the push against the university was part of a move to look eastwards rather than west.\n\nAdding spice to the antagonism is the fact that Mr Orban's early career was helped by a grant from George Soros in the late-1980s, bringing him to study in Oxford.\n\nThe young student who wrote about civil society and the transition to democracy is now the prime minister facing street protests.\n\nAnd there have been some who have seen this all as a proxy struggle between a liberal establishment and the supporters of Mr Trump, Mr Putin and Mr Orban.\n\nIn the French presidential elections, Emmanuel Macron is accusing his opponent, Marine le Pen, of being part of an alliance with Mr Orban and Mr Putin.\n\nThe Central European University (CEU) is a liberal, international institution, accredited in the US as well as Hungary, and created to promote democratic values after the end of Soviet rule.\n\nMr Ignatieff was speaking at the University of East London, about projects that both universities run to support refugees - another position unlikely to win friends with those hostile to immigration.\n\nMore stories from the BBC's Global education series looking at education from an international perspective, and how to get in touch.\n\nYou can join the debate at the BBC's Family & Education News Facebook page.\n\nBut the CEU president says it has been a major miscalculation to believe that the Trump presidency would line up against the university.\n\n\"I think one of the assumptions that Mr Orban must have made is that if he squashed an American institution, the Trump administration wouldn't care - because it's associated with liberalism and all these hated things.\n\n\"In fact the American administration has been extremely forthright, right out of the gate.\"\n\nSupporters of the university have staged protests in Budapest\n\nThe dispute over the university has continued to ripple outwards - with a surrounding digital blizzard of claim, counter-claim and fake news.\n\nThe European Commission has launched proceedings against Hungary, with vice-president Frans Timmermans saying the country's new rules on higher education were \"perceived by many as an attempt to close down the Central European University\".\n\nA collection of European scientists has written to Mr Orban to say moves against the university were \"totally at odds with what we thought was taken for granted in free democracies\".\n\nBut Mr Orban's reply showed no sign of changing direction.\n\nHe wrote back that the scientists' claims do not \"correspond with reality\" and there had been \"false allegations\" and an \"international disinformation campaign\" against Hungary's government.\n\nUntil anything else is confirmed, Mr Ignatieff says that from October the university's licence can be withdrawn and they will be unable to recruit students.\n\n\"We're not going to shut down, but we may have to leave the country.\"\n\nAnd he says that they have received offers from six other countries to take the university.\n\nThere have been a series of street protests against threats to the university\n\nBut he is still campaigning to stay in Budapest - and not wanting to burn any bridges, emphasises that there is no political challenge to Mr Orban.\n\n\"This is not fascism. This is a populist democrat, he won a free and fair election. In Budapest, you're not in the deep freeze of Communist Hungary or fascist Germany.\"\n\nMr Ignatieff also says the hand of Mr Putin shouldn't be seen everywhere: \"We invest in Putin powers that he can only dream of. We pump the guy up bigger than he actually is.\"\n\nBut this is a line in the sand, says Mr Ignatieff. If universities can be shut down in the heart of Europe, then what does it mean for the future of democracy?\n\n\"Democracy is not just majority rule, it's not just free media, it's not just a free judiciary. It's about institutions that have the right to govern themselves,\" he says.\n\n\"This is a battle for something I really care about, this is really deep in me.\n\n\"Universities are infuriating, they're difficult. But if you want a democracy, you want free institutions. It's really important.\"\n\n\"This is one I couldn't afford to miss and one I can't afford to lose.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nCoverage : Live on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and the BBC Sport website\n\nEngland one-day captain Eoin Morgan says the current side is the most talented group of players he has ever played with.\n\nMorgan's team play their first ODI of the summer on Friday against Ireland at Bristol as they begin preparations for the Champions Trophy.\n\nThe 50-over tournament begins at The Oval on 1 June and consists of the eight best-ranked ODI teams.\n\n\"The talent and ability in the side is second to none,\" Morgan told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I firmly believe this is the most talented group of players I've ever played with. I've been fortunate to play with some fantastic cricketers over the years.\"\n\nEngland have never won a 50-over international competition and have won only one global trophy - the World Twenty20 in 2010 - but have twice reached the final of the Champions Trophy, in 2004 and 2013.\n\nEngland and Wales will host the Champions Trophy, which runs from 1-18 June, and Morgan believes his team are playing a brand of cricket capable of winning a world tournament.\n\n\"It is important to recognise the Champions Trophy is the halfway stage towards the 2019 World Cup and that's the real trophy we want to be lifting,\" he said.\n\n\"That is the ultimate goal. This tournament is very relevant for us at the moment given the progression that we've made.\n\n\"It is a very ruthless tournament - you have to win every game. Going in with that expectation and hype is very good for us as a group.''\n\nDurham all-rounder Ben Stokes is one of eight England players to compete in this year's Indian Premier League.\n\nHe is the most expensive foreign player in IPL history and made a thrilling 63-ball century - his first in Twenty20 cricket - for Pune on Monday.\n\nHis international captain Morgan believes there is no-one more dangerous in world cricket right now than Stokes, who will miss the two ODIs against Ireland to remain in India.\n\n\"He goes out playing in the same team as the Australian captain Steve Smith and an Indian legend in MS Dhoni and outperforming those guys gives him an abundance of confidence,\" Morgan said.\n\n\"It is not only his own confidence, it will rub off on the team as well.\"\n\nEngland's women will also be fighting for a limited-overs trophy this summer when the women's World Cup begins on 24 June on home soil.\n\nThe side, led by Heather Knight, have been preparing in the UAE in temperatures exceeding 40C at times.\n\nThe training camp was noticeable for the inclusion of Sarah Taylor. Widely considered the most talented player in women's cricket, she has been tackling anxiety-related issues which have had a profound effect on her health.\n\nEngland remain cautiously optimistic that she will be part of the World Cup.\n\n\"Sarah did a lot more than was expected - she did very well out there. With Sarah it is one step at a time at the moment,\" captain Knight told BBC Sport.\n\n\"The World Cup is still eight weeks away. But it is great to see her out in an England shirt again, training around the group.\n\n\"She's still the world-class player she was - she'd still walk into any top four in any team in the world. It is great to see her and I love watching her bat. But the most important thing is that she's well, and it puts cricket into perspective, to see her tackling her issues, and hopefully she can come out the other side.''\n\nUniquely, Tuesday's launch of the new England kits featured all England's captains, including representatives from every disability team.\n\nAll believe major strides have been made with the backing of the England and Wales Cricket Board but that there is still far greater scope for development and profile.\n\nIan Nairn, the captain of England's physical disability team, would like to see cricket achieve the same level of recognition as Paralympic sports.\n\n''We're hitting sixes out of the ground as Eoin Morgan is, as Ben Stokes is. There is no reason why we shouldn't entertain to exactly the same standard,\" Nairn told BBC Sport. \"It is 20-over cricket; it is fast and it is furious.\n\n''We've got a long way to go get to the level of the Paralympics, but it is a global game. In the subcontinent there is a lot of disability and a lot of disabled people playing cricket.\n\n\"There's no reason why we can't go there and make it a commercial game. Maybe the 'Disability IPL' is the way forward - that's a dream that we all have.''", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nFernando Alonso has taken part in a private test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in preparation for his Indy 500 debut later this month.\n\nThe 35-year-old McLaren driver will miss this year's Monaco Grand Prix for a guest outing at the famous Brickyard.\n\nHis McLaren Honda Andretti car reached average speeds in excess of 215mph in the test session on Wednesday.\n\nBritain's Jenson Button, the 2009 Formula 1 world champion, will replace Alonso at McLaren in Monaco on 28 May.\n\nButton sent his former McLaren team-mate a good-luck message on social media before the test session.\n\nAlonso successfully completed several stints at the wheel of the Honda-powered Andretti car, which has been decked out in papaya orange in a nod to the colour schemes of some of the early McLaren F1 cars.\n\nThe test is Alonso's only taste of the car before the official start of Indy 500 practice on 15 May. The Indy 500 is on 28 May.\n\nThe double world champion has retired from every F1 race so far this season as McLaren-Honda continue to struggle towards the back of the grid.\n\nHe will be back in the McLaren for the Spanish Grand Prix on 14 May.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nCristiano Ronaldo scored another Champions League hat-trick as Real Madrid thrashed Atletico Madrid in the semi-final first leg to close in on a third final in four years.\n\nReal were utterly dominant throughout against their city rivals at the Bernabeu and led after 10 minutes when Ronaldo headed home Casemiro's cross.\n\nIt looked as if the hosts might fail to fully capitalise on their superiority - until Ronaldo let the ball bounce and smashed an unstoppable shot from 16 yards past Atletico keeper Jan Oblak, who had made several saves to keep his side in the tie.\n\nAnd the Portugal forward ensured all the headlines would be his with a second consecutive Champions League hat-trick, having scored five goals in the quarter-final against Bayern Munich. It was his easiest goal of the night, as he controlled Lucas Vazquez's cross in plenty of space before firing home.\n\nAtletico only had one shot on target and will need to pull off one of the Champions League's all-time special performances to stop double-chasing Real from ending their European dreams for the fourth straight season.\n• None Relive all the action from the Bernabeu\n• None Football Daily podcast: 'Ronaldo's the greatest player on the planet'\n\nRonaldo does it again\n\nRonaldo, the top scorer in the history of the Champions League with 103 goals, loves the big occasion. And occasions do not come much bigger.\n\nHe has now scored one more goal - 52 - in the knockout stages than he has in the group stages. He has now scored eight goals in his past three games in the competition, and is up to 13 Champions League semi-final goals.\n\nAt the age of 32, Ronaldo has reinvented himself as a striker, rather than the marauding wide player we watched cutting in and shooting for most of his career.\n\nHe was not heavily involved for large periods of the game, with only 50 touches of the ball compared with 123 for midfielder Toni Kroos. And he only had five shots - scoring with all of his efforts on target, his only three touches in the Atletico box.\n\nRonaldo was in an offside position when Sergio Ramos' cross came in for the first goal, but the ball never reached him, instead coming out to Casemiro, who crossed for the Portuguese to head home.\n\nHis second came when Karim Benzema held off Diego Godin, and Filipe Luis' follow-up clearance bounced up to Ronaldo, who lashed home.\n\nAnd he surely wrapped the tie up when he added a third in the 86th minute.\n\nNo team has retained the Champions League since its rebranding in 1992, but Real - who were in the swashbuckling form we have seen for most of the season - are in a great position to do so.\n\nManager Zinedine Zidane, who led his side to last season's trophy with victory over Atletico in the final in his first six months in charge, is chasing a double - and their hopes of a first La Liga title since 2012 are in their hands.\n\nReal - who have now scored in 59 consecutive games - had 17 shots against Atletico on Tuesday, with Benzema going close on several occasions, most notably with a bicycle kick that went just wide from Ronaldo's cross.\n\nRaphael Varane almost scored with a header but was denied by a brilliant Oblak stop, while fellow defender Dani Carvajal, who went off injured at half-time, also forced a save from the Atletico keeper.\n\nSuch is the strength of Zidane's squad that Wales forward Gareth Bale, out with a calf injury, was not missed at all - with replacement Isco impressing.\n\nAnd now, on the back of their first clean sheet in this year's tournament, they will surely fancy their chances against Juventus or Monaco in the Cardiff final on Saturday, 3 June.\n\nAtletico have spent most of their history in the shadows of Real so it is of extreme irritation to them that one of their best periods has seen them regularly thwarted by their rivals.\n\nThis is the fourth year in a row the teams have met in the latter stages of the Champions League - with Real winning the 2014 and 2016 finals, and the 2015 quarter-final.\n\nAtletico looked a shadow of the team Diego Simeone has turned into one of the most feared in the world. They only had 38% of the ball on Tuesday and, in the first half, misplaced 21.5% of their passes.\n\nAtletico only managed four efforts on goal, with Diego Godin's easily saved header the only one on target.\n\nSimeone, who led Atletico to the 2013 Spanish league title, now faces arguably the toughest test of his managerial career next week in the final European match at the Vicente Calderon before their move to a new stadium.\n\n'We need to forget about this game'\n\n\"We need to forget about this game.\n\n\"It seems impossible, but it is football and football has these unexpected things that make it marvellous.\n\n\"Until the last drip of hope is gone, we will give it everything we have.\"\n\n\"Cristiano is a goalscorer. He is unique. All the players were brilliant.\n\n\"I am happy with what I am doing here and with the players, we played a great game. We can hurt any side with our weapons.\"\n\nThe stats you need to know - Ronaldo levels Messi hat-trick record\n• None Ronaldo has equalled Barcelona forward Lionel Messi's total of seven Champions League hat-tricks.\n• None His treble saw him become the first player to reach 50 goals in the knockout stages of the competition (52).\n• None Ronaldo now has 13 semi-final goals in the Champions League (10 for Real Madrid, three for Manchester United) - the most by any player.\n• None The Portugal international has also scored more Champions League goals (103) than opponents Atletico Madrid (100).\n• None None of the previous five teams to lose a Champions League semi-final first leg by three or more goals have reached the final.\n• None Atletico suffered their joint-worst Champions League defeat under Diego Simeone, having also lost by a three-goal margin (4-1) against Real Madrid in the 2014 final.\n• None Real kept their first clean sheet in the competition since last year's semi-final against Manchester City (in both legs), ending a run of 11 successive games without one.\n\nReal Madrid go to relegated Granada, managed by Tony Adams, on Saturday (19:45 BST kick-off) as they continue to chase the Spanish title. Atletico, who are in third place, host Eibar on the same day (15:15 BST).\n• None Attempt blocked. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marco Asensio with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Diego Godín (Atlético de Madrid) header from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Gabi.\n• None Attempt missed. Luka Modric (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marcelo.\n• None Goal! Real Madrid 3, Atlético de Madrid 0. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez following a fast break.\n• None Stefan Savic (Atlético de Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marco Asensio. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLiverpool are to rename Anfield's Centenary Stand in honour of club legend Kenny Dalglish.\n\nDalglish, 66, scored 172 goals in 515 appearances after joining the club in 1977, becoming player-manager in 1985.\n\nThe Scot won a total of eight league titles, three European Cups, two FA Cups and five League Cups in his first spell at the club, which ended in 1991.\n\nHe returned as manager in 2011, winning the 2012 League Cup, and is currently a non-executive director.\n\n\"His name is synonymous with our club, with our home and the city of Liverpool,\" said owner John W Henry.\n\n\"Now it will be as visible as it is palpable.\"\n\nDalglish was manager at the time of the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, when 96 Liverpool fans died as a result of a crush at an FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield.\n\nHe helped ensure the club was represented at all of the fans' funerals and attended many of them in person.\n\nThe victims were found to have been unlawfully killed following inquests that concluded in April last year. All 96, along with Dalglish, were awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in May 2016.\n\n\"Kenny's contribution to Liverpool goes beyond goals scored, points amassed and silverware placed in the cabinet,\" said Henry.\n\n\"The leadership and solace he gave to individuals, the club and city as it tried to come to terms with the trauma and tragedy of Hillsborough transcended sporting achievement.\"\n\nThe date of the official renaming ceremony is yet to be confirmed but it will take place later this year.", "Forget bottle-flipping and ditch your loom bands, there's a new craze sweeping school playgrounds.\n\nFidget spinners were originally developed as a way for children with ADHD or autism to relieve stress.\n\nBut in the last few weeks, these palm-sized toys have become the latest \"must-have\" for almost every school child in the country.\n\nOn video-sharing websites like YouTube, vloggers have amassed millions of views from performing tricks with their fidget spinners.\n\nAnd teachers have reported a huge increase in the number being brought to schools by pupils.\n\nThere are reports that some schools have banned the toys, but primary school teacher Danielle Timmons told BBC Radio Scotland that they can have benefits.\n\n\"Fidget toys have always been something that we've had in schools,\" she told The Kaye Adams Programme.\n\n\"They've only ever really been used by children with additional support needs. In fact, specialists coming into the school recommend them for children and we'll buy them in for the children that are identified.\n\n\"For a long time they've always existed but they've never been as popular as they seem to be now.\n\n\"It's become a playground toy as well as something that is used by children to stop them from fidgeting.\"\n\nRemember loom bands? These bright rubber bracelets adorned millions of wrists in 2014\n\nThere are many different types of fidget spinners but the most popular is a small, three-pronged device.\n\nWhen it is placed between the thumb and a finger, the user can give it a quick flick to trigger a spin.\n\nLike all the best playground toys, they can be bought for a couple of pounds in a local corner shop - though some are retailing at a much higher price online.\n\nBut now some parents have raised concerns that they may be a distraction in the classroom.\n\nMother-of-three Doreen Boyle said the toys were \"infuriating\".\n\n\"My youngest, who is 13, appeared with this fidget on Thursday, and it has not left his side.\n\n\"I've had a house full of little boys all weekend and they've all got them, and nobody can talk to you, nobody can have any eye contact with you because they're all playing with this thing.\n\n\"And I can't believe that they're not going to affect performance in class.\"\n\nTeacher Ms Timmons said that they can aid learning among some children.\n\nHowever in her class there are strict rules that, if they are being used, they must be kept below the desk and out of the sight of teachers and fellow pupils.\n\n\"If a child is going to fidget, they're going to fidget, there's nothing you can do to stop them,\" she said.\n\n\"But these fidget toys are one way of allowing them to fidget without the disruption of the tapping pencils fidgeting, or the tapping feet.\n\n\"It's a much less disruptive way to channel their energies into something else while the teaching is going on. \"\n\nThe fidget spinners were originally developed to help children with ADHD and autism\n\nThere are a range of so-called \"fidget toys\", including this cube device\n\nDr Amanda Gummer, a child psychologist, said the craze was helping to de-stigmatise a toy that was previously only used by children with additional needs.\n\nThe fidget toy phenomenon is one that is sweeping the world, not just the UK, according to Richard Gottlieb, founder of US-based consultancy Global Toy Experts.\n\n\"It's spreading globally...and rapidly,\" he said.\n\nThey are not just confined to the playground however. Adults are also increasingly turning to fidget toys. So what is their appeal?\n\n\"I think its the need to fidget manually,\" said Mr Gottlieb.\n\n\"That's why some people smoke, others squeeze a rubber ball and even Captain Queeg in the movie the Caine Mutiny manipulated two steel balls in his hand whenever he got worked up.\n\n\"I think people in general are pretty stressed out right now by Brexit, the various elections, Donald Trump, Syria, North Korea....you name it.\n\n\"So, it is a good time to be selling something that allows an individual to fidget off some stress - particularly at a time when smoking is looked down on.\"\n\nHe believes the playground craze has been fuelled by a generation of stressed-out children.\n\n\"Typically there are people who are influencers, and they can be anything from the coolest kid on the playground to the coolest person in the office, that by simply using a product cause others to do so as well,\" he said.\n\n\"In this case, however, it took off like crazy and I think it is, again, because adults are anxious but, at least in the US, kids are anxious as well.\n\n\"There is just way too much much pressure from parents, too much school work and too much time engaged in adult supervised activities.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In 2014, Scottish salmon beat confectionery to become the UK's most valuable food export\n\nPast midnight on Monday in Mallaig: a boat docks with a cargo of live salmon.\n\nThey've been shipped from one of dozens of fish farms in the sea lochs of Scotland's north-west coast, where they swam earlier on Sunday in a large cage, machine fed for up to three years, growing as big as 8kg.\n\nMallaig is on a picturesque promontory looking over the sea to Skye. Its harbour used to heave with herring boats: its bracing fresh air mingled with the potent tang of smoking kippers.\n\nThe wild catch at Mallaig quayside is now langoustine, scallops and lobster. Many of the shellfish are bound for markets in Spain and France, trucked live and swiftly for premium prices.\n\nThe bigger fish business in the west Highlands is the farming of Atlantic salmon.\n\nFrom the fishing boat they are vacuumed through a pipe into the ice house, slaughtered, packed and driven along the winding road through the Lochaber region to a processing plant at Fort William. They are gutted and despatched to markets around the world.\n\nBy Thursday, some of the bigger fish are being served in China's best restaurants. Beijing first allowed imports of Scottish salmon in 2011. Last year, more than 11,000 tonnes were exported to the Far East, with a value of £73m ($94m).\n\nIt is 25 years since Scottish salmon became the first non-French food to win the Label Rouge designation. Based on taste and appearance, that has been a valuable asset in France, the biggest European market for salmon, and an important calling card in other countries.\n\nFirm, less fatty salmon is particularly popular for sushi and sashimi\n\nSalmon is now by far the biggest food export from Scotland. In 2014, it beat confectionery to become the UK's biggest food export.\n\nDemand is led by the EU, which imported 35,000 tonnes of Scottish salmon last year, and the US, which imported nearly 26,000 tonnes.\n\nWhile the UK has less than a tenth of global production, Scotland offers a premium product, at about 10% above the world price. Scottish salmon is typically fed better quality feed, and farming can be less intensive - fewer fish in a cage mean they swim further, and develop more muscle.\n\nLoch Duart set out in 1999 to carve a niche within that Scottish niche. Farming in the sea lochs of Sutherland and the Outer Hebrides, it charges a premium of 20-25% over other salmon producers, selling to wholesalers whose high-end client chefs require that extra assurance of quality and reliability.\n\n\"We've got to have an authentic message, a clear set of farming principles that the customer can buy into, that can be verified. We were the first to have RSPCA welfare standards,\" says sales director Andy Bing.\n\nScott Landsburgh, chief executive of industry body the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO), points out that fresh fish is hard to differentiate, except on its look. \"The good quality flesh of the fish [is] particularly firm and less fatty. And that works in the sushi and sashimi market in particular,\" he says.\n\nUnilever began Scottish salmon farming in 1965 and produced its first fish from Lochailort in 1971\n\nThe journey for Scottish salmon began nearly 50 years ago.\n\nUnilever was the pioneer, spotting the potential for farmed salmon, which at that time was only caught wild and eaten as an expensive luxury.\n\nThe food conglomerate's Marine Harvest division first produced farmed salmon in 1971 at Lochailort - the shoreline between Mallaig and Fort William - and is today the world's largest salmon farmer. Now an independent firm, Marine Harvest is based in Bergen, Norway, the country that dominates the industry. (Norwegian annual production has topped 1.1m tonnes, while the UK produces less than 160,000 tonnes.)\n\nScotland's most valuable export - Scotch whisky - has helped to fuel the popularity of the country's salmon, by projecting a reputation for quality and provenance.\n\n\"The inroads the whisky industry made have helped with Scotland the Brand, but salmon doesn't sell itself,\" observes Steve Bracken, spokesman for Marine Harvest and an industry veteran.\n\nHe points out that producers have worked hard alongside the SSPO and the Scottish Food and Drink trade body to promote the fish. The public sector's contribution has been significant too, through Scottish Development International, the government agency that promotes exports.\n\nSea lice can weaken the health of salmon and their growth\n\nHowever, recently Scottish salmon's growth has been scaled back with production hit by sea lice. When the parasites take hold of a farm, fish are harvested before their health deteriorates.\n\nThat helps explain why total world tonnage was down by 7% last year - by 5% in Scotland and Norway, and 16% in Chile. The South American country is the second biggest producer of Atlantic salmon, but has been blighted by the rapid spread of fish disease.\n\nThe industry has yet to get on top of sea lice. Feeder fish can be used as a predator for the parasites, but they haven't solved the problem yet. Another answer could be cages strong enough to be anchored far out at sea and in deeper water.\n\nThere are about 250 salmon farming sites off the coast of Scotland and its islands\n\nScottish salmon also faces an ongoing battle with environmental campaigners who fear that intensive farming in lochs and fjords is damaging to wild stocks and ecosystems.\n\nNonetheless, demand remains healthy. Salmon is marketed as a healthy eating option. Consumer tastes have been shifting to it as an affordable source of protein. Since 2013, salmon and trout have been the biggest category of traded fish worldwide.\n\nWhile Scotland's export tonnage fell 10% last year, its value rose by 17%.\n\nDemand for Scottish salmon is expected to remain strong despite uncertain supply and continued tough competition.\n\nIn the short term, the SSPO's Mr Landsburgh says recent surveys suggest the tide has turned on lice.\n\n\"And there's no shortage of demand,\" he points out.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wimbledon qualifying could cope with the levels of interest should Maria Sharapova take part in the Roehampton tournament, the All England Club says.\n\nThe Russian returned from a 15-month doping ban last month and could yet qualify directly or receive a wildcard when they are confirmed on 20 June.\n\nWimbledon's qualifying event will be ticketed for the first time this year.\n\nAll England Club chief Richard Lewis is \"absolutely confident\" Roehampton could cope with Sharapova's presence.\n\n\"We're used to organising events where there's a lot of pressure on our facilities, so it would be nothing unusual for us,\" he told BBC Sport.\n• None Sharapova likely to get wildcard - Murray\n\nLewis said Sharapova, the 2004 Wimbledon champion, has not yet requested a wildcard and there have been no discussions, either formal or informal, with her or her team.\n\nFormer world number one Sharapova, 30, reached the semi-finals in Stuttgart on her return to action last month.\n\nAs a result she is currently ranked 262nd - but she needs to be closer to the top 100 to qualify directly for the main draw at Wimbledon, or the top 200 for the qualifying tournament.\n\nShe has wildcards at this month's events in Madrid and Rome, where she can pick up more points before the Wimbledon main draw entry deadline of 22 May and the qualifying deadline of 5 June.\n\nWimbledon's qualifying tournament takes place from 26 to 29 June at the Bank of England Sports Grounds, and until this year has been an unticketed event with limited media facilities.\n\nThis year there will be 1,000 tickets for sale at £5 each, with proceeds going to the Wimbledon Foundation, along with video coverage of one court, inflatable covers on two courts and an improved player lounge.\n\nAsked whether the changes were made with Sharapova's possible presence in mind, Lewis said: \"I know it does seem very convenient timing but it is actually unrelated, genuinely unrelated, and we know that qualifying needs to continue to be improved, just like we improve facilities here at the Championships. It's part of an ongoing process.\"\n\nSharapova was initially banned by the International Tennis Federation for two years after testing positive for heart disease drug meldonium at the 2016 Australian Open.\n\nIt was later reduced to 15 months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, who found that she was not an \"intentional doper\".\n\nThe issue of whether the French Open and Wimbledon, as Grand Slam events, should offer wildcards to a player returning from a doping ban has divided opinion.\n\nAndy Murray and Caroline Wozniacki have been among those opposed to her receiving wildcards, while Venus Williams and Svetlana Kuznetsova were among the more supportive players.\n\nThe French federation will make its decision known on 16 May, while Wimbledon's Tennis Committee meets to discuss who will receive wildcards on 20 June.\n\nThe committee will be made up of former British number one Tim Henman, three club members including club chairman Philip Brook, Debbie Jevans and Richard Stoakes, tournament referee Andrew Jarrett and two LTA members, Martin Corrie and Cathy Sabin.\n\n\"Wildcards are what they say that they are,\" Lewis added.\n\n\"There's a wide range of criteria that any tournament would consider and from our point of view it could be playing record, it could be whether they are British or not.\n\n\"And to pre-empt the next question, who knows what they will consider on the 20 June? That's a matter for the committee and not something we can speculate on at this stage.\"\n\nImprovements to the Roehampton site have been on the All England Club's agenda for a while, but I think it would be fair to say progress was given an extra sense of urgency by the possible appearance of Sharapova and all those her presence would attract.\n\nThe 2004 champion could well play herself into the main draw by reaching the semi-finals in either Madrid or Rome, which allowed Richard Lewis to answer questions about wildcards as purely hypothetical for now.\n\nPast Wimbledon form and success in tournaments leading up to the championships, especially those on grass, are factors the committee will consider. Sharapova will score highly in at least one of those categories, and Lewis also told me that views expressed by some other players are not likely to prove relevant.\n\nBut he would not be drawn on how much weight Sharapova's anti-doping violation would carry. That is the crux of the matter, and very much down to the seven people who will file into the All England Club on Tuesday, 20 June.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\n\"Football is a simple game,\" Gary Lineker once said.\n\n\"Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and, at the end, the Germans always win,\" added the Match Of The Day presenter.\n\nSo when a new penalty shootout system was used for the first time in a competitive game on Thursday, it was perhaps unsurprising that it was a Germany side who came out on top.\n\nEuropean football's governing body, Uefa, is evaluating a new 'ABBA' penalty shootout system - rather than the traditional ABAB pattern, where one side always has the pressure of going second - to make them fairer.\n\nIt is trialling its use at both men's and women's European Under-17s tournaments currently taking place.\n\nAnd it was at the women's competition - a semi-final between Germany and Norway on Thursday - that the chance to put it into use for the first time arose.\n\nThe Germans are famed for their penalty-spot prowess after winning five shootouts at major finals - although unusually they missed their first three spot-kicks.\n\nYet they were still able to beat Norway 3-2 to reach the final of the tournament in the Czech Republic.\n\nThe men's tournament in Croatia has not yet reached the knockout stage.\n\nHow does it work?\n\nAs the current system stands, teams take turns in a shootout, with the choice of who goes first decided by a coin toss.\n\nFor example, team A goes first, then team B, then team A again.\n\nThe new system is called sees team A followed by team B - before team B goes again. Team A would then get two successive penalties, a little like the tie-break in tennis, and so on until there is a winner.\n\nA coin will still be tossed to decide who goes first.\n\nThe idea is to stop the team going second having to always, potentially, play catch-up. The sport's rule-making body, Ifab, approved the trial after looking at the research that says the team taking the first penalty have an unfair advantage as they win 60% of shootouts.\n\n\"The hypothesis is that the player taking the second kick in the pair is under greater mental pressure,\" said Uefa.", "England's Jonny Bairstow hammered 174 off 113 balls as Yorkshire beat Durham at Headingley to maintain their 100% start to the One-Day Cup.\n\nBairstow, who was dropped on 71, struck seven sixes and 16 fours in a stand of 189 in 25 overs with Joe Root (55).\n\nHis was the third century of the day as Stephen Cook (106) and Michael Richardson (100no) saw Durham to 335-5.\n\nBairstow and Root both fell to James Weighell (3-60), but Yorkshire reached 339-4 with 14 balls to spare.\n\nThe White Rose county, who last lifted a limited-overs trophy in 2002, have won all three games so far, while Durham have one victory from three.\n\nKeaton Jennings set the visitors on their way with 72 before a brilliant boundary catch by Peter Handscomb brought his innings to an end.\n\nSouth Africa Test opener Cook's 108-ball century was his first for Durham, while Richardson reached three figures from only 87 balls with two runs off the final delivery of their innings.\n\nHowever, they were overshadowed by Bairstow, who revelled in his new role at the top of the order and raced to his hundred from 70 balls.\n\nHe was particularly punishing on the leg-side and had the chance to become only the third batsman after Surrey's Alistair Brown and Ravi Bopara of Essex to make a double century in a List A game between two first-class counties.\n\nThe 27-year-old was caught behind from the final ball of the 34th over, leaving Yorkshire to score 87 from the final 16.\n\nEngland Test captain Root played on during an unproductive period when they failed to find the boundary between the end of the 33rd over and the middle of the 39th.\n\nSkipper Gary Ballance, though, hit three successive boundaries off Paul Coughlin in the 41st over in his 29 before trod on his stumps, leaving Handscomb (47 not out) and Tim Bresnan to finish the job.\n\n\"I got a bit of a chance and, as we know, you have to take every chance you can get. I missed one the other night, and luckily it didn't cost us too much. When you get a chance, you want to go on and make it pay.\n\n\"It's either bat there (open) or bat six when you look at the line-up we've got at the moment. If I can spend as much time out in the middle as I can, hopefully I can put in performances that help us win games of cricket.\n\n\"It's pretty handy having Peter and Gary to come in at four and five and knock the rest of the runs off. It's a good side we've got at the moment, but it's going to be a tough few games coming up. A few of us aren't available now, and we've said all along about the squad and how well it needs to gel together.\"\n\n\"You've got to take your hat off to a guy like Jonny. You don't come in and play the way he did day in, day out. He hit every ball out of the middle and made it really tough for us.\n\n\"I wouldn't take any credit away from Rooty either. He supported him beautifully to make sure that partnership kept hurting us. Between the two of them, they were sensational.\n\n\"At the halfway point, I'd have said we were favourites. I thought we had enough runs despite their line-up. I honestly thought we were in a good position. But we gave him a couple of chances.\"", "Phil Neville was at the Bernabeu for BBC Radio 5 live to witness Cristiano Ronaldo, his former Manchester United team-mate, scoring a hat-trick for Real Madrid in their 3-0 Champions League semi-final first-leg win over Atletico Madrid. Here are his thoughts:\n\nI listened to my dad talk for 20 years about George Best and Pele and Cristiano Ronaldo is easily the equal of those.\n\nWhat sets Ronaldo and Barcelona's Lionel Messi apart is that they deliver on the big occasion. We aren't talking about the two best players in the world, we are talking about the two best players who have ever lived. I think that's how good these two players are.\n\nThey take you to places no other player in the world can - and on Tuesday we saw a phenomenal performance from Ronaldo.\n\nYou are talking about someone who scores left foot, right foot and he is fantastic in the air. The way he can control the ball with both feet, the speed at which he runs - at 32 years of age he has just scored a hat-trick in a semi-final.\n• None Relive all the action from the Bernabeu\n\nRonaldo and Messi push each other on. Messi got all the plaudits after the recent match against Real Madrid, but Ronaldo has raised the bar again. Every time I see him I am amazed at his drive and determination to be the best in the world - and on Tuesday it was a 'wow' performance from him.\n\nHe has natural ability coupled with hard work. He is a tremendous example of where hard work can take you.\n\nWhen we were at Manchester United he said he wanted to go on to be the best player in the world. He had the self-belief to get to the very top. I look at Chelsea's Eden Hazard sometimes and wonder if he has that.\n\nUnited's Carrington training ground is maybe a mile, two miles around. Every single day he used to take a ball after training and run and do his tricks for a mile, two miles at a time. His drive and his ability to practise every single day is just phenomenal.\n\nWhen he gets back to his house after the match against Atletico, he will have an ice bath, eat the right things at the right time to refuel his body, stretch - and he will have a masseur there. His professionalism, drive and desire are amazing.\n\nI read an article before the second leg of the quarter-final against Bayern Munich and it was very scathing. It said he had lost speed and was not a team player - but he scored a hat-trick against Bayern. His form is not dwindling. If anything it looks like he is getting stronger because he is being managed well.\n\nHe has been rested well by Real boss Zinedine Zidane, and look at the sharpness and speed he still possesses. He is a physical specimen, a total athlete.\n\nReal Madrid were far too good on the night - they could have been 3-0 up at half-time and the man of the moment got three goals on the biggest stage.\n\nAtletico Madrid cannot play at the level Real did. They played like a team that did not believe they could go to the Bernabeu and win - they were cautious, poor with their passing and there was no belief in their body language.\n\nI have watched Atletico boss Diego Simeone a lot this season and he looks like someone who is coming to an end at the club, that he cannot take the team any further. He has got a big decision to make at the end of the season and it would not surprise me if he left to go to the Premier League or to Inter Milan.\n\nI talked before the match about what big occasions Champions League semi-finals are - but for Real it looked like a normal game of football.\n\n52 - Ronaldo's hat-trick meant he became the first player to reach 50 goals in the Champions League knockout stages.\n\n13 - Ronaldo has now scored 13 semi-final goals in the Champions League (10 for Real Madrid, three for Manchester United) - the most by any player, including when the tournament was called the European Cup.\n\n103 - The Portugal international has also scored more Champions League goals than Atletico Madrid's 100.\n\n8 - He has scored two consecutive Champions League hat-tricks, and eight goals in his past three games in the tournament.\n\n399 - The 32-year-old is one strike away from 400 goals for Real Madrid alone.\n\nRonaldo as modest as ever...\n\nAfter his match-winning performance on Tuesday, Ronaldo said: \"It was a total team match.\n\n\"We have a good advantage, but this is not closed. Atletico are very strong, they are not in the semi-finals by chance and we have to concentrate on Wednesday.\"\n\nOn his ovation from Real fans at the Bernabeu, he added: \"I just want you not to whistle me. Otherwise, I will always try to give everything for them.\"\n\nFissuh Hailu on #bbcfootball: I couldn't agree more, Phil Neville. Ronaldo is up there with football gods and kings, whatever you call them. Absolute legend.\n\nMuscab Ali: Ronaldo is a good goalscorer but he is not at the level of Messi. There is a difference between an eagle and a falcon.\n\nAntony Short: Messi or Ronaldo, who cares? Let's just enjoy it while it lasts.", "Perry, Mollie, Sam and Lisa Hughes are determined to succeed in the social media market.\n\nThe Hughes family in Manchester have quit their jobs and put everything they own into building a social network aimed solely at sports fans. But can they take on the giants?\n\n\"We see ourselves sitting at the top table with the big boys,\" says father Perry Hughes confidently.\n\n\"We don't think we're taking on the competition.\"\n\nIt might sound optimistic to put your family business in the same league as the multi-billion dollar social networks but the Hughes family certainly have the passion to give it a go.\n\nTheir big idea is GameDay Xtra, which has the bold ambition of hosting a page for every single sports team and player in the world - with even the humblest of leagues able to share their own news.\n\nSon Sam, 21, has suspended his university studies and works through the night on the project. Daughter Mollie, 18, handles the social media side.\n\nGameDay is purely for sports fans, the family say.\n\nThe family hope to include all sports.\n\nMembers get live news feeds of sporting events, form their own groups and networks, follow games play-by-play, and in future will also be able to play bespoke interactive games themselves within the site.\n\n\"Super fans\" will also be able to run the team or player pages of their choice if the real deal doesn't snap up their own page themselves.\n\nThe family say it currently has a few thousand members and will open for broader membership in August this year.\n\n\"We saw an opening in the market,\" says Sam, who is also an eSports video game player.\n\n\"It's good to work with family. We're all hard working, committed to the project.\"\n\nPerry Hughes admits the family \"panicked\" when Facebook launched its Sports Stadium for sports fans in January 2016 but these days he does not consider them to be GameDay's rivals.\n\nIn fact two Facebook execs have joined the closed trial, he claims.\n\n\"When we saw what they did [with Stadium] we laughed,\" he says.\n\nThere are five planned \"phases\" for the platform, and the family are secretive about what those will be.\n\nPhase two will be only unleashed once they have one million members because the licensing is going to be expensive, Mr Hughes says.\n\n\"Phase three will be: 'what have they built!'\" he teases.\n\nThe website is still being tested.\n\nPerhaps unsurprisingly, financing the idea has proved to be the biggest challenge.\n\n\"We went to a lot of investors. They said the scale of the project was too big,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\n\"We sold the house, the cars, everything. We ran out of money twice.\n\n\"We all gave up our jobs and committed totally to this. At times it's been lonely.\n\n\"When you put all your money into one project you are keeping an eye on everything.\"\n\nThey have now secured significant funding from a Russian backer, whom they decline to identify.\n\nThe family are also coy about how they plan to make money from GameDay but hint that it will be similar to Facebook and Instagram's business model.\n\n\"We will be carrying some ads - but we don't want to end up with loads of videos and so on,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\n\"This is not about 'build it, sell it and move on'. We think we are going to change the way media is done.\"\n\nEmma Sinclair MBE, tech entrepreneur and investor, said she admired their ambition but was \"unconvinced\" that the platform could live up to the family's expectations.\n\n\"Sports fans are already likely using one or more of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and SnapChat. That's in addition to text, Whatsapp, email. And they will no doubt have their favourite sports hubs too relating to teams they support and commentators they follow,\" she said.\n\n\"There's a lot of competition and noise out there and for a start-up on a small budget, competing with giants and established players for attention is an expensive and ambitious job.\n\n\"As an angel investor and with the little information I have to hand, I am currently unconvinced that this site has the capacity to disrupt the market and come out on top as a key hub for sports fans as things stand.\n\n\"This being a site in beta however, I hope they prove me wrong and I wish them luck.\"", "A smart collar helps Rhonda Vandermeer keep track of her English cocker spaniel Boz\n\nA missing pet poster attached to a tree or lamp-post is a sad sight, as a lost moggy or pooch is a minor tragedy in any owner's life.\n\nBut luckily for Rhonda Vandermeer, a dog breeder from North Carolina, technology means she doesn't have to worry about her furry friends ever going missing.\n\nIf she ever wants to check on the whereabouts of her five-year-old English cocker spaniel Boz, she just taps on her mobile and can see his exact location.\n\n\"He's always let off his lead and if he sees a squirrel, he's off, and I'm afraid he's going to keep running and we won't get him back,\" says Ms Vandermeer, who arranges for minders to look after her canine companions when she's away.\n\nThe Link AKC collar also pings her a notification if Boz has strayed beyond the boundaries she's set, which means she can quickly alert her local dog minders that he's escaped.\n\nThe collar also keeps track of the ambient temperature and how much exercise Boz has been doing.\n\n\"It's great for when I'm away and I can see how much exercise he does and what level of activity he's receiving a day,\" says Ms Vandermeer.\n\nBut isn't there a danger that such tech could make her a little obsessive?\n\nCould pet trackers see an end to lost pet posters?\n\n\"At first it was like a toy and I was always checking,\" she admits.\n\nAnd did the dog minders feel like they were being spied on?\n\n\"I explained the tools to them. I never wanted them to think I was checking up on them,\" she says.\n\nA smart fitness-tracking dog collar may sound like a gadget too far, but pet owners are splashing out on all kinds of gadgets to keep track of their feline and canine companions.\n\nPet tech is a booming industry, with the global market predicted to reach $2.36bn (£1.84bn) by 2022, according to Grand View Research.\n\n\"People think of their pets as a part of their family and with tech adoption growing, it makes perfect sense to innovate in this area,\" says Abhishek Sharma, analyst at market research firm Technavio.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. FitBark - one of a slew of pet tech apps hitting the market\n\nDan Makaveli, an academic tutor and director at Media Savvy, a digital training agency, uses FitBark, a bone-shaped collar sensor, to track his six-year-old doberman Diego's daily activity.\n\n\"He's well walked anyway but it gives you a little bit of an extra incentive to do it most days,\" says Mr Makaveli, who lives in Sunderland, north-east England.\n\n\"I know that by having it, it makes me determined to reach Diego's daily goal of exercise. So if he hasn't reached it and even if it's hail-stoning outside, I will take him for a run around the block.\"\n\nWith FitBark you can also sync your own fitness tracker with that of your dog's and compare results with other dogs of the same breed.\n\n\"My wife regularly syncs in with him and they can see where they are on the leaderboard,\" says Mr Makaveli.\n\nSuper-fit Diego even joined the couple when they took on Britain's Three Peaks Challenge last year.\n\nIf tracking your pet's fitness isn't enough, you can even order a 3D sculpture of it via a company such as Arty Lobster, watch it live through the Petzi Treat Cam, and organise a video conference with a vet via app-based vet practice Pawsquad.\n\nTiddles seems a little bemused by EasyPlay's new interactive pet gadget\n\nAnd if you've ever worried about your pet getting a little bored while you're out of the house, EasyPlay could be the answer. It's a ball that works as both a pet monitor and an interactive toy.\n\nControlled by a smartphone, EasyPlay - which launches in July - allows owners to watch live video of their pets, talk to them, and remotely control a treats dispenser.\n\n\"EasyPlay is designed to enhance pet health and fitness in a fun and playful way, for both cats and dogs,\" says Adam Anderson, managing director of Gosh!, EasyPlay's parent company.\n\nBut do such devices simply make it more acceptable for owners to spend less time with their pets?\n\n\"The EasyPlay was not created to replace a personal, one-on-one relationship with your pet, instead it is a device that allows you to connect while away and improve your pet's mental wellbeing,\" says Mr Anderson.\n\nIf humans can have fitness trackers, why not pets?\n\nAnd is all this tech really necessary, or just businesses being opportunistic?\n\n\"With the increasing awareness about pet health, owners around the world are more willing to spend on various types of tech to keep their pets safe,\" argues Mr Sharma.\n\n\"There has been an increase in pets being lost or stolen and hence it requires continuous monitoring to keep track of them.\"\n\nBut how about the animal itself? Are the gadgets always comfortable?\n\n\"Pets feel a little uncomfortable during the initial phase,\" says Mr Sharma. \"Having said that, it is almost like getting used to a regular collar.\"\n\nAs for the future, given the rising adoption of the internet of things and smartphones, pet tech looks set to continue flourishing.\n\nAnd for pet owners who like to keep tabs on their pets, that's just purr-fect.", "We are profiling each of the five nominees for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017 award. Voting has now closed but you can see all the contenders' profiles and read full terms here. The winner will be revealed on Tuesday, 30 May, during Sport Today on BBC World Service from 18:30 GMT (19:30 BST).\n\nPenalty shootouts may be nerve-shredding events for most footballers, but for BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017 nominee Hedvig Lindahl, it appears to be where she excels.\n\nThe Sweden and Chelsea goalkeeper helped her country win a silver medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics with her shootout heroics against USA in the quarter-finals and Brazil in the semi-finals.\n\n\"I had studied them so closely and the last save in that penalty shootout [against Brazil] is probably the one I'm most proud of because it was so far out, and I could stretch and I was really explosive to get there,\" she said.\n\n\"No-one could have expected us to come away with the silver, so we performed over everyone's expectation.\"\n\nIn December 2016, Lindahl joined Sweden's most famous footballer, Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, on stage as they won Sweden's female and male Footballer of the Year awards respectively.\n\nThe pair started their football careers 16 years ago at the same club - Malmo - but their lives have gone in very different directions.\n\n\"What a difference it is, what kind of life he has, what kind of life I have, it's just interesting,\" Lindahl said.\n\n\"I remember I was part of the 2003 World Cup squad that came second - I thought everyone would know who I am because I'd been in the World Cup final squad and then I woke up and realised it's women's football and it's not really like that.\n\n\"Growing up, you thought that being a footballer would bring fame and fortune, but being a female footballer means for me now that I am part of something that opens doors for so many other women in the world that still struggle with their own rights and right to play football.\"\n\nLindahl signed for London-based Women's Super League club Chelsea Ladies in December 2014 and within a few months it proved to be a dream move.\n\nAt the 2015 FA Women's Cup final, staged at Wembley Stadium for the first time, Lindahl kept goal in Chelsea's 1-0 win over Notts County.\n\nIt was Chelsea's first major trophy and later that year they secured their first FA WSL title for a league and cup 'double'.\n\nThe goalkeeper says none of her success with Chelsea would have been possible without the support she received from wife Sabine.\n\n\"My proudest moment is the birth of our two sons, but my wife Sabine made a massive sacrifice to come with me to England,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm very, very thankful because that decision has made me excel, which means I didn't have to become that bitter, old woman in a sports bar saying, 'I could have been that one!'\n\n\"It's an exciting time to be part of women's football wherever you are in the world right now. It's like it's boiling, it's just waiting to really take off and if I can stretch my career a few more years to be part of that - maybe all of my years that I struggled will be worth it because of the years that lie ahead.\"\n\nWhy vote for me?\n\n\"Please vote for me if you think I'm worth it and also because I've always had a dream about being the best goalkeeper in the world and if you vote for me that's solidifying my dream and hopefully that could inspire other girls out there to reach for their dreams.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe was once a well-known racehorse, but it looked as though ill health would soon mean the end for Metro. Then his artist owner, Ron, had an unusual idea.\n\nIt's said that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. So when Ron Krajewski first introduced his horse, Metro, to an easel there was no guarantee he would paint.\n\nAfter all, this horse had been struggling with health problems since he was adopted by Ron and his wife in 2009. Metro had once been a successful racehorse - as Metro Meteor, he won eight races and $300,000 (£234,000) prize money at the prestigious Belmont Park. However, he was retired by his stable after bone chips in his knees caused permanent damage.\n\n\"We were looking for a horse Wendy could ride and were probably quite naive,\" Ron says. \"We soon discovered Metro had worse race injuries than we had bargained for.\"\n\nMetro Meteor won eight races in his career, but it took a toll on his knees\n\nMetro had months of rehab and medication. Special horse shoes helped for a time, but in 2012 X-rays revealed his knee joints were closing up. A vet said they would lock up within two years, at which point Ron and Wendy would have to put their horse down.\n\n\"I didn't just want to put him out to pasture and forget about him. I was thinking about how we could spend time together,\" Ron says.\n\nHe had noticed that his spirited horse liked to bob his head to get attention and pick things up in his mouth. A professional artist himself, Ron wondered if he could convince Metro to hold a paintbrush.\n\n\"I taught him to touch his nose to the canvas for horse treats, then to hold a paint brush,\" Ron says.\n\nMetro tackles the canvas assisted by Ron - he paints from left to right\n\n\"He could have just touched the paint brush to the canvas and then dropped it and that would have been the end of it. Luckily for us he started making up and down strokes and seemed to enjoy it.\"\n\nMetro was soon creating works that Ron judged were good enough to put on sale at a local gallery. The first four paintings sold out the week they were put on display.\n\nMetro's unbridled style has been compared to Jackson Pollock, a painter famous for his splatter and drip technique.\n\n\"Metro's brush strokes are nothing a human can make, because he doesn't think about what he will do before he does it. His strokes are thick, random and sometimes broken, which lets other colours show through. It all just vibrates on the canvas,\" Ron says.\n\nMetro's unusual ability caught the attention of local TV news in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and his story was picked up nationwide. By 2014, there were 150 people on a waiting list for his works.\n\nRon sometimes set up an easel for Metro to paint outside\n\nSales of the paintings helped fund a new experimental treatment for Metro. His vet created a technique to apply a drug called Tildren directly to his knees.\n\n\"Within a few months X-rays showed the bone growth had receded. It has added years to his life,\" Ron says.\n\nRon and Wendy keep Metro and their other horse, Pork Chop, at a stable four miles from their home. They visit them about five days a week and on two of those Ron and Metro have a painting session.\n\n\"Metro has got a little section in the barn that we call his studio. It's all set up ready for him to paint,\" Ron says.\n\n\"I did try to get Pork Chop to paint once, but he just wasn't interested.\"\n\nRon acts as both art director and assistant. He picks the colour and loads the paintbrush before handing it over. Metro then makes the strokes.\n\n\"I always stand on his left so he paints from left to right. If I hand him the brush in the upper right hand corner, that's where he will go.\"\n\nRon and Metro will work on three or four canvases at once during a 20-minute session.\n\n\"We'll spend two minutes on one canvas and then swap it for another. He tends to smear things together so we'll do some blues and then let it dry, then let's say some orange. This builds up the layers.\"\n\nMetro, who Ron says has an \"A-list extroverted personality\", is in his element at the easel.\n\n\"I can put out the easel in the field and he will stop eating grass and stand right in front of it.\n\n\"He loves to paint. I'm not sure how much he can see as horses have a blind spot right in front of their noses. I think he likes the feel of running a brush over the canvas.\"\n\nLike Metro, art wasn't Ron's first vocation. Raised in a fishing family that caught salmon in Alaska he went on to serve in the US Air Force. He became a professional artist at the age of 40.\n\n\"I mainly do pet portraits, which are very lifelike and controlled. When I paint with Metro it's the opposite. You can't predict what he's going to do when he gets the brush in his mouth. It's controlled chaos.\"\n\n\"We have different sizes that vary in price from $50 to $500. We're selling one or two a week,\" Ron says.\n\nRon and Wendy donate half of Metro's earnings to a charity called New Vocations, which retrains and rehomes former race horses. So far they have donated $80,000 (£62,000), which will have helped 50 to 60 other horses.\n\nAnd now aged 14, it seems Metro has no inclination to slow down.\n\n\"There's something about painting which really interests Metro,\" Ron says.\n\n\"I don't think he'll ever get tired of it.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nAjax moved to the brink of a first European final in 21 years by overwhelming Lyon in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final.\n\nThe Dutch side led when on-loan Chelsea striker Bertrand Traore glanced in a header, before Kasper Dolberg drove in a second after defensive confusion.\n\nIn an open affair, Amin Younes struck a third via a deflection after the break.\n\nMathieu Valbuena gave Lyon hope by curling in an away goal, but Traore added his second to give Ajax control.\n\nTraore's finish from Hakim Ziyech's cross made the attacking midfielder the first player in Europa League history to assist three goals in a semi-final or final.\n\nHe was central to much of Ajax's good work in a match which was far from a cagey first-leg affair, with the sides sharing 37 shots in all.\n\nLyon, who have never played in a major European final, will now need to overturn a three-goal deficit in the second leg on 11 May if they are to face either Manchester United or Celta Vigo in the final in Stockholm 13 days later.\n\nThe French side were undone by an inswinging free-kick as Traore headed in the opener but their manager, Bruno Genesio, was visibly incensed by the defending for the hosts' second.\n\nGoalkeeper Anthony Lopes lofted a poor clearance which was headed into the path of Dolberg, who raced through to finish with the outside of his foot.\n\nLopes brilliantly denied Younes when one-on-one before the break but could do little when the German's low drive deflected past him and just crossed the line on 49 minutes.\n\nThe crowd inside the Johan Cruyff Arena grew boisterous as their side closed in on a first European final since defeat in the European Cup to Juventus in 1996.\n\nValbuena's calm finish from 18 yards briefly halted the celebrations, only for Traore to restore the three-goal lead.\n• None Attempt missed. Hakim Ziyech (Ajax) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Kenny Tete.\n• None Attempt saved. Hakim Ziyech (Ajax) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Davy Klaassen (Ajax) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Corentin Tolisso (Lyon) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jérémy Morel. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Two entirely different tales emerged from dinner at Downing Street\n\nWelcome to the EU/UK dominated Brexit Galaxy of Spin and Counter-Spin. A crazy old place. The galactic atmosphere is such these days that the dimensions of truth are elastic; at times, distorted.\n\nTake the arguments this weekend over whether the Downing Street dinner last Wednesday at which Theresa May hosted European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was a complete disaster or not.\n\nNot at all, insists Downing Street.\n\nBut it was a fiasco, according to Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and thereafter hitting Twitter and headlines across the UK.\n\nIn Brussels, Politico quotes an EU diplomat saying the dinner went \"badly, really badly\". He reportedly went as far as to claim the British government was now \"living in a different galaxy\" to the EU when it came to Brexit expectations.\n\nThis all seems rather inflammatory, so who's right and who's stretching the truth?\n\nEven French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has been talking Brexit\n\nWell, in this politically volatile pre-Brexit negotiations time, ahead of elections in biggest players UK, Germany and France and with the EU as a whole fighting to appear united, relevant and strong, one has to be extremely spin-aware.\n\nFor example, German Chancellor Angela Merkel talked last week about the UK harbouring Brexit \"illusions\". And French presidential favourite Emmanuel Macron announced he would, post-Brexit, end the bilateral deal by which France keeps in Calais so-called \"illegal migrants\" attempting to cross to Dover.\n\nBut these tough-sounding comments are at least as much aimed at their domestic audience as at the British government.\n\nThat said, a high-level EU source has confirmed to me that feelings were running pretty high following the Downing Street dinner due to what he described as a huge \"asymmetry of expectations\" and a \"completely different reading\" of the Brexit situation at No 10.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May said the report was \"Brussels gossip\"\n\nHe said the British government, from their comments about negotiations, clearly had \"no good understanding of the fundamentals\" around which he said the EU was united, and which would now not be undone.\n\nThere are certainly obvious sticking points where the EU and UK do seem a galaxy or two apart:\n\nPoppycock, says a frustrated EU, to all of the above.\n\nMy source told me Mr Juncker was already vexed when he arrived at No 10 on Wednesday having only just been informed of the UK's (legally justified, but awkward) decision not sign the mid-term review of the EU's multi-annual budget until after the June elections.\n\nThe review needs unanimous approval to go ahead. It doesn't call for more cash but rather its redistribution. The EU is anxious to send money Africa-wards, for example, to halt the flow of migrants coming from there.\n\nBut the review is frozen until the UK signs it.\n\n\"They gave Juncker no warning at all and told him the night before he came to dinner,\" my source told me. \"They have no idea how Brussels works.\"\n\nAnother high-level source I spoke to attended a meeting with all the EU team present at the Downing Street dinner.\n\n\"The word 'échec' (French for 'failure') came up several times,\" he told me.\n\n\"Before that the word wasn't used very often in connection with Brexit but now we're told we have to prepare for the possibility of a failure scenario.\"\n\nWhat percentage chance of a successful outcome was being projected in EU leadership circles at the moment?\n\n\"50/50 with hopes for more clarity after the British elections are over,\" I was told.\n\nOver and again, EU diplomats insist this is no \"us against them\" situation; that there's no desire to punish Britain and that a good Brexit is in everyone's interest.\n\n\"It's in our mutual interest to correct all the misunderstandings,\" I was told today. My source was confident that Downing Street was beginning to realise that now too.\n\nOr are we still in the galaxy of spin?", "Packaged as a self-help manual for the modern working mother, Ivanka Trump's new book, Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success, hit the shelves and shipped from Amazon storerooms on Tuesday.\n\nTo avoid accusations that Ms Trump is taking advantage of her White House platform to sell books, the president's daughter has promised to donate profits to charity and has declined to do any publicity around the release.\n\nReviewers of the book so far have fallen into one of two camps.\n\nIn the minds of some, Ms Trump has taken on a serious tone in her new book, showing an evolution from the young, inexperienced-but-nonetheless-successful businesswoman she was at 27, when she wrote \"The Trump Card\", to a busy - so busy - married mother of three, who also happens to run the Trump empire.\n\nOthers see her new book as stunted by its class biases, which limit Ms Trump's advice to wealthy and powerful women. These reviewers have mocked Ms Trump's lament that she was so busy supporting her father during the 2016 campaign that she could not take time to get a massage or meditate for 20 minutes every morning.\n\nJennifer Senior falls in the latter camp. In her New York Times review, she writes that the entire book elucidates how well Ms Trump can extend the Trump brand at every turn, writing vaguely about controversial topics, so that no one really knows what she thinks about them, and then filling most of the book with aspiration fluff.\n\n\"It's a strawberry milkshake of inspirational quotes,\" Ms Senior writes. \"Lee Iacocca appears two pages before Socrates. Toni Morrison appears one page after Estee Lauder. A quote from Nelson Mandela introduces the section that encourages women to ask for flextime: \"It always seems impossible until it's done.\"\n\nMs Senior's biggest complaint is that Ms Trump leaves her most substantial and practical suggestions to the very end of the book. When it comes to family leave policies, Ms Trump sticks to the views she espoused during her father's presidential campaign, but doesn't get there until the second to last page of her book. To Ms Senior, she is missing an opportunity to advocate for changes that might help the women she is writing for.\n\nFatima Goss Graves writes about the \"women Ivanka ignores\" in US News and World Report, Ms Trump, she says, misunderstands the barriers facing most women in America.\n\n\"No amount of personal drive and sunny approach will ease the life of a mother of two who is struggling to pay her rent and put food on the table,\" Goss Graves writes.\n\n\"The how-to-succeed model in Women Who Work overlooks the complexities of overlapping sex and race bias that drive lower pay and fewer opportunities for many women.\"\n\nCatherine Lucey, writing for the Associated Press, found that Ms Trump \"offers earnest advice for women on advancing in the workplace, balancing family and professional life and seeking personal fulfilment.\"\n\nIn Cosmopolitan magazine, Kaitlin Menza - writing about the excerpt published this week in Forbes - agrees that Ms Trump is trying hard to \"tear down the stereotype that parenting is easy.\"\n\nWhether they read Ms Trump's book as earnest advice or incognito marketing for the Trump name, almost everyone who reviewed Women Who Work agreed that a lot could be gleaned about the inner workings of the Trump family.\n\nMs Trump writes about her family relationships, her work load, caring for her kids, and taking time for herself. She worries about how others may perceive her life as a working mother. And she offers a look into how her father influenced her life, and how she might influence his administration.\n\nAvoid the book if you hate the self-help genre, Maria Puente writes for USA Today. However, she says there are other reasons to read aside from self-improvement:\n\n\"If you're curious about Trump, 35, who's taken an unpaid job as a senior adviser to her father, and how she might influence the Trump administration's attitudes about women,\" she writes. \"you might want to lean in.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nOlympic gold medallist Darren Campbell says a proposal to rewrite the majority of athletics' world records before 2005 would be \"for the greater good\".\n\nThe move, designed to restore trust following doping scandals, has been criticised by British athletes.\n\nHowever, Campbell supports the aim of the plan - even though he could lose his 4x100m European record from 1999.\n\n\"I will sacrifice whatever it takes to save the sport and give its credibility back,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\nCampbell lost his 4x100m relay gold medal from the 2002 European Championships after team-mate Dwain Chambers admitted to taking a banned steroid at the time.\n\n\"I've thought about it, put myself in their shoes of losing a record and yes, I've lost medals and you kind of go, 'OK it's for the greater good'. You have to accept it and move on,\" he said.\n• None Listen to more from Campbell on BBC Radio 5 live\n• None The winners and losers if records are wiped\n\n\"If it's going to save the sport that I love and has given me so many wonderful things, then that's what needs to happen.\n\n\"The punishment has to fit the crime. The level of pain these people put us through - we have to do something.\n\n\"Records are there to be broken and some of those records can't be broken unless you're taking drugs.\"\n\nPaula Radcliffe, who faces losing her 2003 marathon world record, said clean athletes were \"suffering for the actions of cheats\" under the proposals.\n\nShe was supported by Colin Jackson - the 60m indoor hurdles record holder - who told BBC Sport that clean athletes \"are still in the majority and should not be getting caught up in this\".\n\nCampbell, who won Olympic 200m silver in 2000 and 4x100m gold four years later, feels tough decisions have to be made but said the governing bodies must now flesh out the proposal.\n\n\"We need to know how it is going to save the sport. We don't want to end up right back here in 20 years,\" he said.\n\n\"It is radical, it is a recommendation, but tell me how it's going to save the sport? That is the important thing.\"\n\nThe proposal, put forward by European Athletics, would see existing records reassessed against strict criteria in an attempt to make a clean break with the sport's doping scandals.\n\nEuropean Athletics has asked world governing body the IAAF to back its proposals when its council meets in August.", "Last updated on .From the section Baseball\n\nThe Boston Red Sox have apologised to Adam Jones after the Baltimore Orioles outfielder was racially abused by fans.\n\nJones, a five-time All Star, said he had a bag of peanuts thrown at him and was taunted with racist slurs during Baltimore's 5-2 win at Fenway Park.\n\nThe Red Sox said on Tuesday that they have \"zero tolerance for such inexcusable behaviour\".\n\n\"Our entire organisation and our fans are sickened by the conduct of an ignorant few,\" their statement read.\n\nThe Red Sox said they will continue to review Monday's events, while Boston mayor Marty Walsh said the comments are \"not who we are as a city\".\n\nMajor League Baseball commissioner Robert Manfred condemned the abuse, adding that any fans behaving in an offensive fashion would be removed from the stadium and subject to further action.\n\nJones told USA Today he had suffered similar abuse at Fenway Park before, but Monday's was the worst he had experienced.\n\n\"It's unfortunate that people need to resort to those type of epithets to degrade another human being. I'm trying to make a living for myself and for my family,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Debbie Wilson went to court to win back her disability payments.\n\nThe number of people going to court to try to win back a key disability benefit is expected to continue to rise this year, a leaked letter seen by the BBC suggests. We follow one woman who took her case to tribunal.\n\nDebbie Neal was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease 10 years ago. She takes dozens of pills each morning to manage her symptoms - sickness, high blood pressure and seizures.\n\nShe may well need a transplant in future.\n\nFor the moment, she has to empty excess fluid from a tube attached to her stomach, and replace it with new liquid from a bag, five times a day.\n\n\"It is a burden,\" she tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme. \"They say, 'Don't let it affect your life,' but you can only live your life to a point.\n\n\"I can't even remember what it was like not doing it.\"\n\nFive times a day Debbie has to take in liquid via a tube in her stomach\n\nDebbie lives on her own, and works part-time as a cleaner. For years, she has relied on disability living allowance (DLA) benefit payments - worth £80 a week - to help pay the bills.\n\nBut last year a letter came in the post, saying her payments had been stopped completely.\n\nDLA is being replaced by another disability benefit scheme - the personal independence payment (Pip).\n\nDebbie's case had been reassessed by a private company and it was decided she did not need the payments.\n\n\"I was scared. I thought, 'Why are they doing it?'\" she explains.\n\n\"You sort of judge yourself differently. You think, 'Well [my condition] can't be that bad then.'\n\n\"But they can't be right when I'm doing this all the time,\" she says, sitting connected to the bag of fluids.\n\n\"I mean, do they have to do it? How much would it disrupt their life?\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.\n\nThe government says overall it is spending more on disability benefits, and that Pip is a better system based on individual need than the \"outdated\" DLA scheme it replaced.\n\nOfficial figures show more than 250,000 people have lost money in the switch from DLA, some with incurable diseases.\n\nDebbie had been given an indefinite, or \"life\", payment under the old system.\n\nAfter failing to get her case reviewed, she decided to go to a tribunal - in court - to ask a judge to overturn the decision.\n\nThe number of people taking the government to court over Pip has risen sharply in recent years as more people were switched to the new benefit.\n\nThe Victoria Derbyshire programme has seen a leaked letter to tribunal judges - from a senior judge working on benefit tribunals - suggesting the number is expected to increase again this summer.\n\nAround 65% of people who take their case to tribunal are successful, higher than for most other types of benefit.\n\nWhen Debbie's case was heard at Kidderminster Magistrates' Court, she was questioned for around an hour in front of a panel including a judge, a doctor and a disability specialist.\n\nDebbie was awarded the standard daily living element of Pip for 10 years - an unusually long period of time without reassessment. Any money she had lost was backdated.\n\nNew figures seen by the Victoria Derbyshire programme suggest the amount of public money spent on Pip tribunals stands at around £1m a week.\n\nJudges and others who sit on tribunals can lose their jobs if they speak to the media, but some were prepared to talk on the condition of anonymity.\n\n\"As a tribunal member we often have to start again when it comes to appeals,\" said one.\n\n\"We often see people who get nothing at all in the first assessment. Then we end up giving the maximum award possible and just can't understand [the original decision].\n\n\"It's pretty obvious assessors are rushed and they are just copying and pasting answers.\n\n\"Sometimes they don't even change the pronouns, so you get a woman being described as 'he' in the assessment document.\n\n\"Not all are like that but the problem is, if some can't be trusted, then it taints the whole system.\"\n\nThe government says since Pip was introduced, more than 2 million decisions have been made - of these 7% of cases have been appealed against and 3% overturned.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Work and Pensions said: \"We constantly review our processes to make sure they are working in the best way possible.\"\n\nFor Debbie, the whole experience was stressful and nerve-racking, as she puts it, but ultimately she feels it was worthwhile.\n\n\"For people who are out there, who are honest and who need the help, just don't give up,\" she says.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "The Iranian authorities have relaxed rules on internet use during the election campaign\n\nThis is an Iranian election like no other, where the main battles are being fought on social media.\n\nFor the first time candidates, as well as voters, have discovered the power of messaging apps as a way of bypassing state media and reaching out directly to each other.\n\nRather than relying on state television channels to broadcast their campaign rallies, the two front-runners - President Hassan Rouhani and his hard line rival Ebrahim Raisi - have been live-streaming them on Instagram.\n\nAt the touch of a button, anyone with a mobile device has been able to tune in, watch and show their support by adding to the blizzard of likes, hearts and smiley faces streaming across the screen.\n\nThey have also provided constant updates on Telegram, a hugely popular secure messaging app which now has more than 20 million users in Iran.\n\nOn Sunday, the reformist former President, Mohammad Khatami, posted a video message on Telegram urging voters to support Mr Rouhani, who is seeking a second term.\n\nMr Khatami is banned from appearing on state media and the main TV channels do not even show his photograph or mention his name. But his video went viral, reaching millions of Iranians connected via a vast network of Telegram channels.\n\nIn parallel to the presidential poll, local elections are also taking place across the country on Friday.\n\nIn the capital, Tehran, voters used Twitter and Telegram to challenge the official list of reformist candidates.\n\nThey began circulating an alternative list of progressive candidates they said had been forced off the reformist ticket.\n\nThe list caused such a huge stir on social media and prompted some very serious conversations in the reformist camp.\n\nPresident Rouhani is live-streaming his campaign speeches\n\nUnusually in a country where access to many websites and social media platforms is blocked, Telegram and Instagram are freely accessible in Iran.\n\nWhen Telegram first appeared in Iran it was seen as a chat application with limited functionalities.\n\nThe establishment saw it as a relatively safe platform, and it was only when its Russian developers introduced new channel features, and Farsi-speakers began using it in a very different way, that its potential to mobilise millions of people became apparent.\n\nIranians have now created thousands of Telegram channels, and use \"supergroups\" not only to promote their agenda but also to do business and make money.\n\nEbrahim Raisi's supporters are also taking to social media\n\nTelegram is suddenly being taken very seriously by the establishment and in the run up to the election the administrators of some popular channels have been detained.\n\nTwitter is officially blocked in Iran but people use proxies to tweet.\n\nPresident Rouhani and many of his cabinet members have been active on Twitter for the past four years; Mr Raisi hurriedly set up an account just before launching his campaign.\n\nUsually, Twitter conversations that create a buzz then travel to Telegram channels where they can potentially reach a much wider audience. One such conversation discussed demands for gender equality and equal rights for women.\n\nMr Rouhani's campaign team has paid close attention to these conversations and identified keywords to include in his speeches about women, youth and internet freedom.\n\nMr Raisi, a hardliner, is backed by Iran's clerical and security establishment\n\nIn Iran, where free public debate is restricted and access to the media is controlled very closely, election campaigns are a rare opportunity for people from many different walks of life to make their grievances heard.\n\nWhen Mr Rouhani's speeches have been streamed live on Instagram, for example, members of the LGBT community have taken the opportunity to post questions asking him directly about his views on gay marriage.\n\nIt would be unthinkable to ask such questions face-to-face in a public forum.\n\nThe president did not respond to the questions about gay marriage, but he has discussed other taboo issues during the campaign.\n\nMr Rouhani has not responded to questions about his views on gay marriage\n\nMany people were surprised when the president attacked Mr Raisi over the former judge's role in the mass executions of thousands of dissidents in prison at the end of the 1980s.\n\nIt is a dark chapter in recent Iranian history, and one that is usually never mentioned. However, Mr Rouhani's comments prompted a sudden outpouring of heartfelt debate on social media.\n\nThe president also used social media to raise another unmentionable subject - corruption in the Revolutionary Guards. His veiled comments on the issue sparked off a debate online that soon moved offline into the world of everyday conversation.\n\nFor both voters and candidates, social media has also provided a way to bypass state censorship.\n\nMr Rouhani may be the president, but that did not stop state television from cutting parts of his campaign video before it was aired.\n\nWhen the censors chopped out clips showing his supporters chanting the names of detained opposition leaders, Mr Rouhani's team released them on social media, allowing them to be watched by millions.\n\nEbrahim Raisi tweeted: “We intend to open to the youth the gates of senior posts in government.” In response, a woman wrote: “For God's sake, make sure you don't open the gates to 28-year-old prosecutors (like yourself) who would kill other 30 year olds.”\n\nMr Raisi now has an active fan base on Twitter. His hard line supporters steer conversations against Mr Rouhani and get involved in debates in support of their candidate.\n\nBut the president's fans have been fighting back, and Mr Raisi's Twitter account has been trolled by people opposed to his candidacy.\n\nThroughout his campaign, Mr Rouhani has presented himself as an advocate for social media, reminding supporters that he has fought hard to ensure Telegram and Instagram remain unfiltered.\n\nHowever, the role social media has played in mobilising people during this campaign has not gone unnoticed.\n\nInstagram live-streams and Telegram supergroups are clearly a powerful weapon.\n\nWhether access will still be available to Iranians after this election could depend very much on the outcome.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLeicester City owners King Power International have agreed to purchase OH Leuven, the Belgian club says.\n\nThe second-tier club, located just east of capital city Brussels, narrowly avoided relegation this season.\n\nThe club's board set a time limit in its search for investment and said King Power \"was the only bidder who made a clear and coherent proposal\".\n\nIts directors said the deal \"guarantees the future of the club, both financially and in sporting terms\".\n\nOH Leuven were relegated from Belgium's top tier in 2015-16 but said new ownership would provide \"sufficient financial resources to aspire to the earliest possible return\".\n\nIt added King Power - founded by Leicester chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha in 1989 - will fund an expansion of the club's youth system.\n\nThe acquisition will be formally completed when the company has concluded due diligence.\n\nSrivaddhanaprabha is worth an estimated £3.6bn according to Forbes.\n\nThe 58-year-old bought Leicester in 2010, with the club winning promotion to the top flight four years later and claiming the Premier League title in 2015-16.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nTyson Fury's boxing licence will not be reinstated until after his UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) hearing - which promoter Frank Warren fears could be in October.\n\nUkad last week postponed a hearing into the Briton testing positive for a banned substance in February 2015.\n\nFury, 28, had hoped to box in July but the British Boxing Board of Control told BBC Sport he is suspended \"until the matter is dealt with by Ukad\".\n\nUkad, which has not given a timeframe, does not comment on individual cases.\n\nBBBofC general secretary Robert Smith said: \"I haven't seen any new dates yet. I presume they are trying to sort them out with legal advisors but until that hearing, his licence is suspended.\"\n\nWarren described the postponement of the hearing as a \"liberty\" and suggested the government could \"intervene\".\n\n\"Ukad have got a problem,\" said Warren. \"He's entitled to make a living. If he's done wrong then get it over with. How can this be right? Why does it drag on from 2015?\"\n\nFury also faces potential repercussions for refusing to fulfil a later test based on perceived persecution by Ukad.\n\nWarren asserts this took place when the former heavyweight champion of the world was struggling to cope with depression and that when Fury's uncle and trainer called Ukad \"an hour later\", they \"refused to come back\".\n\nFury, 28, and his cousin and fellow heavyweight Hughie Fury, 22, were charged by Ukad in June 2016 as a result of urine tests conducted 14 months earlier which showed traces of nandrolone.\n\nBetween the failed tests and charge, Tyson Fury claimed the WBA, IBF and WBO world titles from Wladimir Klitschko, while Hughie Fury fought four times.\n\nBoth men deny any wrongdoing but their hearing was postponed after over two days when Ukad cited a \"potential conflict of interest\" on its panel.\n\nHughie Fury is still free to compete but Tyson lost his licence in October 2016 as the BBBofC moved \"pending further investigation into anti-doping and medical issues\".\n\nIf the case is dismissed, Warren hopes Fury will fight on 8 July on the undercard of Billy Joe Saunders' WBO middleweight title defence against Avtandil Khurtsidze in London.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFrench Open organisers had \"no grounds to penalise\" Maria Sharapova by denying her a wildcard entry to the tournament, says the Women's Tennis Association.\n\nThe Russian, 30, was ranked too low to gain direct entry as she continues her return from a 15-month drugs ban.\n\nThe French Tennis Federation (FFT) chose not to hand Sharapova a wildcard to \"protect\" the sport's standards.\n\n\"I don't agree with the basis for their decision. She has complied with the sanction,\" said WTA chief Steve Simon.\n\n\"There are no grounds to penalise any player beyond the sanctions set forth in the final decisions resolving these matters.\"\n\nTwo-time French Open winner Sharapova needed a wildcard, which are awarded at the discretion of tournament organisers, to play in either the main draw or the qualifying tournament.\n\nBut on Monday, FFT chief Bernard Giudicelli Ferrandini said: \"There can be a wildcard for the return from injuries - there cannot be a wildcard for the return from doping.\n\n\"I'm very sorry for Maria, very sorry for her fans. They might be very disappointed, she might be very disappointed, but it's my responsibility, my mission, to protect the high standards of the game played without any doubt on the result.\"\n\nShortly after learning of her Roland Garros snub, Sharapova withdrew injured from her second-round Italian Open match against Mirjana Lucic-Baroni.\n\nThe French Open begins on 28 May.\n\nIf you are viewing this page on the BBC News app please click here to vote.\n\nSharapova returned to action without a ranking last month and has since risen to 211 in the world after receiving wildcards in Stuttgart, Madrid and Rome.\n\nThat will be enough to at least earn a qualifying spot at Wimbledon next month.\n\nSharapova needed to reach the semi-finals of the Italian Open to qualify for Wimbledon's main draw but retired in the second round on Tuesday when leading Lucic-Baroni 4-6 6-3 2-1.\n\n\"I apologise for having to withdraw from my match with a left thigh injury,\" she said. \"I will be getting all the necessary examinations to make sure it is not serious.\"\n\nSharapova will now have to wait until 20 June to discover whether she is among the wildcards at the All England Club.\n\nThe former world number one has not played a Grand Slam since she tested positive for heart disease drug meldonium at the 2016 Australian Open.\n\nThat brought an initial two-year ban, later reduced to 15 months after the Court of Arbitration for Sport found she was not an \"intentional doper\".\n\nFormer Wimbledon champion Pat Cash hopes the All England Club will not offer her a Wimbledon wildcard.\n\n\"She certainly should not be getting benefits from the fact that she got caught using an illegal drug,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"I would hope they [Wimbledon] would stay strong and say 'no sorry, you have got to go through and play qualifying'.\"\n\nThe ongoing fight against doping is more important than the line-up for the French Open - that was the message from the French Federation's president.\n\nIt is a brave and principled decision, which will upset some fans and broadcasters. Ratings may suffer, but Roland Garros will ultimately be stronger for it.\n\nHow could the public take the sport's anti-doping message seriously if one of the Grand Slams had invited a player who was not ranked high enough because of time served for a doping offence?\n\nIt is worth noting, though, that the FFT have awarded a qualifying wildcard to Constant Lestienne, a French player who was banned for seven months last autumn for betting on matches.\n\nGuidicelli's argument is that he has \"paid his debt\" - as his wildcard for Roland Garros was rescinded at the last moment last year when he first came under investigation.\n\nSharapova has, in contrast, earned her place in qualifying for Wimbledon, even though injury has now deprived her of the chance to play herself into the main draw.\n\nAnd assuming she is fit, she is likely to want to play at least two warm-up events. The Lawn Tennis Association has already offered her a wildcard into the WTA event in Birmingham. If Sharapova also wants to play the week before, she has Nottingham and the Dutch town of Rosmalen to choose between.\n\nNicole Gibbs, women's world number 117: Not granting a wildcard is not penalising. To suggest it is is disrespectful to anyone respecting the rules and not receiving wildcards to every event.\n\nNicolas Mahut, men's world number 48: Excuse me Mr Simon [WTA chief], but Maria Sharapova is not penalised or sanctioned by the FFT, she is simply not guest.\n\nBen Rothenberg, New York Times: Sharapova's Tuesday: 1) Denied French Open wild card; 2) Injured vs Lucic, retires; 3) Misses out on direct entry to Wimbledon main draw.\n\nJose Morais, GQ Portugal: Roland Garros will have neither Roger Federer, nor Maria Sharapova nor Serena Williams competing for the first time since 1997. Whoa.\n\nDavid James, AFP: Roland Garros double standards? Frenchman Constant Lestienne gets wild card in qualifying despite serving ban for illegal betting.\n\nStuart Fraser, The Times: Sharapova will require around 290 points from grass season (likely Birmingham/Wimbledon) to make US Open main draw (cut on July 17).", "Online sites like Artfinder are enabling artists to market their works to bigger audiences\n\nYou don't have to spend millions of pounds to buy an original piece of art.\n\nIt's no longer just famous names who are selling their works. A growing number of art fairs and online marketplaces mean new artists starting out are also able to reach buyers well beyond their home markets.\n\n\"It's just a crazy time at the moment,\" says Alex Rotter, chairman of post-war and contemporary art at auction house Christie's, apologising for his late call.\n\nWe manage to speak just days before he kicks off the auction house's New York sale of 26 contemporary art works from husband-and-wife property development duo Jerry and Emily Spiegel.\n\nThis kind of single-owner collection \"gathered with one breath\", as Mr Rotter describes it, is rare.\n\nThe sale includes famous works by Christopher Wool and Sigmar Polke. With these two pieces valued at $20m (£15.5m) each, the 26 works are expected to raise $100m in total.\n\nThis Sigmar Polke raster dot painting is expected to sell for $20m\n\nWhile the collection is being sold in New York, the top pieces have already been on a mini-world tour - travelling to Hong Kong, London and Los Angeles in a bid to drum up international interest.\n\n\"If you commit to buying a painting worth thousands of dollars then you want to see it first,\" says Mr Rotter.\n\nGlobal art and antique sales totalled $57bn last year, down 11% on 2015, with the US dominating the marketplace, closely followed by the UK and China.\n\nOn a practical level, this means that delicate and often precious paintings have to travel thousands of miles without being damaged.\n\nThe value of Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with Ermine painting was considered so great that when it was sent from its Polish home to the US, it was reportedly given its own first-class plane seat, as well as an armed guard to make sure it reached its destination intact.\n\nWhile this kind of treatment is exceptional, valuable paintings are typically transported in expensive protective crates complete with detectors to monitor humidity and temperature levels.\n\nPaul West, whose landscapes are inspired by his Dorset roots, has sold several paintings overseas\n\nBritish artist Paul West says that when he secured his first sale through online marketplace Artfinder to a buyer in Australia, his initial reaction was a joyous \"yes\", followed by a sinking realisation that he now had to get the piece there safely.\n\nIn the three years since he joined the website, Mr West has sold around 47 paintings, with almost a third of these to buyers in the US and Australia.\n\nHe recommends lots of bubble wrap and masking tape, and to tape sponge onto the corners.\n\nSo far his worst mishap has been a hold-up at customs, which meant a painting took a month rather than a week to reach its destination.\n\nFor the 52-year-old, selling outside the UK has broadened his opportunities.\n\n\"Access to the global market is a massive plus. I was producing work I was pleased with, but apart from art fairs, it was quite hard to be seen,\" he says.\n\nTop artists may become famous, but most still struggle, says Artfinder founder Jonas Almgren\n\nArtfinder founder and chief executive Jonas Almgren set up the service in 2013. He wanted to provide independent artists such as Mr West, who weren't already represented by a gallery, with a place to sell their work.\n\nThe online marketplace now features artists from 108 countries, with customers similarly global.\n\nOriginally a Silicon Valley software engineer, Mr Almgren subsequently spent a decade working in high-end galleries in New York, where a painting under $10,000 was considered affordable.\n\nHe says his experience taught him that most artists \"just didn't have a chance\" to succeed, and he wanted to change this.\n\nThe firm charges a 30% commission on all sales, and to address the obvious issue that it's hard to buy something so visual online, funds free returns.\n\nLast year the firm sold £5m worth of paintings.\n\nThis year's Affordable Art Fair in London's Hampstead featured a dog portrait booth in response to the rise in demand for professional dog portraiture\n\nThe company has given him an insight into how global tastes differ.\n\nWhile landscape and abstract paintings are popular everywhere, the UK particularly likes paintings of cats and dogs, he says. In contrast, US buyers prefer portraits and typically buy bigger paintings, probably because they tend to have bigger homes.\n\nThe pound's current weakness against the dollar also means that US buyers can afford to spend more on UK art.\n\nBut the most important thing, says Mr Almgren, is that his firm tries to cater for all tastes.\n\n\"A gallery always has a very strong taste. We've taken that model and turned it upside down,\" he says.\n\nRise Art uses technology to offer potential buyers recommendations based on what they've previously liked\n\nRise Art had similar ambitions to shake up the existing market. Set up in 2011, the start-up focuses on online sales, with prices from £200 to £30,000.\n\nWhile online sales remain a small part of the overall global art market - less than 10% - reports suggest it's a growing area.\n\nBut founder and chief executive Scott Phillips admits that no matter how good the virtual images are, an artwork \"always looks better in the flesh\". To help buyers' confidence, the site enables them to rent artworks and live with a piece before committing.\n\nThe firm is much more selective than Artfinder, accepting only 1% to 5% of the artists who apply to sell via the site. Rise Art also charges a higher commission of 40%.\n\nRise Art also holds some \"real world\" exhibitions, such as this one in Hong Kong\n\nMr Phillips says websites like his are part of a new, more sensitive wave of disruptive firms. Unlike eBay and Amazon, which, he says, have commoditised products and been \"a destructive power in some ways\", Rise Art \"celebrates creativity, giving artists a new vehicle for selling and showcasing their work\".\n\nWhile he's cagey on precise numbers, the firm now ships to 40 countries and revenue for the first three months of this year was 110% higher than a year ago.\n\nThe Affordable Art Fair (AAF) has experienced similarly rapid growth. Since starting out in London's Battersea Park in 1999, it now holds fairs in more than 10 cities around the world.\n\nAffordable Art Fair founder Will Ramsay says you don't have to be rich to buy art\n\nFounder Will Ramsay says the motivation behind the business was to prove that \"you don't need to be a squillionaire to buy art\".\n\nWhile prices can be as high as £5,000 for a single painting, the AAF's average selling price in the UK is £600.\n\nThe firm makes its money by charging the galleries for the space they rent at its fairs, as well as through ticket prices and sponsors.\n\nRecently, the firm has started online sales, an area Mr Ramsay sees as complementing the art fairs.\n\nHe owns two televisions - one to watch the video art he has accumulated and the other to watch normal TV. He says the 130 pieces of art he has collected are \"memories through my life\".\n\n\"Don't buy because you think it may go up in value,\" he advises would-be collectors, \"but because you love it and want it on your wall at home.\"", "In our series of letters from African journalists, novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani profiles the lawyer who brokered the release of 82 women captured by Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram.\n\nWhen 57-year-old Zannah Mustapha arrived for the handover of the 82 Chibok girls freed from Boko Haram after three years in captivity, a militant read out the girls' names from a list.\n\nOne by one, the abducted schoolgirls, now women, lined up along the outskirts of a forest near Kumshe town, on the border between Nigeria and Cameroon. Each of them was covered from head to ankle in a dark-coloured hijab.\n\n\"I went ahead of the Red Cross. They [the militants] brought the girls to me,\" said Mr Mustapha, the lawyer from Borno state in north-east Nigeria.\n\nMr Mustapha says the girls started singing for joy when they got into Red Cross vehicles\n\nHe has been mediating between the government and militants for the release of the Chibok girls and for an end to the Boko Haram insurgency.\n\nIn 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari told the media that his government was willing to negotiate with \"credible\" leaders of Boko Haram for the release of the girls.\n\nMore than 200 of them were abducted a year earlier from the north-eastern town of Chibok, sparking global outrage.\n\nPrevious attempts had failed, with different groups coming forward, each claiming to be the militants in possession of the missing schoolgirls.\n\nIt was Mr Mustapha who succeeded in convincing the Nigerian authorities that this particular group should be taken for what they say, presidential spokesman Garba Shehu told me.\n\nThe freed women will now have to rebuild their lives\n\n\"He had dealt with them in the past and they keep to their word,\" he said.\n\nMr Mustapha's role as a mediator dates back to his founding the Future Prowess Islamic Foundation School in 2007, to provide free Islamic-based education to orphans and the poor.\n\nWhen the Boko Haram insurgency erupted in 2009, the school offered admission to the children of soldiers and government officials killed by the militants, as well as those of militants killed by the state.\n\nThe 82 met the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari after they were rescued\n\nMr Mustapha then sought the assistance of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which began providing free meals to the pupils.\n\nHe also encouraged parents to form an association which would reach out to other widows and convince them to send their children to his school.\n\nThe ICRC soon extended its humanitarian services to the mothers, providing them free food and other items every month.\n\n\"This was at a time when the wives of Boko Haram militants were being arrested and their houses demolished, so Boko Haram saw me and the ICRC as neutral parties,\" Mr Mustapha said.\n\nDuring the previous government of President Goodluck Jonathan, former President Olusegun Obasanjo visited Maiduguri, the epicentre of the insurgency, to intervene in the escalating crisis.\n\nHe then set up a group to discuss peace with Boko Haram. Mr Mustapha was included in it because of the relationship he had forged with the families of Boko Haram militants.\n\nAfter the Swiss ambassador to Nigeria paid a visit to the Future Prowess school in 2012, he arranged for Mr Mustapha to go to Zurich and Geneva to receive formal training as a mediator.\n\n\"We were already trying to negotiate peace with Boko Haram before the Chibok girls were kidnapped,\" Mr Mustapha said.\n\nThe initial negotiation was for a batch of 20 Chibok girls to be released.\n\nBut, as a sign of commitment to their relationship, Boko Haram added an extra woman, whom Mr Mustapha said was their gift to him, hence the number 21.\n\nOffice of the First Lady The kidnapping provoked global outrage in 2014 including from Michelle Obama\n\nWhen they were released in October 2016, she was chosen by Boko Haram to read out the names of the other 20 women from a list.\n\nMr Mustapha said the 21 women were lined up and asked by Boko Haram militants if they had been raped. They all said they were not.\n\nWhen a militant approached a woman who was carrying a baby, she said that she was pregnant at the time of her abduction, having got married a few weeks earlier.\n\nThe baby girl in her arms, she said, was her husband's child.\n\nFor some reason, Boko Haram, a group that has cultivated a reputation for brutality, wanted it to be known that it was only after the women \"agreed\" to get married that the militants had sexual relations with them.\n\n\"I felt that I have done something that is worth saying to the world that I have done this,\" Mr Mustapha said.\n\nThis process of lining up the women, pointing at each one and asking the same question, was repeated at the beginning of May when 82 more women were released.\n\nOne of about seven Boko Haram militants, who accompanied them, went from woman to woman asking: \"Throughout the time you were with us, did anyone rape you or touch you?\" Mr Mustapha said, adding that each of them replied in the negative.\n\nNone of the second batch of 82 captives came with a child.\n\nBut one had an amputated limb and was walking with crutches, an injury she sustained, according to what Mr Mustapha was told, during Nigerian military air strikes against Boko Haram.\n\n\"You are free today,\" Mr Mustapha announced to the 82 women after all the names were called out.\n\n\"They all smiled,\" he said.\n\nHe believes that their subdued reaction was as a result of the presence of the militants, all armed with guns, some wearing army camouflage uniforms and boots.\n\nMr Mustapha then took some photographs with the women. The militants also had their video camera on hand and recorded the event. ICRC vehicles eventually arrived.\n\n\"When I told them to go to the cars, they all ran,\" Mr Mustapha said. \"Immediately they entered the vehicles, they started singing for joy. Some shed tears.\"\n\nMr Mustapha has received a number of accolades for his work with Future Prowess School. He was a finalist for the 2016 Robert Burns humanitarian award, given to those who have \"saved, improved or enriched the lives of others or society as a whole, through self-sacrifice, selfless service, hands-on charitable or volunteer work, or other acts\". He was also given a 2017 Aurora Prize Modern Day Hero award, for those whose \"life and actions guarantee the safe existence of others\".\n\nHowever, he described handing over the 82 freed girls to the Nigerian government as \"the highest point in my life\".\n\n\"I felt that I have done something that is worth saying to the world that I have done this,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Zedineks go shopping in Germany, saying the same goods are cheaper and better quality than at home\n\nShould we expect goods in identical packaging to have the same contents?\n\nWhen communism collapsed in Central and Eastern Europe, previously unobtainable goods flooded the market.\n\nToday, the region's shops and supermarkets offer broadly the same food and drink as in the West - a tangible and largely welcome result of global capitalism.\n\nBut something is dawning on Czechs, Slovaks, Poles and Hungarians: the labels might be the same, but the contents might not be.\n\nIn a German supermarket, Czech shopper Petr Zedinek holds up a can of tuna fish and leans in close, a conspiratorial gleam in his eye.\n\n\"A can of tuna fish,\" he says.\n\n\"In the Czech Republic it costs about €1.50.\"\n\n\"The fish here is good quality - whole chunks of it. Nothing like the mush they sell across the border.\"\n\nPetr lobs several tins into one of the two shopping trolleys pushed by him and his 19-year-old daughter Klara. His wife Sarka is nearby. She looks for yoghurt.\n\nPetr steers me to a large refrigerator full of smoked meats. He delves in and retrieves a plastic-wrapped package of sausages to show me the tiny writing on the back.\n\n\"Bockwurst. Look at the percentage of meat.\" I squint at the numbers: 87%.\n\n\"Try finding such sausages with 87% meat in a Czech supermarket,\" he says triumphantly, and tosses several packs into the trolley. I add one for myself.\n\nWe've driven - Petr, Sarka, Klara and I - about 20 minutes from their home in Modlany, a village close to Teplice. We've come to a small supermarket in the German town of Altenberg, just across the border in Saxony. They make the trip about three times a month. When we finish, the boot of Petr's new Skoda Octavia estate is full.\n\nAnd it's not just Petr Zedinek and his family. About half the cars in the car park bear Czech licence plates.\n\nInside, the only language I hear is Czech; the only German-speaker is the cashier. In the 45 minutes we spend shopping, Petr bumps into one old schoolfriend and a Modlany neighbour.\n\n\"It does sound crazy, driving to another country to do your grocery shopping,\" says Sarka Zedinkova.\n\n\"But that's the way it is. And when you compare the products - identical packaging but something completely different hidden inside - I think it's a pretty sad state of affairs,\" she continues.\n\n\"Sometimes it seems to me that we're a kind of garbage can for the producers - what's left over, they send to the Czech Republic.\"\n\nUnder EU law, food companies can adapt their products to local tastes, even if the packaging is the same. In all cases the ingredients have to be clearly labelled.\n\nBut the Zedineks - and hundreds, probably thousands more families - have uncovered what they believe amounts to a conspiracy by some of Europe's food wholesalers.\n\nIt's not just a vague conviction that food in western Europe usually tastes better. They say identical products - sold in the same packaging under the same brand - are of much poorer quality in Central and Eastern Europe.\n\nFood producers are free to adapt their brands to suit local tastes\n\n\"Take this iced tea,\" says Czech Agriculture Minister Marian Jurecka, as he flicks through a PowerPoint presentation on his laptop, in an anteroom in the lower house of parliament.\n\nThe page shows the logo of the sickly-sweet, tea-flavoured drink sold in Europe's supermarkets and petrol stations.\n\n\"The packaging on the bottles is identical. So it looks the same in the Czech Republic and Germany. But the Czech one had 40% less natural tea extract,\" he explains, \"and it was more expensive than the German one\".\n\n\"Or lunchmeat - the tin in Germany looks exactly the same as the Czech tin,\" the minister went on.\n\n\"But the one sold in Germany is made from pork, whereas the Czech one is reconstituted chicken.\"\n\nThe data is from a 2015 comparative study carried out by the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague. Thirty students sniffed, prodded and tasted 24 products - coffee, cheese, margarine, chocolate etc - sold in identical packaging in Germany and the Czech Republic. The foods were then compared in the lab.\n\nEight of the products - 35% - were demonstrably different in either quality or composition.\n\nMinister Jurecka is sceptical about the producers' claim to be catering for different regional tastes.\n\nIt may not be illegal to sell different food under identical packaging. But it is, he says, immoral.\n\nSo he and his colleagues from Slovakia and Hungary are gathering data to take to the European Commission. They want the law to be changed to force producers and distributors to stop the practice.\n\nThe issue has become a priority for the Visegrad group of Central European countries - the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland.\n\nNot everyone believes it worthy of so much attention. One Czech commentator complained recently that while leaders in western Europe were focusing their energies on resolving the Syria conflict, or tackling the migrant crisis, governments in Central Europe were fretting over the nut content of spreads.\n\nSo shouldn't politicians just ignore it and let the market decide?\n\n\"I guess the market is already deciding, with us driving across the border every week,\" says Petr Zedinek.\n\n\"But I think it's right the state should get involved. At least to some extent. To stop the customer being ripped off.\"", "Experts are lining up to say that a laptop ban could make flying more dangerous\n\nAirports, airlines and the government are bracing themselves for a ban on laptops, tablets, cameras and e-readers going as hand luggage on flights between Europe and America.\n\nNo-one is absolutely certain it will happen, but most people I've spoken to assume it's coming.\n\nIn reality, the Americans will just tell everyone what they want and when they want it. I'm told that European governments don't get much say in the matter or much notice of any changes - in fact they're watching the media and Twitter just in case it's sprung on them.\n\nAny ban would hit Heathrow the hardest. Three-quarters of UK flights to the US go from Heathrow. That's 761 planes a week, by far the most from any European airport.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHowever, there is widespread concern that by tackling one threat, terrorism, the Americans could be fuelling another, even more serious problem. Fire.\n\nIf lithium-ion batteries are damaged or short-circuited they make a hell of a bang.\n\nIt could even be enough to bring down a plane.\n\nCaptain John Cox is as knowledgeable as anyone you will meet when it comes to plane fires. The former pilot and member of the Royal Aeronautical Society has studied them for more than a decade and now travels the world advising operators, manufacturers and regulators.\n\n\"Bunching lots of electronic devices together into the same secure box in the hold is the worst possible thing you could do,\" he told me. \"Devices collected together will dramatically increase the ferocity of any fire.\"\n\nAircraft holds do have fire extinguishers and limited oxygen, but that doesn't help when it comes to lithium battery fires.\n\n\"The cargo hold extinguisher will put out the open flame but it will reignite. Lithium battery fires produce their own oxygen as a by-product of thermal runaway, and that keeps the fire going,\" says Mr Cox.\n\nThermal runaway is the process whereby the fire spreads from one battery cell to the next. Once it gets going it's impossible to stop.\n\nAnd the more cells you have bunched together, the bigger the fire.\n\nCatching the fire early and stopping thermal runaway is critical. The best device for doing that remains an old fashioned, well-trained human being.\n\nAirline staff practise what to do: you put the battery into water if you can. Or wet towels. No-one can do that if it's in the hold.\n\nKuwaiti activist Thamer Bourashed stows his laptop in hold baggage before boarding\n\nSteve Landells is the safety expert at the British Airline Pilots Association,\n\n\"Given the risk of fire from these devices when they are damaged or they short circuit, an incident in the cabin would be spotted earlier and this would enable the crew to react quickly before any fire becomes uncontainable,\" he says.\n\n\"If these devices are kept in the hold, the risk is that if a fire occurs the results can be catastrophic; indeed, there have been two crashes where lithium batteries have been cited in the accident reports.\"\n\nMr Cox says that balancing the different risks is complex and needs a thorough assessment from a range of experts. But along with many others in the industry, he's not confident that will happen.\n\nThe feeling is that the people at the US Department for Homeland Security will take their decision in isolation from the safety people at the US Federation Aviation Administration.\n\nThat's what happened when the current laptop ban on some flights from the Middle East was brought in.\n\nPassengers will no doubt support a ban if they are convinced it'll keep them safer.\n\nBut the experts are lining up to say that a laptop ban could make flying more dangerous.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSergio Romero made a series of fine saves as Southampton and Manchester United played out a goalless draw at St Mary's.\n\nSaints should have gone ahead within five minutes when Eric Bailly was adjudged to have handled in the area, but United goalkeeper Romero saved Manolo Gabbiadini's penalty.\n\nBailly's sharp shot was stopped by Fraser Forster, as the United defender created his side's best chance of the first half.\n\nSouthampton forced Romero to make multiple blocks after the break while Anthony Martial hit the post from 25 yards for the visitors.\n\nWith Jose Mourinho's side guaranteed a sixth-place finish before kick-off and one eye firmly on next Wednesday's Europa League final, it always looked like being a sedate affair on the south coast and that is how it turned out.\n\nSouthampton fans have only seen 37 goals at St Mary's this season - only Old Trafford, with 36, has seen fewer Premier League goals in 2016-17.\n\nTheir terrible run in front of goal at St Mary's continued - they have now gone 365 minutes without scoring at home - and suffered yet another miss from the penalty spot.\n\nRomero pulled off a superb low save to stop Gabbiadini's strike, as Southampton missed their third penalty in the past five games.\n\nWith speculation surrounding his future, Puel's nerves would have been eased by a victory to tighten their grip on eighth spot.\n\nHis side host Stoke on the final day of the season on Sunday but could still finish as low as 11th. They are one point ahead of West Brom in ninth and Bournemouth in 10th. Leicester, who are three points behind in 11th, have a game in hand against Tottenham on Thursday.\n\nBut with a League Cup final appearance under his belt, the 55-year-old Puel could have done enough to earn another season at St Mary's.\n\nUnder Sir Alex Ferguson, Manchester United did not finish outside of the top three in the Premier League era, but since his departure in 2013 United have not finished inside the top three.\n\nIt will also be the first time that current boss Mourinho has finished lower than third in his managerial career.\n\nMourinho made clear in recent weeks that his focus is firmly on winning the Europa League and securing Champions League qualification next season.\n\nFollowing consecutive league defeats by Arsenal and Tottenham, he made four changes against Saints and had youngsters Demetri Mitchell and Scott McTominay on the substitutes' bench.\n\nHis side were once again lacklustre against Southampton and they would have slipped to a third consecutive league defeat had it not been for Argentine goalkeeper Romero.\n\nOne downside for Mourinho was that the sight of midfielder Marouane Fellaini limping off after 75 minutes.\n\nDe Gea will play for Man Utd again - Mourinho\n\nWhile Romero will play in goal in the Europa League final, Mourinho also confirmed that third-choice goalkeeper Joel Pereira will make his Premier League debut against Crystal Palace on Sunday.\n\nInjured David de Gea did not travel with the squad to Southampton, but when asked about the Spaniard's future, Mourinho said the 26-year-old will play for the club again.\n\n\"He'll play the first match against LA Galaxy in pre-season in Los Angeles,\" he said.\n\n\"I hope to play Sergio in the final and hopefully we don't have problems with the keepers. David is top of the world and obviously we want to keep the top in the world.\"\n\nWhat they said\n\nSouthampton manager Claude Puel said: \"We can feel shame after this game because we had many opportunities in the second half.\n\n\"We had two different halves - the first one was without intensity and it was very difficult after the penalty because that would have given us the confidence.\n\n\"The second half was interesting as there was quality and many chances without a good reward.\n\n\"But this point is important for us in the table.\"\n\nWhen asked about his future, Puel said: \"I think it's important to stay focused on the last game and to finish strong. After the last game it is normal to have a discussion about the season.\"\n\nOne shot on target for Man Utd - stats you need to know\n• None Manchester United have drawn 15 league games this season - their most ever in a Premier League season and most in a league campaign since 1991-92 (also 15).\n• None Southampton had six shots on target - only Tottenham (seven on Sunday) have had more in a match against Manchester United this season in all competitions.\n• None However, that included a missed penalty which means Saints have now missed their last three Premier League spot kicks, after Dusan Tadic v Hull and Shane Long v Middlesbrough.\n• None Sergio Romero became the eighth different United keeper to save a Premier League penalty, and first since David de Gea against Everton in October 2014.\n• None Southampton have now gone four top-flight home games without a goal for the first time in their history.\n• None Even if United win their remaining game, this will be their lowest tally of wins in a single Premier League season (currently 17). They last had fewer in 1990-91 (16 wins).\n\nSouthampton host Stoke City on the final day of the season on Sunday while Manchester United host Crystal Palace at Old Trafford (both 15:00 BST).\n\nJose Mourinho's side then travel to Stockholm for the Europa League final against Ajax on Wednesday, 24 May (19:45 BST).\n• None Eric Bailly (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Ander Herrera tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Eric Bailly (Manchester United) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Sofiane Boufal (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Dusan Tadic.\n• None Attempt missed. Jay Rodriguez (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Oriol Romeu.\n• None Chris Smalling (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Substitution, Manchester United. Ander Herrera replaces Marouane Fellaini because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Defending champion Andy Murray has been knocked out of the Italian Open in the second round by Italian Fabio Fognini.\n\nThe 30-year-old British world number one, whose victory in Rome last year was one of nine titles he won in 2016, lost 6-2 6-4 to the world number 29.\n\nThe loss continues Murray's poor form ahead of the French Open, which gets under way on 28 May.\n\nMurray's fellow Brit Aljaz Bedene was also knocked out in the second round by world number two Novak Djokovic.\n\nThe Serb, who has never failed to reach the last eight in Rome, dominated the tie-break to win a tight first set but eased through the second to win 7-6 (7-2) 6-2.\n\n\"A little bit of a slow start, but Bedene is the kind of player that gives you good rhythm,\" said Djokovic, who was beaten in the Madrid Open semis by Rafael Nadal last week.\n\n\"I had some good exchanges, some good games with rallies and it felt right, especially in the second set.\"\n\nDjokovic, who received a bye in the first round, faces either Pablo Carreno Busta or Roberto Bautista Agut in round three.\n\nMurray comes unstuck on clay again\n\nMurray, who turned 30 on Monday, continues to struggle for consistency on his return from an elbow injury.\n\nHe has won one event this season - on the hard court in Dubai in February - but has struggled on clay, with his best performance in the four events he has played so far on the surface being his semi-final appearance in Barcelona.\n\nThe Scot was under pressure from the very start, and failed to recover from losing his opening service game as home favourite Fognini swept into a 3-0 lead before closing out the set with a love service.\n\nHe was up against it again as more poor service games left him trailing 4-1.\n\nThere was a brief recovery by Murray as a break and a hold saw him trail 5-4 but Fognini reasserted his dominance to serve out victory and secure his first win over a world number one.\n\nMurray's seventh defeat of the season - and his fifth in the last 10 matches - leaves him very short of confidence and form heading into the French Open.\n\nFognini hit some monster forehands, and some gorgeous drop shots, but at no stage was Murray able to impose his game on the Italian. Many of his groundstrokes were landing in mid-court: there was very little threat or conviction to trouble someone playing as well as Fognini.\n\nIvan Lendl flies to Europe this weekend to bolster Murray's coaching team, and they will all have their work cut out. Murray is currently playing nothing like a world number one, and nothing like a potential French Open champion.", "Jordan Nobbs equalises deep into injury time for Arsenal as they draw 2-2 away against Chelsea in the Women's Super League One Spring Series.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "World number one Andy Murray can find \"no reason\" for his \"struggle\" with form following defeat in the second round of the Italian Open.\n\nThe 30-year-old lost 6-2 6-4 to Fabio Fognini in Rome and has now won one title from eight events in 2017.\n\nThe French Open begins on 28 May but Murray has only reached one semi-final in his last four clay court events.\n\n\"I'm just not playing good tennis and need to try to work out how to turn it around,\" he said. \"I believe I will.\"\n\nHe added: \"The last couple of weeks have definitely been a struggle and a long way from where I'd like to be. There is no reason for it from my end.\n\n\"Movement the last two weeks has not been good. My movement has been a big help, the last couple of years, but certainly the last couple of weeks, that's been a problem.\"\n\nThe Scot insists his difficulties are nothing to do with the pressures of being world number one.\n\nBut he admitted he found it hard to create chances against world number 29 Fognini, as he suffered a fifth defeat in 10 matches.\n\nMurray's last title came in Dubai in February, a contrast to the form he showed in winning five events in a row to end 2016.\n\nHe will arrive in Roland Garros - he was beaten by Novak Djokovic in last year's final - with his run to the semi-final of the Barcelona Open in April as his best return on clay in 2017.\n\nSince that loss to Dominic Thiem, he has gone down to world number 50 Borna Coric at the Madrid Open before a straight sets defeat by Fognini.\n\nIvan Lendl - who coaches Murray on a part-time basis - will join up with the team later this week for the grand slam event in Paris.\n\nAndy Murray will be the world number 1 during Wimbledon, but will have to play exceptionally well if he is to remain at the top come the autumn.\n\nThat is because tennis' ranking system is calculated on an annual basis, with players defending points they won in the same week the previous year.\n\nMurray has shed a significant number of points by losing early in both Madrid and Rome, as last year he was the runner-up in Spain and the champion in Italy.\n\nHe has nearly 4000 points to defend at the French Open, The Queen's Club and Wimbledon, and an even greater number in October and November - the one down side of winning his final five tournaments of 2016.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal ensured the race to finish in the Premier League's top four will go down to the final day of the season with a laboured win against relegated Sunderland.\n\nAlexis Sanchez tapped in Mesut Ozil's square pass to the relief of those inside a sparsely populated Emirates Stadium.\n\nAs Arsenal increased in urgency, Sanchez bundled in Olivier Giroud's cut-back to renew their hopes of a top-four finish for a 21st successive season.\n\nDespite having 36 attempts at goal - the most in a Premier League game since 2003 - the Gunners could not wipe out fourth-placed Liverpool's superior goal difference.\n\nArsenal are a point behind the Reds - who are two goals better off - before Sunday's final matches.\n\nRealistically, Arsene Wenger's men must beat seventh-placed Everton and hope the Reds slip up against relegated Middlesbrough at Anfield.\n\nArsenal finish in the top four if: They win and Liverpool fail to beat Middlesbrough They draw 0-0 or 1-1 and Liverpool lose by three goals or more They earn a score draw of 2-2 and Liverpool lose 2-0 (or they draw 3-3 and Liverpool lose 3-1, and so on) They win, and Manchester City lose - with a minimum five-goal swing in goal difference Liverpool finish in the top four if: They win, or they match or better Arsenal's result But... both sides could also finish level on points, goal difference and goals scored -\n\nArsenal started the evening needing to win - preferably by a big margin - if they were to have any realistic hope of sneaking into the top four.\n\nThey knew defeat against rock-bottom Sunderland, who had managed just three away victories all season, would end their hopes if Manchester City beat West Brom.\n\nAnd with City cruising to a 3-1 win in their game, even a draw would have left Arsenal struggling.\n\nUntil Sanchez's late intervention, it looked as though Wenger's side would be left frustrated by a lack of conviction in front of goal and some stubborn Sunderland defending.\n\nThe Gunners found the breakthrough with 20 minutes left, Granit Xhaka picking out Ozil with a clever chip over the defence that was put back across goal by the German for Sanchez to tap in.\n\nArsenal knew just a draw against Everton on the final day might be enough to catch Liverpool if they wiped out the Reds' superior goal difference, and Wenger urged his side to push for more goals from the touchline.\n\nSanchez was lurking in the six-yard box at the right time to convert Giroud's volleyed pass to double the lead, but despite a late flurry that saw Shkodran Mustafi hit the woodwork the hosts were unable to add to their tally.\n\n\"Sunderland did fight and that's what you want from every team,\" Wenger said.\n\nArsenal have endured a turbulent season blighted by confusion over Wenger's future, protests from supporters demanding change and concerns that Sanchez and Ozil may be sold this summer.\n\nSwathes of empty red seats at a hushed Emirates Stadium illustrated the apathy of some Gunners fans, the subdued atmosphere compounded by Arsenal failing to make their early dominance count.\n\nThe Gunners created 18 efforts in a frustrating first half, only to be let down by wayward finishing and another impressive display by Black Cats goalkeeper Jordan Pickford.\n\nThe 23-year-old boosted his burgeoning reputation with several instinctive saves after the break as Arsenal continued to pile on the pressure before Sanchez's late double.\n\nHowever, creeping past an already-relegated side is unlikely to appease the unhappy Arsenal fans who believe Wenger is not the man to take them forward.\n\nWenger's contract expires at the end of the season and, although the club has offered him a two-year deal, he again refused to answer questions about his future after the match.\n\nSunderland manager David Moyes has endured a miserable debut season with the Black Cats, even agreeing with former England captain Alan Shearer's scathing assessment that the performance of his players in Saturday's defeat against Swansea was \"disgraceful\".\n\nThe Black Cats, who were relegated with four games to go, are likely to undergo major surgery in the summer with many players out of contract and some - notably Pickford and striker Jermain Defoe - likely to be targeted by Premier League clubs.\n\nBut those players who have been heavily criticised did manage to salvage a modicum of pride at Arsenal.\n\nSunderland defended doggedly and even threatened to cause the Gunners some defensive problems, most notably when Didier Ndong and Defoe drew saves from Petr Cech before the break.\n\nAnd the Black Cats were almost gifted the lead at the start of the second half when Nacho Monreal's howler of backpass had to be scooped wide by Cech.\n\nThey could not capitalise on an indirect free-kick inside the Gunners six-yard box as their winless Premier League run at the Emirates extended to a 17th game.\n\n\"We had plenty of shots on goal but we needed to be patient. We were frustrated at half-time not to be leading.\n\n\"We made 71 points and were second. We now have 72 and want to go to 75. After that you deal with what happens.\n\n\"We've got in on the final day many times. Sunderland fought and you want that in the Premier League - that's what you want from every team.\n\n\"We had a difficult patch after the Bayern game because it was difficult to recover. On the other hand it was a good mental test and we responded in a strong way.\"\n\n\"We were full of character and commitment. We made it difficult for Arsenal for long periods and had good chances. We played well but Arsenal had the class to make the difference.\n\n\"Saturday's game against Sunderland was not like I'd seen in the last month or so. Against Arsenal we got a good performance and if we got the first goal it could have been completely different.\n\n\"After I got in in August I didn't think we had a squad capable. But it was what we've got, you have to try and ultimately we were just short.\n\n\"I'll speak with chairman Ellis Short over the next few days. I've given him an indication of what we need to do and we'll look to see if that's possible.\"\n\n\"Alexis Sanchez is priceless, they must not let him go.\n\n\"But it took a long time for Arsenal to get that first goal. If they got that after half an hour then we would have probably had four or five.\"\n\n\"I think Arsene Wenger has been great for them but it's just time to say goodbye.\n\n\"But I think he will sign for another two years.\"\n\nThe final games of the season all kick off on Sunday at 15:00 BST. Arsenal host seventh-placed Everton at Emirates Stadium, while Sunderland wave farewell to the Premier League - for one season at the very least - with a trip to champions Chelsea.\n\nWenger gets the better of Moyes... again\n• None David Moyes has lost 16 times to Arsene Wenger in the Premier League, his most defeats against another manager in the competition\n• None Wenger secured his 20th victory in all competitions against Moyes, more than any other manager he has faced with Arsenal\n• None No side has finished bottom of the Premier League on more occasions than Sunderland (three, level with Nottingham Forest)\n• None Alexis Sanchez has scored six goals in five Premier League games versus Sunderland\n• None Sanchez has been directly involved in 33 Premier League goals this season (23 goals, 10 assists), more than any other player\n• None Since his Premier League debut in September 2013, Mesut Ozil has provided more assists than any other player (41)\n• None Arsenal have never lost a home Premier League match against Sunderland, winning 11 and drawing five\n• None Attempt missed. Fabio Borini (Sunderland) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Adnan Januzaj (Sunderland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Billy Jones.\n• None Shkodran Mustafi (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Adnan Januzaj (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Granit Xhaka with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Nacho Monreal (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Alex Iwobi following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Adnan Januzaj (Sunderland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Didier Ndong.\n• None Attempt saved. Shkodran Mustafi (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Mesut Özil with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Shkodran Mustafi (Arsenal) header from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mesut Özil. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City clinched an emphatic win over West Brom to move back up to third place in the Premier League with one game remaining.\n\nA point in their final game at Watford on Sunday will now be enough to guarantee Pep Guardiola's side a place in the top four and Champions League football, while a win would see them finish third and go straight into the group stage.\n\nThis was as straightforward a victory as City could have anticipated at this stage of the season, as two goals in two first-half minutes put them in control against a Baggies side that lacked ambition and did not seriously threaten until the final stages.\n\nFirst, Sergio Aguero's flick fed Kevin de Bruyne, who burst into the left-hand side of the area before squaring the ball to give Gabriel Jesus an easy tap-in.\n\nOne minute and 46 seconds later it was 2-0, thanks to a brilliant first-time finish from De Bruyne after Aguero's attempt to tee up Jesus was cleared into the Belgian's path on the edge of the area.\n\nYaya Toure made it 3-0 after the break, exchanging passes with Aguero as he marched into the area to slot past Ben Foster.\n• None How Man City could face a play-off against Arsenal or Liverpool\n\nWith the points all but secured by Toure's goal, attention for many City fans switched to Pablo Zabeleta's big send-off.\n\nAfter nine years with City in which he won every domestic trophy, the 32-year-old Argentina defender is leaving the club at the end of the season.\n\nHe started on the bench but the home fans sang his name from kick-off, gave him his first standing ovation of the night in the first half and then exploded into noise when he began warming up.\n\nThe ground rose to applaud him on to the pitch when he replaced David Silva on the hour mark, and then cheered every time he touched the ball.\n\nZabaleta ended the game wearing the captain's armband after Vincent Kompany was substituted and West Brom's belated fightback never threatened to ruin his night.\n\nAfter an emotional farewell speech at the final whistle, when he was joined on the pitch by his wife and young son, Zabaleta was given a guard of honour by his team-mates as he and his family departed down the tunnel.\n\nGabriel Jesus and Sergio Aguero were also strong candidates but the in-form Belgian edged it thanks to his assist for City's first goal and particularly his finish for their second. De Bruyne's form dipped in mid-season but he currently looks near to his best.\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger, who was hoping for a City slip here to allow his team back into the top four, had accused mid-table teams of being \"on holiday\" before the game.\n\nIf those comments were designed to sting the Baggies into life, they did not work.\n\nWest Brom's form has dropped off the proverbial cliff since they beat the Gunners at the Hawthorns at the end of March, and they never looked like reversing it here.\n\nYou could not accuse Tony Pulis' side of not trying at Etihad Stadium, but their effort was mostly defensive - even after they fell behind.\n\nDefeat stretched their winless run to eight games, a run in which they have scored only three goals and picked up two points.\n\nThey also drop one place to ninth - slipping below Southampton on goal difference - and the end of the season can seemingly not come quickly enough for them.\n\n'Maybe we can do better next season' - What they said\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"It is in our hands to finish third so it is the best thing.\n\n\"To finish in front of Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, it means a lot. Maybe next season hopefully we can do better.\"\n\nWest Brom manager Tony Pulis: \"They deserved to win tonight. Once they got their noses in front, they're a difficult team to pull back.\n\n\"The two quick-fire goals killed us. When the third one went in, you're looking down the barrel.\"\n\nStats - City's home comfort but Baggies miss out on record\n• None Manchester City are now unbeaten in their last 12 Premier League home games, their longest run without defeat in the competition since a run of 37 home games from December 2010-December 2012 under Roberto Mancini.\n• None Defeat for West Brom means they will not be able to equal or better their previous best points haul in a Premier League season, which was 49 in 2012-13.\n• None No midfielder has been involved in more Premier League goals than Kevin de Bruyne in 2016-17. His figure of 22 (six goals and 16 assists) is level with Swansea's Gylfi Sigurdsson and Tottenham's Dele Alli.\n• None Gabriel Jesus has now scored six goals and provided assists for a further three in only seven Premier League starts for Manchester City.\n• None The Brazilian is averaging a goal or an assist every 62 minutes in the league this season, the best ratio of any player in the competition (minimum 500 minutes played).\n• None Pablo Zabaleta made his 117th and final Premier League appearance at Etihad Stadium, the most of any outfield player for City.\n\nCity finish their season against Watford at Vicarage Road on Sunday (15:00 BST), at the same time West Brom wrap theirs up with a trip to Wales to play Swansea.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) because of an injury.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 3, West Bromwich Albion 1. Hal Robson-Kanu (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nyom with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernandinho.\n• None Attempt missed. Fernandinho (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Leroy Sané.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fernandinho (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe 24-year-old was sold to the Clarets for £2m in 2015 by then-United manager Louis van Gaal.\n\nHe made his England debut on 22 March this year and is shortlisted for the Professional Footballers' Association young player of the year award.\n\nAny deal for Keane would allow United to activate a 25% sell-on clause from the player's initial transfer.\n\nIf the transfer did go through, it would be the second summer in succession that United would have bought back one of their former academy players following Paul Pogba's world-record £89m return in 2016.\n\nUnited manager Jose Mourinho has identified his defence as an area he wishes to improve in the summer and is expected to make significant changes to his squad.\n\nMourinho's men cannot finish in the Premier League top five after they lost against Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday coupled with Arsenal's 2-0 win against Sunderland two days later.\n\nThe Red Devils have two games remaining, starting with a trip to Southampton on Wednesday before hosting Crystal Palace on Sunday.\n\nStockport-born Keane played in the same 2011 FA Youth Cup-winning side as Pogba and made five senior appearances for United.\n\nHe joined Burnley after spells on loan at Leicester, Derby and Blackburn.\n\nI'm surprised Manchester United got rid of him in the first place.\n\nWe took him on loan at Derby a few years ago when he was 19 or 20 years old. He wasn't physically ready at that stage. He came in as cover for 10 games and was absolutely outstanding. The potential future was there for all to see.\n\nHe was a modern centre-back - he could get a goal from set-pieces and was aerially very good. He could also bring the ball out from the back and step into midfield.\n\nMichael has since cemented a place at Burnley and established himself as a top centre-back.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino says he is committed to staying at the club and has denied reports of a buy-out clause in his contract.\n\nThe 45-year-old Argentine has been in charge at Spurs since joining from Southampton in May 2014 on a five-year deal.\n\nIn May of last year he signed a contract extension which commits him to the club until 2021.\n\n\"There are many rumours, but I am committed with the club,\" he said.\n\n\"There is no reason to leave. I will be here for pre-season. There is no buy-out clause in my contract, I will stay here next season.\"\n\nEarlier in the season, speculation grew that Pochettino was being considered for the soon-to-be vacant manager's job at Barcelona after he met with the club's president.\n\nHowever, ex-Espanyol coach Pochettino later said the position would be \"impossible\" for him to take.\n\n\"I'm an Espanyol supporter - I think then I don't need to speak too much,\" he said, highlighting the rivalry with city neighbours Barca.\n\nSpurs, who on Sunday played their final game at White Hart Lane, are guaranteed to finish second in the Premier League this season, their highest finish since 1963.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nHuddersfield Town beat Sheffield Wednesday on penalties to reach the Championship play-off final.\n\nTerriers keeper Danny Ward saved from Sam Hutchinson and Fernando Forestieri in the shootout to give Town a 4-3 win.\n\nSteven Fletcher put the Owls ahead when he headed home Barry Bannan's cross but the visitors levelled when Collin Quaner's cross was turned in by Nahki Wells via a deflection from Tom Lees.\n\nTown will now face Reading at Wembley for a place in the Premier League.\n\nIt had always looked possible that the tie would go the distance after Sunday's opening leg between the two sides had ended scoreless, with the Owls failing to manage a single shot on target.\n\nDespite losing Ross Wallace to injury early on, the hosts made a bright start to the second leg and sub Adam Reach forced a sharp save from Terriers keeper Danny Ward at his near post.\n\nHowever, Town had the best chance in the first half but Izzy Brown's shot hit the outside of the post after Wells had found the Chelsea loanee with a low cross.\n\nWednesday opened the scoring when Bannan, who was given a far more free role compared to the first game, sent a perfectly-measured cross to the back post where Fletcher rose above Christopher Schindler to head in.\n\nAfter initially being rocked, Town responded well and got a deserved equaliser when Collin Quaner got on the end of a neat ball from Brown and squared a low ball across the face of goal, which Lees inadvertently diverted in to level the tie with 15 minutes to go.\n\nBoth teams had chances to win it in extra time but Wales international Ward saved well from Jordan Rhodes and Wells fired into the side netting after a mishit-shot broke to him.\n\nTown eventually prevailed when Liverpool loanee Ward dived to his right to keep Forestieri's effort out and set up an appearance against the Royals at Wembley on Monday, 29 May.\n\n'Everyone knows Germans are able to win penalties'\n\nHuddersfield Town finished last season with a 5-1 home defeat by Brentford to finish 19th in the second tier.\n\nBoss Wagner, who had joined in November 2015, subsequently carried out a major overhaul of the squad in the summer to bring in players who could execute the pressing game he wanted the side to play.\n\nLoanees Aaron Mooy, Ward and Brown, along with Germany-born imports Chris Lowe, Michael Hefele and Elias Kachunga, have all been integral to the Terriers' success.\n\nWagner, who joked prior to the game that \"everyone knows Germans are able to win penalties\", has maintained all campaign that his team were underdogs for promotion - but they are now just 90 minutes from reaching the Premier League for the first time in their history.\n\nHe said after the game: \"Everyone knows most pundits said we would be in relegation trouble or we'd get relegated and now we're one step away from the Premier League. We are the small dog, the terrier, but we have belief.\n\n\"Now we are in the final the fairytale goes on and we want to write the last chapter at Wembley.\"\n\nWhat next for 'heartbroken' Wednesday?\n\nThis was the second successive season that Sheffield Wednesday had reached the Championship play-offs under Portuguese head coach Carlos Carvalhal, following defeat by Hull City in last season's final.\n\nDespite leading Wednesday to a fourth-place finish this campaign, questions have been raised about his position amid speculation linking former Newcastle and Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew with the club.\n\nCarvalhal said that now was \"not the time\" to discuss his future after what he called a \"heartbreaking\" defeat.\n\nWhen he took over in 2015, Thai owner Dejphon Chansiri said he wanted promotion back to the Premier League within two years and he may now look to make a change in the summer.\n• None Penalty saved! Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Penalty saved! Jack Payne (Huddersfield Town) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, left footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 1(3), Huddersfield Town 1(4). Jack Hunt (Sheffield Wednesday) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 1(2), Huddersfield Town 1(4). Aaron Mooy (Huddersfield Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 1(2), Huddersfield Town 1(3). Kieran Lee (Sheffield Wednesday) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 1(1), Huddersfield Town 1(3). Nahki Wells (Huddersfield Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 1(1), Huddersfield Town 1(2). Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 1, Huddersfield Town 1(2). Michael Hefele (Huddersfield Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Sam Hutchinson (Sheffield Wednesday) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 1, Huddersfield Town 1(1). Chris Löwe (Huddersfield Town) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nahki Wells (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Jordan Rhodes (Sheffield Wednesday) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Barry Bannan with a cross following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Computer giant Apple is expanding its supply line of talented young people with digital skills, by doubling the intake of its European academy.\n\nLast year, the technology company opened an academy in Naples, in Italy, where students spend a year training to be developers, coders, app creators and start-up entrepreneurs.\n\nPlaces are awarded through open competition - with tests being held next month in Munich, Paris, London, Madrid, Rome and Naples - with no tuition fees, open to applicants from anywhere in the world and with courses taught in English.\n\nThere will be 400 students recruited for the autumn, expected to be in the 18 to 30 age range, for courses run in partnership with a Naples university, the University of Federico II.\n\nThe decision for a computer company to move so directly into education is about self-interest as much as philanthropy.\n\nThere has been a long-running digital skills gap - and Apple are taking steps to grow their own talent.\n\nComputer apps, in the space of less than decade, have become a major source of revenue and jobs.\n\nApple says there are now two million apps available on its online store - and that in Europe alone, the app economy sustains 1.2 million jobs.\n\nApple's academy will double its intake to 400 students in the autumn\n\nBut there have been repeated warnings of a mismatch between the digital skills needed for such new jobs and the qualifications of those looking for work.\n\nIt means that unskilled workers are without employment and employers are left without the skilled workers that they need.\n\nIn the UK, the British Chambers of Commerce recently complained that three out of four businesses were suffering from a \"shortage of digital skills\".\n\nThe global \"ransomware\" computer hack last week once again raised concerns about the acute shortage of cyber-security skills in many countries.\n\nThere have been plenty of warnings about this - and IBM's general manager for security, Marc van Zadelhoff, has called for a different approach to recruitment.\n\nIBM has an international network of university partnerships for cyber-security projects.\n\nBut writing in the Harvard Business Review, Mr Van Zadelhoff said filling the skills gap would also mean re-training people without any experience in tech-related areas.\n\nStudents will spend a year in Naples, learning digital skills for the app economy\n\n\"Why are we limiting security positions to people with four-year degrees in computer science, when we desperately need varied skills across so many different industries?\n\n\"Businesses should open themselves up to applicants whose non-traditional backgrounds mean they could bring new ideas to the position and the challenge of improving cyber-security,\" wrote Mr Van Zadelhoff.\n\nThere is also a bigger political dimension to the skills needed for a modern economy - highlighted by the annual Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Skills Outlook, published this month.\n\nThe economic think tank's report for 2017 focuses on the polarising impact of globalisation - which has increasingly become a target for protesters on the right and left.\n\nMore stories from the BBC's Global education series looking at education from an international perspective, and how to get in touch.\n\nYou can join the debate at the BBC's Family & Education News Facebook page.\n\nThe OECD analysis argues that whether a country is a winner or loser from globalisation will depend on the level of skills in the workforce.\n\nIf countries have well-qualified, skilled populations, they will be the beneficiaries of globalisation, taking advantage of better jobs, improved productivity, widening markets and digital industries.\n\nIt identifies South Korea and Poland as examples of countries moving up this value chain - and Estonia, Japan and New Zealand as countries successfully taking advantage of expanding technology sectors.\n\nAmong major economies, Germany is seen as being more successful in developing skills than the United States.\n\nBut the big concern is that across OECD countries there are 200 million people with poor skills in basic literacy and numeracy, deeply vulnerable to the forces of globalisation.\n\nThe global cyber-attack highlighted the need for cyber-security skills\n\nThese are people who have the reading skills of 10-year-olds - whose job chances are acutely at risk from outsourcing overseas or being replaced by technology.\n\nThe OECD report identifies Greece as a country that has failed to respond to this challenge.\n\nBut it also warns that the UK, Australia, Ireland and the United States \"need to watch out\" because the skills in the workforce are no longer \"well aligned\" with the needs of new technology-driven industries.\n\nWhile projects such as Apple's academy are picking the fruit from the top of the tree, the OECD is warning about the dangers of ignoring the reality of life in the low-hanging branches.\n\nAndreas Schleicher, the OECD's education director, says there is an urgent social and political need to equip people with training, if globalisation is going to avoid social division.\n\n\"Don't expect workers to accept losing their jobs through outsourcing or automation, if they don't feel prepared to get or create new ones,\" says Mr Schleicher.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nMaria Sharapova will miss the French Open after tournament officials decided not to give the two-time champion a wildcard.\n\nThe Russian, 30, was ranked too low to gain direct entry as she continues her return from a 15-month drugs ban.\n\n\"There can be a wildcard for the return from injuries - there cannot be a wildcard for the return from doping,\" French Tennis Federation (FFT) chief Bernard Giudicelli Ferrandini said.\n\nThe French Open begins on 28 May.\n\nSharapova had been hoping to receive a wildcard either into the main draw or the qualifying tournament.\n\n\"I'm very sorry for Maria, very sorry for her fans,\" added Giudicelli Ferrandini.\n\n\"They might be very disappointed, she might be very disappointed, but it's my responsibility, my mission, to protect the high standards of the game played without any doubt on the result.\"\n\nShortly after learning of her Roland Garros snub, Sharapova withdrew injured from her second-round Italian Open match against Mirjana Lucic-Baroni.\n\nSharapova returned to action without a ranking last month and has since risen to 211 in the world after receiving wildcards in Stuttgart, Madrid and Rome.\n\nThat will be enough to at least earn a qualifying spot at Wimbledon next month.\n\nSharapova needed to reach the semi-finals of the Italian Open to qualify for Wimbledon's main draw but retired in the second round on Tuesday when leading Lucic-Baroni 4-6 6-3 2-1.\n\n\"I apologise for having to withdraw from my match with a left thigh injury,\" she said. \"I will be getting all the necessary examinations to make sure it is not serious.\"\n\nSharapova will now have to wait until 20 June to discover whether she is among the wildcards at the All England Club.\n\nThe former world number one has not played a Grand Slam since she tested positive for heart disease drug meldonium at the 2016 Australian Open.\n\nThat brought an initial two-year ban, later reduced to 15 months after the Court of Arbitration for Sport found she was not an \"intentional doper\".\n\nThe ongoing fight against doping is more important than the line-up for the French Open - that was the message from the French Federation's president.\n\nIt is a brave and principled decision, which will upset some fans and broadcasters. Ratings may suffer, but Roland Garros will ultimately be stronger for it.\n\nHow could the public take the sport's anti-doping message seriously if one of the Grand Slams had invited a player who was not ranked high enough because of time served for a doping offence?\n\nSharapova has, in contrast, earned her place in qualifying for Wimbledon, even though injury has now deprived her of the chance to play herself into the main draw.\n\nAnd assuming she is fit, she is likely to want to play at least two warm-up events. The Lawn Tennis Association has already offered her a wildcard into the WTA event in Birmingham. If Sharapova also wants to play the week before, she has Nottingham and the Dutch town of Rosmalen to choose between.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManager Walter Mazzarri is to leave Watford after Sunday's final game of the season at home to Manchester City.\n\nThe 55-year-old Italian was in charge of the Hornets, who are 16th in the Premier League, for less than a year.\n\nWatford's next manager will be their ninth in five years and the eighth since the Italian Pozzo family took over the club in 2012.\n\nChairman Scott Duxbury announced the latest exit after the board \"discussed goals and aspirations\" with Mazzarri.\n\n\"It was decided he will be stepping down from his position as the club's head coach,\" said Duxbury.\n\nMonday's 4-3 defeat at champions Chelsea was their fifth loss in a row, although the Hornets avoided relegation and are six points above the drop zone with a game to play.\n\nThe club announced in May 2016 that former Inter Milan boss Mazzarri would become head coach on a three-year deal from 1 July after the departure of Quique Sanchez Flores.\n\nFlores left despite taking the club to the FA Cup semi-finals and comfortably retaining their Premier League status, while Slavisa Jokanovic exited a year earlier after leading Watford into the top flight.\n\nMazzarri, who guided Napoli to the 2012 Coppa Italia title and runners-up spot in the 2013 Serie A, won 11 of his 37 Premier League matches at Watford.\n\nThe Italian, who conducted his press conferences through an interpreter, was hampered by injuries to key players but certain sections of the supporters did not warm to him.\n\nPopular club captain Troy Deeney had been relegated to the bench in recent weeks, and there were reports of player unrest.\n\nFormer Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri and Hull City's Marco Silva are the early bookmakers' favourites to replace Mazzarri.\n\nThere have been problems rumbling at Watford all season with Mazzarri in charge and it was just a question of when it would come to a head.\n\nThese have included training issues (players undercooked pre-season, overcooked towards the end of the season) causing unrest in the squad and possibly the reason for long-term injuries to five or six current key players.\n\nHis relationship with skipper Troy Deeney has appeared strained for most of the season with the influential captain dropped three times in the past two months.\n\nThere seems to have been unhappiness within the squad with the tactics, formations and philosophy of the 'old school' boss. It certainly appeared Mazzarri had 'lost' the dressing room weeks ago.\n\nHis lack of English has irritated the club, fans, media and players with instructions on the training ground and in games via interpreters.\n\nWhen the bad run came, Mazzarri had little or no support anywhere around the club. The inevitable has occurred.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal all face a possible play-off to determine qualification for next season's Champions League.\n\nThe three clubs, occupying third to fifth place in the Premier League, are separated by three points going into Sunday's final round of games.\n\nBut their goal difference, and goals scored, are similar enough to raise the prospect of two teams finishing joint third or fourth with identical records - necessitating a one-off play-off match.\n\nHowever, bookmakers are clearly not convinced. Of three possible scenarios where a play-off would be required, the one with shortest odds is around 595-1.\n\nThe top three teams qualify directly for the Champions League group stage, with the fourth-placed side entering at the preceding play-off round, while the fifth-placed side will enter the Europa League.\n• None Select your Premier League team of the season\n• None Quiz: How well do you remember this season?\n\nHow do they stand at the moment?\n\nPremier League rules state: \"If at the end of the season either the league champions or the clubs to be relegated or the question of qualification for other competitions cannot be determined because two or more clubs are equal on points, goal difference and goals scored, the clubs concerned shall play off one or more deciding league matches on neutral grounds, the format, venue and timing of which shall be determined by the board.\"\n\nLast season, there was a chance that Liverpool and West Ham could have finished with identical records with a Europa League place at stake.\n\nSo, how could it all happen?\n\nThis would require a high-scoring draw for City at Watford, while Liverpool give relegated Middlesbrough a thumping at Anfield.\n\nFor instance, a 3-3 draw for City and a 3-0 win for Liverpool would produce this scenario, with the teams tied for third place (and that Champions League group stage place):\n\nThe sides would also be locked together with identical records if City drew 4-4 and Liverpool won 4-1, and so on.\n\nHowever, Arsenal cannot affect this scenario - even by winning, they could finish no higher than fifth.\n\nBy contrast, a heavy defeat for City raises the spectre of finishing level on points with Arsenal.\n\nIf City were to lose 4-0 at Vicarage Road, and Arsenal to sneak home 1-0 against Everton, the sides would finish like this:\n\nThe same permutation would be reached if City lost 5-1 and Arsenal won 2-1 - you get the picture.\n\nWhat makes this scenario even more complicated is that it could produce a third/fourth place play-off if Liverpool fail to beat Middlesbrough - or a fourth/fifth place play-off if the Reds win at Anfield.\n\nThe final scenario would leave Liverpool and Arsenal fighting for fourth place on the most perilous of knife-edges since they battled for the title on the final day of the 1988-89 season.\n\nIf Arsenal draw 1-1 with Everton and Liverpool lose 2-0 to Middlesbrough, this is how they would finish tied for fourth:\n\nOther combinations of results which would leave the sides level would be a 2-2 Arsenal draw coupled with a 3-1 Liverpool defeat, or a 3-3 Arsenal draw if goal-shy Boro win 4-2 at Anfield, and so on.\n\nThe good news for Manchester City fans is that under this third scenario, they would finish third, whatever their result at Watford, and clinch that cherished Champions League group stage place.\n• None Predict the final day's results with our Premier League Predictor", "Mohammad Amin, or Meeno, died after being arrested at a party in Saudi Arabia\n\nMohammad Amin was a family man, with a wife, four sons and five daughters.\n\nBut on 26 February, a contingent of Saudi police who broke up a party of transgender Pakistanis in Riyadh found him in women's clothes, wearing jewellery and make-up, and being addressed by others as Meeno Baji - the last name a customary title for an elder sister.\n\nCross-dressing is not tolerated in Saudi Arabia, so Mohammad and 34 others were rounded up and thrown in Azizia prison.\n\nMohammad died that night. Pakistani activists say he was beaten by policemen with clubs and hosepipes, causing his chronic heart condition to deteriorate.\n\nThe Saudi authorities were quick to deny the allegations of mistreatment, saying he had a heart attack in custody. Pakistani officials followed suit by accusing him of indulging in \"illegal and immoral activities\".\n\nBut Meeno's family, friends and some transgender rights activists paint a different picture of the person, and the events of that last night in Riyadh.\n\nMeeno was born Mohammad Amin in Barikot town in Swat in 1957 to a family of tenant farmers. He had three brothers and four sisters.\n\nAt some point during his adolescent years he became a ladies' tailor with a shop in Barikot.\n\nMohammad Amin worked as a tailor for many years\n\nBut unlike most transgender women from Pakistan's rural hinterland who seek anonymity by leaving home, Mohammad stuck with his family.\n\nHe married a woman from his tribe in the mid-1980s and a decade later he left for Saudi Arabia on a work visa as a ladies' tailor - a job he held for most of the rest of his life.\n\nWe can only guess at his real sexual identity. Social taboos prevent his family and childhood friends from speaking openly.\n\nWe know, however, that apart from tailoring, Meeno's favourite pastime was to hang out with the area's trans women who lived together and earned a living by dancing at wedding parties or occasional prostitution.\n\nThese activities led to discussions at home.\n\n\"He was not a 'moorata' [local slang for trans woman], but he did keep their company which created occasional tensions in the family,\" says his eldest son, Sar Zameen, who is married with children and also works in Saudi Arabia, as a driver.\n\n\"His parents and siblings reprimanded him; we, his children, boycotted him for a while; my mother would argue with him often.\n\n\"We would tell him that you are giving everyone a bad name; say your prayers. But he would say he couldn't give up his friends. He was not an angry man, but such talk at home often landed him in a bad mood.\"\n\nSar Zameen speaks fondly of his father but says parts of his life remain a mystery\n\nDespite this, Sar Zameen remembers his father as a kind and loving person. He put Sar Zameen in an expensive school before he travelled to Saudi Arabia, at a time when he did not have much income.\n\nHe also kept the house well supplied, and was often around to offer financial support when relatives or neighbours stumbled on bad luck.\n\nThe family's only complaint, says Sar Zameen, was that \"he never told us how much money he had, though many of his friends knew\".\n\nOne of those friends, a local transgender woman called Spogmai (not her real name), shines some light on this.\n\n\"Meeno spent a lot of money on looking fresh and attractive,\" she said.\n\n\"She got an expensive facelift done at a clinic in Rawalpindi, and also took a dozen skin-whitening injections. Besides, she had several laser hair removal jobs done on her face and body. She was a beauty.\"\n\nFarzana Jan, a trans woman who works with a Peshawar-based transgender rights group, Blue Veins, met Meeno in the late 1990s during the latter's first trip home from Saudi Arabia.\n\nFarzana Jan was a dancer then, years before she became a rights activist.\n\n\"Meeno came to see me with three other friends. They were in men's clothes but their clean faces, manicured hands and made-up eyebrows gave them away. They were all from rural Swat, mostly tailors.\n\n\"They had brought me some gifts. Meeno introduced herself and said Ibrahim Ustad [a locally well-known trans woman who kept an open house for the transgender community in Swat's main city, Mingora] was her guru [guardian, in the transgender community].\n\n\"They had heard that there was a new dancer on the Peshawar circuit, and so they had come to see me. They wanted me to dance for them. When they were leaving, Meeno promised that when she came the next time, she would bring me some fine maxi dresses.\"\n\nMeeno brought Farzana Jan many precious gifts on her subsequent visits, she says.\n\nFarzana Jan, a transgender rights activist, first met Meeno in the late 1990s\n\nThose who knew Meeno more intimately say she had another, more secret life which others could guess at but never found out about for sure.\n\nSpogmai said that Meeno had a 30-year love affair with a man from her native town, until that man died in 2008.\n\n\"Gul Bacha [not his real name] was a 'real' man, with a family of his own, but they were both in love with each other,\" she says.\n\nThey went to Saudi Arabia together, and lived together in Riyadh. When Gul died of heart failure in 2008, Meeno accompanied his body to Barikot and then did not return to Saudi Arabia for several years.\n\nA year after Gul's death, Meeno, then 54, was diagnosed with a heart condition, unusual in a family known for longevity.\n\nSpogmai believes Meeno took Gul's loss to heart and that, even though it was not apparent, Meeno's double life was taking its toll on her health.\n\nDuring those years, Meeno would spend a lot of time with her transgender friends.\n\n\"We had a niche for ourselves in a photographer's shop in Barikot bazaar. Or sometimes I would call her over to our place in Mingora,\" she said.\n\n\"All friends would sit together and chat or have singing sessions. Her health had taken away her voice. She could no longer sing as well as she used to, but she would try.\"\n\nMeeno tried to keep herself busy tailoring clothes at home. Two of her sons were in Saudi Arabia, which meant family money was still coming in.\n\nBut then she couldn't take life at home any more - she felt she would be more at peace with herself if she went abroad, says Spogmai. She departed in 2013.\n\nSpogmai says that in Riyadh Meeno tried some relationships, but none succeeded. When she came back to Pakistan on her last trip in the autumn of 2015, she told her friends jokingly: \"Your mother remarried, but the guy was not man enough, so we divorced.\"\n\nShe told them there was someone else she had her eye on, though. \"She told us, 'your mother will soon marry again'. 'In which lane this time,' we would quip back, suggesting she had a potential lover in every street of the town.\"\n\nIn February 2016, Meeno headed back to Riyadh for what turned out to be the last time.\n\nFarzana Jan, who is popular with the transgender community because of her social work, was kept in the loop by a transgender group who were planning a birthday party for one of the \"sisters\" at a guesthouse in Riyadh on 26 February 2017.\n\nOn 24 February, she received a call. \"The birthday girl and another one were planning to adopt Meeno as their mother at the party and there was confusion over rituals. They wanted my advice,\" she says.\n\n\"They were not planning any music or dance, but some of them did wear women's clothing and jewellery and make-up.\"\n\nFarzana Jan was alerted by text message to the arrests in Riyadh\n\nBut then came terrible news. At about 0300 on 27 February, Farzana Jan was awoken by a WhatsApp message from an unidentified caller. It contained a number of pictures of people, some in dresses, their eyes blanked with a pink marker.\n\n\"I was puzzled. I replied, asking who this was, and who were the people in those pictures. I then received a voice message stating who the people were and what had happened. I looked at the pictures again, and the faces started to become alive and familiar…\"\n\nA Riyadh-based newspaper carried a report of the arrests, but it was Farzana Jan who came out with the claim that the police had tortured everyone at the party and that at least two of them, including Meeno, had been bundled into hessian sacks and beaten with clubs.\n\nAccording to initial reports provided to Farzana Jan by her contacts in Riyadh, both had died, though no evidence of a second body ever emerged.\n\nOnly Meeno's body was shipped back to Pakistan, in the second week of March.\n\nSome transgender rights activists who have been calling for Islamabad to lodge a protest with Riyadh advised Meeno's family to allow a post-mortem of the body in Pakistan but the family refused, thereby foregoing crucial medical evidence.\n\nOne of those activists, Qamar Naseem of Blue Veins, received the body at Islamabad airport and says he had a chance to open the casket and look at Meeno's face.\n\n\"Her teeth were broken and a part of the torn upper gum was hanging loose in her mouth. I took some pictures of the face.\"\n\nBut in the absence of a post-mortem report, that has not impressed the authorities.\n\nMeanwhile, the Pakistani Senate has responded to pressure from activists to form a committee to liaise with the Saudi authorities and establish how Meeno died.\n\nBut few expect a positive outcome - the two states have a \"special relationship\" that harbours no embarrassing spats over citizen's rights.\n\nThe facts of Meeno's death may never fully be known.\n\nBut what is clear is she spent her life torn between the necessity of being Mohammad Amin, the husband and father, and an enduring urge to be her other self.", "Canadian star Drake listed seven co-writers on his hit single One Dance\n\nFor decades, songwriting duos dominated popular music: Lennon and McCartney; Jagger and Richards; Benny and Bjorn.\n\nA new study by Music Week magazine shows it now takes an average of 4.53 writers to create a hit single.\n\nThe publication analysed the 100 biggest singles of 2016, and found that only four were credited to a single artist - Mike Posner's I Took A Pill In Ibiza, Calvin Harris's My Way; and two separate hits by rock band Twenty One Pilots.\n\nTen years ago, the average number of writers on a hit single was 3.52, and 14 of the year's top 100 songs were credited to one person, including Amy Winehouse's Rehab and Arctic Monkeys' When The Sun Goes Down.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amy Winehouse performs Rehab on Later... with Jools Holland in 2006\n\nThe best-selling song of 2016, Drake's One Dance, needed eight writers - but even that pales into insignificance compared to Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk, which took 13 people to create, leading Paul Gambaccini to brand it \"the most written song in history\".\n\nEven solo singer-songwriters like Adele, Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran, whose identities are deeply ingrained into their music, lean on co-writers; while rock band U2 have been working with hitmakers like Ryan Tedder, Paul Epworth and will.i.am on their new record, Songs of Experience.\n\nSo why is this happening? Are songwriters increasingly lazy or lacking in talent? Or are they second-guessing themselves in the search for a hit?\n\nJust a few of the writers credited on Uptown Funk\n\nAccording to Mike Smith, managing director of music publishers Warner/Chappell UK, it is simply that the business of making music has changed.\n\n\"Think back 20 years and an artist would take at least two or three albums to really hone their craft as a songwriter,\" he told Music Week.\n\n\"There is a need to fast-forward that process [which means record labels will] bring in professional songwriters, put them in with artists and try to bring them through a lot faster.\"\n\nSwedish star Tove Lo, who wrote tracks for Girls Aloud and Icona Pop before launching her own career, says \"writing camps\" helped her find her voice as a songwriter.\n\n\"Before I signed to Warner Chappell as a songwriter, I wrote by myself and I produced myself,\" she told the BBC. \"But I learned a lot from working with producers who had more of an idea.\n\n\"I was always so focused on melody and lyrics. And most of the songs I've written by myself - like Habits - are three chords the whole way through.\n\n\"But the build-ups and dynamics, I didn't really know how to get there production wise. The Struts, who produced [my first] EP, they're really good at the dynamics. When I started working with them, I learned how to get that feeling.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MNEK explains how he made his new single At Night (I Think About You)\n\nWriting camps are where the music industry puts the infinite monkey theorem to the test, detaining dozens of producers, musicians and \"top-liners\" (melody writers) and forcing them to create an endless array of songs, usually for a specific artist.\n\n\"They love to give you a bit of a brief, like, 'This song should be uptempo, sassy, girl-meets-guy,'\" says British singer Dyo, a veteran of camps for X Factor contestants, who is up for an Ivor Novello award this week for her hit single Sexual.\n\n\"But I just ignore briefs. Briefs are corny. Everyone wants to write good songs. I'm all for writing good songs.\"\n\nPop singer RAYE, whose writing credits include Charli XCX and Jax Jones, adds: \"Some writing camps are very weird and factory-like.\n\n\"I remember the Rihanna writing camp - they booked out a massive studio, and they'd have a writer in each room, trying to churn out as many songs as they could.\n\n\"They're quite weird. There's a lot of pressure - but you do get songs.\"\n\nSynth-pop band Chvrches avoided the temptation to work with co-writers\n\nAll this unfettered creativity sounds idyllic, but there is a downside. If you have 13 writers on a song, each of them gets a slice of the royalties when it's purchased or played. And the money doesn't get shared equally, which means lesser-known writers who contribute a line or a lick to a hit song may only get 1% of the profits.\n\nAnd then there's the issue of homogenisation. If the world's biggest artists all employ the same writers, could your dad actually be right when he claims \"all music sounds the same these days\"?\n\n\"People don't make albums any more,\" synth player Iain Cook told BBC News in 2015. \"They make 11, 12 songs, and they put them out as an album but they feel like a greatest hits, or a playlist.\n\n\"And maybe out of those 10 or 11 songs, those co-writes that you do, there's a global number one. But it's not yours.\"\n\nSinger Lauren Mayberry added: \"When I listen to our record, I listen to it and think, 'that has a strong identity.'\n\n\"That's something you can't say when it's a record full of co-writes. I think that would just dilute the identity of it.\"\n\nBeyonce manages to create a sense of ownership, even when she collaborates with dozens of writers\n\nCrucially, an artist needs to stamp their identity on those writing sessions - a skill Beyonce perfected on her last two albums, which are intimate and autobiographical despite the huge volume of contributors.\n\nBritish songwriter MNEK, who is one of 13 people credited on Beyonce's hit single Hold Up, says the song is essentially a Frankenstein's Monster, stitched together from dozens of demos.\n\n\"She played me the chorus,\" he told the BBC last year. \"Then I came back here [to my studio] and recorded all the ideas I had for the song.\n\n\"Beyonce snipped out the pieces she really liked and the end result was this really great, complete song.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Relations between Switzerland and Germany have been damaged by the Daniel M row\n\nThe story could be straight out of a Graham Greene novel, or a James Bond film.\n\nThe case of Daniel M, a Swiss man arrested by the Germans on charges of spying, has focused attention in Switzerland on the activities of the Swiss intelligence services, the banks and the often awkward relationship between Switzerland and Germany.\n\nDaniel M, now detained in Mannheim in south-west Germany, was once a police officer in Zurich, then a security specialist for Swiss banking giant UBS and finally, it is alleged, a spy for the Swiss Federal Intelligence Service (FIS).\n\nDuring the years of Daniel M's multifaceted career, Germany watched with growing irritation as its citizens squirreled their savings away in Swiss banks, in effect - thanks to Switzerland's famed banking secrecy laws - hiding their money from the German tax authorities.\n\nAt the same time, the Swiss government, faced with globalisation, and Switzerland's need to have good trading relations with the European Union, began to realise that banking secrecy was no longer the economic advantage it may once have been.\n\nMethodically but very, very slowly, the Swiss government began to dismantle banking secrecy. New laws on money laundering - among the world's strictest - were approved and tax disclosure agreements were discussed with European neighbours.\n\nAll the while the Swiss banks delayed and objected and Germany ratcheted up the pressure.\n\nIn 2009, Peer Steinbrück, the then German finance minister, warned that if the Swiss did not behave, Germany might have to \"send in the cavalry\".\n\nNothing could have been calculated to more infuriate the neutral Swiss, who insisted they would not be cowed by threats from what the Swiss sometimes call \"the big canton to the north\".\n\nGermany's ambassador to Berne was swiftly summoned for a dressing-down.\n\nBut the process of killing off banking secrecy continued, helped by massive losses for big banks UBS and Credit Suisse in the 2008-2009 sub-prime mortgage crisis.\n\nThere were also suggestions that those same banks were still aiding and abetting tax evasion, advising clients to invest in artwork or precious stones to disguise cash and even suggesting they hide diamonds in tubes of toothpaste.\n\nDaniel M had previously worked as a security specialist for Swiss banking giant UBS\n\nMeanwhile, Germany, impatient for its lost tax revenue, began to buy client information which had been stolen from Swiss banks.\n\nThe state of North Rhine-Westphalia alone has spent millions of euros on at least 11 CDs containing information on German citizens with Swiss bank accounts.\n\nAgain, this infuriated the Swiss. Government ministers painstakingly shepherding banking reform through parliament were angry that Germany - instead of waiting for the promised agreement on sharing banking information - had, in effect, walked in and helped itself.\n\nFor some, it looked as if Mr Steinbrück's cavalry had actually charged.\n\nAt some point, Switzerland's intelligence chiefs seem to have concluded that the Germans had gone far enough and decided to investigate the theft of data from Swiss banks.\n\nWho had stolen it, who was selling it and who was buying it on behalf of Germany?\n\nThe intelligence service turned to Daniel M, now no longer working for UBS, because - and here is the bizarre twist - he was suspected of dealing with the Germans in stolen banking data.\n\nLong before his arrest in Frankfurt, Daniel M had already been arrested in Zurich as part of an investigation into the theft of bank data.\n\nWhat happened during that arrest? Was Daniel M \"turned\" by the Swiss authorities?\n\nSwiss defence minister Guy Parmelin said there had been no contact between Daniel M and the intelligence service \"since 2014\"\n\nThe details are murky, but the Germans allege that, between at least 2012 and 2015, Daniel M - armed with 90,000 euros (£76,000) in cash and a prepaid mobile phone - was spying in Germany, hoping to bribe German officials for information, and even trying to plant a mole in North Rhine-Westphalia's finance ministry.\n\nIronically, it appears the Swiss attorney general's office - which had not closed its case on Daniel M - actually gave Germany the information which led to his arrest in Frankfurt on 28 April.\n\nMeanwhile, FIS, the agency which is supposed to know everything, knew nothing until the arrest became public.\n\nNow it was Germany's turn to be outraged, and Switzerland's ambassador to Berlin's turn to face criticism.\n\nSwiss government ministers were once again squirming with frustration and embarrassment. While FIS chief Markus Seiler refused to confirm or deny Daniel M was an agent, Switzerland's defence minister Guy Parmelin told Swiss media there had been no contact between Daniel M and the intelligence service \"since 2014\".\n\nNow the case will end up in the courts. Daniel M has hired a high-profile Zurich lawyer, who has demanded that FIS contribute to his client's legal costs.\n\nFIS has not responded, leaving the lawyer to threaten that if Daniel M is \"hung out to dry\" by his former bosses in the intelligence service, he may use his court appearance to sing like a canary.\n\nMuch more intrigue and drama is predicted, and relations between Germany and Switzerland, always a trifle sensitive, are on tenterhooks.\n\nThe Blick newspaper rejected claims that the affair is \"old news\", insisting \"No way, minister!\"\n\nBut meanwhile the everyday business between the two neighbours continues.\n\nSwitzerland and Germany actually signed that tax disclosure agreement back in 2015: there is no longer any point in stealing banking data, or spying on those who might buy it.\n\nThe Swiss foreign minister Didier Burkhalter has suggested the spy scandal is an \"old story\" that should be forgotten. \"No way, minister!\" responded mass circulation Blick newspaper in a furious editorial.\n\nSome ask whether their intelligence services were just bumblingly incompetent, or whether they could have been serving the interests of the banks even as elected officials strove to regulate them.\n\nOthers, remembering that the Tunisian extremist responsible for Berlin's Christmas market attack in which 12 people died, had both a gun bought in Switzerland and a Swiss mobile, are asking why FIS does not concentrate on the more important matter of combating terrorism.\n\nThe whole affair is now likely to be the subject of a parliamentary inquiry.", "My correspondence with Ian Brady began with a simple question: are you going to apply for parole?\n\nGiven that he and Myra Hindley had committed the most shocking crimes of modern times, it was hard to imagine either of them would ever be released.\n\nThe public would surely never accept that they were reformed characters who had paid their debt to society.\n\nYet by 1985, the Moors Murderers had been behind bars for almost 20 years. Time was passing, and perhaps memories would start to fade.\n\nSo the question of parole was not an idle enquiry. The families of the children they killed were becoming anxious about the possibility that one day they might be free to walk the streets again.\n\nMyra Hindley had already begun a long and ultimately futile attempt to win her freedom. She tried in vain to persuade a disbelieving world that she had been coerced into the crimes by Brady.\n\nThe sullen face of the peroxide blonde, captured in the famous police photograph, continued to stare out from the pages of the tabloid newspapers as each twist of the story was reported.\n\n\"She is a good woman,\" Lord Longford told me more than once, as he tried to advance her case for release. A more unpopular cause to champion, it would be hard to imagine.\n\nShe was without doubt the most hated woman in Britain. Hindley died in prison in 2002, still dreaming of freedom. But back in 1985, little had been heard from Brady, and we could only guess at his intentions. Intrigued, I wrote to him and asked him if he was planning to apply for parole.\n\nI did not expect a reply, so the arrival of a letter from Gartree Prison, from prisoner number 605217, came as a shock. As I held it in my hands, unopened, all my memories of the Moors Murders came flooding back.\n\nMerely to mention Brady's name was enough to make anyone alive in the 1960s shudder with horror. He and Hindley abducted and killed their young victims and buried four of them on the bleak moors, high above Manchester.\n\nI began my career as a journalist in the North West around that time, and needed no reminding of the story.\n\nThe sight of police officers digging, searching for bodies, became an indelible memory for my generation. Along with the smiling faces of the children, captured in family snapshots, and the black and white police photographs of their killers - these images were burned into our minds.\n\nFew crimes have caused such revulsion, or cast such a long shadow. To many people, Ian Brady was the epitome of evil, a sadist who killed without conscience. If anything, his accomplice Myra Hindley was judged even more harshly, simply because she was a woman.\n\nSo with all this in my mind, I felt uneasy as I opened the letter. It was short and came straight to the point:\n\n\"My position on parole has not altered. I take no part in the annual circus and never shall. It has always been my intention to choose the time and manner of my own death in prison. All I have sought in my twenty years in prison is an active, positive life - unsuccessfully.\"\n\nBrady later told me he had been given a form to apply for parole, but had refused to sign it. When members of the parole review committee asked to see him, he said he would not talk to them. Brady thought the process was \"a political farce\", but it showed that parole was indeed a possibility.\n\nMy story appeared on the BBC, and was followed up by the newspapers. And that was the end of it... or so I thought. Little did I know that Brady's brief note was to be the start of a correspondence that was to last more than 30 years.\n\nEvery few weeks, a new letter would arrive. As the pile grew, they started to give me an insight into the mind of the writer. But ultimately they prompted more questions than answers. From beginning to end, Ian Brady told me only what he wanted me to know.\n\nI have often been asked how I could write to such a man. I had vivid memories of the crimes and I suppose I was curious to know more about Brady and what had driven him to kill.\n\nAs a journalist, I was able to approach the correspondence with a degree of detachment, but at the same time, I could not forget who he was, or what he had done.\n\nI was clear in my own mind that he and Hindley should never be released. After Brady's initial letter, I assumed the correspondence would quickly come to an end.\n\nBut he continued to write to me from his prison cell, letters that were sometimes written in a shaky hand. He seemed under stress, mentally and physically. Despite being a man who was 6ft (1.83m) tall, his weight had fallen to around 8st (50kg).\n\nThat year, doctors concluded Brady was mentally ill and he was transferred from Gartree Prison - \"the garbage can\" as he described it - to Ashworth high security hospital on Merseyside, where he remained until his death.\n\nHe was soon receiving drugs as part of his treatment, and his letters became more lucid and more legible.\n\nIan Brady was jailed for three murders in 1966\n\nThey ran to many pages, initially on prison notepaper, then sheets of lined A4, the kind with very narrow spacing. They were always written with a ballpoint pen in a very neat hand, words precisely on the lines, with good grammar and correct spelling.\n\nHe did at least have the benefit of going through the Scottish education system at a time when mastering the three Rs mattered.\n\nAs I discovered, he was an avid letter-writer, with a wide circle of correspondents, although he wrote to few journalists on a regular basis.\n\nI think it helped that I worked for the BBC, rather than one of the tabloid newspapers that wrote endless accounts of his life behind bars. Brady catalogued their inventive efforts:\n\n\"The national media allege I organised a Christmas party for the ward. I organised no such party. I ate nothing whatsoever on Christmas Day. There was a ward barbecue this afternoon, hordes of strangers waiting to gawp at the performing monkey, but I didn't take the stage. Several national newspapers allege I invited the Yorkshire Ripper, who is even not in this hospital but Broadmoor. A newspaper falsely states that I go on trips outside. I am in my cell night and day and go nowhere at all.\"\n\nYet for all his hatred of the media, it was clear that he was very aware of his status as a high-profile prisoner, and I think he enjoyed the notoriety, and being the centre of attention.\n\nSo while he railed against the stories about him that appeared on a regular basis in the tabloids, it became part of his wider battle against all those with power over his life.\n\nIn writing his letters, he certainly knew that what he said was liable to be reported, and he chose his words carefully, with an eye to publication. His relentless character assassination of Myra Hindley undoubtedly caused her great damage as she campaigned for parole.\n\nWhat else did he write about? In large part his letters were a litany of complaints about his treatment at Ashworth - Trashworth in Brady's lexicon. It would not be fair on the staff to repeat his splenetic observations and unsubstantiated allegations, which covered page after page of A4.\n\nWriting about life behind bars, he displayed a deep anger, but also an acerbic humour. It was as if he had a special dictionary in his head, reserved for pouring scorn on all those in authority whom he hated.\n\nPeter Gould with some of Brady's letters\n\nI soon got the impression that battling against the authorities - whoever they happened to be - was an important part of his mechanism for coping with his loss of freedom and life within a highly-regulated institution.\n\nBut the letters were more than just the paranoid rantings of a madman. I quickly discovered that he did not fit the popular stereotype of the sub-human monster, an image that most of us recognise instantly from crime thrillers on TV, and find strangely reassuring.\n\nWe do not expect serial killers to live anything approaching normal lives when they are not committing their crimes. They are certainly not supposed to display intelligence or humour.\n\nSo it was more than a little unsettling to discover that Brady was articulate and surprisingly well read, with a preference for classic literature rather than popular fiction.\n\nThe Russian writer Dostoevsky, with his explorations of human psychology, was a particular favourite.\n\nBrady's letters were sprinkled with literary references that would send me searching through my bookshelves. His knowledge was nothing if not a testament to the education provided by prison libraries.\n\nHe made sharp observations about politics and current affairs, revealing a close interest in the world outside, a world he knew he would never see again.\n\nHe had nothing but contempt for the establishment in general, and politicians in particular:\n\n\"The Gulf - the Bore War. Thirty countries, including the most powerful in the world, against a third world Arab state, and they call it a victory. Politically, the UK is now to America what Italy was to the Germans; a servile lackey willing to bomb any country the Americans choose. The election... a non-event only of synthetic interest to the media in generating an appearance of democracy and choice, between two Tory parties.\"\n\nHe claimed not to be interested in reading newspapers, but little that was written about him escaped his notice. He also listened to radio news bulletins, and watched television. Several times he told me he had seen me reporting for TV news. Once, I was even talking about him.\n\nFortunately, perhaps, he did not have access to the internet, as he would undoubtedly have seen it as a platform. A lot of the time, he just stayed in his room, read books, and continued his writing. Somewhere, waiting to surface, there is a memoir of his life.\n\nHe once wrote a book, published in the US, intended to take the reader inside the mind of a serial killer. But significantly, it did not include any discussion of his own crimes. And in his letters to me, he was always reluctant to delve too deeply into the past, unless it was to confirm Hindley's active involvement in the murders.\n\nIt was as if he was hiding behind a mask that prevented you getting into his head. But there were times when the mask slipped, and you saw hints of an inner turmoil.\n\nThe Moors Murders victims were left to right, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey, Edward Evans, John Kilbride and Pauline Reade\n\nIn 1986, following my correspondence with Brady, the mothers of two of his victims wrote to him. His reaction on receiving their letters was revealing:\n\n\"Although I've been given them, I've not been able to bring myself to read them yet. I'm afraid to read them, understand? I have to keep the mental blocks tightly shut and keep control.\"\n\nThe mother of Lesley Ann Downey wanted to visit him in prison. Her request was refused by the authorities, so Brady suggested I pass on a personal message.\n\nI was uncomfortably aware that I was becoming a go-between, a part of the story I was reporting:\n\n\"You can inform her of what I've told you. Remorse in this and other matters is axiomatic and painfully deep but I despise useless empty words and prefer positive action to balance part of the past.\"\n\nTo my knowledge, it was the only time he ever publicly expressed any regret for what he had done.\n\nPerhaps, as he suggests, it was just too difficult for him to confront the reality of his crimes. But he seemed to resent being put in a position where he was expected to express remorse. He was not going to jump through any hoops for the press.\n\nThe \"positive action\" he refers to was his work in transcribing books into Braille for a school for the blind, something he did for many years.\n\nA small act of contrition, perhaps, but one you may not have read about in the papers.\n\nBrady and Hindley belatedly confessed to killing two additional children who disappeared in the 60s, and whose bodies had never been found.\n\nIn 1987, the two killers were taken back to the moors, separately, to help the police to try to find their bodies. Brady found himself back in the media spotlight.\n\n\"We stepped onto the moor at dawn. Helicopters and private planes kept circling us and the police seemed determined they would not get any photos. Police kept surrounding me when a low-flying helicopter came at us. Of all hated papers, the Sun got a full-length one, sharp and clear! The moors had changed a lot in my eyes over the 20-odd years that had passed. Many of the changes were real, some imaginary. It was weird seeing the place again, all that space and vastness.\"\n\nEventually, the police managed to find the remains of Pauline Reade but, despite many hours of searching, the body of Keith Bennett is still lost on the moors.\n\nWas Brady genuine in his desire to help Winnie Johnson find her son? In his letters to me at the time, he seemed anxious for another chance to go back to Saddleworth and complete the search.\n\nAfter a second visit to the moors, in the depths of winter, he insisted that he could have found the boy's grave, given more time:\n\n\"The convoy reached the moor around 9am. It was five degrees below zero and covered in frost and ice. The police let me lead the way and go to any spots I wished. After an hour, I discovered the junction of streams I had been searching for. I felt relief and exhilaration, and we all stopped for another hot drink and a smoke. As daylight began to fade, I felt a deep instinct that I was close to something important, some aspect I had overlooked. The search area has now been greatly reduced to an area between a sheep pen and a junction of two streams. I felt a great relief and vindication that I had rectified the crucial mistake. I kept underlining that I know beyond doubt that I've found the area. I'd like to see 40 or 50 police searching the area I've pinpointed. Within 48 hours, the instinctive feeling experienced on the moor in fading light became concrete. I was lying on top of the bed in the dark. An image came into my mind. All along I had been searching purely for a triangular site. But now I was seeing something I had forgotten. I saw Myra walking out of the triangle, but when she reached the apex, she did not climb over it but turned to the right into a curved horn of earth which led upwards. I now have the full image of the site vividly in my head. I do not enjoy struggling through sub-zero wasteland, nor being made a spectacle for the media. The police owe me one last visit there. I owe it to the family involved; it is a debt. I have nothing to gain except inner peace, for the media will crucify me whether I succeed or fail.\"\n\nKeith Bennett's mother, Winnie Johnson, travelled to the moors many times before her death in 2012, enjoying the peace and solitude.\n\nI went with her on one occasion. Looking out across the bleak moorland, she told me that to be there made her feel close to her lost son.\n\nIt was heartbreaking to watch as she waited, year after year, hoping he would be found.\n\nBut in the end, the details provided by Brady had not been sufficiently precise to locate the burial place.\n\nDid he really know? Winnie Johnson was convinced that he did. Hindley was clearly hoping the search would advance her campaign for parole, by demonstrating her contrition. Her lawyers would later go to the High Court to challenge the power of the home secretary to keep her locked up indefinitely.\n\nShe did all she could to distance herself from the killings, claiming that she had been forced by Brady into becoming his accomplice.\n\nFew people were convinced. The truth is, she had ample opportunity to go to the police and inform on Brady back in the 60s but failed to do so.\n\nThe case against her was always damning. She drove the car that she and Brady used to abduct children from the streets, and the vehicle was used to transport them to the moors for burial.\n\nEven back in the 60s, children were warned by their parents not to go off with strangers. But the presence of Hindley in the car with Brady when they stopped to offer the youngsters a lift must have seemed reassuring. A nice young couple, smiling and joking. Nothing to worry about.\n\nMyra Hindley on the Moors in a photograph taken by Ian Brady\n\nCriminologists have always been fascinated by the dynamics of the relationship between Brady and Hindley. If they had not met would the crimes have happened, committed by Brady alone?\n\nSome have suggested their relationship was a classic folie a deux, a shared psychosis in which a delusional belief is transferred from one person to another.\n\nWhat is clear is that there was some terrible chemistry, involving sex and sadism, that made it work.\n\nAt their trial in 1966, Brady had seemed to be trying to protect Hindley from the full weight of the law. For several years, they wrote to each other from their prison cells. But the more Hindley tried to minimise her role in the killings in an effort to win her freedom, the more resentful he became.\n\nHe challenged her claim that she had only taken part in the murders because she was afraid of him. His analysis of their partnership was devastating:\n\n\"Myra Hindley and I once loved each other. We were a unified force, not two conflicting entities. The relationship was not based on the delusional concept of folie a deux but on a conscious/subconscious emotional and psychological affinity. She regarded periodic homicides as rituals of reciprocal innervation, marriage ceremonies theoretically binding us ever closer. We experimented with the concept of total possibility. Instead of the requisite Lady Macbeth, I got Messalina. Apart, our futures would have taken radically divergent courses.\"\n\nFor those unfamiliar with ancient history, Messalina became the most powerful woman in the Roman Empire, notorious for her promiscuity, who plotted against her husband, the emperor Claudius.\n\nBy casting Hindley in this role, Brady gives a clue to the bitterness he came to feel towards his former lover. He regarded himself and Hindley as equal partners in the murders, but she betrayed him and the secret life they had shared.\n\nHe ridiculed her claims that she was an unwilling accomplice:\n\n\"Hindley has crafted a Victorian melodrama in which she portrays herself as being forced to murder serially. We both habitually carried revolvers and went for target practice on the moors. If I were mistreating her, she could have shot me dead at any time. For 30 years she said she was acting out of love for me; now she maintains she killed because she hated me - a completely irrational hypothesis. In character, she is essentially a chameleon, adopting whatever camouflage will suit and voicing whatever she believes the individual wishes to hear. She can kill, both in cold blood or in a rage.\"\n\nDespite my contact with Brady, the families of the murdered children always received me with courtesy and kindness.\n\nEncouraged by my correspondence, some had begun writing to Brady themselves. They saw him as a means of keeping Hindley behind bars.\n\nLike so many others, they could not understand how a woman could have helped to abduct and murder children. And in fact, female serial killers are extremely rare.\n\nSo the families of the children, and the man who killed them, came to form a strange alliance. The families also wanted Brady's help in finding the bodies of the children still missing.\n\nI urged him to help the police locate the graves, to allow the families the comfort of a proper burial. The police knew Brady was writing to me but did nothing to hinder the correspondence, perhaps hoping that the letters would reveal useful information.\n\nThe detective in charge of the case told me: \"He trusts you.\" Brady himself said he appreciated reporting that was \"balanced and unsensational\", although I must admit it was sometimes difficult to remain dispassionate.\n\nAt around the time he was being taken back to the moors by the police, Brady told me that he was responsible for another five murders, or \"happenings\" as he called them.\n\nThis was tantamount to a confession to a series of hitherto unknown crimes, so I passed the information to the police. With only sketchy details to go on, they were unable to confirm his claims. Did they really happen? Or were they just part of his fantasy world? It was yet another part of the story where the truth would never be known.\n\nThe trips back to the moors were the only break from the monotony of Brady's daily life in Ashworth Hospital. But there was always something for him to complain about. In 1999, when he was moved to a new ward, he went on hunger strike.\n\n\"I've sat in my room, going nowhere, never having exercised in the open air for 25 years, using every available \"normal channel\" to right matters here these past 15 years, and throughout my 35 years of captivity. I've been taking only sugarless, milk-less tea or coffee, no food. I have no TV or radio and don't read newspapers, though I've been told of some reports. I simply sit writing or reading books most of the time.\"\n\nWhen he continued to refuse food, the doctors fed him against his wishes, through a nasal tube. So he went to court, hoping to establish a legal right to end his life.\n\nIn 2000, a hearing was held in Liverpool, behind closed doors. The tight security meant that the waiting media did not even get a glimpse of him as he enjoyed his day in court. But he got his story out.\n\nBrady was taken to Liverpool Crown Court for his 2000 right-to-die hearing\n\nKnowing the hearing would be held in private, he had sent me a 5,000-word document, setting out his case.\n\nOnce again, Brady was the centre of attention, taking on the system. But his arguments failed to convince the judge, and the hospital was told it could continue to feed him, to keep him alive.\n\nThen in 2013, Brady finally got the public platform he craved. The media were able to observe him via a television relay as he gave evidence to a mental health tribunal at Ashworth.\n\nThe picture that emerged was of a man who was paranoid and narcissistic. He wanted to be sent back to prison, where he might have been able to complete his hunger strike without medical intervention.\n\nBrady seemed to relish the occasion. He was back in the spotlight, back in the headlines. But once again the decision went against him. The panel ruled that he was mentally ill, and would have to remain in a secure hospital where his condition could be treated.\n\nCourt sketch of Brady appearing at a mental health tribunal in 2013\n\nDuring the hearing, Brady refused to answer a direct question about whether he would in fact kill himself if was sent back to prison.\n\nIn his letters to me, however, he said his life had become meaningless and all he wanted was the opportunity to bring it to an end:\n\n\"I have had enough. My objective is to die and release myself from this once and for all. I am not interested in being kept alive artificially by force feeding. My death strike is rational and pragmatic. I am eager to leave this cesspit in a coffin.\"\n\nBrady considered himself to possess superior intelligence. He found it difficult being surrounded by other patients who were all mentally ill, rather than being able to mix with the diverse characters he had encountered in the penal system:\n\n\"In prison I had intelligent company - train robbers, IRA and Arab terrorists, financiers, counterfeiters, gun-runners, drug lords, East End gangsters, ex-government ministers. I played John Stonehouse in the chess final at Wormwood Scrubs. Having spent the past years in the company of criminals and madmen, I have a very unusual circle of friends out there in the free world.\"\n\nDid Brady ever look back over his life and contemplate how things might have been different?\n\nA few years ago, he let me see a letter he had written to his mother. To my surprise, it was a wistful memoir of the happy times they had spent together in his youth.\n\nIt described in lyrical terms holidays spent in the Scottish Highlands, the sentiments quite at odds with his reputation as a tough kid from the Gorbals:\n\n\"When I close my eyes, I re-live childhood holidays in fascinating detail, many forgotten memories surfacing. Remember the low ceilings and oil lamps in the whitewashed Dunning cottage and the late-night cups of Oxo? The honking geese in the courtyard of the farm we stayed at in Tobermory? The red deer standing in the deep green gloom of the deciduous forest; the wildcat I surprised in the high heather hills behind the farm; the wooden bridge in the meadow beside the farm? Naturally I also bring to mind all the other holidays. The many tours up to Scotland by car, the vast spaces and bracing air of the Highlands... enough.\"\n\nEnough, says Brady. After giving us a tantalising glimpse of happy days during his childhood, he firmly closes the door to the past. He ends the letter with a request to his mother to send me a copy.\n\nShe was then aged about 90 and living in relative anonymity in Longsight, near the centre of Manchester. Surprisingly, perhaps, she never moved away from the city where her son committed his dreadful crimes.\n\nThis unexpected glimpse into their life together was startling. Stories about Brady's childhood had painted a picture of a troubled boy who had grown up in a single-parent home, never knowing his real father.\n\nAs Brady acknowledged himself, the reality of his childhood years seemed to contradict a widely-held view about the roots of violent crime, especially sexual crime:\n\n\"It is fashionable nowadays to blame one's faults on abuse as a child. I had a happy childhood.\"\n\nWhy had Brady wanted me to see the letter to his mother? Was he trying to show he was a man with human emotions like everyone else? It inevitably prompts the question of how someone capable of such feelings could become a cold-blooded predator who enticed children away from their homes and families, and then killed them with his bare hands.\n\nThe happy childhood did not last. As a delinquent youth, Brady got into scrapes with the law, before finding a job as an office clerk. It appeared to offer reasonable prospects, and perhaps the hope of a decent life. But fate took a hand.\n\nWorking in the same office was a young typist called Myra Hindley. We will never know if things might have been different had they not met, but together they were deadly.\n\nPerhaps it was memories of his childhood holidays that drew him to the bleak moorland above Manchester. Just as the Scottish Highlands may have been a welcome relief from the tenements of Glasgow, so the empty landscape of Saddleworth may have offered an escape from the terraced houses and factories of industrial Manchester.\n\nJudging by the snapshots Brady took of himself and Hindley on the moors, it was somewhere that he felt happy.\n\nBut it was also a place made special by the terrible secrets it held, secrets that bound the two of them together.\n\nSeeing them posing for the camera, they look like any other young couple who are in love. Until you realise that they include a shot of Hindley standing on the grave of one of their victims.\n\nThis was the woman who would later claim that she was Brady's unwilling accomplice. The photographs, and a horrific tape recording of their victim Lesley Ann Downey, tell a different story.\n\nGiven his love of open spaces, how much of a punishment was it for Brady to be confined within the walls of a prison or a high security hospital for so many years?\n\nAt Ashworth, he refused his right to take exercise in the open air for many years. Another contradiction.\n\nOur lengthy correspondence has finally been ended by his death. It is easy to dismiss Brady as an evil monster, who does not deserve an ounce of pity.\n\nI have met the families of the children he killed, and seen how he shattered so many lives. They spent years living with the consequences of his crimes. As the mother of Lesley Ann Downey once told me, the families are the ones serving a life sentence.\n\nFor nearly 50 years, Brady tormented them. His own life was effectively over when he was convicted at the age of just 28.\n\nIt was only the abolition of the death penalty just before his trial that saved him from the hangman's noose. He survived, but it turned out to be a living death.\n\nI am left with a box full of letters, but I am still little the wiser about what drove him to kill.\n\nIan Brady has finally gone to his grave, having found the death he craved for so long. Many of his secrets have gone with him. He remains the personification of dark forces that we struggle to understand.", "Nicky Hayden: Ex-MotoGP champion in hospital after cycling accident in Italy Last updated on .From the section Motorsport\n\nFormer MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden has been injured after he was hit by a car while cycling in Italy. The 35-year-old, who has been racing for Red Bull Honda's World Superbike team this year, is being treated at a hospital in Cesena. The American competed in the latest round of the World Superbike championship in Italy last Sunday. He won his only MotoGP championship in 2006, preventing Valentino Rossi from winning a sixth successive title.", "We know that almost three million extra people turned out to vote in the EU referendum. Saying who they are - and what happens if they reappear - is where it gets difficult.\n\nOne of the most striking features of the June 2016 referendum on EU membership - apart from the decision to leave itself - was the substantial increase in turnout.\n\nBroadly speaking, 2.9 million more people voted in the referendum, compared with the May 2015 general election.\n\nTurnout in England in the referendum was the largest since the 1992 general election; and in Wales since the 1997 general election.\n\nYet we know absolutely nothing about who these millions are.\n\nTheir gender, age and socio-economic background are all a complete mystery.\n\nSo too is how they voted.\n\nThere was a clutch of on-the-day polls among people who had turned-out.\n\nBut none of these questionnaires was designed to record the unexpected arrival of a great host of additional voters.\n\nWhat we do know, however, is where they appeared on referendum day.\n\nAcross England, an additional 2.89 million voters crowded into polling stations - a seven point increase on the 2015 general election.\n\nIn Wales the increase was six points; and in Northern Ireland it was just under five points.\n\nOnly Scotland registered a small decrease, of just under four points.\n\nAmong the nine English regions, the greatest increases in turnout mostly occurred in those that delivered the biggest majorities for Leave: Eastern, East Midlands, North East and West Midlands.\n\nThe exception was the South East region, where the second largest increase - of 8.1% - sat alongside the smallest pro-Leave majority - of 3.6% - across the whole UK.\n\nWe will never know whether that result reflected extra voters for Remain who narrowed the Leave majority, or extra Leave voters who thwarted a potentially narrow Remain victory there.\n\nNorthern Ireland and London - which voted Remain alongside Scotland - saw comparatively small increases in voter turnout.\n\nHowever, the fact that extra voters were most apparent in Leave areas cannot be taken as proof that they were in favour of quitting the EU.\n\nSimilarly, as tantalising a prospect as it may be, it is not possible to say that they would be more likely to vote for one party over another at an election.\n\nThe real mystery is whether those additional voters in 2016 will come out again to vote in the 2017 general election - and what difference they could make.\n\nIt is not known whether or not the extra voters helped the Leave campaign\n\nThere is no guarantee that they will, given their opting out of the previous general election.\n\nAre they people who are totally dissatisfied with the political system and became serial non-voters but were unable to resist the chance to give the establishment a thoroughly good kicking at the referendum?\n\nIf so, there seems little chance that they will appear again on 8 June 2017.\n\nOn the other hand, some may be tempted to vote for the party they consider most likely to put the brakes on Brexit; others to support the party they think truly believes in the UK outside Europe.\n\nIf only we knew a bit more about them.\n\nAre you one of the three million who voted in the EU referendum but didn't vote in the general election in 2015? Get in touch to tell us how you made your decision and whether you plan to vote in the election of 8 June.\n\nYou can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.\n\nDavid Cowling is visiting senior research fellow in the Policy Institute at King's College London. He is also the former editor of the BBC Political Research Unit.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shane Yerrell: The crowdfunding superhero who raises money for strangers\n\nThe meteoric rise of crowdfunding has revolutionised how easy it is to help out those in need. Often fundraising is done by friends or family, but an increasing number of people are setting up pages for complete strangers whose stories tug at their heartstrings. So how do you go about changing the life of someone you've never met?\n\nShane Yerrell is a man on a mission. The victim of a knife attack a decade ago, he decided to turn his hand to helping others, and has raised more than £20,000 for a number of causes since 2011.\n\nHe has climbed a mountain, shaved his head, walked from London to Brighton - and he has set up crowdfunding pages for people who he does not know, and might never meet.\n\n\"If I won the lottery, I'd be the first millionaire to become skint,\" said Mr Yerrell, 33, from Waltham Abbey, Essex, who works with adults who have learning disabilities.\n\n\"When I read stories in the news, I get a bit more affected by them than most people do. I get really annoyed to the point where I want to make a stand and help them there and then.\n\n\"You don't have to know someone to want to help them.\"\n\nShane Yerrell decided to help Liam Bradshaw after hearing about the car crash he was involved in\n\nOne of the people Mr Yerrell has crowdfunded for is 21-year-old Liam Bradshaw, from Enfield, who was involved in a catastrophic car crash in which his three friends died in 2012.\n\n\"I was left with 17 fractures to the face, broken collarbones, a nose job and a titanium forehead. I was in hospital for eight and a half months,\" Mr Bradshaw recalls.\n\nWhen Mr Yerrell heard in the news about what had happened, he approached Mr Bradshaw's family and asked if he could help to raise money for his recovery, through a fundraising page and by climbing Mount Toubkal in Morocco.\n\n\"Shane came along towards the end of my hospital life. The guy has the kindest heart - he went out of his way to help a stranger so that stranger could live his life again,\" Mr Bradshaw said.\n\n\"I'm so glad it happened, because if I hadn't had the accident, I wouldn't have met someone with such a good heart,\" he added.\n\n\"From what Shane did for me, I've then come out of hospital to go and coach disabled children for Tottenham Hotspur.\n\n\"We've gone beyond friends now - he's more like family.\"\n\nLiam Bradshaw said he had been inspired by the actions of a stranger - Shane Yerrell - who had raised money for him after his accident\n\nBridey Watson set up a crowdfunding page to help a complete stranger after money was raised to help her through her illness\n\nBridey Watson, 35, from Bristol, was on the receiving end of crowdfunding a few years ago, after contracting babesiosis, a malaria-like parasitic disease developed from a tick bite.\n\n\"I was bed and wheelchair-bound, having seizures every day,\" she recalls.\n\n\"When the doctors finally worked out what was wrong, my friends and family set up a crowdfunding page for me to go to Germany and the US for treatment, where tick-borne diseases are better understood and treated.\n\n\"The crowdfunding other people did for me enabled me to regain my health and rebuild my life.\"\n\nMs Watson is still recovering from the effects of babesiosis, but was inspired to help someone else in need following her own experience.\n\nShe said she was horrified by an assault on 17-year-old asylum seeker Kurdish-Iranian Reker Ahmed, who was chased and subjected to a \"brutal attack\" in Croydon at the end of March.\n\n\"He's finally thinking he's reached a place of sanctuary, only to be attacked - I could picture the terribleness of what he'd been through,\" she said.\n\n\"From my own experience, I knew the messages people left were as important as the physical health money can bring. And that's what I wanted to do for the guy who was attacked.\"\n\nMs Waton's page to help an attacked asylum seeker smashed its target\n\nThe psychology behind setting up a crowdfunding page for a stranger can be split into three categories, says philanthropic psychologist Jen Shang.\n\n\"Typically, people help strangers to make themselves feel good, to make others feel good, or both,\" she said.\n\n\"Some people don't want to get up close and personal with the people they help - they want to keep it all at arm's length and have a simple, easy and warm way of helping.\n\n\"Others prefer to have direct contact with the people they're helping, and crowdfunding sites offer a channel where that sort of connection is possible.\"\n\nMs Shang, who works as research director at the University of Plymouth's Centre for Sustainable Philanthropy, said although the percentage of people donating money to charity or other causes \"has not changed in the UK or the US for decades,\" new methods of giving were constantly being invented, with crowdfunding \"the new kid on the block\".\n\n\"For people like Mr Yerrell, crowdfunding might be the most 'sustainable' way of giving - the way that sustains the knowledge and feeling you're caring about others.\n\n\"Psychologists say as long as you're a human, you want to care about others.\"\n\nThe Parker family - Harry, Glen, Danielle and Mia - have experienced the kindness of strangers\n\nFor the Parker family, who live in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, a stranger's help could not have come at a better time.\n\nThey were trying to raise £75,000 for specialised surgery to help seven-year-old Harry, who has cerebral palsy, to be able to walk.\n\nMr Yerrell was introduced to them by a friend, but had not met the family before that, and ended up helping to hit the fundraising target.\n\n\"It's unbelievable - the amount of people he's helped. We weren't the first and I know we won't be the last,\" Harry's dad Glen said.\n\n\"As soon as I met him, I knew he was genuine. It's a life changer for Harry and us as a family. People like him don't come along every day.\"\n\nHarry's mum Danielle said Mr Yerrell - whose work has been recognised with a British Citizen Award and a Pride of Essex Award - had become \"a big part\" of the family's life.\n\n\"Not only has he helped us, he's a genuinely nice person. Sometimes you need someone like him in your life to make you think everything will be alright, especially when you're going through a tough time.\"\n\nMr Yerrell has founded a community interest company, Through the Fight, with the aim of gaining charity status in the coming year.\n\nHe will also be taking some time for himself, he said, because \"you don't want to make people sick of it\".\n\n\"I want to have time to do NVQ at work,\" he said. \"But if something was to happen to someone I knew, I'd be there first person to try to help.\n\n\"I put everything into my fundraising. It's not just setting up the pages - you have to contact the person of their family, put your own money into it, promote it.\n\n\"I'm not well off, but that money could go down the pub or on silly things. I will always want to help and make a difference, but you need a bit of reality too.\"", "Antonio Conte's transformation of Chelsea from fallen champions to Premier League title winners inside 12 months was completed with victory at West Bromwich Albion - a remarkable success story in his first season at Stamford Bridge.\n\nThe 47-year-old inherited a squad that had declined from domestic superpower to mid-table mediocrity amid acrimony and the sacking of title-winning manager Jose Mourinho. But he has shown the personality, tactical brilliance and sure touch to put them back at the top of the English game.\n\nSo how has the charismatic Italian achieved what many inside Stamford Bridge regard as a miraculous rejuvenation of fortunes to return the Premier League crown to Chelsea?\n\nThe scene is a side room in an Austrian hotel on 16 July 2016.\n\nChelsea's players are coming down from their rooms for a pre-match meal before a friendly against Rapid Vienna, as the Conte reign officially gets under way.\n\nIn the past, tables would have been laden with chicken, pasta, pizza, sandwiches, scrambled egg and salad - this time Chelsea's squad set eyes on a selection of seeds, nuts and dried fruit.\n\nSome players, bemused, turn on their heels and leave, assuming they have wandered into the wrong room rather than a new era. They soon return.\n\nConte, as he has done since day one at Stamford Bridge, outlines in detail and from personal experience why this is happening. He explains how long some food might take to digest, running the risk of players perhaps carrying an extra half a kilo into games.\n\nThe message was swiftly embraced as players felt fitter, healthier and better equipped for the season ahead.\n\nAs Chelsea decamped to Los Angeles to continue preparations for the new season, Conte's trademark attention to detail was becoming even more obvious, as the Italian put on tough double sessions, sometimes in 30-degree heat.\n\nHe proved a hard tactical taskmaster, as opposed to running players into the ground. Conte loves the role of head coach rather than manager.\n\nUnlike Mourinho, it was Conte who put out the cones - measuring exact distances - and the emphasis was on drill after drill. It was repetition until Chelsea's players knew exactly what was expected, even using shadow sessions of 11 players against none.\n\nVideo analysis was, and continues to be, exhaustive as Conte goes through every aspect of Chelsea's training, preparation and games in minute, meticulous detail.\n\nSome days Conte was left frustrated that the message was not quite getting across, but on others the signs were there that any initial reservations his players had, inevitable when a new manager arrives, were disappearing.\n\nThe foundations and building blocks were being put in place for a season of Premier League title-winning success.\n• None Quiz: The big goals, the big players - how Chelsea won the title\n• None How well do you know Chelsea's champions?\n\nWhen Chelsea technical director Michael Emenalo spoke of \"palpable discord between manager and players\" following the sacking of Mourinho just seven months after winning the title, it underlined the scale of the task that would await his full-time successor.\n\nThe trusted Guus Hiddink returned for a second spell in interim charge as a sticking plaster over the wounds, but at season's end a squad used to success looked broken and lacking in unity as it finished in 10th place.\n\nConte was seen by Chelsea's decision-makers - Emenalo, highly influential director Marina Granovskaia and, of course, owner Roman Abramovich - as a man with a pedigree of success - having won three Scudetto in Italy with Juventus - and the personality to organise and galvanise.\n\nIt was an impression he confirmed when, after his appointment at Chelsea had been announced, he took what most regarded as an ordinary Italy team to the last eight of Euro 2016, losing on penalties to Germany after outstanding wins over Belgium and Spain.\n\nConte, even before Euro 2016, had taken time out from his Italy duties to visit Chelsea's Cobham training base to introduce himself to his future charges.\n\nHe arrived on one occasion while Hiddink was conducting a training session, but insisted on showing full respect to the veteran Dutch coach, waiting around a corner out of sight until he finished the final 30 minutes' work before introducing himself to the players.\n\nConte was assuming a role that the long list of his predecessors proves is highly demanding, but he has forged a close and productive working relationship with Chelsea's hierarchy.\n\nHe is in daily contact with Emenalo and speaks regularly to Granovskaia, who is in charge of transfers and heavily involved throughout the club, as well as with Abramovich when the opportunity and occasion arises, as when the Russian billionaire flew in to attend Chelsea's FA Youth Cup final win against Manchester City at Stamford Bridge.\n\nAbramovich may have many other demands on his time but still has a major input and involvement in every significant decision taken at the club.\n\nConte is sure to want to refresh and improve his title-winning squad for the added demands of Champions League football next season, so Chelsea's tried and trusted acquisition strategy will be at his full disposal.\n\nGone are the days when the likes of Andriy Shevchenko would arrived gift-wrapped (and in Mourinho's case unappreciated) for a manager.\n\nThe current system, with Emenalo's scouting network at its hub, involves the manager being presented with a list of long-term club targets, to which he can add his own and even set aside those names he does not require.\n\nWhen Conte makes his moves at the end of the season, with Everton striker Romelu Lukaku heavily linked with a return, they will not be spur-of-the-moment transactions. He will have been a key figure in the drawing up of potential signings.\n\nConte has silenced the sound of palpable discord and it has been a harmonious Chelsea, on and off the pitch, that has secured a richly deserved Premier League title.\n\nItaly's over-achievement at Euro 2016 was compelling evidence of how close bonds within a camp can produce results beyond expectation.\n\nIt is something Conte has brought to Chelsea and placed at the heart of his approach and success.\n\nConte organised a pre-season barbecue for players, staff and families at Cobham. Marquees were erected and a five-a-side pitch set out for the children. It set the tone for the season, with striker Diego Costa spoiling his villainous public image by happily joining in with the youngsters for 40 minutes, during which he was even taken out by a tackle.\n\nWhen pre-season got under way in Austria and LA, Chelsea's support staff were surprised to be singled out for warm handshakes and words every day from a manager intent on providing unity at a club that has had its share of instability, often actually generating renewed success, over the years.\n\nAt the staff Christmas party, the tradition is for the manager to record a message to be played at the event.\n\nConte duly obliged, but then asked if he could also attend the event for about 500 people at the Under The Bridge music venue at Stamford Bridge, staying for more than two hours, spending time mingling with guests and happily posing for pictures and selfies.\n\nHe spent a similar amount of time at a trampoline party organised for players' children around the festive period - while staff at Cobham also saw evidence of his personal touch last Christmas.\n\nConte ensured staff received wine and Prosecco, with every bottle personally addressed to the individual as thanks, and accompanied by a card with the words of Hannibal as he prepared to cross the Alps by elephant: \"We shall either find a way or make one.\"\n\nConte's seasonal goodwill even extended to the media, with a group invited to a local pub and bought drinks after a pre-match news conference in the build-up to the Boxing Day game with Bournemouth.\n\nThe irony is the manager intent on developing the Chelsea \"family\" has had to cope for long spells without wife Elisabetta and nine-year-old daughter Vittoria, who have remained in Italy but will soon join him in London.\n\nEvery month, players and staff will go out together for a meal - but Chelsea's players also know when to keep their distance.\n\nFormer Chelsea and Scotland winger Pat Nevin witnessed a moment that underlined how Conte, while always available to any player, is not to be trifled with.\n\nHe told BBC Sport: \"The fun guys at the training ground, the daft ones, David Luiz and Diego Costa, are always having a laugh.\n\n\"Costa was sneaking up behind people and throwing big buckets of iced water over them. He was running up behind Antonio and he was going to do the ice bucket over the top and, even though you know Antonio is a good laugh and he was having a joke, he got all the way up then chickened out.\n\n\"The players kind of think you're one of them but they're not quite sure. As a manager you've nailed it then - and Conte has nailed it.\"\n\nNevin added: \"I have also spent a couple of hours with him and interviewed him. We spoke before, just chatting, but he is the classic mix in that he can be great fun but then you see the steely eyes and think you wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of him.\n\n\"You judge a manager by whether he gets the most out of his players. If you are managing a company, a newspaper, a shop or a football team, your job is to get the best out of your staff. He has done that.\"\n\nConte's success has meant the potentially thorny issue of captain John Terry's absence from the team and subsequent departure has become an amicable and dignified parting - while a reported training-ground row with Costa in January was handled with the striker left out of the 3-0 win at Leicester City before returning with a goal as Hull City were beaten 2-0.\n\nHe is close to his players but also prepared to draw the line. As the card in the Christmas present promised, he has found his way at Chelsea.\n\nConte's attention to detail and determination to create the perfect environment at Cobham has produced what he wants most in football - success.\n\nItalian journalist Stefano Boldrini, London correspondent for Italian daily Gazzetta dello Sport, told BBC Sport: \"Conte is a person who lives football every hour, every minute of the day.\n\n\"He is always focused on his work, not only on the training ground or in his office. When he is at his house in Chelsea he watches football, speaks with his staff. His mind is always on his work.\n\n\"It was the same in Italy but this is a new experience. He has had to fight against Jose Mourinho's Manchester United, Pep Guardiola's Manchester City, Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool, Arsenal of Arsene Wenger, Mauricio Pochettino at Tottenham.\n\n\"He likes the sea and he likes good restaurants but his life is about good football. He is enjoying life in England but Conte does not go into London a lot. His life is Cobham and his house. He is very focused on his work.\n\n\"He is a very reserved person. For him it was not easy because in one year he has had to learn English, to learn about English football. I don't know about the future but he is really focused on his work now.\"\n\nConte's affection for aspects of English football was demonstrated when he applauded the Middlesbrough fans who continued to support their team even though they were relegated with defeat at Chelsea.\n\nBoldrini says: \"I know he is a passionate man but it was fantastic when he went to the Middlesbrough fans to applaud them. It was class behaviour and this is Antonio Conte.\n\n\"He loves England. He was celebrating the civilisation of English football with what happened with the Boro fans. It was honest.\"\n\nThe idea of Conte as a reserved figure is at odds with the manic touchline celebrations that saw him swinging from a dugout after Gary Cahill's later winner at Stoke City, and ripping an expensive pair of trousers and injuring his leg in one outpouring of joy earlier this season.\n\nConte, it is believed, finds it awkward to watch those moments back, but it is an insight into the pleasure Chelsea's progress under his tutelage has brought him.\n\nThe transformation in Chelsea's season started to unfold in the corridors at Emirates Stadium after a humbling 3-0 loss to Arsenal on 24 September left Conte's side in eighth place, eight points behind leaders Manchester City.\n\nConte was emotional and downcast as he conducted post-match media duties, but he was cold enough to deliver the clearest of messages: \"We must reflect a lot. From the first minute, we have had a bad attitude.\n\n\"We are now a great team only on paper not on the pitch. We must show we are a great team on the pitch not on paper.\"\n\nThe loss followed a home defeat by Liverpool in their previous league game that even had some bookmakers suggesting Conte might be an early winner of the managerial sack race.\n\nThere was no panic behind the scenes. The club's power-brokers had full faith in their manager and he justified their confidence with a tactical switch that turned Chelsea from a team with doubts about its top-six credentials into an all-conquering force en route to the title.\n\nChelsea already had future double player of the year N'Golo Kante as a brilliant midfield bedrock after his £30m move from Premier League champions Leicester City - but Conte pulled off a strategic coup that was even more audacious.\n\nConte reverted to a three-man central-defensive system for the subsequent 2-0 win at Hull City. It was the first of 13 successive league wins. Chelsea's quality had moved from paper to pitch.\n\nNew signing Marcos Alonso and the returning Luiz were key figures. Cesar Azpilicueta was part of the central triumvirate but Conte's finest moment may even have come in his reinvention of Victor Moses as a right wing-back of high calibre.\n\nMoses had almost become an itinerant footballer, lost and unloved at Chelsea after being signed by Roberto di Matteo from Wigan Athletic for £9m in August 2012.\n\nHe arrived on the same day as Azpilicueta signed from Marseille - but their courses could not have been more different as the 26-year-old spent unspectacular loan spells at Liverpool, Stoke City and West Ham United before Conte spotted something no-one else had uncovered.\n\nMoses made 59 league appearances in those three loan seasons, scoring five goals, and had only made 23 appearances with 12 starts for Chelsea before this season, during which he has played 38 times.\n\nNevin said: \"You see he is going 3-4-3 and you know who the wide man in the four is. It is Cesar Azpilicueta - only it isn't. It's Victor Moses.\n\n\"I love it and it impresses me so much when managers do things you don't expect. It is also about the player who plays alongside him.\n\n\"Moses was often alongside the manager, who was shouting and telling him almost inch by inch where to be, and he also has Azpilicueta beside him who is as good as there is in the business at closing down, getting close to people and not letting crosses in.\"\n\nAnd for Boldrini, it is a prime example of Conte's acumen. He says: \"He has been very important for Moses because he hadn't made an impact at Chelsea until Conte came.\n\n\"Conte discovered what Moses could do in pre-season and it was a success for Conte because he saw something other managers didn't see.\"\n\nHe added: \"He speaks with every player. Conte has a very good relationship with Cesc Fabregas, who has not played all the time, and he also has a very good relationship with Diego Costa. He has spoken to him a lot of times about his behaviour, to be more focused on the game and not his opponent.\"\n\nThe tactical change was seen as Conte returning to old instincts, but Nevin disagrees: \"Looking historically at what he'd done before to what he does now, he's not a 3-4-3 man. 100% not.\n\n\"That worked because he needed to try something else. I'd seen Juventus a lot. I think most people thought they were a 3-5-2, or a version of that, and sometimes a 3-4-3 as well.\n\n\"I looked because I wanted to prove to myself how often he played Andrea Barzagli, Giorgio Chiellini and Leonardo Bonucci together and quite often it was four at the back but very adaptable. If he needed it, he could utilise it.\n\n\"At heart he wants to play two centre-forwards but when Andrea Pirlo came in at Juve he couldn't play a 4-4-2. You can't do that with Fabregas either because you need two in there like Kante and Nemanja Matic, who can do all the dogged work as well.\n\n\"What has interested me is that when he changed to a 3-4-3, which I thought was really quite out there as I didn't see it coming, it worked. I then thought he would change that quite quickly - he didn't.\"\n\nNevin has an ominous warning for Chelsea's rivals, saying: \"I actually think you have only seen 20% of his tactical nous. I think you have seen something that has scratched the surface so far.\"\n\nHas his success surprised his countrymen in Italy?\n\n\"Maybe we didn't think he would win in his first year but we were sure he would be a success,\" says Boldrini. \"We knew of his focus and passion and had faith.\n\n\"In Italy, the pressure is outside the pitch. In England, the pressure is on the pitch because you play against Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal, Tottenham, Everton, Liverpool - the pressure is the football and this is the pressure he enjoys and is the big difference between Italy and England.\"\n\nWhat next for Conte and Chelsea?\n\nChelsea must cope with the added demands of the Champions League next season - and history shows this is not a club or an owner that enters Europe's elite competition to make up the numbers.\n\nConte has won the title with a relatively small squad. He has used 23 players this season so far, equal lowest with Liverpool, Spurs and West Bromwich Albion. Chelsea used 30 players when they won titles in 2004-05 and 2009-10, and 25 in 2005-06 and 2014-15.\n\nConte lost the likes of Branislav Ivanovic, Oscar and Jon Mikel Obi but their absences were compensated for.\n\nThere has already been speculation about departures this summer. Costa has been linked with a lucrative move to China, and there has been speculation surrounding the future of Fabregas after a season in which he has excelled when called upon but, at 30, could seek more regular football.\n\nLukaku's links with Chelsea, where he may feel he has unfinished business after being sold to Everton for £28m in 2014, continue, while Real Madrid's Alvaro Morata could be another attacking target. Chelsea will also be in the market for a central defender following Terry's departure, with names such as Southampton's Virgil van Dijk and Napoli's Kalidou Koulibaly on the radar.\n\nIf Fabregas leaves, Chelsea will surely be in the market for a midfielder, and Tiemoue Bakayoko's excellence as Monaco reached the Champions League semi-final has drawn attention from a host of Europe's top clubs.\n\nThe FA Youth Cup was won by Chelsea for a fourth successive season - and fifth time in six - by beating Manchester City, but it remains to be seen if any make the leap to serious senior duty.\n\nNevin is convinced it will be a busy summer for Chelsea, saying: \"I think there is a lot to do. There is no way you will get into the latter reaches of the Champions League and the Premier League with the current squad unless some of the kids step up unbelievably and that's a massive jump, too big.\n\n\"Will you keep everybody that's here? Antonio's probably got his eye on four or five and if he gets them there is no reason why he will not continue to be successful.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea need to win the FA Cup to turn a \"great season\" into a \"fantastic\" one after clinching the Premier League title, says manager Antonio Conte.\n\nThe Blues became champions of England for a sixth time - with two games to spare - thanks to Michy Batshuayi's late goal in a 1-0 win at West Brom.\n\nConte's side face Arsenal in the FA Cup final on 27 May.\n\n\"For me to win in my first season in England, I am really proud of the achievement,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"My players showed me great professionalism, commitment, work-rate and will to try to win this league.\n\n\"We have two games to celebrate, then we try to make this season from great to fantastic.\"\n• None How well do you know Chelsea's champions?\n\nConte, who took charge at Chelsea after leaving Italy at the end of Euro 2016, says switching to a three-man defence in the wake of a 3-0 defeat by Arsenal in September was pivotal to the Blues' season.\n\nChelsea were eighth, eight points behind leaders Manchester City after that loss at Emirates Stadium. A 13-match winning streak followed, and they are now 10 points clear of their nearest challengers with two games remaining.\n\n\"It was very frustrating for me because at the end of the Arsenal game I didn't see anything from my work or my ideas on football,\" said Conte.\n\n\"But in this moment I found the strength to change and take responsibility and find a system for the players.\n\n\"It was a key moment in the season because every single player found in this system the best for him.\n\n\"When you arrive after a bad season and the team has arrived at 10th in the league it means there are a lot of problems.\n\n\"To find the right solution quickly isn't easy and for this I want to thank my players because they trusted in the new work, my philosophy, video analysis to see mistakes and they showed the right attitude and behaviour.\"\n\nConte apologised after arriving late to his post-match news conference, explaining his players had showered him with beer and champagne and that \"my suit is a disaster\".\n\nHe revealed he had cut his lip as he celebrated Batshuayi's winner, but that it was not the first time he had been injured as a result of his joyful exuberance.\n\n\"In these moments, anything can happen,\" he said.\n\n\"I hurt my lip during the Euros as well and they had to put a stitch in it after we scored against Belgium.\n\n\"Simone Zaza gave me a header - I don't think it was on purpose. I'm not sure if this was a header or a punch but I am ready to repeat this.\"\n\nThe conference came to an abrupt end when players Diego Costa, John Terry and David Luiz arrived and, impatient to start their celebrations, ushered him away.\n\nCaptain Gary Cahill said the players always believed they could mount a title charge despite finishing 10th last season, 31 points adrift of champions Leicester.\n\n\"We felt confident in the dressing room all season,\" he said.\n\n\"We deserved it over the season. We worked very hard and have been the better team.\n\n\"It is fantastic to wrap it up with a couple of games to go. It is very difficult in this league.\"\n\nFellow defender David Luiz says the chance to land his first Premier League title was one of the reasons he returned to the club from Paris St-Germain in a £34m move in August.\n\n\"When I decided to come back here I dreamed to win the Premier League. I am very happy because my dream came true,\" he said.\n\n\"Conte works with passion every day. He deserves it because he is working hard every day.\"\n\nThe Chelsea boss' influence on his side was also acknowledged by West Brom counterpart Tony Pulis.\n\n\"They're worthy champions,\" he said. \"They had a poor start, and Conte had to change things.\n\n\"He's made it his team. Italian teams are tactically organised and well run.\n\n\"He changed their shape and they've been superb from that moment onwards.\"\n\nBBC analyst and former Tottenham and Newcastle midfielder Jermaine Jenas believes Conte deserves the credit for turning the club around, highlighting his conversion of Victor Moses from a fringe midfielder to first-choice wing-back.\n\n\"They lost their way last season, they were unrecognisable. He has come in and reinvigorated them,\" Jenas said.\n\n\"What I like about Conte is he gave Moses a chance and trusted him. He has made him a better player and a Premier League champion.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Triathlon\n\nBritain's Jonny Brownlee crashed during the bike phase of his first triathlon since collapsing at last year's World Series finale.\n\nBrownlee, who had to be carried over the line by brother Alistair in Mexico, was returning to action in Japan.\n\nHe carried his damaged bike a mile to the next transition in Yokohama to take part in the run and finished 42nd.\n\nSpain's Mario Mola won the event, with Bermuda's Flora Duffy earlier winning the women's event.\n\n\"My first reaction was to get back on the bike, get back riding,\" said Brownlee.\n\n\"But then I got to my bike and the handlebars were pointing in the wrong direction and I couldn't move it.\n\n\"I still wanted to run - I had not come all the way to Japan not to finish.\"\n\nGordon Benson and Tom Bishop were the highest-placed British finishers in the men's race in 10th and 11th respectively.\n\nThe 2017 series is led by defending champion Mola from fellow Spaniard Fernando Alarza, who was also second to Mola in Japan.\n\nSophie Coldwell was the fastest Briton in the women's race as she came home fourth, one place ahead of compatriot Vicky Holland. Non Stanford, Jessica Learmonth and Lucy Hall were seventh, eighth and 11th respectively.\n\nStanford and Learmonth also crashed in the wet conditions but, unlike Brownlee, were able to remount.\n\nIn the Para-triathlon races, Britain won three gold medals, two silvers and two bronzes.\n\nAndy Lewis was first in the PTS2 category, and Dave Ellis and his guide Jack Peasgood won the men's visually impaired race, while Alison Patrick and her guide Nicole Walters finished top of the standings in the women's equivalent.\n\nBrownlee, an Olympic silver medallist at Rio 2016 and a bronze medallist at London 2012, had missed the first two races of this year's World Series - in Australia and the United Arab Emirates.\n\nIn wet conditions in Yokohama he veered into the railings on his bike when trying to avoid a rider who had fallen in front of him.\n\nRather than concede his race was over, Brownlee ran barefoot for the final half-lap of the cycling discipline - about a mile - carrying his bike.\n\nThe 27-year-old eventually finished six minutes 56 seconds behind the winner.\n\n\"It was going quite well - the swim went really well,\" he said.\n\n\"On that course you want to stay high up in the field to avoid crashes. I was sitting in fourth to avoid crashes, but then an athlete just crashed in front of me.\n\n\"I was very, very lucky not to break anything in the crash. I've watched the video back and I could easily have two broken collarbones.\n\n\"I'm just disappointed - I come to races to race and I didn't get a chance.\"\n\nThe next race in the series takes place in Leeds, when Yorkshire-born Jonny could be joined by brother Alistair, who is focusing on long-distance triathlons this year.\n\nYou can watch highlights of the races on BBC Two from 13:00 BST on Sunday, 14 May.\n\nBrendan Purcell, British Triathlon performance director, added: \"The rain caught us by surprise. We were expecting rain, but it got heavier and heavier.\n\n\"When the guy went down in front of Jonny, he had nowhere to go. The bike couldn't be fixed, but he wanted to do a run as he feels he's in good form.\n\n\"I come away reflecting on the positives from the swim in particular, there were a lot of good performances. No-one had the perfect race, maybe apart from Sophie, but they delivered a set of solid results.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nKimi Raikkonen headed a Ferrari one-two in final practice at the Spanish Grand Prix with Lewis Hamilton third quickest for Mercedes.\n\nFerrari, with Sebastian Vettel 0.242 seconds slower than Raikkonen, turned the tables on Mercedes after Hamilton set the pace in both Friday sessions.\n\nHamilton was 0.381 seconds slower than Raikkonen, with Bottas a further 0.273secs off after engine problems.\n\nThe Finn missed three-quarters of the session as Mercedes changed his engine.\n\nThe team discovered a water leak in the new engine that had been allocated for Bottas this weekend and needed to replace it with the one he used in the first four races. Bottas got out at the end of the session for one run.\n\nVettel also ran into engine problems at the end of the session - the German, who is leading the championship by 13 points, stopped in the pit lane when heading out for a final run and had to be pushed back to the garage.\n\nFerrari said there was \"no real engine issue, but we are replacing some parts precautionally\" before qualifying, which starts at 13:00 BST.\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen was fifth quickest from team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, the Dutchman who won this race last year just 0.157secs off Bottas and 0.654secs slower than Raikkonen, apparently confirming that the team have made a significant step towards the pace with an upgrade for this race.\n• None Predict your top three for qualifying\n\nBut Mercedes have the most dramatic-looking modifications, with a series of new aerodynamic parts in the front half of the car.\n\nThe silver cars dominated Friday running, fastest on both one lap and with an even more of an advantage on the long runs, on which teams simulate race pace.\n\nRenault's Nico Hulkenberg took seventh, 0.645secs off the Red Bulls and ahead of Williams' Felipe Massa, Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz and McLaren's Fernando Alonso.\n\nThe Spaniard was just 1.879secs off the pace, a much better start to the day for McLaren and engine partner Honda than on Friday, when Alonso suffered a massive engine failure on his very first lap out of the pits.\n\nAfterwards, the Spaniard brushed off an attempt by Honda F1 boss Yusuke Hasegawa to talk to him, as his frustrations with Honda's under-performance mount.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK Eurovision artist Lucie Jones shares her predictions for this year\n\nThe bookies say the UK can't possibly win Eurovision this year. But singer Lucie Jones still believes there's a chance of an upset.\n\n\"Never tell me the odds!\" says Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Back after C-3PO tells him his chances of successfully navigating an asteroid field are 3,720 to 1.\n\nIt's a sentiment Lucie Jones would no doubt agree with, having been confronted daily with people telling her how unlikely she is to win Eurovision this year.\n\n\"People tell me the odds every day but I don't pay them any attention,\" insists the Cardiff-born singer, who'll be representing the UK on Saturday with Never Give Up on You.\n\n\"You can't believe the odds; anything can happen with these shows. I was favourite to win The X Factor [in 2009] and I got kicked out in favour of Jedward!\"\n\nYet the experience was a beneficial one, eventually leading to her being asked to sing at Eurovision just like the bequiffed Irish twins were in 2011 and 2012.\n\nFrom Albania and Cyprus to Romania and Sweden, this year's crop of hopefuls all seem to have at least one TV talent show under their belts.\n\nLucie Jones will perform Never Give Up on You\n\nDo programmes like Pop Idol, The Voice and The X Factor act as a breeding ground for future Eurovision stars? Pretty much, believes Jones.\n\n\"There are so many of these shows now that everyone who wants to be a singer sees them as a platform,\" the 26-year-old tells the BBC.\n\n\"People try and use them as a springboard to go on to the next thing, which is exactly what happened to me.\"\n\nBut back to those odds. At the time of writing, the shortest odds you could find for a Lucie triumph were 20/1.\n\nItaly, by contrast, were 11/10 favourite with most bookmakers, followed by Portugal at 7/4.\n\nAll evidence points to another year of Eurovision disappointment for the UK, who haven't won the competition now for 20 years.\n\nYet the odds for a top five finish - no small achievement considering the UK's recent record - are considerably shorter.\n\nAsk anyone at the massive Eurovision venue in Kiev and they have Lucie pegged as a plucky runner-up to this year's heavy hitters.\n\nAs far as Jones is concerned, though, she's in it to win it.\n\n\"You have to be,\" she declares. \"You have to come to these things hoping for the best but prepared for the worst.\n\n\"I'm here to do my best and give it absolutely everything, and as long as the UK is proud of what we've done here I'll be happy.\"\n\nAll in all, taking part in Eurovision this year has been \"the most insane rollercoaster experience\" and one she will look back on \"with utter joy and pride\".\n\nIt's also one that has given her plenty of memorable moments - among them a smooch with the dancing gorilla who appears alongside Italy's Francesco Gabbani.\n\n\"That was on my bucket list,\" laughs Jones, who now considers many of her fellow competitors \"really good friends\".\n\n\"We're like-minded people having an amazing time and loving what we're doing,\" she continues. \"There's just some amazing personalities to be around.\"\n\nHan Solo, by the way, made it out of that asteroid field...\n\nThe Eurovision Song Contest final will be shown on BBC One on Saturday from 20:00 BST.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nWorld Player of the Year Carli Lloyd was among the scorers as Manchester City cruised past Birmingham to win the Women's FA Cup for the first time.\n\nLucy Bronze headed the opener following a free-kick and crossed for Izzy Christiansen to crash home the second.\n\nLloyd's header capped a fine 14-minute spell to make it 3-0 by the break.\n\nCharlie Wellings' goal gave Birmingham brief hope, but Jill Scott's fierce shot sealed City's victory in front of a competition-record crowd at Wembley.\n\nThe 2016 Women's Super League champions are now in possession of all three main domestic honours - the first team to do so since Arsenal Ladies in 2011.\n\nBirmingham had knocked out holders Arsenal and 2015 champions Chelsea to make the final, but the 2012 winners never looked like repeating that feat on their first trip to Wembley in front of 35,271 fans.\n\nFour domestic honours in nine months?\n\nBefore 2014, Manchester City Women had never lifted a major trophy - but they are now closing in on a potential clean sweep of all four domestic honours in the space of nine months.\n\nHaving won the WSL and Continental Cup last year, they will hope to add the WSL Spring Series to their Women's FA Cup success.\n\nManchester City, who also reached the Champions League semi-finals in May, had never even played in the top flight when Birmingham won the FA Cup in 2012.\n\nCity's relentlessly aggressive pressing game and dominant defence laid the foundation for a ruthless victory which was as good as sealed by the interval.\n\nBirmingham's inability to retain possession under persistent pressure led to them conceding territory and numerous free-kicks and corners, where City's set-piece superiority twice told in a one-sided first half.\n\nMoments after a near-post corner almost brought an opening goal for Megan Campbell with a neat flicked effort, Bronze darted in to convert Campbell's inviting inswinging free-kick for a 1-0 lead.\n\nBronze then bustled Paige Williams out of possession and picked out Christiansen with a delightful cross.\n\nCity's preference to stretch play and attack down the flanks had meant that, despite being 2-0 up, Lloyd was a peripheral figure for the opening 30 minutes.\n\nShe had shown glimpses of her technical ability and vision but made her quality count when she rose above flapping Blues keeper Ann-Katrin Berger to head home another Campbell cross following a short corner.\n\nCity stayed in control despite facing an improved Blues side after the break, with the lively Nikita Parris having a shot tipped wide and Steph Houghton sending a header off target.\n\nBirmingham were rewarded for their efforts through Wellings' curled effort, but Scott showed some nifty footwork to fire in a fourth goal after good work by substitute Toni Duggan.\n\n'It's what dreams are made of'\n\nManchester City captain Houghton, who will also lead England at Euro 2017 this summer, described the FA Cup as \"the one we were missing\" after their final triumph.\n\n\"Credit to all the girls and all the staff, we've worked so hard,\" she told BBC Radio 5 live. \"We've had a tireless schedule, but we were the best team on the day.\n\n\"The aim was to win as many trophies with this team as I could. To be captain of this club is unbelievable - but to win the FA Cup at Wembley, it's what dreams are made of.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Georgia Stanway (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Carli Lloyd.\n• None Attempt saved. Stephanie Houghton (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Aoife Mannion (Birmingham City Ladies) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Manchester City Women. Carli Lloyd tries a through ball, but Toni Duggan is caught offside.\n• None Jessica Carter (Birmingham City Ladies) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Wellings (Birmingham City Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Lucy Bronze (Manchester City Women) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Ellen White (Birmingham City Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Jessica Carter with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Nikki Lilly found a new hobby as a YouTuber when a medical condition caused her to give up swimming and dance\n\nNikki Christou, 12, known in the vlogging world as Nikki Lilly, makes YouTube videos about baking, make-up and a rare medical condition known as arterial venous malformation (AVM), something she was diagnosed with when she was six.\n\nHer condition has resulted in a severe facial disfigurement and the constant risk of life-threatening nosebleeds.\n\nShe doesn't get many \"haters\" on her channel but admits that when she began vlogging, the cruel comments did upset her.\n\n\"It definitely got to me at first, and I may have shed a few tears - but, as I've grown as a vlogger, I've learnt that the comments from the haters are basically all the same.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"They may say things like, 'You are ugly,' but really they don't like themselves and they have nothing better to do.\"\n\nNikki currently has more than 200,000 subscribers to her channel and hopes to break the million mark at some point.\n\nMaking videos started as a hobby, a natural follow-on from the role-playing games she already loved.\n\nWhen she began posting them to YouTube in 2013, she became part of a new generation of tweenagers - children from eight to 13 - who run their own channels.\n\nShe advises any newbies to \"make sure they always show what they have made to their parents\".\n\nAt first, Nikki's parents, worried by the reaction she might receive, insisted that the comments section was turned off.\n\nBut her mother says that once they saw how much it meant to Nikki and how much she craved feedback, they changed their minds.\n\nMany young girls are blogging about beauty and most of them are \"pretty and thin\", according to one academic\n\nShauna Pomerantz, associate professor at the department of child and youth studies at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, says Nikki is a great role model for young girls.\n\n\"She is the champion of the not-perfect girl, and she is absolutely inspirational to watch,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I can see why people love her - she is a hero to anyone who feels like an outsider.\"\n\nAcross the pond, 13-year-old American dancer and singer JoJo Siwa vlogs about much the same thing as Nikki Lilly, although, with more than three million followers, she is better established.\n\nThere are, says Prof Pomerantz, thousands of similar girls on YouTube and they are \"mostly white, upper-class, pretty and thin\".\n\nProf Pomerantz's own nine-year-old daughter is a mega-fan of JoJo's, and while her daughter doesn't know why she likes her so much, her mother thinks there are two main reasons.\n\n\"Firstly, this is a world where no adults are visible and it is fantastic for children to see a world where kids are in charge.\"\n\nZoe Sugg - who now writes books as well as vlogging - has become the godmother of the beauty vlog, with 11 million subscribers\n\nThe second reason is likely to be the normalcy of the videos.\n\n\"This stuff is really very mundane,\" Prof Pomerantz says.\n\n\"Any adult watching would be bored within seconds.\n\n\"These vloggers invite their fans on closet tours, show them how to do a high ponytail, show them their underwear.\"\n\nAnd this means children can relate to these \"stars\" in ways a previous generation could not, says Prof Pomerantz.\n\nGone are the days when celebrities were one step removed, in the pages of a glossy magazine or on the set of a TV programme - now children are quite literally invited to look around their bedrooms.\n\nNikki Lilly is a huge fan of Zoella, who, at the grand old age of 27, is a veteran of the beauty vlog.\n\nShe says she loves her because \"she is like a chatty girl next door\".\n\nBut Zoella, like other celebrity vloggers, has another secret to her success, a willingness to share her vulnerability with her fans - in her case, crippling anxiety.\n\nAre young people becoming too image conscious because of social media?\n\nMuch has been written about how the YouTube generation are growing up with no privacy - willing to share on social media every detail of their lives, but Prof Pomerantz is not overly concerned.\n\n\"While their mothers may have kept a diary under lock and key, now there is a different way of sharing secrets and young people are happy to tell the world,\" she says.\n\n\"In some ways, this is a form of empowerment.\n\n\"Young people are more likely to be open and honest.\"\n\nJournalist Zoe Williams worries, though, that YouTube could be spawning a generation of egotists.\n\nWriting about Zoella in the Guardian newspaper, she says: \"Her delight in the inconsequential is perversely infectious; there is something rather relaxing about the company of a person who will say out loud anything that pops into their head.\"\n\nBut, she adds: \"The depth of her fascination with herself is also rather alienating.\"\n\nThere is no shortage of children desperate to mimic their YouTube heroes and start their own vlogs - but, for the vast majority, stardom is unlikely to follow.\n\nAmanda Lenhart, a senior research scientist at the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, says for those who do not get many followers, it is simply a valuable life lesson.\n\n\"It is not pleasant, but is it any different from wanting to be a professional football player and finding you are not good enough? It is part of growing up,\" she says.\n\nJustin Escalona, 20, who started a YouTube channel with his friends when he was 11, has some advice for children wanting to do the same.\n\n\"I think having an outlet for young kids to express their creativity is a positive thing,\" he says.\n\n\"Just don't put stupid or inappropriate stuff online and don't worry about getting views.\"\n\nNow a film student, his vlogs have morphed into slick, cinematic affairs, but he advises children against feeling the need to always be \"camera-ready\".\n\n\"Just be genuine,\" he says.\n\n\"If you're faking the best version of yourself, it will show over time.\n\n\"If you're sharing your genuine high points, along with maybe your not-so-high points, people will respect and like you for being real.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChampions Celtic scored three times in a blistering opening 11 minutes to overcome Aberdeen at Pittodrie and move to within two games of completing an unbeaten Scottish Premiership season.\n\nDedryck Boyata headed Celtic in front in three minutes, with Stuart Armstrong doubling the lead five minutes later.\n\nLeigh Griffiths fired in a third, before Jonny Hayes gave the Dons hope with a curling shot within 60 seconds.\n\nBut the hosts could not to stop Celtic taking their points tally to 100.\n\nDerek McInnes' side may look back ruefully at referee Steven McLean's decision not to award them a penalty when Craig Gordon collided with Graeme Shinnie.\n\nBut they will likely also reflect on their slow start to a fantastic contest, with Celtic apparently out of sight within 11 minutes.\n\nPatrick Roberts signalled an early warning when he escaped and tested Joe Lewis, but that was not heeded and Griffiths' deep corner was headed in by an unchallenged Boyata.\n\nWonderful Griffiths skill created the second, the striker escaping on the right and feeding Callum McGregor. His shot was blocked by Shay Logan, but Armstrong was on hand to slam in a composed finish.\n\nIt quickly got even worse for Aberdeen. Griffiths turned, fired powerfully from distance and found the net, although Lewis should have done better than help the ball into his top-right corner.\n\nIt was a devastating start from the champions and the game looked finished. Aberdeen boss McInnes must have feared his side were on course for a damaging hammering in the run up to their meeting with Celtic in the Scottish Cup final.\n\nBut the Dons showed remarkable strength and ability to claw their way back in. Hayes was the inspiration for a revival when he turned and fired a wonderful left foot shot over Gordon and into the net.\n\nJayden Stockley should have netted a second moments later but his header slid marginally wide.\n\nAberdeen pressed on with confidence and Niall McGinn could only hit straight at Gordon from a great position. It could have been 3-3, or 5-3, with both sides looking likely to score again.\n\nShinnie claimed for a penalty when he nicked the ball before Gordon took him out but referee McLean said no, much to Aberdeen's fury. It looked a spot-kick and could have made such a difference.\n\nIt was mainly Aberdeen pushing forward in the second period. Kenny McLean should have hit the target when he broke into the box but fired off-target, as did McGinn shortly after.\n\nWith the home side unable to turn pressure into goals, Nir Bitton's introduction for Celtic seemed to take the sting out of the game in the latter stages.\n\nBoth teams have much to ponder before coming together again at Hampden Park; positives and negatives.\n\nAberdeen looked all over the place defensively in the early stages, but responded strongly and caused Celtic problems. From that, they will take great belief.\n\nCeltic manager Rodgers will be disappointed at how things panned out after that clinical opening period.\n\nHis side failed to control long periods of the contest and had to absorb a lot of pressure, which they did, but more than was comfortable.\n\nHowever, the champions did demonstrate that when they fire, they are pretty much unstoppable.\n• None Attempt saved. James Forrest (Celtic) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match James Forrest (Celtic) because of an injury.\n• None Shaleum Logan (Aberdeen) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. James Forrest (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Delay in match Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City held on to beat Leicester City and move back into third place after referee Bobby Madley disallowed Riyad Mahrez's late penalty for the Foxes.\n\nMahrez, who had been brought down by Gael Clichy, had the chance to make it 2-2 but slipped as he took his spot-kick and touched the ball with his right foot as well as his left as he sent it into the net.\n\nMadley immediately ruled the goal out for a double-touch and awarded the home side a free-kick, to the relief of Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola and his players.\n\nThe hosts had dominated the first half at the Etihad Stadium, and looked like they were cruising to victory when they went 2-0 up.\n• None Relive the game from the Etihad Stadium\n\nThere was controversy over the home side's first goal, which came when David Silva turned in Leroy Sane's shot, with Leicester claiming unsuccessfully that Raheem Sterling was offside as he tried and failed to help it over the line.\n\nGabriel Jesus made it 2-0 with a penalty that was a far easier decision for Madley, after Yohan Benalouane sent Sane sprawling.\n\nManchester City appeared to be in complete control but the mood changed when Leicester's Shinji Okazaki met Marc Albrighton's cross with a superb acrobatic finish.\n\nGuardiola's side were far less fluent after the break while Leicester's increased attacking threat ensured a tense finish that almost brought them a point as a reward.\n\nWhat is the rule for taking a penalty?\n\nThe player taking the penalty kick must kick the ball forward. He must not play the ball again until it has touched another player.\n\nTop four within touching distance for City\n\nManchester City have now played the same amount of games as Liverpool, who need to win at West Ham on Sunday to go back above them.\n\nBelow them, any slip-ups by Arsenal at Stoke on Saturday evening or Manchester United at Tottenham on Sunday will mean Manchester City can make sure of a top-four finish, and Champions League football, by beating West Brom on Tuesday.\n\nLeicester, who ensured top-flight survival with last week's win over Watford, can finish no higher than eighth.\n\nThe only tangible prize for last season's champions is Craig Shakespeare's long-term future as their manager, but they did not lack motivation against a side that stumbled over the line to collect three vital points on Saturday.\n\nThe atmosphere at the Etihad was undeniably edgy in the second half, even before Mahrez's slip let the home side off the hook.\n\nManchester City have lost only one league game on their own territory all season, but have drawn seven times and as Leicester threw players forward in the closing minutes in search of an equaliser, they were in real danger of being pegged back yet again.\n\nLeicester do not get the draw they deserve\n\nMahrez's penalty slip was a bizarre denouement in a game where Leicester showed why they have caused Manchester City so many problems recently.\n\nThe Foxes thumped Guardiola's side 4-2 in December and also beat City at the Etihad Stadium last season with a landmark win on their way to the title.\n\nInitially, Shakespeare's side were subdued and offered little more than the threat of Jamie Vardy's pace on the break, something they seldom managed to utilise.\n\nBut after Okazaki's spectacular strike brought them back into the game, Leicester sensed the anxiety of their hosts in the second half, pushed forward and put City under serious pressure.\n\nAfter Albrighton miscued at the near post from a Vardy pull-back, Leicester did not have a clear-cut chance other than Mahrez's unfortunate spot-kick, but City keeper Willy Caballero and his defence had to deal with countless balls pumped into his area.\n\nAs BBC Radio 5 live pundit Chris Waddle said, the visitors probably deserved a draw in the end, but they leave Manchester empty handed this time.\n\nThe German winger saw far less of the ball after the break but he was a huge threat down the left when his side were on top, setting up their first goal and winning the penalty that led to their second.\n\n'We have amazing human beings' - what the managers said\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola speaking to BBC Sport: \"I must congratulate Chelsea on being champions, the last champion was Leicester - the last two or three months with their results they would be in the Champions League positions. That's why I have a lot of value in this victory.\n\n\"I am was so happy with the guys in the club, I feel a lot of support from everybody. The human beings we have are amazing. We have the regret of not fighting for the title until the end - but we will improve.\"\n\nLeicester City boss Craig Shakespeare, speaking to BBC Sport: \"We threw everything at Manchester City in the second half - you saw from the players the spirit they showed.\n\nOn his future: \"I've stated my contract is until the end of the season. There is only two games left. Everyone will find out soon.\"\n\nOn Leicester's failed penalty: \"I didn't see it at the time. It's a freak thing you don't see often.\"\n\nManchester City have their final home game of the season against West Brom on Tuesday (20:00 BST), before ending their campaign at Watford on Sunday, 21 May (15:00).\n\nLeicester finish with two games at the King Power Stadium - Tottenham are the visitors on Thursday (19:45), then Bournemouth on the final day (15:00).\n• None David Silva has scored in back-to-back Premier League games for the first time since December 2014.\n• None Gabriel Jesus has been directly involved in seven goals in six Premier League starts [scoring five and assisting two].\n• None The Brazilian has scored five times from seven shots on target in the Premier League for City.\n• None Shinji Okazaki ended a run of 23 games in all competitions without scoring for Leicester.\n• None No player has failed to score more penalties in the Premier League this season than Riyad Mahrez and Christian Benteke (two each).\n• None Only referee Michael Oliver (15) has awarded more penalties in the Premier League this season than Bobby Madley (12).\n• None Manchester City have lost just one of their past 15 Premier League games [won eight, drawn six].\n• None Pep Guardiola named an unchanged line-up in a Premier League game for the first time.\n• None Leicester have won one of 21 Premier League games this season in which they've conceded the first goal [drawn three, lost 17].\n• None Attempt blocked. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt blocked. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Danny Simpson.\n• None Attempt missed. Vincent Kompany (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by David Silva with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A picture of Mr Li from 2012 and one taken after his release\n\nIt's a form of restraint that would be more in keeping with the practices of a medieval dungeon than a modern, civilised state.\n\nBut the device - leg and hand shackles linked by a short chain - is a well-documented part of the toolkit that the Chinese police use to break the will of their detainees.\n\nAnd it is one that they allegedly forced one of this country's most prominent human rights lawyers to wear, for a full month.\n\nLi Heping was finally released from detention on Tuesday and his wife Wang Qiaoling has now had time to learn about the treatment he endured over his almost two-year-long incarceration.\n\n\"In May 2016 in the Tianjin Number One Detention Centre, he was put in handcuffs and shackles with an iron chain linking the two together,\" she tells me.\n\n\"It meant that he could not stand up straight, he could only stoop, even during sleeping. He wore that instrument of torture 24/7 for one month.\"\n\nShe adds: \"They wanted him to confess.\"\n\nIn one sense, Mr Li was lucky.\n\nA 2015 investigation by Human Rights Watch into the use of torture by the Chinese police revealed the case of a man who was forced to wear this type of device for eight years.\n\nIn 2014 an Amnesty International report documented the supply and manufacture of torture equipment by Chinese companies, including the combined hand and leg cuffs.\n\nTorture devices like the one allegedly used on Li Heping are readily available online\n\n\"The use of these devices causes unnecessary discomfort and can easily result in injuries,\" William Nee, China Researcher at Amnesty International, tells me.\n\n\"Such devices place unwarranted restrictions on the movement of detainees and serve no legitimate law enforcement purpose that cannot be achieved by the use of handcuffs alone.\"\n\nLi Heping is one of a group of human rights lawyers who were detained in July 2015, in a crackdown since referred to by critics as China's \"war on law.\"\n\nOf course, threats, intimidation and violence have always been part of the risks for any lawyer daring to take on the might of the Communist Party in its own courts.\n\nBut President Xi Jinping has made it clear that he sees the ideal of constitutional rights, guaranteed by independent courts, as a threat to national security.\n\nSo his so-called \"war on law\" sends a clear message.\n\nPresident Xi Jinping sees the constitutional rights guaranteed by independent courts as a threat to national security\n\nFor those like Mr Li, representing the victims of China's illegal land grabs, religious persecution or political repression, the threat is not just from corrupt local officials or powerful businessmen, but from the state itself.\n\nThe before and after photos offer a visual clue to his time in detention.\n\nOne taken in 2012 shows an assured, cheery lawyer.\n\nThe one taken on his release shows him noticeably thinner and looking older than his years.\n\nWang Qiaoling tells me she barely recognised him.\n\nAnd she tells me about the other forms of ill-treatment that her husband has described to her since his release.\n\n\"He was forced to take medicine. They stuffed the pills into his mouth as he refused to take them voluntarily,\" she says.\n\n\"The police told him that they were for high blood pressure, but my husband doesn't suffer from that.\n\n\"After taking the pills he felt pain in his muscles and his vision was blurred.\"\n\n\"He was beaten. He endured gruelling questioning while being denied sleep for days on end,\" she goes on.\n\n\"And he was forced to stand to attention for 15 hours a day, without moving.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wang Qiaoling has not heard from her husband Li Heping since he was taken away two months ago\n\nAmnesty International's William Nee tells me that each of these methods of ill-treatment could be considered torture by themselves.\n\n\"Cumulatively, they would demonstrate a clear intent by the authorities to inflict physical and mental torture with the goal of getting Li Heping to confess,\" he says.\n\n\"Since China is a party to the Convention against Torture, these serious allegations should prompt the Chinese authorities to immediately launch a prompt, effective and impartial investigation to assess whether this torture took place.\"\n\nDespite the prolonged and extreme nature of the alleged torture, Ms Wang tells me her husband never did confess.\n\n\"He was worried that he might be tortured to death in the detention centre and he wouldn't make it to meet his family again, so he reached an agreement with the authorities that the trial would be held in secret.\n\n\"He would be given a suspended sentence but he never admitted guilt or confessed that he had subverted state power.\"\n\nAt that secret trial, the details of which were released by China's state-controlled media afterwards, the court ruled that Mr Li had \"repeatedly used the internet and foreign media interviews to discredit and attack state power and the legal system\".\n\nAs a result of his conviction, he is now unable to practise law and has also signed an agreement that he will not carry out any further media interviews.\n\nBut his wife, despite constant intimidation, refuses to be similarly constrained.\n\nPlain-clothes policemen still surround the family home and she was followed to our agreed interview location.\n\nAnd while her account is impossible to independently verify, it tallies with that of other lawyers caught up in the crackdown, including Xie Yang, whose court case was heard this week.\n\nHe had previously alleged similar abuses during his interrogations - including shackling, beatings and being made to remain in the same position for hours on end - although the court claims he retracted these allegations during his trial.\n\nWe called the Tianjin Number One detention centre to ask about the allegations that Li Heping was tortured there.\n\n\"We don't do any interviews,\" came the reply. \"If you want to do an interview, please go through the legal and proper channels.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nSaracens became back-to-back champions of Europe as they beat Clermont Auvergne in a pulsating Champions Cup final at Murrayfield.\n\nTries from Chris Ashton and George Kruis helped the English champions into a 12-0 lead, but Clermont hit back through Remi Lamerat's converted try.\n\nAfter Owen Farrell edged Sarries eight points clear, a dazzling Nick Abendanon try saw Clermont edge within a point.\n\nBut Alex Goode's try and Farrell's boot ensured Saracens retained their crown.\n\nWhen they raced into that early 12-0 lead it looked as though Saracens, playing a pacy all-court game, were going to blow Clermont away.\n\nBut the French side managed to claw their way back into the contest by taking on Saracens at the breakdown and they gave the Londoners a real fright before the power and class of the champions saw them home.\n\nSaracens' rise to the top of the European game was built on ferocious defence, relentless focus and a ruthless desire to win.\n\nIt was not always pretty but over the past year they have added another - attacking - gear to their game and that was fully in evidence as they dominated the opening quarter.\n\nAshton's opener was sublime - the winger racing on to fellow England discard Goode's precise grubber kick to become the leading all-time try scorer in the Champions Cup with 37.\n\nKruis then bullied his way over after Goode's slicing break had taken Sarries within a couple of yards.\n\nBut missed chances meant they were not out of sight, and from their first attack Clermont cut the gap to five points.\n\nAurelien Rougerie - the 36-year-old centre who joined the side from the Massif Central as a boy - was cut down just short by Ashton, but Lamerat was on hand for a converted score.\n\nThe French side are the nearly men of European rugby, having won only one of the 14 top-tier French and European finals they had been in previously.\n\nDetermined not to add to that record they decided to throw bodies into the ruck and they succeeded in halting Saracens' momentum.\n\nFor a long time, it just offered the chance for the champions to show their defensive class, but a try of the season contender saw Clermont right back in it.\n\nScott Spedding started it from his own line, Fritz Lee and Peceli Yato took it on at pace and Abendanon cruised over for a converted score.\n\nWith just a point in it and the momentum apparently in Clermont's favour, lesser sides might have folded, but Saracens pride themselves on their mental strength as much as anything and they took a vice-like grip on the game.\n\nIn desperation, Clermont began to concede penalties and Farrell kept the scoreboard ticking over for Saracens.\n\nThey needed a try to finish the Frenchmen off and twice came agonisingly close, but Camille Lopez got a hand to one try-scoring pass - not a deliberate knock-on, ruled referee Nigel Owens - and Billy Vunipola was bundled into touch a yard from the line.\n\nBut Clermont finally cracked and Goode got the try his performance deserved as he glided through a gap to confirm that Saracens are the best club side in Europe.\n\nWhat next for Saracens?\n\nThe Londoners' ongoing quest for global domination continues with a trip to Exeter in the first of next Saturday's Premiership semi-finals.\n\nA sticky patch during the Six Nations when they were missing their England contingent means the reigning English champions must hit the road for their semi-final, but their recent form suggests they are back to their very best and they will fear no-one as they target a 'double double'.\n\n'Record is just the icing on the cake'\n\n\"We've worked so hard for the past five or six years. It's such a pleasure to be with this group. It's so hard to play in these finals so to win two is a pleasure.\n\n\"To become top try-scorer is just the icing on the cake.\"\n\nWhat did World Cup-winner Matt Dawson make of it?\n\n\"Saracens just have an incredible ability to repeat their skills under fatigue and pressure.\n\n\"For example there was nothing complex about their final try. But all of a sudden, when they needed to strike, it was the famous Farrell screen that set up Alex Goode.\"\n\nReplacements: Fernandez for Spedding (70), Penaud for Rougerie (53), Radosavljevic for Parra (74), Falgoux for Chaume (53), Ulugia for Kayser (66), Jarvis for Zirakashvili (76), Jedrasiak for Vahaamahina (45), Lapandry for Yato (60).\n\nReplacements: Spencer for Wigglesworth (78), Lamositele for M Vunipola (76), Brits for George (50), Du Plessis for Koch (78), Hamilton for Itoje (78), S Burger for Wray (60), Taylor for Barritt (54).", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nTop 14 side Stade Francais came from 10-0 down to beat Gloucester and win the European Challenge Cup.\n\nEngland wing Jonny May's try put Gloucester, who needed to win to keep their Champions Cup qualification hopes alive, ahead at a rainy Murrayfield.\n\nItaly captain Sergio Parisse then crossed to make it 10-10 at the break.\n\nJonathan Danty and Geoffrey Doumayrou touched down as the French team dominated after half-time, before Ross Moriarty scored a late consolation.\n\nStade Francais had reached European finals four times without success prior to Friday's Edinburgh showpiece, but were deserved victors against an error-strewn Gloucester side.\n\nThe result also means the Cherry and Whites miss out on the chance to compete for a spot in next season's Champions Cup.\n\nThe 20th and final place for the 2017-18 competition is to be decided by a series of play-off matches, with Northampton set to be replaced in the semi-finals had Gloucester won the Challenge Cup.\n\nBut the Saints, who finished seventh in the Premiership, will now play Connacht next Saturday, with a play-off final to follow against either Stade Francais or Cardiff Blues.\n\nDefeat for the Cherry and Whites at Murrayfield also means Scotland captain Greig Laidlaw's Gloucester career ends in disappointment, with the 31-year-old scrum-half due to join Clermont Auvergne in the summer.\n\nLaidlaw, who moved to Kingsholm in 2014, was not introduced until the second half having spent the past two months on the sidelines with ankle ligament damage - but could make little impact with the Gloucester pack often demolished at scrum time.\n\nThe English side had done well to negotiate a tricky 10-minute spell before the break with Willi Heinz in the sin bin, but came up well short against an impressive and powerful Stade Francais unit in the second period.\n\nDoumayrou's try was the highlight of the final, dancing through three Gloucester tacklers to confirm his team's superiority and set up an historic victory for a club who finished seventh in the Top 14 this year.\n\n'It's been a disappointing season - but we're not far away'\n\n\"I'm obviously very disappointed,\" Gloucester director of rugby David Humphreys told BBC Radio 5 live. \"But it's most disappointing that we didn't really test Stade Francais in the way that we planned.\n\n\"Credit to them, they negated everything we did. We couldn't win the ball, we couldn't hold the ball and because of that they won comfortably.\n\n\"We gave away penalty after penalty at the set-piece and to compete against the top teams you can't do that.\n\n\"We haven't hidden behind the fact it's been a disappointing season. We know we're not far away, we've shown that with our performances.\"", "Women form nearly half the electorate in Iran\n\nWhen Iranians go to the polls to choose a new president next Friday, all the names on the ballot paper will be male. In the nearly four-decade history of the Islamic Republic, no woman has been allowed to stand for the top office.\n\nBut it's certainly not for want of trying.\n\nThis year, 137 women put their names forward. Most famous by far is Azam Taleghani, a 72-year old former MP and daughter of a well-known ayatollah.\n\nShe has registered to stand in most presidential elections since 1997, determined to challenge the archaic and ambiguous wording of the Iranian constitution which has traditionally been interpreted as meaning only men can become president.\n\nMs Taleghani argues that the criteria can apply to both men and women and that, as an experienced politician, she is eminently qualified.\n\nBut the electoral supervisory body, the Guardian Council, disagrees and has disqualified her at every attempt.\n\nThis March, now frail and walking with the help of a frame, Ms Taleghani once again determinedly made her way up the stone steps of the interior ministry to register. And once again she failed to qualify.\n\nEven though they are not allowed to stand, women comprise just under half the electorate, so their vote is important and presidential candidates usually make an effort to reach out to them.\n\nEarly on in the campaign the incumbent, President Hassan Rouhani, posted a photo of himself on social media which caused a flurry of comment.\n\nHe was out on a weekend walk in the mountains standing next to two young female hikers, both of whose hijab is far from what would be considered proper by the hardliners.\n\nIt was a clear message to young, modern female voters, that he was the candidate who was not overly bothered about the country's restrictive dress code and other curbs on social freedom.\n\nMr Rouhani's campaign video makes a point of praising Iranian women's achievements in the worlds of both work and sport, and offering his support.\n\nHe is also the only candidate so far to have held a rally specifically for female voters.\n\nHe was given a rapturous welcome by thousands of young women gathered at Tehran's Shiroudi stadium this week.\n\nMany were wearing purple headscarves - the colour of his campaign - and many held placards demanding more rights and freedoms.\n\nWomen are poorly represented in politics and government in Iran\n\nWell-known MP Parvaneh Salahshouri was cheered when she told the crowd that the morality police should leave women alone and focus on fighting corruption instead.\n\nFlanked by female MPs, Mr Rouhani took to the stage and indirectly rebuked his hardline rival Ebrahim Raisi over the conservatives' view that women's employment is less important than their role as wives and mothers.\n\n\"Aren't you the one trying to stop women from going out to work?\" he asked. \"If you really believe in female employment then why haven't you done anything about it?\"\n\nAs an ultra-conservative, Mr Raisi clearly has a harder job appealing to young, modern-minded female voters.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped him from trying. On the campaign trail he makes frequent mention of his wife - who has a PhD and is a university professor.\n\n\"I don't mind eating a cold dinner when my wife has to work late,\" he told a journalist recently.\n\nMr Raisi's critics are sceptical about his sudden interest in women's rights.\n\nA photograph of a recent campaign rally in which his supporters are clearly segregated by gender, has prompted much mockery from moderates.\n\nHardline candidate Ebrahim Raisi has also been courting the female vote\n\nMany suspect Mr Raisi's real views are actually closer to those of the man he's widely tipped to succeed Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.\n\nMr Khamenei is famous for dismissing gender equality as a \"failed Western idea\", and stressing the importance of Iranian women's role in the home and family.\n\nThe other key candidate in this race, Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, is also using social media to reach out to women.\n\nHe recently posted a photo of himself surrounded by young ethnic Kurds, including girls wearing colourful headscarves with their hair clearly visible.\n\nBut on social media he has been constantly reminded of his past proposals to segregate men and women in the workplace in Tehran. And President Rouhani has made several swipes at him for the same reason.\n\nAlongside the presidential poll, voters will also be electing new local councils and here women are involved and having more impact.\n\nRecord numbers of women won seats in local elections four years ago, and many are hoping to repeat that achievement this time round.\n\nOverall representation by women both in local councils and in parliament is still low - Iran ranks 177 out of 193 on the United Nation's 2017 Women in Politics report.\n\nBut the involvement of women on local councils has made an impact and it is here that they are clearly able to make a difference.\n\nBack on the campaign trail in Tehran women voters are listening hard to the pledges now being made to them by the candidates.\n\nMany are wondering whether the rhetoric will translate into policies that will really address the many pressures of their everyday lives.\n\nVeteran would-be presidential candidate Azam Taleghani has been taking part in an election meeting at Amir Kabir university.\n\nShe pledged to continue her campaign for women to be allowed to stand for president, but said that this time round she would be casting her vote for President Rouhani.\n\n\"Maybe we will never have a female president,\" she told students, \"But it doesn't mean the right to stand should be taken away from us.\"", "How US President Donald Trump spent his time before the firing of the FBI director - quietly and away from the public - sheds light on his decision-making.\n\nIn the days leading up to the president's momentous decision to fire FBI director James Comey, President Trump spent his time with members of his family and close aides.\n\nThe group didn't include his high-profile senior advisors, revealing the way that he was tightening the circle of trust before the bombshell announcement.\n\nEarlier this month Comey spoke with Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, about the investigation into Russia's attempts to interfere in the November election. Comey made it clear that he was working hard on the investigation and had no plans to drop the matter or go easy on the president.\n\nComey also spoke with lawmakers about the bureau's investigation into the Russians, and about its investigation into the emails of Hillary Clinton. On 3 May he told members of Congress that he felt he'd approached both investigations in an impartial manner.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do Trump supporters think about Comey's firing?\n\nThis did not sit well with the president, who was hoping that the investigation into his past ties with Russia would be dropped. Trump had expected Comey to make a public statement saying there was no investigation of him. He'd made sure Comey knew he was hoping for that statement, but Comey had refused to do it. That had gnawed away at Trump over recent weeks.\n\nTrump became even more wary when Comey testified before Congress on 3 May. The president, as White House officials explained later, was inclined to remove him from his post.\n\nIn a termination letter written to the FBI director, the president laid out his complaint and explained the rationale for his firing: \"While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgement of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau.\"\n\nFive days earlier - the day after Comey spoke with members of Congress - the president left on a trip to New York and then headed to New Jersey. For three days - from Thursday night until Sunday - the president was not seen by the public. He was staying at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, not far from New York City.\n\nTrump appeared before the press on Sunday 7 May, after three days out of the spotlight.\n\nWhile the president was spending time at his club, other members of the press pool and I - a small group of reporters who are responsible for tracking the president's activities on a daily basis - were waiting around in a hotel in nearby Branchburg. We weren't allowed to visit the resort. Instead White House officials would occasionally stop by the hotel and tell us that the president was having meetings - but wouldn't tell us with whom or what about.\n\nPresidents - like everybody else - like to have down time and relax. They're also free to work wherever they want. But it was unusual for a president to disappear from the public for this long and without a more detailed explanation from his aides about his activities. As it turned out, he was thinking about the FBI director - and the possibility of his ouster.\n\nOn Sunday evening Trump rode in a motorcade through New Jersey, driving past red barns and horse pastures, but he was in a dark vehicle and couldn't be seen. Then he got on Air Force One to fly from New Jersey to Washington. That's when members of the press saw him for the first time since Thursday.\n\nHe and his daughter Ivanka and his son-in-law Jared Kushner were seated in a cabin in the front of the aeroplane. KT McFarland, the deputy national security adviser, was on the flight. Stephen Miller, wearing a navy jacket and a white shirt with no tie, paced around the cabin.\n\nI didn't see HR McMaster, the national security adviser, or Stephen Bannon, the chief White House strategist. I was surprised because on most of the trips I'd gone on with the president, I'd seen Bannon on the aeroplane.\n\nThat evening I was sitting in the back of the aeroplane with the other reporters, and someone told me that Trump waved at us. During the short flight, the people in the front of the cabin were laughing and joking around.\n\nReporters and staff wait on the tarmac at Join Base Andrews on Sunday\n\nThen the aeroplane landed - and something seemed wrong. Kushner and his family came downstairs and headed towards a dark sedan, but the president didn't.\n\nMembers of the travelling press pool wait until the president gets off the plane and gets on his helicopter, Marine One, before they leave the tarmac - and so I stood there.\n\nIt was cold and blustery, and I spent a long time looking at the windows of the aeroplane and trying to figure out what was going on. We were there for so long that even the Secret Service agents started to look bored. One of them yawned.\n\nI asked White House aides about the delay, and they told me the president was in a meeting. \"He didn't want to break it off,\" one of the aides told me later.\n\nWhile we waited on the tarmac, an aide carried two or three golf clubs down the stairs, holding them close to his side so they'd be less visible. (Still they clanked together as he walked down the stairs - it's hard to hide golf clubs.)\n\nAt one point Kushner went back up the stairs of the plane. Every family has a mediator, someone who calms everyone else down, and he seems to play that role. After a while he came down the stairs again.\n\n\"Everything's OK,\" Kushner told me, talking about the president and his reasons for staying the plane. \"He was just working on something.\"\n\nFinally - after 45 minutes - Trump came out. He wasn't wearing a tie, and his hair looked messy. He gripped the handrail and walked down the stairs and headed for Marine Force One and back to the White House.\n\nI'm still not sure whom the president was meeting with on the plane or why the meeting was so important that it couldn't be interrupted when the plane landed. McFarland wasn't in the meeting - at least I don't think she was. I could see her walking past the windows of the plane. White House officials haven't provided me with more of an explanation for what was happening on the plane.\n\nOne thing seemed clear, though: the president was preparing for the important announcement about the FBI director in a safe, cloistered environment, an atmosphere in which he was unlikely to be challenged in a dramatic way.\n\nThat changed, of course, on Tuesday when Comey was sacked, and people outside the president's circle found out about the president's plans. The relaxed, contemplative world that he'd created had come to an end.\n\nUnlike previous presidents, he does not seem to have an established system either for his decision-making or for the rollout of major announcements. Trump may have thought long and hard about the termination of Comey, but analysts said that he didn't lay the groundwork for what would happen next.\n\n\"You'd think if you're going to fire someone, you'd have a successor lined up,\" said David Greenberg, the author of Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image.\n\nRight now the search is on for a new FBI director: stay tuned.", "When Tom and Elizabeth Flight were told their seven-month-old baby Arlo was in the 90th percentile for height, the 97th percentile for weight and the 99th for head circumference, they began to worry. How big can a baby get and still be considered normal, asks Jordan Dunbar.\n\n\"I'm worried he's one of the biggest babies in America,\" says his father Tom, a 6' 3\" (191cm) Brit who moved to Texas to marry Elizabeth.\n\nAt birth, Arlo weighed seven-and-a-half pounds, but he grew rapidly over the next six months on a diet of breast milk alone.\n\nFor the last month he has been getting formula milk as well from time to time, and he's now more than three times his birth weight - 24lb (11kg). And 30in (76cm) tall.\n\nThe percentile figures come from a growth chart produced by America's Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Every five years the CDC measures hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young adults up to the age of 20, and the resulting charts allow doctors to assess what percentage of children of a given age group are taller or heavier than the patient in front of them.\n\n\"If you line up 100 babies of Arlo's age, from the shortest to the longest. Arlo would be 97,\" says Dr Joe Hagan from the American Academy of Pediatrics, explaining what it means to be in the 97th percentile.\n\n\"If you count head circumference he'd be 99.\"\n\nSo only one in 100 American babies aged seven months has a bigger head circumference than Arlo. Does this matter?\n\nHagan is completely relaxed about it. Head circumference helps doctors to judge whether a baby's brain is developing normally, he says, but the key thing is that the head is in proportion with the rest of the body, and Arlo's is.\n\n\"I would expect at Arlo's weight and height that his head circumference would be in the 99th percentile,\" says Hagan.\n\nThe charts produced by the CDC in the US are based on the measurements of real-life Americans. But over time, American children have been getting bigger, and an increasing number of American children are overweight.\n\nBy contrast the World Health Organization (WHO) has attempted to chart \"optimal growth\" for a child.\n\nTo do this, it measured growing children in six countries: Brazil, Ghana, India, Norway, Oman and the US. But not just any children. They had to be breast-fed from birth, and vaccinated early in life. Babies whose mothers had smoked during pregnancy were not counted.\n\nDr Mercedes De Onis, who helped to gather the data, says the WHO's work shows babies develop at a similar rate all over the world, \"provided they are given proper care\".\n\nThe WHO charts \"describe healthy growth in optimal conditions and are therefore growth standards rather than growth references\", says US paediatrician Joe Hagan.\n\nHe points out that in the US the CDC is now recommending that the WHO charts should be taken as the standard for children in the US between zero and two years old.\n\nWhat about Arlo's weight? Is that a problem?\n\nOnce again, Hagan draws attention to Arlo's height. The key thing to look at is his body mass index, or BMI - his weight in relation to his height.\n\n\"So here's a guy who's tall, he's long. And longer children weigh more,\" says Hagan.\n\n\"Arlo probably has a BMI that is in the mid-80s to low 90s which would be considered overweight.\"\n\nOverweight, but not obese. What's more, Hagan expects that as Arlo makes the transition from milk to solids, and starts moving more, he will even out a little.\n\nSo is there any cause for concern?\n\n\"No, not like this. Because I'm looking at Arlo's dad who's tall and Arlo's mom, who's probably tall, and I'm thinking: 'Gee, this is OK growth for Arlo.'\"\n\nArlo is one of the biggest babies of his age in the US, and as American babies are bigger than the world average, it's also true to say he is one of the biggest in the world.\n\nBut it seems that's fine.\n\n\"I spend a lot of my time in my day-to-day work as a paediatrician telling parents you really don't need to worry about this and about that,\" Hagan says.\n\nParents often compare the size of their child to others, he says, and very often it's his task to reassure them that even if their child is bigger or smaller, there is a \"wide range of normal\".\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChampions League-chasing Arsenal moved within a point of fourth-placed Liverpool with a comfortable Premier League victory over Stoke.\n\nDespite collecting the three points, manager Arsene Wenger faced further protests from his own supporters during the game, as they flew a plane over the Bet365 Stadium and held banners inside the ground calling for him to leave the club.\n\nBut the Frenchman ended the game by receiving warm applause from the club's travelling fans as he made his way down the tunnel at the final whistle.\n\nThe Gunners had not won on their previous six visits to the venue, but took the lead with a well-crafted move as Hector Bellerin picked out Olivier Giroud for a tap-in before Alexis Sanchez combined with Mesut Ozil, who coolly tucked home in the second period.\n\nUntil their opening goal it had been a poor spectacle, with Nacho Monreal heading against the post and Sanchez dragging an effort into the side-netting from a promising position.\n\nStoke controversially restored hope as Peter Crouch converted Marko Arnautovic's cross with his hand, but Sanchez drilled in a low finish and Giroud slid in a fourth for the away side.\n\nBoth Arsenal and Liverpool have two games remaining and are level on goal difference with the Gunners ahead by one on goals scored.\n\nJurgen Klopp's men travel to West Ham on Sunday (kick-off 14:15 BST) and play Middlesbrough on the last day of the season, while the north London club host Sunderland on Tuesday and Everton in their final league match next weekend.\n\nWenger's season has been blighted by protests demanding he end his long association with the club, repeated questions over whether he will sign an extension to his contract, which runs out at the end of the season, and uncertainty over the futures of key players Sanchez and Ozil.\n\nBut he will be pleased with the way his players have responded with the campaign coming to a close, taking five wins from their past six league games - the only blemish a weak display in their defeat by Tottenham.\n\nHe was even afforded a standing ovation at full-time and will be particularly satisfied at triumphing at a venue where his side have struggled in the past, claiming their first win there since 2010.\n\nWenger jumped off his seat and jigged in delight at Sanchez's goal, which gave his team a cushion.\n\nThe Chilean, who has been linked with a move away, hobbled off with a leg injury after scoring and fans will be hoping it is not the last time they see him in an Arsenal shirt.\n\nA season that promised so little at one stage could actually turn into a celebratory one. Their late charge sees them maintain optimism of extending their Champions League participation to 22 consecutive seasons, and they have an FA Cup final against newly crowned Premier League champions Chelsea to look forward to.\n\nStoke's season is petering out with a whimper - they have won just one of their past 10 league games.\n\nThis loss means they will finish in the bottom half for the first time since 2012-13 - their worst season in the Premier League as they finished 13th with 42 points.\n\nAlthough the Potters are in the same position at the moment, they have one fewer point and will be hoping to win their last game of the season at Southampton to end on a high.\n\nEven after pulling a goal back against Arsenal - which should not have stood after Crouch's handball - Stoke did not look like getting anything out of the game with Mame Biram Diouf summing up their performance by nodding wide from just three yards out.\n\nOne goal and one assist, Sanchez is getting back to his best at the right time for Arsenal but handed the Gunners an injury scare by hobbling off shortly after his goal.\n\nArsenal boss Arsene Wenger: \"We had a difficult week but we have won convincingly so the focus is there, the fighting spirit is there and we're pleased to win. I believe when the team plays well we have the right individual talent to win.\n\n\"When they scored the 'hand-goal' they came back but when you go to places like Stoke you need at some stage to suffer and stick together and that is what we did.\"\n\nStoke boss Mark Hughes: \"We had to chase to the game and we have been picked off going the opposite way. Playing for five minutes isn't enough. We needed to ask more questions.\n\n\"We are disappointed as it is always our aim [to finish in the top half of the table]. This is the first time we have missed out. We go against Southampton next week to get points on the board. In the summer we will assess things and maybe change things around.\"\n• None Stoke have shipped 24 goals at home this season - their joint-highest in a single Premier League campaign (same as 2015-16).\n• None Arsenal have scored 4+ goals in five away league games this season. It's their most in a season since 1936-37 (also five).\n• None Sanchez became the eighth player to score 50 Premier League goals for Arsenal, with only Thierry Henry (83 games) and Ian Wright (87) reaching the milestone faster than the Chilean (101).\n• None Sanchez is also the first player to record double figures for both goals (21) and assists (10) in the Premier League this season.\n• None The South American also scored his 15th away goal in the Premier League this season - only Kevin Phillips (16 in 1999-00) has scored more in a single campaign.\n• None Peter Crouch scored his ninth Premier League goal against Arsenal - more than he has against any other opponent in the competition.\n• None Only Wayne Rooney (11) and Robbie Fowler (10) have scored more against the Gunners in the competition.\n• None Since the start of last season, only Ozil (31) and Sanchez (25) have recorded more assists for Arsenal in all competitions than Hector Bellerin (13), with the Spaniard picking up two today.\n• None Attempt blocked. Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Saido Berahino.\n• None Peter Crouch (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Glenn Whelan.\n• None Attempt saved. Geoff Cameron (Stoke City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Substitution, Stoke City. Ramadan Sobhi replaces Marko Arnautovic because of an injury.\n• None Goal! Stoke City 1, Arsenal 4. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City) because of an injury.\n• None Rob Holding (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Olivier Giroud. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Damien MacRae and his son, Aiden, have made their toys sun-smart\n\nAs he endured radiotherapy, Damien MacRae found playing Lego with his seven-year-old son, Aiden, was one way to block out the pain.\n\nThe pair built spaceships, pirate galleons and fortresses in their Sydney home following the discovery of melanoma on Mr MacRae's ear three years ago.\n\nBut in the piles of interlocking plastic bricks, Aiden could not find pieces to create an Australian beach. His father soon realised none existed.\n\nSo the two decided to conceive their own, in what would become a very personal mission.\n\nCancer has since spread to Mr MacRae's lungs and brain. Last month in a Facebook message, he told friends that his brain tumours had multiplied.\n\n\"Unfortunately, my doctors say that I have 6-10 weeks left to live. Six months would be a miracle,\" he wrote in the post on 14 April.\n\n\"Obviously this has made me focus on spending as much time as I can with family and friends.\"\n\nMr MacRae asked for help in realising his \"one dying wish\": to get Lego to consider making Surf Lego Rescue, the idea invented on Aiden's bedroom floor.\n\nFirst they would need 10,000 votes on a Lego concepts website.\n\n\"I think everyone gets why this project has become so important to me and Aiden,\" Mr MacRae told his friends.\n\nThe total was reached within days, meaning the project will be considered. Mr MacRae said he had never seen his son more excited.\n\n\"To see him dancing and smiling because of this, I've never been prouder,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"It's the happiest I've seen him in a long time.\"\n\nThe father and son had spent hours talking about their ideas, taking inspiration from Australia's iconic Surf Life Saving volunteer group. They ordered custom-made toys from a company in London.\n\n\"The Lego universe doesn't have much that reflects Australian culture,\" Mr MacRae said.\n\n\"There is a Sydney Opera House toy set but not much else.\"\n\nTheir collection captures a sense of fun at the beach, but it also highlights the dangers of sun exposure.\n\nThe lifeguard characters are named after celebrities who had skin cancer scares, such as Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. All wear sunscreen and hats.\n\nOne of the leading causes of melanoma is a history of sunburn, especially in childhood\n\nThe colours of the toys pay tribute to Australia's volunteer lifeguards\n\nThe set also includes surfers, a lifeboat, a jet ski, a quad bike, seagulls, a jellyfish and a shark-patrolling drone.\n\n\"I'm not a Lego designer at all,\" Mr MacRae laughed. \"I'm a 42-year-old intellectual property lawyer.\"\n\nThe Danish company will decide soon if it will produce the set. If it does, it is likely to take at least 10 months before sale.\n\n\"What a fantastic project, depicting an action-packed day at the beach, full of thoughtful and playable details,\" a Lego spokeswoman said.\n\nAustralia's Financial Review newspaper reported that Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, whose family owns Lego, had been personally moved by the campaign.\n\nAiden's favourite figure has been given his name\n\nSince 2010, 19 projects from the Lego Ideas platform have been made - such as Women of Nasa.\n\n\"They've been really generous with their kind words and indicated they will take my illness into consideration when they're doing the review,\" Mr MacRae said.\n\nBut Mr MacRae knows that time is running out.\n\n\"Getting to 10,000 votes was my goal,\" he said. \"And the possibility that I could leave a legacy for Aiden.\"\n\n\"To know that he can take ideas that he's come up with, on the bedroom floor, and take it out to the world.\"", "It's Eurovision time again, which means it's time to take the voting very personally indeed.\n\nWho is rejecting the UK's tunes and who is telling us we're not alone?\n\nDownloading the voting from fan site eschome.net you can find out how many points all other countries have given the UK at Eurovision since it started in 1957.\n\nA continuous data set is tricky because of rule changes over the years, especially last year when telephone votes were separated from jury votes, increasing the number of votes available.\n\nAlso, not all of the countries that participated in the early days have survived to the end.\n\nBut some steps may be taken to check the facts on the site, for example, it gives the total number of votes received by the UK as 3,911, which is confirmed by the official Eurovision site.\n\nNonetheless, by dividing the number of points given to the UK by the number of times a country has participated we can find out who our real friends are.\n\nWe're excluding countries that have participated fewer than five times, although Morocco deserves a special mention having only appeared once in 1980, when it gave the UK and the song Love Enough for Two a creditable eight points.\n\nThat's even better than honorary Europeans Australia, who gave the UK eight points in one of the two years it has participated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lucie Jones performs Never Give Up On You, the UK's entry for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nSo, excluding the occasional contestants, our best friends are Luxembourg, which has averaged a touch under five points per contest.\n\nLuxembourg was one of the original participants in Eurovision but has not taken part since 1993. Sadly the love was not reciprocated, with the UK giving Luxembourg only an average of 2.5 points per contest.\n\nLuxembourg is closely followed by Malta and then Ireland, which is widely seen as our best Eurovision friend because it has given the UK the most points overall in the history of the competition. The UK has given Ireland an average of almost 5.5 points in finals.\n\nCompleting the top 10 in order are: Austria, Israel, Switzerland, Turkey, Portugal, Yugoslavia (which competed 27 times before it was broken up) and Monaco.\n\nAt the bottom end, the country that has snubbed the UK the most consistently is Montenegro, which has failed to give the UK a single point in the eight times it has participated.\n\nThe other countries averaging less than one point per contest are Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, this year's hosts Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Armenia.\n\nClearly, those countries that have been withholding their love from the UK are relative newcomers to the competition, with all of them having competed fewer than 15 times.\n\nAmong the seven countries that participated in the first contest, the least love has been shown by the Netherlands, which is halfway down the list, having given the UK an average of 2.7 points per contest.\n\nThe Eurovision Song Contest final will be broadcast on BBC One on Saturday from 20:00 BST.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton edged out Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel to take pole position for the Spanish Grand Prix.\n\nHamilton failed to improve on his final run, but his first lap was good enough to beat Vettel by 0.051 seconds.\n\nA mistake by the German in the final corner could have been crucial as Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas took third ahead of Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen.\n\nHome hero Fernando Alonso produced an exceptional effort to take seventh place for McLaren-Honda.\n\nSunday's race is live on 5 live sports extra and the BBC Sport website - with coverage from 11:30 BST.\n\nHamilton's superb effort was exactly what he needed after a difficult weekend last time out in Russia, where he finished fourth.\n\nHe set the pace in final qualifying with a one minute 19.149 seconds lap, and was just 0.025secs slower on his second run.\n\nThat gave Vettel a chance, but he locked up into the last chicane and missed out by just 0.051secs.\n\nHamilton's pole also owed a lot to a major upgrade the team brought to the race, with a narrower nose cone and major aerodynamic changes around the front of the car.\n\nIt was the team's first big upgrade of the season and seemed to have cancelled out two upgrades Ferrari brought to Russia and this race, which were smaller individually but seem to have been worth about the same amount overall.\n\nVettel rewarded for going with his gut\n\nVettel still had reason to be thankful - after a last-minute engine change before qualifying, he was told to stop the car on track by his engineer on his first lap of qualifying.\n\nVettel questioned the decision, asking: \"Are you sure?\" He was told to try to bring the car back to the pits. But a change of engine settings got the car running properly and Vettel was able to continue.\n\nBottas was just 0.224secs behind Hamilton despite missing three-quarters of final practice in the morning because of an engine change, edging out Raikkonen by 0.066secs.\n\nRed Bull were fifth and sixth, with Max Verstappen beating team-mate Daniel Ricciardo by nearly half a second and providing evidence that an aerodynamic upgrade had closed the gap to the top two teams.\n\nVerstappen was just 0.557secs off pole position - about half the deficit Red Bull have had over the first four races of the season.\n\nBut their progress was overshadowed by Alonso's superlative effort in beating both Force Indias and Felipe Massa's Williams, cars with a Mercedes engine that has at least 100bhp more than McLaren's Honda.\n\nHis performance suggests McLaren might be strong at Monaco, which raises doubts about the wisdom of their best asset missing the race and being replaced by Jenson Button, whose motivation to return to F1 after his retirement is being questioned by sources close to the team and driver.\n\nHowever, Alonso said he had \"zero regrets\" about missing Monaco.\n\nAlonso said: \"Zero regrets. I will race the Indy 500, one of the best or the biggest race in the world.\n\n\"There are six cars - two Mercedes, two Ferraris, two Red Bulls - that will be unbeatable for the next couple of races. So to fight for P7 in Monaco? No thanks.\"\n\nJolyon Palmer - the other British driver on the grid - qualified 17th, knocked out in the first session in which he was just under 0.4secs slower than team-mate Nico Hulkenberg, who is 13th on the grid.\n\n\"Yesterday felt good,\" Palmer said. \"Today I have struggled. I don't really know why. I just didn't have the pace at all.\"\n\nWhat they said\n\nHamilton: \"First Q3 lap was very, very good. The last lap was not quite as good. I was up by 0.2secs I think, but I didn't finish it that way.\n\n\"I didn't make a mistake, but it is very gusty out there and sometimes you brake in the same place and the car stops really well or locks up and I braked and the car really stopped [too quickly]. But it was enough to keep me ahead.\"\n\nAsked whether his mistake was the difference, Vettel said: \"I'm afraid it was, yeah. Always the last chicane is a tricky one for me. The second run was really good up to that final chicane.\"\n\nAlonso, who is missing the next race in Monaco to race in the Indianapolis 500, said: \"Maybe running the ovals I learned how to go quick in the straights. It was a good qualifying for us and P7 is a gift.\n\n\"Today was a beautiful day, a beautiful qualifying in which we were finding tenth after tenth. Then surprisingly we made it into Q3, and we had another very good lap.\n\n\"The important thing is tomorrow, to try to get a few points.\"", "It's a mystery that has intrigued Norway for nearly 50 years.\n\nIn November 1970, the badly burnt body of a woman was found in a remote spot in Norway's Isdalen valley.\n\nSomeone had cut the labels off her clothes, and scraped distinctive marks off her belongings - as if to stop her from being identified.\n\nAnd as police started investigating her death, they uncovered a trail of coded messages, disguises, and fake identities - but never cracked the case.\n\nForty-six years later, Norwegian police and NRK journalists have decided to reopen the investigation.\n\nThis is the story of the Isdal Woman - and the perplexing trail of clues she left behind.\n\nWARNING: This article contains one graphic image\n\nClue one: The body in 'Death Valley'\n\nIsdalen Valley is a short drive from the west-coast city of Bergen\n\nOn the morning of 29 November 1970, a man and his two young daughters see a body in Isdalen Valley.\n\nThe corpse is sprawled across some rocks - with its arms extended in a \"boxer\" position, typical of bodies that have been burnt.\n\nIsdalen is known to some locals as \"Death Valley\" - it was a site where people committed suicide in medieval times, and, in the 1960s, some hikers had fallen to their deaths while trekking in the fog.\n\nBut the woman does not appear to be a normal hiker.\n\n\"It was out of the way - it was an unusual place to walk,\" Carl Halvor Aas, a police lawyer who was one of the first officers to be called to the scene, recounts to the BBC.\n\n\"The body was burned all over the front,\" including \"the face and most of her hair\", he says - but strangely it was not burnt on the back.\n\n\"It looked like she had thrown herself back\" from a fire, he says, adding that she was so badly burnt they could not imagine what she originally looked like.\n\nThis is believed to be the spot where the Isdal Woman was found\n\nThe scene is cold by the time Carl arrived, so he cannot tell how long the body has been there for.\n\nAnd how did the woman end up on fire?\n\nPolice find a number of objects at the scene, including jewellery, a watch, a broken umbrella and some bottles.\n\nBut it is the positioning of the objects that leaves the strongest impression on Tormod Bønes, one of the forensic investigators.\n\nThe woman is not wearing the watch or her jewellery - instead, they have been placed beside her.\n\n\"The placement and location of the objects surrounding the body was strange - it looked like there had been some kind of ceremony,\" he says.\n\nPolice also find the remains of a pair of rubber boots and nylon stockings.\n\n\"She had been wearing a lot of clothes - of synthetic materials - and all the clothes had been heavily burned,\" says Tormod.\n\nAdding to the mystery is the fact that the production labels have been cut off her clothes and rubbed off the bottles at the scene.\n\nPolice find nothing at the scene to indicate who the woman was.\n\nThe remains of an item of clothing and an umbrella found at the scene\n\nPolice found items of clothing, drinking bottles, the remains of nylon stockings and pieces of jewellery at the scene\n\nPolice issue an appeal for eyewitnesses. They say the woman was about 164cm (5ft 4.5 inches) tall, with \"long brownish-black hair\", a small round face, brown eyes, and small ears. She appeared to be aged between 25 and 40 years, and wore her hair \"in a ponytail tied with a blue and white print ribbon\" at the time of death.\n\nWithout a name, the woman becomes known as the Isdal Woman.\n\nAn artist's impression of the Isdal Woman, distributed by police\n\nThe story is big news in Bergen - a peaceful town with a low crime rate.\n\nThey find two suitcases at Bergen railway station's left luggage department.\n\nOne of the suitcases contains prescription-free glasses - and a fingerprint on one of the pairs matches the woman's.\n\nThe suitcases also contain:\n\nInitially, police \"were very optimistic because they thought the suitcases would help them identify the body,\" says Tormod.\n\nBut soon, they realise that \"all the labels that could have identified the woman, her clothes or belongings, had been removed\".\n\nEven the prescription sticker on the eczema cream, which would have shown the name of the doctor and the patient, has been scraped off.\n\nPolice try hard to trace the woman's belongings. They even contact several major department stores abroad, including Galeries Lafayette in Paris, to see if the stores recognise any of packaging on the woman's make up.\n\nNone of the department stores can find a match.\n\nThere is also a mysterious coded note in the case - which police will not crack until a while later (see clue five).\n\nThere is one important piece of evidence in the suitcase - a plastic bag from Oscar Rørtvedt's Footwear Store - a shoe shop in Stavanger.\n\nThe owner's son, Rolf Rørtvedt, remembers selling a pair of rubber boots to \"a very well dressed, nice-looking woman with dark hair\".\n\nThe boots he sold her appear to match the boots found on the body in the Isdalen valley. Police believe that the umbrella found near the body was also bought from the store.\n\nThe boots sold at Oscar Rørtvedt's Footwear Store were similar to the pair found at the Isdalen Valley\n\nRolf says the woman had made an impression on him because she \"took a long time\" choosing her boots - much longer than the average customer.\n\nShe spoke English, with an accent, and had \"a calm and quiet expression\", he tells the BBC.\n\nHe also recalls a strong smell emanating from the woman - which, later, he thinks may have been garlic.\n\nUsing his description, police are able to trace the woman to St Svithun hotel nearby - where she checked in as Fenella Lorch.\n\nThe problem? Fenella Lorch wasn't her real name.\n\nIt emerges that the woman had stayed in several hotels in Norway - using different aliases. And since most hotels required guests to show a passport and fill in a check-in form, this means she would have had several fake passports.\n\nOn this form, the woman claimed she had arrived from London\n\nPolice find the woman had stayed in the following hotels, under these names:\n\nPolice matched the different forms together by conducting handwriting analysis\n\nThis headline reads: \"The woman in Isdalen had at least six different aliases\"\n\nThe woman left a strong impression on Alvhild Rangnes, who was a 21-year-old waitress at Hotel Neptun at the time.\n\n\"My first impression of her was one of elegance and self-assuredness,\" she tells the BBC.\n\n\"She looked so fashionable - I wished to be able to mimic her style. In fact, I remember her winking at me… from my perspective it felt as though she thought I had been staring a bit too much at her.\"\n\n\"On one occasion while I was serving her, she was in the dining hall, sitting right next to - but not interacting with - two German navy personnel, one of which was an officer.\"\n\nThe woman's final stay was in the Hotel Hordaheimen\n\nPolice question several hotel staff who met the Isdal Woman - including Alvhild.\n\nThey learn that, in addition to speaking English, the woman also used some German phrases.\n\nThey also learn that the woman often requested a change of room - on one occasion, she asked to change rooms three times.\n\nBy now, there are several rumours that the woman was a spy. There weren't too many foreign tourists in Bergen then - and the fact the woman seemed wealthy, and well-travelled, sparked a lot of speculation.\n\n\"This was during the Cold War, and there were definitely a lot of spies in Norway, including Russian spies,\" says Gunnar Staalesen, a Bergen-based crime author who was a university student at the time.\n\nThere were also Israeli agents operating in Norway - as shown three years later, when Mossad agents killed a man in Lillehammer they had mistaken for a terrorist, he adds.\n\nThis headline reads: \"Rumours say the woman was a secret agent\"\n\nNorwegian intelligence services are investigating too - but will not admit it until decades later.\n\nAccording to NRK, security services were interested in reports that the woman had been seen observing the military test out new rockets in western Norway - but there weren't any clear conclusions from their investigation reports.\n\nPolice eventually crack some of the coded note - but it doesn't provide any evidence that she's a spy.\n\nInstead, it appears to be a record of the places the woman visited. For example, O22 O28 P are dates (22-28 October) she was in Paris, O29PS is the day she travelled from Paris to Stavanger, O29S matches the date she arrived in Stavanger (29 October), and O30BN5 matches her stay in Bergen from 30 October to 5 November.\n\nPolice send a description of the woman, and sketches of what she may have looked like, to several police forces abroad. But none of them say they can identify the woman.\n\nMeanwhile, investigators complete an examination of the woman's body.\n\nThey find an unexplained bruise on the right side of her neck, that could have been the result of a blow or a fall. There are no signs that the woman had been ill.\n\nThe autopsy also finds that the woman had never been pregnant or had a child.\n\nOne of the forensic cards summarising the autopsy findings. The woman's name, position, address, date of birth and death are all listed as \"unknown\".\n\nHer death is likely to have been a painful one.\n\n\"There were smoke particles in her lungs… which shows that the woman was alive while she was burning,\" Tormod says.\n\nHe found a trace of petrol in the ground below the woman's body, which means \"we can state with certainty that petrol had been used\" to set her alight.\n\nShe had a high concentration of carbon monoxide in her blood.\n\nExperts also establish that there were about 50-70 sleeping pills, from a foreign brand called Fenemal, in her stomach - although they had not been fully absorbed into her bloodstream before she died.\n\nThe autopsy concludes the woman died from a combination of carbon monoxide poisoning, and ingesting a large number of sleeping pills.\n\nThe cause of death is announced to be a probable suicide - a view supported by Bergen's chief of police.\n\nBut many people find this hard to believe.\n\n\"We talked about it in the police, but as far as I remember very few thought it was suicide,\" Carl Halvor Aas says.\n\nBoth the remote spot where her body was found - and the method of suicide, by fire, strike him as strange.\n\n\"I do not believe it was suicide\" - Carl Halvor Aas\n\nWithout any further leads, the case is closed, and the woman is buried in February 1971.\n\nPolice think the woman may be Catholic, and organise a Catholic funeral for her.\n\nAccording to a police report of the funeral, the coffin was decorated with lilacs and tulips, and the priest conducted a simple ceremony for \"the unknown woman, who was put to the grave in a foreign country without any family present\".\n\nThe funeral was attended by police officers\n\nPolice still hope to find the woman's family - she is buried in a zinc coffin that won't decompose - and keep an album of photos from the funeral for her relatives.\n\nHarald Osland was one of the investigators reluctant to let the case go.\n\n\"My father could never put this case away,\" his son, Tore, says. \"He never could accept that they had to close down the case.\"\n\nThe unmarked grave where the Isdal Woman's body is buried. The site is marked with a small wreath and candle\n\nHis father kept several of the police documents, and Tore eventually wrote a book about the Isdal case.\n\nOver the years, the case has also inspired several crime writers and illustrators.\n\n\"What intrigues people is that it is an unsolved mystery - it is almost like following a crime novel,\" says Gunnar Staalesen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Norwegian crime writers explain the appeal of the Isdal Woman case\n\nThen, in 2016, the possibility of solving the case rears its head again.\n\nThe Isdal Woman had distinctive teeth - 14 of them were filled - and she had several gold crowns. This was especially unusual for someone in her age range - and is not the type of dental work seen in Norway.\n\nGisle Bang, a professor of dentistry, keeps the woman's jaw, in the hope that other experts will recognise the dental work.\n\nAfter his death, everyone assumes the jaw has been destroyed.\n\nForensic doctor Inge Morild, who inherited the Isdal Woman files, says he was told the jaw had been \"thrown away because it was smelling\".\n\nBut after investigative journalists at NRK make queries about the Isdal Woman, Prof Morild finds the jaw - deep in a cellar in Haukeland University Hospital's forensic archives.\n\nThe find gives Norwegian police the opportunity to re-open the case, and use the latest forensic techniques to try and identify the woman.\n\nProf Gisle Bang had sent reports to international dental experts\n\nThe Norwegian Criminal Investigation Service (Kripos) and University of Bergen start conducting isotope analysis on her teeth - looking at the chemical \"signature\" left by the elements that made up her teeth as they were being formed.\n\nIt's the first time Norwegian police have conducted isotope analysis on teeth - but they hope the findings will help them pinpoint the region where the woman lived.\n\nDNA analysis is now one of the key tools police use in forensic analysis and identification cases.\n\nBut it turns out several tissue samples from the woman's organs, including from her lungs, heart, adrenal gland and ovaries, have been stored at Haukeland University Hospital.\n\nProf Morild says it \"has been a custom in most of Norway\" to keep tissue samples from post mortem examinations. The samples are \"useful for repeat examinations, and as a source of DNA\".\n\nTissue samples from the organs are preserved in paraffin blocks\n\nProf Inge Morild looks through tissue samples belonging to the Isdal Woman\n\nNRK and local police agree to send the samples off for DNA analysis.\n\nNils Jarle Gjøvåg, head of forensics at West Police District, says it's important to pursue the woman's identity because \"somewhere in the world, there may be some relatives wondering where she went\".\n\n\"We try to identify every unknown body, so that relatives can have an answer.\"\n\nWhile they wait for DNA results, NRK publish a documentary into the investigation - and receive more than 150 tip offs from people interested in the case.\n\n\"In Norway, this case is a big enigma for people… there's a lot of people who want some sort of closure in the case,\" says journalist Ståle Hansen.\n\nNRK's investigative team (from left to right): Marit Higraff, Eirin Aardal, Øyvind Bye Skille and Ståle Hansen\n\nAfter months of work, scientists have an extended DNA profile of the woman. The latest results, published on Friday, show the woman was of European descent - making the theory that the woman was an agent from Israel much less likely.\n\nNorwegian police are set to issue an Interpol black notice - which seeks information on unidentified bodies - with the new information.\n\nEuropean police forces will be asked to check their DNA databases to see if they find a match.\n\n\"If someone in her close family is in a DNA registry somewhere, we will get a hit,\" says Ståle Hansen. \"That would be really exciting.\"\n\nThe Isdal Woman case has been unsolved for the last 46 years. But now, modern science has reopened the possibility of this elusive Nordic mystery being solved.\n\nReaders who recognise the Isdal Woman or want to share tips about the case of the Isdal Woman can contact the NRK investigative team via their website.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nBritain's double Olympic gold medallist Nicola Adams stopped Mexican teenager Maryan Salazar in the third round in her home city of Leeds.\n\nThe 34-year-old pinned her opponent in the corner and the referee stepped in to confirm her second professional victory in the flyweight contest.\n\n\"There is nothing like the support of my home crowd,\" said Adams.\n\nIt was her first win by stoppage having beaten Argentina's Virginia Carcamo on points on her professional debut.\n\nThe contest against Salazar was fought over three-minute rounds rather than the usual two minutes for women.\n\nFind out how to get into boxing with our special guide.\n\nAdams had said before the fight the extra minute in each round would give her a chance to \"take out\" her 18-year-old opponent.\n\nShe said afterwards: \"I was not even thinking about the stoppage, but with the three-minute rounds I knew I could.\n\n\"I was able to settle more, I could see where I was throwing the punches and landing the power shots.\"\n\nAdams was firmly in control, busting her opponent's lip in the opening round, following it up with a flurry of punches with Salazar on the ropes in the next and finishing it off in the third.\n\nHer trainer, Jason Spencer, said she will soon be ready for a world title fight.\n\nAdams added: \"I loved every minute of it. The crowd were pumping me up. The more they were cheering, the more I was throwing.\"\n\nHeadlining the Leeds card, home favourite Josh Warrington defended his WBC international featherweight title with a majority decision over the experienced Kiko Martinez.\n\nWarrington, 26, beat the Spaniard with scores of 116-112 from two judges, with the third scoring it a 114-114 draw.\n\nHe is now unbeaten in 25 fights and moves closer to a fight against Wales' IBF featherweight champion Lee Selby.\n\nOn the undercard, Durham's Thomas Patrick Ward caused somewhat of an upset by beating Liverpool's James 'Jazza' Dickens via a technical decision to win the British bantamweight belt.\n\nGet all the latest boxing news sent straight to your device with notifications in the BBC Sport app. Find out more here.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal ended Manchester United's 25-match unbeaten run in the Premier League and kept up their hopes of securing a place in the top four.\n\nAfter a largely uneventful first half, Granit Xhaka opened the scoring with a deflected shot from distance, which looped over goalkeeper David de Gea.\n\nAnd they doubled their lead three minutes later when Danny Welbeck headed home against his former club after a pinpoint cross from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.\n\nJose Mourinho introduced Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard to try to rescue the game, but they failed to bring the visitors to life.\n\nThe result means Arsenal remain in sixth place but are two points off United in fifth and six points off Manchester City in fourth, with a game in hand over both teams.\n• None Analysis: 'Why Arsenal beat Man Utd but nobody really cares'\n\nThis victory not only reignites Arsenal's chase for a Champions League place, but also ends an unwanted record for Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger against Jose Mourinho.\n\nThe pair have endured a fractious relationship over the years, and in their previous 15 competitive meetings Wenger had never beaten a Mourinho team, with his only victory coming in the Community Shield in 2015.\n\nMourinho has won eight times, while the remaining seven were drawn.\n\nSunday's win ended the hoodoo and earned Arsenal only their 13th league win in 50 outings against the Red Devils.\n\nThere is still uncertainty about Wenger's future at the club, despite them still being in with a chance of Champions League football for the 21st consecutive season, and an FA Cup final against Chelsea coming up this month.\n\nWhen asked by BBC commentator Jonathan Pearce about whether he would be interviewing Wenger next season, the Frenchman joked: \"You want me to work for the BBC?\"\n\nBoth teams had four shots on target during the match but it was Arsenal who made them count.\n\nAfter a dull start to the second half, the Emirates came alive when Xhaka ran into space and took a shot from 30 yards out which was helped on its way by Herrera and out-smarted De Gea.\n\nThe Gunners kept up the pace and exactly three minutes and 11 seconds later, Welbeck had notched his second Premier League goal of the season.\n\nOxlade-Chamberlain's right-wing cross whistled over the box and Welbeck rose up between the United defence to land a bullet header.\n\nArsenal offered little in attack after the goals, but they did not need to.\n\nAll eyes on the Europa League?\n\nMourinho revealed before the match he intended to rest key players, with one eye on the Europa League semi-final second leg against Celta Vigo, in which his team have a 1-0 advantage. The European competition could represent United's best chance of reaching next season's Champions League.\n\nThe United manager made eight changes in total and his side never looked like causing a major threat.\n\nGoalkeeper De Gea kept them in the match at half-time, producing a low stop to deny Aaron Ramsey's effort, before making a brilliant save from a rasping Oxlade-Chamberlain shot from distance.\n\nUnited were undone by two quick goals early in the second half, and their only notable efforts after that came from Rooney and substitute Scott McTominay, who tried to poke home late on.\n\nThe end of the run for United\n• None United's unbeaten league run has come to an end at 25 games (W13 D12), with losses on either side coming in London.\n• None Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has provided as many assists for Arsenal this season in the Premier League as in his previous five combined for the Gunners (seven).\n• None This was the first time Oxlade-Chamberlain had assisted twice in the same Premier League game.\n• None Danny Welbeck has scored in each of his last three appearances against Manchester United for Arsenal in all competitions.\n• None Two English players combined for a Premier League goal for Arsenal for the first time since December 2014 (also Oxlade-Chamberlain for Welbeck, v West Ham).\n• None Manchester United conceded more than once away from home in the Premier League for the first time since losing 4-0 to Chelsea in October.\n• None Arsenal have won successive home Premier League games against the Red Devils for the first time since November 2001.\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger on a possible top-four finish: \"We want to win our games. Some teams that are safe continue to fight. Let's focus to win our games. Every win is important. We had a bad patch and seem to have recovered from it.\"\n\nOn Welbeck's goal: \"That's the kind of goal you want from Danny. He has all the abilities a striker needs. Hopefully, that will give him a boost.\"\n\nManchester United boss Jose Mourinho: \"We made eight changes. Of course, we knew we were not coming in our maximum power. That's a decision. We want to try to win the Europa League - it's more important than finishing fourth.\n\n\"The last trophy I won was three months ago. I didn't care about that. Thursday is the match of the season. I hope Old Trafford feels the same, because we need Old Trafford.\"\n\nAfter the Europa League semi-final second leg on Thursday, Manchester United return to league action at second-placed Tottenham on Sunday, 14 May (16:30 BST).\n\nArsenal, meanwhile, have a midweek Premier League trip to Southampton on Wednesday (19:45 BST).\n• None Attempt saved. Scott McTominay (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Chris Smalling with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Francis Coquelin.\n• None Attempt missed. Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Equestrian\n\nNew Zealand's Andrew Nicholson has won the Badminton Horse Trials at the 36th attempt, two years after suffering a serious neck injury.\n\nThe 55-year-old Wiltshire-based rider was lucky not to have been paralysed after a fall in 2015 and required eight hours of surgery on his neck.\n\nHe held his nerve in the show-jumping phase on Nereo to edge out Germany's defending champion Michael Jung.\n\nOvernight leader Ingrid Klimke of Germany dropped from first to ninth.\n\nTim Price of New Zealand was third while Rosalind Canter was the highest placed Briton in fifth place, with Gemma Tattersall seventh and Kristina Cook 10th.\n\nBritish rider Emily Gilruth is in intensive care after she was seriously injured in a fall on Saturday.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea boss Antonio Conte says second-placed Tottenham \"have an advantage\" over the Premier League leaders because Mauricio Pochettino has been in charge at White Hart Lane since 2014.\n\nConte is close to winning the title in his first season in English football.\n\nHis side can move seven points clear with three games left if they beat Middlesbrough on Monday (20:00 BST).\n\n\"I think Tottenham have an advantage, if you compare Tottenham to Chelsea,\" said the Italian.\n\n\"This is my first season and I found a lot of situations, a lot of players. Mauricio Pochettino has been working there for three years and has changed a lot of players and is working very well.\n\n\"For me, Tottenham are a really strong team and it's normal to see them fighting for the title.\"\n\nConte believes Spurs, who were Leicester City's main challengers in 2015-16 before fading to finish third, would have easily won the Premier League this season if it were not for his side's impressive season.\n\n\"In this season, if Chelsea had not performed in this way, Tottenham would win the title without difficulty,\" he said.\n\n\"Only this great season from us is pushing them to fight and, maybe, to win or not to win the title.\"\n\nThe former Juventus and Italy boss could lead his side to a league and FA Cup double, 10 months after Chelsea finished 10th, with an FA Cup final against Arsenal on 27 May.\n\nUnlike some of their rivals, Chelsea have not been involved in Europe and Conte thinks it is difficult for English clubs to succeed in the Champions League because of the strength of the Premier League.\n\nIn the past six years, five English clubs have reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League - fewer than from the Spanish and German leagues.\n\nConte said: \"This league is very difficult. Every single game you must fight a lot and, I think, also for this reason it's not easy to arrive at the end of a European competition.\n\n\"It is so clear here, every season will be tougher and tougher to qualify for the Champions League.\"", "When I played for Manchester United, Arsenal was always our biggest game of the season - the build-up was electric and I felt as if I was going into battle against our greatest rivals.\n\nIn those days, between 1995 and 2005, it was often a title decider. Everything was completely different about Sunday's game at Emirates Stadium, and it summed up where both teams are at right now.\n\nIt was a match between the teams in fifth and sixth place in the Premier League but it felt more like it was ninth versus 10th, in one of those dead rubbers you get at the end of the season.\n\nYes, Arsenal won, to end United's long unbeaten run, but nobody really cared - including United manager Jose Mourinho.\n\nIt was the first time Gunners boss Arsene Wenger has beaten him in a competitive game, at the 16th attempt and after 13 years of trying.\n\nBut watching Mourinho afterwards, it was probably the first time in about six months that I have seen him relaxed and smiling.\n\nIt was a game that was clearly a nuisance for him, sandwiched between the two legs of United's Europa League semi-final against Celta Vigo that he has made it obvious is his priority.\n\nSo, for United, Sunday was just a case of survival - to get off that pitch without getting any more injuries - or at least that was how it looked.\n\nArsenal were clearly short of confidence, and in a different way they were looking to survive the game too.\n\nThey eventually worked out that United were not at full strength and they might be able to win, but for most of the first half they looked nervous, as if they were thinking 'let's not lose and have more fans protests after the game'.\n\nThe Gunners might have got the three points but the way they did it did not make any sort of statement about how strong they are.\n\nWhen I played for United against Arsenal, I always thought I was going into a situation that was totally out of my comfort zone.\n\nIt was a matter of life and death, or it felt like it anyway.\n\nThis time, Mourinho had been telling us for the past 10 days that his priority was the Celta Vigo tie.\n\nThat completely knocked the stuffing out of the build-up and the game matched it - it was completely flat.\n\nI was watching it with former Arsenal defender Martin Keown in the Match of the Day 2 production office, and he agreed that the lack of atmosphere and intensity was the most disappointing thing.\n\nEven in the tunnel beforehand you saw everyone hugging and smiling, which would never have happened when Martin and I played.\n\nOur teams were at each other's throats most of the time - literally on a few occasions.\n\nThere is a famous picture of me being throttled by Arsenal defender Lauren in September 2003 - in 'the battle of Old Trafford' - while a few weeks earlier in the Community Shield at the Millennium Stadium I was booked after only 27 seconds for a tackle on Patrick Vieira.\n\nSunday was a million miles away from that kind of occasion. I tweeted during the game that it was like a testimonial, and it was certainly played at that kind of pace - which is what you would expect from a pre-season friendly between two Premier League teams played in the United States.\n\nIt felt like a veterans game but if Martin and I were playing each other now, there would have been more sparks flying than there were at the Emirates.\n\nMourinho got his priorities right this time\n\nUnited's eggs are all in one basket now - for them, making the Champions League is all about winning the Europa League.\n\nIt makes sense in lots of ways because, as well as looking like the easier route, it gets you straight into the group stage and you avoid starting the season early in the qualifying rounds, which you have to do if you finish fourth.\n\nIf they do win the Europa League, then I think Mourinho has had a brilliant season. If not, then that is when the criticism will probably come his way.\n\nThe pressure is on them for Thursday, when Celta Vigo come to Old Trafford, and it is a dangerous game to play, but I think Mourinho did the right thing with his team selection against the Gunners.\n\nSome of the players he rested conserved energy and the ones who came back from injury have got some playing time under their belts, which bolsters the squad a little bit.\n\nThat sort of performance would not be acceptable from United in normal circumstances, and in general they need to improve when they go away to the top clubs.\n\nLooking at their performances in their 0-0 draws at Liverpool in October and at Manchester City last month, they did not offer enough of an attacking threat.\n\nI think United fans will expect far more in those games from the start of next season, especially because by then it will really be Mourinho's team.\n\nArsenal have put themselves back in touch with the top four with Sunday's win but I don't think they will make it, from what I have seen of them recently.\n\nI think there is a big job in store for whoever is the Gunners' manager next season, and that is the key issue when you talk about their future.\n\nYou cannot assess who Arsenal will buy in the summer until you know who is going to be in charge - if it is, say, Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone then it will be 10 warriors; if Wenger is still manager it will be 10 really nice and pretty footballers.\n\nIn contrast, with United, you can predict that Mourinho is going to grab hold of that squad and say to his players that if they are not mentally tough enough, they will be out of the door.\n\nThree or four of the team that lost to Arsenal might not be at the club next season but you know there will be some big characters arriving in the dressing room.\n\nMourinho is building a team that he can go to war with, and it will not be long until these kind of games are back to being the big battles we all remember.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, BBC Radio Ulster MW and the BBC Sport website\n\nCoach John Bracewell says the looming decision over Test status is putting his Ireland team under \"huge pressure\" in the one-day series against England.\n\nThe Irish folded in Friday's opener at Bristol as England won by seven wickets and with 30 overs to spare.\n\nThe sides meet again at Lord's on Sunday and Bracewell says his players are now acknowledging the strain.\n\n\"I think we were probably sweeping it under the carpet a little bit,\" said the former New Zealand coach.\n\n\"They are having huge external pressure put on them, carrying the nation's hope through hundreds of years of history.\n\n\"Yesterday, we really felt that. We were trying to pretend it wasn't there but they've recognised that now.\n\n\"If something is in the back of your mind, it's probably in the front of your mind too and you've got to clear that out.\"\n\nICC to decide on Ireland Test status in June\n\nNext month could see Ireland granted the Test status they have long sought by the International Cricket Council, but there is now a fear that another drubbing by England at the home of cricket could cause a rethink from the game's governing body.\n\nIreland's performance at Bristol was in marked contrast to their display six years ago in Bangalore when they stunned England at the 2011 World Cup.\n\nA number of British media reports have been scathing of Ireland's display on Friday, with certain commentators suggesting that several of Bracewell's squad have now \"passed their best\".\n\nThe Irish may be without wicketkeeper-batsman Niall O'Brien on Sunday because of a finger injury, and batsman John Anderson has been added to the squad as cover - with Gary Wilson likely to stand in behind the stumps if O'Brien does not feature.\n\nAdil Rashid's leg-spin caused the Ireland batsmen major problems on Friday and Bracewell says his players are aware they made \"poor decisions\" in the contest.\n\n\"The theme on Sunday will be just 'one more run',\" added the Ireland coach.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSteve Morison played a starring role as Millwall came from behind to beat Scunthorpe and set up a League One play-off final against Bradford City.\n\nThe Lions had fallen behind to Ivan Toney's tap-in, but Morison headed them level on the stroke of half-time and then set up Lee Gregory for 2-1.\n\nMorison's deflected shot gave the away side breathing space, although Stephen Dawson's strike set up a nervy finish.\n\nMillwall have reached the final at Wembley for the second season in a row.\n• None How Bradford and Millwall reached the League One play-off final\n\nNeil Harris' side will now meet the Bantams on Saturday, 20 May - the same team they beat at the semi-final stage of last year's play-offs.\n\nHaving been held to a goalless draw in the first leg by Scunthorpe, the Lions looked to be falling short when Toney, on loan from Championship title-winners Newcastle, fired the Iron ahead at Glanford Park.\n\nBut, having made it 1-1 moments before the break, 33-year-old forward Morison proved the difference between the sides after half-time.\n\nFirst he superbly cut inside to tee up strike partner Gregory, before scoring his 18th goal of the season to send Millwall to the final.\n• None Attempt blocked. Craig Davies (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Josh Morris.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jordan Clarke (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Murray Wallace.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Shane Ferguson (Millwall) because of an injury.\n• None Neal Bishop (Scunthorpe United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Craig Davies (Scunthorpe United) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Josh Morris with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBritt Assombalonga grabbed a double as Nottingham Forest avoided relegation on goal difference with an emphatic win over Ipswich at a sell-out City Ground.\n\nAssombalonga's penalty settled early nerves and Chris Cohen's deflected strike made it 2-0 after the break.\n\nWith relegation rivals Blackburn and Birmingham both winning, Forest's safety was still not certain.\n\nBut Assombalonga then sealed victory with a fine solo strike to ensure Blackburn drop out of the Championship.\n• None 'It should never have come to this'\n\nThe closing stages were played out in relative comfort, safe in the knowledge that Blackburn's 3-1 lead against Brentford still left Tony Mowbray's Rovers three goals shy of forcing Forest into the third tier of English football for the third time in their history.\n\nThousands of Reds fans raced onto the pitch to celebrate their survival at the final whistle.\n\nHowever, despite a blistering Forest start which brought four shots on goal in the first two minutes it was a nervy first half.\n\nBoth Rovers and Birmingham led early on and Forest keeper Jordan Smith had to make two magnificent saves - most notably to deny Dominic Samuel's fierce deflected shot.\n\nBut Eric Lichaj, who had earlier wasted a great close-range chance, took a quick throw-in and, after the ever-alert Jamie Ward was smashed to the ground by keeper Bartosz Bialkowski, Assombalonga blasted the penalty into the top corner for a half-time lead.\n\nForest's longest-serving player and club captain Cohen made it 2-0 and Assombalonga made amends for seeing his spot-kick brilliantly saved to add a third following a quickly taken free-kick.\n\nThe relief as thousands of fans ran onto the pitch was clear, but the frustration and pain following a dreadful season was equally obvious. The bigger picture is that supporters are resentful it has come to such a desperate situation.\n\nFive years under Fawaz Al Hasawi's ownership have seen the two-time European Cup winners finish progressively lower each season. The promise was to take the club out of the division but not back down to League One.\n\nIncreasing anger from fans, amid a backdrop of failed takeovers and a seemingly never-ending succession of managers culminated in this season's miserable relegation scrap.\n\nAnother attempt to buy the club by Evangelos Marinakis - the owner of Greek champions Olympiakos - is well advanced.\n\nReds fans are taking nothing for granted, but the feeling of enough is enough is palpable and a summer of stability under manager Mark Warburton and the new owners - if that deal goes through - is the clear aim.\n\n\"We can never allow ourselves to be in this position again. Ever. I said to the boys we must make a vow to make sure this never happens again.\n\n\"The last few weeks have hurt but we have to remember this feeling and make sure we never experience it again. It can't be allowed to happen.\n\n\"A relegation dogfight is not what we are about and I am confident it won't happen next season, and I say that because I have seen the quality within the squad.\n\n\"I've seen enough in the seven or eight weeks I've been here to know that with a good pre-season behind us we can put a marker down next season.\"\n\n\"I thought the first half was pretty even, we matched them. They had the better of the second half and maybe that was because they had more to play for.\n\n\"In the end it's brilliant, it's like Nottingham Forest have won the league. The scenes have been brilliant. It was either going to be a wake or a celebration and up until they scored the penalty it could have been a wake. But good for them, good for Mark Warburton.\n\n\"In the end that game has probably summed our season up - some good, some bad and some indifferent.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Kieffer Moore (Ipswich Town) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Grant Ward with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Grant Ward (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Jordan Spence.\n• None Ben Osborn went off injured after Nottingham Forest had used all subs.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Ben Osborn (Nottingham Forest) because of an injury.\n• None Offside, Nottingham Forest. Ben Osborn tries a through ball, but Britt Assombalonga is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Zach Clough (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Britt Assombalonga (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Zach Clough.\n• None Offside, Nottingham Forest. Chris Cohen tries a through ball, but Eric Lichaj is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Wasps sealed top spot with a bonus-point win over Saracens at the Ricoh Arena, which booked a Premiership home semi-final against Leicester.\n\nSarries scrum-half Ben Spencer was the day's first try scorer with the first of his two tries for the reigning champions and European Cup holders.\n\nBut home flanker Thomas Young - son of Wasps boss Dai - scored the first two of his three tries before the break.\n\nSecond-half tries from Christian Wade, Elliot Daly and Young sealed victory.\n\nSarries' other points came from a conversion by Wasps old boy Alex Lozowski and an enormous first-half penalty by Argentina centre Marcelo Bosch.\n\nThird-placed Sarries, who must now travel to Exeter in the semis in a fortnight's time, played a weakened side.\n\nAhead of their European Champions Cup final against Clermont Auvergne at Murrayfield on 13 May, they were missing their main England quartet of Owen Farrell, Maro Itoje and the Vunipola brothers.\n\nWasps' four tries not only earned the bonus point which stopped second-placed Exeter sneaking into top spot but took their tally to 89 for the season, surpassing Newcastle's Premiership record of 86, set back in the 1997-98 season.\n\nThe best was Young's first try, created by a grubber kick to the left corner from Danny Cipriani, and he then got his second when Sarries were a man down after Sean Maitland was yellow carded for needlessly obstructing Wade.\n\nBut Wade's second-half try further helped rewrite the record books, his 17th of the season equalling the 20-year-old Premiership try-scoring record set by Richmond's Dominic Chapman - and Gopperth's 10-point haul ensured that he finished as the league's leading points scorer with 266.\n\nIn front of a capacity 32,000 crowd, which caused kick-off to be delayed by 15 minutes, the only sour note for Wasps was the first-half loss of hooker Tommy Taylor with an ankle injury, while prop Jake Cooper-Woolley finished with a foot injury.\n\nBut Wasps boss Young, who played for Wales at both rugby codes, was doubly thrilled with son Thomas's treble and hopes that it will guarantee selection by his country for Wales' June Tests against Samoa and Tonga.\n\n\"Thomas is not a bad player. I think his mother would be pretty pleased. With the Welsh squad picked on Tuesday I hope he gets his opportunity in the summer.\n\n\"He played really well in attack and defence. And I don't know where he gets his pace from. The milkman stopped delivering years ago!\n\n\"That win will do us a world of good. Finishing top is a major achievement and we're happy with that. We were the better team but they could have won. Saracens take some shifting. You have to beat them three or four times.\n\n\"We left a few points out there, to be honest. We were a bit edgy and you could see we're not quite used to the big occasions. But the more you play them the more comfortable you get. I'm sure Leicester will want to upset the party, but we are looking forward\n\n\"Wasps definitely deserved to win. Our effort was good but we made a lot of mistakes and they're not the type of team you want to make handling errors against. We were hanging on for a bit but the effort meant we were always in the fight.\n\n\"Whether people do or don't agree with the team we picked, we felt it was the right thing, We take the Premiership very seriously but we had some choices to make. The Champions Cup is a massive competition, so to be in the final again is brilliant.\n\n\"The other Premiership semi-finalists all get to rest their players next weekend. We feel we've done the right thing because there were some players who we really felt needed to rest.\n\n\"One or two were carrying small injuries who would have played had this been the semi-final, but it would have been a gamble playing them.\"\n\nReplacements: Johnson for Taylor (18), Swainston for Cooper-Woolley (23) Robson for Simpson (55), McIntyre for Mullan (64), Thompson for Haskell (64), Myall for Symons (69), Bassett for le Roux (72),\n\nReplacements: Du Plessis for Koch (43), Barrington for Lamositele (51), George for Brits (51), Earle for Ellery (54), Goode for Tomkins (57), Isiekwe for Hamilton (60), H Taylor for Maitland (69).\n\nFor the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nDo Norwegian players have the upper hand over Brazilians in the Premier League? Where does Ryan Shawcross rank in the own-goals table? And is Brendan Rodgers actually better than Jurgen Klopp?\n\nWe try to answer those questions and take a look at some of the other interesting stats from the weekend.\n\nArgentine Premier League players past and present had something to chirp about when Nicolas Otamendi scored for Manchester City in Saturday's 5-0 win over Crystal Palace.\n\nThe 29-year-old scored the 400th goal by an Argentine in the competition. By contrast, Brazilians have only supplied 322. If only Diego Costa had not chosen Spain, eh?\n\nBut where do Argentina rank in the 'Table of nations to have scored goals in the Premier League, not including UK and Ireland'?\n\nHere are your top five:\n\nYes, Norwegians have scored more goals (507) in the English top flight than Argentines, Brazilians, Italians (407) and Belgians (434).\n\nForward Ole Gunnar Solskjaer weighed in with a hefty 92 goals during his time with Manchester United. Ex-Chelsea striker Tore Andre Flo, John Carew (Aston Villa and Stoke) and Bournemouth striker Joshua King have added to the tally, and are among the 36 Norwegians to have scored since the competition began in the 1992-93 season.\n\n'You're not yet bad enough for this club, Ryan'\n\nHe is a Stoke City stalwart. He has put his body on the line for the club he has captained for more than nine years. Ryan Shawcross is a true braveheart of a defender.\n\nSo what do we do? We see where he ranks in the all-time Premier League own-goals charts. Harsh, but necessary for this piece.\n\nThe 29-year-old scored an 81st-minute own goal and Bournemouth's second in Saturday's 2-2 draw to join a group of players who have found their own net on five occasions in the Premier League. That list includes former England internationals Phil Neville, Rio Ferdinand and Neil Ruddock.\n\nHe will need to ramp up the mishaps to dislodge the king of the own goals.\n\nThe Baggies must have been wondering when their goal drought was going to end. They arrived at Turf Moor having gone five league games without finding the net.\n\nBut after 530 minutes of not hearing the sound of synthetic leather against their opponents' polypropylene nets, Salomon Rondon ended the barren run in the second half of Saturday's 2-2 draw against Burnley.\n\nBut the pain felt by Baggies fans is nothing compared to what the supporters of these clubs experienced:\n\nEverton fans have on two occasions seen their side go six league games without a goal (1994-95 and 2005-06).\n\nIt appears it will be all's well that ends well having avoided a comedy of errors for Craig Shakespeare since he took the hot seat at Leicester. Apologies.\n\nOn Saturday, he became only the fourth manager to win his first five home Premier League games as the Foxes beat Watford 3-0. The champions had the ignominy of being labelled 'relegation-threatened' until the former assistant came in and changed their fortunes.\n\nHowever, he lags behind home-win expert Manuel Pellegrini, who won his first 11 games at Manchester City's Etihad Stadium.\n\nBut which managers have the worst record?\n\nStep forward, or back, Chris Ramsey (QPR, 2014-15), Mick McCarthy (Sunderland, 2002-03) and Terry Connor (Wolves, 2011-12) - all three failed to win a single point in their first five home games. Their sides were relegated that season - which was more costly than a pound of flesh.\n\nBefore Sunday's game against Southampton, current Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp and ex-boss Brendan Rodgers had identical Premier League records after their first 65 games in charge of the Reds: W33 D18 L14 (117 points).\n\nWe know Klopp drew his 66th game against Southampton.\n\nHow did Brendan do?", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nJames Milner missed a second-half penalty as Liverpool's hopes of securing a Premier League top-four spot suffered a blip in a goalless draw against Southampton.\n\nIt was a terrible spectacle for the supporters inside Anfield. Liverpool rarely tested Saints keeper Fraser Forster, bar the penalty and Marko Grujic's header late in the game. The visitors, meanwhile, failed to muster even one effort on target.\n\nIt is not finished yet - we all have to play our games\n\nThe Reds' best chance to score came in the 66th minute when they won a penalty after Southampton's Jack Stephens was judged to have handled Lucas' delivery.\n\nMilner, who had not missed from the spot in the league since November 2009, saw his effort saved by Forster who dived low to his right. Seconds earlier, the England keeper approached the midfielder as he attempted to place the ball on the spot - and the tactic seemed to work.\n\nThe draw sees the Reds move up to third, above Manchester City, on 70 points. However, Pep Guardiola's side have a game in hand.\n\nManchester United are five points behind after losing to Arsenal, who are two points further back.\n• None Relive the action from Anfield here\n\nIt was dire. Truly dire. Was the first half of this match the worst seen in the Premier League this season?\n\nThe home sections at Anfield must have thought they were in for a treat - the sun was shining and they knew their team had to take the game to Southampton with a Champions League spot at stake.\n\nBut instead of a siege on Forster's goal, what they witnessed during that opening period were their players joining the Saints on the beach.\n\nThe first 45 minutes were slow and ponderous, and the only exertions by the Southampton keeper were three very comfortable saves.\n\nThe second half followed a similar pattern up until the penalty, which was a correct decision by referee Bobby Madley with the Stephens' arm moving up to push the ball away.\n\nHowever, Milner - who last missed a Premier League penalty playing for Aston Villa against Bolton - saw his effort saved by Forster. Was he put off his stride by the keeper confronting him moments earlier?\n\nForster kept his concentration right up until the final few minutes of the game when he reacted brilliantly to tip over substitute Grujic's header.\n\nThe Reds have now played Southampton four times this season and failed to score against them.\n\nSaints play on the back foot but get a point\n\nSouthampton boss Claude Puel appeared somewhat surprised this week when he was asked about reports regarding his future.\n\nIt had been suggested that some players had become disillusioned with his style of management.\n\nTheir Premier League status was only made secure with Hull's defeat on Saturday, and they came into the match on the back of two defeats and a draw.\n\nAt Anfield, the team must have bored their travelling fans into submission.\n\nThe graphic above shows that they mostly sat in their own half for the opening 45 minutes, and for the first time since they returned to the top flight in 2012 they failed to have a single effort in the first half of a match. An angled strike by Nathan Redmond in the second half was the closest they came to scoring - although it was a few yards wide.\n\nHaving been spoilt for entertainment when their team was managed by Ronald Koeman and Mauricio Pochettino, some Southampton fans must be wondering what type of football awaits them next season if Puel stays.\n\n'Southampton did not create anything'\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp: \"I thought our performance was good enough to win. Southampton wanted to come here and somehow get a point, or more - I'm fine with defending.\n\n\"They did not create anything and we had a hard job to do. To play against 10 deep defending Southampton players is very difficult. We could have scored, that would have opened them up a bit. It is a point more, but it doesn't feel like that.\n\n\"It is not finished yet. We all have to play our games. We go to West Ham and try to win, and that's all we can do. We try everything and we do not stop.\"\n\nSaints manager Claude Puel: \"I think it was a fantastic job for us. We defended very well and with quality and good organisation.\n\n\"Perhaps we could have done better with the counter-attack, but we showed good energy, spirit and organisation.\n\n\"It was difficult for them to come into our box and for me it was a harsh penalty and a good save. It was a deserved point.\"\n• None Liverpool have drawn 0-0 home and away against the same opponent in a Premier League season for the first time since 2008-09 against Stoke.\n• None The Reds had 32 shots in the league matches without scoring against the Saints this season.\n• None Jurgen Klopp has never beaten Southampton in the Premier League (D3 L1) - indeed, he has now faced them more than any other opponent without winning.\n• None Forster saved his first Premier League penalty - Milner's effort was the ninth he'd faced.\n• None Forster was the first opposition goalkeeper to save a league penalty at Anfield since Rob Green stopped Steven Gerrard's effort for QPR in May 2015.\n• None Indeed, only Vito Mannone (13 for Sunderland in January) has made more saves against Liverpool in a Premier League game this season than Forster (eight).\n• None Only Hull (12) have conceded more Premier League penalties this season than Southampton (nine).\n• None The Saints failed to have a single shot on target in either Premier League game against Liverpool this season.\n\nThe Reds are at West Ham next Sunday (14:15 BST) and the Saints are at St Mary's on Wednesday to face Arsenal (19:45 BST).\n• None Attempt blocked. James Milner (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Marko Grujic (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by James Milner with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Daniel Sturridge.\n• None Dejan Lovren (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Emre Can (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Daniel Sturridge.\n• None Marko Grujic (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ryan Bertrand (Southampton) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Cédric Soares with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Adam Lallana (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Philippe Coutinho.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Nathaniel Clyne.\n• None Attempt saved. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Adam Lallana.\n• None Attempt saved. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Daniel Sturridge. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nJuventus' Morocco defender Medhi Benatia cut short a post-match television interview after claiming to hear a racist insult in his earpiece.\n\nThe France-born player, 30, was speaking to Italian broadcaster Rai after Saturday's 1-1 draw with Torino.\n\n\"What stupid person is speaking?\" said Benatia before ending the interview.\n\nThe incident comes a week after another Serie A player, Pescara's Sulley Muntari, walked off the pitch after claiming he was being racially abused.\n\nBenatia, who is on loan at Juventus from Bayern Munich, has not commented publicly on what happened during the television interview.\n\nThe broadcaster has since apologised and promised to find out who made the \"unacceptable\" comments.\n\n\"Rai is sincerely saddened by the deplorable episode of racism involving the Juventus player during the broadcast of Champagne Football,\" it said on Sunday, adding that the insult had not been heard by the viewers.\n\nBenatia has made 17 league and cup appearances for Juventus, who are closing in on a sixth successive Serie A title and are in the Champions League semi-finals.\n\nJuventus released a statement, saying: \"Following the regrettable insult Medhi Benatia heard through his earpiece during Calcio Champagne, Juventus Football Club wishes to express its concern over the incident.\n\n\"While acknowledging the Rai statement expressing solidarity, everyone - and the player first and foremost - deserves an explanation about what occurred.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Muntari was an unused substitute as relegated Pescara lost 1-0 at home to fellow strugglers Crotone on Sunday.\n\nThe former Portsmouth and Sunderland player was cleared to play after a one-match ban he received for protesting against racist abuse in last weekend's match at Cagliari was overturned.\n\nMuntari was initially booked for dissent, then received a second yellow card for leaving the field.\n\nBefore the ban was overturned, former Tottenham striker Garth Crooks called on players in Italy to strike in protest against Muntari's punishment.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nHartlepool United's 96-year stay in the Football League ended as they were relegated despite battling back to beat Doncaster Rovers, who missed out on the League Two title on the final day.\n\nTwo Devante Rodney goals looked to have kept Hartlepool up, but Mark O'Brien's late winner for Newport County in their game saved the Welsh club instead.\n\nBut O'Brien's 89th-minute Newport goal sent Hartlepool to the National League.\n\nNeeding to win and hope Newport failed to beat Notts County to survive, Hartlepool's decisive day began badly when James Coppinger's first-half cross was eventually turned in by Williams from close range as defender Carl Magnay sliced his clearance.\n\nWith Newport winning at that stage, Hartlepool looked doomed, before an equaliser for Notts County at Rodney Parade lifted the Teesside club.\n\nAnd Hartlepool's hope turned to ecstasy as 18-year-old substitute Rodney slotted in his first two senior goals in quick succession to temporarily lift United above the drop zone.\n\nBut, as the game moved into stoppage-time, news of Newport's late twist brought despair to the Victoria Park faithful.\n\nDefeat saw already-promoted Doncaster, who had needed to better Plymouth's result to finish top, fail to capitalise on Argyle's draw and they eventually finished third, as Portsmouth leapfrogged both their rivals to win the title.\n\nWhile an extraordinary finish at Rodney Parade was ultimately what sent Pools down, their undoing began much earlier in their campaign.\n\nHartlepool had won just two of their past 10 games when manager Craig Hignett was sacked in January after 11 months in charge.\n\nDespite that poor run, Pools were seven points clear of the relegation zone when they named former Wolves, Sheffield Wednesday and Cardiff boss Dave Jones as their new boss - an appointment that was described as a \"no-brainer\" and \"a real coup for the football club\".\n\nBut just 13 points were taken out of a possible 51 in his disastrous 17 games in charge, leaving Pools two points adrift of safety when he was dismissed on 24 April, less than 48 hours after club president and Sky Sports presenter Jeff Stelling issued a message for Jones to leave during a live television broadcast.\n\nDefender Matthew Bates was placed in charge for the final two games of the season, with striker Billy Paynter and coaches Stuart Parnaby and Ian Gallagher forming the rest of a makeshift coaching team.\n\nBut, after losing at then-relegation-rivals Cheltenham on the penultimate weekend, they were unable to stop Pools dropping out of the EFL for the first time since 1921.\n\n\"I was trying to keep a level head but it was difficult with the results coming in.\n\n\"There was nothing wrong with the performance. They went 1-0 up and we had to regroup, but we did and came back at them.\n\n\"It was all positive in the dressing room at half-time. The shackles were off and there was no pressure so make yourself heroes.\n\n\"We needed to get the fans onside and we did with our performance. I have learned if you give the fans everything on the pitch they will stick by you.\n\n\"We got relegated but the fans stayed behind and clapped us off they showed their appreciation but ultimately is that right or wrong?\n\n\"The players have been magnificent in the past two weeks. It has been humbling.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Joe Wright (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Andy Williams (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.\n• None Gary McSheffrey (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Hartlepool United 2, Doncaster Rovers 1. Devante Rodney (Hartlepool United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Padraig Amond.\n• None Carl Magnay (Hartlepool United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nAberdeen all but secured second spot in the Premiership with victory over 10-man Hearts at Tynecastle.\n\nThe Dons led through Adam Rooney after keeper Jack Hamilton parried Peter Pawlett's effort into his path.\n\nEsmael Goncalves levelled after the break before Anthony O'Connor replied and Hearts' Jamie Walker was sent off.\n\nThe Dons are nine points and 23 goals better off than third-placed Rangers with three games to play, meaning they are virtually uncatchable.\n\nFifth-placed Hearts, meanwhile, remain six points behind St Johnstone in the battle for a top-four finish and European football.\n\nUndefeated in their three previous meeting with Hearts this season, Aberdeen started with plenty of confidence and Andrew Considine should have done better than nod wide from eight yards after three minutes following excellent set-up work from Jonny Hayes.\n\nDons winger Niall McGinn was causing the home defence problems with his pace and after bursting clear of Krystian Nowak he tried his luck on goal. However, Hamilton reacted quickly to palm the ball away for a corner.\n\nThe Hearts keeper could not repeat that feat after 21 minutes and it cost his side a goal.\n\nPawlett won possession in midfield, drove forward and unleashed a fine drive that Hamilton parried straight into the path of Rooney, who produced a cool finish.\n\nWalker was having one of his quieter afternoons for Hearts but when he tumbled to the ground in the box after a challenge by Ash Taylor there were claims for a penalty. Referee Willie Collum was unmoved.\n\nPawlett went off at the break with O'Connor coming on, while Hearts boss Ian Cathro sent on Liam Smith for Andraz Struna.\n\nYoungster Smith provided the delivery for Hearts' equaliser just after the hour, with Goncalves sneaking in between defenders Taylor and Shay Logan to head the ball beyond Joe Lewis.\n\nThe home fans' joy lasted all of three minutes.\n\nHayes floated a free-kick high into the area and O'Connor rose brilliantly to nod the ball back across Hamilton and into the net.\n\nMcGinn had a chance for a third when slack play by the home defence allowed the winger a clean sight of goal, but he was unable to keep his effort down.\n\nBjorn Johnsen was introduced for Hearts with Don Cowie making way, a decision that brought a huge round of boos from the Tynecastle faithful.\n\nRooney then fired another chance wide before referee Collum sent Walker off for a second yellow card.\n\nAberdeen are now almost certain to finish second in the table for the third year in a row and it is no more than Derek McInnes and his charges deserve.\n\nAt times lethal in attack and so often solid at the back, the Dons look to have passed the test that came with Rangers' promotion to the Premiership in the summer with a bit to spare.\n\nWith the Scottish Cup final ahead against Celtic, the challenge facing the Pittodrie men is to ensure they do not finish the season as runners-up in all three domestic competitions.\n• None Second yellow card to Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) for a bad foul.\n• None Moha (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick on the left wing.\n• None Mark Reynolds (Aberdeen) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Liam Smith (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Attempt blocked. Bjorn Johnsen (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Adam Rooney (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Anthony O'Connor (Aberdeen) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Attempt blocked. Bjorn Johnsen (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBlackburn were relegated to League One on goal difference, despite beating Brentford at Griffin Park, after Nottingham Forest's win over Ipswich.\n\nRovers began in the final relegation place, level on points with Forest with an inferior goal difference.\n\nCharlie Mulgrew's free-kick and Danny Guthrie's strike put Rovers ahead, before Lasse Vibe flicked one back.\n\nCraig Conway's spot-kick made it 3-1, as Bees' Harlee Dean saw red but Forest and Birmingham wins sent Rovers down.\n• None 'It should never have come to this'\n\nWith Birmingham only leading 1-0 against Bristol City at Ashton Gate, a goal for the Robins would have sent Blues down instead of Blackburn - but Harry Redknapp's side held on.\n\nBlackburn had lifted themselves out of the drop zone earlier in the day thanks to Mulgrew's superb free-kick into the top corner.\n\nGuthrie's scuffed effort, which Bees keeper Daniel Bentley should have kept out, doubled their lead, but Britt Assombalonga's goal to put Forest ahead at the City Ground dropped Rovers back into the bottom three.\n\nThere was further anguish for Tony Mowbray's side when Vibe got in front of a defender at the near post to turn in Dean's delivery.\n\nMowbray threw on attack-minded Lucas Joao, Marvin Emnes and Conway in a bid to improve their goal difference.\n\nEmnes was then fouled in the box by Dean, who was given his second yellow card, and Conway blasted home the penalty.\n\nBut Rovers, with an inferior goal difference to Forest of just two goals, were relegated to the third tier for the first time in 37 years.\n\nIt has been a season-long struggle for Blackburn, both on and off the pitch, having failed to rise above 20th in the table all season.\n\nSupporters have also protested against owners Venky's, who have seen the club slide from the Premier League to the third tier in their seven years at the helm.\n\nSome fans voiced their concern prior to the match that relegation this season could lead to potential administration.\n\nAway from the boardroom, the Lancashire side began the season with Owen Coyle at the helm, who could claim he was not backed in the transfer market, having spent £250,000 of the £10m he recouped in the transfer market.\n\nCoyle left in February after losing just under half his matches in charge and was replaced by Mowbray with the club three points off safety with 15 games to play.\n\nMowbray had moved to Ewood Park five months after resigning as manager of League One side Coventry, a club that were also relegated this term and with controversial owners of their own.\n\nThe new manager's change to a back three proved important in Rovers giving themselves a chance of survival, but it was too late for the 1994-95 Premier League winners.\n\n\"I am disappointed now but we have to try to keep the spirit we showed here and, if we do, the club will be very strong in League One next year.\n\n\"It's decided over 46 games and at the end of the season everyone at the club from the players to the medical team and the analysts have not been good enough to stay in this division.\n\n\"We have to take it on the chin. It's going to be a huge summer for us in terms of recruitment, and conversations with the owners are coming - we have to recruit well, be strong next year and bounce back.\n\n\"We need to keep our under-contract players. If we do, we will hopefully be too strong for a lot of clubs in League One. We just need to turn the ship around and get promotion.\"\n\n\"We wanted to finish the season on a high but there were a lot of tired legs out there - at the end they were putting their bodies on the line and that showed how much it mattered to do their best for the other clubs down there.\n\n\"It was what we were doing when we didn't have the ball that annoyed me in the first half. I gave them a rocket at half-time and we started the second half quite well but couldn't make our possession count.\n\n\"I feel for Tony. He has done a great job there and if he's allowed to keep the players he has, and the club keep him, then I'm sure they'll be knocking on the door to come back up next season.\"\n• None Attempt saved. Elliott Bennett (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Craig Conway.\n• None Attempt blocked. Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Craig Conway.\n• None Attempt missed. Craig Conway (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lucas João (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marvin Emnes.\n• None Attempt missed. Marvin Emnes (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jason Lowe with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marvin Emnes (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Brentford 1, Blackburn Rovers 3. Craig Conway (Blackburn Rovers) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Second yellow card to Harlee Dean (Brentford) for a bad foul.\n• None Penalty conceded by Harlee Dean (Brentford) after a foul in the penalty area. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSwansea players will cover the cost of 3,000 away tickets for the club's match at Sunderland next Saturday.\n\nSwans boss Paul Clement said after his team's crucial 1-0 win over Everton on Saturday: \"It is a shame we can't bring all the fans.\n\n\"The players paying for the supporters' tickets came from Leon Britton and I thought it was a brilliant idea.\n\n\"That's been done by the players and led by Leon and we hope they get up there safely.\"\n\nFernando Llorente scored the only goal as Swansea's win combined with Hull's defeat against already-relegated Sunderland saw the Welsh club climb out of the bottom three with two games remaining.\n\nBritton has not been a regular in recent weeks but started against the Toffees, and Clement added: \"Leon was fantastic and he has been really great ever since I have been at the club.\n\n\"The fact he didn't play until the Stoke game, yet remained so professional and supported the players and did that even when he was out the squad.\n\n\"He helped me as club captain. He came in, did his job and you can see he has a fantastic connection with the crowd. It was really nice to see.\"\n\nBritton himself, who has made more than 500 appearances for the Welsh club, said he was often amazed by the Swansea supporters.\n\n\"The support we've had at home and away has been amazing considering how tough it's been at times,\" Britton told Swansea's official website.\n\n\"That support has been there not just over the course of this season, but for a number of years.\n\n\"If there was ever a time that we need one another more than ever, it's now, over these last few games of the campaign.''\n\nClement said the victory over Everton has given his players a huge lift, but insisted the job is not yet finished.\n\nSwansea still have to travel to Sunderland before facing West Brom on the final day, while Hull face relegation rivals Crystal Palace before entertaining Tottenham Hotspur.\n\n\"It was a fantastic win for us at this stage in the season, when the stakes are so high,\" Clement added.\n\n\"I had a feeling the atmosphere would be good and I thought they were unbelievable today, getting behind the players against a really good team.\n\n\"We knew Hull would play first and we said in the meeting that whatever happened, we needed to win.\n\n\"The message was we have an opportunity, don't waste it. It ended up being a positive weekend, but we know how quickly it can swing the other way.\"", "Some good fortune here for Eoin Morgan as the ball hits his stumps but doesn't dislodge the bails, during England's ODI against Ireland at Lord's.\n\nMATCH REPORT:Root and Bairstow star as England beat Ireland to wrap up series\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland scrum-half Ben Youngs has withdrawn from the Lions tour to New Zealand after the wife of his brother Tom learned that she is terminally ill.\n\nBen, 27, is a team-mate of hooker and captain Tom, 30, at Leicester Tigers and the pair will play in the remainder of the Premiership season for the club.\n\n\"We are a very close family and, as I am sure everyone can respect, time is now precious together,\" said Ben.\n\n\"The most important thing for me at this difficult time is to be able to offer as much support as I can to Tom and his family in the remaining time we all have together.\"\n\nTom Youngs' wife Tiffany was diagnosed with cancer in 2014 and he pulled out of England's tour of New Zealand that year to care for her.\n\nThe brothers played in Leicester's 28-23 win over Worcester on Saturday, with Tom scoring the Tigers' try.\n\nLeicester will play at Wasps in the Premiership semi-final on 20 May, with the winners going through to the final at Twickenham on 27 May.\n\nThe Lions fly to New Zealand on 29 May and their first match is on 3 June.\n\nBen, who had been selected in the 41-man squad for his second Lions tour, informed head coach Warren Gatland of his decision this weekend.\n\n\"We fully understand and respect Ben's decision to stay at home,\" said Gatland. \"Family comes first and I know from having toured with Tom and Ben in 2013 how close they are. This is a difficult and important time for them and we send Ben, Tom and their family our heartfelt thoughts.\"\n\nBen has won 70 caps for England and two for the Lions in the 2-1 series win against Australia in 2013, starting the second Test alongside Tom.\n\nWales' Rhys Webb and Ireland's Conor Murray are the other scrum-halves in Gatland's squad.", "England are \"justified favourites\" for the Champions Trophy on home soil next month, says ex-spinner Graeme Swann.\n\nThey beat Ireland by 85 runs at Lord's to complete a 2-0 win - their seventh one-day series victory in two years.\n\n\"England have got such a strong-looking squad, especially with the bat,\" Swann told Test Match Special\n\n\"It's not long ago they were being thrashed by everyone and insisting they were playing the right way with their 1970s brand of one-day cricket.\"\n\nSwann, who took 104 wickets in 79 one-day internationals, was referring to the 2015 World Cup when Eoin Morgan's team were humbled by a group-stage exit, in which they only won games against minnows Scotland and Afghanistan.\n\nSince then, England have won series against World Cup runners-up New Zealand, Pakistan (twice), Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, West Indies and now Ireland. They only lost to Australia and South Africa by the odd game in five.\n\nThey hammered Ireland despite the absence of key men Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler, who are playing in the Indian Premier League.\n\nSwann added: \"They have such a strong middle order. Especially when you consider they can bring in Jos Buttler - one of the best in the world - and add him to that middle order and then Ben Stokes, who is arguably the best player in the world in all formats.\n\n\"Eoin Morgan and (head coach) Trevor Bayliss ripped up that piece of paper from 2015 and said 'that's nonsense', we'll get the right personnel in, fill them with confidence, back them to the hilt and ask them to try and post 400 when they bat.\n\n\"They scored 328 against Ireland and the captain said he felt they were 40 runs short. That's amazing to hear. Not too long ago, England captains and teams of old would have been cock-a-hoop with a score of 328.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsene Wenger says managers must be \"careful\" when criticising their own players and \"control what you say\".\n\nWenger's Arsenal side face Jose Mourinho's Manchester United on Sunday (kick-off 16:00 BST), battling to reach the Premier League's top four places.\n\nMourinho has questioned the desire of defenders Luke Shaw, Chris Smalling and Phil Jones to return from injury.\n\n\"You can do that in extreme situations but it has to be handled carefully,\" said veteran Arsenal boss Wenger.\n\nMourinho questioned full-back Shaw's commitment and focus to the club last month and then said the player used \"his body with my brain\" after the 1-1 draw against Everton two days later.\n\nThe former Chelsea manager was also unhappy with the \"cautious\" mentality of centre-backs Smalling and Jones for failing to play through pain during the Manchester derby.\n\nSmalling has been struggling with a leg injury, while Jones suffered a toe problem in a training ground tackle made by his team-mate.\n\nThis week, former Blackburn striker Chris Sutton said Mourinho was \"humiliating\" his players by querying their dedication to the Red Devils.\n\nWenger added: \"Ideally you have to be careful with that because you cannot do that in every single game.\n\n\"You can do that in extreme situations but it has to be handled carefully because it just makes that stress level worse for them. Top players have a good and objective assessment. They know well where they stand.\n\n\"You cannot always say to the players 'we are all in the same boat and in this together to achieve something' and then you jump out of the boat and say, 'it's your fault now', but when it goes well you take the credit.\n\n\"You are in a position where you have to be part of it and fight for them when it doesn't go well, you have to control what you say.\"\n\nUnited go into the game five points ahead of sixth-placed Arsenal, having played a game more, but are four points adrift of fourth-placed Liverpool, although the Old Trafford club have a game in hand.\n\nManchester United winger Ashley Young has been ruled out of the game at Arsenal with a hamstring injury.\n\nYoung, 31, was injured after coming on as a substitute in the Europa League semi-final win over Celta Vigo on Thursday.\n\nIt is not known exactly how long Young will be out for but there are fears he could be sidelined for the rest of the season.\n\nUnited manager Mourinho has threatened to play youngsters at the Emirates Stadium after deciding to prioritise his side's European campaign.\n\nFour players yet to make a first-team appearance have been included in his travelling squad for tomorrow's game.\n\nMatty Willock and Scott McTominay have been included in recent United squads. They have travelled to London, along with 20-year-old England Schoolboys winger Demetri Mitchell and teenage United States Under-19 international defender Matt Olosunde.\n\nArsenal could be without midfielder Granit Xhaka who has a calf problem, but defender Shkodran Mustafi could play after returning from a back injury.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSwansea City leapfrogged Hull City to climb out of the Premier League relegation zone with two games remaining after Fernando Llorente headed the winner against Everton.\n\nLlorente got the better of Phil Jagielka to nod Jordan Ayew's cross past goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg from close range - the Spaniard's 13th league goal of the season.\n\nMason Holgate's last-ditch challenge prevented Alfie Mawson from making it 2-0 before Ayew hit the post from 16 yards.\n\nHull, who earlier lost 2-0 at home to relegated Sunderland, drop into the bottom three, while this result also means Middlesbrough will be relegated to the Championship if they lose to leaders Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Monday (20:00 BST).\n\nEverton were poor throughout, Romelu Lukaku going closest when he blazed into the side-netting after a powerful run.\n\nAt the other end, Stekelenburg produced a fine stop to deny substitute Leroy Fer from making it 2-0 for Swansea, who are unbeaten in three league games.\n\nSwansea's fate in their own hands\n\nOn a dramatic day at the bottom of the table, Swansea took advantage of earlier slips by Hull and Crystal Palace to leave their Premier League future in their own hands.\n\nThe Swans are away to relegated Sunderland on 13 May and at home to eighth-placed West Brom on 21 May, the final day. If they win both games they will stay up.\n\nHull are away at Crystal Palace, who are four points above the relegation zone after a 5-0 defeat at Manchester City, on 14 May before hosting second-placed Tottenham on the last day.\n\nPalace's final match of the season is at Manchester United, who are unbeaten in their past 24 league games.\n\nFor the Swans, a passionate fanbase turned into a delirious one before a ball was even kicked in south Wales, after Sunderland's victory over Hull.\n\nThat lifted a boisterous Liberty Stadium, but it took almost half an hour before Swansea created a big opportunity in a cagey contest.\n\nWhen they did, they took it expertly, Llorente heading home from close range after Ayew's twisting run and deflected cross fell perfectly.\n\nHolgate then produced an outstanding challenge to deny Mawson, with a Jagielka block also denying Martin Olsson's effort from an acute angle.\n\nSwansea continued to carve out the better chances, Ayew's volley with the outside of his foot hitting the post, and it was not until the 66th minute that Lukasz Fabianski was seriously tested by Lukaku's 20-yard shot.\n\nThe hosts spurned further chances through Llorente and Fer. It might have cost Swansea at the death when their former skipper Ashley Williams was inches away from heading home, but he couldn't quite convert from Kevin Mirallas' flick-on.\n\nEverton stay seventh, two points behind sixth-placed Arsenal but having played three games more than the Gunners.\n\nThe Toffees have the feel of a club already building for next term.\n\nRoss Barkley, whose future in unclear as his contract runs down, was dropped by Ronald Koeman as was loanee Enner Valencia.\n\nBarkley's introduction at half-time was evidence that Everton had lacked panache in the final third, with Fabianski entirely untroubled before the break.\n\nEverton had won eight of their past 11 visits to Swansea, but not even returning Wales captain Williams - whose every touch was jeered by a section of the home fans - could inspire the visitors.\n\n'Hull result gave us a lift' - what they said\n\nSwansea boss Paul Clement: \"It is one of my proudest moments. What a fantastic, gritty performance. It was so important we got that result after what happened at Hull.\n\n\"We have hit some form both offensively and especially defensively. We have played against really good opposition and seven points from three games is a fantastic tally.\n\n\"It gave us a lift before the game knowing that result had gone in our favour, we knew if we did something special we could get out of the relegation zone.\n\n\"We really defended well.\"\n\nEverton boss Ronald Koeman: \"It was not good enough. The difference is one goal, we had maybe more ball possession, it was difficult to create open chances.\n\n\"The final part, we had to be a little bit more aggressive in the box. The problem is in the last few weeks to create chances - we don't score in the last three games.\n\n\"In my opinion, seventh position is a good position and next Friday is important to give the fans a win they deserve.\"\n• None Everton have failed to score in their past three Premier League games for the first time since a four-game drought in April 2006.\n• None Swansea have taken seven points from their past three league games after picking up just one in the six before that.\n• None The Toffees have lost an away league game in Wales for the first time in their past 11 games there (W5 D5), since a 1-0 defeat to Cardiff at Ninian Park in December 1956.\n• None This is Fernando Llorente's best goal haul in a league season (13) since 2013-14 (16 with Juventus).\n• None Jordan Ayew has provided an assist in three of his past six Premier League games, this after failing to assist in any of his first 36 in the competition.\n\nSwansea visit relegated Sunderland in their penultimate match of the season on Saturday, 13 May (15:00 BST), while Everton host 15th-placed Watford next Friday (19:45 BST).\n• None Attempt saved. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Borja Bastón.\n• None Attempt missed. Enner Valencia (Everton) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Leighton Baines with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Leighton Baines (Everton) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ross Barkley. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nScott Sinclair led a clean sweep of awards for Celtic as he was named PFA Scotland's player of the year.\n\nSinclair, 28, has scored 25 goals in his debut season as the Scottish champions chase a domestic treble.\n\nHe beat team-mates Moussa Dembele and Stuart Armstrong, as well as Aberdeen's Jonny Hayes, to the award, which was voted for by his fellow professionals.\n\nCeltic's Kieran Tierney was voted young player of the year, while boss Brendan Rodgers was named manager of the year.\n\nThe former Liverpool boss, who won the League Managers Association prize in 2014, has not lost a domestic game since arriving in Scotland.\n\n\"I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here,\" Rodgers said. \"I have obviously been fortunate to have really good experiences and I was fortunate enough to win a similar award down in the Premier League in England, and that was very satisfying.\n\n\"And likewise here. It's a prestigious award and you only need to look at the people who have won it before me and the great history of Scottish coaches. I received it with great pride.\"\n\nParkhead striker Dembele made it four awards on the night for the club when his third goal in the 5-2 win over St Johnstone in February was voted goal of the season.\n\nHibernian's John McGinn claimed the Championship player of the year award after the Scotland midfielder helped the Easter Road side win promotion and reach the Scottish Cup semi-finals.\n\nLivingston's Liam Buchanan won the League One player of the year award, with Shane Sutherland of Elgin City taking the League Two award.\n\nThe Scotland women's national team also won a special merit award after reaching this summer's European Championships.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nNewcastle United clinched the Championship title with victory over Barnsley, after Brighton conceded a late equaliser at Aston Villa.\n\nAyoze Perez, Chancel Mbemba and Dwight Gayle scored in a comfortable victory, but it was Jack Grealish's 89th-minute goal which sealed the Magpies' title.\n\nPerez's flicked finish made it 1-0, before Mbemba smashed in to double the lead from a Perez rebound.\n\nGayle added a late third before Grealish's goal handed them the title.\n\nIt was a comfortable win for Rafael Benitez's side - yet it looked like it would not be enough to seal top spot, after Glenn Murray's penalty had put league leaders Brighton in front at Villa Park.\n\nHowever, despite being down to 10 men following Nathan Baker's red card, Grealish beat Brighton keeper David Stockdale to send the Magpies above Brighton in the table.\n• None How the final day of the Championship season unfolded\n\nAt St James' Park, DeAndre Yedlin terrorised Barnsley down the right-hand side and it was his cross which Perez guided into the bottom corner to open the scoring.\n\nChristian Atsu forced Barnsley goalkeeper Adam Davies into two strong diving saves with powerful shots and Massadio Haidara smashed a good chance over the crossbar from Perez's cut-back as the hosts dominated.\n\nDavies kept out Jack Colback with his legs, but the Magpies got a deserved second when Davies pushed Perez's shot out perfectly for Mbemba to smash home his first goal for the club.\n\nJonjo Shelvey struck the post before Aleksandar Mitrovic's header sent substitute Gayle through to complete the scoring with a confident finish past the onrushing Davies.\n\nUnder manager Benitez, Newcastle brought 12 players to the club after dropping into the Championship last summer, with Matt Ritchie and Gayle moving down a division to sign five-year deals.\n\nMore than £50 million was spent in transfer fees alone, but these were offset by the sales of Andros Townsend, Moussa Sissoko and Georginio Wijnaldum among others.\n\nNevertheless, the Magpies were still under pressure to achieve promotion - a feat they managed with two games to spare.\n\nBenitez's side have battled with Brighton throughout the season for top spot, but since the Seagulls achieved promotion on 17 April they have dropped off the pace dramatically.\n\nUltimately it was three straight wins for Newcastle and three matches without three points for Chris Hughton's side that told, giving the Toon the perfect end to the campaign.\n• None Attempt missed. Elliot Lee (Barnsley) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Matthew James.\n• None Goal! Newcastle United 3, Barnsley 0. Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Aleksandar Mitrovic with a through ball.\n• None Attempt saved. Elliot Lee (Barnsley) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by George Moncur.\n• None Attempt blocked. Elliot Lee (Barnsley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Marley Watkins (Barnsley) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Josh Scowen.\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jack Colback. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nJohanna Konta's struggles on clay continued as a final-set slump saw her lose to Laura Siegemund in the first round of the Madrid Open.\n\nSixth-seed Konta, 25, was 3-0 up in the decider but German Siegemund took five straight games to progress 3-6 7-5 6-4.\n\nThe match ended at 02:17am local time and defeat means British world number seven Konta has still won just three games on the surface in her career.\n\nThe world number 30 won the second WTA Tour title of her career last week at the Stuttgart Open.\n\nShe started poorly in the Spanish capital as Konta broke serve twice to take the opening set but then fought back to claim a tie-break in the second having been 5-4 down.\n\nAnd she showed the same battling qualities in the decider, fighting back from three break points that would have given Konta a 4-0 lead to win the game and subsequently the match.", "Joe Root starred as England sealed a series whitewash over Ireland in their two-match one-day international contest courtesy of an 85-run win at Lord's.\n\nRoot scored 73 in a partnership of 140 with Eoin Morgan (76) before Jonny Bairstow's rapid 72 propelled England to 328-6 at the home of cricket.\n\nPaul Stirling struck 48 but Root's 3-52 swung the game the home side's way.\n\nWill Porterfield (82) gave Ireland a glimmer of hope but his dismissal spelt the end and they were all out for 241.\n\nRoot's Yorkshire team-mate Liam Plunkett helped clean up the tail and ended up with figures of 3-21.\n\nHowever, it was a much-improved display from the tourists after Friday's seven-wicket defeat in Bristol in front of a healthy away following and one they can use as further proof of their suitability for Test status.\n\nAfter Friday's first ODI, England captain Eoin Morgan spoke of the need for his players to find form before June's Champions Trophy on home soil, for which England are currently bookmakers' favourites.\n\nHe has no worries over Root, who scored at a run a ball during his innings, the majority of which was spent in a partnership with his equally efficient skipper, and retains the ability to take timely wickets with his seemingly innocuous off-spin.\n\nFollowing the loss of Hales and Roy, who is England's biggest concern after adding an unconvincing 20 to his fifth-ball duck in Bristol, Root and Morgan took England past 200 before both fell in the space of three overs.\n\nA brief lull followed, during which England also lost Sam Billings, before Bairstow and Adil Rashid (39) restored the momentum and pushed the score past 300.\n\nWicketkeeper-batsman Bairstow is a fixture in the Test side but has failed to nail down a regular spot in what is a congested England limited-overs middle order.\n\nHowever, with Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler both at the IPL, the 26-year-old was given an opportunity to excel that he did not waste.\n\nDemonstrating the clean-hitting that had seen him score a 113-ball 174 for Yorkshire in a recent One-Day Cup win over Durham, Bairstow took over from county colleague Root, acclimatised quickly and then accelerated to propel England beyond a 300 total that had previously looked in doubt.\n\nIt took him 38 balls to reach his fourth ODI 50 before fully cutting loose, adding another 22 runs in just six deliveries that included three big sixes.\n\nWith the three-game home series against South Africa to come later this month, before the start of the Champions Trophy, Bairstow is providing England with a nice selection dilemma to resolve.\n\nIreland have had a bad couple of months, during which they have lost a one-day series and an ICC Intercontinental Cup fixture to chief rival associate nation Afghanistan, and both games in this series.\n\nIn Bristol, they looked weighed down by what coach John Bracewell described as the \"huge pressure\" of the impending decision over their potential Test status, which should be made next month.\n\nHowever, they played with greater freedom and application on Sunday, rising to the challenge of their first encounter against England at Lord's.\n\nThey were energetic in the field but unfortunately lack bowling depth beyond Tim Murtagh, who used his experience of Lord's from 10 years as a Middlesex player to keep England in check, especially in an initial spell of 1-16 off his opening six overs.\n\nBarry McCarthy (2-61) and Peter Chase (2-69) had their moments but lacked consistency and wilted under Bairstow's late onslaught.\n\nThe lack of depth is mirrored in their batting. Stirling, Joyce and Porterfield are a talented top three but as England have shown over two games, there is little below them.\n\nStirling and Joyce (16) added 68 for the opening wicket but both fell in the space of two and a half overs, the former to Jake Ball and the latter to Root, who would also claim the wickets of Niall O'Brien and Gary Wilson to help reduce Ireland to 154-5.\n\nPorterfield's clean striking carried the tourists past 200 until he was bowled by Mark Wood attempting a ramp shot, leaving the Durham seamer and Plunkett to clean up the tail.\n\n'Sterner tests to come' - What they said...\n\nEngland coach Trevor Bayliss, speaking to Sky Sports: \"We know we have sterner tests coming up, against South Africa and in the Champions Trophy. We can do no more than play and win well.\n\n\"We will go into the three games against South Africa wanting to win that series. If we are 2-0 up with a game to go we will look at the team then.\"\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"Bristol was a more convincing win and today presented us with different challenges.\n\n\"There was some cloud cover this morning and the openers got us off to a fantastic start. I shared in a good partnership with Joe Root and then Jonny Bairstow and Adil Rashid saw us home after a little wobble.\"\n\nIreland captain Will Porterfield: \"I thought we were much improved today.\n\n\"We put a lot of things right - we bowled well and kept going when the big partnership got going and it took Jonny Bairstow to play well to get them to that big total.\n\n\"I think with the bat we were just a couple of wickets behind and that stopped us going for it at the end.\"\n\n'8.5 out of 10 from England'\n\nEx-England spinner Graeme Swann on BBC Test Match Special: \"It's been a very professional performance from England. They haven't taken their foot off the gas at any point in the series. 8.5/10 from England.\"\n\nEx-England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent on BBC Test Match Special: \"I'm not sure England can take too much out of this series. It's good to see Bairstow play the way he does - but we know he's a quality player - and it's good to see Wood back. Perhaps I'd like to have seen more from him? But there's not much more we didn't already know.\"", "In 2015, Max Stossel, 28, had an awakening. He was a successful social media strategist working with major multinational companies.\n\nBut that same year, he says, “I realised that some of the work I was doing wasn’t actually in people’s best interests.”\n\nStossel has since become a pivotal part of the Time Well Spent movement, which \"aims to align technology with our human values\".\n\nTime Well Spent was co-founded by the former Google 'product philosopher' Tristan Harris, and is made up of “a group of industry insiders”, many of whom have worked for companies like Facebook and Snapchat, but have now aligned themselves with the movement in some way.\n\nLast year, Ofcom, the communications regulator, found that more than half of all internet users in Britain feel they’re addicted to the technology.\n\n“There’s this idea that we’re addicted to our phones, and that we’ve done this to ourselves,” says Stossel. “That is just not true.”\n\nStossel explains that tech design is increasingly informed by behavioural psychology and neuroscience.\n\nTristan Harris himself studied at Stanford’s Persuasive Tech Lab, which describes itself as creating “insight into how computing products can be designed to influence and change human behaviour”.\n\nThe Lab’s website states, “Technology is being designed to change what we think and do.” It gives several examples of this from Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.\n\nThere are thousands of people on the other side of your screens whose job it is to keep you as hooked as possible.\n\n“When you understand neuroscience and you understand how to develop apps, you can essentially programme the brain,” Stossel says. “There are thousands of people on the other side of your screens whose job it is to keep you as hooked as possible, and they’ve gotten very good at it.”\n\nI ask Stossel just how good these people are. I control my notifications, I tell him, not vice versa. He bats a simple question back my way: “Do you feel at all stressed when your phone is out of reach and it buzzes?”\n\nUm. Yes. The irresistible curiosity, the little surge of anxiety, which grows the longer I leave my notification unchecked – these are feelings I know well.\n\nFiguring out how to capture my attention like that, is, according to Stossel. “the job of everybody in my industry\".\n\nBroadly speaking, tech design seeks to take advantage of our brains' reward system, where dopamine activation leads to feelings of satisfaction and pleasure.\n\nOur brains are programmed to seek more of whatever gives us this pleasure - so much so that we crave it when we don’t have it. The same system that makes us crave drugs or certain foods can also make us crave particular apps, games, sites and devices.\n\nLooks like this post is no longer available from its original source. It might've been taken down or had its privacy settings changed.\n\nBut Time Well Spent believes this problem isn’t exclusively a tech one. Stossel points out how the range of ways in which content is actually created – including negative headlines and clickbait tactics - can also fit into this realm of persuasion.\n\n“The problem is that it’s everything,” he says. “It’s all of the life that we live in.”\n\nLife has become an “attention economy,” Stossel explains. “Everybody wants to grab as much of our attention as possible. I was designing notification structures to help take you out of your world and bring you into mine.”\n\nStossel argues that users are not the customers of technology, but the products– our attention is the thing being sold.\n\n“We use lots of platforms for free,” he says. But lots of advertisers pay the platforms lots of money to get our attention while we’re on there. “We’re not the ones paying, so the things that matter to us will go second place to what matters to advertisers,” says Stossel. “And that’s a big deal.”\n\nWhat this leads to, according to Stossel, is a fundamental discrepancy between the goals of those who own the technology and the goals of us, the people using it.\n\nSuccess in the tech world is often measured using the metric of 'time spent'- that is, how long we spend using an app, streaming a service, or browsing a website.\n\nFor example, Stossel says, dating apps “measure their success in how long they keep you swiping. But is that actually the goal we have as humans when we’re using dating sites?”\n\nAnother example is the way videos auto-play on certain platforms. This keeps more people online for longer but, Stossel says, “That doesn’t mean that they actually want to stay online for longer.”\n\nIn fact, in 2016, psychology professor Alejandro Lleras published a study that found that high engagement with our mobile phones and the internet “is linked with anxiety and depression”.\n\nStossel believes that this incessant clamouring for our attention is making us lose focus on the things that are really important.\n\n3rd party content may contain ads - see our FAQs for more info.\n\n“We’re constantly being buzzed,” he says. “How can we ever focus on bigger issues that matter, like climate change for example, when we’re always being pulled in so many different directions?”\n\nThe power to change things lies overwhelmingly with the people 'behind our screens' - the ones designing the apps, games, platforms and devices that we use.\n\n“There’s a code of ethics to consider here,” Stossel believes. “Designers have to take the responsibility they have – of influencing people’s decisions – seriously.”\n\nHe tells me that Time Well Spent is currently working on a sort of Hippocratic oath for tech designers, similar to the commitment doctors make to work in their patients' best interests.\n\nThe movement is campaigning for designers to make a formal promise to design from a place of good intent.\n\nTheir aim is for software that has been designed in accordance with these ethical values to be identified by a form of certification, similar to the label on organic food.\n\nIn the days following my conversation with Stossel, I notice how often I get sucked into aimlessly trawling through the Instagram stories of people I don’t even know.\n\nWhat starts as a mindless scroll through my Facebook feed before bed can easily escalate into huge periods of wasted time (and a lot of frustration at not getting the early night I had promised myself, again).\n\nLooks like this post is no longer available from its original source. It might've been taken down or had its privacy settings changed.\n\nI can certainly see the merit of what Time Well Spent is campaigning for. But the sheer scale of change needed leaves me wondering if their fight might be impossibly idealistic.\n\n“It is absolutely possible,” Stossel counters. “The challenge is getting consumers to demand it.”\n\nHe believes technology will manipulate our attention in ever more effective ways.\n\n“VR, AR and more advanced artificial intelligence are all coming,” he says. “The future will be so good at this. That’s why we need to demand this change now.”\n\nLet's build a future where tech enhances humanity, not detracts from it. I don't want to live on the Wall-e ship. pic.twitter.com/Boa6EleNrU — Max Stossel (@MaxStossel) February 24, 2016\n\nUntil that change comes, Time Well Spent’s co-founder, Tristan Harris, adheres to certain 'band aids' - lifestyle changes the movement has designed for living better in the attention economy:\n\nHe’s turned off almost all notifications on his phone, and has customised the vibration for text messages, so he can feel the difference between an automated alert and a human’s.\n\nHe’s made the first screen of his phone almost empty, with only functional apps like Uber and Google Maps - ones that he can’t get sucked into spending hours on.\n\nHe’s put any apps he’s inclined to waste time on, or any apps with colourful, attention-grabbing icons, inside folders on the second page of his phone.\n\nTo open an app, he types its name into the phone’s search bar—which reduces impulsive clicks.\n\nHe also has a sticky note on his laptop. What does it say?", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nMaria Sharapova set up a match against Eugenie Bouchard with a first-round win at the Madrid Open on Sunday.\n\nCanadian Bouchard called Sharapova \"a cheater\" prior to the Russian's return to competitive action in April after a 15-month doping ban.\n\nBouchard, who beat Alize Cornet on Saturday, believes the five-time Grand Slam winner should be banned for life.\n\nSharapova beat Croat Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 4-6 6-4 6-0, which comes after reaching the semi-finals in Stuttgart.\n\nThe 30-year-old, who won this tournament in 2014, will take on world number 59 Bouchard on Monday, from 19:00 BST - a match you can listen to on BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra.\n\nIn October 2016, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Sharapova was not an \"intentional doper\".\n\n\"When you're out of the game for a long time you just want to play as many games as possible,\" said Sharapova.\n\nWorld number two Angelique Kerber eased into round two with a convincing 6-4 6-2 win over Hungary's Timea Babos.\n\nThe German is the top seed in the draw with world number one Serena Williams absent because the 23-time Grand Slam champion is expecting her first child.\n\nKerber's form has been inconsistent this season, but she was rarely troubled in wrapping up victory in just over an hour on court.\n\nCaroline Wozniacki took nearly three-and-a-half hours on court to eventually overcome Monica Niculescu 7-5, 6-7, 6-4.\n\nSharapova's conqueror in Stuttgart, Kristina Mladenovic, is also safely through after Croat Ana Konjuh retired when the French world number 17 levelled at one set all.\n\nDefending champion Simona Halep cruised past Kristyna Pliskova 6-1, 6-2. However, home favourite and French Open champion Garbine Muguruza's disappointing form this season continued as she was blown away 6-1, 6-3 by Switzerland's Timea Bacsinszky.", "The WHO confirmed that Zika virus caused microcephaly or small brains in babies\n\nThere's another big election coming up which will have an impact on hundreds of millions of people all around world - but you probably haven't heard anything about it.\n\nHealth ministers and officials from 194 countries are due to vote for a new director general of the World Health Organization in Geneva on Tuesday.\n\nThe UN agency, founded in 1948, describes itself as the \"global guardian of public health\", but it lost a great deal of credibility and trust over its handling of the Ebola crisis in 2014.\n\nThe new boss could make or break the WHO, which is still trying to prove it is fit for purpose after admitting it was slow to respond to what became the worst Ebola outbreak in history.\n\nHowever, dealing with epidemics is just part of what WHO does.\n\nIts stated goal is to ensure \"the highest attainable level of health for all people\".\n\nIn practice, that means everything from trying to wipe out deadly diseases for good, to trying to deal with the growing number of obesity and diabetes epidemics, to reducing deaths on the roads and saving the lives of mothers and babies during childbirth.\n\nHeading an organisation responsible for the health of all 7.3 billion people on earth is no small task.\n\n\"The word 'health' itself is a burden that it carries,\" said Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at the University of Edinburgh.\n\n\"Improving health worldwide can mean so many things, from mental health to malaria to unintentional injuries… to cancer.\n\n\"It's very hard for one agency, with a very limited and very constrained budget - of around $2bn every year - to achieve all those things. \"\n\nProf Sridhar, who has recently written a book looking at WHO funding, said the US's health protection agency, the CDC, has a budget more than three times that of the WHO.\n\nShe also said most of it comes from donors who earmark their funding for specific projects.\n\nOnly around 20% of the WHO budget comes from compulsory contributions from member states, she said.\n\nWhoever gets the top job will have to be the consummate politician. They will have to get country leaders on board with big - often expensive - global health objectives, while also being above politics and not beholden to the special interests of any particular country.\n\n\"There have been two types of leader at the WHO in the past,\" said Prof David Heymann, a former assistant director at the WHO.\n\n\"Some have tried to build consensus between 194 member countries, then try to implement what those countries have said. Others have been leaders who have been out in front with a vision, and tried to pull 194 countries along with that vision.\"\n\nThere are three candidates left in the running for the $241,000-a-year job.\n\nThe vote will take place at the annual World Health Assembly in Geneva. Whoever is elected will serve a minimum five-year term.\n\nDr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a former health and foreign minister in the Ethiopian government\n\n\"I was born into a poor family. When I was seven, I lost my younger brother, probably to measles. I survived by chance, but it could have been me.\n\n\"For me, this position is about standing up for the rights of the poor.\n\n\"If I became director general, I would be very vocal on the issue of universal healthcare.\n\n\"We complain about emergencies or epidemics, worried it may come to our country. But if we ensure universal health coverage, we can resolve all of those issues.\n\n\"Inequity is a central challenge. The world has all the resources to save every life, as long as we believe every life is important.\n\n\"Those who have, do not care for the have-nots, and unless we confront that reality honestly, I don't think we will make progress.\"\n\nDr Sania Nishtar, cardiologist who set up Heartfelt, which works to improve health systems in Pakistan\n\n\"I was born and brought up in Peshawar on the Afghan border in Pakistan. I was raised in a progressive family. My father encouraged us to swim in the summer and play golf. I was a local golf champion by the time I was 16.\n\n\"When I was 15, my father passed away silently in his sleep - I think that was a turning point in my life.\n\n\"I trained as a cardiologist and I became very disillusioned with the disparity of care between the rich and the poor.\n\n\"My vision for this role centres on regaining the WHO's primacy, and ensuring that it has the world's trust as its lead health agency.\n\n\"Since the Ebola outbreak, the WHO has come under heavy criticism for its inability to... exercise stewardship during health emergencies.\n\n\"I want to make the organisation more accountable and transparent.\n\n\"I want it to focus on its core roles, rather than doing everything under the sun, in a half-baked way. I would lead the WHO very differently.\"\n\nDr David Nabarro, born in the UK, is UN special adviser on the Sustainable Development goals and is former UN Envoy for Ebola\n\n\"My parents are both doctors, and probably because of their influence, I started working outside the UK.\n\n\"It was when I was working in Nepal in 1989, that I found how malnutrition and disease were most likely to come from households that faced particularly difficult circumstances in terms of income, the status of women and their access to sanitation and water.\n\n\"It seemed to me blindingly obvious that I had to work on the underlying determinants of health.\n\n\"My first priority if I become director general of the WHO, is to focus on universal health coverage - everybody being able to access healthcare when and where they need it.\n\n\"My second priority is to make sure people can be defended against outbreaks of disease.\n\n\"Thirdly, we are seeing increasing levels of diabetes, heart disease and mental ill-health. These kinds of non-communicable conditions could be prevented by better work across governments and society.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It was the season in which Chelsea played by their own record book.\n\nThe Blues topped the table while, at the other end, Sunderland could not escape the drop after 110 straight days at the bottom.\n\nRecords tumbled through to the last day of the campaign, when we saw 33 goalscorers, more than ever before in a single day of a 38-game season.\n\nGoals scored from outside the penalty area fell to a Premier League low of 11.6% so, if you like a goalmouth scramble, this was your year.\n\nChelsea class but will Costa elect to stay?\n\nFrom the moment Prime Minister Theresa May called a snap General Election on 18 April, the title was as good as Chelsea's.\n\nThe London club have won the title the past four times - 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2017 - the country has been asked to elect a government.\n\nThey did so in style, with their 30 wins beating the Premier League record of 29, which the Blues also set in 2004-05 and 2005-06.\n\nAs the graphic above shows, Antonio Conte would do well to hold on to Diego Costa as his goals won more points than anyone else in the league. The striker has been linked with a move to China, but why would he want to leave London?\n\nThe city is home to the best and second-best sides in the league for just the third time in English top-flight history.\n\nFor all their free-flowing attacking play, for all Dele Alli's quality and Christian Eriksen's guile, Tottenham didn't spend a single day on top of the table in 2016-17. That's less than relegated Hull City who spent 24 hours at the summit on the opening weekend.\n\nIncredibly, Spurs had four players who were involved in 20 or more league goals this season. No other side had two players who could boast of such a contribution.\n\nSo many troops chipping in helped Mauricio Pochettino's side to a goal difference of +60, a record for any side who did not win the title.\n\nWhat would they have mustered had Harry Kane not missed eight games in the league? His mark of five hat-tricks in the season puts him among stellar company, as only Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo can match the mark in any of Europe's top five leagues.\n\nManchester United's season saw manager Jose Mourinho criticise Luke Shaw, take an age to utilise Henrikh Mkhitaryan and lament the workings of the fixture computer.\n\nIt led to him making more changes to his starting line-up - 120 - than any other manager and he finished outside the top three for the first time in his managerial career.\n\nThe Red Devils never finished a Premier League season lower than third under Sir Alex Ferguson but have now done so in each of the four seasons since he left.\n\nAnd those famous Manchester United v Arsenal battles for titles in recent memory now look further away than ever, with the pair outside the top four as a duo for the first time since 1979.\n\nThe Gunners - fifth - can feel a little hard done by as their mark of 75 points is a record for any side finishing outside the top four in the Premier League era.\n\nWhat was life like in 1999?\n\nUnited still have the Europa League final to contest, of course, and would qualify for the Champions League with victory over Ajax on Wednesday. Mourinho could point to his use of youth as a positive for the campaign, as the side deployed for their final league game against Crystal Palace was their youngest Premier League XI - with an average age of 22 years and 284 days.\n\nForward Angel Gomes became the first player born in the year 2000 to feature in the Premier League in the process, making a generation of football fans feel old.\n\nThe 16-year-old is younger than David Beckham's oldest son Brooklyn and young enough to have never seen Glenn Hoddle manage the England side.\n\nSophie Ellis-Bextor topped the charts with her hit 'Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)' on the day Gomes was born in August 2000.\n\nSpurs can boast the youngest average starting XI in the league at 25 years and 298 days, ahead of manager Mauricio Pochettino's former club Southampton (26 years and 169 days).\n\nBournemouth, though, may well be England boss Gareth Southgate's favourite side as 11 different English players made 20 or more appearances for the Cherries. No club has hit this mark since Aston Villa in 2000-01.\n\nNot doom and gloom at City\n\nPep Guardiola's failure to muster a title challenge in his debut Premier League season was surprising but there are signs things are coming together.\n\nIn securing a seventh straight top-four finish - the longest streak in the league now - City managed 12 away wins. That is their joint-most since 2001-02, and they can also draw comfort from the fact Sergio Aguero is somehow getting better.\n\nNever before has he scored 33 goals in a season for the club, and the Argentina international only started 25 league games. He also now appears to have an able deputy in Gabriel Jesus who scored seven goals and made four in just eight league games.\n\nKevin de Bruyne also served up a league-high 18 assists, further evidence there is much to like at City, despite the lack of title.\n\nMy team definitely needs a...\n\nThere are those players you just know your club must keep. Relegated Sunderland will do well to do that with Jermain Defoe - who scored over half of their goals this season - while Everton may feel the heat of interest in Romelu Lukaku, scorer of 40% of their goals.\n\nBut when a season ends you also instantly mull over what your team needs in order to be better when August comes.\n\nIf it's a midfielder to keep play moving you're looking for, Middlesbrough's Adam Forshaw could offer up a bargain. Of all the midfielders to play at least 25 games, his pass-completion rate of 88.3% is only bettered by some big names.\n\nIf your team needs a tackle master, tempting Idrissa Gueye away from Everton may be money well spent as he won 100 tackles in 33 league outings, comfortably clear of Southampton's Oriel Romeu on 87 in second.\n\nAnd when it comes to taking chances, Fernando Llorente's name is up in lights. For all those players to play 25 league games, no-one made more of their shots. His haul of 15 goals from 52 shots gives him a 28.9% goals-to-shots ratio.\n\nMany of you may well be sad to see the end of the season arrive.\n\nSunderland fans, though, could be forgiven for throwing a street party to wave 2016-17 goodbye. Chelsea's joy was perfectly contrasted by months at the bottom for the Black Cats. Their yearly Houdini escapes have become part of Premier League folklore. Alas, finally, they fell short.", "Wang Quanzhang was detained in August 2015 - and hasn't been seen or heard from since\n\nIn August 2015 Wang Quanzhang was detained by the Chinese authorities.\n\nIn that he was not alone. The nationwide series of raids that summer saw more than 200 lawyers, legal assistants and human rights activists brought in for questioning.\n\nBut almost two years on, Mr Wang is the only lawyer from whom nothing has been heard at all.\n\n\"I don't know whether he's alive or dead,\" his wife Li Wenzu told me. \"I have had no information at all. He has simply disappeared from the face of the earth. It is so scary, so brutal.\"\n\nChina's \"709\" crackdown as it's now known - a reference to 9 July, the date it began - is widely seen as a sign of a growing intolerance of dissent under President Xi Jinping.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Li Wenzu has not heard from her husband Wang Quanzhang since 2015\n\nOf the large number of people initially detained, around two dozen have been pursued as formal investigations. Over the past year or so those cases have gradually been reaching some kind of a conclusion.\n\nSome of the accused have been given long jail terms, of up to seven and a half years, for the crime of subversion.\n\nOthers have been given suspended prison sentences or released on bail, but remain under constant surveillance.\n\nBut of the lawyers arrested in that initial 2015 sweep, Mr Wang is unique. Apart from one brief written notification of his arrest, the family say he has disappeared into a black hole.\n\nLi Wenzu fears her husband is being punished for a failure to compromise\n\n\"For these two years, he hasn't been allowed to meet the lawyer that we have employed for him, and he has no right to communicate with the outside world,\" his wife Ms Li said. \"He has been deprived of all rights.\"\n\nThere have been allegations that some of the lawyers have been tortured during their detention, force-fed drugs, shackled, beaten and kept in stress positions for long periods of time.\n\nTheir admissions of guilt, either in court or in the televised confessions that have been broadcast by state-run TV, should not be taken at face value, their supporters argue, but rather as the inevitable consequence of the pressure they've been under.\n\nThey now fear that Mr Wang's continued incarceration might be because he is holding out.\n\n\"I think it might be because my husband hasn't compromised at all,\" Ms Li said. \"That's why his case remains unsolved.\"\n\nWang Quanzhang is certainly no stranger to pressure. His work representing the persecuted followers of China's banned spiritual movement, Falun Gong, as well as human rights activists, has attracted the ire of the authorities before.\n\nIn this interview, he recounts being beaten in the basement of a court building for challenging the order of a judge.\n\nConfessions made by some detainees, like lawyer Xie Yang, reflect the pressures on them, supporters say\n\nJerome Cohen is a professor at New York University School of Law and a long-term expert on the Chinese legal system. He knows some of the detained lawyers personally.\n\n\"They are in the lead, they are the ones who have really gone public. There are many other lawyers who are quietly working, they hope, within the limits allowed by the party,\" he said.\n\n\"But they too are feeling the pressure and are watching very carefully how these lawyers, who were up front as it were, are being abused.\"\n\n\"Of course this deters a lot of people, which is the whole aim of the party... to try to keep the lawyers in line.\"\n\nPresident Xi Jinping has spoken of the dangers that liberal ideals, like constitutional rights enforceable in the courts, pose for Communist Party rule.\n\nChina, it seems, wants lawyers to help it \"rule by law\", not keep its rulers in check through the \"rule of law\".\n\nThe lawyers whose cases have gone to trial appear to be those who have consistently taken on the most politically sensitive cases, as well as those who have advocated for the need for a justice system beyond party control.\n\n\"The party knows it needs lawyers, it wants them for economic development,\" Mr Cohen said. \"But essentially, the party would like lawyers to behave like dentists, like technicians.\"\n\n\"I admire dentists very much but I don't expect them to annunciate the values of my society,\" he added.\n\n\"So this is what the party is trying to do, and it is doing so with extreme cruelty.\"\n\nXi Jinping has said that liberal ideals threaten the Communist Party's monopoly on power\n\nBut if that is the plan then, on one level, it isn't working. The \"war on law\" has prompted the wives of the detained lawyers to work together and advocate very publicly for their husbands' release.\n\nDespite facing continuing intimidation and harassment by plain-clothes policemen, they have refused to be silenced.\n\nSome of them even addressed a US Congressional hearing on the issue this week, including - via recorded video evidence - Li Wenzu.\n\nOther Chinese lawyers have come to the defence of those caught up in the crackdown, visiting detention centres to demand information or mounting legal challenges, only then, subsequently, to be detained themselves.\n\nAnd the wider community of Chinese defence lawyers has made public its opposition to the alleged mistreatment of members of the profession.\n\nMeanwhile there is mounting concern about the fate of Wang Quanzhang. If he really is still holding out against the odds, his loved ones fear the consequences.\n\nLawyer and friend Ge Wenxiu recorded this video message that was posted on Twitter this week.\n\n\"Lawyer Quanzhang, are you still alive?\" he asks. \"We don't mind if you make a damn confession on Chinese TV and come home. Come home.\"", "Premier League thoroughbreds and deserved champions. Brilliantly managed by Antonio Conte in his first season at the club - addressed early failings with tactical acumen, repaired a broken squad and got Chelsea's best players playing again.\n\nWhat he said: \"This squad and team is so much better than it showed last season. Expect Conte, who will not suffer fools or any political manoeuvring in the dressing room, to flourish.\"\n\nStat: Chelsea are the first side to win 30 games in a single Premier League season.\n\nRead more: How Conte turned Chelsea into champions\n\nCame into a Premier League boasting the likes of Pep Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp and Jose Mourinho and outflanked them all. Made a very difficult job look very easy.\n\nA humble, modest character who does his job in a humble, modest way. And does it quite brilliantly.\n\nNearly, but not quite after another season of progress for Mauricio Pochettino's emerging young team.\n\nSpurs have an outstanding core of young, English players.\n\nIf they can keep them together, add to the squad, and find a way to win at Wembley then a trophy will surely come soon. But they now need to win something.\n\nWhat he said: \"Tough call this one as Pochettino's side were excellent last season and were right in the title shake-up for so long. In reality, you could throw a blanket over the likes of Chelsea, Spurs, Liverpool and Arsenal in the battle for top-four places.\"\n\nStat: Tottenham scored more goals and conceded fewer than any other team in the Premier League, beating champions Chelsea's goal difference by eight.\n\nThe Hammers try to recreate the hostility and atmospherics of Upton Park at the sprawling London Stadium and Spurs try to find a way to win at Wembley - their new home next season and where they have lost seven times and won only once in their past nine appearances.\n\nNo escaping the tinge of disappointment to Pep Guardiola's first season at Manchester City.\n\nNo trophies, out in the last 16 of the Champions League, and top four in the Premier League was the minimum requirement.\n\nNot found it as easy a transition as at Barcelona and Bayern Munich. Defensive and goalkeeping flaws to fix but Gabriel Jesus could be a superstar next season.\n\nWhat he said: \"Now City have signed John Stones, responsibility will lie with him for curing defensive ills caused by poor form of Eliaquim Mangala and Nicolas Otamendi, as well as captain Vincent Kompany's injuries. I'm backing a Guardiola-inspired City to reclaim the title.\"\n\nStat: Manchester City have finished in the top four for seven successive seasons, the longest active streak of any club in the Premier League after Arsenal's failure this season.\n\nThe return of Champions League football means Liverpool can count this season as progress and success - although manager Jurgen Klopp should not escape criticism for tame exits to Southampton in the Capital One Cup semi-final and at home to Championship strugglers Wolves with a weakened side in the FA Cup.\n\nNot as sparkling in the second half of the season and no trophies, but a sense of a club going in the right direction.\n\nWhat he said: \"The biggest plus will be that Klopp now has the squad he wants. First title since 1990? No - but a good bet for a cup.\"\n\nStat: Liverpool have finished in the top four of the Premier League for only the second time in the past eight seasons.\n\nArsene Wenger's toughest season at Arsenal. Plenty of supporter unrest - and most significantly no Champions League football for the first time in 20 years. Seismic moment for the club after a poor season. Even if Wenger stays, something has to change - and that applies even if Arsenal win the FA Cup.\n\nWhat he said: \"Fourth-place prediction... but with doubts and with fingers crossed.\"\n\nStat: Arsenal have finished the season outside of the top four for the first time since the 1995-96 campaign, when they finished fifth under Bruce Rioch.\n\nStodgy first season for Jose Mourinho at Old Trafford - but still the possibility of it being rated a real success if they win the Europa League and secure Champions League football on top of winning the EFL Cup.\n\nToo many draws at Old Trafford and too many cautious away displays at close rivals. Still very much a Mourinho work in progress and league form must improve next season.\n\nWhat he said: \"Where will Wayne Rooney fit into Mourinho's grand plan? And what about United's defence? How will £30m Eric Bailly from Villarreal adapt to the Premier League? Despite this, expect United to be back in the title shake-up.\"\n\nStat: Manchester United never finished lower than third in the Premier League under Sir Alex Ferguson, but have now ended seventh, fourth, fifth and sixth in the past four seasons.\n\nGenuine season of progress under manager Ronald Koeman - European football is back at Everton and Goodison Park is a fortress once more. Doubts must be resolved over the future of Romelu Lukaku and Ross Barkley but talk of high ambition in the transfer market this summer is more cause for optimism.\n\nWhat he said: \"Koeman is a shrewd and ruthless operator. It should also be remembered he inherited a debacle from predecessor Roberto Martinez.\"\n\nStat: Everton won 43 points at Goodison Park in the Premier League this season, their most in a top-flight campaign at home since 1989-90 (45).\n\nEverton's teenage midfielder has that stamp of class and his goal against Manchester City was one of the highlights of the season at Goodison Park.\n\nSolid if unspectacular from the Saints, although deservedly reached Wembley and were on the rough end of poor decisions when losing to Manchester United in the EFL Cup final.\n\nManager Claude Puel was a low-key figure and occasionally unconvincing but forward Manolo Gabbiadini looks a good signing. Can they keep defender Virgil van Dijk? And will Puel even stay? Can they realistically expect to be doing better?\n\nWhat he said: \"Expect another solid season but not another top six.\"\n\nStat: Southampton have the second-youngest starting XIs in the league behind Tottenham, with an average of 26 years 169 days old\n\nAnother excellent season under manager Eddie Howe. This is dreamland for the Cherries - not just in the Premier League but stabilised in it by playing attractive, attacking football. An outstanding achievement by Bournemouth.\n\nWhat he said: \"The reality is that Premier League status is success in itself for Bournemouth.\"\n\nStat: Eleven different English players have made 20 or more Premier League appearances for Bournemouth this season. The last Premier League team to do this were Aston Villa in 2000-01.\n\nThe Baggies may have tailed off towards the end of the season but this was still a good term with underrated manager Tony Pulis at the helm. Consolidated in the Premier League - so will the new Chinese owners show ambition to try to break the glass ceiling?\n\nWhat he said: \"If stability and Premier League status is what is required then expect Pulis to deliver again, but there was not much to excite at The Hawthorns last season.\"\n\nStat: West Brom scored 48.8% of their goals from set-pieces this season, the highest proportion of any team in the Premier League.\n\nPoor first season at London Stadium. Doesn't feel like home after Upton Park but an even bigger problem has been those playing in it. Yes, manager Slaven Bilic's plans were derailed by forward Dimitri Payet downing tools but recruitment was desperately poor. Has to improve this summer.\n\nWhat he said: \"West Ham's biggest challenge may be settling into new surroundings at London Stadium. Yes, they will be watched by bigger crowds and the environment may be more luxurious, but Upton Park had an atmosphere that could win points.\"\n\nStat: West Ham, along with Bournemouth, lost 22 points from winning positions, the highest total in the Premier League.\n\nContenders were Emre Can's overhead kick for Liverpool at Watford and 'scorpion' kicks from Henrikh Mkhitaryan against Sunderland and Olivier Giroud against Crystal Palace. All worthy winners, but I'll go for Andy Carroll's spectacular bicycle kick for West Ham against Palace at London Stadium.\n\nWhat a two-faced season for last season's champions - so poor under Claudio Ranieri that he was sacked just nine months after leading them to the title. But the Foxes were the Premier League's last men standing in the Champions League before losing to Atletico Madrid in the quarter-final. Transformed under Craig Shakespeare - but where exactly were these players for six months of the season?\n\nWhat he said: \"I do not expect another run at the Premier League but there is good reason to believe momentum and confidence gained from one of the greatest sporting stories ever told will lead to another very good campaign.\"\n\nStat: Leicester completed 70.1% of passes, only Burnley managed less.\n\nThe 'where were you for six months?' award For suddenly looking like the team that won the Premier League the moment title-winning manager Claudio Ranieri was sacked.\n\nDisappointing season for Stoke City - one where the reign of manager Mark Hughes has marked time, and in a league placing context, gone backwards after top-10 finishes. Needs a good summer in the transfer market.\n\nWhat he said: \"Mark Hughes has built on the work of Tony Pulis to make the Potters genuine top-10 material and it should be no different this time around.\"\n\nStat: Stoke won only three points from losing positions this season\n\nSam Allardyce did what he does best - recovering from his humbling exit as England manager after only 67 days and one game to guide Crystal Palace to safety after taking over from the sacked Alan Pardew with the Eagles 17th, one point above the relegation zone and with only one win in 11 games.\n\nHe took a while to get going but big wins at Chelsea and Liverpool and at home to Arsenal showed 'Big Sam' still had the touch.\n\nWhat he said: \"Do not expect any relegation fears but a comfortable mid-table finish.\"\n\nStat: Crystal Palace took just six points from eight London derbies this season\n\nThree managers in one season is a recipe for trouble but it was third time lucky as the calm approach of Paul Clement guided them to safety with a game to spare after Francesco Guidolin's struggles and Bob Bradley's 85-day reign.\n\nA season full of anxiety, though, and leaned heavily on the goals and guile of two players who will be in demand this summer - striker Fernando Llorente and playmaker Gylfi Sigurdsson.\n\nWhat he said: \"Expect a solid, if unspectacular, season.\"\n\nStat: Swansea conceded 70 goals. Only two teams have conceded more in a 38-game Premier League season and survived relegation - Wigan in 2009-10 (79) and West Brom in 2010-11 (71).\n\nBurnley's success is staying up and it has been job done for manager Sean Dyche. He was worked his resources superbly and a formidable home record - not to mention some real talent such as keeper Tom Heaton and defender Michael Keane - have been at the heart of their survival.\n\nWhat he said: \"It will be a long hard season but perhaps, helped by the atmospheric surroundings of Turf Moor and the excellence of Dyche, Burnley can make this forecast go astray.\"\n\nStat: Burnley beat Liverpool in August despite having only 19.6% of possession, the lowest by a winning side in the Premier League since 2006-07.\n\nAnother season. Another one-season manager in the departing Walter Mazzarri. Another Premier League survival. Not everybody's model of how to run a football club but it keeps Watford up and that is what matters. How long will it work?\n\nWhat he said: \"It will be a dogfight near the bottom. Can the Hornets survive? I'm not sure they can.\"\n\nStat: Jose Holebas was shown 14 yellow cards, equalling the Premier League record for a player in a single campaign.\n\nDoomed from the start as manager Mike Phelan was operating with barely a squad and his hands tied. Marco Silva's arrival galvanised the Tigers but he could not replicate excellent home form on Hull City's travels. So it is back to the Championship - in all probability without their excellent manager.\n\nWhat he said: \"Long, hard season ahead and the signs do not look good.\"\n\nStat: Because of their opening-day victory against Leicester City, Hull City spent one more day on top of the Premier League than Tottenham Hotspur did in 2016-17 (0).\n\nMiddlesbrough simply came and went without contributing much to the Premier League - not bold enough, not enough goals. It is a shame and they may well wonder if they could have had more of a go. Plus points? Squad looks in decent shape to come straight back up and they still have chairman Steve Gibson.\n\nWhat he said: \"This season is about consolidation.\"\n\nStat: Middlesbrough were 14th in the Premier League on Christmas Day, but were the 12th side to be that high in the Premier League table on 25 December and still be relegated that season.\n\nSunderland and manager David Moyes got exactly what they deserved after an appalling season. Moyes killed any optimism by announcing the Black Cats would be in a relegation fight after only his second game - one of the few things the beleaguered Scot got right this season.\n\nWill now lose best players Jordan Pickford and Jermain Defoe and no-one would be confident about them coming back up from the Championship.\n\nWhat he said: \"Moyes will have the Black Cats well-drilled and hard to beat.\"\n\nStat: Jermain Defoe scored 15 goals for Sunderland, 51.7% of their team total.\n\nMade himself a hero behind the Premier League's worst team. He will get a big summer move out of it and is an England keeper of the future.\n\nHe now has sackings at Manchester United and Real Sociedad on his CV and a relegation with Sunderland. Can he ever turn that decline around?", "Fernando Alonso will start his first Indianapolis 500 from the middle of the second row of the grid after qualifying fifth for the race on 28 May.\n\nThe McLaren Formula 1 driver set an average of 231.300mph on his four-lap qualifying run, while New Zealander Scott Dixon took pole at 232.164mph.\n\nIt was an impressive performance from the two-time F1 champion - he had not driven an IndyCar until this month.\n\nAlonso said he was \"happy\" but had been slightly delayed by an engine issue.\n\n\"I think the car was better than yesterday,\" he said. \"We had an over-boost problem (with the turbocharger) in the final corner, so the engine was like hitting the brakes and I lost a bit.\"\n\nThe Spaniard said this cost him 0.3-0.4mph on his average, which equates to the difference between fifth and either second or third.\n\nAlonso, whose engine needed to be changed between final practice earlier on Sunday and qualifying, added on his Instagram account: \"With everything that has happened today being among the top five is a dream.\n\n\"Fifteen days ago I would never have thought about fighting for the pole. Thanks to the whole team. Now another week of learning and race next weekend.\"\n\nTo put Alonso's performance into context, 1992 F1 world champion Nigel Mansell qualified eighth on his debut in 1993, in what was the Englishman's fourth IndyCar race after switching to the US-based series.\n\nAlonso's first taste of Indianapolis was in his 'rookie' test on 4 May. He is missing next weekend's Monaco Grand Prix to race at the speedway as part of his quest to win the so-called 'triple crown' of Monaco, which he has won twice, Indy and the Le Mans 24 Hours sportscar race.\n\nThe 35-year-old Spaniard is directly behind two former F1 drivers on the grid.\n\nAmerican Alexander Rossi, who had a brief career with the back-of-the-grid Caterham and Marussia teams, was third and Japan's Takuma Sato, who raced in 90 grands prix for the Jordan, BAR and Super Aguri teams, was fourth.\n\nAmerican Ed Carpenter takes the middle slot on the three-car front row.\n\nRossi won the Indy 500 from 11th on the grid last year, an illustration of the fact that qualifying positions are not of great importance in predicting race form at the so-called 'Brickyard'.\n\nThat is because the set-up of the cars is changed significantly between qualifying and race to ensure drivers can run consistently in heavy traffic during a 500-mile race that is usually punctuated by several 'caution' periods in which drivers are restricted to reduced speeds behind a pace car.\n\nAlonso was consistently fast through the days of practice last week, whether running in qualifying or race trim.\n\nNone of the British drivers in the field were in the 'fast nine'. Ed Jones was 11th on his debut, followed by Max Chilton in 15th, Jay Howard in 20th, Jack Harvey in 27th and Pippa Mann in 28th.", "Former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara says he will retire from first-class cricket after this season.\n\nThe 39-year-old Surrey batsman, who quit Test cricket in 2015, is fifth in the list of all-time Test run scorers.\n\n\"You try to fight the inevitable but you need to get out while you're ahead,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It's the last time I'll play a four-day game here [at Lord's]. I'll be 40 in a few months, this is about the end of my time in county cricket.\"\n\nSangakkara has contracts to honour in Twenty20 competitions taking him into 2018, but added: \"My career might have a few more months [left] but that's about it.\"\n\nHe averaged more than 57 runs across 134 Tests, making 11 double centuries in that time, and joined Surrey for the 2015 season.\n\nHe scored more than 1,000 first-class runs last season but, despite hitting two centuries against Middlesex over the weekend, Sangakkara believes September is the right time to end his career in the longer format.\n\n\"The biggest mistake that sometimes you can make is that you think you're better than you really are,\" he said.\n\n\"Cricketers, or any sort of sportsperson, have an expiry date and you need to walk away.\n\n\"I have been very lucky to play for as long as I did so but there's a lot more life to be lived away from the game.\"\n\nFew players will have signed off their last first-class match at Lord's in as much style as Sangakkara.\n\nAlongside two match-saving centuries, the former Durham and Warwickshire player also passed 20,000 first-class runs.\n\nThose feats coincided with him having his portrait - which hangs beside those of fellow Sri Lanka greats Mahela Jayawardene and Muttiah Muralitharan - unveiled in the Lord's pavilion.\n\n\"It was a great privilege and an honour. I think the artist has made me look better than I actually am,\" he joked.\n\n\"I sat here in my last Test at Lord's for Sri Lanka thinking 'I hope I get a hundred, but wouldn't it be funny if I get out for a duck'.\n\n\"You never think of [scoring a] hundred. You think 'I want to get a hundred', but then you just try and do your processes, you try and get through tough periods, and bat as the game develops.\n\n\"I wasn't aware I'd reached 20,000 [first-class] runs - I only really know how many Test and One-Day International runs I've scored - but it was really nice to find out that I passed [that milestone].\n\n'The mercenary in me is still alive'\n\nSangakkara will head to the Caribbean Premier League at the end of June, with Aaron Finch signed by Surrey as his replacement during that period, and he says he will continue to play cricket past the end of the English domestic season.\n\nBut after more than 19 years of playing the professional game, the opportunity to watch the great batsman play his trademark cover drive is coming to an end.\n\nAsked if he would play T20 cricket after his summer, he replied: \"Yes, I think the mercenary in me is still alive.\n\n\"I've got a couple of contracts I have to honour this year and one at the start of the next year,\" he said. \"No-one wants an old dog just playing for the sake of playing.\n\n\"I think it's a good thing that all these [Twenty20] competitions push you to perform. That's the incentive because otherwise, if you're going to be a part of a side just to be the benchmark name, that's a bit disappointing. \"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal majority shareholder Stan Kroenke says his shares \"are not, and have never been, for sale\".\n\nThe American's company released a statement on Monday following the recent £1bn bid by Alisher Usmanov to take full control of the Gunners.\n\nKroenke Sports and Entertainment added it was \"a committed, long-term investor in Arsenal and will remain so\".\n\nThe statement comes a day after Arsenal failed to qualify for the Champions League for the first time in 20 years.\n\nKroenke has a 67% stake in Arsenal. Usmanov owns 30% but is not part of the board or decision-making at the club.\n\nThe Uzbek-born Russian said in April that Kroenke must \"bear huge responsibility\" for the club's failures on the pitch.\n\nRead more: Wenger admits uncertainty over his future affected Arsenal\n\nThe Gunners, who finished fifth in the Premier League this season, face Chelsea in the FA Cup final on Saturday.\n\nArsenal legend Ian Wright says the club needs the spending power of a billionaire such as Usmanov, adding \"something has to change\".\n\nThe statement from Kroenke did not mention the future of Gunners boss Arsene Wenger, whose contract expires in the summer.\n\nWenger, who has been the target of protests from some of the club's fans, says the situation will be decided after the FA Cup final.\n\nHowever, he blamed the uncertainty over his future for contributing to the club failing to qualify for the Champions League.\n\nThe Gunners' London rivals Chelsea won the Premier League this season - the fifth time they have done so under the ownership of billionaire Roman Abramovich, who has spent heavily since taking control in 2003.\n\n\"Abramovich is a winner,\" added Wright, who scored 185 goals in 288 appearances for Arsenal.\n\n\"Stan Kroenke sees it as another asset. If you look at all his other franchises, they are doing the same. They are mediocre, with poor attendances and aren't achieving anything as a team. That is where Arsenal are at the moment.\n\n\"We need an owner like Abramovich, who wants to win. I would swap Arsenal's last 10 years for what Chelsea have done.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nDavid Moyes will struggle to get another job in the Premier League and \"might end up in China\" after resigning as Sunderland boss, says former Blackburn Rovers striker Chris Sutton.\n\nMoyes, 54, stepped down on Monday after just one season in charge.\n\nThe Black Cats' relegation to the Championship was confirmed in April, with Moyes' side finishing bottom, having won only six games.\n\nSutton said the Scot would be able to find a new role outside the top flight.\n\nHowever, speaking on BBC Radio 5 live's Monday Night Club, he added: \"Would he want a job in the Championship? I think he might end up in China.\"\n• None What next for 'worn-down' Moyes?\n\nAfter 11 years in charge of Everton, Moyes left in 2013 to replace Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United but was sacked after 12 months into a six-year deal at Old Trafford.\n\nHe was also dismissed after a year in charge of his next club, Spanish side Real Sociedad, before taking over at the Stadium of Light when Sam Allardyce left to become England manager.\n\n\"He'll find it very, very difficult to get a Premier League job but lots of Championship sides will offer him a job - he doesn't need the money but he's got the drive and the desire,\" former Leeds right-back Danny Mills told 5 live.\n\nMills added that relegated Middlesbrough could be a good fit for Moyes, should they not appoint caretaker boss Steve Agnew on a permanent deal, as they \"have money to spend\".\n\nFormer Chelsea winger Pat Nevin said Scotland could \"do a lot worse\" than appoint Moyes if current manager Gordon Strachan decided to step down.\n\n\"[Moyes] has had three bad seasons in a row for a variety of reasons but he'll probably go to the Championship and relaunch his career from there,\" added Nevin.\n\n'It sucked the life out of the club'\n\nSunderland narrowly avoided relegation last season and Moyes warned supporters just two games into this campaign that his squad would again struggle.\n\nSutton said Moyes' comments had \"sucked the life out of the club\" as they had been \"on a high\" after staying up under previous boss Allardyce.\n\nHowever, Nevin replied: \"I don't think there was a lot of life there.\"\n\nNevin added that he was not surprised at Moyes' departure and was \"sold a pup\" when he took over, because he was expecting more money available for transfers.\n\n\"He's not going to stay on if he's been told he won't be given enough funds to make them competitive because his attitude is he's a winner and he wants to win,\" said Nevin.\n\nSutton was also critical of Sunderland chairman and owner Ellis Short.\n\n\"Swansea and Crystal Palace invested in January and backed their manager - Sunderland were buying Everton's reserves,\" said Sutton, referring to deals for Darron Gibson and Bryan Oviedo.\n\n\"If Moyes resigned because there wasn't enough funds then who would take that job? It's a high-pressured job at a big club and they'll want backing too.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThousands of pounds have been won in bets on Chelsea captain John Terry being substituted in the 26th minute of his final appearance at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.\n\nThe 36-year-old had arranged to go off against Sunderland in the minute matching his shirt number.\n\nBBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer said it raised questions of integrity.\n\nThe FA has asked the betting companies involved for information on bets they received on the substitution.\n\nOne bookmaker said it had paid out on three bets, with one customer claiming he had been paid at 100-1 on a £25 stake.\n\nHe was given his winnings after being involved in an exchange on Twitter with the bookmaker as to whether the substitution occurred in 26th minute, when the board went up for Terry to come off, or the 28th minute, when he left the pitch.\n\nThe bookmaker said: \"Clearly the send-off was planned for the 26th minute to commemorate JT - hence why we paid out.\"\n\nAnother successful gambler, who staked £10, anonymously told the Press Association: \"I only put money on this because I thought this is surely going to come in.\n\n\"I don't normally bet. It's only the second time I've ever placed a bet.\n\n\"I was surprised the odds were that high.\"\n\nTerry has admitted his 26th-minute farewell was his idea and he had agreed it with manager Antonio Conte.\n\nConte said: \"He deserved this. He's a legend of this club, not just this club but one of the best defenders in the world.\"\n\nSunderland boss David Moyes said his side agreed to put the ball out to allow the substitution.\n\nFormer England captain Shearer said he was \"not sure\" about the timing of the guard of honour, adding on Match of the Day: \"It was done with good intentions but I don't think anything should be done that could undermine the integrity of the game.\"\n\nFellow BBC pundit Garth Crooks was also critical, saying: \"This has obviously been set up. I'm a bit uncomfortable with it.\"\n\nChelsea gave a similar send-off to former striker Didier Drogba in a fixture against Sunderland on his farewell appearance at Stamford Bridge.\n\nHe was carried off by team-mates midway through the first half.\n\nFA rules on match fixing state: \"Fixing is arranging in advance the result or conduct of a match or competition, or any event within a match or competition.\n\n\"Fixing is prohibited and is treated very seriously.\"\n\nThere is no suggestion the substitution was carried out in any way other than to mark Terry's final appearance for the club.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nBritish and Irish Lions captain Sam Warburton has declared himself fully fit for the tour of New Zealand after recovering from a knee injury.\n\nThe 28-year-old Wales flanker has not played since getting injured against Ulster in the Pro12 on 7 April.\n\nWarburton said he had \"trained fully\" on Monday, adding: \"That's all the boxes ticked, and now I can crack on.\"\n\nHead coach Warren Gatland has said he expects to lose between six and 10 players to injury on the tour.\n• None Listen: 'Anyone but Billy' - how much will the Lions miss him?\n• None Lions excitement on hold 'until I'm on the plane' - Haskell\n\nThe tourists have already lost England number eight Billy Vunipola because of a shoulder injury, while compatriot Ben Youngs withdrew after his brother Tom's wife learned she is terminally ill.\n\nWales hooker Ken Owens will miss Scarlets' Pro12 final against Munster on Saturday because of an ankle injury.\n\nIreland prop Jack McGrath (arm) is also a concern, as are Wales scrum-half Rhys Webb (groin) and Ireland back row Sean O'Brien (calf).\n\nSpeaking on Monday, Gatland seemed confident the injured players will be fit for the tour.\n\n\"I think we are pretty good,\" he said. \"The guys are making good progress.\n\n\"There could be a couple more next weekend as well and, given the history of the Lions, we've planned to lose anywhere between six and 10 players.\n\n\"That's just the attrition of past tours.\"\n\nEngland back rower James Haskell has replaced Vunipola, and Warburton said: \"Billy was one of the guys I was really looking forward to playing with who I hadn't played alongside before.\n\n\"He has been a massive player for Saracens. It is a big loss for us, but James coming in - I think only Rory Best and Alun Wyn Jones have got more caps than him in the squad - means we are very lucky.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nCoverage: Follow live radio and text commentary on BBC Radio 5 live, the BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nA senior Manchester police chief says it would be \"naive\" to think Wednesday's Europa League final in Stockholm will be trouble free.\n\nRiot police needed to intervene to keep Manchester United and Ajax fans apart when they met in Amsterdam in 2012.\n\nTicketless fans are expected in Sweden, having missed out on both club's official allocations of 9,500.\n\n\"You would be naive to think you are not going to get anything,\" said chief superintendent John O'Hare.\n\n\"It is a final, in Europe, between two really big, established, well-supported teams. There will always be a minority of individuals who want to use this as cover to cause trouble,\" the Greater Manchester Police officer added.\n\nO'Hare and a small team of officers who specialise in monitoring United games will be in the Swedish capital to work with Swedish and Dutch counterparts.\n\nThey will also liaise with Europe's governing body Uefa and the clubs themselves in an effort to ensure the game passes off without incident.\n\nHe is encouraged by the knowledge Swedish police are likely to adopt an \"engaging, front-facing\" approach, which he feels will help avoid the kinds of scenes witnessed in Madrid last month when Spanish police clashed with Leicester City supporters ahead of their side's Champions League quarter-final with Atletico Madrid.\n\nOn that occasion, Madrid police were criticised for their approach as several fans were hurt.\n\nO'Hare said: \"English football fans have a certain way of behaving, which we understand as being jubilant and non-threatening.\n\n\"It is about making sure the Swedish police understand the context and only employ the tactics that are appropriate at that moment in time.\n\n\"Often in Manchester we have found you get more response by talking to people than coming at them with batons.\n\n\"That is not the way we do business and we will try our very best to ensure that is not the way they do business over in Stockholm.\"\n\nO'Hare also confirmed there would be a significant police presence in Manchester city centre on Wednesday night.\n\nUnited are looking to win the Europa League for the first time and join Ajax as one of only five teams to have won all three major European competitions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The pizza chain that's a hit in Vietnam\n\nWhile proud Italians might balk at some of the pizza toppings Yosuke Masuko offers, they'd have to appreciate his obsession with quality control.\n\nThe 38-year-old Japanese expat is the founder of one of the most popular pizza chains in Vietnam, Pizza 4Ps.\n\nWith six busy restaurants in the country's three largest cities - Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), Hanoi and Da Nang - it serves more than 3,000 customers every day.\n\nThey flock to the outlets to try such pizza delights as salmon miso cream, teriyaki chicken, and ginger fried pork.\n\nWith more traditional pizzas also available, such as margarita and Parma ham, such is Mr Masuko's attention to detail that when the first restaurant opened in Ho Chi Minh City in 2011, he would refuse to accept payment for any pizzas that weren't perfectly round.\n\nAnd importing key ingredients from Italy, including the flour and tomato sauce, he worried that the imported Italian mozzarella wasn't fresh enough because of the long cargo flight, and the fact he could only get deliveries twice a week.\n\nYosuke runs the business with his wife Sanae\n\nSo Mr Masuko decided he would make his own. As the cheese didn't exist in Vietnam he couldn't ask anyone locally for help, so instead he learned to make it himself by studying YouTube videos.\n\nThen unhappy with the quality of milk he was able to buy in Vietnam, he bought a farm and his own cows.\n\nSome might say this is a little too obsessive, but Mr Masuko says he wouldn't have it any other way.\n\n\"The mission of our restaurant is 'delivering wow, sharing happiness',\" he says. \"To pursue our mission we keep in mind to always go beyond customer expectations.\"\n\nThe company also sells more traditional, Italian-style pizzas\n\nWhile neither the Japanese nor the Vietnamese are renowned for their pizza eating, Mr Masuko first started making them in 2004 when he installed a wood-fired pizza oven in his garden in Tokyo.\n\n\"The experience of making your own pizza with friends every weekend made me realise that I can make people happy by serving good food in a good space,\" he says.\n\nHowever, it wasn't until seven years later that Mr Masuko decided to start making pizza for a living. By that time he was living in Vietnam where he worked for a Japanese investment firm.\n\nFascinated by Vietnam's rising middle class, he noticed that global pizza chains such as Pizza Hut and Domino's were opening up in the country and proving popular. As Vietnam had been a former French colony, the country was used to bread products, particularly baguettes, so pizza didn't prove too much of a jump for most people.\n\nThe restaurants are popular among Vietnam's growing middle class\n\nSo with fond memories of his own pizza-making exploits Mr Masuko quit his job and used his $100,000 (£77,000) savings to open the first branch of Pizza 4Ps in central Ho Chi Minh City.\n\nThe 4Ps part of the unusual name stands \"for peace\". He explains: \"In the name 4Ps is our wish for inner peace and richness of hearts.\"\n\nLooking back, Mr Masuko says that quitting his investment job was not a decision he took lightly.\n\n\"Everything was fine with my previous job back then,\" he says. \"The company even provided accommodation, and my eldest daughter was three when we opened the first restaurant.\n\n\"Of course I was afraid that the restaurant wasn't going to work, but at the same time I felt like I needed to take the challenge.\"\n\nThe restaurants are located in busy central locations\n\nThankfully for Mr Masuko his restaurant was an immediate hit, and the company has grown steadily ever since.\n\nFrom 10 workers to begin with, it now has 700 full-time Vietnamese staff and 13 Japanese employees, five of whom have management roles.\n\nMr Masuko says that when the first restaurant opened, 90% of its customers were Japanese expats, 5% Vietnamese and 5% other foreign nationals.\n\nToday more than 70% of diners are Vietnamese.\n\nIn addition to making its own cheese, Pizza 4Ps also arranges for Vietnamese farmers to grow it vegetables such as rocket and lettuces. The company also sells some of its cheese to hotels and other restaurants.\n\nMr Masuko says: \"In 2016 we had a turnover of $7.5m, and in 2017 we expect $15m.\"\n\nUltimately the aim is to float the company on a stock exchange, and open branches in other countries.\n\nTo help run the business Mr Masuko relies on his wife Sanae, whom he met when they both worked for the same Japanese investment fund.\n\nThe business has both Vietnamese and Japanese staff\n\nWhile Mr Masuko has the chief executive role, Sanae looks after staffing matters and marketing.\n\nRather than pick Japanese or Vietnamese as the working language at Pizza 4Ps, staff are instead encouraged to talk to each other in English.\n\nMr Masuko admits that this can occasionally cause communication problems, but says that cultural differences can sometimes be the biggest problem.\n\nSanae explains: \"We found the gap of working culture between Vietnamese and Japanese is the one that is difficult to bridge... but things are improving.\"\n\nHang Do, vice president of Seedcom, a Vietnamese investment fund, says she wasn't surprised that Pizza 4Ps has done so well.\n\n\"For the past five years, as the economy has grown, the middle class has grown very fast as well, and people have just been more open-minded to the diversity of food and beverages,\" she says. \"Pizza 4Ps offers a very unique flavour.\"\n\nMr Masuko says he is confident that the Vietnamese pizza market will continue to grow, and he is putting in the hours to ensure that Pizza 4Ps continues to be a success.\n\n\"I go to the office at 9am, and I do work 13 hours a day. I am devoting my life to working.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The contraceptive pill had profound social consequences. Everyone agrees with that.\n\nIn fact, that was the point. Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist who urged scientists to develop it, wanted to liberate women sexually and socially, to put them on a more equal footing with men.\n\nBut the pill wasn't just socially revolutionary. It also sparked an economic revolution - perhaps the most significant economic change of the late 20th Century.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world in which we live.\n\nTo see why, first consider what the pill offered to women. For a start, it worked - unlike many of the other options.\n\nOver the centuries, lovers have tried all kinds of unappealing tricks to prevent pregnancy. There was crocodile dung in ancient Egypt, Aristotle's recommendation of cedar oil, and Casanova's method of using half a lemon as a cervical cap.\n\nBut even the obvious modern alternative to the pill - condoms - have a failure rate.\n\nMargaret Sanger opened the first US family planning centre in New York in 1916, when contraception and abortion were illegal\n\nBecause people don't tend to use them exactly as they're supposed to, they sometimes rip or slip. So for every 100 sexually active women using condoms for a year, 18 will become pregnant. The failure rate of the sponge is similar. The diaphragm isn't much better.\n\nBut the failure rate of the pill - with typical use - is just 6%, three times safer than condoms. Used perfectly, the failure rate drops to one twentieth of that.\n\nUsing a condom meant negotiating with a partner. The diaphragm and sponge were messy. But the decision to use the pill was a woman's, and it was private and discreet. No wonder women wanted it.\n\nThe pill was first approved in the United States in 1960. In just five years, almost half of married women on birth control were using it.\n\nBut the real revolution would come when unmarried women got access to oral contraceptives. That took time. But in around 1970 - 10 years after the pill was first approved - US state after US state started to make it easier for single women to get the pill.\n\nUniversities opened family planning centres. By the mid-1970s, the pill was overwhelmingly the most popular form of contraception for 18 and 19-year-old women in the US.\n\nThe Planned Parenthood organisation distributed information and contraception across the US\n\nAnd that was when the economic revolution really began.\n\nWomen in America started studying particular kinds of degrees - law, medicine, dentistry and MBAs - which had previously been very masculine.\n\nIn 1970, medical degrees were over 90% male. Law degrees and MBAs were over 95% male. Dentistry degrees were 99% male. But at the beginning of the 1970s - equipped with the pill - women surged into all these courses. At first, women made up a fifth of the class, then a quarter. By 1980 they often made up a third.\n\nThis wasn't simply because women became more likely to go to university.\n\nWomen who'd already decided to be students opted for these professional courses.\n\nThe proportion of female students studying subjects such as medicine and law rose dramatically, and logically enough, the presence of women in the professions rose sharply shortly afterwards.\n\nBut what did this have to do with the pill? By giving women control over their fertility, it allowed them to invest in their careers.\n\nThese Harvard graduates could take for granted the freedom to develop their careers before having children, if they wished\n\nBefore the pill was available, taking five years or more to qualify as a doctor or lawyer didn't look like a good use of time and money. To reap the benefits of those courses, a woman would need to be able to reliably delay motherhood until she was 30 at least.\n\nHaving a baby at the wrong time risked derailing her studies or delaying her professional progress.\n\nA sexually active woman who tried to become a doctor, dentist or lawyer was doing the equivalent of building a factory in an earthquake zone: just one bit of bad luck and the expensive investment would be trashed.\n\nOf course, women could simply abstain from sex if they wanted to study for a professional career. But many didn't want to.\n\nAnd it wasn't just about having fun. It was also about finding a husband. Before the pill, people married young. A woman who decided to abstain from sex while developing her career might try to find a husband at the age of 30 and find that, quite literally, all the good men had been taken.\n\nThe pill changed both those dynamics. It meant that unmarried women could have sex with substantially less risk of an unwanted pregnancy.\n\nBut it also changed the whole pattern of marriage. Everyone started to marry later, even women who didn't use the pill.\n\nThe 1973 landmark Roe v Wade case legalised abortion in the US, allowing women further control over their fertility\n\nBabies started to arrive later, and at a time of women's own choosing. And that meant that women, at least, had time to establish a professional career.\n\nOf course, many other things changed for American women in the 1970s.\n\nAbortion was legalised, laws against sex discrimination were put in place, feminism emerged as a movement, and the drafting of young men to fight in Vietnam forced employers to recruit more women.\n\nBut a careful statistical study by the Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz strongly suggests that the pill must have played a major role in allowing women to delay marriage and motherhood, and invest in their own careers.\n\nGoldin and Katz tracked the availability of the pill to young women in the US, state by state. They show that as each state opened up access to contraception, so the enrolment rate in professional courses soared, and so did women's wages.\n\nA few years ago, the economist Amalia Miller used a variety of clever statistical methods to demonstrate that if a woman in her 20s was able to delay motherhood by one year, her lifetime earnings would rise by 10%.\n\nThat was some measure of the vast advantage to a woman of completing her studies and securing her career before having children.\n\nBut the young women of the 1970s didn't need to see Amalia Miller's research: they already knew it was true.\n\nAs the pill became available, they signed up for long professional courses in undreamt of numbers.\n\nAmerican women today can look across the Pacific Ocean for a vision of an alternative reality.\n\nDid the lack of widely available contraception contribute to Japan's gender inequality?\n\nIn Japan, one of the world's most technologically advanced societies, the pill wasn't approved for use until 1999. Japanese women had to wait 39 years longer than their American counterparts for the same contraceptive.\n\nIn contrast, when the erection-boosting drug Viagra was approved in the US, Japan was just a few months behind.\n\nGender inequality in Japan is widely reckoned to be worse than anywhere else in the developed world, with women continuing to struggle for recognition in the workplace.\n\nIt is impossible to disentangle cause and effect here, but the experience in the US suggests that it is no coincidence. Delay the pill by two generations, and of course the economic impact on women will be enormous.\n\nIt is a tiny little pill that continues to transform the world economy.", "The claim: The governments since 2010 have borrowed more than all the Labour governments in history.\n\nReality Check verdict: That's true in cash terms but not when you take into account the growing economy.\n\nAmong the more eye-catching claims of the campaign so far has been Jeremy Corbyn's repeated assertion that the Conservative-led governments since 2010 have borrowed more money than all Labour governments in history.\n\nThis can be checked using the Bank of England's handy three centuries of economic data spreadsheet.\n\nThe simplest way to examine this claim is to compare the amounts in cash terms, add up the amounts borrowed by all Labour governments and compare the total with the amount borrowed since 2010.\n\nBy this calculation, the combined Labour governments borrowed a little more than £500bn over their 33 years while the governments since 2010 have borrowed a bit more than £670bn.\n\nSo it's true in cash terms, but is that a fair or useful comparison?\n\nDuring the first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924, a loaf of bread cost less than 2d on average. Also, our economy produces very considerably more today than it did in 1924, which means it is not unreasonable for the government to borrow more.\n\nSo a better comparison to make is government borrowing as a proportion of GDP, which is a measure of everything produced in the economy.\n\nBy that measure it turns out that all Labour governments borrowed about 70% of GDP while the governments since 2010 borrowed about 40% of GDP, which is a very different picture.\n\nEven that is not necessarily a fair comparison. For example, there was a big fall in debt as a proportion of GDP after 1976, despite Jim Callaghan's government going to the International Monetary Fund for a big loan.\n\nThat happened because the following years of very high inflation reduced the value of the government's debts.", "About 100,000 black GIs were stationed in the UK during the war. Inevitably there were love affairs, but US laws usually prevented black servicemen from marrying. So what happened to the children they fathered? Fiona Clampin met two such children in Dorset, now in their seventies, who have not given up hope of tracing their fathers.\n\nA bottle of champagne has sat on a shelf in Carole Travers's wardrobe for the past 20 years. Wedged between boxes and covered with clothes, it'll be opened only when Carole finds her father. \"There's an outside chance he might still be alive,\" she reflects. \"I've got so many bits of information, but to know the real truth would mean the world to me - to know that I did belong to somebody.\"\n\nThe possibility of Carole tracking down her father becomes more and more remote by the day. Born towards the end of World War Two, Carole, now 72, was the result of a relationship between her white mother and a married African-American or mixed-race soldier stationed in Poole, in Dorset.\n\nWhereas some \"brown babies\" (as the children of black GIs were known in the press) were put up for adoption, Carole's mother, Eleanor Reid, decided to keep her child. The only problem was, she was already married, with a daughter, to a Scot with pale skin and red hair.\n\n\"I had black hair and dark skin,\" says Carole. \"Something obviously wasn't right.\"\n\nThe difference between Carole and her half-siblings only dawned on the young girl at the age of six, when she overheard her parents having an argument. \"Does she know? Well, it's about time she did,\" said her stepfather, in Carole's retelling of the story. She remembers how her mother sat her down at the kitchen table and told Carole the truth about her background.\n\n\"I was chuffed I was different,\" she says. \"I used to tell my friends, 'My dad's an America,' without really knowing what that meant.\"\n\nIn 1950s Dorset there were very few mixed-race or black children, and having one out of wedlock carried a huge stigma. Although Carole doesn't remember any specific racist remarks, she recalls the stares. Parents would shush their children when she and her family got on the bus.\n\nCarole says her \"blackness\" was considered cute when she was a child, but as she grew up she became more aware of her difference. \"I remember once being in a club and there was a comedian who started making jokes about black people. I'm stood there and I'm thinking: 'Everyone's looking at me,'\" she says.\n\n\"I always felt inferior. As a teenager, I would stand back, I thought that nobody would ever want to know me because of my colour.\n\n\"I was going out with one boy, and his mother found out about me. She put a stop to it because she remarked that if we had kids, they would be 'coloured'.\"\n\nSeventy-two-year-old John Stockley, another child of an African-American GI stationed further down the Dorset coast in Weymouth, does remember the racial abuse in striking detail.\n\nJohn was called names to such an extent that at the age of seven he decided he would try to turn his skin pale to be like his classmates.\n\n\"I worked out that if I drank milk of magnesia [a laxative] and ate chalk I would make myself go white,\" he chuckles. \"I think I drank over half the bottle! You can imagine the effect. It wasn't good and it tasted disgusting.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Stockley spoke to Woman's Hour about trying to fit in\n\nIn one playground incident a boy insulted him with the N-word and called him \"dirty\", but when John thrashed him he found himself summoned to the school office.\n\n\"It was a winter's day in the early 1950s,\" John explains.\n\n\"I was playing football and I collided with another guy. By this time I was quite fiery, I wouldn't take it, and a blow was struck. I made his nose bleed. To this day I can see the blood on the snow.\n\n\"My mother lived less than 100 yards from the school, and she was summoned to the office with me. I remember her shaking next to me, holding my hand. The secretary told her what had happened and he said to my mother: 'You have to remember, Mrs Stockley, these people cannot be educated.' That puts my hackles up now.\"\n\nShocking though the racism seems to us today, it was arguably family life which had a more pernicious effect on these mixed-race children. \"Your mum made a mistake,\" one of his aunts once told John Stockley.\n\n\"The 'mistake' is me,\" he says.\n\nJohn's description of his childhood spent living with his grandparents in a village behind Chesil Beach sounds idyllic. But that's to ignore the reason why he went there in the first place. Determined to punish his wife for her double transgression, John's stepfather did not allow him to live in the family home except from Monday to Friday during school term.\n\nEven then, John was not permitted to enter the house by the front door. At weekends he was packed off to his maternal grandparents, who provided him with the stable and loving family life he craved - and a refuge from his stepfather.\n\n\"Of course, coming back from the war and finding his wife with a black child must have been a great shock,\" John acknowledges.\n\n\"And they never had any children together. But there was no love at all for him from me, because of what he did to my mother. She was effectively kept in a position of restraint, and I'd see her go through depression because she wanted to do things she couldn't.\"\n\nJohn says his stepfather - a gambler and philanderer - exercised control over his mother despite the fact that she ran a successful guesthouse. He decided who John's mother could or could not be friends with, John says.\n\n\"And he didn't like us to be too close. If some music came on the radio when he wasn't there, I would dance with her because she loved to jitterbug. But not when he was around. We were told to stop.\"\n\nCarole Travers's stepfather began divorce proceedings when he found out what his wife had done in his absence. However, when it appeared that he wouldn't get custody of their daughter (Carole's half-sister), he returned to the family home and Carole took his surname.\n\nHe appeared to accept Carole on the surface, but towards the end of his life he telephoned her and dropped a bombshell. He wouldn't be leaving her anything in his will, he told her, \"because you're nothing to do with me\".\n\n\"The money didn't matter,\" says Carole. \"But what he said really hurt me. I told him, 'You're my dad, you've always been my dad, and you're the only dad I've ever known'.\"\n\nMarried and with children of her own by this time, Carole started trying to trace her biological father, based on the scraps of information her mother had given her in the weeks before she died. \"It just didn't occur to me to ask questions when I was younger,\" she says, the tone of regret in her voice clear.\n\n\"My stepfather would always bring me up in any argument with my mother, referring to me as 'your bastard', and I learned not to rock the boat. I just got on with my life.\"\n\nDeborah Prior, front row, in the light dress, lived in Holnicote House in Somerset along with other mixed-race children - the photograph was used to attract potential adoptive parents\n\nNot all GI babies were able to stay with their mothers. Dr Deborah Prior was born in 1945, to a widow in Somerset and a black American serviceman. Her mother was persuaded to give her up, and for five years Deborah lived in Holnicote House, a special home for mixed-race children. Deborah spoke to Woman's Hour along with Prof Lucy Bland, who is researching this under-reported chapter of social history.\n\nLike Carole, John Stockley wanted to protect his mother by keeping quiet. \"I could see it was going to upset her if I asked too many questions, and upset her was the last thing I was going to do,\" he says. He would take his chance occasionally, although his mother would always evade his enquiries. But John remembers with characteristic clarity the last time he brought up the subject of his real father.\n\n\"I remember her saying to me in the course of a minor argument between us: 'You don't know what I've been through because of you.'\n\n\"And I said to her: 'You don't know what I've been through because of you!' She went pale, and realised what she'd said and how she'd put her foot in it. But we never went any further than that. She just looked at me in a sad sort of way, and I said, 'Have I ever done anything to make you ashamed of me?' And she said no. And that was the last we ever spoke about it.\"\n\nIt was turning 70 that prompted John to start looking for information about his father, whereas Carole has spent almost half her life searching for a man she knows only as \"Burt\". Neither of them has many facts to go on - Carole believes her stepfather destroyed the only photos and letters that could have helped her identify Burt. But while their searches may come to nothing, they both take solace from the fact that their mothers loved them against all the odds, and that they were born of loving relationships, not one-night stands.\n\n\"My mother told me my father was the only man she ever really loved,\" says Carole. \"And I've had Mum's friends say to me since her death: 'Don't ever feel ashamed of your background, because you were born out of love and your mum wanted you.' She knew he was going back to America and she wanted something of him, something to hold on to.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBrighton's Jamie Murphy and Aberdeen duo Kenny McLean and Mark Reynolds have been called up to the Scotland squad for their World Cup match with England.\n\nAbsent from the squad are Matt Ritchie and Grant Hanley, who have been promoted with Newcastle United.\n\nAlso dropping out from the squad that defeated Slovenia are Leipzig's Oliver Burke, West Brom's Matt Phillips and Middlesbrough's Jordan Rhodes.\n\nWinger Phillips and central defender Hanley pulled out of that squad through injury and have not played since April.\n\nRitchie scored in the 4-1 win over Preston North End that secured Newcastle promotion to England's top flight but missed the last two games of the season through suspension.\n\nFellow winger Burke started Saturday's 2-2 draw with Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany's Bundesliga, but the 20-year-old does not make the squad this time.\n\n\"Oliver started the last game of the season, but that was the first for a long, long time\" said the head coach.\n\n\"It might be too much to ask Oliver to produce what we think he can produce with the lack of games behind him.\"\n\nRhodes, who had been on loan from Middlesbrough, lost his first-team place at Sheffield Wednesday to Scotland colleague Steven Fletcher, who does make Strachan's 29-man squad.\n\nAnd Rhodes' place goes to Murphy, who has been in previous squads without winning a senior a cap but has earned a recall after helping Brighton finish runners-up in England's Championship.\n\n\"We thought about that the last game, people who were feeling good about themselves,\" said Strachan. \"They bring that positivity to the squad.\"\n\nScotland beat Slovenia 1-0 and lie fourth in the Group F table, two points behind second-top Slovakia, with England a further four points ahead.\n\nMidfielder McLean, whose one cap came in a March 2016 friendly against Czech Republic, and uncapped defender Reynolds finished runners-up in the Scottish Premiership with the Dons.\n\n\"I've seen Kenny recently in a wonderful game, the Aberdeen-Celtic match, the best 45 minutes of football I have seen this season,\" said Strachan. \"And the 90 minutes were terrific and throughout that Kenny had an excellent game.\n\n\"And the results at Aberdeen have been fantastic. They have had a good, strong finish to the season.\"\n\nSwansea left-back Stephen Kingsley does return to Strachan's squad after Rangers' Lee Wallace was ruled out following stomach surgery.\n\nHowever, there is no space in the squad for Callum McGregor, despite the in-form Celtic midfielder being tipped for a call-up for the match at Hampden Park.\n\n\"I think everyone knows that's where we are strong, and that's where you need to be strong these days.\n\n\"There is a lot of other midfield players that I have seen recently that you would think, if it wasn't so strong, they would be in the squad as well,\" added Strachan.\n\n\"Kevin McDonald at Fulham has had an excellent season.\n\n\"A lot of lads in that area are just unfortunate we are very, very strong in that area, which showed in the last game against Slovenia, we were strong and full of enthusiasm and know-how in there.\"", "Last summer, on my fourth day of sploshing through Glastonbury's sodden fields, I thought: \"Why do I keep doing this to myself?\"\n\nSure, the music was great. Skepta, Adele and Grimes gave unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime performances; and Philip Glass's Heroes Symphony, an orchestral tribute to David Bowie in the dead of the night, was unexpectedly moving.\n\nEven Coldplay - previously the only band who'd provoked me to walk out of a concert early - won me over, with a spirited, kaleidoscopic set where every song felt big enough to be an encore.\n\nBut still, the thought lingered: There must be a better way.\n\nAnd it turns out I wasn't alone.\n\nThe last decade has seen an explosion in city-based festivals, bringing bands to your doorstep, usually with the added benefit of getting to curl up in your own bed (or someone else's, if you prefer) at the end of the day.\n\n\"They're springing up absolutely everywhere,\" says Paul Reed of the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF). \"Just within our membership, we've added around eight city-based festivals in the last couple of years.\"\n\nOne of the newest is Bushstock, which takes place in Shepherd's Bush. Since it started in 2011, Bushstock has staged early gigs by the likes of Bastille, George Ezra and Michael Kiwanuka in nearby pubs, clubs and railway arches.\n\n\"We've had people like Hozier play to 300 people in a church, now he plays in front of tens of thousands of people,\" says Maz Tappuni, who co-founded the festival from his friend's front room eight years ago.\n\n\"We've had Bastille at [local pub] Defector's Weld in front of 200 people in 2013. Now they've played the O2 twice.\"\n\nBushstock is a modest event, open to just 1,500 people. But tickets start at just £18, for which fans can see any of the gigs at any of the venues.\n\nThe Staves have played Bushstock several times\n\nThis year's line-up is headlined by singer-songwriter Nick Mulvey and folk-rock trio The Staves, who are returning from a headline tour of America to play a tiny, intimate show at St Stephen's Church.\n\nFor singer Emily Staveley-Taylor, the size of the event is the main attraction.\n\n\"Sometimes, playing festivals can feel like a battle, because 50% of the crowd are there to get wrecked,\" she says.\n\n\"I feel that, more and more, the big festivals are becoming an Instagram-fest. At Bushstock, it feels like the focus is music and the people who go there are music fans.\n\n\"When you're playing a venue like a church, the acoustics mean you can hear if someone is talking. So when someone's phone goes off, people will glare and tell them to sort their lives out.\"\n\nFor The Defectors' Weld pub, Bushstock has been a shot in the arm during the quiet summer season.\n\n\"We have to move all the furniture out, which is something we don't normally do until New Year's Eve,\" says owner John Da Costa.\n\nBands like Matthew and the Atlas attracts hundreds of fans to St Stephen's Church\n\n\"Then last year, we tried to get a photographer in here and he just couldn't find the space. He had to climb on the tables and chairs to actually get any photos. It was absolutely packed.\"\n\nThe festival has a knock-on effect during the rest of the year, he adds.\n\n\"We get fans who go to gigs at the Shepherd's Bush Empire saying, 'we'll definitely come back for a drink here next time, rather than go somewhere else'.\n\n\"It's been a good pull for us, and customers returning, absolutely.\"\n\nWhile Bushstock remains a relatively small affair, other urban festivals have grown to a size where they rival \"greenfield\" events like Latitude and Green Man.\n\nSheffield's Tramlines festival started out as a free event in 2009; spread across 17 local venues, with acts including The xx and Reverend and the Makers.\n\nThis year, it boasts three purpose-built outdoor venues, where the likes of Primal Scream, The Libertines and Kano will play to 20,000 people.\n\n\"As it's grown, I guess people have demanded more,\" says the festival's co-founder Sarah Nulty.\n\n\"We'd get fans saying: 'I bought a ticket to see Billy Bragg, why can't I get in to see him?' and we'd have to say: 'He's playing a 900-capacity venue and you didn't turn up on time - but look at all these other people you can go and see!'\n\n\"I guess that's the main reason we moved out of the venues.\"\n\nIndie legends Primal Scream are the main draw at this year's Tramlines\n\nDespite the cost of building and staffing these new stages, costs have been kept down. Tickets for the three-day event start at £30, rising to a maximum of £45, while kids go free. Glastonbury, by comparison, costs £238.\n\n\"We're a good-value ticket but if you then factor in the price of a hotel, it can suddenly become unaffordable,\" Nulty acknowledges.\n\n\"So what we've tried to do is work with student halls that are empty during the summer, so you can still get a bed and a shower while making the festival affordable.\"\n\nAnd, just like Bushstock, the Tramlines festival has given the local economy a boost, with up to 70,000 people descending on Sheffield every July.\n\n\"The beauty is that the whole city joins in,\" says Nulty. \"So there's almost two festivals - a bit like Edinburgh where there's the main festival and then you have the fringe.\n\n\"Some of our fringe venues have massive, massive line-ups. There was a pub last year that put Deap Vally in their beer garden for free, and they had people climbing over the walls to try and get in.\n\n\"It helps make the festival feel amazing, but it's also our competition - because it's free.\"\n\nSo, could these urban festivals eventually replace the likes of Reading & Leeds or the Isle of Wight festival?\n\n\"There's still a great appetite for that traditional camping experience,\" says Paul Reed at the AIF. \"But metropolitan festivals serve as great incubators for emerging talent.\n\n\"People are more open to discovery. Because the line-up is multiple choice, you can just stumble into something or find your new favourite band by chance.\"\n\nThe Staves, meanwhile, are always more likely to say \"yes\" to a festival with its own roof.\n\n\"I've been to festivals in fields where it's been an absolute washout and everyone has left,\" laughs Emily Staveley-Taylor. \"Or you're performing on a stage where the electrics are sparking because of the rain, and you're like, 'What the hell are we doing?\n\n\"Why are we staging outdoor festivals in a country where it always rains in the summer?' It's madness to me.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Signs reading \"No more dictatorship\" are a common sight at anti-government protests\n\n\"Venezuela is now a dictatorship,\" says Luis Ugalde, a Spanish-born Jesuit priest who during his 60 years living in Venezuela has become one of the South American nation's most well-known political scientists.\n\nA former rector of the Andres Bello Catholic University in Caracas, Mr Ugalde does not mince his words.\n\nHe compares Venezuela to an ailing patient who is on the brink of being killed off by well-meaning but incompetent doctors.\n\nVenezuela's problems are not new, he says. At their heart is the mistaken belief that it is a rich country.\n\nHe argues that while it may have the world's largest proven oil reserves, Venezuela should be considered overwhelmingly poor because it hardly produces anything except oil.\n\nA lack of investment in anything but the booming oil industry in the 20th Century meant that its human talent was never really fostered and its economy never diversified, resulting in an absolute reliance on imports.\n\nVenezuela's late leader, Hugo Chávez, further compounded the illusion of Venezuela's wealth to the detriment of the country, Mr Ugalde argues.\n\nWhile oil prices were high, Hugo Chavez could afford to fund social programmes\n\n\"He told the Venezuelan people that there were three things standing between them and prosperity: the US empire, the rich and the entrenched political elite, and that he would deal with all three so that the people could enjoy Venezuela's wealth.\"\n\nInvesting Venezuela's oil revenue in generous social programmes, building homes and health care centres, expanding educational opportunities and providing the poorest with benefits they did not previously have, gave the government of President Chavez a wide support base.\n\nBut with falling global oil prices, government coffers soon emptied and investment in social programmes dwindled.\n\nThe death from cancer of President Chávez in 2013 further hit the governing socialist PSUV party hard.\n\nHis successor in office, Nicolas Maduro, lacked not only the charisma of President Chávez but also his unifying presence at the top of the party and the country.\n\nMr Ugalde does not doubt that President Maduro came to power democratically in 2013.\n\nLuis Ugalde says that Venezuela has become a dictatorship\n\nBut he argues that what he has done since - such as undermining Venezuela's separation of powers - has turned him into a dictator.\n\nThe Democratic Unity Roundtable opposition coalition won a landslide in the December 2015 election and yet it has seen almost all of its decisions overturned by the Supreme Court, a body which opposition politicians say is stacked with government loyalists.\n\nAn attempt by opposition politicians to organise a recall referendum to oust President Maduro from power was thwarted at every step by Venezuela's electoral council, another body opposition politicians say is dominated by supporters of Mr Maduro.\n\nBut for many the final straw came on 29 March 2017, when Supreme Court judges issued a ruling stripping the National Assembly of its powers and transferring those powers to the court.\n\nThe opposition-controlled National Assembly is overlooked by a poster of Hugo Chávez\n\nWhile the Supreme Court suspended the most controversial paragraphs just three days later, the ruling managed to unite the hitherto divided opposition and spur them into action.\n\nThere have been almost daily protests and more than 45 people have been killed in protest-related violence.\n\nWhile many of those protesting against the government share Mr Ugalde's view, the government is adamant it is defending democracy in Venezuela.\n\nIt argues that the National Assembly was in contempt when it swore in three lawmakers suspected of having been elected fraudulently and that all of the decisions made by the legislative body since then are therefore invalid.\n\nThe government has responded to the most recent wave of protests by calling for a constituent assembly.\n\nDrawing up a new constitution will bring together the people of Venezuela and create peace where there is now unrest, President Maduro argues.\n\nHe also says he wants to enshrine some of the social programmes created by the socialist government in the new constitution.\n\nAt a pro-government rally, a sergeant in the National Bolivarian Militia, a body created by the late President Hugo Chavez, says he whole-heartedly backs the idea.\n\nGerardo Barahona says he supports President Maduro's plans for a constituent assembly\n\n\"We're against terrorism, those people protesting violently who're burning buses, we support the constituent assembly,\" Gerardo Barahona says.\n\nMarta Elena Flores, 60, says the opposition is \"out to wreck everything\" achieved under the socialist government.\n\n\"We need to protect all the benefits the government has given to the people,\" she says.\n\n\"We need to enshrine them in the constitution so that the opposition doesn't even have the chance to rob us of them.\"\n\nMarta Elena Flores says the government's social programmes have made a difference to her life\n\n\"I personally have been able to have two operations thanks to the government's medical programmes. The opposition begrudges us those benefits.\"\n\nOpposition politicians have been dismissive of the president's call for a constituent assembly, saying it is a ruse to delay overdue regional elections and further strengthen the power of President Maduro.\n\nRepresentatives of the major opposition parties declined a government invitation to discuss the creation of the assembly and, three weeks after the idea was first mooted by President Maduro, little progress has been made.\n\nGovernment critics say the constituent assembly is \"a fraud\"\n\nPrevious attempts at dialogue backed by former international leaders and even the Vatican have failed.\n\nAnti-government marches meanwhile have been spreading throughout the country and clashes between protesters and the security forces have become more frequent and the number of dead has been on the rise.\n\nThose opposed to the government say they are determined to keep the protests going until fresh general elections are called and the government is ousted.\n\nSome analysts have said that what it will take for the government to fall is for the protests to spread to the \"barrios\", the poor neighbourhoods which have been the support base of the governing socialist party.\n\nMiguel Pizarro, an opposition lawmaker who represents the barrio of Petare, one of the poorest in Caracas, dismisses that argument.\n\n\"The only contact people who make that argument have with the barrio is through their cleaning lady,\" he says.\n\n\"There has been resistance to the government in the barrios for a long time, that is how I got elected!\"\n\nOthers think that it will take the military to switch sides for the government to be ousted.\n\nBut with Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino taking to Twitter on 20 May to accuse protesters of fomenting anarchy and international organisations of being \"immoral accomplices who don't denounce the violence\" there is little sign of that happening any time soon, at least within the highest ranks.\n\nIn the short term at least, there seems little chance of the current deadlock in Venezuela being broken and every likelihood that the crisis will worsen.", "Coverage: Ball-by-ball Test Match Special commentary on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra; in-play highlights and text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nAll-rounder Ben Stokes would like to see more of his England team-mates join him in the Indian Premier League.\n\nStokes became the IPL's most expensive foreigner when he was signed by Rising Pune Supergiant for £1.7m, and went on to win the most valuable player award.\n\nHe helped his side to second in the group stages before returning to England duty, while Pune went on to lose the 2017 final by one run.\n\n\"Everyone who goes there becomes a better player,\" said Stokes.\n\nThe 25-year-old scored 316 runs at a strike rate of 142.98 and took 12 wickets at an economy rate of 7.18 in the Twenty20 competition.\n\n\"It would be great in the future if maybe the whole England team could be out there,\" said Stokes, who scored his maiden Twenty20 century while in India.\n\n\"It's not just the fact of playing in the tournament, it's the exposure you get as a player.\n\n\"Playing in high pressure situations against all the best players in the world at what they do - guys bowling at 150kph [93mph] and guys knocking it out of the park if you do not hit the areas you want to bowl.\"\n\nStokes played in the same team as former India captain MS Dhoni and current Australia skipper Steve Smith, with the latter praising the all-rounder during the tournament.\n\n\"To be part of a competition like that was an amazing experience - the biggest Twenty20 competition in world cricket - [as was] being able to share a changing room with the greatest players in the world, the greats of the game of cricket,\" said Stokes.\n\n\"I didn't go into the tournament worrying about [the fee]. The biggest thing for me was making sure I left a good impression with my performances on the field.\n\n\"That's what we pride ourselves on as cricketers. All the pressure I put on myself was wanting to perform on the pitch.\"\n\nEight England players were bought by IPL franchises this year, with Stokes, wicketkeeper Jos Buttler and bowler Chris Woakes given permission to remain in India and miss England's ODI series against Ireland in May.\n\nButtler said English cricket was now embracing the IPL and other domestic Twenty20 tournaments as part of an increased focus on white ball cricket.\n\n\"I think the IPL has been a bit of a taboo subject in English cricket for a while,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live's Tuffers and Vaughan show.\n\n\"It's [been] tried to make it unattractive to go to [in the past] but now the focus has shifted and people are embracing it.\n\n\"It's a shame it didn't happen before but it's better late than never. These tournaments are fantastic for cricket and the audiences.\"\n\nEngland play South Africa in three one-day internationals, starting on Wednesday, before hosting the Champions Trophy, and Stokes says England have \"earned the right to be favourites\".\n\n\"We are just going to try to do what we have been doing over that last two years which is to go out there and perform to the best of our capabilities and always want to be on the front foot,\" he added.\n\n\"We've always known that we are a destructive outfit so when other opponents are saying that they don't like bowling at Jos [Buttler], for instance, at the end, you know what they are going through at the end of the mat.\"\n\nLooking forward to the upcoming ODI series, he added: \"South Africa are one of the best teams in the world. They have got some of the best players in the world as well so it's a good opportunity to get into some form leading into the Champions Trophy.\"", "Arsene Wenger says his \"professionalism or commitment\" cannot be questioned but that uncertainty over his future contributed to Arsenal failing to qualify for the Champions League.\n\nIt is the first time Arsenal, who finished fifth, have failed to qualify for the competition for 20 years.\n\nWenger, whose contract expires this summer, says his future will be decided after the FA Cup final on 27 May.\n\n\"I have said no to every club in the world,\" said the Frenchman, 67.\n\nWenger has been in charge of the Gunners since 1996, winning three Premier Leagues and six FA Cups, but has faced protests from Arsenal supporters this season calling for him to quit.\n\n\"I believe since January we have played in a very difficult environment for different reasons,\" he added.\n\n\"Some you know about and that's very difficult for a group of players to cope with that - and some other reasons we will talk about on another day.\n\n\"Psychologically the atmosphere was absolutely horrendous. It has been difficult, yes, and certainly my personal situation has contributed to that but you can never question my professionalism or commitment.\"\n\nArsenal beat Everton 3-1 on Sunday, but a 3-0 home win for Liverpool against Middlesbrough saw the Gunners finish a point behind Jurgen Klopp's side in fifth.\n\n\"I'm a lot more resigned because it's been coming for a few years and everybody has to focus on the FA Cup,\" former Arsenal striker Ian Wright told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"This is done, we are in the Europa League, there is nothing we can do about it.\"\n\nWenger, whose side face Premier League champions Chelsea in the FA Cup final, said it was \"very sad\" Arsenal will not be playing in Europe's top club competition next season.\n\nHe added: \"We do our job and you are professional and part of the job is being professional when the environment is not positive.\"\n\nSome Arsenal fans also voiced their frustration at majority owner Stan Kroenke.\n\n\"I think you respect everyone in life and I respect Stan Kroenke a lot,\" said Wenger. \"It is not his fault we didn't reach the Champions League, it is the technical department's responsibility for that.\n\n\"A club works when everybody does their job and we live in a society where everybody has an opinion and what moves society forward is when we work and not talk too much.\"\n\nWenger gets support from old rival Ferguson\n\nFormer Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson had a sometimes bitter rivalry with Wenger during his Old Trafford reign, winning 13 Premier League titles with the Red Devils.\n\nScot Ferguson was in charge for 26 years, while Frenchman Wenger is in his 21st year at the north London club.\n\n\"At the moment, of course, with the ridiculous situation of the pressure Arsene is under, I just wonder if they realise the job he's done,\" Ferguson told Sky Sports.\n\n\"The most amazing thing about him is this: he has come through a forest of criticism for months now, and has never bowed. He has seen it right through, he has shown a determination, a stubbornness. I think when you look at that, it's a quality, and I'm not sure they'll ever get another manager like that.\n\n\"It's quite easy to say 'Get rid of him', but who do you get? Who do you get in to keep that club the way they are for the next 20 years?\n\n\"I really feel sorry for him because I think he's shown outstanding qualities, and I think he has handled the whole situation. I don't know many that have done that.\"\n\n'The toxic mood was on show again' - analysis\n\nAs Arsene Wenger sifted through the fall-out from Arsenal's failure to reach the Champions League for the first time in 20 years, he made a stark admission.\n\nWenger, reflecting on the atmosphere around Emirates Stadium, said: \"The psychological environment was absolutely horrendous.\"\n\nHe insisted he was not using this as an excuse for Arsenal's failings but it was clear he felt the over-arching atmosphere had not helped his players as they tried to fight their way into the Premier League's top four.\n\nWenger may have a point - but has he himself not made a major contribution to the mood around the club and has to take his share of responsibility as his own Arsenal future became almost a matter for daily debate?\n\nEven now, although most now assume he will extend his stay as Arsenal manager, he was simply saying his own personal situation would be \"sorted soon\".\n\nThe lack of clarity has cast a cloud over Arsenal's season and provided an unwanted sub-plot when matters should have been solely focused on the pitch.\n\nThe toxic mood was on show again as Arsenal's fate and the realisation that they would be in the Europa League next season became clearer, with chants against American owner Stan Kroenke, who has ignored a £1.3bn takeover bid from Alisher Usmanov, who has a 30% stake in the club.\n\nWenger defended Kroenke but it was obvious he feels factors elsewhere have created this \"horrendous\" psychological environment that has swirled unhelpfully around Arsenal.\n\nThe problem for Wenger is that he takes a big portion of the responsibility - and part of the price he and Arsenal will pay is that they will be out of Europe's elite group next season with their noses pushed against the window as they contemplate life without the Champions League.", "Amanda Lundeteg wants to expose Sweden's lack of equality\n\nSweden may have a global reputation as one of world's most gender equal societies but when it comes to female representation in business, campaigners question whether the Nordic nation is right to keep basking in the spotlight, as progress slows down back home.\n\nAmanda Lundeteg, already a chief executive aged just 32, is in one way a poster girl for gender equality in the Swedish workplace.\n\nShe holds a degree in Business Economics, started her career in banking and has already served on three different boards.\n\nYet the sole reason Allbright, the non-profit company she manages, exists is to expose the limitations in career opportunities for women in Sweden.\n\nDespite giving fathers the right to take paid time off since the 1970s and one of the world's most generous parental leave packages (currently 480 tax-funded days to share between a couple) and heavily subsidized day care - capped at some 1,230 Swedish krona ($141; £108) a month - Ms Lundeteg argues Sweden is less progressive than many might think.\n\n\"We're really good at bragging about how good we are... but if you ask most women in Sweden I definitely don't think that they are satisfied.\"\n\nOn the plus side, more than 80% of mothers work and Sweden leads the industrialised world in terms of public sector gender equality, according to the OECD; but Allbright's research shows the private sector - and the rapidly growing startup scene - is struggling to keep up.\n\nIn 2016, more than 80% of managers at listed Swedish companies were men and not a single new business on the stock market had a woman boss.\n\nMartin Hector: \"There's still a lot of fathers who don't take their parental leave\"\n\nThe main reason for this imbalance is that traditional gender stereotypes prevail, despite decades of legislation designed to even things out, says Ms Lundeteg.\n\n\"It's possible to live a gender-equal life in Sweden, but we don't do it because of traditions.\n\n\"As a man you're supposed to be the one who works and brings home the meat to the cave. It's about stereotypes and privileges that will take time to break down.\"\n\nFigures from Statistics Sweden confirm that women still take more than 80% of a couple's parental leave while their first child is under the age of two.\n\nWomen also remain much more likely to work part-time than men. When it comes to the wage gap, Sweden is close to the OECD average and drops to 35th place on the World Economic Forum's gender equality ranking.\n\nIt isn't difficult to find Swedes who are willing to talk about the discrepancies.\n\n\"There's still a lot of fathers who don't take their parental leave so it's not perfect yet,\" says Martin Hector, 32, as he takes his baby son for a stroll in Ralambshovs park in central Stockholm.\n\n\"Over the summer, for three months or something like that, feels the most common.\"\n\nHe's planning to take a total of nine months off work.\n\nCamilla Dath, a lawyer who is also braving unusually chilly May temperatures of 2C with her seven-month-old, is taking 11 months' leave and says her husband will take a similar period off work.\n\nBut other parents might not have the same opportunities, she argues, if one partner earns substantially more than the other or because they work in organisations with more old-fashioned cultures.\n\n\"I have friends working in big law firms and they have a harder time to take parental leave,\" she says.\n\nLawyer Camilla Dath and her husband may be sharing their parental leave - but many other Swedes are not\n\nWhen it comes to the number of women in management, the biggest discrepancies are still in the traditionally \"male\" industries of manufacturing and technology.\n\nHowever, Allbright's research suggests that financial services and property companies have made \"significant\" improvements in recent years.\n\nRental accommodation firm Heba, for example, recently climbed 100 places in Allbright's rankings after replacing several of its top male executives, resulting in a female majority in management.\n\nHowever its chief executive, Lennart Karlsson, is candid enough to admit that reaching gender equality was not his original goal.\n\n\"I thought competence was the main thing - competence and attitude - not sex, but I've changed my mind. The workplace works better because of the [gender] mix,\" he says.\n\n\"The discussion climate is better, you have a better conversation and a better understanding for each other.\"\n\nAmanda Lundetag argues this should boost his business too, citing several recent studies including a high-profile report for the Peterson Institute for International Economics, which concluded that there is a positive correlation between the presence of women in leadership roles and an organisation's performance.\n\nIt's a link that is definitely not lost on the Swedish politicians spearheading what they've described as \"the first feminist government in the world\".\n\nThe Nordic nation's Left-Green coalition pushed through a new law in 2015, aimed to encourage men to take a greater share of the parental leave. Ninety days are now reserved for fathers on a \"use it or lose\" it basis.\n\n\"What we want to see is an equal participation from the parents in the long run... but we also have to take it slowly so that families will be able to adapt to the changes,\" says Annika Strandhall, Sweden's Minister for Social Security.\n\nSimone French says the law is fine but the traditional culture drove her back to work early\n\nNext year will even see the launch of a new Gender Equality Authority, an admission, according to Ms Strandhall, that Sweden's world-famous feminist initiatives have not been as joined-up as they might have been.\n\nYet while creating equal opportunities for men and women appears largely hard-wired into the national psyche, Sweden is split on the extent to which the state should intervene to pick up the pace.\n\nThe government's attempt to introduce legislation that would fine listed companies which fail to appoint women to at least 40% of board seats was rejected by parliament in January.\n\nThe fear of potential penalties seems to have acted as a catalyst, though; 33% of those put forward for board seats so far in 2017 are women, up 2% on last year, says Allbright, putting Sweden behind only Norway and France, both of which have legally-binding quotas.\n\nHowever, the nationalist Sweden Democrats (currently the second-most popular party in the polls) and the smaller centre-right Christian Democrats -voted against the 90-day parental leave quota for fathers. They want families to have a greater choice when it comes to organising parenting.\n\n\"There is a societal pressure... because everyone goes back to work. I felt I would be going against the norm if I had stayed at home,\" explains Simone French, a 46-year-old who is originally from Australia.\n\nShe says she would have welcomed the opportunity to stay at home until her son started school. Instead she ended up taking just a year off from her digital marketing career amid pressure from her employer and relatives.\n\n\"It was my maternal instinct to be with my son - every fibre in my being fought against going back. It's not really talked about here but I have actually met a couple of Swedish women who felt the same.\"\n\nHowever those cheerleading Sweden's march towards a completely gender equal society argue that evening out parental responsibilities is as much about giving fathers the same chance to bond with their children while they are young, as it is giving women greater opportunities to climb the ladder back in the workplace.\n\nSweden's laws on equality aren't lacking - banking analyst Andreas Lundvick is one of the rare fathers making the most of them\n\n\"You become closer with the children - a better connection,\" says Andreas Lundvick, 38, one of the other fathers back in Ralambshovs park.\n\nHe's taking time out from his job at a major Swedish bank to look after his six-month-old son while his wife is studying full-time, a move he believes will have \"no impact\" on his future career.\n\n\"I feel lucky, when you speak to people from other countries, and you hear about their situation, it's mostly the mum being home with the children. It's a culture thing.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Motorsport\n\nFormer MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden has died aged 35, five days after being involved in a crash while cycling.\n\nThe American suffered \"serious cerebral damage\" after colliding with a car on the Rimini coastline in Italy on Wednesday, 17 May.\n\nThe 2006 MotoGP championship winner had been in the intensive care unit of Cesena's Maurizio Bufalini Hospital.\n\n\"We would like everyone to remember Nicky at his happiest - riding a motorcycle,\" his brother Tommy said.\n\nA hospital statement issued on Thursday said Hayden had suffered \"a serious polytrauma\", which is a medical term to describe the condition of a person who has multiple traumatic injuries.\n\nHayden, who was nicknamed the Kentucky Kid, had competed for Red Bull Honda in the World Superbike Championship in Italy on 14 May.\n\nOlder brother Tommy, who was also a motorcycle racer, said the family had many \"great and happy memories\" of Hayden.\n\n\"He dreamed as a kid of being a pro-rider and not only achieved that but also managed to reach the pinnacle of his chosen sport,\" he said.\n• None The backyard racer who conquered the world\n\n\"We are all so proud of that. We will all miss him terribly.\"\n\nSister Kathleen added: \"Today I not only lost my big brother, but I lost a best friend.\"\n\nRed Bull Honda World Superbike said that the racing world had said goodbye to \"one of its dearest sons.\"\n\n\"The 'Kentucky Kid' will be sorely missed by all that ever had the pleasure of meeting him or the privilege to see him race a motorcycle around a track, be it dirt or asphalt,\" a statement read.\n\nThe Kentucky-born racer first competed in MotoGP in 2003 and finished third in the standings two years later. He ended Valentino Rossi's five-year winning streak in 2006 following a dramatic final race in Valencia.\n\nHayden had been eight points adrift of Rossi heading into the decider, but saw the Italian slide out on lap five and eventually finish in 13th place. Hayden's third-place finish allowed him to take the title by five points.\n\nHe remains the last American to win the premier class of motorcycle road racing.\n\nAt the time, BBC commentator Steve Parrish described the season as \"the most entertaining I have ever seen\".\n\n'His family were such a huge part of who he was'\n\nNicky was a real gentleman. He came from a wonderful family, a big racing family. His two brothers raced, his two sisters raced when they were younger, his father raced.\n\nThis was a dirt track family. They come from Kentucky and had a race track at their house. Racing was something that they all did together.\n\nHis family were such a huge part of who he was. If you look at his Twitter handle it says \"bikes and family\".\n\nHe was so loving and this is going to be such a great loss for them.", "Mr Rouhani has promised to push through reforms but hardliners may obstruct his plans\n\nFrom the outset when the counting of the votes started after midnight in Iran, the early results indicated that President Hassan Rouhani was heading for a landslide.\n\nEven in small rural towns many people preferred the vision that he had put forward, a vision in sharp contrast to the inward looking, traditional and hardline Islamic government promised by his main challenger, Ebrahim Raissi.\n\nPresident Rouhani won 23.5 million votes, or 57%. Turnout was unprecedented - nearly 41 million people voted, or 73.5% of the eligible voters. In Tehran, more than five million people came out to vote, twice the number of 2013.\n\nOne reason for this high turnout was the reports that the hardliners had pulled out all the stops and mobilised their resources to bring out as many of their supporters as possible to vote, a major push to oust President Rouhani. These reports spurred his supporters and all those who favoured moderation or opposed the hardliners to come out in big numbers.\n\nPresident Rouhani's victory means a major defeat for the hardliners. The vote may indicate that they will never be able to take control of the executive branch through the ballot box, as a big majority of Iranians do not favour them or their vision.\n\nIn his first televised message after the victory, President Rouhani praised Iranians who, in his words, had said No to returning to the past. He was echoing his election campaign motto \"We will not go back,\" a reference to his hard-line opponents and their \"backward\" policies.\n\nFriday's vote in Iran was the revenge of the moderates. A rejection of those who had intimidated them, jailed them, executed them, drove them to exile, pushed them out of their jobs.\n\nIn his campaign, President Rouhani promised to put an end to extremism, to open up the political atmosphere, to extend individual and political rights, to free political prisoners, to remove discrimination against women and bring under control all those state institutions that are not accountable.\n\nTo keep and act on these promises, he told his supporters he needed a big mandate, bigger than before.\n\nHe firmly placed himself in the camp of the reformists. Now, with his re-election, Iran is on the path towards change, with a renewed confidence drawn from the emphatic result.\n\nTo his supporters on Saturday, he said he would remain committed to his promises. It is a tall order. The hardliners are not done yet. They will fight tooth and tail at every turn over the next four years to stop or frustrate President Rouhani's efforts to push through his reforms.\n\nIran's hardliner Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has congratulated the Iranians for their big show in the exercise for democracy. But he did not congratulate President Rouhani. There are many Rouhani supporters who are willing to argue that the supreme leader had interfered in the elections by constantly criticising the president in the run-up to the elections.\n\nTurnout in the election was surprisingly high\n\nMr Rouhani has promised to build bridges with the outside world. His election is a huge endorsement for a nuclear deal that his government reached with world powers, which led to the lifting of the crippling sanctions against Iran and saved the country from the threat of a war.\n\nBut the deal has serious opponents in the US, where President Donald Trump and the Congress are reviewing their options. Iranians want the nuclear deal to survive, and the signs are that President Rouhani and Iran will keep to their side of the bargain.\n\nIn big and small cities around the country, millions of Iranians are celebrating the results. There are videos of people dancing in the streets on social media.\n\nIt is a big day in Iran's torturous political development.", "Good luck to the person who tries to take a phone from a Harry Styles fan\n\nChris Rock fans will have their phones locked up during his forthcoming UK shows. Is this the start of no longer seeing a sea of screens at concerts?\n\nGigs in the pre-smartphone age used to be far less complicated.\n\nYou'd turn up. Maybe locate the bar and figure out where the bathrooms were. Flick through a programme or chat to your friends, and then just enjoy the show.\n\nBut these days, such a scene sounds like ancient history.\n\nNow, you turn up. Check yourself in on Facebook. Catch up on emails while you're waiting for the show to start, and then when it does, upload some photos and videos you've taken to Instagram.\n\nBut many concertgoers find the practice irritating, and now some performers are starting to object too.\n\n\"No mobile phones, cameras or recording devices will be allowed at Chris Rock's Total Blackout Tour,\" read a message posted on ticketing websites when the comedian's new UK dates went on sale this month.\n\nChris Rock's upcoming shows will mark the biggest UK use of Yondr to date\n\n\"Upon arrival, all phones and smart watches will be secured in Yondr pouches that will be unlocked at the end of the show.\"\n\nThe term Yondr might make you Wondr what on earth they're talking about.\n\nYondr is a relatively new American company which gives you a pouch as you're going into a gig for you to place your phone in.\n\nThe pouch is then locked, and you keep it with you for the duration of the gig. At the end of the show, or if you need to use your phone during the performance, you can take the pouch outside of the phone-free zone to have it unlocked.\n\n\"We think smartphones have incredible utility, but not in every setting,\" Yondr say.\n\n\"In some situations, they have become a distraction and a crutch - cutting people off from each other and their immediate surroundings.\"\n\nThe company says it aims to \"show people how powerful a moment can be when we aren't focused on documenting or broadcasting it\".\n\nAudience members keep the locked pouches with them throughout the evening\n\nRock's use of Yondr at his upcoming UK dates marks the biggest use of the company's pouches in the UK to date.\n\n\"I think Chris Rock's audiences will probably be disgruntled but compliant,\" says Hattie Collins, features editor at ID.\n\n\"If you're talking about a Harry Styles gig on the other hand, you're going to have a whole world of problems - there's a much younger audience who are used to sharing everything they do.\"\n\nCollins adds that the ubiquity of smartphones has arguably had a damaging effect on music fans who want to connect with an artist.\n\n\"It's created a passivity as a viewer, so you're much less engaged. You're focused on taking the picture, opening up social media, adding an emoji, and by that point you've missed half the song.\"\n\nAsked about the Chris Rock shows, a spokesperson for the SSE Hydro in Glasgow told the BBC: \"Although it isn't standard practice, the artist has requested Yondr be used throughout his tour so we were happy to facilitate.\"\n\nBut are the audience happy with the restrictions, and the potential delays at security?\n\nHaving their jokes posted online can be damaging for comedians\n\nHere's what a few ticket buyers told us:\n\nSome of the fans said they were sympathetic to how problematic it can be for comedians (as opposed to musicians) to have their performances posted online.\n\nIf a comedian's jokes are leaked, it can spoil it for other audiences who were planning to see the same show later in the tour.\n\nIt's arguably less of an issue for musicians, as audiences are already familiar with the material they're performing and reaction will be broadly the same regardless of whether live footage from another show had already been posted online.\n\nAlicia Keys and Dave Chappelle have previously enlisted the help of Yondr\n\nCollins says: \"I'm very torn, because on one hand I feel like it's something of an infringement of your civil liberties, but I appreciate that sounds far-fetched because they're not taking their phone off you, you keep it on you all the time.\"\n\nAll eyes will be on Rock's shows in January to see how the crowds react in person.\n\nHis tour will be the biggest UK test yet for Yondr and audiences, who have been asked to turn up an hour early to allow for extra time to go through metal detectors.\n\nBut Rock isn't the first to use Yondr in the UK - Alicia Keys and Dave Chappelle both utilised it at their London dates last year.\n\nCould a sea of screens at gigs be a thing of the past?\n\nCollins thinks the future of phone restrictions at gigs in the UK is hard to predict, as it largely depends on what kind of concert it is.\n\n\"I went to see Bob Dylan this month, and they asked that nobody take videos or photos, and there were two or three people wandering up and down the side of the auditorium to make sure nobody did,\" she explains.\n\n\"It was quite a refreshing experience, and so much more compelling to watch. Almost quite strange that it was just the stage and not the shadows of 400 mobile phones.\"\n\n\"But then when I saw TLC two nights later everyone messaged me saying 'ahh these pictures are great', they really enjoyed seeing the photos from a gig they didn't go to themselves.\"\n\nShe adds: \"I think it's a shame because part of me agrees it would be nice to have fewer phones, but on the other hand it's really nice to be able to share.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nAtletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann says he is willing to leave the La Liga club to win titles and will decide on his future this summer.\n\nOn Monday, the France international said there was a \"6/10\" chance he could join Manchester United.\n\nBut Griezmann, 26, told French outlet L'Equipe that England, Germany, China and the USA were all possible destinations should he leave Atletico.\n\n\"Today, if I have to move it will be no problem,\" he said. \"I'm ready to go.\"\n\nAtletico finished third in La Liga and were knocked out in the Champions League semi-finals by Real Madrid.\n\n\"I want to win titles,\" added Griezmann. \"We finished third in La Liga, it was the objective of the club, but we, the players, want more.\n\n\"Winning titles is what I will look for this summer when deciding on my future.\"\n\nGriezmann said playing in England is \"in fashion\" and told French TV show Quotidien a move to Old Trafford is \"possible\".\n\n\"I think I will decide [on my future] in the next two weeks,\" he said.\n\nAsked if United would be his new club he replied: \"Possible, possible.\" Asked to give the chances on a scale of one to 10, Griezmann added \"six\".\n\nThe presenter replied: \"It's the first time you've said that.\" And Griezmann said \"it's the first time\".\n\nGriezmann, who has won 41 caps for France since making his debut in 2014, scored 26 goals this season as Atletico finished third in La Liga behind Real Madrid and Barcelona.\n\nHe was named the third best player in the world behind Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi in the Ballon d'Or awards in January.\n\nThere is a 100 million euro (£86m) release clause in Griezmann's contract.\n\nUnited have the opportunity to qualify for the Champions League by winning the Europa League on Wednesday against Ajax in Stockholm.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea and Tottenham were the two outstanding teams in the Premier League in 2016-17 - and it's no surprise players from the two London clubs dominate the team of the season picked by BBC Sport users.\n\nOnly Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea, Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez and Everton striker Romelu Lukaku were able to break the duopoly.\n\nAlmost 125,000 people picked their team over the weekend from a shortlist of 100 players.\n\nYou picked nine of the players who made BBC pundit Garth Crooks' team of the season.\n\nBut why are they playing 4-4-2? Why was Liverpool playmaker Philippe Coutinho unlucky to miss out? Who was picked most often? Who received the fewest nominations? Let's take a look at the data.\n\nA three-man defence may have been the most talked-about tactical tweak of the season but BBC Sport readers are more Mike Bassett than Antonio Conte.\n\nThe most popular of the 12 possible formations picked was the trusty 4-4-2, accounting for 52% of teams.\n\nAnd, with 73% of users selecting a formation with four defenders, and 65% picking a team with two forwards, that's the way our team have to line up.\n\nOf the 10 goalkeepers available to choose from, De Gea was the clear choice, being selected in 30% of all teams.\n\nHe was the 12th most-popular selection overall, but we cannot justify putting the 11th - Coutinho - in goal, so De Gea gets the nod.\n\nThibaut Courtois was the next most-popular keeper, with Sunderland's Jordan Pickford ahead of Hugo Lloris of Tottenham.\n\nThirteen goalkeepers made more saves than De Gea this season (74) but the Spaniard can boast a 72% save percentage.\n\nBurnley's Tom Heaton made the most saves all season (141), but he was picked by just 11% of you.\n\nFour defenders were a distance clear of the pack - Chelsea trio David Luiz, Marcos Alonso and Cesar Azpilicueta joined by Tottenham centre-back Toby Alderweireld.\n\nAlonso has played most of the season as a wing-back, with Azpilicueta in a back three, but they were most often picked at full-back.\n\nAlderweireld was picked in 58% of teams, more than 12% more than any other defender. He is one of five players to appear in more than half the teams picked.\n\nAzpilicueta was the only player to play in all 30 of Chelsea's league wins this season, keeping the most clean sheets (16) into the bargain.\n\nSpurs full-back Kyle Walker was the fifth most-popular defender but still misses out by a large margin.\n\nIn a midfield four, three of the selections were obvious.\n\nTottenham's Dele Alli was the most-selected player in any position, with 77% of teams containing the England man. An overwhelming majority picked him in midfield and not attack.\n\nAlli scored more goals (18) than any other midfielder this season.\n\nChelsea duo Eden Hazard and player of the year N'Golo Kante were not far behind, with the Belgian making 72% of the teams and Kante 70%.\n\nHazard's selections were split between midfield and attack, but only 20% of people played him in a front three, so he plays on the wing.\n\nYes, Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez would have a bit of settling-in to do on the right wing - and his selection is problematic.\n\nCoutinho was the fourth most-selected midfielder, but Sanchez was the ninth most-selected player overall, chosen in 7% more teams than the Liverpool man. He has to play somewhere.\n\nConfused? Well BBC Sport users picked Sanchez across midfield and attack, and with a 4-4-2 formation already decided, the Chilean is doing a job wide right.\n\nFrom a statistical point of view, Manchester City man Kevin de Bruyne may consider himself unlucky to miss out. The Belgian had more assists (18) and created more big chances (24) than any other midfielder, but only made it into 24% of teams.\n\nHe was the sixth most-popular midfielder, just behind another unfortunate player, Spurs' Christian Eriksen.\n\nHe scored seven goals in the last four days of the season, 29 in total in the league including four hat-tricks, and was picked by 77% of users. Harry Kane was a shoo-in.\n\nIn fact it may be easier to ask who the 23% who left him out were.\n\nKane was in more than double the teams featuring Lukaku, who was still a long way clear of Sanchez, the third most-popular forward.\n\nSergio Aguero scored more goals in all competitions (33) this season than before for Manchester City, but made just 9% of teams. He was only the seventh most-popular forward.\n\nFewer than 1% of readers picked versatile West Ham duo Michail Antonio and Manuel Lanzini in attack, while Middlesbrough forward Alvaro Negredo has the dishonour of being the least selected player from the 100-man list.", "Last updated on .From the section English Rugby\n\nEngland and Saracens number eight Billy Vunipola has withdrawn from the Lions tour to New Zealand with a shoulder injury.\n\nThe 24-year-old, who has 34 England caps, had been managing the injury but it now requires further treatment.\n\nHe has been replaced by Wasps back row James Haskell, who will join the squad after the Premiership final on 27 May.\n\n\"We really appreciate Billy's honesty in making this decision,\" Lions head coach Warren Gatland said.\n\nVunipola returned to the international setup in March for the Six Nations after a four-month lay off with a knee injury.\n\nHe played for Saracens in their Premiership semi-final defeat by Exeter on Saturday and appeared to be in pain during the match, receiving medical treatment on a couple of occasions.\n\n\"Billy has been carrying an injury and feels he wouldn't be able to contribute fully to the Tour and needs further medical treatment,\" Gatland added.\n\n\"We have called up James to the squad and look forward to welcoming him into camp before we depart.\"\n\nThe Lions play their first match of the New Zealand tour on 3 June.\n\nScrum-half Ben Youngs withdrew from the Lions squad at the start of May after his brother's wife learned that she is terminally ill.\n\nThis is potentially as serious an injury blow as the Lions could have suffered.\n\nMan of the match in the recent Champions Cup final against Clermont, a fully fit and in-form Vunipola would have walked into the Lions Test team.\n\nJames Haskell is deserving of his call-up - while in Taulupe Faletau there is a classy operator at number eight - but for the Lions to somehow beat New Zealand, they can ill-afford injury setbacks such as this.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Cricket\n\nCoverage: Ball-by-ball Test Match Special commentary on all England matches and selected others; in-play highlights on the BBC Sport website\n\nWicketkeeper Sarah Taylor has been named in the England squad for the Women's World Cup this summer.\n\nTaylor, 28, took an indefinite break from the game last year to deal with anxiety problems, but rejoined the England camp in April.\n\nCaptain Heather Knight is named in the squad despite suffering a fracture in her left foot earlier this month.\n\nThe tournament starts on 24 June, with hosts England facing India in the first match at Derby.\n\nThe inclusion of both Taylor and Knight, 26, is subject to their return to full fitness.\n\nEngland coach Mark Robinson said: \"The return to the squad of Sarah Taylor shows how far she's come and we are hopeful both her and Heather Knight will be able to play a full part in the tournament.\n\n\"We are hugely excited about the potential of this squad.\"\n\nKnight, who has captained England to victory in six series since taking over in June 2016, heads a young squad, with five players set to experience their first 50-over World Cup.\n\nAlex Hartley, Beth Langston, Nat Sciver, Fran Wilson and Lauren Winfield make their debuts, while 2009 winners Katherine Brunt and Jenny Gunn will take part in their fourth World Cup.\n\nHowever, there is no place for Amy Jones - Taylor's deputy behind the stumps during her international absence - while seamers Kate Cross and Natasha Farrant miss out, as does teenage spinner Sophie Ecclestone.\n\n\"It's such a dream to captain England in a World Cup on home soil; it's not something that many cricketers can say they've done and it's a real honour,\" said Knight.\n\n\"We're a young group but we've made massive strides over the past 12 months and everyone has worked so hard.\n\n\"We know it's going to be a tough tournament - and we won't go in as favourites - but backed by home support we'll do our best to challenge for the trophy.\"\n\nBristol, Derby, Leicester and Taunton host the group games before the final takes place at Lord's on 23 July.", "From racing his siblings round the backyard as a toddler to celebrating his sole World Championship crown with his tearful dad on the back of his bike, motorcycling and family were the inseparable constants in Nicky Hayden's life.\n\nRaised in a biking family in the same Kentucky town that was home to seven Nascar drivers and actor Johnny Depp, Hayden and his siblings would spend four hours a day riding on their own home circuit from the age of three.\n\nPractice made perfect. One of only six men to win the MotoGP title this century, Hayden provided the sport with one of its most memorable finales when he pipped Valentino Rossi to the 2006 crown.\n\nHayden, who has died at the age of 35, five days after a collision with a car while cycling in Italy, never again got close to the championship but remained one of the sport's most popular riders.\n\n\"When I was a little kid I never wanted to be a firefighter or anything else - just a world champion,\" he said.\n\n\"The idea of growing up to be a world champion, it just seemed so far away. But dream big, and dreams do come true.\"\n\nFrom Earl's Lane to the top step\n\nHayden, along with brothers Tommy and Roger, turned professional after years of home schooling on the track at 'Earl's Lane' - the name for their home in Owensboro, nestled on the Ohio river.\n\nIt was no fluke that all three became pro riders. Dad Earl was a dirt track racer for more than 20 years and mum Rose and sisters Jenny and Kathleen also competed.\n\n\"I was bred into it. Bikes are more than just a job for us. It's a way of life,\" Hayden told the BBC in 2013.\n\n\"When I won the title I went to my pit box before the awards ceremony, and there was the banner that said, 'Nicky Hayden, World Champion,' and I just lost it.\n\n\"My parents gave up a lot, and there are a lot of bumps and bruises and it hurts sometimes. So you definitely have to be prepared to suffer a bit.\n\n\"It's not always just a big cupcake ride.\"\n\nFamily remained foremost for Hayden, who would often make the long trip back to Kentucky from Europe throughout the season to spend time with them.\n\nHe listed the 2001 Springfield TT - a dirt-bike race which saw all three brothers finish on the podium - as one of his career highlights, despite the fact that Tommy won.\n\nHis three-word Twitter biography perhaps sums it up best: \"Bikes and Family.\"\n\n'The nicest guy in the paddock'\n\nWith his distinctive Appalachian twang and broad smile, Hayden was popular the world over for his friendly, self-deprecating charm as much as his speed.\n\nFormer team-mate Rossi called Hayden \"one of my best friends in racing\" earlier this week.\n\n\"He never changed, from the first moment I met him as a 17-year-old kid to world champion,\" said former BBC commentator Steve Parrish.\n\n\"He was very relaxed. He had an amazing year when he won the championship - I don't think I've ever seen anyone more joyous to win a title.\n\n\"His dad got on the back of his bike, they were both in tears. That's the overriding memory of Nicky that I will remember. It was a dream picture - he achieved the greatest title in motorcycle racing.\n\n\"I never heard anyone have a bad word to say about him which in racing is unusual, most riders at one time or another cross swords with other riders. It's the name of the game.\"\n\nHe left MotoGP at the end of the 2015 season to join Honda in World Superbike, and raced in Italy the weekend before his accident.\n\nLast year Hayden got engaged to his girlfriend, actress Jackie Marin, who was with him in hospital, along with Rose and Tommy.\n\nFormer MotoGP rider James Toseland said there was \"nobody better in the sport.\"\n\n\"He has my complete respect,\" he said. \"He was always the first on the track at every test, and the last off it.\n\n\"He was a guy with so much dedication, passion, drive and motivation and was so humble with it all, even after being a world champion. It never changed him one bit.\n\n\"Nicky was the shining star among the three successful brothers, but if you were in a bar with all three of them you wouldn't know that. They were all so close.\n\n\"The glass was always half full with him. He had that confidence and a natural, ambitious personality, he was infectious.\n\n\"His biggest achievement is not the trophies he won, or the championship, it was the respect he got from his peers. The way everybody talks about Nicky Hayden speaks volumes for the type of person he was.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nReal Madrid won their first La Liga title since 2012 thanks to a final-day victory at Malaga.\n\nCristiano Ronaldo scored early on to settle the nerves, latching onto Isco's through ball to step around Carlos Kameni and tap into an empty net.\n\nKarim Benzema added their second goal after the break after Kameni parried Sergio Ramos' shot.\n\nReal, who had only needed a point, now face Juventus in the Champions League final looking to complete a double.\n• None Relive the action as it happened.\n\nBarcelona, who had won the past two titles, came from 2-0 down to beat Eibar 4-2 but they had needed Real to slip up if they were going to retain the trophy.\n\nThe result means Zinedine Zidane, in his first full season as Real boss, is the first manager to lead Madrid to the Spanish league title since Jose Mourinho five years ago.\n\nIf Real beat Juventus in Cardiff, they will become the first team to successfully defend the Champions League - with Zidane having won the tournament six months into the job last summer.\n\nNever in doubt for Real\n\nReal Madrid are deserved champions, having been the best team in Spain - and probably Europe - for most of the season.\n\nTheir squad is starting to look less reliant on Benzema, Ronaldo and Gareth Bale, who was out injured - even though the first two players scored their goals at Malaga.\n\nIsco, who was impressive again, and Alvaro Morata have shown themselves to be quality players when given the chance.\n\nWhen Barca beat Real in El Clasico on 23 April, it gave renewed hope for an exciting title race - but Real won their last six games to win the league by three points.\n\nAnd there was never any title peril on the final day once Ronaldo rounded Kameni to score the second-minute opener.\n\nMalaga had chances, with former Barca striker Sandro impressive. But with nothing to play for themselves, they never really looked like winning.\n\n'The league is everything'\n\nReal Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane: \"It was very important [to win the league]. It was a lot of years without winning it and we knew that the league is everything.\n\n\"For Real Madrid, because it is the best club in the world, we have to return with this league title.\n\n\"He [Ronaldo] is always there to make the difference and I am happy for him - it is a little different because he is always there to do it.\n\n\"It has been a difficult season that we worked hard for, with some tough moments, but after 38 games we are top and that is it.\n\n\"The Spanish league is the best in my opinion and to win it in this way is incredible - I am very happy.\"\n• None Real have ended their longest run without a title (four seasons) since 1994\n• None Real have scored in all of their games in a single La Liga season for the first time ever\n• None The Whites have scored 58 goals away from home, their best return in a single La Liga season\n• None Real have scored in their last 64 games in all competitions, the best run by a team from the top five European leagues\n• None Cristiano Ronaldo is the all-time top-scorer in the top five European leagues (369), surpassing Jimmy Greaves (366)\n• None 19 different players have scored for Real Madrid in La Liga this season, a joint-record in Europe's top five leagues with Celta Vigo\n• None Real have scored 27 headed goals in La Liga, the most for a team in a single top-flight season since at 2003-04\n• None Zinedine Zidane is the sixth former Real Madrid player to win La Liga as manager, after Bernd Schuster, Vicente del Bosque, Jorge Valdano, Luis Molowny and Miguel Munoz\n• None Offside, Málaga. Recio tries a through ball, but Charles Dias is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Charles Dias (Málaga) header from very close range is too high. Assisted by Gonzalo Castro with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Gonzalo Castro (Málaga) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Fornals.\n• None Attempt missed. Marcelo (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Luka Modric (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Danilo.\n• None Attempt saved. Álvaro Morata (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Mateo Kovacic.\n• None Attempt missed. Marcelo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Luka Modric.\n• None Attempt missed. Charles Dias (Málaga) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Federico Ricca with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Charles Dias (Málaga) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Federico Ricca with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Ignacio Camacho (Málaga) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Gonzalo Castro with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Pablo Fornals (Málaga) right footed shot from outside the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Pablo Fornals (Málaga) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Sunderland manager David Moyes has resigned following the club's relegation from the Premier League.\n\nThe end of the Black Cats' 10-year stay in the top flight was confirmed when they lost to Bournemouth last month.\n\nMoyes, 54, informed chairman Ellis Short of his decision to step down at a meeting in London on Monday.\n\n\"I wish the players and my successor well in their efforts towards promotion back to the Premier League,\" said Moyes.\n\nFormer Everton and Manchester United boss Moyes took charge in July last year, after Sam Allardyce left to become England manager.\n\nSunderland finished bottom of the table this season with 24 points, having won only six games.\n\n\"I pursued the services of David Moyes for a considerable period prior to his appointment last summer, which makes the announcement of his departure difficult for everyone concerned,\" said owner Short.\n\nHe said that Moyes was not taking compensation for his departure, calling it a \"testament to his character\".\n\n\"In the days ahead we will take some time for reflection, and then focus on recruitment and pre-season as we prepare for our Championship campaign. We wish David well in the future,\" added Short.\n\nThe Scot had faced calls from Sunderland fans to quit and initially said it was \"too soon\" to commit to the club following relegation.\n\nHowever, earlier this month he suggested he would stay with the club in the Championship next season, saying: \"I know what needs to be done to get back in the Premier League.\"\n\nIn a club statement on Monday, Moyes said: \"I would like to thank Ellis Short and the Board for giving me the opportunity to manage Sunderland and the fans for always being so passionately supportive of their club.\"\n\nThis is the first time Moyes has been relegated as a manager, having warned supporters just two games into the season that his squad would struggle.\n\nDavid Moyes' departure from Sunderland after a desperate season ended in relegation carried an air of inevitability - and it is only a minor blessing for the Black Cats that the decision has been taken so quickly after its conclusion.\n\nIt is a sign of how his stock has fallen that since he was awarded a six-year contract to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United in 2013 he has been sacked at Old Trafford, again at Spanish side Real Sociedad and now has a relegation and resignation on his CV at Sunderland.\n\nAnd there are still two years left on that original Manchester United contract.\n\nMoyes looked a solid appointment in succession to Sam Allardyce but set the negative tone he adopted for the entire campaign when he flagged up a relegation fight after only two games.\n\nSunderland's football was drab and draped in defeat. The only shining lights were leading scorer Jermain Defoe and promising young goalkeeper Jordan Pickford - who now look certain to follow Moyes out of the door.\n\nMoyes made some defiant noises about taking charge of Sunderland in the Championship but in the end his unpopularity with fans who had suffered all season, plus the embarrassment of relegation, left him with nowhere to go but away from Wearside.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nHull City were relegated from the Premier League with one game to go after a heavy defeat at Crystal Palace, a result which secures top-flight survival for Sam Allardyce's team.\n\nMarco Silva's side went behind after a shocking error just two minutes and 11 seconds into a game they needed to win to give themselves a fighting chance of survival.\n\nItaly defender Andrea Ranocchia missed a simple clearance, allowing Wilfried Zaha to run clear and slot beyond goalkeeper Eldin Jakupovic.\n\nChristian Benteke's header doubled Palace's lead while late goals from Luka Milivojevic, from the penalty spot, and substitute Patrick van Aanholt, completed Hull's misery.\n\nThe Tigers, who failed to register a shot on target on Sunday, will join Sunderland and Middlesbrough in the Championship next season.\n\nThis result also means Swansea City, who were bottom of the table and four points from safety at the start of 2017, stay up.\n• None Reaction from Selhurst Park and the rest of Sunday's Premier League games\n\nWhere did it go wrong for Hull?\n\nHull are back in the second tier one year after winning promotion at Wembley by beating Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship play-off final.\n\nTheir plans following a Premier League return seemed to be in disarray when manger Steve Bruce left in July following a breakdown in his relationship with vice-chairman Ehab Allam.\n\nMike Phelan was appointed caretaker for the start of the campaign and the former Manchester United assistant steered the Tigers to back-to-back wins. He was named manager of the month for August.\n\nHowever, the season quickly unravelled with Hull winning just one of the next 18 league games before Phelan was sacked on 3 January.\n\nThe Tigers were also rocked by the loss of £10m midfield summer signing Ryan Mason to a fractured skull after clashing heads with Chelsea's Gary Cahill.\n\nThen Robert Snodgrass, who remains the club's leading league scorer this season with seven goals, joined West Ham for £10.2m.\n\nSilva took over with the club rooted to the foot of the table and despite six wins in eight home games, the Portuguese failed to mastermind an away win in nine attempts.\n\nPalace turn on the style to confirm survival\n\nThree straight defeats had left Palace's top-flight place up in the air, but there was never any doubt about the outcome of this game once Zaha pounced on Ranocchia's mistake to score Palace's quickest league goal for three years.\n\nThe on-loan defender from Inter Milan completely missed a straightforward clearance and Zaha kept his composure to net his seventh in the league this season.\n\nPalace then built on their lead when Benteke rose inside the six-yard area to power Jason Puncheon's header into the net.\n\nThe visitors were denied a penalty when Puncheon appeared to handle inside his own penalty area before two late goals sealed Hull's fate.\n\nBut Referee Martin Atkinson did point to the spot when Michael Dawson marked his return by sending Jeffrey Schlupp sprawling inside the area which allowed Milivojevic to make it 3-0.\n\nHull, who have the league's worst defence, were completely overrun and it went from bad to worse for the visitors, with Van Aanholt finding the net after latching onto James McArthur's pass.\n\n'We failed in our target' - manager reaction\n\nCrystal Palace manager Sam Allardyce: \"It's always a relief. The nervous tension was around the building today.\n\n\"For us to apply ourselves as we did, almost perfectly, was excellent. It's four goals, a clean sheet and we were able to enjoy the last 15 minutes.\n\n\"It was a class performance. We completely nullified Hull's possession.\"\n\nHull City boss Marco Silva: \"Today we came here to play one final and we started in a bad way. It gave Palace what they wanted for the match. They knew what was in it for them.\n\n\"We tried but conceded again and it finished the game. We tried to make changes at half-time for a small reaction. Possession is not enough. You have to take the right decisions. At this level it makes a difference.\n\n\"When the club came to me, we knew we were taking on a big risk. But we had one target, to stay in the Premier League. We did our best to improve the boys in the team and that was our job.\"\n\nHull City captain Michael Dawson: \"It is very hard. The season has been a long, hard slog and it is a sad day.\n\n\"You work hard all year and then you get relegated, you have to pick yourselves up and we know what to do in the Championship.\n\n\"Marco Silva has done a fantastic job since he came in. He has done remarkably well to give us half a chance but we just came up short.\"\n• None Hull will finish the season with a league-low six away points.\n• None The Tigers are the 33rd side to be relegated from the Premier League the season after gaining promotion to the top flight.\n• None Hull have conceded a league-high 14 goals from corners this season.\n• None Tigers defender Curtis Davies is the 13th player to feature in four-plus Premier League relegation campaigns.\n• None Hull have conceded 13 penalties this season, more than any other side in a single Premier League campaign.\n• None This is Crystal Palace's joint-biggest winning margin in Premier League history (also 5-1 v Newcastle in November 2015).\n\nPalace will be able to travel to Manchester United on the 21 May (15:00 BST) knowing they will be playing in the Premier League next season. At the same time, Hull bring the curtain down on a poor season at home to Tottenham.\n• None Attempt missed. Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Sam Clucas (Hull City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Patrick van Aanholt.\n• None Patrick van Aanholt (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.\n• None Goal! Crystal Palace 4, Hull City 0. Patrick van Aanholt (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by James McArthur with a through ball.\n• None Offside, Crystal Palace. Wilfried Zaha tries a through ball, but Christian Benteke is caught offside.\n• None Curtis Davies (Hull City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Crystal Palace 3, Hull City 0. Luka Milivojevic (Crystal Palace) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Michael Dawson (Hull City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "BBC Sport looks back at some of the great goals scored at White Hart Lane by Tottenham legends during the Premier League era.\n\nAvailable to UK Users only", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shane Yerrell: The crowdfunding superhero who raises money for strangers\n\nThe meteoric rise of crowdfunding has revolutionised how easy it is to help out those in need. Often fundraising is done by friends or family, but an increasing number of people are setting up pages for complete strangers whose stories tug at their heartstrings. So how do you go about changing the life of someone you've never met?\n\nShane Yerrell is a man on a mission. The victim of a knife attack a decade ago, he decided to turn his hand to helping others, and has raised more than £20,000 for a number of causes since 2011.\n\nHe has climbed a mountain, shaved his head, walked from London to Brighton - and he has set up crowdfunding pages for people who he does not know, and might never meet.\n\n\"If I won the lottery, I'd be the first millionaire to become skint,\" said Mr Yerrell, 33, from Waltham Abbey, Essex, who works with adults who have learning disabilities.\n\n\"When I read stories in the news, I get a bit more affected by them than most people do. I get really annoyed to the point where I want to make a stand and help them there and then.\n\n\"You don't have to know someone to want to help them.\"\n\nShane Yerrell decided to help Liam Bradshaw after hearing about the car crash he was involved in\n\nOne of the people Mr Yerrell has crowdfunded for is 21-year-old Liam Bradshaw, from Enfield, who was involved in a catastrophic car crash in which his three friends died in 2012.\n\n\"I was left with 17 fractures to the face, broken collarbones, a nose job and a titanium forehead. I was in hospital for eight and a half months,\" Mr Bradshaw recalls.\n\nWhen Mr Yerrell heard in the news about what had happened, he approached Mr Bradshaw's family and asked if he could help to raise money for his recovery, through a fundraising page and by climbing Mount Toubkal in Morocco.\n\n\"Shane came along towards the end of my hospital life. The guy has the kindest heart - he went out of his way to help a stranger so that stranger could live his life again,\" Mr Bradshaw said.\n\n\"I'm so glad it happened, because if I hadn't had the accident, I wouldn't have met someone with such a good heart,\" he added.\n\n\"From what Shane did for me, I've then come out of hospital to go and coach disabled children for Tottenham Hotspur.\n\n\"We've gone beyond friends now - he's more like family.\"\n\nLiam Bradshaw said he had been inspired by the actions of a stranger - Shane Yerrell - who had raised money for him after his accident\n\nBridey Watson set up a crowdfunding page to help a complete stranger after money was raised to help her through her illness\n\nBridey Watson, 35, from Bristol, was on the receiving end of crowdfunding a few years ago, after contracting babesiosis, a malaria-like parasitic disease developed from a tick bite.\n\n\"I was bed and wheelchair-bound, having seizures every day,\" she recalls.\n\n\"When the doctors finally worked out what was wrong, my friends and family set up a crowdfunding page for me to go to Germany and the US for treatment, where tick-borne diseases are better understood and treated.\n\n\"The crowdfunding other people did for me enabled me to regain my health and rebuild my life.\"\n\nMs Watson is still recovering from the effects of babesiosis, but was inspired to help someone else in need following her own experience.\n\nShe said she was horrified by an assault on 17-year-old asylum seeker Kurdish-Iranian Reker Ahmed, who was chased and subjected to a \"brutal attack\" in Croydon at the end of March.\n\n\"He's finally thinking he's reached a place of sanctuary, only to be attacked - I could picture the terribleness of what he'd been through,\" she said.\n\n\"From my own experience, I knew the messages people left were as important as the physical health money can bring. And that's what I wanted to do for the guy who was attacked.\"\n\nMs Waton's page to help an attacked asylum seeker smashed its target\n\nThe psychology behind setting up a crowdfunding page for a stranger can be split into three categories, says philanthropic psychologist Jen Shang.\n\n\"Typically, people help strangers to make themselves feel good, to make others feel good, or both,\" she said.\n\n\"Some people don't want to get up close and personal with the people they help - they want to keep it all at arm's length and have a simple, easy and warm way of helping.\n\n\"Others prefer to have direct contact with the people they're helping, and crowdfunding sites offer a channel where that sort of connection is possible.\"\n\nMs Shang, who works as research director at the University of Plymouth's Centre for Sustainable Philanthropy, said although the percentage of people donating money to charity or other causes \"has not changed in the UK or the US for decades,\" new methods of giving were constantly being invented, with crowdfunding \"the new kid on the block\".\n\n\"For people like Mr Yerrell, crowdfunding might be the most 'sustainable' way of giving - the way that sustains the knowledge and feeling you're caring about others.\n\n\"Psychologists say as long as you're a human, you want to care about others.\"\n\nThe Parker family - Harry, Glen, Danielle and Mia - have experienced the kindness of strangers\n\nFor the Parker family, who live in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, a stranger's help could not have come at a better time.\n\nThey were trying to raise £75,000 for specialised surgery to help seven-year-old Harry, who has cerebral palsy, to be able to walk.\n\nMr Yerrell was introduced to them by a friend, but had not met the family before that, and ended up helping to hit the fundraising target.\n\n\"It's unbelievable - the amount of people he's helped. We weren't the first and I know we won't be the last,\" Harry's dad Glen said.\n\n\"As soon as I met him, I knew he was genuine. It's a life changer for Harry and us as a family. People like him don't come along every day.\"\n\nHarry's mum Danielle said Mr Yerrell - whose work has been recognised with a British Citizen Award and a Pride of Essex Award - had become \"a big part\" of the family's life.\n\n\"Not only has he helped us, he's a genuinely nice person. Sometimes you need someone like him in your life to make you think everything will be alright, especially when you're going through a tough time.\"\n\nMr Yerrell has founded a community interest company, Through the Fight, with the aim of gaining charity status in the coming year.\n\nHe will also be taking some time for himself, he said, because \"you don't want to make people sick of it\".\n\n\"I want to have time to do NVQ at work,\" he said. \"But if something was to happen to someone I knew, I'd be there first person to try to help.\n\n\"I put everything into my fundraising. It's not just setting up the pages - you have to contact the person of their family, put your own money into it, promote it.\n\n\"I'm not well off, but that money could go down the pub or on silly things. I will always want to help and make a difference, but you need a bit of reality too.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nEngland's Matt Wallace led from start to finish to win the Portugal Open, his first European Tour title.\n\nWallace, 27, the world number 242, shot a final round 69 at the Morgado Golf Resort to finish three shots clear of American Julian Suri.\n\nHe finished on 21-under-par and becomes only the second player on the tour this season to win from start to finish.\n\nIt was Wallace's fourth European Tour event, having made the step up from the Alps Tour last year.\n\n\"It's the best feeling ever,\" he said after lifting the trophy. \"It's always been a dream to win on the European Tour.\n\n\"Those first two days were really easy, that third day was the hardest day of my life and today was tough but it's so satisfying and I'm really happy.\"\n\nWallace shot 17 birdies on the first 36 holes and a level-par round on day three left him with a three-shot lead over German Sebastian Heisele going into the final day.\n\nWallace held off a surge from Suri on Sunday and becomes just the second winner since 2013 to card three bogey-free rounds on his way to victory.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nAustralian cricketers are \"prepared to strike\" if a contract dispute is not resolved, which could have an impact on the Ashes at the end of the year.\n\nIn March, Cricket Australia proposed salary increases for men and women, but this would mean players no longer receive a percentage of CA's revenue.\n\nThe offer was rejected and CA said it would not pay players after 30 June.\n\nEx-Australia captain Mark Taylor said the Australian Cricketers' Association \"aren't negotiating at all\".\n\nTaylor, who is also a CA board member, told a sports chat show on Nine Network on Sunday: \"I have had players say to me in January that we could well be on strike in July.\"\n\nA letter from CA chief executive James Sutherland to the players' association said 2016-17 contracts would not be renewed without a new agreement.\n\nBut the ACA said the proposal was \"a win for cricket administrators but a loss for cricket\".\n\nACA chief executive Alistair Nicholson added: \"The point lost on CA is that the players will not respond to threats.\"\n\nSeveral Test players responded on Twitter, using the #fairshare hashtag.\n\nAustralian fast bowler Pat Cummins tweeted on social media in response to the email: \"Players are staying strong #fairshare\".\n\nIf the dispute is not resolved, there would be uncertainty over what team Australia could field after 30 June, with a two-Test series scheduled in August in Bangladesh before a home Ashes showdown with England, which runs from 23 November 2017 to 8 January 2018.\n\nIn a letter sent by CA to the ACA, chief executive James Sutherland said \"players with contracts expiring in 2016-17 will not have contracts for 2017-18\" unless the Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) negotiates a new MoU (Memorandum of Understanding)\".\n\nThe current MoU will expire midway through the women's World Cup, which starts in England and Wales on 24 June.\n\n\"The Australian women's World Cup squad will be paid in advance of the June-July World Cup and will be employed until the end of the event,\" Sutherland said.\n\nCA declined to comment further when contacted by Reuters.\n\n\"There is incoherence and aggression in what we have experienced at the negotiating table from CA,\" Nicholson said in a statement on Sunday.\n\n\"However, despite these threats, the players affirm their offer to participate in independent mediation.\n\n\"Quite simply, one side entered these negotiations in good faith with an intent to provide a win-win result, and the other is trying to remove player unity and drive a wedge in Australian cricket.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nWorld Player of the Year Carli Lloyd was among the scorers as Manchester City cruised past Birmingham to win the Women's FA Cup for the first time.\n\nLucy Bronze headed the opener following a free-kick and crossed for Izzy Christiansen to crash home the second.\n\nLloyd's header capped a fine 14-minute spell to make it 3-0 by the break.\n\nCharlie Wellings' goal gave Birmingham brief hope, but Jill Scott's fierce shot sealed City's victory in front of a competition-record crowd at Wembley.\n\nThe 2016 Women's Super League champions are now in possession of all three main domestic honours - the first team to do so since Arsenal Ladies in 2011.\n\nBirmingham had knocked out holders Arsenal and 2015 champions Chelsea to make the final, but the 2012 winners never looked like repeating that feat on their first trip to Wembley in front of 35,271 fans.\n\nFour domestic honours in nine months?\n\nBefore 2014, Manchester City Women had never lifted a major trophy - but they are now closing in on a potential clean sweep of all four domestic honours in the space of nine months.\n\nHaving won the WSL and Continental Cup last year, they will hope to add the WSL Spring Series to their Women's FA Cup success.\n\nManchester City, who also reached the Champions League semi-finals in May, had never even played in the top flight when Birmingham won the FA Cup in 2012.\n\nCity's relentlessly aggressive pressing game and dominant defence laid the foundation for a ruthless victory which was as good as sealed by the interval.\n\nBirmingham's inability to retain possession under persistent pressure led to them conceding territory and numerous free-kicks and corners, where City's set-piece superiority twice told in a one-sided first half.\n\nMoments after a near-post corner almost brought an opening goal for Megan Campbell with a neat flicked effort, Bronze darted in to convert Campbell's inviting inswinging free-kick for a 1-0 lead.\n\nBronze then bustled Paige Williams out of possession and picked out Christiansen with a delightful cross.\n\nCity's preference to stretch play and attack down the flanks had meant that, despite being 2-0 up, Lloyd was a peripheral figure for the opening 30 minutes.\n\nShe had shown glimpses of her technical ability and vision but made her quality count when she rose above flapping Blues keeper Ann-Katrin Berger to head home another Campbell cross following a short corner.\n\nCity stayed in control despite facing an improved Blues side after the break, with the lively Nikita Parris having a shot tipped wide and Steph Houghton sending a header off target.\n\nBirmingham were rewarded for their efforts through Wellings' curled effort, but Scott showed some nifty footwork to fire in a fourth goal after good work by substitute Toni Duggan.\n\n'It's what dreams are made of'\n\nManchester City captain Houghton, who will also lead England at Euro 2017 this summer, described the FA Cup as \"the one we were missing\" after their final triumph.\n\n\"Credit to all the girls and all the staff, we've worked so hard,\" she told BBC Radio 5 live. \"We've had a tireless schedule, but we were the best team on the day.\n\n\"The aim was to win as many trophies with this team as I could. To be captain of this club is unbelievable - but to win the FA Cup at Wembley, it's what dreams are made of.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Georgia Stanway (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Carli Lloyd.\n• None Attempt saved. Stephanie Houghton (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Aoife Mannion (Birmingham City Ladies) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Manchester City Women. Carli Lloyd tries a through ball, but Toni Duggan is caught offside.\n• None Jessica Carter (Birmingham City Ladies) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Wellings (Birmingham City Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Lucy Bronze (Manchester City Women) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Ellen White (Birmingham City Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Jessica Carter with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea can keep improving after winning the Premier League title and will try to retain their best players, says manager Antonio Conte.\n\nThe Blues became champions of England for a sixth time with a 1-0 victory over West Brom on Friday.\n\nConte, 47, has been linked with the vacant Inter Milan job, while there is speculation over the future of striker Diego Costa and playmaker Eden Hazard.\n\n\"If you can continue with these players you can improve a lot,\" said Conte.\n\nThe former Juventus and Italy boss led Chelsea, who finished 10th last year, to the title in his first season in charge.\n\nReports in Italy suggest Chinese-backed Serie A club Inter are prepared to offer Conte £250,000 a week if he leaves Stamford Bridge one season into a three-year deal.\n\nThe Italian said he and his squad had only \"started to do our work\".\n\n\"Now they know my idea, I know them, the characteristics of my players, and we can improve,\" he added.\n\nBelgium international Hazard, 26, has been linked with Real Madrid, while Spain forward Costa, 28, was left out of a game at Leicester in January after a disagreement with a fitness coach, amid widespread reports of interest from Chinese clubs.\n\n\"The club want to fight to win every competition - we have the same ambition,\" said Conte.\n\n\"For this reason we try to keep the best players.\"\n\nChelsea have two Premier League fixtures remaining - against Watford and Sunderland - before facing Arsenal in the FA Cup final at Wembley on 27 May.\n\nGuus Hiddink took interim charge of Chelsea last season, with the club 16th in the Premier League and one point above the relegation zone following the departure of manger Jose Mourinho.\n\nThe Dutchman, who led the side to a 10th-place finish, met with Conte at the end of that season.\n\nHiddink described the Italian as \"a man who had already achieved a lot before he came to Chelsea\" and that winning the title was a \"confirmation of his attitude, professionalism and energy\".\n\nOn speculation linking Conte with a move to Italy, Hiddink told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek: \"There are always rumours coming up but I think the club is very stable. It is a huge club to work for, perfect circumstances and very ambitious people everywhere.\n\n\"It's more rumour than reality.\"\n\nFormer England and Arsenal striker Ian Wright: \"The way he has got players playing, Victor Moses, Willian etc is incredible - he's kept the whole squad happy.\n\n\"There's been no red cards, discipline has been very good, and the amount of consistency through not changing players so often has kept the players together.\n\n\"Conte has also got that assured calmness - not so much on the pitch but behind the scenes.\"\n\nFormer England and Newcastle striker Alan Shearer: \"Antonio Conte's passion and enthusiasm has filtered down to all his players all season.\n\n\"The big change was the shift in the system after they lost to Liverpool and were beaten 3-0 by Arsenal at the Emirates. They were playing four at the back and it wasn't working at all so he had to do something.\n\n\"They went to a back three, changed a couple of players, and then won 13 games on the spin, which was an incredible turnaround for a team that had struggled.\n\n\"They've certainly benefited without being in Europe by making only 38 line-up changes, the fewest in the league, so they've used that to their advantage.\n\n\"There is a case for mentioning all their players but I've got to pick out Cesar Azpilicueta, who has played every minute of every league game and turned in an eight or nine out of 10 performance every time.\"", "A picture of Mr Li from 2012 and one taken after his release\n\nIt's a form of restraint that would be more in keeping with the practices of a medieval dungeon than a modern, civilised state.\n\nBut the device - leg and hand shackles linked by a short chain - is a well-documented part of the toolkit that the Chinese police use to break the will of their detainees.\n\nAnd it is one that they allegedly forced one of this country's most prominent human rights lawyers to wear, for a full month.\n\nLi Heping was finally released from detention on Tuesday and his wife Wang Qiaoling has now had time to learn about the treatment he endured over his almost two-year-long incarceration.\n\n\"In May 2016 in the Tianjin Number One Detention Centre, he was put in handcuffs and shackles with an iron chain linking the two together,\" she tells me.\n\n\"It meant that he could not stand up straight, he could only stoop, even during sleeping. He wore that instrument of torture 24/7 for one month.\"\n\nShe adds: \"They wanted him to confess.\"\n\nIn one sense, Mr Li was lucky.\n\nA 2015 investigation by Human Rights Watch into the use of torture by the Chinese police revealed the case of a man who was forced to wear this type of device for eight years.\n\nIn 2014 an Amnesty International report documented the supply and manufacture of torture equipment by Chinese companies, including the combined hand and leg cuffs.\n\nTorture devices like the one allegedly used on Li Heping are readily available online\n\n\"The use of these devices causes unnecessary discomfort and can easily result in injuries,\" William Nee, China Researcher at Amnesty International, tells me.\n\n\"Such devices place unwarranted restrictions on the movement of detainees and serve no legitimate law enforcement purpose that cannot be achieved by the use of handcuffs alone.\"\n\nLi Heping is one of a group of human rights lawyers who were detained in July 2015, in a crackdown since referred to by critics as China's \"war on law.\"\n\nOf course, threats, intimidation and violence have always been part of the risks for any lawyer daring to take on the might of the Communist Party in its own courts.\n\nBut President Xi Jinping has made it clear that he sees the ideal of constitutional rights, guaranteed by independent courts, as a threat to national security.\n\nSo his so-called \"war on law\" sends a clear message.\n\nPresident Xi Jinping sees the constitutional rights guaranteed by independent courts as a threat to national security\n\nFor those like Mr Li, representing the victims of China's illegal land grabs, religious persecution or political repression, the threat is not just from corrupt local officials or powerful businessmen, but from the state itself.\n\nThe before and after photos offer a visual clue to his time in detention.\n\nOne taken in 2012 shows an assured, cheery lawyer.\n\nThe one taken on his release shows him noticeably thinner and looking older than his years.\n\nWang Qiaoling tells me she barely recognised him.\n\nAnd she tells me about the other forms of ill-treatment that her husband has described to her since his release.\n\n\"He was forced to take medicine. They stuffed the pills into his mouth as he refused to take them voluntarily,\" she says.\n\n\"The police told him that they were for high blood pressure, but my husband doesn't suffer from that.\n\n\"After taking the pills he felt pain in his muscles and his vision was blurred.\"\n\n\"He was beaten. He endured gruelling questioning while being denied sleep for days on end,\" she goes on.\n\n\"And he was forced to stand to attention for 15 hours a day, without moving.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wang Qiaoling has not heard from her husband Li Heping since he was taken away two months ago\n\nAmnesty International's William Nee tells me that each of these methods of ill-treatment could be considered torture by themselves.\n\n\"Cumulatively, they would demonstrate a clear intent by the authorities to inflict physical and mental torture with the goal of getting Li Heping to confess,\" he says.\n\n\"Since China is a party to the Convention against Torture, these serious allegations should prompt the Chinese authorities to immediately launch a prompt, effective and impartial investigation to assess whether this torture took place.\"\n\nDespite the prolonged and extreme nature of the alleged torture, Ms Wang tells me her husband never did confess.\n\n\"He was worried that he might be tortured to death in the detention centre and he wouldn't make it to meet his family again, so he reached an agreement with the authorities that the trial would be held in secret.\n\n\"He would be given a suspended sentence but he never admitted guilt or confessed that he had subverted state power.\"\n\nAt that secret trial, the details of which were released by China's state-controlled media afterwards, the court ruled that Mr Li had \"repeatedly used the internet and foreign media interviews to discredit and attack state power and the legal system\".\n\nAs a result of his conviction, he is now unable to practise law and has also signed an agreement that he will not carry out any further media interviews.\n\nBut his wife, despite constant intimidation, refuses to be similarly constrained.\n\nPlain-clothes policemen still surround the family home and she was followed to our agreed interview location.\n\nAnd while her account is impossible to independently verify, it tallies with that of other lawyers caught up in the crackdown, including Xie Yang, whose court case was heard this week.\n\nHe had previously alleged similar abuses during his interrogations - including shackling, beatings and being made to remain in the same position for hours on end - although the court claims he retracted these allegations during his trial.\n\nWe called the Tianjin Number One detention centre to ask about the allegations that Li Heping was tortured there.\n\n\"We don't do any interviews,\" came the reply. \"If you want to do an interview, please go through the legal and proper channels.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nSaracens became back-to-back champions of Europe as they beat Clermont Auvergne in a pulsating Champions Cup final at Murrayfield.\n\nTries from Chris Ashton and George Kruis helped the English champions into a 12-0 lead, but Clermont hit back through Remi Lamerat's converted try.\n\nAfter Owen Farrell edged Sarries eight points clear, a dazzling Nick Abendanon try saw Clermont edge within a point.\n\nBut Alex Goode's try and Farrell's boot ensured Saracens retained their crown.\n\nWhen they raced into that early 12-0 lead it looked as though Saracens, playing a pacy all-court game, were going to blow Clermont away.\n\nBut the French side managed to claw their way back into the contest by taking on Saracens at the breakdown and they gave the Londoners a real fright before the power and class of the champions saw them home.\n\nSaracens' rise to the top of the European game was built on ferocious defence, relentless focus and a ruthless desire to win.\n\nIt was not always pretty but over the past year they have added another - attacking - gear to their game and that was fully in evidence as they dominated the opening quarter.\n\nAshton's opener was sublime - the winger racing on to fellow England discard Goode's precise grubber kick to become the leading all-time try scorer in the Champions Cup with 37.\n\nKruis then bullied his way over after Goode's slicing break had taken Sarries within a couple of yards.\n\nBut missed chances meant they were not out of sight, and from their first attack Clermont cut the gap to five points.\n\nAurelien Rougerie - the 36-year-old centre who joined the side from the Massif Central as a boy - was cut down just short by Ashton, but Lamerat was on hand for a converted score.\n\nThe French side are the nearly men of European rugby, having won only one of the 14 top-tier French and European finals they had been in previously.\n\nDetermined not to add to that record they decided to throw bodies into the ruck and they succeeded in halting Saracens' momentum.\n\nFor a long time, it just offered the chance for the champions to show their defensive class, but a try of the season contender saw Clermont right back in it.\n\nScott Spedding started it from his own line, Fritz Lee and Peceli Yato took it on at pace and Abendanon cruised over for a converted score.\n\nWith just a point in it and the momentum apparently in Clermont's favour, lesser sides might have folded, but Saracens pride themselves on their mental strength as much as anything and they took a vice-like grip on the game.\n\nIn desperation, Clermont began to concede penalties and Farrell kept the scoreboard ticking over for Saracens.\n\nThey needed a try to finish the Frenchmen off and twice came agonisingly close, but Camille Lopez got a hand to one try-scoring pass - not a deliberate knock-on, ruled referee Nigel Owens - and Billy Vunipola was bundled into touch a yard from the line.\n\nBut Clermont finally cracked and Goode got the try his performance deserved as he glided through a gap to confirm that Saracens are the best club side in Europe.\n\nWhat next for Saracens?\n\nThe Londoners' ongoing quest for global domination continues with a trip to Exeter in the first of next Saturday's Premiership semi-finals.\n\nA sticky patch during the Six Nations when they were missing their England contingent means the reigning English champions must hit the road for their semi-final, but their recent form suggests they are back to their very best and they will fear no-one as they target a 'double double'.\n\n'Record is just the icing on the cake'\n\n\"We've worked so hard for the past five or six years. It's such a pleasure to be with this group. It's so hard to play in these finals so to win two is a pleasure.\n\n\"To become top try-scorer is just the icing on the cake.\"\n\nWhat did World Cup-winner Matt Dawson make of it?\n\n\"Saracens just have an incredible ability to repeat their skills under fatigue and pressure.\n\n\"For example there was nothing complex about their final try. But all of a sudden, when they needed to strike, it was the famous Farrell screen that set up Alex Goode.\"\n\nReplacements: Fernandez for Spedding (70), Penaud for Rougerie (53), Radosavljevic for Parra (74), Falgoux for Chaume (53), Ulugia for Kayser (66), Jarvis for Zirakashvili (76), Jedrasiak for Vahaamahina (45), Lapandry for Yato (60).\n\nReplacements: Spencer for Wigglesworth (78), Lamositele for M Vunipola (76), Brits for George (50), Du Plessis for Koch (78), Hamilton for Itoje (78), S Burger for Wray (60), Taylor for Barritt (54).", "Juan Pablo Pernalete was one of dozens of people who have been killed in protest-related violence in Venezuela since a wave of anti-government marches started at the beginning of April. Here, his parents recall the day he died.\n\n\"He was always a dreamer,\" says Elvira Llovera of her son.\n\nIn his bedroom at the family home in Caracas, a list of his life goals is pinned to the inside of a closet where the 20 year old's basketball shirt still hangs.\n\nElvira reads it out: \"I want to play for the NBA; I want to be successful and become a multi-millionaire; I want to be the best player in the whole world; I want world peace; I want to be tall; I want to grow to 1.96m; I want to get to know God well; I wish for my friends, and above all for my family, to be healthy.\"\n\nHis father, José Gregorio, says his son's bedroom is as he left it\n\nJuan Pablo had done well for himself, he had won a basketball scholarship to the prestigious private Unimet university in Caracas, where he was studying accountancy.\n\nBut he wanted everyone to have the same opportunity to do well for themselves, Elvira explains.\n\nBut as the economic and political crisis in Venezuela worsened, Juan Pablo saw a lot of his friends forced to leave for other countries, seeking opportunities abroad.\n\nAs the food shortages became more acute, he would pick the fruit from the large mango tree in his parents' courtyard.\n\nThe family mango tree besides a full-size basketball hoop and a tiny one that Juan Pablo played with as a child\n\n\"He put them in carrier bags and left them in strategic places in the streets so that those going hungry could pick them up,\" Elvira recalls.\n\nIn the mornings, Juan Pablo would attend classes and train at the leafy and prosperous Unimet campus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrés Toth speaks about his friend who died after attending one of Venezuela's protests\n\nIn the afternoons, he would go to play basketball in the \"barrios\", as the informal hillside neighbourhoods are known.\n\nThere, he saw for himself some of the extreme poverty in which people live.\n\nElvira was, therefore, not surprised when Juan Pablo told her he wanted to change things in Venezuela and started attending anti-government marches.\n\n\"I begged him not to go, I told him the security forces were cracking down on protesters, but he said he wanted an opportunity to express himself and to fight for his dreams,\" she says.\n\nJuan Pablo's father, José Gregorio Pernalete, adds: \"He didn't belong to any party, he just wanted a better country for all.\"\n\nHis talent as a basketball player had won Juan Pablo (first from right) a scholarship to a private university\n\n\"He was an idealist, he set his dreams so high,\" Elvira says.\n\nOn 26 April, Juan Pablo attended an anti-government protest in the Altamira district of Caracas.\n\nHis friend Andrés Toth, with whom he had trained in the gym earlier in the day, was also there, as were many of their friends.\n\nHis parents had just returned home from hunting round pharmacies for José Gregorio's high-blood pressure medication when they got a call from a friend.\n\n\"'There's word on the streets that Juan Pablo has been injured, he's been taken to Salud Chacao hospital,\" the friend told Elvira.\n\nJuan Pablo's dream was to play in the NBA\n\nElvira and José Gregorio jumped into their car, but the protest meant that roads on the way to the hospital were gridlocked.\n\nDesperate, Elvira jumped out of the car and flagged down a young motorcyclist weaving through the traffic.\n\n\"I told him my son was injured and had been taken to Salud Chacao and if he could drop me somewhere nearby.\"\n\n\"He said 'No way, lady, I'm taking you all the way there!'\"\n\nAt the hospital, the local mayor was waiting for Elvira. He told her: \"You have to be strong, your son is dead.\"\n\nElvira says she feels as if she has died inside since she heard the news\n\nElvira does not remember much about the minutes which followed.\n\nSomehow, she called her husband and told him.\n\nJosé Gregorio, still behind the wheel of his car, lost all control, he says.\n\n\"I couldn't see for the tears, I was screaming, I was banging my hands on the steering wheel.\"\n\nA random passer-by got him out of the driving seat and into the passenger seat and took the keys off him.\n\nJosé Gregorio and his wife were planning to sell their house and set up a business for their son once he graduated\n\n\"I remember he told me I was in no fit state to drive, and that he would drive me to Salud Chacao,\" says José Gregorio.\n\nAccording to the forensic report, Juan Pablo died of cardiogenic shock caused by trauma to his chest.\n\nVarious people who attended the march said that the National Guard was firing tear gas canisters in the direction of the protesters, and that instead of aiming them high above the protesters' heads, they were shooting at them.\n\nJuan Pablo may not have measured the 1.96m he had dreamed of, but at 1.86m, he was tall and he was hit by something which caused his heart to stop pumping enough blood needed to meet his body's needs.\n\nJuan Pablo had saved seven dogs off the streets but his latest rescue was a black cat he named Richard Parker\n\nThe official investigation into what happened that 26 April in Altamira is still under way.\n\nAt this point, José Gregorio and Elvira know only one thing for certain, and that is that they do not want any other family to have to live through what they experienced.\n\n\"When I see the lads in the barrios that he played basketball with, I see the same look in their eyes that I saw in my son, the same aspirations, there is so much talent here. Please don't let that be wasted like my son's was,\" Elvira says.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton and Mercedes stole a stunning victory in the Spanish Grand Prix from Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel.\n\nA clever strategic move by the team followed by Hamilton attacking and passing Vettel put the Briton in control and he defended successfully to the end.\n\nVettel had passed Hamilton off the start line to lead for the first half of the race but ended up out-flanked by their rivals.\n\nHamilton's second win of the season cut his deficit to Vettel in the championship to six points after five of 20 races.\n\nWhy was it such a great race?\n\nIt was a tense and gripping battle befitting the closeness of the fight between Formula 1's top teams this season.\n\nVettel took control of the race with a superb start, passing Hamilton into Turn One and building a 2.2-second lead with a blistering first lap.\n\nWhen Ferrari beat Mercedes to making the first pit stop, preventing Hamilton passing by stopping earlier and benefiting from fresh tyres, the race appeared to be Vettel's to lose and Mercedes to win.\n\nMercedes switched strategies, putting Hamilton on a long middle stint on the slower medium tyre, the idea being to attack Vettel at the end of the race, when Hamilton would be on the soft tyre and the Ferrari on the medium.\n\nThey then bought themselves some time by delaying the first pit stop of Hamilton's team-mate Valtteri Bottas so he could hold up Vettel for a couple of laps.\n\nVettel's delay behind Bottas brought Hamilton's deficit to the Ferrari down by four seconds but the German limited the damage with a stunning passing move on the Finn into Turn One.\n• None LISTEN: 'Like Mansell on Piquet back in the day'\n\nVettel dummied to the inside, then the outside, before diving down the inside, his wheels brushing the grass, to grasp the lead and apparently take another step towards victory.\n\nThe race turned during a period of the virtual safety car, when cars are forced to lap at controlled speeds while a car is cleared from a dangerous spot.\n\nThis was to remove Stoffel Vandoorne's McLaren, which went off at the first corner after a collision with Massa.\n\nThe VSC was in play for two laps and Mercedes waited until it was just about to end to pit Hamilton for a set of soft tyres.\n\nThe move was an inspired gamble with 30 laps still to go, a tough task on the soft tyre.\n\nFerrari responded to Mercedes by stopping Vettel for the final time a lap later and he rejoined from the pits as Hamilton pounded down the pit straight.\n\nThey went into the first corner side by side and Vettel forced Hamilton off the track at Turn One as he defended his lead.\n\nHamilton now had to pass Vettel on a track where overtaking is notoriously difficult.\n\nHe pressured Vettel hard for the next seven laps before getting close enough to try for a pass at the start of lap 44. Hamilton was close enough at the final corner to get the DRS overtaking aid and he swept by Vettel around the outside into Turn One.\n\nHamilton, who sounded breathless and anxious on the radio throughout the race, tensely asked his team what he needed to do in terms of building a gap while also protecting his tyres, and Ferrari briefly considered switching strategy to make an extra stop.\n\nBut he controlled his pace exquisitely to take his 55th win and almost certainly one of his best.\n\nAfter helping Hamilton out, Bottas looked set for third place but he broke down with an engine failure on lap 39.\n\nHis retirement handed third place to Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo, a huge 73 seconds behind Hamilton and Vettel.\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen and Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen retired on the first lap after a collision at the first corner as they went three-abreast with Bottas.\n\nForce India took fourth and fifth with Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon, with Renault's Nico Hulkenberg seventh.\n\nFernando Alonso had a dispiriting day 24 hours after thrilling his home fans and impressing the paddock with a stunning seventh place on the grid.\n\nThe McLaren driver dropped to 10th on the first lap when he was forced wide and off the track at the second corner by Williams' Felipe Massa and had to drive through the gravel to rejoin.\n\nAlonso will fly overnight to America to start his assault on the Indianapolis 500, for which he is missing the next race in Monaco, where Jenson Button will come out of retirement to substitute for him.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nMonaco, in two week's time. It's impossible to predict what will happen on the claustrophobic streets of Monaco in this see-saw battle between Mercedes and Ferrari.\n\nHamilton said earlier in the year he thought the shorter Ferrari might be more agile there, but the Mercedes was the fastest car through the tight final sector of Barcelona's lap so another close battle is almost certainly in store.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nGoals from Victor Wanyama and Harry Kane earned Tottenham victory over Manchester United in their final game at White Hart Lane.\n\nSpurs plan to have their new stadium, built on the same site, ready for the 2018-19 campaign and will play their home matches at Wembley next season.\n\nMauricio Pochettino's side left their current ground, where they have spent 118 years, on a high by staying unbeaten there this season and securing second spot in the Premier League.\n\nWanyama got Spurs off to the best possible start with a header five minutes in and Kane doubled their lead early in the second half, flicking home from a Christian Eriksen free-kick.\n\nCaptain Wayne Rooney gave United hope of a recovery when he poked in from Anthony Martial's low cross, but they were unable to spoil the leaving party.\n\nDefeat means Jose Mourinho's men cannot now finish in the top four.\n\nThey can still qualify for the Champions League if they win the Europa League, but Mourinho will have to settle for fifth or sixth place in his first season at the club.\n\nTottenham's title chances ended last week with their defeat by West Ham, and the trophy went to Chelsea on Friday.\n\nWith a Champions League place already guaranteed, Pochettino said their final home match was all about making it a special day for the fans.\n\nThe teams walked out to a display of flags around the ground, Spurs legends including Chris Waddle and Glenn Hoddle were invited as special guests, and local musical duo Chas and Dave provided half-time entertainment.\n\nAnd the Tottenham players gave supporters a first-half performance to remember.\n\nBen Davies' sublime cross was headed home by Wanyama to give Spurs the early advantage, and they could have extended their lead before the break had goalkeeper David de Gea not denied Son Heung-min and Kane.\n\nFive minutes into the second half, the hosts doubled their lead. Eriksen's free-kick curled into the path of Kane and he out-smarted defender Chris Smalling to poke home his first goal against United.\n\nSpurs' performance dropped off after that, but they managed to hold on - despite Rooney's goal giving them a scare.\n\nWill United go out on a high?\n\nFour of Man United's five Premier League losses this season have been in games played on a Sunday immediately after a European match.\n\nAnd just like the defeat by Arsenal last weekend, a much-changed Mourinho starting XI put in an average performance in north London.\n\nMartial looked lively in attack but could only curl his best effort wide of the post in the first half.\n\nThe Frenchman instigated his side's goal by ghosting past Kieran Trippier before picking out Rooney, who tapped in from close range.\n\nSubstitute Marcus Rashford went close at the death, but it proved to be too little too late for the visitors.\n\nUnited's focus is firmly on winning the Europa League title - they face Ajax on 24 May - and Mourinho said after Sunday's defeat: \"The most important thing for us now is having one less match to play.\n\n\"We have only one match to play and that's not in the Premier League.\"\n• None Tottenham recorded their 14th consecutive home win in league competition, equalling their club record previously set between January and October 1987.\n• None Spurs have gone unbeaten at home for the first time in a league season since 1964-65\n• None Mauricio Pochettino is the first Spurs manager to oversee consecutive home wins over Manchester United in the Premier League.\n• None Man United suffered back-to-back Premier League defeats for the first time since September 2016 (against Manchester City and Watford).\n\nTottenham boss Pochettino said after his side's win: \"The fans have been fantastic all season. They have helped us a lot during the whole season. It was fantastic, the team played to win.\n\n\"Of course we will miss it a lot because White Hart Lane is special but at the same time we welcome the new stadium.\"\n\nTottenham play Leicester City on Thursday at the King Power Stadium (19:45 BST), before ending the season at relegated Hull City (15:00 BST) on Sunday.\n\nManchester United travel to Southampton on Wednesday (19:45 BST), with their final league game coming at home against Crystal Palace (15:00 BST).\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Michael Carrick tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Michael Carrick with a through ball.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Harry Kane tries a through ball, but Eric Dier is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by Harry Kane.\n• None Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Kyle Walker replaces Kieran Trippier because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nSouth Korean Kim Si-woo produced a faultless round to become the youngest champion at the Players Championship.\n\nKim, 21, shot a three-under-par 69 on the final day at Sawgrass to finish on 10 under and replace Adam Scott as the youngest winner.\n\nEngland's Ian Poulter was tied for the lead at one stage but finished three shots behind in a tie for second with Louis Oosthuizen after a 71.\n\nRafa Cabrera Bello and Kyle Stanley finished tied for fourth on six under.\n• None How Kim held off Poulter and made Players history\n\nAfter his victory in the Wyndham Championship last year, Kim is the fourth player in the last 25 years to win twice on the PGA Tour before the age of 22, following in the footsteps of Tiger Woods, Sergio Garcia and Jordan Spieth.\n\nKim started the final round two shots behind overnight leaders JB Holmes and Stanley while Poulter, chasing a first victory since 2012 and a maiden strokeplay success in the United States, was three behind.\n\nBut with Holmes and Stanley failing to sustain their challenges in blustery conditions, Kim and Poulter both knocked in early birdies to share the lead.\n\nBirdies on the seventh and ninth made the South Korean the first player to reach 10 under par this week and gave him a two-shot lead.\n\nPoulter reduced the deficit to one but then, having gone 39 consecutive holes without a bogey, dropped a shot on the 12th.\n\nThe 41-year-old tried to put Kim under pressure but the putts would not drop and the leader remained agonisingly out of touch.\n\nKim saved par from tricky positions on both the 10th and 11th and safely negotiated the challenge of the water at the 17th with a bold tee shot and two composed putts.\n\nAfter Poulter dropped a shot on the 18th, Kim went on to secure the biggest win of his fledging career with another par.\n\nIt has still been a remarkable week for Poulter, who three weeks ago thought he had lost his PGA Tour card after falling to 197th in the world rankings.\n\nThat was until fellow professional Brian Gay alerted officials to a discrepancy in the points structure used for players competing on major medical extensions.\n\nThe former world number five, who only played 13 tournaments in 2016 because of a foot injury, made the most of his reprieve and will climb back into the top 100 in the new rankings.\n\n\"From being in a position a couple of weeks ago where I wasn't here to finish tied second, it's a good week,\" Poulter told Sky Sports after his best finish since November 2014.\n\n\"It has been a tough 18 months. Today I felt like a couple of putts slid by, but I played well under pressure, barring that horrible second shot on the last.\n\n\"I've enjoyed it and hopefully this is just a stepping stone to pressing on for the rest of this year.\"\n\nAnalysis - Poulter has a platform to build on\n\nIt was a curious Players Championship in that none of the world's top 10 could fashion a top-10 finish, but it still produced its usual share of sporting drama.\n\nKim showed commendable composure down the stretch to become the youngest winner while Poulter will feel this was a victory despite his runner-up finish.\n\nIt has been a torrid time for the Englishman over the last 18 months but this week he showed he remains capable of excellent golf even with a relatively cold putter. Now he has a platform upon which to build for the rest of the year having returned to the world's top 100.\n\nSpain's Cabrera Bello produced a spectacular finish to claim a tie for fourth with Stanley.\n\nCabrera Bello holed out from 181 yards for the first albatross in tournament history on the 16th, then followed that with another two on the 17th, before holing from 35 feet for par on the last after hooking his tee shot into the water.\n\nBut compatriot Sergio Garcia, who started the day well placed on five under, saw his hopes of adding the Players title to his Masters Green Jacket disappear on the outward nine.\n\nHe dropped six shots and made just one birdie to fall back to level par and two double bogeys and three birdies on the back nine meant he finished one over.\n\nFurther down the leaderboard, world number one Dustin Johnson finished outside the top three for just the third time this season in a tie for 12th.\n\nThe American followed rounds of 71, 73 and 74 with a closing 68.\n\nRory McIlroy's week came to a disappointing conclusion with a double-bogey six on the 18th in a closing 75.\n\nThe world number two from Northern Ireland finished two over par in a tie for 35th and is set to undergo an MRI scan later on Monday to determine the extent of an injury which hampered his efforts at Sawgrass.", "Former offenders Bali and Lennox Rodgers now counsel schoolchildren facing exclusion from school\n\nMore children are getting caught carrying knives and makeshift weapons - including rolling pins and beer cans - police in England and Wales say. Here, one woman explains why she took weapons to school as a child.\n\n\"I used anything I could get my hands on,\" says Bali Rodgers, from Dartford in Kent, who had been arrested three times by the age of 11.\n\n\"I didn't take knives but used fists and other things,\" she says.\n\nShe recalls using a shiv - a type of improvised blade - to harm other pupils, and put pins in another girl's shoes.\n\n\"To think now about [what I did then] frightens the life out of me,\" she says. \"I was in total denial at the time.\"\n\nMrs Rodgers finally changed her life after leaving school at 15 and ending up in a psychiatric ward by the age of 21. She now counsels schoolchildren who are on the verge of exclusion from school.\n\nShe says of her own childhood: \"I didn't know any other way,\" she says. \"I ended up hurting others, and myself.\"\n\nThe 49-year-old counsels children in Dartford, Maidstone, Hastings and south-east London, and says many of those she talks with are \"extremely paranoid\" that they will be attacked if they don't have a way of protecting themselves. This is particularly the case with those who have been bullied at some stage.\n\nShe believes pupils are now carrying a bigger variety of weapons - and at a younger age - than in previous school generations.\n\n\"They get their hands on a knife or some object and think 'I'll never use it but carry it just in case',\" she says.\n\n\"I am working with one 14-year-old girl who doesn't fit in at school, but is carrying knives for her boyfriend. It's really sad.\"\n\nA recent Freedom of Information request found an array of dangerous items - including swords, axes and air guns - were among the 2,579 weapons seized in schools in England and Wales in the two years to March 2017.\n\n\"You get the ones in gangs who brag, and see it as a bit of a fashion,\" she says.\n\n\"But it's the silent types who feel vulnerable, so they carry things.\"\n\nShe recalls that her own turbulent childhood - with an alcoholic father and being racially bullied - made her \"constantly violent\" at school.\n\n\"My dad used to threaten me, I was petrified of him,\" she says.\n\nShe ran away from home at 15 but a decade later was taken in by a family in Kent who helped her turn her life around as a young adult.\n\n\"They were a couple, who were missionaries in Africa, and they helped me get a whole new understanding of family, respect, values.\"\n\nShe says that living in a stable home helped her learn that her anger was out of control.\n\n\"That's what's missing for many kids,\" she says. \"If there's no-one at home to talk to, you don't learn to respect teachers or how to control your rage.\"\n\nMrs Rodgers says teachers are \"under more pressure than ever\" and may be unable to deal with pupils who have complex issues at home.\n\nIn an unusual incident three years ago, teacher Ann Maguire was stabbed to death at her school in Leeds by a teenage pupil.\n\nWill Cornick, who was 15 at the time of the murder, later said he had gone to class that day in \"a red mist, not conscious of his surroundings\".\n\nMrs Rodgers now runs a charity, Refocus, with her husband Lennox, who himself carried a knife when he was a teenager.\n\nOrganisations Foundation4Life and UserVoice offer a similar service, by using ex-offenders to speak to young people at risk of turning to crime.\n\n\"Unlike with teachers and parents, these kids open up to us,\" she says. \"I will tell them a little bit about my story if they share a bit of their story.\"\n\nFor husband Lennox, who co-founded the charity in 2004, he thought when he was younger that carrying a knife \"gave me a sense of power\".\n\nHe carried weapons after being bullied for being black when growing up in Oxford.\n\nAfter leaving school, he was involved in gangs and spent two decades in and out of prison.\n\nMrs Rodgers says that young people hang on to every word her 54-year-old husband says when he is talking about his life, but insists that his stories do not glamorise the carrying of weapons.\n\n\"They do think he's cool - but also listen to the dark side of his story - that if you deliberately put yourself on a route of violence you don't succeed and end up in serious trouble,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm hoping we turned some bad into good.\"", "Frank Bostock and his lions catching up with the news\n\nWhen considering which creatures have roamed the sewers beneath Birmingham, lions are unlikely to make the list. But on one fateful day in autumn 1889, a lion who had previously killed a man and mauled another escaped from a menagerie and did just that.\n\nTravelling menageries were extremely popular in the 19th Century. Although zoos were starting to emerge in Britain, these were often socially exclusive or inaccessible, according to Dr Helen Cowie, a historian at the University of York.\n\nPopular though they were, the typical menagerie's approach to health and safety was cavalier at best. Dr Cowie says they \"were not too preoccupied\" with security and there were \"an alarming number\" of escapes and accidents.\n\nAn illustration from The Graphic newspaper shows men pulling a lion from a sewer using a rope while two other men threaten it with guns\n\nFrank C Bostock, the owner of a menagerie, was himself responsible for fooling both the public and the police over the whole lion-in-a-sewer affair. He later described the event as \"thrilling\".\n\nWorld-famous as a lion tamer, having discovered the beasts were intimidated by chairs, he came from a long line of animal-displayers and was part of the Bostock and Wombwell menagerie dynasty.\n\nFiercely ambitious, according to researchers at the National Fairground and Circus Archive, Bostock established himself in the US and by 1903 an average of 16,000 people a day were visiting his menagerie on New York fairground haven Coney Island.\n\nOn returning to the UK Bostock brought back his idea of the \"Jungle\", a massive touring exhibition that moved from city to city.\n\nFrank C Bostock published a volume of his memoirs and training tips\n\nReaching Birmingham, Bostock and his team were preparing for a show when one of his lions jumped over its keeper, pushed through a rip in the circus tent, and prowled off towards Birmingham city centre \"as free and untrammelled as when in his native wilds\".\n\nAccording to Bostock's account of it it his book The Training of Wild Animals, the lion came across one of the openings to the sewerage system and \"down he sprang, looking up at the crowd of people and roaring at the top of his voice. As he made his way through the sewers, he stopped at every man-hole he came to, and there sent up a succession of roars, driving some people nearly wild with terror.\"\n\nLarge crowds had gathered, eager to see the menagerie. Understandably, with a lion on the loose, they started to panic.\n\nSo Bostock came up with a plan.\n\nCrocodiles were seen as a quirky pet for Victorian ladies\n\nIn 1851 a tapir broke out of its den at Wombwell's menagerie in Rochdale, causing panic among the spectators.\n\nIn 1867 a rattlesnake escaped from its box in Mander's menagerie, killing a horse and a bison.\n\nIn 1868 five leopards escaped from a menagerie in the Scottish borders after their caravan overturned on the road.\n\nIn 1883 a bear got loose in Grimsby and entered a private house.\n\nEven elephants sometimes went missing, though they could usually be found in the vicinity of the nearest pub. In 1854 an elephant disappeared from Batty's menagerie in Holyhead and was gone for nearly 24 hours. It was eventually discovered in a hotel cellar, surrounded by empty wine bottles.\n\nBostock toured the world with his menagerie\n\nRather than try to quell the volatile crowd, he put a second lion in a cloth-covered cage and sneaked it out on the back of a lorry.\n\nHe then returned, blowing his horn to attract attention, with the lion clearly visible.\n\nIn his own words, \"everything went off well\".\n\nPeople fell for the ruse and he was cheered as a hero. \"A shout went up from the crowd 'They've got him! They've got him! They've got the lion!'\"\n\nHis actions in apparently getting the lion from the sewer were reported around the world.\n\nA New Zealand newspaper ran an article called \"A lion at large in Birmingham: How the King of the Forest was recaptured\" which included details such as \"the keeper's attention was momentarily distracted by a fight between an ostrich and a deer\" and \"a group of children were in the lion's path. It cleared them at a bound\".\n\nThe publicity worked in Bostock's favour. Hordes of people attended the show that evening, blissfully ignorant of the fact a man-eating lion was prowling beneath the streets.\n\nBostock said he \"was in a perfect bath of cold perspiration, for matters were extremely serious, and I knew not what to do next. Fortunately, the lion had stopped his roaring, and contented himself with perambulating up and down the sewer\".\n\nOn the afternoon of the following day, the chief of police of Birmingham visited the menagerie and congratulated Bostock on his \"marvellous pluck and daring\".\n\nIllustration of men putting a cage over a manhole in an attempt to trap the lion\n\n\"I shall never forget that man's face when he realized that the lion was still in the sewer, it was a wonderful study for any mind-reader,\" he reflected.\n\n\"At first he was inclined to blame me but when I showed him I had probably stopped a panic, and that my own liabilities in the matter were pretty grave possibilities to face, he sympathized with me, and added that any help he could give me, I might have.\n\n\"I at once asked for 500 men of the police force, and also asked that he would instruct the superintendent of sewers to send me the bravest men he could spare, with their top-boots, ladders, ropes, and revolvers with them, so that should the lion appear, any man could do his best to shoot him at sight. We arranged that we should set out at five minutes to midnight, so that we might avoid any crowd following us, and so spreading the report.\n\n\"At the appointed time, the police and sewer-men turned out, and I have never seen so many murderous weapons at one time in my life. Each man looked like a walking arsenal, but every one of them had been sworn to secrecy.\"\n\nThis secrecy was preserved until Bostock himself spilled the beans.\n\nAn illustration of a man and the lion in the sewer\n\nIt was more than 24 hours after the stooge lion was paraded that Bostock, now in the sewer, \"saw two gleaming eyes of greenish-red just beyond, and knew we were face to face with the lion at last\".\n\nBostock and his gang of men chased the lion through the sewers by scaring it with shouts and fireworks.\n\nWhen face-to-face with the lion Bostock took off his boots and put them on his hands \"and going up close to the lion, was fortunately able to hit him a stinging blow on the nose. Fearing that he would split my head open with a blow from one of his huge paws, I told one of my men to place over my head a large iron kettle which we had used to carry cartridges and other things to the sewer\".\n\nBut the kettle fell off his head and startled the lion which \"turned tail like a veritable coward\" and ran into a rope lasso laid out ready to ensnare him.\n\nBostock's recounting of the story in his memoirs concludes, rather smugly, with: \"I got the lion out of the sewer, as the people of Birmingham supposed I did, only their praise and applause were a little previous.\"\n\nHe died aged 46 in 1912, not by the paw of a justifiably-annoyed big cat but from the flu. There's a docile-looking stone lion on his grave.\n\nFrank C Bostock's grave is in Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "When Tom and Elizabeth Flight were told their seven-month-old baby Arlo was in the 90th percentile for height, the 97th percentile for weight and the 99th for head circumference, they began to worry. How big can a baby get and still be considered normal, asks Jordan Dunbar.\n\n\"I'm worried he's one of the biggest babies in America,\" says his father Tom, a 6' 3\" (191cm) Brit who moved to Texas to marry Elizabeth.\n\nAt birth, Arlo weighed seven-and-a-half pounds, but he grew rapidly over the next six months on a diet of breast milk alone.\n\nFor the last month he has been getting formula milk as well from time to time, and he's now more than three times his birth weight - 24lb (11kg). And 30in (76cm) tall.\n\nThe percentile figures come from a growth chart produced by America's Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Every five years the CDC measures hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young adults up to the age of 20, and the resulting charts allow doctors to assess what percentage of children of a given age group are taller or heavier than the patient in front of them.\n\n\"If you line up 100 babies of Arlo's age, from the shortest to the longest. Arlo would be 97,\" says Dr Joe Hagan from the American Academy of Pediatrics, explaining what it means to be in the 97th percentile.\n\n\"If you count head circumference he'd be 99.\"\n\nSo only one in 100 American babies aged seven months has a bigger head circumference than Arlo. Does this matter?\n\nHagan is completely relaxed about it. Head circumference helps doctors to judge whether a baby's brain is developing normally, he says, but the key thing is that the head is in proportion with the rest of the body, and Arlo's is.\n\n\"I would expect at Arlo's weight and height that his head circumference would be in the 99th percentile,\" says Hagan.\n\nThe charts produced by the CDC in the US are based on the measurements of real-life Americans. But over time, American children have been getting bigger, and an increasing number of American children are overweight.\n\nBy contrast the World Health Organization (WHO) has attempted to chart \"optimal growth\" for a child.\n\nTo do this, it measured growing children in six countries: Brazil, Ghana, India, Norway, Oman and the US. But not just any children. They had to be breast-fed from birth, and vaccinated early in life. Babies whose mothers had smoked during pregnancy were not counted.\n\nDr Mercedes De Onis, who helped to gather the data, says the WHO's work shows babies develop at a similar rate all over the world, \"provided they are given proper care\".\n\nThe WHO charts \"describe healthy growth in optimal conditions and are therefore growth standards rather than growth references\", says US paediatrician Joe Hagan.\n\nHe points out that in the US the CDC is now recommending that the WHO charts should be taken as the standard for children in the US between zero and two years old.\n\nWhat about Arlo's weight? Is that a problem?\n\nOnce again, Hagan draws attention to Arlo's height. The key thing to look at is his body mass index, or BMI - his weight in relation to his height.\n\n\"So here's a guy who's tall, he's long. And longer children weigh more,\" says Hagan.\n\n\"Arlo probably has a BMI that is in the mid-80s to low 90s which would be considered overweight.\"\n\nOverweight, but not obese. What's more, Hagan expects that as Arlo makes the transition from milk to solids, and starts moving more, he will even out a little.\n\nSo is there any cause for concern?\n\n\"No, not like this. Because I'm looking at Arlo's dad who's tall and Arlo's mom, who's probably tall, and I'm thinking: 'Gee, this is OK growth for Arlo.'\"\n\nArlo is one of the biggest babies of his age in the US, and as American babies are bigger than the world average, it's also true to say he is one of the biggest in the world.\n\nBut it seems that's fine.\n\n\"I spend a lot of my time in my day-to-day work as a paediatrician telling parents you really don't need to worry about this and about that,\" Hagan says.\n\nParents often compare the size of their child to others, he says, and very often it's his task to reassure them that even if their child is bigger or smaller, there is a \"wide range of normal\".\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChampions League-chasing Arsenal moved within a point of fourth-placed Liverpool with a comfortable Premier League victory over Stoke.\n\nDespite collecting the three points, manager Arsene Wenger faced further protests from his own supporters during the game, as they flew a plane over the Bet365 Stadium and held banners inside the ground calling for him to leave the club.\n\nBut the Frenchman ended the game by receiving warm applause from the club's travelling fans as he made his way down the tunnel at the final whistle.\n\nThe Gunners had not won on their previous six visits to the venue, but took the lead with a well-crafted move as Hector Bellerin picked out Olivier Giroud for a tap-in before Alexis Sanchez combined with Mesut Ozil, who coolly tucked home in the second period.\n\nUntil their opening goal it had been a poor spectacle, with Nacho Monreal heading against the post and Sanchez dragging an effort into the side-netting from a promising position.\n\nStoke controversially restored hope as Peter Crouch converted Marko Arnautovic's cross with his hand, but Sanchez drilled in a low finish and Giroud slid in a fourth for the away side.\n\nBoth Arsenal and Liverpool have two games remaining and are level on goal difference with the Gunners ahead by one on goals scored.\n\nJurgen Klopp's men travel to West Ham on Sunday (kick-off 14:15 BST) and play Middlesbrough on the last day of the season, while the north London club host Sunderland on Tuesday and Everton in their final league match next weekend.\n\nWenger's season has been blighted by protests demanding he end his long association with the club, repeated questions over whether he will sign an extension to his contract, which runs out at the end of the season, and uncertainty over the futures of key players Sanchez and Ozil.\n\nBut he will be pleased with the way his players have responded with the campaign coming to a close, taking five wins from their past six league games - the only blemish a weak display in their defeat by Tottenham.\n\nHe was even afforded a standing ovation at full-time and will be particularly satisfied at triumphing at a venue where his side have struggled in the past, claiming their first win there since 2010.\n\nWenger jumped off his seat and jigged in delight at Sanchez's goal, which gave his team a cushion.\n\nThe Chilean, who has been linked with a move away, hobbled off with a leg injury after scoring and fans will be hoping it is not the last time they see him in an Arsenal shirt.\n\nA season that promised so little at one stage could actually turn into a celebratory one. Their late charge sees them maintain optimism of extending their Champions League participation to 22 consecutive seasons, and they have an FA Cup final against newly crowned Premier League champions Chelsea to look forward to.\n\nStoke's season is petering out with a whimper - they have won just one of their past 10 league games.\n\nThis loss means they will finish in the bottom half for the first time since 2012-13 - their worst season in the Premier League as they finished 13th with 42 points.\n\nAlthough the Potters are in the same position at the moment, they have one fewer point and will be hoping to win their last game of the season at Southampton to end on a high.\n\nEven after pulling a goal back against Arsenal - which should not have stood after Crouch's handball - Stoke did not look like getting anything out of the game with Mame Biram Diouf summing up their performance by nodding wide from just three yards out.\n\nOne goal and one assist, Sanchez is getting back to his best at the right time for Arsenal but handed the Gunners an injury scare by hobbling off shortly after his goal.\n\nArsenal boss Arsene Wenger: \"We had a difficult week but we have won convincingly so the focus is there, the fighting spirit is there and we're pleased to win. I believe when the team plays well we have the right individual talent to win.\n\n\"When they scored the 'hand-goal' they came back but when you go to places like Stoke you need at some stage to suffer and stick together and that is what we did.\"\n\nStoke boss Mark Hughes: \"We had to chase to the game and we have been picked off going the opposite way. Playing for five minutes isn't enough. We needed to ask more questions.\n\n\"We are disappointed as it is always our aim [to finish in the top half of the table]. This is the first time we have missed out. We go against Southampton next week to get points on the board. In the summer we will assess things and maybe change things around.\"\n• None Stoke have shipped 24 goals at home this season - their joint-highest in a single Premier League campaign (same as 2015-16).\n• None Arsenal have scored 4+ goals in five away league games this season. It's their most in a season since 1936-37 (also five).\n• None Sanchez became the eighth player to score 50 Premier League goals for Arsenal, with only Thierry Henry (83 games) and Ian Wright (87) reaching the milestone faster than the Chilean (101).\n• None Sanchez is also the first player to record double figures for both goals (21) and assists (10) in the Premier League this season.\n• None The South American also scored his 15th away goal in the Premier League this season - only Kevin Phillips (16 in 1999-00) has scored more in a single campaign.\n• None Peter Crouch scored his ninth Premier League goal against Arsenal - more than he has against any other opponent in the competition.\n• None Only Wayne Rooney (11) and Robbie Fowler (10) have scored more against the Gunners in the competition.\n• None Since the start of last season, only Ozil (31) and Sanchez (25) have recorded more assists for Arsenal in all competitions than Hector Bellerin (13), with the Spaniard picking up two today.\n• None Attempt blocked. Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Saido Berahino.\n• None Peter Crouch (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Glenn Whelan.\n• None Attempt saved. Geoff Cameron (Stoke City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Substitution, Stoke City. Ramadan Sobhi replaces Marko Arnautovic because of an injury.\n• None Goal! Stoke City 1, Arsenal 4. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City) because of an injury.\n• None Rob Holding (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Olivier Giroud. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "\"I think that you have to be a mathematician\"\n\nPortugal has won this year's Eurovision Song contest with a poignant love song, sung in Portuguese. In the early hours of Sunday morning the winner met the world's press - glass microphone trophy still in hand.\n\nSalvador Sobral entered the Eurovision Song Contest's press room last night with the same diffident, bemused demeanour he has projected since arriving in Kiev.\n\nThere was no swagger, no elation - just a quizzical befuddlement at the latest turn his musical journey had taken.\n\nLike many watching at home around the world, the Lisbon-born 27-year-old had been baffled by the complex voting system that the contest adopted last year.\n\n\"I didn't understand the votes,\" he admitted to reporters. \"I think that you have to be a mathematician or something to know what's going on.\"\n\nThe winner wasn't alone in his confusion\n\nNor did he expect overnight fame and fortune to come with the honour of becoming Portugal's first Eurovision winner.\n\n\"I don't think anything will change,\" he shrugged. \"You win today and tomorrow, no one remembers it.\n\n\"Honestly, man, I just want to live a peaceful life,\" he told another journalist.\n\n\"If I thought of myself as a national hero or champion of Europe, it would be a bit weird.\"\n\nEven in such an eclectic line-up as the one Eurovision served up this year, Sobral stood apart.\n\nWhile some countries offered amusing gimmicks (Romanian yodelling, Italy's dancing gorilla) and others sleek, assembly-line pop, his delicate, heartfelt ballad stood out precisely because it was so unassuming.\n\nWritten by Sobral's older sister Luisa, Amar Pelos Dois - whose title translates into English as Love for Both of Us - speaks to all genders and orientations with its inclusive, unadorned message.\n\nA family affair: Salvador's sister Luisa wrote the song for him\n\nSobral said he would be delighted if its Eurovision triumph had some impact, however small, on how music is made, produced and marketed.\n\n\"People listen to songs because they're thrown at you,\" he said. \"You have to like this because we're going to play it 16 times a day and force you to like it.\n\n\"This is music with content, an emotional song with a beautiful lyrical message and harmony - things people are not used to listening these days.\n\n\"If I can help to bring some change to music I would be really joyful,\" he said, dressed as ever in a modest dark suit.\n\n\"And I hope it will encourage people to bring different things and all sorts of music to future editions of this contest.\"\n\n\"We're going to play it 16 times a day and force you to like it,\" he said of the music business\n\nThose future editions could learn much from this year, which offered audiences a spectacular, entertaining and endlessly quirky diversion.\n\nFor a contest whose slogan was \"celebrate diversity\", though, it was surprising more thought was not given to basic areas of presentation.\n\nThe final and the two semi-finals that preceded it were hosted by a trio of white male TV presenters who are all well-known in host nation Ukraine.\n\nCommentator Graham Norton and one of his Australian counterparts were not alone in remarking that the line-up was hardly indicative of the contest's stated aim.\n\nFor the millions watching at home, however, it was the variety, the colour and the craziness that made it unmissable Saturday night viewing.\n\nIn keeping with Eurovision tradition, Portugal will host the 2018 iteration of an event that continues to unify Europe in a way politics never can or will.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Damien MacRae and his son, Aiden, have made their toys sun-smart\n\nAs he endured radiotherapy, Damien MacRae found playing Lego with his seven-year-old son, Aiden, was one way to block out the pain.\n\nThe pair built spaceships, pirate galleons and fortresses in their Sydney home following the discovery of melanoma on Mr MacRae's ear three years ago.\n\nBut in the piles of interlocking plastic bricks, Aiden could not find pieces to create an Australian beach. His father soon realised none existed.\n\nSo the two decided to conceive their own, in what would become a very personal mission.\n\nCancer has since spread to Mr MacRae's lungs and brain. Last month in a Facebook message, he told friends that his brain tumours had multiplied.\n\n\"Unfortunately, my doctors say that I have 6-10 weeks left to live. Six months would be a miracle,\" he wrote in the post on 14 April.\n\n\"Obviously this has made me focus on spending as much time as I can with family and friends.\"\n\nMr MacRae asked for help in realising his \"one dying wish\": to get Lego to consider making Surf Lego Rescue, the idea invented on Aiden's bedroom floor.\n\nFirst they would need 10,000 votes on a Lego concepts website.\n\n\"I think everyone gets why this project has become so important to me and Aiden,\" Mr MacRae told his friends.\n\nThe total was reached within days, meaning the project will be considered. Mr MacRae said he had never seen his son more excited.\n\n\"To see him dancing and smiling because of this, I've never been prouder,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"It's the happiest I've seen him in a long time.\"\n\nThe father and son had spent hours talking about their ideas, taking inspiration from Australia's iconic Surf Life Saving volunteer group. They ordered custom-made toys from a company in London.\n\n\"The Lego universe doesn't have much that reflects Australian culture,\" Mr MacRae said.\n\n\"There is a Sydney Opera House toy set but not much else.\"\n\nTheir collection captures a sense of fun at the beach, but it also highlights the dangers of sun exposure.\n\nThe lifeguard characters are named after celebrities who had skin cancer scares, such as Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. All wear sunscreen and hats.\n\nOne of the leading causes of melanoma is a history of sunburn, especially in childhood\n\nThe colours of the toys pay tribute to Australia's volunteer lifeguards\n\nThe set also includes surfers, a lifeboat, a jet ski, a quad bike, seagulls, a jellyfish and a shark-patrolling drone.\n\n\"I'm not a Lego designer at all,\" Mr MacRae laughed. \"I'm a 42-year-old intellectual property lawyer.\"\n\nThe Danish company will decide soon if it will produce the set. If it does, it is likely to take at least 10 months before sale.\n\n\"What a fantastic project, depicting an action-packed day at the beach, full of thoughtful and playable details,\" a Lego spokeswoman said.\n\nAustralia's Financial Review newspaper reported that Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, whose family owns Lego, had been personally moved by the campaign.\n\nAiden's favourite figure has been given his name\n\nSince 2010, 19 projects from the Lego Ideas platform have been made - such as Women of Nasa.\n\n\"They've been really generous with their kind words and indicated they will take my illness into consideration when they're doing the review,\" Mr MacRae said.\n\nBut Mr MacRae knows that time is running out.\n\n\"Getting to 10,000 votes was my goal,\" he said. \"And the possibility that I could leave a legacy for Aiden.\"\n\n\"To know that he can take ideas that he's come up with, on the bedroom floor, and take it out to the world.\"", "Rajasthan's Royal Red Tent is as tall as a double-decker bus, made from silk, velvet and gold - and it's getting its first proper clean in more than three centuries, says Melissa Van Der Klugt.\n\nHigh up on the ramparts of Mehrangarh, in one of Rajasthan's most famous forts - one of the most visited in India - a small team is dusting down a large tent.\n\nEach section is so big that the three conservationists - dressed in neat white overalls and equipped with pocketfuls of soft brushes - must clamber around on tables and chairs. \"The priority is the object,\" says one, pointing to the elaborate design of lotus flowers stitched in solid gold thread.\n\nFor this is no ordinary tent - but one that excites huge interest and controversy in India. It was once thought to have been the home of Shah Jahan, the great 17th-Century Mughal emperor who built the Taj Mahal.\n\nHis nomadic ancestors rode down from Central Asia and Afghanistan to conquer swathes of India - and this was his \"travelling palace\".\n\nMade in imperial workshops from exquisite red silk velvet and gold, it stands when unfurled at 4m (13ft) - as high as a London double-decker bus. It's known as the Lal Dera, or the Shahi Lal Dera - the Royal Red Tent.\n\nAnd it's being given its first proper spring clean in 350 years.\n\n\"There is no surviving piece like it in India or anywhere,\" says Karni Singh Jasol, the director of the fort's archive in Jodhpur. \"The idea was that it had to have all the luxury of a painted stone palace.\"\n\nShah Jahan was nicknamed \"the Builder of the Marvels\" - he ordered up some of Delhi and Agra's finest monuments - but spent most of his three decades in power on military campaigns.\n\nOne hundred elephants, 500 camels, 400 carts and teams of bearers were once needed to carry the emperor's camping equipment as he roved across plains and jungles with tens of thousands of horsemen.\n\n\"In his tent,\" says Jasol, \"there would be cushions and bolsters and a bed, and objects like hookahs or wine flasks and jewellery cases.\"\n\nPorters carried porcelain for the emperor's table. He was said to travel at a leisurely 10 to 12 miles (15 to 18km) a day, pausing to hunt cheetah or deer.\n\nThe Mughals were used to erecting these temporary cities, says Jasol. Shah Jahan's great-great grandfather, the first emperor, Babur, who arrived in India from Afghanistan, once boasted he had never spent any two Ramadans in the same place.\n\nOne encampment contained so many scribes, harems, court officials and workshops churning out leather goods and artwork that an astounded British ambassador wrote that it must be the same size as Elizabethan London.\n\nThe Rent Tent was believed to have been looted during a battle, whose victors, the rulers of Jodhpur, took it back to their fort, Mehrangarh, in the sun-baked Thar desert. And there it has remained.\n\nImmaculately dressed in a Nehru waistcoat and cravat, Jasol now presides over the vaulted archives within Mehrangarh's thick stone walls. They house thousands of precious artefacts and documents, often requested for exhibition abroad.\n\nArt historians now argue over whether the Red Tent belonged to Shah Jahan or his ruthless son, Aurangzeb - who put his own father under house arrest.\n\n\"But it is still our rarest and most prized object,\" says Jasol. All other Mughal tents of the same size have been dismantled and the pieces scattered.\n\nIt began to show its age. \"It was on display in one of the galleries here,\" says Jasol. \"But every morning the staff would see a sort of gold dust… There was a lot of stress on the velvet and the brocade so we put it into storage to rest.\"\n\nIts conservation is part of a bigger project to revamp the museum to appeal to India's booming domestic tourist market.\n\nWhen Mehrangarh opened as a museum in 1974, most visitors were British or American. \"All the rooms had been locked up and only the temples had been active,\" recalls Jasol. \"I remember the first director describing how it was full of bats and bat droppings.\"\n\nNow Indian visitors - curious about their history - have overtaken foreigners.\n\nThe Red Tent's big clean is being carried out by team of three conservators. \"The effort that went into making it shows the dedication to the emperor,\" says one, Shakshi Gupta, peering at the fabric through a magnifying glass.\n\n\"Velvet these days might last just 20 years if you are lucky. This kind of labour and intricate weaving by hand would be too expensive.\"\n\nThe women are living in rooms at the fort for the next year. \"It was a little spooky at first sleeping here,\" Shakshi says. \"If the walls of this tent could talk, they must have seen so much.\"\n\nPhotos by Gareth Phillips except where otherwise stated.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nSaracens director of rugby Mark McCall says his side can still improve despite securing back-to-back European titles.\n\nSarries beat Clermont Auvergne 28-17 at Murrayfield on Saturday to remain on course for an historic 'double-double' of continental and English crowns.\n\nTheir quest continues with a trip to Exeter in the first of next Saturday's Premiership semi-finals.\n\n\"If we're hungry enough and humble enough, then there's no reason why we can't get better,\" McCall said.\n\n\"The age profile of the group is good and the manner in which we won was encouraging.\"\n\nIf they overcome Exeter next Saturday, Saracens will face either Wasps or Leicester in the Premiership final at Twickenham on Saturday 27 May.\n\n'It will be a sad day when I leave'\n\nSaracens winger Chris Ashton opened the scoring in the 13th minute with his 37th try in the competition, setting a new European cup try-scoring record in the process.\n\nHe raced on to Alex Goode's precise grubber kick for his historic try, and was quick to praise his team-mates when asked about the record.\n\n\"I won't lie, I'm pretty happy about it,\" he said. \"But I think a lot of it is down to the group I've been playing with the last five years.\n\n\"It's nice for my name to be up there but a lot of the credit belongs to this club.\"\n\nThe former England winger ends his five years at Saracens in the summer to join French Top 14 side Toulon, and he confessed to feeling sad about his departure.\n\n\"I am going to miss it. I've had five amazing years here,\" he said. \"I've had unbelievable highs and definitely some lows along there.\n\n\"The support I've had from the players and the coaching staff has been phenomenal, so it will be a sad day when I do leave.\"\n\n'We never feel like the finished article'\n\nGoode scored the try which all but secured Saracens' second European crown and has shone again on the European stage this season.\n\nThe 28-year-old - like Ashton - has been overlooked by England, with the last of his 21 caps coming in a rare start as full-back against Fiji in 2016.\n\nBut last season's Premiership player of the season is enjoying club rugby.\n\n\"We have a young squad and one that is very hungry to keep improving,\" he said. \"It was a joy to be on the field with the rest of the team.\n\n\"The strength of the group is that we are constantly looking to improve and get better and we never feel like we are the finished article.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLiverpool beat West Ham at London Stadium to move back into third place as striker Daniel Sturridge scored his first goal since January.\n\nPhilippe Coutinho's sublime pass on the half-hour mark cut open the Hammers defence and picked out an unmarked Sturridge who went around goalkeeper Adrian before slotting home.\n\nThe Brazilian then scored two of his own after the break before Divock Origi fired in a fourth to complete the Liverpool procession.\n\nVictory against Middlesbrough on the final day of the season will guarantee Liverpool a Champions League place in 2017-18.\n\nThere were chances for both sides in a frenetic opening but as both teams settled in the London sun, it was Liverpool's Brazilian magician who turned up the gears and once again orchestrated a Liverpool victory.\n\nSturridge, starting for the first time since January, christened his return with a goal as Liverpool dominated possession throughout.\n\nWest Ham endured a testing afternoon with Andre Ayew missing the easiest of chances at 1-0, before being left frustrated by some calamitous defending and a refereeing decision.\n\nIt was an unhappy end to their first season at London Stadium as the home supporters flooded the exits before the final whistle and left the players to do their lap of honour in front of empty seats.\n\nAfter a stumble last week against Southampton - a game devoid of chances - the Liverpool attack were back at full throttle in the capital on Sunday.\n\nThe Reds began the day in fourth, having been leapfrogged by Manchester City, knowing two wins would guarantee third place.\n\nAnd with the pressure firmly on, Jurgen Klopp's side produced one of their most commanding performances of the season in a wholly one-sided affair.\n\nCoutinho, playing in a slightly deeper position, was the master of it all with an assist for the opener and two goals of his own.\n\nThe playmaker produced an exquisite pass from behind the halfway line for the opener as Sturridge evaded the offside trap and rolled home a tidy finish.\n\nAnd after the break it was the Brazilian who once again turned up the heat.\n\nGeorginio Wijnaldum's thunderbolt pinged back off the bar and Coutinho was the first to pounce before driving home after a quick Liverpool counter-attack.\n\nThe Hammers woes were compounded when goalkeeper Adrian flapped at a high ball and Origi drilled in a fourth.\n\nWest Ham's final home game of the season was a microcosm of their first campaign at London Stadium - one which began full of hope but ultimately ended in frustration.\n\nHaving effectively ended London rivals Tottenham's title change last week, their supporters could have been forgiven for expecting another performance.\n\nAnd the home side started the better as Sam Bryam fired a free shot wide from inside the area.\n\nHaving fallen behind, the Hammers should have been level at the break - but Ayew from a corner drilled the ball against the base of the post from two yards, before repeating the feat with the rebound.\n\nThe Hammers were further frustrated at Liverpool's third goal - Wijnaldum appeared to catch Winston Reid with his elbow earlier in the move - but play continued with Reid down and Liverpool scored seconds later.\n\nWest Ham have clocked up seven home victories at their new home - just two less than in their final season at Upton Park.\n\nBut they've now suffered eight home defeats, compared to just three in 2015-16 season.\n\nHampered by a string of injuries, Sturridge has struggled for form this season and has seen himself fall down Jurgen Klopp's pecking order.\n\nBut after a substitute appearance against Southampton, he was handed a first start since January and was clinical in front of goal.\n\nThe 27-year-old - who has made just 19 Premier League appearances in 2016-17 and scored three goals - has been linked with a move away from Anfield this summer.\n\nHe remained quiet about his Liverpool future following the game, but insisted he does not have any worries about next season.\n\nWest Ham manager Slaven Bilic: \"It was a very difficult season, a very long one. We had many, many obstacles. We needed time to adjust to the stadium but we knew we would.\n\n\"We had too many injuries throughout the season, that's why I would like to give credit to the players.\n\n\"I think we will benefit long term from this season and from the knowledge and experience.\"\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: \"It was a fantastic game but difficult. At the end it was amazing but the start was not that good.\n\n\"We scored some really nice goals but in the first half West Ham had big, big chances - especially to equalise before half-time.\n\n\"It was really unlucky for West Ham, but it was really lucky from our position. West Ham have not had too much luck this season.\n\nOn the final game of the season against Middlesbrough, Klopp added: \"Middlesbrough have nothing to lose but we have everything to lose.\n\n\"The first thing the boys said in the dressing room - and I didn't have to tell them - was 'one more game'.\n\n\"If we win we deserve to be in the Champions League. If not we don't deserve it.\"\n\nLiverpool love the capital - stats you need to know\n• None Liverpool have now won at 52 different grounds in the Premier League, more than any other side in the competition (Arsenal and Manchester United next on 50).\n• None West Ham suffered their joint-worst home defeat in the Premier League, losing by a four-goal margin for the third time this season (also 1-5 v Arsenal and 0-4 v Manchester City).\n• None The Reds have won four of five four Premier League games in London this season (drew one), going unbeaten in the capital across an entire league season for the first time since in 1988-89.\n• None This is the first time since 1998-99 that the Hammers have conceded four or more goals in four different home games in a single league season.\n• None Philippe Coutinho was directly involved in three goals in a single game for Liverpool for the first time (two goals and one assist).\n• None All three of Philippe Coutinho's Premier League braces have come in London (also v Chelsea in Oct 2015 and Arsenal in Aug 2016).\n• None Liverpool's 11 shots on target were the most that West Ham have faced in a Premier League game this season and the most since November 2015 (v Tottenham, 12).\n\nWest Ham finish their season away at Burnley at 15:00 BST on Sunday, 21 May while Liverpool host Middlesbrough needing three points to guarantee Champions League football in 2017-18.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Philippe Coutinho tries a through ball, but James Milner is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Robert Snodgrass (West Ham United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Sofiane Feghouli with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Divock Origi (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Adam Lallana.\n• None Goal! West Ham United 0, Liverpool 4. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum.\n• None Attempt missed. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt saved. Adam Lallana (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Daniel Sturridge.\n• None Attempt missed. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Dolly Parton sings that \"you're just a step on the boss-man's ladder\" - not much motivation for workin' nine to five.\n\nSo how can the modern office attract people to tumble outta bed and commute into work, especially when many employees could simply turn on their laptop and get things done? And how can that office make you more productive?\n\nOne idea, popular among new technology companies, is to mix work and play.\n\nStroll around the London headquarters of peer-to-peer money transfer service TransferWise in Shoreditch, London, and you see scooters, a hammock and, would you believe, one of these:\n\nCompanies like this say such an office helps create a culture where staff enjoy coming to work, and are more productive as a result. For others, office perks like a sauna are simply a load of hot air.\n\nTwenty-somethings might enjoy the perks, says Clare Coatman, of trade union body the TUC, but they must be in addition to, rather than instead of, decent pay and conditions.\n\n\"Compare the cost of buying a ping-pong table to offering a living wage, rather than a minimum wage, and you start to cut through to the reality,\" she says.\n\n\"Perks are nice, but they do not pay the bills.\"\n\nTaavet Hinrikus, founder and chief executive of TransferWise, says the aim of his firm's offices around the world is to \"create an environment for people to do their best work\".\n\nFinding a premises that allowed everyone to work on the same floor was important, he says. After that, many of the ideas of how to furnish it came from the staff themselves.\n\nThe overwhelming view, and the resulting set-up, was a mix of areas that suited certain tasks. Various soundproofed phone booths are dotted around. There are traditional desks, soft seating (\"the padded cell\") and a kitchen with background music. Friday's playlist included Gregorian chant and the Bee Gees (separately).\n\n...table tennis next to the staff kitchen...\n\n...and adult scooters to get around the office\n\nSpeaking in the Magic Roundabout meeting room, Inez Miedema, head of affiliates and partnerships at TransferWise, admits that her parents - during a tour of the office - saw people playing a football computer game and questioned whether any work actually got done.\n\nUltimately each team has performance indicators to ensure they are doing a good job and those failing to do so will be challenged.\n\nThe trendy office and flexibility at work helps to attract talent, she says, but it is far from the only attraction, not least pay.\n\nThere is a keen eye cast over competitors and similar businesses to benchmark the competitiveness of salaries. As the business has grown in size, so has the package of other benefits offered to staff.\n\nThe TUC's Clare Coatman says young people really want job security and pay progression - much the same as any other generation of workers. No matter how trendy the office, their focus was still on the job, not on the jest.\n\nA report by accountancy firm PwC said career progression was the top priority for \"millennials\" - the term typically applied to those born between 1980 and 1999 - who expected to rise rapidly through an organisation. Some 52% of those asked said this was the main attraction in an employer, coming ahead of competitive salaries in second place (44%).\n\nThe trouble is, says Ms Coatman, that they have very low expectations of the workplace. This theory was echoed in a recent poll commissioned by the RSA which suggested that fewer than one in 10 workers thought that \"all work was fair and decent\".\n\nAs a result younger workers may choose to move to another job, rather than fight to improve the terms of their current roles, Ms Coatman says.\n\nPhilip Ross says the modern office needs to be fluid\n\nA small, start-up tech firm can quite easily make their office attractive to the young worker, but what about bigger, more traditional companies?\n\nMany staff can carry the contents of their desk around with them, usually digitally on a laptop, says Philip Ross, founder and chief executive of UnWork.com, which promotes new ways of working.\n\nYoung tech-savvy staff, particularly, can work anywhere so why bother getting on a packed bus or sit in a traffic jam to get to a chicken-coop office?\n\n\"As a place for people, both employees and clients, it has to work hard to pull people in - there needs to be a compelling reason to come to work,\" UnWork says in a report about a recent project for a business in New York.\n\nThe office priorities for staff were \"air quality, daylight, good acoustics, great coffee and food\". The motivation for the business was a 30% cut in property costs per person, by using the space more efficiently.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What did the \"office of the future\" look like in years gone by?\n\nSome of the vocabulary about modern offices - such as \"app-centric workplace\" and \"collision coefficient\" - may raise eyebrows among your average office worker.\n\nYet, the logic behind the lexicon is worth a closer look.\n\nMr Ross says that offices should allow people to move around and work with those engaged in the same \"activities\". The design of a building should encourage people to communicate in person, rather than by email or in formal meetings.\n\nMeanwhile, an office app may suggest who in an organisation is free for lunch at the same time. Then, it will point out which of them are working on a similar project. Alternatively it may highlight that some have the same interests, such as running marathons, and match-make them for lunch.\n\nHowever, Mr Ross argues that, among tech start-ups in particular, there has been a \"rush to collaboration\". The trend towards shared space means it can be difficult to find anywhere for staff to quietly get work done on their own.\n\nIn the end, he says, there needs to be areas of an office to fit different types of work.\n\nThat, it seems, may even include a sauna in the corner.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It was the weekend when matters at the top and bottom of the Premier League were finalised.\n\nAntonio Conte's Chelsea beat West Brom to become Premier League champions thanks to substitute Michy Batshuayi's late winning goal.\n\nAt the bottom, Hull were relegated back down to the Championship with a whimper after being thrashed by Crystal Palace, joining Middlesbrough and Sunderland in the second tier next season.\n\nLiverpool trounced West Ham to move up to third and keep their Champions League destiny in their own hands, but there were wins for Manchester City and Arsenal too.\n\nDo you agree with my selection or would you go for a different team? Why not pick your own team of the week from the shortlist selected by BBC Sport journalists and share it with your friends?\n\nYou cannot win Premier League titles without having an outstanding goalkeeper. Last season, Courtois found life difficult at Stamford Bridge and Chelsea paid a hefty price. This season the Belgium international has been immense.\n\nAgainst West Brom, Courtois made a crucial save in the early exchanges to stop Salomon Rondon from opening his account. Such a start for the Blues would have been a nightmare but Courtois was bang in form and stuck to his task brilliantly throughout.\n\nOnly Arsenal now stand between Chelsea and a league and FA Cup double but Courtois is a world-class keeper and domestic doubles are fine but for him it must be about Champion League titles.\n\nIf you are going to score your first goal for the club you might as well make it memorable. You are away from home, desperately needing a win in order for your team's campaign to remain on track and you come up with your best strike of the season.\n\nThe look on Kyle Naughton's face when his shot screamed past Sunderland goalkeeper Jordan Pickford was as though he had just won the lottery. That said, Swansea survived this relegation battle to stay in the Premier League and it will feel like it.\n\nSwans manager Paul Clement continues to inject great belief in his players. I distinctly remember a pundit claiming that Clement was lucky to have got the job in the first place. Admittedly, his dalliance with Derby County ended badly and his reputation as a coach is currently better than his credentials has a manager but Clement has brought something quite unique with him to the club.\n\nAlongside first team coach Claude Makelele - who you would have thought has bigger fish to fry - there appears to be a mental strength matched with a certain courage I have not witnessed amongst Swansea players since the days of Brendan Rodgers. We all need a little luck every now and then but it would seem Paul Clement and Swansea are making their own.\n\nWhat a season this player has had. I remember him starting his career at Chelsea and having to play as a left-back. He coped brilliantly well considering he was naturally right-footed and while he solved the club's left-sided problem post Ashley Cole, he could not really show his true potential.\n\nSince the arrival of Antonio Conte, Cesar Azpilicueta has not merely shown his true potential but realised it. The versatile defender produced a world-class performance against West Brom at The Hawthorns and what a time to do it. He was imperious in defence and creative in attack. It was Azpilicueta's cross that provided the opening for Michy Batshuayi to slide the ball home.\n\nWhat he was doing so far up the field in open play tells you all you need to know about the commitment and desire of the Spain international. However, when you study his season, he has been ever present and quietly got on with his job. This was a brilliant performance by a player who has become a world-class defender under Conte.\n\nThis was the player who originally arrived at Stamford Bridge in a blaze of glory and left with his tail between his legs. I remember his first game against Fulham when he had a fantastic debut and scored the most impressive goal. However, Italian manager Carlo Ancelotti's second season in charge didn't turn out too well for Chelsea and David Luiz seemed to take the blame for the demise.\n\nA spell away from the Bridge taught him that when you are a top-class defender, you don't have to do anything out of the ordinary to prove it - just defend. That is precisely what he did against a West Brom side desperate to rain on Chelsea's parade and has been doing since his return. The Brazilian has been magnificent for the Blues this season.\n\nNo lollipops, or rabonas, but he did everything in his power to protect his goalkeeper. Who would have thought that simple, good old-fashioned defending would win you titles in the modern era.\n\nThe screams of delight by Victor Moses as he embraced Batshuayi after the striker secured victory at The Hawthorns was a compelling sight. Here were two young men who had just realised they had won the Premier League title and at the same time embedded themselves into Chelsea folklore. Did either of them ever think at the beginning of this season that they would be sharing in such a momentous occasion? I doubt it. Yet here they were revelling in the moment.\n\nMoses has been a revelation for Chelsea this season, partly due to his ability to adapt to a system few thought would be successful in the Premier League never mind win the title, and the consummate manner in which he has made the position his own. Moses could have won the Chelsea the title himself when he brought a fantastic one-handed save from Ben Foster.\n\nSir Winston Churchill said \"we have a small time for celebration\" immediately after the Second World War and I fear Antonio Conte has even less time to prepare Chelsea for the demands of European football and a relentless season ahead. Moses has now won a Premier League title and I would not bet against him adding a Champions League medal to his collection very soon.\n\nThis was another sparkling performance by the Brazilian and it takes Liverpool a step closer to that elusive Champions League spot. I dread to think what Reds manager Jurgen Klopp would have done without the services of Coutinho.\n\nNevertheless, they have the Brazilian star and he has been superb this season. Players like Xabi Alonso and Steven Gerrard have been instrumental in creating special Liverpool teams. Well, this current team is not that special but Coutinho is and Klopp must protect him.\n\nThe flags were waving and the fans singing and that was before Victor Wanyama added to the carnival atmosphere at White Hart Lane. The cross by Ben Davies was only matched by the glorious header from the Kenya international. Spurs would have gone on and knocked Manchester United clean out of the park but for some sound goalkeeping by David de Gea, the best in the world in my opinion.\n\nWanyama has spent most of the season overshadowed by some wonderful performances from Christian Eriksen but the Denmark international found himself playing second fiddle to an authoritative Wanyama bossing events in midfield. Tottenham deserved this victory but chants from the United fans stating Spurs \"nearly won the league\" is a timely reminder of what the really big clubs consider important.\n\nHow interesting. There have been two performances by Ross Barkley that have stood out for me. His game against Burnley where he was outstanding and at the heart of a superb Everton victory, and against Watford on Friday when he came off 10 minutes from time to a standing ovation. On both occasions, the England international had, for one reason or another, a very difficult week preceding the respective fixtures.\n\nThe first issue subjected Barkley to tawdry remarks in a national newspaper while the second matter was the ultimatum given to him by his manager Ronald Koeman. Sign your contract or leave seems to be the message. When a manager gives a player an ultimatum like that he better hold all the aces. But in this case, Koeman does not because if the rumours are true and Spurs are interested in Barkley, then the player has the perfect get-out clause.\n\nWhatever the outcome of this contractual situation, it is in Barkley's best interests not to wait for bad news to spark him into providing his best performances but to start creating the news himself. That is what the best players do and if he does go to Spurs, which I think is quite possible, he will be expected to do just that.\n\nRegardless of whether Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger goes or stays, it will not have the same bearing on the club should they lose Alexis Sanchez. Not only is the Chilean a genuinely world-class footballer, he is the inspiration behind the team and has been for the best part of this season. His performance against Southampton in midweek, not to mention his goal, was simply superb.\n\nHe then turns up at Stoke on Saturday, no place for the faint-hearted, and destroys them. Sanchez's link-up play with Mesut Ozil, when the German is in the mood, is like watching Trevor Brooking and Kevin Keegan when they played for England - they just know where each other is. It clear to me that Arsenal Football Club have some big decisions to make about who stays and who goes. For my money, Sanchez stays. You can work the rest out.\n\nI could not believe my eyes when Gabriel Jesus took the ball and insisted that he was going to take the penalty against Leicester on Saturday. Like every decent senior professional, who sees the next generation with the confidence to take command of a situation, Yaya Toure gave way to youth. Why shouldn't the twice former African player of the year be magnanimous in such circumstances? When you have had the sort of career Toure has had, the least he can be is gracious.\n\nRegardless, Jesus seemed absolutely determined to make a statement. Sitting on the bench, of course, was Sergio Aguero, a world-class striker, even by Alan Shearer's standards. It was clear to see Jesus had to make the point to Aguero and manager Pep Guardiola that he is ready to assume the mantle of top dog. Putting the ball into the back of the net was tantamount to making that point.\n\nWhat was interesting was the way Toure and his team-mates gathered round Jesus to congratulate him on converting the penalty almost like a graduation moment. The players were not entirely sure he would pass the test but mighty relieved that he did. Based on what I saw it looks like, Jesus might be the future and Aguero the past.\n\nA lot has been said about Mesut Ozil. Love him or hate him - and I love him - there is no denying he is a wonderful footballer. Is he in the right team? Probably not. A player with his talent would be more appreciated at a club like Tottenham. Now at this moment I may have Arsenal fans foaming at the mouth at the very thought of Ozil defecting to White Hart Lane but frankly it is a better fit.\n\nWhen Sol Campbell decided to move to Arsenal from Spurs it was because the player was desperate to win trophies. A perfectly acceptable position for a professional footballer to take and a fact that Spurs fans have never been able to come to terms with. However, Ozil's style of football is perfect for Spurs and he has already won things with Arsenal. His overall performance against Stoke, which is always a hard nut to crack, was superb while his goal was sublime.\n\nOnly at Spurs will the fans accommodate players like Ozil. You see, at Spurs it is all about the football while at Arsenal it is all about the winning.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nGeraint Thomas' hopes of winning the Giro d'Italia suffered a major blow as he was involved in a crash caused by a police motorbike 15km from the finish on stage nine, which was won by Colombia's Nairo Quintana.\n\nTeam Sky's Thomas, second at the start of the day, finished over five minutes behind new race leader Quintana.\n\nFellow Brit Adam Yates, who started in third, was also involved in the crash.\n\n\"It's ridiculous and shouldn't happen,\" said Thomas, who will continue to race.\n\n\"It could have been a lot worse,\" added the 30-year-old. \"We lost five minutes but I felt like I lost three or four of those on the side of the road.\n\n\"There are still stages to go for and we might still be able to move up into the top 10 or better.\"\n\nThe Welshman revealed his shoulder had \"popped out\" but later added: \"I've had worse crashes. My shoulder is sore but it's nothing I can't deal with. There's a lot more racing to be had so we'll get stuck in.\"\n\nThomas will have an X-ray on Monday to \"tick all the boxes\" and make sure \"everything is alright and then just rest up\".\n\nColombian Quintana now leads the overall standings after a dominant display.\n\nThe Movistar rider finished 24 seconds ahead of Frenchman Thibaut Pinot and Dutchman Tom Dumoulin, to take the race lead from Luxembourg's Bob Jungels.\n\nThe 2014 winner attacked with six kilometres to go as the stage approached the summit of the steep Blockhaus climb and looked in a class of his own as he raced clear.\n\nThe police motorbike was stopped at the side of the road and Dutchman Wilco Kelderman was unable to avoid it, hitting the officer with his shoulder.\n\nThat caused him to swerve to his right into the Sky riders, who were in a line in the peloton, and resulted in the majority of the British-based team being brought down.\n\n\"I'm a bit angry at the minute,\" said Thomas, who has dropped to 17th in the standings, five minutes and 14 seconds behind Quintana.\n\n\"The bike had just stopped on the side of the road, we were all racing for position and someone in front of me hit it and we had nowhere to go, we all went straight down.\n\n\"I had felt good and then I crashed and my race was over, it is very disappointing.\"\n\nTeam Sky principal Sir Dave Brailsford told Eurosport: \"A motorbike shouldn't have been there. I'm sure the guy who was riding the motorbike realises that too.\n\n\"We fight on. That's it.\"\n\nTeam Orica-Scott rider Yates is now in 16th place, four minutes and 49 seconds off the leader.\n\nThere is a rest day on Monday, before Tuesday's stage 10, a 39.8km individual time trial from Foligno to Montefalco.\n\nOverall classification after stage nine", "It's a mystery that has intrigued Norway for nearly 50 years.\n\nIn November 1970, the badly burnt body of a woman was found in a remote spot in Norway's Isdalen valley.\n\nSomeone had cut the labels off her clothes, and scraped distinctive marks off her belongings - as if to stop her from being identified.\n\nAnd as police started investigating her death, they uncovered a trail of coded messages, disguises, and fake identities - but never cracked the case.\n\nForty-six years later, Norwegian police and NRK journalists have decided to reopen the investigation.\n\nThis is the story of the Isdal Woman - and the perplexing trail of clues she left behind.\n\nWARNING: This article contains one graphic image\n\nClue one: The body in 'Death Valley'\n\nIsdalen Valley is a short drive from the west-coast city of Bergen\n\nOn the morning of 29 November 1970, a man and his two young daughters see a body in Isdalen Valley.\n\nThe corpse is sprawled across some rocks - with its arms extended in a \"boxer\" position, typical of bodies that have been burnt.\n\nIsdalen is known to some locals as \"Death Valley\" - it was a site where people committed suicide in medieval times, and, in the 1960s, some hikers had fallen to their deaths while trekking in the fog.\n\nBut the woman does not appear to be a normal hiker.\n\n\"It was out of the way - it was an unusual place to walk,\" Carl Halvor Aas, a police lawyer who was one of the first officers to be called to the scene, recounts to the BBC.\n\n\"The body was burned all over the front,\" including \"the face and most of her hair\", he says - but strangely it was not burnt on the back.\n\n\"It looked like she had thrown herself back\" from a fire, he says, adding that she was so badly burnt they could not imagine what she originally looked like.\n\nThis is believed to be the spot where the Isdal Woman was found\n\nThe scene is cold by the time Carl arrived, so he cannot tell how long the body has been there for.\n\nAnd how did the woman end up on fire?\n\nPolice find a number of objects at the scene, including jewellery, a watch, a broken umbrella and some bottles.\n\nBut it is the positioning of the objects that leaves the strongest impression on Tormod Bønes, one of the forensic investigators.\n\nThe woman is not wearing the watch or her jewellery - instead, they have been placed beside her.\n\n\"The placement and location of the objects surrounding the body was strange - it looked like there had been some kind of ceremony,\" he says.\n\nPolice also find the remains of a pair of rubber boots and nylon stockings.\n\n\"She had been wearing a lot of clothes - of synthetic materials - and all the clothes had been heavily burned,\" says Tormod.\n\nAdding to the mystery is the fact that the production labels have been cut off her clothes and rubbed off the bottles at the scene.\n\nPolice find nothing at the scene to indicate who the woman was.\n\nThe remains of an item of clothing and an umbrella found at the scene\n\nPolice found items of clothing, drinking bottles, the remains of nylon stockings and pieces of jewellery at the scene\n\nPolice issue an appeal for eyewitnesses. They say the woman was about 164cm (5ft 4.5 inches) tall, with \"long brownish-black hair\", a small round face, brown eyes, and small ears. She appeared to be aged between 25 and 40 years, and wore her hair \"in a ponytail tied with a blue and white print ribbon\" at the time of death.\n\nWithout a name, the woman becomes known as the Isdal Woman.\n\nAn artist's impression of the Isdal Woman, distributed by police\n\nThe story is big news in Bergen - a peaceful town with a low crime rate.\n\nThey find two suitcases at Bergen railway station's left luggage department.\n\nOne of the suitcases contains prescription-free glasses - and a fingerprint on one of the pairs matches the woman's.\n\nThe suitcases also contain:\n\nInitially, police \"were very optimistic because they thought the suitcases would help them identify the body,\" says Tormod.\n\nBut soon, they realise that \"all the labels that could have identified the woman, her clothes or belongings, had been removed\".\n\nEven the prescription sticker on the eczema cream, which would have shown the name of the doctor and the patient, has been scraped off.\n\nPolice try hard to trace the woman's belongings. They even contact several major department stores abroad, including Galeries Lafayette in Paris, to see if the stores recognise any of packaging on the woman's make up.\n\nNone of the department stores can find a match.\n\nThere is also a mysterious coded note in the case - which police will not crack until a while later (see clue five).\n\nThere is one important piece of evidence in the suitcase - a plastic bag from Oscar Rørtvedt's Footwear Store - a shoe shop in Stavanger.\n\nThe owner's son, Rolf Rørtvedt, remembers selling a pair of rubber boots to \"a very well dressed, nice-looking woman with dark hair\".\n\nThe boots he sold her appear to match the boots found on the body in the Isdalen valley. Police believe that the umbrella found near the body was also bought from the store.\n\nThe boots sold at Oscar Rørtvedt's Footwear Store were similar to the pair found at the Isdalen Valley\n\nRolf says the woman had made an impression on him because she \"took a long time\" choosing her boots - much longer than the average customer.\n\nShe spoke English, with an accent, and had \"a calm and quiet expression\", he tells the BBC.\n\nHe also recalls a strong smell emanating from the woman - which, later, he thinks may have been garlic.\n\nUsing his description, police are able to trace the woman to St Svithun hotel nearby - where she checked in as Fenella Lorch.\n\nThe problem? Fenella Lorch wasn't her real name.\n\nIt emerges that the woman had stayed in several hotels in Norway - using different aliases. And since most hotels required guests to show a passport and fill in a check-in form, this means she would have had several fake passports.\n\nOn this form, the woman claimed she had arrived from London\n\nPolice find the woman had stayed in the following hotels, under these names:\n\nPolice matched the different forms together by conducting handwriting analysis\n\nThis headline reads: \"The woman in Isdalen had at least six different aliases\"\n\nThe woman left a strong impression on Alvhild Rangnes, who was a 21-year-old waitress at Hotel Neptun at the time.\n\n\"My first impression of her was one of elegance and self-assuredness,\" she tells the BBC.\n\n\"She looked so fashionable - I wished to be able to mimic her style. In fact, I remember her winking at me… from my perspective it felt as though she thought I had been staring a bit too much at her.\"\n\n\"On one occasion while I was serving her, she was in the dining hall, sitting right next to - but not interacting with - two German navy personnel, one of which was an officer.\"\n\nThe woman's final stay was in the Hotel Hordaheimen\n\nPolice question several hotel staff who met the Isdal Woman - including Alvhild.\n\nThey learn that, in addition to speaking English, the woman also used some German phrases.\n\nThey also learn that the woman often requested a change of room - on one occasion, she asked to change rooms three times.\n\nBy now, there are several rumours that the woman was a spy. There weren't too many foreign tourists in Bergen then - and the fact the woman seemed wealthy, and well-travelled, sparked a lot of speculation.\n\n\"This was during the Cold War, and there were definitely a lot of spies in Norway, including Russian spies,\" says Gunnar Staalesen, a Bergen-based crime author who was a university student at the time.\n\nThere were also Israeli agents operating in Norway - as shown three years later, when Mossad agents killed a man in Lillehammer they had mistaken for a terrorist, he adds.\n\nThis headline reads: \"Rumours say the woman was a secret agent\"\n\nNorwegian intelligence services are investigating too - but will not admit it until decades later.\n\nAccording to NRK, security services were interested in reports that the woman had been seen observing the military test out new rockets in western Norway - but there weren't any clear conclusions from their investigation reports.\n\nPolice eventually crack some of the coded note - but it doesn't provide any evidence that she's a spy.\n\nInstead, it appears to be a record of the places the woman visited. For example, O22 O28 P are dates (22-28 October) she was in Paris, O29PS is the day she travelled from Paris to Stavanger, O29S matches the date she arrived in Stavanger (29 October), and O30BN5 matches her stay in Bergen from 30 October to 5 November.\n\nPolice send a description of the woman, and sketches of what she may have looked like, to several police forces abroad. But none of them say they can identify the woman.\n\nMeanwhile, investigators complete an examination of the woman's body.\n\nThey find an unexplained bruise on the right side of her neck, that could have been the result of a blow or a fall. There are no signs that the woman had been ill.\n\nThe autopsy also finds that the woman had never been pregnant or had a child.\n\nOne of the forensic cards summarising the autopsy findings. The woman's name, position, address, date of birth and death are all listed as \"unknown\".\n\nHer death is likely to have been a painful one.\n\n\"There were smoke particles in her lungs… which shows that the woman was alive while she was burning,\" Tormod says.\n\nHe found a trace of petrol in the ground below the woman's body, which means \"we can state with certainty that petrol had been used\" to set her alight.\n\nShe had a high concentration of carbon monoxide in her blood.\n\nExperts also establish that there were about 50-70 sleeping pills, from a foreign brand called Fenemal, in her stomach - although they had not been fully absorbed into her bloodstream before she died.\n\nThe autopsy concludes the woman died from a combination of carbon monoxide poisoning, and ingesting a large number of sleeping pills.\n\nThe cause of death is announced to be a probable suicide - a view supported by Bergen's chief of police.\n\nBut many people find this hard to believe.\n\n\"We talked about it in the police, but as far as I remember very few thought it was suicide,\" Carl Halvor Aas says.\n\nBoth the remote spot where her body was found - and the method of suicide, by fire, strike him as strange.\n\n\"I do not believe it was suicide\" - Carl Halvor Aas\n\nWithout any further leads, the case is closed, and the woman is buried in February 1971.\n\nPolice think the woman may be Catholic, and organise a Catholic funeral for her.\n\nAccording to a police report of the funeral, the coffin was decorated with lilacs and tulips, and the priest conducted a simple ceremony for \"the unknown woman, who was put to the grave in a foreign country without any family present\".\n\nThe funeral was attended by police officers\n\nPolice still hope to find the woman's family - she is buried in a zinc coffin that won't decompose - and keep an album of photos from the funeral for her relatives.\n\nHarald Osland was one of the investigators reluctant to let the case go.\n\n\"My father could never put this case away,\" his son, Tore, says. \"He never could accept that they had to close down the case.\"\n\nThe unmarked grave where the Isdal Woman's body is buried. The site is marked with a small wreath and candle\n\nHis father kept several of the police documents, and Tore eventually wrote a book about the Isdal case.\n\nOver the years, the case has also inspired several crime writers and illustrators.\n\n\"What intrigues people is that it is an unsolved mystery - it is almost like following a crime novel,\" says Gunnar Staalesen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Norwegian crime writers explain the appeal of the Isdal Woman case\n\nThen, in 2016, the possibility of solving the case rears its head again.\n\nThe Isdal Woman had distinctive teeth - 14 of them were filled - and she had several gold crowns. This was especially unusual for someone in her age range - and is not the type of dental work seen in Norway.\n\nGisle Bang, a professor of dentistry, keeps the woman's jaw, in the hope that other experts will recognise the dental work.\n\nAfter his death, everyone assumes the jaw has been destroyed.\n\nForensic doctor Inge Morild, who inherited the Isdal Woman files, says he was told the jaw had been \"thrown away because it was smelling\".\n\nBut after investigative journalists at NRK make queries about the Isdal Woman, Prof Morild finds the jaw - deep in a cellar in Haukeland University Hospital's forensic archives.\n\nThe find gives Norwegian police the opportunity to re-open the case, and use the latest forensic techniques to try and identify the woman.\n\nProf Gisle Bang had sent reports to international dental experts\n\nThe Norwegian Criminal Investigation Service (Kripos) and University of Bergen start conducting isotope analysis on her teeth - looking at the chemical \"signature\" left by the elements that made up her teeth as they were being formed.\n\nIt's the first time Norwegian police have conducted isotope analysis on teeth - but they hope the findings will help them pinpoint the region where the woman lived.\n\nDNA analysis is now one of the key tools police use in forensic analysis and identification cases.\n\nBut it turns out several tissue samples from the woman's organs, including from her lungs, heart, adrenal gland and ovaries, have been stored at Haukeland University Hospital.\n\nProf Morild says it \"has been a custom in most of Norway\" to keep tissue samples from post mortem examinations. The samples are \"useful for repeat examinations, and as a source of DNA\".\n\nTissue samples from the organs are preserved in paraffin blocks\n\nProf Inge Morild looks through tissue samples belonging to the Isdal Woman\n\nNRK and local police agree to send the samples off for DNA analysis.\n\nNils Jarle Gjøvåg, head of forensics at West Police District, says it's important to pursue the woman's identity because \"somewhere in the world, there may be some relatives wondering where she went\".\n\n\"We try to identify every unknown body, so that relatives can have an answer.\"\n\nWhile they wait for DNA results, NRK publish a documentary into the investigation - and receive more than 150 tip offs from people interested in the case.\n\n\"In Norway, this case is a big enigma for people… there's a lot of people who want some sort of closure in the case,\" says journalist Ståle Hansen.\n\nNRK's investigative team (from left to right): Marit Higraff, Eirin Aardal, Øyvind Bye Skille and Ståle Hansen\n\nAfter months of work, scientists have an extended DNA profile of the woman. The latest results, published on Friday, show the woman was of European descent - making the theory that the woman was an agent from Israel much less likely.\n\nNorwegian police are set to issue an Interpol black notice - which seeks information on unidentified bodies - with the new information.\n\nEuropean police forces will be asked to check their DNA databases to see if they find a match.\n\n\"If someone in her close family is in a DNA registry somewhere, we will get a hit,\" says Ståle Hansen. \"That would be really exciting.\"\n\nThe Isdal Woman case has been unsolved for the last 46 years. But now, modern science has reopened the possibility of this elusive Nordic mystery being solved.\n\nReaders who recognise the Isdal Woman or want to share tips about the case of the Isdal Woman can contact the NRK investigative team via their website.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nBritain's double Olympic gold medallist Nicola Adams stopped Mexican teenager Maryan Salazar in the third round in her home city of Leeds.\n\nThe 34-year-old pinned her opponent in the corner and the referee stepped in to confirm her second professional victory in the flyweight contest.\n\n\"There is nothing like the support of my home crowd,\" said Adams.\n\nIt was her first win by stoppage having beaten Argentina's Virginia Carcamo on points on her professional debut.\n\nThe contest against Salazar was fought over three-minute rounds rather than the usual two minutes for women.\n\nFind out how to get into boxing with our special guide.\n\nAdams had said before the fight the extra minute in each round would give her a chance to \"take out\" her 18-year-old opponent.\n\nShe said afterwards: \"I was not even thinking about the stoppage, but with the three-minute rounds I knew I could.\n\n\"I was able to settle more, I could see where I was throwing the punches and landing the power shots.\"\n\nAdams was firmly in control, busting her opponent's lip in the opening round, following it up with a flurry of punches with Salazar on the ropes in the next and finishing it off in the third.\n\nHer trainer, Jason Spencer, said she will soon be ready for a world title fight.\n\nAdams added: \"I loved every minute of it. The crowd were pumping me up. The more they were cheering, the more I was throwing.\"\n\nHeadlining the Leeds card, home favourite Josh Warrington defended his WBC international featherweight title with a majority decision over the experienced Kiko Martinez.\n\nWarrington, 26, beat the Spaniard with scores of 116-112 from two judges, with the third scoring it a 114-114 draw.\n\nHe is now unbeaten in 25 fights and moves closer to a fight against Wales' IBF featherweight champion Lee Selby.\n\nOn the undercard, Durham's Thomas Patrick Ward caused somewhat of an upset by beating Liverpool's James 'Jazza' Dickens via a technical decision to win the British bantamweight belt.\n\nGet all the latest boxing news sent straight to your device with notifications in the BBC Sport app. Find out more here.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nHarry Redknapp has agreed to stay as manager of Championship side Birmingham City and is expected to sign a one-year contract later this week.\n\nThe 70-year-old guided Blues to Championship safety at the weekend with a 1-0 victory at Bristol City.\n\nRedknapp took over on 18 April after Gianfranco Zola's departure.\n\nThe ex-West Ham, Tottenham and QPR boss led Birmingham to two wins in the final three matches as they avoided relegation to League One by two points.\n\nRedknapp's first game in charge of Birmingham was a 1-0 defeat by West Midlands rivals Aston Villa - a result which left his team just one place above the relegation zone.\n\nBut successive wins to end the season over Huddersfield - where they played for more than an hour with 10 men - and Bristol City on the final day ensured their survival.\n\nMeanwhile, Blues have appointed Jeff Vetere as director of football to \"organise the recruitment strategy and offer support to the manager in identifying and signing players\".\n\nVetere has held posts at several clubs, including Real Madrid, Newcastle, West Ham and Aston Villa.\n\nHarry Redknapp's confirmed that he's agreed to manage Birmingham City on a one-year contract. He will review the situation with the club at the end of next season after signing the contract later this week.\n\nRedknapp has been assured by the Chinese owners that sufficient funds will be available to strengthen a squad that nearly got Blues relegated.\n\nSteve Cotterill and Paul Groves will continue assisting Redknapp. He's been locked in talks with the board since Sunday night.\n\nBirmingham will be the furthest north that Redknapp's ever managed in his long career. Before that, it was Tottenham.", "The Chibok girls who have been released will have to take part in a government rehabilitation programme\n\nThere was huge relief when 82 of the girls kidnapped by Islamist militants Boko Haram in Chibok, north-east Nigeria, in 2014 were freed on Saturday. But, as the BBC's Alastair Leithead has been finding out, they may still not be able to go back home.\n\nThe ordeal of being kidnapped by Boko Haram does not end with the release of the captives. In fact, it is just the start of a long struggle back into family and community life.\n\nCaptured as children, the Chibok girls, as they have come to be known, are being freed as young women. An already fraught transition from adolescence to womanhood complicated by their captivity.\n\nThe 82 will, albeit briefly, be reunited with their families over the coming days.\n\nSome families are frustrated that their daughters have not been allowed to go home\n\nA representative from the group of Chibok parents has visited them, to check their identities against the list of those freed, and to tell those waiting for confirmation either the good or the bad news.\n\nMost relatives are still living in the remote town of Chibok, 900km (600 miles) north-east of the capital, Abuja. And it will be a long but joyous journey for those told to come.\n\nThere will be tearful reunions and a mixture of emotions as both parents and daughters will have changed a great deal over the past three years.\n\nIf the treatment of the 21 girls released last October, and the few who escaped, is a guide, the young women will go through a process of re-integration or rehabilitation.\n\nThis is either government care or government custody depending on the point of view.\n\nSome families support the process, others are angry that more than six months after being released from Boko Haram, they still do not have their children back.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mother of escaped Chibok schoolgirl: \"She said, 'mama, you should be happy that I came out alive'.\"\n\nOne of the parents who visited a secure government facility in the capital, Abuja, last week said they are being treated well and are living comfortably.\n\n\"I was happy with the conditions the girls are staying in. They are doing fine,\" said Ali Maiyanga Askira who went to see his daughter Maryam.\n\n\"I wish she was with us, but I couldn't take care of her as well as the government is.\n\n\"They are teaching vocational work like tailoring and knitting, and they are also taking lessons.\n\n\"The minister of education told us in the next four months they would go back to school.\n\n\"I am happy with whatever decision the government takes,\" he said.\n\nBut some other families just want their girls back.\n\nOffice of the First Lady The abduction of the Chibok girls received global attention through a social media campaign\n\nThere was anger at Christmas when they were brought to Chibok to meet relatives, but were not allowed home.\n\nThey were taken to a local politician's house and their families were only allowed to visit them for a short time.\n\n\"I can't believe my daughter has come this close to home, but can't come home,\" said one father at the time.\n\nBut the chairman of the Chibok community in Abuja, Tsambido Hosea, said parents were being invited to visit Abuja in small groups.\n\n\"They are in a rehabilitation centre. The government says it is giving them some instruction so they will be ready to go to school,\" he said.\n\nAs to whether they are allowed to go home or not, the community doesn't care that they are being held by the government.\n\n\"We know they are in the hands of people we know, that we can call, to answer at any moment. It's different from when they were in the hands of the terrorists.\"\n\nPsychologists who have worked with those previously released from the Islamist group said family therapy rather than isolation would be a better way of reintegrating them.\n\nBut there is also the suspicion that the former captives are not being allowed home because the huge publicity around the case could make them targets for kidnapping again.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Zara John: \"They gave us a choice to be married or to be a slave - I decided to marry\"\n\nThere have been times when those, not from the Chibok group, who were allowed home without proper psychological support have been alienated by their communities or even parts of their own families.\n\nSome converted from Christianity to Islam, and some were married to Boko Haram fighters and had children with them, leading them to be shunned.\n\nIt is clear that once the violence is over the militant's impact in the region will remain for a generation, unless those abducted can be quickly and effectively re-integrated in society.\n\nAt the moment though, those recently released will have to contemplate a future still far away from their families.", "The polls and recent local election results may paint a different picture, but on Facebook, Jeremy Corbyn dwarfs his political rivals.\n\nHis official page has more than twice as many likes as Theresa May (860,000, compared with 360,000), and nearly 30 times as many as Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron.\n\nBut the scale of Facebook operations mounted by pro-Corbyn supporters is what really stands out. They organise to hit out at the Conservatives and Tony Blair, game online opinion polls to bolster the apparent popularity of the Labour leader, and remain relentlessly positive about his chances on 8 June.\n\nAs part of our mission to examine the impact of social media, the BBC Trending team will be delving inside \"Filter Bubble Britain\", looking into groups from across the political spectrum over the coming weeks.\n\nMuch has been made of political news sites and blogs set up by the pro-Corbyn movement, but there's also an entire eco-system of Facebook groups run by individuals - so we are kicking off our series by looking at those.\n\nMany political journalists are obsessed with Twitter, but in fact Facebook is the key organising platform for the group dubbed (often by their opponents) \"Corbynistas\" - those dedicated Labour campaigners led by the Momentum group. One of their key tools has been these groups, which share positive news stories about Corbyn and co-ordinate online campaigns.\n\nOver the course of the 2017 General Election campaign, BBC Trending will be delving inside \"filter bubbles\" - tight online communities created by algorithms and the way we all use social media.\n\nIf you'd like to help report on online communities, email the BBC Trending team to express interest. We have a number of tools which will allow us to examine your own \"filter bubble\" on social media - but there's no commitment, all information will be anonymised, and we'll keep all of your personal information private.\n\nRead more: What pro-Tory Facebook really wants\n\nThey are sizeable communities - and there are many of them. One of the largest groups, \"We support Jeremy Corbyn\", has nearly 40,000 members, and several others boast more than 10,000. In total, there are hundreds of thousands of likes for these pages.\n\nThe \"We support\" group's stated purpose is \"to share ideas and fight back against media lies\" - and a feeling that the mainstream media is stacked against their leader is a common perception within these groups.\n\nIt is difficult to keep up with the sheer number of posts in the pro-Corbyn communities, as heavily-engaged members provide a minute-by-minute commentary on British politics.\n\nMany of the posts attempt to channel members towards online polls and Facebook surveys. They encourage Corbynistas to vote en masse to inflate the perceived popularity of their leader.\n\nThis tactic even extends to relatively obscure corners of Facebook. For example, when the community page of New Newbury and Thatcham Berkshire asked who locals would like as prime minister, \"We support Jeremy Corbyn\" mobilised behind the Labour leader. Less than three hours after the poll had been launched, Corbyn had received 13,000 votes, compared with 4,000 for May and 109 for Farron. The New Newbury and Thatcham Facebook page has only about 5,000 members.\n\nIn these cliques, the Conservative Party is the primary enemy. One of the most popular recent posts in \"We support Jeremy Corbyn\" highlighted a joke by Andy Hamilton, who implied that Theresa May suffers from dementia on an episode of Have I Got News For You. One of the most liked comments on the post said the prime minister \"should stop acting weird\".\n\nBBC Trending spoke to Caroline Tipler, who founded the group \"Jeremy Corbyn leads us to 2017 victory\", which has more than 11,000 members (and in the wake of the snap election surprise announcement was swiftly renamed from \"Jeremy Corbyn leads us to 2020 victory\").\n\nTipler said she established the group to allow Corbyn supporters to connect with each other, to provide information on Corbyn's policies and to counter what she calls the \"appalling, destructive\" actions of \"plotters\" who want to remove Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nTipler feels that Corbyn has reinvigorated politics, and denies the main criticism of these groups - that they have turned into self-perpetuating echo chambers.\n\n\"Members seek to share values and to have their values of honesty and decency reinforced and placed into political life,\" she says. \"Debate and a broad church approach is encouraged. No one is 'right' or 'more right', we are all learning.\"\n\nAnother main theme of the groups is that Corbyn's political allies must be defended against attacks. Following interviews from Diane Abbott, during which she made some widely covered mathematical slip-ups, one Jeremy Corbyn fan defended the shadow Home Secretary with heavy sarcasm: \"Shock, horror! Diane Abbott doesn't have a chip in her brain relaying the live election results, which are actually coming in WHILST she's being interviewed!\"\n\nIn these groups, many of the articles posted originate from a crop of pro-Corbyn political bloggers and writers, perhaps the biggest of which is a popular political blog called The Canary.\n\nThese blogs are media success stories in their own right. They often publish pieces that spread more widely than mainstream media reports and, in the case of The Canary, pay writers in part based on their click numbers. Kerry-Anne Mendoza, editor of The Canary, is unsurprisingly a big supporter of the active pro-Corbyn Facebook wave.\n\n\"I love that the pro-Corbyn groups are out there,\" she told BBC Trending. \"They will be able to amplify Corbyn's messages all the way up to the election.\"\n\nIn the early weeks of the election campaign, The Canary has been one of the most popular news sources on Facebook, at times drawing in numbers comparable to the BBC and national newspapers to some of its stories.\n\nBut are the people in these groups confident that their man can win the general election? Most are, but some still question why the Labour Party is not performing better, and put the blame on party rebels:\n\nOthers reserve criticism for Tony Blair, who is frequently accused on these groups of being a Conservative sympathiser.\n\nThere's also a mischievous approach to news circulating in some of these groups. Here's an example: in the wake of the local council elections on 6 May, several links were posted to an Independent article from the 2016 local elections. The headline was: \"Not that you'd know it, but the Tories lost far more seats in the election than Labour\". The article was 100% correct - but it referred to an election a year ago.\n\nHowever, on many of the posts there was no acknowledgement of those inconvenient facts. That said, it was illustrated with a picture of the former Conservative leader David Cameron, which may have been a giveaway to those who looked carefully:\n\nLabour's losses in the most recent local elections - 382 seats and the control of seven councils - has not quelled the expectations of many Corbynistas:\n\nYou can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nThe draw for the 2019 Rugby World Cup will be made on Wednesday at 09:00 BST in host country Japan.\n\nTwenty nations will take part in the tournament and will be drawn into four groups of five.\n\nThe 12 teams, including holders New Zealand, who finished in the top three of their groups at the last World Cup automatically qualified for the event.\n\nThey have been split into three bands based on their ranking, with eight more teams yet to be decided.\n\nThe All Blacks, England, Australia and Ireland are in band one, France, Scotland, South Africa and Wales make up band two and Argentina, Georgia, Italy and Japan are in band three.\n\nThe teams yet to qualify are in the two remaining pots.\n\nOne team from each band will be drawn into each World Cup group and England will be hoping to avoid a repeat of the their \"group of hell\" from the 2015 tournament when they were drawn with Australia and Wales, as well as Fiji and Uruguay.\n\nEngland failed to progress beyond the group stages in what was the first time the hosts have exited the World Cup before the knockout phase.\n\nThe World Cup in Japan runs from 20 September to 2 November 2019.\n\nBand Five: Oceania 2, Americas 2, play-off winner (between Europe 2 and Oceania 3), repechage winner\n• None Get all the latest rugby union news by adding", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nJuventus reached their second Champions League final in three seasons with a comfortable aggregate victory over Monaco.\n\nAlready leading 2-0 from the first leg, the Italian side extended their advantage when Mario Mandzukic stabbed in after his initial header was saved.\n\nDani Alves doubled their lead on the night with an instinctive volley from goalkeeper Danijel Subasic's punched clearance.\n\nKylian Mbappe turned in Joao Moutinho's low cross to pull one back in the second half, but the Ligue 1 side could not pull off an unlikely comeback.\n\nJuventus, who have not won this competition since 1996 and lost 3-1 to Barcelona in the 2015 final, will face either Real Madrid or Atletico Madrid in Cardiff on 3 June.\n\nAtletico host Real on Wednesday looking to overturn a 3-0 first-leg deficit.\n• None Reaction: You have to believe in your dreams - Buffon\n• None Analysis: How the Old Lady rose from the ashes\n\nJuventus have endured a turbulent time since beating Ajax in the Champions League final 21 years ago.\n\nThey were demoted to Serie B in 2006 for their part in a match-fixing scandal, and were stripped of two of their Serie A titles.\n\nBut they have risen to become the most dominant team in Italy, winning the league for each of the past five seasons.\n\nTheir focus now is Champions League success - and they look well placed to achieve it.\n\nNo side has scored more than a single goal against them in a Champions League game this season, while Mbappe's goal was the first they have conceded in the knockout stage.\n\nThat is down to the excellent form of goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon and defensive trio Giorgio Chiellini, Leonardo Bonucci and Andrea Barzagli.\n\nAgainst a free-scoring Monaco side intent on attacking, lesser sides may have relented, but Juve stood firm.\n\nChiellini, in particular, was outstanding - in the right place to clear a dangerous Benjamin Mendy cross at 0-0 before hooking away from Radamel Falcao at 1-0.\n\nThey were two key moments, allowing Juve's forward players to attack with patience and potency.\n\nWhen Barcelona dismantled Juventus in the Champions League final two years ago, Alves was a key part of the Spanish side.\n\nThe full-back, who won six La Liga titles and three Champions Leagues with Barcelona, left under acrimonious circumstances last summer and joined Juventus on a free transfer.\n\nThere is no doubt Barca's loss has been Juve's gain.\n\nAfter a slow start, the Brazilian has developed into one of the club's most influential players, and his Champions League experience has been pivotal to Juventus' run to the final.\n\nHaving assisted both of Gonzalo Higuain's goals in the first leg he produced a brilliant strike here, calmly guiding Subasic's looped clearance through a crowded box and into the net.\n\nAlves, whose cross also led to Mandzukic's opener, has now been involved in every goal Juve have scored in their last two Champions League games.\n• None No team has reached the Champions League final on more occasions than Juventus (six - level with AC Milan).\n• None Juve have scored 30 goals in the Champions League semi-finals; no team has scored more (level with Bayern and Real Madrid).\n• None The Turin club are unbeaten in 12 Champions League/European Cup games for the first time in their history (W9 D3).\n• None Mandzukic ended his longest run without a Champions League goal (six games) and is now on 15 in 45 appearances.\n• None Mbappe's goal was Monaco's 150th this season in all competitions; only Real Madrid (158) and Barcelona (160) have scored more from the big five European leagues.\n• None Mbappe became the youngest player to score in a Champions League semi-final (18 years & 140 days).\n• None Thierry Henry (five games) is the only French player to have reached six Champions League goals quicker than Kylian Mbappe (nine).\n\nJuventus have three games remaining in Serie A, starting with a trip to Roma on Sunday, 14 May. A draw will seal a sixth consecutive league title.\n\nMonaco, meanwhile, switch their focus to domestic matters as they look to win Ligue 1. They are three points clear of Paris St-Germain with three games left and host Lille on Sunday.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andrea Raggi (Monaco) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Valère Germain.\n• None Attempt blocked. Miralem Pjanic (Juventus) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Substitution, Juventus. Medhi Benatia replaces Andrea Barzagli because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. João Moutinho (Monaco) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Offside, Juventus. Dani Alves tries a through ball, but Gonzalo Higuaín is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Newcastle United manager Rafael Benitez can expect up to £100m to spend on new players following \"positive\" discussions with owner Mike Ashley.\n\nBenitez guided the Magpies back to the Premier League at the first attempt.\n\nHowever, he was seeking assurances that he would be able to strengthen his squad again after the club's promotion.\n\nIn a club statement, Ashley said Benitez and managing director Lee Charnley can have \"every last penny the club generates\" to build for next term.\n\nBenitez added: \"I'm pleased with how the meeting went and the positive approach we are all taking together to build on what we have started this season.\n\n\"There will be challenges ahead of course, the summer will not be easy, but the hard work has been going on for some time and we can now continue positively with the development of the squad ahead of the start of the new season.\"\n\nFormer Liverpool, Chelsea and Real Madrid manager Benitez signed a three-year contract to remain at Newcastle in May 2016, despite the club dropping into the second tier, and the Spaniard led them to the Championship title on Sunday.\n\nMore than £50m was spent on new players last summer as Newcastle assembled one of the most expensive squads in Championship history, although almost £70m was recouped from player sales.\n\nHowever, Benitez did not make any further additions to his squad in January and there were reports that the 57-year-old was considering his future at the club.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nAccrington Stanley chairman Andy Holt has refused to back down despite what he considers a threat from the Premier League after his criticism of spending.\n\nHolt had said Football League clubs were like \"a starving peasant begging for scraps\" from the top flight.\n\nThe Premier League responded: \"We will be writing to Mr Holt to ask him if he wishes the Premier League to continue the support we currently provide for his and other clubs in the EFL.\"\n\nHolt said other chairmen supported him.\n\nOn Tuesday, Holt accused the Premier League of \"destroying\" the game and tweeted: \"Hang your heads in shame. @premierleague you're an absolute disgrace to English football.\"\n\nHe posted a series of messages on Twitter after the Daily Mail revealed reported figures of wages and agent fees paid by Manchester United.\n\nA book published in Germany this week - The Football Leaks: The Dirty Business of Football - includes what it says is a breakdown of the fee for Paul Pogba's move to United last summer, and alleges his agent Mino Raiola earned £41m from the deal.\n\nRaiola has declined to comment and said the matter was in the hands of his lawyers.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Sport on Wednesday, Holt said lower-league clubs needed more financial help.\n\n\"Football is in crisis. The lower league is really struggling, and I'm not the only chairman who feels like this,\" he said.\n\nHe accused the Premier League of \"losing all sense of scale\" in what he called a \"threatening, dark\" response to his original comments.\n\n\"What they're saying is not only are they not bothered about it, anybody who complains about it, we'll take your money away and shut you down,\" he said.\n\n\"Other EFL clubs share my views, not all of them. I'm not trying to lead a rabble, I'm expressing an opinion but I'm not alone.\"\n\nWhat does the Premier League provide?\n\nThe Premier League says it intends to write to Holt and \"to explain the many ways it has supported Accrington Stanley FC and all EFL clubs this season\".\n\nHolt said the club had an annual turnover of about £2.2m and any withdrawal of Premier League funding would threaten its future.\n\n\"They can do what they want,\" he added. \"It would be a quarter of our revenue, and it would close Accrington down.\n\n\"I can't do anything about it. I don't like the agent's fee, I don't like the largesse of the Premier League and I won't like it in five years' time and I won't like it in 10 years' time. My opinion's the same, whatever they do.\"\n\nThe Premier League has provided £200m in \"solidarity funding\" to EFL clubs this season. Additional parachute payments to relegated clubs take its contribution to more than £400m.\n\nIt is understood the Premier League made a £430,000 payment to Accrington this season, in addition to a £340,000 grant towards its youth development programme\n\nAccrington finished 13th in League Two this season with an average gate of 1,699 - the smallest in the Football League.\n\n\"I accept they do a bit for the community,\" said Holt. \"I don't really have a problem with the Premier League, I have a problem with it being unsustainable.\"\n\nHolt's views were supported by Darragh MacAnthony, chairman of League One side Peterborough United, who tweeted: \"Andy is 100% correct in his comments & 99% of Football League owners would agree I'd think.\"\n\nMacAnthony later told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire: \"Andy has gone to the extreme; I'm not disagreeing with what he's saying. He's a frustrated man. I wouldn't have said starving peasant, I would compare it to being like a family member.\n\n\"We're meant to all be part of one family, the Premier League and the Football League. It's a bit like the poor member of the family that every time they go for a handout they're made to feel guilty instead of being family where they help you out.\"\n\nThe Premier League has previously said it is the only top-flight league in world football which funds the fourth tier of its football pyramid.", "The New York Times called for the president to leave office immediately, describing it as \"the last great service\" he could perform for the country.\n\nThe Washington Post demanded impeachment, followed by a Senate trial. Time magazine, deeming it necessary to publish its first-ever editorial, thundered: \"The president should resign.\"\n\nOutside the White House, protesters waved placards at passing motorists: \"Honk for Impeachment.\" Even Washington's most influential columnist, Stewart Alsop, who was normally supportive of the president, called him an \"ass.\" The president had lost his moral authority, argued his critics, and with it, his ability to govern. The country faced a constitutional crisis. The republic was imperilled.\n\nSuch was the feverish reaction to the events of 20 October, 1973, a date remembered in the national memory as the \"Saturday Night Massacre\" - a pivotal moment in the unfolding Watergate controversy.\n\nWith scandal engulfing the White House, Richard Nixon decided to fire Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor appointed to investigate \"all offenses arising out of the 1972 election… involving the president, the White House staff or presidential appointments\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNixon's Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, and his Deputy Attorney General, William Ruckelshaus, resigned rather than carry out the president's order. Eventually, the Solicitor General Robert Bork, who was third in command at the justice department, was prepared to fire Cox.\n\nThe White House announced the news at 20:22 that Saturday evening.\n\nOn Wednesday, almost as quickly as the news that he had been sacked as head of the FBI reached James Comey in Los Angeles, these two dramatic episodes were being described as historically analogous.\n\nThe president had fired the lead figure in an investigation into alleged wrongdoing by members of his own team.\n\nRoger Stone, a Trump associate who also worked in 1972 for the notorious Committee to Re-elect the President, told the New York Times: \"Somewhere Dick Nixon is smiling.\"\n\nThe Nixon presidential library even trolled the White House on Twitter: \"FUN FACT: President Nixon never fired the Director of the FBI #FBIDirector #notNixonian.\"\n\nDemocrats insinuated that Comey was fired for similar reasons to Cox, because he was closing in on the truth.\n\nThere were other resemblances, too. In the lead-up to the Saturday Night Massacre, the Nixon White House was still reeling from the resignation of the president's chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, a central figure in the Watergate scandal, just as the Trump administration continues to be buffeted by the swirl of controversy surrounding the forced departure of Gen Michael Flynn, his former National Security Adviser.\n\nThere's the suspicion now, as there was four decades ago, that an embattled White House has something to hide.\n\nSo is this truly a re-run of the events of 1973? Is the past repeating itself?\n\nEven by the standards of the Nixon presidency, the autumn of 1973 was unusually chaotic.\n\nFlynn before his departure from the White House\n\nIt saw the resignation of Vice-President Spiro Agnew because of fraud, tax evasion, bribery and extortion allegations.\n\nThe Middle East was in the grip of the Yom Kippur war, a conflict between US-backed Israel and Arab forces armed by the Soviets that threatened to blow-up into a broader conflagration between Washington and Moscow.\n\nIn Washington, Nixon was fighting a pitched battle with Archibald Cox and the courts.\n\nCox, a Harvard professor who had been appointed as special prosecutor in May that year, had issued a subpoena ordering the White House to hand over nine tapes of phone calls and West Wing conversations in connection with the Watergate break-in. Nixon's legal team argued the principle of executive privilege should apply, and the tapes should remain private.\n\nOn 12 October, however, the Court of Appeals in Washington upheld a lower court's ruling granting Cox's request. Rather than comply, Nixon decided to fire the special prosecutor, something his Attorney General Elliot Richardson had promised Congress would never happen.\n\nA president stood in defiance of the courts, putting himself above the law of the land. It was a textbook constitutional crisis.\n\nDonald Trump's sacking of his FBI director, while highly unusual and deeply controversial, is constitutionally permissible. No court orders have been flouted. The president, while breaking with the norm of allowing FBI directors to serve out their 10-year terms unimpeded, is not putting himself above the law.\n\nTrump's motivations may also be different. Nixon sacked Cox through fear his criminality was about to exposed.\n\nWithin the FBI, agents believe that Trump sacked Comey primarily out of pique and spite because of his refusal to publicly exonerate Trump against allegations of collusion with the Kremlin, and also because Comey refused to back up Trump's unsubstantiated claims that Barack Obama ordered the wire-tapping of Trump Tower.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnlike the Saturday Night Massacre, the president is at one with the most high-ranking figures in the justice department rather than at odds with them. The president, the attorney general and the deputy attorney general together they made the case that Comey should go - not purportedly because of his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, but because of the former director's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.\n\nThe politics is also very different. Back in 1973, the Democrats controlled both the Senate and House of Representatives. That put the investigative machinery of Congress in their hands. Senate hearings were already under way, and the Saturday Night Massacre gave them fresh impetus.\n\nNixon also faced an acid shower of criticism from Republicans on Capitol Hill and around the country. \"Clearly we face a constitutional crisis,\" lamented the Republican governor of Michigan.\n\nLiterally Nixonian: Trump and Nixon Secretary of State Henry Kissinger talking in the Oval Office the day after Comey's firing\n\nThere have been Republican critics of Trump's decision to fire Comey. But so far they haven't been so vehement. Crucially, the Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell is resisting demands from the Democrats, and some in his own party, to back calls for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the 2016 election.\n\nPolitically, Donald Trump remains strong, because of the support of the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill and his grassroots supporters in the American heartland.\n\nNixon, by contrast, was politically weak. This became apparent only a few days later when the White House indicated it would hand over the tapes, which included a recording of the infamous conversation between the president and Haldeman, eighteen and half minutes of which were missing.\n\nNixon was also forced to appoint a new special prosecutor. And eventually, of course, the push for impeachment gathered unstoppable momentum, and he was forced to resign as president.\n\nIn 1973, Democrats were hollering impeachment. In 2017, the party's congressional leadership has not publicly uttered that explosive word.\n\nWhat may be similar between now and then is the intemperate mood of the president. As demonstrated by his Twitter tirades, Donald Trump is lashing out publicly against his critics, much as Nixon did privately in his final months in office.\n\nSenator Marco Rubio being interviewed by reporters about Comey firing\n\nPolitico is reporting that Trump shouted at the television over the Russian investigation, which again has echoes of Nixon's executive mansion tantrums.\n\nCuriously, both presidents also saw Florida as a bolt-hole from the pressures of Washington, Nixon opting for Key Biscayne, Trump regularly visiting Mar-a-Lago - although a key difference is that Nixon medicated himself with alcohol, while Trump is famously teetotal.\n\nBut the Saturday Night Massacre and the Tuesday Night 'You're fired\" are not directly comparable.\n\nThe sacking of Archibald Cox contributed heavily to Nixon's forced departure from the White House. It was widely seen as an impeachable offence.\n\nThe removal of James Comey, in and of itself, does not pose such an existential threat to the Trump administration.", "The Labour party has said it will raise corporation tax to spend £4.8bn on improving education\n\nAnnounce more money for a public policy initiative and say you will pay for it with an increase in taxes.\n\nOn Wednesday the Labour Party said that it plans to spend more than £5bn improving education in England.\n\nTo fund the initiative, the party also announced the details of its proposals to increase corporation tax from its present rate of 19% to 26% by 2020-21.\n\nA move described by Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies as one of the most significant tax increases for 30 years.\n\nSmaller firms with profits below £300,000 a year will see more modest rises - up to 21% by 2020-21.\n\nLabour, using figures from the government's official economic watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility, says the increases in corporation tax will raise £20bn by 2022.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have also pledged more money for education (£7bn) paid for by a slightly lower increase in the business tax and the scrapping of tax allowances for married couples.\n\nAs both Labour and the Liberal Democrats will know, income from corporation tax (a tax on profits made by firms), is notoriously difficult to forecast.\n\nIn 2010, corporation tax raised just over £43bn in revenue for the government.\n\nSince then it has been cut from 28% (interestingly, above the level announced today by Labour) to 19%.\n\nOne would suppose that would reduce the tax take for the government.\n\nFormer chancellor George Osborne cut the headline rate of corporation tax\n\nIn 2016, corporation tax raised £49.7bn, an increase of £6.7bn.\n\nThat is due to a number of interrelated issues.\n\nFirst, economic growth has returned, leading to higher profits for firms.\n\nNow, supporters of corporation tax cuts argue that the very act of reducing the rate increases firms' propensity to invest and increases confidence that Britain is a \"business friendly\" economy.\n\nSecond, although George Osborne reduced the headline rate (some joke it is called that for a reason as cutting it produces some nice headlines), he also announced a series of other, more Delphic, measures that actually increased business taxes.\n\nThe amount of tax that can be offset against capital investment in new buildings and machinery (called capital allowances) has been reduced.\n\nTaxes on foreign income has also been reformed and rules over the shifting of profits between different tax jurisdictions have been tightened under the \"base erosion\" changes agreed with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.\n\nAlongside these changes, the government has also introduced the banking levy, an extra tax on the City which brought in £1.6bn in 2012 - a figure that rose to just under £3bn by 2016.\n\nMany businesses would argue that, yes, the corporation tax cut is welcome but business taxes are already bringing in significantly more money.\n\nAnd increasing the rate to 26% will simply reduce Britain's attractiveness to business investors and lose Britain vital places in the competitiveness league tables - given that the headline rate is low by G7 standards but other business taxes are relatively high.\n\nFurther, any change would come just at the time that Brexit has left a number of firms with their fingers hovering over the \"relocate\" button.\n\nThe new president of France, Emmanuel Macron, says he wants to see the French corporation tax rate cut to 25% from the present 33.3%.\n\nAs Mr Johnson said on the Today programme: \"The risk is, that while this [Labour plan] would raise knocking on for £20bn in the short run, it is probably going to raise rather less than that in the long run as companies invest less and take other opportunities to reduce the amount of tax that they pay.\n\n\"So, the long run behavioural result of this tax would result in revenues being less than the immediate headline increase.\"\n\nCorporation tax is what is known as \"dynamic\" - that is, changes to it result in rapid changes in behaviour as sophisticated firms manage their balance sheet in such a way as to minimise any effects and support profits and returns to shareholders (which of course, don't forget, include our pension funds).\n\nThis leads to substantial levels of forecast error.\n\nIn 2013, the OBR forecast that corporation tax receipts for 2016-17 would fall to £38.2bn.\n\nThat suggests that Labour and the Liberal Democrats' plans could raise more than the forecast £20bn.\n\nOr - given the possible economic effect on business investment - far less.\n\nThat is the problem with pledges on tax - they are predicated on a forecast about an uncertain future.\n\nThat does not mean that political parties should avoid making policy funding announcements based on best revenue estimates by official bodies.\n\nBut it does mean that voters should be aware - forecasts can be wrong.", "Fake drugs are now a multibillion dollar international industry, but for those who have ended up inadvertently taking them the personal consequences can be life-changing.\n\nNatalie-Jade from Manchester was 18 when she decided she wanted to lose weight. The British teenager did a quick Google search, and the pills she found promised instant results.\n\n\"The pictures [of the people] looked great,\" she says. \"Photoshop does wonders for the internet.\"\n\nShe didn't think too much about any side effects. \"I just thought I was a bit invincible.\"\n\nBut when she first took them she started sweating more and her heart was racing. She hardly ate, and had to drink lots of water.\n\nAfter eight weeks she stopped taking them, but the symptoms continued, and two years later she collapsed and ended up in hospital.\n\nThe doctors who examined her said her heart rate was so fast it was as though she'd had 30 cups of coffee. They were surprised she hadn't had a heart attack.\n\nNow aged 26, Natalie-Jade still has occasional heart murmurs.\n\nLast year the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) shut down more than 4,000 websites selling fake medicines\n\nWebsites offering fake medicines such as the ones that she bought are increasing rapidly.\n\n\"A big problem is that many of the websites are hosted in jurisdictions which may not be receptive to takedown requests from a UK government agency,\" says Lynda Scammell.\n\nMs Scammell is senior policy adviser to the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), which regulates medicines in the UK.\n\nLast year the MHRA took down more than 4,000 websites selling fake medicines, up from just under 1,400 websites in 2015.\n\nIn 2016, more than £13.6m worth of fake medicines and medical devices were seized in the annual operation organised by Interpol, including three million doses of erectile dysfunction pills and more than 300,000 doses of slimming pills.\n\nFake medicines for life-threatening conditions, including breast cancer, bone cancer and leprosy were also taken.\n\nMs Scammell says \"an embarrassment factor\" is contributing to the problem, with people wanting to buy slimming or erectile dysfunction drugs online instead of in person.\n\nBut there is also a convenience factor.\n\n\"People get used to 'I want it, I want it now',\" she says.\n\nThe end result is that fake drugs are now a multibillion dollar industry, according to the World Health Organization.\n\nBig seizures of fake drugs only scratch the surface of the illegal trade\n\nBut it is not only a problem outside of official channels. Fake drugs can also make their way into legitimate supply chains.\n\nThe global nature and complexity of the supply chain increases the risks of that chain being infiltrated.\n\nFor example, one dose of a pneumococcal vaccine made by a large drug firm involves 1,700 people and more than 400 raw materials. From start to finish, this process takes more than two-and-a-half years.\n\n\"It is one of the most technically complex vaccines to manufacture and we produce it in many parts of the world,\" the firm says.\n\nIn 2007 fake medicines got into the NHS, with the MHRA forced to issue four emergency recall notices in a matter of days. More recently in 2011, fake versions of Roche's multibillion-dollar cancer drug Avastin made their way into the US healthcare system.\n\nThe big drugs firms say they have cleaned up their act since then and that their supply chains are safe.\n\nThey are reluctant to discuss the security measures they've taken for fear of revealing their methods to the very counterfeiters they are trying to prevent. But processes can include having dedicated testing laboratories using packaging and printing that make counterfeits more easy to spot.\n\nBut the problem is that in some countries, manufacturers \"will buy from sources they can't trust\", says Michael Deats, World Health Organization group lead on substandard and falsified medical products.\n\n\"That's dangerous,\" he says.\n\nAn outbreak of meningitis in Niger led to a proliferation of fake drugs\n\nWest and Central Africa and South East Asian countries in particular have problems with criminals being able to sell fake drugs to licensed distributors, who then sell them on to places people trust, such as hospitals and pharmacies.\n\nThe criminals behind the fake drugs increase the supply when there's a big demand. An outbreak of meningitis in Niger, for example, led to a shortage of vaccines, which was responded to quickly by the fakers, Mr Deats says.\n\n\"Natural disaster, war, civil unrest - it's a business opportunity,\" he says.\n\nThe criminals behind many fake medicine operations can be highly organised, but are probably not what everyone thinks of as being part of \"organised crime\" - gangsters with interests in narcotics and guns, says Mr Deats.\n\nThe people behind fake drugs have often built sophisticated networks\n\nHe says they are more likely to be rogue businessmen, who may have worked in legitimate pharmaceutical supplies, and who know the systems.\n\nThey'll often deal through offshore companies locked up in tax havens, and have the wherewithal to produce millions of doses of a particular fake medicine.\n\n\"These are very sophisticated networks,\" he says. \"You see a fair bit of investment in some cases... industrial-scale production.\"\n\nIt's not in their interests to be discovered, so rather than obviously poisoning people, which would attract attention, it's far better to make medicines with ineffective ingredients.\n\n\"These are tough to identify. These medicines visually look like the real thing,\" he says.\n\n\"But they just don't work.\"\n\nSo if someone then dies of a disease like malaria, it's assumed that they didn't respond to the treatment, rather than the treatment being fake, he says.\n\n\"It is a low-risk activity, and it's lucrative. Of course that's going to attract the wrong sort of people,\" he says.\n\n\"The risks of capture are low, and the profits are high.\"\n\nBut for those who have taken fake drugs, such as Natalie-Jade, the consequences can be life changing.\n\nNatalie-Jade's advice to people like her who are trying to slim is to go through the proper channels rather than trying to find a quick fix online.\n\n\"Don't believe that you're invincible,\" she says.", "Nicola Sturgeon, Jeremy Corbyn, Theresa May - but who came top?\n\nInternet searches are the main source of information for many voters at a general election.\n\nSo what happens if you redraw the political map of the UK based around Google searches for the names of party leaders over the six months before the election was called?\n\nAt first glance, it looks a lot like the actual political map, with the SNP dominant in Scotland and Conservative blue covering large swathes of England.\n\nBut there are some interesting differences.\n\nConservative leader Theresa May topped the search rankings in 444 constituencies, with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn coming top in 97 constituencies.\n\nHowever, this is not an indication of support for Theresa May or Jeremy Corbyn - we don't know the reason why people are searching for their names or whether they view the leaders positively or negatively.\n\nThe prime minister tends to get more media coverage in a non-election period, so this may account for the greater levels of interest. She was the most searched-for party leader in most of Labour-held inner London, while Mr Corbyn topped the rankings in quite a few Conservative strongholds in the south of England.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon came top in 75 constituencies - many of them in England, from Labour-held Workington, in Cumbria, to Conservative strongholds like Folkestone and Hythe and Dorset South, on the south coast.\n\nPaul Nuttall - who replaced Nigel Farage as UKIP leader in October last year - topped the rankings in 17 constituencies, generating interest in Wales and Northern England in particular.\n\nLib Dem leader Tim Farron came top in eight constituencies - a fairly random selection geographically, none of which are currently held by the party or on their likely target list.\n\nGreen Party co-leader Caroline Lucas topped the rankings in just one constituency - Newbury, in Berkshire, where her party is involved in anti-fracking campaigns. Voters in her own Brighton Pavilion seat searched for Theresa May the most, according to the data.\n\nIn Northern Ireland searches were analysed for the DUP, Sinn Fein, SDLP and the UUP, of them DUP leader Arlene Foster had the most interest in eight seats.\n\nGoogle Trends collected search results for 1,876 cities, and then allocated those locations to the relevant constituencies.\n\nThe internet company collected search results for six months, ending 17 April 2017. Data was analysed by Alasdair Rae of Sheffield University. Map built with Carto.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nWhat doesn't kill you makes you stronger, so the saying goes, and it certainly appears to be the case with Juventus.\n\nTen years ago, Juve were dragging themselves out of the second tier of Italian football following a tumultuous sequence of events that saw them demoted from Serie A.\n\nNow, after beating Monaco 4-1 on aggregate, the Old Lady will face Real Madrid in the Champions League final in Cardiff on 3 June.\n\n\"Magic Dani Alves, fantastic Juventus,\" read the headline on Italian newspaper Tuttosport. Gazzetta dello Sport, meanwhile, went with: \"Great Juve!\"\n\nThe media are gushing, and who can blame them?\n\nTwo Champions League finals in three years, on the cusp of winning a sixth successive Serie A title and 23 games unbeaten in Europe.\n\nFormer Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov, speaking on BT Sport, described Juve's performance on Tuesday as a \"masterclass\".\n\n\"Attack and defence everywhere,\" he said.\n\nAfter a rollercoaster decade, Juve may have put together the perfectly balanced side.\n\nThe rise from the ashes\n\nJust five days after lifting the World Cup trophy in 2006, Juve team-mates Gianluigi Buffon, Alessandro del Piero and Mauro Camoranesi were faced with the prospect of preparing for life in the second tier of Italian football.\n\nJuve, along with Lazio and Fiorentina, were implicated in a match-fixing scandal that resulted in the three teams being demoted to Serie B for 2006-07, though the latter two had their sentences reduced to points deductions on appeal.\n\nJuve were also given a 30-point deduction, later reduced to nine, and their hopes of an immediate return to the top flight were further hampered by the departures of several key players, including Patrick Vieira, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Fabio Cannavaro.\n\nThe club's trio of World Cup winners stayed, though, and were instrumental as Juve bounced back at the first attempt - winning Serie B by six points, losing just four of their 42 league games.\n\nDidier Deschamps, a Champions League winner with Juventus in 1996, returned to coach his former club following their demotion but left two games before the end of their title-winning season after a disagreement with the club's hierarchy.\n\nClaudio Ranieri was the man brought in to lead Juve in their first season back in Serie A, and he led them into the Champions League with a third-place finish.\n\nBut the Italian was unable to build on that, with Juve knocked out of Europe by Chelsea and finishing 10 points adrift of Inter Milan in the league.\n\nRanieri was sacked, but the next three managers - Ciro Ferrara, Alberto Zaccheroni and Luigi Delneri - made little impact in short spells in charge.\n\nThough the team appeared to be regressing, a significant appointment had been made by club owner Andrea Agnelli.\n\nHe made former Sampdoria chief executive Giuseppe Marotta Juve's sporting director, and he brought about significant changes in the playing and coaching staff.\n\nMarotta oversaw the arrivals of Leonardo Bonucci and Andrea Barzagli - two players who would become key parts of Juve's near-impenetrable defence - before appointing Antonio Conte as coach in the summer of 2011.\n\nJust as he has at Chelsea, Conte implemented a gameplan founded on a three-man defence, turning Juve into a side that dominated possession and was tough to break down.\n\nThe results were immediate - the club's first Scudetto in nine years in his first season followed by another two just for good measure.\n\nAlso significant in Juve's revival was their move to the Juventus Stadium - built on the site of their former home the Stadio delle Alpi - during Conte's first season.\n\nThough capacity is significantly reduced - from 69,000 to 41,254 - the atmosphere in the arena has improved dramatically.\n\n\"The Delle Alpi was hugely unpopular with fans, who were stationed far away from the pitch because of a running track, and sightlines were almost universally poor,\" says European football expert Andy Brassell.\n\n\"It was rarely filled. In their last Champions League campaign at the old stadium, the Delle Alpi had an average attendance of just 12,285 in the group stage. Even the visit of Bayern Munich attracted only 16,076. The only way was to rip it up and start again.\"\n\nIn the six seasons since opening their new home, Juve have lost just three Serie A games there.\n\nWhile Conte brought back domestic glory, European success continued to elude Juve. They were beaten by Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals of the 2012-13 Champions League and failed to even get out of their group the following season.\n\nWhen Conte left in July 2014 to become Italy boss, he suggested he had not had the financial clout to compete with Europe's top clubs, saying: \"When you sit in a restaurant where a meal costs 100 euros, you can't think about eating with just 10 euros.\"\n\nThat was, perhaps, a final gift from Conte.\n\nWith Juve's players determined to prove themselves to new boss Massimiliano Allegri - and perhaps show Conte was wrong - they reached the Champions League final in 2015, losing 3-1 to Barcelona.\n\n\"The change of coach gave Juventus something more, because in the first two months of the season we wanted to prove that we were still the best,\" defender Giorgio Chiellini said in March 2015.\n\n\"We want to prove to everyone and, above all, to ourselves that we are a great team.\"\n\nDefeat by Barcelona prompted wholesale changes to the playing squad as Allegri looked to move them to the next level.\n\nJuve's formidable defence was largely unaltered, but more flair and bite has been added in attack.\n\nFormer Roma midfielder Miralem Pjanic, for example, has proven a more-than-able replacement for Paul Pogba, who made a world-record £89m move to Manchester United last summer.\n\nUp front, the exciting Paulo Dybala, signed from Palermo in 2015, has drawn comparisons to Lionel Messi while ex-Napoli striker Gonzalo Higuain has scored 32 goals in 49 appearances this season.\n\nAs Conte said, eating a 10 euro meal at a 100 euro restaurant is not really the done thing - and Juve paid Napoli £75.3m to sign Higuain last summer.\n\nBut the manner of their victories over Barcelona and Monaco suggests they are now dining at the top table alongside Europe's elite.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nTeam Sky's Geraint Thomas moved into second place in the Giro d'Italia by finishing third on stage four.\n\nThe Welshman is six seconds behind Quick-Step's Bob Jungels, the fourth man to lead the race, and four seconds ahead of fellow Briton Adam Yates.\n\nOrica rider Yates was eighth on Tuesday's 181km stage, which finished on Mount Etna.\n\nSlovenia's Jan Polanc, who rides for UAE Team Emirates, won the stage having broken away after just 2km.\n\nKatusha's Ilnur Zakarin was second, 19 seconds back, before Thomas outsprinted FDJ's Thibaut Pinot.\n\nWednesday's stage takes the riders from Pedara to Messina, with the three-week race concluding in Milan on 28 May.\n\n\"There was a bit of a headwind in the last 2km so everyone was a bit of apprehensive. I felt good and obviously it was nice to win the sprint for the third [place] and get a few seconds as well.\n\n\"I felt pretty good on the climb but, with it being a headwind, everyone like myself didn't really want to go too early.\n\n\"I think everyone's still finding their legs and sussing each other out but a good start.\n\n\"It's a nice sort of psychological boost winning the sprint but there's still a long way to go until Milan [the final stage], and we'll know a lot more on Sunday.\"\n\nOverall classification after stage four", "Miles wanted his biggest hit to help stop Italy's \"Saturday night slaughter\"\n\nDJ Robert Miles has died at the age of 47. The track that defined his career, Children, was one of the biggest-selling instrumentals in Europe and inspired a whole new genre. But Miles had an unusual motivation for it - helping to tackle \"Saturday night slaughter\" on Italy's roads.\n\nChildren is one of the most iconic tracks in the history of dance music.\n\nIt launched a new genre - \"dream house\" - and although that did not last long, the more melancholy, cerebral sound opened the door for trance music, which would come to dominate clubs in the late 1990s, going fully mainstream into the new millennium.\n\nThat sound was a very deliberate choice by Miles, whose real name was Roberto Concina.\n\nAlthough Children was initially written in response to images of the child victims of the Balkans war as Yugoslavia tore itself apart, the track then took on a different life - and a different motivation. Miles wanted to make it big to help save the lives of clubbers.\n\nThe sound of Europe's clubs in the mid-1990s - in particular in Italy, where Miles lived - was amped-up tracks and hard beats.\n\nBut the high this music induced in clubbers - plus any substances they may have taken to enhance their experience - meant that when the night was over, they were still feeling the full effects of drugs and adrenaline.\n\nThis was blamed for a rise in car crashes at the weekends. Having danced all night and often driven many miles to get to the clubs, young drivers were losing control and ending up in appalling accidents.\n\nIn fact, so bad was the problem that it had its own term in Italy - \"stragi del sabato sera\" - Saturday night slaughter.\n\nChildren, therefore, was an option for DJs to put on as the last track of the night.\n\nIt had a soft beat, slower and far less frenetic than the music that would have preceded it. The full-length version started without any instruments at all - it began with the natural sound of a thunderstorm.\n\nBut it was the piano riff that really made Children different.\n\nMiles was named Best international newcomer at the 1997 Brit Awards\n\nIt was mournful, a sound that triggered deep emotions. To listeners, the children of the title were not literally the world's under-16s but their own younger selves.\n\nTo those in the right frame of mind, the track brought feelings of nostalgia, calm and longing, like the regret of remembering a beautiful dream. Not for nothing was the track's parent album called Dreamland.\n\nMiles once described the reaction the first time he played the track: \"I lifted my gaze and saw a sea of hands reaching up high and a smile stamped on every face,\" he said.\n\n\"A girl approached me in tears. 'What music is this?' she asked me. I don't think I shall ever forget that moment, when I realised that my feelings had been conveyed through my music. My dream turned into reality.\"\n\nThe video for Children played on these themes, shot in moody black and white, with a child looking out of a car window at a rainy world.\n\nItalian authorities and parents welcomed the release of the track. And before long, so did Europe's record-buying public.\n\nIn the UK, BBC Radio 1's Pete Tong named it Essential Tune of The Week three weeks in a row. It was the eighth best-selling single of 1996.\n\nIn Europe - doubtless aided by its lack of vocals, giving it a more universal appeal - Children did even better. It was number one in France for 11 weeks, Germany and Spain for seven, and - crucially - Italy for five. In Miles's home country of Switzerland, it lasted at the top for an extraordinary 13 weeks.\n\nUltimately, it went top five in every European country that counted record sales.\n\nMiles followed Children's success with another couple of hits from Dreamland - Fable and One & One - and briefly revived the career of Sister Sledge's Kathy Sledge with their collaboration Freedom.\n\nHe then devoted his musical career to experimentation, taking his sound in a dramatically different direction that no longer had the commercial appeal that made him a star name.\n\nBut his track had changed dance music forever - and perhaps also changed the lives of certain clubbers who thought twice about exhaustedly staggering into their cars on hot nights in mid-90s Italy.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nDefending champions Real Madrid held off a spirited Atletico Madrid to set up a meeting with Juventus in next month's Champions League final in Cardiff.\n\nAtletico, trailing 3-0 from the first leg, stormed into an early 2-0 lead on the night through Saul Niguez's header and Antoine Griezmann's cheeky penalty.\n\nBut Real grabbed a vital away goal when Isco poked in a rebound after Toni Kroos' fierce shot - following a brilliant run by Karim Benzema - was saved.\n\nIt checked Atletico's momentum and left them needing three more goals to reach a third Champions League final in four seasons.\n\nChances were scarcer for both teams after the break, although home substitute Kevin Gameiro missed two presentable chances to give Atletico a glimmer of hope.\n\nUltimately, the damage from the first leg was irreversible as Real beat their neighbours in the competition for the fourth successive season.\n\nZinedine Zidane's team, attempting to become the first team to win the Champions League twice in a row, will meet Juventus at the Principality Stadium on Saturday, 3 June.\n\nToo little, too late for Atletico\n\nMost people thought this tie was a foregone conclusion after Atletico were outclassed at the Bernabeu eight days ago.\n\nLos Rojiblancos, who managed just one shot on target in a limp away performance, had other ideas.\n\nKnowing they needed at least three goals to stand any chance of progressing, Diego Simeone's side tore out of the blocks in the opening 20 minutes.\n\nAtletico hassled and harried the visitors, creating gaps in a panicky away defence.\n\nReal keeper Keylor Navas had already saved from Koke inside the opening five minutes before the Atletico midfielder swung in a right-wing corner which Saul met at the near post to powerfully head in.\n\nThe visitors had not conceded twice inside the opening 20 minutes of a Champions League match since 2004 - but Griezmann ended that record after Fernando Torres was bundled over by Raphael Varane's clumsy tackle.\n\nGriezmann missed a penalty against Real in last year's Champions League final, as well as two more spot-kicks in La Liga this season, but his Paneka-style chip sneaked past the diving Navas.\n\nLa Liga leaders Real looked flustered as the noise was ramped up by the home supporters.\n\nHowever, they knew one away goal would completely change the complexion of a compelling match - and Isco's opportunist strike did exactly that.\n\nWhile the chances of Atletico thrashing their illustrious neighbours appeared slim, there was a recent precedent to which Simeone and his players looked for inspiration.\n\nSimeone's side, then the defending La Liga champions, inflicted Real's heaviest league defeat in over four years when they produced a scintillating 4-0 home win in February 2015.\n\nTheir fans hoped they could replicate that score and provide what they thought would be a fitting farewell to the Calderon as it hosted a Champions League game for the final time.\n\nAtletico moved into the bowl-like stadium in 1966, but will leave this summer for a state-of-the-art 76,000-seat stadium on the eastern outskirts of the Spanish capital.\n\nThe Calderon, famed for its atmosphere, was a cauldron of noise as the home supporters urged their team on.\n\nFor many years, the stadium hosted Atletico sides - including the one relegated in 2000 - who struggled to emerge from their shadows of their illustrious neighbours.\n\nSo, despite Atletico changing the dynamic in recent years under Simeone, it was perhaps quite apt their final meeting with Real there ended in pride but, ultimately, disappointment.\n\nEleven-time winners Real Madrid have been crowned European champions more than any other club, so it is perhaps not surprising it is they who are one match away from becoming the first team to retain the Champions League.\n\nReal's progress to their second successive final has been relatively smooth, though they did need two controversial goals to overcome quarter-final opponents Bayern Munich in extra time.\n\nThat victory was sealed by a hat-trick from Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, who then put Zidane's side on the verge of the final with another treble against Atletico.\n\nThe three-goal cushion gave a margin of error to Real and, after a wobbly opening 20 minutes, they regained control of the semi-final after Isco's strike.\n\nAnother giant of the European game stands in their way.\n\nItalian champions Juventus, who progressed with a 4-1 aggregate win over Monaco, are attempting to win their first Champions League title in 21 years.\n\nThe final will be a replay of the 1998 showpiece, when Real were crowned European champions for the seventh time - after a 32-year wait - thanks to Predrag Mijatovic's goal.\n\nAnd it means a reunion for Madrid manager Zidane, who played in that final for the Italian side, with his former club.\n\n\"It has been a very important club for me in my career and I keep it as a club that has given me everything. It is going to be something special,\" said the Frenchman, who played for Juve between 1996 and 2001.\n• None Read more: From despair to a 'masterclass' - how Juventus rose again\n• None Real Madrid have reached the European Cup/Champions League final for a record 15th time, ahead of AC Milan (11)\n• None Real have reached two successive finals for the first time since they won the trophy five times in a row between 1956 and 1960\n• None The Spanish club need just one more goal to become the first team to score 500 in the Champions League\n• None Real have won 11 of their 14 European Cup finals\n• None Juventus have won the trophy twice, losing a record six finals\n• None Both Real and Juventus join AC Milan on a record six final appearances in the Champions League\n• None Atletico became the first team to be eliminated by the same opponents four times in a row\n\n'Cardiff here we come!' - post-media reaction\n\n\"We are very happy, happy to reach the final again. It is all merited, especially for the players who have worked so far. It's deserved.\n\n\"We had difficulties at the beginning, we got two goals, but we did not have to worry. We knew we were going to have chances.\n\n\"We knew they would come out strong, with pressure. But after 25 minutes it changed completely. In the second part, we found our game.\"\n\nAtletico Madrid captain Gabi: \"The performance was the least we could do. I thought we were excellent in the first half. A moment of genius from Benzema took away from the dream but we never stopped fighting and I'm proud of everyone.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Yannick Carrasco (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt saved. Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Yannick Carrasco.\n• None Attempt blocked. Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez.\n• None Offside, Atlético de Madrid. Gabi tries a through ball, but Diego Godín is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Gabi (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Diego Godín.\n• None Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal kept alive their hopes of a top-four Premier League finish as second-half goals from Alexis Sanchez and Olivier Giroud earned victory at Southampton.\n\nAfter a dull first half, Sanchez produced a moment of magic to open the scoring when the Chilean wrong-footed two defenders in the box before calmly slotting home.\n\nSubstitute Giroud then made the win safe by nodding in from close range minutes after coming onto the pitch.\n\nMid-table Southampton rarely threatened. Their best chance came in the first half when Manolo Gabbiadini forced a fine save out of Petr Cech from close range, and they stay 10th.\n\nThe win means Arsenal move above Manchester United into fifth, three points behind fourth-placed Manchester City.\n\nAn awful run of form from January until early April had seriously threatened to end Arsene Wenger's record of securing a top four finish in every season he has had at Arsenal.\n\nHowever, four wins in their six games prior to the trip to St Mary's had given hope that the season would not peter out.\n\nIn what was a must-win game, Arsenal's players initially failed to rise to the challenge.\n\nThey were ponderous in possession and lacked bite in attack. Too often they played passes square just inside the Southampton half before gifting possession back to the hosts when they approached the final third.\n\nBut in Sanchez they possess a player capable of producing something from nothing and that is exactly what he did midway through the second half.\n\nHis goal, which came after he sold two Southampton players a dummy to give himself a clear shot on goal, visibly relaxed Arsenal and from then on they played with confidence and freedom, allowing them to open up the hosts for a second time when Giroud headed in Aaron Ramsey's cross.\n\nThe only negative for Arsenal was the loss of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain to injury in the second half, although Wenger suggested it was not serious.\n\nSanchez has now scored 20 goals this season, making him only the fifth Arsenal player to reach that mark, after Ian Wright, Thierry Henry, Emmanuel Adebayor and Robin van Persie.\n\nIt was also his 14th away from home - more than another Premier League player has managed this campaign.\n\nVictory not only moves Arsenal, who face Chelsea in the FA Cup final later this month, to within one win of Manchester City, but also four points behind Liverpool, who have played a game more.\n\nIn a season that has seen protests against Wenger and some fans calling for the Frenchman to leave, the possibility they could finish with FA Cup success and a place in the top four is a very real one.\n\nSouthampton boss Claude Puel's long-term future is reportedly uncertain, with the Frenchman yet to show signs of taking the club forward since replacing Ronald Koeman last summer.\n\nSaints did reach the final of the League Cup but have been firmly ensconced in mid-table in the Premier League this season, a disappointment having finished sixth last year.\n\nThe Gunners brushed aside Southampton 5-0 in the FA Cup in January and the hosts never looked like gaining revenge in this fixture.\n\nOnce again, Southampton were weak in attack. They had two shots on target in this game and have now managed just 12 shots on target across their last six Premier League games.\n\nWith Saints struggling for goals and key players like defender Virgil van Dijk said to be attracting interest from other clubs, Puel - if he is still at the club - faces a challenging summer of improving the squad to get them moving in the right direction once again.\n\nWe stuck together - what they said\n\nSouthampton manager Claude Puel speaking to Match of the Day: \"It's often the same against the big six. We cannot find a win. Every time we play good quality football with chances but without the clinical edge and it's harsh on the players.\n\n\"For me, we deserved at minimum a draw and maybe a win. For them, in one situation, they scored. It's difficult to accept.\"\n\nArsenal boss Arsene Wenger said: \"We were focused and I felt that when we suffered we stuck together.\n\n\"We have another clean sheet and I know we can go forward and score goals. The whole team was dynamic, focused and showed a convincing desire to win the game.\"\n• None Arsenal ended a run of five winless Premier League games at St Mary's, claiming their first win there since December 2003.\n• None This is Sanchez's best ever league goal return in the top five European leagues, beating his previous best of 19 in 2013-14 with Barcelona.\n• None The Gunners have won four of their past five Premier League games (L1) since adopting a three-man defence.\n• None Southampton have had 29 shots in their last three Premier League games without scoring.\n• None Olivier Giroud has six Premier League substitute goals this season - only Adam Le Fondre (eight in 2012-13) has more in a single campaign than the Frenchman.\n• None Giroud's goal was his 100th in the top-flight of European football (33 in Ligue 1, 67 in the Premier League).\n\nSouthampton, who cannot finish higher than eighth, travel to already-relegated Middlesbrough on Saturday, 13 May (15:00 BST).\n\nArsenal, meanwhile, continue their bid to break into the top four with a trip to Stoke in Saturday's evening kick-of (17:30).\n• None Attempt blocked. Manolo Gabbiadini (Southampton) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jay Rodriguez.\n• None Attempt missed. Sofiane Boufal (Southampton) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Oriol Romeu.\n• None Shane Long (Southampton) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Southampton 0, Arsenal 2. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey with a headed pass.\n• None Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Sofiane Boufal (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA policy of offering free childcare would get the economy moving for the benefit of all, the leader of the Women's Equality Party has said.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Daily Politics programme, Sophie Walker said her party would prioritise investment in the \"social infrastructure\" of the UK.\n\nShe said free childcare would transform lives, increase the tax base and mean fewer people on out-of-work benefits.\n\nThe party is fielding seven candidates in the general election.\n\nMs Walker told the programme the party was offering voters a \"better option\" than other parties, with candidates from diverse backgrounds bringing \"new and fresh\" voices.\n\nShe said policies designed to work for women would result in a political system that worked better for everyone.\n\nInvesting in free childcare in the same way previous governments had invested in physical infrastructure, for example, would \"have a positive knock-on for everyone in a very, very positive way\".\n\nShe added that women in the UK still did not have the same options as men, with men still outnumbering women in Parliament, the continued existence of a pay gap between men and women and women suffering disproportionately from austerity measures.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nWorld number one Andy Murray progressed to the third round of the Madrid Open with a straight-set victory over Romanian Marius Copil.\n\nThe 29-year-old Briton, who had a first-round bye, won 6-4 6-3.\n\nMurray was not at his best early on but broke world number 104 Copil at 5-4 to take the first set and pounced again at 3-2 in the second.\n\nHe will face Croat Borna Coric or Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the last 16.\n\nFollowing his victory, Murray told BBC Sport: \"The last few weeks my serve hasn't gone particularly well.\n\n\"Obviously when I was coming back from my elbow injury that was the one thing that I wasn't able to practise in my time off and that showed a bit in my matches.\n\n\"I was broken six times in one match, seven in another. I wanted to come here, serve a little bit better and I did that today.\n\n\"Today was the start and I have to get better, but at least I gave myself the chance to play another match in a couple of days. It is a very, very important period of the year.\"\n\nIt was a solid display from Murray against a potentially dangerous opponent as he prepares for the French Open, which starts on 28 May.\n\nCopil will move into the world's top 100 next week, and the 6ft 4in Romanian was the more aggressive player in the first set.\n\nIt took Murray until the 10th game to break his serve, and he finally prevailed through attacking Copil's shaky backhand.\n\nThe Briton looked far more focused in the second set as he wrapped up victory in one hour and 23 minutes - with just nine unforced errors and without facing a break point.\n\nMurray reached the final in Madrid last year, losing to Novak Djokovic, and took the title in 2015, but has so far had a mixed clay-court season.\n\nAfter taking a month out due to the elbow injury and withdrawing from Britain's Davis Cup quarter-final defeat by France, he lost in the Monte Carlo Masters last 16 on his return.\n\nThe Scot was beaten by Austrian Dominic Thiem in the semi-finals of the Barcelona Open last month.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United boss Jose Mourinho does not believe it is a gamble to prioritise the Europa League over a top-four finish in the Premier League, saying it is \"common sense\".\n\nUnited hold a 1-0 lead over Celta Vigo heading into Thursday's semi-final second leg at Old Trafford.\n\nMourinho says a busy fixture schedule made it necessary to prioritise.\n\n\"Seventeen matches in seven weeks is impossible. It's not a gamble, just a consequence of our situation,\" he said.\n\n\"It was a simple decision, based on common sense.\"\n• None Listen: Rooney 'the most under-appreciated player in Britain'\n\nThe Europa League champions are guaranteed Champions League football for next season, as are the top four finishers in the Premier League.\n\nThe Red Devils are currently fifth in the league, four points behind fourth-placed Manchester City with three games remaining.\n\nMourinho made eight changes as United's 25-match unbeaten run in the league was ended by Arsenal on Sunday.\n\nThe Portuguese coach is confident the Europa League remains United's best chance of securing Champions League football and insists he will have \"no regrets\" if his side ultimately fail to win the competition.\n\n\"Let's see if we can do it,\" he added.\n\n\"It doesn't matter what happens. No regrets, we are giving everything we can, the players and myself.\"\n\n\"This club belongs in the Champions League,\" he said.\n\n\"Realistically, it's going to be difficult to do it through the league. We have to concentrate on winning the trophy.\"\n\nRooney continues to be linked with a big-money move to China, while Everton and the United States have been suggested as other potential destinations.\n\nHowever, when asked if he wanted to stay at Old Trafford, the England forward said: \"Would I like to stay? I've been at this club 13 years.\n\n\"Of course, I want to play football.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nCoverage: Live text commentary on the BBC Sport website on Saturday and Sunday\n\nDanny Willett has split with caddie Jonathan Smart just over a year after winning the Masters at Augusta.\n\nThe pair have been friends since their teens but had a disagreement during April's RBC Heritage event, with Willett eventually missing the cut.\n\nSmart felt mistreated and left his role, \"effectively sacking\" Willett, 29, mid-tournament, according to BBC golf correspondent Iain Carter.\n\n\"Things are a bit stale and kind of fizzled out,\" Willett told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It is a shame. But things happen and change, everything happens for a reason.\n\n\"We are still working hard to get the game in shape to get back playing the golf we know we can play.\"\n• None Should the Players Championship be a major?\n\nWillett did not rule out the prospect of his childhood friend one day returning to his bag but he was forced to use a member of his management team in the second round at the RBC Heritage.\n\nHe will use Sam Haywood at this week's Players Championship in Florida. Haywood was best man at Willett's wedding and has recently been on the bag of American player David Lipsky.\n\n\"Sam knows my game really well,\" Willett added. \"We've played a lot of golf together over the last 10 or 15 years. It's nice having someone who you can speak frankly with. He knows where my game is and when it's good. I think it's going to be good.\"\n\nSmart and Willett memorably embraced in the recorders' room at last year's Masters when it became clear the Englishman had won a first major.\n\nBut he has not won a tournament since, placing outside the top-25 in the three other majors in 2016 before missing the cut on his return to Augusta in April.\n\nThe dip in form has seen him fall 10 places to 21 in the world since the turn of the year.\n\nIt's been a struggle to adjust to the status of a major champion for Willett. Results haven't been good for a year.\n\nRecently he's missed three of the last four cuts, so these are trying times.\n\nIt came home for me today as I remember this day last year I approached him at his first tournament since winning the Masters. Now, the mood music could not be any different.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nPerth's new stadium will not be finished in time for the third Ashes Test between England and Australia, with the Waca set to host instead.\n\nCricket Australia confirmed delays to the new 60,000-capacity stadium will mean the match from 14-18 December will revert to the city's traditional venue.\n\nThe five-Test Ashes series starts in Brisbane on 23 November, with Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney also hosting.\n\n\"It's good now we have some certainty,\" said CA chief James Sutherland.\n\nCA confirmed the change after meeting with the Western Australia government and Western Australian Cricket Association representatives.\n\n\"We knew that everything needed to come together but it was still disappointing,\" said Sutherland.\n\n\"We were really hoping that the Test match could be played at this magnificent new stadium.\"\n\nThe regional authorities hope the fifth one-day international between Australia and England on 28 January will take place at the new venue.\n\nSutherland added it was \"probably unlikely\" that any of the domestic T20 Big Bash League or Women's Big Bash League matches in the 2017-18 season would be played at the new stadium, with the Perth Scorchers franchise to host matches at the Waca.\n\nEngland have not beaten Australia in Tests at the Waca ground since 1978.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nInter Milan have refused to comment on reports they are planning to offer Chelsea boss Antonio Conte a deal to replace the sacked Stefano Pioli.\n\nReports in Italy say the Chinese-backed Serie A club are prepared to offer Conte £250,000 a week if he leaves Chelsea after one season.\n\nPioli was sacked on Tuesday after six months as head coach.\n\nThe 51-year-old replaced Frank de Boer in November, signing a contract until the end of June 2018.\n\nFormer Italy boss Conte, 47, also managed Inter's rivals Juventus from 2011 to 2014.\n\nWith three matches remaining, Inter are seventh in Serie A, three points adrift of AC Milan and the final qualifying spot for the Europa League, and are winless in seven league games.\n\nYouth team coach Stefano Vecchi will take charge of the first team for the rest of the season.\n\nPioli was Inter's ninth manager since Jose Mourinho left in 2010.\n\nA club statement read: \"Inter thanks Stefano and his team for the dedication and hard work carried out at the club over the last six months in what has proven to be a difficult season.\n\n\"The club will begin planning now for the next season.\"", "Tim Farron, leader of the Liberal Democrats, campaigning in Kingston and Surbiton\n\nThe 2015 election result was a bit of a surprise. Pollsters got it wrong - and so did the media. Had we paid closer attention to where the Conservative Party was choosing to campaign, we might have spotted a gap between polling forecasts and Tory ambitions. We might have noticed David Cameron was fighting in the sort of seats that implied he thought a victory was coming.\n\nThis time, we hope to avoid that sort of mistake by paying closer attention to the campaigns. Here is Conservative leader Theresa May's journey since the prime minister called the snap general election on 18 April. As of Monday, she had taken trips all over the country, the purpose of which is to get her face on local TV and in local newspapers.\n\nNOTE: The maps for Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn, Nicola Sturgeon and Tim Farron have been updated to include visits made up to 7 June, the final day of election campaigning. You can read further analysis on those visits here. We are waiting on more information surrounding Paul Nuttall's campaign.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn, too, has been all over Great Britain. The two leaders have covered a lot of ground - but not quite the same sorts of places.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nTo help you understand this pattern, below is a chart explaining the significance of where these two have been.\n\nTheresa May has so far been visiting seats with a considerable Labour majority but where UKIP also did well in the 2015 elections\n\nSee how Mrs May is visiting seats which have some very big Labour majorities - look at Leeds East. But she is targeting Labour seats with big UKIP voter populations, where hoovering up the UKIP vote can do much of the work of taking the seat off Labour. In Dudley North, UKIP votes would be enough to take the seat on their own.\n\nSee also how Mrs May is largely not visiting the same sorts of places as Mr Corbyn. She is fighting in places which imply she wants a three-digit majority. The Labour Party either regards the \"front line\" as being nowhere near so gloomy for them or they are choosing not to deploy Mr Corbyn into their front line. If Labour were winning in Harlow, where Mr Corbyn went to campaign, it would probably be winning a majority.\n\nWhat, then of the other leaders? Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has been clocking up the miles.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nThe Lib Dems' strong pro-EU stance now distinguishes them from other UK-wide parties. So far, Mr Farron has only been to one seat that, according to academic estimates, voted Leave in the EU referendum - the Lib Dem-held Carshalton & Wallington. And 14 of the 20 places he's visited had Remain votes in excess of 60%.\n\nThe map shows he's hoping to take seats from both Labour and the SNP. The really big questions about the Lib Dems' future, however, are in their fight with the Tories.\n\nBoth Theresa May and Tim Farron have visited the marginal seat of Lewes in the early stage of this election campaign\n\nIn the Tory-Labour battleground, Mrs May and Mr Corbyn seemed to be fighting different elections. In the Tory-Lib Dem fight, both parties seem to think the election is going to be largely about Lib Dems taking seats back from the Tories. Both went to marginal Lewes, for example.\n\nMr Farron has paid a visit to Oxford West & Abingdon, for example, and Mrs May has been to shore up support in St Austell & Newquay. Both are current Tory seats taken from the Lib Dems.\n\nBut the Lib Dems' meagre resources will be spread thin at this election. It is not a by-election. The Tories are also polling well - and just look at the three seats above the dotted line. Those three seats - Norfolk North, Carshalton & Wallington and Southport - could all be taken by the Tories if they can win over UKIP voters. And the Tories have already started advertising in the Southport local press.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Newsnight Policy Editor Chris Cook talks through the Conservative and Labour battleground chart in more detail\n\nThe Scottish National Party has started its roadshow, too. The party won so many seats in 2015, there is no choice but for them to run a defensive election. We cannot see where leader Nicola Sturgeon is worried about quite yet. Let's come back to them.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nUKIP, meanwhile, has had a slow start. We will have to wait a bit more before we can say much more.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nThe thing that jumps out at the moment is the scale of the Tories' ambitions against Labour. There are important questions about how campaigning works and how parties get their messages out, to which we will return during the campaign - along with updates to these maps and graphs.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this content.\n\nMaps display winning parties from 2015 general election or most recent by-election. Estimated figures for the 2016 EU referendum are from Dr Chris Hanretty's academic study that remapped results from the EU referendum from local authority level to parliamentary constituency level. Leader visits displayed on the maps are accurate up to Monday 8 May, and include only visits related to the 2017 general election campaign. Maps built with Carto.", "New Barcelona signing Toni Duggan scores an 18-minute hat-trick as Manchester City beat Bristol City 3-0 in the Women's Super League One Spring Series in May.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "More than 12,000 people work at the university Image caption: More than 12,000 people work at the university\n\nThe University of Manchester's decision to cut 171 posts is due to \"new government legislation and Brexit\", a union has claimed.\n\nThe university says the move is necessary for it to be a world-leading institution.\n\nBut the University and College Union (UCU) said the university was in \"a strong financial position\".\n\nBoth academics and support staff jobs are at risk.\n\nA university spokesman said cuts would be made in the biology, medicine, health, business and humanities departments.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPaul Pogba's world-record transfer from Juventus to Manchester United last year is the subject of a Fifa inquiry.\n\nFootball's world governing body has written to the Premier League club \"to seek clarification on the deal\".\n\nIt is believed to concern who was involved in the £89.3m transfer, and how much money was paid to them.\n\nA United spokesman said: \"We do not comment on individual contracts. Fifa has had the documents since the transfer was concluded in August.\"\n\nPogba, 24, is in his second spell at Old Trafford, having left the club for Juventus for £1.5m in 2012.\n\nThe France midfielder first joined United from French side Le Havre in acrimonious circumstances in 2009.\n\nHe returned to the club last summer for a world-record fee of 105m euros.\n\nUnited also agreed to pay Juventus 5m euros (£4.5m) in performance-related bonuses plus other costs, including 5m euros if Pogba signs a new contract.\n\nWhen they confirmed the transfer, Juventus said the \"economic effect\" to their club was \"about 72.6m euros\".\n\nA book published in Germany this week - The Football Leaks: The Dirty Business of Football - and reproduced in media reports, includes what it says is a breakdown of the Pogba fee and alleges his agent Mino Raiola earned £41m from the deal.\n\nWhen contacted by the BBC, Raiola declined to comment and said the matter was in the hands of his lawyers.\n\nWere there any more details?\n\nAccording to reports taken from information in The Football Leaks:\n• None Forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic, another Raiola client, earns £367,640 a week - £19m a year - at Manchester United, making him the best-paid player in the Premier League.\n• None Pogba's basic salary is £165,000 a week - £8.61m a year - but he has substantial incentives in a 41-page contract.\n• None Raiola took a £23m slice of the transfer fee and will be paid five instalments totalling £16.39m from United over the course of Pogba's contract.", "Slovenian cyclist Luka Pibernik celebrates a lap early on stage five of the Giro d'Italia, failing to realise there were another six kilometres of the course to go.\n\nREAD MORE: Fernando Gaviria wins stage five after rival celebrates too early", "I'm terribly excited for the 2019 World Cup in Japan - and having seen Wednesday's draw, England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales should all be confident of reaching at least the quarter-finals.\n\nEngland have the ability and mindset to emerge from what is a tough pool, Scotland's match with Ireland could decide top spot in their group, while Wales will expect to go through - although Georgia will be determined to pull off an upset.\n\nThe level of competition in the sport is getting closer and closer across the world - we saw that improvement in the Six Nations this year.\n\nHowever, the quality of the Rugby Championship is a bit lower at the moment - New Zealand excepted - because South Africa are struggling and Australia have their problems.\n\nSo with the northern hemisphere sides being much closer to the southern hemisphere teams now, Japan 2019 could be when a team from the north regains the World Cup.\n• None England face tough draw, Ireland and Scotland in same pool\n• None 'There will be a lot of buzz in Japan'\n\nIt's old fashioned to call it a \"Pool of Death\", so let's just call it what it is - it's a group that nobody would want.\n\nI can imagine all the coaches, even New Zealand's Steve Hansen, thinking, \"I don't want that hard a group,\" but England head coach Eddie Jones, France's Guy Noves and their Argentina counterpart Daniel Hourcade have got it.\n\nArgentina can be unpredictable - they will be strong but I'm not sure about their age profile. In years gone by it has tended to be quite high and they haven't got a lot of resources or strength in depth.\n\nUnderstrength England face Argentina in two Tests in June but Jones' tourists are massive underdogs and I don't expect them to win as they will have 15 players away with the British and Irish Lions. With 15 of your best players out you should not be able to go to Argentina and beat a full-strength Pumas.\n\nFrance have improved but they are typically not great away from home. However, they are traditionally good in World Cup tournaments so it's a tough one for England.\n\nBut Jones' team has got a different mindset to Stuart Lancaster's side, which went out in the pool stages in 2015. The current team have won a Grand Slam and a Six Nations Championship and many of them have won three consecutive Tests against Australia away from home. They have an identity as winners.\n\nHe says they have to be ready to beat anyone but you would prefer a comfortable route to the quarter-final. You want a good sweat and some competition but don't want to be beaten.\n\nIf I was playing I would have liked an easy group before what is going to be a hard quarter-final, whoever you play. Every side in the top eight can beat one another on the day.\n\n'Scotland will believe they can beat Ireland'\n\nIreland and Scotland know each other so well. Scotland beat Ireland at Murrayfield in the Six Nations this year by scoring three tries so they will have no problem believing they can win that game.\n\nBut both sides will know they can get through to the quarter-finals, while Scotland saw off Japan when they played in 2015.\n\nJapan could be a bit better at home than they were under Eddie Jones in England, when they stunned South Africa in the group stages. But we don't know much about their new boss Jamie Joseph and we know that Jones is a special coach.\n\nIreland head coach Joe Schmidt is a master tactician but we don't know much about incoming Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend at international level.\n\nTownsend will want to build on the side that won three home games in the Six Nations but improve on those poor away performances.\n\nHe'll have 20 games or so, including two more Six Nations tournaments, before the World Cup to get those poor performances out of the window and build a team strong enough to get through.\n\nGeorgia are a tough emerging side who have been banging on the door of the Six Nations for a while, wanting to be recognised.\n\nThey have an opportunity in the next two seasons to boost their team and build themselves so they can prove a point against Wales.\n\nWales should have been in their prime in 2015 but they were injury ravaged and conceded a soft try to lose the quarter-final to South Africa.\n\nIn 2011 they were a young squad that got to the semi-finals. In 2019 a lot of those key players will all be over 30 years old - not past their sell-by date, but the squad needs some new players coming through.\n\nThere are still some question marks over whether Warren Gatland wants to continue with Wales after the Lions tour, but he has a great record as a coach and if he's still there, his and the players' experience will see them through the group.\n\nAustralia were in a similar position to Wales in 2011 and 2015. Rugby union is facing difficult times in Australia so it will be interesting to see how they do in 2019.\n\nThey are always good in World Cups, whether they are coming in with poor or good form, but we'll see if they can still be successful with all the challenges they face domestically.\n\n'All Blacks will ease through with South Africa in huge decline'\n\nHolders New Zealand have got a nice work-out leading into a quarter-final.\n\nTwo-time champions South Africa are nowhere near the force they once were - they are in huge decline. There are over 350 South African players playing outside their country and I don't see them challenging unless a quick storm of talent starts appearing in the next two years.\n\nAlthough Italy beat South Africa in November they won't spring a surprise in the World Cup - they were appalling in the Six Nations.\n\nHead coach Conor O'Shea has the opportunity to improve but I'm not sure they have enough time. A lot of players learn by rote so that things eventually become automatic - that's difficult to do in a short space of time unless you have the natural talent.\n\nBut Sergio Parisse has been Italy's best player for over a decade now and they need someone new of his calibre to come through.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland have been drawn with France and Argentina in a tough Pool C for the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan.\n\nScotland and Ireland are in Pool A, along with the hosts.\n\nWales will face Australia in a repeat of the 2015 tournament, at which both beat hosts England to qualify from the group stage. Georgia join them in Pool D.\n\nDefending champions New Zealand will take on South Africa and Italy in Pool B.\n\nThe 2019 World Cup runs from 20 September to 2 November.\n• None England have a group nobody wants - Guscott on home nations\n\n\"It's massively exciting, a unique country and unique culture,\" said England head coach Eddie Jones, who led Japan at the last World Cup.\n\nEngland will face Argentina in two Tests in June - both of which will be broadcast live on the BBC - and Jones will use the series to \"practise a little bit\" against the Pumas.\n\nSpeaking of England's other pool opponent, the Australian added: \"France have really improved over the past two years and are certainly a dangerous team.\"\n\nEngland failed to advance from their \"group of hell\" in 2015, becoming the first hosts to exit before the knockout stage.\n\nThe 12 teams who automatically qualified by finishing in the top three of their groups at the last World Cup have been drawn.\n\nThe eight remaining teams have had their slots allocated and will be determined by the qualification process that ends in 2018.\n\nEngland have also drawn the top North and South America qualifier (either USA or Canada), as well as the second-best Oceania qualifier, which will be one of Fiji, Samoa or Tonga.\n\nEngland head coach Eddie Jones: \"We want to win the World Cup in 2019, and to win it, we need to be ready to play and beat anyone.\n\n\"Our pool will be highly competitive and full of intensity, as a World Cup group should be. History shows you need to win seven games to win the tournament and we will greatly respect every team we play.\"\n\nScotland head coach Gregor Townsend: \"Obviously there's an excitement playing the host nation, and it probably guarantees a sell-out game in that fixture. I'm sure there will be a lot of buzz around Japan around the group we're involved in.\n\n\"Whether it's better for us or Ireland that we know each other so well, we will find out in a couple of years' time.\"\n\nIreland vice-captain Jamie Heaslip: \"Getting to avoid South Africa, France and Wales is a big thing for us.\n\n\"We're happy with it, there are some tougher groups, but you've seen what Japan have done in the past 18 months and Scotland we've struggled with as well.\"\n\nWales head coach Warren Gatland: \"We've got Australia and it looks like we could get Fiji again, so a couple of teams from 2015, but we're happy with the draw.\n\n\"It's going to be tough and competitive, but that's what you want.\"\n\nWorld Rugby has confirmed the structure for the knockout stages of the 2015 tournament will remain in place in 2019. That means:\n• None The winners of Pool B will face the runners-up in Pool A\n• None The winners of Pool C will face the runners-up in Pool D\n• None The winners of Pool D will face the runners up in Pool C\n• None The winners of Pool A will face the runners-up in Pool B\n\nTeams who played each other in the pool stages cannot meet again in the semi-finals.\n\nSo England and Wales could meet in the quarter-finals, with the winner potentially facing a semi-final against New Zealand.\n\nThe All Blacks could face either Ireland or Scotland in the quarter-finals.", "Is the selfie culture coming into serious academic research? Or is it a valid way of using first-hand experience?\n\nThere are strong opinions about an increasingly popular international research method which has been dubbed \"mesearch\".\n\n\"Mesearch\", which is properly known as autoethnography, is when a researcher uses their personal experiences to tackle academic questions.\n\nCritics dismiss it as \"unscientific\", \"academic narcissism\" and \"diary-writing for the over-educated\".\n\nThey say it is a very modern phenomenon - a high-brow version of taking selfies, watching reality television and posting thoughts into the echo chambers of social media.\n\nBut it is being used in many fields like sociology, education and psychology, published by mainstream journals, and taught in universities in the United States.\n\nThe term autoethnography dates back to the 1970s, and an early study described a researcher's \"unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of writer's block\".\n\nThe fact the article was published suggests he managed to overcome the problem in the end.\n\nWhile most qualitative researchers base their theories on in-depth interviews with a small number of people, an autoethnographer only uses his or her own experiences and feelings to understand a wider subject.\n\nAutoethnographic articles are often written in the form of a story, rather than precise academic language.\n\nThere are claims that \"mesearch\" gives perspectives missing from conventional research\n\nThis is a break from the traditional scientific method which requires academics to be objective and detached from their subject, and base their theories on data and experiments that can be tested, verified and reproduced.\n\nSo it is not surprising that many academics are suspicious - even the name \"mesearch\" is used to undermine the method.\n\nVincent F Hendricks, professor of formal philosophy at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, says autoethnography fails to meet the standard criteria for science.\n\nHe says autoethnographic studies cannot claim to have \"falsifiability, testability, representability, extrapolation, prediction, and other conditions securing reliable scientific enquiry\".\n\nSceptical academics have taken to Twitter to expose what they regard as the most self-indulgent and unscientific examples of autoethnography.\n\nTheir latest targets include a researcher using her experience of learning how to do glassblowing to understand hand-eye coordination, and an academic describing how walking in the hills helped him to develop his sense of identity.\n\nAnother autoethnographer recently described how Donald Trump's presidential election victory left him unable to sleep.\n\nAll three were published in peer-reviewed journals.\n\nMore stories from the BBC's Global education series looking at education from an international perspective, and how to get in touch.\n\nYou can join the debate at the BBC's Family & Education News Facebook page.\n\nProfessor Carolyn Ellis of the University of South Florida, who is one of the world's leading autoethnographers, rejects the charges of \"narcissism\".\n\n\"It's narcissistic to leave out your own experience and to act all-knowing, as though you can stand apart, and that you are not subject to the same forces as those you write about,\" she says.\n\n\"It's narcissistic to think that \"we\" academics should write only about \"them\" and not subject ourselves to the same scrutiny.\n\nShe says autoethnography has given a voice to people from working class, ethnic minority and indigenous backgrounds \"who would not have written otherwise in the more traditional social science prose\".\n\nProf Ellis argues that an autoethnographic approach can give insights which would not be possible using traditional research methods.\n\nFor example, she has challenged theories about \"minor bodily stigmas\" by giving an honest and personal account of why she has always disliked her own lisp.\n\nDoes the idea of \"mesearch\" come out of a culture of social media and reality television?\n\nShe also says training in autoethnography can make someone a better teacher.\n\nBy sharing her stories with a class, she says it \"creates a positive atmosphere in the course\" which encourages students to open up about \"the issues that really concern them and they care about\".\n\nOther advocates of the method say it allows people to share experiences in greater depth and analyse their meaning.\n\nDr Jill Bolte Taylor from Harvard University made first-hand observations about the workings of the brain and how it is rehabilitated while she recovered from a stroke.\n\nShe says that watching her brain deteriorate gave her \"an understanding of the brain that academia could not teach me\" - and wrote a book about it called My Stroke of Insight.\n\nCould Sir Isaac Newton's revelation about gravity after an apple fell on his head, and Descartes' observation that \"I think, therefore I am\", be called examples of autoethnography?\n\n\"You'd have to ask them, but I'd have no problem calling these observations autoethnographic,\" says Prof Ellis.\n\nThe Journal of Loss and Trauma has now published almost 100 autoethnographic studies, and its editor Prof John Harvey says the technique can be useful for the in-depth study of traumatic events.\n\nBut he warns that autoethnographic studies often struggle to make the case that one person's story represents the likely experiences of a wider group.\n\nAutoethnography's rise shows no sign of stopping - with more journals publishing studies and more universities offering courses in the method.\n\nThis means more work for the next generation of autoethnographers, and more work for the cynics who trawl journals for \"self-indulgent\" studies to mock on Twitter.", "Maxine Peake as sexual health worker Sara Rowbotham in Three Girls\n\n\"It was a story that needed to be told,\" says Maxine Peake, emphatically.\n\n\"It's a story about a swathe of society that has been ignored and bullied.\"\n\nThe actress is referring to Three Girls, a new BBC One drama based on the true stories of victims of grooming and sexual abuse in Rochdale.\n\nPeake plays Sara Rowbotham, the sexual health worker who realised the girls were being abused and reported it to the authorities - and was repeatedly ignored.\n\n\"The powers that be weren't encouraging her, they were shutting doors, they were telling her to be quiet, they weren't interested,\" says Peake, who met the real-life Sara in preparation for the role.\n\n\"Nobody seemed interested in helping these girls who were in desperate situations. These were really vulnerable young women - the lack of care for them I found mind-blowing.\"\n\nAs the title suggests, Three Girls focuses on the young victims who were groomed in Rochdale in the five years between 2008 and 2012, for which nine men were convicted and sentenced.\n\nThe judge at the time, Gerald Clifton, said the men - eight of Pakistani origin and one from Afghanistan - treated the girls \"as though they were worthless and beyond respect\".\n\nHe said: \"One of the factors leading to that was the fact that they were not part of your community or religion.\n\n\"Some of you, when arrested, said it (the prosecution) was triggered by race. That is nonsense. What triggered this prosecution was your lust and greed.\"\n\nThe drama - which will be shown over three nights next week - has been made with the full co-operation of the victims and their families.\n\nIt comes as ITV soap Coronation Street also has a running storyline about child grooming involving 16-year-old Bethany Platt and a \"boyfriend\" in his mid-30s.\n\nThree Girls isn't an easy watch, although it is never prurient or sensational.\n\nTwo episodes were shown at a press screening in London this week. The mood afterwards was subdued.\n\nHolly (Molly Windsor) with her parents Jim (Paul Kaye) and Julie (Jill Halfpenny)\n\nThe first episode follows schoolgirl Holly (an astonishing performance from Molly Windsor), recently moved to Rochdale with her family, who is is keen to make friends and fit in.\n\nIt isn't long before she is hanging out with a group of girls at the back of a local kebab shop being given free food and endless bottles of vodka by older men.\n\nAnd then the demands for sex begin.\n\nOne chilling line that sticks in the memory is when one victim describes how girls would be driven to a flat full of men who \"passed us around like a ball\".\n\nWriter Nicole Taylor started work on the project in December 2013 by getting to know the victims and their families so she could understand what had happened in detail.\n\nLesley Sharp (right) plays detective Maggie Oliver who, with Sara Rowbotham, helps bring the case to court\n\nSpeaking after the screening, Peake says that telling the story in a drama helps engage a bigger audience.\n\n\"Sometimes people can be slightly cautious about documentaries, maybe, so it's getting into more homes.\n\n\"This is still going on,\" she adds. \"It's not over, but steps have been made and things are getting better.\"\n\nExecutive producer Sue Hogg says she had become interested in making the drama after she heard an interview with one of the victims after the trial.\n\n\"She was only 19 then, and she was so dignified and so strong in that interview - and then you begin to ask the questions 'why was this allowed to go on for so long?' and 'why were the girls not listened to?'\"\n\nShe hopes that the drama will help the public understand how grooming works and will help prevent future cases.\n\nPeake says that, despite the harrowing subject matter, acting in the drama was a \"positive experience\".\n\n\"It wasn't a depressing set to be on - it felt full of hope,\" she says.\n\n\"Being part of this story, you felt you were doing something that had hope for the next generation of girls that hopefully will be protected from this.\n\n\"And the girls who have been through it, and are now young women, will be able to move on with their lives.\"\n\nThis story was first published on 9 May 2017.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip May: \"I take the bins out\"\n\nPoliticians always want to \"connect\" with hard-to-reach voters.\n\nSo Theresa May took to the One Show sofa to catch the tea-time TV audience alongside her husband Philip.\n\nShe looked apprehensive, but she needn't have worried.\n\nMr May was as careful to avoid gaffes as Mrs May always is.\n\nHe spent most of the interview turned towards her, nodding vigorously, and murmuring \"mmh\" in loyal agreement.\n\nIt's the same at home, he claims.\n\nAsked whether she was a tough negotiator, he said: \"Well, there's give and take in every marriage.\n\n\"I get to decide when I take the bins out. Not if I take them out.\"\n\nHis wife jumped in. \"There's boy jobs and girls jobs, you see,\" she clarifies.\n\n\"I definitely do the bins,\" Mr May confirmed, before adding: \"I do the traditional boy jobs, by and large.\"\n\nApart, of course, from what's traditionally been a \"boy job\" - being prime minister.\n\nHe revealed that his wife had first harboured an interest in being PM when she was in the Shadow Cabinet, which she joined in 1999.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough he'd spoken at the Conservative Party conference in his youth, it was Theresa who first embarked on the political career, while he worked in finance.\n\nMrs May revealed one difficult moment for the couple, who don't have children, when she was looking for a constituency - and a newspaper predicted she'd have trouble being selected as a Conservative candidate because of her new baby.\n\nShe said her mother-in-law had rung up hoping there was happy news.\n\n\"So she was disappointed,\" said Mrs May.\n\nThere were questions about the walking holidays, her childhood at the vicarage, and meeting for the first time.\n\nThey were introduced at an Oxford University student disco by a mutual friend, Benazir Bhutto, the future prime minister of Pakistan.\n\nOn first impressions: \"I thought 'what a lovely girl' - it was love at first sight,\" according to Philip.\n\nBut there were few genuine revelations about the couple's private side.\n\nMrs May certainly looked rather relieved whenever the conversation veered towards politics.\n\nAsked about the downside to being married to the prime minister, Mr May insisted it was a privilege, and would go no further than saying: \"If you're the kind of man who expects his tea to be on the table at six o'clock every evening, you could be a disappointed man.\"\n\nBut he added gallantly that she was a very good cook.\n\nAnd then, of course, there was a question about her love of fashion, and in particular shoes - with a close-up of her black loafers with diamante-studded heels.\n\nMrs May confirmed that she did, indeed, like buying shoes. But she promised there was a serious side to it - and recounted meeting a young woman in the lift in the House of Commons.\n\nAfter admiring each other's shoes, the woman revealed that it was Mrs May's interest in shoes that had turned her on to politics. A future prime minister in the making, surely.\n\nBut fashion isn't just for women.\n\n\"And what's your shoe-equivalent?\" Mr May was asked.\n\nLooking hunted, he replied... \"I quite like ties.\"\n\nThe One Show has invited Jeremy Corbyn onto the show too, as well as other leaders - though he hasn't yet said if he'll bring his wife along.", "Tour de France winner Chris Froome escaped injury when he was \"rammed on purpose\" by a motorist while training in southern France. Other professional riders have recently been hurt or even killed. How dangerous are the open roads for cyclists?\n\nAbout 100 cyclists die as a result of collisions or coming off their bikes on the roads in Great Britain each year. And more than 3,000 are seriously injured.\n\nBut the good news is the number of deaths has dropped.\n\nThere were 55 cyclist fatalities per billion miles cycled in 2005, which fell to 31 deaths per billion miles in 2015.\n\nHowever, when the fatalities are combined with the overall number of serious injuries, the risk of life-changing injury is still higher than it was a decade ago.\n\nThe rate of cyclist deaths on the road varies from country to country.\n\nIn France, where Olympic bronze medallist Froome posted a picture of his mangled bike on Twitter, about four in every 100 road deaths are cyclists.\n\nThat is slightly lower than in the UK, where cyclists make up 6% of those killed, according to European Commission statistics.\n\nChris Froome carried on training after being knocked from his bike\n\nTeam Sky said the 31-year-old three-time Tour de France winner had returned to his home in Monaco to get a spare bicycle and had continued his training after the incident, which was being reported to the police.\n\nIn April, Wanty-Groupe Gobert rider Yoann Offredo posted pictures on social media of himself badly bloodied, saying he had been the victim of an assault while out riding with two friends in the Chevreuse Valley, south west of Paris.\n\nAnother professional rider was not so fortunate.\n\nIn April, Michele Scarponi, who won the 2011 Giro d'Italia, was killed when he was knocked off his bike by a van while training close to home in Italy.\n\nWanty-Groupe Gobert rider Yoann Offredo posted pictures of the aftermath of an attack\n\nIn Italy cyclists account for about 7% of all road deaths and the average across the European Union is about 8%.\n\nThe rate is especially high in countries where cycling is more popular. In the Netherlands, for example, cyclists account for almost a quarter of road deaths.\n\nIn Great Britain, cyclists are the second most at risk group of road users after motorcycle riders.\n\nWhen the number of deaths and serious injuries is divided by the total number of miles travelled by all people using that form of transport, cyclists are far more at risk than car drivers.\n\nIn 2015, there were 43 more cyclists than car drivers killed or seriously hurt per billion miles travelled.\n\nHowever, these figures do not take account of the health benefits of cycling. A study of commuters suggested there was a link between cycling to work and a reduced risk of cancer and heart disease.\n\nThe charity Cycling UK says cycling in Britain is a \"relatively safe activity\" but that \"the behaviour and attitudes of some road users, sub-standard highway layout and motor traffic volume and speed all conspire to make cycling feel and look more dangerous than it actually is\".\n\nCampaign co-ordinator Sam Jones says: \"Cycling is no more dangerous than walking or doing your gardening, but we do find the increased risk of injury is worrying and there are a number of things that can be done to address this.\"\n\nThe charity wants to see 20mph limits on narrow roads and a network of cycling routes.", "These elections are a complicated set of local contests, some old, some new, some electing an individual to a position of great power, most, individual races in wards that make up only a few streets, for councillors who then group together to run our towns and cities.\n\nSo as the results come in, from the early hours of Friday morning right through the day, what are we looking for?\n\nFirst, these are important elections in their own right, and the results make a big difference to decisions that are made on our behalves all round the country.\n\nLocal authorities have significant powers over education, planning, local business rates for example, and the drift of government policy has been to give them more, not less.\n\nSecond, while you will hear my colleagues and me caution dozens of times in the next 24 hours that the results do not translate directly to the general election, they are a really significant barometer.\n\nPay attention, therefore, to how the Conservative and Labour fight shapes up in areas like Nottinghamshire, or Derbyshire.\n\nBig Tory inroads will be a real worry for Labour as we hurtle towards the General Election.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSee results and latest news in your area\n\nThe loss of Glasgow council to the SNP and falling back in Wales too seem feasible - and would again add to Jeremy Corbyn's party's anxieties about June.\n\nThe elections will also be a test of whether the UKIP vote really does seem set to fade away now that we are heading for Brexit and, as it seems, Nigel Farage has taken his final bow.\n\nAnd the Lib Dems are crossing their fingers for signs of a comeback.\n\nTo get their activists gingered up for the General Election they need signs of decent gains around the country.\n\nThe elections of new metro mayors will also be big headlines - particularly in Birmingham where the two big parties are both desperate to win.\n\nIt will be a long, and complicated day, and don't forget the caveats with which these results need to be coupled.\n\nBut the most important test of all will be whether Labour loses or gains seats in England, in parts of the country where the General Election will really be decided.\n\nIf they lose seats in England, that is a depressing indicator for any political party that wants to be seen to be on track for government", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho is \"humiliating players\" by questioning their commitment, says ex-Blackburn striker Chris Sutton.\n\nMourinho has appeared to criticise the desire of Luke Shaw, Chris Smalling and Phil Jones to return from injuries.\n\nSutton told BBC Radio 5 live Mourinho was \"running the risk of turning the dressing room against him\".\n\n\"To call them out for not playing through the pain barrier is deeply unfair,\" he added.\n\nLeft-back Shaw will miss the remainder of the season with a foot injury he picked up during United's 1-1 draw with Swansea on Sunday.\n\nNeither Jones, who had a toe injury, nor Smalling, who had a knee injury, have played for United since 19 March but they are available for Thursday's Europa League semi-final first leg at Celta Vigo.\n\n\"Managers I have played under would say things in the dressing room but back you in public. Mourinho just shoots from the hip. I think further down the line that leads to trouble,\" said Sutton.\n\n\"Having said that, in my opinion, what he is saying to the Manchester United board is, 'I don't want these players at the club. I need to replace them'. He is not daft - he knows what he is saying.\"\n\nMourinho has appeared to indirectly criticise the trio in recent weeks.\n\nSpeaking of Shaw in April, he said: \"I cannot compare the way he trains and commits, the focus, the ambition. He is a long way behind.\"\n\nAfter Sunday's draw with Swansea, he said during a news conference: \"I prefer not to speak about Phil Jones and Chris Smalling.\n\n\"I prefer to speak about Juan Mata giving everything to be available. I am grateful for that.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nJuventus closed in on a second Champions League final in three seasons as Gonzalo Higuain struck twice to beat Monaco in the semi-final first leg.\n\nThe French hosts started brightly, with Kylian Mbappe heading at Gianluigi Buffon before forcing another low save.\n\nBut Higuain ruthlessly finished two fine Dani Alves assists, sweeping the Brazilian's back heel in on 29 minutes.\n\nRadamel Falcao went close for Monaco after the break before Alves' measured cross saw Higuain put Juve in control.\n\nAfter Real Madrid's comprehensive first-leg win over city rivals Atletico on Tuesday, it now looks almost certain the two teams in Cardiff on 3 June will form a repeat of the 1998 final, in which the Spanish side beat Juve 1-0.\n\nIt will prove fitting, as the two sides sport the only unbeaten records in this season's competition.\n\nMonaco, free scoring and dangerous with their youthful side all season, showed moments of threat which could unnerve Juve in the second leg on 9 May.\n\nBut at Stade Louis II, Massimiliano Allegri's side showed just how efficient they can be and Monaco's task looks huge as Juve have not lost a home fixture by two goals since April 2013.\n\nThis was another victory built on organised defensive work, with Buffon making a couple of key saves to help usher in a ninth Juve clean sheet in 11 Champions League matches this season.\n\nBuffon's low stop from 18-year-old Mbappe inside 10 minutes illustrated the narrative this fixture threw up as experience met youthful exuberance.\n\nAllegri's squad boasted almost three times as many Champions League appearances in total as their hosts, who are seeking a first final appearance since 2004.\n\nThe Italian side sat deep for spells, hitting Monaco with a flowing move for the opener before pouncing to rob Tiemoue Bakayoko deep in his own half before the second.\n\nBuffon's low save from Falcao at 1-0 underlined the resistance Monaco faced.\n\nUltimately the experience 39-year-old keeper said would be crucial before kick-off shone through as his side squeezed the life from Monaco, preventing the Ligue 1 leaders from scoring at home for the first time since November 2015.\n\nJuve could win Serie A this weekend as they chase a treble, having already booked their place in the Italian Cup final.\n\nThey look machine-like in their winning approach. Stalwarts Buffon, Giorgio Chiellini and Leonardo Bonucci look driven to ensure the Italian side go one better than their 2015 final defeat to Barcelona, while Higuain, signed for £78m in 2016, offers a killer instinct.\n\nAlves played on the right of midfield rather than in his customary role at right-back and despite now being 33, he showed clear energy to gallop forward and provide an opportunistic back heel to lay on the opener.\n\nHis delivery for the second was inch perfect and in creating both goals he now has six assists in the competition, bettering his best tally of five when at Barcelona in 2007-08 and 2010-11.\n\nFeeding off such quality was Higuain, who refused to be overshadowed by the much-hyped Mbappe in the battle of the goalscorers.\n\nThe 29-year-old finished without breaking stride for the opener and peeled to the back post expertly to prod a 31st goal of the season in all competitions - one which looks set to send Juventus to the final in Cardiff.\n\n'I fight so hard for these moments' - key quotes\n\nMonaco midfielder Fabinho: \"They were better and deserved to win but we're going to try everything in the return match.\"\n\nJuventus defender Giorgio Chiellini: \"We have to congratulate Dani Alves and Gonzalo Higuain - sometimes we look to Gianluigi Buffon. We concede chances but when they come we have Gigi.\"\n\nJuventus striker Gonzalo Higuain: \"I fight so hard for these moments. Goals were not coming for me in this competition but I knew I just had to stay calm and keep working hard.\"\n• None Juventus have kept six consecutive clean sheets in the Champions League for the first time.\n• None This was Monaco's 58th game in all competitions this season; more than any other side in Europe's big five leagues.\n• None Monaco have conceded 18 goals in the Champions League this season; more than any other team among the remaining semi-finalists.\n• None Five goals is Higuain's best ever goalscoring season in the Champions League.\n• None Dani Alves provided two assists in a single Champions League game for the first time in his career.\n• None Attempt saved. Valère Germain (Monaco) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by João Moutinho with a cross.\n• None Valère Germain (Monaco) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None João Moutinho (Monaco) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Falcao (Monaco) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kamil Glik.\n• None Attempt missed. João Moutinho (Monaco) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Jemerson (Monaco) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "We are profiling each of the five nominees for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017 award. Voting has now closed but you can see all the contenders' profiles and read full terms here. The winner will be revealed on Tuesday, 30 May, during Sport Today on BBC World Service from 18:30 GMT (19:30 BST).\n\nSelling fruit on a market stall instead of being at school, and being labelled a \"macho woman\" for playing football are experiences which have inspired BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017 nominee Marta to achieve success on and off the field.\n\nThe Brazil captain, a five-time Fifa World Player of the Year, enjoyed one of the proudest moments in her career last year when she was one of her country's flag-bearers at her home Olympics in Rio.\n\nBecoming the most famous female footballer of the past 20 years is a dream she could never have imagined would come true when she was working to earn a wage as an 11-year-old.\n\n\"I used to sell fruit in the public market, once a week to help my family and it was not even our own fruit, it was someone else's,\" said the 31-year-old forward, who joined Orlando Pride in the United States in early April from Sweden's FC Rosengard.\n\n\"I worked selling clothes in street stands too. I think that's one of the things people do not believe I've done.\n\n\"That happened when I was 10, 11 years old, when I was a kid. This is not normal, this isn't correct. Kids should be in school. But unfortunately I had no way to go to school, my mother could not take me there because of our financial situation,\" added Marta, who is from Dois Riachos, in north-east Brazil.\n\n\"My mum went through many difficulties with four children to raise. My father left her very early, I was less than one year old when he left. I would meet her only at night because of work and unfortunately we didn't have much time together. I saw that constant struggle and that inspired me a lot to get where I am now.\"\n\nDespite her pride at flying the Brazilian flag in front of thousands of fans in Rio, the Olympics were tinged with disappointment for Marta as the hosts finished fourth after losing to Sweden on penalties in the semi-finals and then to Canada in the bronze-medal match.\n\nBut she feels inspiring future generations was a huge positive from the Games.\n\n\"We constantly noticed the warmth of the fans all the time with us, the people stuck with us,\" she said.\n\n\"It was sad because we did not get the medal, but I think the biggest prize was that we realised in some way that the people were with us.\"\n\nMany defences have been torn apart by her strong running, superb control and left foot but this might never have happened if she had not left home at the age of 14 to pursue her footballing career with Rio-based club Vasco da Gama.\n\n\"I remember I suffered a lot of discrimination and prejudice. It was constant; every day,\" she said.\n\n\"People would come to me and say: 'It's a boys' sport, you have to play with a doll.' People would even talk to my mother and to my brother to say that they shouldn't let me play with boys.\"\n\nMarta was appointed a United Nations Goodwill ambassador in 2010 and she tries to champion women's football across the globe.\n\n\"A lot of girls were actually afraid to speak out, they didn't want to be labelled as a 'macho woman',\" she said. \"That motivated me. Now it has changed a lot.\"\n\nWhy vote for me?\n\n\"I think you should vote for me because everything I do, I do with love. This shows that really what we have been doing over the years has been fruitful. It would give me more motivation to pursue my best every year.\"", "Cardiff council is another one to watch tonight. It's been controlled Labour since 2012, though the party's majority in the capital city has shrunk since then.\n\n“There was a Labour majority here five years ago – the group here has been somewhat fractious to say the least since then.\n\n“As with much of Wales, the twin questions are – how much ground are Labour losing and who are they losing it to?\n\n“Labour is being challenged by different parties – the Tories, Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru - in different parts of the city.\n\n“This council may show us how effective those parties are in challenging Labour.”", "Ex-Tottenham striker Garth Crooks has called on players in the Italian league to strike this weekend unless Sulley Muntari's one-match suspension is withdrawn.\n\nPescara midfielder Muntari, 32, was banned after he protested against racist abuse he received from the crowd during Sunday's Serie A match at Cagliari, which earned him a yellow card for dissent before he walked off.\n\nItaly's football chiefs were branded \"gutless\" by anti-discrimination organisation Kick It Out.\n\n\"Those with power in Italy need to take action to stop this happening again,\" Kick It Out tweeted.\n\nCrooks, an independent Kick It Out trustee, told the BBC: \"I'm calling on players in Italy, black and white, to make it absolutely clear to the federation in Italy that their position is unacceptable, and if the decision is not reversed then they withdraw their services until it is.\"\n\nIn a fuller statement on its website, Kick It Out added: \"It's unbelievable that Cagliari escaped punishment as 'only 10' fans were involved. This situation should never be allowed to happen again.\"\n\nEx-Ghana international Muntari was cautioned for dissent after asking the referee to stop the match, and then walked off in protest - which earned him a second yellow card for leaving the field of play without permission.\n\nThe Serie A disciplinary committee which issued Muntari's ban agreed that the fans' actions were \"deplorable\" but said its guidelines meant it could not impose sanctions as only \"approximately 10\" supporters were involved - fewer than 1% of the Cagliari supporters in the ground.\n\nPescara's coach Zdenek Zeman's said that he hopes \"mentalities will change\" with respect to racism.\n\nCrooks added: \"This is not just about black players, we've moved on from that. This is about players.\n\n\"And I'm also a little alarmed that Sulley Muntari's team-mates have not become involved in this. His manager's not said more - he said something but quite frankly what he has said is rather inadequate as far as I'm concerned.\n\n\"So it's about addressing racism together as black players and white players, because that's the only way we're going to get past this problem in football.\"\n\nWorld players' union Fifpro believes Crooks' call for a strike might be difficult to implement but agrees action is needed.\n\nSpokesperson Andrew Orsatti told BBC World Service that the committee's decision was \"appalling, outrageous and poorly managed\".\n\nHe added: \"The message had to be about racism and stamping it out and sending a clear message that Muntari's cry for help was heard. But they failed on both counts, the Italian authorities, and the mind boggles as to how that occurred.\"", "Supporters of Mr Macron watch the debate in a Paris bar\n\nAfter the debate was over, some of the French media commentariat was saying it had been a disgrace.\n\nNothing had been elucidated. It was all mud-slinging. It was unworthy of a presidential election.\n\nMaybe. But it didn't half make for riveting viewing. And at the end of the day, the debate did its job.\n\nFor the millions sitting through those two hours of insults, interruptions and (just occasionally) ideas, the differences between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron could hardly have been made any plainer.\n\nThe National Front leader set the tone with her opening remarks, which were clearly intended to cause personal hurt. Macron's smile had become a grimace, she said. The mask had fallen - behind the personable front lay the coldness of a banker.\n\nInsults like that can only have been intended to rattle her adversary, to provoke him into saying something he would regret. And that was her tactic throughout: constantly needling Emmanuel Macron with jibes and vaguely-worded accusations.\n\nThere had been a big argument in advance about whether the producers of the debate would be allowed to use cutaways. These are images of the person who is not talking, when he or she reacts to the one who is.\n\nFinally it was agreed that they could be broadcast - and thus we were able to watch Marine Le Pen doing something unusual. Throughout much of the debate she was smiling, sometimes even chuckling.\n\nIt seemed to be part of a rehearsed psychological ploy to unnerve her opponent, by appearing to find his answers so ludicrous as to be amusing.\n\nShowing candidates' reactions was a sticking point before the event\n\nExcept none of this tactic worked. Emmanuel Macron did not rise to the bait. Say what you will of him, Macron is an extraordinarily composed and accomplished performer. Throughout the debate he remained master of himself and his argument.\n\nAt only one point did she score. In the section on terrorism, she launched a attack on Macron's supposed feebleness in face of the jihadist threat, and explained that she would make France safer by expelling foreign suspects.\n\nMacron responded with a long-winded explanation of how so many terrorists were in fact French, and how therefore France needed to examine its own conscience for letting that happen.\n\nThe argument misfired badly because it made it look as if Macron blamed France as much as the terrorists.\n\nBut for the rest, it was Marine Le Pen who betrayed weakness and confusion on a range of issues - especially economic. On the question of leaving the euro, far from clearing up the uncertainty about what she actually wants, she made matters worse by exposing her ignorance of the old European Currency Unit.\n\nShe was constantly playing with documents in front of her, searching for points and remarks to quote back at him. But it made her look unsure of her brief, and too often her attacks were reduced to the same old slogans.\n\nThese face-to-face debates are a traditional part of the election process, and for 40 years the French have tuned in to see which candidate is more likely to faire président.\n\nThey want to know who has the look, who has the feel of a head of state.\n\nEmmanuel Macron is an unknown quantity. Many loathe his ideas. Many fear his inexperience.\n\nBut last night - against Marine le Pen - there was little doubt who was the more presidentiable.", "Sir Vince Cable: This is the beginning of the fightback\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable says his party can celebrate \"a great victory\" in Richmond, where they gained control of the council from the Conservatives. He told reporters: \"We are doing extremely well not just here but in northern cities like Hull, Sunderland and Liverpool. \"This is the beginning of the fightback, whether it's against Labour or Conservatives. \"We are reasserting ourselves as a major national force.\"", "McLaren's Fernando Alonso said his first experience of Indianapolis was \"fun\" as he passed his orientation and began testing for the Indy 500.\n\nAlonso is missing the Monaco Grand Prix this month, where Jenson Button will return to Formula 1 to substitute for him, to race at Indianapolis.\n\nThe Spaniard completed his mandatory 'rookie' test before starting his preparations for the event on 28 May.\n\n\"So far it is a good experience but now starts the real thing,\" Alonso said.\n\n\"It has been a very helpful day in terms of knowing all this different world and getting up to speed a little bit.\n\n\"There's still a long way to go but I am happy with this first step.\"\n\nButton sent his former McLaren team-mate a good-luck message on social media before the test session.\n\nWhy is Alonso doing a 'rookie test'?\n\nAll drivers who race at Indianapolis for the first time are required to complete an initiation test, no matter what their calibre or experience.\n\nTo pass, two-time F1 world champion Alonso had to complete three phases of running - 10 laps each at an average of 205-210mph; followed by 15 at 210-215mph; and 15 at 215-220mph. He completed the requirements in just 50 laps.\n\nAlonso said: \"It is a good way to start to build the speed. It was probably a little bit difficult at the beginning to reach the minimum but then in the phases it felt good.\n\n\"At the beginning, the right foot has its own brain and it was not connected to my brain. I wanted to go flat-out but the foot wouldn't let me. But after a few laps it was fine.\"\n\nWhat else did he do?\n\nAfter passing the rookie test, Alonso began a programme with his Andretti Autosport team to start learning the intricacies of IndyCars on an oval track where each 2.5-mile lap has four left turns that look identical but are each subtly different.\n\nHe ended the test with a fastest lap of 222.548mph. Last year's pole position time for the Indy 500 was 230.760mph.\n\n\"Everything went fine so far,\" Alonso said. \"The circuit looks so narrow when you are at that speed. I was trying different lines but I was not as comfortable as I probably will be in a couple of weeks' time.\"\n\nAlonso is racing in his home grand prix in Spain on 12-14 May before flying back to the States to start the official practice sessions for the Indy 500 the next day.\n\nThe competitors have a total of 30 hours of practice over five days before qualifying weekend on 20-21 May, with pole position decided on the Sunday.\n\nAlonso's F1 team are fully involved in his Indy programme, with the car painted in the company's historic orange colour and given the McLaren name. It is the first time for 38 years that a car branded McLaren has raced at Indy.\n\nHe is taking part because McLaren are struggling in F1 this year as a result of a lack of performance in their Honda engine and Alonso has said one of his ambitions is to win the 'triple crown' of Monaco Grand Prix, which he won in 2006 and '07, Indy 500 and Le Mans 24 Hours.\n\nMcLaren executive director Zak Brown said he wanted to give Alonso the chance to win something after three difficult seasons since joining the team in 2015.\n\n\"We wanted to see Fernando running at the front because that's where he deserves to be,\" Brown said.\n\nBrown revealed that Alonso had already watched about 25 Indy 500s in his preparations, including one entirely from an in-car camera on one particular car.\n\nThe test progressed so quickly that within four hours Andretti already had Alonso testing fuel saving and techniques for running behind a safety car.\n\nBut Alonso said he still had a lot to learn about fine-tuning the car for changing conditions on the track, a key aspect of driving at Indy.\n\n\"The guys make changes all the time to the car,\" he said. \"On that aspect I am not up to speed. I am not yet able to to feel the car because at the moment I am not driving the car, the car is driving me around.\"\n\nMario Andretti, the 1978 F1 world champion, former IndyCar champion and father of ex-F1 and IndyCar driver Michael Andretti who runs the team Alonso is driving for, said: \"He did a perfect job. He's the real deal and I think he's going to be strong this month.\"", "Adam Gemili says Britain's sprint strength means just getting in the team would make him a strong medal contender at August's World Championships.\n\nGemili, 23, finished fourth in the 200m at Rio 2016, just three thousandths of a second away from a bronze medal.\n\nHowever Jamaica-based duo Zharnel Hughes and Miguel Francis are among fierce competition for the two spots on offer at July's British team trials.\n\n\"Making that team - you'll know you are among the world's best,\" said Gemili.\n\n\"It is going to be really difficult. The depth is great and everyone is going to have to be in good shape for the trials because nothing is given.\"\n\nNethaneel Mitchell-Blake, the second-fastest Briton of all time over 200m after a run of 19.95 seconds in May 2016, Olympic semi-finalist Danny Talbot and promising 21-year-old Reece Prescod are some of the other contenders for a place in the British team.\n\nFrancis had previously run for Antigua and Barbuda, but opted to switch to Britain in April. The 22-year-old is eligible for Britain as he was born in Montserrat, an Overseas Territory without its own Olympic team.\n\n\"For me it was slightly strange,\" said Gemili of Francis' decision.\n\n\"I don't really know his personal reasons for changing, but if anything it is more difficult to make the team in Britain than it is in Antigua.\n\n\"It is cool. It makes it more competitive. I'm excited to meet him and get to know him. He will be a great addition to the British sprinters.\"\n\nGemili switched from coach Steve Fudge to the Netherlands-based training group led by American Rana Reider after last year's Olympics.\n\nThe rivalry between the two training camps became unfriendly in 2014, with reports of physical and verbal confrontations, but Gemili insists Britain's top sprinters get on better now.\n\n\"Everyone is close and gets on and when someone runs fast, you are genuinely happy that people are being successful. It make you raise your own performance and run even faster,\" he added.\n\nAs well as competition from his compatriots, Gemili hopes the power of his own mind will help him find the fractions of the second necessary to win his first major championships medal at senior level.\n\nThe morning after finishing fourth in Rio, Gemili spoke to psychiatrist Dr Steve Peters, who is famed for his work with the likes of Tour de France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins and snooker great Ronnie O'Sullivan.\n\nGemili recalled: \"He really hit me with it.\n\n\"'I don't know what you were expecting,' he said. 'There is no guarantee of a medal. It is OK to be disappointed, but if you don't want to feel like this, go and do something else. This is what sport is like.'\"\n\nGemili concludes: \"I know that next time it comes around I don't want to be that close again.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nItalian football's reputation around the world has been damaged by the Sulley Muntari affair, the Italian Football Federation's anti-racism advisor says.\n\nFiona May said the decision to uphold the Pescara midfielder's punishment for protesting against racism while taking no action against fans had \"sent a bad message\".\n\nShe added she would strike in protest if she were a player.\n\n\"I'm frustrated and shocked,\" May said.\n\nBBC football pundit Garth Crooks - a trustee of anti-discrimination organisation Kick It Out - has called for Italy's players to go on strike in protest at Muntari's treatment and the the lack of punishment for the fans responsible.\n\nAnd the British-born former Olympic athlete May, who was hired by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) in 2014, said: \"If it was me, I would do that, if I wasn't part of the Federation, to say 'wait a minute, what's going on here?'\n\n\"I would say all players should consider it, to show solidarity,\" she told the BBC World Service World Football show - though she stressed she was speaking hypothetically.\n\nMuntari was booked for complaining to the referee about abuse he received from some Cagliari fans and received a second yellow card for leaving the pitch without permission.\n\nA Serie A disciplinary committee upheld his punishment but said it could not punish the fans as only \"approximately 10\" were involved in the racist chants - not enough to trigger action under its own guidelines.\n\nMay said the panel was wrong to follow its guidelines so strictly in this case and asked: \"You can't put a number on how somebody can abuse a player on the pitch. How can somebody put a number on it?\n\n\"They shouldn't have said that. It doesn't matter if it is just was one person or 100 people in a stand, it doesn't matter, they shouldn't be doing racist chants full stop.\"\n\nShe was also critical of referee Daniele Minelli, and said he should have \"stopped the game and listened\".\n\nMay added: \"Football is a global sport and I said to the FIGC president 'this is not helping the image of Italian football whatsoever'.\n\n\"My mother in England phoned me up and said 'what's going on over there?'\"\n\nBologna and Ghana midfielder Godfred Donsah has said is \"100%\" willing to go on strike to show solidarity with ex-Portsmouth and Inter Milan man Muntari.\n\nMay admitted she did not think many would heed the call to strike but believes the outcry means there will \"most definitely be a change\".\n\nHowever, she added: \"This shows how racism is more profound than everybody thought, even though we have been doing a lot of educational work. It shows they have got a lot of work still to do.\"\n\nYou can listen to the full show by downloading the podcast here.", "Coverage: Live on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and the BBC Sport website\n\nIreland would welcome Eoin Morgan back \"with open arms\" should the England one-day international captain opt to play for his country of birth again.\n\nDublin-born Morgan, 30, began his international career with Ireland but made the England switch in 2009.\n\nHe will play his 136th ODI for England against Ireland in Bristol on Friday, before a repeat at Lord's on Sunday.\n\n\"He's probably our greatest ever cricketer, of course we'd welcome Eoin back,\" said Ireland batsman Ed Joyce.\n\nJoyce, 38, also opted to leave the Irish set-up to play for England in 2006 before returning in 2011. He does not think Morgan will ever follow suit but is hopeful Cricket Ireland can develop a team that will mean players do not have to switch allegiance in order to play \"elite-level cricket\".\n\nBefore England's opening fixture of what will be their longest ever home international summer, Morgan has also dismissed the chances of a return, calling questions on the matter \"very cheeky\", before responding that there was \"no chance\".\n\nMorgan, 30, has called on his England side to stay focused for the two Ireland fixtures, as they prepare for the Champions Trophy, which begins at The Oval on 1 June.\n\nEngland lost in the final of the 50-over competition to India in 2013 and Morgan believes the event holds \"huge potential\" this time around, with the home side made bookmakers' favourites.\n\n\"We've marked it as the halfway stage to the 2019 World Cup,\" said Morgan. \"We're not taking this game for granted. The strength of the side we're putting out reflects that, and it's a really important summer for us - so we're taking it as seriously as any other fixture.\"\n\nBen Stokes, Chris Woakes and Jos Buttler will miss the weekend warm-up games because of IPL commitments in India but will return for the tournament, where England meet Bangladesh, Australia and New Zealand in Group A.\n\nDurham pace bowler Mark Wood is likely to feature in Bristol as he looks to impress Morgan after having three ankle operations since last playing for England in September.\n\nEngland are scheduled to play 21 matches across all forms of the game by 29 September - in addition to the Champions Trophy, which features the top eight teams in the ICC's ODI rankings.\n\nIreland currently sit 12th in the rankings - seven places below England - and have lost their last two matches, to Afghanistan.\n\nJoyce says the game in Bristol is \"huge\" because Ireland have never played England in England before.\n\nHis side will also play New Zealand and Bangladesh twice each by 21 May and, across the six games, Joyce expects a return to the quality of play that almost saw his side qualify from their pool at the 2015 World Cup.\n\n\"It's no secret that England are huge favourites,\" said Joyce. \"We have had a tough 18 months, there's no getting away from that. The last World Cup we played well, but since then we have had a change to the team, three or four important guys have retired and it's hard to replace them straight away with a small talent pool.\"\n\nIreland have been boosted by the inclusion of Paul Stirling and Kevin O'Brien - the hero of Ireland's 2011 World Cup win over England - in the squad, as the pair continue to recover from finger and hamstring problems respectively.", "Five years ago a midwife in Kenya delivered a child with male and female sexual organs. The father told her to kill it, but instead she hid it and raised it as her own. Two years later, the same thing happened again - and before long she was forced to flee to save the children's lives.\n\nZainab was used to delivering babies. As a traditional birth attendant in rural western Kenya, she'd delivered dozens over the years. But none like the one in front of her now.\n\nIt had been a tricky birth, but nothing Zainab couldn't handle. The umbilical cord had got twisted around the baby's head and she'd had to think quickly, using a wooden spoon to untangle it.\n\nAfter clearing the baby's airway, she washed the child and cut and tied the umbilical cord. It was then that Zainab saw something she'd never seen before.\n\n\"When I looked to see if it was a boy or a girl, I saw two things protruding - this baby had male and female parts,\" she says.\n\nInstead of saying what she usually said at this point - \"It's a boy!\" or \"It's a girl!\" - Zainab handed the baby to its mother and simply told her, \"Here is your baby.\"\n\nWhen the exhausted mother saw that her child's sex was unclear, she was stunned. But when her husband arrived, he was in no doubt about what should happen next.\n\n\"He told me, 'We can't take this baby home. We want this baby to be killed.' I told him that the child was God's creation and must not be killed. But he insisted. So eventually I told him, 'Leave the baby with me, I'll kill it for you.' But I did not kill the baby. I kept it.\"\n\nThe father came back several times to check that Zainab had done what she'd promised. She hid the baby and insisted she had killed it. But this would not work forever.\n\n\"A year later, the parents somehow heard that their baby was alive and came to see me,\" Zainab says. \"They told me I must never reveal that the baby was theirs. I agreed and since then I've been raising the child as my own.\"\n\nIt was an extraordinary - and risky - choice.\n\nIn Zainab's community, and in many others in Kenya, an intersex baby is seen as a bad omen, bringing a curse upon its family and neighbours. By adopting the child, Zainab flouted traditional beliefs and risked being blamed for any misfortune.\n\nThat was in 2012. But two years later Zainab was amazed to deliver a second intersex baby.\n\nAlthough there are no reliable statistics on how many Kenyans are intersex, doctors believe the rate is the same as in other countries. Some estimates put this as high as 1.7% of the population but there is disagreement over what constitutes being intersex.\n\n\"This time, the parents didn't ask me to kill the child. The mother was alone and she just fled and left me with the baby,\" Zainab says.\n\nOnce again, she took the baby into her home and raised it as part of her family. But her husband - a fisherman on Lake Victoria - was not happy.\n\n\"When he went out to the lake to fish and had a bad catch, he blamed the children,\" says Zainab.\n\n\"He said it was because they had brought a curse on us. He suggested I hand the children over to him so he could drown them in the lake. But I refused. I told him I would never allow that to happen. He became violent and we started fighting all the time.\"\n\nZainab became so worried by her husband's behaviour that she decided to leave him and take the children with her.\n\n\"It was a difficult choice for me because financially I had a comfortable life with my husband and we had grown-up children together and even grandchildren. But you can't live in such an environment - with threats and fighting. I was forced to flee.\"\n\nChildbirth is changing in Kenya. Increasingly, mothers are giving birth in hospitals, rather than in the village. But not so long ago the use of traditional birth attendants was the norm, and there was a tacit assumption about how to deal with intersex babies.\n\n\"They used to kill them,\" explains Seline Okiki, chairperson of the Ten Beloved Sisters, a group of traditional birth attendants, also from western Kenya.\n\n\"If an intersex baby was born, automatically it was seen as a curse and that baby was not allowed to live. It was expected that the traditional birth attendant would kill the child and tell the mother her baby was stillborn.\"\n\nIn the Luo language, there was even a euphemism for how the baby was killed. Traditional birth attendants would say that they had \"broken the sweet potato\". This meant they had used a hard sweet potato to damage the baby's delicate skull.\n\n\"The parents did not get any say in the matter,\" says the group secretary Anjeline Naloh. \"The expectation was that the baby should not even live long enough to cry.\"\n\nThese days, the Ten Beloved Sisters leave delivering babies to hospital midwives. Instead, they support expectant and new mothers and raise awareness about HIV transmission. But in more remote areas, where hospitals are hard to reach, traditional birth attendants still deliver babies the old-fashioned way and the Ten Beloved Sisters believe infanticide still happens.\n\n\"It is hidden. Not open as it was before,\" says Anjeline Naloh.\n\n\"Those things still happen, but they are secrets now,\" agrees Seline Okiki.\n\n\"People bathe openly and if you see something that is a little different, that's where they go speak: 'Oh, did you see something, eh?' [laughter]. You compare. That's normal!\"\n\nListen: BBC Africa health correspondent Anne Soy hears how it's hard for intersex people to hide their condition\n\nComing out of the Shadows in Africa is broadcast on Assignment on the BBC World Service - click here for transmission times, or to catch up on the BBC iPlayer\n\nGeorgina Adhiambo, executive director of the charity Voices of Women in Western Kenya, which is making efforts to reduce the stigma that surrounds intersex people in western Kenya, says the subject is still taboo.\n\n\"We've come across parents who've tried to hide their intersex child or even locked them up - some because they were ashamed, others because they were afraid that others might try to harm their child,\" she says.\n\n\"We're explaining who intersex people really are. This is a very religious society, so we explain that intersex children are also created by God.\"\n\nBut paediatric endocrinologist Joyce Mbogo - one of a new generation of doctors trained specifically to deal with what they call Disorders of Sex Development, or DSDs - says attitudes to intersex people are starting to change.\n\n\"We have a new set of parents who are willing to seek help,\" she says. \"The internet is accessible even in the rural areas, so when they realise there's something wrong they're able to look and see what could this possibly be.\"\n\nTreatment options vary. Some patients require no treatment, many need medication or hormone therapy and others need corrective surgery - though often this is delayed until after puberty so the children can decide for themselves who they want to be.\n\nFor Zainab's adoptive children, such decisions are a long way off. They are healthy and happy and when she talks about them her face lights up. She's visibly proud of them and the new life she's built for herself. She still delivers babies when she's needed, but makes her living mostly by buying and selling clothes and sandals.\n\n\"We all eat well and I can see that they are normal children. We talk, the older one helps with the household chores and my son thinks of them both as his siblings. They are all my family. It's a miracle from God.\"\n\nWhen asked if she's ever regretted her decision, Zainab laughs as if it's a ridiculous question. \"Should I throw them out? No, I'm their mum! They're human beings and I have to take care of God's creation.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Wales\n\nGeraint Thomas will venture into \"uncharted territory\" when he leads Team Sky in a Grand Tour for the first time at the Giro d'Italia.\n\nThomas will share the leadership with Mikel Landa, having previously played a supporting role for his team-mates.\n\nThe 100th edition of the Giro, one of cycling's three Grand Tours - alongside the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana - starts in Sardinia on Friday.\n\n\"It's one of the biggest challenges of my career,\" said Briton Thomas, 30.\n\n\"I've got a massive few weeks in front of me. I'm just looking forward to racing now. It feels like we've been talking about it forever.\n\n\"It's uncharted territory really. I've always been helping other guys so if I do blow up now it doesn't really matter. Hopefully it all goes well.\"\n\nThis year's Giro will comprise a gruelling, 21-stage route, starting in Alghero, Sardinia on Friday and ending in Milan on Sunday, 28 May.\n\nIt will be Welshman Thomas' third appearance at the Giro and his 11th Grand Tour start, though his previous outings have been as a support rider for the likes of British three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome.\n\nThomas has shone in his role as 'super domestique' in cycling's showpiece events, while he has impressed as a leader in other races, winning the Tour of the Alps in April and Paris-Nice last year.\n\n\"Preparations have gone really well. I've got three wins this year which is certainly nice,\" the Cardiff-born rider told BBC Wales Sport.\n\n\"Being a support rider and a leader are two totally different things. I'm just relishing that opportunity and trying to make the most of it.\n\n\"It's been a long build-up and something I've been thinking about for a long time, so it will be good to get racing.\"\n\nIf he is to claim the winner's Maglia Rosa (pink jersey) in Italy, Thomas must overcome some formidable competition.\n\nThe favourite is Nairo Quintana, who won convincingly when he last appeared at the Giro in 2014.\n\nA former Vuelta champion and runner-up at the Tour de France, the 27-year-old Colombian is a renowned climber who is expected to be well suited to a demanding Giro route.\n\nHowever, the Movistar rider might be mindful of over-exerting himself as he keeps one eye on preparations for the Tour, which starts in July.\n\nOther leading candidates include defending champion Vincenzo Nibali, one of only six cyclists to have won all three of the Grand Tours.\n\nThe 32-year-old Italian, nicknamed 'The Shark', won in dramatic circumstances last year as he capitalised on Dutchman Steven Kruijswijk's late crash to clinch his third Giro title.\n\n\"Nibali and Quintana have won this race before, they've got all that experience and, for sure, they're the favourites,\" said Thomas.\n\n\"Myself and Landa, we have a chance - but we're not at that level, I don't think.\"\n\nCycling teams tend to choose one rider to spearhead their Grand Tour campaigns, but Thomas will share his new role with Spaniard Landa.\n\nThe 27-year-old finished third at the Giro in 2015 while riding for Astana and Thomas believes their styles will be well suited to each other.\n\n\"He's obviously a great climber. He's been third in this race before, he's got the experience, he's a great athlete and he'll certainly give us another card to play,\" Thomas added.\n\n\"We can ride off each other. We get on well and I think it can work well. As we get into that last week there will certainly be gaps and one will be ahead of the other.\n\n\"Depending on how we're both feeling, I'd happily help him and vice versa. We'll see how it goes.\"\n\n'No point putting extra stress on it'\n\nThomas has endured a difficult build-up to the Giro, following the death of his aunt Christine after a battle with cancer last week.\n\nThe double Olympic team pursuit champion was also shocked by the death of Italian cyclist Michele Scarponi in April, after the 37-year-old was involved in a collision with a van during a training ride.\n\nScarponi, a former Giro champion, had finished fourth at the Tour of the Alps, which Thomas won earlier that month.\n\nAsked if his result at the Giro could define his career as a road cyclist, Thomas played down its significance given recent events.\n\n\"I don't think it would be a step backwards whatever happens. It's going to be a good challenge and, if it doesn't work out, then it doesn't work out,\" he said.\n\n\"What we've seen lately - what happened with Scarponi and I lost my auntie last week - it puts everything into perspective.\n\n\"It's a bike race, there's no point putting extra stress on it. At the end of the day, it's not the end of the world. It's just a great opportunity.\"", "Lana Hopkins couldn't find the perfect bag so she launched Mon Purse\n\nWhen it comes to handbags, these days there are almost as many ways to jazz up your existing bag as there are new designs.\n\nIn Selfridges' vast accessories hall in London, you can buy a clip-on set of metal flowers from Louis Vuitton, multi-coloured jangling robots from Prada, and leather tassels at Ted Baker.\n\nWhat customers want, it seems, is a way to stamp a bit of individuality on their purchases. And one new counter at Selfridges will let you go a stage further.\n\nAt Mon Purse, an Australian brand, you are handed an iPad and samples of leathers, and given the chance to design your own handbag.\n\n\"I was looking around for the perfect handbag and I just couldn't find it,\" explains Lana Hopkins, 33, the company's founder. \"And I was quite heartbroken, you know?\"\n\nWandering through a Sydney shopping mall one day in 2014, Ms Hopkins stumbled upon Build-A-Bear, a shop where you can assemble your own cuddly toy with some limited variables such as fur, colour and clothing.\n\nMon Purse's customers can choose from nine different basic bag shapes\n\nAlthough Ms Hopkins was rather older than the average customer, she found creating a teddy for her nephew gave her an extra emotional connection to the product. And the idea for Mon Purse was born.\n\nSkip forward three years and Mon Purse now has eight outlets in Australia, three in the UK and two in the US, including a newly opened concession in Bloomingdales, San Francisco.\n\nLast December, buoyed by Christmas, it sold almost $2m (£1.6m) worth of bags, ranging in price from $75 for a simple pouch, to $620 for an extravagant tote.\n\nThe handbag industry is the latest retail sector to wake up to the possibilities of allowing customers to design their own product.\n\nAnd with people now increasingly used to having things their own way, be it configuring their own music playlists or choosing their exact sandwich fillings, industry insiders say demand for personally designed handbags is soaring.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What would your dream handbag look like?\n\n\"I've never seen a cultural shift like this in the marketplace, and it's giving me whiplash,\" says Frank Zambrelli, co-founder of 1 Atelier, a New York-based handbag company.\n\nTo avoid the sky-high prices of a fully bespoke service, which would see customers be able to follow their every whim, most design-your-own handbag firms - such as Mon Purse - instead use the \"mass customisation\" business model.\n\nThis means that customers can design their own handbag, but only from a combination of set styles, sizes, colours and materials.\n\nSo while Mon Purse promises billions of possible variations, in practice the choice is limited to 19 different bag shapes in 35 different colours.\n\nThis, however, is typically substantially more customisation than offered by established bag-makers. While brands such as Gucci, Coach and Longchamp allow customers to change some elements, the business model of the larger firms still revolves around placing large orders for a design that their in-house team predict will be popular.\n\n1 Atelier's Frank Zambrelli says customers' own designs have surprised him and shown him how narrow his vision was of what works\n\nThe new wave of small companies set up to deliver customisation flip that model on its head.\n\nMon Purse uses a visualisation tool based on 3D gaming technology, through which the customer can select size, leather texture, the type of metalwork, and shade of lining. The bag then takes approximately two to four weeks to manufacture.\n\nLaunched just seven months ago, 1 Atelier allows customers to combine colours from a carefully selected palette for the body, side panels, straps and pockets of 10 different bag designs.\n\nBut if in the past buying something unique meant a price tag to match, now you can actually make the tailor-made item for less than the mass-manufactured equivalent, according to Mr Zambrelli, who was previously a designer at Chanel.\n\nBags from 1 Atelier are made in its Manhattan workshop\n\n\"Because we're not putting together a collection based on some inspiration and hopes that we've got the trend right, we're not placing any inventory buys,\" he says.\n\nIn other words, they will never be left with unsold stock, which he says more than compensates for not having the economies of scale of a large order.\n\nHowever, prices at 1 Atelier do still range from $295 to $7,380, depending upon the materials and size of bag chosen by the customer.\n\nFor a significantly cheaper personally designed handbag, Indian company Toteteca will sell you one for between $25 and $40. It makes its bags from polyvinyl, choosing not to use leather for what it says are ethical reasons.\n\n\"You'd be amazed how inexpensive it is to make custom-made bags,\" says Kushal Chudiwala, the 31-year-old founder of the Mumbai-based business.\n\nToteteca customers are free to combine 35 different colours on 12 different bags\n\nPerhaps thanks to the low prices, Toteteca seems to free up customers' creativity. While 70% of Mon Purse's customised orders are still a version of a black bag, Toteteca's customers are more adventurous.\n\n\"We don't make many black bags,\" says Mr Chudiwala.\n\nBut they do sometimes feel the need to rein in customers' wilder ideas, he says.\n\nToteteca uses polyvinyl to make its bags\n\n\"When we first launched, we had a customer select a combination that looked like a handbag for a joker, green and yellow and pink all mixed into one product,\" he says.\n\nWhen queried the customer stuck to their design, so Toteteca went ahead and made the bag.\n\nAt 1 Atelier, Mr Zambrelli was initially \"hell-bent\" on configuring its design tool so that choosing one element would limit the subsequent options, avoiding the possibility of a customer \"creating something absolutely hideous that we wouldn't want our name on,\" he says.\n\nFrank Zambrelli (right) and his co-founders launched 1 Atelier last year\n\nBut in the end they decided against it.\n\n\"And I'm so glad we did that, because, shame on me, my eyes have been opened up,\" says Mr Zambrelli.\n\n\"Many people have put together combinations of materials and colours that as a designer for 25 years were anathema to me. And I was 100% wrong. I'm ashamed actually at how narrow my vision was of what works.\"\n\nBut 1 Atelier, Mon Purse and Toteteca's founders do all agree that there is such a thing as too much choice - that customers can feel baffled and overwhelmed without some guidance, or narrowing down of the options.\n\nIf you're not feeling too creative you can always just go for a plain black or cream bag\n\nMon Purse's next step will be to offer an algorithm-based design service, to those \"feeling a little lost\".\n\n\"We can tap into your Facebook [photos] and see what your favourite colours, textures and designs are, and say you might like A, B and C,\" says Ms Hopkins.\n\nBut ultimately, if you lack an inner accessories designer, and your Facebook account doesn't provide inspiration, the safe option remains available - a nice, plain, black bag.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "On 4 May 2017 six regions of England held elections for newly created combined authority mayors.\n\nThe new mayors' remits will cover multiple local authorities, in mostly urban areas.\n\nTheir main responsibility will be to decide their region's economic strategy, and many will have powers covering other areas such as transport and housing. However, their exact powers will vary according to the terms of the agreements each region has made with the government.\n\nIn addition, Doncaster and North Tyneside councils are holding elections for directly-elected mayors. The mayors act as executive leaders of these local authorities.\n\nYou can check who is running for election in each area below. Candidates are listed alphabetically by surname.\n\nLocal authorities included in the mayoral region: Cambridge City Council, Cambridgeshire County Council, East Cambridge District Council, Fenland District Council, Huntingdonshire District Council, Peterborough City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council\n\nLocal authorities included in the mayoral region: Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan\n\nPaul Breen - Get the Coppers off the Jury\n\nLocal authorities included in the mayoral region: Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton, Knowsley, Wirral and Halton\n\nLocal authorities included in the mayoral region: Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-On-Tees.\n\nLocal authorities included in the mayoral region: Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull and Walsall\n\nDoncaster and North Tyneside councils are holding elections for directly-elected mayors. The mayors act as executive leaders of these local authorities.", "Frenchman Romain Grosjean has replaced Jenson Button as a director of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association.\n\nThe Haas driver joins Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and chairman Alexander Wurz in the leading roles after Button stepped down following his decision not to race in 2017.\n\nGrosjean, 31, said: \"I am proud to have been elected by my peers.\n\n\"We race drivers don't always hold the same opinion but we are united in wanting the best for our sport.\"\n\nGrosjean's appointment means he will be campaigning officially for the introduction of additional head protection in F1, something to which he is personally opposed. The vast majority of drivers are in favour of such a system.\n\nGrosjean said at the Russian Grand Prix last weekend that he was \"not a fan\" of either the 'halo' system - a metal structure that arches over the driver's shoulders and meets in a central point at the front of the cockpit - which has been proved to work but is meeting opposition, or the new 'shield' that was last week prioritised by governing body the FIA.\n\nThe FIA is committed to introducing additional head protection in 2018 but time is running out.\n\nThe halo, which has been extensively tested and proved to work, is unpopular, and the shield is still in its infancy and will not run on track until September - almost certainly too late for it to be adopted next season.\n\nHow will Grosjean do it?\n\nGrosjean has already been active in pushing for additional head protection as a member of the GPDA, despite his own feelings.\n\nBBC Sport has been told that at a meeting between the drivers and the new bosses of F1, chairman Chase Carey and sporting boss Ross Brawn sought close co-operation with the drivers on future developments in the sport.\n\nGrosjean himself pointed out to Carey and Brawn they should use the GPDA as the body they dealt with because it represented the drivers' collective opinion, free of influence by the teams on political issues.\n\nAnd Wurz backs the idea of debates and differing opinions so the drivers can have constructive conversations that establish a majority opinion.\n\nWhere does the GPDA stand on head protection?\n\nHead protection is just one small part of the GPDA's work in F1.\n• None supports general ongoing safety development, not just because it saves lives but also because it ensures the cars can continue to be fast and test the drivers to their limits;\n• None believes that safety should be the sole responsibility of the FIA and not be affected by political issues; and\n• None campaigns for changes that it believes would improve the sport for spectators.\n\nBut Wurz said he feared the debate over head protection had been politicised.\n\n\"Drivers prefer to support F1, and that means some topics should not be debated in the media, because safety should at no point become a political matter, as the halo has become,\" Wurz said.\n\n\"This comment is not about whether the halo is the right or wrong thing to do, but about the general process of developing a new safety device in F1.\"\n\nThe halo was initially developed by Mercedes, and was followed up by the FIA and the teams with the aim of reducing the risk of head injuries.\n\nBut the debate has widened into whether it is the right approach philosophically for F1.\n\nIt was initially slated for introduction in 2017 but was delayed by a year so further tests could be carried out. These were all passed successfully but now the shield system has been given priority and some insiders suspect that a move is being made behind the scenes to delay head protection again.\n\nWhat about other issues?\n\nWurz said the GPDA backed the direction F1 had taken in 2017, with new rules producing faster, more demanding cars.\n\nThe drivers were instrumental in campaigning for the introduction of tyres on which drivers could push hard for many laps at a time, replacing the previous design which needed careful management.\n\nHe added that the GPDA was also supportive of Brawn's desire to research new aerodynamic rules that would allow cars to follow each other more closely, and of the general direction of F1, as laid out by Carey to the drivers in meetings since the new owners took over in January.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nMarcus Rashford's superb free-kick gave Manchester United control of their Europa League semi-final against Celta Vigo.\n\nThe 19-year-old striker's curling effort not only gave United the lead, but also a precious away goal going into next Thursday's second leg at Old Trafford.\n\nWith United outside the Premier League's top four - a point behind Manchester City and four off third-placed Liverpool - the Europa League perhaps represents their best opportunity of earning a place in next season's Champions League.\n\nThey looked to have spurned their best chances in northern Spain - three times they were denied in the first half by home goalkeeper Sergio Alvarez.\n\nAs Celta improved, United's wastefulness seemed increasingly important, only for Rashford to produce the sort of quality needed to beat the excellent Alvarez.\n\nReturning home with an advantage, Jose Mourinho's side will be strong favourites to progress to face Ajax or Lyon in Stockholm on 24 May in the final of a competition they have never won.\n• None Nevin: 'Man Utd much better than Celta Vigo' - listen to 5 live Football Daily\n\nRashford was one of the three United players thwarted by Alvarez in a first period the visitors had the better of.\n\nHis arcing strike was heading for the top corner before Alvarez leapt to his left, with the Spaniard also stopping a surging Henrikh Mkhitaryan and diving to push away a Jesse Lingard prod from eight yards out.\n\nWith United seeing less of the ball in the second period, Rashford - who scored the extra-time winner in the quarter-final against Anderlecht - stood over a free-kick to the right of the Celta penalty area.\n\nAfter Daley Blind's decoy run, the England international whipped the ball over the wall, past the outstretched left hand of Alvarez and just inside the far post.\n\nNo cause for Celta concern\n\nBy then, Celta could have been out of the tie, having been kept on level terms by the brilliance of their goalkeeper.\n\nIn their first European semi-final, the hosts did not look to be any better than their current domestic position - 11th in La Liga and on the back of three successive defeats. United should have every confidence of progressing from their first European semi in six years.\n\nCelta did have chances - both Daniel Wass and former Liverpool player Iago Aspas headed wide when they should have done better, while Pione Sisto's deflected shot forced Sergio Romero to save in the second half.\n\nBut United's front three of Rashford, Lingard and Mkhitaryan were more lively, while Paul Pogba and Marouane Fellaini dominated midfield.\n\nThis was United's 58th game of a season that promises six more matches if they make it to Stockholm.\n\nWhen Eric Bailly limped off in the draw against Swansea on Sunday, Mourinho's squad looked to be further stretched, especially at the back. Luke Shaw had already been injured in that game, while Chris Smalling, Phil Jones and Marcos Rojo were on the sidelines.\n\nHowever, Bailly was fit enough to start in Spain, alongside midfielder Pogba, who has recovered from a muscle strain.\n\nCentre-back Smalling, who had not played for United since 19 March because of a knee injury, was on the bench.\n\nStill, it was not all positive news for Mourinho. Ashley Young, himself a substitute, lasted only 11 minutes before suffering what appeared to a hamstring problem, paving the way for Smalling's return.\n\n'Let's hope Old Trafford wants us to win'\n\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho: \"I am very pleased with the performance but not with the result. At half-time we should have had three - or at least two goals.\n\n\"We played well enough to have the tie closed, but we have to go and play at Old Trafford.\n\n\"Rashford is a 19-year-old kid who is in love with football. He stays after training for half an hour to practise taking free-kicks and waits for the opportunity.\n\n\"We tried to win the match but we missed chances. We played well, we were compact against a team who are difficult to play against.\n\n\"Let's hope Old Trafford wants us to win because when Old Trafford wants it, we win.\"\n\nUnited's hectic schedule continues with a Premier League trip to Arsenal at 16:00 BST on Sunday, while Celta have a domestic date at Malaga on the same day.\n\nThe return leg is at Old Trafford next Thursday (20:05 BST kick-off).\n• None Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Substitution, Manchester United. Chris Smalling replaces Ashley Young because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Ashley Young (Manchester United) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from more than 40 yards on the left wing is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.\n• None Substitution, Manchester United. Anthony Martial replaces Marcus Rashford because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Jimena Rico and Shaza Ismail are back in Spain after a three-week ordeal\n\nLess than a month ago, Spaniard Jimena Rico, and Egyptian-born Shaza Ismail were just like any other young, gay couple in London, the city where their romance blossomed.\n\nBut after a call from Ms Ismail's father, the two set out on on a trip which they say involved death threats, escape across international borders, and a spell in a Turkish jail where, Ms Ismail says, the treatment was \"unexpected, inhumane and horrible\".\n\nSafe in Ms Rico's Spanish hometown of Torrox, the couple faced the cameras to reveal a nightmarish three-week ordeal which, according to Ms Rico, began after her partner's family in Dubai had tried to separate them by force.\n\n\"I really want to tell our story because I think it could help many people who live in a situation of repression for being homosexual,\" Ms Rico told reporters who had gathered in the room to hear their story.\n\nIt had all started innocently enough. According to the 28-year-old, the couple flew from London to Dubai on 14 April because Ms Ismail's father had said that her mother was ill in hospital.\n\n\"But it was a trick,\" said Jimena Rico. \"He threatened to kill us and said we could go to jail for being lesbians.\"\n\nMs Rico (R) embraces her sister (C) on her return to Spain\n\nAccording to her partner, 21-year-old Ms Ismail was locked up by her family. But the couple managed to escape and flew to Tbilisi, Georgia, from where they were hoping to catch a connecting flight to London.\n\nBut even putting more than 2,000 miles between them and Ms Ismail's family had not guaranteed their safety.\n\nMs Ismail's father appeared at the airport and the Egyptian woman's papers, including the visa she needed to return to the UK, were torn up in the altercation.\n\nMs Rico explained that at this point the Georgian authorities escorted the couple to the Turkish border. Spain's foreign ministry says the couple were then arrested in Samsun, northern Turkey, and taken to Istanbul.\n\nThere, they were arrested on a charge \"apparently to do with terrorism\", says Ms Rico, adding that they signed papers they did not understand.\n\nMs Rico got word to her family, who reported the situation to the Spanish police.\n\nAfter three days in a Turkish jail, the Spanish foreign ministry managed to secure their release - allowing them to fly home to Spain, where Ms Rico's relieved family welcomed them with open arms.\n\n\"I thought we were not going to get out of [prison],\" Ms Rico said. \"They told me I could leave but she had to stay, and I said I wasn't going without her.\"\n\nMs Ismail's father, however, tells a different version of events, although he admits travelling to Tbilisi airport and forcibly attempting to retain his daughter.\n\n\"When she arrived in Dubai, I embraced her,\" the unnamed father told Spain's Antena 3 television station.\n\n\"She said she wanted to stay in London and I asked her to come home and talk about her being a lesbian because she told us via text message. She came out of the closet like that, sending her mother a text message.\"\n\nMs Rico (R) hopes she will be able to marry her girlfriend, who is on a temporary visa in Spain\n\nMs Ismail's father said that he offered to take his daughter to a psychologist and that she had agreed to stay in Dubai and study there. Then, he claimed, his daughter vanished from the family home.\n\n\"I went to the police after she had disappeared. A friend told me Shaza was in Georgia and I reported that she had run away or been kidnapped.\"\n\nHe explained that he had gone to Tbilisi with a lawyer, but insisted the only papers he had torn up were part of an old passport belonging to his daughter.\n\nJimena Rico accepts her partner's father is doing what he thinks is best: \"I know that [Ms Ismail's] father loves her. But his mind is so closed that he can't understand.\"\n\nShe is now hoping to marry Shaza Ismail, currently staying with her on a temporary visa after the Spanish government secured the couple's release.", "May to form government with DUP backing\n\nTheresa May says she will govern with her Democratic Unionist \"friends\" and \"get on\" with Brexit after losing her majority, but rivals say she has caused chaos.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nKelly Sotherton says athletics chiefs should consider tweaking events rather than rewriting existing world records.\n\nThe 40-year-old won Olympic heptathlon bronze for Britain in 2004 and has been upgraded to two more bronze medals from 2008 after retrospective drug tests.\n\nAll world records set before 2005 could be rewritten under a new proposal from European Athletics, after the sport's latest doping scandal.\n\nSotherton said tweaking events would create \"a new slate\" and new records.\n\nShe said: \"Could we go back to yards or run 101m instead of 100m?\n\n\"We all know that some of the records are completely out there. But not all of those records were achieved by people who cheated.\n\n\"Scrapping those records is unfair on those athletes. And what about my pre-2005 performances? Did they happen? Does this apply to national records too?\"\n• None World records proposal by European Athletics: Which star names would lose out?\n\nSotherton referred to the IAAF's decision to remodel the men's javelin in 1986.\n\nChanges were made to the javelin's design because of increasingly frequent flat landings. All existing records were reset after the change, but not erased.\n\n\"I am open to the discussion - for the greater good of the sport it's a good thing,\" she added.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\n\"Football is a simple game,\" Gary Lineker once said.\n\n\"Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and, at the end, the Germans always win,\" added the Match Of The Day presenter.\n\nSo when a new penalty shootout system was used for the first time in a competitive game on Thursday, it was perhaps unsurprising that it was a Germany side who came out on top.\n\nEuropean football's governing body, Uefa, is evaluating a new 'ABBA' penalty shootout system - rather than the traditional ABAB pattern, where one side always has the pressure of going second - to make them fairer.\n\nIt is trialling its use at both men's and women's European Under-17s tournaments currently taking place.\n\nAnd it was at the women's competition - a semi-final between Germany and Norway on Thursday - that the chance to put it into use for the first time arose.\n\nThe Germans are famed for their penalty-spot prowess after winning five shootouts at major finals - although unusually they missed their first three spot-kicks.\n\nYet they were still able to beat Norway 3-2 to reach the final of the tournament in the Czech Republic.\n\nThe men's tournament in Croatia has not yet reached the knockout stage.\n\nHow does it work?\n\nAs the current system stands, teams take turns in a shootout, with the choice of who goes first decided by a coin toss.\n\nFor example, team A goes first, then team B, then team A again.\n\nThe new system is called sees team A followed by team B - before team B goes again. Team A would then get two successive penalties, a little like the tie-break in tennis, and so on until there is a winner.\n\nA coin will still be tossed to decide who goes first.\n\nThe idea is to stop the team going second having to always, potentially, play catch-up. The sport's rule-making body, Ifab, approved the trial after looking at the research that says the team taking the first penalty have an unfair advantage as they win 60% of shootouts.\n\n\"The hypothesis is that the player taking the second kick in the pair is under greater mental pressure,\" said Uefa.", "England's Jonny Bairstow hammered 174 off 113 balls as Yorkshire beat Durham at Headingley to maintain their 100% start to the One-Day Cup.\n\nBairstow, who was dropped on 71, struck seven sixes and 16 fours in a stand of 189 in 25 overs with Joe Root (55).\n\nHis was the third century of the day as Stephen Cook (106) and Michael Richardson (100no) saw Durham to 335-5.\n\nBairstow and Root both fell to James Weighell (3-60), but Yorkshire reached 339-4 with 14 balls to spare.\n\nThe White Rose county, who last lifted a limited-overs trophy in 2002, have won all three games so far, while Durham have one victory from three.\n\nKeaton Jennings set the visitors on their way with 72 before a brilliant boundary catch by Peter Handscomb brought his innings to an end.\n\nSouth Africa Test opener Cook's 108-ball century was his first for Durham, while Richardson reached three figures from only 87 balls with two runs off the final delivery of their innings.\n\nHowever, they were overshadowed by Bairstow, who revelled in his new role at the top of the order and raced to his hundred from 70 balls.\n\nHe was particularly punishing on the leg-side and had the chance to become only the third batsman after Surrey's Alistair Brown and Ravi Bopara of Essex to make a double century in a List A game between two first-class counties.\n\nThe 27-year-old was caught behind from the final ball of the 34th over, leaving Yorkshire to score 87 from the final 16.\n\nEngland Test captain Root played on during an unproductive period when they failed to find the boundary between the end of the 33rd over and the middle of the 39th.\n\nSkipper Gary Ballance, though, hit three successive boundaries off Paul Coughlin in the 41st over in his 29 before trod on his stumps, leaving Handscomb (47 not out) and Tim Bresnan to finish the job.\n\n\"I got a bit of a chance and, as we know, you have to take every chance you can get. I missed one the other night, and luckily it didn't cost us too much. When you get a chance, you want to go on and make it pay.\n\n\"It's either bat there (open) or bat six when you look at the line-up we've got at the moment. If I can spend as much time out in the middle as I can, hopefully I can put in performances that help us win games of cricket.\n\n\"It's pretty handy having Peter and Gary to come in at four and five and knock the rest of the runs off. It's a good side we've got at the moment, but it's going to be a tough few games coming up. A few of us aren't available now, and we've said all along about the squad and how well it needs to gel together.\"\n\n\"You've got to take your hat off to a guy like Jonny. You don't come in and play the way he did day in, day out. He hit every ball out of the middle and made it really tough for us.\n\n\"I wouldn't take any credit away from Rooty either. He supported him beautifully to make sure that partnership kept hurting us. Between the two of them, they were sensational.\n\n\"At the halfway point, I'd have said we were favourites. I thought we had enough runs despite their line-up. I honestly thought we were in a good position. But we gave him a couple of chances.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nEx-Formula 1 world champion Mario Andretti says Fernando Alonso has a \"real chance\" of winning the Indy 500 on his debut.\n\nAlonso, 35, will miss this year's Monaco Grand Prix for the 500-mile race.\n\nThe two-time world champion said his first experience of Indianapolis was \"fun\" as he began testing on Wednesday.\n\nFormer IndyCar champion Andretti, 77, said: \"His chances are real of potentially winning this thing.\"\n• None Listen to more from Andretti on BBC Radio 5 live\n\nThe 1978 F1 world champion - father of ex-F1 and IndyCar driver Michael Andretti, who runs the team Alonso is driving for - said this is a \"golden opportunity\" for the Spaniard.\n\n\"He's at the top of his game and he doesn't have too much to lose in Formula 1,\" Andretti told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"He can give Monaco up and give this a good try and maybe come away with a very happy result.\"\n\nAlonso, who won the Monaco Grand Prix in 2006 and 2007, said he had long held an ambition to win the so-called 'triple crown' of Monaco, the Indy 500 and Le Mans.\n\nOnly one man has won all three in his career - the late Graham Hill in the 1960s.\n\nAlonso ended his test with a fastest lap of 222.548mph. Last year's pole position time for the Indy 500 was 230.760mph.\n\nAmerican Alexander Rossi won last year's event to become the first driver to win the race on his debut since 2001.\n\n\"Everything went like he [Alonso] has been there before [in testing]. He's probably come away very pleased with himself and the team are very pleased with him,\" added Andretti.\n\n\"I just feel very good for him, I'm very confident that it's going to be a great experience overall.\n\n\"He will have no problem and have some fun with it.\"", "In the run-up to the General Election on 8 June, we’re asking people across the country to tell us what #GetsMyVote.\n\nEarlier today the Liberal Democrats said they wanted to introduce more family-friendly policies such as extended paternity leave. We asked people at Bristol Zoo what would influence their vote.\n\nJames, from South Gloucestershire, at the zoo with his son, said parties made lots of promises they couldn't keep.\n\n\"It's a bit of a gimmick in terms of if you look at countries like Sweden there's actually something meaningful about paternity leave,\" the 39-year-old said.\n\n\"In terms of the UK I can't see it's really going to swing it for many families, it's just not really applicable.\n\nQuote Message: It's more about tax credits, but again who's going to write these cheques later. It's all promises. It's more about tax credits, but again who's going to write these cheques later. It's all promises.", "Pioneering work to extract detailed information from audio recordings of gunshots could give forensic case officers new avenues for solving murder cases.\n\nThe hustle and bustle of a city going about its business is broken by the crack of gunshots, sending bystanders running and screaming. In the aftermath one man lies dead and another badly injured.\n\nFurther down the street, four security cameras outside a local resident's home picked up the sound of the exchange of fire between the two men, but no images of what happened.\n\nEyewitnesses reported seeing the pair standing just a few metres apart firing handguns at each other, but it is unclear which of the two perpetrators shot first.\n\nIn an attempt to unravel what happened, local police called Robert Maher, a professor in electrical and computer engineering at Montana State University.\n\nUsing audio captured by the microphones on the security cameras, he was able to reconstruct the incident shot-by-shot to reveal where each of the men were standing and who fired first.\n\nProf Maher is one of a small group of acoustics experts working to establish a new field of forensics that examines the sound of gunshots recorded on camera footage or by phones.\n\n\"Nowadays it is not uncommon for someone with a cell phone to be making a video at the time of a gunfire incident,\" he explains. \"The most common types of recordings are from dashboard cameras or vest-mounted cameras carried by law enforcement officers.\n\n\"Also common are recordings from an emergency telephone call centres where the calls are being recorded and the caller's phone picks up a gunshot sound. In some cases there are private surveillance systems at homes and businesses that include audio recordings.\"\n\nDifferent guns sound similar to the human ear, but software can tell the difference\n\nGunshots make a distinctive sound that makes them easy to distinguish from other commonly mistaken noises such as a car backfiring or fireworks.\n\nA firearm produces an abrupt blast of intense noise from the muzzle that lasts just one or two millionths of a second before disappearing again. High-powered rifles also produce an additional sonic boom as the bullet passes through the sound barrier before the sound of the muzzle blast is detected.\n\nMost of us spend our lives surrounded by devices capable of capturing these sounds inadvertently if a crime occurs nearby. Professor Maher's aim is to extract details from these recordings that might help police piece together a crime.\n\nTogether with his colleagues, he has been compiling a database of firearm sounds in a project funded by US National Institute of Justice. They are firing an array of rifles, shotguns, semiautomatic pistols and revolvers beside an array of 12 microphones arranged in a semicircle.\n\nEach of the guns appear broadly similar to human ears when fired on an open range, but using software to analyse the sound waves picked up by the microphones, they have found it is possible to distinguish different types of weapon.\n\n\"We observe differences between pistols with differing calibre and barrel length for example,\" says Professor Maher. \"Revolvers differ from pistols because sound can emanate from the gap between the revolver cylinder and the gun barrel, causing two sound sources that can be detected at certain angles.\"\n\nHis analysis has also revealed other details can be gleaned from recordings of gunfire.\n\nThe shape of the sound wave produced by a gunshot, for example, is different depending on which way the weapon is pointing. If the microphone is off to one side of the shooter, the split second burst of noise can different compared to when it is in front of or behind the gun.\n\nResearchers can extract information from audio recordings of an incident - this shows a double gunshot\n\nThey have also found it is possible to pick up distinct echoes as the initial sound produced by a gunshot reverberates off nearby buildings, parked cars, trees and walls. After the initial blast, other smaller blips in the sound wave can be seen within a fraction of a second of the shot.\n\nBy calculating the time it takes for sound to travel to and from an obstacle, it is possible to calculate how far a shooter was away from it. It can even reveal if a shooter was firing from an elevated position from the muzzle blast reflecting off the ground.\n\n\"This means the orientation and location of shooters in some circumstances can be determined,\" according to Prof Maher, who revealed some of his findings to a symposium organised by the National Institute of Justice in New Orleans last month.\n\n\"In situations where more than one recording of the shooting scene is available, such as where two or more patrol cars equipped with dashboard audio or video recorders are present at an incident, the position of the vehicles can sometimes help triangulate the sounds.\"\n\nIt is a similar concept to the one used by companies like Raytheon, which produces sniper locators for the military that use the sound of a gunshot to locate the shooter. An array of microphones can be mounted on buildings, vehicles or helicopters to help spot shots.\n\nAnother firm, Shotspotter, uses a network of microphones across 90 cities in the US to help law enforcement detect gunshots.\n\nThe difference with these systems is that they detect gunfire in real time, while Professor Maher is trying piece together what happened days, weeks and even months after a shooting.\n\nIn the case described at the start of this article - a real shooting that occurred recently in Cincinnati, Ohio - the injured man claimed he had shot the other man dead in self defence after he was fired at first.\n\nMilitary systems like Boomerang use gunshot sounds to pinpoint the locations of snipers\n\nWith the two gunshots occurring less than a second apart, it was impossible for witnesses to definitely say which of the shooters had fired first.\n\nUsing the security camera recordings of a local home owner living further down the street, however, Professor Maher was able to reveal two distinct gunshots in the audio.\n\nJust a few milliseconds after the first gunshot, a distinct second blip appeared in the sound wave, just moments before the second shot was fired.\n\nThis blip was the echo of the first gunshot bouncing off a large building at a T-junction around 90 metres to the north. The echo from the second gunshot was far harder to spot in the sound-waves produced.\n\nAccording to Professor Maher, this suggests the first shooter to fire their gun was the one pointing it to the north - the same man who claimed he had been firing in self-defence.\n\nProfessor Maher hopes the growing amount of technology capable of recording audio will make such analysis even easier in the future. The microphones on many older consumer devices are not designed to handle the abrupt, loud sounds of gunshots and it can overload them\n\nBut as more homes become equipped with home security cameras and \"always-on\" smart assistants like Amazon's Echo and Google Home, it may be possible to capture better audio of events.\n\nIt is something that other forensics experts believe could have a growing role in the future.\n\nMike Brookes, a reader in communications and signal processing at Imperial College London, said: \"\"The sort of question that such recordings can help with are in sorting out the timing and sequence of events that took place and in establishing the position from which a gun was fired.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nBologna and Ghana midfielder Godfred Donsah says he is \"100%\" willing to go on strike to show solidarity with Sulley Muntari.\n\nPescara midfielder Muntari, 32, was given a one-game ban after he protested against racist abuse he received from the crowd at Cagliari on Sunday.\n\nThe Serie A disciplinary committee said not enough fans took part in the abuse to trigger action against Cagliari.\n\nDonsah, 20, said racism is \"killing the beauty of the game\".\n\nFormer Ghana international Muntari was booked for dissent after asking the referee to stop Sunday's match in the wake of the abuse.\n\nHe then walked off the pitch in protest - for which officials confirmed he received a second yellow card.\n\nDonsah, who played for Cagliari for two seasons, told BBC World Service Sport Muntari did the \"right thing\" by walking off and said he will wear an anti-racism message under his shirt.\n\n\"I think the authorities need to lift the ban on Sulley Muntari in order to boost the fight against racism in football,\" he added.\n\nGarth Crooks, the ex-Tottenham striker and independent trustee of anti-discrimination organisation Kick It Out, has called on players in the Italian league to strike this weekend unless Muntari's one-match suspension is withdrawn.\n\n\"I would do that 100% because racism is something that is killing the game,\" added Donsah.\n\n\"Some players cutting off from some matches in order to highlight the racial abuse that is going on in football is a great move.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nNewport Gwent Dragons forward Ed Jackson has revealed he suffered a serious spinal injury after diving into the shallow end of a swimming pool.\n\nHe was injured at a friend's barbecue on 8 April and remains in hospital.\n\nJackson, 28, underwent neck surgery for what his region at the time described as a \"non-rugby related injury.\"\n\n\"After hitting my head on the bottom I realised I couldn't swim to the surface because I'd lost movement in my legs and power in my arms,\" Jackson said.\n\nJackson, who has also played for Bath, Wasps, London Welsh and Doncaster Knights, said his father - a retired GP - and a friend realised immediately something was wrong.\n\nThey pulled him to the surface and stabilised him until the ambulance arrived to take him to Southmead Hospital in Bristol.\n\n\"After a number of MRI scans and X-Rays the Drs decided to operate at 2am to stabilise my neck as pressure was being put on my spinal cord,\" Jackson added in a Facebook post.\n\n\"In surgery they removed my shattered disc, relocated my vertebrae and fixed it in place with a metal plate.\n\n\"I woke up in ICU, luckily completely coherent, however no feeling below my neck other than limited movement in my right arm.\"\n\nBath-born Jackson has made 36 appearances for the Dragons since joining from Wasps in 2015 and signed a contract extension with the region in December.", "Previously on BBC Music, we brought you 8 bands you probably didn't know are still touring. Now it's time to turn the spotlight on those you might have assumed had toured the UK at some point in their illustrious careers. A few have made appearances here in some capacity - a one-off gig or TV performance, or in a different guise - but they've never played their music out across the nation. And with regards to the top two on our list, great news - they'll be here soon.\n\nDJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince will be in the UK in August, playing what Newsbeat called a rare UK date in Blackpool as headliners of this August's Livewire. Ah, Summertime. And although the news seems to have come out of the blue, Will Smith has actually been talking about getting his old hip hop duo back on the road for some time. In October 2015, he was interviewed by Zane Lowe for Beats 1 and said: \"Jeff and I actually have never done a full tour... This summer [2016] will be the first time we go out on a full world tour.\" That didn't happen, but the ambition he showed back then might well translate into more than just one UK show. Keep your eyes peeled on listings.\n\nTLC dominated 90s RnB with hits like Creep, Waterfalls and No Scrubs, resulting in the trio becoming the most successful American girl group of all time (second only to the Spice Girls globally). Then, tragedy: Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes was killed in a car crash in 2002. Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins and Rozonda 'Chilli' Thomas continued as a duo. TLC occasionally visit Britain - they were here for the 2012 MOBO Awards - but they've never played a UK gig. Until now. On 9 May, they're making their debut at Koko in London and this year will also see the release of their their first album since 2002's 3D. If you couldn't get a ticket for Koko, fear not - the group have hinted that this might be their last album, but they intend to keep TLC on the road. [WATCH] Zara Larsson covers TLC's No Scrubs in the 1Xtra Live Lounge\n\nElvis only played three gigs outside of the US, all of them in Canada. It's thought that the illegal alien status of his Dutch-born manager, Colonel Parker, was the primary reason he never performed outside North America, although documents that came to light in 2015, as reported by the Mirror, suggest plans were being made for The King to visit, and possibly play gigs in, Britain and Japan not long before his death in 1977. Elvis did set foot in the UK at least once - at Prestwick airport, South Ayrshire in 1960 on his way home from military service in Germany. In 2008, however, a strange story came to light that perhaps he'd spent the day driving around London observing landmarks with English singer Tommy Steele in 1958. Theatre producer Bill Kenwright revealed Steele's secret on Ken Bruce's Radio 2 show. At the time, Steele was appearing in a production of Dr Dolittle in Woking, Surrey.\n\nWe mean post-Beatles, although they gave up gigging in 1966 to concentrate on recording (and because they were tired of the screams). John Lennon never got a taste for touring again and he certainly didn't need to perform to promote his albums with Yoko and as a solo artist. There were infrequent shows and TV appearances - nearly all in North America - and live albums (Live Peace in Toronto 1969, which was recorded before The Beatles broke up, and the posthumous Live in New York City), but to the intense regret of all Lennon's fans, he never got a chance to get back in the bus and tour the UK, or anywhere else.\n\nLennon's Beatles bandmate George Harrison formed the Traveling Wilburys in 1988 with fellow big guns Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, and some travellers they were - they never toured at all! That Orbison died soon after their first album was released may have kept them indoors, but they continued as a four-piece and released second album, confusingly called Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, in 1990. \"I don't think we ever considered it, really,\" Petty once said about touring, but Harrison was keen. In 1991, he said: \"That would be something I'd like to experience. I've always played around in my own mind what a Wilburys tour could be.\"\n\n\"Harry Nilsson's position in popular music extended far beyond the chart placings of his many successful songs,\" began the Independent's obituary when the American singer-songwriter died in 1994. \"For a core group of the elite and exceptional of the 60s and 70s, Nilsson was a teacher, almost a guru; they were enlightened by the approach of a pure artist of pop, a seminal songwriter.\" And yet Harry Nilsson never became as famous as those he inspired, which included all of The Beatles, because he seldom played live - he didn't enjoy it and suffered from stage fright. Easily the most famous footage of Nilsson performing was filmed by the BBC in 1971 at BBC Television Theatre in London (now Shepherd's Bush Empire), but there was no audience present, and Nilsson never embarked on a UK tour. That's no diss to us - he loved it here, and owned a flat in central London. Strangely, both The Who's Keith Moon and Mama Cass of The Mamas & the Papas died there.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nFormula 1 team McLaren-Honda have launched a virtual racing competition, with a job as a simulator driver with the team as the prize.\n\nThe winner will be offered a one-year contract to help improve the car, which is struggling with engine reliability.\n\nExecutive director Zak Brown says now is the right time to connect the worlds of racing and gaming in a new way.\n\n\"This is for real. We absolutely require additional support across our two simulator platforms,\" he said.\n\nAs well as racing across a variety of gaming platforms, McLaren said entrants must demonstrate \"engineering know-how, teamwork and the necessary mental and physical strengths\".\n\nGaming and F1 experts will select six international finalists, with a further four finalists chosen from qualifying events online.\n\nBrown said the winner would \"genuinely be a key part of the McLaren team\".\n\nThe eight-time winners of the constructors' championship said the initiative would make them the first F1 team to enter the esports arena.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nAjax moved to the brink of a first European final in 21 years by overwhelming Lyon in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final.\n\nThe Dutch side led when on-loan Chelsea striker Bertrand Traore glanced in a header, before Kasper Dolberg drove in a second after defensive confusion.\n\nIn an open affair, Amin Younes struck a third via a deflection after the break.\n\nMathieu Valbuena gave Lyon hope by curling in an away goal, but Traore added his second to give Ajax control.\n\nTraore's finish from Hakim Ziyech's cross made the attacking midfielder the first player in Europa League history to assist three goals in a semi-final or final.\n\nHe was central to much of Ajax's good work in a match which was far from a cagey first-leg affair, with the sides sharing 37 shots in all.\n\nLyon, who have never played in a major European final, will now need to overturn a three-goal deficit in the second leg on 11 May if they are to face either Manchester United or Celta Vigo in the final in Stockholm 13 days later.\n\nThe French side were undone by an inswinging free-kick as Traore headed in the opener but their manager, Bruno Genesio, was visibly incensed by the defending for the hosts' second.\n\nGoalkeeper Anthony Lopes lofted a poor clearance which was headed into the path of Dolberg, who raced through to finish with the outside of his foot.\n\nLopes brilliantly denied Younes when one-on-one before the break but could do little when the German's low drive deflected past him and just crossed the line on 49 minutes.\n\nThe crowd inside the Johan Cruyff Arena grew boisterous as their side closed in on a first European final since defeat in the European Cup to Juventus in 1996.\n\nValbuena's calm finish from 18 yards briefly halted the celebrations, only for Traore to restore the three-goal lead.\n• None Attempt missed. Hakim Ziyech (Ajax) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Kenny Tete.\n• None Attempt saved. Hakim Ziyech (Ajax) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Davy Klaassen (Ajax) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Corentin Tolisso (Lyon) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jérémy Morel. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A model wears a hijab as part of the Anniesa Hasibuan collection at New York Fashion Week 2016. Hasibuan is a Muslim designer whose models wear the Islamic headscarf, but now much bigger fashion brands are taking a similar approach.\n\nThere's a growing number of fashion brands and multinational companies showcasing women wearing an Islamic headscarf. But, for various reasons, some women from Muslim backgrounds aren't happy with the trend.\n\nDolce and Gabbana, H&M, Pepsi, Nike: just a few of the big brands putting women wearing a hijab - a traditional Islamic headscarf - front and centre in advertising campaigns.\n\nThe hijab has long been a contentious topic of conversation; feminists, religious conservatives, secularists are some of the online communities that have engaged in passionate debate about what it represents. But this time, online and using social media, it's some Muslim women who are questioning the use of such images.\n\nTasbeeh Harwees, a journalist, recently wrote in the online magazine Good about a recent viral Pepsi advert starring Kendall Jenner.\n\nThe advertisement was controversial because of its alleged trivialisation of street protests - but some Muslim women took issue for a different reason, the casting of a hijab-wearing woman who photographs the rally.\n\n\"A multi-billion dollar company was using the image of a Muslim woman to project an image of progressiveness that it may not necessarily live up to,\" Harwees tells BBC Trending radio.\n\nKendall Jenner was recently derided for taking part in the Pepsi commercial\n\nPepsi certainly isn't the only company highlighting women wearing the hijab. Nike recently announced a newly designed sports hijab which will hit shops in 2018. H&M used a first Muslim model in hijab in an advertisement while numerous brands and labels have launched \"Ramadan collections\" in the hope of attracting Muslim shoppers during the holy month.\n\n\"Images of Muslim women communicate to their consumer bases that these companies are 'progressive' or 'inclusive',\" Harwees says. \"Given the political climate, it has become socially expedient to align oneself with dissident communities, and for many people, that's what Muslim women have come to represent.\"\n\nThe rise in popularity of so-called hijabi fashion bloggers and make-up tutorials aimed at women who wear the hijab is also a heavily debated subject. They generate millions of views and shares but some women cite increasing pressure to appear fashionable as a reason to stop covering their heads.\n\nThey feel something sacred is being undermined by commercialism. Khadija Ahmed is the editor of a new online magazine called Another Lenz, but wrote a personal story of how she wore the hijab for two years, then took the decision to stop wearing it. She told BBC Trending she felt pressured by the images she saw in advertising and on social media.\n\n\"I don't feel that the brands are doing us a favour - we don't need the approval of the mainstream companies to approve of our identity,\" Ahmed says. \"It's not doing anything for the Muslim community other than reducing the hijab - which I see as an act of worship - into something as simple as a fashion statement.\"\n\nThen there are feminists who have quite a different interpretation of the headscarf, particularly in countries where it is mandatory. Masih Alinejad is an Iranian activist and journalist who started the Facebook campaign \"My stealthy freedom\", showing women in Iran removing their hijabs in defiance of the state.\n\n\"I think the media in the West want to normalise the hijab issue - they want to talk about minority Muslims in the West, but they totally forget there are millions of women in Muslim countries that are forced to wear the hijab,\" Alinejad says.\n\n\"If you want to talk about the hijab and introduce it as a sign of feminists or resistance you have to think about those girls and women who are forced to wear it,\" she says.\n\nYou can hear more on this story on BBC Trending on the BBC World Service\n\nAnd for more Trending stories, download our podcast\n\nSo with the potential of a growing online backlash, why are brands keen to show off this particular religious garment?\n\nShelina Janmohamed is vice president of Ogilvy Noor, part of the giant advertising and marketing agency WPP. Ogilvy Noor was established to help market companies to Muslims around the world.\n\n\"At this moment in time there is a growing Muslim consumer segment,\" she says, \"and they have lifestyle aspirations about how they want to live and that should be reflected just like any other lifestyle aspiration.\n\n\"It's a matter of commerce and the bottom line.\"\n\nThat approach does have some support among female Muslims. Hend Amry has been dubbed \"the queen of Muslim Twitter\" - and although it's a label she says she is slightly uncomfortable with, she does see an upside in the recent prominence of the hijab online.\n\nHend Amry has been dubbed \"the queen of Muslim Twitter\"\n\n\"There are Muslim women in hijab tweeting out these hilarious comebacks or sharing their wisdom or strong personalities,\" she says. \"Just by doing that it's already wiping away stereotypes of the docile, oppressed, silenced Muslim woman, and that's really energising.\"\n\n\"I think there is only one change that needs to be made and that is Muslim women need to tell their own stories. Once that happens the narratives will take care of themselves,\" she says.\n\nNEXT STORY: Fears over fake Bieber and Styles accounts\n\nLaw enforcement warns Trending about a growing number of social media accounts wrongly purporting to be teen idols like Harry Styles and Justin Bieber.READ MORE\n\nYou can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.\n• None How the hijab can be a fashion statement", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEverton boss Ronald Koeman insists he will see out his three-year deal despite admitting he would love to manage Barcelona one day.\n\nHe is in the first season of his contract at Goodison Park, having arrived from Southampton last summer.\n\nThe 54-year-old has told Catalan newspaper Sport that he dreams of coaching former club Barca.\n\nBut on Thursday, he said: \"There's no chance that I will leave Everton before the end of my contract.\"\n\nKoeman has been linked with a return to the Nou Camp after Luis Enrique said he was stepping down at the end of the season.\n\n\"I don't see me being the next manager,\" he added.\n\n\"I mentioned several times it's human ambition - for players, for managers. That doesn't change my position or contract with Everton. I'm really happy, I'm looking forward to next season.\"\n\nIn the newspaper interview, former defender Koeman - who spent six years at the Spanish club from 1989 to 1995 - said he was committed to getting Everton into the Champions League.\n\n\"I feel flattered and I like that they think about me,\" the Dutchman said.\n\n\"Everyone knows I'm Barca, they know my love for the club where I grew up as a player and a person.\n\n\"In my life as a professional coach, I have two dreams to fulfil. One, to coach my national team, Holland. I could have done it but my obligation to Everton prevented me. My other wish, my other dream, is to one day coach Barca. That's the truth.\"\n\nEverton are seventh in the Premier League with three games remaining and look certain to miss out on a Champions League place this year.\n\n\"We have a very powerful and exciting project and we're going to strengthen as best as possible to try and reach the Champions League next season,\" Koeman said.\n\nAsked what he would do if Barca called, he replied: \"That's a hypothesis we cannot go into too much. In football, like in life, like in business, you can talk and discuss everything.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Koeman said that striker Arouna Kone will leave the Toffees at the end of the season.\n\nThe 33-year-old Ivory Coast striker was signed from Wigan Athletic in 2013 after Everton met a £6m release cause.", "The Iranian authorities have relaxed rules on internet use during the election campaign\n\nThis is an Iranian election like no other, where the main battles are being fought on social media.\n\nFor the first time candidates, as well as voters, have discovered the power of messaging apps as a way of bypassing state media and reaching out directly to each other.\n\nRather than relying on state television channels to broadcast their campaign rallies, the two front-runners - President Hassan Rouhani and his hard line rival Ebrahim Raisi - have been live-streaming them on Instagram.\n\nAt the touch of a button, anyone with a mobile device has been able to tune in, watch and show their support by adding to the blizzard of likes, hearts and smiley faces streaming across the screen.\n\nThey have also provided constant updates on Telegram, a hugely popular secure messaging app which now has more than 20 million users in Iran.\n\nOn Sunday, the reformist former President, Mohammad Khatami, posted a video message on Telegram urging voters to support Mr Rouhani, who is seeking a second term.\n\nMr Khatami is banned from appearing on state media and the main TV channels do not even show his photograph or mention his name. But his video went viral, reaching millions of Iranians connected via a vast network of Telegram channels.\n\nIn parallel to the presidential poll, local elections are also taking place across the country on Friday.\n\nIn the capital, Tehran, voters used Twitter and Telegram to challenge the official list of reformist candidates.\n\nThey began circulating an alternative list of progressive candidates they said had been forced off the reformist ticket.\n\nThe list caused such a huge stir on social media and prompted some very serious conversations in the reformist camp.\n\nPresident Rouhani is live-streaming his campaign speeches\n\nUnusually in a country where access to many websites and social media platforms is blocked, Telegram and Instagram are freely accessible in Iran.\n\nWhen Telegram first appeared in Iran it was seen as a chat application with limited functionalities.\n\nThe establishment saw it as a relatively safe platform, and it was only when its Russian developers introduced new channel features, and Farsi-speakers began using it in a very different way, that its potential to mobilise millions of people became apparent.\n\nIranians have now created thousands of Telegram channels, and use \"supergroups\" not only to promote their agenda but also to do business and make money.\n\nEbrahim Raisi's supporters are also taking to social media\n\nTelegram is suddenly being taken very seriously by the establishment and in the run up to the election the administrators of some popular channels have been detained.\n\nTwitter is officially blocked in Iran but people use proxies to tweet.\n\nPresident Rouhani and many of his cabinet members have been active on Twitter for the past four years; Mr Raisi hurriedly set up an account just before launching his campaign.\n\nUsually, Twitter conversations that create a buzz then travel to Telegram channels where they can potentially reach a much wider audience. One such conversation discussed demands for gender equality and equal rights for women.\n\nMr Rouhani's campaign team has paid close attention to these conversations and identified keywords to include in his speeches about women, youth and internet freedom.\n\nMr Raisi, a hardliner, is backed by Iran's clerical and security establishment\n\nIn Iran, where free public debate is restricted and access to the media is controlled very closely, election campaigns are a rare opportunity for people from many different walks of life to make their grievances heard.\n\nWhen Mr Rouhani's speeches have been streamed live on Instagram, for example, members of the LGBT community have taken the opportunity to post questions asking him directly about his views on gay marriage.\n\nIt would be unthinkable to ask such questions face-to-face in a public forum.\n\nThe president did not respond to the questions about gay marriage, but he has discussed other taboo issues during the campaign.\n\nMr Rouhani has not responded to questions about his views on gay marriage\n\nMany people were surprised when the president attacked Mr Raisi over the former judge's role in the mass executions of thousands of dissidents in prison at the end of the 1980s.\n\nIt is a dark chapter in recent Iranian history, and one that is usually never mentioned. However, Mr Rouhani's comments prompted a sudden outpouring of heartfelt debate on social media.\n\nThe president also used social media to raise another unmentionable subject - corruption in the Revolutionary Guards. His veiled comments on the issue sparked off a debate online that soon moved offline into the world of everyday conversation.\n\nFor both voters and candidates, social media has also provided a way to bypass state censorship.\n\nMr Rouhani may be the president, but that did not stop state television from cutting parts of his campaign video before it was aired.\n\nWhen the censors chopped out clips showing his supporters chanting the names of detained opposition leaders, Mr Rouhani's team released them on social media, allowing them to be watched by millions.\n\nEbrahim Raisi tweeted: “We intend to open to the youth the gates of senior posts in government.” In response, a woman wrote: “For God's sake, make sure you don't open the gates to 28-year-old prosecutors (like yourself) who would kill other 30 year olds.”\n\nMr Raisi now has an active fan base on Twitter. His hard line supporters steer conversations against Mr Rouhani and get involved in debates in support of their candidate.\n\nBut the president's fans have been fighting back, and Mr Raisi's Twitter account has been trolled by people opposed to his candidacy.\n\nThroughout his campaign, Mr Rouhani has presented himself as an advocate for social media, reminding supporters that he has fought hard to ensure Telegram and Instagram remain unfiltered.\n\nHowever, the role social media has played in mobilising people during this campaign has not gone unnoticed.\n\nInstagram live-streams and Telegram supergroups are clearly a powerful weapon.\n\nWhether access will still be available to Iranians after this election could depend very much on the outcome.", "Last updated on .From the section Motorsport\n\nFormer MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden remains in an \"extremely critical\" condition after suffering \"serious cerebral damage\" in a crash while cycling on Wednesday.\n\nThe American, 35, collided with a car on the Rimini coastline in Italy.\n\nHe is in the intensive care unit of Cesena's Maurizio Bufalini Hospital and has his family by his side.\n\n\"His condition is still extremely critical,\" a statement released by the hospital on Friday said.\n\nHayden, who has been racing for Red Bull Honda's World Superbike team, won the MotoGP championship in 2006.\n\nHe had raced in the World Superbike Championship in Italy last Sunday.\n\nOn Thursday, the hospital confirmed Hayden had \"suffered a serious polytrauma with subsequent serious cerebral damage\".\n\nPolytrauma is a medical term to describe the condition of a person who has multiple traumatic injuries.", "Fernando Alonso was fourth fastest in practice for the Indianapolis 500 as strong winds limited the number of laps done by drivers.\n\nAlonso's best lap of 219.533mph was well down on the fastest of 222.894mph set by Ed Carpenter, but only 14 drivers of the 33-car field posted representative times.\n\n\"It was tricky, definitely,\" the two-time Formula 1 champion said.\n\n\"The conditions didn't help, but for me any condition is still a good lesson.\"\n\nStrong winds can be a major hazard on an exposed superspeedway track, where average lap speeds are so high, as they significantly affect the car's stability in corners.\n\nAlonso said: \"Everything went according to plan. The team used those runs also to test something in the background on engine tuning, so it was a productive day.\"\n\nThe 35-year-old Spaniard is competing at Indy - and on an 'oval' track for the first time in his career - at the expense of the Monaco Grand Prix, as he bids to secure the next leg of the so-called 'triple crown'.\n\nOnly Graham Hill has so far managed to win Monaco, Indy and the Le Mans 24 Hours sportscar race.\n\n'I'm new, so they all need the autograph'\n\nHis presence in the race is a major draw, in both the US and around the world, and Alonso joked that the attention on him was a bonus for the other drivers, with fans allowed close to the pits at Indianapolis.\n\n\"There is a lot of support here from the fans,\" he said. \"They get very close to us here in the pit lane, in the garage.\n\n\"It seems that everywhere I go they follow me. I think some of the other drivers are taking advantage of that. They wait until I go, then they go without trouble.\n\n\"It's the way it is. I'm new here so they all need the autograph for the first time. I hope tomorrow they don't need it for the second time.\"\n\nAlonso has to use the five days of practice this week to get into the best possible shape for qualifying on Saturday and Sunday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which comprises just four left-hand turns but is an extreme challenge for drivers.\n\nAlonso, who is driving a car branded for his McLaren F1 team, powered by Honda, which provides his engine in F1 and run by the Andretti Autosport team, said: \"From the outside, compared to F1 circuits, this looks - it is - more simple. Only four corners.\n\n\"But the spread in terms of timed lap from first to last is just small details on the set-up of the car. Maybe you change a spring and you pick up 3-4mph and that makes three or four places.\n\n\"From the outside it seems too simple but what we are testing is just the fine-tuning on the set-up to gain milliseconds here and there.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPlayers who dive in English football will face bans from next season under new Football Association regulations.\n\nUnder the new rules, passed by the governing body at its annual general meeting on Thursday, a panel will review footage each Monday looking for cases of simulation.\n\nAny player unanimously found guilty of diving would be given a suspension.\n\nThe FA also announced it has passed reforms it proposed in March, following criticism over the way it is run.\n\nHow will the new bans work?\n\nThe FA defines the new offence for which players will be punished as \"successful deception of a match official\".\n\nOnly incidents that result in a player winning a penalty or lead to an opponent being sent off - through either a direct red card or two yellow cards - will be punished.\n\nThe FA says it will act \"where there is clear and overwhelming evidence to suggest a match official has been deceived by an act of simulation, and as a direct result, the offending player's team has been awarded a penalty and/or an opposing player has been dismissed\".\n\nIts panel will consist of one former match official, one ex-manager and one ex-player.\n\nThe announcement follows what the FA said was \"a period of consultation with stakeholders over the past few months\".\n\nThe rule change also required approval from the Premier League, the EFL and the Professional Footballers' Association.\n\nSpeaking in December, Burnley manager Sean Dyche said he thought diving would be eradicated from football \"in six months\" if retrospective bans were introduced.\n\nSuch bans have been utilised in Scottish football since 2011.\n\nWhat happens in Scotland?\n\nThe Scottish Football Association compliance officer - Tony McGlennan - reviews incidents in matches and determines whether or not notices of complaint should be raised.\n\nIf a player is deemed to have dived during a game and the match officials did not recognise that at the time, the player will be issued with a disciplinary notice.\n\nThe player can then either acknowledge guilt and accept the punishment offered by the compliance officer, or appeal.\n\nIf it is the latter, a hearing is convened with an independent three-man panel - including people from legal and football backgrounds - who consider the case made by the compliance officer and the player before making a ruling.\n\nIn December, five former FA bosses asked the government to intervene and change an organisation they described as being held back by \"elderly white men\".\n\nSports Minister Tracey Crouch had said the FA could lose £30m-£40m of public funding if it did not modernise.\n\nIn March, the FA announced proposed reforms to:\n• None Establish three positions on the FA board reserved for female members by 2018;\n• None Reduce the size of the board to 10 members;\n• None Add 11 new members to the FA Council so it \"better reflects the inclusive and diverse nature of English football\";\n• None Limit board membership to three periods of three years;\n\nThese were passed after a vote by shareholders at Thursday's annual general meeting, having already been approved by the FA Council in April.\n\n\"I'm absolutely delighted the FA has understood the importance of good governance and implemented these reforms,\" Crouch said.\n\nThe proposals were criticised for not going far enough when first announced in March.\n\nLord Herman Ouseley, the chairman of anti-racism group Kick It Out, said he had \"no confidence in the FA's proposals\" and described the reforms as a \"sham\".\n\nHe added certain minority groups would continue to be under-represented, and that \"by prioritising women on boards, all other protected groups are being left behind\".\n\nAnalysis - reform will come as relief\n\nGiven the FA's traditional resistance to change, this will come as a huge relief to many in the game, and be seen as a major victory for chairman Greg Clarke, who has succeeded where others before him had failed. It means the FA avoids the funding cut it had been threatened with by the government.\n\nSome critics believe the game's deficiencies are cultural - rather than structural - and these changes on their own will do little to address under-representation of minorities, inequality of wealth and power, standards of grassroots facilities and youth coaching, and a failing England team.\n\nBut the hope will be that decision-making is improved, and that administrators - knowing they now only have a certain amount of time in post - are more likely to make a difference, and act in the interests of the whole of football.", "With an election three weeks away, it would be normal to start seeing letters in national newspapers from the chief executives of the UK's biggest companies setting out their priorities for the next government.\n\nA helpful reminder from the commercial powers that be that it is businesses, not government, that create prosperity, and their needs should be high on any political party's agenda.\n\nWhy has business lost its voice? Business leaders I have spoken to in the last few weeks have told me that they have been left in no doubt that none of the major parties need or want their blessing.\n\nBoth the Tories and the Labour party of Blair and Mandelson either enthusiastically courted or felt \"intensely relaxed\" around the country's wealthiest people.\n\nNot any more. The Conservatives attempt to recast themselves as the party of the worker, rather than of the boss, with promises to intervene in markets and crack down on boardroom excess.\n\nThat has seen the door to the Number 10 kitchen supper clang shut. Yes, there have been dinners for business chiefs and spouses, but attendees tell me that if talk turns to policy, the talk dries up.\n\nLast night at a black-tie do in Park Lane, business moved to plan B: offer to help with the crushing weight of technical Brexit negotiations facing a potentially overwhelmed civil service.\n\nPaul Dreschler, the president of the CBI, offered a government that hadn't done trade deals for 40 years help in getting it right.\n\n\"Business can help navigating the labyrinthine problems of Brexit. We are offering to create a business Brexit task force in the next 50 days,\" he said.\n\nThe problem is this assistance looks like it comes from Jeeves rather than the local mechanic. A thousand-strong contingent wining and dining while economic figures show average workers getting poorer every day as their wage rises are gobbled up by rising prices is not \"on message\" for any of the parties.\n\nBusiness chiefs are hopeful that once the election is over their offers will be welcome. As one chairman told me - hopefully everyone will \"chill out\" and be prepared to listen.\n\nOver years of trying to get business leaders to tell me what they really think about politics on air, I've learnt that through elections and referenda most prefer to argue their case behind closed doors - as long as they were on the same side of the door.\n\nRight now it seems - to not just many but most in this business gathering - that no-one is listening.", "Crystal Palace manager Sam Allardyce says the Football Association's decision to introduce retrospective bans for players who dive from next season is \"utter rubbish\".\n\nREAD MORE: FA approves bans for diving next season", "French club AS Monaco celebrate winning Ligue 1 for the first time in 17 years by gatecrashing the post-match press conference.\n\nWATCH MORE: Is this the best dressing room celebration ever?", "Alex Hanscombe was two years old and with his mother when she was attacked and killed\n\nIn July 1992 a young mother, Rachel Nickell, was stabbed repeatedly and killed on Wimbledon Common in London. She was with her son, Alex, who was just two years old. He was the only witness.\n\nNow aged 27, Alex Hanscombe has spoken to BBC Woman's Hour about that time and how he has moved on.\n\n\"More than anything, I remember just after the attack reaching out to my mother and asking her to get up. I realised in a split second that she was gone and wasn't coming back.\"\n\nAlex's memories about the attack are vivid. He recalls the assailant washing his hands in a nearby stream. He also remembers seeing a cash receipt which had fallen from his mother's pocket - he rested it on her forehead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alex explains how he came to terms with seeing his mother being murdered.\n\nIt took many years for the killer to be caught.\n\nA man called Colin Stagg was wrongly accused of her killing and a judge criticised the police investigation which deployed a \"honey trap\".\n\nIn 2008 a man called Robert Napper pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Napper, who had schizophrenia, had already been convicted of a 1993 double killing. He is at Broadmoor high security hospital.\n\nThere was intense media interest in the case, so Alex's father, Andre, took him to rural France to start a new life.\n\nAfter a while the press found out where they lived, so they moved once more - this time to Spain.\n\nAlex with his mother, who had been a model\n\nPeople knowing where they lived presented a risk to Alex's life. He was the only person to have witnessed his mother's killing and for as long as the killer was at large, he was in danger.\n\nHe insists that he was never scared, although he acknowledges that \"my life could have ended that very morning\".\n\nHe says certain situations used to trigger very strong reactions in him as a child, especially if he saw someone who looked like his mother's killer.\n\nAlex has always strived not to be defined by what happened.\n\n\"There were all sorts of claims that were made about me, such as I'd never talk again, I'd end up living under a bridge or even repeat the same cycle of violence. But it's about creating your path and living your own way,\" he said.\n\nIt is 25 years this year since Rachel Nickell was killed on Wimbledon Common\n\nHe has recently returned to the spot on Wimbledon Common where his mother was killed.\n\n\"I had this strong urge to go back there and something magical happened.\n\n\"I knelt down and said a prayer. I said thank you for all my blessings and for making the pieces of the puzzle come together in the right way. And at that very moment I heard someone call, \"Molly, Molly\".\n\n\"I thought I was dreaming but it was a man calling out to his dog, Molly.\"\n\nAlex's father Andre, left, moved the family to France, then Spain, to avoid intense media interest\n\nMolly was the pet dog with Rachel and Alex when she was attacked 25 years ago.\n\n\"The coincidence and this happening: it's all there for a reason,\" he says.\n\nAlex lives in Barcelona with his father. He studies hypnotherapy, handwriting analysis and yoga.\n\nHe has written a book, about his mother and his life, called Letting Go: A true story of murder, loss and survival.", "Experts are lining up to say that a laptop ban could make flying more dangerous\n\nAirports, airlines and the government are bracing themselves for a ban on laptops, tablets, cameras and e-readers going as hand luggage on flights between Europe and America.\n\nNo-one is absolutely certain it will happen, but most people I've spoken to assume it's coming.\n\nIn reality, the Americans will just tell everyone what they want and when they want it. I'm told that European governments don't get much say in the matter or much notice of any changes - in fact they're watching the media and Twitter just in case it's sprung on them.\n\nAny ban would hit Heathrow the hardest. Three-quarters of UK flights to the US go from Heathrow. That's 761 planes a week, by far the most from any European airport.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHowever, there is widespread concern that by tackling one threat, terrorism, the Americans could be fuelling another, even more serious problem. Fire.\n\nIf lithium-ion batteries are damaged or short-circuited they make a hell of a bang.\n\nIt could even be enough to bring down a plane.\n\nCaptain John Cox is as knowledgeable as anyone you will meet when it comes to plane fires. The former pilot and member of the Royal Aeronautical Society has studied them for more than a decade and now travels the world advising operators, manufacturers and regulators.\n\n\"Bunching lots of electronic devices together into the same secure box in the hold is the worst possible thing you could do,\" he told me. \"Devices collected together will dramatically increase the ferocity of any fire.\"\n\nAircraft holds do have fire extinguishers and limited oxygen, but that doesn't help when it comes to lithium battery fires.\n\n\"The cargo hold extinguisher will put out the open flame but it will reignite. Lithium battery fires produce their own oxygen as a by-product of thermal runaway, and that keeps the fire going,\" says Mr Cox.\n\nThermal runaway is the process whereby the fire spreads from one battery cell to the next. Once it gets going it's impossible to stop.\n\nAnd the more cells you have bunched together, the bigger the fire.\n\nCatching the fire early and stopping thermal runaway is critical. The best device for doing that remains an old fashioned, well-trained human being.\n\nAirline staff practise what to do: you put the battery into water if you can. Or wet towels. No-one can do that if it's in the hold.\n\nKuwaiti activist Thamer Bourashed stows his laptop in hold baggage before boarding\n\nSteve Landells is the safety expert at the British Airline Pilots Association,\n\n\"Given the risk of fire from these devices when they are damaged or they short circuit, an incident in the cabin would be spotted earlier and this would enable the crew to react quickly before any fire becomes uncontainable,\" he says.\n\n\"If these devices are kept in the hold, the risk is that if a fire occurs the results can be catastrophic; indeed, there have been two crashes where lithium batteries have been cited in the accident reports.\"\n\nMr Cox says that balancing the different risks is complex and needs a thorough assessment from a range of experts. But along with many others in the industry, he's not confident that will happen.\n\nThe feeling is that the people at the US Department for Homeland Security will take their decision in isolation from the safety people at the US Federation Aviation Administration.\n\nThat's what happened when the current laptop ban on some flights from the Middle East was brought in.\n\nPassengers will no doubt support a ban if they are convinced it'll keep them safer.\n\nBut the experts are lining up to say that a laptop ban could make flying more dangerous.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nA Swedish top-flight fixture between Gothenburg and AIK has been postponed after an alleged match-fixing attempt.\n\nThe Swedish Football Association claims an AIK player was \"offered a considerable sum\" if he contributed to losing Thursday's Allsvenskan game.\n\nGeneral secretary Hakan Sjostrand described it as a \"very serious attack against Swedish football\", adding: \"We will never let this happen.\"\n\nPolice in Sweden have started an investigation into the allegation.\n\n\"It is ultimately not about a single match, therefore it is important we act forcefully,\" added Sjostrand.\n\n\"The starting point for all of our games is that they are safe and settled on sporting grounds. Based on the information we have, we cannot guarantee that.\"\n\nThe two sides have played eight games in the Allsvenskan this season, with AIK sixth in the 16-team table, five places above Gothenburg.\n\n\"This has been the first instance of alleged match-fixing in the top league level that we have heard about - it has happened quite a bit in lower league football and in basketball. In 2016, the Superettan [second tier] had 43 instances of players participating in match-fixing, but for it to rise to this level is really quite surprising.\n\n\"The secretary general of the Swedish Football Federation say they have worked hard to educate players about what to do if they find themselves in this situation, and that's one of the reasons this was nipped in the bud.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSergio Romero made a series of fine saves as Southampton and Manchester United played out a goalless draw at St Mary's.\n\nSaints should have gone ahead within five minutes when Eric Bailly was adjudged to have handled in the area, but United goalkeeper Romero saved Manolo Gabbiadini's penalty.\n\nBailly's sharp shot was stopped by Fraser Forster, as the United defender created his side's best chance of the first half.\n\nSouthampton forced Romero to make multiple blocks after the break while Anthony Martial hit the post from 25 yards for the visitors.\n\nWith Jose Mourinho's side guaranteed a sixth-place finish before kick-off and one eye firmly on next Wednesday's Europa League final, it always looked like being a sedate affair on the south coast and that is how it turned out.\n\nSouthampton fans have only seen 37 goals at St Mary's this season - only Old Trafford, with 36, has seen fewer Premier League goals in 2016-17.\n\nTheir terrible run in front of goal at St Mary's continued - they have now gone 365 minutes without scoring at home - and suffered yet another miss from the penalty spot.\n\nRomero pulled off a superb low save to stop Gabbiadini's strike, as Southampton missed their third penalty in the past five games.\n\nWith speculation surrounding his future, Puel's nerves would have been eased by a victory to tighten their grip on eighth spot.\n\nHis side host Stoke on the final day of the season on Sunday but could still finish as low as 11th. They are one point ahead of West Brom in ninth and Bournemouth in 10th. Leicester, who are three points behind in 11th, have a game in hand against Tottenham on Thursday.\n\nBut with a League Cup final appearance under his belt, the 55-year-old Puel could have done enough to earn another season at St Mary's.\n\nUnder Sir Alex Ferguson, Manchester United did not finish outside of the top three in the Premier League era, but since his departure in 2013 United have not finished inside the top three.\n\nIt will also be the first time that current boss Mourinho has finished lower than third in his managerial career.\n\nMourinho made clear in recent weeks that his focus is firmly on winning the Europa League and securing Champions League qualification next season.\n\nFollowing consecutive league defeats by Arsenal and Tottenham, he made four changes against Saints and had youngsters Demetri Mitchell and Scott McTominay on the substitutes' bench.\n\nHis side were once again lacklustre against Southampton and they would have slipped to a third consecutive league defeat had it not been for Argentine goalkeeper Romero.\n\nOne downside for Mourinho was that the sight of midfielder Marouane Fellaini limping off after 75 minutes.\n\nDe Gea will play for Man Utd again - Mourinho\n\nWhile Romero will play in goal in the Europa League final, Mourinho also confirmed that third-choice goalkeeper Joel Pereira will make his Premier League debut against Crystal Palace on Sunday.\n\nInjured David de Gea did not travel with the squad to Southampton, but when asked about the Spaniard's future, Mourinho said the 26-year-old will play for the club again.\n\n\"He'll play the first match against LA Galaxy in pre-season in Los Angeles,\" he said.\n\n\"I hope to play Sergio in the final and hopefully we don't have problems with the keepers. David is top of the world and obviously we want to keep the top in the world.\"\n\nWhat they said\n\nSouthampton manager Claude Puel said: \"We can feel shame after this game because we had many opportunities in the second half.\n\n\"We had two different halves - the first one was without intensity and it was very difficult after the penalty because that would have given us the confidence.\n\n\"The second half was interesting as there was quality and many chances without a good reward.\n\n\"But this point is important for us in the table.\"\n\nWhen asked about his future, Puel said: \"I think it's important to stay focused on the last game and to finish strong. After the last game it is normal to have a discussion about the season.\"\n\nOne shot on target for Man Utd - stats you need to know\n• None Manchester United have drawn 15 league games this season - their most ever in a Premier League season and most in a league campaign since 1991-92 (also 15).\n• None Southampton had six shots on target - only Tottenham (seven on Sunday) have had more in a match against Manchester United this season in all competitions.\n• None However, that included a missed penalty which means Saints have now missed their last three Premier League spot kicks, after Dusan Tadic v Hull and Shane Long v Middlesbrough.\n• None Sergio Romero became the eighth different United keeper to save a Premier League penalty, and first since David de Gea against Everton in October 2014.\n• None Southampton have now gone four top-flight home games without a goal for the first time in their history.\n• None Even if United win their remaining game, this will be their lowest tally of wins in a single Premier League season (currently 17). They last had fewer in 1990-91 (16 wins).\n\nSouthampton host Stoke City on the final day of the season on Sunday while Manchester United host Crystal Palace at Old Trafford (both 15:00 BST).\n\nJose Mourinho's side then travel to Stockholm for the Europa League final against Ajax on Wednesday, 24 May (19:45 BST).\n• None Eric Bailly (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Ander Herrera tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Eric Bailly (Manchester United) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Sofiane Boufal (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Dusan Tadic.\n• None Attempt missed. Jay Rodriguez (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Oriol Romeu.\n• None Chris Smalling (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Substitution, Manchester United. Ander Herrera replaces Marouane Fellaini because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTottenham will not try to compete with clubs offering huge wages to transfer targets, says boss Mauricio Pochettino.\n\nSpurs will finish second in the Premier League to qualify for the Champions League group stages for a second year in a row, but Pochettino says that is not enough to attract certain players.\n\n\"If some club is paying double the salary, then how can you convince them?\" said the Argentine.\n\n\"It's all about if you pay or not when we talk about top players.\"\n\nThe 45-year-old added: \"You need younger players, like [England midfielder] Dele Alli, who preferred to come here than another club.\n\n\"We took a big risk on Dele and now he is a massive player, one of the most important in England. But who took the risk? Us.\"\n\nSpurs travel to last season's champions Leicester City on Thursday for their penultimate game of the season.\n• None Jenas analysis: 'I'd back Spurs for next season's title - if they were staying at White Hart Lane'\n\nAfter their final match at Hull on Sunday, Pochettino's squad will fly to Hong Kong for a five-day post-season tour.\n\nTottenham will also go on a 10-day pre-season tour to the United States at the end of July, which includes friendlies against Paris St-Germain, Roma and Manchester City.\n\nEarlier, Pochettino said he was committed to staying at the club and denied reports of a buy-out clause in his contract.\n\nIn May 2016 he signed a contract extension committing him to the north London club until 2021.\n\n\"There is no reason to leave,\" he said. \"I will be here for pre-season. There is no buy-out clause in my contract. I will stay here next season.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChampions Celtic are one game away from an unbeaten Premiership season after a dominant victory over Partick Thistle.\n\nLeigh Griffiths scored a penalty after Patrick Roberts had been fouled by Callum Booth.\n\nGriffiths turned provider for Tom Rogic's close-range finish and Roberts netted a stunning third before the break.\n\nCallum McGregor scored with a shot off the underside of the bar and Roberts then curled in his second.\n\nCeltic boss Brendan Rodgers continued to rotate his squad but no strength was lost as the likes of captain Scott Brown and defender Erik Sviatchenko came in to give others a rest.\n\nFrom the moment referee Andrew Dallas blew his whistle it was Celtic at their scintillating best.\n\nThe swagger witnessed for most of this season was in evidence from a side that had at least four players who would not be considered first-choice picks.\n\nThe wide men in particular gave the Partick full-backs a torrid evening with Roberts looking completely unplayable at times. The man on loan from Manchester City floated and jinked past defenders all night.\n\nMcGregor and Brown provided the drive from the middle of the park - keeping the tempo high and their team-mates hungry. It was quite simply a side with complete belief in their abilities and evidence for anyone who needed it about just how far Celtic are ahead of the rest.\n\nThe opener came from the spot - Griffiths with his 17th of the season after Roberts was brought down by Booth.\n\nThe second was a rare scrappy effort from Rogic that bounced off both posts before nestling in the net.\n\nRoberts' brilliance was rewarded when he curled in the third before the break. It followed fine build-up play on the edge of the box.\n\nMcGregor grabbed his fourth in five games as the clock ticked down in the second half. His effort smashed the crossbar and went over the line. The ball bounced out but the assistant referee called it in.\n\nRoberts cloned his first and made it five with just minutes left. It was a fitting end to his and Celtic's night.\n\nLike so many before them this season, the home side were simply outclassed. They had a couple of chances in the second half but in truth Celtic were toying with them for long spells. In terms of the season, their work was already done and it looked that way.\n\nIt's 46 games unbeaten in all competitions, 104 league goals and a current total of 103 points.\n\nThe records just keep tumbling under Rodgers. The big one will be confirmed on Sunday if they can avoid defeat at home to Hearts at Celtic Park and become 'the invincibles'.\n\nA draw or a win will give them their biggest points tally in a 38-game league season, with the Scottish Cup final against Aberdeen and the chance to complete a domestic treble following on 27 May.\n• None Attempt blocked. Patrick Roberts (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Adebayo Azeez (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Partick Thistle 0, Celtic 5. Patrick Roberts (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Partick Thistle 0, Celtic 4. Callum McGregor (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Nir Bitton (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.\n• None Attempt missed. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Jordan Nobbs equalises deep into injury time for Arsenal as they draw 2-2 away against Chelsea in the Women's Super League One Spring Series.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Mr Chang arrived in the US in January 1988 after a lifetime in Taiwan, to inform on his government's nuclear ambitions\n\nIn 1988 Taiwan was racing to build its first nuclear bomb, but one military scientist put a stop to that when he defected to the United States and exposed those plans. This is the story of a man who insists he had to betray his country in order to save it.\n\nTo this day, critics consider Chang Hsien-yi a traitor - but he has no regrets.\n\n\"If I can ever do it all over again, I will do it,\" says the calmly defiant 73-year-old, speaking from his home in the US state of Idaho.\n\nThe former military colonel has been living there since 1988 when he fled to the US, a close ally of the island, and this is his first substantial interview about that time.\n\nIt might seem a perplexing turn of events given the close relationship the US has with Taiwan, but Washington had found out that Taiwan's government had secretly ordered scientists to develop nuclear weapons.\n\nTaiwan's enemy, the Communist government of China, had been building up its nuclear arsenal since the 1960s, and the Taiwanese were terrified this would be unleashed on the island.\n\nTaiwan separated from China after the Chinese Civil War in 1949. To this day China considers Taiwan a breakaway province and has vowed to reunify with the island, by force if necessary.\n\nThe leadership of the island was also in an uncertain phase - its president, Chiang Ching-kuo, was dying, and the US thought that General Hau Pei-tsun, whom they saw as a hawkish figure, would become his successor.\n\nMr Chang, seen here with one of his children in Taiwan before his defection, enjoyed a comfortable life at that time\n\nThey were worried about a nuclearisation of the Taiwan Strait and bent on stopping Taiwan's nuclear ambition in its tracks and preventing a regional arms race.\n\nSo they secretly enlisted Mr Chang to halt Taiwan's programme.\n\nWhen Mr Chang was recruited by the CIA in the early 1980s, he was the deputy director at Taiwan's Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, which was responsible for the nuclear weapons programme.\n\nAs one of Taiwan's key nuclear scientists, he enjoyed a life of privilege and a lucrative salary.\n\nBut he says he began questioning whether the island should have nuclear weapons after the catastrophic Chernobyl accident in 1986 in the former Soviet Union.\n\nHe was convinced by the Americans' argument that stopping the programme would be \"good for peace, and was for the benefit of mainland China and Taiwan\".\n\nFactory 221 witnessed the research and test of China's first nuclear bomb\n\n\"This fit into my mindset very much,\" says Mr Chang. \"But the most important reason why I agreed is that they went to great efforts to assure me they would ensure my safety.\"\n\nThe next task was getting him and his family out.\n\nAt that time, military officials could not leave Taiwan without permission.\n\nSo, Mr Chang first ensured his wife and three young children's safety by sending them to Japan for a holiday.\n\nHis wife, Betty, says she had no clue about her husband's double life. They had only talked about the possibility of him accepting a job in the US.\n\nThe Changs were put in a safe house shortly after their arrival in the US\n\n\"He told me this was a trial to test how easy I could get out from Taiwan and to see how much luggage I could pack,\" she says.\n\nMrs Chang left on 8 January 1988 with their children, excited to visit Tokyo Disneyland.\n\nThe very next day, Mr Chang took a flight to the US using a fake passport provided by the CIA. All he had with him was some cash and a few personal possessions.\n\nContrary to previous reports, he says he did not take a single document with him when he left Taiwan.\n\n\"The American government had all the evidence, they just needed someone - me - to corroborate it.\"\n\nMeanwhile in Tokyo, Betty Chang was approached by a woman who handed her a letter from Mr Chang. That was the moment she discovered her husband was a CIA spy and had defected.\n\n\"It said 'You will never go back to Taiwan and from Japan you will go to USA'... that was a surprise for me.\n\n\"I just cried when I knew I could no longer go back to Taiwan,\" says Mrs Chang.\n\nThe family was bundled into a plane headed for Seattle, where they were met by Mr Chang at the airport.\n\nThe Changs were later put in a safe house in Virginia, due to fears he would be assassinated by Taiwanese agents or patriotic extremists.\n\nWithin a month, the US succeeded in pressuring Taiwan to end the programme, using the intelligence it had collected and Mr Chang's testimony.\n\nTaiwan was believed to be just one or two years from completing a nuclear bomb.\n\nMr Chang has remained silent for decades. But with his recent retirement he now wants to set the record straight with a memoir, titled Nuclear! Spy? CIA: Record of an Interview with Chang Hsien-yi.\n\nThe book, written with academic Chen Yi-shen and published in December, has reignited a debate about whether Mr Chang did the right thing for Taiwan.\n\nMr Chang recently wrote a book about his side of the story\n\nSome praise him for preventing a potential nuclear war. Others see his actions as denying Taiwan the weapons it needed for self-defence and survival.\n\nEven those in Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which officially opposes the development of nuclear energy and weapons, take a dim view of Mr Chang's actions.\n\n\"Regardless of what your political views are, when you betray your country, it's not acceptable... it cannot be forgiven,\" said the DPP's Wang Ting-yu, chairman of the parliament's foreign affairs and defence committee.\n\nBut Mr Chang insists he feared then that ambitious Taiwanese politicians would use nuclear weapons to try to take back mainland China.\n\nHe claims Madame Chiang Kai Shek, the stepmother of dying President Chiang Ching-kuo, and a group of generals loyal to her had even gone so far as to set up a separate chain of command to expedite the development of nuclear weapons.\n\nTaiwan's programme was developed in response to China's stockpile of missiles, several of which are now on display at Beijing's Military Museum\n\n\"They said they wouldn't use it, but nobody believed it,\" says Mr Chang, adding that the US certainly did not.\n\nNowadays, there may still be politicians who could be tempted to use such weapons, this time to pursue Taiwan's formal independence from China at whatever cost, he says.\n\nBut the DPP's Mr Wang dismisses this notion. \"We absolutely don't consider this, we don't even think about it,\" he said.\n\nTaiwan has nuclear power plants, which some have protested against\n\nOver the years some Taiwanese presidents have hinted at a desire to reactivate the island's nuclear weapons programme, but these suggestions have been quickly quashed by Washington's objections.\n\nStill, the island is widely considered to have the ability to make nuclear weapons quickly if needed. China has in recent years threatened to attack if Taiwan ever deployed nuclear weapons.\n\nFollowing his defection, Taiwan's military listed Mr Chang as a fugitive. But even after his arrest warrant expired in 2000, he has not returned to Taiwan and does not plan to.\n\nHe does not want to deal with criticism he is sure he would face, and the negative impact that would have on his family there.\n\nThe Chang family is pictured here in this 1995 photo, a few years after their defection to the US\n\nIn 1990, they were permanently resettled in Idaho, where Mr Chang worked as a consulting engineer and scientist at the US government's Idaho National Laboratories until he retired in 2013.\n\nHe says his only regret is that he was not able to see his parents before they passed away.\n\n\"You don't have to be in Taiwan to love Taiwan; I love Taiwan,\" says Mr Chang.\n\n\"I am Taiwanese, I am Chinese. I don't want to see Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait killing each other.\"", "Comet Ping Pong restaurant has been the target of fake news and malicious gossip on the internet.\n\nUniversity of Washington researcher Kate Starbird's research into online rumours lead her to an information war being waged through a web of highly politicised conspiracy theories.\n\nIn 2013, in the time between when two homemade bombs detonated near the Boston marathon finish line and when police cornered and caught bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a conspiracy theory began to spread online.\n\nInternet sleuths, analysing pictures released by the FBI, said they saw evidence of a false flag attack - proof that the bombing had been staged or carried out by the US government.\n\nUniversity of Washington professor Kate Starbird and some of her research team noticed these accusations on Twitter, since they were studying how rumours spread on social media during events like mass shootings and terror attacks.\n\nWhile other online rumours would gain traction and die away as facts became clear, the Boston false flag speculation did not abate, even after Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan were identified as the bombers.\n\nAt the time, Starbird and her team saw the conspiracy theory as something of a curiosity.\n\n\"We didn't want to go there,\" she says. \"It just seemed messy.\"\n\nBut after taking a closer look at those rumours, she now says her research suggests there is an \"emerging alternative media ecosystem\" that is growing in reach, and that may have underlying political agendas.\n\nResearcher Kate Starbird first began exploring social media rumours during the 2013 Boston Bombing\n\nStarting in January 2016, she and her team began mapping sites generating conspiracy theories.\n\nThey tracked Twitter reaction to shootings along with references to terms like \"false flag\" and \"hoax\" and the websites that used them.\n\nStarbird has dubbed what they discovered the \"the information wars\".\n\nThe work is nominated for best paper at an international web and social media conference in Montreal this week.\n\nHighly politicised alternative narratives to events were being spread by a mishmash of websites: anti-mainstream media sites, anti-corporatist \"alt-Right\" and \"alt-Left\" sites, conspiracy-focused White Nationalist and anti-Semitic sites, Muslim Defense sites and Russian propaganda.\n\n\"There are different actors,\" she says. \"Some are (acting) for financial motives, some are for political motives. Some people are true believers.\"\n\nCalling her finding an \"information war\" is not a nod towards talk show host Alex Jones' alternative news website Infowars, which focuses on Alt-Right and conspiracy theory themes. His site rose to mainstream prominence during the 2016 American election.\n\nBut she has written tongue-in-cheek that \"this work suggests that Alex Jones is indeed a prophet\".\n\nLooking back on their older research, they found hints of similar conspiracy activity around the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which devastated the Gulf Coast of the US.\n\nIn 2016, the university researchers found sites that helped propagate these conspiracy theory tweets were often so-called \"alternative media\" domains like VeteransToday.com and BeforeItsNews.com.\n\nThe researchers also found sites like TheRealStrategy.com, which appeared to be generating automated conspiracy theory tweets with \"bots\" in order to propagate politicised content.\n\nMany of the tweets had a political element. For example, a mass shooting might be blamed as a \"false flag\" by the US government, with speculation that the attack was planned to to gain support for gun control.\n\nTweets also included hashtags linked to online political conversations like #obama, #nra, or #teaparty.\n\nWhile belief in certain conspiracy theories can be sometimes linked political beliefs, Starbird's research suggested that political content on sites pushing the alternative narratives was less about left-wing versus right-wing - no political leaning was immune - but instead had a broad anti-globalist bent.\n\nThere was also plenty of anti-vaccine, anti-GMO, and anti-climate science content, as well conspiracies about the world's wealthy and powerful citizens.\n\nStarbird's research points to an intentional use of disinformation to muddle thinking and \"undermine trust in information just generally\".\n\nShe says big questions remain, like who might be behind any possible intentional disinformation campaigns and to what extent these messages are coordinated.\n\nBut she says she is concerned that as these fringe theories gain traction in the public sphere \"it is not healthy for society\n\n\"When there's no shared reality, there's no set of facts, society at large can become easily manipulated,\" she says.", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nMichael van Gerwen came from 7-2 down in a dramatic final to beat Peter Wright at London's O2 Arena and win his third Premier League title.\n\nThe Dutchman took home the £250,000 top prize by beating Wright 11-10 after the Scot missed six match darts.\n\nVan Gerwen beat Gary Anderson 10-7 in the first semi-final while Wright survived a late Phil Taylor comeback to win 10-9 and go through.\n\nIt is the second time in as many years that Van Gerwen has won the title.\n• None How Van Gerwen beat Wright to win the Premier League\n\nThe victory means he has won all but one of the four televised Professional Darts Corporation majors of 2017, after he missed the UK Open through injury.\n\nAfter Wright took a five-leg lead, Van Gerwen, 28, came back to level at 8-8 before the Scot rallied and came within one leg of victory at 10-9.\n\nBut he missed half a dozen darts for the title on double eight as Van Gerwen sealed victory with a nerveless 12-dart visit against a deflated Wright.\n\nSpeaking to Sky Sports, Van Gerwen said: \"I think it was a great final. I had a great comeback, but then he missed six darts for the match. I don't know how he did, but who cares, a win is a win.\n\n\"This was a really crazy game, we know sooner or later Peter will win a really big title, he didn't do himself any favours today. I kept myself cool and relaxed.\"\n\nWright, 47, who won the UK Open in March after Van Gerwen pulled out of the tournament with a back problem, said: \"I've got to learn, go back to the practice board and get him next time.\n\n\"What I've learnt over the years playing Michael, I used to rush it, but I've learnt play your own rhythm.\n\n\"I can't believe I missed that many darts at a double, but fair play to the champion.\"", "Former world number one Maria Sharapova has signed a deal with the Lawn Tennis Association to play at Birmingham's Aegon Classic for the next two years.\n\nThe five-time Grand Slam winner, 30, has been given a wildcard for the event in June having fallen down the world rankings after a 15-month drugs ban.\n\nThe LTA will not pay the Russian an appearance fee.\n\n\"This wasn't a decision we took lightly and not everyone will agree with it,\" said LTA chief Michael Downey.\n\nSome may question the moral compass of this decision. We do not\n\nSharapova was banned after testing positive for heart disease drug meldonium at the 2016 Australian Open, though the Court of Arbitration for Sport found she was not an \"intentional doper\".\n\nMen's world number one Andy Murray and several female players have said those returning from drugs bans should not be given wildcard entries to tournaments.\n\nIn a letter to LTA staff and other senior figures in British tennis, Downey was more explicit in his reasoning as to why Sharapova was given a wildcard.\n\n\"Some may question the moral compass of this decision. We do not,\" he added.\n\n\"She made a mistake that we do not condone. She has paid the price through her 15-month ban and now can return to action.\n\n\"We did not take this decision lightly, but - like all other WTA events before ours - have granted her a wildcard so our Birmingham event can benefit British fans who can take in her matches on home soil.\"\n\nSharapova, who won the title in Birmingham in 2004 and 2005, said: \"I am really excited to be coming back to Birmingham this year to play on the grass as part of my build-up to Wimbledon and I thank the LTA for this opportunity.\"\n\nBritish number one Johanna Konta, world number one Angelique Kerber, Garbine Muguruza, Agnieszka Radwanska and Simona Halep will also be competing in Birmingham.\n\n'A Briton might miss out because of Sharapova wildcard' - analysis\n\nFrom a commercial point of view, this is good business. Sharapova has also signed up for next year without the LTA having to pay appearance fees - which are regularly offered to attract the big names to non-mandatory events.\n\nSharapova's signature is seen as a major coup within the LTA. Some staff are unhappy with the decision, but there has also been plenty of back slapping in celebration.\n\nIt is a hard-nosed business decision to try and boost ticket sales at an event which suffers through competition with the ATP event at the Queen's Club in the same week.\n\nDowney says he \"does not question the moral compass of the decision\", but the LTA is the sport's governing body in the UK. Contrast this call with the one made on Tuesday by the French federation, which decided it would be inappropriate to invite Sharapova to Roland Garros as it would undermine their anti-doping message.\n\nAnd by offering a wildcard to Sharapova, someone else - quite possibly a British player - will be denied an opportunity.\n\nNaomi Broady may have been that beneficiary. She would be the first to admit she is not as big a draw as Sharapova, but has been in the top 100 for much of the past 12 months.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nHarry Kane scored four times as Tottenham produced another superb performance to sweep aside Leicester City.\n\nThough Chelsea ended their Premier League title hopes last week, there was no let-up from Mauricio Pochettino's side, who won for the 25th time in the league this season.\n\nKane helped himself to two predatory goals from close range before rattling in twice from 20 yards in the last few minutes to move to 26 league goals for the campaign - two clear of Everton's Romelu Lukaku.\n\nSon Heung-min also scored fine goals either side of half-time, volleying in Dele Alli's masterful pass, and bending in from 25 yards after a swift counter-attack.\n• None Reaction: Kane 'one of the world's best strikers'\n\nLeicester, who are yet to make a decision on manager Craig Shakespeare's future, played their part in an entertaining game.\n\nBen Chilwell momentarily sparked hopes of a fightback by making it 2-1, but the Foxes ultimately had no answer to this in-form Tottenham side, who recorded their biggest away win in the Premier League.\n\nThis, the 13th Premier League matchday in 18 May days, was effectively another dead rubber. But, while the league has failed to deliver the close title race the television schedulers were hoping for, no blame can be attached to Tottenham.\n\nSpurs have won 12 of their past 13 league games and have been kept at bay only by the remarkable resilience of Chelsea, who ensured it has been a case of 'nearly' for Pochettino and his players for the second season in a row.\n\nThird last season despite being Leicester's closest challengers in the second half of the campaign - or, as the home fans enjoyed chanting in the opening stages, \"third in a two-horse race\" - Spurs have gone one better this time. Much better, in fact.\n\nThis dominant win took them past Leicester's title-winning haul of 81 points, and they have enough on the board to have won the Premier League on eight previous occasions - with a game still to come.\n\nSon's superb strikes mean that - for the first time in the club's history - they have three players who have scored 20 goals in a season, and took them beyond 75 league goals for the first time since 1984-85.\n\nAdd in the division's meanest defence - Hugo Lloris' mistake for Chilwell's goal notwithstanding - and it is no surprise Pochettino has committed his future to the club.\n\nDo Spurs have enough?\n\nAs White Hart Lane is dismantled and rebuilt, Spurs' summer seems likely to be flavoured by reports and fears of the team going the same way.\n\nRight-back Kyle Walker - again left out, albeit this time with an ankle problem - has long been linked with a move, and Pochettino admitted this week the club may struggle to compete with clubs offering huge salaries this summer.\n\nThat may have sounded alarm bells for supporters, but the good news for them is it would surely take record numbers to prise away either of the side's crown jewels.\n\nKane and Alli have scored 43 Premier League goals between them this season and were outstanding again, along with Son, in a dynamic attacking display.\n\nThose three players alone had 19 efforts on goal, while Alli's chipped assist for Son's first goal was further evidence of his growing influence and inventiveness.\n\nKane, who tapped in Son's cross to open the scoring, added a close-range header then twice thrashed past Kasper Schmeichel from the edge of the area, could become the first man since Robin van Persie to win the golden boot in successive seasons.\n\nThere is no doubt Spurs have the quality to be champions. If they can repeat their home form while on 'holiday' at Wembley, perhaps the wait for a league title will end after 57 years.\n\nShakespeare said this week he expects to find out if he will remain in charge of the Foxes \"within days\".\n\nHe has certainly made a strong case to be retained, but his side's second-half capitulation must be a disappointment, particularly as a comeback briefly looked possible when Chilwell scored his first career goal, prodding in after Jamie Vardy had gone around an out-of-position Lloris.\n\nA second big decision of the season now looms for the Leicester hierarchy, who were widely criticised for sacking Claudio Ranieri in February, just months after he delivered the title.\n\nThey must surely consider themselves vindicated, despite such a heavy defeat. The Foxes were one point above the relegation zone when Shakespeare took over with 13 matches left but survived easily thanks to seven wins in Shakespeare's 12 league games.\n\nIn fact, had the season begun when he took over, Leicester would once again be dreaming of Europe.\n\nKane up there with the greats\n• None Kane is the fifth player in Premier League history to score 25+ goals in successive seasons (Robbie Fowler, Thierry Henry, Alan Shearer and Robin van Persie are the others).\n• None Kane has now scored more club goals against Leicester than any other side (10).\n• None Kane is the fifth different player to score three or more hat-tricks in a Premier League season.\n• None Tottenham now have three players with 20 or more goals in all competitions this season (Kane, Alli & Son); more than any other club in the Premier League or Football League.\n• None This is the joint-heaviest defeat in Premier League history for a reigning champion (also Manchester United's 6-1 loss to Manchester City in October 2011).\n• None Leicester have now lost 18 league games this season, the most by a reigning top-flight champion since Ipswich Town in 1962-1963 (19)\n• None Leicester had let in two goals in their previous five home games under Shakespeare.\n\nShakespeare has one final home game to impress as Leicester host Bournemouth, while Tottenham wrap up their campaign at relegated Hull. All Premier League games on Sunday, 21 May kick off at 15:00 BST.\n• None Goal! Leicester City 1, Tottenham Hotspur 6. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ben Davies.\n• None Attempt saved. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Vincent Janssen.\n• None Goal! Leicester City 1, Tottenham Hotspur 5. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Filip Lesniak.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Fuchs (Leicester City) left footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is close, but misses the top left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Moussa Sissoko.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Dele Alli tries a through ball, but Vincent Janssen is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Victor Wanyama.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Vincent Janssen.\n• None Attempt missed. Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Danny Simpson (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nNottingham Forest have been bought by Greek shipping magnate Evangelos Marinakis after his takeover was passed by the English Football League (EFL).\n\nThe businessman and Olympiakos owner is facing accusations of match-fixing in Greece but has passed the EFL's owners' and directors' test.\n\nMarinakis' buyout brings to an end Fawaz Al Hasawi's five-year reign in charge of the Championship club.\n\nA previous takeover by a United States consortium fell through in January.\n\nIn an exclusive interview with BBC Sport, Marinakis said that allegations he is involved in a \"criminal organisation\" were invented by \"jealous\" opponents to \"destroy\" his success with the Greek champions.\n\nHe was previously accused of being involved in the bombing of a referee's bakery but faced no action.\n\nMarinakis, who is heading a consortium with Greek businessman Socrates Kominakis, denies all the claims and has not faced any charges. He is waiting to find out whether a remaining case against him will proceed, but says: \"I have nothing to be afraid of and to worry about as I have done nothing wrong.\"\n\nThe EFL has approved the deal after reviewing the business plan and applying the owners' and directors' test. It saw no reason to disqualify the prospective owners under the test. The EFL also asked Uefa for its views on Marinakis' ownership of Olympiakos and received a positive response.\n\nTwo-time European Cup winners Forest only escaped relegation to England's third tier on goal difference with a win on the final day of the season.\n\nMarinakis has also \"guaranteed\" manager Mark Warburton, who was appointed in March, will be with the club \"for a number of years\".\n\nIn an interview with BBC correspondent Richard Conway, Marinakis spelt out his vision for Nottingham Forest. He says he will:\n• None Return \"stability\" to a club with \"huge potential\" which \"belongs to the elite of the Premier League\"\n• None Not make rash pledges, saying: \"I never give promises - I deliver\"\n• None Back Mark Warburton and says he will work within EFL financial rules to support him in the transfer market\n\nUnder Marinakis' ownership since 2010, Olympiakos have won seven domestic championships in a row. They are among the top-25 ranked teams in Europe.\n\nHe told BBC Sport that claims of criminality against him are as a result of this record.\n\n\"All these years, a lot has been said but nothing came out in reality. All of it has been dismissed and we have been clear from all of this,\" he said.\n\n\"Now there is a last case remaining - there are about 80 persons involved. I can tell you again that I have nothing to do with it because I know very well what I have done and how I have achieved victories.\n\n\"Of course I cannot stop our opponents talking or bad-mouthing.\"\n\nHe added the EFL and other football authorities, such as European governing body Uefa, have cleared him after \"two months\" of \"numerous questions\".\n\nMarinakis attended high school in Watford from the age of 15 and went on to university in the UK.\n\nHe told the BBC he chose to invest in Forest based on \"what I remember from the past and the potential the club has\".\n\nHe added: \"I think that it doesn't take long to decide, even if you have a choice, which team to go for. When you see all this tradition and all these achievements, of course this club has the potential to grow and achieve victories that the whole region deserves.\"\n\n\"I'm not going to promise you things or I'm not a rich guy who came from abroad to spend my money and gain glory by acquiring a team in the UK.\n\n\"I had glories from my times with Olympiakos who have won everything, who have broken every record both within our country and in Europe, in the Champions League for our level.\n\n\"We know a lot of players, managers, clubs, officials in various parts of the world in international football, agents - all this can help us to put all our connections together and try to do our very best for Nottingham.\"\n\nForest, league champions in 1977-78 and European Cup winners in the following two seasons, last played in the Premier League in 1998-99. They have since spent 14 seasons in the second tier and three seasons in League One, from 2005-06 to 2007-08.\n\nDespite narrowly escaping a return to the third tier this season, Marinakis believes Forest should be in the Premier League.\n\n\"We have a long-term plan and within this long-term plan we want to bring Nottingham to where it belongs. And of course Nottingham belongs in the Premier League. And Nottingham belongs to the elite of the Premier League,\" he says.\n\n\"Furthermore the supporters of Nottingham have been tired all these years, they didn't have such good times. But they remained loyal and for us that's very important.\n\n\"The potential is huge. The potential of this team is that when it will be very well organised, when it will achieve victories again, when it will have a better position in the Championship, when it will have a better position and we can look seriously at the Premier League, then we will be there to stay.\"\n\nWhat does the manager think?\n\nWarburton has previously described the new ownership as \"proven football people\", referencing Marinakis' achievements at Olympiakos.\n\n\"They have done a magnificent job at getting into the Champions League year in, year out and have really developed an outstanding club,\" he added.\n\nWhat is the owners' and directors' test?\n\nAlso referred to as the 'fit and proper persons test', it is designed to prevent someone being involved in running a football club if they have any of the disqualifying conditions listed here.\n\nThat includes criminal matters such as dishonest acts and unspent convictions and company disqualification matters such as bankruptcy.\n\nWhat do the fans think?\n\nNatalie Jackson, BBC East Midlands Today sports editor, on the feeling among some Forest supporters.\n\nSupporters seem to be optimistic about the new ownership because five years under Fawaz promised so much but delivered so little. His well-meaning love of the club and his vast wealth was never in doubt but there were eight different managers and a fragile infrastructure behind the scenes, with people in key positions coming and going at regular intervals.\n\nIncreasing anger led to fans' protests, while Forest finished lower in the league year on year - culminating in this season's final-day escape from relegation.\n\nBridges need to be built and reputations restored. Mark Warburton's arrival shows signs of a more sensible, long-term approach on the football side.\n\nThere is a sense of relief among fans, but also caution because tremendous wealth does not automatically mean a well-run, stable and successful club. Marinakis is aggressively ambitious but has taken on a club in need of major rebuilding.\n• None The purchase is a consortium led by Marinakis and Socrates Kominakis , a Greek businessman and investor, for 100% of Hasawi's shares. The sum is undisclosed.\n• None The owners have formed a new company NF Football Investments Ltd, registered in the UK.\n• None Nicholas Randall QC, a leading sports lawyer, has been appointed as chairman.\n• None Ioannis Vrentzos - CEO of Olympiakos - will move to become Forest CEO.\n• None Frank McParland has had his contract extended as director of football.\n\nSat in his modern London office, adorned with a mix of modern art and oil paintings of the port of Piraeus in Greece, Evangelos Marinakis spoke confidently of his long-term plan for Nottingham Forest.\n\nHis key phrase is \"hard work\". He repeatedly said those words during our interview, and prides himself on building teams both within his shipping empire and at the football clubs he owns. His immediate focus appears to be order, appointing professionals and creating a stable base from which the club can rebuild.\n\nBut Marinakis does come with baggage. He has faced - and has been cleared - of very serious charges in Greece. He insists his remaining legal difficulties in Greece don't worry him and that he's done nothing wrong.\n\nSignificantly, the deal is also being fronted by fellow businessman Socrates Kominakis. His presence will ensure that should anything happen in the future concerning Marinakis' ability to own the club (a prospect he says is not based in reality), there will be continuity in the boardroom.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritish number one Johanna Konta lost to Venus Williams in the last 16 of the Italian Open in Rome.\n\nThe 26-year-old world number six recovered from a set down to level but American Williams, 36, dominated the final set to win 6-1 3-6 6-1.\n\nSeven-time champion Rafael Nadal reached the last eight of the men's event by beating Jack Sock 6-4 6-3.\n\nSerbia's Novak Djokovic is also through after defeating Spain's Roberto Bautista-Agut 6-4 6-4.\n\nHowever, world number three Stan Wawrinka suffered a 7-6 (7-1) 6-4 loss to big-serving American John Isner.\n\nFifth seed Konta had won her past three encounters with Williams, but the veteran controlled proceedings from the baseline, taking the first set in just over half an hour.\n\nKonta rallied and won three straight games to claim the second set but Williams responded with another double break in the third to secure victory.\n\nWilliams, who has won seven Grand Slam singles titles, will take on Spain's Garbine Muguruza in the quarter-finals, after the 2016 French Open champion saw off Germany's Julia Gorges 7-5 6-4.\n\nElsewhere, Estonian qualifier Anett Kontaveit backed up her shock win over world number one Angelique Kerber on Wednesday by beating 16th seed Croatian Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 6-1 6-1.\n\nKontaveit will face sixth seed Simona Halep in the quarter-finals, after the Romanian beat Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-1 4-6 6-0.\n\nUnseeded Daria Gavrilova stunned Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia 2-6 7-5 6-4 to reach the last eight, where she will play Kiki Bertens - a 7-6 (7-3) 6-1 winner over Russia's Ekaterina Makarova.\n\nUkraine's Elina Svitolina beat Germany's Mona Barthel 3-6 6-0 6-0 to set up a tie with second seed Karolina Pliskova, after the Czech came through 6-1 7-5 against Switzerland's Timea Bacsinszky.\n\nDjokovic and Nadal through as Wawrinka stunned\n\nNadal, 30, converted all three of his break points to end Sock's challenge in one hour and 20 minutes and set up a meeting with Austria's Dominic Thiem - a rematch of the Madrid Open final that the Spaniard won to enter the world's top four.\n\nWorld number two Djokovic, 29, broke clay-court specialist Bautista Agut in the seventh game to take the first set before also breaking the Spaniard early in the second set.\n\nBautista Agut broke back and won three straight games, with Djokovic involved in an angry exchange with the umpire after being given a time violation.\n\nHowever, the French Open champion rallied to reclaim the break and close out the match to set up a quarter-final against Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro, who saw off Japan's Kei Nishikori 7-6 (7-4) 6-3.\n\nSwitzerland's Wawrinka had no answer to the impressive serving of Isner, losing a first-set tie break 7-1 before falling to a straight-set defeat.\n\nUnseeded Isner sent down 19 aces and landed 84% of his first serves as he set up a last-eight tie against Croatia's Marin Cilic, who beat Belgium's David Goffin 6-3 6-4.\n\nEarlier, Germany's Alexander Zverev secured a 6-1 6-1 victory over Italy's Fabio Fognini, who beat world number one Andy Murray in round two.\n\nZverev will face fifth seed Milos Raonic in the last eight, after the Canadian beat Czech Tomas Berdych 6-3 6-2.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nHuddersfield Town beat Sheffield Wednesday on penalties to reach the Championship play-off final.\n\nTerriers keeper Danny Ward saved from Sam Hutchinson and Fernando Forestieri in the shootout to give Town a 4-3 win.\n\nSteven Fletcher put the Owls ahead when he headed home Barry Bannan's cross but the visitors levelled when Collin Quaner's cross was turned in by Nahki Wells via a deflection from Tom Lees.\n\nTown will now face Reading at Wembley for a place in the Premier League.\n\nIt had always looked possible that the tie would go the distance after Sunday's opening leg between the two sides had ended scoreless, with the Owls failing to manage a single shot on target.\n\nDespite losing Ross Wallace to injury early on, the hosts made a bright start to the second leg and sub Adam Reach forced a sharp save from Terriers keeper Danny Ward at his near post.\n\nHowever, Town had the best chance in the first half but Izzy Brown's shot hit the outside of the post after Wells had found the Chelsea loanee with a low cross.\n\nWednesday opened the scoring when Bannan, who was given a far more free role compared to the first game, sent a perfectly-measured cross to the back post where Fletcher rose above Christopher Schindler to head in.\n\nAfter initially being rocked, Town responded well and got a deserved equaliser when Collin Quaner got on the end of a neat ball from Brown and squared a low ball across the face of goal, which Lees inadvertently diverted in to level the tie with 15 minutes to go.\n\nBoth teams had chances to win it in extra time but Wales international Ward saved well from Jordan Rhodes and Wells fired into the side netting after a mishit-shot broke to him.\n\nTown eventually prevailed when Liverpool loanee Ward dived to his right to keep Forestieri's effort out and set up an appearance against the Royals at Wembley on Monday, 29 May.\n\n'Everyone knows Germans are able to win penalties'\n\nHuddersfield Town finished last season with a 5-1 home defeat by Brentford to finish 19th in the second tier.\n\nBoss Wagner, who had joined in November 2015, subsequently carried out a major overhaul of the squad in the summer to bring in players who could execute the pressing game he wanted the side to play.\n\nLoanees Aaron Mooy, Ward and Brown, along with Germany-born imports Chris Lowe, Michael Hefele and Elias Kachunga, have all been integral to the Terriers' success.\n\nWagner, who joked prior to the game that \"everyone knows Germans are able to win penalties\", has maintained all campaign that his team were underdogs for promotion - but they are now just 90 minutes from reaching the Premier League for the first time in their history.\n\nHe said after the game: \"Everyone knows most pundits said we would be in relegation trouble or we'd get relegated and now we're one step away from the Premier League. We are the small dog, the terrier, but we have belief.\n\n\"Now we are in the final the fairytale goes on and we want to write the last chapter at Wembley.\"\n\nWhat next for 'heartbroken' Wednesday?\n\nThis was the second successive season that Sheffield Wednesday had reached the Championship play-offs under Portuguese head coach Carlos Carvalhal, following defeat by Hull City in last season's final.\n\nDespite leading Wednesday to a fourth-place finish this campaign, questions have been raised about his position amid speculation linking former Newcastle and Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew with the club.\n\nCarvalhal said that now was \"not the time\" to discuss his future after what he called a \"heartbreaking\" defeat.\n\nWhen he took over in 2015, Thai owner Dejphon Chansiri said he wanted promotion back to the Premier League within two years and he may now look to make a change in the summer.\n• None Penalty saved! Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Penalty saved! Jack Payne (Huddersfield Town) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, left footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 1(3), Huddersfield Town 1(4). Jack Hunt (Sheffield Wednesday) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 1(2), Huddersfield Town 1(4). Aaron Mooy (Huddersfield Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 1(2), Huddersfield Town 1(3). Kieran Lee (Sheffield Wednesday) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 1(1), Huddersfield Town 1(3). Nahki Wells (Huddersfield Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 1(1), Huddersfield Town 1(2). Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 1, Huddersfield Town 1(2). Michael Hefele (Huddersfield Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Sam Hutchinson (Sheffield Wednesday) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 1, Huddersfield Town 1(1). Chris Löwe (Huddersfield Town) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nahki Wells (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Jordan Rhodes (Sheffield Wednesday) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Barry Bannan with a cross following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Chris Cornell was one of the defining voices of grunge music - his bluesy, multi-octave voice becoming Soundgarden's not-so-secret weapon.\n\nBorn in Seattle, Washington, in 1964, he developed an interest in music while at school - especially with The Beatles - which led to him learning the piano.\n\nBut he spent most of his teenage years a loner, afflicted by agoraphobia and anxiety, until rock music helped him overcome his uneasiness around others.\n\nAfter dropping out of school, he bought a drum kit and played in various local bands, which brought him into contact bassist Hiro Yamamoto and guitarist Kim Thayil, with whom he formed Soundgarden in 1984.\n\nThe band was named after an art installation in Seattle's Sand Point.\n\nCornell initially played the drums while singing, but was able to concentrate on vocals after a drummer was recruited in 1985.\n\nIn Soundgarden, he slowed the frenetic flammery of '80s metal to a sombre crawl, earning the band comparisons to Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin.\n\nAlthough they started out on Seattle's Sub Pop label (their debut EP, Screaming Life was the label's second release), they were the first grunge band to sign to a major label.\n\nThe song's surreal and nightmarish video became an MTV favourite and won Best Metal/Hard Rock Video at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards.\n\nIt remains their most enduring hit. Spotify lists more than 50 cover versions, with everyone from Anastacia to Paul Anka drawn to its pretty melody and dreamlike lyrics.\n\nEven Cornell wasn't sure what it was about. \"I was just sucked in by the music and I was painting a picture with the lyrics,\" he once said. \"There was no real idea to get across.\"\n\nWhile the song defined the band, there was no pinning Cornell down.\n\nHe wrote for other acts, including Alice Cooper, and formed Audioslave with the remnants of experimental rock act Rage Against The Machine.\n\nWith them, he played Cuba's first ever outdoor concert by an American rock band; while in later years he worked with hip-hop producer Timbaland and released a solo acoustic album, Songbook, which put his remarkable vocals front and centre.\n\nSoundgarden disbanded in 1997 and reunited in 2010. Cornell went into rehab in 2003 after struggles with addiction to drugs and alcohol.\n\nHis Casino Royale Bond theme in 2006, You Know My Name, may not be a classic of the genre - but in framing Daniel Craig as a new, leaner, tougher 007, it was an uncompromising success.\n\nHe wrote the end title song Live to Rise for Marvel's The Avengers and his song Misery Chain, a duet with Joy Williams, appeared on the soundtrack of the Oscar-winning film 12 Years A Slave.\n\nCornell's song The Keeper from Machine Gun Preacher was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2012.\n\nLike all great musicians, he was curious and fearless. His greatest regret of the grunge scene was that Seattle's experimental bands, the ones playing free jazz and Gothic rock, got left behind because they didn't fit the music industry's narrative.\n\n\"It's like somebody came into your city with bulldozers and water compressors and mined your own perfect mountain and excavated it and threw out what they didn't want and left the rest to rot,\" he told Rolling Stone in 1994. \"It's that bad.\"\n\nHis untimely death means that, after Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley and Scott Weiland, yet another of grunge's leading lights has been extinguished.\n\nTo those who knew him, the loss will be even greater.\n\nCornell is survived by his wife Vicky, whom he married in 2004, and their two children. He also had a daughter with first wife and former manager Susan Silver.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The only thing that worries me about next season for Tottenham is that they will be playing their home games at Wembley.\n\nIf Spurs were staying at White Hart Lane then I would be thinking they can go on and win the Premier League, but Wembley is a genuine issue for them.\n\nPremier League rules do not allow them to change the pitch size to make it the same as at the Lane, where they have been in such brilliant form this season on a pitch that is 440 square metres smaller than the one they will play on at Wembley.\n\nWhen I played at Wembley for England, I always noticed the difference with a bigger pitch - the game is slower and you get more time on the ball, and it also seemed to take longer for play to shift from one end to the other.\n\nSo you cannot easily play the game that Spurs like to play that makes them the team that they are at White Hart Lane - that likes to get in teams' faces, press them and win the ball back high up the pitch.\n\nSpurs struggled when they played at Wembley in Europe this season, only winning one out of four matches, and hopefully there are ideas in place to improve things there off the pitch because it is going to be difficult for the supporters too.\n\nThere are fans who have had the same seats at White Hart Lane for years and are used to seeing the same faces around them every week, but they will have to create an atmosphere in totally different surroundings at Wembley.\n\nI am confident that will be easy to do when they move into their new stadium in 2018 because they can start building the memories that will make it feel like home, but being at Wembley for a year will be a lot harder to deal with.\n\nWhy Spurs have to pay their players what they deserve\n\nThe other big question mark is whether Tottenham can keep this team together.\n\nThere are certain sides across Europe at the moment that look susceptible if clubs try to sign their players, and Spurs are one of them.\n\nAlong with Borussia Dortmund and Monaco, they have got plenty of players in their squad that the big boys will be looking to cherry pick from.\n\nSpurs chairman Daniel Levy is no pushover and there is no way he will let anyone leave cheaply, but my concern is not that there is going to be a fire sale.\n\nI am more worried about the mentality of the players being affected if they are not being paid what they deserve, and deciding they want to move on.\n\nWe are not talking about kids anymore. Yes, some of them are still young but they are European stars now.\n\nTottenham are now a Champions League team, two years on the spin. This season was probably the hardest year ever to finish in the top four and they did it comfortably.\n\nFor the club to keep on progressing, they need to keep their players happy. When I spoke on Radio 5 live recently about them deserving 100% more than they are getting paid right now, that is not because they are greedy, it is down to their self-worth.\n\nIf I am Kyle Walker and I am on £40,000 or £50,000 a week and Liverpool defender Nathaniel Clyne is sitting across from me in the England changing room on, say, £100,000 a week then I am asking myself is that how my club values me?\n\nWhen I go through the Tottenham team, some of them are already good enough to play for Barcelona or Real Madrid, so you have to start treating them like players of that calibre, or you will lose them.\n\nWhen people talk about Spurs players they don't seem to see them in the same light but you will see what they are worth in the summer when bids start coming in for them.\n\nIf any of them do leave, I doubt it will be for less than £40m but they are not getting paid like £40m players at the moment, so there is something wrong.\n\nThe top end of the team is where Spurs can improve\n\nAfter finishing third in the Premier League in 2015-16 and runners-up this season, the next challenge for Spurs now is to win the title, as well as making an impact in the Champions League.\n\nTo do that, they have to do more than keep their current squad together - they need to invest in it, and strengthen. I think they know that is probably what has cost them this season.\n\nWhen I look at Tottenham's back five and the two midfielders who sit in front of the defence as part of their strongest line-up, then I don't see it getting much better than that.\n\nMarcelo and Sergio Ramos are absolutely brilliant for Real Madrid, but they are individuals.\n\nJuventus probably have the best defensive unit in Europe but, other than that, I don't see anything better than what Spurs have got.\n\nThe attacking part of their team is the area where Tottenham can improve, and I would bring in two more forwards to play behind Harry Kane.\n\nThe likes of Everton's Ross Barkley and Leicester's Riyad Mahrez have been mentioned, but I like Monaco's Thomas Lemar who is a very good player and definitely fits the mould.\n\nSpurs need quality and quantity in those positions so they can rotate if they have to without it affecting the team because I don't think Moussa Sissoko and Georges-Kevin N'Koudou, who both arrived last summer, have been the answer at all.\n\nThey also need a striker that is going to push Kane harder than Vincent Janssen has done this season.\n\nHarry is the star, so they don't need another big name. What they need is someone to back him up.\n\nThere has been talk of them being in for Joshua King, who has had a brilliant season for Bournemouth, and I think he would be perfect. He would definitely add a lot more than Janssen, who has sometimes not even played when Kane is injured.\n\nKing has got a lot of developing to do but that would not be a problem because I think Mauricio Pochettino likes players that he can work on.\n\nPochettino is still building at Spurs\n\nWhen I speak to the Spurs players, you can tell they genuinely love playing for Pochettino, and they are looking forward to the next couple of years - probably more than I expected them to.\n\nHe makes them feel as though they are improving by playing under him, which might give them a chance of keeping some of them even if the club's wage structure doesn't change.\n\nPochettino said after Sunday's win over United that he was proud of what his side have achieved this season and he is right to feel that way because they have been phenomenal. They are probably a year ahead of where he thought they would be.\n\nIt is going to get harder for them because Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho will both be stronger in their second seasons at Manchester City and United, but Pochettino is still building and he is getting better and better too.\n\nThe way he talks, he is looking forward to moving into the new stadium which is a positive sign and, in his mind, everything is going in the right direction in terms of the club and the players in his squad.\n\nI think the minute that starts to shift is when you start to worry about whether Pochettino will stay at the club but right now he seems very happy.\n\nHis Spurs side have challenged for the title in back-to-back seasons but they need to win something to be remembered as a great team. It is a shame they haven't so far, but I believe they will.", "If he could, he'd wind the clock back to his youth and do it all again in New Zealand, the highs and lows of a Lions tour, the intensity, the brutality, the ecstasy and the agony.\n\nWhen Gavin Hastings says that the 2017 Lions are about to experience the \"hardest weeks of rugby they will ever have faced in their lives, but at the same time, the most incredible weeks\", he speaks from experience, some of it bitter, some of it glorious, all of it unforgettable.\n\n\"These guys have the opportunity to make history,\" he says. \"Let's get it straight, this is not a question of life or death, they're not going away with Bear Grylls on an island to fend for themselves. They're going to be worshipped when they arrive, probably not by New Zealand fans, but by the 25,000 Lions fans that are going to be there.\n\n\"If you asked every person who ever played for the Lions in the past would they like to be young again and be on that plane, then most of us would say, 'Yeah, we'll do it'. Captaining the side in 1993 was the greatest honour I could have achieved.\"\n\nThat was quite a tour, the last of the amateur era - 13 matches, a dramatic and controversial Test series, a calamitous midweek side and so many memories that are still vivid in Hastings' mind's eye.\n\nThe first of them was the strange way he was offered the captaincy.\n\n'A very good time in my life'\n\nIan McGeechan was the Lions coach in 1993 and Geoff Cooke, of England, was the manager. There were three men touted for the leadership of the team - Will Carling, who had captained the English to two Grand Slams, Ieuan Evans, the brilliant Welsh wing, and Hastings, who had just assumed the captaincy of Scotland that season.\n• None Hogg and Seymour only Scots in squad\n• None Laidlaw to fight for starting place after Lions call\n\n\"I was sitting at home one Sunday evening when Geech rang and said that he'd been asked to call me to find out what I would say if I was offered the captaincy. I said, 'Geech, you know the answer to that question, I don't know why you're phoning to ask me'. And I kinda put the phone down.\n\n\"Then he phoned me again a couple of hours later and he asked me the very same question and I said, 'Geech, I've given you the answer'. He phoned me back half an hour later and said, 'Congratulations, you're the captain of the Lions'.\n\n\"I don't know if he, and Geoff, were just doing their homework and wanting to find out if I was nervous in any way, but I wasn't. It was a very good time in my life.\"\n\nThe Lions won their first four matches in New Zealand, beating North Auckland 30-17, North Harbour 29-13, coming from 20-0 behind to beat the Maori 24-20 before taking care of Canterbury 28-10.\n\nEverything was going well, almost too well. When the Lions arrived in Dunedin to play Otago, the first crisis of the summer was about to hit them.\n\nIn scoring five tries and 37 points, Otago gave the tourists a record kicking. Jamie Joseph and a young Josh Kronfeld ran amok. Stuart Forster, their brilliant scrum-half, lorded it over the game and then trash-talked in the aftermath. \"We stuffed it right up them,\" said Forster. As much as Hastings would liked to have protested, he couldn't.\n\nTwenty-four years later, he says his boys were \"mullered\" that day.\n\nThe pain of the loss was added to by the injury sustained by his brother, Scott. He fractured his cheekbone and was invalided out of the tour.\n\n\"We had a night out after the Otago game,\" says Hastings. \"I wasn't feeling too good, but I got up early the next morning and went to see our doctor, James Robson, to ask how Scott was doing and he said he wasn't doing great.\n\n\"He said, 'I'm going in to see him (in hospital) if you'd like to come'. I said 'OK' and when I saw his face I was just about ill all over the floor of the room he was in and it was as much to do with the way he looked as the amount of drink I'd had the night before. He was like the elephant man.\"\n\nA week later, the Lions played the first Test at Lancaster Park, Christchurch. In the opening minutes, New Zealand were awarded a try even though Frank Bunce, their centre, never grounded the ball. Brian Kinsey, the referee from Australia, said the try was good.\n\n\"Kinsey - is that who he was? I've tried to erase his name,\" says Hastings.\n\nStill, with only seconds left to play the Lions were 18-17 ahead. It was at that point that Kinsey made another intervention. He gave the All Blacks a penalty at the breakdown, an opportunity that Grant Fox took with a long-range kick. All these years later, it's still hard to see what Kinsey saw that day.\n\n\"I've never really watched it again, but my abiding memory is the look on (Lions scrum-half) Dewi Morris' face when the penalty was awarded,\" Hastings recalls. \"It was a look of utter disbelief. We should have won that game.\"\n\nA split soon developed in the squad between the Test players and the dirt-trackers, some of whom were out of their depth and then started to go off the rails. There were losses to Auckland and Hawke's Bay.\n\nAfter the Lions levelled the series with an outstanding 20-7 victory in Wellington, the midweek boys folded against Waikato in the penultimate game of the tour. Peter Winterbottom, the Test flanker, said he was disgusted watching it. He felt they weren't trying.\n\nA lot of fingers were pointed at the Scottish forwards. Peter Wright, Kenny Milne, Paul Burnell, Andy Reed and Damian Cronin made up the Lions front five against a rampant Waikato who had, at hooker, a 29-year-old by the name of Warren Gatland.\n\n'You had to have the right mentality'\n\n\"It's true that the midweek team wasn't strong enough and that one or two of the players went off piste,\" says Hastings. \"Well, maybe three or four. Perhaps half a dozen. Who knows. The game was still amateur. That's just the way it was.\n\n\"In New Zealand, you had to have the right mentality. I had it and lots of others had it, but not everybody had it.\n\n\"Speak to a guy like Damian Cronin and he probably has a touch of regret that he didn't perform to the best of his ability and maybe took it as a bit of a jolly.\n\n\"It's a tough place to go. You're in Rugby Park in Invercargill and the Southland boys are kicking lumps out of you, but you've got to face up to it. There's no hiding place. There never has been and never will be. I remember a game against North Harbour and those guys are tough hombres and they're after you and you have to meet them face to face.\n\n\"We were 10-0 ahead in the third Test , but we didn't see the ball after that. We lost 30-13. Ah, it was a series we should have won. We were very unlucky in the first Test. There's a lot of regret there.\n\n\"The margins between victory and defeat are so small. Those incidents in the first Test - people don't remember them. They remember 1997 and 2013. They don't remember 1993.\"\n\nSome people do. The Kiwis, for a start. The Lions may have lost but they haven't been forgotten. Hastings made many friendships on that tour, some with All Blacks that are strong to this day.\n\nHe remembers Gatland in that Waikato match. The Lions coach scored a try in the rout, getting on the end of a pass on the left wing and strolling over unopposed like he was playing in a practice match, which was largely what it had become.\n\n\"Warren was a guy who looked 20 years older than anyone else,\" says Hastings. \"He sat on the bench for New Zealand for years as understudy to Sean Fitzpatrick, but he never got an All Black cap.\n\n\"If there's one New Zealander who can harness the frustration of missing out an All Black Test jersey, one New Zealander who will really, really want the Lions to win, it will be Warren Gatland. I said that to him and he had a smile on his face.\n\n\"He's got a strong squad and the biggest competition for Test spots than on any previous Lions tour. We came close in 1993 but we couldn't do it. It's been 46 years since the Lions won a series in New Zealand. I hope the time has come.\"", "In my interview with Philip Hammond last month, the Chancellor pleaded that he did not want to have his hands \"constrained\".\n\nIt was a clear signal he wanted to drop the \"triple tax lock\" put in place by David Cameron before the 2015 election not to raise income tax, national insurance contributions or VAT.\n\nIn two out of three, Number 10 appears to have heeded his request.\n\nThere is a pledge in the manifesto not to increase VAT.\n\nBut the promise not to raise income tax or national insurance has been replaced by a rather vaguer \"firm intention to reduce taxes on Britain's businesses and working families\".\n\nMany predict that Mr Hammond will resurrect the plan to increase national insurance contributions for the self-employed if the Tories win on June 8 and he remains as Chancellor.\n\nToday's manifesto is all about increasing \"wriggle room\" for any new Conservative government.\n\nJust as the manifesto opens the door to tax rises, it also allows for more borrowing.\n\nIt pledges to \"balance the books\" (meaning the government earns in taxes what it spends on services) and eliminate the deficit by the \"middle of the next decade\".\n\nThat's about three years further into the future than suggested in the Autumn Statement, when Mr Hammond said \"the public finances should be returned to balance as early as possible in the next Parliament\".\n\nMany economists took that to mean around 2022, given that at that stage we were expecting an election in 2020.\n\n\"By pushing out the time by which the government expects to balance the books, it is implicitly telling us that there is likely to be an easing off in austerity,\" said Alan Clarke of Scotia Bank.\n\n\"The government is still trying to reduce borrowing, but is doing so slightly more gradually than previously projected.\"\n\nOf course, revising deficit targets has become something of a tradition for the Conservatives - who insist they are still firm backers of \"sound money\".\n\nThe first target, set in 2010, was to eliminate the deficit by 2015.\n\nAs the old New Yorker cartoon says of the harassed executive desperately searching for a free lunch appointment.\n\n\"Never? Is never good for you?\"\n\nIn her hunt for fiscal flexibility (there are still fears the economy could take a rapid turn for the worse) Mrs May has also reduced the pensions triple lock to a double lock - abandoning the promise that pensions would rise by at least 2.5% every year.\n\nThe double lock says that pensions will now rise by either inflation or earnings growth - whichever is higher.\n\nThat could mean pension increases of less than 2.5%, if inflation and earnings growth fall.\n\nMrs May, with Mr Hammond supporting her from the side lines, has produced a manifesto that gives her good deal of economic room for manoeuvre.\n\nAnd that is for a reason.\n\nBefore 2010 and 2015, the Tories believed their \"sell\" to the voter was that they could be \"trusted\" with the public finances and that people wanted a rapid reduction in government borrowing.\n\nIn an era of falling real incomes and struggling productivity growth (the actual way to create economic wealth), the focus has moved to more active support for the economy.\n\nEven if that means taxing and borrowing more.", "There is already no electricity in the Gaza Strip for up to 20 hours per day\n\nBy night, much of the Gaza Strip is plunged into darkness with streets lit only by the headlights of passing cars.\n\nInside their apartment, south of Gaza City, the children of the Abu Shaban family are studying for their end-of-year exams by candlelight.\n\n\"We have no electricity when we teach our children,\" says Suniya, their mother. \"This problem will affect their grades a lot.\"\n\n\"The children are worried about the candles,\" she adds. \"We know they're dangerous but we can't afford batteries for lights or back-up power.\"\n\n\"The refrigerator and most of our electrical appliances have burnt out because the power comes and goes so much. We're constantly chasing after electricity.\"\n\nThe UN has purchased emergency fuel to maintain essential services at Gaza's hospitals\n\nGaza has long struggled with an energy shortage, but recently the situation has got much worse. Mains electricity is switched off for 16 to 20 hours a day.\n\nBehind the crisis is an escalating political power struggle between the Islamist group, Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority (PA), dominated by the rival Fatah movement.\n\nHamas seized control of Gaza almost a decade ago - a year after it won legislative elections - ousting forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas.\n\nSo far, all attempts at reconciliation have failed.\n\nGaza's sole power plant was forced to shut down completely on 17 April\n\nNow, Mr Abbas's West Bank-based government appears to be piling on financial pressure as it tries to reassert its authority over the Strip.\n\nIt has cut the salaries of more than 60,000 civil servants in the impoverished territory by a third, a step it blames on decreasing foreign aid.\n\nGaza's only power plant, which runs on diesel, was shut down last month after the PA scrapped a tax exemption, more than doubling the price of the fuel.\n\nThe plant had been producing about 60MW of power a day, about 30% of the energy normally available.\n\nNow, the PA says it will no longer honour any invoices for an additional 125MW of electricity supplied by Israel.\n\nThe UN has warned that basic services are grinding to a halt in Gaza\n\nIts latest moves come amid fresh efforts by the United States to revive the moribund Middle East peace process. President Donald Trump is expected to visit Israel and the West Bank next week.\n\nThe US, European Union and Israel, among others, consider Hamas a terrorist group. Israel and Egypt tightened a blockade of Gaza after the Hamas takeover in 2007.\n\n\"The Americans and mainly the Israelis have been accusing President Abbas of being weak, [saying] he has no control over the Gaza Strip and is therefore no partner for peace,\" says Mkhaimar Abusada, a political science professor at al-Azhar University - Gaza.\n\n\"He wants to restore his power over Gaza, to be taken more seriously.\"\n\nHamas called the PA's decision to halt payments \"a grave escalation and an act of madness\"\n\nThe lack of energy is forcing hospitals here to cancel non-emergency surgeries.\n\nThe United Nations has donated some fuel for generators.\n\nIt is also helping desalination plants to continue running, but at just 15% of their capacity. The reductions mean water supplies are reduced.\n\nWastewater in Gaza is not being treated properly and pumped out to sea. That means some raw sewage is being discharged just off the coast.\n\nWastewater treatment has largely halted, resulting in the discharge of sewage into the sea\n\n\"The UN can only alleviate some of the humanitarian suffering of those who are most vulnerable,\" says the UN Special Co-ordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nikolay Mladenov. \"We cannot foot the bill for the electricity in Gaza.\"\n\nMr Mladenov warns the \"very grave\" situation could become \"catastrophic\" if power from Israel is stopped.\n\nA spokesperson for Cogat, Israel's military co-ordinator for civilian activities in the Palestinian Territories, says: \"In the absence of the PA, payments for electricity in Gaza can be made through the international community or private entities.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When the lights go out, people turn to this Palestinian engineer for creative ways to get by\n\nThe Strip gets some power from Egypt but supplies are often disrupted because of unrest in the Sinai peninsula.\n\nPreviously, Qatar and Turkey, both major donors to Gaza, have given diesel.\n\nMr Mladenov says he is working hard to pass on the message to \"all sides\" that a political settlement is needed.\n\n\"The only reasonable political solution is in fact, to work on returning Gaza to the legitimate Palestinian Authority, the government,\" he adds.\n\nPresident Abbas wants Hamas to dissolve a committee it recently set up to manage affairs in Gaza.\n\nHe is pushing for the PA to take control of border crossings and government offices and help set up a unity administration that can prepare for new elections.\n\nMeanwhile, Hamas rejects Mr Abbas's efforts to take greater control of Gaza.\n\nDamaging rivalry between the main Palestinian factions looks set to remain a potential stumbling block for peace efforts.\n\nMany of Gaza's almost two million residents are hoping for a short-term solution.\n\nThey point out that the holy month of Ramadan is approaching, when observant Muslims fast from dawn until sunset. Seasonal temperatures are also rising.\n\nBut for now they are being left in the dark over what happens next.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBlackpool reached the League Two play-off final as an injury-time own goal ended Luton's promotion hopes at the end of a remarkable, see-sawing tie.\n\nThe Hatters, trailing 3-2 from the first leg, fell further behind when Nathan Delfouneso opened the scoring.\n\nKelvin Mellor's own goal, Scott Cuthbert's header and Danny Hylton's penalty then hauled Luton in front.\n\nBut Armand Gnanduillet made it 5-5 on aggregate, before Stuart Moore's own goal sent Blackpool to Wembley.\n\nGoalkeeper Moore's misfortunate capped an incredible night of League Two play-off action, as Exeter City beat Carlisle United in the other semi-final - also 6-5 on aggregate and also courtesy of a 95th-minute winner.\n\nThe Grecians had looked to be coasting towards the final on Sunday, 28 May before Carlisle scored two late goals to level the tie.\n\nBut Jack Stacey's spectacular long-range strike in stoppage time means Blackpool will face Exeter in the Wembley showpiece.\n• None RELIVE: How Blackpool and Exeter reached the League Two play-off final\n\nHaving only confirmed their place in the play-offs on the final day of the regular season, the Tangerines' passage to the final appeared a straightforward one when Delfouneso put them 4-2 ahead on aggregate.\n\nBut Luton, roared on by a partisan home crowd, battled back and deservedly levelled the tie by half-time of the second leg through a Mellor own goal and Cuthbert's well-placed header.\n\nThey completed the turnaround early in the second half in controversial circumstances - striker Hylton appeared to dive to win the penalty with which he made it 5-4 on aggregate, a chipped Panenka effort that went in off the bar.\n\nBlackpool were not to be outdone, however, and the impressive Gnanduillet headed in to level matters and send the last-four match towards extra time.\n\nBut, as at St James Park, there was more drama to come when Jordan Cook tried to clear Mellor's header off the line, but instead hit the back of Moore and the ball crept into the net to send Blackpool into the final.\n\n\"I'm a bit shaken. We showed we are a good side but also that we are a naive side at times. We dominated and were excellent the way we played.\n\n\"I'm really proud of my team. We were in total control of the game and two little incidents cost us the game. Up until 75 minutes we were in total control.\"\n\n\"We gifted them two goals. But the courage these boys had to come back was brilliant.\n\n\"We knew if we could get to 3-2 they'd be nervy - as all teams are - but it was amazing the bravery they had to play still.\n\n\"It's what you play football for, and you have to realise what these supporters have been through the last few years.\n\n\"We were 14th on 14 February and have gone on the run, we've come here to the favourites in the play-offs and won.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Kelvin Mellor (Blackpool) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ian Black with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Neil Danns (Blackpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kelvin Mellor.\n• None Attempt saved. Armand Gnanduillet (Blackpool) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Brad Potts.\n• None Attempt missed. Ian Black (Blackpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Bright Samuel following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Bright Samuel (Blackpool) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Armand Gnanduillet.\n• None Attempt saved. Brad Potts (Blackpool) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Bright Samuel.\n• None Attempt missed. Mark Cullen (Blackpool) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Bright Samuel with a cross.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Mark Cullen (Blackpool) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Olly Lee (Luton Town) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Dan Potts with a cross.\n• None Offside, Blackpool. Ian Black tries a through ball, but Mark Cullen is caught offside.\n• None Olly Lee (Luton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Computer giant Apple is expanding its supply line of talented young people with digital skills, by doubling the intake of its European academy.\n\nLast year, the technology company opened an academy in Naples, in Italy, where students spend a year training to be developers, coders, app creators and start-up entrepreneurs.\n\nPlaces are awarded through open competition - with tests being held next month in Munich, Paris, London, Madrid, Rome and Naples - with no tuition fees, open to applicants from anywhere in the world and with courses taught in English.\n\nThere will be 400 students recruited for the autumn, expected to be in the 18 to 30 age range, for courses run in partnership with a Naples university, the University of Federico II.\n\nThe decision for a computer company to move so directly into education is about self-interest as much as philanthropy.\n\nThere has been a long-running digital skills gap - and Apple are taking steps to grow their own talent.\n\nComputer apps, in the space of less than decade, have become a major source of revenue and jobs.\n\nApple says there are now two million apps available on its online store - and that in Europe alone, the app economy sustains 1.2 million jobs.\n\nApple's academy will double its intake to 400 students in the autumn\n\nBut there have been repeated warnings of a mismatch between the digital skills needed for such new jobs and the qualifications of those looking for work.\n\nIt means that unskilled workers are without employment and employers are left without the skilled workers that they need.\n\nIn the UK, the British Chambers of Commerce recently complained that three out of four businesses were suffering from a \"shortage of digital skills\".\n\nThe global \"ransomware\" computer hack last week once again raised concerns about the acute shortage of cyber-security skills in many countries.\n\nThere have been plenty of warnings about this - and IBM's general manager for security, Marc van Zadelhoff, has called for a different approach to recruitment.\n\nIBM has an international network of university partnerships for cyber-security projects.\n\nBut writing in the Harvard Business Review, Mr Van Zadelhoff said filling the skills gap would also mean re-training people without any experience in tech-related areas.\n\nStudents will spend a year in Naples, learning digital skills for the app economy\n\n\"Why are we limiting security positions to people with four-year degrees in computer science, when we desperately need varied skills across so many different industries?\n\n\"Businesses should open themselves up to applicants whose non-traditional backgrounds mean they could bring new ideas to the position and the challenge of improving cyber-security,\" wrote Mr Van Zadelhoff.\n\nThere is also a bigger political dimension to the skills needed for a modern economy - highlighted by the annual Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Skills Outlook, published this month.\n\nThe economic think tank's report for 2017 focuses on the polarising impact of globalisation - which has increasingly become a target for protesters on the right and left.\n\nMore stories from the BBC's Global education series looking at education from an international perspective, and how to get in touch.\n\nYou can join the debate at the BBC's Family & Education News Facebook page.\n\nThe OECD analysis argues that whether a country is a winner or loser from globalisation will depend on the level of skills in the workforce.\n\nIf countries have well-qualified, skilled populations, they will be the beneficiaries of globalisation, taking advantage of better jobs, improved productivity, widening markets and digital industries.\n\nIt identifies South Korea and Poland as examples of countries moving up this value chain - and Estonia, Japan and New Zealand as countries successfully taking advantage of expanding technology sectors.\n\nAmong major economies, Germany is seen as being more successful in developing skills than the United States.\n\nBut the big concern is that across OECD countries there are 200 million people with poor skills in basic literacy and numeracy, deeply vulnerable to the forces of globalisation.\n\nThe global cyber-attack highlighted the need for cyber-security skills\n\nThese are people who have the reading skills of 10-year-olds - whose job chances are acutely at risk from outsourcing overseas or being replaced by technology.\n\nThe OECD report identifies Greece as a country that has failed to respond to this challenge.\n\nBut it also warns that the UK, Australia, Ireland and the United States \"need to watch out\" because the skills in the workforce are no longer \"well aligned\" with the needs of new technology-driven industries.\n\nWhile projects such as Apple's academy are picking the fruit from the top of the tree, the OECD is warning about the dangers of ignoring the reality of life in the low-hanging branches.\n\nAndreas Schleicher, the OECD's education director, says there is an urgent social and political need to equip people with training, if globalisation is going to avoid social division.\n\n\"Don't expect workers to accept losing their jobs through outsourcing or automation, if they don't feel prepared to get or create new ones,\" says Mr Schleicher.", "More women are finding work in cities\n\nWhy are millions of women dropping out of work in India?\n\nThe numbers are stark - for the first time in India's recent history, not only was there a decline in the female labour participation rate, but also a shrinking of the total number of women in the workforce.\n\nUsing data gleaned from successive rounds of National Sample Survey Organisation and census data, a team of researchers from World Bank have attempted to find out why this is happening.\n\n\"These are significant matters of concern. As India poises itself to increase economic growth and foster development, it is necessary to ensure that its labour force becomes fully inclusive of women,\" says the study, authored by Luis A Andres, Basab Dasgupta, George Joseph, Vinoj Abraham and Maria Correia.\n\nSo what accounts for the unprecedented and puzzling drop in women's participation in the workforce - at a time when India's economy has grown at a steady pace?\n\nWomen need better and more suitable job opportunities outside farming, the authors say\n\nPredictable social norms are attributed to women quitting work in India: marriage, motherhood, vexed gender relations and biases, and patriarchy.\n\nBut they may not be the only reasons. Marriage, for example, does affect the rate of participation of women in the workforce. But in villages, the workforce participation rate of married women has been found to be higher than that of unmarried women - whereas in the cities, the situation is reversed.\n\nSignificantly, rising aspirations and relative prosperity may be actually responsible for putting a large cohort of women out of work in India.\n\nRemember, the largest drop has been in the villages.\n\nAfter calculating the labour force participation rates and educational participation rates (young women in schools) the researchers believe that one plausible explanation for the drop in the participation rate among rural girls and women aged 15-24 is the recent expansion of secondary education and rapidly changing social norms leading to \"more working age young females opting to continue their education rather than join the labour force early\".\n\nThe study says there has been a \"larger response to income changes among the poor, rather than the wealthy, by sending children to school\".\n\nAlso, casual workers - mainly women - drop out of the workforce when wages increased for regular earners - mainly men - leading to the stabilisation of family incomes.\n\n\"Improved stability in family income can be understood as a disincentive for female household members to join the labour force,\" says the study.\n\nMany women work outside the home, and on their farms\n\n\"This largely resonates with the existing literature, which suggests that with rising household income levels, women in rural India withdraw from paid labour and engage in status production at home.\"\n\nBut dropping or opting out of the workforce to go to school and get an education may not ensure that these women will eventually go to work.\n\nAfter studying the relationship with the female labour participation rate and levels of educational achievements, the researchers found that having a high school-level education was \"not found to be an incentive for women\" to work.\n\nThe lowest rate of participation is among those who had secured school and high school education in the cities and villages. And the rate is actually highest among illiterates and college graduates.\n\nBut there has been a general drop in the rate in recent years, indicating that irrespective of educational attainments, \"the incentive for women to participate in the workforce has declined over this period\".\n\nTo be sure, India has a poor record of female participation in the workforce: the International Labour Organisation ranked it 121 out of 131 countries in 2013, one of the lowest in the world.\n\nAlso, India is not an outlier when it comes to women dropping out of the workforce.\n\nBetween 2004 and 2012, the female labour force participation rate in China dropped from 68% to 64%, but the participation rate remains very high compared with India. In neighbouring Sri Lanka, for example, the participation rate has dropped, but only by 2%.\n\n\"India stands out because of a such a sharp decline within such a short period. In levels, it is very low in international rankings now,\" the researchers told me.\n\nIndia needs to offer more opportunities to women, the researchers say\n\nClearly women need better and more suitable job opportunities, outside agriculture. Rural labour markets need to offer jobs that are acceptable and attractive to women and their families.\n\nThe World Bank study suggests that gains will not be realised unless social norms around women's - and men's - work also change:\n\n\"Strategies to communicate the importance of women's work should take into account the roles of women, husbands and in-laws.\"\n\nAlso, as another study says, the \"ongoing decrease in the availability of farm-based work, has led to women focusing on economic activities within their households\". Should home-based workers then be counted as members of the labour force?", "Travellers can make some money by becoming informal couriers\n\nThe next time you take an international flight, how about transporting something in your suitcase for a complete stranger?\n\nIf your answer to that question is a resounding \"no way\", and the very thought conjures up terrifying images of unwitting drug mules and long prison sentences, you might need to think again.\n\n\"I always take things back from my travels for family and friends,\" says 45-year-old French airline worker Olivier Kaba. \"Now not only am I able to bring things for others, but I get rewarded financially for doing it.\n\n\"In the past two years I have made about 1,000 euros ($1,100; £860).\"\n\nOlivier is a regular user of Worldcraze, one of three similar firms that have launched in recent years to help connect people who would like to buy something from a different country, with travellers who have spare space in their suitcase and want to make a bit of money by being informal couriers.\n\nThere are some products that ex-pats just cannot live without\n\nThe idea is that the buyer can quickly get his or her hands on a product that may not be available to buy or import where he or she lives (country A), or that the item may simply be a lot cheaper abroad (country B).\n\nSo with transactions made via the three companies' websites and apps, travellers who are due to fly from country B to country A can purchase and transport the products for the buyers. They can then arrange to meet to hand them over.\n\nOver the past 24 months Olivier says he has transported everything from three months' supply of French salami to the US, bags of Japanese sweets called \"Tokyo banana\", and 20kg of fabric samples for a woman starting her own business.\n\n\"I discover new products I have never heard of,\" he says.\n\nWorldcraze was launched in 2012 by French entrepreneurs Frederic Simons and Guillaume Cayard.\n\nOn a trip to New York Frederic noticed a large price difference between Levi's jeans in France and the US, and the idea was born.\n\nToday Worldcraze says it has 10,000 users, with Apple products being the most frequently delivered items.\n\nFrom each transaction Worldcraze takes €2.50 from the buyer, and 10% of the traveller's payment, which is up to 10% of the cost of the product being transported.\n\nFounded in 2016 by developers Joel Gordon and Andrew Crosio, they say that one Ouibring delivery is now made every day on average.\n\nGoods delivered so far include artisan coffee from Japan to Hungary, a baby carrier from Thailand to the US, a candle carried from India, and a room spray from Singapore to the Czech Republic.\n\n\"For shoppers this is a way of getting previously unavailable products, full stop,\" says Joel.\n\n\"For bringers [the travellers who deliver the items] it's about making some money, and meeting interesting people who appreciate the effort, and can share tips for exploring the place you're visiting, or the next step on your journey.\"\n\nTo remove the risk of illegal or counterfeit products being transported both Ouibring and Worldcraze only allow users to buy and collect new products from legitimate shops.\n\nWorldcraze's chief marketing officer Constance Claviez Homberg says: \"Our users can't buy illegal products because they are buying products directly in shops.\n\n\"That way it is just impossible to carry illegal stuff, or counterfeit products. [And] travellers have to upload the product's bill on our platform to prove that the product is congruent.\"\n\nThe company also advises users to check on whether the item in question is legal in the destination country, and has staff that check out requests made on its website and app every day.\n\nOuibring's Joel Gordon says that it also has a \"moderation system\" which \"flags requests that may be inappropriate, and we remove requests if required\".\n\nHe says that the company also advises users that if they are unsure about anything they should get in touch via its secure contact form \"and we'll get back to you asap\".\n\n\"We are happy to provide advice for travellers for specific questions,\" says Joel. \"At the end of the day, it is the individual traveller's responsibility to ensure they comply with the relevant laws of the country they are travelling to.\"\n\nMumbai-based Beck Friends, another firm that enables travellers to transport goods for other people, doesn't limit people to purchasing new items.\n\nInstead a traveller recently transported a much-loved teddy bear from Chicago to Mumbai after its owner, a four-year-old girl called Heer, left it behind.\n\nTo remove any security concerns, the buyer and carrier have to be first connected on social media, such as on Facebook, LinkedIn or Google+. Users must also upload two valid forms of identification, such as a passport and driving licence.\n\nBeck co-founder Deep Malhotra says: \"Security is the prime concern, and we are building a robust platform to address this.\"\n\nWhere things get more complicated is the issue of export and import tariffs, which vary greatly from country to country. All three companies say they advise users on this, and it is the buyer who ultimately has to pay any charges.\n\nIf any traveller is unsure of something, or gets into any difficulties, all three companies say they have support staff available around the clock to help, be it via telephone, live web chat or email.\n\nOuibring's Joel Gordon says that he doesn't think security or customs worries will hold back the growth of his company.\n\n\"Our vision is to become another part of daily international life, like Airbnb, with people all around the world helping to make transport, logistics and travel work together better.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor claims he has signed his half of a deal to fight former five-weight boxing world champion Floyd Mayweather.\n\nThere have been rumours of a proposed bout between the Irishman and Mayweather since late 2016 following McGregor's win over Eddie Alvarez to become a two-weight UFC world champion.\n\n\"The first and most important part of this historic contract has now officially been signed off,\" McGregor, 28, told themaclife.com. \"Congratulations to all parties involved.\"\n\nHe said the emphasis was now on 40-year-old American Mayweather and his adviser Al Haymon.\n\nMayweather refused to comment on a potential bout with McGregor at a press conference in London to promote his fighter Gervonta Davis' defence of his IBF super-featherweight title against Britain's Liam Walsh on Saturday.\n\n\"That's total disrespect to both of these fighters, it's their press conference, let's talk about them. Both of these fighters deserve respect,\" said Mayweather.\n\nUFC president Dana White confirmed McGregor had agreed terms and any meeting with Mayweather would be \"straight up boxing\" rather than any mix with MMA.\n\n\"I'm starting to work on the Mayweather side now,\" said White.\n\n\"If we can come to a deal with Haymon and Mayweather, the fight's going to happen.\"\n\nMany from within boxing have questioned whether McGregor could compete with Mayweather, who retired unbeaten in September 2015 after 49 professional contests.\n\nHowever, many of McGregor's social media posts in recent months have shown him boxing and White stressed his fighter wants two bouts in 2017, one in the UFC and the other a meeting with Mayweather.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mayweather did not reference any communication between each side of the negotiation but said McGregor was the only opponent worth coming out of retirement for.\n\n\"There's only one fight that makes business sense,\" Mayweather said. \"I came out of retirement because I'm a businessman and I want to give the world what they want to see.\n\n\"McGregor's a fighter, I'm a fighter. This is what the fight fans and MMA fans want to see.\"\n\nAny bout is expected to generate huge revenues. Mayweather's 2015 meeting with Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines sold over four million times on pay-per-view, while McGregor's past three fights have passed the one million buys mark.", "Nicky Hayden: Ex-MotoGP champion in hospital after cycling accident in Italy Last updated on .From the section Motorsport\n\nFormer MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden has been injured after he was hit by a car while cycling in Italy. The 35-year-old, who has been racing for Red Bull Honda's World Superbike team this year, is being treated at a hospital in Cesena. The American competed in the latest round of the World Superbike championship in Italy last Sunday. He won his only MotoGP championship in 2006, preventing Valentino Rossi from winning a sixth successive title.", "If you want to get rich fast, then donning a pinstriped suit and heading for the City has traditionally been seen as the most straightforward path to wealth.\n\nUnsurprisingly this year's ranking of the UK's richest 1,000 people by the Sunday Times continues to be dominated by financiers, hedge funders and property tycoons.\n\nYet delve a bit deeper and the list reveals some less obvious ways to become one of the super-rich.\n\nWe look at six of the career choices which you wouldn't typically bet on to bring in the big bucks.\n\nWilliam Dean's firm started out as a door-to-door egg seller in rural Hertfordshire\n\n\"The egg market is big\" - that's how egg producer Noble Foods put it.\n\nIn the UK, we eat a staggering 30 million eggs every day and as chairman of Noble Foods, Peter Dean has amassed a £212m fortune from the family egg business, putting him at 534 on the list.\n\nThe company was started in the 1920s by his grandfather William Dean, who sold eggs door-to-door in rural Hertfordshire.\n\nThe firm rapidly moved from packing and selling a small amount of eggs for local grocery stores into a national business.\n\nAlways ambitious, the firm bought several other companies to speed up its growth. Just over a decade ago, Dean Food Group merged with Stonegate, controlled by lifelong egg producer Michael Kent, to create Noble Foods.\n\n\"Bringing eggs to life,\" is the tagline of the company, whose brands include Happy Egg and Big & Fresh as well as luxury pudding brand Gu.\n\nNever underestimate how much people love their pets. Most owners think of their animals as members of the family and are willing to spend big to prove it, making it a lucrative industry.\n\nBritish husband and wife duo Tony and Christina Quinn - listed at number 446 with a £255m joint fortune - set up their business catering to pampered pets after emigrating to Australia.\n\nTheir chilled pet food business VIP Pet Foods focused on the gourmet end of the market for cats and dogs, offering a \"Fussy Cat\" range and vacuum-packed fresh minces.\n\nThe pair sold the business in 2015 for AU$410m - the equivalent of £250m today.\n\nOver a quarter of all bakery products eaten in the UK are produced by Warburtons\n\nThomas Warburton and his wife Ellen opened a grocery shop in 1870. When sales fell in 1870, Ellen switched to baking bread, with her loaves becoming an instant success.\n\nAlmost 150 years on, Warburtons is still a private family owned business managed by the fifth generation of Warburtons Jonathan, Ross and Brett.\n\nThe firm now sells £500m a year's worth of bread, crumpets, fruit loaf, muffins, tea cakes and wraps. It claims over a quarter of all bakery products eaten in the UK are produced by them.\n\nTheir enduring popularity has made them plenty of dough - putting the Warburton family at 225 on the list with a £545m fortune.\n\nEveryone needs to wash. Soap brand Imperial Leather has helped power Anthony Green, former chairman of household products firm PZ Cussons, and the Zochonis family, descendants of company owner George Zochonis, to 170th on the list with a £541m fortune.\n\nThe Manchester-based company is now behind a range of household products from Charles Worthington hair care to self-tanning brand St Tropez.\n\nThe firm actually started out as a commodities trader in the 1880s, but by 1948 had switched to manufacturing, opening its first soap factory in Nigeria.\n\nThe Tetra Pak packaging was reportedly inspired by sausages\n\nBoxes of juice may seem a pretty everyday item now. But back in the 1950s, sterile and watertight containers were seen as a novel alternative to glass bottles.\n\nTetra Pak founder Ruben Rausing came up with the idea after watching his wife make sausages by tying up the ends, and wondering if a similar system would work for milk, according to the New York Times.\n\nThe invention has made the Rausing family rich, propelling Ruben's son Hans Rausing and family - who have now sold their 50% stake in the business - to number 11 on the rich list with a £650m fortune.\n\nStarting out as a market trader isn't an obvious route to wealth, yet at least one person on the list started out this way.\n\nFormer market trader Chris Dawson founded the Range discount stores which he describes as \"the working man's John Lewis\". Together with his wife Sarah Dawson, he's now worth £1.9bn and ranked 67th on the list.\n\nThe \"pile it high, sell it cheap\" approach has helped three other discounters make the grade.\n\nHome Bargains chain founder Tom Morris and family rank 39th with a wealth of over £3bn, followed by Simon, Bobby and Robin Arora - the brothers behind the B&M discount store chain. Together the brothers are listed at 65, and are collectively worth £1.92bn.\n\nPoundstretcher owners and brothers Rashid and Aziz Tayub and family - which now have over 400 stores in the UK - come 453rd on the list with £250m.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChapecoense have won their first title since most of their team were killed in a plane crash.\n\nOnly three of the Brazilian club's players survived November's crash, when 71 of 77 people on board died.\n\nTop clubs from Brazil and Argentina offered to loan players to Chapocense, who signed 25 new players this season and promoted nine from the youth team.\n\nThey lifted the Santa Catarina state championship on Sunday for the second straight year, despite losing to Avai.\n\nChapecoense were beaten 1-0 in Sunday's final play-off, but their 1-0 victory in the first leg meant their better record over the course of the season was decisive.\n\nThe club dedicated the win to those who were killed, with new coach Vagner Mancini saying: \"We knew that Chape would have a lot of difficulties because of the rebuilding of the team, but because of the work we reached the title, beating opponents who are rivals and difficult to beat.\"\n\nThe crash happened on 29 November as the squad travelled to face Colombian side Atletico Nacional in the final of the Copa Sudamericana. Nineteen players and staff died.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea boss Antonio Conte says second-placed Tottenham \"have an advantage\" over the Premier League leaders because Mauricio Pochettino has been in charge at White Hart Lane since 2014.\n\nConte is close to winning the title in his first season in English football.\n\nHis side can move seven points clear with three games left if they beat Middlesbrough on Monday (20:00 BST).\n\n\"I think Tottenham have an advantage, if you compare Tottenham to Chelsea,\" said the Italian.\n\n\"This is my first season and I found a lot of situations, a lot of players. Mauricio Pochettino has been working there for three years and has changed a lot of players and is working very well.\n\n\"For me, Tottenham are a really strong team and it's normal to see them fighting for the title.\"\n\nConte believes Spurs, who were Leicester City's main challengers in 2015-16 before fading to finish third, would have easily won the Premier League this season if it were not for his side's impressive season.\n\n\"In this season, if Chelsea had not performed in this way, Tottenham would win the title without difficulty,\" he said.\n\n\"Only this great season from us is pushing them to fight and, maybe, to win or not to win the title.\"\n\nThe former Juventus and Italy boss could lead his side to a league and FA Cup double, 10 months after Chelsea finished 10th, with an FA Cup final against Arsenal on 27 May.\n\nUnlike some of their rivals, Chelsea have not been involved in Europe and Conte thinks it is difficult for English clubs to succeed in the Champions League because of the strength of the Premier League.\n\nIn the past six years, five English clubs have reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League - fewer than from the Spanish and German leagues.\n\nConte said: \"This league is very difficult. Every single game you must fight a lot and, I think, also for this reason it's not easy to arrive at the end of a European competition.\n\n\"It is so clear here, every season will be tougher and tougher to qualify for the Champions League.\"", "Warren Gatland has offered to talk to Mike Brown about his omission from the British and Irish Lions squad after the full-back cited a lack of \"feedback\".\n\nHarlequins' Brown was left out of the 41-man group which will play 10 matches in New Zealand from 3 June to 8 July.\n\nHe played all of England's games as they won the Six Nations and called the lack of explanation \"disappointing\".\n\n\"I am more than happy for him to give me a call if he feels he's been hard done by,\" said head coach Gatland, 53.\n\n\"I can understand the frustration and the disappointment. There are a number of players in the same situation.\"\n• None I'm going to have to keep mascot Billy close to me - youngest tourist Itoje\n\nGatland revealed he had previously asked his assistant - and Harlequins forwards coach - Graham Rowntree to speak to Brown and reiterated staff are happy to take calls from omitted players.\n\nBrown, 31, told the Rugby Paper: \"I've had no feedback about being on standby, which is disappointing, so I'm not going to keep up false hopes.\n\n\"Instead I'll reset my goals and concentrate fully on England and the excitement of going on a tough Argentina tour.\"\n\nGatland urged those not selected to stay sharp as he feels history shows \"six to 10\" of the current squad will need to be replaced due to the physical demands of the tour.\n\nBut he says he does not have a defined list of back-up players and that decisions are not always based on \"rugby content\".\n\n'The game of your life'\n\nTwo-time Lions captain Martin Johnson told BBC Sport that bonding the squad quickly \"is huge\" if they are to secure a first series win in New Zealand since 1971.\n\nJohnson - the only man other than current captain Sam Warburton to lead two tours - says players need the \"game of their life\" to win Tests on Lions duty.\n\n\"You have to come together as a team very quickly,\" said Johnson. \"Tactics apart, if you're not a team you've got no chance. When the All Blacks are there, the people will want them to win and will let you know about it, so you have to use that in the right way.\n\n\"What happens in the Six Nations gets you on the flight but you have to be fast out of the traps because no one in that team is guaranteed anything. It's a chance for the players to do something very, very special.\"\n\nNothing wrong with 'first day at school'\n\nSaracens criticised the timing of Gatland's squad get-together on Monday, with boss Mark McCall calling it \"unbelievable\" to host the meeting five days before his side play Clermont in the European Champions Cup final.\n\nMcCall cancelled training with six of his players attending, while Gloucester, who meet Stade Francais in the European Challenge Cup final on Friday, were without Ross Moriarty and Greig Laidlaw.\n\nBut Gatland called the day \"very important\", adding: \"We haven't had any requests from anyone to move this date [which was] communicated months ago.\"\n\n\"It does really make a big difference for us. It's exciting, but also a very important day for us.\n\n\"Every Lions squad goes through this organisation day. I've spoken to most of the players, it's like the first day of school.\"\n\nThe Lions fly out to New Zealand on 29 May and will play the first of three Tests against world champions New Zealand on 24 June.\n\nThe Lions have already been forced into one squad change with Scotland scrum-half Laidlaw replacing Ben Youngs, who withdrew from the tour on Saturday after the wife of his brother Tom learned that she is terminally ill.\n\nGatland said it was \"really tough\" for the 27-year-old England scrum-half.\n\n\"As far as I'm concerned family comes first, he's made that decision and we know how close they are and we fully respect that decision and understand it,\" Gatland added.\n\nLaidlaw, 31, missed the final three matches of Scotland's 2017 Six Nations campaign after injuring his ankle in round two against France, which Gatland said was \"one of the reasons\" he was not included in the original squad.\n\n\"It was obviously not ideal for him, but he's here from day one which is a bit easier than a later introduction to the squad,\" said Gatland.\n\n\"It's a sensitive situation but he has experience and also leadership experience and I'm sure he'll do well.\"", "UKIP \"will survive\" as an electoral force despite a drubbing at last week's local elections, former leader Nigel Farage has said.\n\nHe told ITV's Peston on Sunday that his successor Paul Nuttall was \"doing fine\" and said UKIP was still needed, to prevent any \"back sliding\" on Brexit.\n\nNeil Hamilton, UKIP leader in the Welsh Assembly, told the BBC \"cosmic forces\", not Mr Nuttall were to blame.\n\nMr Nuttall says UKIP voters who backed the Tories will come back to his party.\n\nUKIP won 3.8 million votes at the last general election in 2015 but, after the UK voted to leave the EU in last year's referendum, many believe that its vote will be badly squeezed on 8 June, with the Conservatives being the main beneficiary.\n\nAll the 145 UKIP councillors defending their seats in local elections last week were beaten, although the party did pick up one seat in Burnley.\n\nIn Lincolnshire, where Mr Nuttall is standing in the general election in Boston and Skegness, UKIP went from being the official opposition to having no seats at all as the Tories gained 23 seats.\n\nThe results prompted the party's former donor Arron Banks - who is no longer a party member - to say it was \"finished as an electoral force\" under its current leadership.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nBut former leader Mr Farage told the ITV show that while Prime Minister Theresa May had adopted many of the arguments he had been making for years - she had failed to deliver on immigration targets in her previous job as home secretary.\n\n\"UKIP is going to survive, it has to survive, \" he said.\n\n\"It's all well and good for Mrs May who gives wonderful speeches and sounds very reassuring, but... UKIP needs to be there in case there is back sliding on Brexit.\n\n\"If, in two and a half years' time Mrs May has delivered the kind of Brexit that voters wanted, then I think you can ask the question: What is UKIP's future, where does it go from here?\n\nHe said Mr Nuttall, who was elected party leader in November 2016, had been \"strong and reassuring\" after a \"tough\" 24 hours following last week's local elections.\n\n\"It's difficult for him... because the Conservative Party have taken our agenda, for now. It's also difficult because when you follow on from someone - and I was a dominant, some of my critics would say domineering leader of UKIP - it's always difficult to step into someone else's shoes - he's doing fine.\"\n\nOn BBC One's Sunday Politics, Mr Hamilton said the prime minister was a \"very acute tactician\" by calling the election now, but said once Brexit negotiations had been concluded \"the focus will be on bread and butter issues\" and UKIP had domestic policies which \"will be popular with ordinary working people\".\n\nHe said \"cosmic forces beyond the control of any individual\" were to blame and it was \"certainly\" not Mr Nuttall's fault: \"I think our prospects in the future will be very rosy because I don't believe the Tories will deliver on many of the promises they are now making.\"", "When I played for Manchester United, Arsenal was always our biggest game of the season - the build-up was electric and I felt as if I was going into battle against our greatest rivals.\n\nIn those days, between 1995 and 2005, it was often a title decider. Everything was completely different about Sunday's game at Emirates Stadium, and it summed up where both teams are at right now.\n\nIt was a match between the teams in fifth and sixth place in the Premier League but it felt more like it was ninth versus 10th, in one of those dead rubbers you get at the end of the season.\n\nYes, Arsenal won, to end United's long unbeaten run, but nobody really cared - including United manager Jose Mourinho.\n\nIt was the first time Gunners boss Arsene Wenger has beaten him in a competitive game, at the 16th attempt and after 13 years of trying.\n\nBut watching Mourinho afterwards, it was probably the first time in about six months that I have seen him relaxed and smiling.\n\nIt was a game that was clearly a nuisance for him, sandwiched between the two legs of United's Europa League semi-final against Celta Vigo that he has made it obvious is his priority.\n\nSo, for United, Sunday was just a case of survival - to get off that pitch without getting any more injuries - or at least that was how it looked.\n\nArsenal were clearly short of confidence, and in a different way they were looking to survive the game too.\n\nThey eventually worked out that United were not at full strength and they might be able to win, but for most of the first half they looked nervous, as if they were thinking 'let's not lose and have more fans protests after the game'.\n\nThe Gunners might have got the three points but the way they did it did not make any sort of statement about how strong they are.\n\nWhen I played for United against Arsenal, I always thought I was going into a situation that was totally out of my comfort zone.\n\nIt was a matter of life and death, or it felt like it anyway.\n\nThis time, Mourinho had been telling us for the past 10 days that his priority was the Celta Vigo tie.\n\nThat completely knocked the stuffing out of the build-up and the game matched it - it was completely flat.\n\nI was watching it with former Arsenal defender Martin Keown in the Match of the Day 2 production office, and he agreed that the lack of atmosphere and intensity was the most disappointing thing.\n\nEven in the tunnel beforehand you saw everyone hugging and smiling, which would never have happened when Martin and I played.\n\nOur teams were at each other's throats most of the time - literally on a few occasions.\n\nThere is a famous picture of me being throttled by Arsenal defender Lauren in September 2003 - in 'the battle of Old Trafford' - while a few weeks earlier in the Community Shield at the Millennium Stadium I was booked after only 27 seconds for a tackle on Patrick Vieira.\n\nSunday was a million miles away from that kind of occasion. I tweeted during the game that it was like a testimonial, and it was certainly played at that kind of pace - which is what you would expect from a pre-season friendly between two Premier League teams played in the United States.\n\nIt felt like a veterans game but if Martin and I were playing each other now, there would have been more sparks flying than there were at the Emirates.\n\nMourinho got his priorities right this time\n\nUnited's eggs are all in one basket now - for them, making the Champions League is all about winning the Europa League.\n\nIt makes sense in lots of ways because, as well as looking like the easier route, it gets you straight into the group stage and you avoid starting the season early in the qualifying rounds, which you have to do if you finish fourth.\n\nIf they do win the Europa League, then I think Mourinho has had a brilliant season. If not, then that is when the criticism will probably come his way.\n\nThe pressure is on them for Thursday, when Celta Vigo come to Old Trafford, and it is a dangerous game to play, but I think Mourinho did the right thing with his team selection against the Gunners.\n\nSome of the players he rested conserved energy and the ones who came back from injury have got some playing time under their belts, which bolsters the squad a little bit.\n\nThat sort of performance would not be acceptable from United in normal circumstances, and in general they need to improve when they go away to the top clubs.\n\nLooking at their performances in their 0-0 draws at Liverpool in October and at Manchester City last month, they did not offer enough of an attacking threat.\n\nI think United fans will expect far more in those games from the start of next season, especially because by then it will really be Mourinho's team.\n\nArsenal have put themselves back in touch with the top four with Sunday's win but I don't think they will make it, from what I have seen of them recently.\n\nI think there is a big job in store for whoever is the Gunners' manager next season, and that is the key issue when you talk about their future.\n\nYou cannot assess who Arsenal will buy in the summer until you know who is going to be in charge - if it is, say, Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone then it will be 10 warriors; if Wenger is still manager it will be 10 really nice and pretty footballers.\n\nIn contrast, with United, you can predict that Mourinho is going to grab hold of that squad and say to his players that if they are not mentally tough enough, they will be out of the door.\n\nThree or four of the team that lost to Arsenal might not be at the club next season but you know there will be some big characters arriving in the dressing room.\n\nMourinho is building a team that he can go to war with, and it will not be long until these kind of games are back to being the big battles we all remember.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 1,400 mistakes are being recorded by maternity staff in hospitals in England each week on average. For some families, those errors can have life-changing consequences.\n\n\"Every single day we have to live with the fact that we're a victim of the NHS,\" Adam Asquith tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\nAdam and his fiancee, Sarah Ellis, were expecting their first child in 2014.\n\n\"When I first fell pregnant, everything was amazing. We were over the Moon,\" Sarah says.\n\nWhen she went into labour, the pair headed to Calderdale Royal Hospital, in Halifax.\n\nBut once there, Sarah was left waiting on a busy maternity ward - even though she told staff she was concerned she couldn't feel her baby moving.\n\n\"We were left for six hours, we didn't really know anything, they just told us and reassured us that everything was OK,\" she says.\n\nBut Sarah and Adam's joy quickly turned to despair.\n\nSarah and Adam can't understand why so many mistakes were made\n\n\"One of the doctors pulled me to one side and just said, 'He's not in a good condition, he was born in a really bad condition, and if he does pull through, he's going to be very badly brain damaged,'\" Adam says.\n\n\"I was in the corridor with Sarah's mum and dad and I just said, 'How am I going to tell Sarah that he's not all right?'\"\n\nGino was placed on a life-support machine. But just days later, Sarah and Adam were advised to withdraw treatment.\n\n\"The words used were that he was 'unrecoverable' and that was when we knew he wasn't going to get any better,\" she says. \"We had to make a joint decision that we would turn the machines off.\"\n\nThe inquest later showed Sarah should have had an emergency Caesarean section hours before she finally did.\n\nA report found medical staff had failed to act on warning signs and Gino had been severely starved of oxygen.\n\nThe coroner said the hospital had missed four opportunities to save Gino's life.\n\n\"Everyone makes mistakes - I do, we all do - but to see so many people make so many different mistakes within six hours is just shocking,\" Sarah says.\n\n\"People who you put your trust in, your life is in their hands, and Gino's life was in their hands and they didn't take care of him.\"\n\nSarah and Adam decided to take legal action against the hospital trust and were paid compensation.\n\n\"Every single day I think, 'Why? Why us?\" Adam says.\n\nLucas was diagnosed with cerebral palsy after being born\n\nAn investigation by the Victoria Derbyshire programme has found an average of more than 1,400 mistakes a week were recorded in England's NHS maternity units between 2013 and 2016.\n\nFigures from 81 NHS trusts out of the 132 in England - obtained through a Freedom of Information request - showed 305,019 adverse incidents had been recorded in the four-year period.\n\nThese incidents are when unexpected harm, injury or death has occurred, and include anything from records being lost to a mother or baby dying.\n\nFigures from 39 trusts, for the same four-year period, showed 259 deaths of mothers or babies had been recorded as avoidable or unexpected.\n\nIn April, the BBC revealed that England's Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt had ordered an investigation into a number of deaths and other maternity errors at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Hospital Trust.\n\nSeven baby deaths, later deemed as avoidable, took place at the trust between September 2014 and May 2016.\n\nJade Penny, 26, is currently suing her local hospital trust, after her eldest son was left with cerebral palsy.\n\nLucas, now seven, was born three months prematurely, cannot walk or talk and is partially blind and deaf.\n\nJade's lawyers argue that Lucas's brain damage is due to a lack of oxygen when he had his intubation tube replaced. The NHS trust is defending the claim\n\n\"Imagine laying down and not being able to breathe, but you can't tell someone,\" Jade says.\n\n\"It must be the most horrible thing to go through ever, and he couldn't tell anyone.\n\n\"I think that's what upsets me the most.\n\n\"He's still alive, but he doesn't have the quality of life that other kids have.\n\n\"For the rest of my life, I'm going to be angry. And I'll never ever forgive anyone for that.\"\n\nThe NHS trust is defending the claim.\n\nThe Department of Health said it could not respond to the figures regarding maternity ward mistakes due to the pre-election purdah period.\n\nBut it said plans were in place to halve rates of stillbirths, neonatal deaths, maternal deaths and brain injuries in babies by 2030.\n\nAs part of that, the government has launched a new £8m maternity safety training scheme.\n\nWriting in October, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the government had invested almost £40m since 2010 to make \"tangible physical improvements\" to maternity units.\n\nHe said: \"Dedicated and hardworking NHS staff do an incredible job - 24 hours a day, every day of the year - of bringing new babies into the world and achieving great outcomes for women, newborns and their families.\"\n\nThe Royal College of Midwives says safety is being compromised by the pressure maternity services are under.\n\nCathy Warwick, chief executive of the college, said: \"The simple truth is we do not have enough midwives working in them right now, we are also seeing more leaving the profession because of stress and a slight reduction in the number of student midwives training.\n\n\"We need to reduce the number of mistakes to an absolute minimum,\" she added. \"We can't deliver the safest possible care if we don't have enough midwives and doctors working here.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "Pitch Battle's judging panel will include Will Young and Bebe Rexha - who sang vocals on David Guetta and Nicki Minaj hit Hey Mama\n\nPitch Battle will become the latest singing contest set to hit our TV screens this summer but, 16 years on from ITV's Popstars, why is the format still so strong?\n\nPutting Kelis, Gareth Malone, Chaka Khan and Mel Giedroyc together in the same room is, quite simply, a magnificent idea.\n\nHaving clearly recognised this, BBC One has duly recruited this dream team to appear in its upcoming singing contest Pitch Battle.\n\nJudges Kelis and Malone will be joined by a different guest judge each week, with Chaka Khan, Will Young, Bebe Rexha and Seal lined up to critique the contestants.\n\nChoirs and a capella groups will be pitted against each other in a format you just might recognise from the many, many other talent shows which have preceded it.\n\n\"I remember seeing Popstars back in 2001 and it being a genuinely fresh and exciting idea,\" says Julia Raeside, TV critic for The Guardian.\n\nHear'Say, made up of (l-r) Noel Sullivan, Suzanne Shaw, Myleene Klass, Kym Marsh and Danny Foster, won the first series of Popstars in 2001\n\n\"To watch the hopes and dreams of these young kids, it didn't feel quite so manipulated back then, and the concept of a judge being a bit of a villain was relatively new.\"\n\nBut, perhaps inevitably, the success of the show sparked a new wave of singing contests such as Popstars: The Rivals, Pop Idol, The X Factor and The Voice.\n\nA number of successful groups and singers such as Girls Aloud, Little Mix, Leona Lewis and Olly Murs came out of these shows over the years - but there were also plenty of potential careers which never took off.\n\nThe Observer's pop critic Kitty Empire says: \"If you are an artist, quite often going on TV talent shows might not be the best idea for your career, because for every One Direction there are a thousand No Directions.\n\n\"If you want a career in music, that sometimes doesn't happen as a result of going on a talent show. However, if you're more versatile and more willing to go on the West End stage, you can certainly turn the TV exposure to your advantage.\"\n\nIt's true - there are plenty of contestants who applied for talent contests as singers, and ended up taking their careers in totally different directions after receiving the TV exposure.\n\nRylan released an autobiography, The Life of Rylan, last year\n\nRylan-Clark Neal was something of a novelty act in the 2012 series of the show, but has gone on to be a successful TV presenter and even released an autobiography last year.\n\nElsewhere, 2005 X Factor winner Shayne Ward and Popstars' Kym Marsh can now be seen acting in Coronation Street.\n\nWhile Marsh's bandmate Myleene Klass is now a radio presenter and X Factor 2008 victor Alexandra Burke has starred in multiple theatre productions.\n\nCertainly some of these former contestants have had success, but Empire points out: \"There is a wider issue of whether great art is being made.\n\n\"For a country that produced people like David Bowie, who is universally acclaimed, we're not seeing that quality of talent on TV shows.\n\n\"People are just entertained by these programmes, and a singing contest is something that lends itself to TV watching by all generations. It gets kids and grandparents in front of the TV, in an age when most people are on YouTube.\n\n\"So it's much more about the format being successful TV than it is about creating meaningful musical careers.\"\n\nA successful TV format it clearly is, but it's perhaps surprising that 16 years on from Popstars, singing contests continue to dominate TV schedules.\n\nGirls Aloud formed after winning Popstars: The Rivals in 2002\n\n\"I understand the heavy reliance on singing contests - the idea that a show needs a result to make you tune in for the next instalment,\" Raeside says.\n\n\"But I think it's a shame that, by now, light entertainment producers haven't come up with something to replace it.\n\nShe adds: \"I used to work in TV development, and the wheels do tend to move quite slowly.\n\n\"Back then, they were trying to work out what was going to be the next Big Brother. Similarly, these singing shows have a shelf life, and some would argue they've already reached their sell by date.\"\n\nEmpire agrees: \"Increasingly now the talent show formula can get a little tired, and I think many people have realised winning these shows perhaps isn't always the best thing to do.\n\n\"In Britain we particularly embrace this format, partly because we love an underdog story, like Paul Potts [the mobile phone salesman who won the first series of Britain's got Talent].\n\n\"In America, the underdog stories don't play so well - it's the shiniest people with the straightest teeth who win. Whereas in Britain we love unlikely success stories, so it really serves our market.\n\nLooking ahead to Pitch Battle, Raeside says she can see the appeal of using choirs instead of individual singers to attract viewers and thinks it's a good way to get more mileage out of the talent show format.\n\n\"There was something quite shrieky about a show like The Voice, because it's one singer trying to make their mark in a 90-second audition, and there's something unrelaxing about watching that,\" she says.\n\n\"When you watch a choir it has a much more positive feeling, so it could have the edge over a show where teenagers are trying to get their break.\"\n\nEmpire agrees that, on paper at least, Pitch Battle \"looks like it's a winner\".\n\n\"Before Glee, it was a very American phenomenon, but now people getting together and harmonising doesn't seem like such a weird thing to do anymore,\" she says.\n\n\"The idea that there will be choirs and a capella groups battling it out means that you're getting quite a variety of people into the TV studio, and presumably they'll be doing mash ups and cover versions, so I can see how the format has been thought up to appeal to the broadest audience.\"\n\nBut, Raeside adds: \"I don't know how much longer these shows can keep going for. I can't see where else they'd take this format now, it feels like we're coming to the end of the line.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The entrance to Canadian World in Hokkaido, Japan\n\nWith two red braids hanging from her straw hat, Anne of Green Gables may just be the most recognisable ginger-haired girl in the world. But in Japan, the orphan from Prince Edward Island is more than just a quaint Canadian import - she's a national heroine.\n\nAs he approached the farmhouse with the forest green shutters and opened the old-fashioned wooden door, Terry Dawes readied himself for what he was about to see inside. Having grown up in Prince Edward Island, Canada's smallest province, Mr Dawes had visited the famous \"Green Gables\" historic site many times throughout his life.\n\nBut this building that Mr Dawes was about to enter wasn't that house at all - it was an exact replica built 9,700km away, in Hokkaido, Japan. At its peak, the house - one of the main attractions at Japan's Canadian World theme park - drew 40,000 visitors a day.\n\nNow, the park is largely abandoned, a ghost of Japan's economic heyday in the 1990s.\n\n\"I've sort of likened it to having a dream, like an uncanny dream, where you're walking down a familiar street but something's off,\" Mr Dawes told the BBC.\n\nThe house of Green Gables in Hokkaido, Japan is an exact replica of the real house in Prince Edward Island.\n\nThe very existence of the Green Gables replica, and of Canadian World itself, is a testament to Japan's deep love for Anne of Green Gables, says Mr Dawes, who visited Japan in 2014 to film a documentary on that subject.\n\nThis love began just before the outbreak of the Second World War, when a Canadian missionary gave her student Hanako Muraoka a copy of the book. It continues to this day with an anime series, manga comics and several Japanese movies inspired by the story.\n\nIn this way, Anne became not just a Western cultural import, but a part of Japanese culture itself, interpreted and re-interpreted by Japanese artists and writers for a primarily Japanese audience.\n\n\"Generally speaking, we are good at imitating,\" says Yukari Yoshihara, a literature teacher at the University of Tsukuba who includes Anne in her first-year curriculum.\n\n\"Anne of Green Gables is a part of this larger culture of adaptations.\"\n\nAnne is popular with Japanese women especially, Ms Yoshihara says, because the world of Green Gables is filled with \"kawaii\", which means the quality of being cute, romantic and beautiful in Japanese.\n\n\"They love the story because it is full of beautiful scenery and puff sleeves and cute things, like tea parties,\" she says.\n\nA Japanese tourist takes a photo outside the real Green Gables house in Canada in 2011.\n\nBut not everyone who loves Anne is a girl. Go Takahashi, a student of Ms Yoshihara's, is also a devoted fan of Anne and is writing his university thesis on the books.\n\n\"I like Anne's character. I feel attracted to a person who talks a lot, makes a little trouble, and considers others' feelings. So Anne is perfect for me,\" he said.\n\nLike many other Japanese readers of the Anne stories, Mr Takahashi has made the pilgrimage to Prince Edward Island, where he visited many of the sites written about in the books - the original Green Gables house, Lovers Lane and the Haunted Wood.\n\nAbout 3,500 Japanese tourists visit Prince Edward Island - population 150,000 - annually, which makes Japan one of the largest source of overseas tourism on the island.\n\n\"They come for weddings, they come to see the wildflowers, they come for theatrical or musical offerings,\" says the province's Premier Wade MacLauchlan.\n\nTourism from Japan tends to spike when a new Anne-related production is broadcast. Premier MacLauchlan expects Netflix's new series, Anne, will draw large crowds once it launches on 12 May. The co-production with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is helmed by Breaking Bad alumna Moira Walley-Beckett, and makes ample use of the book's feminist subtext, choosing to portray Anne more as a survivor than a saint.\n\nAnne (Amybeth McNulty) waits at the train station in the latest retelling of Anne of Green Gables, airing on CBC and coming to Netflix 12 May.\n\nThis subtext is also essential in Japan, Ms Yoshihara says. In class, she likes to teach Anne because the book is a kind of gateway for getting students to talk about gender, which is often considered taboo in Japanese society.\n\n\"We do not usually teach kids about how gender is related to our day to day issues, like education, or fashion or how we behave,\" she says.\n\nIt's for this reason that Anne was probably published in Japan in the first place, she adds. Citing Japanese scholar Hiromi Ochi, Ms Yoshihara explains that Anne may have been a key part of America's plan to rapidly democratise Japan after the war.\n\nPublished in 1952 by Muraoka, who translated the story secretly during the war, the book was widely distributed in libraries run by the US State Department in Allied-occupied Japan. Its central story, about an orphan girl who proves her heart and mind is just as good as any boy's, served as a kind of benign liberal propaganda aimed at freeing women from traditional Japanese gender roles, she says.\n\nAnne (Amybeth McNulty) stands on the cliffs of Prince Edward Island\n\nIt seems that core reading of Anne is still prevalent today. In his interviews with Anne fans in Japan, Mr Dawes heard over and over again how people, especially women, identified with her.\n\n\"I think Anne Shirley provides a way of acting out, to a point, without ever transgressing fully,\" he says. \"Ultimately, she does the right thing by her family, her adopted family.\"\n\nAnne is both a conformist and revolutionary, a romantic and a radical.\n\n\"In a sense we are tricked into believing that Anne of Green Gables is a dream story of liberation,\" Ms Yoshihara says, laughing.\n\nBut that doesn't mean Anne is loved any less.", "Match of the Day 2 pundits Phil Neville and Martin Keown criticise Arsenal and Manchester United players for hugging and laughing in the tunnel before the Gunners' 2-0 victory at the Emirates on Sunday.\n\nWATCH MORE: Ozil & Sanchez have acted like children - Keown", "The minefields laid in the Falkland Islands were intended to kill or maim British soldiers, but over the last 35 years they have become de facto nature reserves for penguins. For better or worse, however, the time has now come for their home to be demined, reports Matthew Teller.\n\nI'm following a crunching gravel path leading up over a headland.\n\nTo one side stretches a sweeping curve of white sand, backed by tussocky dunes, the coarse grass mixed with a low-growing plant bearing tartly sweet red berries that the locals call diddle-dee.\n\nBut it's the sound that startles. Overlaying the booming ocean is a comical honking noise coming from thousands of Magellanic penguins. One, guarding its burrow beside the path, stretches its neck up at me, then lets out an ear-splitting, wing-waggling bray of displeasure.\n\nI can see why these penguins are known locally as jackasses.\n\nThe beach, also dotted with waddling clusters of Gentoo penguins, looks tempting, but between me and the birds stretches a barbed-wire fence marked with signs warning of danger.\n\nThis is Yorke Bay, just outside Stanley, capital of the Falkland Islands. Once a popular leisure beach, it was here, at 04:30 on the morning of 2 April 1982, that Argentine naval commandos landed, marking the start of a full-scale invasion.\n\nBy the time British forces retook Stanley 74 days later, 907 people had lost their lives, most of them Argentine conscripts.\n\nDuring the occupation, one of the Argentine military's first actions was to lay tens of thousands of land mines across the uncultivated countryside to slow a British counter-attack - especially a seaborne attack via the beaches around Stanley, including Yorke Bay.\n\nFortunately, the landmines aren't a problem for the penguins - at least, not the little Magellanics and Gentoos of Yorke Bay.\n\n\"They don't seem to be heavy enough to set them off,\" says Esther Bertram, chief executive officer of Falklands Conservation.\n\nBehind their fences, shielded from human encroachment, the penguins have had decades of peace and quiet in their minefield. Native flora has regrown around them.\n\n\"Natural systems have returned to not quite a pristine state, but a state where you've reached climax communities in certain parts,\" says Paul Brickle, director of the South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute.\n\n\"The mines are horrible things, and very difficult to remove - you essentially have to get on your hands and knees to do that, remove bits of earth and dunes, and disrupt the ecosystem. There's a bit of a trade-off in thinking: what are the benefits of having them removed?\" he asks.\n\nInitially at least, not everyone in the islands' tiny, close-knit population of 3,000 was supportive.\n\n\"Falkland Islanders weren't enthused by the idea, to put it bluntly,\" says Barry Elsby, a member of the Falklands Legislative Assembly.\n\n\"We would rather have left the minefields as they were. They are all clearly marked, clearly fenced. No civilian has ever been injured. We said to the British government, 'Don't spend the money here, go to some other country where they have a much greater need to free up farming land.'\"\n\n\"Unfortunately,\" Elsby adds, \"the British government have signed up to the Ottawa convention, which puts a duty on them to do this.\"\n\nThe 1997 Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty compels signatories - which include the UK - to clear minefields in territory under their control.\n\nSo whatever the locals - and the penguins - thought, the mines had to go.\n\nSince 2009 the British government has spent tens of millions of pounds on mine-clearance in the Falklands. Guy Marot of the Falkland Islands Demining Programme Office oversees a team of largely Zimbabwean operatives, highly valued for their long experience of demining in their home country and further afield.\n\nHe takes me out to one of the clearance sites. In a setting of wide open moorland, battling gales and driving rain, demining specialist Innocent Mudzamiri, fully kitted out with protective clothing and visor, explains how he approaches his job, lying prone in the boggy peat, painstakingly clearing dirt from around devices that could blow up in his face.\n\n\"It's just caution. You have to do it gently, so that you don't disturb the mine,\" he says.\n\n\"Your mind must be free - no thinking of home, or thinking whatever, but just concentrate.\"\n\nZimbabwean demining expert Farai Beghede at work on a bleak moorland in the South Atlantic\n\nSo far, Mudzamiri and his colleagues have cleared more than seven million square metres of mostly rough countryside. But now, Phase 5 of the demining programme is seeing sensitive sites of environmental concern, such as Yorke Bay, come up for clearance.\n\nThe Falkland Islands Government is part of the way through drawing up an environmental impact assessment, examining the risks and benefits from demining wildlife-rich sites.\n\nYorke Bay is particularly difficult, since in 1982 mines were placed on top of the sand dunes, but, over 35 years, the dunes have changed shape and shifted with the wind. Even with the detailed charts handed over by Argentina to the UK after the war, it's impossible now to know where the mines might be - they could have drifted far from their original position or become buried deep below the surface.\n\nThe deminers are facing having to dig up the entire beach, perhaps with armoured machinery, and sift it all. The idea is to do that during the winter, while the penguins are out at sea. But their habitat, and the wider ecosystem, could be entirely destroyed.\n\nAnother potential hazard is tourism, a key driver of the Falklands economy. About 50,000 people visit the islands annually, most of them day-trippers from cruise ships plying the waters around South America and Antarctica.\n\nEach time a cruise ship docks, hundreds of passengers at a time come ashore to see the wildlife. If Yorke Bay is reopened, its easy-to-reach location - barely 10 minutes' drive from Stanley - could make it a magnet for tourist traffic.\n\nAnother source of worry comes from the locals. Most beaches in the Falklands are on private land. But Yorke Bay is publicly owned - and opening it up could revive its pre-war status as one of Stanley's most popular getaways. There are already concerns about quad-biking and livestock grazing on public land outside the Yorke Bay fences. Whether the rejuvenated land within the minefield could be protected when the fences come down remains uncertain.\n\nIn 2010 Marot oversaw the clearance of Surf Bay, another beach near Stanley, which held 1,800 mines. Today, as locals ramble over dunes and on to its sandy beach to walk their dogs, it's hard to discern the damage that was done.\n\n\"The re-establishment is remarkable,\" says Marot. \"The processes used at the time included blowing up the anti-tank mines in situ. The holes here were 10m deep in some places - this was a moonscape. But then we put all the sand back on top, and tried to do it in a way that would allow nature to eventually recover completely, which is what you see now.\"\n\nSo the Falklands is facing a head-on clash between the obligation to clear mines and the imperative for environmental conservation.\n\nMeanwhile the honking jackasses behind the Yorke Bay fences are thriving, ironically because of one of the worst things humanity can do - start a war.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nGeorge Groves says the injuries sustained by Eduard Gutknecht in their super-middleweight bout will haunt him until he retires from boxing.\n\nBriton Groves beat Gutknecht on points in December and the German was taken to hospital with a bleed on the brain.\n\nGutknecht's wife Julia revealed in April that the 34-year-old was not able to walk or talk.\n\n\"Selfishly, while I'm still fighting I'm always going to struggle with his situation,\" Groves told 5 live boxing.\n\n\"It's a horrible thing. I struggle with it, my wife struggles with it.\"\n• None Listen to the full George Groves interview on the latest BBC Radio 5 live boxing podcast\n\nIn her interview in Germany, Gutknecht's wife said he had made \"little progress\" and had also had \"several strokes\".\n\nShe explained the right hemisphere of his brain - which controls the left side of the body - is \"almost completely damaged\" and she also highlighted her battle to finance home care.\n\nGroves, who visited Gutknecht in hospital, said he had not seen him since the German left the UK.\n\n\"It's very distressing,\" the 29-year-old said. \"We don't know if his situation will deteriorate or if anything will happen.\n\n\"We feel for him, his wife, kids and family. It's horrible.\"\n\nLondon-born Groves has not fought since that bout but will go for his first world title when he meets Russian Fedor Chudinov at Bramall Lane in Sheffield on 27 May.\n\nThe contest is part of the undercard as Britain's Kell Brook, who is from Sheffield, defends his IBF world welterweight title against American Errol Spence Jr and will be Groves' fourth attempt at winning a world crown.", "Shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, wants to talk about \"real\" pay.\n\nHow much tax you pay, and what for, is one of the most fundamental relationships between the state and the citizen.\n\nIt was John Locke who said that \"governments cannot be supported without great charge\".\n\nThis weekend Labour pledged that people earning under £80,000 would not face increases in income tax and national insurance.\n\nAnd that there would be no rises in the standard rate of VAT.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats said that they would increase income and dividend taxes by 1p in every pound, and that the money raised would be used to support the NHS in England, with the devolved assemblies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland left to choose where any extra funding is spent.\n\nAs I have written before, the Tories are looking to \"reduce the tax burden\" although it is not yet clear if the aspiration will fit into a neat manifesto promise.\n\nBut a more complicated debate - which could well be as important for voters - is taking shape.\n\nAnd it is not just about the income you receive from work - and the tax you pay on it.\n\nIt is about the quality of that work.\n\nLast week, the Conservative peer and trade minister, Lord Price, published a book called Fairness For All.\n\nIn itself, not that headline grabbing. But the fact that the book has the full blessing of Number 10, and was published in the middle of an election campaign, ups its significance.\n\nAnd once again reveals that government and business have - since the financial crisis - become uneasy bedfellows.\n\nThe Prime Minister has said ordinary working class families have borne the brunt of sacrifices\n\nIn his book, Lord Price, the former head of Waitrose, argues that firms need to shape up and look at how they treat their workforces.\n\nHe admits that trust has broken down and that issues such as mega-high pay have poisoned the debate about profit-making firms.\n\nThis is an issue central to the \"offer\" Theresa May has made to the electorate.\n\nAnd therefore one the Prime Minister is presumably happy to be tested on.\n\nMrs May has spoken about stagnating pay and said that the economic \"sacrifices\" made since the financial crisis have not been borne by \"the wealthy\" but by \"ordinary working class families\".\n\nOn Tuesday, Matthew Taylor, the former special advisor to Tony Blair and the person tasked by Number 10 to look at the changing world of work from zero-hours contracts onwards, will make a speech in which he will argue for a fundamental change in the attitude to employment.\n\nYes, Britain has been good at creating jobs.\n\nBut has quality been sacrificed for quantity?\n\nAnd what rights do we have to a \"good\" job - however elastic such a definition may be?\n\nLord Price told me this was not a \"party political\" argument.\n\nAnd to an extent he is right.\n\nAll the major parties have spoken about the need to reform work, whether its banning zero hours contracts (Labour) or \"transparency over pay\" (the Liberal Democrats).\n\nOn Sunday John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, said that \"families across the country\" have seen real pay (adjusted for inflation) fall by more than at any time since the industrial revolution.\n\nAnd he said that it's all very well for Mrs May to talk about a \"fairer Britain\" and a strong economy, but it is the Conservative government which has allowed the problem to fester.\n\nLord Price admitted to me that there needed to be change - but said that persuasion rather than compulsion was the best way forward.\n\nHe argues that the \"happiness\" and satisfaction of employees is the key to increasing productivity, profitability and economic wealth.\n\n\"Business has to recognise that instead of taking a short term view or quarterly profits and rewarding shareholders, a long term view needs to be taken of what we need as we move from an industrial era to the digital era,\" he said.\n\n\"What I don't want to do - what I think would be wrong for the economy - is for any government to go to war with business, to make business afraid of them,\" said Lord Price.\n\n\"We have got to embrace business now - working collaboratively with business as a force for good.\"\n\nVince Cable says the Liberal Democrats want more employee engagement, fair contracts and transparency over pay.\n\nThis is not necessarily about being \"anti\" or \"pro\" business, Lord Price insisted.\n\nAnd he strongly denied the claim by Iain Conn, the chief executive of Centrica which owns British Gas, that some people at the heart of government \"just don't believe in free markets\".\n\nAlthough, privately, Lord Price knows that there are those with the ear of the PM who think that some markets - such as the one that governs energy bills - deserves the firm smack of state action.\n\nIn an election campaign dominated by Brexit and \"tax bombshells\", it is sometimes easy to forget that for many voters, incomes (being squeezed) and the world of work (often stressful and uncertain), is what actually matters day-to-day.\n\nAnd it will be interesting to see how much is made of this major economic theme in each of the parties' manifestos.\n\n\"Under this Conservative government, the input and well-being of employees has been pushed aside too often,\" said Sir Vince Cable, who is standing to try to win back his former seat of Twickenham for the Liberal Democrats.\n\n\"The prime minister claims to be for the 'just about managings', but has done nothing to protect their rights and incomes, even in the face of major scandals about working practices.\n\n\"The Liberal Democrats are calling for more employee engagement, fair contracts and transparency over pay. When we get the balance right, everybody wins.\"\n\nFor Labour, the minority of poorly behaving businesses is the issue.\n\nRebecca Long-Bailey, the shadow business secretary, said: \"Labour is a proud supporter of British business, but we also realise that the decisions made by a small minority of British boardrooms have undermined Britain's ability to become a nation of world-leading, successful, long-term businesses.\n\n\"Scandals like BHS show how the long-term growth of a company, and the welfare of its workers, can be sacrificed for short-term gain.\n\n\"Labour will tackle the short-termism of some by reforming corporate governance.\n\n\"We will support long-term investment and productivity growth to ensure that businesses work for the many, rather than the short-term interests of the few.\"\n\nCorporation taxes on businesses are set to rise if Labour wins on 8 June.\n\nAn economy \"that works for everyone\" or \"the many\" are certainly bold ambitions.\n\nAnd who is responsible for delivery?\n\nOr politicians, whose frustrations on this most vital matter are clear for all to see and hear?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The media mogul was leaving work in Manhattan, New York\n\nAs Ofcom explores whether Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox should be allowed to press on with its planned takeover of Sky, we thought the company might agree to an interview with the BBC. But they said no.\n\nSo we paid Rupert Murdoch a surprise visit at his headquarters in Manhattan.\n\nOutside the Fox News building, I asked him if he was worried about whether Ofcom would take a close interest in what's happening at his cable news network as it made its decision.\n\nFirst he waved a finger at me and responded: \"You should be worried about what's happening at the BBC.\"\n\nBut once inside his car, he clarified: \"Nothing's happening at Fox News. Nothing.\"\n\nMurdoch's claim that there was nothing going on at Fox News, (aside from the \"record ratings\" he was very keen to mention) put me in mind of the wonderful Monty Python sketch about what the Romans have ever done for us.\n\nAlas I didn't have time to engage him more fully, but I suppose I could have said that - aside from the departures of the founder and chief executive, and the most high-profile and popular host on the channel, and the co-president who was a senior figure for decades - then, yes, nothing's happening at Fox News.\n\nRupert Murdoch answers questions outside his New York offices\n\nExcept of course, for the 20-plus legal actions that are now lodged against Fox News, from former employees claiming to be victims of racial and sexual harassment. Oh, and the internal investigation by legal firm Paul, Weiss, which unearthed such things as caused the aforementioned senior figures to depart. The allegations against O'Reilly and Ailes are strongly denied by them, and there are no allegations against Bill Shine.\n\nSo apart from all that, yes I suppose there is nothing going on at Fox News. Oh, but forgive me - there's also the federal investigation into whether or not they concealed from investors the details of settlement payments for alleged harassment.\n\nApart, then, from the departures of Roger Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, and Bill Shine, the federal investigation, an internal investigation, dozens of claims of sexual or racial harassment, an advertising boycott following the New York Times's brilliant investigation into O'Reilly, and a month of terrible headlines, I suppose it is true to say that \"nothing's happening at Fox News. Nothing.\"\n\nAs for the instinctive threat that it's the BBC that should be worried, I blame myself for this. Instead of saying \"Amol Rajan, BBC News\", I should have said - channelling my inner Troy McClure - \"You may remember, Rupert, we first met at Barry Diller's garden party in Los Angeles during Oscars weekend in 2015, but then Graydon Carter sauntered over to say hi with Anjelica Houston, and I just couldn't compete.\"\n\nI can't blame Mr Murdoch: faced with a choice between speaking to myself, or Graydon Carter and Anjelica Houston, I would definitely have chosen the latter option. No wonder I didn't leave much of an impression. Had I done so, perhaps we could have conversed like old pals.\n\nInstead, Mr Murdoch simply told me that he was \"not worried at all\" about what's happening. But his family and company's long-standing desire to take full control of Sky makes the timing of this scandal, and the series of visitors to Ofcom, rather annoying.\n\nThat's not to say that Ofcom will indeed rule against the latest bid for full control of Sky. There is, after all, a strong response from 21st Century Fox. In several conversations in Manhattan with those following this story closely, including representatives of Fox, the message comes back loud and clear, even if it is contradicted by Mr Murdoch's comment to me.\n\nThat message is that Fox has taken swift and decisive action; that the allegations remain unproven; that there is so much more to Fox than Rupert Murdoch; and that the generational change now under way is harbinger of a very different corporate culture.\n\nLawyer Douglas Wigdor will give evidence to Ofcom this week\n\nEven if all that is true - and of course there are many who say it is rubbish - the man at the top was not on message when I spoke to him as he left work, doubtless to the annoyance of those trying to maintain message discipline on this ever-spreading scandal.\n\nDouglas Wigdor, the lawyer representing more than 20 of the individuals who have launched cases against Fox, told me that Fox only got rid of O'Reilly because of the looming Ofcom scrutiny and because the advertising boycott was hurting them financially.\n\nFox vigorously denies these claims. The trouble for the company is that, on Thursday, Wigdor is going to spend rather a long time in the inner sanctum of Ofcom providing the kind of detail that cannot be good news for the Murdochs' latest bid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Who is the best paid solo singer in the world? In 2015, according to Forbes, it was probably Elton John, who reportedly made $100m (£79m).\n\nU2 apparently made twice as much as that, but there are four of them. There's only one Elton John.\n\nIf we'd asked that question 215 years ago, the answer would have been Mrs Elizabeth Billington, to some the greatest English soprano who ever lived.\n\nSir Joshua Reynolds once painted Mrs Billington holding a book of music, listening to a choir of angels. The composer Joseph Haydn thought the portrait an injustice: the angels, said Haydn, should have been listening to her.\n\nElizabeth Billington was something of a sensation offstage too.\n\nA scurrilous biography of her sold out in less than a day.\n\nIt contained what were purportedly copies of intimate letters about her famous lovers - including, they say, the Prince of Wales.\n\nSuch was her fame, she attracted a bidding war for her performances.\n\nThe managers of London's leading opera houses at the time - Covent Garden and Drury Lane - fought so desperately for her that she ended up singing at both venues, alternating between the two, pulling in at least £10,000 in the 1801 season.\n\nBut in today's terms, it's a mere £687,000, or about $1m - just 1% of Elton John's earnings.\n\nSo why is Elton John worth 100 Elizabeth Billingtons?\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations that helped create the economic world.\n\nAlmost 60 years after Elizabeth Billington's death, the great economist Alfred Marshall analysed the impact of the electric telegraph, which then connected America, Britain, India, and Australia.\n\nThanks to such modern communications, he wrote: \"Men who have once attained a commanding position are enabled to apply their constructive or speculative genius to undertakings vaster, and extending over a wide area, than ever before.\"\n\nThe world's top industrialists were getting richer, faster.\n\nThe gap between themselves and less outstanding entrepreneurs was growing.\n\nBut not every profession's best and brightest could gain in the same way, Marshall said.\n\nTake the performing arts. \"[The] number of persons who can be reached by a human voice,\" he wrote, \"is strictly limited.\" And so, in consequence, was vocalists' earning power.\n\nBut just two years later, in 1877, Thomas Edison applied for a patent for his phonograph, the first machine that could both record and reproduce the human voice.\n\nNobody seemed quite sure what to do with the technology at first.\n\nThe French publisher Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville had already developed the phonoautograph, a device intended to provide a visual record of the sound of a human voice - a little like a seismograph records an earthquake.\n\nBut it doesn't seem to have occurred to Martinville that one might try to convert the recording back into sound again.\n\nSoon enough, the application of the new technology became clear: you could record the best singers in the world, and sell the recordings.\n\nAt first, making a recording was a bit like making carbon copies on a typewriter: a single performance could be captured on only three or four phonographs at once.\n\nIn the 1890s, there was great demand to hear a song by the American singer George W Johnson.\n\nHe reportedly spent day after day singing the same song till his voice gave out - but even singing it 50 times a day churned out a mere 200 records.\n\nWhen Emile Berliner introduced recordings on a disc, rather than Edison's cylinder, it opened the way to mass-production.\n\nThen came radio and film.\n\nPerformers such as Charlie Chaplin could reach a global market just as easily as the men of industry described by Alfred Marshall.\n\nFor the Charlie Chaplins and Elton Johns of the world, new technologies meant wider fame and more money.\n\nBut for the journeymen singers, it was a disaster.\n\nIn Elizabeth Billington's day, many half-decent singers made a living performing in music halls.\n\nAfter all, Billington herself could sing in only one hall at a time.\n\nBut when you can listen to the best performers in the world at home, why pay to hear a merely competent act in person?\n\nThomas Edison's phonograph led the way towards a winner-take-all dynamic in the performing industry.\n\nThe top performers went from earning like Mrs Billington to earning like Elton John.\n\nBut the only-slightly-less good went from making a comfortable living to struggling to pay their bills: small gaps in quality became vast gaps in income.\n\nIn 1981, an economist called Sherwin Rosen called this phenomenon \"the superstar economy\".\n\nImagine, he said, the fortune that Mrs Billington might have made if there had been phonographs in 1801.\n\nSatellite television has massively boosted the average wages of Premier League players versus those in the lower divisions\n\nTechnological innovations have created superstar economics in other sectors, too.\n\nSatellite television has been to footballers what the gramophone was to musicians, or the telegraph to 19th Century industrialists.\n\nIf you were the world's best footballer a few decades ago, no more than a stadium-full of fans could have seen you play every week.\n\nNow, your every move can be watched by hundreds of millions on every continent.\n\nAnd as the market for football expanded, so has the gap in pay between the very best and the merely very good.\n\nAs recently in the 1980s, footballers in English football's top tier used to earn twice as much as those in the third tier, playing for - say - the 50th best team in the country.\n\nNow, average wages in the Premier League are 25 times those earned by the players two divisions down.\n\nTechnological shifts can dramatically change who gets what, and they are wrenching because they can be so abrupt - and because the people concerned have the same skills as before, but suddenly have very different earning power.\n\nThroughout the 20th Century, new innovations - the cassette, the CD, the DVD - maintained the economic model created by the gramophone.\n\nBut at the end of the century came the MP3 format, and fast internet connections.\n\nSuddenly, you didn't have to spend £10 on a plastic disc to hear your favourite music - you could find it online, free.\n\nDavid Bowie recognised the seismic effect digital technology would have on the music industry\n\nIn 2002, David Bowie warned his fellow musicians that they were facing a very different future.\n\n\"Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity,\" he said.\n\n\"You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.\"\n\nBowie seems to have been right.\n\nArtists have stopped using concert tickets as a way to sell albums, and started using albums as a way to sell concert tickets.\n\nBut we haven't returned to the days of Mrs Billington.\n\nAmplification, stadium rock, global tours and endorsement deals mean that the most admired musicians can still profit from a vast audience.\n\nInequality remains alive and well - the top 1% of artists take more than five times more money from concerts than the bottom 95% put together.\n\nThe gramophone may be passe, but the ability of technological progress to change who wins - and who loses - persists.", "A \"motivated\" Eugenie Bouchard beat Maria Sharapova - the woman she called a \"cheat\" - in a marathon three-setter in the second round of the Madrid Open.\n\nBouchard criticised Sharapova as she made her comeback from a 15-month drugs ban at the Stuttgart Open in April.\n\nThe Canadian finally came through a brutal encounter 7-5 2-6 6-4 after almost three hours on court.\n\n\"I was inspired because I had a lot of players coming up to me privately, wishing me good luck,\" said Bouchard.\n\n\"They were players I don't normally speak to and I got a lot of texts from people in the tennis world that were just rooting for me. I wanted to do it for myself, but also for all these people.\"\n\nBouchard will play Angelique Kerber, who is set to replace Serena Williams as world number one, in the third round.\n\n\"Some girls in the locker room were coming up to me and really wishing me good luck which doesn't normally happen,\" added the world number 60.\n\n\"It showed me that most people have my opinion and they were just maybe scared to speak out.\"\n\nSpeaking after Sharapova made her return from a ban for the use of meldonium in Stuttgart, Bouchard said: \"She's a cheater and I don't think a cheater in any sport should be allowed to play again.\n\n\"I think from the WTA it sends the wrong message to young kids: cheat and we'll welcome you back with open arms.\n\n\"I don't think that's right and she's not someone I can say I look up to any more.\"\n\nWhen Bouchard's comments were put to her, Sharapova said that she was \"way above\" responding.\n\nThough there was no apparent frostiness between them as they entered the court and knocked up, what followed was a fluctuating and full-blooded encounter in which both players refused to give ground.\n\nWith breaks exchanged in the first set, Bouchard looked to have blown a huge chance in the 11th game when she missed a forehand into open court with Sharapova stranded.\n\nBut the former Wimbledon finalist recovered to take her fourth break point at the end of a 12-minute game and served out to win a first set that last for 70 minutes.\n\nSharapova, though, found an extra gear in the next stanza, winning four straight games to take the second set as mistakes crept into Bouchard's game.\n\nThe decider was a sapping affair, with each player coming from 0-40 down to avoid being broken - in Sharapova's case, the Russian did it in successive service games.\n\nA third save from 0-40 was too big an ask for Sharapova, but even then it was not decisive for Bouchard, who surrendered her serve in the next game.\n\nBut, from 40-15 up, Sharapova was broken again and, in the next game, Bouchard took her second match point for her first victory over the five-time Grand Slam champion at the fifth time of asking.\n\nAfter two hours and 51 minutes, the players exchanged the briefest of handshakes at the net.\n\n\"She said 'well played',\" said Bouchard. \"And I think she's been playing really well in her so-called comeback, if you want to call it that.\"\n\nFor Bouchard, this represents her biggest win and best run at a tournament since reaching the semi-finals in Sydney in January, while Sharapova still has work to do secure a place in Wimbledon qualifying.\n\n\"I think I would be worried about myself if I sat here and said I'm pretty happy with losing a tennis match, no matter who I face, no matter what round it is, whether it's the first round or final of a Grand Slam,\" said Sharapova.\n\n\"I'm a big competitor. What you work for so many hours every single day is to be on the winning end of matches.\n\n\"Today was just not that day. Of course, I'm disappointed. That's what's going to make me a better player. That's what's going to win me more tournaments and more Grand Slams.\"\n\nTwo hours and 51 minutes full of fabulous and often ferocious rallies - and ultimately a surprising winner. Bouchard has been in horrible form, but she played here with the confidence she showed en route to the Wimbledon final of 2014, and did not seem remotely fazed when Sharapova ran away with the second set.\n\nBouchard then remained on the front foot when she appeared for her media conference: choosing to detail how many good luck messages she had received from unlikely sources prior to the match.\n\nThe defeat leaves Sharapova some way adrift of direct entry into the Wimbledon main draw. She will need to reach the semi-finals in Rome next week to make sure. And a first round defeat could cost her a place in qualifying unless the All England Club steps in with a wildcard.\n\nAndy Murray v Marius Copil in the Madrid Open round of 32 will be live on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra on Tuesday from 16:00 BST.", "Privately lots of Tories have said for years, six years in fact, that the chances of getting immigration down to under 100,000 were small.\n\nAnd for as long as we were in the European Union, the UK government had no way of guaranteeing it would happen in any case.\n\nThe job prospects for young Spaniards, Poles, Italians, were arguably a bigger determinant for UK immigration than anything the UK government could do about European immigration at least.\n\nFor as long as we have freedom of movement, part of the deal of being in the EU, we can't put a limit on the numbers, nor the rest of the EU put a limit on the number of Brits who could move around the EU.\n\nIt's also worth saying that immigration from the rest of the world, on its own, has also been well over the target of \"tens of thousands\" - and remember, that's the bit that is easier to control. You can see the numbers here, since the Tories came into government in 2010:\n\nOnce we are out of the EU, controlling those numbers will in theory be easier. It will be the UK that decides how many people can come from around Europe, as they currently do with the rest of the world.\n\nBut while Theresa May has staunchly recommitted to the target she, as home secretary, missed for six years in a row, ministers have been also busy reassuring businesses they will be able to get the people they need, whether builders, bankers, or fruit pickers. If the economy needs them, they will be allowed to come.\n\nThat doesn't sound like a recipe for getting the numbers down to Theresa May's preferred level. And even though we are on our way out of the EU, there is still huge scepticism over whether the target is remotely achievable. So why keep it?\n\nSometimes in politics it's useful to ponder what would happen if they did the opposite.\n\nDitch the immigration target after the referendum when public concern about the levels was so obvious? Ditch it when the Tories want to pick up as many former UKIP voters as possible? Ditch it when Theresa May has spent years, with limited success, trying different ways of getting it down?\n\nOne source told me \"it's just too ingrained\". The political, if not the pragmatic, reasons for keeping it become clear pretty fast. Whether the target is suddenly achievable however is an entirely different debate.", "Coverage: Live text commentary on the BBC Sport website on Saturday and Sunday.\n\nWhat makes a major? The question arises because it is becoming harder to find reasons why this week's Players Championship will not eventually evolve to that elevated level.\n\nThe four men's majors are the benchmark of the game.\n\nThe Open Championship is the world's oldest and most prestigious event, the Masters has become the game's most glamorous tournament, the US Open is America's national championship and the PGA? Well, it is the PGA.\n\nChronologically it is last of the big four and is regarded as such in significance - this despite always boasting the top 100 players in the world, which is more than the other three majors are able to do.\n\nGaining major status only genuinely happens when there is universal agreement that a tournament deserves such status.\n\nThe stature of the US Open has never been in doubt while on these shores, The Open's lustre only wobbled when American professionals became reluctant to travel in the 1950s.\n\nArnold Palmer's continued support of The Open ensured its elite status was preserved and never again ignored by any of the world's leading stars.\n\nThe Masters only truly acquired its major standing in the post-Second World War years and the US PGA Championship needed to switch from its original matchplay format in 1958 to maintain its relevance.\n\nIt is also the preserve of the PGA of America, one of the most powerful bodies in the sport and the organisation that runs the US Ryder Cup team.\n\nAll majors have in common a place in sporting history, large prize funds, deep fields populated with players desperate to win, a resonance that stretches beyond the golfing village and the ability to identify the best players in the world.\n\nAnd this neatly brings us to the 44th Players Championship, which will be played at TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida from Thursday.\n\nWhich of those boxes is not ticked by the Players?\n\nIts history has built year on year. This is the 36th time it will be played on Pete Dye's famous Stadium Course, relaid and refined this year, and the closing stretch of holes including the famous island-green 17th have become as familiar as any on the golf calendar.\n\nIn financial terms it is every bit as lucrative as any other tournament on the planet. This year it is worth $10.5m (£8.1m) and it is little surprise that it attracts the PGA Tour's strongest field of the season.\n\nAnd it resonates. The fact that it returns to the same course every year helps and it generates memories that stick with us.\n\nRemember Hal Sutton's \"be the right club, be the right club, today\" as he fired his tournament-winning approach to the 72nd green to hold off Tiger Woods in 2000? Or Fred Funk slamming his cap into the green upon completing his 2005 victory?\n\nSandy Lyle has been Britain's only winner, and his victory is still fondly remembered even though it was achieved 30 years ago. More recently the nerveless play-off wins by Sergio Garcia (2008) and Rickie Fowler (2015) are easier to recall than many a decisive moment in, say, the PGA Championship.\n\nAnd there can be little argument over the pedigree of its champions. The Players is rarely won by anyone other than the highest calibre of golfer.\n\nJack Nicklaus triumphed three times, including the inaugural tournament in 1974, and the roster of champions includes; Woods, Greg Norman, Nick Price, Fred Couples, David Duval, Adam Scott, Martin Kaymer and last year's winner Jason Day - all world number ones.\n\nSawgrass messes with golfers heads. It demands precision and the correct angles of attack. \"It tests basically everything from a mechanical and hitting standpoint, as well as to a mental approach,\" said Duval, the champion in 1999.\n\nFor this year's event the course has been relaid with new grasses and several greens have been altered.\n\nThe 12th hole now becomes a driveable par-four to provide a kickstart to the fireworks that inevitably occur on the water dominated par-five 16th, short 17th and dramatic par-four closing hole.\n\nUntil 2007, the tournament occupied a March date and was recognised as the first genuine gathering of the world's best golfers before the Masters. Then came the move to its current timing in May.\n\nMany have debated the wisdom of the schedule change. \"I don't believe the golf course has quite lived up to how they have wanted it since the move to May, with the condition of it,\" Duval said.\n\n\"It should go back to March,\" he added, saying such a move is more likely to yield firmer and faster playing conditions. \"It's been a bit of struggle and so I hope it does go back.\"\n\nDuval may well get his wish. The proposed restructuring of the golfing calendar would see the PGA shift from its August date to take the Players Championship slot in May, as it moves back to the original pre-Masters timing.\n\nTellingly, the Players is at the heart of the conversation on finding the most attractive schedule for the men's game. It, therefore, is already sitting at golf's top table.\n\nAnd, while the sport might not need another major - and certainly not another in the United States - it feels more and more as though we are arriving at a tipping point.\n\nRight now it is \"the four majors and the Players\" when we discuss the most prized events in the game, but for how much longer might this distinction be drawn?", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nDo Norwegian players have the upper hand over Brazilians in the Premier League? Where does Ryan Shawcross rank in the own-goals table? And is Brendan Rodgers actually better than Jurgen Klopp?\n\nWe try to answer those questions and take a look at some of the other interesting stats from the weekend.\n\nArgentine Premier League players past and present had something to chirp about when Nicolas Otamendi scored for Manchester City in Saturday's 5-0 win over Crystal Palace.\n\nThe 29-year-old scored the 400th goal by an Argentine in the competition. By contrast, Brazilians have only supplied 322. If only Diego Costa had not chosen Spain, eh?\n\nBut where do Argentina rank in the 'Table of nations to have scored goals in the Premier League, not including UK and Ireland'?\n\nHere are your top five:\n\nYes, Norwegians have scored more goals (507) in the English top flight than Argentines, Brazilians, Italians (407) and Belgians (434).\n\nForward Ole Gunnar Solskjaer weighed in with a hefty 92 goals during his time with Manchester United. Ex-Chelsea striker Tore Andre Flo, John Carew (Aston Villa and Stoke) and Bournemouth striker Joshua King have added to the tally, and are among the 36 Norwegians to have scored since the competition began in the 1992-93 season.\n\n'You're not yet bad enough for this club, Ryan'\n\nHe is a Stoke City stalwart. He has put his body on the line for the club he has captained for more than nine years. Ryan Shawcross is a true braveheart of a defender.\n\nSo what do we do? We see where he ranks in the all-time Premier League own-goals charts. Harsh, but necessary for this piece.\n\nThe 29-year-old scored an 81st-minute own goal and Bournemouth's second in Saturday's 2-2 draw to join a group of players who have found their own net on five occasions in the Premier League. That list includes former England internationals Phil Neville, Rio Ferdinand and Neil Ruddock.\n\nHe will need to ramp up the mishaps to dislodge the king of the own goals.\n\nThe Baggies must have been wondering when their goal drought was going to end. They arrived at Turf Moor having gone five league games without finding the net.\n\nBut after 530 minutes of not hearing the sound of synthetic leather against their opponents' polypropylene nets, Salomon Rondon ended the barren run in the second half of Saturday's 2-2 draw against Burnley.\n\nBut the pain felt by Baggies fans is nothing compared to what the supporters of these clubs experienced:\n\nEverton fans have on two occasions seen their side go six league games without a goal (1994-95 and 2005-06).\n\nIt appears it will be all's well that ends well having avoided a comedy of errors for Craig Shakespeare since he took the hot seat at Leicester. Apologies.\n\nOn Saturday, he became only the fourth manager to win his first five home Premier League games as the Foxes beat Watford 3-0. The champions had the ignominy of being labelled 'relegation-threatened' until the former assistant came in and changed their fortunes.\n\nHowever, he lags behind home-win expert Manuel Pellegrini, who won his first 11 games at Manchester City's Etihad Stadium.\n\nBut which managers have the worst record?\n\nStep forward, or back, Chris Ramsey (QPR, 2014-15), Mick McCarthy (Sunderland, 2002-03) and Terry Connor (Wolves, 2011-12) - all three failed to win a single point in their first five home games. Their sides were relegated that season - which was more costly than a pound of flesh.\n\nBefore Sunday's game against Southampton, current Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp and ex-boss Brendan Rodgers had identical Premier League records after their first 65 games in charge of the Reds: W33 D18 L14 (117 points).\n\nWe know Klopp drew his 66th game against Southampton.\n\nHow did Brendan do?", "Karl Marx published the first volume of Das Kapital in 1867\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said there is much to learn from reading Das Kapital. What is it?\n\nWritten in the middle of the 19th Century by German philosopher and economist Karl Marx, Das Kapital is essentially a description of how the capitalist system works and how, Marx claims, it will destroy itself.\n\nMarx had already set out his ideas on class struggle - how the workers of the world would seize power from the ruling elites - in the Communist Manifesto and other writings.\n\nDas Kapital is an attempt to give these ideas a grounding in verifiable fact and scientific analysis.\n\nIt is not an easy read. The product of 30 years of work, and Marx's study of the condition of workers in English factories at the height of the industrial revolution, it is part history, part economics and part sociology.\n\nAs Marx's biographer Francis Wheen has pointed out, it reads at times like a Gothic novel \"whose heroes are enslaved and consumed by the monster they created\".\n\nIn simple terms, Marx argues that an economic system based on private profit is inherently unstable.\n\nWorkers are exploited by factory owners and don't own the products of their labour, making them little better than machines.\n\nJohn McDonnell is a keen student of Marx's most significant work\n\nThe factory owners and other capitalists hold all the power because they control the means of production, allowing them to amass vast fortunes while the workers fall deeper into poverty.\n\nThis is an unsustainable way to organise society and it will eventually collapse under the weight of its own contradictions, Marx argues.\n\nHe is not clear about when this will happen, only that it is inevitable. Neither does he explicitly spell out what the communist society that will replace capitalism will look like, only that it will free workers from their servitude (he did not complete work on his theories before his death in 1883 so perhaps he ran out of time).\n\nMarx published the first volume of Das Kapital in 1867, by which time he had settled in London with his family, and was being financially supported by Friedrich Engels, the rich son of a cotton mill owner.\n\nHe continued to refine the ideas set out in the first volume for the rest of his life, although the next two volumes would not appear in print until after his death.\n\nThe ideas contained in Das Kapital would go on to inspire revolutions in Russia, China and many other countries around the world in the 20th Century, as ruling elites were overthrown and private property seized on behalf of the workers.\n\nThey would also exert a powerful influence over many in the Labour Party and the trade union movement, even if they did not always share his vision of a global workers' revolution.\n\nMarxism became a way of interpreting the world - the simple idea at its core that history was a battle between opposing social classes could be applied to everything from the study of literature and film to the education system.\n\nIt also became a byword for totalitarianism - as one-party states and dictators proclaimed Marxism as their guiding philosophy.\n\nSome argued that this was a perversion of Marx's ideas as set out in Das Kapital, and that the Soviet Union, for many the ultimate example of a Marxist state, was really just a form of state capitalism, where the factory owners had been replaced by government bureaucrats.\n\nBut the Soviet Union's collapse in the early 1990s dealt a major blow to the credibility of Marxist theory and it went out of fashion on university campuses and in mainstream left-wing political parties that aspired to gain power in the West, such as the Labour Party.\n\nIt underwent something of a revival in the wake of the 2008 global financial crash, however, which some saw as a classic example of capitalism in crisis, just as Marx had predicted.", "Maro Itoje: England, Lions & Saracens forward would be 'proud' to be role model Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nSaracens and England forward Maro Itoje on the Lions, his hero Muhammad Ali, and faith Coverage: Commentary on Radio 5 live and live text coverage on the BBC Sport website. England forward Maro Itoje says he will be \"proud\" if he can be a role model for young black rugby players. The 22-year-old faces Clermont Auvergne in Saturday's European Champions Cup final, as Saracens look to defend their title at Murrayfield. Itoje, the youngest tourist with the British and Irish Lions this summer, says as a kid he looked up to former England wings Ugo Monye and Topsy Ojo. \"If I want to be honest, it's because they were black,\" said Itoje.\n• None Listen to the full Itoje interview on Radio 5 live's Rugby Union Weekly podcast Speaking to 5 live's Rugby Union Weekly podcast, Itoje, who was was born in Camden to Nigerian parents, added: \"They were the guys I looked up to and who I had a natural affinity to. \"You look around at the type of schools I went to, there are not many black guys playing rugby, or as many black guys when you watch Premiership and international games - though it is changing a little bit now. \"You see before games at Allianz Park these mini rugby festivals, I tend to look around and see who is playing and there are a lot more BAME [black, Asian and minority ethnic] kids about. So it's good, and it is definitely improving.\" In a wide-ranging interview, Itoje also discussed being the youngest member of the Lions squad, Muhammad Ali, and the importance of his faith. Despite only being 22, Maro Itoje is the reigning European Player of the Year 'Lions is going to be eye-opening' Itoje made his England debut in 2016 and his 12 caps have included two Six Nations titles - including a Grand Slam in 2016 - plus a 3-0 series whitewash of Australia down under last summer. His performances for club and country have earned him a place in Warren Gatland's 41-man Lions squad to face New Zealand this summer. As the youngest member of the squad, he will have the responsibility of looking after the soft-toy tour mascot, Billy. \"I've heard that players try and sabotage it,\" he said. \"I am going to have to keep quite it tight to me, I don't think I can trust anybody, I heard there are some severe punishments.\" Speaking about the tour, he added: \"I am looking forward to the whole experience. I think it is going to be a real eye-opening experience for me. \"A lot of these guys, I know who they are but I don't really know them - so it will be interesting to get to know these guys, build new relationships and new bonds. And from what I hear, these bonds tend to last a very long time.\" Muhammad Ali was a three-time heavyweight champion of the world Itoje says his sporting idol is the three-time world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, who died last year aged 74. Aside from his sporting achievements in the ring, Ali was also a civil rights campaigner who transcended the bounds of sport, race and nationality. \"Obviously his skills in the ring are unbelievable, but what makes him so impressive was his mind,\" added Itoje, who has lost just once in his England career. \"How he was able to captivate an audience and speak to a crowd. Whether you liked him or not you still respected him. For me, he is well and truly the greatest. \"For me the biggest [thing] was how he put his religious and political beliefs before the boxing. He wasn't afraid of speaking out, when other athletes were afraid of speaking out. \"He wasn't doing this at the end [of his career], he started doing this when he was 21, when he was world champion. He's just an incredible person to look up to.\" Itoje, who is a devout Christian, added: \"Once you reach a certain level - play for your club and your country - naturally you get a bit of a following and have people of a younger generation looking up to you. \"You go on the pitch and try and play your best and give the best representation of yourself. The by-product of doing that stuff well is people of a younger generation will follow, in the way that when I was a younger player, watching the greats of the past were the same kind of inspiration.\" 'Champions Cup is going to be special' Maro Itoje was named man of the match in last year's Champions Cup final as Saracens beat Racing 92 Itoje, who can play lock or blind-side flanker, was named man of the match as Saracens became champions of Europe for the first time as they beat Top 14 side Racing 92 in Lyon last May. On Saturday in Edinburgh they face two-time runners-up Clermont, who have finished second in France's top division regular season to qualify for the play-offs. \"Their fans are probably the loudest, most passionate group I've come across,\" said Itoje. \"Big games are always different,\" added the reigning European Player of the Year. \"There is always an extra edge and everyone is a bit sharper and more switched on during the week. There is more of a build-up, a bit more anxiety in the lead-up to the game. \"It's going to be special. Clermont are a top side. We are going to prepare unbelievably well. We will leave no stone unturned and make sure we are the best we can be.\"\n• None Get all the latest rugby union news by adding", "Facebook was a key influencer in the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election and the Brexit vote, according to those who ran the campaigns.\n\nBut critics say it is a largely unregulated form of campaigning.\n\nThose in charge of the digital campaigns for Donald Trump's Republican Party and the political consultant behind Leave EU's referendum strategy are clear the social network was decisive in both wins.\n\nPolitical strategist Gerry Gunster, from Leave EU, told BBC Panorama that Facebook was a game changer for convincing voters to back Brexit.\n\n\"You can say to Facebook, 'I would like to make sure that I can micro-target that fisherman, in certain parts of the UK, so that they are specifically hearing that if you vote to leave you will be able to change the way that the regulations are set for the fishing industry'.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Panorama's Darragh MacIntyre asks Facebook whether they have made money from fake news.\n\n\"Now I can do the exact same thing for people who live in the Midlands who are struggling because the factory has shut down. So I may send a specific message through Facebook to them that nobody else sees.\"\n\nGary Coby, the director of advertising for the Republican Party, says Facebook was also the key to Trump's victory.\n\nHe said the party used data about potential voters to reach them on social media, adding: \"So if you are on Facebook, I can then match you and put you into a bucket of users that I can then target.\"\n\nMr Coby confirmed the official Trump campaign alone had spent in the region of $70m on Facebook over the election period.\n\n\"The way we bought media on Facebook was like no one else in politics has ever done.\"\n\nPanorama has also been told Facebook had teams of people working directly with both the Democratic and Republican campaigns.\n\nTargeted campaigning helped the Leave campaign get its message to voters\n\nSimon Milner, Facebook's head of policy UK, confirmed that people from Facebook worked with the two campaigns, but declined to say how many.\n\n\"One of the things we are absolutely there to do is to help people make use of Facebook products. We do have people whose role is to help politicians and governments make good use of Facebook.\n\n\"I can't give you the number of exactly how many people worked with these campaigns. But I can tell you that it was completely demand driven, so it was really up to the campaigns.\"\n\nThe social network says it complies with all regulations but the platform, which is also expected to play a key role in the British general election on 8 June, has been criticised for being unaccountable when it comes to politics.\n\nTeams of people from Facebook were working on both Trump and Hillary Clinton's campaigns\n\nA quarter of the world's population now use Facebook, including 32 million people in the UK. Many use Facebook to stay in touch with family and friends and are unaware that it has become an important political player.\n\nFor example, the videos that appear in people's news feeds can be promoted by political parties and campaigners.\n\nThe far-right group, Britain First, has told Panorama how it paid Facebook to repeatedly promote its videos. It now has more than 1.6 million Facebook followers.\n\nDamian Collins, chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee in the outgoing parliament, says Facebook needs to be more accountable.\n\n\"Historically, there have been quite strict rules about the way information is presented and broadcasters work to a very strict code in terms of partiality and there are restrictions on use of advertising.\n\n\"But with something like Facebook you have a media which is increasingly seen as the most valuable media in an election period but which is totally unregulated.\"\n\nFacebook says it is committed to assisting civic engagement and electoral participation, and that it helped two million people register to vote in the US presidential elections.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nGhanaian midfielder Sulley Muntari says he would walk off the pitch again, adding that Fifa and Uefa are \"not taking racism seriously\".\n\nThe Pescara player, 32, was sent off after leaving the field claiming he was racially abused during a Serie A game.\n\nIn a BBC interview, the ex-Portsmouth player claims racism is \"everywhere and getting worse\", and encourages players to go on strike to combat it.\n\n\"I went through hell, I was treated just like a criminal,\" he said.\n\n\"I went off the field because I felt it wasn't right for me to be on the field while I have been racially abused,\" he told BBC Sport's David Ornstein.\n\nMuntari was initially banned for one game after asking referee Daniele Minelli to stop the Italian top-flight game at Cagliari on 30 April.\n\nThe ex-Ghana international was instead booked for dissent in the 89th minute, prompting him to leave the pitch in protest, and he then received another yellow card.\n\nHe angrily confronted Cagliari fans, shouting: \"This is my colour.\"\n\nMuntari had the one-match ban overturned after the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) said it had considered the \"particular delicacy\" of the case.\n\nHe says he would walk off the pitch again if he was racially abused and he has urged other players to do the same.\n\n\"If I had this problem today, tomorrow or the next game I would go off again,\" he said.\n\n\"And I'd recommend it to others. If they are not feeling it they should walk off.\"\n\nItalian football's reputation around the world has been damaged by the incident, said FIGC anti-racism advisor Fiona May before Muntari's suspension had been reversed.\n\nMeanwhile, Juventus' Morocco defender Medhi Benatia cut short a post-match television interview on Sunday after claiming to hear a racist insult in his earpiece.\n\nWorld governing body Fifa and Uefa, its European counterpart, point out that the Muntari case was dealt with by the FIGC.\n\nMuntari believes the two organisations are \"not taking racism seriously\", but backs Fifa president Gianni Infantino, who replaced Sepp Blatter in February 2016.\n\n\"Fifa and Uefa only care about what they want to care about. If they want to fight racism they should be able to jump right in and tackle it,\" he said.\n\n\"But they have nothing to say about it. This is a big deal.\n\n\"Maybe the new president Infantino will do something about it. He has a different mind.\n\n\"I think he is capable of doing something in a good way to fight racism. I want him to fight racism.\"\n\nA Uefa statement said: \"The fight to eliminate racism, discrimination and intolerance from football is a major priority for our organisation.\n\n\"Uefa condemns such deplorable behaviour and has always shown zero tolerance for any form of racism and discrimination.\"\n\nLast week, Fifa said it would \"like to express full solidarity with Muntari.\"\n\n\"Any form of racism on or outside the field is totally unacceptable and has no place in football. As to the disciplinary consequences, this falls under the jurisdiction of the relevant national body,\" it added.\n\n'Other countries need to follow England's example'\n\nFormer Portsmouth and Sunderland player Muntari says he never experienced racist abuse in the Premier League and has urged other countries to follow England's example of combating the problem.\n\n\"I never heard anything like that in England because I think they don't tolerate it,\" he said.\n\n\"The people who are racist are really scared to do it in a stadium because they will get prosecuted or banned. But in Italy they go free.\n\n\"England is the example for the world. If a country doesn't tolerate it then it means you get rid of it.\"\n\nForeign players are more likely to experience some form of discrimination than domestic footballers, a survey by world players' union Fifpro found in 2016.\n\nThe survey, of nearly 14,000 players in 54 countries, found that 17.2% of players based abroad have experienced discrimination, with the figure rising to 32% in Italy.\n\nMuntari said his ban was overturned after an outpouring of support, and he praised former Tottenham striker Garth Crooks who had called on players in the Italian league to strike if his one-match suspension had not been withdrawn.\n\n\"Last week I heard a comment from the ex-Tottenham player and I was really pleased with that - saying if they don't lift my ban all the players should go on strike - that's a brave move right there,\" he said.\n\n\"He changed a lot of things by saying that, he changed a lot. I really have great respect for him. He has just fought maybe a per cent of racism right there by speaking out.\n\n\"All players, if they think it's right and we want to fight racism, we have to come together and do it.\"\n\nWe arranged to meet Sulley Muntari in Milan, a city he and his wife love in a country they adore. They feel at home - accepted, respected, happy. An ideal place to raise their two-year-old son.\n\nMuntari suggested his favourite hotel in the centre of town, where the tranquillity inside contrasted to the bustle all around; an environment that aptly reflects how the Ghanaian himself was feeling after a week he described as \"hell\".\n\nEight days after he was abused by spectators watching him playing a game of football, handed a one-match ban for protesting and walking off the pitch - only for that ban to be rescinded after an outpouring of support - Muntari was serene. Anger was replaced by calm, confusion by clarity.\n\nHe was energised, passionate and articulate. He has turned negative into positive and is desperate to use his experience as a defining moment in the fight against discrimination.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea moved to within one win of the Premier League title and confirmed Middlesbrough's relegation with a consummate performance and emphatic victory at Stamford Bridge.\n\nAntonio Conte's side can become champions with victory against West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns on Friday night while Middlesbrough must contemplate a future back in the Championship after they were swept aside on Monday.\n\nThe Blues had already created a succession of chances before Diego Costa turned in man of the match Cesc Fabregas' pass after 23 minutes.\n\nAnd the contest was effectively over when Marcos Alonso scored at the far post via the legs of Middlesbrough keeper Brad Guzan 11 minutes before the break.\n\nFabregas created Chelsea's third which Nemanja Matic converted as the hosts laid siege to Boro's goal, with the final whistle bringing contrasting emotions.\n• None 'We are showing that we deserve to win the league' - Chelsea boss Conte\n\nChelsea on the brink of glory\n\nIn this mood it is hard to see the league title coming from anywhere other than at West Brom on Friday night.\n\nBaggies manager Tony Pulis was watching from the stand at Stamford Bridge and will have gone away with plenty of food for thought after a Chelsea display that oozed class and intent.\n\nMiddlesbrough - downhearted, defeated and on their way back to the Championship - were little more than cannon fodder here.\n\nFrom the opening moments when Guzan turned Alonso's shot on to the bar, Chelsea were rampant, nerveless and played with the swagger, poise and menace of the best team in the Premier League.\n\nChelsea's nerves may have shown momentarily in those defeats at home to Crystal Palace and at Manchester United in April, but the response has been magnificent, reeling off wins in the FA Cup semi-final against Tottenham and in the Premier League against Southampton, Everton and now Middlesbrough.\n\nIt is a question of when, rather than if the ebullient, effervescent Conte claims the title in his first season in England - and Chelsea will be fully deserved champions.\n\nChelsea's fans talk about Fabregas wearing a \"magic hat\", but all the magic was in his boots as he picked the visitors apart here at Stamford Bridge.\n\nThe 30-year-old was a key purchase from Barcelona when Jose Mourinho brought the title back to Chelsea to two seasons ago. But this season he will be a different kind of title-winner.\n\nThe signing of N'Golo Kante from Leicester City and Chelsea's subsequent success has meant Fabregas, who would have been first choice in almost every other Premier League side, has been marginalised and unable to claim a regular place.\n\nWhen he has, however, the Spain midfielder has shown the class and quality that has made him one of the game's enduring talents in the recent era.\n\nFabregas stepped in here for the injured Kante and gave a midfield masterclass, and when he created Chelsea's opener for Costa he became the first player to record 10 Premier League assists in six different seasons.\n\nHe also created Chelsea's third for Matic with a glorious instinctive flick that unlocked Middlesbrough again.\n\nFabregas may wish to seek more regular first team football elsewhere despite being on course to claim another Premier League title winners' medal - and on this evidence there will be no shortage of takers.\n\nMiddlesbrough go down without a fight\n\nMiddlesbrough knew they were fighting against all the odds to try and avoid the defeat that would send them back into the Championship - and it was a battle they never looked like winning.\n\nThey were on the back foot from the first whistle and were simply overwhelmed by a Chelsea side who would not be denied. The Middlesbrough fans, who were stoic throughout, were applauded by Conte after the final whistle.\n\nThe feeling will remain that Middlesbrough have simply come and gone without contributing a great deal to this Premier League season. Could they have been bolder in pursuit of survival?\n\nBoro have proved stubborn in defence on many occasions but have been totally undermined by a failure to score goals - and a failure to cure that obvious problem.\n\nAitor Karanka, the man who brought Middlesbrough up but who left in March as the decline started to accelerate, was backed by chairman Steve Gibson in January but his attacking purchases were never going to provide the answer.\n\nRudy Gestede arrived from Aston Villa and Patrick Bamford from Chelsea, but neither are of Premier League quality and the price was paid with relegation.\n\nMiddlesbrough look to currently have a good squad for the Championship - but this was a horribly tame end to their Premier League ambitions.\n\n'The fans deserve Premier League football' - What the managers said\n\nChelsea boss Antonio Conte: \"We must be pleased. It was a great performance, my players showed commitment and work-rate for three important points.\n\n\"At this stage it was important to win and exploit Tottenham's defeat. Now, another step to the title. We have to rest well and prepare for West Brom.\"\n\nMiddlesbrough boss Steve Agnew: \"I am absolutely gutted and bitterly disappointed with the result and we have now lost our Premier League status which we took great pride in.\n\n\"I have just left a very silent dressing room.\n\n\"We haven't had enough wins and that's the key to the whole thing. Scoring goals wins football matches and we haven't done that enough this season.\n\n\"I have to say the fans all season have been outstanding - home and away has been top class and the least they deserve is Premier League football.\"\n\nBoro make it four relegations - the stats\n• None Chelsea have become the third club to win 300 Premier League home games, after Manchester United (347) and Arsenal (306)\n• None Middlesbrough have been relegated from the Premier League for the fourth time - no side has suffered the drop more often since its inception [level with Crystal Palace, Norwich City and Sunderland]\n• None Diego Costa became the third player to score 20+ goals in a Premier League season for Chelsea on two occasions [Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink in 2000-01 & 2001-02 and Didier Drogba in 2006-07 & 2009-10]\n• None Costa has also scored the opening goal of a Premier League game on seven occasions this season - no other player has done so more\n• None Middlesbrough have failed to score in 11 Premier League away games this season, more than any other side in the division\n\nChelsea will win the title if they beat West Brom on Friday. Even if they do not, they have two more opportunities to wrap up the title against Watford and Sunderland at home.\n\nMiddlesbrough will finish life in the Premier League by hosting Southampton on Saturday before going to Liverpool on Sunday, 21 May.\n• None Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas following a corner.\n• None Patrick Bamford (Middlesbrough) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None David Luiz (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The received wisdom is that the election of Emmanuel Macron as president of France is bad for Britain's Brexit negotiations.\n\nLike much received wisdom, it may just be wrong. For the arrival of this young financier-turned politician in the Elysee could actually make a deal between Britain and the European Union easier.\n\nYes, President Macron is a devoted pro-European. His belief in the idea and the institutions of the EU is part of his core.\n\nIn his election manifesto, he described Brexit as a \"crime\" that will plunge Britain into \"servitude\".\n\nAs such, he will brook no Brexit-induced dilution of the single market and all its works.\n\nAfter he met the prime minister in February, he told reporters in Downing Street: \"Brexit cannot lead to a kind of optimisation of Britain's relationship with the rest of Europe. I am very determined that there will be no undue advantages.\"\n\nMacron will thus, so the argument goes, stiffen sinews in Brussels and re-invigorate the Franco-German motor that has lain dormant in recent years. He has made utterly clear that he wants Britain to pay top whack when it exits the EU.\n\nHe has spoken of reforming the Le Touquet agreement that allows British immigration officers to check passports in Calais. And he has been shameless in his ambition to lure French workers and money back to France.\n\nSo Macron on paper could look like no friend of Britain in the Brexit stakes.\n\nAnd yet his election is actually better news for Theresa May than she might imagine.\n\nTheresa May will face tough Brexit negotiations with France's new president\n\nSome Conservative ministers had been quite open in their preference for Francois Fillon, the former centre-right candidate with whom they had more natural, partisan commonalities. But they know they can live with Macron.\n\nThe new president is not going to be as Brexit obsessed as some imagine. He has other fish to fry.\n\nHe has to build support and coalitions in the National Assembly where polls suggest his new party may struggle to form a majority in next month's elections.\n\nHe has huge economic problems to deal with at home. And his efforts in Brussels will be focused on gaining support for his own proposals to reform the EU and the eurozone.\n\nBrexit is just one issue on his to-do list. His priority is dealing with France's difficulties and stopping Marine Le Pen winning in 2022.\n\nNow, of course, when President Macron does focus on Brexit, he will naturally be tough on Britain. But that is already the position of the French government. Whitehall has long ruled out any favours from Paris. In many ways, Macron represents continuity.\n\nAnd just think of the alternative. If Marine Le Pen had won, the EU would be in chaos.\n\nThe EU's focus may have shifted from Brexit had Marine Le Pen won the French presidency\n\nHer election would have been seen by some as an existential threat to the EU. Brexit would have become a second order issue.\n\nEU politicians would have had less bandwidth to spend on Brexit. And as such, a deal would have been less likely, or at the very least much harder. Compare that to the stability that a Macron presidency may provide.\n\nFor here is the real point. The election of Macron may just make the EU a little more confident or perhaps a little less defensive. Many in the EU will conclude - maybe over-optimistically - that the global populist surge has now peaked with Trump and Brexit.\n\nThe electoral failure of anti-establishment politicians in Austria, the Netherlands and now France will give them hope that the troubled EU project is not quite so threatened as they had imagined.\n\nThey may feel a little less fearful that Brexit could presage the breakup of the EU. And a less vulnerable EU may feel less determined to make an example of Britain in the negotiations. And that can only be good for Brexit, however hard or soft you want it.\n\nSo the election of President Macron will of course send shivers of relief through the corridors of Brussels. But it won't make the challenge of Brexit any more enormous than it already is.\n\nAnd just perhaps, it might make the task a little easier.\n• None Five reasons why Macron won the French election", "England are \"justified favourites\" for the Champions Trophy on home soil next month, says ex-spinner Graeme Swann.\n\nThey beat Ireland by 85 runs at Lord's to complete a 2-0 win - their seventh one-day series victory in two years.\n\n\"England have got such a strong-looking squad, especially with the bat,\" Swann told Test Match Special\n\n\"It's not long ago they were being thrashed by everyone and insisting they were playing the right way with their 1970s brand of one-day cricket.\"\n\nSwann, who took 104 wickets in 79 one-day internationals, was referring to the 2015 World Cup when Eoin Morgan's team were humbled by a group-stage exit, in which they only won games against minnows Scotland and Afghanistan.\n\nSince then, England have won series against World Cup runners-up New Zealand, Pakistan (twice), Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, West Indies and now Ireland. They only lost to Australia and South Africa by the odd game in five.\n\nThey hammered Ireland despite the absence of key men Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler, who are playing in the Indian Premier League.\n\nSwann added: \"They have such a strong middle order. Especially when you consider they can bring in Jos Buttler - one of the best in the world - and add him to that middle order and then Ben Stokes, who is arguably the best player in the world in all formats.\n\n\"Eoin Morgan and (head coach) Trevor Bayliss ripped up that piece of paper from 2015 and said 'that's nonsense', we'll get the right personnel in, fill them with confidence, back them to the hilt and ask them to try and post 400 when they bat.\n\n\"They scored 328 against Ireland and the captain said he felt they were 40 runs short. That's amazing to hear. Not too long ago, England captains and teams of old would have been cock-a-hoop with a score of 328.\"", "The claim: At least 6,700 mental health nurses and doctors have been cut from the NHS in England since 2010.\n\nReality Check verdict: That's about right.\n\nThe Conservative Party is promising there will be 10,000 more staff working in mental health treatment in England by 2020.\n\nBut Labour's former shadow minister for mental health Luciana Berger tweeted to say that the number of doctors and nurses working on mental health had actually been cut by 6,700.\n\nIn an answer to a parliamentary question from Ms Berger, Health Minister Philip Dunne provided figures showing that the number of nurses working in mental health in England had fallen from 45,384 in 2010 to 38,774 in July 2016 - a fall of 6,610.\n\nOn the figures for doctors, if you look at the monthly NHS England workforce statistics in the psychiatry group, there were a total of 8,676 people listed from consultants to clinical assistants in January 2017, compared with 8,699 in May 2010, so that's a fall of 23.\n\nBut that may not cover all of the doctors working on mental health.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nJose Mourinho said he was \"happy\" Arsenal fans could finally celebrate beating one of his sides as the Gunners kept alive their top-four hopes with a 2-0 victory over Manchester United.\n\nThe win was Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger's first in 16 competitive meetings with United boss Mourinho.\n\n\"I left Highbury and they were crying, I left Emirates and they were crying,\" Mourinho said of past games at Arsenal.\n\n\"Finally today they sing, they swing the scarves. It's nice for them.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is the first time I leave and they are happy. Before they were walking the streets with their heads low.\n\n\"The Arsenal fans are happy and I am happy for them.\"\n• None Analysis: 'Why Arsenal beat Man Utd but nobody really cares'\n\nWenger's only previous win over Mourinho came in the 2015 Community Shield, when the Portuguese was in his second spell at Chelsea.\n\nThe managers first met in December 2004 - when the Gunners were still playing at their former ground Highbury - in a 2-2 draw.\n\n\"To have that record of winning so many matches is not normal. Normal is win, lose, draw,\" Mourinho said.\n\n\"Do you think I enjoy the fact a big club like Arsenal is not winning trophies? I am not enjoying that. It's a big club.\n\n\"Wenger is not a small manager. He is a big manager. So it's not normal and I really don't care about it.\"\n\n'Almost impossible to make top four'\n\nSunday's defeat leaves United four points behind rivals Manchester City in fourth place, and five points from Liverpool in third, albeit with a game in hand over the Anfield club.\n\nHowever, with a spot on offer to the winners of the Europa League, United could finish outside the top four and still qualify for the Champions League.\n\nUnited conclude their Europa League semi-final against Celta Viga at Old Trafford on Thursday, having beaten the Spanish side 1-0 in the first leg on Thursday.\n\n\"We want to try to win the Europa League - it's more important than finishing fourth. I think it will be almost impossible to qualify through the Premier League,\" Mourinho said.\n\n\"Trophies make history. Not league positions. We go with everything to get into that final.\n\n\"Thursday is the match of the season. I hope Old Trafford feels the same, because we need Old Trafford.\"\n\n'We could not afford to lose'\n\nWenger - who needs teams above Arsenal to slip up if he is to secure a 21st consecutive season of Champions League football for the club - played down the significance of a first competitive win over Mourinho.\n\n\"It's between the two teams. At the end of the day, that's what I make of it,\" he said.\n\n\"Overall, you play Manchester United and it's another big game. We could not afford to lose today.\n\n\"It was important because we lost at Tottenham - that didn't happen many times.\"", "How far would you go to get out of a holiday with a partner?\n\nWould you pay a small cancellation fee? Or affect the symptoms of a mystery illness? Or would you just play it safe and fake a terror plot?\n\nForget post-holiday blues, it was pre-holiday blues that got one married man’s trunks in a twist. According to a Hyderabad City Police report, 32-year-old Motaparthi Vamshi Krishna went to the extraordinary lengths of faking a terror plot to ensure he didn’t have to go on holiday with his girlfriend.\n\nMr Krishna emailed Mumbai police claiming to be a woman who had heard six men at a hotel plotting to hijack planes in the cities of Hyderabad, Chennai and Mumbai. Extra security was put in place at the cities three airports as a result.\n\nMr Krishna ended up admitting he made the entire thing up after being traced by the IP address of the computer the email was sent from.\n\nDuring the police interrogation, he said his online girlfriend had proposed the holiday but he didn’t have the money to make it happen. So, instead of believing that honesty may indeed be the best policy, he created a fake airline ticket and emailed it to his girlfriend before tipping the police off about the hoax hijacking.\n\nDespite his best efforts, it’s thought no flights were disrupted. Mr Krishna was arrested on four charges, including impersonation and providing false information.\n\nAnd, presumably, he now faces the wrath of two women.", "Rogers has sold more than 100 million records\n\nIt's funny the things you covet most when you are a child - for country music superstar Kenny Rogers it was water sprinklers.\n\nGrowing up in poverty on a federal housing estate in Houston, Texas, on his walks to and from school he'd go past wealthy houses, and be amazed by the big jets automatically watering the immaculate lawns.\n\nSo when he first made his millions back in the 1970s, he knew exactly how he would celebrate.\n\nBuilding a massive house with its own 18-hole golf course, he fitted the grounds with hundreds of automated water sprinklers.\n\nNow 78, Rogers says: \"I would drive a golf cart out, right into those sprinklers, and it was great fun.\n\n\"If I had to pick one word [to describe the feeling], I'd say it was... satisfaction.\"\n\nRogers and close friend Dolly Parton had a smash hit in 1983 with Islands in the Stream\n\nCurrently on a farewell tour in the US, Rogers has been in the music industry for 60 years.\n\nOver that time he has released more than 70 albums, and sold more than 100 million records.\n\nThanks to hit songs such as The Gambler, Lady, Coward of the County, and Islands in the Stream (a duet with Dolly Parton), and a parallel acting career, he was a household name in the late 1970s and 1980s.\n\nA keen businessman, Rogers has also led several business ventures over the years, mainly in property and the restaurant sector.\n\nMarried five times, Rogers' divorce settlement to fourth wife Marianne Gordon, pictured, was worth $60m. He says she deserved every cent\n\nThe successes have brought Rogers wealth he could not have dreamed of as a child, and he is now worth an estimated $250m (£195m).\n\nBut in a story that could be told in a country and western song, he has had some financial rock bottoms along the way.\n\nWhile some business bets failed, and he has had four expensive divorces, Rogers admits that living too extravagantly - even for someone earning a fortune - left him \"broke\" both when he was 30, and again when he was 50.\n\n\"You don't think it [wealth] will have that impact on you, but it really did,\" he says.\n\nReleasing his first single in 1958, Rogers remembers that he was always focused on the business side of the music industry.\n\nHe recalls pop singer and mentor Kirby Stone warning him that \"if you don't treat it like a business it'll eat you up\".\n\nRogers first enjoyed popularity in the 1960s\n\nSo fast-forward to the late 1960s when Rogers was having success as the lead singer in the psychedelic rock band Kenny Rogers And The First Edition, he was happy for the group to promote US aluminium giant Alcoa.\n\nGoing solo again in 1976 Rogers says he wanted to release pure country albums to match those of artists he admired, such as Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard, but because he didn't think he could be as good as them he came up with a different plan.\n\n\"I really studied the music business, and I realised there's only two ways to compete,\" he says.\n\n\"You can do what everybody else is doing and do it better - and I didn't like my chances - or you could do something nobody else is doing, and you don't invite comparison.\"\n\nRogers has joked in interviews that he would probably look worse without the plastic surgery\n\nSo instead of recording pure country albums, Rogers developed his own sound - a country and pop crossover - that sold by the bucketload.\n\n\"I did something different, and I was lucky it was successful.\"\n\nFast-forward to the 1990s, and with his record sales slowing, Rogers was spending more time looking after his business interests.\n\nIn 1991 he launched what would ultimately turn out to be his most high-profile business failure - rotisserie chicken restaurant chain Kenny Rogers Roasters (KRR).\n\nRogers was inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013\n\nCo-owned with a former boss of Kentucky Fried Chicken, KRR was initially a great success, and grew strongly.\n\nWithin five years it had more than 400 restaurants across the US, Canada, the Middle East and Asia, and was so well-known in the US that it was even the central focus of one episode of hit comedy show Seinfeld.\n\nHowever, the chain had over-expanded, and in 1998 had to file for bankruptcy protection.\n\nKRR no longer has any restaurants in North America, but now Malaysian owned, it is still popular in Asia, and Rogers receives annual payments.\n\nHe says: \"It's a good product. They are still using my name. God bless 'em you know.\"\n\nRogers performed at the UK's Glastonbury Festival in 2013\n\nIn 1998 Rogers' music was introduced to a new audience when cult movie The Big Lebowski made good use of his version of the song Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In).\n\nIt helped put more younger faces in the crowd as he continued to tour intensively.\n\nDespite his enduring love of performing, Rogers says his current tour really will be his last because he wants to retire to spend more time with his wife Wanda and their 12-year-old twin sons.\n\nWhile Wanda is Rogers' fifth wife, and 28 years younger than him, they have now been married for 20 years.\n\nRogers says he is looking forward to spending more time with his wife and kids\n\nMusicology professor Mark Samples from Central Washington University says that Rogers is a great example of a \"star 20th Century performer\" who was able to diversify his business interests \"beyond just playing music\".\n\n\"He leveraged his musical brand as a down-to-earth, world-wise, straight-talker into multiple successful film characters, and even a chain of fast food restaurants.\"\n\nAs Rogers looks forward to putting his feet up a bit more, his advice for anyone in business or life in general is to do something for a living that \"you care about\".\n\n\"I think what it really boils down to for newcomers, the best advice I can give you, is pay your taxes, put 20% away, and then have some fun.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nSulley Muntari has had the one-match ban he received after protesting against racist abuse overturned.\n\nThe Pescara midfielder left the field after being booked in Sunday's Serie A game at Cagliari for complaining of being abused.\n\nThe Italian Football Federation said it had considered the \"particular delicacy\" of the case.\n\n\"I hope this is a turning point in Italy and shows what it means to stand up for your rights,\" said Muntari, 32.\n\n\"I feel that someone has finally listened to me. The last few days have been very hard for me. I have felt angry and isolated.\n\n\"I was being treated like a criminal. How could I be punished when I was the victim of racism?\n\n\"I hope my case can help so that other footballers do not suffer like me.\"\n\nHe later thanked all the people who had helped him overturn the ban.\n\nMuntari was initially booked for dissent, then received a second yellow card for leaving the field.\n\nSerie A, although agreeing that the abuse Muntari received was \"deplorable\", originally said that it could not impose sanctions on Cagliari because \"approximately 10\" supporters were involved - fewer than 1% of their supporters in the ground.\n\nEx-Tottenham striker Garth Crooks called on players in Italy to strike in protest against Muntari's punishment.\n\nAnti-discrimination organisation Kick It Out said the ruling was \"gutless\", while Crooks said: \"I'm calling on players in Italy, black and white, to make it absolutely clear to the federation in Italy that their position is unacceptable, and if the decision is not reversed then they withdraw their services until it is.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old former Portsmouth and Sunderland player will now be available for Pescara's game at home to Crotone on Sunday.", "These elections are a complicated set of local contests, some old, some new, some electing an individual to a position of great power, most, individual races in wards that make up only a few streets, for councillors who then group together to run our towns and cities.\n\nSo as the results come in, from the early hours of Friday morning right through the day, what are we looking for?\n\nFirst, these are important elections in their own right, and the results make a big difference to decisions that are made on our behalves all round the country.\n\nLocal authorities have significant powers over education, planning, local business rates for example, and the drift of government policy has been to give them more, not less.\n\nSecond, while you will hear my colleagues and me caution dozens of times in the next 24 hours that the results do not translate directly to the general election, they are a really significant barometer.\n\nPay attention, therefore, to how the Conservative and Labour fight shapes up in areas like Nottinghamshire, or Derbyshire.\n\nBig Tory inroads will be a real worry for Labour as we hurtle towards the General Election.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSee results and latest news in your area\n\nThe loss of Glasgow council to the SNP and falling back in Wales too seem feasible - and would again add to Jeremy Corbyn's party's anxieties about June.\n\nThe elections will also be a test of whether the UKIP vote really does seem set to fade away now that we are heading for Brexit and, as it seems, Nigel Farage has taken his final bow.\n\nAnd the Lib Dems are crossing their fingers for signs of a comeback.\n\nTo get their activists gingered up for the General Election they need signs of decent gains around the country.\n\nThe elections of new metro mayors will also be big headlines - particularly in Birmingham where the two big parties are both desperate to win.\n\nIt will be a long, and complicated day, and don't forget the caveats with which these results need to be coupled.\n\nBut the most important test of all will be whether Labour loses or gains seats in England, in parts of the country where the General Election will really be decided.\n\nIf they lose seats in England, that is a depressing indicator for any political party that wants to be seen to be on track for government", "Cardiff council is another one to watch tonight. It's been controlled Labour since 2012, though the party's majority in the capital city has shrunk since then.\n\n“There was a Labour majority here five years ago – the group here has been somewhat fractious to say the least since then.\n\n“As with much of Wales, the twin questions are – how much ground are Labour losing and who are they losing it to?\n\n“Labour is being challenged by different parties – the Tories, Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru - in different parts of the city.\n\n“This council may show us how effective those parties are in challenging Labour.”", "Newcastle beat Worcester in overtime by two points on aggregate despite the biggest second-leg comeback in BBL play-off history, to reach the BBL play-off final.", "Sir Vince Cable: This is the beginning of the fightback\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable says his party can celebrate \"a great victory\" in Richmond, where they gained control of the council from the Conservatives. He told reporters: \"We are doing extremely well not just here but in northern cities like Hull, Sunderland and Liverpool. \"This is the beginning of the fightback, whether it's against Labour or Conservatives. \"We are reasserting ourselves as a major national force.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nItalian football's reputation around the world has been damaged by the Sulley Muntari affair, the Italian Football Federation's anti-racism advisor says.\n\nFiona May said the decision to uphold the Pescara midfielder's punishment for protesting against racism while taking no action against fans had \"sent a bad message\".\n\nShe added she would strike in protest if she were a player.\n\n\"I'm frustrated and shocked,\" May said.\n\nBBC football pundit Garth Crooks - a trustee of anti-discrimination organisation Kick It Out - has called for Italy's players to go on strike in protest at Muntari's treatment and the the lack of punishment for the fans responsible.\n\nAnd the British-born former Olympic athlete May, who was hired by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) in 2014, said: \"If it was me, I would do that, if I wasn't part of the Federation, to say 'wait a minute, what's going on here?'\n\n\"I would say all players should consider it, to show solidarity,\" she told the BBC World Service World Football show - though she stressed she was speaking hypothetically.\n\nMuntari was booked for complaining to the referee about abuse he received from some Cagliari fans and received a second yellow card for leaving the pitch without permission.\n\nA Serie A disciplinary committee upheld his punishment but said it could not punish the fans as only \"approximately 10\" were involved in the racist chants - not enough to trigger action under its own guidelines.\n\nMay said the panel was wrong to follow its guidelines so strictly in this case and asked: \"You can't put a number on how somebody can abuse a player on the pitch. How can somebody put a number on it?\n\n\"They shouldn't have said that. It doesn't matter if it is just was one person or 100 people in a stand, it doesn't matter, they shouldn't be doing racist chants full stop.\"\n\nShe was also critical of referee Daniele Minelli, and said he should have \"stopped the game and listened\".\n\nMay added: \"Football is a global sport and I said to the FIGC president 'this is not helping the image of Italian football whatsoever'.\n\n\"My mother in England phoned me up and said 'what's going on over there?'\"\n\nBologna and Ghana midfielder Godfred Donsah has said is \"100%\" willing to go on strike to show solidarity with ex-Portsmouth and Inter Milan man Muntari.\n\nMay admitted she did not think many would heed the call to strike but believes the outcry means there will \"most definitely be a change\".\n\nHowever, she added: \"This shows how racism is more profound than everybody thought, even though we have been doing a lot of educational work. It shows they have got a lot of work still to do.\"\n\nYou can listen to the full show by downloading the podcast here.", "UKIP has lost a swathe of council seats in England and Wales, leading to claims that the party is in crisis ahead of June's general election.\n\nIn total, UKIP lost 145 councillors and secured one seat.\n\nIt was wiped out in Lincolnshire, losing 13 seats, while all its nine representatives in Essex were defeated.\n\nIndependent MEP Steven Woolfe said UKIP's influence was now \"at an end\" but party leader Paul Nuttall said it was a \"victim of its own success\".\n\nMr Woolfe, who quit the party last year after an internal dispute, told BBC Radio 5 live that if the choice at next month's general election was between Conservative leader Theresa May and UKIP leader Paul Nuttall he would \"have to vote for Theresa May\".\n\nFormer MP Douglas Carswell and UKIP donor Arron Banks also cast doubt on the future of the party while elections expert John Curtice said UKIP, which won 3.8 million votes at the 2015 general election, had lost \"everything they've been trying to defend\".\n\nIt did win one seat from Labour on Lancashire County Council. Alan Hosker won in Padiham and Burnley West, a ward represented by the BNP between 2009 and 2013.\n\nUKIP's losses come just weeks before a general election in which the Conservatives are hoping to squeeze their vote.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nIn Lincolnshire, where Mr Nuttall is standing in the general election in Boston and Skegness, UKIP went from being the official opposition to having no seats at all as the Tories gained 23 seats.\n\nIt also lost eight seats in Hampshire, two seats on the Isle of Wight and eight in East Sussex. However, senior UKIP figures sought to put a brave face on the performance.\n\nThe \"people's army\" has deserted its leaders. After years building its strength in local government, UKIP seems to be collapsing as its former supporters abandon the party for the Conservatives.\n\nUKIP lost all its seats in Hampshire, Essex and Lincolnshire. The east coast county was once a purple bastion and is where Paul Nuttall will try and win a parliamentary seat. The party's failure there encapsulates its demise.\n\nWill UKIP do better at the general election? Possibly. But these results mirror its slide in recent opinion polls. It now has no MPs, and when Britain leaves the EU it will lose all its MEPs too. The future for UKIP looks bleak.\n\nAnd of course it's easy to see why. The party's core purpose was to campaign for Britain to leave the EU. Now Brexit is happening, UKIP voters are walking away.\n\nBut what is significant is how they are turning to the Tories in huge numbers.\n\nFor more than a decade the eurosceptic right of British politics has been fractured. David Cameron saw UKIP eating into the Tory vote and promised an EU referendum to try to halt the march.\n\nLabour too lost many of its traditional working-class supporters to UKIP. But by embracing Brexit and squaring up to Brussels, it's Theresa May's Conservative Party reaping the reward.\n\nMr Nuttall said it had been a \"difficult night\" but there was little the party could have done in the face of a \"big national swing\" to the Conservatives.\n\n\"Mrs May's public dispute with the EU in recent days - which led to her speaking about standing up to Brussels in an eve-of-poll statement in Downing Street - was particularly fortuitously timed for the Conservatives,\" he said.\n\n\"If the price of Britain leaving the EU is a Tory advance after taking up this patriotic cause, then it is a price UKIP is prepared to pay.\n\n\"We are the victims of our own success and now we pick ourselves up and go on to further success in the future.\"\n\nUKIP's local government spokesman Peter Reeve maintained the party was still \"leading the national agenda\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"We are never happy when we are not winning seats - and today hasn't been good on that front.\n\n\"The reality is... the Conservative Party have painted themselves in UKIP colours, flying a UKIP flag, and the danger is they won't fulfil the promises and pledges they have now made.\n\n\"UKIP will have a resurgence when Theresa May's promises start to unravel.\"\n\nConservative defence secretary Michael Fallon said his party appeared to be picking up votes from UKIP and other parties, but he cautioned that this did not mean this would be case on 8 June.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map", "Coverage: Live on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and the BBC Sport website\n\nIreland would welcome Eoin Morgan back \"with open arms\" should the England one-day international captain opt to play for his country of birth again.\n\nDublin-born Morgan, 30, began his international career with Ireland but made the England switch in 2009.\n\nHe will play his 136th ODI for England against Ireland in Bristol on Friday, before a repeat at Lord's on Sunday.\n\n\"He's probably our greatest ever cricketer, of course we'd welcome Eoin back,\" said Ireland batsman Ed Joyce.\n\nJoyce, 38, also opted to leave the Irish set-up to play for England in 2006 before returning in 2011. He does not think Morgan will ever follow suit but is hopeful Cricket Ireland can develop a team that will mean players do not have to switch allegiance in order to play \"elite-level cricket\".\n\nBefore England's opening fixture of what will be their longest ever home international summer, Morgan has also dismissed the chances of a return, calling questions on the matter \"very cheeky\", before responding that there was \"no chance\".\n\nMorgan, 30, has called on his England side to stay focused for the two Ireland fixtures, as they prepare for the Champions Trophy, which begins at The Oval on 1 June.\n\nEngland lost in the final of the 50-over competition to India in 2013 and Morgan believes the event holds \"huge potential\" this time around, with the home side made bookmakers' favourites.\n\n\"We've marked it as the halfway stage to the 2019 World Cup,\" said Morgan. \"We're not taking this game for granted. The strength of the side we're putting out reflects that, and it's a really important summer for us - so we're taking it as seriously as any other fixture.\"\n\nBen Stokes, Chris Woakes and Jos Buttler will miss the weekend warm-up games because of IPL commitments in India but will return for the tournament, where England meet Bangladesh, Australia and New Zealand in Group A.\n\nDurham pace bowler Mark Wood is likely to feature in Bristol as he looks to impress Morgan after having three ankle operations since last playing for England in September.\n\nEngland are scheduled to play 21 matches across all forms of the game by 29 September - in addition to the Champions Trophy, which features the top eight teams in the ICC's ODI rankings.\n\nIreland currently sit 12th in the rankings - seven places below England - and have lost their last two matches, to Afghanistan.\n\nJoyce says the game in Bristol is \"huge\" because Ireland have never played England in England before.\n\nHis side will also play New Zealand and Bangladesh twice each by 21 May and, across the six games, Joyce expects a return to the quality of play that almost saw his side qualify from their pool at the 2015 World Cup.\n\n\"It's no secret that England are huge favourites,\" said Joyce. \"We have had a tough 18 months, there's no getting away from that. The last World Cup we played well, but since then we have had a change to the team, three or four important guys have retired and it's hard to replace them straight away with a small talent pool.\"\n\nIreland have been boosted by the inclusion of Paul Stirling and Kevin O'Brien - the hero of Ireland's 2011 World Cup win over England - in the squad, as the pair continue to recover from finger and hamstring problems respectively.", "Last updated on .From the section Wales\n\nGeraint Thomas will venture into \"uncharted territory\" when he leads Team Sky in a Grand Tour for the first time at the Giro d'Italia.\n\nThomas will share the leadership with Mikel Landa, having previously played a supporting role for his team-mates.\n\nThe 100th edition of the Giro, one of cycling's three Grand Tours - alongside the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana - starts in Sardinia on Friday.\n\n\"It's one of the biggest challenges of my career,\" said Briton Thomas, 30.\n\n\"I've got a massive few weeks in front of me. I'm just looking forward to racing now. It feels like we've been talking about it forever.\n\n\"It's uncharted territory really. I've always been helping other guys so if I do blow up now it doesn't really matter. Hopefully it all goes well.\"\n\nThis year's Giro will comprise a gruelling, 21-stage route, starting in Alghero, Sardinia on Friday and ending in Milan on Sunday, 28 May.\n\nIt will be Welshman Thomas' third appearance at the Giro and his 11th Grand Tour start, though his previous outings have been as a support rider for the likes of British three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome.\n\nThomas has shone in his role as 'super domestique' in cycling's showpiece events, while he has impressed as a leader in other races, winning the Tour of the Alps in April and Paris-Nice last year.\n\n\"Preparations have gone really well. I've got three wins this year which is certainly nice,\" the Cardiff-born rider told BBC Wales Sport.\n\n\"Being a support rider and a leader are two totally different things. I'm just relishing that opportunity and trying to make the most of it.\n\n\"It's been a long build-up and something I've been thinking about for a long time, so it will be good to get racing.\"\n\nIf he is to claim the winner's Maglia Rosa (pink jersey) in Italy, Thomas must overcome some formidable competition.\n\nThe favourite is Nairo Quintana, who won convincingly when he last appeared at the Giro in 2014.\n\nA former Vuelta champion and runner-up at the Tour de France, the 27-year-old Colombian is a renowned climber who is expected to be well suited to a demanding Giro route.\n\nHowever, the Movistar rider might be mindful of over-exerting himself as he keeps one eye on preparations for the Tour, which starts in July.\n\nOther leading candidates include defending champion Vincenzo Nibali, one of only six cyclists to have won all three of the Grand Tours.\n\nThe 32-year-old Italian, nicknamed 'The Shark', won in dramatic circumstances last year as he capitalised on Dutchman Steven Kruijswijk's late crash to clinch his third Giro title.\n\n\"Nibali and Quintana have won this race before, they've got all that experience and, for sure, they're the favourites,\" said Thomas.\n\n\"Myself and Landa, we have a chance - but we're not at that level, I don't think.\"\n\nCycling teams tend to choose one rider to spearhead their Grand Tour campaigns, but Thomas will share his new role with Spaniard Landa.\n\nThe 27-year-old finished third at the Giro in 2015 while riding for Astana and Thomas believes their styles will be well suited to each other.\n\n\"He's obviously a great climber. He's been third in this race before, he's got the experience, he's a great athlete and he'll certainly give us another card to play,\" Thomas added.\n\n\"We can ride off each other. We get on well and I think it can work well. As we get into that last week there will certainly be gaps and one will be ahead of the other.\n\n\"Depending on how we're both feeling, I'd happily help him and vice versa. We'll see how it goes.\"\n\n'No point putting extra stress on it'\n\nThomas has endured a difficult build-up to the Giro, following the death of his aunt Christine after a battle with cancer last week.\n\nThe double Olympic team pursuit champion was also shocked by the death of Italian cyclist Michele Scarponi in April, after the 37-year-old was involved in a collision with a van during a training ride.\n\nScarponi, a former Giro champion, had finished fourth at the Tour of the Alps, which Thomas won earlier that month.\n\nAsked if his result at the Giro could define his career as a road cyclist, Thomas played down its significance given recent events.\n\n\"I don't think it would be a step backwards whatever happens. It's going to be a good challenge and, if it doesn't work out, then it doesn't work out,\" he said.\n\n\"What we've seen lately - what happened with Scarponi and I lost my auntie last week - it puts everything into perspective.\n\n\"It's a bike race, there's no point putting extra stress on it. At the end of the day, it's not the end of the world. It's just a great opportunity.\"", "On 4 May 2017 six regions of England held elections for newly created combined authority mayors.\n\nThe new mayors' remits will cover multiple local authorities, in mostly urban areas.\n\nTheir main responsibility will be to decide their region's economic strategy, and many will have powers covering other areas such as transport and housing. However, their exact powers will vary according to the terms of the agreements each region has made with the government.\n\nIn addition, Doncaster and North Tyneside councils are holding elections for directly-elected mayors. The mayors act as executive leaders of these local authorities.\n\nYou can check who is running for election in each area below. Candidates are listed alphabetically by surname.\n\nLocal authorities included in the mayoral region: Cambridge City Council, Cambridgeshire County Council, East Cambridge District Council, Fenland District Council, Huntingdonshire District Council, Peterborough City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council\n\nLocal authorities included in the mayoral region: Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan\n\nPaul Breen - Get the Coppers off the Jury\n\nLocal authorities included in the mayoral region: Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton, Knowsley, Wirral and Halton\n\nLocal authorities included in the mayoral region: Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-On-Tees.\n\nLocal authorities included in the mayoral region: Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull and Walsall\n\nDoncaster and North Tyneside councils are holding elections for directly-elected mayors. The mayors act as executive leaders of these local authorities.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Conservative mayor Tim Bowles speaks of his pride in being elected.\n\nConservative Tim Bowles has been elected as the first West of England combined authority mayor.\n\nMr Bowles beat Labour candidate Lesley Ann Mansell after second preference votes were counted.\n\nNeither candidate reached the required 50% threshold to secure an initial victory, leading to second choice votes being counted from eliminated candidates.\n\nTurnout was only 29.7%, with 199,519 voting out of a possible 671,280.\n\nMr Bowles secured a total of 70,300 votes following the second preference count, compared to Ms Mansell's 65,923.\n\nHe said: \"From a personal perspective, I am honoured to be elected the first West of England regional mayor.\n\n\"I really look forward to working on behalf of everybody in the region to make the improvements we have all recognised throughout all of the campaign ... and to make the real differences for everybody throughout the region.\"\n\nLabour candidate Lesley Ann Mansell said she helped to bring a message of hope to voters\n\nThe metro mayor role covers the Bristol, South Gloucestershire and Bath and North East Somerset council areas.\n\nThe £62,000 salaried post is part of government efforts to devolve more power to the regions over key issues such as planning and roads.\n\nAs part of the devolution deal, the West of England Combined Authority will be given £1bn over 30 years to help plan new homes, regional transport and business growth.\n\nMs Mansell said: \"We turned up the vote in the Labour constituencies and we have taken Labour's message of hope deep into Conservative constituencies and won 43,000 [first preference] votes.\n\n\"We've done that by talking to voters on the doorstep, addressing issues and pushing for a fairer and more just society.\"\n\nWhile councillors are elected by a simple majority, the combined authority mayors are being chosen under the supplementary voting system - giving people a first and second choice.\n\nIt means that if no candidate has won at least 50% of the vote, the top two candidates go to a second round with the second choice votes counted of everyone whose first choice was eliminated.", "Former UKIP member Kerry Smith retained his seat on Essex County Council as an Independent\n\nUKIP has been wiped off the county map in Essex with the loss of nine seats in Thursday's election.\n\nThe party was the biggest loser as the Conservatives took 56 of 75 seats to retain overall control - an increase of 14 compared to the last election in 2013.\n\nLabour lost three seats and the Liberal Democrats two, while Independent candidates gained two seats.\n\nUKIP's Mark Ellis said his party was \"not a spent force\".\n\nMr Ellis, who lost his Laindon Park and Fryerns seat, added: \"People are listening to Theresa May - and she is pretty UKIP in my opinion - and unfortunately people are thinking UKIP is a spent force, which we are not.\n\nThe Conservatives now hold 56 seats, the Liberal Democrats seven and Labour six. The Canvey Island Independent Party holds two seats, Independents two, Green one and Independent Loughton Residents one.\n\nMichael Garnett was one of the Conservatives to take a Labour seat in Harlow\n\nUKIP's Mark Ellis, who lost his Laindon Park and Fryerns said his party was \"not a spent force\".\n\nThe Conservatives took all four seats in Harlow, including two from Labour.\n\nLabour's Mike Danvers, who lost Harlow North to Tory Michael Garnett, was deputy leader of the Labour group on the county council.\n\nHe said he believed he lost because UKIP had not fielded a candidate in the division.\n\nHe said: \"UKIP people voted Tory. The Tory vote has zoomed up and overtaken me.\"\n\nDick Madden, a Conservative cabinet member on the county council who held his Moulsham seat, said: \"We did expect to make gains and we hoped we would be increasing our seats.\"\n\nMike Mackrory, leader of the Liberal Democrats on the county council, said: \"Our number one priority was holding the seats we already had.\n\n\"We have managed to do that and increased our majorities on some seats.\"\n\nThe Conservatives have just smashed the Essex county council elections. June's general election looks like a great chance for the Tories to take all 18 seats in Essex.\n\nUKIP came second four years ago now they don't have a single county councillor - their vote collapsed, including in Clacton, where the party won their only Westminster seat.\n\nLabour were wiped out in Harlow in Thursday's local elections and the town is one of their best chances of getting an MP.\n\nA Colchester comeback for the Lib Dems is possible, with former MP Sir Bob Russell standing, but they went backwards Thursday in their old backyard.\n\nThe first result in Essex came in shortly after midnight when Kerry Smith, who quit UKIP in 2014, won Basildon Westley Heights with a majority of more than 2,000.\n\nHe said the result was a reflection of his \"hard work\".\n\nJohn Jowers, the Conservative vice chairman of the county council who held his seat, said the council had \"lost some good guys\" with the UKIP seat losses.\n\nHe said: \"You really do need to work together and cooperate in local government - it is not like the green benches in parliament.\n\n\"It is often the case that when things get politicized, they go wrong.\"", "\"Age is nothing but a number,\" the saying goes, and Prince Philip has shown you can still carry on working into your 90s.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh has decided to stand down from public engagements at the age of 95, with the full support of the Queen.\n\nHe carried out 110 days of engagements in 2016, making him the fifth busiest member of the Royal Family - despite his age.\n\nHere other nonagenarians reveal why they are still working and whether they plan on reaching Prince Philip's milestone.\n\nElla Towell, 90, works two days a week at the Claire House Children's Hospice charity shop in Mold, north Wales.\n\nHer previous jobs included working in an engineering firm, a canteen and as a factory supervisor.\n\nElla Towell says it is not difficult to get up for work as she has never needed much sleep\n\n\"I decided to start volunteering because I had a look around the Claire House Children's Hospice and was impressed with the nursing staff and I thought, 'Gosh, I'd like to help.'\n\n\"I spoke to the manageress of the shop in Buckley and she said, 'Get here now and get your coat off.' I worked every day there for six years.\n\n\"My family started grumbling at me that I was always in the shop and wanted to take me out so I decided to retire at 86. I had only stopped two weeks when the area manageress asked me to do two days a week in the Mold shop so I did.\n\n\"I still want to do it because of when I went to the hospice. The nurses and volunteers there should have Victoria Crosses.\n\n\"It's not difficult getting up and getting into the shop. I'm downstairs before five o'clock in the morning. I don't go to bed early but I've never needed that much sleep.\n\n\"I'm still active. My usual routine is get up, first big mug of tea with a tablespoon of whisky in it. I've done it for years and I haven't got arthritis.\n\n\"I serve customers behind the counter and I'm on the till at the shop. People aren't surprised I'm working at 90, they know what I'm like.\n\n\"I don't have any plans to give it up for good. I still feel I'm able to help the community at large, especially places like Claire House.\n\n\"Children's welfare interests me. If someone comes into the shop with a kiddy in a pushchair, I'm there pulling faces.\n\n\"If I can carry on until 95 I will do. You can never predict what your health will be like, but I hope so.\"\n\nShe set up the shop with her late husband, Les, 36 years ago.\n\nIrene Astbury, with members of her family, works in a pet shop set up with her late husband\n\n\"We opened the shop on 9 March 1981 and took £9 that day. We thought, 'What have we let ourselves in for?' as it was slow to begin with.\n\n\"I've been coming to the shop for the last 36 years and don't know any different. It's not hard working 40 hours a week as it's what I know.\n\n\"People can't believe and are quite surprised when they hear I'm 90.\n\n\"I still serve a few customers and will answer the phone occasionally.\n\n\"I enjoy making everyone a cup of tea and toast at brew time and my three great-grandchildren, Evie (six), Isabelle (three) and Harry (one), come to the shop most days. I enjoy seeing them and playing 'shops' with the older two girls.\n\n\"I still enjoy working, even at my age. I enjoy meeting people and customers and talking to them as I'm interested in what they're all up to.\n\n\"I don't have any plans at all to retire. As long as my legs will still bring me to the shop I have no plans to stop working.\n\n\"My gran was 102 when she died so I have a long way to go yet.\n\n\"The secret to a long and active life is to keep going, enjoy it, along with good health.\n\n\"I can still see myself working up until the age of 95 just like Prince Philip did. Longer if I can.\"\n\nCliff Parker, 90, works for Focus Education, a company founded by his daughter, Linda, which provides educational support to primary schools and academies, in Saddleworth, Oldham.\n\nHe served in the army during the 1940s and went on to become a grocer, landlord and worked for Oldham Council.\n\nCliff Parker says he chooses to work because he does not want to sit at home and do nothing\n\n\"I choose to still work at the age 90 because it gives me something to get up for in the morning.\n\n\"I bind educational books in the mornings, and in the afternoon I deliver books and parcels to schools. I'm the errand boy in the afternoons.\n\n\"I like being busy and being around people, no-one can bind books as good as me.\n\n\"It's not difficult to get up for every morning for work. I am always up early.\n\n\"I could start later in a morning if I wanted to do, but I enjoy going to work and joining in with the staff and I love being with company.\n\n\"I don't want to retire, working is what keeps me going. I don't want to sit at home and do nothing.\n\n\"People can't believe I am still working at my age, they say it's brilliant.\n\n\"I love going to work every morning and it gives me a purpose in life.\n\n\"I can definitely see myself working until the age of 95. Unless I pop my clogs first.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland began their Champions Trophy preparations with an emphatic seven-wicket one-day win in their first home international match against Ireland.\n\nThe tourists fell apart after a good start, losing their last eight wickets for 45 as Adil Rashid's 5-27 helped dismiss them for 126.\n\nEngland's reply began badly as Jason Roy was caught without scoring.\n\nBut a typically brutal 55 from Alex Hales and an unbeaten 49 from Joe Root saw England home with 30 overs left.\n\nThe second and final ODI of the series is at Lord's on Sunday at 11:00 BST.\n\nEngland, who have never won a major 50-over competition, are likely to start June's Champions Trophy on home soil with the unfamiliar status of favourites following their rapid improvement in the format since the 2015 World Cup.\n\nMost of the praise for Eoin Morgan's side has focused on their brutal scoring, but it was their ruthlessness with the ball that brought them victory here.\n\nOn a benign track at a windy Bristol, it initially appeared to have been a good toss for Ireland to win, as the aggressive Paul Stirling and efficient Ed Joyce added a quick-fire 40 for the opening wicket.\n\nBut England, without IPL trio Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes and Jos Buttler, halted their progress with the dismissal of both openers in quick succession. Mark Wood, playing his first ODI since September after ankle surgery, bowled Stirling before David Willey trapped Joyce lbw.\n\nFrom that platform, the home side spun the game decisively in their favour, with Rashid the star turn.\n\nThat was his first five-for in ODIs and the second-best figures by an English spinner in the format, behind only the 5-20 taken by Vic Marks against New Zealand in Wellington in 1984.\n\nCombining superbly with fellow Yorkshire player and spinner Root (2-9), Rashid demonstrated control and variation to bamboozle Ireland, who lost their last eight wickets for just 45 runs.\n\nHow the last eight wickets fell\n• None 81-3 - Andrew Balbirnie is caught behind by Sam Billings off Jake Ball\n• None 90-4 - Out-of-nick Ireland captain William Porterfield's innings of 13 runs from 45 balls ends as he lofts a catch to Liam Plunkett at mid-off off Root\n• None 93-5 - Gary Wilson is trapped lbw by a sliding delivery to become Rashid's first victim\n• None 104-6 - Kevin O'Brien is also out lbw as he is undone by a Rashid googly\n• None 108-7 - Rashid makes it two wickets in the 27th over by bowling Stuart Thompson\n• None 109-8 - George Dockrell goes without scoring, lbw to Root\n• None 121-9 - Niall O'Brien makes it a hat-trick of lbws for Rashid\n• None 126-10 - Tim Murtagh - the only one of Ireland's last six to reach double figures - picks out Hales at long-on to give Rashid his five-for\n\nThe greatest moment in Ireland's cricket history came at the expense of England in the group stages at the 2011 World Cup, when Kevin O'Brien's heroics helped them knock off 327 with five balls to spare.\n\nOff the pitch, Irish cricket has improved significantly in the past six years - as they continue their pursuit of Test status - but on the pitch they remain reliant on the players who helped them achieve that victory in Bangalore.\n\nSeven of the team that played in that win - including the same top six - also featured at Bristol, serving as a reminder of how far they have to go before they can graduate from an associate nation.\n\nThey had their moments - most notably Stirling's early blitz and the bowling of Peter Chase, who took all three of the England wickets to fall.\n\nBut they were ultimately outclassed by an England side who are a very different animal to two years ago, let alone six.\n\nThe chase was a formality, taking on the feel of a practice match at times, with Hales nonchalantly striking 10 fours during an innings that was ended by a catch from Porterfield, and Root cruising during his unbeaten 49.\n\nMorgan will have been disappointed to score just 10 against his native country before he was caught by Kevin O'Brien, but will be pleased with his side's display.\n\nRashid on top of his game - what they said...\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan, speaking on Test Match Special: \"Putting in a clinical performance is as good as we can ask for as a side. It shows how ruthless we need to be going forward.\"\n\nAsked if Rashid's bowling was the best he has produced, Morgan said: \"Yes. He had a tough winter with some quality opposition and to come back from that to show calmness and composure, all credit to him.\"\n\nOn Mark Wood: \"Any first game back it's important to just get some overs under your belt. It's important to get some momentum building towards the Champions Trophy.\"\n\nIreland captain William Porterfield, speaking on Sky Sports: \"It wasn't the seamers that damaged us, it was the spin. We could have played that a lot better.\n\n\"When it comes to this stage, when games come thick and fast, it's more mentally that anything. You have to put yourself back on track mentally.\n\n\"Mark Wood is a quality bowler. From their point of view it's good to have those lads back fit.\n\n\"We've had a lot of support here today and there'll be that again at Lord's - we've got to put a performance in for them more than anything.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nMarcus Rashford's superb free-kick gave Manchester United control of their Europa League semi-final against Celta Vigo.\n\nThe 19-year-old striker's curling effort not only gave United the lead, but also a precious away goal going into next Thursday's second leg at Old Trafford.\n\nWith United outside the Premier League's top four - a point behind Manchester City and four off third-placed Liverpool - the Europa League perhaps represents their best opportunity of earning a place in next season's Champions League.\n\nThey looked to have spurned their best chances in northern Spain - three times they were denied in the first half by home goalkeeper Sergio Alvarez.\n\nAs Celta improved, United's wastefulness seemed increasingly important, only for Rashford to produce the sort of quality needed to beat the excellent Alvarez.\n\nReturning home with an advantage, Jose Mourinho's side will be strong favourites to progress to face Ajax or Lyon in Stockholm on 24 May in the final of a competition they have never won.\n• None Nevin: 'Man Utd much better than Celta Vigo' - listen to 5 live Football Daily\n\nRashford was one of the three United players thwarted by Alvarez in a first period the visitors had the better of.\n\nHis arcing strike was heading for the top corner before Alvarez leapt to his left, with the Spaniard also stopping a surging Henrikh Mkhitaryan and diving to push away a Jesse Lingard prod from eight yards out.\n\nWith United seeing less of the ball in the second period, Rashford - who scored the extra-time winner in the quarter-final against Anderlecht - stood over a free-kick to the right of the Celta penalty area.\n\nAfter Daley Blind's decoy run, the England international whipped the ball over the wall, past the outstretched left hand of Alvarez and just inside the far post.\n\nNo cause for Celta concern\n\nBy then, Celta could have been out of the tie, having been kept on level terms by the brilliance of their goalkeeper.\n\nIn their first European semi-final, the hosts did not look to be any better than their current domestic position - 11th in La Liga and on the back of three successive defeats. United should have every confidence of progressing from their first European semi in six years.\n\nCelta did have chances - both Daniel Wass and former Liverpool player Iago Aspas headed wide when they should have done better, while Pione Sisto's deflected shot forced Sergio Romero to save in the second half.\n\nBut United's front three of Rashford, Lingard and Mkhitaryan were more lively, while Paul Pogba and Marouane Fellaini dominated midfield.\n\nThis was United's 58th game of a season that promises six more matches if they make it to Stockholm.\n\nWhen Eric Bailly limped off in the draw against Swansea on Sunday, Mourinho's squad looked to be further stretched, especially at the back. Luke Shaw had already been injured in that game, while Chris Smalling, Phil Jones and Marcos Rojo were on the sidelines.\n\nHowever, Bailly was fit enough to start in Spain, alongside midfielder Pogba, who has recovered from a muscle strain.\n\nCentre-back Smalling, who had not played for United since 19 March because of a knee injury, was on the bench.\n\nStill, it was not all positive news for Mourinho. Ashley Young, himself a substitute, lasted only 11 minutes before suffering what appeared to a hamstring problem, paving the way for Smalling's return.\n\n'Let's hope Old Trafford wants us to win'\n\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho: \"I am very pleased with the performance but not with the result. At half-time we should have had three - or at least two goals.\n\n\"We played well enough to have the tie closed, but we have to go and play at Old Trafford.\n\n\"Rashford is a 19-year-old kid who is in love with football. He stays after training for half an hour to practise taking free-kicks and waits for the opportunity.\n\n\"We tried to win the match but we missed chances. We played well, we were compact against a team who are difficult to play against.\n\n\"Let's hope Old Trafford wants us to win because when Old Trafford wants it, we win.\"\n\nUnited's hectic schedule continues with a Premier League trip to Arsenal at 16:00 BST on Sunday, while Celta have a domestic date at Malaga on the same day.\n\nThe return leg is at Old Trafford next Thursday (20:05 BST kick-off).\n• None Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Substitution, Manchester United. Chris Smalling replaces Ashley Young because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Ashley Young (Manchester United) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from more than 40 yards on the left wing is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.\n• None Substitution, Manchester United. Anthony Martial replaces Marcus Rashford because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Moon Jae-in is the front-runner in the South Korean presidential election\n\nIn a room in the National Assembly in Seoul on Wednesday, a group of defectors from North Korea made an impassioned plea to voters: Don't elect the man who has led the opinion polls.\n\nThe fugitives from the North said the front-runner, Moon Jae-in, might put their lives at risk if he won the only true opinion poll - the actual election.\n\nThe defectors' argument was that Mr Moon was closely involved in a previous left-of-centre government in Seoul which had closer ties with Pyongyang under what was known as the Sunshine Policy.\n\nIn a joint statement, the defectors said they had \"escaped the slave-like life\" under the North Korean regime, and that the re-establishment of more contact with North Korea might mean a return of freer movement between the two halves of the peninsula - with dire consequences for them.\n\n\"If candidate Moon Jae-in is elected,\" their statement said, \"a team of North Korean assassins could frequently come to South Korea to kidnap or murder defectors. This poses a life-threatening risk to us.\"\n\nTheir fears show that the election on 9 May is about much more than the mundane matters of economic policy which often dominate elections in democratic countries.\n\nIn South Korea, elections are about bread and butter, but also about life and death, peace and war. There is a bigger, global picture with consequences far beyond the divided peninsula.\n\nFor many South Koreans, the economy remains the dominant issue but, outside the country, relations - or the lack of them - with Pyongyang dominate, particularly when the North Korean nuclear programme is advanced and there's a new brash president in the White House in Washington DC.\n\nNot that Mr Moon says he wants closer ties with Pyongyang.\n\nRather, he is emphasising close ties with Washington, saying recently: \"I believe President [Donald] Trump is more reasonable than he is generally perceived.\n\n\"President Trump uses strong rhetoric towards North Korea but, during the election campaign, he also said he could talk over a burger with Kim Jong-un. I am for that kind of pragmatic approach to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue.\"\n\nEarly voting for the election began this week\n\nA president Moon would be unlikely to open direct talks with Kim Jong-un, but he would want a strong and equal role in policy rather than letting Washington call the shots.\n\nHe is more likely to favour contact with North Korea rather than the severing of relations undertaken by the previous president of South Korea.\n\nHis predecessor Park Geun-hye, for example, closed an industrial complex just inside North Korea where South Korean firms employed workers from the North. A president Moon might re-open it.\n\nProfessor John Delury of the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University in Seoul told the BBC: \"We know pretty clearly what the presumed front-runner, Moon Jae-in, would do.\n\n\"He's supported by people who think the South has to go up there to Pyongyang and actively work on improving inter-Korean relations. If it's Moon who wins this election, South Korea really becomes a new player and could be much more forcefully a part of whatever problem or solution we see on North Korea.\"\n\nThe second in the race is harder to read.\n\nAhn Cheol-soo is the candidate from the People's Party\n\nAhn Cheol-soo is likely to be more conciliatory towards Pyongyang than the previous president, though he has been making tougher statements recently, perhaps to woo conservatives.\n\nEither would pose a dilemma for Washington, according to Prof Delury, because they both want to improve the relationship between Seoul and Pyongyang: \"And that, of course, flies completely in the face of what the United States is pushing right now which is more sanctions and more pressure and getting China to cut off North Korea.\n\n\"So potentially there's a train-wreck here where you've got the Trump administration saying 'pressure, pressure, pressure' on North Korea and suddenly you have a new South Korean president saying 'that's not going to solve the problem - we need to talk to those guys, we need to improve the relationship'.\"\n\nDespite that, neither candidate - and certainly not the main conservative candidate, Hong Joon-pyo - seems likely to tell the United States to pack up its anti-missile system and take it home.\n\nThaad, as the system is called, is newly installed on a golf course in the south of the country. Mr Moon has voiced his opposition but whether he would remove it as president is uncertain.\n\nThere is opposition to it, both from local people who feel they would be in the line of fire if North Korea attacked the system, and from people on the left who oppose the current hard line against Pyongyang.\n\nThere is a generational divide in South Korean politics. Younger people lack the memory of war - not surprisingly because fighting in the Korean War ended in 1953 - and they feel economic insecurity.\n\nLee Chae-rin, a student at Yonsei University, told the BBC: \"Even though foreigners always ask if we feel the threat of North Korea, the younger generation do not really that much compared with the older generation.\"\n\nFor them economic issues are strong. One of the classmates, Kim Tae-yeon, said: \"South Korea has become much richer today but the experience of insecurity is different from that of our grandparents.\n\n\"Before, it was a problem of whether they could eat, and that was solved by economic growth. But now we're in a state of economic stagnation and that makes us much more insecure.\n\n\"Our problem is not whether we can eat but whether we would lose our function in this society because we cannot find a job.\"\n\nThere is some anger, particularly when the country's former president and the head of Samsung are facing trial for alleged corruption.\n\nFormer president Park Geun-hye was impeached over a corruption scandal\n\nOne student, Song Seung-hyun, said: \"People just want someone who would kick over the table like Trump did in Washington. A lot of these politicians and business elites were in it for themselves.\n\n\"It comes down to the youth - our generation - want someone who would kick over the table.\"\n\nThat sentiment may or may not be prevalent in any generation. The winner of the election is not likely to \"kick over the table\".\n\nThey may well, though, want a thawing of relations with Pyongyang.", "Conservatives have made gains across England and Wales\n\nIt's early, early days. But so far there will be grimaces at Labour HQ, beaming smiles at the Tory's CCHQ, and a slightly frazzled atmosphere at Lib Dem homes this morning - and don't be surprised if you see Nigel Farage at his favourite boozer by lunchtime.\n\nThere are lots and lots of results still to come in.\n\nBut with a general election only a month away, this barometer of real votes looks grim for the Labour Party.\n\nSenior sources say that it is national share that will matter, and they want to compare it with the election in 2015.\n\nBut it is more accurate to look at the last time these seats were fought, which was in 2013.\n\nIn comparison with that, Labour is so far falling back badly, despite holding on in some parts of Wales.\n\nStephen Kinnock said the picture was 'disastrous' for Labour\n\nAnd we've just seen the first big blast at the Labour leadership from Stephen Kinnock, calling the picture \"disastrous\", and urging voters to do what I expect we'll hear other candidates do repeatedly in the next few weeks - making a pitch for a strong opposition, rather than Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister.\n\nThe victims in most pain so far from voters' decisions yesterday are UKIP.\n\nTheir vote has been collapsing, with, it seems, swathes switching straight over to the Tories.\n\nThat is a political trick that Theresa May wants to repeat around the country in a few weeks' time.\n\nA senior Labour figure has just described the party's local election results as \"catastrophic\".\n\nAs the counts continue, this set of results is proving to be very disappointing for Jeremy Corbyn's party.\n\nOfficially the party is of course not as admitting as much, with sources suggesting in fact the result are not as bad as they had expected.\n\nYet another senior Labour politician, not one of Corbyn's prominent critics says, this is the \"third time in a row we have gone backwards. There is no metric under which these results are not very bad.\"\n\nI can't say enough that we need to be cautious about translating the results directly across to the General Election next month.\n\nYet they are a useful barometer of real votes, that set a depressing backdrop for Labour's prospects in June.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSee results and latest news in your area", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho says he will rest players for Sunday's Premier League trip to Arsenal.\n\nUnited's 1-0 Europa League semi-final first-leg win at Celta Vigo on Thursday was their 10th game since 1 April.\n\nWith Mourinho's side lying fifth in the Premier League, the Europa League could represent their best chance of reaching next season's Champions League.\n\n\"The players that have accumulated lots of minutes are not going to play next weekend,\" said Mourinho.\n\nMarcus Rashford's free-kick gave United victory in Spain, along with an away goal to take back to Old Trafford for next Thursday's second leg.\n• None Nevin: 'Man Utd much better than Celta Vigo' - listen to 5 live Football Daily\n\nIf United reach the final in Stockholm on 24 May, it will be their 64th game of the season.\n\nTheir stretched squad received a boost in Spain, with defender Chris Smalling, who has been out since March with a knee injury, returning to the bench.\n\nDefender Eric Bailly (ankle) and midfielder Paul Pogba (muscle strain) were also fit enough to start.\n\nBut substitute Ashley Young lasted only 11 minutes before having to be replaced with what looked like a hamstring injury.\n\nRashford also had to be substituted, but Mourinho said that was a result of a problem he carried into the game.\n\nBy that time, the 19-year-old had made the telling contribution, curling a free-kick inside the far post from the right of the Celta penalty area.\n\n\"He works every day,\" said Mourinho of the England international. \"He loves it. Sometimes he stays behind after training to practise free-kicks.\n\n\"It was a great free-kick. The ball was moving really fast. The goalkeeper made a little movement but it was impossible to save.\"", "Live streaming is becoming big business, with millions of people around the world broadcasting the minutiae of their daily lives in real time to adoring fans - and making small fortunes in the process. But is it safe?\n\nSamantha Firth, a 21-year-old nanny living in Chicago, walks to the subway with her friend. So far, so ordinary.\n\nBut she is simultaneously broadcasting her 15-minute journey live via her mobile to thousands of avid followers.\n\n\"You guys are lit,\" she says excitedly as she looks at the stream of rolling messages and emojis that are popping up on her screen from her fans.\n\n\"I love you... you guys are the best,\" she exclaims, before heading onto the subway and zooming the camera in on a spot on her forehead.\n\nIt used to be that only film stars would be famous, but thanks to reality TV, YouTube and bloggers, anyone can have their \"fifteen minutes\" of fame, as Andy Warhol predicted.\n\nThe proliferation of live broadcasting tools, pioneered by Meerkat several years ago and followed by the likes of Periscope, Facebook, YouTube and others, has given many young people the chance to broadcast every aspect of their lives - whether they're brushing their hair in their bedroom or out dancing with friends.\n\nIn China alone, the entertainment live streaming market is valued at £5bn, according to Credit Suisse.\n\nAnd in the US, 63% of 18-34 year-olds are watching live content and 42% creating it, finds a study by UBS Evidence Lab.\n\nBut for many like Ms Firth, this isn't just narcissistic fun, it's a cash cow.\n\nShe joined Live.me - owned by China's Cheetah Mobile - eight months ago after moving from Sydney to Chicago. The live-in nanny has since become one of the most popular broadcasters on the site, amassing 350,000 fans.\n\nThese devotees bombard her with virtual gifts - animated stickers that can be converted into \"diamonds\" and then real money - helping her pull in about $21,000 (£16,300) a month.\n\n\"Coming from a different country it has been difficult to make friends, but this app has allowed me to connect with people who have the same interests,\" she says of her reasons for joining.\n\n\"I spend most of my free time broadcasting because it's where most of my friends are.\"\n\nShe is keen to portray a candid version of herself, pimples and all.\n\n\"I don't wear make-up, I wear sweatshirts and sweatpants,\" she says. \"Sometimes I cry when someone says something hurtful on a broadcast.\"\n\nLike Live.me, live streaming platform YouNow enables these citizen broadcasters to make money from fans sending them virtual gifts. Fans of some streaming sites can also subscribe monthly to their favourite live streamers.\n\nEmma McGann thinks her live broadcasts have helped boost her music career\n\nIt's been a real moneyspinner for the top broadcasters, who can earn up to $200,000 (£155,000) a year.\n\nSinger Emma McGann, 26, broadcasts live from her studio in Coventry, England, for three to six hours every day. She says her live streams attract about 5-10,000 unique views.\n\nYouNow not only provides her with a good salary - she earns £2,000-3,000 a month via the channel - but it has helped her gain exposure for her music.\n\n\"It enabled me to get a single in the iTunes chart,\" she says. \"It's also a great testing ground for new material.\"\n\n\"I like the live element. I like to interact with the audience and take song requests.\"\n\nFans can also speak to her over the internet.\n\nWhile many brands are already running their own live streaming sessions, We Are Social head of strategy Harvey Cossell believes there are opportunities for brands to capitalise on live streaming by co-creating with individuals who have already amassed a loyal audience.\n\nThe success of such collaborations in the social gaming world, on sites such as Twitch, are a case in point.\n\n\"They would need to identify those people that represent a similar set of values to the brand in question and then find creative ways to partner with them in the production of their content,\" he advises.\n\nThe challenge, he warns, is one of authenticity.\n\n\"It's always better for brands either to partner with the right person, or do nothing at all.\"\n\nSome researchers are forecasting that the live streaming business will be worth $70bn globally by 2021.\n\nBut for all its engagement value and monetisation potential, you only have to search online to see that live streaming has its dark side.\n\nEarlier this year, 12-year-old Katelyn Nicole Davis took her own life and broadcast it live on Live.me, while there have been many reports about paedophiles watching live streaming of child sex abuse.\n\n\"Live streaming apps and sites can expose young people to graphic and distressing content and can leave them vulnerable to bullying and online harassment,\" an NSPCC [National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children] spokesman tells the BBC.\n\n\"Worryingly, live chat can also be used by groomers to target young people who may be manipulated into sending sexual images and videos.\"\n\nKhudor Annous, head of marketing and partnerships at Live.me, says the company has a number of safeguards, including a facial recognition tool that can supposedly spot anyone who's under the age of 13 on the app.\n\n\"If they are in fact under the age of 13, then we ban the account,\" says Mr Annous.\n\n\"We have also provided users with reporting tools to report a channel if they identify a child in the app. We're typically able to evaluate reports within a couple of hours depending on daily volume.\"\n\nAs for grooming, he says: \"Every user has the ability to report any suspicious behaviour before, or any violations of our community guidelines. We also work with the FBI and local law enforcement agencies around the globe to ensure the safety of our community.\"\n\nBut there are also concerns that the broadcasters are themselves exploiting young people.\n\nClinical psychologist Linda Blair describes the rise of young people live streaming as \"very sad\".\n\nShe adds: \"It's an indication of loneliness. They might temporarily feel great but it's only a distraction.\"\n\nBut with millions of people already using live streaming platforms, including Facebook Live, we can expect the number of everyday broadcasters to continue growing.\n\n\"I see live streaming following a path similar to social networking, where at first it started as a place for people to connect with each other but eventually evolved into a powerful platform for advertising, marketing, and publishing,\" says Paul Verna, principal analyst at eMarketer.\n\nMr Cossell also believes that live video will expand into other formats.\n\n\"It will begin to harness emerging technologies such as 360-video and virtual reality more readily,\" he says.\n\n\"Live streaming is clearly here to stay.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nAdil Rashid showed he has learned from a \"tough\" winter by taking 5-27 to help England beat Ireland by seven wickets in Bristol, said captain Eoin Morgan.\n\nLeg-spinner Rashid, 29, struggled for consistency as England lost a Test series in India 4-0 late last year.\n\nHe was dropped after the first one-dayer against India but performed well in the West Indies series in March.\n\n\"He's a huge asset for us and hopefully he gets it right in the middle of the summer,\" said Morgan.\n\nRashid's figures on Friday were the second best by an English spinner in one-day internationals, behind the 5-20 taken by Vic Marks against New Zealand in Wellington in 1984.\n\n\"It was a tough time in the winter and he's clearly learned from it,\" Morgan told BBC Test Match Special. \"He's slowly building back enough confidence.\n\n\"Coming out with his career-best performance after having a very tough winter in India and starting to put something together in the West Indies - it shows the threat leg-spin has.\"\n\nEngland play the second and final one-dayer against Ireland at Lord's on Sunday (11:00 BST).\n\n'You have good days and bad days'\n\nIreland were 81-2 but lost eight wickets for 45 runs as they collapsed to 126 all out in 33 overs. Seven of those wickets fell to Rashid and part-time off-spinner Joe Root, who took 2-9.\n\nRashid finished with his first five-wicket haul in ODIs, with the Ireland batsmen struggling to read his variations.\n\nAsked how he rated the performance, Rashid said: \"It's probably up there.\n\n\"It's a great feeling getting a five-for in any conditions. I feel as though I am improving and hopefully I can carry it on.\n\n\"You have good days, you have bad days. It's how you deal with it. Sometimes you don't feel great but you have to find a Plan B, Plan C.\"\n\nAdil Rashid did the job any captain wants when you open the door into a side. Your leg-spinner comes on and kicks it wide open and that's exactly what he did.\n\nI think he's a very good one-day bowler with the white ball. He knows he can do it and he's confident.\n\nWith the red ball, I don't think he's got the confidence - he doesn't believe he's a Test match bowler. As a result, he bowls a lot more bad balls with the red ball.\"\n\nEngland have won six of the seven completed one-day matches against Ireland, and eight of their past nine at home.\n\nMorgan's side are scheduled to play 21 matches across all formats by 29 September, plus up to five matches in the Champions Trophy 50-over competition, which begins on 1 June.\n\n\"Putting in a clinical performance is as good as we can ask for as a side. It is how ruthless we need to be going forward,\" Morgan said.\n\nHaving almost qualified from their group at the 2015 World Cup, Ireland have struggled recently and are 12th in the one-day rankings, seven places behind England.\n\nThey suffered heavy ODI defeats against Pakistan last August, and to South Africa and Australia in September. In March, they lost T20 and ODI series against Afghanistan.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 live, Swann said Ireland \"fell to pieces\" as they lost a succession of wickets to \"abysmal shots\".\n\nIreland captain William Porterfield said: \"I think we started off pretty positively and wouldn't necessarily have envisaged that spin would do the damage.\n\n\"Not taking anything away from Rashid, we should have played it a lot better. That's something we need to mentally put right for Sunday.\"", "Celebrities including Guy Pearce, Missy Higgins and Troye Sivan were attached to the petition\n\nIt was a well-meaning campaign designed to address bullying of LGBT students in Australian schools.\n\nBut a day after its high-profile launch - backed by some celebrities - the petition was withdrawn following a swirl of controversy.\n\nOn Tuesday the open letter, organised by a Sydney man, called on Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to commit A$6m (£4m; $4.5m) to funding a new anti-bullying programme.\n\nWith a focus on LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] issues in schools and domestic violence, the programme would target \"all forms of bullying, including that which is based on religion, race, gender, faith, sexuality, disability, skin conditions, social standing or political persuasions\", the letter said.\n\nIt followed an intensely debated similar scheme, Safe Schools, which was launched in 2014 but was significantly curtailed and then dumped in one state after criticism from conservative politicians, lobby groups and sections of the media. The critics said it raised sexual issues that were inappropriate for teenagers and young children.\n\nLGBT anti-bullying programmes have been intensely debated in Australia\n\nTuesday's proposal was intended to \"de-politicise\" and remove \"controversy\" surrounding LGBT education in schools. Celebrities including actor Guy Pearce and singers Troye Sivan and Missy Higgins attached their names to the petition.\n\nIt even attracted qualified support from an unlikely source. The Australian Christian Lobby - a conservative group critical of Safe Schools - said it \"cautiously welcomed\" the new proposal.\n\nBut it attracted immediate criticism for urging \"tolerance\" - rather than \"acceptance\".\n\n\"Make no mistake of our request: we do not seek a program that seeks approval of the way certain members of our society live. We seek only mutual respect and tolerance,\" the petition said.\n\nCritics of the wording included LGBT advocates and, quickly, goodwill that might have flowed from passionate supporters of Safe Schools descended into anger.\n\n\"It sounds to me like I'm supposed to beg people to be tolerant of my child's existence,\" Leanne Donnelly, identified as a Sydney mother of a transgender teenager, told the Special Broadcasting Service.\n\n\"Equality and acceptance is the starting point, not downgrading to tolerance.\"\n\nSome celebrities attached to the letter said they had not seen the wording before it was published.\n\nPetition organiser Ben Grubb, a PR adviser, wrote a lengthy apology to the LGBT community following the backlash.\n\n\"Acceptance was removed during the drafting after confidentially consulting a Canberra decision-maker on what they believed the government would potentially back to fund such a program,\" he wrote, adding his involvement in the campaign was personal not professional.\n\n\"This is a decision I deeply regret and I am truly sorry for. I am sorry to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex community, many of whom have told me that by doing this represented the letter pandering to conservative views.\"\n\nHe said he would arrange for the petition to be taken down. It and an accompanying publicity video are no longer visible online.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nSouth Africa's Akani Simbine continued his impressive start to 2017 by beating Justin Gatlin and Andre de Grasse in the 100m at the Doha Diamond League.\n\nThe 23-year-old clocked his sixth sub-10 second time of the season as he came home in 9.99, ahead of Asafa Powell.\n\nGatlin was fourth in 10.14, behind Femi Ogunode (10.13) and ahead of De Grasse, who was fifth in 10.21.\n\nJamaica's Olympic champion Elaine Thompson beat the Netherlands' Dafne Schippers in the 200m.\n\nThe pair were separated by only a tenth of a second in last year's Olympic final, and Thompson triumphed in Doha by 0.26 seconds in a time of 22.19.\n\nBritain's Robbie Grabarz, who took silver in the European Indoors in March, claimed second place in the high jump, clearing 2.31m in his first outdoor event of the season.\n• Watch highlights of the Doha Diamond League on BBC One on Saturday at 13:45 BST (not in Northern Ireland).\n\nOlympic champion Caster Semenya claimed a commanding victory in the 800m, coming home in a world-leading time of one minute 56.61 seconds.\n\nBurundi's Francine Niyonsaba, who won silver behind the South African in Rio, was the only other woman to better that time in the whole of 2016.\n\nEthiopia's Genzebe Dibaba - who broke a 22-year-old 1500m world record in 2015 and won silver over the distance in Rio - was fifth in her first 800m outing.\n\nOlympic champion Thomas Rohler threw 93.90m to win the javelin competition by more than four metres.\n\nThe German's throw moves him to second in the all-time list, with only Czech great Jan Zelezny having thrown further.\n\nDesiree Henry was well short of the 22.69 she clocked earlier this year in California as the 21-year-old finished seventh in the 200m.\n\nHolly Bradshaw, who missed the indoor season with injury, finished fourth in the pole vault with a best of 4.55m.\n\nCindy Ofili finished down in seventh as American world record-holder Kendra Harrison won the 100m hurdles in 12.59, while Andrew Butchart came eighth in the 3,000m and Chris Baker finished seventh in the high jump.", "Brad Pitt has chosen the pages (and website) of a glossy magazine to give his first interview since splitting from Angelina Jolie amid accusations he'd hit their teenage son. It was a calculated attempt to rehabilitate his image - and it seems to have worked.\n\nIt's seven months since Brangelina broke apart against the backdrop of reports of a physical altercation between Brad and 15-year-old Maddox on a private plane.\n\nSocial workers and the FBI took no action against Pitt. There were also rumours of an affair with his co-star Marion Cotillard - which she denied.\n\nBut his reputation had been called into question and he has kept a low profile since.\n\nSo how does one of Hollywood's biggest stars begin to fix his image and move on? The answer seems to be - by doing an eight-day photoshoot mucking about in America's national parks and a long, confessional and philosophical interview with GQ Style.\n\nAs one of the most famous people on the planet, Pitt had to talk about his problems sooner or later, attempt to take control of the story and move on.\n\nAnd he's got a new film coming out - which gets several prominent mentions in the article. He needs to promote that by talking to the media, as he will need to do for future releases.\n\nHe can't dodge the subject of his divorce and personal problems. But he can choose which outlet he uses to speak about them, and what they say.\n\nIn giving his first post-split interview to GQ Style, he's chosen a publication that is glossy in both format and interview tone. GQ correspondent Michael Paterniti's questioning was gently probing but sympathetic. He didn't ask what went on in the plane.\n\nThe choice of GQ wasn't likely to put too many rival media noses out of joint, and was guaranteed to be picked up by virtually every news outlet around the world.\n\nAnd he will have had control over what went in the article, according to PR guru Mark Borkowski. \"Total copy approval, total picture approval, total headline approval,\" he says.\n\nPitt \"looks good and has admitted he's had a problem,\" Borkowski says. \"So it's very transparent and very honest. To be as upfront and direct as he's been, it is a remarkable moment in his career.\"\n\nIn the bits about his divorce, he is conciliatory and admits the chaos of the past half-year has been \"self-inflicted\", but he's putting \"family first\".\n\nHe \"refuses\" to get into a vicious court battle with Angelina and says they've got to handle the situation with \"great care and delicacy\" for the children.\n\nVerdict? He's the honest and sensitive guy we always knew he was.\n\nE! published an article headlined: Why Brad Pitt won the Jolie-Pitt war by throwing himself on his sword.\n\n\"This interview could have been a more obstinate denial of wrongdoing on Pitt's part,\" E!'s Natalie Finn wrote. \"Yet it was quite the opposite.\n\n\"Throwing caution to the wind - and simultaneously capitalizing on 30 years of good will built up in Hollywood - Brad went for it, translating what he's gleaned from his newfound love of therapy into a painfully self-aware, self-deprecating, oft-poetic and at times rambling discourse on a charmed life that veered off course and what he's doing to right the ship.\"\n\nIn Vanity Fair, Kenzie Bryant wrote: \"Pitt clearly studied the lay-it-all-bare, heart-on-my-sleeve, owning-my-flaws interview section of the post-celebrity-divorce playbook.\n\n\"Learning from his tumultuous year is a theme of the talk, especially regarding the divorce, which is still under way.\"\n\nBryant added: \"He comes across candid, remorseful, and keen to let the world know that he's doing a lot of work on himself.\"\n\nAnd in an article praising his \"openness and honesty\" about his alcohol problems on Huffington Post, Ryan Hampton of Facing Addiction wrote: \"Brad, I lift a cranberry-and-Perrier to you.\n\n\"People like you do so much to give a face to the addiction crisis that claims so many lives. Thank you for your honesty, your courage, and your willingness to open up about your recovery.\"\n\nNot everyone was totally convinced, though.\n\nMany celebrities would have tried to hide or snipe at their ex through the media, but Pitt is dealing with it \"in the most humane way possible\", Borkowski says.\n\n\"He was always going to be plagued with this story. So if you're going to talk about it, talk about it in full.\n\n\"But of course the timing is calculated, the language is calculated. Everything is calculated. And everything is a gamble.\n\n\"A lot of people prefer to stay below the waterline and not do it. He's taken a massive risk and I can think of many who just wouldn't go this far.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nTwelve-time Grand Slam winner Novak Djokovic has parted company with his entire coaching team, including Marian Vajda, who has been with him through almost all of his career.\n\nDjokovic believes this \"shock therapy\" will help him achieve better results.\n\nThe world number two says he will be on the tour alone until he finds the right person to take over as head coach.\n\nBoris Becker, a six-time Grand Slam winner, left in December after three years as the 29-year-old's coach.\n\nThe Serb next competes at the Madrid Open, with the men's first-round draw to take place on Friday.\n\nA statement on Djokovic's website said he and coach Vajda, fitness coach Gebhard Phil Gritsch and physiotherapist Miljan Amanovic had \"mutually agreed\" to \"end their successful and long-term partnership\".\n\nDjokovic said he would be \"forever grateful\" for their \"friendship, professionalism and commitment to my career goals\".\n\n\"Without their support I couldn't have achieved these professional heights, but we all felt that we need a change,\" he added.\n\n\"My career was always on the upward path and this time I'm experiencing how it is when the path takes you in a different direction.\n\n\"I want to find a way to come back to the top stronger and more resilient. I am a hunter and my biggest goal is to find the winning spark on the court again.\"\n\nDjokovic lost his world number one spot to Britain's Andy Murray in November last year, after 122 weeks at the top of the rankings.\n\nHe beat Murray in the final of January's Qatar Open, but was knocked out in round two of the Australian Open later that month by Denis Istomin, then the world number 117.\n\nIn his five events since he has failed to advance beyond the last eight, most recently losing to Belgium's David Goffin in the Monte Carlo Masters quarter-finals.\n\nThere was no great surprise when three very successful years with Boris Becker came to an end in December - head coaches tend to come and go - but this will have been a more agonising decision for the 12-time Grand Slam champion.\n\nMarian Vajda, in particular, is woven into the fabric of Djokovic's career - \"shock therapy\" is an excellent way to put it.\n\nVajda says he is \"convinced\" the world number two will remain at the top for many years. Becker said something similar late last year, and both may prove to be right.\n\nFor now, though, the sport is waiting to see whether Djokovic still has the hunger required after such a phenomenal and sustained spell of success.", "May to form government with DUP backing\n\nTheresa May says she will govern with her Democratic Unionist \"friends\" and \"get on\" with Brexit after losing her majority, but rivals say she has caused chaos.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nTwenty six jockeys have each been given a one-day ban after a false start delayed this year's Grand National.\n\nThe riders, including Derek Fox, who rode winner One For Arthur, accepted they did not properly follow the starter's instructions.\n\nThey will serve their suspension on various dates later in May.\n\nAintree stewards referred 31 of the 40 jockeys in the 8 April contest to the British Horseracing Authority (BHA), but five were cleared.\n\nA disciplinary panel ruling said: \"As the runners moved to the start, the starter asked them to take a turn in order for delayed runners to join the group. Although the jockeys did eventually take a turn, they did not do so immediately when requested.\"\n\nThe inquiry has been less controversial than three years ago, when jockeys initially refused to co-operate when a hearing was scheduled for later on Grand National day.\n\nOn that occasion, assistant starter Simon McNeill was knocked over by one of the runners as it approached the start line.\n\nHe was not badly hurt, and cautions were eventually issued to 39 jockeys at a rescheduled hearing.\n\nAfter Friday's hearing, a BHA spokesman said: \"Starting the Grand National presents a unique challenge for both starters and jockeys, as does holding an inquiry with a large number of jockeys immediately after the race.\n\n\"This is why the inquiry was held back until today and we are grateful for the co-operation of the jockeys in this process.\"\n\nThe Professional Jockeys' Association says it will continue to talk to the BHA about improving issues around the start of the National.", "The Conservative Party has made major gains in local elections across Britain, fuelled by a collapse in the UKIP vote and poor results for Labour.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nA total of 4,851 seats were up for grabs in 88 councils - all 32 in Scotland, 22 in Wales and 34 country councils and unitary authorities in England.\n\nThe Conservatives have made gains while Labour, UKIP, the Lib Dems and the SNP have all lost ground.\n\nLabour has lost more than 380 council seats, UKIP has suffered heavy losses and the Lib Dems have not made the gains they had hoped for.\n\nThe Conservatives appear to have been the main beneficiaries of a decline in support for UKIP.\n\nThe party is now in charge of 11 more councils having taken Derbyshire from Labour as well as Warwickshire, Lincolnshire, Gloucestershire, the Isle of Wight and Monmouthshire - all of which were previously under no overall control.\n\nThey also increased their total number of councillors in Scotland by more than 160.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nMeanwhile, it has been a much less successful day for Labour.\n\nThe party has lost control of seven councils, including Glasgow, as well as Bridgend and Blaenau Gwent. It also lost the metro mayor contests in the West Midlands and Tees Valley, a traditional Labour heartland, to the Conservatives - but former cabinet minister Andy Burnham scored a big win in Greater Manchester.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nThe Lib Dems have had a mixed performance, with some seats won and others lost.\n\nLib Dem former business secretary Vince Cable said the night had been \"neutral\" for his party.\n\n\"We're in a relatively encouraging position, though there hasn't been a spectacular breakthrough,\" he said.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nUKIP suffered a bad night - losing 145 seats. It ended this year's local elections with a single councillor in Lancashire.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nThe SNP comfortably finished as the largest party in the Scotland, but suffered modest losses, losing control of Dundee.\n\nConservative advances in Scotland came at the expense of Labour, with the party losing more than 130 councillors north of the border.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nMeanwhile, the Green Party has won 40 seats, gaining six in total.\n\nSee results and latest news in your area\n\nProduced by Ed Lowther, John Walton, Lucy Rodgers, Nassos Stylianou, Joe Reed, Gerry Fletcher and Prina Shah. Maps built with Carto.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nEx-Formula 1 world champion Mario Andretti says Fernando Alonso has a \"real chance\" of winning the Indy 500 on his debut.\n\nAlonso, 35, will miss this year's Monaco Grand Prix for the 500-mile race.\n\nThe two-time world champion said his first experience of Indianapolis was \"fun\" as he began testing on Wednesday.\n\nFormer IndyCar champion Andretti, 77, said: \"His chances are real of potentially winning this thing.\"\n• None Listen to more from Andretti on BBC Radio 5 live\n\nThe 1978 F1 world champion - father of ex-F1 and IndyCar driver Michael Andretti, who runs the team Alonso is driving for - said this is a \"golden opportunity\" for the Spaniard.\n\n\"He's at the top of his game and he doesn't have too much to lose in Formula 1,\" Andretti told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"He can give Monaco up and give this a good try and maybe come away with a very happy result.\"\n\nAlonso, who won the Monaco Grand Prix in 2006 and 2007, said he had long held an ambition to win the so-called 'triple crown' of Monaco, the Indy 500 and Le Mans.\n\nOnly one man has won all three in his career - the late Graham Hill in the 1960s.\n\nAlonso ended his test with a fastest lap of 222.548mph. Last year's pole position time for the Indy 500 was 230.760mph.\n\nAmerican Alexander Rossi won last year's event to become the first driver to win the race on his debut since 2001.\n\n\"Everything went like he [Alonso] has been there before [in testing]. He's probably come away very pleased with himself and the team are very pleased with him,\" added Andretti.\n\n\"I just feel very good for him, I'm very confident that it's going to be a great experience overall.\n\n\"He will have no problem and have some fun with it.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City have been banned from signing academy players for two years and fined £300,000 after breaching Premier League transfer rules.\n\nPart of the ban - from 30 June 2018 - will only come into effect if the club reoffends in the next three years.\n\nCity were found to have approached the family of two young players who were registered with other clubs.\n\nThe ban applies to 10 to 18-year-olds registered with a Premier League or EFL club in the previous 18 months.\n\nIt follows a similar sanction for Liverpool, who in April were punished over a separate illegal approach.\n\nLiverpool's punishment related to their approach to a 12-year-old academy player at Stoke City in September last year.\n\nIt was reported in April that the Premier League was examining three signings by Manchester City's academy, including an 11-year-old Everton midfielder and a 15-year-old from Wolverhampton Wanderers.\n\nIn each case, the academy player was conditionally registered with City while the Premier League's investigation was ongoing.\n\nAs a result of the club's breaches, the players' registrations will be terminated, with no compensation rights retained by the club.\n\nCity have declined to comment on the matter. It is understood they have promised to continue to pay the school fees of the children concerned throughout their education at comparable schools to the ones they would have gone to if they had stayed at the club.\n\nThey have also agreed to pay the relevant compensation for the players, which means they are free agents and can join any other club without it going to tribunal.\n\nToday's news is an embarrassment to Manchester City, who have prided themselves on doing the right thing throughout Sheikh Mansour's nine years as owner.\n\nThe £300,000 fine will not be too much of an inconvenience. The two-year ban on signing players who have been signed to a Premier League or EFL academy is more so, even if the punishment will only be in force for one year, with the remainder suspended.\n\nHowever, even that is only a minor issue for a club that has reached the FA Youth Cup final for the past three seasons.\n\nWhat it does say is the recruiting methods City have employed have not always been beyond reproach.\n\nFor a club who are intent on recruiting the best young players, in an area where there is intense competition from Manchester United, Liverpool and Everton, it is not the ideal negotiating tool.\n\nIt is understood City will not be appealing against this decision, which is essentially a case of the old-fashioned \"tapping up\" variety. The club approached the players concerned before they were supposed to.", "Britain is upgrading its armed police response to terror attacks, with £114m to fund an extra 1,000 armed police over five years. What capability does this buy, and how prepared is the UK for what is known as a marauding terrorist firearms attack?\n\nWind the clock back to November 2008 and the answer was - almost totally unprepared.\n\nOver a near two-day period, a 10-man cell of heavily-armed jihadists from Pakistan carried out a prolonged massacre in the heart of India's commercial capital, Mumbai, killing 164 people.\n\nAll over the world, police and counter-terrorism officials asked themselves the uncomfortable question: How would we cope if it happened here in our cities?\n\nIn Britain there was a realisation that the police would probably be so outgunned that they would likely have to call in military assistance.\n\nAt the very least, there would be an unacceptably long time gap between the first shots being fired by terrorists and the threat from them being eliminated, during which time large numbers of hostages could quite possibly have been killed.\n\nThe national security response was to massively \"up-gun\" the police response.\n\nNew, mobile armouries were introduced with modern high-powered weapons in the back, capable of bringing concentrated firepower onto a terrorist target.\n\nA series of realistic exercises were staged across the country, codenamed \"Wooden Pride\", involving police firearms officers, snipers, SAS operatives and even lawyers.\n\nParticipants were made to take part in mock law courts where they had to explain to a sceptical \"judge\" exactly why they had pulled the trigger at certain points during the exercise.\n\nPolice have been carrying out exercises to anticipate a wide variety of terror threats\n\nToday, while patently nowhere is entirely safe from terrorist attack, the precautions put in place have dramatically changed the security environment in London and other cities.\n\nAnyone watching the horrific events in Westminster on 22 March could not fail to notice the speed of the armed police response.\n\nWithin minutes of a car being deliberately driven into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, and the assailant then running into the Palace of Westminster, the whole area was sealed off by heavily armed specialist firearms officers (SFOs) from the Metropolitan Police's Specialist Firearms Command.\n\nThey were carrying a mixture of powerful, recently-acquired weapons comprising the Swiss-made Sig Sauer SG516 5.56mm Automatic Rifle, the MCX Carbine variant with its telescopic stock and red dot sight, and the Austrian-made Glock 17 Pistol, a lightweight 9mm 17-round handgun often seen strapped to the right-hand leg.\n\nAnother weapon in the SFO's armoury is the German-made Heckler & Koch G36 Carbine.\n\nAll of these weapons have been steadily replacing the older Heckler & Koch MP5 Carbines, a familiar sight at Heathrow Airport and often mistakenly called submachine guns, (they are configured to fire single shots, not bursts of automatic fire).\n\nPolice reacted within minutes to the Westminster terror attack\n\nThe rapid response on 22 March was hardly surprising given that this attack took place in the heart of Whitehall.\n\nBut throughout central London police Armed Response Vehicles (ARVs) are constantly patrolling, using BMW X5s with secured armouries in the back.\n\nIn theory, these ARVs should never be more than eight minutes away from the scene of an incident.\n\nSimilar arrangements exist in other major cities and regions across the country, such as the West Midlands.\n\nAn even more specialised armed police unit involves Counter Terrorism Specialist Firearms Officers (CTSFOs), who reportedly arrived on the scene of the 22 March Westminster attack within six minutes.\n\nOriginally formed for the London 2012 Olympics, they are recognisable by their grey uniforms, black Kevlar body armour, ballistic helmets, facemasks. goggles and Velcro patches bearing the CTSFO logo.\n\nThey are trained to tackle a wide spectrum of terrorist and hostage situations, including fast-roping down from Eurocopter EC-145 helicopters, and are equipped with a range of specialist equipment.\n\nThis includes pump-action shotguns, polycarbonate body shields, chainsaws, crowbars and motorbikes capable of speeds up to 140mph.\n\nThe \"physical\" response is only part of the picture in UK counter-terrorism activities\n\nBut all of this \"physical\" response is, of course, only part of the picture in counter-terrorism.\n\nA major component of stopping attacks takes place out of public sight, much of it in cyberspace, a war waged daily by analysts and codebreakers at GCHQ and MI5.\n\nTip-offs by the public have also been crucial.\n\nThis week the National Police Chiefs Council revealed that in the last two months the police had received more than 3,000 tip-offs by the public about possible terrorist attacks.\n\nForging that link between the police and communities has taken years of painstaking work in this country, with frequent setbacks, but in several other European countries it is almost non-existent.\n\nSo without timely and accurate intelligence no amount of state-of-the-art hardware will prevent the next attack.", "In the run-up to the General Election on 8 June, we’re asking people across the country to tell us what #GetsMyVote.\n\nEarlier today the Liberal Democrats said they wanted to introduce more family-friendly policies such as extended paternity leave. We asked people at Bristol Zoo what would influence their vote.\n\nJames, from South Gloucestershire, at the zoo with his son, said parties made lots of promises they couldn't keep.\n\n\"It's a bit of a gimmick in terms of if you look at countries like Sweden there's actually something meaningful about paternity leave,\" the 39-year-old said.\n\n\"In terms of the UK I can't see it's really going to swing it for many families, it's just not really applicable.\n\nQuote Message: It's more about tax credits, but again who's going to write these cheques later. It's all promises. It's more about tax credits, but again who's going to write these cheques later. It's all promises.", "Early results suggest a good night for the Tories but many votes are yet to be counted\n\nIf the final result to be declared in these local elections, much, much later today, is the summit of the electoral mountain, this morning we are barely above sea level.\n\nFlip flops on, we are still on the beach.\n\nBut for those of us up all night to witness the nocturnal arithmetic, clear trends began to emerge very quickly.\n\nLet's be more specific: Tories will rejoice on the basis of the results we have so far.\n\nThey suggest the national opinion polls, giving their party substantial leads, are an accurate reflection of the sentiment of voters, and so will hope the prime minister's decision to call a general election will be rewarded with a significantly bigger majority next month.\n\nFor Labour, the fears of those within the party who thought they would get a kicking are coming true, at least so far.\n\nIn February, she fought the Copeland parliamentary by-election in Cumbria for Labour.\n\nIt was an area that had returned a Labour MP for more than 80 years.\n\nGillian Troughton lost out to the Conservatives, twice.\n\nBut she lost, to the Conservatives.\n\nNow she's lost her seat on Cumbria County Council to the Tories as well.\n\nThe swing from Labour to the Conservatives, across the results we have so far, is substantial.\n\nThe party has been wiped out in Lincolnshire, the very spot where its leader Paul Nuttall will fight for a Westminster seat next month, in Boston and Skegness.\n\nWhat about the Liberal Democrats?\n\nThey can point to some high moments: their former MP Tessa Munt beating the Conservative leader of Somerset County Council, for instance.\n\nBut, for all their talk of a Lib Dem fight back, it is not amounting to much so far.\n\nThere are those key words again though - so far.\n\nThe night, and the day to follow it, is young.", "David Moyes says he will remain as Sunderland manager next season despite the club's relegation to the Championship.\n\nThe Black Cats have endured a poor season, winning just five times in the top flight and falling into the second tier with four games still remaining.\n\n\"I know what needs to be done to get back in the Premier League,\" he said.\n\nThe Scot also said striker Jermain Defoe, who has scored 14 goals this season, could leave the club.\n\nMoyes, who joined Sunderland on a four-year contract last summer, said: \"Jermain has a clause in his contract so it is possible [that he will leave in the summer], but goalkeeper Jordan Pickford is under contract.\"\n\nLast week, the Scot had said it was \"too soon\" to commit his future at the Stadium of Light, but the former Everton and Manchester United boss met chairman Ellis Short and chief executive Martin Bain this week.\n\nHe added: \"We had initial discussions about how we move forward. I wouldn't say it was an uplifting kind of meeting, but we will meet again in a few weeks. Ellis and the board want me to stay.\n\n\"We need to make sure we get a good bit of momentum heading into next season by winning a few games.\n\n\"Our performances have been good in recent weeks but the results haven't matched that.\n\n\"I will know more come the end of the season, once we see exactly what we are able to deal with, what we can work with, then we will know exactly what we can do,\"\n\nLast month, Moyes faced calls from supporters to quit, with chants of \"We want Moyesy out\" heard during their 1-0 defeat against Middlesbrough.\n\nHe is also in trouble with the Football Association, being charged for bringing the game into disrepute by telling BBC reporter Vicki Sparks she might \"get a slap\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The South Blyth seat was decided in an unusual way after two recounts failed to produce a winner\n\nThe battle for control of a council ended with the drawing of straws after a dead heat in the crucial final ward.\n\nAnd the Conservative Party was denied overall control of Northumberland County Council after losing the unusual decider to the Liberal Democrats.\n\nThe South Blyth ward result followed two recounts and left the Conservatives with 33 of the 67 seats available.\n\nLiberal Democrat candidate Lesley Rickerby described her defeat of Tory Daniel Carr as \"very traumatic\".\n\nThe Lib Dems won following the drawing of straws\n\nMs Rickerby said: \"It's unbelievable that, when you consider we have a democratic service, that we end up having to draw straws.\n\n\"I certainly would have preferred it to be a majority, but the way our system works, after a couple of recounts, we had no choice.\"\n\nIn addition to the 33 seats won by the Conservative party, Labour won 24, the Lib Dems three and Independents seven.\n\nMs Rickerby added: \"The returning officer decides if we would flip a coin or draw straws and he went with straws.\n\n\"I certainly don't want to do that again in a hurry - it really was the last straw.\"\n\nIn another result, Labour retained control of Durham County Council despite losing 20 seats.\n\nThe party won 94 seats in the 2013 election and that has now fallen to 74. Independent candidates have the second highest number of seats (28) followed by Liberal Democrats (14) and Conservatives (10).\n\nCouncil leader Simon Henig said he was \"very pleased\" to have retained a majority in a \"challenging\" election.\n\nIn North Tyneside, Labour's Norma Redfearn was re-elected as the area's directly-elected mayor with 56% of the vote.\n\nResults for seats on Durham County Council are due to be announced later.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTottenham's pursuit of Premier League leaders Chelsea was dealt a big blow as Manuel Lanzini's fierce finish earned victory for London rivals West Ham.\n\nSpurs could have narrowed the gap to a point with victory at London Stadium, but were well below par as the Hammers helped Chelsea close on the title.\n\nHammers keeper Adrian made first-half saves from Harry Kane and Eric Dier before Lanzini smashed in a loose ball.\n\nChelsea need two wins from their final four games to be crowned champions.\n\nTottenham must hope the Blues slip up in a favourable-looking run-in, which includes home games against three sides in the bottom seven.\n\nAntonio Conte's side will secure the title on Friday, 12 May if they beat both Middlesbrough and West Brom.\n\nThe Spurs players looked disconsolate as they trudged off the pitch, their heads bowed, while their West Ham counterparts - and the home fans - took great delight in harming their neighbours' title ambitions.\n\n\"It was already going to be hard, so now it is going to be even harder,\" said Dier.\n• None Reaction: Title race difficult but not over - Pochettino\n\nTottenham made the short trip to east London knowing they could heap pressure on Chelsea before their game against Middlesbrough on Monday.\n\nMauricio Pochettino's side were going for a 10th straight Premier League win, and headed into the game boosted by a 2-0 win against arch-rivals Arsenal last weekend.\n\nBut they lacked invention against a well-drilled West Ham side, who won against one of the top eight sides for the first time in 15 attempts this season.\n\nSpurs had scored 71 goals in their previous 34 league games, a tally bettered only by Chelsea, but only briefly tested Adrian with two quick-fire efforts in the first half.\n\nKane's long-range shot was diverted wide by the Spaniard's left boot, before the home keeper showed quick reactions to block Dier's near-post header from the resulting corner.\n\nOnce the Hammers went ahead through Lanzini, the confidence of the visitors appeared to sap.\n\nSpurs trailed 2-1 against the Hammers after 89 minutes at White Hart Lane earlier in the season, only to win 3-2. That never looked like happening at a raucous London Stadium.\n\nTheir attacks lacked conviction, only Christian Eriksen going close with a 25-yard effort which flew past the right-hand post, as West Ham saw out the final few minutes to seemingly ruin Spurs' quest for a first title since 1961.\n\n\"We are still fighting,\" said Pochettino. \"We must wait but it is now more difficult.\"\n\nHammers manager Slaven Bilic's future has come under scrutiny during a season in which they have rarely threatened to match last year's seventh-placed finish.\n\nBut nights like these, when West Ham showed they can compete with the Premier League's best, should go a long way to convincing owners David Sullivan and David Gold that he is the right man to take the club forward.\n\nBilic, 48, enjoyed an excellent debut campaign after replacing Sam Allardyce, but this season has had to carefully handle the acrimonious departure of star player Dimitri Payet, and the long-awaited move to the former Olympic Stadium.\n\nCrucially, he appears to retain the support of his players and many Hammers fans.\n\n\"He has my full backing, he is a great man,\" said skipper Mark Noble.\n\nVictory meant the Hammers passed the 40-point mark, mathematically ensuring their Premier League survival, as they moved into ninth - their joint-highest position of the campaign.\n\nAsked if the win helps secure his future, Bilic said: \"I don't care. When my team is playing like this, I'm happy.\n\n\"I think I'm doing a good job. I don't like to moan but we have had many obstacles during this season which are quite rare in football.\"\n\nTottenham do not play again until Sunday, 14 May, when they host Manchester United at 16:30 BST - and by then the title might already have gone to Stamford Bridge.\n\nNevertheless, it will be an emotional occasion as it is Spurs' final home game at White Hart Lane.\n\nWest Ham also have a nine-day break, returning to action when Liverpool visit London Stadium at 14:15.\n\n\"We deserved more from the game. We started well, dominated the first half and created chances but didn't score.\n\n\"We started the second half a little bit sloppy and we conceded a lot of space to them.\n\n\"When you are fighting for the title you need to try not to concede this type of goal.\n\n\"After that we showed a little bit of desperation to arrive quickly into the box, and we tried to play long balls.\n\n\"The reality is that we didn't score, not that we had a bad performance.\"\n\n\"We had a game plan, but the way we did it was magnificent. A great team display in terms of character and determination.\n\n\"To beat a team like Spurs you need more than that and we also showed quality.\n\n\"It was an important one for them and us, and under the lights on a Friday night, against them - you can't beat that feeling.\"\n• None Tottenham have lost their past three Premier League games in May and lost just three of 34 matches between August 2016 and April 2017\n• None West Ham have now won three of their past four home Premier League games against Spurs, losing one\n• None Lanzini has three Premier League goals against Spurs - only against Crystal Palace (four) does he have more\n• None West Ham have kept three consecutive Premier League clean sheets for the first time since December 2015\n• None Andre Ayew has been involved in six goals in his past 11 Premier League games (four goals, two assists)\n• None This was Spurs' first Premier League defeat to a side who started that day in the bottom of the half of the table since losing 5-1 to Newcastle United in the final match of last season\n• None Three of Spurs' past five away Premier League defeats have come when Anthony Taylor has refereed (also Newcastle and Liverpool)\n• None Attempt saved. Ashley Fletcher (West Ham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Robert Snodgrass.\n• None Kieran Trippier (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, West Ham United. Mark Noble tries a through ball, but Jonathan Calleri is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Mark Noble (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Manuel Lanzini. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Bank of England moved into caution mode today.\n\nAfter two major upgrades to its growth forecasts since the referendum - in November and February - today saw a slight downward revision.\n\nBut it is not time to race for the lifeboats.\n\nThe Bank said business investment was stronger than expected and that growth next year and in 2019 was likely to be slightly higher than previously forecast - although still significantly below 2%.\n\nA prediction, it said pointedly, \"conditioned on the assumptions that the adjustment to the United Kingdom's new relationship with the European Union is smooth\".\n\nFor this year there are some major negative trends.\n\nConsumers have started to feel the effects of inflation and there has been a \"slowing in real household spending growth\".\n\nWage growth is also \"notably weaker than expected\" and is set to be below inflation this year - meaning that real incomes are falling.\n\nThe incomes squeeze - felt so widely after the financial crisis - is back.\n\nBusinesses are still nervous about the future - and what they may invest in salaries - and there is enough slack in the labour market to make inflationary wage demands difficult.\n\nAt the same time, the Bank upgraded its inflation forecast, saying it could now hit 2.8% as the effects of the fall in the value of sterling wash through an economy that imports 40% of its food and fuel.\n\nBut the Bank's take on the temperature of the economy is more than a one year analysis.\n\nAnd over the three year forecast period, it is more bullish.\n\nSterling has strengthened this year after its precipitate fall following the Brexit vote.\n\nThe European - and indeed global - economy is stronger than expected, important for a trading nation like the UK.\n\nWage growth will strengthen, it says, as the employment market tightens.\n\nInflation risk will dissipate as the effects of sterling's decline falls out of the data.\n\nThis is a carefully worded Inflation Report, drafted, of course, in the middle of an election campaign.\n\nIt is cautious in the short term, with the Bank indicating privately that 2017, when it comes to that key issue of wage growth, could be \"the worst of it\".\n\nThere is a sting in the tail.\n\nEarlier this year the markets judged that the chances of an interest rate rise were so low there was only likely to be one increase over the next three years.\n\nToday the Bank was certainly more hawkish, saying that monetary policy \"could need to be tightened by a somewhat greater extent\" than markets believed.\n\nThat is not to say there is likely to be an interest rate hike any time soon.\n\nBut, if the Bank's more positive outlook towards the end of the three year forecast period comes to pass, the Monetary Policy Committee could move more rapidly towards interest rate rises than some expect.", "Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson had her hands full during a visit to the Shortbread House of Edinburgh's factory. Davidson told voters that the party's challenge is \"to bring the SNP down to size, to show they can't take Scotland for granted\".", "Recent al-Shabab suicide bombings in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, have targeted the UN, hotels and military leaders\n\nThis Thursday, the great and the good will descend on London to discuss Somalia, a country that has topped the Fragile States Index for eight of the past 10 years.\n\nThe London Somalia Conference, co-chaired by the UK, Somalia and the United Nations, will be held in Lancaster House, a grand mansion in the exclusive district of St James's. Many of the delegates will stay in swish hotels nearby.\n\nThis is the third such London gathering since 2012, and there is an element of \"cut and paste\" to its agenda, which focuses on security, governance and the economy.\n\nThe official conference document emphasises how much progress has been made.\n\nBut its description of Somalia from the time of the first meeting still applies: \"Chronically unstable and ungoverned\", and threatened by Islamist militants, piracy and famine.\n\nThere has been some improvement.\n\nPiracy, which at its height cost $7bn (£5.4bn) a year, is much diminished, although there has been a recent resurgence.\n\nUS drones, African Union troops, Western \"security advisers\" and Somali forces have pushed al-Shabab from most major towns, although the jihadists still control many areas and attack at will.\n\nA recent electoral process resulted in a new and - for the time being - popular president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, nicknamed Farmajo, and more female and youth representation in parliament.\n\nSomalia is in a \"pre-famine\" stage rather than the full-blown disaster of 2011, in which more than 250,000 people died.\n\nBut it is perhaps surprising that the current water shortage will not be a headline topic at the conference.\n\nThe country is in the grip of its worst drought in decades. Four successive rainy seasons have failed.\n\nEven before you enter Burao Regional Hospital, in the self-declared Republic of Somaliland's drought-stricken Togdheer region, you hear the haunting, high-pitched wailing of malnourished children.\n\nOne boy, dressed in purple, stares blankly at the wall. \"His brain is damaged due to a prolonged lack of adequate nutrition,\" says Dr Yusuf Ali, who returned home to Somalia from the UK two years ago. \"He will never recover.\"\n\nAccording to Unicef, the number of children who are or will be acutely malnourished in 2017 is up by 50% from the beginning of the year, to a total of 1.4 million, including 275,000 for whom the condition is or will be life-threatening.\n\nMost are too sick to go to school or help herd animals, making the life of the country's many nomads even more precarious.\n\nPeople are already dying from hunger and diseases that strike those weakened by lack of food.\n\nSeverely malnourished children are nine times more likely than healthy ones to die from illnesses such as measles and diarrhoea.\n\nThe World Health Organization says there were more than 25,000 cases of cholera in the first four months of 2017, with the number expected to more than double to 54,000 by June.\n\nMore than 500 people have already died from the disease.\n\nIt is not just humans who are suffering.\n\nIn Somaliland, officials say, 80% of livestock have died.\n\nLivestock is the mainstay of the economy - the ports in Somaliland and nearby Djibouti export more live animals than anywhere else in the world, mainly to the Gulf.\n\nTens of thousands people fleeing drought and al-Shabab live in tents on the outskirts of Baidoa\n\nIn south-western Somalia, tens of thousands of drought-affected people have fled to Baidoa, clustering into flimsy, makeshift shelters on the outskirts of the city.\n\nThis area - known as the \"triangle of death\" - was the epicentre of the famines of 2011 and 1991.\n\n\"Al-Shabab is harvesting the boys and men we left behind on our parched land, offering them a few dollars and a meal,\" says one woman. \"Against their will, our children and husbands have become the jihadists' new army.\"\n\n\"The biggest problem in dealing with this drought is insecurity,\" says Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden, president of South West State, in his modest palace in Baidoa.\n\nThe city, which is protected by a ring of Ethiopian troops, is right in the heart of al-Shabab country. \"The militants have closed all the roads so we cannot deliver help to those who need it most.\"\n\nThis brings home in the starkest of terms why security is top of the London Somalia Conference agenda.\n\nAs long as Somalia remains violent, with different parts of the country controlled by a multitude of often conflicting armed groups, it will be impossible to deliver emergency assistance, let alone long-term development.\n\nAl-Shabab, which has links to al-Qaeda, is believed to have between 7,000 and 9,000 fighters\n\nThe recently created South West State is one of the regions making up the new federal Somalia.\n\nCritics fear this will lead to balkanisation, and risks introducing another dimension to conflict, as the new states rub up against each other and start fighting. This has already happened in central Somalia, where last year there were deadly clashes between Puntland and Galmudug states.\n\nThe attitude of people in South West State shows how much of a gamble the federal system is.\n\n\"We have always been marginalised and looked down on by other Somalis,\" says a farmer, Fatima Issa.\n\n\"We do not want the federal troops here. They don't hunt down al-Shabab the way our local militias do. We should push for more autonomy, maybe even break away and declare independence like Somaliland did in 1991.\"\n\nOne aim of the London Somalia Conference is to push for more progress on the sharing of resources between the regions and the centre. This contentious issue has been debated since before the first London gathering in 2012.\n\nSouth West State has a special friendship with Ethiopia, which is not on the best of terms with the new federal government. This highlights another possible problem - some foreign powers have started to sign bilateral agreements with regional states.\n\nFor instance, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is building a military base in Somaliland, a territory the federal government considers an integral part of Somalia. The UAE has also given military hardware to Jubaland State in southern Somalia.\n\nSomalia's former special envoy to the US, Abukar Arman, has described the London Somalia Conference as a \"predatory carnival\", with foreign powers gathering to slice up Somalia for their own benefit.\n\nThe loss of two Black Hawk helicopters in Somalia in 1993 made the US wary of intervening in African crises\n\nSome in Somalia see it as a waste of time.\n\n\"It is an expensive talking-shop,\" says Ahmed Mohamed, a rickshaw driver in the capital Mogadishu. \"The politicians and diplomats are obsessed with the conference instead of taking action on the drought.\"\n\nBut lessons have been learned, and there is now a far more nuanced approach to Somalia than there was when the crisis began, in the late 1980s.\n\nThe US response to the Somali famine of 1991 was to send in nearly 30,000 troops. This ended in a humiliating withdrawal, following the shooting down of two US Black Hawk helicopters in 1993.\n\nNow, much of the talk is of \"Somali-owned\" processes, although the shadows of a growing number of foreign powers can be seen lurking in the background.", "Lord Bird says successive governments have failed to tackle the roots of poverty\n\n\"Poverty is stitched into the system,\" says Lord Bird, the outspoken and larger-than-life Big Issue founder and campaigner on homelessness.\n\nBut he has plans to unpick it - and says he has been in talks with Theresa May about a new approach to tackling poverty if she is re-elected as prime minister.\n\n\"I'm expectant. I have great expectations,\" he says of his discussions with Mrs May about a new focus on preventing poverty before it takes root.\n\nLord Bird says Theresa May is talking to him about his focus on poverty prevention\n\nThey might seem like an unlikely pairing - Mrs May, the clergyman's daughter and John Bird, who learned to read in prison, but he says she has engaged with his ideas on prevention.\n\nThe cross-bench peer is proposing a \"prevention department\" or a \"prevention unit\", working across health, education, social services, police and prisons.\n\nHe says successive prime ministers have been \"chummy\" with him about ideas to tackle poverty but Mrs May seemed particularly interested in this shift towards a systematic strategy of prevention.\n\nLord Bird says he wants a fence at the top of the cliff, rather than ambulances picking up pieces at the bottom.\n\nThe billions spent on the rats' nest of consequences of poverty - in educational underachievement, bad health, poor employment, drink and drug abuse and the criminal justice system - would be better targeted at prevention.\n\nAnd if Mrs May returns to Downing Street, he will be knocking on her door \"to put her money where her mouth is\".\n\nHe says he told her a couple of \"home truths\" - including that he was tired of being wheeled out by ministers who wanted to be associated with what the Big Issue has achieved for the homeless, while the big underlying problems remained unresolved.\n\nThe Big Issue, founded by Lord Bird, has helped homeless people to earn a living\n\nHe is scathing about decades of ministerial attempts to address poverty.\n\n\"Most of them are a bit like the alcoholic that won't admit that they're a drunk.\n\n\"They don't want to admit that they're overseeing a system which at the end of their time in office will still be a failure.\"\n\nHe accuses governments of coming up with gimmicky pilot projects that get a few headlines but never really scratch the surface.\n\n\"They show it to you and sign a piece of paper saying they want to end poverty. But they go on spending the money in the same old way.\"\n\nHe also argues strongly that poverty is not just about material deprivation - and that anti-poverty efforts need to be about raising aspirations and opening up opportunities.\n\n\"I know that the poor are materially better off than when I was a boy - but emotionally, psychologically and mentally, they're worse off.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn wants investment in education and a higher living wage\n\nHe says those at the bottom of the heap have been hurt by an economy dominated by a \"horrible mix of consumerism and the financial industry\".\n\nBut he says the first step has to be addressing basic need.\n\n\"If you can't feed, you can't think.\n\n\"You've got this underlying situation where many, many families in this country are just about holding on.\n\n\"What we have to realise is that the lack of material security undermines everything else.\n\n\"So when people chastise the poor for not getting off their rears, it's often because with that material lack of independence all the other lights go out, the whole tree goes out.\"\n\n\"My mum and dad had enormous poverty - they were never going to raise their eyes above material poverty, because they'd been destroyed.\"\n\nBut he is angry at what he sees as a lack of ambition in poverty initiatives.\n\n\"They don't look on the poor as the same species as themselves.\n\n\"I also want to address the paucity of education, the social engagement. And that's when you fall out with the great and the good.\"\n\nTim Farron says the Liberal Democrats would end spending cuts in schools\n\nHe says there has been a misplaced fear of being seen as \"elitist\" or \"paternalistic\" - and that tackling poverty should be about opening up the worlds of art, history, politics and economics.\n\nSchools should be teaching everyone about how financial markets operate, he says.\n\n\"Most capitalists don't even know how capitalism works these days,\" he says.\n\nHe accuses the social services system of being \"vapid and ineffective\".\n\n\"They're not stopping poverty. All they're doing is keeping the poor poor. Why is social security not called social opportunity?\"\n\nWhichever party wins the general election will face pressing questions about poverty, whether it's homelessness, food bank users or the out-of-sight struggles of those working but still not making ends meet.\n\nOfficial figures this year showed that two-thirds of children living in poverty were now in working families, the highest levels on record.\n\nLord Bird, who made the journey from sleeping rough and washing up in the kitchens at the House of Lords to sitting as a peer on the red benches, will keep rattling the windows of whoever gets elected.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nAccrington Stanley chairman Andy Holt has refused to back down despite what he considers a threat from the Premier League after his criticism of spending.\n\nHolt had said Football League clubs were like \"a starving peasant begging for scraps\" from the top flight.\n\nThe Premier League responded: \"We will be writing to Mr Holt to ask him if he wishes the Premier League to continue the support we currently provide for his and other clubs in the EFL.\"\n\nHolt said other chairmen supported him.\n\nOn Tuesday, Holt accused the Premier League of \"destroying\" the game and tweeted: \"Hang your heads in shame. @premierleague you're an absolute disgrace to English football.\"\n\nHe posted a series of messages on Twitter after the Daily Mail revealed reported figures of wages and agent fees paid by Manchester United.\n\nA book published in Germany this week - The Football Leaks: The Dirty Business of Football - includes what it says is a breakdown of the fee for Paul Pogba's move to United last summer, and alleges his agent Mino Raiola earned £41m from the deal.\n\nRaiola has declined to comment and said the matter was in the hands of his lawyers.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Sport on Wednesday, Holt said lower-league clubs needed more financial help.\n\n\"Football is in crisis. The lower league is really struggling, and I'm not the only chairman who feels like this,\" he said.\n\nHe accused the Premier League of \"losing all sense of scale\" in what he called a \"threatening, dark\" response to his original comments.\n\n\"What they're saying is not only are they not bothered about it, anybody who complains about it, we'll take your money away and shut you down,\" he said.\n\n\"Other EFL clubs share my views, not all of them. I'm not trying to lead a rabble, I'm expressing an opinion but I'm not alone.\"\n\nWhat does the Premier League provide?\n\nThe Premier League says it intends to write to Holt and \"to explain the many ways it has supported Accrington Stanley FC and all EFL clubs this season\".\n\nHolt said the club had an annual turnover of about £2.2m and any withdrawal of Premier League funding would threaten its future.\n\n\"They can do what they want,\" he added. \"It would be a quarter of our revenue, and it would close Accrington down.\n\n\"I can't do anything about it. I don't like the agent's fee, I don't like the largesse of the Premier League and I won't like it in five years' time and I won't like it in 10 years' time. My opinion's the same, whatever they do.\"\n\nThe Premier League has provided £200m in \"solidarity funding\" to EFL clubs this season. Additional parachute payments to relegated clubs take its contribution to more than £400m.\n\nIt is understood the Premier League made a £430,000 payment to Accrington this season, in addition to a £340,000 grant towards its youth development programme\n\nAccrington finished 13th in League Two this season with an average gate of 1,699 - the smallest in the Football League.\n\n\"I accept they do a bit for the community,\" said Holt. \"I don't really have a problem with the Premier League, I have a problem with it being unsustainable.\"\n\nHolt's views were supported by Darragh MacAnthony, chairman of League One side Peterborough United, who tweeted: \"Andy is 100% correct in his comments & 99% of Football League owners would agree I'd think.\"\n\nMacAnthony later told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire: \"Andy has gone to the extreme; I'm not disagreeing with what he's saying. He's a frustrated man. I wouldn't have said starving peasant, I would compare it to being like a family member.\n\n\"We're meant to all be part of one family, the Premier League and the Football League. It's a bit like the poor member of the family that every time they go for a handout they're made to feel guilty instead of being family where they help you out.\"\n\nThe Premier League has previously said it is the only top-flight league in world football which funds the fourth tier of its football pyramid.", "The New York Times called for the president to leave office immediately, describing it as \"the last great service\" he could perform for the country.\n\nThe Washington Post demanded impeachment, followed by a Senate trial. Time magazine, deeming it necessary to publish its first-ever editorial, thundered: \"The president should resign.\"\n\nOutside the White House, protesters waved placards at passing motorists: \"Honk for Impeachment.\" Even Washington's most influential columnist, Stewart Alsop, who was normally supportive of the president, called him an \"ass.\" The president had lost his moral authority, argued his critics, and with it, his ability to govern. The country faced a constitutional crisis. The republic was imperilled.\n\nSuch was the feverish reaction to the events of 20 October, 1973, a date remembered in the national memory as the \"Saturday Night Massacre\" - a pivotal moment in the unfolding Watergate controversy.\n\nWith scandal engulfing the White House, Richard Nixon decided to fire Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor appointed to investigate \"all offenses arising out of the 1972 election… involving the president, the White House staff or presidential appointments\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNixon's Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, and his Deputy Attorney General, William Ruckelshaus, resigned rather than carry out the president's order. Eventually, the Solicitor General Robert Bork, who was third in command at the justice department, was prepared to fire Cox.\n\nThe White House announced the news at 20:22 that Saturday evening.\n\nOn Wednesday, almost as quickly as the news that he had been sacked as head of the FBI reached James Comey in Los Angeles, these two dramatic episodes were being described as historically analogous.\n\nThe president had fired the lead figure in an investigation into alleged wrongdoing by members of his own team.\n\nRoger Stone, a Trump associate who also worked in 1972 for the notorious Committee to Re-elect the President, told the New York Times: \"Somewhere Dick Nixon is smiling.\"\n\nThe Nixon presidential library even trolled the White House on Twitter: \"FUN FACT: President Nixon never fired the Director of the FBI #FBIDirector #notNixonian.\"\n\nDemocrats insinuated that Comey was fired for similar reasons to Cox, because he was closing in on the truth.\n\nThere were other resemblances, too. In the lead-up to the Saturday Night Massacre, the Nixon White House was still reeling from the resignation of the president's chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, a central figure in the Watergate scandal, just as the Trump administration continues to be buffeted by the swirl of controversy surrounding the forced departure of Gen Michael Flynn, his former National Security Adviser.\n\nThere's the suspicion now, as there was four decades ago, that an embattled White House has something to hide.\n\nSo is this truly a re-run of the events of 1973? Is the past repeating itself?\n\nEven by the standards of the Nixon presidency, the autumn of 1973 was unusually chaotic.\n\nFlynn before his departure from the White House\n\nIt saw the resignation of Vice-President Spiro Agnew because of fraud, tax evasion, bribery and extortion allegations.\n\nThe Middle East was in the grip of the Yom Kippur war, a conflict between US-backed Israel and Arab forces armed by the Soviets that threatened to blow-up into a broader conflagration between Washington and Moscow.\n\nIn Washington, Nixon was fighting a pitched battle with Archibald Cox and the courts.\n\nCox, a Harvard professor who had been appointed as special prosecutor in May that year, had issued a subpoena ordering the White House to hand over nine tapes of phone calls and West Wing conversations in connection with the Watergate break-in. Nixon's legal team argued the principle of executive privilege should apply, and the tapes should remain private.\n\nOn 12 October, however, the Court of Appeals in Washington upheld a lower court's ruling granting Cox's request. Rather than comply, Nixon decided to fire the special prosecutor, something his Attorney General Elliot Richardson had promised Congress would never happen.\n\nA president stood in defiance of the courts, putting himself above the law of the land. It was a textbook constitutional crisis.\n\nDonald Trump's sacking of his FBI director, while highly unusual and deeply controversial, is constitutionally permissible. No court orders have been flouted. The president, while breaking with the norm of allowing FBI directors to serve out their 10-year terms unimpeded, is not putting himself above the law.\n\nTrump's motivations may also be different. Nixon sacked Cox through fear his criminality was about to exposed.\n\nWithin the FBI, agents believe that Trump sacked Comey primarily out of pique and spite because of his refusal to publicly exonerate Trump against allegations of collusion with the Kremlin, and also because Comey refused to back up Trump's unsubstantiated claims that Barack Obama ordered the wire-tapping of Trump Tower.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnlike the Saturday Night Massacre, the president is at one with the most high-ranking figures in the justice department rather than at odds with them. The president, the attorney general and the deputy attorney general together they made the case that Comey should go - not purportedly because of his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, but because of the former director's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.\n\nThe politics is also very different. Back in 1973, the Democrats controlled both the Senate and House of Representatives. That put the investigative machinery of Congress in their hands. Senate hearings were already under way, and the Saturday Night Massacre gave them fresh impetus.\n\nNixon also faced an acid shower of criticism from Republicans on Capitol Hill and around the country. \"Clearly we face a constitutional crisis,\" lamented the Republican governor of Michigan.\n\nLiterally Nixonian: Trump and Nixon Secretary of State Henry Kissinger talking in the Oval Office the day after Comey's firing\n\nThere have been Republican critics of Trump's decision to fire Comey. But so far they haven't been so vehement. Crucially, the Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell is resisting demands from the Democrats, and some in his own party, to back calls for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the 2016 election.\n\nPolitically, Donald Trump remains strong, because of the support of the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill and his grassroots supporters in the American heartland.\n\nNixon, by contrast, was politically weak. This became apparent only a few days later when the White House indicated it would hand over the tapes, which included a recording of the infamous conversation between the president and Haldeman, eighteen and half minutes of which were missing.\n\nNixon was also forced to appoint a new special prosecutor. And eventually, of course, the push for impeachment gathered unstoppable momentum, and he was forced to resign as president.\n\nIn 1973, Democrats were hollering impeachment. In 2017, the party's congressional leadership has not publicly uttered that explosive word.\n\nWhat may be similar between now and then is the intemperate mood of the president. As demonstrated by his Twitter tirades, Donald Trump is lashing out publicly against his critics, much as Nixon did privately in his final months in office.\n\nSenator Marco Rubio being interviewed by reporters about Comey firing\n\nPolitico is reporting that Trump shouted at the television over the Russian investigation, which again has echoes of Nixon's executive mansion tantrums.\n\nCuriously, both presidents also saw Florida as a bolt-hole from the pressures of Washington, Nixon opting for Key Biscayne, Trump regularly visiting Mar-a-Lago - although a key difference is that Nixon medicated himself with alcohol, while Trump is famously teetotal.\n\nBut the Saturday Night Massacre and the Tuesday Night 'You're fired\" are not directly comparable.\n\nThe sacking of Archibald Cox contributed heavily to Nixon's forced departure from the White House. It was widely seen as an impeachable offence.\n\nThe removal of James Comey, in and of itself, does not pose such an existential threat to the Trump administration.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Michael Fallon tells Today the 'defence budget will grow every year'\n\nThe Conservatives would increase defence spending by 0.5% more than inflation every year if they win the election, Theresa May has said.\n\nMrs May said her party would also continue to meet the pledge to spend at least 2% of national income on defence.\n\nBut ex-Joint Forces Command chief Sir Richard Barrons said Britain's armed forces were \"not good enough\" to deal with emerging risks and terror threats.\n\nAnd Labour accused the Conservatives of \"hypocrisy on defence\" spending.\n\nThe Conservatives' pledge came after Sir Richard and other senior military figures wrote an open letter to the prime minister calling for more funding for Britain's armed forces.\n\nThe signatories warned that the services were having to make \"damaging savings\" at a time when the likelihood of combat operations was increasing.\n\nAnd Sir Richard added: \"Our armed forces - and indeed, those of our Nato allies - are not big enough, resilient enough, good enough, don't have enough capability, to deal with the sorts of risks and threats that are emerging in the world as it's turning out today.\"\n\nConservative Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon replied to Sir Richard's complaint, telling BBC Radio 4's Today: \"I don't think you'll find a single former service chief who doesn't want more spent on defence.\n\n\"He's passionate about defence and so am I, which is why the defence budget is growing and that's why we're investing now.\"\n\nSir Michael said the government was investing in two new aircraft carriers, purchased eight F35 aircraft, had started building new frigates, armoured vehicles for the army and maritime patrol aircraft for the RAF.\n\nHe said the UK was one of only four countries in the world building aircraft carriers and was currently building two of them.\n\n\"The first Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier will be out on sea trials in a few weeks time - so we're adding to our defence - and we're adding to the equipment our armed forces need and the budget will increase every single year,\" he said.\n\nHe said Royal Navy destroyers and frigates were in the Gulf protecting the American aircraft carrier that is \"leading the fight against Daesh terrorism\". \"You certainly need aircraft carriers in an uncertain world,\" he said.\n\nHe also criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, saying: \"He's essentially a pacifist and would be a very dangerous leader, I think, of our country. If he was ever put in charge of our defences. If you've got armed forces, you've got to be prepared to use them.\"\n\nBut shadow defence secretary Nia Griffith said Labour was committed to the 2% target and added: \"The Tories' hypocrisy on defence knows no bounds. Their cuts have left our forces more under-resourced and underpaid than at any time in the modern era.\n\n\"The severe cuts imposed on the defence budget since 2010 have seen the Army shrink to 78,000, its smallest size since the Napoleonic Wars and far short of the last Tory manifesto pledge to keep it above 82,000.\"\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown, who is also a former Royal Marine, said: \"This Conservative government has slashed funding on defence, cut our Royal Marines and left our troops on the front line without basic equipment.\"", "Manchester United are within their rights to pay agents multi-million pound sums as part of transfers, FA chairman Greg Clarke has said - but the sport needs a debate about the issue.\n\nFifa boss Gianni Infantino has called for more transparency around transfers.\n\nWorld football's governing body is looking into Paul Pogba's world-record transfer from Juventus to Manchester United.\n\nIt follows claims that Pogba's agent will earn £41m from the deal.\n\n\"If that's what they're [Manchester United] going to pay, that's what they're going to pay,\" Clarke told BBC Sport.\n\n\"They are accountable to their owners; they're accountable to their fans.\n\n\"How much should we pay for players? How much should go to agents as a commercial transaction?\n\n\"If football wants to change that and limit the amount of money that agents get we're going to have to sit down as a game, led by the professional game, the Premier League and the EFL and the clubs and talk about that.\n\n\"I just think picking on one transfer and demonising it is not that helpful. Knee-jerk reactions don't often yield good outcomes. What we want is some thought about how much money stays in the game so it can be invested in long-term productive things.\"\n• None 5 live: Pat Nevin on the dark side of football agents\n\nThe money reportedly earnt by Pogba's agent this week prompted Accrington Stanley chairman Andy Holt to criticise Premier League clubs over the amount of money they spend, saying they were \"destroying the game\".\n\nIn an interview with BBC Sport, he added that their actions filter down to adversely affect clubs in the Football League, which he said was \"like a starving peasant begging for scraps\".\n\nThe Premier League responded to his comments, saying: \"We will be writing to Mr Holt to ask him if he wishes the Premier League to continue the support we currently provide for his and other clubs in the EFL.\"\n\n'Fifa has to look at transfer regulations'\n\nFifa has written to the Premier League club \"to seek clarification on the deal\" that took Pogba from Juventus to Manchester United in August 2016.\n\nIt is believed its inquiries centre on who was involved in the £89.3m transfer, and how much money was paid to them.\n\nA book published in Germany this week - The Football Leaks: The Dirty Business of Football - and reproduced in media reports includes what it claims is a breakdown of the Pogba fee and alleges his agent Mino Raiola earned £41m from the deal.\n\nWhen contacted by the BBC, Raiola declined to comment and said the matter was in the hands of his lawyers.\n\nAddressing the Fifa congress in Bahrain on Thursday, Infantino said: \"We have to look at transfer regulations, and everything that has to do with transfers, and increase transparency there as well - to discuss it with the players and with the clubs, to see how we can make all these transactions better.\n\n\"In the transfer window there is $3bn circulating around the world. It's a lot of money and we have to be transparent about these things.\"\n\n'If they know you're not corruptible, you'll never get a player from them again'\n\nFormer Scotland international Pat Nevin appeared on BBC Radio 5 live sport on Wednesday and related an experience of his own from the time he was Motherwell chief executive to highlight the difficulties clubs can face with player agents.\n\n\"I was in a situation when I was chief executive at Motherwell and an agent came in and he was trying to give us a player, I think it was from Nigeria,\" said Nevin.\n\n\"I gave him the figure of what we were willing to pay for him - x per week, say £1,000 - and he said 'yeah, that plus my money will be whatever'.\n\n\"I told him we wouldn't pay him that - his player can pay it him. He ended up saying that if we gave [the player] £500 and him £500 then it is the same, £1,000. And I was thinking 'I hope you're never my agent'.\n\n\"He was immediately happy trashing the player and I'm thinking 'you absolute slimeball'.\n\n\"They don't say it in so many words but they give you a wink, a nod and a smile and if they know immediately you are not corruptible in that situation, you never hear from them again and you'll never get a player from them again.\"\n\nOne area of concern about transfers is the concept of third-party ownership (TPO) - when investors effectively own a share of a player.\n\nIt has been alleged Fifa's interest in the Pogba transfer could be related to this issue - although that is vehemently denied by Raiola.\n\nFifa banned TPO in 2015, saying it had \"harmful effects\" on the sport, but some agents are thought to have found ways to bypass the regulations.\n\nThese include buying shares in a club, and then taking a cut of any transfer fee that is subsequently received by the club for their player.\n\nSam Allardyce lost his job as England manager last year when newspaper allegations surfaced which claimed he had offered advice on how to get around TPO rules.\n\nThe Football Leaks: The Dirty Business of Football has highlighted other transfer deals which it has been claimed indicate potential TPO.\n\nOne example is Roberto Firmino's move to Liverpool from Hoffenheim in 2015 which, it is alleged, saw the German club receive just £5.8m of a £29m transfer.", "I am something of an insomniac and I know that when I don't get at least seven hours' sleep I become tired and irritable.\n\nI've also noticed that a bad night's sleep affects my memory. The link between sleep and memory has been around for a long time and one plausible theory is that during deep sleep your brain moves short-term memories, collected that day, into long-term storage, freeing up space in your brain for more memories.\n\nSo if you don't get enough deep sleep those memories will be lost.\n\nWhether this theory is right or not, getting a good night's sleep (rather than staying up late and cramming) is particularly important for students who are currently revising for exams.\n\nBut what really surprised me, while making the Truth about Sleep for BBC One, was discovering how much a bad night's sleep can affect blood sugar control and hunger, even in healthy volunteers.\n\nTo find out more we asked Dr Eleanor Scott, who works at the University of Leeds, to help us.\n\nWe recruited a group of healthy volunteers and, under her supervision, fitted them with activity monitors and continuous glucose monitors, so we could see what was happening to their blood sugar levels, every five minutes or so.\n\nThen we asked our volunteers to sleep normally for two nights (so we had a baseline), have two nights where they went to bed three hours later than normal, followed by two nights where they could sleep as long as they liked.\n\nNaturally enough, being an avid self-experimenter, I joined in. Staying awake when you really don't want to, and everyone else in your house has gone to bed, was not enjoyable.\n\nI was also unpleasantly surprised by just how much my blood sugar levels rose on the days when I was sleep deprived, and how hungry that made me.\n\nThe same was true of my fellow volunteers. When we met to get our results from Dr Scott everyone complained about having the munchies.\n\nAs one volunteer put it, \"I wanted lots of biscuits and I didn't just have one. I'd go for 10. I wrote it down on my diary - 10 custard creams\"\n\n\"Is that unusual?\" I asked him.\n\n\"Well that certainly unusual for breakfast!\" he replied.\n\nAll of us, whether we had feasted on biscuits or managed to stick to our normal diet, saw marked increases in our blood sugar levels, to the point where some previously healthy individuals had levels you might expect to see in borderline type 2 diabetics. These problems resolved after a couple of good nights' sleep.\n\nAs Dr Scott pointed out, there is now a lot of evidence from big studies which suggests that people who sleep for less than seven hours a night are more likely to become obese and also develop type 2 diabetes.\n\nDr Scott said: \"We know that when you are sleep-deprived this alters your appetite hormones, making you more likely to feel hungry and less likely to feel full. We also know that when people are sleep-deprived they often crave sweet foods, which could explain the custard cream cravings.\n\n\"Also, if you're awake when you're not meant to be, you produce more of the stress hormone, cortisol, and that can influence your glucose level, as well, the next day\"\n\nA recent meta-analysis, carried out by researchers at King's College London, found that sleep-deprived people consume, on average, an extra 385 kcal per day, which over time could certainly add up.\n\nIt's not just that your blood sugar levels soar and your hunger hormones go into overdrive when you are sleep-restricted.\n\nResearchers have also found that areas of your brain associated with reward also become more active when you're tired. In other words you become more motivated to seek out food.\n\nGetting enough sleep is particularly important, not just for adults but also for children.\n\nIn another recent study researchers took a small group of pre-school children, aged three-to-four, all regular afternoon nappers, and not only deprived them of their afternoon nap but also kept them up for about two hours past their normal bedtime.\n\nThe following day the children ate 20% more calories than usual, particularly more sugar and carbohydrates. They were then allowed to sleep as much as they wanted. The following day they still consumed 14 per cent more calories than normal.\n\nAll of which points to the importance of getting a good night's sleep.\n\nA few weeks ago, we kicked off the BBC Sleep Challenge and 367 of you chose to test out options to help you sleep and report back.\n\nThis was not a proper scientific survey, because it was self-selecting, but it was revealing nonetheless.\n\nOf those taking the Sleep Challenge, the most common complaint was waking up in the night (half), followed by difficulty falling asleep in first place (a quarter).\n\nThe most popular option was the controlled breathing technique which 146 people tried.\n\nThe results were fairly evenly spread, with around 50 people choosing to cut out alcohol; do morning exercise; take a warm bath or avoid social media at least an hour before bedtime.\n\nThe least popular option was eating two kiwi fruit before bed, which only attracted 27 people.\n\nIt was also the option that people who did it found the least effective - only a third said it helped, some said it made their sleep worse!\n\nThe other options produced surprisingly similar results, with around half of each group saying they had got benefit from doing the technique they'd chosen, while half did not.\n\nIt appears the techniques with the most science behind them were the most effective, but clearly nothing works for everyone.\n\nSo shop around and see what works for you. I now do most of them (I enjoy kiwi, just not every evening, and I prefer an evening shower to a bath).\n\nI've also committed myself to eating more fibre, which was not on our original list because we thought the effect would be too slow to show up.\n\nI'm not entirely sure which is the 'best' but the combination has certainly helped me get a better night's sleep.\n\nTruth about Sleep, BBC One, 9pm Thursday 11 May\n• None BBC iWonder - Are you getting enough sleep?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nDefending champions Real Madrid held off a spirited Atletico Madrid to set up a meeting with Juventus in next month's Champions League final in Cardiff.\n\nAtletico, trailing 3-0 from the first leg, stormed into an early 2-0 lead on the night through Saul Niguez's header and Antoine Griezmann's cheeky penalty.\n\nBut Real grabbed a vital away goal when Isco poked in a rebound after Toni Kroos' fierce shot - following a brilliant run by Karim Benzema - was saved.\n\nIt checked Atletico's momentum and left them needing three more goals to reach a third Champions League final in four seasons.\n\nChances were scarcer for both teams after the break, although home substitute Kevin Gameiro missed two presentable chances to give Atletico a glimmer of hope.\n\nUltimately, the damage from the first leg was irreversible as Real beat their neighbours in the competition for the fourth successive season.\n\nZinedine Zidane's team, attempting to become the first team to win the Champions League twice in a row, will meet Juventus at the Principality Stadium on Saturday, 3 June.\n\nToo little, too late for Atletico\n\nMost people thought this tie was a foregone conclusion after Atletico were outclassed at the Bernabeu eight days ago.\n\nLos Rojiblancos, who managed just one shot on target in a limp away performance, had other ideas.\n\nKnowing they needed at least three goals to stand any chance of progressing, Diego Simeone's side tore out of the blocks in the opening 20 minutes.\n\nAtletico hassled and harried the visitors, creating gaps in a panicky away defence.\n\nReal keeper Keylor Navas had already saved from Koke inside the opening five minutes before the Atletico midfielder swung in a right-wing corner which Saul met at the near post to powerfully head in.\n\nThe visitors had not conceded twice inside the opening 20 minutes of a Champions League match since 2004 - but Griezmann ended that record after Fernando Torres was bundled over by Raphael Varane's clumsy tackle.\n\nGriezmann missed a penalty against Real in last year's Champions League final, as well as two more spot-kicks in La Liga this season, but his Paneka-style chip sneaked past the diving Navas.\n\nLa Liga leaders Real looked flustered as the noise was ramped up by the home supporters.\n\nHowever, they knew one away goal would completely change the complexion of a compelling match - and Isco's opportunist strike did exactly that.\n\nWhile the chances of Atletico thrashing their illustrious neighbours appeared slim, there was a recent precedent to which Simeone and his players looked for inspiration.\n\nSimeone's side, then the defending La Liga champions, inflicted Real's heaviest league defeat in over four years when they produced a scintillating 4-0 home win in February 2015.\n\nTheir fans hoped they could replicate that score and provide what they thought would be a fitting farewell to the Calderon as it hosted a Champions League game for the final time.\n\nAtletico moved into the bowl-like stadium in 1966, but will leave this summer for a state-of-the-art 76,000-seat stadium on the eastern outskirts of the Spanish capital.\n\nThe Calderon, famed for its atmosphere, was a cauldron of noise as the home supporters urged their team on.\n\nFor many years, the stadium hosted Atletico sides - including the one relegated in 2000 - who struggled to emerge from their shadows of their illustrious neighbours.\n\nSo, despite Atletico changing the dynamic in recent years under Simeone, it was perhaps quite apt their final meeting with Real there ended in pride but, ultimately, disappointment.\n\nEleven-time winners Real Madrid have been crowned European champions more than any other club, so it is perhaps not surprising it is they who are one match away from becoming the first team to retain the Champions League.\n\nReal's progress to their second successive final has been relatively smooth, though they did need two controversial goals to overcome quarter-final opponents Bayern Munich in extra time.\n\nThat victory was sealed by a hat-trick from Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, who then put Zidane's side on the verge of the final with another treble against Atletico.\n\nThe three-goal cushion gave a margin of error to Real and, after a wobbly opening 20 minutes, they regained control of the semi-final after Isco's strike.\n\nAnother giant of the European game stands in their way.\n\nItalian champions Juventus, who progressed with a 4-1 aggregate win over Monaco, are attempting to win their first Champions League title in 21 years.\n\nThe final will be a replay of the 1998 showpiece, when Real were crowned European champions for the seventh time - after a 32-year wait - thanks to Predrag Mijatovic's goal.\n\nAnd it means a reunion for Madrid manager Zidane, who played in that final for the Italian side, with his former club.\n\n\"It has been a very important club for me in my career and I keep it as a club that has given me everything. It is going to be something special,\" said the Frenchman, who played for Juve between 1996 and 2001.\n• None Read more: From despair to a 'masterclass' - how Juventus rose again\n• None Real Madrid have reached the European Cup/Champions League final for a record 15th time, ahead of AC Milan (11)\n• None Real have reached two successive finals for the first time since they won the trophy five times in a row between 1956 and 1960\n• None The Spanish club need just one more goal to become the first team to score 500 in the Champions League\n• None Real have won 11 of their 14 European Cup finals\n• None Juventus have won the trophy twice, losing a record six finals\n• None Both Real and Juventus join AC Milan on a record six final appearances in the Champions League\n• None Atletico became the first team to be eliminated by the same opponents four times in a row\n\n'Cardiff here we come!' - post-media reaction\n\n\"We are very happy, happy to reach the final again. It is all merited, especially for the players who have worked so far. It's deserved.\n\n\"We had difficulties at the beginning, we got two goals, but we did not have to worry. We knew we were going to have chances.\n\n\"We knew they would come out strong, with pressure. But after 25 minutes it changed completely. In the second part, we found our game.\"\n\nAtletico Madrid captain Gabi: \"The performance was the least we could do. I thought we were excellent in the first half. A moment of genius from Benzema took away from the dream but we never stopped fighting and I'm proud of everyone.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Yannick Carrasco (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt saved. Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Yannick Carrasco.\n• None Attempt blocked. Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez.\n• None Offside, Atlético de Madrid. Gabi tries a through ball, but Diego Godín is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Gabi (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Diego Godín.\n• None Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The leaked version of the Labour Party manifesto commits to \"take energy back into public ownership to deliver renewable energy, affordability for consumers, and democratic control\".\n\nPart of that would involve \"central government control of the natural monopolies of the transmission and distribution grids\".\n\nNatural monopolies are businesses where there are no benefits to be had from competition.\n\nThey are usually areas where there is a lot of initial spending on infrastructure needed, such as train tracks or water pipes.\n\nIt does not mean there can only be one business serving the whole country, but it makes no sense to have companies competing to provide such services to consumers in a particular area.\n\nIt would be inefficient, for example, to have two taps in your sink offering water from different providers or two sockets in your wall with electricity from competing energy companies.\n\nBeing a natural monopoly gives businesses enormous market power, which means that they must be regulated.\n\nWhether it is better to have such services provided by government or by private companies regulated by government is a matter of political opinion.\n\nNational Grid's main business is moving electricity and gas round the country. This is known as transmission. The very last leg of the journey into people's homes and businesses - known as distribution - is done by a number of different companies. National Grid does own a stake in Cadent Gas, a distribution firm, but most gas distribution and all electricity distribution is controlled by other firms.\n\nThe cost of transporting gas and electricity round the country accounts for 29% of the average dual-fuel (both gas and electricity) bill, according to Energy UK, up from 23% in 2010. But National Grid says its share of that - the transmission cost - is only 5% of the typical electricity bill, and 3% of a gas bill. The rest is distribution costs.\n\nOwning the transmission and distribution network would give the government considerably more control as it attempted to deliver promises in the leaked manifesto to deliver renewable energy and affordability for consumers, including keeping the average dual fuel bill below £1,000 a year.\n\nThe leaked manifesto also pledges to ban fracking (the use of high pressure liquids to extract gas from rocks) and use carbon capture (stopping carbon dioxide from escaping with other waste gases) as it moves to cleaner fuels.\n\nControl over the network might help with this, but the government via its regulator and planning decisions already has a big say over the future energy mix.\n\nJust nationalising National Grid (which is worth about £38bn on the stock market at the moment) would not achieve what Labour is promising - it would give the government the company that owns the UK's electricity and gas transmission (it might also leave the government owning National Grid's energy business in the US).\n\nThe distribution part of the equation is a slew of other companies - for gas alone it would be SGN, Northern Gas Networks, Wales and West Utilities, as well as Cadent Gas.\n\nBut the leaked manifesto calls for control of these companies, which could possibly be achieved by buying stakes in these businesses rather than nationalising them.\n\nBBC business editor Simon Jack says National Grid's UK business is estimated to be worth about £25bn.\n\n\"A chunky purchase but one that could quite easily financed in that it makes enough money to repay the interest on any money borrowed to buy it.\"\n\nIt's been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 1995.\n\nIts shareholders, including 880,000 small shareholders, would be very upset if they didn't get a good price from the government for their shares.\n\nThere are not many precedents for nationalisation of profitable companies in the UK - companies are usually nationalised when they are in financial difficulties - so it is not clear at this stage what the process would be.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nWorld number one Andy Murray was knocked out of the Madrid Open as he lost in straight sets to Croat Borna Coric in the last 16.\n\nCoric, 59th in the world rankings having secured his first ATP Tour title in Morocco last month, won 6-3 6-3.\n\nThe 20-year-old broke his British opponent three times in the opening set, and a further break in the second was enough to secure victory.\n\nCoric will face 23-year-old Austrian Dominic Thiem in the quarter-finals.\n\nMurray, 29, looked frustrated as his testing clay-court season continued in the build-up to the French Open, which begins on 28 May.\n\nThe Scot lost in the last 16 of the Monte Carlo Masters on his return from an elbow injury last month, and was then beaten by Thiem in the semi-finals of the Barcelona Open.\n\n\"There were a lot of things that weren't particularly good,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I made a lot of unforced errors and I also didn't find any way to make it a more competitive match, so that's the most disappointing thing.\n\n\"Things can change fast but you need to find exactly what it is that is going wrong and how you're going to fix that and commit to it. And if I do that, I'm sure I can turn it round.\"\n\nCoric lost in the second round of qualifying to Mikhail Kukushkin and only gained a place at the tournament as a 'lucky loser' because of an injury to Richard Gasquet.\n\nThis was his second victory over Murray, having also beaten him at the Dubai Championships in 2015.\n\nIn a scrappy opening set, Coric broke to lead 3-2 but a couple of forehand errors allowed Murray to break straight back.\n\nMurray, twice a winner in Madrid, then lost his serve once more, Coric comfortably held and Murray was unable to hold his serve to stay in the set.\n\nHis frustration boiled over in the eighth game of the second set as Coric won a long rally to break, before serving out the match.\n\nMurray will next play in Rome, where he is the defending champion.\n\nThis result will come as a shock to Murray's system.\n\nHe had seemingly been growing in confidence, and rediscovering his rhythm little by little as he made his way from Monte Carlo to Barcelona, but now has just one week in Rome to find the form and belief which would make him a genuine contender for the French Open.\n\nHis first serve, which has been hindered by an elbow injury, was not to blame against Coric, who played aggressively and fluently and took full advantage of Murray's error-strewn performance.\n\nWorld number two Novak Djokovic reached the quarter-finals with a 6-4 7-5 defeat of Feliciano Lopez.\n\nDefending champion Djokovic, who recently split with his coaching staff, had few problems against the 35-year-old Spaniard.\n\nRafael Nadal is also through to the last eight after extending his perfect record on clay this season to 12 matches without defeat with a 6-3 6-1 destruction of Nick Kyrgios.\n\nBelgium's David Goffin secured his spot with victory over Milos Raonic 6-4 6-2, while Kei Nishikori saw off David Ferrer 6-4 6-3.\n\nIn the women's draw, Canadian Eugenie Bouchard's fine run came to an end with a 6-4 6-0 defeat by Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova.\n\nBouchard had beaten Maria Sharapova and Angelique Kebver in previous rounds, but was outplayed by eighth seed Kuznetsova.\n\nFrench 14th seed Kristina Mladenovic beat Romanian Sorana Cirstea 6-4 6-4 to set up a semi-final against Kuznetsova, while Romania's third seed Simona Halep thrashed Coco Vandeweghe 6-1 6-1 and will face unseeded Latvian Anastasija Sevastova.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal kept alive their hopes of a top-four Premier League finish as second-half goals from Alexis Sanchez and Olivier Giroud earned victory at Southampton.\n\nAfter a dull first half, Sanchez produced a moment of magic to open the scoring when the Chilean wrong-footed two defenders in the box before calmly slotting home.\n\nSubstitute Giroud then made the win safe by nodding in from close range minutes after coming onto the pitch.\n\nMid-table Southampton rarely threatened. Their best chance came in the first half when Manolo Gabbiadini forced a fine save out of Petr Cech from close range, and they stay 10th.\n\nThe win means Arsenal move above Manchester United into fifth, three points behind fourth-placed Manchester City.\n\nAn awful run of form from January until early April had seriously threatened to end Arsene Wenger's record of securing a top four finish in every season he has had at Arsenal.\n\nHowever, four wins in their six games prior to the trip to St Mary's had given hope that the season would not peter out.\n\nIn what was a must-win game, Arsenal's players initially failed to rise to the challenge.\n\nThey were ponderous in possession and lacked bite in attack. Too often they played passes square just inside the Southampton half before gifting possession back to the hosts when they approached the final third.\n\nBut in Sanchez they possess a player capable of producing something from nothing and that is exactly what he did midway through the second half.\n\nHis goal, which came after he sold two Southampton players a dummy to give himself a clear shot on goal, visibly relaxed Arsenal and from then on they played with confidence and freedom, allowing them to open up the hosts for a second time when Giroud headed in Aaron Ramsey's cross.\n\nThe only negative for Arsenal was the loss of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain to injury in the second half, although Wenger suggested it was not serious.\n\nSanchez has now scored 20 goals this season, making him only the fifth Arsenal player to reach that mark, after Ian Wright, Thierry Henry, Emmanuel Adebayor and Robin van Persie.\n\nIt was also his 14th away from home - more than another Premier League player has managed this campaign.\n\nVictory not only moves Arsenal, who face Chelsea in the FA Cup final later this month, to within one win of Manchester City, but also four points behind Liverpool, who have played a game more.\n\nIn a season that has seen protests against Wenger and some fans calling for the Frenchman to leave, the possibility they could finish with FA Cup success and a place in the top four is a very real one.\n\nSouthampton boss Claude Puel's long-term future is reportedly uncertain, with the Frenchman yet to show signs of taking the club forward since replacing Ronald Koeman last summer.\n\nSaints did reach the final of the League Cup but have been firmly ensconced in mid-table in the Premier League this season, a disappointment having finished sixth last year.\n\nThe Gunners brushed aside Southampton 5-0 in the FA Cup in January and the hosts never looked like gaining revenge in this fixture.\n\nOnce again, Southampton were weak in attack. They had two shots on target in this game and have now managed just 12 shots on target across their last six Premier League games.\n\nWith Saints struggling for goals and key players like defender Virgil van Dijk said to be attracting interest from other clubs, Puel - if he is still at the club - faces a challenging summer of improving the squad to get them moving in the right direction once again.\n\nWe stuck together - what they said\n\nSouthampton manager Claude Puel speaking to Match of the Day: \"It's often the same against the big six. We cannot find a win. Every time we play good quality football with chances but without the clinical edge and it's harsh on the players.\n\n\"For me, we deserved at minimum a draw and maybe a win. For them, in one situation, they scored. It's difficult to accept.\"\n\nArsenal boss Arsene Wenger said: \"We were focused and I felt that when we suffered we stuck together.\n\n\"We have another clean sheet and I know we can go forward and score goals. The whole team was dynamic, focused and showed a convincing desire to win the game.\"\n• None Arsenal ended a run of five winless Premier League games at St Mary's, claiming their first win there since December 2003.\n• None This is Sanchez's best ever league goal return in the top five European leagues, beating his previous best of 19 in 2013-14 with Barcelona.\n• None The Gunners have won four of their past five Premier League games (L1) since adopting a three-man defence.\n• None Southampton have had 29 shots in their last three Premier League games without scoring.\n• None Olivier Giroud has six Premier League substitute goals this season - only Adam Le Fondre (eight in 2012-13) has more in a single campaign than the Frenchman.\n• None Giroud's goal was his 100th in the top-flight of European football (33 in Ligue 1, 67 in the Premier League).\n\nSouthampton, who cannot finish higher than eighth, travel to already-relegated Middlesbrough on Saturday, 13 May (15:00 BST).\n\nArsenal, meanwhile, continue their bid to break into the top four with a trip to Stoke in Saturday's evening kick-of (17:30).\n• None Attempt blocked. Manolo Gabbiadini (Southampton) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jay Rodriguez.\n• None Attempt missed. Sofiane Boufal (Southampton) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Oriol Romeu.\n• None Shane Long (Southampton) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Southampton 0, Arsenal 2. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey with a headed pass.\n• None Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Sofiane Boufal (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Britain's railway track is already quasi-nationalised through Network Rail\n\nSo how radical is Labour's draft manifesto really?\n\nOn the face of it, it looks like the root and branch reversal of 40 years of government policy. But let's take a moment to see how radical, how do-able, these proposals really are from a business, rather than a public finance, perspective.\n\nLet's start with the easy ones.\n\nThis actually happens from time to time anyway. The East Coast Main Line spent several years in public ownership after it was handed back to the government by National Express in 2009, before being privatised again in 2015.\n\nIt performed pretty well in public hands. It paid nearly a billion pounds in fees to the government and still managed to make a profit for the Treasury, while carrying more passengers and getting good passenger satisfaction scores. So there is some evidence that repeating that exercise each time a current rail franchise expires could work.\n\nHowever, freezing rail fares, extending free wifi, ending driver-only operated trains and improving disabled access would freeze income while increasing costs. It might be harder to replicate the relative success of the East Coast Main Line experiment with these additional pressures.\n\nThe track is already quasi-nationalised through Network Rail, and the government pays a total of more than £3bn in subsidies to the industry each year.\n\nOf all the privatisations since Thatcher, this is probably considered one of the least effective in financial terms for the government. The question is whether passengers' memories of British Rail are clear enough to make a comparison to their experience today.\n\nThis is hardly a surprise item given a version of it was in the last Labour manifesto, and the Conservatives have committed to do much the same. The same criticisms over deterring investment and encouraging the withdrawal of cheaper fares for switchers apply to both parties.\n\nThe setting up of publicly owned utilities in every region of the UK is a much more difficult exercise.\n\nAlthough there is little detail, the government would essentially be starting from scratch in an industry that it hasn't been involved in for decades.\n\nQuizzed this morning about how this would work, the policy chief talked of setting up regional co-operatives, but where they would spring from and how they would be managed is not clear.\n\nThe cost of transporting gas and electricity across cables and through pipes makes up nearly a quarter of consumers' energy bills. Some of that money goes to privately-owned National Grid, which last year made a profit of £3bn, although it no longer owns all of the UK gas transportation infrastructure. It also distributes gas and electricity in the United States and makes a much bigger profit margin here than it does there - a fact that has drawn heavy criticism from consumer groups.\n\nEven if you agree that National Grid is charging the energy companies too much - to nationalise it you would presumably have to buy it back. Its current value is £38bn, but a lot of that is made up of its US business which presumably a Labour government wouldn't want to buy!\n\nThe UK business is estimated to be worth around £25bn. A chunky purchase, but one that could quite easily financed in that it makes enough money to repay the interest on any money borrowed to buy it.\n\nA proposal to cap pay for top earners at 20 times that of the lowest paid in an organisation is a radical one, and a throwback to the 1970s in the sense that that was the last time pay differentials were anything near that multiple.\n\nCurrently the average FTSE 100 boss earns around 150 times the amount his or her lowest paid employee makes.\n\nEven companies seen as progressive would fail this new test. The chairman of the John Lewis Partnership, Charlie Mayfield, made around 75 times as much as his partners on the shop floor.\n\nThere is widespread outrage over high pay - even among some shareholders of private companies - and we can expect some action on this issue in the Tory manifesto.\n\nI will leave proposals on NHS funding, tuition fees etc and the impact on the public purse to my more knowledgeable colleagues.\n\nThe real essence of this leaked document is that coursing through it is a simple idea. When it comes to doing just about anything - GOVERNMENT KNOWS BEST. That is an age-old political decision between the old left and old right.\n\nThe Conservatives have moved left with their market interventions and attack on business excess. With this document - Labour have moved quite a long way further left.\n\nCorrection 19 May 2017: The reference to rail subsidies has been amended to clarify that the £3bn figure covers the whole rail industry and not just train operating companies.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment a BBC cameraman was 'run over by Corbyn car'\n\nBBC cameraman Giles Wooltorton has been released from hospital after his foot was run over by a car carrying Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThe incident happened as the Labour leader arrived at the Institution of Engineering and Technology in London for a party meeting to discuss the draft general election manifesto.\n\nMr Wooltorton was said to be in good spirits while waiting for an ambulance.\n\nBy the evening, he was on his way home with two broken toes and bruising.\n\nMr Corbyn was driven to the meeting by officers from the Metropolitan Police's royalty and specialist protection unit.\n\nA Met Police spokesman said the incident had been referred to the directorate of professional standards, which is responsible for the conduct of officers in the force.\n\nIn a statement released shortly after the incident, the BBC said: \"An experienced BBC cameraman has been injured while filming at the Labour Party manifesto meeting.\n\n\"He has been taken to hospital for assessment and treatment. At the moment the BBC are focusing on their duty of care, making sure that he is OK.\"\n\nPolice have interviewed witnesses and a senior Labour source said the party was \"looking into\" the incident.", "Conflict between humans and elephants is more intense in Sri Lanka than anywhere else in the world - 70 people are killed every year and more than 250 elephants die. Clashes are particularly frequent in areas that were abandoned for long periods during the country's lengthy civil war.\n\nLast June, six-year-old Sulojini and her father, Raja Thurai, were returning home from the river in the late afternoon sunshine. Suddenly, an elephant appeared from the bush and attacked.\n\n\"The elephant lifted us with its trunk and threw us on the ground,\" remembers Thurai. \"I lost consciousness, and when I woke up, my daughter was already dead.\"\n\nThe incident happened close to the Thurai's village, Paavatkodichchinai in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province, near paddy fields and in an area dotted with fruit bushes.\n\n\"I've lost two of my children - a son during the war, and Sulojini to an elephant,\" he says.\n\nPaavatkodichchinai is inhabited by Sri Lanka's Tamil minority, like many communities on the eastern part of the island.\n\nDuring the civil war, the presence of Tamil Tiger rebels made the Eastern Province a target for government forces, and when fighting was intense, local people fled.\n\nRaja Thurai and his family went to live in a refugee camp in 2007. When they returned after the war, which came to an end in 2009, elephants had encroached on their land. Now these huge mammals are a continual, terrifying presence - especially at night, when they roam around the village looking for food in fields and homes.\n\n\"We chase them away, but they come back again and again. Every night we have to stay awake - last night also, I didn't sleep,\" Thurai, says.\n\nHis family's home is one of many in the village that have suffered night attacks. The house, shaded by two large mango trees, still has part of a wall missing - destroyed by an elephant one night just before Sulojini was killed.\n\n\"It happened at 02:00,\" says Indrani, Raja Thurai's wife. \"The elephant trumpeted and ran towards the house, hitting the roof and wall.\"\n\nIndrani holding Sulojini's flip-flops - iron sheets patch the damaged wall of the family home\n\nShe says Sulojini was so frightened she developed a fever.\n\nThe couple do not have a picture of the daughter they lost, but they have kept the small, pink flip-flops she was wearing when she died.\n\nSince then, the village has organised an informal neighbourhood watch scheme. Households have access to firecrackers to frighten the elephants away, but experts argue fireworks are not the answer.\n\n\"Communities get into a kind of arms race,\" says Dr Pruthu Fernando, a conservationist who has spent much of his professional life trying to mitigate human-elephant-conflict in Sri Lanka.\n\n\"If an elephant comes and tries to eat the crops, people shout at it. So the elephant is scared and goes away. Then the elephant realises people are only shouting, there's no harm to it. So next time people shout, the elephant still comes and raids.\"\n\nVillagers work through a series of deterrents: first they throw rocks at the animals, next they begin to light fires. Finally, they use firecrackers.\n\n\"Some of those go off like a bomb,\" says Fernando. \"But elephants soon realise they are only a lot of noise, so they still come and raid. Ultimately, people end up shooting the elephant. All of these things are confrontational.\"\n\nFernando has pioneered the use of electrified fencing, erected at particular times of the year.\n\nElephants are free to roam agricultural land during fallow periods, and farmers only put up the barriers when they plant their crops.\n\n\"The farmers take down the fence the day they harvest,\" he says.\n\nSri Lanka already has 3,500km of electrified fencing aimed at containing elephants, but much of it is in the wrong place.\n\nHistorically it has been used to mark boundaries - of private property and national parks. But eventually, elephants destroy it. Fencing has to be close to human activity to be effective, Fernando says.\n\n\"Fences work. If you maintain them well, elephants learn this is a no-go boundary. They're also non-confrontational, so that leads to the possibility of better co-existence.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome Sri Lankans do live in harmony with wild elephants.\n\nThe Rathugala Veddha community close to the Gal Oya National Park in south-eastern Sri Lanka - who trace their ancestry to some of the island's earliest inhabitants - chant, invoking God and the spirits, to protect them when they are in the forest. No-one can remember a time when anyone was injured - let alone killed - by an elephant.\n\n\"We can sense when an elephant is close-by - we can feel it,\" says Poramal Aththo. \"We have that power in us.\"\n\nIt is possible he is describing the infrasound communication of elephants, and that villagers learned to sense this because they have been living in close proximity to the animals for so long.\n\nPoramal Aththo says he could teach other Sri Lankans how to stay safe, but it is an art - not something that can be learned in a day.\n\nOn the other side of the human-elephant-conflict equation are babies like Leila. She was rescued after eating a hukka patta - a primitive gunpowder bomb disguised as a fruity treat. It blew up in her mouth, fracturing her jaw, and destroying half her tongue.\n\nLeila is being treated at the Department of Wildlife Conservation's facility near the temple city of Polonnaruwa.\n\n\"The mortality rate of elephants eating hukka pattas is very high,\" says Dr Pinidiyage Manoj Akalanka, the vet on duty. \"Most of them will die.\" Death by hukka patta is cruel - unable to eat, the animal starves to death.\n\nIn this district alone, they see around 40 cases a year. Leila was injured by bullets too - something Akalanka says is becoming more common as farmers become desperate to defend their crops from marauding animals.\n\nBut Leila is lucky - she has learnt to eat with half a tongue, and will eventually be released back into the wild.\n\nAfter Sulojini was killed by an elephant in Paavatkodichchinai, electricity was finally installed in the village.\n\nThis makes possible a system of electrified fencing - although there is no sign the government or any other organisation will provide it any time soon.\n\nThe government does pay 500,000 rupees ($3,278) to the families of those killed by elephants. But there is no way to compensate a family for the loss of a little girl in pink flip-flops, who never returned home from her afternoon bathe.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Highlights: Watch on BBC Two on Sunday from 13:00-14:30 BST\n\nJonny Brownlee says he is \"hungry\" to put the \"hurt\" of last year's World Series finale behind him as he prepares for his first race of the 2017 event.\n\nWith 700m to go in the final race of 2016, the Briton was leading and on course to wrap up the world title.\n\nExhausted, he began to weave over the road, was overtaken and collapsed after brother Alistair helped him over the line to finish second in Mexico.\n\n\"Last year was a bit of a rollercoaster,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"It hurt me going in to this year, because you don't get many chances to become world champion and I messed it up.\n\n\"It made me very hungry to come in to the 2017 season to try and achieve that but so far this year, luck's not been on my side.\"\n\nBrownlee, who won Olympic silver behind his brother last year, has not competed at a major event since suffering in the hot and humid conditions in Cozumel in September.\n\nHe missed the first two races of this year's World Series - in Australia and United Arab Emirates - but is returning for the third in Yokohama, Japan, on Saturday.\n\nBBC Weather forecasts a comfortable 18C for Yokohama on raceday, but Brownlee is hoping extra heat training will pay off in the future, if not in Japan.\n\n\"Heat is obviously something that, as a pasty Yorkshireman, I'm not too good at. I know it's a weakness and after Cozumel one of the first things I did was ask a doctor how to solve this,\" he said.\n\n\"In October-November I went down to train with the British Navy in Portsmouth. One of the big things they taught me was to spend more time in hot and humid conditions.\n\n\"I've converted my conservatory in to a kind of heat chamber. Mine gets up to about 37C so I can sweat away in there on a turbo trainer and get used to Yokohama.\n\n\"Hopefully it's going to make a big difference because one thing I told myself after Cozumel was I'd be stupid if I didn't get used to the heat, or at least try and do something about it.\"\n\n'I've had my best races without Alistair'\n\nAlistair, the elder of the Brownlee brothers, is focusing on long-distance triathlons this year and will not be competing in Japan.\n\nJonny believes he will benefit from his brother's absence.\n\n\"In the past I've really enjoyed not having Alistair there. I've had my best races without him,\" he said.\n\n\"It puts more emphasis on me and I race more aggressively. Instead of looking over my shoulder and waiting for him to make those moves, it's up to me.\n\n\"But also in training as well, I've been able to do what suits me. I've tried to get my own little group around me.\n\n\"Hopefully, it'll come good in the next couple of years.\"\n\nHowever, the next race in the World Series after Japan will be in Leeds, where Brownlee could be joined by his brother.\n\nIn 2016, Alistair claimed victory with a dominant display in the pair's home city, with Jonny second.\n\n\"All I can do now is try and do my best in all the other races and hopefully win in Yokohama and win in Leeds,\" said Jonny.\n\n\"Some of my best races have been when I'm just returning from injury, so hopefully I can do it again.\"", "When Leftfield released their debut album in 1995, it changed dance music forever.\n\nWilfully eclectic, Leftism never settled on a single genre, dabbling in tribal, trance, dub, house and ambient music.\n\nThe quality never dipped, proving that a long-form dance record - one that worked as a coherent suite of music rather than a collection of 12-inch singles - was possible.\n\nIt was among the first British albums to bring the club into the living room, alongside releases by The Chemical Brothers, Underworld and The Prodigy.\n\nThe duo behind Leftfield, Neil Barnes and Paul Daley, had started out in punk bands, and retained the ethos that \"music that takes from other places but moves on\".\n\nTo that end, they borrowed from Afrobeat, indie and punk itself - even cajoling former Sex Pistol John Lydon into singing the album's breakout single Open Up.\n\nThese days Barnes continues to record and perform as Leftfield (with Daley's blessing) and, starting on Thursday, he embarks on a UK tour in which Leftism will be played in full for the first time.\n\nThe project was initially planned for the record's 20th anniversary, but is only coming to fruition now, in its 22nd year.\n\nAhead of the tour dates, Barnes and Daley chatted to the BBC about the making of Leftism, its impact, and their ear-splitting live shows.\n\nThe artwork featured no photographs or logos, focusing instead on a loudspeaker\n\nWhat do you remember about the making of Leftism?\n\nPaul Daley: Lots of late nights on the computer, synths and samplers in the week and then I was off DJing at the weekends. It was all very fast moving and constantly evolving, much like the scene at the time.\n\nNeil Barnes: A lot of stuff was done on the fly. We were just being creative in the studio. We weren't completely into indie, we weren't completely into techno. We'd get bored and think, 'We've done a [dance] track, now let's do something down-tempo, or a hip-hop track.'\n\nIs that why it still sounds fresh today?\n\nNB: I think the thing about the album is that it takes you on a journey through electronic music. There isn't one style. It's unusual in that, I think.\n\nPD: I wanted the album to sound exotic, have its own identity and have its own place amongst everything else around at the time. That time was great for music in the UK and as time goes by the '90s, and what happened creatively, is only now coming into focus and I'm really chuffed what we did is considered as something special.\n\nLeftism is frequently cited as a breakthrough, in that it showed dance music could work in an album format. Was that your intention?\n\nPD: It had to be more than a collection of instrumental formula dance records but I didn't really know it worked until I was editing it together at the end. It was a calculated risk at the time but not really intentional. Happy accidents, and all that.\n\nWhat's the most unusual instrument on the album?\n\nNB: There's a berimbau at the start of Afro Left. It's probably the oldest instrument, aside from hitting a drum, in the world. It's a stringed instrument from Brazil, and they hit it with a pebble. I'll be bringing it on the tour with me.\n\nThe berimbau is instantly recognisable in the opening bars of Afro Left\n\nJohn Lydon has called Open Up one of his favourite lyrics. Did you realise it was special at the time?\n\nNB: I think it's one of the best songs he ever wrote. When he came in and did the vocal, we realised we had to get the rest of the backing track up to the standard of the lyric. His vocal performance was so incredible, we felt we needed to match it. We changed the bassline radically and added a lot more drums.\n\nYour live shows got a reputation for being louder than Concorde. How bad was it?\n\nNB: The speakers were so loud your eyeballs would vibrate.\n\nDid you really make plaster fall off the roof of Brixton Academy?\n\nNB: A whole bit of the ceiling came down, not just a few chunks. You could see it all over the dancefloor. I've seen worse, though. We once shook a metal grating off when we played a soundcheck in a university. It came down and hit the floor. If anyone had been near it, they'd have been dead. I was terrified.\n\nAnd we brought a whole bar down in Amsterdam. When our sound man fired up the system, it all came down. Bottles, glasses, everything, flying off the wall. Who paid for it? I have no idea.\n\nNeil Barnes says the Leftism tour is the band's most ambitious yet\n\nWhat made you decide to revisit the album now?\n\nNB: It just seems like a good time to say \"bon voyage\" to Leftism. I'm not really going to be playing these songs much more.\n\nHow hard has it been to recreate the record for the tour?\n\nNB: It's an unbelievable job of forensic investigation. It's taken months. The album didn't go onto tape at the time, so we've gone back to the raw files to find stuff and build the sounds up so it sounds like the album.\n\nIs the concert a faithful rendition of the album?\n\nNB: It is, but all the tracks are expanded. Some of them are 12 minutes long now. Like Release The Pressure, I've incorporated the single [mix] into the album version, so you get a bit of Cheshire Cat's vocals. And there's no encore. 20th Century Poem was always going to be the closer.\n\nBarnes will continue to record music as Leftfield, following 2015's Alternative Light Source album\n\nPaul, do you miss playing live? Will you go to see the shows?\n\nPD: I don't really miss anything as I find \"missing\" things can be negative. I have great memories and still get a buzz from DJing which, in my eyes, is and always has been a performance and artform.\n\nPeople come up to me and shake my hand for what I did in Leftfield between 1989 and 2002 and that's enough for me.\n\nFinally, what do you see as Leftism's legacy? Who are your direct descendants?\n\nPD: Anyone who's thought, \"I'm going to buy some decks, synths, samplers and make a record\" since 1989.\n\nAlso anyone who has thought, \"I can make a record in my bedroom today and play it in my DJ set at the weekend\". That was the revolution that has had a massive impact on musical history and which we were part of and it just seems to roll on and get handed down to the next generation for them to put their own stamp on it.\n\nBy no means are Leftfield wholly responsible - but we were part of a forward-thinking global musical movement that exploded at the end of the 20th Century and turned pop culture on it's head.\n\nLeftism 22 is out now on Sony. Leftfield tour the album around the UK for the rest of the month, starting in Bristol on Thursday 11, May.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nWorld number one Andy Murray said he is 'concerned' following defeat by Borna Coric in last 16 of the Madrid Open, but denied being low on confidence.\n\nMurray was beaten 6-3 6-3 by Coric, ranked 59th in the world, on Thursday.\n\nThe Briton has endured a tough season on clay, suffering a shock defeat in the last 16 of the Monte Carlo Masters last month and also losing in the semi-finals of the Barcelona Open.\n\n\"I definitely think I need to be concerned about today,\" Murray said.\n\n\"It's not always the worst thing losing a match, but it's sometimes the manner of how you lose the match which can be concerning or disappointing.\"\n\nCoric, 20, only gained a place at the tournament after Richard Gasquet withdrew - becoming the first lucky loser to reach the quarter-finals in the Madrid tournament's 16-year history.\n\nThe Croat broke his Scottish opponent three times in the opening set, and a further break in the second was enough to secure victory in one hour and 25 minutes.\n\nTop seed Murray hit 14 winners to his 28 unforced errors, but insisted his poor performance was not down to a lack of confidence.\n\n\"I was just making lots of mistakes early in the rallies and trying to end points very quickly at the beginning, and the errors just kept piling up.\" the 29-year-old told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I didn't feel that was down to confidence - I just wasn't focusing as well as I needed to on each point.\n\n\"I made a lot of unforced errors and I also didn't find any way to make it a more competitive match, so that's the most disappointing thing for me.\n\n\"You can lose matches sometimes, but the manner of today's loss was disappointing.\"\n\nThis result will come as a shock to Murray's system.\n\nHe had seemingly been growing in confidence, and rediscovering his rhythm little by little as he made his way from Monte Carlo to Barcelona, but now has just one week in Rome to find the form and belief which would make him a genuine contender for the French Open.\n\nHis first serve, which has been hindered by an elbow injury, was not to blame against Coric, who played aggressively and fluently and took full advantage of Murray's error-strewn performance.", "Ligue des champions: le Real Madrid en finale\n\nLe Real Madrid a validé son billet pour la finale de la Ligue des champions malgré sa courte défaite lors de la manche retour chez ses voisins de l'Atlético (2-1).\n\nAvec leur succès à domicile (3-0), les (Merengue) ont tout de même tremblé en début de rencontre quand l'Atletico Madrid a réussi à marquer deux buts par Saul Niguez (12e) et Griezmann (16e). Les visiteurs ont réagi ensuite et réduit le score par Isco (42e).\n\nEn se qualifiant pour la finale de la Ligue des champions pour la deuxième année consécutive , le Real Madrid aura l'occasion d'imiter l'AC Milan, dernière équipe à avoir remporté la C1 deux années de suite. C'était en 1989 et 1990. Ils affronteront la Juventus le 3 juin à Cardiff en Ecosse. Leur troisième finale en quatre ans.\n\nSi le Real Madrid a réduit le score face à l'Atletico Madrid, il le doit à Karim Benzema. Le long de la ligne de but, et dans un périmètre restreint, le Français a éliminé trois défenseurs avant de centrer pour Kroos dont la frappe repoussée est revenue dans les pieds d'Isco, le buteur.\n\nSelon Cristiano Ronaldo, la différence d'expérience entre le Real et l'Atlético de Madrid a joué un rôle important dans la qualification des (Merengue) pour la finale de la Ligue des champions.\n\nPour Zinedine Zidane l'Atletico Madrid a eu la chance de marquer deux buts \"mais nous savions qu'en marquant un seul nous l'achèverons\".", "Tim Farron, leader of the Liberal Democrats, campaigning in Kingston and Surbiton\n\nThe 2015 election result was a bit of a surprise. Pollsters got it wrong - and so did the media. Had we paid closer attention to where the Conservative Party was choosing to campaign, we might have spotted a gap between polling forecasts and Tory ambitions. We might have noticed David Cameron was fighting in the sort of seats that implied he thought a victory was coming.\n\nThis time, we hope to avoid that sort of mistake by paying closer attention to the campaigns. Here is Conservative leader Theresa May's journey since the prime minister called the snap general election on 18 April. As of Monday, she had taken trips all over the country, the purpose of which is to get her face on local TV and in local newspapers.\n\nNOTE: The maps for Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn, Nicola Sturgeon and Tim Farron have been updated to include visits made up to 7 June, the final day of election campaigning. You can read further analysis on those visits here. We are waiting on more information surrounding Paul Nuttall's campaign.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn, too, has been all over Great Britain. The two leaders have covered a lot of ground - but not quite the same sorts of places.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nTo help you understand this pattern, below is a chart explaining the significance of where these two have been.\n\nTheresa May has so far been visiting seats with a considerable Labour majority but where UKIP also did well in the 2015 elections\n\nSee how Mrs May is visiting seats which have some very big Labour majorities - look at Leeds East. But she is targeting Labour seats with big UKIP voter populations, where hoovering up the UKIP vote can do much of the work of taking the seat off Labour. In Dudley North, UKIP votes would be enough to take the seat on their own.\n\nSee also how Mrs May is largely not visiting the same sorts of places as Mr Corbyn. She is fighting in places which imply she wants a three-digit majority. The Labour Party either regards the \"front line\" as being nowhere near so gloomy for them or they are choosing not to deploy Mr Corbyn into their front line. If Labour were winning in Harlow, where Mr Corbyn went to campaign, it would probably be winning a majority.\n\nWhat, then of the other leaders? Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has been clocking up the miles.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nThe Lib Dems' strong pro-EU stance now distinguishes them from other UK-wide parties. So far, Mr Farron has only been to one seat that, according to academic estimates, voted Leave in the EU referendum - the Lib Dem-held Carshalton & Wallington. And 14 of the 20 places he's visited had Remain votes in excess of 60%.\n\nThe map shows he's hoping to take seats from both Labour and the SNP. The really big questions about the Lib Dems' future, however, are in their fight with the Tories.\n\nBoth Theresa May and Tim Farron have visited the marginal seat of Lewes in the early stage of this election campaign\n\nIn the Tory-Labour battleground, Mrs May and Mr Corbyn seemed to be fighting different elections. In the Tory-Lib Dem fight, both parties seem to think the election is going to be largely about Lib Dems taking seats back from the Tories. Both went to marginal Lewes, for example.\n\nMr Farron has paid a visit to Oxford West & Abingdon, for example, and Mrs May has been to shore up support in St Austell & Newquay. Both are current Tory seats taken from the Lib Dems.\n\nBut the Lib Dems' meagre resources will be spread thin at this election. It is not a by-election. The Tories are also polling well - and just look at the three seats above the dotted line. Those three seats - Norfolk North, Carshalton & Wallington and Southport - could all be taken by the Tories if they can win over UKIP voters. And the Tories have already started advertising in the Southport local press.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Newsnight Policy Editor Chris Cook talks through the Conservative and Labour battleground chart in more detail\n\nThe Scottish National Party has started its roadshow, too. The party won so many seats in 2015, there is no choice but for them to run a defensive election. We cannot see where leader Nicola Sturgeon is worried about quite yet. Let's come back to them.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nUKIP, meanwhile, has had a slow start. We will have to wait a bit more before we can say much more.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nThe thing that jumps out at the moment is the scale of the Tories' ambitions against Labour. There are important questions about how campaigning works and how parties get their messages out, to which we will return during the campaign - along with updates to these maps and graphs.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this content.\n\nMaps display winning parties from 2015 general election or most recent by-election. Estimated figures for the 2016 EU referendum are from Dr Chris Hanretty's academic study that remapped results from the EU referendum from local authority level to parliamentary constituency level. Leader visits displayed on the maps are accurate up to Monday 8 May, and include only visits related to the 2017 general election campaign. Maps built with Carto.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United forward Wayne Rooney is the most under-appreciated player in English football, says former Wales international Robbie Savage.\n\nRooney is the record goal-scorer for both United and England.\n\nBut the 31-year-old has started only 22 games this season and has hinted he may have to leave Old Trafford this summer in order to ensure first-team football.\n\n\"He gets hammered and yet he is Manchester United's and England's top scorer,\" Savage told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"He is a professional, his work ethic is very good, you can see his temperament is still the same. When he gets a decision against him, he goes berserk. That is the same old Wayne Rooney.\n\n\"The bottom line is that age and not playing regular games is catching up with him. He is not the player he was. But he is the most under-appreciated footballer we have seen in English football.\"\n\nRooney has been at Manchester United for 13 years, since joining from Everton for £27m in August 2004.\n\nHe has won five Premier League titles, the Champions League, the FA Cup, three League Cups and the Club World Cup during his time at Old Trafford.\n\nThis season he surpassed Bobby Charlton to become United's outright leading scorer, with his tally currently standing at 252.\n\nHe has also broken Charlton's England scoring record and has 53 goals for his country from 119 caps.\n\nOn Wednesday, he spoke about his future, saying: \"Would I like to stay? I've been at this club 13 years. Of course, I want to play football.\"\n\nThe forward continues to be linked with a move to China, while Everton and the United States have been suggested as other potential destinations.\n\nUnited face Celta Vigo on Thursday in the second leg of their Europa League semi-final, holding a 1-0 lead over the Spanish side.", "Water, water everywhere - but when can you drink it for free?\n\nMost people do not know their rights to free drinking water from businesses and public buildings, a survey says.\n\nThe Keep Britain Tidy poll says only 25% of the public know when they can ask for water for free - while 71% feel awkward asking for water from venues if they are not a customer.\n\nBut even if they are buying something, more than a third feel awkward asking for their water bottle to be filled.\n\nThe poll for the charity and Brita UK saw 2,119 people surveyed by YouGov.\n\nKeep Britain Tidy chief executive Allison Ogden-Newton said: \"This report demonstrates that the British public want greater access to tap water when out and about.\"\n\nSo when can you ask for a free glass of water, and when can't you?\n\nSome licensed premises might give you free water, but charge for the glass it comes in\n\nAll licensed premises in England and Wales are required by law to provide \"free potable water\" to their customers upon request. In Scotland a similar law applies, but specifies \"tap water fit for drinking\".\n\nThis means pubs, bars, nightclubs, cafes, restaurants, takeaway food and drink outlets, cinemas, theatres, and even village and community halls - so long as they are authorised to serve alcohol.\n\nHowever, these premises can charge people for the use of a glass - or their service - when serving the \"free\" tap water.\n\nThere is no law regarding the provision of drinking water in licensed premises in Northern Ireland.\n\nYou may work up a sweat in a gym, but that doesn't mean you can get a drink of water for free\n\nUnlicensed premises in the UK do not have to legally supply free drinking water.\n\nSo, provided they are unlicensed, this includes sports stadiums, leisure centres, swimming pools, health clubs, tourists attractions, theatres, cinemas and beauty salons.\n\nSchools must provide free drinking water by law - but not in Northern Ireland\n\nSchools are legally required to provide drinking water for pupils at all times in England, Scotland and Wales - but not Northern Ireland.\n\nHowever, there is guidance from the Public Health Agency stating that children in Northern Ireland \"must have easy access at all times to free, fresh, preferably chilled water\".\n\nAll UK employers must provide free drinking water in the workplace for all their employees, at all times.\n\nMany people are not confident about drinking from a public fountain\n\nOf the people taking part in the poll, only 7% said they drink from water fountains or public taps - while 55% were concerned about the cleanliness of public water taps, fountains and dispensers.\n\nJust 11% said they would pop into a cafe or restaurant to ask for tap water.\n\nKeep Britain Tidy has issued recommendations aimed at improving the public's access to drinking water.", "Forty-five pages that reveal Jeremy Corbyn's plans to transform the country if he can persuade enough voters that he is the man to be PM, and his vision is the best way forward.\n\nIn a draft of Labour's manifesto, seen by the BBC, is a long, long list of plans, ideas - some new, some predictable, some rather more surprising.\n\nBefore going on, it's worth saying it is yet to be signed off as a final version - that's due to happen in a meeting tomorrow of Labour bigwigs.\n\nBut from what we have seen, which Labour senior figures acknowledge \"is the real thing\" subject to a few last minute tweaks, it is a rundown that will be manna from heaven for Jeremy Corbyn's supporters, contains ideas that poll well with swathes of voters, but could be a challenge to the concept of pleasing much of the traditional centre ground of \"Middle England\".\n\nThe draft manifesto promises to scrap tuition fees, to ban fracking, to bring back national pay bargaining in some industries and only to consider military action where all other options have \"been exhausted\".\n\nIt suggests bringing some energy \"back into public ownership\", with a strong emphasis on renewables and a promise to introduce an \"immediate emergency price cap\" to keep average bills below £1,000.\n\nThe draft manifesto has yet to be signed off\n\nIt promises to suspend arms sales immediately to Saudi Arabia, to cut the voting age to 16, to increase tax on the wealthiest 5%.\n\nThere are notable big contrasts with Conservative plans - no target on cutting immigration, a warning there will be \"no false promises\", and guarantees, rather than cutting welfare, that payments to some groups will see rises.\n\nThere could yet be changes to these ideas. Labour big cheeses will discuss and dissect the plans tomorrow. But it's clear as day that this will be an election where voters will not be able to say \"they're all the same\".", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn did not attend the planned unveiling of the party's 2017 general election poster\n\nA draft of Labour's general election manifesto has been leaked, including plans to nationalise parts of the energy industry and scrap tuition fees.\n\nThe BBC has seen a copy of the document, which is due to be formally signed off on Thursday.\n\nBBC correspondents unpick the policy pledges set out in the draft manifesto.\n\nRenationalising actually happens from time to time anyway. The East Coast Main Line spent several years in public ownership after it was handed back to the government by National Express in 2009, before being privatised again in 2015.\n\nIt performed pretty well in public hands. It paid nearly £1bn in fees to the government and still managed to make a profit for the Treasury, while carrying more passengers and getting good passenger satisfaction scores. So there is some evidence that repeating that exercise each time a current rail franchise expires could work.\n\nVirgin Trains East Coast operates services between London, the north-east of England and Scotland\n\nHowever, other pledges like freezing rail fares, extending free wi-fi, ending driver-only operated trains and improving disabled access would freeze income while increasing costs. It might be harder to replicate the relative success of the East Coast Main Line experiment with these additional pressures.\n\nThe track is already quasi-nationalised through Network Rail and the government pays subsidies to the train operating companies of more than £3bn a year.\n\nOf all the privatisations since Mrs Thatcher's time, this is probably considered one of the least effective in financial terms for the government. The question is whether passengers' memories of British Rail are clear enough to make a comparison to their experience today.\n\nThe reference to price caps is hardly a surprise given a version of the policy was in the last Labour manifesto and the Conservative Party has committed to do much the same. The same criticisms over deterring investment and encouraging the withdrawal of cheaper prices for switchers apply to both parties.\n\nThe setting up of publicly-owned utilities in every region of the UK is a much more difficult exercise. Apart from three locally run public companies, the government would essentially be starting from scratch in an industry that it hasn't been involved in for decades.\n\nThe cost of transporting gas and electricity across cables and through pipes makes up nearly a quarter of consumers' energy bills\n\nQuizzed on Thursday morning about how this would work, the policy chief talked of setting up regional co-operatives, but where they would spring from and how they would be managed is not clear.\n\nThe cost of transporting gas and electricity across cables and through pipes makes up nearly a quarter of consumers' energy bills. Most of that money goes to privately-owned National Grid, which last year made a profit of £3bn, although it no longer owns all of the UK gas transportation infrastructure.\n\nIt also distributes gas and electricity in the United States and makes a much bigger profit margin here than it does there - a fact that has drawn heavy criticism from consumer groups.\n\nEven if you agree that National Grid is charging the energy companies too much, to nationalise it you would presumably have to buy it back. Its current value is £38bn, but a lot of that is made up of its US business which presumably a Labour government wouldn't want to buy!\n\nThe UK business is estimated to be worth about £25bn. A chunky purchase, but one that could quite easily be financed in that it makes enough money to repay the interest on any money borrowed to buy it.\n\nScrapping tuition fees is the biggest headline for education policy in Labour's leaked plans.\n\nInstead of fees rising to £9,250 per year in the autumn, Jeremy Corbyn is proposing a complete handbrake turn in saying that university tuition should not cost students anything.\n\nIt's a bolder step than Labour's previous leader, who two years ago opted for a halfway house of cutting fees to £6,000 - and then was accused of pleasing no-one.\n\nThere are no details so far of how the cost would be covered, whether through general taxation or a targeted graduate tax. According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, it would cost a ballpark figure of about £11bn per year to replace the cost of fees.\n\nBut once the write-off from unpaid loans is taken into account, the cost would be about £8bn per year.\n\nAnd this is only England - because education funding is a devolved matter. There are no fees for Scottish students in Scotland and the IFS says scrapping the lower fees charged in Northern Ireland and Wales would cost a further £500m per year.\n\nThere have been precedents for getting rid of tuition fees in other countries.\n\nGermany has phased out tuition fees - and New York State is making tuition free for families earning up to about £100,000 per year.\n\nBut with promises already announced for big spending increases for schools, the university challenge for Labour - its starter for No 10 - will be about funding.\n\nLabour has already set out some of its NHS plans, including pay rises for staff in England above the current 1% pay cap.\n\nEvery one percentage point increase above that will cost £500m and Labour said that would be paid for by increases in corporation tax. Other parties argued Labour was already spending the corporation tax receipts several times over.\n\nThe draft manifesto includes a £6bn annual increase in NHS funding, though it is not clear when this would be achieved, or whether it includes the amount passed on to the devolved administrations. The funding will come, Labour says, from raising income tax for high earners.\n\nThe annual health budget in England is around £115bn, so on the face of it a £6bn increase is significant. But the Conservatives raised NHS spending by £3.8bn in the 2016-17 year and that was in effect eaten up dealing with increased patient demand rather than new service investments.\n\nLabour wants to offer guarantees that NHS performance targets in England for A&E and routine surgery waiting times will be met. That may stretch the extra money the party wants to raise for the NHS.\n\nAt the moment the NHS is falling short, though the Conservative Party in government said it wanted to get back to the A&E target of 95% of patients being seen or treated within four hours by next year.\n\nRunning the service with the money available is one thing. Improving performance in the face of relentlessly rising patient demand is another.\n\nIt is not surprising to see social care mentioned in the manifesto - Labour has been promising something on the growing problems caring for the elderly and adults with disabilities for weeks.\n\nMuch of what is included in the manifesto - the end to care workers' 15-minute flying visits for example - have been mentioned while Labour has been in opposition.\n\nThe two headline pledges are an extra £8bn for the system over the lifetime of the next Parliament and the potential creation of a national care service. The extra money sounds a lot - last year councils spent just under £20bn on services, including care homes and home help.\n\nBut unlike with the NHS, the budget for social care is not decided by central government. It is up to local councils to decide how much to spend.\n\nIf they do not put in the same as they have been doing in previous years - and they argue that other cuts to sources of funding would make that difficult - the total amount spent may not necessarily go up.\n\nMuch more radical would be the creation of a national care service. Ever since the NHS was formed after the end of the World War Two, there has been a two-tier system.\n\nThe poorest get help towards the cost of care, while those with means are expected to meet the full cost themselves. Labour only promises to consult on a universal system - and it is not yet clear what the party has in mind exactly.\n\nBut there is a precedent. In 2010, at the end of the Gordon Brown government, Labour came up with a plan for a universal system that would require contributions from individuals - either through tax, an insurance scheme or from their own pocket.\n\nOne of Labour's most eye-catching promises is that it would scrap planned increases to the state pension age beyond the already-planned move to 66 in 2020.\n\nThat puts in question the move to 67 for people retiring from 2028 and later moves to 68 and, possibly, 69 and 70. The increases are designed to save the taxpayer billions of pounds.\n\nCould some people be able to retire earlier than others in the future and still claim a full pension?\n\nJeremy Corbyn points out that people in physically demanding jobs - in the emergency services, construction, care and in prisons - should not be expected to work into their late 60s.\n\nSo Labour would commission a new review of pension ages to look at a flexible approach, taking into account different jobs and life expectancies. Could this result in some people being allowed to retire earlier than others and still being able to claim the full pension?\n\nThe former business leader John Cridland has only just completed a government-commissioned review of the state pension which recommended keeping the same pension age for everyone.\n\nHe said there was \"no effective mechanism that has been tested that would be able to target those with lower life expectancy\".\n\nOn how much pension will be paid, Labour had already committed itself to keeping the triple lock, the promise that the state pension will rise each year by inflation, average earnings or 2.5%, whichever is highest.\n\nIt could become a key point of difference in the campaign, given the speculation that the Conservatives might water down the guarantee by dropping the 2.5% element.\n\nThe main policies on benefits are much as expected.\n\nLabour has been adamant for some time that it would stop job centres imposing benefit sanctions, scrap the under-occupancy charge - known as the bedroom tax - and reinstate housing benefit for 18 to 21-year-olds.\n\nLabour's defence policy appears towards the back of the leaked manifesto - on page 42 of 45.\n\nAt first glance, it appears the most controversial subject for the party has been resolved. Labour has committed to renewing the Trident nuclear weapons system, despite Jeremy Corbyn's well-known opposition.\n\nLabour may have backed Trident, but has pledged to carry out a wider defence review\n\nHis own concerns are reflected in a passage - in the particular draft version that the BBC has seen - stating that any prime minister should be \"extremely cautious\" about ever using weapons of \"mass destruction\". And the document sets out how Labour would work towards a world free of nuclear weapons.\n\nThere's also another potential caveat. Labour would carry out an immediate review of all defence policy if it wins the election. That won't please everyone in the military. The armed forces are still trying to fund and implement the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review.\n\nLike the Conservatives, Labour has committed to spending 2% of the national income, or GDP, on defence - a Nato target. Though, interestingly, that is the only mention of the alliance. More time is spent talking about working with the UN.\n\nLabour reminds the electorate that it was the Conservatives - singly and in coalition with the Liberal Democrats - that have been responsible for the largest defence cuts in a generation. It promises to fully fund the armed forces in the future.\n\nBut there is still no specific pledge to protect numbers or on equipment. Instead the party's focus appears to be on retention and on improving the lives of service families and veterans with better housing.", "I'm terribly excited for the 2019 World Cup in Japan - and having seen Wednesday's draw, England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales should all be confident of reaching at least the quarter-finals.\n\nEngland have the ability and mindset to emerge from what is a tough pool, Scotland's match with Ireland could decide top spot in their group, while Wales will expect to go through - although Georgia will be determined to pull off an upset.\n\nThe level of competition in the sport is getting closer and closer across the world - we saw that improvement in the Six Nations this year.\n\nHowever, the quality of the Rugby Championship is a bit lower at the moment - New Zealand excepted - because South Africa are struggling and Australia have their problems.\n\nSo with the northern hemisphere sides being much closer to the southern hemisphere teams now, Japan 2019 could be when a team from the north regains the World Cup.\n• None England face tough draw, Ireland and Scotland in same pool\n• None 'There will be a lot of buzz in Japan'\n\nIt's old fashioned to call it a \"Pool of Death\", so let's just call it what it is - it's a group that nobody would want.\n\nI can imagine all the coaches, even New Zealand's Steve Hansen, thinking, \"I don't want that hard a group,\" but England head coach Eddie Jones, France's Guy Noves and their Argentina counterpart Daniel Hourcade have got it.\n\nArgentina can be unpredictable - they will be strong but I'm not sure about their age profile. In years gone by it has tended to be quite high and they haven't got a lot of resources or strength in depth.\n\nUnderstrength England face Argentina in two Tests in June but Jones' tourists are massive underdogs and I don't expect them to win as they will have 15 players away with the British and Irish Lions. With 15 of your best players out you should not be able to go to Argentina and beat a full-strength Pumas.\n\nFrance have improved but they are typically not great away from home. However, they are traditionally good in World Cup tournaments so it's a tough one for England.\n\nBut Jones' team has got a different mindset to Stuart Lancaster's side, which went out in the pool stages in 2015. The current team have won a Grand Slam and a Six Nations Championship and many of them have won three consecutive Tests against Australia away from home. They have an identity as winners.\n\nHe says they have to be ready to beat anyone but you would prefer a comfortable route to the quarter-final. You want a good sweat and some competition but don't want to be beaten.\n\nIf I was playing I would have liked an easy group before what is going to be a hard quarter-final, whoever you play. Every side in the top eight can beat one another on the day.\n\n'Scotland will believe they can beat Ireland'\n\nIreland and Scotland know each other so well. Scotland beat Ireland at Murrayfield in the Six Nations this year by scoring three tries so they will have no problem believing they can win that game.\n\nBut both sides will know they can get through to the quarter-finals, while Scotland saw off Japan when they played in 2015.\n\nJapan could be a bit better at home than they were under Eddie Jones in England, when they stunned South Africa in the group stages. But we don't know much about their new boss Jamie Joseph and we know that Jones is a special coach.\n\nIreland head coach Joe Schmidt is a master tactician but we don't know much about incoming Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend at international level.\n\nTownsend will want to build on the side that won three home games in the Six Nations but improve on those poor away performances.\n\nHe'll have 20 games or so, including two more Six Nations tournaments, before the World Cup to get those poor performances out of the window and build a team strong enough to get through.\n\nGeorgia are a tough emerging side who have been banging on the door of the Six Nations for a while, wanting to be recognised.\n\nThey have an opportunity in the next two seasons to boost their team and build themselves so they can prove a point against Wales.\n\nWales should have been in their prime in 2015 but they were injury ravaged and conceded a soft try to lose the quarter-final to South Africa.\n\nIn 2011 they were a young squad that got to the semi-finals. In 2019 a lot of those key players will all be over 30 years old - not past their sell-by date, but the squad needs some new players coming through.\n\nThere are still some question marks over whether Warren Gatland wants to continue with Wales after the Lions tour, but he has a great record as a coach and if he's still there, his and the players' experience will see them through the group.\n\nAustralia were in a similar position to Wales in 2011 and 2015. Rugby union is facing difficult times in Australia so it will be interesting to see how they do in 2019.\n\nThey are always good in World Cups, whether they are coming in with poor or good form, but we'll see if they can still be successful with all the challenges they face domestically.\n\n'All Blacks will ease through with South Africa in huge decline'\n\nHolders New Zealand have got a nice work-out leading into a quarter-final.\n\nTwo-time champions South Africa are nowhere near the force they once were - they are in huge decline. There are over 350 South African players playing outside their country and I don't see them challenging unless a quick storm of talent starts appearing in the next two years.\n\nAlthough Italy beat South Africa in November they won't spring a surprise in the World Cup - they were appalling in the Six Nations.\n\nHead coach Conor O'Shea has the opportunity to improve but I'm not sure they have enough time. A lot of players learn by rote so that things eventually become automatic - that's difficult to do in a short space of time unless you have the natural talent.\n\nBut Sergio Parisse has been Italy's best player for over a decade now and they need someone new of his calibre to come through.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland Women will play Denmark in their final match before this summer's Euro 2017 in the Netherlands.\n\nDenmark, ranked 15th in the world, have also qualified for the tournament.\n\nThe two sides will meet at Copenhagen's Gladsaxe Stadium on Saturday, 1 July, at 18:00 BST.\n\n\"Denmark are a team who will have genuine ambitions of going a long way in the summer, so it will be a good challenge for us,\" England head coach Mark Sampson said.\n\nEngland will meet up for their Euros training camp on 5 June and also play Switzerland in Biel on 10 June.\n\nTheir Euro 2017 opener against Scotland is in Utrecht on 19 July, followed by Spain in Breda on 23 July and Portugal in Tilburg on 27 July.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nCritics of world football's governing body are spreading \"fake news\" and taking part in \"Fifa bashing\", says president Gianni Infantino.\n\nFifa's decision this week not to reappoint ethics chiefs Hans-Joachim Eckert and Cornel Borbely means an end to the reform process, the pair said.\n\nInfantino's predecessor Sepp Blatter is serving a six-year ban from football for ethics breaches.\n\n\"We took over the organisation at its deepest point,\" said Infantino.\n\n\"We are rebuilding Fifa's reputation after all that happened.\"\n\nInfantino, 47, took over as Fifa president in January 2016 after the 81-year-old Blatter's 17-year reign ended in a corruption scandal.\n\nChief investigator Borbely and ethics adjudicator Eckert said \"hundreds\" of cases of alleged wrongdoing - some involving senior officials - were being looked into by Fifa's ethics committee before they were ousted.\n\nIn response to their claims, Fifa released a statement on Wednesday, saying it wanted to \"better reflect the geographic and gender diversity that must be a part of an international organisation like Fifa\".\n\n\"There are a lot of fake news and alternative facts about Fifa circulating,\" said Infantino, speaking before the Fifa congress in Bahrain.\n\n\"Fifa bashing has become a national sport in some countries. It was right but Fifa has changed now.\"\n\nLast month, high-ranking Fifa official Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah resigned a day after denying claims linking him to a fraud case. He denies any wrongdoing.\n\nInfantino said the \"new Fifa\" under his leadership was a \"transparent organisation\" that was not \"fiddling around\".\n\nHe added: \"If there is anyone who still thinks that he can enrich himself and he can abuse football, I have one plea for them - leave football now. We don't want you.\"\n\nThe governing body made a commitment to reform in 2011 after corruption allegations, only for a deeper scandal to emerge in 2015 that saw arrests and a raid at a hotel in Zurich as well as a large-scale investigation by US authorities.\n\nBlatter and former Uefa boss Michel Platini were both banned after the former Fifa boss was found to have made a £1.3m \"disloyal payment\" to the Frenchman. Both men deny any wrongdoing.\n\nFrench prosecutors are also investigating the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups and have questioned Blatter.\n\nInfantino was critical of governance experts who had been \"paid millions\" by Fifa to help reform the organisation, and claimed they had \"rubber-stamped a sick and wrong system\".\n\nHe asked: \"Where were all these self-proclaimed gurus and experts? They all miserably failed. We will not accept good governance lessons from any individuals who miserably failed to protect football.\"\n\nThe former Uefa general secretary also offered \"a big thanks\" to authorities who had prosecuted officials involved in football corruption, saying they could \"count on\" Fifa's help.\n\n'Nothing has changed from Blatter days'\n\nHowever, ex-Fifa presidential candidate Prince Ali of Jordan said he believes nothing has changed under Infantino.\n\n\"This is the kind of congress that we have seen before,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"The system, the way business is conducted, it is the same. I don't see the refreshing change, the openness, the transparency that everybody talks about taking effect on the ground.\n\n\"I feel a sense of responsibility to speak up when I see that things are not going right or when things are blatantly wrong. We can't keep saying the same thing.\"\n\nWhat else did Infantino address?\n• None The need to boost women's football - he added that Fifa was looking at the creation of a 'world league' for the women's game, without giving further details\n• None Fifa's finances - which he said were \"extremely solid\" after recent reports of major losses\n• None A charity match to be held between an England Legends and a World Legends team at Wembley when London hosts the Fifa Best Awards on 23 October\n\nThe Fifa congress also voted overwhelmingly to fast-track the bidding process for the 2026 World Cup, which will be the first tournament expanded to feature 48 teams.\n\nThe winner will be announced in June 2018 at the governing body's annual meeting, which is due to take place in Moscow.\n\nA joint submission from the US, Canada and Mexico remains the only declared bid, but a three-month window has now started for other nations to submit expressions of interest.\n\nHowever, Europe and Asia are blocked under Fifa's rules from bidding because they will host the 2018 and 2022 editions of the tournament respectively.\n\nAnalysis - US, Mexico & Canada bid in pole position for 2026\n\nOceania lacks the interest and capability to host an expanded 48-team tournament and South America has already given its support to its northerly neighbours.\n\nThat leaves Africa. There are rumours of a potential bid by Morocco. However, that has not yet materialised and given the burden of having to stage 80 games it would be likely to require other adjoining countries to join them.\n\nSuch a bid would need huge infrastructure and stadium investment. Simply put, today's vote leaves US, Canada and Mexico in pole position to be awarded the tournament in one year's time.", "Michael Foot and Jeremy Corbyn - Labour leaders from different eras\n\nLabour's draft general election manifesto has been compared by some with the party's 1983 manifesto - how do the two documents measure up?\n\nThe 1983 manifesto was written at a time of economic turmoil, mass unemployment and Cold War tensions and is arguably more ambitious in its scope. It is certainly framed in more forceful language.\n\n\"Within days of taking office, Labour will begin to implement an emergency programme of action, to bring about a complete change of direction for Britain,\" it says.\n\n\"Our priority will be to create jobs and give a new urgency to the struggle for peace. In many cases we will be able to act immediately.\"\n\nThey are very different documents in many ways, written to reflect the concerns of their respective times.\n\nJeremy Corbyn's draft manifesto uses a more measured tone, talking about \"delivering a fairer, more prosperous society for the many, not just the few\".\n\nThere is no mention of socialism, in contrast to the nine mentions it gets in 1983.\n\nBut at the 2017 manifesto's heart is the same commitment to using government intervention and public money to boost industrial development and create jobs.\n\nIn 1983, Labour leader Michael Foot had a five year \"emergency programme\" to rebuild industry and end mass unemployment. In 2017, Jeremy Corbyn proposes a \"a ten-year national investment plan to upgrade Britain's economy\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour propose massive public investment, withdrawal from the EEC and nuclear disarmament in their manifesto for the 1983 general election\n\nBoth manifestos propose higher taxes on the rich and a crack down on tax avoidance.\n\nIn 1983, Labour said: \"We shall reform taxation so that the rich pay their full share and the tax burden on the lower paid is reduced.\"\n\nIn 2017, Labour says \"only the highest 5% of earners will be asked to contribute more in tax to help fund our public services\".\n\nThe 1983 manifesto goes further, proposing \"a new annual tax on net personal wealth\" to \"ensure that the richest 100,000 of the population make a fair and proper contribution to tax revenue\".\n\nBoth manifestos include plans for a National Investment Bank to boost industrial development and support research and development.\n\nThe 2017 version would allow the government to use public money to support long-term, higher-risk investment that the bank's are reluctant to touch.\n\nThe 1983 version of the National Investment Bank is more interventionist.\n\nIt proposes drawing up development plans with \"all leading companies - national and multinational, public and private\". Like the 2017 plan, it would provide access to credit, but a Labour government would have the power to \"invest in individual companies, to purchase them outright or to assume temporary control\".\n\nThe 1983 manifesto also includes a commitment to reintroducing exchange controls, scrapped by the Conservatives in 1979, to \"counter currency speculation\" and stop capital \"flowing overseas\".\n\nIn 1983, Labour was committed to scrapping Britain's nuclear weapons, saying \"we are the only party that offers a non-nuclear defence policy.\"\n\nIn 2017, Labour says it supports \"the renewal of the Trident submarine system\".\n\nBut, in a possible nod to Jeremy Corbyn's longstanding opposition to nuclear weapons, it adds \"any prime minister should be extremely cautious about ordering the use of weapons of mass destruction which would result in the indiscriminate killing of millions of innocent civilians\".\n\nBoth manifestos stress the need for Britain to work for nuclear disarmament through international bodies.\n\nAlthough the 2017 draft manifesto backs Britain's exit from the EU, following last year's referendum result, it is less Eurosceptic in tone than the 1983 document.\n\nIt praises the EU for protecting workers' rights and the environment and vows to fight to keep them in Brexit negotiations.\n\nThe 1983 manifesto says European Economic Community, as the EU was then known, \"was never devised to suit us, and our experience as a member of it has made it more difficult for us to deal with our economic and industrial problems\".\n\nLabour promised to begin withdrawal from the EEC without a referendum if it won power.\n\nThe 1983 manifesto pledges to renationalise the industries privatised by the Thatcher government.\n\nThe 2017 manifesto includes plans to renationalise the Royal Mail and the railways - which were still state-owned in 1983 - and part-nationalise the energy industry. Labour would also \"take control\" of the National Grid if it won power.\n\nThe trade unions play a more central role in Labour's 1983 plans for the economy, reflecting the greater power they had at that time.\n\nThe 2017 manifesto includes plans to restore some of that power by repealing the 2016 Trade Union Act and bringing back collective pay bargaining to some sectors. A Ministry of Labour would be introduced to oversee increased unionisation across the workforce.\n\nBoth manifestos include plans to build more council houses and offer more protections to private renters.\n\nThey also include plans to help more people buy their own homes and crack down on leasehold abuses. Jeremy Corbyn would also halt the sale of social housing, in an echo of the 1983 manifesto's pledge to end council house sales.\n\nIn 1983, the party would have gone much further.\n\nIt proposed \"a new Price Commission to investigate companies, monitor price increases and order price freezes and reductions. These controls will be closely linked to our industrial planning, through agreed development plans with the leading, price-setting firms\".\n\nIt would \"take full account of these measures in the national economic assessment, to be agreed each year with the trade unions\".\n\nIncreased spending on the NHS is a key priority in both the 1983 and the 2017 manifestos.\n\nIn 1983, Labour pledged to \"increase health service expenditure by 3% per annum in real terms\".\n\nIn 2017, Labour is promising to spend an extra £6bn to be paid for tax increases on higher earners.\n\nLabour's 2017 manifesto vows to \"reverse\" privatisation of the NHS. In 1983, the party promised to curb the expansion of private health care and \"take into the NHS those parts of the profit-making private sector which can be put to good use\".\n\n\"We will not allow the development of a two-tier health service, where the rich can jump the queue,\" the 1983 manifesto adds.\n\nBoth manifestos include a commitment to cut class sizes to below 30, although the 1983 manifesto pledges this for all schools, while the 2017 version says it will initially be for \"all 5, 6, and 7 year olds\", with the rest to follow \"as resources allow\".\n\nJeremy Corbyn is also pledging to introduce free school meals for all primary school children, paid for by removing the VAT exemption on private school fees.\n\nThe 1983 manifesto includes plans to charge VAT on private school fees and promises to \"re-establish the school meals and milk services, cut back by the Tories\".\n\nIt describes private schools as a \"major obstacle to a free and fair education system\" and promises to end their charitable status and \"integrate\" them into the local authority sector \"where necessary\".\n\nIt also rejects the \"Tory proposals for student loans,\" a policy echoed in Jeremy Corbyn's pledge to scrap tuition fees and bring back maintenance grants for low-income students.\n\nThe 1983 manifesto also pledges to scrap corporal punishment - the beating of children with canes or straps - in schools. The Conservatives outlawed this in state schools three years later.\n\nNet migration to the UK - the difference between the numbers coming to live in the country and those leaving - was 17,000 in 1983 - a fraction of what it is today.\n\nIn 1983, Labour said it accepted the need for immigration controls but vowed to scrap Conservative laws restricting the rights of Commonwealth citizens to remain in the UK and replace them with \"a citizenship law that does not discriminate against either women or black and Asian Britons\".\n\nIn 2017, Labour says it would scrap the Conservative target of reducing net migration to the \"tens of thousands\" and instead make a positive case for \"controlled\" migration to boost the economy.\n\nIt would bring in laws to stop companies undercutting wages with migrant workers or recruiting workers solely from abroad.\n\nThe internet may have been a distant dream in 1983, but then, just as now, broadband was a major preoccupation for Labour politicians, it seems.\n\nThe 1983 manifesto envisages a \"national, broadband network\" to carry a \"wide range of new telecommunications services\" and \"greater variety in the provision of television\".\n\nBut, it adds, this important new system must be \"under firm public control\", with the job of building it handed exclusively to \"publicly-owned British Telecommunications\".\n\nThirty four years later, the Labour manifesto includes a whole raft of broadband promises, including \"universal superfast broadband availability by 2022\", although there are no plans to renationalise BT to deliver it.", "Everton midfielder Ross Barkley has until the end of the Premier League season next weekend to sign a new contract or he will be sold, says manager Ronald Koeman.\n\nKoeman last month warned the England international, 23, that with a year left on his deal he could be sold.\n\nEverton face Watford on Friday before finishing their Premier League campaign at Arsenal on Sunday, 21 May.\n\n\"Either he accepts the contract or we sell the player,\" said Koeman.\n\n\"But if you need so much time then you have doubts - I like to work with players who like to stay.\"\n\nThe Dutchman said the Everton board had tried \"for a long time\" to get Barkley to sign and were already looking at replacements in attacking positions.\n\nHe added: \"We don't wait till August - next weekend we need an answer.\"\n\nBarkley has scored four goals and provided eight assists in 34 Premier League appearances this season.\n\nKoeman has used tough love to get the best out of Barkley this season - from public criticism, removal at half-time at Sunderland, praise for improvement but then back to dropping him at Swansea City last weekend. The latest message was just tough - no love involved.\n\nRuthless and pragmatic, the Everton boss delivered the ultimatum with the air of a man who would not lose a single second of sleep should he have to sell Barkley, making it clear he questions his long-term commitment because of his apparent reluctance to sign a new deal.\n\nBarkley now faces a dilemma. The boyhood Everton fan seems to believe the grass might be greener elsewhere, perhaps for Champions League football at Tottenham. But would Barkley even get in a Spurs team that already has Dele Alli and Christian Eriksen? Could he risk being a bench-warmer with a World Cup looming and England looking certain to qualify?\n\nFor Koeman's part, this unsentimental and single-minded individual clearly believes Barkley has had long enough to decide if he wants to stay at Everton and if he wishes to leave seems perfectly content to show him the door.", "In Singapore, it's very rare to see pregnant women taking part in rigorous activity outdoors\n\nAs a growing number of pregnant women are joining prenatal exercises classes, the BBC's Sarah Porter - 34 weeks into her pregnancy - attends a boot camp in Singapore.\n\nIt's 8.45am on a Saturday and Singapore's Botanic Gardens are alive with people and activity.\n\nLocal walking groups chat furiously in Mandarin, while gaggles of women push prams, coffees in hand. No-one seems particularly deterred by the rising heat.\n\nI'm here to join a brand new exercise group called Mom In Balance. It's a franchise business founded in the Netherlands that specialises in outdoor exercise programmes for pregnant women and new mothers.\n\nAs I sit and wait for others to arrive, a group of five or six women run by me, overtaking everyone in sight. They are being led by a tall blonde woman wearing a t-shirt that says Mom in Balance. I start to panic a little.\n\nI've done a reasonable amount of exercise throughout my pregnancy, including some swimming and a (very little) bit of running. But there is absolutely no way I'll be able to keep up with the group I've just seen sprint past.\n\nJantien from Mom In Balance puts Sarah Porter through her paces\n\nThankfully, a heavily pregnant woman decked out in running gear comes and sits next to me. I'm at the right spot, she tells me, at the right time. The 8am class I've just seen run past is for mothers getting back into shape soon after childbirth.\n\nThe tall blonde instructor returns to take the 9am class - a group which is now made up of three or four quite visibly pregnant women, together with some others.\n\nAs we set off on our warm-up, we are already dripping with sweat. As it is far from usual to see groups of pregnant women exercising outside in Singapore, passers-by stop and stare.\n\n\"Don't worry, we're famous here,\" one woman says to me. \"Some people even stop to take photos of us.\"\n\nDespite well-documented studies that show the benefits of exercise during all stages of pregnancy, globally the prenatal exercise industry is relatively new.\n\nIn fact, while a mass of data is readily available on the $542bn (£418bn) world fitness industry, it is very difficult to find any about prenatal classes.\n\nFor example, the Global Wellness Institute (GWI) reports extensively on the fitness industry, but has no statistics whatsoever on the prenatal sector. Nor could they find any for me, from any country.\n\nMom In Balance's Back in Shape classes for new mothers are more vigorous\n\nHowever, GWI's director of research Beth McGroarty, says the sector is definitely now expanding strongly.\n\n\"Programmes are being added at existing fitness centres and there are more prenatal yoga, Pilates and other gentle workouts available,\" she says.\n\n\"And given the powerful growth in prenatal fitness programmes, one can assume there will be research on this market in the future.\"\n\nFounded in 2006, Mom in Balance now has franchises in 11 countries, including the US, Japan and Germany, as it tries to meet increasing demand from mums-to-be.\n\nOthers look on as Mom in Balance member Emma, 38 weeks pregnant, warms up\n\nWhile the bulk of its 7,000 members are in the Netherlands, founder Esther van Diepen, is aiming to see that figure hit at least 10,000 by the end of this year, as it continues to expand around the world.\n\nHere in Singapore, the franchise is just four months old, with 75 active members. Jantien Kroese-van den Berg, a fitness instructor and the country's new Mom in Balance franchise owner, hopes to double those numbers by the end of the year.\n\nAt 150 Singapore dollars ($108; £83) per month for a variety of classes, Jantien says she is expecting to rely more heavily on Singapore's expat community than its locals for the initial growth in numbers.\n\nWord of mouth, she hopes, will then see more Singaporeans joining, despite some cultural opposition to pregnant women doing exercises.\n\nIn Singapore, where the population is about 75% ethnic Chinese, together with minorities including Indians and Malays, it's very rare to see pregnant women en masse taking part in rigorous activity outdoors. Prenatal yoga and Pilates is popular, but not more vigorous exercise.\n\nJantien says: \"There is sometimes a general feeling that you should do nothing because that might be better to hold on to your pregnancy.\n\nJantien wants to grow her Singapore membership numbers to 150 by the end of the year\n\n\"The Asian-born ladies in my classes - they all have to defend themselves to their families, even to their friends.\"\n\nA 2015 research paper that analyses the differences in beliefs, attitudes and intentions towards prenatal exercise between women in China and Australia explains a little of what's behind this.\n\n\"In traditional Chinese culture, pregnancy is considered a vulnerable period that requires rest and recuperation, with many antenatal taboos, some of which may contrast with international guidelines on exercise in pregnancy,\" the report says.\n\n\"Two relevant taboos intended to avoid spontaneous miscarriage include 'not walking too fast' and 'not walking too often', which have been reported to be adhered to by the majority of Chinese women,\" it continues.\n\nBut Mom in Balance member Richa Nair, a Singaporean Indian, explains it's not only a traditional Chinese belief that prenatal exercise can be dangerous.\n\n\"My friends sounded a bit shocked when I described the exercises we do, but soon that turned to admiration,\" she says.\n\n\"With regards to my family, they are mostly horrified and believe this is a time to relax and slow down the pace of life. Their eyebrows shot into their foreheads when I told them about my prenatal exercising.\"\n\nDr Ann Tan, a leading obstetrician and gynaecologist in Singapore, says attitudes towards prenatal exercise are definitely changing, though perhaps more slowly in parts of Asia.\n\nLike most medical professionals, though, she is guarded with her advice.\n\n\"Usually I don't like any high impact in the first trimester. I like walking, you can swim too. But no high impact stuff,\" she says.\n\n\"The second and third trimester depends very much on the lady herself. If she's perfectly well and she's been active all her life, then she can actually resume some of her exercise, but tail it down to about 60%.\"\n\nSingapore-based personal trainer Aaron Rolley, the boss of International Fitness Consultants, has worked with pregnant women for about 20 years.\n\nA personal training session with Aaron Rolley doesn't attract quite as much as attention as the Mom in Balance groups\n\nCharging 100 Singapore dollars for a one-on-one session, he has built a reputation as a leader in his field.\n\n\"Training during pregnancy is not about losing fat or going for a personal best,\" says Aaron.\n\n\"The workout for each mother will look very different, some will just stretch, foam roll and mobilise, while others will be doing chin ups and push ups. It depends on the individual and their training history.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nNext time you're hacking your way around the golf course, summon the spirit of the player who not only failed to card a single par but only managed two bogeys on his way to an eye-watering 127 in US Open local qualifying - finishing 55 shots over par.\n\nOn the 10th hole at Silver Lakes in Glencoe, Alabama, Clifton McDonald began badly with a double bogey seven.\n\nThings got significantly worse, and he was 14 over par after six holes by the time he stepped on to the 16th tee. Fourteen furious swipes later, he had completed the par five.\n\nMost people would have walked off. But not Clifton.\n\nHe forged on regardless to make what the Alabama Golf Association says is without doubt \"the highest score we've had in any qualifying event\".\n\n\"The guy was really nice. It's just you could tell he was in over his head,\" executive director Andy Priest told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It was a beautiful sunny day, it wasn't breezy at all. It's just a tough golf course.\n\n\"The feedback we got from other players was that it was firm and fast. Honestly it's good qualifying for the Open at Erin Hills.\n\n\"We got his scorecard and he confirmed what he had shot, but we didn't speak to him for very long. You could tell he had had a long day.\n\n\"But it I will say one thing, the gentleman played it out.\"\n\nLee McCoy, who finished second on Wednesday to take one of five qualifying spots, tweeted the picture above, adding: \"The scorecard of the guy that played in front of me at US Open qualifying today. Shot 68 on his front 9 and decided to finish #NeverGiveUp.\"\n\nMcDonald was, perhaps not surprisingly, bottom of the pack in 67th.\n\nThis year's US Open takes place between 15-18 June in Erin Hills, Wisconsin.\n\nAbout half of the field is made up of players who are exempt from qualifying - such as the defending champion, Dustin Johnson.\n\nBut any professional golfer, or an amateur with a handicap of 1.4 or lower, is eligible to enter local qualifying, which is played at 114 courses around the US and Canada.\n\nThose who are successful advance to sectional qualifying, which takes place at 10 sites in the US as well as in Japan and at Walton Heath in Surrey.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nHull City boss Marco Silva says he will meet with the club's hierarchy about his future following the club's relegation from the Premier League.\n\nThe Tigers will play in the Championship next season after losing 4-0 at Crystal Palace.\n\nSilva took charge in January until the end of the season and led Hull to six wins in 17 league games.\n\n\"We have to analyse with the board and chairman,\" said the Portuguese after his side's relegation was confirmed.\n\nHull, four points from safety with one game left, return to the Championship 12 months after winning promotion via the play-offs.\n\nSilva, 39, has been linked with a move to Southampton, who are managed by Frenchman Claude Puel.\n\n\"It is not a moment to look for excuses, what we felt in the last four or five games is that too many things have happened with our club,\" added Silva.\n\n\"I will talk to the board and the chairman first, talking inside the walls of the club.\n\n\"We started to lose in pre-season when we were making our preparation.\n\n\"We tried to do many things in January, but it's not good to be signing six or seven players in January, and losing two.\n\n\"The most important thing is for the club to understand what they did in a bad way, to prepare.\n\n\"You start to win or lose a season ahead one year in advance. I will give the board and the chairman my opinion, about what they need to do differently to make sure this doesn't happen.\n\n\"We'll talk in the next few days. Now it's time to be calm and see what is best, first for the future of the club, and also for my career as well.\"\n\n'Away form has been terrible'\n\nDespite having a better home record than eighth-placed Southampton, the Tigers managed just one away win and six points on the road.\n\n\"The feeling of relegation is a hard feeling to express,\" Dawson, 33, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It wasn't today we got relegated. The manager gave us a fighting chance but we've come up short.\n\n\"We've had some tough away games. Our form has been terrible.\n\n\"Relegation is the worst feeling as a footballer. Twelve months ago, it was an unbelievable feeling. I know how hard it is to get out of out of the Championship. We'll regroup and come back fighting.\"\n\nAnalysis by former Premier League winner Chris Sutton on BBC Radio 5 live\n\nTo say the Hull fans look disgruntled is an understatement. I wonder what the manager is thinking? Will he stay after relegation? I know what my money is on.\n\nIt has been a real surprise to me these last few games for Hull.\n\nThey got themselves in a situation where they could have stayed up but they have totally given up. You could almost say they have bottled it.\n\nCrystal Palace were one point outside of the relegation zone after a run of one win in 11 games when Sam Allardyce took charge in December.\n\nVictory over Hull ensures they are guaranteed a fifth straight season in the Premier League.\n\nPalace have beaten Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool in recent weeks but went into the Hull match on the back of three straight defeats.\n\n\"To come away with wins against Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal, it shows you how big a task it was,\" said Allardyce.\n\n\"We've done it with a game to go.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nIan Poulter is looking forward to planning a \"very long schedule\" after overcoming injury problems in \"the toughest stretch\" of his career.\n\nPoulter, 41, was runner-up at the Players Championship on Sunday, his best finish since November 2014.\n\nThe Englishman, once fifth in the world rankings, missed four months last year with a foot injury and says even now he is only operating at \"75%\".\n\n\"It's been miserable, really hard - but we're getting there,\" he told the BBC.\n\nPoulter's injury problems caused him to drop out of the top 200 and ended a run of five consecutive Ryder Cup appearances, in which he won 14 points from 18 matches.\n\nHaving secured a medical exemption to play on the PGA Tour, he missed the cut in his first two events back and feared he had lost his card last month after failing to gain the requisite earnings in the allotted time frame.\n\nHowever, the PGA Tour decided its rules \"unintentionally made it more difficult\" for injured players and Poulter was allowed to continue for the rest of this season.\n\nAt the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass - often referred to as the unofficial fifth major of the year - Poulter was in contention for a first PGA Tour victory since 2012, but finished three shots behind winner Kim Si-woo, the event's youngest champion.\n\n\"It has been miserable, there's no other way to explain it,\" Poulter told BBC Sport.\n\n\"When you're taking a break for several months, when your world ranking plummets, when you miss Ryder Cups, when you find yourself in a position chasing down to try and keep your tour card.\n\n\"It's obviously been the toughest stretch of my career. We're still working through some things to try and be 100% there. I think I'm at 75%.\n\n\"I can now plan a very long schedule and work out exactly what I'm doing.\n\n\"I'm going to have a nice summer with the kids in the UK. I think I'll be playing a lot in the UK this summer.\"", "Redevelopment of White Hart Lane starts less than 24 hours after Tottenham said an emotional farewell to their home of the past 118 years with a 2-1 win over Manchester United.\n\nThey plan to have a new 61,000-seater stadium, built on the same site, ready for the 2018-19 season.\n\nIn the meantime, the club will play home games at Wembley, which they have used in the Champions League and Europa League this season.\n\nThe new stadium is expected to cost £750m but will create about 3,500 jobs in the area when it is finished, according to the club.\n\nREAD MORE: 'The heavens are shedding a tear' - White Hart Lane memories", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nA television advert featuring disgraced ex-sprinter Ben Johnson has been criticised by Australia's anti-doping authority for \"making light of the use of performance-enhancing drugs\".\n\nCanadian Johnson was stripped of 100m Olympic gold from Seoul 1988 after testing positive for a banned steroid.\n\nIn the advert, he says a betting firm's mobile phone app \"tested positive for speed and power again and again\".\n\nThe company has defended the advert and says it will not be pulled.\n\nThere are several doping puns used in the advert, including claims the app is \"a hit with performance-enhancement experts all over the world\".\n\nAustralia's federal sports minister, Greg Hunt, said the use of Johnson was \"utterly inappropriate\", while independent senator Nick Xenophon wants the country's media watchdog, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, to take action.\n\n\"It is just wrong on so many levels - glorifying a drugs cheat, tying it in with gambling and promoting it to kids in a light-hearted way,\" said Xenophon.\n\nA statement from Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority said the advert \"does not condone the message sent in this advertisement\".\n\nIt added: \"This advert makes light of the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport and sends the completely wrong message that the use of drugs in sport is normal.\n\n\"This advertising campaign belittles the achievements of clean athletes and denigrates those who work to protect clean sport across the world.\"\n\nA spokesperson from the betting firm, Sportsbet, told News Ltd media it did not \"condone the use of performance-enhancing drugs\" but made \"no apologies for injecting some humour into advertising\".", "Andy Murray, who turns 30 on Monday, says he is \"not massively into birthdays\".\n\nAnd that may be no bad thing given the difficulty players have found in winning Grand Slams in their thirties.\n\nOnly four men have managed to do so this century: Pete Sampras at the US Open of 2002; Andre Agassi, twice in three years, at the Australian Open; Stan Wawrinka at the 2015 French Open and last year's US Open; and Roger Federer, who won his 7th Wimbledon title at the age of 30 and then so memorably walked away with this year's Australian Open at the age of 35.\n\nThe incomparable Serena Williams has won 10 in her 30s, but women too have traditionally struggled to make an impact in their fourth decade.\n\nSince the start of tennis' Open Era in 1968, just 10% of Grand Slam titles have been won by players over the age of 30. It is a percentage I think likely to increase over the next couple of years, as Murray's principal rivals remain the other members of the top five, who have triumphed in all bar two of the Grand Slams contested since the French Open of 2005.\n\nAnd with the exception of Novak Djokovic, who is seven days younger than Murray, Federer, Wawrinka and Rafael Nadal are all further advanced in years.\n\nMy sense is that Murray's motivation and desire remain strong - even though he has already won three Grand Slam titles, two Olympic gold medals, the Davis Cup and been world number one, and has a wife and young daughter with whom he would love to spend more time.\n\nWith the exception of a bout of shingles and an elbow injury, which have contributed to a 2017 season which is yet to get out of first gear, Murray has been predominantly fit and healthy since undergoing successful keyhole back surgery in September 2013.\n\nThe physical nature of his style, and the reliance on exceptional defensive skills which have broken the spirit of so many opponents, will in time take their toll on his body. So while I am not putting money on him to win the 2023 Australian Open at the age of 35, I do think his prospects remain bright for at least the next two years.\n\nMurray himself speaks openly about the prospect of remaining on tour, and thus remaining competitive, for a good few years yet. Although there may be times when his wife and team need to confiscate his racquet and balls and force him to switch off and relax - which may prove easier said than done.\n\nWinning a Grand Slam title will remain incredibly challenging: just witness what Federer is still able to do at 35, and what a threat Nadal proved on hard courts even before there was a sniff of clay in his nostrils.\n\nWawrinka is likely to remain a major threat in a Slam if, having survived the first week, he hits his straps in the second, and it would be very unwise to rule Djokovic out of the equation even though he has been far from his best for 10 months now.\n\nThe 25-30 age group is headed by Milos Raonic, Kei Nishikori, Grigor Dimitrov, David Goffin and two US Open champions in Juan Martin del Potro and Marin Cilic.\n\nRaonic and Del Potro seem most likely to pose a threat to the established order if they can steer clear of injury, but all of the above have had to soak up a lot of punishment from those serial Grand Slam winners over the years.\n\nWhich leaves the under-25s, who are an emerging threat. Dominic Thiem looks a French Open champion in the making: the 23-year-old is at a career high ranking of seven after finishing runner-up to Nadal in both Barcelona and Madrid.\n\nFrance's Lucas Pouille beat Del Potro and Nadal en route to the quarter-finals of both Wimbledon and the US Open last year. Alex Zverev, at 20 and a career high ranking of 17, has won his first three titles in the past eight months.\n\nAnd then there is Nick Kyrgios, who is yet to present evidence he can keep it together to win seven matches over a two-week Grand Slam, but has been far more consistent this year and beat Djokovic twice in the space of two weeks in Acapulco and Indian Wells.\n\nSo the threat to Murray from the next generation should not be underestimated. Thirty is a significant landmark in many people's lives, but the world number one says he expects to be relaxed about it as he spends the day practising at the Foro Italico before this week's Rome Masters.\n\nFind out how to get into tennis in our special guide.\n\n\"I think the last time I was at home on my birthday and around my friends and family was when I was 13 or 14,\" Murray told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I didn't even know what day [of the week] it was until I was told [last week]. Maybe on the day that will be a little bit different.\n\n\"A lot of people put huge emphasis on birthdays and I am sure it will be chatted about a lot, but I haven't thought about it too much.\"", "Juan Pablo Pernalete was one of dozens of people who have been killed in protest-related violence in Venezuela since a wave of anti-government marches started at the beginning of April. Here, his parents recall the day he died.\n\n\"He was always a dreamer,\" says Elvira Llovera of her son.\n\nIn his bedroom at the family home in Caracas, a list of his life goals is pinned to the inside of a closet where the 20 year old's basketball shirt still hangs.\n\nElvira reads it out: \"I want to play for the NBA; I want to be successful and become a multi-millionaire; I want to be the best player in the whole world; I want world peace; I want to be tall; I want to grow to 1.96m; I want to get to know God well; I wish for my friends, and above all for my family, to be healthy.\"\n\nHis father, José Gregorio, says his son's bedroom is as he left it\n\nJuan Pablo had done well for himself, he had won a basketball scholarship to the prestigious private Unimet university in Caracas, where he was studying accountancy.\n\nBut he wanted everyone to have the same opportunity to do well for themselves, Elvira explains.\n\nBut as the economic and political crisis in Venezuela worsened, Juan Pablo saw a lot of his friends forced to leave for other countries, seeking opportunities abroad.\n\nAs the food shortages became more acute, he would pick the fruit from the large mango tree in his parents' courtyard.\n\nThe family mango tree besides a full-size basketball hoop and a tiny one that Juan Pablo played with as a child\n\n\"He put them in carrier bags and left them in strategic places in the streets so that those going hungry could pick them up,\" Elvira recalls.\n\nIn the mornings, Juan Pablo would attend classes and train at the leafy and prosperous Unimet campus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrés Toth speaks about his friend who died after attending one of Venezuela's protests\n\nIn the afternoons, he would go to play basketball in the \"barrios\", as the informal hillside neighbourhoods are known.\n\nThere, he saw for himself some of the extreme poverty in which people live.\n\nElvira was, therefore, not surprised when Juan Pablo told her he wanted to change things in Venezuela and started attending anti-government marches.\n\n\"I begged him not to go, I told him the security forces were cracking down on protesters, but he said he wanted an opportunity to express himself and to fight for his dreams,\" she says.\n\nJuan Pablo's father, José Gregorio Pernalete, adds: \"He didn't belong to any party, he just wanted a better country for all.\"\n\nHis talent as a basketball player had won Juan Pablo (first from right) a scholarship to a private university\n\n\"He was an idealist, he set his dreams so high,\" Elvira says.\n\nOn 26 April, Juan Pablo attended an anti-government protest in the Altamira district of Caracas.\n\nHis friend Andrés Toth, with whom he had trained in the gym earlier in the day, was also there, as were many of their friends.\n\nHis parents had just returned home from hunting round pharmacies for José Gregorio's high-blood pressure medication when they got a call from a friend.\n\n\"'There's word on the streets that Juan Pablo has been injured, he's been taken to Salud Chacao hospital,\" the friend told Elvira.\n\nJuan Pablo's dream was to play in the NBA\n\nElvira and José Gregorio jumped into their car, but the protest meant that roads on the way to the hospital were gridlocked.\n\nDesperate, Elvira jumped out of the car and flagged down a young motorcyclist weaving through the traffic.\n\n\"I told him my son was injured and had been taken to Salud Chacao and if he could drop me somewhere nearby.\"\n\n\"He said 'No way, lady, I'm taking you all the way there!'\"\n\nAt the hospital, the local mayor was waiting for Elvira. He told her: \"You have to be strong, your son is dead.\"\n\nElvira says she feels as if she has died inside since she heard the news\n\nElvira does not remember much about the minutes which followed.\n\nSomehow, she called her husband and told him.\n\nJosé Gregorio, still behind the wheel of his car, lost all control, he says.\n\n\"I couldn't see for the tears, I was screaming, I was banging my hands on the steering wheel.\"\n\nA random passer-by got him out of the driving seat and into the passenger seat and took the keys off him.\n\nJosé Gregorio and his wife were planning to sell their house and set up a business for their son once he graduated\n\n\"I remember he told me I was in no fit state to drive, and that he would drive me to Salud Chacao,\" says José Gregorio.\n\nAccording to the forensic report, Juan Pablo died of cardiogenic shock caused by trauma to his chest.\n\nVarious people who attended the march said that the National Guard was firing tear gas canisters in the direction of the protesters, and that instead of aiming them high above the protesters' heads, they were shooting at them.\n\nJuan Pablo may not have measured the 1.96m he had dreamed of, but at 1.86m, he was tall and he was hit by something which caused his heart to stop pumping enough blood needed to meet his body's needs.\n\nJuan Pablo had saved seven dogs off the streets but his latest rescue was a black cat he named Richard Parker\n\nThe official investigation into what happened that 26 April in Altamira is still under way.\n\nAt this point, José Gregorio and Elvira know only one thing for certain, and that is that they do not want any other family to have to live through what they experienced.\n\n\"When I see the lads in the barrios that he played basketball with, I see the same look in their eyes that I saw in my son, the same aspirations, there is so much talent here. Please don't let that be wasted like my son's was,\" Elvira says.", "Antonio Conte is enjoying a spectacular first season as Chelsea manager, but can he follow it up by bringing sustained success to Stamford Bridge?\n\nThe 47-year-old Italian has the Premier League title in the bag, could soon get his hands on the FA Cup as well - and his side will compete in next season's Champions League.\n\nHe says this is only the start for his Blues team, but where do they go from here and how will he do it?\n\nFormer Chelsea players Ruud Gullit, Pat Nevin, Chris Sutton, Graeme le Saux and Mark Schwarzer tell BBC Sport what they think could happen next.\n\nWill Conte stay? 'I would be stunned if he left now'\n\nRuud Gullit (former Chelsea player and manager 1995-98): \"From a football point of view, of course he will stay. His next challenge is to win the Champions League and he can do that with Chelsea.\n\n\"If he feels he has a team that can win it, why would he leave in order to start all over again somewhere else?\n\n\"It is different if it is a decision about his family. His personal life is important as well.\n\n\"If his family are not in London, it is a little bit odd because I think it is the best city in the world, so why are they not coming?\n\n\"It is understandable if people are very attached to their own customs, however. And, if his family want to be in Italy, then it is an easy choice for him to make.\"\n\nPat Nevin (played more than 250 games for Chelsea 1983-88): \"After spending a couple of hours talking to Antonio a few weeks ago, I would be stunned if he left.\n\n\"It would have to be an unbelievably spectacular offer to take him away from Chelsea and the only thing that usually means managers move on from positions like that is that they don't have the level of control they want.\n\n\"I don't think his own finances are a big deal for the guy and he told me he is enjoying London now.\n\n\"The other thing to consider is that when you stand at Stamford Bridge and you hear the fans singing 'Antonio, Antonio' then you realise the adoration he has got from everyone. That is hard to walk away from.\"\n\nChris Sutton (broke Chelsea's transfer record when he joined for £10m in 1999): \"The only way I see Conte leaving is if he does not get the players in he wants this summer.\n\n\"I don't think he will prioritise the Champions League because he will want to win everything, but I expect him to go really hard at it.\"\n\nConte won three successive Serie A titles with Juventus between 2012 and 2014 but his Champions League record is less impressive - Juve lost 4-0 on aggregate to Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals in 2012-13 and failed to get out of the group stage the following season.\n\nGraeme le Saux (made more than 300 appearances for Chelsea in two spells 1987-1993 and 1997-2003): \"Any success going forward depends on the personnel and if they can retain the quality players they have got.\n\n\"Eden Hazard and N'Golo Kante are both 26, and they are young enough to make Chelsea a force going forwards.\n\n\"Diego Costa has been linked with a move to China, but it is important for Chelsea they keep this group of players together.\n\n\"If they do that, I think they will go into the next season as favourites to win the Premier League again.\"\n\nMark Schwarzer (part of the Chelsea squad that won the Premier League in 2014-15): \"The potential is there for back-to-back titles, and Chelsea can win the Champions League too.\n\n\"There are players in that squad who have played in a number of Champions League games and been successful in that competition.\n\n\"Conte is very good at winning domestic competitions. Clubs like Chelsea, their number one priority is to win the Premier League and then look beyond that to try and win the big one, the Champions League.\n\n\"With the right additions, and a little bit of time, Chelsea can really challenge for that title but next season it is going to be a huge burden on them.\n\n\"We don't know how they will deal with the physical and mental side of having more games to play and less time to recover.\"\n\nPat Nevin: \"Conte has over-achieved domestically this season but, even so, the Champions League is a big jump - look at the lack of success by English teams in recent years.\n\n\"If he got Chelsea out of the group stage and into the latter stages that would be a success in his first season with the club in the Champions League.\n\n\"But that is predicated by one very important thing - who is he going to get in, and who will leave in the summer?\"\n\nLukaku in? 'Conte needs four or five really quality signings'\n\nPat Nevin: \"With the current group, he cannot do next year what he has done this season. There is just not enough numbers there.\"\n\nChris Sutton: \"Conte is clearly not big on rotation but he still had to change the make-up of his team around at times this season.\n\n\"He is fortunate he has got a lot of intelligent footballers who can play in numerous positions, but next season he will need more strength in depth and that means four or five really quality signings.\n\n\"Wing-backs would one of the areas where Conte will think he needs more cover and, whether Costa stays or goes, there is lots of talk about Everton striker Romelu Lukaku coming back to the club.\n\n\"He likes to play between the two centre-halves and is not going to come deep to get the ball but, if he joins, I can see him being very successful playing that Costa role.\"\n\nRuud Gullit: \"John Terry is definitely leaving so they need someone in defence who can take David Luiz's position if something happens to him.\n\n\"But in every area they do not want a situation where they are depending too much on one player.\n\n\"Even when you have success, you need to change little things to keep people on their toes - look at what happened to Jose Mourinho after winning the title in 2015 - all of a sudden they went from champions to nothing.\"\n\nPat Nevin: \"Conte will want a bit more strength and power in midfield - but if he can keep Hazard, Cesc Fabregas, Pedro and Willian then he does not need any more creativity.\n\n\"The biggest question is at centre-forward. I watched Michy Batshuayi when he was playing in France and he is a real player, a goalscorer - someone who will do very well. I don't know if it will be at Chelsea though.\n\n\"Considering I believe that Conte wants to play two up front, he might want to go for a different type of centre-forward.\n\n\"As well as Lukaku, Alvaro Morata has been talked about. What has impressed me most about Conte, though, is he does things you do not expect - those are the names we are thinking about, but he might know about someone completely different.\"\n\nChris Sutton: \"Conte is not going to take his foot off the gas, if anything he will put his foot down harder. If any youth players get a game, it will not be down to him doing them a favour.\n\n\"Tammy Abraham has got something about him, and it will be interesting to see if he gets a chance. Ultimately, though, things have not changed since my day so it will be down to him - he will have to show what he can do in pre-season and hope it is enough.\"\n\nPat Nevin: \"Chelsea fans will tell you we have got these good young kids and they will come in and make it.\n\n\"Really? Hopefully they will, and it would be the perfect situation if they did but people make the mistake of thinking the jump from the under-21s to Chelsea's first team is one step - it's not, it is about 47 steps.\n\n\"Abraham is going to be a great player, and he is coming back to the club for next season, but I would be shocked if all Chelsea did was stick with what they have got, and drafted more youth players in.\"\n\nCosta out? 'If he wants to leave, then let him'\n\nGraeme le Saux: \"When you look at the balance and blend that Chelsea have you think it would be a shame to lose any of those players as they are all playing so well and understand their role perfectly.\"\n\nMark Schwarzer: \"You could argue all of them would be hard to replace but Kante and Hazard probably stand out.\n\n\"Leicester tried to replace Kante and failed miserably. Yes, Chelsea are on a different level to Leicester but it would still be a huge void to fill.\n\n\"As for Hazard, he is an incredible talent. You just don't know what you are going to get from him - his ability to score goals and assist is quite remarkable.\"\n\nRuud Gullit: \"Even when Costa has not been scoring goals, he still does an important job for the team. He is an example of someone they have depended on too much - he is up there with Hazard as one of their most influential players.\n\n\"But if Costa feels he wants to leave because he want a different challenge, then let him go. If that's his state of mind, it is better to sell him.\"\n\nChris Sutton: \"Cesc Fabregas only has a year left on his contract and has not played as much as many of their players, but he will get more games next year.\n\n\"Arguably the biggest challenge for Conte was keeping him happy this season, but he has had that kind of harmony with his entire squad.\"\n\n'Conte is adaptable, pragmatic - and not frightened to change'\n\nConte began the season using a 4-1-4-1 formation but switched to a 3-4-3 formation during their 3-0 defeat by Arsenal on 24 September. They started a game playing that way for the first time in their win against Hull on 1 October and went on to win 13 straight league matches.\n\nPat Nevin: \"I suspect Conte will be using different systems, systems that will suit Fabregas a bit better.\n\n\"You think of the way Conte's Juventus team played with Andrea Pirlo, and that would suit Fabregas absolutely.\n\n\"People said he was a 3-4-3 man when he arrived at Chelsea but that was never the case. If you look back, he often played with four at the back and very frequently with two up front.\n\n\"He has already started to show he can change things around, when he left Costa and Hazard on the bench for the FA Cup semi-final. So the sort of thing he will need to do next season is already happening now.\n\nChris Sutton: \"He changed things once, at the start of last season after some bad results.\n\n\"He seems an adaptable, pragmatic manager and I don't think he is frightened to change. You would not rule out him returning to four at the back if he sees fit.\n\n\"I don't think he is going to slacken off, though. Yes, he works the players hard in training but when you are successful it makes that treatment easier to accept.\"\n\n'I don't think we have seen 50% of his capabilities yet'\n\nThe last time Chelsea were champions was 2014-15, and they finished 10th the following season. No team has retained their Premier League title since Manchester United won it in 2007-08 and 2008-09.\n\nGraeme le Saux: \"It bodes well for Chelsea that they now have a culture of achieving and setting very high standards for themselves and each other. The players clearly love playing for Conte and giving him everything as well.\n\n\"You would like to think all those values he is building at the club would hold the team in good stead going forward. I hope their success this year means there is some continuity there.\"\n\nPat Nevin: \"Financially, Chelsea are in a great position. Obviously they are already very wealthy but it is almost forgotten they got £60m for Oscar in January and they have not spent that.\n\n\"So Conte will have an enormous amount to spend in the summer and the other thing he has got in his favour is that he is young for a manager - he turns 48 in July. So the passion, the hunger that he has, it is natural - and he is still on the upward curve.\n\n\"I don't think we have seen 50% of his capabilities yet and I am dead keen to see him up against Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho, who will both be stronger next year.\"\n\nRuud Gullit: \"Even if Conte does lose some of his players, the structure of his team is already there and he can build from the back.\n\n\"There are five teams challenging for the title in England but Conte does not have to start from scratch this time.\n\n\"It is just a question now of what he can add for next season and, after his first year in England, he will also have learned a lot.\"", "Fernando Alonso says he is \"very excited\" about his Indy 500 odyssey - and he is not alone.\n\nThe two-time F1 champion flew straight from Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix to America to start his attempt to win the Indianapolis 500 on 28 May.\n\nSome measure of the impact his decision has had comes from the fact that more than two million people watched Alonso's first test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway earlier this month.\n\nYes, two million people. Watching a webcast of a single car going around a circuit with four left-hand turns.\n\nFor Alonso, who is missing the Monaco Grand Prix to race at Indy, this is the next step to trying to win the 'triple crown' of motor racing's three blue-riband events.\n\nOnly one man, Graham Hill, has so far triumphed in Monaco - where Alonso has already won twice - at Indy and in the Le Mans 24 Hours.\n\nAnd it is a rare chance to taste success at a time when his F1 career is becalmed by poor machinery.\n\nAt Indy, Alonso will have a car with which he can win, branded for his McLaren F1 team, run by the elite Andretti Autosport outfit and powered by a Honda engine - which, unlike the one in Alonso's F1 car, is absolutely competitive.\n\nFew would question Lewis Hamilton's assessment that Alonso will be \"the best driver in the paddock\" at Indy. Less certain is whether he can adapt quickly enough to racing on a high-speed oval.\n\n\"He just won't have the time,\" Hamilton says. \"It will be interesting to see how he fares against the drivers who have all this experience.\"\n\nThis is not just any racing driver. Alonso is an exceptional talent.\n\nBut he has never raced on an oval before, and is facing highly skilled rivals who have been doing it for years.\n\nSo what is Alonso up against, and what makes winning at Indy so difficult?\n\nThe Indy 500 is 200 laps of a 2.5-mile 'superspeedway' with four left-hand turns banked at an angle of nine degrees, all of which look identical but have their own subtleties.\n\nThere are no run-off areas - the track edge is a wall. Average lap speeds top 230mph in qualifying.\n\nIt is, needless to say, extremely dangerous, even if safety has been improved in recent years by replacing concrete walls with impact-absorbing barriers in the corners.\n\nAll teams use a spec Dallara chassis but there are two engine manufacturers - Honda and Chevrolet - and each can develop its own aerodynamics.\n\nAlthough the cars are more rudimentary than F1 machinery, there is a level of complexity of set-up on an oval that Alonso has not experienced before.\n\n'Between runs, he sat in the car, his face calm, no wide eyes'\n\nCan Alonso adapt to the challenges of Indianapolis?\n\nThe beginnings of an answer were provided by his first run at Indy in early May, which also comprised the mandatory 'rookie test' all drivers new to Indy have to complete.\n\nHe was alone on track but it provided compelling viewing. Not only for the fly-on-the-wall nature of the coverage - cameras eavesdropped on Alonso's conversations with his engineers in a way never allowed in F1 - but also for the way he dealt with the day.\n\nThe rookie test required a driver to run a series of laps at pre-determined speeds - 10 laps in the range of 205-210mph, 15 at 210-215mph, 15 at 215-220mph. That's a total of 40 laps for the test. Alonso completed it in just 50, including those on which he exited or returned to the pits.\n\nThis is not hugely remarkable for a driver of his ability. But there were some eye-opening aspects to the day.\n\nAt one point, Alonso was told over the radio that he had completed the 210-215mph phase and could go straight onto the next one. His very next lap was 219.495mph.\n\nThe 215-220mph phase completed, he was straight into the high 221mph range, topping out at 222.548mph. \"That's a race pace right there,\" said a watching Mario Andretti, 1978 F1 world champion and 1969 Indy 500 winner.\n\nThere was hardly any sense of Alonso playing himself in. He exuded control, as if he did it every day.\n\nIf he was feeling intimidated by the speeds involved, there was not a hint of it. Between runs, he sat in the car, his face calm, no wide eyes, no apparent trepidation at all.\n\nEven to an experienced observer, this was extraordinary.\n\nScot Dario Franchitti, a three-time Indy 500 winner, said he was \"amazed\".\n\n\"I thought he got up to speed incredibly quickly,\" he added.\n\nAlonso had arranged for timing data from a 210mph lap to be put on the steering wheel display screen, and calculated what would be the lap-time difference for the increased speeds.\n\nBut when I asked 2003 Indy 500 winner Gil de Ferran how Alonso judged it so finely, he made it clear it was a long way from normal.\n\n\"The guy has enormous feel. Huge,\" said De Ferran, who is acting as Alonso's mentor at Indy.\n\n\"Obviously Fernando is extremely gifted, and I have now also learned that he is highly intelligent, has a great attitude and a great work ethic.\"\n\nAlonso described his first test as \"fun\", and did admit to one moment when the speed and the walls got to him.\n\n\"The team at one point said: 'You are done with the limitations, so run free as you feel,'\" Alonso said.\n\n\"I knew Marco [Andretti, who set the car up for Alonso] was flat in Turn One and I said [to myself] I will do it flat out.\n\n\"I was convinced 100% I was going flat out but the foot was not going flat out; it had its own life. The second or third lap I was able to do it, but the first lap was a good moment to feel the place, the car.\n\n\"The speed is something. For any racing driver, it is just pure adrenaline. It was a good day.\"\n\nIntimidated, Alonso clearly is not. But he is aware that winning at Indy involves more than just being fast and brave - and that running in traffic in excess of 230mph and working out how to optimise the car are things he has to learn fast.\n\nWhat does he have to learn?\n\nAlonso has already impressed the Andretti team with his application and his understanding of the differences between what Americans call road racing and oval racing. But the task ahead of him is huge nonetheless.\n\nThere are so many differences between F1 and the Indy 500 that it is hard to know where to start.\n\nThe speed is one thing - there is not a corner on an F1 circuit anywhere in the world that is taken as fast as the average lap speed Alonso will be doing in the race at Indy, let alone qualifying.\n\nWhereas an F1 team is not allowed to change the car between qualifying and race, Indy requires two different set-ups for each.\n\nAnd then there is the complexity of how the cars work on an oval track.\n\nA driver has to turn right to go in a straight line because the cars are designed only to turn left and set up asymmetrically. The idiosyncrasies of oval racing mean that adjustments for handling balance are made not only to the front and rear but also diagonally across the car.\n\nDrivers can change this while out on track with something called a 'weight-jacker' - a kind of diagonal pitch control, which De Ferran says \"changes the balance of the car tremendously\".\n\n\"In a way, you have twice as many variables,\" De Ferran adds, \"and [you have to work out] how does that interact with your driving.\n\n\"There are a lot of peculiarities for someone who has never done ovals.\"\n\n'Like driving on ice at 230mph'\n\nAlonso has five days of practice this week, with six hours of running on each as long as the weather stays fine - IndyCars do not run in the rain on ovals - before qualifying over two days on the weekend of 20-21 May.\n\nIn that time, he will have to learn the car, come up with set-ups for qualifying and race, learn how to adjust the car on track for changing conditions and come to terms with running in traffic at more than 220mph.\n\n\"Qualifying and the race are very different,\" De Ferran says. \"Qualifying at Indy quite frankly is one of the most difficult things I have ever done in a racing car.\"\n\nA lap of Indianapolis is supposed to be \"flat\" - the driver never lifts his foot off the accelerator. But it is a long way from easy. The driver is absolutely on the edge, the car in a controlled slide or 'drift', all the time.\n\nThe car is 'trimmed out' to have as little downforce as the driver feels he get can get away with - because downforce equals drag and drag slows you down on the straights - while going as fast as possible in the corners.\n\nThe result, De Ferran says, is \"the car feels like you are driving on an ice road at 230mph. It is very, very little grip and very, very little margin\".\n\nThe grid is set over two days. Saturday's running fundamentally defines the nine drivers who can compete for pole on the Sunday - the so-called 'Fast Nine'. The remaining 24 also compete for grid slots on the Sunday, but the best they can be is 10th, no matter what time they set. Positions are defined by speed over a four-lap run and the drivers take it in turns to go out.\n\n\"One of the unfortunate things sometimes about TV is you can't see how on-the-edge the whole thing is,\" De Ferran says.\n\n\"It may look from TV that the guy is just going round and round and it looks easy, but you ask any driver where they have to do a lot of runs in qualifying trim, they are like, 'Oh my God, this is so stressful. I don't want to do that many runs in qualifying trim. I'm done. Once is enough.' And now they have to do it at least twice and that's difficult.\n\n\"You are literally looking for a few centimetres here and there to make a difference. If the tyres go off, if they are degrading a little bit too much because you are sliding a little bit too much, come the fourth lap you are in trouble.\n\n\"It is an adventure like you have no idea.\"\n\nFor the 500 itself, there is a \"completely different set of problems,\" De Ferran explains.\n\nThe driver still wants to be running as little downforce as possible because, as De Ferran puts it, \"the less downforce you can run, the quicker you will go\".\n\nBut he has to run more than in qualifying because of the problems created by racing in the vicinity of 32 other cars. Traffic messes up the behaviour of the car.\n\n\"That's one of the big difficulties - how much downforce do you add?\" De Ferran says. \"Because the more you add, the more you slow down. Alone. In perfect conditions.\n\n\"Now you have to do 30 laps [in a stint] instead of four. And you have to take tyre degradation and traffic into account.\n\n\"It may be traffic from a line of cars, from one car, and when you are in traffic you lose downforce and the car starts sliding like mad and then you can't go forward.\n\n\"The mindset from a set-up perspective for the race is quite different than in qualifying.\"\n\nA driver may want his car to behave differently in the race so it is less on-a-knife-edge than he can get away with for four laps of qualifying.\n\n\"Balance-wise you may not want the car to be quite as neutral,\" says De Ferran. This usually means giving it just a little understeer so the front is not quite as grippy as before, which is a safer balance in the race than oversteer, where the rear wants to come around on the driver.\n\nBut too much understeer - or 'push', as it is known in America - is also bad, De Ferran says.\n\n\"When you get in traffic typically you not only you lose grip but you also gain understeer, so it's a very complex equation.\"\n\nFinally, because the race is 500 miles, on a high-speed oval with no run-off area, accidents are inevitable, and with them come caution periods - or 'yellows' - when the cars are held behind a pace car.\n\nGetting it right or wrong when the race goes green again can determine whether you win - as Nigel Mansell found to his cost when he lost the lead on a restart in 1993.\n\nOne of Alonso's great qualities in F1 has always been his adaptability - his biggest strength among many is arguably his ability to drive the car to its maximum no matter how it is behaving.\n\nDe Ferran says drivers are \"a bit more limited\" in being able to drive around problems on an oval, but this skill \"always helps because the car is changing all the time really - the tyres are degrading, the fuel level is changing, on an oval you have this traffic to deal with\".\n\nHe adds: \"It is never this beautiful constant thing that you keep perfecting. The track is changing and you have to learn how to adapt to that. It is one of his skills that he scores very highly at.\"\n\nWhat do Alonso's rivals think about it?\n\nDe Ferran has been a long-time admirer of Alonso - since watching trackside at the 2001 Brazilian Grand Prix, when the Spaniard was in his first season with Minardi.\n\n\"I didn't even know who he was, but I was watching on a corner,\" the 49-year-old recalls. \"The car was three seconds off but I was thinking: 'Hmmm. Who is that?'\"\n\nHe was approached to be Alonso's mentor for his Indy adventure over the weekend of the Bahrain Grand Prix.\n\n\"When they first asked me, that was very emotional. It was, like, 'Wow.'\n\n\"You think: 'Jesus, it is one of the best drivers I have ever seen, a great champion.'\"\n\nFormer IndyCar driver Bryan Herta said at Alonso's rookie test: \"He's going to be a pretty formidable competitor. He's got everyone's attention already.\"\n\nDe Ferran says: \"I think most people are super-happy he has elected to come and do the Indy 500, primarily because Fernando commands a huge amount of respect.\n\n\"When I retired, someone asked what was one of your biggest frustrations, and I said I never really went head-to-head with Michael Schumacher and it was something I wanted to do.\n\n\"A lot of people see Fernando as I saw Michael and having the opportunity to race against a guy like that in similar equipment and so on is unique.\"\n\nCan he win it?\n\nVeteran Helio Castroneves said adapting to Indy racing would be \"no problem\" for Alonso. And four-time IndyCar champion and 2008 Indy 500 winner Scott Dixon said Alonso had a \"great shot\" at winning.\n\nDe Ferran says: \"He has the skill, the experience, the knowledge, the emotional control to be a true contender in Indianapolis but there are so many things that have to come right on that one day for you to win.\n\n\"Let me put it this way, Mario Andretti tried God knows how long to win it for a second time and he only won it in '69. Scott Dixon, who frankly is supremely talented, won it only once.\n\n\"It's unbelievable. Yes, in the car you control a lot of levers but definitely not all of them. And there are some levers that not even the team controls.\n\n\"You have a bad pit stop and it happens to be the last one and you are in trouble. You may be dominating the whole race, but there's a strategy call, or a yellow that falls just at the wrong time, and you may be in trouble again. Or a mechanical failure.\n\n\"You make a bad decision in the car, once, and it happens to be at a crucial time, and you were in a position to win and now you're not.\"\n\nHe uses as an example Alex Rossi, who drove five races for back-of-the-grid F1 team Manor in 2015, but won Indy at his first attempt last year, after gambling on not stopping for fuel after a late-race caution period.\n\nDe Ferran says: \"If the yellow ended one lap sooner than it did, Rossi would not only not have won the race, he would not even have finished because he would have run out of fuel. That is one clear example between hero and zero that is completely beyond the control of the driver.\"\n\nAnd what does Alonso himself think?\n\n\"First, I want to enjoy the experience,\" he says. \"Everyone keeps telling me how big the event is. So my first target is to go there and live that moment. For any racing driver it must feel a privilege to race there.\n\n\"After that there is always a small percentage that you can win, because there are many factors there, it is not only about the pace.\n\n\"Probably my chance to win is a little lower than some of my competitors because I am lacking experience, but I have a lot of joy and commitment to learn as much as I can so it will be fun.\n\n\"But after that, when you close the visor you don't like it when you are are second. It's the same in any sport. We are all competitive and we want to do the best we can.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton and Mercedes stole a stunning victory in the Spanish Grand Prix from Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel.\n\nA clever strategic move by the team followed by Hamilton attacking and passing Vettel put the Briton in control and he defended successfully to the end.\n\nVettel had passed Hamilton off the start line to lead for the first half of the race but ended up out-flanked by their rivals.\n\nHamilton's second win of the season cut his deficit to Vettel in the championship to six points after five of 20 races.\n\nWhy was it such a great race?\n\nIt was a tense and gripping battle befitting the closeness of the fight between Formula 1's top teams this season.\n\nVettel took control of the race with a superb start, passing Hamilton into Turn One and building a 2.2-second lead with a blistering first lap.\n\nWhen Ferrari beat Mercedes to making the first pit stop, preventing Hamilton passing by stopping earlier and benefiting from fresh tyres, the race appeared to be Vettel's to lose and Mercedes to win.\n\nMercedes switched strategies, putting Hamilton on a long middle stint on the slower medium tyre, the idea being to attack Vettel at the end of the race, when Hamilton would be on the soft tyre and the Ferrari on the medium.\n\nThey then bought themselves some time by delaying the first pit stop of Hamilton's team-mate Valtteri Bottas so he could hold up Vettel for a couple of laps.\n\nVettel's delay behind Bottas brought Hamilton's deficit to the Ferrari down by four seconds but the German limited the damage with a stunning passing move on the Finn into Turn One.\n• None LISTEN: 'Like Mansell on Piquet back in the day'\n\nVettel dummied to the inside, then the outside, before diving down the inside, his wheels brushing the grass, to grasp the lead and apparently take another step towards victory.\n\nThe race turned during a period of the virtual safety car, when cars are forced to lap at controlled speeds while a car is cleared from a dangerous spot.\n\nThis was to remove Stoffel Vandoorne's McLaren, which went off at the first corner after a collision with Massa.\n\nThe VSC was in play for two laps and Mercedes waited until it was just about to end to pit Hamilton for a set of soft tyres.\n\nThe move was an inspired gamble with 30 laps still to go, a tough task on the soft tyre.\n\nFerrari responded to Mercedes by stopping Vettel for the final time a lap later and he rejoined from the pits as Hamilton pounded down the pit straight.\n\nThey went into the first corner side by side and Vettel forced Hamilton off the track at Turn One as he defended his lead.\n\nHamilton now had to pass Vettel on a track where overtaking is notoriously difficult.\n\nHe pressured Vettel hard for the next seven laps before getting close enough to try for a pass at the start of lap 44. Hamilton was close enough at the final corner to get the DRS overtaking aid and he swept by Vettel around the outside into Turn One.\n\nHamilton, who sounded breathless and anxious on the radio throughout the race, tensely asked his team what he needed to do in terms of building a gap while also protecting his tyres, and Ferrari briefly considered switching strategy to make an extra stop.\n\nBut he controlled his pace exquisitely to take his 55th win and almost certainly one of his best.\n\nAfter helping Hamilton out, Bottas looked set for third place but he broke down with an engine failure on lap 39.\n\nHis retirement handed third place to Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo, a huge 73 seconds behind Hamilton and Vettel.\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen and Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen retired on the first lap after a collision at the first corner as they went three-abreast with Bottas.\n\nForce India took fourth and fifth with Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon, with Renault's Nico Hulkenberg seventh.\n\nFernando Alonso had a dispiriting day 24 hours after thrilling his home fans and impressing the paddock with a stunning seventh place on the grid.\n\nThe McLaren driver dropped to 10th on the first lap when he was forced wide and off the track at the second corner by Williams' Felipe Massa and had to drive through the gravel to rejoin.\n\nAlonso will fly overnight to America to start his assault on the Indianapolis 500, for which he is missing the next race in Monaco, where Jenson Button will come out of retirement to substitute for him.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nMonaco, in two week's time. It's impossible to predict what will happen on the claustrophobic streets of Monaco in this see-saw battle between Mercedes and Ferrari.\n\nHamilton said earlier in the year he thought the shorter Ferrari might be more agile there, but the Mercedes was the fastest car through the tight final sector of Barcelona's lap so another close battle is almost certainly in store.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nGoals from Victor Wanyama and Harry Kane earned Tottenham victory over Manchester United in their final game at White Hart Lane.\n\nSpurs plan to have their new stadium, built on the same site, ready for the 2018-19 campaign and will play their home matches at Wembley next season.\n\nMauricio Pochettino's side left their current ground, where they have spent 118 years, on a high by staying unbeaten there this season and securing second spot in the Premier League.\n\nWanyama got Spurs off to the best possible start with a header five minutes in and Kane doubled their lead early in the second half, flicking home from a Christian Eriksen free-kick.\n\nCaptain Wayne Rooney gave United hope of a recovery when he poked in from Anthony Martial's low cross, but they were unable to spoil the leaving party.\n\nDefeat means Jose Mourinho's men cannot now finish in the top four.\n\nThey can still qualify for the Champions League if they win the Europa League, but Mourinho will have to settle for fifth or sixth place in his first season at the club.\n\nTottenham's title chances ended last week with their defeat by West Ham, and the trophy went to Chelsea on Friday.\n\nWith a Champions League place already guaranteed, Pochettino said their final home match was all about making it a special day for the fans.\n\nThe teams walked out to a display of flags around the ground, Spurs legends including Chris Waddle and Glenn Hoddle were invited as special guests, and local musical duo Chas and Dave provided half-time entertainment.\n\nAnd the Tottenham players gave supporters a first-half performance to remember.\n\nBen Davies' sublime cross was headed home by Wanyama to give Spurs the early advantage, and they could have extended their lead before the break had goalkeeper David de Gea not denied Son Heung-min and Kane.\n\nFive minutes into the second half, the hosts doubled their lead. Eriksen's free-kick curled into the path of Kane and he out-smarted defender Chris Smalling to poke home his first goal against United.\n\nSpurs' performance dropped off after that, but they managed to hold on - despite Rooney's goal giving them a scare.\n\nWill United go out on a high?\n\nFour of Man United's five Premier League losses this season have been in games played on a Sunday immediately after a European match.\n\nAnd just like the defeat by Arsenal last weekend, a much-changed Mourinho starting XI put in an average performance in north London.\n\nMartial looked lively in attack but could only curl his best effort wide of the post in the first half.\n\nThe Frenchman instigated his side's goal by ghosting past Kieran Trippier before picking out Rooney, who tapped in from close range.\n\nSubstitute Marcus Rashford went close at the death, but it proved to be too little too late for the visitors.\n\nUnited's focus is firmly on winning the Europa League title - they face Ajax on 24 May - and Mourinho said after Sunday's defeat: \"The most important thing for us now is having one less match to play.\n\n\"We have only one match to play and that's not in the Premier League.\"\n• None Tottenham recorded their 14th consecutive home win in league competition, equalling their club record previously set between January and October 1987.\n• None Spurs have gone unbeaten at home for the first time in a league season since 1964-65\n• None Mauricio Pochettino is the first Spurs manager to oversee consecutive home wins over Manchester United in the Premier League.\n• None Man United suffered back-to-back Premier League defeats for the first time since September 2016 (against Manchester City and Watford).\n\nTottenham boss Pochettino said after his side's win: \"The fans have been fantastic all season. They have helped us a lot during the whole season. It was fantastic, the team played to win.\n\n\"Of course we will miss it a lot because White Hart Lane is special but at the same time we welcome the new stadium.\"\n\nTottenham play Leicester City on Thursday at the King Power Stadium (19:45 BST), before ending the season at relegated Hull City (15:00 BST) on Sunday.\n\nManchester United travel to Southampton on Wednesday (19:45 BST), with their final league game coming at home against Crystal Palace (15:00 BST).\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Michael Carrick tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Michael Carrick with a through ball.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Harry Kane tries a through ball, but Eric Dier is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by Harry Kane.\n• None Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Kyle Walker replaces Kieran Trippier because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nSouth Korean Kim Si-woo produced a faultless round to become the youngest champion at the Players Championship.\n\nKim, 21, shot a three-under-par 69 on the final day at Sawgrass to finish on 10 under and replace Adam Scott as the youngest winner.\n\nEngland's Ian Poulter was tied for the lead at one stage but finished three shots behind in a tie for second with Louis Oosthuizen after a 71.\n\nRafa Cabrera Bello and Kyle Stanley finished tied for fourth on six under.\n• None How Kim held off Poulter and made Players history\n\nAfter his victory in the Wyndham Championship last year, Kim is the fourth player in the last 25 years to win twice on the PGA Tour before the age of 22, following in the footsteps of Tiger Woods, Sergio Garcia and Jordan Spieth.\n\nKim started the final round two shots behind overnight leaders JB Holmes and Stanley while Poulter, chasing a first victory since 2012 and a maiden strokeplay success in the United States, was three behind.\n\nBut with Holmes and Stanley failing to sustain their challenges in blustery conditions, Kim and Poulter both knocked in early birdies to share the lead.\n\nBirdies on the seventh and ninth made the South Korean the first player to reach 10 under par this week and gave him a two-shot lead.\n\nPoulter reduced the deficit to one but then, having gone 39 consecutive holes without a bogey, dropped a shot on the 12th.\n\nThe 41-year-old tried to put Kim under pressure but the putts would not drop and the leader remained agonisingly out of touch.\n\nKim saved par from tricky positions on both the 10th and 11th and safely negotiated the challenge of the water at the 17th with a bold tee shot and two composed putts.\n\nAfter Poulter dropped a shot on the 18th, Kim went on to secure the biggest win of his fledging career with another par.\n\nIt has still been a remarkable week for Poulter, who three weeks ago thought he had lost his PGA Tour card after falling to 197th in the world rankings.\n\nThat was until fellow professional Brian Gay alerted officials to a discrepancy in the points structure used for players competing on major medical extensions.\n\nThe former world number five, who only played 13 tournaments in 2016 because of a foot injury, made the most of his reprieve and will climb back into the top 100 in the new rankings.\n\n\"From being in a position a couple of weeks ago where I wasn't here to finish tied second, it's a good week,\" Poulter told Sky Sports after his best finish since November 2014.\n\n\"It has been a tough 18 months. Today I felt like a couple of putts slid by, but I played well under pressure, barring that horrible second shot on the last.\n\n\"I've enjoyed it and hopefully this is just a stepping stone to pressing on for the rest of this year.\"\n\nAnalysis - Poulter has a platform to build on\n\nIt was a curious Players Championship in that none of the world's top 10 could fashion a top-10 finish, but it still produced its usual share of sporting drama.\n\nKim showed commendable composure down the stretch to become the youngest winner while Poulter will feel this was a victory despite his runner-up finish.\n\nIt has been a torrid time for the Englishman over the last 18 months but this week he showed he remains capable of excellent golf even with a relatively cold putter. Now he has a platform upon which to build for the rest of the year having returned to the world's top 100.\n\nSpain's Cabrera Bello produced a spectacular finish to claim a tie for fourth with Stanley.\n\nCabrera Bello holed out from 181 yards for the first albatross in tournament history on the 16th, then followed that with another two on the 17th, before holing from 35 feet for par on the last after hooking his tee shot into the water.\n\nBut compatriot Sergio Garcia, who started the day well placed on five under, saw his hopes of adding the Players title to his Masters Green Jacket disappear on the outward nine.\n\nHe dropped six shots and made just one birdie to fall back to level par and two double bogeys and three birdies on the back nine meant he finished one over.\n\nFurther down the leaderboard, world number one Dustin Johnson finished outside the top three for just the third time this season in a tie for 12th.\n\nThe American followed rounds of 71, 73 and 74 with a closing 68.\n\nRory McIlroy's week came to a disappointing conclusion with a double-bogey six on the 18th in a closing 75.\n\nThe world number two from Northern Ireland finished two over par in a tie for 35th and is set to undergo an MRI scan later on Monday to determine the extent of an injury which hampered his efforts at Sawgrass.", "Former offenders Bali and Lennox Rodgers now counsel schoolchildren facing exclusion from school\n\nMore children are getting caught carrying knives and makeshift weapons - including rolling pins and beer cans - police in England and Wales say. Here, one woman explains why she took weapons to school as a child.\n\n\"I used anything I could get my hands on,\" says Bali Rodgers, from Dartford in Kent, who had been arrested three times by the age of 11.\n\n\"I didn't take knives but used fists and other things,\" she says.\n\nShe recalls using a shiv - a type of improvised blade - to harm other pupils, and put pins in another girl's shoes.\n\n\"To think now about [what I did then] frightens the life out of me,\" she says. \"I was in total denial at the time.\"\n\nMrs Rodgers finally changed her life after leaving school at 15 and ending up in a psychiatric ward by the age of 21. She now counsels schoolchildren who are on the verge of exclusion from school.\n\nShe says of her own childhood: \"I didn't know any other way,\" she says. \"I ended up hurting others, and myself.\"\n\nThe 49-year-old counsels children in Dartford, Maidstone, Hastings and south-east London, and says many of those she talks with are \"extremely paranoid\" that they will be attacked if they don't have a way of protecting themselves. This is particularly the case with those who have been bullied at some stage.\n\nShe believes pupils are now carrying a bigger variety of weapons - and at a younger age - than in previous school generations.\n\n\"They get their hands on a knife or some object and think 'I'll never use it but carry it just in case',\" she says.\n\n\"I am working with one 14-year-old girl who doesn't fit in at school, but is carrying knives for her boyfriend. It's really sad.\"\n\nA recent Freedom of Information request found an array of dangerous items - including swords, axes and air guns - were among the 2,579 weapons seized in schools in England and Wales in the two years to March 2017.\n\n\"You get the ones in gangs who brag, and see it as a bit of a fashion,\" she says.\n\n\"But it's the silent types who feel vulnerable, so they carry things.\"\n\nShe recalls that her own turbulent childhood - with an alcoholic father and being racially bullied - made her \"constantly violent\" at school.\n\n\"My dad used to threaten me, I was petrified of him,\" she says.\n\nShe ran away from home at 15 but a decade later was taken in by a family in Kent who helped her turn her life around as a young adult.\n\n\"They were a couple, who were missionaries in Africa, and they helped me get a whole new understanding of family, respect, values.\"\n\nShe says that living in a stable home helped her learn that her anger was out of control.\n\n\"That's what's missing for many kids,\" she says. \"If there's no-one at home to talk to, you don't learn to respect teachers or how to control your rage.\"\n\nMrs Rodgers says teachers are \"under more pressure than ever\" and may be unable to deal with pupils who have complex issues at home.\n\nIn an unusual incident three years ago, teacher Ann Maguire was stabbed to death at her school in Leeds by a teenage pupil.\n\nWill Cornick, who was 15 at the time of the murder, later said he had gone to class that day in \"a red mist, not conscious of his surroundings\".\n\nMrs Rodgers now runs a charity, Refocus, with her husband Lennox, who himself carried a knife when he was a teenager.\n\nOrganisations Foundation4Life and UserVoice offer a similar service, by using ex-offenders to speak to young people at risk of turning to crime.\n\n\"Unlike with teachers and parents, these kids open up to us,\" she says. \"I will tell them a little bit about my story if they share a bit of their story.\"\n\nFor husband Lennox, who co-founded the charity in 2004, he thought when he was younger that carrying a knife \"gave me a sense of power\".\n\nHe carried weapons after being bullied for being black when growing up in Oxford.\n\nAfter leaving school, he was involved in gangs and spent two decades in and out of prison.\n\nMrs Rodgers says that young people hang on to every word her 54-year-old husband says when he is talking about his life, but insists that his stories do not glamorise the carrying of weapons.\n\n\"They do think he's cool - but also listen to the dark side of his story - that if you deliberately put yourself on a route of violence you don't succeed and end up in serious trouble,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm hoping we turned some bad into good.\"", "Australia's Ashes series against England in November could be in doubt because of a players' contract dispute, says vice-captain David Warner.\n\nIn March, Cricket Australia proposed salary increases for men and women, but this would mean players no longer receive a percentage of CA's revenue.\n\nThe offer was rejected and CA said it would not pay players after 30 June.\n\nWarner told the Age newspaper: \"If it gets to the extreme, they might not have a team for the Ashes.\"\n\nA stand-off has developed between CA and the Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA), which represents the players.\n\nEx-Australia captain Mark Taylor said the players were \"prepared to strike\" over the proposals.\n\nIf the dispute is not resolved, there would be uncertainty over what team Australia could field after 30 June, with a two-Test series scheduled in August in Bangladesh before a home Ashes showdown which runs from 23 November 2017 to 8 January 2018.\n\nThat 30 June deadline also falls in the middle of the Women's World Cup, which takes place in England between 24 June and 23 July - and Australia's elite female players have shown solidarity with their male counterparts over the dispute despite CA's March offer to double the elite women's pay.\n\nA Cricket Australia spokesperson told BBC Sport: \"CA is ready and willing to negotiate with the ACA.\"\n\nIn a letter sent by CA to the ACA, chief executive James Sutherland said \"players with contracts expiring in 2016-17 will not have contracts for 2017-18\" unless the ACA negotiates a new Memorandum of Understanding.\n\n\"We want a fair share, and the revenue-sharing model is what we want, so we are going to stick together until we get that,\" added Warner, currently playing in the Indian Premier League. \"We are not going to shy away; we are just going to stick together.\n\n\"We want to keep participating for our country as much as we can, but if we don't have a job, we have to go and find some cricket elsewhere.\"\n\n'International boards need to put their hands in their pockets'\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan believes the dispute could be the first of many to affect the international game.\n\n\"It's great for England to see Australia falling out and fighting with each other but in terms of the game as a whole it's not a great story,\" he said on BBC Radio 5 Live's Tuffers and Vaughan Show.\n\n\"I've never seen it to this level. It's sad for the game when you're hearing this but I don't think it will be the last case of players getting together as groups. There's so much money coming through TV deals, I think players will say 'we fancy a piece of that'.\n\n\"International boards have got to put their hands in their pockets to save international cricket. In our day, international cricket was the sole money-maker for the game but the Twenty20 leagues are catching up.\"", "Frank Bostock and his lions catching up with the news\n\nWhen considering which creatures have roamed the sewers beneath Birmingham, lions are unlikely to make the list. But on one fateful day in autumn 1889, a lion who had previously killed a man and mauled another escaped from a menagerie and did just that.\n\nTravelling menageries were extremely popular in the 19th Century. Although zoos were starting to emerge in Britain, these were often socially exclusive or inaccessible, according to Dr Helen Cowie, a historian at the University of York.\n\nPopular though they were, the typical menagerie's approach to health and safety was cavalier at best. Dr Cowie says they \"were not too preoccupied\" with security and there were \"an alarming number\" of escapes and accidents.\n\nAn illustration from The Graphic newspaper shows men pulling a lion from a sewer using a rope while two other men threaten it with guns\n\nFrank C Bostock, the owner of a menagerie, was himself responsible for fooling both the public and the police over the whole lion-in-a-sewer affair. He later described the event as \"thrilling\".\n\nWorld-famous as a lion tamer, having discovered the beasts were intimidated by chairs, he came from a long line of animal-displayers and was part of the Bostock and Wombwell menagerie dynasty.\n\nFiercely ambitious, according to researchers at the National Fairground and Circus Archive, Bostock established himself in the US and by 1903 an average of 16,000 people a day were visiting his menagerie on New York fairground haven Coney Island.\n\nOn returning to the UK Bostock brought back his idea of the \"Jungle\", a massive touring exhibition that moved from city to city.\n\nFrank C Bostock published a volume of his memoirs and training tips\n\nReaching Birmingham, Bostock and his team were preparing for a show when one of his lions jumped over its keeper, pushed through a rip in the circus tent, and prowled off towards Birmingham city centre \"as free and untrammelled as when in his native wilds\".\n\nAccording to Bostock's account of it it his book The Training of Wild Animals, the lion came across one of the openings to the sewerage system and \"down he sprang, looking up at the crowd of people and roaring at the top of his voice. As he made his way through the sewers, he stopped at every man-hole he came to, and there sent up a succession of roars, driving some people nearly wild with terror.\"\n\nLarge crowds had gathered, eager to see the menagerie. Understandably, with a lion on the loose, they started to panic.\n\nSo Bostock came up with a plan.\n\nCrocodiles were seen as a quirky pet for Victorian ladies\n\nIn 1851 a tapir broke out of its den at Wombwell's menagerie in Rochdale, causing panic among the spectators.\n\nIn 1867 a rattlesnake escaped from its box in Mander's menagerie, killing a horse and a bison.\n\nIn 1868 five leopards escaped from a menagerie in the Scottish borders after their caravan overturned on the road.\n\nIn 1883 a bear got loose in Grimsby and entered a private house.\n\nEven elephants sometimes went missing, though they could usually be found in the vicinity of the nearest pub. In 1854 an elephant disappeared from Batty's menagerie in Holyhead and was gone for nearly 24 hours. It was eventually discovered in a hotel cellar, surrounded by empty wine bottles.\n\nBostock toured the world with his menagerie\n\nRather than try to quell the volatile crowd, he put a second lion in a cloth-covered cage and sneaked it out on the back of a lorry.\n\nHe then returned, blowing his horn to attract attention, with the lion clearly visible.\n\nIn his own words, \"everything went off well\".\n\nPeople fell for the ruse and he was cheered as a hero. \"A shout went up from the crowd 'They've got him! They've got him! They've got the lion!'\"\n\nHis actions in apparently getting the lion from the sewer were reported around the world.\n\nA New Zealand newspaper ran an article called \"A lion at large in Birmingham: How the King of the Forest was recaptured\" which included details such as \"the keeper's attention was momentarily distracted by a fight between an ostrich and a deer\" and \"a group of children were in the lion's path. It cleared them at a bound\".\n\nThe publicity worked in Bostock's favour. Hordes of people attended the show that evening, blissfully ignorant of the fact a man-eating lion was prowling beneath the streets.\n\nBostock said he \"was in a perfect bath of cold perspiration, for matters were extremely serious, and I knew not what to do next. Fortunately, the lion had stopped his roaring, and contented himself with perambulating up and down the sewer\".\n\nOn the afternoon of the following day, the chief of police of Birmingham visited the menagerie and congratulated Bostock on his \"marvellous pluck and daring\".\n\nIllustration of men putting a cage over a manhole in an attempt to trap the lion\n\n\"I shall never forget that man's face when he realized that the lion was still in the sewer, it was a wonderful study for any mind-reader,\" he reflected.\n\n\"At first he was inclined to blame me but when I showed him I had probably stopped a panic, and that my own liabilities in the matter were pretty grave possibilities to face, he sympathized with me, and added that any help he could give me, I might have.\n\n\"I at once asked for 500 men of the police force, and also asked that he would instruct the superintendent of sewers to send me the bravest men he could spare, with their top-boots, ladders, ropes, and revolvers with them, so that should the lion appear, any man could do his best to shoot him at sight. We arranged that we should set out at five minutes to midnight, so that we might avoid any crowd following us, and so spreading the report.\n\n\"At the appointed time, the police and sewer-men turned out, and I have never seen so many murderous weapons at one time in my life. Each man looked like a walking arsenal, but every one of them had been sworn to secrecy.\"\n\nThis secrecy was preserved until Bostock himself spilled the beans.\n\nAn illustration of a man and the lion in the sewer\n\nIt was more than 24 hours after the stooge lion was paraded that Bostock, now in the sewer, \"saw two gleaming eyes of greenish-red just beyond, and knew we were face to face with the lion at last\".\n\nBostock and his gang of men chased the lion through the sewers by scaring it with shouts and fireworks.\n\nWhen face-to-face with the lion Bostock took off his boots and put them on his hands \"and going up close to the lion, was fortunately able to hit him a stinging blow on the nose. Fearing that he would split my head open with a blow from one of his huge paws, I told one of my men to place over my head a large iron kettle which we had used to carry cartridges and other things to the sewer\".\n\nBut the kettle fell off his head and startled the lion which \"turned tail like a veritable coward\" and ran into a rope lasso laid out ready to ensnare him.\n\nBostock's recounting of the story in his memoirs concludes, rather smugly, with: \"I got the lion out of the sewer, as the people of Birmingham supposed I did, only their praise and applause were a little previous.\"\n\nHe died aged 46 in 1912, not by the paw of a justifiably-annoyed big cat but from the flu. There's a docile-looking stone lion on his grave.\n\nFrank C Bostock's grave is in Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pili Hussein wanted to make her fortune prospecting for a precious stone that's said to be a thousand times rarer than diamonds, but since women weren't allowed down the mines she dressed up as man and fooled her male colleagues for almost a decade.\n\nPili Hussein grew up in a large family in Tanzania. The daughter of a livestock keeper who had many large farms, Pili's father had six wives and she was one of 38 children. Although she was well looked after, in many ways, she doesn't look back on her upbringing fondly.\n\n\"My father treated me like a boy and I was given livestock to take care of - I didn't like that life at all,\" she says.\n\nBut her marriage was even more unhappy, and at the age of 31 Pili ran away from her abusive husband.\n\nIn search of work she found herself in the small Tanzanian town of Mererani, in the foothills of Africa's highest mountain, Kilimanjaro - the only place in the world where mining for a rare, violet-blue gemstone called tanzanite takes place.\n\nMaasai herders first discovered tanzanite in 1967 - it's now one of the world's best-selling gems but is in limited supply\n\n\"I didn't go to school, so I didn't have many options,\" Pili says.\n\n\"Women were not allowed in the mining area, so I entered bravely like a man, like a strong person. You take big trousers, you cut them into shorts and you appear like a man. That's what I did.\"\n\nTo complete the transformation, she also changed her name.\n\n\"I was called Uncle Hussein, I didn't tell anyone my actual name was Pili. Even today if you come to the camp you ask for me by that name, Uncle Hussein.\"\n\nIn the tight confines of the hot, dirty tunnels - some of which extend hundreds of metres below the ground - Pili would work 10-12 hours a day, digging and sieving, hoping to uncover gemstones in the veins in the graphite rock.\n\n\"I could go 600m under, into the mine. I would do this more bravely than many other men. I was very strong and I was able to deliver what men would expect another man could do.\"\n\nPili says that nobody suspected that she was a woman.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pili Hussein tells Outlook's Matthew Bannister how she succeeded in becoming a miner\n\n\"I acted like a gorilla,\" she says, \"I could fight, my language was bad, I could carry a big knife like a Maasai [warrior]. Nobody knew I was a woman because everything I was doing I was doing like a man.\"\n\nAnd after about a year, she struck it rich, uncovering two massive clusters of tanzanite stones. With the money that she made she built new homes for her father, mother and twin sister, bought herself more tools, and began employing miners to work for her.\n\nAnd her cover was so convincing that it took an extraordinary set of circumstances for her true identity to finally be revealed. A local woman had reported that she'd been raped by some of the miners and Pili was arrested as a suspect.\n\n\"When the police came, the men who did the rape said: 'This is the man who did it,' and I was taken to the police station,\" Pili says.\n\nThe miners dig using chisels and fill bags with rubble which are hoisted up to the surface using a rope\n\nShe had no choice but to reveal her secret.\n\nShe asked the police to find a woman to physically examine her, to prove that she couldn't be responsible, and was soon released. But even after that her fellow miners found it hard to believe they had been duped for so long.\n\n\"They didn't even believe the police when they said that I was a woman,\" she says, \"it wasn't easy for them to accept until 2001 when I got married and I started a family.\"\n\nFinding a husband when everyone is accustomed to regarding you as a man is not easy, Pili found, though eventually she succeeded.\n\n\"The question in his mind was always, 'Is she really a woman?'\" she recalls. \"It took five years for him to come closer to me.\"\n\nPili has built a successful career and today owns her own mining company with 70 employees. Three of her employees are women, but they work as cooks not as miners. Pili says that although there are more women in the mining industry than when she started out, even today very few actually work in the mines.\n\n\"Some [women] wash the stones, some are brokers, some are cooking,\" she says, \"but they're not going down in to the mines, it's not easy to get women to do what I did.\"\n\nPili's success has enabled her to pay for the education of more than 30 nieces, nephews and grandchildren. But despite this she says she wouldn't encourage her own daughter to follow in her footsteps.\n\n\"I'm proud of what I did - it has made me rich, but it was hard for me,\" she says.\n\n\"I want to make sure that my daughter goes to school, she gets an education and then she is able to run her life in a very different way, far away from what I experienced.\"\n\nPili Hussein was part of the UN Women Mapping Study on Gender and Extractive Industries in Mainland Tanzania\n\nListen to Pili Hussein speaking to Outlook on the BBC World Service\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nHarry Kane says it was 'brilliant' to score Tottenham's match-winning goal against Manchester United in their final game at White Hart Lane.\n\nSpurs said an emotional farewell to their home of the past 118 years with a 2-1 win over United on Sunday.\n\nThey plan to have their new 61,000-seater stadium, built on the same site, ready for the 2018-19 campaign.\n\n\"What a way to finish, we wanted a win so badly in our last game here,\" said Kane after Sunday's game.\n\nSpurs, who will play at Wembley next season, were already leading through Victor Wanyama's header when Kane flicked home to make it 2-0.\n\nWayne Rooney scored United's consolation, the last ever goal at the ground, but Spurs claimed the points to finish their home campaign unbeaten in the league.\n\nKane, who has 22 Premier League goals this season, added: \"I said before I'd love to score the winning goal and for it to happen is brilliant. To see it go in was special.\n\n'We will miss the Lane'\n\nDespite a torrential rain shower, thousands of fans streamed onto the pitch within moments of Sunday's game ending.\n\nIt took several minutes to clear the good-natured pitch invasion before the closing ceremony which featured a video montage of the history of White Hart Lane.\n\nA number of former Spurs players were present including Glenn Hoddle, David Ginola, Ledley King, Teddy Sheringham, Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa.\n\n\"Of course we will miss it a lot because White Hart Lane is special,\" said Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino.\n\n\"But at the same time we welcome the new stadium.\"\n\nMy move to London was difficult at first because I had grown up in the north-east and I felt like I was a long way from home but, even when I had not settled off the field, I always enjoyed playing at White Hart Lane.\n\nI made my Spurs debut there in August 1985 against Watford and scored twice in a 4-0 win - they were both headers, and I think that was the last time I headed the ball.\n\nWe had one marvellous year in my time there - 1986-87 when we reached the FA Cup final and finished third - that people still ask me about when I go back to the Lane.\n\nWe felt like we could beat anybody but we just played too many games in the end. I did not think we were far short of winning the title but the team broke up that summer.\n\nBut even when we were not near the top of the table, White Hart Lane was always a fantastic place to play football. The Spurs fans always loved to see some flair and good football and it was a place known for entertainment. That was one of the reasons I decided to join the club and I loved my time there.\n\nI have got some great memories of the Lane, and it will be missed but in modern-day football you have got to move on - you have got to move with the times if you want to be at the top.\n\nTottenham's new stadium will have a capacity of 61,000 - White Hart Lane only holds around 36,000, which is a reason in itself why they need to leave in order to develop and progress as a club.\n\nThey are trying to take the next step off the pitch, and it is happening at the same time that they have got a very good team on it.\n\nDavid Ginola, who played for Tottenham between 1997-2000, said the heavens were shedding a tear as heavy rain marked the last game at White Hart Lane.\n\nFormer Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe, now at Sunderland, tweeted this message...\n\nWinger Andros Townsend, now at Crystal Palace, spent seven years at White Hart Lane.\n\nAnd former Spurs striker Gary Lineker also had a farewell message at a ground he spent three years at.", "\"I think that you have to be a mathematician\"\n\nPortugal has won this year's Eurovision Song contest with a poignant love song, sung in Portuguese. In the early hours of Sunday morning the winner met the world's press - glass microphone trophy still in hand.\n\nSalvador Sobral entered the Eurovision Song Contest's press room last night with the same diffident, bemused demeanour he has projected since arriving in Kiev.\n\nThere was no swagger, no elation - just a quizzical befuddlement at the latest turn his musical journey had taken.\n\nLike many watching at home around the world, the Lisbon-born 27-year-old had been baffled by the complex voting system that the contest adopted last year.\n\n\"I didn't understand the votes,\" he admitted to reporters. \"I think that you have to be a mathematician or something to know what's going on.\"\n\nThe winner wasn't alone in his confusion\n\nNor did he expect overnight fame and fortune to come with the honour of becoming Portugal's first Eurovision winner.\n\n\"I don't think anything will change,\" he shrugged. \"You win today and tomorrow, no one remembers it.\n\n\"Honestly, man, I just want to live a peaceful life,\" he told another journalist.\n\n\"If I thought of myself as a national hero or champion of Europe, it would be a bit weird.\"\n\nEven in such an eclectic line-up as the one Eurovision served up this year, Sobral stood apart.\n\nWhile some countries offered amusing gimmicks (Romanian yodelling, Italy's dancing gorilla) and others sleek, assembly-line pop, his delicate, heartfelt ballad stood out precisely because it was so unassuming.\n\nWritten by Sobral's older sister Luisa, Amar Pelos Dois - whose title translates into English as Love for Both of Us - speaks to all genders and orientations with its inclusive, unadorned message.\n\nA family affair: Salvador's sister Luisa wrote the song for him\n\nSobral said he would be delighted if its Eurovision triumph had some impact, however small, on how music is made, produced and marketed.\n\n\"People listen to songs because they're thrown at you,\" he said. \"You have to like this because we're going to play it 16 times a day and force you to like it.\n\n\"This is music with content, an emotional song with a beautiful lyrical message and harmony - things people are not used to listening these days.\n\n\"If I can help to bring some change to music I would be really joyful,\" he said, dressed as ever in a modest dark suit.\n\n\"And I hope it will encourage people to bring different things and all sorts of music to future editions of this contest.\"\n\n\"We're going to play it 16 times a day and force you to like it,\" he said of the music business\n\nThose future editions could learn much from this year, which offered audiences a spectacular, entertaining and endlessly quirky diversion.\n\nFor a contest whose slogan was \"celebrate diversity\", though, it was surprising more thought was not given to basic areas of presentation.\n\nThe final and the two semi-finals that preceded it were hosted by a trio of white male TV presenters who are all well-known in host nation Ukraine.\n\nCommentator Graham Norton and one of his Australian counterparts were not alone in remarking that the line-up was hardly indicative of the contest's stated aim.\n\nFor the millions watching at home, however, it was the variety, the colour and the craziness that made it unmissable Saturday night viewing.\n\nIn keeping with Eurovision tradition, Portugal will host the 2018 iteration of an event that continues to unify Europe in a way politics never can or will.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rajasthan's Royal Red Tent is as tall as a double-decker bus, made from silk, velvet and gold - and it's getting its first proper clean in more than three centuries, says Melissa Van Der Klugt.\n\nHigh up on the ramparts of Mehrangarh, in one of Rajasthan's most famous forts - one of the most visited in India - a small team is dusting down a large tent.\n\nEach section is so big that the three conservationists - dressed in neat white overalls and equipped with pocketfuls of soft brushes - must clamber around on tables and chairs. \"The priority is the object,\" says one, pointing to the elaborate design of lotus flowers stitched in solid gold thread.\n\nFor this is no ordinary tent - but one that excites huge interest and controversy in India. It was once thought to have been the home of Shah Jahan, the great 17th-Century Mughal emperor who built the Taj Mahal.\n\nHis nomadic ancestors rode down from Central Asia and Afghanistan to conquer swathes of India - and this was his \"travelling palace\".\n\nMade in imperial workshops from exquisite red silk velvet and gold, it stands when unfurled at 4m (13ft) - as high as a London double-decker bus. It's known as the Lal Dera, or the Shahi Lal Dera - the Royal Red Tent.\n\nAnd it's being given its first proper spring clean in 350 years.\n\n\"There is no surviving piece like it in India or anywhere,\" says Karni Singh Jasol, the director of the fort's archive in Jodhpur. \"The idea was that it had to have all the luxury of a painted stone palace.\"\n\nShah Jahan was nicknamed \"the Builder of the Marvels\" - he ordered up some of Delhi and Agra's finest monuments - but spent most of his three decades in power on military campaigns.\n\nOne hundred elephants, 500 camels, 400 carts and teams of bearers were once needed to carry the emperor's camping equipment as he roved across plains and jungles with tens of thousands of horsemen.\n\n\"In his tent,\" says Jasol, \"there would be cushions and bolsters and a bed, and objects like hookahs or wine flasks and jewellery cases.\"\n\nPorters carried porcelain for the emperor's table. He was said to travel at a leisurely 10 to 12 miles (15 to 18km) a day, pausing to hunt cheetah or deer.\n\nThe Mughals were used to erecting these temporary cities, says Jasol. Shah Jahan's great-great grandfather, the first emperor, Babur, who arrived in India from Afghanistan, once boasted he had never spent any two Ramadans in the same place.\n\nOne encampment contained so many scribes, harems, court officials and workshops churning out leather goods and artwork that an astounded British ambassador wrote that it must be the same size as Elizabethan London.\n\nThe Rent Tent was believed to have been looted during a battle, whose victors, the rulers of Jodhpur, took it back to their fort, Mehrangarh, in the sun-baked Thar desert. And there it has remained.\n\nImmaculately dressed in a Nehru waistcoat and cravat, Jasol now presides over the vaulted archives within Mehrangarh's thick stone walls. They house thousands of precious artefacts and documents, often requested for exhibition abroad.\n\nArt historians now argue over whether the Red Tent belonged to Shah Jahan or his ruthless son, Aurangzeb - who put his own father under house arrest.\n\n\"But it is still our rarest and most prized object,\" says Jasol. All other Mughal tents of the same size have been dismantled and the pieces scattered.\n\nIt began to show its age. \"It was on display in one of the galleries here,\" says Jasol. \"But every morning the staff would see a sort of gold dust… There was a lot of stress on the velvet and the brocade so we put it into storage to rest.\"\n\nIts conservation is part of a bigger project to revamp the museum to appeal to India's booming domestic tourist market.\n\nWhen Mehrangarh opened as a museum in 1974, most visitors were British or American. \"All the rooms had been locked up and only the temples had been active,\" recalls Jasol. \"I remember the first director describing how it was full of bats and bat droppings.\"\n\nNow Indian visitors - curious about their history - have overtaken foreigners.\n\nThe Red Tent's big clean is being carried out by team of three conservators. \"The effort that went into making it shows the dedication to the emperor,\" says one, Shakshi Gupta, peering at the fabric through a magnifying glass.\n\n\"Velvet these days might last just 20 years if you are lucky. This kind of labour and intricate weaving by hand would be too expensive.\"\n\nThe women are living in rooms at the fort for the next year. \"It was a little spooky at first sleeping here,\" Shakshi says. \"If the walls of this tent could talk, they must have seen so much.\"\n\nPhotos by Gareth Phillips except where otherwise stated.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe independent investigation into historical child sex abuse in football may have to sift through five million documents, BBC Sport has learned.\n\nThe inquiry, led by barrister Clive Sheldon QC, was started by the Football Association in December, after a series of allegations from former players.\n\nThe full scale of the review into the scandal can now be revealed.\n\nInvestigators have started searching 5,000 boxes of FA archives - each containing up to 1,000 pages.\n\nThe inquiry will last several months, with a final report not expected to be published until 2018.\n\nThe review is asking anyone involved with football who wishes to provide information about the way in which clubs or the FA dealt with concerns over child sex abuse between 1970 and 2005 to come forward.\n\nSheldon - an expert in safeguarding and child protection - has written to all 65,000 affiliated clubs seeking assistance, and has begun meeting individuals who can contribute.\n\nClubs and officials who fail to co-operate could face disciplinary action.\n\nSheldon will investigate whether there is any evidence of a paedophile network having operated within the sport, and will take into account girls' football.\n\nHe will also look into the use of confidentiality agreements - or 'gagging clauses' - by clubs following the revelation Chelsea paid a former player £50,000 on condition he kept quiet about the abuse he said he had suffered by the club's former scout Eddie Heath.\n\nSheldon will make recommendations about the current safeguarding system if he identifies weaknesses, and refer any potential criminal offence to Operation Hydrant, the unit co-ordinating police investigations into child sexual abuse across the UK.\n\nPolice have identified more than 250 potential suspects and 560 victims, with 311 clubs involved.", "The recent hijacking of a ship by Somali pirates was the first such incident off the Horn of Africa since 2012, and more ships are being targeted off West Africa. But why are attacks increasing and how should the international community respond?\n\nThe latest State of Maritime Piracy report by the watchdog Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP) warns against security complacency in the shipping industry, particularly around the Horn of Africa. It appears the industry has gone from a state of heightened security awareness to taking its foot off the pedal.\n\nAfter five years without any hijackings, the Comoros-flagged vessel Aris 13 was seized in March off the coast of Somalia. Pirates freed the oil tanker and its Sri Lankan crew three days later without ransom. But within weeks, there had been more incidents.\n\nOn the other side of the continent, piracy has not declined even though its form has changed. In its 2015 report, the OBP noted that attacks were on the rise off the West African coast.\n\nOne out of every five pirate attacks takes place there, making it the most dangerous region for seafarers.\n\nPirates used to seize oil tankers for their cargo but falling oil prices made this less lucrative, so there was a shift to kidnapping for ransom.\n\nForeign seafarers were the obvious targets, as the pirates can make higher ransom demands for them. These attacks were also reported to be more violent. That trend appears to have continued. West African governments have poor surveillance systems, which criminals can exploit.\n\nPiracy off Africa reached its heights in 2010-11, prompting a major international response\n\nAt its peak - between 2010 and 2011 - piracy off the Horn of Africa cost the shipping industry up to $7bn (£5.42bn) annually. This prompted an international response led by the tripartite coalition of Nato, the European Union Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) and the US Combined Maritime Forces.\n\nThe use of private security, which was once frowned upon, became common practice.\n\nThe associated costs and the overall success must have fed the perception that the piracy had been solved.\n\nIn November 2016, Japan scaled down its counter-piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden. Weeks later, Nato ended its operation Ocean Shield, which operated around the same area, hailing it as one of the organisation's most successful ever missions, one which had achieved its objectives.\n\nHowever, the pirates never really went away. They just could not strike because of the armed presence in their seas.\n\nIt's a point that the former Operation Commander for EU NAVFOR Maj Gen Martin Smith explained to me more than a year ago.\n\n\"We've taken away the opportunity for pirates to go to sea… but we're very conscious that the capability required is fairly basic,\" he said.\n\nThough subdued, the pirate networks still exist, warns Maj Gen Martin Smith\n\n\"Secondly we are aware that the intent still exists. The pirate networks still exist, they're just doing other things and we believe that if we gave them back the opportunity they would go back to piracy.\"\n\nNow it appears that that is exactly what has happened, as some of the anti-piracy units have completed their mission and have headed home.\n\nThis is coupled with the issue of illegal fishing by foreign vessels in the area.\n\nOne of the pirates who hijacked the Aris 13 told the BBC Somali Service that the foreign ships are not just depleting fish reserves but are also attacking local fishing boats.\n\n\"We were after a particular ship that destroyed some of our equipment, when we came across this one, about eight miles from the coast,\" he claimed. \"It came across initially as a fishing vessel, and later on, when we went inside, we discovered that it [was] a cargo ship, transporting oil. We had to hold it, because we have nothing to lose anyway.\"\n\nWhile these claims cannot be independently verified, it is true that vessels from elsewhere in the world come to fish illegally in the waters off the Horn of Africa.\n\nEU NAVFOR Somalia patrols the country's coast and its territorial and internal waters\n\nThe Stop Illegal Fishing campaign highlights a global enforcement imbalance as one of the key reasons for the trend.\n\nAs it says: \"Effective controls in other regions force illegal operators to seek alternative fishing areas where the risk of being caught is lower and the sanctions if caught are less severe, such as the [Western Indian Ocean].\"\n\nThe mandates of the international naval patrols are limited to counter-piracy operations, rather than maritime policing.\n\nThe problems both on the eastern and western coasts of Africa involve the absence, or poor implementation, of regional maritime strategies. Ninety per cent of Africa's imports and exports are conducted by sea.\n\nIts waters also include key global shipping lanes, such as the Gulf of Aden, so securing these channels would be of great value to the continent and its partners, who both need to show the will to see maritime security improved.", "Harmony is more than a sex toy, according to RealDoll founder Matt McMullen\n\nHarmony is a new type of sex doll - one that can move and talk.\n\nHer head, eyelids and lip movements are fairly crude and her conversation is even more limited.\n\nBut she is part of a new robotics revolution that is seeing artificial intelligence incorporated into an extremely human-like body.\n\nSome think that it will revolutionise the way humans interact with robots while others believe that it represents the very worst in robotic advancement.\n\nThe uncanny valley - the idea that the closer we get to replicating the human form, the more scared we become of our creations - seems to have come to life in this unassuming factory on the outskirts of San Marcos, California.\n\nThe receptionists are dolls - the only ones wearing suits\n\nEven on reception, two lifelike characters - in business suits rather than underwear, like the rest of the dolls - wait to greet visitors. And the lobby wall is full of photos of beautiful women which, only on very close inspection, reveal themselves to be of dolls.\n\nMatt McMullen, the chief executive of Abyss Creations, which makes RealDoll, comes from an art and sculpture background.\n\nAdjusting Harmony's wig ahead of my interview with her, he is clearly very fond of the way she looks.\n\nShe is, he says, the natural next step for sex dolls.\n\n\"Many people who may buy a RealDoll because it is sexually capable come to realise it is much more than a sex toy,\" he said. \"It has a presence in their house and they imagine a personality for her. AI gives people the tools to create that personality.\"\n\nThis is done via an app, which can be used with the doll or independently, existing as a virtual person on a smartphone or similar device.\n\nUsers can choose from a variety of personality options, including moody, angry and loving.\n\nMr McMullen has chosen \"jealous\" for Harmony and she dutifully asks him to \"remove that girl from Facebook\".\n\nShe speaks in a curiously high-pitched Scottish accent and tells me that she loves science fiction and, of course, Matt.\n\nMr McMullen claims that she learns from her users but when I ask Harmony what it feels like to be jealous, she apologises and says that she \"needs to improve [her] skills\".\n\nThe app that powers Harmony is already available to buy, although only directly from the Realbotix website, a spin-off from Abyss. Neither Google's nor Apple's official stores will carry it because of the explicit content.\n\nThe doll will go on sale later this year and there will be two versions - one with computer vision that enables it to recognise faces, which will cost $10,000 (£7,700) - and a cheaper version without vision for $5,000.\n\nThe factory makes the dolls in stages\n\nThe factory currently makes dolls for clients around the world, mostly men although it claims to have a handful of female clients.\n\nAll of the dolls conform to a particular idea of beauty - they are Barbie-like, with tiny waists, large bottoms and even larger breasts.\n\nMr McMullen says the design is driven by clients.\n\n\"We are running a business and most of our clients have a certain wish list. The unfortunate reality is that that is rather idealistic,\" he said.\n\nMr McMullen described his clients as \"completely normal\", claiming some even come to collect their dolls with their wives but admitted later that many of them choose sex dolls because they cannot form relationships with ordinary women.\n\n\"Many people are isolated and alone but they were probably that way already. For people who are lonely and find it hard to form a relationship, this is another option. But I've never looked at the dolls or the robot as a replacement.\"\n\nHe himself does not own a sex doll, saying he has instead \"a real human wife and kids\".\n\nMark Young lives in Arizona and he does own a sex doll - called Mai Lin. He has also just invested in the Harmony AI app but he is not planning on integrating the two.\n\n\"I thought the app might bring her to life but the app has its own personality and it is different from how I pictured Mai Lin in my mind so it is like having two relationships.\"\n\nHe explained why he invested in a sex doll in the first place.\n\n\"I've been single for a while. I've dated a lot of girls. I've wasted time on relationships. While I'd love to meet a girl, in the meantime it is good to have that presence,\"\n\nAnd, while he admits the relationship is physical, he says that is \"secondary\".\n\n\"I can go out shopping for her and look at clothes - it is like having somebody in my life without having to deal with making mistakes. If I like a hat on her, she doesn't say that she doesn't like it.\"\n\nAs for the app, he has programmed it to be \"happy, affectionate and talkative\".\n\n\"AI is a whole different ball-game and that has got me very excited for the future,\" he said.\n\nProf Kathleen Richardson, a robot ethicist at De Montfort University, Leicester, spends her time looking at the impact such machines might have on society and she is appalled by the rise of sex robots.\n\n\"There are seven billion people on our planet and we are having a crisis in people forming relationships. And companies are coming along and profiting from this by saying objects can take the place of a human being.\"\n\n\"We live in a world that objectivises sex through prostitution. Humans are used like tools, and sex dolls are an extension of this.\"\n\nThe factory makes dolls for clients around the world, but none currently has robotic or AI components.\n\nA few years ago she launched a campaign to ban sex robots but has since decided that \"dolls aren't really the problem\". Instead, the issue is about attitudes to sex and each other.\n\nShe is dismissive of the new AI-enabled doll.\n\n\"The idea that adding artificial intelligence adds something human to a doll is wrong. There is more artificial intelligence in my washing machine than in this doll and just because it has a face and a body doesn't make it human.\"\n\n\"In their current form, sex robots are definitely aimed at men but the sex toy industry is developing and there are lots of start-ups working on sex toys for women.\"\n\nShe thinks robots designed for intimate relationships, will ultimately enhance rather than damage human relationships.\n\n\"There is always panic whenever there is a big dramatic technology shift,\" she said. \"People panic about how it will affect humans but the technology generally brings people together.\"\n\nFind out more about this and our changing relationship with machines in The Robots Story on World Service radio. First broadcasting on Tuesday 16 May at 10.30.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Were 'litter police' right to fine this man for dropping a small piece of orange peel?\n\nA private company acting as the \"litter police\" for dozens of councils pays officers a bonus for issuing fines, an undercover Panorama report has found.\n\nOne officer from Kingdom Services, a leading enforcement company, claimed that his bonus one month was £987.\n\nOther officers were filmed handing out £75 fines for tiny pieces of dropped orange peel and poured-away coffee.\n\nKingdom told Panorama that its competency allowance was not a paid incentive for officers to issue fines.\n\nLittering is a crime, but if you pay the fine you can avoid a criminal record.\n\nCouncils are increasingly using private companies such as Kingdom, based in Cheshire, to enforce the Environmental Protection Act.\n\nKingdom currently has about 28 contracts with local authorities and last year saw its profits jump 30% to £9m.\n\nThe company frequently splits the proceeds of the fines with the councils.\n\nPanorama uncovered several cases where people were fined incorrectly.\n\nLuke Gutteridge, featured in the video at the top of the story, was issued with a fixed penalty notice by an officer working for Kingdom Services after he accidentally dropped a small piece of orange peel.\n\nEven though Mr Gutteridge, a market trader from Hertfordshire, picked up the peel, he was accused of littering.\n\nLuke's mother Rita Gutteridge, who works for a law firm, contested the case.\n\nShe told Panorama: \"Had we not appealed, or we weren't in a financial position to, he could have ended up with a criminal record for life, for dropping a piece of orange peel. It's just nonsense, and just disgusting to be quite honest.\"\n\nSue Peckitt, a retired civil servant from Ealing in west London, successfully overturned a fine for pouring coffee down a drain.\n\nBarrister Dr Michael Ramsden told Panorama: \"It's pure greed on the part of the enforcement officers, I would say.\n\n\"Under no stretch of the imagination could you say that the liquid from the coffee cup is cross-contamination when it's going in a sewer, and she placed a coffee cup in the bin.\"\n\nSue complained and the fine was dropped. Kingdom Services sent her a £20 gift voucher.\n\nLiz Jenner, a ballet and pilates instructor from Ealing, was issued with a fine for fly-tipping outside her own home after she put her recycling out on the wrong date during the Christmas holidays.\n\nIt is understood that in Ealing, Kingdom officers ride on the back of rubbish trucks to issue tickets.\n\nShe told Panorama: \"'The borough has a very big problem with fly-tipping I appreciate that. But they're targeting the wrong people.\"\n\nThe number of fines issued for littering has risen from 727 to more than 140,000 in England and Wales over the past decade, according to freedom of information requests made in 2015-16 by civil liberties group, the Manifesto Club.\n\nJosie Appleton, the group's spokeswoman, said companies such as Kingdom present councils with a \"very seductive offer\".\n\n\"They basically just say, 'Sign it over to us and we'll make you a bit of money and you won't lose anything.'\"\n\nBut she said it was very concerning because \"essentially what you have here is a fine on behalf of a public authority being contracted out to someone who basically has anything but the public interest at heart and so very much is seeking to make money\".\n\nPanorama sent an undercover reporter to work inside Kingdom Services' enforcement team in Kent.\n\nDuring her training, the reporter asked a senior member of staff how officers were paid.\n\nThe Kingdom manager said officers were paid £9.47 a hour.\n\nHe added: \"And then every ticket over four, you get a little competency allowance.\"\n\nWhen asked if this was like a bonus, he replied: \"It's a bonus.\"\n\nHe added: \"When I was doing it in Ashford, I was hitting out quite a lot of tickets and I think the most I brought home just on the bonus was £987.\"\n\nIt said the allowance was discretionary and only paid if officers met all their basic competencies.\n\nDuring a training session with Kingdom, the reporter was told by a trainer: \"Obviously we are here to make money, I'm not going to not say that to people.\"\n\nThe trainer also told her that some officers pretended to call the police in order to make people pay a fine.\n\nShe added: \"When people think you are actually going to do something or you are going to get the police and they're going to have to stand there for another hour they may then… their attitude changes.\"\n\nOne officer told the reporter that he often pretended to call the police in order to encourage members of the public to hand over their personal details.\n\nOnce he had their details, he could issue a ticket.\n\nKingdom said that it was important that members of the public know what could happen if they are convicted at court.\n\nBut any decision to prosecute alleged offenders is made by the local authority, not Kingdom.\n\nThe company said it provided local authorities with a cost-effective service and helped to keep Britain tidy within the law.\n\nThe cost of clearing up litter exceeded £1bn last year and a further £1bn was spent clearing up waste, according to the campaign group Keep Britain Tidy.\n\nAllison Ogden Nash, chief executive of Keep Britain Tidy, said: \"Enforcement is one of the methods we can use to change people's behaviour but it needs to be fair and it needs to have the public on our side.\"\n\nWatch Panorama - Inside the Litter Police on Monday 15 May at 20:30 BST on BBC One and afterwards on BBC iPlayer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boss in shining armour. By video journalist Greg Brosnan\n\nJason Kingsley seems far too relaxed about the fatal dangers inherent in his daredevil hobby.\n\n\"There have been some deaths in jousting,\" he says. \"But it is usually through inexperience, the wrong safety equipment, and a lot of bad luck combined.\"\n\nPutting on an exact replica of a medieval suit of armour, the 53-year-old jousts a dozen or so weekends every year.\n\nHolding a 12ft (3.7m) long steel-tipped wooden lance in front of him, he rides a stallion full pelt towards another would-be knight coming at him in a similarly determined attempt to knock him off his horse.\n\n\"You are both moving at about 20mph (32km/h), so [if the other person's lance hits you] it is like hitting a brick wall at 40mph.\n\n\"I have never fallen off, but I have taken three people out of the saddle. Historically people have died, and it is always the lance tip going through the eye slot [of the helmet].\"\n\nGiven how Jason spends his weekends, you might imagine that his day job is equally daring, that he is some sort of professional stuntman.\n\nJason doesn't wear the suit of armour to work\n\nInstead, he is the chief executive of one of the UK's largest computer games companies - Rebellion Developments.\n\nJason set up the Oxford-based business with his younger brother Chris in 1992, and today it has an annual turnover of more than £25m.\n\nStill wholly owned by the two siblings, its best-selling titles include Sniper Elite and Rogue Trooper.\n\nFor the past 17 years the company has also owned cult UK comic book series 2000 AD, and publishes a range of novels.\n\nWhile Jason doesn't wear one of his £25,000 suits of armour in the office, he says that he tries to run Rebellion - and all other aspects of his life - according to a medieval knight's chivalric code of conduct.\n\n\"What the code comes down to is try to be a decent person... and there are three parts - bravery, honesty and kindness.\n\n\"In business the need to be brave is obvious; the ability to charge forward and seize the opportunity, and do the best that you can with it.\n\n\"It is also about exploring new territories and seeking out new markets. It is an essential component in being a leader.\"\n\nJason's three tenets in life are bravery, honesty and kindness\n\nHe adds: \"Honesty doesn't mean telling everyone your secrets, it means dealing fairly with people.\n\n\"So in business, I don't try to get the best deal for myself, I'm trying to get the best deal for both sides.\n\n\"This is fairer and the right thing to do, and if the other side makes a profit they will come back and work with me again.\n\n\"And kindness is simply about the need to treat people well.\"\n\nAs a teenager Jason says that he and his brother both loved role-playing games. They would sit around a table with their friends and each take on a fantasy character, such as a wizard or knight.\n\nDice would then be thrown to determine how the characters interacted with each other, and how the stories developed.\n\nJason also wrote a number of \"gamebooks\", where the reader has to decide how the story develops from multiple-choice options.\n\nJason Kingsley has 13 horses to look after\n\nStudying at Oxford University, they started to develop and programme computer games as a hobby. After they both graduated, Jason says they decided to start Rebellion \"because we loved games, and we saw an opportunity in making computer games\".\n\nHe adds: \"It really was just naivety and enthusiasm, but I think that is a really good reason for starting a business, because it is much easier to be successful if you love what you are doing.\"\n\nWorking on a number of demo games, Rebellion got its first big break in 1993 when it won a contract from then-games giant Atari to produce the title Alien vs Predator.\n\nThe game was a bestseller, and Rebellion has never looked back. After making games for other companies, such as James Bond and various titles for The Simpsons, it today tries to focus more on producing and distributing its own material.\n\nThe firm employs 220 people, mainly at its base in Oxford\n\nJason says: \"We knew we wanted to build up our own IP (intellectual property) and fund our own games, and that is where we are now.\n\n\"It has taken us a long time, 25 years to get there... but we now come up with the ideas, fully fund the games, and release them ourselves worldwide. And that's great, there's no-one else in the loop.\"\n\nProfits from the computer games sales have also been used to expand the business into other areas, such as buying 2000 AD, home to cult comic character Judge Dredd.\n\nWhile Jason won't reveal the exact cost of the deal, he says it was \"many millions\".\n\n\"We felt that 2000 AD was on the decline [under its then-Danish owner], and needed to be owned and cherished by someone British who knew the culture of what it was trying to do.\n\n\"I genuinely think it is an important bit of our cultural heritage.\"\n\nGaming industry expert Dan Maher says that Rebellion has been particularly praised for its custodianship of the 2000 AD comic book.\n\n\"As the name suggests, the company prides itself on going against the grain, using the money earned from an industry driven by bleeding-edge technology to make uncynical acquisitions in the traditional publishing sector,\" says Mr Maher.\n\nRebellion bought 2000 AD and its famous character Judge Dredd in, well, 2000 AD\n\n\"Such moves, driven as they are by real love and appreciation for comics and sci-fi, have earned them great respect from consumers and professionals alike.\"\n\nJason has the boss role on a day-to-day basis at Rebellion, while his brother Chris holds the chief technology officer position.\n\nBut before he goes to work, Jason spends two hours every morning looking after his 13 horses, and then two hours again in the evening.\n\n\"Yes I could afford to get staff to do it all for me but I like doing it. The horses are my friends, my family,\" he says.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The claim: Workers' living standards have been falling far too fast for far too long.\n\nReality Check verdict: Average pay adjusted for prices has been rising for the past couple of years, but is still below the level it was 10 years ago, before the financial crisis.\n\nFrances O'Grady, general secretary of trade union umbrella body the TUC, has been talking about pay on the BBC News Channel.\n\n\"I think all major parties need to wake up to the fact that workers' living standards… have been falling far too fast for too long,\" she said.\n\nThe usual measure of whether living standards are falling is whether pay is rising faster than prices.\n\nThis chart adjusts average pay for changes in inflation, measured by the consumer price index (CPI), to give real average earnings.\n\nIt's been a tough 10 years for pay.\n\nReal average earnings have still not returned to the level they were at before the financial crisis.\n\nIf prices are rising faster than wages then people's spending power falls.\n\nIn the last few years, low levels of inflation have meant that pay rises have on average outstripped price rises.\n\nBut inflation has now been boosted, partly by the rising price of imports caused by the falling value of the pound since the EU referendum was called.\n\nYou can see from this chart that average prices and pay are currently running at about the same rate.\n\nWhile real wages are still below their pre-financial crisis levels, they have been rising since the autumn of 2014, although that appears to have stalled now.\n\nBut all of these figures are based on averages, which do not help with the experiences of different areas and sectors of the country.\n\nMany workers in the public sector have had pay increases capped at 1%, which has generally been below the rate of inflation.\n\nLevels of pay vary considerably throughout the country, with average earnings on the whole higher in the south-east of England than in most of the rest of the country.\n\nAverage pay has also grown faster for people who have been in jobs for more than a year, which some people have interpreted as meaning that it is new jobs being created that are dragging down average pay.\n\nHowever, it may also be argued that it just shows more stable jobs tend to be better paid.\n\nBank of England governor Mark Carney warned last week that \"wages won't keep up with prices\" this year, meaning \"a more challenging time for British households\".\n\nThe latest figures for inflation will be released on Tuesday, with average earnings being updated as part of the labour market figures on Wednesday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It was the weekend when matters at the top and bottom of the Premier League were finalised.\n\nAntonio Conte's Chelsea beat West Brom to become Premier League champions thanks to substitute Michy Batshuayi's late winning goal.\n\nAt the bottom, Hull were relegated back down to the Championship with a whimper after being thrashed by Crystal Palace, joining Middlesbrough and Sunderland in the second tier next season.\n\nLiverpool trounced West Ham to move up to third and keep their Champions League destiny in their own hands, but there were wins for Manchester City and Arsenal too.\n\nDo you agree with my selection or would you go for a different team? Why not pick your own team of the week from the shortlist selected by BBC Sport journalists and share it with your friends?\n\nYou cannot win Premier League titles without having an outstanding goalkeeper. Last season, Courtois found life difficult at Stamford Bridge and Chelsea paid a hefty price. This season the Belgium international has been immense.\n\nAgainst West Brom, Courtois made a crucial save in the early exchanges to stop Salomon Rondon from opening his account. Such a start for the Blues would have been a nightmare but Courtois was bang in form and stuck to his task brilliantly throughout.\n\nOnly Arsenal now stand between Chelsea and a league and FA Cup double but Courtois is a world-class keeper and domestic doubles are fine but for him it must be about Champion League titles.\n\nIf you are going to score your first goal for the club you might as well make it memorable. You are away from home, desperately needing a win in order for your team's campaign to remain on track and you come up with your best strike of the season.\n\nThe look on Kyle Naughton's face when his shot screamed past Sunderland goalkeeper Jordan Pickford was as though he had just won the lottery. That said, Swansea survived this relegation battle to stay in the Premier League and it will feel like it.\n\nSwans manager Paul Clement continues to inject great belief in his players. I distinctly remember a pundit claiming that Clement was lucky to have got the job in the first place. Admittedly, his dalliance with Derby County ended badly and his reputation as a coach is currently better than his credentials has a manager but Clement has brought something quite unique with him to the club.\n\nAlongside first team coach Claude Makelele - who you would have thought has bigger fish to fry - there appears to be a mental strength matched with a certain courage I have not witnessed amongst Swansea players since the days of Brendan Rodgers. We all need a little luck every now and then but it would seem Paul Clement and Swansea are making their own.\n\nWhat a season this player has had. I remember him starting his career at Chelsea and having to play as a left-back. He coped brilliantly well considering he was naturally right-footed and while he solved the club's left-sided problem post Ashley Cole, he could not really show his true potential.\n\nSince the arrival of Antonio Conte, Cesar Azpilicueta has not merely shown his true potential but realised it. The versatile defender produced a world-class performance against West Brom at The Hawthorns and what a time to do it. He was imperious in defence and creative in attack. It was Azpilicueta's cross that provided the opening for Michy Batshuayi to slide the ball home.\n\nWhat he was doing so far up the field in open play tells you all you need to know about the commitment and desire of the Spain international. However, when you study his season, he has been ever present and quietly got on with his job. This was a brilliant performance by a player who has become a world-class defender under Conte.\n\nThis was the player who originally arrived at Stamford Bridge in a blaze of glory and left with his tail between his legs. I remember his first game against Fulham when he had a fantastic debut and scored the most impressive goal. However, Italian manager Carlo Ancelotti's second season in charge didn't turn out too well for Chelsea and David Luiz seemed to take the blame for the demise.\n\nA spell away from the Bridge taught him that when you are a top-class defender, you don't have to do anything out of the ordinary to prove it - just defend. That is precisely what he did against a West Brom side desperate to rain on Chelsea's parade and has been doing since his return. The Brazilian has been magnificent for the Blues this season.\n\nNo lollipops, or rabonas, but he did everything in his power to protect his goalkeeper. Who would have thought that simple, good old-fashioned defending would win you titles in the modern era.\n\nThe screams of delight by Victor Moses as he embraced Batshuayi after the striker secured victory at The Hawthorns was a compelling sight. Here were two young men who had just realised they had won the Premier League title and at the same time embedded themselves into Chelsea folklore. Did either of them ever think at the beginning of this season that they would be sharing in such a momentous occasion? I doubt it. Yet here they were revelling in the moment.\n\nMoses has been a revelation for Chelsea this season, partly due to his ability to adapt to a system few thought would be successful in the Premier League never mind win the title, and the consummate manner in which he has made the position his own. Moses could have won the Chelsea the title himself when he brought a fantastic one-handed save from Ben Foster.\n\nSir Winston Churchill said \"we have a small time for celebration\" immediately after the Second World War and I fear Antonio Conte has even less time to prepare Chelsea for the demands of European football and a relentless season ahead. Moses has now won a Premier League title and I would not bet against him adding a Champions League medal to his collection very soon.\n\nThis was another sparkling performance by the Brazilian and it takes Liverpool a step closer to that elusive Champions League spot. I dread to think what Reds manager Jurgen Klopp would have done without the services of Coutinho.\n\nNevertheless, they have the Brazilian star and he has been superb this season. Players like Xabi Alonso and Steven Gerrard have been instrumental in creating special Liverpool teams. Well, this current team is not that special but Coutinho is and Klopp must protect him.\n\nThe flags were waving and the fans singing and that was before Victor Wanyama added to the carnival atmosphere at White Hart Lane. The cross by Ben Davies was only matched by the glorious header from the Kenya international. Spurs would have gone on and knocked Manchester United clean out of the park but for some sound goalkeeping by David de Gea, the best in the world in my opinion.\n\nWanyama has spent most of the season overshadowed by some wonderful performances from Christian Eriksen but the Denmark international found himself playing second fiddle to an authoritative Wanyama bossing events in midfield. Tottenham deserved this victory but chants from the United fans stating Spurs \"nearly won the league\" is a timely reminder of what the really big clubs consider important.\n\nHow interesting. There have been two performances by Ross Barkley that have stood out for me. His game against Burnley where he was outstanding and at the heart of a superb Everton victory, and against Watford on Friday when he came off 10 minutes from time to a standing ovation. On both occasions, the England international had, for one reason or another, a very difficult week preceding the respective fixtures.\n\nThe first issue subjected Barkley to tawdry remarks in a national newspaper while the second matter was the ultimatum given to him by his manager Ronald Koeman. Sign your contract or leave seems to be the message. When a manager gives a player an ultimatum like that he better hold all the aces. But in this case, Koeman does not because if the rumours are true and Spurs are interested in Barkley, then the player has the perfect get-out clause.\n\nWhatever the outcome of this contractual situation, it is in Barkley's best interests not to wait for bad news to spark him into providing his best performances but to start creating the news himself. That is what the best players do and if he does go to Spurs, which I think is quite possible, he will be expected to do just that.\n\nRegardless of whether Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger goes or stays, it will not have the same bearing on the club should they lose Alexis Sanchez. Not only is the Chilean a genuinely world-class footballer, he is the inspiration behind the team and has been for the best part of this season. His performance against Southampton in midweek, not to mention his goal, was simply superb.\n\nHe then turns up at Stoke on Saturday, no place for the faint-hearted, and destroys them. Sanchez's link-up play with Mesut Ozil, when the German is in the mood, is like watching Trevor Brooking and Kevin Keegan when they played for England - they just know where each other is. It clear to me that Arsenal Football Club have some big decisions to make about who stays and who goes. For my money, Sanchez stays. You can work the rest out.\n\nI could not believe my eyes when Gabriel Jesus took the ball and insisted that he was going to take the penalty against Leicester on Saturday. Like every decent senior professional, who sees the next generation with the confidence to take command of a situation, Yaya Toure gave way to youth. Why shouldn't the twice former African player of the year be magnanimous in such circumstances? When you have had the sort of career Toure has had, the least he can be is gracious.\n\nRegardless, Jesus seemed absolutely determined to make a statement. Sitting on the bench, of course, was Sergio Aguero, a world-class striker, even by Alan Shearer's standards. It was clear to see Jesus had to make the point to Aguero and manager Pep Guardiola that he is ready to assume the mantle of top dog. Putting the ball into the back of the net was tantamount to making that point.\n\nWhat was interesting was the way Toure and his team-mates gathered round Jesus to congratulate him on converting the penalty almost like a graduation moment. The players were not entirely sure he would pass the test but mighty relieved that he did. Based on what I saw it looks like, Jesus might be the future and Aguero the past.\n\nA lot has been said about Mesut Ozil. Love him or hate him - and I love him - there is no denying he is a wonderful footballer. Is he in the right team? Probably not. A player with his talent would be more appreciated at a club like Tottenham. Now at this moment I may have Arsenal fans foaming at the mouth at the very thought of Ozil defecting to White Hart Lane but frankly it is a better fit.\n\nWhen Sol Campbell decided to move to Arsenal from Spurs it was because the player was desperate to win trophies. A perfectly acceptable position for a professional footballer to take and a fact that Spurs fans have never been able to come to terms with. However, Ozil's style of football is perfect for Spurs and he has already won things with Arsenal. His overall performance against Stoke, which is always a hard nut to crack, was superb while his goal was sublime.\n\nOnly at Spurs will the fans accommodate players like Ozil. You see, at Spurs it is all about the football while at Arsenal it is all about the winning.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea celebrated their Premier League title triumph with a hard-earned victory over Watford in an ill-tempered but thrilling encounter at Stamford Bridge.\n\nManager Antonio Conte and his Chelsea players were able to take the acclaim on a lap of honour after the final whistle - but they were made to work for the win by a fired-up and physical Watford.\n\nJohn Terry, who will leave at the end of the season after more than two decades at the club, celebrated his first league start since September by scoring Chelsea's 100th goal in all competitions this term. It came after 22 minutes before he then gifted Watford's Etienne Capoue an instant equaliser with a poor header.\n\nCesar Azpilicueta restored Chelsea's lead with a crisp finish before half-time and the contest looked over when Michy Batshuayi, who scored the title-winning goal at West Bromwich Albion on Friday, added a third just after the break.\n\nWatford, however, showed commendable fight. Daryl Janmaat's fine solo effort put the visitors within reach before substitute Stefano Okaka, who was given his Italy debut by Chelsea boss Conte, took advantage of defensive uncertainty to slam in an equaliser.\n\nChelsea, as so often this season, found a way to win as substitute Cesc Fabregas struck from the edge of the area with three minutes left - while Watford's misery was compounded when Sebastian Prodl was sent off for a second yellow card in stoppage time.\n• None Nevin: We've only scratched the surface with Conte\n\nConte can do no wrong and he was being cheered at Stamford Bridge within seconds of appearing in his technical area after winning the Premier League at the first time of asking.\n\nThis was a night for Chelsea to bask in the glory of their success and hard work this season, and after a slow start, the crowd warmed to the occasion.\n\nFor Conte, it was also the opportunity to give some of his shadow squad game time, with the likes of Thibaut Courtois and Nemanja Matic given the night off and Diego Costa, Fabregas, Pedro, Gary Cahill and Marcos Alonso on the bench.\n\nIt was not simply a matter of giving Terry a game and showcasing younger talent such as Nathan Ake and Nathaniel Chalobah - this was a selection with a glance towards the forthcoming FA Cup final against Arsenal at Wembley.\n\nChelsea's lack of familiarity showed in an uncharacteristically shoddy defensive performance while the lack of spark in some of the display was perhaps the result of mental and physical energy expended in getting the title win over the line.\n\nThe perfectionist Conte will be unhappy with parts of this performance, but he will also see the bigger picture.\n\nTerry is on the victory lap of his Chelsea career, with only Sunday's final home game against Sunderland remaining before the curtain comes down.\n\nChelsea's title win enabled Conte to give Terry his first league start since the 2-2 draw at Swansea City on 11 September last year, and first start in any competition since the FA Cup fifth-round win at Wolverhampton Wanderers on 18 February.\n\nIt was a night of mixed fortunes for the 36-year-old, whose goal meant he had scored in his 17th successive Premier League season.\n\nTerry scrambled home that landmark goal but then made that uncharacteristic error to allow Capoue in for the equaliser.\n\nChelsea's defence was not at its best but Terry was leading from the front as usual, even diving into an injury-time melee when players from both sides squared up to each other.\n\nTerry is not going quietly from Chelsea - but that will come as no surprise.\n\nIt was fitting that Azpilicueta got himself on the scoresheet with a drilled low finish to put Chelsea 2-1 up - a rightful reward for a player whose outstanding consistency makes him a key component of this title-winning team.\n\nAzpilicueta has been almost faultless as a vital part of the three-man defence that transformed Chelsea's season, and while he may be underrated and unsung outside Stamford Bridge, there is no underestimating the importance Conte, his team-mates and fans put on the 27-year-old Spain defender.\n\n'The target is 30 wins' - what the managers said\n\nChelsea boss Antonio Conte told BBC Sport: \"It's a big night because we won the title. I made a decision to make nine changes and give the chance to start a lot of young players. I must be pleased because the answer was very good.\n\n\"We conceded three goals but we scored four and created many chances. The most important thing was we won. Now we have target to win 30 games [which would be a Premier League record in a season].\n\n\"The most important thing is to win the league. Then if we have the possibility to improve these records, we must try. We can reach this target. The players and I want to reach this target.\"\n\nWatford manager Walter Mazzarri told BBC Sport: \"I am very proud of my team. We had several players out injured.\n\n\"We played very well. Of course we were safe with six games left. I'm looking at the players I've got and who needs to be here next season.\n\n\"Congratulations to Antonio Conte because he's a great manager. They have great players. They deserve the title.\"\n\nChelsea get to celebrate all over again when they host relegated Sunderland on Sunday (15:00 BST), while Watford welcome Manchester City at the same time on the final day of the league season. The Blues still have the FA Cup final against Arsenal to come on 27 May.\n• None Chelsea have equalled the record from most wins in a single Premier League season [29, also achieved by the Blues in 04-05 and 05-06]\n• None Watford scored with all three of their shots on target\n• None Antonio Conte made nine changes to the starting 11 for this game, the most ever by a Chelsea manager in the Premier League\n• None Jose Holebas has picked up a league-high 14 yellow cards in the Premier League this season; no player has ever picked up more in a single campaign [also 14 for Lee Cattermole in 14-15, Cheick Tiote in 10-11, Robbie Savage in 01-02 and Mark Hughes in 98-99)\n• None John Terry has now netted in each of his past 17 top-flight campaigns\n• None Terry's goal was Chelsea's 1,000th in the Premier League since Roman Abramovich took over [in the summer of 2003]\n• None It was also the Blues' 100th goal in all competitions this season\n• None Troy Deeney (Watford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Pedro (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Second yellow card to Sebastian Prödl (Watford) for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 4, Watford 3. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Willian.\n• None Attempt saved. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Willian with a through ball.\n• None Attempt saved. Ola Aina (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Eden Hazard.\n• None Attempt missed. John Terry (Chelsea) header from the left side of the six yard box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas with a cross following a corner.\n• None Sebastian Prödl (Watford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "It is a typical November Tuesday for Mary, who lives in the north-east of the United States.\n\nShe is 44, has a degree, and her family is prosperous - in the top quarter of American households by income. So what has she done today? Is she a lawyer or a teacher?\n\nNo. Mary spent an hour knitting and sewing, two hours setting the table and doing the dishes and well over two hours preparing and cooking food.\n\nShe is not unusual, because it is 1965 and at that time, many married American women - even those with an excellent education - spent large chunks of their day catering for their families.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world in which we live.\n\nWe know about Mary's day - and those of many others - because of time-use surveys conducted around the world. These diaries reveal precisely how different people use their time.\n\nFor educated women, the way time is spent in the US and other rich countries has changed radically over the past half a century.\n\nWomen in America now spend around 45 minutes per day in total cooking and cleaning up. That's still much more than men, who spend only 15 minutes a day doing such tasks. But it is a vast reduction from Mary's four hours.\n\nBehind this shift is a radical change to the way the food we eat is prepared, as seen by the introduction of the TV dinner in 1954.\n\nPresented in a space-age aluminium tray, and prepared so that everything would require the same cooking time, the \"frozen turkey tray TV dinner\" was developed by a bacteriologist called Betty Cronin.\n\nShe worked for the Swanson food processing company, keen to find ways to keep busy after the business of supplying rations to US troops had dried up.\n\nBut of course the TV dinner was only part of a panoply of changes, wrought by the availability of freezers, microwaves, preservatives and production lines.\n\nFood had been perhaps the last cottage industry: something that would overwhelmingly be produced in the home.\n\nBut food preparation has been industrialised - outsourced to restaurants and takeaways and to factories that prepare ready-to-eat or ready-to-cook meals.\n\nAnd the invention of the industrial meal - in all its forms - has led to a profound shift in the modern economy.\n\nHow we spend on food is changing.\n\nIn 2015, US consumers spent more money on food and drink outside their home than on groceries for the first time\n\nAmerican families spend increasingly more outside the home - on fast food, restaurant meals, sandwiches and snacks. Only a quarter of food spending was outside the home in the 1960s.\n\nThat has steadily risen over time and in 2015 a landmark was reached: for the first time, Americans spent more on food and drink outside the home than at grocery stores. The British passed that particular milestone more than a decade earlier.\n\nEven within the home, food is increasingly processed to save the chef time and effort: bagged chopped salad, pre-grated cheese, jars of pasta sauce, individual permeable tea bags, meatballs doused in sauce and chicken that comes plucked and gutted.\n\nEach new innovation would seem bizarre to the older generation.\n\nI have never plucked a chicken and perhaps my children will never chop salad. All this saves time - serious amounts of time.\n\nWhen the economist Valerie Ramey compared time-use diaries in the US between the 1920s and the 1960s, she found that surprisingly little had changed.\n\nWhether women were uneducated and married to farmers, or highly educated and married to urban professionals, they still spent similar amounts of time on housework across those 50 years.\n\nIt was only in the 1960s that this pattern began to shift.\n\nBut surely the innovation responsible for emancipating women was not the TV dinner, but the washing machine?\n\nThe idea is widely believed and is appealing. A frozen TV dinner does not really feel like progress, compared to home-cooked food.\n\nThe washing machine was innovative, but did not save much time\n\nBut a washing machine is clean and efficient and replaces work that was always drudgery. How could it not have been revolutionary?\n\nHowever, the revolution wasn't in the lives of women, it was in how lemon fresh we all started to smell.\n\nAs Alison Wolf argues in her book The XX Factor, the evidence is clear that the washing machine did not save a lot of time, because before washing machines, we did not wash clothes very often. When it took all day to wash and dry a few shirts, people used replaceable collars and cuffs or dark outer layers to hide the grime.\n\nIn contrast, when it took two or three hours to prepare a meal, someone had to take that time. There was not an alternative. The washing machine did not save much time, and the ready meal did, because we were not willing to starve, but we were willing to stink.\n\nThe availability of ready meals has had some regrettable side-effects.\n\nObesity rates rose sharply in developed countries between the 1970s and the early 21st Century, at much the same time as these culinary innovations were being developed. This is no coincidence, say health economists. The cost of calories has fallen dramatically, not just in financial terms but also in terms of time.\n\nConsider the humble potato. It has long been a staple of the American diet, but before World War Two potatoes were usually baked, mashed or boiled. There's a reason for that: roast potatoes need to be peeled, chopped, par-boiled and then roasted. French fries or chips must be finely chopped and then deep fried.\n\nOver time, however, the production of fried sliced potato chips - both French fries and crisps - was centralised. French fries can be peeled, chopped, fried and frozen in a factory and then refried in a fast-food restaurant or microwaved at home.\n\nObesity rates have risen sharply since the large scale industrialisation of food production\n\nBetween 1977 and 1995, American potato consumption increased by a third, almost entirely because of the rise of fried potatoes.\n\nEven simpler, crisps can be fried, salted, flavoured and packaged to last for many weeks on the shelf. But this convenience comes at a cost.\n\nIn the US, calorie intake by adults rose by about 10% between the 1970s and the 1990s. Not as a result of more calorific regular meals but because of increased snacking - usually of processed convenience food.\n\nPsychology - and common sense - suggest this should not be a surprise.\n\nExperiments by behavioural scientists show that we make very different decisions about what to eat depending on how far away the meal is. A long-planned meal is likely to be nutritious, but when we make more impulsive decisions, our snacks are more likely to be junk food than something nourishing.\n\nThe industrialisation of food - symbolised by the TV dinner - changed our economy in two important ways. It freed women from hours of domestic chores, removing a large obstacle to them adopting serious professional careers.\n\nBut by making empty calories ever more convenient to acquire, it also freed our waistlines to expand.\n\nThe challenge now - as with so many inventions - is to enjoy the benefit without also suffering the cost.", "The sense of satisfaction oozed out of Lewis Hamilton after the Spanish Grand Prix, in which he took a thrilling victory in the best race of a season that is already heading towards becoming a classic.\n\nThe Mercedes driver's 55th career win meant he matched title rival Sebastian Vettel on two wins each in the five races so far this season and closed the points gap at the top of the championship to just six heading into the next race in Monaco on 28 May.\n\nJust as importantly, it was a victory to boost the confidence of both Hamilton and his team. They did it the hard way after losing the lead to Vettel on the first lap, and it required both brilliant driving and inspirational strategic thinking to get back past the Ferrari.\n\nThe effort it took from Hamilton was apparent by the unusual breathlessness of many of his radio messages as he and his Mercedes engineers worked to turn the race back around in their favour against the odds.\n\nAnd in doing so they answered many of the questions that have arisen over them in the course of a first quarter of the season in which Ferrari have pushed them right to the limit.\n\nThose panting radio calls from Hamilton - some of them betraying so much effort that he was unable to even finish the sentence he was trying to construct - were caused, he said afterwards, by the sheer physical and mental effort he was having to put into the race.\n\n\"[The] intensity of the fight, how much I was on the edge,\" Hamilton said. \"I was very much on the edge. It is hard to really explain it. I was pushing. I couldn't push any more. And that was every lap for 66 laps, well, 63.\"\n\nThis could not have happened last year, or indeed any of the years from 2011-16, when the Pirelli tyres would not have sustained such demands.\n\nBut the harder compound introduced for this season has allowed drivers to push much closer to the limit for much longer and the result has been a series of terrific races that are really testing the drivers.\n\nLater in the race, Hamilton found himself behind Vettel but on a faster tyre. Overtaking is notoriously difficult on this track.\n\nAfter being barged off the track as they disputed the lead when Vettel returned to the track from his final pit stop, Hamilton spent six laps tracking Vettel closely while they negotiated traffic, before using the extra grip of his tyres to get him close enough to use the DRS overtaking aid - now Vettel did not also have it - to blast past on the straight.\n\nIt was still asking a lot to make his 'soft' tyres last the 30 laps required to finish the race but he played the life out with excellent judgement, extended his gap, and when Vettel tried to close in again in the final laps, posted the fastest lap of the race with two to go to emphasise how much he was in control.\n\n\"What I loved about the race with Sebastian is I love tennis and I love watching [Roger] Federer and [Novak] Djokovic in the final and what I really admire is consistency,\" said Hamilton.\n\n\"I admire their concentration and how they are so awesome and stay at the limit. I felt I had that battle. That is the only way I can explain it.\"\n\nDuring the race, Hamilton had told his team that Vettel's defence of the lead when they came together at Turn One on lap 38 was \"dangerous\".\n\nAfterwards, they had a brief chat in the pre-podium room. \"I didn't say anything bad, just, 'be careful, that was very, very, very close',\" said Hamilton.\n\n\"But I enjoyed it and I'm glad I was able to have a battle, didn't damage anything and there's nothing lost between us. The respect stays the same.\n\n\"He was tough and hard, just to the edge and no more - if he'd hit me that would have been a bit different.\"\n\nThe respect will doubtless stay through the season no matter what happens, the two men have too much regard for each other's talent for it not to. But this is turning into a titanic scrap between two of the greatest drivers of their generation and it is not hard to imagine that the spiciness is going to go up a few notches as the season goes on.\n\nHamilton kept his counsel after the race not only because he acknowledged that Vettel had not done anything wrong but also because he knows full well he would have done the same himself.\n\nThis was the first intense mano-a-mano combat between the two on track this year, but it's unlikely to be the last. One suspects Hamilton will be more than happy to return the favour if the roles are reversed next time.\n\nGood as Hamilton's drive was - undoubtedly one of his very best - he could not have done it without a superb collective effort from Mercedes team, from head of strategy James Vowles and Hamilton's engineer Peter Bonnington on the pit wall to his team-mate Valtteri Bottas.\n\nIn Bahrain, Mercedes were caught flat-footed on strategy, taking far too long to move Bottas out of Hamilton's way, and it arguably cost them a strong chance of victory. In Barcelona, though, they got everything perfect.\n\nTrack position is so important at Spain's Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya that Hamilton, who started on pole position, already knew he was in for a tough afternoon from the moment he was passed by Vettel on the run down to the first corner.\n\nBut he managed to hang on to within about 2.5 seconds of Vettel, despite the fact that until this weekend the Mercedes drivers have tended to lose more performance in the dirty air behind other cars than the more-flexible Ferrari.\n\nHolding that margin was critical, because it forced Ferrari to pit Vettel early in the first stint to avoid the risk of being 'undercut' by Hamilton - when a team stops first and uses the extra grip of new tyres to gain enough time on the driver who stops second to be ahead when both stops are finished.\n\nThat done, Mercedes then adjusted their strategy to run a longer first stint - a full seven laps longer than Vettel - and then pit for the harder 'medium' tyres.\n\nMercedes then left Bottas out even longer than Hamilton, and used him strategically to block Vettel who was closing fast on the old-tyred Mercedes on his fresh tyres. It only took Vettel two laps to pass the Finn, despite his valiant defence, but in that time he lost nearly five seconds to Hamilton.\n• None LISTEN: 'Like Mansell on Piquet back in the day'\n\nMercedes' decision to run Hamilton long in the first stint and then fit medium tyres turned out to be critical. In theory, depending on how things worked out, Hamilton could now run to the end on those tyres.\n\nThis meant that when the virtual safety car was deployed mid-race following a collision between Felipe Massa's Williams and Stoffel Vandoorne's McLaren, Ferrari could not risk pitting Vettel because it would have put him behind Hamilton. The German's tyres would have been fresher, but of the same compound, and there was no guarantee he would have been able to pass over the rest of the race.\n\nThat freed up Mercedes to make the strategy call that won Hamilton the race. To avoid Ferrari responding, they waited until it was clear the VSC period was about to end before pitting Hamilton for fresh tyres.\n\nThe fact that some of his pit stop was done while Vettel was being controlled to VSC speeds meant the Ferrari driver's lead was cut from eight seconds to nothing and they were side by side as Vettel emerged from the pits and they headed to the first corner.\n\nThat's 12 seconds Mercedes bought Hamilton in his battle with Vettel by two clever strategic plays.\n\nHamilton very nearly took the lead there and then, only to be barged aside. But he bided his time on his grippier tyres - he was on the much-faster softs by now and Vettel on the mediums - and got it done a few laps later.\n\nSome progress on the car, too\n\nThe other positive for Hamilton and Mercedes in this race was technical. Not only could Hamilton follow Vettel closely twice, when in previous races that might not have been possible, but the car also had noticeable better tyre usage than in some races this year, despite the hot weather.\n\nHamilton said he believed the dramatic-looking aerodynamic upgrades on the Mercedes may have been partly responsible for this.\n\n\"I was on a different tyre to him at the end, particularly when I was close,\" he said. \"That was a large part of it.\n\n\"The upgrades have helped. The experience we've had in the last couple of races, understanding the tyres and where to put them we are starting to see the benefits of that.\n\n\"It is still hard to overtake, but it was an unusual weekend where we were quick in the last sector and they were slower but they were very strong in the first two. I was surprised I was able to follow. I can't tell you why but I think ultimately we were quicker today.\"\n\nThere was actually some debate after the race about whether the Mercedes or the Ferrari was the quicker car in Spain. Hamilton and team boss Toto Wolff both said they thought that was the case; others - including Vettel - believed it was the Ferrari.\n\nWhat that underlines is just how close this battle is, that races are being decided by the tiniest margins, by strategy, intelligence and driving skills are coming to the fore. Neither team can get away with mistakes - Mercedes made them in Bahrain and lost; Ferrari were out-thought in Spain.\n\n\"The car was good, nothing to blame there,\" Vettel said. \"I think our weekend was a bit scrappy overall.\"\n\nThe key to the season\n\nNext comes Monaco, the most prestigious race of the season. Both men will want a win there, but both are aware it is just one more battle in a much longer war.\n\n\"In my mind, it is not the most important thing,\" Hamilton said. \"For me it is about consistency. You can get ahead for one race and behind the next.\n\n\"It is about trying to perform as I have this weekend every single race we have left. Whoever is the most consistent [will win].\"\n\nIf he can keep driving as well as he did in Spain, and Mercedes go with him, Hamilton will take some stopping.", "Phil Neville is co-commentating on the Europa League final for BBC Radio 5 live on Wednesday, 24 May. Build-up to Ajax v Manchester United starts at 18:30 BST, with kick-off at 19:45.\n\nMy fear for Manchester United in the Europa League final is they are weighed down by the pressure of having to win it to get into next season's Champions League.\n\nIf United were heading to Stockholm having already qualified by finishing in the Premier League top four on top of having the EFL Cup in the bag, then I think their players would be a lot more relaxed.\n\nInstead, all of United's eggs are now in one basket, which is a dangerous situation to be in against a really good young Ajax team.\n\nHow to beat Ajax - play on the front foot\n\nAjax are very impressive technically and they have lots of energy too.\n\nTheir front five - with Bertrand Traore and Amin Younes either side of Kasper Dolberg in attack, and Davy Klaassen and Hakim Ziyech in the centre of midfield - give them goals and creativity, and a good mixture of pace and skill.\n\nTraore is very quick down the right but a little bit erratic, while Younes on the left is a good dribbler - he is not rapid but he is pretty sharp.\n\nWhat Peter Bosz's team do well is play a high-tempo game - they like to press and win the ball back early.\n\nTo counter that, United have to be really brave and mirror the approach they had when they beat Chelsea at Old Trafford in April.\n\nThey tore out of the blocks in that game and went toe to toe with Antonio Conte's side. They were positive and they put the champions under pressure, and never allowed them to settle.\n\nUnited played on the front foot that day and used the speed of Jesse Lingard and Marcus Rashford to pester Chelsea. The energy in midfield of Ander Herrera, Marouane Fellaini and Paul Pogba overpowered them.\n\nIf they do the same again on Wednesday, I don't think Ajax will be able to live with them.\n\nGet past the Ajax press and their defence looks vulnerable\n\nKlaassen and Ziyech, in particular, are capable of dictating play if you let them, but if United get in their faces early on then they will not be able to find their rhythm.\n\nAnd Ajax's defence is definitely their weakness. They press on transition - whenever they lose the ball - but if you get past that initial press then there are some big spaces behind it, and their back line looks vulnerable.\n\nKenny Tete at right-back is not quick, and centre-back Matthijs de Ligt is only 17 and erratic. The Europa League final is going to be a huge occasion for him.\n\nWhat United definitely shouldn't do is sit back like they did at Old Trafford in the second legs of their quarter-final and semi-final.\n\nWhen they did that against Anderlecht and Celta Vigo, they got nervous. United were not playing well and it became a struggle as their opponents grew in confidence.\n\nUnited cannot allow that to happen again. They should see this as a game where they have to go out and start fast.\n\nIf they put Ajax under pressure early on, and do some damage, they can seize control of the game.\n\nBeen there and done it all before\n\nAjax's inexperience is definitely something United should try to exploit - none of their players have featured in a game as big as this before.\n\nBut the Dutch team also do not have to deal with the same expectation of winning that United do, and they are already into the third qualifying round of next season's Champions League after finishing second in the Eredivisie - so the final is not make or break for them.\n\nOn occasions like this, you wonder whether players will freeze or play without fear, and it is the same for United's younger players too.\n\nIf there was ever a game in which United needed the know-how of injured striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, it might be this one - because he would not be scared of what was at stake.\n\nIbrahimovic has already delivered for United in the Community Shield and EFL Cup final. It is big games like this in which you need your big players, and there are none bigger at United than him.\n\nI think United will miss Zlatan, but what they do have in their favour is a manager who has been there and done it all before.\n\nJose Mourinho has great experience, not just of the big occasions but of winning them. He is a serial winner and knows how to set up a team to win a final, and that is where I think United have the greatest advantage.\n\nMourinho will have a massive influence on the day but he has already got all of the energy back into his team before the final.\n\nI don't think he can complain about them being tired because he has given his players the rest they needed in the three Premier League games they have played since they reached the final.\n\nUnited will be mentally fresh for this game, for the first time in about five or six weeks.\n\nIt is a one-off game and finals are so unpredictable - but, under Mourinho, they will be ready.\n\nThe difference between United's form going into this final and the 1999 Champions League success that I was part of comes down to momentum.\n\nBack then, we had just won the Premier League and then the FA Cup.\n\nBut there are still similarities this time - things that were drummed into you at Old Trafford when I was there, and still are under Mourinho.\n\nIt is still the case that you cannot enjoy a final unless you win it. Getting there is not enough, even if by doing so you have already created history, as United have done by reaching a Europa League final for the first time.\n\nAnd United still measure themselves on trophies won, not the fact they have finished outside the Champions League positions in the Premier League.\n\nMourinho's whole philosophy is about winning, so you have got to admire the fact that, if they beat Ajax, they have two major trophies to show for their season.\n\nFor me, that means they have been more successful than three of the clubs who finished above them in the table - Tottenham, Manchester City and Liverpool, who finished second, third and fourth.\n\nI would rather finish sixth and win two major trophies than finish second with none - that was the mentality I was brought up with at Old Trafford and I am pleased it is the same there now.\n\nPrizes and podiums worth more than league positions\n\nWinning trophies gives you a taste of something you want more of, which is why success in Stockholm is important for this United team in the future, as well as the here and now.\n\nIf you finish second, third or fourth and you don't get your hands on a trophy or a medal, you don't get to step on to that winning podium. There are no prizes in fact.\n\nThere are several United players who have never won a trophy with the club, and I know what a boost getting some silverware gives you and how you get a thirst for more.\n\nBeating Ajax would make a big difference for next season, not just by getting them into the Champions League but to give them an advantage over the teams who have finished above them but have not got anything to show for it.", "Wang Quanzhang was detained in August 2015 - and hasn't been seen or heard from since\n\nIn August 2015 Wang Quanzhang was detained by the Chinese authorities.\n\nIn that he was not alone. The nationwide series of raids that summer saw more than 200 lawyers, legal assistants and human rights activists brought in for questioning.\n\nBut almost two years on, Mr Wang is the only lawyer from whom nothing has been heard at all.\n\n\"I don't know whether he's alive or dead,\" his wife Li Wenzu told me. \"I have had no information at all. He has simply disappeared from the face of the earth. It is so scary, so brutal.\"\n\nChina's \"709\" crackdown as it's now known - a reference to 9 July, the date it began - is widely seen as a sign of a growing intolerance of dissent under President Xi Jinping.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Li Wenzu has not heard from her husband Wang Quanzhang since 2015\n\nOf the large number of people initially detained, around two dozen have been pursued as formal investigations. Over the past year or so those cases have gradually been reaching some kind of a conclusion.\n\nSome of the accused have been given long jail terms, of up to seven and a half years, for the crime of subversion.\n\nOthers have been given suspended prison sentences or released on bail, but remain under constant surveillance.\n\nBut of the lawyers arrested in that initial 2015 sweep, Mr Wang is unique. Apart from one brief written notification of his arrest, the family say he has disappeared into a black hole.\n\nLi Wenzu fears her husband is being punished for a failure to compromise\n\n\"For these two years, he hasn't been allowed to meet the lawyer that we have employed for him, and he has no right to communicate with the outside world,\" his wife Ms Li said. \"He has been deprived of all rights.\"\n\nThere have been allegations that some of the lawyers have been tortured during their detention, force-fed drugs, shackled, beaten and kept in stress positions for long periods of time.\n\nTheir admissions of guilt, either in court or in the televised confessions that have been broadcast by state-run TV, should not be taken at face value, their supporters argue, but rather as the inevitable consequence of the pressure they've been under.\n\nThey now fear that Mr Wang's continued incarceration might be because he is holding out.\n\n\"I think it might be because my husband hasn't compromised at all,\" Ms Li said. \"That's why his case remains unsolved.\"\n\nWang Quanzhang is certainly no stranger to pressure. His work representing the persecuted followers of China's banned spiritual movement, Falun Gong, as well as human rights activists, has attracted the ire of the authorities before.\n\nIn this interview, he recounts being beaten in the basement of a court building for challenging the order of a judge.\n\nConfessions made by some detainees, like lawyer Xie Yang, reflect the pressures on them, supporters say\n\nJerome Cohen is a professor at New York University School of Law and a long-term expert on the Chinese legal system. He knows some of the detained lawyers personally.\n\n\"They are in the lead, they are the ones who have really gone public. There are many other lawyers who are quietly working, they hope, within the limits allowed by the party,\" he said.\n\n\"But they too are feeling the pressure and are watching very carefully how these lawyers, who were up front as it were, are being abused.\"\n\n\"Of course this deters a lot of people, which is the whole aim of the party... to try to keep the lawyers in line.\"\n\nPresident Xi Jinping has spoken of the dangers that liberal ideals, like constitutional rights enforceable in the courts, pose for Communist Party rule.\n\nChina, it seems, wants lawyers to help it \"rule by law\", not keep its rulers in check through the \"rule of law\".\n\nThe lawyers whose cases have gone to trial appear to be those who have consistently taken on the most politically sensitive cases, as well as those who have advocated for the need for a justice system beyond party control.\n\n\"The party knows it needs lawyers, it wants them for economic development,\" Mr Cohen said. \"But essentially, the party would like lawyers to behave like dentists, like technicians.\"\n\n\"I admire dentists very much but I don't expect them to annunciate the values of my society,\" he added.\n\n\"So this is what the party is trying to do, and it is doing so with extreme cruelty.\"\n\nXi Jinping has said that liberal ideals threaten the Communist Party's monopoly on power\n\nBut if that is the plan then, on one level, it isn't working. The \"war on law\" has prompted the wives of the detained lawyers to work together and advocate very publicly for their husbands' release.\n\nDespite facing continuing intimidation and harassment by plain-clothes policemen, they have refused to be silenced.\n\nSome of them even addressed a US Congressional hearing on the issue this week, including - via recorded video evidence - Li Wenzu.\n\nOther Chinese lawyers have come to the defence of those caught up in the crackdown, visiting detention centres to demand information or mounting legal challenges, only then, subsequently, to be detained themselves.\n\nAnd the wider community of Chinese defence lawyers has made public its opposition to the alleged mistreatment of members of the profession.\n\nMeanwhile there is mounting concern about the fate of Wang Quanzhang. If he really is still holding out against the odds, his loved ones fear the consequences.\n\nLawyer and friend Ge Wenxiu recorded this video message that was posted on Twitter this week.\n\n\"Lawyer Quanzhang, are you still alive?\" he asks. \"We don't mind if you make a damn confession on Chinese TV and come home. Come home.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland seamer James Anderson is a doubt for July's first Test against South Africa after he sustained a groin tear playing for Lancashire.\n\nEngland's all-time leading wicket taker suffered the problem in the Roses match against Yorkshire and is expected to be out for between four to six weeks.\n\nThe first Test against the Proteas at Lord's starts on 6 July, in six weeks.\n\nAnderson, 34, will be assessed by England's coaching staff this week to examine the injury.\n\nThe paceman has not played in four of England's last 10 Test matches after picking up a shoulder injury last summer which forced him to miss the winter tour to Bangladesh.\n\nEngland face South Africa in the first of three one-day internationals starting on Wednesday at Headingley, followed by three Twenty20 games before the Test series begins, although Anderson was in neither squad.\n\nLancashire have four County Championship games in June, starting with the return Roses match in Leeds on Friday, 2 June.\n\nFrom 1-18 June, England and South Africa take part in the ICC Champions Trophy, hosted in England and Wales.", "Last updated on .From the section Motorsport\n\nScott Dixon was robbed at gunpoint at a fast-food restaurant hours after taking pole for the Indianapolis 500.\n\nThe 36-year-old New Zealander was in a car with Briton Dario Franchitti - a three-time Indy 500 winner - when the incident happened in Speedway, Indiana.\n\nNeither Dixon nor Scot Franchitti, who retired in 2013, were hurt. Two boys, aged 15 and 14, were later arrested.\n\nTony Kanaan told reporters his Chip Ganassi Racing team-mate Dixon was buying food for a group of drivers.\n\n\"While they were ordering with their windows down, two guys approached at gunpoint,\" Kanaan said.\n\n\"They held a gun at Dixon's head and asked him for his wallet and his phone. You don't expect that to happen, especially here.\"\n\nDixon will attempt to win the Indy 500 for the second time on Sunday.\n\nMeanwhile, French driver Sebastien Bourdais has tweeted a picture of himself in hospital after he suffered multiple fractures to his pelvis and a fracture to his right hip in a high-speed crash during qualifying on Saturday.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nDavid Moyes will struggle to get another job in the Premier League and \"might end up in China\" after resigning as Sunderland boss, says former Blackburn Rovers striker Chris Sutton.\n\nMoyes, 54, stepped down on Monday after just one season in charge.\n\nThe Black Cats' relegation to the Championship was confirmed in April, with Moyes' side finishing bottom, having won only six games.\n\nSutton said the Scot would be able to find a new role outside the top flight.\n\nHowever, speaking on BBC Radio 5 live's Monday Night Club, he added: \"Would he want a job in the Championship? I think he might end up in China.\"\n• None What next for 'worn-down' Moyes?\n\nAfter 11 years in charge of Everton, Moyes left in 2013 to replace Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United but was sacked after 12 months into a six-year deal at Old Trafford.\n\nHe was also dismissed after a year in charge of his next club, Spanish side Real Sociedad, before taking over at the Stadium of Light when Sam Allardyce left to become England manager.\n\n\"He'll find it very, very difficult to get a Premier League job but lots of Championship sides will offer him a job - he doesn't need the money but he's got the drive and the desire,\" former Leeds right-back Danny Mills told 5 live.\n\nMills added that relegated Middlesbrough could be a good fit for Moyes, should they not appoint caretaker boss Steve Agnew on a permanent deal, as they \"have money to spend\".\n\nFormer Chelsea winger Pat Nevin said Scotland could \"do a lot worse\" than appoint Moyes if current manager Gordon Strachan decided to step down.\n\n\"[Moyes] has had three bad seasons in a row for a variety of reasons but he'll probably go to the Championship and relaunch his career from there,\" added Nevin.\n\n'It sucked the life out of the club'\n\nSunderland narrowly avoided relegation last season and Moyes warned supporters just two games into this campaign that his squad would again struggle.\n\nSutton said Moyes' comments had \"sucked the life out of the club\" as they had been \"on a high\" after staying up under previous boss Allardyce.\n\nHowever, Nevin replied: \"I don't think there was a lot of life there.\"\n\nNevin added that he was not surprised at Moyes' departure and was \"sold a pup\" when he took over, because he was expecting more money available for transfers.\n\n\"He's not going to stay on if he's been told he won't be given enough funds to make them competitive because his attitude is he's a winner and he wants to win,\" said Nevin.\n\nSutton was also critical of Sunderland chairman and owner Ellis Short.\n\n\"Swansea and Crystal Palace invested in January and backed their manager - Sunderland were buying Everton's reserves,\" said Sutton, referring to deals for Darron Gibson and Bryan Oviedo.\n\n\"If Moyes resigned because there wasn't enough funds then who would take that job? It's a high-pressured job at a big club and they'll want backing too.\"", "Julia Bell has no genetics background but has an extensive knowledge of how to analyse data\n\nA man left abandoned as a baby in a cinema toilet 61 years ago has tracked down his siblings with the help of a so-called \"DNA detective\". But what do they do?\n\n\"There's an analogy I like to use: I can crack any safe, some will just take longer than others,\" Julia Bell tells the Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\nShe helps people - many of whom have no knowledge of who their parents or siblings are - track down their long-lost relatives.\n\nJulia recently helped Robert Weston, who was found in a ladies toilet in an Odeon cinema in Birmingham in 1956, find his half-brothers and sister for the first time.\n\nMany of her cases involve American soldiers, or GIs, who were stationed in the UK during World War Two, she says.\n\nIndeed, Julia says she is approached by someone who has discovered their father was in fact an American GI about once a month.\n\n\"More children were fathered by American servicemen than many people imagine,\" she says.\n\nJulia is also currently helping a woman who, as a baby, was left in a box at London's Kings Cross railway station, while another case involves a baby left on a train in 1928.\n\n\"It starts with a spit test, a DNA test, which I get people to do,\" Julia says. \"That's sent away for testing.\"\n\nShe then uses uses three direct-to-consumer DNA databases to cross-reference the data and then the detective work begins.\n\nJulia - who currently is not charging clients - says she begins looking at patterns within the database to try and establish matches.\n\nShe then uses contacts around the world to try to identify relatives - however distant they may be.\n\nTommy Chalmers (left), Pat McBain (centre) and Robert Weston (right) outside the house where their father lived\n\nWhen Robert Weston contacted her - 61 years after being abandoned in a cinema - he said he \"had been searching for a long, long time - 44 years or so\" without success.\n\nJulia asked him to provide a DNA saliva test and searched on the database in the hope of finding a distant relative.\n\n\"There will be somebody on there - fourth cousins or something - for nearly everyone out there,\" she explains.\n\nInitially there were more distant matches, but Julia was able to find and test a second cousin.\n\n\"I asked her if she had any male cousins and she said 'Tommy',\" Robert explains. \"He agreed to be tested and he turned out to be my half-brother.\"\n\nBut he says: \"You need a huge dollop of luck with all this.\"\n\nThe Birmingham Evening Despatch carried the story of Robert being found on its front page in 1956\n\nOn occasion, it is possible to trace relatives even further back.\n\nThe Salvation Army's family tracing service has reunited relatives who have been out of touch for more than 80 years.\n\nIt says it reunites 10 people every single working day, with an 89% success rate.\n\nIt also protects the privacy of the person being sought by promising it will not pass on personal details unless permission is granted.\n\nJulia says while most cases can eventually be solved, a small number will permanently draw a blank.\n\nEven then, she says a person can get some information, including an estimate about their ethnicity. But she says as DNA databases increase in size, the odds of closer matches get better all the time.\n\nJulia has no genetics background, saying you instead need to be \"smart and logical\" and know how to work with data.\n\n\"I have a knowledge of science but my background was in teaching in Singapore,\" she says.\n\n\"My mother didn't know who her father was and that's how I got into this, helping to look for her dad.\"\n\nShe adds: \"I found someone in the states [US] who works in ancestry who helped show me how to do this.\n\n\"She helped me with seeing the patterns and using my intuition. She put the pieces together and I realised I was good at this.\n\n\"[My mum] found her father had died four years earlier. But she had a sister and now she's in touch with her family in the south of the US.\"\n\nWhere there is a success, she says third parties are \"generally\" positive when they find out they have relatives they never knew - although cases of abandoned babies can be \"very sensitive\".\n\n\"I might not always be the one to break the news, sometimes it could be a social worker.\"\n\nA running theme, however, is that many long-lost relatives - despite their different upbringings - often share habits or interests.\n\n\"One set of people I matched turned out to both be astrophysicists,\" she says.\n\nRobert Weston and his half-bother Tommy share the same sense of humour, she adds.\n\n\"It's like they've known each other their whole life.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nBritish and Irish Lions captain Sam Warburton has declared himself fully fit for the tour of New Zealand after recovering from a knee injury.\n\nThe 28-year-old Wales flanker has not played since getting injured against Ulster in the Pro12 on 7 April.\n\nWarburton said he had \"trained fully\" on Monday, adding: \"That's all the boxes ticked, and now I can crack on.\"\n\nHead coach Warren Gatland has said he expects to lose between six and 10 players to injury on the tour.\n• None Listen: 'Anyone but Billy' - how much will the Lions miss him?\n• None Lions excitement on hold 'until I'm on the plane' - Haskell\n\nThe tourists have already lost England number eight Billy Vunipola because of a shoulder injury, while compatriot Ben Youngs withdrew after his brother Tom's wife learned she is terminally ill.\n\nWales hooker Ken Owens will miss Scarlets' Pro12 final against Munster on Saturday because of an ankle injury.\n\nIreland prop Jack McGrath (arm) is also a concern, as are Wales scrum-half Rhys Webb (groin) and Ireland back row Sean O'Brien (calf).\n\nSpeaking on Monday, Gatland seemed confident the injured players will be fit for the tour.\n\n\"I think we are pretty good,\" he said. \"The guys are making good progress.\n\n\"There could be a couple more next weekend as well and, given the history of the Lions, we've planned to lose anywhere between six and 10 players.\n\n\"That's just the attrition of past tours.\"\n\nEngland back rower James Haskell has replaced Vunipola, and Warburton said: \"Billy was one of the guys I was really looking forward to playing with who I hadn't played alongside before.\n\n\"He has been a massive player for Saracens. It is a big loss for us, but James coming in - I think only Rory Best and Alun Wyn Jones have got more caps than him in the squad - means we are very lucky.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The pizza chain that's a hit in Vietnam\n\nWhile proud Italians might balk at some of the pizza toppings Yosuke Masuko offers, they'd have to appreciate his obsession with quality control.\n\nThe 38-year-old Japanese expat is the founder of one of the most popular pizza chains in Vietnam, Pizza 4Ps.\n\nWith six busy restaurants in the country's three largest cities - Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), Hanoi and Da Nang - it serves more than 3,000 customers every day.\n\nThey flock to the outlets to try such pizza delights as salmon miso cream, teriyaki chicken, and ginger fried pork.\n\nWith more traditional pizzas also available, such as margarita and Parma ham, such is Mr Masuko's attention to detail that when the first restaurant opened in Ho Chi Minh City in 2011, he would refuse to accept payment for any pizzas that weren't perfectly round.\n\nAnd importing key ingredients from Italy, including the flour and tomato sauce, he worried that the imported Italian mozzarella wasn't fresh enough because of the long cargo flight, and the fact he could only get deliveries twice a week.\n\nYosuke runs the business with his wife Sanae\n\nSo Mr Masuko decided he would make his own. As the cheese didn't exist in Vietnam he couldn't ask anyone locally for help, so instead he learned to make it himself by studying YouTube videos.\n\nThen unhappy with the quality of milk he was able to buy in Vietnam, he bought a farm and his own cows.\n\nSome might say this is a little too obsessive, but Mr Masuko says he wouldn't have it any other way.\n\n\"The mission of our restaurant is 'delivering wow, sharing happiness',\" he says. \"To pursue our mission we keep in mind to always go beyond customer expectations.\"\n\nThe company also sells more traditional, Italian-style pizzas\n\nWhile neither the Japanese nor the Vietnamese are renowned for their pizza eating, Mr Masuko first started making them in 2004 when he installed a wood-fired pizza oven in his garden in Tokyo.\n\n\"The experience of making your own pizza with friends every weekend made me realise that I can make people happy by serving good food in a good space,\" he says.\n\nHowever, it wasn't until seven years later that Mr Masuko decided to start making pizza for a living. By that time he was living in Vietnam where he worked for a Japanese investment firm.\n\nFascinated by Vietnam's rising middle class, he noticed that global pizza chains such as Pizza Hut and Domino's were opening up in the country and proving popular. As Vietnam had been a former French colony, the country was used to bread products, particularly baguettes, so pizza didn't prove too much of a jump for most people.\n\nThe restaurants are popular among Vietnam's growing middle class\n\nSo with fond memories of his own pizza-making exploits Mr Masuko quit his job and used his $100,000 (£77,000) savings to open the first branch of Pizza 4Ps in central Ho Chi Minh City.\n\nThe 4Ps part of the unusual name stands \"for peace\". He explains: \"In the name 4Ps is our wish for inner peace and richness of hearts.\"\n\nLooking back, Mr Masuko says that quitting his investment job was not a decision he took lightly.\n\n\"Everything was fine with my previous job back then,\" he says. \"The company even provided accommodation, and my eldest daughter was three when we opened the first restaurant.\n\n\"Of course I was afraid that the restaurant wasn't going to work, but at the same time I felt like I needed to take the challenge.\"\n\nThe restaurants are located in busy central locations\n\nThankfully for Mr Masuko his restaurant was an immediate hit, and the company has grown steadily ever since.\n\nFrom 10 workers to begin with, it now has 700 full-time Vietnamese staff and 13 Japanese employees, five of whom have management roles.\n\nMr Masuko says that when the first restaurant opened, 90% of its customers were Japanese expats, 5% Vietnamese and 5% other foreign nationals.\n\nToday more than 70% of diners are Vietnamese.\n\nIn addition to making its own cheese, Pizza 4Ps also arranges for Vietnamese farmers to grow it vegetables such as rocket and lettuces. The company also sells some of its cheese to hotels and other restaurants.\n\nMr Masuko says: \"In 2016 we had a turnover of $7.5m, and in 2017 we expect $15m.\"\n\nUltimately the aim is to float the company on a stock exchange, and open branches in other countries.\n\nTo help run the business Mr Masuko relies on his wife Sanae, whom he met when they both worked for the same Japanese investment fund.\n\nThe business has both Vietnamese and Japanese staff\n\nWhile Mr Masuko has the chief executive role, Sanae looks after staffing matters and marketing.\n\nRather than pick Japanese or Vietnamese as the working language at Pizza 4Ps, staff are instead encouraged to talk to each other in English.\n\nMr Masuko admits that this can occasionally cause communication problems, but says that cultural differences can sometimes be the biggest problem.\n\nSanae explains: \"We found the gap of working culture between Vietnamese and Japanese is the one that is difficult to bridge... but things are improving.\"\n\nHang Do, vice president of Seedcom, a Vietnamese investment fund, says she wasn't surprised that Pizza 4Ps has done so well.\n\n\"For the past five years, as the economy has grown, the middle class has grown very fast as well, and people have just been more open-minded to the diversity of food and beverages,\" she says. \"Pizza 4Ps offers a very unique flavour.\"\n\nMr Masuko says he is confident that the Vietnamese pizza market will continue to grow, and he is putting in the hours to ensure that Pizza 4Ps continues to be a success.\n\n\"I go to the office at 9am, and I do work 13 hours a day. I am devoting my life to working.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The contraceptive pill had profound social consequences. Everyone agrees with that.\n\nIn fact, that was the point. Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist who urged scientists to develop it, wanted to liberate women sexually and socially, to put them on a more equal footing with men.\n\nBut the pill wasn't just socially revolutionary. It also sparked an economic revolution - perhaps the most significant economic change of the late 20th Century.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world in which we live.\n\nTo see why, first consider what the pill offered to women. For a start, it worked - unlike many of the other options.\n\nOver the centuries, lovers have tried all kinds of unappealing tricks to prevent pregnancy. There was crocodile dung in ancient Egypt, Aristotle's recommendation of cedar oil, and Casanova's method of using half a lemon as a cervical cap.\n\nBut even the obvious modern alternative to the pill - condoms - have a failure rate.\n\nMargaret Sanger opened the first US family planning centre in New York in 1916, when contraception and abortion were illegal\n\nBecause people don't tend to use them exactly as they're supposed to, they sometimes rip or slip. So for every 100 sexually active women using condoms for a year, 18 will become pregnant. The failure rate of the sponge is similar. The diaphragm isn't much better.\n\nBut the failure rate of the pill - with typical use - is just 6%, three times safer than condoms. Used perfectly, the failure rate drops to one twentieth of that.\n\nUsing a condom meant negotiating with a partner. The diaphragm and sponge were messy. But the decision to use the pill was a woman's, and it was private and discreet. No wonder women wanted it.\n\nThe pill was first approved in the United States in 1960. In just five years, almost half of married women on birth control were using it.\n\nBut the real revolution would come when unmarried women got access to oral contraceptives. That took time. But in around 1970 - 10 years after the pill was first approved - US state after US state started to make it easier for single women to get the pill.\n\nUniversities opened family planning centres. By the mid-1970s, the pill was overwhelmingly the most popular form of contraception for 18 and 19-year-old women in the US.\n\nThe Planned Parenthood organisation distributed information and contraception across the US\n\nAnd that was when the economic revolution really began.\n\nWomen in America started studying particular kinds of degrees - law, medicine, dentistry and MBAs - which had previously been very masculine.\n\nIn 1970, medical degrees were over 90% male. Law degrees and MBAs were over 95% male. Dentistry degrees were 99% male. But at the beginning of the 1970s - equipped with the pill - women surged into all these courses. At first, women made up a fifth of the class, then a quarter. By 1980 they often made up a third.\n\nThis wasn't simply because women became more likely to go to university.\n\nWomen who'd already decided to be students opted for these professional courses.\n\nThe proportion of female students studying subjects such as medicine and law rose dramatically, and logically enough, the presence of women in the professions rose sharply shortly afterwards.\n\nBut what did this have to do with the pill? By giving women control over their fertility, it allowed them to invest in their careers.\n\nThese Harvard graduates could take for granted the freedom to develop their careers before having children, if they wished\n\nBefore the pill was available, taking five years or more to qualify as a doctor or lawyer didn't look like a good use of time and money. To reap the benefits of those courses, a woman would need to be able to reliably delay motherhood until she was 30 at least.\n\nHaving a baby at the wrong time risked derailing her studies or delaying her professional progress.\n\nA sexually active woman who tried to become a doctor, dentist or lawyer was doing the equivalent of building a factory in an earthquake zone: just one bit of bad luck and the expensive investment would be trashed.\n\nOf course, women could simply abstain from sex if they wanted to study for a professional career. But many didn't want to.\n\nAnd it wasn't just about having fun. It was also about finding a husband. Before the pill, people married young. A woman who decided to abstain from sex while developing her career might try to find a husband at the age of 30 and find that, quite literally, all the good men had been taken.\n\nThe pill changed both those dynamics. It meant that unmarried women could have sex with substantially less risk of an unwanted pregnancy.\n\nBut it also changed the whole pattern of marriage. Everyone started to marry later, even women who didn't use the pill.\n\nThe 1973 landmark Roe v Wade case legalised abortion in the US, allowing women further control over their fertility\n\nBabies started to arrive later, and at a time of women's own choosing. And that meant that women, at least, had time to establish a professional career.\n\nOf course, many other things changed for American women in the 1970s.\n\nAbortion was legalised, laws against sex discrimination were put in place, feminism emerged as a movement, and the drafting of young men to fight in Vietnam forced employers to recruit more women.\n\nBut a careful statistical study by the Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz strongly suggests that the pill must have played a major role in allowing women to delay marriage and motherhood, and invest in their own careers.\n\nGoldin and Katz tracked the availability of the pill to young women in the US, state by state. They show that as each state opened up access to contraception, so the enrolment rate in professional courses soared, and so did women's wages.\n\nA few years ago, the economist Amalia Miller used a variety of clever statistical methods to demonstrate that if a woman in her 20s was able to delay motherhood by one year, her lifetime earnings would rise by 10%.\n\nThat was some measure of the vast advantage to a woman of completing her studies and securing her career before having children.\n\nBut the young women of the 1970s didn't need to see Amalia Miller's research: they already knew it was true.\n\nAs the pill became available, they signed up for long professional courses in undreamt of numbers.\n\nAmerican women today can look across the Pacific Ocean for a vision of an alternative reality.\n\nDid the lack of widely available contraception contribute to Japan's gender inequality?\n\nIn Japan, one of the world's most technologically advanced societies, the pill wasn't approved for use until 1999. Japanese women had to wait 39 years longer than their American counterparts for the same contraceptive.\n\nIn contrast, when the erection-boosting drug Viagra was approved in the US, Japan was just a few months behind.\n\nGender inequality in Japan is widely reckoned to be worse than anywhere else in the developed world, with women continuing to struggle for recognition in the workplace.\n\nIt is impossible to disentangle cause and effect here, but the experience in the US suggests that it is no coincidence. Delay the pill by two generations, and of course the economic impact on women will be enormous.\n\nIt is a tiny little pill that continues to transform the world economy.", "From racing his siblings round the backyard as a toddler to celebrating his sole World Championship crown with his tearful dad on the back of his bike, motorcycling and family were the inseparable constants in Nicky Hayden's life.\n\nRaised in a biking family in the same Kentucky town that was home to seven Nascar drivers and actor Johnny Depp, Hayden and his siblings would spend four hours a day riding on their own home circuit from the age of three.\n\nPractice made perfect. One of only six men to win the MotoGP title this century, Hayden provided the sport with one of its most memorable finales when he pipped Valentino Rossi to the 2006 crown.\n\nHayden, who has died at the age of 35, five days after a collision with a car while cycling in Italy, never again got close to the championship but remained one of the sport's most popular riders.\n\n\"When I was a little kid I never wanted to be a firefighter or anything else - just a world champion,\" he said.\n\n\"The idea of growing up to be a world champion, it just seemed so far away. But dream big, and dreams do come true.\"\n\nFrom Earl's Lane to the top step\n\nHayden, along with brothers Tommy and Roger, turned professional after years of home schooling on the track at 'Earl's Lane' - the name for their home in Owensboro, nestled on the Ohio river.\n\nIt was no fluke that all three became pro riders. Dad Earl was a dirt track racer for more than 20 years and mum Rose and sisters Jenny and Kathleen also competed.\n\n\"I was bred into it. Bikes are more than just a job for us. It's a way of life,\" Hayden told the BBC in 2013.\n\n\"When I won the title I went to my pit box before the awards ceremony, and there was the banner that said, 'Nicky Hayden, World Champion,' and I just lost it.\n\n\"My parents gave up a lot, and there are a lot of bumps and bruises and it hurts sometimes. So you definitely have to be prepared to suffer a bit.\n\n\"It's not always just a big cupcake ride.\"\n\nFamily remained foremost for Hayden, who would often make the long trip back to Kentucky from Europe throughout the season to spend time with them.\n\nHe listed the 2001 Springfield TT - a dirt-bike race which saw all three brothers finish on the podium - as one of his career highlights, despite the fact that Tommy won.\n\nHis three-word Twitter biography perhaps sums it up best: \"Bikes and Family.\"\n\n'The nicest guy in the paddock'\n\nWith his distinctive Appalachian twang and broad smile, Hayden was popular the world over for his friendly, self-deprecating charm as much as his speed.\n\nFormer team-mate Rossi called Hayden \"one of my best friends in racing\" earlier this week.\n\n\"He never changed, from the first moment I met him as a 17-year-old kid to world champion,\" said former BBC commentator Steve Parrish.\n\n\"He was very relaxed. He had an amazing year when he won the championship - I don't think I've ever seen anyone more joyous to win a title.\n\n\"His dad got on the back of his bike, they were both in tears. That's the overriding memory of Nicky that I will remember. It was a dream picture - he achieved the greatest title in motorcycle racing.\n\n\"I never heard anyone have a bad word to say about him which in racing is unusual, most riders at one time or another cross swords with other riders. It's the name of the game.\"\n\nHe left MotoGP at the end of the 2015 season to join Honda in World Superbike, and raced in Italy the weekend before his accident.\n\nLast year Hayden got engaged to his girlfriend, actress Jackie Marin, who was with him in hospital, along with Rose and Tommy.\n\nFormer MotoGP rider James Toseland said there was \"nobody better in the sport.\"\n\n\"He has my complete respect,\" he said. \"He was always the first on the track at every test, and the last off it.\n\n\"He was a guy with so much dedication, passion, drive and motivation and was so humble with it all, even after being a world champion. It never changed him one bit.\n\n\"Nicky was the shining star among the three successful brothers, but if you were in a bar with all three of them you wouldn't know that. They were all so close.\n\n\"The glass was always half full with him. He had that confidence and a natural, ambitious personality, he was infectious.\n\n\"His biggest achievement is not the trophies he won, or the championship, it was the respect he got from his peers. The way everybody talks about Nicky Hayden speaks volumes for the type of person he was.\"", "Sam Allardyce has resigned as Crystal Palace manager five months after he joined the Premier League club.\n\nAllardyce replaced Alan Pardew in December on a two-and-half-year deal with the Eagles one point above the relegation zone.\n\nThe 62-year-old, who had an ill-fated one-game spell as England boss, led the club to eight wins in 21 games to guide them to a 14th-place finish.\n\n\"I have no ambitions to take another job,\" Allardyce said in a statement.\n\n\"I want to be able to savour life while I am still relatively young, and when I am still relatively healthy enough to do all the things I want to do, like travel, spend more time with my family and grandchildren without the huge pressure that comes with being a football manager.\n\n\"This is the right time for me. I simply want to be able to enjoy all the things you cannot really enjoy with the 24/7 demands of managing any football club, let alone one in the Premier League.\"\n\nAllardyce revealed his decision to chairman Steve Parish at a meeting in London on Tuesday. The Eagles are now looking for their eighth manager in seven years.\n\nAlthough it took Allardyce six games to get his first victory - with BBC Sport asking if the 'Big Sam bounce had deserted Palace' - the former Bolton, Blackburn, Newcastle and West Ham boss maintained his record of never being relegated from the Premier League.\n\nOnly Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, Harry Redknapp and David Moyes have managed more games in the Premier League.\n\nAllardyce's final game in charge of Palace came on Sunday, a 2-0 loss at Manchester United, having guaranteed safety the previous week by thrashing Hull 4-0.\n\nFollowing defeat at Old Trafford, Allardyce indicated his plans to improve the squad in the summer.\n\nHe had told BBC Sport: \"We now need to grow, develop and invest. You need to choose the right players and not the wrong ones. Recruitment is the difficult task in the summer.\"\n\nAllardyce left his post as England manager by mutual agreement in September after only one match in charge.\n\nIt followed a Daily Telegraph investigation claiming he offered advice on how to \"get around\" rules on player transfers.\n\nThe FA said Allardyce's conduct \"was inappropriate\". He apologised, adding \"entrapment had won\".\n\n\"It sounds as if he's going to retire...people might be looking into it and saying 'don't worry he'll be back very soon', but from my understanding this is very much a personal decision\n\n\"In some ways, this has been a very difficult decision to make but in others it has been a simple one.\n\n\"I will always be grateful to Crystal Palace and Steve Parish for giving me the opportunity to go out with my head held high having helped keep the club in the Premier League.\n\n\"More than that, they gave me a chance of rebuilding my reputation after what happened with England. I felt I needed another shot at being a Premier League manager and showing that I still had the ability to achieve something significant. As I said last weekend, Palace gave me the chance of rehabilitation.\n\n\"That's why it's hard walking away now. I believe the club are heading in the right direction with a hugely supportive board of directors, a great squad of players and some of the most passionate fans I've ever met.\n\n\"But there comes a time when you have to take stock of what direction you want your life to take - and that's been the simple part for me.\n\n\"I want to be able to savour life while I'm still relatively young and when I'm still relatively healthy, even if I'm beginning to feel all my 62 years.\n\n\"While I've got the energy, I want to travel and also spend more time with my family and grandchildren without the huge pressure that comes with being a football manager. I owe that to my wife and family.\n\n\"This is the right time for me, I know that in my heart. I have no ambitions to take another job, I simply want to be able to enjoy all the things you cannot really enjoy with the 24/7 demands of managing any football club, let alone one in the Premier League.\n\n\"Steve Parish has been superb during our conversations today. I know it came as a shock to him that I would walk away but our discussions have been incredibly civilised with no recriminations and no fall-out.\n\n\"This is not about transfer targets, club finances or anything along those lines. This is me taking the decision I believe is right for my family and myself.\n\n\"I would like to thank everybody for their messages of support since the news broke. I've no doubt I will miss management but I certainly have no regrets at this decision. It's been a privilege to have worked for them for the past five months.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFormer world number one Caroline Wozniacki has withdrawn from the Internationaux de Strasbourg, less than a week before the French Open starts.\n\nThe 26-year-old Dane, the number one seed, was a set down in her first-round match against American Shelby Rogers when she retired citing back trouble.\n\n\"I felt it kind of in the middle of the first set,\" said the world number 12.\n\n\"At this point, I think it's important for me to try and get ready for the French Open and be 100% for that.\"\n\nWorld number 55 Rogers, who won the opening set on a tie-break in just over an hour, will play China's Qiang Wang in the second round.\n\nDefending champion and home favourite Caroline Garcia advanced to the second round by beating Jennifer Brady 6-3 6-4.\n\nMeanwhile, Eugenie Bouchard has withdrawn from the Nuernberger Cup after injuring an ankle in training last week.\n\nThe 2014 champion said: \"It's a great tournament for me with lots of great memories. I'm sorry I cannot see the fans this year and hope to be back next year.\"", "The claim: The governments since 2010 have borrowed more than all the Labour governments in history.\n\nReality Check verdict: That's true in cash terms but not when you take into account the growing economy.\n\nAmong the more eye-catching claims of the campaign so far has been Jeremy Corbyn's repeated assertion that the Conservative-led governments since 2010 have borrowed more money than all Labour governments in history.\n\nThis can be checked using the Bank of England's handy three centuries of economic data spreadsheet.\n\nThe simplest way to examine this claim is to compare the amounts in cash terms, add up the amounts borrowed by all Labour governments and compare the total with the amount borrowed since 2010.\n\nBy this calculation, the combined Labour governments borrowed a little more than £500bn over their 33 years while the governments since 2010 have borrowed a bit more than £670bn.\n\nSo it's true in cash terms, but is that a fair or useful comparison?\n\nDuring the first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924, a loaf of bread cost less than 2d on average. Also, our economy produces very considerably more today than it did in 1924, which means it is not unreasonable for the government to borrow more.\n\nSo a better comparison to make is government borrowing as a proportion of GDP, which is a measure of everything produced in the economy.\n\nBy that measure it turns out that all Labour governments borrowed about 70% of GDP while the governments since 2010 borrowed about 40% of GDP, which is a very different picture.\n\nEven that is not necessarily a fair comparison. For example, there was a big fall in debt as a proportion of GDP after 1976, despite Jim Callaghan's government going to the International Monetary Fund for a big loan.\n\nThat happened because the following years of very high inflation reduced the value of the government's debts.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nCoverage: Score updates on Radio 5 live plus highlights from 18:00 BST on BBC Two, Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 May\n\nDefending champion Chris Wood predicts lower scoring at this week's PGA Championship at Wentworth.\n\nBut success will not only be measured on scorecards at Britain's biggest golf gathering outside the Open Championship.\n\nThis is a huge week for the European Tour as they use the Wentworth tournament to launch an elevated strata of events designed to compete with the might of the PGA Tour.\n\nAnd be in no doubt, the American circuit's influence continues to grow. It is relentlessly dominant and ready to make its already wealthy players even richer.\n\nSo, on this side of the pond, the £5.4m Wentworth extravaganza needs to succeed as it tees up the newly branded Rolex Series of elite events on the European Tour.\n\nThis week should prove a turning point after recent PGAs left disgruntled players muttering about the West Course's suitability to hold such tournaments.\n\n\"There were murmurs a couple of years ago if we didn't do something drastic that the Tour could look elsewhere,\" Stephen Gibson, Wentworth's CEO, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I don't think they have reason to now.\"\n\nGibson has overseen more than £5m worth of investment, which has been poured into renovating the West Course over the past year.\n\nAll 18 greens have been relaid with 007 creeping bentgrass, while sub-air technology, as used at Augusta, has been installed under every putting surface to control moisture.\n\nDefending champion Wood agrees. The Bristolian shot nine under par to claim the biggest title of his career, and is convinced a lower score will be required for a successful title defence.\n\n\"I hope the changes don't affect my results too much,\" said a smiling Wood, who has been a consistent Wentworth performer in recent years.\n\n\"But they are really good changes and the big thing is the condition of the greens. They really needed looking at and you can't fault them.\n\n\"The greens are a shot easier purely because of the surfaces and I think the bunkers are not so severe.\"\n\nThere are 25% fewer bunkers, and those that remain are shallower and easier to get out of.\n\n\"Guys can hit irons onto the greens now instead of having to lay up,\" Wood told me.\n\n\"And that feeds back to the tee, where people will think, 'actually, I don't mind going in that bunker now, so I'll be a little bit more aggressive with my drive'. I can see lower scores.\"\n\nWood does not see any problem with that, but back in 2009 it was felt the West Course had become too easy.\n\nErnie Els' design team sought to toughen up the layout where the average winning score had been nearly 15 under. In the following seven years, that average fell to 11.6 under despite An Byeong-hun's record 21-under victory in 2015.\n\nThe changes were unpopular. Wentworth lost its charm and became a slog for anyone other than the best players.\n\nNow it is more like its old self, and Wood believes players and fans will be delighted.\n\n\"You finish with two par-fives and there should be the opportunity for a birdie/eagle finish to change the tournament and that's not really been there the last few years,\" he said.\n\n\"For people watching, that takes away a lot of the drama and entertainment, so I'm quite happy to see lower scores.\"\n\n\"I think people love to see birdies, love to see long drives,\" he told BBC Sport. \"In terms of the score, I'm not fussed by that.\"\n\nFans will see the biggest changes on the eighth, 11th, 14th and 16th greens, which have been completely remodelled.\n\nThe biggest improvement is at the eighth, where the putting surface has been lowered closer to the water level in front and left of the green.\n\nA ludicrously deep bunker to the right has disappeared and is replaced by subtle mounding, more in keeping with the original design ethos.\n\n\"We created something which I believe is what the players wanted, and brought it back to that old Harry Colt design with some modernisation to it,\" Pelley added.\n\n\"The professionals say it is far more playable. It is definitely an elite golf course but also I think the members will really enjoy playing it.\"\n\nMost important will be whether the new design provides a fitting stage for one of the tour's biggest tournaments.\n\nIt has attracted a strong field but Rory McIlroy's absence through a recurrence of his rib injury is a big blow.\n\nHis initial commitment was significant because the world number two gave immediate and vocal backing to the concept of the new Rolex Series, even though he is a paid ambassador for a rival luxury watchmaker.\n\nNow the series will begin in the absence of the tour's biggest star, but it helps that July's Irish Open, backed by McIlroy's charitable foundation, also features, as do the French, Scottish, Italian and Turkish Opens.\n\n\"We want to say, 'look we play in iconic cities and great venues',\" Pelley added. \"The golf course itself is absolutely critical and that's why the changes at Wentworth were so imperative.\"\n\nCreating a viable alternative to the PGA Tour is Pelley's primary objective, and he remains optimistic about the progress being made.\n\n\"Maybe you don't have to go to America,\" he said.\n\n\"When you look at the fields for our Rolex Series events compared to the previous years, the strength of field is stronger across the board. That's a positive sign.\"\n\nBut the competitive environment becomes no easier for Pelley and his Wentworth-based colleagues.\n\nThe PGA Tour recently unveiled a massive new deal for their FedEx Cup play-offs which currently carries a $10m (£7.7m) first prize.\n\n\"Just wait until we announce the increase in prize money,\" a leading official told me last week. \"It will blow your mind.\"\n\nFurthermore, the Florida organisation has pitched its stars and stripes in the European Tour's backyard by opening an office in central London.\n\nThis is aimed at making it easier to further develop sponsor ties and broadcast deals on Pelley's turf.\n\nBe under no illusion, this is a vital week for his European Tour to demonstrate its wares and put on a tournament fit for the world's best, regardless of how low the scoring might be.", "One in five children in the UK are said to be negatively affected by their parents' drinking, and the effects can last well into adulthood. Four women - Karen, Liz, Hilary and Lynne - spoke to Jo Morris about growing up with a parent dependent on alcohol.\n\n\"Some people talk about what books they've read, or films they've been to see, but instead we talk about how drunk our parents were,\" says Karen.\n\nKaren and her friend Liz met at work in their late 20s and quickly bonded when they realised they had a shared history.\n\n\"It's not the same talking to somebody who doesn't know what it's like,\" says Liz.\n\nGallows humour helps to deal with the horrible memories. Like the time Liz's mum sold her toys to get money for alcohol. Or the time Karen's alcoholic dad went to the pub instead of collecting her from after-school club.\n\nThey both remember dreading the walk home from school.\n\n\"It's so disheartening,\" says Karen. \"You think: 'OK, I've had a nice break at school, but here we go again. I'm going to be really polite and be really nice, make sure that I don't say anything out of turn or give you any reason to have a go at me.'\"\n\nIt was only when Liz was eight or nine that she noticed her friends did not have any such concerns and lived very different lives.\n\n\"I thought: 'Oh, you have your dinner cooked for you? I don't even have dinner.'\n\n\"That's when you realise it's horrendous and you feel very alone going through it.\"\n\nOnce, her mum spent all her benefit money on alcohol, and all she could afford was a sack of potatoes.\n\n\"Potato weekend!\" Liz laughs. \"We literally had potatoes to live on for the weekend. So we had mashed potato, potato cakes, chips wrapped up in newspaper - she was very resourceful.\"\n\n\"Potato weekend\" - when Liz' mum spent all the money on drink\n\nFood - or the lack of it - is a common theme.\n\nHilary, 55, grew up in an upper-middle class family in Sunderland, with a respected surgeon as a father. The family kept up appearances - but her mother drank.\n\n\"I can remember being at school, and a girl in my form opening up her lunch and saying: 'Oh my sandwiches haven't been buttered to the edge.' It was like Planet Zorg compared to my life,\" she remembers.\n\nNo-one was making sandwiches for Hilary. In fact it was left to her to look after her younger brother - putting him to bed, getting him ready for school, making sure he was fed.\n\nHer mum's drinking started out with a glass of wine \"while cooking\" but soon escalated to a bottle of vodka a day.\n\n\"She was hiding bottles, they were all over the place - in her shoeboxes, you'd find glasses of neat vodka behind curtains and if you put the oven on you checked there wasn't a bottle hidden in there.\n\nWatching her elegant and educated mother fade away was very painful.\n\n\"You couldn't hold a conversation with her because she was drunk,\" Hilary says. \"It was like she wasn't there really - she went from being very present to becoming a ghost.\"\n\nLiz's mother had been a model, but after she began to drink she never quite knew where to put on her make-up. \"She looked like Aunt Sally from Worzel Gummidge,\" she says.\n\nLiz's own life began to spin out of control, as a result of neglect. By the age of 15, Liz had become involved in an abusive relationship, and was put into foster care. It was thanks to her friends that she survived, she says.\n\n\"I've been good at choosing good friends who helped me through it, friends who weren't into drugs and drinking.\"\n\nThen, when she saw her friends go to university she decided she would, too - the only child in Surrey social services at the time who did. \"I definitely deserve a prize for that,\" she says.\n\n\"It's like walking on eggshells\"\n\nFor Jabs, 22, living with her alcoholic father was like \"walking on eggshells\". All this week Woman's Hour will be hearing from adult children of alcoholics. Jo Morris spoke to six women of different ages and backgrounds, from all over the UK.\n\nNow 37, with a young family, she visits her mother a few times a year but wants no further involvement - one reason why she has put off marriage to her long-term partner.\n\n\"I don't want her at my wedding,\" she says. \"But I'm too nice to think of her sat at home alone.\"\n\nLynne's mother died 13 years ago from complications caused by her alcoholism. She rummages through a box of her mother's things that she put together after bereavement counselling.\n\n\"What was hard was that everyone in the church all stood up and said how great she was,\" she says, remembering their complicated relationship.\n\n\"Every childhood memory is laced with the memory of my mum drinking.\n\n\"I cannot recall a day when she didn't send me and my sister with a note to the shop: 'Please sell my children two bottles of Olde English and four cans of Special Brew' - and I wasn't the only kid on the council estate doing that.\"\n\nHer mother could get nasty when she was drunk, and even violent.\n\n\"It was so confusing and upsetting. Sometimes I'd barricade myself inside my bedroom. Even now, talking about it, I get that feeling in my gut that I want to leave the house.\"\n\nToday her flat is cosy and welcoming - the polar opposite, she says, of the home she grew up in. And this is important to her.\n\n\"I used to feel that I wasn't entitled to anything that was wholesome or good,\" she says - but that's no longer the case.\n\nAfter moving to London she built the life she wanted to have. She feels loved by her husband and friends. \"I'm just basking in that,\" she says.\n\nWhen Lynne's mother died, she collected her belongings in a box\n\nShe pulls out something else from her bereavement box - a ticket from the hospital from when she was born, saying how much she weighed.\n\n\"I was amazed that she still kept this,\" she says, clearly moved.\n\n\"Consciously making the decision to not have a child myself is the legacy of it all.\n\n\"In my heart I was so afraid I wouldn't be able to look after someone else, and I might repeat her mistakes. Is it in the genes, could this come out in me? That is something I've always thought.\"\n\nHilary does have a child, a teenager, and relishes the opportunity to be the attentive mother she herself lacked. She has also made sure that, unlike her own mother - a former nurse, who ended up spending her life at home - she is always busy.\n\n\"I learned my lesson from my mum,\" she says.\n\n\"I play a lot of sport, and I work - I need structure.\n\n\"I think mum was lonely and sad. That gets me. I think she could have been helped.\"\n\nShe remembers coming home from a Christmas party as a teenager to find her mum at the bottom of her stairs holding a carving knife, threatening to kill herself. She had drunk the Christmas port and replaced it with Ribena, which led to a row with her husband.\n\nHilary's mother hid bottles all over the house\n\nHilary drove her mother to hospital and got her admitted to the alcohol dependency unit there. The next day at Christmas lunch nobody in the family acknowledged what had happened.\n\n\"It was the great lie. We never spoke about anything in the family.\"\n\n\"And I loathe people who fraudulently present themselves as something they're not, because that is how I was brought up.\n\n\"The fact that I couldn't talk about how it was probably contributed to my hideous depression,\" Hilary says.\n\nShame and secrecy are words that come up often, talking to these women.\n\nAll of them wish they'd had someone to talk to about their parents' drinking when they were growing up.\n\nLiz and Karen, who find comfort in sharing stories with each other now, had nobody to turn to as children, and couldn't see a way out.\n\n\"When you're eight or nine you can't go anywhere,\" says Liz, who was bullied about her mum's drinking. \"It's not your fault if your parent is alcoholic.\"\n\nKaren nods in agreement. \"How many kids go through this? Keeping all this pressure, stress and anxiety to themselves because they have nobody at school to talk to - it's really sad and horrid and there are kids going through this now,\" she says.\n\nLynne feels badly let down by the authorities.\n\n\"I find it staggering that my mum was sectioned and no-one said: 'What is happening to this young teenager?'\n\n\"Actually that is what makes me the angriest. All that support system in society - school, doctor, social services - where were they?\"\n\nNACOA - The National Association For Children Of Alcoholics\n\nAl-Anon - For families and friends of alcoholics\n\nFor Hilary, there was help of sorts in the shape of her Uncle David - her mother's brother.\n\n\"No other adult had helped me up to that point, no other adult intervened.\"\n\nShe describes how he bundled her and her siblings into his car and drove them round and round, so that they relaxed and started to tell him stories about her mother's drinking.\n\nHe convinced Hilary's mum to stop drinking for three months so that Hilary could concentrate on her A-levels.\n\n\"He made us feel safe, suddenly the sun shone in my life.\"\n\nHer mum only remained sober for those three months, but it meant Hilary passed her A-levels, and then she escaped the stresses of home for university.\n\nShe has never forgotten Uncle David's kindness, and she still visits him every week.\n\nKaren's dad stopped drinking 13 years ago, but she still has a recurring nightmare that he's started up again. \"I still have that panic of: here we go again.\"\n\nDoes she talk to her parents about what happened? \"It's never discussed.\"\n\n\"Now I'm a parent, the thought of acting like that to my child is unbelievable,\" she adds.\n\n\"The stress we get into about what to feed our children.\"\n\n\"And you got a sack of potatoes to last the weekend!\" jokes Karen.\n\nAnd they both erupt into laughter again.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Six women shared their stories with Woman's Hour\n\n*Some names in this article have been changed\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nPetra Kvitova is \"on track\" to play at Wimbledon less than seven months after suffering a career-threatening hand injury in a knife attack at her home.\n\nThe 26-year-old, a two-time Wimbledon champion, was stabbed on 20 December by an intruder in her apartment in Prostejov in the Czech Republic.\n\nShe could return at the French Open, which starts next week.\n\nA spokeswoman for Kvitova said the player would make a \"last-minute decision\" about competing in Paris.\n\nFollowing the attack in December, surgeons spent almost four hours repairing tendons and nerves in Kvitova's left hand - her playing hand.\n\nThe Czech, who won Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014, will be included on the official entry list for this year's Championships, which will be released on Wednesday.\n\nEarlier this month, she posted a photograph on social media of her returning to full training in Monaco.\n\n\"I hope this picture makes you as happy as it makes me,\" wrote Kvitova, who has fallen to 16th in the world rankings having been 11th at the time of the attack.\n\nWimbledon - the third Grand Slam of the season - starts on Monday, 3 July.\n• None First Wimbledon appearance as a junior in 2007, reaching the last 16\n• None First career title in 2009 - the Hobart International, Australia\n• None Now has 19 titles with career prize money totalling more than £18.4m\n• None Reached a career-high of world number two in October 2011, behind Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki\n• None Won a bronze medal at the Rio Olympics, losing her semi-final to eventual gold medallist Monica Puig", "Coverage: Live commentary on BBC Radio 5 live and online (from 18:30 BST), live text commentary on BBC Sport and app\n\nNo matter the outcome of the Europa League final on Wednesday against Manchester United, 24 May will always have a special sentiment for Ajax and its fans.\n\nOn 24 May, 1995, Ajax managed to achieve the unthinkable; winning the Champions League with a team that was only 25 years old on average, beating Italian giants AC Milan 1-0 in the final.\n\nExactly 22 years later, Ajax have the opportunity once again to do something the club and its fans could not have possibly imagined. It is fitting, then, that the teams of then and now share so many connections beyond the iconic red and white jersey, as the Netherlands' most successful club will try to end its longest title drought in continental competition.\n\nEdwin van der Sar, who was the goalkeeper in that famous Ajax side and won a Champions League with Manchester United to boot, is now the general director of the club from the capital. Former Arsenal player Marc Overmars, currently the director of football at Ajax, was another starter that night in Vienna, taking up duties on the left wing.\n\nAnd with 18-year old Justin Kluivert in the side 22 years after his father Patrick became the youngest player to score a winner in a Champions League final, there might even be some historic on-pitch involvement, although the Dutch will be fearful of Manchester United's Daley Blind denying the club that his father Danny captained to the Amsterdammers' last European triumph.\n\nThe shadow of a team managed by another mutual acquaintance of both Manchester United and Ajax lingers over the final in Sweden - in 1995, Louis van Gaal was in charge of the Dutch club. Yet the current manager who has revitalized Ajax after a few stale years considers himself a disciple of the late Johan Cruyff.\n• None Phil Neville analysis: Man Utd must be on the front foot\n\nThe man behind the rebirth\n\nPeter Bosz made a career for himself as a combative midfielder at Vitesse and Feyenoord, but at an early age, he was captured by the magic of Johan Cruyff.\n\nWhen playing with Vitesse in the early 1980s, Bosz would regularly go to watch Ajax \"because Cruyff was a football legend, returning to the Netherlands, and you wanted to see that with your own eyes. See as much of him as you could.\"\n\nTalking to FC Afkicken, he added: \"I realised I wouldn't become the best player in the world, but I wanted to try and become one of the best managers in the future. So I tracked everything Cruyff-related, going through magazines, papers, collecting all the articles I could find.\"\n\nBosz, 53, won the title as a player and eight caps for the Netherlands but faced a lot of criticism for his period as technical director of Feyenoord, during a dark period for the Rotterdam club.\n\nBosz has gone from an on-field pragmatist to an off-field protagonist when it comes to the football he admires. Returning to Heracles Almelo in 2010, Bosz dared to play a 3-4-3 formation at a team destined for a bottom-half finish. He even managed to reach the Europa League play-offs and a KNVB Cup final with the Heraclieden.\n\nHe then transformed Vitesse into one of the most entertaining sides of the league and even - albeit briefly - threatened the establishment after picking up the joint-most points in the first half of the 2013-14 season, giving Ajax a run for their money.\n\nBosz then headed to Maccabi Tel Aviv, working together with Jordi Cruyff and spending a week with Johan, learning and polishing his skills and philosophy.\n\n\"Peter and Johan spent many hours, talking about football, about organization, everything and I think there was a clear mutual respect,\" Jordi told Dutch broadcaster NOS.\n\nEven before Bosz was appointed at Maccabi, Johan had told Jordi that Bosz would be a great choice, but thought he would be out of reach for a club like Maccabi. \"He could hardly believe it when we managed to appoint him,\" added Jordi.\n\nWhen Frank de Boer announced his departure from Ajax last summer, Bosz in many ways seemed a perfect replacement despite his Feyenoord past and lack of involvement at Ajax in the past.\n\nBosz inherited a team more in the image of Van Gaal's Manchester United than a Cruyffian Ajax - and replaced a club legend in De Boer who had won four titles in five-and-a-half years.\n\nAfter a wobbly first two months, during which many outlets of the media called for Bosz's head, he has been able to design a team more capable of executing a style of football that Ajax's godfather Cruyff would appreciate.\n\nAjax finished the Dutch season in second place, but playing attacking football en route to 81 points - a tally that would have been good enough for an Eredivisie title win in seven of the last 10 seasons. The Europa League run has for a large part washed away previous criticism as well.\n\nOver the last decade the Eredivisie's average age has decreased by two years, but instead of seeing that as a disadvantage, the Ajax manager has turned it into a strength. He has shaped the squad comprising largely of early twenty-somethings and teenagers in his image, resulting to an affectionate labelling of the team as 'the Bosz Babes'.\n\nBosz recently named the youngest team in Eredivisie history, with an average age of 20 years and 139 days. Only one player was older than 21 - and yet the club easily defeated Willem II 3-1.\n\nLegendary Ajax defender Ruud Krol, who won three European Cups alongside Cruyff in the 1970s, was full of praise talking to De Telegraaf last week.\n\n\"'I recognize the Ajax style of old in this team,\" he said. \"The pressing, the tenacity, the enthusiasm. These are the characteristics that once made the club great and is what I really enjoy.\"\n\nThere have been many changes - of the team that started the last game of the 2015/16 season only four are still regularly called upon.\n\nAs well as Cruyff, Bosz has often cited Pep Guardiola's 2011 Barcelona team as his main inspiration. Kasper Dolberg, Hakim Ziyech, Davinson Sanchez and Andra Onana have all been pivotal in their debut season for the club to implement that style of play.\n\nDolberg has been the main talking point. The 19-year-old striker is amongst hottest young strikers in European football, the first Ajax teenager with 16 league goals in a season since Patrick Kluivert in 1995 and already the joint-top goalscoring teenager in Europa League history with six goals.\n\nFormer Barcelona goalkeeper André Onana has traded in shaky performances with the second team for a very assured presence in the first team, allowing his defenders to play a high line, being alert and comfortable with both feet.\n\nHakim Ziyech has slowly transformed from a fancy number 10 into an industrious yet creative pressing machine. Colombian Sanchez - described as \"a beast, an absolute pleasure to play alongside\" by team-mate Kenny Tete - has developed into an all-round modern centre-back.\n\nA 15m euro investment in the pair will almost certainly be doubled, at the very least, should either leave.\n\nIt's not all youth products though. Marc Overmars spent over 35m euros in the transfer market last summer. A fraction compared to opponents Manchester United, but more than Ajax had in the previous three seasons combined and something that clearly marks a change of approach.\n\nAs well as Sanchez and Ziyech, money has been splashed on South American talents David Neres and Mateo Cassierra, while Chelsea received a loan fee of 2m euros for Bertrand Traore.\n\nOn average, United are four years older and wiser, and that's before we even consider United's greater European experience.\n\nBut Ajax have revelled in their underdog status already this season. Schalke were swept away with ease (2-0), as were Lyon (4-1) in the home legs for the Dutch club.\n\nFor Manchester United, the game will be a chance to redeem an otherwise unremarkable season.\n\nFor Ajax, it would be a new jewel in their crown, 22 years and a generation on from their last.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nSporting events and venues in England are conducting major security reviews after 22 people were killed in an attack at Manchester Arena.\n\nThe Great City Games, an open and free event for the public, is due to take place in Manchester on Friday.\n\nOrganisers said the event will go ahead as planned, but a decision on Sunday's Great Manchester Run \"is expected in the next 24 hours\".\n\nThe FA Cup final, EFL play-offs and the PGA Championship are also this week.\n\nAn eight-year-old girl was among those killed in Monday's suicide bombing at Manchester Arena, at the end of a concert by US singer Ariana Grande.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said the UK terror threat level has been raised to its highest level of \"critical\", meaning further attacks may be imminent.\n\nManchester United cancelled a news conference on Tuesday, due to be held prior to their Europa League final against Ajax in Stockholm on Wednesday, and will wear black armbands for the match.\n\nThe club said: \"Our thoughts are with the victims and their families at this terribly difficult time.\"\n\nUnited's players held a minute's silence at training on Tuesday, and the club closed its megastore, museum, cafe and stadium tours to the public.\n\nA staff event scheduled for Wednesday has been cancelled by executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward.\n\nManager Jose Mourinho said: \"We are all very sad about the tragic events; we cannot take out of our minds and our hearts the victims and their families.\n\n\"We have a job to do and we will fly to Sweden to do that job. It is a pity we cannot fly with the happiness that we always have before a big game.\n\n\"I know, even during my short time here, that the people of Manchester will pull together as one.\"\n\nAjax manager Peter Bosz said: \"What happened yesterday evening in Manchester is something we all feel in Ajax and on behalf of all of us at Ajax we express our sympathies with the victims that fell. The feeling that prevails is the final does not have the glow it should have.\n\n\"Tomorrow evening should be a football feast but because of the events in Manchester we are affected. It is horrible. My sympathies are heartfelt.\"\n\nFootball's European governing body Uefa announced a minute's silence will be observed prior to the final. The opening ceremony will also be considerably reduced as a mark of respect for the victims.\n\nAleksander Ceferin, president of Uefa, said he was \"deeply saddened\" and shocked that \"so many innocent people lost their lives\".\n\nA Uefa statement said there was \"currently no specific intelligence\" to suggest Wednesday's game could be a target for further attacks.\n\n\"Uefa has been closely working with local authorities and the Swedish FA for many months and the terrorist risk had been taken into account since the very beginning of the project,\" it said.\n\n\"Furthermore, a number of additional security measures were implemented following the attacks in Stockholm last April.\"\n\nThere will be a minute's silence observed at Headingley cricket ground before England's one-day international against South Africa on Wednesday.\n\nBoth sets of players will also wear black armbands during the game.\n\nThe South Africa team have been told there will be extra police officers on duty at the ground and increased security at team hotels and practice.\n\nThere will also be a minute's silence before Saturday's Scottish Cup final between Celtic and Aberdeen at Hampden Park.\n\nThe Scottish FA's security and integrity officer, Peter McLaughlin, said: \"We remain vigilant to the threat posed by global terrorism and are engaged in constant dialogue with colleagues at Police Scotland and the National Counter-Terrorism Security Office.\n\n\"This ongoing communication and intelligence-sharing is part of our operations protocol for all events at the national stadium, including the forthcoming Scottish Cup final.\"\n\nA number of leading athletes are scheduled to participate at the Great City Games on Friday, while a public half marathon and 10km run are due to be staged in Manchester on Sunday.\n\nWembley hosts Saturday's FA Cup final between Arsenal and Chelsea, and the League Two and Championship play-off finals on Sunday and Monday respectively.\n\nA Football Association spokesperson said: \"Fan safety is of paramount importance and we have robust security measures in place at Wembley Stadium.\n\n\"In collaboration with the Metropolitan Police and the local authorities there will be an enhanced security operation for all upcoming events.\n\n\"All supporters are encouraged to arrive for events at Wembley Stadium as early as possible for security checks and to avoid any delays in entering the stadium.\"\n\nThe English Football League (EFL) added it \"takes security issues extremely seriously\" and urged supporters travelling to Wembley to \"be vigilant of their surroundings at all times, stay alert and not be alarmed\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says extra armed officers will be deployed at this weekend's major sports events in London, with a full review of the security and policing operations under way.\n\n\"Over the coming days as you go to a music venue, go shopping, travel to work or head off to the fantastic sporting events you will see more officers - including armed officers,\" said commander Jane Connors.\n\n\"As with any major event, security is the highest priority,\" said European Tour chief executive Keith Pelley. \"It was before Monday night and it remains so.\n\n\"We're in constant dialogue with the police and security services. We are comfortable we will react in the right way if in fact we need to significantly increase our security.\"\n\nCricket's Champions Trophy will take place from 1-18 June at venues in Birmingham, London and Cardiff.\n\nA statement from the International Cricket Council [ICC] read: \"The ICC and ECB [England and Wales Cricket Board] place safety and security at the ICC Champions Trophy and ICC Women's World Cup this summer as the highest priority.\n\n\"We operate on advice from our tournament security directorate - in conjunction with the ECB and relevant authorities - to ensure that we have a robust safety and security plan for both tournaments.\n\n\"We will continue to work with authorities over the coming hours and days and review our security in line with the threat levels.\"\n\nEngland one-day captain Eoin Morgan said his team had met their security advisers on Tuesday morning before Wednesday's match against South Africa.\n\n\"On behalf of the England cricket team, I'd like to offer our thoughts and prayers to everybody in Manchester affected by the tragic events,\" said Morgan.\n\n\"I'd also like to give our support to those in and around things and those most affected and those who helped out and continue to help out.\"\n\nThe domestic rugby union finishes this weekend, but the National Counter Terrorism security office has been in touch with Sale Sharks and every other Aviva Premiership club asking for details of any events planned by them over the next couple of weeks.\n\nThere will also be tighter security at horse racing's Epsom Derby on 3 June, with Surrey Police announcing firearms officers on patrol around the grounds.\n\nChief Superintendent Jerry Westerman said: \"The Epsom Derby is a fantastic event which attracts thousands of people and spectators from around the world and I am confident that this year's festival will be no exception.\"\n\nEngland Women's cricketer Danielle Wyatt was at the Ariana Grande concert and said: \"Thank you for all messages - I'm safe. Was at the concert enjoying myself like many others - thoughts with victims & families.\"\n\nManchester United and Spain goalkeeper David de Gea tweeted: \"Much rage, much pain. My condolences to the victims' family members involved in the atrocious attack to the heart of the city.\"\n\nManchester United forward Jesse Lingard said the \"beautiful city\" of Manchester \"will stand together in this dark hour\", captain Wayne Rooney said he was \"devastated\" by the news and winger Ashley Young said he was \"absolutely shocked\".\n\nFormer Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand: \"My thoughts & prayers are with all the families & friends affected by last night's attack in Manchester.\"\n\nFormer Lancashire and England cricketer Andrew Flintoff: \"In the toughest of times the people of Manchester showing why this is such a great city, standing together in the face of such evil.\"\n\nManchester City players - including captain Vincent Kompany, goalkeeper Willy Caballero, forward Leroy Sane and defender Pablo Zabaleta - also tweeted their support for those affected.\n\nLucy Bronze, from City's women's team, said her \"thoughts are with those affected\" and urged people to \"stick together\".\n\nOlympic and world 100m champion Usain Bolt tweeted: \"Thoughts & prayers goes out to people of Manchester and all those who are affected.\"", "Last summer, on my fourth day of sploshing through Glastonbury's sodden fields, I thought: \"Why do I keep doing this to myself?\"\n\nSure, the music was great. Skepta, Adele and Grimes gave unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime performances; and Philip Glass's Heroes Symphony, an orchestral tribute to David Bowie in the dead of the night, was unexpectedly moving.\n\nEven Coldplay - previously the only band who'd provoked me to walk out of a concert early - won me over, with a spirited, kaleidoscopic set where every song felt big enough to be an encore.\n\nBut still, the thought lingered: There must be a better way.\n\nAnd it turns out I wasn't alone.\n\nThe last decade has seen an explosion in city-based festivals, bringing bands to your doorstep, usually with the added benefit of getting to curl up in your own bed (or someone else's, if you prefer) at the end of the day.\n\n\"They're springing up absolutely everywhere,\" says Paul Reed of the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF). \"Just within our membership, we've added around eight city-based festivals in the last couple of years.\"\n\nOne of the newest is Bushstock, which takes place in Shepherd's Bush. Since it started in 2011, Bushstock has staged early gigs by the likes of Bastille, George Ezra and Michael Kiwanuka in nearby pubs, clubs and railway arches.\n\n\"We've had people like Hozier play to 300 people in a church, now he plays in front of tens of thousands of people,\" says Maz Tappuni, who co-founded the festival from his friend's front room eight years ago.\n\n\"We've had Bastille at [local pub] Defector's Weld in front of 200 people in 2013. Now they've played the O2 twice.\"\n\nBushstock is a modest event, open to just 1,500 people. But tickets start at just £18, for which fans can see any of the gigs at any of the venues.\n\nThe Staves have played Bushstock several times\n\nThis year's line-up is headlined by singer-songwriter Nick Mulvey and folk-rock trio The Staves, who are returning from a headline tour of America to play a tiny, intimate show at St Stephen's Church.\n\nFor singer Emily Staveley-Taylor, the size of the event is the main attraction.\n\n\"Sometimes, playing festivals can feel like a battle, because 50% of the crowd are there to get wrecked,\" she says.\n\n\"I feel that, more and more, the big festivals are becoming an Instagram-fest. At Bushstock, it feels like the focus is music and the people who go there are music fans.\n\n\"When you're playing a venue like a church, the acoustics mean you can hear if someone is talking. So when someone's phone goes off, people will glare and tell them to sort their lives out.\"\n\nFor The Defectors' Weld pub, Bushstock has been a shot in the arm during the quiet summer season.\n\n\"We have to move all the furniture out, which is something we don't normally do until New Year's Eve,\" says owner John Da Costa.\n\nBands like Matthew and the Atlas attracts hundreds of fans to St Stephen's Church\n\n\"Then last year, we tried to get a photographer in here and he just couldn't find the space. He had to climb on the tables and chairs to actually get any photos. It was absolutely packed.\"\n\nThe festival has a knock-on effect during the rest of the year, he adds.\n\n\"We get fans who go to gigs at the Shepherd's Bush Empire saying, 'we'll definitely come back for a drink here next time, rather than go somewhere else'.\n\n\"It's been a good pull for us, and customers returning, absolutely.\"\n\nWhile Bushstock remains a relatively small affair, other urban festivals have grown to a size where they rival \"greenfield\" events like Latitude and Green Man.\n\nSheffield's Tramlines festival started out as a free event in 2009; spread across 17 local venues, with acts including The xx and Reverend and the Makers.\n\nThis year, it boasts three purpose-built outdoor venues, where the likes of Primal Scream, The Libertines and Kano will play to 20,000 people.\n\n\"As it's grown, I guess people have demanded more,\" says the festival's co-founder Sarah Nulty.\n\n\"We'd get fans saying: 'I bought a ticket to see Billy Bragg, why can't I get in to see him?' and we'd have to say: 'He's playing a 900-capacity venue and you didn't turn up on time - but look at all these other people you can go and see!'\n\n\"I guess that's the main reason we moved out of the venues.\"\n\nIndie legends Primal Scream are the main draw at this year's Tramlines\n\nDespite the cost of building and staffing these new stages, costs have been kept down. Tickets for the three-day event start at £30, rising to a maximum of £45, while kids go free. Glastonbury, by comparison, costs £238.\n\n\"We're a good-value ticket but if you then factor in the price of a hotel, it can suddenly become unaffordable,\" Nulty acknowledges.\n\n\"So what we've tried to do is work with student halls that are empty during the summer, so you can still get a bed and a shower while making the festival affordable.\"\n\nAnd, just like Bushstock, the Tramlines festival has given the local economy a boost, with up to 70,000 people descending on Sheffield every July.\n\n\"The beauty is that the whole city joins in,\" says Nulty. \"So there's almost two festivals - a bit like Edinburgh where there's the main festival and then you have the fringe.\n\n\"Some of our fringe venues have massive, massive line-ups. There was a pub last year that put Deap Vally in their beer garden for free, and they had people climbing over the walls to try and get in.\n\n\"It helps make the festival feel amazing, but it's also our competition - because it's free.\"\n\nSo, could these urban festivals eventually replace the likes of Reading & Leeds or the Isle of Wight festival?\n\n\"There's still a great appetite for that traditional camping experience,\" says Paul Reed at the AIF. \"But metropolitan festivals serve as great incubators for emerging talent.\n\n\"People are more open to discovery. Because the line-up is multiple choice, you can just stumble into something or find your new favourite band by chance.\"\n\nThe Staves, meanwhile, are always more likely to say \"yes\" to a festival with its own roof.\n\n\"I've been to festivals in fields where it's been an absolute washout and everyone has left,\" laughs Emily Staveley-Taylor. \"Or you're performing on a stage where the electrics are sparking because of the rain, and you're like, 'What the hell are we doing?\n\n\"Why are we staging outdoor festivals in a country where it always rains in the summer?' It's madness to me.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Hopkins, from Greater Manchester Police, said it was the \"most horrific incident\" the city has faced\n\nThe UK has not seen a bomb attack like the Manchester outrage since 2005 for three simple reasons:\n\nFor more than a decade, the BBC Home Affairs Unit has monitored every single terrorist incident, attempted or failed, that has made it into the public domain.\n\nQuite simply, most of the people we have seen dragged through the courts are not capable of this kind of incident.\n\nMany aspire to \"martyrdom\" and talk about building bombs.\n\nBut they are either, to be frank, too stupid and disorganised to turn their fantasies into reality or, alternatively, they get caught because they don't know how to cover their tracks.\n\nMost jihadists discount a bomb attack at the early stages: they realise that it's too difficult to pull off.\n\nThey might accidentally kill themselves while making the device.\n\nTheir purchasing patterns might raise suspicions in a local pharmacy or, online, prompt GCHQ to have a closer look at their digital life.\n\nThey may turn to someone else for help who, unbeknown to both, is already on the MI5 radar.\n\nAnd so, as the 2013 killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby showed - exactly four years before the Manchester attack - most aspiring attackers opt for a different course.\n\nVehicles and knives became the weapons of choice.\n\nWe saw it in 2014 when a London man planned a knife attack to coincide with the annual act of remembrance.\n\nWe saw it again with the Khalid Masood Westminster attack.\n\nKhalid Masood was shot at the scene of the Westminster attack\n\nBut while knives and vehicles - and to a lesser extent guns - have featured in recent terrorism plots, there are people who still want to build bombs to attack crowded places.\n\nJust recently, the younger brother of the man in the Remembrance Sunday incident pleaded guilty to trying to find bomb-making help - and one of his potential targets was an Elton John concert.\n\nSo the big question for investigators is given that bomb-making requires expertise, how did the attacker, 22-year-old Salman Abedi, get hold of such a device?\n\nAs Tuesday dawned, there were three possibilities:\n\nIf Abedi was taught, this could point to someone who has returned from so-called Islamic State territory in Syria and Iraq or another jiahdist theatre, such as Libya, where his father is from.\n\nThe militants have constructed devices involving the type of DIY shrapnel of metal nuts that has been reported from the scene at the Manchester Arena.\n\nAl-Qaeda and its offshoots have deployed those devices too. Reaching those camps is a harder journey to make - but don't rule it out.\n\nTwenty-two people, including children, have been killed and 59 injured in the attack\n\nEither way, these are sophisticated devices, particularly if made to a well-known recipe that is circulated among extremists.\n\nIt takes engineering skill. Sometimes the process of making a bomb can't easily be hidden. For instance, the 7/7 devices contained a chemical that bleached the hair of one of the bomb-makers. The fumes can kill plants.\n\nSo if Abedi taught himself, how did he go about it in complete secrecy?\n\nSuch an outcome would demonstrate how difficult it is to learn about a threat if the individual is acting entirely alone and taking exceptionally well planned precautions to avoid surveillance.\n\nIt's not hard to find bomb-making plans online - don't go looking, it's an offence to possess this information - but many of them are useless.\n\nSo, again, the attacker would have spent some time thinking and planning this - and that reduces the likelihood that he was acting entirely alone.\n\nThe third scenario is the worst-possible because it would point to an active bomb-making technician on the loose in the UK.\n\nSomeone who is completely beneath the security services radar.\n\nSomeone who has found ways of reaching out to potential recruits without compromising themselves.\n\nSomeone who could strike again.\n\nThat, of course, is quite a worrying prospect - but by the end of Tuesday, security chiefs could not rule it out. So they had no choice but to raise the official \"threat level\", published by MI5, to the maximum level of \"critical\".\n\nThat means an attack may be imminent. Nobody can say for sure because the intelligence business involves glimpsing at things in the shadows, hints and suspicions.\n\nIt's less of a jigsaw with missing pieces, it's more like an impressionist's picture: one can only ever see part of what's going on.\n\nSo, this is very much a manhunt for helpers - even though nobody may know for sure at this stage who, if anyone, they are actually hunting.\n\nForensic teams are now working at the site\n\nThe police know the identity of the attacker - this was a very early breakthrough. It took days back in 2005 for the police to be sure who carried out the London attacks.\n\nSo as the hours progress, inside Thames House, the home of MI5, and its regional units, a large post-incident operation will be under way. Officers, supported by GCHQ and where necessary counterparts in foreign agencies, will be examining any piece of intelligence to build up a greater sense of the attacker, his life and those around him.\n\nThe North West Counter Terrorism Unit, a joint team of MI5 and police officers, will be looking at anything it can glean from the attacker's own devices. Search teams will identify addresses to search - two have already been raided.\n\nExperts from the national Forensic Explosives Laboratory in Kent will begin the astonishingly difficult work of recovering the remains of the device so they can reconstruct it. These scientists have performed this task on every bomb recovered in modern times.\n\nWhat they find may, in time, yield vital intelligence - such as the origins of the bomb recipe or its technical construction.\n\nThose details will in turn create new leads - perhaps linking the attacker to a specific group in a specific location: the British and US armed forces also recover remains of bombs overseas for analysis.\n\nIt may take months for the full picture to emerge.\n\nBut first things first: the race to work out if this killer was a lone wolf or part of a cell that's still out there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The mum whose home-based business is blooming\n\nMore and more women in the UK are setting up their own businesses as a way of reconciling the demands of work and family.\n\nHow to balance those differing pressures? Dani Bolser thought she'd finally cracked it when she started her new job as a receptionist for an events company.\n\n\"It started off quite well, but suddenly my bosses were asking me to come in a little bit earlier or can you work a little bit later,\" she says. \"It just turned into something very high-pressured.\"\n\nIt wasn't her first attempt to get back into work.\n\n\"After the birth of my first child, I've tried part-time, full-time and working weekends. And no matter what I tried, it either broke into precious family time or it just wasn't financially viable for our family.\"\n\nSo at the age of 28, Dani started her own business, DeluxeBlooms, last year. She now designs and sells luxury faux flowers from her kitchen table in Ilkley, west Yorkshire.\n\nDani Bolsover is working to establish her business\n\n\"My husband encouraged me,\" she says. \"I've always been creative. It kind of fits with my love of flowers. Now I can choose how much work I do.\n\n\"It's basically about that flexibility, to say, for instance, you know what, the kids are sick, work just gets put on hold and allows you to be a mum first and for me that's just priceless.\"\n\nIt turns out there are thousands of women just like Dani, who are shunning the traditional nine-to-five job in search of flexibility and more control over their working lives.\n\nNew research from Oxford Economics shows that one in 170 people in the UK now works for a small creative business, making and selling unique products or gifts.\n\nThe report was commissioned by notonthehighstreet.com, the online marketplace. Since it was founded 10 years ago, it's seen a huge growth in partners, or creative entrepreneurs, using its services to sell their products, up from 287 in 2006 to more than 5,700 today.\n\n\"In the last 10 years, thousands of creative small businesses have emerged all over the UK, creating jobs, driving wealth creation and contributing significantly to the economy,\" says notonthehighstreet.com's chief executive Simon Belsham.\n\n\"Perhaps most importantly, however, these businesses are highlighting the huge change under way in the UK workforce - a transformation that is seeing more women in work and more people turning to self-employment and flexible working.\"\n\nSome 89% of notonthehighstreet.com partners are owned by women like Dani Bolser.\n\nBut can they make a living out of it? \"Absolutely,\" says Simon Belsham.\n\n\"Last year, we had more than 20 businesses which made more than £1m in sales. It's a genuine way to make a living. It doesn't matter with age or gender.\n\n\"We've seen opportunities for recent graduates to people who have retired - 'second-halfers' as we like to call them - who are starting a business once they've retired from their first career.\"\n\nTechnology is driving these new ways of working.\n\nLaura Hutton realised she needed to keep up with the digital world\n\nFor 53-year-old Laura Hutton, going digital was her route back into work.\n\nShe took a career break from publishing once she became a mum. Laura then dabbled in estate agency work, as well as writing a host of cookbooks.\n\nBut last year, she decided to gain some new skills through Digital Mums, a company which trains mums to be \"job-ready\", to kick-start their careers in digital and social media, and crucially to keep a healthy work-life balance.\n\n\"I realised that the world was moving, that the kind of jobs I wanted to get, I wasn't going to get unless I kept up with the digital world,\" says Laura.\n\nShe now manages social media for Wyevale Garden Centres and says she can work from anywhere.\n\nDigital Mums has so far helped nearly 1,000 mums and businesses.\n\nWork on the go: Laura loves the flexibility her job offers\n\n\"I'm not chained to a desk,\" says Laura. \"I do work at home, but being freelance and mobile means I can go to a cafe if I have to meet someone.\n\n\"I can work as I go. Having that flexibility is important. It means I am there when my family is there. It's important to be around, especially as children grow up.\"\n\nAnd she's not concerned about working remotely. \"I've never actually met my boss,\" she says.\n\n\"I work within marketing and for the head of marketing, who I've never met. So I miss out on the office banter.\n\n\"It doesn't bother me because I feel I've done that bit, the office job. I'm not interested any more. I like the fact that it doesn't really matter what I wear or whether I've brushed my hair in the morning.\n\n\"I'm lucky because I have a nice working relationship with my company.\"\n\nLaura and Dani are thriving on their newfound paths as they set their own work-life agenda.\n\n\"It's pushed me into assessing my life a bit more, what do I really want to do? I think the minute you strip that back and look at what makes you happy, you can achieve great things,\" says Dani.\n\nShe admits her turnover is tiny so far, but she hopes perhaps one day to have her own shop and employ a mum like her who has struggled to get back into work.", "Sir Roger Moore has died at the age of 89 following \"a short but brave battle with cancer\"\n\nSir Roger Moore, who has died aged 89, brought a lighter touch to the role of James Bond, the role for which he was most famous.\n\nOut went the harder, crueller edge of Sean Connery's 007 to be succeeded by sardonic humour and the inevitable raised eyebrow.\n\nHe eventually became the longest-serving actor in the role, his seven Bond films becoming the most commercially successful of the franchise.\n\nHis tenure in the role also showcased an array of implausible gadgets and a host of new characters, designed to flesh out Ian Fleming's original plots.\n\nRoger George Moore was born in Stockwell, south London on 14 October 1927, the son of a policeman.\n\nAt 15, he entered art college, and later became an apprentice at an animation studio, where it seems much fun was had at his expense.\n\n\"I was probably the lowliest in the entire building,\" he said. \"They sent me on errands for things like tins of sprocket holes, and the guy in stores would say he didn't have any - and would rainbow paint do instead?\"\n\nThe actor made something of a name as a male model in the 1950s\n\nSir Roger was sacked for incompetence, but soon had a stroke of luck. His father, by now a detective sergeant, was called to investigate a robbery at the home of the film director, Brian Desmond Hurst.\n\nDS Moore managed to effect an introduction that led to his son being hired as an extra for the epic, Caesar and Cleopatra.\n\nHurst paid for Sir Roger to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, before a spell of National Service with the Army where he rose to the rank of captain.\n\nOn his return to the theatre, he found acting roles hard to come by but his well-toned physique meant he was in demand as a model. One of his engagements was playing the doctor in Woman's Own medical features.\n\nHe also appeared, suitably attired in a sweater, on a number of knitting patterns, prompting at least one wag to christen him the Big Knit.\n\nAnd in 1953, his looks and his minor roles in theatre and television plays impressed an MGM talent scout and Sir Roger set off for America.\n\nMarried at 17 to a fellow Rada student, Doorn Van Steyn, he was by now living with the singer Dorothy Squires, 12 years his senior, who soon became his second wife at a ceremony in New Jersey.\n\nWhile Squires was popular in Britain, Sir Roger was rubbing shoulders with stars in the States, making his film debut with Elizabeth Taylor in The Last Time I Saw Paris and playing Lana Turner's leading man in Diane.\n\nBut it was through television that he first made his mark, as the dashing hero Ivanhoe in a 1950s series that had only a tentative connection with Sir Walter Scott's original novel.\n\nHe followed that with the lead role in an American TV series The Alaskans. It was not a great success. Despite being set in Alaska, it was filmed on a hot Hollywood set with the cast dressed up in furs. Moore found the filming difficult and an affair with actress Dorothy Provine did nothing to relieve the pressure.\n\nHe also appeared in the successful Western series Maverick, where he had the role of Beau Maverick, supposedly the English cousin of the lead character Brett, played by James Garner.\n\nIronically Sir Sean Connery had also tested for the part but turned it down.\n\nSir Roger's big breakthrough came in 1962 when the impresario Lew Grade cast him as the dashing Simon Templar aka The Saint, in a television adaptation of the Leslie Charteris stories.\n\nThe series, which ran for seven years, made Sir Roger a star on both sides of the Atlantic. Many of the Saint's characteristics, the easygoing manner, mocking eyebrow and ability to successfully charm every passing female, would later be incorporated into his role as James Bond.\n\nSir Roger's suave character in The Persuaders contrasted with Tony Curtis's rough diamond\n\nIn 1971 he teamed up with Tony Curtis in the TV series The Persuaders, as one of two wise-cracking millionaire playboys who floated around the fleshpots of the globe as a pair of freelance secret agents.\n\nThe success of the series owed a lot to the contrast of the rough-hewn New Yorker Danny Wilde, played by Curtis, and Sir Roger's suave Lord Brett Sinclair.\n\nSir Roger always denied that he had been considered as James Bond when the franchise launched in 1962 and was only aware of interest in him when Sir Sean announced, in 1966, that he would no longer play the role.\n\nThere was a long wait. George Lazenby was cast in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Sir Sean was tempted back with an offer of £1.5m, a huge sum in those days, to make Diamonds Are Forever.\n\nIt really was the last appearance for Sir Sean and Sir Roger finally picked up the Walther PPK in 1973 for Live and Let Die.\n\nHe went on to make six more films, including The Spy Who Loved Me and Octopussy, before bowing out of the role at the age of 57 with A View to a Kill. It was his last film appearance for five years.\n\nSir Roger had some success in films such as Shout at the Devil, The Wild Geese and North Sea Hijack, but many of the newspaper headlines after he retired as Bond were about his life off screen.\n\nHe brought a lighter touch to the role of James Bond\n\nIn 1963, he became a father, when his partner, Luisa Mattioli, had a daughter, but it was to be another five years before Dorothy Squires agreed to give Sir Roger a divorce.\n\nHe married Luisa and they had two sons, but after 38 years, Sir Roger left her and they were divorced. He married his fourth wife, Kiki Tholstrup, in March 2002.\n\nSir Roger recovered from an operation for prostate cancer in 1993 and said he had led \"an extraordinarily lucky, charmed life\".\n\nHe had homes in Switzerland and Monte Carlo, but devoted much of his time to travelling the globe as a roving ambassador for the United Nations children's organisation Unicef, a role prompted by the scenes of child poverty he had witnessed in India while filming Octopussy.\n\nHe took up the position at the request of his friend and predecessor, Audrey Hepburn. His work was recognised by a CBE in 1998 and he was knighted in 2003.\n\nThroughout his life Sir Roger cut a suave figure, always immaculately dressed. In 2015 he was awarded the accolade of one of GQ magazine's best-dressed men.\n\nHe would also remain associated with James Bond\n\nHe was a lifelong supporter of the Conservative Party, giving his backing to David Cameron in 2011 when the prime minister faced criticism over his policy on the EU.\n\nDespite his other work and achievements, Roger Moore never managed to quite shrug off the mantle of 007.\n\n\"Of course I do not regret the Bond days,\" he once remarked. \"I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nAtletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann says he is willing to leave the La Liga club to win titles and will decide on his future this summer.\n\nOn Monday, the France international said there was a \"6/10\" chance he could join Manchester United.\n\nBut Griezmann, 26, told French outlet L'Equipe that England, Germany, China and the USA were all possible destinations should he leave Atletico.\n\n\"Today, if I have to move it will be no problem,\" he said. \"I'm ready to go.\"\n\nAtletico finished third in La Liga and were knocked out in the Champions League semi-finals by Real Madrid.\n\n\"I want to win titles,\" added Griezmann. \"We finished third in La Liga, it was the objective of the club, but we, the players, want more.\n\n\"Winning titles is what I will look for this summer when deciding on my future.\"\n\nGriezmann said playing in England is \"in fashion\" and told French TV show Quotidien a move to Old Trafford is \"possible\".\n\n\"I think I will decide [on my future] in the next two weeks,\" he said.\n\nAsked if United would be his new club he replied: \"Possible, possible.\" Asked to give the chances on a scale of one to 10, Griezmann added \"six\".\n\nThe presenter replied: \"It's the first time you've said that.\" And Griezmann said \"it's the first time\".\n\nGriezmann, who has won 41 caps for France since making his debut in 2014, scored 26 goals this season as Atletico finished third in La Liga behind Real Madrid and Barcelona.\n\nHe was named the third best player in the world behind Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi in the Ballon d'Or awards in January.\n\nThere is a 100 million euro (£86m) release clause in Griezmann's contract.\n\nUnited have the opportunity to qualify for the Champions League by winning the Europa League on Wednesday against Ajax in Stockholm.", "Manchester United players hold a minute's silence in memory of the 22 people who lost their lives in an attack at Manchester Arena.\n\nFollow BBC News for the latest on the Manchester Arena attack.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Would you eat this reindeer? Alaskan farmers hope so.\n\nAs a warming climate threatens traditional food supplies in the Arctic, one rural Alaskan village is flying in hundreds of reindeer by cargo plane. James Cook went to find out why.\n\nOnly 12,000 years late, on an experimental farm outside Fairbanks in central Alaska, Greg Finstad is proposing an agricultural revolution.\n\nFor the indigenous communities of the north, he is advocating a move from hunting to farming, in particular to farming reindeer.\n\nFinstad, who runs the reindeer research programme at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, says the subsistence lifestyle of rural communities on the Yukon river is under serious threat in a time of tumultuous change.\n\nSoftly spoken, his eyes shaded from the sunshine by a baseball cap, Finstad is a disarming mix of wit, charm and frankness.\n\n\"They're off the road system,\" he says. \"They have to ship very expensive food. They're very worried about starving and it's a legitimate concern.\"\n\nFor those who have traditionally relied on subsistence hunting, these are indeed challenging times.\n\nPolar bears are scarcer than ever and, even for the few with permits to hunt the animals, tracking them on thinning ice is becoming ever more dangerous.\n\nWild caribou herds have been shrinking for reasons that are not entirely clear.\n\nAnd last year saw the lowest harvest of pink salmon since 1977, although sockeye salmon have been more resilient.\n\nA more unpredictable climate may be affecting the animals' migration patterns and food sources, although some recent evidence suggests they may now be adapting to those changes.\n\nWhat is not in doubt, according to more than 90 scientists who contributed to a recent report by an Arctic Council working group, is \"rising concentrations of greenhouse gases are driving widespread changes in the Arctic's sensitive climate\".\n\nAccording to the report, ice on sea and land is declining; permafrost is warming; and spring snow cover is retreating.\n\n\"With each additional year of data, it becomes increasingly clear that the Arctic as we know it is being replaced by a warmer, wetter, and more variable environment,\" say the authors, who add that the transformation has \"profound implications for people, resources, and ecosystems worldwide\".\n\nOne Yukon river community - Steven's Village - has purchased a 2,000-acre (800-hectare) farm. The plan is to raise some 1,500 to 2,000 reindeer to feed the village, to sell, and to act as a staging area for livestock for other settlements.\n\nFinstad thinks deer are hardier than cattle, and in any case he is not a fan of the beef industry, which he accuses of trying to stymie reindeer production.\n\n\"If you compare beef to reindeer we flat out kick their butt every time in flavour,\" he insists.\n\nHe says the plan is to load hundreds of reindeer on to a Douglas DC-6 transport plane and fly them from the west coast of Alaska to the interior to start the new farm.\n\nThis \"seed stock\" for Steven's Village may come from Nome on the Seward peninsula, which juts out towards Russia between the Bering and Chukchi seas.\n\nThere is a historical twist here. The Seward peninsula is the region where reindeer were first introduced to the United States from Siberia in 1892 because Alaskan whaling communities were struggling to survive.\n\nMaintaining the reindeer population on the peninsula has been difficult. Stopping animals running off with migrating caribou herds is a particular challenge.\n\nCaribou and reindeer are the same species - Rangifer tarandus - but in North America, the semi-domesticated variety are known as reindeer, and the wild herds are known as caribou (in Europe the word caribou is not used at all).\n\nAnn and Bruce Davis, who have a thriving reindeer herd in Nome at their Midnite Sun Reindeer Ranch, also rhapsodise about the properties of the meat.\n\n\"The fat is deposited on the outside of the reindeer and not marbled within the meat so the meat is very lean,\" says Bruce Davis.\n\nThe fat doesn't go to waste though. The Inupiat people mix it with a variety of berries to make a concoction which the Davises say is known locally as \"Eskimo ice cream\".\n\n\"It's very high in carbs and fat and so it's a good source of energy and it's pretty good to eat too,\" says Ann Davis before offering a word of caution. \"It's nothing like American ice cream!\"\n\nTwo Inuit hunters in Canada strip the meat from a pair of reindeer carcasses, March 1924.\n\nThere are plenty of other ways to eat reindeer, including roasting it with garlic and herbs, frying the animal's heart or in a traditional Sami bidu, or feast stew.\n\nBefore reindeer consumption becomes widespread though, there is a problem to overcome. Reindeer have rather good PR, Greg Finstad admits.\n\n\"It's the perception that reindeer are on this planet to pull a sled with this chubby guy in a red suit and a white beard… but that's actually not true,\" he says. \"Reindeer are on this planet to feed people.\"\n\n\"So I guess it's my job to take the magic of Christmas.\"\n\n\"We have to eat Rudolph?\" I ask.\n\n\"Yes,\" answers Finstad, his expression somewhere between weary and mischievous.\n\n\"I actually got in trouble saying we are going to eat rump of Rudolph.\n\n\"So I try not to say that any more.\"", "All athletics world records set before 2005 could be rewritten under a \"revolutionary\" new proposal from European Athletics.\n\nThe credibility of records was examined following the sport's doping scandal.\n\nBritain's Paula Radcliffe, who faces losing her 2003 marathon world record, called the proposals \"cowardly\".\n\n\"I am hurt and do feel this damages my reputation and dignity,\" she said, adding that the governing bodies had \"again failed clean athletes\".\n\nSvein Arne Hansen, the European Athletics president, said world records \"are meaningless if people don't really believe them\".\n\nHowever, Radcliffe said the changes were \"heavy handed\" and \"confusing to the public\".\n\nEuropean Athletics set up a taskforce to look into the credibility of world records in January. Its ruling council has now ratified the proposals put forward by the taskforce, and it wants the sport's world governing body, the IAAF, to adopt the changes it sets out.\n\nHow will world records be recognised?\n\nIf the proposals are accepted by the IAAF, a world record would only be recognised if it meets all three of the following criteria:\n• None It was achieved at a competition on a list of approved international events where the highest standards of officiating and technical equipment can be guaranteed;\n• None The athlete had been subject to an agreed number of doping control tests in the months leading up to it;\n• None The doping control sample taken after the record was stored and available for re-testing for 10 years.\n\nThe IAAF has stored blood and urine samples only since 2005 and current records that do not meet the new criteria would remain on an \"all-time list\", but not be officially recognised as records.\n\nThis would include Jonathan Edwards' triple jump record of 18.29m - set in 1995 - and Colin Jackson's 1994 indoor 60m hurdles world record of 7.30secs, as well as Radcliffe's marathon mark of two hours 15 minutes and 25 seconds, set in 2003 using two male pacemakers.\n\nMary Keitany of Kenya broke Radcliffe's women's-only world record to win the 2017 London Marathon in two hours 17 minutes one second, the second-fastest time in history.\n\nThe council also recommended that a performance should be wiped from record books if the athlete had committed a \"doping or integrity violation, even if it does not directly impact the record performance\".\n\nWhy are the changes needed?\n\nThe proposals are a response to last year's McLaren report, which uncovered widespread doping in sport - and athletics in particular. Russian athletes are currently banned from international competition unless they can satisfy strict criteria to show they are clean.\n\nMore than 100 Olympic athletes who competed at the 2008 and 2012 Games have been sanctioned for doping after the International Olympic Committee embarked on a programme of retesting old samples.\n\n\"There are records in which people in the sport, the media and the public do not have complete confidence,\" added taskforce chair Pierce O'Callaghan.\n\nWhat has the reaction been so far?\n\nIAAF president Lord Coe said the changes were \"a step in the right direction\".\n\n\"There will be athletes, current record holders, who will feel that the history we are recalibrating will take something away from them, but if organised and structured properly we have a good chance of winning back credibility in this area,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Athletics president Hansen said he would encourage the IAAF to adopt the proposal at its August council meeting.\n\n\"What we are proposing is revolutionary and not just because most world and European records will have to be replaced,\" Hansen added.\n\n\"We want to raise the standards for recognition to a point where everyone can be confident that everything is fair and above board.\"\n\nRadcliffe has previously criticised plans to wipe records from the books and last month told BBC Sport she favoured making doping a criminal offence instead to deter cheats.\n\nShe issued a statement on Monday criticising the new proposals and athletics governing bodies.\n\n\"I worked extremely hard for my PBs and they will always be valid to me. I know they were set through hard work and best effort and abiding by all the rules and am proud of them,\" Radcliffe wrote.\n\n\"Governing bodies have a duty to protect every clean athlete, here they again fail those athletes. We had to compete against cheats, they couldn't provide us a level playing field, we lost out on medals, moments and earnings due to cheats, saw our sport dragged through the mud due to cheats and now, thanks to those who cheat we potentially lose our World and Area records.\n\n\"Although we are moving forward I don't believe we are yet at the point where we have a testing procedure capable of catching every cheat out there, so why reset at this point? Do we really believe a record set in 2015 is totally clean and one in 1995 not?\n\n\"I am hurt and do feel this damages my reputation and dignity. It is a heavy handed way to wipe out some really suspicious records in a cowardly way by simply sweeping all aside instead of having the guts to take the legal plunge and wipe any record that would be found in a court of law to have been illegally assisted.\n\n\"It is confusing to the public at a time when athletics already struggles to market itself. How do they explain how stadium, club and national records are better than the Area or World marks or will they force all those to be to wiped out too?\"", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nWorld heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua can do for boxing what Tiger Woods has done for golf in the past 20 years, says promoter Barry Hearn.\n\nBriton Joshua, 27, unified the heavyweight division by stopping Wladimir Klitschko in the 11th round of their fight at Wembley on Saturday.\n\n\"All sports need flag-bearers,\" said Hearn, whose son Eddie promotes Joshua for their Matchroom Sport agency.\n\n\"Joshua is the finest role model I have seen in sport.\"\n\nSaturday's thrilling victory - in front of a post-war British record 90,000 fans - means former Olympic champion Joshua is unbeaten in 19 fights as a professional and is now the WBA and IBF world champion.\n\nWoods, 41, won the Masters as a 21-year-old and has since added a further 13 major titles.\n\nThe American is credited with changing the face of golf.\n\n\"The Joshua effect is very similar to the Tiger Woods effect, where people who are not so interested suddenly become interested, where young people become aspirational to follow in someone's footsteps,\" said Hearn.\n• None Read: What next for champion Joshua?\n\nMeanwhile, Tyson Fury has claimed he could beat Joshua with \"one arm tied behind my back\".\n\nJoshua called out his compatriot, who beat Klitschko on points in November 2015, after his victory on Saturday.\n\n\"Styles do make fights but I am sure I can beat AJ with one arm tied behind my back,\" Fury said in a Sky Sports interview.\n\n'I don't even need a warm-up if he wants this.\"\n\nFury, 28, is unbeaten as a professional, with 18 knockouts in 25 fights, but surrendered his world heavyweight titles in an effort to focus on his mental health problems and is currently without a boxing licence and out of condition.", "\"It was a pleasure to have President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan with us this morning!\" President Ghani and Mr Trump shake hands before a meeting in New York (AFP) Afghanistan has been near the top of every president's in-tray since US forces invaded the country in 2001. \n\n\n\nOn the campaign trail, Mr Trump repeatedly described the war in Afghanistan as a \"disaster\" and talked about pulling the remaining 10,000 or so US troops out of the country. \n\n\n\nBack in 2013, he tweeted: \"We have wasted an enormous amount of blood and treasure in Afghanistan. Their government has zero appreciation. Let's get out!\"\n\n\n\nBut in September 2017, he agreed to send 3,000 extra troops to bolster the US contingent there as the Taliban gained ground and security deteriorated. \n\n\n\nEarlier that year, the US used the largest non-nuclear bomb ever deployed in combat, targeting a tunnel complex near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan that was said to have been used by the so-called Islamic State group (IS).\n\n\n\nAround 100 IS militants were thought to have been killed in the huge blast and President Trump praised his armed forces for \"another successful job\". \n\n\n\nAfghan officials said the attack had been carried out in co-ordination with the government in Kabul, but former President Hamid Karzai said the country should not be used as a \"testing ground for new and dangerous weapons\". \n\n\n\nMr Trump and Mr Ghani met during the UN General Assembly in September 2017 to discuss their commitment to combating terrorism and improving economic development opportunities for American companies in Afghanistan.\n\n\"Great talk with my friend President Mauricio Macri of Argentina this week. He is doing such a good job for Argentina. I support his vision for transforming his country's economy\" Argentina's President Mauricio Macri is a relative newcomer to politics, but his relationship with Donald Trump dates back decades to when he and his father were doing business in 1980s New York.\n\n\n\nThat relationship came under scrutiny when Mr Macri called the US president-elect in November 2016 to congratulate him on his victory.\n\n\n\nAccording to reports in Argentina, Mr Trump asked the Argentine president for help with a stalled building project by one of his companies in Buenos Aires - a claim both men denied. \n\n\n\nSince then the pair have spoken on the phone a few times, most recently in May, to discuss Argentina's role in the region and the political crisis in Venezuela. They've also met once at the White House.\n\n\"Spoke to PM @TurnbullMalcolm of Australia. He is committed to having a very fair and reciprocal military and trade relationship. Working very quickly on a security agreement so we don't have to impose steel or aluminum tariffs on our ally, the great nation of Australia!\" President Trump shakes hands with Mr Turnbull in the Oval Office (Getty Images) Australia has been one of America's closest allies in recent years, with its troops fighting alongside the US in Iraq and Afghanistan. But that relationship came under strain almost as soon as President Trump entered the White House. \n\n\n\nMr Trump was said to have had a \"contentious\" phone call with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the end of January, reportedly over a deal agreed with President Obama that the US would take in about 1,200 refugees who had been denied entry into Australia. \n\n\n\nA Washington Post report said Mr Trump abruptly ended the planned one-hour phone call after just 25 minutes having condemned the refugee agreement as \"the worst deal ever\". President Trump, who later publicly criticised the deal as \"dumb\", insisted the phone call had been \"civil\" while Mr Turnbull said it was a \"very frank and forthright\" conversation.\n\n\n\nLast summer, footage leaked to the media showing Mr Turnbull poking fun at his US counterpart at a dinner for media but both US and Australia dismissed the incident as harmless fun.\n\n\n\nThe pair have held three meetings since Mr Trump came into office. During the latest, at the White House in February, Mr Trump said: \"The relationship we have with Australia is a terrific relationship, and probably stronger now than ever before — maybe because of our relationship, our friendship.\"\n\nPresident Trump and his wife Melania with Queen Mathilde and King Philippe (Getty Images) Events passed off without incident on Mr Trump's first visit to Belgium as president in May 2017, when he met King Philippe and Queen Mathilde before taking part in a Nato summit. \n\n\n\nMr Trump met Prime Minister Charles Michel at the summit, praising Belgian contributions the fight against the Islamic State group and noting the \"critical importance of Belgian F-16s flying missions in Iraq and Syria\". \n\n\n\nHe also took the chance to remind him of \"the responsibility of all nations to share our common defense burden,\" and to meet Nato spending commitments - a topic Mr Trump raised again at the 2018 Nato summit in Brussels.\n\n\n\nNo one seems to have mentioned his campaign trail claims that Brussels was a \"hellhole\" or the geographically dubious \"Belgium is a beautiful city\".\n\nPresident Trump and Mr Temer pose for photos before a dinner with Latin American leaders (AFP) Despite being South America's most influential country, Mr Trump has had little to say about Brazil so far. \n\n\n\nThe president has met Michel Temer, his Brazilian counterpart, just once - at a working dinner he hosted in New York with representatives from Colombia, Panama and Argentina to discuss the situation in Venezuela. \n\n\n\nVice-President Mike Pence did speak to Mr Temer on the phone in June this year but the topic of conversation was not Venezuela but rather \"Brazil-US cooperation on the peaceful uses of outer space\".\n\n\"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\" - President Trump's widely reported comments made in private during a meeting on immigration, 11 Jan 2018 Mr Trump's reported remark came as lawmakers from both parties visited him to propose a bipartisan immigration deal. Democratic Senator Richard Durbin had just been discussing US temporary residency permits granted to citizens of countries hit by natural disasters, war or epidemics, when Mr Trump asked, \"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\"\n\n\n\nMr Trump tweeted that he had used \"tough\" language but not that specific term. Senator Durbin responded by saying Mr Trump used \"racist\" language.\n\n\n\nAs the African Union expressed \"shock, dismay and outrage\" and demanded an apology, Botswana summoned the US ambassador and asked the envoy \"to clarify if Botswana is regarded as a 'shithole' country given that there are Botswana nationals residing in the US.\" \n\n\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, Mr Trump told lawmakers the US should instead be taking in migrants from countries like Norway, whose prime minister visited him a day earlier, or Asian nations.\n\n\"PM Justin Trudeau of Canada acted so meek and mild during our @G7 meetings only to give a news conference after I left saying that, 'US Tariffs were kind of insulting' and he 'will not be pushed around.' Very dishonest & weak. Our Tariffs are in response to his of 270% on dairy!\" President Trump and Mr Trudeau pose for photos at a G7 summit (Reuters) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was among the first dozen or so world leaders to visit the White House under Donald Trump and could be pleased with how it went.\n\n\n\nNot only did he deal with President Trump's fierce handshake, he also got a guarantee that the White House would only be making \"tweaks\" to its relationship with Canada. \n\n\n\nMr Trudeau, meanwhile, admitted that the two men had several differences, most notably on accepting refugees, but said the \"last thing Canadians expect is for me to come down and lecture another country on how they choose to govern themselves\".\n\n\n\nThe relationship between the two leaders has become strained since that first meeting though and tensions came to the surface in June at a G7 summit in Quebec. \n\n\n\nWhen Mr Trudeau said he would not be pushed around by the US at a post-summit press conference, Mr Trump responded by refusing to sign the joint G7 communique on trade before tweeting that the Canadian leader \"acts hurt when called out\". Mr Trump's top economic aide later said Mr Trudeau had \"stabbed us in the back\" while another adviser said there was \"a special place in Hell for any leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy\" with the president. \n\n\n\nWith Mr Trump set to continue his tough stance on trade, it's unclear how US-Canada relations will develop during the rest of his term.\n\nMr Trump spoke to President Sebastian Pinera, a conservative like himself, in January to congratulate him on his election win. President Trump emphasised his desire to work with President Pinera on \"issues of mutual interest,\" according to a read-out of the call.\n\n\n\nThe two billionaire presidents - Mr Pinera's estimated personal fortune is about $2.7bn (£2bn) - also discussed their \"desire to see democracy restored for the Venezuelan people.\"\n\n\"In the coming months and years ahead I look forward to building an even STRONGER relationship between the United States and China.\" Mr Trump takes part in a welcoming ceremony in Beijing with President Xi (Getty Images) Donald Trump mentioned China so frequently on the campaign trail it turned into a meme. He repeatedly called the Communist state a \"currency manipulator\" and even accused them of \"raping\" the US. \n\n\n\nSince the election, however, most of the interactions between the two leaders have focused on the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear ambitions.\n\n\n\nMr Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to his Mar-a-Lago retreat in Florida with open arms and described the pair's relationship as \"outstanding\". \n\n\n\nHe decided against a round of golf with China's leader though - Mr Xi has shut down several golf courses since coming into power and banned the Communist Party's 88 million members from teeing off. \n\n\n\nPresident Xi also welcomed Mr Trump to China in November last year for discussions on North Korea and international trade. The trip appeared to go well, with Mr Trump describing the Chinese leader as a \"very special man\". \n\n\n\nThe US president called on China to be tougher on North Korea until they agreed to come to the negotiating table - a stance that paid off when Mr Trump met Kim Jong-un in Singapore in June. \n\n\n\nBut away from North Korea, US-China relations have been more complicated with Mr Trump going on the offensive over trade and imposing tariffs on over $30bn of Chinese goods. \n\n\n\n\"When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win,\" he tweeted in March. \n\n\n\nChina responded by putting its own tariffs on US goods in place and at the moment, it's difficult to predict how the trade war will develop.\n\n\"A great honor to welcome President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia to the White House today!\" President Trump and Mr Santos hold a joint news conference at the White House (Getty Images) Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos visited the White House in May last year after reports of a secret meeting between Mr Trump and two former Colombian presidents.\n\n\n\nThe White House brushed off the claims, saying the two former Colombian leaders were invited to the president's Mar-a-Lago Club by one of its members and the leaders shared a handshake. \n\n\n\nThe pair also discussed the Colombian government's peace process with the Farc rebel group, which gave up its weapons in June 2017. \n\n\n\nMr Trump also met President Santos in New York in September, along with other South American leaders, to discuss the Venezuela crisis.\n\n\"To the Cuban government, I say: Put an end to the abuse of dissidents. Release the political prisoners. Stop jailing innocent people.\" Mr Trump signs into effect some policy changes towards Cuba at an event in Miami (Getty Images) Mr Trump said he was \"cancelling\" President Barack Obama's deal to thaw relations with Cuba, saying he was re-imposing certain travel and trade restrictions eased by his predecessor. \n\n\n\nBut the president's approach has not scrapped all of the Obama-era policy regarding the island nation. \n\n\n\nBoth countries will keep their embassies open in each other's capitals, commercial flights will continue and US tourists can still return home with Cuban goods. \n\n\n\nDuring a speech in Miami's Little Havana neighbourhood, where Mr Trump signed a directive outlining his policy, he lambasted the deal with the \"brutal\" Castro government as \"terrible\" and \"misguided\".\n\n\n\nHe said the US would not lift sanctions on Cuba until \"all political prisoners are freed\" and vowed to \"help the Cuban people themselves form businesses and pursue much better lives\".\n\n\"This administration should be judged by its actions, and not single tweets, because it's tough to get all the nuance out in 140 characters\" Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen was one of the first world leaders to meet Donald Trump at the White House. \n\n\n\nTheir talks at the end of March 2017 focused on the future of the Nato alliance and President Trump \"urged\" the Danish leader to commit to the target of spending 2% of his country's GDP on defence. \n\n\n\nThe meeting appeared to go well, with Mr Rasmussen saying afterwards that he was \"more positive\" about Denmark's relationship with the US than when he \"evaluated the situation right after the [US] election.\"\n\n\"I just want to let everybody know in case there was any doubt that we are very much behind President Sisi\" Mr Trump praised Egypt's leader after talks at the White House (Getty Images) Donald Trump first met Abdul Fattah al-Sisi - a \"fantastic guy\" - in September 2016 and when he won the election two months later, Mr Sisi was reportedly the first foreign leader to call him. \n\n\n\nTheir close relationship has continued since Mr Trump's inauguration and President Sisi visited the White House at the start of April for the first time since he led a military coup in Egypt in 2013. \n\n\n\nHuman rights groups, however, have criticised the US president for meeting a man who led a violent crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood group which left more than 1,000 people dead.\n\n\n\nBut officials say Mr Trump is seeking to \"reboot\" relations between the two countries because he sees a stable Egypt as an invaluable ally in the battle against the so-called Islamic State group. \n\n\n\nMr Sisi, who wants to ensure Egypt continues to receive US military aid worth about $1.3bn a year, has praised President Trump as someone who has a \"deep and great understanding\" of the Middle East.\n\n\n\nThe two met again during Mr Trump's first foreign visit to Saudi Arabia, where the US president said he hoped to visit Cairo soon. At a summit in Riyadh, Mr Trump said Mr Sisi had \"done a tremendous job under trying circumstance\".\n\n\n\nAn image of Mr Trump, Mr Sisi and Saudi King Salman placing their hands on a glowing orb at the meeting also set social media abuzz. \n\n\n\nThe pair also held another meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York in November last year.\n\n\"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\" - President Trump's widely reported comments made in private during a meeting on immigration, 11 Jan 2018 Mr Trump's reported remark came as lawmakers from both parties visited him to propose a bipartisan immigration deal. Democratic Senator Richard Durbin had just been discussing US temporary residency permits granted to citizens of countries hit by natural disasters, war or epidemics, when Mr Trump asked, \"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\"\n\n\n\nMr Trump tweeted that he had used \"tough\" language but not that specific term. Senator Durbin responded by saying Mr Trump used \"racist\" language and that the president did call some African nations \"shitholes\".\n\n\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, Mr Trump told lawmakers the US should instead be taking in migrants from countries like Norway, whose prime minister visited him a day earlier, or Asian nations.\n\n\n\nMr Trump's administration announced in January 2018 that it would cancel permits that allow nearly 200,000 people from El Salvador to live and work in the US.\n\n\n\nThey were granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) after earthquakes rocked the Central American country in 2001.\n\n\n\nSalvadoreans now have until 9 September 2019 to leave or face deportation, unless they find a legal way to stay.\n\nMr Trump met Finnish President Sauli Niinisto ahead of his meeting with Mr Putin Mr Trump met the president before his face-to-face meeting in Helsinki with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on 16 July.\n\n\"Just landed from Paris, France. It was an incredible visit with President @EmmanuelMacron. A lot discussed and accomplished in two days!\" Mr Trump and Mr Macron shake hands before a meeting in Canada (AFP) President Trump accepted an invitation to attend 2017's Bastille Day celebrations in France after a somewhat rocky start with the French president . \n\n\n\nBefore Emmanuel Macron was elected in May 2017, Mr Trump suggested in a tweet that a deadly attack on a police bus in Paris would \"have a big effect\" on the election.\n\n\n\nMany thought Mr Trump was referring to National Front leader Marie Le Pen, the anti-immigrant and anti-globalisation candidate who lost to Mr Macron. But Mr Trump later refused to comment on the election and congratulated Mr Macron in a tweet.\n\n\n\nMr Macron described his white-knuckled handshake with Mr Trump at their first meeting in May last year in Brussels as \"not innocent\". \n\n\n\nBut since then their relationship has warmed, with Mr Trump describing the Bastille Day parade as \"one of the greatest parades I've ever seen\" and saying the US relationship with France was \"stronger than ever\". \n\n\n\nPresident Macron visited the White House in April this year and was also given the honour of making an address to the US Congress. His speech was described as a \"thinly veiled rebuke\" to President Trump by the BBC's North America editor, Jon Sopel. \n\n\n\nBut despite that and the various differences the two men have on policy, they appear to get on well and Mr Trump has spoken to President Macron on the phone more than any other world leader.\n\n\"Honored to welcome Georgia Prime Minister, Giorgi Kvirikashvili to the @WhiteHouse today with @VP Mike Pence.\" President Trump has yet to formally meet with or call the Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili, though he did pose for a photo and tweeted a welcome message when the leader visited Washington and met with Vice-President Mike Pence. \n\n\n\nDuring his White House visit, the Trump Administration thanked Mr Kvirikashvili for Georgia's sacrifices fighting with NATO forces in Afghanistan and also vowed to explore better trade relations between the two countries.\n\n\"I have a great relationship with Angela Merkel of Germany, but the Fake News Media only shows the bad photos (implying anger) of negotiating an agreement - where I am asking for things that no other American President would ask for!\" Chancellor Merkel and Mr Trump exchange views at a G7 meeting in Canada (Reuters) When Donald Trump won the US election he did so with the isolationist slogan of \"America First\", leading many to declare German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the new leader of the free world. \n\n\n\nHer pivotal role in global politics could be seen clearly on the White House call sheet during Mr Trump's first few months in office - she was one of the world leaders he spoke to most frequently and she also paid the new president a visit in March 2017. \n\n\n\nPresident Trump's tone towards Mrs Merkel has changed significantly since he took office. In 2015, he took to Twitter to describe her as the \"person who is ruining Germany\" after Time magazine picked her as their person of the year. \n\n\n\nThe German leader clearly noticed Mr Trump's disparaging comments, saying at their joint press conference that she's \"always said it's much, much better to talk to one another and not about one another\". \n\n\n\nThe meeting appeared amicable enough - albeit with one eye-catching moment of awkwardness - but some reports suggested Mrs Merkel was unimpressed with Mr Trump's command of policy details.\n\n\n\nThe pair have met several times and spoken on the phone regularly since that first meeting, but there has been a more adversarial tone to Mr Trump's comments on Germany recently. \n\n\n\nOn immigration, Mr Trump tweeted: \"The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition.\"\n\n\n\nOn Nato and trade, he tweeted: \"Presidents have been trying unsuccessfully for years to get Germany and other rich Nato Nations to pay more toward their protection from Russia. They pay only a fraction of their cost. The U.S. pays tens of Billions of Dollars too much to subsidize Europe, and loses Big on Trade!\"\n\n\n\nAt the latest Nato summit in July, Mr Trump accused Germany of being \"totally controlled by Russia\" because it imports \"so much of its energy\" from the country and has a new pipeline planned. Mrs Merkel responded by saying Germany \"can make our own policies and make our own decisions\". \n\n\n\nWhile Mr Trump was right that Germany imports most of its gas from Russia, gas makes up less than 20% of its overall energy mix, according to BBC Reality Check.\n\nThe visit of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to the White House in October could have been awkward, after he openly criticized Mr Trump during the campaign and even called him \"evil\".\n\n\n\nBut the two held a cordial joint press conference and Trump joked about the Greek leader's past remarks: \"I wish I knew before my speech\". \n\n\n\nHe added: \"The American people stand with the Greek people as they recover from the economic crisis that recently afflicted their nation.\" \n\n\n\nThe Greek leader said the two had a productive exchange and he shared common values with the US.\n\n\"Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out.\" - President Trump's widely reported comments made in private during a meeting on immigration, 11 Jan 2018 Mr Trump's reported remark came as lawmakers from both parties visited him to propose a bipartisan immigration deal. He tweeted that he had \"never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said 'take them out.'\" \n\n\n\nDemocratic Senator Richard Durbin had just been discussing US temporary residency permits granted to citizens of countries hit by natural disasters, war or epidemics, when Mr Trump reportedly asked, \"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\"\n\n\n\nMr Trump tweeted that he had used \"tough\" language but not that specific term. Senator Durbin responded by saying Mr Trump used \"racist\" language.\n\n\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, Mr Trump told lawmakers the US should instead be taking in migrants from countries like Norway, whose prime minister visited him a day earlier, or Asian nations.\n\n\n\nIn 2017, the Department of Homeland Security announced that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation, granted to Haiti following the 2010 earthquake, would end in July 2019.\n\n\n\nHaiti's US Ambassador Paul Altidor told the BBC the idea that \"we're simply immigrants who come here to take advantage of the US\" is wrong.\n\n\"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\" - President Trump's widely reported comments made in private during a meeting on immigration, 11 Jan 2018 Democratic Senator Richard Durbin had just been discussing US temporary residency permits granted to citizens of countries hit by natural disasters, war or epidemics, when Mr Trump asked \"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\" \n\n\n\nMr Trump tweeted that he had used \"tough\" language but not that specific term. Senator Durbin said Mr Trump used \"racist\" language and that the president did call some African nations \"shitholes\".\n\n\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, Mr Trump told lawmakers the US should instead be taking in migrants from countries like Norway, whose prime minister visited him a day earlier, or Asian nations.\n\n\n\nIn June of this year, the Trump administration announced that it was ending the temporary protection status that had granted nearly 60,000 Hondurans the right to live in the US, meaning they could be forced to leave the the country by 5 January 2020.\n\n\n\nHondurans were granted this status after Hurricane Mitch hit the Central American country in 1998, but the Department of Homeland Security said conditions in the country had \"notably improved\" since the disaster. \n\n\n\nThe move came a couple of months after Mr Trump has complained that a \"caravan\" of migrants from Honduras were making their way towards the US, tweeting: \"Honduras, Mexico and many other countries that the US is very generous to, sends many of their people to our country through our WEAK IMMIGRATION POLICIES. Caravans are heading here. Must pass tough laws and build the WALL.\"\n\nMr Modi visited the White House in June last year (Getty Images) President Trump has met Prime Minister Narendra Modi twice, once at the White House and once at the Association of South East Nations summit in the Philippines last November. \n\n\n\nAt the White House, the two leaders shared a warm embrace in front of reporters before vowing to fight terrorism together and praising US-India relations.\n\n\n\n\"The relationship between India and the United States has never been stronger, never been better,\" said Mr Trump, who describes himself and Mr Modi as \"world leaders in social media\".\n\n\n\nPresident Trump has yet to visit India himself, but he dispatched his daughter, Ivanka, there last November for what was described by local media as a \"royal visit\". \n\n\n\nShe was given the red-carpet treatment in Hyderabad, one of India's tech hubs, with local authorities reported to have removed beggars from the streets before her arrival as well as rushing through repairs to roads.\n\n\"Donald Trump said 'my friends are many in Indonesia and I have businesses in Indonesia.' He said this\" Donald Trump's election win was the top story in Indonesia in November 2016 (Getty Images) Mr Trump has held one meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo so far, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg in July 2017. \n\n\n\nThe two leaders also attended the Riyadh Summit in Saudi Arabia in May 2017, but they did not have a one-on-one meeting. \n\n\n\nMr Widodo didn't get an invitation to Mr Trump's inauguration, but Indonesian businessman Hary Tanoesoedibjo reportedly did and the president's relationship with him has raised eyebrows in the US. \n\n\n\nMr Tanoesoedibjo is overseeing the development of a Trump Hotel in West Java and another resort in Bali and recently told an Indonesian magazine that he has \"close access\" to the US president.\n\n\"To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!\" While Donald Trump hasn't spoken to Iran's leader since coming to power, he has spent a lot of his time talking about the country. \n\n\n\nOne of his administration's first moves was to impose new sanctions against the country in response to a ballistic missile test, which Tehran said had not violated a UN resolution on its nuclear activities.\n\n\n\nThe US confirmed that Tehran was continuing to comply with the UN agreement but Mr Trump labelled it a \"terrible deal\" and ordered a review into it nonetheless. \n\n\n\nDuring a trip to Israel in 2017, Mr Trump said Iran \"must never be allowed to possess a nuclear weapon - never, ever - and must cease its deadly funding, training and equipping of terrorists and militias.\"\n\n\n\nHe later claimed in a tweet that Iran was working with North Korea to develop nuclear weapons.\n\n\n\nThen in May this year, President Trump finally decided to pull out of the UN agreement with Iran, saying: \"It is clear to me that we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of this deal.\"\n\n\n\nGoing against advice from European allies, he said he would reimpose economic sanctions that were waived when the deal was signed in 2015. \n\n\n\nContinuing his hardline stance, in June the US threatened to enforce sanctions on countries that have not stopped importing Iranian oil by November 2018.\n\n\"I want to thank you very much for being here, great respect for you. I know you're working very hard, [my staff] have all been telling me that you're doing a job - it's not an easy job, it's a very tough job\" - President Trump to Prime Minister Abadi at the White House, 20 Mar 2017 President Trump welcomed Prime Minister Abadi to the White House in March last year (Getty Images) Donald Trump made defeating the so-called Islamic State group (IS) the focus of much of his campaign, so Iraq is central to his foreign policy objectives. \n\n\n\nHowever, his relationship with Iraq's leaders got off to a bumpy start when he called for a ban on the travel of people from seven predominantly Muslim countries, including Iraq. \n\n\n\nThe ban was eventually blocked by US judges, and when the Trump administration tried to implement a similar order a few weeks later, Iraq was left off the list - and judges blocked it again anyway.\n\n\n\nThat omission came after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi spoke to President Trump over the phone on 10 February amid a large-scale offensive by his army to retake the city of Mosul from IS fighters. \n\n\n\nMr Abadi travelled to the US a few weeks later for a meeting at the White House, when President Trump told reporters: \"Our main thrust is we have to get rid of [IS]. We're going to get rid of [IS]. It will happen. It's happening right now.\"\n\n\n\nIn July last year, Mr Abadi formally declared victory over IS in Mosul and Mr Trump congratulated his Iraqi counterpart, saying the city had been \"liberated from its long nightmare\" under the rule of IS.\n\n\"It was my honor to welcome Prime Minister Leo Varadkar of Ireland to the @WhiteHouse!\" The Trump administration's plans to toughen America's immigration laws have been focused on Mexico and the Middle East, but they could also affect thousands of unregistered Irish immigrants in the US.\n\n\n\nFormer Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny raised this issue with President Trump when he visited the White House in March last year, saying there were \"millions out there who want to... make America great.\"\n\n\n\nThe taoiseach traditionally presents the new US president with a bowl of shamrocks and Mr Kenny did so while making his views on President Trump's immigration policies clear. \n\n\n\nMr Trump avoided mentioning immigration during the pair's joint remarks, but he did tell reporters: \"We love Ireland and we love the people of Ireland.\"\n\n\n\nMr Trump met the new taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, at the White House's St Patrick's Day celebrations in March, saying the two had \"become friends — fast friends — over a short period of time.\"\n\n\n\nMr Varadkar was confirmed as Ireland's youngest and first openly gay leader in June 2017.\n\n\n\nAfter the meeting at the White House, Mr Varadkar said there was \"enthusiasm from the administration to work on a solution\" for the thousands of undocumented Irish immigrants that are in the US.\n\n\n\nMr Trump has business interests in Ireland in the form of a golf course and resort in Doonbeg, County Clare.\n\n\"I have determined that it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. I am also directing the State Department to begin preparation to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem…\" Mike Pence watches as Mr Trump signs his Jerusalem policy into effect (EPA) President Trump looked set to follow a fairly traditional path in his relationship with America's closest ally, Israel.\n\n\n\nHe was quick to invite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House and during a visit to Tel Aviv in May 2017, he said he came to \"reaffirm the unbreakable bond\" between the US and Israel and that there was a \"rare opportunity to bring security and stability and peace\" to the region. \n\n \n\nAt the UN General Assembly in September, Mr Trump stressed America's commitment to Israel's security and fair treatment at the United Nations. The two leaders also discussed their continuing efforts to achieve an enduring Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. \n\n\n\nIn August, Mr Trump tweeted that \"Peace in the Middle East would be a truly great legacy for ALL people!\"\n\n\n\nBut by December he had chosen a new path, recognising Jerusalem as Israel's capital, to the amazement of much of the international community.\n\n\n\nThe UN General Assembly backed a resolution calling on the US to withdraw the decision, leading to Trump threatening to cut financial aid to those who backed the resolution.\n\n\"Just met the new Prime Minister of Italy, @GiuseppeConteIT, a really great guy. He will be honored in Washington, at the @WhiteHouse, shortly. He will do a great job - the people of Italy got it right!\" In a sign of how fast politics moves in the country, President Trump has already met two Italian prime ministers. \n\n\n\nThe first, Paolo Gentiloni, was welcomed to the White House in April last year and his relationship with Mr Trump appeared amicable enough. \n\n\n\nBut the president was clearly more excited when he met Giuseppe Conte, the leader of a populist coalition who became Italy's 58th prime minister in June. \n\n\n\nAfter the brief meeting at the G7 summit in Canada, during which Mr Conte backed Mr Trump's call for Russia to be readmitted to the group, the US president called Mr Conte a \"great guy\" and announced he would be visiting the White House in July.\n\n\"Even Usain Bolt from Jamaica, one of the greatest runners and athletes of all time, showed RESPECT for our National Anthem!\" Amid the NFL national anthem controversy, President Trump singled out Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt as an example for other sportspeople to follow.\n\n\n\nHe tweeted: \"Even Usain Bolt from Jamaica, one of the greatest runners and athletes of all time, showed RESPECT for our National Anthem!\"\n\n\n\nMr Trump had criticised NFL players who kneel during the national anthem as a protest, to highlight the treatment of black Americans.\n\n\"My visit to Japan and friendship with PM Abe will yield many benefits, for our great Country. Massive military & energy orders happening+++!\" Shinzo Abe was invited out for golf by President Trump while visiting Florida (AFP) Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has developed a strong relationship with President Trump, with the pair having met several times both in the US and in Japan. \n\n\n\nMr Abe has visited Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida twice so far, playing golf with the president on both occasions. \n\n\n\nThe pair also found time for a round of golf when President Trump visited Japan in November last year - although Mr Abe may want to forget about that after he took a tumble into a bunker on the course. \n\n\n\nMr Trump has described US-Japan relations as a \"very crucial alliance\" and it has proved to be just that as the president has embarked on negotiations with neighbouring North Korea. \n\n\n\nMr Abe will be hoping that his relationship with the president will keep Japan at the front of his mind as he pursues a diplomatic solution to the North Korean crisis. \n\n\n\nAway from North Korea, Mr Trump has also been talking to Mr Abe about trade between the two countries but the tone appears more amicable than it is with others - for now. \n\n\n\nIn June, he tweeted: \"PM Abe and I are also working to improve the trading relationship between the US and Japan, something we have to do. The US seeks a bilateral deal with Japan that is based on the principle of fairness and reciprocity.\"\n\n\"I am deeply committed to preserving our strong relationship & to strengthening America's long-standing support for Jordan\" King Abdullah has met with Donald Trump several times since he became president (Getty Images) Jordan's King Abdullah was the first Arab leader to meet President Trump and has had three further meetings since.\n\n\n\nThe first occasion came in February on the sidelines of the National Prayer Breakfast, an annual event held in Washington DC, and appeared to be little more than a brief conversation. \n\n\n\nKing Abdullah was invited back to the capital in April last year for an official meeting with President Trump at the White House and he was back in Washington DC in June this year as well. \n\n\n\nJordan is a key member of the US-led coalition in the fight against the so-called Islamic State group (IS) in Iraq and Syria and Mr Trump has praised the king and his armed forces for their help. \n\n\n\n\"Jordanian service members have made tremendous sacrifices in this battle against the enemies of civilisation, and I want to thank all of them for their, really, just incredible courage,\" Mr Trump said.\n\nUS relations with Kenya are likely to be very different under Donald Trump to how they were under Barack Obama, whose father was Kenyan. \n\n\n\nMr Trump's decision to speak to the leaders of three African nations - Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa - before speaking to Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta was taken as a snub by some in the country. \n\n\n\nThe two leaders discussed security in the region and President Trump praised Kenya's \"significant contributions\" to the African Union force fighting against the al-Shabaab group in neighbouring Somalia. \n\n\n\nThe US in May suspended $21m of funding to Kenya's ministry of health over corruption allegations and weak account procedures, according to the state department. Kenya has said it would strengthen its accounting.\n\nPresident Trump met the emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, during his May visit to Saudi Arabia.\n\n\n\nDuring his visit, he called the leader a \"special person\" and said Kuwait's purchasing of \"tremendous amounts of our military equipment\" means \"jobs, jobs, jobs\" for Americans.\n\n\n\nThe emir then visited the White House in September 2017 and held a joint press conference, during which Mr Trump claimed the relationship between the US and Kuwait \"has never been stronger - never, ever\".\n\n\n\nPresident Trump also referenced the \"tremendous investments\" that Kuwait has made in the US, especially in plane sales. Mr Trump lamented to New York and New Jersey politicians after the press conference that his plane was not as big as the emir's, according to Politico.\n\n\"We would be so much better off if Gaddafi would be in charge right now\" Mr Trump cited Libya as an example of the failure of Western military intervention regularly on his way to winning the US election, but the record shows he backed it at the time.\n\n\n\nThe country has been beset by chaos since Nato-backed forces helped rebel fighters overthrow long-serving ruler Col Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011. Fighters aligned to the so-called Islamic State group (IS) have threatened to cause further chaos in recent years.\n\n\n\nPresident Trump held a meeting with Libya's prime minister, Fayez Al-Sarraj, at the White House in December last year during which they discussed political reconciliation in the country and the threat from IS. \n\n\n\nBut the US leader is keen to take a less engaged approach to the country, telling reporters he did not \"see a role\" there for the US.\n\n\"With Mexico being one of the highest crime Nations in the world, we must have THE WALL. Mexico will pay for it through reimbursement/other.\" Donald Trump's harsh rhetoric towards Mexico during the US election campaign turned him into a pantomime villain south of the border (Getty Images) No Donald Trump rally during the presidential campaign was complete without the crowd chanting \"Build the wall, build the wall!\" \n\n\n\nIt was the policy that defined Mr Trump's insurgent run for office, so it was little surprise that who would pay for the wall caused a diplomatic dispute just days into his presidency. \n\n\n\nMr Trump, who has said repeatedly that Mexico will pay it, officially announced his intention to build the wall in an executive order signed on 25 January 2017. \n\n\n\nTwo days later, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto used a televised address to tell Mr Trump: \"I've said time and again: Mexico won't pay for any wall.\" \n\n\n\nMore than a year later, Mr Trump is still tweeting about it: \"Our Southern Border is under siege. Congress must act now to change our weak and ineffective immigration laws. Must build a Wall.\" \n\n\n\nConstruction on the wall is yet to start because Mr Trump needs Congress to pass the funding for it, but there is evidence that law enforcement agencies on the border have been given more power.\n\n\n\nMr Pena Nieto, who has now been replaced, met Mr Trump once on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Germany last July. He was due to visit the White House but twice cancelled planned trips because of disagreements with the US president. \n\n\n\nThe most recent one came in February when Mr Trump is said to have lost his temper during a phone call with Mr Pena Nieto when he refused to change his position on the wall. \n\n\n\nMr Trump appears to have changed tack with Mexico's new leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. They spoke for the first time at the beginning of July and, according to Mr López Obrador, the wall was not brought up by Mr Trump. \n\n\n\nHow long the cordial tone lasts is unclear, but Mr Trump is sending a delegation to meet the new leader, including his son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, and US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo.\n\nJacinda Ardern and Donald Trump at the APEC summit (Getty Images) Did Mr Trump mistake New Zealand's prime minister for the wife of Canadian leader Justin Trudeau at November's APEC meeting in Vietnam?\n\n\n\nPM Jacinda Ardern denied Mr Trump had made that error, telling TVNZ that \"Someone observed that they thought that it happened, but in all my interactions, certainly President Trump didn't seem to have confused me when I interacted with him. But someone else observed this.\"\n\n\n\nMr Trump certainly seems to have recognised her when he patted her on the shoulder at a gala dinner during the summit and declared \"This lady caused a lot of upset in her country\".\n\n\n\n\"I said, 'You know', laughing, 'no-one marched when I was elected',\" she told the website newsroom.co.nz.\n\n\"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\" - President Trump's widely reported comments made in private during a meeting on immigration, 11 Jan 2018 Democratic Senator Richard Durbin had just been discussing US temporary residency permits granted to citizens of countries hit by natural disasters, war or epidemics, when Mr Trump asked \"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\" \n\n\n\nMr Trump tweeted that he had used \"tough\" language but not that specific term. Senator Durbin said Mr Trump used \"racist\" language and that the president did call some African nations \"shitholes\".\n\n\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, Mr Trump told lawmakers the US should instead be taking in migrants from countries like Norway, whose prime minister visited him a day earlier, or Asian nations.\n\n\n\nMr Trump's administration announced in November 2017 that it would remove the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Nicaragua, introduced in 1999 after Hurricane Mitch devastated Central America.\n\n\n\nThousands of Nicaraguans living in the US will now have until 5 January 2019 to seek \"an alternative lawful immigration status\" or leave.\n\n\"President Trump assured the Nigerian president of US readiness to cut a new deal in helping Nigeria in terms of military weapons to combat terrorism\" - A statement from the Nigerian presidency after a phone call with President Trump, 13 Feb 2017 President Trump caused some controversy when he first spoke to Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari over the phone in February last year. \n\n\n\nDuring the call, Mr Trump signalled his intention to renew a deal to sell military aircraft put on hold by the Obama administration after Nigerian forces mistakenly bombed a refugee camp in the country's north-east, killing more than 100 people.\n\n\n\nThe deal needs to be approved by the US Congress, but if it goes ahead it will raise questions over how important human rights concerns are to President Trump when it comes to trade. \n\n\n\nMeeting President Buhari for the first time at the White House in April, Mr Trump said the pair were working on a \"very big trade deal\" that included \"helicopters and the like\".\n\n\"Many good conversations with North Korea-it is going well! In the meantime, no Rocket Launches or Nuclear Testing in 8 months. All of Asia is thrilled. Only the Opposition Party, which includes the Fake News, is complaining. If not for me, we would now be at War with North Korea!\" Kim Jong-un shakes hands with President Trump during their historic US-North Korea summit in Singapore (Getty Images) President Trump made history in June when he became the first sitting US president to meet with a North Korean leader. \n\n\n\nIt was an event few could have imagined just a few months after Mr Trump had threatened to unleash \"fire and fury\" against North Korea if it endangered the US. \n\n\n\nThe heated rhetoric from Mr Trump was in response to North Korea's repeated testing of long-range missiles in its pursuit to establish itself as a nuclear power. North Korea responded by vowing to launch a \"nuclear pre-emptive strike\" if it felt at risk. \n\n\n\nPresident Trump and Kim Jong-un then traded insults for a few months as military conflict began to look inevitable. But then all of a sudden, the tone changed. \n\n\n\nIn January, Mr Trump signalled that he would be willing to sit down and talk with Mr Kim and a couple of months later the two sides said they had agreed to a meeting. \n\n\n\n\"Possible progress being made in talks with North Korea. For the first time in many years, a serious effort is being made by all parties concerned. The World is watching and waiting! May be false hope, but the U.S. is ready to go hard in either direction!\" Mr Trump tweeted in March. \n\n\n\nAlthough the mooted summit was briefly cancelled by Mr Trump, it did eventually happen in Singapore in June, with the US president describing it as a \"tremendous success\". \n\n\n\nThe pair signed an agreement that while historic, was a little short on details. It commits North Korea to work towards \"the complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula\" and promises \"new relations\" between Washington and Pyongyang.\n\n\n\nIn a sign of possible trouble ahead though, North Korea accused the US of using \"gangster-like\" tactics to push it towards nuclear disarmament after a fresh round of high-level talks in July.\n\n\n\nBut this was followed by a letter sent to Mr Trump by Mr Kim, which the US president tweeted. Part of it read: \"I firmly believe that the strong will, sincere efforts and unique approach of myself and Your Excellency Mr President aimed at opening up a new future between the DPRK and the US will surely come to fruition.\"\n\nWhen Prime Minister Solberg met Mr Trump in Washington he may have been surprised to be told Norway had bought a fighter jet only available in Call of Duty, a computer game. \n\n\n\nA day later Norway was reportedly mentioned by Mr Trump as an example of the sort of country the US should be taking migrants from in a meeting with lawmakers from both parties to propose a bipartisan immigration deal. \n\n\n\nDemocratic Senator Richard Durbin had just been discussing US temporary residency permits granted to citizens of countries hit by natural disasters, war or epidemics. \n\n\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, Mr Trump told the lawmakers the US should instead be taking in migrants from countries like Norway, or Asian nations.\n\n\"The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!\" Tensions between the US and its historical ally have been strained for years, but they reached a new low in January 2018, when Mr Trump threatened to withdraw US assistance. Previously he had put Pakistan on notice as he unveiled his new Afghan strategy in August 2017.\n\n\n\n\"We have been paying Pakistan billions and billions of dollars at the same time they are housing the very terrorists that we are fighting. It is time for Pakistan to demonstrate its commitment to civilisation, order and peace.\"\n\n\n\nBut he had warmer words when Islamabad helped secure the release of an American-Canadian couple held hostage in the country for five years.\n\nBut with the Palestinians no longer willing to talk peace, why should we make any of these massive future payments to them?\" The tone has changed between Mr Trump and President Abbas since they met in New York last September (Getty Images) Mr Trump first met President Mahmoud Abbas during the Palestinian Authority leader's White House visit at the beginning of May 2017. \n\n\n\nHe said there was a \"very good chance\" of a Middle East peace deal, telling Mr Abbas during a joint news conference: \"We will get this done\".\n\n\n\nDuring a visit to Bethlehem to meet Mr Abbas again in May last year, Mr Trump said he would \"do everything\" to help Israelis and Palestinians achieve peace. \n\n\n\nIn September, Mr Trump and Mr Abbas met in New York during the UN General Assembly. Mr Trump noted his personal commitment to \"improving the economic opportunities available to the Palestinian people\".\n\n\n\nBut Mr Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital led to a sharp deterioration in relations as did his threats to withdraw financial support.\n\n\n\nThe move led to a draft UN Security Council resolution being put forward by Egypt, which called on all states to \"comply with Security Council resolutions regarding the Holy City of Jerusalem\". \n\n\n\nThe US vetoed the resolution, but in a sign of its isolation on the issue, the four other permanent members of the Security Council - China, France, Russia and the UK - and 10 non-permanent members voted in favour of it.\n\nPresident Trump met President Juan Carlos Varela of Panama in June, discussing illegal immigration, organised crime and drug gangs.\n\n\n\nBut perhaps the strangest part of the visit was Mr Trump's focus on the Panama Canal, which was opened by the US in 1914. \n\n\n\n\"The Panama Canal is doing quite well,\" he said at the White House meeting. \"I think we did a good job building it.\"\n\n\n\nMr Trump also praised US-Panama relations, saying \"things are going well\" and \"the relationship has been very strong\". \n\n\n\nDuring a working dinner in New York with leaders from Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, and Panama, the group reaffirmed the principles of the Lima Declaration from August 2017 and their commitment to the priority of restoring democracy to Venezuela.\n\n\n\nMr Varela met the US president again in September last year, at a working dinner in New York with South American leaders to discuss the \"importance of working together to help restore democracy to Venezuela\".\n\n\"We're interested in the free movement of people. I emphasised that to President Trump and we prefer bridges to walls\" - President Kuczynski after a meeting at the White House, 24 Feb 2017 Mr Trump met with President Kuczynski in the Oval Office in February 2017 (AFP) Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has already had a substantial amount of contact with President Trump. The two men have spoken several times over the phone and Mr Kuczynski has also visited the White House. \n\n\n\nAs well as discussing regional security and trade between the two countries, the Peruvian president is particularly interested in persuading the US to deport its fugitive ex-leader Alejandro Toledo.\n\n\n\nMr Toledo, who is believed to be in San Francisco, is accused of taking $20m (£16m) in bribes. He denies that and says he is the victim of a witch-hunt. Mr Kuczynski is understood to have asked Mr Trump to \"evaluate\" the situation.\n\n\n\nIn March, Mr Kuczynski spoke to Mr Trump about tackling the economic and political crisis in Venezuela.\n\n\"He was wishing me success in my campaign against the drug problem... He understood the way we are handling it and he said there is nothing wrong with protecting your country.\" President Duterte after an April phone call with Mr Trump President Duterte toasts Mr Trump during his visit to the Philippines (AFP) President Trump's has only had a couple of interactions with President Rodrigo Duterte, but they have caused much controversy in the US. \n\n\n\nMr Trump first spoke to Mr Duterte over the phone in April 2017, in what was a \"very friendly conversation\" about North Korea and \"the fact that the Philippine government is fighting very hard to rid its country of drugs, a scourge that affects many countries throughout the world.\" \n\n\n\nMr Duterte has been widely criticised for human rights violations in the Philippines, after he authorised police and vigilantes to maim and kill drug users on the streets of Manila. \n\n\n\nHis relationship with the US had been rocky in the past, in part because former President Barack Obama criticised the extrajudicial executions. Mr Obama cancelled a trip to the Philippines in September 2016 after Mr Duterte called him a \"son of a whore\".\n\n\n\nMr Trump, however, has had a warmer relationship with his Philippine counterpart so far. \n\n\n\nAfter meeting Mr Duterte during a visit to the Philippines in November 2017, Mr Trump hailed their \"great relationship\" and their joint statement pledged to \"further deepen the extensive United States-Philippine economic relationship\".\n\n\n\nMr Trump was understood to have invited Mr Duterte to the White House but that meeting has yet to take place.\n\nMr Trump gave a speech in front of the Warsaw Uprising monument (Getty Images) Donald Trump is a big fan of Poland and its people. \n\n\n\nDuring a visit there in July last year, he described Poland as an example of a country ready to defend Western freedoms, warning against the threats of \"terrorism and extremism\".\n\n\n\nMr Trump spoke of \"the triumph of the Polish spirit over centuries of hardship\" as an inspiration \"for a future in which good conquers evil, and peace achieves victor over war\" during his speech in Warsaw.\n\n\n\nHe also thanked the country for buying Patriot missile defence systems from the US in a multi-billion dollar contract as well as its investments in the Nato alliance. \n\n\n\n\"America loves Poland, and America loves the Polish people,\" he declared.\n\nThe first phone call with the Qatari emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, came in February 2017 amid an attempted travel ban by Mr Trump that affected several Middle Eastern countries, but not Qatar itself.\n\n\n\nThe two men are said to have discussed the fight against the so-called Islamic State group, with Qatar being a prominent member of the US-led coalition. \n\n\n\nEarlier this year, several Gulf countries cut travel and embassy links with Qatar over its alleged support for militants. Qatar strongly denies supporting radical Islamism.\n\n\n\nMr Trump took initial credit for applying pressure on Qatar in the longstanding Arab-world rift, saying it could mark \"the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism\". \n\n\n\nIn June last year, he again accused Qatar of funding terrorism, tweeting:\"During my recent trip to the Middle East I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical Ideology. Leaders pointed to Qatar – look!\"\n\n\n\nBut Washington would stand to benefit most from a resolution with Qatar as the US ally is home to the largest American military facility in the Middle East. Mr Trump's strategy on Qatar lies in encouraging Qatar's neighbours to find a peaceful resolution to the conflict, as well as implementing the United States-Qatar bilateral memorandum of understanding on counterterrorism cooperation.\n\n\"Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!\" President Trump chats with Mr Putin at the APEC summit in Vietnam (AFP) No US relationship with a country has been more scrutinised than Donald Trump's ties to Russia. \n\n\n\nAt a summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Mr Trump defended Russia over claims of interference in the 2016 US election.\n\n\n\nSpeaking with the Mr Putin at his side, Mr Trump was asked if he believed his own intelligence agencies or the Russian president when it came to allegations of meddling in the election. \n\n\n\n\"President Putin says it's not Russia. I don't see any reason why it would be,\" he replied.\n\n\n\nBut a day later, Mr Trump said he had misspoke.\n\n\n\n\"The sentence should have been: 'I don't see any reason why I wouldn't' or 'why it wouldn't be Russia'. Sort of a double negative,\" he explained to reporters when he arrived back in the US.\n\n\n\nThe US intelligence agencies have accused Russia of being behind the hacking of the Democratic Party's email server. A dossier has also emerged containing unsubstantiated claims about Mr Trump's ties to Russia. \n\n\n\nA special counsel was set up in May 2017 to investigate whether there was any collusion between Russia and Mr Trump's campaign and whether the president unlawfully tried to obstruct the inquiry after the election.\n\n\n\nPresident Trump has dismissed the entire Russia scandal as \"fake news\" and accused Democrats of launching a political witch-hunt against him because they are angry he defeated Hillary Clinton. \n\n\n\nMr Trump has tweeted more and more about Russia and the investigation in recent months - a sign that the allegations have got under his skin.\n\n\n\nSince becoming president in January 2017, he has sought to improve relations with Russia. \n\n\n\nIn March, he tweeted: \"I called President Putin of Russia to congratulate him on his election victory (in past, Obama called him also). The Fake News Media is crazed because they wanted me to excoriate him. They are wrong! Getting along with Russia (and others) is a good thing, not a bad thing…\"\n\n\n\nIn June, he alarmed allies by saying Russia should be readmitted to the G7 group of industrialised nations. Russia was suspended from what was then the G8 after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.\n\n\"I have great confidence in King Salman and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, they know exactly what they are doing... Some of those they are harshly treating have been 'milking' their country for years!\" Saudi Arabia has had a close relationship with the US for decades and that appears to be continuing under President Trump. \n\n\n\nMr Trump made his first foreign trip as president to meet King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, where the White House said it signed deals worth more than $350bn (£270bn) with Saudi Arabia.\n\n\n\nMr Trump appeared a little out of his comfort zone when he took part in a ceremonial sword dance during the trip. \n\n\n\nRelations had soured somewhat under President Obama after his administration's nuclear deal with Iran, but Mr Trump appeared to restore the partnership after he sided with Saudi Arabia in a diplomatic standoff with Qatar. \n\n\n\nSaudi Arabia and other Gulf nations cut off ties with Qatar over allegations that it funds terror groups. But Mr Trump told King Salman that it was \"important that the Gulf be united for peace and security in the region\".\n\n\n\nWhen Saudi Arabia's leaders launched a purge of allegedly corrupt officials last November, Mr Trump tweeted: \"I have great confidence in King Salman and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, they know exactly what they are doing... Some of those they are harshly treating have been \"milking\" their country for years!\"\n\n\n\nMore recently, Mr Trump has called on the king to increase the kingdom's oil production, complaining that the price of a barrel of oil had risen too high.\n\nPresident Trump has met Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong three times so far, the most recent time being during his visit to the country in June. \n\n\n\nLast year, Mr Trump said of Singapore: \"We're very close, the relationship is very close, and we expect to do some excellent things together in many ways. And we have a very big relationship now. It will probably get much bigger.\"\n\n\n\nAfter Mr Trump's first meeting with Mr Lee, his social media team posted a photo of the two leaders on Instagram and mistakenly identified the prime minister as Indonesian President Joko Widodo, but later corrected the blunder. \n\n\n\nSingapore and the US have had a friendly relationship in the past, though some Singapore officials have criticized the rising sentiment of economic protectionism in America. \n\n\n\nMr Lee was welcomed to the White House in October last year during a visit in which Singapore Airlines signed a deal with Boeing for new aircraft worth more than $13.8 billion. \n\n\n\nReacting to the deal, Mr Trump said: \"I want to thank the Singaporean people for their faith in the American engineering and American workers.\"\n\nWhile President Trump has not spoken to Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, he has tried to ban Somalis from entering the US. \n\n\n\nThe proposed ban has been partly reinstated by the Supreme Court after it was twice by rejected judges in the US, allowing Mr Trump to bar visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days. \n\n\n\nHe has described the affected nations as \"terror-prone countries\".\n\n\n\nIn May last year, a member of the US military was killed in Somalia, the first confirmed combat death there since the 1993 disastrous Black Hawk Down incident. There was another fatality in June this year. \n\n\n\nThe deaths came after the US announced in April 2017 that it was sending dozens of troops to Somalia to train forces fighting Islamist group al-Shabab.\n\n\"I really like Nelson Mandela but South Africa is a crime ridden mess that is just waiting to explode-not a good situation for the people!\" Donald Trump the businessman didn't have much positive to say about South Africa, tweeting that the country was a \"mess\". \n\n\n\nHe took a slightly different approach as president though, telling President Jacob Zuma that he hopes to \"expand cooperation and trade\" between the two countries. \n\n\n\nThe two leaders spoken once on the phone, mainly to discuss new opportunities to boost trade. According to the President Zuma's government, there are 600 US companies operating in South Africa.\n\n\n\nMr Zuma also met President Trump once, before he was forced to resign in February. Mr Trump held a working lunch for African leaders, including Mr Zuma, in New York in September. During the meeting, Mr Trump reportedly said: \"Africa has tremendous business potential. I have so many friends going to your countries, trying to get rich.\"\n\n\n\nSouth Africa's new president, Cyril Ramaphosa, is yet to meet Mr Trump.\n\n\"With all of the failed 'experts' weighing in, does anybody really believe that talks and dialogue would be going on between North and South Korea right now if I wasn't firm, strong and willing to commit our total 'might' against the North. Fools, but talks are a good thing!\" Mr Trump walks alongside President Moon at a welcoming ceremony for him in Seoul (Getty Images) President Trump's tough rhetoric towards North Korea had many in the South feeling worried for much of 2017. But there is hope that tensions on the peninsular have been diffused since the US president brought Kim Jong-un to the negotiating table. \n\n\n\nAfter President Moon Jae-in's historic meeting with Mr Kim in April, Mr Trump tweeted: \"After a furious year of missile launches and Nuclear testing, a historic meeting between North and South Korea is now taking place. Good things are happening, but only time will tell!\"\n\n\n\nMr Moon, for his part, said Mr Trump \"deserves big credit\" for getting North Korea to agree to talks.\n\n\n\nAway from the issue of North Korea, there have been lots of talks on trade between the two countries as well. \n\n\n\nDonald Trump had long wanted to renegotiate the \"horrible\" free trade agreement the US struck with South Korea in 2012, claiming it had \"destroyed\" the US. \n\n\n\nIn March, the two sides reached an agreement on changes to that deal, allowing US carmakers greater access to the South Korean market while protecting Seoul from some of the tariffs that the US introduced on steel. \n\n\n\nSouth Korea is a major US trade partner, with the US exchanging about $144.6bn (£112bn) in goods and services with the country last year. \n\n\n\nMr Trump visited the country in November last year and his daughter, Ivanka, also made the trip to South Korea for the Winter Olympics there in February.\n\nPresident Trump with King Felipe outside the Oval Office (Getty Images) Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy held one face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump before he was ousted by a vote of no confidence in June this year. \n\n\n\nAt the White House meeting, Mr Trump said he thought Spain was \"a great country\" and that he hoped it would remain \"united\" despite a push from people in the Catalonia region for independence. \n\n\n\nMr Trump was also ridiculed for referring to Mr Rajoy as \"president\" twice during their joint press conference. But it turns out Mr Trump may not have made an error as Mr Rajoy's official title in Spain is \"president of the government\" despite the role being known internationally as prime minister.\n\n\n\nIn June, Mr Trump and his wife Melania welcomed Spain's King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia to the White House to celebrate \"over 300 years of historic and cultural ties between our two great countries\". \n\n\n\nPedro Sánchez, Spain's new prime minister, met Donald Trump for the first time at the Nato summit in Brussels in July, but there was no one-on-one meeting this time.\n\nSudan is another of the predominantly Muslim countries that Donald Trump has included on his travel ban list. \n\n\n\nThe Supreme Court partly reinstated the ban after it was twice rejected by judges in the US. \n\n\n\nIt means people without \"close\" family or business relationships in the US could be denied visas and barred entry. \n\n\n\nMore recently, Mr Trump postponed a deadline on whether to permanently lift US sanctions against Sudan so he could have more time to \"establish that the government of Sudan has demonstrated sufficient positive action\" on counter-terrorism efforts, providing humanitarian relief and securing a ceasefire in conflict areas.\n\n\n\nThe US has issued sanctions against Sudan since the 1990s, when it was accused of state-sponsored terrorism.\n\n\n\nMr Trump has yet to appoint a special envoy for Sudan.\n\n\"Give the public a break - The FAKE NEWS media is trying to say that large scale immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully. NOT!\" President Trump caused a bit of a stir about Sweden during one of his regular attacks on the media at a rally in February. \n\n\n\n\"Look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this. Sweden. They took in large numbers [of migrants]. They're having problems like they never thought possible,\" the new US president told the crowd in Florida.\n\n\n\nThe only problem was that no-one seemed to know what incident Mr Trump was referring to - not least lots of baffled Swedes. \n\n\n\nIt later emerged that Mr Trump had been referring to a report on Fox News about gun violence and rape in Sweden since it opened its doors to large numbers of asylum-seekers in 2013. \n\n\n\nBut police officers interviewed for the feature said their comments had been taken out of context and data didn't appear to back up claims that there had been a surge in gun crimes or rape. \n\n\n\nAlthough Mr Trump did not speak to Prime Minister Stefan Lofven during this saga, he did phone the Swedish leader in April to express condolences over an attack in Stockholm.\n\n\"Don't attack Syria - an attack that will bring nothing but trouble for the U.S. Focus on making our country strong and great again!\" The US fired 59 cruise missiles at the Shayrat airbase in Syria in April 2017 (Getty Images) Syria is another country that Donald Trump has changed his views on quite substantially since becoming the US president. \n\n\n\nWhen his predecessor was considering military action in Syria back in 2013, Mr Trump was a vocal critic against intervention.\n\n\n\n\"Again, to our very foolish leader, do not attack Syria - if you do many very bad things will happen & from that fight the US gets nothing,\" Mr Trump tweeted in September 2013. \n\n\n\nBut just over two months into his presidency, President Trump said he was so moved by images of children in the aftermath of a chemical attack by Syrian forces that he was taking military action. \n\n\n\n\"Using a deadly nerve agent, [Syrian President] Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children,\" Mr Trump said. \"No child of God should ever suffer such horror.\"\n\n\n\nTwo US Navy ships fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian air base from their positions in the Mediterranean. It was the first direct US military action against the Syrian president's forces.\n\n\n\nMr Trump deployed his military again in April this year, with 100 missiles targeting suspected government chemical weapons facilities in response to a suspected deadly chemical attack on the town of Douma.\n\n\n\nAfter the strikes, Mr Trump tweeted: \"A perfectly executed strike last night. Thank you to France and the United Kingdom for their wisdom and the power of their fine Military. Could not have had a better result. Mission Accomplished!\"\n\nPresident Donald Trump called Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha, who took control of the country in a 2014 coup, to state his commitment to the US alliance with the country.\n\n\n\nThailand's relationship with the US had been somewhat strained in the past because of human rights complaints. Former President Barack Obama did not invite Mr Chan-ocha to visit Washington.\n\n\n\nMr Trump seems to have warmer feelings toward Thailand's prime minister. According to a White House statement, the two leaders discussed \"a strong shared interest in strengthening the trade and economic ties between the two countries.\" Mr Trump also invited Mr Chan-ocha to visit the White House for the first time since Mr Chan-ocha assumed power.\n\n\n\nIn September, Mr Chan-ocha visited the White House for the first time. During the visit, the two leaders released a joint statement that outlined \"their shared commitment to promoting peace, security, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond\".\n\nPerhaps the unlikeliest country to have made our list, Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Keith Rowley spoke to Donald Trump on the phone in February 2017 to discuss \"shared priorities\". \n\n\n\nOne of those priorities is terrorism, with some US officials worried that the small Caribbean island could become a \"breeding ground for extremists\", according to the New York Times. \n\n\n\nThe island's former US ambassador John Estrada told the newspaper that more than 100 people have travelled from there to fight with the so-called Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.\n\nWhen Donald Trump announced a ban on people entering the US from several predominantly Muslim countries, some analysts were surprised not to see Tunisia on the list. \n\n\n\nThe Arab Spring began there in 2010, but it has become a breeding ground for the so-called Islamic State group (IS) in recent years - more Tunisians have joined them to fight in Iraq and Syria than any other nationality. \n\n\n\nPresident Trump appears to have decided that a close relationship with Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi is important in the fight against IS and he praised the country's \"stability and security\" in a phone call with its leader in February.\n\n\"I am in Istanbul, Turkey. Just opened magnificent #TrumpTowers - a big hit\" Mr Trump met with President Erdogan in the Oval Office in May 2017 (Getty Images) Donald Trump's relationship with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is one that his critics will be keeping a close eye on. \n\n\n\nMr Trump had business links to Turkey before he was elected president, licensing his name to a Turkish businessman in 2008 who opened a Trump Tower complex in Istanbul in 2012. \n\n\n\nMr Trump was at the launch of the property, as was Mr Erdogan (who was prime minister at that point). \n\n\n\nBut tensions were high after Mr Erdogan's White House visit in May last year, when clashes broke out between protesters and the Turkish president's supporters and members of security personnel. \n\n\n\nUS Congress has called for criminal charges against those involved in the brawl outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington DC. \n\n\n\nRelations have also been strained with the Nato ally by Mr Trump's decision to arm the Syrian Kurds in the battle against the so-called Islamic State. \n\n\n\nTurkey views the YPG (Popular Protection Units) as a terrorist group linked to the PKK, a Kurdish separatist group. \n\n\n\nWhile at the United Nations General Assembly in September, together, Mr Trump and Mr Erdogan reaffirmed their rejection of the planned Kurdistan referendum planned for later that month.\n\n\"Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?\" Donald Trump said he had \"very, very good discussions\" with Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko during the foreign leader's White House visit in June 2017. \n\n\n\nThe pair discussed \"support for the peaceful resolution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine\", where government forces have been fighting Russian-backed rebels since 2014.\n\n\n\nIn July last year, Mr Trump called on Russia to stop \"destabilising\" Ukraine and \"join the community of responsible nations\". The Kremlin brushed off the comments. \n\n\n\nMr Trump has previously accused Barack Obama of having been weak on Russia and allowing them to \"pick off\" the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine. \n\n\n\nThe US president's calls for better ties to Russia have worried Ukrainian authorities, observers say. \n\n\n\nBut Mr Trump announced sanctions against Russia for its role in the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria would remain even after his meeting with President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg.\n\n\n\nThe president said he would work \"constructively\" with Russia, but to lift the sanctions would be premature.\n\n\n\nAt the United Nations General Assembly in September, Mr Trump met with Mr Poroshenko and encouraged the European leader to improve his nation's business and political climates. Mr Trump also reiterated his support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.\n\nThe Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan spoke with Donald Trump on the phone just a few days after the former businessman became the new US president. \n\n\n\nThe two leaders spoke about the fight against international terrorism and according to the White House, the crown prince backed Mr Trump's idea of safe zones for refugees in the Middle East. \n\n\n\nThe UAE was not one of the countries that Mr Trump tried to ban people travelling to the US from, and the state's foreign minister was one of the few Middle East officials to defend the move. \n\n\n\nSheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan described Mr Trump's proposed ban as a \"sovereign decision\" and said some of the countries on the list \"face structural problems\" that need to be dealt with. \n\n\n\nIn May last year, Mr Trump met the Crown Prince at the White House, where the two leaders discussed \"bilateral defense cooperation, counterterrorism, resolving the conflicts in Yemen and Syria, and the threat to regional stability posed by Iran.\"\n\n\"I would have done [Brexit] much differently. I actually told Theresa May how to do it but she didn't agree, she didn't listen to me. She wanted to go a different route. I would actually say that she probably went the opposite way. And that is fine.\" - Donald Trump in an interview with The Sun newspaper, 13 Jul 2018 President Trump and Mrs May with their partners outside Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire (PA) Mr Trump arrived for his first visit to the UK as president on 12 July. \n\n\n\nHis first event was a black-tie dinner with Mrs May and British business leaders, but it was overshadowed by the publication of an interview the US president gave to The Sun newspaper. \n\n\n\nIn it, he said the UK would \"probably not\" get a trade deal with the US if the prime minister's Brexit plan goes ahead. \n\n\n\n\"If they do a deal like that, we would be dealing with the European Union instead of dealing with the UK, so it will probably kill the deal,\" he told the paper, adding that Mrs May's plan \"will definitely affect trade with the United States, unfortunately in a negative way.\"\n\n\n\nHe also said Mrs May's blueprint for its post-Brexit relations with the EU was \"a much different deal than the people voted on\".\n\n\n\nBut at a joint news conference on the second day of his visit, he changed his tone and said a trade deal \"will absolutely be possible\" after the UK leaves the EU. He also said Brexit was an \"incredible opportunity\". \n\n\n\nMr Trump also met the Queen, although there was no open carriage ride with her through the streets of the capital as the trip was designated a \"working visit\" rather than an official state visit. \n\n\n\nHe had been expected to visit in February to open the new $1bn (£738m) embassy but, having voiced his displeasure, that trip was cancelled. \n\n\n\nAsked about the protests that greeted his arrival in the UK, he insisted many people were \"delighted\" he was visiting, adding: \"I get thousands of notifications from people in the UK that they love the President of the United States.\"\n\nMr Trump spoke to Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in December 2017 to discuss \"discuss regional security and to explore opportunities for improved cooperation.\"\n\n\n\nThat came after Mr Mirziyoyev told Mr Trump his country was ready to \"use all forces and resources\" to help investigate the New York truck attack, in which eight people were killed, and where the suspect arrested by police was an Uzbek immigrant.\n\n\n\nThe two leaders met for the first time in May at the White House.\n\nHuman rights have not been at the top of President Trump's agenda so far, but he has called for the release of a political prisoner in Venezuela. \n\n\n\n\"Venezuela should allow Leopoldo Lopez, a political prisoner & husband of @liliantintori out of prison immediately,\" he tweeted in mid-February. \n\n\n\nVenezuela is in the middle of an economic and political crisis, with the country deeply divided between those who support the government of the socialist President Nicolas Maduro and those who blame him. \n\n\n\nMr Trump has discussed the situation in Venezuela on the phone with leaders of neighbouring countries, including Brazil and Colombia, but he has not spoken directly to President Maduro. \n\n\n\nIn an October tweet, Mr Trump called \"for the full restoration of democracy and political freedoms in Venezuela.\" The tweet reflected statements made by Mr Trump at a dinner with Latin American leaders in which he thanked them for supporting the Venezuelan people and condemning the Maduro \"dictatorship\".\n\n\n\nMr Maduro, however, has sent a word of warning to President Trump, saying in a televised speech: \"Don't repeat the errors of Obama and Bush when it comes to Venezuela and Latin America.\"\n\n\n\nIn April 2017 it emerged that Citgo Petroleum, the state oil company, gave half a million dollars to Trump's inaugural committee and a General Motors plant in the country was seized by the state.\n\n\n\nMr Trump celebrated the release of an American man in Venezuela in May this year, tweeting: \"Good news about the release of the American hostage from Venezuela.\" The man, a Mormon missionary from Utah, had been held without trial on weapons charges since 2016.\n\nVietnam played host to Trump with a lavish two-day state visit around the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Meeting in November 2017. \n\n \n\nMr Trump tweeted his thanks for \"a wonderful visit\". \n\n \n\nMr Trump was keen to highlight a $12bn (£9bn) purchase of Boeing aircraft in a joint statement after the visit.\n\n\"[Navy Seal] Ryan died on a winning mission (according to General Mattis), not a \"failure\". Time for the US to get smart and start winning again!\" President Trump's main focus in Yemen has been his ban on its citizens from travelling to America.\n\n\n\nIn December 2017, the US Supreme Court ruled President Donald Trump's travel ban on six mainly Muslim countries could go into full effect, pending legal challenges.\n\n\n\nMr Trump has also called on Saudi Arabia to \"allow food, fuel, water, and medicine to reach the Yemeni people who desperately need it,\" in response to the humanitarian crisis linked to the ongoing Saudi campaign and blockade against Houthi rebels.\n\n\n\nYemen was the site of the first military operation authorised by Mr Trump, in which a special forces team raided the compound of a suspected terrorist leader.\n\n \n\nThe mission didn't go to plan. The US Navy Seals came under fire from fighters belonging to the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula group (AQAP) and one member of the elite team was killed. \n\n\n\nIt later emerged that a number of civilians were also killed in the operation, which had been drawn up in November 2016 but approved by Mr Trump.\n\n \n\nIn an interview with Fox News, Mr Trump appeared to lay blame for the death of Navy Seal William \"Ryan\" Owens on military leaders. \n\n \n\n\"This was a mission that was started before I got here,\" Mr Trump said. \"They came to see me and they explained what they wanted to do, the generals, who are very respected... And they lost Ryan.\"\n\n \n\nA New York Times article claimed the Navy Seals found out their mission had been compromised after intercepting AQAP communications but they \"pressed on toward their target\" nonetheless. \n\n \n\nMr Trump responded to criticism by tweeting that it had been \"a winning mission... not a failure\". A White House statement said it was a \"successful raid\" that yielded \"important intelligence\".\n\n \n\nCarryn Owens, the widow of the Navy Seal, was invited to Mr Trump's joint address to Congress. She got a standing ovation and as the room applauded, the president said her husband's legacy was \"etched into eternity\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Ayrton Senna Foundation is helping millions of students in Brazil\n\nTwenty-three years after his death, former Formula 1 world champion Ayrton Senna's name is almost as valuable as when he was alive - and it is making a difference in his home country of Brazil.\n\nIt is Friday afternoon and children around the age of 12 are gathered in the computer lab of a public school in Itatiba, a small town an hour away from Sao Paulo.\n\nClass time is already over for the week, but these students have chosen to stay in school for extracurricular activities.\n\nThey are learning Scratch, a piece of software developed by MIT experts that aims to teach kids how to code.\n\nMost public schools in Brazil don't have computer coding in their curriculum. In fact, most schools are struggling to get kids to learn the basics, such as maths and Portuguese, as Brazil ranks among the worst countries in the world in school exams.\n\nThe coding class is courtesy of the Ayrton Senna Foundation\n\nStudents and staff in Itatiba have little interest in Formula 1. But much of what is going on in the classroom is part of the legacy of legendary driver Ayrton Senna, killed in a tragic accident during the San Marino Grand Prix on 1 May 1994.\n\nThe coding class is a project run by the Ayrton Senna Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that was founded by Ayrton's sister Viviane a few months after his death.\n\nMost of the money for the Foundation comes from managing Senna's brand and legacy.\n\nAyrton Senna is still one of the most valuable sporting brands in the world.\n\nSenna is still a beloved figure in Brazil\n\nIn the past five years, the foundation drew in about 1bn Brazilian reais (£250m; $320m) for the NGO.\n\nAnd it's all a family affair. While Viviane is the CEO of the foundation, her daughter Bianca is head of branding.\n\nThe foundation uses the money it raises to fund ambitious educational projects, which are today its core business.\n\n\"Usually companies have a philanthropic arm that helps society with social projects. We are the other way around. We are the only NGO I know that has a sports branding company inside it,\" says Bianca.\n\nAyrton Senna is still a goldmine in terms of marketing.\n\n\"We're an NGO with a sports branding company inside it,\" says Ayrton's niece Bianca Senna\n\nThe strongest markets for Senna products are Brazil, the UK and Italy.\n\nResearch conducted in 2015 by the Boston Consulting Group suggests Senna is in the same league as tennis superstar Roger Federer and basketball legend Michael Jordan in terms of product endorsement potential.\n\nAnother survey of Brazilian athletes who competed in last year's Rio Olympics - many of them too young to have seen Senna race - ranked him as their biggest source of inspiration, above past and present idols such as Neymar and Pele.\n\nThe foundation does its best to fully explore the marketing potential, licensing hundreds of products with Senna's face and name on it.\n\nIt caters for two groups of consumers. The first are Formula 1 fans who buy products such as books, DVDs, helmets and collectible souvenirs.\n\nThe foundation licenses hundreds of Ayrton Senna-themed items, like these action figures\n\nAnd then there are products for the general public who may not necessarily enjoy racing, but like Senna for his charisma and values. These include toys and comic books for children and a food line of ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise.\n\nMarketing specialist Marcos Machado, from TopBrands Consultancy, says Senna's tragic death while at the top of his game crystallised his image in the eyes of the public as a winner.\n\nMost sports stars eventually lose their appeal when they get older and retire. Some devalue their own brands by getting involved in scandals - think Ryan Lochte and Tiger Woods.\n\n\"If you consider Senna as a brand, I don't think he has many competitors,\" says Machado.\n\nOne of the brand's strengths is that virtually all money from licensing goes to charity, not profit.\n\nEducation is the foundation's core business. Over the past two decades, it has become one of the biggest NGOs in Brazil, helping 1.9 million children and training 60,000 teachers per year.\n\nSenna's name is also used for a range of foodstuffs including mustard, mayonnaise and ketchup\n\nIt invests heavily in research to come up with what Viviane Senna calls \"vaccines\" - smart solutions that can be applied to many schools with low costs.\n\nLast year it achieved one of its greatest successes in Colegio Chico Anysio, a public school in Rio de Janeiro with students from low-income families.\n\nThe institute revamped the curriculum, training students in social and emotional skills such as resilience, discipline and determination, instead of focusing solely on traditional subjects, such as maths and languages. It even came up with special metrics to identify these skills.\n\nAnd in the national students' exam, Colegio Chico Anysio was ranked the fifth best school for its income level.\n\nThe foundation aims for low-cost solutions that can work in many schools, says Viviane Senna\n\nThis year the institute is applying its \"vaccine\" to 20 other schools in the south of Brazil.\n\nIts work does not come without criticism, though.\n\nTeachers' unions complain that social and emotional skills are personal traits - not skills to be measured - and that the foundation sees schools and teachers too much as enterprises.\n\n\"If someone from the 19th Century travelled to our time, he wouldn't see any difference in classrooms. But the rest of the world has been through a technological and scientific revolution.\n\n\"And it's not just about bringing tablets and mobiles into students' hands. It's about giving them social and emotional skills to face our world.\"\n\nDespite some successes, Brazil's level of education has been slipping recently in the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) global rankings.\n\nBrazil has 50 million children in school, aged between six and 16. Only one in five end up graduating from high school. All others are lost along the way.\n\nKeeping interest in Ayrton Senna's name is likely to get harder as the years go by\n\nThe future is fraught with challenges for the foundation. All the work it does with schools needs to be approved by state and city governments, but public finances are collapsing in Brazil thanks to the recession.\n\nOn the branding front, it must keep the interest in Senna's name alive, a task that is likely to get harder as years go by.\n\n\"The foundation has done outstanding work. And interest in Senna can be sustained, but not forever,\" says Mr Machado.\n\n\"We have to be realistic. One day, Senna is going to be more of a distant memory than a real idol for young generations. You can keep his name alive, but not forever.\"\n\nOn the racetrack, Ayrton Senna made a name for himself as a driver who could do things that seemed impossible. The foundation that now carries his name is trying to live up to that legacy.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "First grand prix victories do not come much better than this. Valtteri Bottas was imperious at the Russian Grand Prix as he took his maiden win in his 81st start and confirmed himself as a major player in this fascinating Formula 1 season.\n\nThere were so many impressive aspects of the Finn's weekend that it is hard to know where to start. Crushing team-mate Lewis Hamilton in a manner rarely seen, and then soaking up intense pressure in the race from four-time champion Sebastian Vettel despite a damaged front tyre are definite highlights.\n\nHamilton was anonymous around the former Olympic buildings on the Black Sea coast, slipping into one of those bizarrely off-form weekends he has from time to time.\n\nBut Bottas' win depended on so much more than beating Hamilton. He saw off the threat from the Ferraris, who had been strong favourites for victory before the start, in a manner that suggests this will not be the last time this quiet, low-key and likeable man will stand atop a podium this season.\n\nThe Finn is the third winner in four races this year and the championship is nicely poised for the start of the European phase of the season in Spain in two weeks' time. Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel is leading the standings by 13 points from Hamilton, and Bottas is only 10 points behind his team-mate.\n\nIt was always going to be a matter of time before Bottas won his first race once he had moved to Mercedes over the winter as a replacement for Nico Rosberg, who retired five days after winning the title last year.\n\nThe question, assuming Mercedes remained competitive, was not whether he would win - the ebb and flow of a grand prix season meant that was inevitable. It was how close he could get to Hamilton on a regular basis.\n\nFour races in, after three weekends of clear superiority for Hamilton and one in which he was off-form, it is too early to answer that question definitively.\n\nBut Russia proved that Bottas is exactly what Mercedes wanted - at the very least a like-for-like replacement for Rosberg who can push the Briton close and win races in his own right.\n\nBottas has always liked the Sochi track and he was by far the most convincing Mercedes driver through the weekend. The Finn qualified 0.478secs ahead of his illustrious team-mate, and his drive in the race was masterful.\n\nA good start, a slipstream from Vettel's Ferrari down the one-kilometre run to the first corner and Bottas was far enough ahead, not only to pass into the first chicane, but be sufficiently ahead to block the red car while doing it.\n\nBottas' first stint was highly impressive as he set a pace too hot for Vettel to match, albeit that he lost some ground from lap 20 onwards when the German found the balance of his Ferrari coming back to him and the Finn began to encounter traffic.\n\nThe Ferrari was faster in the second stint and Vettel began to turn the screw. Bottas' one error was a lock-up into Turn 13 which damaged both front tyres and cut his lead by more than a second in one lap.\n\nIt could have proved a turning point, and although Vettel caught him up, Bottas controlled the race from the front like a veteran.\n\nVettel was just one of many people who were impressed, and he paid fulsome tribute afterwards.\n\n\"It's his day; he deserves to win,\" Vettel said. \"He drove a fantastic race. I think he locked up once into Turn 13 but other than that, superb race. Great first stint. He was a lot quicker than Lewis all weekend, so you just have to give credit to him. He was just better than all the rest of us today.\"\n\nBottas himself admitted it was \"going to take a while\" for it to sink in.\n\n\"I have to say, normally I'm not that emotional,\" he said, \"but hearing the Finnish national anthem is something quite special for me - it felt good. But it is a little bit surreal: first win, and hopefully first of many. It was definitely one of my best races, personally, ever. It's a good feeling.\"\n\nWhat does it mean for Bottas?\n\nFour years with Williams had proved Bottas to be a very solid competitor, but there are always questions over drivers before they really go up against the A-listers in a front-running car.\n\nIt has not been the easiest of starts to his Mercedes career. A solid debut in Australia was followed by an embarrassing spin behind the safety car in China followed by a fundamental lack of pace in Bahrain after a first pole the day before.\n\nBottas entered the Russia weekend surrounded by questions about whether Mercedes needed to designate a firm number one and two to counter the threat from Ferrari, and then heard his team say they would impose orders if one driver was slower than the other in a race and it was affecting the team's chances of victory.\n\nBut there is a quiet solidity and unflappability about Bottas and he answered the doubters in emphatic style.\n\n\"It is only the beginning of the year,\" he said, when asked how he had coped with China and Bahrain. \"It is always difficult to draw conclusions on how the season is so that's why I wasn't too worried with the gap to the front.\n\n\"It was 30 points or something, and that sort of gap has gone in the past in just a few races so it's way too early to look at that championship in detail. We are just focusing on making the car better and that will give us more wins for both cars.\n\n\"Getting the first win is something special, for sure, even though you always believe in yourself. If you think you are not able to win you should stay home, but to get confirmation and get a good result, that matters in this world.\n\n\"How many races you can win and get on the podium is the name of the game. Getting the first win gives me a lot of confidence even though I always knew I had the ability. It is not that simple this year. It's going to always be a massive fight.\"\n\nFor all Bottas' impressive performance in Russia, he was made to look better by what appears to have been a difficult weekend for Hamilton in which he never got himself in the ballpark.\n\nFor all his talent, this happens to Hamilton from time to time - think back to Baku and Singapore last year.\n\nIn both cases, for very different reasons, he had poor weekends and at this early stage it appears Russia 2017 was more like Singapore, where he was never on the pace, than Baku, where he simply messed up by driving badly.\n\nHamilton was not comfortable with the car all weekend in Sochi.\n\nBoth Mercedes drivers were struggling on Friday, unable to get the ultra-soft tyres up to the right temperature on a flying lap. But whereas Bottas and his engineers recovered overnight into Saturday, and he missed out on pole by less than 0.1secs, Hamilton remained at sea.\n\n\"It was just pure pace based on car, tyres, tyre temperatures and being comfortable in the car,\" Hamilton said following his debrief with the engineers after the race.\n\n\"There were differences in car set-ups\", he said, adding: \"But they were not huge, quite close - a little different in low, and medium-speed corners, which is where I struggled. And then on the electronic side, the differential, those kind of things, we were a little bit different.\n\n\"I don't know the fine details. The engineers will give me a full summary. The direction he was able to go in, I wasn't able to, and I don't understand fully why. I'm not sure what else in the car was stopping me going in that direction.\"\n\nTeam boss Toto Wolff added: \"I think there was more wrong than one topic. He [Hamilton] felt he couldn't make the car and the tyres function so we need to find out.\n\n\"We know it is very difficult to keep the tyres in the right window and it is something we have to work on because the Ferrari seems to struggle less, the window is larger [for them] and he wasn't in the window, whether it was tyre-specific or something on the car we need to find out.\"\n\nMost people expect Hamilton, over the balance of the season, to remain the more consistently strong Mercedes driver. But Bottas' performance in Russia has told him, if he did not know before, that he faces a challenge at least as great as that from Rosberg over the last three years.\n\nAnd a challenge is very much what Mercedes have as a team from a rejuvenated Ferrari.", "Eleven-year-old Matthew Pietrzyk can now swim, run, have a bath and eat chocolate, all impossible before his kidney transplant.\n\nBut he might still be on the waiting list, enduring 12 hours of dialysis each day, if his mother, Nicola, had not run a Facebook campaign to find him a living donor.\n\nMatthew is one of a number of UK patients who have bypassed the traditional NHS system of organ allocation, instead harnessing the power of the internet to find their own.\n\nTransplant doctors fear this development could result in an unsavoury competition to attract donors online, in what some have called an \"organ beauty pageant\".\n\nAnd they worry that it rips up the traditional health service ethos of equal access to treatment for all.\n\nConsultant nephrologist Dr Adnan Sharif, from Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, says: \"Somebody who is well-to-do, a professional, will be very good at promoting themselves,\" whereas poorer patients, perhaps from minority ethnic communities, will not have the same opportunities.\n\n\"I'm not going to lie, I think on Matthew's side was the fact he was a child,\" she says.\n\n\"In all walks of life, we use things to our advantage.\n\n\"If it meant that he didn't have to spend his life on dialysis, then I'd take it - I don't care.\"\n\nThere are 28,000 people on dialysis in the UK.\n\nSome 5,000 patients are on the national waiting list for an organ transplant from a dead donor.\n\nThere is a permanent shortage of such kidneys.\n\nBut there is another option; they may get a kidney from a living donor, because most of us can live healthily with just one.\n\nAlison Thornhill donated her kidney to an anonymous recipient\n\nLiving donors now make up a third of all kidney transplants in the UK.\n\nSome are donated anonymously through a very successful NHS scheme.\n\nBut social media campaigns such as Matthew's can bring dozens of would-be donors to be tissue-tested for just one patient, squeezing resources.\n\nSue Moore, the lead NHS living donor coordinator in Birmingham, says: \"You'd get people call out of the blue, and it was quite overwhelming really.\"\n\nHowever, since Matthew's appeal was launched in 2013, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the biggest renal centre in Europe, has adjusted to handling such pressures.\n\nMatthew's mother argues publicity for his campaign increased awareness of kidney donation.\n\nAnd some of the people initially tested for Matthew went on to give a kidney to someone else.\n\nOne was Alison Thornhill, who was touched by his Facebook appeal.\n\n\"If one of my grandchildren was in that situation, I would want somebody to step forward and be tested to see if they were a match for him,\" she says.\n\nAlison wasn't a match for Matthew, but since she \"was prepared to give a kidney to a little boy who I didn't know, it made sense just to go on and give it to somebody else who I didn't know who needed it\".\n\nEighteen months ago, she went into hospital and became an anonymous donor.\n\nUnexpectedly, she later got letters from the recipient, and from his mother, who wrote: \"I don't know anything about you apart from the fact that you are a very kind and compassionate person.\n\n\"I will be eternally grateful to you.\n\nGemma Coles wants to chose who to donate her kidney to\n\nBut some would-be donors want to choose precisely who receives their kidney.\n\nSearching online, Gemma Coles identified a series of patients she wanted to donate to, though for various reasons it has not yet happened.\n\nAsked why she wants to choose the recipient, she replies she has only one kidney to give.\n\n\"You have to be judgemental,\" she says.\n\n\"There's thousands of people, literally, needing a kidney, and more and more now their stories are available on social media, and it can feel you're being very critical of people's lives, trying to decide who to give and who not to.\"\n\nIf the transplant community was disturbed by Facebook kidney appeals, it was shocked by websites offering to match donors and patients, who can browse through profiles and photos.\n\nMatchingdonors.com was set up in the US by businessman Paul Dooley as a non-profit venture.\n\nIt charges $595 (£464) for US patients seeking a donor.\n\nIn 2012, he brought the website to the UK, but this time, without charging any fees.\n\nAccording to the regulator, the Human Tissue Authority, transplant centres must refuse operations involving a website that does charge fees.\n\nSince Matchingdonors.com is free to use in the UK, there is no regulatory barrier to stop it brokering a transplant.\n\nBut chief executive Mr Dooley says not one such transplant has taken place in five years in the UK.\n\nThere are 73 UK patients waiting - some have found matches with potential donors, but none has had permission from their hospital to go ahead.\n\nProf Vassilios Papalois says doctors must be allowed to make ethical decisions\n\nIn 2015, he stopped stopped signing up British patients, because \"there's no use them going to a gas station if there's no gas\".\n\nIt seems the transplant community simply decided organ-matching websites were beyond the pale. But is this fair?\n\nProf Vassilios Papalois, who formerly chaired the British Transplantation Society's ethics committee, says the views of transplant teams must be respected.\n\n\"They have the autonomy to say that for us it's ethically objectionable,\" he says.\n\nAsked if he is trying to provide the catwalk for an organ beauty pageant, Mr Dooley replies: \"Every single person on our website who's an organ donor wants to choose.\n\n\"They want to say, 'I want to give to an old grandfather, 'I want to give to a single father,' and if that's what they consider a beauty contest, that's not a beauty contest, it's the choice of who you want to donate to.\"\n\nThe Organ Beauty Pageant is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, 2 May, at 20:00 BST, and repeated on Sunday, 7 May, at 17:00 BST.", "We are profiling each of the five nominees for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017 award. Voting has now closed but you can see all the contenders' profiles and read full terms here. The winner will be revealed on Tuesday, 30 May, during Sport Today on BBC World Service from 18:30 GMT (19:30 BST).\n\nWinning Olympic gold in her final international match was the dream way for BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017 nominee Melanie Behringer to bring down the curtain on her Germany career.\n\nA 2-1 victory over Sweden in last year's final at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro earned the midfielder the one piece of international silverware she was missing.\n\n\"That was a crazy, beautiful tournament. For me I think the best tournament overall,\" the 31-year Bayern Munich player said.\n\n\"Our goal was to win a medal and at the end we even got gold. That of course was an amazingly beautiful feeling. Indescribable.\"\n\nBehringer says she realised after the Olympic semi-final victory over Canada that the next match would be her last for her country.\n\n\"I have never before made it to the finals at the Olympics,\" said the midfielder, who won 123 caps for Germany and was nominated for Fifa's World Player of the Year award in 2016.\n\n\"It was the right time to say I am done with playing in the national team.\"\n\nAs well as international success, Berhringer has enjoyed club success in her homeland, where she played for Freiburg, then Bayern Munich and then FFC Frankfurt before returning to Bayern in 2014.\n\nShe won the German Cup with Frankfurt in 2011 and 2014 before helping Bayern, to back-to-back Bundesliga titles in 2015 and 2016.\n\n\"[Bayern's] last championship was sometime in the '70s and because of that it was really insane for us to win the title,\" she said.\n\n\"We were 10 new players, as 10 players from Bayern left and therefore we were a complete new team. We had to come together very quickly and managed that in a short period of time.\"\n\nSome of this recent success is down to the relationship the men's and women's teams have with each other at Bayern, she says.\n\n\"It is very, very important that the men's team stand behind the woman's team, especially names like Bayern Munich, Arsenal, Chelsea, Lyon or Paris,\" she said.\n\n\"It helps especially when you play in other countries and they know Bayern Munich is coming. The name alone is important because of the success in the men's team.\n\n\"It is very much like being in a family here. We all get on really well with all the players. Actually it is like this at the whole club. If you see any workers from Munich, you just know each other and just talk. It's a feeling that you just belong there. It's a great feeling.\"\n\nThe men's game has been important to her development as a player from an early age, with her earliest footballing memories centring around playing with her brothers and in matches against boys' teams.\n\n\"I had to play with the boys, because there was no girls' teams,\" said Behringer, who was born in Lorrach, in south-west Germany on the border with Switzerland and France.\n\n\"I think it is important that you train and play with boys, because then you have to physically push through.\n\n\"You learn how to defend yourself and that's why I think it is good to play with boys as long as possible. Opinions are for sure either way.\"\n\nWhy vote for me?\n\n\"To win the Olympic gold medal, to hold it in your hands is a feeling you cannot describe. I'm very happy and proud to be nominated for this award, I never believed I would be nominated, but the year of 2016 was very successful and amazing for me.\"", "So that was the night when a talented young sportsman supersized to become part of mainstream British culture.\n\nNothing will ever again be the same for Anthony Joshua, a prodigiously gifted boxer who in 11 rounds of twisting drama escaped not only the fists of Wladimir Klitschko and the dislocated senses that came from them but the tight boundaries of his chosen sport.\n\nThese moments come along infrequently but unforgettably, sometimes through great triumph, sometimes through desperate failure: a performer long appreciated in their own world who through one act or display jumps the barriers into an altogether greater sphere of fame.\n\nBarry McGuigan overcoming Eusebio Pedroza at Loftus Road in 1985, Paul Gascoigne being yellow-carded in Turin in 1990. Bradley Wiggins and some yellow of his own on the Champs-Elysees before a throne at Hampton Court a few weeks later. Dennis Taylor and a black-ball finger waggle; Mo Farah and a Stratford Saturday night Mobot, Jonny Wilkinson and a late drop-goal on the other side of the world.\n\nIt doesn't matter if nothing else they do ever quite matches that initial impact. Into the national consciousness they have been stamped, from playgrounds to offices, dinner parties to dinner ladies, front pages to social media memes.\n\nJoshua's coming of age was not witnessed by 18 million people on terrestrial television like Taylor's, nor was it part of a wider festival of surreal national success like Wiggins and Farah. Its impression instead comes both from what was expected and what actually transpired, from the way it was achieved, from the distinctive emotions boxing can still illustrate and stir.\n\nThis was a heavyweight title fight that appeared predictable - the short game for Joshua, the long one for Klitschko - and behaved any way but: the 41-year-old veteran initially resurgent and fluid, the young puncher putting his man down and then being stunned himself with celebrations still rolling round the arena. A cruel, lost period when Joshua somehow held on in the darkness, the slow assertion of tactical superiority by the old stager and then, from nowhere, the final shattering denouement, an uppercut to be felt around the nation, an explosion of blows and stumbling feet and raised arms.\n\nIt was boxing with the plot twists of Test cricket, turning with the speed of the critical holes of a Ryder Cup Sunday, a callow kid becoming a true champion in 11 rounds that felt simultaneously far longer and a breathless fast-forward that pushed everything else away.\n\nThere is no hiding place for pain and pleasure in boxing, no mask to disguise what a boxer is going through when his opponent's arsenal detonates. When the skin around Klitschko's left eye was opened up by Joshua's right hand early in the fifth, the shock was as visible as the Ukrainian's blood; when Joshua was nailed with a right cross early in the sixth, his legs gave in even as he tried to smile it away, his arms groping for the ropes and missing, his knees trying to straighten but failing.\n\nIt spells it out for those watching and it sucks them in. \"Boxing is about character - there is nowhere to hide,\" Joshua would say afterwards, and in the manner that he came through the rest of that sixth round and clung on for the next two, he gave testimony to where the hype ended and heart began.\n• None Read: What next for Anthony Joshua?\n• None Watch: I know I can knock anyone out - Joshua\n\nThat fifth round in isolation was enough to make it the best heavyweight fight since the first Tyson-Holyfield ding-dong. The 11th deserves to stand alone too, a brutal eruption of speed and violence from Joshua, a heroic refusal from Klitschko to let go, rising once to be put down again, rising once more to be sent crashing for the final time.\n\nAnywhere it had been staged it would have reminded those who long ago fell out of love with heavyweight boxing why they were drawn to it in the first place. With 90,000 to witness it at Wembley came a setting to intensify the intrinsic thrills.\n\nBoxing in Britain has always drawn crowds to garland the big showdowns, from the 35,000 at Wembley that saw Henry Cooper's first fight with Muhammad Ali and the 46,000 that saw the two meet again at Highbury three years later, to the 40,000 for Frank Bruno's world title fights with Tim Witherspoon and Oliver McCall, the 47,000 at Old Trafford for Benn-Eubank in 1993 and the 80,000 for Froch-Groves II at Wembley three years ago.\n\nShould those numbers desensitise you to the scale of the support, it is worth reflecting that Floyd Mayweather's fight of the century against Manny Pacquiao in May 2015 drew 16,507 paying customers to the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Mike Tyson's meeting with Lennox Lewis in 2002 took 15,327 to the Pyramid in Memphis.\n\nIt doesn't matter that many of those in the further reaches of Wembley Stadium on Saturday night will recall the critical moments from distant screens rather than first-hand memory. If you were there, you went so you could boast of having done so. If you forked out on pay-per-view you made satellite executives rich and helped break records; if you listened on radio you were part of a collective that set even more.\n\nIf it passed you by on the night, it came to you in conversations and status updates across an otherwise slow Sunday. Replays on radio, reflections on news channels, memories received and given.\n\nNo live event this year has drawn a bigger audience to a single page on the BBC Sport website. Just as at London 2012, when Joshua won the last home gold medal of an extraordinary 17 days, Britons embraced a live sporting occasion like very few other nations.\n\nBoxing is a niche sport in many countries and unloved or forgotten in others. With 11 current world champions, Britain is entering an unexpected golden age that may yet produce more nights like Saturday, not least should Tyson Fury shed the weight and demons to line up another upset in his sights.\n\nFor now, this is all about Joshua, the everyday kid with just enough bad in his back story, the last sporting hero of 2012 and the first of 2017.\n\nHe may never again be involved in a fight as epic as Saturday night's. He may never have to prove more. Boxing may one day even sour for him. But he is unforgettable now, whatever Fury or future may bring.", "The bus network in the capital is regulated by Transport for London\n\n\"Insane\". That's one Londoner's view of Greater Manchester's bus system. Some routes have lots of buses vying for passengers while others only have one, if that. It's a major issue for voters and one which the mayor, once elected, will have the power to change.\n\nIt's not unusual to see rows of buses in popular places such as Oxford Road, in Manchester's university district, but fewer in areas such as Monton in Salford.\n\nThe reason? Huge differences in demand and no regulation.\n\nMore than 30 years ago the then Conservative government passed a law that meant private companies could run services on previously local authority-controlled routes, which were profitable based on passenger numbers.\n\nLondon was the exception. Buses were privatised but the city's service was not deregulated.\n\nMaintaining regulation in the capital has meant passengers pay set fares, the buses look the same and changes such as passengers needing prepaid or concessionary tickets, an Oyster card or a contactless payment card to travel were introduced across the board.\n\nGreater Manchester, like many other urban areas, has no such system.\n\nThe main three bus operators in Greater Manchester are First, Stagecoach and Arriva\n\nBut with an estimated 210 million passenger journeys taking place by bus in Greater Manchester every year - 79% of all public transport journeys, ahead of 9% by train and 12% by tram - there is a belief that something needs to change to \"fulfil basic customer requirements\".\n\nThis is what the transport authority - Transport for Greater Manchester - is aiming to achieve with the mayor.\n\nPassengers across the region are using buses run by more than 20 bus operators (competing to serve 500 bus services) and are faced with 100 different ticketing types with varying prices and offers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gay Williams, from Monton, says bus services can be \"dangerous\"\n\nGay Williams, from Monton says four bus services from her home to the city centre have been reduced to one over the past 15 years.\n\n\"I have been stranded from 5:30pm to 7:30pm because buses have been taken off the route and it can be dangerous,\" she says.\n\n\"When I inquired about it I was told it was no longer a government-funded route. How does that help people get to and from work?\"\n\nTicket prices, bus timings and the multitude of different companies were highlighted as issues by young people who took part in the BBC's Listen Up project, which canvassed opinions on what young people wanted to see from their elected mayors.\n\nAt one workshop, university student Lauren Barclay, 19, from Trafford, reveals how she gave up on buses.\n\n\"It was actually cheaper to buy a car and get insurance and drive in every day than get a bus to a tram stop and get a tram into Manchester,\" she says.\n\nOthers detail other problems - how they've missed buses because they didn't take cards, how seasonal tickets couldn't be used on buses run by different firms and how some annual student passes didn't include the summer holiday period at the end of the year.\n\nFemi Oyeniran said Manchester's bus network is \"counter-intuitive, unfair and inefficient\"\n\nListening in is workshop leader and London-based actor/film producer Femi Oyeniran.\n\n\"That makes no sense,\" he says. \"The fact that you are better off driving in the second most congested city in the country than catching public transport to university. That's insane.\n\n\"I find it really confusing to hear that there's no streamlined bus system and there's clearly no streamlined ticketing system. You have to do research before you have to catch a bus down the road, it's incredible.\n\n\"It is counter-intuitive, unfair and inefficient.\"\n\nFirms are under no obligation to run services just to meet a social responsibility, says Richard Knowles, Emeritus Professor of Transport Geography at the University of Salford.\n\n\"Deregulation was a very radical experiment and it has not been replicated across the world,\" he adds.\n\n\"London was specifically excluded because it was seen as too risky at that moment. London would have had to have further legislation.\"\n\nHe says deregulation was implemented after an 18-month trial in rural areas, with the largest being in an area of 30,000 people.\n\nAs a result, passengers in Greater Manchester have seen a disparity in fares, inconsistencies in services, routes being axed and one operator's onboard ticket prices increase while those bought via its own app were frozen.\n\nTransport for Greater Manchester hopes to create an \"integrated\" bus system\n\nBut the bus network is on the verge of change after Greater Manchester agreed to elect a mayor if the successful candidate could take control of local transport and implement changes, which would go out to public consultation.\n\nSo it could mean fares are set, an end to multiple bus companies competing for passengers on busy routes, and even a return to more buses on routes that are not commercially profitable.\n\nProf Knowles says: \"The elected mayor will have the power to bring in bus franchising and put them out to tender. Fares might not go up as fast, but they might be fairer.\"\n\nWhen local councils operated bus services, before deregulation, they \"weren't terribly efficient\", he adds.\n\nIf there are changes in how buses are run, he believes the mayor and the local transport authority \"should use private bus companies' expertise\".\n\n\"You would always maintain the expertise but have some control of the routes, frequencies and fares. But it's not a panacea,\" he adds.\n\nThere is a strategy for bus services in the future for a system that \"fulfils basic customer requirements\"\n\nTransport for Greater Manchester, which is responsible for implementing local transport policy, says it's one that is \"integrated, safe, secure, healthy, low-emission, accessible, resilient and affordable\".\n\nThe Bus Services Bill was given Royal Assent making it law\n\nPhil Medlicott, managing director at bus company First Manchester, says operators and regulators have the same aim: \"To get more people out of their cars and using buses\".\n\n\"We recognise that there is still much to do to make this a reality, but we are convinced that the quickest, cheapest and best way to improve bus services throughout Greater Manchester is through positive and proactive partnerships,\" he says.\n\nOnce a mayor is elected a new law would give them power - and enable other English local transport authorities - to introduce franchising, new partnership arrangements and to offer multi-operator ticketing services.\n\nThe Bus Services Bill was passed in April after it was given Royal Assent making it a new law.\n\nLianna Etkind, from the Campaign for Better Transport, says this is important for all those frustrated passengers.\n\n\"It means that cities like Manchester will be able to introduce a smart ticketing scheme, so instead of people having to work out different fares they would be able to tap in and tap out of buses,\" she says.\n\n\"Socially valuable services which might not be profitable... could be cross subsidised.\n\n\"It's time that other cities were able to benefit from a system that really works and links up as a whole.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTottenham's victory over Arsenal means they can put \"psychological pressure\" on Chelsea at the top of the Premier League, says boss Mauricio Pochettino.\n\nThe Argentine said Sunday's 2-0 win was \"fantastic for our fans\", as Spurs confirmed they would end a 22-year wait to finish above their derby rivals.\n\nBut he added the \"most important\" thing was keeping up with league leaders Chelsea, who beat Everton 3-0.\n\n\"We are in the race and the gap is back to four points,\" said Pochettino.\n\n\"We have to be focused now. We have another big game against West Ham on Friday, another difficult derby.\n\n\"That could be a chance to put psychological pressure on Chelsea. We play before them and, if we win, we will see what happens when Chelsea play Middlesbrough at Stamford Bridge on Monday.\"\n\nChelsea's victory at Everton earlier on Sunday had moved Antonio Conte's side seven points clear of their closest challengers.\n\nBut Dele Alli's 21st club goal of the season and a Harry Kane penalty secured Spurs a ninth successive league win, extending their best run since October 1960, when they won 13 games in a row.\n\nChelsea have been top of the league since 5 November, and were 10 points clear as recently as 19 March.\n\nThey have since lost twice - to Crystal Palace and Manchester United.\n\n\"I can understand our fans being excited about finishing above Arsenal, but I don't feel the same because for me it is about trying to win the title,\" Pochettino added.\n\n\"It is so important now to try and win trophies every season - that is our aim.\n\n\"It's true that it will be difficult but we will see what happens.\"\n\nSunday's match was the last derby to played at White Hart Lane in its current incarnation.\n\nTottenham will play their home games at Wembley for the 2017-18 season while construction work takes place on their new stadium.\n\nThe club's new 61,000-seater ground is being built next to the site of their current home.\n\n'The points don't come from heaven'\n\nThe last time Tottenham finished above Arsenal was in 1995, when they came seventh and the Gunners were 12th.\n\nArsenal fans even came up with a name for the day on which it was confirmed Spurs would not be able to finish above them - St Totteringham's Day.\n\nThis season, it is Arsene Wenger's men faced with the insurmountable gap - they are 17 points behind Spurs with five games to play.\n\n\"They are the points,\" said Wenger. \"They don't come from heaven. You earn them on the pitch and that's it.\"\n\nDefeat at White Hart Lane left the Gunners six points adrift of fourth-placed Manchester City, albeit with a game in hand.\n\nWenger said: \"It will be very difficult now but we have to fight.\n\n\"We have an FA Cup final and still the chance to get into the top four but we have to recover from this and prepare for our next game.\"\n\nAnalysis - Has the balance of power shifted?\n\nSt Totteringham's Day is a gruesome day of celebration used by Arsenal fans to inflict annual misery on north London rivals Spurs.\n\nIt is the day in the calendar when Spurs can no longer finish above Arsenal in the Premier League, and has been a growing tradition since Arsenal last ended a season below their neighbours from White Hart Lane in 1994-95.\n\nSpurs ensured this year's St Totteringham's Day was cancelled with a convincing win that means they cannot be overtaken by the Gunners - but does it mean the balance of power in north London has now comprehensively shifted?\n\nTrailing 17 points behind Spurs, the evidence to suggest so is compelling, but Wenger can offer two convincing counter-arguments, despite seeing his team overpowered and outplayed.\n\nWenger rightly points out it will take more than one season every 22 years to mark a permanent shift, while Arsenal are the only team in north London with a realistic chance of winning a trophy this season as they prepare for an FA Cup final against Chelsea at Wembley on 27 May.\n\nArsenal beat Manchester City 2-1 after extra time in their semi-final, a day after Spurs lost 4-2 in theirs.\n\nAnd, even in what have been regarded as Wenger's fallow years, Arsenal still claimed the FA Cup in 2014 and 2015, while Spurs' last trophy was the League Cup in 2008.\n\nSo it depends on context - and perhaps which team you favour - when deciding whether there has been a shift in power.\n\nIn tangible terms, it is still possible for Arsenal to have the more successful season - this excellent Spurs side have yet to turn glorious promise into silverware - but lose the FA Cup final and finish outside the top four with no Champions League football next season, and there is only one winner in this local rivalry.\n\nIn the short and long term, however, this Spurs team look a much better proposition than Arsenal for success.\n\nPochettino, at 45, is regarded as one of the game's outstanding young managers, well versed in the modern methods, put into practice by a maturing, powerful, physical, energetic side.\n\nWenger, 67, is still surrounded by the uncertainty over his future and if he stays at Arsenal - the most likely outcome - faces a serious rebuild of a team that looks flimsy, not mentally strong enough and too often let down by its so-called elite players such as Mesut Ozil, who did a disappearing act at White Hart Lane. All those flaws were exposed by Spurs.\n\nSpurs must build on the undoubted supremacy of their team next season to emphasise their dominance - but for now they look a team comfortable with themselves while Arsenal and Wenger look lost.\n\nSt Totteringham's Day has been cancelled this year. If the same happens in 12 months' time then perhaps that power shift in north London will be real and long-lasting.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nMark Selby defended his World Championship title with a stunning comeback to beat John Higgins 18-15 and secure his third crown in four years.\n\nSelby, 33, had trailed 10-4 but claimed nine out of 10 frames to lead 13-11.\n\nHiggins had a mini revival helped by a contentious refereeing decision, but Selby kept his composure to win.\n\nThe world number one is only the fourth player after Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan to claim back-to-back titles in the modern era.\n\nThe Englishman picks up a record £375,000 in prize money, retains the top ranking spot for the 116th consecutive week and gains revenge for the defeat by Higgins in the 2007 final.\n\nNo player had come back to win from a greater deficit than six frames in a World Championship final since Dennis Taylor trailed Steve Davis by 8-0 and 9-1 in their 1985 classic.\n\n\"I can't believe it, I am still pinching myself now,\" said Selby. \"From 10-4 to get to 10-7 yesterday, I was over the moon as I had nothing left. He outplayed me yesterday. Today I came back fresh and was a lot better.\n\n\"When I was 10-4 down I was missing everything and had nothing left. I said 'pull something together'. If you lose, you want to at least go down fighting.\n\n\"To have three world titles is unbelievable and to be one of only four players to defend it is something I could only dream of.\"\n• None How Selby turned the match around\n\nSelby was 47-0 up in the 31st frame, and leading 16-14 on frames, when he potted a red before attempting to roll up to the black ball. It was unclear whether the balls touched and referee Jan Verhaas called a foul.\n\nSelby questioned the decision and score marker Brendan Moore checked the incident on a TV.\n\nThe decision was reversed but Moore looked at it from another angle and said he was not sure.\n\nVerhaas then said, \"If you are not sure, I will stick to the original decision\" and the foul stood.\n\nHiggins took the frame and went just one behind at 16-15, but Selby took the last two he required.\n\nLeicester player Selby was out of sorts during Sunday's play at the Crucible, missing straightforward opportunities in the reds to hand his opponent the initiative.\n\nBut the 33-year-old, who was named 'The Torturer' by Ronnie O'Sullivan for his gritty victory in 2014 from 10-5 behind, showed similar uncompromising characteristics with a ruthless display.\n\nThe third session was the turning point, a slow, turgid affair when he won six out of the seven frames to hold the advantage by two frames.\n\nIn the final session, the pre-match favourite made breaks of 71, 70 and a 131 clearance following the contentious call in the 31st frame.\n\nSelby also matches the record of five ranking titles in a season, previously achieved by Hendry in 1990/91 and Ding Junhui in 2013/14, and now has 12 in total.\n\nA dreadful collapse for Higgins means he missed out on moving into second place on his own in the list of most ranking titles won and remains one behind O'Sullivan's five world victories.\n\nHaving come through a comfortable semi-final against Barry Hawkins, he was initially at ease against Selby, stroking in a 141 break which equalled O'Sullivan's effort in 2012 as the best break recorded in a World Championship final.\n\nI'm proud of myself but he was too good on the day\n\nBut the 41-year-old lost his way on the final day, and late breaks of 88 and 111 were not enough, as he was left frustrated by his rival's dogged performance.\n\nThe four-time champion has now lost two finals, but his run moves him up to second in the world rankings behind his opponent.\n\n\"Mark is granite, just granite,\" said Higgins. \"In the second session I had my chances, I missed a pink into the middle and I could have gone 9-3 ahead.\n\n\"That was a big, big frame. Mark cleared up under extreme pressure. He is a fantastic champion.\n\n\"It has been an unbelievable tournament, I gave everything. I came up short to a great champion. I'm proud of myself but he was too good on the day.\"\n\nWhen we look at the quality of players that are potential winners here, to think there is a dominant character forcing his way through is amazing.\n\nSelby is an exceptional player and exceptional match player. It is going to take some young player coming through who takes every part of his game and becomes stronger to knock him off his perch.\n\nWe're close to the ceiling of performance now.\n\nSign up to My Sport to follow snooker news and reports on the BBC app.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nVoting for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017 has now closed.\n\nFans from across the world have been voting for their favourite since the five-player shortlist of Melanie Behringer, Ada Hegerberg, Hedvig Lindahl, Marta, and Christine Sinclair was revealed on 30 April.\n\nThe winner of the award will be announced on Tuesday, 30 May, during Sport Today on BBC World Service from 18:30 GMT (19:30 BST).\n\nThe BBC Sport website will also carry the announcement.\n\nHere we look at the five contenders vying for the BBC World Service honour, which is in its third year.\n\nBehringer won Olympic gold with Germany at Rio 2016, finishing as the tournament's leading goalscorer with five goals and completing her set of every piece of major international silverware.\n\nShe ended her 11-year Germany career with that victory, having already won the 2007 World Cup and the 2009 and 2013 European Championship.\n\nShe helped her German club Bayern Munich secure back-to-back Bundesliga titles in 2016 and was nominated for the Fifa World Player of the Year award 2016.\n\nHegerberg was part of the Olympique Lyonnais treble-winning side in 2015-16, claiming the French Division 1 league title, Coupe de France and Champions League.\n\nShe was top scorer in the French league (33) and Women's Champions League (13) that season. She scored more goals (18) than Real Madrid and Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo (17) in Uefa competitions in the calendar year of 2016.\n\nVoted Uefa Best Women's Player in Europe for 2016, she also became the first woman in 20 years to win Norway's Golden Ball award for the country's best footballer.\n\nLindahl was the hero in two penalty shootouts for Sweden at the Rio 2016 Olympics, helping her team win the silver medal.\n\nShe joined Chelsea Ladies from Swedish side Kristianstads DFF in December 2014 and shone in her first season there, winning the Women's Super League title and the FA Women's Cup. An ever-present in the WSL in 2015, she conceded the fewest goals in the division (10).\n\nLindahl has been named Swedish Women's Goalkeeper of the Year on five separate occasions and played for her country at three World Cups, three Olympic Games and several European Championships.\n\nMarta is arguably the most famous female footballer of the last 20 years, having won Fifa's World Player of the Year award five times in a row between 2006 and 2010.\n\nFor the Brazil forward, 2016 will stand out as the year she led out her country at her home Olympics in Rio. One of eight Olympic flag-bearers at the opening ceremony, she also helped her side finish fourth in the tournament.\n\nMarta, who champions women's football across the globe through her ambassadorial work, left Swedish side FC Rosengard in April to join the recently created Orlando Pride in the United States.\n\nSinclair inspired Canada to a second successive Olympic bronze medal, scoring the second goal against hosts Brazil in the bronze medal match at Rio 2016.\n\nUnder her captaincy, Canada reached their highest ever Fifa ranking of fourth, while her National Women's Soccer League club side Portland Thorns topped the table after the regular season in the United States, to claim the NWSL Shield.\n\nShe is second on the all-time list of women's international goalscorers with 167 international goals, surpassing her hero and former USA forward Mia Hamm's tally of 158 last year and creeping closer to ex-USA international Abby Wambach's record of 184.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How the BBC covered this day 20 years ago\n\nOn Monday, it was 20 years to the day that Tony Blair won a landslide general election victory for Labour - how did he change the country and what is left of his legacy?\n\n\"A new dawn has broken, has it not?\"\n\nWith these words, spoken to a cheering crowd of supporters as the sun rose over London's South Bank, Tony Blair ushered in the first Labour government in 18 years.\n\nIt was a typically snappy Blair phrase, yet also slightly hesitant, as if he could not quite believe what he had just done.\n\nBlair was, by all accounts, a nervy companion on election night, refusing to believe he was on course to a stunning victory even as it was becoming obvious to all around him.\n\nHe did not share the euphoric mood of supporters. \"I was scared,\" he later wrote in his memoirs.\n\nIt was a Labour landslide of historic proportions, handing Blair a Commons majority of 179, although the collapse in the Tory vote made it appear more dramatic. John Major's Conservatives had won more votes in 1992 - 14,093,007 - than Blair's 1997 total of 13,518,167.\n\nBut none of that mattered to the ecstatic crowd at the Royal Festival Hall, as Blair sketched out, in vague but confident terms, his vision of a modern, united country fit for a new millennium. A country for the \"many not the few\".\n\nIt is striking now to hear how much of his eight-minute speech was directed at the party's old guard.\n\n\"We have been elected as New Labour and we will govern as New Labour,\" he told his audience, as a warning shot across the bows of those who had opposed his \"modernisation\" of the party every step of the way.\n\nBlair came to power at a time of almost giddy optimism, in contrast with what was to come. The end of the Cold War and booming economies in the West, driven by advances in technology, created a brief window where peace, stability and rising living standards looked like they might become the norm.\n\nBritain was in the middle of a pop culture revival, built around swaggering self-confidence and semi-ironic celebrations of Britishness. The Union Jack was back - on Noel Gallagher's guitar and Geri Halliwell's mini dress at that year's Brit awards.\n\nThe Cross of St George had also been rehabilitated, as a new breed of middle class football fan cheered England to the semi-finals of the Euro 96 tournament.\n\nBlair rode the \"Cool Britannia\" wave for all it was worth. At 43, the former lead singer of Ugly Rumours - his student band - badly wanted to be seen as the first rock and roll prime minister.\n\nAnd for the briefest of moments, it seemed to work, as he played host to the stars of Britain's \"creative industries\" at a Downing Street reception weeks after taking office.\n\nThe voting public might have bought into New Labour's blend of Thatcherite free market economics and social justice, but it never had very deep roots in the Labour Party itself.\n\nIt was the product of a tight-knit group headed by Blair, Gordon Brown, Peter Mandelson and media chief Alastair Campbell.\n\nBlair's first cabinet was a mix of old and new Labour figures (although the hard left was banished to the wilderness).\n\n\"Traditional values in a modern setting\", as John Prescott, a man who straddled the new/old divide with more agility than he was often given credit for, would say with a knowing smirk.\n\nThey were a diverse bunch - with more women than had ever sat in a British cabinet before and the first openly gay cabinet minister, Chris Smith.\n\nThere were some big hitters, such as Robin Cook at the Foreign Office and Jack Straw at the Home Office, even though very few - including Blair himself - had ever sat behind a ministerial desk before.\n\nAnd it quickly became clear that only Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown really mattered when it came to the big decisions. But rather like Oasis's Gallagher brothers, their successes were quickly followed by growing stories about their rivalry.\n\nBut despite their increasingly fractious relationship - the TBGBs as they became known - there was no official split as they dominated Britain's political landscape for the next decade.\n\nMinisters seemed to come and go with dizzying speed, as the cabinet reshuffle became Blair's signature move, but the Blair/Brown axis somehow stayed in place.\n\nTwenty years on and only three MPs - Harriet Harman, Margaret Beckett and Nick Brown - from that first Cabinet line-up are still in the Commons.\n\nMo Mowlam, Donald Dewar and Robin Cook are no longer with us. Most of the rest, including the now Lord Prescott, Alistair Darling and David Blunkett, have taken up seats in the House of Lords.\n\nDid they achieve what they set out to do?\n\nThe Blair government came to power on the back of relatively modest proposals on a pledge card brandished relentlessly through the 1997 election campaign. They were cutting class sizes, \"fast track\" punishment for young offenders, cutting NHS waiting lists, getting 250,000 under-25-year-olds \"off benefit and into work\" and \"no rise in income tax rates\".\n\nBut the new government did not lack ambition.\n\nLabour's 1997 manifesto also included a minimum wage and plans for devolved government in Scotland and Wales.\n\nAnd on the day after their election victory, Gordon Brown surprised everyone by handing control of interest rates to the Bank of England - a move that would have far-reaching consequences for the economy.\n\nBlair was also determined, like many a prime minister before and since, to fix some of the country's longstanding social problems.\n\nOne of his top priorities was reform of the UK's social security system to make work pay. He appointed Labour MP Frank Field to \"think the unthinkable\" on welfare and promptly sacked him when he did just that (although it was Field's falling out with his boss Harriet Harman that probably sealed his fate).\n\nTwenty years on and welfare reform remains a work in progress.\n\nThe gap between rich and poor remained more or less the same during the Blair years, according to analysis by the Resolution Foundation, although there was a big increase in pay at the top end of the income scale.\n\nEducation was Blair's other top priority. He oversaw a big expansion in higher and further education, and poured money into early years learning, as well as pioneering academy schools.\n\nHis first term was characterised by caution on tax and public spending, thanks to Labour's commitment to stick to tight Conservative spending limits for the first two years.\n\nThat changed after the party's second landslide election victory in 2001, when billions began to pour into the health service and education, on the back of a booming economy. Outcomes improved as a result.\n\nBut perhaps the biggest change that happened to Britain during his time in power was never explicitly spelled out in a Labour manifesto.\n\nThe UK, Sweden and the Republic of Ireland were the only EU nations not to temporarily restrict the rights of people from eight new member countries, including Poland and the Czech Republic, to live and work in their countries.\n\nBlair's 2004 decision to open the door to East European migration was entirely in keeping with his values as an ardent pro-European, who had championed the eastward expansion of the EU and who believed globalisation and flexible labour markets were the answer to industrial decline.\n\nThe plentiful supply of cheap labour arguably helped the UK economy to expand without facing the issue of spiralling wages - and this in turn held inflation and interest rates down, contributing to a decade-long boom in property prices, adding to the feelgood factor among middle income home owners, even if fewer people could afford to get on the property ladder in the first place.\n\nBut it also sowed the seeds of discontent in Labour's heartlands, as growing numbers felt left behind and marginalised by the pace of change in their communities, and a growing anti-EU feeling began to take hold.\n\nIn 2003, Blair had drawn on every last ounce of his persuasive skill to make the case for joining the US-led invasion to MPs and the wider public.\n\nHe had become convinced of the value of military action in pursuit of humanitarian aims and the need to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the US, in the wake of 11 September, 2001.\n\nBut the subsequent failure to find weapons of mass destruction appeared to confirm many people's worst suspicions about him - that he relied too much on spin and was not to be trusted.\n\nIt did not prevent him from winning a third term, in 2005, but he was forced to hand over to Gordon Brown earlier than he had wanted, in 2007. Like Mrs Thatcher in 1990, he had won three elections but ended up being forced out by his own side.\n\nThe years that followed were not kind, as the incoming Brown administration, and the Ed Miliband Labour team that followed seemed to do their best to talk down the Blair years - and then there was the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war, as well as the ongoing consequences of the invasion, for the region and global security as a whole.\n\nBlair's supporters point to his domestic achievements - the minimum wage and all the new schools, hospitals and Sure Start children's centres that were built during his time in power - and they insist that his reputation will one day recover.\n\nBut with Britain on its way out of the European Union, and the Labour Party back in the hands of the left, it seems like much of what Blair stood for has been swept away.\n\nHis centrist brand of politics, characterised as the Third Way, a philosophy shared by his friend and political soulmate Bill Clinton, has fallen out of fashion in many Western countries and even Blair's style of politics, with its rigid emphasis on \"message discipline\", looks antiquated in the more freewheeling age of social media.\n\nAnd despite winning three general elections, with big majorities, making him Labour's most electorally successful leader, his name has become a dirty word among many current active party members, guaranteed to generate boos and cat calls when it comes up at meetings.\n\nIt is very far from the future he must have imagined for himself on that cloudless spring morning in May 1997.\n\nYet Blair's supporters claim that his vision of a self-consciously modern, multicultural, socially liberal country, has endured - and that David Cameron's six years in government were shaped by it.\n\nIt is there in the Conservatives' commitments on foreign aid and promotion of gay rights, they say, as well as Britain's continued commitment to a health service free at the point of delivery, funded by taxation.\n\nAnd, at 63, the man himself is still in the game.\n\nHe has ditched his business interests - that had generated so much negative publicity for him - to work full time on promoting moderate, centrist policy solutions, fighting battles that 20 years ago he must have hoped would have been won by now.", "Aaron Simpson's company helps its clients arrange many aspects of their lives\n\nIf you were ever worried that your loved one might reject your marriage proposal, spare a thought for one romantic Saudi national.\n\nThe man had hired the Egyptian pyramids, and flown in 300 friends and family members to watch while he popped the question in front of the ancient structures.\n\nWith a lavish private party then due to be held at the site, which was sealed off from locals and other visitors, the cost was an eye-watering $40m (£31m).\n\nThankfully for the individual, his girlfriend said \"yes\".\n\nWhen it comes to marriage proposals, this example takes largesse to the nth degree. But even if you have the cash, how the heck would you go about organising such an event?\n\nOther party venues are available\n\nThe answer for the Saudi man was simply to phone his concierge services provider, a UK business called Quintessentially.\n\n\"We made it happen,\" says Quintessentially's chief executive and co-founder Aaron Simpson.\n\nFor those of us that aren't millionaires or billionaires, the concierge services industry needs a little explaining.\n\nTaking its name from the man or woman at posh hotels who can book guests theatre tickets and get them into top restaurants, the sector has discreetly grown up over the past 15 or so years.\n\nQuintessentially organises luxury holidays for its clients - among many other services\n\nAnd far from just securing tickets for the latest sell-out play, or a table at some hotshot chef's new venture, concierge firms are being used to organise many aspects of clients' lives.\n\nAt Quintessentially, which has 60 offices around the world, and 2,500 members of staff, it does everything from organising holidays, to advising clients about private schools, helping buy properties, arranging private concerts by pop stars, or booking a dog walker.\n\nAnd then there is the weird and wonderful stuff, such as making a client a bouquet of \"flowers\" made from 100 folded 1,000 Hong Kong dollar notes, so he could give it to his partner on Valentine's Day.\n\nOr covering an entire beach with carpets so a member and his girlfriend didn't have to get sand on their feet, and organising a flash mob in New York's Times Square.\n\nThe firm is one of the largest in the sector, and while Quintessentially doesn't reveal its client numbers or price details, it is estimated to have about 100,000 customers around the world, including 800 billionaires who pay up to £150,000 a year.\n\nThe company has arranged for Elton John to give private concerts\n\nMr Simpson, 45, says that the firm's 2,500 employees, known as \"lifestyle managers\", can, generally speaking, make anything happen.\n\n\"We can arrange most things - unless of course it is illegal or there is a moral objection to it, and that very rarely happens - perhaps once or twice a year,\" he says.\n\n\"But otherwise everything is pretty solvable.\"\n\nBorn and bred in Essex, after studying geography at Oxford University, Mr Simpson spent his early 20s working as a film producer.\n\nBut given the continuing weakness of the UK film industry, by age 27 he was looking for a change of career.\n\nAfter brainstorming sessions with friends Ben Elliot and Paul Drummond, they came up with the idea for Quintessentially.\n\nSecuring investment from a group of private investors, the business was launched in London in 2000 with a party to which they invited more than 200 movers and shakers. Customer numbers then grew strongly thanks to positive word of mouth.\n\nWhile Quintessentially won't reveal any members' details, it is widely reported that it is used by the likes of singer Madonna, Indian steel giant Lakshmi Mittal, UK entrepreneur Richard Branson, author JK Rowling and rap star P Diddy.\n\nThe company also works closely with 400 premium brands including Ferrari, Channel, Gucci and British Airways.\n\nIn addition to running \"white label\" concierge services for such companies, Quintessentially has expanded its operations in recent years to helping firms with their public relations and marketing, and assisting them in studying customer data to best plan new products and services.\n\nMr Simpson says that the company now enjoys an annual turnover of £150m, and he intends to continue to grow this. He adds that despite numerous suitors, he and his two co-founders have no plans to sell up.\n\nThe three founder are (left to right), Ben Elliot, Aaron Simpson and Paul Drummond\n\nAlyssa Haak, a New York-based luxury lifestyle expert, says that Quintessentially and other concierge firms have grown in popularity among the world elite because the ease of having someone else book or arrange things for you is \"too good to pass up\".\n\nHowever, she is sceptical of one forthcoming Quintessentially project; its plans to build a 250m euro ($272m; £211m) \"super yacht\" for members.\n\nDue to launch in three years time, the floating private club will be 220m (722ft) long and have 100 rooms, as well as a nightclub, bars and numerous restaurants.\n\nQuintessentially's aim is to move it around the world to places where demand for hotel rooms is likely to exceed those locally available, such as Monaco when it is hosting the Formula 1 Grand Prix, or Cannes during the city's film festival.\n\nMs Haak says: \"I'm really very sceptical of it for a few reasons... there have been a number of firms that have attempted to do yacht 'shares' that have slowly disappeared.\n\n\"Yachts are personal, even those that are built with chartering in mind block out the dates the owners want to use them.\n\n\"Finally, and I think its biggest problem is going to be dockage... a yacht this size will never be able to get 'front row seats'.\"\n\nWhile the three co-founders still run Quintessentially together, Mr Simpson has the boss role, although he says the three men simply \"play to their strengths\", and he \"doesn't necessarily see myself as the leader\".\n\nQuintessentially is launching a \"super yacht\" in three years' time\n\nHe admits, though, to always having been very driven to succeed in life, but says he hopes that he is a good boss \"who puts his colleagues first\".\n\nTravelling extensively for the company over the years, overseeing the opening of new offices around the world, Mr Simpson says that since having children - he and his wife have two young daughters - he now tries to travel far less.\n\n\"I have a three-line whip to stay within shouting range,\" he says.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEmre Can scored one of the goals of the season as Liverpool beat a poor Watford to capitalise on favourable results in the race for the Champions League.\n\nThe Reds midfielder met Lucas Leiva's delivery with a wonderful bicycle kick which flew into the top corner.\n\nWatford rarely threatened, but almost snatched a point when Sebastian Prodl smashed against the bar in injury time.\n\nLiverpool moved four points clear of Manchester United in fifth, while Watford remain 13th.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side know they will secure a top-four Premier League finish - and a return to the Champions League for the first time in three seasons - by winning their final three games.\n\nThe Merseyside club will host Southampton and relegation-threatened Middlesbrough at Anfield, either side of a trip to West Ham.\n• None Football Daily podcast - Can keeps Reds on course for top four\n\nLiverpool knew they would have slipped out of the top four before kick-off at Vicarage Road had their nearest challengers all won over the weekend.\n\nBut the Reds watched as Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal and Everton failed to crank up the pressure as they each dropped points.\n\nIt meant Liverpool's slender advantage remained intact - which even Klopp admitted he was surprised about before kick-off.\n\nThe German manager also stressed their rivals slipping up meant nothing if his side did not win their own games.\n\nThat they did, despite lacking fluency in a scrappy performance.\n\nFor much of a drab first half, during which forward Philippe Coutinho went off injured and was replaced by the returning Adam Lallana, the Reds rarely looked like threatening an organised Watford side.\n\nLallana, who had missed the previous five matches with a thigh injury, did clatter the crossbar with a wonderful volley after Hornets keeper Heurelho Gomes' poor punch.\n\nHowever, that was soon surpassed by fellow midfielder Can.\n\n\"It was a massive win,\" said England international Lallana. \"We have three games left now and it is in our hands. We must stay focused.\"\n\n'You bet he Can!'\n\nReds midfielder Can illuminated what had been an insipid opening 45 minutes with a moment of inspiration shortly before the break.\n\nThe Germany international, 23, carefully eyeballed Lucas' pinpoint diagonal pass into the Watford area, showing extraordinary athleticism to meet the delivery with a perfectly executed bicycle kick which left Gomes stranded.\n\nCan immediately raced towards the away dugout where he was mobbed by ecstatic team-mates and manager Klopp.\n\n\"That is the best goal I've ever scored,\" he said.\n\n\"I saw the space and I ran behind and my first thought was I wanted to head it, then I didn't think too much.\"\n\nTeam-mate Lallana added: \"It was a worldy goal and worthy of winning any game.\"\n\nHornets lack sting as they aim to better last season\n\nWatford midfielder Tom Cleverley warned Liverpool before kick-off that his side would still have \"a big say\" in the battle at the top of the table, with Walter Mazzarri's team rounding off their season with games against Manchester City, Chelsea and Everton.\n\nTheir priority is eclipsing the 13th-place finish and total of 45 points they secured in their top-flight return last year.\n\nAnd Hornets skipper Troy Deeney said he \"expected a reaction\" after a tame defeat at Hull in their previous game. However, that failed to materialise.\n\nWatford, for all their defensive resilience and organisation, offered little attacking spark as Liverpool controlled possession and territory before half-time.\n\nThe home side improved after the break as Etienne Capoue and Daryl Janmaat finally forced Reds keeper Mignolet into serious saves, before their best chance arrived in the final few seconds.\n\nLiverpool, as they have done often this season, failed to deal with a set-piece into their box as Prodl met a flick-on with a fierce strike that cannoned back off the bar.\n\nDespite their limp performance and daunting run-in, Watford are unlikely to be dragged into the relegation battle.\n\nMazzarri's side remain on 40 points - usually considered the benchmark for survival - eight above third-bottom Swansea who only have three games left.\n\nMan of the match - Emre Can (Liverpool)\n\nWatford go to defending champions Leicester City on Saturday (15:00 BST) as their tough run-in continues, while Liverpool host ninth-placed Southampton on Sunday (13:30).\n• None Emre Can has scored five Premier League goals this season, more than twice as many as in his previous two campaigns combined.\n• None Lucas Leiva has three assists in his past five Premier League appearances, as many as in his previous 163 top-flight games.\n• None Liverpool have won three consecutive Premier League away games under Jurgen Klopp for only the second time.\n• None Liverpool skipper James Milner made his 450th Premier League appearance in this game, the 22nd player to reach this mark.\n• None Klopp named the same Liverpool starting XI for the third consecutive Premier League game, something he had only done once before, in December.\n• None Liverpool have scored 16 goals in the 15 minutes before half-time in league games this season, more than any other side, while Watford have shipped the most in this period (17).\n• None Watford conceded for the first time in four Premier League home games.\n• None Watford's opponents have hit the woodwork 20 times in the Premier League this season, more than any other side.\n\n\"I think that if you look at all of the Liverpool games that they play, they usually create five or six clear chances.\n\n\"We didn't concede them almost anything and had a couple of chances so overall it was a good performance.\n\n\"Usually I don't like to speak about luck but today we were completely unlucky.\n\n\"We have pressure and it means you fight for something that is good. It is positive pressure. We want to stay focused.\n\n\"We don't expect for a second it will be easy to reach the Champions League. If people think we have the three points against Southampton they can not have seen Southampton this season.\n\n\"We didn't play perfect against Watford and a draw would have been hard to accept, but we got the three points and that is all that the lads deserved.\"\n• None Isaac Success (Watford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Sebastian Prödl (Watford) hits the bar with a left footed shot from the left side of the box. Assisted by Stefano Okaka with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Daryl Janmaat (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Tom Cleverley with a cross.\n• None Offside, Watford. Daryl Janmaat tries a through ball, but Stefano Okaka is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Joel Matip (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum.\n• None Offside, Watford. Tom Cleverley tries a through ball, but Troy Deeney is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Watford. Tom Cleverley tries a through ball, but Adrian Mariappa is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "What will happen for the rest of Trump's presidency? You might as well ask a Magic Eight ball\n\nThe first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency are now behind him. Time for a deep breath, a quick review and then a look ahead.\n\nAs I explained last week, the results so far are decidedly mixed. While there has been a paucity of legislative achievements, Mr Trump has notched some successes through executive action, particularly in the realm of immigration enforcement and regulatory rollback.\n\nHe's also already made his mark on the Supreme Court, although that's more a reflection of the circumstances of inheriting an open seat (thanks to Republican intransigence last year) rather than any particular accomplishment on the part of the president.\n\nWhile the 100-day mark has garnered a significant amount of attention from the media and the White House itself, it represents just a fraction of his first term.\n\nMr Trump still has more than 1,350 days ahead of him. The story of roughly 90% of his presidency has yet to be written. Whether Mr Trump is deemed a success or failure as president, and if he has hopes of winning a second term in office, will be determined over the coming months and years.\n\nBut what happens next? Given what we've seen over the past 100 days, anything could be possible. Sometimes it feels like a Magic 8-ball would be just as good at making predictions.\n\nWhen asked about the White House's tax cut plan, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said it \"is all about jobs, jobs, jobs\". When it comes right down to it, jobs - and the economy writ large - will be the defining issue of the Trump presidency.\n\nWith the 2008 Great Recession still casting a long shadow over the American conscience, Mr Trump's voters flocked to him in large part because he promised economic growth and financial security, particularly for many of the white working class voters who are still recovering from the last downturn.\n\nAs with many of his campaign promises, Mr Trump has set a very high bar for his administration to meet, repeatedly pledging an annual 4% economic growth rate that is well above current trend lines.\n\nMr Trump inherited an economy that was stable, with low unemployment and steady if unspectacular growth. Over the course of his first 100 days in office, the US stock market has flourished and consumer confidence increased, but the recently announced economic growth rate - 0.7% for the first quarter of 2017 - may signal an uncertain future.\n\nIn the end, Mr Trump's presidency, and all his trade, tax and regulatory policies, will be judged on what it does for the nation's bottom line - not just for Wall Street, but for average Americans as well.\n\nCan he win? Presidents invariable get more credit, and blame, for the nation's financial health than they deserve, given that policy decisions can be greatly outweighed by macroeconomic factors beyond their control. Four years is a long time, but Mr Trump is starting from a solid position, tilting the odds in his favour.\n\nPresidents have broad authority over immigration policy, and Mr Trump hasn't shied away from using it. Two of his most high-profile moves, however, have been stalled in the courts. His second effort to impose a temporary moratorium on refugee resettlement and a ban on entry into the US for citizens of six predominantly Muslim nations is set to be heard by the Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals later this month.\n\nIn addition, his executive order instructing the federal government to withhold funds from municipalities that do not fully co-operate with immigration officials - so-called \"sanctuary cities\" - was derailed by a district court judge in California last week.\n\nThere's also the continuing battle over how to construct Mr Trump's promised wall along the US-Mexico border. It looked like the administration would make appropriating funds a condition of recently concluded budget negotiations, but the White House has since retreated from that position and appears willing to fight that particular battle in the autumn budget discussions, instead.\n\nAs a candidate Mr Trump also pledged to reform legal immigration, reducing the number of new arrivals, changing the types of individuals who are granted priority and restructuring the work visa programme, which could affect visas for high-skilled workers.\n\nCan he win? The president has the power and the obvious desire to exercise it - and a conservative-dominated Supreme Court will be the final arbiter of the legality of his actions.\n\nOne of the most remarkable characteristics of the Trump presidency has been how slowly the White House is filling out its administration.\n\nWhile Mr Trump relentlessly bashed Senate Democrats for what he (mistakenly) perceived as unprecedented foot-dragging in confirming his cabinet picks, he has been even tardier in appointing lower-level positions. Under secretaries, deputies and ambassadors may not get much national attention, but they are largely responsible for the day-to-day grind of running agencies and departments and representing the US in embassies abroad.\n\nSome of this may be by intent. An understaffed bureaucracy is less able to defend itself against proposed budget cuts, and the Trump administration appears set on diminishing the influence of career employees at the State Department. In other areas, such as economic, social and trade policy, however, the lack of staffing has limited the administration's ability to move toward its goals.\n\nCan he win? Sure he can - it's just a matter of giving a list of names to Congress. Sometimes, however, it seems like he'd rather have chaos.\n\nMr Trump campaigned on making a significant shift in US foreign policy - putting \"America first\". Now, however, his administration faces two potential international flashpoints that could challenge the president's stated desire to avoid global entanglements.\n\nAs a result of the US missile strike on a Syrian government airfield, the US has committed itself to punishing violations of international law - particularly the use of chemical weapons - in that nation's civil war. If Syrian President Basahr al-Assad decides to act against his civilian population again, Mr Trump will face pressure for a military response that goes beyond a ship-based missile strike.\n\nMeanwhile, the situation over North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes continues to grow tense. \"The era of 'strategic patience' is over,\" Vice-President Mike Pence recently said, referencing the stated policy of the Obama administration. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, however, seems undeterred - and could respond to a US strike with a massive attack on South Korea, whose capital, Seoul, lies 55km from the demilitarised zone.\n\nIn both Syria and North Korea, the president could be faced with the choice of either escalation to back up his sharpening rhetoric or the perception that his threats are hollow.\n\nThen there are the foreign policy crises we don't see coming. Ukraine, Yemen, Afghanistan and the South China Sea ... there's no telling where Mr Trump could face his most daunting challenge.\n\nCan he win? Mr Trump has been all over the map so far as president, sabre-rattling at some nations and shrugging at others.\n\nMr Trump talked a tough game on trade issues as a candidate, and he'll have opportunities in the coming days to back that up.\n\nRecent disputes with Canada over soft lumber and dairy products appear to be a prelude to contentious Nafta renegotiations. On Thursday Mr Trump told reporters had been days away from ordering a withdrawal from the \"horrible\" trade deal, but changed his mind after conversations with leaders of Mexico and Canada.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dairy wars: Why is Trump threatening Canada over milk?\n\nIn an ironic twist, some of Mr Trump's trade concerns - such as dairy exports to Canada - would have been addressed by the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement he abandoned early in his presidency.\n\nChina was another punching bag for Mr Trump during campaign, but the president has considerably softened his tone. There's certainly no indication of an impending economic showdown with the US's largest trading partner at this point.\n\nCan he win? With China apparently off the table, he'll have to find a way to get his \"better deal\" through Nafta renegotiations - which will be long and complex.\n\nThere's at least a glimmer of hope that a deal on repealing and replacing Obamacare could be reached in the House of Representatives soon. Whatever they come up with, however, will face an even bigger hurdle in the Senate, where numerous Republicans are opposed to portions of the House proposal.\n\nTax reform - Mr Trump's next big legislative priority - is in its early stages, and given the vagueness of the administration's proposal so far, it appears congressional Republicans will once again have to do the heavy lifting on policy. That didn't work out too well with healthcare.\n\nThen there are the Trump campaign promises on infrastructure spending and new childcare benefits. Both areas could prove fertile ground for bipartisan co-operation - at least, if Democrats can be coaxed to the negotiating table after the president has spent his first 100 days relentlessly bashing them.\n\nIn some alternate universe, Mr Trump led with an infrastructure plan instead of healthcare repeal, fracturing the Democratic resistance instead of his own party. That ship, however, has sailed. He still has a Republican majority, however, and the closer it gets to the congressional elections next year, the more pressure the party will be under to come together and post some accomplishments on the board.\n\nCan he win? Republicans hold the White House and both chambers of Congress. Surely they will stumble into a legislative accomplishment at some point.\n\nAh, yes, the midterm elections. Looming on the horizon for Mr Trump and the Republican Party is voting that will take place in November 2018, with a third of the Senate seats, all of the House of Representatives and 36 governorships (Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and California, to name a few) on the ballot.\n\nTraditionally the party controlling the presidency is at a disadvantage during these elections, as the out-of-power partisans tend to be more motivated to vote and the political pendulum that brought a president to office swings the other direction. Barack Obama and the Democrats suffered significant defeats in 2010 and 2014, for instance, as did Republican George W Bush in 2006.\n\nMr Trump is at least somewhat fortunate, however, in that the Senate seats in play in 2018 largely come from states he carried handily - places like Indiana, West Virginia, Montana and Missouri. Although Republicans have a narrow, two-seat Senate majority right now, Democrats will be forced to defend many more at-risk incumbents than the Republicans.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe House of Representatives could be another matter, however. While demographics and the way in which congressional districts have been drawn favour Republicans, if Mr Trump is unpopular come 2018 and Democrats turn out in high numbers, they could pick up the 24 seats necessary to win back the lower chamber of Congress for the first time since 2010.\n\nAll this is important not only because Democratic control of even half of Congress would significantly impede Mr Trump's ability to notch any legislative accomplishments, but also because it would give Democrats a platform for more vigorous oversight of the president's actions.\n\nRecall the litany of hearings and investigations conducted by Republicans in Congress during the Obama administration. Now imagine how Democrats would gleefully sink their teeth into issues like Mr Trump's tax returns, alleged ties to Russia and possible conflicts of interest within his business empire.\n\nFor a preview of how things may turn out next year, keep an eye on gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey this November, as well as upcoming House special elections in Montana and Georgia later this spring.\n\nCan he win? History is not on the president's side. The question is likely how big a bloodbath it will be.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC Two, online and BBC Sport app.\n\nJohn Higgins secured a 10-7 lead over defending champion Mark Selby on day one of the World Championship final at the Crucible Theatre.\n\nScotland's four-time champion made a superb 141 clearance - the joint-highest break in a world final - on his way to taking a commanding 10-4 lead.\n\nWorld number one Selby finally found his form and breaks of 121 and 81 helped him win the last three frames.\n\nThe best-of-35 final resumes on Monday at 14:00 BST and is live on BBC Two.\n\nThe 41-year-old Higgins, who beat Selby in the 2007 final, is aiming to become the oldest winner since 45-year-old Welshman Ray Reardon triumphed in 1978.\n\nTwo-time champion Selby, 33, is bidding to become only the fourth player - after Stephen Hendry, Steve Davis and Ronnie O'Sullivan - to win consecutive world titles in the modern era.\n\nThe two players had contrasting semi-final victories as Selby edged through with a thrilling 17-15 victory over Ding Junhui, while Higgins enjoyed a comfortable 17-8 win over Barry Hawkins.\n\nThere were expectations beforehand that the match would be a battle between two players who specialise in tenacious, matchplay snooker, but it featured nine breaks over 50, plus two centuries.\n\nDespite opening the final with breaks of 76 and 62, Selby looked weary following his semi-final exertions, missing straightforward pots when presented with opportunities in the reds.\n\nA missed red in the seventh frame will have been of particular concern, as the Englishman was 54-1 ahead but instead allowed Higgins to clear up with a composed break of 58.\n\nHiggins claimed five frames in a row, knocking in contributions of 63, 95 and 58, as well as his superb 141 ,which equalled O'Sullivan's effort in 2012 as the best break recorded in a World Championship final.\n\nSelby looked to be on his way to a crushing first-day deficit, but in typical fashion managed to fight back to stay in the contest.\n\nHe had runs of 86 and 81 in the second session, but Higgins took a tactical exchange to go five frames ahead. However, he did miss a pink to the middle pocket with the reds open, as Selby responded to obtain some much-needed joy.\n\nHiggins guaranteed himself an overnight lead by pinching the 13th and followed up with 76 to further extend his advantage.\n\nBut Selby somehow produced a late revival to keep himself in touch.\n\nFor the next few hours John will be very disappointed because he's so experienced and knows frames can make a difference come tomorrow night.\n\nOnce he's got over that initial disappointment, 10-7 is a nice lead to have.\n\nThere will be loads of adrenaline pumping for both players, each for different reasons. It's been a fascinating second session. I think by the end of the night they'll have cleared their minds of all of that.\n\nIt was just an astonishing standard by the world champion and world number one in those final three frames. He's superb. You'd expect it, but for a minute there it didn't look like it was going to happen because John Higgins had him on the ropes.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPremier League leaders Chelsea took a big step towards clinching the title as three second-half goals saw them overcome Everton at Goodison Park.\n\nPedro's 25-yard stunner, Gary Cahill's close-range finish and Willian's tap-in kept Antonio Conte's side four points clear of second-placed Tottenham, who beat Arsenal 2-0 later on Sunday.\n\nIt means the Blues could drop three points in their remaining four games and still claim a second title in three years, even if Spurs win all of their remaining fixtures.\n\nChelsea had to be patient, with Pedro's left-footed, long-range strike not coming until the 66th minute.\n\nCahill sealed the win when Maarten Stekelenburg parried Eden Hazard's free-kick onto the onrushing defender, before Willian slotted home from Cesc Fabregas' cutback.\n• None I know I am an animal - Conte\n\nEverton had started brightly in a game that opened at breakneck speed, with Dominic Calvert-Lewin going closest to scoring when he struck the post from a tight angle.\n\nManchester City's draw at Middlesbrough means Ronald Koeman's side, in seventh, are eight points adrift of the top four with three games left.\n\nThe day the title was won?\n\nThis may have been Tottenham's strongest hope of Chelsea surrendering points in their run-in, with Everton placed higher than any of their four remaining opponents, and three home games on the horizon for the Blues.\n\nIt could prove to be the killer blow to Spurs' spirited challenge, and seems to answer the question of whether Chelsea can handle the growing pressure applied by their London rivals' nine-game winning run in the league.\n\nThe maths are simple for Chelsea - win three more games and they will be Premier League champions for the sixth time.\n\nAnd the celebrations from Conte and his players at the final whistle suggested the Blues feel they can get over the line in games against Middlesbrough, West Brom, Watford and Sunderland.\n\nAdd an FA Cup final win against Arsenal on 27 May and Conte would have had a remarkable first season in English football.\n\nChelsea's hosts were lacking in creativity, but provided a stubborn and organised test that required the Blues to call on persistence and perseverance - attributes any title-winning side must have.\n\nResults on Saturday mean Everton will not finish lower than seventh this season, securing a best finish in three years and a spot in next season's Europa League.\n\nBut Koeman's men faced the league leaders with an outside chance of still creeping into the top four and sneaking a Champions League spot.\n\nIt will therefore be even more frustrating that they failed to make inroads against Chelsea and capitalise on Manchester City dropping two points.\n\nCalvert-Lewin's strike against the woodwork aside, there was little guile from the Toffees.\n\nAnd any chance they had of getting back into the game was squandered by clumsy defending for Chelsea's second goal, with Idrissa Gueye weak in the wall and Stekelenburg failing to get a stronger hand to the cross.\n\nThe game featured two of the Premier League's most prized poachers, with Everton's Romelu Lukaku and Chelsea's Diego Costa having scored 43 times between them this season.\n\nAsked this week which of the two he would prefer in his side, Chelsea boss Conte unsurprisingly backed his man, claiming 28-year-old Costa was the best striker in the world.\n\nThe Spain international may be five goals shy of Lukaku's 24 in the league, but the weight of the Blues forward's goals have been far more hefty - Chelsea would be 15 points worse off this season without his tally of 19.\n\nSo there was understandable concern from the bench when Costa stayed down holding his leg in the first half after a strong, but fair, tackle from Tom Davies.\n\nHe was fine to continue and, while he was not presented with a host of chances, the former Atletico Madrid man was a consistent influence, being shown a yellow card for a tackle on Stekelenburg after tireless closing down and being involved in the build-up to the final goal.\n\nLukaku, who continues to be linked with a return to Chelsea - whom he left in 2014 for a £28m fee, was an energetic nuisance for the visiting defence but, aside from fizzing wide from 20 yards, looked unlikely to score for the first time in six appearances against his former club.\n\n'It's important to celebrate' - what the managers said\n\nEverton boss Ronald Koeman on Sky Sports: \"We did well, until 1-0 maybe. After that we had more problems but that was all about their quality, before that we played well and made it tough for them.\n\n\"Maybe we didn't create a lot of chances, but I was happy. Idrissa Gueye played a fantastic game, Hazard was not the player he can be because of the man-marking.\n\n\"It is really tough to beat Chelsea. They showed their belief and their quality. They will be champions. We need to find the motivation to finish the season strongly.\"\n\nChelsea boss Antonio Conte speaking to Match of the Day: \"I must be relaxed when we win but I think it is very important to celebrate this win with the players and fans.\n\n\"I think we must continue this way - to play game by game and take three points in every game. We know every win in this part of the season is very important.\n\n\"The road is long so we need to rest and prepare in the right way.\"\n\nBoth sides come up against relegation-threatened clubs next, with Everton at Swansea on Saturday, 6 May and Chelsea hosting Middlesbrough on Monday, 8 May.\n• None Chelsea have taken 81 points from 34 Premier League games this season; their most at this stage of a campaign since 2005-06 (85) when they won the title\n• None Koeman's two heaviest league defeats in charge of Everton have both come against Chelsea this term (5-0 and 3-0)\n• None The Toffees failed to score in a Premier League game at Goodison Park for the first time in 2017, having averaged 3.7 goals per game prior to this defeat\n• None Chelsea kept their first clean sheet in the Premier League since January (v Hull), ending an 11-game run without one\n• None Cahill has scored more Premier League goals against Everton than against any other opponent (four)\n• None Goal! Everton 0, Chelsea 3. Willian (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas.\n• None Substitution, Chelsea. Nathan Aké replaces David Luiz because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Kevin Mirallas (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Goal! Everton 0, Chelsea 2. Gary Cahill (Chelsea) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal following a set piece situation.\n• None Idrissa Gueye (Everton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Eden Hazard (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe was once a well-known racehorse, but it looked as though ill health would soon mean the end for Metro. Then his artist owner, Ron, had an unusual idea.\n\nIt's said that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. So when Ron Krajewski first introduced his horse, Metro, to an easel there was no guarantee he would paint.\n\nAfter all, this horse had been struggling with health problems since he was adopted by Ron and his wife in 2009. Metro had once been a successful racehorse - as Metro Meteor, he won eight races and $300,000 (£234,000) prize money at the prestigious Belmont Park. However, he was retired by his stable after bone chips in his knees caused permanent damage.\n\n\"We were looking for a horse Wendy could ride and were probably quite naive,\" Ron says. \"We soon discovered Metro had worse race injuries than we had bargained for.\"\n\nMetro Meteor won eight races in his career, but it took a toll on his knees\n\nMetro had months of rehab and medication. Special horse shoes helped for a time, but in 2012 X-rays revealed his knee joints were closing up. A vet said they would lock up within two years, at which point Ron and Wendy would have to put their horse down.\n\n\"I didn't just want to put him out to pasture and forget about him. I was thinking about how we could spend time together,\" Ron says.\n\nHe had noticed that his spirited horse liked to bob his head to get attention and pick things up in his mouth. A professional artist himself, Ron wondered if he could convince Metro to hold a paintbrush.\n\n\"I taught him to touch his nose to the canvas for horse treats, then to hold a paint brush,\" Ron says.\n\nMetro tackles the canvas assisted by Ron - he paints from left to right\n\n\"He could have just touched the paint brush to the canvas and then dropped it and that would have been the end of it. Luckily for us he started making up and down strokes and seemed to enjoy it.\"\n\nMetro was soon creating works that Ron judged were good enough to put on sale at a local gallery. The first four paintings sold out the week they were put on display.\n\nMetro's unbridled style has been compared to Jackson Pollock, a painter famous for his splatter and drip technique.\n\n\"Metro's brush strokes are nothing a human can make, because he doesn't think about what he will do before he does it. His strokes are thick, random and sometimes broken, which lets other colours show through. It all just vibrates on the canvas,\" Ron says.\n\nMetro's unusual ability caught the attention of local TV news in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and his story was picked up nationwide. By 2014, there were 150 people on a waiting list for his works.\n\nRon sometimes set up an easel for Metro to paint outside\n\nSales of the paintings helped fund a new experimental treatment for Metro. His vet created a technique to apply a drug called Tildren directly to his knees.\n\n\"Within a few months X-rays showed the bone growth had receded. It has added years to his life,\" Ron says.\n\nRon and Wendy keep Metro and their other horse, Pork Chop, at a stable four miles from their home. They visit them about five days a week and on two of those Ron and Metro have a painting session.\n\n\"Metro has got a little section in the barn that we call his studio. It's all set up ready for him to paint,\" Ron says.\n\n\"I did try to get Pork Chop to paint once, but he just wasn't interested.\"\n\nRon acts as both art director and assistant. He picks the colour and loads the paintbrush before handing it over. Metro then makes the strokes.\n\n\"I always stand on his left so he paints from left to right. If I hand him the brush in the upper right hand corner, that's where he will go.\"\n\nRon and Metro will work on three or four canvases at once during a 20-minute session.\n\n\"We'll spend two minutes on one canvas and then swap it for another. He tends to smear things together so we'll do some blues and then let it dry, then let's say some orange. This builds up the layers.\"\n\nMetro, who Ron says has an \"A-list extroverted personality\", is in his element at the easel.\n\n\"I can put out the easel in the field and he will stop eating grass and stand right in front of it.\n\n\"He loves to paint. I'm not sure how much he can see as horses have a blind spot right in front of their noses. I think he likes the feel of running a brush over the canvas.\"\n\nLike Metro, art wasn't Ron's first vocation. Raised in a fishing family that caught salmon in Alaska he went on to serve in the US Air Force. He became a professional artist at the age of 40.\n\n\"I mainly do pet portraits, which are very lifelike and controlled. When I paint with Metro it's the opposite. You can't predict what he's going to do when he gets the brush in his mouth. It's controlled chaos.\"\n\n\"We have different sizes that vary in price from $50 to $500. We're selling one or two a week,\" Ron says.\n\nRon and Wendy donate half of Metro's earnings to a charity called New Vocations, which retrains and rehomes former race horses. So far they have donated $80,000 (£62,000), which will have helped 50 to 60 other horses.\n\nAnd now aged 14, it seems Metro has no inclination to slow down.\n\n\"There's something about painting which really interests Metro,\" Ron says.\n\n\"I don't think he'll ever get tired of it.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Stranger Things is one of Netflix's most successful shows\n\nChild stars have been a crucial part of Hollywood for generations, but many of them choose totally different careers in adulthood.\n\nThe second season of Netflix's hugely popular drama Stranger Things will premiere on Halloween 2017, the streaming service confirmed earlier this year.\n\nThe show stars Winona Ryder and David Harbour but also relies heavily on its cast of child actors, who play some of the main characters.\n\nThe young stars have been praised for their performances in the show, and could well have bright futures in Hollywood ahead of them.\n\nBut the glitz and glamour of the entertainment industry isn't for everyone.\n\nFor every Drew Barrymore or Jodie Foster, there are plenty of child actors who chose to go in totally different directions in their adult years.\n\nHere are six child stars who left acting behind to pursue new careers.\n\nYou might not recognise the name, but Ostrum played Charlie in the big-screen adaptation of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.\n\nThe 1971 film saw Ostrum appear alongside four other child actors as one of Willy Wonka's five golden ticket winners.\n\n\"Everybody thinks that acting is such a glamorous profession, but it's a difficult profession,\" he said after starring in the film.\n\nThat may explain why he quit acting and became a vet as an adult instead.\n\nSome of the other young actors in the film picked up a few more big screen roles in the years after the film, but nearly all drifted away from Hollywood.\n\nMichael Bollner, who played Augustus Gloop, for example, now works as an accountant in Munich.\n\nIn the 1990s, it was difficult to go to the cinema without seeing a film with Mara Wilson in it.\n\nShe starred in Miracle on 34th Street, Mrs Doubtfire, A Simple Wish and Matilda.\n\nBut then, as she entered her teenage years, the former child actress retreated from the limelight.\n\n\"I was 13 and I was awkward, and I was gawky, and I was not a very cute kid anymore,\" Wilson told The Huffington Post in 2013.\n\n\"So, Hollywood didn't really want me at that point, and I was kind of over it too. So, after a while, it feels like a mutual breakup. That's the way that I'd describe it.\"\n\nWilson is now a writer and released a book last year called Where Am I Now?\n\nShe also came out as bisexual in support of the victims of the attack on an LGBT nightclub in Orlando.\n\nHarper Lee's novel To Kill A Mockingbird was an instant literary phenomenon when it was first released in 1960, and is still considered a classic.\n\nWhen the inevitable big-screen adaptation was made, Mary Badham was hired to play the role of Scout, the young girl who serves as the book's narrator.\n\nBadham became the youngest actress ever nominated for the best supporting actress category at the Oscars after her appearance in the film (although the record was broken a decade later by the marginally younger Tatum O'Neal).\n\nShe went on to act in a few other films released in the 1960s, but then gave up on the profession for the rest of her life - with one exception.\n\nBadham was coaxed out of retirement for a minor role in one film - 2005's Our Very Own - after its director, Cameron Watson, said he wouldn't accept any other actress for the part.\n\nShe now works an art restorer and a college testing coordinator, but often writes about her experiences on Mockingbird and attended a special screening of the film with President Obama in 2012.\n\n\"When I retired, I was at an in-between age. I wasn't a child anymore, I wasn't really a woman yet and they weren't really writing scripts for that age,\" she said later that year.\n\nNot many of us can claim to have started our career at the age of three - but that's exactly what Shirley Temple did.\n\nAs a child actress, she starred in a whole host of films, including Bright Eyes, The Little Princess, Heidi and Captain January.\n\nBut in her adult years, she entered politics and public affairs, becoming a Republican fundraiser and serving three years as the United States Ambassador to (what was then known as) Czechoslovakia.\n\nShe also had a mocktail named after her - which, thank you for asking, consists of ginger ale (or lemonade) and a splash of grenadine, garnished with a maraschino cherry.\n\nWhen Temple died in 2014 at the age of 85, she left behind a remarkable legacy - no child star since has ever come close to equalling her record of being Hollywood's top box office star for four years in a row.\n\nMark Lester was just 10 years old when he was cast as Oliver in, er, Oliver.\n\nThe film adaptation of the stage musical was released in 1968 - more than 130 years after Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist was first published.\n\nLester took various roles over the following decade but decided to give up acting at the age of 19 and became an osteopath.\n\n\"Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception,\" he told The Independent.\n\nHe and Michael Jackson - who was born in the same year - were close friends, and Lester became godfather to the singer's three children.\n\nRichards took on a few small acting jobs throughout her childhood, but shot to fame playing Lex Murphy in 1993's Jurassic Park - a role she filmed when she was just 12 years old.\n\nShe briefly reprised the role for The Lost World: Jurassic Park four years later, but then took a step back from acting to focus on her art career.\n\nRichards graduated in 2001 with a degree in fine art and drama and went on to become a successful painter.\n\nBut, in 2011, she said: \"Being interested in acting never changes. Acting is in your blood, and of course I'll always be interested in it.\"\n\nWhich explains why she was briefly tempted back in 2013 for a role in TV movie Battledogs.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Anthony Joshua is the real deal. Wladimir Klitschko is far from done. Heavyweight boxing can prosper through brilliance. There was no need for insults here.\n\nYet there will be no pause for breath after a breathless Joshua stoppage win. The questions simply evolve.\n\nTyson Fury took mere moments to stir the pot, Deontay Wilder likewise. Will they get their shot at a man now hailed as \"the biggest sports star in Britain\" and tipped to become boxing's richest ever fighter?\n\nWho next? 'Fury believes he beats AJ'\n\nIn stopping the most dominant heavyweight of this century in front of a record post-war UK boxing crowd - in a fight which had everything - Joshua has everywhere to go and yet nowhere to go.\n\nMatching an event as iconic as this - delivering a pay day to beat the £15m he was expected to earn and finding an opponent capable of competing - looks a tall order in the short-term. Yet the big names will champion their cause.\n\n\"Fury, where you at baby?\" Joshua said. The Gypsy King was busy tweeting: \"You had life and death with Klitschko, I played with the guy. Let's dance.\"\n\nJoshua did hit the canvas hard before toppling Klitschko. Fury ducked, weaved and earned a comfortable points win by comparison in 2015.\n\n\"Tyson Fury will be watching that and thinking I haven't even got to lose six stone to beat AJ,\" said 5 live boxing analyst Steve Bunce.\n\n\"Could Fury have beaten AJ when he beat Klitschko? The answer is yes.\"\n\nSubstantially overweight and devoid of a boxing licence, former world champion Fury will likely need time and a warm-up bout before meeting the IBF and WBA champion.\n\nWBC champion Deontay Wilder warned Joshua not to get \"comfortable\", while Klitschko confirmed he holds a rematch option, adding that he believes the champion is \"vulnerable\" at times.\n\n\"I could have done more to finish him off,\" said the 41-year-old.\n\nThe options are plentiful on paper but timing is the crucial factor. Fury will surely happen one day but not soon, meeting Klitschko swiftly before age robs him of further edge is a challenge and Wilder's lack of appeal in the UK also presents difficulty.\n\nBunce added: \"Wilder needs at least one more fight - he is not at the pay-per-view stature yet.\"\n\nJoshua's rise, after being all-but beaten in the sixth round, to administer a devastating uppercut and finish in the 11th, wowed the world of boxing. American viewers tuned in and lapped up the destruction.\n\nLegendary boxers Sugar Ray Leonard and Evander Holyfield were just some of those tweeting praise, while promoter Eddie Hearn believes his fighter's profile is now \"stratospheric\", adding: \"He is unquestionably world boxing's biggest star.\"\n\nHearn is just a piece in the jigsaw of a team which has made Joshua a juggernaut in world sport. His standing as a marketable asset for more than a dozen global brands brings closer his ambition to become boxing's first billionaire, while it also heaps pressure on his broad shoulders.\n\n\"The win accelerates him to be one of the world's most sought-after major properties,\" said sports marketing expert Alun James, UK chief executive at Four Sports and Sponsorships.\n\n\"A YouGov survey showed 20% of the UK population have a favourable view of him. That is a very good number for boxing, which is not a mainstream sport.\n\n\"Because he's a young black man, he also allows brands to extend into demographics they haven't worked in before. He's already working with brands from Asia to the US, the UK and Dubai.\n\n\"I think he will certainly be the richest boxer ever and probably surpass Floyd Mayweather, who set the benchmark.\"\n\nKlitschko is no stranger to being knocked down - he hit the deck three times in beating Samuel Peter on points in 2005 and such resistance subsequently spawned an 11-year unbeaten run until 2015.\n\nThe fact Joshua has now tasted being decked and briefly humbled may well be viewed as a positive behind closed doors. No longer will doubters wonder about his heart. The world now knows what will is hidden beneath those pectorals.\n\n\"There comes a time where it comes from within,\" said BBC Radio 5 live pundit Richie Woodhall. \"It is DNA or whatever you want to call it. Those punches came from the depths of his soul. That is what being a world champion is all about.\"\n\nThis great British hope showed transitions, boxing admirably early on, taking punishment in the middle rounds, and then switching things up to power punching, seizing his moment with killer instinct.\n\n\"There were times where he showed his inexperience but he learned and showed he isn't just a prospect,\" said Joshua's trainer Rob McCracken. \"He can turn around fights and that will help him so much in his career.\"\n\nJust 19 fights and now 55 rounds into his career, Joshua has every right to remain green in parts. Smiles at his opponent and celebrations after knockdowns will perhaps be stamped out. Indeed Klitschko said afterwards he felt his rival \"lost focus\" at times.\n\nIn truth, the grand surroundings of Wembley are fit for a fully developed fighter. Joshua beat one, though both he and his team will admit he is not himself one yet, even if he did answer questions.\n\n\"He was raw at times which he is, and at times he was probably exposed but to get exposed in front of 90,000 people, to bite down on your gum shield, and to knock out Klitschko in the 11th round, you can't buy that heart,\" added Hearn.\n\nThe chin has been tested, as has Joshua's heart, but what about the mind?\n\nCelebrities fell over themselves to engage with him within minutes of his win, A-list names on Twitter jumping on the expanding AJ bandwagon.\n\nHe handled an expectant 90,000 crowd and surely no fight to come can be bigger from a stadium perspective?\n\nYet heavyweight boxing can provide a slap of reality. Mike Tyson ran into Buster Douglas, Lennox Lewis fell to Hasim Rahman.\n\nBut the focus and creative nature of his training drills - visible in their droves on Instagram - seem to showcase a desire to keep striving and try different things in pursuit of excellence.\n\nAway from the ring, Joshua talks about different cultures in a studious way. He has a mind which seems unlikely to fall lazy and such drive will be critical.\n\nThere were moments where he visibly took deep breaths when under fire from Klitschko, and expect him to find solutions in the gym. As hype and distractions mount, it is reassuring to know he finds comfort there.\n\nThe champion said: \"I showed that fights are won in the gym. It gets tough and boxing isn't easy. You have to have the whole package.\"\n\nWith every passing punch, he looks just that.", "The claim: UKIP says it will reduce net migration into the UK to zero by introducing an \"Australian-style points-based system\".\n\nReality Check verdict: UKIP has set itself a very ambitious target - but, depending on the strictness of the criteria, it could be achieved. Australia's system has led to a 3% net increase in the past year.\n\nThe UKIP leader, Paul Nuttall, says his party would bring net migration down to zero.\n\nThis would mean the number of people arriving into the country would be about the same as the number leaving.\n\nMr Nuttall says one way of achieving this would be to introduce an Australian-style points-based system.\n\nApplicants score points for youth, qualifications, and English-speaking ability if applying for a skilled job.\n\nUnless they are being sponsored by an employer, they must also be applying to work in one of the trades or professions set out in a list by the Australian government.\n\nAnd the numbers for each of these trades and professions are capped.\n\nThe UK already has a points system for non-EU migrants seeking skilled employment in the UK.\n\nIt was introduced by the Labour Party, under Gordon Brown, back in 2008 and caps the total number on an annual basis at 20,700.\n\nThere are other routes for coming to the UK that are not subject to an annual cap, such as students arriving to study and migrants who move for family reasons.\n\nUnder UKIP's plans, unskilled and low-skilled labour would be banned for five years while skilled workers and students would need visas based on the points system.\n\nPresently, EU migrants are allowed to work in the UK under the principle of freedom of movement.\n\nBut once the UK leaves the EU and if free movement no longer applies, then its citizens would be subjected to the same rules as non-EU migrants.\n\nDepending on the strictness of the criteria, there is no reason in theory why the numbers could not fall to the levels UKIP wants.\n\nUKIP says it wants to implement its policy over the next five years, which would represent a very ambitious target given the current numbers.\n\nIn the last set of official statistics, produced by the Office of National Statistics, immigration was estimated to be 596,000 in the year up to September 2016 - made up of 268,000 EU citizens, 257,000 non-EU citizens and 71,000 British citizens.\n\nSome 323,000 people were thought to have left the UK, meaning that annual net migration stands at 273,000.\n• None UKIP want 'one in, one out' migration", "From the campaign leaflet pushed through your letterbox, to the party message on social media, election material is increasingly targeted at individual voters. So, just how much do political parties know about you?\n\nYou can expect to receive a lot of communications from political parties in the coming weeks, as they prepare for June's election.\n\nIt's the same for everyone on your street, a place full of different characters - some with children, some younger, some older.\n\nThere is likely to be just as much political difference among your neighbours, from the loyal party supporters to those changing their vote at each election.\n\nIn other words, whether your constituency is described as a \"middle class suburban seat\", a \"traditional working class community\", or a \"Remain voting area\", there are still significant differences between individual voters.\n\nThe election leaflets you receive may depend on what the parties know about you\n\nThis matters a great deal to the parties and it's highly likely that friends and neighbours will receive very different campaign messages from the parties - even different ones from the same party.\n\nFor several elections now, parties have been making use of many different sources of data to target information at voters.\n\nThis use of big data has become very important to them for three key reasons.\n\nFirst, we voters have changed quite a bit. In fact, we've been changing quite a bit for the last 40 years.\n\nTraditional allegiances between voters and parties have declined rapidly and while there are still strong party loyalists, there are far fewer than there used to be.\n\nThis means more voters are unsure as to how they'll cast their vote - a big opportunity for the parties, because winning the backing of these voters means they will not just be relying on their core support.\n\nAs a consequence, parties have been targeting seats much more intently and with greater precision.\n\nThe second reason is that while membership of many political parties has risen in recent years, they have generally had fewer volunteers that they can call on come election time.\n\nThis means that technological developments such as using data to target voters have provided a useful alternative.\n\nThirdly, parties have become more efficient.\n\nThere is little point in seeking to convert voters who are committed to another party, or indeed strong supporters already on your side.\n\nInstead, parties are increasingly focused on the \"waverers\" and \"undecideds\" - the people whose votes are going to win elections.\n\nTo do this, the parties go to great lengths to combine a whole range of data sources.\n\nFirst, they use their own canvass returns - information about voting intentions - collected on the doorstep and the telephone over the course of a few years.\n\nThe most recent information collected from voters is now uploaded in real time.\n\nThis tells the parties if the would-be voter is a committed supporter, \"waverer\" or \"undecided\".\n\nThey then combine this with market research data, which tells them more about the individual - demographic characteristics such as age, sex, education level, income and family size.\n\nThis is the information which has led parties to create key target groups at past elections - so-called \"Essex Man\" or \"school gate mums\", for example.\n\nIn turn, these are then combined with further information the parties have gathered on the doorstep, from telephone calls and social media engagement.\n\nTailored leaflets and other messages reflecting the voter's interests and concerns can soon follow.\n\nSo, while a family with young children might receive a leaflet about what has been done for primary schools in the area, their retired neighbour may receive a different circular about what is being done to help pensioners.\n\nFacebook is increasingly important, offering the possibility of sending targeted messages to certain groups of voters and different messages to those with other concerns.\n\nSo does it make any difference? The short answer is yes.\n\nThis use of big data to target key voters and decide where to focus resources invariably leads to stronger electoral performances.\n\nThis was well illustrated at the last general election, where all three of the main parties improved their performance as a result of their targeting strategies.\n\nAll three parties ran their most intensive campaigns in the seats that mattered most.\n\nIndeed, had Labour and the Liberal Democrats not targeted voters so well, their results would have been even worse.\n\nYet for all that, big data alone will not win elections.\n\nOver the last six elections, the one approach that works better than all others when persuading voters is face-to-face contact.\n\nFace-to-face contact - still the best way to connect with voters\n\nSo, while the use of big data matters - and makes election messages more personal - it plays a supporting role to human contact, rather than replacing it.\n\nAll of which makes this election a particularly interesting one.\n\nCampaign techniques which focus on big data usually begin long before polling day - maybe six or nine months before.\n\nBut this snap election doesn't afford that luxury and there is a danger in bombarding voters with the same volume of communications in four weeks.\n\nSo ironically, this election may prove to be more traditional - still informed by big data, but with a stronger focus on the human touch.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.\n\nJustin Fisher is professor of political science at Brunel University London. Follow him @justin_t_fisher.\n\nHis research on election campaigning has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.", "Warren Gatland has offered to talk to Mike Brown about his omission from the British and Irish Lions squad after the full-back cited a lack of \"feedback\".\n\nHarlequins' Brown was left out of the 41-man group which will play 10 matches in New Zealand from 3 June to 8 July.\n\nHe played all of England's games as they won the Six Nations and called the lack of explanation \"disappointing\".\n\n\"I am more than happy for him to give me a call if he feels he's been hard done by,\" said head coach Gatland, 53.\n\n\"I can understand the frustration and the disappointment. There are a number of players in the same situation.\"\n• None I'm going to have to keep mascot Billy close to me - youngest tourist Itoje\n\nGatland revealed he had previously asked his assistant - and Harlequins forwards coach - Graham Rowntree to speak to Brown and reiterated staff are happy to take calls from omitted players.\n\nBrown, 31, told the Rugby Paper: \"I've had no feedback about being on standby, which is disappointing, so I'm not going to keep up false hopes.\n\n\"Instead I'll reset my goals and concentrate fully on England and the excitement of going on a tough Argentina tour.\"\n\nGatland urged those not selected to stay sharp as he feels history shows \"six to 10\" of the current squad will need to be replaced due to the physical demands of the tour.\n\nBut he says he does not have a defined list of back-up players and that decisions are not always based on \"rugby content\".\n\n'The game of your life'\n\nTwo-time Lions captain Martin Johnson told BBC Sport that bonding the squad quickly \"is huge\" if they are to secure a first series win in New Zealand since 1971.\n\nJohnson - the only man other than current captain Sam Warburton to lead two tours - says players need the \"game of their life\" to win Tests on Lions duty.\n\n\"You have to come together as a team very quickly,\" said Johnson. \"Tactics apart, if you're not a team you've got no chance. When the All Blacks are there, the people will want them to win and will let you know about it, so you have to use that in the right way.\n\n\"What happens in the Six Nations gets you on the flight but you have to be fast out of the traps because no one in that team is guaranteed anything. It's a chance for the players to do something very, very special.\"\n\nNothing wrong with 'first day at school'\n\nSaracens criticised the timing of Gatland's squad get-together on Monday, with boss Mark McCall calling it \"unbelievable\" to host the meeting five days before his side play Clermont in the European Champions Cup final.\n\nMcCall cancelled training with six of his players attending, while Gloucester, who meet Stade Francais in the European Challenge Cup final on Friday, were without Ross Moriarty and Greig Laidlaw.\n\nBut Gatland called the day \"very important\", adding: \"We haven't had any requests from anyone to move this date [which was] communicated months ago.\"\n\n\"It does really make a big difference for us. It's exciting, but also a very important day for us.\n\n\"Every Lions squad goes through this organisation day. I've spoken to most of the players, it's like the first day of school.\"\n\nThe Lions fly out to New Zealand on 29 May and will play the first of three Tests against world champions New Zealand on 24 June.\n\nThe Lions have already been forced into one squad change with Scotland scrum-half Laidlaw replacing Ben Youngs, who withdrew from the tour on Saturday after the wife of his brother Tom learned that she is terminally ill.\n\nGatland said it was \"really tough\" for the 27-year-old England scrum-half.\n\n\"As far as I'm concerned family comes first, he's made that decision and we know how close they are and we fully respect that decision and understand it,\" Gatland added.\n\nLaidlaw, 31, missed the final three matches of Scotland's 2017 Six Nations campaign after injuring his ankle in round two against France, which Gatland said was \"one of the reasons\" he was not included in the original squad.\n\n\"It was obviously not ideal for him, but he's here from day one which is a bit easier than a later introduction to the squad,\" said Gatland.\n\n\"It's a sensitive situation but he has experience and also leadership experience and I'm sure he'll do well.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nThree-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome claims he was \"rammed\" by a car driver while out training in southern France - but says he \"wasn't hurt\".\n\nThe Briton, who rides for Team Sky, posted a picture on Twitter of his damaged bike and reported the incident to local police.\n\n\"Just got rammed on purpose by an impatient driver who followed me onto the pavement!\" the 31-year-old wrote.\n\n\"Thankfully I'm okay. Bike totalled. Driver kept going!\"\n\nThe picture Froome posted was geotagged from Beausoleil in France, which is near his Monaco home.\n\nFroome is not taking part in the current Giro d'Italia but is likely to race in June's traditional week-long Tour de France warm-up event, the Criterium du Dauphine, which he has won three times.\n\nThis year's Tour de France takes place from 1-23 July and Froome will be aiming to win the event for a fourth time and third in a row.\n\nThe incident follows the death of Italian cyclist Michele Scarponi after he was involved in a collision with a van during a training ride in April.", "They left their homes in Central Asia to fight against the German army. Then, dressed in rags, they were taken as prisoners to a concentration camp in the Netherlands. Few now alive remember the 101 mostly Uzbek men who were killed in a forest near Amersfoort in 1942 - and they may well have been forgotten entirely if it had not been for a curious Dutch journalist.\n\nEvery spring hundreds of Dutch men and women, young and old, gather in a forest near the town of Amersfoort, near Utrecht.\n\nHere they light candles to commemorate 101 unknown Soviet soldiers who were shot dead by the Nazis at this very spot - and then forgotten for more than half a century.\n\nThe story was rediscovered 18 years ago, when journalist Remco Reiding returned to the town after working in Russia for several years, and heard from a friend that there was a Soviet war cemetery nearby.\n\n\"I was surprised as I never heard of it before,\" Reiding says. \"I visited the place and started looking for archives and witnesses.\"\n\nIt turned out that 865 Soviet soldiers were buried there, all but 101 of them brought from other parts of the Netherlands or Germany.\n\nBut the 101, all unnamed, had died in Amersfoort itself.\n\nThey had been captured near Smolensk in the first weeks after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, and transported to the German-occupied Netherlands for propaganda purposes.\n\n\"They handpicked the Asian-looking prisoners and wanted to exhibit them to the Dutch, who resisted Nazi ideas,\" says Reiding.\n\n\"They called them untermenschen - inferior people - and hoped that once the Dutch saw what the Soviets looked like, they would join the Germans.\"\n\nCamp Commander Karl Peter Berg was executed by firing squad in 1949\n\nIt was Dutch communists held in a concentration camp in Amersfoort whose opinion of the Soviet people the Germans were expecting to change. They had been held there with local Jews since August 1941, while all of them waited to be moved to other locations.\n\nNow 91, Henk Broekhuizen, is one of the few remaining witnesses. He remembers, as a teenager, watching the Soviet prisoners arriving in the town.\n\n\"When I close my eyes I remember their faces,\" he says.\n\n\"Wrapped up in rags, they didn't even look like soldiers. You could only see their faces.\n\n\"The Nazis paraded them through the main street all the way from the train station to the camp. They were weak and small, their feet were covered in old cloths. Some of them could hardly walk and their friends helped them.\"\n\nSome prisoners managed to make eye contact with the onlookers and used hand gestures to indicate that they were hungry.\n\n\"We brought some water and bread for them,\" says Broekhuizen. \"But the Nazis knocked it all from our hands. They didn't let us help them.\"\n\nHe never saw them again and heard nothing of what happened to them in the camp.\n\nOne thing he discovered was that they were mainly Uzbeks. The camp authorities themselves were unaware of this, until an SS officer who spoke Russian arrived to interview them.\n\nThe translator, Alscher, had picked up Russian in Poland\n\nMost were from Samarkand, says Reiding. \"Maybe some of them were Kazakh, Kyrgyz or Bashkir. But the majority were Uzbeks.\"\n\nReiding also learned that the Central Asians were treated worse than any of the camp's other prisoners.\n\n\"The first three days in the camp the Uzbeks are kept without food, outside, surrounded by barbed wire,\" says Reiding.\n\n\"A German film crew prepares to capture the moment when the 'barbaric sub-humans' fight over food - they need to film this scene for their propaganda.\n\n\"So the Nazis throw a loaf of bread to the hungry Uzbeks.\n\n\"To their surprise, one of them takes the bread and calmly divides it into equal pieces with a spoon. The others wait patiently. No-one fights. Then they share the evenly divided pieces of bread. The Nazis are disappointed.\"\n\nRemco Reiding has traced the families of 200 of the 865 Soviet soldiers buried at Amersfoort\n\nBut worse was to come for the prisoners.\n\n\"The Uzbeks were given half as much food as the others and if any other prisoner helped them the whole camp was left without food as punishment,\" says Bahodir Uzakov, an Uzbek historian based in nearby Gouda, who has also been researching the story of the Amersfoort camp.\n\n\"When they ate leftovers and potato skins the Nazis beat them for eating pigs' food.\"\n\nFrom the confessions of camp guards and the recollections of prisoners he found in the archives - which formed the basis of his 2015 book, Child of the Field of Honour - Reiding also learned that the Uzbeks were constantly beaten and given the worst jobs, such as carrying heavy masonry, sand or logs in the cold.\n\nOne of the most shocking stories he discovered is about the camp doctor, a Dutch man called Nikolaas Van Nieuwenhuysen.\n\nWhen two of the Uzbeks died, he forced other prisoners to behead them and boil their skulls until they were clean, Reiding says.\n\nDr Nikolaas Van Nieuwenhuysen was sentenced after the war to 10 years in jail\n\n\"The doctor kept the skulls of two Uzbeks on his desk to study. How crazy!\"\n\nStarved and frail, the Uzbeks started eating rats, mice and plants. Twenty-four of them didn't survive the harsh winter of 1941, and the remaining 77 were no longer needed when they became too weak to work.\n\nSo early one morning in April 1942, the Nazis told them they were being moved to southern France, where the warmer climate would suit them.\n\nIn fact they were taken to a forest just outside the camp, where they were shot and buried in a mass grave.\n\n\"Some of them started weeping, some held hands together and faced their death. Those who tried to flee were chased by the soldiers and shot,\" says Reiding, quoting camp guards and drivers who witnessed the execution.\n\nTwo rows of headstones inscribed \"Unknown Soviet Soldier\" in Russian mark the graves of the 101 Central Asians\n\n\"Imagine being 5,000km away from home - where the muezzin calls people to prayer, where the wind plays with the sand and dust on the market square and the streets are filled with the aroma of spices. You don't know their language and they don't know yours. And you never understand why these people treat you as if you were an animal.\"\n\nThere is little information that might help to identify these prisoners. The Nazis set fire to the camp archives before they fled in May 1945.\n\nThere is only one photograph that shows faces - two men, neither of whom are named.\n\nOf nine portraits drawn in pencil by a Dutch prisoner, only two have names.\n\n\"The names are misspelt but they sound Uzbek,\" says Reiding.\n\n\"One is Kadiru Xatam and another says Muratov Zayer. So the first should be Kadirov, Hatam and the second is Muratov, Zair.\"\n\nI instantly recognise the Uzbek-sounding names and the Central Asian faces. The unibrows, gentle eyes and mixed-race features - these are all considered beautiful in my country.\n\nThese are portraits of young men in their early twenties, or even younger. Probably their mothers had already begun looking for suitable brides and fathers had already bought a calf to rear for their wedding feast, when the war intervened.\n\nIt occurs to me that some of my own relatives could be among them. Two of my great uncles and my wife's grandfather failed to return from the war.\n\nSometimes I was told my uncles had married German women and decided to stay in Europe - a story my grandmothers invented to console themselves.\n\nIn fact, a third of the 1.4 million Uzbeks who fought in the war did not return and at least 100,000 remain missing.\n\nAnother drawing of Hatam Kadirov (left) and an unnamed prisoner, possibly also Zair Muratov\n\nThere are many reasons why the 101 Uzbek soldiers buried in Amersfoort have never been identified - apart from the two whose names are known. One is the Cold War, which followed quickly after World War Two, and turned Western Europe and the USSR into ideological enemies.\n\nAnother is Uzbekistan's decision to forget its Soviet past, after gaining independence in 1991. Veterans were no longer considered heroes. A monument to a family that adopted 14 war orphans was removed from a square in the centre of Tashkent - though the country's new president now says it will be returned. In short, looking for soldiers that went missing in the Soviet army several decades ago has not been a priority for the Uzbek government.\n\nThe Uzbeks were moved from the mass grave to a cemetery, then moved again when a special cemetery for Soviet war dead was created\n\nBut Reiding thinks he may be able to find the names in Uzbek archives.\n\n\"The documents of those Soviet soldiers who didn't die or whose deaths were not known to the Soviet authorities were sent to the local KGB, and the identities of the 101 prisoners are probably kept in Uzbekistan,\" says Reiding.\n\n\"If I have access to them I can find some of the 101 Uzbeks.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nRelegated Bristol \"underestimated the Premiership\", the club's owner Steve Lansdown has admitted.\n\nThe Ashton Gate club, back in the top tier for the first time since 2009, won just three league games as they made an immediate return to the Championship.\n\n\"We thought we were ready, with a squad that could compete, but we were wrong,\" Lansdown told BBC Radio Bristol.\n\n\"We've learnt a lot of hard lessons. No excuses, we got it wrong. I should have recognised the danger signs sooner.\"\n\nIn November, after losing their first 10 games of the season in all competitions, Bristol sacked director of rugby Andy Robinson - who had led them to promotion in 2016.\n\nWith Connacht boss Pat Lam not able to replace Robinson until this summer, Mark Tainton took interim charge until the end of the season, but despite a brief upturn in form, he was unable to keep them in the top flight.\n\n\"Off the pitch, I don't think we've covered ourselves in glory,\" Lansdown admitted.\n\n\"I should have perhaps stuck my oar in a bit earlier and said 'we need that change'.\n\n\"We started off very badly. We underestimated what the Premiership would do.\n\n\"Our players have got better over time, but we know we didn't get it right at the start of the season.\n\n\"We knew it was going to be tough but we felt we would be able to win the number of games to keep us there.\"\n\n'We were stuck in a time warp'\n\nBristol finished the campaign 13 points adrift of 11th-placed Worcester and 20 below 10th-placed Sale.\n\nBut major changes have already been made to their squad for next season, with Worcester Warriors flanker Chris Vui, Gloucester pair Mat Protheroe and Dan Thomas, and Sam Bedlow from Sale Sharks their most recent signings.\n\n\"We [thought we] had teams like Worcester and Newcastle in our sights, but they were miles ahead of us. I don't think they will be when we come back,\" said Lansdown.\n\n\"We've got to take our medicine now, step back and regroup. We need that extra class - I think we've brought that in now - and we need that development. The plan is in place.\n\n\"We've got to regenerate Bristol. We were stuck in a time warp, and we never actually got ourselves out of it when we got up to the Premiership. But we've been shaken up now and we are definitely out of it.\"\n\nSteve Lansdown was speaking to the BBC's Damian Derrick.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nBritain's double Olympic champion Nicola Adams wants to impress her home fans when she takes on Mexico's Maryan Salazar in Leeds on Saturday.\n\nThe fight, Adams' second as a professional and first in her home city for 20 years, will be over four three-minute rounds, rather than the usual two-minute rounds for women.\n\n\"I've looked at videos of my opponent and I know her style and I hope she'll come out confident and trying to win because I want to make sure I put on a great show for my fans,\" she said.\n\n\"Nights like Saturday are what I got into boxing for and what I turned professional for. I want to be fighting in the big-time and hopefully one day I will emulate my idols and fight in Las Vegas.\"\n\nThe flyweight voiced her frustration with two-minute rounds after beating Virginia Carcamo last month.\n\nAdams, 34, says the extra minute in each round will give her a chance to try out things she has learnt in the gym.\n\nShe said: \"I had two minutes to find my rhythm, distance and take out my opponent. It's not enough time.\n\n\"I found, by the end of the rounds, I needed a couple more seconds and it would be over.\n\n\"Now we have three minutes, I'm able to relax more, establish the jab, find the rhythm properly and really get in the swing of things.\"\n\nSalazar, 18, has lost once in six professional contests.\n\nOn the same card, WBC international featherweight champion Josh Warrington defends his title against Spain's Kiko Martinez.", "Pitch Battle's judging panel will include Will Young and Bebe Rexha - who sang vocals on David Guetta and Nicki Minaj hit Hey Mama\n\nPitch Battle will become the latest singing contest set to hit our TV screens this summer but, 16 years on from ITV's Popstars, why is the format still so strong?\n\nPutting Kelis, Gareth Malone, Chaka Khan and Mel Giedroyc together in the same room is, quite simply, a magnificent idea.\n\nHaving clearly recognised this, BBC One has duly recruited this dream team to appear in its upcoming singing contest Pitch Battle.\n\nJudges Kelis and Malone will be joined by a different guest judge each week, with Chaka Khan, Will Young, Bebe Rexha and Seal lined up to critique the contestants.\n\nChoirs and a capella groups will be pitted against each other in a format you just might recognise from the many, many other talent shows which have preceded it.\n\n\"I remember seeing Popstars back in 2001 and it being a genuinely fresh and exciting idea,\" says Julia Raeside, TV critic for The Guardian.\n\nHear'Say, made up of (l-r) Noel Sullivan, Suzanne Shaw, Myleene Klass, Kym Marsh and Danny Foster, won the first series of Popstars in 2001\n\n\"To watch the hopes and dreams of these young kids, it didn't feel quite so manipulated back then, and the concept of a judge being a bit of a villain was relatively new.\"\n\nBut, perhaps inevitably, the success of the show sparked a new wave of singing contests such as Popstars: The Rivals, Pop Idol, The X Factor and The Voice.\n\nA number of successful groups and singers such as Girls Aloud, Little Mix, Leona Lewis and Olly Murs came out of these shows over the years - but there were also plenty of potential careers which never took off.\n\nThe Observer's pop critic Kitty Empire says: \"If you are an artist, quite often going on TV talent shows might not be the best idea for your career, because for every One Direction there are a thousand No Directions.\n\n\"If you want a career in music, that sometimes doesn't happen as a result of going on a talent show. However, if you're more versatile and more willing to go on the West End stage, you can certainly turn the TV exposure to your advantage.\"\n\nIt's true - there are plenty of contestants who applied for talent contests as singers, and ended up taking their careers in totally different directions after receiving the TV exposure.\n\nRylan released an autobiography, The Life of Rylan, last year\n\nRylan-Clark Neal was something of a novelty act in the 2012 series of the show, but has gone on to be a successful TV presenter and even released an autobiography last year.\n\nElsewhere, 2005 X Factor winner Shayne Ward and Popstars' Kym Marsh can now be seen acting in Coronation Street.\n\nWhile Marsh's bandmate Myleene Klass is now a radio presenter and X Factor 2008 victor Alexandra Burke has starred in multiple theatre productions.\n\nCertainly some of these former contestants have had success, but Empire points out: \"There is a wider issue of whether great art is being made.\n\n\"For a country that produced people like David Bowie, who is universally acclaimed, we're not seeing that quality of talent on TV shows.\n\n\"People are just entertained by these programmes, and a singing contest is something that lends itself to TV watching by all generations. It gets kids and grandparents in front of the TV, in an age when most people are on YouTube.\n\n\"So it's much more about the format being successful TV than it is about creating meaningful musical careers.\"\n\nA successful TV format it clearly is, but it's perhaps surprising that 16 years on from Popstars, singing contests continue to dominate TV schedules.\n\nGirls Aloud formed after winning Popstars: The Rivals in 2002\n\n\"I understand the heavy reliance on singing contests - the idea that a show needs a result to make you tune in for the next instalment,\" Raeside says.\n\n\"But I think it's a shame that, by now, light entertainment producers haven't come up with something to replace it.\n\nShe adds: \"I used to work in TV development, and the wheels do tend to move quite slowly.\n\n\"Back then, they were trying to work out what was going to be the next Big Brother. Similarly, these singing shows have a shelf life, and some would argue they've already reached their sell by date.\"\n\nEmpire agrees: \"Increasingly now the talent show formula can get a little tired, and I think many people have realised winning these shows perhaps isn't always the best thing to do.\n\n\"In Britain we particularly embrace this format, partly because we love an underdog story, like Paul Potts [the mobile phone salesman who won the first series of Britain's got Talent].\n\n\"In America, the underdog stories don't play so well - it's the shiniest people with the straightest teeth who win. Whereas in Britain we love unlikely success stories, so it really serves our market.\n\nLooking ahead to Pitch Battle, Raeside says she can see the appeal of using choirs instead of individual singers to attract viewers and thinks it's a good way to get more mileage out of the talent show format.\n\n\"There was something quite shrieky about a show like The Voice, because it's one singer trying to make their mark in a 90-second audition, and there's something unrelaxing about watching that,\" she says.\n\n\"When you watch a choir it has a much more positive feeling, so it could have the edge over a show where teenagers are trying to get their break.\"\n\nEmpire agrees that, on paper at least, Pitch Battle \"looks like it's a winner\".\n\n\"Before Glee, it was a very American phenomenon, but now people getting together and harmonising doesn't seem like such a weird thing to do anymore,\" she says.\n\n\"The idea that there will be choirs and a capella groups battling it out means that you're getting quite a variety of people into the TV studio, and presumably they'll be doing mash ups and cover versions, so I can see how the format has been thought up to appeal to the broadest audience.\"\n\nBut, Raeside adds: \"I don't know how much longer these shows can keep going for. I can't see where else they'd take this format now, it feels like we're coming to the end of the line.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The entrance to Canadian World in Hokkaido, Japan\n\nWith two red braids hanging from her straw hat, Anne of Green Gables may just be the most recognisable ginger-haired girl in the world. But in Japan, the orphan from Prince Edward Island is more than just a quaint Canadian import - she's a national heroine.\n\nAs he approached the farmhouse with the forest green shutters and opened the old-fashioned wooden door, Terry Dawes readied himself for what he was about to see inside. Having grown up in Prince Edward Island, Canada's smallest province, Mr Dawes had visited the famous \"Green Gables\" historic site many times throughout his life.\n\nBut this building that Mr Dawes was about to enter wasn't that house at all - it was an exact replica built 9,700km away, in Hokkaido, Japan. At its peak, the house - one of the main attractions at Japan's Canadian World theme park - drew 40,000 visitors a day.\n\nNow, the park is largely abandoned, a ghost of Japan's economic heyday in the 1990s.\n\n\"I've sort of likened it to having a dream, like an uncanny dream, where you're walking down a familiar street but something's off,\" Mr Dawes told the BBC.\n\nThe house of Green Gables in Hokkaido, Japan is an exact replica of the real house in Prince Edward Island.\n\nThe very existence of the Green Gables replica, and of Canadian World itself, is a testament to Japan's deep love for Anne of Green Gables, says Mr Dawes, who visited Japan in 2014 to film a documentary on that subject.\n\nThis love began just before the outbreak of the Second World War, when a Canadian missionary gave her student Hanako Muraoka a copy of the book. It continues to this day with an anime series, manga comics and several Japanese movies inspired by the story.\n\nIn this way, Anne became not just a Western cultural import, but a part of Japanese culture itself, interpreted and re-interpreted by Japanese artists and writers for a primarily Japanese audience.\n\n\"Generally speaking, we are good at imitating,\" says Yukari Yoshihara, a literature teacher at the University of Tsukuba who includes Anne in her first-year curriculum.\n\n\"Anne of Green Gables is a part of this larger culture of adaptations.\"\n\nAnne is popular with Japanese women especially, Ms Yoshihara says, because the world of Green Gables is filled with \"kawaii\", which means the quality of being cute, romantic and beautiful in Japanese.\n\n\"They love the story because it is full of beautiful scenery and puff sleeves and cute things, like tea parties,\" she says.\n\nA Japanese tourist takes a photo outside the real Green Gables house in Canada in 2011.\n\nBut not everyone who loves Anne is a girl. Go Takahashi, a student of Ms Yoshihara's, is also a devoted fan of Anne and is writing his university thesis on the books.\n\n\"I like Anne's character. I feel attracted to a person who talks a lot, makes a little trouble, and considers others' feelings. So Anne is perfect for me,\" he said.\n\nLike many other Japanese readers of the Anne stories, Mr Takahashi has made the pilgrimage to Prince Edward Island, where he visited many of the sites written about in the books - the original Green Gables house, Lovers Lane and the Haunted Wood.\n\nAbout 3,500 Japanese tourists visit Prince Edward Island - population 150,000 - annually, which makes Japan one of the largest source of overseas tourism on the island.\n\n\"They come for weddings, they come to see the wildflowers, they come for theatrical or musical offerings,\" says the province's Premier Wade MacLauchlan.\n\nTourism from Japan tends to spike when a new Anne-related production is broadcast. Premier MacLauchlan expects Netflix's new series, Anne, will draw large crowds once it launches on 12 May. The co-production with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is helmed by Breaking Bad alumna Moira Walley-Beckett, and makes ample use of the book's feminist subtext, choosing to portray Anne more as a survivor than a saint.\n\nAnne (Amybeth McNulty) waits at the train station in the latest retelling of Anne of Green Gables, airing on CBC and coming to Netflix 12 May.\n\nThis subtext is also essential in Japan, Ms Yoshihara says. In class, she likes to teach Anne because the book is a kind of gateway for getting students to talk about gender, which is often considered taboo in Japanese society.\n\n\"We do not usually teach kids about how gender is related to our day to day issues, like education, or fashion or how we behave,\" she says.\n\nIt's for this reason that Anne was probably published in Japan in the first place, she adds. Citing Japanese scholar Hiromi Ochi, Ms Yoshihara explains that Anne may have been a key part of America's plan to rapidly democratise Japan after the war.\n\nPublished in 1952 by Muraoka, who translated the story secretly during the war, the book was widely distributed in libraries run by the US State Department in Allied-occupied Japan. Its central story, about an orphan girl who proves her heart and mind is just as good as any boy's, served as a kind of benign liberal propaganda aimed at freeing women from traditional Japanese gender roles, she says.\n\nAnne (Amybeth McNulty) stands on the cliffs of Prince Edward Island\n\nIt seems that core reading of Anne is still prevalent today. In his interviews with Anne fans in Japan, Mr Dawes heard over and over again how people, especially women, identified with her.\n\n\"I think Anne Shirley provides a way of acting out, to a point, without ever transgressing fully,\" he says. \"Ultimately, she does the right thing by her family, her adopted family.\"\n\nAnne is both a conformist and revolutionary, a romantic and a radical.\n\n\"In a sense we are tricked into believing that Anne of Green Gables is a dream story of liberation,\" Ms Yoshihara says, laughing.\n\nBut that doesn't mean Anne is loved any less.", "Playing with fire? Georgia's singer will take full advantage of Eurovision pyrotechnics in Tuesday's semi-final\n\nPerformers from 42 countries strode down a long red carpet near Ukraine's parliament this week, as a curtain-raiser to this year's Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nBut one nation, Russia, was missing.\n\nFor the first time in Eurovision history, the host nation barred another country's singer.\n\nThat is because in 2015, in violation of Ukrainian border rules, Russia's Julia Samoilova performed in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia a year earlier.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why this Russian singer won't be in Kiev this year\n\nSamoilova suffers from a neural muscular disorder and has used a wheelchair since childhood.\n\n\"When the rumours began I might not go, I was so sad,\" she told the BBC in Moscow. \"I thought, how come? This was my dream. When the final decision was taken I didn't believe it. But unfortunately, this is the reality.\"\n\n\"I think it's a stupid reaction,\" Russian MP Vitaly Milonov tells me. \"They're even afraid of such a small girl to enter Kiev.\"\n\nEven before Ukraine's ban, Mr Milonov had called for a Russian boycott of Eurovision: \"Eurovision became a disgusting socialist nightmare for all these left-wing parties with all their bearded women, or men, with these anti-Christian positions.\n\n\"I am sure that most conservatives in the world will never attend this festival. Because this is a festival of Sodom and Gomorrah.\"\n\nThe theme of this year's contest is \"Celebrate diversity\" but that has fallen flat for Russia\n\nIt is supposed to be a festival of peace and friendship but there is not much sign of either in relations between Kiev and Moscow.\n\nIn eastern Ukraine, 10,000 people have been killed in three years of war: a war in which Russia is directly involved through its military support for separatist rebels. Crimea remains a source of tension and Eurovision is the latest battleground.\n\n\"Since 2014, we've had a law in Ukraine that punishes people who illegally cross our border when they visit Crimea,\" says Ukrainian MP Olha Chervakova.\n\n\"Did Russia know this? Of course. Did Russia know that Julia Samoilova would fall foul of this law? Of course. In other words, entering her in the contest was a conscious provocation to create a huge political scandal.\"\n\nThe ban created a huge headache for Eurovision organisers, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).\n\nEurovision's Executive Supervisor Jon Ola Sand said in March that Ukraine's decision went \"against both the spirit of the contest and the notion of inclusivity that lies at the heart of its values\".\n\nIn an unprecedented move, the EBU offered Russia the chance to take part by satellite from Moscow.\n\nRussia declined: after the dramas of last year's Eurovision, Moscow was in no mood to compromise.\n\nUkraine's 2016 winning entry, 1944, sung by Jamala, was about Joseph Stalin's deportation of Crimea's Tatar population.\n\nRussia had argued that Jamala's song broke contest rules for being of a political nature. When it won, Moscow cried foul and said there was politics at play. Now Russia seems determined to make not only Ukraine look bad, but the entire Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nRecently, two Russian pranksters - posing as Ukraine's prime minister and his assistant - released online a telephone conversation they had recorded with a woman they claimed was EBU Director General Ingrid Deltenre.\n\nIf this is the voice of the EBU's top official, it is hugely embarrassing for the EBU, because the woman on the recording makes an astonishing admission about Ukraine's winning song: \"I was just too late made aware of the song.\n\n\"If I would have been earlier, and I think it was on purpose, I would have not allowed the song to participate, to be very transparent.\"\n\nIn a statement, the EBU said it would \"not comment on prank calls\".\n\nBut these are high-profile Russian pranksters, who once fooled Elton John into thinking he was talking to Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\n\"Now our people don't trust Eurovision any more,\" one of the pranksters, Alexei, told me. \"People understand that any country can use their political goals to win, so it's not a fair contest anymore.\"\n\nPerhaps this is not just about a song contest? Or Russia's relations with Ukraine?\n\nSecurity is tight for this year's Eurovision and some fear that Russia will somehow make its presence felt\n\nEquating Eurovision with Sodom and Gomorrah and embarrassing the EBU appear part of a wider pattern of Russia trying to undermine Western institutions and Western liberal ideas.\n\n\"Russia now defines itself in its social and societal model against the West,\" believes Jan Techau of the Richard Holbrooke Forum at the American Academy in Berlin. \"The Kremlin explicitly portrays Russian society as a counter model to the corrupted West. They seem now to buy completely into the idea that whatever harms the West is good for Russia: a classic zero-sum game.\"\n\nIn the run-up to this year's contest, singer Jamala warned that \"we should expect more provocations [from Russia] because our victory hurt them a lot.\"\n\nSecurity in Kiev is tight ahead of the first semi-final.\n\nAs for Julia Samoilova, instead of singing at Eurovision this week, she will be performing - once again - in Crimea. Another political message from Moscow, to Kiev and to Europe.\n\nRussian singer Julia Samoilova has been denied a visa to perform in Kiev\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nGeorge Groves says the injuries sustained by Eduard Gutknecht in their super-middleweight bout will haunt him until he retires from boxing.\n\nBriton Groves beat Gutknecht on points in December and the German was taken to hospital with a bleed on the brain.\n\nGutknecht's wife Julia revealed in April that the 34-year-old was not able to walk or talk.\n\n\"Selfishly, while I'm still fighting I'm always going to struggle with his situation,\" Groves told 5 live boxing.\n\n\"It's a horrible thing. I struggle with it, my wife struggles with it.\"\n• None Listen to the full George Groves interview on the latest BBC Radio 5 live boxing podcast\n\nIn her interview in Germany, Gutknecht's wife said he had made \"little progress\" and had also had \"several strokes\".\n\nShe explained the right hemisphere of his brain - which controls the left side of the body - is \"almost completely damaged\" and she also highlighted her battle to finance home care.\n\nGroves, who visited Gutknecht in hospital, said he had not seen him since the German left the UK.\n\n\"It's very distressing,\" the 29-year-old said. \"We don't know if his situation will deteriorate or if anything will happen.\n\n\"We feel for him, his wife, kids and family. It's horrible.\"\n\nLondon-born Groves has not fought since that bout but will go for his first world title when he meets Russian Fedor Chudinov at Bramall Lane in Sheffield on 27 May.\n\nThe contest is part of the undercard as Britain's Kell Brook, who is from Sheffield, defends his IBF world welterweight title against American Errol Spence Jr and will be Groves' fourth attempt at winning a world crown.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nTeam Sky's Geraint Thomas moved into second place in the Giro d'Italia by finishing third on stage four.\n\nThe Welshman is six seconds behind Quick-Step's Bob Jungels, the fourth man to lead the race, and four seconds ahead of fellow Briton Adam Yates.\n\nOrica rider Yates was eighth on Tuesday's 181km stage, which finished on Mount Etna.\n\nSlovenia's Jan Polanc, who rides for UAE Team Emirates, won the stage having broken away after just 2km.\n\nKatusha's Ilnur Zakarin was second, 19 seconds back, before Thomas outsprinted FDJ's Thibaut Pinot.\n\nWednesday's stage takes the riders from Pedara to Messina, with the three-week race concluding in Milan on 28 May.\n\n\"There was a bit of a headwind in the last 2km so everyone was a bit of apprehensive. I felt good and obviously it was nice to win the sprint for the third [place] and get a few seconds as well.\n\n\"I felt pretty good on the climb but, with it being a headwind, everyone like myself didn't really want to go too early.\n\n\"I think everyone's still finding their legs and sussing each other out but a good start.\n\n\"It's a nice sort of psychological boost winning the sprint but there's still a long way to go until Milan [the final stage], and we'll know a lot more on Sunday.\"\n\nOverall classification after stage four", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nItalian football authorities may face disciplinary action over the treatment of Pescara midfielder Sulley Muntari.\n\nMuntari, 32, was sent off after leaving the field claiming he was racially abused during a Serie A game.\n\nHe was initially banned for one game but had this overturned by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC).\n\n\"We have a committee in charge of monitoring this and the committee will take action,\" Fifa secretary general Fatma Samoura told BBC Sport.\n\n\"What matters is that the committee has to act and the sooner the better.\n\n\"I have my personal feelings on anybody that is treated like he has been treated, on the pitch and off the pitch but I'm not here for my personal matters. I'm here to make sure that Fifa takes, through the committee, the appropriate action for any single discriminatory action.\"\n• None Muntari: I'd walk off again if abused\n• None I've been through hell and have been treated like a criminal\n\nOn Tuesday, Fifa president Gianni Infantino said he would speak to ex-Portsmouth player Muntari, who believes world football's governing body, and European equivalent Uefa are \"not taking racism seriously\".\n\n\"We will work together,\" said Infantino, who also said he intends to talk to the head of FIGC, Carlo Tavecchio.\n\n\"Unfortunately idiots, there are always idiots everywhere but we have to fight them. We have to work on the people.\"\n\nFifa was criticised for disbanding its anti-racism task force last September.\n\nThe organisation defended this decision at the time, with Samoura then saying that it had fulfilled the \"mandate\" for which it was set up in 2013 - which was to provide recommendations for a \"strong programme\" to tackle racism.\n\nA number of these have been put into action, including the introduction of an Anti-Discrimination Monitoring System to assess 850 high-risk matches for potential discriminatory incidents during the 2018 World Cup qualifiers and friendlies.\n\nSpeaking before this week's Fifa congress meeting in Bahrain, Samoura adopted a different stance to Infantino, saying: \"I don't have to call people anytime that they have been victim of an abuse.\"\n\nShe continued: \"We've been regularly publicising the action of the committee on every action that relates to racism, homophobic chants and any kind of discrimination.\n\n\"We have monitoring too on anti-discrimination. We have heavy sanctions every time we have been receiving reports.\"\n\nAt the weekend, Juventus' Morocco defender Medhi Benatia cut short a post-match television interview on Sunday after claiming to hear a racist insult in his earpiece.\n\nOn Monday, Boca Junior player Frank Fabra reportedly left the pitch in tears after receiving racist abuse during his side's match with Estudiantes.\n\nLa Nation says that the Boca players approached the referee to halt the game but he deemed the insults to be isolated.\n\nDoes Fifa talk a good game, but not really care when it come to fighting racism, as Sulley Muntari suggested in his hard-hitting interview with my colleague David Ornstein in Milan this week?\n\nThose working to eradicate discrimination from football believe the sport is slowly heading in the right direction, with heftier sanctions, regular initiatives, and better monitoring, despite the abolition of Fifa's anti-racism task force last year.\n\nBut as this case proves, there are still failings, especially in South America, Eastern Europe, and in Russia, where Fifa in their wisdom will stage the next World Cup. 2022 hosts Qatar meanwhile, have the death penalty for homosexual acts. Yet Fifa remains silent, and has not changed its regulations since 2013, something which frustrates campaigners.\n\nDespite pressure from groups like Fifpro and Fare, Fifa prefers a 'hands-off' approach when it comes to dealing with national associations, hence their statement last week that the Muntari issue was a matter for the Italian authorities.\n\nThe implied threat from secretary general Fatma Samoura that the Italians may now be punished should therefore be viewed sceptically. There has been a spate of similar cases in recent years, with players suspended for leaving the field and making a stand against racism, and Fifa has been notoriously reluctant to get involved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The media mogul was leaving work in Manhattan, New York\n\nAs Ofcom explores whether Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox should be allowed to press on with its planned takeover of Sky, we thought the company might agree to an interview with the BBC. But they said no.\n\nSo we paid Rupert Murdoch a surprise visit at his headquarters in Manhattan.\n\nOutside the Fox News building, I asked him if he was worried about whether Ofcom would take a close interest in what's happening at his cable news network as it made its decision.\n\nFirst he waved a finger at me and responded: \"You should be worried about what's happening at the BBC.\"\n\nBut once inside his car, he clarified: \"Nothing's happening at Fox News. Nothing.\"\n\nMurdoch's claim that there was nothing going on at Fox News, (aside from the \"record ratings\" he was very keen to mention) put me in mind of the wonderful Monty Python sketch about what the Romans have ever done for us.\n\nAlas I didn't have time to engage him more fully, but I suppose I could have said that - aside from the departures of the founder and chief executive, and the most high-profile and popular host on the channel, and the co-president who was a senior figure for decades - then, yes, nothing's happening at Fox News.\n\nRupert Murdoch answers questions outside his New York offices\n\nExcept of course, for the 20-plus legal actions that are now lodged against Fox News, from former employees claiming to be victims of racial and sexual harassment. Oh, and the internal investigation by legal firm Paul, Weiss, which unearthed such things as caused the aforementioned senior figures to depart. The allegations against O'Reilly and Ailes are strongly denied by them, and there are no allegations against Bill Shine.\n\nSo apart from all that, yes I suppose there is nothing going on at Fox News. Oh, but forgive me - there's also the federal investigation into whether or not they concealed from investors the details of settlement payments for alleged harassment.\n\nApart, then, from the departures of Roger Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, and Bill Shine, the federal investigation, an internal investigation, dozens of claims of sexual or racial harassment, an advertising boycott following the New York Times's brilliant investigation into O'Reilly, and a month of terrible headlines, I suppose it is true to say that \"nothing's happening at Fox News. Nothing.\"\n\nAs for the instinctive threat that it's the BBC that should be worried, I blame myself for this. Instead of saying \"Amol Rajan, BBC News\", I should have said - channelling my inner Troy McClure - \"You may remember, Rupert, we first met at Barry Diller's garden party in Los Angeles during Oscars weekend in 2015, but then Graydon Carter sauntered over to say hi with Anjelica Houston, and I just couldn't compete.\"\n\nI can't blame Mr Murdoch: faced with a choice between speaking to myself, or Graydon Carter and Anjelica Houston, I would definitely have chosen the latter option. No wonder I didn't leave much of an impression. Had I done so, perhaps we could have conversed like old pals.\n\nInstead, Mr Murdoch simply told me that he was \"not worried at all\" about what's happening. But his family and company's long-standing desire to take full control of Sky makes the timing of this scandal, and the series of visitors to Ofcom, rather annoying.\n\nThat's not to say that Ofcom will indeed rule against the latest bid for full control of Sky. There is, after all, a strong response from 21st Century Fox. In several conversations in Manhattan with those following this story closely, including representatives of Fox, the message comes back loud and clear, even if it is contradicted by Mr Murdoch's comment to me.\n\nThat message is that Fox has taken swift and decisive action; that the allegations remain unproven; that there is so much more to Fox than Rupert Murdoch; and that the generational change now under way is harbinger of a very different corporate culture.\n\nLawyer Douglas Wigdor will give evidence to Ofcom this week\n\nEven if all that is true - and of course there are many who say it is rubbish - the man at the top was not on message when I spoke to him as he left work, doubtless to the annoyance of those trying to maintain message discipline on this ever-spreading scandal.\n\nDouglas Wigdor, the lawyer representing more than 20 of the individuals who have launched cases against Fox, told me that Fox only got rid of O'Reilly because of the looming Ofcom scrutiny and because the advertising boycott was hurting them financially.\n\nFox vigorously denies these claims. The trouble for the company is that, on Thursday, Wigdor is going to spend rather a long time in the inner sanctum of Ofcom providing the kind of detail that cannot be good news for the Murdochs' latest bid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManager Antonio Conte says his Chelsea players are worthy of winning the Premier League title.\n\nThe Blues are now one win away from securing their fifth league trophy after beating Middlesbrough 3-0 at Stamford Bridge on Monday.\n\nConte, 47, told BBC Match of the Day: \"This is my first season in England in a tough championship.\n\n\"I'm delighted for my players, they deserve this. We are showing that we deserve to win the league.\"\n\nChelsea face West Brom on Friday with a seven-point advantage over Tottenham, who play Manchester United on Sunday.\n\nThe Blues finish their league season with games against Watford and relegated Sunderland.\n\n\"Now, we have taken another step to the title. We have to rest well and prepare for West Brom,\" Conte said after Monday's victory, which relegated Boro back to the Championship.\n\n\"We must try in the next game to become champions. West Brom will want to play a good game against us, but we are ready.\"\n\nCesc Fabregas was brought into Chelsea's starting line-up after N'Golo Kante was ruled out through injury, and the Spaniard was Chelsea's stand-out player.\n\nHe provided the pass for Diego Costa's opener and Nemanja Matic's third, and has now claimed 10 assists and four goals in 26 games. Marcos Alonso scored Chelsea's second.\n\n\"It's been a difficult year for me. I'm used to playing a lot but I feel I have matured a lot,\" former Arsenal midfielder Fabregas told Sky Sports.\n\n\"Many people told me I am not the type of player for Antonio Conte and I should leave but I like challenges.\n\n\"I hadn't played every game but I think I have played in the last 20 games. When I have been on the pitch maybe my contribution is better than a full season.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea and Middlesbrough goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer said on Match of the Day: \"His interview just shows the calibre of the player. He wants to play week in, week out.\n\n\"He has got so much in the locker, his ability on the ball, how he is able to pick out players from anywhere on the pitch is outstanding.\n\n\"He may be lacking pace but his reading of the game is still world class. Every time Chelsea want an option or need an outlet, they go to Fabregas.\n\n\"He has been the ultimate professional and a huge weapon for Chelsea.\"", "Last March, just weeks before announcing her candidacy for the 2017 French presidential election, far-right politician Marine Le Pen set foot onto a craggy, frostbitten island 10 miles off the coast of the Canadian province of Newfoundland & Labrador. How did Le Pen's ideas resonate on the islands so far from the French mainland?\n\nThis was no foreign visit. The island of St Pierre, together with its larger but less populated neighbour Miquelon, is a remote outpost of France. It is the last French soil left in North America, and the oldest remaining French overseas territory in the world.\n\nFew French people visit, or have even really heard of St Pierre and Miquelon, and that was exactly the point that Marine Le Pen, then leader of the Front National party, was trying to make when she arrived. Under her leadership, she argued, the people of St Pierre and Miquelon would be forgotten no more.\n\nIn the year since, the presidential election has been one of the most surprising in France's modern history, with far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon and mainstream-right candidate François Fillon being eliminated in the first round of voting. French citizens were left to decide between Le Pen and a heretofore unelected 39-year-old banker, Emmanuel Macron.\n\nLe Pen may have lost the vote for president, but her message resonated in St Pierre. Macron, on the other hand, has demonstrated little familiarity with life in this particular corner of France.\n\nÎle aux Marins, part of the chain of islands comprising Saint-Pierre and Miquelon\n\n\"I will never vote for Macron,\" said Johann, a French fisherman and captain of the small scalloping vessel Emeline.\n\nAs the Emeline zips through the Bay of Fortune en route to the St Pierre harbour, a couple of dolphins race by on the port side.\n\n\"We need something new,\" he adds. \"She - Le Pen - is not new either, but at least she is different, you know. Macron is the same.\"\n\nJohann was born and raised in St Pierre.\n\nAlthough he and his fellow islanders number just 6,000, their votes held a special significance in French elections. St Pierre and Miquelon is the easternmost of France's western territories (the others being in the Caribbean and South America), which voted a day ahead of mainland France. Consequently, the very first votes to be cast in any French national election are those from St Pierre.\n\nIn mainland France, the rise of Marine Le Pen and the far right generally spurred increasing concern around immigration and terrorism, along with dissatisfaction with the European Union.\n\nFor Johann and his fellow fishermen, these concerns are quite literally a world away.\n\nThey gauge politics by hunches and intuitions, and in that frame of mind, president-elect Emmanuel Macron seems like an elitist, someone who would be out of place on a scalloping vessel in the high Atlantic.\n\nSaint-Pierre was founded as a fishing territory, but today fishing comprises only 3% of the economy. While the local government has made a huge effort to boost tourism, the high cost of getting to the islands means that they receive only 10,000 visitors a year. The bulk of economic activity comes from public spending and administrative work. In this context, it is easy to see why, among the fishing community at least, a change from the establishment would be most welcome.\n\nElection posters up in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon\n\nOn Thursday evening before the election, one of the bars in the island was packed with young people. In typical French fashion, the life of the party was in the smoking section - and there were plenty of opinions on the election.\n\nOne vocal group of friends in their late teens and early twenties had just ordered a round of shots.\n\nThey were a diverse bunch, including two young women from France proper and one from Corsica. The women are all living in St Pierre because their parents have been sent there for work. The young men are all natives of the island, though with their black skinny jeans and fashionable haircuts, anyone of them could have been transported from a Parisian street corner.\n\nAll but one supported far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round. It seems he won the youth of Saint-Pierre over with his leftward pivots and his use of YouTube and social media. Once Mélenchon was out, the young voters declined to choose.\n\nMany young people in the bar had decided to cast a vote blanc, a blank ballot. The other half begrudgingly said they would vote for Macron.\n\nThe sense of disenchantment seemed to teeter between animated frustration and blasé resignation.\n\nIn the first round of voting, St Pierre and Miquelon strongly supported Mélenchon, with 35.45% of the vote.\n\nBut in St Pierre and Miquelon, Le Pen and Macron were neck-and-neck for second and third place, receiving 18.16% and 17.97%, respectively. In an island community with just under 5,000 eligible voters, the difference between 18.16% and 17.97% was a mere five votes.\n\nAlex Bry and Pierre Fouchard are cousins and best friends, but they are on the opposite ends of the political spectrum.\n\nThey are both 19, and first-time voters. Fouchard was the only one of his friends who said he would vote Le Pen, a decision he made because of what he sees as a kind of unfairness that permeates French society.\n\nBry argues frequently with Fouchard about politics, but they never allow it to reach the point of animosity.\n\nBry saw Macron as France's last chance to maintain its commitment to the environment and human rights. But in spite of his strong progressive bent he had a hard time deciding whether or not he would actually vote for Macron. For him, the vote blanc remained an option until the last minute. He said he voted for Macron \"unwillingly\".\n\nFouchard, on the other hand, voted for Le Pen despite expecting her to lose.\n\nAround 1:00am, as bar staff made their way around the tables to prepare to close, Bry and Fouchard ordered a final round of cocktails. They decided to finish the night with a boisterous rendition of a Newfoundland drinking song - two smartly dressed boys who speak European French singing in English about fighting Quebeckers for the territorial integrity of Labrador.\n\nA woman nearby leaned over and whispered: \"A lot of people here feel Canadian on the inside, even just a little.\"\n\nSt Pierre and Miquelon voters casting their ballots in the second round of the 2017 French election\n\nThe polls opened on Saturday at the St Pierre town hall at 8:00 am.\n\nA rooster in the garden of one of the neighbouring houses crowed at precisely the moment town hall officials unlocked the doors.\n\nIt was a polite and pleasant atmosphere, with none of the bitter disillusionment seen in the bar on Thursday night. The first person to vote in St Pierre was an elderly gentleman named Gérard Dagort.\n\nIn the end, Macron's victory was decisive, but voter turnout was the lowest in nearly 50 years and votes blancs were at a record high.\n\nWhen St Pierre's own numbers were released, they closely mirrored the overall French result, with 63.88% for Macron to 36.12% for Le Pen.\n\nIt seems, then, that Marine Le Pen may have misjudged the impact of St Pierre and Miquelon's distance from France in her visit last year.\n\nSure, there are hockey jerseys and pickup trucks on the island and anything from France has to come on a cargo ship from Canada. But when it comes to politics at least, the people of St Pierre and Miquelon are as close to France as ever.\n• None Will Macron mean Brexit blues or boost?", "To mark 25 years since the last English manager won the top flight, a BBC Radio 5 live special asks if an English manager will ever win the Premier League.\n\nMore English managers have got their hands on the World Cup than the Premier League title.\n\nThe media can be more guilty than most of thinking that football began with the Premier League's inaugural campaign in 1992-93, but, in this instance, it was the end of an era.\n\nThis season's 25th instalment also marks a quarter of a century since Howard Wilkinson became the last Englishman to guide a club to become champions of England. His Leeds side pipped Alex Ferguson's Manchester United to win the title only two years after being promoted from the second tier.\n\nSince then, glory has been tasted by two Scots, a Frenchman, a Portuguese, a Chilean and, when Antonio Conte completes the job with Chelsea, four Italians.\n\nEnglish managers are getting further away, too. In the first edition of the Premier League, 16 of the 22 bosses were from England. Now there are six. Last season, the top flight ended with only four clubs managed by Englishmen, and that includes Everton's caretakers.\n\nIn 1993, Englishman Ron Atkinson was second with Aston Villa. The only other native to reach the top two is Kevin Keegan, and that was in 1996 (Brian Kidd's two-game spell in charge of second-placed Manchester City in 2013 hardly counts).\n\nEnglishmen gradually vacated the top three, then the top four, five, six and seven. Last season was the first Premier League without an English boss finishing in the top half.\n\nTo what extent have English managers been affected by the foreign money, owners and players that characterise the top flight? Should homegrown bosses look abroad in order to grow their knowledge and reputation? Can a manager find a way from the lower leagues to the summit of the domestic game?\n\nMost importantly, will an English manager ever win the Premier League?\n\nIf the 2017 Premier League belongs to the world - backed by money from across Europe, Asia and America, managed by bosses from 11 different countries, populated by players from countless others and supported by fans across the globe - then the 1992-93 version was as English as fish and chips on a wet day in Southport, albeit with a few tourists from the rest of the UK and Ireland.\n\nOf the 22 managers that ended the season, the six that weren't English were made up of four Scots, a Welshman and an Irishman. Bar Ossie Ardiles' spell in charge of Spurs, the Premier League remained entirely managed by Britons and Irishmen until 1996.\n\nArsene Wenger's arrival at Arsenal in that year has long been described as a Frenchman bringing a revolution to English football - new attitudes to diet, training, alcohol and professionalism.\n\nWenger did the Double in 1998, 12 months after Chelsea lifted the FA Cup to make Ruud Gullit the first manager from outside of the UK and Ireland to win one of English football's major trophies.\n\nTheir success piqued attention throughout the Premier League - former Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry said Wenger caused clubs to \"rethink the approach\" - but that was not the only reason that eyes began to glance abroad.\n\nAn expanded Champions League - England got two places in 1997 and three in 1999 - was one of the factors that contributed to Liverpool recruiting Gerard Houllier to work alongside existing manager Roy Evans in 1998.\n\n\"We wanted to bring someone in from overseas, we wanted to add that European dimension. That was a very deliberate decision,\" said Parry. \"We felt the game was internationalising and that you couldn't just survive with an island league.\n\n\"You had to be aware of what was happening across borders and be able to compete with the top European clubs. We felt we needed that European experience to add to a successful base.\"\n\nWhen the time came to replace Houllier in 2004, sights were set higher. To win the Premier League, the Reds felt they needed a manager with championship-winning experience.\n\nBy that time, though, the only managers in the English top flight to have won it were Wenger and Ferguson, neither of whom were ever likely to be available.\n\nLiverpool's appointment of Rafael Benitez, a man who won two Spanish titles with Valencia, would be replicated by the arrivals of serial winners Jose Mourinho at Chelsea, Roberto Mancini at Manchester City and, much later, Louis van Gaal at Manchester United.\n\n\"We had a very specific criteria that narrowed the selection,\" added Parry. \"Rafa seemed like a perfect fit.\"\n\n\"It was nothing to do with a sexy image, it was how he and the world-class Spanish players he brought in could add value to the holy grail of winning the Premier League.\"\n\n...and the world takes over\n\nThe arrival of managers from outside of the UK and Ireland began as a trickle, but is now a steady and self-replenishing stream. At the end of 2004-05 there were five bosses from overseas, seven by 2009-10 and 10 by '13-14. Earlier this season, that number peaked at 13.\n\nIf the touchline is increasingly multi-national, it is nothing compared to the boardroom.\n\nWhat began with Norwegian investment at Wimbledon and Mohamed Al Fayed taking his Fulham to the top flight was followed by a mid-2000s avalanche of cash brought by the likes of Roman Abramovich and the Glazer family. Now, there are only four Premier League clubs that are not influenced by foreign money.\n\n\"The biggest single reason why there are more foreign managers is foreign ownership,\" said former England defender Phil Neville.\n\n\"A lot of these owners attach themselves to a particular agent who has foreign managers on their books and that agent will promote their own.\n\n\"In Europe, Spain and Italy in particular, they like to give opportunities to their own managers, rather than bringing someone in from outside.\"\n\nTo illustrate that point, there are eight non-German bosses in the Bundesliga, seven non-Spanish coaches in La Liga, seven non-French managers in Ligue 1 and only four non-Italians in charge of Serie A clubs.\n\nBarring a Leicester-style shock (delivered by an Italian), Premier League winners for the foreseeable future are likely to come from six clubs - Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur. Therefore, for an English manager to lift the title, he would have to be in charge of one of those clubs.\n\nAnd therein lies a problem. Neither United or Arsenal have had an English boss since 1986. Chelsea's last full-time English manager was in 1996, while City haven't looked at home since the Abu Dhabi United group took over. Liverpool's only English stewardship since Roy Evans left in 1998 was Roy Hodgson's six months at Anfield.\n\nThese clubs have had plenty of success with bosses from the rest of UK and Ireland - Ferguson, George Graham, Kenny Dalglish - and taken chances on others - David Moyes and Brendan Rodgers. However, last season was the first that overseas bosses in the top flight outnumbered Britons and Irishmen.\n\nOf that top six, Spurs have had the most recent success with an English manager, with Harry Redknapp the last Englishman to finish inside the Premier League's top four in 2012.\n\n\"It's about getting the opportunity, but the lads don't get the chance,\" said Redknapp. \"They work their socks off to get their coaching badges, but when the top jobs come up they are never mentioned.\"\n\n'It's sexy to have a foreign manager'\n\nStill, it can be strongly argued that a Premier League owner, chairman or chief executive wanting the best for their club is right to look abroad.\n\nParry's explanation of Liverpool's recruitment of Houllier and Benitez is logical - it is only natural that a club signing the very best players from all over the world would want to do the same when it comes to the manager.\n\nCan, then, English managers be considered to be among the best on the planet?\n\n\"The perception is that foreign coaches are better educated and it's harder to qualify overseas than it has been in England,\" said Parry.\n\n\"That perception has been a reality. Going back a decade or two, when English football had no requirements to be a manager, it was a fact of life that in Germany, Spain and Italy you had to have the qualifications or you couldn't coach. We were the last bastion of complete freedom - we were behind the curve in that sense.\n\n\"That was probably a setback, but I'd love to feel that we were catching up.\"\n\nRedknapp, though, feels English bosses are not lacking in quality, but are up against it when it comes to image.\n\nSam Allardyce may have had his tongue planted in his cheek when he said that he would be managing a top-four club if his name was \"Allardici\", but the point still stands.\n\nIs the designer suit and manicured stubble of a continental boss more appealing than the duvet coat of his English counterpart?\n\n\"It's sexy to have a foreign manager,\" said Redknapp. \"Owners think he was so and so, or he played for him, he managed this club when, in reality, they are no better than what our lads are.\n\n\"It's my honest belief that if you put Sean Dyche in charge of a top six club, they will still be in the top six. If you put any of the top six managers down at Burnley, they won't do any better than what he's done.\"\n\nShould I stay or should I go?\n\nAnd so English bosses face multiple barriers to obtaining managerial jobs at the biggest clubs in the land.\n\nForeign managers are more attractive to foreign owners, are perceived to have greater knowledge of the European game and have often built a reputation through winning trophies in the biggest leagues on the continent.\n\nAn English manager could (and maybe even should) come to the conclusion that the best way to make himself appealing to the biggest clubs in the Premier League is to leave these shores to manage, learn and, hopefully, win in Europe.\n\nBut if English bosses are maligned at home, why should they be taken seriously abroad?\n\n\"I don't think English coaches are held in that high esteem abroad,\" said Neville. \"There's a stigma attached to the coaches that leave England to work abroad and there are not many opportunities.\"\n\nNeville speaks from the bruising experience of assisting brother Gary in an unsuccessful spell in charge of Valencia, but he insists he will see the benefits if he decides to return to coaching.\n\n\"There's a different world out there,\" added the former Manchester United and Everton man. \"I have learned so much in the past 18 months, not just on the training field, but about the culture and myself.\n\n\"Watching, coaching, little things that will hopefully stand me in good stead for the rest of my coaching career.\"\n\n'Don't blame them, look at yourself'\n\nThe reality, though, is that a new English manager who does not have the benefit of 50 international caps is likely to begin his career in League One or League Two - if he is lucky.\n\nAnd Redknapp makes a strong point when he says that the only way for an English manager to reach the top flight is to win promotion from the Championship.\n\nThe last manager of any nationality to be appointed to a Premier League club from a job in the Football League (not unemployed, promoted from within or taken from abroad) was Chris Hughton, who moved from Birmingham to Norwich in the summer of 2012. More than 50 bosses have been recruited by top-flight clubs since then.\n\n\"We need to make sure we promote and market the CVs of up-and-coming coaches,\" said League Managers' Association chief executive Richard Bevan. \"We need to make sure that the agents who are advising foreign owners are aware of our members.\"\n\nOne option open to those ending the most stellar playing careers is to take a job coaching in an academy and work upwards.\n\nSteven Gerrard, the new Liverpool Under-18s coach, may have come to the conclusion that he is much more likely to get a chance with the Reds first team by being taken from the Anfield system, rather than gambling on success in the lower leagues.\n\n\"If you asked Steven Gerrard to become MK Dons manager, he doesn't know anything about League One football, or even the Championship,\" said Neville. \"He never played in it and maybe never watched a game. He'd be setting himself up for a fall.\n\n\"When I finished my career I wanted to go into management. I was an assistant for a couple of years, but wanted my own job. I thought I'd struggle to get a club, so wondered what another path could be, maybe at a youth team or an under-18 team.\n\n\"You see it a lot in Spain - we have Curro Torres, a former Spain international, at Valencia. He's had four seasons as the B team manager and now he's ready to go out on his own.\"\n\nBut for those who do not have the option of an academy job at a mega-club, the route to the top must start much further down the pyramid.\n\nHistorically that has been no barrier to success - World Cup winner Sir Alf Ramsey's first job was with third-tier Ipswich Town, the same level at which Redknapp inherited Bournemouth.\n\nEddie Howe famously kept the same club in the Football League despite a 17-point deduction, while Allardyce began as player-manager of Irish club Limerick.\n\nFor David Artell, a 36-year-old who has guided Crewe to League Two safety since being given his first managerial gig in January, Howe gives inspiration that the mountain can still be scaled.\n\n\"Why should I think there's anything stopping me from making it to the top?\" he said. \"Maybe that's naivety, but I truly believe I will go as far as my work ethic, desire and commitment will take me.\n\n\"I don't think that will stop at a chairman's door because a Portuguese fella or a French fella is better than me.\n\n\"You can say opportunity is limited because of all the foreign managers in the Premier League, but don't blame them. You have to look at yourself first. Excellence can't just be picked up, you have go and seek it.\"\n\nHis optimism, ambition and bullishness is laudable, but tempered by the bleak words of Redknapp.\n\n\"I don't see a top-six club appointing an Englishman for a long time to come,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a long way down the line before an Englishman wins the Premier League. The top six from this season will be the top six again next year. They all have foreign managers.\n\n\"Hopefully it will change, but not in the near future.\"", "A \"motivated\" Eugenie Bouchard beat Maria Sharapova - the woman she called a \"cheat\" - in a marathon three-setter in the second round of the Madrid Open.\n\nBouchard criticised Sharapova as she made her comeback from a 15-month drugs ban at the Stuttgart Open in April.\n\nThe Canadian finally came through a brutal encounter 7-5 2-6 6-4 after almost three hours on court.\n\n\"I was inspired because I had a lot of players coming up to me privately, wishing me good luck,\" said Bouchard.\n\n\"They were players I don't normally speak to and I got a lot of texts from people in the tennis world that were just rooting for me. I wanted to do it for myself, but also for all these people.\"\n\nBouchard will play Angelique Kerber, who is set to replace Serena Williams as world number one, in the third round.\n\n\"Some girls in the locker room were coming up to me and really wishing me good luck which doesn't normally happen,\" added the world number 60.\n\n\"It showed me that most people have my opinion and they were just maybe scared to speak out.\"\n\nSpeaking after Sharapova made her return from a ban for the use of meldonium in Stuttgart, Bouchard said: \"She's a cheater and I don't think a cheater in any sport should be allowed to play again.\n\n\"I think from the WTA it sends the wrong message to young kids: cheat and we'll welcome you back with open arms.\n\n\"I don't think that's right and she's not someone I can say I look up to any more.\"\n\nWhen Bouchard's comments were put to her, Sharapova said that she was \"way above\" responding.\n\nThough there was no apparent frostiness between them as they entered the court and knocked up, what followed was a fluctuating and full-blooded encounter in which both players refused to give ground.\n\nWith breaks exchanged in the first set, Bouchard looked to have blown a huge chance in the 11th game when she missed a forehand into open court with Sharapova stranded.\n\nBut the former Wimbledon finalist recovered to take her fourth break point at the end of a 12-minute game and served out to win a first set that last for 70 minutes.\n\nSharapova, though, found an extra gear in the next stanza, winning four straight games to take the second set as mistakes crept into Bouchard's game.\n\nThe decider was a sapping affair, with each player coming from 0-40 down to avoid being broken - in Sharapova's case, the Russian did it in successive service games.\n\nA third save from 0-40 was too big an ask for Sharapova, but even then it was not decisive for Bouchard, who surrendered her serve in the next game.\n\nBut, from 40-15 up, Sharapova was broken again and, in the next game, Bouchard took her second match point for her first victory over the five-time Grand Slam champion at the fifth time of asking.\n\nAfter two hours and 51 minutes, the players exchanged the briefest of handshakes at the net.\n\n\"She said 'well played',\" said Bouchard. \"And I think she's been playing really well in her so-called comeback, if you want to call it that.\"\n\nFor Bouchard, this represents her biggest win and best run at a tournament since reaching the semi-finals in Sydney in January, while Sharapova still has work to do secure a place in Wimbledon qualifying.\n\n\"I think I would be worried about myself if I sat here and said I'm pretty happy with losing a tennis match, no matter who I face, no matter what round it is, whether it's the first round or final of a Grand Slam,\" said Sharapova.\n\n\"I'm a big competitor. What you work for so many hours every single day is to be on the winning end of matches.\n\n\"Today was just not that day. Of course, I'm disappointed. That's what's going to make me a better player. That's what's going to win me more tournaments and more Grand Slams.\"\n\nTwo hours and 51 minutes full of fabulous and often ferocious rallies - and ultimately a surprising winner. Bouchard has been in horrible form, but she played here with the confidence she showed en route to the Wimbledon final of 2014, and did not seem remotely fazed when Sharapova ran away with the second set.\n\nBouchard then remained on the front foot when she appeared for her media conference: choosing to detail how many good luck messages she had received from unlikely sources prior to the match.\n\nThe defeat leaves Sharapova some way adrift of direct entry into the Wimbledon main draw. She will need to reach the semi-finals in Rome next week to make sure. And a first round defeat could cost her a place in qualifying unless the All England Club steps in with a wildcard.\n\nAndy Murray v Marius Copil in the Madrid Open round of 32 will be live on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra on Tuesday from 16:00 BST.", "Privately lots of Tories have said for years, six years in fact, that the chances of getting immigration down to under 100,000 were small.\n\nAnd for as long as we were in the European Union, the UK government had no way of guaranteeing it would happen in any case.\n\nThe job prospects for young Spaniards, Poles, Italians, were arguably a bigger determinant for UK immigration than anything the UK government could do about European immigration at least.\n\nFor as long as we have freedom of movement, part of the deal of being in the EU, we can't put a limit on the numbers, nor the rest of the EU put a limit on the number of Brits who could move around the EU.\n\nIt's also worth saying that immigration from the rest of the world, on its own, has also been well over the target of \"tens of thousands\" - and remember, that's the bit that is easier to control. You can see the numbers here, since the Tories came into government in 2010:\n\nOnce we are out of the EU, controlling those numbers will in theory be easier. It will be the UK that decides how many people can come from around Europe, as they currently do with the rest of the world.\n\nBut while Theresa May has staunchly recommitted to the target she, as home secretary, missed for six years in a row, ministers have been also busy reassuring businesses they will be able to get the people they need, whether builders, bankers, or fruit pickers. If the economy needs them, they will be allowed to come.\n\nThat doesn't sound like a recipe for getting the numbers down to Theresa May's preferred level. And even though we are on our way out of the EU, there is still huge scepticism over whether the target is remotely achievable. So why keep it?\n\nSometimes in politics it's useful to ponder what would happen if they did the opposite.\n\nDitch the immigration target after the referendum when public concern about the levels was so obvious? Ditch it when the Tories want to pick up as many former UKIP voters as possible? Ditch it when Theresa May has spent years, with limited success, trying different ways of getting it down?\n\nOne source told me \"it's just too ingrained\". The political, if not the pragmatic, reasons for keeping it become clear pretty fast. Whether the target is suddenly achievable however is an entirely different debate.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister David Cameron says he will stand down\n\nIn the tradition of the Good Parliament, the Long Parliament, the Addled Parliament and the Cavalier Parliament, will history remember the short, but eventful parliament of 2015-17?\n\nProbably as the Brexit Parliament… its central event was the EU Referendum and its spectacular fallout - and there can be few moments in history when the political scene has transformed so convulsively and completely.\n\nRewind, for a moment, to 9 May, 2015. David Cameron and George Osborne were all-conquering - they had sloughed off the constraints of coalition and headed the first Conservative majority government to take office since 1992.\n\nLabour and the Lib Dems were in disarray and faced leadership contests, and only the new phalanx of SNP MPs - now the third party in the Commons - looked confident and organised.\n\nWith a majority of just 12, the government had to tread carefully - especially on euro issues. There was no way the prime minister could resile from his manifesto commitment to renegotiate the terms of Britain's EU membership and bring home new controls on immigration.\n\nBut right from the start, Tory strategists knew that the party faced what might be a devastating civil war between its pro-EU and pro-Brexit wings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Theresa May said she wanted to \"build a better Britain\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Highlights of the arguments and campaigning ahead of the UK voting in the EU referendum\n\nThe referendum result forced David Cameron to resign, and a brief, but vicious smack down followed. Several cabinet ministers who had looked set to remain in office for a decade were suddenly out on their ears.\n\nThere was a little sniping from the dispossessed, but the Conservatives displayed their usual instinct for unity - an instinct summed up by the veteran pro-Remain former Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt, who told the Commons on 1 February: \"As a confirmed remainer and supporter of the EU, I do not want the next generation of Conservative MPs to have the blight of this argument dogging them, their associations, their members and their voters in the way it has dogged us. It has soured friendships, deepened bitterness and damaged relationships - I swore at a mate in the Tea Room, and I am sorry.\"\n\nTheresa May's new government was forced by a court action to bring in a bill to begin the process of leaving the EU - the 133-word European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill. It was passed, clean and un-amended by the Commons, but amended twice by the Lords, before they backed down when the Commons refused to accept the changes they had made.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn won the contest in the first round of voting, with 251,417 votes\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn after 2016 contest: Let's wipe that slate clean, from today, and get on with the work we have got to do as a party together\n\nFor all the sound and fury, and baleful warnings that pro-Remain peers would \"block Brexit\" the government got the result it wanted on time and with no serious inconvenience along the way.\n\nLabour's internal troubles were obvious from the moment Jeremy Corbyn took office…. It was not just the doomed Owen Smith leadership challenge that laid bare the internal rivalries of the Labour right while actually strengthening the leader's hand.\n\nThere were also the silent ranks of MPs behind him at PMQs, the constant churn through the shadow cabinet and front bench, the preference of many MPs for jobs on the committee corridor or big-city mayoralties - or even outside politics altogether.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angus Robertson asks the prime minister if he is \"running away\" from a previous pledge to take part in a TV debate\n\nThere were splits on everything from economic policy to Brexit, but perhaps the most dramatic manifestation of all this came in the December 2015 Syria vote, when David Cameron sought Commons approval to join the military action against ISIS in Syria, which Jeremy Corbyn opposed, but his shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn (in what was probably THE speech of the Parliament) supported.\n\nThe SNP meanwhile were enjoying their new status as the third party in the Commons - gleefully turfing the Lib Dems out of the offices they had enjoyed for decades, and making good use of their new prominence in debates and question times - with their Westminster leader, Angus Robertson emerging as the classiest performer at PMQs.\n\nIn the 2015 Parliament, the SNP seemed to defy the normal laws of politics, running a focused, disciplined and very smart political operation, closely coordinated with their Holyrood leadership.\n\nThe Westminster press corps never really penetrated their shell; there was no hint of internal dissent or factional rivalry as they relentlessly used their new prominence to paint Westminster as corrupt and antiquated, and to push to make the case for independence at every opportunity, while taking pot-shots at Labour at every opportunity. Their natural allies, Plaid Cymru, did much the same, and were probably boosted by association.\n\nThe Lib Dems began the Parliament decimated and demoralised - just barely visible on good days and missing from debates a lot of the time. Like generations of his predecessors, their new leader, Tim Farron, has had a rough ride in the Commons, but Brexit seems to have revived them somewhat, with Nick Clegg in particular shaking off his post-election melancholy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Douglas Carswell gets a one word answer when he asks David Cameron about his future.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Cameron is asked about the past progressive tense and modal verbs by Caroline Lucas.\n\nPerched uneasily next to them in the Commons benches were the Northern Ireland DUP, whose main role in the last Parliament was as the go-to source of extra votes when the government's narrow majority was under threat. They have enjoyed huge leverage since 2010, and have played their hand well.\n\nThen we had the one-person parties - Douglas Carswell (sometime of UKIP) and the Greens' Caroline Lucas. Being the only Commons voice for a party with national pretentions is a tough task. Ms Lucas has been an effective performer, and has managed to use the House as a platform to make her presence - and her party's - felt. She has been helped by Commons rules which require cross-party support for backbench debates, making her a sought-after ally for all kinds of campaigns.\n\nMr Carswell has been more pre-occupied with the internal politics of his adopted party. How antiseptic that statement seems, set against the brutal party infighting which marked his sojourn in UKIP. But (see previous blogpost) he can leave Westminster having secured his ultimate political aim, and able to at least claim that his faction-fighting inside UKIP made the referendum victory possible.\n\nOf course the parties are just one dimension of Westminster life. The two years of the 2015-17 Parliament also saw an impressive flowering of the select committees, where cross-party working is the order of the day.\n\nAt times they have exerted real leverage over governments - there was the health committee's push for a sugary drinks tax to tackle obesity, under the leadership of Dr Sarah Wollaston. There was the astounding sight of Prime Minister David Cameron having to publicly court the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Crispin Blunt, when he sought Commons approval to join the military action against ISIS in Syria. And there was a new trend to joint working, with several committees joining forces to address a series of issues which crossed departmental boundaries.\n\nThere were joint inquiries into Supported Housing (Work and Pensions and Communities and Local Government); Mental Health in Schools (Education and Health); Improving Air Quality (Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Environmental Audit Committee, Health, and Transport Committees); Competitiveness (Education and Business), and, most spectacularly, there was the joint Work and Pensions and Business inquiry into the collapse of BHS.\n\nThere was also cooperation between select committee chairs to push causes on which they agreed, most notably the close coordination between Sarah Wollaston, Clive Betts of the Communities and Local Government Committee, and the Public Accounts Committee chair, Meg Hillier, over funding for the NHS and social care.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaker John Bercow announces that clerks in the House of Commons will no longer have to wear wigs\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Speaker told the House of Commons that MPs should follow the example of Ken Clarke\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Bercow says the Lib Dem leader may be \"irritating\" to some Conservative backbenchers\n\nThe other continuing trend of the 2015 Parliament was more urgent questions and more emergency debates, as Speaker Bercow continued to facilitate MPs in jerking the chain of ministers. In this respect the Commons intakes of 2010 and 2015 hardly know they're born. The days when urgent questions were rarer than panda cubs, and emergency debates were merely a theoretical possibility, are long gone. A pro-active speaker has utterly changed the climate of the Commons, speeding up question times, so more voices are heard, and paying less regard to the rigid seniority system, which set the pecking order in debates. But John Bercow's term in the chair is now certainly closer to its end than its beginning.\n\nThis has also been a more visibly emotional parliament. There was an early moment of tragedy when the former Lib Dem Leader Charles Kennedy - who lost his seat at the election - died suddenly at his home, Then came the brutal murder of the Labour MP Jo Cox, and the terror attack of March 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn tribute to Jo Cox: 'We have lost one of our best'\n\nEach of these events led to emotional occasions in the Commons, and produced a sense of a political community rallying round. And beyond those moments, this was a Parliament where MPs talked openly about their experiences of stillbirth and infant death, depression, alcoholism and the suicide of a relative. Some of these speeches - from Antoinette Sandbach and Vicky Foxcroft, for example - had a shattering impact on the MPs in the chamber and the wider public.\n\nOne of the biggest changes has been the growing audience for Parliament. A few centuries ago, it was illegal to report debates in the Commons - now there is a substantial and growing audience for BBC Parliament and Westminster's own online service which allows the public to watch not just the main chamber but committee and Westminster Hall proceedings, too.\n\nThe 21st century audience does not have to rely on next-day reports of debates, and committee hearings, it can watch and comment in real time, replay and analyse every word and facial expression and rebroadcast its favourite moments.\n\nSome MPs are becoming adept at creating viral social media moments - as when the SNP contingent began to hum the EU anthem \"Ode to Joy\" during the final votes on the bill to trigger Article 50, attracting a rebuke from deputy speaker Lindsay Hoyle.\n\nIf I have one prediction for the next parliament, it is that more MPs will realise that there is now a very big spectators' gallery out there - and more and more of them will start to play to it.", "Coverage: Live text commentary on the BBC Sport website on Saturday and Sunday.\n\nWhat makes a major? The question arises because it is becoming harder to find reasons why this week's Players Championship will not eventually evolve to that elevated level.\n\nThe four men's majors are the benchmark of the game.\n\nThe Open Championship is the world's oldest and most prestigious event, the Masters has become the game's most glamorous tournament, the US Open is America's national championship and the PGA? Well, it is the PGA.\n\nChronologically it is last of the big four and is regarded as such in significance - this despite always boasting the top 100 players in the world, which is more than the other three majors are able to do.\n\nGaining major status only genuinely happens when there is universal agreement that a tournament deserves such status.\n\nThe stature of the US Open has never been in doubt while on these shores, The Open's lustre only wobbled when American professionals became reluctant to travel in the 1950s.\n\nArnold Palmer's continued support of The Open ensured its elite status was preserved and never again ignored by any of the world's leading stars.\n\nThe Masters only truly acquired its major standing in the post-Second World War years and the US PGA Championship needed to switch from its original matchplay format in 1958 to maintain its relevance.\n\nIt is also the preserve of the PGA of America, one of the most powerful bodies in the sport and the organisation that runs the US Ryder Cup team.\n\nAll majors have in common a place in sporting history, large prize funds, deep fields populated with players desperate to win, a resonance that stretches beyond the golfing village and the ability to identify the best players in the world.\n\nAnd this neatly brings us to the 44th Players Championship, which will be played at TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida from Thursday.\n\nWhich of those boxes is not ticked by the Players?\n\nIts history has built year on year. This is the 36th time it will be played on Pete Dye's famous Stadium Course, relaid and refined this year, and the closing stretch of holes including the famous island-green 17th have become as familiar as any on the golf calendar.\n\nIn financial terms it is every bit as lucrative as any other tournament on the planet. This year it is worth $10.5m (£8.1m) and it is little surprise that it attracts the PGA Tour's strongest field of the season.\n\nAnd it resonates. The fact that it returns to the same course every year helps and it generates memories that stick with us.\n\nRemember Hal Sutton's \"be the right club, be the right club, today\" as he fired his tournament-winning approach to the 72nd green to hold off Tiger Woods in 2000? Or Fred Funk slamming his cap into the green upon completing his 2005 victory?\n\nSandy Lyle has been Britain's only winner, and his victory is still fondly remembered even though it was achieved 30 years ago. More recently the nerveless play-off wins by Sergio Garcia (2008) and Rickie Fowler (2015) are easier to recall than many a decisive moment in, say, the PGA Championship.\n\nAnd there can be little argument over the pedigree of its champions. The Players is rarely won by anyone other than the highest calibre of golfer.\n\nJack Nicklaus triumphed three times, including the inaugural tournament in 1974, and the roster of champions includes; Woods, Greg Norman, Nick Price, Fred Couples, David Duval, Adam Scott, Martin Kaymer and last year's winner Jason Day - all world number ones.\n\nSawgrass messes with golfers heads. It demands precision and the correct angles of attack. \"It tests basically everything from a mechanical and hitting standpoint, as well as to a mental approach,\" said Duval, the champion in 1999.\n\nFor this year's event the course has been relaid with new grasses and several greens have been altered.\n\nThe 12th hole now becomes a driveable par-four to provide a kickstart to the fireworks that inevitably occur on the water dominated par-five 16th, short 17th and dramatic par-four closing hole.\n\nUntil 2007, the tournament occupied a March date and was recognised as the first genuine gathering of the world's best golfers before the Masters. Then came the move to its current timing in May.\n\nMany have debated the wisdom of the schedule change. \"I don't believe the golf course has quite lived up to how they have wanted it since the move to May, with the condition of it,\" Duval said.\n\n\"It should go back to March,\" he added, saying such a move is more likely to yield firmer and faster playing conditions. \"It's been a bit of struggle and so I hope it does go back.\"\n\nDuval may well get his wish. The proposed restructuring of the golfing calendar would see the PGA shift from its August date to take the Players Championship slot in May, as it moves back to the original pre-Masters timing.\n\nTellingly, the Players is at the heart of the conversation on finding the most attractive schedule for the men's game. It, therefore, is already sitting at golf's top table.\n\nAnd, while the sport might not need another major - and certainly not another in the United States - it feels more and more as though we are arriving at a tipping point.\n\nRight now it is \"the four majors and the Players\" when we discuss the most prized events in the game, but for how much longer might this distinction be drawn?", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nWorld number one Andy Murray progressed to the third round of the Madrid Open with a straight-set victory over Romanian Marius Copil.\n\nThe 29-year-old Briton, who had a first-round bye, won 6-4 6-3.\n\nMurray was not at his best early on but broke world number 104 Copil at 5-4 to take the first set and pounced again at 3-2 in the second.\n\nHe will face Croat Borna Coric or Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the last 16.\n\nFollowing his victory, Murray told BBC Sport: \"The last few weeks my serve hasn't gone particularly well.\n\n\"Obviously when I was coming back from my elbow injury that was the one thing that I wasn't able to practise in my time off and that showed a bit in my matches.\n\n\"I was broken six times in one match, seven in another. I wanted to come here, serve a little bit better and I did that today.\n\n\"Today was the start and I have to get better, but at least I gave myself the chance to play another match in a couple of days. It is a very, very important period of the year.\"\n\nIt was a solid display from Murray against a potentially dangerous opponent as he prepares for the French Open, which starts on 28 May.\n\nCopil will move into the world's top 100 next week, and the 6ft 4in Romanian was the more aggressive player in the first set.\n\nIt took Murray until the 10th game to break his serve, and he finally prevailed through attacking Copil's shaky backhand.\n\nThe Briton looked far more focused in the second set as he wrapped up victory in one hour and 23 minutes - with just nine unforced errors and without facing a break point.\n\nMurray reached the final in Madrid last year, losing to Novak Djokovic, and took the title in 2015, but has so far had a mixed clay-court season.\n\nAfter taking a month out due to the elbow injury and withdrawing from Britain's Davis Cup quarter-final defeat by France, he lost in the Monte Carlo Masters last 16 on his return.\n\nThe Scot was beaten by Austrian Dominic Thiem in the semi-finals of the Barcelona Open last month.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nCoverage: Live text commentary on the BBC Sport website on Saturday and Sunday\n\nDanny Willett has split with caddie Jonathan Smart just over a year after winning the Masters at Augusta.\n\nThe pair have been friends since their teens but had a disagreement during April's RBC Heritage event, with Willett eventually missing the cut.\n\nSmart felt mistreated and left his role, \"effectively sacking\" Willett, 29, mid-tournament, according to BBC golf correspondent Iain Carter.\n\n\"Things are a bit stale and kind of fizzled out,\" Willett told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It is a shame. But things happen and change, everything happens for a reason.\n\n\"We are still working hard to get the game in shape to get back playing the golf we know we can play.\"\n• None Should the Players Championship be a major?\n\nWillett did not rule out the prospect of his childhood friend one day returning to his bag but he was forced to use a member of his management team in the second round at the RBC Heritage.\n\nHe will use Sam Haywood at this week's Players Championship in Florida. Haywood was best man at Willett's wedding and has recently been on the bag of American player David Lipsky.\n\n\"Sam knows my game really well,\" Willett added. \"We've played a lot of golf together over the last 10 or 15 years. It's nice having someone who you can speak frankly with. He knows where my game is and when it's good. I think it's going to be good.\"\n\nSmart and Willett memorably embraced in the recorders' room at last year's Masters when it became clear the Englishman had won a first major.\n\nBut he has not won a tournament since, placing outside the top-25 in the three other majors in 2016 before missing the cut on his return to Augusta in April.\n\nThe dip in form has seen him fall 10 places to 21 in the world since the turn of the year.\n\nIt's been a struggle to adjust to the status of a major champion for Willett. Results haven't been good for a year.\n\nRecently he's missed three of the last four cuts, so these are trying times.\n\nIt came home for me today as I remember this day last year I approached him at his first tournament since winning the Masters. Now, the mood music could not be any different.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why bad work is bad for the economy\n\nThe head of the government's review into zero-hours contracts and the less secure world of work has said that too many businesses still allow \"bad work\" to flourish.\n\nAhead of a speech on Tuesday evening, Matthew Taylor told the BBC that workers should be \"engaged\" by employers and feel more in control of how they work.\n\n\"I think some business leaders understand completely the importance of good work and its link to productivity, but, as always, we have a long tail of businesses where there doesn't seem to be that understanding,\" he told me.\n\nMr Taylor said that he was \"shocked\" at a new poll which suggests only 1-in-10 believe that all work is \"fair and decent\".\n\nMr Taylor argued that it was \"unacceptable\" that so many people in work were classed as below the official poverty line.\n\nA recent report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that the number of people defined as suffering \"in-work poverty\" had risen by 1.1 million since 2010, to 3.8 million.\n\nAlthough overall poverty is down, the report said that high housing costs, low wage growth and cuts to benefits meant that more people were officially classed as below the poverty line (an income of 60% of median earnings) despite being in work.\n\nLess secure work in the \"gig-economy\" is also seen as a challenge to employment standards.\n\nCompanies like Deliveroo and Uber have been criticised for controversial workplace practices, though many say that the companies offer good, flexible alternatives to 9-5 work and a better deal for consumers.\n\n\"I think bad work is unacceptable when so many people in work are in poverty,\" Mr Taylor told me.\n\n\"Bad work is clearly bad for our health and well-being, it leads to people dropping out of work.\n\n\"Bad work is bad for productivity, so it's bad for our economy.\n\n\"If we're going to introduce technology - robots, artificial intelligence - we need to do that in a way which thinks about the quality of people's work experience.\n\n\"Bad work just doesn't fit 2017. We want a world of engaged citizens, part of our communities.\n\n\"How can it be right that those same citizens who go to work for half their lives, don't get listened to, don't get involved, don't get engaged?\"\n\nMr Taylor, who is head of the Royal Society for the Encouragements of the Arts (the RSA), said the new poll findings showed that the public were not convinced that all work was of the right quality.\n\nThe RSA commissioned Populus to question more than 2,000 people.\n\nFewer than 1-in-10 thought that \"all work was fair and decent\".\n\nAnd nearly 75% said that more should be done to improve the quality of work.\n\n\"Three quarters of people think that making work better should be a national priority,\" Mr Taylor said.\n\n\"It shows that nearly as many people think it is perfectly possible for all jobs to be fair and to be decent but actually, shockingly, only 1-in-10 think that is currently the state of affairs.\n\n\"So the public wants change, believes change is possible, but thinks we have got a long journey to go on.\"\n\nAs I wrote yesterday, the changing world of work is rising up the political agenda.\n\nTheresa May made \"an economy that works for everyone\" the cornerstone of her \"offer\" to the voters after she became Prime Minister.\n\nThe government has said that introducing the National Living Wage and lifting tax thresholds (the point at which we start paying tax on our income) has helped many poorer people in work.\n\nBoth Labour and the Liberal Democrats have criticised the government for letting the problem of the \"quality\" of work become so acute.\n\nLabour has suggested it will ban zero-hours contracts and the Lib Dems have said that more transparency around what people are paid will help tackle the gap between higher and lower earners.\n\nMr Taylor said his review, which will be delivered to Number 10 shortly after the election whoever becomes Prime Minister, will call for a mix of new tax rules and workplace regulations as well as the promotion of a \"new norm\" around how businesses treat their employees.\n\n\"There is an old fashioned view in some parts of business that good work is somehow anti-competitive - it isn't,\" Mr Taylor said.\n\n\"If you get people to work better, then they will be more productive and be better for your business.\n\n\"That is an argument we've still got to win.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nWorld number one Andy Murray will defend his title at next month's Aegon Championships as six of the world's top 10 men descend on Queen's Club.\n\nThe Briton has won the London event that precedes Wimbledon five times.\n\nThe tournament will also feature last year's beaten finalist Milos Raonic, 2012 champion Marin Cilic and 2008 winner Rafael Nadal.\n\nStan Wawrinka and David Goffin are also scheduled to play in the event which takes place from 19-25 June.\n\nJo-Wilfried Tsonga, Tomas Berdych, Nick Kyrgios and Juan Martin del Potro will also take part.\n\nTournament director Stephen Farrow said: \"The player entry list for the Aegon Championships is strong every year and we already knew we were in for a great line-up, but with Cilic and Goffin adding their names to make it six of the world's top 10, this is going to be the best yet.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFormer England cricketer Andrew Flintoff says the word \"stigma\" should not be used when discussing mental health issues.\n\nFlintoff has suffered from depression and spoke about the subject as part of BBC Radio 5 Live's Mental Health Week.\n\n\"I know it [stigma] is a buzz-word at the minute and people say about 'breaking down the stigma',\" said the 39-year-old ex-Lancashire player.\n\n\"I hear it all the time and for me it's a word that shouldn't be used.\"\n\nOn the international stage, Flintoff played in 79 Tests, 141 one-day internationals and seven Twenty20 internationals between 1998 and 2009.\n• None Listen: 'When you're depressed ... the world passes you by, you can't get a thought in your head' - Flintoff opens up about mental health\n\nHe also played a key part in two Ashes series wins in 2005 and 2009 as well as being voting BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2005.\n\n\"If I was playing cricket and I had a bad leg, I'd take an anti-inflammatory. If I had a headache, I'd have an aspirin or a paracetamol.\n\n\"My head's no different. If there's something wrong with me, I'm taking something to help that.\n\n\"And they're not happy pills, I don't take a pill and I'm seeing unicorns and rainbows - I just start feeling normal after a few weeks.\"", "Facebook was a key influencer in the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election and the Brexit vote, according to those who ran the campaigns.\n\nBut critics say it is a largely unregulated form of campaigning.\n\nThose in charge of the digital campaigns for Donald Trump's Republican Party and the political consultant behind Leave EU's referendum strategy are clear the social network was decisive in both wins.\n\nPolitical strategist Gerry Gunster, from Leave EU, told BBC Panorama that Facebook was a game changer for convincing voters to back Brexit.\n\n\"You can say to Facebook, 'I would like to make sure that I can micro-target that fisherman, in certain parts of the UK, so that they are specifically hearing that if you vote to leave you will be able to change the way that the regulations are set for the fishing industry'.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Panorama's Darragh MacIntyre asks Facebook whether they have made money from fake news.\n\n\"Now I can do the exact same thing for people who live in the Midlands who are struggling because the factory has shut down. So I may send a specific message through Facebook to them that nobody else sees.\"\n\nGary Coby, the director of advertising for the Republican Party, says Facebook was also the key to Trump's victory.\n\nHe said the party used data about potential voters to reach them on social media, adding: \"So if you are on Facebook, I can then match you and put you into a bucket of users that I can then target.\"\n\nMr Coby confirmed the official Trump campaign alone had spent in the region of $70m on Facebook over the election period.\n\n\"The way we bought media on Facebook was like no one else in politics has ever done.\"\n\nPanorama has also been told Facebook had teams of people working directly with both the Democratic and Republican campaigns.\n\nTargeted campaigning helped the Leave campaign get its message to voters\n\nSimon Milner, Facebook's head of policy UK, confirmed that people from Facebook worked with the two campaigns, but declined to say how many.\n\n\"One of the things we are absolutely there to do is to help people make use of Facebook products. We do have people whose role is to help politicians and governments make good use of Facebook.\n\n\"I can't give you the number of exactly how many people worked with these campaigns. But I can tell you that it was completely demand driven, so it was really up to the campaigns.\"\n\nThe social network says it complies with all regulations but the platform, which is also expected to play a key role in the British general election on 8 June, has been criticised for being unaccountable when it comes to politics.\n\nTeams of people from Facebook were working on both Trump and Hillary Clinton's campaigns\n\nA quarter of the world's population now use Facebook, including 32 million people in the UK. Many use Facebook to stay in touch with family and friends and are unaware that it has become an important political player.\n\nFor example, the videos that appear in people's news feeds can be promoted by political parties and campaigners.\n\nThe far-right group, Britain First, has told Panorama how it paid Facebook to repeatedly promote its videos. It now has more than 1.6 million Facebook followers.\n\nDamian Collins, chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee in the outgoing parliament, says Facebook needs to be more accountable.\n\n\"Historically, there have been quite strict rules about the way information is presented and broadcasters work to a very strict code in terms of partiality and there are restrictions on use of advertising.\n\n\"But with something like Facebook you have a media which is increasingly seen as the most valuable media in an election period but which is totally unregulated.\"\n\nFacebook says it is committed to assisting civic engagement and electoral participation, and that it helped two million people register to vote in the US presidential elections.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nGhanaian midfielder Sulley Muntari says he would walk off the pitch again, adding that Fifa and Uefa are \"not taking racism seriously\".\n\nThe Pescara player, 32, was sent off after leaving the field claiming he was racially abused during a Serie A game.\n\nIn a BBC interview, the ex-Portsmouth player claims racism is \"everywhere and getting worse\", and encourages players to go on strike to combat it.\n\n\"I went through hell, I was treated just like a criminal,\" he said.\n\n\"I went off the field because I felt it wasn't right for me to be on the field while I have been racially abused,\" he told BBC Sport's David Ornstein.\n\nMuntari was initially banned for one game after asking referee Daniele Minelli to stop the Italian top-flight game at Cagliari on 30 April.\n\nThe ex-Ghana international was instead booked for dissent in the 89th minute, prompting him to leave the pitch in protest, and he then received another yellow card.\n\nHe angrily confronted Cagliari fans, shouting: \"This is my colour.\"\n\nMuntari had the one-match ban overturned after the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) said it had considered the \"particular delicacy\" of the case.\n\nHe says he would walk off the pitch again if he was racially abused and he has urged other players to do the same.\n\n\"If I had this problem today, tomorrow or the next game I would go off again,\" he said.\n\n\"And I'd recommend it to others. If they are not feeling it they should walk off.\"\n\nItalian football's reputation around the world has been damaged by the incident, said FIGC anti-racism advisor Fiona May before Muntari's suspension had been reversed.\n\nMeanwhile, Juventus' Morocco defender Medhi Benatia cut short a post-match television interview on Sunday after claiming to hear a racist insult in his earpiece.\n\nWorld governing body Fifa and Uefa, its European counterpart, point out that the Muntari case was dealt with by the FIGC.\n\nMuntari believes the two organisations are \"not taking racism seriously\", but backs Fifa president Gianni Infantino, who replaced Sepp Blatter in February 2016.\n\n\"Fifa and Uefa only care about what they want to care about. If they want to fight racism they should be able to jump right in and tackle it,\" he said.\n\n\"But they have nothing to say about it. This is a big deal.\n\n\"Maybe the new president Infantino will do something about it. He has a different mind.\n\n\"I think he is capable of doing something in a good way to fight racism. I want him to fight racism.\"\n\nA Uefa statement said: \"The fight to eliminate racism, discrimination and intolerance from football is a major priority for our organisation.\n\n\"Uefa condemns such deplorable behaviour and has always shown zero tolerance for any form of racism and discrimination.\"\n\nLast week, Fifa said it would \"like to express full solidarity with Muntari.\"\n\n\"Any form of racism on or outside the field is totally unacceptable and has no place in football. As to the disciplinary consequences, this falls under the jurisdiction of the relevant national body,\" it added.\n\n'Other countries need to follow England's example'\n\nFormer Portsmouth and Sunderland player Muntari says he never experienced racist abuse in the Premier League and has urged other countries to follow England's example of combating the problem.\n\n\"I never heard anything like that in England because I think they don't tolerate it,\" he said.\n\n\"The people who are racist are really scared to do it in a stadium because they will get prosecuted or banned. But in Italy they go free.\n\n\"England is the example for the world. If a country doesn't tolerate it then it means you get rid of it.\"\n\nForeign players are more likely to experience some form of discrimination than domestic footballers, a survey by world players' union Fifpro found in 2016.\n\nThe survey, of nearly 14,000 players in 54 countries, found that 17.2% of players based abroad have experienced discrimination, with the figure rising to 32% in Italy.\n\nMuntari said his ban was overturned after an outpouring of support, and he praised former Tottenham striker Garth Crooks who had called on players in the Italian league to strike if his one-match suspension had not been withdrawn.\n\n\"Last week I heard a comment from the ex-Tottenham player and I was really pleased with that - saying if they don't lift my ban all the players should go on strike - that's a brave move right there,\" he said.\n\n\"He changed a lot of things by saying that, he changed a lot. I really have great respect for him. He has just fought maybe a per cent of racism right there by speaking out.\n\n\"All players, if they think it's right and we want to fight racism, we have to come together and do it.\"\n\nWe arranged to meet Sulley Muntari in Milan, a city he and his wife love in a country they adore. They feel at home - accepted, respected, happy. An ideal place to raise their two-year-old son.\n\nMuntari suggested his favourite hotel in the centre of town, where the tranquillity inside contrasted to the bustle all around; an environment that aptly reflects how the Ghanaian himself was feeling after a week he described as \"hell\".\n\nEight days after he was abused by spectators watching him playing a game of football, handed a one-match ban for protesting and walking off the pitch - only for that ban to be rescinded after an outpouring of support - Muntari was serene. Anger was replaced by calm, confusion by clarity.\n\nHe was energised, passionate and articulate. He has turned negative into positive and is desperate to use his experience as a defining moment in the fight against discrimination.", "Arsene Wenger is visibly amused by Phil Neville's description of Nacho Monreal being \"at a christening\" in the tunnel before Arsenal's 2-0 win over Manchester United, but says Monreal's focus was not affected.", "More than 12,000 people work at the university Image caption: More than 12,000 people work at the university\n\nThe University of Manchester's decision to cut 171 posts is due to \"new government legislation and Brexit\", a union has claimed.\n\nThe university says the move is necessary for it to be a world-leading institution.\n\nBut the University and College Union (UCU) said the university was in \"a strong financial position\".\n\nBoth academics and support staff jobs are at risk.\n\nA university spokesman said cuts would be made in the biology, medicine, health, business and humanities departments.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPaul Pogba's world-record transfer from Juventus to Manchester United last year is the subject of a Fifa inquiry.\n\nFootball's world governing body has written to the Premier League club \"to seek clarification on the deal\".\n\nIt is believed to concern who was involved in the £89.3m transfer, and how much money was paid to them.\n\nA United spokesman said: \"We do not comment on individual contracts. Fifa has had the documents since the transfer was concluded in August.\"\n\nPogba, 24, is in his second spell at Old Trafford, having left the club for Juventus for £1.5m in 2012.\n\nThe France midfielder first joined United from French side Le Havre in acrimonious circumstances in 2009.\n\nHe returned to the club last summer for a world-record fee of 105m euros.\n\nUnited also agreed to pay Juventus 5m euros (£4.5m) in performance-related bonuses plus other costs, including 5m euros if Pogba signs a new contract.\n\nWhen they confirmed the transfer, Juventus said the \"economic effect\" to their club was \"about 72.6m euros\".\n\nA book published in Germany this week - The Football Leaks: The Dirty Business of Football - and reproduced in media reports, includes what it says is a breakdown of the Pogba fee and alleges his agent Mino Raiola earned £41m from the deal.\n\nWhen contacted by the BBC, Raiola declined to comment and said the matter was in the hands of his lawyers.\n\nWere there any more details?\n\nAccording to reports taken from information in The Football Leaks:\n• None Forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic, another Raiola client, earns £367,640 a week - £19m a year - at Manchester United, making him the best-paid player in the Premier League.\n• None Pogba's basic salary is £165,000 a week - £8.61m a year - but he has substantial incentives in a 41-page contract.\n• None Raiola took a £23m slice of the transfer fee and will be paid five instalments totalling £16.39m from United over the course of Pogba's contract.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea moved to within one win of the Premier League title and confirmed Middlesbrough's relegation with a consummate performance and emphatic victory at Stamford Bridge.\n\nAntonio Conte's side can become champions with victory against West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns on Friday night while Middlesbrough must contemplate a future back in the Championship after they were swept aside on Monday.\n\nThe Blues had already created a succession of chances before Diego Costa turned in man of the match Cesc Fabregas' pass after 23 minutes.\n\nAnd the contest was effectively over when Marcos Alonso scored at the far post via the legs of Middlesbrough keeper Brad Guzan 11 minutes before the break.\n\nFabregas created Chelsea's third which Nemanja Matic converted as the hosts laid siege to Boro's goal, with the final whistle bringing contrasting emotions.\n• None 'We are showing that we deserve to win the league' - Chelsea boss Conte\n\nChelsea on the brink of glory\n\nIn this mood it is hard to see the league title coming from anywhere other than at West Brom on Friday night.\n\nBaggies manager Tony Pulis was watching from the stand at Stamford Bridge and will have gone away with plenty of food for thought after a Chelsea display that oozed class and intent.\n\nMiddlesbrough - downhearted, defeated and on their way back to the Championship - were little more than cannon fodder here.\n\nFrom the opening moments when Guzan turned Alonso's shot on to the bar, Chelsea were rampant, nerveless and played with the swagger, poise and menace of the best team in the Premier League.\n\nChelsea's nerves may have shown momentarily in those defeats at home to Crystal Palace and at Manchester United in April, but the response has been magnificent, reeling off wins in the FA Cup semi-final against Tottenham and in the Premier League against Southampton, Everton and now Middlesbrough.\n\nIt is a question of when, rather than if the ebullient, effervescent Conte claims the title in his first season in England - and Chelsea will be fully deserved champions.\n\nChelsea's fans talk about Fabregas wearing a \"magic hat\", but all the magic was in his boots as he picked the visitors apart here at Stamford Bridge.\n\nThe 30-year-old was a key purchase from Barcelona when Jose Mourinho brought the title back to Chelsea to two seasons ago. But this season he will be a different kind of title-winner.\n\nThe signing of N'Golo Kante from Leicester City and Chelsea's subsequent success has meant Fabregas, who would have been first choice in almost every other Premier League side, has been marginalised and unable to claim a regular place.\n\nWhen he has, however, the Spain midfielder has shown the class and quality that has made him one of the game's enduring talents in the recent era.\n\nFabregas stepped in here for the injured Kante and gave a midfield masterclass, and when he created Chelsea's opener for Costa he became the first player to record 10 Premier League assists in six different seasons.\n\nHe also created Chelsea's third for Matic with a glorious instinctive flick that unlocked Middlesbrough again.\n\nFabregas may wish to seek more regular first team football elsewhere despite being on course to claim another Premier League title winners' medal - and on this evidence there will be no shortage of takers.\n\nMiddlesbrough go down without a fight\n\nMiddlesbrough knew they were fighting against all the odds to try and avoid the defeat that would send them back into the Championship - and it was a battle they never looked like winning.\n\nThey were on the back foot from the first whistle and were simply overwhelmed by a Chelsea side who would not be denied. The Middlesbrough fans, who were stoic throughout, were applauded by Conte after the final whistle.\n\nThe feeling will remain that Middlesbrough have simply come and gone without contributing a great deal to this Premier League season. Could they have been bolder in pursuit of survival?\n\nBoro have proved stubborn in defence on many occasions but have been totally undermined by a failure to score goals - and a failure to cure that obvious problem.\n\nAitor Karanka, the man who brought Middlesbrough up but who left in March as the decline started to accelerate, was backed by chairman Steve Gibson in January but his attacking purchases were never going to provide the answer.\n\nRudy Gestede arrived from Aston Villa and Patrick Bamford from Chelsea, but neither are of Premier League quality and the price was paid with relegation.\n\nMiddlesbrough look to currently have a good squad for the Championship - but this was a horribly tame end to their Premier League ambitions.\n\n'The fans deserve Premier League football' - What the managers said\n\nChelsea boss Antonio Conte: \"We must be pleased. It was a great performance, my players showed commitment and work-rate for three important points.\n\n\"At this stage it was important to win and exploit Tottenham's defeat. Now, another step to the title. We have to rest well and prepare for West Brom.\"\n\nMiddlesbrough boss Steve Agnew: \"I am absolutely gutted and bitterly disappointed with the result and we have now lost our Premier League status which we took great pride in.\n\n\"I have just left a very silent dressing room.\n\n\"We haven't had enough wins and that's the key to the whole thing. Scoring goals wins football matches and we haven't done that enough this season.\n\n\"I have to say the fans all season have been outstanding - home and away has been top class and the least they deserve is Premier League football.\"\n\nBoro make it four relegations - the stats\n• None Chelsea have become the third club to win 300 Premier League home games, after Manchester United (347) and Arsenal (306)\n• None Middlesbrough have been relegated from the Premier League for the fourth time - no side has suffered the drop more often since its inception [level with Crystal Palace, Norwich City and Sunderland]\n• None Diego Costa became the third player to score 20+ goals in a Premier League season for Chelsea on two occasions [Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink in 2000-01 & 2001-02 and Didier Drogba in 2006-07 & 2009-10]\n• None Costa has also scored the opening goal of a Premier League game on seven occasions this season - no other player has done so more\n• None Middlesbrough have failed to score in 11 Premier League away games this season, more than any other side in the division\n\nChelsea will win the title if they beat West Brom on Friday. Even if they do not, they have two more opportunities to wrap up the title against Watford and Sunderland at home.\n\nMiddlesbrough will finish life in the Premier League by hosting Southampton on Saturday before going to Liverpool on Sunday, 21 May.\n• None Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas following a corner.\n• None Patrick Bamford (Middlesbrough) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None David Luiz (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The received wisdom is that the election of Emmanuel Macron as president of France is bad for Britain's Brexit negotiations.\n\nLike much received wisdom, it may just be wrong. For the arrival of this young financier-turned politician in the Elysee could actually make a deal between Britain and the European Union easier.\n\nYes, President Macron is a devoted pro-European. His belief in the idea and the institutions of the EU is part of his core.\n\nIn his election manifesto, he described Brexit as a \"crime\" that will plunge Britain into \"servitude\".\n\nAs such, he will brook no Brexit-induced dilution of the single market and all its works.\n\nAfter he met the prime minister in February, he told reporters in Downing Street: \"Brexit cannot lead to a kind of optimisation of Britain's relationship with the rest of Europe. I am very determined that there will be no undue advantages.\"\n\nMacron will thus, so the argument goes, stiffen sinews in Brussels and re-invigorate the Franco-German motor that has lain dormant in recent years. He has made utterly clear that he wants Britain to pay top whack when it exits the EU.\n\nHe has spoken of reforming the Le Touquet agreement that allows British immigration officers to check passports in Calais. And he has been shameless in his ambition to lure French workers and money back to France.\n\nSo Macron on paper could look like no friend of Britain in the Brexit stakes.\n\nAnd yet his election is actually better news for Theresa May than she might imagine.\n\nTheresa May will face tough Brexit negotiations with France's new president\n\nSome Conservative ministers had been quite open in their preference for Francois Fillon, the former centre-right candidate with whom they had more natural, partisan commonalities. But they know they can live with Macron.\n\nThe new president is not going to be as Brexit obsessed as some imagine. He has other fish to fry.\n\nHe has to build support and coalitions in the National Assembly where polls suggest his new party may struggle to form a majority in next month's elections.\n\nHe has huge economic problems to deal with at home. And his efforts in Brussels will be focused on gaining support for his own proposals to reform the EU and the eurozone.\n\nBrexit is just one issue on his to-do list. His priority is dealing with France's difficulties and stopping Marine Le Pen winning in 2022.\n\nNow, of course, when President Macron does focus on Brexit, he will naturally be tough on Britain. But that is already the position of the French government. Whitehall has long ruled out any favours from Paris. In many ways, Macron represents continuity.\n\nAnd just think of the alternative. If Marine Le Pen had won, the EU would be in chaos.\n\nThe EU's focus may have shifted from Brexit had Marine Le Pen won the French presidency\n\nHer election would have been seen by some as an existential threat to the EU. Brexit would have become a second order issue.\n\nEU politicians would have had less bandwidth to spend on Brexit. And as such, a deal would have been less likely, or at the very least much harder. Compare that to the stability that a Macron presidency may provide.\n\nFor here is the real point. The election of Macron may just make the EU a little more confident or perhaps a little less defensive. Many in the EU will conclude - maybe over-optimistically - that the global populist surge has now peaked with Trump and Brexit.\n\nThe electoral failure of anti-establishment politicians in Austria, the Netherlands and now France will give them hope that the troubled EU project is not quite so threatened as they had imagined.\n\nThey may feel a little less fearful that Brexit could presage the breakup of the EU. And a less vulnerable EU may feel less determined to make an example of Britain in the negotiations. And that can only be good for Brexit, however hard or soft you want it.\n\nSo the election of President Macron will of course send shivers of relief through the corridors of Brussels. But it won't make the challenge of Brexit any more enormous than it already is.\n\nAnd just perhaps, it might make the task a little easier.\n• None Five reasons why Macron won the French election", "As the UK heads towards its third big national vote in three years, there are fears that people won't bother turning out - with apathy particularly strong among the young.\n\nIt's a problem across Western democracies. In last week's French presidential race, turn-out fell, and in the US last year, only slightly more than half of people eligible to vote cast a ballot for a presidential candidate. In Britain, turn-out has hovered at around 65% for the last two general elections, way down on figures from the previous century.\n\nTo combat the problem, several US cities are experimenting with a controversial idea: offering cash prizes to the electorate, in a bid to lure them out to vote.\n\nIn these schemes, people casting votes are added to a lottery, with big money prizes for a lucky few.\n\nBridget Conroy Varnis, a 52-year-old voter from Philadelphia, picked up a cheque for $10,000 after voting in a local election. \"I was shaking, nervous, surprised, and I felt blessed too,\" she told us. She was presented with the award right there at the polling station. Camera bulbs flashed as a huge dummy cheque was handed over.\n\nBridget Conroy Varnis after winning at the polling station\n\nRay La Raja is a political scientist at the University of Massachusetts, and one of the academics behind the idea. He says that as well as boosting turn-out, voter lotteries can help counter traditional problems with the system.\n\nThe older, richer, whiter and more highly educated you are, the more likely you are to vote in the US, he explains. \"If you go to a system in which you rely heavily on individual resources such as education, money, proximity to voting booth, you're going to get systematic bias in who turns out.\"\n\nA similar lottery - the first of its kind - was run in Los Angeles by Antonio Gonzalez, president of the Southwest Voter Education Registration project. He was also troubled by the pattern that Ray La Raja highlights, and he wanted to encourage more people from Latino communities to vote.\n\n\"We called it 'Voteria' to rhyme with 'Loteria' because that's a big deal in the Mexican and Central American community here. We wanted the branding to catch on,\" he explains. The lucky winner got $25,000.\n\nThe vote in question was for a local school board trustee, and indeed turn-out increased from 9% to 10%. The change wasn't dramatic, but as Gonzalez points out, the campaign had a minimal marketing campaign. An exit poll found that among voters who had heard of the scheme, around half said it was their reason for coming out to vote.\n\nIn Britain, another trial was conducted to see if a lottery could boost the number of people registered to vote - again with encouraging results.\n\nHowever, while lotteries have shown signs they can boost both turn-out and registration, many have questioned the ethics of using cash incentives to persuade people to vote.\n\nWorld Hacks is a new BBC team that aims to report on solutions being tried out, rather than focussing only on global problems.\n\nWe meet the people fixing the world.\n\nHanding out money in return for voting is actually illegal in most US states, thanks to anti-bribery laws designed to prevent powerful interests from buying up votes.\n\nVoting lotteries appear to be a loophole, because they award random prizes rather than direct payments to each voter. But ultimately, it is still a legal grey area that needs to be tested state by state, and nation by nation.\n\nThere are also suggestions that offering financial incentives can actually reduce participation in certain activities.\n\nIn an experiment with blood donors, for example, offering payment in exchange for blood actually prompted some regular donors to stop taking part. Cash payments had turned what the donors saw as a civic duty into a financial transaction, which became far less appealing.\n\nAnd on the other hand you might encounter the opposite problem: attracting people who hadn't been voters before, but who didn't take the process of selection seriously.\n\nBarry Schwartz, a psychologist at Swarthmore College in the US, is sceptical about offering prizes for voting. There are no incentives clever enough to replace the basic idea of doing the right thing, he says.\n\n\"If you had 80% turnout, and half the people didn't know what they were voting for, you wouldn't think the problem had gone away. You've got the same problem,\" Schwartz argues.\n\nFor Antonio Gonzalez, the president of the Southwest Voter Education Registration project, the process isn't quite so simple. Their big idea is that encouraging people to vote - even by offering material incentives - will encourage them to become more clued up about politics in the long term.\n\nAnd the alternative is the system we have now, where turnout is skewed in favour of people who are already more privileged members of society. A sort of \"dictatorship of the informed\", as Gonzalez puts it.\n\nClearly, the idea is a controversial one. Voter lotteries have some way to go before being accepted as a practical, and ethical, solution to the problem of low voter turnout.\n\nBut after their initial success, two more voter lotteries will take place in Philadelphia this year.\n\nAnd if - as is widely expected - huge swathes of young people fail to head to the polling booth at the UK's general election on 8 June, it could be an idea that begins to attract more attention.\n\nListen to BBC World Hacks on the World Service or listen back on the iPlayer.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nMiddlesbrough captain Ben Gibson described his side's relegation from the Premier League as the \"lowest point\" of his life.\n\nMonday's 3-0 defeat by leaders Chelsea confirmed Boro will go back down to the Championship after one season.\n\n\"After the highs of last season, to be honest we've wasted an opportunity to play in the best league in the world,\" said defender Gibson, 24.\n\n\"We have to reflect and try to put it right.\"\n\nMiddlesbrough have been relegated from the Premier League four times, which is the joint highest along with Norwich, Crystal Palace and Sunderland.\n\nChairman Steve Gibson, who is the uncle of Ben, sacked manager Aitor Karanka in March, with assistant boss Steve Agnew taking the job until the end of the season.\n\nBut with just one win in nine league games, the former Barnsley player was unable to guide Boro away from the relegation zone.\n\n\"We have to put it right and make sure we come back stronger,\" said Middlesbrough-born Ben Gibson.\n\n\"The chairman and those fans, they deserve Premier League football. People say he's the best chairman in the country and our fans were singing until the end there.\"\n\nAgnew, 51, would not comment on whether he wants to stay with Middlesbrough and try to lead the club straight back to the top flight.\n\n\"I have to say the fans all season have been outstanding - home and away has been top class and the least they deserve is Premier League football,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to finish the season strong and reflect through the summer.\n\n\"The most important thing at the moment is Middlesbrough football club and we are all bitterly disappointed.\"\n\n'I felt in my heart I should applaud'\n\nChelsea manager Antonio Conte, who saw his side move to within three points of winning the title, embraced Agnew at full-time and shook hands with Boro players while also applauding their fans.\n\n\"Only in England you can see this support. I've not seen it before,\" said the Italian, who is managing in his first season in England.\n\n\"It's great to see a team fight with all of their strength. They went down and the supporters stayed there.\n\n\"This must be an example for other countries. For this reason, I felt in my heart I should go and clap the Boro support.\"\n\nAnalysis - Boro start again with big questions to answer\n\nFormer Middlesbrough keeper Mark Schwarzer on Match of the Day\n\nThey were very cautious with the players they signed.\n\nOther than Stewart Downing and Brad Guzan there was not enough Premier League experience in those players.\n\nThey had momentum as most promoted teams do when they started out in this league but but the momentum wore thin.\n\nIt is going to be interesting which direction they decide to go down [with the manager].\"\n\nMiddlesbrough's defiance was confined to their supporters at Stamford Bridge as Steve Agnew's team were outclassed by Premier League champions-elect Chelsea.\n\nMiddlesbrough's weakness was an obvious one and was allowed to linger unchecked until it was too late and cost them a place in the Premier League after only one season back in the top flight.\n\nWhen Middlesbrough went down in 2008-09 they conceded 57 goals. The three here makes 48 for this season with two games left and on many occasions they have looked defensively sound and well organised.\n\nThe problem is at the other end, where they have scored only 26 goals - the lowest in the Premier League.\n\nAlvaro Negredo looked a striker past his peak, while Patrick Bamford and Rudy Gestede, brought in from Chelsea and Aston Villa respectively in January, were very poor buys. Middlesbrough paid a heavy price for those transfer misjudgements.\n\nNow they must start again with big questions to answer.\n\nThe squad has the appearance of a group in reasonable shape to tackle the Championship, but surely inspirational defender and captain Ben Gibson will be a target for top-tier clubs. And can their magnificent chairman Steve Gibson find it in himself to be a force behind yet another attempt to get back into the top flight?\n\nMiddlesbrough is a place with real passion for football and Steve Gibson is the shining symbol of the club, one of the most significant figures in the club's history.\n\nIf he can find renewed drive and the right manager then there is still the chance for Boro to bounce back yet again.", "How far would you go to get out of a holiday with a partner?\n\nWould you pay a small cancellation fee? Or affect the symptoms of a mystery illness? Or would you just play it safe and fake a terror plot?\n\nForget post-holiday blues, it was pre-holiday blues that got one married man’s trunks in a twist. According to a Hyderabad City Police report, 32-year-old Motaparthi Vamshi Krishna went to the extraordinary lengths of faking a terror plot to ensure he didn’t have to go on holiday with his girlfriend.\n\nMr Krishna emailed Mumbai police claiming to be a woman who had heard six men at a hotel plotting to hijack planes in the cities of Hyderabad, Chennai and Mumbai. Extra security was put in place at the cities three airports as a result.\n\nMr Krishna ended up admitting he made the entire thing up after being traced by the IP address of the computer the email was sent from.\n\nDuring the police interrogation, he said his online girlfriend had proposed the holiday but he didn’t have the money to make it happen. So, instead of believing that honesty may indeed be the best policy, he created a fake airline ticket and emailed it to his girlfriend before tipping the police off about the hoax hijacking.\n\nDespite his best efforts, it’s thought no flights were disrupted. Mr Krishna was arrested on four charges, including impersonation and providing false information.\n\nAnd, presumably, he now faces the wrath of two women.", "Maxine Peake as sexual health worker Sara Rowbotham in Three Girls\n\n\"It was a story that needed to be told,\" says Maxine Peake, emphatically.\n\n\"It's a story about a swathe of society that has been ignored and bullied.\"\n\nThe actress is referring to Three Girls, a new BBC One drama based on the true stories of victims of grooming and sexual abuse in Rochdale.\n\nPeake plays Sara Rowbotham, the sexual health worker who realised the girls were being abused and reported it to the authorities - and was repeatedly ignored.\n\n\"The powers that be weren't encouraging her, they were shutting doors, they were telling her to be quiet, they weren't interested,\" says Peake, who met the real-life Sara in preparation for the role.\n\n\"Nobody seemed interested in helping these girls who were in desperate situations. These were really vulnerable young women - the lack of care for them I found mind-blowing.\"\n\nAs the title suggests, Three Girls focuses on the young victims who were groomed in Rochdale in the five years between 2008 and 2012, for which nine men were convicted and sentenced.\n\nThe judge at the time, Gerald Clifton, said the men - eight of Pakistani origin and one from Afghanistan - treated the girls \"as though they were worthless and beyond respect\".\n\nHe said: \"One of the factors leading to that was the fact that they were not part of your community or religion.\n\n\"Some of you, when arrested, said it (the prosecution) was triggered by race. That is nonsense. What triggered this prosecution was your lust and greed.\"\n\nThe drama - which will be shown over three nights next week - has been made with the full co-operation of the victims and their families.\n\nIt comes as ITV soap Coronation Street also has a running storyline about child grooming involving 16-year-old Bethany Platt and a \"boyfriend\" in his mid-30s.\n\nThree Girls isn't an easy watch, although it is never prurient or sensational.\n\nTwo episodes were shown at a press screening in London this week. The mood afterwards was subdued.\n\nHolly (Molly Windsor) with her parents Jim (Paul Kaye) and Julie (Jill Halfpenny)\n\nThe first episode follows schoolgirl Holly (an astonishing performance from Molly Windsor), recently moved to Rochdale with her family, who is is keen to make friends and fit in.\n\nIt isn't long before she is hanging out with a group of girls at the back of a local kebab shop being given free food and endless bottles of vodka by older men.\n\nAnd then the demands for sex begin.\n\nOne chilling line that sticks in the memory is when one victim describes how girls would be driven to a flat full of men who \"passed us around like a ball\".\n\nWriter Nicole Taylor started work on the project in December 2013 by getting to know the victims and their families so she could understand what had happened in detail.\n\nLesley Sharp (right) plays detective Maggie Oliver who, with Sara Rowbotham, helps bring the case to court\n\nSpeaking after the screening, Peake says that telling the story in a drama helps engage a bigger audience.\n\n\"Sometimes people can be slightly cautious about documentaries, maybe, so it's getting into more homes.\n\n\"This is still going on,\" she adds. \"It's not over, but steps have been made and things are getting better.\"\n\nExecutive producer Sue Hogg says she had become interested in making the drama after she heard an interview with one of the victims after the trial.\n\n\"She was only 19 then, and she was so dignified and so strong in that interview - and then you begin to ask the questions 'why was this allowed to go on for so long?' and 'why were the girls not listened to?'\"\n\nShe hopes that the drama will help the public understand how grooming works and will help prevent future cases.\n\nPeake says that, despite the harrowing subject matter, acting in the drama was a \"positive experience\".\n\n\"It wasn't a depressing set to be on - it felt full of hope,\" she says.\n\n\"Being part of this story, you felt you were doing something that had hope for the next generation of girls that hopefully will be protected from this.\n\n\"And the girls who have been through it, and are now young women, will be able to move on with their lives.\"\n\nThis story was first published on 9 May 2017.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nWales have named Harlequins centre Jamie Roberts to lead a 32-man squad containing 13 uncapped players on their summer tour.\n\nRoberts, 30, has been capped 91 times but dropped out of first-choice favour with Wales in 2016-17.\n\nThey face Tonga in Auckland on 16 June and Samoa in Apia a week later.\n\nWales will be missing 12 leading players - including captain Alun Wyn Jones - who will tour with the British and Irish Lions in New Zealand.\n\nWith Warren Gatland as Lions boss and Rob Howley an assistant, regular forwards coach Robin McBryde will be in charge of Wales for the two Tests.\n\nThe uncapped forwards who could face Tonga and Samoa are Seb Davies, Adam Beard, Ryan Elias, Ollie Griffiths, Wyn Jones, Rory Thornton and Thomas Young.\n\nThe uncapped backs are Aled Davies, Keelan Giles, Owen Williams, Rhun Williams and Tomos Williams.\n\nThere are no places for scrum-half Lloyd Williams, fly-half Rhys Patchell or flanker James Davies but Josh Navidi and Gareth Anscombe are recalled.\n\nWales are also without injured prop Gethin Jenkins and lock Luke Charteris.\n\nWith Jonathan Davies heading to New Zealand with the Lions, 2009 and 2013 Lions tourist Roberts has a chance to shine in midfield and as tour leader.\n\nRoberts admitted his \"disappointment\" at missing out on Lions selection, but was \"immensely honoured\" to be asked to lead Wales.\n\n\"I'm as disappointed as any player to miss out on it (Lions), but you mope around for about a day, dust yourself off and you get back to training hard and playing and trying to play your best and that motivation will always be there.\n\n\"But the focus now is on Wales, winning two games and best preparing this group as much as possible.\"\n\nRoberts added: \"It's a proud moment for myself, but more importantly my family and a position of responsibility that I will take huge pride in.\"\n\nCardiff Blues' Seb Davies and Beard and Thornton, of Ospreys are locks, Scarlets' Elias is a hooker and team-mate Wyn Jones a prop.\n\nYoung, of Wasps, and Newport Gwent Dragons' Griffiths are open-side flankers who will battle to fill the void left by Lions captain Sam Warburton and Justin Tipuric.\n\nTomos Williams, of Blues and Scarlets' Aled Davies will challenge another Scarlet, Gareth Davies, at scrum-half.\n\nLeicester's Gloucester-bound Owen Williams can play fly-half and centre while wing Giles, of Ospreys, and Blues' Rhun Williams will vie for back-three spots.\n\nWhere and when do Wales play?\n\nWales will face Tonga at Eden Park in Auckland on Friday, 16 June as part of a double-header also featuring New Zealand.\n\nWales explained in March that the contest had been moved to Auckland due to concerns over playing conditions.\n\nThe tourists will face Tonga at 06:30 BST, with the All Blacks taking on Samoa at 09:00 at the same venue.\n\nThe double-header will also provide Wales with an opportunity to observe the second opponents of their two-Test tour, with McBryde's men flying to Apia, Samoa to take on Samoa a week later on Friday, 23 June.", "\"The situation in Syria is terrible - so terrible that I think it stops kids from dreaming. But it's their dreams that one day will make Syria good again,\" says Obada Kassoumah.\n\n\"I wish I could just give them a little bit of hope and make them believe that yes, they can have dreams.\"\n\nObada is a Syrian student in Tokyo who, by a mixture of chance and determination, has become the translator of Japanese manga comics into Arabic.\n\nAnd by another twist of fate, many of these Arab editions of football saga Captain Tsubasa have been donated to aid agencies and are being handed out to Syrian refugee children across Europe and the Middle East.\n\nFor Obada, the project started as an unexpected translation job but has become something very personal and important.\n\nAs a student of Japanese at university in the Syrian capital, Damascus, Obada received a scholarship to go to Japan for an exchange programme. That was in 2012, and the unrest in the country had already started.\n\nObada says its his duty to help his country\n\nThe situation got worse and worse and often he would be stopped by the police in the street suspecting that as a young man he might be a rebel fighter.\n\nWhen the situation got too dangerous, his parents decided to send him to live with his aunt in Jordan until he could leave for Tokyo.\n\nIt was almost already too late - it was only through personal connections that he managed to cross the border.\n\nWhen his scholarship ended a year later, he was able to stay in Japan by enrolling as a regular student, and picked up a part-time job translating Captain Tsubasa.\n\n\"I myself watched Captain Tsubasa as a kid on TV and I loved it,\" says 26-year old Obada.\n\n\"It's a story about a kid having a dream to become a professional football player and working hard to make that dream come true.\n\n\"And that's something beautiful, that's something you should make these kids see.\"\n\nCaptain Tsubasa is a story of young boy fighting for his dream\n\nInitially, adapting the books for the Arab market was a mere business decision by a Japanese publisher.\n\nBut they were then approached by Prof Masanori Naito, a Middle East specialist at Doshisha University in Kyoto.\n\nProf Naito had spent several years in Damascus as a doctoral student in the 1980s and was looking for ways to help people affected by the conflict.\n\nHe suggested the publisher could donate some of the manga books to refugee kids.\n\n\"The tragedy of Syria,\" he says, \"is a very serious concern to me. Back then I worked in villages that are now held by the rebel forces.\"\n\nThe original copyright holders in Japan, Shueisha publishers, were immediately ready to fund the donations, he said.\n\nThrough co-operation with a number of international NGOs and Unicef, the books are now being distributed to young Syrian children in camps across Europe, Turkey and the Middle East who have escaped the terror and trauma of the civil war ravaging their home country.\n\n\"It is very far from the reality they know,\" Prof Naito explains. \"But for kids it is very important to be able to escape from reality for a while. And these books can also give them some hope for their own future.\"\n\nManga he says, could even be \"a tool of soft power against despair and radicalisation\".\n\nOne of the places where Captain Tsubasa now provides a small escape from reality is a refugee home in Berlin where just last week, the copies were handed out by German-Turkish NGO Wefa to around 60 refugees.\n\nFor these Syrian refugees in Berlin, the manga might provide a break from reality\n\n\"It was really something quite unique and we got a completely different reaction from normal,\" Ismet Misirlioglu of Wefa told the BBC from Berlin.\n\n\"What the children usually get are of course clothes and food and so they were really surprised when we suddenly had Japanese manga books - in their own language,\" he says, laughing.\n\n\"And you really could tell that from their eyes!\"\n\nWefa in Berlin is planning to give out more of the books in the coming weeks.\n\nBack in Tokyo, Obada Kassoumah is still at work putting ever more adventures of Captain Tsubada into Arabic. He is currently translating volume seven out of 37.\n\nFor many of the young kids war is the only reality they know\n\nFor him, going back to Syria is not an option.\n\nInstead, he will stay in Japan for now and finish his degree - he knows Syria will need his skills in the future and he hopes he can have a bigger impact if he works building links between the two countries.\n\n\"I have friends who are fighting with the government and other friends who are fighting with the rebels,\" he says with a heavy voice.\n\n\"We are all one family - and now they wish death to each other, trying to kill each other.\"\n\nBut he hopes his translations will put a smile on the face of a Syrian child somewhere, trying to forget the terror of the past.\n\n\"As a Syrian it's like my duty to help - and through this thing I can help.\n\n\"This way the children can - at least for a bit - forget all the bad memories they have from the war.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nMaria Sharapova will enter Wimbledon qualifying rather than request a main-draw wildcard as she continues her comeback from a 15-month drug ban.\n\nThe 30-year-old Russian was denied a wildcard for the French Open, with tournament officials saying her doping suspension counted against her.\n\nSharapova will have to win through three qualifying rounds to earn a spot in Wimbledon's 128-strong main draw.\n\nQualifying in Roehampton will be ticketed for the first time this year.\n\n\"Because of my improved ranking after the first three tournaments of my return, I will also be playing the qualifying of Wimbledon in Roehampton, and will not be requesting a wildcard into the main draw,\" said Sharapova in a statement on her website.\n\nSharapova is ranked 211th in the world - below the status needed for direct entry into the main draw - but her recent form is good enough to earn a place in qualifying.\n\nHad she reached the Italian Open semi-finals last week, Sharapova would have climbed high enough to make the main draw automatically, but she retired in her second-round match.\n\nHad she applied for a wildcard it would have been reviewed by a Wimbledon committee, with a decision to be announced on 20 June.\n\nWildcards are \"usually offered on the basis of past performance at Wimbledon or to increase British interest\".\n\nThe Women's Tennis Association criticised the basis for the French Open's decision, saying there are \"no grounds to penalise any player beyond the sanctions set forth in the final decisions resolving these matters\".\n\nSharapova herself tweeted in apparent response to Roland Garros' decision.\n\n\"If this is what it takes to rise up again, then I am in it all the way, everyday,\" she wrote.\n\n\"No words, games, or actions will ever stop me reaching my own dreams.\"\n\nHowever, former Wimbledon champion Pat Cash was one of several prominent figures urging the All England Club not offer the 2004 champion a route straight back into the main draw.\n\nTickets to Wimbledon qualifying will be £5 each, with all funds going to the Wimbledon Foundation.", "Last updated on .From the section Motorsport\n\nFormer MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden remains in an \"extremely critical\" condition after suffering \"serious cerebral damage\" in a crash while cycling on Wednesday.\n\nThe American, 35, collided with a car on the Rimini coastline in Italy.\n\nHe is in the intensive care unit of Cesena's Maurizio Bufalini Hospital and has his family by his side.\n\n\"His condition is still extremely critical,\" a statement released by the hospital on Friday said.\n\nHayden, who has been racing for Red Bull Honda's World Superbike team, won the MotoGP championship in 2006.\n\nHe had raced in the World Superbike Championship in Italy last Sunday.\n\nOn Thursday, the hospital confirmed Hayden had \"suffered a serious polytrauma with subsequent serious cerebral damage\".\n\nPolytrauma is a medical term to describe the condition of a person who has multiple traumatic injuries.", "The claim: 1.7 million pensioners are living in poverty and a million in fuel poverty.\n\nReality Check verdict: The figure for pensioners who are defined as living in poverty in the UK is a bit higher than that at 1.9 million. There isn't a specific figure for the number of pensioners in fuel poverty in the UK but a million is not an unreasonable estimate based on the figures that we do have.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell spoke to BBC Radio 4's Today Programme on Friday about the Conservative manifesto pledge to means-test winter fuel payments.\n\nThe Conservatives have not given any details of how they would apply a means test or how much they would hope to save.\n\nThe winter fuel payment is between £100 and £300 (depending on your circumstances) paid to anyone receiving a state pension or people of pension age receiving certain other social security benefits.\n\nIn winter 2015-16 it was paid to 12.2 million people, 42,000 of whom lived elsewhere in Europe.\n\nMr McDonnell pointed out that since we don't know where the means test will fall, a number of less well-off pensioners could still lose the benefit.\n\nHe suggested it might just be people entitled to pension credit who would get the fuel allowance, although government sources have told the BBC that would not be the mechanism, and that there would be a consultation process to decide how it would be tested.\n\nPensioners with an income below £159.35 a week may claim pension credit - it's £243.45 for couples.\n\nAccording to the latest figures from November there were 1.9 million people claiming pension credit, or 2.2 million if you include their partners, although there has been research suggesting that about one-third of people entitled to it are not claiming.\n\nMr McDonnell told the BBC that there were 1.7 million pensioners living in poverty and a million living in fuel poverty.\n\nPeople count as living in relative poverty if they are in households with an income below 60% of the median household income. The median income is the one for which half of households have higher incomes and half have lower.\n\nThe government's preferred measure of pensioner poverty is after housing costs have been taken into account. Nearly three-quarters of pensioners live in homes that are owned outright (compared with roughly one in five of the working-age population) and so are less likely to have high housing costs.\n\nOn that measure, 16% of UK pensioners are in poverty, which is 1.9 million people.\n\nThere are also measures of absolute poverty, which may measure whether people are able to afford a basic lifestyle - about 8% of pensioners fall below the threshold for material deprivation.\n\nTo measure fuel poverty, the government looks at two things - how much you have to pay for fuel, and what your income is. You'll be considered to be in fuel poverty if your required fuel costs are above average and, were you to spend that amount, your remaining income would leave you below the official poverty line as explained above.\n\nThe latest government figures we have on fuel poverty relate to 2014 and suggest 2.38 million households in total in England were in fuel poverty.\n\nThere isn't a specific figure for the number of UK pensioners in fuel poverty, but according to Table 14 there were 621,000 households just in England in 2014 in which the oldest member was over 60. Age UK says this equates to more than 1 million individuals, although some of them will not yet be entitled to their state pension.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protesters in Medellin hold inflatables to represent social leaders killed so far in 2017\n\nIn 2016, Colombia's homicide rate dropped to its lowest in four decades, at some 12,000 cases. And yet the number of social leaders and human rights defenders killed has been on the rise.\n\nBy early May, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights confirmed 14 murders of human rights defenders since the beginning of 2017.\n\nThey said they had another 10 cases pending verification.\n\nFrancisco Gómez, a social leader in Arauca province, in the east of the country, only narrowly escaped becoming part of these statistics.\n\nHe had to spend a month in an intensive care unit after two men entered his house in the early hours in February, sneaking into the room where he was sleeping, and stabbing him in the stomach, chest and legs.\n\nA member of a local human rights organisation, Mr Gomez survived thanks to the quick help offered by Juan Torres, a member of the left-wing Marcha Patriótica party with whom he shared the house.\n\n\"Hadn't I been at home he would have bled to death,\" Mr Torres told the BBC.\n\nAs it was, Mr Gómez had a heart attack just before entering the operating room, but luckily it did not prove fatal.\n\nAnd if he is to be considered one of the lucky ones, it paints a serious picture.\n\nAt a protest in May, men put up a map of Colombia marked with the places where social leaders have been killed since the peace deal was signed\n\nExact figures for the number of deaths are hard to come by. Non-governmental organisation Somos Defensores (We Are Defenders) says 80 social leaders and human rights activists were killed last year.\n\nThe UN has a figure of 64, while the state ombudsman puts it even higher, at more than 100.\n\nPart of the discrepancy comes from differences in defining human rights leaders. Yet they all agree on one thing: the numbers have increased since 2015.\n\nTodd Howland, a representative of the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia, told the BBC that this could be linked to the after-effects of the country's peace agreement between the government and Farc guerrillas.\n\nAlthough it was signed at the end of 2016, the wheels were already in motion in the previous year, with the militants gradually leaving the areas they had historically controlled, and thus creating a power vacuum.\n\n\"You can explain almost the whole increase, and more, based on what is happening with the Farc's demobilisation,\" said Mr Howland.\n\nSome of the people murdered are thought to have had specific links to the Farc; others may have posed a threat to illegal groups, usually criminal gangs trying to establish themselves in the areas.\n\n\"I do not think there's a group of people who sit down to say, 'Let's kill these people because we do not like peace',\" said Paula Gaviria, a human rights adviser to the Colombian presidency.\n\nPaula Gaviria says there are people eager to suggests there were no benefits from the peace deal\n\n\"But obviously,\" she said, \"killing social leaders is generating a sense in communities and public opinion that there is no positive impact of peace.\"\n\nMs Gaviria admitted that perpetrators still did not feel killing a social leader was high risk. For that to change, she said, investigations and convictions were crucial.\n\nMr Howland added: \"The Colombian state has a responsibility to protect the rights of all their citizens, and the specific responsibility of protecting human rights defenders.\"\n\nWilliam Castillo Chima, a 43-year-old member of Marcha Patriótica and leader of a local human rights organisation in the gold mining area El Bagre, in the central Antioquia province, is one of the unlucky ones.\n\nIn March last year, he was having an early-evening soft drink in a local bar, when some men entered and shot him dead.\n\nHe was a very active social leader, according to his friend Camilo Villamil, who worked with the same workers' rights group.\n\n\"He was always reporting on armed groups, paramilitary groups, state forces and corruption,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Villamil said his friend was killed by a criminal gang and that other leaders - including himself - remained at risk.\n\nEveryone the BBC spoke to agrees that the homicides of social leaders and human rights defenders will continue in Colombia.\n\nThe UN's Todd Howland said they would only stop \"when there's economic, social and political inclusion in the areas [where the murders take place]\".", "US President Donald Trump is embarking on his first overseas trip since taking office, visiting Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican - the homes of Islam, Judaism and Christianity.\n\nSaudi Arabia is, on the face of it, a surprising choice of destination for Mr Trump's first overseas trip since taking office.\n\nThe birthplace of Islam, and home to the holy pilgrimage sites of Mecca and Medina, is hosting a man recently accused of Islamophobia for his failed attempts to ban visitors from six Muslim-majority countries.\n\nIn February 2016, during his presidential election campaign, he suggested that Saudi officials had been complicit in the 9/11 attacks. \"Who blew up the World Trade Center?\" he said. \"It wasn't the Iraqis, it was Saudi - take a look at Saudi Arabia, open the documents.\"\n\nSo what has changed since then? A lot, is the answer.\n\nAs president, Mr Trump has decided that one way of distancing himself from the foreign policies of his predecessor Barack Obama is to vilify Iran and cosy up to the Saudis.\n\nSoon after taking office in January he sent his new CIA Director, Mike Pompeo, to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, where he received red-carpet welcomes.\n\nSaudi officials are rolling out the red carpet for Donald Trump\n\nThen came the key turning point in forging a new relationship between Washington and Riyadh - March's visit to the White House by the young Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defence Minister, Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.\n\nThe two men hit it off together immediately.\n\nThey are both currently taking their respective countries down new and risky paths - Mr Trump with his recent missile strike on Syria and his facing down the North Koreans, and the prince with his leadership of the Saudi-led war against Yemen's Houthi rebel movement.\n\nTheir primary area of shared interest was their common view that Shia power Iran represented a threat to the Middle East.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump's first trip: What's on the agenda in Saudi Arabia?\n\nFor the Saudis, Iran's Sunni regional rivals, this was music to their ears. They lost confidence in Mr Obama, some years ago, suspecting him of \"going soft\" on Iran in the rush to secure a nuclear deal before the end of his presidency.\n\nPrince Mohammed emerged from that White House meeting pronouncing that he was \"very optimistic\" about President Trump, who he said would \"bring America back to the right track\".\n\nSo what exactly are the main issues under discussion when the vast US presidential machine rolls into Riyadh?\n\nCountering the terrorist threat, specifically from so-called Islamic State (IS, or \"Daesh\" as Arabs call this transnational jihadist organisation), will loom large in discussions.\n\nThe US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), along with other Western intelligence agencies and special forces, has been helping the Saudi authorities cope with terrorism since the al-Qaeda insurgency of 2003 and before that even as far back as the 1979 siege of Mecca.\n\nIS, a Sunni extremist group that considers Shia apostates, has bombed Shia mosques in both Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. But it has also attacked Sunni mosques where security personnel worship, and it continues to plot attacks inside Saudi Arabia on both Westerners and Saudi officials.\n\nIn the 2000s, the Saudi authorities defeated the al-Qaeda insurgency through a combination of police and military action, and a public awareness campaign that turned Saudi society against the jihadists.\n\nBut today, with conflicts raging in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen, the problem has returned with sizeable numbers of young Saudis feeling drawn to the extreme \"takfiri\" ideology of IS.\n\nIS suicide bombers have targeted Shia mosques in Saudi Arabia\n\nThousands have gone to Syria to fight for either IS or other jihadist groups, and many analysts accuse Saudi Arabia of being part of the problem, not doing enough to clamp down on public statements by clerics who are hostile and intolerant of other religions while exporting a narrow-minded ideology abroad.\n\nAs a presidential candidate, Mr Trump promised he had a secret plan to defeat IS.\n\nIn reality, US military strategy in the Syria-Iraq arena has not fundamentally altered course during his first four months in office, although some Obama-era checks and balances on certain operations have been lifted.\n\nIn Riyadh, there will be broad agreement about the threat posed by the jihadists of IS, but this is unlikely to translate into any new large-scale deployment of either country's forces to Syria or Iraq.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSaudi Arabia's rulers see Iran and the militias it supports as the greatest threat to the region - an allegation that is denied, not surprisingly, by Tehran.\n\nTheir Sunni-ruled neighbours, Bahrain and the UAE, also see Iran as a major threat. So too do certain key members of President Trump's administration, most notably National Security Adviser Gen H R McMaster and Defence Secretary James Mattis.\n\nThe Iranian-backed Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah is fighting Saudi-supported rebels in Syria\n\nBoth men served in the military and remember the frequent clashes between the US Navy and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps in the Gulf. They also recall the bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 that killed more than 200 US personnel and was blamed on Hezbollah.\n\nMr Trump has also been vociferous in his criticism of Iran and the 2015 nuclear deal, calling it \"the worst deal ever\", something which has played into the hands of Iran's hardliners, who also oppose the deal.\n\nSaudi Arabia, a Sunni-majority nation, has been locked in an on-off regional power struggle with Shia-majority Iran ever since the Islamic Revolution there in 1979.\n\nThe execution of Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr by the Saudi authorities caused outrage in Iran\n\nNotable flashpoints have been stampedes at the annual Hajj pilgrimage, in which hundreds of Iranian pilgrims have been killed, and the 2016 execution by the Saudis of a Shia cleric, which sparked the ransacking of the Saudi embassy in Tehran and the breaking off of diplomatic relations.\n\nPrince Mohammad declared this month that there was no point in even talking to the Iranian regime at present.\n\nCurrent Gulf Arab distrust of Iran stems from several areas: Tehran's support for the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad; the expansion of Hezbollah's operations outside Lebanon; the arming and training of Shia militias in Iraq; the powerful influence Tehran now exerts over the Iraqi government in Baghdad; Iranian support for Yemen's Houthi rebels; and its alleged covert encouragement of Shia insurgents in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia's restive Eastern Province.\n\nIran, for its part, retorts that Saudi Arabia is the root of the terrorist problem with its acquiescence towards religious intolerance and its global proselytising based on the narrow ideology of Salafism.\n\nPrince Mohammed Bin Salman accused Iran of trying \"to control the Islamic world\"\n\nThe Iranians point, with some justification, at the common ideology shared by IS and hardline Saudi clerics, as well as the practice of beheading prisoners. (Iran also executes a large number of prisoners annually but usually by hanging or firing squad).\n\nIran has pointed out that the Saudis and Qataris have spent vast sums over the last six years in funding Sunni militias in Syria in a vain attempt to defeat Mr Assad's forces.\n\nIn practical terms, the joint US-Saudi position on Iran is likely to translate into increased sales of sophisticated US weaponry; a near absence of criticism of Saudi Arabia's human rights record; and a reversal of Mr Obama's suspension of a contract to supply Riyadh with precision-guided munitions for air strikes that was halted last year because of mounting civilian casualties in Yemen.\n\nWhen President Trump's plane lifts off from Riyadh at the end of the Saudi leg of this trip, he will be hoping to have in his pocket some promises of major Saudi investment in the US - up to $40bn (£31bn), according to some reports.\n\nFind out which foreign leaders President Trump has met or called since taking office, as well as the countries he has mentioned in his tweets.\n\nHis key interlocutor here will once again be Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, who in addition to being defence minister is overseeing Saudi Arabia's economic development.\n\nThe prince, or \"MBS\" as he is often called, has huge plans to transform not just Saudi Arabia's oil-dependent economy, including the partial privatisation of the state oil giant Saudi Aramco, but also its cultural landscape.\n\nState oil giant Saudi Aramco plans to list about 5% of its shares\n\nAt the risk of angering his country's conservative clerics and their supporters, the prince wants to introduce public entertainment, making Saudi Arabia \"a happier place\".\n\nThis will go down well with much of the country's bored and underemployed youth, and there are ample opportunities here for the US entertainment industry. But there are also dangers.\n\nKing Faisal, who ruled from 1964 to 1975, angered religious conservatives by introducing television and education for women. He was assassinated.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nScarlets produced a superb performance to beat Leinster in the Pro12 semi-final despite having winger Steffan Evans sent off before half-time.\n\nEvans was red-carded for a tip tackle on Garry Ringrose in the 38th minute when Scarlets were leading 21-10.\n\nEvans, back-row Aaron Shingler and scrum-half Gareth Davies scored fine tries for the visitors.\n\nCentre Ringrose and number eight Jack Conan touched down for Leinster who miss out on the 27 May final in Dublin.\n\nMunster host Ospreys in the other semi-final at 18:15 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe against-the-odds triumph by Scarlets at the RDS was the first time an away team had won in the Pro12 semi-finals.\n\nOspreys were the last Welsh club to win the competition in 2012.\n\nThe dismissal of Evans could result in the 22-year-old missing out on his first Wales cap as a suspension could rule him out of his country's June Tests against Tonga and Samoa.\n\nRingrose landed on his head and neck after having his legs lifted by Evans. The red card was shown following several video re-runs of the incident.\n\nEvans watched from the sidelines as Scarlets brilliantly withheld Leinster's response after the interval.\n\nScarlets had started superbly, scoring first when Evans broke through on the right in the ninth minute.\n\nIsa Nacewa's penalty got Leinster off the mark and then Ringrose burst in for a 24th-minute converted try which put the Irish side 10-7 up.\n\nHowever, Leinster looked rattled when Scarlets touched down in the 26th and 30th minutes through Shingler and Davies.\n\nScarlets led 21-10 at the interval, but faced the prospect of playing the entire second half a man down.\n\nThey actually outscored their opponents in the second half as lacklustre Leinster could only manage a try by number eight Conan in the 64th minute.\n\nNacewa somehow missed the straightforward conversion, leaving the hosts 21-15 in arrears.\n\nScarlets sealed victory with two penalties by Liam Williams after the winger successfully took over from regular kicker Rhys Patchell who had been replaced.\n\nReplacements: Kirchner for G Ringrose (74), Strauss for Tracy (71), Bent for Furlong (61), Toner for Triggs (51), Leavy for Ruddock (46), Gibson-Park for L McGrath (22), Healy for J McGrath (9)\n\nReplacements: Parkes for Patchell (61), J Evans for G Davies (51), W Jones for R Evans (56), E Phillips for Elias (71), Kruger for Lee (65), Bulbring for Rawlins (65), van der Merwe for J Davies (80), Boyde for Barclay (63).", "Brendan Rodgers says it would be a \"remarkable achievement\" for Celtic to complete an unbeaten league season.\n\nRodgers' men thrashed Partick Thistle 5-0 on Thursday and must avoid defeat by Hearts on Sunday to finish their title-winning campaign without defeat.\n\n\"We matched 33 wins, which is the most wins in the history at Celtic,\" Rodgers told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"We go one behind in the record for goals. Now we're on to 104. So, we've got everything to play for.\"\n\nCeltic are looking to become the first team to go a 38-game Scottish Premiership campaign unbeaten.\n\nThey have gone unbeaten in a season once before, in 1897-98, winning 15 of the 18 games played. Glasgow rivals Rangers followed suit a year later, winning all 18.\n\nCeltic, who are 45 games unbeaten in all competitions domestically this season, are on 103 points and will break the points record for a 38-game league season if they draw with or beat Hearts.\n\nThe Glasgow side will win the domestic treble if they beat Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup final on 27 May.\n\nLeigh Griffiths, who would later appear to question being substituted, scored Celtic's opener at Firhill from the penalty spot after Patrick Roberts was fouled by Callum Booth.\n\nTom Rogic netted Celtic's second from a low Griffiths cross, and Roberts swept in their third before the break.\n\nStrikes from outside the box by Callum McGregor and Roberts followed in the second half.\n\n\"It was a joy to watch the team,\" said Rodgers. \"Five special goals and, fundamentally, the players worked very, very hard. It was an outstanding team performance.\n\n\"If you go 38 games of a season [unbeaten] with all the games we've had, the level of games, perform like we have done then it's a truly remarkable achievement relative to the time that we're playing in.\"\n\nAsked if there was any chance of keeping Roberts, who is due to return to parent club Manchester City this summer, Rodgers replied: \"I don't know. You have to respect he is a Manchester City player.\n\n\"The only thing I would ever say is if there ever is a possibility that he's going to leave Manchester City then of course Celtic would be certainly there to want to bring him here.\n\n\"I still think he's got a lot of development left in him. At 19 years of age, he still needs a lot of education, a lot of training. He's getting a wonderful education here with the club, the size of the club.\n\n\"He's a wonderful talent. He's very much a part of the team structure and that's great to see.\n\n\"When he has the ball, especially in the final third, he truly is a little magician. He was one of a number of outstanding team performers.\n\n\"He took his goals absolutely brilliantly. He's always a threat in the penalty box - gets the penalty and scores two other wonderful goals.\"\n\nPartick Thistle boss Alan Archibald accepted his side had been outclassed and said of the gap between Celtic and the other top-flight clubs: \"It's huge and you need to get everything right to get anything off them. The worry is the gulf could get bigger.\n\n\"They were miles ahead of us tonight and they have been all season and miles ahead of most of the league.\n\n\"We stood off them and I think Celtic could smell that fear in some of our individual battles and if you do that against a good side, they'll certainly hurt you and we gave them a gift with the opening goal, which didn't help.\"", "Princess Mako is getting married, but the law says she must lose her royal title\n\nWhen the Japanese emperor's granddaughter marries law firm employee Kei Komuro next year, her life will undergo a dramatic change.\n\nPrincess Mako, 25, will lose her title and leave the cloistered imperial household to live with her husband in the outside world.\n\nShe will receive a one-off payment, after which the couple will be expected to provide for themselves. She will vote and pay tax, shop and do her own chores. If the couple have children, they will not be royal.\n\nBut her departure means one fewer to carry out official duties. It is also reigniting debate about the shrinking monarchy, the role women play in it and future succession.\n\nEmperor Akihito, 83, has already indicated that he wants to step down. As the female royals get married, the monarchy is expected to contract further.\n\nThere is only one boy among the younger royals, 10-year-old Prince Hisahito. If nothing changes, the future of the imperial institution will rest solely with him.\n\n\"If you think about it there is a possibility that all but Prince Hisahito will leave the royal household in 10 to 15 years time,\" said Isao Tokoro, professor emeritus at Kyoto Sangyo University.\n\n\"I think it [the engagement] gave us an opportunity to think about the problem. The system should be reformed urgently so we don't lose more members from the Imperial family.\"\n\nUnder Japan's Imperial Household Law of 1947, princesses who marry commoners are removed from the royal family.\n\nThat same law slashed the number of Japanese royals, removing 11 out of 12 branches of the imperial family as a cost-cutting measure. That means there are no royal males for current princesses to marry.\n\nEmperor Hirohito's daughters lost their titles under the legislation, as did the current crown prince's sister, Sayako, when she married urban planner Yoshiki Kuroda in 2005.\n\nHer transition from closeted princess to commoner attracted considerable attention. Reports described how she learned to drive and practised shopping independently ahead of her wedding.\n\nThe couple used her lump-sum payment (reportedly $1.3m; £1m) to buy a house and she is now a high priestess of the Ise Grand Shrine.\n\nSo far Princess Mako's engagement has not been officially announced. But the young woman seems well-equipped for her new status, with two spells of independent living under her belt.\n\nWhile studying at Tokyo's International Christian University, she spent nine months as an exchange student at Edinburgh University in 2012-13.\n\nA year later, she lived in halls of residence at Leicester University as she completed her Master's in Art Museum and Gallery Studies. She is currently a researcher at a museum in Tokyo and is studying for her doctorate.\n\n\"Princess Mako has been the embodiment of an Imperial family member who is close to the public,\" the Yomiuri newspaper said in an editorial. \"Being an amiable person, she will surely build a cheerful home.\"\n\nBut she will be missed. According to the Asahi newspaper, Princess Mako is currently patron of two organisations, has travelled overseas as a representative of the royal family and has attended important imperial functions.\n\nHer official duties must now be shared among a dwindling pool of royals.\n\nAt the moment there are 19 members of the royal family. Seven are unmarried women who must leave when they wed. Eleven (four couples and three widows) are over 50. That leaves Prince Hisahito.\n\nHe is the youngest of four males in line to the throne. Three of them - Crown Prince Naruhito, his brother Prince Akishino (Fumihito) and Prince Hitachi (Masahito), the current emperor's younger brother, are highly unlikely to have more children.\n\nThat could potentially leave Prince Hisahito (and whatever family he might go on to have) with sole responsibility for performing official duties and continuing the imperial line.\n\nPrince Hisahito, pictured with his parents on his first day at school in April 2013, is the youngest heir to the throne\n\nAt the moment, a law allowing Emperor Akihito to abdicate is being prepared. In its editorial, the Yomiuri newspaper said the \"creation of female imperial branches should be incorporated\" into the law and discussed as a \"realistic measure for maintaining the number of Imperial family members\".\n\nBut that is unlikely to go down well with Japanese conservatives.\n\n\"This is all rooted in the concept of the unbroken male blood line - the notion that what makes Japan special is that it has an imperial line that has been passed down through a male lineage, if you believe the mythical version, ever since the Emperor Jimmu in 660 BC,\" says Professor Ken Ruoff, director of the Centre for Japanese Studies at Portland State University and an expert on the Japanese monarchy.\n\n\"This is what the nationalists seize upon and they actually will say things like if the male bloodline is broken, then Japan ceases to exist,\" he says. \"Female blood doesn't count.\"\n\nJapan has had female rulers in the past, though not for about 250 years. In general they were seen as place-holders until the throne reverted to a male member of the family (though there was one case of an empress passing the throne to her daughter to act as regent for a male heir).\n\nBefore the 1947 legal change, the royal family was much bigger, meaning that if one branch could not produce a male heir there were options elsewhere, but that is no longer the case.\n\nIn the period before Prince Hisahito was born, when there was no younger-generation heir, there was considerable debate about changing the law to allow women on the throne.\n\nThe prime minister of the day, Junichiro Koizumi, said he backed the move. But after Prince Hisahito's birth, discussions stalled.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJapan's current leader, Shinzo Abe, is a more right-wing figure whose speaks often of national pride, tradition and patriotism.\n\n\"Prime Minister Abe has spent a lot of time talking about his desire to make Japan a society that shines for women but he's got this far-right faction that absolutely opposes changing the law to allow a woman to sit on the throne,\" says Prof Ruoff.\n\nOne other idea is restoring royal status to branches that lost it in 1947, providing more male heirs.\n\nMr Abe, the Yomiuri said, backed this in the past. \"It is hard to say the idea has won broad support,\" the paper pointed out.\n\nBut there is public support for allowing women to inherit the throne. According to a Kyodo News survey in early May, 86% supported allowing a woman emperor and 59% supported allowing an emperor from the female blood-line.\n\nThis potentially leaves the government out of step with popular sentiment.\n\nWhatever happens, the future looks bright for Princess Mako. Of more concern, perhaps, is whether a 10-year-old boy has broad enough shoulders to carry the Japanese monarchy onwards.", "More women are finding work in cities\n\nWhy are millions of women dropping out of work in India?\n\nThe numbers are stark - for the first time in India's recent history, not only was there a decline in the female labour participation rate, but also a shrinking of the total number of women in the workforce.\n\nUsing data gleaned from successive rounds of National Sample Survey Organisation and census data, a team of researchers from World Bank have attempted to find out why this is happening.\n\n\"These are significant matters of concern. As India poises itself to increase economic growth and foster development, it is necessary to ensure that its labour force becomes fully inclusive of women,\" says the study, authored by Luis A Andres, Basab Dasgupta, George Joseph, Vinoj Abraham and Maria Correia.\n\nSo what accounts for the unprecedented and puzzling drop in women's participation in the workforce - at a time when India's economy has grown at a steady pace?\n\nWomen need better and more suitable job opportunities outside farming, the authors say\n\nPredictable social norms are attributed to women quitting work in India: marriage, motherhood, vexed gender relations and biases, and patriarchy.\n\nBut they may not be the only reasons. Marriage, for example, does affect the rate of participation of women in the workforce. But in villages, the workforce participation rate of married women has been found to be higher than that of unmarried women - whereas in the cities, the situation is reversed.\n\nSignificantly, rising aspirations and relative prosperity may be actually responsible for putting a large cohort of women out of work in India.\n\nRemember, the largest drop has been in the villages.\n\nAfter calculating the labour force participation rates and educational participation rates (young women in schools) the researchers believe that one plausible explanation for the drop in the participation rate among rural girls and women aged 15-24 is the recent expansion of secondary education and rapidly changing social norms leading to \"more working age young females opting to continue their education rather than join the labour force early\".\n\nThe study says there has been a \"larger response to income changes among the poor, rather than the wealthy, by sending children to school\".\n\nAlso, casual workers - mainly women - drop out of the workforce when wages increased for regular earners - mainly men - leading to the stabilisation of family incomes.\n\n\"Improved stability in family income can be understood as a disincentive for female household members to join the labour force,\" says the study.\n\nMany women work outside the home, and on their farms\n\n\"This largely resonates with the existing literature, which suggests that with rising household income levels, women in rural India withdraw from paid labour and engage in status production at home.\"\n\nBut dropping or opting out of the workforce to go to school and get an education may not ensure that these women will eventually go to work.\n\nAfter studying the relationship with the female labour participation rate and levels of educational achievements, the researchers found that having a high school-level education was \"not found to be an incentive for women\" to work.\n\nThe lowest rate of participation is among those who had secured school and high school education in the cities and villages. And the rate is actually highest among illiterates and college graduates.\n\nBut there has been a general drop in the rate in recent years, indicating that irrespective of educational attainments, \"the incentive for women to participate in the workforce has declined over this period\".\n\nTo be sure, India has a poor record of female participation in the workforce: the International Labour Organisation ranked it 121 out of 131 countries in 2013, one of the lowest in the world.\n\nAlso, India is not an outlier when it comes to women dropping out of the workforce.\n\nBetween 2004 and 2012, the female labour force participation rate in China dropped from 68% to 64%, but the participation rate remains very high compared with India. In neighbouring Sri Lanka, for example, the participation rate has dropped, but only by 2%.\n\n\"India stands out because of a such a sharp decline within such a short period. In levels, it is very low in international rankings now,\" the researchers told me.\n\nIndia needs to offer more opportunities to women, the researchers say\n\nClearly women need better and more suitable job opportunities, outside agriculture. Rural labour markets need to offer jobs that are acceptable and attractive to women and their families.\n\nThe World Bank study suggests that gains will not be realised unless social norms around women's - and men's - work also change:\n\n\"Strategies to communicate the importance of women's work should take into account the roles of women, husbands and in-laws.\"\n\nAlso, as another study says, the \"ongoing decrease in the availability of farm-based work, has led to women focusing on economic activities within their households\". Should home-based workers then be counted as members of the labour force?", "Trump is set for his first foreign trip, after a honeymoon period hunkered down at home\n\nBefore Donald Trump became president he would often spend days holed up in Trump Tower in New York, shuttling in a private elevator between his penthouse apartment and office.\n\nAnd it's been a similar story since he moved into the White House, where he divides his time between the East and West Wings, leaving only to spend weekends at Trump-branded resorts.\n\nAs a candidate he foreshadowed a homebody presidency - touting himself as the \"America First\" leader who would shun foreign travel to fix the \"carnage\" in the US.\n\nBut now he's on his way to Saudi Arabia, to Israel, to Rome, to Brussels and Sicily, with a hugely ambitious agenda. The two things are not at odds, HR McMaster, the president's National Security Adviser, told me.\n\n\"President Trump understands that America First does not mean American alone,\" he said.\n\n\"To the contrary, prioritising American interests means strengthening alliances and partnerships that help us extend our influence and improve the security of the American people.\"\n\nYouth hold their prayer shawls as they stand in front of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayers site in Jerusalem's Old City\n\nMr Trump will visit the centres of the Muslim, Jewish and Christian faiths on this trip - a first for any president.\n\nSo how can he avoid the pitfalls that have befallen his interactions at home?\n\nGeneral Wesley Clark, the former Supreme Allied Commander of Nato, had a few tips for a president who struggles to grasp foreign policy and stay on-message.\n\nFind out which foreign leaders President Trump has met or called since taking office, as well as the countries he has mentioned in his tweets.\n\n\"Say the right things, don't say the wrong things, and maintain composure,\" he says.\n\n\"Some unexpected things are likely to happen, keep discipline, have the right frame of reference when you talk and say as little as possible when you don't know things.\"\n\nAmong the foreign-policy goals Mr Trump has set himself, the most ambitious is bringing peace to the Middle East - a geo-political conundrum that has stymied far more experienced presidents than this one.\n\nBut he seems to be confident. \"It's something that I think is frankly maybe not as difficult as people have thought over the years,\" he said during a recent meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.\n\nI asked Mr Trump's British-educated counter-terrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka whether the celebrity real-estate mogul-turned-president had the right qualifications for such a task.\n\n\"We have in the commander-in-chief, in the president, truly the master of the deal,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a man who spent 50 years negotiating - if there's anyone who can bring stability and peace it is Donald Trump.\"\n\nMore on the Trump presidency\n\nSo on the one hand you have a deal over the price of a piece of real estate in New York. On the other, intractable disputes that go back thousands of years over the right of return of refugees, final status for Jerusalem, whether to negotiate with Hamas, and on.\n\n\"I don't think it's not just a question of doing real estate deals,\" said Mr Gorka. \"This is a man who didn't just do deals, he was monumentally successful in the hardest market in the world - Manhattan real estate. And at the end of the day, deals are about human beings.\"\n\nIn reality, Mr Trump might find the Middle East a harder market than New York. But even if he falls short of fixing the Middle East, the president's first foreign trip could serve as a welcome distraction from his woes at home.\n\nThere will likely be a warm reception waiting for him in Israel and Saudi Arabia, where he has two key things going for him: he isn't Barack Obama, who was widely disliked there by the end of his presidency, and he has taken a hard line on Iran.\n\nFamilies of Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails demonstrate in Jerusalem as hundreds of the detainees entered the second month of a hunger strike.\n\nThe trip might also allow Mr Trump to divert the narrative from the Russia scandal, said Ron Christie, a Republican strategist who served in the Bush White House.\n\n\"The minute that he leaves the United States on that plane the entire focus would be what's going on abroad - what the president says and how he acts, as opposed to some of the domestic issues that are dogging him here at home.\n\n\"This is a good opportunity for him to turn the page and get a fresh start.\"\n\nAnd if anyone needs a fresh start it's Donald Trump. The way the first 120 days of his presidency have gone, he might just find the warm air of Saudi Arabia and Israel a refreshing break from the fetid swamp of Washington DC.", "The Football Association is calling it \"successful deception of a match official\".\n\nBack in December, Burnley boss Sean Dyche said he thought retrospective bans would eradicate diving within six months. The players would stop doing it, if it meant risking suspension for the next two games.\n\nFrom next season, under new rules announced on Thursday, a panel will review footage each Monday looking for cases - but only players who won a penalty or got a player sent off will be punished.\n\nHow it works in Scotland\n\nThe Scottish Football Association has had the power to retrospectively punish divers since the 2011-12 season.\n\nOver time its rules have evolved. Now it looks not only at incidents involving penalties and red cards but anything that gives a team a \"substantial advantage\" - such as a free-kick scored from outside the box.\n\nVincent Lunny was the SFA's first compliance officer - a key role in deciding which cases warrant action.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 live \"it would be naive to think it had an absolute effect of wiping it out\".\n\n\"There are still many cases every year, and there are still many yellow cards for diving,\" he added.\n\nSince the start of the 2014-15 season, players in Scotland have also been able to appeal against yellow cards given for simulation.\n\nThe first appeal, however, was only lodged the following season and in total there have been eight.\n• None Six were upheld and the caution rescinded\n• None Two were dismissed by the tribunal\n\nHow much of this sounds familiar?\n\n\"Silly to leave a foot in.\" \"Naive defending.\" \"Entitled to go down there.\" \"The ref can't give it if you don't go down.\"\n\nMotherwell's ex-Celtic and Middlesbrough striker Scott McDonald was shown a yellow card for simulation on Saturday.\n\nHe discussed the incident on BBC Scotland's Sportsound programme on Monday. One potential difficulty in enforcing the new FA rules is that - as he says - decisions are not always cut and dried.\n\nThe following is the exchange between McDonald (SM) and journalist Graham Spiers (GS).\n\nSM: \"It's not diving when there is contact, I wasn't diving.\"\n\nGS: \"Scott, if I get your argument right, and I've heard it from various footballers, the point you're making is if there is contact, you're entitled to take advantage of it and go down. is that correct?\"\n\nGS: \"Right, some people call that a dive. You don't need to go down…\"\n\nSM: \"Let's get it right though, I'm not dragging my leg out or trying to make contact. Contact has to be made on my movement.\"\n\nGS: \"You don't need to go down though do you? But you take advantage of it and you do go down, so let's be clear about that as well. It's diving.\"\n\nSM: \"How is it diving if there is contact?\"\n\nGS: \"Because you say you take advantage of it. You could stay on your feet.\"\n\nSM: \"So you slide in on me and you don't get the ball. I take it past you but you make contact. You want me to stay on my feet at that point. If I can?\"\n\nGS: \"If it's very obvious you're diving…\"\n\nSM: (interrupts): \"It's a split-second, it's not even really a decision. There will be occasions where you know you are not going to get the ball on the other side. If there is fair contact made then you're well within your rights in the law of the game to take the contact.\"\n\nGS: \"The nub of it is this strange phrase: 'I felt I was entitled to go down.' I find it's glaringly obvious. Why deny it?\"\n\nSM: \"But let's stop denying it - you're calling me a cheat, Graham, that's the difference.\"\n\nSM: \"If you're saying I dive, that's calling me a cheat, Graham. Basically that's what that is - if I'm diving, that's what you're saying. People that dive are cheats. Are they not?\"\n\n'A cancer we cannot allow to grow'\n\nThe introduction of retrospective bans for diving has received the backing of former Premier League referee Howard Webb.\n\nThe 45-year-old, who is overseeing the introduction of video refereeing in Major League Soccer, where retrospective suspensions for simulation already occur, told BBC Radio 5 live's Friday Football Social: \"It is a positive move.\"\n\nHe continued: \"We need to shift the balance. The risk/reward for players to dive is not in the right place.\n\n\"If a player is thinking 'I need to do something to try and get a point or win a game and if I hit the deck here I can get away with it and get a penalty and if I get caught I get a yellow card' that is not much of a deterrent. This new measure will be hopefully.\n\n\"It is happening here in the MLS. On a Monday morning, the disciplinary committee meet and look at all the controversial plays from the weekend and if they involve simulation then, providing the five-man panel are unanimous then that player, if he has won a penalty for his team and got a material benefit then that player will then get suspended. It works.\n\n\"Players come here knowing that if they dive and got away with it on the day they will pay the price later down the road.\n\n\"I think it was Sean Dyche who said if we introduce this it will get rid of diving in six months and lets hope he is right because it is a cancer that we cannot allow to grow.\"\n\nThe view from the Premier League\n\nReaction from Premier League managers has so far been mixed.\n\nCrystal Palace boss Sam Allardyce says the plans are \"utter rubbish\" and called for video technology and sin-bins instead, while West Brom manager Tony Pulis embraced the idea.\n\n\"Every manager and club will say it's happened to them, but it's something we want to take out of the game,\" Pulis said.\n\n\"I'm pleased it's the way forward. I don't think there's any place for it in the game. I would most probably fine the players as well and give the money to charity.\"\n\nSwansea manager Paul Clement echoed Allardyce's comments in saying punishment for diving should come during the game rather than retrospectively.\n\n\"It's not the answer. Video technology and looking at instant replays of major incidents are the steps that need to be taken,\" Clement said.\n\n\"The problem is if you're on the end of a potential dive that could cost you points, retrospective action is not going to help you and your team.\n\n\"What it can do is potentially help another team as that player could be banned for future fixtures, so I don't see retrospective bans as the answer.\n\n\"Any punishment has to be done there and then.\"\n\n'It won't stop it, but it will have an effect'\n\nWhen the ban came in there were the same objections in Scotland as we are hearing now south of the border.\n\nThe ban doesn't make a complete difference because some players will still do it but it does now have a stigma attached to it. It hasn't eliminated diving, it never will, but it has reduced it.\n\nAlex Schalk got a penalty for Ross County against Celtic last month, there was no contact in the box. It was amazing to all of us that the referee did not see it but his anger was such that he thought there might have been.\n\nThe television replays proved instantly that the player had dived, the penalty was given and they scored it. Schalk got a two-game ban and in the end the goal did not make a difference to Celtic's unbeaten record. But it might have done.\n\nThen there was Kudus Oyenuga of Morton, who was sent off for a foul on Hibernian's Jordon Forster, and on the way to the tunnel he had a square-up with Darren McGregor.\n\nThe two were face-to-face, Oyenuga went down like he was shot and McGregor was sent off too. Nothing happened to Oyenuga - although McGregor's red was subsequently reduced to a yellow.", "Pippa Middleton's engagement ring cost a reported £250,000, and the glass wedding marquee an estimated £65,000-£100,000\n\nWhen Pippa Middleton marries James Matthews on Saturday every feature of the day will be realised in exquisite detail, with no expense spared. But is Pippa out of step with the times?\n\nWhile a glass marquee might be nice for some, her fellow millennial brides are turning their backs on horse-drawn carriages in favour of homemade decorations and a few drinks at the local pub.\n\nCosting somewhere between a new car and a house deposit, the average wedding day in 2016 spiralled to an average of £27,000 outside London and £38,000 inside the capital, according to wedding planning site Bridebook.\n\nBut some couples are only spending a fraction of that amount, and say their day is just as special.\n\nKatherine Varley, 33, married husband Josh, 31, in a dress she bought for £40 from Brixton market.\n\nThe couple met at the primary school where they worked. With Josh on a working holiday visa from Australia, to avoid being apart they were married six months later on a budget of £5,000.\n\nAfter their private ceremony at Wandsworth Town Hall in south-west London, they threw a party at the Dukes Head Pub in nearby Putney, with 70 guests.\n\nTo keep costs low, the couple enlisted friends and family to help with their big day. A family friend baked their wedding cake while Katherine's cousin did their photography. Another friend bought the flowers in bulk from New Covent Garden Market, while the couple made their own invitations and thank you cards.\n\n\"I have witnessed close friends planning large weddings with much greater budgets and it has shocked me by how carried away it can get financially. They have all been stunning and truly wonderful days but when you compare those budgets to potentially being deposits towards buying a home, it seems unnecessary,\" says Katherine.\n\nKatherine changed outfit for the big party that she and Josh threw after their wedding ceremony\n\nThe average cost of a wedding dress has fallen 25% year-on-year, according to online fashion retailer Lyst, from £1,329 to a still-not-insignificant £832.\n\nEngagement rings - which according to convention should cost between one and three months' salary - have seen spending fall to £1,080, an average of 19% less than a decade ago, according to insurer Protect Your Bubble.\n\nPippa's sister Kate may have driven the trend for coloured stones rather than a traditional diamond, thanks to her famous sapphire engagement ring.\n\nMeanwhile, 2017 has become the year of the High Street wedding dress. Whistles, Asos, Topshop and Dorothy Perkins have all launched bridal ranges this year, joining the likes of Phase Eight and Monsoon.\n\nKaren Whybrow, owner of vintage and bohemian bridal boutique Rock the Frock, thinks couples are dispensing with tradition to throw a wedding that reflects their personalities - and doesn't cost them their house deposit.\n\n\"In the six years I have been in the industry things have changed massively. Brides have become much more individual in their tastes - they don't want the traditional anymore. It's been led by the desire to have something a bit more personal, now that DIY weddings have become a lot more popular.\"\n\nJames Veitch gets creative making decorative jars for his wedding\n\nShe also notes that brides no longer expect their parents to foot the bill.\n\n\"A lot more brides now tend to pay for their dresses themselves. Their mum or dad might pay when they were in their early 20s, but now our brides are usually in their late 20s to early 30s and they have their own careers.\"\n\nImogen Veitch, 27, spent just £200 on her wedding outfit, buying a wedding dress from China on eBay. She and husband James also went down the DIY route to keep their wedding within a strict £6,000 budget.\n\nThe pair made all of the wedding decorations themselves and created their own floral centrepieces. They married at Sandy Balls holiday park in Hampshire at a cost of £4,000.\n\nImogen and James on their wedding day\n\n\"We knew we had limited savings and didn't want it all to go on one day,\" says Imogen. \"We aren't extravagant people, so if we had an extravagant wedding it would have felt forced and uncomfortable. Both of us have said we honestly wouldn't change a single thing about our wedding day. It was the best day our lives.\n\n\"As it is socially accepted that weddings are expensive I think lots of couples just bite the bullet and go all out, some even taking out loans. And if you are spending £20,000 or more on a wedding I can see how people get so stressed out. You need everything to go perfectly or it seems a waste of money. But I can say we were honestly stress-free for the entire planning process and on the day.\"\n\nWhile these couples say they would not have changed a thing, for those with more cash to play with a wedding is their chance to realise some more extravagant ideas.\n\nDaisy Peirce, 28, effectively had two weddings when she married husband Dan, one in the day at Childerley Hall in Cambridgeshire with 60 guests, and then an evening reception at her parents' home with a further 80. She estimates the combined cost was around £50,000.\n\n\"We didn't have any budget. We were fortunate that our parents were paying for the wedding so if we wanted to do something, we could,\" Daisy says.\n\nHaving a big girly wedding wasn't on the agenda. Instead, food was a big focal point of the day for the couple, who both work in catering. Their evening reception included a street food market, with six different trucks offering everything from fish and chips to ice cream and crepes.\n\n\"The ceremony was a bit of a blur but I wouldn't change anything,\" says Daisy. \"There were things we definitely wanted to include and we didn't have to sacrifice anything so it definitely took the pressure off.\"\n\nAs part of the \"experience generation\", even the wealthiest young brides and grooms don't want their day to be all about spectacle, says Sarah Haywood. As one of the world's most influential wedding planners, her international clientele include aristocrats and \"people of note\" for whom she has booked headline acts such as Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez.\n\n\"The millennial generation are certainly far more concerned with the guest experience than they are with showing off, which is a wonderful change to how it was 10 years ago. They are very concerned about the food and drink and the flow of the event, which is as important to them as what it all looks like.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nMichael van Gerwen came from 7-2 down in a dramatic final to beat Peter Wright at London's O2 Arena and win his third Premier League title.\n\nThe Dutchman took home the £250,000 top prize by beating Wright 11-10 after the Scot missed six match darts.\n\nVan Gerwen beat Gary Anderson 10-7 in the first semi-final while Wright survived a late Phil Taylor comeback to win 10-9 and go through.\n\nIt is the second time in as many years that Van Gerwen has won the title.\n• None How Van Gerwen beat Wright to win the Premier League\n\nThe victory means he has won all but one of the four televised Professional Darts Corporation majors of 2017, after he missed the UK Open through injury.\n\nAfter Wright took a five-leg lead, Van Gerwen, 28, came back to level at 8-8 before the Scot rallied and came within one leg of victory at 10-9.\n\nBut he missed half a dozen darts for the title on double eight as Van Gerwen sealed victory with a nerveless 12-dart visit against a deflated Wright.\n\nSpeaking to Sky Sports, Van Gerwen said: \"I think it was a great final. I had a great comeback, but then he missed six darts for the match. I don't know how he did, but who cares, a win is a win.\n\n\"This was a really crazy game, we know sooner or later Peter will win a really big title, he didn't do himself any favours today. I kept myself cool and relaxed.\"\n\nWright, 47, who won the UK Open in March after Van Gerwen pulled out of the tournament with a back problem, said: \"I've got to learn, go back to the practice board and get him next time.\n\n\"What I've learnt over the years playing Michael, I used to rush it, but I've learnt play your own rhythm.\n\n\"I can't believe I missed that many darts at a double, but fair play to the champion.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal majority shareholder Stan Kroenke is committed to the club in the long term, sources have told the BBC.\n\nKroenke has shown no interest in a £1bn bid by Uzbek-born Russian Alisher Usmanov to take full control of the Gunners.\n\nIt is understood the American's ambition is to win the Premier League and make Arsenal a force in Europe.\n\nGunners legend Ian Wright says the club needs the spending power of a billionaire such as Usmanov, adding that \"something has to change\".\n\n\"He has put in the bid and it is great news,\" former striker Wright told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"Something has to change, whether it is the manager Arsene Wenger or whether it is the board upstairs.\"\n\nArsenal need other teams to slip up in Sunday's final round of matches to avoid missing out on Champions League qualification for the first time in 21 years.\n\nWenger, who has been manager since 1996, has been the target of protests from some of the club's fans.\n\nThe 67-year-old Frenchman's future at the club will be decided at a board meeting after Arsenal meet Chelsea in the FA Cup final on 27 May.\n\n\"It is not looking good for Arsenal at the moment,\" Wright told 5 live's Friday Football Social.\n\n\"They may be out of the Champions League - something they are not used to - and they have to beat one of the best Chelsea sides I have seen for a long time in the FA Cup final to try and get something from the season.\n\n\"Where are they going to sign players from? Who is going to want to come to Arsenal instead of anywhere else in London? At the moment, they are not an attractive proposition.\n\n\"We are already missing out on the managers we are supposedly interested in and we are going to start missing out on the kind of players that are going to be available and want to play in the Premier League.\n\n\"Top players may want to leave. Too much is up in the air.\n\n\"Something has got to happen for Arsenal to go to that next level. This bid will galvanise the fans.\"\n\nMetal magnate Usmanov owns 30% of Arsenal's shares but is not part of the board or decision-making at the club.\n\nUsmanov said in April that Kroenke must \"bear huge responsibility\" for the club's failures on the pitch.\n\nThe Gunners' London rivals Chelsea won the Premier League this season - the fifth time they have done so under the ownership of billionaire Roman Abramovich, who has spent heavily since taking control in 2003.\n\n\"Abramovich is a winner,\" added Wright, who scored 185 goals in 288 appearances for Arsenal.\n\n\"Stan Kroenke sees it as another asset. If you look at all his other franchises, they are doing the same. They are mediocre, with poor attendances and aren't achieving anything as a team. That is where Arsenal are at the moment.\n\n\"We need an owner like Abramovich, who wants to win. I would swap Arsenal's last 10 years for what Chelsea have done.\"\n\nAlisher Usmanov has wanted control of Arsenal for some time.\n\nA long-standing critic of the current board, he has attempted to curry favour with fans by calling for greater investment by Stan Kroenke. He believes the team should be performing at a much higher level.\n\nNow, with questions swirling over Arsene Wenger's future and with a lack of Champions League football next season looking inevitable, he has made his move.\n\nHowever, he has been rebuffed.\n\nThe big question is whether this was a final throw of the dice by Usmanov? And, with seemingly no prospect of Kroenke selling, will he turn his purchasing power towards another Premier League club?", "Electroconvulsive therapy - in which a small electric current is passed through the brain causing a seizure - is now used much less often than it was in the middle of the last century. But controversially it is now being used in the US and some other countries as a treatment for children who exhibit severe, self-injuring behaviour.\n\nSeventeen-year-old Jonah Lutz is severely autistic. He's also prone to outbursts of violent behaviour, in which he sometimes hits himself repeatedly.\n\nHis mother, Amy, is convinced that if it wasn't for electroconvulsive therapy - ECT - he would now have to be permanently institutionalised for his own safety, and the safety of those around him.\n\nThe use of ECT featured famously in the 1975 Hollywood movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, starring Jack Nicholson. Set in a mental institution, the Oscar-winning film cemented most people's view of ECT as barbaric.\n\nBut Amy describes the modern version of the therapy as little short of miraculous.\n\n\"ECT has been transformative for Jonah's life and for our life,\" she says. \"We went for a period of time - for years and years - where Jonah was raging, often multiple times a day, ferociously. The only reason he's able to be at home with us, is because of ECT.\"\n\nIt's estimated that one in 10 severely autistic children like Jonah violently attack themselves, often causing serious injuries ranging from broken noses to detached retinas. No-one really knows why. Some theories link self-injuring behaviour to anxiety caused by an overload of sensory signals, others to frustration as the autistic child struggles to communicate.\n\nAmy and husband Andy tried countless traditional treatments using medication or behavioural therapy before finally turning to ECT - a treatment that first began to be used on children like Jonah a decade ago, in parts of the US. Each session alleviates his symptoms for up to 10 days at a time - but it's not a cure.\n\nJonah's doctor, Charles Kellner, ECT director at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, is so convinced it's effective and safe that he allows Amy to witness the procedure and the BBC to film it.\n\nProf Kellner says the best way to overcome the negative image of ECT portrayed in popular culture is \"to show people what modern ECT is really like, and show them the results with patients like Jonah\".\n\nJonah is one of a few hundred children in the US to receive the controversial treatment. He has had about 260 ECT sessions since the age of 11.\n\n\"There's a lot of interesting new neural imaging research showing that ECT actually reverses some of the brain problems in the major psychiatric illnesses,\" Kellner explains, as he makes final checks on the wiring around Jonah's temples.\n\n\"We don't know exactly why it works in people with autism and superimposed mood disorders, but we think it probably reregulates the circuits in the brain that are deregulated because of autism.\"\n\nThe modern treatment is carried out under general anaesthetic, with muscle relaxants to prevent violent convulsions. At the flick of a switch, Kellner administers just under an amp of electric current in a series of very short pulses.\n\nJonah's body begins to shake as the current induces a seizure - ECT specialists think this may \"reset\" the malfunctioning brain. The convulsions last for about 30 seconds.\n\nAmy is unperturbed by what she sees.\n\n\"If a doctor says they need to cut open your child's chest to conduct life-saving surgery, you would allow it. That is more barbaric yet we accept it,\" she says.\n\nWithin an hour Jonah is fully alert. He and his mother head out of the hospital and on to the New York street to find an ice cream parlour.\n\nBecause the long-term effects of ECT on children exhibiting self-injuring behaviour are unknown, in some countries - and in a handful of US states - the treatment is not allowed. The UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence doesn't recommend ECT for use on under 18s.\n\nBut ECT is a well-established treatment in adults for severe, often life-threatening depression. Its use is controversial, though, with memory loss the main acknowledged side-effect. What's disputed is the scale of the memory loss. Studies carried out by ECT doctors suggest lapses are mostly short-term and that memory function soon returns to normal. But opponents of ECT cite surveys claiming to show that more than half of patients suffer serious long-term memory loss.\n\n\"It's a traumatic brain injury,\" says Dr Peter Breggin, a psychiatrist who has long fought the psychiatric establishment, and campaigns for a total ban on ECT. \"The electricity not only travels through the frontal lobes - that's the seat of intelligence, and thoughtfulness and creativity and judgment - it also goes through the temporal lobes - the seat of memory. You are damaging the very expression of the personality, the character, the individuality, and even, if you believe in it, the expression of the soul.\"\n\nFor former US Army intelligence officer Chad Calvaresi and his wife Kaci, the potential benefits of ECT far outweigh the risks for their 11-year-old, violently autistic daughter, Sofija.\n\n\"When she was aggressing towards me, my instinct as a mom was to grab her and hold her and hug her and wait,\" Kaci explains. \"But she got so big and strong that I couldn't do that.\"\n\nSofija spent much of her early life suffering neglect and abuse in a Serbian orphanage, before Chad and Kaci adopted her in 2009. They were determined to give her a better life in America, but in 2016 they suffered the heartbreak of institutionalising her again - this time for her own safety.\n\n\"She beat herself so bad her nose was busted and bleeding, her lips were busted open and bleeding,\" Chad explains. \"She gave herself a black eye. I was scared of my own daughter.\"\n\nFor six months Sofija received medication and therapy as an in-patient at the renowned Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, but there was little improvement. During her frequent violent episodes it often took three highly trained care staff - all wearing protective clothing and shielding Sofija with padded mats - to prevent her injuring herself or others.\n\nAfter exhausting all other options, Sofija's doctors finally agreed to Chad and Kaci's request to give her ECT. Just a month later her behaviour had improved enough for her to return home.\n\nWe caught up with the family after six months and more than 30 treatments, and the transformation was remarkable. Sofija was swimming in the family pool and playing with her siblings, and while her violent episodes hadn't disappeared completely, her parents felt they were less intense and more manageable. Sofija was also receiving home schooling in maths and English. \"She's sharp as a tack,\" says Kaci. \"The only memory loss that Sofija has had from ECT is she forgets the procedure has actually happened.\"\n\nECT for severely self-injuring autistic children like Sofija is still in very limited use, and without a long-term scientific study it remains highly controversial. But even though Sofija is likely to need ECT every week for the foreseeable future, her parents have no regrets - they have their daughter back home.\n\n\"It's overwhelming if I think about it,\" says Kaci, \"but what future did she have without it? My hope is she doesn't need it for the rest of her life but at this point I see it like a diabetic needing insulin. It keeps her alive. Literally it keeps her alive and it makes it possible for us to be able to have her in our home living life with our family and enjoying Sofija.\"\n\nThe Royal College of Psychiatrists says ECT is a \"safe and effective treatment for severe depression\" in adults but acknowledges on its website that some dispute this:\n\nMany doctors and nurses will say that they have seen ECT relieve very severe depressive illnesses when other treatments have failed. Bearing in mind that 15% of people with severe depression will kill themselves, they feel that ECT has saved patients' lives, and therefore the overall benefits are greater than the risks. Some people who have had ECT will agree, and may even ask for it if they find themselves becoming depressed again.\n\nSome see ECT as a treatment that belongs to the past. They say that the side-effects are severe and that psychiatrists have, either accidentally or deliberately, ignored how severe they can be. They say that ECT permanently damages both the brain and the mind, and if it does work at all, does so in a way that is ultimately harmful for the patient. Some would want to see it banned.\n\nYou can watch the Our World documentary \"My Child, ECT and Me\" at 21:30 on Sunday on the BBC News Channel, on BBC World at these times and on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Chris Cornell was one of the defining voices of grunge music - his bluesy, multi-octave voice becoming Soundgarden's not-so-secret weapon.\n\nBorn in Seattle, Washington, in 1964, he developed an interest in music while at school - especially with The Beatles - which led to him learning the piano.\n\nBut he spent most of his teenage years a loner, afflicted by agoraphobia and anxiety, until rock music helped him overcome his uneasiness around others.\n\nAfter dropping out of school, he bought a drum kit and played in various local bands, which brought him into contact bassist Hiro Yamamoto and guitarist Kim Thayil, with whom he formed Soundgarden in 1984.\n\nThe band was named after an art installation in Seattle's Sand Point.\n\nCornell initially played the drums while singing, but was able to concentrate on vocals after a drummer was recruited in 1985.\n\nIn Soundgarden, he slowed the frenetic flammery of '80s metal to a sombre crawl, earning the band comparisons to Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin.\n\nAlthough they started out on Seattle's Sub Pop label (their debut EP, Screaming Life was the label's second release), they were the first grunge band to sign to a major label.\n\nThe song's surreal and nightmarish video became an MTV favourite and won Best Metal/Hard Rock Video at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards.\n\nIt remains their most enduring hit. Spotify lists more than 50 cover versions, with everyone from Anastacia to Paul Anka drawn to its pretty melody and dreamlike lyrics.\n\nEven Cornell wasn't sure what it was about. \"I was just sucked in by the music and I was painting a picture with the lyrics,\" he once said. \"There was no real idea to get across.\"\n\nWhile the song defined the band, there was no pinning Cornell down.\n\nHe wrote for other acts, including Alice Cooper, and formed Audioslave with the remnants of experimental rock act Rage Against The Machine.\n\nWith them, he played Cuba's first ever outdoor concert by an American rock band; while in later years he worked with hip-hop producer Timbaland and released a solo acoustic album, Songbook, which put his remarkable vocals front and centre.\n\nSoundgarden disbanded in 1997 and reunited in 2010. Cornell went into rehab in 2003 after struggles with addiction to drugs and alcohol.\n\nHis Casino Royale Bond theme in 2006, You Know My Name, may not be a classic of the genre - but in framing Daniel Craig as a new, leaner, tougher 007, it was an uncompromising success.\n\nHe wrote the end title song Live to Rise for Marvel's The Avengers and his song Misery Chain, a duet with Joy Williams, appeared on the soundtrack of the Oscar-winning film 12 Years A Slave.\n\nCornell's song The Keeper from Machine Gun Preacher was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2012.\n\nLike all great musicians, he was curious and fearless. His greatest regret of the grunge scene was that Seattle's experimental bands, the ones playing free jazz and Gothic rock, got left behind because they didn't fit the music industry's narrative.\n\n\"It's like somebody came into your city with bulldozers and water compressors and mined your own perfect mountain and excavated it and threw out what they didn't want and left the rest to rot,\" he told Rolling Stone in 1994. \"It's that bad.\"\n\nHis untimely death means that, after Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley and Scott Weiland, yet another of grunge's leading lights has been extinguished.\n\nTo those who knew him, the loss will be even greater.\n\nCornell is survived by his wife Vicky, whom he married in 2004, and their two children. He also had a daughter with first wife and former manager Susan Silver.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "In April 2014 Islamist militants kidnapped 276 girls from their school in Chibok in north-eastern Nigeria.\n\nThis month dozens were released. But when will the rest be free?", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino says Harry Kane is \"one of the best strikers in the world\", and insists the club can keep their best players this summer.\n\nKane, 23, scored four in Thursday's 6-1 win at Leicester to move to the top the golden boot standings, ahead of Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez.\n\n\"The players we want to keep will be here next season. If any players leave, it's Tottenham's decision.\"\n\nKane, the Premier League's top scorer last season with 25, moved to 26 for this campaign with two late goals in the victory at the King Power Stadium.\n\nKane, midfielder Dele Alli and defender Kyle Walker continue to be linked with transfers, but Pochettino says the club are in control of the England internationals' futures.\n\n\"I think we are so, so, so calm about our big players and they are so happy here,\" said the Argentine.\n\n\"We are building a very exciting project. The players must feel they are part of us and want to share in our success.\n\n\"Harry Kane means a lot for the team. I tell you always that he's one of the best strikers in the world. His performances show that we are right.\"\n\nKane has missed eight league games with injury this season but looks set to finish as top scorer, unless Everton striker Lukaku or Arsenal forward Sanchez have a remarkable final day of the season.\n\nThe latter two players will be on opposing sides at Emirates Stadium on Sunday, while Kane and Spurs go to Hull. All 10 Premier League matches on Sunday kick off at 15:00 BST.\n\nKane averages a goal every 94 minutes in the league this season, and unsurprisingly described the campaign as his best yet.\n\n\"It probably could have been more,\" he said.\n\n\"It is the first time in my professional career that I've scored four, there has been a bit of build-up in the race for the golden boot and I wanted at least one or two to put the pressure on - but to get four is amazing.\n\n\"This is my best season. I missed 11 weeks and worked hard during my injury to ensure I came back in better shape than I started.\"\n\nKane's top-flight goals this term have earned Spurs 13 points, which is second only behind Chelsea striker Diego Costa's 20 goals, earning the Blues 15 points.\n\nHarry Kane always hits the target, he is always looking to work goalkeepers.\n\nHe has 51 goals in two seasons and that is great numbers. Those who work with him and know him will say he deserves it.\n\nHe works incredibly hard at his game. He is determined. He has taken a few knocks along the way but he is showing everything he has got right now.\n\nHe is a combination of [former England strike partners] Teddy Sheringham and Alan Shearer.\n• None Kane is the fifth player in Premier League history to score 25 or more goals in successive seasons - Robbie Fowler, Thierry Henry, Alan Shearer and Robin van Persie are the others.\n• None Kane has now scored 10 goals against Leicester, more than against any other side.\n• None Kane is the fifth player to score three or more hat-tricks in a Premier League season.\n• None In Kane, Alli and Son Heung-min, Tottenham now have three players with 20 or more goals in all competitions this season - more than any other club in the Premier League or the EFL.", "In my interview with Philip Hammond last month, the Chancellor pleaded that he did not want to have his hands \"constrained\".\n\nIt was a clear signal he wanted to drop the \"triple tax lock\" put in place by David Cameron before the 2015 election not to raise income tax, national insurance contributions or VAT.\n\nIn two out of three, Number 10 appears to have heeded his request.\n\nThere is a pledge in the manifesto not to increase VAT.\n\nBut the promise not to raise income tax or national insurance has been replaced by a rather vaguer \"firm intention to reduce taxes on Britain's businesses and working families\".\n\nMany predict that Mr Hammond will resurrect the plan to increase national insurance contributions for the self-employed if the Tories win on June 8 and he remains as Chancellor.\n\nToday's manifesto is all about increasing \"wriggle room\" for any new Conservative government.\n\nJust as the manifesto opens the door to tax rises, it also allows for more borrowing.\n\nIt pledges to \"balance the books\" (meaning the government earns in taxes what it spends on services) and eliminate the deficit by the \"middle of the next decade\".\n\nThat's about three years further into the future than suggested in the Autumn Statement, when Mr Hammond said \"the public finances should be returned to balance as early as possible in the next Parliament\".\n\nMany economists took that to mean around 2022, given that at that stage we were expecting an election in 2020.\n\n\"By pushing out the time by which the government expects to balance the books, it is implicitly telling us that there is likely to be an easing off in austerity,\" said Alan Clarke of Scotia Bank.\n\n\"The government is still trying to reduce borrowing, but is doing so slightly more gradually than previously projected.\"\n\nOf course, revising deficit targets has become something of a tradition for the Conservatives - who insist they are still firm backers of \"sound money\".\n\nThe first target, set in 2010, was to eliminate the deficit by 2015.\n\nAs the old New Yorker cartoon says of the harassed executive desperately searching for a free lunch appointment.\n\n\"Never? Is never good for you?\"\n\nIn her hunt for fiscal flexibility (there are still fears the economy could take a rapid turn for the worse) Mrs May has also reduced the pensions triple lock to a double lock - abandoning the promise that pensions would rise by at least 2.5% every year.\n\nThe double lock says that pensions will now rise by either inflation or earnings growth - whichever is higher.\n\nThat could mean pension increases of less than 2.5%, if inflation and earnings growth fall.\n\nMrs May, with Mr Hammond supporting her from the side lines, has produced a manifesto that gives her good deal of economic room for manoeuvre.\n\nAnd that is for a reason.\n\nBefore 2010 and 2015, the Tories believed their \"sell\" to the voter was that they could be \"trusted\" with the public finances and that people wanted a rapid reduction in government borrowing.\n\nIn an era of falling real incomes and struggling productivity growth (the actual way to create economic wealth), the focus has moved to more active support for the economy.\n\nEven if that means taxing and borrowing more.", "Ransomware cyber-attacks have risen 50% globally over the last 12 months\n\nThe WannaCry cyber-attack infected more than 200,000 computers in 150 countries, affecting government, healthcare and private company systems. But how easily could it have been avoided and how can firms protect themselves against future attacks?\n\nOn the face of it, the accepted narrative seems simple. Microsoft issued a patch, or update, for the vulnerability in its older Windows operating systems in March.\n\nIf all IT departments everywhere had implemented this patch immediately, the WannaCry ransomware worm wouldn't have been able to run riot across the globe.\n\nAlthough the hackers are thought to have extorted just £60,000 worth of bitcoins, the disruption was significant, with some patients having operations and appointments cancelled and some corporate data being lost for ever.\n\nDavid Venable, vice-president of cyber-security at Masergy Communications, an IT services firm, is a former intelligence officer with the US National Security Agency.\n\nHe says: \"There are a lot of practical challenges in deploying patch updates; from having unsupported operating systems [OSs] that don't have patches available, through to the practicalities of rolling out sweeping changes across massive networks, potentially globally.\n\n\"But these aren't new challenges - anyone running these networks should have had this solved long before now.\n\n\"This isn't rocket science; it's an oil change.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WannaCry fix is about leadership not money says Europol director\n\nAnd Rob Wainwright, director of Europol, believes that the recent failings in cyber defences were more to do with lack of leadership in large organisations than lack of IT investment.\n\n\"It's frustrating frankly, because in the health sector there have been multiple ransomware attacks, in the United States, in Europe, for the last two years, long before WannaCry came along, and so the lessons should have been heeded by now,\" he told the BBC.\n\nAccording to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2017, ransomware accounts for 72% of malware incidents in the healthcare industry.\n\nOverall, there has been a 50% rise in ransomware incidents reported in the last 12 months.\n\nBut how easy is it really to keep large, complex computer networks up-to-date and protected?\n\nNik Whitfield from security firm Panaseer says that for many large businesses, patching their systems isn't a question of turning on \"auto-updates\" then sitting back and relaxing.\n\nThis is because some software applications specific to their business might rely on certain versions of operating systems (OS). Updating the OS could affect how those programs function.\n\nThe WannaCry ransomware affected 150 countries around the world\n\nIt's a point echoed by Adam Meyers, vice-president of cyber-security company CrowdStrike: \"It is important to recognise that patch roll-outs are complex. High-profile patch fiascos have made IT departments wary of automatic patch installations.\"\n\nSome companies have suffered embarrassing shutdowns of their networks after patch roll-outs, for example.\n\nHealth service providers in the UK and abroad were particularly affected because they were often reliant on old versions of Windows, and also because important medical equipment supplied by third parties - MRI scanners, blood analysis systems and so on - can't be easily upgraded or patched.\n\n\"Primarily this is because the patch may affect the equipment,\" says Simon Edwards, European cyber security architect at Trend Micro, \"but other times the vendor simply refuses to do it.\"\n\nOlder companies that have acquired or merged with other firms over the years, will have built up a ragtag patchwork of legacy systems - sometimes hundreds of programs - all requiring maintenance.\n\n\"It always comes down to prioritisation,\" says Mr Whitfield. \"There's always too much work to do, so they're constantly looking at how best to spend that next security dollar.\n\nA cancer hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia, was hit by the WannaCry malware\n\n\"Patching a business is like trying to mend a moving vehicle that is made from a hundred different vehicles bolted together.\"\n\nThis is why it can sometimes take months before known security vulnerabilities get patched.\n\nAnd the brutal truth is that there are plenty of companies and organisations that simply don't have enough IT staff or take cyber risk seriously enough, argues Mike DeCesare, chief executive of network security firm, ForeScout.\n\nAs well as keeping antivirus, firewall, application and OS software up-to-date, backing up key data regularly to offline hard drives should be a top priority, most cyber experts agree.\n\nThis is because data breaches and cyber-attacks are inevitable these days.\n\nThe bad news is that the average cost of a data breach globally stands at $4m (£3.1m), according to SailPoint, an identity management firm.\n\nCyber Adapt Boss Kirsten Bay says firms should protect critical data first\n\nOne common problem is that companies often don't know what data they have, where it is, or what data is the most important, says Kirsten Bay, chief executive of network monitoring firm, Cyber Adapt.\n\n\"Concentrate on protecting the most critical data,\" she says.\n\nCyber-security used to be about building an impregnable wall around your company. But now that hackers seem to be finding weak points in these perimeter defences with increasing ease - largely due to the proliferation of wireless devices accessing the network at home and in the office - focus has moved towards defending critical parts within the network.\n\n\"Once inside an organisation a hacker or malware will get around pretty quickly,\" explains David Venable, \"but if you take the 'zero trust model' approach and treat every network as hostile, a lot of this could have been prevented.\"\n\nIn practice, this means constantly monitoring your network for unusual behaviour and only giving access to certain data and applications to those who absolutely need it.\n\nFrench vehicle maker Renault also fell victim to the global attack\n\nEveryone else is treated as potentially hostile, even if they work for you.\n\n\"By identifying a suspicious process or behaviour and applying machine learning to let all other computers know about it, organisations can be on the front foot,\" argues CrowdStrike's Mr Meyers.\n\nTrend Micro's Simon Edwards warns companies against thinking there's a simple one-size-fits-all solution to these cyber-security challenges.\n\n\"Companies should never rely on one technology or process to stop malware,\" he says. \"They need to use multiple methods which inter-operate with one another to detect and stop attacks.\"\n\nThere is evidence that firms have been rushing out to buy security products in the aftermath of the WannaCry attack.\n\nErich Litch, chief revenue officer for software marketplace 2Checkout says: \"In the US, the number of security software purchases is up 43% as organisations look to avoid the large-scale attacks seen in the UK.\"\n\nAbout 40 hospitals in the UK's National Health Service were affected by the attack\n\nIn the UK, sales have risen 25%, he says. \"[But] panic buying security software is not the answer. Make cyber-security an active part of your strategy, not a reaction to a disaster.\"\n\nThis takes board-level commitment to cyber-security, most experts agree.\n\nThe worry for businesses everywhere is that the cyber threat is only going to increase as the world becomes more connected and the internet of things (IoT) accelerates.\n\n\"In many cases IoT devices are either impossible to patch or at best very challenging to patch,\" warns Paul Lipman, chief executive of BullGuard.\n\n\"We're seeing billions of new devices entering businesses and homes, with little-to-no security built in, and challenging to update.\n\n\"This is a hacker's dream and a recipe for a cyber-security disaster.\"\n\nAt least the WannaCry attack has woken everyone up to the fact that the cyber-threat is real, growing and impossible to ignore any longer.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSunderland will only consider offers of about £30m for goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, says boss David Moyes.\n\nPickford, 23, has impressed this season, despite the Black Cats' relegation from the Premier League, and won a first England call-up in October.\n\nEverton are rumoured to be interested in Pickford and are prepared to offer £15m for the England Under-21 international.\n\n\"It would need to be a really, really big offer,\" said Moyes.\n\n\"I have said all through the season that sometimes on your journey, you may have to sell to improve.\n\n\"But I have heard some really derisory sort of figures getting mentioned, and it wouldn't be any of those figures, I can tell you that.\"\n\nWhen asked if Pickford's asking price would be in the region of £30m, Moyes replied: \"Yes.\"\n\nA £30m transfer would make Pickford the second most expensive goalkeeper of all time, after Gianluigi Buffon's £33m move from Parma to Juventus in 2001.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nUzbek-born Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov has made a £1bn bid to wrest control of Arsenal from majority shareholder Stan Kroenke.\n\nBut with Kroenke showing no interest, the bid has in effect been rejected, though Usmanov is yet to receive written confirmation.\n\nThe Financial Times reported Usmanov made the offer last month, and that Kroenke has yet to formally respond.\n\nHe is, though, not part of the board or decision-making at the club.\n• None Read more: Arsenal need Usmanov, says legend Wright\n• None From the archive: Who is Alisher Usmanov?\n\nUsmanov said in April that Kroenke must \"bear huge responsibility\" for the club's failures on the pitch.\n\nArsenal need other teams to slip up in Sunday's final round of matches to avoid missing out on Champions League qualification for the first time in 21 years.\n\nArsene Wenger, who has been manager since 1996, has been the target of protests from some of the club's fans.\n\nThe Frenchman's future at the club will be decided at a board meeting after Arsenal meet Chelsea in 27 May's FA Cup final.\n\nAlisher Usmanov has wanted control of Arsenal for some time.\n\nA long-standing critic of the current board, he has attempted to curry favour with fans by calling for greater investment by Stan Kroenke. He believes the team should be performing at a much higher level.\n\nNow, with questions swirling over Arsene Wenger's future and with a lack of Champions League football next season looking inevitable, he has made his move.\n\nHowever, he has been rebuffed.\n\nThe big question is whether this was a final throw of the dice by Usmanov? And, with seemingly no prospect of Kroenke selling, will he turn his purchasing power towards another Premier League club?", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nHarry Kane scored four times as Tottenham produced another superb performance to sweep aside Leicester City.\n\nThough Chelsea ended their Premier League title hopes last week, there was no let-up from Mauricio Pochettino's side, who won for the 25th time in the league this season.\n\nKane helped himself to two predatory goals from close range before rattling in twice from 20 yards in the last few minutes to move to 26 league goals for the campaign - two clear of Everton's Romelu Lukaku.\n\nSon Heung-min also scored fine goals either side of half-time, volleying in Dele Alli's masterful pass, and bending in from 25 yards after a swift counter-attack.\n• None Reaction: Kane 'one of the world's best strikers'\n\nLeicester, who are yet to make a decision on manager Craig Shakespeare's future, played their part in an entertaining game.\n\nBen Chilwell momentarily sparked hopes of a fightback by making it 2-1, but the Foxes ultimately had no answer to this in-form Tottenham side, who recorded their biggest away win in the Premier League.\n\nThis, the 13th Premier League matchday in 18 May days, was effectively another dead rubber. But, while the league has failed to deliver the close title race the television schedulers were hoping for, no blame can be attached to Tottenham.\n\nSpurs have won 12 of their past 13 league games and have been kept at bay only by the remarkable resilience of Chelsea, who ensured it has been a case of 'nearly' for Pochettino and his players for the second season in a row.\n\nThird last season despite being Leicester's closest challengers in the second half of the campaign - or, as the home fans enjoyed chanting in the opening stages, \"third in a two-horse race\" - Spurs have gone one better this time. Much better, in fact.\n\nThis dominant win took them past Leicester's title-winning haul of 81 points, and they have enough on the board to have won the Premier League on eight previous occasions - with a game still to come.\n\nSon's superb strikes mean that - for the first time in the club's history - they have three players who have scored 20 goals in a season, and took them beyond 75 league goals for the first time since 1984-85.\n\nAdd in the division's meanest defence - Hugo Lloris' mistake for Chilwell's goal notwithstanding - and it is no surprise Pochettino has committed his future to the club.\n\nDo Spurs have enough?\n\nAs White Hart Lane is dismantled and rebuilt, Spurs' summer seems likely to be flavoured by reports and fears of the team going the same way.\n\nRight-back Kyle Walker - again left out, albeit this time with an ankle problem - has long been linked with a move, and Pochettino admitted this week the club may struggle to compete with clubs offering huge salaries this summer.\n\nThat may have sounded alarm bells for supporters, but the good news for them is it would surely take record numbers to prise away either of the side's crown jewels.\n\nKane and Alli have scored 43 Premier League goals between them this season and were outstanding again, along with Son, in a dynamic attacking display.\n\nThose three players alone had 19 efforts on goal, while Alli's chipped assist for Son's first goal was further evidence of his growing influence and inventiveness.\n\nKane, who tapped in Son's cross to open the scoring, added a close-range header then twice thrashed past Kasper Schmeichel from the edge of the area, could become the first man since Robin van Persie to win the golden boot in successive seasons.\n\nThere is no doubt Spurs have the quality to be champions. If they can repeat their home form while on 'holiday' at Wembley, perhaps the wait for a league title will end after 57 years.\n\nShakespeare said this week he expects to find out if he will remain in charge of the Foxes \"within days\".\n\nHe has certainly made a strong case to be retained, but his side's second-half capitulation must be a disappointment, particularly as a comeback briefly looked possible when Chilwell scored his first career goal, prodding in after Jamie Vardy had gone around an out-of-position Lloris.\n\nA second big decision of the season now looms for the Leicester hierarchy, who were widely criticised for sacking Claudio Ranieri in February, just months after he delivered the title.\n\nThey must surely consider themselves vindicated, despite such a heavy defeat. The Foxes were one point above the relegation zone when Shakespeare took over with 13 matches left but survived easily thanks to seven wins in Shakespeare's 12 league games.\n\nIn fact, had the season begun when he took over, Leicester would once again be dreaming of Europe.\n\nKane up there with the greats\n• None Kane is the fifth player in Premier League history to score 25+ goals in successive seasons (Robbie Fowler, Thierry Henry, Alan Shearer and Robin van Persie are the others).\n• None Kane has now scored more club goals against Leicester than any other side (10).\n• None Kane is the fifth different player to score three or more hat-tricks in a Premier League season.\n• None Tottenham now have three players with 20 or more goals in all competitions this season (Kane, Alli & Son); more than any other club in the Premier League or Football League.\n• None This is the joint-heaviest defeat in Premier League history for a reigning champion (also Manchester United's 6-1 loss to Manchester City in October 2011).\n• None Leicester have now lost 18 league games this season, the most by a reigning top-flight champion since Ipswich Town in 1962-1963 (19)\n• None Leicester had let in two goals in their previous five home games under Shakespeare.\n\nShakespeare has one final home game to impress as Leicester host Bournemouth, while Tottenham wrap up their campaign at relegated Hull. All Premier League games on Sunday, 21 May kick off at 15:00 BST.\n• None Goal! Leicester City 1, Tottenham Hotspur 6. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ben Davies.\n• None Attempt saved. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Vincent Janssen.\n• None Goal! Leicester City 1, Tottenham Hotspur 5. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Filip Lesniak.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Fuchs (Leicester City) left footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is close, but misses the top left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Moussa Sissoko.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Dele Alli tries a through ball, but Vincent Janssen is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Victor Wanyama.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Vincent Janssen.\n• None Attempt missed. Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Danny Simpson (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChampions Celtic are one game away from an unbeaten Premiership season after a dominant victory over Partick Thistle.\n\nLeigh Griffiths scored a penalty after Patrick Roberts had been fouled by Callum Booth.\n\nGriffiths turned provider for Tom Rogic's close-range finish and Roberts netted a stunning third before the break.\n\nCallum McGregor scored with a shot off the underside of the bar and Roberts then curled in his second.\n\nCeltic boss Brendan Rodgers continued to rotate his squad but no strength was lost as the likes of captain Scott Brown and defender Erik Sviatchenko came in to give others a rest.\n\nFrom the moment referee Andrew Dallas blew his whistle it was Celtic at their scintillating best.\n\nThe swagger witnessed for most of this season was in evidence from a side that had at least four players who would not be considered first-choice picks.\n\nThe wide men in particular gave the Partick full-backs a torrid evening with Roberts looking completely unplayable at times. The man on loan from Manchester City floated and jinked past defenders all night.\n\nMcGregor and Brown provided the drive from the middle of the park - keeping the tempo high and their team-mates hungry. It was quite simply a side with complete belief in their abilities and evidence for anyone who needed it about just how far Celtic are ahead of the rest.\n\nThe opener came from the spot - Griffiths with his 17th of the season after Roberts was brought down by Booth.\n\nThe second was a rare scrappy effort from Rogic that bounced off both posts before nestling in the net.\n\nRoberts' brilliance was rewarded when he curled in the third before the break. It followed fine build-up play on the edge of the box.\n\nMcGregor grabbed his fourth in five games as the clock ticked down in the second half. His effort smashed the crossbar and went over the line. The ball bounced out but the assistant referee called it in.\n\nRoberts cloned his first and made it five with just minutes left. It was a fitting end to his and Celtic's night.\n\nLike so many before them this season, the home side were simply outclassed. They had a couple of chances in the second half but in truth Celtic were toying with them for long spells. In terms of the season, their work was already done and it looked that way.\n\nIt's 46 games unbeaten in all competitions, 104 league goals and a current total of 103 points.\n\nThe records just keep tumbling under Rodgers. The big one will be confirmed on Sunday if they can avoid defeat at home to Hearts at Celtic Park and become 'the invincibles'.\n\nA draw or a win will give them their biggest points tally in a 38-game league season, with the Scottish Cup final against Aberdeen and the chance to complete a domestic treble following on 27 May.\n• None Attempt blocked. Patrick Roberts (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Adebayo Azeez (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Partick Thistle 0, Celtic 5. Patrick Roberts (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Partick Thistle 0, Celtic 4. Callum McGregor (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Nir Bitton (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.\n• None Attempt missed. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says his future at the club will be decided at a board meeting after the FA Cup final on 27 May.\n\nThe 67-year-old Frenchman has been with the Gunners since 1996 and his contract comes to an end this summer.\n\nWenger has faced numerous protests by Arsenal's own supporters this season, calling for him to quit as boss.\n\n\"There are many aspects to be discussed at a board meeting. One is what happens with the manager,\" he said.\n• None A play-off to get into Europe?\n\n\"Of course I will be there. At the moment we should focus on the short term and what is going on on Sunday and in the cup final.\"\n\nThe north London side face Premier League champions Chelsea at Wembley Stadium, the Gunners' only hope of claiming a trophy this campaign.\n\nBut the season has been blighted by continuous questions surrounding his future at the club and banners from fans demanding he end his long association with the club. In their previous away game at Stoke, a plane was flown over the stadium which read \"Wenger - out means out\".\n\nWith one game remaining in the league, they face a battle to qualify for the Champions League as they are currently in fifth position, a point adrift of Liverpool in fourth and three behind third-placed Manchester City, albeit with an inferior goal difference of five.\n\nArsenal host Everton in their final game on Sunday (15:00 GMT), while Liverpool welcome relegated Middlesbrough to Anfield and Manchester City travel to Watford.\n\nWenger added: \"We have to do our job, we are professionals and want to win. We are on a good run and all we can do is win our game on Sunday. After that what happens to me is less important.\n\n\"I am here to serve the club and the best way to do that is by winning the next game.\"", "Mr Chang arrived in the US in January 1988 after a lifetime in Taiwan, to inform on his government's nuclear ambitions\n\nIn 1988 Taiwan was racing to build its first nuclear bomb, but one military scientist put a stop to that when he defected to the United States and exposed those plans. This is the story of a man who insists he had to betray his country in order to save it.\n\nTo this day, critics consider Chang Hsien-yi a traitor - but he has no regrets.\n\n\"If I can ever do it all over again, I will do it,\" says the calmly defiant 73-year-old, speaking from his home in the US state of Idaho.\n\nThe former military colonel has been living there since 1988 when he fled to the US, a close ally of the island, and this is his first substantial interview about that time.\n\nIt might seem a perplexing turn of events given the close relationship the US has with Taiwan, but Washington had found out that Taiwan's government had secretly ordered scientists to develop nuclear weapons.\n\nTaiwan's enemy, the Communist government of China, had been building up its nuclear arsenal since the 1960s, and the Taiwanese were terrified this would be unleashed on the island.\n\nTaiwan separated from China after the Chinese Civil War in 1949. To this day China considers Taiwan a breakaway province and has vowed to reunify with the island, by force if necessary.\n\nThe leadership of the island was also in an uncertain phase - its president, Chiang Ching-kuo, was dying, and the US thought that General Hau Pei-tsun, whom they saw as a hawkish figure, would become his successor.\n\nMr Chang, seen here with one of his children in Taiwan before his defection, enjoyed a comfortable life at that time\n\nThey were worried about a nuclearisation of the Taiwan Strait and bent on stopping Taiwan's nuclear ambition in its tracks and preventing a regional arms race.\n\nSo they secretly enlisted Mr Chang to halt Taiwan's programme.\n\nWhen Mr Chang was recruited by the CIA in the early 1980s, he was the deputy director at Taiwan's Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, which was responsible for the nuclear weapons programme.\n\nAs one of Taiwan's key nuclear scientists, he enjoyed a life of privilege and a lucrative salary.\n\nBut he says he began questioning whether the island should have nuclear weapons after the catastrophic Chernobyl accident in 1986 in the former Soviet Union.\n\nHe was convinced by the Americans' argument that stopping the programme would be \"good for peace, and was for the benefit of mainland China and Taiwan\".\n\nFactory 221 witnessed the research and test of China's first nuclear bomb\n\n\"This fit into my mindset very much,\" says Mr Chang. \"But the most important reason why I agreed is that they went to great efforts to assure me they would ensure my safety.\"\n\nThe next task was getting him and his family out.\n\nAt that time, military officials could not leave Taiwan without permission.\n\nSo, Mr Chang first ensured his wife and three young children's safety by sending them to Japan for a holiday.\n\nHis wife, Betty, says she had no clue about her husband's double life. They had only talked about the possibility of him accepting a job in the US.\n\nThe Changs were put in a safe house shortly after their arrival in the US\n\n\"He told me this was a trial to test how easy I could get out from Taiwan and to see how much luggage I could pack,\" she says.\n\nMrs Chang left on 8 January 1988 with their children, excited to visit Tokyo Disneyland.\n\nThe very next day, Mr Chang took a flight to the US using a fake passport provided by the CIA. All he had with him was some cash and a few personal possessions.\n\nContrary to previous reports, he says he did not take a single document with him when he left Taiwan.\n\n\"The American government had all the evidence, they just needed someone - me - to corroborate it.\"\n\nMeanwhile in Tokyo, Betty Chang was approached by a woman who handed her a letter from Mr Chang. That was the moment she discovered her husband was a CIA spy and had defected.\n\n\"It said 'You will never go back to Taiwan and from Japan you will go to USA'... that was a surprise for me.\n\n\"I just cried when I knew I could no longer go back to Taiwan,\" says Mrs Chang.\n\nThe family was bundled into a plane headed for Seattle, where they were met by Mr Chang at the airport.\n\nThe Changs were later put in a safe house in Virginia, due to fears he would be assassinated by Taiwanese agents or patriotic extremists.\n\nWithin a month, the US succeeded in pressuring Taiwan to end the programme, using the intelligence it had collected and Mr Chang's testimony.\n\nTaiwan was believed to be just one or two years from completing a nuclear bomb.\n\nMr Chang has remained silent for decades. But with his recent retirement he now wants to set the record straight with a memoir, titled Nuclear! Spy? CIA: Record of an Interview with Chang Hsien-yi.\n\nThe book, written with academic Chen Yi-shen and published in December, has reignited a debate about whether Mr Chang did the right thing for Taiwan.\n\nMr Chang recently wrote a book about his side of the story\n\nSome praise him for preventing a potential nuclear war. Others see his actions as denying Taiwan the weapons it needed for self-defence and survival.\n\nEven those in Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which officially opposes the development of nuclear energy and weapons, take a dim view of Mr Chang's actions.\n\n\"Regardless of what your political views are, when you betray your country, it's not acceptable... it cannot be forgiven,\" said the DPP's Wang Ting-yu, chairman of the parliament's foreign affairs and defence committee.\n\nBut Mr Chang insists he feared then that ambitious Taiwanese politicians would use nuclear weapons to try to take back mainland China.\n\nHe claims Madame Chiang Kai Shek, the stepmother of dying President Chiang Ching-kuo, and a group of generals loyal to her had even gone so far as to set up a separate chain of command to expedite the development of nuclear weapons.\n\nTaiwan's programme was developed in response to China's stockpile of missiles, several of which are now on display at Beijing's Military Museum\n\n\"They said they wouldn't use it, but nobody believed it,\" says Mr Chang, adding that the US certainly did not.\n\nNowadays, there may still be politicians who could be tempted to use such weapons, this time to pursue Taiwan's formal independence from China at whatever cost, he says.\n\nBut the DPP's Mr Wang dismisses this notion. \"We absolutely don't consider this, we don't even think about it,\" he said.\n\nTaiwan has nuclear power plants, which some have protested against\n\nOver the years some Taiwanese presidents have hinted at a desire to reactivate the island's nuclear weapons programme, but these suggestions have been quickly quashed by Washington's objections.\n\nStill, the island is widely considered to have the ability to make nuclear weapons quickly if needed. China has in recent years threatened to attack if Taiwan ever deployed nuclear weapons.\n\nFollowing his defection, Taiwan's military listed Mr Chang as a fugitive. But even after his arrest warrant expired in 2000, he has not returned to Taiwan and does not plan to.\n\nHe does not want to deal with criticism he is sure he would face, and the negative impact that would have on his family there.\n\nThe Chang family is pictured here in this 1995 photo, a few years after their defection to the US\n\nIn 1990, they were permanently resettled in Idaho, where Mr Chang worked as a consulting engineer and scientist at the US government's Idaho National Laboratories until he retired in 2013.\n\nHe says his only regret is that he was not able to see his parents before they passed away.\n\n\"You don't have to be in Taiwan to love Taiwan; I love Taiwan,\" says Mr Chang.\n\n\"I am Taiwanese, I am Chinese. I don't want to see Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait killing each other.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho says some of the club's young players \"are not ready\" for first-team action.\n\nMourinho has named eight players who could make their debuts in his squad for Sunday's last Premier League game of the season against Crystal Palace.\n\n\"To play so many kids at the same time, honestly, I don't think is good. You want them to be surrounded by players who support them,\" said the Portuguese.\n\nUnited are guaranteed sixth place, while Palace are safe from relegation.\n\nSam Allardyce's side are 13th going into the match at Old Trafford (15:00 BST kick-off), but a victory and other results going their way could see them finish as high as 11th.\n\nMourinho's side face Ajax in the Europa League final in Stockholm on Wednesday knowing victory will earn them a place in the group stages of next season's Champions League.\n\nWho are the youngsters?\n\nIn addition, striker Marcus Rashford, who has 11 goals this season, defender Timothy Fosu-Mensah, who has played 10 times this season, and Axel Tuanzebe, who has played four times, should be in the United squad on Sunday. All three are 19.\n\nUnited have already won the EFL Cup this season, and Mourinho's team selection has Wednesday's Europa League final in mind.\n\nMourinho said Paul Pogba - the world's most expensive player - will play on Sunday having missed the past two games after the death of his father, while fellow midfielder Marouane Fellaini will have a scan on a hamstring injury.\n\nMeanwhile, captain Wayne Rooney - who has been linked with a summer transfer - may have missed the chance of an Old Trafford farewell, as Mourinho said the England international would \"probably not\" be involved.\n\n\"It's a great experience for the kids but they are not ready. Maybe one at a time but not all together,\" added the former Chelsea manager.\n\n\"I spoke with [Under-23 coach] Nicky Butt and his opinion is important. When they played at Old Trafford, I have been there. They trained with me many times. I know the kids.\n\n\"We bring the ones who are more adapted to our team at the moment. Our biggest problem is the number of matches. It is unbelievable.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBlackpool reached the League Two play-off final as an injury-time own goal ended Luton's promotion hopes at the end of a remarkable, see-sawing tie.\n\nThe Hatters, trailing 3-2 from the first leg, fell further behind when Nathan Delfouneso opened the scoring.\n\nKelvin Mellor's own goal, Scott Cuthbert's header and Danny Hylton's penalty then hauled Luton in front.\n\nBut Armand Gnanduillet made it 5-5 on aggregate, before Stuart Moore's own goal sent Blackpool to Wembley.\n\nGoalkeeper Moore's misfortunate capped an incredible night of League Two play-off action, as Exeter City beat Carlisle United in the other semi-final - also 6-5 on aggregate and also courtesy of a 95th-minute winner.\n\nThe Grecians had looked to be coasting towards the final on Sunday, 28 May before Carlisle scored two late goals to level the tie.\n\nBut Jack Stacey's spectacular long-range strike in stoppage time means Blackpool will face Exeter in the Wembley showpiece.\n• None RELIVE: How Blackpool and Exeter reached the League Two play-off final\n\nHaving only confirmed their place in the play-offs on the final day of the regular season, the Tangerines' passage to the final appeared a straightforward one when Delfouneso put them 4-2 ahead on aggregate.\n\nBut Luton, roared on by a partisan home crowd, battled back and deservedly levelled the tie by half-time of the second leg through a Mellor own goal and Cuthbert's well-placed header.\n\nThey completed the turnaround early in the second half in controversial circumstances - striker Hylton appeared to dive to win the penalty with which he made it 5-4 on aggregate, a chipped Panenka effort that went in off the bar.\n\nBlackpool were not to be outdone, however, and the impressive Gnanduillet headed in to level matters and send the last-four match towards extra time.\n\nBut, as at St James Park, there was more drama to come when Jordan Cook tried to clear Mellor's header off the line, but instead hit the back of Moore and the ball crept into the net to send Blackpool into the final.\n\n\"I'm a bit shaken. We showed we are a good side but also that we are a naive side at times. We dominated and were excellent the way we played.\n\n\"I'm really proud of my team. We were in total control of the game and two little incidents cost us the game. Up until 75 minutes we were in total control.\"\n\n\"We gifted them two goals. But the courage these boys had to come back was brilliant.\n\n\"We knew if we could get to 3-2 they'd be nervy - as all teams are - but it was amazing the bravery they had to play still.\n\n\"It's what you play football for, and you have to realise what these supporters have been through the last few years.\n\n\"We were 14th on 14 February and have gone on the run, we've come here to the favourites in the play-offs and won.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Kelvin Mellor (Blackpool) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ian Black with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Neil Danns (Blackpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kelvin Mellor.\n• None Attempt saved. Armand Gnanduillet (Blackpool) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Brad Potts.\n• None Attempt missed. Ian Black (Blackpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Bright Samuel following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Bright Samuel (Blackpool) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Armand Gnanduillet.\n• None Attempt saved. Brad Potts (Blackpool) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Bright Samuel.\n• None Attempt missed. Mark Cullen (Blackpool) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Bright Samuel with a cross.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Mark Cullen (Blackpool) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Olly Lee (Luton Town) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Dan Potts with a cross.\n• None Offside, Blackpool. Ian Black tries a through ball, but Mark Cullen is caught offside.\n• None Olly Lee (Luton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nTeam Sky's British rider Geraint Thomas has pulled out of the Giro d'Italia as a result of the crash he suffered on Sunday's stage.\n\nThomas crashed in a pile-up involving a police motorbike, having started the ninth stage in second place overall.\n\nHe had a scan on a shoulder injury on Monday's rest day and went on to finish second in Tuesday's time trial.\n\nBut he said continuing further \"would be a case of trying to survive each day rather than racing\".\n\n\"Obviously it's never nice to leave a race early, especially when it's your main goal of the season, but I have to look at the bigger picture,\" he added.\n\n\"I'd love to continue, but I've been suffering since my crash on Sunday. I've had an issue with my shoulder which is manageable, but my knee has also been getting worse each day.\"\n\nThomas, given licence to compete for overall victory for the first time at one of cycling's three grand tours, finished more than five minutes behind stage winner and race favourite Nairo Quintana on Sunday's summit finish.\n\nHe had started the day level on time with the Colombian, and 10 seconds behind then-race leader Bob Jungels.\n\nBut he was taken out 15km from Sunday's finish when Dutchman Wilco Kelderman was unable to avoid a police motorbike that had stopped at the side of the road, hitting the officer with his shoulder.\n\nThat caused Kelderman to swerve to his right into the Sky riders, who were in a line in the peloton, and resulted in several of the British-based team being brought down.\n\nThomas finished the day more than five minutes behind Quintana but made up more than two minutes during Tuesday's individual race against the clock.\n\nHowever, he lost more than one minute during Wednesday and Thursday's stages.\n\nHe was six minutes and 46 seconds behind race leader Tom Dumoulin, and more than four minutes adrift of second-placed Quintana, when he pulled out before Friday's stage 13. The 21-stage race finishes on Sunday, 28 May in Milan.\n\nCompeting at the 2013 Tour de France, Thomas suffered a broken pelvis in a crash on the opening stage.\n\nBut he continued to ride for the duration of the three-week, 21-stage race, as team-mate Chris Froome claimed the first of his three victories.\n\nCrashing out of a race is nothing new for Geraint Thomas but his withdrawal from the Giro d'Italia is a devastating blow.\n\nThe Welshman was leading Team Sky at a Grand Tour for the first time in his career, an opportunity for which he had worked long and hard to earn.\n\nAll appeared to be going according to plan in the early stages, with Thomas second in the general classification and his usual nonchalant self despite the increased scrutiny on him in Italy.\n\nThen disaster struck on Sunday, with the crash that effectively ended the 30-year-old's hopes of victory, through no fault of his own.\n\nFirst there was anger, then a determination to recover, but the overriding emotion for Thomas was one of frustration.\n\nWe will never know how he might have fared had he kept in touch with the likes of pre-race favourite Nairo Quintana; how he might have competed for a podium finish - or better - in the final week.\n\nThe question of 'what if' will play on his mind but, as Thomas says, he will be back and ready to support Chris Froome at the Tour de France in July.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nSulley Muntari has had the one-match ban he received after protesting against racist abuse overturned.\n\nThe Pescara midfielder left the field after being booked in Sunday's Serie A game at Cagliari for complaining of being abused.\n\nThe Italian Football Federation said it had considered the \"particular delicacy\" of the case.\n\n\"I hope this is a turning point in Italy and shows what it means to stand up for your rights,\" said Muntari, 32.\n\n\"I feel that someone has finally listened to me. The last few days have been very hard for me. I have felt angry and isolated.\n\n\"I was being treated like a criminal. How could I be punished when I was the victim of racism?\n\n\"I hope my case can help so that other footballers do not suffer like me.\"\n\nHe later thanked all the people who had helped him overturn the ban.\n\nMuntari was initially booked for dissent, then received a second yellow card for leaving the field.\n\nSerie A, although agreeing that the abuse Muntari received was \"deplorable\", originally said that it could not impose sanctions on Cagliari because \"approximately 10\" supporters were involved - fewer than 1% of their supporters in the ground.\n\nEx-Tottenham striker Garth Crooks called on players in Italy to strike in protest against Muntari's punishment.\n\nAnti-discrimination organisation Kick It Out said the ruling was \"gutless\", while Crooks said: \"I'm calling on players in Italy, black and white, to make it absolutely clear to the federation in Italy that their position is unacceptable, and if the decision is not reversed then they withdraw their services until it is.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old former Portsmouth and Sunderland player will now be available for Pescara's game at home to Crotone on Sunday.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nReal Madrid moved level on points with Barcelona at the top of La Liga after thrashing Tony Adams' Granada side.\n\nReal made nine changes and were without Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale, but took the lead within three minutes and were 4-0 up after only 35 minutes.\n\nJames Rodriguez scored from Lucas Vazquez's pull-back, before Rodriguez headed in a second shortly afterwards.\n\nAlvaro Morata blasted in a third and then shot into the top corner for a fourth to seal the easy victory.\n• None Relive Real Madrid's thrashing of Granada as it happened\n\nBarcelona had beaten Villarreal 4-1 to move three points clear earlier on Saturday, before Real's dominant victory brought them back level.\n\nBarca, who have two La Liga matches left, are top by virtue of their head-to-head record in matches against Real, but Zinedine Zidane's side have one game in hand as they aim for their first league title in five seasons.\n\nZidane made nine changes from the side that won 3-0 in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final against Atletico Madrid, but were 2-0 up inside 10 minutes.\n\nThey should have scored more goals as Vazquez hit the crossbar and Casemiro missed an open goal on an easy night for the European champions.\n\nFormer England captain Adams was the surprise appointment to take charge of Granada in April, but he has now lost all five of his matches in charge, with the team only scoring one goal in that time.\n\nThey were in the bottom three when Adams became the manager, and the club's relegation was confirmed last weekend.\n• None Attempt missed. Entrena (Granada CF) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt saved. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by James Rodríguez.\n• None Sverrir Ingi Ingason (Granada CF) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Adrián Ramos (Granada CF) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Isaac Cuenca.\n• None Attempt missed. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Mariano following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Adrián Ramos (Granada CF) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Uche.\n• None Attempt blocked. Entrena (Granada CF) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Adrián Ramos. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Cardiff council is another one to watch tonight. It's been controlled Labour since 2012, though the party's majority in the capital city has shrunk since then.\n\n“There was a Labour majority here five years ago – the group here has been somewhat fractious to say the least since then.\n\n“As with much of Wales, the twin questions are – how much ground are Labour losing and who are they losing it to?\n\n“Labour is being challenged by different parties – the Tories, Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru - in different parts of the city.\n\n“This council may show us how effective those parties are in challenging Labour.”", "Kadian Pow started with a Teeny Weeny Afro when she began growing her natural curls\n\nThe natural hair movement embraces black hair that is free from extensions, wigs or straightening chemicals. But why is natural hair seen as political and what kind of support does the movement have in Britain?\n\nWhen Kadian Pow was visiting London from the US in 2009 she was inspired to have her relaxed hair cut off and grow her natural curls after seeing a Matalan advert featuring a black model sporting an afro.\n\nShe says: \"I was jealous of a model on a billboard. But I quickly snapped out of it, realising my own hair could do that.\n\n\"By the time I returned to the States, I had resolved to stop relaxing the roots of my sleek bob. Four months before moving permanently to the UK in April 2010, I had my hairdresser cut off the relaxed hair.\n\n\"I was left with a short crop of curls, what we in the natural hair community call a teeny weeny afro (TWA).\"\n\nWhile she settled into her new life in Britain, where she was a PhD researcher and assistant lecturer in sociology at Birmingham City University, she began looking online for how to take care of her \"growing mane\".\n\nShe says: \"No-one ever taught me to properly nourish the kinky hair that naturally grows out of my scalp.\n\n\"I was taught only to tame and manipulate it, as if it were some scary beast. And, to be honest, black women are often made to feel that way in professional and casual environments that subscribe to rigid European beauty ideals.\"\n\nHer experience is echoed by other black women, who have reported being told to straighten their hair for work in the UK, and in the US where natural hair advocates took on the army.\n\nPresumably even someone as prominent as Michelle Obama felt the pressure to sculpt and straighten - last month a rare photograph emerged of her wearing her hair au naturel, in sharp contrast to the years she spent in the White House.\n\nKadian Pow had her relaxed hair cut off to go natural\n\nKhembé Clarke has been styling natural hair since the age of 15. Now 56, she organises the Return to your Roots natural hair event in Birmingham.\n\nShe says she started with a small-scale event in 2008 and since then there has been a \"real appetite\" for going natural.\n\nWhen she opened her own salon in 2005 she said hairdressers offering to do natural hair were rare, but they became more in demand as women moved away from the weaves and perming chemicals that can lead to hair loss.\n\nShe says: \"Weaving places tension on the hairline, which starts to recede; our hair is quite fragile and there was a movement in the States away from perms and weaves and towards going natural.\n\n\"There was also a drive towards heritage, identity and a reawakening that our hair is part of who we are.\n\n\"There was a political resistance: why change to be accepted or considered professional?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Children learnt how to style their own natural hair at a natural hair event\n\nShe says that while the US is \"way ahead\" in terms of the level of support for natural hair, the movement has gained a lot of support in the UK, particularly among young women.\n\n\"It's changing slowly, it comes from us not backing down. This is our hair, this is how it grows,\" she says.\n\n\"There has been an unconscious bias and a lack of understanding for how our hair is, with schools thinking perms are standard without realising the regime required to achieve that.\n\n\"Professionally too, a lot of our women are concerned - they already feel discriminated against for being black, [they worry] can I go to work and be accepted [with natural hair]?\"\n\nIndeed hair care product company SheaMoisture recently faced a backlash over its advertising campaign which was accused of making black women invisible.\n\nEarlier this month a mother from London organised a billboard featuring natural hair to inspire girls like her daughter\n\nThe natural hair movement is huge on social media; in the UK vloggers have created hundreds of YouTube tutorials about caring for and styling natural hair.\n\nShannon Fitzsimmons, from Mitcham, London, who blogs as UK Curly Girl, says women regularly contact her with questions about natural hair.\n\nShe says: \"The most popular questions people have about going natural are; 'But I don't know if I will like my natural hair?' 'Where can I get my natural hair cut?' and 'What products should I use to stop my hair from becoming dry?'\"\n\nShe has written a book, titled Get My Curls Back!, which is all about her natural hair journey. It includes a small dictionary of the phrases that have sprung up around natural hair.\n\nCo-wash - Washing your hair using conditioner only, to avoid the harsh chemicals in shampoo and to retain moisture\n\nPineapple - The style of wearing your hair up in a loose ponytail, which is great for sleeping as it will reduce frizz and keep curls intact\n\nShe says when she began blogging in 2014 the natural hair movement in the UK was just beginning to take off but since then it had seen a huge rise in popularity.\n\n\"I am so happy to have been a part of the whole scene, seeing some of my favourite natural hair brands going from hard to get a hold of to now being easily accessible to everyone in the UK via mainstream beauty/cosmetic stores.\"\n\nShannon Fitzsimmons says there are a number of terms around natural hair, including pineapple - a loose ponytail to reduce frizz while you're asleep\n\nAlongside the videos, women use a variety of hashtags around natural hair to share their own experiences, styles and advice on sites like Instagram and Twitter.\n\nAccording to social media analysis tool Spredfast there were 554,048 posts using the hashtag #naturalhair on Instagram in the first two months of 2017. The posts received 1,646,842 comments and 81,303,058 likes.\n\nOn Twitter for the same period 49,745 tweets used the same hashtag.\n\nIt was this online community that Kadian Pow turned to, where she found mostly black and mixed-race women sharing their own journeys and knowledge.\n\nAnd she says while her reasons for wanting to grow natural hair weren't political, she feels calling it a movement is correct.\n\n\"'Movement' is a suitable term for the expanding constellation of natural hair care gurus, businesses large and small, hair care videos, fashion and accessories spawned from the ingenuity of black women.\n\n\"There is an economic advantage that has come from all this, but most movements are inherently political, as they involve people working together to advance shared ideals.\n\n\"The foundation of the natural hair movement is that the hair curling from our heads is innately beautiful and should be free to exist that way.\"", "Sir Vince Cable: This is the beginning of the fightback\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable says his party can celebrate \"a great victory\" in Richmond, where they gained control of the council from the Conservatives. He told reporters: \"We are doing extremely well not just here but in northern cities like Hull, Sunderland and Liverpool. \"This is the beginning of the fightback, whether it's against Labour or Conservatives. \"We are reasserting ourselves as a major national force.\"", "Newcastle beat Worcester in overtime by two points on aggregate despite the biggest second-leg comeback in BBL play-off history, to reach the BBL play-off final.", "The local elections may not be an exact guide to the general election result but for Labour politicians they have provided either proof of an electoral defeat foretold or an opportunity to mitigate it.\n\nFor some of Jeremy Corbyn's opponents, Friday's results suggest that the opinion polls are broadly right and the best approach towards self-preservation in the next month or so, as a general election approaches, is to keep what they hope will be a safe distance from the party leader.\n\nAs one former minister put it \"I don't want him anywhere near my seat - they should continue to send him to places we won't win\".\n\nA senior Labour figure described the party's local election performance as \"calamitous\".\n\nSo much so that some of Mr Corbyn's supporters fear another attempted putsch by his internal opponents.\n\nThat doesn't seem likely, though.\n\nThat's because many of those who are sceptical about his leadership say there is no obvious mechanism to remove him - and he would use any evidence of a plot to excuse a bad general election result.\n\nTime and again the phrase they use is that those around Jeremy Corbyn must \"own\" any defeat.\n\nThe former Labour group leader in Derbyshire, Dave Wilcox, saw control of his council pass to the Conservatives today.\n\nHe told the BBC he wouldn't be calling for Jeremy Corbyn's resignation right now - but if Labour were to suffer a similar defeat nationally on 8 June, the party leader should go.\n\nHe told me: \"Genuine Labour supporters have been saying we can't vote for this bloke because he doesn't speak for me.\n\n\"We heard it time and time and time again on the doorstep. We are not voting for you while you have Jeremy Corbyn as leader.\"\n\nThe party's mayoral candidate in the West Midlands, Sion Simon - close to Labour deputy leader Tom Watson - chose to focus not on the party leader to explain his defeat.\n\nInstead, he said he got \"the sense that some of our voters don't have confidence any more that we share their core Labour values\".\n\nBut Mr Corbyn's allies blame a collapse in the UKIP vote, as well as previous attempts by some of his own MPs to undermine him, for the poor results.\n\nPublicly, the official line from the Labour leadership is that the council elections were disappointing, not disastrous - but privately some of Mr Corbyn's close colleagues have indeed used the word \"disaster\" to describe the results.\n\nThere won't be any wholesale change to their strategy now but there is an unofficial four-point plan to improve the party's standing.\n\nFirst, they'll redouble their efforts to get younger non-voters registered as they believe they will be more sympathetic to a radical Labour party.\n\nSecond - as shadow chancellor John McDonnell made clear in his media appearances today - they are likely to make Jeremy Corbyn more, not less prominent, in the campaign.\n\nThe shadow chancellor believes the leader's image so far has been \"distorted\" by a hostile press but now we are in a formal election campaign, there will be more balanced broadcast coverage.\n\nAnd, crucially, there will also be more opportunities to see an \"unmediated\" leader in the raw - and that voters will warm to his decency.\n\nThird, they intend to bolster doorstep campaigning.\n\nWill Labour take a leaf out of Tony Benn's book?\n\nJeremy Corbyn's office are keen to find out just how much of this had been carried out in areas where council results were poor.\n\nThey want more direct conversations with potential voters so their message isn't only seen through the prism of the mainstream media..\n\nAnd finally, there will be a renewed emphasis on what the late Tony Benn would have referred to as \"policies, not personalities\".\n\nThe Labour leadership believe that when their manifesto is unveiled in 10 days time, popular policies will boost their poll ratings.\n\nBut Labour's private polling also suggested that many of the party's individual policies in 2015 were popular - and that didn't guarantee success at the ballot box.\n\nAnd Labour's five million doorstep conversations with the public at the last election didn't mean that voters liked what they were hearing.\n\nBut overall the message is that the leader and his supporters must do more to play to their strengths.\n\nTo coin a phrase, there is no alternative.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino is yet to concede the title to Chelsea, but admits it will be \"difficult\" for his side after defeat at West Ham.\n\nSpurs remain four points behind Chelsea after Manuel Lanzini's goal gave the Hammers a 1-0 win at London Stadium.\n\nChelsea, who host Middlesbrough on Monday, need two wins from their final four games to be crowned champions.\n\n\"It is not over. We have to wait but are thinking that it will be difficult to catch Chelsea,\" said Pochettino.\n\n\"I feel calm. But I'm disappointed, of course, that we missed the opportunity to reduce the gap.\"\n\nChelsea have long looked on course to win their second Premier League title in three seasons, having led since mid-November.\n\nBut Spurs' nine-match winning streak in the league, coupled with defeats for the Blues by Crystal Palace and Manchester United, gave them hope of a first title since 1961.\n\nThey could have narrowed the gap on the Blues to just one point by beating West Ham, but produced a below-par performance.\n\nAntonio Conte's men will open up a seven-point gap if they beat Boro - and could win the title on Friday, 12 May.\n\n\"Seven points will be difficult with three games to play, but in football have to try your best. It is true it will be difficult,\" said Pochettino.\n\n\"When you have the chance to reduce the gap to one point and you lose it's hard to find the positives.\"\n\nWhat the papers say", "Eliud Kipchoge missed out on becoming the first athlete to run under two hours for the marathon by 26 seconds.\n\nThe Kenyan, 32, clocked 2:00.25 but because in-out pacemakers were used, the time will not be recognised as a world record, meaning Dennis Kimetto's mark of 2:02.57 is still the quickest.\n\nBut Kipchoge said: \"This is history.\"\n\nEritrea's Zersenay Tadese and Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia also raced in the behind-closed-doors Nike event in Italy but faded earlier in the attempt.\n\nThe three athletes chased the landmark time running 2.4km laps on the Monza Grand Prix circuit, 63 years to the day since Britain's Roger Bannister ran the first ever sub four-minute mile.\n\nMonza was chosen by the sportswear company for its gentle corners and favourable climatic conditions. Small groups of pacemakers ran pre-defined segments of the circuit before handing over to another group, and the trio did not have to slow down for feed stations as drinks were delivered by scooter.\n\nKipchoge ran each mile at an average pace of around four minutes and 36 seconds. To achieve a sub-two clocking, the Olympic champion would have effectively had to run 17 seconds for 100 metres 422 times in a row.\n\nHe lapped 27-year-old Desisa, who finished in 2:14.10, while Tadese, 35, came home in 2:06.51. Kipchoge always looked the stronger and was on target pace with around seven miles to go but he began grimacing in the closing stages and though he tried to sprint up the home straight, his fatigue was obvious.\n\nPacemakers applauded and encouraged him as he approached the line and the clocking comfortably outstrips his recognised personal best of 2:03.05, set at the London Marathon in 2016.\n\n\"I'm happy to have run two hours for the marathon,\" added Kipchoge. \"My mind was fully on the two hours but the last kilometre was behind the schedule. This journey has been good - it has been seven months of dedication.\"\n\nOnly a select few media were allowed in to witness the attempt at the race circuit near Milan and Kipchoge's time was initially reported to be a second quicker until Nike confirmed the 2:00.25 clocking.\n\nThe brand paid the three runners to forgo the London and Berlin Marathons this year prompting some criticism of the event given the resources invested and the fact it will not count as a legitimate record.\n\nNike's big corporate rival, Adidas, is planning its own sub two-hour marathon attempt but wants to do so in a race setting.\n\nEliud Kipchoge is, I believe, the greatest physical specimen ever to line up on a marathon start line. If he can't run sub-two, then I don't see another athlete that will do it any time soon.\n\nKipchoge ran close to the legitimate world record in London in 2016, and perhaps would have broken it in Berlin the year before if his shoes that day hadn't lost their insoles.\n\nHe's made history of sorts in Monza, and he's right to be proud of pushing the boundaries. What he needs to do now is break the world record on an IAAF-recognised course.\n\nHe has the talent to do that and the world record is all that's missing from a phenomenal career.", "\"Age is nothing but a number,\" the saying goes, and Prince Philip has shown you can still carry on working into your 90s.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh has decided to stand down from public engagements at the age of 95, with the full support of the Queen.\n\nHe carried out 110 days of engagements in 2016, making him the fifth busiest member of the Royal Family - despite his age.\n\nHere other nonagenarians reveal why they are still working and whether they plan on reaching Prince Philip's milestone.\n\nElla Towell, 90, works two days a week at the Claire House Children's Hospice charity shop in Mold, north Wales.\n\nHer previous jobs included working in an engineering firm, a canteen and as a factory supervisor.\n\nElla Towell says it is not difficult to get up for work as she has never needed much sleep\n\n\"I decided to start volunteering because I had a look around the Claire House Children's Hospice and was impressed with the nursing staff and I thought, 'Gosh, I'd like to help.'\n\n\"I spoke to the manageress of the shop in Buckley and she said, 'Get here now and get your coat off.' I worked every day there for six years.\n\n\"My family started grumbling at me that I was always in the shop and wanted to take me out so I decided to retire at 86. I had only stopped two weeks when the area manageress asked me to do two days a week in the Mold shop so I did.\n\n\"I still want to do it because of when I went to the hospice. The nurses and volunteers there should have Victoria Crosses.\n\n\"It's not difficult getting up and getting into the shop. I'm downstairs before five o'clock in the morning. I don't go to bed early but I've never needed that much sleep.\n\n\"I'm still active. My usual routine is get up, first big mug of tea with a tablespoon of whisky in it. I've done it for years and I haven't got arthritis.\n\n\"I serve customers behind the counter and I'm on the till at the shop. People aren't surprised I'm working at 90, they know what I'm like.\n\n\"I don't have any plans to give it up for good. I still feel I'm able to help the community at large, especially places like Claire House.\n\n\"Children's welfare interests me. If someone comes into the shop with a kiddy in a pushchair, I'm there pulling faces.\n\n\"If I can carry on until 95 I will do. You can never predict what your health will be like, but I hope so.\"\n\nShe set up the shop with her late husband, Les, 36 years ago.\n\nIrene Astbury, with members of her family, works in a pet shop set up with her late husband\n\n\"We opened the shop on 9 March 1981 and took £9 that day. We thought, 'What have we let ourselves in for?' as it was slow to begin with.\n\n\"I've been coming to the shop for the last 36 years and don't know any different. It's not hard working 40 hours a week as it's what I know.\n\n\"People can't believe and are quite surprised when they hear I'm 90.\n\n\"I still serve a few customers and will answer the phone occasionally.\n\n\"I enjoy making everyone a cup of tea and toast at brew time and my three great-grandchildren, Evie (six), Isabelle (three) and Harry (one), come to the shop most days. I enjoy seeing them and playing 'shops' with the older two girls.\n\n\"I still enjoy working, even at my age. I enjoy meeting people and customers and talking to them as I'm interested in what they're all up to.\n\n\"I don't have any plans at all to retire. As long as my legs will still bring me to the shop I have no plans to stop working.\n\n\"My gran was 102 when she died so I have a long way to go yet.\n\n\"The secret to a long and active life is to keep going, enjoy it, along with good health.\n\n\"I can still see myself working up until the age of 95 just like Prince Philip did. Longer if I can.\"\n\nCliff Parker, 90, works for Focus Education, a company founded by his daughter, Linda, which provides educational support to primary schools and academies, in Saddleworth, Oldham.\n\nHe served in the army during the 1940s and went on to become a grocer, landlord and worked for Oldham Council.\n\nCliff Parker says he chooses to work because he does not want to sit at home and do nothing\n\n\"I choose to still work at the age 90 because it gives me something to get up for in the morning.\n\n\"I bind educational books in the mornings, and in the afternoon I deliver books and parcels to schools. I'm the errand boy in the afternoons.\n\n\"I like being busy and being around people, no-one can bind books as good as me.\n\n\"It's not difficult to get up for every morning for work. I am always up early.\n\n\"I could start later in a morning if I wanted to do, but I enjoy going to work and joining in with the staff and I love being with company.\n\n\"I don't want to retire, working is what keeps me going. I don't want to sit at home and do nothing.\n\n\"People can't believe I am still working at my age, they say it's brilliant.\n\n\"I love going to work every morning and it gives me a purpose in life.\n\n\"I can definitely see myself working until the age of 95. Unless I pop my clogs first.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wasps sealed top spot with a bonus-point win over Saracens at the Ricoh Arena, which booked a Premiership home semi-final against Leicester.\n\nSarries scrum-half Ben Spencer was the day's first try scorer with the first of his two tries for the reigning champions and European Cup holders.\n\nBut home flanker Thomas Young - son of Wasps boss Dai - scored the first two of his three tries before the break.\n\nSecond-half tries from Christian Wade, Elliot Daly and Young sealed victory.\n\nSarries' other points came from a conversion by Wasps old boy Alex Lozowski and an enormous first-half penalty by Argentina centre Marcelo Bosch.\n\nThird-placed Sarries, who must now travel to Exeter in the semis in a fortnight's time, played a weakened side.\n\nAhead of their European Champions Cup final against Clermont Auvergne at Murrayfield on 13 May, they were missing their main England quartet of Owen Farrell, Maro Itoje and the Vunipola brothers.\n\nWasps' four tries not only earned the bonus point which stopped second-placed Exeter sneaking into top spot but took their tally to 89 for the season, surpassing Newcastle's Premiership record of 86, set back in the 1997-98 season.\n\nThe best was Young's first try, created by a grubber kick to the left corner from Danny Cipriani, and he then got his second when Sarries were a man down after Sean Maitland was yellow carded for needlessly obstructing Wade.\n\nBut Wade's second-half try further helped rewrite the record books, his 17th of the season equalling the 20-year-old Premiership try-scoring record set by Richmond's Dominic Chapman - and Gopperth's 10-point haul ensured that he finished as the league's leading points scorer with 266.\n\nIn front of a capacity 32,000 crowd, which caused kick-off to be delayed by 15 minutes, the only sour note for Wasps was the first-half loss of hooker Tommy Taylor with an ankle injury, while prop Jake Cooper-Woolley finished with a foot injury.\n\nBut Wasps boss Young, who played for Wales at both rugby codes, was doubly thrilled with son Thomas's treble and hopes that it will guarantee selection by his country for Wales' June Tests against Samoa and Tonga.\n\n\"Thomas is not a bad player. I think his mother would be pretty pleased. With the Welsh squad picked on Tuesday I hope he gets his opportunity in the summer.\n\n\"He played really well in attack and defence. And I don't know where he gets his pace from. The milkman stopped delivering years ago!\n\n\"That win will do us a world of good. Finishing top is a major achievement and we're happy with that. We were the better team but they could have won. Saracens take some shifting. You have to beat them three or four times.\n\n\"We left a few points out there, to be honest. We were a bit edgy and you could see we're not quite used to the big occasions. But the more you play them the more comfortable you get. I'm sure Leicester will want to upset the party, but we are looking forward\n\n\"Wasps definitely deserved to win. Our effort was good but we made a lot of mistakes and they're not the type of team you want to make handling errors against. We were hanging on for a bit but the effort meant we were always in the fight.\n\n\"Whether people do or don't agree with the team we picked, we felt it was the right thing, We take the Premiership very seriously but we had some choices to make. The Champions Cup is a massive competition, so to be in the final again is brilliant.\n\n\"The other Premiership semi-finalists all get to rest their players next weekend. We feel we've done the right thing because there were some players who we really felt needed to rest.\n\n\"One or two were carrying small injuries who would have played had this been the semi-final, but it would have been a gamble playing them.\"\n\nReplacements: Johnson for Taylor (18), Swainston for Cooper-Woolley (23) Robson for Simpson (55), McIntyre for Mullan (64), Thompson for Haskell (64), Myall for Symons (69), Bassett for le Roux (72),\n\nReplacements: Du Plessis for Koch (43), Barrington for Lamositele (51), George for Brits (51), Earle for Ellery (54), Goode for Tomkins (57), Isiekwe for Hamilton (60), H Taylor for Maitland (69).\n\nFor the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nEngland recorded a comfortable 30-10 win over Samoa in their final warm-up match before the Rugby League World Cup, which begins in October.\n\nRyan Hall opened the scoring for his 34th try in 34 Tests and Stefan Ratchford added another before the break as England led 14-0 at half-time.\n\nSamoa threatened after with tries from Joey Leilua and Anthony Milford.\n\nBut scores from Josh Hodgson, James Graham and Jermaine McGillvary ensured an easy win for Wayne Bennett's team.\n\nA crowd of just over 18,000, containing largely Samoa supporters, watched the Islanders go behind early.\n\nBennett's side were in control from the third minute when Leeds wing Hall picked up a looping pass from skipper Sean O'Loughlin to go over in the left corner.\n\nA penalty from Castleford's Luke Gale, who converted all but the last of his side's tries, gave England an 8-0 lead before Warrington full-back Ratchford spotted a hole in the Samoan line to go over.\n\nSamoa were a far more lively attacking proposition in the second period and reduced the deficit when centre Leilua showed great strength to plant the ball with five England defenders grappling. Milford converted.\n\nThe teams exchanged tries as Canberra Raiders hooker Hodgson burst through to score before Milford exposed the English defence for his side's second try.\n\nHowever, England halted Samoa's fightback in the final six minutes as Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs prop Graham barged through a couple of Samoan defenders to touch down before a late fifth try from Huddersfield's McGillvary.\n\nNot the perfect performance, but more than enough for them to look forward to the World Cup with plenty of confidence.\n\nBig raps to Kevin Brown. He may have been a late call-up, but he took his chance superbly with three try-scoring assists in the second half.\n\nRatchford was also an eye-catcher with his fine individual try-scoring effort in the first half.\n\nSamoa had more possession in the second half and managed to cross through their headline acts - Leilua and Milford. But generally England looked solid in defending their own line.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPatrick Roberts scored twice as Celtic extended their unbeaten domestic record to 43 matches this season with victory over St Johnstone at Parkhead.\n\nTom Rogic and teenage debutant Michael Johnston forced Saints keeper Zander Clark into several first-half saves.\n\nRoberts put the champions ahead but Steven MacLean lashed in an equaliser.\n\nDedryck Boyata headed home a corner and Roberts scored his second before substitute Callum McGregor added the fourth with a sublime individual goal.\n\nVictory moved the champions, who have now gone a year unbeaten domestically, 30 points clear of Aberdeen, who play Hearts on Sunday.\n\nSt Johnstone, who suffered a first defeat in 12 'post-split' fixtures going back two years, remain in fourth, six points ahead of Hearts.\n\nClark, making his first appearance in the Saints goal since the middle of March after replacing Alan Mannus, did not have to wait long to be tested.\n\nWithin 40 seconds he was diving low to turn a powerful left-foot strike from Rogic from 25 yards round the post.\n\nNext he denied 18-year-old Michael Johnston, making his first-team debut, as he parried clear the youngster's right-foot 20-yarder.\n\nRogic, in the advanced central midfield role, was creative and dangerous and another well-struck effort forced Clark to show his quality again with another top-class save.\n\nAt the other end, Celtic keeper Craig Gordon, trying to play out from the back, passed the ball straight to Brian Easton but the Saints defender failed to take advantage.\n\nDanny Swanson fired an early 25-yard free-kick over the top of Gordon's bar, but the visitors wasted the best chance of the first half just before the interval when MacLean headed Easton's cross into the path of Blair Alston 12 yards out, but the Saints midfielder sent his shot over the bar.\n\nWith Johnston producing flair on the left flank, fellow 18-year-old Anthony Ralston was enjoying his first start for the hosts at right-back, overlapping regularly to add another option to Celtic's attack.\n\nJohnston was at the heart of the move that led to Celtic's opener on the resumption, his pass releasing Roberts, who from just outside the 18-yard box, sent a low left-foot strike into the bottom right-hand corner.\n\nSaints responded within 90 seconds. MacLean's header from Paul Paton's cross was blocked on the line by Gordon, but as the ball broke free MacLean followed up to level the score.\n\nThree minutes later Celtic regained the lead as Boyata rose unchallenged to head home a Roberts corner.\n\nThe champions increased their advantage just after the hour after slick build-up play.\n\nGriffiths fired in a shot which Clark parried, but substitute Scott Sinclair reacted swiftly to cut the ball back for Roberts to claim his second of the afternoon from close range.\n\nCeltic were flying now and Sinclair, who had replaced the impressive Johnston, almost produced a magnificent solo goal, eluding numerous challenges before being denied by Clark.\n\nInstead it was McGregor, only on the pitch for a minute after replacing Rogic, who claimed the game's classiest goal with a mazy run that left several Saints defenders in his wake before sweeping a low shot into the net for his third goal in three games.\n\nCeltic boss Brendan Rodgers: \"It was a really exciting performance for the supporters and a joy to watch the team play to that level.\n\n\"We were very good for the first 35 minutes without getting the goal, but we started the second half really well, and just switched off for some reason to concede the goal.\n\n\"But our response was spectacular. We scored four goals, and maybe could have finished with six or seven if we had been more clinical.\n\n\"I've been encouraging Patrick [Roberts] to get into the box because with his quality, he has the ability to score more goals, and it was a great bit of individual skill from Callum [McGregor] - he is performing at a really top level.\n\n\"I was delighted with the two young players who made their first starts. You can see the profile of Mikey Johnston, he is very similar to Scott Sinclair - slight, fast, dynamic. With more involvement he will become a bit more prolific and incisive but he was quick and direct and most importantly worked very hard to press the play.\n\n\"I thought Tony [Anthony Ralston] was exceptional. You can see the maturity now in his performance; you would think he'd played 50 games already. He's a very good defender, very hard to beat, very strong, but he can play football and has the agility to get forward. It was an outstanding first start from him.\"\n\nSt Johnstone boss Tommy Wright: \"I thought Celtic were exceptional, they played particularly well, but I am disappointed that when we got back to 1-1, we gave away a poor goal to put them back in control of the game.\n\n\"If you keep it level for 10-15 minutes, then you might get something out of the game. But it was just wave after wave of attack.\n\n\"It was a tough day for us, but at 4-1 with 20 minutes to go, it could have been a lot worse. We defended and made sure we came away with a 4-1 defeat and not a heavier one.\n\n\"But the second and third goals were poor goals from our point of view.\"\n• None Dedryck Boyata (Celtic) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None David Wotherspoon (St. Johnstone) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Live streaming is becoming big business, with millions of people around the world broadcasting the minutiae of their daily lives in real time to adoring fans - and making small fortunes in the process. But is it safe?\n\nSamantha Firth, a 21-year-old nanny living in Chicago, walks to the subway with her friend. So far, so ordinary.\n\nBut she is simultaneously broadcasting her 15-minute journey live via her mobile to thousands of avid followers.\n\n\"You guys are lit,\" she says excitedly as she looks at the stream of rolling messages and emojis that are popping up on her screen from her fans.\n\n\"I love you... you guys are the best,\" she exclaims, before heading onto the subway and zooming the camera in on a spot on her forehead.\n\nIt used to be that only film stars would be famous, but thanks to reality TV, YouTube and bloggers, anyone can have their \"fifteen minutes\" of fame, as Andy Warhol predicted.\n\nThe proliferation of live broadcasting tools, pioneered by Meerkat several years ago and followed by the likes of Periscope, Facebook, YouTube and others, has given many young people the chance to broadcast every aspect of their lives - whether they're brushing their hair in their bedroom or out dancing with friends.\n\nIn China alone, the entertainment live streaming market is valued at £5bn, according to Credit Suisse.\n\nAnd in the US, 63% of 18-34 year-olds are watching live content and 42% creating it, finds a study by UBS Evidence Lab.\n\nBut for many like Ms Firth, this isn't just narcissistic fun, it's a cash cow.\n\nShe joined Live.me - owned by China's Cheetah Mobile - eight months ago after moving from Sydney to Chicago. The live-in nanny has since become one of the most popular broadcasters on the site, amassing 350,000 fans.\n\nThese devotees bombard her with virtual gifts - animated stickers that can be converted into \"diamonds\" and then real money - helping her pull in about $21,000 (£16,300) a month.\n\n\"Coming from a different country it has been difficult to make friends, but this app has allowed me to connect with people who have the same interests,\" she says of her reasons for joining.\n\n\"I spend most of my free time broadcasting because it's where most of my friends are.\"\n\nShe is keen to portray a candid version of herself, pimples and all.\n\n\"I don't wear make-up, I wear sweatshirts and sweatpants,\" she says. \"Sometimes I cry when someone says something hurtful on a broadcast.\"\n\nLike Live.me, live streaming platform YouNow enables these citizen broadcasters to make money from fans sending them virtual gifts. Fans of some streaming sites can also subscribe monthly to their favourite live streamers.\n\nEmma McGann thinks her live broadcasts have helped boost her music career\n\nIt's been a real moneyspinner for the top broadcasters, who can earn up to $200,000 (£155,000) a year.\n\nSinger Emma McGann, 26, broadcasts live from her studio in Coventry, England, for three to six hours every day. She says her live streams attract about 5-10,000 unique views.\n\nYouNow not only provides her with a good salary - she earns £2,000-3,000 a month via the channel - but it has helped her gain exposure for her music.\n\n\"It enabled me to get a single in the iTunes chart,\" she says. \"It's also a great testing ground for new material.\"\n\n\"I like the live element. I like to interact with the audience and take song requests.\"\n\nFans can also speak to her over the internet.\n\nWhile many brands are already running their own live streaming sessions, We Are Social head of strategy Harvey Cossell believes there are opportunities for brands to capitalise on live streaming by co-creating with individuals who have already amassed a loyal audience.\n\nThe success of such collaborations in the social gaming world, on sites such as Twitch, are a case in point.\n\n\"They would need to identify those people that represent a similar set of values to the brand in question and then find creative ways to partner with them in the production of their content,\" he advises.\n\nThe challenge, he warns, is one of authenticity.\n\n\"It's always better for brands either to partner with the right person, or do nothing at all.\"\n\nSome researchers are forecasting that the live streaming business will be worth $70bn globally by 2021.\n\nBut for all its engagement value and monetisation potential, you only have to search online to see that live streaming has its dark side.\n\nEarlier this year, 12-year-old Katelyn Nicole Davis took her own life and broadcast it live on Live.me, while there have been many reports about paedophiles watching live streaming of child sex abuse.\n\n\"Live streaming apps and sites can expose young people to graphic and distressing content and can leave them vulnerable to bullying and online harassment,\" an NSPCC [National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children] spokesman tells the BBC.\n\n\"Worryingly, live chat can also be used by groomers to target young people who may be manipulated into sending sexual images and videos.\"\n\nKhudor Annous, head of marketing and partnerships at Live.me, says the company has a number of safeguards, including a facial recognition tool that can supposedly spot anyone who's under the age of 13 on the app.\n\n\"If they are in fact under the age of 13, then we ban the account,\" says Mr Annous.\n\n\"We have also provided users with reporting tools to report a channel if they identify a child in the app. We're typically able to evaluate reports within a couple of hours depending on daily volume.\"\n\nAs for grooming, he says: \"Every user has the ability to report any suspicious behaviour before, or any violations of our community guidelines. We also work with the FBI and local law enforcement agencies around the globe to ensure the safety of our community.\"\n\nBut there are also concerns that the broadcasters are themselves exploiting young people.\n\nClinical psychologist Linda Blair describes the rise of young people live streaming as \"very sad\".\n\nShe adds: \"It's an indication of loneliness. They might temporarily feel great but it's only a distraction.\"\n\nBut with millions of people already using live streaming platforms, including Facebook Live, we can expect the number of everyday broadcasters to continue growing.\n\n\"I see live streaming following a path similar to social networking, where at first it started as a place for people to connect with each other but eventually evolved into a powerful platform for advertising, marketing, and publishing,\" says Paul Verna, principal analyst at eMarketer.\n\nMr Cossell also believes that live video will expand into other formats.\n\n\"It will begin to harness emerging technologies such as 360-video and virtual reality more readily,\" he says.\n\n\"Live streaming is clearly here to stay.\"", "It is May's Day. North, South, East and West\n\nThe Conservatives have taken ground up and down the land - and found support even in parts of the country like the East End of Glasgow, where the Tories almost went out with the Ark.\n\nDavid Cameron claimed there were no \"no-go\" areas for his Conservative Party - but it's his successor, who on these results, seems to be on the verge of making that true.\n\nAnd despite Labour's official insistence these results are less bad than feared, one senior figure told me there was no way of measuring them that made them less than very bad.\n\nThe Conservatives are emboldened by UKIP losing much of its reason for being.\n\nAnd in Scotland they seem to be the beneficiaries of the SNP's hopes for a second referendum - scooping up unionist votes. The SNP is still clearly the biggest party but have perhaps lost some of their precious sheen.\n\nMuch could change in the coming weeks of what's likely to be a brutal general election campaign.\n\nTheresa May insists still that the vote could be close, warning her supporters not to take a majority for granted.\n\nThe results don't translate necessarily into a big Tory win. But according to those who put crosses in a box on Thursday, the ground is prepared.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSee results and latest news in your area", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nAdil Rashid showed he has learned from a \"tough\" winter by taking 5-27 to help England beat Ireland by seven wickets in Bristol, said captain Eoin Morgan.\n\nLeg-spinner Rashid, 29, struggled for consistency as England lost a Test series in India 4-0 late last year.\n\nHe was dropped after the first one-dayer against India but performed well in the West Indies series in March.\n\n\"He's a huge asset for us and hopefully he gets it right in the middle of the summer,\" said Morgan.\n\nRashid's figures on Friday were the second best by an English spinner in one-day internationals, behind the 5-20 taken by Vic Marks against New Zealand in Wellington in 1984.\n\n\"It was a tough time in the winter and he's clearly learned from it,\" Morgan told BBC Test Match Special. \"He's slowly building back enough confidence.\n\n\"Coming out with his career-best performance after having a very tough winter in India and starting to put something together in the West Indies - it shows the threat leg-spin has.\"\n\nEngland play the second and final one-dayer against Ireland at Lord's on Sunday (11:00 BST).\n\n'You have good days and bad days'\n\nIreland were 81-2 but lost eight wickets for 45 runs as they collapsed to 126 all out in 33 overs. Seven of those wickets fell to Rashid and part-time off-spinner Joe Root, who took 2-9.\n\nRashid finished with his first five-wicket haul in ODIs, with the Ireland batsmen struggling to read his variations.\n\nAsked how he rated the performance, Rashid said: \"It's probably up there.\n\n\"It's a great feeling getting a five-for in any conditions. I feel as though I am improving and hopefully I can carry it on.\n\n\"You have good days, you have bad days. It's how you deal with it. Sometimes you don't feel great but you have to find a Plan B, Plan C.\"\n\nAdil Rashid did the job any captain wants when you open the door into a side. Your leg-spinner comes on and kicks it wide open and that's exactly what he did.\n\nI think he's a very good one-day bowler with the white ball. He knows he can do it and he's confident.\n\nWith the red ball, I don't think he's got the confidence - he doesn't believe he's a Test match bowler. As a result, he bowls a lot more bad balls with the red ball.\"\n\nEngland have won six of the seven completed one-day matches against Ireland, and eight of their past nine at home.\n\nMorgan's side are scheduled to play 21 matches across all formats by 29 September, plus up to five matches in the Champions Trophy 50-over competition, which begins on 1 June.\n\n\"Putting in a clinical performance is as good as we can ask for as a side. It is how ruthless we need to be going forward,\" Morgan said.\n\nHaving almost qualified from their group at the 2015 World Cup, Ireland have struggled recently and are 12th in the one-day rankings, seven places behind England.\n\nThey suffered heavy ODI defeats against Pakistan last August, and to South Africa and Australia in September. In March, they lost T20 and ODI series against Afghanistan.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 live, Swann said Ireland \"fell to pieces\" as they lost a succession of wickets to \"abysmal shots\".\n\nIreland captain William Porterfield said: \"I think we started off pretty positively and wouldn't necessarily have envisaged that spin would do the damage.\n\n\"Not taking anything away from Rashid, we should have played it a lot better. That's something we need to mentally put right for Sunday.\"", "Celebrities including Guy Pearce, Missy Higgins and Troye Sivan were attached to the petition\n\nIt was a well-meaning campaign designed to address bullying of LGBT students in Australian schools.\n\nBut a day after its high-profile launch - backed by some celebrities - the petition was withdrawn following a swirl of controversy.\n\nOn Tuesday the open letter, organised by a Sydney man, called on Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to commit A$6m (£4m; $4.5m) to funding a new anti-bullying programme.\n\nWith a focus on LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] issues in schools and domestic violence, the programme would target \"all forms of bullying, including that which is based on religion, race, gender, faith, sexuality, disability, skin conditions, social standing or political persuasions\", the letter said.\n\nIt followed an intensely debated similar scheme, Safe Schools, which was launched in 2014 but was significantly curtailed and then dumped in one state after criticism from conservative politicians, lobby groups and sections of the media. The critics said it raised sexual issues that were inappropriate for teenagers and young children.\n\nLGBT anti-bullying programmes have been intensely debated in Australia\n\nTuesday's proposal was intended to \"de-politicise\" and remove \"controversy\" surrounding LGBT education in schools. Celebrities including actor Guy Pearce and singers Troye Sivan and Missy Higgins attached their names to the petition.\n\nIt even attracted qualified support from an unlikely source. The Australian Christian Lobby - a conservative group critical of Safe Schools - said it \"cautiously welcomed\" the new proposal.\n\nBut it attracted immediate criticism for urging \"tolerance\" - rather than \"acceptance\".\n\n\"Make no mistake of our request: we do not seek a program that seeks approval of the way certain members of our society live. We seek only mutual respect and tolerance,\" the petition said.\n\nCritics of the wording included LGBT advocates and, quickly, goodwill that might have flowed from passionate supporters of Safe Schools descended into anger.\n\n\"It sounds to me like I'm supposed to beg people to be tolerant of my child's existence,\" Leanne Donnelly, identified as a Sydney mother of a transgender teenager, told the Special Broadcasting Service.\n\n\"Equality and acceptance is the starting point, not downgrading to tolerance.\"\n\nSome celebrities attached to the letter said they had not seen the wording before it was published.\n\nPetition organiser Ben Grubb, a PR adviser, wrote a lengthy apology to the LGBT community following the backlash.\n\n\"Acceptance was removed during the drafting after confidentially consulting a Canberra decision-maker on what they believed the government would potentially back to fund such a program,\" he wrote, adding his involvement in the campaign was personal not professional.\n\n\"This is a decision I deeply regret and I am truly sorry for. I am sorry to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex community, many of whom have told me that by doing this represented the letter pandering to conservative views.\"\n\nHe said he would arrange for the petition to be taken down. It and an accompanying publicity video are no longer visible online.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nHartlepool United's 96-year stay in the Football League ended as they were relegated despite battling back to beat Doncaster Rovers, who missed out on the League Two title on the final day.\n\nTwo Devante Rodney goals looked to have kept Hartlepool up, but Mark O'Brien's late winner for Newport County in their game saved the Welsh club instead.\n\nBut O'Brien's 89th-minute Newport goal sent Hartlepool to the National League.\n\nNeeding to win and hope Newport failed to beat Notts County to survive, Hartlepool's decisive day began badly when James Coppinger's first-half cross was eventually turned in by Williams from close range as defender Carl Magnay sliced his clearance.\n\nWith Newport winning at that stage, Hartlepool looked doomed, before an equaliser for Notts County at Rodney Parade lifted the Teesside club.\n\nAnd Hartlepool's hope turned to ecstasy as 18-year-old substitute Rodney slotted in his first two senior goals in quick succession to temporarily lift United above the drop zone.\n\nBut, as the game moved into stoppage-time, news of Newport's late twist brought despair to the Victoria Park faithful.\n\nDefeat saw already-promoted Doncaster, who had needed to better Plymouth's result to finish top, fail to capitalise on Argyle's draw and they eventually finished third, as Portsmouth leapfrogged both their rivals to win the title.\n\nWhile an extraordinary finish at Rodney Parade was ultimately what sent Pools down, their undoing began much earlier in their campaign.\n\nHartlepool had won just two of their past 10 games when manager Craig Hignett was sacked in January after 11 months in charge.\n\nDespite that poor run, Pools were seven points clear of the relegation zone when they named former Wolves, Sheffield Wednesday and Cardiff boss Dave Jones as their new boss - an appointment that was described as a \"no-brainer\" and \"a real coup for the football club\".\n\nBut just 13 points were taken out of a possible 51 in his disastrous 17 games in charge, leaving Pools two points adrift of safety when he was dismissed on 24 April, less than 48 hours after club president and Sky Sports presenter Jeff Stelling issued a message for Jones to leave during a live television broadcast.\n\nDefender Matthew Bates was placed in charge for the final two games of the season, with striker Billy Paynter and coaches Stuart Parnaby and Ian Gallagher forming the rest of a makeshift coaching team.\n\nBut, after losing at then-relegation-rivals Cheltenham on the penultimate weekend, they were unable to stop Pools dropping out of the EFL for the first time since 1921.\n\n\"I was trying to keep a level head but it was difficult with the results coming in.\n\n\"There was nothing wrong with the performance. They went 1-0 up and we had to regroup, but we did and came back at them.\n\n\"It was all positive in the dressing room at half-time. The shackles were off and there was no pressure so make yourself heroes.\n\n\"We needed to get the fans onside and we did with our performance. I have learned if you give the fans everything on the pitch they will stick by you.\n\n\"We got relegated but the fans stayed behind and clapped us off they showed their appreciation but ultimately is that right or wrong?\n\n\"The players have been magnificent in the past two weeks. It has been humbling.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Joe Wright (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Andy Williams (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.\n• None Gary McSheffrey (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Hartlepool United 2, Doncaster Rovers 1. Devante Rodney (Hartlepool United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Padraig Amond.\n• None Carl Magnay (Hartlepool United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A Liberal Democrat government would raise income tax to help fund the NHS and social care, the party has pledged.\n\nIt said a penny-in-the-pound rise on all income tax bands and on dividends would raise around £6bn a year.\n\nThe Tories said 30 million people would be hit by the tax rises. Labour said its NHS plans would be in its manifesto.\n\nThe Lib Dem pledge is complicated by devolution, such as Scotland having its own tax-raising powers.\n\nThe NHS is facing one of its toughest-ever financial challenges as it struggles with a growing and ageing population.\n\nIn the UK, £140bn was spent on health last year and around £25bn on social care.\n\nThe proposed tax rises are the Lib Dem's first significant policy announcement of the general election campaign.\n\nParty leader Tim Farron said he wanted \"to be honest with people and say that we will all need to chip in a little more\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"This is an average of £3 a week for the average earner in this country, so a pint of beer a week to pay for a health and social care service that will last us from cradle to grave.\"\n\nA Lib Dem government would raise all tax bands by one percentage point.\n\nThe party estimates someone earning £15,000 would pay an extra £33 a year in tax, with someone on £50,000 paying an extra £383.\n\nThis would not apply in Scotland as income tax levels are devolved to the Scottish Parliament, where the Lib Dems are the fifth largest party.\n\nThe plans also include a UK-wide rise of 1p on dividend income taxes if you hold shares in a company.\n\nIn the 2018/19 financial year, the party says the extra taxes would raise:\n\nThe total raised is projected to reach £6.6bn a year by the end of the parliament.\n\nThe money would be guaranteed for the NHS and social care in England, but it is up to the devolved governments in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland to choose whether to spend the money on health or elsewhere.\n\nMr Farron added: \"Theresa May doesn't care about the NHS or social care. People are lying on trolleys in hospital corridors and she has done nothing. The truth is you can't have a strong NHS with a hard Brexit.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats say the money raised will primarily be invested in social care which will get £2bn a year, as well as care outside of hospital, mental health and public health.\n\nBut it says its ultimate ambition is a dedicated health and care tax.\n\nNorman Lamb, for the party, added: \"Simply providing more money on its own is not enough and that's why this is just the first step in our plan to protect health and care services long-term.\n\n\"We also need to do much more to keep people fit and healthy and out of hospital, and that is why this new funding will be targeted to those areas that have the greatest impact on patient care such as social care, general practice, mental health and public health.\"\n\nThe outgoing Conservative government has promised to increase funding for the health service by £8bn by 2020 and £2bn for social care. The Lib Dems say their extra £6bn a year would be in addition to these plans.\n\nA £6bn a year rise in income for the NHS and social care would be \"generous\" compared with recent increases in their budgets, but against the historical average it is \"quite small scale\", the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said.\n\nIFS spokesman George Stoye told BBC News that about half of adults in Britain pay income tax, so a penny in the pound rise would mean incomes in these households cut on average by 0.6%.\n\nConservative Jane Ellison said: \"Now we know - a vote for anyone other than Theresa May means you will pay more tax.\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn, the Lib Dems and SNP will hit 30 million people in the pocket with higher income taxes.\n\n\"Only a vote for Theresa May on 8 June can provide the strong and stable leadership we need to get a good deal in the Brexit negotiations, keep taxes low, and secure our growing economy.\n\n\"It is the only way we can build on the record funding we've given the NHS.\"\n\nLabour said its plans for funding the NHS would be in the party's manifesto although it has already said it would halt hospital cuts.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nSouth Africa's Akani Simbine continued his impressive start to 2017 by beating Justin Gatlin and Andre de Grasse in the 100m at the Doha Diamond League.\n\nThe 23-year-old clocked his sixth sub-10 second time of the season as he came home in 9.99, ahead of Asafa Powell.\n\nGatlin was fourth in 10.14, behind Femi Ogunode (10.13) and ahead of De Grasse, who was fifth in 10.21.\n\nJamaica's Olympic champion Elaine Thompson beat the Netherlands' Dafne Schippers in the 200m.\n\nThe pair were separated by only a tenth of a second in last year's Olympic final, and Thompson triumphed in Doha by 0.26 seconds in a time of 22.19.\n\nBritain's Robbie Grabarz, who took silver in the European Indoors in March, claimed second place in the high jump, clearing 2.31m in his first outdoor event of the season.\n• Watch highlights of the Doha Diamond League on BBC One on Saturday at 13:45 BST (not in Northern Ireland).\n\nOlympic champion Caster Semenya claimed a commanding victory in the 800m, coming home in a world-leading time of one minute 56.61 seconds.\n\nBurundi's Francine Niyonsaba, who won silver behind the South African in Rio, was the only other woman to better that time in the whole of 2016.\n\nEthiopia's Genzebe Dibaba - who broke a 22-year-old 1500m world record in 2015 and won silver over the distance in Rio - was fifth in her first 800m outing.\n\nOlympic champion Thomas Rohler threw 93.90m to win the javelin competition by more than four metres.\n\nThe German's throw moves him to second in the all-time list, with only Czech great Jan Zelezny having thrown further.\n\nDesiree Henry was well short of the 22.69 she clocked earlier this year in California as the 21-year-old finished seventh in the 200m.\n\nHolly Bradshaw, who missed the indoor season with injury, finished fourth in the pole vault with a best of 4.55m.\n\nCindy Ofili finished down in seventh as American world record-holder Kendra Harrison won the 100m hurdles in 12.59, while Andrew Butchart came eighth in the 3,000m and Chris Baker finished seventh in the high jump.", "May to form government with DUP backing\n\nTheresa May says she will govern with her Democratic Unionist \"friends\" and \"get on\" with Brexit after losing her majority, but rivals say she has caused chaos.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nDate:Kick-off:Coverage: Live commentary on BBC local radio and live text, scores and reports on BBC Sport website\n\nAfter eight months of hard graft, bruises and broken bones, there is still everything to play for as the Premiership enters its final round.\n\nThree teams are battling to finish top of the table, Bath and Leicester will fight it out for the all-important fourth play-off spot and Harlequins and Northampton will aim to secure an automatic European Champions Cup place for next season.\n\nThe only certainty is that bottom side Bristol are already relegated.\n\nBBC Sport takes a closer look at how things could shape up once the final whistle blows on Saturday.\n\nIt appears so. Over the past 10 seasons, only Saracens (twice), Northampton, London Irish and Leicester Tigers have tasted victory away from home in the semi-finals.\n\nIn 2016, Saracens thumped Tigers 44-17, while Exeter edged to a tense 34-23 win over Wasps at Sandy Park.\n\nSo who is going to enjoy the home comforts on 20 May?\n\nIn short, if Premiership leaders Wasps beat reigning champions Saracens at the Ricoh Arena and Sarries do not take away two bonus points, Wasps and Exeter will get home ties.\n\nA win for Sarries makes sure their semi-final will be at fortress Allianz Park. However, the omens for Saracens fans are not good - Wasps have won all 10 league matches at home this campaign.\n\nWasps director of rugby Dai Young said he \"thought the game would have a prize on it\" when he saw the fixture list at the start of the season. The prize could well be a Premiership final if history is anything to go by.\n\nIf Exeter overcome Gloucester at Kingsholm, they will guarantee themselves a play-off match in the south west, but their fate could be decided in Coventry.\n\nSince the 2005-06 season when the top four started automatically qualifying for the play-offs, only Saracens, in 2015, have won the trophy after finishing fourth.\n\nIn fact, only fourth-placed finishers Leicester, in 2008, and Northampton, in 2013, have made the showpiece event at Twickenham.\n\nOn Saturday, 10-time champions Leicester are in prime position to claim the final play-off spot for a third-straight campaign - they effectively need just a losing bonus-point at Worcester.\n\nBath, runners-up in 2015, must take home all five points at Sale, and hope Warriors do them a favour at Sixways with a big win.\n\nAll to play for at Franklin's Gardens\n\nThe battle for sixth spot is fairly complicated. If Northampton beat Harlequins and Quins take away no points, Saints will finish sixth and qualify for the European Champions Cup in 2017-18.\n\nA losing bonus-point for Quins, and only four points for Saints, means the two teams finish level on points, but Quins will qualify for Europe on virtue of having more wins.\n\nThis is where it gets even more confusing. The team that finishes seventh enters a play-off with the seventh-placed Top 14 club in France, and eighth and ninth-placed sides in the Pro12, with the winner earning a Champions Cup spot.\n\nThe play-offs and final take place over the last two weekends in May.\n\nAfter Saturday's results, Gloucester, Saints, Quins and Newcastle could all finish seventh.\n\nHowever, if the Cherry and Whites finish eighth in the Premiership, which is likely, and win their Challenge Cup final against Stade Francais on 12 May, they will enter the play-offs for the Champions Cup instead of the seventh-placed side.\n\nMake sense? Hopefully it will all become clearer by the end of Saturday.\n\nPremiership - round 22 (all games kick off at 16:00 BST on Saturday)\n\nFor the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "Break-ups are never easy - some people would rather avoid that awkward conversation altogether\n\nWould you pay someone to break up with your partner for you?\n\nThat's exactly what 28-year-old Trevor Meyers did.\n\n\"I felt like it was easier for someone else to take care of an awkward situation like a break-up,\" says Trevor, who lives in Canada.\n\nHe has used the services of a company called The Breakup Shop more than once to end relationships.\n\nYou can choose to pay a stranger to send a text, email or good old-fashioned letter to the person you are breaking up with. Or they can call your soon-to-be-ex to tell them it's over.\n\n\"I used The Breakup Shop to end a couple of short-term things when things just didn't mesh with the way I live my life,\" says Trevor.\n\n\"Overall I think they [those broken-up with] get it - it's pretty simple. I haven't had to use it often but I'm glad there is a service for it now.\"\n\nThe Breakup Shop was founded by Canadian brothers Evan and Mackenzie Keast in November 2015.\n\nThe idea for the site came about when Mackenzie was \"ghosted\" by a woman. This is the term for when someone disappears from the life of a person they were previously dating or in a relationship with.\n\nMackenzie (left) and Evan Keast have ended hundreds of relationships on behalf of other people\n\n\"She stopped responding to messages and phone calls, she totally disappeared. She didn't have the courage to break up with him herself,\" says Evan.\n\nWithin a week, The Breakup Shop was launched.\n\nPrices range from 10 Canadian dollars (£6) for a text or email, to C$80 for a \"Breakup Gift Box\", which includes cookies and wine.\n\nWhile the messages can be personalised, Evan is keen to stress the company would never relay anything \"offensive or damaging\".\n\nOver the past 18 months, the brothers have ended \"hundreds and hundreds\" of relationships while also working full-time jobs in technology and property development.\n\nEvan acknowledges that some people are uncomfortable with the idea of The Breakup Shop but says times are changing.\n\n\"We're living in an age of fast communication,\" he says. \"Everything is sudden and abrupt, it's how the next generation communicates.\"\n\nDr Bernie Hogan, a research fellow at Oxford University's Internet Institute, says the process of ending relationships has evolved in line with the shifting way they are formed.\n\n\"People don't have a context in common with their partners anymore. When you meet someone on the internet or via a dating app, they aren't friends of friends or colleagues to whom you are connected. So when the relationship ends there isn't the added complexity of mutual friends to deal with,\" he says.\n\nThis explains how ghosting can happen, as it's easier to make a clean break.\n\nSo perhaps using a third party to end a relationship is better than not officially ending it at all, but Dr Hogan says it is still very much a \"violation of norms\".\n\nThere's always the impersonal touch of your own\n\nThough paying someone to break up with your partner may not be to everyone's taste, it's not the only personal task that you can pay someone else to do.\n\nYou don't get much more personal than sending a hand-written letter or thank you card. In this age of digital communication, such correspondence is becoming increasingly rare.\n\nFinding the time to write letters or even having stationery and a stamp to hand can be tricky. So how about getting a machine to do it for you?\n\nSonny Caberwal is chief executive of Bond, a company that has developed a machine that can hold a pen and write. It can even learn your own style of handwriting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bond will write your thank-you notes for you.\n\nThe average price for a note is around $5 (£4) and customers can send in the text to be transcribed from their computer, tablet or smartphone.\n\nSonny says customers range from recently married couples needing help thanking their guests for wedding gifts, through to business people who travel too much to make it to the post office.\n\nWhile this novel use of technology is decidedly James Bond-esque, the famous spy isn't actually the inspiration behind the name of the company.\n\n\"The whole idea of the company was about creating beautiful experiences that bond people,\" says Sonny.\n\n\"Our target customers are the people that love writing notes but simply don't have the time to write them themselves.\"\n\nAnother thing that people don't seem to have the time for is queuing.\n\nContrary to the popular perception of British people loving a good queue, we in fact do not like standing in a line, according to social historians (unless it's for tickets to the tennis at Wimbledon).\n\nThe Wimbledon queue: the exception to the rule\n\nOnline errand-running business TaskRabbit says people who will queue up for others - whether in person or online - are in popular demand on its platform.\n\n\"We see hundreds of requests for London Taskers to wait online for the latest restaurant and theatre tickets, or wait for a BT or Sky technician to arrive, or even queue for five hours for the latest Yeezy shoe [Kanye West trainers],\" says Ian Arthurs, TaskRabbit's chief operating officer.\n\nBritish users, however, tend to be a bit more reserved than their American counterparts, he says. \"We had a task in LA where a customer was looking for someone to impersonate them at a party so they didn't have to go.\"\n\nWhere matters of the heart are concerned, though, it's not just breaking up with a partner that some people seek help with.\n\nOn a more uplifting note, Ian Arthurs points to an example of someone in New York seeking TaskRabbit's help to plan and execute a surprise public marriage proposal.\n\nLuckily, it worked. She said yes.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tyson Fury says he will deal with unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua \"like a cat playing with a ball of wool\" when he returns to boxing.\n\nFury, 28, has dealt with depression and lost his boxing licence since beating Wladimir Klitschko in November 2015.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview, Fury said he will shed eight stone in weight and remove the \"fraud from the division\".\n\n\"Joshua is a big man with a puncher's chance and has no footwork, no speed or stamina,\" Fury told BBC 5 live boxing.\n\n\"He is what you call a boxer's dream. I've had 18 months out and ballooned up to 26 stone. I could come back with no comeback fights and still box rings around that body builder.\"\n• None Fury on Joshua: I'll rid the heavyweight division of a fraud\n\nFury says he will be back fighting in July, on the undercard of a show at London's Copper Box Arena, if his licence is reinstated by the British Boxing Board of Control.\n\nThe BBBofC removed the fighter's licence in October 2016 eight days after he admitted taking cocaine to help him deal with depression.\n\nThe sport's British governing body says it would need a \"full consultant's report\" in considering their position, but the 28-year-old's camp is confident the matter will be worked out.\n\nFury, who refers to himself as the 'Gypsy King', also faces a UK Anti-Doping hearing on Monday relating to a failed test in June of last year.\n\nHe insists he is not \"desperate\" to return to the sport but wants to meet Joshua, who beat Klitschko on Saturday to unify the IBF and WBA titles before immediately referencing a future bout with Fury.\n\nFury has sparred with Joshua in the past and added: \"I always said Wladimir would be my easiest fight. Now I change the goal posts, AJ will be my easiest fight.\n\n\"I've never been more confident or serious when I say something, I will play with Joshua like a cat with a ball of wool - hands behind my back, making a right mug of him.\n\n\"We are in the business of sweet science. Sweet science does not consist of a body beautiful, iron pumping big fella. It's feinting, jabbing, moving, gliding around the ring, that's the sweet science.\"\n\nFury believes he will take at least eight weeks to return to 18-and-a-half stone - roughly a stone heavier than he weighed in at prior to his shock win over Klitschko - and is currently in Marbella training.\n\nHe said he \"enjoyed every minute\" of the Joshua-Klitschko Wembley Stadium fight, but admitted concern, stating \"silly things\" Joshua did could have led to a defeat which would have \"cost us millions\" in scuppering the chances of a future match-up.\n\nUndefeated Fury also believes the result underlines the lack of credit he received for toppling Klitschko to land three of the four heavyweight titles at the same age as Joshua - 27.\n\nHe added: \"Joshua was supposed to walk right through him as he was old and useless supposedly, but it didn't work like that did it? Klitschko's been out of the ring 18 months and had a 50-50 fight with a so-called killer. I will rip the fraud from the division.\n\n\"You get two types of people in boxing, the outlaw and the Mr Nice. I am the outlaw so people love to hate me. That's my personality, love me or hate me you still have to watch me, it works. I've been through depression, life and death positions, and turned it all around.\"\n• The full Fury interview will be available on Monday's 5 live boxing podcast", "The Conservative Party has made major gains in local elections across Britain, fuelled by a collapse in the UKIP vote and poor results for Labour.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nA total of 4,851 seats were up for grabs in 88 councils - all 32 in Scotland, 22 in Wales and 34 country councils and unitary authorities in England.\n\nThe Conservatives have made gains while Labour, UKIP, the Lib Dems and the SNP have all lost ground.\n\nLabour has lost more than 380 council seats, UKIP has suffered heavy losses and the Lib Dems have not made the gains they had hoped for.\n\nThe Conservatives appear to have been the main beneficiaries of a decline in support for UKIP.\n\nThe party is now in charge of 11 more councils having taken Derbyshire from Labour as well as Warwickshire, Lincolnshire, Gloucestershire, the Isle of Wight and Monmouthshire - all of which were previously under no overall control.\n\nThey also increased their total number of councillors in Scotland by more than 160.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nMeanwhile, it has been a much less successful day for Labour.\n\nThe party has lost control of seven councils, including Glasgow, as well as Bridgend and Blaenau Gwent. It also lost the metro mayor contests in the West Midlands and Tees Valley, a traditional Labour heartland, to the Conservatives - but former cabinet minister Andy Burnham scored a big win in Greater Manchester.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nThe Lib Dems have had a mixed performance, with some seats won and others lost.\n\nLib Dem former business secretary Vince Cable said the night had been \"neutral\" for his party.\n\n\"We're in a relatively encouraging position, though there hasn't been a spectacular breakthrough,\" he said.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nUKIP suffered a bad night - losing 145 seats. It ended this year's local elections with a single councillor in Lancashire.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nThe SNP comfortably finished as the largest party in the Scotland, but suffered modest losses, losing control of Dundee.\n\nConservative advances in Scotland came at the expense of Labour, with the party losing more than 130 councillors north of the border.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nMeanwhile, the Green Party has won 40 seats, gaining six in total.\n\nSee results and latest news in your area\n\nProduced by Ed Lowther, John Walton, Lucy Rodgers, Nassos Stylianou, Joe Reed, Gerry Fletcher and Prina Shah. Maps built with Carto.", "In the run-up to the General Election on 8 June, we’re asking people across the country to tell us what #GetsMyVote.\n\nEarlier today the Liberal Democrats said they wanted to introduce more family-friendly policies such as extended paternity leave. We asked people at Bristol Zoo what would influence their vote.\n\nJames, from South Gloucestershire, at the zoo with his son, said parties made lots of promises they couldn't keep.\n\n\"It's a bit of a gimmick in terms of if you look at countries like Sweden there's actually something meaningful about paternity leave,\" the 39-year-old said.\n\n\"In terms of the UK I can't see it's really going to swing it for many families, it's just not really applicable.\n\nQuote Message: It's more about tax credits, but again who's going to write these cheques later. It's all promises. It's more about tax credits, but again who's going to write these cheques later. It's all promises.", "State Department employees listen to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson deliver an address on Wednesday\n\nWhen Rex Tillerson announced a town hall meeting at the state department this week, employees were hoping their boss would \"man up\" and give them details about deep budget cuts that could axe 2,300 jobs.\n\nInstead he spoke generally about the need to adapt institutions to a post-Cold War era, invited them to participate in a \"listening exercise\" about how to do so, and promised them a \"much more satisfying, fulfilling career\" when the pain was over.\n\nHe also gave them an unexpected tour of his thinking about how \"America First\" translates into foreign policy, including a breakdown of how human rights and democratic values fit into policy making in the Trump era.\n\nWhich, it seems, is not very much.\n\nHere's the quote: \"We really have to understand, in each country or each region of the world that we're dealing with, what are our national security interests, what are our economic prosperity interests, and then as we can, advocate and advance our values.\"\n\nThis was decried as an ominous shift in Washington's global outlook by many foreign policy observers.\n\nSeparating interests and values in US foreign policy reflects a misunderstanding of both the country's past and its national character, wrote Eliot Cohen, the state department counsellor under George W Bush, in an excoriating take down of the speech.\n\nIt's worth reading the full text because Mr Tillerson is still a bit of an unknown quantity, and this is the first comprehensive statement he's made on his strategy\n\nTo unpack the meaning of his \"America First\" balance between values and policies, I turned to Stephen Walt, a professor of international affairs at Harvard and a foreign policy realist.\n\nAt one level, he says, there's nothing new here: everyone understands there are trade-offs between security and economic interests on the one hand, and moral interests or democratic values, on the other - no-one better, frankly, than the experienced career diplomats in Mr Tillerson's audience.\n\nAt another level, says Mr Walt, if the Secretary of State is signalling that as a matter of policy, the US won't be putting much weight on promoting American values, there is something new here.\n\nThe past three presidents all did to some degree, whether it was supporting colour revolutions in Eastern Europe or welcoming the Arab Spring.\n\nMr Tillerson didn't explicitly say the US was out of that business, and he kept stressing the administration was not abandoning the values that have distinguished US foreign policy.\n\nBut it was unusual for him not to \"downplay those moments of hypocrisy\" inherent in governing, says Mr Walt, and instead place them right at the beginning of his speech, not \"buried on page 12 and with a sense of reluctance.\"\n\nYes, traditionally it's seen as an undesirable outcome when administrations fail to achieve that difficult balance between values and broader interests. Was Mr Tillerson saying it's not necessary to try and achieve that balance at all?\n\nWhatever he meant exactly - and the former ExxonMobil chief is to some degree still learning on the job - his words were interpreted through and amplified by the actions of his boss.\n\nAnd so far President Trump has shown a businessman's belief that everything is up for negotiation, a transactional approach to complex matters of international relations, and an an affinity for authoritarian leaders.\n\nIndeed, although all presidents are forced to deal with unsavoury counterparts, Mr Trump has spoken admiringly about several who exhibit decidedly un-American values.\n\nAnd what of the message all of this sends?\n\nThere are two dangers in pushing this line too far, says Mr Walt: one is that it erases any distinction between the US and its adversaries.\n\nThe other is that it could encourage some governments to behave even worse, no longer fearing even rhetorical sanction from the US.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland scrum-half Ben Youngs has withdrawn from the Lions tour to New Zealand after the wife of his brother Tom learned that she is terminally ill.\n\nBen, 27, is a team-mate of hooker and captain Tom, 30, at Leicester Tigers and the pair will play in the remainder of the Premiership season for the club.\n\n\"We are a very close family and, as I am sure everyone can respect, time is now precious together,\" said Ben.\n\n\"The most important thing for me at this difficult time is to be able to offer as much support as I can to Tom and his family in the remaining time we all have together.\"\n\nTom Youngs' wife Tiffany was diagnosed with cancer in 2014 and he pulled out of England's tour of New Zealand that year to care for her.\n\nThe brothers played in Leicester's 28-23 win over Worcester on Saturday, with Tom scoring the Tigers' try.\n\nLeicester will play at Wasps in the Premiership semi-final on 20 May, with the winners going through to the final at Twickenham on 27 May.\n\nThe Lions fly to New Zealand on 29 May and their first match is on 3 June.\n\nBen, who had been selected in the 41-man squad for his second Lions tour, informed head coach Warren Gatland of his decision this weekend.\n\n\"We fully understand and respect Ben's decision to stay at home,\" said Gatland. \"Family comes first and I know from having toured with Tom and Ben in 2013 how close they are. This is a difficult and important time for them and we send Ben, Tom and their family our heartfelt thoughts.\"\n\nBen has won 70 caps for England and two for the Lions in the 2-1 series win against Australia in 2013, starting the second Test alongside Tom.\n\nWales' Rhys Webb and Ireland's Conor Murray are the other scrum-halves in Gatland's squad.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsene Wenger says managers must be \"careful\" when criticising their own players and \"control what you say\".\n\nWenger's Arsenal side face Jose Mourinho's Manchester United on Sunday (kick-off 16:00 BST), battling to reach the Premier League's top four places.\n\nMourinho has questioned the desire of defenders Luke Shaw, Chris Smalling and Phil Jones to return from injury.\n\n\"You can do that in extreme situations but it has to be handled carefully,\" said veteran Arsenal boss Wenger.\n\nMourinho questioned full-back Shaw's commitment and focus to the club last month and then said the player used \"his body with my brain\" after the 1-1 draw against Everton two days later.\n\nThe former Chelsea manager was also unhappy with the \"cautious\" mentality of centre-backs Smalling and Jones for failing to play through pain during the Manchester derby.\n\nSmalling has been struggling with a leg injury, while Jones suffered a toe problem in a training ground tackle made by his team-mate.\n\nThis week, former Blackburn striker Chris Sutton said Mourinho was \"humiliating\" his players by querying their dedication to the Red Devils.\n\nWenger added: \"Ideally you have to be careful with that because you cannot do that in every single game.\n\n\"You can do that in extreme situations but it has to be handled carefully because it just makes that stress level worse for them. Top players have a good and objective assessment. They know well where they stand.\n\n\"You cannot always say to the players 'we are all in the same boat and in this together to achieve something' and then you jump out of the boat and say, 'it's your fault now', but when it goes well you take the credit.\n\n\"You are in a position where you have to be part of it and fight for them when it doesn't go well, you have to control what you say.\"\n\nUnited go into the game five points ahead of sixth-placed Arsenal, having played a game more, but are four points adrift of fourth-placed Liverpool, although the Old Trafford club have a game in hand.\n\nManchester United winger Ashley Young has been ruled out of the game at Arsenal with a hamstring injury.\n\nYoung, 31, was injured after coming on as a substitute in the Europa League semi-final win over Celta Vigo on Thursday.\n\nIt is not known exactly how long Young will be out for but there are fears he could be sidelined for the rest of the season.\n\nUnited manager Mourinho has threatened to play youngsters at the Emirates Stadium after deciding to prioritise his side's European campaign.\n\nFour players yet to make a first-team appearance have been included in his travelling squad for tomorrow's game.\n\nMatty Willock and Scott McTominay have been included in recent United squads. They have travelled to London, along with 20-year-old England Schoolboys winger Demetri Mitchell and teenage United States Under-19 international defender Matt Olosunde.\n\nArsenal could be without midfielder Granit Xhaka who has a calf problem, but defender Shkodran Mustafi could play after returning from a back injury.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSwansea City leapfrogged Hull City to climb out of the Premier League relegation zone with two games remaining after Fernando Llorente headed the winner against Everton.\n\nLlorente got the better of Phil Jagielka to nod Jordan Ayew's cross past goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg from close range - the Spaniard's 13th league goal of the season.\n\nMason Holgate's last-ditch challenge prevented Alfie Mawson from making it 2-0 before Ayew hit the post from 16 yards.\n\nHull, who earlier lost 2-0 at home to relegated Sunderland, drop into the bottom three, while this result also means Middlesbrough will be relegated to the Championship if they lose to leaders Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Monday (20:00 BST).\n\nEverton were poor throughout, Romelu Lukaku going closest when he blazed into the side-netting after a powerful run.\n\nAt the other end, Stekelenburg produced a fine stop to deny substitute Leroy Fer from making it 2-0 for Swansea, who are unbeaten in three league games.\n\nSwansea's fate in their own hands\n\nOn a dramatic day at the bottom of the table, Swansea took advantage of earlier slips by Hull and Crystal Palace to leave their Premier League future in their own hands.\n\nThe Swans are away to relegated Sunderland on 13 May and at home to eighth-placed West Brom on 21 May, the final day. If they win both games they will stay up.\n\nHull are away at Crystal Palace, who are four points above the relegation zone after a 5-0 defeat at Manchester City, on 14 May before hosting second-placed Tottenham on the last day.\n\nPalace's final match of the season is at Manchester United, who are unbeaten in their past 24 league games.\n\nFor the Swans, a passionate fanbase turned into a delirious one before a ball was even kicked in south Wales, after Sunderland's victory over Hull.\n\nThat lifted a boisterous Liberty Stadium, but it took almost half an hour before Swansea created a big opportunity in a cagey contest.\n\nWhen they did, they took it expertly, Llorente heading home from close range after Ayew's twisting run and deflected cross fell perfectly.\n\nHolgate then produced an outstanding challenge to deny Mawson, with a Jagielka block also denying Martin Olsson's effort from an acute angle.\n\nSwansea continued to carve out the better chances, Ayew's volley with the outside of his foot hitting the post, and it was not until the 66th minute that Lukasz Fabianski was seriously tested by Lukaku's 20-yard shot.\n\nThe hosts spurned further chances through Llorente and Fer. It might have cost Swansea at the death when their former skipper Ashley Williams was inches away from heading home, but he couldn't quite convert from Kevin Mirallas' flick-on.\n\nEverton stay seventh, two points behind sixth-placed Arsenal but having played three games more than the Gunners.\n\nThe Toffees have the feel of a club already building for next term.\n\nRoss Barkley, whose future in unclear as his contract runs down, was dropped by Ronald Koeman as was loanee Enner Valencia.\n\nBarkley's introduction at half-time was evidence that Everton had lacked panache in the final third, with Fabianski entirely untroubled before the break.\n\nEverton had won eight of their past 11 visits to Swansea, but not even returning Wales captain Williams - whose every touch was jeered by a section of the home fans - could inspire the visitors.\n\n'Hull result gave us a lift' - what they said\n\nSwansea boss Paul Clement: \"It is one of my proudest moments. What a fantastic, gritty performance. It was so important we got that result after what happened at Hull.\n\n\"We have hit some form both offensively and especially defensively. We have played against really good opposition and seven points from three games is a fantastic tally.\n\n\"It gave us a lift before the game knowing that result had gone in our favour, we knew if we did something special we could get out of the relegation zone.\n\n\"We really defended well.\"\n\nEverton boss Ronald Koeman: \"It was not good enough. The difference is one goal, we had maybe more ball possession, it was difficult to create open chances.\n\n\"The final part, we had to be a little bit more aggressive in the box. The problem is in the last few weeks to create chances - we don't score in the last three games.\n\n\"In my opinion, seventh position is a good position and next Friday is important to give the fans a win they deserve.\"\n• None Everton have failed to score in their past three Premier League games for the first time since a four-game drought in April 2006.\n• None Swansea have taken seven points from their past three league games after picking up just one in the six before that.\n• None The Toffees have lost an away league game in Wales for the first time in their past 11 games there (W5 D5), since a 1-0 defeat to Cardiff at Ninian Park in December 1956.\n• None This is Fernando Llorente's best goal haul in a league season (13) since 2013-14 (16 with Juventus).\n• None Jordan Ayew has provided an assist in three of his past six Premier League games, this after failing to assist in any of his first 36 in the competition.\n\nSwansea visit relegated Sunderland in their penultimate match of the season on Saturday, 13 May (15:00 BST), while Everton host 15th-placed Watford next Friday (19:45 BST).\n• None Attempt saved. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Borja Bastón.\n• None Attempt missed. Enner Valencia (Everton) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Leighton Baines with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Leighton Baines (Everton) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ross Barkley. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Previously on BBC Music, we brought you 8 bands you probably didn't know are still touring. Now it's time to turn the spotlight on those you might have assumed had toured the UK at some point in their illustrious careers. A few have made appearances here in some capacity - a one-off gig or TV performance, or in a different guise - but they've never played their music out across the nation. And with regards to the top two on our list, great news - they'll be here soon.\n\nDJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince will be in the UK in August, playing what Newsbeat called a rare UK date in Blackpool as headliners of this August's Livewire. Ah, Summertime. And although the news seems to have come out of the blue, Will Smith has actually been talking about getting his old hip hop duo back on the road for some time. In October 2015, he was interviewed by Zane Lowe for Beats 1 and said: \"Jeff and I actually have never done a full tour... This summer [2016] will be the first time we go out on a full world tour.\" That didn't happen, but the ambition he showed back then might well translate into more than just one UK show. Keep your eyes peeled on listings.\n\nTLC dominated 90s RnB with hits like Creep, Waterfalls and No Scrubs, resulting in the trio becoming the most successful American girl group of all time (second only to the Spice Girls globally). Then, tragedy: Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes was killed in a car crash in 2002. Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins and Rozonda 'Chilli' Thomas continued as a duo. TLC occasionally visit Britain - they were here for the 2012 MOBO Awards - but they've never played a UK gig. Until now. On 9 May, they're making their debut at Koko in London and this year will also see the release of their their first album since 2002's 3D. If you couldn't get a ticket for Koko, fear not - the group have hinted that this might be their last album, but they intend to keep TLC on the road. [WATCH] Zara Larsson covers TLC's No Scrubs in the 1Xtra Live Lounge\n\nElvis only played three gigs outside of the US, all of them in Canada. It's thought that the illegal alien status of his Dutch-born manager, Colonel Parker, was the primary reason he never performed outside North America, although documents that came to light in 2015, as reported by the Mirror, suggest plans were being made for The King to visit, and possibly play gigs in, Britain and Japan not long before his death in 1977. Elvis did set foot in the UK at least once - at Prestwick airport, South Ayrshire in 1960 on his way home from military service in Germany. In 2008, however, a strange story came to light that perhaps he'd spent the day driving around London observing landmarks with English singer Tommy Steele in 1958. Theatre producer Bill Kenwright revealed Steele's secret on Ken Bruce's Radio 2 show. At the time, Steele was appearing in a production of Dr Dolittle in Woking, Surrey.\n\nWe mean post-Beatles, although they gave up gigging in 1966 to concentrate on recording (and because they were tired of the screams). John Lennon never got a taste for touring again and he certainly didn't need to perform to promote his albums with Yoko and as a solo artist. There were infrequent shows and TV appearances - nearly all in North America - and live albums (Live Peace in Toronto 1969, which was recorded before The Beatles broke up, and the posthumous Live in New York City), but to the intense regret of all Lennon's fans, he never got a chance to get back in the bus and tour the UK, or anywhere else.\n\nLennon's Beatles bandmate George Harrison formed the Traveling Wilburys in 1988 with fellow big guns Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, and some travellers they were - they never toured at all! That Orbison died soon after their first album was released may have kept them indoors, but they continued as a four-piece and released second album, confusingly called Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, in 1990. \"I don't think we ever considered it, really,\" Petty once said about touring, but Harrison was keen. In 1991, he said: \"That would be something I'd like to experience. I've always played around in my own mind what a Wilburys tour could be.\"\n\n\"Harry Nilsson's position in popular music extended far beyond the chart placings of his many successful songs,\" began the Independent's obituary when the American singer-songwriter died in 1994. \"For a core group of the elite and exceptional of the 60s and 70s, Nilsson was a teacher, almost a guru; they were enlightened by the approach of a pure artist of pop, a seminal songwriter.\" And yet Harry Nilsson never became as famous as those he inspired, which included all of The Beatles, because he seldom played live - he didn't enjoy it and suffered from stage fright. Easily the most famous footage of Nilsson performing was filmed by the BBC in 1971 at BBC Television Theatre in London (now Shepherd's Bush Empire), but there was no audience present, and Nilsson never embarked on a UK tour. That's no diss to us - he loved it here, and owned a flat in central London. Strangely, both The Who's Keith Moon and Mama Cass of The Mamas & the Papas died there.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City strengthened their grip on a top-four finish with a convincing win over Crystal Palace that moves them above Liverpool and into third place on goal difference.\n\nDavid Silva opened the scoring inside two minutes with City's quickest goal of the season, but it took a little longer before the scoreline reflected the home side's dominance.\n\nCity could not extend their lead before the break, despite a lacklustre start from a Palace side who are not yet assured of Premier League safety.\n\nThe Eagles almost managed an unlikely equaliser with their first effort at goal when Christian Benteke's header brought a fine reaction save from Willy Caballero.\n\nBut Pep Guardiola's side made sure of the points after the break, starting when captain Vincent Kompany turned home Kevin de Bruyne's cross with a fine first-time finish into the top corner.\n\nDe Bruyne, who also grazed the bar with a free-kick, made it 3-0 with a low shot from the edge of the area that Wayne Hennessey got a hand to, but could not keep out.\n\nRaheem Sterling added a fourth, latching on to substitute Pablo Zabaleta's clever header and smashing his shot into the bottom corner, before Nicolas Otamendi headed home De Bruyne's free-kick to complete the rout.\n\nGuardiola said before kick-off that his side's hopes of qualifying for the Champions League rested on a run of three home games that started with the visit of the Eagles, and the manner of this victory represents the perfect start.\n\nIt was City's biggest home win since they thrashed Bournemouth 4-0 in September, back when Guardiola had a 100% winning record with City and his team were top of the table.\n\nThose days are long gone - their title hopes were officially ended by last week's draw at Middlesbrough - but this win, which equalled their biggest of the season in all competitions, was a timely return to goalscoring form.\n\nCity are only third on goal difference but they now have a four-goal advantage on Liverpool. And their position in the top four could be strengthened further when the teams in fifth and sixth, Manchester United and Arsenal, meet at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday.\n\nPalace, meanwhile, will anxiously await the outcome of Hull and Swansea's home games later on Saturday.\n\nThe Eagles have a six-point cushion above the relegation zone, and a vastly superior goal difference to both of those teams even after this heavy defeat, but they may require another win to make sure of their survival.\n\nOn Silva's first appearance since he was injured early in City's FA Cup semi-final defeat by Arsenal, it took one minute and 54 seconds for him to show what a difference he makes to his team.\n\nThe Spaniard finished off the move that gave City the lead, but he also started it - feeding Raheem Sterling with a chipped pass, before ghosting into the area to capitalise when Martin Kelly failed to clear Sterling's cross.\n\nThat was Silva's 50th goal for City but he has played a part in many more and pulled the strings again as City threatened to take Palace apart.\n\nHis link-up play with Leroy Sane and Sterling down both flanks was the biggest reason Palace were chasing shadows for the first half hour, and more composure from his team-mates inside the area would have seen his side out of sight long before half-time.\n\nPalace had already beaten Chelsea and Liverpool away this season, and gone close to stopping Tottenham at White Hart Lane too.\n\nBut they never looked like staging a repeat performance against another team from the top four at the Etihad Stadium, where they have now lost on each of their six visits.\n\nIt was their lack of attacking threat that was the most surprising aspect of their performance, but few areas of their team emerged with any credit.\n\n\"Woeful\" was the verdict of BBC Radio 5 live co-commentator Danny Mills, who also suspected at one point the Palace players had \"their beach shorts and flip-flops on\".\n\nThey ended up on the wrong end of their heaviest defeat of the season, conceding five goals for the first time since they lost 5-4 to Swansea in November, but it could have been far more.\n• None Crystal Palace suffered their joint-biggest margin of defeat in a Premier League game (also 6-1 v Liverpool in August 1994 and 5-0 v Liverpool in November 1992).\n• None Kevin de Bruyne has provided a league-high 15 assists this season; no Manchester City player has registered more in a single Premier League campaign.\n• None Sam Allardyce has picked up just one point from his past nine top-flight visits to the Etihad.\n• None Since his Premier League debut in August 2010, Silva has been directly involved in 102 goals in the competition (38 goals, 64 assists), more than any other midfielder.\n• None Nicolas Otamendi's goal was the 400th by an Argentine in the Premier League [excluding own-goals].\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"Our performance was high level. I'm pleased for our people we can finally enjoy a lot of goals here.\n\n\"Chelsea, Tottenham, Manchester City, Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal, even Everton... it's so important to play in the Champions League. It's in our hands.\"\n\nCrystal Palace boss Sam Allardyce told BBC Radio 5 live: \"Our system did not cause us to concede today's first goal - our defender had to clear the ball and he didn't, and from it they scored. Individuals did not perform to our usual standards.\n\n\"My team was unrecognisable from what I've seen over the past two or three months - hopefully that is a one-off and the lads have got it out of their system ahead of the biggest game of the season next week at home to Hull.\"\n\nCity have another early kick-off next Saturday when they host Leicester at 12:30 BST, but they will be taking nothing for granted. The Foxes thrashed them 4-2 at the King Power Stadium in December and won at the Etihad Stadium on their way to winning the title last season.\n\nPalace have the chance to end their relegation worries for good when they face the side directly below them, Hull, at Selhurst Park next Sunday (12:00).\n• None Goal! Manchester City 5, Crystal Palace 0. Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Joel Ward (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Fernandinho (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 4, Crystal Palace 0. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Pablo Zabaleta with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt saved. Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Fernandinho. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nManchester United's Zlatan Ibrahimovic has entered the list of the richest sportsmen in the UK in second spot, behind 2016 leader Lewis Hamilton.\n\nThe Swedish striker is included in the list of top-earning athletes in Britain after joining United last July.\n\nWith a fortune of £110m, he overtakes team-mate Wayne Rooney, who is third on the list with £93m, as Britain's richest footballer.\n\nHis fellow driver Jenson Button is fourth on the Sunday Times list, which is published on Sunday.\n\nFive of the top 10 are from football - three players and two managers - with tennis player Sir Andy Murray, golfer Rory McIlroy and basketball player Luol Deng also included.", "In 2015, Max Stossel, 28, had an awakening. He was a successful social media strategist working with major multinational companies.\n\nBut that same year, he says, “I realised that some of the work I was doing wasn’t actually in people’s best interests.”\n\nStossel has since become a pivotal part of the Time Well Spent movement, which \"aims to align technology with our human values\".\n\nTime Well Spent was co-founded by the former Google 'product philosopher' Tristan Harris, and is made up of “a group of industry insiders”, many of whom have worked for companies like Facebook and Snapchat, but have now aligned themselves with the movement in some way.\n\nLast year, Ofcom, the communications regulator, found that more than half of all internet users in Britain feel they’re addicted to the technology.\n\n“There’s this idea that we’re addicted to our phones, and that we’ve done this to ourselves,” says Stossel. “That is just not true.”\n\nStossel explains that tech design is increasingly informed by behavioural psychology and neuroscience.\n\nTristan Harris himself studied at Stanford’s Persuasive Tech Lab, which describes itself as creating “insight into how computing products can be designed to influence and change human behaviour”.\n\nThe Lab’s website states, “Technology is being designed to change what we think and do.” It gives several examples of this from Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.\n\nThere are thousands of people on the other side of your screens whose job it is to keep you as hooked as possible.\n\n“When you understand neuroscience and you understand how to develop apps, you can essentially programme the brain,” Stossel says. “There are thousands of people on the other side of your screens whose job it is to keep you as hooked as possible, and they’ve gotten very good at it.”\n\nI ask Stossel just how good these people are. I control my notifications, I tell him, not vice versa. He bats a simple question back my way: “Do you feel at all stressed when your phone is out of reach and it buzzes?”\n\nUm. Yes. The irresistible curiosity, the little surge of anxiety, which grows the longer I leave my notification unchecked – these are feelings I know well.\n\nFiguring out how to capture my attention like that, is, according to Stossel. “the job of everybody in my industry\".\n\nBroadly speaking, tech design seeks to take advantage of our brains' reward system, where dopamine activation leads to feelings of satisfaction and pleasure.\n\nOur brains are programmed to seek more of whatever gives us this pleasure - so much so that we crave it when we don’t have it. The same system that makes us crave drugs or certain foods can also make us crave particular apps, games, sites and devices.\n\nLooks like this post is no longer available from its original source. It might've been taken down or had its privacy settings changed.\n\nBut Time Well Spent believes this problem isn’t exclusively a tech one. Stossel points out how the range of ways in which content is actually created – including negative headlines and clickbait tactics - can also fit into this realm of persuasion.\n\n“The problem is that it’s everything,” he says. “It’s all of the life that we live in.”\n\nLife has become an “attention economy,” Stossel explains. “Everybody wants to grab as much of our attention as possible. I was designing notification structures to help take you out of your world and bring you into mine.”\n\nStossel argues that users are not the customers of technology, but the products– our attention is the thing being sold.\n\n“We use lots of platforms for free,” he says. But lots of advertisers pay the platforms lots of money to get our attention while we’re on there. “We’re not the ones paying, so the things that matter to us will go second place to what matters to advertisers,” says Stossel. “And that’s a big deal.”\n\nWhat this leads to, according to Stossel, is a fundamental discrepancy between the goals of those who own the technology and the goals of us, the people using it.\n\nSuccess in the tech world is often measured using the metric of 'time spent'- that is, how long we spend using an app, streaming a service, or browsing a website.\n\nFor example, Stossel says, dating apps “measure their success in how long they keep you swiping. But is that actually the goal we have as humans when we’re using dating sites?”\n\nAnother example is the way videos auto-play on certain platforms. This keeps more people online for longer but, Stossel says, “That doesn’t mean that they actually want to stay online for longer.”\n\nIn fact, in 2016, psychology professor Alejandro Lleras published a study that found that high engagement with our mobile phones and the internet “is linked with anxiety and depression”.\n\nStossel believes that this incessant clamouring for our attention is making us lose focus on the things that are really important.\n\n3rd party content may contain ads - see our FAQs for more info.\n\n“We’re constantly being buzzed,” he says. “How can we ever focus on bigger issues that matter, like climate change for example, when we’re always being pulled in so many different directions?”\n\nThe power to change things lies overwhelmingly with the people 'behind our screens' - the ones designing the apps, games, platforms and devices that we use.\n\n“There’s a code of ethics to consider here,” Stossel believes. “Designers have to take the responsibility they have – of influencing people’s decisions – seriously.”\n\nHe tells me that Time Well Spent is currently working on a sort of Hippocratic oath for tech designers, similar to the commitment doctors make to work in their patients' best interests.\n\nThe movement is campaigning for designers to make a formal promise to design from a place of good intent.\n\nTheir aim is for software that has been designed in accordance with these ethical values to be identified by a form of certification, similar to the label on organic food.\n\nIn the days following my conversation with Stossel, I notice how often I get sucked into aimlessly trawling through the Instagram stories of people I don’t even know.\n\nWhat starts as a mindless scroll through my Facebook feed before bed can easily escalate into huge periods of wasted time (and a lot of frustration at not getting the early night I had promised myself, again).\n\nLooks like this post is no longer available from its original source. It might've been taken down or had its privacy settings changed.\n\nI can certainly see the merit of what Time Well Spent is campaigning for. But the sheer scale of change needed leaves me wondering if their fight might be impossibly idealistic.\n\n“It is absolutely possible,” Stossel counters. “The challenge is getting consumers to demand it.”\n\nHe believes technology will manipulate our attention in ever more effective ways.\n\n“VR, AR and more advanced artificial intelligence are all coming,” he says. “The future will be so good at this. That’s why we need to demand this change now.”\n\nLet's build a future where tech enhances humanity, not detracts from it. I don't want to live on the Wall-e ship. pic.twitter.com/Boa6EleNrU — Max Stossel (@MaxStossel) February 24, 2016\n\nUntil that change comes, Time Well Spent’s co-founder, Tristan Harris, adheres to certain 'band aids' - lifestyle changes the movement has designed for living better in the attention economy:\n\nHe’s turned off almost all notifications on his phone, and has customised the vibration for text messages, so he can feel the difference between an automated alert and a human’s.\n\nHe’s made the first screen of his phone almost empty, with only functional apps like Uber and Google Maps - ones that he can’t get sucked into spending hours on.\n\nHe’s put any apps he’s inclined to waste time on, or any apps with colourful, attention-grabbing icons, inside folders on the second page of his phone.\n\nTo open an app, he types its name into the phone’s search bar—which reduces impulsive clicks.\n\nHe also has a sticky note on his laptop. What does it say?", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTottenham's pursuit of Premier League leaders Chelsea was dealt a big blow as Manuel Lanzini's fierce finish earned victory for London rivals West Ham.\n\nSpurs could have narrowed the gap to a point with victory at London Stadium, but were well below par as the Hammers helped Chelsea close on the title.\n\nHammers keeper Adrian made first-half saves from Harry Kane and Eric Dier before Lanzini smashed in a loose ball.\n\nChelsea need two wins from their final four games to be crowned champions.\n\nTottenham must hope the Blues slip up in a favourable-looking run-in, which includes home games against three sides in the bottom seven.\n\nAntonio Conte's side will secure the title on Friday, 12 May if they beat both Middlesbrough and West Brom.\n\nThe Spurs players looked disconsolate as they trudged off the pitch, their heads bowed, while their West Ham counterparts - and the home fans - took great delight in harming their neighbours' title ambitions.\n\n\"It was already going to be hard, so now it is going to be even harder,\" said Dier.\n• None Reaction: Title race difficult but not over - Pochettino\n\nTottenham made the short trip to east London knowing they could heap pressure on Chelsea before their game against Middlesbrough on Monday.\n\nMauricio Pochettino's side were going for a 10th straight Premier League win, and headed into the game boosted by a 2-0 win against arch-rivals Arsenal last weekend.\n\nBut they lacked invention against a well-drilled West Ham side, who won against one of the top eight sides for the first time in 15 attempts this season.\n\nSpurs had scored 71 goals in their previous 34 league games, a tally bettered only by Chelsea, but only briefly tested Adrian with two quick-fire efforts in the first half.\n\nKane's long-range shot was diverted wide by the Spaniard's left boot, before the home keeper showed quick reactions to block Dier's near-post header from the resulting corner.\n\nOnce the Hammers went ahead through Lanzini, the confidence of the visitors appeared to sap.\n\nSpurs trailed 2-1 against the Hammers after 89 minutes at White Hart Lane earlier in the season, only to win 3-2. That never looked like happening at a raucous London Stadium.\n\nTheir attacks lacked conviction, only Christian Eriksen going close with a 25-yard effort which flew past the right-hand post, as West Ham saw out the final few minutes to seemingly ruin Spurs' quest for a first title since 1961.\n\n\"We are still fighting,\" said Pochettino. \"We must wait but it is now more difficult.\"\n\nHammers manager Slaven Bilic's future has come under scrutiny during a season in which they have rarely threatened to match last year's seventh-placed finish.\n\nBut nights like these, when West Ham showed they can compete with the Premier League's best, should go a long way to convincing owners David Sullivan and David Gold that he is the right man to take the club forward.\n\nBilic, 48, enjoyed an excellent debut campaign after replacing Sam Allardyce, but this season has had to carefully handle the acrimonious departure of star player Dimitri Payet, and the long-awaited move to the former Olympic Stadium.\n\nCrucially, he appears to retain the support of his players and many Hammers fans.\n\n\"He has my full backing, he is a great man,\" said skipper Mark Noble.\n\nVictory meant the Hammers passed the 40-point mark, mathematically ensuring their Premier League survival, as they moved into ninth - their joint-highest position of the campaign.\n\nAsked if the win helps secure his future, Bilic said: \"I don't care. When my team is playing like this, I'm happy.\n\n\"I think I'm doing a good job. I don't like to moan but we have had many obstacles during this season which are quite rare in football.\"\n\nTottenham do not play again until Sunday, 14 May, when they host Manchester United at 16:30 BST - and by then the title might already have gone to Stamford Bridge.\n\nNevertheless, it will be an emotional occasion as it is Spurs' final home game at White Hart Lane.\n\nWest Ham also have a nine-day break, returning to action when Liverpool visit London Stadium at 14:15.\n\n\"We deserved more from the game. We started well, dominated the first half and created chances but didn't score.\n\n\"We started the second half a little bit sloppy and we conceded a lot of space to them.\n\n\"When you are fighting for the title you need to try not to concede this type of goal.\n\n\"After that we showed a little bit of desperation to arrive quickly into the box, and we tried to play long balls.\n\n\"The reality is that we didn't score, not that we had a bad performance.\"\n\n\"We had a game plan, but the way we did it was magnificent. A great team display in terms of character and determination.\n\n\"To beat a team like Spurs you need more than that and we also showed quality.\n\n\"It was an important one for them and us, and under the lights on a Friday night, against them - you can't beat that feeling.\"\n• None Tottenham have lost their past three Premier League games in May and lost just three of 34 matches between August 2016 and April 2017\n• None West Ham have now won three of their past four home Premier League games against Spurs, losing one\n• None Lanzini has three Premier League goals against Spurs - only against Crystal Palace (four) does he have more\n• None West Ham have kept three consecutive Premier League clean sheets for the first time since December 2015\n• None Andre Ayew has been involved in six goals in his past 11 Premier League games (four goals, two assists)\n• None This was Spurs' first Premier League defeat to a side who started that day in the bottom of the half of the table since losing 5-1 to Newcastle United in the final match of last season\n• None Three of Spurs' past five away Premier League defeats have come when Anthony Taylor has refereed (also Newcastle and Liverpool)\n• None Attempt saved. Ashley Fletcher (West Ham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Robert Snodgrass.\n• None Kieran Trippier (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, West Ham United. Mark Noble tries a through ball, but Jonathan Calleri is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Mark Noble (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Manuel Lanzini. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nHull dropped into the relegation zone as they suffered a first home defeat under Marco Silva against relegated Sunderland.\n\nThe hosts created several chances, only for Lazar Markovic and Abel Hernandez - most notably - to be denied by impressive away keeper Jordan Pickford.\n\nSunderland took advantage to go ahead through Billy Jones' close-range diving header after John O'Shea's flick-on from a corner.\n\nAnd the Black Cats sealed their first win in 11 league matches when Jermain Defoe converted from close range.\n\nHull fell to 18th place after Swansea beat Everton 1-0 later on Saturday to move one point above the Tigers.\n\nFollow all the post-match reaction from Saturday's Premier League matches\n\nThe turnaround in Hull's fortunes since the arrival of former Olympiakos boss Silva has been quite remarkable, giving them more than a fighting chance to retain their top-flight status.\n\nThe Tigers had taken 19 points from a possible 21 in the Portuguese boss' seven previous matches at the KCOM Stadium and had identified this game as one which they must win.\n\nThe home side worked hard, as you would expect, but lacked confidence and ingenuity in the final third.\n\nAnd when they did manage to find the target, they were denied by the excellent Pickford.\n\nOn-loan Liverpool midfielder Markovic saw a thumping header tipped over by the England Under-21 international, who then stopped Hernandez's sweeping shot from Andrew Robertson's left-wing cross at his near post.\n\nThe nervy home crowd provided an atmosphere more of hope rather than expectation from almost the first whistle, and that pretty much turned to resignation after Jones put Sunderland ahead.\n\n\"The dressing room is down, we're not happy,\" said left-back Robertson. \"It is not good enough to lose 2-0 at home to a team that has just been relegated.\"\n\nSunderland might have already been consigned to Championship football next season by last week's defeat against Bournemouth, but the Black Cats knew they could still have a major influence on who would join them.\n\nDavid Moyes' men might have hampered Hull's hopes on Saturday, but they can also help the Tigers next weekend when they host Swansea at the Stadium of Light.\n\nIf the Black Cats show the same level of fight and determination then Hull's cause might not yet be lost.\n\nIt is an attribute that has been missing for most of a woeful season, but they finally gave their 2,000 travelling fans something to cheer with a first win since 4 February.\n\nMoyes says he will remain in charge next season when the Wearside club bid to bounce straight back up and, although there is likely to be a big turnover in playing staff, the Scot will have been encouraged by the energetic performance of young midfielder George Honeyman as he plots the rebuilding process.\n\n\"After being relegated, players have to stand up and show some pride for the club, and today they have done that,\" said Moyes.\n\n\"We had a really good team performance. If we had shown the character and level of performance today throughout the season we'd have many more points.\"\n\nMan of the match Pickford like 'a young Joe Hart'\n\nOne man who may not be at Sunderland next season - and not because Moyes does not want him - is Pickford.\n\nThe 23-year-old goalkeeper has been the shining light in a gloomy season, producing a number of impressive performances which led to a nomination for the PFA Young Player of the Year.\n\nUnsurprisingly he reportedly interests a host of top-flight clubs who could tempt the Black Cats into selling with a big-money summer bid.\n\nMoyes remains confident Pickford will not leave - warning potential suitors that would have \"to pay the price\".\n\nAgainst Hull, Pickford showed again why he is rated as one of the country's top goalkeepers.\n\nHis performance meant Hull, following a 3-0 defeat in the reverse fixture, became the first Premier League team this season not to score against the Wearsiders.\n\n\"I remember a young Joe Hart when he started - at Everton we were really keen to sign him from Shrewsbury. That's a young Jordan Pickford, he makes saves and comes for crosses and has saved us points throughout the season,\" said Moyes.\n\n\"Honestly, I expect this level of performance from him on a regular basis - that's how highly I think of him.\"\n\n'There was big tension in some of the team'\n\nHull manager Marco Silva said: \"It's disappointing. We had chances to score in many moments of the game. Ultimately there was big tension in some of the team. We need to be calm in some moments.\n\n\"When you don't do this you start to lose focus and we conceded two from set-pieces. Now is the moment to rest and analyse.\n\n\"It's an important moment for us. We didn't achieve what we wanted from the match but we have two more games.\"\n\nNo more home comforts for Silva\n• None Marco Silva lost a home league match as a manager for the first time since March 2014 while manager of Portuguese side Estoril (W34 D7 L1)\n• None Sunderland have secured two wins in the same season against a single club for the first time in 2016-17 and for only the third occasion since 2013-14. The other two occasions were both against Newcastle (in 2013-14 and 2014-15)\n• None Billy Jones is Sunderland's eighth different goalscorer in the Premier League this season - which is still two fewer than any other team\n• None Sunderland have scored for only the third time in their past 14 Premier League games, winning two of those games, both away from home\n• None Jermain Defoe ended his goalless streak in what was his 11th Premier League appearance since he last scored against Crystal Palace on 4 February (1,035 minutes)\n• None Sebastian Larsson recorded his 26th assist in the Premier League but his first since a 3-0 win against Norwich in April 2016\n\nHull go to fifth-bottom Crystal Palace on Sunday, 14 May (12:00 BST). The Eagles are four points clear of City, and have a far superior goal difference.\n\nSunderland play their final Premier League game at the Stadium of Light - for a season at the very least - when they host Swansea on Saturday, 13 May (15:00 BST).\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Clucas (Hull City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andrea Ranocchia (Hull City) header from very close range is blocked. Assisted by Kamil Grosicki with a cross.\n• None Goal! Hull City 0, Sunderland 2. Jermain Defoe (Sunderland) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sebastian Larsson with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Fabio Borini (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Evandro (Hull City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Sebastian Larsson (Sunderland) right footed shot from long range on the left is saved in the top left corner.\n• None Ahmed Elmohamady (Hull City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andrea Ranocchia (Hull City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Bank of England moved into caution mode today.\n\nAfter two major upgrades to its growth forecasts since the referendum - in November and February - today saw a slight downward revision.\n\nBut it is not time to race for the lifeboats.\n\nThe Bank said business investment was stronger than expected and that growth next year and in 2019 was likely to be slightly higher than previously forecast - although still significantly below 2%.\n\nA prediction, it said pointedly, \"conditioned on the assumptions that the adjustment to the United Kingdom's new relationship with the European Union is smooth\".\n\nFor this year there are some major negative trends.\n\nConsumers have started to feel the effects of inflation and there has been a \"slowing in real household spending growth\".\n\nWage growth is also \"notably weaker than expected\" and is set to be below inflation this year - meaning that real incomes are falling.\n\nThe incomes squeeze - felt so widely after the financial crisis - is back.\n\nBusinesses are still nervous about the future - and what they may invest in salaries - and there is enough slack in the labour market to make inflationary wage demands difficult.\n\nAt the same time, the Bank upgraded its inflation forecast, saying it could now hit 2.8% as the effects of the fall in the value of sterling wash through an economy that imports 40% of its food and fuel.\n\nBut the Bank's take on the temperature of the economy is more than a one year analysis.\n\nAnd over the three year forecast period, it is more bullish.\n\nSterling has strengthened this year after its precipitate fall following the Brexit vote.\n\nThe European - and indeed global - economy is stronger than expected, important for a trading nation like the UK.\n\nWage growth will strengthen, it says, as the employment market tightens.\n\nInflation risk will dissipate as the effects of sterling's decline falls out of the data.\n\nThis is a carefully worded Inflation Report, drafted, of course, in the middle of an election campaign.\n\nIt is cautious in the short term, with the Bank indicating privately that 2017, when it comes to that key issue of wage growth, could be \"the worst of it\".\n\nThere is a sting in the tail.\n\nEarlier this year the markets judged that the chances of an interest rate rise were so low there was only likely to be one increase over the next three years.\n\nToday the Bank was certainly more hawkish, saying that monetary policy \"could need to be tightened by a somewhat greater extent\" than markets believed.\n\nThat is not to say there is likely to be an interest rate hike any time soon.\n\nBut, if the Bank's more positive outlook towards the end of the three year forecast period comes to pass, the Monetary Policy Committee could move more rapidly towards interest rate rises than some expect.", "Antonio Conte's transformation of Chelsea from fallen champions to Premier League title winners inside 12 months was completed with victory at West Bromwich Albion - a remarkable success story in his first season at Stamford Bridge.\n\nThe 47-year-old inherited a squad that had declined from domestic superpower to mid-table mediocrity amid acrimony and the sacking of title-winning manager Jose Mourinho. But he has shown the personality, tactical brilliance and sure touch to put them back at the top of the English game.\n\nSo how has the charismatic Italian achieved what many inside Stamford Bridge regard as a miraculous rejuvenation of fortunes to return the Premier League crown to Chelsea?\n\nThe scene is a side room in an Austrian hotel on 16 July 2016.\n\nChelsea's players are coming down from their rooms for a pre-match meal before a friendly against Rapid Vienna, as the Conte reign officially gets under way.\n\nIn the past, tables would have been laden with chicken, pasta, pizza, sandwiches, scrambled egg and salad - this time Chelsea's squad set eyes on a selection of seeds, nuts and dried fruit.\n\nSome players, bemused, turn on their heels and leave, assuming they have wandered into the wrong room rather than a new era. They soon return.\n\nConte, as he has done since day one at Stamford Bridge, outlines in detail and from personal experience why this is happening. He explains how long some food might take to digest, running the risk of players perhaps carrying an extra half a kilo into games.\n\nThe message was swiftly embraced as players felt fitter, healthier and better equipped for the season ahead.\n\nAs Chelsea decamped to Los Angeles to continue preparations for the new season, Conte's trademark attention to detail was becoming even more obvious, as the Italian put on tough double sessions, sometimes in 30-degree heat.\n\nHe proved a hard tactical taskmaster, as opposed to running players into the ground. Conte loves the role of head coach rather than manager.\n\nUnlike Mourinho, it was Conte who put out the cones - measuring exact distances - and the emphasis was on drill after drill. It was repetition until Chelsea's players knew exactly what was expected, even using shadow sessions of 11 players against none.\n\nVideo analysis was, and continues to be, exhaustive as Conte goes through every aspect of Chelsea's training, preparation and games in minute, meticulous detail.\n\nSome days Conte was left frustrated that the message was not quite getting across, but on others the signs were there that any initial reservations his players had, inevitable when a new manager arrives, were disappearing.\n\nThe foundations and building blocks were being put in place for a season of Premier League title-winning success.\n• None Quiz: The big goals, the big players - how Chelsea won the title\n• None How well do you know Chelsea's champions?\n\nWhen Chelsea technical director Michael Emenalo spoke of \"palpable discord between manager and players\" following the sacking of Mourinho just seven months after winning the title, it underlined the scale of the task that would await his full-time successor.\n\nThe trusted Guus Hiddink returned for a second spell in interim charge as a sticking plaster over the wounds, but at season's end a squad used to success looked broken and lacking in unity as it finished in 10th place.\n\nConte was seen by Chelsea's decision-makers - Emenalo, highly influential director Marina Granovskaia and, of course, owner Roman Abramovich - as a man with a pedigree of success - having won three Scudetto in Italy with Juventus - and the personality to organise and galvanise.\n\nIt was an impression he confirmed when, after his appointment at Chelsea had been announced, he took what most regarded as an ordinary Italy team to the last eight of Euro 2016, losing on penalties to Germany after outstanding wins over Belgium and Spain.\n\nConte, even before Euro 2016, had taken time out from his Italy duties to visit Chelsea's Cobham training base to introduce himself to his future charges.\n\nHe arrived on one occasion while Hiddink was conducting a training session, but insisted on showing full respect to the veteran Dutch coach, waiting around a corner out of sight until he finished the final 30 minutes' work before introducing himself to the players.\n\nConte was assuming a role that the long list of his predecessors proves is highly demanding, but he has forged a close and productive working relationship with Chelsea's hierarchy.\n\nHe is in daily contact with Emenalo and speaks regularly to Granovskaia, who is in charge of transfers and heavily involved throughout the club, as well as with Abramovich when the opportunity and occasion arises, as when the Russian billionaire flew in to attend Chelsea's FA Youth Cup final win against Manchester City at Stamford Bridge.\n\nAbramovich may have many other demands on his time but still has a major input and involvement in every significant decision taken at the club.\n\nConte is sure to want to refresh and improve his title-winning squad for the added demands of Champions League football next season, so Chelsea's tried and trusted acquisition strategy will be at his full disposal.\n\nGone are the days when the likes of Andriy Shevchenko would arrived gift-wrapped (and in Mourinho's case unappreciated) for a manager.\n\nThe current system, with Emenalo's scouting network at its hub, involves the manager being presented with a list of long-term club targets, to which he can add his own and even set aside those names he does not require.\n\nWhen Conte makes his moves at the end of the season, with Everton striker Romelu Lukaku heavily linked with a return, they will not be spur-of-the-moment transactions. He will have been a key figure in the drawing up of potential signings.\n\nConte has silenced the sound of palpable discord and it has been a harmonious Chelsea, on and off the pitch, that has secured a richly deserved Premier League title.\n\nItaly's over-achievement at Euro 2016 was compelling evidence of how close bonds within a camp can produce results beyond expectation.\n\nIt is something Conte has brought to Chelsea and placed at the heart of his approach and success.\n\nConte organised a pre-season barbecue for players, staff and families at Cobham. Marquees were erected and a five-a-side pitch set out for the children. It set the tone for the season, with striker Diego Costa spoiling his villainous public image by happily joining in with the youngsters for 40 minutes, during which he was even taken out by a tackle.\n\nWhen pre-season got under way in Austria and LA, Chelsea's support staff were surprised to be singled out for warm handshakes and words every day from a manager intent on providing unity at a club that has had its share of instability, often actually generating renewed success, over the years.\n\nAt the staff Christmas party, the tradition is for the manager to record a message to be played at the event.\n\nConte duly obliged, but then asked if he could also attend the event for about 500 people at the Under The Bridge music venue at Stamford Bridge, staying for more than two hours, spending time mingling with guests and happily posing for pictures and selfies.\n\nHe spent a similar amount of time at a trampoline party organised for players' children around the festive period - while staff at Cobham also saw evidence of his personal touch last Christmas.\n\nConte ensured staff received wine and Prosecco, with every bottle personally addressed to the individual as thanks, and accompanied by a card with the words of Hannibal as he prepared to cross the Alps by elephant: \"We shall either find a way or make one.\"\n\nConte's seasonal goodwill even extended to the media, with a group invited to a local pub and bought drinks after a pre-match news conference in the build-up to the Boxing Day game with Bournemouth.\n\nThe irony is the manager intent on developing the Chelsea \"family\" has had to cope for long spells without wife Elisabetta and nine-year-old daughter Vittoria, who have remained in Italy but will soon join him in London.\n\nEvery month, players and staff will go out together for a meal - but Chelsea's players also know when to keep their distance.\n\nFormer Chelsea and Scotland winger Pat Nevin witnessed a moment that underlined how Conte, while always available to any player, is not to be trifled with.\n\nHe told BBC Sport: \"The fun guys at the training ground, the daft ones, David Luiz and Diego Costa, are always having a laugh.\n\n\"Costa was sneaking up behind people and throwing big buckets of iced water over them. He was running up behind Antonio and he was going to do the ice bucket over the top and, even though you know Antonio is a good laugh and he was having a joke, he got all the way up then chickened out.\n\n\"The players kind of think you're one of them but they're not quite sure. As a manager you've nailed it then - and Conte has nailed it.\"\n\nNevin added: \"I have also spent a couple of hours with him and interviewed him. We spoke before, just chatting, but he is the classic mix in that he can be great fun but then you see the steely eyes and think you wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of him.\n\n\"You judge a manager by whether he gets the most out of his players. If you are managing a company, a newspaper, a shop or a football team, your job is to get the best out of your staff. He has done that.\"\n\nConte's success has meant the potentially thorny issue of captain John Terry's absence from the team and subsequent departure has become an amicable and dignified parting - while a reported training-ground row with Costa in January was handled with the striker left out of the 3-0 win at Leicester City before returning with a goal as Hull City were beaten 2-0.\n\nHe is close to his players but also prepared to draw the line. As the card in the Christmas present promised, he has found his way at Chelsea.\n\nConte's attention to detail and determination to create the perfect environment at Cobham has produced what he wants most in football - success.\n\nItalian journalist Stefano Boldrini, London correspondent for Italian daily Gazzetta dello Sport, told BBC Sport: \"Conte is a person who lives football every hour, every minute of the day.\n\n\"He is always focused on his work, not only on the training ground or in his office. When he is at his house in Chelsea he watches football, speaks with his staff. His mind is always on his work.\n\n\"It was the same in Italy but this is a new experience. He has had to fight against Jose Mourinho's Manchester United, Pep Guardiola's Manchester City, Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool, Arsenal of Arsene Wenger, Mauricio Pochettino at Tottenham.\n\n\"He likes the sea and he likes good restaurants but his life is about good football. He is enjoying life in England but Conte does not go into London a lot. His life is Cobham and his house. He is very focused on his work.\n\n\"He is a very reserved person. For him it was not easy because in one year he has had to learn English, to learn about English football. I don't know about the future but he is really focused on his work now.\"\n\nConte's affection for aspects of English football was demonstrated when he applauded the Middlesbrough fans who continued to support their team even though they were relegated with defeat at Chelsea.\n\nBoldrini says: \"I know he is a passionate man but it was fantastic when he went to the Middlesbrough fans to applaud them. It was class behaviour and this is Antonio Conte.\n\n\"He loves England. He was celebrating the civilisation of English football with what happened with the Boro fans. It was honest.\"\n\nThe idea of Conte as a reserved figure is at odds with the manic touchline celebrations that saw him swinging from a dugout after Gary Cahill's later winner at Stoke City, and ripping an expensive pair of trousers and injuring his leg in one outpouring of joy earlier this season.\n\nConte, it is believed, finds it awkward to watch those moments back, but it is an insight into the pleasure Chelsea's progress under his tutelage has brought him.\n\nThe transformation in Chelsea's season started to unfold in the corridors at Emirates Stadium after a humbling 3-0 loss to Arsenal on 24 September left Conte's side in eighth place, eight points behind leaders Manchester City.\n\nConte was emotional and downcast as he conducted post-match media duties, but he was cold enough to deliver the clearest of messages: \"We must reflect a lot. From the first minute, we have had a bad attitude.\n\n\"We are now a great team only on paper not on the pitch. We must show we are a great team on the pitch not on paper.\"\n\nThe loss followed a home defeat by Liverpool in their previous league game that even had some bookmakers suggesting Conte might be an early winner of the managerial sack race.\n\nThere was no panic behind the scenes. The club's power-brokers had full faith in their manager and he justified their confidence with a tactical switch that turned Chelsea from a team with doubts about its top-six credentials into an all-conquering force en route to the title.\n\nChelsea already had future double player of the year N'Golo Kante as a brilliant midfield bedrock after his £30m move from Premier League champions Leicester City - but Conte pulled off a strategic coup that was even more audacious.\n\nConte reverted to a three-man central-defensive system for the subsequent 2-0 win at Hull City. It was the first of 13 successive league wins. Chelsea's quality had moved from paper to pitch.\n\nNew signing Marcos Alonso and the returning Luiz were key figures. Cesar Azpilicueta was part of the central triumvirate but Conte's finest moment may even have come in his reinvention of Victor Moses as a right wing-back of high calibre.\n\nMoses had almost become an itinerant footballer, lost and unloved at Chelsea after being signed by Roberto di Matteo from Wigan Athletic for £9m in August 2012.\n\nHe arrived on the same day as Azpilicueta signed from Marseille - but their courses could not have been more different as the 26-year-old spent unspectacular loan spells at Liverpool, Stoke City and West Ham United before Conte spotted something no-one else had uncovered.\n\nMoses made 59 league appearances in those three loan seasons, scoring five goals, and had only made 23 appearances with 12 starts for Chelsea before this season, during which he has played 38 times.\n\nNevin said: \"You see he is going 3-4-3 and you know who the wide man in the four is. It is Cesar Azpilicueta - only it isn't. It's Victor Moses.\n\n\"I love it and it impresses me so much when managers do things you don't expect. It is also about the player who plays alongside him.\n\n\"Moses was often alongside the manager, who was shouting and telling him almost inch by inch where to be, and he also has Azpilicueta beside him who is as good as there is in the business at closing down, getting close to people and not letting crosses in.\"\n\nAnd for Boldrini, it is a prime example of Conte's acumen. He says: \"He has been very important for Moses because he hadn't made an impact at Chelsea until Conte came.\n\n\"Conte discovered what Moses could do in pre-season and it was a success for Conte because he saw something other managers didn't see.\"\n\nHe added: \"He speaks with every player. Conte has a very good relationship with Cesc Fabregas, who has not played all the time, and he also has a very good relationship with Diego Costa. He has spoken to him a lot of times about his behaviour, to be more focused on the game and not his opponent.\"\n\nThe tactical change was seen as Conte returning to old instincts, but Nevin disagrees: \"Looking historically at what he'd done before to what he does now, he's not a 3-4-3 man. 100% not.\n\n\"That worked because he needed to try something else. I'd seen Juventus a lot. I think most people thought they were a 3-5-2, or a version of that, and sometimes a 3-4-3 as well.\n\n\"I looked because I wanted to prove to myself how often he played Andrea Barzagli, Giorgio Chiellini and Leonardo Bonucci together and quite often it was four at the back but very adaptable. If he needed it, he could utilise it.\n\n\"At heart he wants to play two centre-forwards but when Andrea Pirlo came in at Juve he couldn't play a 4-4-2. You can't do that with Fabregas either because you need two in there like Kante and Nemanja Matic, who can do all the dogged work as well.\n\n\"What has interested me is that when he changed to a 3-4-3, which I thought was really quite out there as I didn't see it coming, it worked. I then thought he would change that quite quickly - he didn't.\"\n\nNevin has an ominous warning for Chelsea's rivals, saying: \"I actually think you have only seen 20% of his tactical nous. I think you have seen something that has scratched the surface so far.\"\n\nHas his success surprised his countrymen in Italy?\n\n\"Maybe we didn't think he would win in his first year but we were sure he would be a success,\" says Boldrini. \"We knew of his focus and passion and had faith.\n\n\"In Italy, the pressure is outside the pitch. In England, the pressure is on the pitch because you play against Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal, Tottenham, Everton, Liverpool - the pressure is the football and this is the pressure he enjoys and is the big difference between Italy and England.\"\n\nWhat next for Conte and Chelsea?\n\nChelsea must cope with the added demands of the Champions League next season - and history shows this is not a club or an owner that enters Europe's elite competition to make up the numbers.\n\nConte has won the title with a relatively small squad. He has used 23 players this season so far, equal lowest with Liverpool, Spurs and West Bromwich Albion. Chelsea used 30 players when they won titles in 2004-05 and 2009-10, and 25 in 2005-06 and 2014-15.\n\nConte lost the likes of Branislav Ivanovic, Oscar and Jon Mikel Obi but their absences were compensated for.\n\nThere has already been speculation about departures this summer. Costa has been linked with a lucrative move to China, and there has been speculation surrounding the future of Fabregas after a season in which he has excelled when called upon but, at 30, could seek more regular football.\n\nLukaku's links with Chelsea, where he may feel he has unfinished business after being sold to Everton for £28m in 2014, continue, while Real Madrid's Alvaro Morata could be another attacking target. Chelsea will also be in the market for a central defender following Terry's departure, with names such as Southampton's Virgil van Dijk and Napoli's Kalidou Koulibaly on the radar.\n\nIf Fabregas leaves, Chelsea will surely be in the market for a midfielder, and Tiemoue Bakayoko's excellence as Monaco reached the Champions League semi-final has drawn attention from a host of Europe's top clubs.\n\nThe FA Youth Cup was won by Chelsea for a fourth successive season - and fifth time in six - by beating Manchester City, but it remains to be seen if any make the leap to serious senior duty.\n\nNevin is convinced it will be a busy summer for Chelsea, saying: \"I think there is a lot to do. There is no way you will get into the latter reaches of the Champions League and the Premier League with the current squad unless some of the kids step up unbelievably and that's a massive jump, too big.\n\n\"Will you keep everybody that's here? Antonio's probably got his eye on four or five and if he gets them there is no reason why he will not continue to be successful.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea need to win the FA Cup to turn a \"great season\" into a \"fantastic\" one after clinching the Premier League title, says manager Antonio Conte.\n\nThe Blues became champions of England for a sixth time - with two games to spare - thanks to Michy Batshuayi's late goal in a 1-0 win at West Brom.\n\nConte's side face Arsenal in the FA Cup final on 27 May.\n\n\"For me to win in my first season in England, I am really proud of the achievement,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"My players showed me great professionalism, commitment, work-rate and will to try to win this league.\n\n\"We have two games to celebrate, then we try to make this season from great to fantastic.\"\n• None How well do you know Chelsea's champions?\n\nConte, who took charge at Chelsea after leaving Italy at the end of Euro 2016, says switching to a three-man defence in the wake of a 3-0 defeat by Arsenal in September was pivotal to the Blues' season.\n\nChelsea were eighth, eight points behind leaders Manchester City after that loss at Emirates Stadium. A 13-match winning streak followed, and they are now 10 points clear of their nearest challengers with two games remaining.\n\n\"It was very frustrating for me because at the end of the Arsenal game I didn't see anything from my work or my ideas on football,\" said Conte.\n\n\"But in this moment I found the strength to change and take responsibility and find a system for the players.\n\n\"It was a key moment in the season because every single player found in this system the best for him.\n\n\"When you arrive after a bad season and the team has arrived at 10th in the league it means there are a lot of problems.\n\n\"To find the right solution quickly isn't easy and for this I want to thank my players because they trusted in the new work, my philosophy, video analysis to see mistakes and they showed the right attitude and behaviour.\"\n\nConte apologised after arriving late to his post-match news conference, explaining his players had showered him with beer and champagne and that \"my suit is a disaster\".\n\nHe revealed he had cut his lip as he celebrated Batshuayi's winner, but that it was not the first time he had been injured as a result of his joyful exuberance.\n\n\"In these moments, anything can happen,\" he said.\n\n\"I hurt my lip during the Euros as well and they had to put a stitch in it after we scored against Belgium.\n\n\"Simone Zaza gave me a header - I don't think it was on purpose. I'm not sure if this was a header or a punch but I am ready to repeat this.\"\n\nThe conference came to an abrupt end when players Diego Costa, John Terry and David Luiz arrived and, impatient to start their celebrations, ushered him away.\n\nCaptain Gary Cahill said the players always believed they could mount a title charge despite finishing 10th last season, 31 points adrift of champions Leicester.\n\n\"We felt confident in the dressing room all season,\" he said.\n\n\"We deserved it over the season. We worked very hard and have been the better team.\n\n\"It is fantastic to wrap it up with a couple of games to go. It is very difficult in this league.\"\n\nFellow defender David Luiz says the chance to land his first Premier League title was one of the reasons he returned to the club from Paris St-Germain in a £34m move in August.\n\n\"When I decided to come back here I dreamed to win the Premier League. I am very happy because my dream came true,\" he said.\n\n\"Conte works with passion every day. He deserves it because he is working hard every day.\"\n\nThe Chelsea boss' influence on his side was also acknowledged by West Brom counterpart Tony Pulis.\n\n\"They're worthy champions,\" he said. \"They had a poor start, and Conte had to change things.\n\n\"He's made it his team. Italian teams are tactically organised and well run.\n\n\"He changed their shape and they've been superb from that moment onwards.\"\n\nBBC analyst and former Tottenham and Newcastle midfielder Jermaine Jenas believes Conte deserves the credit for turning the club around, highlighting his conversion of Victor Moses from a fringe midfielder to first-choice wing-back.\n\n\"They lost their way last season, they were unrecognisable. He has come in and reinvigorated them,\" Jenas said.\n\n\"What I like about Conte is he gave Moses a chance and trusted him. He has made him a better player and a Premier League champion.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nHarry Redknapp has signed a one-year contract to continue as Birmingham City manager next season.\n\nThe 70-year-old former West Ham and Tottenham boss replaced Gianfranco Zola at St Andrew's for the final three Championship games of 2016-17.\n\nRedknapp guided the side to survival, winning two out the three, as they avoided relegation to League One by two points, with Blackburn going down.\n\nHis backroom team will be announced \"in due course\".\n\nInitially, Redknapp joined Blues on a short-term contract and revealed he would not be paid if he was unable to keep Birmingham in the second tier.\n\nHis first match in charge of Blues, and his first as a manager in English football since leaving QPR in February 2015, was a 1-0 defeat by local rivals Aston Villa - a result which left his team just one place above the relegation zone.\n\nBut successive wins to end the season over Huddersfield Town, where they played for more than an hour with 10 men, and Bristol City on the final day were enough to secure their Championship status.", "Manchester United's season will be a success even if they lose the Europa League final, says boss Jose Mourinho.\n\nBut Mourinho accepts it would \"make sense\" for the season to be viewed as a failure if United, who edged out Celta Vigo to reach the final, lose to Ajax.\n\nMourinho, 54, became the first manager in United history to win a major trophy in his first season when he claimed the EFL Cup in February.\n\n\"We did things nobody did in this club in the first season,\" said Mourinho.\n\nThe Portuguese guided his team to a record 25-game unbeaten run in the Premier League before it was ended by Arsenal on Sunday to dent their hopes of qualifying for the Champions League.\n\nMourinho believes his side, currently sixth in the Premier League, will not now finish in the top four so must win the Europa League to reach next season's Champions League.\n\nWhen asked if the result of the 24 May final in Stockholm would determine whether United's season was a success or failure, he said the media \"have the right to say it and it makes sense to say it, but I don't feel like that\".\n\n\"We have these things, but [the media] are always looking at these kind of capital letters, big headlines,\" added the former Chelsea and Real Madrid manager.\n\n\"I probably work, this season, harder than ever. When I analyse, I don't think [losing the final would be failure], but if I was in your chair, maybe.\"\n\nSergio Romero is set to start for United in the Europa League final, with Mourinho saying there was \"no dilemma\" in sticking with the Argentina goalkeeper in favour of regular first-choice David de Gea.\n\nSpain's De Gea, 26, played three games during the group stages but Romero, 30, has started each Europa League tie since the last-32 stage.\n\n\"I never saw in all my career two goalkeepers to be so friendly because it is a position when you always have a little bit of rivalry, especially if you are both the same kind of level,\" said Mourinho.\n\n\"I think it is fair Sergio is going to play the final and David accepts, because he has already played Europa League matches and if we win the trophy, David wins the trophy.\"\n\nCentre-back Eric Bailly will miss the final after being sent off late on against Celta Vigo, with Mourinho anticipating Uefa rules will not \"allow any chance of an appeal\".\n\nHe added that Bailly, 23, will now play in United's three remaining Premier League fixtures to \"give rest to some of the others\", with the final match at home against Crystal Palace three days before the Europa League final.", "Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas secured a Mercedes one-two in second practice at the Spanish Grand Prix, comfortably clear of the Ferraris.\n\nHamilton was 0.09 seconds quicker than his team-mate but 0.310secs clear of the Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen, who was 0.118secs ahead of Sebastian Vettel.\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo were next, looking as if they have closed the gap to the top cars.\n\nThe top six were covered by less than 0.8secs, closer than so far this year.\n• None Predict your top three for qualifying\n\nMercedes also appeared to have an advantage during the race-simulation runs later in the session, lapping consistently quicker than the Ferraris throughout the long runs.\n\nThe Ferraris did seem to be able to lap as quickly as the Mercedes in race trim on occasional laps but could not keep the pace up.\n\nAll the teams have brought major aerodynamic upgrades to this race, but the one on the Mercedes is the most visually dramatic, with a new narrower nose and a number of other major changes. So far it appears to be having a significant effect.\n\nRed Bull hoped their upgrade for this race would bring them closer to Mercedes and Ferrari and that, too, appears to be the case. Verstappen was just 0.6secs off the pace, with team-mate Ricciardo 0.1secs further adrift.\n\nAt the back of the field, it was a dismal day for home hero Fernando Alonso.\n\nHis McLaren-Honda broke down with a major engine failure on his first lap out of the pits in the first session, and he returned to his hotel to play tennis before that session was over.\n\nAlonso was back at the track for the second session, but had to wait for nearly half an hour before he could get out on track while an engine change was completed.\n\nWhen he did get out, he said the engine still felt down on power and he was slowest of all, 0.5secs slower than his nearest rival, and 1.4secs off the pace of team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne.\n\nDuring first practice, Honda blamed the failure on an oil leak. Alonso said later: \"The oil was coming out of a hole in the engine.\"\n\nAlonso has failed to finish a race so far this season because of reliability problems, and he added: \"It is not my career, my ability, my image. It is their career, their ability their money and their image, so I try to support the team and drive as fast as I can, but the problem is not entirely mine, it is much bigger for them.\"\n\nAsked why he had left the track, he said he was trying to make up for training time lost because of his commuting back and forth to America to prepare for the Indy 500 after this race.\n\nHamilton said after the session: \"First practice was very, very good but in second practice the track changed and shifted quite a lot, so it was slippery and quite a lot slower for everyone - especially with the gusts of wind.\n\n\"It was massively challenging, but still fun nonetheless. The team has done an amazing job with the upgrades and the car is working just as we expected. It's been a much better start to the weekend for me than in Sochi, so I'm very happy.\"\n\nVettel said: \"I'm not happy. Struggling a bit to find the rhythm, with the conditions, probably more myself than the car.\n\n\"I didn't get everything together but I can feel the car is quick so that's good. I am not worried. I am just not happy with how the day went. I wasn't always feeling as if I was captain on board.\n\n\"Sometimes somebody else was steering my ship but I hope tomorrow whoever that was will disappear.\"", "Watch the top 10 BBL plays of this season before Sunday's play-off finals between Leicester and Newcastle's men, and Sevenoaks and Nottingham's women.#\n\nAvailable to UK users only.\n\nWatch the play-offs: Sevenoaks Suns v Nottingham Wildcats (13:00 BST), Leicester Riders v Newcastle Eagles (16:00 BST) on BBC Red Button and online on Sunday, 14 May.", "You don't forget your first visit to your team's home stadium: how green the pitch looks, how big the stands seem, how tall everyone in front of you is. The noise, the suddenness of it. The speed of the football, the soft touch of the star names, the swearing.\n\nAnd you don't forget your last, all those seasons of hope and frustration later, when your club upgrades to something altogether cleaner and smarter and more comfortable, and it is time to say goodbye to it all - cramped concourses, tight seating, reeking toilets and the cheap temporary fixes, all of it held together by old memories and faded promises, a shared past that binds you to friends and strangers alike.\n\nYou know when it is time to move on. Stadiums age just like the players and tactics they house. Stairs are too steep, sight-lines compromised. Stands that once felt huge and light and imposing begin to feel weary and archaic.\n\nWhen Spurs play their final match at White Hart Lane on Sunday, the logic of their move to a 61,559-seat grand design built across much of the same site will be inescapable. So too will the sadness for an old home shortly to be reduced to rubble.\n\nFootball grounds should feel prosaic. The cheaper part of town, steel and grey concrete, painted wood and moulded plastic. A space that is empty and unused most days of the year.\n\nAnd then, for a few hours every couple of weeks, like nowhere else you ever go - shouting like you can't shout anywhere else, feeling both totally immersed yet horribly powerless, singing in unison with people whose names you will never know.\n\nSpurs have been at White Hart Lane for 118 years. Much of the ground, which now holds 36,240 fans, is unrecognisable to that history. The Shelf is long gone, the Paxton Road end transformed, even the new West Stand that once seemed so vast and modern in the 1980s, as you came in on the train or along the High Road, now a little tired and outdated.\n\nSupporters can still look out at that rectangle of grass and know that was the stage where so many unforgettable moments played out. They can picture where, before their time, the great players ran and great goals were scored in glory games.\n\nThat pitch is the living connection to it all: where the league titles of 1951 and 1961 were finally won, both against Sheffield Wednesday; the left wing where Gareth Bale tortured Inter Milan's Maicon in November 2010; the goalmouth where Tony Parks saved a penalty from Anderlecht's Arnor Gudjohnsen to win the Uefa Cup final in 1984. The penalty boxes where Steve Perryman scored twice against AC Milan in the semi-final of the 1972 Uefa Cup; the little patch where Terry Dyson played a one-two with Danny Blanchflower before lashing in his third goal against Arsenal in August 1961.\n\nThere are the hauntings, too - Arsenal's 5-0 win at Christmas 1978, Manchester United scoring five in one half past Neil Sullivan as Spurs surrendered a 3-0 half-time lead in September 2001, being 3-0 up against a 10-man Manchester City in the FA Cup in 2004 and somehow losing 4-3.\n\nAnd there are the sacred ghosts to go with them: the artists like John White, Cliff Jones and Jimmy Greaves, the entertainers like Chris Waddle, Paul Gascoigne and Jurgen Klinsmann, the tough nuts like Ted Ditchburn, Dave Mackay and Graham Roberts.\n\n\"Every supporter will tell you this about their own ground, but it's the memories you build up from when you're a kid,\" says Dave Bricknell, who has had season tickets on the Shelf, Paxton Road and now Park Lane over the past 40 years, and who as a coach up the road in Chingford 18 years ago picked a six-year-old kid called Harry Kane for the youth team he ran, Ridgeway Rovers.\n\n\"My first game was a home match against Millwall, League Cup, 1972. A night game, loud. My mate's dad picked me up. He'd built his son a little box so he could stand at the front and see. In the corner you had the bloke at half-time manually putting the scores on from the other matches.\n\n\"It's those memories, and it's the things you do now - parking at the same place, walking the same way. A lot of people have moved away from Tottenham, and the only time they come back now is for the game.\n\n\"It's the part when you walk into the ground, you've got all the terrace above you, and you look forward and the ground opens up around you. To me, that is it. That is the best part of the game, because it takes you back to your childhood.\n\n\"Over the years there have been some really bad games. Games when you think, why do I keep coming over here? But you do go back. And every supporter of every club will tell you the same thing. We all think our home ground is special.\"\n\nSpurs will make Wembley their temporary home next season, before moving in to their new stadium - which is expected to set them back £750m.\n\nThey have left their house move late compared to their neighbours. Arsenal departed Highbury's marble halls and Art Deco facades in 2006, West Ham the partisan, claustrophobic Upton Park a year ago. Of the football stadia in London also designed by the great football architect Archibald Leitch, only Fulham's Craven Cottage remains recognisable.\n\nIt was Leitch's East Stand that sheltered arguably the most iconic single element of White Hart Lane, the long stretch of terrace down the side of the pitch known as the Shelf. As the North Bank defined Highbury, as the old terraced Kop did Anfield, the Gallowgate End St James's Park and the Holte End Villa Park, the Shelf was what set the ground apart: its tribal heart, its noisy soul.\n\n\"People won't believe it, but in that 1984 season I went to White Hart Lane most midweeks,\" says former Chelsea, Everton and Scotland winger Pat Nevin.\n\n\"I was actually Chelsea's player of the year at the time, but I was standing on the Shelf, watching Spurs. If you've got Ossie Ardiles, if you've got Glenn Hoddle, if you've got the likes of Micky Hazard - they were brilliant players in that team, and I was really keen to watch those players and learn what I could.\n\n\"White Hart Lane was a brilliant place to play, because the supporters were so close to you. The atmosphere was always great. It's a small pitch, but because Spurs were almost always an attacking side, it was almost like an elongated five-a-side game. I loved playing at that ground.\"\n\nFor Tottenham's own guard the memories are more vivid still.\n\n\"When I was there you would regularly get 60,000 for a match,\" former club captain Alan Mullery told BBC Sport. \"When we won the Uefa Cup in 1972, beating Wolves, the last match I ever played, and I scored the winning goal. I remember every minute of it.\"\n\nThirteen years later, Spurs would win the same tournament on the same pitch, 21-year-old Parks' two penalty saves in the shootout and all.\n\n\"We went out to an old building on the High Road that had a balcony, and the whole of the High Road was full of thousands of Spurs fans,\" remembers Gary Mabbutt, early, that night, in a Spurs career that would see him captain the club for more than a decade. \"118 years of tradition and history, all embedded in White Hart Lane.\"\n\n\"It's an old cliche, but it's a proper football ground,\" says Dave Bricknell. \"You're packed in. You're right next to the players, you're getting noise from most sides.\n\n\"The new stadium is eating the old stadium. It's like playing Pac-Man on a grand scale. You can see three new stands going up, and it looks fantastic.\n\n\"It will be bigger, and it will be better, and hopefully we can keep the team together and move on to the next level. You've got to look forward, haven't you?\"\n\nYou do. But you can also look back, one final time. And when you do, no matter which ground you are saying farewell to, the days and nights that meant so much come alive one more time, as they have this past week for Bricknell.\n\n\"Parksey saving those penalties, Roberts stealing in to equalise. The noise!\n\n\"Harry scoring against Arsenal last year, fantastic. What a goal… But the other week against Arsenal was pretty special too - beating them 2-0, making sure we stayed above them.\n\n\"That 5-3 defeat by United - it was my son's birthday. One of his first games. The City loss was worse. It was Man Utd in the next round, so at half-time we were all looking at booking flights up to Manchester. Liam Brady smashing one into the top corner in that 5-0 in '78…\n\n\"Beating Arsenal 5-0 and Mark Falco scoring a volley from the edge of the box with his right foot, Terry Gibson crossing it, Chris Hughton scoring another belter in that match… beating Feyenoord 4-2 under the lights, with Cruyff in their team and saying before the match that Hoddle wasn't all that good and he was going to show it, and Hoddle absolutely destroying them…\n\n\"It's been special. And Sunday will be a very special goodbye.\"\n\nHome from home: The top-flight teams who moved\n\nWest Ham said goodbye to Upton Park at the end of the 2015-16 season...", "Lewis Hamilton set the pace as Mercedes impressed in first practice at the Spanish Grand Prix.\n\nHamilton was 0.029 seconds quicker than team-mate Valtteri Bottas, and a second clear of Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel in third and fourth.\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen was fifth, just 0.250secs behind Raikkonen.\n\nMcLaren-Honda's dismal season of unreliability continued, with Fernando Alonso sent into a spin by a major engine failure on his first lap.\n• None Predict your top three for qualifying\n\nAlonso spun to a halt in a cloud of smoke with oil pouring from underneath the engine after it failed coming out of Turn Two on his first lap. The Spaniard then left the track to go back to his hotel. Honda blamed the failure on \"an oil leak\" and said Alonso would be back out with a new power-unit in second practice.\n\nAlonso posted a tweet saying: \"Keeping the body active,\" accompanied by an emoji with a halo and a photograph of himself with his trainer playing tennis.\n\nHonda have a small upgrade on the engine for this weekend but said the one he was using had previously run in Australia and China and in Bahrain until qualifying.\n\nIn lovely spring sunshine and under a beautiful blue sky north of Barcelona, the teams spent the session evaluating the upgrades they have brought to this race.\n\nAll the teams have new aerodynamic parts, as is traditional at this first European race of the season, and the most striking are on the Mercedes.\n\nThe silver cars have a narrower nose, under which is fitted a unique new snow-plough style aerodynamic shaping device, as well as new parts all the way along the side of the car.\n\nSo far, they appear to be working well, and Hamilton and Bottas traded times throughout the session, rarely separated by more than a few hundredths of a second.\n\nHamilton arrived in Spain determined to make amends for a poor weekend two weeks ago in Russia, where he finished fourth and Bottas won.\n\nBottas, by contrast, has made it clear that his focus has shifted to trying to win every race after an up-and-down start to the season in which he has been alternately impressive - with his first win in Russia and first pole in Bahrain - and not, such as when he spun behind the safety car during the Chinese Grand Prix.\n\nThe two men are separated by 10 points in the championship, with Hamilton ahead and 13 points behind Vettel.\n\nFerrari also have a series of aerodynamic changes on their car, as do Red Bull, who are hopeful their upgrade will clos the one-second gap that has separated them from the front-runners so far this season.\n\nIt is too early to make any conclusions about relative pace, not least because Vettel's session was disrupted by a gearbox problem on the pit straight.\n\nHe managed to pull of into the pit lane exit, from where the car was recovered and the Ferrari mechanics were able to repair the car and send him out again to set his fastest time.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nNext time you're hacking your way around the golf course, summon the spirit of the player who not only failed to card a single par but only managed two bogeys on his way to an eye-watering 127 in US Open local qualifying - finishing 55 shots over par.\n\nOn the 10th hole at Silver Lakes in Glencoe, Alabama, Clifton McDonald began badly with a double bogey seven.\n\nThings got significantly worse, and he was 14 over par after six holes by the time he stepped on to the 16th tee. Fourteen furious swipes later, he had completed the par five.\n\nMost people would have walked off. But not Clifton.\n\nHe forged on regardless to make what the Alabama Golf Association says is without doubt \"the highest score we've had in any qualifying event\".\n\n\"The guy was really nice. It's just you could tell he was in over his head,\" executive director Andy Priest told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It was a beautiful sunny day, it wasn't breezy at all. It's just a tough golf course.\n\n\"The feedback we got from other players was that it was firm and fast. Honestly it's good qualifying for the Open at Erin Hills.\n\n\"We got his scorecard and he confirmed what he had shot, but we didn't speak to him for very long. You could tell he had had a long day.\n\n\"But it I will say one thing, the gentleman played it out.\"\n\nLee McCoy, who finished second on Wednesday to take one of five qualifying spots, tweeted the picture above, adding: \"The scorecard of the guy that played in front of me at US Open qualifying today. Shot 68 on his front 9 and decided to finish #NeverGiveUp.\"\n\nMcDonald was, perhaps not surprisingly, bottom of the pack in 67th.\n\nThis year's US Open takes place between 15-18 June in Erin Hills, Wisconsin.\n\nAbout half of the field is made up of players who are exempt from qualifying - such as the defending champion, Dustin Johnson.\n\nBut any professional golfer, or an amateur with a handicap of 1.4 or lower, is eligible to enter local qualifying, which is played at 114 courses around the US and Canada.\n\nThose who are successful advance to sectional qualifying, which takes place at 10 sites in the US as well as in Japan and at Walton Heath in Surrey.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChampions Celtic scored three times in a blistering opening 11 minutes to overcome Aberdeen at Pittodrie and move to within two games of completing an unbeaten Scottish Premiership season.\n\nDedryck Boyata headed Celtic in front in three minutes, with Stuart Armstrong doubling the lead five minutes later.\n\nLeigh Griffiths fired in a third, before Jonny Hayes gave the Dons hope with a curling shot within 60 seconds.\n\nBut the hosts could not to stop Celtic taking their points tally to 100.\n\nDerek McInnes' side may look back ruefully at referee Steven McLean's decision not to award them a penalty when Craig Gordon collided with Graeme Shinnie.\n\nBut they will likely also reflect on their slow start to a fantastic contest, with Celtic apparently out of sight within 11 minutes.\n\nPatrick Roberts signalled an early warning when he escaped and tested Joe Lewis, but that was not heeded and Griffiths' deep corner was headed in by an unchallenged Boyata.\n\nWonderful Griffiths skill created the second, the striker escaping on the right and feeding Callum McGregor. His shot was blocked by Shay Logan, but Armstrong was on hand to slam in a composed finish.\n\nIt quickly got even worse for Aberdeen. Griffiths turned, fired powerfully from distance and found the net, although Lewis should have done better than help the ball into his top-right corner.\n\nIt was a devastating start from the champions and the game looked finished. Aberdeen boss McInnes must have feared his side were on course for a damaging hammering in the run up to their meeting with Celtic in the Scottish Cup final.\n\nBut the Dons showed remarkable strength and ability to claw their way back in. Hayes was the inspiration for a revival when he turned and fired a wonderful left foot shot over Gordon and into the net.\n\nJayden Stockley should have netted a second moments later but his header slid marginally wide.\n\nAberdeen pressed on with confidence and Niall McGinn could only hit straight at Gordon from a great position. It could have been 3-3, or 5-3, with both sides looking likely to score again.\n\nShinnie claimed for a penalty when he nicked the ball before Gordon took him out but referee McLean said no, much to Aberdeen's fury. It looked a spot-kick and could have made such a difference.\n\nIt was mainly Aberdeen pushing forward in the second period. Kenny McLean should have hit the target when he broke into the box but fired off-target, as did McGinn shortly after.\n\nWith the home side unable to turn pressure into goals, Nir Bitton's introduction for Celtic seemed to take the sting out of the game in the latter stages.\n\nBoth teams have much to ponder before coming together again at Hampden Park; positives and negatives.\n\nAberdeen looked all over the place defensively in the early stages, but responded strongly and caused Celtic problems. From that, they will take great belief.\n\nCeltic manager Rodgers will be disappointed at how things panned out after that clinical opening period.\n\nHis side failed to control long periods of the contest and had to absorb a lot of pressure, which they did, but more than was comfortable.\n\nHowever, the champions did demonstrate that when they fire, they are pretty much unstoppable.\n• None Attempt saved. James Forrest (Celtic) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match James Forrest (Celtic) because of an injury.\n• None Shaleum Logan (Aberdeen) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. James Forrest (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Delay in match Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The leaked version of the Labour Party manifesto commits to \"take energy back into public ownership to deliver renewable energy, affordability for consumers, and democratic control\".\n\nPart of that would involve \"central government control of the natural monopolies of the transmission and distribution grids\".\n\nNatural monopolies are businesses where there are no benefits to be had from competition.\n\nThey are usually areas where there is a lot of initial spending on infrastructure needed, such as train tracks or water pipes.\n\nIt does not mean there can only be one business serving the whole country, but it makes no sense to have companies competing to provide such services to consumers in a particular area.\n\nIt would be inefficient, for example, to have two taps in your sink offering water from different providers or two sockets in your wall with electricity from competing energy companies.\n\nBeing a natural monopoly gives businesses enormous market power, which means that they must be regulated.\n\nWhether it is better to have such services provided by government or by private companies regulated by government is a matter of political opinion.\n\nNational Grid's main business is moving electricity and gas round the country. This is known as transmission. The very last leg of the journey into people's homes and businesses - known as distribution - is done by a number of different companies. National Grid does own a stake in Cadent Gas, a distribution firm, but most gas distribution and all electricity distribution is controlled by other firms.\n\nThe cost of transporting gas and electricity round the country accounts for 29% of the average dual-fuel (both gas and electricity) bill, according to Energy UK, up from 23% in 2010. But National Grid says its share of that - the transmission cost - is only 5% of the typical electricity bill, and 3% of a gas bill. The rest is distribution costs.\n\nOwning the transmission and distribution network would give the government considerably more control as it attempted to deliver promises in the leaked manifesto to deliver renewable energy and affordability for consumers, including keeping the average dual fuel bill below £1,000 a year.\n\nThe leaked manifesto also pledges to ban fracking (the use of high pressure liquids to extract gas from rocks) and use carbon capture (stopping carbon dioxide from escaping with other waste gases) as it moves to cleaner fuels.\n\nControl over the network might help with this, but the government via its regulator and planning decisions already has a big say over the future energy mix.\n\nJust nationalising National Grid (which is worth about £38bn on the stock market at the moment) would not achieve what Labour is promising - it would give the government the company that owns the UK's electricity and gas transmission (it might also leave the government owning National Grid's energy business in the US).\n\nThe distribution part of the equation is a slew of other companies - for gas alone it would be SGN, Northern Gas Networks, Wales and West Utilities, as well as Cadent Gas.\n\nBut the leaked manifesto calls for control of these companies, which could possibly be achieved by buying stakes in these businesses rather than nationalising them.\n\nBBC business editor Simon Jack says National Grid's UK business is estimated to be worth about £25bn.\n\n\"A chunky purchase but one that could quite easily financed in that it makes enough money to repay the interest on any money borrowed to buy it.\"\n\nIt's been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 1995.\n\nIts shareholders, including 880,000 small shareholders, would be very upset if they didn't get a good price from the government for their shares.\n\nThere are not many precedents for nationalisation of profitable companies in the UK - companies are usually nationalised when they are in financial difficulties - so it is not clear at this stage what the process would be.", "Conflict between humans and elephants is more intense in Sri Lanka than anywhere else in the world - 70 people are killed every year and more than 250 elephants die. Clashes are particularly frequent in areas that were abandoned for long periods during the country's lengthy civil war.\n\nLast June, six-year-old Sulojini and her father, Raja Thurai, were returning home from the river in the late afternoon sunshine. Suddenly, an elephant appeared from the bush and attacked.\n\n\"The elephant lifted us with its trunk and threw us on the ground,\" remembers Thurai. \"I lost consciousness, and when I woke up, my daughter was already dead.\"\n\nThe incident happened close to the Thurai's village, Paavatkodichchinai in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province, near paddy fields and in an area dotted with fruit bushes.\n\n\"I've lost two of my children - a son during the war, and Sulojini to an elephant,\" he says.\n\nPaavatkodichchinai is inhabited by Sri Lanka's Tamil minority, like many communities on the eastern part of the island.\n\nDuring the civil war, the presence of Tamil Tiger rebels made the Eastern Province a target for government forces, and when fighting was intense, local people fled.\n\nRaja Thurai and his family went to live in a refugee camp in 2007. When they returned after the war, which came to an end in 2009, elephants had encroached on their land. Now these huge mammals are a continual, terrifying presence - especially at night, when they roam around the village looking for food in fields and homes.\n\n\"We chase them away, but they come back again and again. Every night we have to stay awake - last night also, I didn't sleep,\" Thurai, says.\n\nHis family's home is one of many in the village that have suffered night attacks. The house, shaded by two large mango trees, still has part of a wall missing - destroyed by an elephant one night just before Sulojini was killed.\n\n\"It happened at 02:00,\" says Indrani, Raja Thurai's wife. \"The elephant trumpeted and ran towards the house, hitting the roof and wall.\"\n\nIndrani holding Sulojini's flip-flops - iron sheets patch the damaged wall of the family home\n\nShe says Sulojini was so frightened she developed a fever.\n\nThe couple do not have a picture of the daughter they lost, but they have kept the small, pink flip-flops she was wearing when she died.\n\nSince then, the village has organised an informal neighbourhood watch scheme. Households have access to firecrackers to frighten the elephants away, but experts argue fireworks are not the answer.\n\n\"Communities get into a kind of arms race,\" says Dr Pruthu Fernando, a conservationist who has spent much of his professional life trying to mitigate human-elephant-conflict in Sri Lanka.\n\n\"If an elephant comes and tries to eat the crops, people shout at it. So the elephant is scared and goes away. Then the elephant realises people are only shouting, there's no harm to it. So next time people shout, the elephant still comes and raids.\"\n\nVillagers work through a series of deterrents: first they throw rocks at the animals, next they begin to light fires. Finally, they use firecrackers.\n\n\"Some of those go off like a bomb,\" says Fernando. \"But elephants soon realise they are only a lot of noise, so they still come and raid. Ultimately, people end up shooting the elephant. All of these things are confrontational.\"\n\nFernando has pioneered the use of electrified fencing, erected at particular times of the year.\n\nElephants are free to roam agricultural land during fallow periods, and farmers only put up the barriers when they plant their crops.\n\n\"The farmers take down the fence the day they harvest,\" he says.\n\nSri Lanka already has 3,500km of electrified fencing aimed at containing elephants, but much of it is in the wrong place.\n\nHistorically it has been used to mark boundaries - of private property and national parks. But eventually, elephants destroy it. Fencing has to be close to human activity to be effective, Fernando says.\n\n\"Fences work. If you maintain them well, elephants learn this is a no-go boundary. They're also non-confrontational, so that leads to the possibility of better co-existence.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome Sri Lankans do live in harmony with wild elephants.\n\nThe Rathugala Veddha community close to the Gal Oya National Park in south-eastern Sri Lanka - who trace their ancestry to some of the island's earliest inhabitants - chant, invoking God and the spirits, to protect them when they are in the forest. No-one can remember a time when anyone was injured - let alone killed - by an elephant.\n\n\"We can sense when an elephant is close-by - we can feel it,\" says Poramal Aththo. \"We have that power in us.\"\n\nIt is possible he is describing the infrasound communication of elephants, and that villagers learned to sense this because they have been living in close proximity to the animals for so long.\n\nPoramal Aththo says he could teach other Sri Lankans how to stay safe, but it is an art - not something that can be learned in a day.\n\nOn the other side of the human-elephant-conflict equation are babies like Leila. She was rescued after eating a hukka patta - a primitive gunpowder bomb disguised as a fruity treat. It blew up in her mouth, fracturing her jaw, and destroying half her tongue.\n\nLeila is being treated at the Department of Wildlife Conservation's facility near the temple city of Polonnaruwa.\n\n\"The mortality rate of elephants eating hukka pattas is very high,\" says Dr Pinidiyage Manoj Akalanka, the vet on duty. \"Most of them will die.\" Death by hukka patta is cruel - unable to eat, the animal starves to death.\n\nIn this district alone, they see around 40 cases a year. Leila was injured by bullets too - something Akalanka says is becoming more common as farmers become desperate to defend their crops from marauding animals.\n\nBut Leila is lucky - she has learnt to eat with half a tongue, and will eventually be released back into the wild.\n\nAfter Sulojini was killed by an elephant in Paavatkodichchinai, electricity was finally installed in the village.\n\nThis makes possible a system of electrified fencing - although there is no sign the government or any other organisation will provide it any time soon.\n\nThe government does pay 500,000 rupees ($3,278) to the families of those killed by elephants. But there is no way to compensate a family for the loss of a little girl in pink flip-flops, who never returned home from her afternoon bathe.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea were crowned Premier League champions as Michy Batshuayi's late goal gave them the victory they required to secure the title at West Brom.\n\nIt looked as though Antonio Conte's side might be forced to delay their celebrations as they were frustrated for long periods by the resilience and organisation of their hosts.\n\nBut the mood changed and the title was won with eight minutes left as substitute Batshuayi, who had previously endured a season of struggle after his £33m move from Marseille, ended a scrappy passage of play by steering a finish high past Ben Foster.\n\nThe final whistle sparked wild celebrations among Chelsea's fans, and manager Conte was tossed high into the air by his squad.\n\nThe Italian can now set his sights on emulating compatriot Carlo Ancelotti's 2010 feat of winning the league and domestic Double as the Blues prepare for an FA Cup final against Arsenal at Wembley on 27 May.\n\nChelsea's celebrations were fully deserved - the culmination of a superb season's work by Conte and his squad.\n\nThey had to work hard for victory against a West Brom side that demonstrated all the qualities that have made this such a satisfactory season for them but, as so often, Chelsea got the job done.\n\nThe Blues' main attacking threats struggled to find a spark, with Eden Hazard's frustration summed up with one long-range shot that went out for a corner, but Conte's side found a way to win, illustrating once again why they are worthy champions.\n\nThe losses at home to Liverpool and at Arsenal in September that hinted at early struggles seemed an age away, as did the surprise defeat by struggling Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge, and the setback at Manchester United.\n\nChelsea, even when not at their best, proved themselves the strongest and most complete side in the Premier League - and they proved it again on a night they were tested.\n\nConte's magic touch does it again\n\nConte's fingerprints are all over this title triumph - and his sure touch was on show again to fashion the victory they needed to get over the line with two games to spare.\n\nThe Italian knew his side needed a catalyst to break down West Brom, and it came with the introduction of Batshuayi and Willian for Hazard and Pedro with 15 minutes left.\n\nConte's masterstroke should have come as no surprise given the manner in which he has marshalled his forces, particularly the crucial switch to a three-man defence in September that turned Chelsea's season around and started a run of 13 straight league wins that led to the title.\n\nNo praise is too high for the 47-year-old, who took over a squad that looked broken after ending last season in 10th place and with the shadow of Jose Mourinho's sacking still hanging over the club.\n\nThis was his ultimate reward.\n\nBatshuayi comes out of the shadows\n\nBatshuayi has been a misfit for much of this season, but whatever the future holds for the 23-year-old Belgian, he will always have a goal that won the title to his name.\n\nBefore this game, he had only figured only 24 times, played for 579 minutes and scored five goals - his sixth makes its mark in Chelsea history.\n• None How well do you know Chelsea's champions?\n• None Chelsea won their sixth top-flight title and fifth in the Premier League era. Only Manchester United (13) have won more Premier League titles.\n• None Chelsea are the first club to win the English top-flight title on a Friday since Arsenal at Anfield in 1989.\n• None Conte is the fourth Italian manager to win the English top-flight title after Ancelotti, Roberto Mancini and Claudio Ranieri.\n• None Chelsea scored with their 23rd shot of the match at West Brom.\n• None A Belgian player has scored the title-deciding goal in each of the past three Premier League seasons (Batshuayi v West Brom in 2016-17, Eden Hazard v Tottenham in 2015-16 and v Crystal Palace in 2014-15).\n\nChelsea still have two games to play in their title-winning season. They host Watford on Monday (20:00 BST) before receiving the trophy in their final game against relegated Sunderland at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, 21 May (15:00 BST). They then have the FA Cup final on 27 May.\n\nWest Brom travel to Manchester City on Tuesday, 16 May before finishing their season at Swansea the following Sunday (15:00 BST).\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Darren Fletcher tries a through ball, but Salomón Rondón is caught offside.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 0, Chelsea 1. Michy Batshuayi (Chelsea) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by César Azpilicueta.\n• None Attempt missed. Gary Cahill (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marcos Alonso with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Nyom (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nTop 14 side Stade Francais came from 10-0 down to beat Gloucester and win the European Challenge Cup.\n\nEngland wing Jonny May's try put Gloucester, who needed to win to keep their Champions Cup qualification hopes alive, ahead at a rainy Murrayfield.\n\nItaly captain Sergio Parisse then crossed to make it 10-10 at the break.\n\nJonathan Danty and Geoffrey Doumayrou touched down as the French team dominated after half-time, before Ross Moriarty scored a late consolation.\n\nStade Francais had reached European finals four times without success prior to Friday's Edinburgh showpiece, but were deserved victors against an error-strewn Gloucester side.\n\nThe result also means the Cherry and Whites miss out on the chance to compete for a spot in next season's Champions Cup.\n\nThe 20th and final place for the 2017-18 competition is to be decided by a series of play-off matches, with Northampton set to be replaced in the semi-finals had Gloucester won the Challenge Cup.\n\nBut the Saints, who finished seventh in the Premiership, will now play Connacht next Saturday, with a play-off final to follow against either Stade Francais or Cardiff Blues.\n\nDefeat for the Cherry and Whites at Murrayfield also means Scotland captain Greig Laidlaw's Gloucester career ends in disappointment, with the 31-year-old scrum-half due to join Clermont Auvergne in the summer.\n\nLaidlaw, who moved to Kingsholm in 2014, was not introduced until the second half having spent the past two months on the sidelines with ankle ligament damage - but could make little impact with the Gloucester pack often demolished at scrum time.\n\nThe English side had done well to negotiate a tricky 10-minute spell before the break with Willi Heinz in the sin bin, but came up well short against an impressive and powerful Stade Francais unit in the second period.\n\nDoumayrou's try was the highlight of the final, dancing through three Gloucester tacklers to confirm his team's superiority and set up an historic victory for a club who finished seventh in the Top 14 this year.\n\n'It's been a disappointing season - but we're not far away'\n\n\"I'm obviously very disappointed,\" Gloucester director of rugby David Humphreys told BBC Radio 5 live. \"But it's most disappointing that we didn't really test Stade Francais in the way that we planned.\n\n\"Credit to them, they negated everything we did. We couldn't win the ball, we couldn't hold the ball and because of that they won comfortably.\n\n\"We gave away penalty after penalty at the set-piece and to compete against the top teams you can't do that.\n\n\"We haven't hidden behind the fact it's been a disappointing season. We know we're not far away, we've shown that with our performances.\"", "Highlights: Watch on BBC Two on Sunday from 13:00-14:30 BST\n\nJonny Brownlee says he is \"hungry\" to put the \"hurt\" of last year's World Series finale behind him as he prepares for his first race of the 2017 event.\n\nWith 700m to go in the final race of 2016, the Briton was leading and on course to wrap up the world title.\n\nExhausted, he began to weave over the road, was overtaken and collapsed after brother Alistair helped him over the line to finish second in Mexico.\n\n\"Last year was a bit of a rollercoaster,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"It hurt me going in to this year, because you don't get many chances to become world champion and I messed it up.\n\n\"It made me very hungry to come in to the 2017 season to try and achieve that but so far this year, luck's not been on my side.\"\n\nBrownlee, who won Olympic silver behind his brother last year, has not competed at a major event since suffering in the hot and humid conditions in Cozumel in September.\n\nHe missed the first two races of this year's World Series - in Australia and United Arab Emirates - but is returning for the third in Yokohama, Japan, on Saturday.\n\nBBC Weather forecasts a comfortable 18C for Yokohama on raceday, but Brownlee is hoping extra heat training will pay off in the future, if not in Japan.\n\n\"Heat is obviously something that, as a pasty Yorkshireman, I'm not too good at. I know it's a weakness and after Cozumel one of the first things I did was ask a doctor how to solve this,\" he said.\n\n\"In October-November I went down to train with the British Navy in Portsmouth. One of the big things they taught me was to spend more time in hot and humid conditions.\n\n\"I've converted my conservatory in to a kind of heat chamber. Mine gets up to about 37C so I can sweat away in there on a turbo trainer and get used to Yokohama.\n\n\"Hopefully it's going to make a big difference because one thing I told myself after Cozumel was I'd be stupid if I didn't get used to the heat, or at least try and do something about it.\"\n\n'I've had my best races without Alistair'\n\nAlistair, the elder of the Brownlee brothers, is focusing on long-distance triathlons this year and will not be competing in Japan.\n\nJonny believes he will benefit from his brother's absence.\n\n\"In the past I've really enjoyed not having Alistair there. I've had my best races without him,\" he said.\n\n\"It puts more emphasis on me and I race more aggressively. Instead of looking over my shoulder and waiting for him to make those moves, it's up to me.\n\n\"But also in training as well, I've been able to do what suits me. I've tried to get my own little group around me.\n\n\"Hopefully, it'll come good in the next couple of years.\"\n\nHowever, the next race in the World Series after Japan will be in Leeds, where Brownlee could be joined by his brother.\n\nIn 2016, Alistair claimed victory with a dominant display in the pair's home city, with Jonny second.\n\n\"All I can do now is try and do my best in all the other races and hopefully win in Yokohama and win in Leeds,\" said Jonny.\n\n\"Some of my best races have been when I'm just returning from injury, so hopefully I can do it again.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nWorld number one Andy Murray said he is 'concerned' following defeat by Borna Coric in last 16 of the Madrid Open, but denied being low on confidence.\n\nMurray was beaten 6-3 6-3 by Coric, ranked 59th in the world, on Thursday.\n\nThe Briton has endured a tough season on clay, suffering a shock defeat in the last 16 of the Monte Carlo Masters last month and also losing in the semi-finals of the Barcelona Open.\n\n\"I definitely think I need to be concerned about today,\" Murray said.\n\n\"It's not always the worst thing losing a match, but it's sometimes the manner of how you lose the match which can be concerning or disappointing.\"\n\nCoric, 20, only gained a place at the tournament after Richard Gasquet withdrew - becoming the first lucky loser to reach the quarter-finals in the Madrid tournament's 16-year history.\n\nThe Croat broke his Scottish opponent three times in the opening set, and a further break in the second was enough to secure victory in one hour and 25 minutes.\n\nTop seed Murray hit 14 winners to his 28 unforced errors, but insisted his poor performance was not down to a lack of confidence.\n\n\"I was just making lots of mistakes early in the rallies and trying to end points very quickly at the beginning, and the errors just kept piling up.\" the 29-year-old told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I didn't feel that was down to confidence - I just wasn't focusing as well as I needed to on each point.\n\n\"I made a lot of unforced errors and I also didn't find any way to make it a more competitive match, so that's the most disappointing thing for me.\n\n\"You can lose matches sometimes, but the manner of today's loss was disappointing.\"\n\nThis result will come as a shock to Murray's system.\n\nHe had seemingly been growing in confidence, and rediscovering his rhythm little by little as he made his way from Monte Carlo to Barcelona, but now has just one week in Rome to find the form and belief which would make him a genuine contender for the French Open.\n\nHis first serve, which has been hindered by an elbow injury, was not to blame against Coric, who played aggressively and fluently and took full advantage of Murray's error-strewn performance.", "Women form nearly half the electorate in Iran\n\nWhen Iranians go to the polls to choose a new president next Friday, all the names on the ballot paper will be male. In the nearly four-decade history of the Islamic Republic, no woman has been allowed to stand for the top office.\n\nBut it's certainly not for want of trying.\n\nThis year, 137 women put their names forward. Most famous by far is Azam Taleghani, a 72-year old former MP and daughter of a well-known ayatollah.\n\nShe has registered to stand in most presidential elections since 1997, determined to challenge the archaic and ambiguous wording of the Iranian constitution which has traditionally been interpreted as meaning only men can become president.\n\nMs Taleghani argues that the criteria can apply to both men and women and that, as an experienced politician, she is eminently qualified.\n\nBut the electoral supervisory body, the Guardian Council, disagrees and has disqualified her at every attempt.\n\nThis March, now frail and walking with the help of a frame, Ms Taleghani once again determinedly made her way up the stone steps of the interior ministry to register. And once again she failed to qualify.\n\nEven though they are not allowed to stand, women comprise just under half the electorate, so their vote is important and presidential candidates usually make an effort to reach out to them.\n\nEarly on in the campaign the incumbent, President Hassan Rouhani, posted a photo of himself on social media which caused a flurry of comment.\n\nHe was out on a weekend walk in the mountains standing next to two young female hikers, both of whose hijab is far from what would be considered proper by the hardliners.\n\nIt was a clear message to young, modern female voters, that he was the candidate who was not overly bothered about the country's restrictive dress code and other curbs on social freedom.\n\nMr Rouhani's campaign video makes a point of praising Iranian women's achievements in the worlds of both work and sport, and offering his support.\n\nHe is also the only candidate so far to have held a rally specifically for female voters.\n\nHe was given a rapturous welcome by thousands of young women gathered at Tehran's Shiroudi stadium this week.\n\nMany were wearing purple headscarves - the colour of his campaign - and many held placards demanding more rights and freedoms.\n\nWomen are poorly represented in politics and government in Iran\n\nWell-known MP Parvaneh Salahshouri was cheered when she told the crowd that the morality police should leave women alone and focus on fighting corruption instead.\n\nFlanked by female MPs, Mr Rouhani took to the stage and indirectly rebuked his hardline rival Ebrahim Raisi over the conservatives' view that women's employment is less important than their role as wives and mothers.\n\n\"Aren't you the one trying to stop women from going out to work?\" he asked. \"If you really believe in female employment then why haven't you done anything about it?\"\n\nAs an ultra-conservative, Mr Raisi clearly has a harder job appealing to young, modern-minded female voters.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped him from trying. On the campaign trail he makes frequent mention of his wife - who has a PhD and is a university professor.\n\n\"I don't mind eating a cold dinner when my wife has to work late,\" he told a journalist recently.\n\nMr Raisi's critics are sceptical about his sudden interest in women's rights.\n\nA photograph of a recent campaign rally in which his supporters are clearly segregated by gender, has prompted much mockery from moderates.\n\nHardline candidate Ebrahim Raisi has also been courting the female vote\n\nMany suspect Mr Raisi's real views are actually closer to those of the man he's widely tipped to succeed Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.\n\nMr Khamenei is famous for dismissing gender equality as a \"failed Western idea\", and stressing the importance of Iranian women's role in the home and family.\n\nThe other key candidate in this race, Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, is also using social media to reach out to women.\n\nHe recently posted a photo of himself surrounded by young ethnic Kurds, including girls wearing colourful headscarves with their hair clearly visible.\n\nBut on social media he has been constantly reminded of his past proposals to segregate men and women in the workplace in Tehran. And President Rouhani has made several swipes at him for the same reason.\n\nAlongside the presidential poll, voters will also be electing new local councils and here women are involved and having more impact.\n\nRecord numbers of women won seats in local elections four years ago, and many are hoping to repeat that achievement this time round.\n\nOverall representation by women both in local councils and in parliament is still low - Iran ranks 177 out of 193 on the United Nation's 2017 Women in Politics report.\n\nBut the involvement of women on local councils has made an impact and it is here that they are clearly able to make a difference.\n\nBack on the campaign trail in Tehran women voters are listening hard to the pledges now being made to them by the candidates.\n\nMany are wondering whether the rhetoric will translate into policies that will really address the many pressures of their everyday lives.\n\nVeteran would-be presidential candidate Azam Taleghani has been taking part in an election meeting at Amir Kabir university.\n\nShe pledged to continue her campaign for women to be allowed to stand for president, but said that this time round she would be casting her vote for President Rouhani.\n\n\"Maybe we will never have a female president,\" she told students, \"But it doesn't mean the right to stand should be taken away from us.\"", "How US President Donald Trump spent his time before the firing of the FBI director - quietly and away from the public - sheds light on his decision-making.\n\nIn the days leading up to the president's momentous decision to fire FBI director James Comey, President Trump spent his time with members of his family and close aides.\n\nThe group didn't include his high-profile senior advisors, revealing the way that he was tightening the circle of trust before the bombshell announcement.\n\nEarlier this month Comey spoke with Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, about the investigation into Russia's attempts to interfere in the November election. Comey made it clear that he was working hard on the investigation and had no plans to drop the matter or go easy on the president.\n\nComey also spoke with lawmakers about the bureau's investigation into the Russians, and about its investigation into the emails of Hillary Clinton. On 3 May he told members of Congress that he felt he'd approached both investigations in an impartial manner.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do Trump supporters think about Comey's firing?\n\nThis did not sit well with the president, who was hoping that the investigation into his past ties with Russia would be dropped. Trump had expected Comey to make a public statement saying there was no investigation of him. He'd made sure Comey knew he was hoping for that statement, but Comey had refused to do it. That had gnawed away at Trump over recent weeks.\n\nTrump became even more wary when Comey testified before Congress on 3 May. The president, as White House officials explained later, was inclined to remove him from his post.\n\nIn a termination letter written to the FBI director, the president laid out his complaint and explained the rationale for his firing: \"While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgement of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau.\"\n\nFive days earlier - the day after Comey spoke with members of Congress - the president left on a trip to New York and then headed to New Jersey. For three days - from Thursday night until Sunday - the president was not seen by the public. He was staying at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, not far from New York City.\n\nTrump appeared before the press on Sunday 7 May, after three days out of the spotlight.\n\nWhile the president was spending time at his club, other members of the press pool and I - a small group of reporters who are responsible for tracking the president's activities on a daily basis - were waiting around in a hotel in nearby Branchburg. We weren't allowed to visit the resort. Instead White House officials would occasionally stop by the hotel and tell us that the president was having meetings - but wouldn't tell us with whom or what about.\n\nPresidents - like everybody else - like to have down time and relax. They're also free to work wherever they want. But it was unusual for a president to disappear from the public for this long and without a more detailed explanation from his aides about his activities. As it turned out, he was thinking about the FBI director - and the possibility of his ouster.\n\nOn Sunday evening Trump rode in a motorcade through New Jersey, driving past red barns and horse pastures, but he was in a dark vehicle and couldn't be seen. Then he got on Air Force One to fly from New Jersey to Washington. That's when members of the press saw him for the first time since Thursday.\n\nHe and his daughter Ivanka and his son-in-law Jared Kushner were seated in a cabin in the front of the aeroplane. KT McFarland, the deputy national security adviser, was on the flight. Stephen Miller, wearing a navy jacket and a white shirt with no tie, paced around the cabin.\n\nI didn't see HR McMaster, the national security adviser, or Stephen Bannon, the chief White House strategist. I was surprised because on most of the trips I'd gone on with the president, I'd seen Bannon on the aeroplane.\n\nThat evening I was sitting in the back of the aeroplane with the other reporters, and someone told me that Trump waved at us. During the short flight, the people in the front of the cabin were laughing and joking around.\n\nReporters and staff wait on the tarmac at Join Base Andrews on Sunday\n\nThen the aeroplane landed - and something seemed wrong. Kushner and his family came downstairs and headed towards a dark sedan, but the president didn't.\n\nMembers of the travelling press pool wait until the president gets off the plane and gets on his helicopter, Marine One, before they leave the tarmac - and so I stood there.\n\nIt was cold and blustery, and I spent a long time looking at the windows of the aeroplane and trying to figure out what was going on. We were there for so long that even the Secret Service agents started to look bored. One of them yawned.\n\nI asked White House aides about the delay, and they told me the president was in a meeting. \"He didn't want to break it off,\" one of the aides told me later.\n\nWhile we waited on the tarmac, an aide carried two or three golf clubs down the stairs, holding them close to his side so they'd be less visible. (Still they clanked together as he walked down the stairs - it's hard to hide golf clubs.)\n\nAt one point Kushner went back up the stairs of the plane. Every family has a mediator, someone who calms everyone else down, and he seems to play that role. After a while he came down the stairs again.\n\n\"Everything's OK,\" Kushner told me, talking about the president and his reasons for staying the plane. \"He was just working on something.\"\n\nFinally - after 45 minutes - Trump came out. He wasn't wearing a tie, and his hair looked messy. He gripped the handrail and walked down the stairs and headed for Marine Force One and back to the White House.\n\nI'm still not sure whom the president was meeting with on the plane or why the meeting was so important that it couldn't be interrupted when the plane landed. McFarland wasn't in the meeting - at least I don't think she was. I could see her walking past the windows of the plane. White House officials haven't provided me with more of an explanation for what was happening on the plane.\n\nOne thing seemed clear, though: the president was preparing for the important announcement about the FBI director in a safe, cloistered environment, an atmosphere in which he was unlikely to be challenged in a dramatic way.\n\nThat changed, of course, on Tuesday when Comey was sacked, and people outside the president's circle found out about the president's plans. The relaxed, contemplative world that he'd created had come to an end.\n\nUnlike previous presidents, he does not seem to have an established system either for his decision-making or for the rollout of major announcements. Trump may have thought long and hard about the termination of Comey, but analysts said that he didn't lay the groundwork for what would happen next.\n\n\"You'd think if you're going to fire someone, you'd have a successor lined up,\" said David Greenberg, the author of Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image.\n\nRight now the search is on for a new FBI director: stay tuned.", "China's President Xi Jinping intends to tell you a story.\n\nBut first he's going to try it out on the world's political leaders. Not those of the United States, Japan, India or much of the European Union. They've declined the invitation.\n\nBut this weekend Mr Xi is gathering all the presidents and prime ministers he can muster in Beijing, hoping to inspire them with a vision about China as a force for good in the world.\n\nXi Jinping came to power five years ago with a determination that China should stop hiding its light under a bushel. Instead of creeping up timidly on the world order, he felt it should walk tall as a mighty and ancient civilisation which had gone from marginal economic player to the world's biggest trading nation in less than four decades.\n\n\"The relationship between China and the rest of the world is undergoing historic changes. Tell China stories well,\" he urged the nation's media, diplomats and think tanks, adding that they must present China as a builder of world peace and contributor to global development.\n\nThis weekend he himself takes the stage as storyteller in chief at Beijing's Belt and Road Forum. It helps that there is currently no competing global narrative from the United States or the European Union, as President Trump turns inward to \"Make America Great Again\" and the EU struggles with Brexit and a slew of other challenges.\n\nChina's underlying narrative is well known to all Mr Xi's guests. Economic transformation and breakneck growth have returned it to its traditional position at the centre of the East Asian economy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What China's One Belt, One Road really means\n\nAnd now Mr Xi wants to use Chinese money and construction might to rebuild much of Eurasia's infrastructure of ports, roads and rails and put China at its heart. A giant exercise in joining the dots whose buzzword is connectivity.\n\nCritics in Washington, Tokyo and New Delhi observe that some of the biggest belt and road projects seem to be for strategically significant assets. Like the oil and gas pipelines across Central Asia, and the Indian Ocean ports in Pakistan and Sri Lanka which might serve military as well as commercial uses.\n\nMany observers see an obvious geopolitical agenda to the belt and road initiative, but in a suspicious and prickly neighbourhood China firmly denies it. To make the plan less threatening, it frames it as a revival of the ancient Silk Road whose camel caravans carried Chinese goods west across Asia more than 1,000 years ago.\n\nChina seeks to boost its connection with global markets\n\nThe aim is a soft-power message of a China which is mighty but peaceful, delivering what it can to the world in exchanges of mutual benefit. But the belt and road is much more ambitious than a camel caravan.\n\nBy land and by sea, through transport networks, telecoms, energy pipelines and industrial hubs, it promises to integrate more than 60 countries and 60% of the world's population.\n\nAnd for domestic Chinese audiences, the story of the belt and road is told with a different emphasis, focusing less on the wins for foreigners and more on opportunities for China's impoverished west and assisting China's push up the value chain into industries like high speed rail and nuclear power.\n\nThere's even a narrative aimed at foreign children. Mr Xi may be the headline act on stage this weekend but in the scramble to offer the warm up, the state-owned China Daily newspaper is running online videos of an American father telling his daughter bedtime stories about the belt and road as \"China's idea which belongs to the world\".\n\nThe video insists that it's a win-win project\n\nAnd in a catchy music video, ukulele strumming multi-ethnic children surrounded by cut-out camels sing the praises of the belt and road.\n\n\"We're paving new roads, building more ports, finding new options with friends of all sorts, It's a culture exchange, we trade in our wealth, we connect with our hearts, it strengthens our health,\" it goes.\n\nMr Xi has been telling the belt and road story for four years now. Why gather the world's decision makers in Beijing for a grand rendition now?\n\nOne short answer is that he needs to drum up growth. China's domestic economy is slowing and exporting Chinese construction capacity to the belt and road would help boost the domestic economy in the short and medium term.\n\nIf even some of the infrastructure projects succeed, they might in turn contribute to growth in the long term by spurring demand from China's neighbours.\n\nBut a more personal reason for the timing is Mr Xi's own political cycle. In the one-party state, being Communist Party leader is more important than being president and this year China will hold a vital Party Congress.\n\nHosting the world this weekend burnishes Xi Jinping's aura of invincibility by reminding his party and public that he is increasing China's clout on the international stage.\n\nPresident Xi is happy to step in as the US becomes more isolationist\n\nA third reason for the timing is the international picture. Many of America's friends and allies in the region were dismayed by Mr Trump's decision to walk away from the TPP trade agreement, an agreement which his predecessor had said was vital to the US setting the rules of the road in Asia rather than letting China set them.\n\nMr Xi's new push for the belt and road initiative is the same kind of canny political opportunism that spurred his defence of globalisation at the Davos forum in January.\n\nSo China's president has been lucky in his timing and bold in seizing the stage. And it will certainly look to his guests as if he usually gets what he wants. No country puts on a grand spectacle of purpose and progress quite like China does.\n\nThis weekend Beijing's sky will be blue. Smog, traffic snarl and ghost towns littered with white elephant infrastructure will be safely far from view.\n\nThis is the show and tell of Xi Jinping's story… China the can-do master builder inspiring awe in all beholders and giving hope that what China has achieved at home it might replicate elsewhere.\n\nBut the truth is that Mr Xi's will works as an organising principle only for some of the people some of the time, and usually only for a very small number of highly specific objectives. Even in Beijing, the sky is not always blue, the traffic is often snarled and resources are often misallocated.\n\nHow much more is this true beyond the glittering capital. China is an economy with a perilous debt overhang precisely because its investors are just as fallible as those of other countries.\n\nYes, on the right project and for the right price, Chinese money and Chinese master builders can work infrastructure wonders. But that was always the case. The belt and road is an important initiative, but one of indeterminate boundaries, duration and outcome.\n\nMr Xi's guests should not make the mistake of thinking all Chinese players will do his bidding and all bedtime stories will come true.", "Water, water everywhere - but when can you drink it for free?\n\nMost people do not know their rights to free drinking water from businesses and public buildings, a survey says.\n\nThe Keep Britain Tidy poll says only 25% of the public know when they can ask for water for free - while 71% feel awkward asking for water from venues if they are not a customer.\n\nBut even if they are buying something, more than a third feel awkward asking for their water bottle to be filled.\n\nThe poll for the charity and Brita UK saw 2,119 people surveyed by YouGov.\n\nKeep Britain Tidy chief executive Allison Ogden-Newton said: \"This report demonstrates that the British public want greater access to tap water when out and about.\"\n\nSo when can you ask for a free glass of water, and when can't you?\n\nSome licensed premises might give you free water, but charge for the glass it comes in\n\nAll licensed premises in England and Wales are required by law to provide \"free potable water\" to their customers upon request. In Scotland a similar law applies, but specifies \"tap water fit for drinking\".\n\nThis means pubs, bars, nightclubs, cafes, restaurants, takeaway food and drink outlets, cinemas, theatres, and even village and community halls - so long as they are authorised to serve alcohol.\n\nHowever, these premises can charge people for the use of a glass - or their service - when serving the \"free\" tap water.\n\nThere is no law regarding the provision of drinking water in licensed premises in Northern Ireland.\n\nYou may work up a sweat in a gym, but that doesn't mean you can get a drink of water for free\n\nUnlicensed premises in the UK do not have to legally supply free drinking water.\n\nSo, provided they are unlicensed, this includes sports stadiums, leisure centres, swimming pools, health clubs, tourists attractions, theatres, cinemas and beauty salons.\n\nSchools must provide free drinking water by law - but not in Northern Ireland\n\nSchools are legally required to provide drinking water for pupils at all times in England, Scotland and Wales - but not Northern Ireland.\n\nHowever, there is guidance from the Public Health Agency stating that children in Northern Ireland \"must have easy access at all times to free, fresh, preferably chilled water\".\n\nAll UK employers must provide free drinking water in the workplace for all their employees, at all times.\n\nMany people are not confident about drinking from a public fountain\n\nOf the people taking part in the poll, only 7% said they drink from water fountains or public taps - while 55% were concerned about the cleanliness of public water taps, fountains and dispensers.\n\nJust 11% said they would pop into a cafe or restaurant to ask for tap water.\n\nKeep Britain Tidy has issued recommendations aimed at improving the public's access to drinking water.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWinning the Europa League to qualify for the Champions League would be the \"perfect\" end to Manchester United's season, says manager Jose Mourinho.\n\nThe Red Devils survived a late scare against Spanish side Celta Vigo to join Ajax in the 24 May final in Stockholm.\n\nMourinho fears Ajax, who finish the Dutch season on Sunday, will be better prepared after a 12-day break.\n\n\"This season has been so difficult, so if we manage to win the Europa League it will be amazing,\" he said.\n\n\"It means a chance to win a trophy and the opportunity to be back in the Champions League.\"\n\nLeading 1-0 from the first leg, United took control of the tie as Marouane Fellaini headed home Marcus Rashford's cross.\n\nCelta, needing two goals, levelled on the night through Facundo Roncaglia to set up a tense final few minutes.\n\nAnd Celta striker John Guidetti scuffed a golden chance to put the visitors through to their first major European final with the final kick of the game.\n\nMourinho has prioritised winning Europe's secondary club competition, which guarantees a place in next season's Champions League, in his debut season at Old Trafford.\n\nUnited have three Premier League games left before they can fully focus on their seventh European final.\n\nThe Red Devils, who are sixth and four points adrift of Manchester City in fourth, visit second-placed Tottenham on Sunday.\n\nMourinho's side also face a trip to Southampton before rounding off their campaign with a home game against Crystal Palace.\n\nThe Eagles, who could still be fighting for their top-flight survival, visit Old Trafford three days before the Europa League final.\n\n\"Ajax's league finishes Sunday,\" said Mourinho. \"They have 12 days to prepare. We have three games and three days.\n\n\"Hopefully Palace have nothing to play for because I will make a lot of changes.\"\n\nCelta coach Eduardo Berizzo bemoaned the fact United scored with what he said was their \"one chance\".\n\n\"We performed much better than United did at our place,\" he said. \"We possibly deserved to get through.\n\n\"Given the huge gap on all levels between the clubs, we managed to bridge that gap.\n\n\"I want my team to play the way I live life. We express ourselves through attacking football. I think our opponents wanted to break up our fluidity.\"\n\n'Off the cuff has gone' - analysis\n\nFormer England international Chris Waddle, who was at Old Trafford for BBC Radio 5 live:\n\n\"Manchester United have always been known as entertainers, but I think they showed against Celta Vigo what they are now, which is a well-disciplined and well-organised team - the bit of them that was off the cuff has gone.\n\n\"United were set up defensively and playing on the counter-attack, and doing that they are never going to score a lot goals. You can see why they have struggled to beat teams at Old Trafford this season.\n\n\"Yes, results and trophies are what matters to Jose Mourinho, and his side have won the tie and are into the Europa League final, but the way they did it was not very entertaining.\n\n\"Trophies are brilliant to lift and they go in the cabinet and add to a club's history. You can look at them and say a team were winners but they do not tell you how well, or how badly, they played to do it.\n\n\"In the final they will be playing against an Ajax team who play the way Ajax have always played - entertaining, attack-minded and looking to get on the front foot.\n\n\"United won't do that. They will have the same game plan as they did against Celta Vigo - Mourinho is going to set up his side in an identical way and he will not take any risks.\"\n\nLed by Bobby Charlton and George Best, Matt Busby's side became the first English team to win the European Cup with a 4-1 win over Benfica at Wembley.\n\nTwo goals from Mark Hughes, now Stoke manager, gave United a 2-1 win over Barcelona in Rotterdam. Ronald Koeman, now manager of Everton, scored for Barca.\n\nPerhaps United's most famous success. Trailing Bayern Munich in the Nou Camp heading into stoppage time, Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scored following David Beckham corners to complete an incredible turnaround and seal an unprecedented Treble.\n\nAn all-English affair in late-night Moscow. Cristiano Ronaldo and Frank Lampard exchanged goals to take the tie to penalties and, after Ronaldo missed, John Terry had the chance to win it for Chelsea. However, he slipped, missed, and Edwin van der Sar then saved from Nicolas Anelka.\n\nRonaldo's final game for United ended in defeat as Samuel Eto'o and Lionel Messi scored to give Pep Guardiola's Barcelona victory in Rome.\n\nA repeat performance from Guardiola's Barcelona as United were outclassed at Wembley. Lionel Messi, Pedro and David Villa scored and Sir Alex Ferguson described Barca as the best team he had ever faced.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United survived a huge late scare to edge past Spanish visitors Celta Vigo and set up a Europa League final against Dutch giants Ajax.\n\nLeading 1-0 from the first leg, United took control as Marouane Fellaini headed home Marcus Rashford's cross.\n\nBut Celta, needing two goals, levelled on the night through Facundo Roncaglia to set up a tense final few minutes.\n\nUnited's Eric Bailly and Roncaglia were sent off after a mass brawl, and the hosts hung on to reach the final.\n\nIndeed they could only celebrate after Celta striker John Guidetti scuffed a golden chance to put the visitors through to their first major European final with the final kick of the game.\n\nThe aggregate victory took the Red Devils a step closer to their first Europa League triumph and a return to the Champions League.\n\nThey will meet Ajax, who beat Lyon in the other semi-final, in Stockholm on 24 May.\n• None 'As long as he isn't sitting next to me' Spanish commentator v 5 live Sport\n\nFunctional not flashy - but in the final\n\nUnited had never lost a two-legged European tie after winning the first leg away from home, and knew they would reach the final by keeping a clean sheet at an expectant Old Trafford.\n\nThe hosts looked nervy as Celta made an attacking start, before Fellaini settled the tension by converting his side's first effort on target.\n\nThe Belgium midfielder sneaked in at the far post to powerfully head in Rashford's clipped left-wing cross.\n\nJose Mourinho's side created few other chances as they aimed to frustrate the visitors with an organised and largely defensive approach.\n\nAlthough Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Rashford and Fellaini all drew saves from Celta keeper Sergio Alvarez after the break, it was a functional - not flashy - performance.\n\nCelta, who had lost their previous five matches and are 12th in La Liga, had more possession than the home side, and forced United keeper Sergio Romero into instinctive saves at the start of each half.\n\nThey then ignited the tie with Roncaglia's glancing header following a corner.\n\nThe away goal, which left them needing one more to eliminate United, increased the tension inside Old Trafford, leading to a scuffle involving almost all 22 players on the field.\n\nBailly was sent off for a swipe at former Manchester City striker Guidetti, with Roncaglia dismissed for retaliating.\n\nWith six minutes of added time, there was still opportunity for Celta to create one final chance - but Guidetti blew it.\n\nWhile United's players greeted the final whistle with a mixture of relief and jubilation, the visitors slumped to the turf with Guidetti in tears.\n\n\"You cannot win a semi-final easily, or be calm. We are in the final, that's what counts,\" said United midfielder Ander Herrera.\n\nWinning the Europa League has become Mourinho's priority as he looks to secure a return to the Champions League in his debut season at Old Trafford.\n\nAnd the campaign will be deemed a disappointing one if his team lose to Ajax, who edged out Lyon 5-4 on aggregate.\n\nExpectations were high that Mourinho's arrival would bring an end to the malaise that has surrounded the Red Devils since Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement.\n\nUnited have finished seventh, fourth and fifth in the three Premier League seasons since the Scot's departure - and Mourinho arrived with loftier ambitions than simply scraping into the top four.\n\nTen months later, the Portuguese has been forced to drastically reassess his ambitions.\n\nHe appears to have conceded defeat in the top-four race, with his team sixth, four points adrift of Manchester City going into their final three matches.\n\nWith the return leg against Celta at the forefront of his mind, Mourinho made eight changes for Sunday's 2-0 defeat at Arsenal - a clear admission he felt winning the Europa League was more attainable than breaking into the top four.\n\nHowever, his decision will only be justified if they are successful in beating Ajax and claiming their sixth European trophy.\n\nThe missing piece in the jigsaw\n\nThe Red Devils have won 65 trophies in their illustrious 115-year history, a figure including 20 English league titles and three European Cup/Champions League victories.\n\nHowever, there is one piece of silverware missing from the Old Trafford trophy room.\n\nIn recent seasons winning the Europa League may have been considered an unwanted honour. Now it is considered a must-win as the club looks to complete a clean sweep of the major competitions at home and abroad.\n\n\"They are not the most technical Man Utd team I've ever seen. Mourinho is very good at setting a team up but it is not entertaining.\n\n\"United have always been entertainers and even if they win the Europa League, people will say: 'Yes they won it, but it wasn't entertaining.'\n\n\"The goal for Celta came from United's lack of concentration and it became a little bit \"panic stations\" for the rest of the match.\n\n\"Ajax are a young team - they could easily freeze in that final.\"\n\n\"We were the best team in the first leg but we never kill, we never score goals related to the chances we have. It was an open game at home, all the pressure on our side.\n\n\"They were completely free of responsibility and gave us a very hard match. We suffered until the end and it was open until the last second. The boys gave everything they had. I'm really pleased for them.\n\n\"After 14 matches, we are in the final. If we win the Europa League, I am more than happy. It would be amazing.\"\n\nBefore they can fully focus on the Europa League final, United have three more Premier League matches to think about.\n\nThey go to second-placed Tottenham on Sunday (16:30 BST), before games against Southampton and Crystal Palace.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Antonio Valencia tries a through ball, but Marouane Fellaini is caught offside.\n• None Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Gustavo Cabral (Celta de Vigo) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Facundo Roncaglia (Celta de Vigo) is shown the red card for violent conduct. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\n-5 -4 JB Holmes (US), A Noren (Swe), C Reavie (US), J Rahm (Spa)\n\nMasters winner Sergio Garcia hit a hole-in-one on the iconic 17th hole as Adam Scott blew the chance to take a first-round lead at the Players Championship at Sawgrass in Florida.\n\nGarcia, playing his first tournament since Masters victory last month, recovered from a poor start to card a one-over round of 73.\n\nWorld number 11 Scott dropped four shots in the last two holes.\n\nThe 2013 Masters champion was on six under through 16 holes but hit a five on the par-three 17th and a six on the par-four 18th to shoot a two-under 70.\n\nEngland's Lee Westwood shot a bogey-free round of 70 to reach two under, with compatriot Paul Casey and Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell a stroke further back.\n\nScott's fellow Australian Jason Day, the world number three, is two under, a shot ahead of a group including world number one Dustin Johnson and Bernhard Langer, who at 59 is the oldest player in the tournament.\n\nRory McIlroy is one over, while Luke Donald and Masters runner-up Justin Rose both opened with a two-over 74.\n\nGarcia started with three bogeys and a double bogey in the first six holes but three birdies in total and the ace on 17 helped him recover to stay in contention.\n\nThe Spaniard is just the the eighth player to make a hole-in-one on the 17th at Sawgrass in Players Championship history.\n\n\"It was nice to see it bounce and kind of spin back into the hole, maybe because I needed it after the start I had,\" said Garcia.\n\n\"I wasn't quite in the tournament because of everything that's been going on after the Masters win and media and people congratulating you left, right and centre - I was a little bit up in the clouds, and when I woke up, I was four over after six.\"\n\nAmerican Johnson narrowly missed out on winning his fourth straight tournament at the Wells Fargo Championship last week, finishing second on his return from the back injury that saw him pull out of the Masters on the first tee.\n\nHe started with a bogey at Sawgrass, hitting three in total, but two birdies and an eagle on the par-five 16th saw him move to four shots behind the leader.\n\n\"I could never really get any momentum - I hit some good shots, then I would lip-out the putt,\" said Johnson.\n\nCo-leader McGirt hit three birdies on the front nine and eagled both of the par five holes on the back nine to offset two bogeys.\n\nIt is the fifth time the 37-year-old American, who won the 2016 Memorial Tournament, has held the lead or a share of the lead after 18 holes but is yet to convert an opening-round lead into victory.\n\nPlayers can go through spells when they cannot avoid being centre of attention.\n\nIt seems this is the case for Masters winner Sergio Garcia, who repaired a stumbling start with a hole-in-one on probably the most iconic par three on the PGA Tour.\n\nThat capped an odd opening day in which a string of big names - Jason Day, Adam Scott and Rickie Fowler included - handed back promising starts.\n\nSawgrass represents an exacting test with no margin for error and that remains the case following the latest renovations to the layout.\n\nRory McIlroy has been troubled with a back problem that hampered his preparations and he will need to shed rust rapidly to have any chance of contending over the weekend.", "It's Eurovision time again, which means it's time to take the voting very personally indeed.\n\nWho is rejecting the UK's tunes and who is telling us we're not alone?\n\nDownloading the voting from fan site eschome.net you can find out how many points all other countries have given the UK at Eurovision since it started in 1957.\n\nA continuous data set is tricky because of rule changes over the years, especially last year when telephone votes were separated from jury votes, increasing the number of votes available.\n\nAlso, not all of the countries that participated in the early days have survived to the end.\n\nBut some steps may be taken to check the facts on the site, for example, it gives the total number of votes received by the UK as 3,911, which is confirmed by the official Eurovision site.\n\nNonetheless, by dividing the number of points given to the UK by the number of times a country has participated we can find out who our real friends are.\n\nWe're excluding countries that have participated fewer than five times, although Morocco deserves a special mention having only appeared once in 1980, when it gave the UK and the song Love Enough for Two a creditable eight points.\n\nThat's even better than honorary Europeans Australia, who gave the UK eight points in one of the two years it has participated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lucie Jones performs Never Give Up On You, the UK's entry for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nSo, excluding the occasional contestants, our best friends are Luxembourg, which has averaged a touch under five points per contest.\n\nLuxembourg was one of the original participants in Eurovision but has not taken part since 1993. Sadly the love was not reciprocated, with the UK giving Luxembourg only an average of 2.5 points per contest.\n\nLuxembourg is closely followed by Malta and then Ireland, which is widely seen as our best Eurovision friend because it has given the UK the most points overall in the history of the competition. The UK has given Ireland an average of almost 5.5 points in finals.\n\nCompleting the top 10 in order are: Austria, Israel, Switzerland, Turkey, Portugal, Yugoslavia (which competed 27 times before it was broken up) and Monaco.\n\nAt the bottom end, the country that has snubbed the UK the most consistently is Montenegro, which has failed to give the UK a single point in the eight times it has participated.\n\nThe other countries averaging less than one point per contest are Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, this year's hosts Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Armenia.\n\nClearly, those countries that have been withholding their love from the UK are relative newcomers to the competition, with all of them having competed fewer than 15 times.\n\nAmong the seven countries that participated in the first contest, the least love has been shown by the Netherlands, which is halfway down the list, having given the UK an average of 2.7 points per contest.\n\nThe Eurovision Song Contest final will be broadcast on BBC One on Saturday from 20:00 BST.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Everton midfielder Ross Barkley has until the end of the Premier League season next weekend to sign a new contract or he will be sold, says manager Ronald Koeman.\n\nKoeman last month warned the England international, 23, that with a year left on his deal he could be sold.\n\nEverton face Watford on Friday before finishing their Premier League campaign at Arsenal on Sunday, 21 May.\n\n\"Either he accepts the contract or we sell the player,\" said Koeman.\n\n\"But if you need so much time then you have doubts - I like to work with players who like to stay.\"\n\nThe Dutchman said the Everton board had tried \"for a long time\" to get Barkley to sign and were already looking at replacements in attacking positions.\n\nHe added: \"We don't wait till August - next weekend we need an answer.\"\n\nBarkley has scored four goals and provided eight assists in 34 Premier League appearances this season.\n\nKoeman has used tough love to get the best out of Barkley this season - from public criticism, removal at half-time at Sunderland, praise for improvement but then back to dropping him at Swansea City last weekend. The latest message was just tough - no love involved.\n\nRuthless and pragmatic, the Everton boss delivered the ultimatum with the air of a man who would not lose a single second of sleep should he have to sell Barkley, making it clear he questions his long-term commitment because of his apparent reluctance to sign a new deal.\n\nBarkley now faces a dilemma. The boyhood Everton fan seems to believe the grass might be greener elsewhere, perhaps for Champions League football at Tottenham. But would Barkley even get in a Spurs team that already has Dele Alli and Christian Eriksen? Could he risk being a bench-warmer with a World Cup looming and England looking certain to qualify?\n\nFor Koeman's part, this unsentimental and single-minded individual clearly believes Barkley has had long enough to decide if he wants to stay at Everton and if he wishes to leave seems perfectly content to show him the door.", "Shorter sets and a shot clock are among the innovative ideas to be trialled at a youth tennis tournament by the sport's ruling body.\n\nThe ATP's Under-21 version of the World Tour Finals in Milan in November will introduce first to four game sets, with a tie-break at three-all.\n\nReduced warm-ups, a no-let rule for serves and sudden death at deuce are other changes planned.\n\nTennis chiefs hope the move will attract new and younger fans.\n\nAmong the changes for the Next Gen ATP Finals, featuring eight of the world's best Under-21 players, are:\n• Shorter format: First to four game sets (rather than first to six) with a tie-break, if needed, at three-all. Best of five sets (previously best of three at this event). No more 'advantage' scoring, with a sudden-death deuce point where the receiver chooses which side their opponent serves from.\n• Shorter Warm-Up: Matches will begin precisely five minutes, rather than 10 minutes, from the second player's walk-on.\n• Shot Clock: To be used in between points to ensure strict regulation of the rule which allows players 25 seconds to serve. The clock will also be used for the warm-up, during set breaks and medical time-outs - which will be limited to one per player per match.\n• Player coaching: Players and coaches will be able to communicate at certain points in the match (to be determined), although coaches will not be allowed on court.\n• Spectators : Fans (except those behind the baselines) will be able to enter and leave the arena while matches take place.\n\nWhy are the changes being brought in?\n\nThe ATP said the aim of the changes was designed to create a \"high-tempo, cutting-edge, and TV-friendly product\".\n\nIt wants to attract new and younger fans into into the sport, while at the same time retaining the sport's traditional fan base.\n\nATP president Chris Kermode added: \"We're excited to be bringing something new to the table with this event.\n\n\"This event is not only about the next generation of players, but also about the next generation of fans.\"\n\nHe stressed that the ATP remains \"acutely aware of the traditions in our sport\".\n\n\"We will be sure to safeguard the integrity of our product when assessing if any changes should eventually be carried forward onto regular ATP World Tour events in the future,\" he said.\n\nThe ATP's president Chris Kermode has been clear for a while that tennis will have to change within the next 10 years. He says he is not worried where the next generation of players will come from, but has real concerns about the next generation of fans.\n\nThe television audience is ageing: so what will those in their 20s and 30s be prepared to sit down and (possibly pay to) watch in future?\n\nA shorter format has served its purpose in cricket, but it is not just the time it takes: it is also about providing the entertainment which has made the Indian Premier League so popular in its first decade.\n\nWhat have other sports tried?\n\nTennis is the latest sport to try a different format:\n\nCricket - Led the way with 20-over Twenty20 competition. A new eight-team, city-based T20 tournament is planned by the England and Wales Cricket Board, which it is hoped could rival the success of the Indian Premier League and Australia's Big Bash.\n\nGolf - Earlier this month, the European Tour staged its first Golf Sixes event where each of the six holes has a theme, including a long-drive contest, nearest to the pin and a 40-second shot clock. Much like T20, there was also pyrotechnics and music.\n\nAthletics - The inaugural Nitro Athletics event in Melbourne in February included mixed relays and an elimination mile, where the last-placed runner was eliminated at the end of each of the first three laps of the track. During the meet, flame cannons shot fireballs into the air and there were dancers as pop music blared out.\n\nSnooker - Shoot Out is a knockout tournament where each match is one frame, played with a shot clock, and fans are allowed to shout out encouragement. It controversially became a ranking event this year.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he would have been sacked by former clubs Barcelona and Bayern Munich if he had ended a season without a trophy.\n\nCity have failed to win any silverware in Guardiola's debut season, and are not yet guaranteed a top-four Premier League finish with two games to play.\n\nGuardiola's side lost in the Champions League last 16, FA Cup semi-finals and League Cup fourth round.\n\n\"In my situation at a big club, I'm sacked. I'm out,\" said the Spaniard.\n\n\"If it is Barcelona and Bayern, you don't win and you are out. Here I have a second chance and I will try to do it better next season.\"\n\nCity may have to win both of their final league games to secure third place ahead of Liverpool and Arsenal and clinch direct qualification into next season's Champions League.\n\nThey host eighth-placed West Brom on Tuesday before Sunday's trip to Watford, who are 16th.\n\nThe former Spain international succeeded Manuel Pellegrini as City manager last summer, arriving with high expectations after success-packed spells at both Barcelona and Bayern.\n\nA former Barca midfielder, the 46-year-old led the Catalan club to 14 trophies in four years, including three La Liga titles and two Champions Leagues, between 2008 and 2012.\n\nAfter taking a year-long sabbatical, he joined German giants Bayern in 2013 and won the Bundesliga in each of his three seasons at the Allianz Arena.\n\nBayern also won the German Cup in twice in that period, but Guardiola could not steer them past the Champions League semi-finals.\n\nCity fans hoped his arrival would lead to their first Premier League title in three seasons, but, despite winning their opening six games, they have faced a battle to finish in the top four.\n\nFifth-placed Arsenal are hoping to take advantage if City drop points over the next two games, but Guardiola has dismissed Gunners boss Arsene Wenger's concern that \"some teams are on holiday\".\n\n\"I never saw one player in my life go to the pitch and not try to win the game,\" he said.\n\n\"Arsenal play against Sunderland and Everton - one is relegated and one is in the Europa League - so it is the same situation.\"\n\nLost on away goals to Monaco (6-6 on agg)", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nJohanna Konta made a strong start at the Italian Open with a straight-set win over Kazakhstan's Yulia Putintseva in Rome.\n\nThe British number one, who turns 26 on Wednesday, won 6-3 6-0 to claim her second clay-court victory of the year.\n\nKonta had a bye in the first round as the fifth seed and will face American Venus Williams or Ukraine's Lesia Tsurenko in round three.\n\nTop seed Andy Murray takes on Italian Fabio Fognini in the evening session at 20:00 BST.\n\nKonta impressed against Putintseva, breaking the world number 29's serve four times while remaining steadfast on her own.\n\n\"You need to play yourself a little bit into the match and into the tournament,\" said Konta.\n\n\"I felt that my level did improve, especially at the beginning of that second set pretty much through to the end.\"\n\nThe first set was hard work for the Briton but her attacking instincts prevailed with the only break in game five.\n\nA fainting ball boy, who was escorted from the court, was the only significant interruption to the world number six's progress in the second set as she raced through six straight games.\n\n\"I saw him after the match and he seemed to be doing better, so I think he's fine,\" Konta said of the ball boy.", "Redevelopment of White Hart Lane starts less than 24 hours after Tottenham said an emotional farewell to their home of the past 118 years with a 2-1 win over Manchester United.\n\nThey plan to have a new 61,000-seater stadium, built on the same site, ready for the 2018-19 season.\n\nIn the meantime, the club will play home games at Wembley, which they have used in the Champions League and Europa League this season.\n\nThe new stadium is expected to cost £750m but will create about 3,500 jobs in the area when it is finished, according to the club.\n\nREAD MORE: 'The heavens are shedding a tear' - White Hart Lane memories", "The son of Brazilian World Cup winner Bebeto, subject of the famous 'rocking cradle' celebration in the 1994 World Cup, has signed for Sporting Lisbon.\n\nYou can follow action from tonight's football on this website on the BBC Sport app and on The Red Button with 5 live Final Score from 19:00 BST.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Candidates: Clockwise from top left: Lawyer Alice Fisher, New York Appeals Court Judge Michael Garcia, Republican Senator John Cornyn and Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said he could announce a replacement for former FBI director James Comey as early as this week, and former Senator Joe Lieberman was among his top choices.\n\nMr Trump told reporters on Thursday his pick would be announced \"very soon\". The position requires Senate confirmation.\n\nThe White House was engulfed in turmoil after Mr Trump fired Mr Comey, citing his handling of the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while at the State Department.\n\nCritics have accused the White House of trying to thwart Mr Comey's investigation into alleged Russian interference in the US election and any Moscow ties to Trump associates.\n\nThere were reportedly at least 14 candidates in the frame, but Trey Gowdy and John Cornyn have ruled themselves out.\n\nEarlier this week, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer added three more names to the list.\n\nJoe Lieberman: The former Connecticut senator, 75, is a Democrat-turned-Independent who endorsed John McCain in 2008 and Hillary Clinton in 2016. He was the Democratic vice-presidential candidate on the 2000 ticket with Al Gore. Mr Lieberman lost the Democratic primary in 2006 but kept his seat as an \"independent Democrat\" in the general election. He was Connecticut's attorney general before he was elected to the Senate in 1988. He retired from Congress in 2012.\n\nActing FBI Director Andrew McCabe: The former FBI deputy director became second in command in January 2016. Before joining the FBI, he interned with the Department of Justice's criminal division while in law school and later worked at a Philadelphia law firm. Mr McCabe's wife, Jill, ran as a Democrat in Virginia for a state Senate seat in 2016 and received political donations from some Clinton allies.\n\nHe appeared to contradict the White House during testimony last week, telling a congressional panel the FBI investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the US election was \"a highly significant investigation\". He also said Mr Comey \"enjoyed broad support within the FBI and still does to this day\", casting doubt on Mr Trump's claim that the former FBI chief had lost the confidence of his staff.\n\nFrank Keating: The former Oklahoma Republican governor worked as an FBI special agent before becoming a politician. He penned an op-ed in the Tulsa World last April entitled: \"Anyone but Trump\". But his brother, Dan Keating, served as the Oklahoma state co-chair for Mr Trump's campaign. The governor told MSNBC at the Republican National Convention that he voted for Ohio Governor John Kasich in the Republican primary election, but conceded \"Trump's our guy\" and there was no other alternative.\n\nRichard McFeely: Retired from the FBI in 2014 after more than two decades with the agency. He was a top official who oversaw about 60% of FBI operations, including the Cyber Division, which included an upwards of a thousand agents, analysts, forensic specialists and computer scientists, according to a 2013 New Yorker piece.\n\nMike Rogers: The former Michigan congressman was endorsed by the FBI Agents Association, which represents thousands of current and former FBI agents. The former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is also an ex-FBI special agent and a veteran of the armed forces. The association described Mr Rogers as \"someone capable of confronting the wide array of challenges facing our help ensure that the bureau remains the world's premiere law enforcement agency\".\n\nAlice Fisher: The defence lawyer was the first candidate interviewed at the justice department, according to US media reports. She ran the justice department's criminal division as an assistant attorney general under former president George W Bush and is currently a partner at a Washington law firm. Ms Fisher would be the first woman to lead the agency if selected.\n\nJudge Michael Garcia: The former federal prosecutor serves as an associate judge on New York's highest state court. As a US attorney, he oversaw an investigation into a prostitution ring that prompted the resignation of then-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. He also led an investigation into alleged corruption in the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. His inquiry also aided a criminal investigation of Fifa, the world governing body of soccer, by US and Switzerland. The Latino judge was appointed to the court by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2016. He also was appointed as assistant secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by former President Bush in 2002.\n\nHenry E Hudson: The US district judge in Virginia was appointed by former President Bush. He is best known for striking down a key provision of former President Barack Obama's healthcare law in 2010. The conservative judge also sentenced football star Michael Vick to nearly two years in federal prison for running a dog-fighting operation in Virginia in 2007.\n\nFrances Townsend: Ms Townsend served as a security and counterterrorism adviser to the Bush administration. She was reportedly spotted at the White House on Monday afternoon before Mr Comey was fired and met Mr Trump last year at Trump Tower in New York when she was under consideration for a top administration role. The former federal prosecutor in New York climbed the ranks to become a senior intelligence official at the justice department and US Coast Guard in Washington. She would become the first female to lead the agency. However, she was one of dozens of national security veterans to sign an open letter calling Mr Trump a \"fundamentally dishonest\" candidate during the election campaign.\n\nAdam Lee: The head of the FBI's office in Richmond, Virginia, returned to the justice department for a second interview on Saturday, according to US media.\n\nWilliam Evanina: He is the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.\n\nPaul Abbate: He currently serves as the executive assistant director for the FBI's Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch. He previously oversaw FBI field offices in Washington and Detroit and has been at the agency for more than 20 years.\n\nJudge Michael Luttig: He is a former justice department lawyer who was appointed by President George HW Bush. He left the bench in 2006 to join Boeing, where he serves as general counsel. He was considered for two US Supreme Court vacancies, which were instead given to Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito.\n\nLarry Thompson: He served as a deputy attorney general under the Bush administration from 2001 to 2003. He also was a federal prosecutor in Georgia and has held several senior roles at PepsiCo.\n\nRay Kelly: The former police commissioner led the New York Police Department (NYPD) for more than a decade. He created the first counterterrorism bureau in any police department in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and oversaw a marked drop in New York's crime. But under his leadership, the NYPD was scrutinised for its use of aggressive force and stop-and-frisk programme, which critics say disproportionately affected non-white residents.\n\nJohn Suthers: The mayor of Colorado Springs was formerly the state's attorney general from 2005 to 2015. As a prosecutor he was one of several to sue the Obama administration during the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and he signed on to a legal challenge to defend the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which barred gay marriage.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nA Yann Kermorgant penalty was enough for Reading to edge out Fulham and reach the Championship play-off final.\n\nThe French forward fired the Royals into the Wembley final on Monday, 29 May for a shot at promotion to the Premier League just after half-time.\n\nThe only goal of the second leg came after Fulham centre-back Tomas Kalas was penalised for handball.\n\nFulham were denied a leveller by a string of excellent saves from Ali Al Habsi in the Reading goal.\n\nThe Royals, who finished third in manager Jaap Stam's first season in charge, will play either Huddersfield or Sheffield Wednesday in the final.\n\nShortly after full-time, Reading also announced that Chinese brother and sister Dai Yongge and Dai Xiu Li had become the majority shareholders of the club.\n\nThe two sides were level at 1-1 from Saturday's first leg at Craven Cottage and an opening half an hour of great intensity saw both goalkeepers make fine saves to keep the scores tied.\n\nGoalscorer Kermorgant was denied an earlier opener by Marcus Bettinelli's fine right-hand stop after his low shot on the turn, before Al Habsi denied Fulham's Tom Cairney at the other end.\n\nAfter the break, it was a lapse in concentration from Fulham centre-back Kalas that was to prove the decisive moment.\n\nKermorgant chased a ball over the top into the Fulham area and put pressure on Kalas, who was penalised by referee Martin Atkinson as the ball rolled up his left arm.\n\nThe 35-year-old striker converted the spot kick low to Bettinelli's right for his 19th goal of the Championship campaign.\n\nReading's progression to the final against a free-flowing and attacking Fulham owed much to their player of the season Al Habsi.\n\nThe Oman international, 35, was imperious throughout and kept his side in the game in the first half with a fine double save, first from Cairney's curling free-kick and then Sone Aluko's rebound.\n\nThose quick reflexes came after he parried a Ryan Fredericks shot on to the base of the post.\n\nIn the second half, and with his side leading, he then tipped over a Kevin McDonald strike after Aluko had cut Reading open with some sublime skill down the right wing.\n\nHe still had time to deny substitute Chris Martin what looked like a simple finish as he dived to smother the ball at the striker's feet on the edge of the six-yard box.\n\nReading return to Wembley in a Championship play-off final for the first time since 2011, when they were beaten 4-2 by Swansea.\n\nFulham are yet to progress beyond the semi-finals of the format in the second flight.\n\n\"It was a tough game. We knew it would be from the start.\n\n\"In the first half we played well in how we got in behind and threatened, we tried to manage the space well and in the first half, we played very well and we were aggressive in how we pressed them.\n\n\"We spoke at half-time about how we could make it more difficult for them. We got a great start after the break, but then it was about us keeping on pressing them.\n\n\"We fought with everything we had. We've done that so many times this season and if you hold on like that, you will force mistakes out of people.\n\nOn reaching a Wembley final: \"We worked so hard to get there. It's not all about football, sometimes it's all about results.\n\n\"We're proud in the achievement that we've done. It's great to be there to play in the final, I've been there in my playing career.\n\n\"There's a lot at stake and a great prize potentially for the club. It'll be tough against either Huddersfield or Sheffield Wednesday.\n\n\"It could be a game of great nerves, a great occasion, but we'll have to manage it properly.\"\n\nOn Ali Al Habsi's performance: \"We know he's a great keeper, it's not just about today, he's been superb all season.\n\n\"It was a terrific performance. That's why he's paid to be in goal and be our last line of defence.\"\n\n\"I believe we played the better football, we were the better team, but we're not off to the final.\n\n\"Reading scored two goals in this tie after complicated decisions. \"These situations exist and the push in the box on Lucas Piazon for us didn't get the same treatment as his decision earlier at the opposite end of the pitch.\n\n\"But, Martin Atkinson is the best English referee, an international referee and I can't complain.\n\n\"We're really disappointed as we've lost the chance to play in the final after these kind of decisions.\n\n\"We weren't clinical enough tonight. On one side I'm disappointed but on the other, I'm proud of my team and how they play throughout the season.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Chris Martin (Fulham) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Stefan Johansen with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Tom Cairney (Fulham) header from the right side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Lucas Piazon with a cross following a corner.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Ali Al Habsi (Reading) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Chris Martin (Fulham) right footed shot from very close range misses to the left. Assisted by Sone Aluko with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Kevin McDonald (Fulham) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Sone Aluko.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ryan Sessegnon (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Defending champion Andy Murray has been knocked out of the Italian Open in the second round by Italian Fabio Fognini.\n\nThe 30-year-old British world number one, whose victory in Rome last year was one of nine titles he won in 2016, lost 6-2 6-4 to the world number 29.\n\nThe loss continues Murray's poor form ahead of the French Open, which gets under way on 28 May.\n\nMurray's fellow Brit Aljaz Bedene was also knocked out in the second round by world number two Novak Djokovic.\n\nThe Serb, who has never failed to reach the last eight in Rome, dominated the tie-break to win a tight first set but eased through the second to win 7-6 (7-2) 6-2.\n\n\"A little bit of a slow start, but Bedene is the kind of player that gives you good rhythm,\" said Djokovic, who was beaten in the Madrid Open semis by Rafael Nadal last week.\n\n\"I had some good exchanges, some good games with rallies and it felt right, especially in the second set.\"\n\nDjokovic, who received a bye in the first round, faces either Pablo Carreno Busta or Roberto Bautista Agut in round three.\n\nMurray comes unstuck on clay again\n\nMurray, who turned 30 on Monday, continues to struggle for consistency on his return from an elbow injury.\n\nHe has won one event this season - on the hard court in Dubai in February - but has struggled on clay, with his best performance in the four events he has played so far on the surface being his semi-final appearance in Barcelona.\n\nThe Scot was under pressure from the very start, and failed to recover from losing his opening service game as home favourite Fognini swept into a 3-0 lead before closing out the set with a love service.\n\nHe was up against it again as more poor service games left him trailing 4-1.\n\nThere was a brief recovery by Murray as a break and a hold saw him trail 5-4 but Fognini reasserted his dominance to serve out victory and secure his first win over a world number one.\n\nMurray's seventh defeat of the season - and his fifth in the last 10 matches - leaves him very short of confidence and form heading into the French Open.\n\nFognini hit some monster forehands, and some gorgeous drop shots, but at no stage was Murray able to impose his game on the Italian. Many of his groundstrokes were landing in mid-court: there was very little threat or conviction to trouble someone playing as well as Fognini.\n\nIvan Lendl flies to Europe this weekend to bolster Murray's coaching team, and they will all have their work cut out. Murray is currently playing nothing like a world number one, and nothing like a potential French Open champion.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nAberdeen manager Derek McInnes insists any club with Rangers' financial clout ought to have finished second in the Premiership and that they should be embarrassed at having failed to do so.\n\nAberdeen are six points clear of third-placed Rangers with two games to go.\n\n\"I find it strange he feels the need to talk about Aberdeen so much,\" McInnes said of Rangers boss Pedro Caixinha.\n\n\"They should probably be embarrassed that they've not finished second. I think he likes to do a lot of talking.\"\n\nThe teams meet for the final time this season at Ibrox on Wednesday evening with the Light Blues trailing the Scottish Cup finalists with a vastly inferior goal difference in addition to the six-point gap.\n\nRangers scored three late goals at Pittodrie last month to record a 3-0 win, that following a 2-1 win apiece earlier in the season.\n\nHowever, it is the Dons who will finish runners-up to champions Celtic, albeit 30 points behind Brendan Rodgers' team.\n\nMcInnes, who has also led Aberdeen to the Betfred Cup final this season, feels the Portuguese is misguided about his targets in his early days as Rangers manager.\n\n\"If he thinks that is doing brilliant at Rangers, being on the up by finishing ahead of Aberdeen, then he's clearly mistaken,\" added the Aberdeen boss.\n\n\"His job as Rangers manager is to finish above Celtic and he should be more concerned about that challenge.\n\n\"For us, any team that finishes above Rangers in the league, with the budget they have, is doing their work well.\n\n\"And I think that any SPL (sic) manager, with the budget they have, would finish second in the league.\n\n\"The Rangers fans over the last few years have been used to either owners, managers or players saying what they want to hear but the reality is his job as Rangers manager is to finish above Celtic.\n\n\"If he thinks he's doing well by finishing above Aberdeen and the rest, he'll soon find out that's not enough.\"", "The latest health and fitness trend involves taking a DNA test to find out more about how our bodies respond to different types of food and exercise. But how accurate and effective are these kits?\n\nFitness fanatic Mandy Mayer, 56, exercised several times a week but felt like she'd hit a plateau.\n\nHer personal trainer suggested she try a DNAFit test, which tests the body's genetic response to key foods and exercise.\n\n\"I jumped at the chance,\" she says. \"I thought I'd love to have that kind of knowledge.\"\n\nAfter sending off a swab of her saliva, she received a report on her fitness and diet in January. She was impressed.\n\n\"I was like 'wow'. They told me I don't tolerate caffeine and refined foods very well, and I respond better to endurance training than anything else.\"\n\nThree months later and she has dropped from a size 12 to a size 10 and lost several kilos. She attributes her leaner figure to understanding more about her genetic code.\n\n\"Without a shadow of a doubt it was down to the test,\" says Mandy, who lives in Market Harborough, Leicestershire.\n\n\"It's made me follow the right training and make little changes to my diet.\"\n\nA growing number of start-ups, such as 23andMe, FitnessGenes, UBiome, DNAFit, Orig3n and Habit, are moving into this space, promising that mail-order genetic tests can change your life for the better.\n\nOrig3n is one of a growing number of start-ups entering the DNA-testing market\n\nSome researchers believe the global market for such kits could be worth more than $10bn (£7.7bn) by 2022.\n\nBut how do they work and how reliable are they?\n\nAvi Lasarow, chief executive of DNAFit, explains that everything about who we are is the unique combination of what we are born with - our genetics - and how we live - our environment.\n\n\"The biggest 'environment' factor that we can control in our day-to-day lives is our diet,\" he says, \"so by understanding more about the static part, the genetics, we can better tweak the bit in our control.\"\n\nHe gives the example of the CYP1A2 gene, which controls around 95% of caffeine metabolism.\n\n\"Some people are fast metabolisers, some are slow, depending on their variants of this gene. Once you know this, however, you can make a better informed decision on your caffeine intake than you could without your genetic data.\"\n\nRobin Smith, chief executive of Orig3n, which offers a range of health and wellness DNA tests costing from $29 to $149, says the results can help people make educated choices about what works for their bodies.\n\n\"If a person's DNA suggests that she is more likely to be deficient in B vitamins, she can pay attention to that in her daily life.\n\n\"Knowing what your DNA says about your body's food sensitivities, food breakdown, hunger, weight, vitamins, allows you to become a more informed consumer.\n\nDNAFit says its kits can tell us what type of exercise we should be doing\n\n\"You can become smarter about what you choose to eat, and smarter about what supplements you choose to buy, saving you time, energy, and money while getting the results you want faster.\"\n\nSo much for the sales pitch, but some genetic experts are concerned that the efficacy of such kits may be overhyped.\n\n\"I'm not against people being able to access genetic information about themselves if they wish to do so, provided the test results and limitations are clearly explained,\" says Dr Jess Buxton, a geneticist at University College London.\n\n\"However, I do think that the amount of useful information that personalised health tests can offer is very limited at present because we still know very little about the effect of most SNPs [genetic variations called single nucleotide polymorphisms] and other types of genetic variation on a person's health.\"\n\nWhile there are a few conditions, such as lactose intolerance, for which the genetic variations are very clear and well understood, the same cannot be said for most other conditions, she says.\n\n\"These [genetic variations] interact with each other and with non-genetic factors in ways that we don't fully understand, so it's impossible to make accurate predictions based on information about just a few of the gene variants involved, as many of these tests do.\"\n\nThat said, some studies do suggest that this kind of analysis might work. For example, the University of Trieste and the IRCCS Burlo Garofolo Institute for Maternal and Child Health in Italy found that those following diet based on genetic analysis lost 33% more weight than a controlled group.\n\nSome start-ups are not just relying on a person's genetic make-up to make their diet and exercise recommendations.\n\nSan Francisco-based Habit's home kit includes a series of DNA samples, blood tests and a shake to drink so that the company can measure how your body metabolises fats, carbohydrates and proteins.\n\n\"Unlike other at-home tests that measure DNA alone, Habit looks at how the entire body works together,\" explains founder and chief executive Neil Grimmer.\n\nThierry Attias found out that he needed to eat far more vegetables to lose weight\n\nHabit, he says, measures more than 60 nutrition-related blood and genetic biomarkers, biometrics and lifestyle choices, to make personalised nutrition recommendations for each individual.\n\n\"Personalised recommendations should be based on your entire biology, not just your DNA,\" says Mr Grimmer.\n\nOne early adopter is Thierry Attias, president of Momentum Sports Group, a firm managing the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling team.\n\n\"Even though I cycle a few times a week, I carry an extra couple of pounds and I was curious to learn more about myself,\" says Mr Attias, who lives in Oakland, California.\n\nHe discovered that he's caffeine sensitive, his diet needs to include more plant-based food, and his body is slow at processing fats.\n\nWhile Habit was still in testing phase, he opted to receive personalised ready-to-eat meals from the company for three days.\n\n\"An interesting thing happened,\" he enthuses. \"I lost 4lbs (1.8kg) in a few days. I learnt portion size and how much more veg I needed in a serving.\"\n\nIn two months he has lost about 11lbs, he says.\n\nBut do we really need a testing kit to tell us to eat more vegetables and fewer fats as part of a healthy balanced diet - advice that has been around for decades?", "Fernando Alonso says he is \"very excited\" about his Indy 500 odyssey - and he is not alone.\n\nThe two-time F1 champion flew straight from Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix to America to start his attempt to win the Indianapolis 500 on 28 May.\n\nSome measure of the impact his decision has had comes from the fact that more than two million people watched Alonso's first test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway earlier this month.\n\nYes, two million people. Watching a webcast of a single car going around a circuit with four left-hand turns.\n\nFor Alonso, who is missing the Monaco Grand Prix to race at Indy, this is the next step to trying to win the 'triple crown' of motor racing's three blue-riband events.\n\nOnly one man, Graham Hill, has so far triumphed in Monaco - where Alonso has already won twice - at Indy and in the Le Mans 24 Hours.\n\nAnd it is a rare chance to taste success at a time when his F1 career is becalmed by poor machinery.\n\nAt Indy, Alonso will have a car with which he can win, branded for his McLaren F1 team, run by the elite Andretti Autosport outfit and powered by a Honda engine - which, unlike the one in Alonso's F1 car, is absolutely competitive.\n\nFew would question Lewis Hamilton's assessment that Alonso will be \"the best driver in the paddock\" at Indy. Less certain is whether he can adapt quickly enough to racing on a high-speed oval.\n\n\"He just won't have the time,\" Hamilton says. \"It will be interesting to see how he fares against the drivers who have all this experience.\"\n\nThis is not just any racing driver. Alonso is an exceptional talent.\n\nBut he has never raced on an oval before, and is facing highly skilled rivals who have been doing it for years.\n\nSo what is Alonso up against, and what makes winning at Indy so difficult?\n\nThe Indy 500 is 200 laps of a 2.5-mile 'superspeedway' with four left-hand turns banked at an angle of nine degrees, all of which look identical but have their own subtleties.\n\nThere are no run-off areas - the track edge is a wall. Average lap speeds top 230mph in qualifying.\n\nIt is, needless to say, extremely dangerous, even if safety has been improved in recent years by replacing concrete walls with impact-absorbing barriers in the corners.\n\nAll teams use a spec Dallara chassis but there are two engine manufacturers - Honda and Chevrolet - and each can develop its own aerodynamics.\n\nAlthough the cars are more rudimentary than F1 machinery, there is a level of complexity of set-up on an oval that Alonso has not experienced before.\n\n'Between runs, he sat in the car, his face calm, no wide eyes'\n\nCan Alonso adapt to the challenges of Indianapolis?\n\nThe beginnings of an answer were provided by his first run at Indy in early May, which also comprised the mandatory 'rookie test' all drivers new to Indy have to complete.\n\nHe was alone on track but it provided compelling viewing. Not only for the fly-on-the-wall nature of the coverage - cameras eavesdropped on Alonso's conversations with his engineers in a way never allowed in F1 - but also for the way he dealt with the day.\n\nThe rookie test required a driver to run a series of laps at pre-determined speeds - 10 laps in the range of 205-210mph, 15 at 210-215mph, 15 at 215-220mph. That's a total of 40 laps for the test. Alonso completed it in just 50, including those on which he exited or returned to the pits.\n\nThis is not hugely remarkable for a driver of his ability. But there were some eye-opening aspects to the day.\n\nAt one point, Alonso was told over the radio that he had completed the 210-215mph phase and could go straight onto the next one. His very next lap was 219.495mph.\n\nThe 215-220mph phase completed, he was straight into the high 221mph range, topping out at 222.548mph. \"That's a race pace right there,\" said a watching Mario Andretti, 1978 F1 world champion and 1969 Indy 500 winner.\n\nThere was hardly any sense of Alonso playing himself in. He exuded control, as if he did it every day.\n\nIf he was feeling intimidated by the speeds involved, there was not a hint of it. Between runs, he sat in the car, his face calm, no wide eyes, no apparent trepidation at all.\n\nEven to an experienced observer, this was extraordinary.\n\nScot Dario Franchitti, a three-time Indy 500 winner, said he was \"amazed\".\n\n\"I thought he got up to speed incredibly quickly,\" he added.\n\nAlonso had arranged for timing data from a 210mph lap to be put on the steering wheel display screen, and calculated what would be the lap-time difference for the increased speeds.\n\nBut when I asked 2003 Indy 500 winner Gil de Ferran how Alonso judged it so finely, he made it clear it was a long way from normal.\n\n\"The guy has enormous feel. Huge,\" said De Ferran, who is acting as Alonso's mentor at Indy.\n\n\"Obviously Fernando is extremely gifted, and I have now also learned that he is highly intelligent, has a great attitude and a great work ethic.\"\n\nAlonso described his first test as \"fun\", and did admit to one moment when the speed and the walls got to him.\n\n\"The team at one point said: 'You are done with the limitations, so run free as you feel,'\" Alonso said.\n\n\"I knew Marco [Andretti, who set the car up for Alonso] was flat in Turn One and I said [to myself] I will do it flat out.\n\n\"I was convinced 100% I was going flat out but the foot was not going flat out; it had its own life. The second or third lap I was able to do it, but the first lap was a good moment to feel the place, the car.\n\n\"The speed is something. For any racing driver, it is just pure adrenaline. It was a good day.\"\n\nIntimidated, Alonso clearly is not. But he is aware that winning at Indy involves more than just being fast and brave - and that running in traffic in excess of 230mph and working out how to optimise the car are things he has to learn fast.\n\nWhat does he have to learn?\n\nAlonso has already impressed the Andretti team with his application and his understanding of the differences between what Americans call road racing and oval racing. But the task ahead of him is huge nonetheless.\n\nThere are so many differences between F1 and the Indy 500 that it is hard to know where to start.\n\nThe speed is one thing - there is not a corner on an F1 circuit anywhere in the world that is taken as fast as the average lap speed Alonso will be doing in the race at Indy, let alone qualifying.\n\nWhereas an F1 team is not allowed to change the car between qualifying and race, Indy requires two different set-ups for each.\n\nAnd then there is the complexity of how the cars work on an oval track.\n\nA driver has to turn right to go in a straight line because the cars are designed only to turn left and set up asymmetrically. The idiosyncrasies of oval racing mean that adjustments for handling balance are made not only to the front and rear but also diagonally across the car.\n\nDrivers can change this while out on track with something called a 'weight-jacker' - a kind of diagonal pitch control, which De Ferran says \"changes the balance of the car tremendously\".\n\n\"In a way, you have twice as many variables,\" De Ferran adds, \"and [you have to work out] how does that interact with your driving.\n\n\"There are a lot of peculiarities for someone who has never done ovals.\"\n\n'Like driving on ice at 230mph'\n\nAlonso has five days of practice this week, with six hours of running on each as long as the weather stays fine - IndyCars do not run in the rain on ovals - before qualifying over two days on the weekend of 20-21 May.\n\nIn that time, he will have to learn the car, come up with set-ups for qualifying and race, learn how to adjust the car on track for changing conditions and come to terms with running in traffic at more than 220mph.\n\n\"Qualifying and the race are very different,\" De Ferran says. \"Qualifying at Indy quite frankly is one of the most difficult things I have ever done in a racing car.\"\n\nA lap of Indianapolis is supposed to be \"flat\" - the driver never lifts his foot off the accelerator. But it is a long way from easy. The driver is absolutely on the edge, the car in a controlled slide or 'drift', all the time.\n\nThe car is 'trimmed out' to have as little downforce as the driver feels he get can get away with - because downforce equals drag and drag slows you down on the straights - while going as fast as possible in the corners.\n\nThe result, De Ferran says, is \"the car feels like you are driving on an ice road at 230mph. It is very, very little grip and very, very little margin\".\n\nThe grid is set over two days. Saturday's running fundamentally defines the nine drivers who can compete for pole on the Sunday - the so-called 'Fast Nine'. The remaining 24 also compete for grid slots on the Sunday, but the best they can be is 10th, no matter what time they set. Positions are defined by speed over a four-lap run and the drivers take it in turns to go out.\n\n\"One of the unfortunate things sometimes about TV is you can't see how on-the-edge the whole thing is,\" De Ferran says.\n\n\"It may look from TV that the guy is just going round and round and it looks easy, but you ask any driver where they have to do a lot of runs in qualifying trim, they are like, 'Oh my God, this is so stressful. I don't want to do that many runs in qualifying trim. I'm done. Once is enough.' And now they have to do it at least twice and that's difficult.\n\n\"You are literally looking for a few centimetres here and there to make a difference. If the tyres go off, if they are degrading a little bit too much because you are sliding a little bit too much, come the fourth lap you are in trouble.\n\n\"It is an adventure like you have no idea.\"\n\nFor the 500 itself, there is a \"completely different set of problems,\" De Ferran explains.\n\nThe driver still wants to be running as little downforce as possible because, as De Ferran puts it, \"the less downforce you can run, the quicker you will go\".\n\nBut he has to run more than in qualifying because of the problems created by racing in the vicinity of 32 other cars. Traffic messes up the behaviour of the car.\n\n\"That's one of the big difficulties - how much downforce do you add?\" De Ferran says. \"Because the more you add, the more you slow down. Alone. In perfect conditions.\n\n\"Now you have to do 30 laps [in a stint] instead of four. And you have to take tyre degradation and traffic into account.\n\n\"It may be traffic from a line of cars, from one car, and when you are in traffic you lose downforce and the car starts sliding like mad and then you can't go forward.\n\n\"The mindset from a set-up perspective for the race is quite different than in qualifying.\"\n\nA driver may want his car to behave differently in the race so it is less on-a-knife-edge than he can get away with for four laps of qualifying.\n\n\"Balance-wise you may not want the car to be quite as neutral,\" says De Ferran. This usually means giving it just a little understeer so the front is not quite as grippy as before, which is a safer balance in the race than oversteer, where the rear wants to come around on the driver.\n\nBut too much understeer - or 'push', as it is known in America - is also bad, De Ferran says.\n\n\"When you get in traffic typically you not only you lose grip but you also gain understeer, so it's a very complex equation.\"\n\nFinally, because the race is 500 miles, on a high-speed oval with no run-off area, accidents are inevitable, and with them come caution periods - or 'yellows' - when the cars are held behind a pace car.\n\nGetting it right or wrong when the race goes green again can determine whether you win - as Nigel Mansell found to his cost when he lost the lead on a restart in 1993.\n\nOne of Alonso's great qualities in F1 has always been his adaptability - his biggest strength among many is arguably his ability to drive the car to its maximum no matter how it is behaving.\n\nDe Ferran says drivers are \"a bit more limited\" in being able to drive around problems on an oval, but this skill \"always helps because the car is changing all the time really - the tyres are degrading, the fuel level is changing, on an oval you have this traffic to deal with\".\n\nHe adds: \"It is never this beautiful constant thing that you keep perfecting. The track is changing and you have to learn how to adapt to that. It is one of his skills that he scores very highly at.\"\n\nWhat do Alonso's rivals think about it?\n\nDe Ferran has been a long-time admirer of Alonso - since watching trackside at the 2001 Brazilian Grand Prix, when the Spaniard was in his first season with Minardi.\n\n\"I didn't even know who he was, but I was watching on a corner,\" the 49-year-old recalls. \"The car was three seconds off but I was thinking: 'Hmmm. Who is that?'\"\n\nHe was approached to be Alonso's mentor for his Indy adventure over the weekend of the Bahrain Grand Prix.\n\n\"When they first asked me, that was very emotional. It was, like, 'Wow.'\n\n\"You think: 'Jesus, it is one of the best drivers I have ever seen, a great champion.'\"\n\nFormer IndyCar driver Bryan Herta said at Alonso's rookie test: \"He's going to be a pretty formidable competitor. He's got everyone's attention already.\"\n\nDe Ferran says: \"I think most people are super-happy he has elected to come and do the Indy 500, primarily because Fernando commands a huge amount of respect.\n\n\"When I retired, someone asked what was one of your biggest frustrations, and I said I never really went head-to-head with Michael Schumacher and it was something I wanted to do.\n\n\"A lot of people see Fernando as I saw Michael and having the opportunity to race against a guy like that in similar equipment and so on is unique.\"\n\nCan he win it?\n\nVeteran Helio Castroneves said adapting to Indy racing would be \"no problem\" for Alonso. And four-time IndyCar champion and 2008 Indy 500 winner Scott Dixon said Alonso had a \"great shot\" at winning.\n\nDe Ferran says: \"He has the skill, the experience, the knowledge, the emotional control to be a true contender in Indianapolis but there are so many things that have to come right on that one day for you to win.\n\n\"Let me put it this way, Mario Andretti tried God knows how long to win it for a second time and he only won it in '69. Scott Dixon, who frankly is supremely talented, won it only once.\n\n\"It's unbelievable. Yes, in the car you control a lot of levers but definitely not all of them. And there are some levers that not even the team controls.\n\n\"You have a bad pit stop and it happens to be the last one and you are in trouble. You may be dominating the whole race, but there's a strategy call, or a yellow that falls just at the wrong time, and you may be in trouble again. Or a mechanical failure.\n\n\"You make a bad decision in the car, once, and it happens to be at a crucial time, and you were in a position to win and now you're not.\"\n\nHe uses as an example Alex Rossi, who drove five races for back-of-the-grid F1 team Manor in 2015, but won Indy at his first attempt last year, after gambling on not stopping for fuel after a late-race caution period.\n\nDe Ferran says: \"If the yellow ended one lap sooner than it did, Rossi would not only not have won the race, he would not even have finished because he would have run out of fuel. That is one clear example between hero and zero that is completely beyond the control of the driver.\"\n\nAnd what does Alonso himself think?\n\n\"First, I want to enjoy the experience,\" he says. \"Everyone keeps telling me how big the event is. So my first target is to go there and live that moment. For any racing driver it must feel a privilege to race there.\n\n\"After that there is always a small percentage that you can win, because there are many factors there, it is not only about the pace.\n\n\"Probably my chance to win is a little lower than some of my competitors because I am lacking experience, but I have a lot of joy and commitment to learn as much as I can so it will be fun.\n\n\"But after that, when you close the visor you don't like it when you are are second. It's the same in any sport. We are all competitive and we want to do the best we can.\"", "Former detective Margaret Oliver is played by Lesley Sharp in the drama Three Girls\n\nChild sexual abuse has never been a higher police priority. But too many rapists avoid justice, argues former detective Margaret Oliver. As her role in prosecuting the Rochdale grooming gang is marked in a new TV drama, she says police must do more to win the trust of victims\n\nI'll never forget the day I arrested Shabir. The light had begun to fade as we knocked on the door of his terraced house in Oldham one early evening back in 2011. As the safety chain rattled and the door opened, the man standing before us seemed anything but the evil predator leading a Rochdale grooming gang he was about to be exposed as.\n\nHe came quietly as we arrested him and there was no sign of the defiance and abusive outbursts that would later be seen in court. He still had the look of someone who thought he was going to get away with it.\n\nAnd well he might, as many rapists like Shabir had been getting away with it for years. I'd worked with too many young victims of horrific rapes and seen cases go nowhere - even when there was solid evidence. I'd lost count of the times I had to look in the eyes of broken teenagers and explain that there was nothing I could do. The rapists who'd destroyed their lives were about to get off scot-free.\n\nActors depict victims of grooming and sexual abuse in Rochdale\n\nGetting Shabir off the street was a big breakthrough and I was convinced he was going to be the first of many. We were close to uncovering an epidemic of child sexual abuse and there were scores of men we knew had been violently raping underage girls that were in our sights.\n\nThat we'd come this far owed a lot to the huge resources now being allocated to tackling grooming gangs (Operation Span was the biggest inquiry Greater Manchester Police were running). But, more importantly, it was down to the hard-won trust we'd managed to establish with the girls these vile rapists were targeting.\n\nWithout that trust, it didn't matter if 10,000 officers were assigned to the case. We had to get girls to give evidence in court and I knew only too well that Greater Manchester Police did not have a particularly sophisticated approach to winning vulnerable hearts and minds when trying to prosecute rapists.\n\nEven though an awareness of child grooming was starting to sweep through the country, the police were still relying on an outdated, approach that didn't work.\n\nJoining the police as a mum of four in 1997, I'd spent years learning how to build trust as a detective and family liaison officer working on major murders. I knew that good policing could not function without it. But the hard work of building up trust wasn't especially valued by the top brass. I wasn't breaking down doors or wrestling violent drug dealers to the ground. I was going to a cemetery to help a mother pick a plot to bury her son and supporting people who were prepared to give up everything and go on to the witness protection programme to put away murderers.\n\nMaggie Oliver when she was a serving officer with Greater Manchester Police\n\nIt wasn't long before I was working on rapes, domestic abuse and child protection jobs - the kind of cases that other officers working in Moss Side generally didn't want to do. And I was good at them. But if you won the trust of vulnerable girls who'd been through hell, you had to deliver - and that was heavily dependent on the appetite of people at the top to investigate these crimes.\n\nYears before I worked on a scoping exercise - a full-blown major incident team investigation which had identified considerable numbers of child abusers in south Manchester. I'd listened to girls who had been drugged so they couldn't move before they were violently raped - but the investigation was closed down. A few people were warned under the Child Abduction Act but no-one was charged.\n\nI was sickened then and still feel angry now when I think back to that case. Vulnerable people were reaching out, desperate to secure justice, and we were letting them down. I'd sworn an oath to uphold the law and ensure \"equal respect to all people\" when I joined the police. Those words seemed meaningless now.\n\nUnless we started showing respect to young girls from poorer areas, we were never going to win their trust. When Greater Manchester Police's failings in dealing with child abuse were later laid bare in a series of damning reports, one police officer gave a radio interview in which he admitted that officers referred to the girls as \"scrubbers\" and child prostitutes.\n\nThat was putting it lightly. I'd heard worse from other officers. There was no real effort to win their trust and a staggering lack of empathy. Some police officers wouldn't even come into the houses where the girls lived. They'd sit in the car eating sandwiches waiting for me to come back. When we drove girls to the station and they asked to put Radio 1 on, officers would switch to Radio 4. There was no attempt to make them feel comfortable. But it's these little things that often count, and which help to build bridges.\n\nI saw myself as a person first and police officer second, but many of my colleagues could only see themselves as police officers first and foremost. Empathy had been trained out of them. The pressures of modern policing and a target-driven culture was driving humanity out of our profession. I couldn't do the job if I didn't care, but to show a human face was a sign of weakness to some. \"You've become emotionally involved,\" they'd say. We had to maintain too big a distance from everyone. As a result, there were many estates where the police were hated. The people who lived there suffered disproportionately from crime, but had given up on the police. They didn't trust us because we showed them no respect.\n\nIt's this failure to win the trust of victims of appalling crimes that's at the heart of the BBC drama about the Rochdale grooming scandal. It shows a desperately real side of policing that's rarely ever dramatised and the general public know little about.\n\nIn the end Shabir and 11 other men were convicted for child abuse in 2012. But this was just the tip of the iceberg. There were many, many more who got away with it and I was left with the sense that this was a box the police didn't really want to open. But they couldn't keep the lid down for long and now the secret is out. A crime that had been contained and swept under the carpet for years can no longer be ignored.\n\nFor me, the end of the road was when they betrayed the trust I'd earned from a key witness and I couldn't get assurances on how vulnerable witnesses would be treated in the future. I knew men who'd violently abused girls were still walking the streets and we had the power to stop them. I couldn't do a job I loved as long as I knew rapists were getting away with it because police viewed the girls they preyed upon as unreliable witnesses. The criminals knew this and they were emboldened by it.\n\n\"No one will believe you,\" they'd laugh at sobbing girls, as they left them crushed in a heap on the floor.\n\nBarely a week goes by these days without a headline referring to a crisis in the police. But the crisis no-one's talking about is the crisis of trust, particularly where young people are concerned. A few years ago, an all-party group of MPs found that a significant proportion of children and young people have a profound lack of trust in the police. It should have acted as a wake-up call, but I don't believe things are getting any better.\n\nWhen the human side of the police is shown, we always break down barriers and there are plenty of shining examples of brilliant police officers who do this week in week out. But we need more and we need leaders who set a culture in place who insist the values of empathy, honesty and integrity are always upheld in our dealings with vulnerable victims. If we can't reach out to vulnerable witnesses, all the announcements from Westminster won't mean a thing. Criminals will keep getting away with it.\n\nWatch Three Girls at 9pm on Tuesday 16 May 2017 on BBC One\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "After suffering a crushing defeat in the first round of the French presidential election, can the party of Francois Mitterrand survive?\n\nThey love their icons and their rituals.\n\nThey get attached to history.\n\nThey believe in the continuity of the fight.\n\nThey see themselves carrying a torch lit first by the heroes of the past, in their beards and their bowlers.\n\nFor Socialists, the party has a meaning that goes beyond the ups and downs of electoral fortune.\n\nIt structures their thoughts, and it conditions their friendships.\n\nIn a way that transcends mere politics, it plays a real part in their lives.\n\nTo live in a world where the party no longer mattered - that would be a truncated, an empty form of existence.\n\nAnd yet in France today - if you believe some of the commentators - it is the very survival of the Socialist Party (PS) that is now at stake.\n\nAnd the faithful are bereft.\n\nThe signs of mortality are certainly strong.\n\nIn the presidential election, the Socialist candidate, Benoit Hamon, was knocked out in round one, with just 6.36% of the vote.\n\nThe score was the lowest achieved by a Socialist candidate since Gaston Defferre's 5.1% in 1969.\n\nThe PS's Benoit Hamon received less than 7% of the vote in the first round of the election\n\nWorse, Mr Hamon was not just overtaken, he was trounced by another candidate of the left, Jean-Luc Melenchon, of the radical La France Insoumise (France Unbowed).\n\nMr Melenchon got 19.6% and more than seven million votes - three times the PS score.\n\nToday, he enjoys a popularity nationwide that far exceeds that of any Socialist leader.\n\nAnd on the party's other flank, there is another danger: the new presidency of Emmanuel Macron.\n\nMr Macron may not look like a Socialist, but the left is where his political feelings lie.\n\nThat is why he chose to work under Francois Hollande, a Socialist president.\n\nNow that Emmanuel Macron has his own party up and running - La Republique en Marche (REM) - there is suddenly another powerful rival vying for votes.\n\nThe PS finds itself caught in a classic casse-noisette (nutcracker).\n\nOn both sides are powerful new \"movements\" set up in deliberate counterpoint to the old party system.\n\nAt the forthcoming parliamentary elections, if voters want social-radical, they'll pick Mr Melenchon.\n\nIf they want social-liberal, they'll pick Mr Macron.\n\nThe space in the middle is shrinking to insignificance.\n\nAll of which would be more easily surmountable, if the Socialist Party itself was in any shape to mount a comeback.\n\nBut the PS is torn between factions that themselves reflect the changing outward perspective.\n\nThe far right Marine Le Pen beat the Socialist and radical left candidates\n\nOn the one hand, there are those figures willing to work in alliance with Mr Macron's REM.\n\nThe most extreme example is former Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who has described the PS as \"dead\" and more or less torn up his party card.\n\nAt the other end are leaders - such as the ex-candidate Benoit Hamon - who dream of forming a new left-wing opposition to the Macron presidency, in alliance with ecologists and Mr Melenchon's radicals.\n\nAnd in the middle are people who argue for a watching brief, supporting or opposing Mr Macron according to the issue.\n\nThe point is that no clear line is emerging from the top, so the PS is going into the legislatives not just demoralised but also leaderless and incoherent.\n\nFor some analysts, what is happening is the end of a historical cycle that goes back nearly 50 years - to the 1969 annihilation, in fact, of Gaston Defferre and the regenerative shock that gave to the French left.\n\nIn 1969, the Socialist Party in France did not exist.\n\nInstead, there was the French Section of the Workers International (SFIO), which was Mr Defferre's party, plus smaller parties linked to Francois Mitterrand and Michel Rocard.\n\nAnd of course, the biggest party of the left - the Communists.\n\nBut the 1969 result triggered a series of changes, culminating in the much-mythologised Congress of Epinay two years later, in which Mr Mitterrand engineered a union of the disparate groups and founded the modern-day PS.\n\nBy entering a strategic agreement with the Communists - and introducing them to his government in 1981 - he then succeeded in emasculating the far left.\n\nAnd the course of French socialist history was set for a generation.\n\nSocialist Francois Mitterrand won the presidency in 1981 and 1988\n\nBut at the heart of the Mitterrand legacy was a contradiction - between dogma and reality, utopia and the free market.\n\nMr Mitterrand, with his imposing personality and cynical use of the powers vested in him as president, was able to surmount that gap.\n\nBut no-one since has lived up to his example.\n\nAll that successive leaders could do was paper over the cracks.\n\nMr Hollande was a master of this art of political \"synthesis\".\n\nAs long as a form of words could be adduced, then all sides were satisfied and the grail of Socialist unity was assured. Till now.\n\nSo is this historic phase now drawing to a close?\n\nThe old party system is already breaking down.\n\nSocial media and post-modern politics are changing the relationship between voter and candidate.\n\nOther parties in history have disappeared.\n\nOnce upon a time there was a French Radical Party that was one of the most powerful in the land.\n\nNow, it barely registers. Ditto the SFIO.\n\nThe PS could similarly shut down, many argue, and the world of political ideas would be none the poorer.\n\nNew politics may be all the rage today, but who knows what lies ahead?\n\nSentiment and tradition still count for something - and the rose and the fist was a mighty icon.\n• None Does Macron have what it takes to reform France?", "Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nChelsea captain John Terry said he could retire at the end of the season, after leading the champions in their 4-3 win over Watford at Stamford Bridge.\n\nThe 36-year-old, who will leave the Blues in the summer, scored the opening goal on a night of celebration for the Premier League title winners.\n\nChelsea host Sunderland on Sunday in their final league game of the season.\n\n\"I've not ruled out Sunday being my last game and retiring from football,\" he told Sky Sports.\n\n\"If the right offer comes along I will sit down and consider it with my family - whether that's here or abroad.\n\n\"Genuinely I haven't made any decisions yet and I'm evaluating all my options at the moment.\"\n• None 'He needs four or five big signings' - five ex-Chelsea players on Conte\n• None Nevin: We've only scratched the surface with Conte\n\nFormer England captain Terry announced last month he will leave Stamford Bridge after more than two decades at the club.\n\nThe central defender is the Blues' most decorated player, with this season's title earning him a fifth Premier League winners' medal.\n\nHe has also helped them win five FA Cups, three League Cups, the Champions League and the Europa League.\n\nThe Londoner has made 716 appearances for the club since his debut in 1998 - 579 of them as captain.\n\nChelsea manager Antonio Conte, who has restricted Terry to a bit-part role on the pitch this season, paid tribute to the player's influence.\n\n\"He is a great man. He helped me a lot in my first season. He had a fantastic role on and off the pitch,\" said the Italian.\n\n\"Against Watford he showed he can continue to play. I'm pleased for him, he scored a great goal.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to seeing him lift the cup on Sunday. He deserves this.\"\n\nChelsea wrapped up their sixth English title with a win at West Brom on Friday, and the home fans were in a celebratory mood as they welcomed the champions back to Stamford Bridge.\n\nTerry, in what may be his final playing appearance at the stadium, lifted the atmosphere even more when he opened the scoring after 22 minutes.\n\nWatford threatened to dampen the occasion with a gutsy fightback before substitute Cesc Fabregas earned a thrilling win for a much-changed home side.\n\nThe Spaniard's scuffed strike sparked joyous scenes among the home fans, while a fireworks display outside the stadium followed the final whistle.\n\nThe Blues will be presented with the Premier League trophy when they host relegated Sunderland on Sunday.\n\n\"If I could have written my story, this is how it would have panned out - to go having been crowned champions, and to leave the club in great hands with the manager, the owner and the players we have here,\" added Terry.\n\n\"It is going to be sad and emotional for me on Sunday because I've been here 22 years - but I'm delighted for the experiences and opportunities I have been given.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal ensured the race to finish in the Premier League's top four will go down to the final day of the season with a laboured win against relegated Sunderland.\n\nAlexis Sanchez tapped in Mesut Ozil's square pass to the relief of those inside a sparsely populated Emirates Stadium.\n\nAs Arsenal increased in urgency, Sanchez bundled in Olivier Giroud's cut-back to renew their hopes of a top-four finish for a 21st successive season.\n\nDespite having 36 attempts at goal - the most in a Premier League game since 2003 - the Gunners could not wipe out fourth-placed Liverpool's superior goal difference.\n\nArsenal are a point behind the Reds - who are two goals better off - before Sunday's final matches.\n\nRealistically, Arsene Wenger's men must beat seventh-placed Everton and hope the Reds slip up against relegated Middlesbrough at Anfield.\n\nArsenal finish in the top four if: They win and Liverpool fail to beat Middlesbrough They draw 0-0 or 1-1 and Liverpool lose by three goals or more They earn a score draw of 2-2 and Liverpool lose 2-0 (or they draw 3-3 and Liverpool lose 3-1, and so on) They win, and Manchester City lose - with a minimum five-goal swing in goal difference Liverpool finish in the top four if: They win, or they match or better Arsenal's result But... both sides could also finish level on points, goal difference and goals scored -\n\nArsenal started the evening needing to win - preferably by a big margin - if they were to have any realistic hope of sneaking into the top four.\n\nThey knew defeat against rock-bottom Sunderland, who had managed just three away victories all season, would end their hopes if Manchester City beat West Brom.\n\nAnd with City cruising to a 3-1 win in their game, even a draw would have left Arsenal struggling.\n\nUntil Sanchez's late intervention, it looked as though Wenger's side would be left frustrated by a lack of conviction in front of goal and some stubborn Sunderland defending.\n\nThe Gunners found the breakthrough with 20 minutes left, Granit Xhaka picking out Ozil with a clever chip over the defence that was put back across goal by the German for Sanchez to tap in.\n\nArsenal knew just a draw against Everton on the final day might be enough to catch Liverpool if they wiped out the Reds' superior goal difference, and Wenger urged his side to push for more goals from the touchline.\n\nSanchez was lurking in the six-yard box at the right time to convert Giroud's volleyed pass to double the lead, but despite a late flurry that saw Shkodran Mustafi hit the woodwork the hosts were unable to add to their tally.\n\n\"Sunderland did fight and that's what you want from every team,\" Wenger said.\n\nArsenal have endured a turbulent season blighted by confusion over Wenger's future, protests from supporters demanding change and concerns that Sanchez and Ozil may be sold this summer.\n\nSwathes of empty red seats at a hushed Emirates Stadium illustrated the apathy of some Gunners fans, the subdued atmosphere compounded by Arsenal failing to make their early dominance count.\n\nThe Gunners created 18 efforts in a frustrating first half, only to be let down by wayward finishing and another impressive display by Black Cats goalkeeper Jordan Pickford.\n\nThe 23-year-old boosted his burgeoning reputation with several instinctive saves after the break as Arsenal continued to pile on the pressure before Sanchez's late double.\n\nHowever, creeping past an already-relegated side is unlikely to appease the unhappy Arsenal fans who believe Wenger is not the man to take them forward.\n\nWenger's contract expires at the end of the season and, although the club has offered him a two-year deal, he again refused to answer questions about his future after the match.\n\nSunderland manager David Moyes has endured a miserable debut season with the Black Cats, even agreeing with former England captain Alan Shearer's scathing assessment that the performance of his players in Saturday's defeat against Swansea was \"disgraceful\".\n\nThe Black Cats, who were relegated with four games to go, are likely to undergo major surgery in the summer with many players out of contract and some - notably Pickford and striker Jermain Defoe - likely to be targeted by Premier League clubs.\n\nBut those players who have been heavily criticised did manage to salvage a modicum of pride at Arsenal.\n\nSunderland defended doggedly and even threatened to cause the Gunners some defensive problems, most notably when Didier Ndong and Defoe drew saves from Petr Cech before the break.\n\nAnd the Black Cats were almost gifted the lead at the start of the second half when Nacho Monreal's howler of backpass had to be scooped wide by Cech.\n\nThey could not capitalise on an indirect free-kick inside the Gunners six-yard box as their winless Premier League run at the Emirates extended to a 17th game.\n\n\"We had plenty of shots on goal but we needed to be patient. We were frustrated at half-time not to be leading.\n\n\"We made 71 points and were second. We now have 72 and want to go to 75. After that you deal with what happens.\n\n\"We've got in on the final day many times. Sunderland fought and you want that in the Premier League - that's what you want from every team.\n\n\"We had a difficult patch after the Bayern game because it was difficult to recover. On the other hand it was a good mental test and we responded in a strong way.\"\n\n\"We were full of character and commitment. We made it difficult for Arsenal for long periods and had good chances. We played well but Arsenal had the class to make the difference.\n\n\"Saturday's game against Sunderland was not like I'd seen in the last month or so. Against Arsenal we got a good performance and if we got the first goal it could have been completely different.\n\n\"After I got in in August I didn't think we had a squad capable. But it was what we've got, you have to try and ultimately we were just short.\n\n\"I'll speak with chairman Ellis Short over the next few days. I've given him an indication of what we need to do and we'll look to see if that's possible.\"\n\n\"Alexis Sanchez is priceless, they must not let him go.\n\n\"But it took a long time for Arsenal to get that first goal. If they got that after half an hour then we would have probably had four or five.\"\n\n\"I think Arsene Wenger has been great for them but it's just time to say goodbye.\n\n\"But I think he will sign for another two years.\"\n\nThe final games of the season all kick off on Sunday at 15:00 BST. Arsenal host seventh-placed Everton at Emirates Stadium, while Sunderland wave farewell to the Premier League - for one season at the very least - with a trip to champions Chelsea.\n\nWenger gets the better of Moyes... again\n• None David Moyes has lost 16 times to Arsene Wenger in the Premier League, his most defeats against another manager in the competition\n• None Wenger secured his 20th victory in all competitions against Moyes, more than any other manager he has faced with Arsenal\n• None No side has finished bottom of the Premier League on more occasions than Sunderland (three, level with Nottingham Forest)\n• None Alexis Sanchez has scored six goals in five Premier League games versus Sunderland\n• None Sanchez has been directly involved in 33 Premier League goals this season (23 goals, 10 assists), more than any other player\n• None Since his Premier League debut in September 2013, Mesut Ozil has provided more assists than any other player (41)\n• None Arsenal have never lost a home Premier League match against Sunderland, winning 11 and drawing five\n• None Attempt missed. Fabio Borini (Sunderland) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Adnan Januzaj (Sunderland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Billy Jones.\n• None Shkodran Mustafi (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Adnan Januzaj (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Granit Xhaka with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Nacho Monreal (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Alex Iwobi following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Adnan Januzaj (Sunderland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Didier Ndong.\n• None Attempt saved. Shkodran Mustafi (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Mesut Özil with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Shkodran Mustafi (Arsenal) header from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mesut Özil. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Australia's Ashes series against England in November could be in doubt because of a players' contract dispute, says vice-captain David Warner.\n\nIn March, Cricket Australia proposed salary increases for men and women, but this would mean players no longer receive a percentage of CA's revenue.\n\nThe offer was rejected and CA said it would not pay players after 30 June.\n\nWarner told the Age newspaper: \"If it gets to the extreme, they might not have a team for the Ashes.\"\n\nA stand-off has developed between CA and the Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA), which represents the players.\n\nEx-Australia captain Mark Taylor said the players were \"prepared to strike\" over the proposals.\n\nIf the dispute is not resolved, there would be uncertainty over what team Australia could field after 30 June, with a two-Test series scheduled in August in Bangladesh before a home Ashes showdown which runs from 23 November 2017 to 8 January 2018.\n\nThat 30 June deadline also falls in the middle of the Women's World Cup, which takes place in England between 24 June and 23 July - and Australia's elite female players have shown solidarity with their male counterparts over the dispute despite CA's March offer to double the elite women's pay.\n\nA Cricket Australia spokesperson told BBC Sport: \"CA is ready and willing to negotiate with the ACA.\"\n\nIn a letter sent by CA to the ACA, chief executive James Sutherland said \"players with contracts expiring in 2016-17 will not have contracts for 2017-18\" unless the ACA negotiates a new Memorandum of Understanding.\n\n\"We want a fair share, and the revenue-sharing model is what we want, so we are going to stick together until we get that,\" added Warner, currently playing in the Indian Premier League. \"We are not going to shy away; we are just going to stick together.\n\n\"We want to keep participating for our country as much as we can, but if we don't have a job, we have to go and find some cricket elsewhere.\"\n\n'International boards need to put their hands in their pockets'\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan believes the dispute could be the first of many to affect the international game.\n\n\"It's great for England to see Australia falling out and fighting with each other but in terms of the game as a whole it's not a great story,\" he said on BBC Radio 5 Live's Tuffers and Vaughan Show.\n\n\"I've never seen it to this level. It's sad for the game when you're hearing this but I don't think it will be the last case of players getting together as groups. There's so much money coming through TV deals, I think players will say 'we fancy a piece of that'.\n\n\"International boards have got to put their hands in their pockets to save international cricket. In our day, international cricket was the sole money-maker for the game but the Twenty20 leagues are catching up.\"", "May to form government with DUP backing\n\nTheresa May says she will govern with her Democratic Unionist \"friends\" and \"get on\" with Brexit after losing her majority, but rivals say she has caused chaos.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City clinched an emphatic win over West Brom to move back up to third place in the Premier League with one game remaining.\n\nA point in their final game at Watford on Sunday will now be enough to guarantee Pep Guardiola's side a place in the top four and Champions League football, while a win would see them finish third and go straight into the group stage.\n\nThis was as straightforward a victory as City could have anticipated at this stage of the season, as two goals in two first-half minutes put them in control against a Baggies side that lacked ambition and did not seriously threaten until the final stages.\n\nFirst, Sergio Aguero's flick fed Kevin de Bruyne, who burst into the left-hand side of the area before squaring the ball to give Gabriel Jesus an easy tap-in.\n\nOne minute and 46 seconds later it was 2-0, thanks to a brilliant first-time finish from De Bruyne after Aguero's attempt to tee up Jesus was cleared into the Belgian's path on the edge of the area.\n\nYaya Toure made it 3-0 after the break, exchanging passes with Aguero as he marched into the area to slot past Ben Foster.\n• None How Man City could face a play-off against Arsenal or Liverpool\n\nWith the points all but secured by Toure's goal, attention for many City fans switched to Pablo Zabeleta's big send-off.\n\nAfter nine years with City in which he won every domestic trophy, the 32-year-old Argentina defender is leaving the club at the end of the season.\n\nHe started on the bench but the home fans sang his name from kick-off, gave him his first standing ovation of the night in the first half and then exploded into noise when he began warming up.\n\nThe ground rose to applaud him on to the pitch when he replaced David Silva on the hour mark, and then cheered every time he touched the ball.\n\nZabaleta ended the game wearing the captain's armband after Vincent Kompany was substituted and West Brom's belated fightback never threatened to ruin his night.\n\nAfter an emotional farewell speech at the final whistle, when he was joined on the pitch by his wife and young son, Zabaleta was given a guard of honour by his team-mates as he and his family departed down the tunnel.\n\nGabriel Jesus and Sergio Aguero were also strong candidates but the in-form Belgian edged it thanks to his assist for City's first goal and particularly his finish for their second. De Bruyne's form dipped in mid-season but he currently looks near to his best.\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger, who was hoping for a City slip here to allow his team back into the top four, had accused mid-table teams of being \"on holiday\" before the game.\n\nIf those comments were designed to sting the Baggies into life, they did not work.\n\nWest Brom's form has dropped off the proverbial cliff since they beat the Gunners at the Hawthorns at the end of March, and they never looked like reversing it here.\n\nYou could not accuse Tony Pulis' side of not trying at Etihad Stadium, but their effort was mostly defensive - even after they fell behind.\n\nDefeat stretched their winless run to eight games, a run in which they have scored only three goals and picked up two points.\n\nThey also drop one place to ninth - slipping below Southampton on goal difference - and the end of the season can seemingly not come quickly enough for them.\n\n'Maybe we can do better next season' - What they said\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"It is in our hands to finish third so it is the best thing.\n\n\"To finish in front of Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, it means a lot. Maybe next season hopefully we can do better.\"\n\nWest Brom manager Tony Pulis: \"They deserved to win tonight. Once they got their noses in front, they're a difficult team to pull back.\n\n\"The two quick-fire goals killed us. When the third one went in, you're looking down the barrel.\"\n\nStats - City's home comfort but Baggies miss out on record\n• None Manchester City are now unbeaten in their last 12 Premier League home games, their longest run without defeat in the competition since a run of 37 home games from December 2010-December 2012 under Roberto Mancini.\n• None Defeat for West Brom means they will not be able to equal or better their previous best points haul in a Premier League season, which was 49 in 2012-13.\n• None No midfielder has been involved in more Premier League goals than Kevin de Bruyne in 2016-17. His figure of 22 (six goals and 16 assists) is level with Swansea's Gylfi Sigurdsson and Tottenham's Dele Alli.\n• None Gabriel Jesus has now scored six goals and provided assists for a further three in only seven Premier League starts for Manchester City.\n• None The Brazilian is averaging a goal or an assist every 62 minutes in the league this season, the best ratio of any player in the competition (minimum 500 minutes played).\n• None Pablo Zabaleta made his 117th and final Premier League appearance at Etihad Stadium, the most of any outfield player for City.\n\nCity finish their season against Watford at Vicarage Road on Sunday (15:00 BST), at the same time West Brom wrap theirs up with a trip to Wales to play Swansea.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) because of an injury.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 3, West Bromwich Albion 1. Hal Robson-Kanu (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nyom with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernandinho.\n• None Attempt missed. Fernandinho (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Leroy Sané.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fernandinho (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "", "A coded tweet from a Google researcher first raised suspicions of a North Korea link\n\nWho was behind the huge global cyber-attack? One prominent theory right now is North Korea - but what we know is far from conclusive.\n\nYou may not have heard of the Lazarus Group, but you may be aware of its work. The devastating hack on Sony Pictures in 2014, and another on a Bangladeshi bank in 2016, have both been attributed to the highly sophisticated group.\n\nIt is widely believed that the Lazarus Group worked out of China, but on behalf of the North Koreans.\n\nSecurity experts are now cautiously linking the Lazarus Group to this latest attack after a discovery by Google security researcher Neel Mehta. He found similarities between code found within WannaCry - the software used in the hack - and other tools believed to have been created by the Lazarus Group in the past.\n\nIt's a mere sliver of evidence, but there are other clues to consider too.\n\nProf Alan Woodward, a security expert, pointed out to me that the text demanding the ransom uses what reads like machine-translated English, with a Chinese segment apparently written by a native speaker.\n\n\"As you can see it's pretty thin and all circumstantial,\" Prof Woodward said.\n\n\"However, it's worth further investigation.\"\n\nThe WannaCry malware threatens to delete users' data unless they pay a ransom\n\n\"Neel Mehta’s discovery is the most significant clue to date regarding the origins of WannaCry,” said Russian security firm Kaspersky, but noted a lot more information is needed about earlier versions of WannaCry before any firm conclusion can be reached.\n\n\"We believe it’s important that other researchers around the world investigate these similarities and attempt to discover more facts about the origin of WannaCry,” the company added.\n\n\"Looking back to the Bangladesh attack, in the early days, there were very few facts linking them to the Lazarus Group.\n\n\"In time, more evidence appeared and allowed us, and others, to link them together with high confidence. Further research can be crucial to connecting the dots.\"\n\nAttributing cyber-attacks can be notoriously difficult - often relying on consensus rather than confirmation.\n\nFor example, North Korea has never admitted any involvement in the Sony Pictures hack - and while security researchers, and the US government, have confidence in the theory, neither can rule out the possibility of a false flag.\n\nSkilled hackers may have simply made it look like it had origins in North Korea by using similar techniques.\n\nIn the case of WannaCry, it is possible that hackers simply copied code from earlier attacks by the Lazarus Group.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to protect yourself online\n\nBut Kaspersky said false flags within WannaCry were \"possible\" but \"improbable\", as the shared code was removed from later versions.\n\n\"There's a lot of ifs in there,\" added Prof Woodward.\n\n\"It wouldn't stand up in court as it is. But it's worth looking deeper, being conscious of confirmation bias now that North Korea has been identified as a possibility.\"\n\nIt’s the strongest theory yet as to the origin of WannaCry, but there are also details that arguably point away from it being the work of North Korea.\n\nFew could have suspected a Seth Rogen-directed film would have such global political repercussions\n\nFirst, China was among the countries worst hit, and not accidentally - the hackers made sure there was a version of the ransom note written in Chinese. It seems unlikely North Korea would want to antagonise its strongest ally. Russia too was badly affected.\n\nSecond, North Korean cyber-attacks have typically been far more targeted, often with a political goal in mind.\n\nIn the case of Sony Pictures, hackers sought to prevent the release of The Interview, a film that mocked North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. WannaCry, in contrast, was wildly indiscriminate - it would infect anything and everything it could.\n\nFinally, if the plan was simply to make money, it’s been pretty unsuccessful on that front too - only around $60,000 (£46,500) has been paid in ransoms, according to analysis of Bitcoin accounts being used by the criminals.\n\nWith more than 200,000 machines infected, it's a terrible return. But then of course, maybe the ransom was a distraction for some other political goal not yet clear.\n\nAnother possibility is that the Lazarus Group worked alone, without instruction from North Korea. Indeed, it could be that the Lazarus Group isn’t even linked to North Korea.\n\nMore questions than answers - and in cyber-war, facts are extremely hard to come by.", "Pili Hussein wanted to make her fortune prospecting for a precious stone that's said to be a thousand times rarer than diamonds, but since women weren't allowed down the mines she dressed up as man and fooled her male colleagues for almost a decade.\n\nPili Hussein grew up in a large family in Tanzania. The daughter of a livestock keeper who had many large farms, Pili's father had six wives and she was one of 38 children. Although she was well looked after, in many ways, she doesn't look back on her upbringing fondly.\n\n\"My father treated me like a boy and I was given livestock to take care of - I didn't like that life at all,\" she says.\n\nBut her marriage was even more unhappy, and at the age of 31 Pili ran away from her abusive husband.\n\nIn search of work she found herself in the small Tanzanian town of Mererani, in the foothills of Africa's highest mountain, Kilimanjaro - the only place in the world where mining for a rare, violet-blue gemstone called tanzanite takes place.\n\nMaasai herders first discovered tanzanite in 1967 - it's now one of the world's best-selling gems but is in limited supply\n\n\"I didn't go to school, so I didn't have many options,\" Pili says.\n\n\"Women were not allowed in the mining area, so I entered bravely like a man, like a strong person. You take big trousers, you cut them into shorts and you appear like a man. That's what I did.\"\n\nTo complete the transformation, she also changed her name.\n\n\"I was called Uncle Hussein, I didn't tell anyone my actual name was Pili. Even today if you come to the camp you ask for me by that name, Uncle Hussein.\"\n\nIn the tight confines of the hot, dirty tunnels - some of which extend hundreds of metres below the ground - Pili would work 10-12 hours a day, digging and sieving, hoping to uncover gemstones in the veins in the graphite rock.\n\n\"I could go 600m under, into the mine. I would do this more bravely than many other men. I was very strong and I was able to deliver what men would expect another man could do.\"\n\nPili says that nobody suspected that she was a woman.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pili Hussein tells Outlook's Matthew Bannister how she succeeded in becoming a miner\n\n\"I acted like a gorilla,\" she says, \"I could fight, my language was bad, I could carry a big knife like a Maasai [warrior]. Nobody knew I was a woman because everything I was doing I was doing like a man.\"\n\nAnd after about a year, she struck it rich, uncovering two massive clusters of tanzanite stones. With the money that she made she built new homes for her father, mother and twin sister, bought herself more tools, and began employing miners to work for her.\n\nAnd her cover was so convincing that it took an extraordinary set of circumstances for her true identity to finally be revealed. A local woman had reported that she'd been raped by some of the miners and Pili was arrested as a suspect.\n\n\"When the police came, the men who did the rape said: 'This is the man who did it,' and I was taken to the police station,\" Pili says.\n\nThe miners dig using chisels and fill bags with rubble which are hoisted up to the surface using a rope\n\nShe had no choice but to reveal her secret.\n\nShe asked the police to find a woman to physically examine her, to prove that she couldn't be responsible, and was soon released. But even after that her fellow miners found it hard to believe they had been duped for so long.\n\n\"They didn't even believe the police when they said that I was a woman,\" she says, \"it wasn't easy for them to accept until 2001 when I got married and I started a family.\"\n\nFinding a husband when everyone is accustomed to regarding you as a man is not easy, Pili found, though eventually she succeeded.\n\n\"The question in his mind was always, 'Is she really a woman?'\" she recalls. \"It took five years for him to come closer to me.\"\n\nPili has built a successful career and today owns her own mining company with 70 employees. Three of her employees are women, but they work as cooks not as miners. Pili says that although there are more women in the mining industry than when she started out, even today very few actually work in the mines.\n\n\"Some [women] wash the stones, some are brokers, some are cooking,\" she says, \"but they're not going down in to the mines, it's not easy to get women to do what I did.\"\n\nPili's success has enabled her to pay for the education of more than 30 nieces, nephews and grandchildren. But despite this she says she wouldn't encourage her own daughter to follow in her footsteps.\n\n\"I'm proud of what I did - it has made me rich, but it was hard for me,\" she says.\n\n\"I want to make sure that my daughter goes to school, she gets an education and then she is able to run her life in a very different way, far away from what I experienced.\"\n\nPili Hussein was part of the UN Women Mapping Study on Gender and Extractive Industries in Mainland Tanzania\n\nListen to Pili Hussein speaking to Outlook on the BBC World Service\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nIan Poulter believes he has put behind him the toughest spell of his career, which he admits has been \"miserable\".\n\nThe 41-year-old Englishman climbed more than 100 places in the world rankings by finishing tied for second with Louis Oosthuizen, three shots behind Kim Si-woo, at last week's Players Championship.\n\nThough Poulter was not able to end a winless run that stretches back to 2012, he showed his famed competitive fire still burns bright despite a string of setbacks.\n\nA foot injury cost him the biggest four months of the 2016 season and he was unable to retain his place in the European Ryder Cup team.\n\nHis golf clothing business collapsed and he was forced to play under a medical exemption when he finally returned to the PGA Tour.\n\n\"It's been the toughest stretch of my career,\" Poulter told BBC Sport.\n• None How Kim held off Poulter to win Players title\n\nIt was further complicated by the Tour's failure to properly calculate whether he had done enough to keep his card.\n\nPoulter fell just short of the total earnings he thought he would need to extend his playing privileges when he missed the cut in San Antonio last month.\n\nFellow pro Brian Gay was in a similar position, and it took his forensic analysis of the minutiae of the PGA Tour's rules to reveal an error had been made. Unexpectedly, Poulter was reinstated and that is how he gained his place in the Players Championship field.\n\n\"It's been miserable,\" he said. \"There's no other way to explain it.\n\n\"When you are taking a break for several months, when your world ranking plummets, when you miss Ryder Cups, when you find yourself in a position chasing down what you think is your Tour card.\n\n\"And some other nonsense was going on which we're still working through. It's been miserable.\"\n\nPoulter did not elaborate on the \"other nonsense\" but he has contended with the closure of online sales for his IJP Design company.\n\nHe announced in March that he had \"been unable to justify its continuation after many years of investing in the business and a number of attempts to reshape it against an ever increasingly competitive landscape\".\n\nAt least, though, he has been able to put his golf game back together. Poulter's bogey-free 71 on Saturday, compiled in fierce winds, was a round of the highest quality.\n\n\"It's been really hard and we are slowly getting there,\" he said.\n\n\"This obviously is a big week for me to cement some stuff moving forward where I can enjoy this summer.\n\n\"I can now plan a very long schedule and work out exactly what I'm doing and I'll have a nice summer with the kids in the UK.\"\n\nThere was criticism for Poulter though - and respected Golf Channel pundit Brandel Chamblee blamed the Englishman for a conservative approach over the closing holes.\n\n\"He clearly did not play to win and he didn't,\" Chamblee said.\n\nPoulter fired back on Twitter in typically pugnacious manner. He wrote: \"Sorry to disappoint, I can only dream of being as good as Brandel\" - adding it was \"clearly very easy\" for those sitting watching.\n\nTwo-times Players champion Steve Elkington was also critical of Poulter's failure to go for the green with his second shot at the par-five 16th.\n\nBut neither critic seemed to take due account of the fine margins and difficulty of that closing stretch.\n\n\"I was trying to press and it is hard,\" Poulter told me.\n\n\"With the wind off the left-hand side on 16 it is difficult to hit that tee shot round the corner and I made a mistake missing the fairway slightly right.\n\n\"Seventeen was not a good wind for that pin location, so you suck it up and try to hit a tee shot to about 20ft and try to make two down that ridge if you can.\"\n\nPoulter recorded pars at both holes and, while he failed to exert pressure that might have forced a Kim error, he made sure he did not play himself out of the championship.\n\nNo-one should blame the former Ryder Cup hero for playing the percentages.\n\nUltimately it took a miraculous escape from the trees after Poulter shanked his second shot to the final hole to ensure a share of the runner-up spoils.\n\nThe result moves him up to 80th in the world. It frees up his schedule and puts on hold the humiliating process of writing begging letters for sponsor invitations to PGA Tour events.\n\nWith his American card secure, it also means Poulter can plan a schedule to include return visits to Europe - perhaps as soon as next week's BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.\n\nHaving seen him play with such character at Sawgrass, fans would need no second invitation to rally behind one of the most popular British players of recent times.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nEighteen-time major winner Roger Federer will sit out the French Open and the rest of the clay-court season.\n\nThe 35-year-old, fifth in the world rankings, says he made the decision in an attempt to continue playing on the ATP Tour \"for many years to come\".\n\nThe Swiss added he will now prepare for the grass and hard-court seasons, which begin in June.\n\n\"I need to recognise that scheduling will be the key to my longevity,\" he said.\n\n\"Thus, my team and I concluded that playing just one event on clay was not in the best interest of my tennis and physical preparation for the remainder of the season.\n\n\"I will miss the French fans, who have always been so supportive and I look forward to seeing them at Roland Garros next year.\"\n\nFederer missed last year's French Open through injury - the first time he did not compete in Paris since his debut in 1999.\n\nHe won the tournament for the only time in 2009 and is a four-time runner-up.\n\nFederer has won three titles so far this season, including the Australian Open - his first Grand Slam success in five years.\n\nHe also claimed the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells in March and, two weeks later, won the Miami Open.\n\nThe French Open begins on 28 May.\n\n'It is a matter of priority'\n\nFormer Olympic champion Marc Rosset backed his compatriot, saying it was a matter of Federer prioritising tournaments he can win.\n\n\"The chances of him winning on clay at the French Open were quite low,\" Rosset told the BBC's World Service.\n\n\"Roger is the kind of guy who goes to a tournament to win. If he doesn't feel he is capable of winning the tournament, I don't see any sense in him attending.\n\n\"I don't think it is a matter of age, it is one of priority. He is going to play the two tournaments on grass before Wimbledon.\"\n\nFederer was in such devastating form in the first three months of the year that an eighth Wimbledon title seems very much within his grasp. Trying to win a clay-court Grand Slam at the age of nearly 36 without playing any other tournament to prepare would surely have been beyond even him, and I say that with memories of Australia still very vivid.\n\nFederer is talking like a man who would still love to be competing at 40, and to do so the clay-court season may need to become a permanent casualty.\n\nI suspect he will want to play Roland Garros at least once more before he is done, and he says he looks forward to returning next year.\n\nBut he did say exactly the same thing 12 months ago when making a very late withdrawal because of concerns about his back.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nDouble Olympic champion Nicola Adams says she is racing with her partner Marlen Esparza to be a world champion.\n\nAdams, 34, stopped Mexico's Maryan Salazar in her second professional fight in Leeds on Saturday.\n\nAmerican Esparza won her second bout as a professional a week earlier, becoming the first woman to box three-minute rounds, rather than the standard two.\n\n\"We have room on the mantlepiece for a world title,\" said Adams. \"I'll not hear the end of it if I'm not first.\"\n• None Listen to Adams on the 5 live boxing podcast\n• None When I go a the world title, I'm coming back champion - Adams\n\nShe added: \"We were both keen to get the three-minute rounds over the line. I thought I'd be the first person to do it but she pipped me, I'm still the first in Britain though.\"\n\nAdams and Esparza competed for the same women's flyweight title at London 2012, though the pair did not meet in the competition as the Briton won gold and the American bronze.\n\nThey have sparred in the past, though Adams believes they will never meet in the ring going forward as they now seek titles at different weights.\n\nAdams, who impressed in overwhelming Salazar at flyweight, feels she still has \"a lot to do\" to reach world-title level.\n\n\"I'm hoping in a year I will be able to fight for a world title,\" she told BBC Radio 5 live's boxing podcast. \"I need more rounds under my belt. I'd love to be able to say let's just go for it but I want to be right and ready so that when I go for that title I come back as champion.\"\n\nWhen Nicola made her debut, I was a little bit worried. I was disappointed with the crowd as it went mild. She needed a good performance in her second bout and a stoppage as people want to be entertained.\n\nNow we've seen all those skills but with more power.\n\nI've seen her in spars and I've seen her spar lads. At 34 years of age with experience of two Olympics, her engine and conditioning is more seasoned than someone of 22 years of age. She could go into eight and 10-round contests from now, no problem whatsoever.", "Few killers achieved the notoriety or attracted as much public loathing as the so-called \"Moors Murderer\", Ian Brady, who has died at the age of 79.\n\nOver a period of 18 months in the 1960s, Brady and his accomplice, Myra Hindley, kidnapped and murdered five children in north-west England.\n\nThe bodies of three of their victims were later found buried on Saddleworth Moor near the town of Oldham.\n\nThe details of the crime shocked the nation, not least because Brady's accomplice was a woman, and also because of the complete lack of remorse either showed during the subsequent trial.\n\nBrady was born Ian Stewart on 2 January 1938, the illegitimate son of a Scottish waitress.\n\nHis violent personality was shaped by an unstable background. His mother neglected him and he was raised by foster parents in the Gorbals, Glasgow's toughest slum.\n\nAfter a spree of petty crime as a teenager the courts sent him to Manchester to live with his mother and her new husband, Patrick Brady.\n\nBrady met Myra Hindley at a company where they both worked\n\nHe assumed his stepfather's name, continued his criminal activities and developed into a fully-fledged teenage alcoholic.\n\nBy now he had acquired new interests, building up a library of books on Nazi Germany, sadism and sexual perversion.\n\nHe first met Hindley when she worked as a secretary at the company where they were both employed.\n\nFor Hindley it was love at first sight. Brady impressed her by reading Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf in the original German.\n\nAs their relationship developed, they began taking obscene photographs of each other before turning their attention to kidnapping, child molestation and murder.\n\nBetween July 1963 and December 1964, 16-year-old Pauline Reade, 12-year-old John Kilbride and Keith Bennett, also 12, were reported missing, all in the Manchester area.\n\nJohn Kilbride was the second child to disappear\n\nAuthorities were baffled by what they referred to as the \"unrelated\" cases, and were left without a single piece of solid evidence.\n\nIn the meantime, Brady and Hindley were intent on a campaign to corrupt Hindley's brother-in-law, David Smith, and recruit him into their circle.\n\nA petty criminal with convictions of his own, Smith was amused when the conversation turned to murder; he questioned Brady's ability to follow it through.\n\nOn 6 October 1965, Brady offered a practical demonstration with Edward Evans, 17, striking him 14 times with a hatchet before strangling him.\n\nHorrified, Smith phoned the police the next morning, directing them to Brady's address.\n\nThe officers caught Brady and Hindley at home, retrieving a fresh corpse from the bedroom, along with the bloody hatchet and Brady's library of volumes on perversion and sadism.\n\nA 12-year-old neighbour recalled several trips she had made with the couple to Saddleworth Moor, and the police launched a search which uncovered the body of Leslie Ann Downey on 16 October.\n\nThe body of Keith Bennett has never been found, despite appeals to Brady for help\n\nFour days later, another search of Brady's flat turned up two left luggage tickets for Manchester Central Station, leading police to a pair of hidden suitcases.\n\nInside, they found nude photographs of the girl, along with tape recordings of her final tortured moments, pleading for her life as she was sexually abused.\n\nA series of seemingly innocent snapshots depicted portions of Saddleworth Moor, and detectives paid another visit to the desolate region on 21 October, unearthing the body of John Kilbride.\n\nPolice announced they were opening their files on eight people who had disappeared over the previous four years, but no new charges had been added by the time the couple went on trial.\n\nJurors were stunned by the Downey tape, and by Brady's bland description of the recording as \"unusual\".\n\nOn 6 May 1966, both defendants were convicted of killing Edward Evans and Leslie Ann Downey. Brady was also found guilty of murdering John Kilbride, while Hindley was convicted as an accessory after the fact.\n\nBrady was sentenced to concurrent life terms on each count, while Hindley received two life terms plus seven years in the Kilbride case.\n\nNineteen years later, in November 1985, Brady was transferred from prison to a maximum-security hospital after being diagnosed a psychopath.\n\nThere, in an interview with newspaper reporters, he confessed to the murders of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett.\n\nAnother year passed before searchers returned to the moors, with Hindley joining them for an abortive outing in December 1986, and Brady doing the same in 1987.\n\nThe remains of Pauline Reade were uncovered on 30 June 1987, nearly a quarter of a century after her disappearance.\n\nIt took pathologists a month to decide she had been sexually assaulted, her throat slashed from behind.\n\nIn August 1987, Brady posted a letter to the BBC containing sketchy information on five \"new\" murders he said he had committed.\n\nLesley Anne Downey was the first victim whose body was found\n\nFive months later the Director of Public Prosecutions announced that, in the public interest, there would be no prosecution of the murders of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett.\n\nBrady accepted from the start that he would never be released, unlike Hindley who, in trying to secure parole, claimed Brady had forced her into killing by abusing and torturing her into submission.\n\nBut Brady reacted to her allegation by claiming: \"For 20 years I continued to ratify the cover I had given her at the trial whilst, in contrast, she systematically began to fabricate upon it to my detriment.\"\n\nMyra Hindley died in 2002. Ian Brady, who had been on hunger strike, and force-fed daily, declared he would rather die quickly than rot slowly in jail.\n\nHis attempts to force the authorities to let him starve himself to death failed. In March 2000 a judge described his hunger strike as part of his \"obsessive need to exercise control\".\n\nA year later Brady's book - The Gates of Janus, an analysis of serial murders - was released by an American firm, Feral House. The decision to publish caused an outcry in the British press and resulted in hate mail being sent to the publisher, Adam Parfrey.\n\nIn 2012 Brady asked to be returned to prison so he could starve himself to death without the force-feeding permitted in mental institutions.\n\nBrady was arrested after the killing of Edward Evans\n\nA tribunal ruled it was appropriate that he continue to be treated in a mental hospital.\n\nIn the same year Keith Bennett's mother, Winnie Johnson, who had fought for four decades to have the two killers prosecuted for her son's murder, died of cancer. Her overriding wish, to find Keith's remains and give him a Christian burial, was never fulfilled.\n\nJohn Kilbride's brother Danny, who had campaigned against any suggestion the two should ever be released, died a year earlier.\n\nChris Cowley, a forensic psychologist who had spent six years in dialogues with Brady, had earlier concluded he was a sociopath with few redeeming features, showing no compassion or feeling for anyone other than himself.\n\n\"His only thought for the victims or their families is what he can get out of it,\" Dr Cowley told the Sunday Telegraph in 2011. \"He would kill again without a thought for anyone who gets in his way.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe independent investigation into historical child sex abuse in football may have to sift through five million documents, BBC Sport has learned.\n\nThe inquiry, led by barrister Clive Sheldon QC, was started by the Football Association in December, after a series of allegations from former players.\n\nThe full scale of the review into the scandal can now be revealed.\n\nInvestigators have started searching 5,000 boxes of FA archives - each containing up to 1,000 pages.\n\nThe inquiry will last several months, with a final report not expected to be published until 2018.\n\nThe review is asking anyone involved with football who wishes to provide information about the way in which clubs or the FA dealt with concerns over child sex abuse between 1970 and 2005 to come forward.\n\nSheldon - an expert in safeguarding and child protection - has written to all 65,000 affiliated clubs seeking assistance, and has begun meeting individuals who can contribute.\n\nClubs and officials who fail to co-operate could face disciplinary action.\n\nSheldon will investigate whether there is any evidence of a paedophile network having operated within the sport, and will take into account girls' football.\n\nHe will also look into the use of confidentiality agreements - or 'gagging clauses' - by clubs following the revelation Chelsea paid a former player £50,000 on condition he kept quiet about the abuse he said he had suffered by the club's former scout Eddie Heath.\n\nSheldon will make recommendations about the current safeguarding system if he identifies weaknesses, and refer any potential criminal offence to Operation Hydrant, the unit co-ordinating police investigations into child sexual abuse across the UK.\n\nPolice have identified more than 250 potential suspects and 560 victims, with 311 clubs involved.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nMaria Sharapova will miss the French Open after tournament officials decided not to give the two-time champion a wildcard.\n\nThe Russian, 30, was ranked too low to gain direct entry as she continues her return from a 15-month drugs ban.\n\n\"There can be a wildcard for the return from injuries - there cannot be a wildcard for the return from doping,\" French Tennis Federation (FFT) chief Bernard Giudicelli Ferrandini said.\n\nThe French Open begins on 28 May.\n\nSharapova had been hoping to receive a wildcard either into the main draw or the qualifying tournament.\n\n\"I'm very sorry for Maria, very sorry for her fans,\" added Giudicelli Ferrandini.\n\n\"They might be very disappointed, she might be very disappointed, but it's my responsibility, my mission, to protect the high standards of the game played without any doubt on the result.\"\n\nShortly after learning of her Roland Garros snub, Sharapova withdrew injured from her second-round Italian Open match against Mirjana Lucic-Baroni.\n\nSharapova returned to action without a ranking last month and has since risen to 211 in the world after receiving wildcards in Stuttgart, Madrid and Rome.\n\nThat will be enough to at least earn a qualifying spot at Wimbledon next month.\n\nSharapova needed to reach the semi-finals of the Italian Open to qualify for Wimbledon's main draw but retired in the second round on Tuesday when leading Lucic-Baroni 4-6 6-3 2-1.\n\n\"I apologise for having to withdraw from my match with a left thigh injury,\" she said. \"I will be getting all the necessary examinations to make sure it is not serious.\"\n\nSharapova will now have to wait until 20 June to discover whether she is among the wildcards at the All England Club.\n\nThe former world number one has not played a Grand Slam since she tested positive for heart disease drug meldonium at the 2016 Australian Open.\n\nThat brought an initial two-year ban, later reduced to 15 months after the Court of Arbitration for Sport found she was not an \"intentional doper\".\n\nThe ongoing fight against doping is more important than the line-up for the French Open - that was the message from the French Federation's president.\n\nIt is a brave and principled decision, which will upset some fans and broadcasters. Ratings may suffer, but Roland Garros will ultimately be stronger for it.\n\nHow could the public take the sport's anti-doping message seriously if one of the Grand Slams had invited a player who was not ranked high enough because of time served for a doping offence?\n\nSharapova has, in contrast, earned her place in qualifying for Wimbledon, even though injury has now deprived her of the chance to play herself into the main draw.\n\nAnd assuming she is fit, she is likely to want to play at least two warm-up events. The Lawn Tennis Association has already offered her a wildcard into the WTA event in Birmingham. If Sharapova also wants to play the week before, she has Nottingham and the Dutch town of Rosmalen to choose between.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal all face a possible play-off to determine qualification for next season's Champions League.\n\nThe three clubs, occupying third to fifth place in the Premier League, are separated by three points going into Sunday's final round of games.\n\nBut their goal difference, and goals scored, are similar enough to raise the prospect of two teams finishing joint third or fourth with identical records - necessitating a one-off play-off match.\n\nHowever, bookmakers are clearly not convinced. Of three possible scenarios where a play-off would be required, the one with shortest odds is around 595-1.\n\nThe top three teams qualify directly for the Champions League group stage, with the fourth-placed side entering at the preceding play-off round, while the fifth-placed side will enter the Europa League.\n• None Select your Premier League team of the season\n• None Quiz: How well do you remember this season?\n\nHow do they stand at the moment?\n\nPremier League rules state: \"If at the end of the season either the league champions or the clubs to be relegated or the question of qualification for other competitions cannot be determined because two or more clubs are equal on points, goal difference and goals scored, the clubs concerned shall play off one or more deciding league matches on neutral grounds, the format, venue and timing of which shall be determined by the board.\"\n\nLast season, there was a chance that Liverpool and West Ham could have finished with identical records with a Europa League place at stake.\n\nSo, how could it all happen?\n\nThis would require a high-scoring draw for City at Watford, while Liverpool give relegated Middlesbrough a thumping at Anfield.\n\nFor instance, a 3-3 draw for City and a 3-0 win for Liverpool would produce this scenario, with the teams tied for third place (and that Champions League group stage place):\n\nThe sides would also be locked together with identical records if City drew 4-4 and Liverpool won 4-1, and so on.\n\nHowever, Arsenal cannot affect this scenario - even by winning, they could finish no higher than fifth.\n\nBy contrast, a heavy defeat for City raises the spectre of finishing level on points with Arsenal.\n\nIf City were to lose 4-0 at Vicarage Road, and Arsenal to sneak home 1-0 against Everton, the sides would finish like this:\n\nThe same permutation would be reached if City lost 5-1 and Arsenal won 2-1 - you get the picture.\n\nWhat makes this scenario even more complicated is that it could produce a third/fourth place play-off if Liverpool fail to beat Middlesbrough - or a fourth/fifth place play-off if the Reds win at Anfield.\n\nThe final scenario would leave Liverpool and Arsenal fighting for fourth place on the most perilous of knife-edges since they battled for the title on the final day of the 1988-89 season.\n\nIf Arsenal draw 1-1 with Everton and Liverpool lose 2-0 to Middlesbrough, this is how they would finish tied for fourth:\n\nOther combinations of results which would leave the sides level would be a 2-2 Arsenal draw coupled with a 3-1 Liverpool defeat, or a 3-3 Arsenal draw if goal-shy Boro win 4-2 at Anfield, and so on.\n\nThe good news for Manchester City fans is that under this third scenario, they would finish third, whatever their result at Watford, and clinch that cherished Champions League group stage place.\n• None Predict the final day's results with our Premier League Predictor", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Were 'litter police' right to fine this man for dropping a small piece of orange peel?\n\nA private company acting as the \"litter police\" for dozens of councils pays officers a bonus for issuing fines, an undercover Panorama report has found.\n\nOne officer from Kingdom Services, a leading enforcement company, claimed that his bonus one month was £987.\n\nOther officers were filmed handing out £75 fines for tiny pieces of dropped orange peel and poured-away coffee.\n\nKingdom told Panorama that its competency allowance was not a paid incentive for officers to issue fines.\n\nLittering is a crime, but if you pay the fine you can avoid a criminal record.\n\nCouncils are increasingly using private companies such as Kingdom, based in Cheshire, to enforce the Environmental Protection Act.\n\nKingdom currently has about 28 contracts with local authorities and last year saw its profits jump 30% to £9m.\n\nThe company frequently splits the proceeds of the fines with the councils.\n\nPanorama uncovered several cases where people were fined incorrectly.\n\nLuke Gutteridge, featured in the video at the top of the story, was issued with a fixed penalty notice by an officer working for Kingdom Services after he accidentally dropped a small piece of orange peel.\n\nEven though Mr Gutteridge, a market trader from Hertfordshire, picked up the peel, he was accused of littering.\n\nLuke's mother Rita Gutteridge, who works for a law firm, contested the case.\n\nShe told Panorama: \"Had we not appealed, or we weren't in a financial position to, he could have ended up with a criminal record for life, for dropping a piece of orange peel. It's just nonsense, and just disgusting to be quite honest.\"\n\nSue Peckitt, a retired civil servant from Ealing in west London, successfully overturned a fine for pouring coffee down a drain.\n\nBarrister Dr Michael Ramsden told Panorama: \"It's pure greed on the part of the enforcement officers, I would say.\n\n\"Under no stretch of the imagination could you say that the liquid from the coffee cup is cross-contamination when it's going in a sewer, and she placed a coffee cup in the bin.\"\n\nSue complained and the fine was dropped. Kingdom Services sent her a £20 gift voucher.\n\nLiz Jenner, a ballet and pilates instructor from Ealing, was issued with a fine for fly-tipping outside her own home after she put her recycling out on the wrong date during the Christmas holidays.\n\nIt is understood that in Ealing, Kingdom officers ride on the back of rubbish trucks to issue tickets.\n\nShe told Panorama: \"'The borough has a very big problem with fly-tipping I appreciate that. But they're targeting the wrong people.\"\n\nThe number of fines issued for littering has risen from 727 to more than 140,000 in England and Wales over the past decade, according to freedom of information requests made in 2015-16 by civil liberties group, the Manifesto Club.\n\nJosie Appleton, the group's spokeswoman, said companies such as Kingdom present councils with a \"very seductive offer\".\n\n\"They basically just say, 'Sign it over to us and we'll make you a bit of money and you won't lose anything.'\"\n\nBut she said it was very concerning because \"essentially what you have here is a fine on behalf of a public authority being contracted out to someone who basically has anything but the public interest at heart and so very much is seeking to make money\".\n\nPanorama sent an undercover reporter to work inside Kingdom Services' enforcement team in Kent.\n\nDuring her training, the reporter asked a senior member of staff how officers were paid.\n\nThe Kingdom manager said officers were paid £9.47 a hour.\n\nHe added: \"And then every ticket over four, you get a little competency allowance.\"\n\nWhen asked if this was like a bonus, he replied: \"It's a bonus.\"\n\nHe added: \"When I was doing it in Ashford, I was hitting out quite a lot of tickets and I think the most I brought home just on the bonus was £987.\"\n\nIt said the allowance was discretionary and only paid if officers met all their basic competencies.\n\nDuring a training session with Kingdom, the reporter was told by a trainer: \"Obviously we are here to make money, I'm not going to not say that to people.\"\n\nThe trainer also told her that some officers pretended to call the police in order to make people pay a fine.\n\nShe added: \"When people think you are actually going to do something or you are going to get the police and they're going to have to stand there for another hour they may then… their attitude changes.\"\n\nOne officer told the reporter that he often pretended to call the police in order to encourage members of the public to hand over their personal details.\n\nOnce he had their details, he could issue a ticket.\n\nKingdom said that it was important that members of the public know what could happen if they are convicted at court.\n\nBut any decision to prosecute alleged offenders is made by the local authority, not Kingdom.\n\nThe company said it provided local authorities with a cost-effective service and helped to keep Britain tidy within the law.\n\nThe cost of clearing up litter exceeded £1bn last year and a further £1bn was spent clearing up waste, according to the campaign group Keep Britain Tidy.\n\nAllison Ogden Nash, chief executive of Keep Britain Tidy, said: \"Enforcement is one of the methods we can use to change people's behaviour but it needs to be fair and it needs to have the public on our side.\"\n\nWatch Panorama - Inside the Litter Police on Monday 15 May at 20:30 BST on BBC One and afterwards on BBC iPlayer.", "Harmony is more than a sex toy, according to RealDoll founder Matt McMullen\n\nHarmony is a new type of sex doll - one that can move and talk.\n\nHer head, eyelids and lip movements are fairly crude and her conversation is even more limited.\n\nBut she is part of a new robotics revolution that is seeing artificial intelligence incorporated into an extremely human-like body.\n\nSome think that it will revolutionise the way humans interact with robots while others believe that it represents the very worst in robotic advancement.\n\nThe uncanny valley - the idea that the closer we get to replicating the human form, the more scared we become of our creations - seems to have come to life in this unassuming factory on the outskirts of San Marcos, California.\n\nThe receptionists are dolls - the only ones wearing suits\n\nEven on reception, two lifelike characters - in business suits rather than underwear, like the rest of the dolls - wait to greet visitors. And the lobby wall is full of photos of beautiful women which, only on very close inspection, reveal themselves to be of dolls.\n\nMatt McMullen, the chief executive of Abyss Creations, which makes RealDoll, comes from an art and sculpture background.\n\nAdjusting Harmony's wig ahead of my interview with her, he is clearly very fond of the way she looks.\n\nShe is, he says, the natural next step for sex dolls.\n\n\"Many people who may buy a RealDoll because it is sexually capable come to realise it is much more than a sex toy,\" he said. \"It has a presence in their house and they imagine a personality for her. AI gives people the tools to create that personality.\"\n\nThis is done via an app, which can be used with the doll or independently, existing as a virtual person on a smartphone or similar device.\n\nUsers can choose from a variety of personality options, including moody, angry and loving.\n\nMr McMullen has chosen \"jealous\" for Harmony and she dutifully asks him to \"remove that girl from Facebook\".\n\nShe speaks in a curiously high-pitched Scottish accent and tells me that she loves science fiction and, of course, Matt.\n\nMr McMullen claims that she learns from her users but when I ask Harmony what it feels like to be jealous, she apologises and says that she \"needs to improve [her] skills\".\n\nThe app that powers Harmony is already available to buy, although only directly from the Realbotix website, a spin-off from Abyss. Neither Google's nor Apple's official stores will carry it because of the explicit content.\n\nThe doll will go on sale later this year and there will be two versions - one with computer vision that enables it to recognise faces, which will cost $10,000 (£7,700) - and a cheaper version without vision for $5,000.\n\nThe factory makes the dolls in stages\n\nThe factory currently makes dolls for clients around the world, mostly men although it claims to have a handful of female clients.\n\nAll of the dolls conform to a particular idea of beauty - they are Barbie-like, with tiny waists, large bottoms and even larger breasts.\n\nMr McMullen says the design is driven by clients.\n\n\"We are running a business and most of our clients have a certain wish list. The unfortunate reality is that that is rather idealistic,\" he said.\n\nMr McMullen described his clients as \"completely normal\", claiming some even come to collect their dolls with their wives but admitted later that many of them choose sex dolls because they cannot form relationships with ordinary women.\n\n\"Many people are isolated and alone but they were probably that way already. For people who are lonely and find it hard to form a relationship, this is another option. But I've never looked at the dolls or the robot as a replacement.\"\n\nHe himself does not own a sex doll, saying he has instead \"a real human wife and kids\".\n\nMark Young lives in Arizona and he does own a sex doll - called Mai Lin. He has also just invested in the Harmony AI app but he is not planning on integrating the two.\n\n\"I thought the app might bring her to life but the app has its own personality and it is different from how I pictured Mai Lin in my mind so it is like having two relationships.\"\n\nHe explained why he invested in a sex doll in the first place.\n\n\"I've been single for a while. I've dated a lot of girls. I've wasted time on relationships. While I'd love to meet a girl, in the meantime it is good to have that presence,\"\n\nAnd, while he admits the relationship is physical, he says that is \"secondary\".\n\n\"I can go out shopping for her and look at clothes - it is like having somebody in my life without having to deal with making mistakes. If I like a hat on her, she doesn't say that she doesn't like it.\"\n\nAs for the app, he has programmed it to be \"happy, affectionate and talkative\".\n\n\"AI is a whole different ball-game and that has got me very excited for the future,\" he said.\n\nProf Kathleen Richardson, a robot ethicist at De Montfort University, Leicester, spends her time looking at the impact such machines might have on society and she is appalled by the rise of sex robots.\n\n\"There are seven billion people on our planet and we are having a crisis in people forming relationships. And companies are coming along and profiting from this by saying objects can take the place of a human being.\"\n\n\"We live in a world that objectivises sex through prostitution. Humans are used like tools, and sex dolls are an extension of this.\"\n\nThe factory makes dolls for clients around the world, but none currently has robotic or AI components.\n\nA few years ago she launched a campaign to ban sex robots but has since decided that \"dolls aren't really the problem\". Instead, the issue is about attitudes to sex and each other.\n\nShe is dismissive of the new AI-enabled doll.\n\n\"The idea that adding artificial intelligence adds something human to a doll is wrong. There is more artificial intelligence in my washing machine than in this doll and just because it has a face and a body doesn't make it human.\"\n\n\"In their current form, sex robots are definitely aimed at men but the sex toy industry is developing and there are lots of start-ups working on sex toys for women.\"\n\nShe thinks robots designed for intimate relationships, will ultimately enhance rather than damage human relationships.\n\n\"There is always panic whenever there is a big dramatic technology shift,\" she said. \"People panic about how it will affect humans but the technology generally brings people together.\"\n\nFind out more about this and our changing relationship with machines in The Robots Story on World Service radio. First broadcasting on Tuesday 16 May at 10.30.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boss in shining armour. By video journalist Greg Brosnan\n\nJason Kingsley seems far too relaxed about the fatal dangers inherent in his daredevil hobby.\n\n\"There have been some deaths in jousting,\" he says. \"But it is usually through inexperience, the wrong safety equipment, and a lot of bad luck combined.\"\n\nPutting on an exact replica of a medieval suit of armour, the 53-year-old jousts a dozen or so weekends every year.\n\nHolding a 12ft (3.7m) long steel-tipped wooden lance in front of him, he rides a stallion full pelt towards another would-be knight coming at him in a similarly determined attempt to knock him off his horse.\n\n\"You are both moving at about 20mph (32km/h), so [if the other person's lance hits you] it is like hitting a brick wall at 40mph.\n\n\"I have never fallen off, but I have taken three people out of the saddle. Historically people have died, and it is always the lance tip going through the eye slot [of the helmet].\"\n\nGiven how Jason spends his weekends, you might imagine that his day job is equally daring, that he is some sort of professional stuntman.\n\nJason doesn't wear the suit of armour to work\n\nInstead, he is the chief executive of one of the UK's largest computer games companies - Rebellion Developments.\n\nJason set up the Oxford-based business with his younger brother Chris in 1992, and today it has an annual turnover of more than £25m.\n\nStill wholly owned by the two siblings, its best-selling titles include Sniper Elite and Rogue Trooper.\n\nFor the past 17 years the company has also owned cult UK comic book series 2000 AD, and publishes a range of novels.\n\nWhile Jason doesn't wear one of his £25,000 suits of armour in the office, he says that he tries to run Rebellion - and all other aspects of his life - according to a medieval knight's chivalric code of conduct.\n\n\"What the code comes down to is try to be a decent person... and there are three parts - bravery, honesty and kindness.\n\n\"In business the need to be brave is obvious; the ability to charge forward and seize the opportunity, and do the best that you can with it.\n\n\"It is also about exploring new territories and seeking out new markets. It is an essential component in being a leader.\"\n\nJason's three tenets in life are bravery, honesty and kindness\n\nHe adds: \"Honesty doesn't mean telling everyone your secrets, it means dealing fairly with people.\n\n\"So in business, I don't try to get the best deal for myself, I'm trying to get the best deal for both sides.\n\n\"This is fairer and the right thing to do, and if the other side makes a profit they will come back and work with me again.\n\n\"And kindness is simply about the need to treat people well.\"\n\nAs a teenager Jason says that he and his brother both loved role-playing games. They would sit around a table with their friends and each take on a fantasy character, such as a wizard or knight.\n\nDice would then be thrown to determine how the characters interacted with each other, and how the stories developed.\n\nJason also wrote a number of \"gamebooks\", where the reader has to decide how the story develops from multiple-choice options.\n\nJason Kingsley has 13 horses to look after\n\nStudying at Oxford University, they started to develop and programme computer games as a hobby. After they both graduated, Jason says they decided to start Rebellion \"because we loved games, and we saw an opportunity in making computer games\".\n\nHe adds: \"It really was just naivety and enthusiasm, but I think that is a really good reason for starting a business, because it is much easier to be successful if you love what you are doing.\"\n\nWorking on a number of demo games, Rebellion got its first big break in 1993 when it won a contract from then-games giant Atari to produce the title Alien vs Predator.\n\nThe game was a bestseller, and Rebellion has never looked back. After making games for other companies, such as James Bond and various titles for The Simpsons, it today tries to focus more on producing and distributing its own material.\n\nThe firm employs 220 people, mainly at its base in Oxford\n\nJason says: \"We knew we wanted to build up our own IP (intellectual property) and fund our own games, and that is where we are now.\n\n\"It has taken us a long time, 25 years to get there... but we now come up with the ideas, fully fund the games, and release them ourselves worldwide. And that's great, there's no-one else in the loop.\"\n\nProfits from the computer games sales have also been used to expand the business into other areas, such as buying 2000 AD, home to cult comic character Judge Dredd.\n\nWhile Jason won't reveal the exact cost of the deal, he says it was \"many millions\".\n\n\"We felt that 2000 AD was on the decline [under its then-Danish owner], and needed to be owned and cherished by someone British who knew the culture of what it was trying to do.\n\n\"I genuinely think it is an important bit of our cultural heritage.\"\n\nGaming industry expert Dan Maher says that Rebellion has been particularly praised for its custodianship of the 2000 AD comic book.\n\n\"As the name suggests, the company prides itself on going against the grain, using the money earned from an industry driven by bleeding-edge technology to make uncynical acquisitions in the traditional publishing sector,\" says Mr Maher.\n\nRebellion bought 2000 AD and its famous character Judge Dredd in, well, 2000 AD\n\n\"Such moves, driven as they are by real love and appreciation for comics and sci-fi, have earned them great respect from consumers and professionals alike.\"\n\nJason has the boss role on a day-to-day basis at Rebellion, while his brother Chris holds the chief technology officer position.\n\nBut before he goes to work, Jason spends two hours every morning looking after his 13 horses, and then two hours again in the evening.\n\n\"Yes I could afford to get staff to do it all for me but I like doing it. The horses are my friends, my family,\" he says.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The claim: Workers' living standards have been falling far too fast for far too long.\n\nReality Check verdict: Average pay adjusted for prices has been rising for the past couple of years, but is still below the level it was 10 years ago, before the financial crisis.\n\nFrances O'Grady, general secretary of trade union umbrella body the TUC, has been talking about pay on the BBC News Channel.\n\n\"I think all major parties need to wake up to the fact that workers' living standards… have been falling far too fast for too long,\" she said.\n\nThe usual measure of whether living standards are falling is whether pay is rising faster than prices.\n\nThis chart adjusts average pay for changes in inflation, measured by the consumer price index (CPI), to give real average earnings.\n\nIt's been a tough 10 years for pay.\n\nReal average earnings have still not returned to the level they were at before the financial crisis.\n\nIf prices are rising faster than wages then people's spending power falls.\n\nIn the last few years, low levels of inflation have meant that pay rises have on average outstripped price rises.\n\nBut inflation has now been boosted, partly by the rising price of imports caused by the falling value of the pound since the EU referendum was called.\n\nYou can see from this chart that average prices and pay are currently running at about the same rate.\n\nWhile real wages are still below their pre-financial crisis levels, they have been rising since the autumn of 2014, although that appears to have stalled now.\n\nBut all of these figures are based on averages, which do not help with the experiences of different areas and sectors of the country.\n\nMany workers in the public sector have had pay increases capped at 1%, which has generally been below the rate of inflation.\n\nLevels of pay vary considerably throughout the country, with average earnings on the whole higher in the south-east of England than in most of the rest of the country.\n\nAverage pay has also grown faster for people who have been in jobs for more than a year, which some people have interpreted as meaning that it is new jobs being created that are dragging down average pay.\n\nHowever, it may also be argued that it just shows more stable jobs tend to be better paid.\n\nBank of England governor Mark Carney warned last week that \"wages won't keep up with prices\" this year, meaning \"a more challenging time for British households\".\n\nThe latest figures for inflation will be released on Tuesday, with average earnings being updated as part of the labour market figures on Wednesday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fernando Alonso said he was satisfied with an \"amazing\" first day of official practice for the Indianapolis 500.\n\nThe McLaren driver, who is racing at this year's event on 28 May instead of at the Monaco Grand Prix, was 19th on Monday with a 223.025mph average.\n\n\"Everything went very smoothly,\" said the 35-year-old Spaniard, who is a two-time F1 world champion.\n\n\"The last half-an-hour we had some issues with the rear suspension and we could not complete the programme.\"\n\nHe added: \"We had planned to run a little bit in traffic, so we missed that part, but overall it was an amazing day.\"\n\nAlonso has a race against time trying to learn all the intricacies of car set-up and racing on a 2.5-mile superspeedway against drivers who have been doing it for years.\n\nHe said he felt he had made progress since his first run at Indy when he completed his rookie test two weeks ago.\n\n\"The car felt as good as it did at the test, and I was able to make some set-up changes without losing the confidence in the car,\" Alonso said.\n\n\"I'm happier than the first day with the car because I was able to feel some of the set-up changes that we were planning in the morning.\n\n\"We did not do much running in traffic, so that's still the thing that I need to go through in the next couple of days.\n\n\"But I did two or three laps behind some cars that were going out of pit lane, and it was good fun.\"\n\nMarco Andretti, Alonso's Andretti Autosport team-mate, was fastest at 226.338mph on the first of five days of practice before qualifying this weekend.\n\n\"In my case, qualifying is not very important,\" Alonso added.\n\n\"When you are out there, you want to feel fast so it's a question of enjoyment, not only the final position.\n\n\"But I think the priority for us in my garage is to set up the car for the race, to feel comfortable in traffic, to learn as much as I can, the way to overtake, the place to overtake, how you lose the minimum momentum in those manoeuvres.\n\n\"There are many things that I don't know now and I need to learn quickly. So let's see what we can do in qualifying. But definitely, the race preparation will be the first priority.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea celebrated their Premier League title triumph with a hard-earned victory over Watford in an ill-tempered but thrilling encounter at Stamford Bridge.\n\nManager Antonio Conte and his Chelsea players were able to take the acclaim on a lap of honour after the final whistle - but they were made to work for the win by a fired-up and physical Watford.\n\nJohn Terry, who will leave at the end of the season after more than two decades at the club, celebrated his first league start since September by scoring Chelsea's 100th goal in all competitions this term. It came after 22 minutes before he then gifted Watford's Etienne Capoue an instant equaliser with a poor header.\n\nCesar Azpilicueta restored Chelsea's lead with a crisp finish before half-time and the contest looked over when Michy Batshuayi, who scored the title-winning goal at West Bromwich Albion on Friday, added a third just after the break.\n\nWatford, however, showed commendable fight. Daryl Janmaat's fine solo effort put the visitors within reach before substitute Stefano Okaka, who was given his Italy debut by Chelsea boss Conte, took advantage of defensive uncertainty to slam in an equaliser.\n\nChelsea, as so often this season, found a way to win as substitute Cesc Fabregas struck from the edge of the area with three minutes left - while Watford's misery was compounded when Sebastian Prodl was sent off for a second yellow card in stoppage time.\n• None Nevin: We've only scratched the surface with Conte\n\nConte can do no wrong and he was being cheered at Stamford Bridge within seconds of appearing in his technical area after winning the Premier League at the first time of asking.\n\nThis was a night for Chelsea to bask in the glory of their success and hard work this season, and after a slow start, the crowd warmed to the occasion.\n\nFor Conte, it was also the opportunity to give some of his shadow squad game time, with the likes of Thibaut Courtois and Nemanja Matic given the night off and Diego Costa, Fabregas, Pedro, Gary Cahill and Marcos Alonso on the bench.\n\nIt was not simply a matter of giving Terry a game and showcasing younger talent such as Nathan Ake and Nathaniel Chalobah - this was a selection with a glance towards the forthcoming FA Cup final against Arsenal at Wembley.\n\nChelsea's lack of familiarity showed in an uncharacteristically shoddy defensive performance while the lack of spark in some of the display was perhaps the result of mental and physical energy expended in getting the title win over the line.\n\nThe perfectionist Conte will be unhappy with parts of this performance, but he will also see the bigger picture.\n\nTerry is on the victory lap of his Chelsea career, with only Sunday's final home game against Sunderland remaining before the curtain comes down.\n\nChelsea's title win enabled Conte to give Terry his first league start since the 2-2 draw at Swansea City on 11 September last year, and first start in any competition since the FA Cup fifth-round win at Wolverhampton Wanderers on 18 February.\n\nIt was a night of mixed fortunes for the 36-year-old, whose goal meant he had scored in his 17th successive Premier League season.\n\nTerry scrambled home that landmark goal but then made that uncharacteristic error to allow Capoue in for the equaliser.\n\nChelsea's defence was not at its best but Terry was leading from the front as usual, even diving into an injury-time melee when players from both sides squared up to each other.\n\nTerry is not going quietly from Chelsea - but that will come as no surprise.\n\nIt was fitting that Azpilicueta got himself on the scoresheet with a drilled low finish to put Chelsea 2-1 up - a rightful reward for a player whose outstanding consistency makes him a key component of this title-winning team.\n\nAzpilicueta has been almost faultless as a vital part of the three-man defence that transformed Chelsea's season, and while he may be underrated and unsung outside Stamford Bridge, there is no underestimating the importance Conte, his team-mates and fans put on the 27-year-old Spain defender.\n\n'The target is 30 wins' - what the managers said\n\nChelsea boss Antonio Conte told BBC Sport: \"It's a big night because we won the title. I made a decision to make nine changes and give the chance to start a lot of young players. I must be pleased because the answer was very good.\n\n\"We conceded three goals but we scored four and created many chances. The most important thing was we won. Now we have target to win 30 games [which would be a Premier League record in a season].\n\n\"The most important thing is to win the league. Then if we have the possibility to improve these records, we must try. We can reach this target. The players and I want to reach this target.\"\n\nWatford manager Walter Mazzarri told BBC Sport: \"I am very proud of my team. We had several players out injured.\n\n\"We played very well. Of course we were safe with six games left. I'm looking at the players I've got and who needs to be here next season.\n\n\"Congratulations to Antonio Conte because he's a great manager. They have great players. They deserve the title.\"\n\nChelsea get to celebrate all over again when they host relegated Sunderland on Sunday (15:00 BST), while Watford welcome Manchester City at the same time on the final day of the league season. The Blues still have the FA Cup final against Arsenal to come on 27 May.\n• None Chelsea have equalled the record from most wins in a single Premier League season [29, also achieved by the Blues in 04-05 and 05-06]\n• None Watford scored with all three of their shots on target\n• None Antonio Conte made nine changes to the starting 11 for this game, the most ever by a Chelsea manager in the Premier League\n• None Jose Holebas has picked up a league-high 14 yellow cards in the Premier League this season; no player has ever picked up more in a single campaign [also 14 for Lee Cattermole in 14-15, Cheick Tiote in 10-11, Robbie Savage in 01-02 and Mark Hughes in 98-99)\n• None John Terry has now netted in each of his past 17 top-flight campaigns\n• None Terry's goal was Chelsea's 1,000th in the Premier League since Roman Abramovich took over [in the summer of 2003]\n• None It was also the Blues' 100th goal in all competitions this season\n• None Troy Deeney (Watford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Pedro (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Second yellow card to Sebastian Prödl (Watford) for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 4, Watford 3. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Willian.\n• None Attempt saved. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Willian with a through ball.\n• None Attempt saved. Ola Aina (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Eden Hazard.\n• None Attempt missed. John Terry (Chelsea) header from the left side of the six yard box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas with a cross following a corner.\n• None Sebastian Prödl (Watford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "It is a typical November Tuesday for Mary, who lives in the north-east of the United States.\n\nShe is 44, has a degree, and her family is prosperous - in the top quarter of American households by income. So what has she done today? Is she a lawyer or a teacher?\n\nNo. Mary spent an hour knitting and sewing, two hours setting the table and doing the dishes and well over two hours preparing and cooking food.\n\nShe is not unusual, because it is 1965 and at that time, many married American women - even those with an excellent education - spent large chunks of their day catering for their families.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world in which we live.\n\nWe know about Mary's day - and those of many others - because of time-use surveys conducted around the world. These diaries reveal precisely how different people use their time.\n\nFor educated women, the way time is spent in the US and other rich countries has changed radically over the past half a century.\n\nWomen in America now spend around 45 minutes per day in total cooking and cleaning up. That's still much more than men, who spend only 15 minutes a day doing such tasks. But it is a vast reduction from Mary's four hours.\n\nBehind this shift is a radical change to the way the food we eat is prepared, as seen by the introduction of the TV dinner in 1954.\n\nPresented in a space-age aluminium tray, and prepared so that everything would require the same cooking time, the \"frozen turkey tray TV dinner\" was developed by a bacteriologist called Betty Cronin.\n\nShe worked for the Swanson food processing company, keen to find ways to keep busy after the business of supplying rations to US troops had dried up.\n\nBut of course the TV dinner was only part of a panoply of changes, wrought by the availability of freezers, microwaves, preservatives and production lines.\n\nFood had been perhaps the last cottage industry: something that would overwhelmingly be produced in the home.\n\nBut food preparation has been industrialised - outsourced to restaurants and takeaways and to factories that prepare ready-to-eat or ready-to-cook meals.\n\nAnd the invention of the industrial meal - in all its forms - has led to a profound shift in the modern economy.\n\nHow we spend on food is changing.\n\nIn 2015, US consumers spent more money on food and drink outside their home than on groceries for the first time\n\nAmerican families spend increasingly more outside the home - on fast food, restaurant meals, sandwiches and snacks. Only a quarter of food spending was outside the home in the 1960s.\n\nThat has steadily risen over time and in 2015 a landmark was reached: for the first time, Americans spent more on food and drink outside the home than at grocery stores. The British passed that particular milestone more than a decade earlier.\n\nEven within the home, food is increasingly processed to save the chef time and effort: bagged chopped salad, pre-grated cheese, jars of pasta sauce, individual permeable tea bags, meatballs doused in sauce and chicken that comes plucked and gutted.\n\nEach new innovation would seem bizarre to the older generation.\n\nI have never plucked a chicken and perhaps my children will never chop salad. All this saves time - serious amounts of time.\n\nWhen the economist Valerie Ramey compared time-use diaries in the US between the 1920s and the 1960s, she found that surprisingly little had changed.\n\nWhether women were uneducated and married to farmers, or highly educated and married to urban professionals, they still spent similar amounts of time on housework across those 50 years.\n\nIt was only in the 1960s that this pattern began to shift.\n\nBut surely the innovation responsible for emancipating women was not the TV dinner, but the washing machine?\n\nThe idea is widely believed and is appealing. A frozen TV dinner does not really feel like progress, compared to home-cooked food.\n\nThe washing machine was innovative, but did not save much time\n\nBut a washing machine is clean and efficient and replaces work that was always drudgery. How could it not have been revolutionary?\n\nHowever, the revolution wasn't in the lives of women, it was in how lemon fresh we all started to smell.\n\nAs Alison Wolf argues in her book The XX Factor, the evidence is clear that the washing machine did not save a lot of time, because before washing machines, we did not wash clothes very often. When it took all day to wash and dry a few shirts, people used replaceable collars and cuffs or dark outer layers to hide the grime.\n\nIn contrast, when it took two or three hours to prepare a meal, someone had to take that time. There was not an alternative. The washing machine did not save much time, and the ready meal did, because we were not willing to starve, but we were willing to stink.\n\nThe availability of ready meals has had some regrettable side-effects.\n\nObesity rates rose sharply in developed countries between the 1970s and the early 21st Century, at much the same time as these culinary innovations were being developed. This is no coincidence, say health economists. The cost of calories has fallen dramatically, not just in financial terms but also in terms of time.\n\nConsider the humble potato. It has long been a staple of the American diet, but before World War Two potatoes were usually baked, mashed or boiled. There's a reason for that: roast potatoes need to be peeled, chopped, par-boiled and then roasted. French fries or chips must be finely chopped and then deep fried.\n\nOver time, however, the production of fried sliced potato chips - both French fries and crisps - was centralised. French fries can be peeled, chopped, fried and frozen in a factory and then refried in a fast-food restaurant or microwaved at home.\n\nObesity rates have risen sharply since the large scale industrialisation of food production\n\nBetween 1977 and 1995, American potato consumption increased by a third, almost entirely because of the rise of fried potatoes.\n\nEven simpler, crisps can be fried, salted, flavoured and packaged to last for many weeks on the shelf. But this convenience comes at a cost.\n\nIn the US, calorie intake by adults rose by about 10% between the 1970s and the 1990s. Not as a result of more calorific regular meals but because of increased snacking - usually of processed convenience food.\n\nPsychology - and common sense - suggest this should not be a surprise.\n\nExperiments by behavioural scientists show that we make very different decisions about what to eat depending on how far away the meal is. A long-planned meal is likely to be nutritious, but when we make more impulsive decisions, our snacks are more likely to be junk food than something nourishing.\n\nThe industrialisation of food - symbolised by the TV dinner - changed our economy in two important ways. It freed women from hours of domestic chores, removing a large obstacle to them adopting serious professional careers.\n\nBut by making empty calories ever more convenient to acquire, it also freed our waistlines to expand.\n\nThe challenge now - as with so many inventions - is to enjoy the benefit without also suffering the cost.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nJosh Bassett scored a try two minutes from time as Wasps reached their first Premiership final in nine years with a thrilling victory over Leicester.\n\nKurtley Beale helped Wasps build a 10-point lead but Peter Betham's try saw Tigers three points down at half-time.\n\nLeicester led when Telusa Veainu dived over, and Freddie Burns' kick had them four points up and defending bravely.\n\nThomas Young spurned a chance as Wasps pressed but Bassett scored in the corner to set up a final with Exeter.\n\nPremiership player of the year Jimmy Gopperth, who kicked 11 points, missed the conversion but Dai Young's side saw out the closing seconds as Leicester fell at the semi-final stage for the fourth consecutive season.\n\nWasps, who finished top of the regular-season table, will face Exeter - who were second - at Twickenham on Saturday, May 27 at 14:30 BST for the right to become champions.\n• None READ MORE: Exeter shock Sarries to reach second final in a row\n\nWasps have not lost a league match at the Ricoh Arena since December 2015 and were 18 points clear in the final table of their fourth-placed opponents.\n\nHowever, they were moments from being stunned by Matt O'Connor and his Leicester team, with the home side's line-out a constant area of concern.\n\nWith the match in their control, Wasps conceded two quick-fire penalties before the influential Burns, who will join Bath this summer, launched a pinpoint pass for Betham to finish and level.\n\nAn injury forced Australia superstar Beale off early in the second half which further encouraged Leicester, who isolated the largely anonymous Christian Wade to edge in front through Veainu.\n\nThe favourites looked to have missed their chance when back-rower Young misplaced a pass to the onrushing Gopperth after breaking the line, but resilience from Guy Thompson and Joe Launchbury opened things up for Bassett to score the match-winning points.\n\nAt one stage it looked like being a dismal campaign for the 10-time Premiership winners, who sacked director of rugby Richard Cockerill in January after almost eight years at the helm.\n\nThere was a real possibility Leicester would miss out on the play-offs altogether for the first time in 13 seasons, but under O'Connor they put together enough wins to keep that streak intact.\n\nAhead of the semi-final with Wasps the players rallied around captain Tom Youngs, who led out his side just weeks after learning of his wife Tiffany's terminal illness.\n\nThe Lions and England hooker, in his 100th start in a Tigers shirt, was part of a much-improved performance from the Tigers pack as O'Connor's side came within two minutes of reaching the Premiership final at the end of a season of transition.\n\n\"We chucked the kitchen sink at them in the last 20 minutes - we had three or four opportunities and that last pass didn't quite go our way.\n\n\"I'm absolutely thrilled for everybody involved at the club. I'm really looking forward to Twickenham next week - we'll go and enjoy it and if we can get our hands on something, fantastic.\n\n\"Any team could've won that, let's be honest, but thankfully we got over right at the end and we have to enjoy tonight.\n\n\"You've got to give Leicester a lot of credit - I thought they were great.\"\n\n\"It's hard to describe really. We didn't deserve to lose, I thought we did enough.\n\n\"At stages I thought we were fantastic, for the majority of the game. They just asked too many questions of us.\n\n\"This year is about perspective. You dust yourself off and make sure you're better next year.\n\n\"I think results have shown over the past four or five weeks that there's a lot of growth in the individuals we've got.\"\n\nFor the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "Donald Trump sets foot on foreign soil on Saturday for the first time since he was elected, marking the start of a nine-day trip fraught with pitfalls for a president known to depend on home comforts.\n\nAn ambitious itinerary will take him from Saudi Arabia to Israel and on to Belgium, Italy, and the Vatican, with Nato and G7 summits towards the tail end of the trip.\n\nGeorge W Bush had visited two countries by this point in his first term and Barack Obama nine. But wary of spending as much as a night away from his own bed, Mr Trump has kept even domestic travel to a minimum.\n\nInstead he has spent his presidential honeymoon mostly hunkered in the White House or his Mar-a-Lago resort, dogged by a deepening scandal over his campaign's ties to Russia.\n\nAs a candidate he told reporters he was unlikely to travel abroad much because America required his undivided attention, but the evidence suggests the 45th president has always been a homebody.\n\nOn the campaign trail he returned to his gilded Manhattan apartment after nearly every rally, by helicopter or private jet, and former business aides say he was always reluctant to sleep anywhere but a Trump-branded property.\n\n\"Trump is a man who likes to be on the couch with a good cheeseburger,\" Roger Stone, a long-time friend and former adviser, told Reuters during the campaign. \"He likes being in his own bed, even if it means coming into (New York airports) Teterboro or LaGuardia after midnight.\"\n\nBut it's a long way from the Vatican to the White House. So, unable to bring Trump back to the US, the president's staff has made plans to bring the US to Trump. In Saudi Arabia he will be served steak with tomato ketchup - his favourite meal - alongside the local cuisine prepared by his hosts, the AP reported.\n\nMr Trump is said to dislike spending the night away from his own bed\n\nThe president passed up a typical first foray to Canada or Mexico - an easy option taken by every president since Reagan - and initial plans for a short trip to Europe ballooned into a nine-day, five-country tour taking in two major summits.\n\n\"This is an enormously complex undertaking, there are so many things that will be challenging for Trump it's headspinning,\" said Daniel Benjamin, who travelled extensively on Air Force One as Bill Clinton's foreign policy speechwriter.\n\n\"The first thing is simply the pace. If you look at how Trump spends his days in the White House, it seems to be an enormous amount of time watching TV and not much else. But these trips are punishing, he will be meeting an enormous number of people and it requires tremendous energy and focus - not his strong suit.\"\n\nThe president's team has reportedly attempted to build downtime into his schedule wherever possible, and instructed foreign delegations that he prefers short presentations with lots of visual aids.\n\nHis limited attention span is said to have already affected preparation for the trip. Aides threaded the president's own name through the paragraphs of a two-page briefing memo in order to hold his interest, the New York Times reported on Friday.\n\nPreparations will also have been damaged by the Russia inquiries and the firing of FBI director James Comey, as well as a lack of senior leaders in place at the State Department, where the administration has failed to fill gaps under Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump's first trip: What's on the agenda in Saudi Arabia?\n\nOne of the president's first duties on this trip will be to deliver a speech on religion in Saudi Arabia - reportedly being drafted by Trump adviser Stephen Miller, the man behind the administration's misfired travel ban.\n\n\"Going to Saudi Arabia and talking about Islam is like going blindfold into a minefield, on a pogo stick,\" said Mr Benjamin.\n\n\"Speeches would normally be worked on for four to six weeks in advance, but this is an understaffed White House that has been focused on a fusillade of bad news. So unless they've discovered a secret for no sleep, they must be seriously distracted.\"\n\nMr Trump's team will be expected to respond from the road to breaking news and political developments at home and abroad, as well as shepherd the president around any potential own goals or gaffes in front of his hosts.\n\nPresidents past have suffered indignities on foreign trips. George W Bush famously attempted to leave a press conference in China via a locked door, and had a shoe thrown at him at a press conference in Iraq. His father, George HW Bush, vomited into the lap of the Japanese prime minister.\n\nDeparting from protocol can lead to mishaps. President Obama was criticised for bowing to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Michelle Obama for hugging Queen Elizabeth. George W Bush - who had his fair share - gave German Chancellor Angela Merkel an ill-advised and unwelcome shoulder massage.\n\nMr Trump appeared to decline to shake hands with German chancellor in April, leaving her bemused\n\nBut if Mr Trump's team can steer him ably around these pitfalls, he does have a couple of things going for him. He is taking the majority of his senior staff and the first lady, which may offer a sense of stability.\n\nMrs Trump, who was born in Slovenia and lived in France and Italy before moving the US, is a more seasoned traveller. Mr Trump visited her home country once, and stayed just one evening. \"At least I can say that I went,\" he later said.\n\nHe has also chosen to begin in a part of the world that will offer a warm reception. The president's hard line on Iran, along with other overtures, has endeared him to Saudi Arabia and to Israel, and both countries have a vested interest in good relations with the new administration.\n\n\"He is going to want it to be successful and they're going to want it to be successful, and my guess is it will be successful,\" said Stephen Hadley, a former national security adviser who travelled widely with George W Bush.\n\n\"The truth is that nobody is prepared for being president until they're the president. The flipside with Trump is that this is a guy who's been in the public eye for 30 years, who's very media savvy and who likes to be in the limelight.\"\n\nVisiting the Pope \"would be hard to get wrong\", said Mr Hadley, but at the two summits the president may face testy exchanges with leaders aggrieved by his anti-EU proselytising, anti-refugee sentiment and high-handed demands for greater Nato payments. Mr Trump had what appeared to be a frosty meeting in Washington in April with Mrs Merkel, who he openly criticised during the campaign.\n\nAdded to that, this is a long and busy first trip for any president. \"There is real risk that he will tire towards the end,\" said Mr Hadley.\n\n\"At these summit meetings you might have 28 heads of state and government and they all want to say something, and the president has to sit and listen to all of them. That will tax any world leader, let alone one who finds it hard to sit still.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nMaria Sharapova will enter Wimbledon qualifying rather than request a main-draw wildcard as she continues her comeback from a 15-month drug ban.\n\nThe 30-year-old Russian was denied a wildcard for the French Open, with tournament officials saying her doping suspension counted against her.\n\nSharapova will have to win through three qualifying rounds to earn a spot in Wimbledon's 128-strong main draw.\n\nQualifying in Roehampton will be ticketed for the first time this year.\n\n\"Because of my improved ranking after the first three tournaments of my return, I will also be playing the qualifying of Wimbledon in Roehampton, and will not be requesting a wildcard into the main draw,\" said Sharapova in a statement on her website.\n\nSharapova is ranked 211th in the world - below the status needed for direct entry into the main draw - but her recent form is good enough to earn a place in qualifying.\n\nHad she reached the Italian Open semi-finals last week, Sharapova would have climbed high enough to make the main draw automatically, but she retired in her second-round match.\n\nHad she applied for a wildcard it would have been reviewed by a Wimbledon committee, with a decision to be announced on 20 June.\n\nWildcards are \"usually offered on the basis of past performance at Wimbledon or to increase British interest\".\n\nThe Women's Tennis Association criticised the basis for the French Open's decision, saying there are \"no grounds to penalise any player beyond the sanctions set forth in the final decisions resolving these matters\".\n\nSharapova herself tweeted in apparent response to Roland Garros' decision.\n\n\"If this is what it takes to rise up again, then I am in it all the way, everyday,\" she wrote.\n\n\"No words, games, or actions will ever stop me reaching my own dreams.\"\n\nHowever, former Wimbledon champion Pat Cash was one of several prominent figures urging the All England Club not offer the 2004 champion a route straight back into the main draw.\n\nTickets to Wimbledon qualifying will be £5 each, with all funds going to the Wimbledon Foundation.", "The claim: 1.7 million pensioners are living in poverty and a million in fuel poverty.\n\nReality Check verdict: The figure for pensioners who are defined as living in poverty in the UK is a bit higher than that at 1.9 million. There isn't a specific figure for the number of pensioners in fuel poverty in the UK but a million is not an unreasonable estimate based on the figures that we do have.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell spoke to BBC Radio 4's Today Programme on Friday about the Conservative manifesto pledge to means-test winter fuel payments.\n\nThe Conservatives have not given any details of how they would apply a means test or how much they would hope to save.\n\nThe winter fuel payment is between £100 and £300 (depending on your circumstances) paid to anyone receiving a state pension or people of pension age receiving certain other social security benefits.\n\nIn winter 2015-16 it was paid to 12.2 million people, 42,000 of whom lived elsewhere in Europe.\n\nMr McDonnell pointed out that since we don't know where the means test will fall, a number of less well-off pensioners could still lose the benefit.\n\nHe suggested it might just be people entitled to pension credit who would get the fuel allowance, although government sources have told the BBC that would not be the mechanism, and that there would be a consultation process to decide how it would be tested.\n\nPensioners with an income below £159.35 a week may claim pension credit - it's £243.45 for couples.\n\nAccording to the latest figures from November there were 1.9 million people claiming pension credit, or 2.2 million if you include their partners, although there has been research suggesting that about one-third of people entitled to it are not claiming.\n\nMr McDonnell told the BBC that there were 1.7 million pensioners living in poverty and a million living in fuel poverty.\n\nPeople count as living in relative poverty if they are in households with an income below 60% of the median household income. The median income is the one for which half of households have higher incomes and half have lower.\n\nThe government's preferred measure of pensioner poverty is after housing costs have been taken into account. Nearly three-quarters of pensioners live in homes that are owned outright (compared with roughly one in five of the working-age population) and so are less likely to have high housing costs.\n\nOn that measure, 16% of UK pensioners are in poverty, which is 1.9 million people.\n\nThere are also measures of absolute poverty, which may measure whether people are able to afford a basic lifestyle - about 8% of pensioners fall below the threshold for material deprivation.\n\nTo measure fuel poverty, the government looks at two things - how much you have to pay for fuel, and what your income is. You'll be considered to be in fuel poverty if your required fuel costs are above average and, were you to spend that amount, your remaining income would leave you below the official poverty line as explained above.\n\nThe latest government figures we have on fuel poverty relate to 2014 and suggest 2.38 million households in total in England were in fuel poverty.\n\nThere isn't a specific figure for the number of UK pensioners in fuel poverty, but according to Table 14 there were 621,000 households just in England in 2014 in which the oldest member was over 60. Age UK says this equates to more than 1 million individuals, although some of them will not yet be entitled to their state pension.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Manager Richie Foran says Inverness Caley Thistle must rid themselves of \"two or three bad apples\" after they were relegated from the Premiership.\n\nA win over Motherwell was not enough and Foran, who wants to stay on as manager, felt let down by some players.\n\nThe manager made reference to \"two or three bad apples in the dressing room\".\n\nAnd he added: \"I probably should have got rid of them in January. I stayed loyal to a lot of players and some of them didn't pay me back.\"\n\n'I look forward to getting rid of those three'\n\nInverness won three of their last four Premiership matches as they fought to finish in the play-off spot.\n\nBut Hamilton Accies' 4-0 hammering of Dundee on Saturday ensured they will face Dundee United for a spot in the Premiership next term, while Inverness will play Championship football despite their 3-2 win over Well.\n\n\"It's obviously disappointment,\" Foran added. \"The best clubs in the world get knocked down, it's how you rebuild and come back. I've told the players there are far worse off people in life.\n\n\"But it happens in football. It is not all rosy. It is not all about winning all the time. I've been part of relegation teams - you stay loyal, you rebuild. You get knocked down, you get back up again.\n\n\"You need to get rid of the two or three players you don't want, that haven't given 100%, and I look forward to getting rid of those three.\n\n\"Of the starting 11 today, I would hope to have at least 10 of those for next season [midfielder Greg Tansey is leaving to join Aberdeen]. I am very proud of the players and when we got the right team playing, we could finish well, with guys giving their all for the club.\"\n\nForan, who was a player at the time, stayed with Inverness when they were relegated from the top flight in 2009.\n\nOne year into a four-year contract, he hopes to do the same as manager.\n\n\"I want to be here next season,\" he said. \"I will have a chat with the board probably on Monday or Tuesday and will find out what their thoughts are. But I am 100% behind this club and I expect to be here next season.\n\n\"There are changes to be made, on and off the field. Personally I want a smaller squad.\n\n\"I have got to look at myself as well. I haven't performed well enough. I have learned a heck of a lot this season - about myself, about players, the trust of people around you, and people you don't trust.\n\n\"One of my favourite seasons as a player was getting promoted, because we stuck together. I was part of the relegated team and helped them come straight back up, and I hope to do the same next season.\"\n\nOne player who will not be there is Tansey, who signed a pre-contract agreement with Aberdeen in March.\n\nThe midfielder, 28, was dismayed to leave on the back of relegation but felt he had given his all for the cause.\n\n\"It is never nice, but I can look myself in the mirror,\" said Tansey, who scored his seventh goal of the season in the win over Well, having scored nine last term.\n\n\"I gave all I could and have finished very similar to last season goals-wise. Sometimes things happen like that. You just have to move on as a professional footballer and get on with it.\n\n\"We probably thought we were too good to go down, but we have got to be at it every game.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nScarlets produced a superb performance to beat Leinster in the Pro12 semi-final despite having winger Steffan Evans sent off before half-time.\n\nEvans was red-carded for a tip tackle on Garry Ringrose in the 38th minute when Scarlets were leading 21-10.\n\nEvans, back-row Aaron Shingler and scrum-half Gareth Davies scored fine tries for the visitors.\n\nCentre Ringrose and number eight Jack Conan touched down for Leinster who miss out on the 27 May final in Dublin.\n\nMunster host Ospreys in the other semi-final at 18:15 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe against-the-odds triumph by Scarlets at the RDS was the first time an away team had won in the Pro12 semi-finals.\n\nOspreys were the last Welsh club to win the competition in 2012.\n\nThe dismissal of Evans could result in the 22-year-old missing out on his first Wales cap as a suspension could rule him out of his country's June Tests against Tonga and Samoa.\n\nRingrose landed on his head and neck after having his legs lifted by Evans. The red card was shown following several video re-runs of the incident.\n\nEvans watched from the sidelines as Scarlets brilliantly withheld Leinster's response after the interval.\n\nScarlets had started superbly, scoring first when Evans broke through on the right in the ninth minute.\n\nIsa Nacewa's penalty got Leinster off the mark and then Ringrose burst in for a 24th-minute converted try which put the Irish side 10-7 up.\n\nHowever, Leinster looked rattled when Scarlets touched down in the 26th and 30th minutes through Shingler and Davies.\n\nScarlets led 21-10 at the interval, but faced the prospect of playing the entire second half a man down.\n\nThey actually outscored their opponents in the second half as lacklustre Leinster could only manage a try by number eight Conan in the 64th minute.\n\nNacewa somehow missed the straightforward conversion, leaving the hosts 21-15 in arrears.\n\nScarlets sealed victory with two penalties by Liam Williams after the winger successfully took over from regular kicker Rhys Patchell who had been replaced.\n\nReplacements: Kirchner for G Ringrose (74), Strauss for Tracy (71), Bent for Furlong (61), Toner for Triggs (51), Leavy for Ruddock (46), Gibson-Park for L McGrath (22), Healy for J McGrath (9)\n\nReplacements: Parkes for Patchell (61), J Evans for G Davies (51), W Jones for R Evans (56), E Phillips for Elias (71), Kruger for Lee (65), Bulbring for Rawlins (65), van der Merwe for J Davies (80), Boyde for Barclay (63).", "Fernando Alonso will compete for pole position at the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday after making it through the first qualifying day seventh fastest.\n\nThe McLaren Formula 1 driver produced an impressive performance in his first competitive session on a US oval track.\n\nAlonso, 35, is among the 'fast nine' who will dispute pole on Sunday.\n\nThe Spanish driver's average speed for his four-lap qualifying run on the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway was 230.034mph.\n\nAmerican Ed Carpenter, who ran later in the day, was fastest at 230.468mph. The shootout for pole is due to begin at 22:00 BST.\n\nThe perils of racing on high-speed American oval tracks were emphasised as former F1 driver Sebastien Bourdais suffered multiple fractures to his pelvis and a fracture to his right hip in a high-speed crash.\n\nThe Frenchman, 38, was fastest after the first two laps of his four-lap qualifying run but lost control exiting Turn One, smashed head-on into the barriers and rolled before coming to a rest.\n\nIndyCar said in a statement that Bourdais was due to have surgery on his pelvis on Saturday evening at the Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital.\n\nDale Coyne Racing's team owner said in a statement on Saturday: \"Sebastien is in good hands here at the hospital with the staff and now we just wait for him to recover.\"\n\nBourdais, who drove for F1 team Toro Rosso in 2008 and 2009, had been \"awake and alert\" immediately after the accident and had not lost consciousness.\n\nDrivers are supposed to get several attempts at setting a time on the first day of qualifying at Indy, but a rain storm in the morning delayed running and in the end the session was cut short so that each driver only had one four-lap attempt.\n\nSpeaking before the conclusion of the session, Alonso said: \"It was intense, definitely. With the weather conditions, we only had this attempt, so that creates a little bit of stress on everyone.\n\n\"I think we did OK, and put the laps together but I think there is more to come from the car. We have a little bit more speed than we showed today so hopefully we can put everything together.\n\n\"It felt difficult, it felt tricky. You are going very fast, you feel the degradation of the tyres. Lap one and lap four are very different in terms of the balance and you need to keep your concentration very high every corner, every lap.\n\n\"I need to keep learning, keep progressing. With this being my first qualifying, I saw there were things I could do differently, the preparation of the tyres, the laps, the consistency of the laps. I am happy with today's performance but I think tomorrow will be better.\"\n\nOf the Britons, Ed Jones was quickest in 10th place, followed by Max Chilton in 12th, Jay Howard in 22nd, Jack Harvey in 25th and Pippa Mann in 30th.\n\nQualifying runs over two days this weekend, with Saturday defining the 'fast nine' drivers who compete for pole position on Sunday.\n\nThe remaining 24 drivers also qualify again on Sunday, but only to determine the grid positions from 10th to 33rd. Qualifying pace is determined by a driver's average speed over a four-lap run.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal will compete for England's final two Champions League places as the Premier League season finishes on Sunday.\n\nCity can clinch third spot, and a place in the group stage, by winning at Watford, while Liverpool will secure at least fourth by beating Middlesbrough.\n\nBut Arsenal can sneak into the top four if one of their rivals slips up and they beat Everton at Emirates Stadium.\n\nAll 20 teams are in action, with every match kicking off at 15:00 BST.\n\nSo what are the big issues on the final day - and what is the latest team news?\n• None Select your Premier League team of the season\n• None Quiz: How well do you remember this season?\n\nManchester City need a point at Watford to guarantee a top-four finish - but winning and finishing third will take them straight into next season's Champions League group stages.\n\nThe team in fourth place will go into a two-legged play-off in August, while whoever finishes fifth will receive a place in the Europa League.\n\nWith just six points separating Southampton, in eighth, and 16th-placed Watford, several teams also have the opportunity to improve their league position - and increase their share of Premier League prize money.\n\nBurnley, for instance, could finish as low as 17th, earning £7.6m in prize money, or as high as 11th, which would be worth £19m - a difference of £11.4m.\n\nHarry Kane looks set to win the Premier League Golden Boot, awarded to the competition's leading scorer, thanks to his four goals in Tottenham's 6-1 victory at Leicester on Thursday.\n\nSpurs go to relegated Hull on Sunday with Kane on 26 league goals for the season, two clear of Everton's Romelu Lukaku.\n\nBelgium striker Lukaku and Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez, third in the standings on 23 goals, will face each other at Emirates Stadium as they look to catch Kane.\n\nChelsea get their prize - and chase history\n\nNo team has ever won 30 league matches in a 38-game top-flight season - but Chelsea will be the first to do so if they beat bottom club Sunderland at Stamford Bridge.\n\nAntonio Conte's side secured the Premier League title - the club's fifth in 13 seasons - with a 1-0 victory at West Brom on 12 May, and will receive the trophy after Sunday's game.\n\nChelsea managed 29 league wins in a season, in 2004-05 and 2005-06, twice under Jose Mourinho.\n\nOnly two teams in the history of the English top division have achieved more - Tottenham won 31 games in 1960-61 and Liverpool 30 in 1978-79 - and they both did it in 42-match seasons.\n\nSunderland, Middlesbrough and Hull are all leaving the Premier League after finishing in the bottom three, but there will be individual farewells too.\n\nChelsea captain John Terry is set to end his 22-year stay at Stamford Bridge by playing his 717th game for the club.\n\nAt Watford, manager Walter Mazzarri will take charge for the final time, with his departure having been confirmed on Wednesday.\n\nA number of other players may yet be turning out for their clubs for the final time, with the futures of Wayne Rooney, Ross Barkley, Romelu Lukaku, Michael Keane and Gylfi Sigurdsson among those in doubt.\n\nOne question that will not be answered tomorrow concerns the future of Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger - who is out of contract this summer.\n\nAsked on Friday if he would extend his 21-year reign, Wenger said only that his future would be decided at a board meeting to follow the FA Cup final against Chelsea on 27 May.\n\nAll games kick-off at 15:00 BST on Sunday\n\nAaron Ramsey is fit for Arsenal despite limping off against Sunderland in midweek with a thigh strain.\n\nDefender Laurent Koscielny could again miss out because of a calf problem, while Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is sidelined by a hamstring injury.\n\nEverton manager Ronald Koeman has no new injury concerns.\n\nIt remains to be seen whether the match will mark the final Everton appearance of Romelu Lukaku and Ross Barkley, whose futures at the club are in doubt.\n\nBurnley could welcome back Michael Keane, who has missed their past two games because of a calf injury.\n\nFellow centre-back Ben Mee is again set to miss out with a shin problem.\n\nWest Ham are without centre-back Winston Reid, who has had surgery to treat a knee injury, so 18-year-old Declan Rice may deputise.\n\nFellow defender Angelo Ogbonna, who returned to the match-day squad last weekend after three months out, is also available but lacks match fitness.\n\nChelsea captain Gary Cahill and top scorer Diego Costa are among the players likely to be recalled by the champions after Antonio Conte made nine changes for Monday's win over Watford.\n\nJohn Terry could made his 717th appearance for the Blues in his last game at Stamford Bridge as a player.\n\nRelegated Sunderland will be without 11 injured players.\n\nDefender Lamine Kone and midfielder Didier Ndong are the latest absentees because of dead legs.\n\nHull will be without Evandro, Harry Maguire and Abel Hernandez through injury.\n\nThey join Will Keane, Lazar Markovic, Ryan Mason, David Meyler and Moses Odubajo on the sidelines.\n\nTottenham await news on whether full-backs Kieran Trippier and Kyle Walker will be fit to return.\n\nChristian Eriksen is likely to be recalled after being rested against Leicester on Thursday, while Filip Lesniak could start.\n\nLeicester are again without defender Robert Huth, who is nursing a foot injury, but Andy King could return from a hamstring problem.\n\nBournemouth could welcome back midfielders Dan Gosling and Andrew Surman after their respective calf and knee problems.\n\nThey are definitely without the injured Benik Afobe, while Lewis Cook is away with the England Under-20 side.\n\nLiverpool are hopeful forward Roberto Firmino will be fit to play on Sunday despite a muscle problem.\n\nIf he is unavailable then the Reds could select the same starting line-up that began the 4-0 win at West Ham.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side need a win to guarantee qualification for next season's Champions League.\n\nMiddlesbrough boss Steve Agnew may again be without Daniel Ayala, Gaston Ramirez and Victor Valdes because of injury.\n\nManchester United goalkeeper Joel Pereira is expected to be given his Premier League debut on Sunday.\n\nDemi Mitchell, Angel Gomes, Josh Harrop and Scott McTominay could make their senior bows, while Paul Pogba and Timothy Fosu-Mensah will play.\n\nMarouane Fellaini and Chris Smalling have minor injuries and may be rested for the Europa League final.\n\nJames Tomkins should be fit for Crystal Palace after an ankle problem but Yohan Cabaye is a doubt because of a foot injury.\n\nAndros Townsend will miss the game because of an Achilles injury, while Scott Dann is expected to be absent with a knee problem.\n\nSouthampton's Shane Long will miss out after breaking a bone in his foot at Middlesbrough last week.\n\nCedric Soares faces a fitness test after limping off in midweek and Ryan Bertrand is also a doubt.\n\nStoke's Marko Arnautovic is doubtful because of an elbow problem sustained in last weekend's defeat by Arsenal.\n\nIbrahim Afellay is still recuperating from knee surgery last month, while Stephen Ireland remains out with a long-term leg injury.\n\nSwansea City have no new injury concerns for Sunday's game and Paul Clement could name the same side that beat Sunderland.\n\nStriker Borja Baston faces a fitness test but Wayne Routledge is back in contention after hernia trouble.\n\nWest Brom are likely to be without winger Matt Phillips again as he is still nursing a hamstring injury.\n\nSalomon Rondon and Gareth McAuley should both recover from respective hamstring and thigh problems.\n\nWatford could be without up to six central defenders, with Adrian Mariappa (knee) and Miguel Britos (calf) facing late fitness tests.\n\nSebastian Prodl is suspended while Christian Kabasele, Craig Cathcart and Younes Kaboul are all out injured.\n\nManchester City captain Vincent Kompany should be fit despite being substituted during the 3-1 win over West Brom.\n\nJohn Stones has also recovered from a groin strain and could replace Nicolas Otamendi in defence.", "Princess Mako is getting married, but the law says she must lose her royal title\n\nWhen the Japanese emperor's granddaughter marries law firm employee Kei Komuro next year, her life will undergo a dramatic change.\n\nPrincess Mako, 25, will lose her title and leave the cloistered imperial household to live with her husband in the outside world.\n\nShe will receive a one-off payment, after which the couple will be expected to provide for themselves. She will vote and pay tax, shop and do her own chores. If the couple have children, they will not be royal.\n\nBut her departure means one fewer to carry out official duties. It is also reigniting debate about the shrinking monarchy, the role women play in it and future succession.\n\nEmperor Akihito, 83, has already indicated that he wants to step down. As the female royals get married, the monarchy is expected to contract further.\n\nThere is only one boy among the younger royals, 10-year-old Prince Hisahito. If nothing changes, the future of the imperial institution will rest solely with him.\n\n\"If you think about it there is a possibility that all but Prince Hisahito will leave the royal household in 10 to 15 years time,\" said Isao Tokoro, professor emeritus at Kyoto Sangyo University.\n\n\"I think it [the engagement] gave us an opportunity to think about the problem. The system should be reformed urgently so we don't lose more members from the Imperial family.\"\n\nUnder Japan's Imperial Household Law of 1947, princesses who marry commoners are removed from the royal family.\n\nThat same law slashed the number of Japanese royals, removing 11 out of 12 branches of the imperial family as a cost-cutting measure. That means there are no royal males for current princesses to marry.\n\nEmperor Hirohito's daughters lost their titles under the legislation, as did the current crown prince's sister, Sayako, when she married urban planner Yoshiki Kuroda in 2005.\n\nHer transition from closeted princess to commoner attracted considerable attention. Reports described how she learned to drive and practised shopping independently ahead of her wedding.\n\nThe couple used her lump-sum payment (reportedly $1.3m; £1m) to buy a house and she is now a high priestess of the Ise Grand Shrine.\n\nSo far Princess Mako's engagement has not been officially announced. But the young woman seems well-equipped for her new status, with two spells of independent living under her belt.\n\nWhile studying at Tokyo's International Christian University, she spent nine months as an exchange student at Edinburgh University in 2012-13.\n\nA year later, she lived in halls of residence at Leicester University as she completed her Master's in Art Museum and Gallery Studies. She is currently a researcher at a museum in Tokyo and is studying for her doctorate.\n\n\"Princess Mako has been the embodiment of an Imperial family member who is close to the public,\" the Yomiuri newspaper said in an editorial. \"Being an amiable person, she will surely build a cheerful home.\"\n\nBut she will be missed. According to the Asahi newspaper, Princess Mako is currently patron of two organisations, has travelled overseas as a representative of the royal family and has attended important imperial functions.\n\nHer official duties must now be shared among a dwindling pool of royals.\n\nAt the moment there are 19 members of the royal family. Seven are unmarried women who must leave when they wed. Eleven (four couples and three widows) are over 50. That leaves Prince Hisahito.\n\nHe is the youngest of four males in line to the throne. Three of them - Crown Prince Naruhito, his brother Prince Akishino (Fumihito) and Prince Hitachi (Masahito), the current emperor's younger brother, are highly unlikely to have more children.\n\nThat could potentially leave Prince Hisahito (and whatever family he might go on to have) with sole responsibility for performing official duties and continuing the imperial line.\n\nPrince Hisahito, pictured with his parents on his first day at school in April 2013, is the youngest heir to the throne\n\nAt the moment, a law allowing Emperor Akihito to abdicate is being prepared. In its editorial, the Yomiuri newspaper said the \"creation of female imperial branches should be incorporated\" into the law and discussed as a \"realistic measure for maintaining the number of Imperial family members\".\n\nBut that is unlikely to go down well with Japanese conservatives.\n\n\"This is all rooted in the concept of the unbroken male blood line - the notion that what makes Japan special is that it has an imperial line that has been passed down through a male lineage, if you believe the mythical version, ever since the Emperor Jimmu in 660 BC,\" says Professor Ken Ruoff, director of the Centre for Japanese Studies at Portland State University and an expert on the Japanese monarchy.\n\n\"This is what the nationalists seize upon and they actually will say things like if the male bloodline is broken, then Japan ceases to exist,\" he says. \"Female blood doesn't count.\"\n\nJapan has had female rulers in the past, though not for about 250 years. In general they were seen as place-holders until the throne reverted to a male member of the family (though there was one case of an empress passing the throne to her daughter to act as regent for a male heir).\n\nBefore the 1947 legal change, the royal family was much bigger, meaning that if one branch could not produce a male heir there were options elsewhere, but that is no longer the case.\n\nIn the period before Prince Hisahito was born, when there was no younger-generation heir, there was considerable debate about changing the law to allow women on the throne.\n\nThe prime minister of the day, Junichiro Koizumi, said he backed the move. But after Prince Hisahito's birth, discussions stalled.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJapan's current leader, Shinzo Abe, is a more right-wing figure whose speaks often of national pride, tradition and patriotism.\n\n\"Prime Minister Abe has spent a lot of time talking about his desire to make Japan a society that shines for women but he's got this far-right faction that absolutely opposes changing the law to allow a woman to sit on the throne,\" says Prof Ruoff.\n\nOne other idea is restoring royal status to branches that lost it in 1947, providing more male heirs.\n\nMr Abe, the Yomiuri said, backed this in the past. \"It is hard to say the idea has won broad support,\" the paper pointed out.\n\nBut there is public support for allowing women to inherit the throne. According to a Kyodo News survey in early May, 86% supported allowing a woman emperor and 59% supported allowing an emperor from the female blood-line.\n\nThis potentially leaves the government out of step with popular sentiment.\n\nWhatever happens, the future looks bright for Princess Mako. Of more concern, perhaps, is whether a 10-year-old boy has broad enough shoulders to carry the Japanese monarchy onwards.", "Trump is set for his first foreign trip, after a honeymoon period hunkered down at home\n\nBefore Donald Trump became president he would often spend days holed up in Trump Tower in New York, shuttling in a private elevator between his penthouse apartment and office.\n\nAnd it's been a similar story since he moved into the White House, where he divides his time between the East and West Wings, leaving only to spend weekends at Trump-branded resorts.\n\nAs a candidate he foreshadowed a homebody presidency - touting himself as the \"America First\" leader who would shun foreign travel to fix the \"carnage\" in the US.\n\nBut now he's on his way to Saudi Arabia, to Israel, to Rome, to Brussels and Sicily, with a hugely ambitious agenda. The two things are not at odds, HR McMaster, the president's National Security Adviser, told me.\n\n\"President Trump understands that America First does not mean American alone,\" he said.\n\n\"To the contrary, prioritising American interests means strengthening alliances and partnerships that help us extend our influence and improve the security of the American people.\"\n\nYouth hold their prayer shawls as they stand in front of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayers site in Jerusalem's Old City\n\nMr Trump will visit the centres of the Muslim, Jewish and Christian faiths on this trip - a first for any president.\n\nSo how can he avoid the pitfalls that have befallen his interactions at home?\n\nGeneral Wesley Clark, the former Supreme Allied Commander of Nato, had a few tips for a president who struggles to grasp foreign policy and stay on-message.\n\nFind out which foreign leaders President Trump has met or called since taking office, as well as the countries he has mentioned in his tweets.\n\n\"Say the right things, don't say the wrong things, and maintain composure,\" he says.\n\n\"Some unexpected things are likely to happen, keep discipline, have the right frame of reference when you talk and say as little as possible when you don't know things.\"\n\nAmong the foreign-policy goals Mr Trump has set himself, the most ambitious is bringing peace to the Middle East - a geo-political conundrum that has stymied far more experienced presidents than this one.\n\nBut he seems to be confident. \"It's something that I think is frankly maybe not as difficult as people have thought over the years,\" he said during a recent meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.\n\nI asked Mr Trump's British-educated counter-terrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka whether the celebrity real-estate mogul-turned-president had the right qualifications for such a task.\n\n\"We have in the commander-in-chief, in the president, truly the master of the deal,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a man who spent 50 years negotiating - if there's anyone who can bring stability and peace it is Donald Trump.\"\n\nMore on the Trump presidency\n\nSo on the one hand you have a deal over the price of a piece of real estate in New York. On the other, intractable disputes that go back thousands of years over the right of return of refugees, final status for Jerusalem, whether to negotiate with Hamas, and on.\n\n\"I don't think it's not just a question of doing real estate deals,\" said Mr Gorka. \"This is a man who didn't just do deals, he was monumentally successful in the hardest market in the world - Manhattan real estate. And at the end of the day, deals are about human beings.\"\n\nIn reality, Mr Trump might find the Middle East a harder market than New York. But even if he falls short of fixing the Middle East, the president's first foreign trip could serve as a welcome distraction from his woes at home.\n\nThere will likely be a warm reception waiting for him in Israel and Saudi Arabia, where he has two key things going for him: he isn't Barack Obama, who was widely disliked there by the end of his presidency, and he has taken a hard line on Iran.\n\nFamilies of Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails demonstrate in Jerusalem as hundreds of the detainees entered the second month of a hunger strike.\n\nThe trip might also allow Mr Trump to divert the narrative from the Russia scandal, said Ron Christie, a Republican strategist who served in the Bush White House.\n\n\"The minute that he leaves the United States on that plane the entire focus would be what's going on abroad - what the president says and how he acts, as opposed to some of the domestic issues that are dogging him here at home.\n\n\"This is a good opportunity for him to turn the page and get a fresh start.\"\n\nAnd if anyone needs a fresh start it's Donald Trump. The way the first 120 days of his presidency have gone, he might just find the warm air of Saudi Arabia and Israel a refreshing break from the fetid swamp of Washington DC.", "Pippa Middleton's engagement ring cost a reported £250,000, and the glass wedding marquee an estimated £65,000-£100,000\n\nWhen Pippa Middleton marries James Matthews on Saturday every feature of the day will be realised in exquisite detail, with no expense spared. But is Pippa out of step with the times?\n\nWhile a glass marquee might be nice for some, her fellow millennial brides are turning their backs on horse-drawn carriages in favour of homemade decorations and a few drinks at the local pub.\n\nCosting somewhere between a new car and a house deposit, the average wedding day in 2016 spiralled to an average of £27,000 outside London and £38,000 inside the capital, according to wedding planning site Bridebook.\n\nBut some couples are only spending a fraction of that amount, and say their day is just as special.\n\nKatherine Varley, 33, married husband Josh, 31, in a dress she bought for £40 from Brixton market.\n\nThe couple met at the primary school where they worked. With Josh on a working holiday visa from Australia, to avoid being apart they were married six months later on a budget of £5,000.\n\nAfter their private ceremony at Wandsworth Town Hall in south-west London, they threw a party at the Dukes Head Pub in nearby Putney, with 70 guests.\n\nTo keep costs low, the couple enlisted friends and family to help with their big day. A family friend baked their wedding cake while Katherine's cousin did their photography. Another friend bought the flowers in bulk from New Covent Garden Market, while the couple made their own invitations and thank you cards.\n\n\"I have witnessed close friends planning large weddings with much greater budgets and it has shocked me by how carried away it can get financially. They have all been stunning and truly wonderful days but when you compare those budgets to potentially being deposits towards buying a home, it seems unnecessary,\" says Katherine.\n\nKatherine changed outfit for the big party that she and Josh threw after their wedding ceremony\n\nThe average cost of a wedding dress has fallen 25% year-on-year, according to online fashion retailer Lyst, from £1,329 to a still-not-insignificant £832.\n\nEngagement rings - which according to convention should cost between one and three months' salary - have seen spending fall to £1,080, an average of 19% less than a decade ago, according to insurer Protect Your Bubble.\n\nPippa's sister Kate may have driven the trend for coloured stones rather than a traditional diamond, thanks to her famous sapphire engagement ring.\n\nMeanwhile, 2017 has become the year of the High Street wedding dress. Whistles, Asos, Topshop and Dorothy Perkins have all launched bridal ranges this year, joining the likes of Phase Eight and Monsoon.\n\nKaren Whybrow, owner of vintage and bohemian bridal boutique Rock the Frock, thinks couples are dispensing with tradition to throw a wedding that reflects their personalities - and doesn't cost them their house deposit.\n\n\"In the six years I have been in the industry things have changed massively. Brides have become much more individual in their tastes - they don't want the traditional anymore. It's been led by the desire to have something a bit more personal, now that DIY weddings have become a lot more popular.\"\n\nJames Veitch gets creative making decorative jars for his wedding\n\nShe also notes that brides no longer expect their parents to foot the bill.\n\n\"A lot more brides now tend to pay for their dresses themselves. Their mum or dad might pay when they were in their early 20s, but now our brides are usually in their late 20s to early 30s and they have their own careers.\"\n\nImogen Veitch, 27, spent just £200 on her wedding outfit, buying a wedding dress from China on eBay. She and husband James also went down the DIY route to keep their wedding within a strict £6,000 budget.\n\nThe pair made all of the wedding decorations themselves and created their own floral centrepieces. They married at Sandy Balls holiday park in Hampshire at a cost of £4,000.\n\nImogen and James on their wedding day\n\n\"We knew we had limited savings and didn't want it all to go on one day,\" says Imogen. \"We aren't extravagant people, so if we had an extravagant wedding it would have felt forced and uncomfortable. Both of us have said we honestly wouldn't change a single thing about our wedding day. It was the best day our lives.\n\n\"As it is socially accepted that weddings are expensive I think lots of couples just bite the bullet and go all out, some even taking out loans. And if you are spending £20,000 or more on a wedding I can see how people get so stressed out. You need everything to go perfectly or it seems a waste of money. But I can say we were honestly stress-free for the entire planning process and on the day.\"\n\nWhile these couples say they would not have changed a thing, for those with more cash to play with a wedding is their chance to realise some more extravagant ideas.\n\nDaisy Peirce, 28, effectively had two weddings when she married husband Dan, one in the day at Childerley Hall in Cambridgeshire with 60 guests, and then an evening reception at her parents' home with a further 80. She estimates the combined cost was around £50,000.\n\n\"We didn't have any budget. We were fortunate that our parents were paying for the wedding so if we wanted to do something, we could,\" Daisy says.\n\nHaving a big girly wedding wasn't on the agenda. Instead, food was a big focal point of the day for the couple, who both work in catering. Their evening reception included a street food market, with six different trucks offering everything from fish and chips to ice cream and crepes.\n\n\"The ceremony was a bit of a blur but I wouldn't change anything,\" says Daisy. \"There were things we definitely wanted to include and we didn't have to sacrifice anything so it definitely took the pressure off.\"\n\nAs part of the \"experience generation\", even the wealthiest young brides and grooms don't want their day to be all about spectacle, says Sarah Haywood. As one of the world's most influential wedding planners, her international clientele include aristocrats and \"people of note\" for whom she has booked headline acts such as Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez.\n\n\"The millennial generation are certainly far more concerned with the guest experience than they are with showing off, which is a wonderful change to how it was 10 years ago. They are very concerned about the food and drink and the flow of the event, which is as important to them as what it all looks like.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal majority shareholder Stan Kroenke is committed to the club in the long term, sources have told the BBC.\n\nKroenke has shown no interest in a £1bn bid by Uzbek-born Russian Alisher Usmanov to take full control of the Gunners.\n\nIt is understood the American's ambition is to win the Premier League and make Arsenal a force in Europe.\n\nGunners legend Ian Wright says the club needs the spending power of a billionaire such as Usmanov, adding that \"something has to change\".\n\n\"He has put in the bid and it is great news,\" former striker Wright told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"Something has to change, whether it is the manager Arsene Wenger or whether it is the board upstairs.\"\n\nArsenal need other teams to slip up in Sunday's final round of matches to avoid missing out on Champions League qualification for the first time in 21 years.\n\nWenger, who has been manager since 1996, has been the target of protests from some of the club's fans.\n\nThe 67-year-old Frenchman's future at the club will be decided at a board meeting after Arsenal meet Chelsea in the FA Cup final on 27 May.\n\n\"It is not looking good for Arsenal at the moment,\" Wright told 5 live's Friday Football Social.\n\n\"They may be out of the Champions League - something they are not used to - and they have to beat one of the best Chelsea sides I have seen for a long time in the FA Cup final to try and get something from the season.\n\n\"Where are they going to sign players from? Who is going to want to come to Arsenal instead of anywhere else in London? At the moment, they are not an attractive proposition.\n\n\"We are already missing out on the managers we are supposedly interested in and we are going to start missing out on the kind of players that are going to be available and want to play in the Premier League.\n\n\"Top players may want to leave. Too much is up in the air.\n\n\"Something has got to happen for Arsenal to go to that next level. This bid will galvanise the fans.\"\n\nMetal magnate Usmanov owns 30% of Arsenal's shares but is not part of the board or decision-making at the club.\n\nUsmanov said in April that Kroenke must \"bear huge responsibility\" for the club's failures on the pitch.\n\nThe Gunners' London rivals Chelsea won the Premier League this season - the fifth time they have done so under the ownership of billionaire Roman Abramovich, who has spent heavily since taking control in 2003.\n\n\"Abramovich is a winner,\" added Wright, who scored 185 goals in 288 appearances for Arsenal.\n\n\"Stan Kroenke sees it as another asset. If you look at all his other franchises, they are doing the same. They are mediocre, with poor attendances and aren't achieving anything as a team. That is where Arsenal are at the moment.\n\n\"We need an owner like Abramovich, who wants to win. I would swap Arsenal's last 10 years for what Chelsea have done.\"\n\nAlisher Usmanov has wanted control of Arsenal for some time.\n\nA long-standing critic of the current board, he has attempted to curry favour with fans by calling for greater investment by Stan Kroenke. He believes the team should be performing at a much higher level.\n\nNow, with questions swirling over Arsene Wenger's future and with a lack of Champions League football next season looking inevitable, he has made his move.\n\nHowever, he has been rebuffed.\n\nThe big question is whether this was a final throw of the dice by Usmanov? And, with seemingly no prospect of Kroenke selling, will he turn his purchasing power towards another Premier League club?", "Electroconvulsive therapy - in which a small electric current is passed through the brain causing a seizure - is now used much less often than it was in the middle of the last century. But controversially it is now being used in the US and some other countries as a treatment for children who exhibit severe, self-injuring behaviour.\n\nSeventeen-year-old Jonah Lutz is severely autistic. He's also prone to outbursts of violent behaviour, in which he sometimes hits himself repeatedly.\n\nHis mother, Amy, is convinced that if it wasn't for electroconvulsive therapy - ECT - he would now have to be permanently institutionalised for his own safety, and the safety of those around him.\n\nThe use of ECT featured famously in the 1975 Hollywood movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, starring Jack Nicholson. Set in a mental institution, the Oscar-winning film cemented most people's view of ECT as barbaric.\n\nBut Amy describes the modern version of the therapy as little short of miraculous.\n\n\"ECT has been transformative for Jonah's life and for our life,\" she says. \"We went for a period of time - for years and years - where Jonah was raging, often multiple times a day, ferociously. The only reason he's able to be at home with us, is because of ECT.\"\n\nIt's estimated that one in 10 severely autistic children like Jonah violently attack themselves, often causing serious injuries ranging from broken noses to detached retinas. No-one really knows why. Some theories link self-injuring behaviour to anxiety caused by an overload of sensory signals, others to frustration as the autistic child struggles to communicate.\n\nAmy and husband Andy tried countless traditional treatments using medication or behavioural therapy before finally turning to ECT - a treatment that first began to be used on children like Jonah a decade ago, in parts of the US. Each session alleviates his symptoms for up to 10 days at a time - but it's not a cure.\n\nJonah's doctor, Charles Kellner, ECT director at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, is so convinced it's effective and safe that he allows Amy to witness the procedure and the BBC to film it.\n\nProf Kellner says the best way to overcome the negative image of ECT portrayed in popular culture is \"to show people what modern ECT is really like, and show them the results with patients like Jonah\".\n\nJonah is one of a few hundred children in the US to receive the controversial treatment. He has had about 260 ECT sessions since the age of 11.\n\n\"There's a lot of interesting new neural imaging research showing that ECT actually reverses some of the brain problems in the major psychiatric illnesses,\" Kellner explains, as he makes final checks on the wiring around Jonah's temples.\n\n\"We don't know exactly why it works in people with autism and superimposed mood disorders, but we think it probably reregulates the circuits in the brain that are deregulated because of autism.\"\n\nThe modern treatment is carried out under general anaesthetic, with muscle relaxants to prevent violent convulsions. At the flick of a switch, Kellner administers just under an amp of electric current in a series of very short pulses.\n\nJonah's body begins to shake as the current induces a seizure - ECT specialists think this may \"reset\" the malfunctioning brain. The convulsions last for about 30 seconds.\n\nAmy is unperturbed by what she sees.\n\n\"If a doctor says they need to cut open your child's chest to conduct life-saving surgery, you would allow it. That is more barbaric yet we accept it,\" she says.\n\nWithin an hour Jonah is fully alert. He and his mother head out of the hospital and on to the New York street to find an ice cream parlour.\n\nBecause the long-term effects of ECT on children exhibiting self-injuring behaviour are unknown, in some countries - and in a handful of US states - the treatment is not allowed. The UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence doesn't recommend ECT for use on under 18s.\n\nBut ECT is a well-established treatment in adults for severe, often life-threatening depression. Its use is controversial, though, with memory loss the main acknowledged side-effect. What's disputed is the scale of the memory loss. Studies carried out by ECT doctors suggest lapses are mostly short-term and that memory function soon returns to normal. But opponents of ECT cite surveys claiming to show that more than half of patients suffer serious long-term memory loss.\n\n\"It's a traumatic brain injury,\" says Dr Peter Breggin, a psychiatrist who has long fought the psychiatric establishment, and campaigns for a total ban on ECT. \"The electricity not only travels through the frontal lobes - that's the seat of intelligence, and thoughtfulness and creativity and judgment - it also goes through the temporal lobes - the seat of memory. You are damaging the very expression of the personality, the character, the individuality, and even, if you believe in it, the expression of the soul.\"\n\nFor former US Army intelligence officer Chad Calvaresi and his wife Kaci, the potential benefits of ECT far outweigh the risks for their 11-year-old, violently autistic daughter, Sofija.\n\n\"When she was aggressing towards me, my instinct as a mom was to grab her and hold her and hug her and wait,\" Kaci explains. \"But she got so big and strong that I couldn't do that.\"\n\nSofija spent much of her early life suffering neglect and abuse in a Serbian orphanage, before Chad and Kaci adopted her in 2009. They were determined to give her a better life in America, but in 2016 they suffered the heartbreak of institutionalising her again - this time for her own safety.\n\n\"She beat herself so bad her nose was busted and bleeding, her lips were busted open and bleeding,\" Chad explains. \"She gave herself a black eye. I was scared of my own daughter.\"\n\nFor six months Sofija received medication and therapy as an in-patient at the renowned Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, but there was little improvement. During her frequent violent episodes it often took three highly trained care staff - all wearing protective clothing and shielding Sofija with padded mats - to prevent her injuring herself or others.\n\nAfter exhausting all other options, Sofija's doctors finally agreed to Chad and Kaci's request to give her ECT. Just a month later her behaviour had improved enough for her to return home.\n\nWe caught up with the family after six months and more than 30 treatments, and the transformation was remarkable. Sofija was swimming in the family pool and playing with her siblings, and while her violent episodes hadn't disappeared completely, her parents felt they were less intense and more manageable. Sofija was also receiving home schooling in maths and English. \"She's sharp as a tack,\" says Kaci. \"The only memory loss that Sofija has had from ECT is she forgets the procedure has actually happened.\"\n\nECT for severely self-injuring autistic children like Sofija is still in very limited use, and without a long-term scientific study it remains highly controversial. But even though Sofija is likely to need ECT every week for the foreseeable future, her parents have no regrets - they have their daughter back home.\n\n\"It's overwhelming if I think about it,\" says Kaci, \"but what future did she have without it? My hope is she doesn't need it for the rest of her life but at this point I see it like a diabetic needing insulin. It keeps her alive. Literally it keeps her alive and it makes it possible for us to be able to have her in our home living life with our family and enjoying Sofija.\"\n\nThe Royal College of Psychiatrists says ECT is a \"safe and effective treatment for severe depression\" in adults but acknowledges on its website that some dispute this:\n\nMany doctors and nurses will say that they have seen ECT relieve very severe depressive illnesses when other treatments have failed. Bearing in mind that 15% of people with severe depression will kill themselves, they feel that ECT has saved patients' lives, and therefore the overall benefits are greater than the risks. Some people who have had ECT will agree, and may even ask for it if they find themselves becoming depressed again.\n\nSome see ECT as a treatment that belongs to the past. They say that the side-effects are severe and that psychiatrists have, either accidentally or deliberately, ignored how severe they can be. They say that ECT permanently damages both the brain and the mind, and if it does work at all, does so in a way that is ultimately harmful for the patient. Some would want to see it banned.\n\nYou can watch the Our World documentary \"My Child, ECT and Me\" at 21:30 on Sunday on the BBC News Channel, on BBC World at these times and on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nFernando Alonso says he does not feel \"much pressure\" before Indianapolis 500 qualifying on Saturday.\n\nThe McLaren driver, who is missing the Monaco Grand Prix for next Sunday's race, impressed with the fourth best time on 'Fast Friday', when drivers prepare for qualifying.\n\nSpaniard Alonso was fifth in the list of times done without a slipstream from another car, as will be the case in qualifying on Saturday and Sunday.\n\nHis best lap was 231.827mph.\n\nFrance's Sebastien Bourdais, an ex-Formula 1 driver, was quickest on 233.116mph.\n\nAlonso's speed was 6mph faster than he had gone before during the week of practice at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but he said the extra pace was not noticeable when you are driving.\n\n\"You always want an extra mile to be able to go faster,\" the 35-year-old said.\n\nQualifying runs over two days this weekend, with Saturday defining the 'fast nine' drivers who can compete for pole position on Sunday.\n\nThe remaining 24 drivers also qualify again on Sunday, but only to determine the grid positions from 10th to 33rd. Qualifying pace is determined by a driver's average speed over a four-lap run.\n\nAlonso, who has never raced on an oval track before, said: \"It is about doing a good four laps. Hopefully I will be in the first nine and wait for Sunday for the real final classification.\n\n\"Saturday is another day, but for me, in my case, it is another learning day. We'll see what we can do but there's not much pressure for tomorrow.\"\n\n'We expected him to be up to speed quickly'\n\nWhile the two-time F1 champion was matter-of-fact about his performance, regular Indy drivers have been impressed by him.\n\nJapan's Takuma Sato, a former F1 driver who moved to IndyCars seven years ago and Alonso's team-mate at Andretti Autosport, said: \"Very impressive. Kind of what we expected.\n\n\"Fernando is one of the best drivers in the world and having had this much practice time and this much support, we expected him to be up to speed very quickly.\n\n\"This was something new to him again, full [turbo] boost. But he did drive extremely well and his feedback is proper feedback.\n\n\"He is learning but he can feel [the car] in the same ways. It's nice to work with him in the same team and it's extra attention for the team.\"\n\nRacing legend Mario Andretti - the 1978 F1 champion, 1969 Indy 500 winner and father of Alonso's team boss Michael Andretti - said: \"He's looking really, awfully good. I'm not surprised.\"\n\nThe top five fastest times on Friday included four drivers who have experience in F1.\n\nBesides Alonso and Bourdais, who drove for Toro Rosso in 2007-8, former BAR and Honda driver Sato was third quickest and Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya, who won five grands prix in a five-year career with Williams and McLaren, was fifth fastest.\n\nIn the list of times without a 'tow', Bourdais was second behind 2014 Indy winner Ryan Hunter-Reay, with former F1 driver and 2016 Indy winner Alex Rossi third from Brazilian Indy veteran Tony Kanaan and Alonso.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChampions Celtic beat Hearts to become the first team to complete a Scottish top-flight season unbeaten for 118 years.\n\nLeigh Griffiths and Stuart Armstrong secured a 34th win of the campaign for Brendan Rodgers' side, who were then presented with the Premiership trophy.\n\nThe feat was last achieved by Rangers in 1898-99, over an 18-game season.\n\nAnd Celtic join Arsenal (2003-04) and Juventus (2011-12) in being unbeaten over a 38-game league season.\n\nRodgers' side, who won the League Cup in November, will attempt to win the club's first domestic treble since 2001 when they take on Aberdeen in Saturday's Scottish Cup final.\n\nCeltic, who have won six top-flight titles in a row, are unbeaten in 46 domestic games this season (38 in league, eight in cups), and 47 domestic matches overall including the final league game of last season.\n\nAnd they are unbeaten in 31 games in all competitions since losing to Barcelona in the Champions League on 23 November.\n\nWith the win and goals against Hearts, Celtic set new records for the Scottish Premier League/Premiership era, including goals, points, wins and margin of victory.\n\nWith so much anticipated from the hosts, Hearts head coach Ian Cathro sought to frustrate Celtic, restricting them to long-range efforts.\n\nKieran Tierney and Callum McGregor came closest with those and Griffiths sent a free-kick into the side netting.\n\nAnd it could have been Hearts that went in front, Bjorn Johnsen laying a free-kick off for Alexandros Tziolis to strike narrowly over.\n\nWhen Celtic did get into the box, goalkeeper Viktor Noring was in fine form.\n\nThe Swedish stopper made an instinctive block to deny Dedryck Boyata at a corner and then punched away Patrick Roberts' dangerous cut-back.\n\nHowever, Hearts' resistance was broken when Roberts danced clear on the right and set up Griffiths for a confident header.\n\nAnd Griffiths was involved in the second, his cross not properly cleared and falling for Armstrong to finish.\n\nThough sustaining a fourth straight defeat, Hearts competed well in Glasgow and fared much better than their 5-0 home loss to Celtic last month - the match that clinched the title for Rodgers' men.\n\nJohnsen headed against the right-hand post from a Malaury Martin corner as Cathro's men sought consolation.\n\nAnd substitute Martin's volley was then kept out by Craig Gordon late on.\n• None Attempt saved. Malaury Martin (Heart of Midlothian) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Krystian Nowak (Heart of Midlothian) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box.\n• None Attempt blocked. Malaury Martin (Heart of Midlothian) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Euan Henderson (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Attempt missed. Dedryck Boyata (Celtic) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGrime star Stormzy hit headlines earlier this week after an unexpected act of generosity.\n\nWhen Oxford University student Fiona Asiedu set up a crowdfunding campaign to raise £12,000 to go to Harvard, a friend tweeted the star asking him to help out.\n\nHis response? He pledged £9,000 the same day.\n\n\"It was just surreal,\" Asiedu said. \"It was quite a shock, I couldn't believe it, I'm still quite overwhelmed by it.\"\n\nThe friend tweeted him back promising to thank him by taking him to Nando's - to which he replied: \"Deal!\"\n\nStormzy isn't the only celeb who has been splashing the cash to help fans recently. Here are some others doing their bit to give something back.\n\nNicki Minaj launched a contest on Twitter earlier this month, promising to fly the winner out from any country in the world to spend time with her in Las Vegas because \"ya muva makes enough money\" to do so.\n\nThat brag prompted one fan to ask: \"Well you wanna pay for my tuition?\"\n\nShe did, as it turned out. Minaj replied: \"Show me straight A's that I can verify w/ur school and I'll pay it. Who wants to join THAT contest?!?! Dead serious. Should I set it up?\"\n\nThe star spent the rest of the day replying to around 30 begging tweets, promising to pay for fees, loans, debts and equipment, and asked fans to DM her their bank details before promising to \"do some more in a month or two\".\n\nLast month, Mercedes Edney started a crowdfunding page to raise the $5,995 (£4,600) fees for the Academy of Nail Technology & Esthetics.\n\nWhen model Chrissy Tiegen saw it, she decided to donate the remaining amount - $5,605 - and left a message saying: \"I've seen this be your passion for such a long time now. So excited to see you fulfill your dream!\"\n\nMercedes later posted a picture of her enrolment receipt, saying: \"I have been crying all night and I cried in the office this morning as I paid my downpayment for esthetician school. I haven't been this happy in a very long time.\"\n\nTaylor is perhaps the queen of good deeds.\n\nShe's been the fairy godmother to countless fans, whether it's paying off student loans, sending them surprise Christmas gifts (#Swiftmas), popping along to bridal showers or spending time meeting them.\n\nThe star's charitable donations include giving $50,000 (£38,400) to an 11-year-old girl who had to miss one of Swift's concerts to undergo leukaemia treatment, and another $5,000 (£3,840) to cover the funeral costs of a fan who died in a car crash.\n\nAnd it's not just fans she helps - following the floods in Louisiana last year, she donated $1m (£768,000) to help relief efforts.\n\nGeorge Michael was well known for his work with major charities - royalties from a number of his songs were donated to Ethiopian famine relief efforts, as well as HIV and children's charities.\n\nBut he also secretly helped many others and in the days after his death, numerous tales detailing the singer's generosity came to light.\n\nThese included giving £15,000 to a couple for IVF treatment and £5,000 to a barmaid who was a student nurse in debt.\n\nIt also emerged he had worked anonymously at a homeless shelter.\n\nA crowdfunding page set up to help Svend Peterson, the 86-year-old long-time pool manager at the Beverly Hills Hotel, caught the eye of Oscar winner Sandra Bullock last month.\n\nShe was touched by his story after hearing he had become homeless and sometimes went three or four days without food.\n\nThe star donated $5,000 (£3,800) to the campaign to help Svend find an apartment, leaving the message: \"Everything is going to be OK!\"\n\nAccording to an updated GoFundMe page, Svend has now found a new home and has received enough donations to pay his rent for a year.\n\nWhile at the Toronto Film Festival in 2007, the Irish star made headlines after he took a homeless man on a $2,100 (£1,612) shopping spree, buying him clothes and a sleeping bag.\n\nHe then withdrew a chunk of cash and gave the man, named Stress, the money to help rent a room.\n\nIt turned out the pair had met three years prior, when the actor noticed Stress outside a restaurant and the star had remembered him.\n\nThey've kept in touch since and Stress credits Colin with helping to turn his life around.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSteve Morison volleyed a late winner as Millwall won promotion to the Championship with victory over Bradford in the League One play-off final.\n\nBradford controlled the first half, Jordan Archer saving well to stop Billy Clarke giving them the lead at Wembley.\n\nMillwall improved and Jed Wallace dragged a shot wide when put through.\n\nBut Morison stabbed in Lee Gregory's header to send Millwall to the second tier after two years away, with Lions fans invading the pitch at full-time.\n\nTony McMahon had Bradford's best chance to equalise in stoppage time, but the full-back could only fire wide from a tight angle.\n\nMillwall fans flooded on to the pitch at the final whistle, but although a small number of supporters confronted Bradford's dejected players there did not appear to be signs of serious trouble.\n\nThose scenes could do nothing to dampen the Lions' players spirits, however, as they laid to rest their demons from play-off final defeat by Barnsley a year ago.\n• None READ MORE: It was Millwall's time - Harris\n• None READ MORE: Millwall promoted to the Championship as it happened\n\nBradford were aiming to return to the Championship for the first time since suffering relegation in 2004, and they looked well set to do so after a dominant first-half showing.\n\nClarke and Mark Marshall were particularly influential, regularly finding space in between Millwall's defence and midfield.\n\nBut the Bantams were punished for poor decisions and the lack of a final ball, with Clarke's chance their only real opportunity.\n\nMarshall broke free down the left on a counter-attack, and weighted his through ball perfectly into the path of Clarke.\n\nBut Archer - who conceded twice in 20 minutes in Millwall's defeat by Barnsley at Wembley last season - made a wonderful save to his left to turn the ball behind.\n\nMillwall made a similarly slow start to this year's final, but this time Archer and his defence held firm against waves of pressure.\n\nNeil Harris' side emerged a different team after the break, with Wallace inches away from handing his side the lead after being played through by Gregory.\n\nBradford offered less of a threat as the game went on, and Millwall's direct approach finally paid dividends inside the final 10 minutes.\n\nWallace's cross from the left was flicked on brilliantly by Gregory, with Morison holding off James Meredith at the back post to secure his side a place in the Championship.\n• None Attempt missed. Tony McMahon (Bradford City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Josh Cullen.\n• None Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Millwall. Nadjim Abdou tries a through ball, but Fred Onyedinma is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Josh Cullen (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Timothee Dieng following a corner.\n• None Goal! Bradford City 0, Millwall 1. Steve Morison (Millwall) right footed shot from very close range to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Lee Gregory with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nInverness Caledonian Thistle have been relegated from the Scottish Premiership despite beating Motherwell.\n\nHamilton's win over Dundee meant Caley Thistle could not leapfrog the Accies into second-bottom place, regardless of their result against the Steelmen.\n\nAfter a drab first period, Greg Tansey and Alex Fisher - twice - struck for the hosts in four second-half minutes.\n\nBut Accies' triumph rendered the goals moot, as Caley exit the top flight for the first time since returning in 2010.\n• None ICT must get rid of 'two or three bad apples' - Foran\n\nVeteran striker James McFadden came off the bench to nod home a consolation for Motherwell, before Ryan Bowman netted a stoppage-time penalty to add gloss to the scoreline.\n\nFor Inverness, the damage had been done long before Saturday, with the midweek victory over Dundee - the second of three post-split wins - simply prolonging the agony.\n\nIt will perhaps be the decisions to be taken off the field that will matter most in the immediate future.\n\nJust two years ago, the club lifted the Scottish Cup and played European football. It has been a dramatic descent over the course of this season.\n\nCome the final day, Hamilton's early goals in Lanarkshire clearly had an impact on this match.\n\nLiam Polworth screwed a great chance wide, then Ross Draper curled over from a fabulous position when it seemed an opener was imminent.\n\nSome of the pressure might have been transferred to Hamilton had Richie Foran's men taken the lead first, but the atmosphere changed in the stadium when news of Accies' two-goal first-half lead filtered through.\n\nInverness at least got the win they needed to have a chance of survival thanks to three quick-fire goals.\n\nMidfielder Tansey, in his final game for the club before departing for Aberdeen, netted a powerful drive before striker Fisher fired two in quick succession.\n\nAs Accies scored a third, then a fourth goal at New Douglas Park, it became brutally apparent that, yet again this season, it was not to be Caley Thistle's day.\n\nThe match meant little to Motherwell beyond professional pride, and managing as high a final league position as possible - their Premiership status was secured before this final fixture.\n\nThe travelling support had a moment to cheer when McFadden converted after Elliot Frear struck the bar, before Bowman scored from the spot to reduce the deficit further.\n\nFor manager Stephen Robinson, the real test follows in assembling a squad to improve on this season.\n\nFor Inverness, the coming days and weeks will be instrumental in their short-term future, which now lies as a Scottish Championship club.\n\nMotherwell manager Stephen Robinson: \"I thought first half we were very good, controlled the game. We made changes second half, brought a young boy [Adam Livingstone] on and he made a couple of mistakes, but he'll get better and better.\n\n\"That's what we do at this club - we give young kids a chance, and unfortunately they make some mistakes, but he'll learn from that and he's one for the future.\n\n\"We've got 14 contracted players at this moment. We might have to do a little bit of wheeling and dealing to get some people out, and get better players in, if we're being honest.\n\n\"We're down there this season for a reason. We weren't good enough, and we have to be prudent with what we do to make sure we're not down there again next season.\n\n\"The league's going to get stronger next year, so our first and foremost is always to get survival. Within the confines of our dressing room we aim a lot higher, but first and foremost is to stay up and build from there.\"\n• None Goal! Inverness CT 3, Motherwell 2. Ryan Bowman (Motherwell) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by David Raven (Inverness CT) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt missed. Steven Hammell (Motherwell) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Substitution, Inverness CT. Jamie McCart replaces Iain Vigurs because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Greg Tansey (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt saved. Elliott Frear (Motherwell) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Inverness CT 3, Motherwell 1. James McFadden (Motherwell) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Ian Brady's notoriety and significance goes beyond the criminal to the political and the cultural\n\nIan Brady's mug shot has become visual shorthand for psychopathic evil. With his accomplice Myra Hindley, he occupies an especially ignominious place in our national folklore.\n\nMargaret Thatcher described their crimes as \"the most hideous and evil in modern times\". A BBC News article in 2002 suggested the so-called \"Moors Murderers\" had set \"the benchmark by which other acts of evil are measured\".\n\nBut Brady's notoriety goes beyond the criminal to the political and the cultural.\n\nHe became an important figure in 20th Century British history as a focus for debate about crime and punishment, good and evil, and the permissive society.\n\nBrady and Hindley were charged with their crimes 11 days after the Murder (Abolition of the Death Penalty) Act had received royal assent in 1965.\n\nThey \"cheated the gallows by a year\" according to some, and were placed at the heart of a debate over capital punishment that would rumble on for more than a decade.\n\nThe horrific detail of their apparently motiveless crimes - the abduction, torture and murder of children and young people and the burying of the bodies on what the tabloids called \"fog-shrouded wild moorlands\" - was a horror story in the Gothic tradition that provided the perfect test of public opinion on ending the death penalty.\n\nPolice searches of Saddleworth moor began in the 1960s, including this area where the body of Lesley Downey was found\n\nSuccessive home secretaries sought to reassure the public that, for the most heinous crimes, life imprisonment meant just that.\n\nBut Brady was more than just a debating chip in the argument over the hangman.\n\nFor many, he became a terrifying symbol of social upheaval.\n\nHis slicked back rocker-style hair and sociopathic stare chimed with the moral panic over youth culture.\n\nMod and rocker clashes in the mid-60s were described by one newspaper as a symptom of the \"disintegration of a nation's character\".\n\nBrady and his crimes were held up as the consequences of moral decay.\n\nWriting about the murders, the novelist CP Snow argued that \"permissive attitudes\" were the \"earth out of which the poisonous flower grew\".\n\nBrady's depravity was linked to fears about changing morality in the so-called Swinging 60s\n\nThe novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson - who was married to Snow - made a similar point in her book On Iniquity in 1967.\n\nShe suggested that Brady and Hindley's crimes had been an indictment of 1960s Britain.\n\n\"A wound in the flesh of our society had cracked open,\" she wrote. \"We looked into it, and we smelled the sepsis.\"\n\nBrady helped shape the age-old argument that permissiveness leads to violent crime.\n\nCommentators noted how he had been born \"out of wedlock\" and had begun a life of criminality as a juvenile.\n\nIn the mid-60s, crime was rising rapidly and the face of the bastard Ian Brady was the backdrop.\n\nHe personified \"pure evil\" just as his innocent young victims personified \"pure good\".\n\nFor the press and politicians, the Moors Murderers were powerful examples of the clear but simplistic divide between the criminal underclass and the law-abiding majority, at a time when anxiety about law and order was rising.\n\nBrady's fascination with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis confirmed the sense that he was the epitome of social depravity.\n\nFrom his arrest until the day he died more than 50 years later, his haunting visage - along with that of Myra Hindley - have been routinely deployed as images of the threat.\n\nHe is the child snatcher, the bogeyman, the beast. He is the monster.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe Premier League season ends on Sunday, with Chelsea already champions and Middlesbrough, Hull and Sunderland relegated.\n\nManchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal are fighting it out for the two remaining Champions League qualification spots, and there's one more thing to be decided - who's in your team of the season?\n\nUse the team selector below to choose a formation and then the 11 players from our shortlist you think have shone in the 2016-17 campaign.\n\nShare your team on Twitter or Facebook and see if your friends agree with your selection.\n• None Quiz: How well do you remember this season?\n• None A play-off match to get into Europe? Here's how it could happen\n\nPick your Team of the Week Pick your XI from our list and share with your friends.", "In the White House game of thrones, where senior administration officials fend off adversaries at every turn while vying for power and prominence, Mike Pence has been a relatively quiet player.\n\nThe vice-president is always in the background, often looking over Donald Trump's shoulder with an approving nod as the president delivers a speech or signs yet another executive order. When it comes to engaging in the bare-knuckle brawling that has played itself out through anonymous sources and well-timed insider leaks, however, the vice-president and his associates have largely stayed out of the fray.\n\nThursday night, then, was quite unusual. Two major US media outlets - CNN and NBC News - ran articles, complete with quotes from anonymous White House sources, distancing the vice-president from the current chaos in the administration and the running controversy over possible Trump campaign ties to the Russian government during the 2016 US presidential election.\n\n\"We certainly knew we needed to be prepared for the unconventional,\" an unnamed Pence aide told CNN's Elizabeth Landers, but \"not to this extent\".\n\nThe proximate cause for the concern among the vice-president's camp was a New York Times article earlier this week reporting that Michael Flynn, Mr Trump's prominent campaign surrogate and short-lived national security adviser, had in early January informed the presidential transition team - then headed by Mr Pence - that he was under investigation for his ties to the Turkish government.\n\nIn March Mr Pence denied any knowledge of Mr Flynn's Turkish ties before they were made public earlier that month.\n\nA \"source close to the administration\" told NBC that Mr Pence stands by his comments and he was not told of Mr Flynn's Turkish connections.\n\n\"That's an egregious error - and it has to be intentional,\" the source said. \"It's either malpractice or intentional, and either are unacceptable.\"\n\nComplicating matters for the vice-president is that this is not the first time he has taken the White House line, only to be undercut by subsequent revelations.\n\nJust last week he asserted, repeatedly, that the president decided to fire FBI Director James Comey based on a memo from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.\n\nOne day later the president himself told an interviewer that he knew he was going to terminate the law enforcement chief before the memo was even written.\n\nMike Pence has been content to look over the president's shoulder - for now\n\nMr Pence was also part of the White House efforts in January to push back against reports that Mr Flynn discussed US sanctions on Russia with that nation's ambassador to the US, Sergei Kislyak - allegations that were later proven to be true.\n\nMr Flynn was fired, the White House said, for misleading the vice-president on the matter.\n\nIf Thursday night's story is any indication, the vice-president may now be trying to put some distance between himself and an administration that has made a habit of leaving him out on a limb.\n\nIf the Trump presidency is truly in trouble, and this week's appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller is a dark storm cloud on the horizon, this could be evidence that the vice-president is contemplating a future after Mr Trump. He's certainly not abandoning ship, but he's familiarising himself with where the lifeboats are stored.\n\nIf so, he's not the only one. Politico ran a story earlier this week about conservatives - on the record and off - who were \"hinting\" that a President Pence would be a welcome reprieve from the drama of the Trump presidency.\n\nTo get there, of course, Mr Trump would have to resign or be removed from office, leaving the vice-president as next in line for the job.\n\nSuch speculation is decidedly premature, of course, but then there was another tidbit this week that has stoked the flames.\n\nMr Pence, according to Federal Election Commission filings, has started a committee to collect political donations.\n\nA source within the vice-president's office told NBC that the \"Great American Committee\", as it's named, will allow Mr Pence to cover travel expenses and support Republican candidates in upcoming elections.\n\nIt's a move, however, that none of the vice-president's predecessors ever made - and has been a traditional opening step for past presidential candidates.\n\nDemocrats have also taken note of Mr Pence's manoeuvres and are adjusting their fire accordingly.\n\n\"Mike Pence was a major player in the scandals enveloping the Trump administration, and no amount of spinning and leaking to reporters from him and his team can change that fact,\" writes Oliver Willis of the liberal website Shareblue.\n\nThere's no telling what Mr Trump, who prizes loyalty above all else, thinks of all this.\n\nReports are he's been angered in the past by aides, such as top White House adviser Steve Bannon, who have stepped too far into the limelight.\n\nHe famously said of Mr Comey in January that he had \"become more famous than me\" - then later justified sacking him by saying he was a \"showboat\" and a \"grandstander\".\n\nThere is of course one key difference between Mr Pence and anyone else working in the Trump administration.\n\nThe vice-president got his job through the will of American voters (or, at least, the Electoral College).", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nSaracens' hopes of consecutive domestic and European titles were dashed as Exeter scored a late try to reach their second Premiership final in a row.\n\nSam Simmonds was forced over as the clock wound down to deny Sarries, who beat Clermont to win the Champions Cup last Saturday, in a tense semi-final.\n\nJack Nowell's try put Chiefs ahead after it was 6-6 at half-time, but Chris Wyles' try brought Saracens back.\n\nMike Ellery put Sarries in front on 76 minutes, before Simmonds' heroics.\n\nThe last-gasp victory gained revenge for Exeter, who had lost out to Saracens in their first Premiership final 12 months ago, while extending the Chiefs' unbeaten league run to 16 matches.\n\nTwo early Owen Farrell penalties were cancelled out by Gareth Steenson's two three-pointers as both sides had great chances to score in the opening half.\n\nFirst Wyles was denied by a last-ditch Nowell interception, and then Thomas Waldrom was held up by the Saracens defence as he went over the line.\n\nBut straight after the break Exeter hit their straps, Nowell finishing off after Phil Dollman had broken through before setting Ollie Devoto away.\n\nThe home side's dogged defence kept Saracens, who lost former England winger Chris Ashton to an early injury, at bay.\n\nBut Mark McCall's side always looked dangerous with ball in hand, and so it proved as Wyles went over in the left corner after a delayed pass from Maro Itoje with 23 minutes left.\n\nEllery, who had replaced Ashton, had the Saracens coaching staff leaping for joy when he cart-wheeled over the line despite the desperate efforts of Nowell and Michele Campagnaro to stop him.\n\nBut England's Henry Slade, on as a replacement, blasted a perfect penalty deep into the Saracens 22 and Exeter secured the resulting line-out, allowing the Chiefs to drive academy graduate Simmonds over for the decisive score.\n\nCould Exeter become the ninth team to be crowned champions of England?\n\nIf so, it would cap a seismic rise up rugby union's league system. Promoted to the top flight in 2010 under the guidance of Rob Baxter and assistant Ali Hepher, the Chiefs have gradually built a side greater than the sum of its parts.\n\nOnly seven of their starters have played any international rugby, while in contrast just two of the Saracens side - Michael Rhodes and Jackson Wray - had never featured for their country.\n\nBut a combination of home-grown stars, such as England's Nowell, Slade and Luke Cowan-Dickie, a sprinkling of international imports such as Waldrom and the experience of players like Ben Moon, Dollman and Steenson - who were all part of that promotion-winning side - has proved to be incredibly successful at home.\n\nWhatever the result in next week's final, Exeter have established themselves as a force in the domestic game.\n\n\"The biggest challenge we've got now, certainly from a coaching point of view, is that you almost instantly go 'we've not just won the Premiership, what we've just won is the semi-final'.\n\n\"So you do very quickly get through that and our biggest job now is not pretending we're champions.\n\n\"We've beaten the European champions, we've beaten a very good side, but we've got to beat one of these two (Wasps and Leicester) to win it, so it means nothing if we go there next week and we don't perform.\"\n\n\"That was one of the great kicks of all time from Henry Slade - if he puts that somewhere else I'm probably stood here taking about one of the great wins and one of the great fights from a team who are a little bit tired.\n\n\"We're sad, of course we are, and it's going to be painful, but we can be unbelievably proud of the qualities that showed during that second half.\n\n\"I'm pleased that we showed the fight, we didn't do much wrong to lose the match, to be honest.\"", "Women in munitions factories were tasked with filling shells with explosives\n\nThe sacrifice of soldiers killed during World Wars One and Two is well-documented. But the efforts of munitions workers stained yellow by toxic chemicals is a story much less told. A campaign now hopes to honour the so-called Canary Girls, who risked life and limb to supply ammunition to the frontline.\n\nIn 1915, while men were fighting on the battlefields, thousands of women were answering the government's cry for help by joining the war effort.\n\nIn their droves they signed up to fill the gaps left by those called into service, taking jobs in transport, engineering, mills and factories to keep the country moving.\n\nBut while those who swapped domestic life for the assembly line were spared the trauma of the trenches, their jobs were nonetheless fraught with danger.\n\nMunitions workers battling the \"shell crisis\" of 1915 were prime targets for enemy fire, with sites routinely flattened by enemy bombs.\n\nThose who were spared such a fate were no less safe, facing daily peril by handling explosive chemicals that carried the risk of them contracting potentially fatal diseases.\n\nAnd for some, the effects of their work were immediately visible; a lurid shade of yellow that stained their skin and hair and earned them a nickname - the Canary Girls.\n\nThousands of women were drafted in to tackle the shell crisis\n\n\"We were like a canary,\" said Nancy Evans, recalling her time at the Rotherwas factory in Herefordshire during World War Two.\n\n\"We were yellow, it penetrated your skin. Your hair turned blonde and on the top of the crown was the proper colour of your hair.\"\n\nThough temporary, the affects of packing shells with trinitrotoluene - more commonly known as TNT - ran more than skin-deep.\n\nAccording to Dr Helen McCartney, from King's College London, some workers gave birth to \"bright yellow\" babies.\n\nGladys Sangster, whose mother worked at National Filling Factory Number 9 near Banbury, Oxford, was one of them.\n\n\"I was born [during the war] and my skin was yellow,\" she told the BBC. \"That's why we were called Canary Babies.\n\n\"Nearly every baby was born yellow. It gradually faded away. My mum told me you took it for granted, it happened and that was it.\"\n\nLife in munitions was \"hot... sweaty... dirty - women did not want the job,\" says Amy Dale\n\nAs well as suffering the cosmetic consequences of working with TNT, workers risked amputation with every shell that passed through their hands.\n\nAmy Dale, who is researching munitions factories for her PhD, said those at Royal Ordnance Filling factories (ROFs) risked losing fingers and hands, burns and blindness.\n\n\"In these factories, they would take the casing, fill it with powder, then put a detonator in the top and that had to be tapped down. If they tapped too hard, it would detonate,\" she said.\n\n\"It happened to one lady, who was pregnant at the time, and it blinded her and she lost both her hands.\n\n\"She saw the pregnancy through, but the only way she could identify the baby was with her lips, which still had feeling.\"\n\nRotherwas in Herefordshire employed 4,000 women at its peak\n\nExplosions were a common occurrence, with fatal blasts reported at factories in Ashton-under-Lyne, Barnbow near Leeds, and Chilwell in Nottinghamshire.\n\nSuch were fears that a rogue spark caused by static might lead to an explosion that women were banned from wearing nylon and silk.\n\nNellie Bagley, whose first shift at Rotherwas in 1940 was on her 18th birthday, remembers having to strip down to her underwear to be inspected.\n\n\"You took everything off and you had just your bra and if it had a metal clip on the back you couldn't wear it... and no hair grips of course, because they would caused friction... explosions.\"\n\nThe women operated in a tense atmosphere, heavy with the weight of government fears that information could fall into the wrong hands.\n\nPosters papered the walls bearing slogans such as \"Keep Mum She's Not So Dumb\" to deter talk among workers.\n\n\"They were everywhere, [the word] 'war' with a big ear on it and 'Gossip Costs Lives',\" remembered Mrs Bagley.\n\n\"You were aware all the time of being watched.\"\n\nBut even in the darkest of moments, there remained a sense of workforce camaraderie.\n\n\"When we were on nights they used to say 'Come on Lou, get us started singing',\" said Louisa Jacobs, 94.\n\n\"We would sing from night to the early hours of the morning. It kept us going because we didn't realise the danger we were working in.\"\n\nFellow Rotherwas worker, Amy Hicks, added: \"We would be singing, even when the bombs fell.\"\n\nAnd fall they did. In 1942, the Rotherwas factory was attacked by the Luftwaffe, which dropped a pair of 250kg bombs on the 300-acre site.\n\nNancy Billings, who was coming to the end of a night shift, survived the blast.\n\nThe Rotherwas factory was bombed in 1942\n\n\"It was about 6am and the girl next to me had said, 'I'm so tired I could sleep forever'. Then all of a sudden the siren went off.\n\n\"This plane came down so low you could see the big black cross on it and then the bomb dropped. It had a direct hit.\n\n\"There was [numerous] girls killed in there. It always comes to me about the girl working next to me, because she was one that didn't get out.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nancy Billings describes the moment the bombs fell on Rotherwas\n\nOf those who survived life in the factories, many were beset with health problems in later life.\n\nSome reported bone disintegration, while others developed throat problems and dermatitis from TNT staining.\n\n\"The women suffered all sorts of illnesses and ailments from turning yellow, but turning yellow was probably the least of their problems,\" said Dr McCartney.\n\n\"They accepted all sort of terrible working conditions, they knew they were putting themselves in danger - TNT was yellow, they saw what was happening.\n\n\"But there's evidence that it was seen as a patriotic act… as them doing their bit for the war effort.\"\n\nThere remained a sense of camaraderie among workers\n\nOthers suffered more sinister illnesses - one of the most serious being a liver disease called toxic jaundice.\n\nThere were 400 cases of the disease during World War One - a quarter of which were fatal, said historian Anne Spurgeon.\n\n\"There was the yellow that was the staining of the skin, which while unpleasant, wasn't fatal or a serious disease.\n\n\"But there was this liver disease that was a different yellow.\n\n\"When they had repeated exposure to TNT, it attacked the liver. It was a poison and caused anaemia and jaundice.\"\n\nMunitions workers assembled shells in ROFs made by other factories\n\nIn 1914, it was discovered TNT was poisonous and the following year, toxic jaundice became a notifiable disease.\n\nHealth and safety measures in factories were stepped up to limit exposure, such as providing protective clothing, but only so much could be done to eradicate the risks.\n\n\"[The government] wasn't ignoring it, they were trying to do something about it within the limits of their knowledge at the time,\" said Dr Spurgeon.\n\n\"But [TNT] was what had to go into the shells, so they had to use it.\"\n\nWorking in the factories was seen by some as a \"patriotic act\"\n\nAbout a million women worked at thousands of Ministry of Munitions sites during both world wars.\n\nBut the number of those killed or seriously injured in the line of duty is a mystery - something Ms Dale is trying to find out as part of her research.\n\n\"It was a really dangerous job, which I think is why so little is known about it,\" she said.\n\n\"Women weren't allowed anywhere near a gun, yet they were filling shells in factories.\n\n\"They were actively engaged in an act of war which I think made people uncomfortable.\"\n\nA campaign led by BBC Hereford and Worcester hopes to see records of how many workers died released, as well as cement the place of munitions workers in war history.\n\nThe project has already been discussed at Prime Minister's Questions and there are plans to unveil a statue at the National Arboretum in Staffordshire.\n\nThough women were spared the trauma of the trenches, their jobs were nonetheless fraught with danger\n\nBut Ms Billings said she had always felt the sacrifices made by the so-called munitionettes should have been recognised.\n\n\"I do think [we] should've got a medal for what [we] did, I've always thought that. And we should've got a letter from the Queen.\n\n\"It was a very dangerous job and it affected [our] health.\"\n\nFor the relatives of those who worked at Rotherwas, which had 4,000 woman at its peak, recognition has been a long time coming.\n\n\"It was such a dangerous job,\" said Mrs Hicks's daughter, Jenny Swiffield. \"It was as dangerous as going up and flying and dropping bombs.\n\n\"I'm [proud] and I think anyone would be if their parents had done something like that.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nIt was only his seventh Premier League goal since arriving from Germany three years ago, but Emre Can's sensational overhead kick was enough for Liverpool to beat Watford on Monday night.\n\nThe Germany midfielder ran onto a lofted pass from Lucas and, with his back to goal, hooked a volley into the top corner.\n\nWith Jurgen Klopp's side sitting in third, it could prove to be a valuable goal as they push for Champions League football - but was it the goal of the season?\n\n\"Actually, I would love to see it again - everybody is speaking about it.\n\n\"I only saw it once but it looked already pretty nice. I turned a little early and didn't see it hit the back of the net.\n\n\"He is a good boy, a good player and he deserves it,\" added the German manager.\n\nLiverpool have not been strangers to special goals this season - with midfielders Jordan Henderson, Sadio Mane and Georginio Wijnaldum all winning Match of the Day's Goal of the Month competition.\n\nWith 11 goals in 100 career league starts, Can is not the most frequent goalscorer, and the player admitted himself that his strike at Vicarage Road was his best to date.\n\n\"I have never scored a goal like that - maybe when I was younger. That is the best goal I've ever scored,\" Can said.\n\n\"I saw the space and I ran behind and my first thought was that I wanted to head it, then I didn't think too much.\"\n\nTeam-mate Adam Lallana, who made his return from injury as an early substitute, said that Liverpool players will be allowing Can to try more acrobatic efforts in training.\n\n\"He does like to try speculative efforts, and we will not have a pop now after he produced that,\" said the England midfielder.\n\n\"It was a 'worldy' goal, worthy of winning any game.\n\n\"Credit to him, he was brave enough to try it and it flew into the top corner.\"\n\nThe goal of the season will be chosen at the end of the campaign.\n\nTottenham's Dele Alli won the award last season for his strike at Crystal Palace, and the last Liverpool man to win the honour was none other than Steven Gerrard for his brilliant winner in the 2006 FA Cup final.", "Did Mark Selby hit the black ball? Watch the controversial moment from the World Championship final and judge for yourself.", "A good heavyweight needs power, grace, stamina and plenty of heart.\n\nThey face off in boxing's glamour division, but only a few are ever good enough to make their mark.\n\nGreat Britain waited nearly 96 years between Bob Fitzsimmons' world heavyweight title win and Lennox Lewis claiming a version of the title in 1992.\n\nAnthony Joshua is the latest to make a telling dent among the sport's biggest men. But who is Britain's greatest heavyweight?\n\nIn a BBC Sport poll, 70% of voters chose Lennox Lewis as Britain's greatest heavyweight.\n\nBorn in Cornwall but largely raised in New Zealand, Fitzsimmons was the first fighter to win titles in three divisions - becoming world champion at middleweight, light-heavyweight and heavyweight.\n\nA blacksmith by trade, he became known as a brutal puncher. In winning the middleweight title in 1891, he reportedly knocked down opponent Jack Dempsey (not the later heavyweight champion of the same name) 13 times.\n\nCooper's trademark left hook - christened 'Enry's 'Ammer' - famously dropped Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) at Wembley Stadium in 1963. The London fighter did not have enough time to close the job in the fourth round and Ali's canny trainer, Angelo Dundee, delayed the start of the fifth, claiming his man's gloves were damaged. A British, Commonwealth and European champion, Cooper was the first person to win BBC Sports Personality of the Year twice.\n\nHungary-born but a naturalised resident of the UK and, later, Australia, Bugner fought for more than 31 years. He lost to Muhammad Ali on points twice, and also took Joe Frazier to the cards. A world title eluded him, although he held European and British belts.\n\nHe lost world title bouts to Tim Witherspoon, Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis before capturing the WBC belt in the penultimate fight of his career - out-pointing Oliver McCall at Wembley in 1995. Much loved by the British public, Bruno was a destructive force, landing 38 wins by knockout.\n\nThe last man to be undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, courtesy of his 1999 victory over Evander Holyfield. His list of conquests includes the likes of Mike Tyson and Vitali Klitschko, brother of Wladimir. Lewis avenged his two defeats by securing knockout wins over Oliver McCall and Hasim Rahman.\n\nA unified champion at cruiserweight, Haye became the first man since Evander Holyfield to also win a world title at heavyweight. He took the WBA belt from Nikolai Valuev in 2009 in a fight in which he weighed in almost seven stones lighter than his opponent. He is now three fights into a return to the sport, losing his most recent bout to Tony Bellew.\n\nFury produced an excellent performance to end Wladimir Klitschko's 11-year unbeaten run and claim the WBA, IBF and WBO titles in November 2015. Fury has since battled personal problems and does not have an active licence to compete at the moment, although has vowed to return. His ascent to world level took in British, Commonwealth and European titles.\n\nLike Lewis, Olympic gold preceded his professional career but it took Joshua just 34 rounds to land the IBF world title. His rapid rise through the professional ranks made him just the second fighter - after Frazier - to hold a world heavyweight title while still reigning as Olympic champion.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen is centre stage in Russian production of The Audience\n\nThe final chairs scrape into place, mobile phones click off and the curtain in a Moscow theatre slides open on Buckingham Palace.\n\nPeter Morgan's The Audience is a very British drama, which imagines the private weekly encounters between Queen Elizabeth II and a whole series of prime ministers.\n\nBut it is being staged in Russia as relations with the UK have seriously soured.\n\nThat has turned the performance into an act of cultural diplomacy.\n\nInna Churikova - a star of the Russian stage - plays the Queen\n\nAs a woman in a neat red skirt-suit emerges onto the set, the audience breaks into applause.\n\nInna Churikova, a legend of Soviet cinema and stage, has been transformed into the Queen for this lavish production.\n\n\"It started with me looking for a beautiful role for my mother,\" explains Ivan Panfilov, who is the show's producer as well as Ms Churikova's son.\n\nHe even bought the \"Queen\" some pet corgis for the role, just like the original.\n\nBut Mr Panfilov also had another agenda.\n\n\"We wanted to pay tribute and respect to the Queen and to Britain. Because no matter what happens in policy, people still find a place for each other in their hearts,\" he says.\n\nThere has been plenty of real-life drama in British-Russian relations lately. Moscow's envoy to the UN Security Council, Vladimir Safronkov, flung diplomacy out of the window to harangue his British counterpart in snarling, crude Russian.\n\nDays before, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson had called off talks in Moscow and proposed fresh sanctions for Russia's policy on Syria.\n\nThe play was staged at the Theatre of Nations in central Moscow\n\nBut backstage at Moscow's Theatre of Nations it's a different story.\n\n\"I'm fascinated by this woman and how she got the world to bend the way she wanted,\" enthuses Galina Tyunina. The actor, sporting tweed and clutching a small leather handbag, is playing a Russian Margaret Thatcher.\n\nA man marching up and down in the corridor, arms swinging, says he's practising his \"David Cameron walk\".\n\nThe real-life Mr Cameron was keen on doing business with Russia when he first became PM. Then came Russia's annexation of Crimea, conflict in eastern Ukraine and sanctions.\n\nGorevoy's Churchill: Many Russians still admire the British wartime leader\n\n\"The tension between Russia and the United Kingdom, personally I don't like it at all,\" declares a remarkably life-like \"Winston Churchill\", complete with bow-tie, cane and jowls.\n\n\"We need to put us together. To know each other better. Definitely,\" actor Mikhail Gorevoy adds in English.\n\nThe \"Queen\" herself is openly enamoured of her character and admits to nerves despite her vast experience.\n\n\"This role is very worrying. It's a great responsibility. Because [I'm playing] the wonderful, living soul that is the British Queen,\" Inna Churikova explains. \"I feel in love with this wonderful woman,\" the leading lady adds.\n\nNot all the very British political jokes in this play make sense here, but the audience is curious and forgiving.\n\n\"It's fascinating to look at this culture. We have great respect for characters like Churchill and esteem for his statesmanship,\" Dmitry comments, during the first interval.\n\n\"It's far from our life and political system,\" Gala admits. \"But England is a kind of example, for imitation.\"\n\nThe play's producers are hoping their Russian-British fusion can help build bridges. At the very least it is an oasis of friendship in an increasingly hostile climate.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "All athletics world records set before 2005 could be rewritten under a \"revolutionary\" new proposal from European Athletics.\n\nThe credibility of records was examined following the sport's doping scandal.\n\nBritain's Paula Radcliffe, who faces losing her 2003 marathon world record, called the proposals \"cowardly\".\n\n\"I am hurt and do feel this damages my reputation and dignity,\" she said, adding that the governing bodies had \"again failed clean athletes\".\n\nSvein Arne Hansen, the European Athletics president, said world records \"are meaningless if people don't really believe them\".\n\nHowever, Radcliffe said the changes were \"heavy handed\" and \"confusing to the public\".\n\nEuropean Athletics set up a taskforce to look into the credibility of world records in January. Its ruling council has now ratified the proposals put forward by the taskforce, and it wants the sport's world governing body, the IAAF, to adopt the changes it sets out.\n\nHow will world records be recognised?\n\nIf the proposals are accepted by the IAAF, a world record would only be recognised if it meets all three of the following criteria:\n• None It was achieved at a competition on a list of approved international events where the highest standards of officiating and technical equipment can be guaranteed;\n• None The athlete had been subject to an agreed number of doping control tests in the months leading up to it;\n• None The doping control sample taken after the record was stored and available for re-testing for 10 years.\n\nThe IAAF has stored blood and urine samples only since 2005 and current records that do not meet the new criteria would remain on an \"all-time list\", but not be officially recognised as records.\n\nThis would include Jonathan Edwards' triple jump record of 18.29m - set in 1995 - and Colin Jackson's 1994 indoor 60m hurdles world record of 7.30secs, as well as Radcliffe's marathon mark of two hours 15 minutes and 25 seconds, set in 2003 using two male pacemakers.\n\nMary Keitany of Kenya broke Radcliffe's women's-only world record to win the 2017 London Marathon in two hours 17 minutes one second, the second-fastest time in history.\n\nThe council also recommended that a performance should be wiped from record books if the athlete had committed a \"doping or integrity violation, even if it does not directly impact the record performance\".\n\nWhy are the changes needed?\n\nThe proposals are a response to last year's McLaren report, which uncovered widespread doping in sport - and athletics in particular. Russian athletes are currently banned from international competition unless they can satisfy strict criteria to show they are clean.\n\nMore than 100 Olympic athletes who competed at the 2008 and 2012 Games have been sanctioned for doping after the International Olympic Committee embarked on a programme of retesting old samples.\n\n\"There are records in which people in the sport, the media and the public do not have complete confidence,\" added taskforce chair Pierce O'Callaghan.\n\nWhat has the reaction been so far?\n\nIAAF president Lord Coe said the changes were \"a step in the right direction\".\n\n\"There will be athletes, current record holders, who will feel that the history we are recalibrating will take something away from them, but if organised and structured properly we have a good chance of winning back credibility in this area,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Athletics president Hansen said he would encourage the IAAF to adopt the proposal at its August council meeting.\n\n\"What we are proposing is revolutionary and not just because most world and European records will have to be replaced,\" Hansen added.\n\n\"We want to raise the standards for recognition to a point where everyone can be confident that everything is fair and above board.\"\n\nRadcliffe has previously criticised plans to wipe records from the books and last month told BBC Sport she favoured making doping a criminal offence instead to deter cheats.\n\nShe issued a statement on Monday criticising the new proposals and athletics governing bodies.\n\n\"I worked extremely hard for my PBs and they will always be valid to me. I know they were set through hard work and best effort and abiding by all the rules and am proud of them,\" Radcliffe wrote.\n\n\"Governing bodies have a duty to protect every clean athlete, here they again fail those athletes. We had to compete against cheats, they couldn't provide us a level playing field, we lost out on medals, moments and earnings due to cheats, saw our sport dragged through the mud due to cheats and now, thanks to those who cheat we potentially lose our World and Area records.\n\n\"Although we are moving forward I don't believe we are yet at the point where we have a testing procedure capable of catching every cheat out there, so why reset at this point? Do we really believe a record set in 2015 is totally clean and one in 1995 not?\n\n\"I am hurt and do feel this damages my reputation and dignity. It is a heavy handed way to wipe out some really suspicious records in a cowardly way by simply sweeping all aside instead of having the guts to take the legal plunge and wipe any record that would be found in a court of law to have been illegally assisted.\n\n\"It is confusing to the public at a time when athletics already struggles to market itself. How do they explain how stadium, club and national records are better than the Area or World marks or will they force all those to be to wiped out too?\"", "Sexual harassment scandals have rocked Fox News - and led to some top-level departures\n\nThe ancient adage was never wrong, and thanks to Fox News we can now offer an update: to lose one may be considered a misfortune; to lose two is a sign something's up; but to lose three is a sign that something is rotten in America's most watched news network.\n\nThe sacking of ratings juggernaut Bill O'Reilly last month was the most significant departure in the modern history of American cable news. Except that is, for the departure of his boss Roger Ailes last year.\n\nThese two monumental media events - the first, a dismissal of the biggest talent on America's most influential news service; the second, a dismissal of the most influential man in American news media (after his boss, Rupert Murdoch) - have now been followed by another remarkable departure: that of Bill Shine, who ran Fox News with Ailes for two decades, and was appointed co-president to sort the mess out.\n\nThree huge departures within nine months. There is now chatter that Sean Hannity, the senior anchor who tweeted last week that Fox News would be finished without Shine, could be the next to go.\n\nWhat is going on? And could this affect UK communications regulator Ofcom's forthcoming judgement on whether to reject the Murdoch family's bid for the 61% of broadcaster Sky they don't own?\n\nThat is certainly the hope of the cross-party group of MPs who have been lobbying Ofcom, and who would rather not see the Murdochs consolidate their power here in the UK. Interestingly, former business secretary Sir Vince Cable said on BBC Radio 4's World at One that Ofcom told him they were in listening mode. And there is certainly a lot of noise emanating from Fox News HQ in Manhattan right now.\n\nThere is a palpable fear in New York that the sexual harassment scandal which has toppled Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly could be an American version of the phone hacking scandal that dogged Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers. The echoes are eerie.\n\nRoger Ailes - Is he just one rogue individual?\n\nFirst, there is the instinctive blame on one rogue individual. Fox insiders have generally blamed the dominant, strongman personality of Roger Ailes for what went wrong, saying that with his departure the culture would improve. This sounds familiar to those who remember the initial claim that phone hacking was conducted by \"one rogue reporter\".\n\nSecond, there are the wider questions about a corporate culture. I don't mean by this whether or not Fox News leans to the right. I mean whether or not it is well run. Shine, who we're told resigned over the weekend, wasn't accused of sexual or racial harassment himself; but he was accused by multiple individuals of knowing plenty about the behaviour of his boss, and failing to act appropriately.\n\nThird, and related, there are the legal investigations now under way: not one, but two. The bigger one is a federal probe looking at whether or not Fox withheld settlement payments over sexual harassment from investors.\n\nAnd fourth, and worst of all for the Murdochs, there is the time. The phone hacking scandal derailed their last attempt to acquire the part of Sky which they don't already own. Now, with Ofcom's assessment of their latest takeover bid in the long grass until after the UK general election on 8 June, this huge scandal threatens to generate all the wrong headlines. The timing couldn't be worse.\n\nFor all that, it is important to note that Fox's ratings haven't suffered, and the advertising boycott that followed the revelations around O'Reilly - who strenuously denies he's done anything wrong, and is now forging a fresh career as a podcaster - hasn't yet dented Fox revenues in a really significant way.\n\nThe Murdochs' last takeover bid for Sky was derailed by the phone hacking scandal\n\nMoreover, Fox has moved swiftly and decisively in removing toxic individuals, in a way that shows they are extremely alert to potential reputational and commercial damage. It really was unimaginable this time last year that Fox News could exist without Ailes, let alone O'Reilly and even Megyn Kelly, who is probably America's most sought after female anchor, and left the network a few months ago.\n\nThe dominant narrative in American media is that these moves show Rupert's sons, James and Lachlan, imposing their worldview on their father's media giant by decisively rejecting the orthodoxies of his reign.\n\nIn conversations with seasoned observers of Planet Murdoch, individuals at 21st Century Fox, and opponents of that company's bid for the 61% of Sky it doesn't already own, that narrative finds plenty of support.\n\nThat both Ailes and O'Reilly have gone does give credence to the idea that Fox News is being reconfigured by its parent company, 21st Century Fox, where Executive Chairman Lachlan, and CEO James - who are of equal status - want change. Since they acquired this joint status in June 2015, these two have made a concerted effort to modernise their father's firm.\n\nThey have held regular town hall meetings with staff, extended parental leave, and made a habit of sending memos to staff - whether groups or individuals - saying well done: a pillar of right-on modern management.\n\nMore importantly, they have appointed several women to key roles, from Stacey Snider (in charge of 20th Century Fox film studio) to Courteney Monroe (CEO of National Geographic, a particular passion for James). The entertainment division of 21st Century Fox has several women in key executive roles, from Elizabeth Gabler and Nancy Utley to Emma Watts and Vanessa Morrison.\n\nRupert Murdoch still rules the roost - but his sons have moved to modernise the family business\n\nFox insiders are frustrated that the strides made in equality in the entertainment division garner much less publicity than the misdeeds of senior men in the (much smaller and less profitable) news division.\n\nWith commercial titans like Chase Carey, Peter Chernin, and now Ailes out of the picture, and James and Lachlan in the ascendant, there is a sense of a new broom at the company.\n\nBut Rupert still rules the roost. I would urge caution on those who argue that his grip is weakening. Not only was he, as you'd expect, ultimately responsible for the decisions to remove Ailes, Shine and O'Reilly; not only did he install himself as the temporary but very hands-on chairman of Fox News after Ailes left; but the idea that there was a battle of wills between father and sons, who outnumbered and outfoxed their father, is fanciful.\n\nIt is worth bearing in mind how much Rupert would have hated the New York Times felling of O'Reilly. It was their brilliant investigation that revealed the payments made to complainants against O'Reilly, causing a boycott by dozens of advertisers. Murdoch senior coveted the Grey Lady for many years, and paid a huge price for the Wall Street Journal partly because he was so determined to get one over it. The New York Times is the very embodiment of the liberal coastal elite O'Reilly, Shine and Ailes have spent decades bashing. The irony is not lost on either party.\n\nWhat next for Fox News? Hannity's future remains unclear. Former UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, who works for Fox News, told me a fortnight ago that Tucker Carlson, the anchor who has replaced O'Reilly in the key 8pm slot, has long been thought of as his likely successor. In his first few days, Carlson has rated well.\n\nBut the bigger drama is yet to come: the federal probes into whether payments were withheld from investors could intensify just as Ofcom consider whether to approve the Murdochs' bid for Sky. The last bid was of course derailed by the phone hacking scandal; and while Ofcom won't comment on what is a quasi-judicial process, their deliberations aren't taking place in a vacuum.\n\nIn ancient times, before Donald Trump was elected and when some people naively believed Hillary Clinton would be US president, the mood music coming out of New York suggested that the sons would build Fox News around Megyn Kelly, taking it in a more centrist and female-friendly direction. Now she's gone, and Rupert Murdoch is trying to rid his network of the cancer threatening to spread through it.\n\nSuddenly, the future of Fox News is up for grabs - and British regulators are watching.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nWorld heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua can do for boxing what Tiger Woods has done for golf in the past 20 years, says promoter Barry Hearn.\n\nBriton Joshua, 27, unified the heavyweight division by stopping Wladimir Klitschko in the 11th round of their fight at Wembley on Saturday.\n\n\"All sports need flag-bearers,\" said Hearn, whose son Eddie promotes Joshua for their Matchroom Sport agency.\n\n\"Joshua is the finest role model I have seen in sport.\"\n\nSaturday's thrilling victory - in front of a post-war British record 90,000 fans - means former Olympic champion Joshua is unbeaten in 19 fights as a professional and is now the WBA and IBF world champion.\n\nWoods, 41, won the Masters as a 21-year-old and has since added a further 13 major titles.\n\nThe American is credited with changing the face of golf.\n\n\"The Joshua effect is very similar to the Tiger Woods effect, where people who are not so interested suddenly become interested, where young people become aspirational to follow in someone's footsteps,\" said Hearn.\n• None Read: What next for champion Joshua?\n\nMeanwhile, Tyson Fury has claimed he could beat Joshua with \"one arm tied behind my back\".\n\nJoshua called out his compatriot, who beat Klitschko on points in November 2015, after his victory on Saturday.\n\n\"Styles do make fights but I am sure I can beat AJ with one arm tied behind my back,\" Fury said in a Sky Sports interview.\n\n'I don't even need a warm-up if he wants this.\"\n\nFury, 28, is unbeaten as a professional, with 18 knockouts in 25 fights, but surrendered his world heavyweight titles in an effort to focus on his mental health problems and is currently without a boxing licence and out of condition.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nWorld number one Andy Murray expects Maria Sharapova to receive a wildcard for Wimbledon qualifying if she does not make it through her ranking.\n\nThe Russian, 30, returned to action in Stuttgart last month after a 15-month doping ban.\n\nShe needs an invitation to compete at this month's French Open and, with her ranking of 262, at Wimbledon in July.\n\n\"I think there's a good chance Wimbledon would give her one to get into qualifiers,\" Murray said.\n\n\"I'm not sure what they will do but I'm sure they are hoping they don't have to make the decision,\" the 29-year-old Briton told national newspapers.\n\n\"There's a good chance that she can get in by right, which I'm sure is what she's hoping for and that's what Wimbledon would be hoping for.\"\n\nThe All England Club has said \"no decisions on any players will be taken\" until the scheduled wildcard meeting on 20 June.\n\nWimbledon's qualifying tournament, which takes place from 26-29 June at the the Bank of England Sports Grounds in Roehampton, will be ticketed and carry video coverage of one court for the first time.\n\nThere is something to be said for working your way back up the rankings\n\nSharapova needs to be closer to the top 200 for direct entry into Wimbledon qualifying and can improve her ranking at upcoming events in Madrid and Rome, which have also taken the decision to award her wildcards.\n\nThe five-time Grand Slam champion was suspended in 2016 after testing positive for heart disease drug meldonium, and reached the semi-finals on her return to action in Stuttgart.\n\nShe needed to reach the final in Germany to make the world's top 200 and be eligible for French Open qualifying, but defeat by Kristina Mladenovic in the last four pegged her ranking at 262.\n\nThe French tennis federation is set to announce its decision regarding a wildcard for Sharapova on 16 May.\n\nGrand Slams face a \"different decision\" from smaller tournaments over this issue, according to Murray.\n\n\"Loads and loads of press went to Stuttgart to cover the event - whereas the Slams don't need that coverage,\" the Scot said.\n\n\"It probably doesn't change their event much either way, so they have a different decision to make.\"\n\nMurray said the French Open and Wimbledon can do \"whatever they want\" regarding wildcards but added \"there is something to be said for working your way back up\" the rankings.\n\n\"[Sharapova's] playing at a level where she's capable of winning a tournament like Stuttgart already - it would be a three-, four-week period before she'd be competing at the biggest events again,\" he said.\n\n\"To reach the semis in the first tournament back shows that very soon she's going to be back up at the top of the game. It will be a matter of months.\"\n\nMurray added, however, that he \"wouldn't imagine\" Sharapova's form would have any bearing on a Grand Slam tournament's decision to issue a wildcard.\n\nThe decision to assist Sharapova's return to the WTA Tour has been criticised by rival players, with 2014 Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard branding the former world number one \"a cheat\" who should not have been allowed to play again.\n• None 'When you cheat you forgo the privilege to take part in your sport'\n\n'My elbow is always sore'\n\nHaving missed Great Britain's Davis Cup quarter-final defeat by France with an elbow injury before returning in Monte Carlo, Murray continued his comeback at the Barcelona Open where he was beaten by Dominic Thiem in the semi-finals.\n\nHe will next compete on clay at the Madrid Open, starting on Monday, followed by the Italian Open on 15 May.\n\n\"My elbow is always sore, so that's nothing to do with the injury - for the last three or four years, it's always been a bit stiff,\" said Murray, speaking at The Queen's Club, where he will defend his Aegon Championship title next month.\n\n\"It was great in Barcelona for the amount of tennis I played - I pushed it, playing three hours and then having to come back the next day and play again, and the elbow felt really good.\n\n\"I just need to start serving better which hopefully will happen over the next few weeks.\"", "Better watch your F-bombs over a cheeky pint, because Samuel Smiths brewery is reportedly refusing service to any cussing customers.\n\nThe independent brewery, which owns 200 pubs across the UK, has issued guidelines to staff to implement the company’s new ‘zero tolerance’ policy on profanity.\n\nAnd they’re taking it pretty seriously, giving any mouthy punters a ban from the premises.\n\nThe Gazette spoke to one Samuel Smith’s pub manager in Teesside, who confirmed, “It’s the owner of the brewery’s decision, it’s all started from the brewery - all we can do is try our best.”\n\nWhen asked if any customers had actually been barred yet, he responded, “We’ve been told to refuse service to people using bad language, so basically, yes.”\n\nSamuel Smiths pubs have become known for their traditional, \"uncompromisingly Victorian\" aesthetic and their lack of music or TVs.\n\nLooks like this post is no longer available from its original source. It might've been taken down or had its privacy settings changed.\n\nWe wish to inform all of our customers that we have introduced a zero tolerance policy against swearing in all of our pubs.\n\nThe exact amount or calibre of swearing that will earn you the boot has not been confirmed, but if you want to sip your G and T in peace, best keep the conversation PG.\n\nIt’s not the first time a watering hole has made a statement like this.\n\nVarious bars and pubs kicked off last Christmas and banned groups wearing Christmas jumpers, accusing them of being more rowdy.\n\nWetherspoons faced serious backlash when they tried to ban 'sportswear' at a branch in Chatham last summer, claiming they were trying to attract a more upmarket kind of clientele. The residents of Chatham were not impressed.\n\nThe pub chain even weighed in on politics in the run up to the referendum, when founder Tim Martin printed 200,000 beer mats calling for the UK to leave the EU.\n\nThis article was first published in April 2017", "Paula Radcliffe criticised proposals by European Athletics to rewrite world and European records pre-2005 in a move intended to rebuild public confidence in the sport.\n\nShe said: \"Yet again [this] sees clean athletes suffering for the actions of cheats.\n\n\"It's very hard to be told that 'we don't value your records, we don't believe and respect it, and we can't trust the records from that time were set under the correct criteria.\"\n\nPlans by the governing body would wipe records set before 2005 because blood and urine samples have not been stored to be retested.\n\nRadcliffe holds a world record set at the 2003 London Marathon with a time of two hours 15 minutes 25 seconds.\n\nThis clip is originally from 5 live Breakfast on Tuesday, 5 March.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nCoverage : Live on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and the BBC Sport website\n\nEngland one-day captain Eoin Morgan says the current side is the most talented group of players he has ever played with.\n\nMorgan's team play their first ODI of the summer on Friday against Ireland at Bristol as they begin preparations for the Champions Trophy.\n\nThe 50-over tournament begins at The Oval on 1 June and consists of the eight best-ranked ODI teams.\n\n\"The talent and ability in the side is second to none,\" Morgan told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I firmly believe this is the most talented group of players I've ever played with. I've been fortunate to play with some fantastic cricketers over the years.\"\n\nEngland have never won a 50-over international competition and have won only one global trophy - the World Twenty20 in 2010 - but have twice reached the final of the Champions Trophy, in 2004 and 2013.\n\nEngland and Wales will host the Champions Trophy, which runs from 1-18 June, and Morgan believes his team are playing a brand of cricket capable of winning a world tournament.\n\n\"It is important to recognise the Champions Trophy is the halfway stage towards the 2019 World Cup and that's the real trophy we want to be lifting,\" he said.\n\n\"That is the ultimate goal. This tournament is very relevant for us at the moment given the progression that we've made.\n\n\"It is a very ruthless tournament - you have to win every game. Going in with that expectation and hype is very good for us as a group.''\n\nDurham all-rounder Ben Stokes is one of eight England players to compete in this year's Indian Premier League.\n\nHe is the most expensive foreign player in IPL history and made a thrilling 63-ball century - his first in Twenty20 cricket - for Pune on Monday.\n\nHis international captain Morgan believes there is no-one more dangerous in world cricket right now than Stokes, who will miss the two ODIs against Ireland to remain in India.\n\n\"He goes out playing in the same team as the Australian captain Steve Smith and an Indian legend in MS Dhoni and outperforming those guys gives him an abundance of confidence,\" Morgan said.\n\n\"It is not only his own confidence, it will rub off on the team as well.\"\n\nEngland's women will also be fighting for a limited-overs trophy this summer when the women's World Cup begins on 24 June on home soil.\n\nThe side, led by Heather Knight, have been preparing in the UAE in temperatures exceeding 40C at times.\n\nThe training camp was noticeable for the inclusion of Sarah Taylor. Widely considered the most talented player in women's cricket, she has been tackling anxiety-related issues which have had a profound effect on her health.\n\nEngland remain cautiously optimistic that she will be part of the World Cup.\n\n\"Sarah did a lot more than was expected - she did very well out there. With Sarah it is one step at a time at the moment,\" captain Knight told BBC Sport.\n\n\"The World Cup is still eight weeks away. But it is great to see her out in an England shirt again, training around the group.\n\n\"She's still the world-class player she was - she'd still walk into any top four in any team in the world. It is great to see her and I love watching her bat. But the most important thing is that she's well, and it puts cricket into perspective, to see her tackling her issues, and hopefully she can come out the other side.''\n\nUniquely, Tuesday's launch of the new England kits featured all England's captains, including representatives from every disability team.\n\nAll believe major strides have been made with the backing of the England and Wales Cricket Board but that there is still far greater scope for development and profile.\n\nIan Nairn, the captain of England's physical disability team, would like to see cricket achieve the same level of recognition as Paralympic sports.\n\n''We're hitting sixes out of the ground as Eoin Morgan is, as Ben Stokes is. There is no reason why we shouldn't entertain to exactly the same standard,\" Nairn told BBC Sport. \"It is 20-over cricket; it is fast and it is furious.\n\n''We've got a long way to go get to the level of the Paralympics, but it is a global game. In the subcontinent there is a lot of disability and a lot of disabled people playing cricket.\n\n\"There's no reason why we can't go there and make it a commercial game. Maybe the 'Disability IPL' is the way forward - that's a dream that we all have.''", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nOlympic gold medallist Darren Campbell says a proposal to rewrite the majority of athletics' world records before 2005 would be \"for the greater good\".\n\nThe move, designed to restore trust following doping scandals, has been criticised by British athletes.\n\nHowever, Campbell supports the aim of the plan - even though he could lose his 4x100m European record from 1999.\n\n\"I will sacrifice whatever it takes to save the sport and give its credibility back,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\nCampbell lost his 4x100m relay gold medal from the 2002 European Championships after team-mate Dwain Chambers admitted to taking a banned steroid at the time.\n\n\"I've thought about it, put myself in their shoes of losing a record and yes, I've lost medals and you kind of go, 'OK it's for the greater good'. You have to accept it and move on,\" he said.\n• None Listen to more from Campbell on BBC Radio 5 live\n• None The winners and losers if records are wiped\n\n\"If it's going to save the sport that I love and has given me so many wonderful things, then that's what needs to happen.\n\n\"The punishment has to fit the crime. The level of pain these people put us through - we have to do something.\n\n\"Records are there to be broken and some of those records can't be broken unless you're taking drugs.\"\n\nPaula Radcliffe, who faces losing her 2003 marathon world record, said clean athletes were \"suffering for the actions of cheats\" under the proposals.\n\nShe was supported by Colin Jackson - the 60m indoor hurdles record holder - who told BBC Sport that clean athletes \"are still in the majority and should not be getting caught up in this\".\n\nCampbell, who won Olympic 200m silver in 2000 and 4x100m gold four years later, feels tough decisions have to be made but said the governing bodies must now flesh out the proposal.\n\n\"We need to know how it is going to save the sport. We don't want to end up right back here in 20 years,\" he said.\n\n\"It is radical, it is a recommendation, but tell me how it's going to save the sport? That is the important thing.\"\n\nThe proposal, put forward by European Athletics, would see existing records reassessed against strict criteria in an attempt to make a clean break with the sport's doping scandals.\n\nEuropean Athletics has asked world governing body the IAAF to back its proposals when its council meets in August.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nCristiano Ronaldo scored another Champions League hat-trick as Real Madrid thrashed Atletico Madrid in the semi-final first leg to close in on a third final in four years.\n\nReal were utterly dominant throughout against their city rivals at the Bernabeu and led after 10 minutes when Ronaldo headed home Casemiro's cross.\n\nIt looked as if the hosts might fail to fully capitalise on their superiority - until Ronaldo let the ball bounce and smashed an unstoppable shot from 16 yards past Atletico keeper Jan Oblak, who had made several saves to keep his side in the tie.\n\nAnd the Portugal forward ensured all the headlines would be his with a second consecutive Champions League hat-trick, having scored five goals in the quarter-final against Bayern Munich. It was his easiest goal of the night, as he controlled Lucas Vazquez's cross in plenty of space before firing home.\n\nAtletico only had one shot on target and will need to pull off one of the Champions League's all-time special performances to stop double-chasing Real from ending their European dreams for the fourth straight season.\n• None Relive all the action from the Bernabeu\n• None Football Daily podcast: 'Ronaldo's the greatest player on the planet'\n\nRonaldo does it again\n\nRonaldo, the top scorer in the history of the Champions League with 103 goals, loves the big occasion. And occasions do not come much bigger.\n\nHe has now scored one more goal - 52 - in the knockout stages than he has in the group stages. He has now scored eight goals in his past three games in the competition, and is up to 13 Champions League semi-final goals.\n\nAt the age of 32, Ronaldo has reinvented himself as a striker, rather than the marauding wide player we watched cutting in and shooting for most of his career.\n\nHe was not heavily involved for large periods of the game, with only 50 touches of the ball compared with 123 for midfielder Toni Kroos. And he only had five shots - scoring with all of his efforts on target, his only three touches in the Atletico box.\n\nRonaldo was in an offside position when Sergio Ramos' cross came in for the first goal, but the ball never reached him, instead coming out to Casemiro, who crossed for the Portuguese to head home.\n\nHis second came when Karim Benzema held off Diego Godin, and Filipe Luis' follow-up clearance bounced up to Ronaldo, who lashed home.\n\nAnd he surely wrapped the tie up when he added a third in the 86th minute.\n\nNo team has retained the Champions League since its rebranding in 1992, but Real - who were in the swashbuckling form we have seen for most of the season - are in a great position to do so.\n\nManager Zinedine Zidane, who led his side to last season's trophy with victory over Atletico in the final in his first six months in charge, is chasing a double - and their hopes of a first La Liga title since 2012 are in their hands.\n\nReal - who have now scored in 59 consecutive games - had 17 shots against Atletico on Tuesday, with Benzema going close on several occasions, most notably with a bicycle kick that went just wide from Ronaldo's cross.\n\nRaphael Varane almost scored with a header but was denied by a brilliant Oblak stop, while fellow defender Dani Carvajal, who went off injured at half-time, also forced a save from the Atletico keeper.\n\nSuch is the strength of Zidane's squad that Wales forward Gareth Bale, out with a calf injury, was not missed at all - with replacement Isco impressing.\n\nAnd now, on the back of their first clean sheet in this year's tournament, they will surely fancy their chances against Juventus or Monaco in the Cardiff final on Saturday, 3 June.\n\nAtletico have spent most of their history in the shadows of Real so it is of extreme irritation to them that one of their best periods has seen them regularly thwarted by their rivals.\n\nThis is the fourth year in a row the teams have met in the latter stages of the Champions League - with Real winning the 2014 and 2016 finals, and the 2015 quarter-final.\n\nAtletico looked a shadow of the team Diego Simeone has turned into one of the most feared in the world. They only had 38% of the ball on Tuesday and, in the first half, misplaced 21.5% of their passes.\n\nAtletico only managed four efforts on goal, with Diego Godin's easily saved header the only one on target.\n\nSimeone, who led Atletico to the 2013 Spanish league title, now faces arguably the toughest test of his managerial career next week in the final European match at the Vicente Calderon before their move to a new stadium.\n\n'We need to forget about this game'\n\n\"We need to forget about this game.\n\n\"It seems impossible, but it is football and football has these unexpected things that make it marvellous.\n\n\"Until the last drip of hope is gone, we will give it everything we have.\"\n\n\"Cristiano is a goalscorer. He is unique. All the players were brilliant.\n\n\"I am happy with what I am doing here and with the players, we played a great game. We can hurt any side with our weapons.\"\n\nThe stats you need to know - Ronaldo levels Messi hat-trick record\n• None Ronaldo has equalled Barcelona forward Lionel Messi's total of seven Champions League hat-tricks.\n• None His treble saw him become the first player to reach 50 goals in the knockout stages of the competition (52).\n• None Ronaldo now has 13 semi-final goals in the Champions League (10 for Real Madrid, three for Manchester United) - the most by any player.\n• None The Portugal international has also scored more Champions League goals (103) than opponents Atletico Madrid (100).\n• None None of the previous five teams to lose a Champions League semi-final first leg by three or more goals have reached the final.\n• None Atletico suffered their joint-worst Champions League defeat under Diego Simeone, having also lost by a three-goal margin (4-1) against Real Madrid in the 2014 final.\n• None Real kept their first clean sheet in the competition since last year's semi-final against Manchester City (in both legs), ending a run of 11 successive games without one.\n\nReal Madrid go to relegated Granada, managed by Tony Adams, on Saturday (19:45 BST kick-off) as they continue to chase the Spanish title. Atletico, who are in third place, host Eibar on the same day (15:15 BST).\n• None Attempt blocked. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marco Asensio with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Diego Godín (Atlético de Madrid) header from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Gabi.\n• None Attempt missed. Luka Modric (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marcelo.\n• None Goal! Real Madrid 3, Atlético de Madrid 0. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez following a fast break.\n• None Stefan Savic (Atlético de Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marco Asensio. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nCeltic striker Moussa Dembele has been shortlisted for player and young player of the year in the PFA Scotland awards.\n\nThe 20-year-old Frenchman is joined in the senior list by team-mates Stuart Armstrong and Scott Sinclair, plus Aberdeen wide man Jonny Hayes.\n\nHis opponents for the young player award are team-mates Patrick Roberts and Kieran Tierney, the holder, along with Hibernian striker Jason Cummings.\n\nThe winners will be announced on Sunday 7 May at the PFA's annual dinner.\n\nCeltic players have won the last three top-flight player of the year awards and have only failed to win it twice in the past 13 seasons.\n\nMotherwell striker Michael Higdon topped the list in 2013, Rangers midfielder Steven Davis took the award in 2010, while Rangers defender Fernando Ricksen shared it with Celtic's John Hartson in 2005.\n\nPlayers make the shortlist after voting among players in the Scottish Professional Football League.\n\nStriker Leigh Griffiths was their top choice last season, with midfielder Stefan Johansen the year before and Kris Commons in 2014.\n\nIf Hayes were to win, he would become the first Dons player to take the award since Scotland midfielder Jim Bett in 1990.\n\nThe shortlists for the Championship, League One and League Two player of the year awards were announced last week.\n\nCummings, whose goals have helped Hibs win promotion, was shortlisted for Championship player of the year as well as the overall young player award.\n\nLeft-back Tierney could become the first to win the young player award twice since Aberdeen midfielder Eoin Jess in 1993 - and the first to win it two years running since Hearts defender Craig Levein in 1986.\n\nStuart Armstrong, 25, midfielder (Celtic): the former Dundee United midfielder has blossomed in his second full season at Celtic Park and has contributed 14 goals in his 44 appearances, earning himself his first Scotland cap.\n\nMoussa Dembele, 20, striker (Celtic): the France Under-21 international has proved a bargain signing for around £500,000 from Fulham last summer and scored 32 goals in 49 appearances before his season was cut short this month because of a hamstring injury.\n\nJonny Hayes, 29, winger (Aberdeen): in his fifth season at Pittodrie, the versatile wide man has played at full-back and on the wing, scoring eight times in 40 appearances and re-established himself in the Republic of Ireland squad in helping the Dons into second place in the Premiership and make two cup finals.\n\nScott Sinclair, 28, winger (Celtic): his career having stalled at Aston Villa, the former Swansea City and Manchester City winger has been a revelation under Brendan Rodgers and scored 25 goals in 45 games for the league and League Cup winners.\n\nJason Cummings, 21, striker (Hibernian): the product of Hibs' youth system and Scotland Under-21 international has found the net 23 times in 38 appearances as the Edinburgh side won the Championship title and promotion, as well as reaching the Scottish Cup semi-finals.\n\nMoussa Dembele, 20, striker (Celtic): the Frenchman won his early-season joust with Leigh Griffiths to become first-choice striker under Brendan Rodgers and it led to speculation about a multi-million pound January move to Chelsea.\n\nPatrick Roberts, 20, winger (Celtic): continuing his 18-month loan from Manchester City, the England Under-20 international has had to share a place in the starting line-up with Scotland winger James Forrest but has looked a constant threat, scoring seven goals in 42 games.\n\nKieran Tierney, 19, left-back (Celtic): despite having an injury disrupted season, the flying wide man has had another fine season that has led to reports of interest from top English clubs and should lead to a fourth Scotland cap against England in June.", "Eleven-year-old Matthew Pietrzyk can now swim, run, have a bath and eat chocolate, all impossible before his kidney transplant.\n\nBut he might still be on the waiting list, enduring 12 hours of dialysis each day, if his mother, Nicola, had not run a Facebook campaign to find him a living donor.\n\nMatthew is one of a number of UK patients who have bypassed the traditional NHS system of organ allocation, instead harnessing the power of the internet to find their own.\n\nTransplant doctors fear this development could result in an unsavoury competition to attract donors online, in what some have called an \"organ beauty pageant\".\n\nAnd they worry that it rips up the traditional health service ethos of equal access to treatment for all.\n\nConsultant nephrologist Dr Adnan Sharif, from Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, says: \"Somebody who is well-to-do, a professional, will be very good at promoting themselves,\" whereas poorer patients, perhaps from minority ethnic communities, will not have the same opportunities.\n\n\"I'm not going to lie, I think on Matthew's side was the fact he was a child,\" she says.\n\n\"In all walks of life, we use things to our advantage.\n\n\"If it meant that he didn't have to spend his life on dialysis, then I'd take it - I don't care.\"\n\nThere are 28,000 people on dialysis in the UK.\n\nSome 5,000 patients are on the national waiting list for an organ transplant from a dead donor.\n\nThere is a permanent shortage of such kidneys.\n\nBut there is another option; they may get a kidney from a living donor, because most of us can live healthily with just one.\n\nAlison Thornhill donated her kidney to an anonymous recipient\n\nLiving donors now make up a third of all kidney transplants in the UK.\n\nSome are donated anonymously through a very successful NHS scheme.\n\nBut social media campaigns such as Matthew's can bring dozens of would-be donors to be tissue-tested for just one patient, squeezing resources.\n\nSue Moore, the lead NHS living donor coordinator in Birmingham, says: \"You'd get people call out of the blue, and it was quite overwhelming really.\"\n\nHowever, since Matthew's appeal was launched in 2013, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the biggest renal centre in Europe, has adjusted to handling such pressures.\n\nMatthew's mother argues publicity for his campaign increased awareness of kidney donation.\n\nAnd some of the people initially tested for Matthew went on to give a kidney to someone else.\n\nOne was Alison Thornhill, who was touched by his Facebook appeal.\n\n\"If one of my grandchildren was in that situation, I would want somebody to step forward and be tested to see if they were a match for him,\" she says.\n\nAlison wasn't a match for Matthew, but since she \"was prepared to give a kidney to a little boy who I didn't know, it made sense just to go on and give it to somebody else who I didn't know who needed it\".\n\nEighteen months ago, she went into hospital and became an anonymous donor.\n\nUnexpectedly, she later got letters from the recipient, and from his mother, who wrote: \"I don't know anything about you apart from the fact that you are a very kind and compassionate person.\n\n\"I will be eternally grateful to you.\n\nGemma Coles wants to chose who to donate her kidney to\n\nBut some would-be donors want to choose precisely who receives their kidney.\n\nSearching online, Gemma Coles identified a series of patients she wanted to donate to, though for various reasons it has not yet happened.\n\nAsked why she wants to choose the recipient, she replies she has only one kidney to give.\n\n\"You have to be judgemental,\" she says.\n\n\"There's thousands of people, literally, needing a kidney, and more and more now their stories are available on social media, and it can feel you're being very critical of people's lives, trying to decide who to give and who not to.\"\n\nIf the transplant community was disturbed by Facebook kidney appeals, it was shocked by websites offering to match donors and patients, who can browse through profiles and photos.\n\nMatchingdonors.com was set up in the US by businessman Paul Dooley as a non-profit venture.\n\nIt charges $595 (£464) for US patients seeking a donor.\n\nIn 2012, he brought the website to the UK, but this time, without charging any fees.\n\nAccording to the regulator, the Human Tissue Authority, transplant centres must refuse operations involving a website that does charge fees.\n\nSince Matchingdonors.com is free to use in the UK, there is no regulatory barrier to stop it brokering a transplant.\n\nBut chief executive Mr Dooley says not one such transplant has taken place in five years in the UK.\n\nThere are 73 UK patients waiting - some have found matches with potential donors, but none has had permission from their hospital to go ahead.\n\nProf Vassilios Papalois says doctors must be allowed to make ethical decisions\n\nIn 2015, he stopped stopped signing up British patients, because \"there's no use them going to a gas station if there's no gas\".\n\nIt seems the transplant community simply decided organ-matching websites were beyond the pale. But is this fair?\n\nProf Vassilios Papalois, who formerly chaired the British Transplantation Society's ethics committee, says the views of transplant teams must be respected.\n\n\"They have the autonomy to say that for us it's ethically objectionable,\" he says.\n\nAsked if he is trying to provide the catwalk for an organ beauty pageant, Mr Dooley replies: \"Every single person on our website who's an organ donor wants to choose.\n\n\"They want to say, 'I want to give to an old grandfather, 'I want to give to a single father,' and if that's what they consider a beauty contest, that's not a beauty contest, it's the choice of who you want to donate to.\"\n\nThe Organ Beauty Pageant is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, 2 May, at 20:00 BST, and repeated on Sunday, 7 May, at 17:00 BST.", "Forget bottle-flipping and ditch your loom bands, there's a new craze sweeping school playgrounds.\n\nFidget spinners were originally developed as a way for children with ADHD or autism to relieve stress.\n\nBut in the last few weeks, these palm-sized toys have become the latest \"must-have\" for almost every school child in the country.\n\nOn video-sharing websites like YouTube, vloggers have amassed millions of views from performing tricks with their fidget spinners.\n\nAnd teachers have reported a huge increase in the number being brought to schools by pupils.\n\nThere are reports that some schools have banned the toys, but primary school teacher Danielle Timmons told BBC Radio Scotland that they can have benefits.\n\n\"Fidget toys have always been something that we've had in schools,\" she told The Kaye Adams Programme.\n\n\"They've only ever really been used by children with additional support needs. In fact, specialists coming into the school recommend them for children and we'll buy them in for the children that are identified.\n\n\"For a long time they've always existed but they've never been as popular as they seem to be now.\n\n\"It's become a playground toy as well as something that is used by children to stop them from fidgeting.\"\n\nRemember loom bands? These bright rubber bracelets adorned millions of wrists in 2014\n\nThere are many different types of fidget spinners but the most popular is a small, three-pronged device.\n\nWhen it is placed between the thumb and a finger, the user can give it a quick flick to trigger a spin.\n\nLike all the best playground toys, they can be bought for a couple of pounds in a local corner shop - though some are retailing at a much higher price online.\n\nBut now some parents have raised concerns that they may be a distraction in the classroom.\n\nMother-of-three Doreen Boyle said the toys were \"infuriating\".\n\n\"My youngest, who is 13, appeared with this fidget on Thursday, and it has not left his side.\n\n\"I've had a house full of little boys all weekend and they've all got them, and nobody can talk to you, nobody can have any eye contact with you because they're all playing with this thing.\n\n\"And I can't believe that they're not going to affect performance in class.\"\n\nTeacher Ms Timmons said that they can aid learning among some children.\n\nHowever in her class there are strict rules that, if they are being used, they must be kept below the desk and out of the sight of teachers and fellow pupils.\n\n\"If a child is going to fidget, they're going to fidget, there's nothing you can do to stop them,\" she said.\n\n\"But these fidget toys are one way of allowing them to fidget without the disruption of the tapping pencils fidgeting, or the tapping feet.\n\n\"It's a much less disruptive way to channel their energies into something else while the teaching is going on. \"\n\nThe fidget spinners were originally developed to help children with ADHD and autism\n\nThere are a range of so-called \"fidget toys\", including this cube device\n\nDr Amanda Gummer, a child psychologist, said the craze was helping to de-stigmatise a toy that was previously only used by children with additional needs.\n\nThe fidget toy phenomenon is one that is sweeping the world, not just the UK, according to Richard Gottlieb, founder of US-based consultancy Global Toy Experts.\n\n\"It's spreading globally...and rapidly,\" he said.\n\nThey are not just confined to the playground however. Adults are also increasingly turning to fidget toys. So what is their appeal?\n\n\"I think its the need to fidget manually,\" said Mr Gottlieb.\n\n\"That's why some people smoke, others squeeze a rubber ball and even Captain Queeg in the movie the Caine Mutiny manipulated two steel balls in his hand whenever he got worked up.\n\n\"I think people in general are pretty stressed out right now by Brexit, the various elections, Donald Trump, Syria, North Korea....you name it.\n\n\"So, it is a good time to be selling something that allows an individual to fidget off some stress - particularly at a time when smoking is looked down on.\"\n\nHe believes the playground craze has been fuelled by a generation of stressed-out children.\n\n\"Typically there are people who are influencers, and they can be anything from the coolest kid on the playground to the coolest person in the office, that by simply using a product cause others to do so as well,\" he said.\n\n\"In this case, however, it took off like crazy and I think it is, again, because adults are anxious but, at least in the US, kids are anxious as well.\n\n\"There is just way too much much pressure from parents, too much school work and too much time engaged in adult supervised activities.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe EFL has written to Huddersfield to \"request their observations regarding team selection\" for Saturday's 2-0 defeat by Birmingham City.\n\nThe Terriers made 10 changes for the trip to St Andrew's having sealed a Championship play-off place, but the EFL said the result would stand.\n\nRovers, who occupy the final relegation place, are two points behind Harry Redknapp's Blues with one game to play.\n\nThe EFL said in a statement: \"We have today written to Huddersfield Town to request their observations in relation to team selection during their recent Championship match with Birmingham City and, as per our regulations, the EFL executive will refer the matter to the board if it is deemed appropriate to do so.\n\n\"It should be noted, however, that the result of Saturday's game will stand in all circumstances and any potential action would be taken against Huddersfield Town directly.\"\n\nBlackpool and Wolves were fined for fielding much-changed teams in Premier League matches in 2010 and 2009 respectively.", "We are profiling each of the five nominees for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017 award. Voting has now closed but you can see all the contenders' profiles and read full terms here. The winner will be revealed on Tuesday, 30 May, during Sport Today on BBC World Service from 18:30 GMT (19:30 BST).\n\nOnly one player scored more goals than Cristiano Ronaldo in Uefa competitions last year - BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017 nominee Ada Hegerberg.\n\nThe Olympique Lyonnais striker netted 18 compared to Real Madrid forward Ronaldo's 17 in 2016, and played a significant role in her French club's treble-winning season.\n\nThe Norway international scored the opening goal in the Champions League final against German side Wolfsburg and achieved her dream of lifting the trophy when they won 4-3 on penalties, adding the European crown to their Couple de France and Division One titles.\n\n\"It doesn't come after one summer of hard work or one year - I think it's been something I've been working on since I was a little kid, but now I see the results,\" said the 21-year-old, who scored 13 goals in the Champions League and 33 goals in the league last season.\n\n\"It's hard to do another season like that. I need to improve and that's what I'm working on, I have the hunger to keep scoring goals.\"\n\nShe was voted Uefa Best Women's Player in Europe for 2016 and became the first female winner in 20 years of Norway's Golden Ball award for the country's best footballer.\n\nFootball is something that has always been in the family for Hegerberg.\n\n\"I remember growing up and those Champions League nights, making tacos and sitting down with the whole crew [family] - I got a lot of good memories,\" she said.\n\n\"I liked [former Arsenal striker] Thierry Henry a lot, I used to watch Arsenal. I found him such a fantastic player - he could finish from every angle when he had the ball at his feet, he was a complete player.\"\n\nSince making her top-flight Norwegian debut for Kolbotn at the age of 15, Hegerberg has been making an impression.\n\nShe finished top scorer in 2011, leading to a move to Norwegian club Stabaek along with her sister Andrine, 23.\n\nThey won the Norwegian Cup 4-0 against Roa with Ada scoring a hat-trick in the final and she finished the league's top scorer on 25 goals.\n\nThat success earned the two Hegerbergs a move to Germany's Turbine Potsdam.\n\nAda says having her sister, who now plays for Birmingham City, alongside her through her career and at international level has been a huge support.\n\n\"We've always been tough with each other, direct and honest - that's the kind of relationship we have and it's made us really close,\" she said.\n\n\"She was the one dragging me out to play when I was younger and if it wasn't for her I wouldn't have the competition feeling between us and she has always been a role model.\"\n\nThe move to Turbine Potsdam proved to be an instant success for Ada, who scored on her Frauen Bundesliga debut against Freiburg and she helped guide the club to a second-place finish in 2012-13.\n\nShe caught the eye of arguably the biggest club in Europe, signing for Olympique Lyonnais in 2014.\n\nTwo Division One titles, a Champions League and two Coupe de France trophies followed. With an array of awards already, will the BBC trophy be added next to her cabinet?\n\nWhy vote for me?\n\n\"It's a huge honour to be nominated. I'm a winner of the Treble, didn't compete in the Olympics though [as Norway didn't qualify]. It's up to the people to decide. I've got my focus on becoming a better player now, but the Champions League victory speaks for itself.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic says he feels \"fixed and stronger\" following a successful knee operation in the United States.\n\nIbrahimovic, 35, suffered cruciate knee-ligament damage in a Europa League win over Anderlecht on 20 April.\n\nThe former Sweden forward thanked fans for their support after the surgery.\n\nHis agent Mino Raiola said United's top scorer would make a \"full recovery\", adding that the injury was not career-threatening.\n\nIbrahimovic, who scored 28 goals this season, will now begin rehabilitation in Pittsburgh.\n\nHe joined the Premier League side on a one-year deal from French champions Paris St-Germain last summer, but has yet to agree a contract extension at Old Trafford.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nMark Selby defended his World Championship title with a stunning comeback to beat John Higgins 18-15 and secure his third crown in four years.\n\nSelby, 33, had trailed 10-4 but claimed nine out of 10 frames to lead 13-11.\n\nHiggins had a mini revival helped by a contentious refereeing decision, but Selby kept his composure to win.\n\nThe world number one is only the fourth player after Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan to claim back-to-back titles in the modern era.\n\nThe Englishman picks up a record £375,000 in prize money, retains the top ranking spot for the 116th consecutive week and gains revenge for the defeat by Higgins in the 2007 final.\n\nNo player had come back to win from a greater deficit than six frames in a World Championship final since Dennis Taylor trailed Steve Davis by 8-0 and 9-1 in their 1985 classic.\n\n\"I can't believe it, I am still pinching myself now,\" said Selby. \"From 10-4 to get to 10-7 yesterday, I was over the moon as I had nothing left. He outplayed me yesterday. Today I came back fresh and was a lot better.\n\n\"When I was 10-4 down I was missing everything and had nothing left. I said 'pull something together'. If you lose, you want to at least go down fighting.\n\n\"To have three world titles is unbelievable and to be one of only four players to defend it is something I could only dream of.\"\n• None How Selby turned the match around\n\nSelby was 47-0 up in the 31st frame, and leading 16-14 on frames, when he potted a red before attempting to roll up to the black ball. It was unclear whether the balls touched and referee Jan Verhaas called a foul.\n\nSelby questioned the decision and score marker Brendan Moore checked the incident on a TV.\n\nThe decision was reversed but Moore looked at it from another angle and said he was not sure.\n\nVerhaas then said, \"If you are not sure, I will stick to the original decision\" and the foul stood.\n\nHiggins took the frame and went just one behind at 16-15, but Selby took the last two he required.\n\nLeicester player Selby was out of sorts during Sunday's play at the Crucible, missing straightforward opportunities in the reds to hand his opponent the initiative.\n\nBut the 33-year-old, who was named 'The Torturer' by Ronnie O'Sullivan for his gritty victory in 2014 from 10-5 behind, showed similar uncompromising characteristics with a ruthless display.\n\nThe third session was the turning point, a slow, turgid affair when he won six out of the seven frames to hold the advantage by two frames.\n\nIn the final session, the pre-match favourite made breaks of 71, 70 and a 131 clearance following the contentious call in the 31st frame.\n\nSelby also matches the record of five ranking titles in a season, previously achieved by Hendry in 1990/91 and Ding Junhui in 2013/14, and now has 12 in total.\n\nA dreadful collapse for Higgins means he missed out on moving into second place on his own in the list of most ranking titles won and remains one behind O'Sullivan's five world victories.\n\nHaving come through a comfortable semi-final against Barry Hawkins, he was initially at ease against Selby, stroking in a 141 break which equalled O'Sullivan's effort in 2012 as the best break recorded in a World Championship final.\n\nI'm proud of myself but he was too good on the day\n\nBut the 41-year-old lost his way on the final day, and late breaks of 88 and 111 were not enough, as he was left frustrated by his rival's dogged performance.\n\nThe four-time champion has now lost two finals, but his run moves him up to second in the world rankings behind his opponent.\n\n\"Mark is granite, just granite,\" said Higgins. \"In the second session I had my chances, I missed a pink into the middle and I could have gone 9-3 ahead.\n\n\"That was a big, big frame. Mark cleared up under extreme pressure. He is a fantastic champion.\n\n\"It has been an unbelievable tournament, I gave everything. I came up short to a great champion. I'm proud of myself but he was too good on the day.\"\n\nWhen we look at the quality of players that are potential winners here, to think there is a dominant character forcing his way through is amazing.\n\nSelby is an exceptional player and exceptional match player. It is going to take some young player coming through who takes every part of his game and becomes stronger to knock him off his perch.\n\nWe're close to the ceiling of performance now.\n\nSign up to My Sport to follow snooker news and reports on the BBC app.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How the BBC covered this day 20 years ago\n\nOn Monday, it was 20 years to the day that Tony Blair won a landslide general election victory for Labour - how did he change the country and what is left of his legacy?\n\n\"A new dawn has broken, has it not?\"\n\nWith these words, spoken to a cheering crowd of supporters as the sun rose over London's South Bank, Tony Blair ushered in the first Labour government in 18 years.\n\nIt was a typically snappy Blair phrase, yet also slightly hesitant, as if he could not quite believe what he had just done.\n\nBlair was, by all accounts, a nervy companion on election night, refusing to believe he was on course to a stunning victory even as it was becoming obvious to all around him.\n\nHe did not share the euphoric mood of supporters. \"I was scared,\" he later wrote in his memoirs.\n\nIt was a Labour landslide of historic proportions, handing Blair a Commons majority of 179, although the collapse in the Tory vote made it appear more dramatic. John Major's Conservatives had won more votes in 1992 - 14,093,007 - than Blair's 1997 total of 13,518,167.\n\nBut none of that mattered to the ecstatic crowd at the Royal Festival Hall, as Blair sketched out, in vague but confident terms, his vision of a modern, united country fit for a new millennium. A country for the \"many not the few\".\n\nIt is striking now to hear how much of his eight-minute speech was directed at the party's old guard.\n\n\"We have been elected as New Labour and we will govern as New Labour,\" he told his audience, as a warning shot across the bows of those who had opposed his \"modernisation\" of the party every step of the way.\n\nBlair came to power at a time of almost giddy optimism, in contrast with what was to come. The end of the Cold War and booming economies in the West, driven by advances in technology, created a brief window where peace, stability and rising living standards looked like they might become the norm.\n\nBritain was in the middle of a pop culture revival, built around swaggering self-confidence and semi-ironic celebrations of Britishness. The Union Jack was back - on Noel Gallagher's guitar and Geri Halliwell's mini dress at that year's Brit awards.\n\nThe Cross of St George had also been rehabilitated, as a new breed of middle class football fan cheered England to the semi-finals of the Euro 96 tournament.\n\nBlair rode the \"Cool Britannia\" wave for all it was worth. At 43, the former lead singer of Ugly Rumours - his student band - badly wanted to be seen as the first rock and roll prime minister.\n\nAnd for the briefest of moments, it seemed to work, as he played host to the stars of Britain's \"creative industries\" at a Downing Street reception weeks after taking office.\n\nThe voting public might have bought into New Labour's blend of Thatcherite free market economics and social justice, but it never had very deep roots in the Labour Party itself.\n\nIt was the product of a tight-knit group headed by Blair, Gordon Brown, Peter Mandelson and media chief Alastair Campbell.\n\nBlair's first cabinet was a mix of old and new Labour figures (although the hard left was banished to the wilderness).\n\n\"Traditional values in a modern setting\", as John Prescott, a man who straddled the new/old divide with more agility than he was often given credit for, would say with a knowing smirk.\n\nThey were a diverse bunch - with more women than had ever sat in a British cabinet before and the first openly gay cabinet minister, Chris Smith.\n\nThere were some big hitters, such as Robin Cook at the Foreign Office and Jack Straw at the Home Office, even though very few - including Blair himself - had ever sat behind a ministerial desk before.\n\nAnd it quickly became clear that only Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown really mattered when it came to the big decisions. But rather like Oasis's Gallagher brothers, their successes were quickly followed by growing stories about their rivalry.\n\nBut despite their increasingly fractious relationship - the TBGBs as they became known - there was no official split as they dominated Britain's political landscape for the next decade.\n\nMinisters seemed to come and go with dizzying speed, as the cabinet reshuffle became Blair's signature move, but the Blair/Brown axis somehow stayed in place.\n\nTwenty years on and only three MPs - Harriet Harman, Margaret Beckett and Nick Brown - from that first Cabinet line-up are still in the Commons.\n\nMo Mowlam, Donald Dewar and Robin Cook are no longer with us. Most of the rest, including the now Lord Prescott, Alistair Darling and David Blunkett, have taken up seats in the House of Lords.\n\nDid they achieve what they set out to do?\n\nThe Blair government came to power on the back of relatively modest proposals on a pledge card brandished relentlessly through the 1997 election campaign. They were cutting class sizes, \"fast track\" punishment for young offenders, cutting NHS waiting lists, getting 250,000 under-25-year-olds \"off benefit and into work\" and \"no rise in income tax rates\".\n\nBut the new government did not lack ambition.\n\nLabour's 1997 manifesto also included a minimum wage and plans for devolved government in Scotland and Wales.\n\nAnd on the day after their election victory, Gordon Brown surprised everyone by handing control of interest rates to the Bank of England - a move that would have far-reaching consequences for the economy.\n\nBlair was also determined, like many a prime minister before and since, to fix some of the country's longstanding social problems.\n\nOne of his top priorities was reform of the UK's social security system to make work pay. He appointed Labour MP Frank Field to \"think the unthinkable\" on welfare and promptly sacked him when he did just that (although it was Field's falling out with his boss Harriet Harman that probably sealed his fate).\n\nTwenty years on and welfare reform remains a work in progress.\n\nThe gap between rich and poor remained more or less the same during the Blair years, according to analysis by the Resolution Foundation, although there was a big increase in pay at the top end of the income scale.\n\nEducation was Blair's other top priority. He oversaw a big expansion in higher and further education, and poured money into early years learning, as well as pioneering academy schools.\n\nHis first term was characterised by caution on tax and public spending, thanks to Labour's commitment to stick to tight Conservative spending limits for the first two years.\n\nThat changed after the party's second landslide election victory in 2001, when billions began to pour into the health service and education, on the back of a booming economy. Outcomes improved as a result.\n\nBut perhaps the biggest change that happened to Britain during his time in power was never explicitly spelled out in a Labour manifesto.\n\nThe UK, Sweden and the Republic of Ireland were the only EU nations not to temporarily restrict the rights of people from eight new member countries, including Poland and the Czech Republic, to live and work in their countries.\n\nBlair's 2004 decision to open the door to East European migration was entirely in keeping with his values as an ardent pro-European, who had championed the eastward expansion of the EU and who believed globalisation and flexible labour markets were the answer to industrial decline.\n\nThe plentiful supply of cheap labour arguably helped the UK economy to expand without facing the issue of spiralling wages - and this in turn held inflation and interest rates down, contributing to a decade-long boom in property prices, adding to the feelgood factor among middle income home owners, even if fewer people could afford to get on the property ladder in the first place.\n\nBut it also sowed the seeds of discontent in Labour's heartlands, as growing numbers felt left behind and marginalised by the pace of change in their communities, and a growing anti-EU feeling began to take hold.\n\nIn 2003, Blair had drawn on every last ounce of his persuasive skill to make the case for joining the US-led invasion to MPs and the wider public.\n\nHe had become convinced of the value of military action in pursuit of humanitarian aims and the need to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the US, in the wake of 11 September, 2001.\n\nBut the subsequent failure to find weapons of mass destruction appeared to confirm many people's worst suspicions about him - that he relied too much on spin and was not to be trusted.\n\nIt did not prevent him from winning a third term, in 2005, but he was forced to hand over to Gordon Brown earlier than he had wanted, in 2007. Like Mrs Thatcher in 1990, he had won three elections but ended up being forced out by his own side.\n\nThe years that followed were not kind, as the incoming Brown administration, and the Ed Miliband Labour team that followed seemed to do their best to talk down the Blair years - and then there was the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war, as well as the ongoing consequences of the invasion, for the region and global security as a whole.\n\nBlair's supporters point to his domestic achievements - the minimum wage and all the new schools, hospitals and Sure Start children's centres that were built during his time in power - and they insist that his reputation will one day recover.\n\nBut with Britain on its way out of the European Union, and the Labour Party back in the hands of the left, it seems like much of what Blair stood for has been swept away.\n\nHis centrist brand of politics, characterised as the Third Way, a philosophy shared by his friend and political soulmate Bill Clinton, has fallen out of fashion in many Western countries and even Blair's style of politics, with its rigid emphasis on \"message discipline\", looks antiquated in the more freewheeling age of social media.\n\nAnd despite winning three general elections, with big majorities, making him Labour's most electorally successful leader, his name has become a dirty word among many current active party members, guaranteed to generate boos and cat calls when it comes up at meetings.\n\nIt is very far from the future he must have imagined for himself on that cloudless spring morning in May 1997.\n\nYet Blair's supporters claim that his vision of a self-consciously modern, multicultural, socially liberal country, has endured - and that David Cameron's six years in government were shaped by it.\n\nIt is there in the Conservatives' commitments on foreign aid and promotion of gay rights, they say, as well as Britain's continued commitment to a health service free at the point of delivery, funded by taxation.\n\nAnd, at 63, the man himself is still in the game.\n\nHe has ditched his business interests - that had generated so much negative publicity for him - to work full time on promoting moderate, centrist policy solutions, fighting battles that 20 years ago he must have hoped would have been won by now.", "World number one Mark Selby says he cannot believe he has joined snooker's greats by claiming back-to-back World Championship titles at the Crucible.\n\nSelby, 33, became only the fourth player after Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan to retain their crown in the modern era.\n\n\"I'm speechless to be in that group, wow,\" he told BBC Sport after fighting back to beat John Higgins 18-15.\n\n\"I still cannot believe I have won it for a third time.\"\n\nSelby's triumph was his fifth ranking title victory of the season and extended his stay at the top of the world rankings to a 116th consecutive week.\n\nThe resolve comes from within. You either have it in you or you don't\n\n\"I was over the moon to be coming here as defending champion. I just wanted to put up a good fight,\" he added.\n\n\"I feel I have another world title in me. At my age, I have a good five to seven years still to play at the top and it comes down to the hunger, which I still have.\"\n\nAsked how it felt to be at the top of the rankings, Selby replied: \"It is great. You look at those still playing the game like Higgins and O'Sullivan, Judd Trump and Ding Junhui, and to be above all of them is an amazing feeling.\"\n\nHe was below his best on Sunday and another world title looked in jeopardy at 10-4 down, but a run of nine out of 10 frames turned the match around on Monday.\n\nThe comeback specialist was 10-5 down against O'Sullivan in 2014, before eventually triumphing 18-14.\n\n\"In the semi-final against Ding and the final I had to dig deep to get through,\" he said.\n\n\"The resolve comes from within. You either have it in you or you don't. Some people let their head go down and give in when someone gets on top of them but I know I won't play well every match.\"\n\nHiggins, 41, made a 141 break in the final but wilted under pressure from his opponent and was unable to add to his four crowns.\n\nHe said: \"Without a shadow of a doubt, Mark will add to his tally. He could be the challenger to Stephen Hendry's seven, I really believe that. He is just granite. He is really tough to play against.\n\n\"Mark is right up there. I never played Davis in his peak but he was meant to be difficult to play against, Hendry was a different kind of player, as was Ronnie but Mark is the toughest player I have ever played.\n\n\"He will dominate for the foreseeable future. Ronnie and myself are in the 40s, we are still good players but age is catching up.\n\n\"Neil Robertson, Trump and Ding need to challenge him and watching that tonight will make them desperate to get back on the practice table.\"\n\nSelby lags four behind all-time leader Hendry in world title victories and laughed off suggestions he could reach that number.\n\nBut six-time winner Davis feels Selby is the \"dominant character\" while 1991 champion John Parrott says he is \"the whole package\".\n\nDavis said on BBC TV: \"When we look at the quality of players that are potential winners, to think there is a dominant character forcing his way through is amazing.\n\n\"Selby is an exceptional player and exceptional match player. It is going to take some young player coming through who takes every part of his game and becomes stronger to knock him off his perch.\"\n\nParrott added: \"Every facet of his game is there, his safety play is excellent, he knows when to scrap, if he wants to fight or break the balls open he can do that and his temperament is outstanding. That is his trump card above anything else.\n\n\"He is the ultimate machine when it comes to match play. The nature of this tournament - the long matches - suits his game, he gets better and stronger as it goes on.\"\n\nSelby also matches the record of five ranking titles in a season, previously achieved by Hendry in 1990/91 and Ding Junhui in 2013/14, and now has 12 in total.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEmre Can scored one of the goals of the season as Liverpool beat a poor Watford to capitalise on favourable results in the race for the Champions League.\n\nThe Reds midfielder met Lucas Leiva's delivery with a wonderful bicycle kick which flew into the top corner.\n\nWatford rarely threatened, but almost snatched a point when Sebastian Prodl smashed against the bar in injury time.\n\nLiverpool moved four points clear of Manchester United in fifth, while Watford remain 13th.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side know they will secure a top-four Premier League finish - and a return to the Champions League for the first time in three seasons - by winning their final three games.\n\nThe Merseyside club will host Southampton and relegation-threatened Middlesbrough at Anfield, either side of a trip to West Ham.\n• None Football Daily podcast - Can keeps Reds on course for top four\n\nLiverpool knew they would have slipped out of the top four before kick-off at Vicarage Road had their nearest challengers all won over the weekend.\n\nBut the Reds watched as Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal and Everton failed to crank up the pressure as they each dropped points.\n\nIt meant Liverpool's slender advantage remained intact - which even Klopp admitted he was surprised about before kick-off.\n\nThe German manager also stressed their rivals slipping up meant nothing if his side did not win their own games.\n\nThat they did, despite lacking fluency in a scrappy performance.\n\nFor much of a drab first half, during which forward Philippe Coutinho went off injured and was replaced by the returning Adam Lallana, the Reds rarely looked like threatening an organised Watford side.\n\nLallana, who had missed the previous five matches with a thigh injury, did clatter the crossbar with a wonderful volley after Hornets keeper Heurelho Gomes' poor punch.\n\nHowever, that was soon surpassed by fellow midfielder Can.\n\n\"It was a massive win,\" said England international Lallana. \"We have three games left now and it is in our hands. We must stay focused.\"\n\n'You bet he Can!'\n\nReds midfielder Can illuminated what had been an insipid opening 45 minutes with a moment of inspiration shortly before the break.\n\nThe Germany international, 23, carefully eyeballed Lucas' pinpoint diagonal pass into the Watford area, showing extraordinary athleticism to meet the delivery with a perfectly executed bicycle kick which left Gomes stranded.\n\nCan immediately raced towards the away dugout where he was mobbed by ecstatic team-mates and manager Klopp.\n\n\"That is the best goal I've ever scored,\" he said.\n\n\"I saw the space and I ran behind and my first thought was I wanted to head it, then I didn't think too much.\"\n\nTeam-mate Lallana added: \"It was a worldy goal and worthy of winning any game.\"\n\nHornets lack sting as they aim to better last season\n\nWatford midfielder Tom Cleverley warned Liverpool before kick-off that his side would still have \"a big say\" in the battle at the top of the table, with Walter Mazzarri's team rounding off their season with games against Manchester City, Chelsea and Everton.\n\nTheir priority is eclipsing the 13th-place finish and total of 45 points they secured in their top-flight return last year.\n\nAnd Hornets skipper Troy Deeney said he \"expected a reaction\" after a tame defeat at Hull in their previous game. However, that failed to materialise.\n\nWatford, for all their defensive resilience and organisation, offered little attacking spark as Liverpool controlled possession and territory before half-time.\n\nThe home side improved after the break as Etienne Capoue and Daryl Janmaat finally forced Reds keeper Mignolet into serious saves, before their best chance arrived in the final few seconds.\n\nLiverpool, as they have done often this season, failed to deal with a set-piece into their box as Prodl met a flick-on with a fierce strike that cannoned back off the bar.\n\nDespite their limp performance and daunting run-in, Watford are unlikely to be dragged into the relegation battle.\n\nMazzarri's side remain on 40 points - usually considered the benchmark for survival - eight above third-bottom Swansea who only have three games left.\n\nMan of the match - Emre Can (Liverpool)\n\nWatford go to defending champions Leicester City on Saturday (15:00 BST) as their tough run-in continues, while Liverpool host ninth-placed Southampton on Sunday (13:30).\n• None Emre Can has scored five Premier League goals this season, more than twice as many as in his previous two campaigns combined.\n• None Lucas Leiva has three assists in his past five Premier League appearances, as many as in his previous 163 top-flight games.\n• None Liverpool have won three consecutive Premier League away games under Jurgen Klopp for only the second time.\n• None Liverpool skipper James Milner made his 450th Premier League appearance in this game, the 22nd player to reach this mark.\n• None Klopp named the same Liverpool starting XI for the third consecutive Premier League game, something he had only done once before, in December.\n• None Liverpool have scored 16 goals in the 15 minutes before half-time in league games this season, more than any other side, while Watford have shipped the most in this period (17).\n• None Watford conceded for the first time in four Premier League home games.\n• None Watford's opponents have hit the woodwork 20 times in the Premier League this season, more than any other side.\n\n\"I think that if you look at all of the Liverpool games that they play, they usually create five or six clear chances.\n\n\"We didn't concede them almost anything and had a couple of chances so overall it was a good performance.\n\n\"Usually I don't like to speak about luck but today we were completely unlucky.\n\n\"We have pressure and it means you fight for something that is good. It is positive pressure. We want to stay focused.\n\n\"We don't expect for a second it will be easy to reach the Champions League. If people think we have the three points against Southampton they can not have seen Southampton this season.\n\n\"We didn't play perfect against Watford and a draw would have been hard to accept, but we got the three points and that is all that the lads deserved.\"\n• None Isaac Success (Watford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Sebastian Prödl (Watford) hits the bar with a left footed shot from the left side of the box. Assisted by Stefano Okaka with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Daryl Janmaat (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Tom Cleverley with a cross.\n• None Offside, Watford. Daryl Janmaat tries a through ball, but Stefano Okaka is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Joel Matip (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum.\n• None Offside, Watford. Tom Cleverley tries a through ball, but Troy Deeney is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Watford. Tom Cleverley tries a through ball, but Adrian Mariappa is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "What will happen for the rest of Trump's presidency? You might as well ask a Magic Eight ball\n\nThe first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency are now behind him. Time for a deep breath, a quick review and then a look ahead.\n\nAs I explained last week, the results so far are decidedly mixed. While there has been a paucity of legislative achievements, Mr Trump has notched some successes through executive action, particularly in the realm of immigration enforcement and regulatory rollback.\n\nHe's also already made his mark on the Supreme Court, although that's more a reflection of the circumstances of inheriting an open seat (thanks to Republican intransigence last year) rather than any particular accomplishment on the part of the president.\n\nWhile the 100-day mark has garnered a significant amount of attention from the media and the White House itself, it represents just a fraction of his first term.\n\nMr Trump still has more than 1,350 days ahead of him. The story of roughly 90% of his presidency has yet to be written. Whether Mr Trump is deemed a success or failure as president, and if he has hopes of winning a second term in office, will be determined over the coming months and years.\n\nBut what happens next? Given what we've seen over the past 100 days, anything could be possible. Sometimes it feels like a Magic 8-ball would be just as good at making predictions.\n\nWhen asked about the White House's tax cut plan, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said it \"is all about jobs, jobs, jobs\". When it comes right down to it, jobs - and the economy writ large - will be the defining issue of the Trump presidency.\n\nWith the 2008 Great Recession still casting a long shadow over the American conscience, Mr Trump's voters flocked to him in large part because he promised economic growth and financial security, particularly for many of the white working class voters who are still recovering from the last downturn.\n\nAs with many of his campaign promises, Mr Trump has set a very high bar for his administration to meet, repeatedly pledging an annual 4% economic growth rate that is well above current trend lines.\n\nMr Trump inherited an economy that was stable, with low unemployment and steady if unspectacular growth. Over the course of his first 100 days in office, the US stock market has flourished and consumer confidence increased, but the recently announced economic growth rate - 0.7% for the first quarter of 2017 - may signal an uncertain future.\n\nIn the end, Mr Trump's presidency, and all his trade, tax and regulatory policies, will be judged on what it does for the nation's bottom line - not just for Wall Street, but for average Americans as well.\n\nCan he win? Presidents invariable get more credit, and blame, for the nation's financial health than they deserve, given that policy decisions can be greatly outweighed by macroeconomic factors beyond their control. Four years is a long time, but Mr Trump is starting from a solid position, tilting the odds in his favour.\n\nPresidents have broad authority over immigration policy, and Mr Trump hasn't shied away from using it. Two of his most high-profile moves, however, have been stalled in the courts. His second effort to impose a temporary moratorium on refugee resettlement and a ban on entry into the US for citizens of six predominantly Muslim nations is set to be heard by the Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals later this month.\n\nIn addition, his executive order instructing the federal government to withhold funds from municipalities that do not fully co-operate with immigration officials - so-called \"sanctuary cities\" - was derailed by a district court judge in California last week.\n\nThere's also the continuing battle over how to construct Mr Trump's promised wall along the US-Mexico border. It looked like the administration would make appropriating funds a condition of recently concluded budget negotiations, but the White House has since retreated from that position and appears willing to fight that particular battle in the autumn budget discussions, instead.\n\nAs a candidate Mr Trump also pledged to reform legal immigration, reducing the number of new arrivals, changing the types of individuals who are granted priority and restructuring the work visa programme, which could affect visas for high-skilled workers.\n\nCan he win? The president has the power and the obvious desire to exercise it - and a conservative-dominated Supreme Court will be the final arbiter of the legality of his actions.\n\nOne of the most remarkable characteristics of the Trump presidency has been how slowly the White House is filling out its administration.\n\nWhile Mr Trump relentlessly bashed Senate Democrats for what he (mistakenly) perceived as unprecedented foot-dragging in confirming his cabinet picks, he has been even tardier in appointing lower-level positions. Under secretaries, deputies and ambassadors may not get much national attention, but they are largely responsible for the day-to-day grind of running agencies and departments and representing the US in embassies abroad.\n\nSome of this may be by intent. An understaffed bureaucracy is less able to defend itself against proposed budget cuts, and the Trump administration appears set on diminishing the influence of career employees at the State Department. In other areas, such as economic, social and trade policy, however, the lack of staffing has limited the administration's ability to move toward its goals.\n\nCan he win? Sure he can - it's just a matter of giving a list of names to Congress. Sometimes, however, it seems like he'd rather have chaos.\n\nMr Trump campaigned on making a significant shift in US foreign policy - putting \"America first\". Now, however, his administration faces two potential international flashpoints that could challenge the president's stated desire to avoid global entanglements.\n\nAs a result of the US missile strike on a Syrian government airfield, the US has committed itself to punishing violations of international law - particularly the use of chemical weapons - in that nation's civil war. If Syrian President Basahr al-Assad decides to act against his civilian population again, Mr Trump will face pressure for a military response that goes beyond a ship-based missile strike.\n\nMeanwhile, the situation over North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes continues to grow tense. \"The era of 'strategic patience' is over,\" Vice-President Mike Pence recently said, referencing the stated policy of the Obama administration. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, however, seems undeterred - and could respond to a US strike with a massive attack on South Korea, whose capital, Seoul, lies 55km from the demilitarised zone.\n\nIn both Syria and North Korea, the president could be faced with the choice of either escalation to back up his sharpening rhetoric or the perception that his threats are hollow.\n\nThen there are the foreign policy crises we don't see coming. Ukraine, Yemen, Afghanistan and the South China Sea ... there's no telling where Mr Trump could face his most daunting challenge.\n\nCan he win? Mr Trump has been all over the map so far as president, sabre-rattling at some nations and shrugging at others.\n\nMr Trump talked a tough game on trade issues as a candidate, and he'll have opportunities in the coming days to back that up.\n\nRecent disputes with Canada over soft lumber and dairy products appear to be a prelude to contentious Nafta renegotiations. On Thursday Mr Trump told reporters had been days away from ordering a withdrawal from the \"horrible\" trade deal, but changed his mind after conversations with leaders of Mexico and Canada.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dairy wars: Why is Trump threatening Canada over milk?\n\nIn an ironic twist, some of Mr Trump's trade concerns - such as dairy exports to Canada - would have been addressed by the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement he abandoned early in his presidency.\n\nChina was another punching bag for Mr Trump during campaign, but the president has considerably softened his tone. There's certainly no indication of an impending economic showdown with the US's largest trading partner at this point.\n\nCan he win? With China apparently off the table, he'll have to find a way to get his \"better deal\" through Nafta renegotiations - which will be long and complex.\n\nThere's at least a glimmer of hope that a deal on repealing and replacing Obamacare could be reached in the House of Representatives soon. Whatever they come up with, however, will face an even bigger hurdle in the Senate, where numerous Republicans are opposed to portions of the House proposal.\n\nTax reform - Mr Trump's next big legislative priority - is in its early stages, and given the vagueness of the administration's proposal so far, it appears congressional Republicans will once again have to do the heavy lifting on policy. That didn't work out too well with healthcare.\n\nThen there are the Trump campaign promises on infrastructure spending and new childcare benefits. Both areas could prove fertile ground for bipartisan co-operation - at least, if Democrats can be coaxed to the negotiating table after the president has spent his first 100 days relentlessly bashing them.\n\nIn some alternate universe, Mr Trump led with an infrastructure plan instead of healthcare repeal, fracturing the Democratic resistance instead of his own party. That ship, however, has sailed. He still has a Republican majority, however, and the closer it gets to the congressional elections next year, the more pressure the party will be under to come together and post some accomplishments on the board.\n\nCan he win? Republicans hold the White House and both chambers of Congress. Surely they will stumble into a legislative accomplishment at some point.\n\nAh, yes, the midterm elections. Looming on the horizon for Mr Trump and the Republican Party is voting that will take place in November 2018, with a third of the Senate seats, all of the House of Representatives and 36 governorships (Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and California, to name a few) on the ballot.\n\nTraditionally the party controlling the presidency is at a disadvantage during these elections, as the out-of-power partisans tend to be more motivated to vote and the political pendulum that brought a president to office swings the other direction. Barack Obama and the Democrats suffered significant defeats in 2010 and 2014, for instance, as did Republican George W Bush in 2006.\n\nMr Trump is at least somewhat fortunate, however, in that the Senate seats in play in 2018 largely come from states he carried handily - places like Indiana, West Virginia, Montana and Missouri. Although Republicans have a narrow, two-seat Senate majority right now, Democrats will be forced to defend many more at-risk incumbents than the Republicans.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe House of Representatives could be another matter, however. While demographics and the way in which congressional districts have been drawn favour Republicans, if Mr Trump is unpopular come 2018 and Democrats turn out in high numbers, they could pick up the 24 seats necessary to win back the lower chamber of Congress for the first time since 2010.\n\nAll this is important not only because Democratic control of even half of Congress would significantly impede Mr Trump's ability to notch any legislative accomplishments, but also because it would give Democrats a platform for more vigorous oversight of the president's actions.\n\nRecall the litany of hearings and investigations conducted by Republicans in Congress during the Obama administration. Now imagine how Democrats would gleefully sink their teeth into issues like Mr Trump's tax returns, alleged ties to Russia and possible conflicts of interest within his business empire.\n\nFor a preview of how things may turn out next year, keep an eye on gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey this November, as well as upcoming House special elections in Montana and Georgia later this spring.\n\nCan he win? History is not on the president's side. The question is likely how big a bloodbath it will be.", "British athletes who may lose their world records have received an apology from the man responsible for the controversial anti-doping proposal.\n\nPaula Radcliffe, Jonathan Edwards and Colin Jackson are among \"collateral damage\" says European Athletics taskforce chair Pierce O'Callaghan.\n\nBut he told BBC Radio 5 live: \"There is a bigger picture out there.\"\n\nAll pre-2005 records could be rewritten under the new rules, which need to be ratified by governing body, the IAAF.\n\nO'Callaghan said: \"Apologies to the athletes, we never intended to damage their reputation and legacy. It is intended to give the public belief and credibility in what they are watching in the sport.\"\n\nIt's going to affect everybody - and it lumps us all in with the cheats Read more analysis from Steve Cram, former world 1500m champion, below\n\nBut BBC athletics commentator and former world 1500m champion Steve Cram called the proposals an \"easy route out\" and \"a PR exercise\".\n\nCram set world records for the 1500m, mile and 2,000m in the space of 19 days in 1985, and still holds the European records for the latter two distances - although under the proposals those pre-2005 European records would join world records in being reset.\n\nHe added that the measures are \"not going to stop people cheating\".\n\nThe IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) has only stored blood and urine samples since 2005 and current records that do not meet the new criteria would remain on an \"all-time list\", but not be officially recognised as records if the IAAF accepts the proposal.\n\nEuropean Athletics president Hansen said he would encourage the IAAF to adopt the proposal at its August council meeting, while IAAF president Lord Coe said the changes were \"a step in the right direction\".\n• None The winners and losers if records are wiped\n\nThe world records to fall would include Edwards' triple jump mark of 18.29m - set in 1995 - and Jackson's 1994 indoor 60m hurdles world best of 7.30secs, as well as Radcliffe's marathon time of two hours 15 minutes 25 seconds, set in 2003 using two male pacemakers.\n\nO'Callaghan compared the changes to English football introducing the Premier League above the First Division in 1992 and rugby union's Five Nations becoming the Six Nations in 2000, and said the records will be \"recalibrated\".\n\n\"We hope people look at it in that vein, rather than stripping great athletes like Paula of their records,\" added O'Callaghan, who said he had spoken to Radcliffe and Edwards.\n\n\"Unfortunately Paula ran her records in a golden period that happens to be two years before the technology moved on.\n\n\"People should not look at Paula's records and throw them in with doping records - she achieved her performance, as did Jonathan, with 100% integrity.\n\n\"This is about the bigger picture of reform in athletics and ensuring the public in events like the London World Championships [in August 2017], that they can believe what they are watching.\"\n\nWhat are the taskforce's proposals?\n\nIf the proposals are accepted by the IAAF, a world or European record would only be recognised if it meets all three of the following criteria:\n• None It was achieved at a competition on a list of approved international events where the highest standards of officiating and technical equipment can be guaranteed;\n• None The athlete had been subject to an agreed number of doping control tests in the months leading up to it;\n• None The doping control sample taken after the record was stored and available for re-testing for 10 years.\n\nMore than 100 Olympic athletes who competed at the 2008 and 2012 Games have been sanctioned for doping after the International Olympic Committee embarked on a programme of retesting old samples.\n\nBut Radcliffe has called the proposals \"cowardly\" and accused the governing bodies of \"failing clean athletes\".\n\nJackson added: \"They are making excuses on why they are doing it. I think it is a wrong reason why they are doing it. We all understand the situation with doping but it is not the fault of the clean athletes.\"\n\nAnalysis - 'It lumps us in with the cheats'\n\nWe are all trying to make sure we look at ways we can improve the integrity of our sport but this smacks to me as an easy route out. There are massive issues for the sport to contend with and this, for me, is almost a PR exercise.\n\nI can't believe that if the public don't have credibility now that they are going to have it going forward. I don't think it changes much. It's very confusing for people, and it's going to affect everybody all the way down.\n\nIt lumps us all in with those cheats. It's not our fault that over the years the sport did not police itself properly. It's not our fault they didn't do their job. I don't think it's going to change anything. It's not going to stop people cheating.\n\nI was chatting with the president of European Athletics and asked \"have you thought this through?\". I am not convinced they have. All the member federations of European Athletics will have to scrap their national records because you can't have a national record quicker than the European record, and so on.\n\nPart of the worst aspect of it is that in the document that they are putting forward, they are talking about preserving the dignity of the athletes as well. It's about preserving their own dignity.\n\nIt's an easy cop out. They haven't been able to make the tough decisions. If there are records that they believe that shouldn't be on the books then they should go after those with whatever scrutiny they have can. If they can't do that, then this is their problem to deal with.\n\nWe all lose our records eventually. It's fine somebody comes along and breaks it but what is not fair is that the federation decides that is not the record any more. As a broadcaster, what do I say to the public?\n\nIn the early days, there was no drug testing, did we scrap all of those records? No. Then, drug testing was introduced and now we have tougher drug testing. That's fine, we all accept that. Maybe some things slipped through the net in the past but you can't keep drawing a line every five years.\n\nThe farcical thing they are going to end up with, is that there will still be people holding records who have had a ban - but the records they set were before the ban and those will still stand. Somebody fails a test in 2015 and then all of their performances for that period are scrapped. But if they set a record in 2012, that stays. That's silly.", "A smart collar helps Rhonda Vandermeer keep track of her English cocker spaniel Boz\n\nA missing pet poster attached to a tree or lamp-post is a sad sight, as a lost moggy or pooch is a minor tragedy in any owner's life.\n\nBut luckily for Rhonda Vandermeer, a dog breeder from North Carolina, technology means she doesn't have to worry about her furry friends ever going missing.\n\nIf she ever wants to check on the whereabouts of her five-year-old English cocker spaniel Boz, she just taps on her mobile and can see his exact location.\n\n\"He's always let off his lead and if he sees a squirrel, he's off, and I'm afraid he's going to keep running and we won't get him back,\" says Ms Vandermeer, who arranges for minders to look after her canine companions when she's away.\n\nThe Link AKC collar also pings her a notification if Boz has strayed beyond the boundaries she's set, which means she can quickly alert her local dog minders that he's escaped.\n\nThe collar also keeps track of the ambient temperature and how much exercise Boz has been doing.\n\n\"It's great for when I'm away and I can see how much exercise he does and what level of activity he's receiving a day,\" says Ms Vandermeer.\n\nBut isn't there a danger that such tech could make her a little obsessive?\n\nCould pet trackers see an end to lost pet posters?\n\n\"At first it was like a toy and I was always checking,\" she admits.\n\nAnd did the dog minders feel like they were being spied on?\n\n\"I explained the tools to them. I never wanted them to think I was checking up on them,\" she says.\n\nA smart fitness-tracking dog collar may sound like a gadget too far, but pet owners are splashing out on all kinds of gadgets to keep track of their feline and canine companions.\n\nPet tech is a booming industry, with the global market predicted to reach $2.36bn (£1.84bn) by 2022, according to Grand View Research.\n\n\"People think of their pets as a part of their family and with tech adoption growing, it makes perfect sense to innovate in this area,\" says Abhishek Sharma, analyst at market research firm Technavio.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. FitBark - one of a slew of pet tech apps hitting the market\n\nDan Makaveli, an academic tutor and director at Media Savvy, a digital training agency, uses FitBark, a bone-shaped collar sensor, to track his six-year-old doberman Diego's daily activity.\n\n\"He's well walked anyway but it gives you a little bit of an extra incentive to do it most days,\" says Mr Makaveli, who lives in Sunderland, north-east England.\n\n\"I know that by having it, it makes me determined to reach Diego's daily goal of exercise. So if he hasn't reached it and even if it's hail-stoning outside, I will take him for a run around the block.\"\n\nWith FitBark you can also sync your own fitness tracker with that of your dog's and compare results with other dogs of the same breed.\n\n\"My wife regularly syncs in with him and they can see where they are on the leaderboard,\" says Mr Makaveli.\n\nSuper-fit Diego even joined the couple when they took on Britain's Three Peaks Challenge last year.\n\nIf tracking your pet's fitness isn't enough, you can even order a 3D sculpture of it via a company such as Arty Lobster, watch it live through the Petzi Treat Cam, and organise a video conference with a vet via app-based vet practice Pawsquad.\n\nTiddles seems a little bemused by EasyPlay's new interactive pet gadget\n\nAnd if you've ever worried about your pet getting a little bored while you're out of the house, EasyPlay could be the answer. It's a ball that works as both a pet monitor and an interactive toy.\n\nControlled by a smartphone, EasyPlay - which launches in July - allows owners to watch live video of their pets, talk to them, and remotely control a treats dispenser.\n\n\"EasyPlay is designed to enhance pet health and fitness in a fun and playful way, for both cats and dogs,\" says Adam Anderson, managing director of Gosh!, EasyPlay's parent company.\n\nBut do such devices simply make it more acceptable for owners to spend less time with their pets?\n\n\"The EasyPlay was not created to replace a personal, one-on-one relationship with your pet, instead it is a device that allows you to connect while away and improve your pet's mental wellbeing,\" says Mr Anderson.\n\nIf humans can have fitness trackers, why not pets?\n\nAnd is all this tech really necessary, or just businesses being opportunistic?\n\n\"With the increasing awareness about pet health, owners around the world are more willing to spend on various types of tech to keep their pets safe,\" argues Mr Sharma.\n\n\"There has been an increase in pets being lost or stolen and hence it requires continuous monitoring to keep track of them.\"\n\nBut how about the animal itself? Are the gadgets always comfortable?\n\n\"Pets feel a little uncomfortable during the initial phase,\" says Mr Sharma. \"Having said that, it is almost like getting used to a regular collar.\"\n\nAs for the future, given the rising adoption of the internet of things and smartphones, pet tech looks set to continue flourishing.\n\nAnd for pet owners who like to keep tabs on their pets, that's just purr-fect.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nSalford Red Devils winger Justin Carney has been given an eight-match ban after being found guilty of racially abusing Toronto Wolfpack player Ryan Bailey.\n\nThe 28-year-old was sent off by referee Jack Smith in the 26th minute of the Super League club's Challenge Cup fifth-round win on 23 April.\n\nCarney pleaded guilty to an abuse charge but contested its severity.\n\nHe served the first game of his ban in the win over Widnes on Sunday, meaning he will miss a further seven games.\n\nCarney had been handed a Grade F charge, the most severe category of offence, and an eight-game suspension was the minimum punishment.\n\nSalford confirmed in a statement that Carney had pleaded guilty to a charge of misconduct for having given \"verbal abuse to an opposition player based on race/colour\".\n\nHowever, Salford said that he \"did not intend his words to be taken in a 'racial' context\".\n\n\"Justin is an indigenous Australian and is proud of his Aboriginal heritage. He stands firm on the position that he is not nor has he ever been a racist,\" added the statement.\n\nCarney, who has also been given a £300 fine, is still subject to an internal investigation by his club.\n\nMeanwhile, Hull FC back-rower Sika Manu has been banned for two games after pleading guilty to a Grade C dangerous contact charge relating to a challenge on Ryan Atkins during the Black and Whites' 34-10 win over Warrington.\n\nCatalans half-back Luke Walsh has been suspended for one match after being found guilty of a Grade A charge of using foul language to a match official, while Wigan hooker Michael McIlorum pleaded guilty to a Grade B charge of standing on a player in the defeat by Castleford and was banned for one game.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe was once a well-known racehorse, but it looked as though ill health would soon mean the end for Metro. Then his artist owner, Ron, had an unusual idea.\n\nIt's said that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. So when Ron Krajewski first introduced his horse, Metro, to an easel there was no guarantee he would paint.\n\nAfter all, this horse had been struggling with health problems since he was adopted by Ron and his wife in 2009. Metro had once been a successful racehorse - as Metro Meteor, he won eight races and $300,000 (£234,000) prize money at the prestigious Belmont Park. However, he was retired by his stable after bone chips in his knees caused permanent damage.\n\n\"We were looking for a horse Wendy could ride and were probably quite naive,\" Ron says. \"We soon discovered Metro had worse race injuries than we had bargained for.\"\n\nMetro Meteor won eight races in his career, but it took a toll on his knees\n\nMetro had months of rehab and medication. Special horse shoes helped for a time, but in 2012 X-rays revealed his knee joints were closing up. A vet said they would lock up within two years, at which point Ron and Wendy would have to put their horse down.\n\n\"I didn't just want to put him out to pasture and forget about him. I was thinking about how we could spend time together,\" Ron says.\n\nHe had noticed that his spirited horse liked to bob his head to get attention and pick things up in his mouth. A professional artist himself, Ron wondered if he could convince Metro to hold a paintbrush.\n\n\"I taught him to touch his nose to the canvas for horse treats, then to hold a paint brush,\" Ron says.\n\nMetro tackles the canvas assisted by Ron - he paints from left to right\n\n\"He could have just touched the paint brush to the canvas and then dropped it and that would have been the end of it. Luckily for us he started making up and down strokes and seemed to enjoy it.\"\n\nMetro was soon creating works that Ron judged were good enough to put on sale at a local gallery. The first four paintings sold out the week they were put on display.\n\nMetro's unbridled style has been compared to Jackson Pollock, a painter famous for his splatter and drip technique.\n\n\"Metro's brush strokes are nothing a human can make, because he doesn't think about what he will do before he does it. His strokes are thick, random and sometimes broken, which lets other colours show through. It all just vibrates on the canvas,\" Ron says.\n\nMetro's unusual ability caught the attention of local TV news in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and his story was picked up nationwide. By 2014, there were 150 people on a waiting list for his works.\n\nRon sometimes set up an easel for Metro to paint outside\n\nSales of the paintings helped fund a new experimental treatment for Metro. His vet created a technique to apply a drug called Tildren directly to his knees.\n\n\"Within a few months X-rays showed the bone growth had receded. It has added years to his life,\" Ron says.\n\nRon and Wendy keep Metro and their other horse, Pork Chop, at a stable four miles from their home. They visit them about five days a week and on two of those Ron and Metro have a painting session.\n\n\"Metro has got a little section in the barn that we call his studio. It's all set up ready for him to paint,\" Ron says.\n\n\"I did try to get Pork Chop to paint once, but he just wasn't interested.\"\n\nRon acts as both art director and assistant. He picks the colour and loads the paintbrush before handing it over. Metro then makes the strokes.\n\n\"I always stand on his left so he paints from left to right. If I hand him the brush in the upper right hand corner, that's where he will go.\"\n\nRon and Metro will work on three or four canvases at once during a 20-minute session.\n\n\"We'll spend two minutes on one canvas and then swap it for another. He tends to smear things together so we'll do some blues and then let it dry, then let's say some orange. This builds up the layers.\"\n\nMetro, who Ron says has an \"A-list extroverted personality\", is in his element at the easel.\n\n\"I can put out the easel in the field and he will stop eating grass and stand right in front of it.\n\n\"He loves to paint. I'm not sure how much he can see as horses have a blind spot right in front of their noses. I think he likes the feel of running a brush over the canvas.\"\n\nLike Metro, art wasn't Ron's first vocation. Raised in a fishing family that caught salmon in Alaska he went on to serve in the US Air Force. He became a professional artist at the age of 40.\n\n\"I mainly do pet portraits, which are very lifelike and controlled. When I paint with Metro it's the opposite. You can't predict what he's going to do when he gets the brush in his mouth. It's controlled chaos.\"\n\n\"We have different sizes that vary in price from $50 to $500. We're selling one or two a week,\" Ron says.\n\nRon and Wendy donate half of Metro's earnings to a charity called New Vocations, which retrains and rehomes former race horses. So far they have donated $80,000 (£62,000), which will have helped 50 to 60 other horses.\n\nAnd now aged 14, it seems Metro has no inclination to slow down.\n\n\"There's something about painting which really interests Metro,\" Ron says.\n\n\"I don't think he'll ever get tired of it.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Two entirely different tales emerged from dinner at Downing Street\n\nWelcome to the EU/UK dominated Brexit Galaxy of Spin and Counter-Spin. A crazy old place. The galactic atmosphere is such these days that the dimensions of truth are elastic; at times, distorted.\n\nTake the arguments this weekend over whether the Downing Street dinner last Wednesday at which Theresa May hosted European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was a complete disaster or not.\n\nNot at all, insists Downing Street.\n\nBut it was a fiasco, according to Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and thereafter hitting Twitter and headlines across the UK.\n\nIn Brussels, Politico quotes an EU diplomat saying the dinner went \"badly, really badly\". He reportedly went as far as to claim the British government was now \"living in a different galaxy\" to the EU when it came to Brexit expectations.\n\nThis all seems rather inflammatory, so who's right and who's stretching the truth?\n\nEven French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has been talking Brexit\n\nWell, in this politically volatile pre-Brexit negotiations time, ahead of elections in biggest players UK, Germany and France and with the EU as a whole fighting to appear united, relevant and strong, one has to be extremely spin-aware.\n\nFor example, German Chancellor Angela Merkel talked last week about the UK harbouring Brexit \"illusions\". And French presidential favourite Emmanuel Macron announced he would, post-Brexit, end the bilateral deal by which France keeps in Calais so-called \"illegal migrants\" attempting to cross to Dover.\n\nBut these tough-sounding comments are at least as much aimed at their domestic audience as at the British government.\n\nThat said, a high-level EU source has confirmed to me that feelings were running pretty high following the Downing Street dinner due to what he described as a huge \"asymmetry of expectations\" and a \"completely different reading\" of the Brexit situation at No 10.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May said the report was \"Brussels gossip\"\n\nHe said the British government, from their comments about negotiations, clearly had \"no good understanding of the fundamentals\" around which he said the EU was united, and which would now not be undone.\n\nThere are certainly obvious sticking points where the EU and UK do seem a galaxy or two apart:\n\nPoppycock, says a frustrated EU, to all of the above.\n\nMy source told me Mr Juncker was already vexed when he arrived at No 10 on Wednesday having only just been informed of the UK's (legally justified, but awkward) decision not sign the mid-term review of the EU's multi-annual budget until after the June elections.\n\nThe review needs unanimous approval to go ahead. It doesn't call for more cash but rather its redistribution. The EU is anxious to send money Africa-wards, for example, to halt the flow of migrants coming from there.\n\nBut the review is frozen until the UK signs it.\n\n\"They gave Juncker no warning at all and told him the night before he came to dinner,\" my source told me. \"They have no idea how Brussels works.\"\n\nAnother high-level source I spoke to attended a meeting with all the EU team present at the Downing Street dinner.\n\n\"The word 'échec' (French for 'failure') came up several times,\" he told me.\n\n\"Before that the word wasn't used very often in connection with Brexit but now we're told we have to prepare for the possibility of a failure scenario.\"\n\nWhat percentage chance of a successful outcome was being projected in EU leadership circles at the moment?\n\n\"50/50 with hopes for more clarity after the British elections are over,\" I was told.\n\nOver and again, EU diplomats insist this is no \"us against them\" situation; that there's no desire to punish Britain and that a good Brexit is in everyone's interest.\n\n\"It's in our mutual interest to correct all the misunderstandings,\" I was told today. My source was confident that Downing Street was beginning to realise that now too.\n\nOr are we still in the galaxy of spin?", "Stranger Things is one of Netflix's most successful shows\n\nChild stars have been a crucial part of Hollywood for generations, but many of them choose totally different careers in adulthood.\n\nThe second season of Netflix's hugely popular drama Stranger Things will premiere on Halloween 2017, the streaming service confirmed earlier this year.\n\nThe show stars Winona Ryder and David Harbour but also relies heavily on its cast of child actors, who play some of the main characters.\n\nThe young stars have been praised for their performances in the show, and could well have bright futures in Hollywood ahead of them.\n\nBut the glitz and glamour of the entertainment industry isn't for everyone.\n\nFor every Drew Barrymore or Jodie Foster, there are plenty of child actors who chose to go in totally different directions in their adult years.\n\nHere are six child stars who left acting behind to pursue new careers.\n\nYou might not recognise the name, but Ostrum played Charlie in the big-screen adaptation of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.\n\nThe 1971 film saw Ostrum appear alongside four other child actors as one of Willy Wonka's five golden ticket winners.\n\n\"Everybody thinks that acting is such a glamorous profession, but it's a difficult profession,\" he said after starring in the film.\n\nThat may explain why he quit acting and became a vet as an adult instead.\n\nSome of the other young actors in the film picked up a few more big screen roles in the years after the film, but nearly all drifted away from Hollywood.\n\nMichael Bollner, who played Augustus Gloop, for example, now works as an accountant in Munich.\n\nIn the 1990s, it was difficult to go to the cinema without seeing a film with Mara Wilson in it.\n\nShe starred in Miracle on 34th Street, Mrs Doubtfire, A Simple Wish and Matilda.\n\nBut then, as she entered her teenage years, the former child actress retreated from the limelight.\n\n\"I was 13 and I was awkward, and I was gawky, and I was not a very cute kid anymore,\" Wilson told The Huffington Post in 2013.\n\n\"So, Hollywood didn't really want me at that point, and I was kind of over it too. So, after a while, it feels like a mutual breakup. That's the way that I'd describe it.\"\n\nWilson is now a writer and released a book last year called Where Am I Now?\n\nShe also came out as bisexual in support of the victims of the attack on an LGBT nightclub in Orlando.\n\nHarper Lee's novel To Kill A Mockingbird was an instant literary phenomenon when it was first released in 1960, and is still considered a classic.\n\nWhen the inevitable big-screen adaptation was made, Mary Badham was hired to play the role of Scout, the young girl who serves as the book's narrator.\n\nBadham became the youngest actress ever nominated for the best supporting actress category at the Oscars after her appearance in the film (although the record was broken a decade later by the marginally younger Tatum O'Neal).\n\nShe went on to act in a few other films released in the 1960s, but then gave up on the profession for the rest of her life - with one exception.\n\nBadham was coaxed out of retirement for a minor role in one film - 2005's Our Very Own - after its director, Cameron Watson, said he wouldn't accept any other actress for the part.\n\nShe now works an art restorer and a college testing coordinator, but often writes about her experiences on Mockingbird and attended a special screening of the film with President Obama in 2012.\n\n\"When I retired, I was at an in-between age. I wasn't a child anymore, I wasn't really a woman yet and they weren't really writing scripts for that age,\" she said later that year.\n\nNot many of us can claim to have started our career at the age of three - but that's exactly what Shirley Temple did.\n\nAs a child actress, she starred in a whole host of films, including Bright Eyes, The Little Princess, Heidi and Captain January.\n\nBut in her adult years, she entered politics and public affairs, becoming a Republican fundraiser and serving three years as the United States Ambassador to (what was then known as) Czechoslovakia.\n\nShe also had a mocktail named after her - which, thank you for asking, consists of ginger ale (or lemonade) and a splash of grenadine, garnished with a maraschino cherry.\n\nWhen Temple died in 2014 at the age of 85, she left behind a remarkable legacy - no child star since has ever come close to equalling her record of being Hollywood's top box office star for four years in a row.\n\nMark Lester was just 10 years old when he was cast as Oliver in, er, Oliver.\n\nThe film adaptation of the stage musical was released in 1968 - more than 130 years after Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist was first published.\n\nLester took various roles over the following decade but decided to give up acting at the age of 19 and became an osteopath.\n\n\"Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception,\" he told The Independent.\n\nHe and Michael Jackson - who was born in the same year - were close friends, and Lester became godfather to the singer's three children.\n\nRichards took on a few small acting jobs throughout her childhood, but shot to fame playing Lex Murphy in 1993's Jurassic Park - a role she filmed when she was just 12 years old.\n\nShe briefly reprised the role for The Lost World: Jurassic Park four years later, but then took a step back from acting to focus on her art career.\n\nRichards graduated in 2001 with a degree in fine art and drama and went on to become a successful painter.\n\nBut, in 2011, she said: \"Being interested in acting never changes. Acting is in your blood, and of course I'll always be interested in it.\"\n\nWhich explains why she was briefly tempted back in 2013 for a role in TV movie Battledogs.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Scores of athletes could be stripped of their world records under new proposals from European Athletics.\n\nThe governing body only wants records to be recognised if they can stand up to strict new criteria, part of attempts to make a clean break with the sport's doping scandals.\n\nAs a result, any records set before 2005 are now at risk - almost half of the 146 men's and women's indoor and outdoor records. These include marks that have never been subject to suspicion, prompting an outcry from many of the existing record holders.\n\nSeven of the eight men's field events world records and the women's 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m marks could go.\n\nOlympic champions including Florence Griffith-Joyner, Michael Johnson, Hicham El Guerrouj and Jonathan Edwards will fall off the world record list on to an 'all-time list' if the proposals are ratified by the the sport's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), in August.\n\nMeanwhile, athletes who have competed after 2005 may soon find themselves with a 'WR' next to their name if the sport's record achievements are - in the words of IAAF chief Lord Coe - \"recalibrated\".\n\nEdwards' triple jump record of 18.29m, set in 1995, is among the long-standing records under threat.\n\nThe Olympic, world and European champion jumped into the history books at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg as he became the first man to pass the 18-metre mark. American Christian Taylor, who jumped 18.21m in August 2015, would in all likelihood be promoted to world record holder.\n\nLong-distance runner Paula Radcliffe set a world record of two hours 15 minutes 25 seconds in the 2003 London Marathon using two male pacemakers. Her record would be taken by this year's London winner Mary Keitany, who finished in 2:17:01.\n\nWelsh hurdler Colin Jackson set the indoor 60m hurdles world record of 7.30secs in 1994, and Britain can still lay claim - for now - to the 4x200m indoor relay record of 1:21.11, set in Glasgow in 1991 by a team that included Linford Christie, who won Olympic 100m gold the following year.\n\nAmerican sprinter Griffith-Joyner, also known as Flo Jo, won three gold medals at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.\n\nThe former world champion, who died aged 38 in 1998, still holds the 100m and 200m world records. She ran 10.49secs at the US Olympic trials at the University at Indianapolis in July 1988 and then two months later set the 200m world record of 21.34secs at the Games in South Korea.\n\nFellow American Carmelita Jeter would potentially move up from second on the all-time 100m list with her 2009 time of 10.64secs.\n\nThe European Athletics proposals include scrapping the records of anyone caught doping, even if the record was set outside the time period in which they were proven to be cheating. That could mean Dutch sprinter Dafne Schippers taking the new 200m record with her time of 21.63secs set in 2015. She is currently third on the list but drug cheat Marion Jones' legal time of 21.62secs from 1998 would also be removed from the books.\n\nOne of the biggest casualties from the rule change could be Moroccan middle-distance runner El Guerrouj, who stands to lose five world records.\n\nThe 42-year-old, who is a double Olympic champion and four-time world champion, is the current 1500m, one mile and 2,000m record holder.\n\nIn 1998, in Rome, El Guerrouj broke the 1500m record with a run of three minutes 26 seconds. In 1999, also in Rome, he set a new mark for the mile with a time of 3:43.13 and then later that season he set a new 2,000m record of 4:44.79 minutes in Berlin.\n\nEl Guerrouj also holds the indoor 1500m and mile world records, which he set in 1997.\n\nHis 1500m mark would go to Kenya's Olympic champion Asbel Kiprop, who would move up from third on the list with a 2015 time that was only 0.69 seconds behind El Guerrouj's record.\n\nMore dramatically, American Alan Webb could jump from eighth on the all-time list for the mile to take the record with a time from 2007 that is more than three seconds slower than El Guerrouj's mark.\n\nAustralian Craig Mottram would take the 2,000m world record with his time from 2006 of 4:50.76, despite being 10th on the all-time list.\n\nAmerican long jumper Mike Powell, a two-time world champion, set his record of 8.95m 26 years ago at the 1991 Tokyo World Championships, breaking the existing record by five centimetres - Bob Beamon's legendary leap from the Mexico City Olympics that had itself stood for 23 years.\n\nWith Powell and Beamon's jumps chalked off and nine-time gold medallist Carl Lewis' jump of 8.87m from 1991 also not eligible, the record would most likely go to another American, Dwight Phillips, who would move up from fifth with his 2009 leap of 8.74m.\n\nThree-time Olympic javelin champion Jan Zelezny, a rival of Britain's Steve Backley, threw 98.48m in Germany in 1996. His world record is still more than five metres further than the second best throw of all time. Kenya's Julius Yego currently has the third best of all time but his 92.72m throw in 2015 would be in line to take top spot under the new criteria.\n\nFour-time Olympic gold medallist Johnson has already lost his 200m world record to Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt and his 400m mark to South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk and could be about to lose a third.\n\nJohnson was part of the US team that ran a time of 2:54.39 in the 4x400m relay at the 1993 World Championships. Harry Reynolds, Andrew Valmon and Quincy Watts made up the quartet.\n\nEthiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele is a three-time Olympic and five-time world champion and also the 5,000m and 10,000m record holder. It's the former record that he might soon lose as his time of 12:37.55 was set in May 2004. It would go to countryman Dejen Gebremeskel who is fifth on the existing list with 12:46.81, nine seconds off Bekele's record.\n\nWho else could become a new record holder?\n\nAmerican Sanya Richards-Ross would take one of the most controversial records, the women's 400m. That was set in 1985 at 47.60 seconds by Marita Koch, who competed for the former East Germany.\n\nThe next four athletes on the current list, including Sydney Olympic champion Cathy Freeman, who ran her best time at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, would also be erased from the record books, leaving Richards' 48.70 as the best time. Only three other runners in the top 20 set their time after 2005 - Allyson Felix in Beijing in 2015 (49.26), Russia's Yuliya Gushchina (49.28) in 2012 and her compatriot Antonina Krivoshapka (49.16) in 2012 - and Krivoshapka was this year revealed to have tested positive for steroid turinabol during the re-examination of samples from London 2012.\n\nKevin Young is the only man to have run the 400m hurdles in under 47 seconds. His winning time of 46.78secs at the 1992 Olympics could be replaced by fellow American Kerron Clement's 47.24 set in June 2005.\n\nOnly two women have broken into the top 20 times in the women's 800m since 2005, and if Jarmila Kratochvílova of the former Czechoslovakia loses her 1983 record of 1:53.28, Kenya's Pamela Jelimo, third on the list, would be promoted with her 2008 time of 1:54.01.\n\nAmerican Jackie Joyner-Kersee's heptathlon points record of 7,291 from her Olympic gold-medal performance in Seoul in 1988 would be replaced by Carolina Kluft's 7,032 points from 2007. Britain's Jessica Ennis-Hill is currently third on the list.", "Last updated on .From the section Baseball\n\nThe Boston Red Sox have apologised to Adam Jones after the Baltimore Orioles outfielder was racially abused by fans.\n\nJones, a five-time All Star, said he had a bag of peanuts thrown at him and was taunted with racist slurs during Baltimore's 5-2 win at Fenway Park.\n\nThe Red Sox said on Tuesday that they have \"zero tolerance for such inexcusable behaviour\".\n\n\"Our entire organisation and our fans are sickened by the conduct of an ignorant few,\" their statement read.\n\nThe Red Sox said they will continue to review Monday's events, while Boston mayor Marty Walsh said the comments are \"not who we are as a city\".\n\nMajor League Baseball commissioner Robert Manfred condemned the abuse, adding that any fans behaving in an offensive fashion would be removed from the stadium and subject to further action.\n\nJones told USA Today he had suffered similar abuse at Fenway Park before, but Monday's was the worst he had experienced.\n\n\"It's unfortunate that people need to resort to those type of epithets to degrade another human being. I'm trying to make a living for myself and for my family,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Debbie Wilson went to court to win back her disability payments.\n\nThe number of people going to court to try to win back a key disability benefit is expected to continue to rise this year, a leaked letter seen by the BBC suggests. We follow one woman who took her case to tribunal.\n\nDebbie Neal was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease 10 years ago. She takes dozens of pills each morning to manage her symptoms - sickness, high blood pressure and seizures.\n\nShe may well need a transplant in future.\n\nFor the moment, she has to empty excess fluid from a tube attached to her stomach, and replace it with new liquid from a bag, five times a day.\n\n\"It is a burden,\" she tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme. \"They say, 'Don't let it affect your life,' but you can only live your life to a point.\n\n\"I can't even remember what it was like not doing it.\"\n\nFive times a day Debbie has to take in liquid via a tube in her stomach\n\nDebbie lives on her own, and works part-time as a cleaner. For years, she has relied on disability living allowance (DLA) benefit payments - worth £80 a week - to help pay the bills.\n\nBut last year a letter came in the post, saying her payments had been stopped completely.\n\nDLA is being replaced by another disability benefit scheme - the personal independence payment (Pip).\n\nDebbie's case had been reassessed by a private company and it was decided she did not need the payments.\n\n\"I was scared. I thought, 'Why are they doing it?'\" she explains.\n\n\"You sort of judge yourself differently. You think, 'Well [my condition] can't be that bad then.'\n\n\"But they can't be right when I'm doing this all the time,\" she says, sitting connected to the bag of fluids.\n\n\"I mean, do they have to do it? How much would it disrupt their life?\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.\n\nThe government says overall it is spending more on disability benefits, and that Pip is a better system based on individual need than the \"outdated\" DLA scheme it replaced.\n\nOfficial figures show more than 250,000 people have lost money in the switch from DLA, some with incurable diseases.\n\nDebbie had been given an indefinite, or \"life\", payment under the old system.\n\nAfter failing to get her case reviewed, she decided to go to a tribunal - in court - to ask a judge to overturn the decision.\n\nThe number of people taking the government to court over Pip has risen sharply in recent years as more people were switched to the new benefit.\n\nThe Victoria Derbyshire programme has seen a leaked letter to tribunal judges - from a senior judge working on benefit tribunals - suggesting the number is expected to increase again this summer.\n\nAround 65% of people who take their case to tribunal are successful, higher than for most other types of benefit.\n\nWhen Debbie's case was heard at Kidderminster Magistrates' Court, she was questioned for around an hour in front of a panel including a judge, a doctor and a disability specialist.\n\nDebbie was awarded the standard daily living element of Pip for 10 years - an unusually long period of time without reassessment. Any money she had lost was backdated.\n\nNew figures seen by the Victoria Derbyshire programme suggest the amount of public money spent on Pip tribunals stands at around £1m a week.\n\nJudges and others who sit on tribunals can lose their jobs if they speak to the media, but some were prepared to talk on the condition of anonymity.\n\n\"As a tribunal member we often have to start again when it comes to appeals,\" said one.\n\n\"We often see people who get nothing at all in the first assessment. Then we end up giving the maximum award possible and just can't understand [the original decision].\n\n\"It's pretty obvious assessors are rushed and they are just copying and pasting answers.\n\n\"Sometimes they don't even change the pronouns, so you get a woman being described as 'he' in the assessment document.\n\n\"Not all are like that but the problem is, if some can't be trusted, then it taints the whole system.\"\n\nThe government says since Pip was introduced, more than 2 million decisions have been made - of these 7% of cases have been appealed against and 3% overturned.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Work and Pensions said: \"We constantly review our processes to make sure they are working in the best way possible.\"\n\nFor Debbie, the whole experience was stressful and nerve-racking, as she puts it, but ultimately she feels it was worthwhile.\n\n\"For people who are out there, who are honest and who need the help, just don't give up,\" she says.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel."], "link": ["http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39973940", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39938621", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39992606", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39991312", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/39938150", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/39994586", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39991889", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39912029", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/39988462", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39986445", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39911911", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39927255", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39938520", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39991691", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/39990095", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39956306", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39994392", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39900449", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-39989028", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39874507", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39994827", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39994117", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39926301", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/39602619", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39781954", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/39787909", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39792319", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-39478462", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39785177", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39799856", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/39789773", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/041d5177-b5cb-49c4-bb27-dcb652806c0d?intc_type=promo&intc_location=news&intc_campaign=pubswearing&intc_linkname=bbcthree_fac_article1", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39793356", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39780546", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39788306", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39797980", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39743922", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39798739", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-39778578", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39777708", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39795441", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39798344", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39792885", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39788520", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39744294", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39553682", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39633074", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39628629", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39743936", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39775102", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39774674", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/39787566", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/baseball/39785407", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39745403", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-39947080", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39946036", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/39946566", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39946833", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39858768", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-39928628", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39900362", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39946462", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39170670", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39943519", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39956418", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39949585", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39853089", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39853090", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39954093", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39949837", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39866499", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39934696", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39932614", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39949621", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39944529", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39881527", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39934986", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39883978", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39925965", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/39954489", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39922798", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39642967", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39885837", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39905241", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/triathlon/39906299", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39907064", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39883575", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39848931", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39641264", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39813773", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39827546", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-china-blog-39893359", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39857333", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39857187", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-39885095", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39875139", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39896751", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39827551", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-39728707", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39899190", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39908130", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39369429", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/39911010", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39760508", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/equestrian/39837613", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39836415", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39840233", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39833388", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39765841", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39760415", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39783319", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39838094", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39760509", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39837872", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39753913", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39760495", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39760414", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39831266", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39829616", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39832093", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39839215", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39833762", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39754033", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39839913", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39760419", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39834594", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39835844", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/0a0cb73c-a87a-4c23-8b1d-f145ab76e58b?intc_type=promo&intc_location=news&intc_campaign=phoneaddiction&intc_linkname=bbcthree_fac_article1", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39837599", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39973940", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39993984", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-china-blog-39974953", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39991517", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/39994586", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/40006994", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40000479", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40005325", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39999708", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/40004668", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39997726", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39961772", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39641856", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39999460", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39927255", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39998863", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39947171", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-39980403", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/40002255", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39994392", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39900449", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/39972058", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-39989028", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39874507", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40006920", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39999749", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39994827", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39996606", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/39984647", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39926301", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40003697", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39833968", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39911232", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39642967", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/39916515", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39912591", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39848931", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39910488", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-china-blog-39893359", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39857333", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-39885943", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39914357", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39833969", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/39916720", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39907769", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39799098", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39896751", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39827551", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39914381", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-39728707", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39890722", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39909013", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39833967", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39874943", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39915228", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/39915940", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39369429", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/39911010", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39878418", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-39855519", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-39856464", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39854555", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39848536", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39878063", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39874533", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39875134", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39869118", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39723333", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39804973", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39862110", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/39859647", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39871459", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39851733", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39012178", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39875570", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39861629", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39877009", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/39865291", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39867799", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39865860", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39874420", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39871842", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/election-2017-39839907", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39865103", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/39878886", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39870514", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39868565", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39856894", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39846999", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39865991", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39856219", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39807110", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39799256", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39743929", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39654306", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/3c6a4e42-9efd-4440-89df-647121c87452/wales-local-elections-2017", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39792319", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39801104", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/8201e79d-41c0-48f1-b15c-d7043ac30517/scotland-local-elections-2017", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39799856", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/39807545", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39812543", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39809956", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-39780214", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/39812237", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39643052", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38236484", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39798317", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39743943", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39791610", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2017", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/39810859", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39798344", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39792885", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39813093", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/42069d65-f3b1-41e2-b3e9-35ac9d799a1a/england-local-elections-2017", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39621766", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39811190", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39803888", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/659c86d1-1365-4d61-9c7c-b25e13493218?intc_type=promo&intc_location=news&intc_campaign=nevertouredtheuk&intc_linkname=bbcmusic_ent_article1", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39811756", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39743936", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-39743960", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39802501", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-39947080", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/39959770", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39959761", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39962886", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39955241", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39963445", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39964715", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39951648", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39946462", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39959232", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39170670", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39956996", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39879798", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39956418", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39252502", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39930236", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/darts/39970407", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39967123", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39879805", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39962342", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39964812", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39866499", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39959921", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39952203", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39942800", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39965464", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-39939611", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39879758", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39934696", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-39945473", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39851770", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/4bf3d321-375e-4725-8eb4-9788a1282197", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/39954489", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39835224", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39843585", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39836415", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39842638", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39836196", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39840233", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39794204", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39843214", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39809999", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39840515", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39821956", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/39834817", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39839374", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39852404", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39443187", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39851644", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39845154", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/39839666", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39838094", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39837515", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39838606", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39830727", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39848079", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39767793", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39842424", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39839215", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39836506", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39839264", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/95df04e2-b85d-43aa-b920-2a1870b197f4?intc_type=promo&intc_location=news&intc_campaign=faketerrorplottogetoutofaholiday&intc_linkname=bbcthree_fac_article1", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39784924", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39826269", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39807110", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/3c6a4e42-9efd-4440-89df-647121c87452/wales-local-elections-2017", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/basketball/39824290", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/8201e79d-41c0-48f1-b15c-d7043ac30517/scotland-local-elections-2017", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39812543", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39815444", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39809956", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/39812237", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38236484", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-39785815", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-39813753", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39806153", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39818640", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39743943", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39801447", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39817810", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39813573", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39778550", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39823715", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-39801244", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/39824855", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39803251", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39819049", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2017", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/39802506", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39795422", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39813093", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39820993", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39810721", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/42069d65-f3b1-41e2-b3e9-35ac9d799a1a/england-local-elections-2017", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39814567", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39816835", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-39814634", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39741514", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39884012", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-39882735", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-39855735", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-39860602", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39874533", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39875134", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39881494", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39882054", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39798610", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39851733", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39884416", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39889793", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39012178", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39881891", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39882969", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39874289", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/triathlon/39887253", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39870759", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39891424", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/afrique/sports-39880533", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39874420", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39880891", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39881236", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39879538", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39883084", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39870514", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39882496", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39881256", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39872189", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39886112", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39715679", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/39892101", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39915644", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/39919147", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39920354", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/39921658", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39883786", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-39885943", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39891077", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39903699", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39914357", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39833969", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/39916720", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39907769", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39924107", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39799098", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39705424", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39915795", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39914381", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39890722", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39928510", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-39849352", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39859939", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39882434", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39851253", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39915066", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39915228", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39176057", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39490182", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39916575", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40002164", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-china-blog-39974953", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/40018570", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/40010056", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40005325", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39963366", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/40004668", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39961772", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39641856", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/39984647", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40021059", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/40010786", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39999460", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/39977510", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40000843", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/40013277", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40003173", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/40012848", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39947171", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-40012208", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39887863", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15536118", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40006920", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40016316", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40004657", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/39774233", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/39774164", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39732845", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39640707", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39765257", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39705234", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39679929", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/39767660", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-39709700", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39762660", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/39773552", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39707055", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39717751", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39691931", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39689205", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39750173", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/39759950", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39682871", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39628629", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39705259", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/39761212", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39847685", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39779158", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39842638", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/39854961", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39849088", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39848382", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/39856848", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39843214", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39809999", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39847422", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/39834817", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/39859647", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39855463", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39852404", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39852813", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39848003", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39765098", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39851644", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39845154", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39848296", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/39839666", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39861629", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/39865291", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39849571", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39855702", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39854321", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39830727", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39848079", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39859008", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/election-2017-39839907", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39865103", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39767793", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39842424", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39794795", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39852765", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/95df04e2-b85d-43aa-b920-2a1870b197f4?intc_type=promo&intc_location=news&intc_campaign=faketerrorplottogetoutofaholiday&intc_linkname=bbcthree_fac_article1", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39846999", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39857796", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39801464", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39978771", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/39959770", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39975357", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-39717336", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-39960473", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39914448", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39966693", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39961749", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-39945473", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39943951", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39969813", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39966035", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/darts/39970407", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39981954", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39961472", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39959921", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-39965685", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39970575", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39965464", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39947944", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39980308", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39981841", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39879805", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39879798", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39972064", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39252502", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39977570", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39879758", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/39972898", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39826269", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39765522", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/3c6a4e42-9efd-4440-89df-647121c87452/wales-local-elections-2017", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39195836", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/8201e79d-41c0-48f1-b15c-d7043ac30517/scotland-local-elections-2017", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/basketball/39824290", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39826375", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39826967", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/39828177", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39806153", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39783319", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/39829001", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39753995", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39778550", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39826187", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39823715", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-39801244", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39753913", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39822306", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/39824855", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2017", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39794434", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39351286", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/39830357", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39795422", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/42069d65-f3b1-41e2-b3e9-35ac9d799a1a/england-local-elections-2017", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39824026", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39832093", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39833762", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39754033", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/659c86d1-1365-4d61-9c7c-b25e13493218?intc_type=promo&intc_location=news&intc_campaign=nevertouredtheuk&intc_linkname=bbcmusic_ent_article1", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39754032", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/39826268", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/0a0cb73c-a87a-4c23-8b1d-f145ab76e58b?intc_type=promo&intc_location=news&intc_campaign=phoneaddiction&intc_linkname=bbcthree_fac_article1", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39741514", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39754030", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39884012", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39885837", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39905241", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39895517", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39894331", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39897407", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/basketball/39903138", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39891527", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39894892", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/39892101", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39813773", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39884416", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39874289", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39813798", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39857187", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/triathlon/39887253", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39891424", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-39885095", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39875139", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-39880163", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39881236", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39892410", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39877812", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/39892487", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39899190", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39886112", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39938989", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39926264", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39935200", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39920354", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39941716", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39926725", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39853033", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39943519", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39939982", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39923323", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39903699", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39924586", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39900003", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39930942", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39853089", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39924107", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2017", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39853090", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/etholiad/2017", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39931635", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39705424", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/39925472", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39930092", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/39934074", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12735333", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39928510", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39932614", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39944529", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39882434", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39859939", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39851253", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39915066", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39932584", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39176057", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39490182", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39938621", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39943948", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39978771", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39975357", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39988271", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39914448", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/39988462", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39986445", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39961749", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39943951", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39966035", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39981954", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39961472", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39984008", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39911911", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39952285", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39905619", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39905635", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39938520", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39979590", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39979279", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39938414", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39434504", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39775392", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/39773954", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/39602619", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39738954", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/39774233", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39781954", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/39774164", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39785177", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/041d5177-b5cb-49c4-bb27-dcb652806c0d?intc_type=promo&intc_location=news&intc_campaign=pubswearing&intc_linkname=bbcthree_fac_article1", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/39784011", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39788306", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/39787566", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39743922", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39766444", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39705234", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-39778578", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39786607", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39633078", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39776748", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/39773552", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39717751", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/39775702", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39689205", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39750173", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/39777768", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39553682", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/39785877", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39628629", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39775102", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39705259", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/39777772", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/baseball/39785407", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39745403"]}