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His mother hid the fact from her friends, family and the authorities.", "Paul Ryan lifts a glass in a gesture of friendship to the Irish, but purists were distracted.", "Manchester United reach the Europa League quarter-finals with victory over Rostov thanks to a goal from Juan Mata.", "Manchester United are drawn against Belgian side Anderlecht in the Europa League quarter-finals.", "Local communities around the country are doing their bit to help prevent suicides.", "Prime Minister Theresa May says \"now is not the time\" for a second Scottish referendum, but is she willing to sit down with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and discuss a date that suits?", "Twenty-five years after she was gang-raped, Bhanwari Devi is still fighting for justice.", "The Duke of Cambridge was criticised after he was seen partying on a ski holiday.", "England complete a Women's Six Nations Grand Slam by beating a physical Ireland 34-7 at Donnybrook.", "Tammy Abraham scores his 22nd goal of the season as Championship strugglers Bristol City stun high-flying Huddersfield Town.", "Warrington Wolves remain bottom of Super League as Leigh Centurions earn a deserved win at the Leigh Sports Village.", "Irish challenger Sizing John wins the Cheltenham Gold Cup for jockey Robbie Power and trainer Jessica Harrington.", "Number eight Billy Vunipola and wing Anthony Watson return from injury to start in England's Grand Slam meeting with Ireland.", "How do England's record-equalling class of 2017 measure up to the World Cup-winning side of 2003? 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Adventurer Bear Grylls explains how he tackles his own self-doubt.", "Republic of Ireland midfielder James McClean is to wear the number five shirt against Wales in memory of Derry City skipper Ryan McBride.", "The rise in prices is down to a lot of factors - but the fall in the value of sterling is important.", "IBF world welterweight champion Kell Brook will defend his title against American Errol Spence Jr at Bramall Lane, Sheffield on 27 May.", "Eddie Jones says the British and Irish Lions should name four captains - one from each of their four national teams.", "Martin McGuinness was a senior commander within the Provisional IRA for many years, reports BBC NI's Vincent Kearney.", "British wrestler Chinu Sandhu, who won Commonwealth bronze in 2014, is banned for four years after failing a drugs test.", "Gemma Handy speaks to Montserratians about their Irish roots and why they celebrate St Patrick's Day.", "Three years after Russia annexed Crimea the region remains in a state of flux.", "Everton Free School is the first school run by a Premier League club. It is expensive but is it worth it?", "Despite conflict entering a seventh year, the 16-team Syrian Premier League is still going and the international team still harbour hopes of making it to the biggest stage of all, the World Cup.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expresses her concern for those caught up in the terrorist attack at Westminster.", "England will not face New Zealand until 2018 after the All Blacks are confirmed to face the Barbarians in November", "Scotland winger Oliver Burke loves \"getting better and better\" as he continues his football education at Bundesliga RB Leipzig.", "With Germany hosting England in an international friendly, we've scoured our picture archive for some of the more obscure German players to feature in the Premier League.", "Lukas Podolski's stunning long-range effort helps Germany beat England in an international friendly in Dortmund.", "Team Wiggins say they are \"surprised\" and \"disappointed\" at their exclusion from next month's Tour de Yorkshire.", "A Welsh MP tells of hearing shots outside Parliament after a terrorist attack in which five people died.", "Westminster's streets - normally teeming with tourists and protesters - are eerily quite after terror attack.", "Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says he was not told Ben Woodburn was to be given his first Wales call-up.", "Manchester United are charged by the Football Association with failing to control their players during Monday's FA Cup quarter-final loss at Chelsea.", "Leicester City's dream Champions League debut continues as they reach the quarter-finals with a famous 3-2 aggregate win against Sevilla.", "The prime minister is extremely unlikely to either concede another referendum or rule one out straight away but what are the other possibilities?", "Masters champion Danny Willett welcomes Muirfield voting to admit women members for the first time and says it \"shows golf has changed'.", "John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, looks at whether there is an appetite for another independence referendum.", "Second favourite Buveur D'Air storms to victory in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham, trainer Nicky Henderson's sixth winner.", "Tottenham striker Harry Kane suffers ligament damage to his ankle - but it is not thought to be as bad as the injury earlier this season.", "The rise and fall and rise again of wine entrepreneur Rowan Gormley, the boss of Naked Wines and Majestic Wine.", "New Zealand coach Steve Hansen insists he isn't playing any media mind games, after Eddie Jones reacted suspiciously to the Kiwi's praise of England's record-equalling run.", "Funnies, action and analysis from Chelsea's 1-0 victory over Manchester United at Stamford Bridge in the FA Cup quarter-finals.", "As Mother's Day approaches one new mother shares the devastating experience of post-partum psychosis.", "Several big names are missing but this year's Cheltenham Festival is not short of talking points, says Cornelius Lysaght.", "Britain's Chris Froome apologises for the way Team Sky has handled questions over its record on doping but stresses the importance of boss Sir Dave Brailsford to the team.", "Jeremy Corbyn says the government is giving away £70bn. Is he right?", "Chelsea capitalise on Ander Herrera's sending-off to win a hard-fought FA Cup quarter-final with holders Manchester United.", "Man Utd boss Jose Mourinho tells Chelsea fans he remains their \"number one\" manager after his side's FA Cup defeat at Stamford Bridge.", "The crowded PGA Tour schedule has meant high-profile absentees from this week's Arnold Palmer Invitational - but there are still enough big names for a fitting tribute.", "The Gutenberg press could not have revolutionised how we communicate without the invention of paper.", "Double Olympic gold medallist Joanna Rowsell Shand announces her retirement from international cycling.", "From Turkey to Trump, Boris and Russia - comparisons to Nazi Germany abound in not so diplomatic discourse.", "Annual South by Southwest conference adjusts to a new, anti-government political reality", "Rakesh Sharma wishes to return to space one more time, as a \"tourist\".", "PC Kelly Ellis is training to become a firearms officer, the hardest thing she has ever done.", "British actor Daniel Kaluuya says being black has lost him roles.", "Everton striker Romelu Lukaku turns down the most lucrative contract offer in the Premier League club's history.", "The ECJ has ruled that companies can ban Islamic headscarves from workplaces in certain circumstances.", "Watch 10 of the best plays of the week from the NBA including a slam dunk from the Cleveland Cavaliers LeBron James.", "One of the few people with any insight into the puzzle behind the man's death was Maureen Toogood.", "Cities around the world are converting to low-energy LED street lights - but some residents say their sleep is being affected and are fighting back.", "An in-depth profile of the David Davis featuring those who have known him through the years.", "London rivals Chelsea and Tottenham are drawn against each other in the FA Cup semi-finals, with Arsenal facing Manchester City.", "The 2022 Commonwealth Games will no longer take place in Durban, which was set to be the first African city to host the event.", "Who are the winners and losers from the Budget announcement on National Insurance?", "They might cause a lot of pain, but they also seem to do us good.", "Forget the white stilettos and fake tans - the stereotype means something else nowadays.", "Boris Johnson says the UK has an \"illustrious precedent\" and should reject any Brexit bill demands.", "Former Spice Girl Geri Horner on the band's break up and her friendship with George Michael.", "Beating non-league Lincoln City in the FA Cup will not be as easy for Arsenal as it seems, says Match of the Day pundit Neil Lennon.", "Stuart Hogg says Scotland are \"not a team that lies down\" as they target a first win over England at Twickenham in 34 years.", "Former Formula 1 and motorcycling world champion John Surtees has died at the age of 83, his family has announced.", "Brighton comfortably beat out-of-form Derby to move level on points with Championship leaders Newcastle.", "Sir Dave Brailsford says he will not resign as Team Sky boss, despite controversy over a 'mystery package' delivered for Sir Bradley Wiggins in 2011.", "Wales v Ireland in Cardiff kicks off round four of the 2017 Six Nations while England host Scotland on Saturday.", "Manchester City keeper Joe Hart - on a season-long loan at Torino - says he does not see himself playing for the Premier League club again.", "Manchester United are held to a draw by FC Rostov in the first leg of their Europa League last-16 tie in Russia.", "John Surtees - the teenage prodigy, the world champion on two and four wheels and a \"warm character who was generous with his time\".", "Alex Hales and Joe Root hit centuries as England steamroller West Indies by 186 runs in Barbados to complete an ODI series whitewash.", "Chris and Gabby Adcock fight back to defeat the Olympic champions and reach the All England Badminton semi-finals.", "Is there any evidence that the internet and smartphones have shrunk our attention spans?", "Neil Woods's undercover work led to drug gang members getting more than 1,000 years of jail time.", "Championship side Norwich City sack manager Alex Neil after just over two years in charge at Carrow Road.", "A technology used to fight parking fines is now helping asylum seekers apply for emergency housing.", "If your creative instincts are stifled at work then you're unlikely to be productive, say experts.", "England's powerful finishers have helped them to a 17-match winning run - so what's the problem at the start of the match, asks Tom Forydce.", "20 years since it first hit our screens, the influence of the cult TV show is still felt today.", "What would you do if your child was a heroin addict suffering from acute withdrawal symptoms?", "From the hitmen to the tree fellers, Jeremy Guscott picks the best tacklers on show in the 2017 Six Nations. Join the debate and rank his choices yourself.", "Why is there so much anger among Anglicans after Philip North chose not to be Bishop of Sheffield?", "Track cyclist Jess Varnish says she is \"relieved that the truth was finally coming out\" following allegations of sexism at British Cycling.", "Folk star Laura Marling explores what it means to be a woman on her new album, Semper Femina.", "British Cycling admits it did not pay \"sufficient care and attention\" to the overall wellbeing of staff and athletes at the expense of winning medals.", "Owen Farrell remains a doubt for England's Six Nations match with Scotland after missing training at Twickenham on Friday.", "Barbara Buttrick went from being a typist to a pioneering women's world boxing champion.", "British number one Johanna Konta beats compatriot Heather Watson to reach the third round in Indian Wells, while Kyle Edmund wins.", "BBC Sport's boxing correspondent talks about an on-edge David Haye, Tony Bellew's challenge and Amir Khan's surprise.", "Liverpool secure a vital advantage over Arsenal in the battle for a place in the Premier League’s top four with a well-deserved win at Anfield.", "Andy Murray beats France's Lucas Pouille in straight sets to reach the final of the Dubai Championships for the second time.", "Many of us spend hundreds a month on travelling to work but don't put away much of the money we earn once we get there. So how much should we be saving for our twilight years?", "Two unsavoury incidents involving Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Tyrone Mings overshadow Manchester United's draw against Bournemouth in the Premier League.", "A raft of measures already announced by chancellors past and present will affect your finances from April.", "Britain's Laura Muir wins 1500m gold and Richard Kilty defends his 60m title at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade.", "Tony Bellew has been \"underestimated\" before his heavyweight fight with David Haye, says ex-world champion Richie Woodhall.", "Chris Wood scores twice as Leeds move to within a point of third place in the Championship after winning at Birmingham.", "Britain's Andy Murray sees off Spaniard Fernando Verdasco in straight sets to win the Dubai title for the first time.", "Rory McIlroy cards a stunning six-under-par 65 to take the lead at the halfway stage of the World Golf Championships event in Mexico.", "The powerful lure of smartphones has created a heads-down culture in many public places. John Mervin in New York came across someone who just might benefit from a little digital detox.", "Tony Bellew stops an injured David Haye in the 11th round in a stunning heavyweight encounter at London's O2 Arena.", "A century from England captain Eoin Morgan sets up a 45-run win over West Indies in the first one-day international in Antigua.", "Australia spinner Nathan Lyon takes a career-best 8-50 to help his side gain the upper hand on day one of the second Test in India.", "In cinemas from Monday, the Secret Intelligence Service has created its first recruitment advert.", "Briton Andrew Pozzi wins gold in the 60m hurdles at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Belgrade.", "Manchester United will not \"cry to the media\" about two controversies involving Zlatan Ibrahimovic against Bournemouth, says Jose Mourinho.", "The Imperial War Museum is marking its centenary with its first exhibits - the letters and photos of dead soldiers.", "Jermain Defoe scores his first international goal since 2013 as England edge closer to World Cup 2018 qualification with victory over Lithuania.", "England boss Gareth Southgate must establish an identity for the national side, says former international midfielder Paul Scholes.", "Lewis Hamilton may be harder to manage than most drivers, but his restless, superstar lifestyle helps him stave off the boredom - and enables him to win.", "Lewis Hamilton says he is confident he can beat Sebastian Vettel to the world title this year despite defeat at the Australian Grand Prix.", "Is Google's position as the world's leading search engine now unassailable?", "Mary Berry's orange cake is super-easy to make and very light and fluffy. The perfect Mother's Day or birthday cake for someone with a zest for life!", "Sir Bradley Wiggins says he will \"shock a few people\" when he has his say on an investigation into a \"mystery package\" delivered for him in 2011.", "Dan Walker is joined by Andy Cole and John Hartson to preview Sunday's internationals, including England v Lithuania, Northern Ireland v Norway, and Scotland v Slovenia.", "The UK's civil service could be facing its greatest challenge for a generation.", "Khalil Rafati beat his heroin and crack cocaine addiction and went on to become a health food millionaire.", "England's Andrew Johnston moves two shots off the lead at the Puerto Rico Open after a six-under-par third round of 66.", "Single mothers have often been stigmatised and denounced. Cherry Healey explains why she's proud to be one.", "Two years on from the start of the Saudi-led offensive, the BBC's Mai Noman returns to her home country.", "Scotland beat Sweden in Sunday's bronze medal match at the World Women's Curling Championship as Canada defeat Russia for gold.", "Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel beats Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes in a straight fight as Formula 1's new era begins at the Australian Grand Prix.", "Anthony Crolla fails in his bid to regain the WBA lightweight title as Jorge Linares retains the belt in Manchester.", "Anthony Crolla will consider moving up to Ricky Burns' weight class following his rematch defeat by Jorge Linares.", "Substitute Chris Martin scores a late winner as Scotland beat Slovenia to keep their slim World Cup qualifying hopes alive.", "The couple who lost each other after India's partition only to reunite as refugees queuing for food.", "Britain's Johanna Konta reaches the Miami Open fourth round, while Rafael Nadal celebrates his 1,000th Tour match with a win.", "British Olympian Lawrence Okolie wins his professional debut in 20 seconds with a knockout victory over Geoffrey Cave.", "Formula 1 is too expensive, too complicated and the cars are too reliable, according to Jean Todt, president of governing body the FIA.", "Spare a thought for those who are given troublesome names. In Zambia, Chris Haslam came across some very surprising choices.", "Northern Ireland stay in contention for a World Cup play-off as goals from Jamie Ward and Conor Washington secure victory over Norway.", "Scotland win a third Six Nations match in the same year for only the second time to send coach Vern Cotter out on a high.", "Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says he will announce his plans \"very soon\" after reaching a decision over his future.", "Gutsy Ireland end England's bid for a second Grand Slam in a row and a world record 19th straight Test win.", "Craig Dawson scores twice as West Brom inflict a big blow to Arsenal's hopes of a top-four finish with victory at The Hawthorns.", "BBC football expert Mark Lawrenson takes on boxer and Manchester United fan Anthony Crolla in this week's Premier League predictions.", "It was the place to be in 19th Century Paris - the city's most successful political and literary salon. And it was run by a remarkable Englishwoman.", "Sir Mo Farah and Kadeena Cox win sportsman and sportswoman of the year at the 2017 British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards.", "Only Ireland can prevent England from becoming the sixth team in 107 years to complete back-to-back Grand Slams.", "Halfpipe skier Rowan Cheshire crashes in all three of her final runs but claims Britain's best World Championship result in the event.", "The prime minister claims spending is at record levels but the National Audit Office says schools will have to make £3bn in cuts.", "Will the former chancellor be able to juggle journalism, politics and his other jobs?", "Deaf TV producer William Mager was in his 20s when he learned sign language and says the experience has enriched his life and made him a better communicator.", "Musician whose guitar licks helped lay the foundations of rock music.", "One woman made headlines before the race, but it was another who celebrated victory in the 2017 Cheltenham Gold Cup.", "Britain's world number one Andy Murray pulls out of next week's Miami Open with an injury to his right elbow.", "Kallum Watkins scores two tries as Leeds beat Wakefield to secure their fourth Super League win of the season.", "The murder of Neil Heywood in China in 2011 brought one to an end the career of one top Chinese politician - and allowed another, Xi Jinping, to amass huge personal power.", "Joe Gordon, boss of telephone and online bank First Direct has just two years' experience in banking.", "Kyzer died in 2005 when he was 13-15 months old. His mother hid the fact from her friends, family and the authorities.", "Gary Cahill makes up for conceding a penalty with a late winner as Premier League leaders Chelsea move 13 points clear.", "Prime Minister Theresa May says \"now is not the time\" for a second Scottish referendum, but is she willing to sit down with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and discuss a date that suits?", "Friends steeped in rugby league, George Ford and Owen Farrell are the axis around which England revolve, writes Tom Fordyce.", "France seal a dramatic and controversial win over Wales in their Six Nations finale in Paris.", "England complete a Women's Six Nations Grand Slam by beating a physical Ireland 34-7 at Donnybrook.", "Tammy Abraham scores his 22nd goal of the season as Championship strugglers Bristol City stun high-flying Huddersfield Town.", "Irish challenger Sizing John wins the Cheltenham Gold Cup for jockey Robbie Power and trainer Jessica Harrington.", "Pop star Frances was taught by Paul McCartney and has been compared to Adele. She tells us her story.", "Analysing the aims of the head of the controversial regime.", "Eddie Jones says England are \"14 months into a four-year project\" after hopes of a second straight Grand Slam are ended by Ireland.", "Prop Mako Vunipola says brother Billy is in better form than him after their injury lay-offs and tips him for success on his England return.", "The latest leaks about alleged CIA hacking tools pose a huge problem for the US spy agency.", "Arsene Wenger says he was \"revolted\" by the referee but calls Arsenal brave after Tuesday's Champions League last-16 thrashing by Bayern Munich.", "Accusations Australia were guilty of unfair play against India are \"outrageous\" says Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland.", "Former heavyweight world champion David Haye rules out retiring from the sport and says he is targeting a rematch with Tony Bellew.", "Ex-England winger Rachel Yankey explains why producing better female coaches is more of a priority than making a breakthrough in the men's game.", "French voters go to the polls to elect a new president in April - we take a closer look at some of the issues most likely to influence their choice of candidate.", "The number of women in top jobs at UK sporting bodies is declining, says a study which calls the findings \"extremely concerning\".", "Britain's Amir Khan will not fight Manny Pacquiao in the UAE next month, the Filipino's promoter, Bob Arum, reveals.", "All age groups in the UK are smoking less - but the largest decrease seems to be among young adults.", "Some taxes are expected to rise in the coming years, but it could all change in Wednesday's Budget.", "There was no mutiny at Arsenal, but there were ominous signs that Arsene Wenger has reached the end, writes Phil McNulty.", "The family of Maurice Oldfield, regarded as one of MI6's greatest chiefs, ask why his name was allowed to be dragged through the mud for so long?", "Heather Watson sets up an all-British second round tie against Johanna Konta by beating American Nicole Gibbs at Indian Wells.", "Kimi Raikkonen crashes his Ferrari as Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas sets the fastest lap of the winter on day two of the final F1 test.", "Sheila Ferguson joined a group of celebrities in Kerala to see what it would be like to retire there.", "Britain's former Fed Cup captain explains why she believes the Lawn Tennis Association needs more women in leadership roles.", "LA Galaxy tell Zlatan Ibrahimovic they are prepared to make him the highest paid player in MLS history if he joins them this summer.", "England women lose their final game of the SheBelieves Cup 1-0 to Germany after Anja Mittag scores her 50th international goal in Washington D.C.", "Manchester City miss the chance to move to second in the Premier League as their game in hand ends goalless against Stoke City.", "Wales coach Rob Howley names an unchanged team and bench as they host Ireland in the Six Nations on Friday.", "The Lib Dem manifesto argues for creative subjects alongside academic subjects.", "Hughie Fury, Tyson's cousin, will fight unbeaten Joseph Parker for the WBO heavyweight title in Auckland on 6 May.", "Mother-of-two Karen Gormley says the size of her breasts means people make judgements about her personality.", "Billy Vunipola will feature against Scotland in the Six Nations on Saturday, after being confirmed in England's matchday squad.", "Team Sky admit mistakes were made around the delivery of a medical package to Sir Bradley Wiggins in 2011 but deny breaking anti-doping rules.", "Bournemouth defender Tyrone Mings will serve a five-match ban after being charged with violent conduct in Saturday's 1-1 draw with Manchester United.", "Geraint Thomas is \"annoyed\" that Sir Bradley Wiggins has not had to \"take the flak\" over a 'mystery package' he received in 2011.", "England round off their SheBelieves Cup campaign with a narrow defeat at the hands of European and Olympic champions Germany in Washington.", "Singapore the top ranking country in education tests now wants to put more emphasis on well-being.", "Ten-man Arsenal are knocked out of the Champions League at the last-16 stage after a second-half capitulation against Bayern Munich.", "Arsenal fans gather outside the Emirates Stadium to sing songs demanding the sacking of Arsene Wenger after the Gunners' humiliating Champions League defeat to Bayern Munich.", "Liverpool secure a vital advantage over Arsenal in the battle for a place in the Premier League’s top four with a well-deserved win at Anfield.", "Britain's Laura Muir wins the 3,000m to gain her second gold as Asha Philip takes the 60m title at the European Indoor Championships.", "Will the EU move towards closer integration or transfer significant power back to nation states?", "Ellen White scores a late winner as England beat world champions USA at the SheBelieves Cup in New Jersey.", "Two unsavoury incidents involving Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Tyrone Mings overshadow Manchester United's draw against Bournemouth in the Premier League.", "Tony Bellew feared for David Haye's safety and asked the fighter and his corner to end Saturday's gruelling fight.", "A raft of measures already announced by chancellors past and present will affect your finances from April.", "Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez had an angry exchange with team-mates before Saturday's defeat at Liverpool, for which he was dropped.", "David Haye undergoes surgery on the Achilles tendon he ruptured during Saturday night's defeat to Tony Bellew.", "Britain's Laura Muir wins 1500m gold and Richard Kilty defends his 60m title at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade.", "Arlene Foster predicted a brutal election campaign, but she didn't expect such a brutal result for unionism, says BBC News NI's Enda McClafferty.", "Britain's Andy Murray sees off Spaniard Fernando Verdasco in straight sets to win the Dubai title for the first time.", "Leicester City caretaker boss Craig Shakespeare is \"out of order\" for wanting to replace Claudio Ranieri, says Martin Keown.", "Britain's Laura Muir was initially prevented from celebrating her 1500m gold by a 'spoilsport' official at the European Indoor Athletics Championships.", "A school in California pocketed $24m this week after investing in Snapchat. Could other schools emulate that success?", "Check out this content on BBC Three.", "Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger \"stands up\" for his decision to leave Alexis Sanchez out of the starting XI in the 3-1 loss to Liverpool.", "BBC Match of the Day 2 Extra pundits discuss whether a disenchanted Alexis Sanchez could leave Arsenal, and in doing so lead an exodus from Emirates Stadium that may include Arsene Wenger.", "Tony Bellew stops an injured David Haye in the 11th round in a stunning heavyweight encounter at London's O2 Arena.", "In-form Harry Kane scores twice as Tottenham defeat Everton to close the gap on leaders Chelsea to seven points.", "BBC Sport looks back at a busy weekend for Premier League referees Anthony Taylor and Kevin Friend after they were involved in incident-packed games following their return from a mid-week trip to Marbella for Taylor's stag do.", "The BBC's Andrew Harding on the ups and downs of looking after domestic animals when you're posted around the world.", "Sergio Aguero and Leroy Sane goals help Manchester City to three points as Sunderland stay bottom of the table.", "The initiatives aiming to help female flower pickers in Kenya fight sexual harassment and earn higher wages.", "Dr Homa Amiri Kakar left her job in a remote Afghan province but is returning, wracked with guilt.", "The remarkable double life of undercover agent Jack Barsky who lived the American dream at the KGB's expense.", "Manchester United will not \"cry to the media\" about two controversies involving Zlatan Ibrahimovic against Bournemouth, says Jose Mourinho.", "Joe Root and Chris Woakes guide England to a four-wicket win and a series-clinching victory over West Indies.", "Britain's tandem pair Sophie Thornhill and Corrine Hall win their second golds at the Para-cycling Track Worlds.", "Jermain Defoe scores his first international goal since 2013 as England edge closer to World Cup 2018 qualification with victory over Lithuania.", "Jermain Defoe's England return is a \"great story\" says manager Gareth Southgate after the striker scores in Sunday's 2-0 win over Lithuania.", "Gordon Strachan says Chris Martin 'is in a great club' of Scotland players to have been booed after his precious winner.", "Lewis Hamilton says he is confident he can beat Sebastian Vettel to the world title this year despite defeat at the Australian Grand Prix.", "In the week of triggering Article 50, the government may find Qatar's vote of confidence particularly welcome.", "Is Google's position as the world's leading search engine now unassailable?", "Mary Berry's orange cake is super-easy to make and very light and fluffy. The perfect Mother's Day or birthday cake for someone with a zest for life!", "Chelsea's Ruben Loftus-Cheek scores twice as England Under-21s beat their Danish counterparts in Randers.", "The ex-footballer, whose wife died in 2015, says his children would walk away from talking about it.", "ECB chief Tom Harrison says the proposed city-based T20 competition will \"future-proof\" county cricket, and denies \"bullying\" during negotiations.", "English cricket's new eight-team, city-based Twenty20 tournament moves a step closer as the ECB reveals further details.", "The UK's civil service could be facing its greatest challenge for a generation.", "Khalil Rafati beat his heroin and crack cocaine addiction and went on to become a health food millionaire.", "Single mothers have often been stigmatised and denounced. Cherry Healey explains why she's proud to be one.", "Two years on from the start of the Saudi-led offensive, the BBC's Mai Noman returns to her home country.", "Ellie Downie rounds off a successful weekend by winning gold on the bars at the British Gymnastics Championships in Liverpool.", "Substitute Chris Martin scores a late winner as Scotland beat Slovenia to keep their slim World Cup qualifying hopes alive.", "After the London attack, questions arise over who is responsible when extremist views appear online.", "The couple who lost each other after India's partition only to reunite as refugees queuing for food.", "Britain's Johanna Konta reaches the Miami Open fourth round, while Rafael Nadal celebrates his 1,000th Tour match with a win.", "Fernando Alonso's impressive drive in the Australia Grand Prix cannot mask the engine problems at McLaren-Honda, writes Andrew Benson.", "Spare a thought for those who are given troublesome names. In Zambia, Chris Haslam came across some very surprising choices.", "Northern Ireland stay in contention for a World Cup play-off as goals from Jamie Ward and Conor Washington secure victory over Norway.", "Manchester City Women are to host Liverpool in the Women's FA Cup semi-finals, while Chelsea will visit Birmingham City.", "Even for a long-time foreign resident, the loudness of life in China can still come as a surprise.", "Stuart Hogg says Scotland are \"not a team that lies down\" as they target a first win over England at Twickenham in 34 years.", "Brighton comfortably beat out-of-form Derby to move level on points with Championship leaders Newcastle.", "At this year’s South by Southwest, a plethora of helpful artificial intelligence - but what I’m looking for is peace and quiet.", "The death of a young father leads to a conversation about marathon gaming sessions.", "Chris and Gabby Adcock fight back to defeat the Olympic champions and reach the All England Badminton semi-finals.", "Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez is given space by Lincoln City to run towards goal and bend a brilliant strike deep into the far corner in the FA Cup quarter-final.", "Britain's Elise Christie wins the 1500m title at the World Short Track Speed Skating Championships in Rotterdam.", "Pep Guardiola says his first season as Manchester City boss will be considered a failure if he does not win a trophy.", "England's powerful finishers have helped them to a 17-match winning run - so what's the problem at the start of the match, asks Tom Forydce.", "The BBC's defence and diplomatic correspondent examines how armed conflict and war differ.", "France end their dismal Six Nations away form with a comfortable win in Italy, boosting their hopes of a top-three finish.", "Manchester City comfortably win at Middlesbrough as Pep Guardiola's side secure an FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.", "Wales survive an Ireland fightback to claim victory and hand England the chance to clinch the Six Nations title against Scotland on Saturday.", "What would you do if your child was a heroin addict suffering from acute withdrawal symptoms?", "Non-league Lincoln City's astonishing run in the FA Cup comes to an end as Arsenal comfortably progress to the semi-finals.", "Fast Ferraris, more of the same from Mercedes and a case of 'crisis, what crisis?' at McLaren. Andrew Benson rounds up pre-season testing.", "Substitute Oumar Niasse scores two goals as Hull City beat fellow Premier League strugglers Swansea City.", "England coach Eddie Jones says his team can \"achieve greatness\" by beating Ireland next week and completing a Grand Slam.", "British number one Johanna Konta beats compatriot Heather Watson to reach the third round in Indian Wells, while Kyle Edmund wins.", "When Jamalida Begum complained that soldiers had raped her, she was accused of lying by the office of Aung San Suu Kyi and had to flee to avoid reprisals.", "Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford will be named by Gareth Southgate in the England squad on Thursday.", "The prime minister is extremely unlikely to either concede another referendum or rule one out straight away but what are the other possibilities?", "Masters champion Danny Willett welcomes Muirfield voting to admit women members for the first time and says it \"shows golf has changed'.", "Second favourite Buveur D'Air storms to victory in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham, trainer Nicky Henderson's sixth winner.", "Tottenham striker Harry Kane suffers ligament damage to his ankle - but it is not thought to be as bad as the injury earlier this season.", "Some drivers say their wage is less than three pounds an hour. One feels \"like a prisoner\" in his cab.", "Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal set up a fourth-round tie at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells - a re-run of this year's Australian Open final.", "As the conflict in Syria is passing enters its seventh year, Tim Eaton explains six ways it has changed.", "A bid from two or more UK cities to jointly host the 2022 Commonwealth Games would be considered by Games chiefs.", "The Big Bang Theory's new spin-off sees it join a long list of TV shows that branched out.", "A week after Jose Mourinho criticised the FC Rostov pitch, the Russian Premier League has \"closed\" the club's stadium.", "Former world champion Stuart Bingham is found to have \"a case to answer\" in relation to betting on snooker.", "Manchester City are knocked out of the Champions League on away goals at the last-16 stage after Monaco's second-leg victory at Stade Louis II.", "Three weeks after looking destined for the Championship, Phil McNulty sees Leicester join the continent's elite in the Champions League quarter-finals.", "World number three Rory McIlroy remains critical of Muirfield after the club votes to admit women members for the first time.", "Despite their immense power, companies such as Facebook and Google have avoided negative headlines - but that might be changing.", "Six years on, more people are going to die in a war that has changed but not ended, says Jeremy Bowen.", "Eleven of them regrouped recently to speak to the BBC about their unconventional protest.", "Could global trade in vegetable oil be to blame for our growing obesity crisis?", "When Romania stopped cheating in its exams, it revealed the scale of the social gap in its school system.", "From Turkey to Trump, Boris and Russia - comparisons to Nazi Germany abound in not so diplomatic discourse.", "Shashank Manohar steps down as chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) after eight months in the role.", "Special Tiara wins the Queen Mother Champion Chase for jockey Noel Fehily with odds-on favourite Douvan well beaten.", "PC Kelly Ellis is training to become a firearms officer, the hardest thing she has ever done.", "British actor Daniel Kaluuya says being black has lost him roles.", "Leicester City have \"proved a lot of people wrong\" by reaching the Champions League quarter-finals, says captain Wes Morgan.", "Ken Owens wins his 50th cap as Wales name an unchanged side for the third straight game to face France in the Six Nations.", "Everton striker Romelu Lukaku turns down the most lucrative contract offer in the Premier League club's history.", "One of the few people with any insight into the puzzle behind the man's death was Maureen Toogood.", "Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola becomes the manager with the best record in 100 games of European competition.", "An in-depth profile of the David Davis featuring those who have known him through the years.", "An event featuring a rapist discussing his crime on stage has drawn condemnation and support. Should a perpetrator be given a platform?", "Theresa May and Philip Hammond are counting the cost of the fastest - and biggest - U-turn of recent times, on National Insurance rises for the self-employed.", "Troops who fought alongside jailed sergeant speak for the first time about the 2011 killing.", "Carli Lloyd scores her first goal for Manchester City Women as they beat Fortuna Hjorring in the Champions League quarter-final first leg.", "After George Osborne gets the Evening Standard job, now Alastair Campbell becomes an editor-at-large.", "America's rural heavily supported Donald Trump in the election, but now some are starting to worry his trade plans could hurt their business.", "Next - like its rivals - is battling many problems - unlike them it has spelt them out in full.", "The Taliban's capture of the crucial southern Afghan city of Sangin is highly significant.", "The prime minister says people will go on with their lives as normal and Parliament will continue to meet.", "Behaviour of a section of England fans during the friendly in Germany was \"inappropriate, disrespectful and disappointing\", says FA chairman Greg Clarke.", "An attacker tried and failed to access Westminster - so what is security like in Paris, Berlin, Brussels and Washington DC?", "Elite footballers' \"abuse\" of legal painkillers risks their long-term health, says Fifa's former chief medical officer.", "Trump Jr is accused of exploiting the tragedy by taking the London mayor's comments out of context.", "A Ferrari title push? Can Valtteri Bottas rival Lewis Hamilton? What next for McLaren? How will F1 change? Andrew Benson previews the season.", "An emotional Jason Day withdraws from the WGC Match Play in Texas to be with his mother who has lung cancer.", "Syria faced Uzbekistan in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, and BBC Sport's Richard Conway was there.", "France, Germany and the US send messages of solidarity after the deadly attack near parliament.", "A \"medal at any cost\" approach created a \"culture of fear\" at British Cycling, says former cyclist Wendy Houvenaghel.", "We track a single item of clothing to see just where it goes before it ends up in the shop.", "The proportion of women working into their 70s has doubled in the past four years, to 11%.", "British Swimming is conducting an investigation after multiple bullying claims by Paralympians about a coach, the BBC learns.", "Everyone has to tackle their fears. Adventurer Bear Grylls explains how he tackles his own self-doubt.", "David Haye is called before boxing authorities to explain his behaviour in the build-up to his bout with Tony Bellew.", "Lewis Hamilton says Ferrari are favourites to win the Formula 1 world title as the new season starts in Australia this weekend.", "IBF world welterweight champion Kell Brook will defend his title against American Errol Spence Jr at Bramall Lane, Sheffield on 27 May.", "The story of Ana, a victim of domestic violence, and how an organisation of women bodyguards came to her help.", "A son reveals the reality of growing up with a depressed mum who is frequently hospitalised.", "A recent court case in Nigeria highlights concerns that locally made drinks may be considered unsafe for human consumption.", "A look at how the seed of a South American tree is increasingly being used as an alternative to ivory.", "England used to be \"like a rugby\" team but have a brighter future because they \"play more football now\", says ex-Germany forward Lukas Podolski.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expresses her concern for those caught up in the terrorist attack at Westminster.", "Gareth Southgate's first game as permanent England boss ended in defeat by Germany - but it was a loss with honour, writes Phil McNulty.", "England will not face New Zealand until 2018 after the All Blacks are confirmed to face the Barbarians in November", "Four students from a Lancashire university named as among those injured by car in Westminster attack.", "The death of Morse writer Colin Dexter is the final chapter in a lifelong love affair with the university city.", "Lukas Podolski's stunning long-range effort helps Germany beat England in an international friendly in Dortmund.", "With new rules and new-era cars, Formula 1 takes a step into the unknown as the 2017 season starts in Australia this weekend.", "Team Wiggins say they are \"surprised\" and \"disappointed\" at their exclusion from next month's Tour de Yorkshire.", "A Welsh MP tells of hearing shots outside Parliament after a terrorist attack in which five people died.", "Westminster's streets - normally teeming with tourists and protesters - are eerily quite after terror attack.", "McLaren's dire start to pre-season testing continues with a second day of problems with Honda's new engine, as Ferrari set the pace.", "Barcelona boss Luis Enrique says he will step down at the end of the season, because he needs to \"rest\".", "Huddersfield's Harry Bunn gives his side a surprise lead away against Manchester City in their FA Cup fifth-round replay.", "Radical changes to the structure of the NHS in some parts of England are likely to be unveiled next month.", "Ferrari impress for the second day running on Wednesday at the first pre-season test in Barcelona, Spain.", "Mikey Devlin scores the winner as Hamilton climb to ninth in the Premiership with victory over Aberdeen.", "Trudy and Barclay Patoir met when mixed-race relationships were still taboo. More than 70 years later they reveal the obstacles they overcame.", "Australian Open champion Roger Federer suffers a shock defeat by qualifier Evgeny Donskoy at the Dubai Championships.", "Former swimmer Michael Phelps - the most decorated Olympian ever - believes he never raced against a clean international field.", "Donald Trump tones down the rhetoric and sticks to the script - for a change", "Steel pipes which were once buried under a gold mine are used as sensors to catch cosmic rays.", "Manchester City cruise into the FA Cup quarter-finals after fighting back to beat visitors Huddersfield in their fifth-round replay.", "Huddersfield Town fan Sir Patrick Stewart narrates the inspirational poem Thinking, by Walter D. Wintle, before his team's FA Cup fifth-round replay against Manchester City.", "Britain has been part of the international effort to improve Tunisia's security.", "Tanveer Ahmed was convicted of a brutal murder- but crowds rally around him in his native Pakistan.", "Tamil star Varalaxmi Sarathkumar opens up about sexual harassment in the Indian film industry.", "In an exclusive online interview, Ed Sheeran takes us behind the scenes of his third album, ÷ (Divide).", "Rory McIlroy says he was surprised by the extent of the criticism he received for playing golf with US President Donald Trump.", "Newcastle score twice in the final 10 minutes to come from behind to beat Championship promotion rivals Brighton.", "Next-generation 5G networks promise faster data speeds, but some warn of overexcitement.", "Sergio Aguero slots home from the penalty spot to put Manchester City 2-1 up against Huddersfield Town in their FA Cup fifth-round replay.", "Ford's more global outlook to its operations leaves its Bridgend engine plant vulnerable.", "Liverpool offers to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games after hosts Durban admit funding concerns.", "One man recalls how he risked his life to help victims of the terror attack in Sousse.", "As MPs look at the circumstances surrounding a jiffy bag delivered to Sir Bradley Wiggins in 2011, we look at the background to the inquiry.", "Premier League champions Leicester have held informal talks with former England boss Roy Hodgson over their managerial vacancy.", "Peers are likely to vote against the government over the rights of EU nationals to remain in the UK.", "Why are huge container ships, once worth millions of pounds, now being sold for scrap?", "A doctor who received a 'mystery package' for Sir Bradley Wiggins has no record of his medical treatment at the time, MPs are told.", "How charities working in Kenya are experimenting with cash transfers instead of more traditional forms of aid.", "SPFL respond to John Hughes' criticism, saying Raith Rovers had options to sign a new goalkeeper before fielding Ryan Stevenson.", "Who are the winners and losers from the Budget announcement on National Insurance?", "Prop Mako Vunipola says brother Billy is in better form than him after their injury lay-offs and tips him for success on his England return.", "Forget the white stilettos and fake tans - the stereotype means something else nowadays.", "The death of a two-year-old girl reignites debate about gun violence in Rio.", "In January, a painting showing Donald Trump and singer Madonna went viral. But who is the artist, Michael Forbes, and why did he paint it?", "World number one Andy Murray says he has \"work to do this year\" after falling \"behind\" six other players over the course of 2017.", "French voters go to the polls to elect a new president in April - we take a closer look at some of the issues most likely to influence their choice of candidate.", "The introduction of Hamish Watson for the injured John Hardie is Scotland's only change for Saturday's visit to Twickenham to face England.", "There was no mutiny at Arsenal, but there were ominous signs that Arsene Wenger has reached the end, writes Phil McNulty.", "Heather Watson sets up an all-British second round tie against Johanna Konta by beating American Nicole Gibbs at Indian Wells.", "Sheila Ferguson joined a group of celebrities in Kerala to see what it would be like to retire there.", "Owen Farrell should be fit for England's Calcutta Cup meeting with Scotland on Saturday, while Billy Vunipola returns to the bench.", "Wales v Ireland in Cardiff kicks off round four of the 2017 Six Nations while England host Scotland on Saturday.", "Manchester City keeper Joe Hart - on a season-long loan at Torino - says he does not see himself playing for the Premier League club again.", "Manchester United are held to a draw by FC Rostov in the first leg of their Europa League last-16 tie in Russia.", "Alex Hales and Joe Root hit centuries as England steamroller West Indies by 186 runs in Barbados to complete an ODI series whitewash.", "LA Galaxy tell Zlatan Ibrahimovic they are prepared to make him the highest paid player in MLS history if he joins them this summer.", "Arsene Wenger says the opinion of the club's fans will influence his decision over whether to remain as Arsenal manager.", "Neil Woods's undercover work led to drug gang members getting more than 1,000 years of jail time.", "Manchester City miss the chance to move to second in the Premier League as their game in hand ends goalless against Stoke City.", "A technology used to fight parking fines is now helping asylum seekers apply for emergency housing.", "The Lib Dem manifesto argues for creative subjects alongside academic subjects.", "Barcelona make Champions League history by becoming the first team to overturn a first-leg 4-0 deficit to reach the quarter-finals.", "A look at the rise in the number of specialist MBA business courses, with qualifications now available in everything from horse racing to football.", "Folk star Laura Marling explores what it means to be a woman on her new album, Semper Femina.", "Nicola Sturgeon tells me the \"common sense time\" for a second independence referendum would be in the autumn of 2018.", "Boris Johnson says the UK has an \"illustrious precedent\" and should reject any Brexit bill demands.", "Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says he will announce his plans \"very soon\" after reaching a decision over his future.", "It was the place to be in 19th Century Paris - the city's most successful political and literary salon. And it was run by a remarkable Englishwoman.", "Sir Mo Farah and Kadeena Cox win sportsman and sportswoman of the year at the 2017 British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards.", "What happens when your name is perfectly reasonable in your home country, but raises a sympathetic smile when you're abroad?", "The Afghan capital was rocked by a brutal militant attack last week on the city's military hospital.", "Manchester United go fifth in the Premier League as Middlesbrough's first game since sacking Aitor Karanka ends in defeat.", "Musician whose guitar licks helped lay the foundations of rock music.", "Six Nations officials are reviewing events in the closing stages of Wales' loss to France, including an alleged bite on George North.", "West Ham winger Michail Antonio withdraws from the England squad to face Germany and Lithuania because of a hamstring injury.", "The late Chuck Berry had many hits, but only one of them made it to number one.", "Joe Gordon, boss of telephone and online bank First Direct has just two years' experience in banking.", "Beaten by Ireland in Dublin with glory in their sights? England have been here before, writes Tom Fordyce.", "Kyzer died in 2005 when he was 13-15 months old. His mother hid the fact from her friends, family and the authorities.", "Manchester City and Liverpool have to settle for a point apiece as they battle out a thrilling draw at Etihad Stadium.", "Tottenham claim a hard-fought win over Southampton to ensure they remain second in the table heading into the international break.", "Man City manager Pep Guardiola and Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp share their admiration for their counterpart's coaching philosophy before Sunday's Premier League meeting.", "Wales coach Rob Howley is left to \"question the integrity of our game\" after a controversial end to their Six Nations defeat by France.", "France seal a dramatic and controversial win over Wales in their Six Nations finale in Paris.", "Goals from Jozo Simunovic and Stuart Armstrong move Celtic to within three points of a sixth straight Premiership title.", "In the days when darts players chain-smoked and drank pints of lager between trips to the oche, Jocky Wilson was one of Scotland's most unlikely sporting heroes.", "Pop star Frances was taught by Paul McCartney and has been compared to Adele. She tells us her story.", "Analysing the aims of the head of the controversial regime.", "Eddie Jones says England are \"14 months into a four-year project\" after hopes of a second straight Grand Slam are ended by Ireland.", "Zlatan Ibrahimovic accepts a three-match ban for violent conduct for elbowing Bournemouth's Tyrone Mings.", "Britain's Laura Muir wins the 3,000m to gain her second gold as Asha Philip takes the 60m title at the European Indoor Championships.", "The search for solutions to the threat of polluted air is generating ideas that range from the modest to the radical to the bizarre.", "Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez had an angry exchange with team-mates before Saturday's defeat at Liverpool, for which he was dropped.", "What we know about the terror plots disrupted since 2013 and the reasons why we can't report them all.", "Rebecca Jones goes behind the scenes of One Love - the new Bob Marley musical.", "Double European Indoor champion Laura Muir plans to race in both the 1500m and the 5,000m at the World Championships in London.", "BBC Sport secures the rights to broadcast the 2019 Women's World Cup which will be held in France.", "BBC sports editor Dan Roan examines why potential hosts are turning their backs on the Games and assesses how much jeopardy the Olympics are now in.", "How a small Canadian firm used social media to help drive sales of its Instant Pot multi-function cooker.", "Wednesday's Budget will be Philip Hammond's first - but a source says it will not feature big changes.", "\"Wishy washy\" FA proposals to boost diversity among its leadership \"won't make a difference\", a leading equality campaigner says.", "Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says reports of a training ground row between Alexis Sanchez and his team-mates are \"completely false\".", "Tony Bellew says he is considering retirement following his thrilling victory over bitter rival David Haye in London on Saturday.", "Diego Costa and Eden Hazard both score as Chelsea beat West Ham to extend their lead at the top of the Premier League to 10 points.", "Great Britain win three more golds on the final day of the Para-cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles.", "The BBC's Andrew Harding on the ups and downs of looking after domestic animals when you're posted around the world.", "Sergio Aguero and Leroy Sane goals help Manchester City to three points as Sunderland stay bottom of the table.", "Dr Homa Amiri Kakar left her job in a remote Afghan province but is returning, wracked with guilt.", "Former Arsenal striker Ian Wright says he would \"probably want to leave\" the club if he was in Alexis Sanchez's position.", "We look at whether the actress can still be a beacon for feminism after her Vanity Fair shoot.", "Many say achieving a maths and English C grade has little relevance to their future careers.", "The FA announces proposals to increase the number of women on its board, one of several reforms following criticism of its governance.", "Allies of shadow chancellor John McDonnell urge party unity after tough few weeks for Jeremy Corbyn.", "Joe Root and Chris Woakes guide England to a four-wicket win and a series-clinching victory over West Indies.", "Westminster attacker Khalid Masood had a history of violence, but how typical is his past of those who go on to carry out acts of terror?", "Lewis Hamilton says he is surprised how good his Mercedes felt during Friday practice at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.", "Carli Lloyd scores her first goal for Manchester City Women as they beat Fortuna Hjorring in the Champions League quarter-final first leg.", "The BBC examines the unusual photo of Kim Jong-un giving a piggyback to a military officer.", "Lewis Hamilton puts in a scintillating performance to set the pace in second practice at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.", "EU Commission President Juncker admits all is not well in the EU as UK prepares to trigger exit talks.", "Next - like its rivals - is battling many problems - unlike them it has spelt them out in full.", "When Jenna Cook returned from the US to China to search for her birth family, more than 50 candidates came forward - but were any of them a match?", "The Taliban's capture of the crucial southern Afghan city of Sangin is highly significant.", "Tottenham midfielder Dele Alli is banned for three European matches after being sent off against Gent in the Europa League in February.", "An attacker tried and failed to access Westminster - so what is security like in Paris, Berlin, Brussels and Washington DC?", "After years of planning, scientists are set now to send missions to explore the ocean world of Europa.", "From a childhood of hunger and abuse to double Olympic champion, Claressa Shields has been fighting all her life.", "Lyse Doucet goes to the Syrian city of Palmyra to see buildings and people shattered by IS militants.", "Neil Taylor is sent off as 10-man Wales hold Republic of Ireland to a goalless draw, with the hosts losing Seamus Coleman to a broken leg.", "Theo Leggett examines what changes new owners Liberty Media might bring in to re-energise Formula 1.", "British Swimming is conducting an investigation after multiple bullying claims by Paralympians about a coach, the BBC learns.", "Lewis Hamilton leads a Mercedes one-two in first practice as a new era of Formula 1 started in familiar fashion at the Australian GP.", "Middlesbrough defender Ben Gibson is called up to the England squad for the first time after an injury to Manchester United's Chris Smalling.", "How one man revamped the menus and made food appetising again at Kingston Hospital.", "David Haye is called before boxing authorities to explain his behaviour in the build-up to his bout with Tony Bellew.", "British Olympic and Paralympic sport must improve its record on athlete welfare, says Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.", "A son reveals the reality of growing up with a depressed mum who is frequently hospitalised.", "A look at the men and women affected by President Trump's deportation strategy.", "A look at how the seed of a South American tree is increasingly being used as an alternative to ivory.", "England used to be \"like a rugby\" team but have a brighter future because they \"play more football now\", says ex-Germany forward Lukas Podolski.", "Chris Coleman says he and his Wales side will be driven by \"desperation\" when they face the Republic of Ireland on Friday.", "An amateur jockey who slowed down and lost his lead in the final stages of a race is banned for 28 days.", "The death of Morse writer Colin Dexter is the final chapter in a lifelong love affair with the university city.", "With new rules and new-era cars, Formula 1 takes a step into the unknown as the 2017 season starts in Australia this weekend.", "Republic of Ireland skipper Seamus Coleman suffers a broken leg in his side's goalless draw with Wales at the Aviva Stadium.", "Caroline Wozniacki says it is \"disrespectful\" that Maria Sharapova has a wildcard to play in Stuttgart on the week her drugs ban ends.", "Son Heung-min deftly scores his second goal with a lovely volleyed finish in Tottenham's FA Cup quarter-final against Millwall.", "Leicester caretaker boss Craig Shakespeare is appointed manager on a full-time basis until the end of the season.", "Even for a long-time foreign resident, the loudness of life in China can still come as a surprise.", "At this year’s South by Southwest, a plethora of helpful artificial intelligence - but what I’m looking for is peace and quiet.", "The death of a young father leads to a conversation about marathon gaming sessions.", "Clint Hill's late equaliser denies runaway Scottish Premiership leaders Celtic a fourth victory of the season over city rivals Rangers.", "Emre Can's fourth goal of the season ends Burnley's resistance as a below-par Liverpool strengthen their place in the top four.", "World number one Andy Murray suffers a shock second-round exit to Canadian qualifier Vasek Pospisil at Indian Wells.", "Pep Guardiola says Manchester City face a week which will \"define their season\" as they look to finish the season with a trophy.", "British number one Johanna Konta and men's number three Kyle Edmund are out of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells.", "Britain's Elise Christie wins the 1500m title at the World Short Track Speed Skating Championships in Rotterdam.", "A broken string on match point leads to defeat for Chris and Gabby Adcock at the All England Badminton Championship", "Son Heung-min scores a hat-trick as Tottenham Hotspur reach the semi-finals of the FA Cup with an easy win over League One Millwall.", "England may have equalled New Zealand's world record for consecutive Test wins but Eddie Jones still aspires to reach their level, says Tom Fordyce.", "The BBC's defence and diplomatic correspondent examines how armed conflict and war differ.", "Steve McClaren is sacked as manager of Derby County, just five months after he was reappointed.", "Manchester City comfortably win at Middlesbrough as Pep Guardiola's side secure an FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.", "England retained their Six Nations title and equalled New Zealand's world record for consecutive Test wins with a seven-try demolition of Scotland at Twickenham.", "Non-league Lincoln City's astonishing run in the FA Cup comes to an end as Arsenal comfortably progress to the semi-finals.", "England retain the Six Nations title and Calcutta Cup and equal New Zealand's record of 18 straight Test wins as they hammer Scotland.", "Arsene Wenger says Arsenal showed against Lincoln that they have their confidence back following Tuesday's heavy loss to Bayern Munich.", "Former Liverpool defender and Match of the Day 2 pundit Mark Lawrenson explains why an 'ugly win’ mattered so much on Sunday.", "Substitute Oumar Niasse scores two goals as Hull City beat fellow Premier League strugglers Swansea City.", "England coach Eddie Jones says his team can \"achieve greatness\" by beating Ireland next week and completing a Grand Slam.", "When Jamalida Begum complained that soldiers had raped her, she was accused of lying by the office of Aung San Suu Kyi and had to flee to avoid reprisals.", "Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford will be named by Gareth Southgate in the England squad on Thursday.", "Theresa May's stand-off with Nicola Sturgeon over independence is about competing mandates - and political calculations.", "Some drivers say their wage is less than three pounds an hour. One feels \"like a prisoner\" in his cab.", "Will the latest hijacking be a wake-up call or does it signal the start of a new wave of piracy?", "The low-profile Tillerson faces several major problems, including North Korea's nuclear threat.", "The BBC's James Reynolds fancies a crack at running one of the world's iconic sites, the Colosseum in Rome.", "Troops who fought alongside jailed sergeant speak for the first time about the 2011 killing.", "A bid from two or more UK cities to jointly host the 2022 Commonwealth Games would be considered by Games chiefs.", "Americans gave Republicans a gift - control of the presidency and Congress. Will it be squandered?", "Manchester City are knocked out of the Champions League on away goals at the last-16 stage after Monaco's second-leg victory at Stade Louis II.", "World number three Rory McIlroy remains critical of Muirfield after the club votes to admit women members for the first time.", "Josh Edmondson tells BBC sports editor Dan Roan he broke cycling's rules by secretly injecting himself with a cocktail of vitamins when riding for Team Sky.", "Despite their immense power, companies such as Facebook and Google have avoided negative headlines - but that might be changing.", "Middlesbrough sack manager Aitor Karanka, with the club in the Premier League relegation zone.", "Nichols Canyon is the big winner as jockey Ruby Walsh and trainer Willie Mullins win four races on a day dominated by the Irish at Cheltenham.", "Special Tiara wins the Queen Mother Champion Chase for jockey Noel Fehily with odds-on favourite Douvan well beaten.", "Roger Federer claims a third straight win over Rafael Nadal for the first time in his career in Indian Wells.", "Nigeria's LGBT community respond to transgender comments made by writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie", "Manchester United \"are not ready to be a dominant force\", manager Jose Mourinho tells BBC Sport's Premier League Show.", "Pep Guardiola says his failure to convince his players to attack and be aggressive in Monaco is the reason for their Champions League elimination.", "Manchester United reach the Europa League quarter-finals with victory over Rostov thanks to a goal from Juan Mata.", "The Tories aren't the only party to have messed up their election expenses but it could cause them significant political pain", "Liverpool's Ben Woodburn receives a first call up to Wales' squad for the World Cup qualifier against the Republic of Ireland on 24 March.", "Sunderland striker Jermain Defoe is recalled to the England squad, more than three years after his last international appearance.", "One of the few people with any insight into the puzzle behind the man's death was Maureen Toogood.", "The Duke of Cambridge was criticised after he was seen partying on a ski holiday.", "Warrington Wolves remain bottom of Super League as Leigh Centurions earn a deserved win at the Leigh Sports Village.", "Number eight Billy Vunipola and wing Anthony Watson return from injury to start in England's Grand Slam meeting with Ireland.", "Leicester striker Jamie Vardy says he has had death threats and his family have been targeted after Claudio Ranieri's sacking.", "Gamblers and insurers both place bets on the future, so how do they compare?", "Editing a newspaper is a hugely demanding and time-consuming role - the editorial side is only part of it.", "BBC Sport looks at the future of Arsene Wenger at Arsenal after his side lost 3-1 away against West Brom - a fourth defeat in five league games.", "Manchester City are fined £15,573 by Uefa for incidents regarding the home leg of their Champions League last-16 tie with Monaco on 21 February.", "Australian Jessica May overcame acute anxiety by setting up a recruitment firm for people with mental and physical disabilities.", "Alan Shearer and Danny Murphy join Mark Chapman on MOTD3 to discuss the \"superb\" 1-1 draw between Manchester City and Liverpool.", "England should beat Lithuania whoever plays up front instead of Harry Kane, says former England captain Alan Shearer.", "What happens when your name is perfectly reasonable in your home country, but raises a sympathetic smile when you're abroad?", "Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says his side's 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Etihad Stadium was \"one of his most special days in management\".", "Fifa bans Ghanaian referee Joseph Lamptey for life for \"match manipulation\" during a 2018 World Cup qualifier between South Africa and Senegal.", "Mike Phillips, Jeremy Guscott and Keith Wood dish out Six Nations awards and ponder who should be in the British and Irish Lions squad.", "The Afghan capital was rocked by a brutal militant attack last week on the city's military hospital.", "An alternative look at the final round of the Six Nations, as Ireland are too hot for England, France win in the 100th minute, and Scotland cane Italy.", "A couple who struggled for years to get the braces their disabled child needed to sit in a chair have found a way to make them in hours rather than months.", "Six Nations officials are reviewing events in the closing stages of Wales' loss to France, including an alleged bite on George North.", "West Ham winger Michail Antonio withdraws from the England squad to face Germany and Lithuania because of a hamstring injury.", "Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is like \"an uncle who doesn't want to leave the party\", says former Chelsea striker Chris Sutton.", "Petra Kvitova speaks of her determination to return to tennis following a knife attack at her home in December.", "The late Chuck Berry had many hits, but only one of them made it to number one.", "Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill leads the tributes to Derry City captain Ryan McBride, who has died at the age of 27.", "The extent of doping in amateur sport - as revealed by a poll for the BBC - is a \"concern\", says sports minister Tracey Crouch.", "The speed and power that gave F1 its visceral thrills is back - let's just hope overtaking continues, writes Andrew Benson.", "Manchester City and Liverpool have to settle for a point apiece as they battle out a thrilling draw at Etihad Stadium.", "Ryan McBride fulfilled a boyhood dream on his way to becoming a hero to Derry City's fans.", "Professional hairbraiders are putting up a fight over what they say are unnecessary regulations.", "The Premier League's goalscoring charm revealed, Mahrez and Vardy improvement, and Lukaku breaks a 31-year Everton record - the weekend in stats.", "In the days when darts players chain-smoked and drank pints of lager between trips to the oche, Jocky Wilson was one of Scotland's most unlikely sporting heroes.", "UK Anti-Doping says drug use in sport is \"fast becoming a crisis\" in response to a poll for BBC Sport into doping in amateur sport.", "How the UK's withdrawal from the EU is already raising big questions in Northern Ireland.", "Barcelona boss Luis Enrique says he will step down at the end of the season, because he needs to \"rest\".", "What really lies behind China's huge show of force in its far west?", "IAAF president Lord Coe says that the Russian authorities have \"grasped the enormity of the challenge\" as they tackle doping in the country.", "With a police investigator shortage now a \"crisis\", ex-detectives reveal why they quit their jobs.", "Atletico Madrid say striker Fernando Torres is \"stable, conscious and lucid\" in hospital after suffering a head injury in the 1-1 draw with Deportivo.", "How a pilot scheme in Havana might point the way to an internet-connected Cuba.", "A profile of the 17 British citizens and residents who were detained by the US in the camp on Cuba.", "Manchester City cruise into the FA Cup quarter-finals after fighting back to beat visitors Huddersfield in their fifth-round replay.", "The former prime minister says the majority of recent press abuses are down to the Murdoch press.", "Does Trumpism mean making a definitive break from the America's past as a beacon of democracy?", "The head of British Cycling apologises for \"failings\" following accusations of bullying and sexism against top-level cyclists.", "Are President Trump's new policies negatively affecting travel to the US?", "Ferrari produce another fast performance on the final day of testing in Barcelona with simulated weather conditions.", "The International Olympic Committee warns it will move the Tokyo 2020 golf from its current venue if it does not admit women.", "West Ham United manager Slaven Bilic says Chinese clubs \"fell in love\" with striker Andy Carroll, but the Hammers did not want to sell him.", "Andy Murray saves seven match points in a 31-minute tie-break before beating Philipp Kohlschreiber in the Dubai Championships.", "Double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee says he may not return to triathlon for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but is not ruling it out.", "David Haye says he will provide \"a real destruction job\" against Tony Bellew on Saturday, who says he wants to win \"by any means necessary\".", "The Minister for Policing says police budgets have been protected, but not all areas have benefited equally.", "England all-rounder Ben Stokes says he has grown up as his side prepare for a three-match ODI series against West Indies.", "A doctor who received a 'mystery package' for Sir Bradley Wiggins has no record of his medical treatment at the time, MPs are told.", "Celtic pay tribute to Lisbon Lion Tommy Gemmell, who has died following a long illness."], "section": [null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "Business", "US & Canada", null, null, null, "Northern Ireland", null, null, null, null, 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This was a night dedicated to him.\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate on BBC Radio 5 live: \"We have to reflect on a very good performance - a new system that I felt worked well and allowed us to control possession of game but also create chances.\n\n\"They've scored a fairytale goal, but I've got to be proud of what the players have done.\n\n\"I thought we were the better side up until their winning goal. That was a good learning experience for our young players who made their debuts.\n\n\"All that was missing was the finish to get the winning goal I felt we deserved.\"\n\nGermany goalscorer Lukas Podolski: \"It was like in a movie, dear god gave me a strong left foot and I used it tonight.\n\n\"It was a great game, a great result and a great way to say goodbye. That gave me goosebumps to get a reception like that.\"\n\nGermany manager Joachim Low: \"It was noticeable that England were playing more intensely, much more vigorously in the tackle especially in the first half.\n\n\"It took us a while to get used to this and slowly but surely I think our players got used to our rhythm.\n\n\"I think it was a very good game in the end. It was good to play against opponents that really gave us a run for our money.\"\n\nBoth countries return to their World Cup qualifying campaigns on Sunday, when England host Lithuania and Germany are away to Azerbaijan.\n• None Offside, Germany. Mats Hummels tries a through ball, but André Schürrle is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Leroy Sané (Germany) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Emre Can.\n• None Attempt missed. Mats Hummels (Germany) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Toni Kroos with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. André Schürrle (Germany) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jonas Hector with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Thomas Müller (Germany) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Leroy Sané.\n• None Offside, Germany. Thomas Müller tries a through ball, but Leroy Sané is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLeicester striker Jamie Vardy says he has received death threats and his family have been targeted since Claudio Ranieri was sacked as manager.\n\nThe 30-year-old blamed \"hurtful\" and \"false\" accusations he influenced the club's decision to sack the Italian.\n\nRanieri left in February, nine months after winning the Premier League, with the club 17th in the table. His successor, Craig Shakespeare, later denied reports of a player revolt.\n\n\"It is terrifying,\" Vardy said.\n\n\"I read one story that said I was personally involved in a meeting after the Sevilla game when I was actually sat in anti-doping for three hours.\n\n\"But then the story is out there, people pick it up and jump on it and you're getting death threats about your family, kids, everything.\"\n\nVardy said he was able to \"get on with it\" but added: \"When people are trying to cut your missus up while she's driving, with the kids in the back of the car, it's not the best.\"\n\nVardy is in Dortmund with the England squad as they prepare to face Germany on Wednesday in a friendly.\n\nHis international manager Gareth Southgate said he understood why the striker had chosen to discuss the matter publicly.\n\n\"It's a very serious subject, we're very supportive of him and I know the club are,\" said the England boss.\n\n\"The authorities are well aware of what's going on. There's no problem with his focus on the game.\"\n\nBBC Sport understands some Leicester players were summoned to meet the club's chairman after a 2-1 Champions League defeat by Sevilla, and Ranieri's fate was sealed by the negative reaction.\n\nWith Shakespeare in charge - first as caretaker and later on a deal until the end of the season - the Foxes have won four successive matches, moving up to 15th, six points above the relegation zone.\n\nThat run includes a 2-0 victory in their last-16 second leg with Sevilla which leaves them as England's only representative in the quarter-finals.\n\n\"If there was an issue, you went and did it in the gaffer's office or you went and did it on the tactics board, because he was happy for you to come in and put your opinion across,\" Vardy added of Ranieri's time in charge.\n\n\"The stories were quite hurtful to be honest with you. A lot of false accusations were being thrown out there and there was nothing we, as players, could do about it.\n\n\"We just had to put it to the back of our minds and concentrate on the football.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United have agreed to let midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger join MLS side Chicago Fire.\n\nA deal between the clubs was agreed on Monday and is subject to a medical and visa being secured.\n\nThe former Germany captain, 32, has signed a one-year contract with an option for a further year.\n\n\"I am sad to leave so many friends at Manchester United,\" he said. \"But I am grateful to the club for allowing me the chance to take up this challenge.\"\n\nHe added: \"I have enjoyed working with the manager, players and staff but I have to reserve special thanks to the fans. I will always remember their energy and their passion.\"\n\nSchweinsteiger, who led Germany to World Cup victory in 2014, had talks with Chicago Fire last year but opted to stay at United beyond the end of the January window.\n\nHowever, Fire requested the midfielder join them now and, as Schweinsteiger was unlikely to play any significant part at United for the remainder of the season, the Old Trafford club have sanctioned his exit.\n\nLast week, he trained with some junior members of the United squad while the remainder prepared for their Europa League game against FC Rostov.\n\n\"We would have preferred it to happen in January but United were understandably reluctant to let him leave. I think we wore them down with our persistence,\" said Chicago Fire general manager Nelson Rodriguez.\n\n\"Bastian Schweinsteiger is a great player with great vision and a phenomenal soccer IQ. He doesn't have the same physical attributes as he had as a teenager but people should be wary not to underestimate the heart of a champion,\" he added.\n\nSchweinsteiger, who was signed by the Old Trafford club under former boss Louis van Gaal in July 2015, trained alone or with the Under-23 side at United after Jose Mourinho took over as manager last summer.\n\nHe returned to the first-team set-up before a Europa League game against Fenerbahce in November and played his first game for the club this season in an EFL Cup win over West Ham on 30 November.\n\nHowever, he has made just three further appearances for the club - scoring one goal - with his last outing coming as a substitute against Saint-Etienne in the Europa League on 22 February.\n\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United face an anxious wait to discover the seriousness of the toe injury that has forced Phil Jones out of the England squad.\n\nThe defender did not travel to Dortmund for Wednesday's friendly with Germany, instead going for scans and X-rays.\n\nJones, 25, was injured in an innocuous training ground tackle at St George's Park, with reports claiming it involved United team-mate Chris Smalling.\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate did not reveal whether that was the case.\n\nIf the injury turns out to be a break and keeps Jones on the sidelines for a lengthy spell, it will cause a selection concern for United manager Jose Mourinho as they prepare for nine games in April.\n\nSouthgate said: \"I don't know who it was with. It was just a nothing sort of thing really. It is very unfortunate for him and a huge disappointment as he has been playing very well and has had some injury difficulties in the past.\n\n\"We have respectfully sent him back to his club and we will know more once he has had scans and x-rays over the next 24-48 hours.\"\n\nSouthgate has no plans to call up a replacement as yet, but will \"assess his options\" after Wednesday's friendly in Germany, the FA said.\n\nEngland play a World Cup qualifier at home to Lithuania on Sunday, for which Chelsea's Gary Cahill is suspended.\n\nSouthgate's other options at centre-back are Smalling, Manchester City's John Stones and Burnley's uncapped Michael Keane.\n\nOn Sunday, West Ham winger Michail Antonio withdrew from the England squad with a hamstring injury.", "Eddie Jones says the British and Irish Lions should name four captains for the tour of New Zealand - one from each of their four national teams.\n\nLions head coach Warren Gatland has said \"half-a-dozen players are in contention\" to lead his squad.\n\nEngland's Dylan Hartley, Ireland's Rory Best, Wales' Alun Wyn Jones and Greig Laidlaw of Scotland are among those.\n\n\"I would take those four captains and make that the leadership group,\" England coach Jones said.\n\n\"Then after the warm-up games, whoever was the leading player I would make captain for the first Test,\" added the Australian, speaking at ESPN's Advertising Week Europe business event in London.\n\n\"You look at the last Lions tour and Sam Warburton captained the first two and Alun Wyn Jones captained the third, so I think you can separate it.\n\n\"It would be different but I would reckon you would get a great result, with those four captains running the team for you and making sure they set the standards on and off the field.\"\n\nNew Zealander Gatland will name his squad on 19 April, and on Sunday said whoever is picked as captain would not be guaranteed to play.\n\n\"When you are looking at a captain, you want to be reasonably confident he is going to be starting in the Tests. But it is not a guarantee, it is just part of the criteria,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek programme.\n\n\"Whoever that person is has to rise to that; the message is it's a great honour to captain the Lions but your form has to be good enough to be selected for the Tests.\"\n• None Get all the latest rugby union news by adding", "With esports - organised, competitive computer gaming - predicted to become a £1bn industry by 2020, traditional sports clubs are looking to get involved in this fast-emerging world.\n\nAs part of a BBC State of Sport week examining different topics and issues across sport, meet Paris St-Germain's League of Legends team, who are representing the club in online tournaments.\n\nThey live in Berlin, practise 14 hours a day and prepare like professional sportsmen.\n\nREAD MORE: Esports 'to double audience by 2020'.\n\nREAD MORE: What is esports?", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nThe classification system for British track and field Para-athletes \"could be abused\" and is \"open to exploitation\", according to a UK Athletics review.\n\nThe review found a \"wide consensus\" among those with experience of the system that rules could be exploited, also identifying methods of doing so.\n\nIt follows claims before the Rio 2016 Paralympics that classifications could be manipulated to boost medal chances.\n\nYet, there is \"no substantive evidence\" to suggest widespread cheating.\n\nA four-person panel, chaired by Paralympic wheelchair racer Anne Wafula Strike, conducted the review between November and February, with its findings revealed on Tuesday.\n\nIt concluded the system could be abused, \"should an athlete or support personnel be sufficiently motivated, have an understanding of the classification process and have an impairment that lends itself to exaggeration.\"\n\nThe classification system puts athletes into groups depending on the level of their impairment to try to ensure fair competition.\n\nHowever, the UKA review found various methods of undermining those rules, including:\n• None Athletes with neurological conditions arriving at classification evaluations tired in order to perform poorly\n• None Athletes altering medical forms and/or supporting evidence before submitting them to UKA\n• None Athletes presenting medical reports from doctors who are sympathetic to the athlete\n\nEmploying such methods could allow an athlete to exaggerate their level of disability and gain an unfair advantage, potentially increasing their chances of medals.\n\nBaroness Grey-Thompson, an 11-time Paralympic champion, has previously raised concerns over athletes abusing the system, adding the issue \"goes to the heart of the integrity of the sport\".\n\nBritish sprinter Bethany Woodward, who has cerebral palsy and was not selected for Rio, gave an interview before the Games saying she had lost faith in the way the team was selected.\n\nAs part of the review, 26 individuals with experience of the classification system were invited to interviews - 20 of whom accepted - including current and former athletes, coaches and support staff, some of whom had also previously expressed issues with the system.\n\nThe findings also drew on other expertise, as well as that of the panel members Wafula Strike, Professor John Brewer of St Mary's University, Iain Gowans of the British Paralympic Association and Peter Taylor of the UKA board.\n\nThe report also highlighted difficulties in detecting classification abuses from performances alone, with Para-athletics a \"young sport\" where records are \"broken frequently, sometimes by large margins,\" while systems of classification are also still developing.\n\nYet it also warned that the issue \"is not exclusive to athletics\" but can be seen across Paralympic disciplines.\n\nDespite focusing on UKA's classifications system, the review also noted possible discrepancies between the UKA and the system used by World Para Athletics (WPA).\n\nUKA handles classifications for track and field athletes in the UK, while the WPA controls international competitions classification and other sports regulate their own classification.\n\nThose interviewed by the panel also raised uncertainties that coaches and athletes understood both systems, as well as concerns over the lack of a forum to explain athlete classifications and the absence of an appeal process against potential incorrect allocation that is independent of UKA.\n\nWhat are their recommendations?\n\nUKA chair Ed Warner confirmed that a number of recommendations made by the report will be implemented in full, including improving the standard of medical documentation, with particular focus on those with fluctuating conditions.\n\nThe review also calls for an oversight committee, independent from UKA, to manage the appeals process, as well as a panel of independent clinicians to review medical data.\n\nDespite the issues raised, the panel also found UKA's classification to be \"robust\" and often cited as \"an exemplar of best practice\", with Wafula Strike hoping the implemented recommendations mean UKA continues \"leading the way\" in ensuring the integrity of Para-athletics.\n\nBrewer added: \"Many of the recommendations we have made will, we believe, allow the process in the future to be more flexible, responsive to change and - if appropriate - open to challenge and closer review.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nGhanaian referee Joseph Lamptey has been banned for life by Fifa for what it calls \"match manipulation\".\n\nThe ban results from a penalty he awarded to South Africa in a 2-1 win over Senegal in a 2018 World Cup qualifier in November.\n\nHe penalised Kalidou Koulibaly for handball, but replays showed the ball hit his knee.\n\nFootball's world governing body says it will give more details \"once the decision becomes final and binding\".\n\nLamptey can now appeal to Fifa and the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\nOne of his assistants, David Laryea, also from Ghana, had charges against him dismissed by Fifa's disciplinary committee.\n\nThe win for South Africa left them in second place in the four-team group after two matches, with Senegal in third.\n\nLamptey, who also officiated at the Rio Olympics last year, declined BBC Sport's invitation to comment, saying he would do so later.\n\nThe Senegal Football Federation (FSF), who made a complaint to Fifa over Lamptey, is happy with the decision.\n\n\"Today there are many reasons to be happy about this decision - a decision that will be remembered as being significant but will also warn everybody that they are being watched,\" FSF vice-president Abdoulaye Sow told BBC Sport.\n\n\"All cheating and stealing will be punished according to its gravity.\n\n\"Fifa has clearly struck a big blow and has promised in its decision to talk again about the match when the decision is final and binding.\"", "West Brom midfielder Jake Livermore wants to make proud the people who helped him through difficult times after earning an England recall.\n\nThe 27-year-old won his only cap in August 2012 against Italy but has had some dark days since then.\n\nAfter the death of his newborn son Jake Junior, he tested positive for cocaine in May 2015 but avoided a two-year ban and has gone on to rebuild his career.\n\n\"I wouldn't have thought it would come, it was in my distant dreams,\" he said.\n\n\"I never thought I'd have the opportunity to represent my country again. The longer it goes, the harder it seems to get.\n\n\"To be honest it wasn't overly in my thoughts, it was more just wanting to get back into club football and put a positive spin on my career, for my friends, for my family and those who stuck by me - the FA among them.\n\n\"Hopefully I can do myself, my country and them proud.\n\n\"Having this opportunity to repay them in any way, shape or form is like a dream for me.\"\n\nLivermore was a surprise inclusion in Gareth Southgate's squad to face Germany in a friendly on Wednesday and Lithuania in a World Cup qualifier on Sunday.\n\nHe said he got his career back on track after his personal tragedy with the support of then Hull City manager Steve Bruce.\n\nHe said in an interview with Football Focus last year that his positive test for cocaine was the \"get out of jail free card\" he needed to start to come to terms with the death of his son.\n\nThe Football Association decided not to ban him because of \"the unique nature of circumstances\" involved.\n\nHe helped Hull win promotion to the Premier League last season before earning a £10m January move to West Brom and wants to be there for others in the future.\n\n\"Football always helped me very much because it was a platform for me to propel my life, really,\" he added. \"Everyone has their own story and everyone will be opened up to different opportunities or temptations.\n\n\"When people need you, like I needed someone, I want to be a person who can help someone else.\n\n\"It's nice to be able to help someone and give something back because when I really needed it I was fortunate to have that with the FA and my club.\"", "Slowing real income growth could be a challenge for the Prime Minister\n\nIt was Harry S Truman who famously pleaded for a one handed economist, so tired was he of proponents of the dismal science saying \"well, on the one hand, sir... but on the other...\"\n\nSadly for the 33rd President of the United States, you would need a lot of hands to explain today's surprisingly rapid increase in inflation.\n\nRising global commodity prices are pushing up inflation pressures around the world.\n\nAs global growth strengthens, that upward pressure is likely to increase.\n\nIn 2015 and early 2016, we saw a period of deflation - falling prices - in key sectors such as fuel and clothing, so the rise now (in comparison with a year ago) is particularly stark.\n\nMore recently, poor weather in southern Europe has meant that foods such as salad have increased in price by over 60%.\n\nAlthough, as Alan Clarke from Scotia Bank, points out, \"the lettuce crisis didn't cause today's big upwards surprise.\"\n\nPrices for lettuce and other vegetables rose as supermarkets were forced to ration them\n\nWhat did were increases in the prices of food (the first year-on-year rise for more than two years), fuel and what are described as \"recreational\" goods (such as televisions and laptops).\n\nThese increases can all be linked, at least in part, to the cost of importing goods into the UK.\n\nAnd a large part of that increase in cost comes from the fall in the value of sterling since the referendum.\n\nAlthough it is always worth pointing out that sterling's fall was evident before the referendum (many economists argue it was over-valued) and that the dollar has been particularly strong as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates.\n\nWill the increase in inflation continue and put pressure on the Bank of England to raise interest rates?\n\nWell, input prices - what manufacturers pay for the materials and fuel they use - are rising by over 20% a year, the fastest since 2008.\n\nAnd those costs will increasingly be pushed through to consumers.\n\nSo in the medium term, inflation is on an upward trajectory and could peak above the Bank's own forecast of 2.7% in the first three months of next year.\n\nBut, and it is a significant but, wage growth (a long-term motor of inflation) is actually slowing.\n\nLast month, incomes grew by 2.3%, significantly down on a month earlier and the same number as today's inflation figure.\n\nYes, it is only one month's data, but as it stands, real income growth has stalled and groups such as the Resolution Foundation believe it will now turn negative.\n\nThe great wages squeeze which followed the financial crisis could well have returned.\n\nAnd that is a worry for Theresa May, as I wrote last week.\n\nGiven that trend, the dovish position of the Bank is likely to remain in place.\n\nYes, the markets have upped their expectations of a rate rise, but the Bank has been clear: a cut to support economic growth as the UK begins its Brexit negotiations is as likely as an increase.\n\nAnd any increase, if it were to come, is likely to be small.\n\nWhich is bad news for savers, of course.\n\nIt would be ridiculous to say that Brexit is not affecting the UK's course on inflation.\n\nBut it is not the whole story. To tell that, you need plenty of hands.", "Hawaii State Attorney General Douglas Chin speaks after the ruling halting President Trump's second travel ban\n\nA federal judge in Hawaii has ordered that President Donald Trump's travel ban be halted. How else has this island state influenced the rest of the country?\n\nDays before US President Donald Trump's revised travel ban was to go into effect, US District Judge Derrick Watson halted Trump's plan, which would have placed a 90-day ban on people from six mainly Muslim nations and a 120-day ban on refugees.\n\nFans of Trump's measures, which were signed as an executive order, expressed frustration that one small state, so far from the rest of the US, could halt the plans.\n\n\"Hawaii, what do you know?\" asked Twitter user @fiverights.\n\nAs it turns out, Hawaii has been pretty active in influencing American culture since well before it became a state in 1959.\n\n\"We're the link to the Pacific and Asia in many ways,\" said John Rosa, an associate professor of history at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.\n\nIt's also where John F Kennedy visited in early 1963, during the height of the civil rights movement, and remarked that \"Hawaii is what the United States is striving to be.\"\n\nHow else has Hawaii influenced the rest of the US?\n\nThe USS Shaw explodes during the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor\n\nThe United States may have never joined World War II if it hadn't been for the attack on the navy base at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 - the \"date which will live in infamy\".\n\nWhen Japanese forces attacked the military base on a Hawaiian island, it jettisoned the nation into a war that it would ultimately end by dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.\n\nThe attack on Pearl Harbor remains one of America's most important historic events in the last century.\n\nIt also helped turn Hawaii from an exotic outpost to a place of greater US visibility.\n\n\"The attack on Pearl Harbor give greater visibility to Hawaii,\" Rosa said. \"You do have veterans who 10 years after getting out of the service, they remember being stationed on Hawaii briefly. They're coming to Hawaii for vacation or at least considering it, whereas they would not consider any other place in the Pacific.\"\n\nThree Hawaiian princes brought surfing to the mainland in July, 1885, while on a short vacation in Santa Cruz, California. They rode redwood boards and the people of California took note.\n\nIt sparked a new economic relationship between California and Hawaii as many surfers wanted redwood surfboards.\n\nSurfing developed a loyal following soon after, and later influenced US pop culture through music like the Beach Boys and dozens of 1950s beach party films.\n\nHawaii also lays claim to the international symbol for \"Hang Loose\" - fists forward, thumbs and pinkies protruding to create a gentle y - known locally as the Shaka.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu just two years after Hawaii became a state.\n\nHe spent most of his childhood in the Aloha State before attending Columbia University and Harvard Law School. He then moved to Chicago, where he served as a US Senator for Illinois before becoming president.\n\n\"Some people have argued his outlook for the US as a global partner comes from his roots in Hawaii,\" Rosa said.\n\n\"People in Hawaii are sensitive to the needs and wants of immigrants and are very sensitive to race relations,\" Rosa said. \"That kind of informs not just the judge (who stayed Trump's travel ban) but also Obama.\"\n\nAlthough Spam wasn't invented in Hawaii (Minnesota gets that honour), the state is the Spam Capital of the nation.\n\nHawaii's residents consume more Spam per capita than residents of any other state, eating about six cans of spam a year per person, on average.\n\nSpam and eggs, fried rice and Spam, and Obama's personal favorite - musubi - a sushi-like dish that couples Spam with rice and seaweed - are all popular offerings and dishes that have made their ways to the mainland.\n\nThe longest running police procedural of its time, Hawaii Five-O, was shot on a set in Hawaii. To help spread out costs, show creators developed a Hawaii detective show, Magnum PI - the show that launched Tom Selleck's illustrious career.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nCoverage: Commentary on BBC Radio 5 live, text updates on the BBC Sport website and mobile app.\n\nFavourite Minella Rocco will not run in next month's Grand National at Aintree, trainer Jonjo O'Neill says.\n\nMinella Rocco was about 8-1 favourite after finishing runner-up to Sizing John in the Cheltenham Gold Cup.\n\nStablemate More Of That, who was sixth in the Gold Cup, is set to run in the National on Saturday, 8 April.\n\n\"Minella Rocco has been taken out of the Grand National. He's absolutely fine and we'll aim him at the Gold Cup again next year,\" O'Neill said.\n\n\"More Of That came out of the Gold Cup well and will now head to Aintree for the National.\n\n\"Shutthefrontdoor has also been taken out of the Grand National and will head for the Irish Grand National next month.\"\n\nThere are 79 entries remaining at the latest stage, after 16 horses were withdrawn, with a maximum of 40 allowed to run.\n\nPendra, after a revised rating, is at 40 with Rogue Angel 41.\n\nHandicapper Phil Smith only expects a few more horses to be pulled out over the next fortnight and believes those at 50 or above in the list are unlikely to make the line-up.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nParis and Los Angeles say they are only interested in hosting the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics - and not the 2028 Games.\n\nThere have been suggestions the International Olympic Committee may award both the 2024 and 2028 Games in September.\n\n\"2024 is now or never for us,\" co-chair Tony Estanguet told BBC Sport.\n\nThe LA 2024 committee later issued a statement saying their bid represents \"the right city at this critical time\".\n\nThe American city's statement added: \"With all permanent venues already built and 88% public support, only LA 2024 offers the lowest-risk and truly sustainable solution for the future of the Olympic movement in 2024 and beyond.\"\n\nThe 2024 Games are scheduled to be awarded at September's IOC summit in Lima, Peru, with Paris the favourite to win.\n\n\"We believe we have the strongest offer but it is only available for 2024,\" added Estanguet. \"We can't host the Games in 2028 because we don't have the project available for 2028.\n\n\"We have the guarantees, we have the public support, we have the political support, we have 95% of existing venues. This is the fourth bid from Paris and 2024 is the centenary of the Games in Paris.\"\n• None Read more: Dan Roan blogs on the IOC's likely two-Games deal\n\nThere have been reports the losers of the 2024 bid could be awarded the following Games in 2028.\n\n\"All options are on the table, and this includes also the 2024-2028 procedure and vote,\" said IOC president Thomas Bach last week.\n\nEstanguet, a three-time Olympic canoeing champion, says the bid committee has been in discussions with the IOC since the beginning of the bidding process.\n\nHe added that the bid committee has talked through the issue of 2028 with the IOC on several occasions.\n\nEarlier this week, Eric Garcetti, the mayor of LA, warned the Americans were intent on winning the right to host the 2024 Games.\n\n\"We are competing for 2024,\" he told insidethegames. \"Full stop. We have never contemplated anything else.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says he was surprised Wales boss Chris Coleman did not contact him before calling up teenager Ben Woodburn.\n\nThe 17-year-old was named in the senior squad for the World Cup qualifier against the Republic of Ireland.\n\nBut his club boss has been left perplexed he was not consulted and believes the call-up has come too early.\n\n\"Actually, I was surprised about this,\" said Klopp.\n\nNottingham-born Woodburn, who qualifies to play for Wales through his maternal grandfather, has played for Wales at under-16, under-18 and under-19 level.\n\nBut Klopp believes he should have been in the loop when Coleman decided to move him up to the seniors.\n\nKlopp added: \"I don't know exactly how normal it is here.\n\n\"This should not be a criticism, but usually when you call up a player, a 17-year-old player, I thought it would be possible to call me.\n\n\"I'm not sure if he knows him well. He didn't play in the team so far for Coleman I think.\"\n\n'Should it be now? Probably not'\n\nDespite the fact he does not believe now is the right time for Wales to call on Woodburn, Klopp expects the youngster to deal with the situation.\n\n\"Obviously Ben is happy about it, so I am happy about it so that is the first thing,\" Klopp said.\n\n\"Do I think [Woodburn's selection for Wales] should it be now? I would say probably not. But is it a problem? No.\n\n\"Ben is a wonderful kid and he can deal with it 100%. He understands it all and knows really what he still has to learn and I can understand.\"\n\nWoodburn has played seven games for Liverpool this season and became their youngest scorer when he netted against Leeds in the EFL Cup in November.\n\n'I make my own mind up'\n\nWales had been urged to go to 'war' with England to claim Woodburn, but Coleman says the decision to select the youngster was his alone and Liverpool did not intervene.\n\n\"I make my own mind up about a player,\" Coleman said after announcing his squad on Thursday.\n\n\"I understand when you pick young players then clubs go, 'Oh, calm down,' but I make my own mind up.\n\n\"No matter how old he is, if he is good enough and I think he has something to offer us and can help us in this challenge then I am going to pick him.\n\n\"That's no disrespect to Jurgen or anybody else who say maybe he's not [ready], but that's their opinion.\"\n\nWales are third in their 2018 World Cup qualifying group and face a crucial tie against the Republic on 24 March and Coleman insists Woodburn \"belongs\" in his squad.\n\n\"He belongs to them [Liverpool], but I've got a job to do for Wales and I have to pick my strongest squad,\" Coleman said.\n\n\"At the minute, from what I have seen, he belongs in our strongest 23. That's why he is there.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Klopp says he is happy to share Woodburn's development as a player with Coleman.\n\n\"I heard the manager said he's one of the best 23 players in Wales so he needs to be there, so that is his decision - all good,\" the Liverpool boss said.\n\n\"But now we are two managers who have to make sure that he develops in the right way, because usually it was more my responsibility and now we can share it a little bit so that is good.\"", "Martin McGuinness carries the coffin at an IRA funeral in 1985\n\nNo-one knows how many people Martin McGuinness killed, directly or indirectly.\n\nAs a senior commander within the Provisional IRA for many years, there is no doubt there was blood on his hands.\n\nIt is known that he was second in command of the IRA in Derry when members of the Parachute Regiment shot dead 13 civilians in the city on Bloody Sunday in January 1972.\n\nSecurity sources say he went on to become chief of staff of the organisation from the early 1980s right through until the end of the IRA's campaign of violence.\n\nThat meant he was also a member of its ruling 'army council', which decided its overall strategy and tactics, and would have approved operational policy.\n\nSecurity sources say Martin McGuinness became IRA chief of staff in the early 1980s\n\nBut his only conviction for terrorist activity was for possession of weapons and explosives in the Republic of Ireland's Special Criminal Court in 1973.\n\n\"There is no doubt Martin McGuinness was a key figure within the IRA for almost all of the Troubles, and therefore was responsible for many of its actions, but the fact is there wasn't enough evidence to put him before a court to convict him,\" says one former senior security source.\n\n\"As chief of staff of the organisation for a long period of time he was responsible for its strategic direction and the tempo of its operational activities, so he clearly bore a lot of responsibility for what happened on his watch.\n\n\"But while there will be many claims now about what he did, and who and how many he may have killed, it's impossible to be definitive.\"\n\nHowever, several well-placed security sources agree that Martin McGuinness would have had advanced knowledge of virtually every Provisional IRA attack in his home city of Derry after he was appointed chief of staff.\n\n\"The bottom line is that nothing happened in Derry without Martin knowing about it,\" says one.\n\n\"He wouldn't have been involved in planning every attack, but he would have been told what was planned. If he didn't object, the attack went ahead. If he objected, it didn't. It was that simple, he had a veto.\"\n\nThe Coshquin checkpoint where Patsy Gillespie and five soldiers died\n\nOne of the attacks police sources have claimed Martin McGuinness authorised was one of the most notorious of the Troubles.\n\nIn October 1990, Patsy Gillespie, a Catholic who worked in a local army base, was taken from his home and strapped into a van containing 1,000lbs of explosives.\n\nLabelled a \"collaborator\" by the IRA, he was told to drive the van to an army checkpoint at Coshquin near the border, while his family was held hostage.\n\nWhen he reached his destination, Mr Gillespie was not given time to escape. The bomb was detonated by remote control, killing him and five soldiers.\n\n\"Given the way Martin McGuinness controlled the IRA in Derry at that time, it is inconceivable that he would not have had prior knowledge about such an attack because of its scale and the huge public outcry the IRA would have known would follow,\" says another former senior security source.\n\n\"He may not have drawn up the plan, but he would have known, and could have intervened to stop it.\"\n\nThe family of a Derry man shot dead by the IRA as an alleged informer in 1986 have consistently claimed Martin McGuinness was responsible for luring him to his death.\n\nFrank Hegarty had fled to England after becoming aware that the IRA believed he was an informer.\n\nHis mother and other family members have said Martin McGuinness later visited their home and gave a personal assurance that he would be safe if he came and met the IRA.\n\nA short time after the meeting he was found shot in the back of the head.\n\nA tape containing his interrogation and admissions that he had worked as an informer was later delivered to the Hegarty home.\n\nMartin McGuinness consistently rejected the family's version of events, and insisted that he told them Frank Hegarty should not meet the IRA if he was an informer.\n\nA former senior security source familiar with Martin McGuinness's career within the IRA said that over the years he had transformed from one its most militant leaders to a restraining influence.\n\n\"In his early days, Martin was a fairly hot-headed young revolutionary who helped drive the IRA to be more aggressive and active,\" he says.\n\n\"But in the latter years of the Troubles, as the republican movement moved from violence to politics, he was a calming and restraining influence who definitely saved lives because he stopped things happening.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger is like \"an uncle who doesn't want to leave the party\", says former Chelsea striker Chris Sutton.\n\nWenger, in charge since 1996, said he will announce \"very soon\" whether he will remain with the Gunners, after reaching a decision on his future.\n\nArsenal are in danger of ending a second straight season without a major trophy, and Sutton said he should go.\n\n\"It's a dictatorship and he surrounds himself with yes men,\" Sutton added.\n\nWenger's contract expires at the end of the season but he has been offered a new two-year deal.\n\nThe Frenchman, 67, has come under increasing pressure in recent weeks, with fans responding to defeats in the Premier League, and the 10-2 aggregate loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League, by calling for him to leave.\n\nMore anti-Wenger banners were held aloft by Gunners fans in the closing stages of last Saturday's 3-1 defeat at West Brom, while in the first half two planes towed banners over the ground - one criticising the manager and the other supporting him.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 live's The Monday Night Club, Sutton, a Premier League winner as a player with Blackburn Rovers in 1995, added: \"He's been selfish. I'm surprised Steve Bould [Wenger's assistant] doesn't get hold of him and say this is the reality.\n\n\"He's taking the club backwards. They have just accepted mediocrity.\n\n\"His work in the transfer market has been a failure lately.\n\n\"Do the right thing and if you're not going to do the right thing then tell us.\"\n\nArsenal, sixth in the table, are 19 points behind leaders Chelsea in the Premier League and their last realistic chance of winning a trophy this season is the FA Cup.\n\nThey face Manchester City in the semi-final at Wembley on Sunday, 23 April (15:00 BST).\n\nArsenal striker Olivier Giroud said the club's players supported Wenger and wanted him to stay and \"continue his adventure\".\n\n\"We hope we can win the cup and that Arsenal qualify for the Champions League,\" the France international told Canal Plus.\n\n\"We want Arsene Wenger to renew his contract, to continue his adventure, because we support him.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nTwo-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova has spoken of her determination to return to tennis following a knife attack at her home in December.\n\nThe Czech, 27, has regained the use of her racquet hand after being stabbed by an intruder in her home in Prostejov.\n\nShe still has no comeback date but said: \"I can tell you that tennis is a huge motivation for me.\"\n\nKvitova's last appearance on court was against France's Caroline Garcia in the Fed Cup final on 12 November.\n\nIn a post on her Instagram page on Tuesday, she said: \"I realised while I've been away how much I like challenges.\n\n\"My perspective on life has changed a lot and I am doing everything to give myself a second chance to be back on the court.\"\n\nKvitova added: \"I'm working really hard on my recovery.\"\n\nSurgeons spent almost four hours repairing tendons and nerves on Kvitova's left hand - her playing hand - following the attack on 20 December, in which she struggled with an intruder who was attempting a burglary.\n\nDoctors initially said the 2011 and 2014 Wimbledon winner would be unable to compete for at least six months.\n\nHer spokesman, Karel Tejkal, told AFP on Monday: \"Petra's recovery is continuing as planned, but everything is up in the air as to her return.\"\n\nTejkal said Kvitova's psychological recovery had been \"very encouraging\" and that she had been fitness training in the Canary Islands.\n\n\"Petra uses her hand without problem for daily activities. Of course, the hand is weakened but at first glance you can't see that she was injured,\" he added.\n\n\"But at the moment no-one can give a concrete date.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Northern Ireland\n\nNorthern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill has led the tributes to Derry City captain Ryan McBride, who has died at the age of 27.\n\nDefender McBride was found dead at home on Sunday, a day after he led his side in a 4-0 League of Ireland win over Drogheda United.\n\nThe cause of death is not yet known but a post mortem is being carried out.\n\n\"He epitomised everything about our club and our city,\" said Derry City chief executive Sean Barrett.\n\nMcBride's funeral will take place on Thursday at 10:00 GMT at St Columba's Church in Derry, after which the player will be buried in the city cemetery.\n\nThe league game between Derry City and Limerick, due to take place on 21 March, will be rescheduled.\n\nMcBride's death is the latest tragedy to befall the club following the death of striker Mark Farren and the Buncrana pier tragedy, which claimed the lives of members of winger Josh Daniels a year ago.\n\n'He led boys to become men'\n\nNorthern Ireland manager O'Neill was manager of League of Ireland Premier Division side Shamrock Rovers when McBride joined Derry six years ago.\n\n\"When I first saw him play, I remember thinking, 'what a fantastic young defender'. He was strong, physical and hugely committed.\n\n\"His leadership qualities were evident even at such a young age and it was no surprise to me that he became such an inspirational player for his hometown club.\"\n\nDerry City manager Kenny Shiels said the death was \"hard for everybody to take\" and that he was \"the perfect example to any young player coming through\".\n\nAnd chief executive Barrett added: \"Of the words that have been thrown around probably my favourite one is 'warrior'.\n\n\"He led boys to become men and he was a man. He was everything that is associated with Derry City Football Club and, indeed, the whole city.\"\n\nThe Irish Football Association tweeted: \"Thoughts tonight with the family of Ryan McBride and everyone involved with Derry City FC.\"\n\nDerry City released an official statement on Monday afternoon saying the team will \"miss his inspiration and his leadership\".\n\nThe statement went on to say: \"In the hearts and minds of all of us, and long into the future, Ryan McBride will be remembered as one of the greats of Derry City Football Club.\"\n\nPhil O'Doherty, Derry City Football Club chairman, said the team was \"devastated\" at the loss of a \"leader on and off the field\".\n\n\"He was incredibly respected. He was an ideal captain,\" he told the BBC. \"He was from the Brandywell area and he walked across the road to his home after every game.\"\n\nThe CEO of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), John Delaney, said Irish football was in mourning.\n\n\"Ryan's passing has left a deep shock throughout football,\" he said. \"We will remember Ryan with a tribute at Friday night's World Cup qualifier against Wales.\"\n\nSince his debut in 2011, McBride had not only become a mainstay of the club's defence, but a fans' favourite.\n\nHe made more than 170 appearances, with more than 50 as captain after he took over the role permanently two years ago.\n\nA self-professed quiet man off the pitch, McBride said it was a \"different story\" on it. \"I switch on and then I'm in game mode,\" he said.\n• None Read more on 'the bravest I've ever seen on the pitch'\n\nRepublic of Ireland footballer James McClean, a former team mate of McBride at Derry, said he was \"a warrior that literally would throw his body on the line when he pulled on that Derry City jersey, a club that meant so much to him\".\n\nHe said that McBride was a \"big gentleman off the field\", adding: \"Sleep tight big man. May God bless you and your family.\"\n\nIreland manager Martin O'Neill has said West Brom's McClean will be permitted to leave the camp before Friday's game with Wales should he wish.\n\nFormer Derry City striker Liam Coyle said: \"My brother phoned me to tell me and I was in total disbelief.\n\n\"I played football with Ryan's father and Ryan was always a rising star. Derry City has lost the best centre half in Ireland.\"\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster tweeted: \"My deepest condolences to the family and all Derry City FC as they mourn the loss of the talented Ryan McBride. Such devastating news.\"\n\nArchbishop Eamon Martin said: \"Sad news from Derry. Praying for the family and for his many friends and supporters who will miss him. Lord have mercy. RIP.\"\n\nThe President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, tweeted: \"Along with all those who support Irish football, I express my sadness and condolences to the family of Derry City Football Club captain Ryan McBride.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nChris Froome lost 46 seconds on Volta a Catalunya rival Alejandro Valverde as the Spaniard's Movistar team won stage two's team time trial.\n\nMovistar completed the 43.3km course to Banyoles two seconds faster than BMC, with Briton Froome's Team Sky in third.\n\nThe Trek-Segafredo team of Spain's Alberto Contador, another favourite for overall victory, was one minute 15 seconds behind.\n\nValverde leads the seven-stage Spanish race after a penalty to a team-mate.\n\nJose Joaquin Rojas had been declared the new race leader but was later punished with a three-minute time penalty for \"pushing a team-mate\", race organisers said.\n\nWednesday's third stage is an 188.3km ride from Mataro that features three category one climbs on the way to La Molina.\n\n\"It's a first big effort back at a Pro Tour level this season,\" said Froome, now 18th in the overall standings.\n\n\"We'll see what we can do in the next few days. Hopefully we've got a few cards to play, with La Molina tomorrow and a big mountain-top finish on Friday.\n\n\"We're not the only ones who have lost time, so it might be in all of our interests to ride an aggressive race. Hopefully we'll light things up at some point.\"", "The forthcoming election doesn't inspire these fishermen who can't see the point of voting\n\nTo find out what French voters make of their forthcoming presidential election I am following the route of the Tour de France, testing the mood in towns along the way.\n\nA thick barricade of black clouds has descended over Longwy in north-eastern France this morning. The sun, knowing it's beaten, has retreated so fully that at midday it already feels like dusk.\n\nYet, despite the lack of light, the Art Deco stained glass windows along the staircase of what used to be the administrative headquarters of the local steel industry, are quite brilliant.\n\n\"That used to be me,\" says Dominique Dimanche, pointing to an image of bare-chested men stoking the furnace.\n\n\"These windows were designed in homage to the men of the foundries.\n\n\"Can you believe that this is all that's left now of Longwy's history as the lynchpin of France's steel industry?\"\n\n\"They've deliberately erased Longwy's history,\" he says. \"They don't want anyone to remember what we were.\"\n\nThe Art Deco stained glass windows in Longwy were built as a tribute to the men working in France's steel foundries\n\nLongwy used to be a thriving industrial town with four steel plants and factories. But at the end of the 1970s the French government announced it was ceasing production and closing all the factories.\n\nIronically, the building in which we are now standing houses the job centre.\n\n\"There were pretty violent riots in Longwy when the steel works closed,\" Philippe explains.\n\n\"Lots of the foremen became Communist councillors and for a long time we had a Communist mayor. We were known as Red Longwy.\"\n\nIt's clear that Longwy has never bounced back from the shock of its steel plant closures.\n\nShops and commerce quickly moved up the hill to the more prestigious Longwy Haut, with its classified Unesco monuments, leaving Longwy Bas, the lower part of the town, very much at the bottom of the heap.\n\nAt the side of the road leading out of Longwy a small group of protesters from local unions struggle to keep their fire alight as the hailstones batter down.\n\nLocal unions in Longwy have been protesting over low wages\n\nTheir banner reads \"More Purchasing Power!\". When I stop to chat to them, they all tell me they are struggling to get their salaries to stretch to the end of the month.\n\nAccording to the national institute for statistics, Insee, one in seven families in this deindustrialised Moselle region are living below the poverty line of less than 1,000 euros (£870) a month.\n\nI happen to be in town the day that the French prime minister Bernard Cazeneuve is making a visit to the town hall, which is currently in the hands of his ruling party, the PS, or Socialist Party.\n\nA few people spill out of the bars to watch his arrival but no-one claps.\n\n\"Moron,\" mutters a lady stepping round the puddles in her slippers.\n\n\"What's he come for? Is he going to stop this place dying on its feet? Of course not. Neither left or right do anything here.\"\n\n\"I won't say for whom I'll be voting this time, because I don't think people like to hear the name. But let's just say the direction will be right. I'll definitely be going right.\"\n\nThree hours drive to the south is Troyes and as I get on my bike to explore the town, I feel like I've entered a fairy tale.\n\nHere is the glorious France of yesteryear, 16th Century timber-framed, pastel-coloured houses, narrow cobbled streets and a plethora of imposing churches.\n\nBut it's certainly an image of the country - traditional, white and Catholic - for which many people are nostalgic.\n\nIt was provincial Catholics who helped the socially conservative Francois Fillon win the primary race to become the presidential candidate for the centre-right Republican party.\n\nWhen I quiz some elderly parishioners after Mass, they all admit that the question of national identity bothers them.\n\n\"It's a big subject, dear,\" says Dominique as she puts away her payer book.\n\n\"But I can summarise it quickly for you: national identity in France no longer exists.\"\n\nTroyes has a traditional \"chocolate box\" feel with narrow streets and pastel-coloured buildings\n\nIt is illegal in France to hold a census based on ethnicity or religion but five minutes spent in Troyes will show you that the town is very ethnically mixed.\n\nSeveral kebab and couscous restaurants sit under the eaves of the timber-framed houses alongside the bistros and patisseries.\n\n\"This is France today,\" laughs PE teacher Sabrina, who is taking her pupils to see a multicultural circus act at the local theatre.\n\n\"We are a country based on many different cultures.\"\n\nPreserving a \"national identity\" has long been the discourse of the National Front (FN) but following the 2005 riots in France's poor and largely immigrant suburbs, the then interior minister, conservative Nicolas Sarkozy, controversially launched a countrywide debate on national identity.\n\nThe recent attacks in Paris and Nice have pushed national identity back into the forefront of the mainstream political agenda. Most of the attackers had North African roots but were French citizens.\n\nAt Troyes' funfair, a few families are braving the rain. Salesman Karim and his care assistant wife Sarah, who wears a hijab, push their children in strollers.\n\n\"We don't know what it means to be French any more,\" Karim tells me bitterly.\n\n\"Because you can be born here like us, pay your taxes like us and have republican values like us but these days, when it comes to politics, there's something about us that doesn't quite stick. We are just not accepted as genetically French.\"\n\n\"But we are French,\" insists his wife.\n\n\"Just because I wear this headscarf, it doesn't mean I'm not French.\"\n\n\"I feel French and I am French and I'm a Muslim. And this is just as much my home as it is for Pierre, Paul or Jacques.\"\n\nThese cyclists laughed at the idea of voting and said there was no-one they would vote for\n\nThe sun is out as I ride along the canal at Dole, 200km (125 miles) south-east of Troyes, and fellow bikers ring their bells and wave as they pass.\n\nOn a bench, taking a pause for water, a group of five retired cycling friends laugh when I ask them for whom they'll be voting this April.\n\n\"No-one!\" shout the women in unison.\n\n\"Why would we bother voting for any of these crooks?\" says Micheline.\n\n\"I've voted all my life but not this time, there's no point. There's been scandal after scandal in this campaign.\"\n\n\"I have no wish to vote either,\" agrees her friend Stella. \"The choice is too difficult.\"\n\nFurther up the bank, a group of elderly men are wondering whether they've got the energy to fish today.\n\nI ask them if they've got the energy to go to the ballot boxes next month and they bawl me out.\n\n\"We've had empty promises all our life!\" yells one. \"We don't believe in politicians any more. So why vote?\"\n\nMarket trader Catherine believes politicians are out of touch with how people live in towns like Dole\n\nThe wind coming from the Jura mountains is biting in the early morning as I watch the stallholders setting up at Dole's market.\n\nCheap clothes and plastic toys make up most of the produce. I can see no price tag anywhere more than 20 euros (£17).\n\n\"That should tell you something,\" says Catherine, who runs the fruit and vegetable stall.\n\n\"Everyone here gets up at the crack of dawn to eke out a living but most people's takings are way down.\"\n\n\"It's interesting this tour of France you're doing,\" she muses.\n\n\"Finding out about ordinary people. Because our millionaire politicians haven't got a clue how we live in places like this. For them, we don't even exist. Sometimes I wonder what they do all day, these bigwigs in Paris.\"\n\nShe looks at me curiously.\n\n\"What is the point of our politicians?\" she asks me innocently as I bite into the apple.\n\nYou can hear Emma Jane Kirby's radio reports as she tours France on BBC Radio 4's PM programme", "The session are held once a week\n\n\"You are walking round like a zombie. You have no heart, and you have no brain, because you just don't know where to turn,\" Jack says.\n\nHis daughter was sexually abused in Rotherham, a town where more than 1,000 children were subjected to appalling exploitation between 1997 and 2013 - mainly by men of Pakistani heritage.\n\nDiscovering what had happened to her left Jack - not his real name - feeling like he had been \"ripped apart\" inside.\n\nAlongside his daughter, he now attends counselling sessions - held once a week outside the town - where they are given a chance to talk about what happened.\n\nThe centre which hosts the weekly sessions has also become a place where the wider family members affected by the abuse can receive support.\n\nThe organisers have given the Victoria Derbyshire programme and BBC Asian Network exclusive access to the sessions.\n\nOne of those who attends the session is \"Lisa\".\n\nShe was groomed, abused and raped as a child and was pregnant at the age of 12. Her daughter is now a teenager.\n\nSix men, including those who groomed and attacked her, were last month collectively jailed for 83 years. She described them in court as \"pure evil\".\n\nShe says their sentencing has reduced her anxiety and depression.\n\n\"I feel so positive and empowered now that I am finally using my horrific experience for something good.\"\n\nCounselling is also open to siblings of those who were abused\n\nJack says the counselling has \"saved not only me as a father, it has saved our family\".\n\n\"I was a very angry person, probably up to 12 months ago.\n\n\"It has helped me because they have taught me how to handle things differently, how to see things differently, and it has shown me how to move forward properly,\" he says.\n\n\"It has allowed me to understand there are other ways to handle things without being 'angry man' all the time.\"\n\nHe says his family - like so many others who have been affected - will probably never fully recover from what happened in the town.\n\n\"We all know that, but we can move forward as a family, and that's what we intend to do,\" he says.\n\nJayne Senior, a whistleblower who helped to uncover abuse in Rotherham, said organisers of the session had decided to do something about a year ago.\n\n\"We offer numerous different things,\" she says.\n\n\"We will go and do art therapy, we have a counsellor outside so people can actually go into counselling and relive some of those awful experience, get the support they need and then come back to the group.\n\n\"Then, the group will work with them and help them get through that.\"\n\nThe sessions are also open to siblings of those who were abused.\n\nJack's other daughter, \"Katie\", says she was angry \"a lot\" of the time, after discovering what had happened to her sister.\n\n\"I still have my moments, but I am getting there,\" she says.\n\n\"If I need to talk to anybody now, instead of being angry and going on one, I talk to them now and people can listen to me. And they help me.\"\n\nAt least 1,400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham, a report found\n\nLizzy - again not her real name - also attends the sessions alongside her parents.\n\nIn 2010, five men were jailed for abusing her and other girls.\n\n\"It is the only place that does family therapy class,\" her mother, \"Sally\", says.\n\nShe says she was so consumed by the shock of discovering what had happened to her daughter that she did not have time to think what impact it was having on the rest of her family.\n\n\"At the time, I didn't think about how it would affect my husband. Then, when I did realise how bad it had affected him, I felt a bit selfish. Because it affects the whole family.\"\n\n\"When it is going off, your whole focus is just on the girl it is happening to,\" Lizzy's father, \"Phil\", says.\n\n\"You don't realise how it is affecting everyone else around you; your other kids, your parents, the grandparents. It is the whole family. It is not just the girl that it happens to, it does affect an entire family.\"\n\nJayne Senior said women were offered a number of different therapies\n\nFor the victims themselves, reaching out to all of the town's residents is another important part of the healing process.\n\n\"Elizabeth\" and her father have visited local takeaways, pubs, and other businesses to help educate owners on how to recognise potential grooming cases.\n\nOne businessman, Sajjad Hamidi, who runs Papa Pizza in Rotherham, says there have been a number of occasions when he has helped potentially vulnerable children in the street, often late at night.\n\n\"There have been a few times when I have had to walk people home for their safety because I have seen people around who have had eyes on them,\" he says.\n\nMeanwhile, Elizabeth's father says working to restore a sense of community in Rotherham, where the scars of the abuse are still so raw, is vital for the safety of children.\n\n\"What we have got to do from now on is put that to one side and look out for everybody's children, not just pick on a specific base or religion.\n\n\"We have got to look out for everybody's children and build this community back as one.\n\n\"The sooner people start to realise that, and try to build communities back together, the better off all our children are going to be.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "Attacks on data integrity could target farming data to wreck years of crops\n\nThere's a new cyber threat on the horizon. And it's fiendishly subtle and potentially very dangerous.\n\nFake data - altering databases and documents without anyone noticing.\n\nSay you changed centrally held figures for a key metric such as soil fertility that many arable farmers use to organise their planting schedules.\n\n\"That data is used to drive another process, and lots of decisions are made on that basis,\" says Jason Hart from security firm Gemalto.\n\nUnless the attack was noticed quickly, he says, it could have devastating consequences because the sabotaged data would kick off actions that played out over months and years.\n\nYou could end up with failed crops, food shortages and, in a worst case scenario, famine.\n\n\"You have no way of going back once a decision is made and the impact has happened,\" says Mr Hart. \"There's a real amplifier effect to that kind of problem.\"\n\nCould hackers interfere with automated stock trading and cause another crash?\n\nOther scenarios include hackers interfering with automated stock market trading, triggering mass sell-offs and economic instability.\n\nOr \"poisoning\" supply chain data so that the wrong stuff goes to the wrong stores, not to mention the potential dangers to energy supplies if production forecasts are tampered with.\n\nMany of the decisions we make in business and government are based on data that we assume is accurate. So if you undermine the authenticity of that data - and our trust in it - you can potentially bring an economy to its knees, experts warn.\n\nBusinesses are vulnerable to this type of cyber sabotage because they inherently trust the data and documents they produce, says Abe Smith of Dealflo, a company that helps financial firms automate transactions.\n\nCould data hacking prove as damaging to our energy networks as storms?\n\n\"There's about $15 trillion [£12tn] of financial agreements processed every year and most of them are manual in one sense or other,\" says Mr Smith.\n\nAutomation helped to cut costs involved with those financial agreements and to weed out mistakes, but these changes only reinforced reliance on digital information.\n\nAnd anything digital can be tampered with.\n\nDocuments that teams have been collaborating on are vulnerable to attackers that can change the core text, alter numbers, or re-write terms and conditions to one party's benefit, says John Safa of Pushfor, a company that makes secure ways for firms to share data and other content.\n\n\"At the end of the day it can be edited and it can be changed,\" he says. \"The problem then is if it is a legal contract without enough back-up, then it could be represented as something factual.\"\n\nMany documents still require a \"wet ink\" signature to seal a deal\n\nIt is still all too easy to drill down into a document's metadata and change its basic properties that, if examined, lend weight to the fiction of it being authentic.\n\n\"Whatever emerges at the other end of a workflow system people will accept,\" he says. \"The document preserves the memory and we believe what it says all the time.\n\n\"Trust in all of this process is critical,\" he says. \"If that trust is lost then the entire process breaks down.\"\n\nBut there are technical ways to lock down data and documents to thwart the efforts of stealthy attackers to read or change them.\n\nMany firms now use Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems to police who can do what to reports, files and other documents floating around their organisations, says Stuart Barr, chief strategy officer at workflow system firm HighQ.\n\nDRM has been used to stop pirates stealing copies of copyright movies and video games, he says, but is now regularly applied to documents. It restricts editing to a select few and resists other attempts to make changes.\n\nSome firms use digital padlocks to restrict who can edit key documents and data\n\n\"You should not be able to fiddle with them,\" he says.\n\nIt's one of the reasons why blockchain technology is gaining momentum as a way to authenticate contracts and transactions.\n\nMr Barr says firms using DRM have to strike a balance between putting good protections around valuable documents, and not making them so onerous that people avoid them.\n\n\"You would be surprised how many people let documents run around in the wild without any protection,\" he tells the BBC, adding that a lot of organisations are \"porous\", letting key files flow back and forth with few checks on what has happened to them in the meantime.\n\nSome firms seek to filter this flow using specialist cloud-based services, but, says Mr Barr, work has to be done to ensure that this innovation does not introduce more risk.\n\n\"If they have files that are stored in any reputable cloud they should be encrypted at rest and in transit,\" he says.\n\nScrambling data, allied to techniques that generate unique identifiers for important files, could go a long way towards preventing attacks on data integrity, he says.\n\n\"There's a growing awareness that this is an issue that has to be taken seriously.\"\n\nCloud-based management systems that use encryption to protect important documents are still very new in the legal world, says Susan Hall, a partner at law firm Clarke Willmott.\n\nA lot of law firms still rely on Redline editing, she says, which uses the edit tracking systems built in to Microsoft Word.\n\nMany law firms still rely on older technology to manage edits and merge changes\n\nThis allows edits to be made and marked on versions of contracts and other documents as negotiations or talks progress, she says.\n\n\"Often you have junior staff go through the final version to make sure nothing has crept in inadvertently or has otherwise changed before the signature,\" she says.\n\n\"But in a lot of these situations you are operating under extreme pressure and there's a high risk that people won't pick up that something should have been included but wasn't.\"\n\nIn highly complex business contracts, a surreptitiously included clause could end up losing your business millions.\n\nSo it's not just cyber theft we need to worry about, it's data integrity.\n\nFollow Technology of Business editor Matthew Wall on Twitter and Facebook", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel says he feared his children might be attacked after he was wrongly arrested\n\nWhen Nigel Lang was wrongly arrested on suspicion of sharing indecent images of children, he says his life fell apart. It all stemmed from nothing more than a typing error by police.\n\n\"When I was arrested, I feared what was going to happen to me.\n\n\"What about my family, will they be targeted? Will they target my mum's house? Will they be getting sworn at and attacked in the street?\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, Nigel Lang recalls the questions racing through his head one July morning in 2011.\n\nAged 44 at the time, he had been working as a drug recovery worker, helping young people combat substance abuse.\n\nBut when police came to search his home and arrest him, on suspicion of sharing indecent images of children, his life changed.\n\nHis reputation has been left \"in tatters\", he is unemployed and suffers mental health problems, he says.\n\nNot that he knew at the time, but it was all the result of a typo.\n\nIn May 2011, officers at South Yorkshire Police were informed by colleagues in Hertfordshire that they had identified an IP address from which more than 100 indecent images of children had been shared in April that year.\n\nThe IP address passed on corresponded to an internet account held by Nigel's partner. But it had been typed incorrectly, with an extra digit added by mistake.\n\nWhen Nigel was arrested, all he could do was to repeatedly assure himself the police would discover the truth.\n\n\"You say to yourself, 'Well they're going to find nothing and I haven't done anything, so I'll be alright.'\n\nNigel's job had been to help young people combat drug abuse\n\nNigel spent the following weeks living away from home, with his mother.\n\nHis young son, he says, could not understand why he had disappeared and would cry.\n\nAfter three weeks, police returned Nigel's computers to him, and he had been found completely innocent. But the events had caused a deep psychological effect.\n\n\"Because of what happened I felt unable to go back into the field of work I was working in,\" he says. His role as a drug recovery worker had involved helping teenagers.\n\n\"It was the best job I'd had in my life, and I felt I was really good at it.\n\n\"But I became fearful of working with young females in case any of them said I tried any sexual advances. It made me paranoid.\"\n\nEleven months after his arrest, and still without knowledge of why his home had been raided, Nigel began the search for answers - filing a complaint against South Yorkshire Police on grounds of racism and sexism.\n\nHe believed he had been unfairly targeted, given that the internet account had been registered to his partner - who is white - but she had not been investigated.\n\nThe complaint was dismissed, but it was during this process he first learned of Hertfordshire Police's involvement in the case.\n\nHe asked whether it might be possible to check if the cause of his arrest had been incorrect information supplied by those in Hertfordshire, but says he was told that \"owing to the passage of time\" this would not be possible.\n\nAn extra digit had been added to the IP address by mistake.\n\nNigel decided to ask his solicitor to look deeper. The lawyer contacted Hertfordshire Police and discovered the truth of the incorrect IP address.\n\nNigel says: \"I've had to pay a solicitor to find out the mistake, when the police could have done that. That is what hurts.\n\n\"I'm screaming and shouting my innocence and they tell me they couldn't do it, but then I get a solicitor and he can.\n\n\"It shows me they don't care about my life. They don't care about ordinary people.\"\n\nNigel received an apology, in writing, from Hertfordshire Police in 2014, which accepted responsibility for the error.\n\nFollowing Hertfordshire Police's admission, Nigel sought compensation for a breach of the Data Protection Act 1998, false imprisonment, police assault/battery, and trespass by police.\n\nIn October 2016, Hertfordshire Police settled out of court. Nigel received damages of £60,000, plus legal costs.\n\n\"It isn't enough money,\" Nigel says, \"but after six years of fighting, you're tired.\n\n\"I didn't even get two-and-a-half years' wages. I haven't worked since.\n\n\"If you could take away somebody's livelihood, then surely it's worth more than someone else's wages.\"\n\nIn a 2017 statement to the BBC, Hertfordshire Police said it \"made an early admission of the mistake once it had been identified and would like to apologise again for the wrongful arrest and further impact caused\".\n\n\"It was an administrative error which led to this occurring, and lessons have been learnt to help prevent this happening again.\n\n\"This man was completely innocent and compensation has now rightfully been settled.\"\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said it recognises \"Mr Lang's arrest in these circumstances was extremely distressing for him and his family... he has been rightly compensated by Hertfordshire Constabulary.\"\n\nNigel - who first spoke to Buzzfeed News earlier this month - has decided to open up about the ordeal in order to clear his name.\n\n\"I didn't have my day in court, and I need the world to know I'm not a paedophile.\n\n\"I was an ordinary hardworking person who has been reduced to benefits, and I don't know what the future holds for me.\n\n\"I'm ill because of it, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.\n\n\"My personality has changed. I'm more angry, I struggle with a lack of sleep and am hyper-vigilant around people, being paranoid that people are talking about me.\"\n\nHe says his loved ones were the reason he managed to pull through.\n\n\"My children were great. They never wavered and supported me all the way.\"\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 Sport\n\nEsports will generate more than £1bn in global revenue and almost double its audience to nearly 600 million people by 2020, forecasters predict.\n\nEsports is organised, competitive computer gaming and can be staged in front of a live audience and millions more online.\n\n\"It has the potential to become one of the top five sports in the world,\" said Peter Warman of esport analysts Newzoo.\n\nEsports generated $493m (£400m) in revenue in 2016, with a global audience of about 320 million people.\n\nPrize money of $93.3m (£76m) was won last year, with the winning team at the League of Legends world championship - the biggest esports event - sharing a pot of $1m (£810,000).\n\nParis St-Germain moved into gaming in October, creating its own esports franchise and signing three of the world's leading gamers.\n\nPSG wants to establish the team in one of esports' most iconic games - League of Legends - as the club tries to raise its global profile, particularly targeting the US and Asian markets.\n\nAs part of State of Sport week, BBC Sport was given behind-the-scenes access to PSG's gaming house.\n\n\"Esport for us is a way to find a new fan of the brand, not necessarily focus on the soccer,\" Fabien Allegre, PSG's director of merchandising and brand diversification, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"The idea is to bring the club to a large number of people who don't know anything about football.\"\n\nIn the long run I'm pretty sure esports can grow as big as football\"\n\nManchester City and West Ham have already signed players of the Fifa football game to represent them, but no British club has set up a dedicated esports team.\n\nAllegre believes it is the \"future\" for football clubs and predicts the creation of an online Champions League-style competition between clubs that own esports franchises.\n\n\"It's more than a marketing stunt,\" says Warman. \"Football clubs see this opportunity as a strategic part of their franchise. Sports clubs are now dependent on revenues that come from areas outside of their league so this is their marketing objective.\n\n\"They are only dipping their toes into it right now but their expectations are long-term and very large.\n\n\"Esports is completely global, with hundreds of millions of viewers, so it would take their brand across the globe.\"\n• None Rory Cellan-Jones: Is this the moment esports comes of age?\n• Diet: \"You're never going to operate well if you're living off junk food and sleeping five hours a night.\"\n• Have fun: \"Even though the job is very professional and there's lots of responsibilities as a team, it's always a blast.\"\n• Fitness: \"The image of the unhealthy gamer in his room at night, it's kind of not true for professional gamers because you actually need a good work ethic.\"\n• Focus: \"Most people tend to be a bit ragey, but you should try to hold it and focus on yourself.\"\n• Dream big: \"At first my parents weren't too supportive, they didn't understand what it meant to be a gamer, but they quickly understood it could be a real career for me.\"\n\nHow do you create a professional esports team?\n• Personalities: \"It's like building a puzzle - you have to put all the pieces together.\"\n• Communication: \"Don't be afraid because if you don't talk then we will never solve the issues.\"\n• Teamwork: \"We try to always prioritise teamwork over an individual trying to be a star.\"\n• Preparation: \"When I was an amateur I had to bring my computer and everything... now as a player you don't have to worry about anything else than just your performances.\"\n\nWhere is the money coming from?\n\nSponsorship is the biggest revenue stream in esports, bringing in much more than is raised by the media, advertising, merchandise and ticketing.\n\nNewzoo predicts income will treble in the next four years, valuing esports as a $1.49bn (£1.21m) industry by 2020.\n\n\"The reason companies are investing in this is because they want more eyeballs and time to promote their product so people will spend more money on their games,\" said Warman.\n\n\"Gaming has been the favourite pastime of the younger generation for a long time and esports branching out to live events is like becoming comparable to [traditional] sports.\n\n\"Brands now have a way to reach this audience that previously was so hard to reach, because gaming is transforming into something they understand. They can sponsor it and advertise so brands and other companies are jumping on this like crazy.\n\n\"We are going to see a lot of parallels that we see now in sports and that will take it to the next level.\"\n\nSo how big can esports get?\n\n\"Considering an audience of about 160 million is watching esports frequently and another 160 million watch big championship games, it already compares to medium-tier sports,\" says Warman.\n\n\"So it can match the size of, say, tennis and field hockey, while it's also coming very close to basketball and the audience size is becoming very comparable to individual sports.\n\n\"In terms of revenue, it is still dwarfed by sports but it is only a question of time to when that will change.\n\n\"If you see it as an individual sport it has the potential to become one of the top five sports in the world. That will take maybe five years.\"\n• None BBC Three: A guide to League of Legends\n\n\"Young digital natives are not really into sports,\" claims Warman. \"The majority of these esports enthusiasts are aged between 20 and 35.\n\n\"That is quite surprising because you would expect teenagers to be the majority figures in this group. But the viewing audience is generally older.\n\n\"When it comes to gender, there are more women that watch esports than you would expect - about 25% of that audience is female. That may surprise people who think gaming is for a predominantly male audience.\"\n\nAccording to Newzoo, in 2016, the total esports audience in the UK reached about 6.5 million, with 3.1 million esports enthusiasts. The vast majority of these are males (69%) and aged 21-35.\n\nBBC Sport was also given access to the Intel Extreme Masters in Katowice, hosting the world championships in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO).\n\n\"Fans of esports are normal guys,\" one spectator told BBC Sport. \"Everyone has some hobbies in their real life, not only playing.\n\n\"Sports have an older public. My dad never watches Counter-Strike, but I'm never watching tennis or something that he likes.\"\n\nAnother fan said: \"Esports is a new experience, especially for younger people to see their heroes in real life.\"\n\nDiego Gigliani runs Manchester City's esports team as the senior vice-president for media and innovation for the City Football Group.\n\nKeiran 'Kez' Brown is City's professional Fifa player, with the club feeling a football game is a more \"authentic way\" of moving into esports.\n\n\"We can't overlook the fact the way we are participating in esports is in a relatively small space compared to the actual category of esports,\" says Gigliani.\n\n\"The real big esports titles are things like League of Legends, DOTA 2, Counter-Strike, and that's where the massive audiences are going to - that's where people see the commercial opportunities.\n\n\"Have we considered those spaces? We have. We've felt that for the time being the right place to start was with Fifa and see how much we learn and where that takes us next.\"\n\nThree training sessions a day: The life of a gamer\n\n'Sprattel', a 22-year-old Swede, is part of Paris St-Germain's professional League of Legends team.\n\n11am: \"Wake up and get ready for practice by playing games on your own or going through replay reviews.\"\n\n3pm: \"Team practice begins. You play three games and that ends about 6pm.\"\n\n6pm: \"Dinner. You have an hour's break and discuss the games.\"\n\n7pm: \"You play three more games and that finishes about 10-11pm.\"\n\n10pm-11pm: \"You play on your own, watch games or see how other people play - it is free time but mostly it is us playing until the early hours of the morning.\"\n\n2am-3am: \"We go to bed. Then repeat it.\"\n\nWhat next for esports?\n\nWarman believes the industry needs to professionalise and set up an organised structure of governance.\n\nHe also predicts a big battle between the world's leading sportswear giants to get their brand on the jerseys of esports heroes.\n\n\"We already have world championships for individual games,\" says Warman. \"The question is are these games going to be put together to create one big World Cup event?\n\n\"I think we will see events of a similar size to the World Cup of football. It will take a year or two to structure that. We will need to have qualifying rounds by country and by region for that.\n\n\"But this will ultimately make up a World Cup event watched by a billion people.\"", "Russia hopes a bridge to Crimea will solve many problems\n\nThree years after Russia annexed Crimea, a move bitterly contested by Ukraine's government, the region remains in a state of flux. It's difficult to get into, and for many people, it's difficult to know where it's going.\n\nAt Kiev International Airport, I hand my passport to a border guard.\n\nHe pauses. He studies my passport. He seems to be checking a list. He goes to pick up a telephone and asks a question. He does not realise I can hear.\n\n\"You remember that pro-Russian journalist from the BBC? Was his surname Rosenberg?\"\n\n\"It wasn't? OK, thanks.\" He hangs up. He stamps my passport and returns it.\n\n\"Welcome to Ukraine!\" he smiles.\n\nThose pauses at passport control are an indication of the current tension between Moscow and Kiev - a relationship clouded by enmity and suspicion.\n\nOur BBC team is only passing through Kiev. Our final destination is Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia three years ago.\n\nFor journalists based in Russia, there are faster ways of reaching the Crimean peninsula. Board a plane in Moscow and two hours later you can be in the Crimean capital Simferopol. Ukraine, however, warns foreign nationals that anyone entering \"temporarily occupied Crimea\" without Kiev's permission and without crossing an official Ukrainian border may be banned from future entry to Ukraine.\n\nDirect flights from Russia to Ukraine stopped in October 2015. We flew from Moscow to the Belarusian capital Minsk, then on to Kiev. Ahead of us is an eight-hour road trip to Crimea.\n\nFirst, we visit the Ukrainian Migration Service in Kiev to obtain the \"dozvil\" - a document issued by the Ukrainian authorities permitting travel to Crimea. Three hours later, permission slips in hand, our long car journey south begins.\n\nRussia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 was a watershed moment. It pushed Moscow and the West to the brink of a new cold war. Three years on we are travelling to Crimea to gauge the mood.\n\nIt is dark by the time we reach the final Ukrainian checkpoint before the peninsula. Ukraine does not call the Kalanchak crossing a border - officially, it is a \"control point for entry and exit\". We show our passports and dozvils. Minutes later we are waved through.\n\nThe no-man's land between the Ukrainian and Russian checkpoints is tiny - no more than 50m long. We stop here to change cars - our Kiev driver will turn back. A driver from Simferopol has come to meet us.\n\nOn the Russian side this is called the Armyansk crossing. As far as the Russians are concerned, it is an official state border. We show passports and visas and fill out immigration cards. Our documents are in order, but we are asked to wait. The appearance here of British journalists has raised official eyebrows.\n\nA young man in civilian clothes approaches me. \"Come with me, please,\" he says, \"I'd like to have a chat.\"\n\nWe enter a small room and sit down at a table. He checks my phone to make sure I am not recording our conversation.\n\nThen come the questions. Lots of them.\n\n\"What mission have your editors set you? What will you be filming? How will you be saving your material, on computers or hard drives? What SIM card will you be using in Crimea? As the correspondent, will you be making notes each night about what you have filmed? Can you show me some of the photos on your phone? Where will you be staying? Why didn't you fly direct from Moscow?\"\n\nCrimea has a wide variety of Vladimir Putin murals and posters\n\nMy interrogator notes down my answers on a piece of paper. His questions are not limited to Crimea.\n\n\"What street do you live on in Moscow? What is the nearest Metro station to your home? What does your wife do for a living? You've been in Russia a long time. Have you ever considered applying for a Russian passport?\"\n\n\"My British one suits me just fine,\" I reply.\n\n\"What do you think of English cuisine?\" he asks, adding, \"I like Jamie Oliver. Although I consider he uses too much oil.\"\n\nThe questioning lasts an hour. Then the official escorts me back to the van. I ask for his name.\n\n\"I have no name,\" he replies, \"only a rank.\"\n\nThe inquisitive young man with \"no name, only a rank\" invites my colleagues for similar conversations.\n\nThree hours pass. Interrogations over, we are still not free to go. We spend the night in the van waiting for Russian customs officers to process our papers and allow our TV equipment through. Ten hours after arriving at the Armyansk crossing, we finally clear the checkpoint.\n\nSimferopol is the administrative centre of Crimea. The name of our hotel is the \"Ukraine\". But three years after annexation, the town feels Russian. Most of the cars have switched to Russian number plates, brand new buses manufactured near Moscow have taken to the roads. And, peering down from billboards is the Russian president with some of his choicest Crimea quotations - just to remind everyone who is in charge.\n\nIn this poster Putin promises to boost Crimea's spa facilities\n\n\"Crimea was famous for being the spa of the Soviet Union,\" declares Vladimir Putin in one poster. \"We will, of course, develop this.\"\n\n\"All Russian army social programmes will be extended to Sevastopol and the Black Sea Fleet,\" he promises in another.\n\nNear our hotel, the wall of a building is covered with a giant painting of President Putin dressed as a sailor and the words: \"Crimea belongs to all of us\".\n\nAs far as retired teacher Olga Koziko is concerned, the more Putin in Crimea, the better.\n\n\"Crimea is a place where people support Putin,\" Olga assures me. \"We just adore him. He's our hero. I even have a T-shirt with Putin and the words: 'In Putin We Trust', like 'In God We Trust.' Thanks to Putin, Russian soldiers came to protect us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn 22 February 2014, Ukraine's pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych fled the country after what he - and his Russian allies - called an \"illegal coup\" in Kiev. On 27 February masked men in unmarked uniforms appeared in Simferopol. Armed with Russian weapons, they seized government buildings, the parliament, the airport and blocked Ukrainian army bases. This mysterious military force picked up a variety of nicknames, including The Little Green Men and The Polite People.\n\nToday Moscow admits the soldiers were from Russia's secretive Special Operations Forces (the SSO). President Putin subsequently signed a decree making 27 February an annual celebration in Russia - \"Special Operations Forces Day\".\n\nFollowing a hastily organised referendum, it was announced that more than 95% of people who had taken part had voted for Crimea's \"reunification\" with Russia. The referendum was not recognised by the international community. To the outside world, Russia had grabbed a piece of Ukraine.\n\nA statue honouring The Little Green Men has been erected near the Crimean parliament building. It depicts a young girl handing flowers to a man with a gun. The inscription reads: \"To The Polite People from the grateful people of Crimea.\"\n\nRussia has shrugged off international condemnation over Crimea\n\nThis is how Moscow wants to be seen here: as a force for good, protecting the people of Crimea from violent Ukrainian nationalists. In 2014 Russia's state-controlled media characterised the new Ukrainian government as \"fascists\", \"neo-Nazis\" and an \"illegitimate junta''. Olga uses similar language as she recalls the past.\n\n\"Without Russia, a lot of people would have been killed here,\" maintains Olga. \"Ukrainian Nazis said Crimea would either be part of Ukraine or empty. People would have been oppressed. Perhaps even put in concentration camps.\"\n\nThere is absolutely no evidence to substantiate Olga's claims.\n\nMany of those in Crimea who welcome Moscow's rule see the bloody conflict in eastern Ukraine as confirmation that Russia is a safer home. They discount evidence that unrest in the Donbass was incited and bankrolled by Moscow.\n\nOut on the street I get chatting to a pensioner called Nadezhda. Until recently her sister had been living in Luhansk, one of the self-proclaimed separatist republics in eastern Ukraine.\n\n\"Life in Luhansk is terrible,\" Nadezhda says. \"So I moved my sister to Crimea. I will do everything to make sure that kind of violence doesn't break out here.\"\n\nThere is another reason why Nadezhda, an ethnic Ukrainian, trusts Moscow more than Kiev - it is out of nostalgia for Soviet times, when she regarded Moscow as her capital. Nadezhda describes Crimea joining Russia as \"a return to the Soviet Union. Our generation was, is and will always be in the USSR. We will die in the Soviet Union.\"\n\nPeople pass a mural of Putin at the wheel of a ship\n\nNostalgia and fear are powerful feelings. But they are not enough to sustain pro-Russia sentiment in Crimea at the level of 2014.\n\nSevering ties to Ukraine has brought problems. With economic links to Ukraine cut, the only way of keeping the peninsula supplied is by sea or air. That means higher prices. Moscow insists that will change once it has completed a road and rail bridge linking Crimea to the Russian mainland. The bridge is a multibillion-dollar statement that Moscow is here to stay.\n\nAs well as higher prices, there is Russian red tape.\n\nI visit a document registration centre in Simferopol. More than two hundred people are queueing outside. They have come to exchange Ukrainian documents, like deeds for apartments, for Russian ones. Some people, like Alyona, have been queuing here all night.\n\n\"Life hasn't got better or worse,\" Alyona tells me, \"We're still standing in lines, like we always used to. Maybe some people had big expectations three years ago. But I don't believe in miracles.\"\n\nPeople queue for a long time to change Ukrainian documents to Russian ones\n\nI ask Alyona if she could imagine Russia handing Crimea back to Ukraine.\n\n\"Nothing would surprise me any more,\" she laughs. \"I wouldn't be surprised if we suddenly ended up as part of Turkey. To be honest, I don't care if we're with China! The most important thing is that there is no war.\n\n\"I've learnt that your life can be turned upside down in a day. And there is nothing you can do about it. We're like pawns on a chessboard. They're playing with us. Today our place is in Russia. And tomorrow? Who knows. Maybe that's for the best: if we knew, we might have a heart attack.\"\n\nAcross town, I meet Nadia. She is complaining to me about potholes.\n\n\"Where I live there are potholes everywhere,\" Nadia says. \"People have been hurting their legs. I've written to the authorities asking them to do something. They haven't lifted a finger.\"\n\nNadia's disappointment extends further than pavements and roads.\n\n\"Many people here were happy, but there is disillusionment now,\" she tells me, \"because there is no investment and salaries and pensions are small. My pension is 8000 roubles ($140; £112) a month. Just about enough to cover utility bills and the medicines I need.\"\n\nI am talking to Nadia beside the statue of Ukraine's most famous 19th Century poet, Taras Shevchenko. It is Shevchenko Day and a group of twenty people have come here with flowers to mark the poet's birthday. Russian police have come, too - with cameras. They are filming everyone, including us. In Russian Crimea, public expressions of Ukrainian pride attract special attention.\n\nNadia is an ethnic Russian, but she is wearing a small Ukrainian flag.\n\n\"In my soul, Crimea is still part of Ukraine,\" Nadia tells me. \"I'm here because this statue is the last symbol of Ukraine left in Crimea.\"\n\nA woman called Lidiya overhears our conversation. She is furious.\n\n\"It was the Russian Empress Catherine the Great who built up Crimea,\" says Lidiya sternly.\n\n\"Well, if you're going to bring up history, we could go right back to the days of the Crimean khans,\" retorts Nadia.\n\n\"Three years ago America was planning to station soldiers in three schools in Sevastopol,\" she claims. \"Nato troops wanted to be in Sevastopol. Crimea would have been wiped from the face of the earth.\"\n\n\"How do you know that?\" I ask.\n\n\"I read it in the internet,\" she replies.\n\n\"Does that make it true?\"\n\n\"If people think they live badly in Crimea today, let them go and live in the Donbass in eastern Ukraine. They will be crying to come back here.\"\n\nUmer Ibragimov is desperate to find what happened to his missing son\n\nWe drive to the town of Bakhchysarai in central Crimea to meet Umer Ibragimov. Umer, a Crimean Tatar, is desperate for information about his son Ervin. In May 2016 Ervin was abducted late at night. CCTV cameras caught the moment he was seized by men in uniform and bundled into a vehicle.\n\n\"I've written to everyone asking for help,\" Umer tells me, \"from the bottom levels right up to the president. But there has been no information about my son.\"\n\nErvin Ibragimov was a member of the executive board of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars. Since annexation, the Crimean Tatar community has come under pressure. Its elected representative body, the Mejlis, which had opposed the 2014 referendum on joining Russia, has been ruled an \"extremist organisation\" and banned.\n\nHuman rights group Amnesty International accuses the Russian authorities of \"systematic persecution\" of Crimean Tatars. This month the European Union's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini concluded that \"the rights of the Crimean Tatars have been gravely violated\". Moscow denies the accusations.\n\nOver piping hot tea, Umer tells me the story of his family. In World War Two, his father had fought in the Red Army.\n\n\"He was wounded and came home,\" Umer says. \"Ten days later, all Crimean Tatars were deported from their homeland.\"\n\nIt was Josef Stalin who had ordered the deportation - an act of collective punishment and paranoia. The Soviet dictator suspected Crimean Tatars of collaborating with the Nazis. More than 230,000 people were forced on to cattle trains and transported to Central Asia.\n\n\"My mother and father told me later they'd be given just 15 minutes to gather their belongings,\" recalls Umer.\n\nUmer grew up in Soviet Uzbekistan. Conscripted into the Soviet army in the late 1970s, he spent a year fulfilling his \"internationalist duty\" fighting in Afghanistan.\n\nUmer looks at a photograph of his missing son.\n\n\"There is no justice,\" he says.\n\nAnd yet this Crimean spring feels calmer than three years ago. While Russia and the West argue over sanctions, sovereignty and borders, it seems that most people here are just trying to get on with their lives, trying to adapt.\n\n\"Everything calmed down,\" artist Svitlana Gavrilenko says. \"Everyone who used to be 'pro' something - either pro-Russia or pro-Ukraine - everybody calmed down.\"\n\nThree years ago Svitlana had opposed annexation. Today her perspective has changed.\n\n\"A lot of small and medium-sized businesses fell apart after Russia came because they were all connected to Ukraine. Now they have reconnected to Russia and China. If we become a part of Ukraine again, we will need to solve all this stuff again. Everyone's life is going to be screwed up again.\"\n\nIn the Black Sea resort of Yalta I find the promenade packed with people enjoying a seaside stroll in the sunshine. The sound of the waves crashing on the shore mixes with jazz chords from street musicians. From the conversations, there is an overriding sense of a population desperate for peace.\n\n\"Many people in Crimea still love Ukraine,\" Rodion says. \"Russia and Ukraine are too similar, their peoples too inter-connected to feel bad about each other.\"\n\nRodion believes \"it's not completely impossible\" that Crimea would one day return to Ukrainian rule.\n\n\"Nobody ever imagined it would become a part of Russia,\" he says, though he resents Western leaders who demand the peninsula's return. \"Crimea is not just a thing to be given to one country or another. It's a place. It's the people who live here. It's history. It's many things that cannot be bought or inter-changed.\"\n\nSvitlana Gavrilenko believes that the changes that took place here three years ago are irreversible.\n\n\"I don't think Russia in its modern state, with Putin at the top, could ever give Crimea back,\" she tells me. \"They made so much effort to connect it. They suffered through all these sanctions just to have Crimea. Why would they give it back?\"\n• None What is Russia's end game in Crimea?", "The Foreign Office paid compensation to families of British airmen shot dead after the \"great escape\" in World War Two, National Archives files show.\n\nThe papers also reveal some of the £1m of West German funds - intended for concentration camp survivors - was paid to families of other dead servicemen.\n\nBut survivors of the Nazi PoW camp escape were not initially compensated.\n\nSeventy-three of the 76 men who fled the Stalag Luft III camp in 1944 were recaptured. Fifty were later shot.\n\nTheir exploits were subsequently dramatised in the 1963 film the Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen.\n\nAlthough the Federal Republic - then West Germany - had agreed to compensate victims of the concentration camps, the initial scheme only applied to people who had been living permanently in Germany, or had emigrated from there.\n\nSo Britain, along with 10 other countries, pushed for agreements to ensure their own nationals would be compensated too.\n\nCaptain Andy Whatley-Smith (left) was killed while on a mission for the SAS\n\nThe terms of the 1964 agreement between Britain and Germany were clear.\n\nPersecution by the Nazis meant detention for reason of nationality, race, religion, or political view \"in Germany or in any territory occupied by Germany in a concentration camp or in an institution where the conditions were comparable with those in a concentration camp\".\n\nIt specifically excluded service personnel held in other camps - even if they'd been tortured or murdered.\n\n\"Hardships suffered in a normal civil prison civilian internment camp or prisoner of war camp do not constitute Nazi persecution nor does treatment contrary to the Geneva Convention and the rules of war, even though resulting in permanent injury or death,\" it said.\n\nThe files show the Foreign Office initially held to this line, fearing it could open the door to many more claims, from prisoners of war and others - and that was not what the Germans had agreed.\n\nHowever, according to research by Professor Susanna Schrafstetter of the University of Vermont, the Ministry of Defence lobbied hard for the families of the 50 murdered \"great escapers\" to be included.\n\nAnd so eventually payouts were offered by the Foreign Office to the families. These included sums of £2,293 to relatives of Flight Lieutenants Edgar Spottiswoode Humphreys, Gilbert William Walenn, John Francis Williams, and Cyril Douglas Swain.\n\nChristopher Whatley-Smith, seen with a picture of his uncle, says compensation helped bring his family 'closure'\n\nBut this family aid was not publicised, and survivors of the Stalag Luft III escape were told they were not eligible for compensation, even though several had spent time in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.\n\nIt led to a huge outcry at the time, a parliamentary inquiry, and an eventual settlement.\n\nForeign Office officials quietly added other cases it deemed exceptional including payments to relatives of Special Air Service (SAS) and Special Operations Executive personnel killed by the Nazis.\n\nCaptain Anthony \"Andy\" Whately-Smith of the SAS parachuted into occupied France in September 1944.\n\nThe 29-year-old was part of Operation Loyton, tasked with harrying the retreating Germans. At the end of October, Captain Whately-Smith was captured by German soldiers, along with fellow SAS officer Major Denis Reynolds.\n\nThey were taken to a camp in Alsace, brutally interrogated, then moved to Gaggenau in Germany where, on 25 November, with 12 other prisoners, they were shot.\n\nAccording to the newly-released records, the Foreign Office wrote to his family in 1966 - 22 years later - inviting them to apply for compensation for his death as a victim of Nazi persecution.\n\nCaptain Whately-Smith had no children and had separated from his wife. His father had founded a successful prep school, Hordle House in the New Forest and the family were not in need.\n\nThe records show they eventually received just over £1,000 in compensation for their relative's death.\n\nCaptain Whately-Smith's nephew Christopher said: \"The family, especially my grandfather, was greatly moved by his loss.\n\n\"The compensation meant a degree of closure - which is why they accepted it when offered.\"\n\nHis uncle gave the money to his own children, in premium bonds, while his father bought a small boat.\n\nAbout 4,000 people applied to the Foreign Office between 1964 and 1965 for help from the £1m fund, paid for by West Germany, with a quarter of claims successful.\n\nJack Thorez Finken-McKay's claim was turned down because of a technicality\n\nThe latest release of National Archives files on the fund also show compensation was paid to a group of Irish-born merchant seamen, who were sent to concentration camps because they refused to work for the Germans.\n\nThey were held at the Marlag-Milag Nord camp in Germany and asked to work on railways at Bremen and at the shipyards in Hamburg.\n\nBut, being from a politically neutral country at the time, they refused to support the Nazis and were sent to the Bremen-Farge camp until their release at the end of the war.\n\nUnusually, the compensation applications were initiated by the British government itself.\n\nThe men were initially awarded £1,000 in compensation, but were subsequently given a further £1,385.\n\nBut the papers show a British serviceman who spent two years in solitary confinement was denied compensation because of a technicality about where he had been detained.\n\nJack Thorez Finken-McKay, who transferred from the Royal Fusiliers to the War Office to perform special duties, said he became \"a living skeleton\" at the hands of the Gestapo in his letter to the Foreign Office.\n\nHe had been arrested and interrogated in France before eventually being sent to the Colditz Castle prisoner of war camp in Germany but his application was turned because the the locations where he was detained \"were not Nazi concentration camps or comparable institutions\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Andy Murray beat Frenchman Lucas Pouille 7-5 6-1 to reach his second Dubai Championships final.\n\nThe world number one, who was involved in a 31-minute tie-break in his quarter-final, struggled in the first set against seventh seed Pouille.\n\nThe pair broke each other twice before Murray took the set after 68 minutes with his third break.\n\nThe final set was a one-sided affair as the Scot set up a meeting with Fernando Verdasco in Saturday's final.\n\nMurray has now reached seven finals in his last eight tournaments and Dubai is his 14th final in his last 16 events.\n\n\"It was tough and I made a lot of mistakes,\" Murray said. \"But there was some good stuff in there.\n\n\"I think potentially the match yesterday had something to do with that - sometimes if your legs are a little bit tired, the serve is one of the first things that goes.\n\n\"As the match went on, I started serving a bit better and that helped me.\"\n\nMurray, 29, is into his second final of the year but has never won the title in Dubai, losing to Roger Federer in his previous final appearance in 2012.\n\nPlaying his first tournament since his fourth-round defeat at the Australian Open in January, the Scot could extend his lead at the top of the world rankings with victory on Saturday.\n\nHowever, Murray is wary of the threat posed by world number 35 Verdasco, who beat him in the 2009 Australian Open.\n\n\"This week he's had some good wins,\" Murray said. \"Where the balls are fairly heavy here on a quick court, he can generate a lot of power, he can control the ball.\n\n\"And when he's dictating the points, he's one of the best in the world at doing that.\"\n\nWorld number two Novak Djokovic was knocked out of the Mexico Open quarter-finals in straight sets by Australian Nick Kyrgios on Thursday.", "How much should you save per month for a decent pension?\n\nMany of us spend hundreds a month on travelling to work but don't put away much of the money we earn once we get there. So how much should we be saving for our twilight years?", "Further details of a secret report by doping authorities into Mo Farah's coach Alberto Salazar suggest he broke rules over banned steroid testosterone.\n\nSalazar has been under investigation by the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) since a BBC Panorama programme in 2015.\n\nThe leaked interim report states the American has thus far failed to provide \"acceptable justification for possessing testosterone\" at his Nike Oregon Project (NOP) running camp.\n\nThe 58-year-old claims he is being \"persecuted\".\n\nThe Usada report, hacked by the suspected Russian group Fancy Bears and passed to the Sunday Times Insight investigations team, has been seen by the BBC.\n\nAccording to the report, dating from March 2016, Salazar and several of his athletes have impeded Usada investigators, and \"almost certainly\" broke anti-doping rules over the infusion of a legal supplement L-carnitine.\n\nThe report also states Salazar risked the health of his athletes, including Farah, by issuing potentially harmful prescription medicines, including thyroid replacement drugs, to boost performance, despite there being no obvious medical need.\n\nBut his possession of the banned anabolic steroid testosterone around the NOP athletes he coaches, first revealed by Panorama in June 2015, could also lead to him being banned from the sport. Salazar insists he has a valid prescription for the drug.\n• None alleges Salazar broke anti-doping rules by failing to establish an \"acceptable justification\" for possession of testosterone.\n• None states that a testosterone \"experiment\" conducted in conjunction with Nike doctor Jeffrey Brown to see how much rubbed testosterone gel would trigger a positive dope test was \"unlawful\".\n• None raises \"suspicions and concerns\" about Salazar's practice of giving star athlete Galen Rupp personal massages before big races, despite Nike employing massage therapists.\n\nThe allegations about Salazar's testosterone use emerged after former NOP coach Steve Magness, athlete Kara Goucher and masseur John Stiner spoke to BBC Panorama. The trio are among dozens who have been interviewed by Usada as part of its ongoing investigation.\n\n...as of March 17, 2016, Mr Salazar's lawyer had still not provided additional documentation to Usada… [and therefore] has not established acceptable justification for possessing testosterone\n\nRule 21.2.6 of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) code stipulates that athlete support personnel are strictly prohibited from possessing banned drugs without \"valid justification\".\n\nSalazar produced a 12,000-word public response to the BBC and ProPublica's allegations, including a letter from a specialist stating he required the testosterone for his personal use because he had been diagnosed with hypogonadism, which results in low testosterone.\n\nHe also said the testosterone experiment, which used his own sons as \"guinea pigs\", was designed to protect against his athletes being sabotaged by someone rubbing testosterone gel on them after a race so that they would test positive.\n\nAccording to the leaked report, five days after the Panorama programme, Usada wrote to Salazar, asking him to provide \"all medical records for you referring to [a] condition for which you have been prescribed testosterone\".\n\nThe report states Salazar's lawyer produced seven documents in support of his condition, but concluded \"the documents … do not establish Mr Salazar has suffered from hypogonadism… or that he requires testosterone replacement therapy.\n\n\"Despite Usada's request that he do so, Mr Salazar has still produced no laboratory testing records, blood test data, examination notes, chart notes or differential diagnosis substantiating that Mr Salazar suffers from hypogonadism.\"\n\nThe report states \"as of March 17, 2016, Mr Salazar's lawyer had still not provided additional documentation to Usada…[and therefore] has not established acceptable justification for possessing testosterone and his admitted possession of testosterone appears to have been a violation of sport anti-doping rules\".\n\nThe report adds that the concerns listed above are \"before even mentioning the Nike Oregon Project document which lists Galen Rupp having received 'testosterone medication' when he was a 16-year-old and being coached by Salazar, as well as Mary Decker Slaney's sanction for an elevated testosterone level while she was being coached by Salazar .\"\n\nSalazar and Rupp, the London 2012 10,000m silver medallist, strongly deny any wrongdoing. In a series of emails in response to BBC questions, Salazar said he would never permit doping at the Oregon Project, and that all the allegations against him were \"biased and false\".\n\n\"I have never rubbed any prohibited substance on Galen or any of my other athletes. These allegations and innuendo against me are malicious nonsense. I have not seen the report and the parts relayed to me are false - demonstrably false and directly refuted by documentary evidence provided to Usada.\"\n\nHe said: \"I believe I've done more than any coach to continuously disprove false allegations where no violation has occurred. While I am frustrated that for years now I have had to answer in the media the same, rehashed, false accusations, I take comfort in knowing, that actions speak louder than words.\n\n\"The Oregon Project athletes continue to earn success through talent, hard work, dedication and fair play.\n\n\"I voluntarily provided Usada with medical records, including blood test results, documenting that I have suffered from a diagnosed disability for more than 20 years. Usada has not requested anything additional since my last response. I find this issue very disturbing, as under US law Usada is required to make a reasonable accommodation for my disability, not persecute me.\n\n\"I feel that I am not required to continually, for years and without explanation, share my very personal and private medical records with Usada over a disability that has been diagnosed by multiple doctors for decades. Any insinuation by Usada that I do not suffer from this condition is offensive to me and my treating physicians, and is inexcusable.\"\n\nThe BBC has specifically asked Salazar on three separate occasions in recent days whether he produced any further medical evidence to Usada after 17 March, 2016 the date the leaked report was compiled. He has declined to answer this question.\n\nThe leaked Usada report comes after months of speculation the agency's investigation had withered away. Nine months ago, Farah said he felt vindicated after standing by Salazar.\n\nUK Athletics had also given Farah the all clear to keep working with him following its own investigation, saying that it had \"no reason to be concerned\".\n\nOn Thursday, it confirmed it would continue to have a close relationship with Salazar, who remains a consultant to UKA, unless he was charged with a doping offence.\n\nFarah himself, according to the report, remains under investigation over an alleged 2014 infusion of the legal supplement L-carnitine, specifically whether it breached the legal limit of 50ml. He strongly denies breaking any rules.\n\nFarah said last week that Usada should go ahead and publish its findings. It is understood the delay in publishing at least in part is because Usada is looking to the courts to force Dr Jeffrey Brown, the Nike doctor accused of conspiring with Salazar, to hand over his medical records.\n\nDr Brown, who also denies any wrongdoing, is based in Houston, Texas, and the Texan Medical Board (TMB) is carrying out its own investigation into him.\n\nThe TMB did not respond to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nLast week, Usada said: \"We understand that the licensing body [TMB] is still deciding its case and as we continue to investigate whether anti-doping rules were broken, no further comment will be made at this time.\n\n\"Importantly, all athletes, coaches and others under the jurisdiction of the World Anti-Doping Code are innocent and presumed to have complied with the rules unless and until the established anti-doping process declares otherwise. It is unfair and reckless to state, infer or imply differently.\"\n\nSalazar has been Farah's coach since 2011, and has masterminded his rise to become Britain's greatest ever distance runner with a haul of four Olympic gold medals.\n\nBut questions will persist about his continuing loyalty to a man the doping authorities appear to believe has violated not just the sport's doping code, but its ethical ones too.", "Large rallies by security forces have been held in Xinjiang recently\n\nChina is in the midst of what it calls a \"people's war on terror\" in its far west. What sparked this latest campaign was a knife attack.\n\nAfter five people were killed on 14 February in Xinjiang, home to China's Muslim Uighur minority, Beijing began an \"all out offensive\". It flew in thousands of armed troops to hold mass police rallies and deploy columns of armoured vehicles on city streets.\n\nXinjiang's Communist Party boss Chen Quanguo urged these forces to \"bury the corpses of terrorists in the vast sea of a people's war\".\n\nJudging from the reaction on Chinese social media, at least some people approve.\n\n\"Terrorists will never be stamped out unless we weaken Muslim religious forces,\" urged one post on China's Twitter-like Weibo.\n\nThen on Monday the so-called Islamic State released a video, which appeared directly to threaten China and which showed Uighur fighters training.\n\nBut the ethnic Uighur population of Xinjiang has no discernible voice. In the midst of an \"all-out offensive\" it is dangerous for them to speak up, unless to echo the government's message.\n\nOne contact in Kashgar told the BBC that the situation is \"hypersensitive\", with all business in the city closed down by night. He said members of his family are summoned to weekly meetings to demonstrate political allegiance.\n\n\"We are reliving the Cultural Revolution\", he said.\n\nSo what lies behind China's biggest show of force in Xinjiang in nearly a decade?\n\nThe incident in Pishan on 14 February is the only deadly attack to be reported this year. Details are still scarce but there is no suggestion of the kind of outside involvement or large scale co-ordination which might explain such an enormous response.\n\nInstead, unofficial reports suggest the trigger for the attack may have been something far more personal: the police punishment of a Uighur family who held a Muslim prayer meeting at home.\n\nThis is surely not the kind of scenario which requires the deployment of thousands of paramilitary reinforcements.\n\nBut the state controlled Xinjiang Daily newspaper has urged security forces to prepare \"for a battle between good and evil, lightness and dark\" and the region's Communist Party boss warned of \"grim conditions\" in the fight against terrorism.\n\nAs well as the firm hand of Beijing, Uighurs are involved in the running of their semi-autonomous region\n\nSo are conditions really grim?\n\nNotwithstanding the video threat, outside Xinjiang, there has been no significant terrorist attack in China since 2014 and reported attacks in the region have been sporadic and small-scale.\n\nBy contrast, France has seen numerous terror attacks in recent years, including several major atrocities. But the French government did not declare a frontline, fly in thousands of troops or mount mass armed rallies on city streets.\n\nIt's hard to escape the conclusion that China is wielding a hammer to crack a nut. But Xinjiang's security forces are already well armed with every form of \"nutcracker\", including highly trained manpower, rapid response units, mobile police stations, surveillance cameras, helicopters, drones, satellite tracking of vehicles, biometrics and grid style management of every community right down to the individual household.\n\nPolice control and public surveillance is on the rise across China\n\nSo what explains the force?\n\nIt's possible that the current security situation in Xinjiang is worse than appears and that there are many attacks going unreported.\n\nOr that China has a very different risk calculus from other countries and feels a hammer is the appropriate response to every nut.\n\nA third possibility is that warning of \"grim conditions\" in counter-terrorism serves an unrelated purpose and the nut must be redefined as an existential threat to justify the hammer.\n\nMy feeling is that all three explanations play a part.\n\nThe first is the least significant.\n\nIt's hard to verify occasional unofficial reports of small scale attacks in remote parts of Xinjiang because it's extremely difficult and dangerous for local Uighurs to contact foreign reporters. But it's unlikely that the authorities could cover up a major atrocity even if they wished to.\n\nThe risk calculus is a much bigger factor. It's a sweeping generalisation unsupported by hard evidence, but in my experience Chinese citizens are risk averse.\n\nThey have a higher expectation than, for example, British citizens, that their government must keep them safe.\n\nChina's growing authoritarianism means there is no vocal constituency arguing that civil liberties are worth a certain price in national security. Besides which, low trust in official news sources makes Chinese society susceptible to rumour and panic.\n\nSo China's leaders have to be risk averse when dealing with a high density population, which is only grudgingly loyal in the first place and unlikely to be resilient to terror or tolerant of failure to prevent it.\n\nIn Xinjiang, recent attacks may be small, but Beijing needs to show its public that it is doing something about them, even if that something is ineffectual or worse, counter-productive.\n\nThe region's security forces are already well trained and armed\n\nTurning to the third possible motive for an \"all-out offensive\" against scattered enemies armed only with knives, China has powerful vested interests whose objectives are advanced by talking up the security threat.\n\nThe politicians involved want to strengthen their hand before a crucial Communist Party Congress in the autumn, the security services want to expand their bureaucratic empire, and the businesses producing surveillance equipment and software have money to make.\n\nEthnic riots in 2009 left nearly 200 dead and led to mass arrests, against which these women protested\n\nDespite China's best efforts to cut off the routes of escape via Central and South East Asia, more than 100 Uighur fighters have made their way to Iraq and Syria. And now, IS is using footage from Xinjiang in its propaganda videos.\n\nIt's impossible to judge how far this would have happened without policies of religious and cultural repression in Xinjiang.\n\nBanning beards and head scarves in public places, forcing Muslims to break their rules on fasting, demolishing mosques, micromanaging religious education, exacting outward shows of ideological loyalty serves to alienate Uighurs in Xinjiang.\n\nSome Uighurs feel their distinct culture is under threat\n\nIn many countries terror triggers the impulse to repress and punish the community which appears to harbour the \"terrorist\". But other societies debate the dangers of alienation and the risk that those criminalised may become even more vulnerable to exploitation by extremists.\n\nIn 2014, making the case for an honest appraisal of the dangers of repression earned the Uighur academic Ilham Tohti a life sentence in prison.\n\nThe risk of demonising such mild dissent is to leave China's Uighurs only the voice of the separatist, the \"terrorist\" or the religious fundamentalist.\n\nDespite relatively moderate activism, Uighur academic Ilham Tohti was jailed for life\n\nAt present, the cost of this silence is experienced only by Uighurs and by Han Chinese who live and work in Xinjiang. But this may change.\n\nAlready the technologies of an Orwellian police state are advancing across China. Security services have no inhibitions about accessing social media accounts and private financial records to build an increasingly complete picture of the lives of persons of interest.\n\nA vaguely worded new anti-terror law and accompanying narrative of foreign threats justify every constriction of civil liberties and detention of human rights lawyers, labour activists, religious believers and feminists.\n\nMost of the Uighur ethnic minority, which makes up about 45% of Xinjiang's population, practise the Muslim faith\n\nOccasionally the Chinese public pushes back with complaints on social media about aggressive policing or miscarriages of justice.\n\nAnd China does have traditions of soft power as well as hard - strains of Confucian paternalism in which a benign emperor rules through wisdom and natural authority, not through fear.\n\nBut in 2017, these strains are absent in Xinjiang. There's no significant pushback to the Communist Party message that the security of the state trumps the liberty of the citizen.\n\nSo China will go on failing to win the battle for hearts and minds in Xinjiang, and failing to convince the outside world that its offensive there is a clear-cut battle between good and evil.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Why I quit my dream job as a police detective'\n\nThe lack of police investigators in the UK is in crisis, according to a new report. Former detectives have told BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme why they have quit their jobs.\n\nBeing a police officer was Angelina Dawson's dream job. It was \"all I ever wanted to do\", she says.\n\nA police officer who won commendations, she was \"dead chuffed\" when she finally became a detective helping to solve some of London's most serious crimes.\n\n\"I loved the challenge of trying to work out what happened and putting the pieces of the puzzle together and getting the result, getting to court when people are being convicted of terrible things,\" she says.\n\n\"You really feel you've made a difference. It was worth all of those long hours.\"\n\nHowever, in February - after 10 years as a Metropolitan Police officer and having become a detective - she decided to walk away from the police.\n\n\"I decided it's not good for me, it's not good for my health. It is so pressurised now. There just isn't enough of us,\" she says.\n\nA shortage of detectives in the force meant some officers were having to investigate up to 20 crimes at once, she says.\n\nAngelina at her passing out parade, in 2007\n\n\"That is a massive workload, that's a minimum of 20 victims, a minimum of 20 suspects,\" she says. \"There just isn't enough hours in a day to do everything.\"\n\nEventually, she says, the job began to harm her health, at which point she decided to leave it behind, albeit with a heavy heart.\n\n\"I would often wake up with headaches because I wasn't having enough sleep,\" she says.\n\n\"No matter how much you try to be organised at work and keep on top of everything, there was just more and more and more and there just wasn't enough of us to cope with what was coming in.\n\n\"I just ended up thinking I can't do this anymore. It made me feel a bit of a failure to be honest, that I couldn't stick at it. It made me sad.\"\n\nSimon Davison says he quit the police rather than move to another team for a promotion\n\nSimon Davison, another former Met Police detective, says the workload in some CID units in the capital had become \"insurmountable\" before he left.\n\nLast month, he resigned as a detective in the Met's \"flying squad\" - a unit that investigates serious organised crime.\n\nHe says he would have had to move away from his specialist unit in order to win a promotion.\n\nHowever, he took the decision to quit the force altogether rather than transfer to one of London's 32 borough constabularies, where he says numbers have been \"decimated\".\n\n\"They've often got one detective sergeant and a trainee detective and that's it for the borough,\" he says.\n\n\"It only takes a couple of serious incidents and they are completely stretched.\n\n\"So I certainly noticed that going into the CID offices, that they just had very few numbers and you could sense the morale was quite down.\"\n\nThe seemingly glamorous lure of becoming a police detective and catching some of London's most fearsome criminals has also diminished, according to Mr Davison.\n\n\"The mystique of the CID has gone,\" he says.\n\n\"It used to be something that you aspired to but now I think something where you are either put or it is seen as the easy way out.\n\n\"I've seen departments with very few people.\n\n\"The experience has gone, and they just have an insurmountable work load.\"\n\nThe Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) report on police effectiveness describes the shortage of investigators - including detectives - as a \"national crisis\", calling for a UK-wide response.\n\n\"Some crimes are apparently being shelved without proper investigations taking place,\" the report says.\n\nInspectors say the Met Police is currently short of 700 detectives, and they are \"very concerned\" that too often officers without the right skills and experience are investigating crimes.\n\nThe Police Federation, which represents rank and file police officers, says the overall number of officers in London has not reduced.\n\nInstead, the organisation says, cuts to civilian staff numbers have piled more pressure on officers, while there are also fewer people coming forward to join CID.\n\nIt is urging forces to make the role of a detective constable more appealing.\n\nThe Met said in a statement that \"detective recruitment and retention is being addressed as a priority\".\n\n\"In an organisation as large and complex as ours, ensuring we have the right people in the right roles to deal with an ever changing pattern of demand will always be very challenging, even more so in the current financial climate,\" the force said.\n\nIt added: \"The Met has more officers than ever before taking the detective exam.\"\n\nThe Home Office said in a statement: \"We have protected police funding through the 2015 Spending Review, and the public should be in no doubt that forces will continue to have the resources they need to cut crime and keep our communities safe.\"\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 European Football\n\nAtletico Madrid say striker Fernando Torres is \"stable, conscious and lucid\" in hospital after suffering a head injury in the 1-1 draw with Deportivo.\n\nThe ex-Liverpool and Chelsea striker fell heavily in an 85th-minute aerial challenge with Alex Bergantinos.\n\nThe Spain international, 32, will have more tests on Friday, but Atletico confirmed scans showed he has \"no traumatic alterations or injuries\".\n\nTorres said: \"It was just a scare. I hope to come back very soon.\"\n\nPlayers from both teams immediately rushed to Torres and called for medical help.\n\nHe was assisted for several minutes by doctors before being taken off on a stretcher and transferred to a hospital.\n\nSpeaking at his post-match news conference, Atletico coach Diego Simeone said he was \"worried and nervous\" when the incident happened.\n\n\"We heard the blow from the bench, we saw how he fell and we were afraid,\" he said. \"We didn't know if that noise was Fernando's neck or not.\"\n\nAtletico finished the game with 10 men, having used all three substitutes, but earned a point thanks to Antoine Griezmann's stunning 30-yard strike.\n\nDeportivo had taken an early lead in Pepe Mel's first game in charge when Florin Andone capitalised on a poor Jan Oblak goal-kick.\n\n\"Everybody was speechless in the dressing room because of what happened,\" said Griezmann.\n\n\"In the end I do not care about the result. I just want to know what's up with Fernando and hopefully he's fine. And he gets back to us soon.\"\n\nAtletico left-back Filipe Luis added: \"It's very ugly to see it, we were all scared but at least the news we have received so far is good and the most important thing is that Fernando is well.\"\n\nThe draw leaves Atletico fourth in La Liga - 11 adrift of leaders Barcelona - while Deportivo are now 17th.\n• None Offside, Atlético de Madrid. José Giménez tries a through ball, but Diego Godín is caught offside.\n• None Yannick Carrasco (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Fernando Torres went off injured after Atlético de Madrid had used all subs.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Álex Bergantiños (Deportivo de La Coruña) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Delay in match Fernando Torres (Atlético de Madrid) because of an injury.\n• None Juanfran (Deportivo de La Coruña) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC Two, Connected TV, Red Button and the BBC Sport website.\n\nBritain's Eilidh Doyle missed out on qualification for the 400m final at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Belgrade.\n\nThe 30-year-old Scot was edged into third in her semi-final, with only the top two athletes progressing.\n\nHer fellow Briton Laviai Nielsen, 20, finished second in her semi-final to reach Saturday's final.\n\nScot Laura Muir qualified for both the 1500m and 3,000m finals, to be held on Saturday and Sunday respectively.\n\nThe 23-year-old won her 1500m heat in four minutes 10.28 seconds, having earlier reached the 3,000 final as a fastest loser by clocking 8:55.56.\n\nTeam-mate Sarah McDonald (4:12.50) will join Muir in the 1500m final, while Steph Twell (8:55.02) and Eilish McColgan (8:57.85) also advanced to the 3,000m final.\n\n\"I wanted to conserve as much as I could for the finals,\" said Muir.\n\n\"You always want to win a race, so you just have to be sensible and just do what is necessary.\"\n\nDoyle, ranked third in Europe this year, faded in the final stretch and was overtaken by Poland's Malgorzata Holub on the line as she clocked 52.81.\n\n\"I didn't know what was going on, I was just tightening up a bit and trying to get to the line as quickly as I could and I'm just absolutely gutted,\" Doyle told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I wanted to win the semi-final and get a good lane for the final so to not even make the final is pretty heartbreaking.\"\n\nElsewhere, Morgan Lake qualified in third place for the women's high jump final on Saturday.\n\nThe 19-year-old was one of seven athletes to clear 1.90m and one of only three to do so on their first attempt.\n\nFellow Briton Tom Lancashire, 31, won his 1,500m heat to qualify for Saturday's final, coming through to post 3:47.37 - the ninth-quickest time overall.\n\nAnd Kyle Langford, 21, reached the semi-finals of the men's 800m but Guy Learmonth, 24, missed out after finishing fourth in his heat.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nCoverage: Full commentary on BBC Radio 5 live and live text updates on the BBC Sport website.\n\nTony Bellew has been \"underestimated\" in the build-up to Saturday's heavyweight fight with David Haye, says former world champion Richie Woodhall.\n\nWBC cruiserweight champion Bellew, 34, weighed in at 15st 3lb 8oz, lighter than 36-year-old Haye (16st 9oz).\n\nThe pair again traded insults at London's O2 Arena, where Haye starts as odds-on favourite with the bookmakers.\n\n\"I can't believe people aren't giving him a bigger chance,\" said Woodhall, a BBC Radio 5 live pundit.\n• None Quiz: Who said these classic boxing put-downs?\n• None Haye v Bellew: Their rivalry in their own words\n\n\"I don't think it's a foregone conclusion. Everyone is saying a Haye early knockout but I think it will be a tough fight for him.\"\n\nBermondsey-born Haye was cheered by a big crowd at Friday's weigh-in as he prepares to fight at a venue just six miles from where he grew up.\n\nOnly once in his 30-fight career has he weighed in heavier than for this bout.\n\nThe former WBA heavyweight champion mocked the physique of Bellew, who said he was \"over the moon\" to see his rival so heavy.\n\nWill Haye run out of gas?\n\nBellew, who as recently as 2013 was fighting two weight classes lower, reiterated his belief Haye would be short on stamina in just his third fight since returning from over three years out of the sport.\n\nWoodhall believes Haye will be \"extremely dangerous\" early in the fight and expects Bellew to build his tactics around dragging a knockout specialist - who has been in just three 12-round contests - into the latter rounds.\n\n\"It's a classic case of who will land the big shot,\" added 1988 Olympic bronze medallist Woodhall.\n\n\"Bellew's first goal will be to get through the first four rounds, when we know Haye is at his most explosive. If he gets through he will not be home and dry by any means but his fight will then start and he can think about trying to break Haye down.\n\n\"The one thing against Haye is he's only fought a couple of times since 2012. I think he will solely rely on getting Bellew out early.\"\n\n'Neither one of them will be proud'\n\nHaye has been criticised for graphic descriptions of how he intends to hurt his opponent, while Bellew has actively pursued the fight, calling his foe out publicly from the ring after a routine win in October.\n\nThe feud has meant both fighters have been kept apart by security in fight week, and the pre-fight face-off was also conducted with people between them.\n\nBritish Boxing Board of Control general secretary Robert Smith has expressed his disappointment in their behaviour.\n\n\"When it's all over, they will look back and neither one of them will be proud of beforehand,\" added Woodhall, 48. \"You have to have a balance. We all want the fight to sell but you don't want people pointing the finger at the sport of boxing.\n\n\"Psychologically, I think Bellew has played a blinder. Haye has to control his emotions early on. If he ends up swinging early on, missing the target, then the tide turns. I think Bellew wants Haye to come out very aggressively.\"\n\nHaye is attempting to improve his record of 28 wins from 30 fights, while Bellew has 28 wins, two losses and one draw on his record.\n\nThe bitterness between Haye and Bellew has been mirrored by super-lightweight rivals Derry Mathews and Ohara Davies.\n\nThe pair have engaged in insulting social media exchanges and expletive-laden rants before a bout which is the biggest of Davies' 14-fight career, and could help 33-year-old Mathews keep hopes of another world-title shot alive.\n\nWoodhall expects the welterweight fight between Sam Eggington and American Paulie Malignaggi to potentially steal the show.\n\nMalignaggi, 36, has been a world champion at two weights and has shared a ring with stellar names such as Amir Khan, Adrian Broner and Danny Garcia.\n\nWales' IBF featherweight champion Lee Selby will contest a non-title bout against Spain's Andoni Gago, while Ireland's London 2012 Olympic champion Katie Taylor enters her third fight as a professional when she faces Italy's Monica Gentili, who has six wins and as many losses in her career.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChris Wood scored twice at former club Birmingham City as Leeds United won for the third time in four Championship games to move a point behind third-placed Huddersfield.\n\nWood's double, and a clinical late third from Alfonso Pedraza, meant a third home defeat in four for Blues.\n\nAfter Wood's 14th-minute lob, Craig Gardner levelled on 63 minutes with a low, 25-yard left-foot curler.\n\nBut Wood scored from close range before Pedraza sealed the points.\n\nRelive Leeds' win at Birmingham as it happened\n\nWood, who had a prolific half-season on loan at City from West Brom in 2011-12, has 25 goals this season in all competitions - with 22 in the league.\n\nAnd his two goals at St Andrew's take him two ahead of Newcastle's Dwight Gayle at the top of the Championship charts.\n\nLeeds boss Garry Monk, in the stands serving his one-game touchline ban, must have been pleased with his side's finishing, which was the difference against a Blues side who have won just twice in 16 games under Gianfranco Zola.\n\nBirmingham made the much brighter start, David Davis firing into the side-netting from a tight angle and Rob Green diverting Che Adams' angled shot wide, but Blues were then cut open by a classic piece of long-ball football.\n\nFrom defending a corner, keeper Rob Green found Luke Ayling, whose teasing long ball down the inside-right channel just evaded the despairing lunge of Ryan Shotton, leaving Wood in the clear to lift a superb instinctive lob over advancing Blues keeper Tomasz Kuszczak.\n\nThe hosts had chances to level, and Robert Tesche's stunning 25-yard left-foot shot swerved beyond Green but crashed back off the bar.\n\nThe luckless Adams then went close three times in as many minutes, with a header cleared off the line before he diverted Tesche's shot just over and was then denied at close range by Green.\n\nGardner finally brought Blues level, but the hosts were back on terms for only four minutes.\n\nKalvin Phillips squared from the right and young defender Josh Dacres-Cogley lost his footing on the wet, muddy surface in the six-yard box, allowing Wood to turn home from close range.\n\nThen, on 82 minutes, Pedraza wrapped it up with a low left-foot shot into Kuszczak's bottom corner, to send the noisy army of Leeds fans home deliriously happy.\n\n\"The result does not reflect what happened on the pitch but, on the other side, there was a player who touched the ball three times and scored two.\n\n\"We made a few mistakes, but it is difficult to say anything to my team when they have put in a performance like that against a team who are fourth in the league. We are genuinely doing our best. I cannot complain.\n\n\"We have to put right the mistakes, but overall it was our best performance of the season. I need to encourage the players to keep playing like this.\"\n\n\"I didn't enjoy the first 60 minutes. Birmingham were excellent and it was tough for us.\n\n\"We were second best, especially in the first half. They will feel aggrieved that they did not capitalise on the chances they created.\n\n\"But we showed a strong mentality and, in that last half-hour, we were excellent. We scored some very good goals and in the end won comfortably.\n\n\"The subs made a good impact, Pedraza scored his first for the club and we had two great finishes from Chris Wood, especially the first - great improvisation.\"\n• None Jerome Sinclair (Birmingham City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Robert Tesche (Birmingham City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Chris Wood (Leeds United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Che Adams (Birmingham City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Lukas Jutkiewicz with a headed pass.\n• None Goal! Birmingham City 1, Leeds United 3. Alfonso (Leeds United) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Pablo Hernández following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Pablo Hernández (Leeds United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Luke Ayling. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Gordon Brown has called for the second part of the Leveson Inquiry to go ahead - and said the majority of press abuses in recent years were from the Murdoch press.\n\nSpeaking to the former prime minister for Thursday's BBC News at Ten, I asked him why we need it, given the criminal trials that followed the first part and high cost to the public.\n\n\"There are so many unanswered questions about what the Murdoch News International group did… blagging, impersonation, email interception, breaches under the law itself... that unless there is a full and proper inquiry we'll never be able to clear the air,\" he said.\n\n\"And we'll always have suspicions about how the media was acting for a whole decade at the start of the 21st century.\"\n\nAs things stand, there is a judicial review into the terms of a government consultation into both whether the second part of Leveson should happen and also if Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (which imposes costs of legal actions against publishers on to those publishers if they don't sign up to an approved regulator) should be implemented.\n\nThe second Leveson Inquiry was to look specifically at allegations of unlawful or improper conduct within News International, other newspaper organisations and, as appropriate, other organisations within the media,\n\nMost of the people I speak to in Westminster think it is unlikely that a government so focused on leaving the European Union will want the distraction of another inquiry.\n\nFor Brown, that is not good enough - and the fact that David Cameron promised it would happen counts for plenty.\n\n\"Leveson himself said this was only the first part of his inquiry, Mr Cameron when prime minister said there had to be a Leveson Two, the House of Lords has looked at this and agreed there has to be a second inquiry,\" he said.\n\n\"Mr Cameron said that was to happen when he was prime minister. It does seem strange that we're now not going to have it unless we keep pushing for it.\n\n\"Leveson One could only deal with part of the problem. The whole of the problem has to be dealt with, including the way Murdoch newspapers impersonated people, including the way there were breaches of the law, including also how email interception might have happened, as well as telephone interception. And the media itself should want an inquiry to clear the air.\"\n\nBrown believes there is fresh evidence that has not been sufficiently raked over. And it was clear in speaking to him how personally he was affected by press intrusion.\n\n\"There is fresh evidence. We have the Daniel Morgan murder inquiry and that is revealing fresh evidence almost every month. We have the statements made by people who were in police at the time that have been sent to [Culture Secretary] Karen Bradley as a reason for taking action.\n\n\"We have the evidence that people like me have that I was impersonated, that my bank account was broken into, that my lawyer's office was besieged by calls impersonating me from the Murdoch newspapers.\n\n\"These are all things that happened and have not been properly accounted for by the Murdoch empire.\"\n\nI asked Brown whether, as many of his critics contend, this was really the vendetta of a wronged man.\n\nHis response was: \"I can only explain what happened to me. I know I was impersonated. My lawyer's office received questions by impersonation. My bank accounts and mortgage accounts were broken into.\n\n\"I am in a position to defend myself. There are thousands who don't know what happened to them. People who have less power to defend themselves than me deserve this inquiry.\"\n\nMurdoch, with whom Brown was thought at one point to have developed a trustful relationship, deserted Labour at the 2010 election, endorsing the Conservatives in a manner timed to inflict maximum damage on Brown's ambitions.\n\nThe bid by 21st Century Fox for the 61% of Sky it does not already own is imminent. It is currently being bounced between Fox and the European Commission as part of what are known as \"pre-notification talks\". They are a formality.\n\nVery soon, Fox will formally notify Karen Bradley of their bid and she will have 10 days to decide whether to refer the bid to telecoms regulator Ofcom.\n\nJames Murdoch gave evidence to the first Leveson Inquiry\n\nI asked Brown specifically whether he thought that the Murdochs, and James Murdoch, were fit and proper to hold a broadcasting licence.\n\n\"Before you make a decision about the ownership of a very important media organisation, you should know all the facts.\n\n\"Because we haven't had Leveson Two there is always going to be doubt as to whether we know what is happening in this organisation, whether we know whether there are fit and proper people governing this organisation.\"\n\nI asked him finally why he seemed to be targeting Murdoch particularly. After all, it was not just the Murdoch press that did wrong. But that is not really how Brown sees it.\n\n\"All the major instances of abuse that merit inquiry in recent years have come out of the Murdoch press. We have the fake Sheikh, we have the telephone hacking, we have issues about email hacking.\n\n\"Most of them resolve at least in the main around the Murdoch media and that's where the inquiry has got to start.\"\n\nNews UK declined to comment on these assertions. Their position is simple and has been made publicly many times: there have been extensive criminal trials into many of these accusations, with several journalists in the dock.\n\nWe don't need yet more flagellation of the press.\n\nWatch the interview on BBC News at Ten at 22:00 GMT on BBC One on Thursday or on iPlayer for 24 hours afterwards.", "The powerful lure of smartphones has created a heads-down culture in many public places. John Mervin in New York came across someone who just might benefit from a little digital detox.\n\nI'd never saved someone's life before, so I wasn't sure of the protocol.\n\nSpeechless incomprehension on my part didn't seem appropriate. But then neither did the young woman's giddy laughter, or her jaunty departure from what could so easily have been the scene of her death.\n\nIt took my daughter's torrent of questions, as we turned away, to force the world back into a semblance of order:\n\n\"Daddy - what was she doing? Why was she on the tracks? What would have happened if a train came?\"\n\nAs we climbed the stairs into New York's gleaming winter sunshine, I tried to explain what we had just seen.\n\nWe'd arrived at Rockefeller Center station on the D train. As in many of New York's underground stations, trains pull in at both sides of the platform. Or, rather, they seem to erupt into the station first on one side, then on the other.\n\nWhen the stations are busy, the platforms feel like narrow, crowded islands of safety. We picked our way along this one, my wife and youngest daughter in front, my eldest daughter and I at the rear.\n\n\"Uh, what's this?\" she said.\n\nI looked over her shoulder. There at our feet lay a young woman of about 20. She was on her stomach with the top half of her body on the platform, while her legs dangled over the tracks kicking pathetically.\n\nShe was stuck. She had also, clearly, been down on the tracks.\n\nAnd just as each commuter imagines, as they stand on the platform edge pondering the end of it all, she had discovered that climbing back up from the tracks is really hard.\n\nThe lip of the platform sticks out so far that you have to climb out as well as up. That leaves you straining to keep half your body on the platform while the other half flails wildly for some purchase in mid-air.\n\nBut unlike in our morbid imaginings, this woman was not in the grips of panic, anticipating her imminent decapitation by the F train which would be screeching into the station in the next few minutes, if not seconds.\n\nShe was laughing! Giggling! So was her friend who half-heartedly leant down to assist.\n\nThe assistance was somewhat compromised by the fact that the friend was holding her mobile phone. Was she hoping to capture this moment with a picture? Or composing a text?\n\nIt's well known that people's compulsive checking of their phones can be deadly. Among young people in America, texting is now the number one cause of car crashes.\n\nMaybe it's also a leading cause of leaving friends to perish when they fall in the river or on to the train tracks.\n\nAbsurd as it might seem, my immediate concern was which part of her body it was OK to touch.\n\nFor the mechanics of dragging her to safety the obvious place to grab would have been her inner thigh. But that seemed indecent. An assault even.\n\nWell, what about the belt loop on the back of her jeans? No! That would wrench her clothing into some painful, awkward position.\n\nBut for goodness sake, she was about to be killed. This wasn't the time to fret about the niceties! So I leant out as far as I could, got hold of her leg somewhere near the knee and, together with her finally-engaged friend, hauled the young woman on to the platform.\n\nNew York's transit authority constantly warns passengers not to go on to the tracks for any reason. But there is a constant stream of stories of people who have done so and been hit, and crushed, by trains, or of people who have fallen and then been struck. There are even a few stories of miraculous escapes.\n\nIn 2015, 50 people were hit and killed by subway trains here. Not that many in a city of eight million, but enough so that for all their drab functionality the stations have an air of profound, nascent danger.\n\nThe islands of safety are surrounded by a lethal void.\n\nThough maybe it doesn't seem that way to someone still young enough to be fearless. The woman I helped did get out alive.\n\nAnd you can guess why she'd been on the tracks. Still laughing, but maybe chastened by my look of horror she said: \"Thanks. Sorry. My phone fell down there. It would have taken them forever to get it back.\"\n\nWhile I turned to clutch my daughter's hand and head upstairs, the young woman and her friend sauntered away. I wonder when she'll be scared?\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Travel experts began warning even before the 2016 election that Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric could cause a decline in tourism. So has the so-called \"Trump slump\" arrived?\n\nStephen Mumford, a professor of metaphysics at Durham University in north-east England, had some money to burn thanks to a large research fellowship grant he was awarded in October 2016. Always eager to travel to other countries and present his research, he began making arrangements for trips to several academic conferences in the United States.\n\nIn his first month in office, the Trump administration imposed a travel ban on seven majority-Muslim countries, and empowered US Customs and Border Protection agents to enforce immigration laws more assertively at ports of entry.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters gather at Dulles airport: \"Welcome to the USA!\"\n\nMumford started to hear stories he didn't like - like the British Muslim school teacher who was separated from his students and removed from a flight bound for the US, or that incoming travellers were being asked to turn over their mobile phones and social media passwords.\n\nLast month, Mumford made what he says was a difficult decision: to cancel all his planned travel to the US.\n\n\"I don't want to go to a conference if other people are excluded simply because they belong to a particular group,\" he says.\n\n\"I don't feel I can just walk in and think, 'I'm OK', and forget the guy behind me can't come in just because he's a Muslim. That's being a party to the unfairness.\"\n\nThousands of professors around the globe have pledged not to travel to the US.\n\nA growing list of Canadian schools who once made regular trips across the border for sports, music and other educational events are cancelling their journeys for fear that foreign-born students could be singled out.\n\nIn Philadelphia, at least one large conference worth an estimated $7m in revenue to the city has been cancelled, and the tourism board of New York City recently reversed its pre-election projection that the city would see an increase of 400,000 international travellers in 2017.\n\nThe board now predicts 300,000 fewer foreign tourists will visit the Big Apple this year than did in 2016.\n\nAnecdotes like these are the worst fears of travel industry analysts, who've been warning for weeks that the US could be entering a tourism \"Trump slump\".\n\nThe online booking site Kayak reported that searches by UK citizens for US destinations had \"fallen off a cliff\", and that hotel prices in cities like San Francisco, New York and Las Vegas dropped between 32-39%.\n\nHopper, another travel site, released data showing that searches for flights to America had dropped globally an average of 22%.\n\nBy contrast, the online travel agent site Tripsta reported a spike in one-way flights from the UK to the US in January and February of 2017, but hypothesised the cause could be \"the return of non-US nationals concerned about restrictions to international travel\".\n\nThe Global Business Travel Association estimated that for the week Trump's travel ban was in effect, the US lost $185m in travel bookings (£150m).\n\nA Syrian refugee family who was previously banned by Trump's executive order celebrate their entry into the US\n\nBut the president can't shoulder all the blame.\n\nAdam Sacks, president of Tourism Economics, characterises the slowing of tourism interest as a \"trifecta of travel hindrances\": a weak global economy, a strong US dollar and the \"falling favourability\" of the US in the eyes of the international community.\n\nInternational travel was already down in 2016 by about 0.9% compared to 2015. Travel to the US from Canada was down 1.4% in December 2016 compared to the previous month, but overall, 2016 was the third consecutive year that fewer Canadians went to the States.\n\n\"We expected 2017 to be a fairly subpar year in any case - very modest growth,\" he says. \"[But] this couldn't come at a worse time.\n\n\"The US is an expensive destination, we have a muted global economy and now we pile this on - that's why the impacts are as significant as they are.\"\n\nHis firm projects a loss of 6.3 million visitors by next year, which translates into $10.8bn in lost revenue, including what Sacks calls \"Trump-induced\" losses.\n\nHenry Harteveldt, an analyst with the Atmosphere Research Group, says the US tourism industry has probably already bounced back from the immediate impact of the blocked travel ban. However, industry insiders are anxiously awaiting the language of the new executive order to replace it.\n\n\"There are a lot of unknowns. The travel industry, which is already a discretionary industry, hates uncertainty,\" he says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Iraqi Fuad Suleman, who was turned back in Cairo, says he and his family had been preparing to emigrate to the US for two years\n\nHarteveldt points to a survey his firm conducted weeks before the executive order took place, which showed that in 15 countries around the world about 20% of the respondents reported that as a result of the presidential election they were either somewhat or highly unlikely to travel to the US or had actually cancelled a planned trip.\n\n\"The fact that in 15 countries so many people had either cancelled trips or had such an unfavourable view of the United States was really alarming to me as an analyst,\" he says.\n\n\"Events that transpired during the presidential election just created a very bad impression of the US in many people's minds.\"\n\nTrump's travel ban inspired protests around the globe, including this one in London\n\nLori, a mother of two boys in Edmonton, Alberta, says they used to make regular trips to the Twin Cities in Minnesota. After Trump's executive orders on immigration, her sons urged her to cancel a trip in March.\n\n\"For our oldest, it was out of outrage: the majority of his friends are either visible minority immigrants/refugees, or the children of immigrants or refugees; some of them are Muslim,\" she wrote in an email.\n\n\"For our 11 year old, it was fear: he equates the word 'America' with violence and discrimination against innocent people now.\"\n\nAlthough some of the frenzy over President Trump may cool in the coming months, Sacks says that international travellers are booking their spring and summer holidays now.\n\n\"This is a massive negative economic impact that's at stake here. It will result in appreciable declines in tax revenues, and will affect household income and also employment and profitability for the industry,\" he says.\n\nHow much it will hurt will be more apparent later, once the high travel seasons of spring and summer arrive, and after publicly held airlines, hotels and travel agencies file their earnings reports in mid-April.\n\nThe US government also has not yet released this year's visa-entry figures, which will also reveal more about how travel has been affected.\n\nMumford says that though his decision not to attend a prestigious conference in California could hurt him professionally, he can't put aside his unease over the changes he sees happening in the US.\n\n\"I've got the travel money, and if I'm not wanted or regarded suspiciously, then I'll go elsewhere,\" he says.\n\n\"I feel I'm showing solidarity with my friends in America by this minor protest.\"", "\"Food media is predominantly generated by white people for white people, so when the subject veers toward anything outside of the Western canon, it's not uncommon to see things generalised, exotified, or misrepresented. \"\n\nFilipino-American Celeste Noche, who is a food and travel photographer, shared her thoughts on the \"exotified\" depiction of certain recipes within the blogging and gourmet community on the podcast The Racist Sandwich.\n\n\"I think microaggressions in social media are reflective of food media as a whole in that appropriation,\" Noche tells BBC Trending, \"These microaggressions can be as simple as a lack of research.\"\n\nWhether it's taking photos of dishes with chopsticks sticking straight up into rice or noodles (which can be seen as offensive in some Asian cultures)\", she says, \"or dramatisation in the props used to style ethnic foods (why are Asian dishes so often styled on bamboo mats or banana leaves with chopsticks?)\".\n\n\"Chopsticks sticking straight up into rice or noodles can be seen as offensive in some Asian cultures,\" says Noche\n\nNoche added that established food blogs like that of Andrew Zimmern also fed into stereotypes.\n\n\"(His) recipe for Filipino short ribs is styled with chopsticks even though Filipinos traditionally eat with spoons and forks or their hands\".\n\nZimmern has not responded to a request for comment at the time of writing.\n\nSimilarly the food site Bon Appetit received some criticism for publishing a video last year about noodles claiming \"Pho is the new Ramen.\" Several commenters attacked the video for the \"simplification of Asian culture\" as \"pho is from Vietnam and ramen from Japan\".\n\nThe video was fronted by a white American chef who spoke on the 'correct way to eat pho\".\n\nMessages under Bon Appetit's video \"Pho is the new Ramen\"\n\nAfter a little more than 24 hours on the website Bon Appetit removed the video altogether, both from their Facebook and YouTube channels, and apologised for any offence they may have caused.\n\nNoche's assertion comes at a time of much discussion about the so-called \"cultural misrepresentations\" of food.\n\nPembroke College of Cambridge university said they were taking complaints from ethnic minority students about their menu \"seriously\".\n\n\"Dear Pembroke catering staff, stop mixing mango and beef and calling it 'Jamaican stew',\" a student posted on the college's Facebook page. \"I'm actually half Jamaican, pls show me where in the Caribbean they mix fruit and meat.\"\n\nAnother complained about a \"Tunisian rice\" recipe which, well, doesn't exist in Tunisia.\n\nThe college said they would be \"going through the dishes on the menu to see if any are ones that are not very well named\".\n\nPembroke College Cambridge has said they will review their menu following criticism\n\nHowever, not everyone agreed.\n\nEvening Standard journalist Sam Leith wrote \"And if, in an age when basic civilisational freedoms are under threat, the next generation of highly educated students is devoting its attention to complaining about whether their lunch is authentic enough, God help us all.\"\n\nSome Facebook commenters agreed with him, saying that the famous college had \"been blind sided by politically correct Nazis\".\n\nCeleste Noche says \"food media is predominantly generated by white people for white people\" and \"misrepresents\" ethnic communities\n\nNoche however, feels that the issue speaks to a wider discussion on the portrayal of minorities.\n\n\"We need to break away from the idea that white and western is the base standard for media portrayals - whether in food, film, literature, etc - and start trusting and hiring people of colour to represent themselves.\"\n\nNext story: Actress speaks out against 'casting couch culture'\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 Football\n\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho says he \"100%\" wants Wayne Rooney to stay, and he expects Zlatan Ibrahimovic to extend his contract.\n\nRooney, 31, announced last week that he is staying at Old Trafford, after being heavily linked with a move to China.\n\nThe England captain has also been linked with a return to former club Everton, but Mourinho said talk of such a move \"makes no sense\".\n\nStriker Ibrahimovic's one-season deal includes an option for a second year.\n\nThe Swede, 35, has scored 26 goals in 38 appearances for United since joining on a free transfer from Paris St-Germain in July.\n\nHe scored twice in Sunday's 3-2 EFL Cup final victory over Southampton.\n\nAfter the final, Ibrahimovic said he will \"see what happens\" about extending his contract.\n\nMourinho said: \"I see him staying. The next transfer window will bring us to a different level because I will bring in a few players. Zlatan will be fundamental. I think he will stay.\"\n\nOn Rooney, he added: \"What I have is a very strong message, 'I don't go anywhere. I want to fight with this team and help until the end of season'. 100% he will be with us for the rest of season.\n\n\"Next season, 100% I would like him to be with us, but always the player is very important.\"\n\nUnited, who are sixth in the Premier League, host Bournemouth on Saturday (12:30 GMT).\n\nShaw 'has potential to be the best'\n\nMourinho also backed Luke Shaw to make himself indispensable as United's left-back.\n\nShaw, 21, has not played since the 4-0 FA Cup win over Wigan at the end of January, but Mourinho hinted the England international would start against Bournemouth.\n\n\"In practical terms we have lots of left-backs,\" he said.\n\n\"It doesn't look like it, but the reality is that Daley Blind, Shaw, Marcos Rojo, Matteo Darmian are all playing left-back and can play there. They are different players.\n\n\"I think the one that should be in the couple of years the best of all - because potentially he should have all the conditions to be the best of all - is Luke Shaw.\n\n\"By age, by physicality, by intensity, aggressive going forward, he should be the best. But to be the best you need to work hard. It's what he's trying to do.\"\n\nMourinho took the initiative at today's news conference. Sensing what was going to be asked as he sat down in front of the media, he said: \"Rooney and Shaw.\"\n\nHe then proceeded to talk for four minutes and 20 seconds about club captain Rooney, and out-of-favour left-back Shaw, who are both in United's squad to face Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nMourinho said Shaw, who last played against Wigan in the FA Cup in January, has been \"working hard\" on his fitness.\n\nOn Rooney, Mourinho said the fact he was ready to come on at Wembley when Ibrahimovic scored his winner was proof the United captain remains a valued member of his squad.\n\nThe Portuguese said Rooney would \"100%\" be at United for the rest of the season, which is fairly obvious now the Chinese transfer window has closed.\n\nHowever, after comments from Everton this week suggesting the England forward's former club may offer him a summer return to Goodison Park, Mourinho said he wants the 31-year-old to stay, adding it could not be guaranteed because he will not keep unhappy players.", "If you were asked to name the world's favourite fruit, the tomato may not be the one that comes to mind. But yes - it is a fruit, and yes - more tomatoes are produced globally than any other fruit. Here, Dr Michael Mosley explains the science behind its popularity.\n\nSome people claim that the mango is the most popular fruit in the world, on the grounds that they are eaten in more countries than any other fruit.\n\nFrom Asia to the Americas, people avidly consume them, not just as a sweet dessert, but in chutneys, ice cream and even cereal. They are certainly enormously popular in countries like India and China, with over 43m tonnes of mangoes being grown every year.\n\nBut if you measure popularity in terms of worldwide production, they are way behind the apple, and even further behind the banana.\n\nThere are over 100m tonnes of bananas produced every year, with India being the top producer.\n\nIn the UK we eat more than five billion every year, most of which are a type called the Cavendish banana.\n\nThis was first cultivated and grown in Britain at Chatsworth house, an English stately home in the Peak District, by head gardener Joseph Paxton.\n\nHe named them Musa cavendishii, after his employers, the Cavendishes. Cavendish bananas are still grown in hothouses on the estate and eaten by the owners and their guests.\n\nBut dwarfing all other fruits is something we may not immediately think of as a fruit: the tomato.\n\nCooked or raw, as a sauce, a juice or a paste, the tomato is incredibly popular. With at least 170m tonnes of tomatoes being produced every year, the tomato tops even the mighty banana.\n\nMost people think of the tomato as a vegetable, but technically it is a fruit because it has seeds, which puts it in the same botanical class as a berry.\n\nTomatoes were first introduced to Europe by the Spanish, who brought them back from the Americas.\n\nThe Aztecs, who cultivated and grew them, called them tomatl. This gave rise to the Spanish word \"tomate\", from which we get the English word tomato.\n\nLa Tomatina is called the \"biggest food fight in the world\"\n\nThere was, initially, considerable resistance to eating tomatoes in Britain.\n\nOne of the first people to grow them was a 16th Century barber-surgeon called John Gerard. His book, Gerard's Herbal, describes them as beautiful but poisonous.\n\nThese days, of course, tomatoes are seen as a healthy food choice.\n\nThey are low in calories and rich in vitamin C, potassium, folate and vitamin K.\n\nThey also contain lots of a powerful antioxidant called lycopene, which has been linked to a number of health benefits, including reducing the risk of heart disease and some cancers. There is even some evidence that consuming tomato paste (which is particularly rich in lycopenes) can protect your skin against sunburn.\n\nBut it's not the lycopene content that tickles our taste buds. It's the fact that they have a strong umami flavour.\n\nUmami is a Japanese word that translates as \"pleasant savoury taste\". It is one of only five tastes that our tongues can detect. The others are bitter, sour, sweet and salty.\n\nUmami is hard to describe, but you know it when you experience it.\n\nIt is an earthy flavour that you are more likely to associate with meat than a fruit.\n\nIf you add umami flavouring to something like soup, it makes the soup taste thicker, more substantial.\n\nLots of foods have a umami component, including, surprisingly, human breast milk. But the fruit that is richest in umami is the tomato.\n\nFor my new BBC2 series, The Secrets of Your Food, I decided to extract the pure umami flavour from tomatoes by chopping some up, then spinning them in a centrifuge.\n\nI then filtered out the obvious lumps and simmered what remained to concentrate the taste. I was left with a clear fluid that no longer smelt \"tomatoey\" at all.\n\nInstead it tasted salty, earthy, meaty. What my tongue sensed when I sipped that fluid was a substance called glutamate.\n\nGlutamate is an amino acid, one of the building blocks of protein. And protein is essential to the building and running of every cell in our bodies.\n\nWhenever you eat a food that contains glutamate, the glutamate molecules in the food trigger special receptors on your tongue. This then sends a signal to your brain which registers that taste as being \"umami\".\n\nSo, when you bite into a tomato or savour the taste of tomato paste on your pizza, what your taste buds are really doing is telling you is to eat this food because it is rich in glutamate, which will help keep you healthy and strong.\n\nAnd that, I think, helps explain the tomato's universal popularity.\n\nThe Secrets of Your Food continues on BBC2 at 2100GMT on Friday 3rd March .\n\nJoin the conversation on our Facebook page.\n• None BBC Two - The Secrets of Your Food", "Andy Murray saved seven match points in a 31-minute second-set tie-break before beating Philipp Kohlschreiber in the Dubai Championships quarter-finals.\n\nThe world number one needed eight set points to edge the German 20-18 in the tie-break and level the match.\n\nNo men's tour-level match has featured a tie-break with more than 38 points since 1991 - six have finished 20-18.\n\nMurray then raced to victory in only 30 minutes in the final set to win 6-7 (4-7) 7-6 (20-18) 6-1.\n• None Djokovic knocked out by Kyrgios in Mexico\n\nThe Briton, who said he had \"never played a tie-break like that in my life\", will face number seven seed Lucas Pouille in the last four on Friday.\n\nFernando Verdasco and Robin Haase will meet in the other last-four tie.\n\nMurray, who is playing his first tournament since his fourth-round defeat at the Australian Open in January, looked out of sorts in the first set and served two double faults as he lost the tie-break 7-4.\n\nThe 29-year-old broke early in the second and seemed to be cruising, but Kohlschreiber, who was scoring consistently with his forehand, had other ideas and broke back as the Scot served for the set.\n\nIt was the German who faltered first in the tie-break and Murray had four set points before Kohlschreiber went ahead at 9-8.\n\nA stubborn Murray played some inspired tennis to stay in the match, including a stunning cross-court drop shot to save the first match point, while the German sent numerous groundstrokes wide on further chances to secure the match.\n\nIn the end Murray was able to capitalise on Kohlschreiber's wastefulness to level.\n\nKohlschreiber capitulated in the final set as Murray broke twice to race to victory in a set that lasted a minute less than the second set tie-break.\n\n\"I've never played a tie-break like that ever, not in juniors, nothing has been close to that,\" said Murray. \"I'll probably never play another one like that again. I've been playing on the tour for 11, 12 years now and nothing, nothing's been close to that.\"\n\n'It was a special match to win'\n\nMurray lost to world number 50 Mischa Zverev at the Australian Open having been beaten by Novak Djokovic in the final of the Qatar Open at the beginning of January.\n\nThe three-time Grand Slam winner said the manner of his victory over Kohlschreiber would give him \"a lot of confidence\".\n\nHe said: \"They can be very important matches to get through. I could have easily lost tonight, but the way I played when I was behind will give me a lot of confidence after what was a tough start to the year. I want to keep that going now, it was a special match to win because of how it went.\"\n\nIn a tie-break players must change ends every six points, but Murray, Kohlschreiber and the umpire forgot to do so at 15-15.\n\nMurray added: \"I realised at 16-16, the umpire said he forgot and the machine didn't recognise it, I do not know if the machines are made to go that high, it doesn't happen every often.\"\n\nKohlschreiber said: \"Of course losing is always disappointing, but I'm not sad. I think I played great tennis, one of my best matches. You can be thinking about one or two shots, but it was just a great match. It's well-deserved, he's a great fighter, he never gave up.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nAtletico Madrid striker Fernando Torres has been discharged from hospital after having tests on the head injury he suffered in Thursday's 1-1 draw with Deportivo La Coruna.\n\nThe 32-year-old spent the night in hospital after falling heavily in an aerial challenge with Alex Bergantinos.\n\nAtletico confirmed scans showed he has \"no traumatic alterations or injuries\" and will need to rest for 48 hours.\n\nTorres said: \"Thank you all for caring for me. It was only a scare.\"\n\nAfter former Liverpool and Chelsea striker Torres' injury in the 85th minute, players from both teams immediately rushed to him and called for medical help.\n\nHe was assisted for several minutes by doctors before being taken off on a stretcher and transferred to a hospital.", "Double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee says he may not return to triathlon for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.\n\nThe World Triathlon Series starts in Abu Dhabi on Friday but Brownlee, 28, is not racing as he prepares to step up to the longer half-Ironman distance.\n\nThe Yorkshireman claimed triathlon gold at Rio 2016, defending his title from London 2012.\n\n\"There's a chance I could never be at an Olympic Games again but to say I'll never do it is impossible,\" he said.\n\n\"The Olympic Games are just fantastic and I'd definitely love to be there but the course in Tokyo is going to play a big part in terms of whether I feel I can go there and win.\n\n\"It's going to be a case of sitting down at the end of 2018 and weighing it up - am I enjoying the long distance stuff? Am I still able to be competitive enough to win a medal in Tokyo?\"\n\nBrownlee will once again look to win the Leeds leg of the World Series on 11 June, but that is his only confirmed race so far this season, while brother and Rio silver medallist Jonny begins his campaign from the second race in the Gold Coast on 8 April.\n\nFor the rest of the year, Alistair Brownlee will combine standard Olympic length events - 1.5km swim, 40km on the bike and 10km run - with half Ironman distance competitions, also referred to as Ironman 70.3 in reference to the total number of miles covered.\n\nHe added that the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in September is an \"obvious\" target as he builds up to the full Ironman distance, which he says has always been on his \"bucket list\".\n\n\"Ironman has got to be one of those things you always want to do - it's like the London or Boston marathon of triathlon,\" he added.\n\nThe two-time gold medallist added that his Rio 2016 win was slightly marred by the absence of long-term rival and London 2012 silver medallist Javier Gomez, who withdrew from the Games after breaking his elbow in a cycling accident.\n\n\"It definitely took a bit away from my gold in Rio that Gomez wasn't there,\" said Brownlee.\n\n\"You want to be there in your best shape and race the best athletes in their best shape - we were fortunate to have that in London and it would have been fantastic to have had that in Rio as well but what happened happened.\n\n\"But on that day, on that course, I'm fairly confident I'd have had him anyway.\"\n\nWith Gomez, 33, back from that injury, Brownlee expects the Spaniard to challenge for the World Series title, alongside compatriot and current champion Mario Mola, 27.\n\nAnd the older Brownlee expects Jonny, 26, to complete the podium and says his brother could claim the title with \"a bit of luck and a fair wind behind him\".\n\nAlistair Brownlee says he may have been \"bored\" returning to World Series racing, having experienced the \"same kind of racing against basically the same people for the last 10 years\".\n\nHowever, he adds that he is motivated by his new goals, which could include competing in 10,000m running races and the marathon.\n\n\"I now have an opportunity to try these other things without hurting my chances if I do decide I want to compete in four years in Tokyo,\" he said.\n\n\"I thought about a lot of things after Rio. I definitely want to run a marathon and that might be in the not too distant future.\n\n\"The other obvious thing is cycling and trying to make a wholehearted jump into being a professional cyclist but although that's possible, I'm very aware that in that arena and in running, I can be good and get to a level where I could be professional, but never to a level where I can win stuff.\n\n\"I still feel like I want to be the best at what I'm doing so that's why I'm choosing things I feel like I can win.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The cinema advert is the first in the service's history\n\nCinemagoers may think they already know what it takes to be a spy.\n\nGenerations of James Bond fans have cheered 007 as he shoots and sleeps his way through a world of sinister villains and exotic women.\n\nThe image is hi-tech, violent, romantic and more than a little cynical.\n\nIt's a world-beating brand, but one today's spymasters are doing their best to keep at arm's length.\n\nAnd so, for the first time, MI6, officially known as the Secret Intelligence Service, is taking on the Bond image on 007's home turf - the silver screen.\n\nOn Monday, MI6 launches its first ever cinema advert, aimed at attracting different types of candidate.\n\nA young woman of ethnically indeterminate background is shown demonstrating people skills and emotional intelligence in a range of everyday situations. This woman, we're told, does not work for MI6.\n\n\"But she could,\" the advert concludes.\n\nSteely-eyed, white male killers, it seems, need not apply.\n\n\"There is a perception out there that we want [Bond actor] Daniel Craig, or Daniel Craig on steroids,\" the SIS' current head of recruitment told the Guardian.\n\n\"He would not get into MI6,\" says the recruitment chief, identified only as Sarah.\n\nRecruiters have long worried about the pervasiveness of the image first portrayed in the pages of Ian Fleming's novels and then seared into public consciousness via the biggest movie franchise of all time.\n\nThe aim of the advert is to wean the public off this grotesquely misleading stereotype.\n\nAccording to the accompanying press release, the advert aims \"to attract people who rule themselves out of a career in MI6 based on their misconceptions about the agency.\"\n\nIt sounds like a long shot, but those behind it seem optimistic.\n\n\"The whole point,\" Sarah says, \"is about getting people who would never, ever think of joining.\"\n\n\"People tend to deselect themselves,\" adds Mark, head of HR. \"We want to prevent that. We want the service to be representative, but also to draw in the capabilities of the workforce at large.\"\n\nIt's part of a continuing drive to recruit from the widest, most diverse cross-section of society, with a particular focus on women and ethnic minorities, both still under represented in the service.\n\nAnother aspect of new effort sees a return of the old \"tap on the shoulder\" method employed for decades, mostly in the cloisters of Oxford and Cambridge universities.\n\nBut if the method will be the same, the locations will be different.\n\n\"Diverse organisations,\" is how Mark puts it, without elaborating.\n\nSome say that the agency's elite image may be punctured by the revelation that a 2:2 degree will make you eligible. Mark says work experience in other sectors is sometimes just as important as a good degree.\n\nOther recruiting tactics display a little playfully appropriate subterfuge to seek out those with interpersonal skills and the ability to influence people.\n\nUnbranded fliers invite you to click on goodwithpeople.uk and take a series of tests. Only those who succeed in the online games find out that they have what it takes for a life in the intelligence services.\n\nThis correspondent scored well on the \"emotion detector\", but not so well on the \"human polygraph\". And when it came to the \"mind changer,\" I failed a text message exercise designed to persuade a friend to attend a surprise party.\n\nI have not been invited to join MI6.\n\nThe advert will run for a month, in cinemas in London, the West Midlands and north west England, partly reflecting the sort of urban areas recruiters look to but also the fact that MI6 can't afford a nationwide release.\n\nAnd will it be shown in cinemas where Bond or similar spy capers are showing?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Liverpool and Chelsea striker Fernando Torres says he had \"a fright\" after being hospitalised by a head injury while playing for Atletico Madrid against Deportivo La Coruna.", "David Haye says he will provide \"a real destruction job\" against Tony Bellew on Saturday, who says he wants to win \"by any means necessary\".\n\nListen to live coverage on BBC Radio 5 live on Saturday 4 March from 2200 GMT.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC Two, Connected TV, Red Button and the BBC Sport website.\n\nBriton Andrew Pozzi won gold in the 60m hurdles at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Belgrade.\n\nThe 24-year-old claimed his first European indoor title in a time of 7.51 seconds.\n\nFrance's defending champion Pascal Martinot-Lagarde took silver, with Czech Petr Svoboda in third.\n\n\"It was a scrappy race so I really had to work hard to get back after a slow start but I'm really happy,\" Pozzi told BBC Sport.\n\nPozzi, who qualified fastest for the final, trailed out of the blocks before surging back to edge out Martinot-Lagarde by 0.01secs.\n\n\"At halfway I thought 'I'm not losing this one' and just gave everything and gave a big dip on the line,\" said the Stratford upon Avon hurdler .\n\n\"It was closer than I would have liked but I got there in the end.\"\n• None Read more: Doyle misses out on final but Muir makes two\n\nIn winning Great Britain's first gold medal of the championships, Pozzi also became the first Briton to win the men's 60m hurdles title since the last of Colin Jackson's three victories in 2002.\n\n\"Forget the time, he's got the title,\" said BBC Sport pundit Jackson, who holds the world record at the event of 7.30 seconds.\n\n\"He fought his way through and showed he is a true champion, that is the most important thing. He will be full of confidence, relieved and happy.\"\n\nGermany's Cindy Roleder won gold in the women's 60m hurdles final, ahead of Alina Talay of Belarus and compatriot Pamela Dutkiewicz.\n\n'I never thought I'd get here'\n\nAfter pulling up with a hamstring injury at the London 2012 Olympics, Pozzi endured several years of chronic foot injuries, having had several operations on both feet.\n\nHe missed out on qualifying for the Rio 2016 110m hurdles final but has been in impressive form this year, running a personal best indoor time of 7.43 seconds at the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix in February.\n\n\"It has been a long old road and I wasn't sure I'd ever get to the level I wanted to be at so to win with grit and determination, I'm over the moon,\" he said.\n\n\"This is the first championships I've come into with a good amount of work behind me and I felt really confident - to feel like I'm starting to get there means everything, it makes it worth it.\"", "The claim: Failing police forces have \"no excuse\" because their budgets have been protected.\n\nReality Check verdict: Overall the police budget in England and Wales has been protected in real terms, but not every individual force will feel the benefit because the money is being targeted at specialist areas of policing. This relatively small funding boost comes off the back of five years of deep cuts.\n\nIn 2015, the government announced that overall police budgets would be protected. This meant the amount of money the police receive from the government would increase each year in line with inflation for the following five years.\n\nThe Minister for Policing, Brandon Lewis, flagged this in response to a report by the independent inspector of police forces, which found a \"worrying\" variation in the quality of policing across England and Wales, despite improvements overall.\n\nPolice funding in Scotland is devolved and Northern Ireland has different funding arrangements so they were not included in the report.\n\nThe report was compiled by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) and Mr Lewis said: \"This Government has protected police funding, through the 2015 Spending Review.\n\n\"There can be no excuse for any force that fails to deliver on its obligations - those identified as inadequate or requiring improvement must take HMIC's findings very seriously and I expect to see rapid improvements.\"\n\nThe inspectorate had warned that some police forces were \"struggling to respond to shrinking resources\".\n\nIt is true to say that the overall policing budget was protected in real terms in 2015 but this figure disguises some regional variation. Part of the £900m extra funding over the following five years is going on specific areas of policing like cybercrime and tackling child sexual exploitation which are often dealt with regionally, so not every individual force will see the benefit of this uplift.\n\nA Home Office statement at the time of the announcement said that it would provide funding to maintain individual police force budgets at current cash levels. Not every police force will necessarily receive enough money to keep up with inflation.\n\nSpending on policing had been rising steadily for at least 15 years until austerity cuts began to kick in from 2010. It rose particularly rapidly in the 10 years to this date, going up by more than 30%.\n\nFollowing the 2008 crash and the swathe of cuts to public spending that followed, the part of police forces' budgets that are paid for by central government shrunk by 22% on average.\n\nBefore the 2015 announcement there was already regional variation. This is in large part because of the two main ways policing is funded: through a grant from central government and council tax.\n\nDifferent areas rely to different extents on the central government grant; for example last year Northumbria and the West Midlands police forces raised 12% of their revenue through council tax while Surrey raised almost half (49%) of its revenue in this way.\n\nThis often corresponds to how well-off an area is - generally poorer areas have lower tax takes and rely more on government grants. As these grants have reduced, a larger proportion of budgets is coming from council tax. Since the grant was cut by the same percentage around the country, areas that lean most heavily on central government money, and are the least able to raise money through council tax, will have felt those cuts most sharply.\n\nYou can see this in the real-term reductions to funding in different police forces. Between 2010 and 2016 Northumbria suffered a 23% cut while in Surrey it was only 12%.\n\nThe areas that raised funding by the smallest amount during the previous good years have also experienced the biggest cuts in the lean years.\n\nHowever, it is also worth noting that the variation in quality raised in the HMIC report does not correspond directly to how much budgets have been cut. Bedfordshire, the only force to be rated inadequate, experienced a cut over the last five years that was about average for the country - a 17% fall compared with a fall of 18% across England and Wales.\n\nDurham, the only force to be rated outstanding, suffered an above average 20% cut.\n\nOf course, simply comparing budget cuts to performance does not take account of demographic differences and crime levels.\n\nSo while it is true to say that policing is being protected at least to some extent, this comes off the back of five years of deep cuts - cuts which feel larger relative to large increases in spending in the preceding years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Clarence Chessum survived only a few weeks on the front and left behind two children\n\nIf you think of the Imperial War Museum as a place full of tanks, interactive displays and a Spitfire hanging above an exhibition hall - its beginnings were very different. As the museum marks its centenary, it is making public the very personal mementoes in its first collection.\n\n\"Dear sir, I have sent some of the incidents of my dear son's life. Have no relics. You may find a use for them. His loss can never be made up. Was almost always with us.\n\n\"We were nine round the table, now I am only one.\n\n\"Excuse me troubling you with all this but it's life as it is.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Imperial War Museum is marking its centenary by showcasing some early exhibits\n\nThe letter was from Sarah Chessum, a mother whose son had been killed in the trenches of the World War One in March 1917.\n\nShe was responding to a call from a new type of museum being created as a memorial for a war still being fought.\n\nThat museum, now the Imperial War Museum, is celebrating its centenary by making some of these earliest items public for the first time.\n\nThe museum began by asking for personal keepsakes of soldiers who had died - such as last letters, photographs or personal items - with the request printed on ration books.\n\nIt was as much a memorial shrine as a museum, with bereaved relatives such as Sarah Chessum hand-delivering or posting these poignant items.\n\nCharlotte Czyzyk, a World War One historian at the museum, says even a century later these letters are \"heartbreaking\".\n\nSarah's son, Clarence, had left for France in January 1917, and barely eight weeks later he was dead.\n\nHe was aged 37, a bookbinder from north London, a slight figure of 5ft 3in, who had left two children.\n\nJoy Hunter met Stalin at the Potsdam Conference in 1945 and gathered pieces of Hitler's desk\n\nAnother letter came from Gilbert Salisbury, a Canadian soldier who survived the War, but whose wife had died in 1918 from Spanish flu.\n\n\"The end of the War means for the world at large peace and happiness, where it means for me desolation and sorrow,\" he wrote, in his contribution to the museum.\n\nThousands of families sent in pictures and letters - stored at the museum's first location, in Crystal Palace, in south London.\n\nWeapons and equipment were also collected - with the very first acquisition a lifebuoy from the Lusitania, a liner sunk by a German submarine in 1915.\n\nThe idea of creating a museum in 1917 reflected the need to respond to the unprecedented scale of the conflict.\n\n\"There was still no end in sight for the War,\" says Ms Czyzyk.\n\nWhile the War was still being fought, items were gathered from the front\n\nThe previous year had seen the monumental battles of the Somme on land and Jutland at sea.\n\nThere was conscription, and more women were going into work. The War was touching every part of society.\n\n\"This was a type of war that had never been seen before,\" says Ms Czyzyk.\n\nThe war museum would be a form of memorial, and its building blocks would be the stories and pictures of ordinary families caught up in these extraordinary events.\n\n\"They're saying, 'This was my boy, I'd like you to have this photograph to help remember him.' That would have been a really big thing for that family,\" says Ms Czyzyk.\n\nA lifebuoy from the Lusitania was an early acquisition\n\nMillions visited the museum in Crystal Palace and then in South Kensington. And then in 1936, the museum moved to its current home in Lambeth - in a building previously occupied by the Bethlem Hospital for the mentally ill.\n\nAt the outbreak of the World War Two, the museum's collection had its own call-up, with some \"historic' weapons on display pressed back into action.\n\nThe modern Imperial War Museum group includes one of the wartime nerve centres - the Cabinet War Rooms, where Winston Churchill worked underground while London faced Nazi air raids.\n\nThe museum's collection of war objects was headed by a lifebuoy from the Lusitania\n\nJoy Hunter worked as a secretary in this underground communications centre - and as well as the fog of war, she had to contend with the fog of Churchill's cigars.\n\nNow aged 91, she remembers the strange subterranean world, where an evening could end with the staff watching a film with Churchill, in his pyjamas and drinking whisky, in a makeshift cinema.\n\n\"We found him very affable to civilians - other people will tell you different stories - but he was always very pleasant to us and would say stop and say good morning or whatever,\" she says.\n\n\"I've a feeling that it was a relief for him to have civilians, perhaps it made him feel more normal.\"\n\nMillions of visitors came to see the war relics put on show in Crystal Palace\n\nShe remembers how difficult it was to keep the prime minister underground during air raids, when he wanted to go up on to the rooftops to watch.\n\nMrs Hunter says it is hard for people now to understand how they worked - \"in total war and total secrecy and total silence\".\n\nMrs Hunter typed the battle orders for D-Day and on the defeat of the Nazis, she flew to the Potsdam conference where Churchill met Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and US president Harry Truman.\n\nShe got to meet the Soviet leader in person.\n\n\"I kept very quiet about shaking Stalin's hand because I thought people might think it wasn't quite the thing to have done,\" she says.\n\nThe museum collected war equipment - some of which was put back into action in World War Two\n\n\"I can say it now without blushing too much.\"\n\nBut the appalling conditions in Berlin left her \"stunned\".\n\nThe city was filled with the \"stench of death\", she says, with the population looking like \"zombies\" and begging for food.\n\nShe had seen the damage from air raids on London, but Berlin was much worse.\n\nShe went to the victory parade in the city, but took no pleasure from it.\n\n\"I felt very awkward. I didn't feel very victorious at all. I just thought this is horrendous,\" she says.\n\nJoy Hunter was at the Potsdam conference, where Churchill met Stalin and Truman\n\nMrs Hunter brought home part of the shattered city - in pieces of marble from Hitler's desk, which she had found in the ruins of the Nazi leader's chancellery.\n\nHer own memories are now the stuff of museum displays - but she says anyone looking back should not glorify war.\n\n\"Of course, we should remember, but you can't live in the past,\" she says.\n\n\"We should remember and take it with us and make sure that it doesn't happen again. But who knows?\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe Premier League has no interest in helping English clubs in Europe, says Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho.\n\nUnited play Middlesbrough on Sunday with the 12:00 GMT kick-off coming 62 hours after the end of their Europa League last-16 victory over FC Rostov.\n\nMourinho says United will \"probably lose\" and it would be \"common sense\" for the game to start at 17:00.\n\n\"They simply don't care,\" added the Portuguese of the Premier League, who offered no comment on the situation.\n\nThere is an agreement that clubs in Europa League action on a Thursday do not play on Saturdays. An international break stops the Premier League game at The Riverside from being played on Monday.\n\nPremier League host broadcasters Sky and BT Sport decide which games they will televise live. Sky can show two mid-afternoon games on a Sunday - Tottenham v Southampton and Manchester City v Liverpool this week - and the game at Middlesbrough is being shown on BT Sport, who have the option of a midday slot.\n\nMourinho said that football authorities in other countries are more helpful to their European contenders.\n\n\"In Italy when clubs go to the knockout stages and play on the Tuesday or Wednesday, the week before they play on the Friday. In Portugal, the week after they play on the Monday,\" he explained.\n\nBut Mourinho knows the Premier League's combined £10.4bn TV deals take precedence.\n\n\"It's the simple criteria of 'we give you so much money',\" he said.\n\n\"That is true and we appreciate it. They are totally right and we have to thank them so much for what they are building.\n\n\"But you can just have a little touch. Nobody can explain why we are playing at 12 o'clock.\"\n\nUnited have played 20 matches since 26 December and have a minimum of 14 more to complete before the Premier League reaches its conclusion on 21 May.\n\nNext among their top four rivals are Manchester City, who will play a minimum of 29 games in the same period. Arsenal and Tottenham are both on 28, with Chelsea and Liverpool, neither of whom qualified for Europe this season, on 26, eight fewer than United.\n\nOf United's 20 most recent games, Paul Pogba played in 18 and was an unused substitute in one. The only game he missed was the FA Cup fourth-round tie against Wigan on 29 January.\n\nPogba suffered a hamstring injury during Thursday's win over Rostov which rules the midfielder out of the Middlesbrough game, plus France's international fixtures against Luxembourg on 25 March and Spain three days later.\n\nMourinho defended his decision not to play a weakened team in the 1-0 FA Cup quarter-final defeat by Chelsea on 13 March, when the physical strain on United was increased by Ander Herrera's first-half red card and not arriving back in the north west until 04:00 on Tuesday after they had to make the journey by bus.\n\nHe said: \"This is Manchester United, I don't sacrifice anything.\n\n\"I don't go to Chelsea with a Nicky Butt team [Under-23s] like Manchester City did last year.\n\n\"Do you want me to play with Nicky Butt's boys at Middlesbrough? What would Hull, Sunderland and the other teams in the relegation battle say then? We cannot do this.\"\n\nNot everyone in the United squad has been used extensively.\n\nIn midfield, Michael Carrick has played for one minute in United's past three games, while Jesse Lingard has played for nine minutes and Bastian Schweinsteiger not at all.\n\nFull-back Luke Shaw, who is in England's squad to face Germany and Lithuania, has not been involved since the Premier League game against Bournemouth on 4 March.\n\nFormer United captain Roy Keane is giving no credence to Mourinho's complaints.\n\nThe Irishman, who made 480 appearances and won seven league titles, a European Cup and four FA Cups in a 12-year United career, feels Mourinho is making excuses and they could have beaten Rostov - eighth in the Russian Premier League - with a reserve side.\n\nHe told ITV: \"Why do we have to listen to that garbage?\n\n\"He is manager of one of the biggest clubs on the planet. They've had an easy ride in the cups, with a lot of home draws.\n\n\"Maybe the club's too big for him. I'm sick to death of him. Manchester United reserves could have won that game.\"", "Theresa May has declared \"now is not the time\" for Nicola Sturgeon to call for an independence referendum\n\nTo govern is to choose. The prime minister has now chosen to exercise her power over the constitution, reserved to Westminster under the Scotland Act 1998.\n\nThis is about competing power, competing mandates, competing interpretations of the verdicts delivered during the European referendum last year.\n\nTheresa May accords primacy to the Brexit negotiations. She says she does not want even to contemplate the prospect of indyref2 during that period. That means she will not countenance a transfer of powers under Section 30 of the Scotland Act, again at this stage.\n\nNicola Sturgeon accords primacy to the impact upon Scotland of the Brexit process. She says it is undemocratic for the PM to refuse to give Scotland a meaningful choice - that word again - within a suitable timescale, proximate to the Brexit plans. It is sinking the ship and puncturing Scotland's lifeboat.\n\nBut this is also about political confidence. Political calculation. Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Conservative leader, plainly calculates that she will have Scottish public opinion on her side. Or, more precisely, a sufficient quotient of public opinion.\n\nThe Tories in Scotland have been through a period where they were the party which dared not speak its name, the toxic party. They now reckon those days are behind them. And why? The Union, post-2014.\n\nTheir calculation - and it is an arithmetical sum - is that they can corral behind them the supporters of Union in Scotland. That, just as in the past, in the 1950s for example, they can draw backing from a relatively wide range of Scottish society, predicated upon concrete support for the Union - and fixed opposition to the SNP.\n\nIt worked, to a substantial degree, in the last Holyrood elections when they became the largest opposition party. Their calculation is that it will work again, this time.\n\nNicola Sturgeon is likely to press ahead with a Holyrood vote calling for a Section 30 order\n\nWill there be anger in some quarters at the Prime Minister's decision? There will indeed. Stand by for demonstrations to that effect at the SNP conference in Aberdeen.\n\nBut the calculation by the Tories - and this is less quantifiable, but a calculation nevertheless - is that sufficient numbers of the populace in Scotland will be relieved that they do not have to decide on independence in the next 18 months to two years.\n\nThe Tory leadership insists that they are not blocking a referendum entirely. That was Ruth Davidson's answer when she was reminded that she had told my estimable colleague Gordon Brewer in July last year that there should not be a constitutional block placed upon indyref2.\n\nThe argument was that they are merely setting terms: evident fairness and discernible popular/political support for a further plebiscite.\n\nHowever, these are not absolute, they are open to interpretation. It would seem to be that the verdict on these factors would also lie with the Prime Minister. Such is the nature of reserved power.\n\nBut, again, the Tory triumvirate - PM, secretary of state, Scottish leader - stress that a referendum might be feasible once Brexit is signed, sealed and settled. David Mundell seemed particularly keen to stress that point.\n\nHowever, if they won't contemplate Section 30 meantime, then the time needed for legislation, consultation and official preparation would suggest that - by that calendar - any referendum would be deferred until 2020 or possibly later. Possibly after the next Holyrood elections.\n\nOptions for the FM? She could sanction an unofficial referendum, without statutory backing. Don't see that happening. It would be a gesture - and Nicola Sturgeon, as the head of a government, is generally averse to gestures. Unless they advance her cause.\n\nShe could protest and seek discussions. Some senior Nationalists believe this to be a negotiation ploy by the PM, the prelude to talks.\n\nWill the first minister proceed with the vote next week at Holyrood, demanding a Section 30 transfer in which the Greens are expected to join with the SNP to create a majority? I firmly expect her to do so, to add to the challenge to the PM.\n\nBeyond that, expect the First Minister to cajole, to urge - but also to campaign. To deploy this deferral of an independence referendum as an argument for…an independence referendum. She will seek public support, arguing that Scotland's interests have been ignored. Just as Ruth Davidson will seek public support, arguing that she is protecting those interests.\n\nFinal thought. One senior Nationalist suggested to me that delay might, ultimately, be in the SNP's interests: that people were already disquieted by Brexit and would prefer a pause. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps, to quote the old song.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Office space: Our correspondent assesses conditions at the Colosseum\n\nIt is a pretty tempting job. The successful applicant will be in charge of preserving the site of one of the world's most iconic monuments.\n\nThat person may as well be me.\n\nThe job advert asks for at least five years' experience managing archaeological sites.\n\nWell, I have five years experience visiting sites. If outsiders with little experience can be elected to lead countries, why can't they also be chosen to run ancient monuments?\n\nThe first thing to do is come up with a pitch.\n\nOne potential idea is to rebuild the entire Colosseum.\n\nThe pyramids in Egypt have not fallen down. So why should Rome have to live with half a Colosseum?\n\nMy first campaign stop is with tourists visiting the site.\n\n\"Don't touch anything,\" warn Jocelyn and Tamaya, students from North Carolina.\n\n\"Don't you want to see what it would have looked like?\" I ask.\n\n\"There are digital models online which show what it would have been like. So just keep this,\" they instruct.\n\n\"Do you not think it's iconic to leave it as it is?\" asks Stan from Manchester. \"It's like when we went to Egypt, they were redoing the Sphinx. In some ways it spoils the effect of what it should be.\"\n\nSo rebuilding turns out to be a bad idea. I change my job pitch from rebuilding to listening.\n\nWhat needs fixing at the Colosseum?\n\n\"The process of entering through security can be slow and occasionally discourteous,\" says tour guide Agnes Crawford. \"The turnstiles very often don't work properly. The people who are manning the turnstiles have the patience of Job because it's a thankless task with a lot of slightly cross people.\"\n\nOpera singer Andrea Bocelli cheered everyone up when he sang at the Colosseum. The turnstiles were probably working that day.\n\nAndrea Bocelli performed at the Colosseum in 2009 in aid of the earthquake-ravaged city of L'Aquila\n\nAnother idea has caused something of a controversy: renting the site to private firms.\n\n\"When one considers that the Colosseum saw 450 years of people being killed, I think the occasional corporate dinner seems fairly small beer in comparison,\" says Agnes Crawford.\n\nItalian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini will have the final say over the Colosseum's new director.\n\nNerve-wrackingly, my final appointment is with him.\n\n\"We're looking for people with a strong background - archaeologists, art historians, architects, who also have experience managing a cultural site or a museum,\" he tells me.\n\n\"Naturally, if you want to manage the Colosseum and the Imperial Forum, which receive six million visitors a year, you need the scientific knowledge but also the management experience.\n\n\"I think in the art world nationalities don't really count. The director of the National Gallery is an Italian, who arrived there from El Prado in Madrid. The director of the British Museum is German. So it's normal that what counts are the CVs, not the nationalities.\"\n\n\"Minister, you've opened this up to outsiders, a lot of people will put in applications coming in with new ideas, I will put an application as well. Are you open to hearing from outsiders?\"\n\nThere is a slight pause before he answers.\n\n\"Well, we have job requirements to be admitted for the selection. When we recently chose the directors of the 20 top museums in Italy we received 400 applications. The selection did more than 100 job interviews. It will be similar this time. So you can definitely apply, but to win you need to fulfil the requirements.\"\n\nIt was an elegant way of saying \"don't give up the day job\".", "George Osborne's appointment as Editor of the London Evening Standard is a remarkable move that will dazzle the worlds of politics and media.\n\nThe former Chancellor will continue as MP for Tatton for the foreseeable future while taking the top chair at London's afternoon paper, as I exclusively revealed on Friday.\n\nHe starts in mid-May and replaces Sarah Sands, who is joining the BBC as editor of Radio 4's flagship morning news programme Today in June.\n\nOsborne has spoken to Standard staff in the newsroom.\n\nHe will not be in charge of the Standard's website. David Tomchak, former head of digital at No 10, was appointed digital director of editorial earlier this month and will report to Zach Leonard, managing director for digital across ESI Media, which houses the Standard, The Independent, and TV station London Live.\n\nIt marks a sudden return to the fray for Osborne, who was summarily dismissed from cabinet by Prime Minister Theresa May last summer.\n\nLike May, Osborne backed the Remain campaign in the Brexit referendum. Unlike May, he was central to its ultimately doomed strategy, despite having doubts about whether the referendum should have been called in the first place.\n\nSince last summer he has spoken strongly in parliament on the subject of Aleppo's destruction, and repeatedly resisted suggestions that he should begin his memoirs.\n\nThe former chancellor is paid £650,000 a year for four days' work a month at the asset management company BlackRock\n\nBut he has also been in the headlines for less flattering reasons.\n\nHaving signed up to the Washington Speakers Bureau, Osborne has capitalised on his high stock to earn fees such as £81,174 and £60,578 for speeches to JP Morgan. In total he earned £786,450 from 15 speeches in 2016.\n\nMore controversially, the former chancellor, still only 45, signed a deal with BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, worth £650,000 a year for just four days work a month.\n\nThat revelation was made public on Budget day, causing some to suggest that he had lost none of his expertise in media management. At BlackRock he will work with Rupert Harrison, his closest adviser while in No 11.\n\nOsborne flirted with a career in journalism before becoming, together with David Cameron, the outstanding Tory adviser of his generation, rising to shadow chancellor at 33.\n\nHis latest job is undoubtedly a tremendous coup for the newspaper, whose staff will be galvanised by the appointment of such a high-profile figure.\n\nIt also appears to be a notable win for Evgeny Lebedev, the owner of ESI Media, who was my boss when I was editor of the Independent.\n\nAfter buying a majority stake in the Standard from Daily Mail owner Lord Rothermere in 2009, when it was threatening to lose £25m or more, Lebedev made it a free product and transformed its fortunes, turning a profit a few years ago.\n\nIn the year to September 2015, the Standard recorded a pre-tax profit of £3.4m on revenues of £71.3m.\n\nBut while this is refreshing news for the Standard - which has a circulation of between 850,000 and 900,000, a readership of around double that, and unrivalled influence in the capital because of its monopoly position among afternoon commuters - it is a further blow for his constituents in Tatton.\n\nThis time last year, their MP was the chancellor of the Exchequer, a strong contender to be future prime minister, and in prime position to champion his Northern Powerhouse initiative.\n\nThe appointment is a coup for the paper's owner, Evgeny Lebedev\n\nNow he is a backbench MP who has a new and more exciting job - quite aside from his four days a month at BlackRock.\n\nThough an advisory committee in the civil service has not yet objected to this appointment - a decision is pending - many of his constituents will.\n\nThe Standard is an afternoon paper, which means that the daily edition is sent to the printers at 11:00 GMT. Osborne will get into the office around 05:00 GMT, work until midday, and then balance his other duties thereafter.\n\nBut aside from persuading constituents he is still available to them, he faces a huge challenge in keeping the Standard profitable.\n\nAs a free paper, with no cover price to raise, the Standard generates the vast majority of its revenues through print display advertising - a market that is in structural decline to the tune of around 20% annually.\n\nThough standard.co.uk is growing, virtually all newspapers are finding digital advertising is growing far more slowly than print advertising is falling.\n\nAside from this monumental structural threat, the sharp rise in the cost of newsprint as a result of the fall in the pound after Brexit has damaged the balance sheet of almost all newspapers.\n\nSimple mathematics dictates that, even if it significantly outperforms the rest of the display advertising market (as it is currently doing), the Standard will struggle to maintain profitability.\n\nMr Osborne will work at the Standard from 05:00 GMT to midday\n\nTherefore Osborne's task will be as much commercial as editorial: finding fresh revenue streams, perhaps through ticketing, data, and above all events in London.\n\nWith a roster of high-level international contacts, including in the world of finance, he is uniquely well placed to deliver that. Indeed I suspect he sees this as an attraction to his job. But it will require a considerable time commitment beyond his hours in the office.\n\nAnother challenge, which I know he will relish, is picking fights with the government - particularly on the issue of Brexit. To be seen as a Tory lackey, or someone who held back from sharp attacks on former colleagues and friends because he didn't want to damage his still simmering political ambitions, would be fatal for his journalistic integrity.\n\nHaving dispatched him to the back-benches in a rather brutal manner, Mrs May could soon find that the pages of the Standard are a vehicle for vengeance. Osborne is nothing if not mischievous.\n\nHe has long had a reputation as one of the hardest-working people in Westminster. He will need to work harder than ever in his new capacity and outline a clear editorial strategy for the paper.\n\nThe sheer thrill and power of being an Editor, and the chance to make things happen in his native city, will at least initially help to carry him and his staff.\n\nLebedev has long argued there's life in print yet. After this - the most interesting, unexpected and bold appointment of an editor in living memory - who could doubt him?", "Coverage:BBC One,Radio 5 live sports extra.BBC Radio 5 live, plus live text commentary on all matches on BBC Sport website\n\nJerry has picked out the best fast-footed steppers in the championship in the last of his Six Nations features on rugby archetypes.\n\nThese are the men who can sidestep you in a phone box, the ankle-breaking flyers who leave even the best defenders lying face down in the grass with twisted blood wondering what just happened.\n\nThe current crop may have some way to go to rival the likes of all-time greats Jason Robinson and Shane Williams, but there is no doubt they get the blood pumping among the fans when they leave tacklers strewn in their wake as they zigzag their way to the line.\n\nThe man they call JJ had a slow start to the season and was given a gentle reminder when he was rested for the Italy game and sent back to Bath, but he confirmed against Scotland that he has the most sizzling footwork on show in the tournament.\n\nEveryone witnessed the England outside centre's devastating footwork last weekend, some - such as Alex Dunbar and Stuart Hogg - from very close up.\n\nUnlike some players he does not seem to have favourite side, rather he steps one way to see how the defender reacts and then goes the opposite way - it all happens very quickly, leaving defenders lead-footed.\n\nThe England winger has been sidelined by injury for much of the tournament and so has had limited chances to strut his stuff, but he oozes class and will get the chance to show off his 'cat on a hot tin roof' qualities as England chase all manner of accolades against Ireland on Sunday.\n\nWatson is quick in a straight line - even though ex-England flyer Ugo Monye is convinced he could take him over 100m - but explosive when stepping.\n\nHe has got a strong all-round game but it is the 23-year-old's lightning footwork that lights up matches.\n\nThe fast-stepping flyer from Fiji is one of rugby's most celebrated archetypes, and Vakatawa - who was raised on the island having been born in New Zealand - more than fits the bill.\n\nFijians have it in their rugby DNA to step comfortably off either foot while maintaining their speed - and it's glorious to watch.\n\nVakatawa, who also plays sevens for France, is a natural attacker and although he has not lit up the tournament in quite the way he did last year, he is undoubtedly one of the best steppers in the game and deserves the number three spot on my list.\n\nHe might not be quite as flamboyant as some on this list with his footwork, but anyone who has seen Hogg slice his way through defensive lines with a step off the left or right, followed by explosive acceleration and lively top speed, knows how dangerous he can be.\n\nHe sometimes uses both feet to accelerate, putting in a little jump before springing forward as the two firmly planted feet give him extra thrust.\n\nThe Scotland full-back is many people's favourite to take the Lions 15 shirt this summer and his percussive footwork, allied to his all-round skills, would make him a fine addition.\n\nZebo is a stepper, but not necessarily in the ordinary sense. Yes, he can sidestep as well as most but the talented Ireland winger also likes a little hitch kick on occasions, the stop and go move enabling him to beat men on the outside, as well as the odd spin to disorientate the opposition.\n\nHis combination of long and short strides and that deceptive running pattern is part of a pretty full armoury.\n\nAnd although he has reined in his more maverick talents in order to fit into head coach Joe Schmidt's Ireland patterns, anyone who has ever seen his audacious backheel flick four years ago will know this is a man who is a threat every time he has the ball.\n\nHe's the biggest man in this list by some distance but anyone who thinks the 6ft 4in Wales winger is a straight-ahead bosh merchant doesn't understand what North is all about.\n\nYes, the 24-year-old can dish out a beasting if required and go straight over the top of defenders, but he'd rather step (often quite subtly), brush past tacklers now they are off balance and then burn them on the way to the line.\n\nHe is another who employs the split-step sidestep, jumping up before thrusting off two feet, and he generates a lot of power when he steps off his right foot.", "On election day last year, American voters gave the Republicans a powerful gift - unified control of the presidency and Congress for the first time in a decade. But turning a governing majority into enacted policies is proving to be a challenge for a party that spent the past eight years throwing political bombs from the sidelines.\n\nSpeaker of the House Paul Ryan took to the lectern for a press conference on Thursday morning facing a crisis. The healthcare reform legislation he has tried to shepherd through Congress is in serious peril.\n\nConservative members of his chamber, like Dave Brat of Virginia, were savaging the legislation for not fully dismantling the existing Obamacare system.\n\nModerates and even some middle-of-the-road Republicans, like Florida's Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, said they could not support it because cuts to the Medicaid programme for the poor were too severe.\n\nMr Ryan has been forced to walk a political tightrope, balancing the competing and often conflicting interests in his caucus in an attempt to get the first step in a multi-part reform effort through the House.\n\nIt is a feat that will require a combination of diplomatic finesse, political muscle, relentless focus and more than a bit of luck.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThat's not what reporters wanted to talk about, however.\n\nInstead, the first question was about Donald Trump's allegation - and continued insistence - that his communications had been monitored by Barack Obama's White House during the 2016 presidential campaign.\n\nAnd therein lies the heart of the problem facing conservatives just a few months into the Trump presidency. At a time when a concerted political effort on the part of Republican leadership in Congress and the White House is essential to the success of a key part of their agenda, distractions and dissent rule the day.\n\nWhile Mr Ryan is undertaking his juggling act, the president seems intent on throwing baseballs at his head.\n\nTime and again the president has undermined Republican political priorities with off-message comments and tweets.\n\nBehaviour that helped throw opponents off-balance and demonstrate his unorthodoxy during the campaign are proving less helpful when conducted from the confines of the White House.\n\nMr Trump's remarks about wiretapping and earlier allegations of widespread voter fraud, wholly unnecessary given his victory last November, have forced the White House to scramble with after-the-fact explanations and thrown unwelcome obligations on congressional Republicans to conduct investigations.\n\nOn Wednesday, a visibly frustrated Devin Nunes, chair of the House Intelligence Committee and Trump ally, straight-up said Mr Trump was \"wrong\" about the surveillance.\n\nThe Senate Intelligence Committee would later issue a statement that they found \"no indications of monitoring Trump Tower by any element of the United States government\".\n\nMr Trump's own words, as well as statements made by his advisors since inauguration day, also helped torpedo the president's second effort at instituting a travel ban on some majority Muslim nations.\n\nHouse Intelligence committee chair Devin Nunes (foreground) and the committee's ranking Democrat, California's Adam Schiff, said there was no evidence of Trump's wiretapping claims\n\n\"The record before this court is unique,\" wrote the federal judge who suspended the travel order on Wednesday. \"It includes significant and unrebutted evidence of religious animus driving the promulgation of the executive order and its related predecessor.\"\n\nEven without the travel ban and wiretapping controversies roiling Washington politics, Republicans were going to have a challenge transitioning from being the party of opposition, intent on thwarting the efforts of the Obama administration, to the party of action.\n\nWhile it was easy for the conservatives in Congress to pass straight-up Obamacare repeal legislation when they knew Mr Obama would veto it, crafting legislation that the party has to stand behind - and explain to voters in coming elections - is much trickier.\n\nDuring a Wednesday night televised town hall forum on healthcare there was a telling moment when Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price listened to a cancer patient lament that he would lose his medical coverage under the Republican plan.\n\nMr Price's response was to criticise past Democratic promises on healthcare.\n\nThe questioner wasn't buying it. Republicans have to come up with solutions now, not just identify problems.\n\nAs any Democrat in office during the past eight years will explain, saying \"our plan is less bad than the existing system\" isn't a recipe for political success.\n\nYes, it's still the first few months of the Trump presidency, and the drive to pass something, anything on healthcare after eight years of promises will be strong.\n\nMr Trump could find new focus and use some of his much-advertised dealmaking acumen to pull competing factions within the Republican Party together. His party has the votes in Congress to get things done, and with a bit of positioning he could put significant pressure on Senate Democrats up for re-election next year in states he carried in 2016.\n\nTrump back in rally mode, this time with the seal of the president\n\nThen again, Mr Trump has shown few signs of easing back on his social media rants.\n\nHe says he will hold large public rallies every few weeks, where his unscripted comments often set off new controversies.\n\nThere also may be powers within the White House - such as senior advisor Steve Bannon - who would be happy if the Republican congressional agenda comes crashing down, bringing the remnants of the party's establishment with it.\n\nFor Republican congressional leadership, healthcare reform is only the first piece of the legislative puzzle. The longer that takes, the less time will remain for comprehensive tax reform, which has its own sticky political issues.\n\nA massive budget fight, with the threat of a government shutdown, also looms on the horizon.\n\nMr Trump's aggressive funding priorities are already coming under fire. Democrats are digging in to defend social programmes on the chopping block.\n\nSome Republicans object to billions of dollars for Mr Trump's border wall and sharp reductions in foreign aid and agricultural subsidies.\n\nIf negotiations over healthcare reform go south, Republicans in Congress will be less inclined to give Mr Trump the benefit of the doubt in the coming days. Democrats will smell blood, and the subsequent political lifts will be all the more difficult.\n\nDemocrats like Senator Elizabeth Warren have attacked the healthcare bill\n\nBy next year members of Congress will be focused on the coming midterm elections and less inclined to take risks on big legislative actions with uncertain prospects.\n\nThere's already evidence of a time bomb underneath the Republican Party. Polls show uneasy independents and near universal opposition to their agenda from Democrats, but for the time being their supporters held firm.\n\nIf those numbers dip, however, and enthusiasm diminishes, it could spell ruin for congressional Republicans in 2018.\n\nEver since Mr Obama swept to power with Democratic congressional majorities in 2008, Republicans have been promising their voters that real conservative change is just an election away.\n\nYes, they won the House of Representatives in 2010, but they still needed the Senate. Yes, they won the Senate in 2014, but the presidency was in Democratic hands.\n\nNow they have Congress and the presidency, leaving few excuses. After two months of intra-party bickering and a president who can't keep his hands off his Twitter account, it may only be a matter of time before their base gets restless.\n\nConservative humourist PJ O'Rourke once quipped that \"Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it\".\n\nFor the past few months that line has seemed less of a joke than a prophecy.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCoverage: First two matches on BBC One and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra. Final game on BBC Radio 5 live, plus live text on all matches on BBC Sport website.\n\nOnly Ireland can prevent England from becoming the sixth team in 107 years to complete back-to-back Grand Slams, in Saturday's final Six Nations round.\n\nLast week's 61-21 defeat of Scotland, combined with Ireland's loss to Wales, ensured England are chasing history rather than trophies in Dublin, with the tournament already won.\n\nThey can also set a new top-tier record with their 19th successive Test win.\n\nBut former coach Sir Clive Woodward has warned England to expect an \"ambush\".\n\nEngland's Grand Slam bid is the headline act on Saturday but there is plenty of intrigue elsewhere, with Scotland hoping to send departing coach Vern Cotter off in grand style with a big win over Italy, while Wales will be targeting a potentially significant win over France in Paris.\n\nBut it is undoubtedly to Dublin where most eyes will be turned and Woodward, who led England to 2003 World Cup glory, knows what a dangerous place it can be after seeing his team beaten at the old Lansdowne Road as they attempted to complete a clean sweep in 2001.\n\nEngland did clinch the 2003 Grand Slam in Dublin, but fell short in the city again in 2011.\n\n\"The Irish will have an ambush planned, they have 80 minutes to resurrect their season and I can guarantee you Eddie Jones will not consider this a successful season unless they get the job done in Dublin,\" Woodward told the Mail on Sunday.\n\nJones, who has steered England to second from eighth in the world rankings since taking charge in January 2016, has warned his side to expect an aerial bombardment.\n• None Read more: The childhood friends driving on England\n• None Who are Jerry Guscott's Six Nations hot steppers?\n\n\"We know what Ireland will bring - a strong, physical challenge at the breakdown, pressure on our half-backs and high balls,\" the Australian said.\n\n\"It will be raining high balls. It will be 'kick and clap' and the fans at the Aviva Stadium love it.\"\n\nIreland fly-half Johnny Sexton shrugged off Jones' prediction, saying he was instead focused on carrying out coach Joe Schmidt's instructions.\n\nFormer Ireland centre Gordon D'Arcy, meanwhile, says the pressure of going one better than New Zealand's mark of 18 straight victories \"brings this great unknown\".\n\nThere is a family connection that links the two camps, however, with England centre Owen Farrell's father Andy now installed as Ireland defence coach.\n\nA combination of wins for England and Wales and a bonus-point victory of their own over Italy at Murrayfield could see Scotland in second, their highest finish in the Six Nations era.\n\nIn addition to that landmark, the Scots will attempt to exorcise the memories of their 40-point defeat at Twickenham last weekend.\n\nThat afternoon began with the players harbouring real hope of ending a 34-year wait for a win at the auld enemy's headquarters, but ended with questions over their British and Irish Lions credentials before the summer tour of New Zealand.\n\nIt will also be New Zealander Cotter's final match in charge of the team before he is replaced by Glasgow boss Gregor Townsend.\n\n\"Vern won't want us focusing on him but it will definitely be something in the background,\" scrum-half Henry Pyrgos said.\n\n\"We are conscious that we want to finish his reign in the right way.\"\n\nWales interim boss Rob Howley has overseen an underwhelming campaign, partly redeemed by a hard-fought victory over Ireland last weekend.\n\nThey will have one eye on besting the Irish once again as the tournament comes to a climax.\n\nVictory over an improved France team, combined with England sealing their Grand Slam in Dublin, would elevate Wales above Ireland and into a top-tier seeding for May's 2019 Rugby World Cup draw, and ensure they avoid being drawn alongside New Zealand, England or Australia in the group stages.\n\nHowley - who has not included any of the seven uncapped squad players in his Six Nations squad in a match-day 23 - has once again been consistent in his team selection, resisting calls to give Ospreys' Sam Davies a chance at fly-half ahead of Dan Bigger.", "A student of modern history in his undergraduate days at Oxford, his is that cast of mind with a tendency to see himself as the inheritor of distant traditions.\n\nWhen I had a cup of tea with him in No 11 a couple of years ago, he spent the first seven or eight minutes talking about the provenance of the grand portraits in his room, and the figures there depicted. I got the message pretty clearly. Here was a historic figure, he seemed to imply, who felt he had no judge so fair or firm as posterity.\n\n\"He's fascinated by history,\" the Tory MP and historian Keith Simpson told the Financial Times a few years ago. \"He looks at different historical institutions and mechanisms which may have lapsed and sees whether they can be given new life.\"\n\nLike the mechanism by which being an MP is very much a part-time job, perhaps.\n\nOsborne will need to mobilise all his knowledge of history when defending the decision to mix two full-time jobs - that of an MP and a newspaper editor - with each other, let alone with his four days a month at BlackRock, the asset manager, for which he gets an annual figure of £650,000 - what most people earn in around a quarter of a century.\n\nMany journalists, including Winston Churchill, have gone on to be politicians\n\nThe fact is, he has no journalistic credentials whatsoever.\n\nMost people who edit newspapers will have spent years crafting headlines, sub-editing copy, designing pages, planning stories, and above all reporting.\n\nOsborne has never done any of that, and will need to grasp some basic skills very quickly if he is to keep Standard staff on-side.\n\nOf course, there is a long tradition of journalists becoming politicians, from Churchill and Horatio Bottomley to Nigel Lawson, Ed Balls, Yvette Cooper, Michael Gove, Ruth Davidson, Benito Mussolini (who edited two socialist papers) and the fictional Jim Hacker.\n\nFewer have tended to go the other way. Bill Deedes was an editor of a newspaper (the Daily Telegraph) and a cabinet member, though not at the same time.\n\nBoris Johnson, who in ancient history was thought of as Osborne's main rival for the Tory crown, was editor of the Spectator while MP for Henley. And, long before he entered politics, Michael Foot was editor of the Standard at 28.\n\nEvgeny Lebedev, the 36-year-old who is now Osborne's boss, is fond of Evelyn Waugh and 20th Century literature generally (full disclosure: I was for several years Lebedev's adviser, and then his editor at the Independent).\n\nI imagine Lebedev will like the idea of reviving quaint, romantic 20th Century ideas about the relationship between politics and newspapers.\n\nBut Osborne's constituents have daily concerns that are more rooted in 21st Century Britain. He has a huge majority, but together with his four days a month at BlackRock - which is around a fifth of a full-time job in itself - he won't have much time for parliamentary representation.\n\nFrankly, I can't see this arrangement lasting. Perhaps forthcoming boundary changes to the constituency will concentrate his mind - and that of his electorate.\n\nTatton has a population of around 85,000, which intriguingly is almost exactly a tenth of the Standard's readership. The latter are his new constituency. What kind of editor will he be for them?\n\nOsborne flirted with journalism before entering politics. Years ago he was interviewed for a job on the Economist, the publication whose world view he most closely adheres to, by Gideon Rachman, now the Financial Times' brilliant foreign affairs commentator. He didn't get the job, despite having grown up on the same street as Rachman, and having the same first name (Gideon) and alma mater (St Paul's).\n\nThere is a strong resemblance between the politics of the Standard, which backed the Remain camp and Zac Goldsmith's mayoral campaign, and Osborne's: globalist in outlook, metropolitan rather than provincial, socially liberal, unashamedly in favour of capitalism, and reliably Tory.\n\nThe Evening Standard has a circulation of 850,000\n\nIn the past, Osborne has also spoken at length about his faintly bohemian upbringing, and his interest in the arts, particularly theatre, is genuine.\n\nNaturally he will sharpen the paper's political edge, and his appointment serves up the truly delicious prospect of several assaults, under varying degrees of disguise, on the prime minister who so unceremoniously dispatched him to the back benches.\n\nUltimately he will be judged not just on the paper he produces, but on whether together with the commercial team at ESI Media he can reinvent the company.\n\nHeavily reliant, like Metro, on print display advertising which is disappearing at the rate of around 20% a year across the industry, ESI Media - which houses the Standard, Independent, and TV station London Live - needs to be re-engineered, perhaps with events, data and ticketing to the fore.\n\nAmong his key lieutenants beyond the editorial floor will be Manish Malhotra, the former finance director who now runs the company, and Jon O'Donnell, the managing director for commercial whose ad team is outperforming the rest of the market.\n\nOsborne was one of 30 applicants, 10 of whom were interviewed, and four of whom were shortlisted.\n\nIn four meetings in central London with Lebedev, he sought and received reassurance about the proprietor's willingness to invest in the paper and its website.\n\nHe can take heart from the fact that the Independent, which is now digital-only (I was the last editor of the print edition) is now humming commercially, well ahead of budget and set to make a multi-million pound profit this year.\n\nUnimaginable even three years ago, the Independent is currently the financial powerhouse within ESI Media, of which TV channel London Live is the other component.\n\nThe Independent is co-owned by Justin Byam Shaw, who is also the chairman of the Standard and attended two of the four meetings between Lebedev and Osborne.\n\nRelative to the rest of Fleet Street, Osborne won't have much in the way of an editorial budget, and the need to raise revenues means sponsored content and native advertising of a sort that journalists instinctively resist may creep further into his pages.\n\nThen again, doing more with less - or austerity - was the ethos that defined his contribution to political history. Not in this for the money, because he will be paid substantially less than his predecessor, the Austerity Chancellor has just been reborn as the Austerity Editor.\n\nWhat his constituents make of that we're about to find out.", "British cyclist Josh Edmondson has told the BBC he broke the sport's rules by secretly injecting himself with a cocktail of vitamins when riding for Team Sky.\n\nThe 24-year-old, who was on the team's books in 2013 and 2014, also said he had severe depression after independently using the controversial painkiller Tramadol.\n\nEdmondson said the pressure of his selection for a major race in 2014 led to him breaching the UCI's 'no-needle' policy \"two or three times a week\" for about a month.\n• None Listen: a BBC Radio 5 live BeSpoke special looks at the issue\n\nTeam Sky say legal vitamins and a needle were found in Edmondson's room, but they did not report the incident because he denied using them, and over concerns he \"could be pushed over the edge\".\n\nEdmondson says he confessed to Team Sky at the time but there was \"a cover-up\" by senior management.\n\nTeam Sky are renowned for their robust, no-needle, no-Tramadol stance.\n\nIn a wide-ranging and emotional interview, Edmondson told the BBC:\n• None He travelled to Italy from his training base in Nice to purchase a variety of legal vitamins and intravenous equipment.\n• None He risked giving himself a heart attack by self-administering the medication secretly at night.\n• None He independently took powerful opioid Tramadol during the 2013 Tour of Britain. Team Sky say this was given to him without their knowledge by the race doctor, rather than their own team doctor.\n• None He didn't leave his house for two months because of severe depression partly caused by using Tramadol.\n\n\"In 2014 I was under a lot of pressure, not just from the team but from myself,\" said Edmondson.\n\n\"You want to renew your contract for one thing, and for me the bigger thing was not letting anyone down - this team had given me a chance by signing me and a bigger chance by letting me go to a Grand Tour [the Vuelta a Espana].\n\n\"I think it was just before the Tour of Austria, I went to Italy to buy the vitamins that I was going to later inject. I brought them all back to Nice. I bought butterfly clips, the syringes, the carnitine [a supplement], folic acid, 'TAD' [a supplement], damiana compositum, and [vitamin] B12, and I'd just inject that two or three times a week maybe. Especially when I wanted to lose weight, I'd inject the carnitine more often because it was very effective.\"\n\nThe vitamins Edmondson bought are legal, but the UCI - the sport's governing body - brought in rules in 2011 banning cyclists from using needles.\n\n\"It dawned on me while I was doing it how extreme it was, putting the needle in and making sure there are no bubbles because if there is air in it, it can give you a heart attack and people can die from that,\" he said.\n\n\"It is a very daunting thing to be doing, especially as I was sat in a room in a foreign country alone at night. It's just a very surreal thing you do. It's not something you take lightly. You're doing it out of necessity really.\"\n\nEdmondson admits he was tempted to dope, adding: \"But this was my way of closing the gap a little without doping. Some people think there is a grey area, and that's why there is a no-needle policy, but people across sport have been injecting vitamins for years and it is an alternative to doping.\n\n\"It's not the same - if you were doping, you are getting massive gains. This is just freshening what you do naturally.\"\n\nEdmondson says he is prepared to now talk to the anti-doping authorities about his past.\n\nWhile Edmondson was racing at the Tour of Poland, his secret was exposed when a team-mate took photographs of the vitamins and equipment he had bought, and reported it to team management.\n\n\"I got back from that and noticed all the vitamins which had been hidden in my room were on top of this chest of drawers - and I realised I'd been caught out,\" said Edmondson.\n\n\"At that point I was panic-stricken. I'd never known anything like it. You just go weak and I had no idea what to do.\"\n\nEdmondson said Team Sky's then head of medicine, Dr Steve Peters, informed him of the discovery of the evidence.\n\n\"He said 'there's been an incident' and I broke down. I was crying, I was in shock. And he said, 'somebody has sent us some photos of this intravenous equipment and the vitamins'.\"\n\nDr Peters confirmed to the BBC that a member of Team Sky who shared a house with Edmondson had found \"a needle and some vials\", and had taken a photograph of the evidence.\n\nBut Team Sky say the incident was not reported, after Edmondson told Dr Peters via Skype that he had not used the equipment.\n\n\"He fell apart at the seams quite dramatically. A number of things I asked him during that interview really alarmed me,\" said Dr Peters.\n\n\"I was now in a position where I can say the welfare of the athlete was number one. Obviously, I'm working with the team and anti-doping is a secondary issue but a really important one, and we have to address it, so Josh explained that he had never used needles before.\n\n\"He was in a very stressful situation. He was aware that his role in the team was in jeopardy. We sent off the vials, there was only one that was open, the rest were sealed. They turned out to be vitamins which you can buy over the counter, so I asked him 'why on earth would you?' And he had not done any injection, he said he did not know how to use it. All he said was: 'I did not know what to do so I left it.'\n\n\"This didn't quite ring true to me. I felt this is very odd from what I've experienced in the past when I've been involved with anti-doping issues. So I said to the team: 'I want to stop here.'\n\n\"Wearing my hat as a doctor, for somebody to be culpable they cannot be ill and I suspect he was ill. If he's not able to give informed consent to what he is doing and say, 'I understand this', then in my world, as a psychiatrist, you are not culpable, because your illness is talking.\n\n\"The second point from me is, let's say we went ahead at that point because obviously I do not want to cover anything up - there is no way I'm going to do that. But what is the consequence of him suddenly being exposed if I'm right and he's not well? The reason I stopped it in its tracks is my concern has always got to be for the welfare of the individual.\"\n\nDr Peters said he then met Edmondson on 2 September 2014, when supervision and a behavioural programme was set up until the end of his contract.\n\n\"Once a week he reported to one of the team managers, and she would check on how it was going. She would report back to me, because I can't forcefully get people to speak to me. I don't know what happened to him after that because he did not want to engage with us.\"\n\nTeam Sky say they took legal advice at the time of the incident and say that, although Edmondson had been in breach of team rules by possessing the equipment, they were under no obligation to report the case to the authorities.\n\n'It was a lot of agonising'\n\nAsked whether Team Sky should have handled the case differently, Dr Peters said: \"We could have reported it. We could have made a different decision. We'll never know in hindsight. I suppose if I'm looking at safety issues I did think there was a really big risk this lad would be pushed over the edge. I stand by my decision.\n\n\"I think I'd definitely have told them if I thought this young man was trying to cheat, but I don't think he was doing that. I think it was a panic reaction. He is making very poor decisions because he is not well, and therefore we need to treat him first of all and then get to the bottom of it. But actually to put him through some kind of investigation or disciplinary at that point could've been very serious and damaged this lad's health.\n\n\"I'm not saying that we shouldn't have reported him. We had to make a judgement call which was difficult. I don't think you could go back and think maybe we should've done it and took that risk. I don't think it was easy and I think the problem is if you look at it in black-and-white terms it makes it so that there is a right and a wrong.\n\n\"There are shades of grey. Let's be honest, none of us were comfortable but we had a lot of discussion around this and one thing we could say was he violated our rules. On the UCI technicality, he had not violated because he told us very clearly at the time that he had not done the injection because he did not know how to use the needle. This is what he told us at the time.\"\n\nWhen asked if there were members of Team Sky's senior management who wanted to report it, Dr Peters replied: \"Yeah. We had a lot of debate and discussion. It wasn't just something we decided that we won't bother saying anything. That did not happen. It was a lot of agonising.\n\n\"We've got this in the minutes. I'm named as the person saying: 'Please stop until I make sure this young man is OK.' I was involved right from the beginning and I'm trying to explain it is a difficult one. We could have judged differently. I could've done it. I'm saying take it to me, not the team.\n\n\"We did it on good faith and decided on two counts. One, we didn't think he'd violated any rules and second and, most important, he was not in a good place.\"\n\nEdmondson now claims he did tell Team Sky's senior management he had self-injected at the time, but that there was a \"cover-up\".\n\n\"I think that would have meant a bigger admission for them,\" he said.\n\n\"They'd have had to say publicly a kid was injecting. Injecting anything's bad. It's not like they were banned substances but injecting is against the rules - to self-administer anything, I believe.\"\n\nTeam Sky firmly deny the claim. Dr Peters said: \"It's not a cover-up. Once you use that word you are saying there was an intent behind us to conceal and that was never the case.\"\n\n'I felt like someone had thrown me down stairs'\n\nEdmondson also told the BBC he had severe depression after independently using controversial painkiller Tramadol.\n\nHe said: \"I was depressed sometimes, because if you use it in a race and you come out of the race afterwards you're just absolutely battered.\n\n\"Tramadol makes you feel 'dead' the next day. I felt hungover. The withdrawal from the Tramadol made me feel depressed. It feels like you're hungover, so you need to to just get through and I think the withdrawal from that... just immediately after a race, I was just depressed. I felt like someone had thrown me down some stairs for a few days.\n\n\"The dangerous thing about it is you don't know when you're coming to your limit. It's not a performance-enhancing drug, it doesn't make you any better, you're not getting any more from your body, you are just pushing yourself a bit harder.\n\n\"When you're young and you are facing some kind of depression and it might be linked to some sort of drug you are definitely in denial about what that problem is - I just saw it as the stress of doing that job and training hard. I wouldn't have ever acknowledged that Tramadol was doing that.\n\n\"It was a serious problem for me especially towards the end of 2014. I didn't leave the house for two months. It doesn't get much worse than that.\"\n\nTramadol has been blamed for causing crashes in cycling by making riders drowsy, and there are concerns it may have addictive side-effects. The Mouvement pour le Cyclisme Credible, and both the UK and US Anti-Doping Agencies have called on the World Anti-Doping Agency to ban it.\n\nIn 2014, former Team Sky rider Michael Barry said he and some of his team-mates had used Tramadol between 2010 and 2012.\n\nTeam Sky responded by saying: \"None of our riders should ride while using Tramadol - that's the policy of this team. This has been our firm position for the last two seasons.\" The team have also called for it to be banned.\n\nWhen asked why he chose not to tell Team Sky about his difficulties, Edmondson said: \"I was just really worried how it would look and it was a naive thing to do because I know now that if I'd gone to someone, like Dr Freeman or Wiggo [Bradley Wiggins] or anyone really, someone I'd trusted, they would have helped me, and there'd have been no problem.\n\n\"It just seemed at the time that if I'd gone to them and told them, 'I'm having this too much, I might be abusing it a little', I didn't think they would help me, just see it as a negative thing.\n\n\"I'm not trying to pass the buck. I realise I made that mistake. It was something I was doing and I don't want to be that guy moaning about how they didn't pick up on it, but if there was another rider in that position now I would want to help them and I would want there to be a system in place to help someone like that. You'd have thought there'd be a system in place to pick up on someone who's depressed, regardless of drug use.\"\n\nIn a statement, Team Sky said: \"We are confident we have mechanisms in place which encourage a rider to bring any issues they may be experiencing to staff in confidence.\n\n\"We are also satisfied that staff are equipped and able to raise any concerns they may have regarding a rider's welfare, and for the team to offer support.\"\n\nLast year, former Team Sky rider Jonathan Tiernan-Locke told the BBC he had been offered Tramadol at the 2012 World Championships in the Netherlands when riding for Great Britain.\n\nHe retired recently after serving a two-year doping ban for a biological passport infringement prior to his spell at Sky.", "Nadine started life as a robotic receptionist but Professor Nadia Thalmann believes she can be developed into a carer\n\nThe receptionist at the Institute of Media Innovation, at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, is a smiling brunette called Nadine.\n\nFrom a distance, nothing about her appearance seems unusual. It's only on closer inspection that doubts set in. Yes - she's a robot.\n\nNadine is an \"intelligent\" robot capable of autonomous behaviour. For a machine, her looks and behaviour are remarkably natural.\n\nShe can recognise people and human emotions, and make associations using her knowledge database - her \"thoughts\", so to speak.\n\nAt IMI, they are still fine-tuning her receptionist skills. But soon, Nadine might be your grandma's nurse.\n\nResearch into the use of robots as carers or nurses is growing. It's not hard to see why.\n\nThe global population is ageing, putting strain on healthcare systems.\n\nAlthough many 80-year-olds may only need a friend to chat to, or someone to keep an eye out in case they fall, increasingly the elderly are suffering serious ailments, such as dementia.\n\nFriendships like that between Frank Langella's character and his robot carer in the film Robot and Frank could be a thing of the future\n\nHow can we provide quality care to address this array of needs? Many experts think an answer could be robots.\n\nNadine is being developed by a team led by Prof Nadia Thalmann. They have been working on virtual human research for years; Nadine has existed for three.\n\n\"She has human-like capacity to recognise people, emotions, and at the same time to remember them,\" says Prof Thalmann.\n\nNadine will automatically adapt to the person and situation she deals with, making her ideally suited to looking after the elderly, Prof Thalmann says.\n\nThe robot can monitor a patient's wellbeing, call for help in an emergency, chat, read stories or play games. \"The humanoid is never tired or bored,\" says Prof Thalmann. \"It will just do what it is dedicated for.\"\n\nNadine isn't perfect, though. She has trouble understanding accents, and her hand co-ordination isn't the best. But Prof Thalmann says robots could be caring for the elderly within 10 years.\n\nUS technology giant IBM is also busy with robo-nurse research, in partnership with Rice University, in Houston, Texas.\n\nThey have created the IBM Multi-Purpose Eldercare Robot Assistant (Mera).\n\nMera can monitor a patient's heart and breathing by analysing video of their face. It can also see if the patient has fallen, and pass information to carers.\n\nHowever, not everyone is ready for a robot carer, acknowledges Susann Keohane, IBM global research leader for the strategic initiative on aging.\n\nThis view is backed by research by Gartner, which found \"resistance\" to the use of humanoid robots in elderly care.\n\nPeople were not comfortable with the idea of their parents being cared for by robots, despite evidence it offers value for money, says Kanae Maita, principal analyst in personal technologies innovation at Gartner Research.\n\nAmid this scepticism, IBM believes its Internet of Things (IoT) research may prove more immediately valuable.\n\nThe firm is studying how sensors and IoT can identify changes in physical conditions or anomalies in a person's environment.\n\nBy recording atmospheric readings - such as carbon dioxide - in a patient's room, carers could understand a person's habits, such as when they eat lunch, or take a walk, without invading their private space. Carers could spot changes remotely and respond accordingly.\n\nMs Keohane says: \"There's a real opportunity to create new innovative solutions, including the use of robotics and the Internet of Things, that will help people extend their independence, and enrich their quality of life.\"\n\nWhile widespread use of humanoids may be a long way off, robo-pets are already in use across the world.\n\nRobotic Paro seal trials with dementia patients have had positive results\n\nDeveloped in Japan, Paro is a therapeutic baby seal that has been shown to reduce the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.\n\nThe seals respond to touch and are designed to make eye contact. About 5,000 are in use.\n\nClinical trials with dementia patients, conducted by Dr Sandra Petersen's team at the University of Texas at Tyler, found Paro improved symptoms such as depression, anxiety and stress. The need for symptom-related medication reduced by a third.\n\nIn some cases the results were even more remarkable. Dr Petersen says: \"Some patients that were non-verbal began speaking again - first to the seal, then to others about the seal.\"\n\nThere are drawbacks to robo-pets, Dr Petersen admits - notably the cost. A Paro costs about $5,000 (£4,000).\n\nThere is also a reluctance by some in the medical profession to adopt non-pharmacological therapies.\n\nNonetheless, Dr Petersen believes the Paro may have a role in many health-related settings, as the seal's artificial intelligence allows it be programmed to adapt to a variety of behaviours.\n\n\"I think the Paro may have a role in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, in neurocognitive rehabilitation with stroke patients, and with pain management or palliative care patients,\" she says.\n\n\"Autism-spectrum children may benefit from interaction with the seal.\"\n\nInevitably, there are downsides to robotic solutions.\n\nOne issue, says Prof Sethu Vijayakumar, director of Edinburgh University's Centre for Robotics, is whether the spread of humanoid carers could lead to the increasing isolation of the elderly.\n\n\"We have to ask: are [robots] isolating people more, or really helping people?\" Prof Vijayakumar says.\n\nThe use of robotics also raises concerns about personal data issues, he says.\n\n\"The quality and personalisation of [robotic] services are directly proportionate to the amount of data you're willing to release to the system. Your data becomes a type of currency for access to better services.\n\n\"It's an interesting ethical trade-off. A very sensitive area.\"\n\nDoubts aside, Prof Vijayakumar says the growth of robo-care is inevitable. \"Demographics being the way it is, we will see significant use of robotics in dealing with the problems of old age.\"\n\nFollow Technology of Business editor Matthew Wall on Twitter and Facebook", "The claim: The government is spending record amounts on education in England.\n\nReality Check verdict: The absolute amount of money in the pot for schools in England is at record levels but once you factor in rising pupil numbers, inflation and running costs, schools will have to cut approximately 8% from budgets by 2020.\n\nTheresa May said at Prime Minister's Questions that spending on education is at its highest level, something she has insisted on a number of occasions.\n\nShe was talking about England, because education is a devolved matter and is funded separately in the other UK nations.\n\nBut head teachers in England have been raising the alarm about growing holes in their budgets.\n\nWhen the prime minister talks about record amounts of funding going into education, she is referring to the Dedicated Schools Grant, which is the whole block of money going to schools in England. This stands at £40bn this year.\n\nIt is true that this is the biggest pot in cash terms, but, of course, how generous the pot is depends on how many pupils there are in the system.\n\nThere was a baby boom in the early 2000s, which has been hitting primary schools for several years and is now moving up through the secondary system.\n\nBetween 2009 and 2016, the school system expanded to take in an extra 470,000 pupils.\n\nThe Department for Education says that between 2016 and 2025 there will be a further increase in the state school system, up from about 7.4 million pupils to about 8.1 million.\n\nSo looking at how much is being spent per pupil is a more meaningful figure.\n\nDavid Cameron in 2015 committed to freezing school spending per pupil in cash terms. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) warned that this would result in an 8% real-terms cut in school spending per pupil due to inflation and the rising cost of wages, pensions and National Insurance contributions.\n\nThis amounts to the biggest fall in spending on each pupil in 30 years.\n\nThe National Audit Office estimates that schools will have to make £3bn worth of cuts as a result of these factors.\n\nThe government is consulting on a new funding formula, which it says will be a fairer way of allocating the cash to schools around the country. Under current plans, almost 11,000 schools stand to gain and around 9,000 will lose funding.\n\nHow the funding formula could work\n\nThe following types of schools would get extra funding:\n\nThis model is what the Department for Education wants every school to move towards eventually but, for the first two years, transitional protections are in place meaning no school can lose more than 3% of their funding.\n\nThis means that the best-funded schools under the current system will still get more than £4,312 basic funding per Year 11 pupil for the two year period because of these protections.\n\nFor now, one pupil might attract more funding than another with the same characteristics in terms of deprivation, attainment and so on in another part of the country. The idea is that, eventually, two pupils with the same characteristics will attract the same amount of funding no matter what school they attend.\n\nIt's fair to say the majority of the schools at the very bottom of the pile are in urban areas and the biggest winners are mostly in rural areas.\n\nThe top 30 winners are almost all in Cumbria, Shropshire and Cornwall, while 13 of the bottom 30 are in London or Birmingham. Other losers are in Coventry, Rotherham and Wakefield.\n\nHowever, it's not quite as simple as urban loses, rural wins. There is a chunk of losers in the funding formula in Lincolnshire, for example, while some London schools are gaining too because of the changes in the way the government assesses need.\n\nBut analysis from independent think tank the Education Policy Institute suggests the gains made by some schools will be wiped out by the overall cuts they will need to make to keep up with rising cost pressures.\n\nIt's also worth pointing out that the schools budget, which is for five to 16-year-olds, is distinct from overall education spending.\n\nMrs May claims spending on education is at record levels in absolute terms. In fact, while schools have done well in terms of funding per pupil in the longer term - it will be at least 70% higher in real terms in 2020 than it was in 1990 - the IFS says spending on pupils in sixth forms and further education will be no higher in 2020 than it was 30 years previously.\n• None Is school funding the next crisis?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A student of modern history in his undergraduate days at Oxford, his is that cast of mind with a tendency to see himself as the inheritor of distant traditions.\n\nWhen I had a cup of tea with him in No 11 a couple of years ago, he spent the first seven or eight minutes talking about the provenance of the grand portraits in his room, and the figures depicted. I got the message pretty clearly. Here was a historic figure, he seemed to imply, who felt he had no judge so fair or firm as posterity.\n\n\"He's fascinated by history,\" the Tory MP and historian Keith Simpson told the Financial Times a few years ago. \"He looks at different historical institutions and mechanisms which may have lapsed and sees whether they can be given new life.\"\n\nLike the mechanism by which being an MP is very much a part-time job, perhaps.\n\nOsborne will need to mobilise all his knowledge of history when defending the decision to mix two full-time jobs - that of an MP and a newspaper editor - with each other, let alone with his four days a month at BlackRock, the asset manager, for which he gets an annual figure of £650,000 - what most people earn in around a quarter of a century.\n\nMany journalists, including Winston Churchill, have gone on to be politicians\n\nThe fact is, he has no journalistic credentials whatsoever.\n\nMost people who edit newspapers will have spent years crafting headlines, sub-editing copy, designing pages, planning stories, and above all reporting.\n\nOsborne has never done any of that, and will need to grasp some basic skills very quickly if he is to keep Standard staff on-side.\n\nOf course, there is a long tradition of journalists becoming politicians, from Churchill and Horatio Bottomley to Nigel Lawson, Ed Balls, Yvette Cooper, Michael Gove, Ruth Davidson, Benito Mussolini (who edited two socialist papers) and the fictional Jim Hacker.\n\nFewer have tended to go the other way. Bill Deedes was an editor of a newspaper (the Daily Telegraph) and a cabinet member, though not at the same time.\n\nBoris Johnson, who in ancient history was thought of as Osborne's main rival for the Tory crown, was editor of the Spectator while MP for Henley. And, long before he entered politics, Michael Foot was editor of the Standard at 28.\n\nEvgeny Lebedev, the 36-year-old who is now Osborne's boss, is fond of Evelyn Waugh and 20th Century literature generally (full disclosure: I was for several years Lebedev's adviser, and then his editor at the Independent).\n\nI imagine Lebedev will like the idea of reviving quaint, romantic 20th Century ideas about the relationship between politics and newspapers.\n\nBut Osborne's constituents have daily concerns that are more rooted in 21st Century Britain. He has a huge majority, but together with his four days a month at BlackRock - which is about a fifth of a full-time job in itself - he won't have much time for parliamentary representation.\n\nFrankly, I can't see this arrangement lasting. Perhaps forthcoming boundary changes to the constituency will concentrate his mind - and that of his electorate.\n\nTatton has a population of around 85,000, which intriguingly is almost exactly a tenth of the Standard's readership. The latter are his new constituency. What kind of editor will he be for them?\n\nOsborne flirted with journalism before entering politics. Years ago he was interviewed for a job on the Economist, the publication whose world view he most closely adheres to, by Gideon Rachman, now the Financial Times' brilliant foreign affairs commentator. He didn't get the job, despite having grown up on the same street as Rachman, and having the same first name (Gideon) and alma mater (St Paul's).\n\nThere is a strong resemblance between the politics of the Standard, which backed the Remain camp and Zac Goldsmith's mayoral campaign, and Osborne's: globalist in outlook, metropolitan rather than provincial, socially liberal, unashamedly in favour of capitalism, and reliably Tory.\n\nThe Evening Standard has a circulation of 850,000\n\nIn the past, Osborne has also spoken at length about his faintly bohemian upbringing. His interest in the arts, particularly theatre, is genuine.\n\nNaturally he will sharpen the paper's political edge, and his appointment serves up the truly delicious prospect of several assaults, under varying degrees of disguise, on the prime minister who so unceremoniously dispatched him to the back benches.\n\nUltimately he will be judged not just on the paper he produces, but on whether together with the commercial team at ESI Media he can reinvent the company.\n\nHeavily reliant, like Metro, on print display advertising which is disappearing at the rate of around 20% a year across the industry, ESI Media - which houses the Standard, Independent, and TV station London Live - needs to be re-engineered, perhaps with events, data and ticketing to the fore.\n\nAmong his key lieutenants beyond the editorial floor will be Manish Malhotra, the former finance director who now runs the company, and Jon O'Donnell, the managing director for commercial whose ad team is outperforming the rest of the market.\n\nOsborne was one of 30 applicants, 10 of whom were interviewed, and four of whom were shortlisted.\n\nIn four meetings in central London with Lebedev, he sought and received reassurance about the proprietor's willingness to invest in the paper and its website.\n\nHe can take heart from the fact that the Independent, which is now digital-only (I was the last editor of the print edition) is now humming commercially, well ahead of budget and set to make a multi-million pound profit this year.\n\nUnimaginable even three years ago, the Independent is currently the financial powerhouse within ESI Media, of which TV channel London Live is the other component.\n\nThe Independent is co-owned by Justin Byam Shaw, who is also the chairman of the Standard and attended two of the four meetings between Lebedev and Osborne.\n\nRelative to the rest of Fleet Street, Osborne won't have much in the way of an editorial budget, and the need to raise revenues means sponsored content and native advertising of a sort that journalists instinctively resist may creep further into his pages.\n\nThen again, doing more with less - or austerity - was the ethos that defined his contribution to political history. Not in this for the money, because he will be paid substantially less than his predecessor, the Austerity Chancellor has just been reborn as the Austerity Editor.\n\nWhat his constituents make of that we're about to find out.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLeicester City have been drawn against Spanish side Atletico Madrid in their maiden Champions League quarter-final.\n\nThe Premier League champions progressed to the last eight by beating Spanish title-chasers Sevilla 3-2 on aggregate.\n\nLeicester will play the first leg against last year's beaten finalists away from home on 12 April, with the return leg on 18 April.\n\nHolders Real Madrid face Bayern Munich, while Barcelona take on Juventus, and Borussia Dortmund play Monaco.\n• None Podcast: 'Leicester must think they can win the Champions League'\n\n\"Facing a team who have reached the final in two of the past three seasons is a massive challenge but it's just the kind of tie you expect in the quarter-finals of the Champions League,\" said Leicester manager Craig Shakespeare.\n\n\"Atletico Madrid are a very good team with some fantastic individuals with experience in the competition, but we'll be ready to give everything to progress.\n\n\"It will be a brilliant occasion for our supporters and for everyone at the club, but before the players can begin to think about these games, we have Premier League matches to come that are of huge significance to our season.\n\n\"They will be our sole focus.\"\n\nAtletico are the only side left in the quarter-finals who Leicester have previously played, but the Foxes have not beaten the Spaniards in their four previous meetings.\n\nDiego Simeone's side were beaten by neighbours Real Madrid on penalties in last season's Champions League final.\n\nThe 2014 Spanish champions are fourth in La Liga this season, five points adrift of third-placed Sevilla.\n\nWinnable? That was my first reaction. That and revenge following the clubs' meeting in the 1997-98 Uefa Cup.\n\nReferee Remi Harrel sent off Garry Parker in the second leg at Filbert Street with the game in the balance. It eventually finished 4-1 to Atletico on aggregate.\n\nI was in the crowd that night and felt sick afterwards.\n\nIt's a winnable tie. Atletico are fourth in La Liga and won't like the Foxes' style of play. They'll have seen how they dispatched Sevilla and won't be looking forward to Jamie Vardy running at them. Wishful thinking, maybe, but it's a good draw.\n\nThe dream continues. Revenge, 20 years on? Yes, please.\n\nThe team everyone wanted to avoid?\n\nLeicester, 5000-1 shots to win the Premier League last season, are considered the rank outsiders to win the Champions League by most bookmakers.\n\nBut after the Foxes beat Europa League winners Sevilla on Tuesday, two of European football's biggest names said they were hoping to avoid them in the last eight.\n\nAfter sacking title-winning manager Claudio Ranieri last month, Leicester have won all three games under Shakespeare.\n\n\"I don't think there will be a single coach who is hoping they face Leicester,\" said Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane on Thursday. \"They keep achieving what they are told they can't achieve.\"\n\nJuventus and Italy keeper Gianluigi Buffon said: \"They are a dangerous and passionate team who can cause trouble for opponents who take the initiative.\"\n\nHolders Real Madrid travel to German champions Bayern Munich, who are managed by former Real boss Carlo Ancelotti.\n\nThe Italian, 57, led Madrid to 'La Decima' - the 10th time they were crowned European champions - by beating rivals Atletico 4-1 after extra time in the 2014 final.\n\nAncelotti is aiming to be the first coach to lead three different clubs to the title, after also coaching AC Milan to two Champions League victories.\n\nSpanish champions Barcelona will meet Italian counterparts Juventus in a rematch of the 2015 final, when Barca won 3-1 to be crowned European champions for a fifth time.\n\nJuve, who are aiming for a sixth straight Serie A title, are competing in the quarter-finals for the first time since that defeat.\n\nFrench leaders Monaco will go to German side Borussia Dortmund after beating Manchester City on away goals after a thrilling 6-6 aggregate draw.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe FA Cup semi-final between Chelsea and Tottenham at Wembley Stadium will be broadcast live on BBC One.\n\nThe London derby will kick off at 17:15 BST on Saturday, 22 April.\n\nSpurs are one of only four clubs to beat Premier League leaders Chelsea this season - a 2-0 victory in January.\n\nThe second Wembley semi-final between Arsenal and Manchester City, which will kick off at 15:00 BST on Sunday, 23 April, will be shown on BT Sport, with highlights later on BBC One.\n\nTottenham won the 1967 FA Cup with a 2-1 win over Chelsea, while the Blues beat Spurs 5-1 in a semi-final at the new stadium on their way to winning the competition in 2012.\n\nIt is the third meeting between the sides the season - Chelsea won 2-1 at Stamford Bridge in November - and Spurs will hope to have striker Harry Kane back from an ankle injury.\n\nFootball Focus will come live from Wembley on the Saturday as part of the build-up to the semi-final.\n\nChelsea beat holders Manchester United 1-0 on Monday to reach the semi-finals, a day after Tottenham thrashed League One side Millwall 6-0 in their quarter-final.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nCoverage : Commentary on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, live text coverage on the BBC Sport website and app\n\nNichols Canyon was the big winner as jockey Ruby Walsh and trainer Willie Mullins claimed four races on a day dominated by the Irish at Cheltenham.\n\nNichols Canyon shocked odds-on favourite Unowhatimeanharry to win the Stayers' Hurdle, after Yorkhill won the JLT Chase and Un De Sceaux landed the Ryanair Chase.\n\nWalsh completed the first Cheltenham four-timer for a jockey on Let's Dance.\n\nIrish-trained horses won six of the day's seven races, with the four wins for Walsh and Mullins coming in at combined odds of 179-1 which cost bookmakers an estimated £10m.\n\nMullins and Walsh came into Thursday without a win to their names at this year's Festival but started the day with victory thanks to the 6-4 favourite Yorkhill in the Novices' Chase, before Un De Sceaux won in thrilling style in the Ryanair Chase.\n\nSuccess there will have been sweet for Mullins, who saw Ryanair owner Michael O'Leary remove 60 horses from his stables last September.\n\nJockey Noel Fehily was looking for a big-race treble on Unowhatimeanharry after winning the Champion Hurdle on Tuesday and Wednesday's Champion Chase, but despite being well placed coming off the penultimate fence had no answer to 10-1 shot Nichols Canyon's kick for the line.\n\nIf Wednesday will live long in the memories of Walsh and Mullins for the wrong reasons after Douvan's shock defeat in the Queen Mother Champion Chase, Thursday was a swift and spectacular return to form.\n\nYorkhill won by a length in the day's opener before Walsh let Un De Sceaux go ahead after just five fences of the Ryanair - and he never looked back.\n\nWalsh admitted he \"was just a passenger\" as Un De Sceaux powered to victory to give Mullins his 50th Cheltenham win as trainer.\n\nAnd after Nichols Canyon stayed well placed throughout the second half of the Stayers' Hurdle, Walsh rode him home to deny Lil Rockerfeller victory.\n\nMullins said: \"I wouldn't like to tell you what was going through my mind on Wednesday night, but on the other side of that coin, when we analysed all the runners, apart from Douvan we didn't have any other runner that should have won.\n\n\"People expect us to have winners here, we just hope to have winners here and have huge respect for the place.\"\n\nWalsh added: \"What a day. The horses ran well the first two days, they just weren't winning.\n\n\"Everything can't go your way all the time and you have to prepare for that.\n\n\"It's been a tough year for Willie but he's taken it great. I've worked for him since I was 17 so could eulogise about him all day.\n\n\"In previous years we were front-loaded and this year we were back-loaded. We knew we had great chances today and we think we have a couple on Friday.\"\n\nSix out of seven for Ireland\n\nWith Presenting Percy a fine winner in the Handicap Hurdle for Davy Russell and Patrick Kelly, the Festival was set for a day of all-Irish winners with three races remaining.\n\nAnd Road to Respect made it five out of five for Ireland with a win in the Brown Advisory & Merriebelle Stable Plate Handicap Chase.\n\nA sixth Irish win - and a fourth for Walsh - was sealed as Let's Dance comfortably came away to win the Mares' Novices' Hurdle.\n\nAn Irish clean sweep - or 'green sweep' - was prevented when Gina Andrews steered Domesday Book to a surprise 40-1 win in the day's final race, the Kim Muir Challenge Cup.\n\nTwo horses had to be put down after suffering injuries - Toe The Line after a fall on the flat in the early stages of the penultimate race, and Hadrian's Approach who fell in the final contest.\n\nI said the other day that a successful Cheltenham Festival for Willie Mullins and team after a tumultuous season would read like a movie plot.\n\nEven more so now after they bounced back from the gloom with a sparkling third afternoon here.\n\nTo these eyes, the highlight was Un De Sceaux's win, as breathtaking as Douvan's day-two defeat was surprising, though only just ahead of the masterful rides given by Walsh on, particularly, I thought, Let's Dance.\n\nLet's Dance, quiet as a mouse at the back until scything through her opponents, was a joy to watch.\n\nMore success for Mullins on Friday?\n\nCue Card will bid to make amends for a late fall last year when he lines up for the Cheltenham Gold Cup on Friday.\n\nThe popular steeplechaser, under the guidance of trainer Colin Tizzard, will have stablemate Native River among his rivals.\n\nA strong Irish challenge includes the two-time runner-up Djakadam who bids to secure a first win for trainer Willie Mullins.", "Five years ago, China's most charismatic politician, Bo Xilai, was toppled from power. His disgrace allowed his great rival, Xi Jinping, to dominate the political stage in a way unseen in China since the days of Chairman Mao.\n\nAll this was made possible - writes BBC China editor Carrie Gracie - by the murder of a British business fixer, Neil Heywood, in the Lucky Holiday Hotel.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nLeeds secured their fourth win in six Super League matches as they scored six tries in their victory over Wakefield.\n\nThe hosts led 20-4 at the break thanks to two Kallum Watkins tries and one for Anthony Mullally, with Tom Johnstone replying for the visitors.\n\nRyan Hall increased the Rhinos' lead before David Fifita powered over to give Wakefield hope of a comeback.\n\nAdam Cuthbertson and Matt Parcell also went over for Leeds, while Johnstone ran in his second try for the visitors.\n\nThe Rhinos have now won two games in a row at a canter following their 66-10 hammering at Castleford at the start of March.\n\nWatkins put Leeds ahead as he timed his jump to perfection to gather Danny McGuire's kick to run in and score.\n\nWakefield were soon on the board as Jacob Miller's kick out wide found Johnstone, who ran in from 50 metres.\n\nMullally, who had a loan spell at Wakefield in 2015, powered in for the home side's second try and Parcell's neat pass set up Watkins for his second of the night as Leeds opened a 16-point half-time advantage.\n\nAshton Golding was successful with all three conversion attempts and also added a penalty in the first half.\n\nThe hosts only need four minutes in the second half to get on the board again as Hall went over in the corner from Brett Ferres' pass\n\nWakefield replacement Fifita stormed over from close range and Sam Williams added the conversion to close the gap to 16 points with half an hour to go.\n\nBut Leeds responded quickly and Rob Burrow's pass sent Cuthbertson under the posts, while Parcell sneaked over from dummy half.\n\nGoulding's conversion took his tally for the night to 14 points, before the final play of the game saw Johnstone grab his second score as he went over in the corner.\n\n\"Wakefield will want to be better than that. I know they're a better team than that and I'd imagine they'll be disappointed with how they played.\n\n\"I don't think we saw the best of Wakefield.\n\n\"My man of the match would be Matt Parcell - I thought he was outstanding.\n\n\"While he's not making breaks or creating many line breaks, he holds the ruck accountable and gives Danny McGuire, Adam Cuthberton and Joel Moon a bit of breathing space.\"\n\n\"We were out-muscled and out-enthused all night. They ran the ball a lot harder than we did and we were no match for them. We got blown away by Leeds. We couldn't live with them.\n\n\"I could tell in the first 10 minutes that we were a bit dishonest in the things we were doing. Leeds were by far the best side and it could have been a bit more had they executed a bit better.\n\n\"We were poor straight from the kick-off and got beaten by a far better team tonight. I can't repeat what I said at half-time.\n\n\"I was very disappointed with certain individuals and the way we performed out there. Maybe a few of the guys have fallen in love with themselves after a couple of really good wins.\"", "Last updated on .From the section English Rugby\n\nCoverage: Live on Radio 5 live and on the BBC Sport website.\n\nThe current England side will eclipse the 1992 team if they match their achievement of back-to-back Grand Slams, says ex-captain Will Carling.\n\nEddie Jones' team face Ireland on Saturday seeking a second Grand Slam in a row - a feat last achieved by England during the Five Nations 25 years ago.\n\nCarling, who captained England in both 1991 and 1992, said it would be an \"exceptional\" achievement.\n\n\"We are just left in the wake,\" he told BBC 5 live's Six Nations preview show.\n\n\"They went to Australia and won 3-0, never achieved before by England.\n\n\"They've then put together back-to-back Grand Slams and a world-record run. It would be a massive achievement.\"\n\nEngland thrashed Scotland 61-21 on Sunday to retain their Six Nations title and equal New Zealand's world record of 18 consecutive Test wins.\n\nVictory in Dublin would mean they become the first team to secure back-to-back Grand Slams in the Six Nations era.\n\nOnly three England sides have won consecutive Grand Slams, and all occurred before the introduction of Italy in 2000. France were the last side to accomplish the feat in 1998.\n\nCarling, who won 72 caps - 59 as captain - is surprised it has taken England so long to stand on the cusp of making history.\n\n\"I think I'm disappointed in how few Grand Slams England have won in the past 10-15 years,\" he said.\n\n\"Look at the resources England have, the number of players and the financial clout. England should do better.\n\n\"Don't expect us to do it on an annual basis but we should be doing it a few times a decade.\"\n\nThe 51-year-old does believe, however, that Jones' team are capable of surpassing the 2003 World Cup winners as England's best.\n\n\"It's all out there in front of them and there are not many teams that have the chance to better Martin Johnson's,\" he said.\n\n\"They could. It's about delivering.\"", "A leading African writer has transfixed the internet with her comments on gender - but fellow Nigerians say they feel hurt.\n\nTransgender women in Africa have benefited from \"male privilege\" because they grew up as men. With this argument, writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie kicked off a vexed discussion, trending everywhere from Facebook to Teen Vogue.\n\nBut a less noticed discussion has been the pained one among gay and transgender Nigerians. BBC Trending has been speaking to the leading voices.\n\nIt all began last weekend when Adichie, a best-selling Nigerian novelist and outspoken feminist, was asked in an interview with Channel 4 News whether a transgender woman was \"any less of a real woman.\"\n\n\"I think if you've lived in the world as a man with the privileges the world accords to men, and then switched gender, it's difficult for me to accept that then we can equate your experience with the experience of a woman who has lived from the beginning in the world as a woman, and who has not been accorded those privileges that men are.\"\n\nThe interview has sparked a passionate online debate around the world. But specifically among Africans, one of Adichie's most vocal critics is London-based, Nigerian transgender model Miss Sahhara, who runs an online support community for transgender women called transvalid.org.\n\nMiss Sahhara says transgender women in Nigeria rely on online communities for support\n\nWriting on her Facebook page she said Adichie - who has written several essays and given a viral TED talk on feminism - was divisive in her comments.\n\n\"Ahhhhh, I am fuming, these TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist) feminists always think they are above all women who don't fit into their narrative of what a woman should be.\"\n\n\"What happened to being inclusive and tolerant of all women, no matter their life histories?\"\n\n\"I get a lot of online messages from Nigerian trans girls who are there now and they find it so difficult. A nightmare,\" Sahhara told BBC Trending, \"there's no male privilege for trans women in Africa.\"\n\nGrowing up in rural northern Nigeria, where homosexual activity can be punishable by death (although no executions by law for homosexual activity have been verified), Sahhara says that it was \"obvious to all\" that she was \"a girl in a boy's body\".\n\nNigeria is one 34 African countries that outlaws same-sex relationships, and since the Nigerian government tightened its anti-gay laws in 2014, punishments have become much harsher.\n\n\"My uncles beat me up for the way I behaved,\" Sahhara says. \"It's the way it's done in Africa.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSahhara moved to the UK 13 years ago, but is in close online contact with the LGBT community in Africa.\n\nShe says that social media is a vital lifeline for the transgender community there, who often live in secret. Sahhara lives openly as an LGBT activist in the UK, and many of these women get in touch with her through her Facebook page.\n\n\"I've had transgender women from South Africa get in touch with me and ask what hormones I recommend,\" Sahhara says, \"or women from Nigeria saying 'listen sister, a friend of mine has been locked up, can you raise awareness online?'.\"\n\n\"They communicate with me on my Facebook page, or secretly through private digital groups I refer them to\".\n\nMike Daemon (not his real name) who runs an LGBT advocacy website called No Strings Nigeria told BBC Trending: \"Africa's transgender women rely on a secret digital life involving Whatsapp groups and closed Facebook groups.\"\n\n\"People are added through referrals and recommendations when they are trusted.\"\n\nHowever he reflected the nuanced response Chimanda Ngozi Adiche's comments. Many of those commenting acknowledged Adicihie's feminist contribution and that the issue is complex. Daemon said Adichie was being \"realistic\" and that trans women and biologically born women have \"different journeys.\"\n\nMiss Sahhara, for her part, is hesitant when BBC Trending asked her if she identifies as a feminist.\n\n\"I believe in equal rights and pay for women,\" she says but, \"when I start hearing the ladies from the TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist), it discourages me from wanting to be part of feminism. We are fighting for equality and yet you say other women are not equal because you don't feel comfortable with who they are or who they used to be.\"\n\nChimamanda Ngozi Adiche, a vocal advocate of LGBT rights in Africa, declined an interview with BBC Trending and referred us to her statement on Facebook.\n\n\"I think the impulse to say that trans women are just like women born female comes from a need to make trans issues mainstream,\" she says there. \"Because by making them mainstream, we might reduce the many oppressions they experience. But it feels disingenuous to me. The intent is a good one but the strategy feels untrue. Diversity does not have to mean division.\"\n\nNext story: The mysterious death of a live-streaming gamer\n\nBrian Vigneault had been playing for more than 20 hours continuously when he died\n\nThe death of a young father leads to a conversation about marathon gaming sessions. READ MORE\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 Football\n\nManchester United \"are not ready to be a dominant force\" and fans should forget about a return to the days of Sir Alex Ferguson, manager Jose Mourinho has told BBC Sport.\n\nUnited won 13 Premier League titles under Ferguson, but Mourinho says it is now impossible to be so dominant.\n\nAsked if he could return the club to its former greatness, the Portuguese said: \"Forget it.\n\n\"Don't try to go 10, 20 years ago because it is not possible any more.\"\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with Gary Lineker for the Premier League Show, Mourinho also said:\n• None United do not need to qualify for the Champions League to attract top players.\n• None He would not have sold forwards Angel di Maria, Javier Hernandez and Danny Welbeck had he been United manager.\n• None It has not been easy for midfielder Paul Pogba to adjust back to English football.\n\n'We are not ready to be Manchester United'\n\nMourinho, 54, signed a three-year contract last May to replace Louis van Gaal, who was sacked despite winning the FA Cup.\n\nThe Red Devils have finished seventh, fourth and fifth in the three full seasons since Ferguson's retirement, and have been in sixth place since 6 November.\n\nMourinho does not believe a return to winning the Premier League every year is close, but does not want the season to peter out after winning the EFL Cup last month.\n\n\"We are not ready to be Manchester United,\" he said.\n\n\"We are not ready to be a dominant force. We are not ready to try and win everything.\n\n\"Because of the nature of the club, and of myself, we are ready to fight for every game, every point. But there is a space between the general ambition of such a giant club and what we are in reality.\"\n\nMourinho said United - who beat Premier League champions Leicester City in the Community Shield in August - had won \"one and a half\" trophies this season.\n\n\"Many other teams in England are going to finish the season without a trophy,\" he said. \"But we have to fight for the top four, we have to fight for the Champions League. The cup is not enough to say that the season is over.\"\n\nSince Mourinho took charge, United have spent an estimated £150m on midfielders Paul Pogba and Henrikh Mkhitaryan and defender Eric Bailly, and brought in striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic for free.\n\nBut the Portuguese said the club's previous transfer dealings caused him concern.\n\nHe named three forwards - PSG's Angel di Maria, Bayer Leverkusen's Javier Hernandez and Arsenal's Danny Welbeck - as players he would not have sold.\n\n\"I found a sad club,\" he said. \"Manchester United sold players that I would never sell, bought players that I would never buy.\"\n\nMourinho would not name the players he would not have signed, but in January he allowed midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin and forward Memphis Depay to leave for Everton and Lyon respectively.\n\nHe has largely frozen out former Germany captain Bastian Schweinsteiger and has handed just seven league starts to left-back Luke Shaw, who cost £27m from Southampton in 2014.\n\nMourinho said he was not worried about attracting players if United fail to qualify for the Champions League, pointing to last summer as proof the club can still sign the best players.\n\n\"Manchester United is very powerful, it doesn't need to be in the Champions League to attract the best players,\" he said.\n\n\"Zlatan could still be in Paris. Mkhitaryan could be at Borussia Dortmund. Pogba could be at Juventus. We were able to attract the players because they know that Manchester United sooner or later will get there.\n\n\"If any player decides not to come because of that, then I am happy that they are not coming.\"\n\n'Pogba doesn't disappoint me at all'\n\nPogba, 24, has scored seven goals since joining United for a world-record £89m last summer, but has been criticised for a perceived lack of impact in matches.\n\nMourinho says the France international will improve.\n\n\"It isn't easy for Pogba,\" he said.\n\n\"The country is so different to Italian football. It is hard for him. I'm not disappointed at all. The most important thing is his personality. He is professional and he will improve for sure.\"\n\nMourinho also praised the contribution of 35-year-old Ibrahimovic, who has scored 26 goals this season.\n\n\"Zlatan is not a surprise for me,\" he said. \"I know the personality, I know the body, I know the ambition that brought him here.\n\n\"Could he do it in the best league in the world? He has done it everywhere else. He's doing amazingly well.\"", "When Kyzer Gayle died in 2005 he was little over a year old. But it would be 10 years before the authorities knew about his death and longer still before they discovered what had happened to the boy from north London.\n\nWhen asked about the whereabouts of her son, Victoria Gayle, 32, told different tales to different people. Friends and family heard that the boy - Kyzer Gayle - was with his dad. A London man who believed himself to be the child's father thought Gayle had custody. Some official agencies were informed that Kyzer had been fathered by a traveller who took him away at a young age. But the stories were false.\n\nKyzer died in 2005 when he was 13-15 months old and his mother hid the fact for more than a decade. Despite asking Gayle questions, no-one had tested the truth of her replies by establishing where her son really was.\n\nA police investigation was triggered only by the accidental death of Gayle's two-year-old daughter, Ava, in 2015. Medical treatment was sought when Ava became ill, but her condition deteriorated and she died. A subsequent inquest - recording a verdict of accident - determined that she had swallowed a tiny battery, causing fatal internal injuries.\n\nKyzer Gayle was born in Northwick Park Hospital in February 2004\n\nFollowing the tragedy, local investigators in Barnet, north London reviewed what was known about Kyzer. Finding themselves unable to account for the child, the case was referred to Scotland Yard. Beyond 2004, the year of his birth, there appeared to be no record of Kyzer being seen by anyone in authority. No attendance at school. No GP visits. No registrations with public bodies.\n\nInquiries revealed that some people who had met Kyzer as an infant were under the impression that he lived with his father in north London. Police traced the man, but he had not seen Kyzer for more than a decade. He said that following a brief relationship with Gayle in 2003, she later made contact to say he had fathered a son called Kyzer.\n\nHe told detectives he then had occasional contact with the child until, on one occasion when Gayle brought Kyzer to his home, she left and did not return. The man said he cared for the child for about five months until Gayle suddenly reappeared and demanded Kyzer back, which he felt he had to accept. He never saw the boy again.\n\nOther witnesses described seeing a baby fitting Kyzer's description at Gayle's north London flat. These are thought to be among the last sightings of the boy.\n\nGayle has been described as a hoarder and the child was said to have been seen in a buggy in a junk-filled room.\n\nPen Mehmet, Victoria Gayle's former neighbour, reported her concerns to the authorities\n\nPen Mehmet, a former neighbour, told the BBC that Gayle was a \"compulsive liar\" whose flat was so packed with rubbish that \"I couldn't tell you where her kitchen was\".\n\nShe said Gayle had claimed in recent years that Kyzer \"lives with his dad\" and \"that was the best way because that's how the dad wanted it\". Ms Mehmet says she became so troubled by elements of Gayle's behaviour that she reported her concerns to the authorities.\n\nDuring contact with Gayle, some official agencies did ask about her son's whereabouts. She told them the boy's father was a member of the traveller community and had taken responsibility for Kyzer at a young age. The claim appears to have been accepted and no-one ever sought out the boy.\n\nA photograph of the shed where the baby was found, taken after the police had removed the body\n\nWhen Gayle was later evicted from her home, she stored some of her possessions in the garden shed of her mother and step-father who lived nearby, which was where detectives eventually found Kyzer's remains.\n\nLead investigator Det Ch Insp Noel McHugh told the BBC: \"Within the shed we found a box. Within the box was what can best be described as a cocoon of gaffer tape, which concealed a cut-down buggy and in there was the clothed skeletal remains of the child we believe to be Kyzer.\" A bandage had been applied to the entire length of one leg. Gayle's mother and step-father denied knowing what had been stored on their property.\n\nBefore the discovery, Gayle had repeated to detectives the story about Kyzer's traveller father taking him away. Once his remains had been found, she admitted the story was untrue. But she denied harming Kyzer and claimed she had simply found him dead in his cot one morning - to which her reaction had been shock followed by denial. She said that recent internet searches for sulphuric acid had nothing to do with attempts to cover up the death.\n\nGayle said that, until the eviction, Kyzer's body had been kept in her home and she had covered up what happened because she was afraid of being judged and blamed for it. The passage of time means that experts have been unable to establish a cause of death, although there was evidence of malnutrition and arrested growth. Tests showed the north London man who looked after Kyzer for several months was actually not his father, although detectives eventually identified someone who was.\n\nVictoria Gayle outside Kingston Crown Court in December last year\n\nAt Kingston Crown Court last December, Victoria Gayle pleaded guilty to preventing Kyzer's lawful burial. She denied charges of perjury and perverting the course of justice, which have been left to lie on file. She has been sentenced to 21 months in prison with the judge criticising Gayle's \"web of lies\" and saying the the full truth of her son's \"sad and short life\" will never be known.\n\nA serious case review is investigating potential failings by Barnet Council and other official bodies. In a statement, the council said: \"The death of any child is tragic and we are working with Barnet Safeguarding Children's Board to provide information for their serious case review and to establish any learning from our involvement with the family.\"\n\nThe Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has also opened an inquiry - currently on hold pending the serious case review - into potential police deficiencies. An IPCC spokesperson said it was \"a complex case spanning more than a decade, and we now know the family of the child had significant contact, not just with the police, but also with other agencies\".\n\nNoel McHugh led the investigation that discovered the child's remains\n\nDetectives are still making inquiries and Det Ch Insp McHugh told the BBC he was appealing for people to come forward who knew Gayle around 2004, when Kyzer was born. Police are also particularly interested in the period between 2007 and 2013, and are asking Gayle's former partners if she had any pregnancies or births police do not know about.\n\nJon Brown, from children's charity the NSPCC, says he finds it \"deeply disturbing\" that a child can \"go missing for a decade\". He told the BBC there were \"a number of significant and important questions that are going to need to be addressed by the serious case review and by the IPCC investigation\".\n\nPen Mehmet, Gayle's former neighbour, agrees and says she is angry and bewildered that Kyzer's death could go unnoticed for so long. \"I think it's absolutely disgusting because this child's been missing and nobody knew.\n\n\"How can nobody know? I don't understand, how can nobody know?\"", "Speaker of the House Paul Ryan lifted a pint of Guinness at the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon in Washington, DC.\n\nBut the symbolic act may have backfired due to the look of the beer in the glass.\n\n\"First Mike Pence says 'top of the morning', then Paul Ryan holds up this appalling pint, grave missteps by the US,\" wrote Irish journalist Naomi O'Leary.\n\nThe toast came at the end of a speech on Ryan's Irish roots.\n\n\"Ireland may be a small island, but look at all she has given us. Her light floods the world. To America, she is, as General Washington himself said, 'friend of my country in my country's most friendless day.' \"\n\nRyan raised the glass - with a thin layer of foam inches away from the top of the rim - as a gestures of friendship during the annual luncheon, which has occurred since 1983.\n\nUS President Donald Trump and Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny were also in attendance.\n\n\"To what our forefathers have started, and our children will continue. May the light always shine upon them. Slainte,\" he said.\n\nOn Twitter, pint purists ignored his warm words, and instead focused on his poor pour.\n\n\"In a subtle yet cavalier act of diplomacy, Enda has given Paul Ryan the worst pint of Guinness imaginable,\" wrote Irishman Conor O'Neill.\n\n\"Just how long has that pint been sat there? I can barely look...\" wrote Neil Wilson, campaigns director for Conservatives for Liberty.\n\n\"The tremendous amount of real estate at the top of that pint, probably pulled an hour before,\" lamented Boston-based music critic Emily Reily.\n\nAnd some couldn't help draw comparisons to the frothy pint Barack Obama enjoyed on a trip to Ireland in 2011.\n\nBut the bottom line remains: Ryan was drinking a beer at lunch while many Americans - and Irish - were still stuck at their desks.\n\nAnd that raises the question: is a bad pint of Guinness better than no pint at all?", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United edged a nervy encounter with Russian minnows FC Rostov at Old Trafford to reach the Europa League quarter-finals with a 2-1 aggregate victory.\n\nJuan Mata got the decisive goal for United when he stabbed in from Zlatan Ibrahimovic's flick, but Rostov threatened to take the game to extra time and Sergio Romero made two good saves late on.\n\nThe United goalkeeper first kept out Sardar Azmoun's flicked header before thumping away Christian Noboa's free-kick.\n\nIt was a largely frustrating night for United, who dominated for large periods without really threatening and also lost midfielder Paul Pogba to a hamstring injury.\n\nTheir best chances before the goal came in the first half, when Henrikh Mkhitaryan shot wide when one-on-one and Ibrahimovic twice hit the post.\n\nUnited will find out on Friday who they will play in the quarter-finals, with the draw taking place at 12:00 GMT.\n\nWho is into the last eight?\n\nCan United go all the way?\n\nThe Europa League is the only major trophy that has so far eluded United, but winning the competition is not just about collecting another piece of silverware.\n\nWith a guaranteed place in next season's Champions League for the winners, United, who are sixth in the Premier League, would not have to rely solely on finishing in the top four.\n\nMourinho showed he was in no mood to take any chances by naming a strong side against Rostov, with Ibrahimovic - who is serving a three-match domestic ban - reinstated.\n\nThe Swedish striker, absent from Monday's 1-0 FA Cup quarter-final defeat at Chelsea, looked fresh and hungry from the outset, hitting the post from close range early on before cracking another effort against the upright before the break.\n\nThose chances aside, United struggled to find a way through a packed Rostov defence and it looked as though they would have to rely on the goal they scored in Russia to scrape into the quarter-finals.\n\nAn inventive bit of skill by Ibrahimovic helped make the breakthrough in the end, but United know they will need to improve if they are to go all the way in the competition, with better sides than Rostov waiting.\n\nIt was a victory that came at a cost for Mourinho as he lost Pogba and Daley Blind to injury.\n\nMidfielder Pogba has come in for criticism recently, but Mourinho clearly sees the £89m midfielder as a crucial part of his side.\n\nThe France international was making his 41st appearance of the season for United but has rarely dominated a game, and he was largely a peripheral figure here before pulling up with an apparent hamstring injury early in the second half. He will miss Sunday's Premier League game at Middlesbrough.\n\nMourinho was then forced into another change, and a reshuffle at the back, when defender Blind went off midway through the half with suspected concussion.\n\nWith a congested fixture list caused by United battling for Europa League success and a place in the Premier League top four, Mourinho will hope neither player is out for an extended period.\n\nWhat they said\n\nManchester United boss Jose Mourinho, speaking to BT Sport: \"We were afraid of extra time. It was a difficult game.\n\n\"We have lots of enemies. Normally the enemies should be Rostov but we have a lot of enemies. It's difficult to play Monday with 10 men, it's difficult to play now, it's difficult to play 12 o'clock on Sunday. We have a lot of enemies.\n\n\"A lot of people might say we should have scored more goals. But a lot of things are going against us. The boys are amazing boys. We will probably lose the game on Sunday. Fatigue has a price.\n\n\"I will remember forever when I spoke to the Uefa delegate in Rostov. He told me if any of our players gets injured, the insurance paid. Whoever decided the Monday and Sunday games probably thinks the same way.\"\n• None Mourinho has won each of his past eight European home games (Chelsea 3, Man Utd 5), his teams scoring 21 goals and conceding just two.\n• None In fact, Mourinho has not lost a home game in European competition since a 3-1 semi-final second-leg loss to Atletico Madrid in April 2014 (W10 D2).\n• None The Red Devils are now unbeaten in their past 16 European matches at home (inc qualifiers, W13 D3), last losing in March 2013 to Real Madrid.\n• None Since the start of 2015-16, Russian clubs have faced English teams eight times in European competition and have not won any of those matches (W0 D3 L5).\n• None Man Utd's goal was Mata's 10th of the season, equalling his highest tally from the previous two seasons for the Red Devils (10 goals in each).\n• None Ibrahimovic has been directly involved in a goal in each of his four Europa League appearances at Old Trafford this season (4 goals, 2 assists).\n• None Ibrahimovic has provided 17 assists in European competition since Aug 2011; only Cristiano Ronaldo (20) has provided more.\n\nUnited are next in action when they travel to Middlesbrough in the Premier League on Sunday (12:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt saved. Christian Noboa (FC Rostov) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Antonio Valencia.\n• None Aleksandr Bukharov (FC Rostov) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Marcos Rojo tries a through ball, but Juan Mata is caught offside.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Manchester United) because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester United will face Belgian league leaders Anderlecht in the Europa League quarter-finals.\n\nUnited, considered the favourites by many bookmakers, are the only British team left in Europe's secondary club competition.\n\nJose Mourinho's team edged past Russians FC Rostov with a 2-1 aggregate win in the last 16.\n\nThe first legs are set to take place on Thursday, 13 April and the return games will follow a week later.\n\nManchester United have lost only two of their six previous meetings with Anderlecht - which includes a club-record 10-0 win in their first European fixture.\n\nThe Red Devils, under legendary manager Matt Busby, thrashed the Belgians in the European Cup preliminary round second leg in September 1956.\n\nThe sides last met in the 2000-01 Champions League first group stage - Andy Cole's hat-trick helping United to a 5-1 win at Old Trafford before they lost 2-1 in Belgium.\n\nAnderlecht, who are Belgium's most successful team with 33 domestic titles, finished as Pro League runners-up in 2016.\n\nThey finished top of the league at the end of the regular season last weekend, two points clear of Club Brugge before the end-of-season play-offs.", "A barber who listens - Tom Chapman wants men to open up\n\nTorquay barber Tom Chapman wants to let everyone know it's OK to talk to him - about anything.\n\nSince losing a good friend to suicide, he has made it his mission to help men in a similar frame of mind by encouraging them to come to his shop and open up about their emotional and mental health.\n\n\"Men have a fear of being seen to be weak and that's why they don't open up but they get nothing but support when they do.\n\n\"It's like there's a stigma we've built up inside ourselves,\" he says.\n\nHe set up the Lions Barber Collective, which started with a book to raise money and has now snowballed into a national campaign to increase awareness of men's mental health.\n\nBarbers around the country are being trained to recognise signs of depression and suicidal tendencies, listen to clients' mental health issues and advise them on the best places to go for support.\n\nIf Tom is worried about someone, he will ask important questions like, 'Are you suicidal?' and 'Have you tried to take your own life?'\".\n\nAt his barbershop, next to the football stadium in Torquay, men are directed to the Samaritans, Mind and suicide prevention charity Papyrus, and made aware of local free counselling.\n\nTom knows he can't turn every barber into a counsellor, but he does want men to know that barbershops are a safe place to talk.\n\nThe collective is now training hairdressing students to adopt their approach and there are plans to develop an app.\n\nAnd the efforts appear to be working. Just the other day a bearded, tattooed biker gang leader came by to chat.\n\n\"We saved three lives in Torquay last year,\" Tom says, proudly.\n\nQuads bikes enable the Brighton and Hove seafront team to get to people in crisis quickly\n\nIn Brighton and Hove, the eight miles of coastline can be a treacherous place and Roger De Casanove and his seafront team are usually the first to identify someone in distress.\n\nEquipped with quad bikes and a patrol vehicle, complete with basic medical kit, they can be anywhere on the seafront in less than eight minutes - much faster than an ambulance.\n\nRoger has done the job for just a year but admits he has been \"astounded\" by how much of his time is spent preventing and dealing with suicides.\n\n\"Seeing someone in a state of hopelessness and despair is very hard.\n\n\"But, for me, it is being able to provide a service that can make a real difference to people in crisis,\" he says.\n\nThe seafront officers, who are responsible for everyone's safety along the coastline, have been trained specifically to respond quickly in these kinds of situations.\n\nQuad bikes and surfboards are often used to rescue vulnerable people off Brighton and Hove\n\nWorking with a team of 30 lifeguards who are posted along the beach, they try to stop people from harming themselves in the sea, saving lives using equipment such as surfboards and tubes.\n\nSometimes it means working closely with other emergency services such as the police, coastguard and the NHS.\n\nOn other occasions it may just mean offering support and advising people where to go next for professional help.\n\nA local charity, Grassroots Suicide Prevention, trained up the seafront team on how to be alert to people at risk of suicide, how to prevent and intervene in suicide attempts and how to handle self-harm.\n\nNone of it is easy to handle, Roger says, but the response is much more co-ordinated than it used to be.\n\nA&E departments can now call the seafront team direct if they are worried about someone who has just left their care. This means they will try to engage with people who seem vulnerable before they get into danger.\n\nLast year, 12 vulnerable people were rescued from the water along the seafront and many more were helped to address mental health problems.\n\nThe House of Commons health committee says the current rate of suicide is unacceptable and may not be an accurate reflection of the true scale of loss of life.\n\nSuicide is the main cause of death in young people under 35 - more than 1,600 take their own lives every year, three-quarters of them young men.\n\nCouncils were given the responsibility of developing local suicide action plans in 2012 and now 95% of local authorities have one.\n\nLike Brighton's seafront team, projects involving barbers in Torbay and a rural support network for farmers in Lincolnshire have been a huge success.\n\nBut MPs say there is more that can be done in other areas.\n\nThe health committee wants to see:\n\nRural support networks target farmers, who have one of the highest suicide rates in the UK\n\nFarmers are often hard-to-reach groups who can be vulnerable to mental health issues, says Alison Twiddy, project manager at the charity Lincolnshire Rural Support Network.\n\nShe says the nature of the job can mean people are isolated both geographically and from communities - and sometimes a stoic spirit means they don't always reach out for help.\n\nIt may also be getting harder and more complicated to run small businesses with more legislation and paperwork involved, she says. But it is not easy to get away from the business for a break when you have made it your home.\n\nAll these things and many more factors contribute to the reasons famers have one of the highest suicide rates in the UK.\n\nTo help, the charity has set up health checks in farmers' markets. While nurses, employed by the NHS, do blood pressure and blood sugar tests, they ask how the farmers are doing - whether they are sleeping well and whether there are any troubles on the farm or with family, for example.\n\nDuring health checks, farmers are also asked about their worries\n\nAlison says because the health checks have become part of the community and the nurses ask questions informally, people sometimes open up and tell them about their struggles.\n\nSometimes farmers are concerned about how to keep a farm going or whether the land will be passed on. Others, for example, feel overwhelmingly guilty about no longer wanting to farm when the land has been in their families for countless generations. For some people a combination of worries can just be too much to bear.\n\nIf the charity is concerned about any farmers or their families, it can suggest they get in contact with their GPs or other services. But it also has a host of volunteers who can help with practical advice.\n\nThere are land agents, solicitors and accountants who sometimes volunteer for the charity and offer advice to help people get back on track.\n\nAlison says: \"Most of our work is around a farm table. We try to get the right volunteers involved and try to get some solutions.\"\n\nIf you are affected by any of the topics in this article, the Samaritans can be contacted free on 116 123 or through their website.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"I am up for continued discussion.\"\n\nDelegates at the SNP conference in Aberdeen are being told today Scotland will have another referendum.\n\nThe party faithful are being promised by the leadership that they will not be denied a vote on independence.\n\nBut is that a promise their leaders can keep?\n\nThe SNP firmly believe they have the moral authority to call another referendum. But it is the UK government who have the legal authority to decide when or if there is another referendum.\n\nSo what are Nicola Sturgeon's options now?\n\nI've just asked her what she will do if Theresa May refuses to discuss the possibility of another vote.\n\nThe First Minister says she is convinced the PM's position is not sustainable, that she cannot continue to deny Scotland a vote without incurring major political damage and possibly even strengthening the case for independence.\n\nFor the SNP this argument about who has the right to decide when or if Scotland can have another referendum is an example of why Scotland should leave the UK.\n\nIt allows them to make the case that Scotland is once more being dictated to by Westminster and says that shows why independence would be a better option.\n\nJust saying no might be a politically risky path for the Prime Minister but if she sticks to that position what can the Scottish government do?\n\nThey can demand negotiations over when a referendum could take place. But they can't enter discussions with someone who won't speak to them.\n\nThere is the option of holding a referendum without the authority from the UK government. That would have no legal standing and it could be challenged in the courts.\n\nBut it could also demonstrate the strength of feeling in Scotland.\n\nTheresa May has said \"now is not the time\" for Nicola Sturgeon to call for an independence referendum\n\nMs Sturgeon will not yet discuss that possibility, saying she is concentrating on the vote in the Scottish Parliament next week and then making a formal request to Theresa May to give the authority for another vote.\n\nSpeaking to me today, Ms Sturgeon indicated she might be prepared to discuss the timing of another vote with Mrs May.\n\nThe Scottish government want a referendum between Autumn 2018 and Spring 2019.\n\nIt looks like they would be prepared to negotiate a different, later, date.\n\nHowever, it is not yet clear that the UK government are prepared to talk about a date.\n\nThe PM did say \"now is not the time\" for another referendum. She didn't say never. So, will she talk about holding a vote in the future?\n\nThat seems to be the question today.", "Bhanwari Devi is an unlikely heroine.\n\nNearly a quarter of a century after the illiterate, low-caste woman was allegedly gang-raped by her high-caste neighbours in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, she refuses to give up her fight for justice.\n\nIt was her case that resulted in the Indian Supreme Court formulating guidelines to deal with sexual harassment in the workplace, but her attackers remain free, cleared of rape charges by the trial court while her appeal has been heard just once in the high court over the past 22 years. In the interim, two of the accused have died.\n\nThe attack took place on 22 September 1992 and with the passage of so much time, Bhanwari Devi, now 56, no longer remembers the days and dates clearly, but the memory of the assault is still vivid in her mind.\n\n\"It was dusk. My husband and I were working in our fields when they started beating him up with sticks. There were five of them,\" she told me when I visited her at home in Bhateri village, 50km (about 30 miles) from the state capital, Jaipur.\n\nShe ran to help her husband, pleading with the men to show some mercy, but two of the attackers pinned him down, while the remaining three took turns to rape her.\n\nPioneering Indians is part of the India Direct series. It looks back at men and women who have helped shape modern India. Other stories from the series:\n\nThe attackers were Gujjars, the affluent and dominant caste group in the village. Bhanwari Devi and her husband, Mohan Lal Prajapat, are from the low-caste potter community, Kumhar.\n\nThe men were angry with her for trying to prevent a nine-month-old Gujjar girl's wedding a few months earlier.\n\nBhanwari Devi had worked as a saathin (friend) for the state government's Women's Development Programme (WDP) since 1985, says Jaipur-based women's rights activist Prof Renuka Pamecha.\n\nBhanwari Devi was assaulted in front of her husband Mohan Lal Prajapat\n\nHer job involved going door-to-door in the village, campaigning against social ills - she would tell women about hygiene, family planning, the benefits of sending their daughters to school, and she would discourage female foeticide, infanticide, dowry and child marriages.\n\nRajasthan has a huge tradition of child marriages and thousands of children, many just months old, are married off every year.\n\nBhanwari Devi herself was a child bride - she told me she had been married when she was five or six and her husband was eight or nine.\n\nHer campaign against child marriage was not an attempt to challenge patriarchy or fight the feudal mindset, but she was just doing her job.\n\nAnd she knew that meddling in the affairs of the Gujjars could invite a backlash, says Dr Pritam Pal, who headed the WDP's training programme and worked very closely with Bhanwari Devi.\n\nBut, Bhanwari Devi says, she had no choice in the matter.\n\nMassive protests were held in Jaipur with thousands marching through the city streets, demanding justice for Bhanwari Devi\n\nMany women's rights activists in Rajasthan have worked tirelessly for years to help Bhanwari Devi\n\n\"I told the officials that these people were dangerous and that they would come after me. But they said we had to stop all child marriages and a policeman was sent to stop the wedding. But he came, ate wedding sweets, and left.\"\n\nThe family accused her of humiliating them, and still managed to marry off the baby the next day - then seething with anger, they came after Bhanwari Devi.\n\nIn India's conservative society, even now victims of rape often hesitate to talk about their ordeal because of the shame and stigma associated with sexual crimes. Twenty-five years ago, the situation was worse.\n\n\"But Bhanwari Devi is nothing if not a fighter,\" says Dr Pal.\n\nWhen she went public with her complaint, she was accused of lying. Her attackers denied rape and said there had only been a quarrel.\n\nA rally was held in Jaipur on 15 December 1995 to protest against the acquittal of the rape accused\n\nWhen Bhanwari Devi (centre) went public with her complaint, she was accused of lying\n\nDr Pal says the police treated her with derision, didn't take her complaint seriously and botched up the investigation. Her medical test was conducted 52 hours later when it should have been done within 24 hours, her scratches and bruises were not recorded, her complaints of physical discomfort were ignored.\n\nAfter local newspapers reported Bhanwari Devi's plight and protests by women's activists, the case was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India's federal police.\n\nThe five accused were finally arrested more than a year after the crime, and were charged with harassment, assault, conspiracy and gang rape.\n\nWhile denying them bail in December 1993, Rajasthan high court Judge NM Tibrewal wrote in his order: \"I am convinced that Bhanwari Devi was gang-raped in revenge for attempting to stop the marriage of [one of the accused] Ramkaran's daughter, a minor.\"\n\nThe judgement acquitting the accused men caused immense outrage in India and globally\n\nThings, however, went downhill for Bhanwari Devi from there. Over the course of the trial, judges were inexplicably changed five times and, in November 1995, the accused were acquitted of rape - instead, they were found guilty of lesser offences like assault and conspiracy and were all given just nine months in jail.\n\n\"It was a dubious judgement,\" says Bharat of the Jaipur-based NGO Vishakha, one of the groups fighting to get justice for her. He cites some of the \"bizarre reasons\" the judge gave while clearing the accused of rape:\n\nThe judgement caused immense outrage in India and globally. Massive protests were held in Jaipur with thousands marching through the city streets, demanding justice.\n\nCongress party MP from Rajasthan Girija Vyas called the decision \"politically motivated\". Mohini Giri, who was then head of the Indian government's National Commission for Women, said the court order \"ignored principles of justice\" and wrote a letter to the chief justice appealing to him to \"intervene\".\n\nThe state government, which seemed reluctant to appeal against the order, finally challenged it in the Rajasthan high court, but only one hearing has been held in 22 years.\n\nProf Pamecha says justice has remained elusive for Bhanwari Devi, but she is the reason why millions of Indian women are now legally protected against sexual harassment in the workplace.\n\n\"The state authorities had refused to help her, saying as her employer, they were not responsible since she was assaulted in her fields. We said the government must take responsibility since the attack on her was because of her work.\"\n\nSo a group of activists from Jaipur and Delhi-based organisations filed a public interest petition in the Supreme Court, demanding that \"workplaces must be made safe for women and that it should be the responsibility of the employer to protect women employee at every step\".\n\nBhanwari Devi's plight was covered by the local media\n\nIn 1997, the top court came out with Vishakha Guidelines, laying down norms to protect women from sexual harassment in workplaces.\n\n\"It was a revolutionary judgement based on the fundamental rights of women. And the guidelines later became the basis for a 2013 law passed by the Indian parliament to prevent sexual harassment of women at the workplace,\" says Prof Pamecha.\n\n\"Bhanwari Devi had no direct role in this law, but she was the catalyst for this, she was the main factor,\" she adds.\n\n\"Bhanwari is a very brave woman,\" says Dr Pal. \"The couple were ostracised by the villagers who refused to sell them milk or buy their clay pots. Even their families boycotted them.\n\n\"She didn't even get invited to family weddings. But I have never seen a moment when she said she wouldn't fight. She has always wanted justice.\"\n\nShe continues to live in the same village as her attackers\n\nOver the years, she has won several awards for her exceptional courage, most recently being recognised by the Delhi Commission for Women on 8 March.\n\nBut she continues to live in the same village, still carrying on her work as a saathin, still hoping for justice.\n\nI ask her and her husband if they ever feel afraid?\n\n\"Not for a minute,\" she answers fiercely. \"Didn't you just walk into my house when you came here today? Would I leave my doors unlocked if I was afraid?\" she asks.\n\nHer husband Mohan Lal adds: \"What is there to fear? They can kill us only once.\"", "Headlines questioning Prince William's work ethic have dominated the tabloids after he was pictured on a ski holiday while other senior royals attended a service with Commonwealth leaders.\n\n\"Throne Idle\" and \"Ice work if you can get it\" were among the newspaper puns to greet the future king as he returned to the UK, having missed the Commonwealth Day events.\n\nWhen he's not dad-dancing in Verbier or spending time with his young family, the Duke of Cambridge splits his time between royal duties, a part-time job as a pilot and his charitable work.\n\nSo far this year, the 34-year-old has attended royal engagements on 12 days, including a trip to south Wales, a gala dinner and an investiture at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe record of these attendances is detailed in the Court Circular, which was last updated on 10 March and does not specify the hours of each event.\n\nNor does it take into account behind-the-scenes activity or preparation for royal events.\n\nSince 2015, the prince has worked as a helicopter pilot for the East Anglian Air Ambulance Service. There, he works 9.5 hour shifts, clocking up an average of 20 hours per week - the salary for which is donated to charity.\n\nBased on these hours and the royal engagements, Prince William will have worked the equivalent of 34 of the possible 53 working days in 2017 so far.\n\nEarlier this year he announced he would be leaving his ambulance job in the summer to take on more royal duties.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at a service of commemoration earlier this month\n\nThis is not unfamiliar terrain for Prince William or indeed for his family.\n\nTo be found wanting in the eyes of the tabloids is an occupational hazard that has dogged them for decades.\n\nWhen the prince decided to ski with his mates rather than leave early and attend a church service that mattered to his grandmother, he could have predicted that he would be judged to have made an error of judgement.\n\nIt was an error that he can regret at leisure.\n\nBut what he couldn't necessarily have predicted was that he would have remained headline news for so long. The future king is wary of the media. The newspapers are increasingly concerned at his attempts to bypass them and use social media instead.\n\nThe next test will come in the autumn when he becomes a full-time senior royal.\n\nIf by then there isn't a noticeable increase in his royal workload, there's a risk the tabloids will once again sit in judgement and once again find Prince William wanting.\n\nIn 2016, Prince William clocked up 80 days of royal engagements - well behind the busiest member of the royal family, Princess Anne, with 179 days of engagements.\n\nPrince Charles, 68, came second with 139 and the Queen, 90, matched her grandson with 80 days.\n\nDespite denouncing the work-shy claims as \"absolute rubbish\" and \"grossly unfair\", royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams said the headlines were \"irresistible\" for the tabloid press.\n\n\"It's an unfair perception that the photographs reinforce,\" he said.\n\nPrince William has said criticism of being work-shy was not something he ignored, but not something he \"took completely to heart\" either.\n\nPrince William works about 80 hours a month as a co-pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance\n\nPrince William is patron or president to 23 organisations, including the Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.\n\nNot all the work he does to fulfil these roles is classed as a royal engagement.\n\nCentrepoint - the youth homelessness charity of which the Prince has been a patron since 2005 - said the royal visits hostels publicly and privately, volunteering alongside staff and regularly meeting with the Centrepoint parliament.\n\nChief executive Seyi Obakin, said: \"Within the last three months, he has publicly and actively supported our plans to create a national helpline for homeless young people.\n\n\"Last month, he launched with us the Centrepoint helpline.\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry race during the Team Heads Together London Marathon Training Day in February\n\nPrince William has also campaigned vigorously against animal poaching. At an international conference in November he called on the UK government to pass a total ban on the domestic ivory trade.\n\nThis week, the Cambridges are visiting Paris and in July, the royal couple are due to make an official visit to Germany and Poland, at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.\n\nKensington Palace declined to comment when contacted by the BBC.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland completed a Women's Six Nations Grand Slam by beating a physical Ireland 34-7 at rainy Donnybrook.\n\nAmy Wilson Hardy went over in the corner as England scored from their only chance in the first half.\n\nIreland struggled to breach England's solid defence and were made to pay as the world champions ran in four tries.\n\nForwards Laura Keates and Amy Cokayne extended the visitors' lead before backs Emily Scarratt and Lydia Thompson rounded off the win with fine tries.\n\nWith the under-20 men's side having won a Grand Slam earlier on Friday, England's men will look to complete a hat-trick by beating Ireland in Dublin on Saturday.\n\nThe women, who return to Ireland in the summer to defend their world title, have won their first Six Nations title since 2012.\n\nWing Wilson Hardy completed a fine England move in the 16th minute, but then Ireland dominated play.\n\nCentre Sene Naoupu came within a metre of going over but was stopped by a superb tackle from flanker Marlie Packer, and home captain Paula Fitzpatrick was prevented from touching down by a posse of England players.\n\nEngland regrouped after half-time and extended their lead when replacement prop Keates drove over the line from two metres out.\n\nIreland were reduced to 14 players two minutes before the hour when substitute Mairead Coyne made a deliberate knock-on.\n\nHooker Cokayne burst through to increase England's advantage but Ireland hooker Leah Lyons responded to give Ireland hope.\n\nHowever, Scarratt finished off an excellent England move to put the result beyond doubt and then replacement winger Thompson showed her pace to score England's fifth try.\n\n'It gives us a springboard now'\n\nEngland head coach Simon Middleton: \"The difference between winning and not winning this match would have been huge.\n\n\"It gives us a springboard now and it keeps our winning mentality going.\n\n\"It also gives us confidence that what we're doing is right. We know we can get better, fitter and stronger.\n\n\"That will be our next focus, but to come here to the lion's den and beat a side that are going to be hosting the World Cup is massive for us. I'm absolutely thrilled.\"\n\nEngland captain Sarah Hunter: \"It was phenomenal from the team to pull out that performance in the second half. To be Grand Slam champions is an incredible feeling but we were made to work hard for it.\n\n\"We have worked for five long years to get that Grand Slam and to get our hands back on that trophy. We fell short last year and we learned a lot about ourselves and this year we have learned to stick with the process and trust in each other.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTammy Abraham scored his 22nd goal of the season as struggling Bristol City stunned Huddersfield Town to dent the Terriers' automatic promotion hopes.\n\nLee Tomlin rounded Danny Ward to slot City ahead, after Town's Jonathan Hogg was taken off on a stretcher following a 14-minute stoppage.\n\nChelsea loanee Abraham made it 2-0 on the stroke of half-time, before Aden Flint superbly flicked in City's third.\n\nLee Johnson's side, who had won only twice in 22 league matches prior to beating Wigan Athletic last Saturday, have now recorded back-to-back successes for the first time since 1 October and move up to 19th in the table.\n\nHuddersfield had won eight of their previous 10 Championship games to keep up the pressure on the top two, but remain six points adrift of second-placed Brighton after coming up against a Bristol City side in inspired form.\n\nDavid Wagner's team struggled to impose their familiar high-tempo, high-pressing game on the Robins, and never really recovered after Hogg had to be withdrawn in the first half following a clash with team-mate Mark Hudson.\n\nThe 28-year-old received lengthy treatment to his neck and back from both sets of medical staff before being stretchered off to applause from all four sides of Ashton Gate.\n\nHe was understood to be conscious and talking in the dressing room before being taken to hospital for a scan.\n\nTomlin's composed finish deservedly put City in front, and 19-year-old Abraham doubled the advantage after displaying brilliant movement and striker's instinct to stab home at the near post.\n\nCentre-half Flint, who struck the winner at Wigan, made it 3-0 with a brilliant between-the-legs flick before Cotterill's penalty into the top corner lifted the Robins back out of the relegation zone.\n\n'This result will be a massive tonic for dad'\n\nBristol City head coach Lee Johnson: \"As far as my players are concerned, I was delighted with every one of them. They carried out our game plan perfectly and it was great to produce such a terrific performance in front of our own fans.\n\n\"I hope we silenced a few doubters tonight. I saw this display coming and was confident before the game. Now we go into the international break with real momentum.\"\n\nOn father and Cheltenham Town manager Gary Johnson, who underwent heart surgery on Thursday: \"This result will be a massive tonic for dad and I want to thank the football world for all the goodwill expressed towards him and our family.\n\n\"The heart surgery was performed by Joe Bryan's dad, which we didn't want to talk about before the game.\n\n\"I am grateful to him and all the hospital staff. Dad is doing okay and the test results are encouraging.\n\nHuddersfield Town head coach David Wagner: \"Bristol City were strong and we under-performed. I have never spoken about automatic promotion and we now need to use the international break to refresh and respond to this result.\n\n\"We are in a very good position with nine games to go and we have been through too much together as a group for me to question my players.\"\n• None Attempt saved. Rajiv van La Parra (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Philip Billing.\n• None Korey Smith (Bristol City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Bristol City 4, Huddersfield Town 0. David Cotterill (Bristol City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Philip Billing (Huddersfield Town) after a foul in the penalty area. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nWarrington Wolves' losing start to the season stretched to five straight Super League defeats as Leigh Centurions earned a deserved win in an electric atmosphere at the Leigh Sports Village.\n\nTries from Gareth Hock and Ben Crooks gave Leigh a 12-2 half-time lead.\n\nAdam Higson and Hock extended the hosts' advantage after the break before Tom Lineham crossed to give Wolves hope of a comeback that never looked likely.\n\nBen Reynolds missed three conversions but his late kick capped a big win.\n\nWarrington managed the first win by an English club over Australian opponents since 2012 when they beat Brisbane Broncos in the World Club Series in February - after a 2016 season in which they enjoyed a +250 points difference. This season they remain rooted to the bottom of Super League without a point.\n\nBy contrast, newly promoted Leigh have already earned more points this term than in any previous Super League campaign in their history.\n\nHock showed his strength to cross early on and Reynolds added the conversion before Crooks raced over to make it 10-0, Reynolds striking the post with his kick.\n\nThe teams traded two-pointers before the break to maintain Leigh's 10-point lead.\n\nBoth sides were temporarily reduced to 12 men in the second half as first Leigh's Glenn Stewart saw yellow for a high tackle on Kevin Brown, and then Wolves' Lineham was binned for lashing out at Ryan Hampshire.\n\nHandling errors let Warrington down and enabled Leigh to withstand heavy pressure when they were a man down before sealing victory with further unconverted tries from Higson and Hock, to move up to fourth in Super League.\n\n\"It was a real tough opening six games and to get 50 percent of them as wins is a real credit to the boys. We're finding our feet, we're getting battle-hardened.\n\n\"It's a cauldron here. We're starting games well but we're also finishing them strong so we're getting some consistency.\n\n\"Our defence was outstanding. Warrington are a class side and we did a real good job to put them under pressure,\n\n\"It never looked in doubt. I was disappointed with the try we conceded at the end but I can't complain too much.\"\n\n\"They out-enthused us. Both teams made a reasonable amount of errors in the first half and we gave away too many penalties.\n\n\"There was an amount of self-inflicted pain again. My players are trying hard but just coming up with wrong options and it's hurting us.\n\n\"Once we start making better decisions, we will come out the other side and get on a roll.\n\n\"We will re-group. We'll get in tomorrow into some hard work and fix it up. We'll have Stef Ratchford back next week but we've got to get some the people who are already out there back in their best form.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nSizing John, ridden by Robbie Power and trained by Jessica Harrington, powered home to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup.\n\nVictory completed a big-race double for the 7-1 chance, who won the Irish Gold Cup at Leopardstown in February.\n\nHe finished two and three quarter lengths ahead of Minella Rocco (18-1) in the Cheltenham showpiece, with Native River (7-2) in third.\n\nLizzie Kelly, the first woman for 33 years to ride in the race, was unseated from Tea for Two at the second fence.\n\nThe 3-1 favourite Djakadam hit the second-last fence when leading and ended up finishing fourth, while the much-loved Cue Card again fell three fences from home.\n\nHarrington and Power finished the Festival in style by winning the last race, the Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Challenge Cup Handicap Chase, with Rock the World (10-1).\n\nThe seven-year-old winner was a first Cheltenham Gold Cup entry for Harrington after moving to her yard from Henry de Bromhead's earlier in the season.\n\nHarrington, the most successful female trainer ever at the Festival, had previously enjoyed big-race success with Moscow Flyer in the 2003 and 2005 Queen Mother Champion Chases, and with 2014 Champion Hurdle winner Jezki.\n\n\"It's amazing - he has gone from running two miles at Christmas to three miles here,\" she told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\nDown to the last he absolutely pinged it\n\n\"He jumped like a buck and it was his jumping that got him there.\n\n\"I never seemed to have any stayers before for this race - I can't believe it.\"\n\nHarrington is the third woman to train a Gold Cup winner, following Jenny Pitman, who guided Burrough Hill Lad (1984) and Garrison Savannah (1991), and Henrietta Knight with Best Mate (2002-2004).\n\nPower, who won the Grand National on Silver Birch in 2007, said: \"It's unbelievable. Jessica Harrington is a genius.\n\n\"I was only 25 when I won the National and I'm 35 now. When you're 25 you think you can win everything, so this is very special.\n\n\"Down to the last he absolutely pinged it and then it was just a case of seeing it out. It's what every jockey dreams of and I never thought I would until we got this lad.\n\n\"I had a bad injury before Christmas and I rushed back to ride him in the Irish Gold Cup\"\n\nBeing thrilled to feeling robbed - what the rest said\n\nMinella Rocco trainer Jonjo O'Neill: \"It was his first run proper of the season. He has no miles on the clock and he'll improve a ton on that. I'm thrilled, he had a great spin round and finished as strongly as anything.\"\n\nNative River owner Garth Broom: \"I felt we were slightly robbed of second right on the line, but finishing third in a Gold Cup with a seven-year-old is something you can't complain about.\n\n\"He wears his heart on his sleeve and we are so proud of him. We had two dreams - to have a runner in the Gold Cup and to win one, and we've achieved the first.\n\nDjakadam jockey Ruby Walsh: \"The mistake at the second-last cost me second place but I don't believe I would have done better than that.\"\n\nCue Card assistant trainer Joe Tizzard: \"He has come back safe and that is the main thing we were concerned about.\"\n\nThe 2017 Gold Cup was billed as competitive, but not necessarily the greatest staging in the race's 90-plus-year history.\n\nYou probably can't say at this stage that Sizing John is all set to be a great champion, but given time, who knows?\n\nHe's got that certain something about him - racing purists would say 'class' - he's only seven years old, technically some way short of his prime, and the time of the race was decent.\n\nThere had been doubts about the horse's stamina lasting out the demanding three and a quarter miles, but he had plenty of reserves to positively bound up the final hill.\n\nPaul Townend rode a 356-1 double for Willie Mullins after top weight Arctic Fire (20-1) took the County Hurdle after being off the track for 13 months, while Penhill then triumphed in the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle.\n\nPenhill's win was Mullins' first in the race and gave him a sixth win of the meeting.\n\nGordon Elliott matched him with his sixth win when Champagne Classic (12-1) took the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle for JJ Slevin.\n\nHowever, Elliott clinched the leading trainer award thanks to his three second places compared to two from Mullins.\n\nA delighted Elliott said: \"To win the trainer award is something special. Willie is an amazing man and a gentleman. We are absolutely thrilled.\n\n\"When we get home now, we will have a party with all the staff.\"\n\nChampagne Classic's owner, airline boss Michael O'Leary, was somewhat surprised by the horse's achievement.\n\n\"I think that was a miraculous event. He is probably the worst horse we own!\" said O'Leary\n\n\"We buy them in numbers and you get a few duds - he is one of the duds!\"\n\nThe rest of the day's action\n\nBryony Frost triumphed on Pacha Du Polder in the Foxhunters Chase, the same horse on whom former Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist Victoria Pendleton finished fifth in last year's race,\n\nFrost's win meant that for the first time all three races for amateur riders at the Festival were won by female jockeys.\n\nShe was also following in a family tradition - her father Jimmy rode Morley Street to victory in the 1991 Champion Hurdle, while brother Hadden won at the 2010 Festival.\n\nThe day's other race, the Triumph Hurdle, was won by the 5-2 favourite Defi Du Seuil, ridden by champion jockey Richard Johnson and trained by Philip Hobbs.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nNumber eight Billy Vunipola and wing Anthony Watson return to the starting XV as England aim to win the Six Nations Grand Slam against Ireland.\n\nVunipola replaces Nathan Hughes and Watson comes in for Jack Nowell in the two changes to the side that thrashed Scotland to win the Six Nations.\n\nElliot Daly is fit to start on the left wing after a head knock.\n\nEngland are chasing a record-breaking 19th straight win, while victory will also secure back to back Grand Slams.\n\nFlanker Tom Wood is set to win his 50th cap from the bench.\n\nVunipola made his comeback from a knee injury against Scotland, while Watson returned following a hamstring problem. Both scored tries from the bench in the Calcutta Cup match.\n\nDaly was forced off in the win over Scotland after an illegal tip-tackle that earned Scotland hooker Fraser Brown a yellow card, but has been declared fit to play after tests for a possible concussion.\n\n\"We're very excited ahead of a huge opportunity,\" said England head coach Eddie Jones. \"It's going to be quite an occasion in Dublin so we understand we have to be prepared emotionally, physically and mentally.\n\n\"Ireland not having anything to play for means they have the courage to fail which frees them up mentally.\n\n\"We are a little bit vulnerable because we have already been crowned the Six Nations champions and we had a big win against Scotland, so for us it's getting the right mind-set for the game.\"", "Victory against Scotland on Saturday was a world record-equalling 18th in a row for the current England team, who were already on a longer winning streak than Sir Clive Woodward's 2003 world champions - their best was 14.\n\nExtending their run to 19 in Ireland next weekend would secure Eddie Jones' side back-to-back Grand Slams, another feat beyond their legendary predecessors.\n\nHowever, they will need to win a World Cup of their own to join the 2003 team in the pantheon of English sides.\n\nNext Saturday, the current team do have the chance to do something that eluded Woodward's side in 2001 when, having beaten Scotland by 40 points, they failed in their shot at a Grand Slam as they lost in Dublin.\n\nThey are not yet the finished article - and have some way to go to match the achievement of the World Cup winners - but how do they compare man to man to the greats of 2003?\n• None Are England on the All Blacks' level?\n\nWhereas Josh Lewsey could alternate between the two positions, Mike Brown is definitely a full-back, not a winger.\n\nHe is the classic high-ball warrior, relishing the aerial battle that is such a big part of the modern game. Ireland's Rob Kearney, Wales' Dan Biggar and New Zealand's Ben Smith are among the best in the world at fielding the ping-pong kicking exchanges, but none are better than Brown.\n\nLewsey is a better all-rounder however. He eclipses Brown in attack with his speed, and was rock-solid in defence.\n\nHis rib-breaking hit on Australia's Mat Rogers the summer before the World Cup final left his opposite number unable to surf as lying on the board was too uncomfortable.\n\nPoor Jack Nowell. Any wing in the world would suffer by this comparison because Jason Robinson had unique attacking skills.\n\nHe combined the best step I have ever seen with breathtaking acceleration that would leave defenders choking on dust.\n\nNowell has boundless energy and always wants to get his hands on the ball and take on the opposition. Still only 23, that attitude has fuelled his improvement with every game.\n\nWhat a contrast. Jonathan Joseph and Mike Tindall are two totally different types of players, but each perfectly fitted their eras. Tindall was direct, confrontational and strong, but he also had an eye for the pass and the ability to deliver it.\n\nHe was uncompromising in attack and defence, relishing the collision with or without the ball.\n\nJoseph's most eye-catching quality is his pace and ability to pick a defence-piercing line. We saw the perfect demonstration of that in his hat-trick performance against Scotland on Saturday.\n\nHis defence is more subtle than Tindall's crash-bang style, but it is equally effective.\n\nWhile there were differences at outside centre, the two sides' inside centres bring similar assets to the table.\n\nWill Greenwood was both a playmaker and try-scorer for the 2003 side. He was deceptively quick, picking clever lines and gobbling up the yards with his long stride. He has a superb rugby brain, and made time and space for others as well as finding holes to exploit himself.\n\nFarrell has perhaps improved more than any other player under the guidance of England coach Eddie Jones. His running with ball in hand is now a real threat to the defensive line, he knows how to set traps for tacklers and then can deliver a decisive scoring pass. Add to the mix his metronomic goal-kicking and he is becoming world class.\n\nAnthony Watson, with just 23 years and 24 Tests under his belt, is still relatively raw. He has electrifying pace and great feet though and finishes his chances well. Add the greater awareness which should come with experience and he'll be very good.\n\nCohen had more physicality, but did not sacrifice much speed for it. He had an exceptional step and pace for a big man.\n\nGeorge Ford has a wonderful skill-set - his vision, passing and kicking from hand are generally exceptional. However, he was short of his best in 2016 as the uncertainty over his future at Bath dragged on. Now that his return to Leicester has been sorted, I would like to see the 23-year-old showing his pace with ball in hand and making yards for his team.\n\nWhat can you say about Jonny Wilkinson? He would deliver just exactly what his coach wanted from him. He understood England's gameplan inside out and executed everything it in his methodical and clever way.\n\nDefensively he set new standards for the position with shuddering hits and, crucially in that World Cup final, he was a penalty-kicking genius.\n\nBen Youngs has sublime matches, good matches and some poor ones. His best - such as the man-of-the-match display in December's 37-21 win over Australia - is world class. He just needs a bit more consistency.\n\nMatt Dawson was another clever player. He had an eye for the gap, a step that would send cameramen the wrong way, and he took on the responsibility in the biggest of matches.\n\nHis half-break in the phase before made Jonny Wilkinson's decisive drop-goal that much easier in the World Cup final and his try in the first British and Irish Lions Test in South Africa was typical impudent opportunism.\n\nLoose-head Trevor Woodman was probably the unsung hero of the 2003. He was an old-school prop with technical skills that weren't always easily identifiable, but were definitely there.\n\nMako is a prototype player who is ahead of his time. His ball-carrying ability gives England another option in the loose and his deft handling skills belie his size.\n\nSteve Thompson was a hooker who bristled with aggression in everything he did. Nothing unusual there perhaps, but he was also one of the best ball-carrying hookers who has played the game, combining pace and a piston-like hand-off.\n\nHartley leads the current England team by example, whole-hearted and relentlessly competitive. He is more of a set-piece specialist though and it has been noticeable in recent Tests that he has been replaced by the more mobile Jamie George early in the second half as the match opens up.\n\nTight-heads tend to be lone wolves, who live for the scrummage and the chance to cause the opposition front row pain. Phil 'Raging Bull' Vickery though moved out of that comfort zone and carried in the loose to great effect. That was his point of difference.\n\nThe current England team are evolving into an all-round footballing side in which one to 15 can run with the ball effectively, but Dan Cole does not fit that model. In addition to his primary role keeping the scrum solid, he is predominantly a breakdown cleaner and is far more effective there than as a runner.\n\nMartin Johnson was the complete second row, adapting brilliantly throughout his 10-year international career to changing times in rugby. He had a marathon runner's durability, a heavyweight boxer's capacity to fight and a gladiator's instinct for survival. Add in his ferocity in the tight, soaring leaps in the line-out and quiet authority on the pitch and you have one of the best players ever.\n\nJoe Launchbury is a workaholic, getting though his defensive duties, doing the hard yards from first receiver and decorating his performances with slick handling skills.\n\nBen Kay got the dirty work done for the 2003 England team. He was a clever player on the field, knowing where to put himself for maximum effect. He may have been overshadowed by other bigger names in the public imagination, but he was as important as any of them on the pitch.\n\nCourtney Lawes' muscularity around the pitch means he is unlikely to be similarly overlooked. He has developed his game over the past year. The monster straight-to-showreel hits are still there, but now he has become a more prominent ball carrier as well. That added dimension is something that he needs to keep his shirt in a highly competitive position in the 2017 side.\n\nIn my opinion, Richard Hill was England's best player for a number of years. He had the pace and intelligence of an open-side flanker and the warrior's instinct of a blind-side flanker. He was truly world class.\n\nIt is hard to believe Maro Itoje is only 22 years old. His unique selling point is his rugby intelligence. He makes a veteran's decisions on whether to go into the breakdown, stand out to make a tackle on the fringes or run out wide to plug a gap in the defensive line. He is the prototype modern back-five forward.\n\nTwo totally different players with different skill-sets and different characters off the field as well, if you judge by their social media skirmish in the wake of the last World Cup.\n\nNeil Back was the try-scoring tackle jackal at open-side flanker, linking play, covering every blade of grass and rarely making a mistake. He also complemented the rest of the 2003 back row perfectly. Eddie Jones, who indentified England's lack of an out-and-out fetcher like Back as one of their weaknesses before taking charge, is still searching for the perfect balance in that area.\n\nBack was frequently told that he was too small to make it in international rugby before proving his critics wrong. It is never a charge that could be laid against the physically imposing Haskell. Recently he has come up against the best players in the world in his position and held his ground, most noticeably nullifying Australia's Michael Hooper and David Pocock in two Tests in the summer.\n\nJust imagine these two running at each other. They are both massive warriors. Lawrence Dallaglio allied raw athleticism from his early days on the sevens circuit to a stubbornly competitive mentality.\n\nHe just refused to allow his opposite number to get the better of him. That will ensured he was a world-class player rather than merely an excellent one.\n\nVunipola seems to brought some of that steely focus to his game after being challenged to establish himself as the best number eight in the world. He has started to dominate games and opposition.\n\nHe has a huge amount of natural ability and, at 24, a lot will come down to whether he can continue to climb that steep learning curve he is on.", "Mr Gormley has set up and grown two separate wine firms - Virgin Wines and Naked Wines\n\nRowan Gormley says he had no idea that he was about to be sacked.\n\nBack in June 2008, as the founder and boss of Virgin Wines, he was trying to lead a management buyout from its then-parent group Direct Wines.\n\n\"I got called into a meeting, I thought it was to discuss the purchase price,\" says Mr Gormley, now 54. \"Instead, a letter was pushed across the table to me, which said I was being dismissed.\n\n\"I immediately walked out of the room and tried to use my [company] mobile phone, but it had been barred while I had been in the meeting.\"\n\nMr Gormley says he immediately decided that as buying back Virgin Wines was now impossible, he would instead set up a rival business. But he faced a race against time to get key staff to leave with him.\n\n\"I went across the road to a shop and bought another telephone as quickly as I could,\" he says. \"I phoned the office, and the guy I spoke to said, 'oh my God, there is an army of people here trying to get us to sign bits of paper saying we are not going to talk to you, and all sorts of things.'\n\n\"So I gave him a list of 17 people and said, 'tell these 17 not to sign anything.'\"\n\nMr Gormley has also been the boss of Majestic since April 2015\n\nThankfully for Mr Gormley, the staff that he most wanted to keep decided to follow him out the door, and six months later he launched his new venture - Naked Wines.\n\nToday he is the boss of both Naked Wines and fellow UK wine retailer Majestic Wine, which have combined annual sales of more than £300m.\n\n\"I think I was sacked because of a clash of personalities, or perhaps egos, but it was honestly the best thing that ever happened to me,\" says Mr Gormley. \"Otherwise Naked would never have happened, nor would I have gone on to also lead Majestic.\"\n\nBorn and bred in South Africa, Mr Gormley says he first became interested in wine as a teenager. But before he started selling it in his late 30s, he spent almost two decades working in finance.\n\nAfter going to university in Cape Town, he trained as an accountant, and moved to the UK in his mid-20s.\n\nMr Gormley then worked in private equity for seven years before joining Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group.\n\nIt was Mr Gormley's idea for Sir Richard to move into offering financial services, and Virgin Money was born in 1995. Five years later Mr Gormley said he came up with the idea for Virgin Wines, saying he recognised the opportunity of selling wine via the then-still nascent internet.\n\n\"I pitched the idea to the Virgin guys but they weren't very excited about it. So I started just selling wine at nights and weekends with my brother and friend to prove that it worked,\" he says, \"and six months later Virgin Wines was born.\"\n\nBut he says he and Virgin Wines immediately \"made all the classic dotcom mistakes\".\n\n\"We did everything wrong - we had a flash London headquarters, a huge IT office, a big advertising campaign, and absolutely nothing worked.\"\n\nMr Gormley says he has worked hard to boost morale at Majestic\n\nUltimately, Mr Gormley says that for Virgin Wines to survive it had to cut its workforce by 90%, \"retreat to Norwich with our tails between our legs\", and start again from the very bottom.\n\nIn addition to cutting costs, Mr Gormley says he turned around the company by focusing on selling interesting wines from small producers instead of selling the same big brands that people could buy from the supermarkets.\n\nBy the time he and his team had managed to make Virgin Wines profitable, it was sold to larger UK firm Direct Wines in 2005, only for Mr Gormley to be sacked three years later.\n\nAt Naked, Mr Gormley's big idea was to encourage customers to become \"angels\", who pay a direct debit of £20 a month, in exchange for getting wine at reduced prices.\n\nNaked then uses this money to pay independent wine producers in advance, so that they can focus all their energies on making the wine instead of worrying about being able to sell it.\n\nWinemakers are also profiled extensively on Naked's website (it is an online only operation), and customers are encouraged to review each wine, including saying whether they would buy it again.\n\nTo drive sales the company gave away free samples, and today it has more than 320,000 angels.\n\nSuch has been the growth of the business since it was founded in 2008 that it was bought in 2015 by wine giant Majestic for £70m.\n\nThe deal made Mr Gormley many millions, but instead of retiring to count his cash, he was given the top job at Majestic, and tasked with turning around its fortunes after three years of poor sales and weak profits at its UK stores and website.\n\nMr Gormley's action plan has seen him focus on raising staffing levels at Majestic's 211 UK shops to try to boost both customer service and staff morale, and allowing customers to buy just one bottle of wine rather than the previous minimum order of six.\n\nThe average cost of a bottle of wine at Majestic is £8, compared with £4.60 at supermarkets\n\n\"Majestic has to offer better service, and give people the type of help and advice that they don't get in a supermarket,\" he says.\n\nWhile the company is still struggling to make a profit, and an expansion into the US has not been successful, group sales are now rising strongly again.\n\nRetail analyst Jonathan Pritchard of stockbrokerage Peel Hunt says he would score Mr Gormley's first two years leading Majestic as \"eight out of 10\".\n\nHe adds: \"He is a fabulous entrepreneur, and a very good presenter - he is excellent at getting his message across - but there have been a few bumps in the road since he took over.\"\n\nUK wine journalists have mixed opinions. The Daily Mail's Olly Smith says Mr Gormley is \"something of a visionary and powerhouse in connecting wine directly with consumers\", but Jamie Goode from the Wine Anorak blog complains that the pre-discount prices at Naked are too high.\n\nMr Gormley says his focus is always on selling enjoyable wines.\n\n\"I don't regard myself as having a great palate, but I consider that to be an advantage,\" he says. \"Too many people who are really into wine see their tastes become so esoteric and refined that normal people don't like what they drink. I'm not like that at all.\"\n\nFollow The Boss series editor Will Smale on Twitter @WillSmale1\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mother's Day is approaching but as any mother knows, stepping in to the role can be a turbulent time. For some it can be devastating. As many as one in 500 are thought to suffer from post-partum psychosis. University lecturer Sally Wilson was one of them.\n\nThe photo shown above is of me, my husband Jamie and our two-year-old daughter, Ella, taken on a skiing break in France a few weeks ago.\n\nIt looks no different to any other happy family holiday snap does it?\n\nBut the events leading up to it, the beginning of our family life, is wildly different to that of other new parents.\n\nIt is a story of ruin, of living the most terrifying, inescapable nightmare day after day, of being in such utter pain and despair that I constantly thought of walking into the sea near our home in north Wales.\n\nBefore giving birth to Ella I was totally unaware of a condition called post-partum psychosis (PP).\n\nNewlyweds Sally and Jamie, huge sports enthusiasts who met at university, walk under an arch of climbing axes and hockey sticks\n\nTwo years on, I have virtually fully recovered. It's not been easy and involved some controversial treatment.\n\nBut the day I thought would never come is here; when I enjoy the familiarity of the old me.\n\nIn 2013, Jamie and I got married and, as planned, started a family a year-or-so later.\n\nMy pregnancy was good. I was a week overdue and had some signs of pre-eclampsia, a condition in late pregnancy which can be dangerous if not treated, so I was induced.\n\nFive months pregnant: Sally with Jamie, who also works as an academic, in Greece\n\nMy labour was painful, no shock there. But as the hours went by, things began to deteriorate. I became terribly confused. I had difficulty grasping the notion of time. I barely slept and felt feverish.\n\nThe medics ramped up hormones for induction and I was given gas and air and pethidine. Ella's heart rate kept dropping and she was in distress.\n\nShe was born early in the morning in March 2015 by Caesarean section.\n\nAs I came round from the anaesthetic, something very sinister was unfolding.\n\nMy confusion was by now off the scale. I kept saying I didn't understand what was going on, asking why there were doctors in the room.\n\nA brain scan for a suspected stroke and blood tests came back negative.\n\nA new-born Ella who was initially being treated in special care for breathing difficulties\n\nAt one point I remember my eyes rolling back in my head and I slumped onto the bed.\n\nAt night I pleaded with the nurses to sit with me as I was so scared. I was also paranoid that the midwives were talking about me.\n\nBy now I was very panicky, convinced I was doing something wrong and would get upset.\n\nA few days later things got a lot worse. I got up to go to the toilet and collapsed. I was sobbing and refused to get up.\n\nIn my mind there was a strange realisation that I'd died. I could see everyone around me, the midwives and Jamie behind me. I saw a midwife take Ella away, I believed they were taking her to be resuscitated because I'd harmed her.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sally Wilson explains her experience of suffering from postpartum psychosis\n\nI now know that I was having a psychotic episode. My reality had shifted, I believed I had died and was living in an afterlife. I began to hallucinate.\n\nThe sound of babies crying was deafening, the whirr of air conditioning unit overwhelmed me and the canteen trolleys sounded like trains crashing through the ward; lights being switched were like explosions and I could see shadows on the wall.\n\nI was convinced that because I'd hurt my baby I had died and was now living in the 'after life', a kind of hell.\n\nThe most terrifying nightmare imaginable was now my reality.\n\nThe nurses brought Ella to see me, to reassure me she was ok. I was convinced they'd swapped her.\n\nThis wasn't my baby. My baby was dead. I had killed her.\n\n\"What's wrong with Jamie? Why's he crying?\" He's not crying Sally, look he's fine. \"Who are those people outside the door in white coats?\" There's no one outside the door Sally. \"Yes, there are. They've come to get me and take me to prison. Oh God… how could I have harmed my baby?\"\n\nI was transferred to the psychiatric ward and Jamie was told I was suffering from PP. I was prescribed anti-psychotic and anti-anxiety medication.\n\nAll I can recall is being led into a terrifying maze where I'd see people pacing around as grotesquely exaggerated caricatures.\n\nI would refuse to have bloods taken, convinced there was a conspiracy against me.\n\nJamie and my parents would visit with Ella and I'd hold her but couldn't understand that she was mine. I felt no connection.\n\nWe went to the café and she needed her nappy changed. The toilets were near to the labour ward and I became really stressed out and upset as I didn't want to go anywhere near there. I thought I couldn't be trusted on the labour ward as I was convinced I'd hurt my own baby.\n\nA month-old Ella's first experience of the Snowdonia National Park\n\nA week later I had a review with the consultant and I told him things were better than they were just to be allowed out of there.\n\nA home treatment team was arranged to visit me every day but things didn't improve much. I'd manage to help meet Ella's basic needs, change and feed her. But I was going through the motions.\n\nI still 100% believed that I'd killed my baby.\n\nI'd read a news article about a murder at a caravan park which had happened on the day I had the psychotic episode in hospital. In my mind I'd committed the murder.\n\nThe sound of birds was really loud, particularly crows. I then discovered the collective noun for crows is 'murder' - I interpreted meaning to that, of what I'd done in the hospital.\n\nSally on holiday a few months after embarking on ECT and around the time she began to feel better\n\nI had an obsession with a certain number bus which always seemed to pass when I left the house. This was part of the conspiracy and had a hidden meaning.\n\nOver-powering, intrusive images constantly flashed into my mind, of walking out into the sea near our home and ending it all.\n\nTen months after coming home, I told Jamie that I couldn't go on. My husband, who'd done so much to help me, was distraught.\n\nDetermined to help, Jamie did a literature review on PP treatments. Electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) came up a lot.\n\nMy psychiatrist contacted Ian Jones, Professor of psychiatry at Cardiff University, National Centre for Mental Health director and a world expert in PP. He agreed that ECT might help me.\n\nYou immediately think it's a barbaric, horrible treatment, involving being strapped to a chair and electrocuted.\n\nIt's fairly dramatic - you're anaesthetised and electrical currents are passed through your brain to trigger a seizure.\n\nHalf way through the 10 sessions, there was a shift in my thinking. Something terrible was being lifted from me. It saved my life.\n\nIt's sad to think about what I've missed out on but now I look at her and get excited that everything's ok, we're here, happy and healthy.\n\nI can't say I'm the same person. But I'm back at work a few days a week and I'm pre-occupied with the everyday challenges of parenting.\n\nOnce you've suffered from PP there's a very high chance of it recurring with subsequent pregnancies. It's a very personal choice, but even if there was only a slight risk of going through that again, for us, it's just not worth it.\n\nBut it's very important to me to give hope to others going through the horrors of PP. You'll be convinced it will never, ever end. I was convinced too. But this is a day I thought would never come when life feels good once again.\n\nOf wide spectrum of post-natal mental health problems, PP is one of the most severe. Post-natal depression affects something like one in 10 women, and PP one in 500 to 1000. Includes psychotic symptoms, believing things that are not true and prominent mood symptoms - both high and low\n\nPP can come on quickly, out of the blue. Within hours women can go from perfectly well to as ill as we see people needing psychiatric care. In others, it might not be so rapid or obvious\n\nFor around 50% PP is the first episode of mental illness they've had. The other 50% will have had previous psychiatric illnesses. Bi-polar disorder are at particularly high risk, a 20% (1 in 5) chance. Extremely high risk are those with previous PP episodes with a 50-60% chance of reoccurrence\n\nThere are many hypotheses - big hormonal changes, sleep disruption or immunological changes. An important role, and an aspect of our ongoing research, are genetic factors.", "Coverage: Commentary on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, live text coverage on the BBC Sport website and app\n\nWelcome to the 2017 Cheltenham Festival.\n\nIn terms of quality, there are two ways in which to look at this year's four-day jump racing extravaganza, which starts on Tuesday.\n\nOn the one hand, it's been badly hit by a list of star absentees, probably unprecedented in length, but on the other it will, of course, present an opportunity for others to start their upward trajectory.\n\nNone of last season's 'Big Four' championship winners are back to defend their titles.\n\nChampion Hurdler Annie Power is injured though she may return for Ireland's Punchestown Festival in April; Sprinter Sacre, the hugely popular Queen Mother Champion Chaser, has been retired; Thistlecrack, winner of the Stayers Hurdle - and winter Gold Cup favourite - is also hurt and misses the rest of the year, while Don Cossack's Gold Cup success turned out to be his swansong.\n\nFaugheen, Vautour, Coneygree, Road To Riches, Don Poli, Finian's Oscar and The Storyteller are other high-profile names that won't be there.\n\nAll sorts of theories abound for the reason behind the prevalence of injury, including the likelihood that an increasingly intense level of competition takes more than ever out of these horses, though it's bad luck that remains the principal factor.\n\nThis year, the already upwardly curving profiles of Altior (Arkle Trophy) and Douvan (Queen Mother Champion Chase) are tipped to soar further.\n\nWillie Mullins, the leading Festival trainer for five of the past six years, insists that he's put behind him September's shock split with the Gigginstown House Stud operation of Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary.\n\nFor his part, O'Leary, who removed 60 horses from Mullins' HQ apparently because of a rise in training fees, has spoken of hoping that \"agreement can be reached at some time in the future … to resume buying and training more graded winners for us\".\n\nThat's it, then? Well, no because these two massive National Hunt figures will, of course, be in opposition throughout the week.\n• None Willie Mullins says he will try to beat everyone\n\nAnd just like the footballer transferred to a rival club or the Formula 1 driver who switches teams, observers relish the opportunity to witness the potential aftershocks as the parties face up to each other.\n\nEspecially intriguing will be encounters between Mullins' horses and any Gigginstown runners he previously had under his care but which are now elsewhere.\n\nIn the Champion Hurdle, the Mullins-trained pair Footpad and Wicklow Brave must contend with ex-stablemate Petit Mouchoir, trained these days by Henry de Bromhead; elsewhere, the clash of Limini and Vroum Vroum Mag (both Mullins) and Apple's Jade (moved to Gordon Elliott) in the Mares Hurdle looks intriguing, as does the presence of Outlander (another which left for Elliott) against Djakadam for Mullins in Friday's Cheltenham Gold Cup.\n\nAs only the second female jockey to ride in the Gold Cup - after Linda Sheedy who partnered Foxbury behind Burrough Hill Lad in 1984 - many eyes will be on Lizzie Kelly as she rides Tea For Two, part-owned by her mother Jane and trained by her step-father Nick Williams.\n\nMany ears too, actually, as she's a pundit on BBC Radio 5 Live's coverage.\n\nKelly is expected to have four chances of big-race glory; even more in the jockey spotlight will be Mark Walsh, no relation to leading Festival jockey Ruby Walsh or his sister Katie, but an integral part of the team around owner JP McManus in Ireland.\n\nWalsh, who's not yet ridden a Festival winner, has been propelled onto a number of high-profile McManus-owned mounts in place of the injured Barry Geraghty.\n\nNone will be higher than the Alan King-trained Yanworth, winner of races this season at Ascot, Kempton and Wincanton, and one of the principals in the Champion Hurdle on Tuesday.\n\nWalsh is highly likely to make an impression, as is Jack Kennedy, Irish racing's 17-year-old 'wonderkid', who, in only his second season race-riding, looks as polished as some of his more senior colleagues.\n\nThe name of the former champion of Ireland's fiercely competitive pony-racing circuit should be an easy one to remember, and, riding for his prolific boss, trainer Gordon Elliott, he'll have some strongly fancied mounts all through the 28-race programme at Cheltenham.\n\nFrom Melon and A Genie In Abottle to Unowhatimeanharry - only 18 characters and spaces are allowed, remember - to The Crafty Butcher and Djakadam, all kinds of weird and wonderful horses' names will be popping up during the Festival.\n\nSome will be memorable, some ingenious, some a bit random, others just plain bonkers.\n\nMany deserve prizes for inventiveness, and my award goes to Might Bite, so named by members of the Knot Again Partnership not because the RSA Chase favourite is free with his gnashers nor because he's a son of the stallion Scorpion (they sting anyhow) but because of his mum, Knotted Midge.\n\nA knotted midge is a fishing fly that gives fishermen or women as good a chance as any that a trout - for which they're particularly effective in catching - might bite.\n\nCueing up the Gold Cup with the Tizzards\n\nPerhaps the Festival is a little light on stardust, but there is one very notable exception to that suggestion.\n\nThe 11-year-old Cue Card, racing for octogenarian owner Jean Bishop and trained by Colin Tizzard, will line up in a Festival race for a fifth time. He's won twice, the Weatherbys Bumper (2010) and the Ryanair Chase (2013), and was moving well until falling at the third-last fence in the 2016 Gold Cup.\n\nAlong with stablemate Native River, who was successful in this season's Hennessy Gold Cup, Welsh Grand National and Denman Chase, Cue Card, a nine-time Grade One race winner, spearheads Tizzard's strongest ever challenge at Cheltenham.\n\nAnd that's despite his Thistlecrack, once Gold Cup favourite, being injured in February.\n\nNot long ago, Tizzard was a dairy farmer based in the lush green pastures of the Dorset-Somerset borders, who trained a few racehorses, mainly ridden by jockey-son Joe.\n\nToday, assisted by wife Pauline, the now retired-from-the-saddle Joe and daughter Kim, he runs one of the most successful stables in these islands - with quite a few cows on the side.\n\nNational Hunt racing is famously proud of its roots in rural Britain and Ireland, so the Tizzards are seen as typifying what it's all about, and the sport loves them all for it.\n\nEspecially Cue Card, who's the one horse this year that could raise the roof as he attempts to become the first Gold Cup winner aged over 10 since the late 1960s.\n\nThough considerable momentum has built up behind the Jonjo O'Neill-trained More Of That, the 2014 champion staying hurdler, most of the perceived main challengers against the Tizzard pair are Irish raiders: two-time runner-up Djakadam, Sizing John, Outlander and maybe Empire Of Dirt.\n\nTime please (for four drinks only)\n\nThe Cheltenham Festival media guide is essential reading for media folk though, as a veteran of about thirty, I've noticed one difference this time.\n\nThe 'In Figures' pages includes a flurry of must-have stats, like the fixture's £100m boost to the Gloucestershire economy or the record seven wins by a jockey at a single Festival (Ruby Walsh, 2009 and 2016) or the nine tons of potatoes whose boiling and frying is overseen in 34 temporary kitchens by 350 chefs.\n\nSome 8,000 gallons of tea and coffee made get big mentions too, as do 45,000 bread rolls, but the amounts of champagne and Guinness consumed - once a staple diet of promotional material - are gone. (For the record, it was 20,000 bottles of fizz and 265,000 pints of stout).\n\nThis change of emphasis follows the embarrassment caused by pictures of intoxicated footballers and other racegoers being published around the world in 2016.\n\nNow, there's a chance that the Jockey Club, the owner of Cheltenham and custodian of British horseracing since the 18th century, is being a tiny bit po-faced about all this - it was hardly an epidemic - but they've launched a crackdown.\n\nConsequently, a limit of four alcoholic drinks at a time will be imposed on those among the 260,000 visitors buying a round of drinks, while complimentary hospitality bars will close earlier and more water will be made available.\n\nChampion Hurdle: Festival regulars The New One and My Tent Or Yours are guaranteed to run solid races. 'My Tent', along with Buveur D'Air and Brain Power, is trying to give trainer Nicky Henderson a record sixth win. Yanworth is a danger to all though front-running Petit Mouchoir could run them all into the ground.\n\nQueen Mother Champion Chase: The brilliant Douvan is unbeaten since joining Willie Mullins, and barring something extraordinary is expected to extend his sequence.\n\nStayers Hurdle: Unowhatimeanharry is all the rage, but Festival regular Jezki is the most solid of performers who will relish the challenge ahead.\n\nGold Cup: The Tizzard pair, Cue Card and Native River, and Djakadam all have strong credentials, but so does Irish Gold Cup winner Sizing John, who has a bit of something about him. The one concern is his stamina lasting out the three-and-a-quarter-mile distance, but he gives the impression he'll be OK.", "Britain's three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has apologised for the way Team Sky has handled questions over its record on doping.\n\nBut Team Sky's leading rider stressed the importance to the outfit of under-fire boss Sir Dave Brailsford.\n\nUK Anti-Doping is investigating a 'mystery package' sent for Team Sky's former rider Sir Bradley Wiggins at a race in 2011.\n\nBrailsford last week said he would not resign over the package.\n\n\"Without Dave B, there is no Team Sky,\" said Froome, who added it would \"take time for faith to be restored\".\n\nBrailsford has said he was told the package contained a legal decongestant - Fluimucil - but the team has been unable to provide records to back up the claim.\n\nTeam Sky has since accepted \"mistakes were made\" over how medical records relating to the package were kept but denied breaking anti-doping rules.\n\nFroome added: \"I would like to apologise for this on behalf of myself and the other riders of Team Sky who feel passionately about our sport and winning clean.\"\n\nA parliamentary select committee into anti-doping has been hearing evidence about the package, with committee chairman Damian Collins MP saying that Team Sky's reputation had been \"left in tatters\".\n\nDr Richard Freeman, who received the package for Wiggins at the Criterium du Dauphine, did not attend the last hearing because of ill health.\n\nThe committee has also heard evidence about Wiggins' use of therapeutic use exemptions, or TUEs, which allow athletes to take otherwise-banned substances when there is a clear medical need.\n\nWiggins was granted a TUE to take anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone before the 2011 Tour de France, his 2012 Tour win and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.\n\nWiggins' TUEs were approved by British authorities and cycling's world governing body the UCI, and there is no suggestion either he or Team Sky have broken any rules.\n\nLast week several Team Sky riders - including Britain's Geraint Thomas - tweeted their support for Brailsford, but Froome did not comment publicly at the time.\n\nThomas also said last week there were \"still questions to be answered\" and expressed his annoyance that \"Freeman and Brad don't seem to have the flak\".\n\n\"It disappoints me hugely to see the way in which Team Sky has been portrayed by the media recently. It does not reflect the support crew and the riders that I see around me.\n\n\"At the same time, I completely understand why people feel let down by the way in which the situation has been handled, and going forward we need to do better.\n\n\"I would like to apologise for this on behalf of myself and the other riders of Team Sky who feel passionately about our sport and winning clean. I believe in the people around me, and what we are doing.\n\n\"With respect to Dave Brailsford, he has created one of the best sports teams in the world. Without Dave B, there is no Team Sky.\n\n\"He has supported me throughout the last seven years of my career and I couldn't be more grateful for the opportunities and the experiences I've had. By his own admission, mistakes have been made, but protocols have been put in place to ensure that those same mistakes will not be made again.\n\n\"I know it will take time for faith to be restored, but I will do my utmost to ensure that happens, along with everyone else at Team Sky.\"\n\nThis may appear to be Chris Froome belatedly backing his under-fire boss Sir Dave Brailsford, but read the careful wording closely and it is clear that his support is very, very qualified. This is different from the \"100% backing\" messages that several of Froome's team-mates gave to the Team Sky principal last week.\n\nInstead, Froome seems to be taking a more pragmatic stand, making the point that unless Brailsford stays, Sky's sponsorship may cease, and the team could fold. This is how high the stakes have now become for one of the most successful professional teams in sport.", "The claim: The government is giving away £70bn to corporations and the country's wealthiest people.\n\nReality Check verdict: Labour's estimate of £70bn in lost revenue does come from official forecasts, but it includes tax cuts going back to 2010 and does not take into account other changes to corporation tax reliefs and allowances, which will bring in revenue.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has attacked the government for planning to give away £70bn to companies and rich people by 2022.\n\nHis party says it reached the figure in consultation with the House of Commons Library, based on data about the cost of policy decisions collected by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), an official economic watchdog.\n\nThe overwhelming majority of Labour's £70bn figure comes from cuts to corporation tax: the tax that businesses pay on their profits.\n\nLabour says this alone will result in lost revenue of more than £60bn between 2016 and 2022.\n\nGeorge Osborne repeatedly announced reductions to corporation tax when he was chancellor, taking the tax rate from 28% to a planned 17% by 2020.\n\nLooking at these cuts, and other changes to allowances and reliefs that reduce bills for businesses, the total cost to the public purse is estimated at about £62bn between 2016-17 and 2021-22.\n\nAlthough the £62bn loss is incurred in these years, Labour is actually talking about policy changes that were announced as far back as 2010, when the party lost power.\n\nLabour also points to cuts to three other taxes, which are predominantly paid by banks and wealthy people:\n\nThese smaller changes take the total giveaway to about £70bn.\n\nSo taken on its own terms, Labour's figure makes sense. But it only gives one side of the story.\n\nOver the same period the government also announced other changes to corporation tax allowances and reliefs that will recoup £32bn, about half the headline cut.\n\nFurthermore, on Sunday, shadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show six times the government was giving away £70bn in tax breaks \"by 2020\". But Labour's own analysis is clear: the figure covers the cost over six years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "BBC football analyst Pat Nevin investigates whether Chelsea have a \"weakness\" which Manchester United could exploit in Monday's FA Cup quarter-final at Stamford Bridge.\n\nWatch live coverage of Chelsea v Manchester United in the FA Cup quarter-finals on Monday 13 March from 1930 GMT on BBC One, the BBC Sport app and this website.\n\nWatch all the best action from the FA Cup here.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nChelsea remained firmly on course for a domestic Double as N'Golo Kante's second-half winner settled a stormy FA Cup quarter-final meeting with Manchester United at Stamford Bridge.\n\nUnited manager Jose Mourinho was involved in touchline clashes with opposite number Antonio Conte and was verbally abused by Chelsea fans at the scene of many of his triumphs, including three titles.\n\nThe Portuguese was furious when midfielder Ander Herrera was sent off 10 minutes before half-time after a second foul on Eden Hazard, and the managers were kept apart moments later after Marcos Alonso tumbled to the floor after being brought down.\n\nKante's low 51st-minute drive finally beat defiant United keeper David de Gea, who saved superbly from Hazard and Gary Cahill before the break to keep Mourinho's side in contention before Chelsea made the breakthrough.\n\nMarcus Rashford, who came off his sick bed to play - with Zlatan Ibrahimovic suspended, and Wayne Rooney and Anthony Martial injured, created United's best chance for himself but Chelsea keeper Thibaut Courtois saved with his feet to set up a semi-final against Tottenham at Wembley.\n• None 'Judas' Mourinho says he's still Chelsea's No 1\n\nMourinho's first return to Stamford Bridge after he was sacked as Chelsea manager ended in humiliation with a 4-0 defeat in October - and every piece of his body language here spoke of a man intent on putting matters right.\n\nHe was pacing his technical area from the first whistle, applauding, imploring and cajoling his team, stripped of talisman Ibrahimovic as well as Rooney and Martial.\n\nWith Mourinho in fired-up and combative mood, it was almost inevitable he would clash with his equally passionate and animated Stamford Bridge successor.\n\nThe flashpoint came seconds after Herrera's sending-off. Mourinho, still simmering, felt Alonso had dived, the Portuguese exploding in fury - soon to be joined by Conte in a head-to-head bout of bad blood that ended with the pair being separated and, in boxing parlance, being sent to their corners by fourth official Mike Jones.\n\nIt was a feud that bubbled throughout, with Conte reacting angrily in the second half when Mourinho kicked the ball along the touchline too close to the Chelsea manager for his liking.\n\nThe players seemed to take a cue from their managers through a series of tetchy clashes, one of which could lead to further action against United defender Marcos Rojo for an apparent stamp on Hazard.\n\nMourinho certainly did not feel the love on his return to the place where he enjoyed so much success, responding to four-letter abuse from Chelsea's fans behind his technical area by raising three fingers to signify the Premier League titles he won at Stamford Bridge.\n\nThe Portuguese was also taunted with chants of \"Judas\" - even though he was sacked by Chelsea a year last December.\n\nHe will feel a sense of injustice at Herrera's red card and frustration at Ibrahimovic's suspension - but the unpalatable truth for Mourinho is the team he left behind is currently far superior to the one he now guides.\n\nIn the absence of Ibrahimovic, this was a night when United needed £89m world-record buy Paul Pogba to step forward and prove his worth. Instead he did a disappearing act.\n\nThe contrast between the influence of Pogba, on the periphery of the action and conceding possession with alarming regularity, and Chelsea's own summer purchase Kante was stark.\n\nKante was perpetual motion, starting attacks, breaking up moves and crowning another magnificent performance with the winning goal, emphatically drilled past De Gea.\n\nPogba simply could not get into the game, either before Chelsea took the lead or afterwards when Mourinho looked to his showpiece summer capture, the signing he set his heart on, to revive United's hopes.\n\nChelsea's fans revelled in Pogba's struggles as they chanted \"what a waste of money\" - no such charges will be levelled at Kante, who looks a £30m bargain.\n\nChelsea remained on course for that domestic Double, a feat they achieved under Conte's countryman Carlo Ancelotti in 2010.\n\nAnd this was a victory for quality, persistence and character, albeit aided by Herrera's silly foul on Hazard that drew the second yellow card from referee Michael Oliver and left Chelsea with the numerical advantage.\n\nChelsea already look like Premier League champions-elect, standing 10 points clear, and their confidence gives them an air of invincibility.\n\nConte's side are at Wembley in the FA Cup semi-final - and it will take a special performance from any opponent to stop the bandwagon.\n\n'We can compare the yellow cards with others not given'\n\nChelsea manager Antonio Conte: \"It was a good performance against a strong team with good players. United has the best squad in the league. We must be pleased to go into the next round.\"\n\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho: \"I don't speak [about the red card]. I just want to say that I'm really proud of my players and Manchester United fans.\n\n\"Everybody can analyse from different perspectives but we all watch the match until the red card and after the red card. So we can compare the decisions of the two yellow cards, in this case with others which were not given.\n\n\"I don't want to go in that direction. Michael Oliver is a referee with fantastic potential but in four matches he has given three penalties and a red card. I cannot change that. I shook his hand and said many congratulations.\"\n\nUnited's worst possession stats of season - the figures you need to know\n• None Chelsea are now unbeaten in 12 games against United in all competitions (W7 D5) since a 3-2 home defeat in October 2012.\n• None Indeed, only twice in their history have United had a longer winless run against one opponent (13 vs Liverpool in 1927 and 13 against Leeds in 1972).\n• None The Blues' victory means there are three London teams in the FA Cup semi-finals for the first time since 2002 (Arsenal, Chelsea and Fulham).\n• None Mourinho's side received their third red card of the season, with two of those shown to Herrera.\n• None All three of Kante's goals in English football have been scored at home, with two in games against United this season.\n• None United had just 28% possession, their lowest figure in a match this season.\n• None Chelsea have reached their 22nd FA Cup semi-final, the fifth highest in the competition's history (Arsenal 29, Man Utd 28, Everton 26, Liverpool 24).\n\nLeaders Chelsea travel to Stoke for a Premier League game on Saturday. United, meanwhile, host FC Rostov in the second leg of their Europa League tie on Thursday before visiting Middlesbrough in the Premier League on Sunday.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Eden Hazard.\n• None Attempt saved. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Diego Costa.\n• None Substitution, Chelsea. Kurt Zouma replaces Victor Moses because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Victor Moses (Chelsea) because of an injury.\n• None Diego Costa (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jesse Lingard. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEmre Can's fourth goal of the season ended Burnley's stubborn resistance as Liverpool claimed an unconvincing win to strengthen their bid for a top-four finish.\n\nThe Reds were far from their best and fell behind when Ashley Barnes turned home Matthew Lowton's brilliant defence-splitting pass.\n\nLiverpool equalised on the stroke of half-time with their first shot on target when Georginio Wijnaldum poked in at the second attempt.\n\nCan then secured a second-successive victory for Liverpool with a long-range effort into the bottom corner.\n\nBurnley threatened to snatch an equaliser late on but Lowton hooked over from close range.\n\nIt was a game of few memorable moments but the win means Jurgen Klopp's side, who remain fourth, are now five points clear of fifth-placed Arsenal.\n\nBurnley, who are yet to win a game away from home in any competition this season, are 12th.\n\nLiverpool beat Arsenal 3-1 earlier this month to continue their impressive form against their top-six rivals - they are yet to lose to any of them this season.\n\nBut as impressive as the Reds have been against those teams around them, they have struggled against sides lower down the table, with all five of their defeats prior to Sunday's game against sides in the bottom half.\n\nBurnley beat Liverpool at Turf Moor back in August and initially had the measure of their opponents in this encounter, although they were aided by a lethargic display by the hosts.\n\nLiverpool did not create a single chance in the opening 30 minutes but their first shot on target resulted in the equaliser and their second produced the winner.\n\nIt was ultimately a clinical display by Liverpool but too many players had off days. They needed Philippe Coutinho to be at his creative best to unlock a disciplined Burnley but the midfielder rarely made a telling pass while in attack Divock Origi failed to manage a single shot on goal.\n\nThe win may not have been pretty but that is something Liverpool have struggled to do this season and Klopp believes a corner may have been turned.\n\n\"It's the first ugly game we've won,\" he said.\n\n\"In the end I liked it - this is the kind of game we haven't won and we did.\"\n\nWill Burnley ever win away?\n\nFor 44 minutes, it was the perfect away performance for Burnley.\n\nThey got an early goal and then successfully nullified Liverpool to the point that a frustrated home crowd started to turn against their side.\n\nBut a one-goal lead meant they were always susceptible to getting caught out and the Clarets need to learn to kill off a game - only once have they scored more than one goal in an away game this season.\n\nBurnley's home form is likely to ensure they are in the Premier League next season - they are seven points above the relegation zone with 10 games remaining.\n\nHowever, a return of just two points from a possible 42 on the road this season will be of major concern for manager Sean Dyche.\n\nWhat they said\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: \"Burnley were always in the game, it was intense and we had to fight. We had some moments, it was not only luck that we scored before half-time and it was a wonderful goal from Emre Can.\n\n\"It is clear we have to do a few things better. We were not at our absolute best but we fought. I liked it, it is this kind of game we haven't won until now. It feels kind of strange a little bit. Not the most memorable game but a very nice three points.\"\n\nBurnley manager Sean Dyche: \"It's a tough one to take, because everyone gave a really good account of ourselves and went up with a sublime goal, but it's a tough place to come.\n\n\"Their first was a soft one to concede before half-time, and the second one we're disappointed with but we gave a really good account of ourselves. We just needed a scratch of luck along the way.\"\n• None Liverpool have now won 16 Premier League games this season; equalling their tally of wins for the entire 2015-16 season.\n• None Liverpool have won 14 points from losing positions in the league this term; a joint-high with Tottenham.\n• None Ashley Barnes (10) is now just one goal short of tying with Danny Ings (11) for the most Premier League goals for Burnley.\n• None Liverpool conceded inside the first 10 minutes of a league game at Anfield for the first time since August 2015 (v West Ham, Manuel Lanzini).\n• None All 16 of Georginio Wijnaldum's Premier League goals have been scored in home matches (five for Liverpool, 11 for Newcastle).\n• None Since Jurgen Klopp's first game in charge, the Reds have scored more Premier League goals from outside the box than any other team (21).\n\nIt's a big game for Liverpool in the battle for a top-four finish as they travel to Manchester City on Sunday, 19 March (16:30 GMT). Burnley head to struggling Sunderland the day before (15:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Ben Woodburn (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucas Leiva.\n• None Attempt missed. Matthew Lowton (Burnley) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Michael Keane with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt saved. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Emre Can with a through ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ben Woodburn (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Robbie Brady (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Gutenberg printing press - invented in the 1440s by Johannes Gutenberg, a goldsmith from Mainz in Germany - is widely considered to be one of humanity's defining inventions.\n\nGutenberg figured out how to make large quantities of durable metal type and how to fix that type firmly enough to print hundreds of copies of a page, yet flexibly enough that the type could be reused to print an entirely different page.\n\nHis famous bibles were objects beautiful enough to rival the calligraphy of the monks. The crisp black Latin script is perfectly composed into two dense blocks of text, occasionally highlighted with a flourish of red ink.\n\nActually, you can quibble with Gutenberg's place in history. The movable type press was originally developed in China. Even as Gutenberg was inventing in Germany, Koreans were ditching their entire method of writing to make printing easier, cutting tens of thousands of characters down to only 28.\n\nIt is also not true that Gutenberg single-handedly created mass literacy. It was common 600 or 700 years earlier in the Abbasid Caliphate, spanning the Middle East and North Africa.\n\nStill, the Gutenberg press did change the world. It led to Europe's reformation, science, the newspaper, the novel, the school textbook, and much else.\n\nBut it could not have done so without another invention, just as essential but much more often overlooked: paper.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world we live in.\n\nPaper was another Chinese idea, from 2,000 years ago.\n\nInitially it was used for wrapping precious objects, but soon people began to write on it because it was lighter than bamboo and cheaper than silk.\n\nThis Chinese worker makes paper using techniques devised almost 2,000 years ago\n\nSoon the Arabic world embraced it, but Christians in Europe did not. Paper came to Germany only a few decades before Gutenberg's press.\n\nWhy? For centuries, Europeans did not need the stuff.\n\nThey had parchment, made from animal skin. It was pricey - a parchment bible required the skins of 250 sheep - but since so few people could read or write, that hardly mattered.\n\nBut as a commercial class arose, needing contracts and accounts, cheaper writing material looked more attractive.\n\nAnd cheap paper made the economics of printing more attractive too: the cost of typesetting could easily be offset by a long print run, with no need to slaughter a million sheep.\n\nPrinting is only the start of paper's uses. We decorate our walls with wallpaper, posters and photographs, we filter tea and coffee through it, package milk and juice in it and as corrugated cardboard, we use it to make boxes.\n\nWe use wrapping paper, greaseproof paper, sandpaper, paper napkins, paper receipts and paper tickets.\n\nIn the 1870s - the same decade that produced the telephone and the light bulb - the British Perforated Paper Company produced a kind of paper that was soft, strong, and absorbent. It was the world's first dedicated toilet paper.\n\nIn fact, paper is the quintessential industrial product, churned out at incredible scale and when Christian Europeans finally embraced paper, they created arguably the continent's first heavy industry.\n\nInitially, paper was made from pulped cotton. Some kind of chemical was required to break down the raw material. The ammonia from urine works well, so for centuries the paper mills of Europe were powered by human waste.\n\nPulping also needs a tremendous amount of mechanical energy. One of the early sites of paper manufacture, Fabriano in Italy, used fast-flowing mountain streams to power massive drop-hammers.\n\nOnce finely macerated, the cellulose from the cotton breaks free and floats around in a kind of thick soup. Thinned and allowed to dry, the cellulose reforms as a strong, flexible mat.\n\nOver time, the process saw endless innovation: threshing machines, bleaches and additives helped to make paper more quickly and cheaply, even if the result was often a more fragile product.\n\nBy 1702, paper was so cheap, it was used to make a product explicitly designed to be thrown away after only 24 hours: the Daily Courant, the world's first daily newspaper.\n\nWhen it began, The Daily Courant only covered foreign news\n\nAnd then, an almost inevitable industrial crisis: Europe and America became so hungry for paper that they began to run out of rags.\n\nThe situation became so desperate that scavengers combed battlefields after wars, stripping the dead of their bloodstained uniforms to sell to paper mills. An alternative source of cellulose was found - wood.\n\nThe Chinese had long since known how to do it, but Europeans were slow to catch up.\n\nIn 1719, a French biologist, Rene Antoine Ferchault De Reaumur, wrote a scientific paper pointing out that wasps could make paper nests by chewing wood, so why couldn't humans?\n\nWhen his idea was rediscovered years later, paper makers found that wood is not an easy raw material and contains much less cellulose than cotton rags.\n\nIt was the mid-19th century before wood became a significant source for paper production in the West.\n\nToday, paper is increasingly made out of paper itself, often recycled - appropriately enough - in China.\n\nA cardboard box emerges from the paper mills of Ningbo, 130 miles (200km) south of Shanghai, and is used to package a laptop.\n\nThe box is shipped across the Pacific, the laptop is extracted and the box is thrown into a recycling bin in Seattle or Vancouver. Then it's shipped back to Ningbo, to be pulped and turned into another box.\n\nWhen it comes to writing, though, some say paper's days are numbered, believing the computer will usher in the \"paperless office\". But this has been predicted since Thomas Edison, in the late 19th century, who thought office memos would be recorded on his wax cylinders instead.\n\nThe idea really caught on as computers started to enter the workplace in the 1970s and it was repeated in breathless futurologists' reports for the next decades.\n\nMeanwhile, paper sales stubbornly continued to boom. Yes, computers made it simple to distribute documents without paper, but printers made it equally easy for recipients to put them on paper anyway.\n\nAmerica's copiers, fax machines and printers continued to spew out enough sheets of paper to cover the country every five years. After a while, the paperless office became less a prediction, more a punchline.\n\nBut perhaps things are finally changing: in 2013, the world hit peak paper.\n\nMany of us may still prefer the feel of a book or a physical newspaper to swiping a screen, but the cost of digital distribution is now so much lower that we are increasingly choosing the cheaper option.\n\nFinally, digital is doing to paper what paper did to parchment with the help of the Gutenberg press: outcompeting it, not on quality, but on price.\n\nPaper may be on the decline, but it will survive not only on the supermarket shelf or beside the lavatory, but in the office too.\n\nOld technologies have a habit of enduring. We still use pencils and candles and the world still produces more bicycles than cars.\n\nPaper was never only a home for beautiful typesetting, it was everyday stuff. And for jottings, lists and doodles, you still can't beat the back of the envelope.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nIn-form Celtic midfielder Stuart Armstrong has been called up to the Scotland squad by Gordon Strachan.\n\nBournemouth's Ryan Fraser, fellow midfielder Tom Cairney of Fulham and West Brom winger Matt Phillips are also included.\n\nIt is a first call-up for Fraser and Cairney, with recalls for keeper Allan McGregor and striker Jordan Rhodes.\n\nScotland host Canada in a friendly on 22 March, then Slovenia in a World Cup qualifier on 26 March.\n\nCeltic midfielder captain Scott Brown, who reversed his decision to retire from international football last year, is also included.\n\nThere is no place in the squad for the likes of Graeme Shinnie and Kenny McLean of Aberdeen, who had been strongly tipped to make the cut.\n\nArmstrong, capped 20 times by the Under-21s, has scored 11 times for Celtic this season, eight times since the start of December.\n\nFraser, 23, has been in excellent form for Bournemouth in recent months and Cairney, 26, has impressed for Championship side Fulham.\n\nAnd boss Strachan believes the trio will add \"freshness\" to the squad.\n\n\"Up until four or five months ago, they (Stuart and Tom) played wider and I always thought both would be better central,\" he said.\n\n\"Since then, they have moved to central positions and similar positions and done very well.\n\n\"I saw both players over the weekend. Stuart scored his goal yesterday, he had five shots, five on target.\n\n\"He is now using his assets. He has great fitness. He plays players he is up against out the game. He is getting goals, so he is leaving a footprint.\n\n\"Tom Cairney was the best man on the pitch at St James' Park (a 3-1 win for Fulham), but that was no surprise - he has been the best man on the pitch on many occasions - and Ryan is doing very well at Bournemouth.\n\n\"He is keeping out some good players, some high-value players at Bournemouth with his ability and work rate and he played very well at the weekend.\"\n\nRhodes had been left out of recent squads after failing to command a starting place at Middlesbrough but is now playing regularly on loan with Sheffield Wednesday.\n\n\"Jordan's playing and he scored a couple of goals the other week there - one was a great cross from Barry Bannan,\" said Strachan.\n\n\"There's an opportunity for Jordan to be in the squad because, at the moment, if you look at our strikers, there's quite a few of them not really playing regularly, but Jordan's played the last five or six games and looked comfortable in his new surroundings.\"\n\nForwards: S Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday), Griffiths (Celtic), Naismith (Norwich City), C Martin (Fulham, on loan from Derby County), Rhodes (Sheffield Wednesday, on loan from Middlesbrough)", "Last updated on .From the section Ice hockey\n\nTwo Norwegian teams have contested what is thought to be the longest game in ice hockey history - spanning eight and a half hours, with eight overtimes.\n\nThe Storhamar Dragons finally beat Sparta Warriors in the Norwegian League play-offs at 02:32 local time.\n\nAfter 217 minutes and 14 seconds of play, Joakim Jensen broke through to give the Dragons a 2-1 victory.\n\nIn the longest NHL game, the Detroit Red Wings beat the Montreal Maroons in the sixth overtime in 1936.\n\nBaseball's famous \"Longest Game\" between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox lasted a record 33 innings and took more than eight hours over two different days to complete in 1981.\n\nThe longest NBA game was in January 1951 when the Indianapolis Olympians beat hosts Rochester Royals after six overtime sessions.\n\nAnd the longest top-level tennis match took place at Wimbledon in 2010 when John Isner beat Nicolas Mahut 70-68 in the final set of a contest lasting 11 hours, five minutes over three days.\n\nIsner tweeted Mahut when he saw the Norwegian ice hockey story, quipping that it was nothing compared with their meeting.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritish number one Johanna Konta is out of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells with a 3-6 6-3 7-6 (7-1) third-round defeat by France's Caroline Garcia.\n\nMeanwhile British number three Kyle Edmund lost to defending champion Novak Djokovic 6-4 7-6 (7-5) in round two.\n\nIt ends British interest in the singles after Andy Murray and Dan Evans lost.\n\nKonta, seeded 11th, broke Garcia in the fourth game but the 21st seed levelled the match and dominated the third-set tie-break, winning it 7-1.\n\nGarcia, who was once described by Murray as a future world number one, showed impressive resilience to recover from a set down against Konta and sealed her win and a place in the last 16 with a powerful cross-court backhand.\n\n\"There were a number of shots that let me down. Quite honestly, I don't know why, but I'm keen on improving and doing better next time,\" said Konta.\n\n\"I didn't do enough with the opportunities that I did get. Some of the break points, she served well, and others, I wasn't brave enough. I don't think I did enough to really take them. I was a little too passive in parts.\"\n\nEdmund lost the first set in 42 minutes against Serb Djokovic but won the first three games of the second and served for the set at 5-3, before the five-time champion fought back to seal the match.\n\n\"I think I played very well in the first set,\" said Djokovic. \"Second set was obviously up and down. But credit to Kyle for playing some really aggressive tennis.\n\n\"He made a lot of winners in the beginning and midway through the second.\"\n\nThe world number two will play former US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina in the third round.\n\nAustralian Open champion Roger Federer needed only 52 minutes to reach round three with a comfortable 6-2 6-1 win against France's Stephane Robert.\n\nWorld number six Rafael Nadal secured a third-round tie against fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco with a 6-3 6-2 victory over Guido Pella of Argentina in one hour 20 minutes.\n\nKonta played without her usual fluency and, although she served better in the final set, she could not take any of the three break points and was outplayed emphatically by Garcia in the tie-break.\n\nThe best part of four weeks off tour resting a foot injury may explain some of the rustiness, and - like Andy Murray - Konta now has virtually two weeks of practice stretching ahead of her before she plays her first singles match in Miami.", "N'Golo Kante scores the only goal of the game as Chelsea defeat 10-man Manchester United to progress to the FA Cup semi-finals.\n\nWatch all the best action from the FA Cup here.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Derby\n\nGary Rowett has been appointed as Derby County manager until the end of the 2018-19 season.\n\nDerby, 10th in the Championship, sacked Steve McClaren on Sunday, five months into his second spell in charge.\n\nRowett is the Rams' fifth manager in 13 months following Paul Clement, Darren Wassall, Nigel Pearson and McClaren.\n\nRowett, who was sacked by Birmingham in December, made 120 outings for the Rams from 1995 to 1998, admitting that he has a \"special bond\" with the club.\n\n\"During that time,\" he said, \"we tasted success when we were promoted to the Premiership (1995-96) and moved to Pride Park under Jim Smith.\n\n\"Living in the local area, I understand the expectation of the fan base and it goes without saying that Derby County have fantastic and committed supporters.\n\n\"I have coached in the academy in the past so I know the values of the club and I am looking forward to sharing my experience and knowledge of the league with the staff and players.\"\n\nThe ex-Burton Albion manager was also linked with the vacant Norwich job and also held talks with Rangers.\n\nHe has brought in Kevin Summerfield as assistant manager, Mark Sale as first-team coach, Kevin Poole as goalkeeping coach and Joe Carnall as head of performance analysis.\n\nCurrent first-team coach Kevin Phillips will continue as part of the set-up but Pascal Zuberbuhler has left his role as goalkeeping coach.\n\n\"Gary is being tasked with, and has the full responsibility for, leading our redevelopment programme,\" said Derby chairman Mel Morris.\n\n\"He is an exemplar of the qualities and values we want in our team and has clearly demonstrated his abilities to get that from his players too.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSon Heung-min scored a hat-trick as Tottenham Hotspur reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup with an easy win over League One Millwall but lost striker Harry Kane with an ankle injury.\n\nEngland striker Kane was replaced after being hurt when Lions defender Jake Cooper tried to block his shot after seven minutes.\n\nChristian Eriksen, Kane's replacement, opened the scoring with a finish into the bottom corner after Dele Alli's chest down before Son scored either side of half-time.\n\nAlli tapped home the fourth with substitute Vincent Janssen adding the fifth - his first from open play for Spurs - before Son completed his hat-trick with virtually the last kick of the game after a mistake by keeper Tom King.\n\nSpurs join Premier League rivals Manchester City and Arsenal in the semi-final draw, which takes place at Stamford Bridge on Monday after the final quarter-final between Chelsea and holders Manchester United.\n\nWhether Kane will be back in time for the semi-final on the weekend of 22-23 April remains to be seen.\n\nBut the sight of the Premier League's joint leading scorer disappearing down the tunnel in pain is a huge blow for boss Mauricio Pochettino.\n\nThere was no blame attached to Cooper as Kane fell awkwardly inside the Millwall penalty area with the game goalless.\n\nPochettino opted for Eriksen instead of Janssen - the only striker on the bench - as Kane's replacement and the Dane broke Millwall's resolve with a first-time strike into the far corner after 31 minutes.\n\nSon added the second shortly before the interval, the South Korea international cutting in from the right to score soon after Victor Wanyama had headed against the bar.\n\nKieran Trippier's excellent pass was volleyed home by Son to make it 3-0 before Alli tapped home after Eriksen's pass.\n\nOne of the biggest cheers of the game greeted Janssen's goal, a first-time shot inside the area after another assist by Son, before the latter completed his hat-trick after a terrible fumble by King.\n\nSpurs will be hoping for a change of fortune at Wembley as they look to win a major trophy for the first time since 2008 when they won the League Cup.\n\nThey have lost their last six FA Cup semi-finals - against Arsenal (1993, 2001), Everton (1995), Newcastle (1999), Portsmouth (2010) and Chelsea (2012).\n\nThey will also have to overcome their poor record at Wembley, scene of this season's failed Champions League and Europa League campaigns.\n\nSpurs lost to Monaco and Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League at the national stadium before going out of the Europa League after drawing 2-2 with Gent at Wembley having lost the first leg 1-0.\n\n\"It is another opportunity to make Wembley home,\" said Pochettino, whose side is set to play their home games at Wembley next season while work continues on their new ground.\n\n\"It will be different, it is the FA Cup semi-final, but it is a good thing for us because we are thinking next season to maybe play all our games at Wembley.\"\n\nThis was a hard lesson for Millwall as Spurs cruised to victory in their final FA Cup tie at the ground that has been their home for the past 118 years.\n\nThey had been seeking a fourth Premier League scalp in this season's competition having beaten Bournemouth, Watford and Leicester.\n\nSteve Morison went close from 25 yards when the tie was goalless but Millwall never recovered once they fell behind.\n\nKing will have nightmares about Son's hat-trick goal - the ball somehow squirming under his body.\n\nDespite this result, Millwall's season is far from over.\n\nNeil Harris' side are six points off automatic promotion in League One and the Lions boss will be hoping his players can put this heavy defeat behind them as they look to secure a place in the Championship.\n\n'We lost our way'\n\nTottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino: \"The performance was fantastic. It was very important for us to play well and score goals, so we are very pleased.\n\n\"A hat-trick from Son and Janssen scored....the team was good. We need to congratulate them, they were waiting for the opportunity and they took it and stepped up.\n\n\"In football you always need to be ready. Not only him [Janssen] but different players too will have the opportunity to play more and they need to be ready.\"\n\nMillwall boss Neil Harris: \"It was disappointing to concede the goals we did. I thought we lost our way in the last 20 minutes but there is no getting away from what a good team Tottenham are.\n\n\"We are disappointed because we have been beaten 6-0 at Spurs. This is the quality you are playing against. If we can use this experience then the standards are there that we need to set, individually and collectively.\"\n\n'Six of the best' - the stats\n• None Spurs have won an FA Cup game by a six-goal margin for the first time since January 1973 (v Margate).\n• None This was Millwall's first defeat in 18 matches in all competitions.\n• None Dele Alli has scored in three consecutive appearances at White Hart Lane for the first time.\n• None Son Heung-min is Tottenham's leading scorer in the FA Cup this season with six goals in four appearances.\n• None Christian Eriksen has scored nine goals in all competitions this season, surpassing his tally from 2015/16 (8).\n\nPochettino's former club Southampton visit White Hart Lane in the Premier League next Sunday, 19 March (14:15 GMT). Millwall resume their League One promotion push at home to Bury next Saturday, 18 March (15:00 GMT)\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 6, Millwall 0. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a cross following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Winks (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Moussa Sissoko.\n• None Attempt blocked. Moussa Sissoko (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Christian Eriksen.\n• None Attempt blocked. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kieran Trippier.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Winks (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Son Heung-Min following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Son Heung-Min.\n• None Attempt saved. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jan Vertonghen.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 5, Millwall 0. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Son Heung-Min.\n• None Attempt missed. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ben Davies. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSteve McClaren has been sacked as Derby County manager for a second time, five months after he was reappointed.\n\nDerby, 10th in the Championship, said they acted following a \"significant, unexpected and persistent decline in results, team unity and morale\".\n\nRams chairman Mel Morris said: \"We need a manager who shares our values and who is prepared to develop the team.\"\n\nThe club said they expect to make an announcement in relation to McClaren's successor \"in the next few days\".\n\nAssistant manager Chris Powell and technical director Chris Evans have also left.\n\nFormer England boss McClaren, 55, was reappointed by Derby in October 2016, 17 months after he was sacked.\n\nHe returned to replace Nigel Pearson, who left by mutual consent after less than five months.\n\nDerby lost 3-0 away to second-placed Brighton on Friday and are 10 points off the play-off places.\n\n\"The Brighton game was so far from what we expect to see from those wearing a Derby County shirt,\" added Morris.\n\n\"To ensure we are on the right path, it is important to put the building blocks in place so we can develop a team we can all be proud of.\"\n\nMcClaren was in charge for 26 Championship games during his second spell at Derby, winning 12 and losing eight.\n\nDerby have won just one of the past nine league games.\n\nThey first appointed McClaren in September 2013 on a two-and-a-half-year deal after sacking Nigel Clough.\n\nHis contract was terminated in May 2015 following \"a thorough review of the 2014-15 season\".\n\nIn between his spells at Derby, McClaren managed Newcastle between June 2015 and March 2016, when he was sacked.\n\nSo the Derby players escape responsibility while the manager who has been at the club five months carries the can.\n\nSteve McClaren had an immediate effect last autumn, taking the club out of the bottom four and impressing with his acknowledged coaching skill, but the players shrivelled in the face of promotion expectations.\n\nMcClaren had set in place a major overhaul of the dressing room this summer, aware that he had been undermined by some malcontents speaking to club owner Mel Morris, a micro-manager who demands success and is not known for his patience - four managers in just over a year testify to that.\n\nBut it is his club, his £100m-plus investment, and he will run it his way.", "In towns and cities across the world, the colour of night is changing. Traditional yellow sodium street lights are steadily being replaced by white LED lamps. The new lights use less energy, dramatically cutting carbon emissions and saving money. But not everybody is happy.\n\n\"When the leaves left the trees and I tried to sleep, I turned to one side and the light's shining right in my eyes.\"\n\nLike most of us, Karen Snyder had never really paid much attention to street lights. But that all changed last year when the city council began installing LED lights outside her home in a quiet corner of Washington DC.\n\nIn addition to the light shining into her bedroom, the 63-year-old teacher's guest room, where she watches TV, is now bathed in something akin to strong moonlight.\n\n\"It's like there's a ray coming in. Like a blue ray. Right directly on to the couch. If you are sitting down, the moon would be above the house and you'd get the beautiful feel of the moon. This is shining right in your eyes so it's pretty different than a moon. Moons don't go this low into the windows.\"\n\nAn LED light (left) shines directly into Snyder's guest room, while a sodium light glows on the other side of the house\n\nHer friend, Delores Bushong, says her sleep has also been disturbed by the LED street lights outside her home, and is now one of the main opponents of the new lighting in the city. She fears they will ruin the atmosphere on her back porch, where she likes to relax after dark in a hammock in the sweltering summer months.\n\n\"In some kinds of torture they put a light on someone's face all the time,\" she says. \"Am I going to be subjected to a kind of torture forever? It doesn't make sense to me. Just because we have a new technology and you can save money.\"\n\nBushong has become well-versed in the jargon of colour temperature (measured in degrees Kelvin) and light intensity (measured in Lumens), as she battles to get the city to take her concerns seriously. At the very least, she wants the 4,000-Kelvin bulbs in her neighbourhood, which she compares to the harsh lighting in a prison yard, to be replaced by bulbs with lower Kelvin ratings, closer in look and feel to the old high-pressure sodium bulbs.\n\nThe city insists it is listening to her campaign group's concerns but there is no turning back the march of the LEDs.\n\n\"There are many reasons why cities are switching to LED lights,\" says Seth Miller Gabriel, the director of Washington DC's Office of Public Private Partnerships.\n\n\"One, not be looked over, is cost - 50% or more over the life cycle of this new light. The lights last a lot longer. So we save electricity, by at least 50%, we save on the maintenance costs and we get a better lighting solution.\"\n\nThen there are the environmental benefits: \"We estimate that in the District of Columbia by switching our 71,000 street lights over to LEDs we can save upwards of 30 million pounds (13,600 tonnes) of coal a year, in electricity we won't be using for the lights,\" he says.\n\nMiller Gabriel argues that many city-dwellers are blundering around in neighbourhoods that have never been properly lit, allowing crime to fester in the shadows. He dreams of a world where every street light is an LED. He may live long enough to see that happen.\n\nAbout 10% of America's street lights have so far been converted, but the Department of Energy has estimated that if the whole country switched to LEDs over the next two decades it would save $120bn over that 20-year period.\n\nCities across Europe and the Asia Pacific region are going down the LED route and, in China, the central planning agency is in the middle of a conversion programme it expects will cut annual carbon emissions by 48 million tonnes.\n\nAgainst these sort of statistics, those campaigning against LEDs can sound like Luddites, railing against scientific progress, but they insist they have a strong case.\n\nThey point to a recent report by the American Medical Association (AMA), which warns that the blue light emitted by first generation high-intensity LEDs, used in many cities around the world including New York, can adversely affect circadian sleep rhythms, leading to reduced duration and quality of sleep, \"impaired daytime functioning\" and obesity.\n\nThe AMA report calls on cities to use the lowest-intensity LEDs possible and shade them better to reduce glare, which it warns can also harm wildlife.\n\nSeth Miller Gabriel says the report does not contain original research and is \"more of a literature review of what's been published elsewhere\".\n\n\"We would really like to see more concrete evidence of what's going on with these lights,\" he says. \"If it's really a problem, based on a particular intensity of lights, we want to know that. That AMA report really didn't give us the kind of hard data we would need [on which] to base a large scale procurement.\"\n\nHe is overseeing the tendering process for the next phase of Washington's LED conversion which he promises will be done in a more sensitive way, with lower Kelvin ratings, better shading and remote controls, so that lights can be dimmed or increased in intensity at different times to suit the needs of particular neighbourhoods.\n\nBut he adds: \"Let's be honest, humans are not engineered for change. So when we come home and see a different light. Even if it's a much better light, there's going to be a reaction - 'Oh my goodness, it's a different light, what happened?'\"\n\nIt is true that many of the same arguments being made against LED lights were heard in the early 1970s, when cities were converting to the yellow sodium lights we are so familiar with today.\n\nThere was no LED lighting in Edward Hopper's day\n\nHigh-pressure sodium bulbs used less energy than the mercury vapour bulbs they replaced. But some campaigners, most notably a Vancouver-based artist called Ralf Kelman, argued at the time that their \"antiseptic orange\" glow was too bright and would damage growth in young trees, as well as blocking out the stars in the night sky.\n\nThe light pollution argument has also been used against LEDs, although some researchers say that properly directed, they could dramatically improve the visibility of stars.\n\nBut, for some people, the debate goes beyond dry arguments about Kelvin ratings, light pollution and carbon emissions and touches on questions about the quality of life city-dwellers should expect.\n\n\"When the lighting is right you have a sense of peace and contemplation, of aesthetic joy in the world,\" says novelist Lionel Shriver, who is campaigning against LEDs in the South Brooklyn neighbourhood where she spends part of the year.\n\n\"I am not someone who believes she can stand in the way of the march of the LEDs. The savings in energy are too great. The savings in money are too great. And if we just say 'but it's not pretty' that's not going to stop these things.\n\n\"The truth is that the technology of LEDs has advanced fantastically so that it is no longer necessary to make a stark choice between economy and the environment and aesthetics. You can have both.\n\n\"What is going on in some cities, in New York especially, that is what I am most familiar with, amounts to a kind of widespread civic vandalism.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLondon rivals Chelsea and Tottenham have been drawn against each other in the FA Cup semi-finals.\n\nArsenal, who will play in a record 29th FA Cup semi-final, face Manchester City in the other last-four tie.\n\nBoth semi-finals will be played at Wembley on the weekend of 22 and 23 April.\n\nChelsea knocked out holders Manchester United in a hard-fought 1-0 win on Monday, with Spurs thrashing League One side Millwall on Sunday.\n\nArsenal, who lifted the trophy in 2014 and 2015, proved too good for non-league Lincoln City in a 5-0 home win on Saturday.\n\nManchester City are playing in the semi-finals for the first time in four seasons after beating Middlesbrough in a 2-0 away win.\n\nFollow all the reaction to the semi-final draw\n\n\"Tottenham have given Chelsea problems this season and it is a London derby too so gives it an edge,\" said former Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard, speaking as a BBC Match of the Day pundit after the Blues' quarter-final win.\n\n\"They are two very form teams but I think Chelsea are slight favourites as it stands.\"\n\nFormer England striker Alan Shearer added: \"When the big boys joined in the FA Cup it got off to a slow start with teams resting players.\n\n\"But now there are four big hitters left and they are two semi-finals to look forward to.\"", "Questions remain about Liverpool's performances against lesser teams despite Sunday's win over Burnley, but I could tell from talking to Jurgen Klopp how important the result was to him.\n\nI was at Anfield for Match of the Day 2 and the Reds manager came to speak to us on the show after the game.\n\nHe called it an \"ugly win\". He was exactly right and he was also correct that it was a very good sign.\n\nI could tell from Klopp's entire demeanour that he saw it as a massive result in his side's season, and it was fascinating to talk to him about how he thought his side played.\n\nWhen he answers your questions, he gives you everything. He kind of looks at you as if to say 'well you have watched the game anyway, so I am not going to come out with any rubbish'.\n\nI think that is why football fans like to listen to him - I do. He does not just talk openly, he is convincing when he explains things too.\n\n'Liverpool unhinged and could not impose themselves'\n\nI said before Sunday's game that I thought it held huge significance for Liverpool's bid to finish in the top four, even more so than last week's win over Arsenal.\n\nKlopp's side started 2017 so badly and suffered some poor defeats against teams from the bottom half of the table. It was vital that did not happen again.\n\nGoing back further, we saw in August when the Reds lost at Turf Moor how they struggle to break down teams even when they dominate possession.\n\nI was expecting this game to follow a similar pattern, but Burnley did far more than just defend in numbers.\n\nThis game was completely different to what happened at Turf Moor because this time Burnley caused Liverpool lots of problems too, especially in the first half and not just on the break.\n\nWhen the Clarets were on the ball they looked more dangerous and that was in terms of territory, because they saw more of the ball than Liverpool in the right areas.\n\nIt looked like they targeted the little corridor between Liverpool's left-sided centre-half Ragnar Klavan and their left-back James Milner, and it seriously worked.\n\nIt unhinged Liverpool for the first 20 to 25 minutes and, even after that, the Reds did not impose themselves on the game or get their short passing going.\n\nBurnley were playing with two centre-forwards to stop Liverpool building from the back. It meant they were playing more long balls instead, and Michael Keane and Ben Mee can deal with those all day.\n\nThe home crowd were getting frustrated because Burnley's gameplan was working. When Georginio Wijnaldum equalised in first-half injury-time, it was with Liverpool's first shot on target.\n\nThere was no dramatic difference in Liverpool's play in the second half either - yes, they were better, but that wasn't difficult.\n\nAny improvement was minimal - they just found a way to pinch the win despite a poor performance. They had to, really.\n\nDivock Origi started up front, which is his best position, but he had a bad day and Klopp did not have many attacking alternatives on the bench - just youngsters in Ben Woodburn and Harry Wilson.\n\nKlopp gets criticised for not having a 'Plan B' but part of that is down to a lack of options. At 1-1 he brought on Woodburn for Philippe Coutinho, which shows he is not afraid to change things if they are not working.\n\nCoutinho is Liverpool's best player when he is on form but he was another one having an off day so Klopp gave a kid a chance.\n\nThat shows how limited Liverpool's squad is, when you compare it to the rest of the top six. On Wednesday night, for example, Manchester City brought on David Silva in the second half to try to change the game in their draw against Stoke.\n\nYes, Emre Can scored from long range seconds after Woodburn came on but that does not hide the fact that the Liverpool bench on Sunday was short of the experience they need.\n\n'This can be a launchpad for the rest of Liverpool's season'\n\nBeforehand I saw this game as the launchpad for the rest of Liverpool's season. The result still means it might be.\n\nThat is the big positive, but the worry would be that they have still not shown that they are capable of rolling any of the lower teams over.\n\nTheir next game, away at Manchester City next Sunday, is obviously important as well.\n\nBut it is against another top team, and we know what they are like against those sides - they have not lost against anyone else in the top six all season.", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nThe 2022 Commonwealth Games will no longer be held in Durban, South Africa.\n\nDavid Grevemberg, chief executive of the Commonwealth Games Federation, said the city did not meet the criteria set by his organisation, and the search for a new host city had already begun.\n\nDurban was awarded the Games in September 2015 and was due to be the first African city to host the event, which was first held in 1930.\n\nLiverpool and Birmingham have expressed interest in staging the 2022 edition.\n\nThe Commonwealth Games are held every four years and feature athletes from more than 50 countries, mostly former British colonies.\n\nLast month, South Africa's sports minister Fikile Mbalula indicated Durban may not be able to host the 2022 event because of financial constraints.\n\n\"We gave it our best shot but we can't go beyond. If the country says we don't have this money, we can't,\" he said.\n\nGrevemberg said: \"We are disappointed but it does not diminish our commitment to the African continent.\n\n\"We have had to postpone these ambitions to a later time. We all share disappointment that this ambition needs to be postponed right now.\n\n\"We remain committed to the inspiring potential of a Games in the continent.\"\n\nGrevemberg said the South African government had never signed off on the decision for Durban to host the Games.\n\n\"We have a host city contract,\" he said. \"It was signed by all parties on the day except for the South African government.\n\n\"We have engaged with the government to really try to work with their current circumstances but also uphold the commitments that were outlined in their bid. They were unable to do that at this time and we have had to look after the citizens and communities that our events serve.\"\n\nGrevemberg said an announcement on a new host city would be made by the end of the year.\n\n\"Discussions with a number of interested parties are under way,\" he said. \"I am confident an alternative host city will be found and that we will have an inspirational Games for the athletes and fans across the Commonwealth.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Liverpool City Council said: \"We had heard rumours that Durban might be unable to deliver the Commonwealth Games in 2022 and have already indicated to the government that we are very willing to host them instead.\"\n\nBirmingham had already expressed an interest in hosting the 2026 Games.\n\nCouncillor Ian Ward, deputy leader of the city council, said: \"We are aware of the decision from the Commonwealth Games Federation to seek a new host for the 2022 Games.\n\n\"Here in Birmingham we are already in the advanced stages of producing a detailed feasibility study on what would be needed for a truly memorable Games in the city.\n\n\"That is due to be completed in the coming weeks and we are in close contact with the government about the developing situation.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nZlatan Ibrahimovic has accepted a three-match ban for violent conduct for elbowing Bournemouth's Tyrone Mings during Saturday's 1-1 draw at Old Trafford.\n\nThe Manchester United striker will miss Monday's FA Cup quarter-final at Chelsea and Premier League games against Middlesbrough and West Brom.\n\nMings was also charged with violent conduct by the Football Association.\n\nBut Bournemouth have said they will appeal against the defender's charge.\n\nIbrahimovic, who is United's leading scorer this season with 26 goals, is eligible to play in the Europa League tie against Rostov in Russia on Thursday. He is due to return in the Premier League against Everton on 4 April.\n\nMings, 23, landed on the United forward's head with his studs before Ibrahimovic, 35, caught his rival in the face with his elbow at a corner.\n\nThe players were given until 18:00 GMT on Tuesday to respond to the charge.\n\nDeliberate elbowing and stamping are both red card offences. However, the FA suggested Mings could face an increased ban for his offence.\n\nAn FA statement said: \"The FA has submitted a claim that the standard punishment that would otherwise apply for the misconduct committed by the Bournemouth defender is 'clearly insufficient'.\"\n\n\"Off-the-ball incidents which are not seen at the time by the match officials are referred to a panel of three former elite referees.\n\n\"Each referee panel member will review the video footage independently of one another to determine whether they consider it a sending-off offence. For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.\"\n\nWhat they said\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after the match, both Mings and Ibrahimovic denied any intent in their actions.\n\nMings said: \"It was a good battle, you know exactly what you are going to get playing against him. There will be things highlighted more than others, but I enjoyed it.\"\n\nIbrahimovic said Mings had \"jumped into\" his elbow.\n\n\"In my situation, I jump up, I jump high,\" the Swede said. \"At the same time I protect myself and unlucky he jumps into me. Many times this occasion happens.\"\n\n44 mins: Mings slides into a tackle on Wayne Rooney, also taking out Ibrahimovic. The Bournemouth defender gets to his feet and then hurdles Ibrahimovic, landing on the Swede's head with his right boot.\n\n45 mins: United win a corner which is swung in to the far post where Ibrahimovic and Mings challenge for the high ball.\n\nIbrahimovic catches Mings with his right elbow after winning the header, the Bournemouth defender going down to the ground clutching his head.\n\nBournemouth skipper Andrew Surman pushes Ibrahimovic in the chest, earning a second yellow card from Friend.\n\n45+1 mins: The referee has a conversation with Ibrahimovic and United skipper Rooney, then sends off Surman before restarting play after a lengthy delay.", "Former football coach Barry Bennell has been charged with eight more counts of historical child sexual abuse.\n\nThe 63-year-old ex-youth coach at Crewe Alexandra faces allegations relating to two boys between 1980 and 1987.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said the charges followed an investigation by Cheshire Police.\n\nMr Bennell, who also had links to Manchester City and Stoke City, will appear at South Cheshire Magistrates' Court on 13 March.\n\nHe is accused of two counts of indecent assault on a boy aged under 14, indecent assault on a boy aged under 16, and five other offences.\n\nMr Bennell previously appeared in court in January charged with eight separate offences of sexual assault against a boy aged under 16, between 1981 and 1986.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty at Chester Crown Court and was remanded in custody until a further hearing on 20 March.", "Tarik Hassane: One of the most recent and dangerous plotters\n\nAssistant commissioner Mark Rowley, of the Metropolitan Police, the UK's most senior counter-terrorism police officer, has used a speech to make a renewed call for public help to counter threats.\n\nHe says there have been 13 disrupted terror plots since 2013.\n\nIt's a complex figure because there haven't been 13 specific trials before the courts in which individuals have been shown to be involved in attack planning. That doesn't, however, mean the figure is wrong - far from it.\n\nIt's all to do with the difference between criminal evidence, leading to a conviction, and secret intelligence that the police and others can use to stop something from happening.\n\nNadir Syed used encrypted online chats to share gory videos from so-called Islamic State\n\nThere are prosecutions where it's really obvious what has been going on, but every now and then I and colleagues see cases where there's a whiff of something spooky in the background that we can't get to the bottom of.\n\nThose cases are usually the ones where it starts to become clear that the security services thought they were on to something but the secret intelligence assessments - perhaps from a hacked device or credible informant - couldn't be supported in open court by evidence.\n\nSometimes the police intervene early in a case out of fear of losing track of a target. In these cases, the conviction on a lesser offence isn't regarded as a failure - it's still a \"disruption\" - and that's sometimes the most they can hope for.\n\nSo, in the absence of an official list, here are some of the cases that have most concerned the police in recent years:\n\nNadir Syed, 23, of west London, was convicted of preparing to carry out an attack in 2014 inspired by the self-styled Islamic State group, which evidence suggested would have targeted a poppy seller or someone else linked to Remembrance Sunday.\n\nThe same autumn saw the arrest of two students from west London who were later jailed for plotting to kill police or soldiers in a drive-by shooting using a moped.\n\nWe also saw the conviction of a delivery driver from Luton who planned to run over a member of the US military outside one of the two air bases used by its air force in Suffolk.\n\nBoy S, who cannot be identified, was sentenced to life in prison at Manchester Crown Court.\n\nOne of the most serious recent cases led to Britain's youngest ever convicted terrorist - \"Boy S\", from Blackburn. When aged 14, he had attempted to incite a man in Australia to kill soldiers.\n\nIn March 2015, a teenager who planned to behead a British soldier was jailed in a case that highlighted the speed of his radicalisation.\n\nOther less complex cases included a 19-year-old jailed for grooming a vulnerable young man to kill UK soldiers and a returnee from Syria whom the Crown Prosecution service said was \"preparing or planning an act of terrorism\".\n\nThree operations involved intelligence that indicated either substantial research and collection of materials required for bomb-making - or testing of a potential device.\n\nA further two were complex operations in which the suspects talked about high-profile targets.\n\nAnd all of these cases exclude the activity of members of Northern Ireland paramilitary groups - the threat from those individuals is officially classed as \"severe\".\n\nAnd, separately, there is increasing concern from police in some parts of the country about the rise of extreme far-right/neo-Nazi grooming for violence.", "Former heavyweight world champion David Haye has ruled out retiring from the sport and is targeting a rematch with Tony Bellew.\n\nHaye, 36, had surgery on an Achilles injury sustained in Saturday's 11th-round defeat by Bellew in London.\n\nHe suffered the injury in the sixth round of the fight, but says a two-and-a-half-hour operation \"went well\".\n\n\"I live to fight another day and I will fight another day,\" Haye told Sky Sports.\n\nAsked if he would be returning to the ring, he said: \"No doubt about it, I have never been more sure about it.\"\n\nHe added: \"Other athletes have come back in six to nine months after the same injury, I am in a good condition, a healthy-living person and I am looking forward to getting back in there.\"\n\nBellew, 34, said he is considering retirement following his win, but admitted that an offer for one further fight could be too lucrative to turn down.\n\nAsked whether the Haye bout would be his last, Bellew told BBC Radio 5 live: \"It's an option. It's something I'm thinking about.\"\n\nIn response, Haye told Sky Sports: \"I never envisaged losing this fight, if Tony Bellew does retire - and I truly hope he doesn't - then I will carry on in my path to be number one in the world.\n\n\"But it is only fair to the fans to rematch against the guy who beat me. If that does not happen, then I will find a way to challenge for the heavyweight title. I believe after sharing a ring with him, he will want to do it again.\"", "The claim: Taxes could rise to their highest level as a proportion of national income since 1986-87 by 2019-20.\n\nReality Check verdict: The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecasts suggest taxes could actually reach that level as soon as 2017-18. That may not happen if changes are made in this week's Budget and it is only a forecast, so unexpected events could prevent it happening.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies said in its Green Budget that tax is rising as a share of national income and by 2019-20 is due to reach its highest level since 1986-87.\n\nIt is important to stress that it is not saying taxes on all individuals or households are going up. The measure it is using is the government's total tax receipts (and the OBR's forecasts of those receipts) as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP), which is the total amount of goods and services produced by the economy.\n\nWe will examine which taxes have been rising later, but it is true that the total take is expected to rise in the next few years to levels unseen since the mid-1980s.\n\nIt is in the next financial year, 2017-18, that the OBR expects the big jump in receipts to 36.9% of GDP, which take it above the peaks of 2011-12. Indeed it appears to be that year and not 2019-20 that first takes receipts to 1986-87 levels.\n\nBut it does not mean that everybody is paying more tax.\n\nThere have been gradual falls in revenue from income tax, for example, as the amount people have to be earning to pay it has been increasing.\n\nThe government said in the Autumn Statement that the increases in the basic rate threshold in the last parliament had meant four million of the lowest-paid people were not paying it at all.\n\nIn addition to the taxes included on this chart are fuel duty, which has fallen gradually as successive governments have frozen it, and VAT, which got a boost when the government raised it from 17.5% to 20% at the start of 2011, but has been pretty constant since.\n\nThe category of tax that has been rising strikingly and is mainly responsible for the increase next year is \"other\".\n\nThat includes the new dividend tax regime, the increased insurance premium tax and a higher rate of stamp duty land tax for second homes.\n\nBut all of the forecasts for the coming years are from the OBR and are based on how things stood at the time of the Autumn Statement.\n\nAll this could change in Wednesday's Budget.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It's a website that describes itself as a citizens' initiative set up to ask the questions the mainstream media won't. Its critics say it's a \"far-right trolling factory\" whose sole purpose is to harass and intimidate.\n\n\"Granskning Sverige\" roughly translates as \"Examining Sweden\". The site encourages volunteers to call journalists with a list of questions about their news coverage.\n\n\"I would say that the basic theme is xenophobic, they don't like immigrants,\" says Mathias Stahle, an investigative journalist for the Eskilstuna-Kuriren newspaper.\n\n\"They would like to read more positive things about Donald Trump, they would like to see positive stories about modern Russia and they want to have positive views of neo-Nazis.\"\n\nUnbeknownst to the journalists being called, the conversations are recorded, edited and posted online on the website as well as the YouTube page of Erik Johansson, the administrator of the website.\n\nOne example of such a conversation was with Eva Burman - a colleague of Mathias Stahle's and Eskilstuna-Kuriren's editor-in-chief. The caller introduced himself as \"Janne\", and asked her why a story about an attack on a security guard didn't mention that a foreigner was allegedly behind the assault.\n\n\"The truth has to get out there,\" the caller says, according to an extract of the conversation published on the newspaper website. \"Janne\" blames Moroccan street children for the attack, although police are certain it was a local gang of youths. As the caller continues to make his case, Burman gets frustrated until she eventually snaps: \"That is called racism.\"\n\nThe conversation - which lasted more than 20 minutes - was edited down to three minutes, and published on YouTube with the headline \"Editor in chief calls citizen racist\".\n\nConversations with journalists are secretly recorded and published online by Granskning Sverige\n\nAfter hearing of Swedish journalists targeted by the callers, Stahle went undercover. He created a fake social media profile and signed up to several right-wing forums. He then contacted Granskning Sverige to offer his services as volunteer to call and record conversations with journalists.\n\nHe tells Trending that the offer was accepted almost immediately and he was told he could make money out of it - around $100 for every edited call that got over 3,000 hits online.\n\nHe says he was told that he needed to keep his identity secret and that any phone calls were to be edited to make them sound dramatic before being uploaded.\n\nHear this story in full on the BBC World Service, or download our podcast\n\nBBC Trending approached Granskning Sverige administrators and received a reply from Erik Johansson who directed us towards a recording of an interview he had done with Stahle. In the interview, Johansson - which is an alias - insisted that what he does is no different from the secret recording techniques used by traditional journalists when a direct approach for an interview has failed.\n\nOne obvious difference though is that traditional journalistic ethics - like those practised by the BBC - usually require that the person who's been recorded is given a chance to reply before anything is published.\n\nJohansson says that he's doing nothing wrong and that he's simply trying to persuade the media and others to present a more balanced picture of modern Sweden. Mathias Stahle, though, isn't convinced.\n\n\"I find what they do appalling,\" he says, \"because they so obviously have a political agenda of their own which they want to communicate to the rest of the world by making these fake interviews.\"\n\nAnd it's not just journalists who are being cold-called by the website.\n\nMartin Kragh, head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs published a report in January alleging that Russia was involved in a misinformation campaign aimed at influencing Sweden's relationship with Nato.\n\nThe paper was well received amongst other academics and tallies with the views of many western security experts but there was also a furious backlash from people claiming he was the one spreading disinformation.\n\n\"For the last six weeks I've been harassed and threatened,\" Martin Kragh says. \"There has been a cyber attack and also a spread of disinformation. If you Google my name you find a lot of terrible things they've written about me.\"\n\nIn the days after the report came out Martin says he was bombarded by calls.\n\n\"This is a person who calls, he won't reveal his name, he will call you repeatedly using secret phone numbers and then he edits the phone calls himself in a way that you have no control over.\" Martin says. \"He will also call colleagues of yours, to ask questions to get personal information.\n\n\"This is in no way normal journalistic behaviour.\"\n\nIn his interview with Mathias, Erik Johansson denies that his website aims to intimidate people.\n\nHe says that he believes he is performing an important service by providing an alternative view to that put forward by \"mainstream media\".\n\nBut he can no longer do so from behind a cloak of anonymity. Recently, the Swedish newspaper Expressen outed the man calling himself Erik Johansson as Fabian Fjalling, a 48-year-old from Torslanda near Gothenburg.\n\nAn Asian-American photographer says some digital foodies are playing into racist stereotypes about ethnic dishes. READ MORE\n\nYou can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.", "All age groups in the UK are smoking less - but the largest decrease is among 18- to 24-year-olds, according to the Office of National Statistics. Why is that?\n\nThe latest figures, for 2015, suggest one in every five (20.7%) 18- to 24-year-olds is a smoker.\n\nIn 2010, this figure was one in every four (25.8%).\n\nToday, about 70% of 16- to 24-year-olds have never started smoking cigarettes in the first place, the data suggests - up from 46% in 1974, when records began.\n\nAnd even among the age group most likely to smoke, 24- to 35-year-olds, about 60% - up from 35% in 1974 - have never picked up the habit.\n\nAction on Smoking and Health (Ash) says: \"We know that young people who try smoking are highly likely to grow up to become smokers, so the high numbers of young people reporting that they have never even tried smoking is good news.\"\n\nModel Kylie Jenner was called a bad role model after she was pictured smoking on Instagram, perhaps an indicator it is no longer seen as cool.\n\nThe new data suggests 23.3% of 16- to 24-year-olds quit smoking in 2015, compared with 21.4% in 2010 and 13.4% in 1974.\n\nAsh says this has been \"achieved through a combination of effective legislation, policy and support for adults to quit over many decades - much of which has had a big impact on youth uptake as well as quitting\".\n\nPolicy director Hazel Cheeseman says: \"Creating an environment in which fewer young people try smoking and more smokers quit will protect the health of future generations and avoid hundreds and thousands of premature deaths.\n\n\"However, the achievements made to date are at risk.\n\n\"The government must urgently publish a new tobacco control plan for England and ensure this is properly funded.\"\n\nIn 2015, three out of every 100 16- to 24-year-olds used electronic cigarettes, up from one in every 100 in 2014, the new data suggests.\n\nAnd, in total, 2.3 million people in the UK are using them - half in order to stop smoking.\n\nBut some are concerned vaping could prove a gateway to smoking for teenagers.\n\nAnd critics say the fruit flavours of some e-cigarettes could make them more appealing to children.\n\nIn December 2016, the US Surgeon General said the use of e-cigarettes by children was \"a major public health concern\".\n\nBut Ash says the latest figures \"confirm that most users are smokers or ex-smokers\".\n\n\"The figures also highlight that most users are seeking to improve their health, with the most common reason for use being as an aid to quit smoking,\" it says.\n\n\"Where smokers make a complete switch, they can expect to significantly reduce their exposure to harmful chemicals which cause cancer and other smoking-related illnesses.\"\n\nPaul Hunt, managing director of e-cigarette manufacturer V2Cigs.co.uk, said: \"E-cigarettes are supporting thousands of people in quitting smoking every day.\n\n\"Information from the NHS states that people who use e-cigarettes to quit smoking can expect similar or better results than when using other nicotine replacement therapies.\"\n\n\"Of those people who combined NHS stop smoking support with e-cigarettes, two out of three were successful in quitting.\"\n\n\"As they eliminate chemicals found in regular cigarettes, such as tar, and allow people control over the amount of nicotine they're consuming, e-cigarettes are a great tool in overcoming smoking addiction.\"", "From humble beginnings, Maurice Oldfield (left) was used as the basis for Alec Guinness' character in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy\n\nMaurice Oldfield rose from humble beginnings to become one of the UK's greatest ever spy chiefs. He was credited with keeping his country out of the Vietnam War - and also inspired Alec Guinness's portrayal of George Smiley in the TV series Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Yet allegations of child abuse - later proved to be false - dogged his reputation for years.\n\nThese claims - which centred on a children's home in Belfast, where he was stationed in the late 1970s - were only discounted three months ago, 36 years after his death.\n\nHis family, who have mounted a posthumous defence for decades, have described the impact as \"devastating\" and \"heartbreaking\".\n\nBorn on a farmhouse table in Derbyshire, Mr Oldfield had been an unlikely candidate to lead the UK's secret service. Educated at Manchester University, he was an outsider among the elitist, Oxbridge-dominated intelligence services.\n\nDespite this, he enjoyed a stellar career, becoming head of MI6 in 1973 - at a time when the spy agency was reeling after years of Soviet infiltration.\n\nOver six years he stabilised the ship and - just as he was about to retire in 1979 - prime minister Margaret Thatcher asked him to take on one more job, co-ordinating security and intelligence in Northern Ireland.\n\nHis time there nearly demolished his legacy.\n\nAllegations emerged that Oldfield had abused boys at Kincora children's home\n\nShortly before he died aged 65 in 1981, rumours began circulating about Mr Oldfield's private life while in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt was alleged he had compromised his position by making a pass at a man in a County Down bar. He was also said to have propositioned a man in a Belfast pub toilets.\n\nMore seriously, rumours began to emerge connecting him to a boys' home in Belfast, where children had been abused.\n\nThese stories began to appear in the newspapers from 1987 and never went away, resurfacing when he was named in the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry into child abuse in Northern Ireland in 2014.\n\nOldfield's great-nephew, Martin Pearce, had a book published on Oldfield's life last year\n\nHe was also named in the Metropolitan Police's Operation Midland inquiry into allegations that a paedophile ring operated in Westminster in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nThe latter inquiry ended in March 2016 with no charges being brought against anyone while the Northern Irish investigation concluded in January that allegations against Mr Oldfield had \"no substance\".\n\nMr Oldfield's great-nephew Martin Pearce said the toll on the family over the past three decades had been terrible.\n\n\"It was devastating, particularly for his brothers and sisters, most of whom were still alive,\" he said.\n\n\"They never believed any of it but, to see their brother who they had been so proud of being dragged through the press in such a negative way, was heartbreaking.\"\n\nOldfield was one of the most decorated MI6 leaders\n\nHe said the government of the 1980s had refused to defend his great uncle as it was \"happy with the distraction\" from the Spycatcher affair, in which MI5 agent Peter Wright had alleged the service had operated beyond the law.\n\n\"It seems there has been a lot of incompetence over the years that needn't have happened,\" he said.\n\n\"Now Maurice has been fully exonerated we can all move on from that.\n\n\"We have always had the absolute confidence and certainty that he was entirely innocent of everything but it's just been horrible to have his name dragged through the mud.\"\n\nFew of Mr Oldfield's immediate relatives, who tried to defend his name in the years after his death, are themselves still alive. Mr Pearce said it was \"frustrating\" they are not around to see his name cleared.\n\nColin Wallace, a whistleblower on abuse in Northern Ireland and an ex-intelligence officer, said he too was angry at Mr Oldfield's treatment.\n\n\"It's important to point out he was the most decorated of all our intelligence officers with a track record... second to none,\" he said.\n\nBut smears of that nature can stick, according to MI6 historian Stephen Dorrill.\n\n\"There's still a mark against him because of that,\" he said.\n\n\"His role in Northern Ireland was important, he was always looking for a peaceful way out. MI6's role in talking to the IRA actually did save lives.\"\n\nOldfield liked to return to Over Haddon in the Peak District as often as he could\n\nIt was far from the only success in his career.\n\n\"Anybody who achieves chief inside MI6 has done exceptionally well because often it's riddled with factions,\" Mr Dorrill said.\n\n\"Coming from Manchester University he would still have been something of an outsider in the service as most came through the Oxbridge route.\"\n\nMI6 was \"in a mess\" when Mr Oldfield took over as head in 1973, Mr Dorrill added.\n\nThere had been the scandal of the Cambridge Five - the ring of double agents, including Kim Philby and Guy Burgess, who passed hundreds of files to the Russians.\n\nMr Oldfield managed to gain back the United States' trust in MI6, but perhaps his greatest achievement was helping to persuade the government to stay out of the Vietnam War.\n\n\"If Britain had been dragged into that, if [Harold] Wilson had decided to go along with the Americans, that could have been the deaths of many, many young people and he avoided that,\" said Mr Dorrill.\n\nOldfield was the first secret service chief to be allowed to appear in the press, which made him something of a reluctant celebrity in the Cold War era.\n\nWhile preparing to play George Smiley in the BBC adaptation of John Le Carre's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, actor Alec Guinness said he wanted to meet a \"real spy\".\n\nAlec Guinness studied Oldfield's mannerisms for the part of George Smiley\n\nAlthough Smiley was created some years before he ever met Mr Oldfield, Le Carre did introduce the pair in a London pub.\n\n\"Maurice and Alec Guinness got there before him and they were chatting away when John Le Carre arrived,\" said Mr Pearce.\n\nAccording to Mr Dorrill, Guinness \"observed Maurice very carefully: What he was drinking, how he talked and sat and how he walked down the road.\"\n\nLe Carre himself said Guinness asked why Mr Oldfield had wiped the rim of his glass during their meeting: \"Do you think he's looking for the dregs of poison?\" he asked.\n\n\"Well if he was, he's dead,\" Le Carre replied.\n\nMr Oldfield wrote to the actor after seeing the series, telling him: \"I still don't recognise myself.\"\n\nInside Out East Midlands is available on the iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Carlos Tavares, the man who will determine the future of Vauxhall workers, downplayed the threat to more than 4,000 Vauxhall workers - but he chose his words very carefully.\n\nThe head of PSA insisted that the new combined company would have an opportunity to set new internal benchmarks for performance.\n\nThey will allow plants to be compared and improve.\n\nProduction commitments expire in 2021 for Ellesmere Port and 2025 for Luton.\n\nAfter that it will be every plant for itself in a battle for jobs.\n\nThe combined company will have 24 factories and everyone at the Geneva motor show agrees that is a few too many.\n\nSeveral senior executives who asked not to be named had the same message. Consolidation is good because it's the best way to take out overcapacity. That has to happen and that means plants will close and jobs will go.\n\nIn this inevitable fight for survival, the UK starts at a disadvantage according to most executives here.\n\nUncertainty over Brexit and the terms of trade with Europe is one handicap. The fall in sterling is another. Although labour costs have gone down, the price of the 75% of parts for a Vauxhall Astra that come from Europe has gone up.\n\nHaving said that, Mr Tavares said that in the event of a \"hard\" Brexit, it may be more - not less - important to have manufacturing in the UK.\n\nAndy Palmer, the chief executive of Aston Martin agreed. He told the BBC that for a company like PSA - if there is a tariff wall - having some production on the other side of it could make sense as a measure of insurance against high tariffs and volatile currency moves.\n\nFor that to work, though, more of the supply chain would need to move to the UK and that takes government help.\n\nOver to you, Mr Hammond...\n\nWhen it comes to car manufacturing, governments rarely sit on the sidelines. Car industry jobs seem to have a particular political resonance around the world.\n\nAs well as Ellesmere Port and Luton competing with more than 20 other plants in Europe, the UK government will be up against some stiff competition from European politicians.\n\nThe UK government scored an early success by persuading Nissan to increase investment in Sunderland after promising support for skills and training. There was a particular focus on electric cars and battery technology - themes that are red hot in the industry presentations here.\n\nWhat worked with Nissan may be popular with PSA, which lags some of their rivals in electric and self-driving cars.\n\nExtra motivation - if any were needed - for the chancellor to play those cards in Wednesday's Budget. I expect he will.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea manager Antonio Conte told his players to \"keep their feet on the ground\" after they beat West Ham 2-1 on Monday to take another big step towards the Premier League title.\n\nThe Blues lead second-placed Tottenham by 10 points with 11 games left.\n\nSupporters were singing \"we're going to win the league\" at London Stadium, but Conte said: \"We must think we have to take 26 points. We go step by step.\"\n\nThose points would mean a total of 92 - the maximum Spurs can accumulate is 89.\n\nChelsea are the seventh side to accrue 66-plus points from their first 27 games of a Premier League season, having done it themselves twice before (69 in 2005-06 and 68 in 2004-05). All six previous sides have gone on to win the title.\n\nItalian Conte, in his debut Premier League season, added: \"We must think every opponent will want to beat us from now until the end.\n\n\"To dream is good, but it's important to keep our feet on the ground.\"\n\nDespite his side recording their 21st league win of the season, Conte said he was disappointed with them conceding against West Ham late in the game.\n\nEden Hazard finished off a counter-attack in the 25th minute to give Chelsea the lead before Diego Costa made it 2-0 from close range five minutes after the restart.\n\nHowever, Manuel Lanzini's stoppage-time strike made it an uneasy final few seconds for the Blues.\n\n\"To give away a clean sheet at the end is not good,\" Conte said.\n\n\"We must improve in this situation - but I'm pleased. We showed great concentration and commitment and will to win.\"\n\nWest Ham manager Slaven Bilic does not expect their London rivals to slip up in the run-in.\n\n\"They look serious. For me they are not going to lose that. I can't see them being casual,\" the former Croatia defender said.", "Back in September 2013 I interviewed an emotional Thomas Bach in Buenos Aires a few minutes after the German had become the most powerful man in sport.\n\nThe newly elected International Olympic Committee (IOC) president confidently told me that after a successful reign by his predecessor Jacques Rogge, the Olympic movement needed mere evolution.\n\nBut as we approach four years of Bach's leadership - and with fresh hosting, doping and corruption controversies affecting confidence in his organisation - the demands for an Olympic revolution are growing louder by the day.\n\nThe recent withdrawal of Budapest's bid to stage the 2024 Games - the fourth city to pull out of the race - is highly embarrassing for the IOC and seems to have left the Olympics at a crossroads, in desperate need of a new vision.\n\nAnd the knock-on effects of this latest blow to Bach could be extremely significant: a possible double announcement of hosts for both the 2024 and 2028 Games; and perhaps making it more likely that the IOC takes the unprecedented step of banning Russia from the next Winter Olympics, if that is deemed necessary to restore credibility at this critical time.\n\nDespite reported opposition from within the IOC, it seems increasingly likely that when its members meet in Lima in September to decide which of the two remaining bidders, Los Angeles or Paris, is awarded the Games, the loser will be told it can host the following edition four years later.\n\nThis assumes the runner-up for 2024 will actually want to play host in 2028 of course - or indeed be able to. Neither is certain. Plans and partnerships for both bids are based on the cities hosting the event in 2024, and delaying these by another four years may not be possible. But with the IOC now admitting that without recent reforms it could have suffered the ignominy of having no bidders, it seems sensible to try to strike some kind of two-Games deal.\n\nSo, why are potential host cities turning their backs on the Games, and how much jeopardy is the Olympics really now in?\n• None Hamburg says 'no' to Olympic bid\n\nIn 2014, after six cities had decided not to bid for the 2022 Winter Games - leaving just Almaty and Beijing to choose from - Bach hailed his Agenda 2020 reforms as the answer, designed to encourage flexible and cheaper bids from more potential hosts.\n\nYet three years on, here we are again, with just two bidders left for the 2024 summer Games. Earlier this month, a referendum in the Swiss canton of Graubuenden, which contains the cities of Davos and St Moritz, ensured there would be no bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics.\n\nThe recent bleak images of Rio's abandoned and crumbling Olympic venues already falling into disrepair, just a few months after they hosted the city's iconic but chaotic Games, has reinforced fears that the size and cost of the global mega-event is out of control and places too great a burden on host cities.\n\nAt the same time, in London, an investigation is now under way into the spiralling costs of the 2012 Olympic stadium, now approaching £800m.\n\nMeanwhile, in Tokyo, there are renewed concerns that the budget for the 2020 Games could leap to £21bn, four times the initial estimate, despite recent effort to rein in costs, with the city's governor, Yuriko Koike, admitting she had no idea how much money will eventually be spent on the event.\n\nNo wonder, perhaps, that Boston, Hamburg, Rome and now Budapest have all rejected the chance to stage the 2024 Games.\n\nThe IOC has blamed local politics for the withdrawal of the Hungarian capital, although Bach will hope to turn it to his advantage and use it to strengthen his case for more reforms.\n\nBach's latest idea is a change to the rules to allow cities bidding for the second time to pay less than those making their first attempt. Bach told German magazine Stuttgart Nachrichten that it was unfair to judge Rio's Olympic legacy so soon, and urged critics not to underestimate the transport and environmental benefits the Games had left the Brazilian city, while also reminding them of the regeneration of east London in recent years.\n\nSo as they enter the final crucial few months of campaigning, which of the two remaining candidate cities are most likely to benefit from Budapest's withdrawal and get to run the first leg of a possible 2024/2028 relay?\n\nSome observers believe it has merely reinforced Paris' status as favourites. Given just how hard it clearly now is to attract bidders from Europe, sponsorship expert Tim Crow argues that it is easy to see why the IOC would be loathe to risk further alienating more potential candidates by rejecting the iconic capital for a third consecutive time - especially for 2024, which will mark 100 years since Paris last hosted the Games.\n\nAdd to this the obvious consternation caused in some Olympic circles by US President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric - and his recent travel ban - and Paris seems a logical choice.\n\nOthers disagree, however. Journalist Alan Abrahamson argues that the IOC must now turn away from government-backed bids based on large infrastructure or regeneration projects, where taxpayers often end up paying the price when budgets spiral out of control, and instead go for privately funded alternatives.\n\nAnd that, he insists, means Los Angeles. Unlike in Paris, where 1.5bn euros of public investment is being spent on the construction of an athletes' village and a new aquatics centre, 97% of the American city's major facilities are already built, the kind of sustainability that Bach's Agenda 2020 is meant to be encouraging more of.\n\nIt has also not escaped attention that Etienne Thobois, the head of the Paris 2024 bid, was a key consultant for Tokyo 2020 - a bid whose original cost estimates now appear wildly optimistic. And at a time when the IOC is desperate to tackle ageing audiences, become more relevant among younger sports fans, and reboot the troubled Olympic brand, California's global reputation for digital technology and enterprise could make sense. It would also please the IOC's most lucrative broadcast partner, NBC, and its sponsors, most of which are based in the US.\n\nIn what is becoming a fascinating dilemma for the IOC, there are various other factors at play.\n\nThere is the possibility of anti-American resentment from some in the Olympic community at the US Anti-Doping Agency's (Usada) criticism of the IOC's failure to ban Russia from the Rio Games for state-sponsored doping. Usada is now one of the leading voices pushing for an overhaul of the anti-doping system, demanding a better resourced and independent World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) with real sanctioning powers. A US congressional hearing recently questioned the IOC's medical and scientific director Richard Budgett on anti-doping, with some wondering if the scrutiny could harm Los Angeles' chances.\n\nBut could all that be offset by the possible election of far-right politician Marine le Pen in the French presidential election in May? And could the continued threat of terrorism in France also damage Paris prospects?\n\nWhat next for Russia?\n\nAll will be revealed in Lima in September. But before then, an even bigger decision must be taken by the IOC - on Russia. Despite recent admissions from Wada that there may not be sufficient evidence in last year's damning McLaren report to bring sanctions against certain Russian athletes, and the slow progress of two separate IOC investigations into the scandal, many want the IOC to now do what they failed to do last summer and ban the entire Russian team from Pyeongchang 2018.\n\nMy understanding is that despite the obvious threat of a major rift with Russia if such a step is taken, the argument is finally gaining traction among the upper echelons of the IOC, and there is a growing acceptance that it could help demonstrate some leadership at a time when it desperately needs to restore credibility.\n\nThe samples of more than 100 athletes from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 have now shown up as positive in retesting, and dozens of medals have been stripped. The IOC is trying to show it has teeth after all, and it may conclude that banning Russia would be the ultimate way of proving the point.\n\nAll this comes at a crucial time for the IOC, a time of both opportunity and challenge.\n\nOn the one hand, it appears in rude health. Despite continuing concerns over China's human rights record, Bach recently hailed the signing of a ground-breaking six-Games partnership worth a potential $1bn with Chinese conglomerate Alibaba, another major boost to its constantly growing revenues.\n\nThe Olympic channel has now been broadcasting for several months, signing deals with 47 federations to televise their sports. Last week, the Sports and Rights Alliance welcomed the IOC's decision to incorporate human rights principles in its revised host city contract.\n\nOn the other, however, Bach has faced scrutiny for his organisation's role in the alleged ticket-touting scandal that saw Irish IOC executive Pat Hickey arrested in Rio and detained for five months.\n\nAnd now an IOC ethics committee is having to look into allegations that vote-buying helped secure the 2016 Games for Rio after a French newspaper reported that a Brazilian businessman made payments to Papa Massata Diack, son of disgraced former IOC member Lamine Diack, just before the crucial vote in 2009, and that current IOC member Frankie Fredericks also received money.\n\nFrederick denies wrongdoing, while Diack Jr has refused to comment. But with French police already investigating payments made by the Tokyo 2020 bid to an account linked to the Diacks, the list of Games tainted by allegations of corruption is growing.\n\nIt is against this backdrop that the IOC is now operating - and being judged.\n\nBudapest's withdrawal from the race to stage the next Games is far from being the only headache it has to contend with right now. But at a time when the IOC's reputation is on the line, the ramifications of this latest snub could be felt well beyond its headquarters in Lausanne. And especially in Los Angeles, Paris and in Moscow.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFootball Association plans to boost the diversity of its leadership are \"wishy washy\" and \"won't make any difference\", says a leading equality campaigner.\n\nThe FA announced the proposed reforms after criticism over the way it is run.\n\nThey include more women being added to its board and 11 new members joining the FA Council to \"better reflect\" the diversity of English football.\n\nHowever, Lord Ouseley, chairman of diversity campaign group Kick It Out, says the changes are \"superficial\".\n\nA former chairperson of the Commission for Racial Equality and a current Institute of Race Relations council member, Lord Ouseley told BBC Radio 5 live: \"It won't add any additional power and involvement in leadership roles for black and minority ethnic people.\n\n\"In fact, there's no representation for disabled people, LGBT communities - it's very superficial.\n\n\"While it will look good and it is to be welcomed as some change, it won't make any difference about where the power is, where the control is, and quite frankly it's a bit wishy washy.\"\n\nGordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), was also critical of the reforms, saying they showed \"a complete disrespect for key stakeholders\" such as players, managers, referees and fans.\n\n\"We are referred to as 'not aligned' to The Professional Game or National Game, which shows a complete lack of understanding and respect for the very people who provide their income,\" he said.\n\n\"Such proposals do nothing to bring us in line with the rest of the world or alter the perception of lacking inclusion and being disconnected 'dinosaurs'.\"\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\nIn February, MPs warned they could legislate to force the FA to reform if they had \"no confidence\" that the organisation would do so itself.\n\nSports Minister Tracey Crouch has said the FA could lose £30m-£40m of public funding if it does not modernise.\n\nFA chairman Greg Clarke reiterated that he will quit if the plans for reform do not win government support.\n\n\"This is a transformational leap forward and if the government don't accept this, I'm not sure what else we can do,\" he told BBC Sport on Monday.\n\n\"If government don't want to accept it, who am I to argue but, of course, I will resign.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent Richard Conway asked Clarke why there were no plans for dedicated black, Asian and minority ethnic background representation on the proposed new 10-member board.\n\nClarke replied: \"What I would like to see is a path to make sure that not only are we gender diverse but ethnically diverse. What I don't want this to be is empty words.\n\n\"I want to find a way to achieve it and be accountable. I just need a bit more time to get there.\n\n\"It's really important that the FA is representative to society. Throughout the business world, diverse boards make better decisions. I think that's true in football too.\"\n\nThe FA is effectively run by its own parliament, the FA Council, which has 122 members. Just eight are women and only four are from ethnic minorities. More than 90 of the 122 members are aged over 60.\n\nWhat are the planned reforms?\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\nThe reforms still have to be approved by the FA Council, which will debate and vote on the recommendations on Monday, 3 April.\n\nIf they receive majority approval they will be taken forward to a vote of the shareholders at the FA's annual meeting on 18 May.", "England women lose their final game of the SheBelieves Cup 1-0 to Germany after Anja Mittag scores her 50th international goal in Washington D.C.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "With his side just having conceded an equaliser away at Catanduvense, striker Mirrai scores directly from the kick-off for Comercial FC who went on to win the game in Brazil 4-1.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Arsenal v Bayern Munich: Arsenal advancing is as unlikely as... Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal are 33-1 to overturn a 5-1 first-leg thrashing by Bayern Munich and progress to the Champions League last eight on Tuesday night. How do some other unlikely events compare?", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFormer England batsman Kevin Pietersen has re-signed for Surrey to play in this summer's T20 Blast competition.\n\nThe 36-year-old will play his first game against Essex at The Oval on 19 July and then will be available for the rest of the tournament.\n\nPietersen first joined Surrey in 2010 and made his last appearance in England in June 2015, when he did not bat in a rain-affected game against Sussex.\n\nPietersen has played mostly T20 cricket since appearing in the last of his 104 Tests in 2014.\n\nHe is England's third-highest run scorer in international T20 cricket behind Eoin Morgan and Alex Hales, and was part of the England team that won the World Twenty20 title in 2010.\n\nSouth Africa-born Pietersen revealed the news via video on his Facebook page while playing golf at Wentworth.\n\n\"I am so, so happy to be back with Surrey and back playing in England,\" he said.\n\n\"I love playing in England, I love playing at The Oval and I've always loved the dressing room at The Oval.\"\n\nSurrey won the inaugural county T20 competition in 2003 and have been losing finalists on two occasions since then, most recently to Northants in 2013.\n\nPietersen will miss the first four group games of the 2017 competition, but will be available for the other 10 matches and the knockout stage, should Surrey get that far.\n\n\"Re-signing KP is a massive boost to the club and the T20 Blast competition,\" Surrey director of cricket Alec Stewart told the club website.\n\n\"To have a player of his undoubted calibre available to us will add strength and experience to our squad and I'm sure all our fans will enjoy seeing him back playing in England again.\n\n\"His work ethic and appetite for success are infectious and our squad have always enjoyed having him around the dressing room and performing out in the middle.\"\n\nPietersen began the winter in South Africa playing for Dolphins in the CSA T20 Challenge and scored 198 runs in five innings, including 81 off 46 balls against Warriors in December.\n\nFrom there, he travelled to Australia for the Big Bash tournament, contributing 268 runs in eight innings to help Melbourne Stars reach the semi-finals.\n\nIn February's Pakistan Super League, he had two ducks in his first three innings, but bounced back with two half-centuries, including a match-winning 88 not out off 42 balls against Lahore Qalandars, in which he hit eight sixes.\n\nBut he, along with England's Tymal Mills and Sussex all-rounder Luke Wright, opted not to take part in the final because of security concerns about playing in Lahore.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nTony Bellew says he is considering retirement following his surprise victory over bitter rival David Haye at London's O2 Arena on Saturday.\n\nBut the Liverpudlian, 34, admitted that an offer for one further fight could be too lucrative to turn down.\n\n\"I don't know how many times more I can put my body and family through this,\" Bellew told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\nAsked whether the Haye bout would be his last, he added: \"It's an option. It's something I'm thinking about.\"\n\nWBC cruiserweight champion Bellew defied most predictions to beat Haye - who was affected by a torn Achilles tendon - on his heavyweight debut, and he now has 29 wins and a draw from 32 fights.\n\nPromoter Eddie Hearn said on Sunday that representatives of American WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder and WBO champion Joseph Parker of New Zealand had contacted him about a potential fight.\n• None Listen: 'I’ve beaten the best cruiserweight this country has produced'\n\nBellew told BBC One's Breakfast programme: \"I have a lot of options. If people want to come and talk to me... I don't know what's going to happen, but it will have to be something special.\n\n\"I am the best heavyweight in the world outside the champions, and none of them have a name like David Haye on their record, so what does that mean?\n\n\"David Haye was like the bogeyman of the division. Nobody wanted to fight him but the fat cruiserweight did. And you know what? He beat him too. Just let that sink in.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Haye says his surgery to reattach his Achilles has been a success and that the surgeons are \"very confident of a 100% recovery back to full fitness\".", "Craig Shakespeare will be offered the Leicester City manager's job until the end of the season, BBC Radio Leicester understands.\n\nShakespeare was Claudio Ranieri's assistant, and has been caretaker boss since the Italian was sacked in February.\n\nThe Foxes have since won both of their games with Shakespeare in charge.\n\nThe 53-year-old has never managed full-time, and was brought to Leicester by Ranieri's predecessor, Nigel Pearson.\n\nRanieri, 65, was sacked by Leicester nine months after leading the club to the Premier League title.\n\nLeicester have also spoken to other potential candidates to replace him, including former England manager Roy Hodgson.\n\nShakespeare's first match as caretaker manager was a 3-1 league victory over Liverpool.\n\nSpeaking after that game, defender Danny Simpson said Shakespeare had \"kept it simple and told us what he wanted to do, which was simple and basic. We've done that so let's hope we can carry it on for him\".\n\nAfter his side moved five points clear of the relegation zone with a 3-1 win over Hull on Saturday, Shakespeare said: \"My remit was to win these two games and that's what we've done.\"\n\nLeicester next play Sevilla at home in the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie next Tuesday. The Spanish side won the first leg 2-1.\n\nIt's an appointment that will go down well on the terraces, the dressing room and in the media suite - Craig Shakespeare deserves this chance and is a top man to boot.\n\nShakey, as he's affectionately known, fostered a close working relationship with Nigel Pearson in his first spell with the club as the Foxes cruised through League One and into the Championship. He followed Pearson to Hull after leaving the Foxes in 2010, only to return in 2011 following the dismissal of Sven-Goran Eriksson.\n\nShakespeare opted to stay with Claudio Ranieri when he was appointed in the summer of 2015, a decision which sees a Premier League winners' medal hanging on his mantelpiece.\n\nHe's always expressed a wish to one day be his own man and while this may have come in a rather unorthodox way - and there is no suggestion it was anything other than picking up the pieces following the Italian's sacking - Shakespeare will relish this chance and, despite what Martin Keown may have said on Match of the Day at the weekend, has the support of the fans in the city.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nDiego Costa and Eden Hazard scored as Chelsea beat West Ham to extend their lead at the top of the Premier League to 10 points.\n\nIt was the Blues' 21st victory of the league season and another big step towards winning the title in Antonio Conte's first season as manager.\n\nThe Italian was once again spot on with his tactics - nullifying the predictable aerial threat of the Hammers' 6ft 4in frontman Andy Carroll early in the match.\n\nAnd then in the 25th minute his attackers cruelly exposed the hosts' defence with a devastating counter-attack.\n\nN'Golo Kante read a pass from Robert Snodgrass deep inside the Chelsea half on the left and played the ball to Hazard. The Belgium winger drove forward, played a one-two with Pedro and then shifted the ball past keeper Darren Randolph before slotting home.\n\nThe Blues doubled their lead after the break when Hazard's corner from the left was turned in with his thigh by Costa - the Spain striker's 17th league goal of the season.\n\nThe Hammers came close after Costa's strike when Sofiane Feghouli's low drive was brilliantly saved by Thibaut Courtois. Chelsea wing-back Marcos Alonso then appeared to block Manuel Lanzini's half-volley with his arm moments later - but referee Andre Marriner deemed it to be accidental.\n\nWest Ham finally pierced the last line of defence in stoppage time. Carroll robbed Cesc Fabregas and fed Andre Ayew, who squared for Lanzini to fire in.\n• None Chelsea must keep feet on the ground - Conte\n\nNo doubt there were West Ham supporters who would have fancied their team's chances of causing an upset on Monday.\n\nThey came into the match having lost only one of their past six league games, picking up three wins. And one of the Blues' four defeats came at London Stadium in the EFL Cup earlier this season.\n\nBut perhaps what gave those fans greatest belief of a win was the return of Carroll, back after a month out with a groin injury - and the big striker was central to the Hammers' tactics.\n\nIn the opening 20 minutes, both Snodgrass and Feghouli provided the ex-Newcastle and Liverpool forward with high lofted balls. Unfortunately for Hammers manager Slaven Bilic, Chelsea had done their homework as their defenders repeatedly prevented Carroll from having an effort on goal.\n\nHe became a peripheral figure in the second half as West Ham looked for a new way of breaching the visitors' defence.\n\nThey managed to do so through Lanzini in the dying seconds, but there was too little time to find an equaliser.\n\nNot even an intruder who made his way towards the Chelsea players after Hazard's goal could nudge the visitors off their stride. He, like West Ham's attack, was quickly contained.\n\nChelsea's attack then demonstrated why they are top of the table - the opening goal was a delight.\n\nKante, who as a defensive midfielder made the second-highest number of sprints on the night - 77 - darted back to cut out Snodgrass' ball. It was then over to Hazard and Pedro, with the Belgian having the confidence and composure to take the ball past Randolph before tucking in.\n\nIt was not as good as his Match of the Day goal of the month against Arsenal on 4 February, but impressive nonetheless. Costa, who had a quiet game, then added a simple second after the break.\n\nThe Blues did lose their concentration on two occasions: once when Courtois made a great save to block Feghouli's low drive, and then in stoppage time when the Belgium keeper was beaten by Lanzini.\n\nBut those mistakes have been few and far between this season.\n• None Chelsea have enjoyed 118 Premier League London derby wins, more than any other side (one more than Arsenal).\n• None West Ham have won only two of their past 22 Premier League clashes with Chelsea, losing 16 and drawing four.\n• None Chelsea are the seventh side to accrue 66-plus points from their first 27 games of a Premier League season, having done it themselves twice before (69 in 2005-06 and 68 in 2004-05). All six previous sides have gone on to win the title.\n• None Chelsea scored the opening goal of the game for the 21st time this season in the Premier League, four more times than any other side.\n• None Chelsea are the only side to use all three substitutes in all of their Premier League games this season.\n• None Lanzini has scored in eight of his 12 Premier League London derby appearances.\n\nChelsea have an FA Cup quarter-final against Manchester United coming up on Monday, 13 March (19:45 GMT) and then it is back to league action the following Saturday when they travel to Stoke.\n\nWest Ham are away at Bournemouth in the Premier League on Saturday, 11 March (15:00 GMT).\n• None Goal! West Ham United 1, Chelsea 2. Manuel Lanzini (West Ham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by André Ayew.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. Kurt Zouma tries a through ball, but Diego Costa is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Willian (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by César Azpilicueta.\n• None Attempt missed. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Willian.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro Obiang (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Robert Snodgrass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nReal Madrid came from a goal down against Napoli in the second leg of their Champions League last-16 tie to progress to the quarter-finals.\n\nNapoli were utterly dominant in a one-sided first half and took the lead on 24 minutes when Marek Hamsik put Dries Mertens through on goal as Real's defence went missing.\n\nBut captain Sergio Ramos netted one and had another header deflected in by Mertens after the break to put the holders in control.\n\nAlvaro Morata then followed up Cristiano Ronaldo's shot to complete a comfortable victory.\n\nReal's defensive weakness was perfectly exploited by Napoli's game plan in the first-half - a high-press put Pepe and Marcelo under pressure before Hamsik threaded a perfect through ball to Mertens who finished well in the bottom corner.\n\nBut the Italian side ultimately failed to take their other chances - Hamsik fizzed multiple shots wide before Mertens hit the woodwork and Real eventually made them pay.\n\nThe Spanish giants have now reached their seventh successive Champions League quarter-final and are unbeaten in their last 12 Champions League matches (W7, D5); their longest run without defeat in the Champions League or European Cup.\n\n47 games in a row - but Ronaldo frustrated again\n\nReal Madrid increased their Spanish record of scoring in 47 consecutive games with a win in Italy, but their Portuguese star striker is enduring his longest barren patch in the Champions League - Ronaldo has now gone six games without a goal.\n\nHe has five assists in seven Champions League appearances this term - his most in the competition in a single season for Real - but despite playing his part in Morata's strike, he could claim neither a goal nor an assist as he twice hit the woodwork.\n\nBack from injury, having missed Saturday's 4-1 win over Eibar, Ronaldo had Real's best chance in the first half, but he could only hit the woodwork from a tight angle having rounded Napoli goalkeeper Pepe Reina.\n\nOnce again Real looked leaky at the back - the likes of Hamsik, Lorenzo Insigne and Mertens carving them open with relative ease during the first half.\n\nBut captain Ramos came to their rescue and Real never looked back.\n\nThe 30-year-old may be a defender by trade and have a reputation for his red card collection, but he has also made a name for himself at the other end of the pitch.\n\nRamos is one of only three defenders to have scored in two different European Cup finals.\n\nAlongside Tommy Gemmell (Celtic 1967 and 70), who passed away last week, and Phil Neal (Liverpool 1977 and 84), he scored in both the 2014 and 2016 Champions League finals against Atletico Madrid.\n\nAnd he came to his side's rescue once again in Naples with two emphatic headers, one deflected by Mertens, at a crucial period in the second half.\n\nWith Real Madrid completely outplayed in the first 40 minutes and a goal down courtesy of Mertens' crisp strike, Ramos rose highest from two Toni Kroos corners straight after the break to silence a 57,000-strong crowd inside the San Paolo stadium.\n\nOn a tricky night in Italy, where Real Madrid's record is somewhat shaky (18 losses, eight draws and now six wins), the Spain international stepped up when Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema and Ronaldo flew under the radar.\n\n12 on the trot - the stats you need to know\n• None Real Madrid are unbeaten in the past 12 Champions League matches (W7, D5); their longest run without defeat in the Champions League or European Cup.\n• None Real Madrid have reached the Champions League quarter-finals in each of the last seven seasons.\n• None Dries Mertens has now scored 17 times in his last 16 games in all competitions for Napoli.\n• None Seven of Napoli's past 10 Champions League goals have either been scored (5) or assisted (2) by Dries Mertens.\n• None Real Madrid have progressed from each of their last nine Champions League ties in the last 16 or beyond when they've won the first leg.\n• None Napoli, meanwhile, have now been eliminated on each of the previous five occasions they have lost the first leg of a last 16 tie in European competition.\n• None Goal! Napoli 1, Real Madrid 3. Álvaro Morata (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Marcelo.\n• None Amadou Diawara (Napoli) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.\n• None Attempt missed. Marko Rog (Napoli) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Piotr Zielinski.\n• None Offside, Real Madrid. Keylor Navas tries a through ball, but Álvaro Morata is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcelo (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Toni Kroos.\n• None Attempt blocked. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcelo with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Karen Gormley describes herself as \"smiley and quite shy\", but says people see her differently simply because of the size of her breasts. The 45-year-old, from Preston, Lancashire, got in touch with BBC News after the furore over Emma Watson's Vanity Fair photoshoot.\n\nKaren says women, in particular, are guilty of judging her character just by her appearance.\n\n\"I am petite with large breasts. I am 5ft 2. When I was last measured years ago I was a 28G.\n\nPeople assume that my shape means I am promiscuous.\n\nI found it all-too familiar when Emma Watson was criticised as being anti-feminist for showing part of her breasts in a magazine photoshoot.\n\nWomen who are up in arms about it aren't doing us any favours. I'm also a feminist and believe women should be able to wear whatever they like.\n\nUnlike Emma, I'm too shy to be in photographs, but as soon as I wear fitted clothes or a lower neckline, I'm branded as attention-seeking.\n\nIt began when I was 14. I noticed that middle-aged men would follow me. I was in school uniform but it happened every time I went into town. It was really frightening.\n\nBut it wasn't always men. A female teacher once told me I couldn't wear a pinafore dress even though it was school uniform because I wasn't \"covered up\".\n\nI felt on edge all the time and began wearing baggy clothes, so people thought I was fat.\n\nWhen I was 16 I braved wearing a fitted dress for a party. It wasn't low cut but my cleavage showed a bit - suddenly my friends gasped at how much \"weight\" I'd lost.\n\nThe worst thing that ever happened was when I was 21 and my boyfriend at the time introduced me to his brother. Instead of saying \"Nice to meet you\" he pointed at my chest and said \"Look at the size of them!\".\n\nAs part of my job working with young offenders, I have worked in offices full of men and have constantly dealt with comments.\n\nI was always seen as the \"easy\" woman to flirt with.\n\nI am planning a breast reduction, which I can get on the NHS, due to the size of my breasts, which cause me back problems.\n\nThe decision is to do with my health but also the way I've been treated.\n\nIt was a friend-of-a-friend's comment that proved the last straw. She said that I only get attention because I have big boobs.\n\nIt made me feel like I am nothing except for what hangs on my chest. I don't want to be that person.\n\nI have two daughters - 17 and 22 - who are both very pretty and a similar shape to me, and I see them going through the same thing.\n\nI used to be over-protective and tell them to take pictures off Facebook, but I don't want my problem to become their problem too.\n\nI just tell them that if you wear low-cut stuff, somebody will judge you to have a certain character you don't have. It's not your fault and they don't have the right to do that, but they will.\n\nBut my daughters aren't shy like me and would tear a strip off anyone who bothers them!\"\n\nA nasty remark on social media or even a well-meaning comment from a friend can be hugely damaging to a person's body image - and even drive someone to opt for surgery, according to psychologists.\n\nAbout half of UK women are unhappy with their body shape, which can lead to low self-esteem, depression, eating disorders and body dysmorphias.\n\nDr Emma Halliwell, a psychologist at the Centre for Appearance Research at the University of the West of England, thinks body image is an \"issue that impacts upon all aspects of girls' and women's lives\".\n\nHer research into body confidence has found that \"society teaches girls that their appearance is intrinsically linked to their value as a person\".\n\nWomen are bombarded with a \"beauty ideal\" - one body type, one look, one shape, one colour, one breast or buttock - which is reinforced by friends, on Facebook and in magazines and music videos, she says.\n\nAs a result, adult women may skip work or a job interview if they feel negative about their looks.\n\n\"We need to challenge these messages that female appearance is of central importance,\" she says.\n• None Is Emma Watson anti-feminist for exposing her breasts?", "Last updated on .From the section English Rugby\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio Scotland, plus live text commentary via the BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app\n\nBilly Vunipola will feature against Scotland in the Six Nations on Saturday, after being confirmed in England's matchday squad.\n\nThe number eight made his comeback from a knee injury last weekend, and is included in a 24-man training party to prepare for the Calcutta Cup match.\n\nVunipola has been lined up to replace Nathan Hughes in the starting XV.\n\nScrum half Ben Youngs, wing Jack Nowell and centre Jonathan Joseph are also poised for returns to the backline.\n\nVunipola made his comeback ahead of schedule for his club Saracens on Sunday, after three months out with ligament damage.\n\nAnd England head coach Eddie Jones appears set to bring him back at the first time of asking, after England's training plans on Tuesday showed Vunipola would start in the back row.\n\nBath centre Joseph, who was left out of the squad that beat Italy, is set to replace Ben Te'o at outside centre, while it's likely Youngs will be preferred to Danny Care, with Nowell edging out Jonny May.\n\nEngland will confirm their starting XV and replacements on Thursday morning.\n\nJones' side lead the Six Nations table with three wins from their three matches.", "Mohammad Sayed was abandoned by his family in Afghanistan after his house was bombed and he was left paralysed. Now he has become a US citizen, and designed a comic book superhero - Wheelchair Man - based on his own life story.\n\nI used to play with my father's AK47, rocket launchers and used mortar shells. We didn't have toys and every household had them. They made me feel powerful and I used to brag that I was not scared of the bombs raining down on us. But eventually one of those bombs fell on me.\n\nI lived in the Panjshir valley with my mom, my dad, my two brothers, my sister and my grandmother. My father was a commander with the Afghan National Army (ANA) in charge of 300 soldiers.\n\nMy mother died when I was between five and six years old, I don't know the exact year, but I think it was around 2002.\n\nEleven days later I was seriously injured. It was so traumatic that I don't really like to go into the details.\n\nMy father took me to a hospital that day and never came back for me, so I had to take care of myself.\n\nFor the first couple of weeks all I could do was cry. But people in Afghanistan are very resilient - you face challenges, but you have to get up and move on, and that's what I did.\n\nThe hospital was run by Italians and it had about 500 employees.\n\nAfter six months my medical needs had all been seen to - I have a spinal cord injury and I can't walk now, I'm in a wheelchair - but since I didn't have anywhere else to go they gave me a bed in the corner of a ward where I lived with the other patients. That was my home.\n\nI had to pay for my food and clothes, and take care of myself, so I started a little business repairing the cell phones of the employees - the cleaners, cooks and guards at the hospital.\n\nCell phones had just come to Afghanistan and a lot of people there are illiterate - because of the war they never went to school. They couldn't even read in Farsi and the phones were in English. So they would have simple problems with their phones, I would fix them and they would give me a $2 or $3 tip (£2.40), which was a lot of money.\n\nThen I figured out a way to make cell phones hold their charge for a day or two longer, and started making money that way.\n\nI would also teach the foreigners in the hospital Farsi. We'd bond over time and when they left Afghanistan they would often give me a good amount of money, perhaps $20 (£16), which was a lot of money in those days.\n\nDr William, the American doctor through whom I met my mom, left me $600 (£480), and there was another doctor who left me 600 euros (£507). I was a hustler and I was hitting the jackpot.\n\nThe head of the hospital had a safe where the money was kept. Whenever I needed it I would go to him and he would give me what I needed, but my businesses were doing well so I never used most of that money.\n\nWhen I came to the US I actually brought $600 (£480) of savings with me.\n\nWell, I lived in the hospital for seven years, and I went to school and had my little businesses repairing cell phones, but unfortunately in 2007 the hospital abruptly shut down. It became like a ghost town and I was the only living soul in it. I had to figure out a way of taking care of myself again.\n\nOne day I was sitting in the hospital and one of the guards came to me and said there was a blue-eyed woman looking for me. I thought that was pretty strange, I'd never met a blue-eyed woman.\n\nSo I came down and there she was, Maria Pia Sanchez. She was a nurse, a friend of Dr William, and very nice. Whenever she came to Afghanistan for work she would come to visit me and eventually she said she would like to give me a home in the US.\n\nIn 2009, at the age of 12, I came to the US to receive medical treatment to straighten my spine.\n\nI had more than 12 operations, I lost so much blood, it wasn't good.\n\nI tell people that I have died three times and come back to life - one was when I had my accident, one was when my father left me, and the third time was when I had this surgery.\n\nBut now I'm doing very well, my back is straight and thankfully I don't have pain any more.\n\nThe doctors said that if I had stayed in Afghanistan my life expectancy would have been 18. Now I'm 20, so I'm definitely making progress.\n\nBut it was scary coming to the US, it was like going to a new planet.\n\nGoing to school with girls was very challenging because in Afghanistan my teacher and classmates had all been male.\n\nI now had a female teacher and my principal was female. Eight of my classmates were girls and they would come to school in shorts - that's kind of considered being naked in Afghanistan.\n\nSo it was hard to get used to, it was a culture shock.\n\nAnd my teachers would get so mad when they talked to me because I would look down - that's very respectful in Afghanistan. They'd say, \"Look me in the eye when I talk to you!\" There were a lot of cultural misunderstandings.\n\nIt was emotionally hard for me too, because I was feeling that I wasn't as smart as I'd been in Afghanistan. I was the top of my class there, but now I was new and although I could speak and write English my grammar and spelling were bad. I would feel really depressed that I was not good compared to all my classmates. But eventually I did learn and did very well.\n\nI'm very creative and always try to solve problems, so when I heard about this school called NuVu - a STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) school founded by MIT students - I really wanted to go there.\n\nI went to meet the head of the school and I said, \"This is exactly where I want to be, I want to come here!\"\n\nBut then I learned that you had to actually pay. I told them, \"I don't have money, I really want to come here, but I don't have money.\"\n\nI think I was the first student that they gave a scholarship to. I went there in 2014 for about two years and learned a lot about engineering.\n\nI would look all over the internet to buy stuff for my wheelchair. A lot of companies make products for wheelchair users but they're not in wheelchairs themselves, so they over engineer them and then sell them for such a high price that most people can't afford them.\n\nSo I started designing my own invention that would allow me to have a cup-holder, a tripod to hold my camera, a canopy to keep the sun and rain off, and all of these different attachments that I wanted for my wheelchair - I called it the Key 2 Freedom.\n\nIt's 3D printable, magnetised, customisable and everything is controlled by the user. This is important because most companies make products that attach to the back of a wheelchair and which can't be controlled by the user.\n\nSomehow the White House heard about it and I was invited to the 2015 White House Science Fair and presented to President Obama. I got a lot of publicity.\n\nIt turns out that not many similar products exist, so I decided I wanted to actually start a company that developed these products and take them to market. Several of my inventions are now patent pending.\n\nDuring that period my mom took me to Boston Comic Con where they have superheroes and all these different comic characters - Spider Man, Iron Man - but no superheroes that represent the wheelchair community.\n\nI thought: \"This is the greatest country, how is it possible that they have no wheelchair superhero?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWell, I wasn't going to wait for Marvel to do it. I want to celebrate the powers and abilities that wheelchair users have, so I started to create a superhero called Wheelchair Man based on my own real-life story.\n\nI write the stories and then I have an artist, Arielle Epstein, who is very talented, draw the images.\n\nWheelchair Man is a teenager, he's an immigrant and he's a Muslim. He's against hatred and he wants to end violence and make this world a better place. One of his main superpowers is that he can make criminals see the consequence of a crime before they have even committed it.\n\nMy plan is to develop a comic book series to inspire people with disabilities. There will be four other original superheroes - Wheelchair Woman, Wheelchair Girl, Wheelchair Boy and Captain Afghanistan - and all of them will be based on the real lives of wheelchair users from developing countries.\n\nOur dream is to also eventually turn all of the stories into video games and movies.\n\nI want to motivate people in wheelchairs, especially kids, to not give up on their dreams. Whatever they want to do they'll do it 10 times better than if they had their legs because the pain and struggle that we go through makes us stronger.\n\nThat's my message, that's Wheelchair Man's message, and that's the message behind all the superheroes that we will create.\n\nWhen I came to the US my father started reaching out to me and I talked to him. He had remarried twice.\n\nUnfortunately one of my brothers, Wakil, who had followed in my father's footsteps and joined the ANA, was blown up by the Taliban two years ago. He bled to death on his way to the hospital. My father left the army after that happened.\n\nMy other brother, Big, and my sister, Zara, are still with my father. I really want to go back there to meet Zara. She was very young and had just learned how to walk when I was hospitalised. Now she's about 15 years old. Every time I try to talk to her on the phone she starts crying and then I start crying.\n\nI've asked my father why he left me. I said to him: \"You left me when I needed you the most.\"\n\nBut he was realistic. He said: \"If I had taken you home, you wouldn't be alive today. We didn't have the resources to take care of you, you wouldn't have been able to go to school and this opportunity to come to the US would never have happened.\"\n\nMohammad Sayed was interviewed by Sarah McDermott and Matthew Bannister\n\nAll images courtesy of Mohammad Sayed and Rimpower\n\nListen to Mohammad Sayed 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 Cycling\n\nTeam Sky have admitted \"mistakes were made\" around the delivery of a medical package to Sir Bradley Wiggins but deny breaking anti-doping rules.\n\nThe team have been unable to provide records to back up the claim Wiggins was given a legal decongestant at the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine in France.\n\nMPs have criticised the team's record-keeping, while UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) is investigating the package's contents.\n\nTeam Sky say they take \"full responsibility\" for the failures.\n\n\"There is a fundamental difference between process failures and wrongdoing,\" said Team Sky principal Sir Dave Brailsford.\n\nOn Tuesday, Team Sky published a covering letter and supporting document sent by Brailsford to address the concerns of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.\n\nAt a series of hearings, the committee has sought answers relating to the package and Wiggins' use of therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs).\n\nThe original allegation made to Ukad was that the package delivered by then-British Cycling coach Simon Cope to ex-Team Sky medic Dr Richard Freeman contained triamcinolone - the corticosteroid for which Wiggins, a five-time Olympic gold medallist and the first Briton to win the Tour de France, later received three TUEs, as leaked by hackers Fancy Bears.\n\nTeam Sky said it is right the claim is being \"investigated thoroughly\" by Ukad but asserted that there has so far been \"no evidence whatsoever to substantiate the allegation\".\n\nIn the supporting document, Team Sky say Freeman had no prescription rights to purchase the decongestant Fluimucil in France and questioned some media reports over the amount of triamcinolone ordered by the team.\n\nThey also say Freeman \"failed to comply with team policy\" by not saving written notes to confirm Wiggins was administered Fluimucil at the time in the right place, instead storing his notes on a laptop that was reported stolen in 2014.\n\n\"Self-evidently, the events of recent months have highlighted areas where mistakes were made by Team Sky.\n\n\"Some members of staff did not comply fully with the policies and procedures that existed at that time. Regrettably, those mistakes mean that we have not been able to provide the complete set of records that we should have around the specific race relevant to Ukad's investigation. We accept full responsibility for this.\n\n\"However, many of the subsequent assumptions and assertions about the way Team Sky operates have been inaccurate or extended to implications that are simply untrue.\n\n\"Our commitment to anti-doping has been a core principle of Team Sky since its inception. Our mission is to race and win clean, and we have done so for eight years.\n\n\"To my understanding, Ukad's extensive investigation has found nothing whatsoever to support this allegation, which we believe to be false.\n\n\"Some of the comments made about Team Sky have been unreasonable and incorrect.\"\n\nHow did we get here?\n• None Wiggins and Team Sky come under scrutiny for his use of TUEs after his confidential medical information was leaked by hackers 'Fancy Bears'.\n• None Wiggins, an asthma and allergy sufferer, received special permission to use triamcinolone shortly before the 2012 Tour de France as well as the previous year's event and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.\n• None His TUEs were approved by British authorities, and cycling's world governing body the UCI. There is no suggestion either the 36-year-old or Team Sky broke any rules.\n• None A Daily Mail investigation revealed Team Sky and Wiggins were being investigated by Ukad over the contents of the 'mystery package'.\n• None Ukad officials visited British Cycling headquarters in Manchester as part of a investigation into allegations of wrongdoing in the sport.\n• None Brailsford faced the Department for Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) hearing into doping in sport. He told MPs Freeman had told him the package contained Fluimucil.\n• None Ex-Olympic champion Nicole Cooke tells MPs she is \"sceptical\" of Team Sky's drug-free credentials and Wiggins' TUEs.\n• None Ukad chief Nicole Sapstead tells MPs Freeman, who received the package, has no record of his medical treatment at the time.\n• None Freeman, who missed the select committee hearing on 2 March because of ill health, had a laptop containing medical records stolen.\n\nMoments after the letter and document were published, Team Sky board chairman Graham McWilliam tweeted his \"100%\" support for Brailsford, saying the board were 100% behind the team principal and looking forward to \"many more years of success.\"\n\n\"Pleased to see Team Sky challenging some of the inaccurate commentary of recent days,\" McWilliam added.\n\nBritain's Geraint Thomas - one of a majority of Team Sky riders to back Brailsford on Monday - says it is \"annoying\" that Wiggins and Freeman are not answering questions about these issues instead of the current team.\n\n\"The thing is with Dave, a CEO of a company doesn't oversee everything that everyone does, you have to delegate and trust people to the head of those certain areas,\" Thomas told Cycling Weekly.\n\n\"Freeman and Brad don't seem to be having too much of the flak, really, it just seems to be us.\n\n\"We are the ones who have to stand here now and answer these questions, which we have nothing to do with.\"\n\nAfter Brailsford - until recently one of British sport's most respected figures - appeared to be on the brink, this is Team Sky's attempt to finally get a grip of a crisis that was seemed to be spiralling out of control.\n\nThey will hope that the combination of contrition and defiance in this eight-page document, along with more detailed explanations of some of the questions raised by last week's incendiary parliamentary hearing, will relieve some pressure.\n\nHowever, Chris Froome's failure to join other riders in support of his boss (instead defiantly tweeting about his steak supper - and then a giraffe) was another PR calamity, and permanent damage to the team's reputation has been done.\n\nBrailsford must now hope there are no further revelations, or his position - already precarious - may become untenable.", "Emma Watson's decision to expose part of her breasts in a Vanity Fair photoshoot has sparked a fierce debate on social media about what it means to be a feminist.\n\n\"She complains that women are sexualised and then sexualises herself in her own work. Hypocrisy,\" said radio presenter Julia Hartley-Brewer on Twitter.\n\nWatson said she was \"confused\" by accusations she is \"anti-feminist\" and there was a real \"misunderstanding\" about what it actually means.\n\nSo can you bare your breasts and still be a feminist?\n\nWomen should be united in the fight for equality more than ever, says Victoria Jenkinson\n\n\"Emma Watson has done more for women and for young girls than most of us put together,\" says Sam Smethers, chief executive of the Fawcett Society, which campaigns for gender equality and women's rights.\n\n\"So I don't really see that just because she's made that decision, any of us should be criticising her.\n\n\"She's an empowered woman who is posing for a very tasteful image. She's not being exploited, she doing it in a controlling position. It's a positive use of her body.\"\n\nSexist News, the team behind the campaign for the Sun to stop using topless models on Page 3, said it loved that the former Harry Potter star was \"exploring and championing feminism having grown up in the public eye\".\n\nIt believes the row created by the photoshoot is \"daft\", adding: \"It is not a debate that we have about men's fashion shoots, regardless of the amounts of nipple-grazing crochet they wear.\n\n\"While no woman gets to dress herself outside of our society's patriarchal bubble, this example just shows that someone like Emma Watson is going to face an even more impossible standard than many other women.\"\n\nVictoria Jenkinson, 20, a member of Girlguiding, believes the shoot has been used as a opportunity to \"stir up a frenzy\" around Watson and \"undermine\" her work promoting women's rights.\n\n\"The shoot doesn't suggest hypocrisy nor does it undermine her work as a feminist and we as women should be united in our fight for equality more than ever before,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't understand why people have an idea they can tell a woman what she can and can't do and I agree with Emma that critics have missed the point.\n\n\"A woman should be able to choose what she wants to do. This is what feminism is all about in 2017.\"\n\nBut Dr Finn Mackay, a feminism researcher at the University of West England, rejects the view that feminism is about giving women \"choice\" and says it is a social justice movement.\n\n\"Emma's saying feminism is about choice and the choice to do whatever you want, but that's a nonsense,\" she says.\n\n\"Some women choose terrible things, some women choose to work for parties that deny women access to abortion, access to healthcare or mothers access to welfare.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emma Watson responded to claims she is anti-feminist by saying she was \"confused\" by the comments\n\nHowever, she does not believe that Watson's pose for Vanity Fair means she is not a feminist.\n\n\"If she self identifies as a feminist and believes in promoting women's rights, her doing her job doesn't necessarily have to undermine that.\n\n\"I think if she's trying to say being in a photoshoot and getting your breast out is a feminist act, that's a different matter.\"\n\nBut Dr Mackay believes promoting feminism is more effective through the voice and not the body.\n\n\"The most radical thing that women can do in this culture is keep their clothes on and open their mouths and make political points,\" she says.\n\nThe controversy surrounding Watson's magazine shoot has brought into question what it means to be a feminist.\n\nBut equality groups and feminists say the debate should be focused on female objectification and inequality.\n\nMs Smethers says: \"The real issue about all of this is the pressure on young women to look a certain way, to be judged on their appearance so if we are going to focus on anything that's what I would be more concerned to be prioritised.\"\n\nDr Mackay questions why the debate has been reduced to a celebrity exposing her breasts rather than issues such as women's economic positions and cuts to women's services.\n\n\"A Hollywood celebrity flashing a bit of boob is really the least of my worries,\" she says.\n\nCampaigners marched for women's rights at a protest in London in January 2017\n\n\"It's interesting that people only speak about it now and their real motivation seems to be to want to have a dig at feminism rather than to talk about the overall problems Hollywood has with objectifying women.\"\n\nSexist News adds: \"We really need to examine why on earth this one fashion image has caused such outrage. This is not to say that images of fashion or celebrity are unproblematic, quite the contrary.\n\n\"As ever the focus is on what a woman should or shouldn't be doing and not on how our culture presents, polices and consumes women's bodies and condemns their actions.\n\n\"We need to challenge these things, not the individual women stuck in the system.\"\n\nAre you a feminist? Has someone challenged whether you are a feminist because of something you've said, done or worn? Tell us about your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk with your stories.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Georgina Tomassi: \"I'm 18 and in a class with 15-year-olds\"\n\nAlmost 80% of pupils in England who do not achieve a C grade in GCSE maths or English fail to attain this mark during their resits. It is leaving hundreds of thousands of students stuck in a cycle of exams.\n\n\"I've failed my maths GCSE four times. It's horrible because you feel like you're stupid.\n\n\"You feel like there's something wrong with you. I'm 18, and I'm being put into a class with 15-year-olds,\" Georgina Tomassi tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\nShe is desperate to achieve a grade C in maths, after missing out by just a few marks on more than one occasion.\n\nIn 2013, the government introduced a policy that said students in England who fail to get a grade C or above in GCSE maths or English should carry on studying the subject, or subjects, until the age of 18, with the aim of achieving this mark.\n\nIt means hundreds of thousands of pupils like Georgina - who is also studying for A-levels in drama and health and social care - are taking resits up to twice an academic year.\n\nFigures from the Department for Education show that 77.3% of students in England do not attain a C grade in English or maths when they resit the exam post-16.\n\n\"You've got to keep going because I need it to get a job and get into university,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm so close and it's so frustrating.\"\n\nAt Tolworth Girls' School's sixth form, in Kingston upon Thames in south-west London, Georgina and her friends are taught resit classes, but the teachers' busy timetables mean they are limited to just a couple of hours per week.\n\nChloe Gatt, the school's head of English, says budget strains mean it is difficult to find enough staff to cover those teaching the extra lessons.\n\nWere she not teaching the resit class, she would probably be with her Year 7 or 8 pupils, or her A-level students, she says.\n\nAt City College Norwich, just under half of all new students arrive without a C grade in maths or English.\n\nThe college's head of school for GCSEs, English and maths, Ray Cameron-Goodman, says it has seen a 440% rise in the number of students taking a GCSE in the past few years.\n\n\"In terms of staffing resource, that comes to many hundreds of thousands of pounds every year,\" he explains.\n\nThen there is the amount spent on entering each pupil for their resit exam - usually more than £30 per paper - and extra, hidden costs.\n\nBecause it has so many pupils retaking exams, City College Norwich has to hire Norfolk Showground, one of the largest indoor spaces in the county.\n\nThe college hires Norfolk Showground for pupils to take exams\n\n\"The cost of the showground alone is about £50,000 - then there's the cost of the transport, the first aiders, the catering,\" Mr Cameron-Goodman explains.\n\nThe Association of Colleges says that in England last year, one in five colleges planned to hire external venues to cope with the numbers.\n\nTwo-thirds of colleges were forced to take on extra short-term staff to teach those taking resits, it adds.\n\nColleges say there is no additional funding from the government to cover such costs.\n\nJosh wants to become a bricklayer\n\nFor some pupils, the resits can feel like an unwelcome distraction.\n\nCity College Norwich offers many vocational subjects, such as cooking, photography and hairdressing.\n\nJosh Bennett, 16, is retaking English. When he leaves education, he hopes to work as a bricklayer.\n\n\"I'm more of a hands-on sort of person. I've got eight out of nine distinctions in this course so far.\n\n\"I find it very difficult sitting behind a desk and doing something like [studying Shakespeare]. I'd rather be outside and laying bricks, laying concrete - and I'm good at it.\"\n\nRyan Eves, aged 20, has taken his English GCSE five times without achieving the elusive C grade.\n\n\"It's almost a slight bit of torture. They know that some people just don't get English.\n\n\"I've tried so hard just to get a letter on a piece of paper.\"\n\nRyan has now been offered an unconditional place at university, and no longer needs a C in English - a fact he describes as \"annoying\", having spent so much time on the subject.\n\nMr Cameron-Goodman says the government's policy is \"a fantastic thing in principle\", but is calling for an alternative set of GCSE qualifications to be made available to students who are consistently unable to reach the required C grades.\n\nRay Cameron-Goodman says the exam system is not designed for every pupil to achieve a C grade\n\nHe says it is wrong to expect every pupil to achieve this mark, as the exam system is not built in this way.\n\n\"There is an expectation by the exam boards themselves that a number of students will not pass the examination, and will not pass the examination no matter how many times they resit that examination, so the two things aren't sitting well together.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said it was \"developing credible, high-quality options for students through reforming Functional Skills qualifications in maths and English, to make sure that they deliver the knowledge and skills that employers need, and consequently have credibility and prestige in the jobs market\".\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "The shadow chancellor has issued an \"open invitation\" to MPs\n\n\"We have begun our tea offensive.\"\n\nSo say the team around the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, as they emphasise the need for \"unity\" in the Labour Party.\n\n\"The biggest fear the Tories have is a united Labour Party,\" a source close to Mr McDonnell said.\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn could be the most transformative Labour prime minister since Clement Attlee.\"\n\nThe shadow chancellor addressed Labour MPs at their weekly meeting in Parliament earlier on Monday.\n\nSources said he showed \"contrition\" over an article he wrote suggesting there was a \"soft coup\" under way designed to topple Jeremy Corbyn.\n\n\"We must focus on unity,\" he told Labour MPs, singling out for praise previous critics of Mr Corbyn such as Rachel Reeves and Angela Eagle.\n\nJohn McDonnell has issued \"an open invitation to anyone\" in the Labour movement who would like to talk to him and have a cup of tea, but sources wouldn't say if they were dispatching invitations directly, or merely accepting requests to meet him.\n\nBut not all MPs in the room were convinced.\n\nOne told me he asked Mr McDonnell, in a reference to Sir John Major's speech about Brexit: \"Why is a former Tory Prime Minister more effective at attacking a Tory government than a Labour shadow chancellor?\"\n\nAnother walked out 15 minutes before the end muttering \"they'll still be droning on this time tomorrow\".\n\nMr McDonnell used his briefing to Labour MPs to set out what his priorities will be in response to Wednesday's Budget.\n\nLabour will have four themes they will question the government on: what they see as \"chronic low pay;\" a \"rigged economy in favour of the privileged few;\" social care, where \"one million people are going without the care they need\" and \"ensuring the economy works for women.\"\n\nReferring to Mr Corbyn's recent publication of his most recent tax return, a source said Mr McDonnell \"has a genuine worry for democracy in this country\" since \"the prime minister and chancellor have still not published their tax returns.\"\n\n\"You have a level of transparency at the top of the Labour Party that you don't have in government.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton said he believes Ferrari may have the quickest car with three days remaining of Formula 1's pre-season testing programme.\n\nWilliams driver Felipe Massa set the pace on the first day of the final test but Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel was less than 0.2 seconds behind on a slower tyre.\n\nHamilton was fourth fastest for Mercedes, 0.5secs behind the German.\n\n\"Ferrari are possibly the favourites,\" Hamilton said.\n\n\"We can't take our eyes off them they are doing such a great job.\n\n\"And Red Bull look like they're going quite quick today. It is going to be close at the first race for sure.\"\n• None Relive the first day of the second F1 test\n\nRed Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was second fastest overall on Tuesday, but set his time while using the fastest ultra-soft tyre which no other driver did.\n\nWho is really quickest?\n\nIt is notoriously difficult accurately to predict competitiveness from pre-season testing because there are so many variables.\n\nBut Ferrari have impressed onlookers and rival teams this year so far with their consistently fast times, while not using either of the two softest types of tyre.\n\nVettel continued this form on Tuesday, lapping just 0.18secs slower than Massa, who was using a tyre that Pirelli reckons to be about 0.8secs faster.\n\nRed Bull also appeared competitive, Ricciardo swapping times with Vettel and Hamilton during the morning session.\n\nHamilton said he had had a difficult morning before handing over to new team-mate Valtteri Bottas for the afternoon.\n\n\"It didn't feel spectacular this morning,\" he said, \"but we had some issues with tyre temps and with some floor damage so I sacrificed some of my time so Valtteri could run this afternoon.\"\n\nMeanwhile, McLaren and engine partner Honda suffered another blow in a troubled pre-season programme.\n\nHonda decided to change the engine in the car Stoffel Vandoorne was driving when they discovered an electrical problem after just 34 laps.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of problems with Honda's newly redesigned engine.\n\nHonda has had three engine failures in the course of five days of testing so far. The Japanese company has not revealed how many engines it has gone through - a spokesman saying it has used \"a mixture, and some have been used on multiple days\" - but it is believed to be at least five.\n\nVandoorne ended the day 10th fastest, 2.8secs off the pace.\n\nMcLaren racing director Eric Boullier admitted relations between the two partners were under \"maximum\" strain.\n\nHe added: \"The pressure is obviously huge and obviously we put the maximum pressure on all of our relationship with Honda, and the same for them.\n\n\"We cannot put a footstep wrong. We need to be able to deliver the best car as well, so this is both sides.\"\n\nHe said he hoped a new specification of Honda engine to be introduced before the end of this week's test would solve \"part of this problem - or most of this problem\".\n\nAnd he insisted McLaren were not considering ending its contract with Honda, which is in the third of 10 years.\n\n\"We have a contract in place,\" said Boullier. \"We don't even obviously think about it, because there is a contract between us, a long term contract, and we want to build on it even if it is not ideal times.\"", "Westminster attacker Khalid Masood had a history of violence, but how typical is his past of those who go on to carry out acts of terror?\n\nMasood, 52, who has been claimed by so-called Islamic State as a \"soldier of the Caliphate\", had spent time in prison for offences including violent assaults and possession of offensive weapons.\n\nIn one instance, when in his mid-30s, Masood slashed a man's face with a knife following an argument in a pub, for which he served two years.\n\nWhile this criminal past may contradict stereotypes of those involved in religious extremism, Masood is only the latest manifestation of a criminal-turned-jihadist.\n\nThroughout Europe, there has been a pattern of criminals being drawn to violent jihad.\n\nThose who travel to Syria as foreign fighters are typically already known to police for something other than extremism.\n\nKhalid Masood had been jailed for violent crimes\n\nIn Germany, two-thirds of foreign fighters had criminal records and more than half of those from Belgium and the Netherlands had a similar background.\n\nAmong perpetrators of terrorist attacks, criminal pasts are also common.\n\nBerlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri had convictions for theft and violence, and had sold cocaine in the months before the attack.\n\nAmong the perpetrators of the November 2015 Paris attacks, a number had previous convictions for robberies and drug dealing.\n\nThis is no mere coincidence, as the extremist narrative often resonates with criminals.\n\nAt the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) in King's College London, we recently published a report analysing the criminal backgrounds of European jihadists and found their radicalisation is often linked to their criminality.\n\nIndeed, jihadism is sometimes used to legitimise further crime against \"non-believers\", with some extremists stating that crime and violence is permissible when living in the West.\n\nThey also claim that jihadism offers redemption from previous sins, the search for which typically comes after a period of crisis in the perpetrators' lives.\n\nThat crisis is often prompted by criminality - such as being imprisoned - but it need not be.\n\nMasood crashed his car into railings outside Parliament\n\nHowever, it is striking that Masood does not fit the typical profile of a criminal-turned-jihadist, simply due to his age of 52.\n\nOlder jihadists are usually more involved in extremist support networks - as radicalisers and recruiters, rather than as attackers.\n\nWhile Theresa May said Masood had been investigated in relation to concerns about violent extremism, he was considered a peripheral figure and was not part of current investigations into extremism.\n\nIn one crucial respect, however, Masood does fit the picture of the criminals-turned-jihadists that we have examined - he was familiar with violence.\n\nIf a terrorist has a criminal background, it is very often a violent one.\n\nStabbings, assaults, and violent behaviour are recurrent patterns amongst perpetrators of terrorist attacks with existing criminal records.\n\nThis violent group is disproportionately represented when compared with those convicted of non-violent crimes.\n\nFor Masood, this familiarity with personal violence may have made the \"jump\" into ideologically motivated violence that much smaller than it would otherwise have been.\n\nRajan Basra is a Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, in the Department of War Studies, at King's College London. Follow him @rajanbasra\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nJermain Defoe scored in his first international appearance since 2013 as England took another comfortable step in their qualifying campaign for next year's World Cup with victory over Lithuania.\n\nGareth Southgate's first game at Wembley since succeeding Sam Allardyce on a permanent basis provided few alarms as England remain firmly in control at the top of Group F.\n\nSunderland striker Defoe, 34, justified his call-up with a typically clinical finish after 21 minutes and a lively performance that suggested he still has a part to play under this manager.\n\nAnd when Southgate needed someone to break Lithuania's stubborn resistance after the break, substitute Jamie Vardy obliged from close-range in the 66th minute, converting a subtle touch from Liverpool's Adam Lallana inside the area.\n\nBefore kick-off there was a minute's silence inside the stadium for the victims of last week's London attack. There was also a tribute paid to former England manager Graham Taylor, who died in January.\n• None Quiz: Can you name England's oldest goalscorers?\n• None What is Southgate's best England XI? Pick your own side\n\nEyebrows were raised in some quarters when Southgate recalled Defoe to the squad having last represented his country against Chile at Wembley in November 2013.\n\nDefoe's inclusion, however, represented perfect sense with a record of 14 Premier League goals and two assists in a Sunderland side propping up the table and England's main striker Harry Kane out injured.\n\nAnd so it proved as he pounced in trademark fashion for his first England goal in four years and four days since scoring in an easy win against San Marino, clipping a clinical finish high beyond Lithuania keeper Ernestas Setkus after 21 minutes from Raheem Sterling's delivery.\n\nDefoe had already brought one crucial block from the keeper earlier as he stole in on Lallana's pass. He looks like a player full of hunger who has lost none of his predatory, goalscoring instincts.\n\nEngland will face stubborn opposition again before this World Cup qualifying campaign is over and a poacher like Defoe may well come in very handy for Southgate as he plots his route to Russia next summer.\n\nEngland's friendly against Germany in Dortmund on Wednesday was effectively a testimonial for veteran striker Lukas Podolski on his international farewell - with an atmosphere to match in the normally thunderous Signal Iduna Park.\n\nWembley was also on the subdued side because World Cup Qualifying Group F is a hard-sell in terms of excitement for England's fans, who understandably expect Southgate's side to dismiss opposition such as Lithuania with the minimum of fuss.\n\nEngland fulfilled those requirements comfortably in the face of stubborn opponents who sat back and invited them on in the early phases, then seemed intent on damage limitation and no more as any hope of getting a return from this qualifier evaporated.\n\nThere may be more of the same in the remaining home qualifiers against Slovakia and Slovenia but England, once again, are getting the job done as they move closer to reaching the World Cup.\n\nThe old lingering fear remains that the real measure of how far England are progressing under Southgate will come at a major tournaments, where their limitations have been exposed regularly.\n\nSouthgate can be satisfied from what he has got from England's international double header, with a creditable performance in defeat against World Cup holders Germany and victory here against Lithuania.\n\nIf he has a complaint, it could be that England need to be more ruthless in front of goal, paying for wasted opportunities in Dortmund and also missing chances to make this a more convincing margin of victory.\n\nEngland will not find this failing too expensive in a friendly or against mediocre opposition - but it could cost them if the flaws are on show against higher-class in a competitive environment.\n\nIt is why Defoe's marksmanship is currently required and why the return of a fit and in-form Harry Kane will be so welcome.\n\n\"I thought it was one of those afternoons where it's job done.\n\n\"I am not going to eulogise over the performance, but the overall week I think has been really positive in setting the tone of how we want to work.\n\n\"The players have got a good feel about them, a spirit and they see the direction we want to head. For sure, we'll play better than we did today.\"\n\n\"I am very proud of my team because we have been tested by a tremendously strong team - probably the strongest team we have faced until now.\n\n\"We will take a lot of positives from this loss, to see what targets can be set because what we witnessed today in the first half was unbelievable how skilful all those attacking players are and what amount of pressure we were put under.\"\n• None England are the only team to have kept a clean sheet in each 2018 World Cup qualification game so far.\n• None Vardy's goal was his first touch of the match.\n• None Lallana has been directly involved in four goals in his last five England appearances (three goals; one assist).\n• None Defoe is the 22nd player to reach the 20 goal landmark for England.\n\nEngland next qualifier is against Scotland at Hampden Park on Saturday, 10 June.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Arturas Zulpa (Lithuania) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Ryan Bertrand (England) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (England) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Dele Alli.\n• None Attempt missed. Dele Alli (England) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Marcus Rashford with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (England) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dele Alli (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.\n• None Attempt missed. Eric Dier (England) header from very close range is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Marcus Rashford with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dele Alli (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.\n• None Attempt missed. Jamie Vardy (England) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Marcus Rashford with a through ball. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton said he was surprised how good his Mercedes felt during Friday's practice at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.\n\nHamilton was 0.547 seconds clear of the field after a dominant performance and looks a strong favourite this weekend.\n• None Driver battles, failing engines and moustaches - what to look out for in 2017\n\n\"I am on it and I plan to keep it that way, Hamilton said. \"It is a wonderful feeling to have the car so strong coming into a new era.\"\n\nHowever, Hamilton cautioned against writing off Ferrari so early.\n\nThe Italian team impressed in pre-season testing and the former world champion labelled them as favourites going into the weekend.\n\nFerrari's Sebastian Vettel was second quickest and he did beat Hamilton's team-mate Valtteri Bottas by 0.009secs.\n\nHamilton said: \"It feels amazing and that is surprising. I didn't know how it was going to be.\n\n\"The test was not spectacular so coming into today it was quite refreshing to have the car right where I needed it.\n\n\"I felt good in the car and I didn't even notice the cars being more physical, which is also a positive because I have trained so hard to be ready for this season.\n\n\"The Ferrari is obviously very strong and fast, they might not have the power turned up or whatever and we will see tomorrow, but it seems we are as strong, if not a bit stronger than them.\"\n\nF1 has introduced new rules this season aimed at making the cars faster, more demanding and more dramatic.\n\nThe cars have met those targets but the competitive order appears not to have changed a great deal at this early stage.\n• None Champs and chumps: Your (and our) season predictions\n\nAsked whether the gap between himself and Hamilton was representative, Vettel said: \"I hope not. Overall it has been OK. The car doesn't yet feel as good as it should and it can so I am confident we will find something overnight.\n\n\"We were very happy in testing and the times look good but it doesn't mean anything.\n\n\"I am not that happy overall. The balance is not yet where I want it to be. It is not bad but I think we can do better.\n\n\"We see where it takes us on Saturday when everyone shows what they can do. Today it is still difficult to say. We had a mixed day but the team is doing well and there are lot of things we can improve.\"", "Coverage: Listen on BBC Radio 5 live and follow text updates on the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nA fighter wins. As his trainer hoists him, those watching see a picture of glory. They do not see the tears.\n\nThey do not see the marriage lost to the sport, the deaths of father-figure mentors, the voluntary work, the 16-hour days and decades of relentless commitment.\n\nTrainer Joe Gallagher's deep love for his sport and fighters is undeniable. But it becomes clear the success of Gallagher's Gym is built on an all-consuming desire to prove people wrong. The mantra is clear in this Bolton-based sweatbox: Us versus the doubters.\n\nDays before Anthony Crolla bids to regain his WBA lightweight crown from Jorge Linares, BBC Sport sits in on his last big workout. The gym is once again on the world stage, the way Gallagher dreamed it, through years of toil.\n\nGallagher has his laptop on a makeshift desk next to the ring. He has four YouTube tabs open as he runs the rule over video footage of opponents.\n\nFormer world-title challenger Pat Barrett arrives with nephew Zelfa, who will spar with Crolla. \"Joe, your gym is like Barbados,\" he says. The heat generated from an industrial-sized blower is searing, a ploy to ready fighters for conditions under show lights on fight night.\n\nThe detail has delivered world titles to the gym through Crolla, Liam Smith and Scott Quigg - now trained by Freddie Roach in the USA. A dozen British titles have passed through Gallagher's Gym, along with three European belts.\n\nGallagher - the first Britain-born coach to win Ring Magazine's Trainer of the Year award in 2015 - is careful in who he allows to train here. Egos or the work-shy could upset what he calls a \"solid unit\" of 11 fighters under him.\n\n\"I am a sucker for people telling me about a fighter and saying, 'he can't do anything,'\" says Gallagher. \"I have to have an affinity with them to bring someone in.\n\n\"When Anthony came to me, people said: 'He won't do anything. He's too nice, can't punch. He might win an English title.' I thought: Really? I'll show you.\"\n\nGallagher admires Sir Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho and those accustomed to creating a siege mentality. He believes his love of such a stance stems from his roots on the colossal council estate in Wythenshawe, south Manchester.\n\nHe takes me to his stats board, almost hidden on walls carpeted in fight posters and next to highlighted rankings which show his fighters alongside the world's best.\n\nOn the whiteboard, every result of his pro-coaching career from 2001 is listed. There have been 272 fights, 25 defeats and 43 titles won.\n\nWe revisit the battle mantra. \"When people are putting me down or having a go, I look at that and think: 'That's not bad is it?'\" says Gallagher, 48. \"I like that mentality - everyone hates us, I don't care. When people say my fighters are finished, I just think: 'We'll see.'\"\n\n'The ex-wife thought I was off my head'\n\nCrolla enters, bouncing, shadow boxing, loosening up. Inside the Gloves Community Centre - where this gym is based - the handful of people present stare as the 30-year-old stretches. But there's a warning during his sparring session.\n\n\"Be smart with your feet, Anthony,\" Gallagher bellows. \"Don't admire your work, whatever you do. Linares can land it back.\"\n\nThe sweat runs from under Crolla's head guard. He trains late to replicate his expected fight time. Gallagher is in his 14th hour of the day in the gym as he fits in the individual sessions needed for fighters peaking at different times.\n\nThis is a man who made his own fight debut as a 5st 12lbs 11-year-old, who later ploughed eight years into amateur coaching before guiding pros, and who risked missing the birth of the first of his two children in 1997 so as not to leave a young fighter on his own for a boys' club final.\n\nThrough such commitment, something must give? Indeed, the road to sold-out Manchester Arena bouts claimed a marriage.\n\n\"There's boxing for you,\" he says. \"I missed so many kids events and parents' evenings by taking people sparring. I didn't blame my ex-wife. I was besotted with boxing.\n\n\"When I got two European champions, I thought: I'm packing work in. I had a good job, healthcare and pension. The ex-wife thought I was off my head and called it a hobby.\"\n\nGallagher, now with another partner, says his children get \"plenty of daddy time\" and, through a deep laugh, adds: \"I am trying harder to switch off. It's just so hard to get away from boxing. It's not a job, it's a lifestyle.\"\n\nSparring ends. Crolla's shirt and hair are stuck to him, his shoulders lifting and dropping with each deep breath.\n\n\"Do a bag, Anthony,\" says Gallagher. \"Three rounds.\" Crolla grunts and mumbles respectfully: \"You're a bad man. A bad, bad man.\"\n\nGallagher knows his demands are hard but having started out laying roadside kerbs alongside his dad on Sir Matt Busby Way, he knows this life is a dream.\n\nThose in the gym - such as undefeated fighter and ex-Manchester City footballer Marcus Morrison - tell me they draw confidence from the fact Gallagher is hooked on the sport. Some believe he is \"obsessed\" but attention to detail adds gravitas to his fight strategies.\n\n\"Some trainers in the past have had wins and gone out for a month,\" says an animated Gallagher. \"I can't, I'm not like that. Plus, the moment belongs to the fighter.\n\n\"When Callum Smith won the European title on a Saturday, I phoned Anthony the next day and said: 'You need to be in the gym.' He said: 'What for? I'm not due in.' I said: 'Now you are, you're in.' It was just to show him that I've not forgotten him.\"\n\nRarely does Gallagher stop to enjoy the moment. He was hurt by losing three world titles in 2016 - Crolla against Linares, Liam Smith's loss to Canelo Alvarez and Scott Quigg's defeat by Carl Frampton.\n\nSome in the stable, such as Hosea Burton, 28, have worked under Gallagher since the age of 11, so when defeat arrives, the emotional trauma stings more than placing a dreaded 'L' on the stat board.\n\nWith Crolla sitting two feet away, Gallagher looks to the ground and shrugs: \"Crolla's caught me crying in the changing rooms. That's how it is. You take it personally.\n\n\"You want the best for them and when you know they've put everything in, you just think: 'Why not? This kid deserves this.'\n\n\"Last year, the hardest loss came last. Hosea Burton lost with a minute of a fight to go.\n\n\"Afterwards, I was wrapping Callum Smith's hands and Hosea comes over crying his eyes out saying 'sorry' to me. I couldn't stop and hug him as we had to go to the ring. When I got back to the changing room, he'd been taken to hospital. My head was all over the place.\n\n\"You get down, a bit depressed. But eventually you have to just take the losses the way you take the wins. I'm now 'foot to the pedal' with all of them. There are more rewards for the fighters in this gym.\"\n\nCrolla has pummelled the bag, yelping with each heavy shot. He's sent for two rounds on the speed bag before ending his session with chin-ups, stretching and abdominal work.\n\n\"When I won the Ring Magazine trainer award, I used to ring him and say: 'How did we do this? How have I won this? And how are you a world champion?'\n\n\"I want to prove what we've done wasn't a fluke. I want to win that training award again.\n\n\"I want my stable to all retire happy and all of them to have a house. I don't want them to be a slave to a mortgage. That's a success story.\n\n\"I've insisted that this current crop of fighters, when it's over for them, it's over for me. People say: 'You are kidding yourself.'\"\n\nI tell him that I think he is. He laughs.\n\nCrolla prepares to depart, shaking hands with everyone in the room, as every other fighter has, before leaving.\n\nThere's a warmth to this title factory and it seems key to all that it is.\n\nGallagher will be last out, having been first in.\n\nBout 273 draws closer, and perhaps world title number four.", "Lewis Hamilton has one main target this year - to win back the Formula 1 title he felt was unfairly stolen from him in 2016.\n\nNot unjustifiably, in Hamilton's view his former team-mate Nico Rosberg managed to win the championship only because of a reliability record at Mercedes skewed in his favour. As such, in Hamilton's mind, he might have lost, but he was not beaten.\n\nRosberg has gone this year, replaced by the former Williams driver Valtteri Bottas, but that is a detail that does not change Hamilton's primary focus.\n• None Driver battles, failing engines and moustaches - what to look out for in 2017\n\n\"I definitely don't want to finish second,\" the three-time champion says. \"Every year you generally set the same goals but you might add more. All drivers want to win but not everyone has the ability or the opportunity.\n\n\"I am looking for that fourth world championship. It's there for the taking again. I am up against another great driver in Valtteri and hopefully Red Bull and Ferrari will be up there as well.\"\n\nLosing out to Rosberg in 2016 clearly hurt. And, unsurprisingly perhaps, Hamilton has been distinctly prickly when asked about how he was affected by it.\n\n\"Nowhere near as much as you think,\" he said at the launch of the Mercedes car. \"It doesn't change my life. You just move onwards and hopefully upwards.\" And that was your lot.\n\nHamilton turned 32 in February, is heading into his 11th season in F1, and has described himself as \"the same old\" Lewis this year. But Mercedes people detect a subtle shift.\n\nRosberg's decision to retire was always going to shift the dynamic in the team.\n\nHe and Hamilton were the same age and their rivalry went back to their teens, when they were karting contemporaries, team-mates and friends.\n\nThe friendship died, killed by the intensity of being each other's only rival for the biggest prize in motorsport. But there was always an inherent balance between the two.\n\nHamilton's talent and fundamental superiority on the track meant he was always the dominant figure in the team. But the German had been at Mercedes for three years longer and, a much less demanding character, had a more stable relationship with the team and the company.\n\nHe was Mr Corporate and Dependable, whereas Hamilton, for all his greater status and appeal, was harder to manage.\n\nIn one sense, little will change with Bottas' arrival. Hamilton is who he is, and he will be just as determined to win again. He will remain the superstar in the team; the low-wattage Bottas likely an even more hassle-free employee than Rosberg was. The two will have equal status and they will compete for wins in the same way as Rosberg and Hamilton did.\n\nHamilton has made clear some things will not change for him personally. The restless lifestyle, the frequent trips to New York and Los Angeles to pursue his wider interests are still very much on the agenda.\n\n\"Self-motivation is difficult for the human race to find each year and each day,\" Hamilton says. \"I am very lucky I have fans, family and friends who motivate me to grow and be better every day. I will always do the things I do and explore the world and meet new people and new cultures.\"\n\nSome in F1 see this as a negative, as a reflection that Hamilton is not fully focused on the job in hand if he is flying back and forwards across the Atlantic so often. For Hamilton, it is a way of keeping boredom at bay and using a creative outlet to stimulate him and keep him centred.\n\nIn another way, though, there has been a reset for Hamilton this year.\n\nThe baggage and residual complications of Hamilton's rivalry with Rosberg have gone and been replaced with a more fundamentally straightforward team-mate relationship. And removing that tension has simplified matters within Mercedes.\n\nInevitably, Mercedes will lean on Hamilton more - because of his record, his length of time with the team, and because Bottas is inevitably still learning the ropes and does not yet carry the gravitas that repeated success brings.\n\nThat gives Hamilton an opportunity to strengthen his position, which he is already doing by exploiting the influence and motivational possibilities his status gives him.\n\nHamilton, it is said, has if anything been working harder and better than ever during preparations for the season - and so far has stepped up to the leadership opportunity that Rosberg's departure presents.\n\nThere were plenty of frictions between driver and team last year - Hamilton's controversial comments about engine failures; his behaviour at the Japanese Grand Prix when he walked out of a news conference; the team's attempt to interfere in his battle with Rosberg at the final race of the season.\n\nBut these were sorted out in a clear-the-air meeting in the kitchen at team boss Toto Wolff's pristine Oxford home before Christmas.\n\nThe result of all these factors, insiders say, is that they are seeing a more mature and reflective Hamilton so far this year.\n\nWolff said at the Australian Grand Prix on Saturday: \"There was a point towards the end of the year where we sat down and it felt like a reset of the relationship and so many things came out which needed to be discussed. And since then I have perceived him as being in a really good place. He is happy, he is motivated and I have seen the strongest Lewis that I have seen so far consistently over the weekend.\"\n\nHow the pressures of the on-track battle affect all this will be clear only as the season unfolds.\n\nA point to prove, even now\n\nPre-season testing had suggested Mercedes would face some genuine opposition from Ferrari this season, and the opening grand prix weekend in Australia has confirmed it.\n\nHamilton took pole, and looked superb all weekend, but this is a track on which he has usually excelled and Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari was only 0.268 seconds behind him.\n\nAnd the 32-year-old is now expecting a close fight with Ferrari, not just in Melbourne on Sunday, but over the whole season.\n\n\"They are obviously very close and that is great for the fans,\" Hamilton said. \"I wouldn't say there is relief. I truly believe in all the work they have done but in testing I really couldn't have done the lap he had done.\n\n\"But coming here I felt even if we were behind, it doesn't matter because I have the strongest team. The fact we have come here and we are still ahead is a beautiful thing but they are very close I have to keep applying the pressure and that is what I am here to do.\"\n\nThe fact Bottas was within 0.3secs of him in his first qualifying session with Mercedes will have made Hamilton sit up and take notice - he praised the Finn for doing a \"great job\" afterwards. And the prospect of a battle with Vettel is just another reason for Hamilton to be on top of his game this year.\n\nIt is no secret that Hamilton regards McLaren's Fernando Alonso as his only true rival out on track in terms of outright ability - each has expressed their admiration for the other's talent often enough - and the fact Vettel has won more titles than them burns both Hamilton and the Spaniard.\n\nThis season is Hamilton's chance to put the record straight, equal Vettel's tally of four titles and beat him in a straight fight doing it.\n\n\"Ferrari have done such a great job so we have to stay on our toes,\" Hamilton said. \"I am down for the battle with anyone. He is a four-time world champion so of course I want to be racing with him because if I finish ahead it makes me look good, it makes me look better.\"\n\nIt was a theme Hamilton had already addressed over the winter.\n\n\"I've never wished to go out and dominate,\" he says. \"Of course I want to have a car I can fight for a title with, but for the fans it's best when there's multiple teams fighting.\"\n\nFor the first time since the start of Mercedes' domination in 2014, it looks like Hamilton will get his wish.", "Last updated on .From the section Squash\n\nLaura Massaro, Sarah-Jane Perry and Nick Matthew produced superb performances to give England three of the four finalists at the British Open.\n\nMassaro will take on Perry in the first all-English women's final since 1991 after beating top seed Nour El Sherbini of Egypt 5-11 7-11 11-5 11-3 11-6.\n\nHe will face Frenchman Gregory Gaultier in Sunday's final in Hull after the third seed led 11-9 when Egypt's Ramy Ashour retired.\n\nFifth seed and 2013 winner Massaro looked to be heading out when she trailed reigning champion El Sherbini by two games.\n\nHowever, the 33-year-old from Chorley fought back to win in 63 minutes - reversing last year's World final, when she lost to the same opponent from two games up.\n\n\"I'm just proud of myself that I lived to see another day,\" she told PSA World Tour. \"I'm really pleased, a chance to play again at home. I love coming here. A British Open final is where you want to be.\"\n\nPerry, seeded seventh, was playing in her first British Open semi-final but led from the front against eight-time world champion David.\n\n\"I'm really proud of the way I fought, even when it was really tight, and I'll just be trying to do the same again tomorrow,\" said the 26-year-old from Birmingham.\n\n\"There's no pressure on me. I'm not just here to make up the numbers, I'm here to try and win these tournaments.\"\n\nMatthew, from Sheffield, is closing in on a fourth world title after a brilliant win over Elshorbagy, who had been hoping to claim his third successive British Open.\n\n\"I was trying not to let the adrenaline get to me, I could feel my heart beating through my head knowing the crowd were cheering,\" said the 36-year-old.\n\n\"I felt him wavering at the end which gave me belief.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jean-Claude Juncker: EU will negotiate in 'friendly and fair way'\n\n\"It's like musicians in their bow-ties playing on board the Titanic,\" remarked a friend of mine as I was talking to them about the EU's 60th anniversary celebrations in Rome.\n\nA mild exaggeration, shall we say - but the image sticks in my mind.\n\nBecause as the leaders of the EU's 27 countries clink champagne glasses in plush, security-tight surroundings on Saturday - all is not well in the Europe outside their gates: youth unemployment persists (especially in the south), terror attacks, illegal migration, inequalities in the Eurozone, Brexit and a tide of anti-establishment populist nationalism across much of the bloc.\n\nTo name a few of the challenges. Not to mention \"strongmen\" Presidents Trump, Putin and Erdogan who all eye the EU with suspicion and some animosity.\n\n\"Yes,\" conceded European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker to me in an exclusive interview. \"We are not in the best form and shape we could be in.\"\n\nBut, he insisted, the EU was still young, adding that what the bloc had achieved in six decades was remarkable - Europe is now a continent of stability and peace.\n\nBut that was the vision, the goal after World War Two, I countered.\n\nSurely there's a need for a new vision? Something to capture the public imagination. To re-enchant the disenchanted?\n\nThe EU marks its birthday on Saturday, while the UK will trigger Article 50 on Wednesday\n\nMr Juncker recently published a White Paper on the future of the EU. where he explored five different scenarios - from increased union to paring pooled powers back to the common market only.\n\nIn between, he breathes life into the old idea of a \"two-speed Europe\" - where some countries share more sovereignty for example over defence or migration, while others opt out.\n\nThat proposal appears to be the most popular amongst politicians and civil servants, but to me it sounds like an open admission that there is, in fact, no common EU vision - with everyone doing different things at different times.\n\nAll this at a very sensitive moment - when one of the EU's biggest and most influential members, the UK, is about to walk out of the door.\n\nAnd unity amongst the remaining 27 countries is key for Brussels - to prove to the outside world that the EU still stands strong.\n\nTheresa May's absence at the 60th birthday bash on Saturday will be screamingly noticeable.\n\n\"Of course we will miss her,\" President Juncker told me.\n\n\"I am everything but in a hostile mood with Britain. Britain is part of Europe, and I hope to have a friendly relationship with the UK over the next decades.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWell, that of course will depend on what kind of future relationship the UK and EU can hammer out during Brexit negotiations.\n\nI wondered how the EU would balance the competing desires to keep the UK close yet not give it too good a deal so as to avoid the risk of other EU countries walking away?\n\nMr Juncker admitted he did not want any more \"exits\": Nexit, Oexit, Dexit, Frexit or otherwise.\n\nThat would be the end, he said, if three, four or five more countries left. The EU would collapse.\n\nBut he doesn't believe that will happen.\n\nThe EU and the Commission, he said, would negotiate with the UK in a friendly way - fair but never naive.\n\nInteresting choice of adverbs there. Echoed precisely in a speech delivered on Thursday by the EU's chief Brexit negotiator - Commission man Michel Barnier.\n\nNow, does that refer to talk of the UK aiming to cosy up to individual EU countries (like the Baltic nations with promises of security co-operation) to cajole them into pressing for a good trade deal for Britain?\n\nOr does it perhaps allude to the government rejecting the idea of an \"exit bill\" as part of the EU divorce?\n\nIt's an invoice that Mr Juncker insists must be paid.\n\n\"You cannot pretend you were never a member of the union,\" he practically spluttered.\n\n\"The British government and parliament took on certain commitments as EU members and they must be honoured. This isn't a punishment or sanctions against the UK.\"\n\nDespite mutterings about the Commission drawing up a £50bn ($63bn) bill, Mr Juncker said the precise amount remained to be \"scientifically calculated.\"\n\nBut one thing he insisted that could not be haggled over was the fate of the 4.5 million EU citizens living in the UK and British citizens currently living across the EU.\n\nPresident Juncker said no-one had a right to eject them from their homes and jobs.\n\n\"This is not about bargaining,\" he insisted. \"This is about respecting human dignity.\"\n\nAs they mark the EU's anniversary on Saturday, the bloc's remaining leaders will look with furrowed brows towards the future.\n\nBut they may well take heart in a new trend emerging.\n\nWhile populist nationalist, anti-establishment candidates enjoy strong followings, at the same time unashamed Europhiles like the youthful leader of the Netherlands Green party, the French presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron and the German candidate for Chancellor Martin Schulz resonate with the large sections of the public too.\n\nBut Mr Juncker and others I've spoken to in the lead-up to the EU's anniversary, like his Vice-President Frans Timmermans and Antonio Tajani, the new President of the European Parliamant, all believe this is no time for complacency.\n\nIn just a few days' time Britain will deliver a letter to Brussels, officially triggering the countdown to Brexit.\n\nHow will Mr Juncker feel that day, I asked.", "The officer appeared to be overcome with emotion as he climbed onto his leader's back\n\nNorth Korea's test of a rocket engine last weekend was accompanied by the usual state media propaganda - but one image of its leader celebrating stood out in particular. What is the likely explanation?\n\nThe engine test was claimed to be a success, a \"new birth\" for North Korea's rocket industry. Kim Jong-un was certainly happy.\n\nIn pictures released by state news agency KCNA, he was seen watching the missile from afar; grinning in a control centre; shaking hands with jubilant officers - then, giving an elderly man a piggyback.\n\nWho would leap onto the back of a dictator such as this, and why?\n\nObservers say the mysterious man is not a known figure in North Korean politics. He is thought to have played a key role in the engine test, and most likely interacted with Mr Kim previously.\n\nNorth Korean observer Michael Madden says his uniform's insignias indicate he is a mid-level officer of the KPA Strategic Force, which is in charge of missile forces used for offensive attacks.\n\nWhile the image was almost certainly stage-managed, \"it wasn't completely machinated or fabricated\", says Mr Madden, who is with the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University.\n\n\"It was more a signal of allowance and encouragement than something completely machinated by an image maker.\" North Korean propaganda films have in the past shown citizens being allowed to approach Mr Kim.\n\nThe main purpose of the picture would be to burnish Mr Kim's domestic image as a jovial man of the people.\n\nWhile Mr Kim tries to project a \"recalcitrant and uncompromising\" image internationally, at home \"it is a different story\", notes Professor Jae-Cheon Lim, of the Korea University in Seoul.\n\n\"We know he is very strict with elites when they don't obey his orders. But in general towards the people his propaganda image is friendly and convivial.\"\n\nIn another photo released by KCNA, the same officer was seen embracing Kim\n\nIt stands in stark contrast to his predecessors, who sought to be feared more than loved. \"Nobody would dare piggyback his father or even his grandfather,\" says Mr Madden.\n\n\"But this fits into the image [Kim] Jong-un has tried to cultivate - that he is more open, on an interpersonal basis, than his father.\n\n\"It conveys a certain sense of political confidence in his rule and leadership of the country. If he didn't feel secure, then he wouldn't allow these images to be disseminated - he would need to appear distant and cold.\"\n\nMr Kim was also photographed joking and laughing at the engine test site\n\nThe image also suggests that Mr Kim is, for now, in good health.\n\nHe was spotted limping and using a cane in 2014, leading to speculation that he had gout, and limping again as recently as late 2016.\n\nPiggybacking after a win may be more commonly seen on football pitches rather than in North Korean propaganda pictures, but Mr Kim is known for taking a sports management approach to his weapons development programmes.\n\n\"When a test is conducted, civilian and military personnel [are told they] should regard it as a sports competition - they win some, and lose some,\" says Mr Madden.\n\n\"They won't 'win' or meet technical specifications all the time, and when they 'lose' they study their performance and what happened.\"\n\nBut for all its contrived spontaneity, it does not mean that Mr Kim is not genuinely happy in the photo.\n\nProf Lim points out that he had good reason to celebrate, with an apparently successful rocket engine test putting him one step closer towards his nuclear goals - and sealing his legacy.\n\n\"In the propaganda annals, his grandfather was the liberator of Korea through its anti-Japanese guerrilla war. His father succeeded in maintaining the regime even under economic poverty.\n\n\"But Kim Jong-un became leader quickly and has no significant achievements to point to so far.\n\n\"If North Korea becomes a nuclear state, it becomes his achievement.\"", "Jenna Cook puts up a poster to try and find her birth family\n\nWhen Jenna Cook went back to China at the age of 20 to search for her birth parents, she knew she was unlikely to succeed. What she didn't expect was that she would meet dozens of families who desperately hoped she was their lost child.\n\nNear a busy bus station in the Chinese city of Wuhan, on 24 March 1992, someone left a baby to be found. It's quite likely that they watched and waited from a safe distance until the girl was spotted. She was picked up and taken to the Wuhan Children Welfare House, close by. There she was given a name, Xia Huasi, meaning \"China's\", and assigned a birth date chosen at random by the director of the home.\n\nChina's one-child policy meant that families faced heavy fines for having too many children. But it was also - and still is - illegal to give up unwanted children. There was no formal adoption process.\n\nBut just days later China passed a law allowing foreign nationals to adopt, and at the end of June an American primary school teacher, Margaret Cook, came to collect Xia Huasi. She renamed her Jenna and took her home to Massachusetts.\n\nJenna was one of the first wave of about 200 Chinese babies to go to American families. Many others followed - an estimated 80,000, mostly girls, have now gone to live in the US, and an additional 40,000 to the Netherlands, Spain and the UK.\n\nJenna always knew that she was adopted. \"We would talk about adoption just like we would talk about what's for dinner. It never felt like something that was a big deal,\" she says.\n\nNevertheless, she sometimes wondered where she came from.\n\n\"Even just looking at your own belly button, you think to yourself: 'Oh, I used to be attached to another human being. That's the body I came from, but who is that? Does that person even really exist?' It all seems so abstract. It sometimes just feels like you appeared on the planet.\n\n\"Most people are just born into the families they're born into and they never think twice about it. Whereas for adopted people there is always this possibility of another life.\"\n\nJenna and her sister, who was also adopted from China, grew up in an area where very few people looked like them. Their mother, Margaret, did what she could to maintain a connection to her daughters' country of origin - the girls learned Mandarin at school and they socialised with other families like theirs.\n\nWhen Jenna was a teenager she was one of four Chinese adoptees to feature in the acclaimed 2011 documentary, Somewhere Between. Director Linda Goldstein Knowlton had adopted a baby from China herself and wanted to document the lives of these young women - drawing the title from something Jenna said: \"I don't think that I could ever consider myself fully Chinese or fully American - I'm always going to be sort of somewhere between.\"\n\nThe 15-year-old Jenna captured in the film is a hard-working, high-achieving A-grade student. She is successful and loved, but haunted by a nagging doubt. Why did her parents give her up? Had she done something wrong? It's partly what drives her to be a perfectionist. In a moving moment in the film, Jenna speaks at an event for prospective adoptive parents and breaks down when she is asked how she feels about the word \"abandoned\".\n\n\"There's definitely a part of me that wishes I'd never heard the word 'abandonment',\" she says.\n\nOver the course of the film, Jenna delves deeper into her past and ends up volunteering for summer work at the very Chinese orphanage that took her in as a baby.\n\nJenna Cook visits the orphanage where she stayed in 1992\n\nNot all of the participants in Somewhere Between have a desire to return to China or find their birth families. In any case, adoptees are warned that attempts to trace birth families are unlikely to succeed. There is often very little information available, as birth families had to hide their identities for fear of punishment. And the records that existed in the 90s, when international adoption began, were badly kept. Add to this the sheer size and population of the country and it is a daunting task.\n\nBut miracles do happen. Haley, one of the four girls featured in Somewhere Between, goes back to the village where she was found. While putting up posters she is recognised by a woman who immediately runs to fetch her family. The next thing Haley knows, she is being hugged and kissed by a man who says he is her father. An emotional family reunion follows in which Haley meets her mother and sisters - surprisingly, she has more than one. Everyone looks shell-shocked by the experience.\n\nIn the West, adoptees searching for their birth parents can usually afford to take things slowly. But international adoptees don't have that luxury. They can probably only afford one such trip in their lives, says Bea Evans from the specialist company, Adoptive Family Travel. For more than 20 years she and her colleagues have taken internationally adopted children and their families to 18 countries including China, Guatemala, India and Korea (the Korean War led to the first wave of international adoptees in the US).\n\n\"Almost all international adoption has started in response to some kind of upheaval, whether it was political or financial or a policy like China's one-child policy,\" she says.\n\nThe company organises visits to orphanages - or social welfare institutes, as they are known in China - and occasionally assists with family searches and reunions. Evans says there is an increasing amount of \"search and reunion\" taking place in South Korea. Could this also take off in China? \"I do wonder what will happen as more and more young [Chinese] women get to that age where they are saying: 'We want more information,'\" she says.\n\nThe documentary maker Changfu Chang, who specialises in Chinese adoption stories, hears about successful searches almost every month. So how does he explain it? \"Chinese society is a connected society, you do not really have many secrets,\" he says. \"As long as you get into that particular village or neighbourhood or community others will help to provide that information.\"\n\nBut Jenna was found near Hongji long-distance bus station, where 12,000 travellers arrive in Wuhan from all over the countryside every day. This made the search particularly challenging.\n\nA busy day at the bus station in Wuhan\n\nWhen she was 20 and studying at Yale University, Jenna was given a grant to travel to China to begin her own search. It was partly an academic exercise - she hoped her experience could help some of her fellow 80,000 Chinese adoptees in the US. But of course it was also deeply personal, and she asked her adoptive mother, Margaret, to accompany her.\n\nJenna had printed flyers with pictures of herself at different ages and what little she knew about the circumstances in which she was found. She began handing them out to people in the streets of Wuhan, many of whom shared their own experiences. \"Oh, I had a neighbour once who had a daughter in a similar situation,\" they told her. Or \"I had a cousin who once gave up their child but I don't remember if it was in '92 or '93.\"\n\nJenna found this fascinating. \"I was pretty amazed that people were even paying attention to me, because I felt like I'm just one story in a huge migration of children from China,\" she says. \"I felt like I was just one raindrop in the puddle.\"\n\nBut people were interested in her story, and a week after she arrived an article about her search appeared in the local paper. It was short and tucked away on page five, but the headline tugged at the heartstrings: \"Dad, Mom: I really hope that I can give you a hug. Thank you for bringing me into this world.\"\n\nIt had a huge impact. In the weeks following the publication of that article on 25 May 2012, Jenna's search went viral. Hundreds of messages started coming in via social media.\n\n\"Their reactions were really polarised,\" says Jenna. Some people said: \"This is fantastic that you're searching and I hope that you're able to find your parents and that your dream comes true.\" Others would say things like: \"This is such a big mistake, you're wasting your time and energy.\" And: \"You're so ungrateful to your American family, you need to go back to America right away.\"\n\nAmong the tide of messages there were genuine responses from people who thought they might be Jenna's parents. She narrowed it down to 50 birth families, each of which had left a baby on the same street in Wuhan in March 1992.\n\nThe implications of this are vast, says Jenna. What about other streets in the same month? What about other months? What about other years? What about the families who chose not to come forward? When she spoke to people who had worked at the bus station at the time, they said babies had often been left there.\n\nBut as well as being shocked by the sheer numbers, Jenna was surprised they were willing to come forward. After all, it is against the law to abandon a child - and after the publication of the newspaper article Chinese television had started filming her search. \"Here are these people who have technically committed a crime and they're willing to come forward on national television. It was just unthinkable,\" she says.\n\nThe article about Jenna in the Chutian Metropolis Daily\n\nJenna and her mother arranged to meet the 50 families they thought could be a match. Some mothers and fathers came alone, but others brought the entire family, including grandparents. What surprised Jenna was that, far from being one-child families, often they had more than one daughter. What tended to happen was that they would keep their first daughter, and try again for a son. With each child they would incur penalties. Eventually, after having several daughters, they would decide to give one up, in the hope of saving a place in their family for a son.\n\nJenna initially approached the meetings from an academic standpoint. She told herself she was there to collect stories. \"If I had gone into every meeting thinking: 'Maybe this is the one,' I would have been totally exhausted by the end of the day,\" she says.\n\nBut she still had to steel herself. \"Especially for the first few meetings I was really nervous,\" says Jenna. \"I was really worried about what they would think of me. I was really worried that maybe I had done something wrong, and that was why they had abandoned me - I worried that they would be angry at me.\"\n\nJenna thinks this is because she had unconsciously absorbed some of the prejudices that surround the issue. \"In the US there is this dominant narrative that the reason why Chinese parents abandon children is because they don't like girls, and maybe they don't even remember them,\" she says.\n\nBut she found this not to be the case at all. \"They all remembered their babies forever - it was this experience that they really regret and that they would never forget.\"\n\nOne woman brought a piece of delicate red-and-blue cloth that she had carefully kept - it was the material she had made her baby's suit out of. \"She had kept these scraps for 20 years like a memory of her daughter. And she always dreamed that when they would meet her daughter would have the clothes and she would have the scraps - kind of like a lock and key.\"\n\nSadly, Jenna did not recognise the material. \"I just remember shaking my head, I had never seen it. And the poor mother just collapsed. She was so devastated.\"\n\nAnother man she met, a long-distance bus driver, had spent a lot of time searching for his daughter. Whenever his bus route took him into the city he would go back to the area where they had left their baby and ask for her. They had left her with a note so she would grow up knowing her name.\n\nEach family approached Jenna as if she were their daughter. For a brief moment, they represented the other's missing part. One mother even began brushing Jenna's hair. Mostly, they wanted to know if she was OK - like people emerging from a disaster and wondering if the other side had also survived, says Jenna.\n\nThey would ask: \"Is your adopted mother good to you or does she hurt you? Does she give you enough food to eat?\" Jenna would reassure them that she was well looked-after. \"They would just be so happy to know that I hadn't been suffering all this time.\"\n\nIn turn, she asked them: \"Was it something about me that made you relinquish me long ago? If I had been more beautiful or if I had been more obedient and had cried less would that have changed your decision?\" And they were able to reassure her. \"The parents just remembered their baby girl in such a loving way,\" says Jenna.\n\nBut there was also the business of verification. Having established that the facts matched, they would look for a physical resemblance - things like height, or foot-shape or hand-shape. Sometimes they would want to check for birth marks. Then, if they felt that there were enough similarities, they would go ahead with a DNA sample. In the end, 37 families opted to do DNA.\n\nSadly, all of the tests came back negative. It was a real blow.\n\n\"I think another reason why it was hard seeing all of the negative DNA results come back was because I sure wished I could be the daughter to every one of those families,\" says Jenna.\n\n\"To be the person that could help relieve their suffering - who wouldn't want to be that person?\"\n\nDespite this, Jenna feels the experience has helped her.\n\n\"Before, there was always a small part of me that felt like there was something I could have done 20 years ago to have changed my fate and then I wouldn't have been relinquished by my family,\" she says. \"But after meeting the birth parents I realised it was really out of my control.\"\n\nAs an academic, it has changed her outlook completely. \"It's a totally different experience to read in a history textbook about the one-child policy and read that parents abandoned their children or committed infanticide,\" she says. \"But to meet people who have really lived that experience, and to see their great regret, and their great love for this baby - it's just something that's indescribable.\"\n\nJenna spent last summer working in China, but is no longer actively searching.\n\n\"I would love to have the chance to reunite with my birth family someday,\" she says. \"But I can't say that will happen.\"\n\nJenna Cook appeared on Outlook on the BBC World Service. Listen again to the interview on iPlayer or get the Outlook podcast\n• None The father searching for his abducted son", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nRepublic of Ireland skipper Seamus Coleman has had surgery following a horrific leg break in Friday's goalless draw against Wales.\n\nThe Everton full-back, 28, suffered tibia and fibula fractures in his right leg following a bad challenge from Neil Taylor, who was given a red card.\n\n\"Seamus suffered a serious leg injury and has undergone surgery,\" said Republic manager Martin O'Neill.\n\nColeman was given oxygen before being carried off at the Aviva Stadium.\n\nThe Donegal man was taken straight to St Vincent's University Hospital immediately after the incident and had surgery on Saturday morning.\n• None Listen: Taylor's tackle on Coleman 'out of character'\n• None 'All our thoughts are with Seamus' - Wales boss Coleman\n• None Listen: Tackle on Coleman was 'shocking and reckless' - Hartson\n\n\"Captain Seamus Coleman, who went off injured during the game, underwent surgery on Saturday morning after fracturing his right tibia and fibula, under the care of the FAI's orthopaedic surgeon, Professor John O'Byrne and Mr Gary O'Toole, consultant orthopaedic surgeon,\" said a Football Association of Ireland statement.\n\nMr O'Toole is well known in Irish sporting circles as a former Olympic swimmer.\n\nColeman's serious leg break happened midway through the second half of the World Cup qualifier.\n\n\"He has had an exceptional season with both club and country, and he will be a big loss,\" added Republic boss O'Neill.\n\n\"But Seamus is so mentally strong that when he has fully recovered he will be as brilliant as before.\"\n\nWales manager Chris Coleman said defender Taylor was \"despondent\" following the game.\n\n\"First and foremost, the most important thing is Seamus Coleman,\" he said. \"We are told that it is not so good, which we are sorry for.\n\n\"Neil Taylor is not really that type of player, but it's a tough one for Seamus. Our thoughts are with him. I have not seen it again.\"\n\nEverton return to Premier League action with the Merseyside derby against Liverpool at Anfield on Saturday, 1 April.\n\nEverton midfielder James McCarthy was scheduled to start for the Republic, but was withdrawn from the team-sheet before kick-off because of a hamstring injury.\n\nMcCarthy has been released from the Republic squad for Tuesday's friendly with Iceland along with John O'Shea, Glenn Whelan and Jonathan Walters.\n\nO'Shea needed stitches in a leg wound after being injured in a sliding challenge from Gareth Bale, which resulted in the Real Madrid star receiving a booking which will rule him out of Wales' next qualifier in Serbia on 11 June.\n\nThe draw in Dublin meant the Republic missed out on returning to the top of Group D, after Serbia beat Georgia earlier on Friday, with Wales four points behind in third.\n\nThe Republic's next Group D qualifier is at home to Austria, also on 11 June.\n\n'Get well soon, Seamus'\n\nColeman's Everton team-mate Ramiro Funes Mori: Devastated of what happened. Hope you have a speedy recovery my friend, best wishes for you. You will come back even stronger!!! SeamusColeman.\n\nArsenal right-back Hector Bellerin: Get well soon @seamiecoleman23!! #RightBackUnit\n\nIrish 20-time champion jockey AP McCoy: Gutted for Seamus Coleman. Hopefully he'll have speedy recovery\n\nActor and television presenter James Corden: Stay strong Seamus Coleman. Every true football fan wishes you a strong recovery x", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nKatie Taylor continued her progress towards a world title shot by beating Milena Koleva on points in an eight-round super-featherweight contest.\n\nThe Irishwoman saw off the ex-IBF super-featherweight challenger in Manchester to remain unbeaten in the professional ranks after four fights.\n\nTaylor, 30, had Bulgarian Koleva on the canvas in the seventh round.\n\n\"I definitely needed the eight rounds and it was a great contest against a very strong opponent,\" said Taylor.\n\nThe Bray boxer had won two of her first three professional fights inside the distance and always looked in control against Koleva on Saturday night.\n\nThe fight was on the undercard of Anthony Crolla's world lightweight title rematch against Jorge Linares.\n\nTaylor's last victory was on 4 March, when she stopped Italian Monica Gentili.\n\nTaylor's promoter Eddie Hearn is hopeful of landing a world title fight by the end of the year.\n\nThe London 2012 Olympic champion won six European titles and five world crowns during a distinguished amateur career, before turning professional in October.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFariha remembers the exact moment when Islamic State fighters shattered her life in Palmyra.\n\n\"It was a quarter to five in the morning. We were asleep and heard a knock on the door,\" she tells me as we sit on thin, grey mattresses in an abandoned school in Homs, 160km (99 miles) from her home.\n\nThis makeshift shelter, in the ruins of a Homs neighbourhood, is a refuge for her and five children, as well as 29 other families, who fled the brutal rule of so-called Islamic State (IS).\n\n\"They shouted at me to cover myself then entered my house, weapons in hand, and took away my husband and niece,\" she recalls as her little ones huddle close, listening, wide-eyed and silent.\n\nHer 15-year-old nephew and her brother-in-law were also taken at that fateful time when IS first stormed Palmyra in 2015. They had their throats cut.\n\n\"They killed a lot of young men,\" Fariha adds, in her softly-spoken story of unspeakable savagery.\n\nAs IS loses ground in northern Syria, more and more gruesome accounts are emerging of their catalogue of crimes.\n\nIS militants have destroyed large parts of the historic site\n\nDamage to the Roman-era theatre is clear to see\n\nFamilies like Fariha's suffered twice over when IS lost, and then recaptured, the Roman ruins of Palmyra and the adjacent city.\n\nNow, after a second occupation, lasting only three months, the area was seized a few weeks ago by Syrian forces, bolstered by the blistering firepower of their Russian and Iranian allies.\n\nPalmyra's deserted buildings now yield evidence of its dark chapter.\n\nIn the blackened basement of one villa, Syrian soldiers show us what they describe as a makeshift court room.\n\nMounds of blue files strewn across the floor are a measure of IS's scales of justice.\n\nOn one file after another, there's the same small word scribbled in Arabic: \"qatl\" - executed.\n\nIt was the fate of a woman named Farizha for \"spreading corruption on earth\".\n\nMarwan met the same end for \"turning from Islam\".\n\nTwo men, both named Ahmed, were sentenced to be \"thrown off the top of a building\". No reason is listed on their joint file.\n\nA sheet of paper taped outside the door, stamped with an IS seal of authority, notifies \"everyone who lives in this state that they must enrol in a course to learn about Sharia law\".\n\n\"Everyone who doesn't will be punished.\"\n\nIS rule is over here. But with homes destroyed, and without electricity or water, Palmyra still isn't a place fit to live in, or safe to return to.\n\nNow both ancient and modern Palmyra are ruins.\n\nThe modern part of Palmyra is also in ruins\n\nWhat was once a vibrant community of 75,000 is now an eerie ghost town. Charred buildings peppered with bullet marks and gaping holes scar every street.\n\nPeople fled not just IS persecution but an urban battlefield including ferocious bombardment by Syrian and Russian warplanes, which flattened multi-storey buildings into stacks of concrete pancakes.\n\nPalmyra's pain did not start or end with IS occupation. Its prison, known by the city's Arabic name Tadmur, was a symbol of torture and summary executions long before Syria's uprising began six years ago.\n\nSyrian soldiers now go house-to-house searching for explosives and booby traps. Russian troops, camped on the outskirts of the city, are helping to demine the area.\n\nThe site of the ancient Roman city nearby stands as a stark tribute to Palmyra's survival.\n\nDespite the destruction of iconic structures such as the 2,000-year-old Arch of Triumph, Palmyra's elegant colonnaded street and striking symmetrical designs are still breathtaking.\n\nThe legacy of IS in Palmyra casts a long shadow\n\nIS's return had bestowed a second chance to destroy more precious world heritage, but much of these monumental ruins still stand.\n\nThe circular Roman theatre was their prime target in January. Its imposing centrepiece, a carved facade, was smashed, leaving a jumble of jagged stone boulders on its ancient stage.\n\n\"This was their revenge for the concerts staged here by Russia's Red Army Orchestra as well as Syrian orchestras,\" explains a government official, who accompanies us to the site.\n\nA dusty pile of glass candle holders wrapped in netting, and red plastic roses caked with dirt, are still tucked in some corners - mementos of the triumphal events in May 2016 when IS was defeated here the first time.\n\nThere is still evidence of the celebrations after the first defeat of IS\n\n\"Recapturing Palmyra the second time was relatively easy,\" says Syrian officer Colonel Malik who fought in both rounds. \"The battles were more ferocious the first time.\"\n\nPalmyra last fell into IS hands in December as the Syrian military was distracted by the last stages of the brutal battle for Aleppo and IS's ranks were reinforced by fighters fleeing frontlines in Mosul, crossing the border from neighbouring Iraq.\n\n\"I don't think we face the threat of losing Palmyra again,\" Colonel Malik tells me confidently as we stand outside the walls of the grand theatre.\n\n\"We've retaken the military airport nearby and the mountains, a space of nearly 70 sq km in less than a month, which proves IS is weakening now.\"\n\nBut harder battles, including an assault on IS's self-declared capital in Raqqa, still lie ahead.\n\nConfronting IS in their Syrian lair, closer to the Turkish and Iraqi borders, takes the fight onto messier and potentially dangerous political turf.\n\nHundreds of American special forces, backed up artillery and airpower, recently moved into this theatre of war to bolster an array of Syrian Kurdish forces, as well as Arab fighters.\n\nTurkish troops are already on the battlefield, playing key roles over the past year in attacks on other IS-held towns.\n\nAll these commands face a common enemy, but also deep seated rivalries and shifting alliances.\n\nThe new US administration is still weighing how to balance a vital relationship with Turkey's President Erdogan while still making use of valuable Syrian Kurdish fighters Turkey sees as its enemy.\n\nTurkey moved closer to Russia over the past year, but they're still on opposite sides of this war with Ankara insisting President Assad's continuing rule is what's fuelling this conflict.\n\nThe biggest question is whether President Trump's team, for whom fighting IS is the main goal, will now co-ordinate with Russia, which would end up strengthening President Assad's axis including Iran.\n\n\"The Syrian government's decision is to take back every inch of Syrian soil,\" insists Col Malik.\n\n\"Those criminals who infiltrated our country were supported by foreign countries like the US and the UK,\" he says, repeating the government's refrain that all rebel groups are creations of Western and Arab states. \"They're supporting, not fighting IS.\"\n\nThe same accusation is levelled against President Bashar al-Assad by the Syrian opposition and its allies who charge him with turning a blind eye to IS's advance to bolster his narrative that this is a global war against terrorism, not a fight for political change.\n\nThe days of IS occupation may be counted, but its legacy casts a long shadow over a punishing war whose end is still nowhere in sight.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nSir Bradley Wiggins says he will \"shock a few people\" when he has his say on an investigation into a \"mystery package\" delivered for him in 2011.\n\nWiggins, 36, said controversy over the package delivered while he was riding for Team Sky had been \"horrible\".\n\nUK Anti-Doping is investigating doping claims but there is no suggestion either Wiggins or Team Sky broke rules.\n\n\"It's the worst thing to be accused of when you're a man of my integrity,\" Wiggins told Sky Sports' Soccer AM.\n\n\"It's been horrible. But fortunately there's an investigation and I obviously can't say too much because that investigation will run its course and then I'll have my say.\n\n\"There's a lot to say, and it's going to shock a few people.\"\n\nTeam Sky have admitted \"mistakes were made\" over the delivery of the package at the Criterium du Dauphine but deny breaking anti-doping rules.\n\nHowever they have been unable to provide records to back up the claim by team boss Sir Dave Brailsford that Wiggins was given a legal decongestant.\n\nThe original allegation made to Ukad was that the package delivered by then-British Cycling coach Simon Cope to ex-Team Sky medic Dr Richard Freeman in 2011 contained anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone.\n\nBritain's most decorated Olympian, an asthma sufferer, was granted a TUE to take triamcinolone before the 2011 Tour de France, his 2012 Tour win and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.\n\nThe Department for Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) has sought answers relating to the package and also Wiggins' use of therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs). MPs have also criticised the team's record-keeping.\n\nTeam Sky have said they are \"confident\" no wrongdoing will be found when the inquiry is concluded.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWales' hopes of World Cup qualification look increasingly remote following a goalless draw against the Republic of Ireland, whose captain Seamus Coleman suffered a broken leg after a wild tackle that led to Neil Taylor being sent off.\n\nThe hosts seemed content to play for a draw as their deep-lying and stubborn defence shackled Wales - and the visitors' lack of creativity and incision contributed to an underwhelming encounter.\n\nGareth Bale twice went close for Wales, but their task became a daunting one after 69 minutes as Taylor was shown a straight red card for his lunge on Coleman, who was carried off on a stretcher and taken to hospital.\n\nThat incident lit the fuse for a tempestuous atmosphere that appeared to inspire the Republic, but despite their push for a late winner, Martin O'Neill's side had to settle for a point and second place in Group D.\n\nThey lost top spot after Serbia's victory in Georgia earlier on Friday but remain four points ahead of Wales.\n\nFor Chris Coleman's side, a fourth successive draw of the campaign is another setback in their stuttering bid to qualify for next year's World Cup in Russia.\n\nWales boss Coleman had been careful to avoid using the phrase \"must win\" for this fixture but, with the Republic four points in front, the visitors could ill afford anything other than three points from Dublin.\n\nRather than emphasise the importance of this result, Coleman had said he and his side were driven by a \"desperation\" to replicate last summer's run to the Euro 2016 semi-finals, a hunger to qualify for a second successive major tournament after an absence of 58 years.\n\nThe enormity of the occasion made for a tense and disjointed start to the match, with all 11 home players regularly in their own half as they sought to contain their opponents.\n\nWales' inability to unlock the dogged defence before them was a familiar failing, as they had struggled similarly in their home draws with Georgia and Serbia, as well as their last-16 triumph over Northern Ireland at the European Championship.\n\nBale and Aaron Ramsey, usually their most potent attacking weapons, looked off the pace having both returned from injury relatively recently.\n\nBale sprung into action early in the second half with a dipping free-kick straight at keeper Darren Randolph and a swerving shot that went narrowly wide - but his frustrating evening was capped by a yellow card, meaning he will be suspended for June's trip to Serbia.\n\nThe match was played with a ferocity most would expect from relatively local rivals and two teams comprised of several Premier League club-mates.\n\nBut the physicality spilled over after 69 minutes. With the ball running loose, Wales left-back Taylor lunged recklessly at Coleman, who was clearly in great pain as he was taken off the field on a stretcher.\n\nRoared on by a vociferous home crowd, the Republic sought to exploit their one-man advantage with a frantic late push forward - but they were thwarted by some stubborn Wales defending.\n\nThe hosts were also arguably paying for their earlier pragmatism and unwillingness to attack.\n\nWhere as Wales had some catching up to do with their group rivals, the Republic could afford to sit back and wait for their opportunity to pounce - even though they had been overtaken at the top of the table following Serbia's victory.\n\nWith a home encounter against the group leaders to come later in the campaign, O'Neill's side seemed to consider this fixture a chance to consolidate, rather than significantly improve, their position.\n• None Listen: Taylor's tackle on Coleman 'out of character'\n• None Attempt saved. Jeff Hendrick (Republic of Ireland) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Shane Long (Republic of Ireland) header from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Aiden McGeady with a cross.\n• None Aiden McGeady (Republic of Ireland) is shown the yellow card.\n• None Attempt missed. Gareth Bale (Wales) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Aiden McGeady (Republic of Ireland) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by James McClean.\n• None Attempt missed. Gareth Bale (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Sam Vokes.\n• None James McClean (Republic of Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Chris Gunter (Wales) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Shane Long (Republic of Ireland) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Glenn Whelan with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Lewis Hamilton won a tight battle for pole position between Mercedes and Ferrari at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.\n\nBriton Hamilton took pole position by 0.268 seconds as Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel joined him on the front row.\n\nThe German pipped Hamilton's team-mate Valtteri Bottas by just 0.025secs as the new era of faster, more demanding cars got off to a promising start.\n\nThe Australian Grand Prix is live on BBC Radio 5 live and the BBC Sport website on Sunday - Australian Grand Prix coverage details.\n\nThe tightness of the battle in qualifying between Mercedes and Ferrari is what was expected after pre-season testing but an impressive performance by Mercedes on Friday led to fears the world champions may dominate again.\n\nBut Ferrari were in much better shape on Saturday and gave every sign they will be able to push Mercedes hard this season, as testing had promised.\n• None Driver battles, failing engines and moustaches - what to look out for in 2017\n• None F1 is sexy again, but will it be better?\n\nVettel was fastest in final practice and the red cars were in the mix from the start of qualifying.\n\nA slightly scruffy final lap from Bottas might have stopped him joining his team-mate on the front row but even so the margins were slight and a fair bit of Hamilton's advantage may well have been in the driver on a circuit on which the three-time champion has always excelled.\n\nBottas, though, was impressive in his debut for Mercedes, qualifying closer to Hamilton than his former team-mate Nico Rosberg did at this race last year.\n\nIn truth, pole position always looked like it was Hamilton's to lose from the moment he took to the track in Friday's first practice.\n\nSeemingly intent on laying down a marker for Bottas, Hamilton was flying from the start, the car dancing through the tricky chicanes around the demanding Albert Park track.\n\nHe ended the day half a second clear of the field, with Bottas and Vettel again separated by tiny fractions, and although Hamilton's margin was reduced in qualifying, the fundamental pattern remained.\n\nThe 32-year-old still has much to do, however. There are new rules governing starts this year which have put control much more back in the drivers' hands and have therefore increased the possibility of errors.\n\nAnd it will be a demanding race in pretty much the fastest cars ever raced in F1, following rule changes over the winter, and on tyres on which the drivers can push flat out for the entire race for pretty much the first time in six years.\n\nHamilton said: \"It has been a fantastic weekend so far and it is quite amazing to be here for the 11th time. It feels like it was only yesterday I came and had my first race here in 2007.\n\n\"Such a great journey, and I am incredibly proud of my team. This rule change has been huge, a massive challenge for everyone and to be up here is fantastic.\n\n\"Valtteri did a great job in his first qualifying session for the team. It is close between us all and it is going to be a tight race this year, I think.\"\n\nVettel added: \"I think we have a good car, things are working well as a team, things are improving. We had a mixed day yesterday but the confidence in the car was there from testing.\n\n\"I was not entirely happy with my lap but I think Lewis did a very good lap and I don't think pole was up for grabs but we can do something in the race.\"\n\nOutside the big three teams, Romain Grosjean put in a highly impressive performance to be sixth in the Haas.\n\nMcLaren and engine partner Honda salvaged something in the context of a dire, reliability-hit testing programme to qualify a respectable 13th with Fernando Alonso.\n\nThere was a highly impressive performance by Sauber's Antonio Giovinazzi, who was drafted in at the last minute in the morning after regular driver Pascal Wehrlein pulled out citing a lack of fitness.\n\nGiovinazzi, who stood in for Wehrlein in the first pre-season test as the German recovered from a back injury sustained in the winter, was quicker than team-mate Marcus Ericsson after the first runs and was less than 0.2secs adrift in the end, despite aborting his final lap because of a mistake at the penultimate corner.\n\nGiovinazzi, who is Ferrari's third driver, said: \"I am so happy. It is a dream come true for me.\"\n\nBriton Jolyon Palmer had a torrid time, qualifying last after a weekend disrupted by problems, 3.3 seconds behind team-mate Nico Hulkenberg in first qualifying.\n\nHe said: \"Horrendous. I am a second off what I did on my second lap of the weekend, and that was on a soft tyre with traffic. The pace right now is a disaster.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nDundee United lifted the Scottish Challenge Cup after overcoming St Mirren at Fir Park.\n\nGoals in either half from Tony Andreu - a sensational volley - and Thomas Mikkelsen eclipsed Rory Loy's strike.\n\nThe Buddies had created the better first-half chances and also had spells of dominance in the second period.\n\nIt was the Tannadice club's first victory in the tournament, which features clubs from the Championship, League One and League Two.\n\nAnd this year's competition also included Premiership colt teams and sides from Northern Ireland and Wales.\n\nChance after chance fell St Mirren's way in the Lanarkshire sunshine on a pristine pitch in front of 8,089 spectators.\n\nLoy hit the post, Lewis Morgan produced a wonderful breakaway from the United centre-halves, drew Cammy Bell and then shot across goal and Gary MacKenzie sent a header past the post when he was totally unmarked.\n\nUnited had hardly threatened Billy O'Brien until Andreu produced a diamond of a goal which flew past the Paisley goalkeeper, a first-time curling volley with the outside of his boot.\n\nIt was a goal worthy of winning a cup, but it actually only gave United the lead for seconds.\n\nFrom the restart, Jack Ross' side went up the park and Gary Irvine cut back for Loy to equalise.\n\nTangerines manager Ray McKinnon's fury at his team's inability to stay switched on was clear, but there was no doubt that St Mirren, still anchored at the bottom of the Championship, had been the better team.\n\nNick van der Velden was replaced with less than an hour gone by Mikkelsen and his introduction would change the game.\n\nSimon Murray whipped in a cross from the left and the substitute met it with a powerful header beyond O'Brien.\n\nIt was against the run of play, but goals win cups and Mikkelsen's effort had the scent of glory all over it.\n\nThe quality of the game was never the same in the second half, but that seemed to suit McKinnon and his team simply saw out the last minutes, nursing their lead over the finishing line.\n\nThey will now hope to follow their cup triumph with promotion to the Premiership, with the Tangerines currently in the play-off positions.\n\nDundee United manager Ray McKinnon told BBC Alba: \"I'm absolutely delighted. It was a tough game and a lot of pressure on us, but I thought the guys delivered.\n\n\"There has been a bit of criticism our way, probably self-inflicted.\n\n\"We have got ourselves caught in battles and the message today was to get the ball down and play - and I think they did that.\n\n\"A lot of credit must go to St Mirren - they made it very difficult for us.\n\n\"But we have won a cup, we have had the experience of dealing with the final and the pressure that goes with it.\n\n\"So that will be good for me and the players for the rest of the season. They should take a lot of confidence from this.\"\n\nSt Mirren manager Jack Ross told BBC Alba: \"It was a very evenly contested, competitive match and I thought we had the better opportunities.\n\n\"But congratulations to Dundee United, it is about taking your chances on the day.\n\n\"I can't fault my players - the effort was terrific. We continued to play in the manner we have done and the level of performance was very much at what it has been.\n\n\"Despite our league position, this is a good group and we will use this to continue to move forward.\n\n\"We have a real focus about us and they know their performance level deserved more.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nLeicester took a big stride towards the Premiership play-offs with a breathless East Midlands derby victory over top-four rivals Northampton in Aaron Mauger's last match in charge.\n\nNafi Tuitavake's early score for Saints set the tone for a thrilling game.\n\nAdam Thompstone replied, but France's Louis Picamoles scored one try and made another to earn Saints a 22-16 lead.\n\nA breakaway Ben Youngs try and Lachlan McCaffrey's score edged Tigers ahead and Owen Williams' boot sealed victory.\n\nReplacement Williams slotted a tricky conversion and two tough penalties to earn a win which takes Tigers up to fourth, three points ahead of Bath and six clear of their fierce rivals Saints, who drop to seventh.\n\nBoth sides welcomed back their Six Nations stars and their quality shone through on a glorious day at Franklin's Gardens which served as a fitting farewell to Mauger, who was this week overlooked for the head coach role.\n\nThe glaring sun - and a swirling wind - played a huge part in the game's opening score, with Tuitavake touching down under the posts after Tigers full-back Telusa Veainu make a terrible mess of Stephen Myler's towering kick.\n\nThompstone's swift response from a cute Ben Youngs pass as Tigers played through the phases levelled matters, but then Picamoles took centre stage.\n\nThe huge Frenchman showed great awareness and good speed on the right to combine with Ahsee Tuala, who went over, and Picamoles then added a third home try following a Freddie Burns penalty.\n\nThe boot of Burns helped keep Tigers in touch at the interval and the visitors led for the first time when impressive England scrum-half Ben Youngs scampered away on the left to score from distance.\n\nDespite their dominance in the scrum, Leicester struggled to deal with the strength and quick running of the Saints backline - notably from Wales wing George North.\n\nBut Ben Youngs' burst and McCaffrey's twist and score after another incisive break put the visitors in front and Welshman Williams showed typical nerve to kick Tigers to victory late on despite the sin-binning of Mike Williams.\n\nLeicester Tigers assistant coach Geordan Murphy: \"It's obviously an emotional day for Mauge and I thought he handled it really well.\n\n\"We came together as a side on Monday and talked about it. He said the board had made the decision and it was going to go a different way.\n\n\"He didn't want the decision to affect the performance in the week and he did a great job in setting the team up to come to Franklin's Gardens.\n\n\"It's tough to come here and get a win because I don't remember when the East Midlands derby hasn't been a one-score game. They are generally pretty tight games and the boys wanted to give Mauge a good send-off today. I think they did that.\"\n\nNorthampton Saints boss Jim Mallinder: \"It could have gone either way. We made a very promising start, there were a few key moments in that game where, as we watch it back, we'll think 'what if?'.\n\n\"Particularly at the end of the first half, we had a very good overlap and should have scored that.\n\n\"There were a few other interesting incidents, but it was a close game, either side could have won it and unfortunately we didn't win it today.\"\n\nFor the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "Former Wales striker John Hartson says he \"can't defend\" the tackle by Wales' Neil Taylor which broke the leg of the Republic of Ireland defender Seamus Coleman.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nBritish Olympic and Paralympic sport must improve its athletes' welfare, says Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.\n\nThe 11-time Paralympic gold medallist has authored a forthcoming report into the subject, which has been brought into sharp focus by recent claims.\n\nBritish Swimming is the latest body to investigate claims of \"bullying\", while several ex-riders have spoken of a \"culture of fear\" at British Cycling.\n\n\"We must prove we can win medals with a duty of care,\" Grey-Thompson said.\n• None State of Sport - catch up on a week of in-depth journalism from the BBC\n\nSpeaking at a debate organised by the BBC as part of its State of Sport coverage, she added: \"We've proved we can win medals. I don't think having a duty of care diminishes our chances of winning.\n\n\"We can't make it all warm and cuddly - because that is not what elite sport is. But it is about getting the best talent and not leaving athletes broken at the end of it.\"\n\nGrey-Thompson's report - due for publication \"imminently\", she said - was commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.\n\n\"There are some really good sports out there; there are sports that need to do much more,\" she added.\n\n\"My report doesn't mention a sport in particular, it doesn't mention a particular person in it. It's about the principles of how sport should be as we go forward.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Wendy Houvenaghel became the latest high-profile cyclist to come forward with criticisms of British Cycling's World Class programme - following Jess Varnish, Nicole Cooke and Emma Pooley.\n\nHouvenaghel said a \"medal at any cost\" approach created a \"culture of fear\" at the organisation, which she accused of \"ageism\" and having \"zero regard\" for her welfare.\n\nLater on Thursday, BBC sports editor Dan Roan exclusively reported on British Swimming's investigation into multiple bullying claims made by Paralympians about a coach.\n\nSwimming was Britain's most successful sport at the Rio Paralympics. The British team won 47 medals - 16 golds of 152 available - and set eight world records.\n\nAlso speaking at Friday's debate, UK Sport chief executive Liz Nichol described the athletes' testimonies as \"a wake-up call for sport\".\n\n\"We have to be much more aware of responsibilities, beyond the responsibility of helping athletes achieve what they all aspire to,\" she said\n\n\"It's clear it can be better, and it will be better. This is a big step-up for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics cycle.\"\n\nUK Sport is the funding body for Olympic and Paralympic sports in Britain.\n\nWhen Nichol was asked whether linking funding to medal targets might have a negative effect on athlete welfare, she replied: \"We don't reward success, we invest in potential.\n\nSpeaking about British Cycling's 39-point action plan response to failures identified in a leaked draft report into its World Class Programme, Nichol added: \"This is something that is very significant.\n\n\"Every sport can learn from it and every sport should be looking at the cycling plan and checking to see if they are doing things properly.\n\n\"Yes it is uncomfortable, but it is right that athletes are speaking out. And it is right that we all acknowledge that something has got to change - and it will change - over this next cycle.\"\n\n'It's not an issue of welfare or medals'\n\nHelen Richardson-Walsh, who starred as Great Britain won Olympic hockey gold in Rio, said she had seen \"big changes\" in athlete welfare over her career.\n\n\"Gone are the days where you would get shouted at on the sideline at international level. I don't think that's acceptable in society any more and it is kind of being phased out in sport,\" the 35-year-old said.\n\n\"What we developed as a team in the last two Olympic cycles was so far removed from that old fashioned in your face coaching and we were more successful.\n\n\"You don't need to go down that route to win. It's not an issue of welfare or medals.\"", "It's been claimed that Finland's baby boxes, given to every newborn in the country, help reduce cot deaths. But what evidence is there that they lower infant mortality rates, asks Elizabeth Cassin.\n\nIn June 2013, the BBC News website published an article entitled Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes. It's been viewed over 13 million times and sparked global interest in the idea.\n\nThe article explained Finland's 75-year-old policy of giving every pregnant mother a cardboard box filled with baby products, such as clothes, sleeping bag, nappies, bedding and a mattress, and how the box itself could be used as a bed.\n\nOne reason it attracted such attention is that Finland has one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the world - two deaths per 1,000 live births, compared with a global rate of 32 in 1,000, according to the UN.\n\nOver the past three years, companies selling the boxes have popped up in the US, Finland and the UK.\n\nAnd they're incredibly popular not just with individuals but - more significantly - with governments. The promise of lower infant mortality rates is something to aim for.\n\nBut if you stop and think about it for a minute, this is a bold claim. How does getting a baby to sleep in a box and a few baby items bring down infant mortality rates?\n\nIn theory, the boxes offer a safe sleep space for babies.\n\nThere are lots of reasons why babies die, from health problems to accidents. But there's one in particular that these boxes have been thought to help reduce - sudden infant death syndrome (Sids), also referred to as \"cot death\", is the unexpected and unexplained death of an apparently healthy baby.\n\nAlthough it's difficult to always understand what causes these deaths, there are environmental factors that increase the risk - including being around tobacco smoke, getting tangled in bedding, or sleeping alongside parents - especially if parents have been drinking.\n\nIn the early 90s, many Western countries introduced Back to Sleep campaigns, when it was discovered that babies who sleep on their tummies are more vulnerable to Sids. This led to the last significant reduction in countries like the US and UK.\n\n\"Since we had the dramatic decline of Sids in the 90s, we're now in a situation where the remaining Sids is much harder to try to alleviate,\" says Prof Helen Ball, director of the Parent-Infant Sleep Lab in the UK. \"And so people are looking for new interventions, new changes to social care practices that might specifically help some of the more vulnerable families.\"\n\nPutting a baby in a box, and keeping the box near a parent, could prevent some of the hazardous scenarios.\n\nBut it's important to understand that nearly all countries have seen a dramatic reduction in infant mortality over the last century. In 1900, about 15% of babies in Europe would have died in their first year. Now it's less than 0.4%.\n\nAnd Finnish academics and health professionals have been keen to point out that there is some misunderstanding about the box scheme.\n\nTo understand how policy changed in Finland, we need to go back to 1938.\n\nAlthough infant mortality rates had been falling across Europe, Finland's rate was higher than their Nordic neighbours. The government decided to offer baby boxes to low-income women.\n\nBut the women didn't just get a box. The boxes were introduced \"at the same time that the pre-natal care was started\", says Prof Mika Gissler, a statistician at the National Institute for Health and Welfare in Finland.\n\nWomen had to attend clinics early on in their pregnancy to qualify for the maternity package. Their health could then be monitored throughout and after the pregnancy.\n\nLegislation in 1944 made it a legal obligation for municipalities to provide maternity and child health clinics. That year, only 31% of pregnant mothers had received prenatal care. The figure jumped to 86% the following year.\n\nIn 1949, the care package, including the baby boxes, was offered to all women.\n\n\"Then there was a big change from home birth to hospital birth,\" says Gissler. \"We had the national health insurance system introduced very late in the 60s.\"\n\nOne of Gissler's colleagues, Prof Tuovi Hakulinen, says that to her knowledge, there is no direct link between the baby box and infant mortality rates.\n\nA combination of factors are behind better infant health in Finland\n\nAnd that if you look at the decline in infant mortality, the thing that's driving it more than anything else is a combination of advancement in medicine, vaccinations, nutrition, hygiene and increased prosperity.\n\nFinland has reliable Sids data for the past three decades - and the rate is low. But the significant reduction in deaths has been in congenital anomalies and other diseases.\n\nAnd yet one of the leading baby box companies sells its products as an essential gift for new parents, claiming studies have proven the link.\n\nI asked the company if I could see these studies, but they said that studies showing positive results had not been published yet. Experts say that there are no studies showing the efficacy of baby boxes.\n\nCountries across the world have been trialling variations on the Finnish box, including Canada, Ireland, and Scotland - with many tying in additional education for parents.\n\nAnd while looking at the possibilities the baby box is interesting, there are bigger factors at play.\n\nOne country where the baby box idea has received a lot of attention is the United States - because they are struggling with poor infant mortality rates - six per 1,000 births, which makes them comparable to Poland and Hungary, below the level you'd expect based on their income.\n\nProf Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University, compared data from the US with various European countries, primarily Finland and Austria.\n\nShe says the US does fairly well in the first month of life - but from a month to a year, \"you can see the mortality rate in the US kind of accelerating away from the other countries in that period\".\n\nWhen looking at women with a college degree - a marker for relatively high income - infant mortality rates were low and similar to the same groups in Finland and Austria.\n\n\"What we see is that well-off women in Finland, well off women in the US, are very, very similar,\" she says. \"The difference is well-off women in Finland and less-educated women in Finland have very similar infant mortality profiles. Whereas that is not true in the US.\"\n\nFinland's scheme has been copied in other countries, such as Mexico\n\nBut it's not clear from their research what specifically causes these deaths - because there are many things which make the US different, such as their health system. Also, most countries in Europe have a pretty robust home visiting programme after birth. That's not something that has uniformly been true in the US.\n\n\"What often comes along with the boxes is some additional contact with somebody,\" says Oster. \"It may be the healthcare assistant, a nurse, a social worker.\n\n\"The box alone doesn't seem likely to matter.\"\n\nThe baby boxes are hugely popular in Finland, but they are emblematic of a wider health care system.\n\nGovernments and individuals should not see the box as solely effective, without improving care and education for parents also.\n\nAfter all, there are countries with the same infant mortality rate as Finland, such as Iceland, Estonia and Japan, that do not have baby box schemes.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter", "A rally for two young people detained by immigration officials in Vermont\n\nThe Trump Administration's immigration enforcement priorities have revived deportation orders ignored during the Obama Administration.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Trump criticized local law enforcement agencies for refusing to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) to detain and deport people living in the US illegally.\n\nThe administration started publishing a weekly \"Declined Detainer Outcome Report\", which calls out local agencies that ignored orders to detain undocumented immigrants arrested for unrelated crimes. The report names the immigrants in question and lists \"crimes associated with those released individuals.\"\n\nDespite promising to focus on violent criminals and gang members, President Donald Trump's executive orders on immigration and his executive memo to the Department of Homeland Security empowers Ice to deport virtually anyone living in the US without documentation.\n\nOnly one clear exception exists, for people with active Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) status.\n\nHere's a look at some of the most recent immigration cases across the US.\n\nBeristain, in blue, has been in the us for 19 years\n\nIn 1998, Mr Beristain came to the US to visit an aunt and decided to stay.\n\nIn 2000, he and his wife, a naturalised US citizen originally from Greece, accidentally crossed the Canadian border while sightseeing at Niagara Falls. When they crossed back into the US, border patrol agents detained Mr Beristain.\n\nA judge initially issued an order mandating that Mr Beristain voluntarily return to Mexico. When Beristain declined to leave, the order reverted to a final order.\n\nInstead Mr Beristain's lawyer convinced Ice agents to grant him leniency due to his family ties in the US and lack of criminal records.\n\nThe agents helped Mr Beristain obtain a driver's licence, a work permit and a legal Social Security Number, and Mr Beristain went to work in the restaurant business. He is now co-owner of Eddie's Steak Shed in Granger, Indiana.\n\nMr Beristain had to check in with Ice agents every year. This February, agents at the Indianapolis Ice office took him into custody.\n\n\"Trump says we're deporting bad hombres. Roberto is the farthest thing from a bad guy,\" said Jason Flora, who served as Mr Beristain's attorney until Saturday. \"You ask 100 people to paint a picture of a bad guy, not one would draw something remotely resembling Roberto.\"\n\nHis wife supported Mr Trump because of his immigration programmes, and thought her husband - a businessman and father - would be spared.\n\n\"We don't want to have cartels here, you don't want to have drugs in your high schools, you don't want killers next to you,\" Helen Beristain told Indiana Public Media earlier this year.\n\n\"You want to feel safe when you leave your house. I truly believe that. And this is why I voted for Mr Trump.\"\n\nBecause of the deportation order from 2000, Mr Beristain could be deported as early as Friday without a hearing before an immigration court.\n\nPolice arrested Henry Sanchez-Milian and another undocumented teenager, Jose O Montano, 17, on charges of sexual assault after they allegedly trapped a fellow Rockville High School student in a school bathroom and raped her.\n\nMr Montano is being charged as an adult.\n\nMr Sanchez-Milian has lived in the US for only eight months, after fleeing Guatemala. He had been awaiting a hearing with an immigration judge.\n\nBecause he is considered a serious flight risk, he will likely remain in jail until a he's brought before a criminal court, said Montgomery County Assistant States Attorney Rebecca MacVittie.\n\nWhen an undocumented individual is convicted of a serious crime, standard procedure is to allow them to serve their prison sentence in the US and then transfer them to Ice custody to initiate the deportation process.\n\nIt is unclear whether Mr Sanchez-Milian will be deported before a trial. Ice has issued an order for local law enforcement to keep him in custody.\n\nThe case has been referenced by members of Mr Trump's administration as reason for Mr Trump's \"crackdown\" on immigration.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Martinez-Morales was pulled over for a broken tail light, at which point officers identified him as an undocumented immigrant.\n\nHe had lived in the US for nearly 20 years. He married a US citizen and has four American-born children under the age of 12.\n\nIn 2004, Mr Martinez-Morales returned to Mexico to see family. Upon his return, he was arrested for crossing illegally at the Texas border, which set in motion his deportation order. Mr Martinez-Morales returned to the Houston area, and lived there without incident until this month.\n\nThe Obama Administration's immigration priorities that allowed people living in the US illegally with no criminal record to stay in the US, even if they had a deportation order that predated 1 January 2014. Under the Trump administration, individual with a deportation order is a priority for removal.\n\n\"There has been a total change with this new administration,\" says Raed Gonzalez, Mr Martinze-Morales' attorney. \"This is a sharp shift in policy.\"\n\nMr Martinez-Morales was deported one week after his detention.\n\nMr Carrillo, Mr Balcazar and Ms Rodriguez are activists who belong to a Vermont-based immigration rights advocacy group called Migrant Justice.\n\nIce agents arrested Mr Carrillo-Sanchez on Wednesday, as he was arriving to a court hearing for a misdemeanour charge at the Chittenden County courthouse.\n\nTwo days later, Ice officials stopped a car that Mr Balcazar was driving, with Ms Rodriguez in the passenger seat, as they were leaving the Migrant Justice office. Both were detained by immigration officials, according to the organisation.\n\nAlex Carrillo (left) with daughter and wife at a rally to free Victor Diazz\n\nMembers of Migrant Justice said that they view their detention as a sign that immigration officials are targeting activists and community leaders.\n\nMigrant Justice members have had run-ins with Ice in the past. Two other members, Victor Diaz and Miguel Alcudia, were detained last year, but were both released and had their deportation proceedings halted after public outcry.\n\nMr Carrillo-Sanchez and Mr Balcazar both immigrated to the US from Mexico. Ms Rodriguez is from Peru.\n\nBorder Patrol agents from the Casa Grande Station in Arizona arrested Aaron Sarmiento-Sanchez for entering the US illegally.\n\nHe had previously been deported in April 2013.\n\nWhen officers ran a background check on Mr Sarmiento-Sanchez, they found a 2006 conviction in Salinas, California, for \"lewd or lascivious acts with a child\". Mr Sarmiento-Sanchez was sentenced to six years in prison for that crime.\n\nMr Sarmiento-Sanchez faces federal charges for re-entering the country illegally and will remain in detention until a judge rules on those criminal charges.", "Anthony Crolla was outclassed in his bid to regain the WBA lightweight title as talented Venezuelan Jorge Linares produced a superb display at Manchester Arena.\n\nCrolla - unanimously outpointed when the pair met in September - was rarely able to get close enough to his opponent to cause damage and was dropped by a stinging Linares uppercut in the seventh round.\n\nThough he responded admirably, roared on by around 15,000 in the arena, Crolla always looked at the mercy of Linares' variety of shots and even when pockets of promise arrived for the home fighter, he often quickly faced blows in return.\n\nThe pair embraced on the bell, Crolla sporting a look of frustration as his opponent's hand was raised with the scores 118-109 on all three scorecards.\n• None Listen to the fight again here (from 06:00 BST on Sunday)\n\nThe hope was this boxing cauldron could witness a Manchester fighter memorably upset the odds some 12 years after Ricky Hatton stunned Kostya Tszyu here on a night those present still talk glowingly about.\n\nThe reality was that Linares' combination of pedigree, experience and will to trade with ferocity if needed, proved too much.\n\nA world champion by 21, Linares has held world crowns in three weight divisions. The 31-year-old's 14 years as a professional showed as he picked his shots with guile, the uppercut finding its target on several occasions as his upper-body movement consistently opened up the shot.\n\nCrolla, who admitted he \"lost to the better man\", deserves credit. His career has been a rollercoaster from the moment he suffered a fractured skull and broken ankle when trying to apprehend burglars in 2014. A draw and victory against Darleys Perez saw him claim a world title within a year, only for Linares to take it in what was Crolla's second defence.\n\nThe rematch was never the same contest. Though those in attendance sang passionately for their fighter - a heavy underdog - they could not shake a man who looked ice cool and has now contested 41 of his 45 fights outside of Venezuela.\n\nHe will now seek a Las Vegas payday against WBC champion Mikey Garcia, while Crolla will likely need to rebuild domestically if he is to come again at world level.\n\nHow the fight played out\n\nAs Tony Bellew screamed \"show no respect Ant, make it ugly\" from ringside, Crolla embarked on a workmanlike opening two rounds. His guard was constantly high, Linares by comparison confident to lower his own when not at close range.\n\nIt meant Crolla was unable to get up close to his opponent as Linares' free hands were piston-like to keep his man at distance. His shots were blisteringly quick, a two-shot combination ending with a right uppercut in the third.\n\nCrolla gutsily stepped forward to close ring space - a feat he claims he let slip late in the pairs' first meeting - and he finally smothered Linares in the fourth, landing two uppercuts at short range. But Linares snapped the home fighter's head back with a sublime uppercut of his own in six, dipping his body to the left before launching the shot with thrust.\n\nIt drew a collective grimace from the crowd. Linares - at times tip-toeing with grace and constantly exuding confidence - dropped his man with the same shot in seven. Crolla rose and pumped his hands in defiance as the crowd tried to lift him but as both men walked to their corners, Linares sported a grin of satisfaction.\n\nNow cut above his left eye, Crolla responded with the grit which has endeared him to so many in recent years. A left hook to the jaw and later the body landed in the 10th but he was never able to find a pace or land the shots which could fluster an opponent of such class.\n\n'I am so sorry, Manchester' - what they said\n\n\"Manchester, I am so sorry I couldn't do it for you. Your support means so much to me. He caught me but before that I thought I could get to him. I got beaten by the better man - no excuses.\n\n\"I am 30 years old, I am going to rest, but I believe I can go again.\"\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 5 live, Crolla added: \"I could just not pin him down. I was pleading with Joe (Gallagher) to let me go on (for the last round), and you still believe you can land a shot.\n\n\"I'm gutted I couldn't do it in front of these fans.\"\n\nCrolla's trainer Joe Gallagher told BBC Radio 5 live why he wanted to take Crolla out of the fight after the 11th round.\n\nGallagher said: \"I thought we were not going to win this, but Anthony pleaded and said 'let me go on'. He wanted to go out on his shield.\n\n\"Linares was very good and everyone could see what a great world champion he is. You have seen one of the best pound for pound fighters in the world.\"\n\nPromoter Eddie Hearn told BBC Radio 5 live: \"I thought after the first fight Jorge Linares would not perform a career-best performance and he did. He was absolutely brilliant.\n\n\"It is so hard when Anthony Crolla comes up to you and says 'I'm so sorry'. You lost on points to one of the best pound for pound fighters.\n\n\"We will choose an easier world title. Anthony Crolla will be back 100%, he is an ultimate professional and a credit to himself.\"\n\nCrolla has the heart of a lion. He tried his best to fight him, box him, out-think him, but Linares had too much skill, too much movement.\n\nThere is nothing worse than when you miss the shots and then get hit. It is demoralising. He didn't look hurt in there, but he was out-skilled and out-boxed.\n\nThe crowd cannot perform miracles and Linares was a magician in there. When you lose to a man like that, there is no shame for Crolla.\n\nLinares was simply too good and too classy for the game and the brave Anthony Crolla.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nFerrari's Sebastian Vettel headed the Mercedes in final practice at the Australian Grand Prix.\n\nThe four-time champion was 0.479 seconds clear of Valtteri Bottas as Ferrari finally appeared to show the pace that had impressed pre-season.\n\nLewis Hamilton was third, 0.011secs behind his team-mate.\n• None Driver battles, failing engines and moustaches - what to look out for in 2017\n• None F1 is sexy again, but will it be better?\n\nIt was far from a definitive read on performance, however, as a crash for Williams driver Lance Stroll ended the session 10 minutes early.\n\nThe Canadian rookie lost control at Turn Nine, badly damaging the car and bringing out the red flag.\n\nIt meant Mercedes, who were comfortably quicker than Ferrari in Friday practice, did not have time to go out and do a final pre-qualifying simulation run.\n\nHamilton and Mercedes expressed surprise at their advantage over Ferrari on the first day of running of the new season, having been convinced by their rival's pace in testing that they faced a major challenge in 2017.\n\nInstead, Hamilton was quickest by half a second and was a second clear of the Ferraris on average on his race simulation run.\n\nVettel had complained of a poor balance on Friday but the Ferrari looked hooked up throughout a much stronger performance on Saturday.\n\nFerrari's Kimi Raikkonen was fourth quickest, 0.608secs behind Vettel. The red flag meant the two Ferrari drivers were out of the cars being introduced to movie star Nicole Kidman as the session came to a close.\n\nThe premature ending means qualifying at 06:00 GMT is even more intriguing than it always is at the start of the season, because there has been so little chance to judge the relative pace of the cars.\n\nNico Hulkenberg was an impressive fifth in the Renault, ahead of Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo, whose team have struggled with car behaviour throughout the weekend.\n\nRicciardo's team-mate Max Verstappen was down in 12th place, complaining of poor balance.\n\nThere was a new driver in the Sauber, after Pascal Wehrlein pulled out saying he felt he lacked the fitness to perform at his best in the race.\n\nThe German was replaced by Ferrari third driver Antonio Giovinazzi, who was 20th and last and just over a second slower than team-mate Marcus Ericsson.\n\nThe McLarens of Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne were 14th and 15th as they embark on what they have admitted will be a difficult season because of the poor performance of their Honda engine.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nAn amateur jockey who slowed down and lost his lead in the final stages of a race has been banned for 28 days.\n\nJames Ridley, riding Lookslikerainted, appeared to mistakenly think he had already crossed the finish line, allowing two horses to pass.\n\nThe Hunters' Chase at Newbury was eventually won by Triangular, closely followed by Ballytober.\n\nLookslikerainted, a 33-1 outsider trained by Martin Wilesmith, finished in third.\n\nAt the resulting inquiry, Ridley said the half-furlong pole caused the problem. Stewards ruled he was guilty of failing to ride out on a horse that would have finished first.\n\n\"Obviously I'm a little upset but compared to what happened in Westminster the other day it is absolutely nothing,\" Wilesmith said, after the attack in central London on Wednesday in which four people were killed and 50 people injured by Khalid Masood, who also died.\n\n\"I'm thrilled with the horse and just looking forward to when we can run him again now. We'll just look forwards. James has apologised.\"", "Amateur jockey James Ridley, riding Lookslikerainted, slows down and loses his lead in the final stages of the Hunters' Chase at Newbury after mistakenly thinking he had already crossed the finish line, allowing two horses to pass.\n\nHe has now been banned for 28 days.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nRepublic of Ireland skipper Seamus Coleman suffered a broken leg during his side's goalless draw with Wales at the Aviva Stadium.\n\nThe Everton defender, 28, was given oxygen before being carried off following the challenge with Neil Taylor, who was sent off.\n\nThe incident happened midway through the second half of the World Cup qualifier on Friday night.\n• None Listen: Taylor's tackle on Coleman 'out of character'\n• None 'All our thoughts are with Seamus' - Wales boss Coleman\n\n\"Seamus has gone to hospital, it's been confirmed by a doctor that he has broken his leg,\" added O'Neill.\n\n\"Obviously, it's a real blow to him. He's having the season of a lifetime at club level. He's a big player for us, a great captain and a great character.\n\n\"It's a big loss to Everton, a big loss to us. But he'll fight back I hope. It puts things in perspective.\"\n\nWales manager Chris Coleman said defender Taylor was \"despondent\" following the game.\n\n\"First and foremost, the most important thing is Seamus Coleman,\" he said. \"We are told that it is not so good, which we are sorry for.\n\n\"Neil Taylor is not really that type of player, but it's a tough one for Seamus. Our thoughts are with him. I have not seen it again.\"\n\nEverton return to Premier League action with the Merseyside derby against Liverpool at Anfield on Saturday, 1 April.\n\nEverton midfielder James McCarthy was scheduled to start for the Republic, but was withdrawn from the team-sheet before kick-off because of a hamstring injury.\n\n\"He thought he was going to be OK with the couple of days training he had done,\" added O'Neill. \"He was feeling it and I just didn't want to take any chances.\"\n\nThe draw in Dublin meant the Republic missed out on returning to the top of Group D, after Serbia beat Georgia earlier on Friday, with Wales four points behind in third.\n\nGareth Bale twice went close for Wales from long range, but the visitors had to withstand a spell of heavy pressure following Taylor's sending off.\n\nWales will also be without Real Madrid forward Bale when they visit Serbia on 11 June after he was booked for a foul on John O'Shea.\n\nThe Republic's next Group D qualifier is at home to Austria, also on 11 June.\n\n'Get well soon, Seamus'\n\nColeman's Everton team-mate Ramiro Funes Mori: Devastated of what happened. Hope you have a speedy recovery my friend, best wishes for you. You will come back even stronger!!! SeamusColeman.\n\nArsenal right-back Hector Bellerin: Get well soon @seamiecoleman23!! #RightBackUnit\n\nIrish 20-time champion jockey AP McCoy: Gutted for Seamus Coleman. Hopefully he'll have speedy recovery\n\nActor and television presenter James Corden: Stay strong Seamus Coleman. Every true football fan wishes you a strong recovery x", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritish number one Johanna Konta battled her way past Aliaksandra Sasnovich in three sets in the second round of the Miami Open.\n\nKonta won the first set but, despite being 4-2 up in the second, lost it on a tie-break before coming through 6-2 6-7 (7-5) 6-4 against the Belarussian.\n\nThe match lasted two hours 40 minutes and was interrupted by two rain breaks.\n\n\"I'm definitely satisfied with how I came back in the third set and just competed,\" Konta, 25, said.\n\n\"It was very difficult conditions - not just the wind, but also the rain, quite a little bit of stop and start.\n\n\"It was about managing your expectations for any sort of level for the match but also any sort of frustrations that would arise because of the conditions.\n\n\"She played quite well, and I really had to fight hard and work for it in the end.\"\n\nKonta, ranked 11th in the world, will now play France's Pauline Parmentier, the world number 57.\n\nFifth seed Rafael Nadal beat Israel's Dudi Sela 6-3 6-4 in the men's draw.\n\nThe 30-year-old Spaniard broke his opponent in the fourth game in their second-round match before going on to claim the first set in 35 minutes.\n\nNadal saved two break points at 3-2 down in the second set and then broke Sela in the next game.\n\nNadal has reached the final in Miami four times but has yet to win the tournament.\n\nThere was little trouble for the other top seeds in action on Friday.\n\nSecond seed Kei Nishikori of Japan comfortably overcame South Africa's Kevin Anderson 6-4 6-3, while Canadian third seed Milos Raonic beat Viktor Troicki of Serbia 6-3 7-5.\n\nThere was a surprise when Russia's Elena Vesnina, fresh from her victory at Indian Wells, suffered a 3-6 6-4 7-5 defeat by world number 594 Ajla Tomljanovic, the wildcard from Croatia.\n\nRomanian third seed Simona Halep was pushed to three sets by 19-year-old Japanese player Naomi Osaka before advancing 6-4 2-6 6-3.", "The appointment of Alastair Campbell seems to point towards a growing pro-Remain confidence\n\nAlastair Campbell is returning to British newspapers as editor-at-large of The New European.\n\nAlmost a quarter of a century after he left the Daily Mirror to work for Tony Blair, Campbell will write regular columns and, like all editors-at-large, become an ambassador for the product, I have learned.\n\nHe will also commission pieces.\n\nIt was Campbell who persuaded Blair to write a high-profile front-page story for the paper.\n\nCampbell already has a regular slot, whether a column or interview, in GQ magazine and also the International Business Times.\n\nLast circulation figures for the weekly The New European suggest it sells more than 20,000 copies\n\nThe most interesting thing about this story isn't what it says about Campbell, who chose the paper to serialise his recent memoirs, but about the growing confidence, impact and viability of the so-called pop-up paper for the 48% of Britons who voted Remain.\n\nThe paper's editor, Matt Kelly, is winning plaudits all over the place for turning a frankly quirky experiment after last year's referendum into a print product whose subscriber base is growing as it approaches its first birthday.\n\nKelly won special recognition at last week's Press Awards (full disclosure: I was one of the many judges involved in the awards).\n\nKelly, who looks like Al Capone after a stint with Slimming World, and talks in a thick Scouse accent (he grew up in Formby) that doesn't smack of metropolitan elite, is also chief content officer of Archant, the family-owned publisher founded in 1845.\n\nLatest circulation figures for The New European suggest it sells more than 20,000 copies. Its 48 pages are put together by a staff of about five in Norwich.\n\nI suspect Campbell's 370,000 followers on Twitter will be hearing plenty more about The New European.\n\nHe and Kelly both know that if even one in 100 of them took out a subscription, that would be transformative for this brave little title.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The export market is very important to our organisation,\" says cattle rancher Coleman Locke\n\n\"Tremendously important\" is how rancher Coleman Locke describes the role of international trade to his cattle business.\n\nThe 72-year-old has worked on his family's 10,000-acre ranch on the Gulf Coast of Texas for his whole life and has seen his fair share of struggles in the industry, including droughts and disease.\n\nBut now he is gearing up for a new threat - the potential loss of trade deals that could cut off a huge slice of his ranch's yearly sales.\n\n\"In 2016, 25% of the breeding stock that we sold here at this ranch went out of the United States, it's a tremendously important market for us,\" says Mr Locke.\n\nColeman Locke has worked on the family ranch his whole life\n\nHe's not alone. Last year the American beef industry earned over $6bn (£4.9bn) from overseas sales. Among the biggest purchasers are Canada and Mexico, partners with the US in the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta).\n\nPresident Trump's promise to renegotiate Nafta and possibly place tariffs on Mexico or other US trading partners has the industry worried.\n\n\"Nafta is extremely important to us. It's one of the biggest trade deals that agriculture has ever had,\" says John Robinson from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA).\n\nThe beef industry is already reeling from the loss of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which President Trump withdrew from in his first week in office.\n\nThe free trade agreement with Pacific Rim countries, including many in Asia, was set to expand America's export market for beef. By some estimates, it could have added $400m in sales each year.\n\nThe US beef industry is already reeling from the loss of the Trans-Pacific Partnership\n\n\"It makes the market very nervous when they hear we aren't going to do the TPP and we are going to change Nafta,\" says Jennings Steen, a cattle dealer based in Austin.\n\nMr Steen says he and his partner have been fielding dozens of calls since President Trump's election, from ranchers desperate to know how changes to trade deals could affect their businesses. They are concerned about prices and hesitate to make long-term plans.\n\nAmerican suppliers particularly wanted increased access to Japan's home market, where high tariffs on US beef have made it hard to compete with suppliers from Australia who can sell beef into Japan at lower rates.\n\nBut President Trump's supporters say his experience in business will allow him to negotiate better deals for the US, focussing on bilateral agreements rather than bigger deals involving several countries.\n\nAccording to Texas agriculture commissioner Sid Miller, after 22 years Nafta is in need of a \"facelift\".\n\nMr Miller was an outspoken and early supporter of President Trump. But since the election, he has spent a lot of time reassuring the ranching community that trade with Mexico won't disappear and new trade options will be opened up under the Trump administration.\n\nTexas agricultural commissioner, Sid Miller, sat down with the BBC's Michelle Fleury in his Austin office\n\nMr Miller says he takes \"a softer kinder approach [than Donald Trump],\" stressing that Texas needs trading partners like Mexico, but also that it needs new deals with countries like China and better deals with its existing partners.\n\nPresident Trump's vision for changes to Nafta has focused on ensuring more products are made in the US and he has called for tariffs on manufactured goods imported into the US from Mexico.\n\nBut such tariffs could result in retaliatory charges on US products sold into Mexico - including agricultural goods like cattle and beef.\n\nMr Miller is unshaken by this prospect, though. He acknowledges that US farmers produce more than the country can consume - including beef - but sees this as giving the US leverage over other trading partners.\n\n\"Agriculture is a good bargaining tool,\" he says. \"People have to eat, they don't have to buy manufactured goods.\"\n\nPresident Trump's relationship with the cattle industry though isn't as simple as a beef over trade.\n\nRural communities voted overwhelmingly in support of Mr Trump. Beef and cattle producers, like other members of the agricultural industry, would like to see the rollbacks on regulations that President Trump has promised.\n\n\"I think cattle producers and rural America, in general, are optimistic about the Trump administration,\" says the NCBA's John Robinson.\n\nWithin President Trump's first month, there were regulatory rollbacks that Mr Robinson calls \"very encouraging\". But he says he hopes the beef industry is given an equal seat to manufacturing when it comes to renegotiating Nafta.\n\nThat seat is crucial because the US produces more beef than it consumes. Without international markets, suppliers will have to reduce production or see a significant drop in prices, as the market is flooded with local beef.\n\nThere is no guarantee either that the bilateral deals President Trump has promised will be better than the ones he has walked away from.\n\nAs a part of TPP, US beef producers who currently face import duties of up to 38.5% on fresh and frozen beef entering Japan would have seen those tariffs phased out over 16 years.\n\nWithout that deal, many worry competition from countries that remained in TPP, like Australia, will increase.\n\nFor Coleman Locke on his ranch in Texas, it's too soon to worry. No deals have been struck yet and business is still good.\n\nBut if President Trump wants to claim his title as America's dealmaker in chief he's going to have to be sure he doesn't trade away this rancher's livelihood.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSteven Naismith scored the equaliser as Scotland laboured to a friendly draw with Canada at Easter Road.\n\nFalkirk's Fraser Aird produced a fine finish to put Canada ahead following poor defending from the hosts.\n\nUntidy play at the other end allowed Naismith to level, the forward diverting in Tom Cairney's shot.\n\nNeither team created much in the second half but Canada, world ranked 117, looked as likely to find a winner as their hosts in front of 9,158 fans.\n\nScotland are currently second-bottom of Group F going into Sunday's World Cup qualifying match against Slovenia at Hampden.\n\nStewart Regan, the Scottish FA chief executive, and national boss Gordon Strachan have said Sunday's fixture is a \"must-win\" for the nation's qualifying hopes.\n\nWith a crucial qualifier just a few days away the Scotland fans who turned out on a miserable night in the capital would have been expecting a performance against Canada that would give them hope heading into the Slovenia match on Sunday.\n\nBut on this performance there was little for the hardy few to cheer about.\n\nThe centre-back pairing of Christophe Berra and Charlie Mulgrew were opened up ever so simply time after time in the first half. Up front Chris Martin struggled to hold on to the ball with a first touch as heavy as the Easter Road surface.\n\nIn former Scotland youth players Aird and Scott Arfield the visitors had the two best players on the pitch, with Toronto-born Falkirk winger Aird, whose parents are Scottish, scoring his first international goal.\n\nHe capitalised on some calamitous defending by Lee Wallace and had several chances to add to his tally.\n\nBurnley's Scottish-born midfielder Arfield, who has a Canadian father, went off injured late on to be replaced by Charlie Trafford.\n\nThe Canada goal after 11 minutes stunned the crowd into silence. Not that they had much to cheer about, but there were a couple of encouraging displays for Strachan's side.\n\nWith no natural right-backs in the squad, Derby County's Ikechi Anya was again given the role after playing the position in November's defeat by England. And the 29-year-old proved once again his versatility, going forward at every opportunity and attempting to link up with both Robert Snodgrass and debutant Tom Cairney.\n\nAnd in Cairney, there was a player who at times showed a willingness to get forward and support his strikers. It was his shot that was turned in by Naismith for Scotland's equaliser.\n\nApart from a cross from Snodgrass that hit the post, there was little else for the fans to cheer about.\n\nAnya will likely continue at right-back on Sunday and although there were appearances in the second half for John McGinn, Leigh Griffiths and Jordan Rhodes, none looked to have done enough to force their way into the starting line-up, with Rhodes passing up a late chance.\n• None Substitution, Canada. Charlie Trafford replaces Scott Arfield because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Scott Arfield (Canada) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jordan Rhodes (Scotland) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by Leigh Griffiths.\n• None Offside, Scotland. Robert Snodgrass tries a through ball, but Leigh Griffiths is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Leigh Griffiths (Scotland) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jordan Rhodes (Scotland) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Darren Fletcher with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Fraser Aird (Canada) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Nikolas Ledgerwood.\n• None Attempt missed. Leigh Griffiths (Scotland) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Barry Bannan. 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. Theresa May: \"We will never give in to terror\"\n\nThe terror attack in Westminster will not stop Britons from going about their lives and such attacks are ultimately \"doomed to failure\", the PM has said.\n\nTheresa May said the \"sick and depraved\" attack in Westminster, in which five people died, would not stop people going to work as normal or Parliament from sitting on Thursday.\n\nValues of freedom of speech, liberty and democracy would prevail, she said.\n\nShe praised the \"exceptional bravery\" of the police officer who died.\n\nSpeaking outside No 10, Mrs May - who earlier chaired a meeting of the emergency response committee Cobra - said her thoughts were with the officer's relatives and those others who had been killed and injured in the \"appalling incident\".\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers go out to all who have been affected - to the victims themselves, and their family and friends who waved their loved ones off, but will not now be welcoming them home,\" she said.\n\n\"For those of us who were in Parliament at the time of this attack, these events provide a particular reminder of the exceptional bravery of our police and security services who risk their lives to keep us safe.\n\n\"Once again today, these exceptional men and women ran towards the danger even as they encouraged others to move the other way.\"\n\nWhile the details of the incident - in which a single alleged assailant in a car struck a number of pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before stabbing a police officer at the gates of the Palace of Westminster - were still emerging, she said, the UK would not be cowed.\n\nConfirming that the terror threat level would remain at severe, she said it was no accident that Parliament had been targeted in the incident.\n\n\"These streets of Westminster - home to the world's oldest Parliament - are ingrained with a spirit of freedom that echoes in some of the furthest corners of the globe,\" she said.\n\n\"And the values our Parliament represents - democracy, freedom, human rights, the rule of law - command the admiration and respect of free people everywhere. That is why it is a target for those who reject those values.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn: My thoughts are with the victims\n\n\"But let me make it clear today, as I have had cause to do before, any attempt to defeat those values through violence and terror is doomed to failure.\"\n\nParliament, she insisted, would meet \"as normal\" on Thursday and the British public would \"come together as normal\".\n\n\"And Londoners - and others from around the world who have come here to visit this great city - will get up and go about their day as normal.\n\n\"They will board their trains, they will leave their hotels, they will walk these streets, they will live their lives. And we will all move forward together. Never giving in to terror. And never allowing the voices of hate and evil to drive us apart.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has also paid tribute to the police and emergency services for their response to Wednesday's attack.\n\n\"Lives have been lost and people have been seriously injured,\" he said.\n\n\"I want to thank the police and all the security services who did so much to keep the public, those who work in Parliament and MPs safe.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with those who suffered loss and those that have seen terrible injuries this afternoon.\"\n\nLib Dem leader Tim Farron said it had been an attack on British democracy, while the Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has spoken of a \"sense of solidarity\" felt in Scotland for people in London.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nParis and Los Angeles say they are only interested in hosting the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics - and not the 2028 Games.\n\nThere have been suggestions the International Olympic Committee may award both the 2024 and 2028 Games in September.\n\n\"2024 is now or never for us,\" co-chair Tony Estanguet told BBC Sport.\n\nThe LA 2024 committee later issued a statement saying their bid represents \"the right city at this critical time\".\n\nThe American city's statement added: \"With all permanent venues already built and 88% public support, only LA 2024 offers the lowest-risk and truly sustainable solution for the future of the Olympic movement in 2024 and beyond.\"\n\nThe 2024 Games are scheduled to be awarded at September's IOC summit in Lima, Peru, with Paris the favourite to win.\n\n\"We believe we have the strongest offer but it is only available for 2024,\" added Estanguet. \"We can't host the Games in 2028 because we don't have the project available for 2028.\n\n\"We have the guarantees, we have the public support, we have the political support, we have 95% of existing venues. This is the fourth bid from Paris and 2024 is the centenary of the Games in Paris.\"\n• None Read more: Dan Roan blogs on the IOC's likely two-Games deal\n\nThere have been reports the losers of the 2024 bid could be awarded the following Games in 2028.\n\n\"All options are on the table, and this includes also the 2024-2028 procedure and vote,\" said IOC president Thomas Bach last week.\n\nEstanguet, a three-time Olympic canoeing champion, says the bid committee has been in discussions with the IOC since the beginning of the bidding process.\n\nHe added that the bid committee has talked through the issue of 2028 with the IOC on several occasions.\n\nEarlier this week, Eric Garcetti, the mayor of LA, warned the Americans were intent on winning the right to host the 2024 Games.\n\n\"We are competing for 2024,\" he told insidethegames. \"Full stop. We have never contemplated anything else.\"", "The forthcoming election doesn't inspire these fishermen who can't see the point of voting\n\nTo find out what French voters make of their forthcoming presidential election I am following the route of the Tour de France, testing the mood in towns along the way.\n\nA thick barricade of black clouds has descended over Longwy in north-eastern France this morning. The sun, knowing it's beaten, has retreated so fully that at midday it already feels like dusk.\n\nYet, despite the lack of light, the Art Deco stained glass windows along the staircase of what used to be the administrative headquarters of the local steel industry, are quite brilliant.\n\n\"That used to be me,\" says Dominique Dimanche, pointing to an image of bare-chested men stoking the furnace.\n\n\"These windows were designed in homage to the men of the foundries.\n\n\"Can you believe that this is all that's left now of Longwy's history as the lynchpin of France's steel industry?\"\n\n\"They've deliberately erased Longwy's history,\" he says. \"They don't want anyone to remember what we were.\"\n\nThe Art Deco stained glass windows in Longwy were built as a tribute to the men working in France's steel foundries\n\nLongwy used to be a thriving industrial town with four steel plants and factories. But at the end of the 1970s the French government announced it was ceasing production and closing all the factories.\n\nIronically, the building in which we are now standing houses the job centre.\n\n\"There were pretty violent riots in Longwy when the steel works closed,\" Philippe explains.\n\n\"Lots of the foremen became Communist councillors and for a long time we had a Communist mayor. We were known as Red Longwy.\"\n\nIt's clear that Longwy has never bounced back from the shock of its steel plant closures.\n\nShops and commerce quickly moved up the hill to the more prestigious Longwy Haut, with its classified Unesco monuments, leaving Longwy Bas, the lower part of the town, very much at the bottom of the heap.\n\nAt the side of the road leading out of Longwy a small group of protesters from local unions struggle to keep their fire alight as the hailstones batter down.\n\nLocal unions in Longwy have been protesting over low wages\n\nTheir banner reads \"More Purchasing Power!\". When I stop to chat to them, they all tell me they are struggling to get their salaries to stretch to the end of the month.\n\nAccording to the national institute for statistics, Insee, one in seven families in this deindustrialised Moselle region are living below the poverty line of less than 1,000 euros (£870) a month.\n\nI happen to be in town the day that the French prime minister Bernard Cazeneuve is making a visit to the town hall, which is currently in the hands of his ruling party, the PS, or Socialist Party.\n\nA few people spill out of the bars to watch his arrival but no-one claps.\n\n\"Moron,\" mutters a lady stepping round the puddles in her slippers.\n\n\"What's he come for? Is he going to stop this place dying on its feet? Of course not. Neither left or right do anything here.\"\n\n\"I won't say for whom I'll be voting this time, because I don't think people like to hear the name. But let's just say the direction will be right. I'll definitely be going right.\"\n\nThree hours drive to the south is Troyes and as I get on my bike to explore the town, I feel like I've entered a fairy tale.\n\nHere is the glorious France of yesteryear, 16th Century timber-framed, pastel-coloured houses, narrow cobbled streets and a plethora of imposing churches.\n\nBut it's certainly an image of the country - traditional, white and Catholic - for which many people are nostalgic.\n\nIt was provincial Catholics who helped the socially conservative Francois Fillon win the primary race to become the presidential candidate for the centre-right Republican party.\n\nWhen I quiz some elderly parishioners after Mass, they all admit that the question of national identity bothers them.\n\n\"It's a big subject, dear,\" says Dominique as she puts away her payer book.\n\n\"But I can summarise it quickly for you: national identity in France no longer exists.\"\n\nTroyes has a traditional \"chocolate box\" feel with narrow streets and pastel-coloured buildings\n\nIt is illegal in France to hold a census based on ethnicity or religion but five minutes spent in Troyes will show you that the town is very ethnically mixed.\n\nSeveral kebab and couscous restaurants sit under the eaves of the timber-framed houses alongside the bistros and patisseries.\n\n\"This is France today,\" laughs PE teacher Sabrina, who is taking her pupils to see a multicultural circus act at the local theatre.\n\n\"We are a country based on many different cultures.\"\n\nPreserving a \"national identity\" has long been the discourse of the National Front (FN) but following the 2005 riots in France's poor and largely immigrant suburbs, the then interior minister, conservative Nicolas Sarkozy, controversially launched a countrywide debate on national identity.\n\nThe recent attacks in Paris and Nice have pushed national identity back into the forefront of the mainstream political agenda. Most of the attackers had North African roots but were French citizens.\n\nAt Troyes' funfair, a few families are braving the rain. Salesman Karim and his care assistant wife Sarah, who wears a hijab, push their children in strollers.\n\n\"We don't know what it means to be French any more,\" Karim tells me bitterly.\n\n\"Because you can be born here like us, pay your taxes like us and have republican values like us but these days, when it comes to politics, there's something about us that doesn't quite stick. We are just not accepted as genetically French.\"\n\n\"But we are French,\" insists his wife.\n\n\"Just because I wear this headscarf, it doesn't mean I'm not French.\"\n\n\"I feel French and I am French and I'm a Muslim. And this is just as much my home as it is for Pierre, Paul or Jacques.\"\n\nThese cyclists laughed at the idea of voting and said there was no-one they would vote for\n\nThe sun is out as I ride along the canal at Dole, 200km (125 miles) south-east of Troyes, and fellow bikers ring their bells and wave as they pass.\n\nOn a bench, taking a pause for water, a group of five retired cycling friends laugh when I ask them for whom they'll be voting this April.\n\n\"No-one!\" shout the women in unison.\n\n\"Why would we bother voting for any of these crooks?\" says Micheline.\n\n\"I've voted all my life but not this time, there's no point. There's been scandal after scandal in this campaign.\"\n\n\"I have no wish to vote either,\" agrees her friend Stella. \"The choice is too difficult.\"\n\nFurther up the bank, a group of elderly men are wondering whether they've got the energy to fish today.\n\nI ask them if they've got the energy to go to the ballot boxes next month and they bawl me out.\n\n\"We've had empty promises all our life!\" yells one. \"We don't believe in politicians any more. So why vote?\"\n\nMarket trader Catherine believes politicians are out of touch with how people live in towns like Dole\n\nThe wind coming from the Jura mountains is biting in the early morning as I watch the stallholders setting up at Dole's market.\n\nCheap clothes and plastic toys make up most of the produce. I can see no price tag anywhere more than 20 euros (£17).\n\n\"That should tell you something,\" says Catherine, who runs the fruit and vegetable stall.\n\n\"Everyone here gets up at the crack of dawn to eke out a living but most people's takings are way down.\"\n\n\"It's interesting this tour of France you're doing,\" she muses.\n\n\"Finding out about ordinary people. Because our millionaire politicians haven't got a clue how we live in places like this. For them, we don't even exist. Sometimes I wonder what they do all day, these bigwigs in Paris.\"\n\nShe looks at me curiously.\n\n\"What is the point of our politicians?\" she asks me innocently as I bite into the apple.\n\nYou can hear Emma Jane Kirby's radio reports as she tours France on BBC Radio 4's PM programme", "Defending champion Jason Day broke down in tears after withdrawing from the WGC Match Play in Texas to be with his mother, who has lung cancer.\n\nThe Australian, 29, was three down after six holes of his opening match against Pat Perez when he conceded, prompting speculation he had suffered another injury.\n\nBut Day said he had found it impossible to focus on golf because of his mother Dening's illness.\n\n\"It's been very emotional,\" he said.\n\n\"It's been really hard to play golf this year.\n\n\"My mum's been here [the United States] for a while and she has lung cancer. At the start of the year she was diagnosed with 12 months to live.\n\n\"The diagnosis is much better being over here, she's going into surgery this Friday and it's really hard to even comprehend being on a golf course right now because of what she's going through.\n\n\"She had all the tests done in Australia and the docs said she was terminal and she only had 12 months to live and I'm glad I brought her over here because of it.\"\n\nFormer world number one Day, whose father died from lung cancer when he was 12 years old, added: \"I've already gone through it once with my dad and I know how it feels and it's hard enough to see another one go through it as well.\n\n\"As of now I'm going to try and be back there with my mum for surgery and make sure everything goes right with her.\n\n\"Emotionally it's been wearing on me for a while and I know my mum says not to let it get to me but it really has, so I just need some time away with her to make sure that everything goes well because this has been very, very tough for me.\n\n\"I'm going to do my best and try and be there the best I can for her because she is the reason that I'm playing golf today.\n\n\"I've obviously pulled out this week because of my mum going into surgery to try and get rid of this three or four centimetre mass that's in her lungs. I'm just hoping for a speedy recovery for her and we can get this behind us and she can live a long life.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Eiffel Tower turns off its lights\n\nLeaders of countries affected by recent terror attacks have voiced solidarity with the UK after the deadly attack near the Houses of Parliament.\n\nA lone attacker was shot dead after he used a car to run down pedestrians, killing two, and stabbed a police officer to death outside Parliament.\n\nLeaders of France and Germany, which suffered deadly vehicle attacks last year, offered the UK their support.\n\nThe US president offered condolences and praised UK security forces.\n\nThere is a mixture of nationalities among the dead, police say, and 29 people have been treated in hospital, of whom seven are critically injured.\n\nAmong those injured by the car on Westminster Bridge are three French schoolchildren and two Romanians, while five South Koreans were hurt in the chaos that followed the attack.\n\nIn Paris, the lights of the Eiffel Tower went out from midnight (23:00 GMT) in a tribute to the victims.\n\nPresident Francois Hollande expressed his \"solidarity\" with the British people, saying \"terrorism concerns us all and France knows how the British people are suffering today\".\n\nEmergency response workers continued to work at the scene into the evening\n\nIn July last year, a man drove a lorry into pedestrians in the southern French city of Nice, killing 84 people. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country saw a lorry attack in December that killed 12 people in Berlin and was also claimed by IS, said her thoughts were \"with our British friends and all of the people of London\".\n\n\"I want to say for Germany and its citizens: We stand firmly and resolutely by Great Britain's side in the fight against all forms of terrorism,\" she added.\n\nUS President Donald Trump spoke by phone to British Prime Minister Theresa May to offer his condolences and to praise the effective response of UK security services.\n\nMr Trump pledged the \"full co-operation and support\" of the US government in bringing those responsible for the attack to justice, the White House said in a statement.\n\nBelgium's prime minister sent a message of support as his country marked the first anniversary of the suicide bomb attacks on the Brussels airport and underground system, which killed 32 people.\n\n\"Our condolences are with those who mourn and all who are affected in London,\" Charles Michel tweeted. \"Belgium stands with UK in fight against terror.\"\n\nEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said in a statement that the people of Brussels and Belgium had \"suffered a similar pain and felt the support of your sympathy and solidarity\".\n\n\"At this emotional time, we at the European Commission can only send that sympathy back twofold.\"\n\nPeople in Brussels made a heart sign with their hands to remember the victims of the attacks there a year ago\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin also sent condolences by telegram to Mrs May, expressing support for the bereaved and wounded.\n\n\"The forces of terror are acting more and more deviously and cynically. It is clear that, in order to counteract the terrorist threat, all members of the global community must combine forces,\" he said.\n\nBut not all international reaction was so reserved, with some right-wing politicians suggesting that controls on immigration - or even all Muslims - was the way forward. It has subsequently emerged that the attacker was born in Britain.\n\nThe leader of Australia's One Nation party, Pauline Hanson, announced her own personal hashtag..\n\n\"It's #Pray4Muslimban. Put a ban on it, that's how you solve the problem, and then let's deal with the issues here,\" she said.\n\n\"We've got real problems... make sure that we do not have this religion which is really an ideology that is going to eventually cause so much havoc on our streets, not only for ourselves, but for future generations.\"\n\nIn France, National Front leader Marine Le Pen, who is campaigning for the French presidency, said the London attack showed the need for borders to be protected.\n\nShe told French media that security measures needed enhancing amid a rising threat from \"radicalised personalities who act alone without networks\", and urged countries to co-operate with each other on sharing intelligence.\n\nPoland's Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said the London attacks justified the country's policy of refusing to take in refugees.\n\n\"I hear in Europe very often: do not connect the migration policy with terrorism, but it is impossible not to connect them,\" she told private broadcaster TVN24.", "Former football coach Barry Bennell has pleaded not guilty to 20 charges of historic child sexual abuse against four boys in the 1980s.\n\nThe 63-year-old appeared via videolink from prison at Chester Crown Court.\n\nMr Bennell had already denied eight of the offences but entered not guilty pleas again as 12 further charges were added.\n\nHe was a youth scout and junior football coach associated with a number of clubs, most notably Crewe Alexandra.\n\nThe charges include 14 counts of indecent assault, five counts of serious sexual assault and one count of attempted serious sexual assault.\n\nThe alleged offences took place between 1980 and 1987 and involved four complainants who were boys under 16 at the time.\n\nThe case was adjourned to 3 July when a hearing will take place at Liverpool Crown Court.\n\nJudge Roger Dutton said a trial was likely to be listed for January in Liverpool.", "Gareth Southgate prepared for his first game as permanent England manager by insisting foundations are now in place to narrow the gap on their opponents Germany - but warned the country's \"island\" mentality must end.\n\nSouthgate, who replaced Hodgson's successor Sam Allardyce after an unbeaten four-game run in interim charge, faces a stern test in Dortmund on Wednesday before a World Cup qualifier against Lithuania at Wembley on Sunday.\n\nThe 46-year-old says plans are now in place that will put England in a position to finally catch up with the German model of consistent success.\n\n\"Some of those things have already started, such as the reform of academies and the improved focus on coaching, which is a process they went through,\" said Southgate.\n\n\"We've probably got some work to do in terms of the way they have a connection between the DFB (the German football association) and the Bundesliga that is immensely strong. There is an opportunity for the young German players to play in that league - there is a real buy-in on that, partly because of the ownership model of the clubs.\n\n\"To highlight the difference, they postponed the start of the Bundesliga because they got a team in the Olympics. We can't even get a team in the Olympics. That is the collaboration they have.\"\n\nHowever, he added: \"We are different. We have to get off the island and learn from elsewhere. We have some great strengths and if we couple those with some other traits we could be more powerful than anybody, but we have a lot of work to get to that point.\"\n\nSouthgate also admitted the lack of recent major football success for England was the \"missing piece\" in the country's sporting portfolio.\n\n\"I'm not sure we've always looked at ourselves in the mirror as closely as we should, that's what we need as a football nation,\" he added.\n\n\"We've had success in every other sport in our country.\n\n\"It's probably the hardest one to succeed in - and if we do succeed it's the one that will have the most impact on our country and on the people.\"\n\nGermany midfielder Lewis Holtby, now at SV Hamburg after playing for Tottenham and Fulham in the Premier League, agreed the Football Association has embarked on the mission to catch up and said England's \"time will come\".\n\n\"The youth system in Germany is the best in the world. The training, the managers, the facilities, all of that was very good when I was coming through and now it's improved even more,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"In England, the FA is definitely improving. You can see how many young players there are in the national team, how many prospects coming through with a lot of talent. There is [Manchester United striker] Marcus Rashford, [Tottenham's] Dele Alli is the future of England's midfield and [Tottenham striker] Harry Kane has been top of the Premier League scoring charts.\n\n\"But Germany have always been ahead at being ready for tournaments, knowing when to be ready. All praise to the German FA for the very good work they have done over the years on that.\"\n\nHe added: \"I read a lot about people in England looking to the German youth system with big eyes, hoping to be like them - but the FA looks like it's trying to find its own way.\n\n\"Their time will come. If they keep progressing this way they should have no problems.\"\n\nSouthgate, a firm admirer of the German system, added: \"We can learn from their mentality. When we've played German teams they just have that belief in the way they play.\n\n\"I'm watching Gary Cahill on the ball now and he has got that belief and confidence from the way he has been asked to play this year.\n\n\"You are working in a different system and opening your mind. Gary working with Antonio Conte at Chelsea reminds me of what [former England boss] Terry Venables gave me as a player, just stretching you into different challenges and doing things that improve you.\n\n\"We won't get there overnight but I think we've got players who are able to do that.\"\n\nChelsea defender Cahill, who will captain England against Germany in the absence of Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney and played in the game in Berlin, says his team will not be intimidated by the world champions.\n\n\"I am certainly respectful of the history of what they have done, but man for man I'm confident in the squad we've got and the players we have when I'm going out to face them,\" said the 31-year-old.\n\nAnd how can the gap to Germany's model of consistent success finally be closed?\n\n\"That is probably the golden question isn't it?\" Cahill said. \"To develop, young players have to play as much football as they can at club level and play in massive, important games - play cup finals or win leagues. That will happen.\n\n\"The more experiences they go through - good and bad - will bring them on as players and characters.\n\n\"One thing for me is having the ability and the other is having the experience. This happens over time.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Liverpool captain and coach Ronnie Moran has died at the age of 83.\n\nMoran made 379 appearances for Liverpool between 1952 and 1966 and was the club's longest-serving employee when he retired in 1998.\n\nHe joined the coaching staff in 1966 and twice filled in as caretaker manager - after Kenny Dalglish's resignation in 1991 and following Graeme Souness' heart surgery in 1992.\n\nHis son confirmed he had passed away on Wednesday after a short illness.\n\nMoran worked under nine different managers during his time in the dugout.\n\nHe famously led Liverpool out at Wembley in the 1992 FA Cup final while caretaker manager while Souness was recovering from surgery.\n\nThe Crosby-born defender won 44 trophies during nearly five decades with the club.\n\nA left-back in his playing days, Moran signed for Liverpool as a schoolboy in 1949 before turning professional in 1952 and making his debut in November that year. He was club captain when Bill Shankly was appointed manager in December 1959.\n\nMoran was a key part of the side that won the Football League First Division title in 1963-64 and made his final first-team appearance in the 1964-65 European Cup semi-final against Inter Milan.\n\nAfter being offered a role on the backroom staff by Bill Shankly in the pre-season of the 1966-67 season, Moran was involved as the Reds won 11 league titles and four European Cups.\n\nWorking under Shankly, Moran was known as one of the 'Bootroom Boys' alongside Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan, Kenny Dalglish and Reuben Bennett.\n\nFormer Liverpool manager and player Kenny Dalglish - who arrived at Anfield in 1977 and worked alongside Moran for many years - spoke of his admiration for him.\n\n\"The success we enjoyed during that period is something that we are all able to look back on with immense fondness and pride,\" he told the club website.\n\n\"But it should never be forgotten that without people like Ronnie it would not have been possible for us to achieve as much as we did.\n\n\"In fact, even after he left the club right up until the present day, the club have continued to feel the benefits of the groundwork he laid though his sheer talent and passion.\n\n\"My respect and my admiration for him are absolute and there are countless others who feel the same way.\"\n\n'One of the greats of Liverpool'\n\nMoran was assistant to Roy Evans during much of his spell as manager of the club.\n\nEvans told BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast: \"I joined in 1964 and he was playing in those days, then he became a coach. He was one of those guys, Mr Liverpool.\n\n\"Any player will tell you they've had a spat with Ronnie. He'd be the first to tell you off and the first to be on your side to become a better player. He will be remembered with great love and affection. Ronnie Moran is one of the greats of Liverpool.\"\n\nFormer Liverpool midfielder Ray Houghton described Moran as \"a key member\" of successful coaching teams at the club.\n\n\"He would have done anything for the club,\" Houghton told BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast.\n\n\"I learned so much from him and he nurtured so many good players. A very humble man and a very honest one.\"\n\nPeter Reid, who appeared in 13 Merseyside derbies for Everton during the 1980s, told the Everton website: \"I'm devastated. Ronnie was a good football man who had a wicked sense of humour.\n\n\"One of my best memories of him were the derbies, which as we all know, are fiery affairs.\n\n\"One year, they beat us at Anfield and as I was walking off the pitch, Ronnie came over to me and said: 'Hey lad, you played well'. Let's just say I gave him an Anglo-Saxon response!\n\n\"The following year we beat them at Anfield and I couldn't see Ronnie in the tunnel so I marched straight into the boot room, found him, and said: 'Unlucky, you played well'.\n\n\"I got the same Anglo-Saxon response!\n\n\"Ronnie knew the game inside out. He was a warm man. The best compliment I can pay him is that he was a proper Scouser.\"\n\nCurrent Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson said Moran was \"as humble and down to earth as anyone\".\n\n\"The reason being captain of Liverpool Football Club is such a huge honour is because legendary figures like Ronnie Moran held it before I did,\" Henderson wrote in a tribute on Wednesday.\n\n\"I wasn't lucky enough to work with Ronnie but I had the great fortune of being in his company on the occasions when he came to Melwood to walk around the training pitch.\n\n\"And although we all regarded him as a true great, he was as humble and down to earth as anyone you could ever come across.\n\n\"I know I speak for all of the current players when I say that we are all deeply saddened by Ronnie's passing.\n\n\"The greatest tribute we can pay to him is to give everything we've got for Liverpool Football Club just as he did each and every single day during the 49 years he spent here.\"", "Nicola Sturgeon said she was \"frustrated\" by her talks with Theresa May in Glasgow on Monday\n\nThis afternoon the Scottish Parliament will resume their debate on a Scottish independence referendum.\n\nThe debate was suspended and the vote delayed last Wednesday as news reached the chamber of the terror attack in Westminster. Today they will pick up where they left off.\n\nThe result of the vote this evening is not in any doubt. With the support of the Scottish Greens, the SNP will win the vote calling for a second referendum.\n\nThey will then claim that the prime minister must not stand in the way of the democratically expressed will of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nBut the other opposition parties - the Tories, Labour and Lib Dems - all believe that the will of the parliament does not match the will of the people.\n\nScottish voters don't want another referendum, they argue, and they are convinced public opinion is on their side.\n\nIt used to be received wisdom in Scottish politics that if Westminster tried to deny a Scottish referendum it could easily backfire and stir up support for independence.\n\nIn general, independence supporters want another referendum while No voters do not\n\nBut the unionist parties are confident there is no great public demand for another vote - other than among people who are already committed nationalists.\n\nOpinion polls suggest people are split fairly evenly, about 50/50, on whether they want another vote. And it tends to be Yes supporters who say yes to another referendum and No voters who say no, not now.\n\nThe great divide in Scottish politics over the question of independence may only be solidified by this current debate over whether to re-run the 2014 referendum.\n\nNicola Sturgeon will argue that this is now a great constitutional struggle in which the Scottish Parliament is battling with Westminster.\n\nTories say Ms Sturgeon is just playing a well rehearsed game, one in which she puts forward a proposal she knows will be rejected by Westminster and then responds with righteous indignation.\n\nAnd we are about to see that happen once again. The first minster will soon send a letter to 10 Downing Street demanding another referendum.\n\nNo 10 will reply to say they are not prepared to talk about it at this time. The prime minister made that clear when she met Nicola Sturgeon in Glasgow yesterday, when she said it was more important to pull together and get the best Brexit deal for the whole of the UK.\n\nThe big question, the big calculation for both sides, is how many Scottish voters will then share the SNP's inevitable outrage about being denied another referendum.\n\nSome will. Others will breathe a huge sigh of relief that they don't have to live through another campaign. At least not yet.", "This Zara dress had been to at least five countries before it ended up on a shop hanger\n\n\"Made in Morocco\" says the label on the pink Zara shirt dress.\n\nWhile this may be where the garment was finally sewn together, it has already been to several other countries.\n\nIn fact, it's quite possible this piece of clothing is better travelled than you. If it was human, it would have certainly journeyed far enough to have earned itself some decent air miles.\n\nThe material used to create it came from lyocell - a sustainable alternative to cotton. The trees used to make this fibre come mainly from Europe, according to Lenzing, the Austrian supplier that Zara-owner Inditex uses.\n\nThese fibres were shipped to Egypt, where they were spun into yarn. This yarn was then sent to China where it was woven into a fabric. This fabric was then sent to Spain where it was dyed, in this case pink. The fabric was then shipped to Morocco to be cut into the various parts of the dress and then sewn together.\n\nAfter this, it was sent back to Spain where it was packaged and then sent to the UK, the US or any one of the 93 countries where Inditex has shops.\n\nFrom dresses to t-shirts and trousers, most items of clothing sold around the world will have had similarly complicated journeys.\n\nIn fact, they're likely to be even more convoluted.\n\nMost Inditex garments are made close to its Spanish headquarters or in nearby countries such as Portugal, Morocco and Turkey.\n\nThis is what helps the firm achieve its famously fast reaction times to new trends.\n\nMost of its rivals' supply chains are far less local.\n\nRegardless of where they're based, most factories are not owned by the fashion brands that use them. Instead, they're selected as official suppliers. Often these suppliers subcontract work to other factories for certain tasks, or in order to meet tight deadlines.\n\nYour cotton top may well have started out in a field in Texas before criss-crossing the globe\n\nThis system can make tracking the specific origins of a single item difficult. I contacted several big clothing brands including H&M, Marks and Spencer, Gap and Arcadia Group last week to give me a sample example of the journey of a t-shirt in their basic range from seed to finished product.\n\nOnly Inditex was able to respond in time to meet the deadline for this article.\n\n\"I imagine companies don't want to respond because they have no clue where the materials they buy come from,\" says Tim Hunt, a researcher at Ethical Consumer, which researches the social, ethical and environmental behaviour of firms.\n\nThe difficulties were highlighted devastatingly by the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster where more than 1,100 people were killed and 2,500 injured when the Bangladesh garment factory collapsed.\n\nIn some cases, brands weren't even aware their clothes were being produced there.\n\nThe #whomademyclothes campaign encourages customers to put pressure on fashion firms to be more open about their suppliers\n\nAccording to the \"Behind the Barcode\" report by Christian Aid and development organisation Baptist World Aid Australia, only 16% of the 87 biggest fashion brands publish a full list of the factories where their clothes are sewn, and less than a fifth of brands know where all of their zips, buttons, thread and fabric come from.\n\nNon-profit group Fashion Revolution, formed after the Rana Plaza factory collapse, is leading a campaign to try to force firms to be more transparent about their supply chains.\n\nEvery year, around the time of the disaster it runs a #whomademyclothes campaign encouraging customers to push firms on this issue.\n\nFashion Revolution co-founder and creative director Orsola de Castro says the mass production demands of the fashion industry and the tight timescales required to get products from the catwalks on to the shelves as quickly as possible means the manufacturing processes have become \"very, very chaotic\".\n\n\"The amount of manpower which goes into the production of a t-shirt - even at the sewing level, it goes through so many different hands. On their standard products most brands wouldn't know the journey from seed to store,\" she says.\n\nWhile newer and smaller fashion brands are creating products with 100% traceability, she says it's a lot harder for the established giants.\n\n\"It's a big and complex issue to turn around and would require a massive shift in attitude.\"\n\nPietra Rivoli travelled from the US to China and Africa to track the journey of a single $6 t-shirt\n\nYet just over a decade ago, Pietra Rivoli had no problems tracking the journey of a single $6 cotton t-shirt she'd picked out of a sale bin in a Walmart in Florida.\n\nStarting with the tag at the back of the t-shirt, she tracked its journey backwards from the US \"step by step along the supply chain\".\n\n\"A shoe leather project,\" is how Prof Rivoli describes her journey, which resulted in a book, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy.\n\nAs a teacher of finance and international business at Georgetown University in Washington, Prof Rivoli wanted to investigate her assumption that free trade benefited all countries.\n\nPietra Rivoli says the current backlash against global trade is linked to political interference\n\nHer travels took her from the cotton-growing region of Lubbock in Texas to China, where the t-shirt was sewn together. Eventually, she ended up in Tanzania on the east coast of Africa, which has a thriving second-hand clothing market.\n\nHer assumption was that the complicated supply chain was driven by cost and market forces.\n\nShe concluded that a lot of brands' decisions about where to buy supplies and make their clothing was actually driven by politics. She cites US agricultural subsidies for cotton growers and China's migration policies encouraging workers to move from the countryside as examples.\n\n\"Rather than a story of how people were competing - how do I make a faster T-shirt, a better T-shirt, a cheaper T-shirt - what I found is that the story of the T-shirt and why its life turned out the way it did was really about how people were using political power,\" she says.\n\nThe current backlash against global trade is a direct result of this kind of political interference, she believes.\n\nThis kind of consumer anger could eventually drive change among fashion firms, she says. Prof Rivoli notes that many firms now list all their direct suppliers and she says there is a move towards developing fewer, longer term supplier relationships.\n\n\"There might be a little less hopping around,\" she laughs.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The claim: The increase in women working in their 70s is because some of them can't afford to retire.\n\nReality Check verdict: Although some women keep working out of choice, it is also likely that others are doing so because increased life expectancy and an inadequate pension pot means they don't have enough money to retire on.\n\nThe proportion of women working into their 70s has doubled in the past four years, to 11%, according to official figures.\n\nThat works out as about 150,000 women still working into their mid-70s.\n\nAlthough the growth has been strong, there is still a higher proportion of men working into their 70s, at 15.5%.\n\nBut are some women continuing to work later in life because they want to, or because they cannot afford to retire?\n\nLife expectancy has been steadily climbing in the UK, and a woman who was 65 in 2015 could expect to live a further 20.9 years, on average, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nA longer life expectancy is, of course, good news, but also means this generation requires a higher level of savings to cover living expenses, not to mention possible care costs.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation puts the minimum income standard for pensioners at £186.77 a week - the equivalent of £9,712 a year.\n\nBut a pensioner retiring after April 6 this year and relying purely on their state pension will have an income of £8,300 per year - £1,400 less than the Joseph Rowntree estimate.\n\nThis means retirees also need to have built up their own pension pot.\n\nA survey from the pension provider Aegon suggests the average woman has less than half of the retirement savings an average man has.\n\nIt also indicated the average woman hoped to retire at 64, compared with 65 for men.\n\nThere are a number of factors behind this disparity.\n\nWomen have a higher life expectancy than men, and on average earn less over the course of their working lifetimes as they are more likely to have taken time out from work for caring responsibilities.\n\nWhat's more, one in three women currently earns less than £10,000, which is the threshold at which they are eligible for automatic enrolment into a private pension scheme.\n\nChanges to the state pension age have also played a part.\n\nUntil 1995, women expected to draw their state pensions at 60; men at 65.\n\nBut changes made by the 1995 Pensions Act meant the pension ages of both men and women would be 65 by 2020.\n\nIn 2011, this changed again, meaning some women born between April 1951 and 1960 are now facing a pension age of 66.\n\nThe Cridland Report on the state pension age is due out on Thursday.\n\nAction group Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) was set up to campaign for transitional arrangements for women born in the 1950s who have been negatively affected by changes in state pension law.\n\nThe group says hundreds of thousands of women are suffering from financial hardship as a result of the changes, with not enough time to re-plan for their retirement.\n• None The women still working into their 70s\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "West Brom midfielder Jake Livermore wants to make proud the people who helped him through difficult times after earning an England recall.\n\nThe 27-year-old won his only cap in August 2012 against Italy but has had some dark days since then.\n\nAfter the death of his newborn son Jake Junior, he tested positive for cocaine in May 2015 but avoided a two-year ban and has gone on to rebuild his career.\n\n\"I wouldn't have thought it would come, it was in my distant dreams,\" he said.\n\n\"I never thought I'd have the opportunity to represent my country again. The longer it goes, the harder it seems to get.\n\n\"To be honest it wasn't overly in my thoughts, it was more just wanting to get back into club football and put a positive spin on my career, for my friends, for my family and those who stuck by me - the FA among them.\n\n\"Hopefully I can do myself, my country and them proud.\n\n\"Having this opportunity to repay them in any way, shape or form is like a dream for me.\"\n\nLivermore was a surprise inclusion in Gareth Southgate's squad to face Germany in a friendly on Wednesday and Lithuania in a World Cup qualifier on Sunday.\n\nHe said he got his career back on track after his personal tragedy with the support of then Hull City manager Steve Bruce.\n\nHe said in an interview with Football Focus last year that his positive test for cocaine was the \"get out of jail free card\" he needed to start to come to terms with the death of his son.\n\nThe Football Association decided not to ban him because of \"the unique nature of circumstances\" involved.\n\nHe helped Hull win promotion to the Premier League last season before earning a £10m January move to West Brom and wants to be there for others in the future.\n\n\"Football always helped me very much because it was a platform for me to propel my life, really,\" he added. \"Everyone has their own story and everyone will be opened up to different opportunities or temptations.\n\n\"When people need you, like I needed someone, I want to be a person who can help someone else.\n\n\"It's nice to be able to help someone and give something back because when I really needed it I was fortunate to have that with the FA and my club.\"", "Bear Grylls might be confident about climbing mountains, wrestling alligators and challenging the wilderness to do its venomous worst - but there's one thing that fills him with horror.\n\n\"We all have fears. People say, 'You can't have any fears', but I'm scared of so many things,\" says the man who has what must be the best ever job description, of \"adventurer\".\n\n\"I'm really bad at cocktail parties with lots of people I don't know. I really genuinely am.\"\n\nMaggots and steep rock faces are less daunting to him than unarmed combat with canapes and small talk.\n\nSpeaking at an international education conference, Grylls says he lacked confidence as a youngster and describes his own approach to tackling fear and those nagging self-doubts.\n\n\"I've learned that the best way over our fears is right bang through the middle. It really is. The only way you don't see the fear is when you're right on it.\n\n\"I've learned this the hard way. It's how I deal with it now,\" he said at the Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai.\n\nClimbing Everest became a focus for the adventurer's recovery from back injuries\n\nHe says he is also \"really nervous\" of jumping out of aeroplanes, which is understandable since in his 20s he broke his back in three places in a parachuting accident in Africa.\n\nHis recovery from this injury became the springboard for his later ambitions - setting the target of climbing Everest and giving him the fire in his belly to make the most of this \"second chance\" in life.\n\n\"It was definitely a dark time after that accident.\n\n\"My over-riding emotion was that I really have got lucky. I should either be dead or paralysed. There's got to be some purpose behind this. Life has given me a second chance.\n\n\"I might be a bit crook and a bit scarred, but I'm OK and I'm really going to claw my way back - and I really want to do something with my life.\n\n\"Sometimes in life it takes a knock to remember what we really value.\"\n\nThere probably isn't a pamphlet in the careers office for people wanting to become adventurers.\n\nBut Grylls has a straightforward explanation for the path he took - and the occupational hazard of constantly putting himself in danger.\n\n\"It's the only thing I'm good at. I'm not saying that out of modesty, it really is. It's my job, it's what I really love. It's what over the years I've become half-decent at.\"\n\nAnd he says the parachute accident was another spur to improve and get things right in split-second decisions.\n\nWhen his parachute was failing to function properly and he was spinning to the ground, he says he wasn't thinking about his life flashing before his eyes - instead he was trying to sort out the parachute.\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 he \"ran out of time and hit the ground very hard\" and says that, in retrospect, he should have used those seconds to use the reserve chute.\n\n\"I made a promise to myself on that hospital bed that I was going to become the fastest-thinking, the quickest-reaction dude out there. Now I really take pride that I'm good in those moments. But these are skills we develop.\"\n\n\"Sometimes in life it takes a knock to remember what we really value\"\n\nHe is famous for his survival skills. But he says the first inhospitable terrain he had to conquer was his own lack of self-confidence.\n\n\"I wasn't very good at school - and I struggled a lot with confidence,\" says the Eton-educated adventurer.\n\nBut he says such early struggles can be better preparation than success coming too easily.\n\n\"The great people I know in life often struggled at school, because it was the struggle that developed their strength.\"\n\nHis descriptions are also punctuated by an awareness of the small margins between success and failure - and life and death.\n\nWhen he talks about the last exhausting phase of climbing Everest, he describes coming across the body of another climber he had known, Rob Hall, who had died on the mountain two years before.\n\n\"I remember just sitting next to Rob, still perfectly there, his hair blowing, as if I could nudge him and he'd stand up and be fine.\n\n\"I desperately needed something to give me strength - and he is such a hero of mine. I just remember this panic filling me - there are a lot of bodies on the mountain, but this was different - we were so close, but now so far away.\"\n\nHe pushed on and became one of the youngest climbers to get to the summit of Everest.\n\nAnd he says he brought back some snow from the summit and kept it as a liquid symbol of conquering his self-doubt.\n\nBear Grylls says young people need some risk in their lives\n\nGrylls's popularity as a TV presenter has been based on his Boy's Own adventures in the world's wild places. It's in contrast to the worries about young people spending too long in front of screens, missing out on exercise and stressing over social media.\n\nHe says young people need to see the outdoor world and to experience risk in their lives to build a spirit of adventure and curiosity.\n\n\"If you strip risk out of young people's lives, you kill that spirit. Risk is all around us - and you empower kids if you teach them how to manage that risk.\"\n\nAnd he says it's the shy and under-confident youngsters he wants to encourage most.\n\n\"The rewards in life don't always go to the biggest or the bravest, the cleverest, or even the best,\" he tells them.\n\n\"The rewards in life go to the dogged and the determined, to the tenacious, those who get back on their feet when they get kicked.\"\n\nHe's prepared for numbingly cold temperatures and the threats of hungry predators.\n\nJust don't try and ambush him with a cocktail sausage and a conversation about the traffic.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nCoverage: Live on S4C, live commentary on BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru & BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app, plus live text commentary\n\nJames McClean is expected to wear the number five shirt for the Republic of Ireland against Wales in memory of Derry City captain Ryan McBride.\n\nWest Brom midfielder McClean used to play for Derry and was a friend of McBride, who died on Sunday aged 27.\n\nMcClean is to be excused from training with Martin O'Neill's squad to attend McBride's funeral in Derry on Thursday.\n\nThe Republic, who lead Group D in World Cup qualifying, face Wales at Dublin's Aviva Stadium on Friday evening.\n\nMcClean is expected to play some part in the match, despite not starting regularly at club level.\n\nCentral defender Richard Keogh, who usually wears number five, is understood to have agreed to McClean's request to wear the shirt.\n\nRepublic assistant manager Roy Keane said he was not concerned about McClean being ready for the important qualifier.\n\n\"James McClean not having played regularly does not keep me awake at night,\" said Keane.\n\n\"The assurance I get is what he does for Ireland, whether he is having a good or bad time at club level.\n\n\"I have to say, that goes for a lot of our players.\"\n\nThe Republic of Ireland lead their qualifying group with 10 points from four games, Serbia have eight points with Wales in third on six.", "Slowing real income growth could be a challenge for the Prime Minister\n\nIt was Harry S Truman who famously pleaded for a one handed economist, so tired was he of proponents of the dismal science saying \"well, on the one hand, sir... but on the other...\"\n\nSadly for the 33rd President of the United States, you would need a lot of hands to explain today's surprisingly rapid increase in inflation.\n\nRising global commodity prices are pushing up inflation pressures around the world.\n\nAs global growth strengthens, that upward pressure is likely to increase.\n\nIn 2015 and early 2016, we saw a period of deflation - falling prices - in key sectors such as fuel and clothing, so the rise now (in comparison with a year ago) is particularly stark.\n\nMore recently, poor weather in southern Europe has meant that foods such as salad have increased in price by over 60%.\n\nAlthough, as Alan Clarke from Scotia Bank, points out, \"the lettuce crisis didn't cause today's big upwards surprise.\"\n\nPrices for lettuce and other vegetables rose as supermarkets were forced to ration them\n\nWhat did were increases in the prices of food (the first year-on-year rise for more than two years), fuel and what are described as \"recreational\" goods (such as televisions and laptops).\n\nThese increases can all be linked, at least in part, to the cost of importing goods into the UK.\n\nAnd a large part of that increase in cost comes from the fall in the value of sterling since the referendum.\n\nAlthough it is always worth pointing out that sterling's fall was evident before the referendum (many economists argue it was over-valued) and that the dollar has been particularly strong as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates.\n\nWill the increase in inflation continue and put pressure on the Bank of England to raise interest rates?\n\nWell, input prices - what manufacturers pay for the materials and fuel they use - are rising by over 20% a year, the fastest since 2008.\n\nAnd those costs will increasingly be pushed through to consumers.\n\nSo in the medium term, inflation is on an upward trajectory and could peak above the Bank's own forecast of 2.7% in the first three months of next year.\n\nBut, and it is a significant but, wage growth (a long-term motor of inflation) is actually slowing.\n\nLast month, incomes grew by 2.3%, significantly down on a month earlier and the same number as today's inflation figure.\n\nYes, it is only one month's data, but as it stands, real income growth has stalled and groups such as the Resolution Foundation believe it will now turn negative.\n\nThe great wages squeeze which followed the financial crisis could well have returned.\n\nAnd that is a worry for Theresa May, as I wrote last week.\n\nGiven that trend, the dovish position of the Bank is likely to remain in place.\n\nYes, the markets have upped their expectations of a rate rise, but the Bank has been clear: a cut to support economic growth as the UK begins its Brexit negotiations is as likely as an increase.\n\nAnd any increase, if it were to come, is likely to be small.\n\nWhich is bad news for savers, of course.\n\nIt would be ridiculous to say that Brexit is not affecting the UK's course on inflation.\n\nBut it is not the whole story. To tell that, you need plenty of hands.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nIBF world welterweight champion Kell Brook will defend his title against American Errol Spence Jr at Bramall Lane in Sheffield on Saturday 27 May.\n\nBrook, 30, has not fought since he was defeated by middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin in September - his first professional defeat in 37 fights.\n\nBrook claimed the IBF belt beating Shawn Porter in August 2014 and will be aiming for his fourth title defence.\n\n\"I'm so excited about this fight and to make history in my city,\" said Brook.\n\n\"It's long been a dream of mine to fight outdoors at Bramall Lane and I'm pleased to do that in the biggest fight in the welterweight division.\n\n\"All I've ever wanted to do is to give the fans the fights they want and they have it right here on May 27.\n\n\"I'm going to show the world that I'm the best welterweight on the planet and I'm going to do it right before my people's eyes.\"\n\nAfter jumping up two weight divisions to face Golovkin, Sheffield United fan Brook has elected to return to welterweight and face mandatory challenger Spence, 27.\n\nAmerican Spence, unbeaten in 21 professional bouts with 18 knockout victories, said: \"I'm happy I'm finally getting an opportunity to accomplish a lifelong dream of becoming a World champion.\n\n\"This is one of the best and biggest fights in world boxing and I am 100% focused and determined to bring the belt back home to the USA.\n\nBrook's promoter Eddie Hearn called it \"one of the best fights in world boxing\".\n\nHe added: \"It's 'The Special One' vs 'The Truth', a historic event at Sheffield United's Bramall Lane - we are planning an unforgettable night.\"", "Eddie Jones says the British and Irish Lions should name four captains for the tour of New Zealand - one from each of their four national teams.\n\nLions head coach Warren Gatland has said \"half-a-dozen players are in contention\" to lead his squad.\n\nEngland's Dylan Hartley, Ireland's Rory Best, Wales' Alun Wyn Jones and Greig Laidlaw of Scotland are among those.\n\n\"I would take those four captains and make that the leadership group,\" England coach Jones said.\n\n\"Then after the warm-up games, whoever was the leading player I would make captain for the first Test,\" added the Australian, speaking at ESPN's Advertising Week Europe business event in London.\n\n\"You look at the last Lions tour and Sam Warburton captained the first two and Alun Wyn Jones captained the third, so I think you can separate it.\n\n\"It would be different but I would reckon you would get a great result, with those four captains running the team for you and making sure they set the standards on and off the field.\"\n\nNew Zealander Gatland will name his squad on 19 April, and on Sunday said whoever is picked as captain would not be guaranteed to play.\n\n\"When you are looking at a captain, you want to be reasonably confident he is going to be starting in the Tests. But it is not a guarantee, it is just part of the criteria,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek programme.\n\n\"Whoever that person is has to rise to that; the message is it's a great honour to captain the Lions but your form has to be good enough to be selected for the Tests.\"\n• None Get all the latest rugby union news by adding", "Martin McGuinness carries the coffin at an IRA funeral in 1985\n\nNo-one knows how many people Martin McGuinness killed, directly or indirectly.\n\nAs a senior commander within the Provisional IRA for many years, there is no doubt there was blood on his hands.\n\nIt is known that he was second in command of the IRA in Derry when members of the Parachute Regiment shot dead 13 civilians in the city on Bloody Sunday in January 1972.\n\nSecurity sources say he went on to become chief of staff of the organisation from the early 1980s right through until the end of the IRA's campaign of violence.\n\nThat meant he was also a member of its ruling 'army council', which decided its overall strategy and tactics, and would have approved operational policy.\n\nSecurity sources say Martin McGuinness became IRA chief of staff in the early 1980s\n\nBut his only conviction for terrorist activity was for possession of weapons and explosives in the Republic of Ireland's Special Criminal Court in 1973.\n\n\"There is no doubt Martin McGuinness was a key figure within the IRA for almost all of the Troubles, and therefore was responsible for many of its actions, but the fact is there wasn't enough evidence to put him before a court to convict him,\" says one former senior security source.\n\n\"As chief of staff of the organisation for a long period of time he was responsible for its strategic direction and the tempo of its operational activities, so he clearly bore a lot of responsibility for what happened on his watch.\n\n\"But while there will be many claims now about what he did, and who and how many he may have killed, it's impossible to be definitive.\"\n\nHowever, several well-placed security sources agree that Martin McGuinness would have had advanced knowledge of virtually every Provisional IRA attack in his home city of Derry after he was appointed chief of staff.\n\n\"The bottom line is that nothing happened in Derry without Martin knowing about it,\" says one.\n\n\"He wouldn't have been involved in planning every attack, but he would have been told what was planned. If he didn't object, the attack went ahead. If he objected, it didn't. It was that simple, he had a veto.\"\n\nThe Coshquin checkpoint where Patsy Gillespie and five soldiers died\n\nOne of the attacks police sources have claimed Martin McGuinness authorised was one of the most notorious of the Troubles.\n\nIn October 1990, Patsy Gillespie, a Catholic who worked in a local army base, was taken from his home and strapped into a van containing 1,000lbs of explosives.\n\nLabelled a \"collaborator\" by the IRA, he was told to drive the van to an army checkpoint at Coshquin near the border, while his family was held hostage.\n\nWhen he reached his destination, Mr Gillespie was not given time to escape. The bomb was detonated by remote control, killing him and five soldiers.\n\n\"Given the way Martin McGuinness controlled the IRA in Derry at that time, it is inconceivable that he would not have had prior knowledge about such an attack because of its scale and the huge public outcry the IRA would have known would follow,\" says another former senior security source.\n\n\"He may not have drawn up the plan, but he would have known, and could have intervened to stop it.\"\n\nThe family of a Derry man shot dead by the IRA as an alleged informer in 1986 have consistently claimed Martin McGuinness was responsible for luring him to his death.\n\nFrank Hegarty had fled to England after becoming aware that the IRA believed he was an informer.\n\nHis mother and other family members have said Martin McGuinness later visited their home and gave a personal assurance that he would be safe if he came and met the IRA.\n\nA short time after the meeting he was found shot in the back of the head.\n\nA tape containing his interrogation and admissions that he had worked as an informer was later delivered to the Hegarty home.\n\nMartin McGuinness consistently rejected the family's version of events, and insisted that he told them Frank Hegarty should not meet the IRA if he was an informer.\n\nA former senior security source familiar with Martin McGuinness's career within the IRA said that over the years he had transformed from one its most militant leaders to a restraining influence.\n\n\"In his early days, Martin was a fairly hot-headed young revolutionary who helped drive the IRA to be more aggressive and active,\" he says.\n\n\"But in the latter years of the Troubles, as the republican movement moved from violence to politics, he was a calming and restraining influence who definitely saved lives because he stopped things happening.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nBritish wrestler Chinu Sandhu, who won Commonwealth bronze in 2014, has been banned for four years after failing an out-of-competition drugs test.\n\nSandhu, 29, who competed in the 125kg men's freestyle, tested positive for an anabolic steroid in September.\n\n\"It is sad that his reputation within the sport has been tainted because of his own actions,\" UK Anti-Doping chief executive Nicole Sapstead said.\n\nBritish Wrestling said the news was \"extremely disappointing\".\n\nA BBC State of Sport investigation into doping in amateur sport led to UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) saying drug use at every level of sport is \"fast becoming a crisis\".\n\nSandhu argued he had not acted intentionally and that the positive sample had resulted from taking a contaminated supplement.\n\n\"Athletes are solely responsible for any substance which is found in their system, regardless of whether there is an intention to cheat or not,\" Sapstead added.\n\n\"No-one can ever guarantee that a supplement is free from prohibited substances and taking them will always carry an element of risk.\"\n\nSandhu's ban has been backdated to start from 14 October 2016, meaning it will run until October 2020.\n\n\"It is extremely disappointing news - for the athlete and the sport,\" added British Wrestling Association chief executive Colin Nicholson.\n\n\"The sport is working with Ukad to make sure that athletes are educated in anti-doping.\n\n\"The British Wrestling Association has a zero tolerance approach to doping in sport and believes in wrestling clean.\"", "Giant puppets made an appearance at the St Patrick's Day parade\n\nAsk Joe Sweeney about his Irish heritage and he is only too happy to share the snippets of trivia gleaned from family lore.\n\nPerched on the edge of a grave in Montserrat's historic Carr's Bay cemetery, his fingers reverently trace the engraved words just visible on the aged tombstone.\n\nThis St Patrick's Day pilgrimage to the final resting place of his paternal ancestor Nathaniel Bass Daly is an annual ritual for Mr Sweeney.\n\nThe 87-year-old left the Caribbean's \"emerald isle\" in 1954 for a new life in England but has diligently returned to his homeland every year for almost four decades.\n\nJoe Sweeney, 87, is proud of Irish heritage and his ancestor Nathaniel Bass Daly\n\nThe 1793 grave was prepared for Nathaniel's wife Elizabeth, lost at just 31 to an unknown epidemic, and refers only to Nathaniel as her \"disconsolate husband\".\n\n\"But we know he's buried here,\" Mr Sweeney says. \"He insisted his name wasn't put on the stone because he didn't want to disturb her.\"\n\nThe former stonemason is proud of his Irish roots which date back, he says, to the early settlers of the 1600s when the Irish made up the majority of Montserrat's white population as indentured labourers, merchants and plantation owners.\n\nJoe Sweeney has not been to Ireland, but his daughter has researched their family history\n\n\"Nathaniel Daly came on an official visit and liked it so much he stayed. He was a sophisticated, respected man. The Daly family owned a lot of land,\" Mr Sweeney continues, gesturing to the surrounding landscape fringing Daly Hill, one of numerous locations here with an Irish name.\n\n\"My daughter went to Ireland to find out about our family; she discovered the Sweeneys were from Donegal and the Dalys from Tipperary.\"\n\nMr Sweeney has never been to Ireland himself, something he regrets. But what he regrets more is not extracting further information about his familial roots from his parents before they died.\n\n\"You didn't question your parents in those days; they'd say you were cheeky,\" he says, blue-flecked eyes twinkling.\n\n\"For some people, having Irish ancestors is just a fact of life. But I am proud to be one of them; I feel a kinship,\" he adds.\n\nFrom the shamrock-shaped passport stamp upon arrival at the tiny British territory, to the marking of St Patrick's Day with a public holiday and a week of festivities, Montserrat's Irish heritage is eulogised.\n\nThe thousands of international visitors who flooded in for this year's celebrations transformed the isle of 5,000 residents, many of whom bear surnames like Riley, O'Brien and Meade, into a vibrant sea of green.\n\nLeprechauns, shamrocks and Guinness are ubiquitous but the revelry features the island's rich Caribbean and African culture too, evidenced in feasts of traditional food such as goat \"water\" or stew, a \"freedom run\" in tribute to its slave history, and gospel and soca performances.\n\nRetired schoolteacher Sylvester Browne helped organise Montserrat's first official St Patrick's Day festivities in 1985. Prior to that, the date was marked informally with low-key events in individual villages.\n\nSylvester Browne helped organise Montserrat's first official St Patrick's Day celebrations in 1985\n\nMr Browne's own village of St Patrick's was destroyed by the Soufriere Hills volcanic eruption of 1997, part of a two decade-long crisis that forced more than half of the island's erstwhile 11,500 inhabitants to flee.\n\nThe volcano remains active to this day, although it has been relatively quiet in recent years. Today, visits to the ruined capital city of Plymouth and Montserrat's \"black sand\" beaches are a draw for adventure tourists. More than half of the island is still within an exclusion zone.\n\nThe villages of St Patrick's and Morris were destroyed in less than 30 minutes in 1997\n\n\"St Patrick's Day celebrations started because we wanted to commemorate the village more than anything,\" Mr Browne tells the BBC. \"It's evolved in a way we never imagined.\"\n\nThe original plantation-era costumes have stood the test of time - and appeared sporadically in this year's parade, alongside garb in the green, white and marigold national tartan, masquerade dancers, and African-inspired grass skirts and head-wraps.\n\nThe national tartan was a popular choice for the St Patrick's Day parade\n\nSome groups commemorated events in the island's history\n\n\"I'm happy it's grown to be this big but it saddens me that it's become so commercialised,\" Mr Browne continues. \"It would nice if it focussed more on local tradition and what makes us unique.\"\n\nThese days, Montserrat's ethnic melting pot makes it hard to quantify how many people are of Irish descent.\n\n\"Some people deny it; others are proud for sentimental reasons, it's a connection they value,\" Mr Browne explains.\n\nSome of the costumes bear little resemblance to those worn at parades in Ireland\n\nSpirits were high at the parade in Montserrat\n\n\"St Patrick's Day is a nice way to showcase the island to visitors; some people are still not certain how safe it is. It's also great to see so many Montserratians return home for it.\"\n\nVince Greenaway was one of more than 1,000 Montserratians living overseas to attend the 17 March parade.\n\n\"Last year my buddies back home called me in Canada to tell me I was missing out,\" he says, laughing.\n\n\"I promised them I would be here this year; it's wonderful to see people I haven't seen in years.\"", "Russia hopes a bridge to Crimea will solve many problems\n\nThree years after Russia annexed Crimea, a move bitterly contested by Ukraine's government, the region remains in a state of flux. It's difficult to get into, and for many people, it's difficult to know where it's going.\n\nAt Kiev International Airport, I hand my passport to a border guard.\n\nHe pauses. He studies my passport. He seems to be checking a list. He goes to pick up a telephone and asks a question. He does not realise I can hear.\n\n\"You remember that pro-Russian journalist from the BBC? Was his surname Rosenberg?\"\n\n\"It wasn't? OK, thanks.\" He hangs up. He stamps my passport and returns it.\n\n\"Welcome to Ukraine!\" he smiles.\n\nThose pauses at passport control are an indication of the current tension between Moscow and Kiev - a relationship clouded by enmity and suspicion.\n\nOur BBC team is only passing through Kiev. Our final destination is Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia three years ago.\n\nFor journalists based in Russia, there are faster ways of reaching the Crimean peninsula. Board a plane in Moscow and two hours later you can be in the Crimean capital Simferopol. Ukraine, however, warns foreign nationals that anyone entering \"temporarily occupied Crimea\" without Kiev's permission and without crossing an official Ukrainian border may be banned from future entry to Ukraine.\n\nDirect flights from Russia to Ukraine stopped in October 2015. We flew from Moscow to the Belarusian capital Minsk, then on to Kiev. Ahead of us is an eight-hour road trip to Crimea.\n\nFirst, we visit the Ukrainian Migration Service in Kiev to obtain the \"dozvil\" - a document issued by the Ukrainian authorities permitting travel to Crimea. Three hours later, permission slips in hand, our long car journey south begins.\n\nRussia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 was a watershed moment. It pushed Moscow and the West to the brink of a new cold war. Three years on we are travelling to Crimea to gauge the mood.\n\nIt is dark by the time we reach the final Ukrainian checkpoint before the peninsula. Ukraine does not call the Kalanchak crossing a border - officially, it is a \"control point for entry and exit\". We show our passports and dozvils. Minutes later we are waved through.\n\nThe no-man's land between the Ukrainian and Russian checkpoints is tiny - no more than 50m long. We stop here to change cars - our Kiev driver will turn back. A driver from Simferopol has come to meet us.\n\nOn the Russian side this is called the Armyansk crossing. As far as the Russians are concerned, it is an official state border. We show passports and visas and fill out immigration cards. Our documents are in order, but we are asked to wait. The appearance here of British journalists has raised official eyebrows.\n\nA young man in civilian clothes approaches me. \"Come with me, please,\" he says, \"I'd like to have a chat.\"\n\nWe enter a small room and sit down at a table. He checks my phone to make sure I am not recording our conversation.\n\nThen come the questions. Lots of them.\n\n\"What mission have your editors set you? What will you be filming? How will you be saving your material, on computers or hard drives? What SIM card will you be using in Crimea? As the correspondent, will you be making notes each night about what you have filmed? Can you show me some of the photos on your phone? Where will you be staying? Why didn't you fly direct from Moscow?\"\n\nCrimea has a wide variety of Vladimir Putin murals and posters\n\nMy interrogator notes down my answers on a piece of paper. His questions are not limited to Crimea.\n\n\"What street do you live on in Moscow? What is the nearest Metro station to your home? What does your wife do for a living? You've been in Russia a long time. Have you ever considered applying for a Russian passport?\"\n\n\"My British one suits me just fine,\" I reply.\n\n\"What do you think of English cuisine?\" he asks, adding, \"I like Jamie Oliver. Although I consider he uses too much oil.\"\n\nThe questioning lasts an hour. Then the official escorts me back to the van. I ask for his name.\n\n\"I have no name,\" he replies, \"only a rank.\"\n\nThe inquisitive young man with \"no name, only a rank\" invites my colleagues for similar conversations.\n\nThree hours pass. Interrogations over, we are still not free to go. We spend the night in the van waiting for Russian customs officers to process our papers and allow our TV equipment through. Ten hours after arriving at the Armyansk crossing, we finally clear the checkpoint.\n\nSimferopol is the administrative centre of Crimea. The name of our hotel is the \"Ukraine\". But three years after annexation, the town feels Russian. Most of the cars have switched to Russian number plates, brand new buses manufactured near Moscow have taken to the roads. And, peering down from billboards is the Russian president with some of his choicest Crimea quotations - just to remind everyone who is in charge.\n\nIn this poster Putin promises to boost Crimea's spa facilities\n\n\"Crimea was famous for being the spa of the Soviet Union,\" declares Vladimir Putin in one poster. \"We will, of course, develop this.\"\n\n\"All Russian army social programmes will be extended to Sevastopol and the Black Sea Fleet,\" he promises in another.\n\nNear our hotel, the wall of a building is covered with a giant painting of President Putin dressed as a sailor and the words: \"Crimea belongs to all of us\".\n\nAs far as retired teacher Olga Koziko is concerned, the more Putin in Crimea, the better.\n\n\"Crimea is a place where people support Putin,\" Olga assures me. \"We just adore him. He's our hero. I even have a T-shirt with Putin and the words: 'In Putin We Trust', like 'In God We Trust.' Thanks to Putin, Russian soldiers came to protect us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn 22 February 2014, Ukraine's pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych fled the country after what he - and his Russian allies - called an \"illegal coup\" in Kiev. On 27 February masked men in unmarked uniforms appeared in Simferopol. Armed with Russian weapons, they seized government buildings, the parliament, the airport and blocked Ukrainian army bases. This mysterious military force picked up a variety of nicknames, including The Little Green Men and The Polite People.\n\nToday Moscow admits the soldiers were from Russia's secretive Special Operations Forces (the SSO). President Putin subsequently signed a decree making 27 February an annual celebration in Russia - \"Special Operations Forces Day\".\n\nFollowing a hastily organised referendum, it was announced that more than 95% of people who had taken part had voted for Crimea's \"reunification\" with Russia. The referendum was not recognised by the international community. To the outside world, Russia had grabbed a piece of Ukraine.\n\nA statue honouring The Little Green Men has been erected near the Crimean parliament building. It depicts a young girl handing flowers to a man with a gun. The inscription reads: \"To The Polite People from the grateful people of Crimea.\"\n\nRussia has shrugged off international condemnation over Crimea\n\nThis is how Moscow wants to be seen here: as a force for good, protecting the people of Crimea from violent Ukrainian nationalists. In 2014 Russia's state-controlled media characterised the new Ukrainian government as \"fascists\", \"neo-Nazis\" and an \"illegitimate junta''. Olga uses similar language as she recalls the past.\n\n\"Without Russia, a lot of people would have been killed here,\" maintains Olga. \"Ukrainian Nazis said Crimea would either be part of Ukraine or empty. People would have been oppressed. Perhaps even put in concentration camps.\"\n\nThere is absolutely no evidence to substantiate Olga's claims.\n\nMany of those in Crimea who welcome Moscow's rule see the bloody conflict in eastern Ukraine as confirmation that Russia is a safer home. They discount evidence that unrest in the Donbass was incited and bankrolled by Moscow.\n\nOut on the street I get chatting to a pensioner called Nadezhda. Until recently her sister had been living in Luhansk, one of the self-proclaimed separatist republics in eastern Ukraine.\n\n\"Life in Luhansk is terrible,\" Nadezhda says. \"So I moved my sister to Crimea. I will do everything to make sure that kind of violence doesn't break out here.\"\n\nThere is another reason why Nadezhda, an ethnic Ukrainian, trusts Moscow more than Kiev - it is out of nostalgia for Soviet times, when she regarded Moscow as her capital. Nadezhda describes Crimea joining Russia as \"a return to the Soviet Union. Our generation was, is and will always be in the USSR. We will die in the Soviet Union.\"\n\nPeople pass a mural of Putin at the wheel of a ship\n\nNostalgia and fear are powerful feelings. But they are not enough to sustain pro-Russia sentiment in Crimea at the level of 2014.\n\nSevering ties to Ukraine has brought problems. With economic links to Ukraine cut, the only way of keeping the peninsula supplied is by sea or air. That means higher prices. Moscow insists that will change once it has completed a road and rail bridge linking Crimea to the Russian mainland. The bridge is a multibillion-dollar statement that Moscow is here to stay.\n\nAs well as higher prices, there is Russian red tape.\n\nI visit a document registration centre in Simferopol. More than two hundred people are queueing outside. They have come to exchange Ukrainian documents, like deeds for apartments, for Russian ones. Some people, like Alyona, have been queuing here all night.\n\n\"Life hasn't got better or worse,\" Alyona tells me, \"We're still standing in lines, like we always used to. Maybe some people had big expectations three years ago. But I don't believe in miracles.\"\n\nPeople queue for a long time to change Ukrainian documents to Russian ones\n\nI ask Alyona if she could imagine Russia handing Crimea back to Ukraine.\n\n\"Nothing would surprise me any more,\" she laughs. \"I wouldn't be surprised if we suddenly ended up as part of Turkey. To be honest, I don't care if we're with China! The most important thing is that there is no war.\n\n\"I've learnt that your life can be turned upside down in a day. And there is nothing you can do about it. We're like pawns on a chessboard. They're playing with us. Today our place is in Russia. And tomorrow? Who knows. Maybe that's for the best: if we knew, we might have a heart attack.\"\n\nAcross town, I meet Nadia. She is complaining to me about potholes.\n\n\"Where I live there are potholes everywhere,\" Nadia says. \"People have been hurting their legs. I've written to the authorities asking them to do something. They haven't lifted a finger.\"\n\nNadia's disappointment extends further than pavements and roads.\n\n\"Many people here were happy, but there is disillusionment now,\" she tells me, \"because there is no investment and salaries and pensions are small. My pension is 8000 roubles ($140; £112) a month. Just about enough to cover utility bills and the medicines I need.\"\n\nI am talking to Nadia beside the statue of Ukraine's most famous 19th Century poet, Taras Shevchenko. It is Shevchenko Day and a group of twenty people have come here with flowers to mark the poet's birthday. Russian police have come, too - with cameras. They are filming everyone, including us. In Russian Crimea, public expressions of Ukrainian pride attract special attention.\n\nNadia is an ethnic Russian, but she is wearing a small Ukrainian flag.\n\n\"In my soul, Crimea is still part of Ukraine,\" Nadia tells me. \"I'm here because this statue is the last symbol of Ukraine left in Crimea.\"\n\nA woman called Lidiya overhears our conversation. She is furious.\n\n\"It was the Russian Empress Catherine the Great who built up Crimea,\" says Lidiya sternly.\n\n\"Well, if you're going to bring up history, we could go right back to the days of the Crimean khans,\" retorts Nadia.\n\n\"Three years ago America was planning to station soldiers in three schools in Sevastopol,\" she claims. \"Nato troops wanted to be in Sevastopol. Crimea would have been wiped from the face of the earth.\"\n\n\"How do you know that?\" I ask.\n\n\"I read it in the internet,\" she replies.\n\n\"Does that make it true?\"\n\n\"If people think they live badly in Crimea today, let them go and live in the Donbass in eastern Ukraine. They will be crying to come back here.\"\n\nUmer Ibragimov is desperate to find what happened to his missing son\n\nWe drive to the town of Bakhchysarai in central Crimea to meet Umer Ibragimov. Umer, a Crimean Tatar, is desperate for information about his son Ervin. In May 2016 Ervin was abducted late at night. CCTV cameras caught the moment he was seized by men in uniform and bundled into a vehicle.\n\n\"I've written to everyone asking for help,\" Umer tells me, \"from the bottom levels right up to the president. But there has been no information about my son.\"\n\nErvin Ibragimov was a member of the executive board of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars. Since annexation, the Crimean Tatar community has come under pressure. Its elected representative body, the Mejlis, which had opposed the 2014 referendum on joining Russia, has been ruled an \"extremist organisation\" and banned.\n\nHuman rights group Amnesty International accuses the Russian authorities of \"systematic persecution\" of Crimean Tatars. This month the European Union's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini concluded that \"the rights of the Crimean Tatars have been gravely violated\". Moscow denies the accusations.\n\nOver piping hot tea, Umer tells me the story of his family. In World War Two, his father had fought in the Red Army.\n\n\"He was wounded and came home,\" Umer says. \"Ten days later, all Crimean Tatars were deported from their homeland.\"\n\nIt was Josef Stalin who had ordered the deportation - an act of collective punishment and paranoia. The Soviet dictator suspected Crimean Tatars of collaborating with the Nazis. More than 230,000 people were forced on to cattle trains and transported to Central Asia.\n\n\"My mother and father told me later they'd be given just 15 minutes to gather their belongings,\" recalls Umer.\n\nUmer grew up in Soviet Uzbekistan. Conscripted into the Soviet army in the late 1970s, he spent a year fulfilling his \"internationalist duty\" fighting in Afghanistan.\n\nUmer looks at a photograph of his missing son.\n\n\"There is no justice,\" he says.\n\nAnd yet this Crimean spring feels calmer than three years ago. While Russia and the West argue over sanctions, sovereignty and borders, it seems that most people here are just trying to get on with their lives, trying to adapt.\n\n\"Everything calmed down,\" artist Svitlana Gavrilenko says. \"Everyone who used to be 'pro' something - either pro-Russia or pro-Ukraine - everybody calmed down.\"\n\nThree years ago Svitlana had opposed annexation. Today her perspective has changed.\n\n\"A lot of small and medium-sized businesses fell apart after Russia came because they were all connected to Ukraine. Now they have reconnected to Russia and China. If we become a part of Ukraine again, we will need to solve all this stuff again. Everyone's life is going to be screwed up again.\"\n\nIn the Black Sea resort of Yalta I find the promenade packed with people enjoying a seaside stroll in the sunshine. The sound of the waves crashing on the shore mixes with jazz chords from street musicians. From the conversations, there is an overriding sense of a population desperate for peace.\n\n\"Many people in Crimea still love Ukraine,\" Rodion says. \"Russia and Ukraine are too similar, their peoples too inter-connected to feel bad about each other.\"\n\nRodion believes \"it's not completely impossible\" that Crimea would one day return to Ukrainian rule.\n\n\"Nobody ever imagined it would become a part of Russia,\" he says, though he resents Western leaders who demand the peninsula's return. \"Crimea is not just a thing to be given to one country or another. It's a place. It's the people who live here. It's history. It's many things that cannot be bought or inter-changed.\"\n\nSvitlana Gavrilenko believes that the changes that took place here three years ago are irreversible.\n\n\"I don't think Russia in its modern state, with Putin at the top, could ever give Crimea back,\" she tells me. \"They made so much effort to connect it. They suffered through all these sanctions just to have Crimea. Why would they give it back?\"\n• None What is Russia's end game in Crimea?", "Everton Free School is the first school run by a Premier League club\n\nEverton Free School is the first school run by a Premier League football club, taking on students who have not been able to stay in mainstream education. The Victoria Derbyshire programme has been given exclusive access to the school.\n\nLiam, whose full name we have not used, has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism, and witnessed domestic violence while growing up.\n\nHis own mental health has also been a worry, and he has been the target of bullies. All of this had a big impact on his time at school, and by the time he was entering his teens, options for his education were running out.\n\n\"It was very anxious for me as a parent, to know you had to be at work all day and your son was somewhere he hated being,\" says his mother Laura.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liam's mum says he was quite suicidal before he started at Everton Free School\n\n\"I'd worry all day. Is he going to get hit? Are they going to be waiting for him after school?\"\n\nIt was a dark time for Liam, and meant his progress was slipping. He wasn't turning up to class, and when he did, he'd get into fights.\n\n\"It was hard to get the work done. I'd always need the one-on-one. It would always be so hard to complete a task,\" he says.\n\nThree years ago, Laura was told about Everton Free School - the only school run by a Premier League football club. For lifelong fan Liam, it seemed like a real opportunity.\n\nA class is held at a corporate box at Everton's Goodison Park\n\nThe school has 120 students and teaches English, maths and science as core GCSEs, as well as a range of more practical subjects aimed at getting the students jobs when they finish.\n\nBut all of them have special needs of some kind - behavioural problems, issues at home and some with drugs and crime.\n\nChloe, who is also 15, had serious behavioural problems.\n\n\"I got kicked out. I was naughty, and used to do nothing in school and used to argue with all the teachers. I used to fight,\" she remembers. \"People used to go around carrying knives and that. And if they'd get into a fight they'd stab them.\"\n\nLaura was in two minds about sending Liam into a school where students had such problems.\n\n\"Definitely without a doubt, it was the hardest decision I've ever had to make,\" she says. \"Am I throwing my child from the furnace into the fire? I really had to think hard about it.\"\n\nThe school has 120 students and teaches English, maths and science as core GCSEs\n\nAt £14,500 a year per pupil, it is three times the cost of a mainstream school - a bill picked up by the taxpayer.\n\nI ask Richard Cronin, the school's executive principal, if it is just a way of rewarding difficult kids.\n\nHe says there is a \"really high correlation\" between young people not being engaged in the education system and being involved in crime.\n\n\"We are engaging them. That's got to be beneficial to everybody,\" he says.\n\nMost would have had a 5-10% attendance. This school aims to get them up above 80%.\n\nOne of the perks of being associated with Everton - for fans like Liam anyway - is meeting the players when they come and visit the school.\n\nEngland and Everton defender Phil Jagielka came to join a science lesson.\n\n\"A few of them want to speak to you,\" the footballer says.\n\n\"A few of them want to give you a little bit of banter - there are a couple of Liverpool fans in here and all sorts, so they refuse to write the word blue down for instance.\n\n\"I've been here for a long time now and I've met some fantastic characters, some great people.\n\n\"If you give these kids a chance to open up and talk, more often than not, you know you've had a great day. These are going to be young men and women in a couple of years and if we can give them a decent foothold then that's what's important.\"\n\nLiam beams as he meets his team's captain, wearing the Everton kit. He's now doing extra maths and is working towards a qualification in coaching football.\n\n\"As a fan it makes you proud. The crest on your chest every day. It's what you want really.\"\n\nThe Everton brand - and its profile and money - is a big bonus for this school.\n\nBut in wearing the kit and being associated with its name, the students gain something more important: respect.\n\nAnd it is changing their lives.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "Despite conflict entering a seventh year, the 16-team Syrian Premier League is still going and the international team harbour hopes of making it to the biggest stage of all, the World Cup.\n\nThe national team can't play qualifiers in Syria and face a 9,000-mile round-trip to Malaysia to play their \"home\" games.\n\nSyria have already beaten China away and sit fourth in their World Cup group, five points from an automatic qualifying spot.\n\nAs part of the BBC's State of Sport week, we spoke to the team as they prepared for their next qualifier against Uzbekistan in Kuala Lumpur.\n\nREAD MORE:Football on the frontline and Syria's World Cup dream", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has expressed her concern for those caught up in the terrorist attack at Westminster.\n\nShe spoke of a \"sense of solidarity\" felt in Scotland for people in London.\n\nFour people have died after a car was driven at pedestrians near the UK parliament before the occupant jumped out and stabbed a police officer.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament suspended a debate on an independence referendum following the attack.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"My thoughts, as I'm sure the thoughts of everybody in Scotland tonight, are with people caught up in this dreadful event.\n\n\"My condolences in particular go to those who've lost loved ones.\n\n\"My thoughts are with those who've sustained injuries and we all feel a sense of solidarity with the people of London tonight.\"\n\nShe said Scotland would consider whether there were any wider lessons for public safety.\n\nThe first minister added: \"I convened a meeting of the Scottish Government's Resilience Committee to review what is currently known about the incident at Westminster and also to review any implications for Scotland.\n\n\"(But) it is important to stress that there is no intelligence of any risk to Scotland.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ken Macintosh: \"The fact that our sister parliament has had a serious incident is affecting this particular debate.\"\n\nThe Scottish Parliament had been close to concluding its debate on a call for a referendum on Scottish independence when Presiding Officer Ken Macintosh announced that the sitting would be suspended.\n\nHe said the incident in London was affecting the contributions of MSPs, and that the debate would resume at another time.\n\nA vote had been due to be held at 17:30, but politicians including Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson called for the session to be suspended.\n\nThe London attack is currently being treated as a terrorist incident\n\nPoliticians and staff immediately left the chamber once the debate had been suspended\n\nParliament officials initially ruled that the debate should continue as planned, before Mr Macintosh decided that it should be halted.\n\nThe presiding officer said: \"The fact that our sister parliament has had a serious incident is affecting this particular debate, and is affecting the contribution of members. And so it is for that reason we are deciding to suspend the sitting.\n\n\"We will resume this debate and we will be able to do so in a full and frank manner, but I think to continue at the moment would not allow members to make their contributions in the manner they wish to.\"\n\nThe debate is expected to continue next week, with a decision due to be made on Thursday morning.\n\nConservative MSP Fin Carson tweeted ahead of the presiding officer's ruling that he had left the parliament chamber, saying: \"I can't understand how this debate can go on. At least a suspension would have shown some respect.\"\n\nHowever, some politicians were unhappy about the decision to suspend the debate.\n\nLiberal Democrat MSP Mike Rumbles was among those to argue it was a \"mistake\", telling BBC Scotland that had huge sympathy for those affected by the attack, but that: \"We should not be giving in to terrorism, and I believe we've done that\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham was also unhappy with the decision - but was later said to agree entirely after learning the full details of the London attack.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon had been expected to win the backing of a majority of MSPs for her plan to ask the UK government for a section 30 order, which would be needed to hold a legally-binding referendum on independence.\n\nThe UK government has already said it will block the move, and will not enter into any negotiations until after the Brexit process has been completed.\n\nSecurity has been increased around the parliament building\n\nSeveral MSPs called for the debate to be suspended out of respect for those affected - but some argued it was \"giving in to terrorism\"\n\nAn increased police presence could be seen in and around the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nAn email to MSPs, staff and Holyrood pass-holders from the Scottish Parliament chief executive's office said: \"While there is no intelligence to suggest there is a specific threat to Scotland, Edinburgh or Holyrood, we have increased security with immediate effect at the Scottish Parliament as a precaution.\"\n\nPolice vehicles were seen outside the parliament building, with a spokesman for Police Scotland saying the force was \"liaising with colleagues in London and will ensure appropriate safety and security plans are in place based upon what we know\".", "Last updated on .From the section English Rugby\n\nEngland will not face New Zealand this year after a game between the All Blacks and the Barbarians at Twickenham on 4 November was confirmed.\n\nThe Rugby Football Union (RFU) was understood to be interested in a fixture between the world's top two sides before the end of the year.\n\nHowever, England and New Zealand will not now meet until autumn 2018.\n\nThe Baa-Baas match against New Zealand replaces one previously announced against Australia.\n\n\"The entire Barbarians Committee would like to thank the RFU for approving this fixture against New Zealand,\" said John Spencer, chairman of the Barbarians.\n\n\"For the record, and contrary to some recent media reports, the Barbarians have a strong and very collaborative relationship with the RFU, and any suggestion that the RFU has not acted correctly in any part of the discussions around staging this fixture is unfair and wrong.\"\n\nThe Barbarians are next in action against England at Twickenham on Sunday, 28 May, before returning to Belfast's Kingspan Stadium to play Ulster on Thursday, 1 June.\n\nEngland's record of 18 consecutive wins, equalling New Zealand's record total, came to an end at the weekend in the final Six Nations match against Ireland in Dublin.", "When Adam Lallana's diving header sailed past Craig Gordon to double England's lead over Scotland at Wembley Stadium last November, all but one head on the Scottish bench slumped to a resigned sigh.\n\nAlthough he had not made the squad for the previous qualifier in Slovakia a month before, Oliver Burke still believed his coach Gordon Strachan would swivel on his seat and turn to the recently acquired RB Leipzig signing in the hope that he would change the game.\n\nIn front of the famous Wembley crowd Burke believed he would be Scotland's hero.\n\nYet the Scotland coach did not pick the 19-year-old talent. In fact, he didn't pick anyone at all until Gary Cahill had made it 3-0 11 minutes later, when defensive midfielder James McArthur was brought on to limit the damage already done.\n\n\"I'm sure any player would say that he wasn't very happy,\" Burke told BBC Scotland when asked about that day. \"But really I think I just had to take a step back and realise what I'd done and where I am.\n\n\"Obviously I'm still very proud to be a part of the team and at the end of the day it's the manager's choice.\"\n\nAny misplaced assumptions of playing a key role for the national team that night are quickly excused when consideration is made for the hype that has followed Burke to Leipzig over the past eight months.\n\nCompared to Real Madrid star Gareth Bale owing to his style of play, and touted as a future Scotland star, the German club were inundated with requests to interview Burke when he first arrived. Despite only scoring his first goal for Nottingham Forest 11 months prior to that night at Wembley, the young talent was already an established name within the European game.\n\n\"I was really taken aback,\" said Burke when asked about the attention. \"I didn't really think this was a part of football as much. When you're a young kid you don't see these things. You just see footballers playing and enjoying it out on the pitch.\"\n\nDespite his new-found fame, Burke had joined a club that stresses the importance of team performances over individualism and was quickly made aware that he had plenty to learn before he would be stealing the headlines in Leipzig, as he had done in Nottingham.\n\nAfter setting up the winning goal against Borussia Dortmund in the opening game of the season, Burke's coach Ralph Hasenhuttl chose to instead note that the player had an \"empty hard drive\" - referring to his reluctance to track back and follow his marker.\n• None Five things about Scotland's most expensive player\n\n\"It took me a long while to get used to it and get me up and running,\" said Burke when asked about the re-education he has had since leaving England. \"There are so many little bits in this team. So if you're not doing your job as well as you possibly can then it can cost you in the Bundesliga. That's how tough this league is.\"\n\nRalf Rangnick, RB Leipzig's director of football, was the man who brought Burke to Germany after watching a video prepared by the club's analytics team of the Forest prospect. After just 10 minutes the former Stuttgart, Schalke and Hoffenheim coach decided he had seen enough. Two weeks later Burke was on a plane to Leipzig sitting alongside Rangnick, as he explained the club's playing ethos.\n\n\"When we saw and scouted him we could easily see the weapons he has,\" the 58-year-old told BBC Scotland. \"He's very powerful, very fast and physically strong. He's good on the ball for a player of that size and that tempo. Where he still has to improve is tactically - 'when do I have to do what?' - our style of football is a little bit different from what he was used to in England.\"\n\nHe added: \"Obviously those are things that nobody has told him in the past and he has to learn that. He has improved but there is still plenty of room for further improvement.\"\n\n'I love the fact I'm getting better and better'\n\nRangnick gives off a headmaster-like demeanour that fits in with the manner in which Leipzig intend to run their club. Buying young, raw talent to develop in to continental stars is the plan at a fledging club backed by the ambitious energy drink makers Red Bull.\n\nDespite sitting second in the German top division, the average age of Burke's teammates is just 24.2 years. In Leipzig, the 19-year-old has not joined a normal football club, but instead a purpose-built academy in one of the best football leagues in the world.\n\n\"I've loved every moment of it and I just love the fact that I'm getting better and better,\" noted Burke. \"That's what I came here for. I wouldn't want to go to a club not knowing that I'm going to get better than what I was at Nottingham Forest.\"\n\nHe added: \"I've got to take a bit of pressure off myself at times because I do pressure myself, but I'm enjoying it.\"\n\nIndeed, it may be some time before Burke displaces striker Timo Werner, the 21-year-old German talent who has scored 14 Bundesliga goals this season and just earned a call-up to his national team. Or even 25-year-old Bundesliga player-of-the-year contender Emil Forsberg on the left wing.\n\nYet in Leipzig the Scottish international continues to work hard as the country's most exciting work in progress.", "Germany v England: Name the German players in the Premier League Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWith Germany hosting England in an international friendly on Wednesday, we've scoured our picture archive for some of the more obscure German players to feature in the Premier League. It's not meant to be easy - we think anyone getting more than 70% has either done a reverse image search or has a great career ahead of them in pub quizzes. Let's get started and see if you know you can accurately tell Stefan Malz from Stefan Schnoor.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nGareth Southgate suffered his first defeat in charge of England as Lukas Podolski's spectacular second-half winner provided a fitting farewell to his Germany career in Dortmund.\n\nSouthgate had been undefeated in four games as interim manager following Sam Allardyce's abrupt departure from the England post after one match - and he will feel this loss in his first match in permanent control was harsh on his side after a creditable performance against the World Cup holders.\n\nAdam Lallana struck a post and Dele Alli saw a shot blocked at point-blank range by Germany keeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen in the first half as England were superior for spells.\n\nIt was almost inevitable, however, that former Arsenal striker Podolski, given a hero's reception before, during and after the game, made the decisive contribution with a rising left-foot drive from outside the area after 69 minutes that gave England keeper Joe Hart no chance.\n\nGermany's reshaped side had the same experimental appearance as England's but there was still plenty to satisfy manager Southgate in a losing cause.\n\nThe result will hurt because for a large portion of this game England were the more creative, threatening and energetic side.\n\nSouthgate, though, will reflect on a three-man defensive system that worked effectively - although it was not put to the test too often by a Germany team who rarely went through the gears.\n\nBurnley's Michael Keane made an assured debut, almost scoring in the opening minutes, and while the attacking system occasionally left Jamie Vardy isolated it did allow Alli and Lallana to flourish and advance into dangerous positions.\n\nEngland looked effective in possession and nothing that happened here will damage the confidence Southgate is looking to rebuild and put in place after his appointment as permanent successor to Allardyce.\n\nIt was a qualified satisfaction because this was nowhere near a full-strength or full throttle Germany.\n\nBut Southgate will still have plenty of plus points to take forward into Sunday's World Cup qualifier against Lithuania at Wembley.\n\nAlli shows his class - with one regret\n\nDele Alli gave a man-of-the-match performance when England beat Germany in a friendly in Berlin almost a year ago and this was another display that will have impressed the knowledgeable observers here at Signal Iduna Park.\n\nAlli showed some sublime touches in a system that suited him and brought the best out of his natural creative instincts, making chances and also acting as a goal threat as Southgate looks to find the new way forward for England.\n\nHe had been the game's best performer before he was replaced by Jesse Lingard with 20 minutes left - but he will have departed with one major regret from what was an otherwise excellent night's work.\n\nAlli was guilty of missing that great opportunity in the first half when he was played in by Vardy, who had earlier had a penalty appeal turned down.\n\nAlli only had Ter Stegen to beat but shot straight at the German keeper with a surprisingly poor finish for someone of his calibre.\n\nIt was a blemish on his efforts - but not enough to disguise the great talent that is at Southgate's disposal.\n\nThis friendly international carried the air of a testimonial for long periods - and in many ways it was as Germany striker Podolski bade farewell to the international stage.\n\nThe 31-year-old striker was ending his career after 130 caps, 49 goals and a World Cup win in 2014, a goodbye said in some style even apart from his spectacular final goal.\n\nPodolski was given a presentation and delivered a speech that delayed the kick-off by several minutes while Germany fans unveiled a celebratory mosaic to a hugely popular figure in this country.\n\nIt may well have accounted for the flat atmosphere in the first half and a German performance to match on a night that almost seemed more about paying tribute to one of their great sporting servants than learning lessons from playing England.\n\nThe match-winner exited the stage a few minutes before the end, accompanied by a standing ovation and dramatic music. This was a night dedicated to him.\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate on BBC Radio 5 live: \"We have to reflect on a very good performance - a new system that I felt worked well and allowed us to control possession of game but also create chances.\n\n\"They've scored a fairytale goal, but I've got to be proud of what the players have done.\n\n\"I thought we were the better side up until their winning goal. That was a good learning experience for our young players who made their debuts.\n\n\"All that was missing was the finish to get the winning goal I felt we deserved.\"\n\nGermany goalscorer Lukas Podolski: \"It was like in a movie, dear god gave me a strong left foot and I used it tonight.\n\n\"It was a great game, a great result and a great way to say goodbye. That gave me goosebumps to get a reception like that.\"\n\nGermany manager Joachim Low: \"It was noticeable that England were playing more intensely, much more vigorously in the tackle especially in the first half.\n\n\"It took us a while to get used to this and slowly but surely I think our players got used to our rhythm.\n\n\"I think it was a very good game in the end. It was good to play against opponents that really gave us a run for our money.\"\n\nBoth countries return to their World Cup qualifying campaigns on Sunday, when England host Lithuania and Germany are away to Azerbaijan.\n• None Offside, Germany. Mats Hummels tries a through ball, but André Schürrle is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Leroy Sané (Germany) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Emre Can.\n• None Attempt missed. Mats Hummels (Germany) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Toni Kroos with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. André Schürrle (Germany) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jonas Hector with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Thomas Müller (Germany) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Leroy Sané.\n• None Offside, Germany. Thomas Müller tries a through ball, but Leroy Sané is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nTeam Wiggins say they are \"surprised\" and \"disappointed\" after being excluded from next month's Tour de Yorkshire.\n\nThe team, founded by five-time Olympic champion Sir Bradley Wiggins to develop young British talent, was omitted from the race which runs from 28-30 April.\n\n\"It's very disappointing and it is very much a surprise,\" said the team's sports director Simon Cope.\n\nRace organisers said the event was oversubscribed and \"unfortunately someone had to miss out\".\n\nA total of 49 teams applied for 36 slots - 18 in the men's race and 18 in the women's.\n\nThe decision on who was included was made between Welcome to Yorkshire and cycling event organisers ASO, who jointly run the event.\n\nA Welcome to Yorkshire spokesman said that Team Wiggins were welcome to apply for any future editions of the race.\n\nBut Cope told Cycling Weekly that he believed the team, who are the only British third-tier UCI Continental outfit not included, could have made an impact in the race.\n\n\"Good or bad press at the moment, there's a percentage of the UK population who will be going to the race who want to see (Team) Wiggins there,\" he said.\n\n\"You would have thought that we would have got in, but the organisers have made their selection and that's it, we can't do anything about it. We will have to go and find another bike race to do.\"\n\nAn investigation by UK Anti-Doping is currently ongoing into allegations of wrongdoing in cycling involving Wiggins - who retired in December - and Team Sky.\n\nCope, who used to work for Team Sky, was questioned by MPs earlier this month about the contents of a medical package he delivered to Wiggins when he was racing at the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine in France.\n\nTeam Sky have admitted \"mistakes were made\" around how medical records relating to the package were kept but deny breaking anti-doping rules.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mobile phone footage by Monmouth MP David Davies captures the panic inside the Houses of Parliament\n\nA Welsh MP has told of hearing shots outside Parliament, following a terrorist attack which left five people dead and at least 40 injured.\n\nOne was a police officer who died after being stabbed, another was his alleged attacker who was shot by armed police.\n\nMonmouth MP David Davies told BBC Wales: \"The shots started, I was with other MPs, we immediately dropped to the floor and then hid behind pillars.\"\n\nIt came after a car crashed into several people on Westminster Bridge.\n\nScotland Yard confirmed there was a \"firearms incident\" on Westminster Bridge at 14:40 GMT on Wednesday following a car crash.\n\nAt least one woman is known to be among those killed, with many of the 40 injured being struck by a car on Westminster Bridge.\n\nThe police officer killed in the attack has been named by Scotland Yard as PC Keith Palmer.\n\nThe 48-year-old husband and father was stabbed by his attacker, who was then shot dead.\n\nActing Deputy Commissioner and head of counter terrorism at the Metropolitan Police, Mark Rowley said they believed the attacker was inspired by Islamist-related terrorism.\n\nHe also said police believe they know the identity of the man.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister was in Parliament at the time but had been taken back safely to Number 10.\n\nStaff inside Parliament were told to stay inside their offices as proceedings in the Commons were suspended and they were later evacuated to Westminster Abbey.\n\nMr Davies told BBC News he had been walking with fellow Conservative MP Grant Shapps at the time of the incident.\n\n\"We were in New Palace Yard. We heard a load of shouting - I thought it was protesters,\" he said.\n\n\"The next thing there was at least one shot, I think I looked around and thought 'that can't be for real, can it?'\n\n\"And then more shots - I can't remember exactly, but I shouted 'get down', or 'everyone get down on the floor'.\n\n\"People started moving backwards, I waited for the shots to stop.\n\n\"I was behind a pillar, and I just took a chance and ran back to Portcullis House - I just didn't know what was going on.\"\n\nWelsh Secretary Alun Cairns, who was in a meeting with the Prime Minister and cabinet members at the time of the incident, described it as a \"tragic attack at the heart of democracy\".\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers are with those who were tragically killed and injured and my undiluted gratitude goes to the police, house staff and emergency services for keeping us safe. I will be forever grateful,\" he added.\n\nMontgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies said MPs had been voting at the time of the incident, and there was a \"lockdown\" of Parliament as police checked the area.\n\n\"We're a bit shaken as the reality of the attack sets in,\" he said. \"My thoughts go out to anyone who's been injured.\"\n\nSeveral Welsh MPs used social media to let family, friends and colleagues know they were safe before MPs were allowed to leave Westminster Abbey at about 19:30 GMT.\n\nAmong them was Rhondda MP Chris Bryant, who paid tribute to security services saying they had done an \"amazing job\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Nothing will stop British democracy\" says Chris Bryant MP\n\n\"We're just constantly aware that people put themselves in harm's way to protect us and to protect our way of life,\" he said.\n\n\"My heart goes out to the people who have lost people.\n\n\"The idea that completely innocent individuals walking past - who have absolutely nothing to do with political life - might have lost their life is obviously very distressing.\"\n\nMr Bryant added he hoped Parliament would be open on Thursday.\n\n\"We need to be able to show that nothing will stop British democracy,\" he said.\n\nProceedings at the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff were suspended on Wednesday afternoon in the wake of the incidents, and following the suspension of proceedings in the House of Commons and the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe presence of armed officers around Welsh Assembly buildings and in the surrounding area has been increased as a precaution, presiding officer Elin Jones said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elin Jones suspended proceedings in light of the \"serious terrorist incident\" in London\n\nInterrupting a debate, Ms Jones said: \"We are aware of the disturbing events at Westminster.\n\n\"I have spoken to our security personnel here in the Senedd and we are taking appropriate steps.\n\n\"I will be keeping this matter under review as the business of the afternoon progresses.\n\n\"I'm sure all our thoughts are with our colleagues and all involved at Westminster at this very difficult time.\"\n\nFirst Minister Carwyn Jones tweeted: \"Disturbing images emerging from Westminster. This is a terrible attack at the heart of our democracy; thoughts are with all those affected.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police assistant chief constable Richard Lewis said additional security was being taken at key locations as a \"sensible precaution\".\n\nBut he said there was no intelligence of a specific threat to locations in south Wales.", "The roads around the Houses of Parliament are choked with traffic and tourists at the best of times but on Wednesday there is an extra buzz about the place for Prime Minister's Questions at midday.\n\nIt is the best day to see your MP, as they are nearly all in the building. Queues to get into Parliament start forming early in the morning. The protests in Parliament Square seem noisier and more colourful than normal.\n\nThings start to wind down after the main event but there is still a festive atmosphere in nearby pubs, as people from all parts of the UK - down in London for the day to lobby their MPs - swap stories and buy drinks.\n\nNow the wide roads leading in all directions to the Houses of Parliament are silent and empty, blocked off by police tape, following a deadly terror attack. The police cordon covers an area of a few square miles and keeps being extended.\n\n\"You are now in the de facto press pen,\" shouts a police officer as we are moved back further down a side road behind a more distant line of tape. \"I have to make this road sterile.\"\n\nThe incessant clattering of helicopters overhead and the occasional police siren have replaced the roar of traffic.\n\nForeign TV crews mill about at the police cordons, their mobile phones clamped to their ears as they explain to their editors why they can't get near the scene.\n\nA few locals chat to the reporters. The mood is calm and almost resigned.\n\n\"It was a matter of time I suppose,\" says one man. \"I'm old enough to remember the IRA days. I remember them saying 'we only have to get lucky once'.\"\n\nFather Giles Orton, a Church of England curate from Derbyshire, in London to shop for \"ecclesiastical supplies\", says he is \"just shocked and saddened\".\n\nBut he adds, we \"should be grateful\" that it had not been worse.\n\nConstantine, a 23-year-old student, says he was near Trafalgar Square when news of the attack broke.\n\n\"I saw the police start shutting everything off. I heard a lot of people talking. I have a cousin who works in Parliament and I live in Soho and I am a little worried about safety. Particularly LGBT safety which I am heavily involved with.\"\n\n\"I heard one man say 'this is why we need Donald Trump' which annoyed me,\" he adds.\n\nSome MPs were earlier evacuated from the Palace of Westminster to nearby New Scotland Yard and Westminster Abbey, while others had to remain in the Commons chamber.\n\nPupils from Westminster School, next door to the Abbey, were in high spirits after being sent home early, although others said they had been in a state of shock when news of the attack broke.\n\nSome of them wondered aloud why the school wasn't put on lock down like most of the other buildings in the area, including both House of Parliament and St Thomas's hospital on the other side of the Thames.\n\nA man from Merseyside, visiting his daughter, who is a teacher at the school, said he was in the National Gallery when she texted him about the attack.\n\n\"It happens in any big city now,\" he says, \"and any small city. I am not really surprised.\"\n\nOn Birdcage Walk, at the rear of Downing Street, civil servants were streaming out of imposing government offices after being sent home early; heads down, chatting to colleagues, refusing to chat to the media.\n\nThey trooped off towards Trafalgar Square in search of an alternative route home since Westminster Underground station was closed, melting into the crowds at Charing Cross and Embankment.\n\nBeyond the police cordons and the TV crews it felt like any other day.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says he was surprised Wales boss Chris Coleman did not contact him before calling up teenager Ben Woodburn.\n\nThe 17-year-old was named in the senior squad for the World Cup qualifier against the Republic of Ireland.\n\nBut his club boss has been left perplexed he was not consulted and believes the call-up has come too early.\n\n\"Actually, I was surprised about this,\" said Klopp.\n\nNottingham-born Woodburn, who qualifies to play for Wales through his maternal grandfather, has played for Wales at under-16, under-18 and under-19 level.\n\nBut Klopp believes he should have been in the loop when Coleman decided to move him up to the seniors.\n\nKlopp added: \"I don't know exactly how normal it is here.\n\n\"This should not be a criticism, but usually when you call up a player, a 17-year-old player, I thought it would be possible to call me.\n\n\"I'm not sure if he knows him well. He didn't play in the team so far for Coleman I think.\"\n\n'Should it be now? Probably not'\n\nDespite the fact he does not believe now is the right time for Wales to call on Woodburn, Klopp expects the youngster to deal with the situation.\n\n\"Obviously Ben is happy about it, so I am happy about it so that is the first thing,\" Klopp said.\n\n\"Do I think [Woodburn's selection for Wales] should it be now? I would say probably not. But is it a problem? No.\n\n\"Ben is a wonderful kid and he can deal with it 100%. He understands it all and knows really what he still has to learn and I can understand.\"\n\nWoodburn has played seven games for Liverpool this season and became their youngest scorer when he netted against Leeds in the EFL Cup in November.\n\n'I make my own mind up'\n\nWales had been urged to go to 'war' with England to claim Woodburn, but Coleman says the decision to select the youngster was his alone and Liverpool did not intervene.\n\n\"I make my own mind up about a player,\" Coleman said after announcing his squad on Thursday.\n\n\"I understand when you pick young players then clubs go, 'Oh, calm down,' but I make my own mind up.\n\n\"No matter how old he is, if he is good enough and I think he has something to offer us and can help us in this challenge then I am going to pick him.\n\n\"That's no disrespect to Jurgen or anybody else who say maybe he's not [ready], but that's their opinion.\"\n\nWales are third in their 2018 World Cup qualifying group and face a crucial tie against the Republic on 24 March and Coleman insists Woodburn \"belongs\" in his squad.\n\n\"He belongs to them [Liverpool], but I've got a job to do for Wales and I have to pick my strongest squad,\" Coleman said.\n\n\"At the minute, from what I have seen, he belongs in our strongest 23. That's why he is there.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Klopp says he is happy to share Woodburn's development as a player with Coleman.\n\n\"I heard the manager said he's one of the best 23 players in Wales so he needs to be there, so that is his decision - all good,\" the Liverpool boss said.\n\n\"But now we are two managers who have to make sure that he develops in the right way, because usually it was more my responsibility and now we can share it a little bit so that is good.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United have been charged by the Football Association with failing to control their players during Monday's FA Cup quarter-final defeat at Chelsea.\n\nReferee Michael Oliver was surrounded by several United players after sending off midfielder Ander Herrera 10 minutes before half-time.\n\nAn FA statement said United have until 18:00 GMT on Friday to respond.\n\nSpanish midfielder Herrera was sent off after a second foul on Chelsea forward Eden Hazard.\n\nNo further action will be taken against United's Marcos Rojo for an incident late in game.\n\nRojo appeared to stamp on Hazard but Oliver has told the FA he saw it and dealt with the incident as he saw fit at the time.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLeicester City wrote another chapter in their remarkable story as they overturned a first-leg deficit to beat Sevilla and reach the Champions League quarter-finals on a night of raw passion at the King Power Stadium.\n\nThe Foxes looked in trouble after a 2-1 first-leg loss in Spain that was the catalyst for the sacking of Claudio Ranieri - the manager who had guided them into this competition after winning the Premier League nine months ago.\n\nNow, with Ranieri gone and Craig Shakespeare in charge, Leicester have been transformed, and they were on their way to another spectacular triumph when captain Wes Morgan bundled them into a first-half lead.\n\nIt put Leicester in control of the tie, a supremacy they emphasised when Marc Albrighton drilled home a second nine minutes after the interval, seconds after Sergio Escudero hit the bar for the visitors.\n\nLeicester survived a frantic final spell when Samir Nasri picked up a second yellow card for a clash of heads with Jamie Vardy - who missed two great chances - keeper Kasper Schmeichel saved a penalty from Steven N'Zonzi that could have taken the tie into extra time and Sevilla boss Jorge Sampaoli was sent to the stands as tensions reached boiling point.\n\nThe victory means the Foxes join the illustrious company of Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Juventus and Real Madrid in Friday's quarter-final draw.\n\nOn Wednesday, Manchester City go to Monaco and Atletico Madrid play Bayer Leverkusen to determine the final two sides in the last eight.\n\nWho's through to the last eight?\n• None Champions League dream - could Foxes defy logic once again?\n• None Foxes 'achieved the impossible again', says Morgan\n• None We want to avoid Leicester - Juve keeper Buffon\n\nLeicester's place in the Premier League was under threat by the time they lost the first leg of this Champions League tie in Sevilla - and it looked like Ranieri's sacking was another chapter in the story of a dramatic fall from grace.\n\nNow, in the space of three weeks, the Foxes have gone from misery to another potential miracle as Sevilla, so highly rated, third in La Liga and Europa League winners three years in succession, were beaten back by a tide of passion and emotion at the King Power Stadium.\n\nThe despair of the early months of the season, when the stricken and out of sorts Premier League champions looked a world away from last season's team, has been forgotten.\n\nWhen Italian referee Daniele Orsato blew the final whistle after the rawest of encounters, this atmospheric arena was suddenly engulfed in the sort of scenes it witnessed last May when Leicester won the title - the sort of scenes that no-one could have imagined seeing again when Ranieri was sacked amid shock and sadness on 23 February.\n\nAs Leicester fans danced and sang in their seats, they were contemplating another unlikely, unthinkable story - a place in the Champions League quarter-finals.\n\nShakespeare has been appointed manager until the end of the season - and if he carries on in his current vein he might be able to name his price.\n\nHe has already moved Leicester away from relegation trouble with two Premier League wins out of two against Liverpool and Hull, but this is the sort of victory upon which reputations are made and jobs secured.\n\nShakespeare, assistant to Ranieri in that title campaign, has simply turned the dial back nine months, restored Leicester City's title-winning team - with Wilfred Ndidi for the departed N'Golo Kante - and style, with spectacular results.\n\nThe giant banner unfurled before kick-off, with a nod to William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, read: \"Let Slip The Dogs of War\" and that is exactly what he has done.\n\nLeicester City's owners can take their time and weigh up their options with Shakespeare at the helm, but he is stating his own case very eloquently.\n\nLeicester's Thai owners came in for heavy scrutiny after taking the ruthless, business-led decision to sack the popular Ranieri nine months after he took Leicester to the title in arguably the greatest story in British sport.\n\nIt was made with a heavy heart but a clear head as they feared the Foxes were heading to the Championship. Events since have suggested the decision, which risked popularity and status, was correct.\n\nThe familiar saying describes football as a \"results-based business\" - and the results since Ranieri's sacking have justified his dismissal, however harsh it might have been at a human level.\n• None The Foxes are the first English side to overcome a first leg defeat against Spanish opposition in the Champions League knockout stages since Chelsea in 2005 (v Barcelona).\n• None Riyad Mahrez has been directly involved in six of Leicester's 10 Champions League goals this season (four goals and two assists).\n• None The Algerian's assist means he has either scored or assisted in consecutive games for Leicester for the first time since November 2016.\n• None Kasper Schmeichel has saved both of his penalties in the Champions League this season, one in each leg against Sevilla.\n• None Sevilla are the first team to miss a penalty in each leg of a Champions League knockout round since Bayern Munich in 2013-14 (v Arsenal).\n• None The game's opening goal was the 48th shot Sevilla had faced away from home in the Champions League this season, but the first goal they conceded.\n• None Wes Morgan became the first Jamaican player to score in a Champions League game.\n\nLeicester's attention once again turns to Premier League survival. The Foxes are three points above the relegation zone in 15th and travel to West Ham on Saturday aiming for a third successive league win.\n• None Attempt missed. Joaquín Correa (Sevilla) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Stevan Jovetic.\n• None Attempt missed. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Marc Albrighton with a cross.\n• None Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Vitolo (Sevilla) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Daniel Drinkwater tries a through ball, but Islam Slimani is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "If it was designed to grab headlines it certainly did that. Nicola Sturgeon slammed the ball into Theresa May's court on the question of another independence referendum.\n\nThere were accusations on both sides yesterday. The first minister accused the prime minister of \"intransigence\", of being a \"brick wall\". The PM accused the Scottish government of \"playing politics\" (yes that old chestnut) and Secretary of State for Scotland David Mundell said Ms Sturgeon was \"obsessed\".\n\nThe first minister has turned up the attacks today, questioning the prime minister's mandate for governing, in this tweet.\n\nForget about the political verbiage between the two for a second though. What might Theresa May's options actually be?\n\nIs there actually going to be a second independence referendum vote, when it is the last thing that Number 10 wants to happen?\n\n1. She could say 'No' immediately: This is extremely unlikely. Both sides know this would likely give the SNP a big bump in the polls and wouldn't remotely take the issue off the table.\n\n2. Say 'Yes' immediately: This is also extremely unlikely. Number 10 doesn't want this vote to take place and backing down now is almost unthinkable for a prime minister whose first visit was to Scotland, making it clear preserving the union is near the top of her list\n\n3. Say 'Not now, but not never': This is basically the position the government has taken so far, as David Mundell suggested yesterday. Westminster does not want to make it easy for the Scottish government. And what they won't agree to is the SNP's timetable of holding a vote before the Brexit negotiations are done.\n\n4. Play it long: This seems to be the second part of the strategy. Don't allow Nicola Sturgeon to set the terms of the narrative. She did yesterday, but with Theresa May holding off from triggering Article 50, the next fortnight could leave Nicola Sturgeon twisting in the wind, looking as if she moved too fast. While trying to avoid accepting a referendum, the Tories will try to keep the arguments focused on why they believe a vote should not take place. The SNP, however, may equally try to make this look as if Westminster is ignoring their demands, which of course, strengthens their case still further.\n\n5. Do a deal behind closed doors: This isn't the official position and no one on either side would acknowledge such a thing. But there are whispers that this has already happened. The theory goes that the UK government has accepted the inevitable and will allow the referendum to go ahead, but only on the basis that the agreement to do so includes a \"sunrise clause\" - so Nicola Sturgeon wins the right to hold the vote but in law, can't do so until the UK has left the EU. There's even a suggestion Westminster may stipulate that the second vote can't take place until after the next Holyrood election. That would be fiercely resisted by the SNP who could argue their victory in 2016 gave them a clear mandate for a second vote.\n\n6. Call Ms Sturgeon's bluff: Theresa May could suddenly suggest that despite the frustrations of their talks so far, that there could be a different deal for Scotland, and she will appeal to the EU Commission on Scotland's behalf to pursue that path. If Number 10 explored this publicly, it would be much harder for the Scottish Government to make its case. One SNP insider said it would \"shoot our fox\". But a UK government source downplayed the possibility of doing so. It would be a significant change in the UK approach and could open the door to complicated concessions and demands on many different fronts.\n\nLet's be clear, Theresa May really doesn't want to have a referendum. Senior SNP figures insist that Nicola Sturgeon, as she said yesterday, is completely serious about still being open to compromises if they can be made.\n\nBut with the political temperature already at boiling point, it's hard to see how they can find a solution that works for both sides.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nCoverage: Watch live on the BBC, BBC Sport website and the sport app, listen on Radio 5 live and Radio 5 live sports extra\n\nMasters champion Danny Willett says Muirfield voting to admit women members for the first time is a \"great thing\".\n\nMembers at the privately owned golf club voted 80.2% in favour of updating its membership policy on Tuesday.\n\nGolf's ruling body, the R&A, removed Muirfield as a host venue for the Open Championship after it chose to maintain the ban in 2016.\n\n\"It shows how times have changed, it shows golf has changed,\" said Englishman Willett.\n\n\"When the vote was passed that females weren't going to be allowed and they were going to be taken off the Open rota, it was not only a blow for a lot of other things, it was a blow for us golfers who think that golf course is one of the best Open courses.\n\n\"It's a great thing that they've done.\"\n\nWillett, 29, will defend his Masters title at Augusta between April 6-9.\n\nLast April, he claimed his first major by three shots on five under par, becoming the first British winner since Sir Nick Faldo in 1996, but has struggled recently and says his form is \"nowhere near\" what it was.\n\nHe does not expect a backlash from American fans after he was forced to apologise last September for an article written by his brother, Peter, in which he called American Ryder Cup fans a \"baying mob of imbeciles\".\n\nEurope went on to lose 17-11 at Hazeltine.\n\n\"I've been in America and played a couple of events and the American fans have been great as you'd expect,\" added Willett.", "Two important questions arise from Nicola Sturgeon's announcement that she will seek a second independence referendum.\n\nFirst, do voters in Scotland want a second referendum? And second, how might they vote if an independence referendum were to be held any time soon?\n\nDuring recent months, a number of polls have asked people in a variety of different ways whether there should be a second independence referendum within the next couple of years.\n\nThey have all obtained much the same answer. Around a half say there should not be, while between a third and two-fifths say there should.\n\nMost recently, for example, a poll conducted by BMG Research published in Monday's Herald newspaper found that 39% believe that another referendum should be held prior to the conclusion of the Brexit negotiations, while 49% are opposed to the idea.\n\nPeople's opinions on the subject tend to depend on their views on the merits of independence in the first place.\n\nAround four in five of those who want Scotland to remain part of the UK oppose having a second referendum within the next couple of years, while around two-thirds of those who back independence would like a ballot to be held soon.\n\nIt is the apparent lack of enthusiasm for a second referendum amongst some supporters that is the main reason why opponents of an early second ballot are apparently in the majority.\n\nBut that does not mean that most voters think that another ballot should not be held for \"another generation\".\n\nPolling conducted by Panelbase for The Sunday Times has found that half of voters either think a referendum should be held during the Brexit negotiations (as the first minister appears to have in mind) or that one should be held once the negotiations have been concluded (that is, just a little later than Ms Sturgeon's proposed timetable).\n\nThey counterbalance exactly the other half of Scotland which says that a poll should not be held at any point within the next few years.\n\nSo this polling suggests that Scotland is evenly divided on the principle of having a relatively early second ballot. In short, both sides in the debate about whether a second referendum should be held can find polling evidence that seemingly bolsters their case.\n\nIn the first independence referendum held in September 2014, 55% of Scots voted to stay in the UK, while 45% supported independence. But how might Scotland vote a second time around?\n\nTo date, five polls have been conducted since in mid-January Prime Minister Theresa May outlined her vision of the kind of Brexit deal that the UK should seek in the forthcoming negotiations with the EU.\n\nOnce those who said 'Don't Know' are put to one side, these polls have on average reported that 48% say they would vote 'Yes' to independence, while 52% say they would vote 'No'.\n\nSo the two sides look as though they are more evenly matched than they eventually proved to be two and a half years ago.\n\nStill, Ms Sturgeon is seemingly taking a big gamble in calling for a second independence referendum. It is far from certain that she will win. But equally Mrs May cannot presume that the first minister is bound to lose.\n\nExpect an intense and strongly-fought battle if Scotland does indeed go to the polls once again any time soon.\n\nDid you vote in the referendum in 2014 but have since changed your mind? Contact us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nYou can also contact us in the following ways:", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nCoverage: Commentary on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, live text coverage on the BBC Sport website and app\n\nSecond favourite Buveur D'Air, ridden by Noel Fehily, stormed to victory in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham.\n\nThe Nicky Henderson-trained six-year-old, a 5-1 shot, came home ahead of My Tent Or Yours (16-1) and Petit Mouchoir (6-1).\n\nIt was Fehily's second Champion Hurdle victory, and owner JP McManus' 50th winner at Cheltenham.\n\nYanworth - the 2-1 favourite - never settled and placed seventh.\n\nHenderson's sixth winner makes him the most successful trainer in the history of the race, following successes with See You Then (1985, 1986, 1987), Punjabi (2009) and Binocular (2010).\n\n\"It's fantastic. To win one was great, to win two is special,\" said Fehily, whose first Champion Hurdle win came on Rock On Ruby in 2012.\n\n\"I was very happy with him. My worry was if he would travel well enough down the hill but he travelled well and jumped well - it was a great performance.\"\n\nPetit Mouchoir, trained by Henry De Bromhead, led with two jumps to go but was hauled back by the two Henderson horses.\n\nThe 66-year-old also trains My Tent Or Yours, who finished second for a third time, having fallen just short in 2016 and 2014.\n\n\"I just know he's a very talented horse,\" Henderson said of Buveur D'Air.\n\n\"He'd won two novice chases and I just knew there was more there. You just felt there was unfinished business.\n\n\"It was very open - you could have had any sort of winner. I was happy with the ground, it hadn't dried like people thought it would. I knew it was safe enough and I thought it would suit him.\n\n\"All records are there to be broken. It's the horses and the people that make it. It's rather surreal really. Of course it's special, it's just fun. When this thing happens it's even better fun.\"\n\nThough the past two champions - Annie Power and Faugheen - weren't present because of injury, and their fans are sure to have a view on how they'd have fared against Buveur D'Air, you have to say the new champ took the crown in fine style.\n\nTaking over the lead as he headed towards the last hurdle, the only six-year-old really asserted, with a three-time runner-up four and a half lengths away in second.\n\nTrainer Nicky Henderson is superb with these top hurdlers, and he enjoyed a memorable day with Altior taking the Arkle Trophy, though how big a battle he'd have had if Charbel - who fell in the lead at the second last - stood up we'll never know.\n\nIn the first of Tuesday's races, 17-year-old jockey Jack Kennedy claimed a stunning victory on Labaik, a 25-1 shot who had refused to run in several of his previous races, in the Supreme Novices' Hurdle.\n\n\"It was brilliant, a dream come true. The horse can be very quirky but it all worked out well,\" Kennedy told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"I don't really come from a racing background, My mother's grandfather might have had a pony or something, that's about it.\n\n\"My father is a welder and my mother is a child-minder, but my older brother had a few ponies at home. I started pony racing when I was nine and that was it.\"\n\nLabaik's trainer Gordon Elliott had three wins - a 1,988-1 treble - in total over the day, with Lisa O'Neill steering 16-1 shot Tiger Roll, the 2014 Triumph Hurdle winner, to victory in the National Hunt Chase on her first ride at Cheltenham, and Apple's Jade (7-2) triumphing in the Mares hurdle.\n\nApple's Jade was previously trained by Willie Mullins, the leading Festival trainer for five of the past six years, but owner and Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary switched to Elliott following a row.\n\nThere was another victory for Henderson in the Arkle Challenge Trophy Novices' Chase, as Altior came in ahead of Cloudy Dream and Ordinary World - the trainer's sixth win in the race.\n\nLeader Charbel fell at the penultimate fence, leaving Altior clear to claim a victory which netted one punter £100,000 from a £400,000 bet.\n\nIn the Ultima Handicap Chase, Un Temps Pour Tout claimed a second successive victory, with Singlefarmpayment second and Noble Endeavour third.\n\nThe final race of the day, the Novices' Handicap Chase, won by Tully East, was delayed because of an injury to Edwulf in the previous race.\n\nBBC Radio 5 live sports extra reported that buckets of water were thrown over the JP McManus-owned horse after it collapsed and was removed from the track.\n\nThe horse was attended by vets, who arranged for him to be transported to the racecourse stables for further assessment.\n\nBefore the day's racing began, 20-time champion jump jockey Sir Anthony McCoy saw a statue put up in his honour at the racecourse.\n\n\"I can only say a huge thank you to Cheltenham,\" said the jockey, commonly known as AP.\n\n\"It was 20 years this week when I won the Champion Hurdle and Gold Cup and I had my first ride here in 1994. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would have a statue put up in my honour.\"\n\nMcCoy, 42, rode 31 winners at the Festival, including two Gold Cups and three Champion Hurdle successes.\n\nWhat to watch on Wednesday\n\nThe Queen Mother Champion Chase leads the billing at Cheltenham on Wednesday.\n\nThe Willie Mullins-trained Douvan is the overwhelming pre-race favourite to add to two previous Festival wins, having landed the 2015 Supreme Novices' Hurdle and the 2016 Arkle Trophy.\n\nDouvan's nine rivals include Special Tiara, who finished third in the past two years, and Fox Norton and Sizing Granite, both trained by Colin Tizzard.\n\nTop Gamble, Garde La Victoire, Traffic Fluide, Gods Own, Simply Ned and Sir Valentino complete the 10-strong field.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTottenham striker Harry Kane has suffered ligament damage to his right ankle - but it is not thought to be as severe as the injury that sidelined him for seven weeks earlier this season.\n\nThe England international was replaced after seven minutes of Sunday's 6-0 FA Cup quarter-final win over Millwall.\n\nHe was hurt when defender Jake Cooper blocked his shot close to the byeline.\n\nSpurs said the injury is similar to the one Kane picked up against Sunderland on 18 September.\n\nThe 23-year-old missed five Premier League games and two EFL Cup matches after twisting his ankle tackling Sunderland's Papy Djilobodji.\n\nKane is likely to miss England's friendly in Germany on 22 March and a home World Cup qualifier against Lithuania four days later.\n\nIt is not clear if the top flight's joint leading scorer with 19 goals will be available for Tottenham's FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea at Wembley on the weekend 22-23 April.", "Mr Gormley has set up and grown two separate wine firms - Virgin Wines and Naked Wines\n\nRowan Gormley says he had no idea that he was about to be sacked.\n\nBack in June 2008, as the founder and boss of Virgin Wines, he was trying to lead a management buyout from its then-parent group Direct Wines.\n\n\"I got called into a meeting, I thought it was to discuss the purchase price,\" says Mr Gormley, now 54. \"Instead, a letter was pushed across the table to me, which said I was being dismissed.\n\n\"I immediately walked out of the room and tried to use my [company] mobile phone, but it had been barred while I had been in the meeting.\"\n\nMr Gormley says he immediately decided that as buying back Virgin Wines was now impossible, he would instead set up a rival business. But he faced a race against time to get key staff to leave with him.\n\n\"I went across the road to a shop and bought another telephone as quickly as I could,\" he says. \"I phoned the office, and the guy I spoke to said, 'oh my God, there is an army of people here trying to get us to sign bits of paper saying we are not going to talk to you, and all sorts of things.'\n\n\"So I gave him a list of 17 people and said, 'tell these 17 not to sign anything.'\"\n\nMr Gormley has also been the boss of Majestic since April 2015\n\nThankfully for Mr Gormley, the staff that he most wanted to keep decided to follow him out the door, and six months later he launched his new venture - Naked Wines.\n\nToday he is the boss of both Naked Wines and fellow UK wine retailer Majestic Wine, which have combined annual sales of more than £300m.\n\n\"I think I was sacked because of a clash of personalities, or perhaps egos, but it was honestly the best thing that ever happened to me,\" says Mr Gormley. \"Otherwise Naked would never have happened, nor would I have gone on to also lead Majestic.\"\n\nBorn and bred in South Africa, Mr Gormley says he first became interested in wine as a teenager. But before he started selling it in his late 30s, he spent almost two decades working in finance.\n\nAfter going to university in Cape Town, he trained as an accountant, and moved to the UK in his mid-20s.\n\nMr Gormley then worked in private equity for seven years before joining Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group.\n\nIt was Mr Gormley's idea for Sir Richard to move into offering financial services, and Virgin Money was born in 1995. Five years later Mr Gormley said he came up with the idea for Virgin Wines, saying he recognised the opportunity of selling wine via the then-still nascent internet.\n\n\"I pitched the idea to the Virgin guys but they weren't very excited about it. So I started just selling wine at nights and weekends with my brother and friend to prove that it worked,\" he says, \"and six months later Virgin Wines was born.\"\n\nBut he says he and Virgin Wines immediately \"made all the classic dotcom mistakes\".\n\n\"We did everything wrong - we had a flash London headquarters, a huge IT office, a big advertising campaign, and absolutely nothing worked.\"\n\nMr Gormley says he has worked hard to boost morale at Majestic\n\nUltimately, Mr Gormley says that for Virgin Wines to survive it had to cut its workforce by 90%, \"retreat to Norwich with our tails between our legs\", and start again from the very bottom.\n\nIn addition to cutting costs, Mr Gormley says he turned around the company by focusing on selling interesting wines from small producers instead of selling the same big brands that people could buy from the supermarkets.\n\nBy the time he and his team had managed to make Virgin Wines profitable, it was sold to larger UK firm Direct Wines in 2005, only for Mr Gormley to be sacked three years later.\n\nAt Naked, Mr Gormley's big idea was to encourage customers to become \"angels\", who pay a direct debit of £20 a month, in exchange for getting wine at reduced prices.\n\nNaked then uses this money to pay independent wine producers in advance, so that they can focus all their energies on making the wine instead of worrying about being able to sell it.\n\nWinemakers are also profiled extensively on Naked's website (it is an online only operation), and customers are encouraged to review each wine, including saying whether they would buy it again.\n\nTo drive sales the company gave away free samples, and today it has more than 320,000 angels.\n\nSuch has been the growth of the business since it was founded in 2008 that it was bought in 2015 by wine giant Majestic for £70m.\n\nThe deal made Mr Gormley many millions, but instead of retiring to count his cash, he was given the top job at Majestic, and tasked with turning around its fortunes after three years of poor sales and weak profits at its UK stores and website.\n\nMr Gormley's action plan has seen him focus on raising staffing levels at Majestic's 211 UK shops to try to boost both customer service and staff morale, and allowing customers to buy just one bottle of wine rather than the previous minimum order of six.\n\nThe average cost of a bottle of wine at Majestic is £8, compared with £4.60 at supermarkets\n\n\"Majestic has to offer better service, and give people the type of help and advice that they don't get in a supermarket,\" he says.\n\nWhile the company is still struggling to make a profit, and an expansion into the US has not been successful, group sales are now rising strongly again.\n\nRetail analyst Jonathan Pritchard of stockbrokerage Peel Hunt says he would score Mr Gormley's first two years leading Majestic as \"eight out of 10\".\n\nHe adds: \"He is a fabulous entrepreneur, and a very good presenter - he is excellent at getting his message across - but there have been a few bumps in the road since he took over.\"\n\nUK wine journalists have mixed opinions. The Daily Mail's Olly Smith says Mr Gormley is \"something of a visionary and powerhouse in connecting wine directly with consumers\", but Jamie Goode from the Wine Anorak blog complains that the pre-discount prices at Naked are too high.\n\nMr Gormley says his focus is always on selling enjoyable wines.\n\n\"I don't regard myself as having a great palate, but I consider that to be an advantage,\" he says. \"Too many people who are really into wine see their tastes become so esoteric and refined that normal people don't like what they drink. I'm not like that at all.\"\n\nFollow The Boss series editor Will Smale on Twitter @WillSmale1\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section English Rugby\n\nCoverage: Live on Radio 5 live and on the BBC Sport website.\n\nNew Zealand coach Steve Hansen says he is not playing media mind games, after Eddie Jones reacted suspiciously to the Kiwi's praise of England's record-equalling run.\n\nHansen paid tribute to England's achievements on BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek, but England coach Jones was wary, comparing the Kiwi to the Big Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood.\n\n\"Eddie's obviously not very used to getting compliments,\" Hansen replied.\n\n\"So he's got to try and brush it off.\"\n\nVictory for England against Ireland on Saturday would be a record-breaking 19th in a row, and would seal a second straight Six Nations Grand Slam for Jones' men.\n\nHansen told 5 live that Jones has instilled a worth ethic previously lacking in England's team, but Jones replied: \"You've always got to be careful of compliments, particularly from an All Blacks coach.\"\n\nBut Hansen says England deserve to be talked up.\n\n\"It's not about playing a game. In this case I - and the team - genuinely believe they should be complimented,\" he told Radio Sport NZ.\n\n\"They've done a tremendous job. Sport is about paying due when it is due, and they've done a good job, so well done.\"\n\nNew Zealand and England are ranked as the top two sides in the world, but the teams are unlikely to meet until the autumn of 2018.\n\nHansen says all his immediate focus is on the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand this summer.\n\n\"If you can't be motivated to meet the Lions - a team made up of four countries who only come here every 12 years - then you are in trouble aren't you.\n\n\"Our focus is on getting ready for the Lions. That's going to be a great challenge for us.\"\n• None Get all the latest Six Nations news by adding", "Funnies, action and analysis from Chelsea's 1-0 victory over Manchester United at Stamford Bridge in the FA Cup quarter-finals.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Mother's Day is approaching but as any mother knows, stepping in to the role can be a turbulent time. For some it can be devastating. As many as one in 500 are thought to suffer from post-partum psychosis. University lecturer Sally Wilson was one of them.\n\nThe photo shown above is of me, my husband Jamie and our two-year-old daughter, Ella, taken on a skiing break in France a few weeks ago.\n\nIt looks no different to any other happy family holiday snap does it?\n\nBut the events leading up to it, the beginning of our family life, is wildly different to that of other new parents.\n\nIt is a story of ruin, of living the most terrifying, inescapable nightmare day after day, of being in such utter pain and despair that I constantly thought of walking into the sea near our home in north Wales.\n\nBefore giving birth to Ella I was totally unaware of a condition called post-partum psychosis (PP).\n\nNewlyweds Sally and Jamie, huge sports enthusiasts who met at university, walk under an arch of climbing axes and hockey sticks\n\nTwo years on, I have virtually fully recovered. It's not been easy and involved some controversial treatment.\n\nBut the day I thought would never come is here; when I enjoy the familiarity of the old me.\n\nIn 2013, Jamie and I got married and, as planned, started a family a year-or-so later.\n\nMy pregnancy was good. I was a week overdue and had some signs of pre-eclampsia, a condition in late pregnancy which can be dangerous if not treated, so I was induced.\n\nFive months pregnant: Sally with Jamie, who also works as an academic, in Greece\n\nMy labour was painful, no shock there. But as the hours went by, things began to deteriorate. I became terribly confused. I had difficulty grasping the notion of time. I barely slept and felt feverish.\n\nThe medics ramped up hormones for induction and I was given gas and air and pethidine. Ella's heart rate kept dropping and she was in distress.\n\nShe was born early in the morning in March 2015 by Caesarean section.\n\nAs I came round from the anaesthetic, something very sinister was unfolding.\n\nMy confusion was by now off the scale. I kept saying I didn't understand what was going on, asking why there were doctors in the room.\n\nA brain scan for a suspected stroke and blood tests came back negative.\n\nA new-born Ella who was initially being treated in special care for breathing difficulties\n\nAt one point I remember my eyes rolling back in my head and I slumped onto the bed.\n\nAt night I pleaded with the nurses to sit with me as I was so scared. I was also paranoid that the midwives were talking about me.\n\nBy now I was very panicky, convinced I was doing something wrong and would get upset.\n\nA few days later things got a lot worse. I got up to go to the toilet and collapsed. I was sobbing and refused to get up.\n\nIn my mind there was a strange realisation that I'd died. I could see everyone around me, the midwives and Jamie behind me. I saw a midwife take Ella away, I believed they were taking her to be resuscitated because I'd harmed her.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sally Wilson explains her experience of suffering from postpartum psychosis\n\nI now know that I was having a psychotic episode. My reality had shifted, I believed I had died and was living in an afterlife. I began to hallucinate.\n\nThe sound of babies crying was deafening, the whirr of air conditioning unit overwhelmed me and the canteen trolleys sounded like trains crashing through the ward; lights being switched were like explosions and I could see shadows on the wall.\n\nI was convinced that because I'd hurt my baby I had died and was now living in the 'after life', a kind of hell.\n\nThe most terrifying nightmare imaginable was now my reality.\n\nThe nurses brought Ella to see me, to reassure me she was ok. I was convinced they'd swapped her.\n\nThis wasn't my baby. My baby was dead. I had killed her.\n\n\"What's wrong with Jamie? Why's he crying?\" He's not crying Sally, look he's fine. \"Who are those people outside the door in white coats?\" There's no one outside the door Sally. \"Yes, there are. They've come to get me and take me to prison. Oh God… how could I have harmed my baby?\"\n\nI was transferred to the psychiatric ward and Jamie was told I was suffering from PP. I was prescribed anti-psychotic and anti-anxiety medication.\n\nAll I can recall is being led into a terrifying maze where I'd see people pacing around as grotesquely exaggerated caricatures.\n\nI would refuse to have bloods taken, convinced there was a conspiracy against me.\n\nJamie and my parents would visit with Ella and I'd hold her but couldn't understand that she was mine. I felt no connection.\n\nWe went to the café and she needed her nappy changed. The toilets were near to the labour ward and I became really stressed out and upset as I didn't want to go anywhere near there. I thought I couldn't be trusted on the labour ward as I was convinced I'd hurt my own baby.\n\nA month-old Ella's first experience of the Snowdonia National Park\n\nA week later I had a review with the consultant and I told him things were better than they were just to be allowed out of there.\n\nA home treatment team was arranged to visit me every day but things didn't improve much. I'd manage to help meet Ella's basic needs, change and feed her. But I was going through the motions.\n\nI still 100% believed that I'd killed my baby.\n\nI'd read a news article about a murder at a caravan park which had happened on the day I had the psychotic episode in hospital. In my mind I'd committed the murder.\n\nThe sound of birds was really loud, particularly crows. I then discovered the collective noun for crows is 'murder' - I interpreted meaning to that, of what I'd done in the hospital.\n\nSally on holiday a few months after embarking on ECT and around the time she began to feel better\n\nI had an obsession with a certain number bus which always seemed to pass when I left the house. This was part of the conspiracy and had a hidden meaning.\n\nOver-powering, intrusive images constantly flashed into my mind, of walking out into the sea near our home and ending it all.\n\nTen months after coming home, I told Jamie that I couldn't go on. My husband, who'd done so much to help me, was distraught.\n\nDetermined to help, Jamie did a literature review on PP treatments. Electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) came up a lot.\n\nMy psychiatrist contacted Ian Jones, Professor of psychiatry at Cardiff University, National Centre for Mental Health director and a world expert in PP. He agreed that ECT might help me.\n\nYou immediately think it's a barbaric, horrible treatment, involving being strapped to a chair and electrocuted.\n\nIt's fairly dramatic - you're anaesthetised and electrical currents are passed through your brain to trigger a seizure.\n\nHalf way through the 10 sessions, there was a shift in my thinking. Something terrible was being lifted from me. It saved my life.\n\nIt's sad to think about what I've missed out on but now I look at her and get excited that everything's ok, we're here, happy and healthy.\n\nI can't say I'm the same person. But I'm back at work a few days a week and I'm pre-occupied with the everyday challenges of parenting.\n\nOnce you've suffered from PP there's a very high chance of it recurring with subsequent pregnancies. It's a very personal choice, but even if there was only a slight risk of going through that again, for us, it's just not worth it.\n\nBut it's very important to me to give hope to others going through the horrors of PP. You'll be convinced it will never, ever end. I was convinced too. But this is a day I thought would never come when life feels good once again.\n\nOf wide spectrum of post-natal mental health problems, PP is one of the most severe. Post-natal depression affects something like one in 10 women, and PP one in 500 to 1000. Includes psychotic symptoms, believing things that are not true and prominent mood symptoms - both high and low\n\nPP can come on quickly, out of the blue. Within hours women can go from perfectly well to as ill as we see people needing psychiatric care. In others, it might not be so rapid or obvious\n\nFor around 50% PP is the first episode of mental illness they've had. The other 50% will have had previous psychiatric illnesses. Bi-polar disorder are at particularly high risk, a 20% (1 in 5) chance. Extremely high risk are those with previous PP episodes with a 50-60% chance of reoccurrence\n\nThere are many hypotheses - big hormonal changes, sleep disruption or immunological changes. An important role, and an aspect of our ongoing research, are genetic factors.", "Coverage: Commentary on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, live text coverage on the BBC Sport website and app\n\nWelcome to the 2017 Cheltenham Festival.\n\nIn terms of quality, there are two ways in which to look at this year's four-day jump racing extravaganza, which starts on Tuesday.\n\nOn the one hand, it's been badly hit by a list of star absentees, probably unprecedented in length, but on the other it will, of course, present an opportunity for others to start their upward trajectory.\n\nNone of last season's 'Big Four' championship winners are back to defend their titles.\n\nChampion Hurdler Annie Power is injured though she may return for Ireland's Punchestown Festival in April; Sprinter Sacre, the hugely popular Queen Mother Champion Chaser, has been retired; Thistlecrack, winner of the Stayers Hurdle - and winter Gold Cup favourite - is also hurt and misses the rest of the year, while Don Cossack's Gold Cup success turned out to be his swansong.\n\nFaugheen, Vautour, Coneygree, Road To Riches, Don Poli, Finian's Oscar and The Storyteller are other high-profile names that won't be there.\n\nAll sorts of theories abound for the reason behind the prevalence of injury, including the likelihood that an increasingly intense level of competition takes more than ever out of these horses, though it's bad luck that remains the principal factor.\n\nThis year, the already upwardly curving profiles of Altior (Arkle Trophy) and Douvan (Queen Mother Champion Chase) are tipped to soar further.\n\nWillie Mullins, the leading Festival trainer for five of the past six years, insists that he's put behind him September's shock split with the Gigginstown House Stud operation of Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary.\n\nFor his part, O'Leary, who removed 60 horses from Mullins' HQ apparently because of a rise in training fees, has spoken of hoping that \"agreement can be reached at some time in the future … to resume buying and training more graded winners for us\".\n\nThat's it, then? Well, no because these two massive National Hunt figures will, of course, be in opposition throughout the week.\n• None Willie Mullins says he will try to beat everyone\n\nAnd just like the footballer transferred to a rival club or the Formula 1 driver who switches teams, observers relish the opportunity to witness the potential aftershocks as the parties face up to each other.\n\nEspecially intriguing will be encounters between Mullins' horses and any Gigginstown runners he previously had under his care but which are now elsewhere.\n\nIn the Champion Hurdle, the Mullins-trained pair Footpad and Wicklow Brave must contend with ex-stablemate Petit Mouchoir, trained these days by Henry de Bromhead; elsewhere, the clash of Limini and Vroum Vroum Mag (both Mullins) and Apple's Jade (moved to Gordon Elliott) in the Mares Hurdle looks intriguing, as does the presence of Outlander (another which left for Elliott) against Djakadam for Mullins in Friday's Cheltenham Gold Cup.\n\nAs only the second female jockey to ride in the Gold Cup - after Linda Sheedy who partnered Foxbury behind Burrough Hill Lad in 1984 - many eyes will be on Lizzie Kelly as she rides Tea For Two, part-owned by her mother Jane and trained by her step-father Nick Williams.\n\nMany ears too, actually, as she's a pundit on BBC Radio 5 Live's coverage.\n\nKelly is expected to have four chances of big-race glory; even more in the jockey spotlight will be Mark Walsh, no relation to leading Festival jockey Ruby Walsh or his sister Katie, but an integral part of the team around owner JP McManus in Ireland.\n\nWalsh, who's not yet ridden a Festival winner, has been propelled onto a number of high-profile McManus-owned mounts in place of the injured Barry Geraghty.\n\nNone will be higher than the Alan King-trained Yanworth, winner of races this season at Ascot, Kempton and Wincanton, and one of the principals in the Champion Hurdle on Tuesday.\n\nWalsh is highly likely to make an impression, as is Jack Kennedy, Irish racing's 17-year-old 'wonderkid', who, in only his second season race-riding, looks as polished as some of his more senior colleagues.\n\nThe name of the former champion of Ireland's fiercely competitive pony-racing circuit should be an easy one to remember, and, riding for his prolific boss, trainer Gordon Elliott, he'll have some strongly fancied mounts all through the 28-race programme at Cheltenham.\n\nFrom Melon and A Genie In Abottle to Unowhatimeanharry - only 18 characters and spaces are allowed, remember - to The Crafty Butcher and Djakadam, all kinds of weird and wonderful horses' names will be popping up during the Festival.\n\nSome will be memorable, some ingenious, some a bit random, others just plain bonkers.\n\nMany deserve prizes for inventiveness, and my award goes to Might Bite, so named by members of the Knot Again Partnership not because the RSA Chase favourite is free with his gnashers nor because he's a son of the stallion Scorpion (they sting anyhow) but because of his mum, Knotted Midge.\n\nA knotted midge is a fishing fly that gives fishermen or women as good a chance as any that a trout - for which they're particularly effective in catching - might bite.\n\nCueing up the Gold Cup with the Tizzards\n\nPerhaps the Festival is a little light on stardust, but there is one very notable exception to that suggestion.\n\nThe 11-year-old Cue Card, racing for octogenarian owner Jean Bishop and trained by Colin Tizzard, will line up in a Festival race for a fifth time. He's won twice, the Weatherbys Bumper (2010) and the Ryanair Chase (2013), and was moving well until falling at the third-last fence in the 2016 Gold Cup.\n\nAlong with stablemate Native River, who was successful in this season's Hennessy Gold Cup, Welsh Grand National and Denman Chase, Cue Card, a nine-time Grade One race winner, spearheads Tizzard's strongest ever challenge at Cheltenham.\n\nAnd that's despite his Thistlecrack, once Gold Cup favourite, being injured in February.\n\nNot long ago, Tizzard was a dairy farmer based in the lush green pastures of the Dorset-Somerset borders, who trained a few racehorses, mainly ridden by jockey-son Joe.\n\nToday, assisted by wife Pauline, the now retired-from-the-saddle Joe and daughter Kim, he runs one of the most successful stables in these islands - with quite a few cows on the side.\n\nNational Hunt racing is famously proud of its roots in rural Britain and Ireland, so the Tizzards are seen as typifying what it's all about, and the sport loves them all for it.\n\nEspecially Cue Card, who's the one horse this year that could raise the roof as he attempts to become the first Gold Cup winner aged over 10 since the late 1960s.\n\nThough considerable momentum has built up behind the Jonjo O'Neill-trained More Of That, the 2014 champion staying hurdler, most of the perceived main challengers against the Tizzard pair are Irish raiders: two-time runner-up Djakadam, Sizing John, Outlander and maybe Empire Of Dirt.\n\nTime please (for four drinks only)\n\nThe Cheltenham Festival media guide is essential reading for media folk though, as a veteran of about thirty, I've noticed one difference this time.\n\nThe 'In Figures' pages includes a flurry of must-have stats, like the fixture's £100m boost to the Gloucestershire economy or the record seven wins by a jockey at a single Festival (Ruby Walsh, 2009 and 2016) or the nine tons of potatoes whose boiling and frying is overseen in 34 temporary kitchens by 350 chefs.\n\nSome 8,000 gallons of tea and coffee made get big mentions too, as do 45,000 bread rolls, but the amounts of champagne and Guinness consumed - once a staple diet of promotional material - are gone. (For the record, it was 20,000 bottles of fizz and 265,000 pints of stout).\n\nThis change of emphasis follows the embarrassment caused by pictures of intoxicated footballers and other racegoers being published around the world in 2016.\n\nNow, there's a chance that the Jockey Club, the owner of Cheltenham and custodian of British horseracing since the 18th century, is being a tiny bit po-faced about all this - it was hardly an epidemic - but they've launched a crackdown.\n\nConsequently, a limit of four alcoholic drinks at a time will be imposed on those among the 260,000 visitors buying a round of drinks, while complimentary hospitality bars will close earlier and more water will be made available.\n\nChampion Hurdle: Festival regulars The New One and My Tent Or Yours are guaranteed to run solid races. 'My Tent', along with Buveur D'Air and Brain Power, is trying to give trainer Nicky Henderson a record sixth win. Yanworth is a danger to all though front-running Petit Mouchoir could run them all into the ground.\n\nQueen Mother Champion Chase: The brilliant Douvan is unbeaten since joining Willie Mullins, and barring something extraordinary is expected to extend his sequence.\n\nStayers Hurdle: Unowhatimeanharry is all the rage, but Festival regular Jezki is the most solid of performers who will relish the challenge ahead.\n\nGold Cup: The Tizzard pair, Cue Card and Native River, and Djakadam all have strong credentials, but so does Irish Gold Cup winner Sizing John, who has a bit of something about him. The one concern is his stamina lasting out the three-and-a-quarter-mile distance, but he gives the impression he'll be OK.", "Britain's three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has apologised for the way Team Sky has handled questions over its record on doping.\n\nBut Team Sky's leading rider stressed the importance to the outfit of under-fire boss Sir Dave Brailsford.\n\nUK Anti-Doping is investigating a 'mystery package' sent for Team Sky's former rider Sir Bradley Wiggins at a race in 2011.\n\nBrailsford last week said he would not resign over the package.\n\n\"Without Dave B, there is no Team Sky,\" said Froome, who added it would \"take time for faith to be restored\".\n\nBrailsford has said he was told the package contained a legal decongestant - Fluimucil - but the team has been unable to provide records to back up the claim.\n\nTeam Sky has since accepted \"mistakes were made\" over how medical records relating to the package were kept but denied breaking anti-doping rules.\n\nFroome added: \"I would like to apologise for this on behalf of myself and the other riders of Team Sky who feel passionately about our sport and winning clean.\"\n\nA parliamentary select committee into anti-doping has been hearing evidence about the package, with committee chairman Damian Collins MP saying that Team Sky's reputation had been \"left in tatters\".\n\nDr Richard Freeman, who received the package for Wiggins at the Criterium du Dauphine, did not attend the last hearing because of ill health.\n\nThe committee has also heard evidence about Wiggins' use of therapeutic use exemptions, or TUEs, which allow athletes to take otherwise-banned substances when there is a clear medical need.\n\nWiggins was granted a TUE to take anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone before the 2011 Tour de France, his 2012 Tour win and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.\n\nWiggins' TUEs were approved by British authorities and cycling's world governing body the UCI, and there is no suggestion either he or Team Sky have broken any rules.\n\nLast week several Team Sky riders - including Britain's Geraint Thomas - tweeted their support for Brailsford, but Froome did not comment publicly at the time.\n\nThomas also said last week there were \"still questions to be answered\" and expressed his annoyance that \"Freeman and Brad don't seem to have the flak\".\n\n\"It disappoints me hugely to see the way in which Team Sky has been portrayed by the media recently. It does not reflect the support crew and the riders that I see around me.\n\n\"At the same time, I completely understand why people feel let down by the way in which the situation has been handled, and going forward we need to do better.\n\n\"I would like to apologise for this on behalf of myself and the other riders of Team Sky who feel passionately about our sport and winning clean. I believe in the people around me, and what we are doing.\n\n\"With respect to Dave Brailsford, he has created one of the best sports teams in the world. Without Dave B, there is no Team Sky.\n\n\"He has supported me throughout the last seven years of my career and I couldn't be more grateful for the opportunities and the experiences I've had. By his own admission, mistakes have been made, but protocols have been put in place to ensure that those same mistakes will not be made again.\n\n\"I know it will take time for faith to be restored, but I will do my utmost to ensure that happens, along with everyone else at Team Sky.\"\n\nThis may appear to be Chris Froome belatedly backing his under-fire boss Sir Dave Brailsford, but read the careful wording closely and it is clear that his support is very, very qualified. This is different from the \"100% backing\" messages that several of Froome's team-mates gave to the Team Sky principal last week.\n\nInstead, Froome seems to be taking a more pragmatic stand, making the point that unless Brailsford stays, Sky's sponsorship may cease, and the team could fold. This is how high the stakes have now become for one of the most successful professional teams in sport.", "The claim: The government is giving away £70bn to corporations and the country's wealthiest people.\n\nReality Check verdict: Labour's estimate of £70bn in lost revenue does come from official forecasts, but it includes tax cuts going back to 2010 and does not take into account other changes to corporation tax reliefs and allowances, which will bring in revenue.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has attacked the government for planning to give away £70bn to companies and rich people by 2022.\n\nHis party says it reached the figure in consultation with the House of Commons Library, based on data about the cost of policy decisions collected by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), an official economic watchdog.\n\nThe overwhelming majority of Labour's £70bn figure comes from cuts to corporation tax: the tax that businesses pay on their profits.\n\nLabour says this alone will result in lost revenue of more than £60bn between 2016 and 2022.\n\nGeorge Osborne repeatedly announced reductions to corporation tax when he was chancellor, taking the tax rate from 28% to a planned 17% by 2020.\n\nLooking at these cuts, and other changes to allowances and reliefs that reduce bills for businesses, the total cost to the public purse is estimated at about £62bn between 2016-17 and 2021-22.\n\nAlthough the £62bn loss is incurred in these years, Labour is actually talking about policy changes that were announced as far back as 2010, when the party lost power.\n\nLabour also points to cuts to three other taxes, which are predominantly paid by banks and wealthy people:\n\nThese smaller changes take the total giveaway to about £70bn.\n\nSo taken on its own terms, Labour's figure makes sense. But it only gives one side of the story.\n\nOver the same period the government also announced other changes to corporation tax allowances and reliefs that will recoup £32bn, about half the headline cut.\n\nFurthermore, on Sunday, shadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show six times the government was giving away £70bn in tax breaks \"by 2020\". But Labour's own analysis is clear: the figure covers the cost over six years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nChelsea remained firmly on course for a domestic Double as N'Golo Kante's second-half winner settled a stormy FA Cup quarter-final meeting with Manchester United at Stamford Bridge.\n\nUnited manager Jose Mourinho was involved in touchline clashes with opposite number Antonio Conte and was verbally abused by Chelsea fans at the scene of many of his triumphs, including three titles.\n\nThe Portuguese was furious when midfielder Ander Herrera was sent off 10 minutes before half-time after a second foul on Eden Hazard, and the managers were kept apart moments later after Marcos Alonso tumbled to the floor after being brought down.\n\nKante's low 51st-minute drive finally beat defiant United keeper David de Gea, who saved superbly from Hazard and Gary Cahill before the break to keep Mourinho's side in contention before Chelsea made the breakthrough.\n\nMarcus Rashford, who came off his sick bed to play - with Zlatan Ibrahimovic suspended, and Wayne Rooney and Anthony Martial injured, created United's best chance for himself but Chelsea keeper Thibaut Courtois saved with his feet to set up a semi-final against Tottenham at Wembley.\n• None 'Judas' Mourinho says he's still Chelsea's No 1\n\nMourinho's first return to Stamford Bridge after he was sacked as Chelsea manager ended in humiliation with a 4-0 defeat in October - and every piece of his body language here spoke of a man intent on putting matters right.\n\nHe was pacing his technical area from the first whistle, applauding, imploring and cajoling his team, stripped of talisman Ibrahimovic as well as Rooney and Martial.\n\nWith Mourinho in fired-up and combative mood, it was almost inevitable he would clash with his equally passionate and animated Stamford Bridge successor.\n\nThe flashpoint came seconds after Herrera's sending-off. Mourinho, still simmering, felt Alonso had dived, the Portuguese exploding in fury - soon to be joined by Conte in a head-to-head bout of bad blood that ended with the pair being separated and, in boxing parlance, being sent to their corners by fourth official Mike Jones.\n\nIt was a feud that bubbled throughout, with Conte reacting angrily in the second half when Mourinho kicked the ball along the touchline too close to the Chelsea manager for his liking.\n\nThe players seemed to take a cue from their managers through a series of tetchy clashes, one of which could lead to further action against United defender Marcos Rojo for an apparent stamp on Hazard.\n\nMourinho certainly did not feel the love on his return to the place where he enjoyed so much success, responding to four-letter abuse from Chelsea's fans behind his technical area by raising three fingers to signify the Premier League titles he won at Stamford Bridge.\n\nThe Portuguese was also taunted with chants of \"Judas\" - even though he was sacked by Chelsea a year last December.\n\nHe will feel a sense of injustice at Herrera's red card and frustration at Ibrahimovic's suspension - but the unpalatable truth for Mourinho is the team he left behind is currently far superior to the one he now guides.\n\nIn the absence of Ibrahimovic, this was a night when United needed £89m world-record buy Paul Pogba to step forward and prove his worth. Instead he did a disappearing act.\n\nThe contrast between the influence of Pogba, on the periphery of the action and conceding possession with alarming regularity, and Chelsea's own summer purchase Kante was stark.\n\nKante was perpetual motion, starting attacks, breaking up moves and crowning another magnificent performance with the winning goal, emphatically drilled past De Gea.\n\nPogba simply could not get into the game, either before Chelsea took the lead or afterwards when Mourinho looked to his showpiece summer capture, the signing he set his heart on, to revive United's hopes.\n\nChelsea's fans revelled in Pogba's struggles as they chanted \"what a waste of money\" - no such charges will be levelled at Kante, who looks a £30m bargain.\n\nChelsea remained on course for that domestic Double, a feat they achieved under Conte's countryman Carlo Ancelotti in 2010.\n\nAnd this was a victory for quality, persistence and character, albeit aided by Herrera's silly foul on Hazard that drew the second yellow card from referee Michael Oliver and left Chelsea with the numerical advantage.\n\nChelsea already look like Premier League champions-elect, standing 10 points clear, and their confidence gives them an air of invincibility.\n\nConte's side are at Wembley in the FA Cup semi-final - and it will take a special performance from any opponent to stop the bandwagon.\n\n'We can compare the yellow cards with others not given'\n\nChelsea manager Antonio Conte: \"It was a good performance against a strong team with good players. United has the best squad in the league. We must be pleased to go into the next round.\"\n\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho: \"I don't speak [about the red card]. I just want to say that I'm really proud of my players and Manchester United fans.\n\n\"Everybody can analyse from different perspectives but we all watch the match until the red card and after the red card. So we can compare the decisions of the two yellow cards, in this case with others which were not given.\n\n\"I don't want to go in that direction. Michael Oliver is a referee with fantastic potential but in four matches he has given three penalties and a red card. I cannot change that. I shook his hand and said many congratulations.\"\n\nUnited's worst possession stats of season - the figures you need to know\n• None Chelsea are now unbeaten in 12 games against United in all competitions (W7 D5) since a 3-2 home defeat in October 2012.\n• None Indeed, only twice in their history have United had a longer winless run against one opponent (13 vs Liverpool in 1927 and 13 against Leeds in 1972).\n• None The Blues' victory means there are three London teams in the FA Cup semi-finals for the first time since 2002 (Arsenal, Chelsea and Fulham).\n• None Mourinho's side received their third red card of the season, with two of those shown to Herrera.\n• None All three of Kante's goals in English football have been scored at home, with two in games against United this season.\n• None United had just 28% possession, their lowest figure in a match this season.\n• None Chelsea have reached their 22nd FA Cup semi-final, the fifth highest in the competition's history (Arsenal 29, Man Utd 28, Everton 26, Liverpool 24).\n\nLeaders Chelsea travel to Stoke for a Premier League game on Saturday. United, meanwhile, host FC Rostov in the second leg of their Europa League tie on Thursday before visiting Middlesbrough in the Premier League on Sunday.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Eden Hazard.\n• None Attempt saved. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Diego Costa.\n• None Substitution, Chelsea. Kurt Zouma replaces Victor Moses because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Victor Moses (Chelsea) because of an injury.\n• None Diego Costa (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jesse Lingard. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United boss Jose Mourinho told Chelsea fans \"I'm still number one\" after being heckled during his side's FA Cup loss at Stamford Bridge.\n\nMourinho, sacked twice by Chelsea, was called 'Judas' by fans during United's 1-0 defeat, responding by pointing three fingers in reference to the three league titles he won with the club.\n\nHe said: \"Until the moment they have a manager that wins four Premier Leagues for them, I'm the number one.\n\n\"Until then, Judas is number one.\"\n\nN'Golo Kante's low shot was enough for Chelsea to beat holders United - who had Ander Herrera sent off in the first half - and set up a semi-final against Tottenham at Wembley.\n\nMourinho, 54, is Chelsea's most successful manager after winning titles over two spells in 2005, 2006 and 2015.\n\nHe said: \"They can call me what they want. I am a professional. I defend my club.\n\n\"I'm really proud of my players, I'm really proud of Manchester United fans.\"\n\nMourinho would not discuss the Herrera red card, calling referee Michael Oliver \"a referee with fantastic potential\".\n\nHe said: \"I don't want to go in that direction. In four matches he [Oliver] has given three penalties and a red card. I cannot change that. I shook his hand and said many congratulations.\n\n\"Mr Oliver goes home and he can do his own analysis, because I don't want to analyse his work.\"\n\nMourinho's Blues counterpart Antonio Conte accused United of targeting Hazard during the match.\n\nLast night's Chelsea v Man Utd FA Cup quarter final game had a peak TV audience of 7.7m - the highest of the season so far. A further 1.1m also watched live online on the BBC Sport website.", "On the day Arnold Palmer passed away, Rory McIlroy collected such riches in prize money that the knock-on effect was a \"tsunami\" of cash tumbling into the bank account of his caddie.\n\nThat's how JP Fitzgerald described his feelings after checking his balance and finding financial rewards for helping his boss win the Tour Championship and with it the lucrative FedEx Cup last September.\n\nFitzgerald earned around $1.5m (£1.2m) that week. He performs an invaluable role - but remember he is a caddie not a player.\n\nThe traditional Florida swing was interrupted by this month's WGC in Mexico City and next week matchplay is introduced when players want to hone scoring skills for their tilts at a Green Jacket. The schedule needs shaking up\n\nBy contrast, back in the 1950s and '60s it took the great Palmer around 15 years of swashbuckling, captivating competition to come anywhere close to amassing that figure.\n\nOf course, we are talking vastly different eras and inflationary forces have abounded since Palmer's heyday. But no-one did more to popularise professional golf than the man still referred to as 'The King'.\n\nArnie's Army, as his support base was known, was a global following attracted by this most charismatic of characters.\n\nPalmer brought attention and money and became one of the world's most famous people. He made golf sexy and laid the foundations for the riches enjoyed by today's players, their caddies and the rest of their entourages.\n\nThis week, the PGA Tour stages the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill for the first time since golf lost one of its greatest figures. Palmer died awaiting heart surgery at the age of 87 on 25 September last year.\n\nThe great man will never be far from the minds of those competing in Orlando this week and, despite a ludicrously congested schedule, a fitting field has been assembled.\n\nThere were worries that the biggest names would be under-represented and last week former FedEx Cup winner Billy Horschel tweeted his concern.\n\n\"Disappointing. Totally understand schedule issues. But 1st year without AP. Honor an icon! Without him wouldn't be in position we are today.\"\n\nAnd yes, world number one Dustin Johnson along with major winners Phil Mickelson, Jordan Spieth and Adam Scott are absent, but 14 of the world's top 25 will tee it up in Florida this week.\n\nIt is a respectable field headlined by numbers two and three in the rankings - Jason Day and McIlroy - along with Open champion Henrik Stenson.\n\nThe Swedish winner at Royal Troon last year agrees there was a responsibility on the biggest names to turn up to honour Palmer. \"Absolutely, you can definitely argue for that,\" he said.\n\n\"There's going to be some special tributes to his life. We're putting some umbrellas [Palmer's trademark] on our bags and things like that. So I'm sure it's going to be a great week, and we're going to do our best to honour him.\"\n\nFormer Open winner Louis Oosthuizen went further. \"I just think it's a tournament that, if you can, you should play it every year,\" he said.\n\n\"And I'm going to try to do that from now on.\"\n\nBut it is never that straightforward, especially with the overly congested nature of the PGA Tour's schedule in the build-up to next month's first major, the Masters.\n\nAs Rickie Fowler, another top 10 star playing at Bay Hill this week, commented: \"The biggest thing is you want to make sure you're ready to go at Augusta.\"\n\nThis is why Stenson and his Ryder Cup team-mate Justin Rose are skipping next week's WGC Matchplay, a tournament for the world's top 64 players and worth $9.75m prize money.\n\nRose does not like the idea of playing head-to-head matchplay so close to the Masters but the wider point is that shoehorning in two elite World Golf Championships before Augusta creates tough scheduling choices.\n\nFirst-world problems they may be, but the current set-up is a mess that made it harder for leading players to honour Palmer this week.\n\nThe traditional Florida swing was interrupted by this month's WGC in Mexico City and next week matchplay is introduced when players want to hone scoring skills for their tilts at gaining a Green Jacket.\n\nIt is clear the schedule needs shaking up, especially if plans to move back the Players Championship to March come to fruition.\n\nThe idea under consideration is to shift the tournament, known as the fifth major, so that an actual major, the US PGA Championship, can move from August to a date in May.\n\nThis, in turn, would allow the late summer PGA Tour play-offs an earlier start, with the FedEx Cup being completed before the start of the American football season.\n\nCurrently the cash-rich season-ender goes unnoticed in the US because of the sporting behemoth that is the NFL.\n\nThese are radical and fascinating schedule proposals under active consideration. Each of the events concerned carries vast prize funds and every stakeholder inevitably wants a slice of maximised exposure.\n\nThis is foremost in the minds of Tour bosses - but for this week, at least, they will be better served remembering the man who did most to make possible such multi-million dollar chatter.\n\nConversations, by the way, that are no longer the sole preserve of players.", "The Gutenberg printing press - invented in the 1440s by Johannes Gutenberg, a goldsmith from Mainz in Germany - is widely considered to be one of humanity's defining inventions.\n\nGutenberg figured out how to make large quantities of durable metal type and how to fix that type firmly enough to print hundreds of copies of a page, yet flexibly enough that the type could be reused to print an entirely different page.\n\nHis famous bibles were objects beautiful enough to rival the calligraphy of the monks. The crisp black Latin script is perfectly composed into two dense blocks of text, occasionally highlighted with a flourish of red ink.\n\nActually, you can quibble with Gutenberg's place in history. The movable type press was originally developed in China. Even as Gutenberg was inventing in Germany, Koreans were ditching their entire method of writing to make printing easier, cutting tens of thousands of characters down to only 28.\n\nIt is also not true that Gutenberg single-handedly created mass literacy. It was common 600 or 700 years earlier in the Abbasid Caliphate, spanning the Middle East and North Africa.\n\nStill, the Gutenberg press did change the world. It led to Europe's reformation, science, the newspaper, the novel, the school textbook, and much else.\n\nBut it could not have done so without another invention, just as essential but much more often overlooked: paper.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world we live in.\n\nPaper was another Chinese idea, from 2,000 years ago.\n\nInitially it was used for wrapping precious objects, but soon people began to write on it because it was lighter than bamboo and cheaper than silk.\n\nThis Chinese worker makes paper using techniques devised almost 2,000 years ago\n\nSoon the Arabic world embraced it, but Christians in Europe did not. Paper came to Germany only a few decades before Gutenberg's press.\n\nWhy? For centuries, Europeans did not need the stuff.\n\nThey had parchment, made from animal skin. It was pricey - a parchment bible required the skins of 250 sheep - but since so few people could read or write, that hardly mattered.\n\nBut as a commercial class arose, needing contracts and accounts, cheaper writing material looked more attractive.\n\nAnd cheap paper made the economics of printing more attractive too: the cost of typesetting could easily be offset by a long print run, with no need to slaughter a million sheep.\n\nPrinting is only the start of paper's uses. We decorate our walls with wallpaper, posters and photographs, we filter tea and coffee through it, package milk and juice in it and as corrugated cardboard, we use it to make boxes.\n\nWe use wrapping paper, greaseproof paper, sandpaper, paper napkins, paper receipts and paper tickets.\n\nIn the 1870s - the same decade that produced the telephone and the light bulb - the British Perforated Paper Company produced a kind of paper that was soft, strong, and absorbent. It was the world's first dedicated toilet paper.\n\nIn fact, paper is the quintessential industrial product, churned out at incredible scale and when Christian Europeans finally embraced paper, they created arguably the continent's first heavy industry.\n\nInitially, paper was made from pulped cotton. Some kind of chemical was required to break down the raw material. The ammonia from urine works well, so for centuries the paper mills of Europe were powered by human waste.\n\nPulping also needs a tremendous amount of mechanical energy. One of the early sites of paper manufacture, Fabriano in Italy, used fast-flowing mountain streams to power massive drop-hammers.\n\nOnce finely macerated, the cellulose from the cotton breaks free and floats around in a kind of thick soup. Thinned and allowed to dry, the cellulose reforms as a strong, flexible mat.\n\nOver time, the process saw endless innovation: threshing machines, bleaches and additives helped to make paper more quickly and cheaply, even if the result was often a more fragile product.\n\nBy 1702, paper was so cheap, it was used to make a product explicitly designed to be thrown away after only 24 hours: the Daily Courant, the world's first daily newspaper.\n\nWhen it began, The Daily Courant only covered foreign news\n\nAnd then, an almost inevitable industrial crisis: Europe and America became so hungry for paper that they began to run out of rags.\n\nThe situation became so desperate that scavengers combed battlefields after wars, stripping the dead of their bloodstained uniforms to sell to paper mills. An alternative source of cellulose was found - wood.\n\nThe Chinese had long since known how to do it, but Europeans were slow to catch up.\n\nIn 1719, a French biologist, Rene Antoine Ferchault De Reaumur, wrote a scientific paper pointing out that wasps could make paper nests by chewing wood, so why couldn't humans?\n\nWhen his idea was rediscovered years later, paper makers found that wood is not an easy raw material and contains much less cellulose than cotton rags.\n\nIt was the mid-19th century before wood became a significant source for paper production in the West.\n\nToday, paper is increasingly made out of paper itself, often recycled - appropriately enough - in China.\n\nA cardboard box emerges from the paper mills of Ningbo, 130 miles (200km) south of Shanghai, and is used to package a laptop.\n\nThe box is shipped across the Pacific, the laptop is extracted and the box is thrown into a recycling bin in Seattle or Vancouver. Then it's shipped back to Ningbo, to be pulped and turned into another box.\n\nWhen it comes to writing, though, some say paper's days are numbered, believing the computer will usher in the \"paperless office\". But this has been predicted since Thomas Edison, in the late 19th century, who thought office memos would be recorded on his wax cylinders instead.\n\nThe idea really caught on as computers started to enter the workplace in the 1970s and it was repeated in breathless futurologists' reports for the next decades.\n\nMeanwhile, paper sales stubbornly continued to boom. Yes, computers made it simple to distribute documents without paper, but printers made it equally easy for recipients to put them on paper anyway.\n\nAmerica's copiers, fax machines and printers continued to spew out enough sheets of paper to cover the country every five years. After a while, the paperless office became less a prediction, more a punchline.\n\nBut perhaps things are finally changing: in 2013, the world hit peak paper.\n\nMany of us may still prefer the feel of a book or a physical newspaper to swiping a screen, but the cost of digital distribution is now so much lower that we are increasingly choosing the cheaper option.\n\nFinally, digital is doing to paper what paper did to parchment with the help of the Gutenberg press: outcompeting it, not on quality, but on price.\n\nPaper may be on the decline, but it will survive not only on the supermarket shelf or beside the lavatory, but in the office too.\n\nOld technologies have a habit of enduring. We still use pencils and candles and the world still produces more bicycles than cars.\n\nPaper was never only a home for beautiful typesetting, it was everyday stuff. And for jottings, lists and doodles, you still can't beat the back of the envelope.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nBritain's double Olympic gold medallist Joanna Rowsell Shand has announced her retirement from international cycling.\n\nThe 28-year-old track cyclist won gold in the team pursuit at London 2012 and Rio 2016.\n\nIn a career spanning 10 years, Rowsell Shand was a five-time world and four-time European champion.\n\n\"The decision to step away has been the hardest I've ever had to make,\" she said. \"I believe I have more to offer the world.\"\n\nRowsell Shand, who also won Commonwealth Gold in 2014 in the individual pursuit, says she will now focus on a coaching career and will be taking part in the L'Etape du Tour in July, an amateur race which covers the same route as one stage of the Tour de France.\n\nBritish Cycling tweeted: \"One of the best there has ever been\".\n\nRowsell Shand began competitive cycling aged 16, having been talent spotted by the British Cycling Apprentice Programme.\n\nAfter success in the junior ranks she won her first world title in 2008 in the team pursuit and successfully defended the title a year later.\n\nA third world title came in 2012 before she won Olympic gold in London, alongside Dani King and Laura Kenny. She was made an MBE in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to cycling.\n\nCommonwealth gold, a fourth team world title and a first individual pursuit rainbow jersey, crowned a successful 2014 and two years later she completed the Olympic double in the Rio Velodrome, alongside Kenny, Katie Archibald and Elinor Barker.\n\nOver two Olympic Games she was part of a team that broke the world record on all six of its rides.\n\nBritish Cycling's chairman Jonathan Browning said: \"As only one of a few women in Great Britain who has two Olympic gold medals to her name, Joanna can be extremely proud of what she has achieved.\n\n\"It's not only her on-bike achievements which have made Joanna an asset to British Cycling, it's also what she's done for the sport off the bike, epitomising the role of an ambassador and encouraging so many women and children to take up our sport of cycling.\"\n\nFormer team-mate Dani King on Twitter: Congratulations to @JoRowsellShand on such an incredible career. Thank you for making mine a more enjoyable one.\n\nSeven-time Paralympic gold medallist Jody Cundy on Twitter: Amazing career, from one of the nicest riders you'll ever meet. Good luck with all the future brings.\n\nBritish track cyclist Andy Tennant‏ on Twitter: Congrats to @JoRowsellShand on her retirement. One of the all time greats and a fantastic role model and person, I wish her all the best.", "Associating someone with Nazis - as in this Turkish TV broadcast - is unlikely to win any logical arguments\n\nLabelling an opponent as \"worse than Hitler\" or saying a policy is \"like Nazi Germany\" is hardly new.\n\nBut recently, it has crept into political discussion on an international scale.\n\nAs a row between Turkey and the EU deepened in early 2017, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused both the Germans and the Dutch of using Nazi tactics.\n\nSimilar comparisons plagued the 2016 US presidential election, and they can be found in every medium, from Twitter to national parliaments.\n\nSo why is it so widespread?\n\nThe answer, according to America's Anti-Defamation League (ADL), is simply that it is the \"most available historical event illustrating right versus wrong.\"\n\nWhen an argument descends to such fundamentals, the comparison inevitably turns up.\n\nBut \"misplaced comparisons trivialise this unique tragedy in human history,\" the ADL's national director Jonathan Greenblatt says, \"particularly when public figures invoke the Holocaust in an effort to score political points.\"\n\nA German float in the Rose Monday parade declaring \"blonde is the new brown\" referenced the brownshirts - Nazi paramilitaries\n\nMr Greenblatt made those comments during the US presidential election, at a time when Donald Trump's policy announcements had led to comparisons to Adolf Hitler.\n\nYet Trump has done the exact same thing himself - comparing the US intelligence agencies to \"Nazi Germany\".\n\nJohan Franklin's election message went viral - though he admits it's a \"pretty crude\" comparison\n\nIn fact, comparing someone to Hitler to invalidate their point is so popular it's been given its own fake Latin name, the reductio ad Hitlerum - a play on the very real logic term reductio ad absurdum. It's mostly used to point out the fallacy of comparing almost anyone to Hitler.\n\nEven the German man who posted a viral image comparing Mr Trump to Hitler during the election acknowledged the comparison was \"pretty crude\".\n\nOf course, nowhere are Nazi slurs more numerous than on the internet - and it's always been that way.\n\nIn 1990, an American lawyer named Mike Godwin noticed that arguments on early internet forums would constantly resort to calling the other side a Nazi.\n\nAnd so Godwin's Law - that if an online discussion goes on long enough sooner or later someone will make a comparison to Hitler - was born, and became a \"rule of the internet\".\n\nBut Godwin originally coined the phrase to point out how ridiculous the comparison always is.\n\n\"I wanted to hint that most people who brought Nazis into a debate... weren't being thoughtful and independent. Instead, they were acting just as predictably, and unconsciously, as a log rolling down a hill,\" he wrote in an opinion column for the Washington Post.\n\nIn some parts of the internet, the appearance of Godwin's law was seen as a sign the discussion is over.\n\nBut the recent spate of high-profile spats proves that it hasn't reduced spurious Hitler references in real life.\n\nWhen Turkey's President Erdogan levelled accusations of Nazi practices against Germany, it made international headlines.\n\nBut for Germans, it's treading old ground in a country which has strong laws against Holocaust denial or glorifying Nazi activity.\n\n\"I don't think that most Germans are too fazed about this type of comparison,\" said Professor Christoph Mick, a historian from the University of Warwick.\n\n\"They are used to it, and find it just bizarre that the most democratic and most liberal state in German history is compared to the Third Reich. These comparisons say more about those making [them] than about today's Germany and its politicians.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSo - if a Nazi reference trivialises the Holocaust, is widely acknowledged as a logical fallacy, is ridiculed online, and ignored by the Germans - it must have some persuasive power to have stayed around so long - right?\n\nNot so, according to the English Speaking Union, an educational charity that promotes clear communication and critical thinking.\n\n\"Wielding accusations of fascism as an insult doesn't help to get your audience on side - instead, you raise the stakes of the debate, forcing a polarisation between 'good' and 'evil' into a discussion that may have reasonable positions on both sides,\" says Amanda Moorghen, the group's senior research and resources officer.\n\n\"Most of the time, people call others 'Nazis' because they think it will grab the attention of the audience.\n\n\"This is a big mistake, because any attention they do get will be drawn to the use of that word, rather than to the nitty gritty of the topic at hand.\"\n\nAnd the secret to real success?\n\n\"It's far better to save strong words for the argument itself, rather than attacking the people you're arguing with,\" Amanda Moorghen says.", "With FBI Director James Comey cancelling, former Vice-President Biden was a political highlight at the conference\n\nIn recent years, the annual South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, has been about more than just music, film and technology. Politics keeps seeping into the picture.\n\nThat's never been more apparent than now, with Donald Trump's presidency dominating the headlines and generating social media waves with every controversial tweet.\n\nFormer Vice President Joe Biden took the stage in Austin on Sunday afternoon looking tanned and relaxed, a man freed from the burden the Washington political pressure cooker.\n\nIn an emotional presentation, he spoke of the death of his eldest son, Beau, from cancer and his work since then to help find a cure.\n\nThe fight against cancer, Biden said, was \"the only bipartisan thing left in America\", and there are \"a lot of decent people\" in politics on both sides of the political divide who want to help.\n\nEven while preaching bipartisanship and pledging co-operation with the new Trump administration, however, the former vice-president couldn't help but take a swipe at the current Washington power players, some of whom, he said, don't believe in global warming and the public health benefits of environmental regulation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: \"Some of the most innovative minds in the world are sitting in front of me\"\n\n\"I shouldn't have said it that way,\" Mr Biden said. \"But it frustrates me.\"\n\nSuch is this year's reality at South by Southwest.\n\nIn the time of Donald Trump, the national political climate sits like a vulture, peering over the shoulder of the largely liberal crowds who circulate among the conference's various events.\n\n\"I think that South by Southwest is always a reflection of what is happening in the larger world, and certainly we live in a very politicised time over the last three months,\" said Hugh Forrest, chief programming officer for the conference.\n\nWhile there have been plenty of panel discussions on esoteric computer systems and lectures by technological evangelists, evidence of growing concern and, perhaps, resistance emerges.\n\nDemocratic mayors spoke of \"holding the line\" against Trump administration policies. Newspapers editors and social media experts discussed threats to \"civil discourse in the age of a Twitterer-in-chief\" and how to fight \"fake news\".\n\nCivil libertarians contemplated \"activism in the era of social media surveillance\".\n\n\"We have in office a demagogue who makes himself feel better about himself by putting down other people,\" said Jim Kenney, the Democratic mayor of Philadelphia, comparing the president to a bully who can either be confronted or affirmed.\n\nEven ostensibly non-political conversations over the course of the week have been influenced by the gravitational forces emanating from Washington, DC.\n\n\"The idea that we have a serial sexual abuser and a pathological liar in that office, I can't get away from it,\" angel investor Chris Sacca said during an appearance on Saturday.\n\nWhile some Republican politicians dot the panels, any sort of White House presence is absent this year. According to Forrest, no-one from the Trump team expressed interest in attending - and none were invited. Several executive branch officials were also notable late no-shows.\n\nJames Comey, the Federal Bureau of Investigations director who can't seem to avoid the national spotlight, was a scheduled high-profile guest, but he pulled out last week, citing \"scheduling conflicts\".\n\nAndrey Ostrovsky, the chief medical officer for Medicaid, the US health insurance programme for the poor, also cancelled just days before he was set to talk.\n\nMr Ostrovsky had made national news earlier in the week when he tweeted that, unlike others at the Department of Health and Human Services, he did not support the Republican-backed plan to replace Obamacare.\n\n\"Reluctantly unable to attend,\" he subsequently tweeted, \"given my recent advocacy effort.\" He told the BBC he still remains a \"huge advocate for people served by Medicaid\".\n\nMeanwhile Democratic Senator Cory Booker - a possible 2020 presidential candidate - gave the introductory address on Friday, where he set the tone by repeatedly targeting the president and his policies.\n\nSenator Cory Booker was among a series of liberals who spoke to the increasing political conference\n\n\"I've never seen in my lifetime an atmosphere of fear as I've seen now,\" Mr Booker said. \"I feel a sense of pain about my country right now.\"\n\nAccording to Forrest, it's not so much fear as it is uncertainty that is colouring the attitudes of the tech entrepreneurs, executives and activists who have crowded the convention hallways this year.\n\n\"We had a president for eight years and we generally knew what his policies were - friendly to the tech community, wanted to push start-ups,\" he said.\n\n\"We don't really know what the policies are for the new administration. I was naively expecting that some of these policies might have been more in place by March, but I don't think they are.\"\n\nOne area where there has been some certainty as to the direction Trump administration policy is heading is on immigration.\n\nThat has many in the technology industry, which relies heavily on drawing from a global talent pool, particularly concerned.\n\n\"We want more people all over the world to come here to work,\" says Adam Lyons, founder of the online auto insurance rate comparison service the Zebra.\n\n\"Are folks not going to want to come to the US all of a sudden or are there other places they might go? Will we still able to attract top-notch talent? That's very concerning.\"\n\n\"We want more people all over the world to come here to work\" says chief executive Adam Lyons\n\nMr Lyons says while some of Mr Trump's pro-business rhetoric is exciting, workforce issues are paramount.\n\nThis is not the first year the conference, and its attendees, have grappled with pressing political concerns, of course.\n\nThree years ago, Edward Snowden made one of his first major public appearances, via a secure video line from Moscow, warning attendees they should encrypt their email communications to avoid government observation.\n\nMultiple panels dealt with the perceived threats of a growing surveillance state and technology's \"dark arts\".\n\nIn 2015, as the political world geared up for the presidential race, Chelsea Clinton spoke and prospective Republican candidate Rand Paul made the rounds, meeting with technology evangelists and opening a Texas campaign office.\n\nThen, last year, President Barack Obama became the first sitting president to attend, offering a full-throated defence of government as a force for good.\n\n\"If there are those who despise government - oftentimes because the absence of government allows them to pollute, or keep as much money as they can, or not have to answer to consumers who are complaining about their practices - if they are controlling those who are currently in government and government gets starved of resources, then it can be a self-reinforcing notion that, in fact, government doesn't work because it's being starved,\" he said.\n\nNeedless to say, the current team in Washington - with its promises to \"deconstruct the administrative state\" - has a decidedly different view of the role of government in US society.\n\nOn Sunday Mr Biden - who told the audience he seriously considered his own presidential bid in 2016 - spoke of the important role government plays in cancer research, with a tacit acknowledgement of the new political environment.\n\n\"Your government - that many of you don't like - is the vehicle through which this gets funded,\" he said.\n\nIn his conclusion, the former vice-president spoke of the \"urgency of now\" in efforts to cure cancer.\n\nFor many of the progressives and Democratic politicians who travelled to Austin this week, however, it's hard not to look ahead, to political fights and elections to come.", "Rakesh Sharma is the only Indian to travel into space\n\nThis was a question Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian to travel into space, often faced from admirers at home after he returned to Earth in 1984.\n\n\"I would say, no, I hadn't met God,\" he says.\n\nMore than three decades later, fact and fiction blur easily with his modern-day fans when they meet Mr Sharma, 68.\n\n\"Now many young mothers introduce me to their kids and tell them, 'this uncle has been to the Moon!'\".\n\nBut Mr Sharma can never forget the hysteria after he returned from space. He criss-crossed the country and lived in hotels and guest houses. He posed for pictures and gave speeches. Elderly women blessed him; fans tore his clothes and sought autographs. Politicians paraded him in their constituencies for votes; and authorities sent him on holiday to a national park in searing 45C (113F) temperatures.\n\n\"It was completely over the top. It left me irritated and tired. I had to keep a smile on my face all the time,\" he recounts.\n\nPioneering Indians is part of the India Direct series. It looks back at men and women who have helped shape modern India. Other stories from the series:\n\nMr Sharma wears his achievements and fame lightly. He joined India's air force at 21 and began flying supersonic jet fighters. He had flown 21 missions in the 1971 war with Pakistan before his 23rd birthday. By 25, he was a test pilot. He travelled into space at 35, the first Indian and the 128th human to do so.\n\n\"I had pretty much done it all before I went into space. So when the opportunity came, I went along. It was that simple.\"\n\nMr Sharma spent eight days in a space station in 1984\n\nMr Sharma (middle) says the celebrations over his space journey were \"over the top\"\n\nWhat is easily forgotten is that Mr Sharma's feat was possibly the only silver lining in what was one of independent India's worst years ever.\n\n1984 saw the Indian army storm the Golden Temple in Punjab to flush out Sikh separatists and the revenge killing of prime minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.\n\nThe anti-Sikh riots, the country's worst religious rioting after Partition, convulsed Delhi. And, before the year had ended, thousands of people in the city of Bhopal had been killed after toxic gases leaked from a chemical factory, the world's worst industrial accident.\n\nIn a wounded nation, a young pilot shone as an unlikely beacon of hope.\n\nMrs Gandhi was pushing for an Indian in space before the 1984 general elections, and dialled her closest ally and space race leader, the Soviet Union, for help. The latter asked for a list of candidates.\n\nMr Sharma was picked to undergo a battery of gruelling tests from a reported shortlist of some 50 fighter pilots. Among other things, he was locked up by the air force in a room with artificial lights at an aerospace facility in Bangalore for 72 hours to test for \"latent claustrophobia\". In the end, two of them were selected for the final training in Russia.\n\nMore than a year before the launch, Mr Sharma and Ravish Malhotra travelled to Star City, a high-security cosmonaut-training facility some 70km (43 miles) from Moscow, to train for space flight as there were no such facilities at home.\n\nIt was bitterly cold. He trudged in the snow from one building to another - \"It was very Dr Zhivago\".\n\nHe had to learn Russian quickly as most of the training was in that language. Six to seven hours of language classes every day meant that he had mastered enough Russian in three months. He was put on a carefully controlled diet of local food, capped at 3,200 calories a day. Olympic trainers tested him for strength, speed and endurance, and how his chest stood up to punishing G-forces.\n\nA Soviet rocket carried Mr Sharma and two Russian astronauts, Yuri Malyshev and Gennadi Strekalov\n\nThe three astronauts trained at a cosmonaut facility outside Moscow\n\nMidway through the training, he was told he was the chosen one, and Mr Malhotra would serve as backup.\n\n\"It wasn't such a big deal, it wasn't very tough,\" says Mr Sharma, modestly.\n\nBut many, like science writer Pallava Bagla, believe Mr Sharma's feat was a \"huge leap of faith\".\n\n\"He came from a country which didn't have a space programme. He didn't dream of becoming an astronaut. But he travelled to an alien environment, endured a harsh climate, learnt a new language, and trained hard. He's a real hero.\"\n\nOn 3 April, a Soviet rocket carrying Mr Sharma and two Russian astronauts, Yuri Malyshev, 42, and Gennadi Strekalov, 43, left Earth from a spaceport in the then Soviet republic of Kazakhstan.\n\n\"The take-off was boringly routine. We were over-trained by that point,\" Mr Sharma recounts.\n\n\"I was the 128th human in space. So I didn't really sweat about it.\"\n\nMr Sharma is now among the more than 500 fortunate people who have travelled into space since Yuri Gagarin's single orbit of Earth in 1961.\n\nThe media gushed how the joint flight was the high noon of the Soviet Union-India friendship. Soviet news agency Tass filed a report saying Mr Sharma's mother, a teacher, had developed a \"general interest\" in the Soviet Union after her son was chosen for the flight in 1982. \"The mission,\" says Mr Sharma, \"was scientific in content, but with a political end at home.\"\n\nTragically, Mrs Gandhi would be murdered within eight months, and her son, Rajiv, would sweep the polls at the end of the year on a sympathy wave for his mother. The space flight wasn't needed to fetch votes for the ruling Congress party.\n\nIndira Gandhi (middle) wanted to put an Indian in space before a general election\n\nMr Sharma and his fellow astronauts spent nearly eight days in space: grainy TV images from the time show the three men, in grey jumpsuits, floating around in the Salyut 7 space station, and conducting experiments.\n\nHe became the first human to practice yoga in space - using a harness to stop him from floating around - to find out whether it could better prepare crews adapt for the effects of gravity. He spoke to his family once on a live link with 2,500 people in the audience in a Moscow auditorium.\n\nWhen Mrs Gandhi asked Mr Sharma, on a hazy live link, how India looked from space, he delivered a line in Hindi which would have easily become a viral tweet today.\n\n\"Sare Jahan Se Acha [The best in the world]\", he said, quoting from a famous poem by Mohammad Iqbal, which he had recited every day in school after the national anthem.\n\n\"It was top of recall. There was nothing jingoistic about it. India does look so picturesque from space,\" Mr Sharma told me.\n\nRakesh Sharma retired as a test pilot with the Indian air force\n\n\"You've got this huge coastline, the lovely blue ocean on three sides. Then there are the dry plateaus, forests, river plains, golden sands of the desert. The majestic Himalayas looked purple because sunlight cannot get into the valleys. Then there were snow capped mountains. We've got everything.\"\n\nThe New York Times presciently wrote that \"India is not likely to have its own manned space programme for a long time, if ever, and Mr Sharma's flight may well be the last by an Indian for a long time.\" Thirty-three years later, Mr Sharma remains the only Indian to travel to space. (Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla went into space decades later and and was one of the seven astronauts killed in the Columbia space shuttle disaster in 2003.)\n\nIndia plans to put a citizen into space using an Indian rocket from Indian soil one day. It has already developed a space flight suit for potential astronauts, and successfully tested a crew module dummy flight in the atmosphere. But money is scarce, the home-made launch rocket has to be made flight-ready, astronauts have to be trained and launch facilities built or upgraded.\n\nAfter his space flight, Mr Sharma returned to his life as a jet pilot. He flew Jaguars, and the India designed fighter jet Tejas. Then he switched gears, working as the chief operating officer of a Boston-based company which made software for manufacturing planes, tanks and submarines.\n\nEight years ago, the space hero retired and built himself his dream home, with sloping roofs, solar-heated bathrooms, harvested rainwater, handmade bricks excavated from the plot, and a sunlit study stacked with his favourite books and music. He lives with his interior designer wife, Madhu, and their pet dog, Kali. A Bollywood biopic is \"in the works\", with star Aamir Khan rumoured to play the astronaut.\n\nMr Sharma now lives a retired life in a hill station in southern India\n\nWould you like to return to space again? I ask.\n\n\"I would love to,\" he says, looking out to the hills from his sprawling balcony.\n\n\"But this time I would like to go as a tourist and savour the beauty of Earth. There was too much work when I went up there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PC Kelly Ellis says her friends have dubbed her Lara Croft\n\nPC Kelly Ellis has her finger hovering over the trigger of her Heckler and Koch G36 rifle.\n\nShe has a split second to decide whether to open fire on a man who appears to be drunk and suicidal and is holding a shotgun, pointing it at the ground.\n\nHer colleague is calmly - but firmly - explaining the right thing to do is to put the weapon down.\n\nBut what if he does not? What if he raises the barrels? What then?\n\nWelcome to the firearms training school.\n\nOver three months, the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme had unique access to some of the new recruits being assessed in Cheshire.\n\nThese are the scenarios - the life and death decisions - that any British officer who wants to carry a gun must go through.\n\nAnd if they make the wrong decision - pull the trigger when there was no need, or pull it when it is too late - then they are out. They will not make the grade.\n\nBy the end of next year, the UK will have about 7,500 armed police officers, after the government reversed a fall in their numbers since 2010.\n\nOfficers with years of firearms experience had been leaving their forces as police budgets were cut.\n\nNow the numbers are rising again because security chiefs want more firearms teams available to counter any attempted Paris-style attack on the streets of Britain.\n\nBut given that the job requires volunteers - and those volunteers may one day be accountable for their actions before a jury - have the new recruits got what it takes?\n\nWhile her friends have dubbed her \"Lara Croft\" - after the Tomb Raider action hero - PC Ellis says her parents were \"apprehensive\" when she first told them she wanted to train as a police firearms officer.\n\nHowever, she says: \"I tried to explain to them that the training we get, the weapons we are carrying, that actually I'm going to be more protected than I am now as a regular officer out on the streets.\"\n\nShe says the course is \"easily the hardest thing I've ever had to do\".\n\n\"It's just a lot to take in and a lot to remember. It's exhausting really.\"\n\nWatch Dominic Casciani's full film on firearms training on the Victoria Derbyshire website.\n\nAnd she says the possibility of coming face to face with an armed situation is now becoming more of a reality.\n\n\"Sometimes I go home from here of an evening, and you see what's going on in the news and you just think, 'In a few months' time, if I pass this course, that could be me, going out to that job, first on the scene, having to discharge a weapon.'\"\n\nShe adds: \"It is about putting your life on the line, but that's what I want to do.\n\n\"I get a massive sense of achievement from doing it, as well.\"\n\nSafety: Officers are first taught how to handle a weapon...\n\nThe firearms centre in Cheshire trains officers from all over the country.\n\nWe watched 15 recruits being taught how to:\n\nAnd that includes saving the lives of people they have just shot: according to the programme, they are trained to incapacitate a threat - not to kill.\n\n... and also how to save lives\n\nDid they pass? Well, watch our fly-on-the-wall film to find out.\n\nWithout giving too much away, what I and my colleagues John Owen, producer, and Martin McQuade, camera, witnessed was an awful lot of hard work.\n\nThere were some moments where recruits got a dressing down by their trainers for failing to learn fast enough.\n\nThe point was repeatedly made to them that if they were slow in making the right decision, the consequences could be fatal.\n\nAnd they also needed to learn when to use words, rather than bullets, to stop a situation spiralling out of control.\n\nOfficers practise how to contain vehicles carrying armed suspects\n\nSir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the recently retired Metropolitan Police Commissioner, warned that his force was recruiting from a very shallow pool of officers willing to carry a gun.\n\nThat, he says, is because many don't want the risks that come with the job - not necessarily the risk of being shot, but of ending up in court or under investigation for years.\n\nDespite the political and media focus being on terrorism, the reality is that most of armed response policing work is unchanged from year to year.\n\nSometimes they'll be called to an armed robbery - less often than they used to be.\n\nBut most of the time they'll be dealing with extreme domestic violence situations, organised gang crime incidents and, sadly, mentally unwell people capable of doing themselves, or others harm.\n\nSo were the trainee officers I saw up to the task? Watch the film and decide for yourself.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out: \"It's my one shot\"\n\nThe actor at the centre of a debate about the casting of British black actors in the US has spoken about how being black has lost him roles.\n\nDaniel Kaluuya, who was born in London, leads the cast of Get Out - a searing racial satire about contemporary America.\n\nReleased in the UK this week, Jordan Peele's horror film has already been a massive hit at the US box office, making more than $100m (£82.5m).\n\nBut the film hit the headlines last week after actor Samuel L Jackson criticised Hollywood for casting black British actors in films about US race relations.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Skins star Kaluuya said he was proud to be in the first lead role of his career.\n\n\"You do stuff, people make decisions and it goes out there and people have opinions. And everyone's entitled to their opinion,\" he said.\n\n\"I love all my black brothers and sisters worldwide, and that's my position.\n\n\"All I know is this my first ever lead role in a film and I've lost out on a lot of roles because I'm black.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's my one shot. I'm going to come through it and do my thing and go home.\"\n\nHe went on to describe Jackson as a \"legend on and off screen\".\n\nDirector Jordan Peele is the first African-American to earn $100m with his debut feature\n\nIn his original radio interview a week ago, Jackson said he wondered what Get Out would have been like with a US actor in the lead role.\n\n\"Daniel grew up in a country where they've been interracial dating for 100 years,\" he said.\n\nClarifying his remarks later in the week, he said his criticism was not of other actors, but of the Hollywood system.\n\nOther actors have joined the debate, with Star Wars actor John Boyega tweeting that it was a \"conflict we don't have time for\".\n\nIn an article for The Guardian, Homeland actor David Harewood argued that Britons may be better suited to some parts because they are not burdened by \"what's in the history books\".\n\nIn Get Out, Kaluuya plays Chris, an African-American photographer who goes with his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) to visit her parents at their country home.\n\nChris is worried because Rose has not told her family she has a black boyfriend.\n\nMeet the parents: Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford (on the left) with Allison Williams, Betty Gabriel and Daniel Kaluuya\n\nHe initially receives a warm welcome - if a bit odd at times - but as the weekend progresses, Chris discovers Rose's parents have a very different agenda.\n\n\"Jordan wrote this as a response to the idea that racism was 'solved' because Obama was president,\" Kaluuya said.\n\nPeele has admitted he had not wanted to cast a British actor, but that Kaluuya had won him over during an initial audition.\n\n\"We spoke on Skype,\" Kaluuya confirmed. \"He was very wary because it's an African-American specific experience, but then we had a chat about what it's like being black worldwide and being black in London.\"\n\nThe film's success has made Peele the first African-American writer-director to earn $100m with his debut movie, according to The Wrap.\n\nHow much did Kaluuya identify with the film's themes?\n\n\"There are an uncountable amount of instances when I've been paranoid,\" he said.\n\n\"I did a shoot in Lithuania when I was 17. Everywhere I went people were pointing and staring.\n\n\"Or when I go to Lidl and I get followed by security guards. Is that because it's me, I'm black or what I'm wearing?\n\n\"It's every day, navigating your life, getting stopped by police, I've had it all.\"\n\nKaluuya is currently filming Ryan Coogler's superhero film Black Panther in Atlanta, US.\n\n\"It's a life-changing experience for me,\" he said. \"I can't wait to finish filming so I can watch it.\"\n\nGet Out is out in the UK on 17 March.\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\nEverton striker Romelu Lukaku has turned down the most lucrative contract offer in the club's history.\n\nThe Premier League club had been confident the Belgium international would sign a new five-year deal thought to be worth around £140,000 a week.\n\nThe 23-year-old's agent, Mino Raiola, had said his client was \"99.9%\" certain to extend his stay at Goodison Park.\n\nHowever, Lukaku has told the Toffees he currently has no desire to extend a contract that has two years to run.\n\nLukaku has made no secret of his desire to play in the Champions League and has been linked with a return to former club Chelsea, from whom he joined Everton for £28m in 2014.\n\nEverton's contract offer remains on the table and still hope further negotiations could end in an agreement.\n\nFor now, however, Lukaku is not willing to agree terms and the Toffees would demand a fee in excess of £60m for a player who has scored 19 goals this season.", "The claim: The ruling by the EU's top court could exclude many Muslim women from the workplace.\n\nReality Check verdict: The EU court ruling does allow private companies to adopt rules that bar workers from wearing religious symbols under certain conditions but is not a blanket ban on Islamic headscarves.\n\nOn Tuesday, the European Court of Justice, the EU's top court, ruled that a Belgium firm was within its rights to dismiss an employee who began wearing an Islamic headscarf to work on the grounds that the head covering was against company rules on appearance in a public-facing role.\n\nThe court ruled in favour of the company because it had an \"image neutrality\" policy prohibiting the wearing of any religious clothing or symbols. Furthermore, the policy was, in the court's view, \"genuinely pursued in a consistent and systematic manner\".\n\nTuesday's ruling included a judgement on another related case which concerned a woman in France who refused to take off her headscarf at a private company, after a client objected to her wearing it. In this instance, the court ruled that she had been discriminated against as the company had no \"image neutrality\" policy and only dismissed her following the client's complaint.\n\nEU laws prohibit companies, private or public, discriminating on the grounds of sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation.\n\nIndirect discrimination, where rules set by a company may disadvantage a certain group, is also prohibited, unless there is a specific justification such as a company wishing to project a \"neutral\" image.\n\nIn the Belgian case, the ECJ ruling says that because the company's work appearance rules were written and shared among employees the action was justified.\n\nUltimately, the final judgement on the ECJ ruling will rest with the courts in France and Belgium.\n\nThe Open Society Justice Initiative, a group backed by financier George Soros, which supported the two women at the centre of this case, said the ruling \"weakens the guarantee of equality that is at the heart of the EU's anti-discrimination directive\" and will \"exclude many Muslim women from the workplace\".\n\nProf Takis Tridimas from King's College, London, an expert in European law, said the ruling might allow employers to prevent some people wearing religious clothing at work in certain roles. However, the ruling is \"not specific to any particular religion\".\n\nWearing an Islamic headscarf, as well as all other religious symbols, is already prohibited in France in public service jobs, even when employees are not in direct contact with the public.\n\nIn Belgium, there are no federal rules on religious symbols at work, but the regional parliaments have taken measure to prohibit religious, political or philosophical symbols for public service workers who deal with the public.\n\nOther EU countries, such as the UK, do not have such rules.\n\nA number of EU countries have also taken measures to ban the full Islamic veil, which covers the face, in all public spaces.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Watch 10 of the best plays of the week from the NBA including a slam dunk from the Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James.\n\nYou can watch Leicester Riders v Sevenoaks Suns from the WBBL live on the Red Button, this website and on the BBC Sport app from 12:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nAvailable to UK Users only.", "On 12 December 2015 a man's body was found lying on the ground on Saddleworth Moor. He had died from poisoning.\n\nHe became known as the Body on the Moor. And the struggle to identify him became one of the strangest mysteries.\n\nNo mobile, no identification of any kind. No family or friends came forward.\n\nOne of the few people with any insight into the puzzle behind the man's death was Maureen Toogood.\n\nMaureen had a relationship with a man starting in the late 1960s. They didn't marry and she ended up marrying someone else but they stayed friends. For 40 years they saw each other regularly - she helped him in his garden and around the house.\n\nThen in 2006 he simply vanished from Maureen's life - upped sticks and left the country.\n\nAll of the interviews here are taken from the new episode of the World at One's Body on the Moor podcast series by Jon Manel.\n\nMaureen believed he had sold his home and emigrated to California.\n\nThe first she heard was when she received a call from his neighbour. She was told he was going to the US the following day.\n\n\"I was very hurt by this,\" she says. She was unable to contact him because his phone had been disconnected. Since then, she says, she has thought about him often.\n\nEleven years later she got another phone call. This time from the police.\n\nThey had finally identified the body on the moor. They were calling because it was David Lytton, her friend.\n\nThey knew little of his life and Maureen was able to fill in some of the gaps.\n\nBefore he left in 2006, David had lived an apparently unremarkable life in south-west London, working as a croupier, a taxi controller for a mini-cab company, a baker and a train driver for the London Underground.\n\nMaureen says she met David in 1968. She was suffering from flu at the time but had ventured out to Finchley in north London to buy a stereo. It was the Last Night of the Proms and she wanted to enjoy listening to it at home.\n\n\"I didn't feel very well. I was on my knees, and I was collapsing. There was a young man who went 'Oh, hang on, hang on I'll come over,'\" she remembers.\n\n\"He walked home to my flat and he made me a nice cup of tea. We hit it off. He made me some toast - I hadn't had any breakfast and he stayed with me until my flatmates came home.\"\n\nThe following day, she says, he was back on her doorstep.\n\n\"'Hello, do you remember me?' he said. And he kept coming round every day. He didn't leave me at all. We would even meet in the launderette round the corner and do our washing together.\"\n\nShe describes him as a gentleman who liked to take care of her. He treated her to haircuts in fashionable Mayfair, where he was working as a croupier.\n\nBut, although he was happy to treat his girlfriend, there were few extravagances for himself.\n\nHis house in Streatham was sparsely decorated. There was no bed, just a piece of foam and a three-piece suite from a second-hand shop. Two items do stand out, though. Korans, one for upstairs and one for downstairs, she says.\n\nThere was nothing in the kitchen - no fridge, no kettle, no food.\n\n\"He said he wasn't entitled to comforts. Where he got that I don't know,\" she says.\n\nThe police went on to discover that David ate all his meals at the same local vegetarian restaurant at the same time each night.\n\nHe dressed smartly and was very particular and precise. Maureen says she could have predicted the clothes that he would be wearing the morning he was found: \"M&S socks, white Jockey underwear, white vest, a singlet, cord trousers - navy blue, and round-neck sweater and an old mac that he probably had 30 or 40 years.\"\n\nHis luxury was a pair of shoes made by the Swiss designer Bally.\n\nDavid grew up in the north London suburb of Finchley. He was born David Keith Lautenberg on 21 April, 1948 to Sylvia and Hyman Lautenberg. He was Jewish, his family having originally come to Britain fleeing from Europe. At some time, his immediate family changed their name from Lautenberg. He changed his name to David Lytton in 1986.\n\nMaureen and David met not long after he left Leeds University. He had gone to study psychology and sociology but, according to the police, he suffered from hypothyroidism and found it difficult to sleep at night. Instead, he slept during the day and didn't get the grades he wanted. When he returned to London he fell out with his family and moved out of his home.\n\nMaureen describes David as a \"strange\" man with some \"quirky ways\".\n\n\"But I did like him,\" she says.\n\n\"He was very particular, very precise and a gentleman. He was a lovely, lovely man.\"\n\nHe didn't have any hobbies or particular interests that she knew of. But the police have discovered that David had an interest in different religions, including Buddhism and Islam.\n\nHis last job was as a driver for the London Underground, one which he was well-suited to, says Maureen. \"He enjoyed that - he liked his own company. He was a loner.\"\n\nMaureen and David had a pregnancy which ended in miscarriage. She says he changed greatly after that, he became withdrawn and quiet.\n\nUnbeknown to Maureen, David put his house up for sale in 2005. It sold on 4 October 2006, and he left for Pakistan on 6 October - not California as Maureen had mysteriously been told.\n\nHis departure, it seems, was part of a plan - not a sudden disappearance.\n\nFor Detective Sergeant John Coleman, this was one of the hardest cases of his career. He never dreamed it would remain unsolved for so long. Early in the investigation, he believed a titanium plate that had been fitted during an operation on the man's leg would provide the answer. This type of plate is only used in Pakistan, so police only needed to track down the surgeon. After months of searching, they drew a blank.\n\nBut as the anniversary of the death of the man on the moor was approaching, there was a breakthrough.\n\nInitial inquiries had also focused on Ealing in West London, as it was here that the man was caught on CCTV.\n\nBecause of the Pakistan connection and the fact that he had been seen walking from the direction of South Ealing, which is a few stops along from Heathrow Airport, DS Coleman had a hunch.\n\nHe asked for all the passenger lists from Pakistan to be examined from the days before he was first spotted on CCTV in London. The task was to find someone who fitted the profile of a white male between 65 and 75, possibly travelling alone.\n\nAt first, the person asked to do this failed to find a match. But as the anniversary approached, he revisited the case.\n\n\"That's a hell of a piece of work. Thousands and thousands of people. The tenacity of that officer,\" he says.\n\nA match was found. The man was British, so police contacted the UK Passport Agency and obtained a copy of his passport photograph. Although the picture was 10 years old, there was a resemblance.\n\n\"You can imagine the excitement in Oldham CID,\" says DS Coleman. CCTV images from Lahore airport came through on the anniversary of the death. The police had found their man.\n\nA DNA sample from a family member was needed for confirmation.\n\nPolice checked the electoral roll in London. When this failed to turn up any leads, they turned to genealogy records. Eventually, they found David's mother Sylvia, who suffers from dementia and lives in a care home in London.\n\nThe trail led to Maureen, who telephones the care home to check up on her former friend's mother every day.\n\nFrom David's visa for Pakistan, the police have been able to fill in some blanks.\n\nThe found out that he set up home in an area called Hassan Town in Lahore.\n\nNeighbours say he kept himself to himself. One said he used to read all the time and visit the local internet cafe.\n\n\"He never bothered anybody, though local lads teased him at times,\" one told the BBC.\n\n\"He was nice to his neighbours and ate food sent by his next door neighbours. You would see him going for a walk in the morning, dressed in a tracksuit.\"\n\nAnother recalled him returning from the hospital after he had the plate fitted.\n\n\"His friend requested me to arrange for his food while he was on bed-rest,\" said Ejaz Ahmad.\n\n\"So my family looked after him, our children used to bring him fruit and go to the bakery to buy him cake or pastry. So he was in bed for 15 to 20 days and then he started walking slowly.\"\n\nAnother said that he was a Muslim and that David told him that he had converted in 1996.\n\n\"Now, I don't know whether he said this in view of the treatment meted out to Christians here, as they are made to eat in separate pots from us, Muslims, but he definitely told me that he was a Muslim.\"\n\nThe police say there is no evidence to suggest that he had converted to Islam.\n\nOn Thursday 10 December, David Lytton sat in seat 25C on a Pakistan International Airlines Flight from Lahore arriving at London Heathrow at 15:30.\n\nHe was met at the airport by a friend, who he had known for some 35 years. They ate a meal before the friend dropped David off at the Travelodge in Ealing.\n\n\"His friend indicated that since David had not been in the UK for some time, he wanted to spend some time - weeks or months travelling around and seeing the sights,\" says DS Coleman.\n\nAlthough he booked into the hotel for five nights, David only stayed one.\n\nAnd in keeping with the mysterious nature of this story, police have been unable to locate the 18kg suitcase that he brought with him from Pakistan.\n\nAnd what about the \"why\". Why did David Lytton travel to Manchester, and then out to the renowned beauty spot?\n\n\"I've got all the GP's records - I have records from university - there is no connection to Dovestones,\" says Detective Sergeant Coleman.\n\nAt the inquest in Manchester, Coroner Simon Nelson said Mr Lytton \"died of his own hand\", but he couldn't be sure whether Mr Lytton had intended to take his own life.", "In towns and cities across the world, the colour of night is changing. Traditional yellow sodium street lights are steadily being replaced by white LED lamps. The new lights use less energy, dramatically cutting carbon emissions and saving money. But not everybody is happy.\n\n\"When the leaves left the trees and I tried to sleep, I turned to one side and the light's shining right in my eyes.\"\n\nLike most of us, Karen Snyder had never really paid much attention to street lights. But that all changed last year when the city council began installing LED lights outside her home in a quiet corner of Washington DC.\n\nIn addition to the light shining into her bedroom, the 63-year-old teacher's guest room, where she watches TV, is now bathed in something akin to strong moonlight.\n\n\"It's like there's a ray coming in. Like a blue ray. Right directly on to the couch. If you are sitting down, the moon would be above the house and you'd get the beautiful feel of the moon. This is shining right in your eyes so it's pretty different than a moon. Moons don't go this low into the windows.\"\n\nAn LED light (left) shines directly into Snyder's guest room, while a sodium light glows on the other side of the house\n\nHer friend, Delores Bushong, says her sleep has also been disturbed by the LED street lights outside her home, and is now one of the main opponents of the new lighting in the city. She fears they will ruin the atmosphere on her back porch, where she likes to relax after dark in a hammock in the sweltering summer months.\n\n\"In some kinds of torture they put a light on someone's face all the time,\" she says. \"Am I going to be subjected to a kind of torture forever? It doesn't make sense to me. Just because we have a new technology and you can save money.\"\n\nBushong has become well-versed in the jargon of colour temperature (measured in degrees Kelvin) and light intensity (measured in Lumens), as she battles to get the city to take her concerns seriously. At the very least, she wants the 4,000-Kelvin bulbs in her neighbourhood, which she compares to the harsh lighting in a prison yard, to be replaced by bulbs with lower Kelvin ratings, closer in look and feel to the old high-pressure sodium bulbs.\n\nThe city insists it is listening to her campaign group's concerns but there is no turning back the march of the LEDs.\n\n\"There are many reasons why cities are switching to LED lights,\" says Seth Miller Gabriel, the director of Washington DC's Office of Public Private Partnerships.\n\n\"One, not be looked over, is cost - 50% or more over the life cycle of this new light. The lights last a lot longer. So we save electricity, by at least 50%, we save on the maintenance costs and we get a better lighting solution.\"\n\nThen there are the environmental benefits: \"We estimate that in the District of Columbia by switching our 71,000 street lights over to LEDs we can save upwards of 30 million pounds (13,600 tonnes) of coal a year, in electricity we won't be using for the lights,\" he says.\n\nMiller Gabriel argues that many city-dwellers are blundering around in neighbourhoods that have never been properly lit, allowing crime to fester in the shadows. He dreams of a world where every street light is an LED. He may live long enough to see that happen.\n\nAbout 10% of America's street lights have so far been converted, but the Department of Energy has estimated that if the whole country switched to LEDs over the next two decades it would save $120bn over that 20-year period.\n\nCities across Europe and the Asia Pacific region are going down the LED route and, in China, the central planning agency is in the middle of a conversion programme it expects will cut annual carbon emissions by 48 million tonnes.\n\nAgainst these sort of statistics, those campaigning against LEDs can sound like Luddites, railing against scientific progress, but they insist they have a strong case.\n\nThey point to a recent report by the American Medical Association (AMA), which warns that the blue light emitted by first generation high-intensity LEDs, used in many cities around the world including New York, can adversely affect circadian sleep rhythms, leading to reduced duration and quality of sleep, \"impaired daytime functioning\" and obesity.\n\nThe AMA report calls on cities to use the lowest-intensity LEDs possible and shade them better to reduce glare, which it warns can also harm wildlife.\n\nSeth Miller Gabriel says the report does not contain original research and is \"more of a literature review of what's been published elsewhere\".\n\n\"We would really like to see more concrete evidence of what's going on with these lights,\" he says. \"If it's really a problem, based on a particular intensity of lights, we want to know that. That AMA report really didn't give us the kind of hard data we would need [on which] to base a large scale procurement.\"\n\nHe is overseeing the tendering process for the next phase of Washington's LED conversion which he promises will be done in a more sensitive way, with lower Kelvin ratings, better shading and remote controls, so that lights can be dimmed or increased in intensity at different times to suit the needs of particular neighbourhoods.\n\nBut he adds: \"Let's be honest, humans are not engineered for change. So when we come home and see a different light. Even if it's a much better light, there's going to be a reaction - 'Oh my goodness, it's a different light, what happened?'\"\n\nIt is true that many of the same arguments being made against LED lights were heard in the early 1970s, when cities were converting to the yellow sodium lights we are so familiar with today.\n\nThere was no LED lighting in Edward Hopper's day\n\nHigh-pressure sodium bulbs used less energy than the mercury vapour bulbs they replaced. But some campaigners, most notably a Vancouver-based artist called Ralf Kelman, argued at the time that their \"antiseptic orange\" glow was too bright and would damage growth in young trees, as well as blocking out the stars in the night sky.\n\nThe light pollution argument has also been used against LEDs, although some researchers say that properly directed, they could dramatically improve the visibility of stars.\n\nBut, for some people, the debate goes beyond dry arguments about Kelvin ratings, light pollution and carbon emissions and touches on questions about the quality of life city-dwellers should expect.\n\n\"When the lighting is right you have a sense of peace and contemplation, of aesthetic joy in the world,\" says novelist Lionel Shriver, who is campaigning against LEDs in the South Brooklyn neighbourhood where she spends part of the year.\n\n\"I am not someone who believes she can stand in the way of the march of the LEDs. The savings in energy are too great. The savings in money are too great. And if we just say 'but it's not pretty' that's not going to stop these things.\n\n\"The truth is that the technology of LEDs has advanced fantastically so that it is no longer necessary to make a stark choice between economy and the environment and aesthetics. You can have both.\n\n\"What is going on in some cities, in New York especially, that is what I am most familiar with, amounts to a kind of widespread civic vandalism.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is the minister leading the UK's Brexit negotiations? Nicholas Watt reports\n\nUntil well into the 1980s, Tory grandees tended to show interest in new MPs only if they had aristocratic heritage or were a waspish intellect in the mould of Chris Patten.\n\nThe odd exception was made. Sir John Major was eventually admitted into the Blue Chip group of Tory MPs first elected in 1979, though only when it became clear he was racing to the top.\n\nDavid Davis, the Brexit Secretary, who was elected to Parliament a generation ago, in 1987, is neither an aristocrat nor a whimsical intellectual.\n\nHe had a troubled upbringing and is more of an intellectual bruiser dating back to the time when he stood up to his bullying stepfather.\n\nBut Mr Davis marked himself out to Tory grandees after accepting a dare.\n\nOver dinner hosted by the late Alan Clark at his medieval Saltwood Castle in Kent, Mr Davis agreed to walk along the \"black\" route, the crumbling ramparts overlooking the ruins of a chapel.\n\n\"[He] did the 'black' route without turning a hair, then retraced his footsteps, hands in pockets - first time that's ever been done!\" Clark wrote in his diary.\n\nMr Davis' training in the SAS (Reserve) regiment - which helped fund his way through university - had paid off.\n\nNonchalantly completing the black route cemented Mr Davis' reputation among Tories as a fearless hard man.\n\nBut it also illustrated another character trait that gives an insight into his approach to the Brexit negotiations.\n\nMr Davis is prepared to take risks but never in a reckless way, and only after a careful calculation of all the options in front of him.\n\nMr Davis' belief in taking calculated risks explains one of the central decisions Theresa May has taken in her approach to Brexit.\n\nThis was her declaration, outlined in her Lancaster House speech in January on the Brexit negotiations, the UK was prepared to walk away from a bad deal.\n\nMr Davis had advised the prime minister the EU would take the UK seriously only if it showed it was unafraid of no deal.\n\nLord Howard of Lympne, the former Tory leader, who had difficult relations with David Davis in his days as shadow home secretary, wholeheartedly endorses his approach.\n\n\"Obviously it would be better place for the EU and the UK if a sensible constructive deal is struck,\" Lord Howard told the BBC's Newsnight programme.\n\n\"But if, for whatever reason, they don't want to do that, we'll be fine without a deal.\n\n\"We can manage without a deal - better with one, fine without one.\"\n\nThe confidence that led Mr Davis to advise the prime minister to think nothing of calling the bluff of the remaining EU member states has won him an admiring band of supporters on the Tory benches. But, to some, his confidence can border on cockiness.\n\nOne Tory grandee told Newsnight: \"He is the only man I know who can swagger sitting down.\"\n\nMr Davis later admitted the use of T-shirts emblazoned with his 2005 leadership campaign slogan, \"It's DD for me,\" had backfired\n\nAndrew Mitchell, the former cabinet minister who ran Mr Davis' unsuccessful campaign for the Tory leadership in 2005, told Newsnight: \"He is an extraordinarily optimistic and self-confident person.\n\n\"I remember one of the Cameroons saying to me in exasperation that he was the only person he knows who did not go to Eton but has the same level of self-confidence you get from an Eton education.\"\n\nMr Mitchell became firm friends with Mr Davis when they both worked in the bruising battleground of the Tory whips' office in the 1990s, pushing through the Maastricht treaty.\n\nThere is something of an irony that the man who enforced the integrationist treaty - which pushed many Tories into outright opposition to Brussels - is now leading the UK out of the EU.\n\nLord Howard, believed to be one of three Eurosceptic cabinet ministers at the time of the Maastricht battle dubbed \"bastards\" by Sir John Major, sees no contradiction.\n\n\"I suppose you could say we've all been on a journey,\" he told Newsnight.\n\n\"Maastricht was a long time ago. The EU has become much more integrationist since then, and the flaws in the project more apparent.\"\n\nDavid Davis did not get on with David Cameron\n\nMr Davis had a mixed career after the Tories lost power in 1997.\n\nHe loved hounding civil servants as chairman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee between 1997 and 2001.\n\nHe put down a marker when he emerged as the dark horse candidate in the 2001 Tory leadership contest, making him the favourite in 2005 until he was upstaged by David Cameron during the party conference.\n\nThe boy from the south London council estate and the Etonian never hit it off.\n\nMr Cameron regarded Mr Davis as vain and self-aggrandising when he triggered a by-election over civil liberties, which he won, in 2008.\n\nThis paved the way for nearly a decade on the backbenches as a serial rebel, where he repeatedly clashed with Mrs May over civil liberties.\n\nThen, last summer, in his late 60s, he was finally asked to join the cabinet, by Mrs May, as one of three Brexiteers.\n\nAnd Mr Davis, unlike Liam Fox and Boris Johnson, who are seen as sources of trouble, has won the trust of the prime minister.\n\nMr Davis (l) has won the trust of Mrs May\n\nNo 10 sources say Mr Davis has come into his own on Brexit, and is even turning into something of an elder statesman.\n\nJust down the street, in his office at No 9, Mr Davis puts his success down to two factors: silence and what he calls proximity.\n\nHe has avoided talking out of line and has made a point of squatting in the building next to No 10 to ensure he can easily wander up the street if problems arise.\n\nMr Davis, who will celebrate his 70th birthday a few months before the Article 50 negotiations are due to end, in March 2019, says he has one shot at making a success of Brexit, which he is determined to achieve.\n\nHe hopes to retire a happy man at that point, although he appears not to have ruled out another challenge.\n\nMr Mitchell told Newsnight: \"I don't know if this is last hurrah or not. The extraordinary thing about politics [is you] never know what's round the corner.\"\n\nA man who can saunter along the ramparts of a medieval castle is no doubt capable of springing surprises.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLondon rivals Chelsea and Tottenham have been drawn against each other in the FA Cup semi-finals.\n\nArsenal, who will play in a record 29th FA Cup semi-final, face Manchester City in the other last-four tie.\n\nBoth semi-finals will be played at Wembley on the weekend of 22 and 23 April.\n\nChelsea knocked out holders Manchester United in a hard-fought 1-0 win on Monday, with Spurs thrashing League One side Millwall on Sunday.\n\nArsenal, who lifted the trophy in 2014 and 2015, proved too good for non-league Lincoln City in a 5-0 home win on Saturday.\n\nManchester City are playing in the semi-finals for the first time in four seasons after beating Middlesbrough in a 2-0 away win.\n\nFollow all the reaction to the semi-final draw\n\n\"Tottenham have given Chelsea problems this season and it is a London derby too so gives it an edge,\" said former Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard, speaking as a BBC Match of the Day pundit after the Blues' quarter-final win.\n\n\"They are two very form teams but I think Chelsea are slight favourites as it stands.\"\n\nFormer England striker Alan Shearer added: \"When the big boys joined in the FA Cup it got off to a slow start with teams resting players.\n\n\"But now there are four big hitters left and they are two semi-finals to look forward to.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nThe 2022 Commonwealth Games will no longer be held in Durban, South Africa.\n\nDavid Grevemberg, chief executive of the Commonwealth Games Federation, said the city did not meet the criteria set by his organisation, and the search for a new host city had already begun.\n\nDurban was awarded the Games in September 2015 and was due to be the first African city to host the event, which was first held in 1930.\n\nLiverpool and Birmingham have expressed interest in staging the 2022 edition.\n\nThe Commonwealth Games are held every four years and feature athletes from more than 50 countries, mostly former British colonies.\n\nLast month, South Africa's sports minister Fikile Mbalula indicated Durban may not be able to host the 2022 event because of financial constraints.\n\n\"We gave it our best shot but we can't go beyond. If the country says we don't have this money, we can't,\" he said.\n\nGrevemberg said: \"We are disappointed but it does not diminish our commitment to the African continent.\n\n\"We have had to postpone these ambitions to a later time. We all share disappointment that this ambition needs to be postponed right now.\n\n\"We remain committed to the inspiring potential of a Games in the continent.\"\n\nGrevemberg said the South African government had never signed off on the decision for Durban to host the Games.\n\n\"We have a host city contract,\" he said. \"It was signed by all parties on the day except for the South African government.\n\n\"We have engaged with the government to really try to work with their current circumstances but also uphold the commitments that were outlined in their bid. They were unable to do that at this time and we have had to look after the citizens and communities that our events serve.\"\n\nGrevemberg said an announcement on a new host city would be made by the end of the year.\n\n\"Discussions with a number of interested parties are under way,\" he said. \"I am confident an alternative host city will be found and that we will have an inspirational Games for the athletes and fans across the Commonwealth.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Liverpool City Council said: \"We had heard rumours that Durban might be unable to deliver the Commonwealth Games in 2022 and have already indicated to the government that we are very willing to host them instead.\"\n\nBirmingham had already expressed an interest in hosting the 2026 Games.\n\nCouncillor Ian Ward, deputy leader of the city council, said: \"We are aware of the decision from the Commonwealth Games Federation to seek a new host for the 2022 Games.\n\n\"Here in Birmingham we are already in the advanced stages of producing a detailed feasibility study on what would be needed for a truly memorable Games in the city.\n\n\"That is due to be completed in the coming weeks and we are in close contact with the government about the developing situation.\"", "The claim: 60% of self-employed people will pay less National Insurance as a result of these changes.\n\nReality Check verdict: 60% of people according to Treasury estimates will pay less, but only if you combine the abolition of Class 2 National Insurance contributions, which was announced in 2016, with the increase in Class 4 contributions announced on Wednesday. Nobody will pay less National Insurance as a result of the changes announced in Wednesday's Budget alone.\n\nChancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond was on the BBC's Breakfast programme on Thursday, talking about the changes made in his Budget.\n\nHe said that 60% of self-employed people would pay less National Insurance as a result of the changes.\n\nWhat changed on Wednesday was that in April 2018, Class 4 National Insurance contributions will rise from 9% of profits earned between £8,060 and £43,000 a year, to 10%.\n\nThe following year it will rise again to 11%.\n\nNational Insurance of 2% will still be payable on earnings above £43,000.\n\nGeorge Osborne announced the previous year that Class 2 National Insurance contributions, which are paid at a flat rate of £2.80 a week by self-employed people earning profits of more than £5,965 a year, would be abolished from April 2018.\n\nMr Hammond was keen to combine the effects of these two changes, describing the net effect as raising £145m a year by 2020-21.\n\nThe Budget documents predict that just raising Class 4 contributions will raise £495m in 2020-21, with the measure raising a total of just over £2bn over the next five years.\n\nIf you look at the two changes together, the Treasury says that 2.6 million people will be better off by an average of £115 a year, while 1.6 million people will lose out by an average of £240 a year.\n\nThe latest labour market figures estimated that there were a total of 4.8 million self-employed workers, but some of them will be earning less than £5,965 so will be neither better off nor worse off, which means the total is feasible.\n\nFrom those figures, it appears that 60% of self-employed people could be paying less in National Insurance.\n\nBut it would be a bit surprising if all self-employed people looked at it like that.\n\nThey were expecting a tax cut in April next year, and as a result of this Budget, 40% of them will now face a tax increase instead.\n\nIt will be the higher-earning, self-employed people who lose out.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal studies has worked out that anyone earning profits of less than £15,570 a year will be better off, while the maximum loss will be £589 a year.\n\nUPDATE 15 March: More figures emerged in the following days and the policy was reversed a week later. Find more details in this Reality Check.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As anyone who has ever eaten a really hot chilli will testify, they can cause a lot of pain.\n\nChillies come in many shapes, colours, sizes and strengths, but one thing they have in common is the burning sensation they cause in your mouth, eyes and any other part of your body into which their juices come into contact.\n\nAlthough most people think that the hottest part of a chilli is its seeds, in fact it is the white spongy layer you find inside, called the placenta. Bite into this and you will really feel the burn.\n\nThat burning sensation is mainly caused by a chemical called capsaicin, which is found in tiny glands in the chilli's placenta.\n\nWhen you eat a chilli, the capsaicin is released into your saliva and then binds on to TRPV1 receptors in your mouth and tongue.\n\nThe receptors are actually there to detect the sensation of scalding heat.\n\nCapsaicin makes your mouth feel as if it is on fire because the capsaicin molecule happens to fit the receptors perfectly.\n\nWhen this happens it triggers these receptors, which send a signal to your brain, fooling it into thinking that your mouth is literally burning.\n\nThe reason why wild chilli plants first started to produce capsaicin was to try and protect themselves from being eaten by mammals like you.\n\nFrom an evolutionary perspective the plant would much rather have its seeds dispersed far and wide by birds.\n\nOddly enough birds, unlike mammals, don't have TRPV1 receptors, so they do not experience any burn.\n\nSo producing capsaicin turned out to be the ideal way to deter mammals from eating the plant while encouraging birds to do so.\n\nBut then along came an ape with a giant frontal cortex who somehow learnt to love the burn.\n\nHumans have learned to love the burn of chillies\n\nHumans are not only not deterred by capsaicin, most of us positively love it. So what's going on?\n\nThe ferocity of a chilli pepper is measured in something called Scoville heat units (SHU).\n\nA relatively mild chilli, like the Dutch Long chilli, is only 500, but by the time you move on to the Naga chilli, which is one of the hottest in the world, you are biting into something with a Scoville score of more than 1.3m units.\n\nThe current world record holder for hotness, however, is the Carolina Reaper, first bred in Rock Hill, South Carolina.\n\nAccording to tests carried out by the University of Winthrop in South Carolina it scores an impressive 1.57m SHUs\n\nSo, what happens when you bite into a really hot chill? As part of the new BBC2 series The Secrets of Your Food, botanist James Wong and I entered a chilli eating competition.\n\nWithin minutes of eating my first chilli, my eyes began to water and my pulse shot up.\n\nMy body had responded to an initial burst of severe pain by releasing adrenaline.\n\nThis not only made my heart beat faster, but it also made my pupils dilate. Every round the chillies got hotter and both of us soon dropped out.\n\nHad we been able to tolerate biting into some really hot chillies, it's possible we would have experienced a \"chilli endorphin high\".\n\nChilli seeds are dispersed by birds that eat them\n\nEndorphins are natural opiates, painkillers which are sometimes released in response to the chilli's sting. Like opiates they are said to induce a pervasive sense of happiness.\n\nIt is a form of thrill-seeking - feeding our brains' desire for stimulation.\n\nAlthough it is not something I have personally ever experienced, I have certainly heard it described by hard core chilli eaters..\n\nBut beyond the pain and the perverse pleasures, are there any health benefits to eating chillies? Perhaps.\n\nIn a recent study done by researchers from the University of Vermont they looked at data from more than 16,000 Americans who had filled in food questionnaires over an average of 18.9 years.\n\nDuring that time nearly 5,000 of them had died. What they found was that those who ate a lot of red hot chillies were 13% less likely to die during that period than those who did not.\n\nThis supports the finding of another recent study, carried out in China, that came to similar conclusions.\n\nSo why might eating chillies be good for you?\n\nThe researchers speculate that it could be that capsaicin is helping increase blood flow, or even altering the mix of your gut bacteria in a helpful direction.\n\nWhatever the reason, it adds to my pleasure as I sprinkle chilli on my omelette in the morning.\n\nThe Secrets of Your Food continues on BBC2 at 2100GMT on Friday 10th March .\n\nJoin the conversation on our Facebook page.", "The hackneyed cliché of white stilettos is a thing of the past\n\n\"Essex girls\" have long been mocked as thick, promiscuous and lacking in class. But a campaign to turn the hackneyed clichés on their heads is fast gathering pace. The BBC's Jodie Halford asks whether being from Essex is a disadvantage in modern life?\n\nA few years ago, I was talking to a colleague over the phone when he asked me my name.\n\n\"Wow, that's an appropriate name for someone from Essex,\" he said. \"Conjures up images of white stilettos and fake tans.\"\n\nIf I had hailed from elsewhere in England, I am confident he would not have made such a remark. But then, \"Essex girls\" have come to expect a certain amount of sneering when our origins are discovered.\n\nIt is all the fault of a decades-old stereotype which is so ingrained in British culture that it has its own entry in the dictionary.\n\nThe origins of this label possibly lie with the concept of Essex man - that almost forgotten relative of the Essex girl - which reared its head in the early 1990s.\n\nJournalist Simon Heffer used the term to denote a new type of Conservative voter who was \"young, industrious, mildly brutish and culturally barren\". Such men were typically self-made and had benefitted from the policies of Margaret Thatcher, he said.\n\nThe county's women were soon to be stereotyped too.\n\nAn article in The Independent from November 1991 related the recent \"craze\" for Essex girl jokes.\n\nThey often went something like this: \"How does an Essex girl turn on the light afterwards? She kicks open the car door.\"\n\nThe newspaper said the jokes had been imported from the United States, where they had originated as \"blonde\" jokes before being adapted for a British audience.\n\nAdd to that shows like Birds of a Feather - and later The Only Way is Essex - and the reputation of the county's women was firmly cemented.\n\nDr Terri Simpkin said Essex girl's negative meaning was developed in the 1980s and 90s\n\nDr Terri Simpkin, a lecturer in leadership and corporate education at Anglia Ruskin University, said the term Essex girl was first recorded in 1892 but its modern connotations date from the late 1980s.\n\n\"There's that connection between post-war migration out of London into the new towns and elsewhere with the decline of manufacturing and the rise of professional occupations,\" she said.\n\n\"Essex became a corridor between dormitory towns and London, so we saw a rise in people having social mobility.\n\n\"Out of that came a level of snobbery and a disparaging view of people who had become more aspirational and affluent.\n\n\"But with women, there was gender discrimination as well, because so-called Essex girls weren't wilting wallflowers - they were more overt as sexual beings, they took control of their own sexuality.\"\n\nSouthend-on-Sea playwright Sadie Hasler says the Essex girl stereotype is \"utterly moronic\"\n\nSadie Hasler, 36, a playwright and columnist from Southend-on-Sea, has encountered her fair share of Essex girl prejudice.\n\n\"The most common thing when you mention where you're from to people who aren't from there is that initial glimmer in their eyes,\" she says.\n\n\"You can't hear the word Essex without having a cognitive flash of all the stereotypes. It's part of the battle, all those years of history behind the word.\"\n\nMs Hasler, who has worked as an actor and comedy performer, said she moved away from the industry because her accent and age meant she was being given a narrow range of roles where she was \"asked to wear PVC catsuits, go topless, always be sexual\".\n\n\"If I'd been from another county, I don't think that would have happened,\" she said.\n\n\"When I was touring, and doing lots of character comedy, I saw more Essex stereotypes far more widely in other parts of the country than in Southend.\"\n\n\"Travelling into London, people are always surprised to learn I have a brain,\" she adds. \"It's almost like they're saying: 'Well done, you've escaped Essex!'\n\n\"It makes no sense for people to feel that way - it's utterly moronic, in fact.\"\n\nEssex is about more than just stereotypes, as this image of Landermere Wharf in the Tendring district shows\n\nLast autumn, Essex girls were splashed across newspapers and television screens once more, when two bloggers started a petition to remove the definition from the dictionaries.\n\nThe Oxford English Dictionary refers to her as \"unintelligent, promiscuous, and materialistic\", while Collins adds \"devoid of taste\" to the mix.\n\nJuliet Thomas and Natasha Sawkins, from Motherhub, decided to do something about it.\n\n\"We asked the dictionary if there was another example of a stereotype defining someone from a particular area,\" Ms Thomas said. \"There wasn't.\n\n\"It's not for us to define what it means, but people have started to reclaim it and give it a far more positive meaning - it's just that there's currently no alternative definition.\"\n\nJuliet Thomas and Natasha Sawkins are campaigning to change or remove the dictionary definition of Essex girl\n\nThe Essex Girl petition was run alongside a social media campaign with tweets from hundreds of women who wanted to reclaim the term.\n\nGreat British Bake Off winner Jo Wheatley, writer and vlogger Giovanna Fletcher and Olympic sailor Saskia Clark were among those who threw their support behind #iamanessexgirl.\n\n\"We didn't feel successful women in Essex were being talked about enough, with most of the focus going to the lazy stereotypes,\" said Mrs Thomas.\n\nAnother organisation celebrating the county's women is the Essex Women's Advisory Group (EWAG), a charitable foundation set up to \"challenge negative stereotypes by promoting the confidence and achievements of Essex women and girls\".\n\nIts chair, Juliet Townsend, said she had heard of young women pretending they were from elsewhere when going for jobs outside of the county.\n\n\"They're not confident to say they're from Essex, or they feel their accent or what they wear is the subject of ridicule,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm so proud to be an Essex girl. Silly jokes about it are really boring, and make me judge whoever who cracks them.\n\n\"But there are so many people who don't have that confidence to brush off the comments and jokes - we want to empower those people to have the confidence not to feel that way.\"\n\nShows like The Only Way is Essex were criticised for playing up to the stereotype\n\nSo what does it really mean to be an Essex girl in 2017?\n\nShe grew up in Ilford - part of the London borough of Redbridge since 1965, but still considered Essex in many people's hearts.\n\n\"I left home at 21 and moved to Manchester,\" she recalled, \"and I was embarrassed to tell people where I was from. The stereotype had informed how I felt.\n\n\"But the older I got, the more confident and proud I became to tell people. We're strong minded, strong willed - and we know how to have a great time.\"\n\nMrs Thomas and Mrs Sawkins - who were born outside of the county but have lived there for a number of years - simply want people to continue to \"reclaim the term\" and give it a more positive meaning.\n\n\"We knew getting the dictionary changed wouldn't happen overnight - it wasn't about that,\" said Mrs Sawkins. \"It's about bringing it to people's attention, and celebrating the success of women from Essex - real women doing amazing things\".\n\nThe Essex Way runs from Harwich (pictured) to Epping\n\nWednesday was International Women's Day and Ms Townsend, from EWAG, said she planned to raise awareness of her campaign through a sponsored walk along the Essex Way - an 81 mile (130km) trek from Epping to Harwich.\n\n\"My version of being an Essex girl can be completely different to someone else's,\" she said. \"There's no right or wrong way of being an Essex girl.\n\n\"It's important to remember the cliché, the heightened version, exists because Essex girls can be proud of looking good while having brains.\"\n\nPlaywright Ms Hasler believes work should be done in schools in the county to give pupils, both male and female, a degree of assertiveness, and to teach them \"it's ok to challenge the stereotype.\"\n\n\"If you could take every negative stereotype about Essex girls, and turn them into positives, it would be amazing to see Essex girl come out and say love your body, make the most of what you've got, own it, don't take lip from anyone, say what you think, defend yourself and don't be a wallflower,\" she said.\n\n\"The thing about Essex girl is she actually represents lots of positive messages for women - but they're currently dressed up in the most hideous way.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs Theresa May arrived at her last Brussels summit before pushing the button on Brexit, it is enough to give you a splitting headache.\n\nNot just the complexity of actually getting a deal done, but the ceiling of the brand new European Council HQ in Brussels, decked out in a crazy patchwork of rainbow colours.\n\nThe architect told the BBC he hopes his design will lead to \"joyful meetings\" in a space \"where politicians' deep talents can be expressed like poets\".\n\nHarsh words and hard bargaining are more likely to be a feature of the next two years despite the architect's dreams.\n\nEven if there is goodwill on both sides, as British ministers increasingly hope, the technicalities of doing a deal are impossible to dismiss.\n\nFirst off there's an exit process to negotiate, with a likely exit bill of as much as £50bn.\n\nMinisters have been careful so far not to say too much.\n\nBut Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told me Britain has an \"illustrious precedent\" and should reject the demands - just as Margaret Thatcher did at the fabled summit in 1984 when she wielded her handbag and didn't just ask for money back, she threatened to walk out if she didn't get her way.\n\nHe told me: \"We have illustrious precedent in this matter... I think you can recall the 1984… summit in which Mrs Thatcher said she wanted her money back and I think that is exactly what we will, we will get.\"\n\nA rather more provocative way of telling the rest of the EU that the contentious demands expected to be made just aren't going to happen and - by mentioning the Fontainbleu incident - implying at least that it is possible the UK could walk out over the cash.\n\nThat's before we start to untangle four decades when our countries, laws, rules and regulations have been becoming more and more enmeshed.\n\nThen there are the prospects of getting a deal on the future of our relationships done.\n\nWhat happens to security arrangements, information sharing, rules and regulations, our entire legal system, our future immigration system, fishing, farming, air traffic control, water quality rules, Europol, continent-wide arrest warrants? The list goes on and on.\n\nTheresa May has arrived at her last Brussels summit before pushing the button on Brexit\n\nThen, as our interview with Nicola Sturgeon makes plain, the constitutional implications at home are only starting to be understood.\n\nThere are fights too for powers in Northern Ireland with risks of destabilising the peace process, argues Tony Blair.\n\nAnd if those two nations are fighting for more powers as control returns from Brussels, can Wales sit and just play along?\n\nThe hardest solutions to find though are on trade.\n\nIt's true that those who were ardent Remainers now in government say privately they are more hopeful.\n\nA senior figure told me: \"It's like a divorce. At the start you say, I hate you, I never want to see you again. Then you say, I still don't like you, but we need to talk about the kids.\"\n\nThere is no question that, in Westminster at least, the expectation is that individual members of the EU are softening their resistance.\n\nThat's why part of the UK government's strategy is unquestionably to divide and conquer.\n\nBut there isn't much sign of any softening, or at least anyone willing to say so in public.\n\nThat's why, despite their optimism, there is a realism in government too, and they are preparing to think about having to walk away, with the Brexit Secretary David Davis admitting to me, he is very hopeful of \"Plan A\", but that ministers \"have to do the work for the so-called Plan B or C\".\n\nHe also reiterated the government's position that there is no way they will agree to a deal on EU citizens in Britain without agreement from the other side of the table.\n\nHe claims the \"highest probability\" is of getting a deal done.\n\nFor the many ministers and officials we've spoken to, they believe - for some of them it's more accurately a hope - that a good deal can be reached because in the end, money talks.\n\nJust as Vote Leave argued, the belief at the highest levels of government is that whether it's German cars or Italian prosecco, European politicians will come willingly to an agreement because they rely on the buying power of the British consumer.\n\nThat is the argument that's continually cited and the ultimate irony.\n\nBritain's politicians are relying on the EU to put economics before politics.\n\nOne of the reasons Britain chose to leave the EU is the perpetual frustration felt on our side of the Channel that continental politicians are incapable of doing just that.\n\nIt's a gamble perhaps that Theresa May didn't have much choice but to take.\n\nBut if she's wrong, the government, arguably the country, will need Mr Davis' Plan B. And the dreams of an architect might in fact be the start of a nightmare.", "Geri Horner: \"The '90s were like the '60s, very free and full of colour\"\n\nIt's 20 years since Geri Horner (then Halliwell) strode onto the Brits stage in her Union Jack dress in one of the defining images of the 1990s.\n\nTo mark the anniversary, the singer is hosting a BBC Two documentary on the decade, looking at her own journey from Turkish game show host to globe-straddling, Nelson Mandela-cuddling pop phenomenon.\n\nIt's called Geri's 1990s: My Drive to Freedom - referring to the 1967 open-topped sports car she bought with her first \"fat pay cheque\" from Virgin Records.\n\nAhead of the broadcast this Saturday, the star sat down with BBC News to reflect on the decade that changed her life.\n\nAlong the way, she reveals the creative tensions that split up the Spice Girls, her time as a Turkish TV show hostess, and why she named her newborn son after George Michael.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhat struck you most about the 1990s while making the documentary?\n\nIt was a really good reminder of how much influence that decade had on my life. It was brilliant in every way - musically, culturally, politically. There was so much colour and creativity. Britain felt like the centre of the universe at that moment.\n\nYou turned 18 in 1990, and almost immediately had surgery to remove a lump in your breast...\n\nYes, I had a little scare. [The lump turned out not to be cancerous]\n\nThat's not something most teenagers have to confront. How did it change your life? Did it make you more ambitious?\n\nI think it was something else that put the petrol in my tank. I was always ambitious, but my dad died when I was quite young. He'd always been very encouraging of my career, and when he died not only did I experience the loss of a parent, but also my own mortality. You suddenly think: \"Oh God, life's here and you've just got to go for it\". That, for me, was a defining moment.\n\nThe Spice Girls stole the show at the 1997 Brit Awards\n\nFor the next couple of years, you tried your hand at modelling and TV presenting. Were you just looking for the best way to get a break?\n\nTwo things happened: I went back to college to study English Literature - but to subsidise that, I had to take lots of little jobs.\n\nOne of them, I was a game show hostess in Turkey. The show was a bit like The Price is Right, and I would go to Turkey and do that. I had all these random jobs, but what they ultimately were for, was to fund me going into the studio.\n\nI remember the guy said it would cost £300 to get my demo tape together. I'd written one song myself and the other was a cover of the song A Lover's Holiday.\n\nWhat was your song called?\n\nIt was called Live to Love. It was pretty crap.\n\nYou auditioned for the Spice Girls after answering a newspaper advert. How many times had you been through that process?\n\nOh, I'd tried loads and loads of different things. All sorts of random stuff. And there were some dodgy things, believe me.\n\nThe band got huge very quickly. It's amazing to think that the period between Wannabe and you leaving wasn't even two years. What's your memory of that period?\n\nWhen you're in the middle of it, you just sort of get on with it. I liked being part of a group. The camaraderie. It was a lot of fun.\n\nIt got quite hysterical - the paparazzi, the screaming fans, the constant tabloid stories. Was fame what you had dreamt it would be?\n\nWhat you think about something and what it turns out to be is never going to be quite the same. Some bits are better, some bits are not. But it was a very happy, fun, full-on experience.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Geri says Girl Power was 'more palatable' than feminism\n\nIn the documentary, you talk about Girl Power being a less threatening way to discuss feminism.\n\nTwenty years ago, if you said the word feminism, you thought of those bra-burning, marching protestors. It was quite tough and harsh.\n\nFor me, Girl Power was a much more punchy way of saying it. But actually, Girl Power embodies much more than a gender. It's about everybody. Everybody deserves the same treatment, whatever race you are, gender you are, age you are. Everybody deserves a voice.\n\nIt was just saying that in a very digestible way.\n\nThere was a clip that went viral last year, where you and the rest of the band have a blazing row with a director who wanted you to show more cleavage.\n\nOh, I saw that, when I told the bloke to zip it!\n\nDo you know what? I didn't actually take that very personally. Sometimes people just need reminding that we have to be respectful. He's just being a bit silly. He needs reminding what's what.\n\nI was interested to hear you talk about songwriting earlier, because it's rarely discussed that that Spice Girls have writing credits on all of their singles. Do you think that's been overlooked?\n\nI feel incredibly proud to have been part of the writing. I've always loved lyric-writing, and melodies - so if it gets recognised, fantastic.\n\nI'm proud of my solo album - the first one I did - because it was so honest.\n\nIf you listen to Lift Me Up, I was really inspired by the Carpenters. On the bridge, where I sing \"it's going to be alright\", I was trying to the way Karen's voice would go really low and then soar up again.\n\nBut then I also love Wannabe. It's a very confident song.\n\nThe Spice Girls hits included Stop, Wannabe, Say You'll Be There and Spice Up Your Life\n\nYou had to fight for Wannabe to be your first single, didn't you?\n\nNobody wanted it. The record company didn't want it. Management didn't want it. And I can understand the hesitation. It was not the coolest.\n\nBut the best song to me is when you instinctively like it - not because it's cool, not because it's what the latest fad is. You just connect to it.\n\nThe advantage of Wannabe being uncool was that, when Say You'll Be There came out people suddenly sat up and said, \"wait a minute, there's more to this band than we assumed\".\n\nAnd we always knew it could only ever be that way round. I had faith in it and Emma had faith in it.\n\nLooking back, would you stand by your decision to quit the band?\n\nErm… Would I have left? It depends.\n\nThey wanted to make an R&B album. Am I a big R&B fan? Not really. I'm a pop writer. I felt comfortable in that genre and it felt completely alien to me to sing in that R&B style. My departure almost set them free a bit, and allowed them to make that album [Forever, recorded with Rodney Jerkins].\n\nSo I don't regret it. Part of life is change.\n\nThe singer struck up a friendship with her idol, George Michael\n\nYou became friends with George Michael around that time. What are you memories of him?\n\nI always had sort of a crush on him, so when I met him I just thought, \"wow!\".\n\nMost of all, I admired him as an artist, for his music but also, I just think he was a really kind, good person.\n\nI filmed the documentary before he died - but I talk about him, and now that [section] has become really sad and poignant. He was just such a generous, kind, loving being.\n\nYour new son is called Montague George Hector Horner. Is that partly in his honour?\n\nYeah, it was my mother's idea. Because she was very fond of George and he really loved my mum. He went to her wedding!\n\nI had a month [of pregnancy] to go after George died and when Monty was born, mum said, \"why don't you give him George's name?\". And I thought, \"oh that's really sweet.\"\n\nAfter you left The Spice Girls, you worked for several years as a UN spokesperson. I get the feeling that changed you as a person.\n\nI tell you what - it puts it all in perspective. You realise how lucky we are to live in a country like this. We have an NHS - I know we complain about it, but we have one. We have a support system for the unemployed. There is a structure here that supports. And there is a freedom that some countries do not have.\n\nThe star lobbied to play a Bond girl in the late 1990s\n\nAnother thing you did after the Spice Girls was you attended drama school.\n\nYeah! You've really done your research!\n\nAnd then you auditioned for Bond?\n\nActually, they just called me in for a chat. They didn't give me the part. I don't think I was up their street.\n\nBut you did end up with a cameo in Sex and the City.\n\nOh my God, that was amazing. That was amazing! I had to properly audition for it. They were very strict, because it was all about comedy timing and very tightly scripted. But I think I got more kudos from doing that than anything else. My girlfriends were so excited I was in that.\n\nThe Spice Girls sold more than 85 million records and performed for royalty\n\nYou're working on a solo album right now. How is that going?\n\nI wrote the majority of the album when I was pregnant and it's really coming together now.\n\nHaving children has inspired some great records - Madonna's Ray of Light, Neneh Cherry's Raw Like Sushi…\n\nDo you know what? I felt this surge of creativity when I was pregnant. And you're much more emotional - my feelings were really on tap.\n\nBut this album - it's just so different. I feel like I've jumped over to the other side. When you're a certain genre, like the pop genre, it's like being 12 and to get to the other side, to grow up and be comfortable, has taken me a while. But I feel like I've finally done it.\n\nWhen do we get to hear it?\n\nI'm really, really hopeful that it's this side of the summer. That would be really nice. I'd be really happy to share it.\n\nGeri's 1990s: My Drive to Freedom is on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT this Saturday, 11 March, as part of the BBC's My Generation series.\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.", "You can watch FA Cup highlights of Arsenal v Lincoln City and Middlesbrough v Man City at 23:05 GMT on Saturday on BBC One and the BBC Sport website. Highlights of three Premier League matches are on MOTD at 22:20 GMT.\n\nArsenal go into Saturday's FA Cup quarter-final against National League leaders Lincoln City as overwhelming favourites - but will the tie really be as easy as it seems?\n\nDefeat at Emirates Stadium is simply unthinkable for Arsene Wenger's side, even given their current problems, but this sort of supposed mismatch brings its own pressure for their players.\n\nThe Gunners won away at another National League side, Sutton United, in the fifth round but now they face a challenge that will be completely new to them at the Emirates, where they have never played a non-league team before.\n\nHibernian boss and BBC pundit Neil Lennon draws on his experience as a player and manager in the FA Cup and Scottish Cup to explain what Arsenal must overcome, and why their psychology will be as important as their tactics when it comes to reaching the last four.\n\n'The occasion, atmosphere and opposition are all totally different'\n\nLennon: \"In the space of four days, Arsenal will go from playing Bayern Munich, one of the biggest clubs in the world and with some of the best players, to taking on a team they will have hardly heard of until recently.\n\n\"In this sort of situation as a player I always prepared myself as best I could but, mentally, it is hard to approach a game like this the same way as you would normally do.\n\n\"When I was playing for Leicester under Martin O'Neill, I remember going to Hereford in the third round of the FA Cup in the 1999-00 season.\n\n\"We had played Arsenal the week before the first tie and I was up against Thierry Henry, Marc Overmars and Emanuel Petit. I went from that to playing, among others, an electrician, a teacher and a farmer.\n\n\"I had been in the lower leagues with Crewe, and played and scored at Edgar Street when Hereford were a Football League team, so I had an idea of what to expect, which helped. I knew it would be tough.\n\n\"Even so, sub-consciously, there was not the same level of intensity to my game as there had been against Arsenal. How could there be?\n\n\"Whether you are home or away against a non-league side, the occasion, atmosphere and opposition are completely different to when you are playing one of the big clubs.\n\n\"It is very difficult to have the same approach, even if the remit is the same.\"\n\n'Playing non-league teams like taking a step into the unknown'\n\nLennon: \"We drew 0-0 at Hereford and only just about ended up winning the replay 2-1 after extra time. Martin had done everything he could to prepare us the right way, but we still nearly went out.\n\n\"I have been there myself as a manager too. You know the situation is fraught with danger, you can see what might happen - but it doesn't mean you can stop it.\n\n\"With Bolton last season, we also needed a replay to get past Eastleigh. Before the first game at their place, I tried to make sure my players knew what to expect.\n\n\"I had done everything I could to get rid of any complacency, but I was still looking around the dressing room before kick-off wondering if they all really knew how tough it would be.\n\n\"I had it with Hibs this season too, on our way to the Scottish Cup semi-finals.\n\n\"In the fourth round we played a junior team Bonnyrigg Rose at Tynecastle. We ended up winning comfortably, but for the first five or 10 minutes we did not settle at all.\n\n\"It felt we had stepped into the unknown and the only way of dealing with that was by being out on the pitch.\"\n\n'There will be nerves in the Arsenal dressing room too'\n\nLennon: \"Believe it or not, with Arsenal there might also be a few nerves in there too, because they will not want to be on the end of an embarrassment.\n\n\"Unlike most other matches, they will be thinking about that. You cannot ignore it - you have to address it and try to turn it into a positive.\n\n\"Part of my pre-match team talk for Bolton was basically saying to the players that this is Eastleigh's cup final, and that they would be in their dressing room now thinking they can beat us.\n\n\"I said that the BBC TV cameras were here to see us lose, for the magic of the cup and all that. So, let's not be the story, let's not be on the receiving end of that.\n\n\"I tried to tell them if we play like we can then we will be all right, but we still had to show them the respect that we would do any other team.\"\n\n'Picking a young team like throwing a kitten into the jungle'\n\nLennon: \"Having some experience in the team will be vital for Arsenal.\n\n\"There is no way I could have played a lot of young players against Eastleigh because it would have been like throwing a kitten into the jungle.\n\n\"I am sure their scouting report for Lincoln will be similar to the one we got for Eastleigh because at that level, you expect sides to be hard-working and physical.\n\n\"Defensively, it is about the basics of the game - you have to stop the crosses and defend set-plays with your life because that is an avenue for them. You can prepare for that in training - we did.\n\n\"At Eastleigh, the pitch was so bad that we could not play football on it so we ended up playing their type of game - it became a dog fight.\n\n\"That will not happen to Arsenal on a nice surface at Emirates Stadium on Saturday but they still need to be careful.\"\n\nYou put pressure on yourself - 'we should be beating these'\n\nLennon: \"Off the pitch, there is plenty that can affect you too.\n\n\"Arsenal have to deal with all the attention on Wenger's future at the moment and speculation over Alexis Sanchez too.\n\n\"At least Sanchez won't be sold before Saturday, though. The day before Bolton played Eastleigh I was told bids had been accepted for two of my players who were going to start and they could not play.\n\n\"The expectancy levels of the supporters, press and people on social media play a part as well.\n\n\"I am sure Arsenal are happier to be playing at home than having another away tie against a non-league team, like they did against Sutton United in the last round.\n\n\"But it means their fans will rock up thinking they will see them win by three or four goals, when it doesn't always work out that way.\n\n\"If their players think the same, then the longer the game stays at 0-0, the danger is that they will start thinking 'we should be beating these' and stop playing their normal game.\n\n\"The first goal will make a difference too - Eastleigh scored first in both ties against us and you could see the lift that gave them.\n\n\"Lincoln's run to get this far will give them huge momentum and belief, but I still think Arsenal will get through this tie - in fact I think they will win comfortably.\n\n\"We can assume Lincoln will work hard and give everything, but they will probably end up being outclassed.\n\n\"Arsenal had the experience and quality to get past Sutton in their last match, so you would have to expect them to negotiate this tie as well.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Rugby\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio Scotland 810MW, plus live text commentary via the BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app\n\nFull-back Stuart Hogg says it should not be considered a shock if Scotland secure a Six Nations victory over England at Twickenham on Saturday.\n\nThey have not beaten England since 2008 and not won at Twickenham since 1983.\n\nBut Hogg, who has scored three tries in the campaign so far, says this side is capable of reclaiming the Calcutta Cup.\n\n\"We're no longer a team that just turns up, lies down and allows our bellies to be tickled,\" said the 24-year-old. \"We're more than capable of winning.\"\n\nWith Wales beating Ireland in Cardiff on Friday, England will clinch a second straight title if they beat the Scots on Saturday, with a tilt at a second straight Grand Slam in Dublin on Saturday, 18 March to then round things off.\n\nBut a Scotland victory would catapult Vern Cotter's side into title contention, with their final game at home to Italy.\n\nWho can still win the Six Nations?\n• None If England beat Scotland on Saturday they will retain the title\n• None Victory for Scotland could send them top of the table with a game to play\n• None If France beat Italy and England lose, mathematically five teams would still be in with a shout\n• None There is one final round of games after Saturday's two matches\n\nHogg has been in fine form during the Six Nations, and having been named player of the tournament last season he is among the leading contenders to claim the award this time around.\n\nOne area of Hogg's game that has come under scrutiny, however, is his defence. The Glasgow Warriors full-back says he expects England to try and put him under pressure.\n\n\"Defensively I think I will be challenged,\" he said.\n\n\"There will be high balls from George Ford, Owen Farrell, Mike Brown, they'll stick them on me. I'm fully aware of what's coming. It's just about being mature about the situation and dealing with it.\n\n\"You're never going to be the complete player. There are always going to be weaknesses in your game and you could say defence is one of mine.\n\n\"When things are going well there is always going to be someone to put you down. I'm fully aware that my defence isn't the strongest but I'll continue to work on it.\"\n\nVictories over Ireland and Wales have seen Scotland rise to an all-time high of fifth in the world rankings.\n\nHogg feels teams are now taking notice of Scotland's improvement and is relishing a crack at Eddie Jones' side.\n\n\"Slowly but surely we are gaining more respect from teams,\" he added. \"We'll just continue to work hard and hopefully wins will come our way.\n\n\"I love playing at Twickenham. Unfortunately we've not been able to get the win here.\n\n\"The last time we played here [a 25-13 defeat in 2015], we were winning at half-time and going off the pitch to [the fans singing] the Flower of Scotland. As a proud Scotsman that was terrific.\n\n\"Here's hoping there will be a big support down here that will be singing again. We're going to do everything we possibly can to make that happen.\n\n\"We're very much in a position to come down here and win, and nothing is going to come in our way.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nFormer Formula 1 and motorcycling world champion John Surtees has died at the age of 83.\n\nSurtees is the only man to have won the grand prix world championship on both two wheels and four.\n\nHe won four 500cc motorcycling titles - in 1956, 1958, 1959 and 1960 - and the F1 crown with Ferrari in 1964.\n\nSurtees died at St George's Hospital, London, on Friday afternoon after being treated for an existing respiratory condition, a family statement said.\n\n\"We deeply mourn the loss of such an incredible, kind and loving man as well as celebrate his amazing life,\" the statement added.\n\nLegendary F1 commentator Murray Walker told Radio 5 live: \"It's an absolute hammer blow for me and for British motorsport in general.\n\n\"I have been privileged to commentate on him and to know him as a friend and he's undoubtedly one of the greatest people who's ever lived in the history of motorsport.\"\n\nSurtees was awarded an MBE in 1959, the same year he won the Sports Personality of the Year award, the OBE in 2009 and the CBE in 2016.\n\nHe won six F1 races in 111 starts between 1960 and 1972, and also drove for Honda, Lotus, Cooper, Lola and BRM.\n\nSurtees was world champion in the 350cc motorcycling category as well as 500cc from 1958-60.\n\nHe later set up his own F1 team and was behind the wheel when it made its debut at the 1970 British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch.\n\nTeam Surtees managed two podium finishes but never won a race before folding in 1978.\n\nSurtees went on to become chairman of the British team in the now-defunct A1 Grand Prix series, while his son Henry began competing in Formula Two but was killed in an accident at Brands Hatch in 2009, aged 18.\n\nThe family set up the Henry Surtees Foundation in aid of people recovering from brain and physical injuries and to support motorsport-related educational programmes.\n\nSurtees remained involved in motor racing into his eighties, competing in classic car and bike events up until last year.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBrighton eased to victory against out-of-form Derby to move level on points with Championship leaders Newcastle.\n\nWinger Anthony Knockaert fired the Seagulls ahead early on, with a low 20-yard effort into the corner.\n\nSam Baldock slotted the ball in to double the lead just before the break.\n\nMatej Vydra headed against the outside of the post for Derby, before Glenn Murray bundled in his 18th goal of the campaign from Knockaert's cross to seal Brighton's 14th home win of the season.\n\nThe Seagulls remain second in the table with an inferior goal difference to Newcastle, but now have a nine-point buffer to Huddersfield in third - albeit the Terriers have two games in hand.\n\nOf their nine matches left, seven are against sides in the bottom half of the table as they look to return to the top flight for the first time since 1982-83.\n\nFollowing a trip to play-off chasing Leeds next Saturday, April's fixture list is kind to Chris Hughton's men with home games against Blackburn, Birmingham, Wigan and Bristol City.\n\nTheir outstanding frontline of Murray, Baldock and Knockaert have now scored 42 Championship goals between them this campaign, and gave Derby's defenders a torrid time with their pace, movement and clinical finishing.\n\nFormer Leicester forward Knockaert was instrumental in most of Brighton's attacking play, bending home a superb effort to open the scoring and seeing Scott Carson tip over his fierce second-half strike.\n\nThe Rams started with former England pair Darren Bent and David Nugent up front, but Brighton's defence were rarely troubled in keeping their 19th clean sheet of the season.\n\nDerby, who are 10th and 10 points behind sixth-placed Sheffield Wednesday, have now only picked up six points from their past nine matches and their play-off hopes appear to be over for another season.\n\nBrighton manager Chris Hughton: \"We now have 77 points and there is no points target from our last nine games.\n\n\"We've got some tough games coming up and everybody is fighting. But we're on the back of a really good performance against a really good side tonight. We were very good from start to finish.\n\n\"The timing of the first goal was pivotal, the second just before half-time lifted us and we were able to take that on in the second half.\"\n\nDerby County boss Steve McClaren: \"It was a lesson for my team and this showed how far Brighton have come. They are going up for certain. Murray was a great signing and Brighton are a team that are going up. The gap showed.\n\n\"It was a reality check for us. We have played three games in a week and we couldn't deal with the physicality of that.\n\n\"That is the benchmark of where we need to go. In the 16 months I was away teams have really kicked on in terms of physicality. The league has kicked on. We need to learn the lessons and kick on ourselves.\"\n\nMcClaren on his future at Derby: \"I am confident I can take it on, absolutely. We need to take the club on to the next level and from one day we knew that.\n\n\"The chairman wants Derby in the Premier League. We have all the resources and don't need to panic. We need to prepare to face Forest on Saturday and then take this club on.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Baldock (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tomer Hemed with a through ball.\n• None Beram Kayal (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Attempt blocked. Tom Ince (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Brighton and Hove Albion 3, Derby County 0. Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt saved. Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Anthony Knockaert.\n• None Jiri Skalak (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nSir Dave Brailsford says he will not resign as Team Sky boss, despite the controversy over a 2011 'mystery package' sent for Sir Bradley Wiggins.\n\nTeam Sky have admitted \"mistakes were made\" over the medical package, but deny breaking anti-doping rules.\n\nThe team have been unable to provide records to back up the claim Wiggins was given a legal decongestant at the Criterium du Dauphine in France.\n\n\"I'm fine in myself and have confidence in my team,\" Brailsford said.\n\nSpeaking to Cycling Weekly at the Tirreno-Adriatico race in Italy, he added: \"My thoughts are about what's good for the team and what's right.\n\n\"Of course I'm not hiding. On a personal level, I've been through a lot over the years and it's important to make sure you can look at yourself and say there has been no wrongdoing. I'm confident of that.\n\n\"From a personal point of view, you've got to put the team first and the riders first.\"\n\nOn Monday, several Team Sky riders tweeted their support for Brailsford, but Chris Froome, a three-time Tour de France winner and the team's leading rider, has yet to comment publically.\n\nBrailsford said he had had since spoken to Froome, but refused to elaborate on the detail, stating: \"We had a good conversation, that's it.\"\n\nUK Anti-Doping is investigating the package received by Dr Richard Freeman, an ex-Team Sky medic who pulled out of a parliamentary select committee hearing into the matter last week.\n\nEarlier on Friday, British Cycling admitted it did not pay \"sufficient care and attention\" to the wellbeing of staff, following a leaked draft report into claims of a \"culture of fear\" at the body.\n\nPublished in the Daily Mail, it allegedly describes ex-performance director Brailsford as an \"untouchable\" figure within a \"dysfunctional\" leadership structure.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC One, S4C, Radio 5 live, BBC Radio Ulster, Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru, plus live text commentary via the BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app\n\nIreland visit Wales on Friday knowing anything less than victory could signal the end of their chances of securing a third Six Nations title in four years.\n\nJoe Schmidt's men are second in the table, three points behind unbeaten England, having beaten Italy and France after an opening defeat in Edinburgh.\n\nFourth-placed Wales are out of title contention after back-to-back defeats by England and Scotland.\n\nBoth sides have named unchanged starting XVs for the game in Cardiff.\n\nIreland can set up a title decider with England in Dublin on 18 March with victory in Cardiff.\n\nLeaders and defending Grand Slam champions England host Scotland in the Calcutta Cup in Saturday's second game (kick-off 16:00 GMT), while Italy and France meet earlier in the day (13:00 start).\n\nIreland coach Schmidt is known to value continuity and the tournament's leading try scorers - they have 13, four more than the second most prolific team, England - have used just 19 players in their starting line-up so far.\n\nThe previous time he was able to field the same side in the Six Nations was the third round in 2014.\n\nThe only change in the match-day 23 is winger Tommy Bowe's recall for his injured Ulster team-mate Andrew Trimble.\n\nSchmidt has stuck with exciting young centre Garry Ringrose, as there were doubts over the fitness of the more experienced Jared Payne.\n\nNumber eight Jamie Heaslip will make his 100th Test appearance on Friday as he wins his 95th Ireland cap in addition his five appearances for the British and Irish Lions.\n\nWales coach Rob Howley's selection of an unchanged match-day 23 was more of a surprise, with Wales in danger of losing three matches for the first time since the 2010 tournament.\n\nIt has fuelled claims of a conservative attitude in the Wales camp from pundits and on social media.\n\nNumber eight Taulupe Faletau and lock Luke Charteris remain on the bench and Dan Biggar retains the number 10 shirt despite pressure from his Ospreys team-mate Sam Davies.\n\nWing George North, singled out and criticised by defence coach Shaun Edwards over his defensive display against Scotland, is also retained in a team given a chance to atone for the second-half capitulation at Murrayfield last time out.\n\nConfidence is high in the Irish camp following their workmanlike 19-9 victory over France, but Schmidt believes the Welsh team's disappointing results will have them highly determined.\n\n\"They are so used to competing on the last day of the championship to win or lose the championship,\" said the Ireland coach.\n\n\"So for them not to be in that position will certainly provide extra motivation.\"\n\nWales forwards coach Robin McBryde believes there will be more pressure on Ireland under the closed roof in Cardiff.\n\n\"They've had a great season, beaten the All Blacks in Chicago and pushed them at home as well,\" he said.\n\n\"They've got aspirations for the title - they've got a big finish against England next week.\n\n\"We have to be be at our best in whatever they throw at us.\n\n\"If we can match that and build on our experience against England we won't be far off.\"", "England goalkeeper Joe Hart says he is \"surplus to requirements\" at Manchester City and does not see himself playing for the Premier League club again.\n\nThe 29-year-old added that he saw the Spaniard's decision to drop him coming.\n\n\"If you're not going to win there is no point in fighting, especially someone as powerful as that,\" Hart said.\n\nHowever, Hart believes the decision was \"nothing personal\" and said he respected Guardiola's honesty.\n\n\"He didn't do it to ruin my life, he did it because he thought that was what was right for him to win as a manager,\" he told the BBC's Premier League Show.\n\nGuardiola was asked about the situation at his Friday news conference, but reiterated his stance that no decision had yet been made.\n\n\"I have said many times, at the end of the season we will see which players are happy or unhappy,\" the manager said. \"He is a Man City player. We will decide at the end of the season.\"\n\nHart's 33-year-old replacement, Claudio Bravo has been criticised for his performances since his £15.4m arrival from Barcelona in August, with Willy Caballero, 35, preferred in the Premier League and Champions League since 21 January.\n\nGuardiola has said he will not make a decision on Hart's future until the end of the season - but it is expected the keeper will leave the club for good in the summer.\n\nHart, who has 68 England caps, has been linked with various Premier League and European clubs but said he has had \"no communication with anyone\" about a transfer after his loan spell at Torino ends in May.\n\nWhen asked about a return to the Premier League, Hart replied: \"I know it really well but I wouldn't say it was top of my wish list.\n\n\"Top of my wish list is to play for a club that wants me to be their goalkeeper.\"\n\nHart on Man City, England and the future\n\nMatch of the Day commentator Steve Bower: How difficult was it to discover Pep Guardiola didn't want to make you number one and you would have to go somewhere else?\n\nJoe Hart: I want to say it was really bad but it wasn't because I saw it coming.\n\nSB: From the moment Guardiola walked through the door?\n\nJH: No but you just pick up vibes and it certainly wasn't a surprise to me. It was something that I wanted to change and felt I was more than capable of changing - but to get results he needed to have a team he felt comfortable with and a team he wanted.\n\nI didn't fall into that category and that's no problem. I'd have loved to have stayed and fought and shown what I can do, but I don't have that time. You don't have that time to do it - especially as a goalkeeper. You can't come off the bench for 10 minutes and prove your worth - it's either you're in or you're out.\n\nI'm up for a fight - I'll fight my corner all day - but if you're not going to win then there is no point in fighting, especially someone as powerful as that at Manchester City.\n\nI know it's nothing personal on me, he's not that kind of guy.\n\nSB: Do you respect his honesty?\n\nJH: Yes of course. He did what he had to do, he did what he felt was right. He didn't do it to ruin my life, he did it because he thought that was what was right for him to win as a manager. So I had to look elsewhere and here I am.\n\nSB: What did you say when your agent said Torino were interested?\n\nJH: I said, 'look into it'. I didn't have many options - things happened very late with Manchester City. For a goalkeeper that's difficult, everyone is pretty settled with goalkeepers, it's an early bit of business and there is only one spot.\n\nMy name wasn't necessarily out in the transfer market because people probably presumed that I would be at Manchester City - like I did. But I wasn't going to play at Manchester City, that was pretty obvious - I was third, if not fourth choice at the time so I wanted to play football and Torino gave me the opportunity and I just thought, 'I'm going to go for it.'\n\nSB: There will be Manchester City fans thinking, 'Will you ever play for our team again?'\n\nJH: I'd say I'm pretty much surplus to requirements at my parent club at the moment.\n\nSB: Do you see that changing?\n\nJH: Not really. I've got to be realistic. I love that club and I've always said that as long as they wanted me, I would be there.\n\nBut I was always cautious when I said that because I'm aware that at the big, big clubs stuff can change quickly, as can opinions and people in charge. Not everyone is going to like you, not everyone is going to want to play you and that's the business side of it, which I've grown into and I'm certainly not going to take personally.\n\nI want to play football, I love to play football so if that opportunity is not going to be given there then I'm going to have to look elsewhere and may have to make somewhere else my home.\n\nSB: Where you at in terms of a transfer at the moment?\n\nJH: It's frustrating to see my name thrown around so much when I'm just trying to get on with what I'm doing for now and then whatever needs to be taken care of will hopefully be taken care of one way or another.\n\nI've still got a parent club that I need to respect and I need to work with. I understand that's the football business now - everyone has got an opinion, a small comment can be used in an article. I don't know where my future lies - I've certainly had no communication with anyone.\n\nThe best thing I can do is work hard, be ready to train every day, do my best for Torino, do my best when I represent my country and then hopefully the rest will take care of itself.\n\nSB: How important is it for you to be playing regular football next season to keep your position as England goalkeeper?\n\nJH: [England boss] Gareth Southgate is not the kind of guy to say: 'You need to be doing this or that or you're out.' He's such a positive, interesting person. He came to see me out here, which was good of him, just for an afternoon, just to check in and he wants what's best for the country. The only way I can be a part of that is if I'm playing well, playing regularly and improving.\n\nWe've got some really good, strong English keepers at the moment. I'd like to think we're pushing each other and if my levels drop then I'm gone and I understand that. I don't need any threats, I know how the game works as I've been a part of it for a while now.\n\nSB: As a goalkeeper do you have to wait for someone to leave a club for a place to go?\n\nJH: Yes, unfortunately. Especially the top teams because every top team has got at least one top keeper. You need people to move, managers to change. You need something to happen for something to happen. You can't just charge in somewhere.\n\nSB: Would returning to the Premier League be top of your wish list?\n\nJH: I'm open. I love the Premier League, I absolutely love Premier League games. Removing myself a footballer, I watch the Premier League. It's a great league, fantastic football is played in it.\n\nI know it really well but I wouldn't say it was top of my wish list. Top of my wish list is to play for a club that wants me to be their goalkeeper.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester United were held to a draw by FC Rostov in the first leg of their Europa League last-16 tie in Russia.\n\nOn a challenging pitch at the Olymp-2 Stadium - which was criticised by United manager Jose Mourinho before the match - midfielder Paul Pogba miscued from inside the box early on.\n\nBut United grabbed a vital away goal through Henrikh Mkhitaryan's close-range finish following excellent work by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.\n\nThe Swedish striker shot over the crossbar in the second half, before Rostov forward Aleksandr Bukharov latched on to Timofei Kalachev's pass for the equaliser.\n\nAleksandr Erokhin stabbed a shot wide for the hosts from a promising position and United's Marouane Fellaini headed straight at the goalkeeper from a corner.\n\nThe return leg takes place at Old Trafford next Thursday (kick-off 19:45 GMT).\n\nThe Red Devils faced a difficult 3,750-mile round trip for the game in south Russia - and they were cheered on by 238 travelling supporters, who each had their visas paid for by the club and were given blankets on entering the ground.\n\nMourinho set up with three centre-backs and Ashley Young and Daley Blind acting as wing-backs in a change of formation for the Premier League side.\n\nThe Portuguese manager spoke before the game about deploying a more \"direct\" approach because of the dreadful pitch, but he may also have had Monday's FA Cup quarter-final against his old club Chelsea in mind.\n\nAs well as a dry and bobbly surface, the stop-start game - which had a total of 38 fouls - made for a poor spectacle. However, Mourinho will surely be confident his players can go back to Old Trafford and complete the job next week.\n\nFor their goal, Fellaini held off a home defender before feeding Ibrahimovic, whose quick feet allowed him to poke the ball into team-mate Mkhitaryan's path and the Armenia international struck for the third time in this season's competition.\n\nRostov entered the Europa League after finishing third in their Champions League group behind Atletico Madrid and Bayern Munich. In fact, they managed to beat the German champions at home - though that was their only victory from six games.\n\nA team without any household European names, they struggled to impose themselves against far superior opponents in the opening period.\n\nBut on 53 minutes, Kalachev's raking pass sailed between defenders Phil Jones and Chris Smalling and Bukharov calmly controlled the ball on his chest and slotted in.\n\nSkipper Aleksandr Gatskan struck a long-range shot straight at Sergio Romero late on, but the draw meant Rostov have lost just one of their past eight games at home in Europe.\n\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho, speaking to BT Sport: \"It was a very good performance in relation to the conditions. It was impossible to play better, impossible to play a passing game.\n\n\"We played what the game demanded and we played well. We made one defensive mistake.\n\n\"l remember as a kid some matches like this in Portugal - non-league and amateur pitches. To see my players coping with it and the humility to fight for every ball is a good feeling for me.\n\n\"We have an open result for the second leg with a little advantage for us. There are no injuries.\"\n\nManchester United goalscorer Henrikh Mkhitaryan, speaking to BT Sport: \"It does not matter if you are leading 1-0, you have to be ready for everything.\n\n\"We conceded the goal and there was a mistake - but we have a second game to come.\"\n\nRostov are back in league action when they take on Terek Grozny on Sunday, while Manchester United visit Chelsea in the FA Cup quarter-final on Monday (kick-off 19:45 GMT).\n\nReferring to the cup game against his old club, Mourinho said: \"Monday we don't go with a Nicky Butt [head of youth academy] team. We cannot go with Nicky Butt's team.\n\n\"Manchester United is too big. Manchester United is the winner of the competition.\"\n• None Manchester United have drawn four of their five away trips against Russian opponents in Europe.\n• None Jose Mourinho's sides have scored an away goal in the first leg of a European tie in 11 of the 13 games he has overseen.\n• None Aleksandr Bukharov's 53rd-minute strike was the first goal United have conceded in 443 minutes in the Europa League.\n• None The Red Devils recorded their lowest pass accuracy of the season in this match (61.17%).\n• None Henrikh Mkhitaryan is the first United player to score in three successive European games since Wayne Rooney in March 2010.\n• None The Armenian has been directly involved in six goals in his past seven appearances for the club (four goals, two assists).\n• None Zlatan Ibrahimovic provided the assist for the first goal - he has been directly involved in 40% of Manchester United's 82 goals this season.\n• None Attempt missed. Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Antonio Valencia with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Anthony Martial.\n• None Attempt saved. Aleksandru Gatcan (FC Rostov) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Sardar Azmoun.\n• None Timofei Kalachev (FC Rostov) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, FC Rostov. Denis Terentjev tries a through ball, but Sardar Azmoun is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "John Surtees, who has died aged 83, is the only man to have won a grand prix world championship on two and four wheels.\n\nA brilliant motorcyclist who dominated the top 500cc class for much of the late 1950s, Surtees moved on to cars and immediately established himself as a leading figure, winning the Formula 1 championship for Ferrari in 1964.\n\nThrough the mid-1960s he was one of the towering figures in F1 along with Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart and Dan Gurney.\n\nThe son of a south London motorbike dealer, Surtees was a teenage prodigy on racing bikes and, after making his name in national races, he took the world championship by storm when he was given a factory MV Agusta ride in 1955.\n\nHis blistering speed earned him the nickname 'figlio del vento' - son of the wind - and he won the world title in 1956 and again from 1958-60.\n\nSurtees had already made a name for himself while still competing on two wheels. He finished second in only his second Formula 1 race, the 1960 Monaco Grand Prix while driving for Lotus, and at the end of the season he switched to cars full time after winning his fourth bike title.\n\nTwo years in privateer teams followed, in which he did enough to catch the eye of Enzo Ferrari, who drafted him into his team in 1963. Immediately Surtees became a major contender.\n\nHis first win came in his first season with Ferrari at the German Grand Prix, held at the daunting Nurburgring, and he won the title the following season in a close fight with fellow Britons Clark and Hill, who drove for Lotus and BRM.\n\nThe championship went down to a remarkable decider at the final race in Mexico City. Hill went into the race as the favourite, five points ahead of Surtees and nine ahead of Clark.\n\nBut Hill was delayed by a collision with Surtees' team-mate Lorenzo Bandini. Clark was then on course to win after dominating from the front, but was forced to stop on the last lap with an oil leak.\n\nSeeing the Scot's problems, Ferrari ordered Bandini to let Surtees by into second place, which gave him the title by one point from Hill.\n\nThrough the mid-1960s, Surtees was one of the leading drivers of an era particularly rich in talent.\n\nHis Ferrari could not compete with Clark's dominant Lotus in 1965, and despite 1966 starting well with a win in the second race of the season, Surtees walked out on the team following a row with team manager Eugenio Dragoni.\n\nSurtees was Ferrari's team leader, but Dragoni dropped him from the line-up for the Le Mans 24-hour race after a rule change demanded only two drivers per car.\n\nWhen Surtees asked for an explanation, Dragoni told him that he did not think he was fit enough to race for 24 hours as a result of injuries he had sustained in a serious accident in a Can-Am race in the US in late 1965. Surtees quit on the spot.\n\nThe decision was perfectly understandable in the context but it almost certainly cost him a second world title, for the Ferrari was more than competitive enough in his hands to have beaten eventual winner Jack Brabham.\n\nInstead, Surtees found a temporary home at Cooper, before moving to the new factory Honda team in 1967.\n\nHe won for them in Italy and finished fourth in the championship, but the team left F1 at the end of the following year, partly because of the death of Frenchman Jo Schlesser in one of their cars.\n\nSurtees had counselled against racing a new car with a body made of magnesium for lightness and an engine cooled by air rather than water because he felt it was unsafe.\n\nBut the team overruled him and gave the car to Schlesser to drive at his home race. He crashed at a fast downhill right-hander after just two laps. With almost an entire race's worth of fuel onboard and made of magnesium, the car caught fire immediately and Schlesser had no chance.\n\nAfter two years with BRM, Surtees formed his own team in 1970, initially as a driver-cum-team boss, before retiring from full-time racing at the end of 1971 to concentrate on running the outfit.\n\nBut it was not a success. After several uncompetitive seasons the team failed to find enough sponsorship to continue after 1978 and was disbanded.\n\nSurtees stayed involved in motor racing, competing in classic events for cars and bikes, and in 2005-7 was chairman of the British team in the now-defunct A1 Grand Prix series.\n\nAfter that, he helped guide the nascent career of his son Henry, who was killed aged 18 in an accident in a Formula Two race at Brands Hatch in 2009.\n\nIn the wake of his son's death, John set up the Henry Surtees Foundation to help people recovering from brain and physical injuries return to society and to support motorsport-related educational programmes.\n\nHe was widely admired as a warm character who was generous with his time, and many will echo the words of Damon Hill, who has known him well since childhood. \"Such a lovely man. We have lost a true motorsport legend,\" said the 1996 world champion.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nAlex Hales and Joe Root struck stunning centuries as England steamrollered West Indies by 186 runs in Barbados to complete a one-day series whitewash.\n\nThe pair put on a record 192 for the second wicket, with Hales the more aggressive of the two and Root happy to play the anchor role.\n\nWest Indies were never in contention and meekly surrendered with the bat - being bowled out for just 142.\n\nLiam Plunkett and Chris Woakes took three wickets apiece with the ball.\n\nTwo teams which are worlds apart\n\nIf the West Indies showed glimpses of ability in the first two matches of the series, there was very little of it on show at the Kensington Oval.\n\nThe gulf in class between the two teams was striking.\n\nWhile England's batting order is rich in both talent and depth, the Windies' top order gifted their wickets with a succession of dolly catches offered up to close fielders.\n\nIt was a similar story from a bowling perspective as England's pacemen bullied and harassed. The hosts' options lacked penetration in the absence of the injured Shannon Gabriel and proved to be cannon fodder for the likes of Root, Hales and Ben Stokes.\n\nEngland's morale will be boosted by such victories, but it should be tempered with the realisation their opponents have failed to qualify for this summer's Champions Trophy and now face an uphill challenge to earn automatic entry to the 2019 World Cup.\n\nBoth opener Hales and number three Root can lay genuine claim to being among the world's leading top order batsmen in this format of the game.\n\nTheir respective innings were poles apart in style, but almost identical in terms of both runs scored and balls faced by the time they returned to the pavilion.\n\nHales - back in the team after injury - began how he so often does, in a circumspect manner. He nudged the ball into gaps before exploding into life once the spinners were introduced to the attack.\n\nFour of his five sixes came off the slow bowlers, who went for a combined 60 runs in 48 painful deliveries.\n\nThe Notts right-hander, who successfully overturned an lbw decision when he was on 93, was particularly strong on the leg side where he scored 73 of his runs.\n\nRoot was his usual busy self at the crease and almost paid with his wicket early on, only to be dropped when he had made both 1 and 12.\n\nOnce set, however, he dropped anchor and finally registered three figures after eight half-centuries in his previous 11 ODI innings.\n\nPlatform laid, England were pushed beyond 300 by Stokes. The Durham all-rounder was reminiscent of former South Africa all-rounder Lance Klusener as he time and again cleared his front leg and muscled the ball to the boundary in his 20-ball 34.\n\nFaced with a strip much quicker than the one which the two teams duelled on in Antigua, England's quicker bowlers relished the extra pace and bounce.\n\nPitching the ball just back of a length, they induced some horrible dismissals from the West Indies top order.\n\nOnly Jonathan Carter (46) offered any real resistance and backbone as the England quicks left their opponents battered and bruised - both in a mental and physical sense.\n\nPlunkett finished the three-match series with 10 wickets at less than 10 runs each, ensuring his name will remain prominent in the selectors' minds when Mark Wood, Jake Ball and David Willey regain full fitness.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Test Match Special, former West Indies fast bowler Tino Best said the collapse to 45-6 had been \"embarrassing\", adding: \"It's quite disappointing the way the guys have been dismissed. We call it primary school dismissals.\n\n\"Guys have to go back to their hotel room and reflect. Do you want to be an average player or do you want to be a superstar?\"\n\nEngland have just two ODIs against Ireland before opening their Champions Trophy campaign against Bangladesh at The Oval on 1 June.\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"I'm extremely satisfied. Over the course of the series we have displayed different skills. Root and Hales put on an outstanding partnership and our bowling performance was outstanding.\n\n\"It's a great position to be in. We had guys coming into the side who maybe didn't expect to play and made big contributions, match-winning ones.\n\n\"It was an outstanding effort from Alex Hales. A bit of time off has done him the world of good.\"\n\nEngland all-rounder Chris Woakes - the man of the series - is asked which part of his game he is most pleased with: \"Ball, I suppose. It's always nice to contribute with the bat when required but bowling is my primary skill.\n\n\"The more you play and gain experience in international cricket, the more you feel at home. We've got some great players in the team and there are always players pushing for places.\"\n\nWest Indies captain Jason Holder: \"Our performance wasn't up to scratch, we gifted a lot of free runs - although the bowlers were decent - and then we didn't put up a good fight with the bat at all.\n\n\"I'm frustrated, I thought we were moving in the right direction. We've got to be lot sharper in the field and take our chances, we didn't do that throughout the series.\n\n\"This group of players is what we have, I'm comfortable with what we have, we have a lot of talented players in the squad but it's about making the most of it.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Badminton\n\nChris and Gabby Adcock produced a stunning comeback to defeat the Olympic champions and reach the All England Badminton semi-finals in Birmingham.\n\nThe married pair lost the first set 16-21 to Indonesia's Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir but levelled in a gruelling 21-19 second set win.\n\nThey then powered to a 21-12 success in the decider to reach the last-four.\n\n\"The crowd played a massive part in helping us turn that around,\" Gabby Adcock told BBC Sport.\n\nChris Adcock added: \"They are the best pair in the world at making you feel like you're not playing well and it was a real struggle for us to begin with.\n\n\"We could have easily crumbled and been out of here, going home, so I'm really pleased with how we responded and how the crowd helped us.\"\n\nThe Adcocks, who are seeded seventh, will face fifth-seeds Kai Lu and Huang Yaqiong on Saturday.\n\nThe Chinese duo secured a surprise win over London Olympic bronze medallists Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Christinna Pedersen from Denmark.\n\n\"We've played the Chinese a few times and know what we're going to get from them, so we'll rest now and come out fighting again tomorrow,\" said Gabby Adcock.\n\n\"We reached the semi-finals last year and wanted to improve on that, so we're on course and have come here to win.\"\n\nFind out how to get into badminton with our special guide.", "You probably won't get to the end of this article. Everyone knows our attention spans are getting shorter. It's just obvious. Or is it?\n\nIn the always-connected world of social media, smartphones and hyperlinks in the middle of everything you read, it can feel that much harder to stay focused.\n\nAnd there are statistics too. They say that the average attention span is down from 12 seconds in the year 2000 to eight seconds now. That is less than the nine-second attention span of your average goldfish.\n\nBut if you pay a bit more attention to where the statistics come from, the picture is much less clear.\n\nMore or Less is on the BBC World Service on Fridays.\n\nYou can listen online, subscribe to the programme podcast and follow the team on Twitter\n\nAll those references lead back to a 2015 report by the Consumer Insights team of Microsoft Canada, who surveyed 2,000 Canadians and also studied the brain activity of 112 people as they carried out various tasks.\n\nHowever, the figure that everyone picked up on - about our shrinking attention spans - did not actually come from Microsoft's research. It appears in the report, but with a citation for another source called Statistic Brain.\n\nA quick Google and it is easy to find where they got it from. The Statistic Brain website looks pretty trustworthy too. It even says they \"love numbers, their purity, and what they represent\" - just the kind of people with whom we, at More or Less, can get along.\n\nAs if to prove it, the number-lovers at Statistic Brain source all their figures. But the sources are infuriatingly vague.\n\nAnd when I contact the listed sources - the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the US National Library of Medicine, and the Associated Press - neither can find any record of research that backs up the stats.\n\nMy attempts to contact Statistic Brain came to nothing too.\n\nI have spoken to various people who dedicate their working lives to studying human attention and they have no idea where the numbers come from either.\n\nIn fact, they think the idea that attention spans are getting shorter is plain wrong.\n\n\"I don't think that's true at all,\" says Dr Gemma Briggs, a psychology lecturer at the Open University.\n\n\"Simply because I don't think that that's something that psychologists or people interested in attention would try and measure and quantify in that way.\"\n\nDr Briggs has done extensive research on how dual tasking affects attention spans - such as when drivers use their phones\n\nShe studies attention in drivers and witnesses to crime and says the idea of an \"average attention span\" is pretty meaningless. \"It's very much task-dependent. How much attention we apply to a task will vary depending on what the task demand is.\"\n\nThere are some studies out there that look at specific tasks, like listening to a lecture.\n\nBut the idea that there's a typical length of time for which people can pay attention to even that one task has also been debunked.\n\n\"How we apply our attention to different tasks depends very much about what the individual brings to that situation,\" explains Dr Briggs.\n\n\"We've got a wealth of information in our heads about what normally happens in given situations, what we can expect. And those expectations and our experience directly mould what we see and how we process information in any given time.\"\n\nSome also suggest that evidence of ever-shorter shot lengths in films shows attention spans are dwindling. But the academic behind that research says all it shows is that film-makers have got better at trying to grab our attention.\n\nThere's something else fishy about those attention span statistics too.\n\nIt turns out that there is no evidence that goldfish - or fish in general - have particularly short attention spans or memories, despite what popular culture suggests.\n\nHave smartphone users and goldfish had their attention spans unfairly maligned?\n\nI spoke to Prof Felicity Huntingford, who has spent almost half a century studying fish behaviour and just delivered a series of public lectures under the title, How Smart Are Fish?\n\n\"Goldfish can perform all the kinds of learning that have been described for mammals and birds,\" she says.\n\n\"And they've become a model system for studying the process of learning and the process of memory formation, exactly because they have a memory and because they learn.\"\n\nShe says there have been literally hundreds of scientific papers over the decades on goldfish learning and memory. I found a reference to a study on fish memory as early as 1908.\n\n\"That a species that's used by neuro-psychologists and scientists as a model for studying memory formation should be the very species that has this reputation - I think that's an interesting irony,\" she says.\n\nSo goldfish don't have short attention spans or memories. There is no evidence human attentions spans are shrinking.\n\nAnd you have got to the end of this article when you could have been watching a three-second video of me being hit in the face by a football.\n\nMore or Less is on the BBC World Service on Fridays. You can listen online, subscribe to the programme podcast and follow the team on Twitter.", "\"I've had a samurai sword to my throat, a knife in my groin, stripped naked at gun point.\" For 14 years, Neil Woods infiltrated UK drug gangs for the police, at great personal risk.\n\nPosing as an addict to infiltrate some of the UK's biggest drug gangs is not for the faint-hearted.\n\nIt takes resolve, courage, and an ability to think on your feet in the most high-pressure of environments.\n\nBut for Neil Woods, it was not a life calling that led him to devote 14 years to this cause, but a failure to perform in his normal role.\n\n\"I wasn't a very successful uniform cop,\" he tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"I struggled, so I got an attachment with the drugs squad. They suggested trying one of the undercover jobs of buying crack cocaine.\"\n\nIt was 1993, and this form of undercover work was rare in the UK.\n\nFor Mr Woods, however, it was a niche that played to his strengths.\n\n\"I really enjoyed the work, I found I was good at it,\" he says.\n\n\"I was developing the tactics for it - such as building a cover story, but not acting. Learning to play a different version of yourself.\n\n\"It all relies on empathy - 'weaponising' empathy to get close to them.\"\n\nA shot of Neil Woods undercover, in around 1995\n\nMr Woods admits he had a \"completely prejudiced view\" of drug users when he first took the job, but as he began to meet addicts, he saw a different side to those who had been caught up in that world.\n\n\"Beforehand, I saw them as people who had made the wrong decision, who didn't have willpower. I thought that it was their fault,\" he says.\n\n\"But then you start to realise some of their life stories - that they had been self-medicating for child abuse, for example.\n\n\"Two-thirds of heroin users have a history of abuse.\"\n\nAt the time, however, this did not alter his approach to work.\n\n\"I still carried on manipulating them,\" he says.\n\n\"They would get wrapped into the investigation and end up in jail.\n\n\"I justified to myself that the end would justify the means.\"\n\nThe reason for this becomes clear when you consider the type of gang members he was looking to put behind bars.\n\nIn 2004, he helped bring six members of the notorious Burger Bar Boys to justice.\n\nThey operated in the Birmingham area, and were \"horrendous criminals\", according to Mr Woods.\n\n\"They were raping people as punishment for drug debt,\" he says.\n\nMr Woods worked across inner cities around the UK, and often found himself in dangerous situations.\n\n\"I've had a samurai sword to my throat, a knife in my groin, stripped naked at gun point,\" he says.\n\n\"Once, my hidden camera was found by a particularly vicious gangster.\n\n\"He brought two mates to a meet-up who didn't know me.\n\n\"They searched me and found the camera.\n\n\"I had to react quickly, I just launched into a torrent of abuse.\n\n\"It created confusion so I could escape.\n\n\"Then they came after me in the car and they tried to run me over.\n\n\"I later learned that they had a gun in the car.\"\n\nMr Woods says his work has led to more than a combined 1,000 years of jail time for the criminals he helped to lock away.\n\nWhen he became a father, however, he says he found it difficult to juggle his job with his family life.\n\n\"I would do this work in the week, then at the weekends be a dad. I would go swimming with my kids,\" Mr Woods says.\n\nEventually, after 14 years, he decided to leave the profession.\n\nHe came to see his work as futile, given the greater picture.\n\n\"I interrupted the drug supply for no more than two hours in any city. So what's the point?\" he says.\n\n\"Some of those arrested were organised criminals - but many were just victims of the 'war on drugs', the vulnerable problematic users.\"\n\nFor several months, he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of what he had seen undercover.\n\nMr Woods is in favour of Durham Police's plans to provide heroin to addicts in medically supervised conditions\n\nDespite leaving the police, however, he still feels \"duty bound\" to continue to stop the spread of drugs on UK streets.\n\nMr Woods is now the chairman of Leap UK, which campaigns for drugs policy reform.\n\nIt supports Durham Police's plan to give heroin addicts the class-A drug in supervised \"shooting galleries\" in a bid to tackle drug-related crime.\n\nOpponents say trials suggest such initiatives do not have significant, long-term benefits, but Mr Woods argues the move will enable police to \"get a grip on heroin, get it away from criminals\".\n\n\"The drug supply is currently in the hands of organised criminals,\" he says, \"it's so dangerous.\"\n\nIt is very different from his former job, but - as he explains - his time undercover has made a lasting impression.\n\n\"I have this unique experience,\" he says. \"Now, I just use it in a different way.\"\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 Football\n\nNorwich City have sacked manager Alex Neil after just over two years in charge at the Championship club.\n\nNeil, 35, helped the Canaries earn promotion to the Premier League after joining the club in January 2015, but they suffered relegation last season.\n\nCity had failed to win in five games under the former Hamilton boss, leaving them nine points outside the top six.\n\nFirst-team coach Alan Irvine will take charge of the team for Saturday's game with relegation-threatened Blackburn.\n\nA club statement said: \"The board has taken the tough but unanimous decision, believing it is in the best interests of the club for a new manager to be in place through a crucial summer transfer window.\"\n• None Listen to Neil's last BBC Radio Norfolk interview as Norwich boss\n\nNorwich were second in October, but have won just seven of their last 24 Championship games and dropped to eighth.\n\nThey were thumped 5-1 at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday - their 10th away defeat of the season - and drew 1-1 with lowly Bristol City on Tuesday in Neil's last game in charge.\n\nNeil held his usual pre-match press conference on Friday, just hours before he was sacked, and told BBC Radio Norfolk that the Canaries had not lived up to expectations this season.\n\n\"There was an expectation for us, from the squad, from the management, from the fans, from everybody connected with the club, that we would have a better season than we've had,\" he said.\n\n\"All I can do is work as hard as I can to make it better. Sometimes you need to take a step back to take two or three steps forwards, and we are doing everything we can but there isn't a solution that's going to happen tonight and it's not going to happen next week.\n\n\"It's going to take a period of time and then things will improve.\"", "A technology initially used to fight traffic fines is now helping refugees with legal claims.\n\nWhen Joshua Browder developed DoNotPay he called it \"the world's first robot lawyer\". It's a chatbot - a computer program that carries out conversations through texts or vocal commands - and it uses Facebook Messenger to gather information about a case before spitting out advice and legal documents.\n\nIt was originally designed to help people wiggle out of parking or speeding tickets. But now Browder - a 20-year-old British man currently studying at Stanford University - has adapted his bot to help asylum seekers.\n\nIn the US and Canada, it's helping refugees complete immigration applications, and in the UK, it can aid asylum seekers in obtaining financial support from the government.\n\nBrowder developed the chatbot through the help of lawyers from each of the countries.\n\n\"It works by asking a series of questions to determine if a refugee is eligible for asylum protection under international law,\" he tells BBC Trending, \"for example: 'are you afraid of being subjected to torture in your home country?'\n\n\"Once it knows a user can claim asylum, it takes down hundreds of details and automatically fills in a completed immigration application. Crucially, all the questions that the bot asks are in plain English and artificial intelligence generated feedback appears during the conversation.\"\n\nThe bot suggests ways the asylum seeker can answer questions to maximise their chances of having applications accepted, for example: \"The best answer for your situation will include a description of when the mistreatment started in your home country.\"\n\nIn addition to a completed application, a refugee also receives location specific submission instructions, details of additional documentation needed and resources for further help.\n\nCurrently, the lawyer bot is available via the Facebook Messenger app, making it accessible to Android and Apple device users. Browder says that he hopes to roll the service out to more languages and apps in the future, including Whatsapp.\n\nDoNotPay got plenty of attention after it was first launched in March 2016, and Browder says hundreds of thousands of people have used the app to challenge parking tickets. His own brushes with traffic police inspired him to create the bot.\n\n\"When I started driving at 18, I began to receive a large number of parking tickets and created the the service as a side project,\" he says, \"I could never have imagined that just over a year later, it would successfully appeal over 250,000 tickets.\"\n\nHe expanded the service to help with emergency housing in August of last year.\n\nDoNotPay creator Joshua Browder says he was moved to work on legal advice for asylum seekers because his grandmother was a refugee from Austria during the Holocaust\n\nHowever, some tech industry experts say that Browder's creation may struggle to achieve the same level of popularity with asylum seekers.\n\n\"Browder's chatbot is a great example of tech to help those in need,\" says Oliver Smith, senior reporter at tech and business site The Memo. \"However, as refugees are often among the least internet-connected groups in society, a Facebook chatbot may not be the best way to help them.\n\n\"While governments moving their services online and into digital formats is a boon for people living in a country with consistent wifi or internet-connected smartphones, those who have fled their home countries often struggle to get online in refugee camps or when travelling across countries.\"\n\nThe UN has said that for refugees, connectivity is \"as vital to them as food, water, or shelter\", but just 39% have mobile internet access.\n\nNext story: The Swedish Trump fans who secretly record journalists\n\nA far-right Swedish website is secretly recording phone calls with journalists and academics - and then posting the edited versions online. READ MORE\n\nYou can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A leader who acts more like a mentor than a dictator is more effective, research suggests.\n\nWhen you're at work, do you behave in the same way as you do when you're at home? Or do you have a work persona - a duller, more subdued version of your real self?\n\nOf course there are certain behaviours, such as swearing, or nudity, for example, that aren't acceptable in any workplace, but having a toned down version of yourself could be no good for you or your company.\n\n\"Zombies\", is how Elisa Steele, chief executive of tech firm Jive Software refers to such people.\n\nShe says that companies that don't try to encourage staff to express themselves at work, and instead try to force them to fit into some kind of corporate clone - doing what they're told to do without questioning - will lose out.\n\nStaff literally won't want to stay, and as a result turnover will be high, says Ms Steele.\n\nAt Jive, the firm uses its own software, which aims to improve the way employees communicate and collaborate on projects internally, to help new staff settle in and feel more at home quickly.\n\n\"They feel the culture because they have complete access to the whole company the first day they start,\" says Ms Steele.\n\n\"What are people doing? How is corporate communicating? What's the CEO up to today? What projects are prioritised?\"\n\nAfter their first week, the new joiners are required to write a blog on how they've found it so far, an article that all staff can then read.\n\nJive chief executive Elisa Steele says bosses that work closely with their staff create more productive workforces\n\n\"Time and time again we hear... 'I know so much more about this company in a week - and our customers - than I knew at my other company, you know, in three months',\" she says.\n\nAs far as Ms Steele is concerned, enabling staff to have close access to herself and what she's doing day to day means they've got a good understanding of what the firm itself is aiming to do, and she says this information helps them feel more connected.\n\n\"Those two connections make the work really matter, and then people are engaged, and then drive a more efficient and more productive workforce,\" she says.\n\nMs Steele's approach is not that unusual for a tech start-up, which tend to shy away from a defined hierarchy. Arguably, it's also a leadership style that works well in smaller firms, but would be harder for a large company to emulate.\n\nYet increasingly research suggests that a leader who is closer to their staff, acting more like a mentor than a dictator, is the best way to get results.\n\n\"For a long time, the accepted wisdom has been that the CEO controlled everything in the company. The organisation served them, not the other way around,\" says chief executive coach and author Steve Tappin.\n\n\"Today, that's all changed. Good bosses are learning to support those around them.\"\n\nIt marks a start contrast to the stereotypical image of a distant and dictatorial chief executive.\n\nOverworked, exhausted staff without a good work life balance won't create a successful business in the end, says Dr Jim Doty\n\nDr Jim Doty, the founder and director of The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University School of Medicine, says the shift reflects a growing amount of research suggesting that an authoritarian boss creates an anxious and stressed workforce.\n\nHe suggests that leading in a more collaborative, inclusive way instead could pose a solution to the puzzling productivity crisis, which has seen output per hour decrease considerably in most developed countries from the US to the UK in recent years.\n\n\"When you are not in a place of threat or fear, your productivity actually increases,\" he says.\n\nWhile studies are limited, those that have been carried out, show that firms with a more nurturing environment lead to a stronger performance, and for listed firms, a higher stock market price.\n\n\"What we know now through science is that when leaders create an organisation that gives the individual a sense of meaning and purpose, this in and of itself is one of the greatest drivers of results,\" says Dr Doty.\n\nUltimately, he says, company leaders need to get across to staff that they're not just a cog in a machine, but that \"there's an interest in who you are, instead of ''we can replace you at any time if you don't do exactly what we say'\".\n\nThe problem is that company boards often fail to recognise this, and hire domineering personalities because they believe this is what will drive a strong performance, says Dr Doty.\n\n\"When an organisation actually understands that exhausted employees are not actually that productive, when they understand that people need breaks, when they're looking at the whole picture in terms of a work life balance, that's what I believe results in the greatest success.\"\n\nKlarna chief executive Sebastian Siemiatkowski says it can take a while for staff to adapt to a less dictatorial boss\n\nSebastian Siemiatkowski, co founder and chief executive of Swedish start-up Klarna, which provides payment systems for online shopping, says ideally a boss should take a back seat, pushing staff to solve problems themselves.\n\nHe admits that this approach can frustrate, with staff annoyed at the lack of guidance, but he says that over time it will enable people to develop and demonstrate their own particular skills.\n\n\"If you're very comfortable in the team, and you really trust each other, you can allow each other to take leadership positions for different topics,\" says Mr Siemiatkowski. \"But it's very hard to reach that. I know... \"\n\nYet while such an approach may be tough and require those at the top to swallow their ego, it can pay off.\n\nMs Steele gives the example of one of its customers: a chief information officer (CIO) of a large firm. The company had hired a lot of so called millennials - those born between 1980 and 1999.\n\nThe CIO spent two years frustrated that they weren't listening to him on how to protect the firm's data, and refused to acknowledge his experience and expertise in this area.\n\nEventually he gave in, agreeing to listen to why the new staff didn't want to use the software system and why they were unhappy.\n\n\"And when he did that it opened an entirely new world of how the company could perform, and they're incredibly successful,\" says Ms Steele.\n\nThis feature is based on interviews by CEO coach and author Steve Tappin, and by series producer Neil Koenig, for the BBC's CEO Guru series.", "Coverage: Live on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio Scotland, plus live text commentary via the BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app\n\nIt might sound a curiously mealy-mouthed thing to say about a team that have won their past 17 matches and sit atop the Six Nations table with consecutive Grand Slams a genuine possibility, but England's rugby team might have a problem.\n\nIt's clearly not the results. Beat Scotland at Twickenham on Saturday and they will have matched New Zealand's all-time tier one record for consecutive victories. It's not the way they finish games; under coach Eddie Jones, they have scored a cumulative 102 more points in the final quarter of matches than their opponents.\n\nIt's what's been happening at the other end of the games that is raising eyebrows among critics and hopes among their opponents.\n\nScoreless at home against Italy after 20 minutes, struggling to kick from hand, giving away set-piece penalties; 9-3 down to France, with a man in the sin bin; 10-0 down to Australia last autumn after 17 minutes, their opponents with 97% of the territory and 87% of the possession.\n\nIt goes further back. Down against South Africa earlier in the autumn, six penalties conceded in the first 21 minutes. Two tries conceded in the first 20 minutes in the third of the summer Tests against the Wallabies, 10-0 down after 15 minutes of the first.\n• None Could the Twickenham crowd turn on England?\n• None Finn Russell column: 'We can't wait to get stuck into England'\n\nYou might say it doesn't matter. All those games were won. Against Wales in Cardiff England led 8-3 after the first quarter, with 74% of the possession. How could anyone complain when England have won their past 10 Six Nations matches, and are about to take on a team who haven't won in south-west London in 34 years?\n\nJones, all those years of international coaching with four different nations whirring away in his brain, thinks otherwise.\n\nPart of that is about standards. This is a team he wants to win the next World Cup in 2019. Give the All Blacks a head-start and you are unlikely to catch them. Part of it is much more short-term: Scotland's revival in Vern Cotter's last year in charge is genuine. They are outsiders once again this weekend, but seldom in those 34 barren years have they travelled in such form.\n\n\"Mate, if I knew I'd fix it,\" Jones said when asked this week if he had worked out what was going wrong in those opening exchanges. \"And I haven't been able to fix it, so I don't know.\"\n\n\"It's something we have been mentioning over the last few weeks,\" winger Jack Nowell told BBC Sport. \"We've got ourselves out of jail a few times now - it is about a fast start, and putting our game on them first.\"\n\nEngland's replacements - the finishers, as Jones likes to call them - have done that jail-breaking to perfection. According to Opta, the men off the bench have created more tries than those of any other nation (three scored, two assisted), made more carries, conceded the fewest turnovers and shipped only one penalty (Scotland's replacements have conceded six, France's seven).\n\nIt's a wonderful asset for the coach to have. With a bench on Saturday that includes both Vunipola brothers, Jamie George, the returning Anthony Watson and the thundering Ben Te'o, it could be decisive once again this week.\n\nIt does not mean the starters cannot be expected to match those same standards. Dig a hole often enough, and one day you might not be able to climb out of it.\n\n\"It becomes a case of, are you riding your luck?\" says Paul Grayson, the former England fly-half who is part of BBC Radio 5 live's commentary team at Twickenham this weekend.\n\n\"The Italy game was as bad an opening quarter as we've seen from an England team under Jones - and that was nothing to do with 'ruckgate' (when Italy's tactic of not committing to rucks befuddled England). They were just nowhere near it mentally.\n\n\"Maybe that's a timely wake-up call, because when winning becomes supposedly routine, even if you get away with a couple, you've still got to find a way to motivate yourself. If England are not quite there mentally, they look ordinary, and at some point soon they will lose.\"\n\nWho can still win the Six Nations?\n• None If England beat Scotland on Saturday they will retain the title\n• None Victory for Scotland could send them top of the table with a game to play\n• None If France beat Italy and England lose, mathematically five teams would still be in with a shout\n• None There is one final round of games after Saturday's matches\n\n\"England need to start fast,\" former British and Irish Lions winger Ugo Monye told 5 live's Rugby Union Weekly podcast this week. \"They need to get the crowd on their side - three points, six, nine, score a try, shut out Scotland, and put a seed of doubt into their minds.\n\n\"Scotland come down here with their fanfare and the bagpipes and their confidence, and everyone is aware of their threat, and if it's a close game you might just have the Twickenham crowd turning on their players a little bit.\"\n\nJones has been in ornery form this week, irascible in his media conferences, hard-nosed with his players on the Pennyhill Park training pitches.\n\n\"We're preparing to start well,\" he said irritably when announcing his selection. \"We're not preparing not to start well.\n\n\"It's an 80-minute game. We've got to be ahead at the 80-minute mark, and that's what we're aiming to be against Scotland.\n\n\"It's like starting a 100m race. You can be ahead at the 10m mark, but you've got to be ahead at the 100m mark.\"\n\nJones, a self-confessed cricket nut, might enjoy another analogy: a pair of opening batsmen playing and missing on the first morning of a Test match, the opposition fast bowler fired up and the new ball seaming and bouncing past the outside edge.\n\nWhat does it matter if they are 80-3 at lunch if by the close they have put on 300 for the loss of only one more wicket?\n\n\"Ian McGeechan, when he was coaching Northampton and telling us how he wanted us to play, brought up the example of Wigan's very successful rugby league team,\" remembers Grayson.\n\n\"Every team that played Wigan wanted to beat them. They would be totally up for it, and they would go toe-to-toe with them. They got to half-time, and it would be 10-8, or 6-6, or they would only be four points down.\n\n\"Then they would get into the second half, and as that effort left them tired and weakened, they would roll over and Wigan would score 40 points.\n\n\"I used to think, what does a game look like after 20 minutes? If I can get some points on the board, great; if they've thrown a few shots and we've had to defend for a while and they haven't got much out of it, no problem, we'll see you in the last 10 minutes of the first half and the last 15 minutes of the contest.\n\n\"The opposition are always going to be at their most obstinate and most up for it in that period. Yet, barring the Wales game, England haven't had too much flow in attack in the early part of their games. It's always difficult, but if you're the best side in the world, you do it. The All Blacks always manage to come out of the blocks.\"\n\nSuch has been the impact of England's replacements that the impression is that Jones has enviable strength in depth. He does - at prop and hooker, at scrum-half, on the wings.\n\nWith first-choice lock George Kruis out injured and his preferred partner Maro Itoje shifted to six, stand-in second rows Joe Launchbury and Courtney Lawes have arguably been England's most effective players.\n\nBut it is not true throughout the team. England's Test cricket team often find themselves early wickets down because they have struggled to replace Andrew Strauss alongside Alastair Cook. They can struggle on turning pitches because no-one who has come into the team has been able to match the impact of world-class spinner Graeme Swann.\n\n\"Nathan Hughes looks like the Billy Vunipola of three years ago,\" says Grayson. \"Likely to last 50 minutes or do 30 minutes off the bench, do two or three good things but also disappear for a while.\n\n\"And that makes a massive difference. Take Lawrence Dallaglio out of England's World Cup-winning team and put in another number eight, and what do they look like? They're just not quite as big or powerful or dominant or vocal.\n\n\"When Dallaglio wasn't playing, England weren't quite the same. And I think that Vunipola is at that point. He's an 80-minute player heading to world class. And they just haven't got that otherwise.\n\n\"Billy has been out and with Chris Robshaw being out, that's two-thirds of your first-choice back row. That's a huge loss to England, because they don't have that many great back-row players.\"", "It's been 20 years since Buffy The Vampire Slayer first hit our TV screens. It has fans all over the world, and made a star of its lead actress Sarah Michelle Gellar.\n\nA TV series based on a not-great movie about a Californian teenager who attends high school by day and fights vampires by night, seems an unlikely candidate to be a serious contender to become a TV classic and hugely influential piece of popular culture.\n\nBut Buffy managed it and after close to 150 episodes - with its final outing airing in 2003 - its influence is still felt today as a truly ground breaking piece of work.\n\nHere are some of the things that Buffy has given the world of entertainment.\n\nSarah Michelle Gellar became a household name after starring in the cult show\n\nIn TV and film it's all too common for female characters to be the love interest or the support to a male lead.\n\nBuffy successfully put a woman at the centre of the series, and led the way for characters like The Hunger Games' Katniss Everdeen, The Force Awakens' Rey, Homeland's Carrie Mathison, and so many more.\n\nThis was a trademark feature of Buffy - one example, after a gruesome multiple murder at a college fraternity house, a demon approvingly comments: \"It's like somebody slaughtered an Abercrombie and Fitch catalogue.\"\n\nSeries ranging from Gilmore Girls to Family Guy gleefully use dialogue in a similar, although less gruesome, way.\n\nJoss Whedon (far right) with the cast of The Avengers in 2010\n\nBuffy's show runner is now one of the biggest names in Hollywood.\n\nTwo of the films in the Top 10 highest grossing of all time were directed by him - Marvel's The Avengers and its sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron. Both took over $1.5bn (£1.23bn) and he also had a role overseeing other successful Marvel films.\n\nAnd it all started with the experience he got writing and directing Buffy.\n\nWhen writer/producer Russell T Davies re-launched Doctor Who in 2005, he changed its format to one that was similar in many ways to Buffy.\n\nThe episodes in each series lead up to a climax where the main threat has been bubbling under the surface for several episodes.\n\nOnce More, With Feeling saw the Buffy cast spontaneously burst into song\n\nWithout Buffy's brilliant musical episode Once More, With Feeling would Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone's movie ever have been green-lit?\n\nActually, yes, it would have been. But if you enjoyed the singing dancing love letter to LA which didn't win best film at this year's Oscars, you could do worse than to check out Buffy's musical extravaganza.\n\nIt's exactly like La La Land, but with added demons.\n\nIt also set a trend for other TV shows to unexpectedly feature a musical episode halfway through a series, including medical comedy Scrubs and medical drama Grey's Anatomy - and an upcoming Supergirl/The Flash crossover.\n\nThanks Buffy, you saved the world - a lot.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What have the Scooby Gang done since Buffy?\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.", "What would you do if your child was a heroin addict suffering from acute withdrawal symptoms - disintegrating in front of your eyes - while waiting for rehab treatment to start? One mother from a village in the south-west of England describes how she ended up driving her daughter to town, and paying for her to get a fix.\n\nShe was pouring with sweat, vomiting, crying, hysterical, shaking - just desperate, feeling desperately ill. I felt like I was trapped in a corner and that there was nothing else I could do. So I said to her, \"Is there any way we can do this - on the street?\"\n\nShe spent a good hour and a half ringing around, and people could only offer her heroin, not methadone.\n\nThat's how we ended up in the middle of a local town with me handing over my hard-earned money to buy a drug.\n\nThe problem really started five years ago, when she was 18. She had some life changes in terms of friends going off to university and changes in a long-term relationship that she had been happy in, and then it had gone wrong. Her behaviour, her personality, started to change.\n\nBefore she had been hard-working, she had loved her horse and would ride, and all these things started to fall by the wayside. She slept a lot in the day. I kept saying to her, \"What's wrong with you?\"\n\nAnd then she started hanging around with people that we knew were not a good influence - older people who were using drugs. And it started to sort of click into place.\n\nListen to the daughter speaking to BBC Radio 4's iPM programme on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nYou can also hear the mother's account in audio here.\n\nWe were driving back from somewhere one day and I asked her again what was wrong with her.\n\nAnd she said, \"Imagine the worst thing it could be.\"\n\nI said, \"Are you pregnant?\" - which, when I think about it now would have been nothing. It would have been fantastic in a way if that had been the answer, because the answer was: \"No, no mum. Think of the worst. Worse, much worse than that. Think of the worst thing.\"\n\nI said, \"Are you a drug addict?\" And she said, \"Yes.\"\n\nThen she broke down, and it was heartbreaking. It was the worst day of my life.\n\nWe talked about how to stop it there and then - how to bring it to a stop as soon as possible. We talked about it as a family, and there was a bit of shouting. You had different emotions - one minute you are shouting and angry, the next minute you are upset.\n\nMy husband's brother had been a drug user and had died through depression, when he was trying to come off them. I think my husband thought it was a waste, that his brother could have been a really valuable part of our family life and our society. And I think he felt the same way about our daughter - that she had so much to offer, and he didn't want her to make the wrong choices.\n\nOur daughter at that point didn't feel it was a problem. She kept saying, \"It's just fun, OK? It's just fun.\" And that would be interspersed with periods of depression and it not being fun, but her not being prepared to admit that. And as time went on we gave her an ultimatum. Looking back I don't know whether it was the right decision or not, but we said, \"If you continue to use drugs, you can no longer live at home.\" And we kicked her out, because she continued.\n\nThen her drug use got worse, and her friendship groups deteriorated more and more.\n\nI hated her. I hated her so much.\n\nI felt that she had all the power to stop it - and she didn't. Nothing your children can do will stop you loving them, but the hatred was enormous. I was just desperately angry. I wanted to pick her up literally by her shoulders and shake her like a doll and say, \"For goodness sake! Look at what you are doing!\"\n\nI had always been a very controlling mum when they were younger. They had set bedtimes and they ate their vegetables and all that. And I felt very out of control. I couldn't say, \"No you're not going out. You need to come home and stay home and sort yourself out.\" Because she would say, \"I'm an adult, I can do what I like.\"\n\nI was disappointed. Very disappointed, because I had great expectations of what she could achieve. She wasn't managing to achieve anything at that point, although things did change briefly when she started to realise she wasn't happy.\n\nShe applied to the army, to the military police, and she did her basic training really well and got a good job in the military police. We thought she had kicked her drug habit and turned her life around, and we were just immensely proud. I remember thinking, \"Oh my goodness, she's done it. Not only has she done it, she's done it big time - she's got a really good job.\" We didn't know there was still a problem.\n\nShe was earning good money but after about a year, at the end of every month, we started getting phone calls. She kept saying, \"I don't know where I spend all my money mum, it just goes. At the end of every month I'm left with nothing and I've got no money for food and stuff.\"\n\nSo we would forward her a sub for the next month. We weren't actually giving her money, we were subbing her until her next pay packet.\n\nAll the way through she had a problem, which she was hiding because she was ashamed, I think.\n\nShe would come back and associate with the same people, so we would see her very little at weekends, and then she would go back to base on the Monday.\n\nBut I think it started to impact on her ability to work. She was getting exhausted, you could tell. She was tiring of partying all weekend and then holding down a full-time job in the week. When you haven't slept from Thursday night until you go back to bed on Monday evening after work, you're very exhausted, and it started to catch up with her. I think her colleagues and her boss started to see there were changes, because we started getting phone calls from the army.\n\nOne day she drove back on the Monday, having not slept for days, and smashed her car into the central reservation on the motorway. My husband and I realised that if we didn't stop her, she would kill herself, or someone else. And when the army rang me in the week I said, \"You should know, I think my daughter takes drugs at weekends, and she needs to be drug-tested.\" So that's how she lost her job.\n\nI am sure she resents me for doing that, but I feel that I saved her life, or someone else's, because it was only a matter of time before she didn't smash into the central reservation, but smashed into someone else. That would have been on my conscience forever.\n\nAfter that, she just sofa-surfed really. She would go from sofa to sofa, drug place to drug place. She had lost her driving licence for drug-driving so she went from being independent, having a car, having a career, to having nothing essentially. At one point one of the houses that she was staying in burned to the ground - luckily, when she was not in it - so she lost all her possessions as well, literally everything she owned.\n\nEach time we saw her, a lot would depend on her state of mind, and on where we were in terms of our ability to accept her for what she was and what she was doing, and love her regardless. But at a certain point we argued, and she said she didn't want contact any more. So we didn't speak for three months.\n\nThen finally she rang and said it was not helping. I think she thought not having contact would help her feel better, mentally, because we were a constant reminder that her life was going down the pan - no-one else was saying that to her, but obviously we were.\n\nSo we got back in contact and we had a Christmas meal, which stands out in my memory because she had obviously been using drugs through the night and could no longer stay awake. She fell asleep with her face in the Christmas dinner - just asleep in the plate. It was an indicator of how bad things had become.\n\nInitially my daughter would say taking drugs was fun, just really good fun. After about five years of quite heavy use, she would say it numbs emotion and numbs you to real life, so you don't have to worry, and you don't have to think or care. So at this stage she didn't get an awful lot of enjoyment out of it, if any. I don't think she trusted many people, including me, because you become suspicious of everything and everyone.\n\nNobody can help. Nobody knows what to say. Everyone's desperate for it to be good news. They say, \"How are things getting on?\" And if it's good news, they're like, \"Oh brilliant, brilliant!\" But nobody really wants to hear that it's still the same, or worse. And there is very little professional support unless you're prepared to pay for it.\n\nAt times we saw counsellors privately. We had lots of conversations with her about planning for the future - \"If you do this and this, then maybe you can move on from drugs…\" We even got to the point where we locked her in her bedroom. My husband boarded the windows and locked the door, but it wasn't successful because the person has to want to do it themselves, and she didn't. In the end, one of her companions, who she would be using drugs with I believe, came to the house, threatened my husband and barged in to let her out.\n\nEventually our daughter got caught stealing from her employer to fund her addiction.\n\nShe had also stolen a cheque from the back of my chequebook, written out a cheque for just over £1,000 and cashed it. And we pressed charges.\n\nWe had tried everything else that we could. We have a very strong moral compass, and we have two younger children looking at our behaviour and looking at our decisions, and we wanted them to see that you don't steal from your family, and that's the end of it.\n\nWe personally took our daughter to court and sat with her and supported her and said, \"We are here for you, but you are not going to do this - you are not allowed to steal from us.\"\n\nAnd the court issued a drug rehabilitation requirement, which means she has to be tested twice weekly, commence a methadone programme, and receive counselling in group sessions at a specific place for people with addiction problems. She also has a tag for three months, which means she has to be in our house between the hours of 7pm and 7am - which we thought was the best scenario, because we didn't want her to go to prison. We just wanted her to get help, and we just didn't seem to get help from anywhere else or in any other way. So we thought this was the best possible outcome.\n\nWe walked out of the court at about 2.30pm or 3pm, and I said to the solicitor, \"When does this start?\"\n\nAnd I said, \"So we have to go home to the family?\"\n\nHe said, \"Yes, because the people who do the tags can turn up any time from seven o'clock onwards.\"\n\nAnd I said, \"Well, what about our daughter's drug use? You know, she can't just suddenly stop here, now. What's going to happen? She's going to immediately fail. She's going to run because the desperation to get drugs is so huge that we won't be able to keep her home.\"\n\nAnd he said, \"Well go to the GP.\"\n\nSo we went to the GP and the GP said, \"We no longer prescribe methadone, you need to go to Turning Point.\"\n\nAnd they said: \"Oh sorry, we're not an emergency service, you'll have to contact the GP.\"\n\nAnd I said, \"We've been to the GP and the GP said we have to come to you.\"\n\nAnd they said, \"Well, we can't do anything today. She won't actually die from this withdrawal.\"\n\nAnd I was shocked at how nobody was taking responsibility and the whole burden was placed on us, as the parents. \"It's your problem, now she's tagged to your house she has to be there.\" You cannot live with someone who's withdrawing from a £100 a day habit, who's going to be kicking off and screaming and crying and vomiting and probably smashing stuff in a few hours, because she's so frustrated and panic-stricken. But nobody wants to know. A&E don't provide methadone. You're absolutely stuck.\n\nI didn't personally buy the heroin. I just drove my car to the area and she went off, injected herself, and came back, but somehow it felt like we had taken a step into a different place - like I was a different person. I had done something that I never in my entire life have done, and never thought I would do.\n\nBut my husband felt utterly betrayed. It was something he felt very, very strongly about. He was very upset. He felt I'd betrayed him by going out and buying drugs off the street because one of the things we'd agreed years ago, right at the beginning when our daughter admitted a drug problem, was that we would provide all the support we could whenever we could, but we would never buy her drugs. We would never give her money or presents, knowing that she would sell them to purchase drugs.\n\nWhen I got home and told my husband what I had done, he was so distraught... for days. I had not realised at the time, but he emailed the BBC: \"Our heroin addict daughter was given a drug rehabilitation requirement, a 7-7 curfew with tag as long as she moved back to our family home. Still unable to get methadone prescribed. My wife has taken her to try to buy some off the street (it's midnight now).\"\n\nI promised him I would never do that again. And he made it very clear that if I did I may be dealing with this on my own, because he couldn't stand the betrayal - my having gone against his wishes.\n\nHe has a very black-and-white attitude to life, as I think a lot of men do. And if there is something I've learned from this situation over the past eight years, it's that there is no black and white. There's a massive area of grey in between. We've had long conversations about it since. I wouldn't do that now. I think I would go to A&E and insist she was given some sort of strong sedation.\n\nShe is now on a prescribed methadone programme, which means she has a set amount of methadone that she collects once a day in the morning from the chemist, swallows it in front of the chemist, then comes home. She doesn't have any of the withdrawal symptoms, and she doesn't have the high. It doesn't make you feel good, it just stops the sickness, and she is functioning during the day. She's helping clean the house and cook the tea. And slowly she will take less and less each day, with the aim of being off methadone altogether in six months.\n\nBefore we went to court she had said to me, \"I've just had enough. This is awful.\" She had a couple of suicide attempts, one very serious one that resulted in liver damage. But you have to really show willing to be put on a methadone programme. You don't just go in the door and say, \"I've had enough of being a heroin addict, I want to go on methadone.\" You have to go for about two weeks' worth of meetings at least, and you have to be attempting to come off heroin yourself before they even start you on a methadone programme. It's a real Catch 22 situation, because she wanted to come off it by that point. She was hating her life. She was obviously extremely depressed, because she was trying to take her own life. She was becoming very thin and she'd stolen off her sister, who was, or is, her best friend. There were no positives in life.\n\nBy ordering a methadone programme to proceed, the court forced the hand of the local drug help centre. They then had to start her on the programme sooner rather than later.\n\nWe are taking one day at a time. It has taken five years to get to this point, so it's not all going to turn around and change within five minutes. Our daughter now has her own accommodation, which is part of our house, but we have sort of made it so that she has her own access and we have to knock to get into her bit of the house. So this is her own home now. She has got her dog back, which the dog is chuffed about, and she is too. So it's small steps like that, remembering that you are loved, remembering that there are people back at home who are still there waiting and wanting you to recover.\n\nI know it's boastful, but she's absolutely beautiful looking and very intelligent. I think she could have been anything. She is so massively into animals that she used to talk about being a vet, so years ago I guess we used to dream about that. And it's so far away from the reality of what her adult life became. Now the dream is very different. It's just, \"I want her to be drug-free and happy.\"\n\nI feel 50% responsible because I think all mothers do. Some days I think I've done everything for the right reasons, even though she may not see it like that, and I'm proud that I am still here and sane and standing. But then on another day I get up and I think this is all my fault. Perhaps if I hadn't kicked her out in those early few months when she refused to stop using drugs… It's hard to know.\n\nCurrently I trust her totally not to steal. I leave my handbag lying around. I don't worry about it. I don't entirely trust her not to contact the wrong people, because it's a slow process. Initially, in the first days she was back, I'm sure she didn't trust me. I'm sure she knew that I was going in her room, just having a look around and checking there wasn't any drug paraphernalia - because that's what you start doing, as a parent you start searching out the equipment and the stuff that they're using. But I've stopped doing that now, and she has had clean tests for nine weeks, so I suppose the trust must be building.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "This weekend's Six Nations on the BBC Coverage: Wales v Ireland on BBC One, BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio Wales; England v Scotland on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio Scotland. Live text online.\n\nThese are the tackling machines, the ravenous beasts who bring the opposition to ground time after time.\n\nThey range in style from tree fellers to hitmen to ball-and-all envelopers - but they all have one aim in common: to take their man down or out of the action.\n\nThey don't have to be forwards - as anyone who saw former England fly-half Jonny Wilkinson in action will attest - but it's no surprise my picks this year are forwards because that's where most of the bish bash goes on, close to the breakdown where the big men lurk.\n\nThis kid is a tackling machine who hardly ever misses his man - anyone carrying the ball into his channel is going down and he is so consistent that when he finally missed a tackle in this year's Six Nations it was newsworthy, as he didn't miss a single one in the 2016 tournament, making 58 with a 100% success rate.\n\nSo far this year, he's made a tournament-high 52 tackles - including a phenomenal 26 in the opening win over Ireland - but two missed attempts mean he 'only' has a 96% success rate.\n\nHe's not the biggest of hitters but he puts himself about to make the numbers and, still aged only 22, he has a long and potentially glorious future in the game ahead of him.\n\nHe has a well-deserved reputation for being a tree feller, a smash-and-wipe-out merchant who can wreak havoc on the opposition, but he's not the headless, full metal jacket type of player that some have claimed and is more controlled these days, which is great to see.\n\nHe's made 45 tackles so far with a 94% success rate and although he might be a touch behind Gray when it comes to consistency, he's certainly got the upper edge in explosive physicality.\n\nCritics say he only levels half-backs, but how many other second rows have the speed to get out of the line and smash them, or cover across to lasso them after a 50-metre run? He can put anyone down when he times it well.\n\nAnother second row in the workhorse mould of Scotland's Gray, Launchbury has formed a superb locking partnership with Lawes for England this season - a remarkable illustration of their strength in depth, with fellow second rows Maro Itoje playing on the blind-side and George Kruis currently injured.\n\nDespite being 6ft 5in and well over 18 stone he has unbelievable staying power, which all locks need these days.\n\nHe's made 46 tackles this season and although he may lack the sheer percussive impact of Lawes, the Wasps man brings a rumbustious presence to the heart of the England pack.\n\nThe France back row is not one of the game's glamour players, but in a struggling French team he brings a dogs of war spirit to their efforts.\n\nHe has a high work-rate and is a real nuisance of a player, shouldering a huge defensive burden to try to get France on the front foot again - he's the second-highest tackler in the tournament, with a solitary miss in 50 tackles.\n\nLike Italy counterpart Maxime Mbanda, who has a similar attitude but misses the odd tackle in a way Gourdon does not, he is not the biggest of flankers. However, there is no doubting the size of his impact in 2017.\n\nAt 6ft 1in, Watson is another of the \"smaller\" players in this list - but another busy bee with a ferocious work ethic.\n\nIn Scotland's rearguard win against Ireland he made an astonishing 19 tackles in about 50 minutes of play - he was a human strimmer that day, chopping down men in green like blades of grass.\n\nThat performance alone was enough to catch everyone's eye and put him on the tackling map but he's continued in the same vein, having missed just one tackle all tournament.\n\nHe is one of the great footballing back rowers, but Tipuric is an amazing all-rounder, as he is proving this tournament with his tackling heroics.\n\nAs an open-side it is imperative he takes players out of the game and he does just that with his tackling excellence.\n\nHe leads the way for Wales with 43 tackles so far this tournament and has shown that he has the physicality to complement his skill set.\n\nWho has Guscott missed out?\n\nAs always with these lists it's impossible to please everyone, but who do you insist should have definitely made the cut?\n\nEngland flanker James Haskell might count himself unlucky not to have made the selection, and what about Scotland centre Alex Dunbar? Where's Jamie Heaslip? And no Alun Wyn Jones?\n\nUse our interactive tool to rank Guscott's selections for yourselves, and join the debate below on who you think should be in the Six Nations wrecking crew.", "The Right Reverend Philip North exposed a wound in the Church of England when he announced the withdrawal of his nomination to become Bishop of Sheffield, referring to \"the highly individualised nature of the attacks upon him\".\n\nMore than 20 years after the first female ordinations, senior figures in the Church now face another struggle to reconcile those who believe women cannot be priests and those who think traditionalists are unacceptably sexist.\n\nThe Archbishop of York, the Most Reverend John Sentamu, has urged Anglicans to \"disagree Christianly\".\n\nAnother bishop blamed the row on an \"intolerant\" faction in the Church, and warned \"we're all in trouble\" if there was no future in the Church for traditionalist Catholics such as Mr North.\n\nThe dispute that led to Philip North turning down the Sheffield job began in an Oxford cafe one morning in early February, when the chaplain of Trinity College, the Reverend Emma Percy, was given a copy of a Christian magazine with a proud history but a small circulation.\n\nThe general synod is the deliberative and legislative body of the Church of England\n\nNew Directions is written and read by traditionalist Anglo-Catholic members of the Church of England: the sort of Anglicans who are referred to colloquially as \"high church\".\n\nAn article explained how some Church of England priests were starting to be issued with identity cards, to show they were members of a traditionalist Anglican institution named The Society Under the Patronage of St Wilfrid and St Hilda.\n\nMembers of The Society, to use its shorter name, do not accept the ministry of women priests - or male priests ordained by female bishops.\n\nSoon afterwards, one of the most influential voices on the liberal wing of the Church of England, the Very Reverend Prof Martyn Percy - who happens to be Emma Percy's husband - quoted the article in an attack on Mr North's views.\n\nThe Society, of which Mr North is a leading member, was guilty of \"rather fogeyish sacralised sexism\", said Prof Percy.\n\nHe said: \"Bishop North needs to be able to give his unequivocal support and affirmation to his male and female clergy alike. It can't be a partial and conditional affirmation, based on gender.\"\n\nProf Percy followed a Sheffield vicar, the Reverend Sue Hammersley, in urging Mr North not to accept his nomination.\n\nShe told BBC Look North: \"I think the very fact that he won't ordain women himself has the potential to give out a really negative message - that somehow the Church of England is a discriminatory organisation.\"\n\nThe Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley, Louise Haigh, also wrote an open letter to Mr North in which she said attitudes to women in the Church were a \"major priority for our next bishop\".\n\nShe wrote: \"Your traditionalist views pose many questions about how your leadership in Sheffield will work practically in relation to existing women clergy, men who have been ordained by women, women who are in the process of becoming clergy and congregations who come from a completely different tradition within the Church.\"\n\nThree days later, an evening statement published on the prime minister's website confirmed that Mr North, who is the Bishop of Burnley, would not be promoted to become Bishop of Sheffield.\n\nAll of this was supposed to have been avoided in 2014 when the Church's governing general synod reached the end of a long process of deciding that women could be bishops.\n\nIt agreed \"five guiding principles\", allowing traditionalists who opposed women priests to remain in \"the highest possible degree of communion\" and to \"mutually flourish\".\n\nAfter Mr North's U-turn, which he said had followed \"highly individualised attacks\" on him, the Archbishop of York said there had been little sign of that commitment to mutual flourishing.\n\n\"What has happened to Bishop Philip clearly does not reflect the settlement under which, two and a half years ago, the Church of England joyfully and decisively opened up all orders of ministry to men and women,\" he said.\n\nArchbishop Sentamu was not alone in criticising the opponents of Philip North.\n\nThe Bishop of Willesden, Pete Broadbent, tweeted: \"This is what the Church of England will be like if the intolerant exclusive 'inclusives' win… if there is no future for the Catholics, we're all in deep trouble.\"\n\nSerenhedd James, a historian and columnist for the Church Times, said: \"For anyone, anywhere, to be subject of a public bullying campaign of such a personal nature is unacceptable. For it to happen within the Church, and be orchestrated by leading members of the clergy, is wicked.\n\n\"And for it to result in one of the most gentle, kind, talented, compassionate, committed, and honourable priests in the C of E being driven out of a post in which his God-given gifts are needed now more than ever is, frankly, diabolical.\"\n\nAt the other end of the Anglican spectrum, the conservative evangelical Bishop of Maidstone, Rod Thomas, said he was \"deeply saddened\" and described the move as \"a body blow to the concept of 'mutual flourishing' which lay at the heart of the agreement to introduce women bishops in the Church of England.\"\n\nLong, well-intended discussions about principles of conduct appear to have evaporated in the heat of a controversial nomination.\n\nDespite a high-profile campaign in favour of Mr North by high-ranking male and female clergy, there is little talk of good disagreement or mutual flourishing.\n\nWhile there seems to be embarrassment rather than triumphalism among opponents of Bishop Philip North's appointment, the campaign group Sheffield Action on Ministry Equality said many would now enter a period of mourning.\n\n\"We also sense an invitation from God for all of us in the Church of England to take responsibility for our part in a process that has caused such pain for so many people,\" said a statement on the group's website.\n\n\"We pray for Bishop Philip that he may fully recover from an ordeal we believe he should never have had to face.\"\n\nThe Archbishops of York and Canterbury now have to find a way to reunite a Church that is divided over women's ordination as well as sexuality.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Track cyclist Jess Varnish says she was \"thrown under the bus\" by British Cycling and was the victim of a \"cover-up\".\n\nThe 26-year-old was speaking in her first broadcast interview since last April, when she made allegations of sexism at the governing body.\n\nVarnish told BBC Sport she was \"relieved the truth was finally coming out\" after she was dropped from British Cycling's elite programme last year.\n\nFormer technical director Shane Sutton was found to have used sexist language towards her, but was cleared of eight of nine allegations against him.\n\nIn an in-depth interview, Varnish also said:\n• None that she may take legal action against the governing body\n• None that any current board members involved in the internal report into Sutton's conduct should resign\n• None and that Sutton should not work as a cycling coach again\n\nOn Thursday, British Cycling said it did not pay \"sufficient care and attention\" to the wellbeing of staff and athletes at the expense of winning medals. This was in response to a leaked draft report of an investigation into alleged failings in its culture.\n\n\"I feel vindicated in a way that the truth is coming out but you obviously can't turn back the clock,\" Varnish said. \"All I want is the truth to be out there because it's the truth and that's what people should know.\n\n\"I've been pulled from pillar to post. Just to get this stage and see that it's a cover-up is huge.\"\n\nWhen asked if Sutton should work in cycling coaching again, she said: \"From my experiences, no.\"\n• None Varnish 'was very brave to speak out'\n\nAn independent investigation into the culture at British Cycling was launched last year and is expected to deliver its findings imminently. It follows an initial internal investigation into Varnish's complaint about Sutton.\n\nHowever, the Daily Mail quotes the leaked draft of the independent investigation as saying \"considerably more\" of Varnish's claims had been proven, but these findings were \"reversed\".\n\nVarnish said that any current board members involved in the initial internal report into Sutton's conduct should resign.\n\n\"I had absolutely no faith in the investigation from the get go,\" she said. \"Now there needs to be changes. These people can't be still in there if they've reversed facts. They can't still be able to be on that board.\n\n\"I think the facts say it for themselves. If they're overturning facts just to protect themselves and to protect the look of British Cycling. It's a lot easier for them to throw me under the bus rather than the whole of British Cycling and for the actual truth to come out.\"\n\n'It's just about doing the right thing'\n\nVarnish said she may take legal action against British Cycling if the report states the organisation failed in the way it investigated her case.\n\n\"It is something I've asked my lawyers to take a really close look at,\" she said. \"Until the main report is released that's all we can do, take a look at it. It's never been about money for me, it's just about doing the right thing.\"\n\nVarnish raced alongside Victoria Pendleton in the team sprint at the London 2012 Olympics, but failed to qualify for Rio 2016.\n\nThe World Championships medallist said bosses at cycling's governing body were to blame for her and Katy Marchant not securing a team sprint spot at the Games. She added that their chances had been compromised by decisions over selection.\n\nShe was dropped from British Cycling's elite programme in April with Sutton telling the Daily Telegraph at the time that \"there is no point carrying on and wasting UK Sport's money on someone who is not going to medal going forward\".\n\nSutton resigned in April last year after being suspended pending the investigation, but has always denied wrongdoing.\n\n\"It would have been easier for me to walk away and accept things and say nothing, and it's been really hard,\" Varnish said. \"But it's a sense of fairness which drove me to do it. I have always stuck up for myself and others when I think something is unfair and that's why I've done it, for fairness.\"\n\n'It was just a complete shock'\n\nVarnish said she still strongly believes that she was not kicked off the team for performance reasons alone.\n\n\"Just to be told I wasn't good enough was silly. There were people still on the programme who were a lot, lot slower than me. That was the initial shock, then with that, I knew I wouldn't be going to Rio. It was a really, really hard time.\n\n\"None of my reports said 'look Jess, you need to buck your ideas up'. We have so much data taken from us, so somebody at some point should have told me if I was underperforming and I never, ever got that.\"\n\nWhen asked why she thought she dropped, Varnish said: \"Probably for questioning things and because I did so in the media with a team-mate. In my opinion, it would be that.\"\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, British Cycling's new chair Jonathan Browning said: \"I would be more than happy to meet with Jess and discuss any concerns she has about the independent review or on any other matter she would like to raise.\"\n\nVarnish added: \"Many athletes wouldn't want to speak out because it would affect their position. I was definitely in that position in the past. Only since I have not been on the programme have I stepped up and actually said 'look, this is wrong,' because I was always thinking 'oh I don't want to jeopardise my position'.\"\n\nShe said her complaints about Sutton were not because of her being unable to cope in a \"tough environment\".\n\n\"I am actually probably one of toughest - mentally and physically - that there was on the squad,\" she said. \"I've taken a lot of knocks, I've got disqualified from Olympic Games and came back from it.\"\n\nWhen is the report due?\n\nVarnish's comments comes after British Cycling briefed riders and staff about an 'action plan' of reforms.\n\nAfter her claims of a 'culture of fear' were supported by other former riders, British Rowing chair Annamarie Phelps was asked to lead an independent investigation into claims of bullying, favouritism and sexism.\n\nPhelps' report - described by one senior source as \"explosive\" - is due to be published in the next month.\n\nOn 21 February, the head of UK Sport, Liz Nicholl, accused British Cycling of watering down the full findings of an internal review conducted after the 2012 Games.\n\nUK Sport has faced questions over why it did not act on a report that is known to include allegations of bullying.\n\nIn March, British Cycling chairman Jonathan Browning apologised for \"failings\", as the governing body announced planned changes designed to improve the care of riders.", "Laura Marling's latest album was recorded in her adopted home of Los Angeles, so coming back to London to promote it in mid-February has been something of a rude awakening.\n\n\"I stupidly got on my bike this morning and got the sleet right in my face,\" she winces.\n\nHaving dried off and freshened up, she settles down to chat. Marling has a reputation for being a shy, sometimes reluctant interviewee - but LA clearly has rubbed off on her.\n\nShe chews gum as we talk, laughing bawdily as she discusses her penchant for dating drummers. (\"What do they bring to a relationship? Rhythm!\")\n\nThe 27-year-old also reveals her mum keeps a \"very meticulous scrapbook\" of her career, and admits to cooking up her own brand of Halloumi cheese.\n\n\"I'm aiming for direct competition with Alex James,\" she says, referring to the cheese-making Blur bassist. \"But bloody hell, what a boring thing to talk about\".\n\nMarling released her first album - Alas, I Cannot Swim - in 2007\n\nSo instead we circle back to that new album.\n\nIt's her sixth, and possibly best, record since she emerged at the age of 17 as part of the indie folk movement that also spawned Mumford and Sons, Lucy Rose and Noah and the Whale.\n\nSumptuous and sensual, Semper Femina adds a hint of West Coast sheen to her delicate, acoustic melodies. Marling generously credits her band and producer Blake Mills for the progression.\n\n\"All of the musicality of the album is down to them,\" she says. \"I wanted to be in the middle of it, but for someone else to be painting the picture around it.\"\n\nIf you don't have a Latin textbook to hand, the album's title is taken from a line in Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid.\n\nThe line is \"varium et mutabile semper femina\", which translates as \"woman is always fickle and changeable\". \"I thought that was very jolly,\" says Marling, apparently without sarcasm.\n\nShe came across the phrase years ago and had a truncated version - \"Semper Femina\", or \"always a woman\" - tattooed on her leg when she was 21.\n\nThe singer has Virgil's phrase tattooed on her leg\n\nIt's a fitting title for a record that explores femininity in all its forms, from the archetypal wild teenager to the artist's muse, while reflecting on female friendships and betrayals.\n\nMarling prompted a lot of speculation when she announced in a press release that the album was written during a \"masculine time\" in her life, after she had \"gone on this trip of abandoning any sexuality\".\n\nShe clarifies that today, saying she was simply trying to write about women from a \"neutral perspective\". But she admits LA prompted a period of androgyny.\n\n\"People there are just a bit more far-out,\" she explains. \"Nobody's got a job, they can dress however they want. A lot of my friends are queer or gender-fluid. So I was picking up on that.\n\n\"Then there was also my natural relationship with [womanhood]. I'm unsure. I'm unsure of my own femininity or masculinity.\n\n\"There are some circumstances in which I employ more of a masculine approach in order to protect myself; and there are circumstances where I indulge in my more feminine side because that vulnerability seems more important.\n\n\"I'm interested in the differences between men and women, of which there are plenty, and they need to be understood better.\"\n\n\"Well, I was talking to my producer, Blake, and he said he started playing guitar to impress girls. I think when I started playing guitar, it was to impress my dad.\n\n\"So Blake's relationship to his instrument is very different to mine and his reason for writing songs is very different to mine but, at the same time, he is extraordinary. And so those differences can be great.\n\n\"You can reduce it down to an Eastern idea that men expend energy and women are self-perpetuating.\"\n\nOne of the album's big themes is how women are observed - both by men and each other.\n\nOn Wild Fire, Marling talks about a friend who keeps a \"pen behind her ear\" and constantly jots down her thoughts in a notepad.\n\n\"Of course the only part that I want to read is about her time spent with me,\" the singer drawls.\n\n\"Wouldn't you die to know how you're seen? Are you getting away with who you're trying to be?\"\n\nThat's a perennial question for a performer - especially one who seems so cautious of the limelight.\n\n\"Would I die to know how I'm seen?\" she asks herself, when the lyric is brought up. \"I don't know!\n\n\"I'm aware, obviously, that I'm looked at and considered and reviewed and criticised. But I'm pretty good at steering pretty clear of those [articles], unless they're delivered to me by my mother.\"\n\nOn Nouel, she turns the tables - objectifying one of her real-life friends as a classic muse.\n\n\"Oh Nouel, you sing so well / Sing only for me?\" Marling pleads, going on to compare her friend to Gustave Courbet's Origine Du Monde - an 1866 painting of a woman sprawled naked on a bed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Marling performs Nouel, from her new album Semper Femina, for BBC Radio 4's Mastertapes.\n\n\"I was interested in what it is like to be made a muse,\" says Marling. \"Nouel is a person who exists, a visual artist I know in Los Angeles, and I took her essence and I exaggerated it into a fantasy.\n\n\"She [Nouel] was very flattered by it - but then again she was able to remove herself from it.\n\n\"It's her but it's not her. I haven't painted a picture of her - it's my projection of my feelings about how extraordinary I feel she is.\"\n\nIn black and white this all seems very intellectual and, well, pretentious.\n\nMarling is quite aware of how it comes across, poking fun at the \"pseudo-science\" and \"pop psychology\" she espouses.\n\nOn the album she even sings, \"Lately I wonder if all my pondering takes up too much ground?\"\n\nBut the music breathes warm life into these high concepts, resulting in a romantic, confessional suite of songs.\n\nBy the last track, Nothing Not Nearly, Marling has put all the contemplation aside to observe: \"Nothing matters more than love. No nothing. Not nearly.\"\n\nIt reflects her current, contented state of mind.\n\n\"I'm loving my late twenties,\" she says. \"The closer I get to 30, the more at ease I feel with myself.\"\n\nEach of her albums has contributed to that sense of self, she continues.\n\n\"This one was about understanding femininity and masculinity. The last one was understanding solitude.\n\n\"Before that was heartbreak, before that was freedom and before that was anger. It's like I'm tackling the world one emotion at a time!\"\n\n\"Possibly. Or fear, given the era that we're seemingly stepping into,\" she says. \"It's not been good.\"\n\nMarling won a Brit award for best British female in 2011\n\nShe talks about the \"horrifying but unbearably addictive quality\" of President Trump, saying she's constantly checking her phone for the latest update.\n\nWhile the Trump era has already prompted a surge in political protest songs, Marling has trouble viewing this as a positive.\n\n\"I don't think anyone would wish that on the world for the sake of writing a good song. That's not the purpose of art - to encounter animosity for the sake of having something to do.\n\n\"A singer, who's now a big singer, once said to me: 'It'd be so cool to be really heartbroken because it'd be good for my songwriting.\"\n\n\"I was like, 'You silly, naive wally!' Never wish that on yourself. It's unbearable.\"\n\nSemper Femina is out on 10 March. Laura Marling is currently on tour around the UK.\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 Cycling\n\nBritish Cycling has admitted it did not pay \"sufficient care and attention\" to the wellbeing of staff and athletes at the expense of winning medals.\n\nThe organisation was responding to a leaked draft report of an investigation into alleged failings in its culture.\n\nPublished in the Daily Mail, it claims British Cycling \"sanitised\" its own probe into claims Shane Sutton used sexist language towards Jess Varnish.\n\nIt also spoke of a \"culture of fear\", with some staff \"bullied\".\n\nThe leaked draft is reported to conclude:\n• None Weak leadership allowed first Sir Dave Brailsford and then Sutton to work without supervision as British Cycling chiefs, creating a \"dysfunctional structure\".\n• None Brailsford is described as an \"untouchable\" figure, while former technical director Sutton is said to be unsuitable for leadership.\n• None The pursuit of medals to secure funding had \"a blinding effect, causing clear behavioural and cultural issues to be ignored\".\n• None Conclusions of a November 2012 internal report that raised similar concerns were not acted upon.\n\nIn response, British Cycling says it accepts:\n• None Its \"World Class Programme leadership focused on medal delivery without sufficient care and attention to the overall staff and athlete culture and environment\".\n• None Leadership \"failed to adequately grasp and subsequently address the early warning signs\" of failings.\n\nIn October, British Cycling found Sutton guilty on one from nine charges of using sexist language towards Varnish, who was dropped from British Cycling's elite programme last April.\n\nThe Australian, who quit in the wake of Varnish's allegations, was found to have used the word \"bitches\", but claims that he used other offensive and discriminatory language were not upheld.\n\nThat included Varnish's complaint that Sutton told her to \"go and have a baby\".\n\nSutton was also cleared of any bullying allegations, including claims he made comments about the cyclist's weight.\n\nHowever, the Daily Mail quotes the leaked draft as saying \"considerably more\" of Varnish's claims had been proven, but these findings were \"reversed\".\n\nThe Mail quotes the draft report as describing this as \"shocking and inexcusable\", adding that it \"calls into serious question whether the composition of the British Cycling board is fit to govern\".\n\nAn investigation into the culture at British Cycling was launched last year following \"disturbing\" claims of \"fundamental behavioural issues\".\n\nA number of ex-riders and former staff members have added to Varnish's claims, including former road world champion Nicole Cooke, who told a parliamentary select committee the body was \"run by men, for men\".\n\nThe investigation is chaired by British Rowing chief Annamarie Phelps, and was co-commissioned by UK Sport and British Cycling.\n\nA report on its findings is imminent, and UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl has said \"valuable lessons\" have been identified.\n\nBut she also criticised British Cycling for providing \"a very light-touch version\" when asked to provide details of its own November 2012 internal investigation.\n\nEarlier in March, British Cycling chairman Jonathan Browning apologised for \"failings\", as the governing body announced planned changes designed to improve the care of riders.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio Scotland, plus live text commentary via the BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app\n\nOwen Farrell remains a doubt for England's Six Nations encounter with Scotland after missing training at Twickenham on Friday.\n\nThe centre, 25, did not take part after sustaining a leg knock on Thursday.\n\n\"He's pretty resilient. He will do the right thing by the team and by his body,\" assistant coach Paul Gustard told BBC 5 live.\n\nEngland have until an hour before kick-off to finalise their side for Saturday's Calcutta Cup game.\n\nIf Farrell does not make it, Gustard says Ben Te'o will start at inside centre with Jonny May coming on to the bench.\n\n\"It will be a loss, of course, but we are very happy with the strengths Ben can bring,\" Gustard added. \"We are very happy with the 23 we will have on the pitch.\n\n\"We have flexibility, Jack Nowell is there who can come into the centre. Elliot Daly can come in to 13. So we will be very happy.\"\n\nVictory for England over Scotland would give the defending Six Nations champions a record-equalling 18th consecutive win and put them one win away from a second straight Grand Slam.\n\nWho can still win the Six Nations?\n• None If England beat Scotland on Saturday they will retain the title\n• None Victory for Scotland could send them top of the table with a game to play\n• None If France beat Italy and England lose, mathematically five teams would still be in with a shout\n• None There is one final round of games after Saturday's matches\n\nHowever, regardless of their winning run, head coach Jones was in prickly mood in Thursday's news conference.\n\n\"I can't speak for how Eddie is,\" Gustard said on Friday. \"The staff and players are excited. We are just confident. That's not to sound bullish.\n\n\"The only record that has been spoken about is finishing on the 80-minute mark beating Scotland.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Barbara Buttrick went from typist to boxer in 1950s Britain\n\nWhen Barbara Buttrick started boxing in the late 1940s, women in the sport were regarded on a par with gamblers and prostitutes. However, the 4ft 11in Mighty Atom's career took her from the fairgrounds of Yorkshire to the boxing rings of the United States and - ultimately - the world title.\n\nIt was a chance encounter with a scrap piece of newspaper that led to Buttrick abandoning her job as a typist.\n\n\"I was trying to get a soccer team together and there weren't very many girls that would play soccer in those days, I'm talking about the 1940s,\" the 87-year-old grandmother said.\n\n\"One day I read an article about a woman that travelled with boxing booths and I cut the article out and said I'm going to try it.\"\n\nThat article, about prize fighter Polly Burns, was printed on newspaper she had been given by her mother to clean her boots with.\n\nBarbara Buttrick started boxing in fairground booths around England in the late 1940s\n\nHer parents in Cottingham, East Yorkshire, reluctantly gave her permission for her to take up boxing and she began getting work at fairgrounds, where she would challenge women to fight her in brightly-coloured sideshow booths.\n\nNow confined to history, these had been popular attractions for more than 200 years and had launched many successful boxing careers.\n\nAfter some time developing her skills, she headed to London in search of a trainer and female sparring partners.\n\nIt was there, at Mickey Woods' gym, that she found a trainer in Leonard Smith, whom she later married.\n\nAt the time, she was something of a minor celebrity, telling a TV interviewer: \"Girls aren't the delicate flowers they used to be. Anyhow, my boyfriend doesn't mind.\"\n\nButtrick said in a 1950s interview: 'Girls aren't the delicate flowers they used to be'\n\nHowever, opportunities for a female boxer were limited in 1950s England where it was regarded as an exclusively male sport.\n\n\"It was even hard to get in the gyms, you couldn't work out in the gym, they were really against anything like that,\" Buttrick said.\n\n\"It was girls don't do this and girls don't do that. I was just interested in it and I figured I should be able to do what I wanted to do, the same as any boy.\"\n\nIt was \"on a par with getting drunk and with gambling and with prostitution\", said Kath Woodward - a sociology professor who researches gender and diversity in sport.\n\n\"Boxing goes with being big, with being strong, with being brave - all these things which make up our ideal of masculinity,\" she added.\n\n\"But femininity is not made up in those ways, so for Barbara to have boxed was seen as threatening, because boxing is associated with all the things that go with being a real man.\"\n\nAttitudes were more enlightened in the United States, though, and Buttrick and Smith decided to move there in search of promoters willing to put on her fights.\n\n\"The Americans were more open-minded about it, you couldn't do anything but box on the booths in England,\" Buttrick said.\n\nShe travelled around the US and - when they got to Miami - she began training at the legendary 5th Street Gym, where she met boxing greats Muhammad Ali and his trainer Angelo Dundee.\n\n\"He was Cassius Clay back then and he was just starting out,\" she said. \"He was just a young lad.\"\n\nAntonio Tarver, a former world champion light heavyweight who trained at the 5th Street Gym and featured in the 2006 Sylvester Stallone film Rocky Balboa, said it would have been an intimidating place.\n\n\"When I come here it's like hallowed grounds, I feel something special about the 5th Street Gym,\" he said.\n\n\"For Barbara, it had to be hard but she found her way, she made her path. A world champion, I can only imagine the things that she has seen, witnessing and watching the greatness. Her story needs to be told.\"\n\nButtrick fought more than 1,000 exhibition matches in the States, winning 30 professional fights, drawing one and losing just one before retiring in 1960.\n\nIt was in 1957 that she fought Phyllis Kugler, and won the Women's World Boxing Champion title.\n\n\"There was one fight that I lost, with Joann Hagen,\" Buttrick said. \"But she was so much taller than me.\"\n\nAfter her boxing career, she stayed in the sport - founding and becoming president of the Women's International Boxing Federation in the mid-1990s.\n\nShe was recently the first woman to be inducted into the Florida Boxing Hall of Fame.\n\nNow she is returning to her roots as part of Hull's 2017 UK City of Culture celebrations.\n\nA play inspired by her story is being performed there, focussing on a group of Hull women who put on an unlicensed fight night, aptly called Mighty Atoms.\n\nButtrick will also appear at Hull City Hall for a talk on Saturday, as part of a series of events called Wow Hull (Women of the World).\n\nHer legacy in the sport is likely to be felt for many decades though.\n\nWhen women's boxing was finally included in the Olympics at London 2012, Buttrick was there to see Nicola Adams win the flyweight gold for Great Britain.\n\n\"It's because of women like her that's made it possible for me to box today,\" said Adams.\n\n\"It was quite tough for me, women's boxing wasn't really accepted so I can't even imagine how hard it must have been for her to keep pushing, keep training and try to be taken seriously.\n\n\"I've got to say a big thank you to Barbara for paving the way.\"\n\nYou can see more on BBC Inside Out Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on BBC iPlayer.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritish number one Johanna Konta beat her compatriot Heather Watson 6-4 6-4 to reach the third round of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells.\n\nKonta, ranked 11th to Watson's 108th, struggled for rhythm in the first set but dominated the second to lead 5-1.\n\nWatson served nine double faults before fighting back but Konta came through.\n\nIn the men's event, Kyle Edmund beat Portugal's Gastao Elias 6-1 6-3 to set up a second-round meeting with world number two Novak Djokovic.\n\nBritish number three Dan Evans registered a 6-1 6-1 win over Germany's Dustin Brown in just 53 minutes.\n\nHe will face Kei Nishikori, ranked fifth in the world, in the second round on Sunday while Konta goes on to face Caroline Garcia in round three..\n• None Murray has work to do in 2017\n\n\"It was definitely a brilliant experience for both of us as Fed Cup team-mates and I am very happy to have come through it,\" said Konta, who was playing her first match in a month after a foot injury.\n\nIt was the first meeting on the WTA Tour between Britain's two leading women.\n\nTheir only previous contest was at a second-tier tournament in Barnstaple in 2013 when Watson retired after losing the first four games.\n\nWatson broke serve first but then gifted the advantage back as she made three double faults in the third game.\n\nWith both players making errors, the pair traded serves again before Konta, who received a bye in the first round, struck the decisive blow by winning the ninth game.\n\nShe went on to hold her serve to love to take the first set.\n\nKonta won eight points without reply at the start of the second set and looked on course for a quick victory.\n\nWatson, who threw her racquet in frustration after making three more double faults in the sixth game, found herself 5-1 down before she rallied.\n\nKonta served two double faults in the seventh game and won only two points as Watson, 24, won three consecutive games.\n\nBut the 11th seed composed herself to seal her place in the next round after 94 minutes.", "Coverage: Full commentary on BBC Radio 5 live and live text updates on the BBC Sport website.\n\nDavid Haye has rarely been one to conform.\n\nBefore commentating on his first world-title success in November 2007, I remember wandering into the lobby of the hotel in Paris where we were both staying to see Haye lounging around, talking to friends.\n\nIt was late Saturday afternoon and the biggest occasion of his career at that stage - against the Frenchman Jean-Marc Mormeck - was just hours away.\n\nFrank (now Kellie) Maloney, his then promoter, was concerned about Haye's attitude. \"I wish he would just go to his room and relax,\" Frank said to me.\n\nRest and solitude might have been prescribed for most boxers but Haye never read the copybook.\n• None Listen to Costello and Bunce on 5 live's boxing podcast\n\nIn beating Mormeck, a man who had lost only once in the previous decade, Haye produced one of the greatest wins by a British boxer in a foreign ring.\n\nTwo years later, he gave away seven stone in weight and made the Russian beanstalk Nikolai Valuev chase shadows in Nuremberg to add a version of the world heavyweight crown to his cruiserweight glories.\n\nPreviously, only Evander Holyfield had won world titles in both divisions. And Haye won each of his away from home.\n\nBack then, his ability to revile took root. His comments at news conferences and other promotional events were as disgusting as his ringside analysis was erudite. Social media platforms were unborn or in their infancy but still he got his vulgarity across.\n\nJudging by his attitude in the build-up to the Tony Bellew fight this weekend, the persona endures. But in attempting to rattle Bellew, Haye himself has lost at least a semblance of control.\n\nHe complained after Monday's news conference in Liverpool about some of the abuse he was subjected to by the hundreds of Bellew fans in attendance. Having promised to \"cave someone's skull in\", there was little room for objection when the fire was returned.\n\nA sub-plot on Saturday is the daunting challenge facing the trainers, both of whom are coming off defeat in a world title fight. Shane McGuigan was in the corner when Carl Frampton was beaten by Leo Santa Cruz in their rematch in January. Dave Coldwell has suffered reverses with Gavin McDonnell and heavyweight David Price in a three-week spell.\n\nThe careers of McGuigan and Coldwell will continue after Haye and Bellew have departed the scene but the result on Saturday will help shape how they are regarded.\n\nPart of the trainers' role will be to moderate emotions and limit the red-mist tendencies. But whatever the guidance from the corner, the most important factor relates to how much of Haye the fighter, the calculated practitioner who beat Mormeck and Valuev, remains.\n\nIn almost five years, Haye has been involved in only two fights, against non-league opposition, lasting a total of less than seven minutes. In the same period, Bellew's log shows 13 fights and 113 rounds.\n\nFor all that, the fight has the feel of last year's showdown in Las Vegas between Amir Khan and the Mexican Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez, when Khan was knocked out savagely in the sixth round.\n\nWe tried to make a case for the underdog but the evidence against him was overwhelming. And Bellew is quoted at even longer odds than Khan was back then.\n\nMcGuigan has indicated that Haye might weigh in lighter than Bellew, suggesting an attempt to rekindle the blazes of old. The adage tells us that the last asset a fighter loses is the power of his punch. Perhaps… but he does lose the ability to land it.\n\nEven so, Haye only has to get it right once. Bellew must get it right all night.\n\nMomentum is building around a showdown between Khan and WBO world welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao. Khan was BBC Radio 5 live's big fight summariser alongside me in Vegas recently when Frampton was outpointed by Santa Cruz.\n\nThat night, Khan was adamant that his next fight would be a relatively low-key affair because he wanted to test the right hand on which he had surgery after the Alvarez defeat last May.\n\nBut the money and the prestige of a showdown against Pacquiao make an offer difficult to refuse. I watched them train together in making a documentary about Pacquiao for BBC World Service in 2010. At the time, the Filipino was preparing for a light-middleweight title fight against Mexican Antonio Margarito and Khan was among the sparring partners.\n\nPacquiao beat Margarito emphatically and Khan went on to outpoint Argentina's Marcos Maidana in Vegas shortly afterwards for one of the most impressive victories of his career.\n\nMore recently, Pacquiao has recovered from his defeat against Floyd Mayweather almost two years ago to beat Americans Timothy Bradley and Jessie Vargas. At 38, he might well be fading but Pacquiao is still better than most. And those performances since May 2015 serve to endorse the greatness of Mayweather.\n\nThe critics continue to carp about Mayweather's credentials and a record supposedly padded with carefully-chosen fall-guys. Yet consider what Puerto Rico's Miguel Cotto, Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez and Pacquiao have gone on to achieve after losing to him and the arguments descend into nonsense.\n\nFighting talk is decades in the making\n\nWe launched a new \"5 Live Boxing\" podcast this week, with me and long-time ally Steve Bunce in union. It is 42 years this week since we first appeared together on a junior club show in Streatham, south-east London, at a boxing hotbed called The Cat's Whiskers.\n\nWe both lost but a lifelong passion was being battered into us. Also on the bill was Sammy Reeson, who 10 years later became the first holder of the British title in the new cruiserweight division.\n\nAmong my future opponents was Jim McDonnell, who later took the legendary Ghanaian Azumah Nelson into the 12th round of a world title fight and now trains the British world super-middleweight champion James DeGale. Jim beat me on points and never granted me a rematch. Strangely, I never complained.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLiverpool secured a vital advantage over Arsenal in the battle for a place in the Premier League's top four with a well-deserved win at Anfield.\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger gambled by leaving Alexis Sanchez - his leading scorer with 17 Premier League goals - on the bench but the ploy failed miserably as Liverpool took control by the break.\n\nRoberto Firmino's far-post finish put Liverpool ahead after nine minutes and Sadio Mane confirmed their superiority with an emphatic strike just before half-time.\n\nSanchez, predictably, emerged as a substitute at the start of the second half and set up a goal for Danny Welbeck that gave Arsenal hope but Georginio Wijnaldum struck on the break deep into injury-time to seal Liverpool's win.\n\nLiverpool are now up to third, level with Manchester City on 52 points - but Arsenal are now in fifth trailing that pair by two points.\n\nArsenal and Arsene Wenger had so much riding on this game - a meeting where they knew defeat would leave them outside the Premier League's top four.\n\nIt made his decision to leave his most dangerous attacker Sanchez on the bench totally inexplicable, Wenger's tactical ploy backfiring badly as Liverpool assumed control in those crucial first 45 minutes.\n\nBrave or desperate? Or a touch of both? Either way it was consigned to the dustbin at the interval.\n\nWenger preferred the physicality and aerial threat of Olivier Giroud and Danny Welbeck but Arsenal's failure to arrive in any attacking positions in the first half totally negated any impact he hoped they would have.\n\nThe folly of Wenger's selection was further exposed by the manner in which Sanchez transformed Arsenal's approach when he emerged as a substitute, setting up Welbeck's goal - although the Chilean's energy levels dried up as the half went on.\n\nWenger's decisions will come under the closest scrutiny as speculation continues about his future, and if Arsenal miss out on the Champions League failed moves like this will understandably be portrayed in an unflattering light.\n\nSanchez's demeanour at the final whistle told the tale. As Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp celebrated with his backroom team, he offered the briefest of gestures to Arsenal's fans before going straight down the tunnel.\n\nRead more:Wenger 'strong enough' to deal with decision to drop Sanchez\n\nLiverpool have faltered badly against the Premier League's strugglers, losing and performing dismally in defeat at Hull City and Leicester City - who were both in the bottom three when those games kicked off.\n\nKlopp, however, has mastered the art of overcoming Liverpool's closest rivals and this may yet be the key to achieving the top four place that was the goal before the start of the season.\n\nKlopp's record against Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham is highly impressive and this victory leaves his team with seven wins, eight draws and one defeat from 16 league games.\n\nThis was not a vintage Liverpool performance, but the energy and creation shown here was in stark contrast to that shown at the King Power Stadium on Monday and more akin to the recent 2-0 win against Spurs here at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool were helped by Philippe Coutinho's best display since he returned from a seven-week absence with an ankle injury, while Ragnar Klavan offered a more physical defensive presence than Lucas, dropped after the Leicester debacle.\n\nThis result keeps Liverpool in the shake-up for a Champions League place - but also underscores why they have collapsed in the title race.\n\nResults against your closest rivals, while desirable, are not enough on their own.\n\nWijnaldum the man for the big occasion\n\nQuietly and without fuss, Wijnaldum is having a fine impact at Liverpool in his first season since his £25m move from Newcastle United.\n\nHe operates in the shadow of more eye-catching players such as Coutinho, Adam Lallana and Firmino, but he is missed when he is not playing and contributes vital goals when he does.\n\nWijnaldum scored the winner against Manchester City, the equaliser against Chelsea and the vital third goal here. The man for the big occasion.\n\nLiverpool unbeaten in nine against top six\n• None Liverpool are unbeaten in their nine Premier League games this season against the current top six (W5 D4).\n• None Arsenal haven't won any of their last 11 Premier League away games against the other teams currently in the top six (W0 D5 L6).\n• None The Gunners find themselves outside the Premier League top four at the end of a day for the first time since 13 January.\n• None Sadio Mané has both scored and assisted in four Premier League games this season, more than any other player.\n• None Alexis Sanchez has been directly involved in a league-high 26 goals in his 26 Premier League games this season, scoring 17 and assisting nine.\n• None The Liverpool v Arsenal fixture in the Premier League has produced 17 90+ minute goals, more than any other Premier League game.\n\n'Simon Mignolet saved our lives' - what they said\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp: \"It was one of the best games we have played so far because of the strength of our opponent.\n\n\"We did really well. We had hard words after the defeat at Leicester. We analysed it and that wasn't enjoyable.\n\n\"We had another opportunity and we took it today. It's the rollercoaster of the Premier League.\n\n\"All of them played a fantastic game. When we are compact it's fantastic. Adam Lallana can come out of the formation and trigger something. Being compact and stable is the basis of each good display.\n\n\"We knew Arsenal would bounce back in the second half. Alexis Sanchez is the highest quality player and plays different to Danny Welbeck. Simon Mignolet saved our lives.\n\n\"It's important to go back to fourth above Arsenal. We really felt bad last week, we needed a few days to understand what happened.\"\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger: \"Our performance was not at the level we expect in the first half but that is down to a lack of rhythm, we have not played for a while.\n\n\"The collective response was very strong in the second half.\"\n\nLiverpool have over a week to recover before they host Burnley on Sunday, 12 March in the Premier League.\n\nBut Arsenal have no such luck. They welcome Bayern Munich to the Emirates for the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie on Tuesday, 7 March with a 5-1 deficit to turn around.\n\nAnd on Saturday, 11 March they play Lincoln in the FA Cup sixth round.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 3, Arsenal 1. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Divock Origi following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alex Iwobi.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lucas Pérez (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Ragnar Klavan tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by James Milner with a cross following a corner.\n• None Divock Origi (Liverpool) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by James Milner with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt missed. Shkodran Mustafi (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain with a cross following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Andy Murray beat Frenchman Lucas Pouille 7-5 6-1 to reach his second Dubai Championships final.\n\nThe world number one, who was involved in a 31-minute tie-break in his quarter-final, struggled in the first set against seventh seed Pouille.\n\nThe pair broke each other twice before Murray took the set after 68 minutes with his third break.\n\nThe final set was a one-sided affair as the Scot set up a meeting with Fernando Verdasco in Saturday's final.\n\nMurray has now reached seven finals in his last eight tournaments and Dubai is his 14th final in his last 16 events.\n\n\"It was tough and I made a lot of mistakes,\" Murray said. \"But there was some good stuff in there.\n\n\"I think potentially the match yesterday had something to do with that - sometimes if your legs are a little bit tired, the serve is one of the first things that goes.\n\n\"As the match went on, I started serving a bit better and that helped me.\"\n\nMurray, 29, is into his second final of the year but has never won the title in Dubai, losing to Roger Federer in his previous final appearance in 2012.\n\nPlaying his first tournament since his fourth-round defeat at the Australian Open in January, the Scot could extend his lead at the top of the world rankings with victory on Saturday.\n\nHowever, Murray is wary of the threat posed by world number 35 Verdasco, who beat him in the 2009 Australian Open.\n\n\"This week he's had some good wins,\" Murray said. \"Where the balls are fairly heavy here on a quick court, he can generate a lot of power, he can control the ball.\n\n\"And when he's dictating the points, he's one of the best in the world at doing that.\"\n\nWorld number two Novak Djokovic was knocked out of the Mexico Open quarter-finals in straight sets by Australian Nick Kyrgios on Thursday.", "How much should you save per month for a decent pension?\n\nMany of us spend hundreds a month on travelling to work but don't put away much of the money we earn once we get there. So how much should we be saving for our twilight years?", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United remained sixth in the Premier League with a draw against 10-man Bournemouth in a match that had two unpleasant incidents involving Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Tyrone Mings.\n\nBoth occurred towards the end of the first half after the players had earlier been warned by referee Kevin Friend for an off-the-ball incident.\n\nYou have the TV, you can see the images. I jump high and Mings jumps into my elbow\n\nFirst, Mings appeared to land on the back of the head of the United forward as he lay on the ground, and then from a corner, Ibrahimovic elbowed the Cherries defender.\n\nThat last incident was witnessed by Mings' team-mates, including midfielder Andrew Surman who pushed the Swedish striker to the ground.\n\nHe was consequently shown a yellow card, which Friend realised was his second after a long delay. The official eventually pulled out his red card.\n\nThat followed a period of United domination, and they took the lead when Marcos Rojo diverted Antonio Valencia's strike past keeper Artur Boruc.\n\nThe visitors - with only one win in 11 - then grabbed a shock equaliser when Joshua King converted from the spot after Phil Jones had brought down Marc Pugh.\n\nUnited then won a penalty in the 71st minute when Adam Smith handled Paul Pogba's flick. But from the resulting spot-kick Boruc, magnificent during the match, dived to his right to keep out Ibrahimovic's effort.\n\nBournemouth hung on to earn their first league point in five games, but it is the incidents involving Ibrahimovic and Mings that will dominate the back pages.\n• None Relive the action as it happened\n\nFour incidents in five frantic minutes\n\nBournemouth manager Eddie Howe arrived at Old Trafford feeling the effects of a stomach bug - and he would have felt more queasy after what he witnessed near the end of the first half.\n\nSurman's sending off was the culmination of the bruising on and off-the-ball battle between Mings and Ibrahimovic.\n\nBoth had been talked to by Friend moments after the United striker had appeared to push the defender to the ground early on in the opening period. Neither were punished then, nor were they punished just before the break following the two incidents.\n\nThe first was highlighted by a TV replay when Mings, in hurdling United captain Wayne Rooney after tackling him, landed his boot on the top of Ibrahimovic, who was also lying on the turf.\n\nFrom the corner, Ibrahimovic, again closely marked by Mings, appeared to elbow the defender in the face.\n\nA melee then followed which resulted in a yellow card for Surman - his second - for a push on Ibrahimovic.\n\nIn an unsavoury end to the half, Bournemouth assistant Jason Tindall was also sent off for his protestations over the incident during the corner.\n\nUnited fail to take advantage of dominance\n\nIf it was not for the brilliant saves of Boruc, United would have run away with this match.\n\nThe Cherries had conceded 51 goals in the league coming into the fixture - more than any other club - and it could have been 57 inside the first 22 minutes.\n\nBoruc, with a strong sun in his eyes in the first half, made great saves to keep out strikes from Pogba, Rooney and then Anthony Martial. United also twice went close through Ibrahimovic.\n\nAnd in the second half the Polish keeper pushed away another Pogba effort before he capped off his excellent display with a brilliant penalty save.\n\nFrom United's point of view it will be a match in which they had 20 chances and only managed to convert one.\n• None Manchester United's unbeaten Premier League run has been extended to 17 games (W9 D8), and they have not conceded more than once in a game during that run [10 goals conceded].\n• None Ibrahimovic missed a penalty in a league game for the first time since September 2015 for Paris St-Germain against Guingamp - he had scored six consecutively before his failure today.\n• None Artur Boruc was the first goalkeeper to save a penalty against Manchester United at Old Trafford in the Premier League since Boaz Myhill in May 2015.\n• None Boruc has saved four of the past seven penalties he has faced in the Premier League.\n• None Joshua King was only the 14th player in Premier League history to score a penalty at Old Trafford for the opposing side.\n• None King's goal was Bournemouth's only shot on target in the entire match.\n• None Bournemouth have scored all seven of their Premier League penalties this season, more than any other side.\n• None Rojo scored his first Premier League goal in his 54th appearance\n• None United have managed 20-plus shots without winning four times in the Premier League this season, more than any other side.\n\nUnited are at FC Rostov next Thursday in the Europa League last 16, before they face Chelsea in the FA Cup quarter-final a week on Monday.\n\nThey next play in the league, after the Europa League return leg, when they travel to Middlesbrough on Sunday, 19 March.\n\nThe Cherries have a less busy schedule. They host West Ham in the league next Saturday.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcos Rojo (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Juan Mata.\n• None Substitution, Bournemouth. Max Gradel replaces Joshua King because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Joshua King (Bournemouth) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ryan Fraser with a cross following a corner.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Substitution, Bournemouth. Baily Cargill replaces Tyrone Mings because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Tyrone Mings (Bournemouth) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt blocked. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Consider Wednesday's Budget as part of a box set - the latest episode in a financial drama that began with the banking crisis.\n\nLike all good series, there are episodes which allow the scriptwriters to set up the story for a more dramatic encounter later on.\n\nThat will be the case with Philip Hammond - ironically nicknamed \"Box Office Phil\" - as he writes his Spring Budget, experts say. They predict this Budget will be relatively low key, particularly because there will be another one in the autumn.\n\nAnd - to stretch the metaphor even further - we have been told a lot about the plot already. A string of tax and benefit changes that will come into effect this April have been announced in previous Budgets and Autumn Statements.\n\nSo, here is the story so far.\n\nThis will be the last ever Spring Budget, with the main event moving to the autumn from then on.\n\nThe leading man in the Treasury has changed. Philip Hammond is delivering his first Budget as chancellor, following eight delivered by his predecessor George Osborne.\n\nThere's plenty of speculation that Wednesday's Budget could be pretty low key. Don't be fooled, though. Your finances are set to change anyway.\n\nSome of the policies that affect UK residents' personal finances were announced in previous speeches by Mr Osborne, but will only take effect this April. Others were outlined by Mr Hammond in November's Autumn Statement and will also come into force in the spring.\n\nA number will lead to a notable change in the finances of those of working age - particularly a shift in the income tax threshold and the benefit freeze - while others target particular groups of people such as landlords.\n\nThe amount people can earn before they are subject to income tax, known as the personal allowance, is currently set at £11,000 and it has already been announced that it will go up to £11,500 in April.\n\nThe Conservatives have promised to raise this to £12,500 by 2020-21 and increase with inflation after that.\n\nThe threshold for the higher 40% income tax rate will rise from £43,000 to £45,000 in April. However, in Scotland the higher rate will be paid on income above £43,000 a year - owing to the devolved tax powers the Scottish government now holds.\n\nOther changes that had been announced by George Osborne, but which take effect in April, include:\n\nPay rates for millions of workers have already been cemented.\n\nThe National Living Wage will rise from £7.20 to £7.50 in April, for those aged 25 and over. Public sector pay has already been set at a 1% annual rise each year until 2019-20.\n\nSalary sacrifice schemes allow some employees to give up some of their salary in exchange for goods and services. Some items bought under a scheme such as computers, gym membership, and health screening will be subject to tax from April - in effect, salary sacrifice will be cancelled on these items.\n\nThat was announced in Mr Hammond's Autumn Statement, as was mixed news for drivers.\n\nFuel duty will be frozen for a seventh year, but the cost of vehicle insurance may rise owing to an increase in the Insurance Premium Tax from 10% to 12% in June.\n\nNew Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) bands are to be introduced for cars registered from April - zero, standard and premium.\n\nIn May, probate fees will change, costing significantly more for large estates.\n\nFinally, we may hear from the chancellor on a start date and precise interest rate for the new government-backed savings bond.\n\nIn November, the chancellor said that the new savings product offering a \"market-leading\" rate of about 2.2% would go on sale through National Savings and Investments in the spring.\n\nThe bond will be open to those aged 16 and over, subject to a minimum investment limit of £100 and a maximum investment limit of £3,000. Savers must put in their money for three years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBritain's Laura Muir and Richard Kilty won gold at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Belgrade.\n\nMuir, 23, broke Dame Kelly Holmes' British record and the championship record as she won her first major title in the 1500m.\n\nDefending champion Kilty, 27, finished the 60m in 6.54 seconds after team-mate Andy Robertson was disqualified.\n\nAndrew Pozzi claimed Britain's first gold of the competition on Friday in the 60m hurdles.\n\n\"I just wanted to run a quick race. I never envisaged breaking the British record, it's brilliant,\" Muir told BBC Sport.\n\n\"The past couple of years, medals have just slipped away. I'm relieved to get one now.\"\n\nMuir missed out on medals at the 2015 European Indoors and World Championships, where she finished fourth and fifth respectively.\n\nHowever, having already set three European records this year, she pulled away in the final two laps and won by more than two seconds, with team-mate Sarah McDonald coming sixth.\n\nGermany's Konstanze Klosterhalfen took silver, while Poland's Sofia Ennaoui finished third.\n\n\"I'm so happy, it feels like a long time coming to win a medal,\" Muir added.\n\n\"I knew a couple of the girls would have a couple of good sprint finishes so I tried to play to my strengths.\"\n\nLaura Muir is such a different athlete to the one we saw a few years ago. She's had disappointments but she has fought and worked so hard.\n\nShe's covered every base and when you watch her now, you get the sense of, is this another Mo Farah? She has that feeling of superiority and invincibility.\n\nI think Laura Muir just underlined the shape that she's in and her superiority. She can run the 3,000m any way she wants tomorrow, there are no worries about will she be fatigued, because the way she trains and puts hard sessions back to back, there won't be any issues about the way she recovers.\n\nKilty had dominated the heats for the 60m and did not let up in the final as he successfully defended his title.\n\nFellow Briton Theo Etienne, making his senior debut, finished in fifth with a time of 6.67 seconds.\n\n\"When it really matters I'm willing to lay my heart on the line and put in my best performance,\" Kilty told BBC Sport.\n\nRobertson, who finished third in his semi-final and was set to be a strong contender in the final, was left disappointed after being disqualified for a false start.\n\n\"I'm a bit frustrated. I felt like I was in personal best form. I felt like I could have won that today,\" Robertson added.\n\n\"Sadly it's not meant to be. I felt like I would have been contending today but it is what it is.\"\n\nBritain's Laviai Nielsen missed out on a medal in the 400m as she was overtaken on the line to finish fourth.\n\nThe 20-year-old, whose twin sister Lina was forced out earlier in the week with a leg injury, saw Poland's Justyna Swiety grab the bronze, with France's Floria Guei winning gold and Czech Zuzana Hewjonova the silver.\n\n\"Fourth place is agonising, it was just the last bit,\" said Nielsen, who still has the 4x400m relay on Sunday. \"I thought I had it and I tried, I really did.\"\n\nIn the women's 60m competition, Asha Philip looked comfortable winning her heat in 7.25secs, fifth fastest overall going into Sunday's semi-finals.\n\n\"You want to qualify for a good lane and winning that heat helped me,\" the 26-year-old told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I don't want to kill myself because three rounds is hard. The boys have had to do it all in one day so I feel sorry for them. We've got an extra day to recover so I'm grateful for that.\"\n\nMorgan Lake finished eighth in the high jump final, while world indoor bronze medallist Lorraine Ugen qualified for the long jump final at her first attempt.\n\nThe 25-year-old jumped a season's best 6.80m, passing the 6.60m automatic qualification mark. Team-mate Jazmin Sawyers missed that mark but joined Ugen in the final after finishing seventh overall with a best of 6.54.\n\nRobbie Grabarz and Allan Smith qualified for Sunday's high jump final, but fellow Briton Chris Kandu missed out after finishing 10th in qualifying.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nCoverage: Full commentary on BBC Radio 5 live and live text updates on the BBC Sport website.\n\nTony Bellew has been \"underestimated\" in the build-up to Saturday's heavyweight fight with David Haye, says former world champion Richie Woodhall.\n\nWBC cruiserweight champion Bellew, 34, weighed in at 15st 3lb 8oz, lighter than 36-year-old Haye (16st 9oz).\n\nThe pair again traded insults at London's O2 Arena, where Haye starts as odds-on favourite with the bookmakers.\n\n\"I can't believe people aren't giving him a bigger chance,\" said Woodhall, a BBC Radio 5 live pundit.\n• None Quiz: Who said these classic boxing put-downs?\n• None Haye v Bellew: Their rivalry in their own words\n\n\"I don't think it's a foregone conclusion. Everyone is saying a Haye early knockout but I think it will be a tough fight for him.\"\n\nBermondsey-born Haye was cheered by a big crowd at Friday's weigh-in as he prepares to fight at a venue just six miles from where he grew up.\n\nOnly once in his 30-fight career has he weighed in heavier than for this bout.\n\nThe former WBA heavyweight champion mocked the physique of Bellew, who said he was \"over the moon\" to see his rival so heavy.\n\nWill Haye run out of gas?\n\nBellew, who as recently as 2013 was fighting two weight classes lower, reiterated his belief Haye would be short on stamina in just his third fight since returning from over three years out of the sport.\n\nWoodhall believes Haye will be \"extremely dangerous\" early in the fight and expects Bellew to build his tactics around dragging a knockout specialist - who has been in just three 12-round contests - into the latter rounds.\n\n\"It's a classic case of who will land the big shot,\" added 1988 Olympic bronze medallist Woodhall.\n\n\"Bellew's first goal will be to get through the first four rounds, when we know Haye is at his most explosive. If he gets through he will not be home and dry by any means but his fight will then start and he can think about trying to break Haye down.\n\n\"The one thing against Haye is he's only fought a couple of times since 2012. I think he will solely rely on getting Bellew out early.\"\n\n'Neither one of them will be proud'\n\nHaye has been criticised for graphic descriptions of how he intends to hurt his opponent, while Bellew has actively pursued the fight, calling his foe out publicly from the ring after a routine win in October.\n\nThe feud has meant both fighters have been kept apart by security in fight week, and the pre-fight face-off was also conducted with people between them.\n\nBritish Boxing Board of Control general secretary Robert Smith has expressed his disappointment in their behaviour.\n\n\"When it's all over, they will look back and neither one of them will be proud of beforehand,\" added Woodhall, 48. \"You have to have a balance. We all want the fight to sell but you don't want people pointing the finger at the sport of boxing.\n\n\"Psychologically, I think Bellew has played a blinder. Haye has to control his emotions early on. If he ends up swinging early on, missing the target, then the tide turns. I think Bellew wants Haye to come out very aggressively.\"\n\nHaye is attempting to improve his record of 28 wins from 30 fights, while Bellew has 28 wins, two losses and one draw on his record.\n\nThe bitterness between Haye and Bellew has been mirrored by super-lightweight rivals Derry Mathews and Ohara Davies.\n\nThe pair have engaged in insulting social media exchanges and expletive-laden rants before a bout which is the biggest of Davies' 14-fight career, and could help 33-year-old Mathews keep hopes of another world-title shot alive.\n\nWoodhall expects the welterweight fight between Sam Eggington and American Paulie Malignaggi to potentially steal the show.\n\nMalignaggi, 36, has been a world champion at two weights and has shared a ring with stellar names such as Amir Khan, Adrian Broner and Danny Garcia.\n\nWales' IBF featherweight champion Lee Selby will contest a non-title bout against Spain's Andoni Gago, while Ireland's London 2012 Olympic champion Katie Taylor enters her third fight as a professional when she faces Italy's Monica Gentili, who has six wins and as many losses in her career.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChris Wood scored twice at former club Birmingham City as Leeds United won for the third time in four Championship games to move a point behind third-placed Huddersfield.\n\nWood's double, and a clinical late third from Alfonso Pedraza, meant a third home defeat in four for Blues.\n\nAfter Wood's 14th-minute lob, Craig Gardner levelled on 63 minutes with a low, 25-yard left-foot curler.\n\nBut Wood scored from close range before Pedraza sealed the points.\n\nRelive Leeds' win at Birmingham as it happened\n\nWood, who had a prolific half-season on loan at City from West Brom in 2011-12, has 25 goals this season in all competitions - with 22 in the league.\n\nAnd his two goals at St Andrew's take him two ahead of Newcastle's Dwight Gayle at the top of the Championship charts.\n\nLeeds boss Garry Monk, in the stands serving his one-game touchline ban, must have been pleased with his side's finishing, which was the difference against a Blues side who have won just twice in 16 games under Gianfranco Zola.\n\nBirmingham made the much brighter start, David Davis firing into the side-netting from a tight angle and Rob Green diverting Che Adams' angled shot wide, but Blues were then cut open by a classic piece of long-ball football.\n\nFrom defending a corner, keeper Rob Green found Luke Ayling, whose teasing long ball down the inside-right channel just evaded the despairing lunge of Ryan Shotton, leaving Wood in the clear to lift a superb instinctive lob over advancing Blues keeper Tomasz Kuszczak.\n\nThe hosts had chances to level, and Robert Tesche's stunning 25-yard left-foot shot swerved beyond Green but crashed back off the bar.\n\nThe luckless Adams then went close three times in as many minutes, with a header cleared off the line before he diverted Tesche's shot just over and was then denied at close range by Green.\n\nGardner finally brought Blues level, but the hosts were back on terms for only four minutes.\n\nKalvin Phillips squared from the right and young defender Josh Dacres-Cogley lost his footing on the wet, muddy surface in the six-yard box, allowing Wood to turn home from close range.\n\nThen, on 82 minutes, Pedraza wrapped it up with a low left-foot shot into Kuszczak's bottom corner, to send the noisy army of Leeds fans home deliriously happy.\n\n\"The result does not reflect what happened on the pitch but, on the other side, there was a player who touched the ball three times and scored two.\n\n\"We made a few mistakes, but it is difficult to say anything to my team when they have put in a performance like that against a team who are fourth in the league. We are genuinely doing our best. I cannot complain.\n\n\"We have to put right the mistakes, but overall it was our best performance of the season. I need to encourage the players to keep playing like this.\"\n\n\"I didn't enjoy the first 60 minutes. Birmingham were excellent and it was tough for us.\n\n\"We were second best, especially in the first half. They will feel aggrieved that they did not capitalise on the chances they created.\n\n\"But we showed a strong mentality and, in that last half-hour, we were excellent. We scored some very good goals and in the end won comfortably.\n\n\"The subs made a good impact, Pedraza scored his first for the club and we had two great finishes from Chris Wood, especially the first - great improvisation.\"\n• None Jerome Sinclair (Birmingham City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Robert Tesche (Birmingham City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Chris Wood (Leeds United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Che Adams (Birmingham City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Lukas Jutkiewicz with a headed pass.\n• None Goal! Birmingham City 1, Leeds United 3. Alfonso (Leeds United) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Pablo Hernández following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Pablo Hernández (Leeds United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Luke Ayling. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Andy Murray saw off Spaniard Fernando Verdasco in straight sets to win the Dubai Championships for the first time.\n\nThe world number one dropped his first two service games but recovered to win 6-3 6-2 in one hour and 14 minutes.\n\nIt is Murray's first tournament win of 2017 and the 45th of his career, which will see him extend his lead over Novak Djokovic at the top of the rankings.\n\n\"I'm obviously very happy to do it here for the first time,\" said Murray.\n\n\"It's been a good start to the year.\"\n\nMurray went into the final with a 12-1 record against Verdasco, but the Scot made a slow start to the final, losing his first two service games and throwing in four double faults.\n\nHowever, Murray managed to get himself level at 3-3 and was rarely troubled again.\n\nVerdasco, 33, let a 40-0 lead slip in game eight, firing a forehand wide on break point and Murray served out a set in which his returning ability had made up for some erratic serving.\n\nThe Briton's game came together in the second set and a forehand pass gave him the early break for a 2-1 lead.\n\nWhen Murray ran down a seemingly hopeless point to force another break point at 4-2 it was as good as over for Verdasco, and the top seed ended with the kind of clinical service game he had lacked at the start.\n\nThe final proved a far more straightforward contest than his quarter-final against Philipp Kohlschreiber, which saw Murray save seven match points and win an epic 31-minute tie-break.\n\n\"Often when you get through matches like that it settles you down for the rest of the tournament,\" said Murray.\n\n\"It's been quite a few late finishes this week. Maybe the last couple of matches, I didn't start as well as I would like. It's been the same for all the players, a bit tricky with the rain. Once I got going today, I was moving well and I finished strong.\"\n\nAny major celebrations will have to wait as Murray heads to the airport and a 16-hour flight to Los Angeles, with the Indian Wells Masters getting under way next week.\n\nMurray, who will play his first match in the Californian desert next weekend, hopes to improve on a relatively modest record of just one final appearance back in 2009.\n\nLast year, he lost in the third round at both Indian Wells and two weeks later at the Miami Masters.\n\n\"I struggled at Indian Wells and Miami last year, I didn't play so well,\" he said. \"This year has given me great momentum.\"\n\nDespite dropping his opening two service games, this turned into a straightforward win for Murray.\n\nA first title of 2017 takes Murray over 2,000 points clear of Novak Djokovic at the top of the world rankings, and means he is extremely unlikely to be overtaken by anyone until at least the French Open.\n\nMurray's form in Dubai this week suggests not only has he got over his bout of shingles, but also that the defeat to Mischa Zverev at the Australian Open is no indication of a deeper malaise.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nRory McIlroy carded a stunning six-under-par 65 to take a two-shot lead at the halfway stage of the World Golf Championships event in Mexico.\n\nThe Northern Irishman is nine under after a round that included an eagle, as he holed out from 151 yards on the par-four 14th, and six birdies.\n\nAmericans Phil Mickelson and Justin Thomas are tied for second with England's Ross Fisher.\n\nAnother Englishman, Andy Sullivan, is on five under after a 65.\n\nHe is tied for fifth with world number one Dustin Johnson, while England's Tyrrell Hatton is a shot further back.\n\nHatton's compatriot Lee Westwood, the joint overnight leader, stayed at four under after a level-par 71 and is in a five-way tie for 14th that includes compatriot Matthew Fitzpatrick.\n\nWorld number three McIlroy, 27, is playing his first tournament after seven weeks out with a rib injury.\n\nHis round could have been even better but he bogeyed the 12th and 17th.\n\n\"I'm in a great position, but I felt like I could have been a few more ahead,\" said McIlroy.\n\nOlympic champion Justin Rose shot a 72 to move to level par, while American Jordan Spieth is one over and Masters champion Danny Willett is six over.", "The powerful lure of smartphones has created a heads-down culture in many public places. John Mervin in New York came across someone who just might benefit from a little digital detox.\n\nI'd never saved someone's life before, so I wasn't sure of the protocol.\n\nSpeechless incomprehension on my part didn't seem appropriate. But then neither did the young woman's giddy laughter, or her jaunty departure from what could so easily have been the scene of her death.\n\nIt took my daughter's torrent of questions, as we turned away, to force the world back into a semblance of order:\n\n\"Daddy - what was she doing? Why was she on the tracks? What would have happened if a train came?\"\n\nAs we climbed the stairs into New York's gleaming winter sunshine, I tried to explain what we had just seen.\n\nWe'd arrived at Rockefeller Center station on the D train. As in many of New York's underground stations, trains pull in at both sides of the platform. Or, rather, they seem to erupt into the station first on one side, then on the other.\n\nWhen the stations are busy, the platforms feel like narrow, crowded islands of safety. We picked our way along this one, my wife and youngest daughter in front, my eldest daughter and I at the rear.\n\n\"Uh, what's this?\" she said.\n\nI looked over her shoulder. There at our feet lay a young woman of about 20. She was on her stomach with the top half of her body on the platform, while her legs dangled over the tracks kicking pathetically.\n\nShe was stuck. She had also, clearly, been down on the tracks.\n\nAnd just as each commuter imagines, as they stand on the platform edge pondering the end of it all, she had discovered that climbing back up from the tracks is really hard.\n\nThe lip of the platform sticks out so far that you have to climb out as well as up. That leaves you straining to keep half your body on the platform while the other half flails wildly for some purchase in mid-air.\n\nBut unlike in our morbid imaginings, this woman was not in the grips of panic, anticipating her imminent decapitation by the F train which would be screeching into the station in the next few minutes, if not seconds.\n\nShe was laughing! Giggling! So was her friend who half-heartedly leant down to assist.\n\nThe assistance was somewhat compromised by the fact that the friend was holding her mobile phone. Was she hoping to capture this moment with a picture? Or composing a text?\n\nIt's well known that people's compulsive checking of their phones can be deadly. Among young people in America, texting is now the number one cause of car crashes.\n\nMaybe it's also a leading cause of leaving friends to perish when they fall in the river or on to the train tracks.\n\nAbsurd as it might seem, my immediate concern was which part of her body it was OK to touch.\n\nFor the mechanics of dragging her to safety the obvious place to grab would have been her inner thigh. But that seemed indecent. An assault even.\n\nWell, what about the belt loop on the back of her jeans? No! That would wrench her clothing into some painful, awkward position.\n\nBut for goodness sake, she was about to be killed. This wasn't the time to fret about the niceties! So I leant out as far as I could, got hold of her leg somewhere near the knee and, together with her finally-engaged friend, hauled the young woman on to the platform.\n\nNew York's transit authority constantly warns passengers not to go on to the tracks for any reason. But there is a constant stream of stories of people who have done so and been hit, and crushed, by trains, or of people who have fallen and then been struck. There are even a few stories of miraculous escapes.\n\nIn 2015, 50 people were hit and killed by subway trains here. Not that many in a city of eight million, but enough so that for all their drab functionality the stations have an air of profound, nascent danger.\n\nThe islands of safety are surrounded by a lethal void.\n\nThough maybe it doesn't seem that way to someone still young enough to be fearless. The woman I helped did get out alive.\n\nAnd you can guess why she'd been on the tracks. Still laughing, but maybe chastened by my look of horror she said: \"Thanks. Sorry. My phone fell down there. It would have taken them forever to get it back.\"\n\nWhile I turned to clutch my daughter's hand and head upstairs, the young woman and her friend sauntered away. I wonder when she'll be scared?\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nListen to a repeat of the commentary every hour on Sunday from 06:00-13:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra\n\nWBC cruiserweight champion Tony Bellew produced a stunning upset to stop bitter rival David Haye in a thrilling heavyweight contest at London's O2 Arena.\n\nThe Liverpudlian, 34, pounced when Haye suffered what turned out to be an Achilles injury in the sixth round to score a knockdown.\n\nHaye, who had his right ankle strapped, carried on as bravely as he could for the rest of the fight, but was unable to move freely as Bellew seized the momentum.\n\nAnd in the 11th, a second knockdown saw former heavyweight champion Haye tangled in the ropes, the towel enter from his corner and his hopes of a return to the world-title level of the sport left in tatters.\n\nBellew - a big underdog with bookmakers - raced to trainer Dave Coldwell in celebration as he scored a victory which will likely filter through to non-boxing fans far more than his 2016 world-title win at Goodison Park did.\n• None Bellew: I asked Haye to throw in the towel\n• None Bellew broke his hand in early rounds of Haye bout\n• None Listen: 'I’ve beaten the best cruiserweight this country has ever produced'\n\nAnd the bitter war of words leading up to the fight ended with Bellew helping a limping and exhausted Haye back to his corner.\n\nThe two embraced and the beaten, humbled Haye asked for a rematch during a lengthy post-fight interview before heading off to hospital to have surgery.\n\nHow the fight played out\n\nThe first round had those in the O2 Arena intrigued. A hate-fuelled slug-fest or artistic boxing?\n\nThe latter won the day, with Bellew happy to see Haye jump in while he fired off solid replies in-between darting out of trouble.\n\nAnd so established a pattern, Haye taking the centre of the ring, Bellew nearer the ropes.\n\nAs the established heavyweight stalked his man, often they stood statuesque for moments as Bellew looked for Haye's trigger - his own prompt to counter.\n\nBut slipping shots can be a dangerous game and a straight right to Bellew's jaw in the fifth was audible ringside, though nothing could be heard in the sixth as the Arena screamed at the drama.\n\nBoth men went down - Haye twice - though neither faced a count as their falls to the canvas were deemed slips but the sheer punch volume from Bellew then legally felled Haye, who looked stunned and shattered in answering a nine count.\n\nBellew, who stressed his rival would start tiring after four rounds, was then able to dominate, dictating the pace and notably throwing everything at Haye in the seventh in attempt to bring an end to proceedings.\n\nHaye's low blow in the ninth summed up his increasing desperation and, two rounds later, his brave resistance was ended moments after a barrage of punches sent him sprawling through the ropes.\n\nHaving clambered back into the ring, finally his camp threw in the towel, signalling the third defeat of a 31-fight career.\n\n'I've beaten one of the best'\n\nBellew, speaking to Radio 5 live: \"He's probably the hardest puncher in the world, and he's so quick early on, he's like a sprinter. He can really hit but he can also take a few himself.\n\n\"In my eyes I've beaten the best cruiserweight this country has ever produced and one of the best heavyweights. I am honoured to fight in the same ring as him. I've looked up to him.\n\n\"He made the same mistake everybody else does. He underestimated me. Watch me on tape and I'm terrible but in the ring I'm harder to hit than you think.\"\n\nDavid Haye, also speaking to Radio 5 live: \"I've knocked out guys a lot bigger and stronger but he has the heart of a lion.\n\n\"I gave it my best and it wasn't good enough. He was by far the better fighter tonight. He dug deep and took my best shots and put me down.\n\n\"I would love to do it again, I have never been in a fight like that. If the fans want to see it again I would do it again. We'll do it on his terms, in his town - he deserves it.\"\n\nOn his injury he said: \"The ankle was just one of those things. The better man won on the night.\n\n\"It wasn't my night. I didn't land the good shots, I was in good shape but his game was better than mine.\n\n\"It felt like a Rocky movie and I was one punch away from knocking him out but I couldn't quite do it.\"\n\nWhere next for David Haye?\n\nHaye's graphic descriptions of his hopes of damaging Bellew in the run-up to the fight prompted concern from boxing authorities and undoubtedly turned some fans against him.\n\nBut the bad blood meant the contest was expected to sell between 500,000 and 700,000 buys on pay-per-view.\n\nEddie Hearn, Bellew's promoter, believed anything other than an explosive knockout would be a \"disaster\" for Haye, who will now have to either retire or embark on rebuilding his in-ring reputation.\n\nThe 36-year-old will win plenty of plaudits for courageously battling on. But he was unable to land anything too meaningful prior to the critical sixth round.\n\nWith this latest injury added to the reconstructive shoulder injury he received in 2013, have we seen the last of a fighter who once unified the cruiserweight division, won a heavyweight world title and of course took Wladimir Klitschko 12 rounds in defeat?\n\nA rematch with Bellew would be a money spinner, although many will call for retirement instead.\n\nPromoter Eddie Hearn on Radio 5 live: \"We've got to go after a heavyweight world title for Bellew now. I am so pleased for him. He's secured the future for his family and they can live a wonderful life.\n\n\"He is everything you would want in a man, he has a big heart, never gives up, has a wonderful family and I am so happy for him.\"\n\nBellew's jump in weight to claim victory is perhaps even more impressive considering he has had just eight fights at cruiserweight, spending most of his career two divisions lower than the one he competed in in this exhilarating affair.\n\nHe was an English champion at heavyweight at amateur, following in the footsteps of the ringside Frank Bruno, but few gave him hope - and those who did emphasised the survival mission he had on his hands in dodging Haye's early power.\n\nBut he did, the 13 fights he has had since Haye briefly left the sport providing a sharpness his opposite number simply lacked.\n\nRoared on by the likes of Wayne Rooney and AP McCoy in attendance, he shone in a cauldron atmosphere, boxing admirably to complement his reputation as a power puncher.\n\nBellew's stock has never been so high. Unification bouts in the cruiserweight division will likely present themselves and his adaptability in stepping up to over 200lbs could open doors in the sport's showpiece division.\n\nHow much of an impact did that injury of Haye's have? I had Haye up four rounds to one going into the sixth but he didn't win a round after the injury.\n\nThat was pure bravery and guts and up there with anything I've ever seen. They went to hell. It was sensational, scary but sensational.\n\nHad David Haye won in the first round or the 11th round, we wouldn't have questioned his eligibility to chase any heavyweight.\n\nBellew didn't mention Anthony Joshua, so go and chase it, put an offer out to Joseph Parker, put an offer out to Deontay Wilder.\n\nIn the summer, at Goodison Park, there will be enough money on the table to get those guys in the ring.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nA century from England captain Eoin Morgan set up a 45-run win over West Indies in the first one-day international in Antigua.\n\nMorgan's 107 from 116 balls and fifties from Ben Stokes and Sam Billings took England to 296-6 from 50 overs, after Jason Roy and Joe Root fell early.\n\nWest Indies slipped from 36-0 to 39-3 in their chase and came up short despite Jason Mohammed's 72.\n\nLiam Plunkett took 4-40, his best ODI figures, and Chris Woakes 4-47.\n\nIt was a fine performance by the tourists after losing the toss and being asked to bat first on a pitch that was initially slow with rain delaying the start by 30 minutes.\n\nThe second game in the three-match series is at the same venue at 13:30 GMT on Sunday.\n\nMorgan's place in the England limited-overs team was questioned after he opted out of the one-day series in Bangladesh in October because of security concerns, but he has batted impressively since resuming the captaincy.\n\nHe averaged 57.67 in the three games against India in January, scoring 102 in the second match, and brought up his 10th ODI hundred here, a measured beginning the precursor to an attacking end with wickets in hand in the final 10 overs.\n\nComing to the wicket with England 29-2 in the eighth over, Morgan's experience - he came into the game with 173 ODI caps, 16 more than the entire West Indies XI - came to the fore as he built alongside Billings (52 off 56 balls) and later Stokes (55 off 61).\n\nHe was dropped on four by Kieran Powell at slip off Carlos Brathwaite's first delivery, and was restricted to nine off his first 30 balls before accelerating.\n\nMorgan punished spinners Ashley Nurse and Devendra Bishoo when they dropped short, with the pull a profitable shot throughout his innings.\n\nBeing hit on the helmet by a Shannon Gabriel bouncer did not disrupt him, although wicketkeeper Shai Hope offered him another life with a missed stumping on 69.\n\nAfter Bishoo removed Stokes following a partnership of 110, Morgan went to his hundred with a six over midwicket off Brathwaite, who should have had his wicket when England were 38-2.\n\nBrathwaite eventually ran out Morgan backing up in the final over as England added exactly 100 in the final 10 overs of their innings.\n\nPlunkett and Woakes do the damage\n\nWith big names such as Chris Gayle and Kieron Pollard choosing to play in the Pakistan Super League rather than this series, the hosts were hoping their firepower could compensate for a lack of experience.\n\nOne-day wins are vital for West Indies, who, despite being World T20 champions, are ranked only ninth in the 50-over format. They need to be eighth or higher by the end of September to ensure they will take part in the 2019 World Cup in England. Any lower and they will have to take their chances in a qualifying tournament.\n\nThe chase faltered as Evin Lewis pulled Woakes to Billings, Plunkett induced Powell into a leading edge and Kraigg Brathwaite looped a half-hearted pull off Woakes to Adil Rashid at mid-on within 14 balls.\n\nWhen Rashid dismissed Hope to leave West Indies 108-4 in the 25th over, their chances appeared extremely slim, but a first ODI fifty from Mohammed and an attacking 52 off 47 from Jonathan Carter revived hopes in a partnership of 82.\n\nAn excellent catch diving forward from Roy saw Carter fall to Plunkett, who then induced Jason Holder to edge to wicketkeeper Jos Buttler.\n\nMohammed appeared to be struggling with cramp late in his innings and was eventually run out when bowler Steven Finn kicked the ball onto the stumps as the all-rounder attempted a quick single.\n\nAt 210-7 after 42 overs the game was up and, despite some late blows from Nurse and Bishoo, Woakes and Plunkett wrapped up a comfortable win.\n\nStokes' previous experience of England's opponents was a painful one as he was hit for four successive sixes by Carlos Brathwaite in the final over of last year's World T20 final.\n\nThe talismanic all-rounder was in the news in the run-up to this series when he became the most expensive foreign signing in Indian Premier League history as Rising Pune Supergiants bought him for £1.7m. He has also been named England's Test vice-captain.\n\nStokes showed his increasing maturity by playing a patient innings alongside Morgan from 129-4 after 26 overs. Although he launched three sixes late in his knock, he did not hit a single four but still scored at almost a run a ball.\n\nThe 25-year-old did not bowl in the West Indies innings, but Morgan later confirmed he is not carrying an injury.\n\nWest Indies did make a fight of it but the top order did not click and put pressure on the middle order.\n\nKudos to England, they played well. They kept their composure, never lost their focus and are the deserved winners.\n\nWhat they said - England bowling 'outstanding'\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan told TMS: \"We've put in a really convincing performance, having lost the toss and having to bat first on a wicket that was very, very tacky.\n\n\"Posting nearly 300 on a wicket like that, I thought was a really good score.\n\n\"I thought the bowling performance that backed that up was outstanding, in completely different conditions than we're used to.\n\n\"I'm delighted to score a hundred. Runs that contribute towards a win mean that much more. The one I scored in India, where we lost, this outweighs it by a mile.\"\n\nWest Indies captain Jason Holder, speaking to Sky Sports: \"I feel there were quite a few soft dismissals. All our chances - we could be a lot better.\n\n\"If we tighten up in a few areas, limit our extras, hold our chances, I'm not too worried.\n\n\"We can see a lot of promise here. It's a matter of us putting together a strong game and going forward full of confidence.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nAustralia spinner Nathan Lyon took a career-best 8-50 to help his side gain the upper hand on day one of the second Test in India.\n\nThe hosts won the toss and chose to bat but were struggling after Lyon removed three of their top four in Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane.\n\nOpener KL Rahul, who was dropped by David Warner on 61, scored 90 before India were skittled out for 189.\n\nWarner and Matthew Renshaw saw Australia to 40-0 by the close of play.\n\nLeft-hander Renshaw survived a scare as he was dropped by Ajinkya Rahane on nine off the bowling of Ishant Sharma.\n\nIndia had scored 105 and 107 as they were thrashed by 333 runs in the opening Test of the four-match series. And their batting again let them down as Lyon capitalised.\n\nThe 29-year-old managed to get spin and bounce from the pitch as he overtook Brett Lee as Australia's leading wicket-taker in Tests for Australia in India.\n\n\"It's an amazing day for Australia,\" said Lyon. \"There were some cracks in the pitch and I was trying to hit them.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The cinema advert is the first in the service's history\n\nCinemagoers may think they already know what it takes to be a spy.\n\nGenerations of James Bond fans have cheered 007 as he shoots and sleeps his way through a world of sinister villains and exotic women.\n\nThe image is hi-tech, violent, romantic and more than a little cynical.\n\nIt's a world-beating brand, but one today's spymasters are doing their best to keep at arm's length.\n\nAnd so, for the first time, MI6, officially known as the Secret Intelligence Service, is taking on the Bond image on 007's home turf - the silver screen.\n\nOn Monday, MI6 launches its first ever cinema advert, aimed at attracting different types of candidate.\n\nA young woman of ethnically indeterminate background is shown demonstrating people skills and emotional intelligence in a range of everyday situations. This woman, we're told, does not work for MI6.\n\n\"But she could,\" the advert concludes.\n\nSteely-eyed, white male killers, it seems, need not apply.\n\n\"There is a perception out there that we want [Bond actor] Daniel Craig, or Daniel Craig on steroids,\" the SIS' current head of recruitment told the Guardian.\n\n\"He would not get into MI6,\" says the recruitment chief, identified only as Sarah.\n\nRecruiters have long worried about the pervasiveness of the image first portrayed in the pages of Ian Fleming's novels and then seared into public consciousness via the biggest movie franchise of all time.\n\nThe aim of the advert is to wean the public off this grotesquely misleading stereotype.\n\nAccording to the accompanying press release, the advert aims \"to attract people who rule themselves out of a career in MI6 based on their misconceptions about the agency.\"\n\nIt sounds like a long shot, but those behind it seem optimistic.\n\n\"The whole point,\" Sarah says, \"is about getting people who would never, ever think of joining.\"\n\n\"People tend to deselect themselves,\" adds Mark, head of HR. \"We want to prevent that. We want the service to be representative, but also to draw in the capabilities of the workforce at large.\"\n\nIt's part of a continuing drive to recruit from the widest, most diverse cross-section of society, with a particular focus on women and ethnic minorities, both still under represented in the service.\n\nAnother aspect of new effort sees a return of the old \"tap on the shoulder\" method employed for decades, mostly in the cloisters of Oxford and Cambridge universities.\n\nBut if the method will be the same, the locations will be different.\n\n\"Diverse organisations,\" is how Mark puts it, without elaborating.\n\nSome say that the agency's elite image may be punctured by the revelation that a 2:2 degree will make you eligible. Mark says work experience in other sectors is sometimes just as important as a good degree.\n\nOther recruiting tactics display a little playfully appropriate subterfuge to seek out those with interpersonal skills and the ability to influence people.\n\nUnbranded fliers invite you to click on goodwithpeople.uk and take a series of tests. Only those who succeed in the online games find out that they have what it takes for a life in the intelligence services.\n\nThis correspondent scored well on the \"emotion detector\", but not so well on the \"human polygraph\". And when it came to the \"mind changer,\" I failed a text message exercise designed to persuade a friend to attend a surprise party.\n\nI have not been invited to join MI6.\n\nThe advert will run for a month, in cinemas in London, the West Midlands and north west England, partly reflecting the sort of urban areas recruiters look to but also the fact that MI6 can't afford a nationwide release.\n\nAnd will it be shown in cinemas where Bond or similar spy capers are showing?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC Two, Connected TV, Red Button and the BBC Sport website.\n\nBriton Andrew Pozzi won gold in the 60m hurdles at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Belgrade.\n\nThe 24-year-old claimed his first European indoor title in a time of 7.51 seconds.\n\nFrance's defending champion Pascal Martinot-Lagarde took silver, with Czech Petr Svoboda in third.\n\n\"It was a scrappy race so I really had to work hard to get back after a slow start but I'm really happy,\" Pozzi told BBC Sport.\n\nPozzi, who qualified fastest for the final, trailed out of the blocks before surging back to edge out Martinot-Lagarde by 0.01secs.\n\n\"At halfway I thought 'I'm not losing this one' and just gave everything and gave a big dip on the line,\" said the Stratford upon Avon hurdler .\n\n\"It was closer than I would have liked but I got there in the end.\"\n• None Read more: Doyle misses out on final but Muir makes two\n\nIn winning Great Britain's first gold medal of the championships, Pozzi also became the first Briton to win the men's 60m hurdles title since the last of Colin Jackson's three victories in 2002.\n\n\"Forget the time, he's got the title,\" said BBC Sport pundit Jackson, who holds the world record at the event of 7.30 seconds.\n\n\"He fought his way through and showed he is a true champion, that is the most important thing. He will be full of confidence, relieved and happy.\"\n\nGermany's Cindy Roleder won gold in the women's 60m hurdles final, ahead of Alina Talay of Belarus and compatriot Pamela Dutkiewicz.\n\n'I never thought I'd get here'\n\nAfter pulling up with a hamstring injury at the London 2012 Olympics, Pozzi endured several years of chronic foot injuries, having had several operations on both feet.\n\nHe missed out on qualifying for the Rio 2016 110m hurdles final but has been in impressive form this year, running a personal best indoor time of 7.43 seconds at the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix in February.\n\n\"It has been a long old road and I wasn't sure I'd ever get to the level I wanted to be at so to win with grit and determination, I'm over the moon,\" he said.\n\n\"This is the first championships I've come into with a good amount of work behind me and I felt really confident - to feel like I'm starting to get there means everything, it makes it worth it.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United boss Jose Mourinho says he and Zlatan Ibrahimovic will not go \"crying to the media\" about the two controversies involving the Swede in the 1-1 draw with Bournemouth.\n\nBournemouth defender Tyrone Mings, 23, landed on the United forward's head with his studs, but said afterwards the collision was \"unintentional\".\n\nMoments later, Ibrahimovic caught Mings in the face with his elbow at a corner.\n\n\"He jumped into my elbow,\" said the former Paris St-Germain striker, 35.\n\nBoth players could face retrospective action if referee Kevin Friend says he did not see either incident.\n\n\"We are from that generation of street football and football for big guys. We are not the kind of generation who goes to the media and cries about what happened.\n\n\"What counts is the result. Nothing else matters for us.\"\n\nListen: My son was shocked to see Zlatan's elbow - fan calls 606Relive the 1-1 draw at Old Trafford\n\n44 mins: Mings slides into a tackle on Wayne Rooney, also taking out Ibrahimovic. The Bournemouth defender gets to his feet and then hurdles Ibrahimovic, landing on the Swede's head with his right boot.\n\n45 mins: United win a corner which is swung in to the far post where Ibrahimovic and Mings challenge for the high ball.\n\nIbrahimovic catches Mings with his right elbow after winning the header, the Bournemouth defender going down to the ground clutching his head.\n\nBournemouth skipper Andrew Surman pushes Ibrahimovic in the chest, earning a second yellow card from Friend.\n\n45+1 mins: The referee has a conversation with Ibrahimovic and United skipper Rooney, then sends off Surman before restarting play after a lengthy delay.\n\nWhat happens now?\n\nReferee Friend will send his report of the match to the Football Association on Monday.\n\nPlayers can be charged only if a referee says he did not see an incident.\n\nDeliberate elbows and stamping are both red card offences, so would result in three-match bans if either Ibrahimovic or Mings were charged and found guilty.\n\nBournemouth assistant manager Jason Tindall said his players felt Ibrahimovic had elbowed Mings, although he had not seen the incident.\n\nIbrahimovic disagreed: \"You have the TV, you can see the images. I jump, I jump high and I protect myself. Mings jumps into my elbow.\n\n\"I'm not someone who attacks someone off the field. It is not my intention to hurt someone.\"\n\nFormer Ipswich defender Mings was making only his fifth Premier League start after suffering with injuries since joining Bournemouth in an £8m deal in July 2015.\n\nAnd he said he was relishing facing former Barcelona, Inter Milan and Paris St-Germain striker Ibrahimovic before the game at Old Trafford.\n\n\"It was a good battle, you know what you're going to get playing against him. I enjoyed the battle all day,\" said Mings, 23.\n\n\"What he possesses in height, in strength, I also possess. We had to ride a lot of storms but we stood up to the test very well.\n\n\"I've watched him growing up through his career and dreamt of days like this.\"\n\n\"I don't think the referee has seen Tyrone Mings try to stamp on Zlatan's head. I was right there,\" said the England international, 31.\n\n\"That's wrong in football. Everyone likes tackles in the game but to try to stamp on a player's head - there's no room for it.\"\n\n\"Zlatan Ibrahimovic is insulting people's intelligence when he says Mings jumps into his elbow.\n\n\"I think that comment is going to get people at the FA's backs up. He shouldn't have said anything.\"\n\n\"When Ibrahimovic jumped up for that header he was looking at Mings and not the ball.\n\n\"He's led with his elbow and he knew exactly what he was doing. The referee has made a complete mess of that.\"", "Clarence Chessum survived only a few weeks on the front and left behind two children\n\nIf you think of the Imperial War Museum as a place full of tanks, interactive displays and a Spitfire hanging above an exhibition hall - its beginnings were very different. As the museum marks its centenary, it is making public the very personal mementoes in its first collection.\n\n\"Dear sir, I have sent some of the incidents of my dear son's life. Have no relics. You may find a use for them. His loss can never be made up. Was almost always with us.\n\n\"We were nine round the table, now I am only one.\n\n\"Excuse me troubling you with all this but it's life as it is.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Imperial War Museum is marking its centenary by showcasing some early exhibits\n\nThe letter was from Sarah Chessum, a mother whose son had been killed in the trenches of the World War One in March 1917.\n\nShe was responding to a call from a new type of museum being created as a memorial for a war still being fought.\n\nThat museum, now the Imperial War Museum, is celebrating its centenary by making some of these earliest items public for the first time.\n\nThe museum began by asking for personal keepsakes of soldiers who had died - such as last letters, photographs or personal items - with the request printed on ration books.\n\nIt was as much a memorial shrine as a museum, with bereaved relatives such as Sarah Chessum hand-delivering or posting these poignant items.\n\nCharlotte Czyzyk, a World War One historian at the museum, says even a century later these letters are \"heartbreaking\".\n\nSarah's son, Clarence, had left for France in January 1917, and barely eight weeks later he was dead.\n\nHe was aged 37, a bookbinder from north London, a slight figure of 5ft 3in, who had left two children.\n\nJoy Hunter met Stalin at the Potsdam Conference in 1945 and gathered pieces of Hitler's desk\n\nAnother letter came from Gilbert Salisbury, a Canadian soldier who survived the War, but whose wife had died in 1918 from Spanish flu.\n\n\"The end of the War means for the world at large peace and happiness, where it means for me desolation and sorrow,\" he wrote, in his contribution to the museum.\n\nThousands of families sent in pictures and letters - stored at the museum's first location, in Crystal Palace, in south London.\n\nWeapons and equipment were also collected - with the very first acquisition a lifebuoy from the Lusitania, a liner sunk by a German submarine in 1915.\n\nThe idea of creating a museum in 1917 reflected the need to respond to the unprecedented scale of the conflict.\n\n\"There was still no end in sight for the War,\" says Ms Czyzyk.\n\nWhile the War was still being fought, items were gathered from the front\n\nThe previous year had seen the monumental battles of the Somme on land and Jutland at sea.\n\nThere was conscription, and more women were going into work. The War was touching every part of society.\n\n\"This was a type of war that had never been seen before,\" says Ms Czyzyk.\n\nThe war museum would be a form of memorial, and its building blocks would be the stories and pictures of ordinary families caught up in these extraordinary events.\n\n\"They're saying, 'This was my boy, I'd like you to have this photograph to help remember him.' That would have been a really big thing for that family,\" says Ms Czyzyk.\n\nA lifebuoy from the Lusitania was an early acquisition\n\nMillions visited the museum in Crystal Palace and then in South Kensington. And then in 1936, the museum moved to its current home in Lambeth - in a building previously occupied by the Bethlem Hospital for the mentally ill.\n\nAt the outbreak of the World War Two, the museum's collection had its own call-up, with some \"historic' weapons on display pressed back into action.\n\nThe modern Imperial War Museum group includes one of the wartime nerve centres - the Cabinet War Rooms, where Winston Churchill worked underground while London faced Nazi air raids.\n\nThe museum's collection of war objects was headed by a lifebuoy from the Lusitania\n\nJoy Hunter worked as a secretary in this underground communications centre - and as well as the fog of war, she had to contend with the fog of Churchill's cigars.\n\nNow aged 91, she remembers the strange subterranean world, where an evening could end with the staff watching a film with Churchill, in his pyjamas and drinking whisky, in a makeshift cinema.\n\n\"We found him very affable to civilians - other people will tell you different stories - but he was always very pleasant to us and would say stop and say good morning or whatever,\" she says.\n\n\"I've a feeling that it was a relief for him to have civilians, perhaps it made him feel more normal.\"\n\nMillions of visitors came to see the war relics put on show in Crystal Palace\n\nShe remembers how difficult it was to keep the prime minister underground during air raids, when he wanted to go up on to the rooftops to watch.\n\nMrs Hunter says it is hard for people now to understand how they worked - \"in total war and total secrecy and total silence\".\n\nMrs Hunter typed the battle orders for D-Day and on the defeat of the Nazis, she flew to the Potsdam conference where Churchill met Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and US president Harry Truman.\n\nShe got to meet the Soviet leader in person.\n\n\"I kept very quiet about shaking Stalin's hand because I thought people might think it wasn't quite the thing to have done,\" she says.\n\nThe museum collected war equipment - some of which was put back into action in World War Two\n\n\"I can say it now without blushing too much.\"\n\nBut the appalling conditions in Berlin left her \"stunned\".\n\nThe city was filled with the \"stench of death\", she says, with the population looking like \"zombies\" and begging for food.\n\nShe had seen the damage from air raids on London, but Berlin was much worse.\n\nShe went to the victory parade in the city, but took no pleasure from it.\n\n\"I felt very awkward. I didn't feel very victorious at all. I just thought this is horrendous,\" she says.\n\nJoy Hunter was at the Potsdam conference, where Churchill met Stalin and Truman\n\nMrs Hunter brought home part of the shattered city - in pieces of marble from Hitler's desk, which she had found in the ruins of the Nazi leader's chancellery.\n\nHer own memories are now the stuff of museum displays - but she says anyone looking back should not glorify war.\n\n\"Of course, we should remember, but you can't live in the past,\" she says.\n\n\"We should remember and take it with us and make sure that it doesn't happen again. But who knows?\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nJermain Defoe scored in his first international appearance since 2013 as England took another comfortable step in their qualifying campaign for next year's World Cup with victory over Lithuania.\n\nGareth Southgate's first game at Wembley since succeeding Sam Allardyce on a permanent basis provided few alarms as England remain firmly in control at the top of Group F.\n\nSunderland striker Defoe, 34, justified his call-up with a typically clinical finish after 21 minutes and a lively performance that suggested he still has a part to play under this manager.\n\nAnd when Southgate needed someone to break Lithuania's stubborn resistance after the break, substitute Jamie Vardy obliged from close-range in the 66th minute, converting a subtle touch from Liverpool's Adam Lallana inside the area.\n\nBefore kick-off there was a minute's silence inside the stadium for the victims of last week's London attack. There was also a tribute paid to former England manager Graham Taylor, who died in January.\n• None Quiz: Can you name England's oldest goalscorers?\n• None What is Southgate's best England XI? Pick your own side\n\nEyebrows were raised in some quarters when Southgate recalled Defoe to the squad having last represented his country against Chile at Wembley in November 2013.\n\nDefoe's inclusion, however, represented perfect sense with a record of 14 Premier League goals and two assists in a Sunderland side propping up the table and England's main striker Harry Kane out injured.\n\nAnd so it proved as he pounced in trademark fashion for his first England goal in four years and four days since scoring in an easy win against San Marino, clipping a clinical finish high beyond Lithuania keeper Ernestas Setkus after 21 minutes from Raheem Sterling's delivery.\n\nDefoe had already brought one crucial block from the keeper earlier as he stole in on Lallana's pass. He looks like a player full of hunger who has lost none of his predatory, goalscoring instincts.\n\nEngland will face stubborn opposition again before this World Cup qualifying campaign is over and a poacher like Defoe may well come in very handy for Southgate as he plots his route to Russia next summer.\n\nEngland's friendly against Germany in Dortmund on Wednesday was effectively a testimonial for veteran striker Lukas Podolski on his international farewell - with an atmosphere to match in the normally thunderous Signal Iduna Park.\n\nWembley was also on the subdued side because World Cup Qualifying Group F is a hard-sell in terms of excitement for England's fans, who understandably expect Southgate's side to dismiss opposition such as Lithuania with the minimum of fuss.\n\nEngland fulfilled those requirements comfortably in the face of stubborn opponents who sat back and invited them on in the early phases, then seemed intent on damage limitation and no more as any hope of getting a return from this qualifier evaporated.\n\nThere may be more of the same in the remaining home qualifiers against Slovakia and Slovenia but England, once again, are getting the job done as they move closer to reaching the World Cup.\n\nThe old lingering fear remains that the real measure of how far England are progressing under Southgate will come at a major tournaments, where their limitations have been exposed regularly.\n\nSouthgate can be satisfied from what he has got from England's international double header, with a creditable performance in defeat against World Cup holders Germany and victory here against Lithuania.\n\nIf he has a complaint, it could be that England need to be more ruthless in front of goal, paying for wasted opportunities in Dortmund and also missing chances to make this a more convincing margin of victory.\n\nEngland will not find this failing too expensive in a friendly or against mediocre opposition - but it could cost them if the flaws are on show against higher-class in a competitive environment.\n\nIt is why Defoe's marksmanship is currently required and why the return of a fit and in-form Harry Kane will be so welcome.\n\n\"I thought it was one of those afternoons where it's job done.\n\n\"I am not going to eulogise over the performance, but the overall week I think has been really positive in setting the tone of how we want to work.\n\n\"The players have got a good feel about them, a spirit and they see the direction we want to head. For sure, we'll play better than we did today.\"\n\n\"I am very proud of my team because we have been tested by a tremendously strong team - probably the strongest team we have faced until now.\n\n\"We will take a lot of positives from this loss, to see what targets can be set because what we witnessed today in the first half was unbelievable how skilful all those attacking players are and what amount of pressure we were put under.\"\n• None England are the only team to have kept a clean sheet in each 2018 World Cup qualification game so far.\n• None Vardy's goal was his first touch of the match.\n• None Lallana has been directly involved in four goals in his last five England appearances (three goals; one assist).\n• None Defoe is the 22nd player to reach the 20 goal landmark for England.\n\nEngland next qualifier is against Scotland at Hampden Park on Saturday, 10 June.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Arturas Zulpa (Lithuania) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Ryan Bertrand (England) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (England) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Dele Alli.\n• None Attempt missed. Dele Alli (England) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Marcus Rashford with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (England) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dele Alli (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.\n• None Attempt missed. Eric Dier (England) header from very close range is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Marcus Rashford with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dele Alli (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.\n• None Attempt missed. Jamie Vardy (England) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Marcus Rashford with a through ball. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nDate:Venue:Kick-off: Coverage: Listen on BBC Radio 5 live or follow live text commentary on the BBC Sport website.\n\nEngland boss Gareth Southgate must establish an identity for the national side, says Paul Scholes.\n\nSouthgate effectively used a three-man defence in the 1-0 friendly loss in Germany on Wednesday.\n\nIt is the same system used to good effect by Premier League leaders Chelsea and Italian champions Juventus.\n\n\"If he [Southgate] feels that's the right way to go, I think it's a really good way of playing,\" former England player Scholes told BBC's Sportsweek.\n\n\"Over the past few years we seem to copy whoever is doing well, whether it's Spain or Germany. There was a spell when academies were copying what even Belgium were trying to do.\n\n\"I think it's about time now that Gareth and his staff brought an identity to English football and the national team that we can be proud of.\n\n\"It's going to be difficult and it will take a little bit of time, but if he's playing this way and England are being successful then that's what it's all about.\"\n\nEngland's defeat in Germany was their first in four games under Southgate, who was made permanent boss last November after having taken over on a temporary basis following the departure of Sam Allardyce.\n\nSouthgate, who represented England as a player, was previously manager of the under-21 side, after having led Middlesbrough from 2006 to 2009.\n\n\"I really liked Gareth when I played with him,\" said Scholes. \"He was good with the young lads... he's been successful with England which not many players have been, getting to the semi-finals of Euro 96.\"\n\nScholes said that Southgate maybe hadn't fully \"earned his stripes\" at domestic club or European level, but added: \"We've been down the route of so-called super coaches who haven't worked.\n\n\"Now we've got a passionate man in charge, he likes to play young players which is good,\" added the ex-Manchester United midfielder. \"Hopefully the future is bright under him.\"\n\n'Rooney still has a part to play'\n\nIn Germany, England were without captain Wayne Rooney, who will also be missing for the 2018 World Cup qualifier against Lithuania on Sunday as he recovers from a leg injury.\n\nThe 31-year-old has struggled to claim a starting place for Manchester United this season but former team-mate Scholes still feels he has \"a part to play\" for both club and country.\n\n\"He's got great experience and he can pass knowledge on to young players,\" said Scholes.\n\nRooney has been linked with a return to his first club Everton this summer, but Scholes believes staying and reclaiming his place in the United side would aid his England chances.\n\n\"I don't want him to go to another English club, I hope he gets back in the United team,\" he added. \"If he gets back in the United team then he is straight back into the England side.\"", "Lewis Hamilton has one main target this year - to win back the Formula 1 title he felt was unfairly stolen from him in 2016.\n\nNot unjustifiably, in Hamilton's view his former team-mate Nico Rosberg managed to win the championship only because of a reliability record at Mercedes skewed in his favour. As such, in Hamilton's mind, he might have lost, but he was not beaten.\n\nRosberg has gone this year, replaced by the former Williams driver Valtteri Bottas, but that is a detail that does not change Hamilton's primary focus.\n• None Driver battles, failing engines and moustaches - what to look out for in 2017\n\n\"I definitely don't want to finish second,\" the three-time champion says. \"Every year you generally set the same goals but you might add more. All drivers want to win but not everyone has the ability or the opportunity.\n\n\"I am looking for that fourth world championship. It's there for the taking again. I am up against another great driver in Valtteri and hopefully Red Bull and Ferrari will be up there as well.\"\n\nLosing out to Rosberg in 2016 clearly hurt. And, unsurprisingly perhaps, Hamilton has been distinctly prickly when asked about how he was affected by it.\n\n\"Nowhere near as much as you think,\" he said at the launch of the Mercedes car. \"It doesn't change my life. You just move onwards and hopefully upwards.\" And that was your lot.\n\nHamilton turned 32 in February, is heading into his 11th season in F1, and has described himself as \"the same old\" Lewis this year. But Mercedes people detect a subtle shift.\n\nRosberg's decision to retire was always going to shift the dynamic in the team.\n\nHe and Hamilton were the same age and their rivalry went back to their teens, when they were karting contemporaries, team-mates and friends.\n\nThe friendship died, killed by the intensity of being each other's only rival for the biggest prize in motorsport. But there was always an inherent balance between the two.\n\nHamilton's talent and fundamental superiority on the track meant he was always the dominant figure in the team. But the German had been at Mercedes for three years longer and, a much less demanding character, had a more stable relationship with the team and the company.\n\nHe was Mr Corporate and Dependable, whereas Hamilton, for all his greater status and appeal, was harder to manage.\n\nIn one sense, little will change with Bottas' arrival. Hamilton is who he is, and he will be just as determined to win again. He will remain the superstar in the team; the low-wattage Bottas likely an even more hassle-free employee than Rosberg was. The two will have equal status and they will compete for wins in the same way as Rosberg and Hamilton did.\n\nHamilton has made clear some things will not change for him personally. The restless lifestyle, the frequent trips to New York and Los Angeles to pursue his wider interests are still very much on the agenda.\n\n\"Self-motivation is difficult for the human race to find each year and each day,\" Hamilton says. \"I am very lucky I have fans, family and friends who motivate me to grow and be better every day. I will always do the things I do and explore the world and meet new people and new cultures.\"\n\nSome in F1 see this as a negative, as a reflection that Hamilton is not fully focused on the job in hand if he is flying back and forwards across the Atlantic so often. For Hamilton, it is a way of keeping boredom at bay and using a creative outlet to stimulate him and keep him centred.\n\nIn another way, though, there has been a reset for Hamilton this year.\n\nThe baggage and residual complications of Hamilton's rivalry with Rosberg have gone and been replaced with a more fundamentally straightforward team-mate relationship. And removing that tension has simplified matters within Mercedes.\n\nInevitably, Mercedes will lean on Hamilton more - because of his record, his length of time with the team, and because Bottas is inevitably still learning the ropes and does not yet carry the gravitas that repeated success brings.\n\nThat gives Hamilton an opportunity to strengthen his position, which he is already doing by exploiting the influence and motivational possibilities his status gives him.\n\nHamilton, it is said, has if anything been working harder and better than ever during preparations for the season - and so far has stepped up to the leadership opportunity that Rosberg's departure presents.\n\nThere were plenty of frictions between driver and team last year - Hamilton's controversial comments about engine failures; his behaviour at the Japanese Grand Prix when he walked out of a news conference; the team's attempt to interfere in his battle with Rosberg at the final race of the season.\n\nBut these were sorted out in a clear-the-air meeting in the kitchen at team boss Toto Wolff's pristine Oxford home before Christmas.\n\nThe result of all these factors, insiders say, is that they are seeing a more mature and reflective Hamilton so far this year.\n\nWolff said at the Australian Grand Prix on Saturday: \"There was a point towards the end of the year where we sat down and it felt like a reset of the relationship and so many things came out which needed to be discussed. And since then I have perceived him as being in a really good place. He is happy, he is motivated and I have seen the strongest Lewis that I have seen so far consistently over the weekend.\"\n\nHow the pressures of the on-track battle affect all this will be clear only as the season unfolds.\n\nA point to prove, even now\n\nPre-season testing had suggested Mercedes would face some genuine opposition from Ferrari this season, and the opening grand prix weekend in Australia has confirmed it.\n\nHamilton took pole, and looked superb all weekend, but this is a track on which he has usually excelled and Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari was only 0.268 seconds behind him.\n\nAnd the 32-year-old is now expecting a close fight with Ferrari, not just in Melbourne on Sunday, but over the whole season.\n\n\"They are obviously very close and that is great for the fans,\" Hamilton said. \"I wouldn't say there is relief. I truly believe in all the work they have done but in testing I really couldn't have done the lap he had done.\n\n\"But coming here I felt even if we were behind, it doesn't matter because I have the strongest team. The fact we have come here and we are still ahead is a beautiful thing but they are very close I have to keep applying the pressure and that is what I am here to do.\"\n\nThe fact Bottas was within 0.3secs of him in his first qualifying session with Mercedes will have made Hamilton sit up and take notice - he praised the Finn for doing a \"great job\" afterwards. And the prospect of a battle with Vettel is just another reason for Hamilton to be on top of his game this year.\n\nIt is no secret that Hamilton regards McLaren's Fernando Alonso as his only true rival out on track in terms of outright ability - each has expressed their admiration for the other's talent often enough - and the fact Vettel has won more titles than them burns both Hamilton and the Spaniard.\n\nThis season is Hamilton's chance to put the record straight, equal Vettel's tally of four titles and beat him in a straight fight doing it.\n\n\"Ferrari have done such a great job so we have to stay on our toes,\" Hamilton said. \"I am down for the battle with anyone. He is a four-time world champion so of course I want to be racing with him because if I finish ahead it makes me look good, it makes me look better.\"\n\nIt was a theme Hamilton had already addressed over the winter.\n\n\"I've never wished to go out and dominate,\" he says. \"Of course I want to have a car I can fight for a title with, but for the fans it's best when there's multiple teams fighting.\"\n\nFor the first time since the start of Mercedes' domination in 2014, it looks like Hamilton will get his wish.", "Britain's Lewis Hamilton says he is confident he can beat Sebastian Vettel to the world title this year despite defeat at the Australian Grand Prix.\n\nHamilton finished second to the German in the season opener in Melbourne after losing the lead following pressure from the Ferrari driver's superior pace.\n\nHamilton said: \"It is going to be a close race. I truly believe we can beat them. It's great to see Ferrari there.\n\n\"It's good we had this close battle. I'm looking forward to the next.\"\n\nHamilton led from pole position but struggled for pace in the opening laps and after an early pit stop was held up by Red Bull's Max Verstappen, allowing Vettel to get ahead.\n\nHamilton said: \"I wouldn't say I'm happy. But all things in perspective. To see where we have come from, with massive rule changes and to come here and be battling so close for a win and missing out marginally, there are a lot of things to be proud of.\n\n\"We could have won the race but I gave it everything I could and you can't do more. Take the strength of the weekend.\"\n\nVettel said of his title chances: \"There is a long, long way ahead. We have a lot to prove still but for now we are just happy.\n\n\"It is March now. I know people start to get excited but it is our job to work and I am much happier if we are working now and not talking.\"\n\nHamilton said he was looking forward to a close battle with Vettel throughout the year.\n\n\"This year we have the best drivers at the front,\" said Hamilton. \"Of course it would be great to have Fernando [Alonso of McLaren] up there but it doesn't look like it is going to happen any time soon.\n\n\"But Sebastian has four titles and he will continue for many years to come. I am really grateful to have that fight with him. It's great.\"\n\nHamilton defended Mercedes' decision to bring him in for a pit stop earlier than Vettel.\n\n\"My strategy was to stop on lap 19 and I think I stopped on lap 18. I had nothing left in my tyres.\n\n\"I was catching some back markers and the car started to slide around a lot and the gap was reducing behind me and I was like, 'Guys I have to come in now or I'm probably going to get overtaken on track.'\n\n\"I pitted not knowing the gap between the other cars. I came out behind some other cars which I couldn't get by. I said to the team I had to come in because the tyres were dead.\"", "\"Dad, what happens when you die?\" \"I don't know, son. Nobody knows for sure.\" \"Why don't you ask Google?\"\n\nOf course, Google isn't clever enough to tell us whether there is life after death, but the word \"google\" does crop up in conversation more often than either \"clever\" or \"death\", according to researchers at the UK's University of Lancaster.\n\nIt took just two decades for Google to reach this cultural ubiquity, from its humble beginnings as a student project at Stanford University in California.\n\nIt is hard to remember just how bad search technology was before Google. In 1998, for example, if you typed \"cars\" into Lycos - then a leading search engine - you would get a results page filled with porn websites.\n\nWhy? Owners of porn websites inserted many mentions of popular search terms such as \"cars\" in tiny text or in white on a white background.\n\nThe Lycos algorithm saw many mentions of \"cars\", and concluded the page would be interesting to someone searching for \"cars\". In the Google era, this seems almost laughably simplistic.\n\nBut Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were not, initially, interested in designing a better way to search.\n\nSergey Brin (L) and Larry Page (R) were trying to map the credibility of academic papers when they devised Google\n\nTheir Stanford project had a more scholarly motivation.\n\nIn academia, how often a published paper is cited is a measure of its credibility, and if it is cited by papers that themselves are cited many times, that bestows even more credibility.\n\nMr Page and Mr Brin realised that if they could find a way to analyse all the links on the nascent world wide web, they could rank the credibility of each web page in any given subject.\n\nTo do this, they first had to download the entire internet.\n\nThis caused some consternation. It gobbled up nearly half of Stanford's bandwidth. Irate webmasters showered the university with complaints that Google's crawler was overloading their servers.\n\nBut as Mr Page and Mr Brin refined their algorithm, it became clear they had discovered a vastly better way to search the web.\n\nPorn websites with tiny text saying \"cars cars cars\" don't get many links from other websites that discuss cars. If you searched Google for \"cars\", its analysis would be likely to yield results about… cars.\n\nMr Page and Mr Brin quickly attracted investors, and Google went from student project to private company. It is now among the world's biggest, bringing in profits by the tens of billions.\n\nBut for the first few years, Mr Page and Mr Brin burned through money without knowing how or if they would make it back. They were not alone.\n\nDuring the dotcom boom, shares in loss-making internet companies traded at absurd prices, in anticipation that they would eventually figure out viable business models.\n\nGoogle found its model in 2001: pay-per-click advertising. Advertisers pay Google when someone clicks through to their website, having searched for specified terms. Google displays the highest-bidders' ads alongside its \"organic\" search results.\n\nFrom an advertiser's perspective, the appeal is clear: you pay only when you reach people who have demonstrated an interest in your offering.\n\nIt is much more efficient than paying to advertise in a newspaper.\n\nNewspapers have seen a significant decline in display advertising\n\nEven if its readership matches your target demographic, inevitably most people who see your newspaper advert won't be interested in what you are selling.\n\nNo wonder newspaper advertising revenue has fallen off a cliff.\n\nThe media's scramble for new business models is one obvious economic impact of Google search.\n\nBut the invention of functional search technology has created value in many ways. A few years ago, McKinsey tried to list the most important.\n\nOne is timesaving. Studies suggest that googling is about three times as quick as finding information in a library, even discounting the time spent getting there.\n\nLikewise, finding a business online is about three times faster than using a printed directory such as the Yellow Pages.\n\nTraditional directories such as the Yellow Pages have struggled to compete with online search tools\n\nMcKinsey put the productivity gains of this into the hundreds of billions.\n\nAnother benefit is price transparency - economist jargon for being able to stand in a shop, take out your phone, google a product you're thinking of buying and seeing if it's available more cheaply elsewhere, then using that knowledge to haggle - annoying for the shop, helpful for the customer.\n\nThen there are \"long tail\" effects. In physical shops, it makes no sense to display aisle after aisle of obscure products that will be bought only rarely - they focus on a limited range of bestsellers instead.\n\nBut a decent search facility makes it easy to find a needle in the product haystack, and that has enabled the rise of online shops offering more variety.\n\nCustomers with specific desires are more likely to find exactly what they want, rather than settling for the nearest thing available in the local supermarket. And entrepreneurs can launch niche products, more confident they will find a market.\n\nThis all sounds like excellent news for consumers and businesses.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations that have helped create the economic world.\n\nGoogle dominates the search market, handling close to 90% of searches worldwide. Many businesses rely on ranking highly in its organic search results.\n\nAnd Google constantly tweaks the algorithm that decides them.\n\nGoogle gives general advice about how to do well, but it is not transparent about how it ranks results - not least because that would give away the information necessary to game the system. We would be back to searching for cars and getting porn.\n\nGoogle explains how its search works in principle but guards the details of its all-important algorithms\n\nYou don't have to look far online (thanks, Google) to find business owners and search strategy consultants gnashing their teeth over the company's power to make or break them.\n\nIf Google thinks you are employing tactics it considers unacceptable, it will downgrade you.\n\nOne blogger complains that Google is \"judge, jury and executioner\".\n\n\"You get penalised on suspicion of breaking the rules, [and] you don't even know what the rules are,\" they say.\n\nTrying to figure out how to please Google's algorithm is rather like trying to appease an omnipotent, capricious and ultimately unknowable god.\n\nYou may say as long as Google's top results are useful to searchers, it's tough luck on those who rank lower - and if those results stop being useful, then some other pair of students at Stanford will spot the gap in the market and dream up a better way. Right?\n\nMaybe - or maybe not. Search was a competitive business in the late 1990s. But now, it may be a natural monopoly - in other words, an industry that is extremely hard for a second entrant to succeed in.\n\nThe reason? Among the best ways to improve the usefulness of search results is to analyse which links were ultimately clicked by people who previously performed the same search, as well as what the user has searched for before.\n\nGoogle has far more of that data than anyone else. That suggests the company may continue to shape our access to knowledge for generations to come.", "\n• None Preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4. Lightly butter two loose-bottomed 20cm/8in sandwich tins and line the bases with baking paper.\n• None Put the butter, sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder and orange zest in a large mixing bowl and beat for 2 minutes, or until just blended. (An electric mixer is best for this, but you can beat by hand using a wooden spoon).\n• None Divide the mixture evenly between the tins. Level the surface using a spatula or the back of a spoon.\n• None Bake for 25 minutes, or until well risen and golden. The tops of the cakes should spring back when pressed lightly with a finger. Leave the cakes to cool in the tins for 5 minutes, then run a small palette knife or rounded butter knife around the edge of the tins and carefully turn the cakes out onto a wire rack. Peel off the paper and leave to cool completely.\n• None Choose the cake with the best top, then put the other cake top-down onto a serving plate.\n• None Beat together the filling ingredients and spread on one side of the cake, put the other cake on top (top upwards) and spread the rest of the orange cream on top. Decorate with spiralled orange zests.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nSir Bradley Wiggins says he will \"shock a few people\" when he has his say on an investigation into a \"mystery package\" delivered for him in 2011.\n\nWiggins, 36, said controversy over the package delivered while he was riding for Team Sky had been \"horrible\".\n\nUK Anti-Doping is investigating doping claims but there is no suggestion either Wiggins or Team Sky broke rules.\n\n\"It's the worst thing to be accused of when you're a man of my integrity,\" Wiggins told Sky Sports' Soccer AM.\n\n\"It's been horrible. But fortunately there's an investigation and I obviously can't say too much because that investigation will run its course and then I'll have my say.\n\n\"There's a lot to say, and it's going to shock a few people.\"\n\nTeam Sky have admitted \"mistakes were made\" over the delivery of the package at the Criterium du Dauphine but deny breaking anti-doping rules.\n\nHowever they have been unable to provide records to back up the claim by team boss Sir Dave Brailsford that Wiggins was given a legal decongestant.\n\nThe original allegation made to Ukad was that the package delivered by then-British Cycling coach Simon Cope to ex-Team Sky medic Dr Richard Freeman in 2011 contained anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone.\n\nBritain's most decorated Olympian, an asthma sufferer, was granted a TUE to take triamcinolone before the 2011 Tour de France, his 2012 Tour win and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.\n\nThe Department for Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) has sought answers relating to the package and also Wiggins' use of therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs). MPs have also criticised the team's record-keeping.\n\nTeam Sky have said they are \"confident\" no wrongdoing will be found when the inquiry is concluded.", "Dan Walker is joined by Andy Cole and John Hartson to preview Sunday's international matches, including England v Lithuania, Northern Ireland v Norway, and Scotland v Slovenia.\n\nWORLD CUP QUALIFYING COVERAGE: BBC Radio 5 live and live text commentary on the BBC Sport website.", "If you walk down Whitehall in central London, you cannot escape reminders of wars fought and empires run from this small district on the north bank of the Thames. There are memorials to the fallen, statues of field marshals and even a Turkish cannon captured in some long-forgotten conflict.\n\nYet the civil service that once gloried in its global administrative stretch is now the smallest it has been since World War Two. And with the government launching the British state on its greatest administrative, economic and legal reform since it committed the nation to total war in 1939, there is a simple question: is Whitehall up for Brexit?\n\n\"It's been a scramble but the ducks are in a row,\" one Cabinet minister told me confidently.\n\nFor the scale of the challenge is immense.\n\nThousands of civil servants to be mobilised and retasked, thousands of laws and regulations to be rewritten or rejected and thousands of people trained and employed to do the many things currently carried out by the European Union.\n\nThis endeavour is not only about the two years of initial negotiations with 27 EU member states that will shortly begin, it is also about the mammoth preparations the UK must make for leaving the EU whatever the outcome of the negotiations.\n\n\"The challenge of Brexit has few, if any, parallels in its complexity,\" says Sir Jeremy Heywood, the Cabinet Secretary. \"Its full implications and impact on the political, economic and social life of the country... will probably only become clear from the perspective of future decades.\"\n\nSir Jeremy Heywood, the Cabinet Secretary, believes Brexit has \"few, if any, parallels in its complexity\"\n\nPerhaps the greatest challenge the civil service has faced was its utter lack of preparation for the British people voting out in the referendum last June. They were expressly forbidden from drawing up any plans by David Cameron's administration and have been playing catch up ever since.\n\nMinisters say the civil service has responded well, creating two new government departments from a standing start. The Department for Exiting the EU (DExEU) has something north of 320 staff, the Department for International Trade, several thousand.\n\nBoth departments, along with the Foreign Office, have been given an extra £400m by the Treasury over the next four years to pay for their work on Brexit. There were some initial turf wars but officials now say there is greater singularity of purpose.\n\nMuch work has been done analysing options, quantifying markets and assessing laws. Huge volumes of paper have been landing on DExEU desks looking at the impact of Brexit on every aspect of the economy.\n\nThe aim is to allow David Davis, the Secretary of State for Exiting the EU, to draw up an a la carte menu for the prime minister, setting out potential options and costs so that she can navigate the negotiations ahead.\n\nFor there is no doubt that these will be Theresa May's negotiations. The main negotiating team will include Mr Davis, his permanent secretary, Olly Robbins, and Sir Tim Barrow, the UK permanent representative to the EU.\n\nBelow them will be civil servants from all affected government departments, summoned in to work on specific \"chapters\" of the negotiations, on everything from fish to agriculture to financial services. They will be the team dealing with the European Commission negotiators on an almost daily basis.\n\nYet above them will be Mrs May who will have to drive the talks and make the big calls. But such is the size of the task that even the prime minister will struggle to retain her usual iron grip.\n\nOne minister told me: \"This is the first big test to see if she can delegate. This is so big that No 10 cannot control it, they cannot be on top of all the detail.\"\n\nTheresa May has made it clear that she will drive the UK's Brexit negotiations\n\nNot all are so sanguine about the preparedness of Whitehall. The National Audit Office says in a new report that, while 1,000 new roles have been created in the civil service to deal with Brexit, a third remain unfilled and most of the new appointees have simply been transferred from other parts of government.\n\nAnd the Institute for Government warns that departments such as the Home Office and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs are underfunded, cannot afford more staff and will be forced to drop non-Brexit work.\n\nOther insiders warn that, although much work has been done setting out options, less thought has been devoted to how the negotiations will progress themselves and how the government should organise itself. Officials talk of not knowing precisely for what they are preparing because Downing Street refuses to reveal its negotiating plans.\n\nThe process, inevitably, will begin with negotiations about the negotiations. Who will talk to whom, about what and in what order? The UK government wants to discuss its divorce from the EU at the same time as its future trade relationship. The EU says the two issues must remain separate.\n\nUnstitching the UK from EU laws will be an intricate process\n\nThen will come the exit agreement itself. Much will be visceral and hard-fought. Protecting the rights of EU nationals in the UK and vice versa sounds easy as both sides say they want this to be resolved early on and want to keep the status quo. But the hugely complex detail will be hard to agree.\n\nYet sorting that out might be easy compared to agreeing how much money, if any, the UK will owe the EU when it leaves. The government says nothing, the EU is hinting at £50bn. And all this is before any negotiations about any future trade arrangement between the UK and the EU and any transitional process that may be needed.\n\nWhile this will generate a huge amount of work for some in the civil service, many other officials will be focused instead on preparing the UK for leaving the EU come what may.\n\nMuch of this will focus on Westminster. There is the Great Repeal Bill to be written and passed through Parliament to ensure that all EU law is transferred automatically into UK law the moment we leave. The aim is to ensure there is no legal chaos and to allow Parliament all the time it needs gradually to unstitch the UK from four decades of EU legislation.\n\nThis will be a massive piece of legislative work that will require officials to re-examine huge swathes of UK law. They will have to decide which bits of EU law to return to Westminster and which bits are devolved, a tricky issue in light of Holyrood's demand for a second independence referendum. The Institute for Government warns there might be a need for further 15 separate Brexit Bills.\n\nThe UK will have to forge a new trade relationship with both the EU and the WTO\n\nIn the short term, there are a huge number of separate parliamentary inquiries into Brexit - 55 in all - being carried out by various committees of MPs and peers. Ministers have to reply to each one within 60 days and officials are struggling to meet that deadline.\n\nThen there is the process of the UK re-establishing its status at the World Trade Organization (WTO), something that will be needed even if we get a new trade deal with the EU.\n\nThe government hopes to transfer its current EU tariff rates into a new UK-specific schedule of trade commitments. But such a \"copy and paste\" arrangement will be complicated and will almost certainly face challenge from other WTO members. UK diplomats in Geneva, where the WTO is based, have a hard job of reassurance ahead of them.\n\nAnd then there is also the process of creating new organisations that will fill the gaps in our national life left as the EU tide ebbs from our shores. Officials will need to set up new customs and immigration systems, neither of which will be simple or easy.\n\nSo, as the phoney war ends with the triggering of Article 50, Whitehall is facing perhaps its greatest challenge in a generation.\n• None Brexit triggered: What happens now?", "Khalil Rafati's life had been destroyed by drug addiction\n\nAs Khalil Rafati overdosed on heroin for the ninth time the paramedics frantically tried to save his life.\n\nA drug addict who slept rough on the streets of Los Angeles, he eventually regained consciousness after the medical team used a defibrillator to give him an electric shock.\n\nThis was back in 2003, when Khalil was 33 years old. Also addicted to crack cocaine, he weighed just 109lb (49kg), and his skin was covered in ulcers.\n\n\"I was arrested more times than I can remember [for drug offences],\" says Khalil. \"I was completely messed up... I was always in so much pain that I couldn't sleep.\"\n\nWhile Khalil had tried and failed to get clean before, he says that after his ninth overdose he finally realised that he had to change his life in order to save it. So he spent four months in a rehab centre - and has been drug-free ever since.\n\nThrowing himself into healthy living, Khalil has been so successful in rebuilding his life that today he is the millionaire founder and owner of fashionable Californian health food business Sunlife Organics.\n\nKhalil has transformed himself since 2003\n\nWith annual sales of more than $6m (£4.8m) from its six outlets - which combine juice bars and cafes, and also sell the firm's clothing line - and via its website, the company is preparing to expand to 16 other US states and into Japan.\n\nNow aged 46 and accustomed to travelling by private jet, he's come a long way since his days of sleeping on the streets.\n\nIn fact, Khalil's life story could be the plot of a Hollywood movie.\n\nBorn in Ohio in the US Midwest, he is the son of a Polish Jewish mother and a Muslim father.\n\nA troubled childhood saw him leave school without any qualifications, and get arrested for vandalism and shoplifting.\n\nIn 1992, aged 21, he moved to Los Angeles with dreams of becoming a movie star.\n\nThe business sells a range of fruit and vegetable juices\n\nWhile the acting career never really took off, he started playing in local bands, and made a good living cleaning cars for Hollywood stars including Elizabeth Taylor and Jeff Bridges, and Guns N' Roses lead guitarist Slash.\n\nHowever, he soon slid into drug addiction, and his life spiralled out of control. Eventually he was sleeping in cardboard boxes beside other junkies, and dealing drugs to help fund his own habit.\n\nThen after that fateful ninth overdose Khalil's life completely changed for the better. After successfully quitting drugs he kept himself busy by juggling several jobs.\n\nIn addition to working at two rehab centres in Malibu he washed cars, walked dogs and did gardening work.\n\nThe company is due to expand to 16 other US states and into Japan\n\n\"I was able to save money,\" he says. \"I worked hard, seven days a week, 16 hours a day.\"\n\nKhalil also started to become obsessed with making his own vegetable and fruit juices after he met an old friend from Ohio.\n\n\"He was a little bit like a hippie, and started teaching me about vitamins, organic food, super food,\" says Khalil. \"At that moment I was looking for anything that would make me feel better.\"\n\nIn 2007 Khalil rented a house and opened his own rehab centre, Riviera Recovery, for clients who would pay $10,000 a month to stay at the facility.\n\nKhalil now treats himself to travelling by private jet\n\nFor these residents, Khalil would make exotic juice blends such as one he called Wolverine - a mix of banana, maca powder, royal jelly and pollen.\n\nEventually the reputation of these drinks spread beyond the building, with people calling in to buy them.\n\nHis old self was often arrested\n\nRealising that there was enough demand to set up a separate business, in 2011 Khalil launched Sunlife Organics, together with his best friend and then-girlfriend.\n\nFunding the business from savings, the first branch opened in Malibu. Khalil says it was an instant success, with sales of $1m in its first year.\n\nToday the business employs more than 200 people across its six outlets. In addition to juices, it now sells a range of food and clothes, such as t-shirts and hoodies.\n\nRob Nazara, an analyst at Deutsche Bank in New York, says Khalil's story shows real strength of character. \"No matter what the educational or professional background someone may have, the success of an entrepreneur is driven by grit, determination and ambition,\" he says.\n\nBesides Sunlife Organics, Khalil still runs Riviera Recovery and owns a yoga studio in Malibu. He also made time to write his autobiography, I Forgot To Die, which was released in 2015.\n\n\"I don't consider myself super intelligent,\" says Khalil. \"But I have a hunger for life, and put all of myself into something when I decide to do it.\"\n\nFollow The Boss series editor Will Smale on Twitter @WillSmale1\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nJohnston is ranked number 100 in the world England's Andrew Johnston moved two shots off the lead at the Puerto Rico Open after a six-under-par third round of 66. The 28-year-old carded six birdies and did not drop a shot as he moved to 13 under at Coco Beach. American Chris Stroud leads on 15 under in a field that sees the top 25 players separated by just five strokes. Johnston, ranked 100 in the world, has one victory on the European Tour but is yet to win a PGA Tour title.", "Single mothers have often been stigmatised and denounced. Cherry Healey explains why she's proud to be one.\n\nI'm a single mum. I'm glad I live in an age and a place where it's OK to admit that.\n\nWe have moved on so much, so fast. Once, Margaret Thatcher deemed a single parent family so bad for a child that she felt it was better for the mother and child to be removed and placed within a religious group.\n\nWhen I first heard that, I felt such unbelievable pain and heartbreak for all those young mothers that were pressured into following this advice.\n\nAnd it would have had many ripples of pain for the family as a whole.\n\nThe judgement of others is a powerful thing and people will do unfathomable things to avoid bringing shame onto themselves and their families.\n\nAnd this is the judgement that I want to see gone. Completely.\n\nYes we have progressed - but even today there is such an insipid, damaging view of single parents that we need to keep revisiting it until single parents feel free of useless, ignorant judgement - and instead receive respect as parents and support if they, and therefore their child, needs it.\n\nSadly, even in 2017 I felt the cold wind of judgement when I became a single parent. It's hard to know whether the judgement I felt comes from society or whether it comes from myself. I think it is a bit of both.\n\nI hate to admit this, but I had a negative view of single mums before I became one. As I grew up I heard, read and watched society's depiction of The Single Mum, and it certainly wasn't positive.\n\nComedy sketches depicting single mums smoking cigarettes and drinking cider in the park while neglecting their babies, endless newspaper stories about single mothers on benefits draining the system, statements from politicians about the connection between \"Broken Britain\" and one-parent families - all fed my prejudice gremlin until one day, I too was a dreaded single mum. And I began to question everything I'd ever consumed about this subject.\n\nI was happy to discover that I was the same person. I was a good parent as a married woman and I was a good parent as single mother.\n\nMoney was tighter but my ability to maintain order at home, get homework done on time and love my children had not changed.\n\nSeparating and re-establishing my life was difficult but I felt so hugely grateful that at least I was able to pay the bills thanks to my job - and it made me realise that there is so much stigma attached to being a single mother. At exactly the time when the single parent needs support and help, they are stigmatised and judged.\n\nIt also made me realise that for many of us there is a strong, not very flattering stereotype of The Single Mum. And so I wanted to break free from that and give a voice to some single parents that haven't been heard before.\n\nAnd I'm glad to say that any prejudice, both conscious and subconscious, was gradually eroded.\n\nI spoke to Kirsty, a single mother with a terminal illness, who smashes the traditionalist's argument that it's better to stay in an unhealthy marriage, regardless of the circumstances. Even though she was suffering and weak from cancer, she did not regret leaving her relationship and was happy that her daughter's environment was at least peaceful.\n\nShe acknowledges that it was hard caring for her daughter alone: \"I definitely still have guilt over it. There are times at bedtime when she'll cry for her daddy.\"\n\nBut she still feels it was the right decision. She is now able to co-parent with her partner in a more harmonious way. Her message that together is not always best for the child, even in such a challenging situation, was powerful.\n\nI also spoke to Meena, whose story moved me profoundly.\n\nKnowing that she would be disowned by her family, Meena made the decision to leave her husband as the environment had become so toxic that social services had been involved.\n\n\"I come from an Asian background so divorce or separation - that's a no-no,\" she tells me.\n\n\"I was expected to remain in the marriage and make it work and just put up with it,\" she says.\n\n\"If I go to a family function I get looked at like a demon with two horns.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Hart: 'They were all shocked when I said I was keeping the baby'\n\nI was given, and desperately needed, a huge amount of emotional and logistical support from my family during my separation, and it's hard to image the impact the removal of that would have had on my mental state and therefore the indirect impact on my children.\n\nWithout financial, emotional or logistical support, Meena began a new life with her child, with the help of her flexible work shifts as a train driver.\n\nThe resilience was startling but the grace was profound. Even after being rejected by her family, at exactly the moment she and her daughter needed care, she was still working towards a reconciliation for the sake of her daughter's future.\n\nWhen I think about the negative single-mother narrative in the 90s and subsequent reduction of support, and increase in single-mother stigma, it made me feel extremely angry that as a society we leave incredible mothers like Meena fighting against such a huge tide.\n\nAnd for others, the term single parent felt like a strange fit. Rupa (not her real name), an accident and emergency consultant, had decided to go it alone and conceive via a sperm donor. There was nothing \"broken\" about it, a term often placed on to a single parent. It had been carefully considered and planned for.\n\nRupa recalls: \"We met once before the first insemination, and then the next time he came round and donated, and then showed himself out while I was just chilling out in my own bedroom, playing music, and you know he left me a little pot on the stairs and showed himself out.\"\n\nI spent the morning in her house watching her beautiful, happy daughter play and cuddle her mother.\n\nAgain, I struggled to understand why anyone would assume single mothers can't offer as much love and security to a child as a two-parent family.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Before the war: Mai (left) and her sister look out across the Sanaa skyline in 2009\n\nIt is two years since the start of the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen in support of the government ousted by Houthi rebels. In that time, thousands of civilians have been killed, parts of the country devastated and Yemen left teetering on the brink of famine.\n\nHere the BBC's Yemen-born Mai Noman, who has returned to her homeland to film short documentaries, reflects on what has become of her country.\n\nIt's been over two years since I was last here. The only place I call home.\n\nA lot has happened and much has changed. It's hard to keep my feelings in check.\n\nBeside the physical destruction, memories of what once was are buried under the heavy weight of emotional rubble.\n\nMai and her brother grew up in Taiz\n\nAs a Yemeni journalist working in international news, I have had to monitor every twist and turn of the civil war in my country, even when I wanted to look away.\n\nTruthfully, the thought of coming face-to-face with the new reality shaped by the furious conflict in Yemen has terrified me.\n\nBut living through the war from outside Yemen was isolating.\n\nAs we make our way to the capital, Sanaa, on a rugged 10-hour car journey from Aden, I think back to the number of times I quietly broke down after hearing news coming out of Yemen. Working in a newsroom, this happened often.\n\nThis trip takes me from the south to the north - two parts of a country divided by more than mere miles.\n\nIn simple terms, the south is under government control, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, and the north is controlled by the Houthi rebels. But the reality is more complicated.\n\nI've imagined arriving back home hundreds of times in the last few years. But on the day I was totally unprepared for what I found.\n\nUnlike the southern city of Aden, where life seems to be at a standstill, waiting in fearful anticipation of more fighting, Sanaa - apart from the obvious damage - appears the same as ever.\n\nSome beautiful buildings in Sanaa have escaped unscathed\n\nI can feel the rain approaching. After London that should make me shudder, but it somehow feels welcoming.\n\nThe jagged mountains which encompass the city slowly fill with clouds transforming the sky into a splendid portrait of misted rocky peaks. All at once telling me I'm home.\n\nThe Yemeni capital has suffered like other parts of the country, but life there goes on\n\nThere are more restaurants in town than I recall, and many are over-flowing with people.\n\nFor a moment I forget there's a war raging across the country. But then Sanaa can be deceptive.\n\nI feel exhausted by the time we arrive at my cousin Mona's house.\n\nI knock on the door in a typical Yemeni manner - very determinedly. Mona's youngest child, Abdullah, opens the door to greet me.\n\nMai's aunt's car sits where it was hit by a falling missile in the garden of her home\n\nIt's quite quiet here. A minute later I hear Mona making her way down the narrow stairs at the back of the house.\n\nWe embrace with joy. She holds my face to see what's changed.\n\n\"You're still you,\" she says. A lot kinder than comments I receive later about how my hair is too short or the few extra pounds I've gained.\n\nMona is just as beautiful but her voice has changed, she's gone through a lot in the last few years.\n\nThree years ago she lost her father suddenly. She had been very close to him and facing life without him, amid ongoing uncertainty, is hard.\n\n\"He was the biggest support I had,\" she tells me, breaking down in tears.\n\nLife hasn't been kind to her and the war has now brought with it seemingly endless questions.\n\nWould her family be able to leave if it had to? Is it better to be stuck inside surrounded by conflict, or outside separated from relatives and friends? Are Mona's children safe at school or sleeping in their beds? How many more funerals will she have to attend?\n\nEven with the most difficult issues I face in my own life, the choices are never so bleak.\n\nOur lives have become more different than ever.\n\nOver the course of three weeks in Yemen, I reconnect with old acquaintances and hear stories of separation, loss and incredible examples of the tight bonds that keep a community together.\n\nBut something else weighs heavily on my heart. There is one place I wasn't able to visit.\n\nIt's the place where I was born and where a more utopian notion of Yemen was engraved in my mind.\n\nBut sadly my grandmother is no longer with us and Taiz today is unrecognisable, sitting as it does on the frontline of the conflict. I wonder if I'd even know the house.\n\nThe fighting on the ground is brutal, the bombardment by the Saudi-led coalition is relentless and the siege on the city by the Houthis continues.\n\nIt's painful trying to accept the way things have become, one where precious memories have no place among the hardship of this grinding conflict.\n\nTo me, Taiz is where the heart of home is, and there's nothing harder than losing one's home.\n\nWhen I set off for Yemen it was with a mixture of dread and trepidation at what I might find after years of bombardment and fighting.\n\nOn arriving I fell into a false sense of relief that the people were still here; home was, in some form, still here.\n\nIn the days which followed though, it became clear that war damage isn't just the craters and the bombed out buildings.\n\nIt is the suffering of a population watching helplessly as their lives are being torn apart.\n\nThinking of the time I spent fearing what I'd find when I returned home, I know that regardless of the pain of seeing my country at war, the sense of longing to be part of Yemen, for good or bad, will always draw me back.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Sports\n\nScotland beat Sweden 6-4 to take bronze as Canada won gold at the World Women's Curling Championships.\n\nRachel Homan's rink beat Anna Sidorova's European champions, Russia, 8-3 in the final in Beijing.\n\nEve Muirhead's Scots had lost 8-5 to Anna Hasselborg's Swedes in the third-versus-fourth play-off on Saturday.\n\nAfter gaining revenge, skip Muirhead told World Curling: \"It's been a tough week, a lot of ups and downs. To come away with a medal is satisfying.\"\n\nThe Scotland quartet of Muirhead, Anna Sloan, Vicki Adams and Lauren Gray had finished fourth in the round-robin behind Canada, Russia and Sweden.\n\nAfter Canada beat Russia in the first versus second play-off on Friday, the Swedes beat the Scots but then faced a re-match after losing their semi-final 9-3 to Russia.\n\nMuirhead's rink found themselves tied at 4-4 after eight ends in Sunday's bronze medal match.\n\nBut Muirhead's final stone in the ninth end was a perfectly weighted draw and Hasselborg failed in her take-out attempt as her stone glided through the paint.\n\nThat edged Scotland ahead for the first time to take a 5-4 lead into the last end after the steal of one point.\n\nScotland got an early stone on the button in the final end.\n\nAnd, after playing defensively with guards, Hasselborg's attempted take-out again failed to allow Scotland to take another single point and wrap up victory.\n\n\"That was a really strong team performance out there,\" added Muirhead, whose team will hope to contend for a medal at next year's Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.\n\n\"We came out fighting for that medal because we knew we really wanted it.\n\n\"We played a fantastic last end. I am really pleased.\n\n\"That was my first bronze, so I've got world gold, silver and bronze now, so I'm delighted.\n\n\"It's good to have a solid Worlds going into the Olympic Games.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nFerrari's Sebastian Vettel beat Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes in a straight fight as Formula 1's new era started at the Australian Grand Prix.\n\nVettel's first win since the Singapore GP in September 2015 was final proof Mercedes' domination is over after the introduction of faster cars.\n\nHamilton started in pole but Vettel had an advantage on pace and tyre wear.\n\nThe German pressured Mercedes into an early pit stop and benefited when Hamilton was held up by Max Verstappen.\n\nFerrari were simply quicker in Melbourne and the world champions were forced into a position where they had to make a decision that did not work out.\n\nMercedes were telling Hamilton he needed to up his pace to build a gap before his pit stop. The Briton was complaining his tyres were going off and he had no more pace.\n\nMercedes had the choice of leaving him out and risking Vettel passing him by and stopping earlier, or bringing him in and hoping Red Bull's Verstappen would stop soon afterwards or that Hamilton could pass him.\n\nHamilton returned to the track 1.7 seconds behind Verstappen. He soon caught him and was told by his engineer Peter Bonnington: \"This is race-critical - you need to pass Verstappen.\"\n\nHamilton replied: \"I don't know how you expect me to do that.\"\n• None Champs and chumps: Your (and our) season predictions\n• None LISTEN: The moment Vettel seals first win since Singapore 2015\n• None 'I don't know how you expect me to do that' - Hamilton feels the pain\n\nSure enough, Hamilton was quickly on Verstappen's tail but could not pass for four laps.\n\nVettel stopped on lap 23 and rejoined right in front of the Red Bull and Hamilton, fended off Verstappen's challenge into Turn Three and disappeared off into the distance.\n\nBy the time Verstappen stopped himself on lap 25, Vettel was nearly six seconds up the road.\n\nHamilton could keep pace but no more, and found himself being caught by team-mate Valtteri Bottas, who had struggled in the first stint, dropping back 10 seconds in 17 laps, but closed in on the former world champion in the second stint to finish just 1.2 seconds behind. This was because Mercedes had turned down Hamilton's engine once they realised he was not going to catch Vettel.\n\nWow, Ferrari are as fast as Mercedes\n\nFerrari's pace was not exactly unexpected - the red cars had looked competitive in pre-season testing and Vettel qualified less than 0.3 seconds behind Hamilton.\n\nMercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said on Saturday evening that his team faced \"a hell of a fight\" this season - and they are right in it following Vettel's imposing victory.\n\nMercedes accepted that the Ferrari was simply a faster race car on Sunday - something that was clear from Vettel's ability to stick close to Hamilton in the opening laps despite the turbulent air from the Mercedes costing him aerodynamic downforce.\n\nIs the racing better?\n\nThe leaders might have made only one pit stop, which some might not like, but the intensity of the fights created by cars that test drivers to their limits for the first time in years made for a compelling afternoon.\n\nHowever, the suggestion from this race is that a corollary of the quicker cars may well be that racing is harder.\n\nAs FIA president Jean Todt said before the race in a media briefing, this may have been a price the sport had to pay to return it to a position closer to its essence than the tyre-managing era of the previous six years.\n\nHome hero Daniel Ricciardo had a turbulent afternoon. The Australian's Red Bull stopped on the way to the grid.\n\nIt was returned and Red Bull were able to get it going again, but not before the race was two laps old.\n\nRicciardo was sent back out and told \"to have some fun\" but the car stopped for good after about 30 laps.\n\nBritain's Jolyon Palmer also had a difficult weekend, starting from the back after a troubled qualifying and suffering brake problems before an early retirement.\n\nFernando Alonso looked poised to rescue a surprise point for a McLaren-Honda team that came to the race in disarray after reliability and performance problems with the Japanese company's engine.\n\nBut while running in 10th place and holding off Force India's Esteban Ocon, which had been behind for a long period, the Spaniard's car suffered what he suspected was a suspension problem.\n\nHe was passed by Ocon and Renault's Nico Hulkenberg in one go and then was told to retire the car.", "Anthony Crolla was outclassed in his bid to regain the WBA lightweight title as talented Venezuelan Jorge Linares produced a superb display at Manchester Arena.\n\nCrolla - unanimously outpointed when the pair met in September - was rarely able to get close enough to his opponent to cause damage and was dropped by a stinging Linares uppercut in the seventh round.\n\nThough he responded admirably, roared on by around 15,000 in the arena, Crolla always looked at the mercy of Linares' variety of shots and even when pockets of promise arrived for the home fighter, he often quickly faced blows in return.\n\nThe pair embraced on the bell, Crolla sporting a look of frustration as his opponent's hand was raised with the scores 118-109 on all three scorecards.\n• None Listen to the fight again here (from 06:00 BST on Sunday)\n\nThe hope was this boxing cauldron could witness a Manchester fighter memorably upset the odds some 12 years after Ricky Hatton stunned Kostya Tszyu here on a night those present still talk glowingly about.\n\nThe reality was that Linares' combination of pedigree, experience and will to trade with ferocity if needed, proved too much.\n\nA world champion by 21, Linares has held world crowns in three weight divisions. The 31-year-old's 14 years as a professional showed as he picked his shots with guile, the uppercut finding its target on several occasions as his upper-body movement consistently opened up the shot.\n\nCrolla, who admitted he \"lost to the better man\", deserves credit. His career has been a rollercoaster from the moment he suffered a fractured skull and broken ankle when trying to apprehend burglars in 2014. A draw and victory against Darleys Perez saw him claim a world title within a year, only for Linares to take it in what was Crolla's second defence.\n\nThe rematch was never the same contest. Though those in attendance sang passionately for their fighter - a heavy underdog - they could not shake a man who looked ice cool and has now contested 41 of his 45 fights outside of Venezuela.\n\nHe will now seek a Las Vegas payday against WBC champion Mikey Garcia, while Crolla will likely need to rebuild domestically if he is to come again at world level.\n\nHow the fight played out\n\nAs Tony Bellew screamed \"show no respect Ant, make it ugly\" from ringside, Crolla embarked on a workmanlike opening two rounds. His guard was constantly high, Linares by comparison confident to lower his own when not at close range.\n\nIt meant Crolla was unable to get up close to his opponent as Linares' free hands were piston-like to keep his man at distance. His shots were blisteringly quick, a two-shot combination ending with a right uppercut in the third.\n\nCrolla gutsily stepped forward to close ring space - a feat he claims he let slip late in the pairs' first meeting - and he finally smothered Linares in the fourth, landing two uppercuts at short range. But Linares snapped the home fighter's head back with a sublime uppercut of his own in six, dipping his body to the left before launching the shot with thrust.\n\nIt drew a collective grimace from the crowd. Linares - at times tip-toeing with grace and constantly exuding confidence - dropped his man with the same shot in seven. Crolla rose and pumped his hands in defiance as the crowd tried to lift him but as both men walked to their corners, Linares sported a grin of satisfaction.\n\nNow cut above his left eye, Crolla responded with the grit which has endeared him to so many in recent years. A left hook to the jaw and later the body landed in the 10th but he was never able to find a pace or land the shots which could fluster an opponent of such class.\n\n'I am so sorry, Manchester' - what they said\n\n\"Manchester, I am so sorry I couldn't do it for you. Your support means so much to me. He caught me but before that I thought I could get to him. I got beaten by the better man - no excuses.\n\n\"I am 30 years old, I am going to rest, but I believe I can go again.\"\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 5 live, Crolla added: \"I could just not pin him down. I was pleading with Joe (Gallagher) to let me go on (for the last round), and you still believe you can land a shot.\n\n\"I'm gutted I couldn't do it in front of these fans.\"\n\nCrolla's trainer Joe Gallagher told BBC Radio 5 live why he wanted to take Crolla out of the fight after the 11th round.\n\nGallagher said: \"I thought we were not going to win this, but Anthony pleaded and said 'let me go on'. He wanted to go out on his shield.\n\n\"Linares was very good and everyone could see what a great world champion he is. You have seen one of the best pound for pound fighters in the world.\"\n\nPromoter Eddie Hearn told BBC Radio 5 live: \"I thought after the first fight Jorge Linares would not perform a career-best performance and he did. He was absolutely brilliant.\n\n\"It is so hard when Anthony Crolla comes up to you and says 'I'm so sorry'. You lost on points to one of the best pound for pound fighters.\n\n\"We will choose an easier world title. Anthony Crolla will be back 100%, he is an ultimate professional and a credit to himself.\"\n\nCrolla has the heart of a lion. He tried his best to fight him, box him, out-think him, but Linares had too much skill, too much movement.\n\nThere is nothing worse than when you miss the shots and then get hit. It is demoralising. He didn't look hurt in there, but he was out-skilled and out-boxed.\n\nThe crowd cannot perform miracles and Linares was a magician in there. When you lose to a man like that, there is no shame for Crolla.\n\nLinares was simply too good and too classy for the game and the brave Anthony Crolla.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nAnthony Crolla will consider moving up to Ricky Burns' weight class to pursue \"big fights\" following his rematch defeat by Jorge Linares on Saturday.\n\nAfter the WBA lightweight title defeat to Venezuelan Linares, promoter Eddie Hearn raised the prospect of Crolla moving to light-welterweight.\n\n\"With the notice I'd certainly grow into that,\" said Crolla, 30.\n\nA move up opens the prospect of facing the winner of Scot Burns' unification bout with Julius Indongo on 15 April.\n\nCrolla added: \"Physically I feel strong. I was as big as Linares in there tonight.\"\n• None Listen to the fight again here (from 06:00 BST on Sunday)\n\nHearn said: \"Ricky Burns could unify the division on 15 April. I wouldn't rule out the option of moving up to fight the winner.\"\n\nCrolla weighed in at a fraction under the 135lbs lightweight limit before his meeting with Linares, so a move to the 140lbs division looks physically within reach.\n\nScotland's Burns has also made similar weight jumps, winning a world title at super-featherweight, moving on to do the same at lightweight and he now holds the WBA crown at light-welterweight.\n\nIndongo holds the IBF strap, while highly-rated American Terence Crawford - undefeated in 30 fights - holds the division's other titles.\n\nSporting stitches above his left eye, Crolla told reporters that in the third round against Linares, he had aggravated a rib injury picked up in training, with trainer Joe Gallagher nodding when his fighter was asked if the rib was broken.\n\nLinares could now face WBC lightweight champion, American Mikey Garcia, while the IBF belt in the division is held by fellow American Robert Easter and Manchester's Terry Flanagan holds the WBO crown.\n\n\"I'm going to have a break with my family now,\" added Crolla. \"I feel like I'm improving in camps still. I believe there will be plenty of options and fights out there for us and I still want to be involved in those big fights. I think I've had a pretty tough two years.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChris Martin scored late on as Scotland saw off Slovenia to keep their slim hopes of reaching the World Cup alive.\n\nThe home side produced an excellent first-half showing, with Leigh Griffiths hitting the bar then post.\n\nThe visitors improved after the break but substitute Martin's left-foot finish with two minutes left won it.\n\nScotland, whose head coach Gordon Strachan had described this match as a must-win, are now fourth in Group F, two points behind Slovakia in second.\n\nEngland are top of the table on 13 points after their 2-0 win over Lithuania earlier on Sunday.\n\nStrachan picked Kieran Tierney, Celtic's teenage left-back, at right-back and turned to Griffiths as his main striker.\n\nWith their backs to the wall, Scotland came out fighting with an intensity that set Slovenia rocking.\n• None How the players rated with Billy Dodds\n\nThe game was only a minute old when keeper Jan Oblak dived away to his right to keep out a Russell Martin volley from a Robert Snodgrass corner, but the siege on the Slovenian penalty area carried on and on.\n\nMartin caused more bother a few moments later when he headed home from another Snodgrass cross, but the big defender was done for a push. Then it was Griffiths' turn, his angled header, after excellent work from the terrific Stuart Armstrong, drifted wide.\n\nThis was a different Scotland and a jittery Slovenia. Defensively, they were an unadulterated mess. Offensively, they scarcely existed save for one effort from Roman Bezjak that Craig Gordon dealt with.\n\nTowards the end of the opening half, Scotland upped the ante and came painfully close to scoring. James Morrison thundered a shot just wide, then it became the Griffiths show, a mini soap opera amid a major drama.\n\nA fine Scottish move saw the splendid Andy Robertson put Snodgrass away down the left side of the penalty box. The West Ham midfielder clipped a precise cross towards the back post where Griffiths was lurking. The Celtic man had to score, simply had to. Instead, from point-blank range inside the six-yard box, Griffiths smashed his volley onto the crossbar.\n\nIt was a miss that shocked Hampden. There was a small crowd in the old place, but their groans were almost deafening in that moment. A minute later, though, Griffiths had another chance when a great surge and nice delivery from Armstrong presented another chance to the Celtic striker.\n\nThis was considerably harder, and he made a good fist of it, steering his right-foot shot off the inside of Oblak's left-hand post. The ball rolled across goal and was hoofed clear. Griffiths was desperately unlucky.\n\nIn this mad flurry, there was another Scottish opportunity. A further minute on from Griffiths' second chance, Morrison had a looping header cleared off the line by Valter Birsa. All this good stuff, all these chances and nothing to show for it was torture for the hosts.\n\nGriffiths took a dunt from Oblak in the dying minutes of the opening half and he was replaced by Steven Naismith in the opening minutes of the second half. Scotland lost their edge as the game wore on, though.\n\nThey had huge amounts of possession but not enough accuracy and nothing like the chances they had earlier in the game.\n\nThere was one, however. A good one. With 15 minutes left, Ikechi Anya replaced Snodgrass and within seconds, more slapstick Slovenian defending created an opportunity for the substitute. With time and space, he tried to curl his shot around Oblak, but didn't get nearly enough on it. Oblak made an easy save. Hampden held its head in its hands again.\n\nStrachan brought on Chris Martin in a frantic attempt to salvage the victory they desperately needed. And what a twist he served up. Martin was booed on to the field by sections of the home support, but with two minutes left, more clever work from Armstrong set up the striker, who hit his shot low past a stunned Oblak and in off his left-hand post.\n\nIt was a thoroughly deserved winner on a dramatic night. Scotland found their best performance of the campaign and get to dream on. Strachan, meanwhile, lives to fight another day.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Jasmin Kurtic (Slovenia) because of an injury.\n• None James Forrest (Scotland) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Miral Samardzic (Slovenia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Scotland 1, Slovenia 0. Chris Martin (Scotland) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong.\n• None Scott Brown (Scotland) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Steven Naismith (Scotland) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Chris Martin. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The jacket and briefcase were precious possessions of two refugees\n\nThese are two unremarkable items with a remarkable story: a traditional embroidered jacket and drab, brown leather briefcase.\n\nThey belonged to a man and a woman who lived in Punjab in undivided colonial India, had been introduced to each other by their parents and were to be engaged when violence broke out in 1947.\n\nThe troubled subcontinent was lurching towards a bloody partition as it split into the new independent nations of India and Pakistan. Communal violence erupted, leaving between half a million and a million people dead and displacing millions of people.\n\nPunjab was divided - western, mostly Muslim parts went to Pakistan and eastern, mainly Hindu and Sikh parts, went to India. The newly-engaged man and woman were Sikhs living in what is now Pakistan.\n\nThe jacket and the briefcase were their most valuable possessions as they fled their homes to escape death as communities butchered each other in a prolonged frenzy of religious rioting.\n\nThree of Bhagwan Singh Maini's brothers had already been slaughtered in the violence, so the 30-year-old man stuffed his certificates and property claims in the fraying briefcase and fled his home in Mianwali.\n\nMore than 250km (155 miles) away, in Gujranwala, Pritam Kaur's family slipped out of their house and put her on a train to Amritsar.\n\nMs Kaur, 22, travelled across the blood-stained border with her two-year-old brother on her lap. In her bag was her most precious possession, the phulkari (embroidered) jacket, a reminder of happier days.\n\nBhagwan Singh Maini and Pritam Kaur reunited in a food line at a refugee camp and got married\n\nTorn apart by what turned out to be one of the greatest mass migrations - or transfers of population - in human history, the two landed up in teeming refugee camps that dotted Amritsar city. They were among about 12 million people who had crossed the new borders.\n\nOne day, in the food line, a miracle happened.\n\nBoth Mr Maini and Ms Kaur had joined the queue of bedraggled, hungry refugees. There, they met again.\n\n\"They exchanged notes about their tragedies, wondering if it was destiny that had brought them together once more. Their families, or whatever was left of them, also reunited in due course,\" says Cookie Maini, daughter-in-law of Bhagwan Singh Maini.\n\nIn March 1948, the two got married. It was an austere ceremony; both families were struggling to pick up the pieces.\n\nMs Kaur wore her favourite jacket. Mr Maini got together his certificates and papers from his briefcase to start a new life: he joined the judicial service in Punjab, got a small house in compensation and moved to Ludhiana with Ms Kaur.\n\nThe couple had two children, who both served as civil servants. Mr Maini died some 30 years ago; Ms Kaur died in 2002.\n\n\"The jacket and the briefcase,\" says Ms Maini, \"are testimony to the life they lost and found together.\"\n\nThe couple reunited in line in a refugee camp at a time when millions were crossing the new borders\n\nThey now survive as two of the most valuable possessions of India's fledgling Partition Museum, which opened in Amritsar in October.\n\nBy early next year, the museum, housed in the magnificent and restored Town Hall, will showcase photographs, letters, audio-recordings, belongings of refugees, official documents and maps and rare newspaper clippings relating to the event.\n\n\"This will be the most comprehensive archive on the partition, and the only museum of its kind in the world,\" says Mallika Ahluwalia, chief executive officer of the two-floor, 17,000 sq ft Partition Museum.\n\nThere are the stark black-and-white pictures of the never-ending caravan of Hindu and Muslim refugees, trudging wearily to what will be their new homes. Bullock carts overflow with sparse belongings and withered humans. Millions of refugees were on the move; one single convoy was reported to have stretched for 10 miles.\n\nTrains awash with the blood of murdered refugees steamed across the new borders. Too few police and soldiers were deployed to check the ensuing violence. Historian Ramachandra Guha says the \"protection of British lives was made the first priority\". Women bore the brunt of the violence: tens of thousands were abducted. Many, but not all, were eventually recovered.\n\nTent cities sprouted all over the country to house the displaced farmers, artisans, government workers, traders and labourers. By 1950, there were some 200,000 refugees in squatter colonies in the eastern city of Calcutta alone.\n\nRefugees abandoned millions of hectares of their own farm land and many received scant compensation: a widow who lost her husband's 11,500 acres of land in two districts which went to Pakistan was given 835 acres in a village in Indian Punjab.\n\nThe bloodbath continued months after the event\n\nMonths after the event, the bloodbath was still continuing. The front page of a Punjab-based newspaper in October paints a picture of utter despair and anarchy in the state.\n\nArmed mobs were attacking villages, towns were plunged into darkness, there is a story about the \"moon coming to the rescue of millions\" after a power outage as well as accounts of a cholera outbreak, floods and details about millions of people stranded in refugee camps awaiting evacuation.\n\n\"Life here continues to be nightmarish,\" wrote India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in October 1947. \"Everything seems to have gone awry\".\n\nUntil you hear - and see evidence of - stories of hope and redemption, of lives lost and recovered, as in case of Bhagwan Singh Maini and Pritam Kaur.\n\nWith these stories and more, the museum in Amritsar hopes to remind people of an event which author Sunil Khilnani described as \"the unspeakable sadness at the heart of the idea of India\".\n\nPioneering Indians is part of the India Direct series. It looks back at men and women who have helped shape modern India.\n\nOther stories from the series:", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Johanna Konta rediscovered her best form as she thrashed Pauline Parmentier of France in straight sets to reach round four at the Miami Open.\n\nKonta, seeded 10th, took charge from midway through the first set to win 6-4 6-0 in 63 minutes.\n\nShe next faces Lara Arruabarrena in the last 16 after the Spaniard upset eighth seed Madison Keys 7-5 7-5.\n\nRafael Nadal celebrated his 1,000th Tour match with a 0-6 6-2 6-3 victory over German Philipp Kohlschreiber.\n\nIn the men's doubles, Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares beat Paolo Lorenzi and Joao Sousa 6-0 6-3 in round two.\n\nKonta, 25, had struggled for form since reaching the Australian Open quarter-finals in January, and had needed two hours and 40 minutes to beat qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich in her opening match in Miami.\n\nIn less windy conditions on Sunday, the British number one found the rhythm on both serve and return that has seen her rise dramatically up the rankings in the last two years.\n\n\"I'm happy to have come through that,\" Konta said.\n\n\"Although the scoreline doesn't show it in the second set, I still had to work hard within every single point. I really tried hard not to take my foot off the gas and stay focused on what I wanted to achieve.\"\n\nThe first six games went with serve as Parmentier's big serve kept her in touch, but when Konta converted her third break point for a 4-3 lead it sparked a brilliant burst of form from the Briton.\n\nKonta dropped just five points in the second set, and only seven points on serve in the entire match, as she powered through.\n\nShe is now one win from at least matching last year's run to the quarter-finals, where she lost to Victoria Azarenka.\n\nWorld number one Angelique Kerber came back from a break down in each set to beat American Shelby Rogers 6-4 7-5.\n\nThe German will next play Japanese qualifier Risa Ozaki, after the world number 87 saw off Kerber's compatriot Julia Goerges 7-6 (7-5) 6-3.\n\nWorld number 31 Kohlschreiber was superb as he took his first set against Spaniard Nadal to love in just 21 minutes.\n\nIt was the first time Nadal had failed to win a game in the first set of an ATP Tour match since 2008 but the 30-year-old produced a typically gutsy comeback to claim his 822nd career victory.\n\nHe becomes the 11th player to compete in 1,000 Tour matches - a group led by American Jimmy Connors (1,535).\n\n\"One thousand matches is a lot of matches. Obviously that's good news because that says I am having a long career,\" said 14-time Grand Slam champion Nadal.\n\n\"During a lot of years, I heard that I'm going to have a short career, so it's something important for me. I remember the first match very well because it was at home in Mallorca. It was my first victory on the ATP and was a great feeling.\"\n\nIn the men's singles, second seed Kei Nishikori of Japan beat Spanish 25th seed Fernando Verdasco 7-6 (7-2) 6-7 (5-7) 6-1.\n\nCanada's third seed Milos Raonic withdrew before his match against American Jared Donaldson with a recurrence of a hamstring injury, saying: \"It was not possible to compete today without putting myself at significant risk.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nBy Luke Reddy BBC Sport at the Manchester Arena\n\nRio 2016 Olympian Lawrence Okolie took just 20 seconds to score a knockout win on his professional debut.\n\nThe 24-year-old British cruiserweight caught compatriot Geoffrey Cave with two solid right hands.\n\nThe bout followed Anthony Crolla's points defeat by Jorge Linares at Manchester Arena.\n\n\"Sorry to everyone that missed me fighting,\" Okolie tweeted. \"The good news is a Won by KO in 20 seconds!! Bad news is I'm back in the cage for now.\"\n\nLondon-based Cave, 33, has now lost all three of his professional fights.\n\nOkolie competed at heavyweight and lost to Cuban Erislandy Savon at the last-16 stage at the Rio Olympics.\n\nHe hopes to become a world champion within four years and is scheduled to fight on the undercard of Ricky Burns' super-lightweight unification bout with Julius Indongo on 15 April.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nFormula 1 is too expensive, too complicated and the cars are too reliable, according to Jean Todt, president of governing body the FIA.\n\nHe added that it was the responsibility of the FIA to make the rules, in the context of a desire by new commercial rights holders to make changes.\n\nHe said F1 would \"never go back\" to the inefficient but loud, naturally aspirated engines of 10 years ago.\n\nHe added it was \"essential\" there was less disparity in pace between teams.\n• None F1 is sexy again, but will it be better?\n\nFrenchman Todt, 71, was talking at a media briefing at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, three days after the new commercial and sporting bosses of the F1 Group, Sean Bratches and Ross Brawn, had set out their own vision for the sport.\n• None The future of engines in F1\n• None A lack of competition and too big a spread between teams\n• None The future of television and concerns over pay TV\n\nBrawn set out a vision similar to Todt's, of a desire to \"be proactive to work with the teams and the FIA to make F1 as great as it can be - with close racing, healthy teams and a true meritocracy of drivers\".\n\nAnd he talked about his desire to be involved in resolving both short-term and long-term issues, while observing the correct governance procedures.\n\nTodt emphasised that the FIA had \"legislative and regulative\" authority in F1.\n\nHe said he was \"happy\" the F1 Group had employed people as experienced as Brawn and Bratches, and that the FIA and the new owners - a US corporation formerly known as Liberty Media - were in a \"honeymoon period\".\n\nBut he said: \"They will never be in a position to write the rules. They will always be written by the FIA.\n\n\"We are ready to make a collective effort to make F1 as good as possible\".\n\nF1 has introduced new rules this year to make the cars faster and more demanding, and Todt said he felt the early indications were they had been a success, adding the cars looked \"great\".\n\nBut he said that as the sport looked towards signing new contracts with the teams beyond 2020, he wanted to make changes.\n\nHe said he felt the cars were \"too sophisticated, too expensive, too complicated and in a way too reliable\".\n\nHe said the technical sophistication of the teams meant they were prepared for all eventualities far better than in the past, referring to the data transfer between teams at race track and factory over a grand prix weekend.\n\n\"F1 doesn't need that,\" Todt said. \"It needs action and emotion. We lose a lot of emotion on the track and we need to address that, even if all the teams are reluctant when talking about it.\"\n\nTodt recognised that the new rules might make overtaking more difficult but said: \"Overtaking has always been a problem in motor racing. But maybe this was the price to pay to get more aerodynamic downforce.\"\n\nHowever, he said that there was room for it to be addressed by \"a compromise\" in the next set of regulations.\n\nThis echoes remarks made by Brawn. He said: \"We should work out how we can make the aerodynamics as benign as possible so cars can actually race each other. That's never truly been done.\n\n\"Can we come up with a set of regulations where we can still use the power of aerodynamics to give us the speed and spectacle of the cars, but in a more benign way so they can at least race each other more closely without it having an impact? That is my ambition, that is my objective.\n\n\"We want to work with the FIA and the teams to achieve that.\"\n\nTodt was involved in the introduction of the complicated and expensive turbo-hybrid engines into F1 in 2014.\n\nThese have had a revolutionary effect on efficiency but have been criticised for having an unevocative noise and many fans would like to see a return to loud engines.\n\nThere is an ongoing discussion as to whether the engine formula should be changed after 2020, but Todt said F1 would not turn the clock back.\n\nHe said he saw a future for both electric and fuel-cell engine technology in motorsport but that F1 \"would still be with a more conventional engine\".\n\n\"But does it mean we are intending to go back to what we had 10 years ago? It will never happen,\" added Todt.\n\n\"Motorsport has a social responsibility and F1, as the pinnacle of motorsport, has even more social responsibility.\"\n\nHe added that the engines were still too expensive for customer teams and wanted to reduce the current bills of just under $20m (£16m) a year to $12-15m (£9.6m-£12m).\n\nTodt said he was concerned about the potential effect on audiences of the switch to pay television.\n\nBut he said he had been \"impressed\" by Bratches and his record at ESPN in the US.\n\nBratches said on Thursday that he would try to offset the effect of the switch to Sky's exclusive deal in the UK in 2019 by exploiting various methods of digital media.\n\nA number of teams are known to be pushing back against this philosophy, believing a major presence on free-to-air television to be essential.\n\nTodt said: \"If you have to pay, it is obvious you will have less audience. It is something that needs to be addressed.\n\n\"I know they are really considering that. There are a lot of other ways of communicating.\"\n\nHe added that access for the written media was \"more than important - it's essential\".\n\nTodt said he was concerned by the fact that there was more than two seconds between the top 10 cars on the grid in Australia and he wanted to gap to be more like 0.7-0.8secs.\n\n\"There is too big a discrepancy between the smallest and the biggest budget.\"\n\nBrawn said: \"We have to flatten off the field and that means finding ways of limiting the potential of the regulations or limiting the resources that teams have available.\"", "Spare a thought for those who are bestowed with troublesome names. That can happen anywhere, of course. But, in Zambia, Chris Haslam came across some very surprising choices.\n\nUnder a darkening sky on a dusty, potholed track in eastern Zambia, a small boy is struggling to push a large, Chinese bicycle. Its handlebars, crossbar and panniers are stacked impossibly high with yellow jerry cans, firewood and a sack of rice. Because the boy needs both hands to keep the bike upright, he can't sweep the flies from his eyes. But this seven-year-old is labouring under a much heavier, but less visible burden.\n\nHis name is Mulangani. It's a Nguni word meaning \"punish me\". Or \"he who must be punished\", if you want to get formal. Who, I asked my driver Mavuto, would give their child such a horrible name?\n\n\"Maybe his grandfather, maybe the chief,\" he shrugged, explaining that across Zambia and neighbouring Zimbabwe, it is common for parents, especially in rural areas, to invite community elders to choose the name of a newborn.\n\n\"Sometimes the chief wants to punish the family,\" says Mavuto. \"Or he may think this new child is too much for the family to bear.\"\n\nWatching the boy's Sisyphean progress towards his distant home, that name suddenly seems disturbingly apt, but he's not the only one cursed with a dismal name. In later days, I meet Chilumba - \"my brother's grave\", Balaudye - \"I will be eaten\", Soca - \"bad luck\" and Chakufwa - \"it is dead\".\n\nI also meet Daliso, whose name means \"blessings\" and Chikondi, which means \"love\". Maybe it's me, but they do seem happier.\n\n\"In African culture, there is a trend of naming children according to the circumstances surrounding their birth,\" says Clare Mulkenga-Chilambo, a care worker at SOS Children's Villages in Zambia. \"It's good for those born at bright and merry moments but unfortunate for the others.\"\n\nAnd there are a lot of others. HIV and Aids have ravaged Zambia, and although infection rates are now falling, 55,000 adults and 5,000 kids became infected in 2015. Countrywide, an estimated 380,000 children have been orphaned by Aids and 85,000 are living with HIV.\n\nAsk Massiye, or \"orphan\", or Chisonis - \"sadness\", or the sad-eyed Chimwamsozi, whose name means \"drinker of tears\". Or nine-year-old Komasi, whose name means \"kill him\", and his little brother Komaniso, aka \"kill him also\".\n\n\"Most Zambians have several names,\" says Kangachepe Banda. His name means \"well off\" or \"richness\", and as a safari guide he's doing OK.\n\n\"You're talking about the first one. It's called the zina la bamkombo- or the name of the umbilical cord. After a birth, the mother and child hide away until the cord drops off. On that day, the baby is presented to family and neighbours, and the person honoured with choosing the name makes his decision.\"\n\nUse of this name is supposed to be limited. It's supposed to be kept between the namer and the named - a dark reminder to the growing child that one person saw into his or her soul at birth.\n\nThe church, says Clare Mulenga-Chilambo, offers deliverance. \"Most people turn to Christianity and on baptism, they are given Christian names,\" she says. \"This gives them the opportunity to give up their traditional name, which is often seen as the cause of whatever misfortune they could have been facing in their lives\".\n\nBut there are some here who see opting for the homogenised anonymity of John, James or Mary as a dereliction of tradition. Others feel that the names must be kept not just out of respect to elders but also as a guarantee of ancestral protection.\n\nIf the name maketh the man, then surely Zambia's notoriously grim prisons are full of unfortunates who've been saddled with names like Chidano, Mapenzi and Chananga - that's \"hatred\", \"trouble\" and \"wrongdoer\" respectively?\n\n\"It's possible,\" concurs Muvato. Growing up, he knew a kid called Chiheni, which translates as bad boy, or thug.\n\n\"He ran away from home when he was 12,\" he says. \"He is in prison in South Africa for the attempted murder of a security guard.\"\n\nMeanwhile, little Mulangani - he who must be punished - has scrounged a lift in the back of our pick-up to his home. It's a tin-roofed hut with a neat vegetable patch patrolled by bickering chickens and a dog called Imbwa. Which means \"dog\".\n\nSometime soon, says Mulangani, I'm going to be baptised. My new name will be Emanuel. It means God is with me.\n\nAs we drive away, there's a storm brewing in the west. The potholes are getting deeper and the clutch is playing up. As the first fat raindrops splatter the dusty windscreen, it suddenly strikes me that I haven't asked Mavuto what his name means.\n\nHe grimaces as he struggles to find third gear.\n\n\"It means problems,\" he says.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nNorthern Ireland remain on course for a World Cup play-off spot thanks to an impressive qualifier win over Norway.\n\nJamie Ward's strike put the hosts in front inside two minutes and Steven Davis set up Conor Washington to fire in the second on 33 at Windsor Park.\n\nAlexander Soderlund hit the crossbar in the first half but it was a disappointing start to Lars Lagerback's managerial reign with the Norwegians.\n\nNorthern Ireland are two points clear of third-placed Czech Republic.\n\nWorld champions Germany beat Azerbaijan 4-1 in Baku on Sunday to remain five points ahead of Michael O'Neill's side in Group C.\n\nThe Czechs earned a 6-0 win over bottom-placed San Marino on Sunday, with Azerbaijan a further point back and the Norwegians surely out of contention 12 off the pace following their defeat at Windsor Park.\n\nWard's strike gave Northern Ireland the perfect start as the Nottingham Forest striker justified his return to the starting line-up by arrowing in his shot from 20 yards.\n\nIt set the tone for a dominant first-half display from O'Neill's team although Norway provided a rare threat when Soderlund's dipping volley crashed off the woodwork.\n\nThe lead was doubled on 33 minutes with a pinpoint through-ball from skipper Davis sending Washington clear and the striker slotted in from 10 yards.\n\nNorway improved after the interval but they struggled to carve out clear-cut openings.\n\nNorthern Ireland keeper Michael McGovern did make a good save to keep out a long-range Havard Nordtveit free-kick but it was mostly huff and puff stuff from the visitors.\n\nMichael O'Neill's first game in charge of Northern Ireland was a 3-0 defeat by Norway in February 2012. How times have changed.\n\nFresh from guiding his team to the Euro 2016 finals, he has fashioned a superbly drilled unit boasting relentless energy and confidence.\n\nO'Neill made four changes from the 4-0 win over Azerbaijan in November, with a new strikeforce of Ward and Queen's Park Rangers forward Washington while Craig Cathcart's return saw a switch to a back three.\n\nDespite a new system and forward line there was a fluency in Northern Ireland's play and O'Neill has instilled a work ethic in the players exhibited by constant pressing of the opposition.\n\nNorthern Ireland fans will hope their manager will remain at the helm and take them to the finals in 2018, but O'Neill is increasingly catching the eye of ambitious clubs in England and Scotland.\n\nAnother majestic performance from the Northern Ireland skipper, who makes the game look so simple as the heartbeat of the team.\n\nHis through-ball to Washington for the second goal was a highlight in a display of calmness and class.\n\nThe 32-year-old Southampton midfielder was always available, always in the right place and led by example.\n\nNorthern Ireland are next in qualifier action in Azerbaijan on 10 June.\n\nO'Neill's side have a home friendly against New Zealand eight days prior to the Baku contest.\n• None Attempt blocked. Oliver Norwood (Northern Ireland) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Matthew Lund.\n• None Attempt saved. Niall McGinn (Northern Ireland) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Offside, Norway. Even Hovland tries a through ball, but Mats Møller Dæhli is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Joshua King (Norway) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Håvard Nordtveit.\n• None Attempt saved. Håvard Nordtveit (Norway) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Scotland won a third Six Nations match in the same campaign for the first time since 2006 to send departing coach Vern Cotter out on a high at Murrayfield.\n\nStuart Hogg's long-range penalty put the hosts ahead before Finn Russell finished off heavy pressure to score.\n\nReplacement Matt Scott touched down the second for a 15-0 lead, with Italy's Carlo Canna missing three penalties.\n\nThe Azzurri botched two scoring chances before further tries from Tim Visser and Tommy Seymour sealed a bonus point.\n\nFour tries brought Scotland's tally for the championship to 14, surpassing their record, set last year, of 11 for a Six Nations campaign.\n\nDespite their three victories, the Scots had to settle for a repeat of last year's fourth-place finish, on points difference, after victories for France against Wales, and Ireland over England.\n\nThis was a 12th Six Nations defeat in a row for Italy, who finished with the Wooden Spoon for a 12th time in 18 seasons.\n\nIn the Edinburgh rain, mistakes were inevitable but the opening half was an error and penalty-fest, a grind that Scotland slowly but surely took control of.\n\nItaly were a creative desert, a line-out horror-show, a goal-kicking nightmare. They lost four of eight line-outs in the first 40 minutes and missed three out of three kicks at goal. Two of those were straightforward, but Canna made a hash of both.\n\nScotland were ahead with a booming Hogg penalty, but the hosts had serious problems of their own despite having the lead.\n\nReferee Pascal Gauzere got on their case early and he kept pinging them all day long. The Scots conceded five penalties in the opening 20 minutes, seven in the first 40 and a stratospheric 12 by the early minutes of the second half.\n\nOf course, they also had a healthy lead by then. The first came at the end of mountainous pressure, Ali Price eventually put Russell over in the corner. The downside was that they lost Huw Jones to injury in the creation of the score, Scott replacing him.\n\nUnlike poor Canna, Russell's kick was good and Scotland were ahead 10-0. Canna missed a second sitter and, soon after, Scotland had a second try when Price chipped over the top close to the Italian line for Hogg to win the aerial dual against Giovanbattista Venditti and bat the ball back into Scott's path. The centre had the easiest job in dotting it down.\n\nScotland had battled their way into the lead with the knowledge that Italy's second-half performances have been a calamity in this Six Nations. Before this game they conceded 70% of their points in the second half and an average of 20 points in the last 20 minutes of the second half.\n\nIt was Italy who came back strong, though. They camped themselves in the Scottish 22, forced Hogg into making a try-saver on Angelo Esposito, then went again. They won penalty after penalty. John Barclay disappeared to the bin and they won more penalties after that.\n\nWhen it looked like they were about to break through, Edoardo Padovani knocked on with the line at his mercy. It was painful stuff for the visitors. They were undone by Scotland's defence, yes, but mostly by their own lack of wit. Italy had a chronic lack of imagination and accuracy.\n\nJust after the hour, Scotland got their third try when Hogg scampered up the left wing, chipped ahead and Visser got the touchdown. Russell's conversion made it 22-0. For them, it was all about the four-try bonus point now.\n\nScotland started to hit their stride and the crucial fourth try came after multiple phases drained the life out of the tiring Italians, Russell's lovely hands finding Hogg who put Seymour over. Once again Russell, kicking beautifully, was successful with the conversion.\n\nJob done for Scotland. A third win in a championship that has seen them score more points (122) and more tries than they have ever done in the Six Nations. A decent farewell to Cotter, a man who has done so much to take the Scots from despair to hope.\n\nReplacements: 16-Brown (for Ford, 66), 17-Dell (for Reid, 56), 17-Berghan (for Fagerson, 66), 18-Du Preez (for Wilson, 49), 19-Swinson (for Gilchrist, 57), 20-Pyrgos (for Price, 54), 22-Weir (for Scott, 73), 23-Scott (for Jones, 26).\n\nReplacements: 16-Ghiraldini (for Gega, 41), 17-Panico (for Lovotti, 63), 18-Chistolini (for Cittadini, 41), 19-Van Schalkwyk (for Fuser, 54), 20-Ruzza (for Biagi, 75), 21-Minto (for Mbanda, 54), 22-Violi (for Gori, 54), 23-Sperandio (for Canna, 63).", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsene Wenger will announce \"very soon\" whether he will remain at Arsenal after reaching a decision on his future.\n\nThe Gunners boss was speaking after a 3-1 Premier League loss at West Brom, a fourth league defeat in five matches.\n\nThe loss increased the pressure on the beleaguered Frenchman and left Arsenal facing the prospect of failing to finish in the top four for the first time since he joined the club in 1996.\n\n\"I know what I will do,\" said Wenger. \"You will soon know.\"\n\nThe 67-year-old continued: \"Today I do not necessarily worry about that. We are in a unique bad patch we never had in 20 years.\n\n\"We lose game after game at the moment and that for me is much more important than my future.\"\n\nWenger's contract expires at the end of the season but he has been offered a new two-year deal.\n\nAnalysis - 'My reading is he'll go'\n\nFormer England striker Alan Shearer on Match of the Day\n\n\"From that, I read that he is going to go. He looks a broken man.\n\n\"There's been a lot of chat from the media and the pundits about Arsene Wenger. There hasn't been a lot spoken from his players. His players spoke today in that game.\n\n\"Judging by that performance and their recent performances, they don't want him in that job. They lacked heart, they lacked fight, they lacked direction. Every player other than Alexis Sanchez, I thought, was pretty embarrassing.\"\n\nWenger has come under increasing pressure in recent weeks, with fans responding to defeats in the Premier League, and the 10-2 aggregate loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League, by calling for him to leave.\n\nMore anti-Wenger banners were held aloft by Gunners fans in the closing stages at The Hawthorns, while in the first half two planes pulled banners overhead - one criticising the Frenchman and the other supporting him.\n\n\"We've never had this before,\" he said about his side's run of form. \"We face big problems to regroup and find resources to sort the problem.\"\n\nAfter the international break, Arsenal's next Premier League game is against Manchester City, the side they face in next month's FA Cup semi-final.\n\nWenger told Sky Sports. \"I think we have a hell of a task to fight back but we need to regroup and focus on the games coming up because we have many big games.\n\n\"Even though it is a disappointing result, everybody goes away now to recover and prepare well.\"\n\n'We face some serious challenges'\n\nArsenal went down on Saturday to two Craig Dawson headers following corners and a goal from substitute Hal Robson-Kanu, scored with only his second touch.\n\nThe Gunners did rally quickly after falling behind, Alexis Sanchez's 18th league goal of the season pulling them level, but that was overshadowed by their vulnerability at the back.\n\nTheir problems were compounded by injuries to goalkeeper Petr Cech in the first half and forward Sanchez in the second.\n\nWenger said Cech was forced off with a calf problem, while Sanchez was substituted with possible ankle ligament damage.\n\n\"It was a typical Premier League game. A team that likes to play and a team that defends well,\" Wenger told Match of the Day.\n\n\"It was a tough performance. They caught us on set-pieces and one break and that made the difference.\n\n\"We were a bit naive, maybe, on the corners. Then we were punished. It's a shame. We looked in the second half to take completely over.\"\n\nWenger admitted his side had not created enough chances, particularly in the second half.\n\n\"We lost Sanchez in the second half, he was very dangerous in the first,\" he said.\n\n\"We face some serious challenges. The City game at home is a big game for us.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nIreland wrecked England's Grand Slam dream and ended their world record run of victories with a dramatic win at a rejoicing Aviva Stadium.\n\nThe home side overwhelmed the Six Nations champions with their intensity and physicality, just as they had in Slam deciders here in 2011 and 2001.\n\nIn the process they also halted England's winning run at a record 18 Tests, leaving them level with New Zealand, who were also beaten by Ireland to bring to an end their record run back in November.\n\nA first-half try from Iain Henderson and eight points from the boot of a battered Johnny Sexton established a lead that England never looked like closing, despite Owen Farrell's three penalties.\n\nIt was a horrible, chastening evening for Eddie Jones' men, the first defeat of his reign coming with arguably the worst performance of his 18 matches in charge, although they at least have the consolation of retaining their Six Nations title.\n\nIreland had come into the match having lost two of their four matches in the championship, but a green-shirted gale blew the men in white away, their much-vaunted finishers unable to get them out of jail one more time.\n\nThe victory ensured Ireland finished second in the table, ahead of France and Scotland on points difference.\n\nOnce again England will leave the Irish capital with their hopes of a Grand Slam in tatters, slow out of the blocks, sloppy with ball in hand and nowhere near their record-breaking best.\n\nThey were second best at the breakdown and unable to get a grip on a contest they had begun as clear favourites to win, Ireland with two-thirds of both territory and possession.\n\nThey appeared flustered from the opening moments and never found their precision.\n\nIn a city still celebrating St Patrick's Day it was another joyous piece of party-pooping, England's disappointment compounded by having to receive their Six Nations trophy when the players felt only defeat.\n\nHaving already lost first-choice scrum-half Conor Murray to injury, Ireland then had to reorganise minutes before kick-off when Jamie Heaslip hurt himself in the warm-up, CJ Stander moving to number eight and Peter O'Mahony coming into the starting line-up and producing an outstanding performance.\n\nIn an opening every bit as frenetic as expected, both sides had early chances, Farrell's pass hitting Mike Brown on the shoulder with Elliot Daly free outside him, Jared Payne delaying his own pass to Keith Earls down the other end.\n\nAfter Sexton and Farrell exchanged penalties, Ireland then struck again, twice kicking penalties to the corner, Henderson reaching out after a driving maul to slam the ball over the try line.\n\nA 10-3 lead reflected Ireland's grip on the match, with almost 75% territory and possession in the first quarter.\n\nEngland were rattled, Courtney Lawes knocking on, Ford kicking out on the full from outside his 22, the men in white being forced to make three times as many tackles as their opponents.\n\nThe only silver lining for Jones was that the deficit was not greater, the bad news that England had never come from behind at half-time in Dublin to win a Six Nations match.\n\nThe English mistakes kept coming. Anthony Watson dropped a pass in space, a line-out that had been near-flawless through the first four rounds began to fail.\n\nThen England made a mess of an Irish line-out on the 10-metre line, won the turnover and Farrell thumped over the long-range penalty to narrow the gap to four points.\n\nIt brought the contest to a fresh head, a battle of voices in the stands matched by a new intensity on the pitch.\n\nPayne escaped through two tackles to thunder deep into England's 22 to halt their momentum, and after a late hit on Sexton the battered fly-half stepped up to drill over his second penalty for 13-6.\n\nJones had his finishers on, Jamie George for captain Dylan Hartley, Ben Te'o for Ford, Wood for Haskell, and a relentless driving maul brought a penalty that Farrell knocked over for 13-9 with 13 minutes left.\n\nWith rain hammering down from the evening sky, England began to make dents, only to lose a critical attacking line-out to O'Mahony when Farrell had opted to kick a long-range penalty to touch.\n\nNever again would they get close to the Irish line, the capacity crowd celebrating wildly as Brown's final knock-on snuffed out England's final hopes.\n\nWhat did the coaches make of it?\n\n\"We just wanted to make sure all the bits and pieces we needed to get right to get a skinny margin over a super team, we ticked those boxes.\n\n\"The bit of pride we can take is the three teams that sit above us in the world we have beaten in the last six months.\"\n\n\"Everything was wrong with the preparation because we played like that. I take full responsibility, I didn't prepare the team well and we will respond in the future.\n\n\"It was a tight old game. One or two things go your way and the game flips, they didn't go our way today, we didn't work hard enough to get those opportunities and that's what happens.\"\n\nAnd what about the pundits?\n\n\"I'm applauding Ireland, that was one of the finest Ireland displays I've seen in a long time, the opposition are world class and Ireland have stepped up yet again, a fantastic display.\n\n\"I know how these England players feel, they will be low, dejected, but they should be extremely proud of how they have transformed English rugby.\"\n\n\"This will definitely rank as one of Ireland's greatest wins, going in truly against the odds against what is a tremendous England team.\"\n\n*both New Zealand and England's 18-Test winning runs were ended by Ireland\n\nReplacements: Conway for Earls (41), L McGrath for Marmion (69), C Healy for J McGrath (60), Scannell for Best (73), J Ryan for Furlong (76), Toner for D Ryan (65), Leavy for O'Brien (66).\n\nReplacements: Nowell for Joseph (68), Te'o for Ford (63), Care for Youngs (63), M Vunipola for Marler (41), George for Hartley (55), Sinckler for Cole (78), Wood for Haskell (60), Hughes for B Vunipola (63).", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal suffered a fourth defeat in five league games as Craig Dawson's double helped West Brom inflict a major blow to the Gunners' hopes of a top-four finish.\n\nDawson capitalised on some awful defending from the Gunners to head both of his goals from corners - the first to give the Baggies the lead, the second to seal their win.\n\nArsenal had initially rallied after falling behind, levelling through Alexis Sanchez's close-range finish - the Chilean forward's 18th league goal of the season.\n\nHowever, they fell behind again 10 minutes into the second half when substitute Hal Robson-Kanu rolled the ball home with only his second touch after coming on.\n\nArsenal, who lost goalkeeper Petr Cech to injury, were outfought and unable to rally a second time, their challenge wilting soon after Danny Welbeck's header from a corner struck the crossbar.\n\nIt was an eventful encounter, both on the pitch and above it as two planes pulling banners - one pro-Arsene Wenger and the other against the Arsenal boss - made circles around The Hawthorns.\n\nIt was the anti-Wenger camp who were most present and vocal by the end, though, holding aloft banners declaring 'Enough is enough' and booing their beleaguered manager's decision to substitute Sanchez, who had picked up a knock.\n\nAfter the game, Wenger said that he would announce \"very soon\" whether he will remain at the club after reaching a decision on his future.\n\nThe current facts are these - Arsenal trail fourth place by five points (albeit with a game in hand).\n\nThey must arrest a run that has seen them win just one of their last five league games if they are to continue their proud record of finishing in the top four in each of Wenger's 20 seasons at the club so far.\n• None Wenger to reveal future plans 'very soon'\n\nAfter claiming a top-two finish in every season between 1997-98 and 2004-05, Arsenal have often flirted with fifth or worse since, but this is looking increasingly likely to be the campaign when they drop below the division's premier quartet.\n\nThere is also a growing feeling this is likely to be Wenger's last as manager.\n\nA two-year contract extension remains on the table but with fan protests growing in size and volume, rumours of players wanting away from the club and form deteriorating, there may be no appetite for it to be signed, by either manager or club.\n\nThis result felt like a new low during Wenger's tenure.\n\nThe Gunners boss is used to seeing his side outfought and beaten at the home of teams managed by Tony Pulis - he has only managed one win in eight such encounters - but the lack of chances they created from almost 77% possession and the speed with which they fell apart after Robson-Kanu's goal, lays bare a side with dwindling belief and backbone.\n\nThey rallied efficiently after falling behind, but this also speaks to their over-reliance on Sanchez, whose movement made the goal and who remained their only real creative spark, despite the heavy-handed treatment dealt out to him by the home side.\n\nTheir vulnerability at the back is alarming. They knew about West Brom's threat from corners - the Baggies have now scored 14 from them this season - but yet they were unable to prevent Dawson twice getting his head to the ball first in the box to score.\n\nRobson-Kanu's goal was equally damning as Ospina proved an inadequate replacement for Cech, sliding out to meet a chipped ball over the top and gifting the striker his finish.\n\nWest Brom have never managed more than 49 Premier League points. Prior to Saturday they had not managed to beat a top-seven team this season.\n\nHaving rectified the latter, they now look on course to better the former.\n\nThey came into this game having lost their last two games and from the off it was clear they were not prepared to entertain the prospect of suffering three successive defeats for the first time this campaign.\n\nBut for Cech, they could have been ahead before Dawson broke the deadlock, with the Gunners keeper tipping away Darren Fletcher's goalbound drive.\n\nWhen they were pegged back by Sanchez, their belief held, as did their faith in Pulis' game plan, which also stretched to superbly-timed substitutions.\n\nIt helps, of course, when you are so lethal from set-pieces and your opponent so incapable of defending them.\n\n'We face some serious challenges' - What the managers said\n\nWest Brom manager Tony Pulis, after ending a run of two defeats: \"I think everybody's got to calm down. You're always going to have runs of games where you don't pick points up. You raise the expectation and people get carried away.\n\n\"The lads have worked so hard in all the games. I thought we'd never play as well as what we have played. They've never given anything but their best.\n\n\"The lads were a bit disappointed with two defeats. They've done fantastically well. They've carried on working so hard together as a group. I thought on the counter we always looked dangerous.\n\n\"We've got 43 points. We know where we are as a football club. We're not getting carried away.\n\n\"We'll do the best we possibly can. If we win games, brilliant. If we don't we've still got a group of honest players who give everything.\"\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger: \"It was a typical Premier League game. A team that likes to play and a team that defends well.\n\n\"It was a tough performance. They caught us on set-pieces and one break and that made the difference.\n\n\"Overall our record against set-pieces is quite good. We were a bit naive, maybe, on the corners. Then we were punished. It's a shame. We looked in the second half to take completely over.\n\n\"We didn't create enough. We lost Sanchez in the second half, he was very dangerous in the first. He came out in the second half and he couldn't move any more. In the first half he was a guy who created a lot.\n\n\"It leaves us in a unique situation that we've never had before. We face big problems to regroup and find resources to sort out the problem. We need some togetherness.\n\n\"We face some serious challenges. The City game at home is a big game for us.\"\n\nSanchez hits 100 - the stats you need to know\n• None Arsenal have lost four out of five Premier League games for the first time in since April 1995.\n• None Alexis Sanchez has been involved in 27 PL goals this season (18 goals, nine assists) - more than any other player in the competition.\n• None Overall, Sanchez has now been involved in 100 goals for the Gunners in all competitions, scoring 64 and assisting 36.\n• None There were just two minutes and 45 seconds between the first two goals in this game.\n\nThe international break means the Gunners host Manchester City on Sunday, 2 April.\n\nWest Brom take on the other Manchester side that weekend, with United hosting the Baggies on Saturday, 1 April.\n• None Attempt missed. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Danny Welbeck.\n• None Attempt blocked. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.\n• None Attempt missed. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Shkodran Mustafi with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nacho Monreal (Arsenal) header from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey with a cross.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 3, Arsenal 1. Craig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion) header from very close range to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by James McClean with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Granit Xhaka (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson is pitting his wits against a different guest each week this season.\n\nLawro's opponent for this weekend's Premier League fixtures is boxer Anthony Crolla.\n\nCrolla, who is looking to regain his WBA lightweight title when he fights Jorge Linares in Manchester on 25 March, is a Manchester United fan who says his all-time favourite player is Eric Cantona.\n\n\"Growing up, I absolutely idolised 'The King' and everything he did,\" Crolla told BBC Sport. \"When I played at school, my collar would always be up like Eric's. Before any boxer, he was my first childhood hero.\n\n\"As I got older I was a big Paul Scholes fan as well - I think he is appreciated more now than he was back in the day - but Cantona is still the greatest.\"\n\nUnited striker Wayne Rooney is well known for his love of boxing but how does Crolla think the England captain would do in a bout with team-mate Zlatan Ibrahimovic?\n\n\"It is hard to go against Zlatan but I might do here,\" Crolla explained. \"I know Zlatan is big into mixed martial arts and would have a bit of height and reach on Wayne, but he would not be able to use his feet.\n\n\"It would be a great fight because the pair of them have got great attributes for being a boxer, but I've seen Wayne hit the pads first-hand and, honestly, he can punch.\n\n\"Wayne comes from a boxing background too so I would go with him. I know he can box a bit.\"\n\nYou can make your Premier League predictions now and compare them with those of Lawro and other fans by playing the BBC Sport Predictor game.\n\nA correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.\n\nAll kick-offs 15:00 GMT unless otherwise stated.\n\nCrolla's prediction: This is a tough away game for Arsenal. I think they are feeling the pressure lately so I'm going for a bit of an upset here. 1-0\n\n*Does not include scores from postponed games.\n\nLawro's worst score: 20 points (week 28, but only five games played so far) or 30 points (week four v Dave Bautista)\n\nHow did Lawro do last week?\n\nLawro picked the correct winners of all four of last weekend's FA Cup quarter-finals and was spot on with the scoreline of Manchester City's win over Middlesbrough, giving him a total of 70 points.\n\nLawro was up against Sophie Rose from Chelsea supporter channel CFC Fan TV and Manchester United followers Adam McKola and Stephen Howson from Full Time DEVILS.\n\nHe came out on top because Sophie got four correct results with no perfect scores for 40 points, while the Full Time DEVILS picked three correct results with no perfect scores, giving them 30 points.\n\nLawro was also up against Sophie and the Full Time DEVILS for the weekend's five Premier League games, including Manchester City's draw with Stoke which was rearranged to midweek.\n\nLawro got two correct results, with no perfect scores, for a total of 20 points.\n\nAs things stand, he is ahead of Sophie (one correct result, no perfect scores = 10 points) but behind the Full Time DEVILS (three correct results, no perfect scores = 30 points) but their full tally will not be known until the games postponed because of the FA Cup are played.", "It was the place to be in 19th Century Paris - the city's most successful political and literary salon, where the great and good of French society would gather. And it was run by a remarkable Englishwoman.\n\nFor 250 years Paris was renowned for its literary and political salons, and for the fashionable women - the salonnieres - who guided discussion among the eminent figures of the age.\n\nIn much of the 19th Century, one of the most influential of the salons was held at 120 Rue du Bac in the Saint-Germain district. Here gathered writers and thinkers like Victor Hugo and Alexis de Toqueville, politicians like the Adolphe Thiers, the future president, painters like Eugene Delacroix, historians, orientalists, economists.\n\nAnd presiding over them all was an Englishwoman.\n\nClarkey was her nickname. Madame de Mohl became her formal title. Mary Clarke was how she was born in 1793 in London.\n\nOver the next 90 years, Mary Clarke Mohl lived an extraordinary life at the crossroads of French and British culture and society. Nearly all of it was spent in Paris, where she saw three revolutions and was on friendly terms with so many of the great names of the day.\n\nBut she never lost her attachment to Britain and in the Rue du Bac she offered a home-from-home to William Thackeray and Elizabeth Gaskell, the Brownings and the Trollopes, as well as to many aristocrats, diplomats and politicians. She was also one of Florence Nightingale's closest friends and provided vital encouragement to launch her career in nursing.\n\nMuch of what we know of Clarkey comes from other people's memoirs in English and French. But she also wrote hundreds of letters, many to her husband, the German orientalist Julius Mohl, and these were collected and published after her death.\n\nShe had an unusual start in life, one which goes a long way to explaining the unconventional course it was subsequently to take. At the age of eight she left for France in the sole company of her mother and grandmother, and apart from annual trips she never lived in England again.\n\nBoth her guardians were strong and independent-minded women. Her Scottish grandmother had hobnobbed with thinkers like David Hume and Adam Smith in Edinburgh and before the French Revolution lived in Dunkirk. Mary's mother Elizabeth was a progressive free thinker.\n\nLater, when they lived through the July 1830 uprising in Paris, Mary remembered scrambling through the barricades to get back home.\n\n\"Mama said: 'Tell me the news, for Heaven's sake - I have been quaking in my shoes.' I said, 'But I told you I would take care.' 'Oh,' she said, 'It was not you I was worried about; it was the common people!'\"\n\nLiving in Paris under the restored Bourbon monarchy after 1815, Mary Clarke came to know Juliette Recamier, who was the great salonniere of the time (we know her through her famous painting by Jacques-Louis David). Through her, she met literary greats such as Stendhal, Hugo, Prosper Merimee and Chateaubriand. Chateaubriand - author of Memoirs from Beyond the Grave - was by now a grumpy old man, but he cheered up when entertained by \"la jeune anglaise\".\n\nBut by 1838, Recamier's rule was coming to an end. So Clarke - still with her mother - moved into the third floor apartment at 120 Rue du Bac (above Chateaubriand) and set about the task of becoming her successor.\n\nSeen from the distance of 150 years, Clarkey comes across as the most splendidly original and sympathetic of characters.\n\nAppearance was a clue to her very British eccentricity. She was small with a turned-up button nose and a mass of frizzy curls. The future prime minister Francois Guizot used to say that \"Madame Mohl and my little Scotch terrier have the same coiffeur\".\n\nIn a description given by Henry James, \"Mme Mohl used to drop out of an omnibus, often into a mud-puddle, at our door, and delight us with her originality and freshness. I can see her now, just arrived, her feet on the fender before the fire, her hair flying, and her general untidiness so marked as to be picturesque.\"\n\nHer at-homes were on Friday evenings and Wednesday afternoons. Guests were welcomed into two adjoining drawing-rooms filled with sofas and arm-chairs, with two windows looking out over gardens that belonged to the Catholic Church's Foreign Missions, as they still do today.\n\nThe rules were simple. According to Kathleen O'Meara, a contemporary memoirist and Paris correspondent for The Tablet: \"You were expected to contribute to the general fund either by talking or listening, but you must not be bored.\n\n\"You were not allowed to sit staring at the company through an eyeglass; anyone who offended in this way was pounced upon at once… Another unpardonable offence was making tete-a-tetes in corners or chatting about the room in duets or trios when conversation, real conversation was going on.\"\n\nNo opinions were barred - save, from 1850 to 1870, any mention of support for the emperor Napoleon III. Madame Mohl abhorred the man, referring to him contemptuously as \"celui-ci\" (this one) with a thumb jabbed back over her shoulder. She far preferred the bourgeois domesticity of the previous King Louis-Philippe, who was ousted in 1848.\n\nMary Clarke Mohl saw herself as standing in a long line of great French women, starting with Madame de Rambouillet in the early 17th Century, who had wielded their intellect and charm in the service of culture, politics and reason. Often she drew comparisons with the fate of women in the UK, who she felt sorely lacked the freedom offered in France.\n\nIn a letter written in 1862 she laments how in England, \"The men talk together; the lady of the house may be addressed once in a way as duty, but the men had all rather talk together and she is pretty mute… They have no notion that a lady's conversation is better than a man's.\"\n\nHer own conversation - according to the memoirist Mary Simpson - was \"spontaneous, full of fun, information and grace of expression. She spoke French and English with the fluency and accent of a native, yet with the care and originality of a foreigner. And when there was no word in either language to fit her thoughts, she would coin one for the occasion\".\n\nShe could also be alarmingly rude - especially about women who she thought were failing to exercise their brains correctly. According to O'Meara: \"It was a source of genuine astonishment to her that women were so addicted to idle gossip. 'Why don't they use their brains?', she would ask angrily.\"\n\nIndeed, as a young girl Clarkey had been told by her grandmother that she was \"as impudent as a highwayman's horse\" - apparently a reference to the way highwaymen's horses would stick their heads into carriages as the hapless victims surrendered their purses.\n\nThough to call her feminist would be inaccurate, she was one of a generation that laid the ground for the changes that followed in women's lives. From their letters, we know that she was a rock-like figure for Florence Nightingale, persuading her to stick with her vocation despite the horrified opposition of Florence's family. On her way to Crimea in 1854, Florence came via Paris where Mohl helped with her arrangements.\n\nClarkey lived so long she spanned the ages. Born in the aftermath of Revolution, she died almost in the modern era. As a young woman she had been in love with the handsome historian Claude Fauriel, but that came to nothing, so in 1847 she married the charmingly donnish Julius Mohl, who was seven years her junior.\n\nAnthony Trollope's brother Thomas described Monsieur Mohl as so absolutely surrounded by books \"built up into walls around him, as to suggest almost inevitably the idea of a mouse in a cheese, eating out the hollow it lives in\". But the couple were devoted to each other, and when he died in 1876 Mary was said to be like \"a lost dog going about searching for its master\".\n\nSeven years later, Clarkey herself died and was buried next to him in the Pere Lachaise cemetery.\n\n\"Where she entered, dullness and ennui fled,\" said another memoirist, Grace Anne Prestwich, in an article written after her death.\n\nConversation, said Madame Mohl, was not the same as talk. The English talked, but the French knew that conversation was \"the mingling of mind and mind (and) the most complete exercise of the social faculty\".\n\n\"Society is a necessity to me,\" she said on another occasion. \"We all depend dreadfully on each other. We live in a world of looking-glasses, and it is the mind - not the face - which is given back to us by the reflexions.\"\n\nMary Clarke Mohl mixed English and French customs in a way that few have done before or since. She was entertaining, provocative, unpretentious, rude, generous and loving. She saw no reason why women could not hold their intellectual own.\n\nThe salon tradition died out around the end of the 19th Century. Clarkey was a fitting and original last champion.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nSir Mo Farah and Kadeena Cox were named sportsman and sportswoman of the year at the 2017 British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards.\n\nFarah won gold in the 5,000m and 10,000m at the Olympics in Rio last year, while Cox won cycling and athletics gold at the Rio Paralympics.\n\nThe special lifetime achievement award went to 2003 Rugby World Cup winner Jason Robinson.\n\nBrighton boss Chris Hughton was named England coach of the year.\n\nThe third BEDSAs were hosted by British comedian Sir Lenny Henry in London on Saturday and are supported by Sport England, UK Sport, the Football Association, the Tennis Foundation, Youth Sport Trust, England Athletics, the British Army, Mind and Spirit of 2012.\n\nThey are organised by Sporting Equals, whose chief executive Arun Kang said the purpose of the awards was to \"celebrate diversity at both an elite and grassroots level\".\n\n\"It really means a lot to be named as your sportsman of the year,\" said Farah. \"And congratulations to my fellow nominees as well.\n\n\"It's so great to see everyone come together this evening to celebrate the incredible achievements of our diverse sporting communities.\"\n\nCox said: \"I'm very honoured to have won this award and would like to give a massive thanks to Sporting Equals for all the work they do in BAME (Black, Asian and minority ethnic) communities.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCoverage: First two matches on BBC One and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra. Final game on BBC Radio 5 live, plus live text on all matches on BBC Sport website.\n\nOnly Ireland can prevent England from becoming the sixth team in 107 years to complete back-to-back Grand Slams, in Saturday's final Six Nations round.\n\nLast week's 61-21 defeat of Scotland, combined with Ireland's loss to Wales, ensured England are chasing history rather than trophies in Dublin, with the tournament already won.\n\nThey can also set a new top-tier record with their 19th successive Test win.\n\nBut former coach Sir Clive Woodward has warned England to expect an \"ambush\".\n\nEngland's Grand Slam bid is the headline act on Saturday but there is plenty of intrigue elsewhere, with Scotland hoping to send departing coach Vern Cotter off in grand style with a big win over Italy, while Wales will be targeting a potentially significant win over France in Paris.\n\nBut it is undoubtedly to Dublin where most eyes will be turned and Woodward, who led England to 2003 World Cup glory, knows what a dangerous place it can be after seeing his team beaten at the old Lansdowne Road as they attempted to complete a clean sweep in 2001.\n\nEngland did clinch the 2003 Grand Slam in Dublin, but fell short in the city again in 2011.\n\n\"The Irish will have an ambush planned, they have 80 minutes to resurrect their season and I can guarantee you Eddie Jones will not consider this a successful season unless they get the job done in Dublin,\" Woodward told the Mail on Sunday.\n\nJones, who has steered England to second from eighth in the world rankings since taking charge in January 2016, has warned his side to expect an aerial bombardment.\n• None Read more: The childhood friends driving on England\n• None Who are Jerry Guscott's Six Nations hot steppers?\n\n\"We know what Ireland will bring - a strong, physical challenge at the breakdown, pressure on our half-backs and high balls,\" the Australian said.\n\n\"It will be raining high balls. It will be 'kick and clap' and the fans at the Aviva Stadium love it.\"\n\nIreland fly-half Johnny Sexton shrugged off Jones' prediction, saying he was instead focused on carrying out coach Joe Schmidt's instructions.\n\nFormer Ireland centre Gordon D'Arcy, meanwhile, says the pressure of going one better than New Zealand's mark of 18 straight victories \"brings this great unknown\".\n\nThere is a family connection that links the two camps, however, with England centre Owen Farrell's father Andy now installed as Ireland defence coach.\n\nA combination of wins for England and Wales and a bonus-point victory of their own over Italy at Murrayfield could see Scotland in second, their highest finish in the Six Nations era.\n\nIn addition to that landmark, the Scots will attempt to exorcise the memories of their 40-point defeat at Twickenham last weekend.\n\nThat afternoon began with the players harbouring real hope of ending a 34-year wait for a win at the auld enemy's headquarters, but ended with questions over their British and Irish Lions credentials before the summer tour of New Zealand.\n\nIt will also be New Zealander Cotter's final match in charge of the team before he is replaced by Glasgow boss Gregor Townsend.\n\n\"Vern won't want us focusing on him but it will definitely be something in the background,\" scrum-half Henry Pyrgos said.\n\n\"We are conscious that we want to finish his reign in the right way.\"\n\nWales interim boss Rob Howley has overseen an underwhelming campaign, partly redeemed by a hard-fought victory over Ireland last weekend.\n\nThey will have one eye on besting the Irish once again as the tournament comes to a climax.\n\nVictory over an improved France team, combined with England sealing their Grand Slam in Dublin, would elevate Wales above Ireland and into a top-tier seeding for May's 2019 Rugby World Cup draw, and ensure they avoid being drawn alongside New Zealand, England or Australia in the group stages.\n\nHowley - who has not included any of the seven uncapped squad players in his Six Nations squad in a match-day 23 - has once again been consistent in his team selection, resisting calls to give Ospreys' Sam Davies a chance at fly-half ahead of Dan Bigger.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Sports\n\nBritish halfpipe skier Rowan Cheshire crashed in all three of her final runs, but still secured Britain's best-ever World Championship result in the event.\n\nCheshire, 21, who has missed much of the past three years because of repeated concussions, finished sixth.\n\n\"I'm really happy with my progression, but I just couldn't put it down tonight,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It happens and I'm going to take positives from being out there against the best in the world.\"\n\nJapan's Ayana Onozuka (89.80) took gold in Sierra Nevada ahead of France's Marie Martinod (87.00) and American Devin Logan (84.20).\n\nCheshire was regarded as a potential medallist at the Sochi Winter Olympics, but a heavy crash in training resulted in a serious concussion that meant she missed the event.\n\nShe suffered two further concussions and experienced panic attacks over the next 18 months, only returning to full-time competition this season with under a year to go to the Pyeongchang Games.\n\n\"I'm over all of my head injuries,\" she said. \"I'm in a really good place, feeling super-confident and enjoying it more than ever.\"\n\nEarlier on Saturday, James Woods and Izzy Atkin qualified for their respective slopestyle finals, which will take place on Sunday.\n\nWoods, who finished fifth in Sochi, scored 86.00 to finish fourth in his heat while Atkin, who won GB's first ski slopestyle World Cup gold medal earlier this month qualified in third place.\n\nAlthough GB's Tyler Harding, Cal Sanderson and Michael Rowlands all missed out, organisers subsequently revised their rules and have added a semi-final on Sunday with the top four to qualify for an extended 16-strong final.", "The claim: The government is spending record amounts on education in England.\n\nReality Check verdict: The absolute amount of money in the pot for schools in England is at record levels but once you factor in rising pupil numbers, inflation and running costs, schools will have to cut approximately 8% from budgets by 2020.\n\nTheresa May said at Prime Minister's Questions that spending on education is at its highest level, something she has insisted on a number of occasions.\n\nShe was talking about England, because education is a devolved matter and is funded separately in the other UK nations.\n\nBut head teachers in England have been raising the alarm about growing holes in their budgets.\n\nWhen the prime minister talks about record amounts of funding going into education, she is referring to the Dedicated Schools Grant, which is the whole block of money going to schools in England. This stands at £40bn this year.\n\nIt is true that this is the biggest pot in cash terms, but, of course, how generous the pot is depends on how many pupils there are in the system.\n\nThere was a baby boom in the early 2000s, which has been hitting primary schools for several years and is now moving up through the secondary system.\n\nBetween 2009 and 2016, the school system expanded to take in an extra 470,000 pupils.\n\nThe Department for Education says that between 2016 and 2025 there will be a further increase in the state school system, up from about 7.4 million pupils to about 8.1 million.\n\nSo looking at how much is being spent per pupil is a more meaningful figure.\n\nDavid Cameron in 2015 committed to freezing school spending per pupil in cash terms. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) warned that this would result in an 8% real-terms cut in school spending per pupil due to inflation and the rising cost of wages, pensions and National Insurance contributions.\n\nThis amounts to the biggest fall in spending on each pupil in 30 years.\n\nThe National Audit Office estimates that schools will have to make £3bn worth of cuts as a result of these factors.\n\nThe government is consulting on a new funding formula, which it says will be a fairer way of allocating the cash to schools around the country. Under current plans, almost 11,000 schools stand to gain and around 9,000 will lose funding.\n\nHow the funding formula could work\n\nThe following types of schools would get extra funding:\n\nThis model is what the Department for Education wants every school to move towards eventually but, for the first two years, transitional protections are in place meaning no school can lose more than 3% of their funding.\n\nThis means that the best-funded schools under the current system will still get more than £4,312 basic funding per Year 11 pupil for the two year period because of these protections.\n\nFor now, one pupil might attract more funding than another with the same characteristics in terms of deprivation, attainment and so on in another part of the country. The idea is that, eventually, two pupils with the same characteristics will attract the same amount of funding no matter what school they attend.\n\nIt's fair to say the majority of the schools at the very bottom of the pile are in urban areas and the biggest winners are mostly in rural areas.\n\nThe top 30 winners are almost all in Cumbria, Shropshire and Cornwall, while 13 of the bottom 30 are in London or Birmingham. Other losers are in Coventry, Rotherham and Wakefield.\n\nHowever, it's not quite as simple as urban loses, rural wins. There is a chunk of losers in the funding formula in Lincolnshire, for example, while some London schools are gaining too because of the changes in the way the government assesses need.\n\nBut analysis from independent think tank the Education Policy Institute suggests the gains made by some schools will be wiped out by the overall cuts they will need to make to keep up with rising cost pressures.\n\nIt's also worth pointing out that the schools budget, which is for five to 16-year-olds, is distinct from overall education spending.\n\nMrs May claims spending on education is at record levels in absolute terms. In fact, while schools have done well in terms of funding per pupil in the longer term - it will be at least 70% higher in real terms in 2020 than it was in 1990 - the IFS says spending on pupils in sixth forms and further education will be no higher in 2020 than it was 30 years previously.\n• None Is school funding the next crisis?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A student of modern history in his undergraduate days at Oxford, his is that cast of mind with a tendency to see himself as the inheritor of distant traditions.\n\nWhen I had a cup of tea with him in No 11 a couple of years ago, he spent the first seven or eight minutes talking about the provenance of the grand portraits in his room, and the figures depicted. I got the message pretty clearly. Here was a historic figure, he seemed to imply, who felt he had no judge so fair or firm as posterity.\n\n\"He's fascinated by history,\" the Tory MP and historian Keith Simpson told the Financial Times a few years ago. \"He looks at different historical institutions and mechanisms which may have lapsed and sees whether they can be given new life.\"\n\nLike the mechanism by which being an MP is very much a part-time job, perhaps.\n\nOsborne will need to mobilise all his knowledge of history when defending the decision to mix two full-time jobs - that of an MP and a newspaper editor - with each other, let alone with his four days a month at BlackRock, the asset manager, for which he gets an annual figure of £650,000 - what most people earn in around a quarter of a century.\n\nMany journalists, including Winston Churchill, have gone on to be politicians\n\nThe fact is, he has no journalistic credentials whatsoever.\n\nMost people who edit newspapers will have spent years crafting headlines, sub-editing copy, designing pages, planning stories, and above all reporting.\n\nOsborne has never done any of that, and will need to grasp some basic skills very quickly if he is to keep Standard staff on-side.\n\nOf course, there is a long tradition of journalists becoming politicians, from Churchill and Horatio Bottomley to Nigel Lawson, Ed Balls, Yvette Cooper, Michael Gove, Ruth Davidson, Benito Mussolini (who edited two socialist papers) and the fictional Jim Hacker.\n\nFewer have tended to go the other way. Bill Deedes was an editor of a newspaper (the Daily Telegraph) and a cabinet member, though not at the same time.\n\nBoris Johnson, who in ancient history was thought of as Osborne's main rival for the Tory crown, was editor of the Spectator while MP for Henley. And, long before he entered politics, Michael Foot was editor of the Standard at 28.\n\nEvgeny Lebedev, the 36-year-old who is now Osborne's boss, is fond of Evelyn Waugh and 20th Century literature generally (full disclosure: I was for several years Lebedev's adviser, and then his editor at the Independent).\n\nI imagine Lebedev will like the idea of reviving quaint, romantic 20th Century ideas about the relationship between politics and newspapers.\n\nBut Osborne's constituents have daily concerns that are more rooted in 21st Century Britain. He has a huge majority, but together with his four days a month at BlackRock - which is about a fifth of a full-time job in itself - he won't have much time for parliamentary representation.\n\nFrankly, I can't see this arrangement lasting. Perhaps forthcoming boundary changes to the constituency will concentrate his mind - and that of his electorate.\n\nTatton has a population of around 85,000, which intriguingly is almost exactly a tenth of the Standard's readership. The latter are his new constituency. What kind of editor will he be for them?\n\nOsborne flirted with journalism before entering politics. Years ago he was interviewed for a job on the Economist, the publication whose world view he most closely adheres to, by Gideon Rachman, now the Financial Times' brilliant foreign affairs commentator. He didn't get the job, despite having grown up on the same street as Rachman, and having the same first name (Gideon) and alma mater (St Paul's).\n\nThere is a strong resemblance between the politics of the Standard, which backed the Remain camp and Zac Goldsmith's mayoral campaign, and Osborne's: globalist in outlook, metropolitan rather than provincial, socially liberal, unashamedly in favour of capitalism, and reliably Tory.\n\nThe Evening Standard has a circulation of 850,000\n\nIn the past, Osborne has also spoken at length about his faintly bohemian upbringing. His interest in the arts, particularly theatre, is genuine.\n\nNaturally he will sharpen the paper's political edge, and his appointment serves up the truly delicious prospect of several assaults, under varying degrees of disguise, on the prime minister who so unceremoniously dispatched him to the back benches.\n\nUltimately he will be judged not just on the paper he produces, but on whether together with the commercial team at ESI Media he can reinvent the company.\n\nHeavily reliant, like Metro, on print display advertising which is disappearing at the rate of around 20% a year across the industry, ESI Media - which houses the Standard, Independent, and TV station London Live - needs to be re-engineered, perhaps with events, data and ticketing to the fore.\n\nAmong his key lieutenants beyond the editorial floor will be Manish Malhotra, the former finance director who now runs the company, and Jon O'Donnell, the managing director for commercial whose ad team is outperforming the rest of the market.\n\nOsborne was one of 30 applicants, 10 of whom were interviewed, and four of whom were shortlisted.\n\nIn four meetings in central London with Lebedev, he sought and received reassurance about the proprietor's willingness to invest in the paper and its website.\n\nHe can take heart from the fact that the Independent, which is now digital-only (I was the last editor of the print edition) is now humming commercially, well ahead of budget and set to make a multi-million pound profit this year.\n\nUnimaginable even three years ago, the Independent is currently the financial powerhouse within ESI Media, of which TV channel London Live is the other component.\n\nThe Independent is co-owned by Justin Byam Shaw, who is also the chairman of the Standard and attended two of the four meetings between Lebedev and Osborne.\n\nRelative to the rest of Fleet Street, Osborne won't have much in the way of an editorial budget, and the need to raise revenues means sponsored content and native advertising of a sort that journalists instinctively resist may creep further into his pages.\n\nThen again, doing more with less - or austerity - was the ethos that defined his contribution to political history. Not in this for the money, because he will be paid substantially less than his predecessor, the Austerity Chancellor has just been reborn as the Austerity Editor.\n\nWhat his constituents make of that we're about to find out.", "This week is sign language week in the UK. As debate continues about whether British Sign Language should be taught in schools, See Hear series producer William Mager reflects on what signing means to him.\n\nI'm not a native sign language user. I didn't grow up signing from an early age and I didn't have any deaf friends as a kid. I went to a mainstream school where I was the only deaf child in class but I could get by with speaking and lip-reading.\n\nBut if a deaf person had met me 20 years ago, they would have been shocked at my inability to communicate with them.\n\nLearning sign language changed all that and brought many benefits to my life.\n\nIn my early 20s, I took my first tentative steps into the deaf world in London. Deaf people would gather at pubs in train stations every month to chat away in sign language, knock one another's pints over and terrify the bar staff caught unawares by a sudden invasion of a seemingly alien race who communicated mostly through their hands.\n\nWilliam hopes his son Barnaby, who is hearing, will be proud of using sign language\n\nI would go to these gatherings and try to communicate. I could use some basic gestures and spoke clearly so people could lip-read, but I wasn't a signer in any way, shape or form and I think they often just humoured me.\n\nThen one Friday evening, at one of these nights in a pub in Victoria, I saw a beautiful blonde girl chatting to a friend in sign language. I nudged him and asked who she was. He looked at her, then back at me, and shook his head. \"No chance.\"\n\nBut I persevered and at the third time of asking we struck up a conversation and one thing led to another.\n\nBut communication was difficult. She couldn't lip-read me, and although she spoke, she also liked to sign. We spent long evenings together, her teaching me the finger-spelling alphabet, the basic signs for what, how, where, why and when and how to use facial expressions with signs.\n\nAs our communication improved, so did our relationship. But I still wasn't a perfect signer.\n\nPupils at Blanche Nevile and Highgate Primary School learn BSL together\n\nSoon after, a job came up which involved making deaf information videos for the British Deaf Association.\n\nThe interview was a shambles - I sat opposite two interviewers, one deaf, one hearing, and an interpreter.\n\nThe deaf interviewer would sign his questions to me and make eye contact. I replied in speech. The interpreter would start to translate my answers into sign language, and the deaf man looked away from me to the interpreter.\n\nEvery time he broke eye contact with me I stopped talking. It was a long and painful interview - but I got the job.\n\nOn my first day, he took me upstairs to my desk and pointed to my computer, then to my phone. I shook my head in bewilderment. He had assumed that because I didn't sign I had enough hearing to use the phone.\n\nA few days later, he signed me up for level one sign language classes.\n\nHear more from William Mager as he talks to BBC Ouch about sign language, whether deaf and blind people can be friends and which bits of office gossip deaf people pick up on.\n\nDon't forget to subscribe to the weekly podcast and for more disability news, follow BBC Ouch on Twitter and Facebook.\n\nI was the only deaf person in the class and the look on the deaf teacher's face when I walked in was a picture - he was used to teaching basic sign language to relatives or colleagues of deaf people, so he must have wondered what was going on.\n\nAs we painstakingly finger-spelled our names to one another, I felt like an idiot. But I learned about storytelling, grammar, signs for the weather, how to hold a basic conversation and, finally, things clicked.\n\nSign language will never be my first language, but I'm so glad I have access to it. I can watch the videos that people post on social media and I can use it to speak to hundreds of people in a crowded room.\n\nI have only one regret - that I came to sign language relatively late in life. Looking back at my childhood, interpreters would have been hugely helpful in the classroom and for socialising with other deaf people. To be able to fingerspell would have helped me with the more complicated words in geography lectures.\n\nThere is no downside to learning sign language, whether you're deaf or hearing. It enriches your life and makes you a better communicator. It has a beauty and grace that cannot be put into words.\n\nIt was too late for me, but maybe it's not too late for other deaf children who are just starting out in school, surrounded by hearing children.\n\nThat cute blonde that I saw in the pub 15 years ago is now my wife, and we have a beautiful boy, who is hearing. But I'd love sign language to be taught in his school.\n\nSee Hear, the long-running programme for deaf people, can be seen on the first Wednesday of every month on BBC Two at 08:00\n\nFor more Disability News, follow BBC Ouch on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast.", "Chuck Berry's trademark four-bar guitar introduction and quickfire lyrics reflected the rebelliousness of the youth of the 1950s.\n\nHe was one of that exclusive group who took rhythm and blues from its black roots and \"crossed over\" to make it part of most teenagers' lifestyle.\n\nHe influenced generations of succeeding rock stars, most notably the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys.\n\nYet he faced major financial difficulties through mismanagement and had frequent brushes with the law.\n\nCharles Edward Anderson Berry was born into a middle-class family in St Louis, Missouri, on 18 October 1926.\n\nAs a teenager he began playing concerts in his local high school but his education was curtailed after he was convicted of armed robbery and spent three years in a reformatory for young offenders.\n\nHe had one of the first rock and roll hits\n\nOn his release he made a living as a hairdresser, playing in a trio in the evenings with Ebby Harding on drums and Johnnie Johnson on piano. Johnson would remain with Berry throughout his career\n\nHe was influenced by blues heroes such as Muddy Waters and T-Bone Walker, as well as white country and western music, though his singing style owed much to the clarity of Nat King Cole.\n\n\"My music is simple stuff,\" he once said.\n\n\"Anyone can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.\"\n\nHis recording career began in 1955 with the legendary Chess label in Chicago, where his first release Maybellene became one of rock and roll's first hits.\n\nIn the next few years, he scored a succession of hits, all aimed at an adolescent audience, including Roll Over Beethoven, Sweet Little Sixteen, Carol and the classic Johnny B. Goode.\n\nHis music transcended the colour bar that plagued many contemporary black artists as affluent white teenagers in Eisenhower's America reached out for something new.\n\n\"I play the songs they want to hear,\" he said.\n\n\"That makes them feel they're getting what they came for.\"\n\nHe appeared in several rock films including Rock, Rock, Rock and Mr Rock and Roll, both from 1957; Go Johnny Go from 1959; and Jazz on a Summer's Day in 1960.\n\nIn 1962 he was charged with transporting a minor across state lines for immoral purposes.\n\nThe girl in question was a 14-year-old from Texas who he claimed he had brought to Missouri to check hats at his St Louis nightclub.\n\nAfter he fired her, she complained to the police. In court, the judge's summing-up was blatantly racist and the trial was eventually declared null and void.\n\nHis conviction at a second trial and the resulting two-year sentence left him embittered.\n\nHis release coincided with the rhythm and blues revival in Britain. With his material being covered by bands like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, his work was discovered by a new generation.\n\n\"If you tried to give rock and roll another name,\" John Lennon famously said, \"you might call it Chuck Berry.\"\n\nOn stage with Keith Richards at a 60th birthday tribute\n\nSuccessful tours followed. He scored a few more hits with No Particular Place to Go and Memphis, Tennessee. His biggest hit came later in Britain with the atypical 1972 novelty record, My Ding-a-Ling, replete with double entendres.\n\nWhen he wasn't churning out the hits, Chuck Berry was thrilling audiences with his live performances. His trademark became his duck walk, a crouching movement across the stage made during his guitar solos.\n\nOffstage, he could be a prickly character, exemplified in the 1987 film Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll which featured a tour with a backing band organised by devotee Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones.\n\nIn the same year, he published an explicit autobiography genuinely penned by himself.\n\nBerry's attitude to money was notorious. He demanded cash upfront for many of his concerts and in 1979, he served a 100-day jail term for tax evasion.\n\nThere were further brushes with the law. In 1988 he settled a lawsuit from a woman he allegedly punched in the face.\n\nTwo years later he was sued by a group of women after it was discovered that a hidden camera had been placed in the toilets of his restaurant in Missouri.\n\nStill on the road at the age of 87\n\nHe also received a suspended jail sentence for marijuana possession.\n\nDespite the advancing years, he continued playing one-night concerts and embarked on a European tour in 2008 at the age of 82.\n\nIn January 1986, Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with a citation that summed up his contribution to popular music.\n\n\"While no individual can be said to have invented rock and roll, Chuck Berry comes the closest of any single figure to being the one who put all the essential pieces together.\"\n\nBerry himself had a simple explanation for his success.\n\n\"It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew who I was. I was going to be famous if it killed me.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nOne woman made headlines before the race, but it was another who celebrated victory in the 2017 Cheltenham Gold Cup.\n\n\"Beginner's luck,\" joked Jessica Harrington, a distinguished trainer whose first runner in the famous race - 7-1 chance Sizing John - triumphed in a dramatic renewal.\n\nLizzie Kelly, the first female jockey for 33 years to ride in jump racing's showpiece contest, was unseated at the second of 22 fences aboard Tea For Two.\n\nAs the 23-year-old punched the ground in frustration, it was Harrington - more than three times her age - who watched the race unfold in her favour.\n\nUnder an accomplished ride from Robbie Power, seven-year-old Sizing John held off runner-up Minella Rocco by two and three quarter lengths, with Native River third and Djakadam fourth.\n\nPopular steeplechaser Cue Card again fell at the third-last fence, just as he did 12 months ago.\n\n'Jewel in the crown' for shocked Harrington\n\nHarrington, 70, was in shock after the decision to step the horse up in trip earlier in the year paid rich dividends and capped a record-breaking week for Irish-trained horses.\n\n\"I have never had a runner in the race so to train the winner, I don't know when I am going to come back to earth,\" said the County Kildare-based trainer, wearing a cast on her left arm after a skiing accident.\n\n\"It hasn't really sunk in yet. I can't believe it is true. I am sitting here, I am about to wake up and it hasn't happened. This is the jewel in the crown. It is amazing to win the Gold Cup - this is the one I have always wanted to win.\"\n\nHarrington was enjoying her 10th Festival triumph, with previous successes including the Queen Mother Champion Chase twice with Moscow Flyer, and Jezki in the Champion Hurdle three years ago.\n\nOwner Alan Potts names his horses after the mining term 'sizing', which means to extract minerals by crushing. He invented a machine to do this and made millions from it. Sizing John had been a runner-up seven times over two miles to Douvan, and Power suggested running the horse over further. He won the three-mile Irish Gold Cup and now the Cheltenham prize over three and a quarter.\n\n\"I have not had a horse I have considered for the Gold Cup before - they have either been two-milers, handicappers or not good enough,\" said Harrington, a former Olympic eventing rider.\n\nShe paid tribute to Henry de Bromhead, who trained Sizing John before owners Alan and Ann Potts decided to move their entire stock - including Fellow Festival winner Supasundae - elsewhere last year.\n\n\"I feel very sorry. Henry de Bromhead did all the hard work, on both this horse and on Supasundae, and I only inherited them in September,\" said Harrington.\n\nDe Bromhead handled the Potts decision gracefully and had been asked earlier in the week how he would view victory for Sizing John.\n\n\"You'd be disappointed if a Gold Cup winner left your yard but I'd be delighted for the horse and his connections - and my wife and I who bought him. At least we'd have a Gold Cup winner,\" he said.\n\nWinning jockey Power, himself a former show jumper, was celebrating 10 years after his Grand National win at Aintree on Silver Birch, but perhaps savoured this one even more.\n\nHe was sidelined for a couple of weeks at the end of January with a ruptured disc in his back and wore protective goggles until recently for an eye injury he sustained last year.\n\n\"The nicest words I ever heard were 'Gold Cup-winning jockey' announced on the podium. That sounded sweet,\" said Power, who was having his first ride in the Gold Cup and saluted Harrington as \"a genius\".\n\n\"When I won the Grand National I was 25 and thought I was going to win everything - now I am 35 and realise I am not going to win everything so to win a Gold Cup is fantastic.\"\n\nSizing John is the first horse to complete the Irish Gold Cup-Cheltenham Gold Cup double since Imperial Call in 1996. Harrington is the third female trainer to win the Gold Cup after Jenny Pitman (Burrough Hill Lad 1984, Garrison Savannah 1991) and Henrietta Knight (Best Mate 2002-2004). She is the most successful female trainer at the Festival with 11 wins. Willie Mullins, five times the leading Festival trainer, is still to win the Gold Cup, with favourite Djakadam finishing fourth.\n\nVictory for Bryony Frost in the Foxhunter Chase, immediately after the Gold Cup, marked another notable achievement for women in racing.\n\nIt is the first time all three races for amateur riders run at the Festival have gone to female jockeys, after Lisa O'Neill won the JT McNamara National Hunt Chase on Tiger Roll and Gina Andrews took the Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Chase aboard Domesday Book.\n\nRiding Pacha Du Polder, on whom former Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist Victoria Pendleton finished fifth in last year's race, Frost beat Wonderful Charm (Katie Walsh) by a neck at odds of 16-1.\n\n\"It's an unbelievable feeling,\" said Frost after triumphing aboard the Paul Nicholls-trained runner.\n\nThe week was dominated by the Irish, who claimed a record 19 victories from 28 races, surpassing last year's best of 15.\n\nGordon Elliott and Mullins had six winners apiece, but Elliott took his maiden leading trainer honour thanks to more second-place finishes.\n\n\"It is great to do. We are absolutely thrilled and it's unbelievable,\" said Elliott.\n\nRuby Walsh's historic four-timer for Mullins on Thursday ensured the Festival's all-time top rider was top jockey for the 11th time.\n\nFrom the beginning on Tuesday - with Elliott's Laiback - to the end on Friday, the Irish were in the ascendancy.\n\nHarrington's only caveat in giving post-Gold Cup interviews was to be free to watch her runner in the final race.\n\nIt was little wonder as Rock The World won the Grand Annual Chase for Power and Harrington on a day the duo ruled the racing world.", "World number one Andy Murray has pulled out of next week's Miami Open because of an injury to his right elbow.\n\nA lacklustre Murray lost to Canadian world number 129 Vasek Pospisil in the second round at Indian Wells last week.\n\nThe 29-year-old Briton, who won in Florida in 2009 and 2013, said: \"The focus is on getting ready for the clay-court season. Apologies to the fans, it's one of my favourite tournaments.\"\n\nThe Briton will be replaced in the draw by world number 136 Taylor Fritz.\n\nMurray could return to action in next month's Davis Cup quarter-final against France, which is due to begin on 7 April on an indoor clay court in Rouen.\n\nHe indicated last month that he expected to play in the tie after missing the 3-2 victory over Canada in the World Group first round.\n\nMurray served poorly in his second-round defeat by Pospisil in Indian Wells. He said he was at a loss to explain why, but it now seems as if his right elbow was at least partially to blame.\n\nIt has been reported that Novak Djokovic may also miss Miami because he, too, has an elbow injury. If they both have to sit out the event, then Murray's lead over Djokovic at the top of the rankings will stretch to more than 4,000 points as the world number two will lose the points he earned from winning the title last year.\n\nBut it will still be a cause of great frustration to Murray that he won't have a chance to boost his tally. He has a mountain of points to defend when the clay season gets under way next month.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nLeeds secured their fourth win in six Super League matches as they scored six tries in their victory over Wakefield.\n\nThe hosts led 20-4 at the break thanks to two Kallum Watkins tries and one for Anthony Mullally, with Tom Johnstone replying for the visitors.\n\nRyan Hall increased the Rhinos' lead before David Fifita powered over to give Wakefield hope of a comeback.\n\nAdam Cuthbertson and Matt Parcell also went over for Leeds, while Johnstone ran in his second try for the visitors.\n\nThe Rhinos have now won two games in a row at a canter following their 66-10 hammering at Castleford at the start of March.\n\nWatkins put Leeds ahead as he timed his jump to perfection to gather Danny McGuire's kick to run in and score.\n\nWakefield were soon on the board as Jacob Miller's kick out wide found Johnstone, who ran in from 50 metres.\n\nMullally, who had a loan spell at Wakefield in 2015, powered in for the home side's second try and Parcell's neat pass set up Watkins for his second of the night as Leeds opened a 16-point half-time advantage.\n\nAshton Golding was successful with all three conversion attempts and also added a penalty in the first half.\n\nThe hosts only need four minutes in the second half to get on the board again as Hall went over in the corner from Brett Ferres' pass\n\nWakefield replacement Fifita stormed over from close range and Sam Williams added the conversion to close the gap to 16 points with half an hour to go.\n\nBut Leeds responded quickly and Rob Burrow's pass sent Cuthbertson under the posts, while Parcell sneaked over from dummy half.\n\nGoulding's conversion took his tally for the night to 14 points, before the final play of the game saw Johnstone grab his second score as he went over in the corner.\n\n\"Wakefield will want to be better than that. I know they're a better team than that and I'd imagine they'll be disappointed with how they played.\n\n\"I don't think we saw the best of Wakefield.\n\n\"My man of the match would be Matt Parcell - I thought he was outstanding.\n\n\"While he's not making breaks or creating many line breaks, he holds the ruck accountable and gives Danny McGuire, Adam Cuthberton and Joel Moon a bit of breathing space.\"\n\n\"We were out-muscled and out-enthused all night. They ran the ball a lot harder than we did and we were no match for them. We got blown away by Leeds. We couldn't live with them.\n\n\"I could tell in the first 10 minutes that we were a bit dishonest in the things we were doing. Leeds were by far the best side and it could have been a bit more had they executed a bit better.\n\n\"We were poor straight from the kick-off and got beaten by a far better team tonight. I can't repeat what I said at half-time.\n\n\"I was very disappointed with certain individuals and the way we performed out there. Maybe a few of the guys have fallen in love with themselves after a couple of really good wins.\"", "Five years ago, China's most charismatic politician, Bo Xilai, was toppled from power. His disgrace allowed his great rival, Xi Jinping, to dominate the political stage in a way unseen in China since the days of Chairman Mao.\n\nAll this was made possible - writes BBC China editor Carrie Gracie - by the murder of a British business fixer, Neil Heywood, in the Lucky Holiday Hotel.", "Joe Gordon likes to climb mountains. Among his conquests is Mount Teide, a 12,000ft volcano in Tenerife.\n\n\"I like to walk up hills and mountains,\" he says. \"I am a big fan of a healthy body and a healthy mind.\"\n\nIt is perhaps just as well that he has a head for heights.\n\nBecause, just 24 months after getting his first job in banking, he is now the boss of telephone and online bank First Direct.\n\nAt the age of 33 he is one of the youngest people ever to have made it to the top of the UK banking industry.\n\nIt is Joe himself who greets us at the reception of First Direct's steely grey office block in Leeds.\n\nDespite having 2,900 employees in the building, he speaks to both the receptionist and a server in the cafe by name.\n\nThis weekend marks the end of his first month in the job, which he got two years after joining First Direct's parent company, HSBC.\n\nWhile he admits he hasn't been in banking very long, he does have plenty of experience of handling customers.\n\n\"I've worked in customer service since day one. Ultimately what we're trying to achieve is great customer service. So if somebody comes in who can deliver customer service, I think that's a bit of credibility for me.\"\n\nBut in an era when 90% of his customers bank on the internet, personal contact has become harder.\n\nIt was all so different when First Direct launched in 1989 as the UK's first telephone bank, pioneering banks without branches.\n\nJoe's formative experience was in the grocery section of Sainsbury's, where he worked as a graduate trainee.\n\n\"You step in there with bravado, and the first thing they said to me was: 'You're on the carrots, mate,' which was a great grounding.\n\n\"Some well-to-do women educated me on the difference between chicory and endive. That's where I first got involved in customer service. And that's where I first started to think: how do you improve things, how do you make it better for people?\"\n\nBut the boss of a bank also needs to be good with numbers.\n\nSo a later stint in the forecasting department, where he had to predict how many Easter eggs the supermarket would sell, probably helped.\n\nLawrence Christensen, a Sainsbury's director at the time, remembers him well.\n\n\"He's very good at IT, and a very quick learner. But his ability to integrate into a team, build a team and run a team would be his greatest strength.\"\n\nJoe went on to work for BT, on its fast-track programme, where he visited call centres in India no fewer than 22 times.\n\nTop of Joe's to-do list is keeping pace with technology.\n\nFirst Direct customers can already use a voice recognition system to log in to their accounts, or a fingerprint system on the app.\n\n\"I like fingerprint and voice ID, because it speaks to technology solving problems,\" he says.\n\n\"There is a problem with passwords - and if you forget your password, your memorable word, and your inside leg measurement when you were five. But actually technology can solve that.\"\n\nTo make sure it keeps up-to-date, the bank is now studying possible applications for artificial intelligence.\n\nHowever, there are other issues on the horizon that are harder to foresee.\n\nLast summer the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) heralded the era of so-called open banking.\n\nThis will allow third-party providers - with our consent - to access our banking details, and recommend where we should go for the cheapest loan, the best mortgage or the highest savings rates.\n\nWhen it starts to take effect from 2019, it could turn the banking industry upside down.\n\nBut Joe believes it is a positive development.\n\n\"This, for us, is a massive opportunity, and an opportunity we will relish.\"\n\nHowever, the future of banking still has many unknowns.\n\n\"In a world where the biggest taxi firm doesn't own any cars, where the biggest accommodation provider doesn't have any real estate, and where the biggest news website doesn't own any content - we want to play a part in shaping what banking will look like in that world.\n\n\"Can you paint a wildly dystopian future? Yes, but you can also paint a reality where we've got a very real part to play.\"\n\nFirst Direct already faces serious competition.\n\nBack when it started, it was the lean kid on the block, without the expense of branches to maintain.\n\nBut put against the new internet-only banks such as Atom, Tandem and Starling, which employ a handful of people, its wages bill is considerable.\n\nOther challenger banks are also in attack mode. In 28 years, First Direct has acquired 1.35 million customers. Yet after just seven years, Metro Bank has already acquired 915,000.\n\n\"Anywhere where disruptors, or fintech, or challenger banks will come in is where they see gaps,\" says Joe.\n\n\"It's for us to make sure we don't leave those gaps.\"\n\nIn the meantime his personal life is also going to be busy. He and his partner have a baby on the way.\n\nAnd he is planning more expeditions.\n\n\"I would like to do Kilimanjaro,\" he says, adding after a pause, \"or maybe next year.\"\n\nWith so many mountains in Joe Gordon's future, he will certainly need his penchant for altitude.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "When Kyzer Gayle died in 2005 he was little over a year old. But it would be 10 years before the authorities knew about his death and longer still before they discovered what had happened to the boy from north London.\n\nWhen asked about the whereabouts of her son, Victoria Gayle, 32, told different tales to different people. Friends and family heard that the boy - Kyzer Gayle - was with his dad. A London man who believed himself to be the child's father thought Gayle had custody. Some official agencies were informed that Kyzer had been fathered by a traveller who took him away at a young age. But the stories were false.\n\nKyzer died in 2005 when he was 13-15 months old and his mother hid the fact for more than a decade. Despite asking Gayle questions, no-one had tested the truth of her replies by establishing where her son really was.\n\nA police investigation was triggered only by the accidental death of Gayle's two-year-old daughter, Ava, in 2015. Medical treatment was sought when Ava became ill, but her condition deteriorated and she died. A subsequent inquest - recording a verdict of accident - determined that she had swallowed a tiny battery, causing fatal internal injuries.\n\nKyzer Gayle was born in Northwick Park Hospital in February 2004\n\nFollowing the tragedy, local investigators in Barnet, north London reviewed what was known about Kyzer. Finding themselves unable to account for the child, the case was referred to Scotland Yard. Beyond 2004, the year of his birth, there appeared to be no record of Kyzer being seen by anyone in authority. No attendance at school. No GP visits. No registrations with public bodies.\n\nInquiries revealed that some people who had met Kyzer as an infant were under the impression that he lived with his father in north London. Police traced the man, but he had not seen Kyzer for more than a decade. He said that following a brief relationship with Gayle in 2003, she later made contact to say he had fathered a son called Kyzer.\n\nHe told detectives he then had occasional contact with the child until, on one occasion when Gayle brought Kyzer to his home, she left and did not return. The man said he cared for the child for about five months until Gayle suddenly reappeared and demanded Kyzer back, which he felt he had to accept. He never saw the boy again.\n\nOther witnesses described seeing a baby fitting Kyzer's description at Gayle's north London flat. These are thought to be among the last sightings of the boy.\n\nGayle has been described as a hoarder and the child was said to have been seen in a buggy in a junk-filled room.\n\nPen Mehmet, Victoria Gayle's former neighbour, reported her concerns to the authorities\n\nPen Mehmet, a former neighbour, told the BBC that Gayle was a \"compulsive liar\" whose flat was so packed with rubbish that \"I couldn't tell you where her kitchen was\".\n\nShe said Gayle had claimed in recent years that Kyzer \"lives with his dad\" and \"that was the best way because that's how the dad wanted it\". Ms Mehmet says she became so troubled by elements of Gayle's behaviour that she reported her concerns to the authorities.\n\nDuring contact with Gayle, some official agencies did ask about her son's whereabouts. She told them the boy's father was a member of the traveller community and had taken responsibility for Kyzer at a young age. The claim appears to have been accepted and no-one ever sought out the boy.\n\nA photograph of the shed where the baby was found, taken after the police had removed the body\n\nWhen Gayle was later evicted from her home, she stored some of her possessions in the garden shed of her mother and step-father who lived nearby, which was where detectives eventually found Kyzer's remains.\n\nLead investigator Det Ch Insp Noel McHugh told the BBC: \"Within the shed we found a box. Within the box was what can best be described as a cocoon of gaffer tape, which concealed a cut-down buggy and in there was the clothed skeletal remains of the child we believe to be Kyzer.\" A bandage had been applied to the entire length of one leg. Gayle's mother and step-father denied knowing what had been stored on their property.\n\nBefore the discovery, Gayle had repeated to detectives the story about Kyzer's traveller father taking him away. Once his remains had been found, she admitted the story was untrue. But she denied harming Kyzer and claimed she had simply found him dead in his cot one morning - to which her reaction had been shock followed by denial. She said that recent internet searches for sulphuric acid had nothing to do with attempts to cover up the death.\n\nGayle said that, until the eviction, Kyzer's body had been kept in her home and she had covered up what happened because she was afraid of being judged and blamed for it. The passage of time means that experts have been unable to establish a cause of death, although there was evidence of malnutrition and arrested growth. Tests showed the north London man who looked after Kyzer for several months was actually not his father, although detectives eventually identified someone who was.\n\nVictoria Gayle outside Kingston Crown Court in December last year\n\nAt Kingston Crown Court last December, Victoria Gayle pleaded guilty to preventing Kyzer's lawful burial. She denied charges of perjury and perverting the course of justice, which have been left to lie on file. She has been sentenced to 21 months in prison with the judge criticising Gayle's \"web of lies\" and saying the the full truth of her son's \"sad and short life\" will never be known.\n\nA serious case review is investigating potential failings by Barnet Council and other official bodies. In a statement, the council said: \"The death of any child is tragic and we are working with Barnet Safeguarding Children's Board to provide information for their serious case review and to establish any learning from our involvement with the family.\"\n\nThe Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has also opened an inquiry - currently on hold pending the serious case review - into potential police deficiencies. An IPCC spokesperson said it was \"a complex case spanning more than a decade, and we now know the family of the child had significant contact, not just with the police, but also with other agencies\".\n\nNoel McHugh led the investigation that discovered the child's remains\n\nDetectives are still making inquiries and Det Ch Insp McHugh told the BBC he was appealing for people to come forward who knew Gayle around 2004, when Kyzer was born. Police are also particularly interested in the period between 2007 and 2013, and are asking Gayle's former partners if she had any pregnancies or births police do not know about.\n\nJon Brown, from children's charity the NSPCC, says he finds it \"deeply disturbing\" that a child can \"go missing for a decade\". He told the BBC there were \"a number of significant and important questions that are going to need to be addressed by the serious case review and by the IPCC investigation\".\n\nPen Mehmet, Gayle's former neighbour, agrees and says she is angry and bewildered that Kyzer's death could go unnoticed for so long. \"I think it's absolutely disgusting because this child's been missing and nobody knew.\n\n\"How can nobody know? I don't understand, how can nobody know?\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nGary Cahill made up for conceding a penalty by scoring a late winner as Chelsea moved a step closer to the Premier League title with victory at Stoke.\n\nThe England defender settled a heated encounter three minutes from time by sweeping home after Stoke failed to clear a Cesc Fabregas corner.\n\nIt sent Chelsea 13 points clear at the top with 10 games to play.\n\nChelsea striker Diego Costa was involved in a running battle with Stoke's defenders - being booked himself and involved in incidents that saw Bruno Martins Indi and Phil Bardsley cautioned.\n\nAnd the home side were reduced to 10 men in added time when Bardsley was sent off for a second bookable offence.\n\nWillian had given Chelsea a first-half lead with an inswinging free-kick from the left that caught out keeper Lee Grant at his near post.\n\nMartins Indi had a goal ruled out for a push by Saido Berahino on Cesar Azpilicueta, but the hosts drew level when Cahill was ruled to have pushed Jon Walters, who blasted in the penalty.\n\nThe visitors had nearly all the chances, with Marcos Alonso firing a free-kick against the bar and Pedro denied by a fine Grant save.\n\nEven the absence of Eden Hazard with a muscle problem did not ultimately thwart Chelsea, whose relentless consistency has been extraordinary.\n\nHazard's absence, only confirmed an hour before kick-off, was the major surprise as Antonio Conte's side sought a fifth successive win.\n\nPedro proved a willing deputy, but it was two players who scored against Stoke in the reverse fixture at Stamford Bridge who provided the goals.\n\nWillian, who struck twice in a 4-2 win over Hughes' side on New Year's Eve, caught out Grant with a marvellous piece of quick thinking to whip his first-half free-kick inside the near post.\n\nCahill's winner actually came after a decent five-minute spell of Stoke pressure as the game opened up in the closing stages.\n\nThe decisive goal was a tribute to the work ethic Conte has instilled in his players - coming from a corner won after substitute Ruben Loftus-Cheek harassed Erik Pieters into over-hitting a back pass.\n\nChelsea have now won 20 of their past 23 matches in all competitions, and look unstoppable.\n\nStoke boss Mark Hughes has spoken in the past of his admiration for Costa - a striker of undoubted talent who plays on the edge.\n\nHughes, a fearsome centre-forward in his playing days, has suggested he sees a bit of his own playing style in Costa's game.\n\nThe Spain international certainly did his best to rough up Stoke's defenders, and seemed in danger of getting sent off after he was booked with barely a quarter-of-an-hour gone.\n\nHis tussles with Martins Indi were a feature of the game from the off, and referee Anthony Taylor had to speak to both players following an early off-the-ball tangle.\n\nCosta, though, drew the Stoke defenders into the battle - and then concentrated more on his football after half-time to keep himself out of trouble.\n\nHe made sure not to retaliate when Bardsley clattered him shortly before the break, then forced Martins Indi into a challenge for which he was booked.\n\nThere was to be no goal for Costa - chasing his 50th in the Premier League - but he still came out smiling as Stoke lost their discipline.\n\nHughes has managed a consistency of his own since arriving at Stoke in 2013 - three successive ninth-place finishes, and a fourth more than likely.\n\nHis players showed they were more than ready to match Chelsea physically, as Martins Indi and Ryan Shawcross relished their battle with Costa, but the home side were second best here.\n\nWalters' penalty was their only shot on target, and although they did well to stay in the game for so long, there was no question the visitors deserved their win.\n\nStoke, nonetheless, showed the grit that earned them a draw at Manchester City in their last match, and Geoff Cameron did a fine job in helping out his defenders when Chelsea's sharp passing threatened to overwhelm them.\n\nIn the end, it was not enough - and Stoke remain without a win this season against any side currently in the top half of the table.\n• None Eight of Willian's past 19 goals for Chelsea have been from direct free-kicks.\n• None The Brazilian's goal was his sixth in the Premier League this season - his best tally in a single campaign in the competition.\n• None Stoke have won only one of their 13 Premier League games against teams placed top of the table on the day of the game (W1 D2 L10).\n• None Cahill is the first Chelsea player to score a goal and concede a penalty in the same Premier League game since Salomon Kalou did so against West Ham in April 2009.\n• None Walters has been directly involved in 60 Premier League goals for Stoke (42 goals, 18 assists); more than any other Potters player.\n• None Azpilicueta made his 150th Premier League appearance for Chelsea, becoming the first Spaniard to reach the milestone for the Blues.\n• None Stoke have won only two of their 18 Premier League meetings with Chelsea (D3 L13).\n\nThe Premier League takes a break for the next round of World Cup qualifiers, after which Chelsea host Crystal Palace on 1 April, the same day Stoke visit Leicester.\n• None Second yellow card to Phil Bardsley (Stoke City) for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Diego Costa (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas.\n• None Attempt saved. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pedro.\n• None Diego Costa (Chelsea) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the right side of the box. Assisted by Pedro.\n• None Geoff Cameron (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro (Chelsea) left footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas following a corner. 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. Nicola Sturgeon: \"I am up for continued discussion.\"\n\nDelegates at the SNP conference in Aberdeen are being told today Scotland will have another referendum.\n\nThe party faithful are being promised by the leadership that they will not be denied a vote on independence.\n\nBut is that a promise their leaders can keep?\n\nThe SNP firmly believe they have the moral authority to call another referendum. But it is the UK government who have the legal authority to decide when or if there is another referendum.\n\nSo what are Nicola Sturgeon's options now?\n\nI've just asked her what she will do if Theresa May refuses to discuss the possibility of another vote.\n\nThe First Minister says she is convinced the PM's position is not sustainable, that she cannot continue to deny Scotland a vote without incurring major political damage and possibly even strengthening the case for independence.\n\nFor the SNP this argument about who has the right to decide when or if Scotland can have another referendum is an example of why Scotland should leave the UK.\n\nIt allows them to make the case that Scotland is once more being dictated to by Westminster and says that shows why independence would be a better option.\n\nJust saying no might be a politically risky path for the Prime Minister but if she sticks to that position what can the Scottish government do?\n\nThey can demand negotiations over when a referendum could take place. But they can't enter discussions with someone who won't speak to them.\n\nThere is the option of holding a referendum without the authority from the UK government. That would have no legal standing and it could be challenged in the courts.\n\nBut it could also demonstrate the strength of feeling in Scotland.\n\nTheresa May has said \"now is not the time\" for Nicola Sturgeon to call for an independence referendum\n\nMs Sturgeon will not yet discuss that possibility, saying she is concentrating on the vote in the Scottish Parliament next week and then making a formal request to Theresa May to give the authority for another vote.\n\nSpeaking to me today, Ms Sturgeon indicated she might be prepared to discuss the timing of another vote with Mrs May.\n\nThe Scottish government want a referendum between Autumn 2018 and Spring 2019.\n\nIt looks like they would be prepared to negotiate a different, later, date.\n\nHowever, it is not yet clear that the UK government are prepared to talk about a date.\n\nThe PM did say \"now is not the time\" for another referendum. She didn't say never. So, will she talk about holding a vote in the future?\n\nThat seems to be the question today.", "Coverage: Listen on BBC Radio 5 live and follow text commentary on the BBC Sport website.\n\nA buccaneering England team with George Ford at fly-half and his friend Owen Farrell at inside centre. Scotland are the opponents. Early on, Ford sends Farrell into space; a pass later, Jonathan Joseph goes over in the corner.\n\nNear half-time, the two instinctively swap positions, Farrell at first receiver, Ford at second. Off quick ruck ball, Farrell finds Ford, Ford passes round his back to Farrell, the ball goes right, Joseph dives over for his second try.\n\nThey say history repeats, not least because no-one listens. Sometimes too it's because very few were watching. This was not last weekend at Twickenham, in front of 84,000 in the stadium and nine million more on television, but a half-empty Kingston Park, Newcastle, in 2009, Ford aged 16, Farrell 17.\n• None Who are Jerry Guscott's Six Nations hot steppers?\n\nMuch has changed since the pair were the standout stars in that England Under-18s side. For a long time at senior level they have been rivals in the Premiership and battled for the same number 10 shirt at international level, together but seldom in harmony, contrasting rather than complementary.\n\nMuch has stayed the same. This weekend the two - childhood friends, products of the same inadvertent yet remarkable rugby hot-housing, past and present linked by an almost telepathic on-field understanding - will start alongside each other in white once again, the essential pivot in a side with all sorts of history in its sights.\n\n\"Rugby is about connections,\" says John Fletcher, the first coach to pick the two together, when he took a 15-year-old Ford on tour to Argentina with his England Under-18 side in the summer of 2008, who let the pair room together as they moved up the age groups over the next three years.\n\n\"What the two of them had from a very young age, because of their relationship, their experience and their upbringing, was a very strong connection.\n\n\"You could tell they liked each other. They are fond both of each other's abilities and each other's personalities. They are very similar in lots of ways - both very driven, very determined, quite obsessive with their practice and preparation, and they spent so much time together they built an awareness of what the other one was going to do before he did it.\n\n\"Rugby is a sport where you see pictures, and you have to make decisions based on the pictures you see. What those two have always had is they often see the same picture.\n\n\"Both were ridiculously skilful for their age. Their run, kick, pass, their awareness, their decision-making, were really strong. And if you were to stop them at any time in a game or training session and ask them to vocalise what they're seeing and why they're doing it, they would be very similar.\"\n\nFord and Farrell were first introduced to each other's abilities while playing rugby league as under-11s, Farrell at the famous Wigan St Pat's club, Ford from 30 miles east in Saddleworth. But they were already linked, both born into league royalty, raised with ball in hand and obsession the all-around norm.\n\nFord, the son of Mike, scrum-half for Wigan, Oldham and Castleford; elder brother Joe, a Premiership 10 himself; younger brother Jacob to scrap with and wrestle; his next-door neighbour Paul Sculthorpe, St Helens and Great Britain great, always happy to throw a ball around with the kid on the street outside.\n\nFarrell, his dad Andy making his full Wigan debut at 16, winning the Challenge Cup at 17, playing for England at 18, becoming the youngest Great Britain skipper in history at 21; his uncle Wigan captain Sean O'Loughlin; his grandfather Keiron O'Loughlin, who played 260 times for Wigan and 119 times for Widnes, including at stand-off in the Challenge Cup final win over Wigan at Wembley in 1984.\n\n\"There were always rugby balls in the house,\" Farrell tells BBC Sport. \"Pretty much everyone in my family used to play. My dad taught me how to kick.\n\n\"That's what you want to do as a kid - kick a ball. If there were two of you, you'd go to a field and kick it as far as you can, and the more you have the ball in your hands, messing around, the more you pick up. Just to have a ball in your hand, throwing it around, playing touch rugby with your mates.\"\n\nWhen Mike became Saracens head coach in 2005 and made Andy his first major signing, the two families moved into adjacent houses on the same street in Harpenden. And then the burgeoning talents began to coalesce, pushing each other without realising, finding a bond in where they came from and where they wanted to go.\n\n\"It would be, 'we're not going in for tea until we do 20 perfect passes',\" remembers Mike Ford, now head coach at French club Toulon.\n\n\"If you get to 19 and the 20th one isn't quite right, you start again. 'We're going to put 30 kicks together.' They've got to be perfect, or we start again. They could be out there a long time, but it mattered.\n\n\"They're just rugby nuts. They just wanted to play rugby. They both grew up in an environment that was rugby dominated, and they were very much alike.\n\n\"Rugby balls in the house when they were two, three and four, always being thrown about. Going to watch their dads play. Going to watch them train. Training themselves. Even talking over dinner, it was all about rugby.\n\n\"That was where they learned. Without thinking it, they were preparing to be where they are today. And it was all fun.\"\n\nThe young Farrell had sat in a Wigan dressing-room containing talents like Jason Robinson, Kris Radlinski and Denis Betts. Ford, 18 months younger but never deferring to his older and bigger friend, had followed his father through his peripatetic coaching career: living in camp with Ireland aged eight; going on the 2005 British and Irish Lions tour as an 11-year-old; sitting in England's dressing-room before the 2007 World Cup final.\n\nHanging round the old Lansdowne Road when his dad was defence coach for Ireland, Ford would field the kicks of fly-halves Ronan O'Gara and David Humphreys. With England, he would cadge free tuition from Jonny Wilkinson. With Farrell, he would do all he could to ensure they had maximum time to put those lessons into practice.\n\n\"George was a bit more organised than me,\" admits Farrell. \"He'd do his homework a week in advance, whereas I'd leave it to the last minute. So if I had a bit of homework for the next day, I'd do one and he'd do the other, so we could get out to play.\"\n\nEnglish Grand Slams have always been built on the essential understanding between fly-half and inside centre: Wilkinson and Will Greenwood, Rob Andrew and Will Carling. Never before have they had the ability to switch roles so naturally and to such attacking effect.\n\nAfter a spell when international 12s were supposed to be bulldozers and bashers, after four years when England's previous coaching regime tried and failed to find a second point to the attack, when Ford and Farrell were seen as an either/or rather than alliance, Eddie Jones' decision to reunite his northern axis has set his backline free.\n\nOnly twice in his 17 matches in charge has he not started Ford and Farrell together - the first time, against Wales last summer, when Farrell was unavailable because of club commitments. In the other, the first Test against Australia in Brisbane a fortnight later, it took him only 29 minutes to haul off Luther Burrell, push Farrell out to 12 and bring Ford off the bench.\n\nIt is an old partnership bringing a new look to England, two street footballers bringing a different accent to both dressing-room and style of play.\n\nWilkinson and Greenwood were public schoolboys, Andrew a Cambridge Blue, Carling an army man (and, like Greenwood, a product of the rugby nursery Sedburgh School, and Hatfield College at Durham University).\n\nFarrell and Ford are the league influence on English rugby union come full circle: born when league's brightest talents were being poached by union, raised when coaches were going the same way, maturing with the best of both codes in their feet and fingertips.\n\n\"If you grow up in rugby league you're making 20 tackles a game,\" says Mike Ford. \"You're running with the ball 15 times.\n\n\"It's massive that they both played league. You look at their core skills. The try England scored at the end against Wales - it looks simple, but those passes George and Owen put together say it all.\"\n\nCarling, the epitome of the old school, is relishing what the new breed can bring.\n\n\"It allows England to play in a variety of ways,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"They are both footballers. They have both got great distribution, as we saw from Elliot Daly's try in the dying minutes against Wales. Both of them can kick, so you can do the tactical kicking game, or you can play with width, because both of them have great awareness of space.\n\n\"Rob [Andrew] was more of a Jonny Wilkinson-type, with other sorts of strengths, not least in terms of defence, whereas my role was basically to try to make tries for Jerry Guscott. Even Martin Johnson's team - they relied on Greenwood as that pivot to give them extra width if they wanted it.\n\n\"George plays that little bit flatter, which sometimes allows you to attack that little bit more freely than we might have done with Rob. Playing and defending against this England becomes pretty hard.\"\n\nMike Ford watched that England Under-18 match in 2009 alongside Wilkinson and the World Cup winner's father. Two years later he would watch his son in the Junior World Cup final, Farrell outside him, the two combining as intuitively as ever in the move that led to England's final try.\n\nThey came off second best that afternoon, alongside Joe Launchbury, Mako Vunipola, Daly and Joseph, to a New Zealand side featuring Beauden Barrett, Charles Piutau and Brodie Retallick.\n\nAgainst Ireland on Saturday, successive Grand Slams and a world record of 19 consecutive Test victories in their sights, second will only be seen as failure.\n\n\"I watched George and Owen play in every age group, and what they were doing at first and second receiver, we're only just seeing it at this level,\" says Ford Sr.\n\n\"Like against Scotland, how the ball comes off the top of the line-out and Owen's at first receiver and finds George and Joseph scores his first try, or how for Watson's try they swapped it round.\n\n\"They're both the same. They see each other driving to be the best they can every day, and being together it rubs off on them both. They both train that little bit harder. Get two, three, four players in your team who do that, and you've got a pretty special team - and that's what England have at the moment.\n\n\"They have their best rugby ahead of them. What Eddie [Jones] has done brilliantly is challenging them. Asking them to get better all the time.\n\n\"And they love that. You go back to the 20 passes. 'Lads, come in for your tea. Have you done your 20 perfect passes?'\"", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nFrance snatched a dramatic and controversial Six Nations win over Wales in an extraordinary encounter.\n\nTrailing by five points with the clock ticking past 100 minutes, Damien Chouly drove over from close range and Camille Lopez's conversion clinched the win.\n\nLeigh Halfpenny had kicked six penalties - three from 50 metres-plus - to cancel Remi Lamerat's early try.\n\nBut the match will live long in the memory for the 20-minute added-time barrage on the Wales line.\n\nReferee Wayne Barnes issued a yellow card to Samson Lee in the 82nd minute and had to deal with a claim of biting on Wales wing George North in the face of a tumultuous home crowd at the Stade de France.\n\nThe television match official Peter Fitzgibbon could not find any clear footage so the game was allowed to continue.\n\nBarnes also allowed France to replace tight-head prop Uini Atonio with Rabah Slimani who had earlier been replaced, with the France team doctor insisting Atonio needed a head injury assessment.\n• None Was this the day rugby lost its head?\n\nLee had returned to bring Wales back up to 15 men before Chouly claimed the decisive score after a series of penalties near the Wales line.\n\nIt was a remarkable end to a difficult Six Nations campaign for Wales which sees them finish fifth and with three defeats for the first time since 2010.\n\nFrance moved onto 14 points and second place before Ireland denied England a Grand Slam in Dublin to finish second behind the visitors.\n\nRob Howley's Wales finished one place above winless Italy after securing two tournament triumphs - against Italy and Ireland - and following defeats by England and Scotland.\n\nThe incredible finale followed what had been a low-key match until the 77th minute, with French indiscipline allowing the immaculate Halfpenny to wipe out an early 10-point deficit with a flawless display of place-kicking.\n\nBut Wales rarely threatened the French line, and struggled throughout at the scrum.\n\nThey were also hampered by injuries to second rows Alun Wyn Jones and Jake Ball, with Taulupe Faletau pressed into duty in the boiler house and replacement hooker Scott Baldwin playing in the back row.\n\nFor their part, France's forward dominance eventually paid dividends with the immaculate Louis Picamoles and Kevin Gourdon carrying powerfully.\n\nAnd Wales flanker Sam Warburton will no doubt regret the rush of blood to the head which saw him kicking the ball long downfield after turning over possession during a France attack.\n\nThe ball went from Wales' 10-metre line and over the French dead-ball line - allowing the home team to set up the bridgehead which eventually led to their winning score.\n\nFrance started brilliantly and were ahead within seven minutes when Lopez chipped the ball over the onrushing defence for Lamerat to beat his team-mate Gael Fickou to the ball and touch down.\n\nLopez increased the lead to 10 points before referee Barnes intervened to send Virimi Vakatawa to the sin-bin for a deliberate knock on.\n\nHalfpenny's angled penalty calmed Wales nerves and by half-time the full-back had struck twice more - one from more than 50 metres - and the French were left wondering how their dominance had resulted in just a one-point interval lead.\n\nAfter the break Halfpenny drilled two long-range kicks to give Wales a five point lead, which he then restored after Lopez kicked one of his own.\n\nBut that was before arguably the most thrilling, nerve-shredding, energy-sapping finish in the tournament's history.\n• None Get all the latest Six Nations news by adding\n\nFor the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland completed a Women's Six Nations Grand Slam by beating a physical Ireland 34-7 at rainy Donnybrook.\n\nAmy Wilson Hardy went over in the corner as England scored from their only chance in the first half.\n\nIreland struggled to breach England's solid defence and were made to pay as the world champions ran in four tries.\n\nForwards Laura Keates and Amy Cokayne extended the visitors' lead before backs Emily Scarratt and Lydia Thompson rounded off the win with fine tries.\n\nWith the under-20 men's side having won a Grand Slam earlier on Friday, England's men will look to complete a hat-trick by beating Ireland in Dublin on Saturday.\n\nThe women, who return to Ireland in the summer to defend their world title, have won their first Six Nations title since 2012.\n\nWing Wilson Hardy completed a fine England move in the 16th minute, but then Ireland dominated play.\n\nCentre Sene Naoupu came within a metre of going over but was stopped by a superb tackle from flanker Marlie Packer, and home captain Paula Fitzpatrick was prevented from touching down by a posse of England players.\n\nEngland regrouped after half-time and extended their lead when replacement prop Keates drove over the line from two metres out.\n\nIreland were reduced to 14 players two minutes before the hour when substitute Mairead Coyne made a deliberate knock-on.\n\nHooker Cokayne burst through to increase England's advantage but Ireland hooker Leah Lyons responded to give Ireland hope.\n\nHowever, Scarratt finished off an excellent England move to put the result beyond doubt and then replacement winger Thompson showed her pace to score England's fifth try.\n\n'It gives us a springboard now'\n\nEngland head coach Simon Middleton: \"The difference between winning and not winning this match would have been huge.\n\n\"It gives us a springboard now and it keeps our winning mentality going.\n\n\"It also gives us confidence that what we're doing is right. We know we can get better, fitter and stronger.\n\n\"That will be our next focus, but to come here to the lion's den and beat a side that are going to be hosting the World Cup is massive for us. I'm absolutely thrilled.\"\n\nEngland captain Sarah Hunter: \"It was phenomenal from the team to pull out that performance in the second half. To be Grand Slam champions is an incredible feeling but we were made to work hard for it.\n\n\"We have worked for five long years to get that Grand Slam and to get our hands back on that trophy. We fell short last year and we learned a lot about ourselves and this year we have learned to stick with the process and trust in each other.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTammy Abraham scored his 22nd goal of the season as struggling Bristol City stunned Huddersfield Town to dent the Terriers' automatic promotion hopes.\n\nLee Tomlin rounded Danny Ward to slot City ahead, after Town's Jonathan Hogg was taken off on a stretcher following a 14-minute stoppage.\n\nChelsea loanee Abraham made it 2-0 on the stroke of half-time, before Aden Flint superbly flicked in City's third.\n\nLee Johnson's side, who had won only twice in 22 league matches prior to beating Wigan Athletic last Saturday, have now recorded back-to-back successes for the first time since 1 October and move up to 19th in the table.\n\nHuddersfield had won eight of their previous 10 Championship games to keep up the pressure on the top two, but remain six points adrift of second-placed Brighton after coming up against a Bristol City side in inspired form.\n\nDavid Wagner's team struggled to impose their familiar high-tempo, high-pressing game on the Robins, and never really recovered after Hogg had to be withdrawn in the first half following a clash with team-mate Mark Hudson.\n\nThe 28-year-old received lengthy treatment to his neck and back from both sets of medical staff before being stretchered off to applause from all four sides of Ashton Gate.\n\nHe was understood to be conscious and talking in the dressing room before being taken to hospital for a scan.\n\nTomlin's composed finish deservedly put City in front, and 19-year-old Abraham doubled the advantage after displaying brilliant movement and striker's instinct to stab home at the near post.\n\nCentre-half Flint, who struck the winner at Wigan, made it 3-0 with a brilliant between-the-legs flick before Cotterill's penalty into the top corner lifted the Robins back out of the relegation zone.\n\n'This result will be a massive tonic for dad'\n\nBristol City head coach Lee Johnson: \"As far as my players are concerned, I was delighted with every one of them. They carried out our game plan perfectly and it was great to produce such a terrific performance in front of our own fans.\n\n\"I hope we silenced a few doubters tonight. I saw this display coming and was confident before the game. Now we go into the international break with real momentum.\"\n\nOn father and Cheltenham Town manager Gary Johnson, who underwent heart surgery on Thursday: \"This result will be a massive tonic for dad and I want to thank the football world for all the goodwill expressed towards him and our family.\n\n\"The heart surgery was performed by Joe Bryan's dad, which we didn't want to talk about before the game.\n\n\"I am grateful to him and all the hospital staff. Dad is doing okay and the test results are encouraging.\n\nHuddersfield Town head coach David Wagner: \"Bristol City were strong and we under-performed. I have never spoken about automatic promotion and we now need to use the international break to refresh and respond to this result.\n\n\"We are in a very good position with nine games to go and we have been through too much together as a group for me to question my players.\"\n• None Attempt saved. Rajiv van La Parra (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Philip Billing.\n• None Korey Smith (Bristol City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Bristol City 4, Huddersfield Town 0. David Cotterill (Bristol City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Philip Billing (Huddersfield Town) after a foul in the penalty area. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nSizing John, ridden by Robbie Power and trained by Jessica Harrington, powered home to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup.\n\nVictory completed a big-race double for the 7-1 chance, who won the Irish Gold Cup at Leopardstown in February.\n\nHe finished two and three quarter lengths ahead of Minella Rocco (18-1) in the Cheltenham showpiece, with Native River (7-2) in third.\n\nLizzie Kelly, the first woman for 33 years to ride in the race, was unseated from Tea for Two at the second fence.\n\nThe 3-1 favourite Djakadam hit the second-last fence when leading and ended up finishing fourth, while the much-loved Cue Card again fell three fences from home.\n\nHarrington and Power finished the Festival in style by winning the last race, the Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Challenge Cup Handicap Chase, with Rock the World (10-1).\n\nThe seven-year-old winner was a first Cheltenham Gold Cup entry for Harrington after moving to her yard from Henry de Bromhead's earlier in the season.\n\nHarrington, the most successful female trainer ever at the Festival, had previously enjoyed big-race success with Moscow Flyer in the 2003 and 2005 Queen Mother Champion Chases, and with 2014 Champion Hurdle winner Jezki.\n\n\"It's amazing - he has gone from running two miles at Christmas to three miles here,\" she told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\nDown to the last he absolutely pinged it\n\n\"He jumped like a buck and it was his jumping that got him there.\n\n\"I never seemed to have any stayers before for this race - I can't believe it.\"\n\nHarrington is the third woman to train a Gold Cup winner, following Jenny Pitman, who guided Burrough Hill Lad (1984) and Garrison Savannah (1991), and Henrietta Knight with Best Mate (2002-2004).\n\nPower, who won the Grand National on Silver Birch in 2007, said: \"It's unbelievable. Jessica Harrington is a genius.\n\n\"I was only 25 when I won the National and I'm 35 now. When you're 25 you think you can win everything, so this is very special.\n\n\"Down to the last he absolutely pinged it and then it was just a case of seeing it out. It's what every jockey dreams of and I never thought I would until we got this lad.\n\n\"I had a bad injury before Christmas and I rushed back to ride him in the Irish Gold Cup\"\n\nBeing thrilled to feeling robbed - what the rest said\n\nMinella Rocco trainer Jonjo O'Neill: \"It was his first run proper of the season. He has no miles on the clock and he'll improve a ton on that. I'm thrilled, he had a great spin round and finished as strongly as anything.\"\n\nNative River owner Garth Broom: \"I felt we were slightly robbed of second right on the line, but finishing third in a Gold Cup with a seven-year-old is something you can't complain about.\n\n\"He wears his heart on his sleeve and we are so proud of him. We had two dreams - to have a runner in the Gold Cup and to win one, and we've achieved the first.\n\nDjakadam jockey Ruby Walsh: \"The mistake at the second-last cost me second place but I don't believe I would have done better than that.\"\n\nCue Card assistant trainer Joe Tizzard: \"He has come back safe and that is the main thing we were concerned about.\"\n\nThe 2017 Gold Cup was billed as competitive, but not necessarily the greatest staging in the race's 90-plus-year history.\n\nYou probably can't say at this stage that Sizing John is all set to be a great champion, but given time, who knows?\n\nHe's got that certain something about him - racing purists would say 'class' - he's only seven years old, technically some way short of his prime, and the time of the race was decent.\n\nThere had been doubts about the horse's stamina lasting out the demanding three and a quarter miles, but he had plenty of reserves to positively bound up the final hill.\n\nPaul Townend rode a 356-1 double for Willie Mullins after top weight Arctic Fire (20-1) took the County Hurdle after being off the track for 13 months, while Penhill then triumphed in the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle.\n\nPenhill's win was Mullins' first in the race and gave him a sixth win of the meeting.\n\nGordon Elliott matched him with his sixth win when Champagne Classic (12-1) took the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle for JJ Slevin.\n\nHowever, Elliott clinched the leading trainer award thanks to his three second places compared to two from Mullins.\n\nA delighted Elliott said: \"To win the trainer award is something special. Willie is an amazing man and a gentleman. We are absolutely thrilled.\n\n\"When we get home now, we will have a party with all the staff.\"\n\nChampagne Classic's owner, airline boss Michael O'Leary, was somewhat surprised by the horse's achievement.\n\n\"I think that was a miraculous event. He is probably the worst horse we own!\" said O'Leary\n\n\"We buy them in numbers and you get a few duds - he is one of the duds!\"\n\nThe rest of the day's action\n\nBryony Frost triumphed on Pacha Du Polder in the Foxhunters Chase, the same horse on whom former Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist Victoria Pendleton finished fifth in last year's race,\n\nFrost's win meant that for the first time all three races for amateur riders at the Festival were won by female jockeys.\n\nShe was also following in a family tradition - her father Jimmy rode Morley Street to victory in the 1991 Champion Hurdle, while brother Hadden won at the 2010 Festival.\n\nThe day's other race, the Triumph Hurdle, was won by the 5-2 favourite Defi Du Seuil, ridden by champion jockey Richard Johnson and trained by Philip Hobbs.", "The singer started learning violin as a child, but decided to become a singer-songwriter\n\nBeware of Frances: She's on a one-woman mission to force all the water in your body out through your tear ducts.\n\nNominated for the Brits critics' choice award and the BBC Sound of 2016, the singer has a knack for achingly beautiful ballads that tug at the heartstrings.\n\nSongs like Let It Out and Say It Again have earned her more than 50 million streams on Spotify - and top 10 singles around the world (although not at home, thanks to the current state of the UK singles chart).\n\nBorn Sophie Frances Cooke in Berkshire, she was an aspiring violinist when her teacher sent her to see a film composer for career advice.\n\nOn a whim, she played him a pop song she'd written for fun - and moved him to tears.\n\n\"It was a bit awkward,\" she recalls. \"I was like, 'Are you ok?' and he said, 'Yeah. But you need to do that. You have to do that for the rest of your life.\"\n\nShe took his advice - choosing to attend the pop-focussed Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts instead of her original choice, the Birmingham Conservatoire.\n\nBy the time she reached her third year of studies, she'd already been signed by a record label and moved to London.\n\nHer debut album, Things I've Never Said, comes out this week. A warm and wistful collection of perfectly-crafted piano pop, it has already won the singer comparisons to Adele and Carole King.\n\nMeanwhile, her single Grow has been selected to soundtrack a new campaign by Refuge, the charity supporting female victims of domestic violence.\n\nThe 23-year-old sat down to tell the BBC about that video; the perks of fame; and what it's like to get school lessons from Paul McCartney.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHello Frances... Or should I call you Sophie?\n\nI'm Sophie to my family and friends - but I once thought, \"If I'm going to be an artist, my name's got to look good on a piece of paper\". Sophie is very curly, it looks very young, whereas Frances is a lot more angular. So it just kind of stuck.\n\nBut then up until the age of 16, everyone called me Cookie. So anything goes.\n\nIt's been three years since your first single - you must be relieved the album is finally out?\n\nI'm so excited. It's definitely been a while. I wrote some of these songs when I was 18 or 19, and so they've literally been with me for five years.\n\nIt's unusual for people to stay fond of the songs they wrote in their teens.\n\nActually, at the time, I didn't think much of them! But they made it through all the label cuts and slashes. They stood the test of time.\n\nWhat are the oldest ones on there?\n\nI wrote Drifting and Sublime in my room at LIPA - the performing arts school up in Liverpool.\n\nThat's the one that Paul McCartney founded, right? Did he ever show up?\n\nA couple of times. He'd come in to do little Q&As.\n\nHe was really nice, if you saw him walking past, you could just say \"hi\" and he was always really sweet.\n\nWhat's the best advice you got from him?\n\nHe said that when he and John [Lennon] were writing, they didn't have anything to record what they were doing… Whereas now, if I'm writing in a session, I've got my phone there recording everything. And so if I forget something I can go back and find it.\n\nBut he said, \"We didn't have that luxury. So if we forgot something, it wasn't good enough and we didn't use it.\"\n\nI was like, \"Oh my God, that's so true.\" Because if you've written something and 10 minutes later you don't remember it, then it's not good enough.\n\nDo you stick to that advice even now?\n\nNo, because my memory's terrible!\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch an excerpt for Frances' video for Grow\n\nOne of the first songs you released was Grow... and that's now being used in a very powerful video for Refuge.\n\nIt's amazing. It's about a woman called Melanie Clark, who had a terrible time, a really abusive partner, and she managed to get out of it by seeking help from Refuge.\n\nThey've animated her story. It's basically about her feeling invisible until one woman, who represents Refuge, notices her for the first time. It's a campaign to encourage victims of domestic abuse to seek help. We want people to realise they are not alone.\n\nThe original song isn't about domestic abuse at all. Were you surprised by how well the words and the images complement each other?\n\nIt's weird how the lyrics make so much sense alongside the story. I just hope it will resonate with people all over the world. It's an amazing animation and everyone's done it for free.\n\nThe singer has collaborated with Disclosure and Spice Girls writer Biff Stannard - but is keeping those songs for a later record\n\nWould it be fair to say you've always wanted to play music?\n\nAbsolutely. My best friend's parents were professional violinists. When I was about eight, I went round to her house, picked one up and fell in love with it. Then her dad taught me all the way up 'til I was about 16 or 17.\n\nWhat was your exam piece?\n\nI did a kind of a gypsy piece called Csardas. It's so fast - and it speeds up towards the end, as well. And then I started the piano when I was 10 - but I only got to grade six. I couldn't be bothered to do scales any more.\n\nDo you remember your first stage performance?\n\nI was three, dressed as an ice cream in a production of The Hungry Caterpillar at the Royal Festival Hall! And then throughout school, I was always on stage, playing violin or piano. And I played in the Berkshire Youth Orchestra.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Frances performs Grow at the BBC Introducing SXSW showcase in 2016.\n\nYou sound like a high achiever. Were you good academically, too?\n\nI was quite lucky at school. I had this little charm - I could not do my homework and somehow get away with it.\n\nEveryone knew I worked so hard at music. I was doing stuff after school every day, so the teachers were quite lenient.\n\nAnd then you went to LIPA...\n\nActually, I didn't get in the first time. They put me on their foundation course, which cost like 10 grand or something. My parents, bless them, scrambled together every penny we had and I worked at Waitrose trying to get money to go.\n\nI put a song called Coming Up For Air on SoundCloud in early 2014. It was quite calculated - because at the time London Grammar were really big, so I thought, \"OK, I'm going to write something like that, so all the blogs listen and pick up on it\". Eventually, a few started writing about it and then Tom Robinson from 6 Music played it which was really cool.\n\nAfter that, we ended up having a meeting with [boutique record label] Kitsuné, and released a single.\n\nDon't Worry About Me was a big breakthrough for you. How did that come about?\n\nOne of my friends was quite ill - and I wrote the song to say, \"look after yourself and I'll be here for you\".\n\nI wrote it really quickly. I was just getting off the bus on Kilburn High Road when I came up with the phrase, \"I'll feel the fear for you, I'll cry the tears for you, don't worry about me.\" I ran home thinking, \"I need to get to a piano quickly, I don't want to lose this.\"\n\nI think because I wrote it so quickly. I was thinking about my friend and the lyrics just came out.\n\nThe star has been compared to Adele and Carole King\n\nDon't Worry About Me has been played nine million times on Spotify. How do you wrap your head around that?\n\nI don't really. I always said that if I won the lottery, I'd be more excited by £100,000 than I would with £1m because I can't understand a million pounds. I've never seen that. I can't quantify it. Whereas a hundred grand, I can think, \"ah, that's a really nice car\".\n\nIt's a weird period for music at the moment… You can have all those plays, and millions of people know your song, but it hasn't troubled the charts in the UK.\n\nIt's a really weird time. In Belgium, Don't Worry About Me was in the top 20 for 10 weeks and that's mainly because in Belgium the singer-songwriter world is their Radio 1. In Australia, it hung around the chart for ages. In the UK, I've just come out at a really funny time. There's a weird limbo.\n\nBut I'm so proud of my album. I know it's not going to sell 20 million copies but that's OK. I want to be an artist that's going to be around for 20 or 30 years.\n\nIn a strange way, you're famous to the people who know you and nobody else.\n\nIt's actually lovely because I can walk down the street and not be bothered. Apart from in John Lewis once, where the manager recognised me while I was buying a sofa.\n\nHe was like, \"Excuse me, can I ask you a question?\" and I thought, \"Oh no, my card's been rejected\" but he was like, \"Can I get a picture with you?\"\n\nAnd I think he paid for my sofa because I took out finance and I haven't paid a penny yet.\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.", "Is Kim Jong-un rational? The new US ambassador to the United Nations thinks he is not. Nikki Haley said after North Korea's simultaneous launch of four ballistic missiles: \"This is not a rational person.\" But is she right?\n\nKim Jong-un may have many flaws. He is without doubt ruthless - the bereaved relatives of the victims of his regime, including within his own family, would testify to that. He may have driven through an economic policy that keeps his people living at a standard way below that in South Korea and, increasingly, China.\n\nAnd he seems to have personal issues, such as eating a lot - photographs show his bulging girth - and being a fairly heavy smoker.\n\nBut whatever these failings and foibles, is he actually irrational - which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as \"not logical or reasonable, not endowed with the power of reason\"?\n\nScholars who study him think he is behaving very rationally, even with the purging and terrorising of those around him. Prof Andrei Lankov of Kookmin University in Seoul told the BBC: \"He is perfectly rational. He sometimes overdoes it. He sometimes tends to apply excessive force. Why kill hundreds of generals when dozens will do?\n\nKim Jong-nam, Kim-Jong-un's half-brother, was killed while in Malaysia in February 2017\n\n\"Most people he kills would never join a conspiracy but he feels it's better to overdo it. It's better to kill nine loyal generals and one potential conspirator than to allow a conspirator to stay alive.\n\nProf John Delury of Yonsei University in Seoul said that even having his half-brother killed (as the allegation is - denied by Pyongyang) would be a rational act; not nice but rational.\n\n\"A sad fact of history is that young kings often kill their uncles and elder brothers. It may be cruel, but it is not 'irrational'. If you don't take my word for it, read Shakespeare.\"\n\nOn this assassination of Kim Jong-nam, allegedly at the hands of agents of the regime, Prof Lankov says it is similar to the Ottoman Empire, where concubines of the Sultan had countless children, any of whom had a bloodline that might one day legitimise a claim to the throne.\n\nProf Lankov thinks that Kim Jong-nam was, accordingly, a threat, probably not that great a one but still intolerable: \"Probably he was not that dangerous but you never know. He was definitely under Chinese control.\"\n\nProf Delury said that there was nothing irrational about Kim Jong-un's drive to obtain credible nuclear weapons: \"He has no reliable allies to guarantee his safety, and he faces a hostile superpower that has, in recent memory, invaded sovereign states around the world and overthrown their governments.\n\n\"The lesson North Koreans learned from the invasion of Iraq was that if Saddam Hussein really possessed those weapons of mass destruction, he might have survived.\"\n\nCould Kim Jong-un's drive to achieve a nuclear capability safeguard his regime's future?\n\nThis was compounded by the lesson of Libya, according to Prof Lankov: \"Did American promises of American prosperity help Gaddafi and his family? Kim Jong-un knows perfectly well what happened to the only fool who believed Western promises and renounced the development of nuclear weapons. And he's not going to make that mistake. Once you don't have nuclear weapons you are completely unprotected.\n\n\"Did Russian or American and British promises to guarantee Ukrainian integrity help Ukraine? No. Why should he expect American, Russian or Chinese promises to help him stay alive? He is rational.\"\n\nIf he is rational, what does he want? On this, scholars are divided. Prof Brian Myers of Dongseo University in Busan in South Korea said that Kim Jong-un wants security but also a united Korea as the only way he and the regime can survive in the long term.\n\n\"As every North Korean knows, the whole point of the military-first policy is 'final victory', or the unification of the peninsula under North Korean rule.\"\n\nA credible nuclear force would give him the ability to pressure the United States to remove its troops from the peninsula.\n\n\"North Korea needs the capability to strike the US with nuclear weapons in order to pressure both adversaries into signing peace treaties. This is the only grand bargain it has ever wanted,\" said Prof Myers.\n\nSome analysts believe North Korea's strategy aims to see the US withdraw from South Korea\n\nAnd once the US troops had gone, on this argument, North Korean rule would be unstoppable.\n\nProf Lankov doesn't agree with the emphasis. He thinks survival is by far the most important motive behind Kim Jong-un's actions: \"Above all, he wants to stay alive. Second, economic prosperity and growth - but it's a distant second.\"\n\nSo what's to be done? Prof Lankov sees no good options: \"I don't see any solution right now.\" He thinks the best option is to persuade North Korea to freeze its development of nuclear weapons at a particular size of arsenal \"but it will be very difficult and North Koreans may not keep their promises\".\n\nAnd money would have to be paid. \"But this deal isn't good from an American point of view because it means paying a reward to a blackmailer, and if you pay a reward to a blackmailer once, you invite more blackmail.\n\n\"The second option which might work is a military operation but that is likely to trigger a second Korean war and will permanently damage American credibility as a reliable ally and protector.\n\n\"Worldwide, a lot of people would see that it's better to have enemies than such friends.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEddie Jones said England will \"have more setbacks\" after his side's hopes of a second straight Grand Slam and a world-record 19th Test win were ended by Ireland on Saturday.\n\nJones' side had already retained the Six Nations title before their campaign ended with a 13-9 defeat in Dublin.\n\nThe Australian said England are \"14 months into a four-year project\".\n\n\"It would have been great to be Grand Slam champions and world record holders but it wasn't our day,\" he added.\n\nThe defeat means England's winning run ends on 18 Tests, level with New Zealand, who saw their series of victories also ended by the Irish, in Chicago in November.\n\n\"To win the World Cup you've got to win seven in a row, you've got to cope with that pressure,\" added Jones.\n\n\"How many teams average a 90% win rate? Not many, only the All Blacks.\"\n\nJones said the hosts used the conditions \"superbly\", adding: \"Full credit to Ireland, they were brilliantly coached and executed their plan well.\"\n\nBut he said England did not play to their potential and that he would take full responsibility for the defeat.\n\n\"We knew it was going to be a tough, physical game, we just weren't good enough today. I didn't prepare the team well,\" he said.\n\n\"We're all human beings, we're not perfect, and that's why world records finish at 18 games because it's hard to keep [winning].\n\n\"The next Test we play I'll prepare them better. I'm human like everyone else, I make mistakes. Even [legendary Australia batsman] Don Bradman got a zero in his last Test.\"\n\n'This will keep us grounded'\n\nEngland captain Dylan Hartley said his team had \"big lessons to learn\" from the defeat.\n\n\"We set out to win the tournament and we've done that. Obviously we're disappointed not to win this final game because we had high hopes, we had high expectations of ourselves,\" added the hooker.\n\n\"Credit to Ireland. We seemed to back up every error with another error. We are not the finished article. This will keep us grounded.\"\n\n'I can't wait to play New Zealand'\n\nThe British and Irish Lions will travel to New Zealand in June looking for a first Test series win there since 1971.\n\nEngland are not due to face the All Blacks until 2018, but Jones hopes the Rugby Football Union (RFU) can secure a fixture against the world champions in November.\n\n\"I expect at least 15 of our guys to go on the Lions tour, I'd be disappointed if we don't have that many guys in,\" said Jones. \"And I think they'll have a massive shout [of winning the Test series].\n\n\"New Zealand, as Ireland have shown, are there for the taking.\n\n\"I can't wait for us to play them either. We're very keen to play them, I've had a discussion with Ian [Ritchie, RFU chief executive] and we're raring to go.\n\n\"There's a lot of discussions to go. A lot of discussions with New Zealand and within the rugby community, there's still a lot to go.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio Scotland, plus live text commentary via the BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app\n\nEngland prop Mako Vunipola believes he and brother Billy can come back better than ever after their injury lay-offs.\n\nThe pair were outstanding for England throughout 2016, but both missed the first part of the Six Nations with knee problems.\n\nMako made his return off the bench against Italy while number eight Billy will face Scotland this weekend.\n\n\"The challenge is not to be reaching the same levels, it's to go higher,\" Mako told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"Billy has come back in and trained well, and his knee is looking good. He actually looks a lot better than me, so fair play to him.\"\n• None Listen: Could the Twickenham crowd turn on England?\n\nMako says the brothers' Tongan heritage means staying in good physical shape while injured is a challenge.\n\n\"It's probably the gene, being Tongan doesn't help,\" Mako explained.\n\n\"It's always a thing with me where I have to keep on top of my diet, and I am getting as much help as I can.\n\n\"We have [England rugby nutrition consultant] Graeme Close who keeps a close watch on me.\n\n\"Definitely with age it's got better, but it's definitely still a work-on for me. I have given up chocolate for Lent, chocolate is probably one of my guilty pleasures.\"\n\nBilly made his return for Saracens three weeks ahead of schedule, playing more than 70 minutes in Sunday's win over Newcastle.\n\n\"He was a bit grumpy when he was injured, so it's good for him to get back in the mix,\" Mako said of his brother.\n\n\"He was always confident he was going to come back quicker, but I was worried he was going to push himself too much.\n\n\"But his knee is looking good, it doesn't look like he has missed much. He has a smile on his face.\"\n\nListen to England v Scotland on BBC Radio 5 live, 16:00 GMT on Saturday, 11 March.", "The CIA has not said if the claims are true\n\nAlready embroiled in a row with President Donald Trump amid his claims that spies are leaking secrets against him, now the CIA is facing its own damaging leaks.\n\nThis time it's the American intelligence community's familiar foe - Wikileaks - with another cache of what look like highly sensitive secret documents, this time about the CIA's technical capabilities.\n\nThe National Security Agency faced its problems when Edward Snowden passed on documents to journalists - but this time it's the NSA's sister agency.\n\nWhile the NSA is the agency charged with collecting what is called signals intelligence and the CIA's job is to recruit human spies, the reality is that the technical and the human side of espionage have been drawing closer for years.\n\nThe CIA created a Directorate of Digital Innovation whose director told me the priority was making sure the agency stayed on top of technology.\n\nWhile the NSA may sift global internet traffic looking for intelligence, the CIA prioritises close access against specific targets who it is interested in.\n\nAnd getting into someone's electronic devices can be vital if you are trying to target them - either to recruit them as an agent or for a drone strike against a suspected terrorist.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former CIA boss: latest leak on Wikileaks has 'made my country less safe'\n\nThese latest leaks will be a huge problem for the CIA as the Snowden leaks were for the NSA (although there will be less surprise about these capabilities now since we learned so much from the Snowden files).\n\nThere is the embarrassment factor - that an agency whose job is to steal other people's secrets has not been able to keep their own.\n\nThis will be added to by the revelations that the US consulate in Frankfurt was used as a base for the technical operations which may cause problems in Germany where the Edward Snowden revelations caused intense domestic debate.\n\nThen there will be the fear of a loss of intelligence coverage by the CIA against their targets who may change their behaviour because they now know the spies can do.\n\nThe CIA is alleged to have found a way to listen to conversations that took place close to Samsung TVs\n\nAnd then there will be the questions over whether the CIA's technical capabilities were too expansive and too secret.\n\nBecause many of the initial documents point to capabilities targeting consumer devices, the hardest questions may revolve around what is known as the \"equities\" problem - when you find a vulnerability in a piece of technology, how do you balance the benefit of leaving that vulnerability in place so the intelligence agency can exploit it to collect intelligence with the benefit to the public of informing the manufacturer so they can close it and improve everyone's security?\n\nIf an intelligence agency has found a vulnerability then other hackers might do as well. The NSA faced questions about whether it had found the right balance and now it may be the CIA's turn.\n\nThere will be anger in the CIA and some of that will be directed at Wikileaks.\n\nWikileaks has said the source of this latest cache of documents came from a former US government hacker or contractor.\n\nBut it is an organisation that the US intelligence community has claimed may have been a route for information hacked from the Democrats by the Russians during last year's election to make it into the public domain.\n\nNo doubt the CIA will be trying to establish the exact source of the latest leak and understand the timing - coming right in the middle of an intensifying row between American spies and their own president.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsene Wenger said he was \"revolted\" by the referee after his \"brave\" Arsenal side suffered a last-16 Champions League thrashing by Bayern Munich.\n\nReferee Anastasios Sidiropoulos denied the hosts a penalty when 1-0 up before later awarding one for a Laurent Koscielny foul on Robert Lewandowski.\n\nKoscielny was sent off as Arsenal lost 5-1 on Tuesday and 10-2 on aggregate.\n\n\"The penalty and red card are absolutely unexplainable and scandalous,\" Gunners boss Wenger said.\n\n\"It's irresponsible from the referee. It leaves me very angry and very frustrated.\"\n\nArsenal faced an uphill struggle going into Tuesday's second leg having suffered a 5-1 defeat in Germany three weeks ago.\n\nTheo Walcott's first-half strike gave them a sliver of hope, but that vanished when Lewandowski scored from the spot shortly after the restart and Koscielny was sent off for the foul that led to the penalty.\n\nSidiropoulos initially showed Koscielny a yellow card but upgraded that to a red after consulting his assistant on the byeline, with the defender apparently deemed to have committed a deliberate foul.\n\nUnder laws introduced in April, the previous punishment of a red card and a penalty for a foul in the box that denies a goalscoring opportunity was changed.\n\nNow, players committing accidental fouls that deny a goalscoring chance are shown a yellow instead - but deliberate fouls still incur a red card.\n\nAfter Bayern's equaliser, Arsenal's momentum faded. They conceded four goals in 17 minutes but, despite suffering the biggest aggregate defeat of an English side in the Champions League, Wenger said the result did not \"reflect the courage of the performance\".\n\n\"Overall it's difficult to understand what's happened,\" he told BT Sport. \"I still must say my team has produced a huge effort and played very well.\"\n\nWenger added he thought Xabi Alonso's challenge on Theo Walcott in the first half was \"100% a penalty\", and also claimed Bayern striker Lewandowski was offside in the build-up to the foul by Koscielny that resulted in the French defender's dismissal.\n\n\"It's just not serious,\" Wenger said.\n\n\"When you see the importance of the games and you see an attitude like that I am absolutely revolted and sorry for people who come and pay a lot of money to watch this kind of game.\"\n\nThe 67-year-old Frenchman was also the subject of protests from fans before the game at Emirates Stadium, asking for him to step down.\n\nWhen asked about the demonstration, Wenger said: \"I've nothing to add to that.\"\n\n'There needs to be a cleansing'\n\nThe Gunners have now been knocked out at this stage of the Champions League for seven successive seasons.\n\nAnd it would be the \"right decision for the club\" if Wenger was to leave after 21 years in charge, says former Tottenham midfielder Jermaine Jenas.\n\n\"Changes seem inevitable,\" Jenas told BBC Radio 5 live. \"This is a pivotal moment in Arsenal's history, a moment to look on. There needs to be a cleansing.\"\n\nNeil Lennon echoed that sentiment, calling Arsenal \"a team of spoiled brats, who throw in the towel too easily at times\".\n\n\"What I don't want is for Arsene to tarnish his legacy,\" said the Hibernian manager.\n\n\"Since they reached the Champions League final in 2006, there's been a steady decline and there comes a point where people switch off to it and that point has come.\"\n\nArsenal's best chance of silverware this season is in the FA Cup and they host non-league Lincoln City in the quarter-finals on Saturday.\n\nThey are fifth in the Premier League, 16 points behind leaders Chelsea and two points adrift of fourth-place Liverpool, although they have a game in hand.\n\n\"It will be a tough ask to get into the top four,\" said Jenas. \"You have seen over the last two games... the way they fell apart has not been great for Wenger.\"\n\n'He can't seem to find an answer'\n\nThere was also reaction from other former professionals, including ex-Arsenal striker Ian Wright.\n\nHe told BT Sport: \"The first game was more upsetting than this, but it's a sad day because we've gone out again at this stage. We're going through a period in our history that's the worst.\n\n\"It will take some sort of monumental effort to turn it around in terms of the drive and determination of the players. It feels like something is coming to an end.\"\n\nFormer Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand added: \"The last 10 years in terms of league trophies and the Champions League, it's been a disappointing time.\n\n\"It's disappointing to see Wenger go out on this note after all he's done. At this moment in time things are not going right and he can't seem to find the answer.\"\n\nIf you get rid of Arsene Wenger, what next? Who do you bring in? Where is the club going to go?\n\nFor me, the question over who should be manager obscures the wider issues of what is going wrong.\n\nThe team needs to be better, but all the focus is on Wenger when surely it's the players who need to be taking more responsibility on the pitch.\n\nWhen things go wrong, you want to see character. We've not seen that from them in recent games.\n\nWe don't know the whole story about what happened with Alexis Sanchez, but players having bust-ups in training? I don't see that as a bad thing.\n\nFootball should be a passionate game, you want to see people pushing each other on.\n\nHow bad was it? The stats\n• None The 10-2 aggregate defeat is the worst suffered by an English side in the Champions League\n• None It was Arsenal's biggest home loss at Emirates Stadium, the biggest since November 1998 (5-0 against Chelsea in the League Cup)\n• None Only one Champions League tie has seen a greater margin of victory for a team - Bayern Munich v Sporting Lisbon (12-1, 2009)\n\n'Shame Again' - How the papers reacted\n\nWhat did the fans say?\n\nJames Holness: Wenger points the finger of blame elsewhere for Arsenal's failings, but ultimately he MUST take responsibility. He has to go.\n\nGrumpy Expat: I love Arsene Wenger. Given me many happy memories. I loved my ex-girlfriend too. As difficult as it was, that had to end too.\n\nCraig Smith: Sad day for Arsenal as Wenger's legacy is going down in flames. Hope he quits early so can be given a positive send off.\n\nTim: Wenger shouldn't be given the option of turning down new deal. No one is bigger than the club. Sack him. Now.\n\nJohnny Magrinho: Wenger to blame? Ridiculous. The success he's brought to this club is astronomical. This? Not his fault. Blame the players.\n\nRobroyMan: Arsenal need a serious rebuild from the board down. Mentality is marshmallow. Bellerin, Ozil and Sanchez gone. Manager is responsible for the character of his team, full stop. Bring In Allegri.\n\nRewstep: Well now go, Walk out the door, Just turn around now, you're not manager any more...\n\nSelected from user comments and tweets sent to #bbcfootball", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nAccusations of unfair play by Australia in their Test defeat by India are \"outrageous\", says Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland.\n\nAustralia skipper Steve Smith was seen looking up to his side's dressing room when pondering whether to ask for a review after he was given out lbw.\n\nIndia captain Virat Kohli said Smith had \"crossed the line\".\n\nThe International Cricket Council confirmed no action would be taken against either captain.\n\nSutherland said of Smith: \"We have every faith there was no ill-intent in his actions. Steve's an outstanding person.\"\n\nSmith, 27, admitted his error and described it as \"a bit of brain-fade\".\n\nThe laws of the game forbid players from consulting with anyone off the field about whether to use the Decision Review System (DRS), given that support staff have access to television replays in the dressing room.\n\nKohli, 28, said it was not an isolated incident and alleges he saw Australian players looking to the dressing room for DRS assistance on two other occasions while he was batting.\n\n\"I pointed that out to the umpire as well that I had seen their players looking upstairs for confirmation,\" Kohli added.\n\n\"We observed that, we told the match referee and the umpire that it's been happening for the last three days and it has to stop.\"\n\nHowever, Sutherland replied: \"I find the allegations questioning the integrity of Steve Smith, the Australian team and the dressing room, outrageous.\n\n\"We reject any commentary that suggests our integrity was brought into disrepute or that systemic unfair tactics are used, and stand by Steve and the Australian cricketers who are proudly representing our country.\"\n\nThe Indian cricket authorities responded with a strong rebuttal, insisting they \"steadfastly stand\" with Kohli and his team.\n\n\"Virat Kohli is a mature and seasoned cricketer and his conduct on the field has been exemplary,\" said the the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).\n\n\"BCCI has requested the ICC to take cognisance of the fact that Smith admitted to a 'brain fade' at that moment.\n\n\"BCCI sincerely hopes that the rest of the matches are played in the true spirit of cricket.\"\n\nIndia's victory levelled the four-match series at 1-1 and the penultimate Test begins in Ranchi on 16 March.\n\nMeanwhile, all-rounder Mitchell Marsh will return home from the tour of India with a shoulder injury and a replacement is expected to be announced in due course.\n\nA headline in The Sydney Morning Herald read: \"Kohli all but accuses Australia of cheating after epic Indian Test win\".\n\nAnd Andrew Wu wrote that the series has become a \"no-holds barred, bare-knuckle fight after a spiteful finish to the second Test\".\n\n\"Relations between the two sides are now at its lowest point since the Monkeygate scandal of 2007-08\", he adds, referring to an incident when India's Harbhajan Singh was accused of a racial slur aimed at Andrew Symonds. He was later exonerated.\n\nWriting in The Age, Greg Baum says the DRS has been a \"nightmare\" for everyone.\n\n\"Now it [DRS] has become Frankenstein, a man-made mechanical monster. If more sensible protocols cannot be developed, it should be scrapped altogether\", he says.\n\nA headline in the Herald Sun described the Indian captain as the \"cricket's ultimate bully\" while The Australian says \"Cricket war of words flares again\".\n\nThe report in The Australian said: \"Cricket Australia chief launches an extraordinary attack on Indian skipper Virat Kohli, as strained relations explode again\".\n\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world.", "Former heavyweight world champion David Haye has ruled out retiring from the sport and is targeting a rematch with Tony Bellew.\n\nHaye, 36, had surgery on an Achilles injury sustained in Saturday's 11th-round defeat by Bellew in London.\n\nHe suffered the injury in the sixth round of the fight, but says a two-and-a-half-hour operation \"went well\".\n\n\"I live to fight another day and I will fight another day,\" Haye told Sky Sports.\n\nAsked if he would be returning to the ring, he said: \"No doubt about it, I have never been more sure about it.\"\n\nHe added: \"Other athletes have come back in six to nine months after the same injury, I am in a good condition, a healthy-living person and I am looking forward to getting back in there.\"\n\nBellew, 34, said he is considering retirement following his win, but admitted that an offer for one further fight could be too lucrative to turn down.\n\nAsked whether the Haye bout would be his last, Bellew told BBC Radio 5 live: \"It's an option. It's something I'm thinking about.\"\n\nIn response, Haye told Sky Sports: \"I never envisaged losing this fight, if Tony Bellew does retire - and I truly hope he doesn't - then I will carry on in my path to be number one in the world.\n\n\"But it is only fair to the fans to rematch against the guy who beat me. If that does not happen, then I will find a way to challenge for the heavyweight title. I believe after sharing a ring with him, he will want to do it again.\"", "On International Women's Day, former Arsenal and England winger Rachel Yankey explains how views on women in football have changed over the past 15 years and why producing better female coaches is more of a priority than making a breakthrough in the men's game.\n\nWhen I was a kid, I once shaved my head to pretend to be a boy because it ensured no-one questioned me as a footballer.\n\nAnd when I started coaching in primary schools in 2004, the kids would see a woman walk into the playground and say: \"Why have we got a female coach?\"\n\nThankfully, that sort of scenario doesn't happen any more.\n\nWhen I was recently doing my Uefa B licence, I coached at Barnet's under-18 men's team and there were no quizzical looks or snide comments.\n\nIt probably helped that they recognised me from my playing career at Arsenal and England, but they accepted me for who I was and after a few sessions I gained their trust. It feels pretty cool when a player turns to you and asks: \"As a winger, what would you do?\"\n\nThat shows you the perception of women playing and coaching football has changed massively, but there's still a lot to work on and the lack of female coaches at the top level is still an issue.\n\nPeople often ask when we'll see a female coaching at a men's professional team, but a more pertinent question is: how many females are working at the top of women's football in England?\n\nIn the top two divisions of the Women's Super League, five out of 20 managers are women so, in my view, we need more qualified female coaches in that area first.\n• None Fall of women in top jobs 'extremely concerning'\n\nThe reasons for the lack of women's coaches are numerous and I'm not going to pretend I have all the answers.\n\nThe first thing to say is that the coaches need to be good enough in the first place. They must have the right qualifications and experience, and I would hate to see jobs being handed out in a tokenistic fashion. That doesn't help anybody.\n\nThere are problems in getting female coaches onto courses in the first place, and I think that's where some hard work needs to happen. It might be that women don't know when the courses are happening or they fear being rejected or laughed at, like girls used to when they wanted to play football. I can only say that football is a lot more tolerant now.\n\nThe real problem comes when female coaches are being rejected for work despite having the qualifications.\n\nIs it covert sexism? I draw parallels with qualified black coaches who struggle to get employment. People need to be given a chance and for that to happen, perceptions need to change.\n\nIf you have the experience and qualifications and you don't get a job, you will always look for the reasons why. I would urge those chairmen, or whoever is hiring, to be more open-minded.\n\nI'm now part of a group of elite female players, including former England skipper Casey Stoney, and record England goalscorer Kelly Smith, who are doing their Uefa A licence.\n\nThere are many more England players who are heading down this pathway, and it points to a bright future where experienced internationals can pass their knowledge onto the next generation.\n\nDo we need to break into the men's game to make it as a coach? I don't think that's necessary in order to be considered a success. And I think it will be a long way off anyway because of the external influences which will judge you.\n\nLook at how Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger or Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri are treated by fans and the press. It's a cut-throat business and imagine if a female manager was in charge.\n\nDespite the progress, stereotypes still exist in football and until that is broken down it will be extremely difficult for a woman to manage a top level men's team.\n\nA lot of it will be down to the culture of the club, similar to Clermont Foot in France where Corinne Diacre has had some success in the French second division.\n\nOn a personal level, I'm concentrating on being the best coach I can be but it's a challenge moving from the playing side to being on the sidelines.\n\nDespite being released from Arsenal, I've not hung up my boots yet and I actually find it easier to spot things while I'm on the field. I enjoy passing on my football knowledge and I'm looking forward to helping shape the future of women's football.\n\nAfter England reached third place in the 2015 World Cup, we have evidence that we are producing better players so now we need take the same approach with our coaches.\n\nOnce that happens, perhaps we will see more female coaches pushing towards the men's game and maybe even Premier League or Football League clubs seeking those coaches out.\n\nFormer England boss Hope Powell was linked with Grimsby at one stage and now she is working in a Professional Footballers' Association role educating male coaches in professional clubs.\n\nThat will change perceptions and ensure she is rightly seen as a successful coach, who just happens to be female.", "French voters are choosing a new president - amid considerable political uncertainty in Europe and the world following the British vote for Brexit and the election of Donald Trump as US leader.\n\nThere are five leading candidates - from across the political spectrum - who will contest the first round of voting on 23 April and unless one candidate wins more than 50% of the votes, the two leading contenders will then go through to a second round on 7 May.\n\nSo who are the candidates and what are the issues likely to decide this election?\n\nOn the far right, the National Front's Marine Le Pen appears to have achieved more electoral success since distancing herself from some of her father's more extreme xenophobic policies.\n\nLatest opinion polls show Ms Le Pen is ahead of the other four candidates in the first round - though a long way short of 50% - and is therefore likely to get through to the run-off.\n\nIn 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen got through to the second round, but lost to Jacques Chirac.\n\nOpinion polls currently suggest Marine Le Pen would be defeated in the second round by Emmanuel Macron. Without the backing of a traditional political party, the former economy minister, who has never held an elected office, is standing as a centrist candidate.\n\nThe previous front-runner, centre-right Republican Francois Fillon, has lost support over allegations his wife and children were paid public money for jobs they never had.\n\nProsecutors have launched a full judicial inquiry into the affair but he has survived an attempt within his party to replace him as candidate.\n\nSocialist and former education minister Benoit Hamon, with a reputation as a left-wing rebel, has a plan to introduce a universal income which would be rolled out initially to those on a modest income, being expanded to all French citizens some time after 2022.\n\nFar-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon has the backing of the French Communist Party and stood unsuccessfully for the presidency in 2012.\n\nOne of the overriding issues facing French voters is unemployment - with at least one in four people aged under 25 unemployed.\n\nThe national rate stood at 10% in the last quarter of 2016 and according to the French official statistics office, Insee, it fell over the year by just 0.2%.\n\nLatest unemployment figures for the European Union show France had the 8th highest jobless rate out of the 28 member states in December - and more than double that of Germany and the UK.\n\nLast year's slight fall in the jobless rate came too late for President Francois Hollande, who had staked his reputation on creating more jobs during his time in office. Faced with very low ratings in the polls, he pulled out of the election race - the first French president not to run for a second term in modern history.\n\nThe problem of reducing unemployment will now fall to his successor.\n\nThe French economy is the second-biggest in the eurozone - but its recovery from the financial crisis of 2008 has been slow.\n\nOne of Mr Hollande's key policies was a new labour law, intended to help boost the economy by giving firms greater freedom to increase regular working hours, reduce pay and lay off workers.\n\nBut measures were watered down to get the bill through and the hoped-for improvements in the economy have not yet materialised.\n\nFrance's economy, measured in terms of its Gross Domestic Product, has continued to lag behind its closest European neighbours, Germany and Britain.\n\nAll the leading candidates have argued that deep changes are needed in the French economy.\n\nSecurity and immigration are also high on the agenda in this election.\n\nFrance is still in a state of emergency following a number of terror attacks, including 14 July last year when 86 people died as a lorry ploughed into a crowd in Nice celebrating Bastille Day.\n\nMore than 230 people have died in terror attacks in France since January 2015.\n\nHundreds of young French Muslims are known to have travelled to Iraq and Syria to fight for so-called Islamic State. Interior ministry figures say almost 700 French citizens are still in the region - although numbers have dropped off in the past year.\n\nSome of the perpetrators of the Paris attacks in November 2015 are known to have travelled to Syria - French officials fear others who have been radicalised may now return to France to commit further atrocities.\n\nTens of thousands of migrants have arrived in France as a result of the crisis which began in 2015, largely as a result of people fleeing the conflicts in Syria and Iraq.\n\nFrance received more than 85,000 applications for asylum in 2016 - more than 5,800 came from Syria. Although the figure has been rising steadily, the number of asylum-seekers applying to stay in France is lower than other European countries like Germany.\n\nOfficial figures from 2014 show 8.9% of the 65.8m French population were immigrants. The figure has risen by 0.8% since 2006.\n\nThere is no official breakdown of the figures, as it is illegal in France to collect data on race and religion, but there are thought to be about five million Muslims living in France, the biggest Muslim population in the EU.\n\nThe majority of France's Muslim population live in the poorer suburbs of big cities like Paris, Marseille and Lyon, where unemployment is much higher than the national average.\n\nThe National Front has made treatment of immigrants one of its key policy issues - saying jobs, welfare, housing and school places should go to French nationals before \"foreigners\". A Pew Research Center survey in 2016 indicated that 29% of French adults viewed Muslims unfavourably.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe number of women getting top jobs at UK sporting bodies is down by 6% since 2014, says a new study which calls the findings \"extremely concerning\".\n\nThe Women in Sport survey found around half of the 68 Sport England and UK Sport-funded national governing bodies have fewer than 30% of non-executive director roles filled by women.\n\nUnder government guidelines coming into effect on 1 April, those organisations must have at least 30% women on their board, or risk losing funding.\n\nNine of the 68 organisations have no women in senior leadership roles below chief executive level.\n\nThe British Taekwondo Council, the sport's national governing body, has no woman in any leadership or board positions.\n\nOverall the number of women on the boards of governing bodies is 30% on average.\n• None Top female coach in men's football 'long way off' - Rachel Yankey column\n• None Lack of women at top of LTA 'wrong' - Judy Murray\n• None Of the 68 governing bodies, just under half (33) have less than 30% female non-executive directors\n• None For 2016 these included British Cycling, Rugby Football League, England and Wales Cricket Board, Rugby Football Union and the Football Association\n• None There has been a decrease in the number of women in senior leadership roles - the most senior paid roles, excluding the chief executive officer\n• None Nine of the 68 organisations had no female senior leaders below chief executive level\n• None 18% of chairs are female and 23% of chief executive officers are women\n• None At England Netball, 80% of senior leaders are female\n\nThe report concluded: \"Women in Sport is also extremely concerned by the decrease in the number of women in senior leadership roles. While organisations should continue to tackle the diversity of their boards, they also need to broaden their focus, addressing diversity within their organisations more generally.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport, Ruth Holdaway, Women in Sport chief executive said: \"There is positivity in the fact that in the seven years we have been doing this audit, we have seen an increase in the number of women at every level of leadership in sport.\n\n\"But now we are seeing the figures plateau and for non-executive directors on boards, the figure has sat at around 30% for the last couple of years.\n\n\"That is an average across all of the governing bodies, that masks a disparity, some do better than that and some do worse than that. Half of the national bodies are hitting the 30% target, the other half have work to do.\"\n\nThe figures in the study are for 2016 and just 7% of the Football Association's non-executive directors are women - the third lowest in the study.\n\nHowever, the FA has since proposed reforms to appoint more women to its board.\n\nBritish Cycling, which in the study has 17% of females as non-executive directors, appointed Julie Harrington as its new chief executive on Monday.\n\nHoldaway said gender diversity is being held back by life president and honorary roles for men.\n\n\"The time is coming for those who are blocking progress to move, \" she said.\n\nDirector of sport at funding body Sport England, Phil Smith, said organisations have to draw up an action plan of how they will reach the 30% target by 1 April, or face losing their funding.\n\n\"They have enough time to write an action plan, \" Smith told the BBC. \"Public investment in any sports organisations is dependent on organisations reach the standards of the code, anyone who is not able to reach them or have adequate plans to do so, won't be able to attract public investment.\"\n\nEngland Hockey currently fail to meet the target, as three of their 12 members (25%) are women.\n\nBut chief executive Sally Munday said she was confident they would be able to eventually meet the guidelines.\n\n\"We will look at how we can evolve to meet the guidelines,\" Munday told BBC Sport.\n\n\"We will not get to 1 April and ask a board member to leave. We have an outstanding board, it just so happens than more are men than women. Over time, as board members leave, we will look at recruiting people who still meet the skill set, but will enable us to meet the recommendations in the guidelines.\"\n\nThe new code of governance will come into effect on 1 April and then each sport will be given their own individual deadline to meet the requirements.\n\nSome governing bodies will find it easier to diversify than others. The FA's recent proposal to reserve three places for women on its board from 2018 still has to be approved by its 122 person council - an overwhelming male body historically resistant to reform.\n\nThose that don't meet the criteria risk losing millions of pounds of public investment. The Government is also prepared to withdraw essential support for bids to host major events. The consequences for failing to modernise are now more serious than ever.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nBritain's Amir Khan will not fight WBO world welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao next month, the Filipino's promoter, Bob Arum, has revealed.\n\nThe two fighters had announced the \"super fight\" for 23 April on Twitter at the end of February, with the United Arab Emirates expected to be the venue.\n\nBut Aram told ESPN: \"It's kaddish for the UAE deal. It's dead.\n\n\"I'm talking about another proposal for another fight, not Khan. Khan won't be Manny's next opponent.\"\n\nThe April fight was originally arranged after Pacquiao's followers on Twitter voted Khan as the opponent they would like to see the 38-year-old fight next.\n\nKhan, 30, who won silver as a lightweight at the 2004 Olympics, beat compatriot Kell Brook, Australia's Jeff Horn and American Terence Crawford with 48% of the vote carried out by Pacquiao.\n\nArum also told the Los Angeles Times that the $38m (£31.1m) offer for the bout had failed to materialise and that the duo could not face each other until the second half of 2017, under revised terms.\n\nArum said Pacquiao's advisor Michael Koncz would negotiate a revised fight against an alternative opponent that could be staged in July.\n\nPacquiao, who has won 59 of his 67 bouts, claimed the WBO title with a unanimous points victory over American Jessie Vargas in Las Vegas last November.\n\nKhan's last fight in May 2016 saw him jump two weight divisions to 155lbs, when he challenged Mexico's Saul Alvarez for the WBC middleweight title, but was knocked out in the sixth round.\n\nFind out how to get into boxing with our special guide.", "All age groups in the UK are smoking less - but the largest decrease is among 18- to 24-year-olds, according to the Office of National Statistics. Why is that?\n\nThe latest figures, for 2015, suggest one in every five (20.7%) 18- to 24-year-olds is a smoker.\n\nIn 2010, this figure was one in every four (25.8%).\n\nToday, about 70% of 16- to 24-year-olds have never started smoking cigarettes in the first place, the data suggests - up from 46% in 1974, when records began.\n\nAnd even among the age group most likely to smoke, 24- to 35-year-olds, about 60% - up from 35% in 1974 - have never picked up the habit.\n\nAction on Smoking and Health (Ash) says: \"We know that young people who try smoking are highly likely to grow up to become smokers, so the high numbers of young people reporting that they have never even tried smoking is good news.\"\n\nModel Kylie Jenner was called a bad role model after she was pictured smoking on Instagram, perhaps an indicator it is no longer seen as cool.\n\nThe new data suggests 23.3% of 16- to 24-year-olds quit smoking in 2015, compared with 21.4% in 2010 and 13.4% in 1974.\n\nAsh says this has been \"achieved through a combination of effective legislation, policy and support for adults to quit over many decades - much of which has had a big impact on youth uptake as well as quitting\".\n\nPolicy director Hazel Cheeseman says: \"Creating an environment in which fewer young people try smoking and more smokers quit will protect the health of future generations and avoid hundreds and thousands of premature deaths.\n\n\"However, the achievements made to date are at risk.\n\n\"The government must urgently publish a new tobacco control plan for England and ensure this is properly funded.\"\n\nIn 2015, three out of every 100 16- to 24-year-olds used electronic cigarettes, up from one in every 100 in 2014, the new data suggests.\n\nAnd, in total, 2.3 million people in the UK are using them - half in order to stop smoking.\n\nBut some are concerned vaping could prove a gateway to smoking for teenagers.\n\nAnd critics say the fruit flavours of some e-cigarettes could make them more appealing to children.\n\nIn December 2016, the US Surgeon General said the use of e-cigarettes by children was \"a major public health concern\".\n\nBut Ash says the latest figures \"confirm that most users are smokers or ex-smokers\".\n\n\"The figures also highlight that most users are seeking to improve their health, with the most common reason for use being as an aid to quit smoking,\" it says.\n\n\"Where smokers make a complete switch, they can expect to significantly reduce their exposure to harmful chemicals which cause cancer and other smoking-related illnesses.\"\n\nPaul Hunt, managing director of e-cigarette manufacturer V2Cigs.co.uk, said: \"E-cigarettes are supporting thousands of people in quitting smoking every day.\n\n\"Information from the NHS states that people who use e-cigarettes to quit smoking can expect similar or better results than when using other nicotine replacement therapies.\"\n\n\"Of those people who combined NHS stop smoking support with e-cigarettes, two out of three were successful in quitting.\"\n\n\"As they eliminate chemicals found in regular cigarettes, such as tar, and allow people control over the amount of nicotine they're consuming, e-cigarettes are a great tool in overcoming smoking addiction.\"", "The claim: Taxes could rise to their highest level as a proportion of national income since 1986-87 by 2019-20.\n\nReality Check verdict: The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecasts suggest taxes could actually reach that level as soon as 2017-18. That may not happen if changes are made in this week's Budget and it is only a forecast, so unexpected events could prevent it happening.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies said in its Green Budget that tax is rising as a share of national income and by 2019-20 is due to reach its highest level since 1986-87.\n\nIt is important to stress that it is not saying taxes on all individuals or households are going up. The measure it is using is the government's total tax receipts (and the OBR's forecasts of those receipts) as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP), which is the total amount of goods and services produced by the economy.\n\nWe will examine which taxes have been rising later, but it is true that the total take is expected to rise in the next few years to levels unseen since the mid-1980s.\n\nIt is in the next financial year, 2017-18, that the OBR expects the big jump in receipts to 36.9% of GDP, which take it above the peaks of 2011-12. Indeed it appears to be that year and not 2019-20 that first takes receipts to 1986-87 levels.\n\nBut it does not mean that everybody is paying more tax.\n\nThere have been gradual falls in revenue from income tax, for example, as the amount people have to be earning to pay it has been increasing.\n\nThe government said in the Autumn Statement that the increases in the basic rate threshold in the last parliament had meant four million of the lowest-paid people were not paying it at all.\n\nIn addition to the taxes included on this chart are fuel duty, which has fallen gradually as successive governments have frozen it, and VAT, which got a boost when the government raised it from 17.5% to 20% at the start of 2011, but has been pretty constant since.\n\nThe category of tax that has been rising strikingly and is mainly responsible for the increase next year is \"other\".\n\nThat includes the new dividend tax regime, the increased insurance premium tax and a higher rate of stamp duty land tax for second homes.\n\nBut all of the forecasts for the coming years are from the OBR and are based on how things stood at the time of the Autumn Statement.\n\nAll this could change in Wednesday's Budget.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Arsene Wenger stood in isolation and desolation in his technical area as the pain he suffers this time every year nagged away at him once more - but now it was accompanied by an inescapable feeling of finality.\n\nAs his Arsenal side dissolved and were brutally dispatched by Bayern Munich - once they awoke from 45 minutes of complacency - Wenger will have felt every goal, every added humiliation, like a blow to the solar plexus. Five second-half goals. Five more questions to ponder.\n\nA proud man, Wenger will have surveyed the thousands of empty seats that increased in number at Emirates Stadium with every Bayern strike on the way to a humiliating 10-2 aggregate loss and surely questioned what more he can do at Arsenal.\n\nThe Gunners were out of the Champions League at the last-16 stage for the seventh successive season. However, few nights could have been more chastening than this one for the man who has known such glory, but who now may be contemplating the end of the road.\n\nOnce the German champions were prodded into life by a generous penalty award and a red card after Laurent Koscielny fouled Robert Lewandowski, they delivered a ruthless verdict on just how far Arsenal have been marginalised from the elite European group they once occupied with style and with regularity. It underscored a dramatic fall from grace.\n\nWenger was not subjected to widespread rebellion or mutiny inside the stadium, but there were ominous signs that can often be used as indicators that a manager's future has reached its defining moment.\n\nA group of Arsenal fans, not huge in number but noisy, led a protest march on Emirates Stadium from their old Highbury home, brandishing banners that read \"Enough Is Enough\", \"No New Contract\", \"All Good Things Come To An End\" - and what looked like a rather hastily assembled affair that read: \"Stubborn. Stale. Clueless.\"\n\nThey chanted \"Arsene Wenger - You're Killing Our Club\" - harsh and heartbreaking words aimed at a man who, whatever even his fiercest critic will say, loves Arsenal and has done so much to enrich them.\n\nIt was strictly a minority. But an even more significant indicator may have been the large number of empty seats inside the Emirates. It was announced that 59,911 tickets had been sold - but it was fair to say 59,911 had not pitched up, many clearly deciding they had better things to do despite having shelled out hard-earned cash.\n\nArsenal equipped themselves well for 45 minutes, but the whole night and performance had the stench of too little, too late - and there is no good news, no consolation, no hard luck story about successive 5-1 defeats in the Champions League.\n\nThe manner in which Arsenal collapsed once Bayern equalised was an alarming barometer of fragile confidence, belief and morale. It was understandable heads would go down as hope was snuffed out, but the manner in which they were picked apart was horrendous. Players were stretched hopelessly out of position and Bayern almost scored at will.\n\nAlexis Sanchez was even robbed by Arjen Robben, hardly a tackling heavyweight, on the edge of his own area for one goal in an incident that summed up the Chile forward's night after the controversy of his exclusion at Liverpool.\n\nSanchez was a central figure amid stories of training ground unrest but he was restored here as Arsenal went in search of a miracle.\n\nHe was greeted warmly by Arsenal's fans when his name was announced, but he was not able to make a point to Wenger or anyone else on this night and his wave as he was substituted late on could even have been construed as the start of a long farewell between now and the end of the season.\n\nAfter taking his seat on the bench, Sanchez was pictured chuckling briefly, something that riled some supporters on social media, despite it being impossible to determine precisely what he had found humorous.\n\nThe backdrop to this dead rubber - there was never any realistic chance of this Arsenal side in their current condition reviving it even when they took the lead on the night - was a cloud of uncertainty over the club that is becoming increasingly toxic.\n\nThere are no guarantees about the future of arguably the three highest-profile figures at Arsenal, a state of affairs creating a mood of chaos around Emirates Stadium.\n\nWenger is giving no clues as to whether he will sign a two-year deal that is on the table, amid mounting criticism of his methods. Sanchez looks certain to depart in the summer as his relationship with the club fractures. And Mesut Ozil's stock has fallen as his own contract situation is shrouded in mystery.\n\nThis would be a situation to prey on the nerves and frustrations of Arsenal's fans even before it is set alongside a team that look further away than ever from a Premier League title challenge and now suffering from one of their most humiliating, harrowing Champions League experiences.\n\nThe double figures aggregate loss actually might have been worse and this latest last-16 exit is made even more painful by being cloaked in the feeling of an end of an era after a Champions League story that has increasingly become one of diminishing returns for Wenger and Arsenal.\n\nThey were made to look light years away from Europe's elite by Bayern. Wenger may have cursed the luck of the draw once more - and even the officials - but there was no escaping a seventh straight exit at the last-16 stage.\n\nThe Gunners are the first side to lose five consecutive home knockout ties in Champions League history. Arsene Wenger's side suffered the joint second heaviest aggregate defeat in Champions League history (2-10), and the highest for an English team. This is the first time Arsenal have conceded five goals at home since November 1998 (against Chelsea in League Cup - a 5-0 loss).\n\nAs Arsenal fans gathered on Holloway Road and around Emirates Stadium before kick-off the pervading emotion was gloom. There was no sense this Arsenal could frighten Bayern in the same way they frightened AC Milan here almost five years ago to the day, when they had the Italian giants rocking at 3-0 down after losing the first leg 4-0.\n\nAnd so it proved. Not this time. Wenger's Arsenal, in this Champions League context at least, now find even a gallant near-miss beyond them.\n\nIf there is the growing sense that this is Wenger's final fling, there was also an ominous feeling of an extra layer of fear to add to the frustration of Arsenal's supporters. Is this finally the time they end up without Champions League football for the first time this century?\n\nWenger's sense of pride would be damaged enough by an elimination as wounding as this, an exit that left no room for debate about Arsenal's reduced status. It might hurt even more if he had to start life outside the European footballing environment that has become his and Arsenal's natural home.\n\nThe Gunners have always managed to find a place in the Premier League's top four but this now faces its most serious threat, with Chelsea the champions-elect and Tottenham, Manchester City and Liverpool (and arguably even Manchester United) all looking in better shape.\n\nWenger, who wrote about \"our pride and our honour\" being at stake in his match notes, might have to swallow his own pride should Arsenal end up with only a Europa League place at the end of this season. There was no pride or honour to take away from this night.\n\nWould Wenger, at 67, have the desire to effectively start again and rebuild in Europe's second-tier tournament, or would that be a timely cue for him to step aside for a successor?\n\nThere is still time for Wenger to salvage a measure of success and respectability from Arsenal's season and either stay or go on a high of sorts.\n\nArsenal will be overwhelming favourites to reach the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley with a last-eight tie against non-league Lincoln City awaiting them this weekend, while there is still the top-four place on offer.\n\nThe FA Cup has been the only silverware sustaining Wenger and Arsenal in the barren years since the title triumph of \"The Invincibles\" in 2003-04.\n\nIf - and it is still a big \"if\" - he wins it, it will allow Wenger, Arsenal and their supporters a celebration. But even that may not prove to be enough to soothe the atmosphere of unease in this part of north London.\n\nChastening nights like these, when the cavernous gap between Arsenal and those they wish to challenge was cruelly exposed, may carry more weight when it comes to Wenger's verdict on his own future and that of the supporters on him.\n\nWenger was spared at the final whistle, with only a few jeers to be heard because so many had left. It looked and felt like a lonely existence for Arsenal's manager.\n\nHe simply shook his head, a mixture of disappointment at the result and what he later said he felt was an injustice at the hands of officials - which carried a note of desperation and straw-clutching when examined through the prism of both legs.\n\n\"Every Good Story Has An Ending\" read one large banner being paraded outside the stadium before kick-off.\n\nAnd as Wenger headed down the tunnel and Arsenal's fans headed out into the night, it was hard to escape the growing belief that this one is moving towards its final chapter.", "From humble beginnings, Maurice Oldfield (left) was used as the basis for Alec Guinness' character in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy\n\nMaurice Oldfield rose from humble beginnings to become one of the UK's greatest ever spy chiefs. He was credited with keeping his country out of the Vietnam War - and also inspired Alec Guinness's portrayal of George Smiley in the TV series Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Yet allegations of child abuse - later proved to be false - dogged his reputation for years.\n\nThese claims - which centred on a children's home in Belfast, where he was stationed in the late 1970s - were only discounted three months ago, 36 years after his death.\n\nHis family, who have mounted a posthumous defence for decades, have described the impact as \"devastating\" and \"heartbreaking\".\n\nBorn on a farmhouse table in Derbyshire, Mr Oldfield had been an unlikely candidate to lead the UK's secret service. Educated at Manchester University, he was an outsider among the elitist, Oxbridge-dominated intelligence services.\n\nDespite this, he enjoyed a stellar career, becoming head of MI6 in 1973 - at a time when the spy agency was reeling after years of Soviet infiltration.\n\nOver six years he stabilised the ship and - just as he was about to retire in 1979 - prime minister Margaret Thatcher asked him to take on one more job, co-ordinating security and intelligence in Northern Ireland.\n\nHis time there nearly demolished his legacy.\n\nAllegations emerged that Oldfield had abused boys at Kincora children's home\n\nShortly before he died aged 65 in 1981, rumours began circulating about Mr Oldfield's private life while in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt was alleged he had compromised his position by making a pass at a man in a County Down bar. He was also said to have propositioned a man in a Belfast pub toilets.\n\nMore seriously, rumours began to emerge connecting him to a boys' home in Belfast, where children had been abused.\n\nThese stories began to appear in the newspapers from 1987 and never went away, resurfacing when he was named in the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry into child abuse in Northern Ireland in 2014.\n\nOldfield's great-nephew, Martin Pearce, had a book published on Oldfield's life last year\n\nHe was also named in the Metropolitan Police's Operation Midland inquiry into allegations that a paedophile ring operated in Westminster in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nThe latter inquiry ended in March 2016 with no charges being brought against anyone while the Northern Irish investigation concluded in January that allegations against Mr Oldfield had \"no substance\".\n\nMr Oldfield's great-nephew Martin Pearce said the toll on the family over the past three decades had been terrible.\n\n\"It was devastating, particularly for his brothers and sisters, most of whom were still alive,\" he said.\n\n\"They never believed any of it but, to see their brother who they had been so proud of being dragged through the press in such a negative way, was heartbreaking.\"\n\nOldfield was one of the most decorated MI6 leaders\n\nHe said the government of the 1980s had refused to defend his great uncle as it was \"happy with the distraction\" from the Spycatcher affair, in which MI5 agent Peter Wright had alleged the service had operated beyond the law.\n\n\"It seems there has been a lot of incompetence over the years that needn't have happened,\" he said.\n\n\"Now Maurice has been fully exonerated we can all move on from that.\n\n\"We have always had the absolute confidence and certainty that he was entirely innocent of everything but it's just been horrible to have his name dragged through the mud.\"\n\nFew of Mr Oldfield's immediate relatives, who tried to defend his name in the years after his death, are themselves still alive. Mr Pearce said it was \"frustrating\" they are not around to see his name cleared.\n\nColin Wallace, a whistleblower on abuse in Northern Ireland and an ex-intelligence officer, said he too was angry at Mr Oldfield's treatment.\n\n\"It's important to point out he was the most decorated of all our intelligence officers with a track record... second to none,\" he said.\n\nBut smears of that nature can stick, according to MI6 historian Stephen Dorrill.\n\n\"There's still a mark against him because of that,\" he said.\n\n\"His role in Northern Ireland was important, he was always looking for a peaceful way out. MI6's role in talking to the IRA actually did save lives.\"\n\nOldfield liked to return to Over Haddon in the Peak District as often as he could\n\nIt was far from the only success in his career.\n\n\"Anybody who achieves chief inside MI6 has done exceptionally well because often it's riddled with factions,\" Mr Dorrill said.\n\n\"Coming from Manchester University he would still have been something of an outsider in the service as most came through the Oxbridge route.\"\n\nMI6 was \"in a mess\" when Mr Oldfield took over as head in 1973, Mr Dorrill added.\n\nThere had been the scandal of the Cambridge Five - the ring of double agents, including Kim Philby and Guy Burgess, who passed hundreds of files to the Russians.\n\nMr Oldfield managed to gain back the United States' trust in MI6, but perhaps his greatest achievement was helping to persuade the government to stay out of the Vietnam War.\n\n\"If Britain had been dragged into that, if [Harold] Wilson had decided to go along with the Americans, that could have been the deaths of many, many young people and he avoided that,\" said Mr Dorrill.\n\nOldfield was the first secret service chief to be allowed to appear in the press, which made him something of a reluctant celebrity in the Cold War era.\n\nWhile preparing to play George Smiley in the BBC adaptation of John Le Carre's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, actor Alec Guinness said he wanted to meet a \"real spy\".\n\nAlec Guinness studied Oldfield's mannerisms for the part of George Smiley\n\nAlthough Smiley was created some years before he ever met Mr Oldfield, Le Carre did introduce the pair in a London pub.\n\n\"Maurice and Alec Guinness got there before him and they were chatting away when John Le Carre arrived,\" said Mr Pearce.\n\nAccording to Mr Dorrill, Guinness \"observed Maurice very carefully: What he was drinking, how he talked and sat and how he walked down the road.\"\n\nLe Carre himself said Guinness asked why Mr Oldfield had wiped the rim of his glass during their meeting: \"Do you think he's looking for the dregs of poison?\" he asked.\n\n\"Well if he was, he's dead,\" Le Carre replied.\n\nMr Oldfield wrote to the actor after seeing the series, telling him: \"I still don't recognise myself.\"\n\nInside Out East Midlands is available on the iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nHeather Watson came from a set down to win her first round tie against Nicole Gibbs at Indian Wells Heather Watson set up an all-British second round tie against Johanna Konta by beating American Nicole Gibbs at the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells. Gibbs took the first set 6-4 before Watson won the next two sets 6-2, including 10 of the final 12 games. Friday's match will be the first meeting between world number 11 Konta and Watson on the WTA Tour. Their only previous match was a second-tier event in 2013, when Watson retired after losing the first four games.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nKimi Raikkonen crashed his Ferrari as Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas set the fastest lap of the winter on the second day of the final pre-season test.\n\nRaikkonen lost control and spun at the 160mph Turn Three during the afternoon, hitting the barrier and damaging the front wing and suspension.\n\nHe was unhurt but the crash ended Ferrari's running for the day.\n\nBottas set the pace with a lap of one minute 19.310 seconds, 0.11secs quicker than Williams' Felipe Massa.\n• None Relive the second day of the final pre-season test\n• None Who are the fastest and slowest teams in 2017?\n\nIt was another difficult day for McLaren, who have been beset by reliability and performance problems with their Honda engine so far in pre-season.\n\nThe team insisted they suffered no specific problems but two-time champion Fernando Alonso managed only 46 laps - compared with a total of 149 for the two Mercedes drivers.\n\nThe Spaniard, who was 12th fastest, was 2.6secs slower than the fastest driver [Raikkonen] who also used the 'soft' tyre to set his quickest time.\n\nIn a far less extreme fashion, it was also a frustrating day for Red Bull. Although Max Verstappen completed more laps than any other individual driver, the team had to complete a change of a Renault engine and the Dutchman also ground to a stop out on track a few laps from the end of a race-simulation run.\n\nBottas was using the super-soft tyre and Massa the ultra-soft when they set their fastest times.\n\nHeadline lap times in pre-season are notoriously inaccurate predictions for true competitive form.\n\nAlthough Bottas was 0.9secs quicker than Raikkonen on the day, the margin between the soft and super-soft tyres is said to be about 0.6-0.7secs. On that basis alone, Bottas' lap was of comparable pace to the fastest soft-tyre lap of last week's first test, set by Raikkonen's team-mate Sebastian Vettel and the German's lap on the first day of this week's test on Tuesday.\n\nThere are countless other variables to take into account, such as fuel load, engine mode, car settings and so on, all of which can have a significant effect on lap time.", "Sheila Ferguson made her name singing in The Three Degrees in the 60s and 70s. She's one of eight famous people who went to Kerala to film the TV programme The Real Marigold Hotel, which is designed to make people think about growing old in India. She says the experience completely changed her life.\n\nI went to India as a sceptic. I'd never been there before. I did some research, saw that they've got arranged marriages, they've got snakes, they've got mosquitoes and I thought, \"What the hell do I want to go to India for?\"\n\nBut I believe in the philosophy that you should try everything once, to see if you like it. So I found myself in Kerala riding sleeper trains - which I will never do again as long as I live - and living in a communal home with seven other OAPs. I got more than I bargained for.\n\nThe first thing that struck me was how busy it was. The city was crowded and smelly but there wasn't as much poverty as I expected from watching the film Gandhi! It turns out that there's a good quality of life in Kerala. When we first got there I was behaving like the problem child, I was a real handful. I even asked Bill to swap rooms and he was gentleman enough to agree.\n\nThe Three Degrees in 1974 - Sheila Ferguson with Valerie Holiday and Fayette Pinkney\n\nBut that didn't last too long. I met some fascinating people and got some valuable perspective on my life back home. India entirely changed my attitude towards my life.\n\nUntil I went to India I never realised that I was lonely. I thought I was just fine. But living with seven other people communally in India held a magnifying glass to how solitary my life actually is.\n\nIn some respects, I've not had human contact for years. It's really the emotional and mental stimulation of talking to other people that I'm missing.\n\nI live on my own, one daughter's in Dubai, one's in England and I'm in Majorca. My partner Jon died in 2010 and it's time I got the hell out of here!\n\nMy social life really dips in the winter because everybody hibernates. My cleaner comes to my house on Thursdays but other than that, I could go all week without seeing another soul.\n\nI could fall down on the steps in my house, or in the swimming pool and nobody would know for a week. I think my family are concerned about me living alone, but I never thought of it until now. Now I understand their worry.\n\nResidents of The Real Marigold Hotel: Amanda Barrie, Paul Nicholas, Bill Oddie, Lionel Blair, Dr Miriam Stoppard, Dennis Taylor, Rustie Lee and Sheila Ferguson\n\nIn The Real Marigold Hotel, eight celebrities visit India to see how retiring there would differ from growing old in the UK.\n\nYou can watch the programme on BBC One at 21:00 on Wednesday 8 March or catch up later online.\n\nIn India, at the dinner table the seven of us would be talking, Bill Oddie telling us about his grandchildren, Paul Nicholas showing pictures of his daughters and his wife. I would be thinking, \"They all have families to go back to and I'm going back to an empty house.\" That's when it really sank in. If I'm not careful I will end up sitting alone, at the head of my 14-seater dining table in a wedding dress, like Miss Havisham.\n\nWhen my daughter, Alex, came out to visit me in India from her home in Dubai I realised just how much I missed my family. I want to see them more and now, thanks to my time in India, I am ready to find a new love.\n\nI hadn't been on a date since Jon died so I was shocked to be asked out by a gentleman at a drinks party in Kerala. Usually I'm the one asking a guy out, so when he just came out with it at first I thought it was a joke, I thought that the crew had put him up to it! He was very upfront, no nonsense. It's been so long since anyone has said things like that to me, it was really lovely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSince then I have been on another date in England. I think once you open up inside, your aura looks different to other people, so it may be that I was blocking myself off before.\n\nI have been threatening to move back to England for the past four years. Soon after Jon died, I realised I didn't suit living alone but I didn't do anything about it. I kept putting it off, procrastinating. Probably because I wanted to stay here in Majorca in memory of the life I had built with him.\n\nI threw myself into work. But this year, because of my trip to India, I am putting my house on the market so that I can move back to England in the spring. My two daughters grew up in Berkshire and I love it there. I'm really looking forward to being near my friends and family again.\n\nIn India, families are a close-knit unit, they do not disown their elders as we do in Western culture. They take responsibility and take care of one another. India has also helped me to become more understanding and patient with my mother, who turns 95 this year.\n\nIt calmed me down too. I've always been hyperactive and my work requires constant energy and enthusiasm - live now, sleep later. Being in a more spiritual place, where I had to give up control to others, helped my mind to open and to realise that the small things don't matter so much.\n\nI found that when I was rehearsing a panto in Ipswich everything was going awry, everything was late, it was a tech rehearsal, we opened the next day and everything was a mess. I just sat there and looked and said, \"Well OK they'll get it together. I know my lines.\" And I just calmly went back to my dressing room. Any time before India I would have thrown a fit and I'm known for it.\n\nThe Marigold Hotel changed me and I've carried that lesson into my everyday life.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Judy Murray says it is \"completely wrong\" there are so few women in senior leadership roles at the Lawn Tennis Association.\n\nBritain's former Fed Cup captain believes there must be more women at the top of the national governing body if female involvement in tennis in the UK is to grow.\n\n\"There probably haven't been anywhere near enough opportunities for women to develop: not just in coaching roles, but throughout the entire organisation,\" Murray told BBC Sport.\n• None Number of women in top jobs at UK sporting bodies declining, says study\n• None Top female coach in men's football 'a long way off' - Rachel Yankey\n\n\"If you look at our leadership team at the moment within the LTA [eight people on the executive team plus head coaches Leon Smith and Jeremy Bates] - there is only one woman, and that's the lady who runs the Human Resources department.\n\n\"So in that very important team - the decision-making team - there is no female tennis voice and to me that is completely wrong: something that really needs to be addressed. We need a much better balance.\"\n\nWith the notable exception of the professional tour, women are under-represented throughout the sport. Inspiring more girls to take up tennis - and then crucially to continue playing as they approach their teenage years - is central to the issue, and Murray believes female coaches are a big part of the answer.\n\nFind out how to get into tennis in our special guide.\n\nMurray designed the Miss-Hits programme, which is aimed at girls aged between five and eight, and at the beginning of February launched a female coaching initiative called She Rallies. Both programmes are run in partnership with the LTA.\n\n\"I tried hard when I was Fed Cup captain to grow the women's side of the game,\" she said.\n\n\"We don't have anywhere near enough women coaches and I do believe there is a correlation between the number of female coaches and our ability to retain girls in competitive sport.\n\n\"Women so much better understand how girls think and behave and what their needs are. Teenage girls, in my experience, are not going to open up about their fears - such as issues with their bodies - to male coaches.\"\n\nThe disparity between the number of male and female coaches is starkly illustrated in the professional game. Britain's top three women - Johanna Konta, Heather Watson and Naomi Broady - have taken on male coaches in recent months - principally because there is a much bigger pool to choose from.\n\n\"My experience of working with women coaches is that there aren't egos,\" Murray continued.\n\n\"They are much more willing to work together, and network and share. And I think if we can use that as a starting point, then we get more women doing things together and we can really start to make some inroads.\"\n\nThe LTA says it has insisted on there being at least one woman on the shortlist for the last three executive vacancies, and is proud of the fact that the nine women who have returned from maternity leave in the past 18 months have all been offered flexible working. A specific strategy aimed at women and girls is set to be launched later in the year.\n\nAnd as for increasing the number of women in the senior leadership team, chief executive Michael Downey says it is a priority for the LTA, but that it will not happen overnight.\n\n\"Given that our sport is pretty gender-balanced, we want to have more gender balance in leadership roles,\" Downey told the BBC.\n\n\"Change like that can take some time to get there, but we've got to keep working on it: it's the right thing to do.\n\n\"We spend a lot of time on the key hires, and hopefully more often or not there will be qualified women who give us an opportunity to achieve some of those metrics moving forward.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLA Galaxy have told Zlatan Ibrahimovic they are prepared to make him the highest paid player in Major League Soccer history if he joins them from Manchester United this summer.\n\nIbrahimovic only joined United on a one-year deal last summer.\n\nThere is an option for the Swede to stay longer but while the club are desperate to keep him, the 35-year-old is yet to agree.\n\nIbrahimovic has scored 26 goals for United this season.\n\nHe will start Thursday's Europa League last-16 first-leg tie with Russian side Rostov but is about to serve a three-match domestic ban after accepting a charge of violent conduct for elbowing Bournemouth's Tyrone Mings in the face at Old Trafford on Saturday.\n\nIn 2016, Brazilian forward Kaka was the highest paid player in MLS, with a published annual salary from Orlando City of $7.167m (£5.89m).\n\nLA Galaxy paid former England midfielder Steven Gerrard $6.1m (£5.01m) last season. He has since retired.\n\nSources have told BBC Sport that Galaxy see Ibrahimovic as having the potential to make as big an impact on soccer in the United States as David Beckham did when he joined the club from Real Madrid in 2007.\n\nIt is not known what contract length Galaxy - winners of three out of the last six MLS titles - would be willing to offer Ibrahimovic but the club feels it has a realistic chance of signing the veteran frontman.\n\nWith his contract expiring in the summer, LA Galaxy could sign Ibrahimovic in advance of a move to MLS during the July transfer window. That is what they did with Beckham in 2007, a signing that was announced in the January prior to his Real Madrid contract coming to an end on 30 June.\n\nHowever, United will almost certainly have other ideas.\n\nFollowing their EFL Cup final win over Southampton, when Ibrahimovic scored United's late winner, manager Jose Mourinho said that while he would not beg the forward to stay at Old Trafford, he thought United fans would be willing to camp in the striker's garden in an attempt to persuade him.", "England women lose their final game of the SheBelieves Cup 1-0 to Germany after Anja Mittag scores her 50th international goal in Washington D.C.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City's title hopes suffered a potentially-decisive blow after they were held by a resolute Stoke side and missed the chance to cut Chelsea's lead at the top of the table.\n\nA win for City would have moved them above Tottenham and into second place but they could not find the attacking spark required to break down a well-drilled Potters side.\n\nCity boss Pep Guardiola had said before kick-off that his team could not afford any more slip-ups in their pursuit of the leaders, who remain 10 points clear of the chasing pack with 11 games left.\n\nGuardiola's side were sluggish before the break and, although they improved when David Silva came off the bench in the second half, he could not make the difference.\n\nSilva had City's best effort when he drilled a low shot a fraction wide after a one-two with Fernandinho but, despite a flurry of late chances, Stoke keeper Lee Grant's only save came from a first-half free-kick by Aleksandar Kolarov.\n\nCity are still, in theory at least, chasing silverware on three fronts and head to Middlesbrough in the FA Cup on Saturday before travelling to Monaco in the Champions League on Wednesday.\n\nIt is a pivotal week in Pep Guardiola's first season in English football, but this result means it has started in frustrating fashion.\n\nThe attacking verve that had carried City to four straight league wins and seen them hit five goals past Monaco and Huddersfield in the last month was, initially, nowhere to be seen.\n\nToo many misplaced passes meant Stoke were under little pressure for much of the match, and City's finishing was also wide of the mark when they did create chances late on.\n\nSergio Aguero had scored five goals in his previous three games but did not find the target with any of his three efforts.\n\nLeroy Sane flashed a shot over the bar, Nicolas Otamendi headed over from a corner and City's last chance came and went when Kelechi Iheanacho met an inviting cross at the near post but steered the ball wide.\n\nRaheem Sterling was not involved while Guardiola opted to start with both Silva and defender John Stones on the bench.\n\n\"The rotations are good when you have a successful result but, when they are not, always we miss those people,\" said the City boss.\n\n\"It is almost impossible to play the same 11 players. When you have one game a week you can play the same 11 players no problem. We have a lot of games, we have to make a rotation - if not it will be so difficult.\"\n\nThe Potters are still to beat a top-eight Premier League team this season but the performance that earned them this point deserves plenty of credit.\n\nMark Hughes said before kick-off that his side would be less open than normal but although they were indeed extremely disciplined at the back, they did more than defend in numbers.\n\nThe outcome could have been worse for the home side had Mame Biram Diouf not scuffed an early shot from close range following Gael Clichy's slip.\n\nBruno Martins Indi and Saido Berahino also had sniffs of goal when City left space at the back, but Stoke's main aim appeared to be a clean sheet and they accomplished that comfortably enough.\n\nThey were helped by City's lack of spark for much of the match, but this was still a significant defensive improvement on their last trip to play one of the top four, which ended in a 4-0 defeat at Tottenham last month.\n\nThe commitment and industry of Stoke's entire side stood out but their defensive masterclass was superbly marshalled by Ryan Shawcross, who was a rock at centre-half and helped keep Sergio Aguero, among others, quiet.\n\n'The gap was big and is still big' - manager reaction\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"They defended deep and it was complicated to find the players between the lines. We were there in the last minutes. I don't have regrets about how they ran, how they fought.\n\n\"We created a lot of situations for the last pass and sometimes we missed it. When you analyse the chances we had, I don't really remember more than one Stoke chance.\"\n\nOn the title race: \"The gap was big and is still big. We have to focus game by game.\"\n\nStoke boss Mark Hughes: \"Not many teams come here and restrict Manchester City to so few chances.\n\n\"We didn't rely on luck. We made our own luck and were difficult to break down. You can see what it meant tonight and that shows the honesty of the group.\"\n\nAnother clean sheet for Caballero - the stats\n• None Willy Caballero has now kept one more clean sheet for Man City this season (7) than Claudio Bravo (6) despite playing eight games fewer (17 v 25).\n• None This was the first time Pep Guardiola has drawn a Premier League game 0-0 and his first in league competition since Dortmund 0-0 Bayern in March 2016.\n• None In fact, this was the first time that Manchester City have failed to score at the Etihad Stadium under Pep Guardiola in all competitions (19 games).\n• None Manchester City mustered just one shot on target in this game - their lowest tally in a competitive home game since April 2016 v Real Madrid (Champions League).\n• None Stoke City have scored just one goal in their nine Premier League visits to the Etihad Stadium to face Man City.\n\nCity's FA Cup quarter-final with Middlesbrough is on Saturday at 12:15 GMT, then they head to Monaco for the second leg of their Champions League last-16 tie on Wednesday (19:45 GMT). They hold a 5-3 lead from the first meeting in Manchester.\n\nThis game was originally scheduled for the coming weekend, so Stoke do not play again until Saturday 18 March, when they host leaders Chelsea (15:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt missed. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.\n• None Ramadan Sobhi (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Gaël Clichy with a headed pass.\n• None Jonathan Walters (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Jonathan Walters (Stoke City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Phil Bardsley with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by David Silva with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. David Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Bacary Sagna. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC One Wales & S4C, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru & BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app, plus live text commentary.\n\nWales have named an unchanged starting team and bench to face Ireland in the Six Nations on Friday.\n\nCoach Rob Howley has resisted calls to bring in fresh faces following defeats by Scotland and England.\n\nDan Biggar has held off Sam Davies' challenge at fly-half and George North remains on the wing with Ross Moriarty preferred at eight to Taulupe Faletau.\n\nIreland's starting XV also stays the same with Tommy Bowe replacing injured winger Andrew Trimble on the bench.\n\nHowley said: \"There is a lot of experience in our group. You don't become a bad team overnight.\n\n\"As coaches we discussed possibly giving the side a chance to redeem themselves for the second half performance [against Scotland].\n\n\"There were too many forced and unforced errors in that game, I thought we were dominant for the first half against Scotland and that was off the back of one of the best games in the Six Nations against England for 75 minutes.\n\n\"This is a good team and we've got the opportunity to go out in front of our home supporters and deliver a performance the players are proud of and it's equally important for the supporters to support that.\n\n\"It's going to be a huge game on Friday night.\"\n\nIn the build-up to the announcement, Wales defence coach Shaun Edwards said North had been warned about his form.\n\nOpen-side flanker Justin Tipuric will win his 50th Wales cap. He has also played once for the British and Irish Lions.\n\nHowley had been expected to change his back row and second row, with Bath pair Faletau and Luke Charteris tipped to start.\n\nHowley said the fact Faletau played for Bath against Wasps in the English Premiership was factor in the decision to retain the number eight on the bench while Charteris is named among the replacements despite the fact he is still undergoing return to play protocols after taking a blow to the head in that match.\n\n\"It would have been a six-day turnaround, they both played on Saturday and the pitch at Bath is pretty heavy,\" added Howley.\n\n\"Luke had concussion, he came off in that game. He's gone through the HIA (head injury assessment) process but wasn't able to train Saturday and Sunday.\n\n\"Luke passed the HIA on the day, he's done checks up until this point [Wednesday], he's just got his contact protocol to go through and he'll be fine.\"\n• None Listen: 'Take off your Toblerone boots' - the text Jonathan Davies had off brother James\n\nWales beat Italy in their opening game, but defeats by England and Scotland have meant a drop to seventh in the World Rugby global rankings.\n\nA loss to Ireland and another against France on 18 March could mean Wales going into May's 2019 World Cup draw in ninth position and facing another \"group of death\" in Japan having endured similar circumstances in 2015.\n\nOn that occasion, Wales beat hosts England on their way to the quarter-finals, but lost to eventual finalists Australia in their pool game.", "The Lib Dems want to stop primary school tests narrowing learning\n\nIs there such a thing as a \"curriculum for life\" ?\n\nThat's what the Lib Dems want to offer for children in England.\n\nIf you have a child at school you'll know how much what they learn is already changing.\n\nThe end of primary school tests known as Sats have been made tougher, with more complex grammar and maths among the changes.\n\nAnd if your household is going through the agony of GCSE revision, you'll know this is the first year of the new English and maths exams which are also designed to be more challenging.\n\nThere has been so much change that schools have been complaining they can barely keep up.\n\nThe unglamorous, but important issue of what children learn at school rarely features in election campaigns.\n\nYet subjects matter because it influences the choices your child can make about their future job, or what they want to study at college and university.\n\nSo it's striking that the Lib Dems have chosen to make the subjects taught in schools, the curriculum, a large part of their education election offer.\n\nTheir manifesto says this would mean a shorter list of core subjects all state funded schools would have to teach.\n\nBut they also want learning about money, and mental health to be included alongside age appropriate sex and relationship lessons.\n\nIt is only weeks since a change in the law to make sex and relationship education compulsory for all secondary schools in England, with primary schools teaching just about relationships.\n\nThere is a promise too to protect creative subjects like music, art and drama amid concerns that tightening budgets and a focus on results are squeezing them out.\n\nQuite how they would be protected isn't clear, although the party is likely to argue that promising extra money will help.\n\nSo should politicians be deciding what your kids learn at school?\n\nAn interesting question as some recent Education Secretaries have had very definite views.\n\nThe Lib Dems are making a bid to take the politics of changing governments out of these decisions.\n\nThey want to set up what looks like a new quango - an Educational Standards Authority - which would bring in changes after consulting teachers.\n\nBut in the end, when there are issues in schools, just like in hospitals, the buck stops with politicians.\n\nVoters tend to have little time for a senior politician trying to outsource the blame for any decisions.\n\nSo, as the Lib Dem manifesto delicately puts it - there would have to be some way of retaining \"legitimate democratic accountability\".", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nHughie Fury, cousin of former world heavyweight champion Tyson, will fight New Zealand's Joseph Parker for the WBO heavyweight title in Auckland on 6 May.\n\nParker, 25, became the first New Zealand-born heavyweight champion when he beat Mexico's Andy Ruiz on points in December to win the title vacated due to Tyson Fury's break from the sport.\n\nThe Las Vegas-based fighter is unbeaten in 22 bouts, winning 18 by knockout.\n\nFury, 22, is also unbeaten and won the WBO Intercontinental title in April.\n\nHis cousin, 29, created a major upset when he outpointed Wladimir Klitschko to win the world title in November 2015 but relinquished his WBO and WBA world heavyweight titles in October last year to deal with his \"medical treatment and recovery\" after admitting taking cocaine to deal with depression.\n\nAsked about his forthcoming clash in New Zealand, the younger Fury said: \"I do rate Parker as one of the best heavyweights at the minute but I believe I am the best heavyweight out there.\n\n\"Tyson has already done it, I'm the next one in line. Trust me I'm bringing that title back. Whatever he brings I've got an answer for it.\n\n\"I'll win this title and then Tyson can come back and we'll rule the heavyweight division together.\"\n\nPotential unification bouts, should Parker win, could involve Britain's IBF champion Anthony Joshua - who faces Klitschko in London next month - or American WBC title holder Deontay Wilder.\n\nParker's Duco Events promoter David Higgins said discussions had taken place with representatives of both.\n\nDuco added that Tyson is expected to join his cousin's entourage in Auckland.", "Karen Gormley describes herself as \"smiley and quite shy\", but says people see her differently simply because of the size of her breasts. The 45-year-old, from Preston, Lancashire, got in touch with BBC News after the furore over Emma Watson's Vanity Fair photoshoot.\n\nKaren says women, in particular, are guilty of judging her character just by her appearance.\n\n\"I am petite with large breasts. I am 5ft 2. When I was last measured years ago I was a 28G.\n\nPeople assume that my shape means I am promiscuous.\n\nI found it all-too familiar when Emma Watson was criticised as being anti-feminist for showing part of her breasts in a magazine photoshoot.\n\nWomen who are up in arms about it aren't doing us any favours. I'm also a feminist and believe women should be able to wear whatever they like.\n\nUnlike Emma, I'm too shy to be in photographs, but as soon as I wear fitted clothes or a lower neckline, I'm branded as attention-seeking.\n\nIt began when I was 14. I noticed that middle-aged men would follow me. I was in school uniform but it happened every time I went into town. It was really frightening.\n\nBut it wasn't always men. A female teacher once told me I couldn't wear a pinafore dress even though it was school uniform because I wasn't \"covered up\".\n\nI felt on edge all the time and began wearing baggy clothes, so people thought I was fat.\n\nWhen I was 16 I braved wearing a fitted dress for a party. It wasn't low cut but my cleavage showed a bit - suddenly my friends gasped at how much \"weight\" I'd lost.\n\nThe worst thing that ever happened was when I was 21 and my boyfriend at the time introduced me to his brother. Instead of saying \"Nice to meet you\" he pointed at my chest and said \"Look at the size of them!\".\n\nAs part of my job working with young offenders, I have worked in offices full of men and have constantly dealt with comments.\n\nI was always seen as the \"easy\" woman to flirt with.\n\nI am planning a breast reduction, which I can get on the NHS, due to the size of my breasts, which cause me back problems.\n\nThe decision is to do with my health but also the way I've been treated.\n\nIt was a friend-of-a-friend's comment that proved the last straw. She said that I only get attention because I have big boobs.\n\nIt made me feel like I am nothing except for what hangs on my chest. I don't want to be that person.\n\nI have two daughters - 17 and 22 - who are both very pretty and a similar shape to me, and I see them going through the same thing.\n\nI used to be over-protective and tell them to take pictures off Facebook, but I don't want my problem to become their problem too.\n\nI just tell them that if you wear low-cut stuff, somebody will judge you to have a certain character you don't have. It's not your fault and they don't have the right to do that, but they will.\n\nBut my daughters aren't shy like me and would tear a strip off anyone who bothers them!\"\n\nA nasty remark on social media or even a well-meaning comment from a friend can be hugely damaging to a person's body image - and even drive someone to opt for surgery, according to psychologists.\n\nAbout half of UK women are unhappy with their body shape, which can lead to low self-esteem, depression, eating disorders and body dysmorphias.\n\nDr Emma Halliwell, a psychologist at the Centre for Appearance Research at the University of the West of England, thinks body image is an \"issue that impacts upon all aspects of girls' and women's lives\".\n\nHer research into body confidence has found that \"society teaches girls that their appearance is intrinsically linked to their value as a person\".\n\nWomen are bombarded with a \"beauty ideal\" - one body type, one look, one shape, one colour, one breast or buttock - which is reinforced by friends, on Facebook and in magazines and music videos, she says.\n\nAs a result, adult women may skip work or a job interview if they feel negative about their looks.\n\n\"We need to challenge these messages that female appearance is of central importance,\" she says.\n• None Is Emma Watson anti-feminist for exposing her breasts?", "Last updated on .From the section English Rugby\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio Scotland, plus live text commentary via the BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app\n\nBilly Vunipola will feature against Scotland in the Six Nations on Saturday, after being confirmed in England's matchday squad.\n\nThe number eight made his comeback from a knee injury last weekend, and is included in a 24-man training party to prepare for the Calcutta Cup match.\n\nVunipola has been lined up to replace Nathan Hughes in the starting XV.\n\nScrum half Ben Youngs, wing Jack Nowell and centre Jonathan Joseph are also poised for returns to the backline.\n\nVunipola made his comeback ahead of schedule for his club Saracens on Sunday, after three months out with ligament damage.\n\nAnd England head coach Eddie Jones appears set to bring him back at the first time of asking, after England's training plans on Tuesday showed Vunipola would start in the back row.\n\nBath centre Joseph, who was left out of the squad that beat Italy, is set to replace Ben Te'o at outside centre, while it's likely Youngs will be preferred to Danny Care, with Nowell edging out Jonny May.\n\nEngland will confirm their starting XV and replacements on Thursday morning.\n\nJones' side lead the Six Nations table with three wins from their three matches.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nTeam Sky have admitted \"mistakes were made\" around the delivery of a medical package to Sir Bradley Wiggins but deny breaking anti-doping rules.\n\nThe team have been unable to provide records to back up the claim Wiggins was given a legal decongestant at the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine in France.\n\nMPs have criticised the team's record-keeping, while UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) is investigating the package's contents.\n\nTeam Sky say they take \"full responsibility\" for the failures.\n\n\"There is a fundamental difference between process failures and wrongdoing,\" said Team Sky principal Sir Dave Brailsford.\n\nOn Tuesday, Team Sky published a covering letter and supporting document sent by Brailsford to address the concerns of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.\n\nAt a series of hearings, the committee has sought answers relating to the package and Wiggins' use of therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs).\n\nThe original allegation made to Ukad was that the package delivered by then-British Cycling coach Simon Cope to ex-Team Sky medic Dr Richard Freeman contained triamcinolone - the corticosteroid for which Wiggins, a five-time Olympic gold medallist and the first Briton to win the Tour de France, later received three TUEs, as leaked by hackers Fancy Bears.\n\nTeam Sky said it is right the claim is being \"investigated thoroughly\" by Ukad but asserted that there has so far been \"no evidence whatsoever to substantiate the allegation\".\n\nIn the supporting document, Team Sky say Freeman had no prescription rights to purchase the decongestant Fluimucil in France and questioned some media reports over the amount of triamcinolone ordered by the team.\n\nThey also say Freeman \"failed to comply with team policy\" by not saving written notes to confirm Wiggins was administered Fluimucil at the time in the right place, instead storing his notes on a laptop that was reported stolen in 2014.\n\n\"Self-evidently, the events of recent months have highlighted areas where mistakes were made by Team Sky.\n\n\"Some members of staff did not comply fully with the policies and procedures that existed at that time. Regrettably, those mistakes mean that we have not been able to provide the complete set of records that we should have around the specific race relevant to Ukad's investigation. We accept full responsibility for this.\n\n\"However, many of the subsequent assumptions and assertions about the way Team Sky operates have been inaccurate or extended to implications that are simply untrue.\n\n\"Our commitment to anti-doping has been a core principle of Team Sky since its inception. Our mission is to race and win clean, and we have done so for eight years.\n\n\"To my understanding, Ukad's extensive investigation has found nothing whatsoever to support this allegation, which we believe to be false.\n\n\"Some of the comments made about Team Sky have been unreasonable and incorrect.\"\n\nHow did we get here?\n• None Wiggins and Team Sky come under scrutiny for his use of TUEs after his confidential medical information was leaked by hackers 'Fancy Bears'.\n• None Wiggins, an asthma and allergy sufferer, received special permission to use triamcinolone shortly before the 2012 Tour de France as well as the previous year's event and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.\n• None His TUEs were approved by British authorities, and cycling's world governing body the UCI. There is no suggestion either the 36-year-old or Team Sky broke any rules.\n• None A Daily Mail investigation revealed Team Sky and Wiggins were being investigated by Ukad over the contents of the 'mystery package'.\n• None Ukad officials visited British Cycling headquarters in Manchester as part of a investigation into allegations of wrongdoing in the sport.\n• None Brailsford faced the Department for Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) hearing into doping in sport. He told MPs Freeman had told him the package contained Fluimucil.\n• None Ex-Olympic champion Nicole Cooke tells MPs she is \"sceptical\" of Team Sky's drug-free credentials and Wiggins' TUEs.\n• None Ukad chief Nicole Sapstead tells MPs Freeman, who received the package, has no record of his medical treatment at the time.\n• None Freeman, who missed the select committee hearing on 2 March because of ill health, had a laptop containing medical records stolen.\n\nMoments after the letter and document were published, Team Sky board chairman Graham McWilliam tweeted his \"100%\" support for Brailsford, saying the board were 100% behind the team principal and looking forward to \"many more years of success.\"\n\n\"Pleased to see Team Sky challenging some of the inaccurate commentary of recent days,\" McWilliam added.\n\nBritain's Geraint Thomas - one of a majority of Team Sky riders to back Brailsford on Monday - says it is \"annoying\" that Wiggins and Freeman are not answering questions about these issues instead of the current team.\n\n\"The thing is with Dave, a CEO of a company doesn't oversee everything that everyone does, you have to delegate and trust people to the head of those certain areas,\" Thomas told Cycling Weekly.\n\n\"Freeman and Brad don't seem to be having too much of the flak, really, it just seems to be us.\n\n\"We are the ones who have to stand here now and answer these questions, which we have nothing to do with.\"\n\nAfter Brailsford - until recently one of British sport's most respected figures - appeared to be on the brink, this is Team Sky's attempt to finally get a grip of a crisis that was seemed to be spiralling out of control.\n\nThey will hope that the combination of contrition and defiance in this eight-page document, along with more detailed explanations of some of the questions raised by last week's incendiary parliamentary hearing, will relieve some pressure.\n\nHowever, Chris Froome's failure to join other riders in support of his boss (instead defiantly tweeting about his steak supper - and then a giraffe) was another PR calamity, and permanent damage to the team's reputation has been done.\n\nBrailsford must now hope there are no further revelations, or his position - already precarious - may become untenable.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBournemouth defender Tyrone Mings will serve a five-match ban for violent conduct after a Football Association panel ruled he deliberately stood on the head of Manchester United's Zlatan Ibrahimovic.\n\nThe 23-year-old landed with his studs on the forward's head during Saturday's fiery 1-1 draw at Old Trafford.\n\nBournemouth said they are \"extremely disappointed\" with the FA's decision.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after Saturday's match, Mings denied any intent.\n\nHe said: \"It was a good battle, you know exactly what you are going to get playing against him [Ibrahimovic]. There will be things highlighted more than others, but I enjoyed it.\"\n\nMings will miss Bournemouth's next five league fixtures but is due to return for the match at Tottenham on Saturday, 15 April.\n\nThe Cherries are 14th and five points above the relegation zone. They will be without Mings for almost half of their remaining 11 games this season.\n\nMings' ban leaves Eddie Howe's side increasingly short of defensive cover. Simon Francis is still out with a hamstring injury, Nathan Ake has returned to parent club Chelsea and Marc Wilson has joined West Brom on loan after making only three appearances for the Cherries.\n\nIt also adds to a tough start for Mings in the Premier League, having been sidelined for a year after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament on his debut in August 2015.\n\n\"AFC Bournemouth are extremely disappointed with the FA Regulatory Commission's decision to find Tyrone Mings guilty of the charges against him and impose a five-game suspension following Saturday's incident at Old Trafford involving Zlatan Ibrahimovic.\n\n\"We will study the detailed reasons of the commission once they become available but find it extraordinary that the charges can be described as 'proven' when there is absolutely no evidence to prove the incident was intentional.\n\n\"It is our strongly held belief - backed up by our relationship with the player, and knowledge of his background and character - that it was an accidental collision.\n\n\"Tyrone twice apologised to Ibrahimovic during the match for the accidental collision and also reiterated that there was no intent straight after the final whistle in a series of television interviews.\n\n\"We fully support our player. Tyrone has an excellent disciplinary record and has not been sent off in 75 matches as a professional. During that time he has only received 13 yellow cards - the last of which came in April 2015.\n\n\"The club will be making no further comment.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nTeam Sky rider Geraint Thomas is \"annoyed\" Sir Bradley Wiggins has not had to \"take the flak\" over a 'mystery package' delivered for him in 2011.\n\nUK Anti-Doping is investigating the package received by Dr Richard Freeman, an ex-Team Sky medic who pulled out of a hearing into the matter last week.\n\nWiggins, the 2012 Tour de France winner, has not been asked to appear.\n\n\"For sure, there's still questions to be answered, but Freeman and Brad don't seem to have the flak,\" Thomas said.\n\n\"Those are the people who, primarily, this whole things involves. But they can swan around getting on with their lives while we have to answer questions we've got nothing to do with,\" he told Cycling Weekly.\n\n\"Really, it just seems to be us, which is annoying.\"\n\nTeam Sky have admitted \"mistakes were made\" around the delivery of a medical package sent to Wiggins when he was racing at the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine, but deny breaking anti-doping rules.\n\nTeam Sky boss Sir Dave Brailsford has said he was told the package contained a legal decongestant - Fluimucil.\n\nHowever, there are no records of the treatment, a situation which leaves British Cycling and Team Sky's reputation \"in tatters\", according to the chairman of the parliamentary select committee investigating the matter.\n\nTeam Sky say they take \"full responsibility\" for the failures.\n\n\"There is a fundamental difference between process failures and wrongdoing,\" Brailsford said on Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, several Team Sky riders - including Thomas - tweeted their support for Brailsford.\n\nChris Froome, a three-time Tour de France winner and the team's leading rider, has yet to comment publically.\n\n\"I've known Dave a hell of a long time now and have 100% confidence he would never do things the wrong way,\" Thomas added.\n\n\"He's done so much for the sport. I'm fully behind him. He hasn't done anything untoward, no rules have been broken - the same as Brad and Freeman.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland rounded off their SheBelieves Cup campaign with a narrow defeat at the hands of European and Olympic champions Germany in Washington.\n\nLina Magull hit the bar for Germany before Anja Mittag scored the winner just before half-time with a fine finish from 12 yards.\n\nEngland threatened an equaliser after the break with Jordan Nobbs and Demi Stokes going close.\n\nJill Scott had a chance to score in stoppage time but fired over.\n\nThe Lionesses went into the game knowing a victory would give them a great chance of lifting the trophy following Saturday's defeat of hosts and world champions USA.\n\nBut Mark Sampson's team could find no way through after Mittag had scored her 50th international goal.\n\nEngland, who lost 2-1 to France in their opening game, finished the tournament with one win and two defeats.\n\nIn the final game of the tournament, France beat hosts USA 3-0 - their worst defeat since a 4-0 loss to Brazil in the 2007 World Cup semi-finals - to win the trophy.\n\nThe French, with two wins and a draw, topped the four-team table with seven points from Germany (4).\n\nEngland finished third on three points, above the US on goal difference.\n\nTheir next game is a friendly against Italy at Port Vale (19:45 GMT) on Friday, 7 April.\n• None Attempt saved. Alexandra Popp (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lena Petermann.\n• None Offside, England. Karen Carney tries a through ball, but Toni Duggan is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Jill Scott (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Anna Blässe (Germany) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sara Däbritz.\n• None Babett Peter (Germany) is shown the yellow card for dangerous play.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Josephine Henning (Germany) because of an injury.\n• None Offside, Germany. Anna Blässe tries a through ball, but Sara Doorsoun is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Singapore is top of education rankings - but now wants to focus on well-being\n\nSingapore is in top place in the international rankings for education. But it wants the next upgrade of its school system to focus on keeping students positive and resilient.\n\nDr Lim Lai Cheng, former head of the prestigious Raffles Institution school in Singapore and director at the Singapore Management University, explains the push for character as well as qualifications.\n\nIt was no accident that Singapore created one of the world's highest performing education systems in five decades.\n\nReminiscent of the examinations for selecting mandarins in old China, the road to success in Singapore has always been focused on academic credentials, based on merit and allowing equal access for all.\n\nThis centralised system helped Singapore to create social cohesion, a unity of purpose among its schools and an ethos of hard work that many nations envy.\n\nBut the purpose of the education system has changed and Singapore in 2017 is no longer the fledgling state it was in 1965.\n\nSchools have become highly stratified and competitive. More advantaged families are better able to support their children with extra lessons outside of school, such as enrichment classes in mathematics, English, dance and music.\n\nThose who can't afford this have to depend on their children's own motivation and the resources of the school to catch up.\n\nDr Lim Lai Cheng says the school system needs to encourage well-being\n\nThis social divide continues to widen because the policies that had won the system its accolades - based on the principle of meritocracy - no longer support the social mobility they were meant to bring about.\n\nSo work is in progress to tackle anything in the system that seems to be working against social cohesion.\n\nThis time around, it will no longer be enough to develop a highly-skilled workforce to plug into the global economy.\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 next update of the education system will have to ensure that Singapore can create a more equitable society, build a stronger social compact among its people while at the same time develop capabilities for the new digital economy.\n\nGovernment policies are moving away from parents and students' unhealthy obsession with grades and entry to top schools and want to put more emphasis on the importance of values.\n\nSchools have been encouraged, especially for the early elementary years, to scrap standardised examinations and focus on the development of the whole child.\n\nSingapore wants its school system to help with character as well as qualifications\n\n\"Character scorecards\" and \"reflection journals\" have become the staple in many primary schools, to allow parents to follow the social and developmental progress of their children.\n\nA number of schools have also adopted an approach centred on well-being, as promulgated by Dr Martin Seligman, director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.\n\nDr Seligman's model advocates that academic success and well-being form a double helix, and that the best schooling must include educating children on values and character, as well as how to interact well with others, set goals for themselves and work towards achieving those goals.\n\nPositive education, a movement that is gaining momentum across the world, works to create a school culture that supports caring, trusting relationships.\n\nSingapore has built its modern economy on investments in education\n\nIt is an approach that focuses on specific skills that assist students to build positive emotions, enhance personal resilience, promote mindfulness and encourage a healthy lifestyle.\n\nThis approach has worked well with schools that are trying to implement the new syllabuses for character and citizenship education, launched in the last three years.\n\nAn important segment of the new curriculum, at the primary level is family time, and how parents should play an important role in inculcating the right values in their children.\n\nAt the secondary and high school levels, \"values in action\" programmes lie at the core of educating young Singaporeans to be empathetic, socially responsible and active citizens in their community.\n\nFor example, students work on projects that serve the elderly, reach out to migrant workers and read to latch-key children in day-care centres.\n\nThe emphasis is on character and resilience as well as exam results\n\nThere have also been calls for more flexibility over admissions to local top schools and universities to encompass selection based on character traits such as drive, resilience and passion.\n\nTo enhance equity, the education ministry has also attempted to spread resources more evenly across schools by rotating experienced principals to schools that need more attention and paying more attention to academically weaker students by strengthening vocational and skills training.\n\nAll round, government leaders have expounded a wider definition of success beyond academic grades.\n\nThe media and elite schools have been discouraged from showcasing top students and their academic achievements.\n\nThere has also been a nationwide initiative called SkillsFuture which puts, in the first instance 500 Singapore dollars (£290) in the hands of every Singaporean from age 25 onwards, for them to pursue lifelong learning, build personal mastery and pursue their passion.\n\nAn online databank with at least 10,000 courses that Singaporeans can sign up for, to broaden or deepen their skills or take on new hobbies, is easily accessible.\n\nSchool-based education and career guidance counsellors are also provided at the primary to tertiary levels, to nurture students' self-awareness, self-directedness and life skills.\n\nDrawn from people with industry experience, the counsellors help students to explore education and career options.\n\nThey should be able to help students with information about the skills needed for the digital economy, so that students can go beyond what they learn for exams.\n\nThis is a softer approach - emphasising values and character and trying to improve the link between school and work. It's the search for the next formula for education in Singapore.\n\nDr Lim Lai Cheng is executive director of SMU Academy, Singapore Management University, former head of the Raffles Institution in Singapore and consultant on the board of Winter's International School Finder.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTen-man Arsenal were knocked out of the Champions League at the last-16 stage for the seventh successive season following a second-half capitulation against Bayern Munich.\n\nA debated decision in the 53rd minute shattered any hopes of the Gunners becoming the first side in Champions League history to overturn a four-goal deficit, having also lost the first leg in Germany 5-1.\n\nThey led through Theo Walcott's stunning 20th-minute goal, before Bayern were awarded a penalty that also resulted in the sending off of defender Laurent Koscielny.\n\nThe France centre-back was initially shown a yellow card by referee Anastasios Sidiropoulos for his foul on Robert Lewandowski inside the area - but it was upgraded to a red once he decided Koscielny made no attempt to win the ball.\n\nGunners boss Arsene Wenger looked perplexed by the sudden change of heart by the official.\n\nLewandowski placed his spot-kick beyond the reach of David Ospina to give Bayern a 6-2 aggregate lead and effectively kill off the tie.\n\nThe home side then folded as Bayern scored four goals in 17 minutes. Arjen Robben robbed Alexis Sanchez of the ball and beat Ospina, before Douglas Costa made it 3-1 with a stunning solo goal.\n\nFellow midfielder Arturo Vidal grabbed a late double, first with an impudent chip before slotting in from Costa's square pass.\n\nHow bad was it? The stats\n• None The 10-2 aggregate defeat is the worst suffered by an English side in the Champions League\n• None It was Arsenal's biggest home loss since November 1998 (5-0 against Chelsea in the League Cup)\n• None Only one Champions League tie has seen a greater margin of victory for a team - Bayern Munich v Sporting Lisbon (12-1, 2009)\n\nIf this was to be Wenger's final outing in the Champions League with Arsenal then what an embarrassing final act.\n\nFew expected the Gunners to perform a miracle, but they did at least expect to take the fight to the German giants.\n\nAside from the goal, Walcott also went close when Manuel Neuer saved his effort and Olivier Giroud hit the base of the post with a header.\n\nWalcott was also denied a penalty after it appeared that Xabi Alonso had fouled him.\n\nBut Bayern rarely looked stretched and bided their time before punishing an error-strewn second-half display by the home side.\n\nSome might debate whether Koscielny deserved a straight red but, under new laws regarding penalties, the referee was right to amend his initial decision to award the defender a yellow.\n\nThe Gunners' similarly folded when the Frenchman came off injured in the first leg with the scores 1-1.\n\nArsenal's initial target of scoring four goals would have still taken the contest into extra time. Any chance of that happening ended when Robben nipped in to take the ball away from the feet of Sanchez, who was inexplicably trying to play the ball on the edge of his own area.\n\nThe team lost heart thereafter and allowed Costa to run 50 yards before the Brazilian cut inside and curled in a brilliant 20-yard strike.\n\nVidal's double came late and in quick succession. First an error by Shkodran Mustafi was punished with a cheeky dink, before the Chile midfielder tapped in Costa's pass.\n\nThe final whistle could not come soon enough for Wenger and his team.\n\nWhile Bayern carried out their own protest against ticket prices by throwing toilet rolls on to the pitch, the main attention was on the 'Wenger Out' demonstration before kick-off.\n\nA large gathering of fans made it known outside the ground that they did not want the Frenchman in charge of the club.\n\nWenger has yet to decide whether to accept the contract extension or leave the club he has managed since 1996.\n\nThis week's saga surrounding Sanchez, the protests and finally now this heavy defeat might have brought the 67-year-old closer to making up his mind.\n\n'Shame Again' - How the papers reacted\n• None Attempt missed. Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1, FC Bayern München 5. Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Douglas Costa.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1, FC Bayern München 4. Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Xabi Alonso with a through ball.\n• None Granit Xhaka (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1, FC Bayern München 3. Douglas Costa (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Rafinha following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lucas Pérez.\n• None Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Douglas Costa with a cross.\n• None Offside, FC Bayern München. Franck Ribéry tries a through ball, but Robert Lewandowski is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Arsenal fans gather outside the Emirates Stadium to sing songs demanding the sacking of Arsene Wenger after the Gunners' humiliating 5-1 Champions League defeat to Bayern Munich.\n\nREAD MORE: 'Ominous signs Wenger is in last chapter'", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLiverpool secured a vital advantage over Arsenal in the battle for a place in the Premier League's top four with a well-deserved win at Anfield.\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger gambled by leaving Alexis Sanchez - his leading scorer with 17 Premier League goals - on the bench but the ploy failed miserably as Liverpool took control by the break.\n\nRoberto Firmino's far-post finish put Liverpool ahead after nine minutes and Sadio Mane confirmed their superiority with an emphatic strike just before half-time.\n\nSanchez, predictably, emerged as a substitute at the start of the second half and set up a goal for Danny Welbeck that gave Arsenal hope but Georginio Wijnaldum struck on the break deep into injury-time to seal Liverpool's win.\n\nLiverpool are now up to third, level with Manchester City on 52 points - but Arsenal are now in fifth trailing that pair by two points.\n\nArsenal and Arsene Wenger had so much riding on this game - a meeting where they knew defeat would leave them outside the Premier League's top four.\n\nIt made his decision to leave his most dangerous attacker Sanchez on the bench totally inexplicable, Wenger's tactical ploy backfiring badly as Liverpool assumed control in those crucial first 45 minutes.\n\nBrave or desperate? Or a touch of both? Either way it was consigned to the dustbin at the interval.\n\nWenger preferred the physicality and aerial threat of Olivier Giroud and Danny Welbeck but Arsenal's failure to arrive in any attacking positions in the first half totally negated any impact he hoped they would have.\n\nThe folly of Wenger's selection was further exposed by the manner in which Sanchez transformed Arsenal's approach when he emerged as a substitute, setting up Welbeck's goal - although the Chilean's energy levels dried up as the half went on.\n\nWenger's decisions will come under the closest scrutiny as speculation continues about his future, and if Arsenal miss out on the Champions League failed moves like this will understandably be portrayed in an unflattering light.\n\nSanchez's demeanour at the final whistle told the tale. As Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp celebrated with his backroom team, he offered the briefest of gestures to Arsenal's fans before going straight down the tunnel.\n\nRead more:Wenger 'strong enough' to deal with decision to drop Sanchez\n\nLiverpool have faltered badly against the Premier League's strugglers, losing and performing dismally in defeat at Hull City and Leicester City - who were both in the bottom three when those games kicked off.\n\nKlopp, however, has mastered the art of overcoming Liverpool's closest rivals and this may yet be the key to achieving the top four place that was the goal before the start of the season.\n\nKlopp's record against Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham is highly impressive and this victory leaves his team with seven wins, eight draws and one defeat from 16 league games.\n\nThis was not a vintage Liverpool performance, but the energy and creation shown here was in stark contrast to that shown at the King Power Stadium on Monday and more akin to the recent 2-0 win against Spurs here at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool were helped by Philippe Coutinho's best display since he returned from a seven-week absence with an ankle injury, while Ragnar Klavan offered a more physical defensive presence than Lucas, dropped after the Leicester debacle.\n\nThis result keeps Liverpool in the shake-up for a Champions League place - but also underscores why they have collapsed in the title race.\n\nResults against your closest rivals, while desirable, are not enough on their own.\n\nWijnaldum the man for the big occasion\n\nQuietly and without fuss, Wijnaldum is having a fine impact at Liverpool in his first season since his £25m move from Newcastle United.\n\nHe operates in the shadow of more eye-catching players such as Coutinho, Adam Lallana and Firmino, but he is missed when he is not playing and contributes vital goals when he does.\n\nWijnaldum scored the winner against Manchester City, the equaliser against Chelsea and the vital third goal here. The man for the big occasion.\n\nLiverpool unbeaten in nine against top six\n• None Liverpool are unbeaten in their nine Premier League games this season against the current top six (W5 D4).\n• None Arsenal haven't won any of their last 11 Premier League away games against the other teams currently in the top six (W0 D5 L6).\n• None The Gunners find themselves outside the Premier League top four at the end of a day for the first time since 13 January.\n• None Sadio Mané has both scored and assisted in four Premier League games this season, more than any other player.\n• None Alexis Sanchez has been directly involved in a league-high 26 goals in his 26 Premier League games this season, scoring 17 and assisting nine.\n• None The Liverpool v Arsenal fixture in the Premier League has produced 17 90+ minute goals, more than any other Premier League game.\n\n'Simon Mignolet saved our lives' - what they said\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp: \"It was one of the best games we have played so far because of the strength of our opponent.\n\n\"We did really well. We had hard words after the defeat at Leicester. We analysed it and that wasn't enjoyable.\n\n\"We had another opportunity and we took it today. It's the rollercoaster of the Premier League.\n\n\"All of them played a fantastic game. When we are compact it's fantastic. Adam Lallana can come out of the formation and trigger something. Being compact and stable is the basis of each good display.\n\n\"We knew Arsenal would bounce back in the second half. Alexis Sanchez is the highest quality player and plays different to Danny Welbeck. Simon Mignolet saved our lives.\n\n\"It's important to go back to fourth above Arsenal. We really felt bad last week, we needed a few days to understand what happened.\"\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger: \"Our performance was not at the level we expect in the first half but that is down to a lack of rhythm, we have not played for a while.\n\n\"The collective response was very strong in the second half.\"\n\nLiverpool have over a week to recover before they host Burnley on Sunday, 12 March in the Premier League.\n\nBut Arsenal have no such luck. They welcome Bayern Munich to the Emirates for the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie on Tuesday, 7 March with a 5-1 deficit to turn around.\n\nAnd on Saturday, 11 March they play Lincoln in the FA Cup sixth round.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 3, Arsenal 1. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Divock Origi following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alex Iwobi.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lucas Pérez (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Ragnar Klavan tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by James Milner with a cross following a corner.\n• None Divock Origi (Liverpool) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by James Milner with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt missed. Shkodran Mustafi (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain with a cross following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBritain's Laura Muir and Asha Philip won gold at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Belgrade.\n\nMuir, 23, gained her second gold of the championships with victory in the 3,000m on Sunday following her 1500m win the previous day.\n\nThe Scot eased away from the rest of the field to break the championship record in eight minutes 35.68 seconds.\n\nPhilip, 26, set a new British record to win the women's 60m final in a time of 7.06 seconds.\n\n\"I was not doubting myself,\" Philip told BBC Sport. \"I knew I had it in me and the confidence took me through the race.\n\n\"When I crossed the line, I could feel the girls on my left and I wasn't sure - the camera came to me and I was like: 'I don't believe it unless you say my name.'\"\n\nMuir's team-mate Eilish McColgan won bronze in the 3,000m, while Shelayna Oskan-Clarke was edged into silver by winner Selina Buchel of Switzerland in a thrilling women's 800m final.\n\nRobbie Grabarz took silver in the men's high jump after losing a jump-off for gold against Sylwester Bednarek of Poland, with Lorraine Ugen also winning silver in the women's long jump.\n\nEilidh Doyle, Philippa Lowe, Mary Iheke and Laviai Nielsen took silver in the women's 4x400m relay behind Poland, who won four golds in total on the final day to top the medal table ahead of Britain.\n\nMuir won her second major title in as many days by again setting a new championship record, having also beaten Dame Kelly Holmes' British record in her 1500m victory on Saturday.\n\nShe became the first British athlete since Colin Jackson in Paris in 1994 to win two gold medals in individual events at a single European Indoor Championships.\n\nThis victory also makes Muir the first runner to win the 1500m and 3,000m double since Poland's Lidia Chojecka at Birmingham 2007.\n\nAfter keeping pace with Can out in the front for most of the race, Muir surged clear with just under two laps to go to win by almost eight seconds.\n\n\"It was my first time doubling up so I didn't know how my body would cope - I was just hoping I could deliver and I'm delighted,\" Muir told BBC Sport.\n\nMcColgan, 26, passed Maureen Koster of the Netherlands in the final stages to win her first senior medal, while team-mate Steph Twell finished fifth.\n\n\"Laura is so much better than the rest of us - I knew gold was gone, but it's my first medal so I'm really chuffed,\" said McColgan.\n\nWith an athlete as confident as Laura Muir is, as in the groove as she is, she wasn't going to settle for just winning.\n\nThis is a new Laura that we're witnessing - a couple of years ago she was in tears wondering why she was making those mistakes.\n\nBut now her running is stunning - the strength, the power, the endurance and the confidence. She has no fear.\n\nWith Jessica Ennis-Hill retiring, we've been wondering who would take on that mantle of the queen of British athletics and Laura is that person.\n\nFor Eilish McColgan, her body dictated the change from steeplechase to 3,000m - she was spending more time on the physio bed than she was racing.\n\nSo to have a good winter and then come out to win her first medal makes me delighted for her - and I hope it's the start of good things to come.\n\nPhilip set the fourth-fastest time in the semi-finals but stepped up for the final, setting a new European-leading mark this season.\n\nHer victory completes a British double in the 60m following Richard Kilty's gold on Saturday.\n\nShe is also the first British winner of the women's 60m title since Beverly Kinch at Gothenburg in 1984.\n\nUkraine's Olesya Povh took silver, 0.04 seconds behind, with Ewa Swoboda of Poland in third.\n\nPhilip's gold medal stood after a Swiss protest against her victory was turned down.\n\nMarathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe paid tribute to the winner, saying: \"Asha Philip personifies that tactic we need more of - bringing youngsters to championships like this and letting them take the step up, because it gives them a big boost going into the outdoor season.\"\n\nOskan-Clarke, 27, battled with reigning champion Buchel throughout the 800m final, often clashing elbows, but failed to get round the Swiss athlete on the line.\n\nThe Briton set a new personal best time of 2:00.39, just 0.01 seconds behind Buchel in a photo finish.\n\n\"I was trying to be brave but it was probably a bit silly to go round the outside whereas if I'd sat behind I might have had that bit at the end - it's just annoying,\" Oskan-Clarke told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I am happy but to be so close to the gold, it is a bit disappointing.\"\n\nPoland's Adam Kszczot took gold in the men's 800m, with the Polish team also winning the men's 4x400m relay in the final race of the championships.", "Brexit. It's all about Britain, right?\n\nThere is the rest of the club to consider - what has become known, rather inelegantly, as the EU-of-27.\n\nThey are about to lose - depending on your point of view - a curmudgeonly whinger who was dragging the whole project down or one of their largest economies and the most powerful defence and security power in Europe.\n\nThere are those who think, genuinely, good riddance.\n\n\"General de Gaulle was right all along,\" they mutter. \"We should never have let them join in the first place.\n\n\"Freed from the shackles of British ministers objecting to integration here and integration there, we can get on with it.\"\n\nCloser co-operation on EU defence policy is high on their list; and it has been given an extra boost by the new president of the United States musing out loud about Nato and whether it is all worth it.\n\nOthers are dismayed by the British decision to leave, but after getting over the initial shock - and it really was a shock - they too are determined to make the best of it.\n\nAnd when it comes to negotiating the UK divorce bill, make no mistake. For the people who matter, the unity of the remaining 27 is more important than trying not to upset the Brits as they wave goodbye.\n\nThe bill will be big - up to 60 billion euros - and European diplomats are bracing themselves for what one called \"the very real possibility\" that the UK will walk out in a huff.\n\nEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has set out five possible futures\n\nBut the likelihood is that after one too many late-night summits - and one too many outraged tabloid headlines - a deal of sorts will emerge from the rubble.\n\nThe consequences of Brexit will rumble on for years; there are trade deals that will have to be done. But the EU is in no position to wait for the dust to settle.\n\nIn many ways, it has already moved on. So long Britain, and thanks for the memories.\n\nLater this month, leaders of the 27 (the 28th has already sent her apologies) will meet in Rome to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the EU's founding treaty.\n\nI say celebrate, but there is no illusion about the challenges facing the union.\n\nCould the forces that prompted Brexit spread to other countries? Will anti-EU populists continue to rise in France, the Netherlands and parts of Central Europe?\n\nIt is certainly not impossible, and EU leaders know it. The idea that the EU could fall apart - unthinkable a few years ago - is now the subject of serious discussion.\n\nTheresa May joined EU leaders in Valletta in February, but will skip the celebrations in Rome\n\nWhich is why they need a new plan to reinvigorate the project on its 60th birthday, and make it fit for future purpose.\n\nThe European Commission has now produced a series of policy options for the best way forward, ranging from shrugging its shoulders to throwing up its hands in horror.\n\nBut the most likely solution is to make more use of what is known as multi-speed Europe.\n\nThat's the idea that \"coalitions of the willing\" can move forward on big projects even if others want to linger on the starting line.\n\nIt is already happening with the euro, and with the passport-free Schengen area - not all EU countries are members of everything. An inner core may want to push ahead, if (and it's a big if) it can take public opinion along for the ride.\n\nThe other Commission proposal that looks to have legs is the idea that Brussels would return some powers to member states, as long as the EU was given greater responsibilities in major policy areas such as trade, migration, security and defence.\n\nVariations on this theme have been around for some time. The EU needs to be big on the big things, they said, and smaller on smaller things.\n\nAnd the biggest of the big things - in a competitive field - is probably the need to fix the eurozone.\n\nThe single currency remains half-formed, and - as a result - not yet secure. There is talk of a eurozone finance minister and a single eurozone budget.\n\nBut if you centralise economic power, you have to make sure it is politically accountable.\n\nAfter 12 years, are German voters tiring of Chancellor Angela Merkel?\n\nIn an era of populist, anti-establishment rage, that is a difficult balancing act. Much will depend on who wins national elections this year in Germany and, in particular, France.\n\nPolitical leadership will be at a premium.\n\nBut as the UK prepares to leave and enter a whole new world, the status quo is no longer an option for the countries that remain.\n\nThe EU either needs to move forward towards closer integration, or transfer significant power back to nation states.\n\nIt continues to be a bold experiment in Europe. But the halfway house has been built on sand.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nHow to follow: Live streaming of every England game in the SheBelieves Cup on the BBC Sport website, app and BBC red button\n\nEllen White scored a late winner as England beat world champions USA in the SheBelieves Cup in New Jersey.\n\nThe game was edging towards a goalless draw before Lucy Bronze's superb strike hit the crossbar in the 90th minute and substitute White scored the rebound.\n\nEngland, the lowest-ranked team at the event, lost their opening game to France 2-1 and play their final match against Germany on 7 March.\n\nEngland are second in the table behind France who drew 0-0 with Germany.\n\nWith both England and USA yet to start their domestic seasons, the two sides were evenly matched in front of a sellout crowd on a freezing cold night in New York.\n\nLionesses goalkeeper Siobhan Chamberlain denied Rose Lavelle from close range before America's Ashlyn Harris saved well to stop Nikita Parris in an even first half.\n\nChances were few and far between in the second period. England captain Steph Houghton went close with a 25-yard free-kick but Harris clawed the ball to safety.\n\nMark Sampson's side looked dangerous in the last 10 minutes and White clinched England's first ever victory in the tournament.\n\nMatch-winner White was \"absolutely buzzing\" that her goal had given England a famous victory.\n\nThe 27-year-old's strike gave the Lionesses just their fourth win over the World Cup holders and their first home defeat in 23 games.\n\nWhite said: \"To get the win, to get the goal, to beat USA on home soil; I'm pretty ecstatic to be honest.\n\n\"The team did so well, I'm so proud of them. We needed a big win in this tournament.\"\n\nThe team now face Germany in their final match in Washington on Tuesday.\n\nWhite added: \"Mark wanted us to bounce back and show our winning mentality. We definitely showed that.\n\n\"We showed the togetherness of the team, we showed drive, we showed professionalism and ultimately we scrapped [and] we fought. That's what we do.\"\n\n\"We're looking forward to playing Germany - this is like a final now.\"\n• None Goal! USA 0, England 1. Ellen White (England) right footed shot from very close range to the top left corner following a corner.\n• None Lucy Bronze (England) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ellen White (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jill Scott.\n• None Attempt missed. Jodie Taylor (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jill Scott with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United remained sixth in the Premier League with a draw against 10-man Bournemouth in a match that had two unpleasant incidents involving Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Tyrone Mings.\n\nBoth occurred towards the end of the first half after the players had earlier been warned by referee Kevin Friend for an off-the-ball incident.\n\nYou have the TV, you can see the images. I jump high and Mings jumps into my elbow\n\nFirst, Mings appeared to land on the back of the head of the United forward as he lay on the ground, and then from a corner, Ibrahimovic elbowed the Cherries defender.\n\nThat last incident was witnessed by Mings' team-mates, including midfielder Andrew Surman who pushed the Swedish striker to the ground.\n\nHe was consequently shown a yellow card, which Friend realised was his second after a long delay. The official eventually pulled out his red card.\n\nThat followed a period of United domination, and they took the lead when Marcos Rojo diverted Antonio Valencia's strike past keeper Artur Boruc.\n\nThe visitors - with only one win in 11 - then grabbed a shock equaliser when Joshua King converted from the spot after Phil Jones had brought down Marc Pugh.\n\nUnited then won a penalty in the 71st minute when Adam Smith handled Paul Pogba's flick. But from the resulting spot-kick Boruc, magnificent during the match, dived to his right to keep out Ibrahimovic's effort.\n\nBournemouth hung on to earn their first league point in five games, but it is the incidents involving Ibrahimovic and Mings that will dominate the back pages.\n• None Relive the action as it happened\n\nFour incidents in five frantic minutes\n\nBournemouth manager Eddie Howe arrived at Old Trafford feeling the effects of a stomach bug - and he would have felt more queasy after what he witnessed near the end of the first half.\n\nSurman's sending off was the culmination of the bruising on and off-the-ball battle between Mings and Ibrahimovic.\n\nBoth had been talked to by Friend moments after the United striker had appeared to push the defender to the ground early on in the opening period. Neither were punished then, nor were they punished just before the break following the two incidents.\n\nThe first was highlighted by a TV replay when Mings, in hurdling United captain Wayne Rooney after tackling him, landed his boot on the top of Ibrahimovic, who was also lying on the turf.\n\nFrom the corner, Ibrahimovic, again closely marked by Mings, appeared to elbow the defender in the face.\n\nA melee then followed which resulted in a yellow card for Surman - his second - for a push on Ibrahimovic.\n\nIn an unsavoury end to the half, Bournemouth assistant Jason Tindall was also sent off for his protestations over the incident during the corner.\n\nUnited fail to take advantage of dominance\n\nIf it was not for the brilliant saves of Boruc, United would have run away with this match.\n\nThe Cherries had conceded 51 goals in the league coming into the fixture - more than any other club - and it could have been 57 inside the first 22 minutes.\n\nBoruc, with a strong sun in his eyes in the first half, made great saves to keep out strikes from Pogba, Rooney and then Anthony Martial. United also twice went close through Ibrahimovic.\n\nAnd in the second half the Polish keeper pushed away another Pogba effort before he capped off his excellent display with a brilliant penalty save.\n\nFrom United's point of view it will be a match in which they had 20 chances and only managed to convert one.\n• None Manchester United's unbeaten Premier League run has been extended to 17 games (W9 D8), and they have not conceded more than once in a game during that run [10 goals conceded].\n• None Ibrahimovic missed a penalty in a league game for the first time since September 2015 for Paris St-Germain against Guingamp - he had scored six consecutively before his failure today.\n• None Artur Boruc was the first goalkeeper to save a penalty against Manchester United at Old Trafford in the Premier League since Boaz Myhill in May 2015.\n• None Boruc has saved four of the past seven penalties he has faced in the Premier League.\n• None Joshua King was only the 14th player in Premier League history to score a penalty at Old Trafford for the opposing side.\n• None King's goal was Bournemouth's only shot on target in the entire match.\n• None Bournemouth have scored all seven of their Premier League penalties this season, more than any other side.\n• None Rojo scored his first Premier League goal in his 54th appearance\n• None United have managed 20-plus shots without winning four times in the Premier League this season, more than any other side.\n\nUnited are at FC Rostov next Thursday in the Europa League last 16, before they face Chelsea in the FA Cup quarter-final a week on Monday.\n\nThey next play in the league, after the Europa League return leg, when they travel to Middlesbrough on Sunday, 19 March.\n\nThe Cherries have a less busy schedule. They host West Ham in the league next Saturday.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcos Rojo (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Juan Mata.\n• None Substitution, Bournemouth. Max Gradel replaces Joshua King because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Joshua King (Bournemouth) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ryan Fraser with a cross following a corner.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Substitution, Bournemouth. Baily Cargill replaces Tyrone Mings because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Tyrone Mings (Bournemouth) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt blocked. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) 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 Boxing\n\nTony Bellew said he feared for David Haye's safety and asked the heavyweight and his corner to end Saturday's fight at the O2 Arena before he scored an 11th-round stoppage.\n\nHaye, 36, damaged his Achilles and was put down in the sixth round but gamely carried on and went for surgery on the injury after the bout.\n\n\"Just before the stoppage I looked at David and said 'stop now',\" said Bellew. \"He shook his head.\n\n\"He went beyond the call of duty.\"\n\nThe Liverpudlian added: \"I looked at Shane McGuigan (Haye's trainer) and said 'stop it'. I was worried as he couldn't box.\"\n\nThe two fighters had engaged in a controversial war of words ahead of the fight but afterwards Bellew spoke of Haye's bravery in refusing to give up.\n• None Bellew broke his hand in early rounds of Haye bout\n• None Listen: 'I’ve beaten the best cruiserweight this country has ever produced'\n\n\"In rounds four and five he was tired but he was blocking, when we got to nine, I felt myself on top of him and I could feel him panicking,\" said Bellew.\n\n\"I said, 'stop, stop' and he went 'no'. He gets a lot of admiration from me from a sportsman's perspective.\"\n\nHaye - who notably lost his ability to move freely after stumbling in the sixth - was unable to attend a post-fight news conference as he was on his way for surgery on an injury for which he reportedly flew to Germany for treatment during fight week.\n\nBut in the ring he told BBC Radio 5 live the injury was \"just one of those things\" and conceded \"the better man won\".\n\nBellew, who was visibly emotional early on in his news conference, said he thanked Haye in the ring for \"helping secure my kids' future\".\n\nThe WBC cruiserweight champion, 34, defied most pre-fight predictions to win on his heavyweight bow but told reporters this would be his final 12 months as a fighter.\n\n\"There's a certain number of times you can keep doing this and it's not many more times I'll be honest,\" added Bellew, who now has 29 wins and a draw from 32 fights.\n\n\"This circus is going to keep following me now. I don't actually like all this, I've grown to hate it. I'm not a perfect person, I make bad moves and bad mistakes in my life, I just want to be left alone now and enjoy time with my kids.\"\n\nHis trainer Dave Coldwell added: \"I would be happy if he walked away. He won a world title, he secured his family's future, so for me, I would be happy if he said 'that's us done'.\"\n\nBellew labelled boxing a \"freak show\" in which he was happy to play the \"pantomime\" but when asked why he would not bow out now, he said any offer for his next fight \"would be too big\" to turn down.\n\nPromoter Eddie Hearn believes Bellew's future lies in the heavyweight division, with title-shots makeable against American WBC champion Deontay Wilder or New Zealand's Joseph Parker, who holds the WBO belt.\n\nHearn said: \"Everybody was saying David Haye is one of the best heavyweights in the world. So as far as I'm concerned Tony's earned his shot at the heavyweight title of the world.\n\n\"I could bring Wilder or Parker to the UK without any shadow of a doubt.\"\n\nA rematch with Haye was briefly mentioned in the ring but Hearn appeared cold at the prospect, stating the former WBA heavyweight champion's camp had no desire to insert a rematch clause before the bout.\n\nBellew added: \"The biggest one-punching heavyweight in the world couldn't put a dent in me. There's a new sheriff in town.\"\n\nBellew was moved to tears when explaining a video chat with his son before the fight where he was urged to \"come home safe\".\n\nControversial comments from both fighters, including Haye's graphic descriptions of the harm he hoped to cause his rival, had marred fight week.\n\nThe British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) will discuss the acrimonious build-up next week.\n\n\"What we have done for boxing tonight is put it on a pedestal,\" said Bellew. \"Two men fought their hearts out.\"\n\nHe called the BBBofC's proposed meeting \"a disgrace\", adding: \"The board can't say nothing to me and if they do, I will go and get a license somewhere else. The cheek of it.\"", "Consider Wednesday's Budget as part of a box set - the latest episode in a financial drama that began with the banking crisis.\n\nLike all good series, there are episodes which allow the scriptwriters to set up the story for a more dramatic encounter later on.\n\nThat will be the case with Philip Hammond - ironically nicknamed \"Box Office Phil\" - as he writes his Spring Budget, experts say. They predict this Budget will be relatively low key, particularly because there will be another one in the autumn.\n\nAnd - to stretch the metaphor even further - we have been told a lot about the plot already. A string of tax and benefit changes that will come into effect this April have been announced in previous Budgets and Autumn Statements.\n\nSo, here is the story so far.\n\nThis will be the last ever Spring Budget, with the main event moving to the autumn from then on.\n\nThe leading man in the Treasury has changed. Philip Hammond is delivering his first Budget as chancellor, following eight delivered by his predecessor George Osborne.\n\nThere's plenty of speculation that Wednesday's Budget could be pretty low key. Don't be fooled, though. Your finances are set to change anyway.\n\nSome of the policies that affect UK residents' personal finances were announced in previous speeches by Mr Osborne, but will only take effect this April. Others were outlined by Mr Hammond in November's Autumn Statement and will also come into force in the spring.\n\nA number will lead to a notable change in the finances of those of working age - particularly a shift in the income tax threshold and the benefit freeze - while others target particular groups of people such as landlords.\n\nThe amount people can earn before they are subject to income tax, known as the personal allowance, is currently set at £11,000 and it has already been announced that it will go up to £11,500 in April.\n\nThe Conservatives have promised to raise this to £12,500 by 2020-21 and increase with inflation after that.\n\nThe threshold for the higher 40% income tax rate will rise from £43,000 to £45,000 in April. However, in Scotland the higher rate will be paid on income above £43,000 a year - owing to the devolved tax powers the Scottish government now holds.\n\nOther changes that had been announced by George Osborne, but which take effect in April, include:\n\nPay rates for millions of workers have already been cemented.\n\nThe National Living Wage will rise from £7.20 to £7.50 in April, for those aged 25 and over. Public sector pay has already been set at a 1% annual rise each year until 2019-20.\n\nSalary sacrifice schemes allow some employees to give up some of their salary in exchange for goods and services. Some items bought under a scheme such as computers, gym membership, and health screening will be subject to tax from April - in effect, salary sacrifice will be cancelled on these items.\n\nThat was announced in Mr Hammond's Autumn Statement, as was mixed news for drivers.\n\nFuel duty will be frozen for a seventh year, but the cost of vehicle insurance may rise owing to an increase in the Insurance Premium Tax from 10% to 12% in June.\n\nNew Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) bands are to be introduced for cars registered from April - zero, standard and premium.\n\nIn May, probate fees will change, costing significantly more for large estates.\n\nFinally, we may hear from the chancellor on a start date and precise interest rate for the new government-backed savings bond.\n\nIn November, the chancellor said that the new savings product offering a \"market-leading\" rate of about 2.2% would go on sale through National Savings and Investments in the spring.\n\nThe bond will be open to those aged 16 and over, subject to a minimum investment limit of £100 and a maximum investment limit of £3,000. Savers must put in their money for three years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nAlexis Sanchez had an angry exchange with Arsenal team-mates after leaving training mid-session in the build-up to Saturday's defeat at Liverpool.\n\nThe Chilean forward, 28, was confronted by team-mates on their return to the changing room and one of them had to be held back as tempers flared.\n\nSanchez was left out of the starting line-up at Anfield but came on in the second half as Arsenal lost 3-1.\n\nArsenal boss Arsene Wenger said it was a tactical decision to omit Sanchez.\n\nWenger brought on his top scorer at half-time, with his side 2-0 down, and he provided the pass for Danny Welbeck's goal.\n\nHe has been directly involved in 26 goals in his 26 league games this season, scoring 17 and assisting nine.\n• None 'I'd leave Arsenal if I were Sanchez', says Wright\n\nHowever, Wenger said he had decided to start Welbeck and Oliver Giroud instead to provide a more direct attacking threat.\n\nThe defeat was the Gunners' third in four league games and saw them drop out of the top four.\n\nFormer Premier League goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer on BBC Match of the Day 2 Extra:\n\n\"I think Alexis Sanchez, and a number of players, are waiting to see what Wenger does. If Wenger stays on, I think we'll see a large turnover of players coming in and players leaving.\n\n\"If he leaves then it depends who comes in and replaces him, what his ideas are, and that will determine whether players like Sanchez and (Mesut) Ozil re-sign.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nDavid Haye has had surgery on the Achilles tendon he ruptured during Saturday night's heavyweight defeat by Tony Bellew in London.\n\nThe 36-year-old suffered the injury in the sixth round and was knocked down in the 11th to give Bellew a surprise win.\n\n\"David would like to thank everyone for their many messages of support, as well as the staff at the hospital,\" read a statement from Haye's representatives.\n\nWBC cruiserweight champion Bellew, 34, broke his hand in the fight.\n\n\"I broke my right hand in the second or third round,\" Bellew told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek.\n\n\"It is sore now but I don't feel the pain - all I think about is winning.\"\n\nLiverpudlian Bellew, who described his injured hand as being \"the size of a small bowling ball\", says he now wants time to reassess his options.\n• None Listen: 'I’ve beaten the best cruiserweight this country has ever produced'\n\n\"We will sit down and I need a few days to take on board what I have done because it doesn't feel real at the minute,\" he added.\n\nSpeaking after the fight, Bellew said he had feared for Haye's safety during the bout and asked the heavyweight and his corner to end the fight at the O2 Arena before he scored the stoppage.\n\n\"Just before the stoppage I looked at David and said 'stop now',\" said Bellew. \"He shook his head.\n\n\"He went beyond the call of duty.\"\n\nPromoter Eddie Hearn, speaking on Sportsweek, said that representatives of both American WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder and WBO champion Joseph Parker of New Zealand had contacted him about the possibility of taking on Bellew.\n\n\"Tony's got big decisions to make - stay at cruiserweight, defend that, unify the division. Maybe even a rematch with David Haye or, I think more likely, to challenge for the world heavyweight title,\" he said.\n\n\"Why can't he beat Wilder or Parker? I believe he can and two world titles would secure his legacy.\"\n\nAfter the fight Bellew called boxing a \"freak show\" in which he was happy to play the \"pantomime\", but when asked why he would not quit now, he said any offer for his next fight \"would be too big\" to turn down.\n\nThe WBC cruiserweight champion defied most pre-fight predictions to win on his heavyweight debut but told reporters this would be his final 12 months as a fighter.\n\n\"There's a certain number of times you can keep doing this and it's not many more times I'll be honest,\" added Bellew, who now has 29 wins and a draw from 32 fights.\n\n\"This circus is going to keep following me now. I don't actually like all this, I've grown to hate it. I'm not a perfect person, I make bad moves and bad mistakes in my life, I just want to be left alone now and enjoy time with my kids.\"\n\nBellew's trainer Dave Coldwell added: \"I would be happy if he walked away. He won a world title, he secured his family's future, so for me, I would be happy if he said 'that's us done'.\"\n\nControversial comments from both fighters, including Haye's graphic descriptions of the harm he hoped to cause his rival, had marred fight week.\n\nThe British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) will discuss the acrimonious build-up next week.\n\nHearn said that there was no place in the sport for a lot of the things which were said to Bellew.\n\n\"David Haye was told time and time again by us, by the BBBofC and Sky Sports to refrain from using those kind of words,\" he said.\n\n\"We saw it at the first press conference where he threw a punch at Bellew. In every public event we put on after that we put measures in place and never let them within an arms' length of each other.\n\n\"In that respect he behaved. But from a verbal respect some of the things he said were disgusting.\n\n\"I'm sure the BBBofC will deal with that.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBritain's Laura Muir and Richard Kilty won gold at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Belgrade.\n\nMuir, 23, broke Dame Kelly Holmes' British record and the championship record as she won her first major title in the 1500m.\n\nDefending champion Kilty, 27, finished the 60m in 6.54 seconds after team-mate Andy Robertson was disqualified.\n\nAndrew Pozzi claimed Britain's first gold of the competition on Friday in the 60m hurdles.\n\n\"I just wanted to run a quick race. I never envisaged breaking the British record, it's brilliant,\" Muir told BBC Sport.\n\n\"The past couple of years, medals have just slipped away. I'm relieved to get one now.\"\n\nMuir missed out on medals at the 2015 European Indoors and World Championships, where she finished fourth and fifth respectively.\n\nHowever, having already set three European records this year, she pulled away in the final two laps and won by more than two seconds, with team-mate Sarah McDonald coming sixth.\n\nGermany's Konstanze Klosterhalfen took silver, while Poland's Sofia Ennaoui finished third.\n\n\"I'm so happy, it feels like a long time coming to win a medal,\" Muir added.\n\n\"I knew a couple of the girls would have a couple of good sprint finishes so I tried to play to my strengths.\"\n\nLaura Muir is such a different athlete to the one we saw a few years ago. She's had disappointments but she has fought and worked so hard.\n\nShe's covered every base and when you watch her now, you get the sense of, is this another Mo Farah? She has that feeling of superiority and invincibility.\n\nI think Laura Muir just underlined the shape that she's in and her superiority. She can run the 3,000m any way she wants tomorrow, there are no worries about will she be fatigued, because the way she trains and puts hard sessions back to back, there won't be any issues about the way she recovers.\n\nKilty had dominated the heats for the 60m and did not let up in the final as he successfully defended his title.\n\nFellow Briton Theo Etienne, making his senior debut, finished in fifth with a time of 6.67 seconds.\n\n\"When it really matters I'm willing to lay my heart on the line and put in my best performance,\" Kilty told BBC Sport.\n\nRobertson, who finished third in his semi-final and was set to be a strong contender in the final, was left disappointed after being disqualified for a false start.\n\n\"I'm a bit frustrated. I felt like I was in personal best form. I felt like I could have won that today,\" Robertson added.\n\n\"Sadly it's not meant to be. I felt like I would have been contending today but it is what it is.\"\n\nBritain's Laviai Nielsen missed out on a medal in the 400m as she was overtaken on the line to finish fourth.\n\nThe 20-year-old, whose twin sister Lina was forced out earlier in the week with a leg injury, saw Poland's Justyna Swiety grab the bronze, with France's Floria Guei winning gold and Czech Zuzana Hewjonova the silver.\n\n\"Fourth place is agonising, it was just the last bit,\" said Nielsen, who still has the 4x400m relay on Sunday. \"I thought I had it and I tried, I really did.\"\n\nIn the women's 60m competition, Asha Philip looked comfortable winning her heat in 7.25secs, fifth fastest overall going into Sunday's semi-finals.\n\n\"You want to qualify for a good lane and winning that heat helped me,\" the 26-year-old told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I don't want to kill myself because three rounds is hard. The boys have had to do it all in one day so I feel sorry for them. We've got an extra day to recover so I'm grateful for that.\"\n\nMorgan Lake finished eighth in the high jump final, while world indoor bronze medallist Lorraine Ugen qualified for the long jump final at her first attempt.\n\nThe 25-year-old jumped a season's best 6.80m, passing the 6.60m automatic qualification mark. Team-mate Jazmin Sawyers missed that mark but joined Ugen in the final after finishing seventh overall with a best of 6.54.\n\nRobbie Grabarz and Allan Smith qualified for Sunday's high jump final, but fellow Briton Chris Kandu missed out after finishing 10th in qualifying.", "Senior DUP figures say leader Arlene Foster's position is safe, despite the party's poor showing in the election\n\nFormer first minister Arlene Foster predicted a brutal election campaign but she didn't expect such a brutal result for unionism.\n\nFor the first time in the history of Northern Ireland unionists no longer hold the majority at Stormont.\n\nAnd it happened under the watch of a DUP leader who, 10 months ago, was electoral gold dust.\n\nIn the end, just 1,168 votes separated the DUP and Sinn Féin - a gap which is sure to spook unionists.\n\nThe DUP has lost its veto. Without the magic 30 seats the party can no longer play the petition of concern card.\n\nBut it may call on the support of some like-minded unionists when it feels the need to block legislation.\n\nMuch will depend on its relationship with the new leader of the Ulster Unionists.\n\nThe make up of the next Executive is also set to change.\n\nThe DUP will no longer have four ministers around table: They will drop to three - Sinn Féin will have two.\n\nBut those figures will change if the SDLP and Ulster Unionists decide to remain in opposition: They are entitled to one seat each at the Executive table.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood fought the election to enter government, but only if the conditions after the negotiations are to his liking.\n\nIf he turns his back on government, then he will have to make room on the \"official\" opposition benches for the Alliance party.\n\nHaving won 8.8% of the vote, it has now passed the threshold to gain \"official\" status.\n\nBut what direction will the leaderless Ulster Unionists now take, and who will make that call if the Executive returns?\n\nAs Mike Nesbitt discovered, big bold moves don't always pay dividends, especially if those standing on your shoulder quietly don't agree.\n\nOne unionist who did emerge unscathed is ready and willing to return to her post.\n\nFormer Justice Minister Clare Sugden says she wants \"to finish the job she started\".\n\nBut will those who sat with her around that table have the same drive to finish the job they started?", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Andy Murray saw off Spaniard Fernando Verdasco in straight sets to win the Dubai Championships for the first time.\n\nThe world number one dropped his first two service games but recovered to win 6-3 6-2 in one hour and 14 minutes.\n\nIt is Murray's first tournament win of 2017 and the 45th of his career, which will see him extend his lead over Novak Djokovic at the top of the rankings.\n\n\"I'm obviously very happy to do it here for the first time,\" said Murray.\n\n\"It's been a good start to the year.\"\n\nMurray went into the final with a 12-1 record against Verdasco, but the Scot made a slow start to the final, losing his first two service games and throwing in four double faults.\n\nHowever, Murray managed to get himself level at 3-3 and was rarely troubled again.\n\nVerdasco, 33, let a 40-0 lead slip in game eight, firing a forehand wide on break point and Murray served out a set in which his returning ability had made up for some erratic serving.\n\nThe Briton's game came together in the second set and a forehand pass gave him the early break for a 2-1 lead.\n\nWhen Murray ran down a seemingly hopeless point to force another break point at 4-2 it was as good as over for Verdasco, and the top seed ended with the kind of clinical service game he had lacked at the start.\n\nThe final proved a far more straightforward contest than his quarter-final against Philipp Kohlschreiber, which saw Murray save seven match points and win an epic 31-minute tie-break.\n\n\"Often when you get through matches like that it settles you down for the rest of the tournament,\" said Murray.\n\n\"It's been quite a few late finishes this week. Maybe the last couple of matches, I didn't start as well as I would like. It's been the same for all the players, a bit tricky with the rain. Once I got going today, I was moving well and I finished strong.\"\n\nAny major celebrations will have to wait as Murray heads to the airport and a 16-hour flight to Los Angeles, with the Indian Wells Masters getting under way next week.\n\nMurray, who will play his first match in the Californian desert next weekend, hopes to improve on a relatively modest record of just one final appearance back in 2009.\n\nLast year, he lost in the third round at both Indian Wells and two weeks later at the Miami Masters.\n\n\"I struggled at Indian Wells and Miami last year, I didn't play so well,\" he said. \"This year has given me great momentum.\"\n\nDespite dropping his opening two service games, this turned into a straightforward win for Murray.\n\nA first title of 2017 takes Murray over 2,000 points clear of Novak Djokovic at the top of the world rankings, and means he is extremely unlikely to be overtaken by anyone until at least the French Open.\n\nMurray's form in Dubai this week suggests not only has he got over his bout of shingles, but also that the defeat to Mischa Zverev at the Australian Open is no indication of a deeper malaise.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLeicester City caretaker boss Craig Shakespeare is \"out of order\" for wanting to replace Claudio Ranieri, says ex-Arsenal defender Martin Keown.\n\nThe Foxes beat Hull 3-1 on Saturday and have won both of their games under Shakespeare since Ranieri's sacking.\n\n\"Suddenly he wants to be a manager. It doesn't sit that comfortably with me,\" Keown said on Match of the Day.\n\n\"If you're assistant manager to Ranieri and he's walked, why is it you suddenly want to be the manager?\"\n\nShakespeare, 53, has never managed full-time and was brought to Leicester by Ranieri's predecessor Nigel Pearson.\n\nHe says he expects to speak with the Leicester hierarchy about his future next week.\n\n\"You have personal ambition, but I think it's almost out of order that he wants to jump in for that job,\" said Keown.\n\n\"Surely they'll go for a manager who is bigger with more experience.\"\n\nFormer Liverpool midfielder Danny Murphy added: \"While Craig Shakespeare is winning, leave him in charge. Why change? Let him carry on.\"\n\n'My remit was to win these two games'\n\nSpeaking after his side moved five points clear of the relegation zone, Shakespeare said: \"My remit was to win these two games and that's what we've done,\" he said.\n\n\"The owners will make a decision for the good of the club and until I talk to them I don't know what that will be. But as I have said previously, I'm comfortable with that.\n\n\"I can't control it and there's no point worrying about it.\"\n\nLeicester had not scored a league goal in 2017 until Shakespeare took charge, but have now scored six in two games - twice as many Premier League goals as they did in their last 10 matches under Ranieri.\n\nShakespeare has never managed a club before but has a long association with the Foxes.\n\nThe Englishman was assistant manager to Nigel Pearson for two years from 2008, following Pearson to Hull in 2010 before they both returned to Leicester a year later.\n\nFollowing Pearson's sacking in 2015, Shakespeare remained at the club as Ranieri's assistant.\n\nLeicester are believed to have spoken to a number of potential candidates to replace Ranieri, but could also consider giving Shakespeare the job until the end of the season.\n\nWho else is in the frame?\n\nThe Foxes have held informal discussions with former England boss Roy Hodgson.\n\nThe 69-year-old has been out of work since leaving the international set-up after the Three Lions lost to Iceland at Euro 2016.\n\nPearson, who saved Leicester from relegation in 2014-15, has also been linked with a return.", "Britain's Laura Muir was initially prevented from celebrating her 1500m gold by a 'spoilsport' official at the European Indoor Athletics Championships, before giving her the slip to complete her lap of honour.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How tech investor Barry Eggers' whip-round at Saint Francis High School led to an incredible windfall\n\nIt's no coincidence that the school that banked millions this week by investing early in Snapchat is in the middle of Mountain View, California.\n\nWhen the parents of your students are some of the world's wealthiest technology investors then, well, it's smart to make the most of it.\n\nSaint Francis High School's incredible windfall wasn't a fluke - it was the result of a patient process which began in 1990, when it set up a development fund to raise cash for the school. The fund has been bankrolled by parents and alumni who know their stuff - particularly when it comes to making bets on technology stock.\n\nAt $17,000 a year for tuition, the school isn't exactly strapped for cash. Its campus, where I spent Friday morning, is leafy, green and well-equipped outside and in. The 1,760 students that come here are lucky, privileged, and most likely on their way to great things.\n\nThe development fund was set up to, among other things, provide money for scholarships that are offered out to kids from less well-off families in the area. And with the Snap deal, the fund has swollen to phenomenal new heights - $24m so far, with many more millions set to come. All from a $15,000 investment.\n\nIt made me wonder - why doesn't this kind of thing happen more often? $15,000 is small change to the budgets of venture capital firms around the world, particularly in Silicon Valley where $25bn was invested in tech companies in 2016 - an apparently \"bad\" year.\n\nMost schools can't afford to put together a fund like Saint Francis. But then, why should they need to? What if investment firms allowed a small slice of the money they invest to be kept by for schools, charities or other needy causes so that if and when the ship comes in, it's life changing for the many rather than the few?\n\n\"I think in Silicon Valley especially, or places with a lot of entrepreneurship, I think it's great for investors to reach out to local institutions and schools and see if they can include them in some of their deals,\" said Barry Eggers, founding partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, the firm that led Snap's first investment round. This week that investment became worth more than a billion dollars.\n\nThe school set up a development fund in 1990\n\nIt was Mr Eggers' idea to involve Saint Francis in the deal five years ago, based on the enthusiasm of his children, who loved Snapchat.\n\n\"They were sitting around the kitchen table one day and they were all on their cellphones laughing. They said 'Dad, have you seen this app, Snapchat?'\n\n\"My daughter said 'I used to use it five times a day, now I use it 30 times a day!'.\"\n\nHe sees no reason why the success at Saint Francis can't be emulated at other schools - but it won't happen easily.\n\n\"These institutions have to have a programme. It can't be a one-off, that's not going to work. They have to commit to doing this.\"\n\nHis point is it takes time and money, and it's about playing the numbers. Schools won't be able to just invest $15,000, sit back for a few years and see the success roll in. There will be vastly more misses than hits.\n\nAt Saint Francis, as school president Simon Chiu was fielding questions from the nation's media, the music of Bruno Mars soundtracked a dancing competition, an event held as part of a week of activities designed to de-stress students.\n\nThe school didn't want us disrupting the day, or the dance-off, so we weren't able to get the view of the kids in what right now is America's most talked about school.\n\nThat's a shame, as the future of Snapchat rests in high schools like this one across the country, and eventually - if the app can grow as investors hope - the entire world.\n\nBut only if it remains \"cool\". Just as Mr Eggers' daughter was the early-adopter that predicted Snap's success, the students that are studying at the school nowadays would be the harshest critics of whether or not it will succeed. Maybe they've already moved onto the next big thing.\n\n\"Certainly we know that kids are the first people to figure out what's hot and what's new and what's desirable,\" said Mr Chiu.\n\nHe too hopes the school's success will lead other venture capital firms to work in the same way.\n\n\"I think this is an amazing way for venture capital folks, or companies, to share these experiences with schools.\n\n\"I would hope that companies would look at this as an example of something they can do to help their local community.\"\n\nPaying more tax would be a better way, of course, but that's a debate for another day. For now, Silicon Valley is basking in the enjoyment of a huge success that will trickle down into the tech start-up ecosystem, meaning more money for new companies.\n\nA success like Snap is rare. But deals happen here every day - acquisitions and exits that have created a new breed of super rich.\n\nAs California's newest billionaires celebrate this weekend, perhaps we should imagine the impact if every big deal held aside just a few thousand dollars at the beginning for a good cause. It would allow the needy causes to accumulate real wealth. Now that would be truly disruptive, wouldn't it?\n\nFollow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook. You can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Tyron Woodley retained his UFC welterweight title for the second time against Stephen Thompson in an underwhelming fight in Las Vegas.\n\nThe pair had gone to a majority draw at UFC 205 last November, producing the fight of the night in New York, but fought in a far more tentative manner for the follow-up, landing just six significant strikes between them in the first round.\n\nThe feeling out process in a title fight is SO TENSE #UFC209 pic.twitter.com/j1CRrvtOQt — UFC (@ufc) March 5, 2017\n\nHowever, this time in Las Vegas, an increasingly agitated crowd made clear their unhappiness at the lack of action in the early rounds, as both fighters kept their distance, with Thompson seemingly landing the more significant strikes.\n\nThe champion tried to build some pressure on Thompson in the third round with a takedown against the fence which left the 34-year-old 'Wonderboy' pinned down, but Thompson had recovered by the end of the round.\n\nThis is the worst title fight in UFC history and we still have a round to go. #UFC209 — Chamatkar Sandhu (@SandhuMMA) March 5, 2017\n\nThompson’s tactical approach left Woodley struggling to connect with the challenger, but he eventually found a way through with less than 30 seconds of the fight to go. He then managed to land a huge flurry of punches that left Thompson hurt.\n\nIt proved enough to edge the fight, with two judges scoring the fight 48-47 for Woodley. The third judge scored it a draw between the two fighters.\n\n“I thought I had more of the strikes, but you can’t leave it in the judges hands,” admitted Thompson afterwards.\n\nI don't think a takedown, a few punches to the stomach, and 20 seconds of flurrying at the end is enough. Too much backpedaling. #UFC209 — Dan Hardy (@danhardymma) March 5, 2017\n\nThe card lost one of its main fights at short notice when Khabib Nurmagomedov, who had been scheduled to face Tony Ferguson for the interim lightweight title, was hospitalised on Friday night.\n\nNurmagomedov had suffered health issues as he tried to cut weight for the fight.\n\n“The most important thing right now is Khabib’s health,” Nurmagomedov’s manager, Ali Abdel-Aziz told MMA Fighting. “We’re not thinking about what’s next at this time.”\n\nSwedish fighter, David Teymur claimed an unanimous victory over lightweight rival, Lando Vannata in what proved to be an explosive fight.\n\nThe up-and-coming fighters have both earned reputations for their exciting fights in the past, and stepped up to deliver one of the best bouts of the year.\n\nVannata landed a cartwheel kick early on while Teymur scored an unanswered superman punch and a combination of knees in a back-and-forth battle, before all three judges scored the fight 30-27 in Teymur’s favour.\n\n“I’ve said this since day one, the day I come to the UFC, I didn’t come just to say hi,” Teymur said after the fight.\n\nRashad Evans suffered a defeat in his first fight at middleweight as he returned to action after nearly a year out.\n\nVeteran fighter Daniel Kelly, who competed in judo for Australia at the London 2012 Olympics, won a split decision victory over the former light heavyweight champion after a gruelling bout.\n\nBoth men finished the fight swinging wildly, but Kelly’s southpaw approach and judo kept Evans off-balance for the early rounds to score the biggest win of his career so far.\n\nThat's what it means to Aussie @DanKellyJudo at #UFC209! pic.twitter.com/qZVmE7KkzP — UFC Europe (@UFCEurope) March 5, 2017\n\nCynthia Calvillo made a quick start to her UFC career after defeating Amanda Cooper by submission in the first round.\n\nThe 29-year-old American who took the fight on with just 10 days notice, secured the win by rear naked choke after three minutes and 19 seconds.\n\nIt was a grappling showcase from both women before Calvillo, who turned pro last year, managed to get Cooper’s back and lock on the choke hold for the victory.\n\n“My ultimate goal is to be a world champion, so I just need to work my way up there until I get that shot,” she said afterwards.\n\nAlistair Overeem claimed a knockout victory over New Zealand’s Mark Hunt to put himself back in contention for the heavyweight championship he lost to Stipe Miocic last September.\n\nLondon-born Overeem, ranked number three heavyweight in the world, landed two hard knees to Hunt’s face during the third round to claim the victory.\n\nThe Netherlands-based fighter came back from an early heavy right hand by Hunt in the first round to control the second, before connecting with elbow and knee shots that left Hunt face down on the canvas.\n\nLeft elbow, right knee, LIGHTS OUT! @AlistairOvereem w/ the 3rd round KO at #UFC209! pic.twitter.com/PjUR3C56ch — UFC (@ufc) March 5, 2017\n\nAfterwards Overeem said he had one eye on the forthcoming title fight between Miocic and Junior Dos Santos.\n\n“If JDS would win that fight I could see myself lining up against him as I was his last loss,” he said.\n\n\"I think he’d want revenge and I’m very open to that idea.”\n\nThere were mixed fortunes for Britain’s other representatives on the card. England’s Mark Godbeer scored an unanimous judges’ decision in a one-sided contest against Daniel Spitz, but Scottish fighter Paul Craig suffered a first round TKO defeat to Tyson Pedro.\n\n“I felt my back was against the wall going in which added to the nerves, but I dug deep,” Godbeer said afterwards on Instagram\n\nYou can read the full results from the UFC 209 undercard here.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal boss Arsene Wenger says he will \"stand up\" for his decision to leave Alexis Sanchez out of the starting line-up in the 3-1 loss to Liverpool.\n\nThe Gunners manager brought on his top scorer at half-time, with his side 2-0 down, and he provided the pass for Danny Welbeck's goal.\n\n\"Everyone will come to the same conclusion,\" said Wenger.\n\n\"But I am strong enough and lucid enough to analyse the impact.\"\n\nIt was only the fifth time in his Arsenal career that Sanchez had started a Premier League game on the bench, with the Chile international so often a vital player for the Gunners.\n\nHe has been directly involved in a league-high 26 goals in his 26 league games this season, scoring 17 and assisting nine.\n\nHowever, Wenger said he had decided to start Welbeck and Oliver Giroud instead to provide a more direct attacking threat.\n\n\"I wanted to play two players who were strong in the air and then bring Sanchez on in the second half,\" Wenger added.\n\n\"I don't deny Alexis Sanchez is a great player. A decision like that is not easy to make, you have to stand up for it.\"\n\nThe defeat was the Gunners' third in four league games and leaves them fifth, two points behind fourth-placed Manchester City, who have a game in hand.\n\nAsked whether Arsenal can still make the top four, Wenger said: \"It is a possibility that we can still make it, so let's focus on that.\"\n\nBBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty: \"Wenger's future may yet be defined - even decided - by his fatally flawed decision to drop leading scorer Alexis Sanchez for the meeting with Liverpool at Anfield.\n\n\"This was a match Wenger knew might go a long way towards shaping the Champions League places so surely it was an occasion to call on your biggest player, not adopt the sort of high-risk strategy that went horribly wrong in this damaging 3-1 defeat?\n\n\"Once Wenger left Sanchez out, defeat was not an option. He had to leave Anfield with a positive result, instead he was reduced to throwing the Chilean on in desperation at the start of the second half with Liverpool two up and in control.\n\n\"It was a baffling, inexplicable move that was was either going to prove gloriously courageous or calamitous. It proved to be the latter.\n\n\"Would Antonio Conte leave Diego Costa out of such a game? Would Spurs exclude Harry Kane? Would Jose Mourinho drop Zlatan Ibrahimovic? Not a chance.\n\n\"Wenger took the chance and he must now live with the consequences which may stretch beyond this one loss if Arsenal fail to qualify for the Champions League.\n\n\"Sanchez's own contract situation and uncertain future provides an intriguing backdrop. And what of Wenger's recent use of the player? Strange to say the least.\n\n\"He was brought on when Arsenal were leading 3-0 at Southampton in the FA Cup fourth round at St Mary's and brought on for the last 16 minutes when the Gunners were 2-0 up at non-league Sutton United in the fifth round.\n\n\"Was Sanchez really required on those occasions then left out of the starting line-up for this vital fixture?\n\n\"He was certainly needed at Anfield - and Wenger's decision not to use him may come back to haunt him and Arsenal.\"\n\nFormer Arsenal defender Martin Keown, speaking on Match of the Day, said: \"Dropping Sanchez was stunning.\n\n\"I really can't understand the thinking behind that. He's their best player. They didn't actually play direct in the match.\n\n\"I'm struggling to remember a more tepid performance in the last 20 years under Wenger. There was a lack of spirit and fire in their bellies.\"", "BBC Match of the Day 2 Extra pundits discuss whether a disenchanted Alexis Sanchez could leave Arsenal, and in doing so lead an exodus from Emirates Stadium that may include Arsene Wenger.\n\nWATCH MORE: Sanchez protest: 14,000 signed up, fewer than 10 went\n\nREAD MORE: Arsene Wenger 'stands up' for decision not to start forward", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nListen to a repeat of the commentary every hour on Sunday from 06:00-13:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra\n\nWBC cruiserweight champion Tony Bellew produced a stunning upset to stop bitter rival David Haye in a thrilling heavyweight contest at London's O2 Arena.\n\nThe Liverpudlian, 34, pounced when Haye suffered what turned out to be an Achilles injury in the sixth round to score a knockdown.\n\nHaye, who had his right ankle strapped, carried on as bravely as he could for the rest of the fight, but was unable to move freely as Bellew seized the momentum.\n\nAnd in the 11th, a second knockdown saw former heavyweight champion Haye tangled in the ropes, the towel enter from his corner and his hopes of a return to the world-title level of the sport left in tatters.\n\nBellew - a big underdog with bookmakers - raced to trainer Dave Coldwell in celebration as he scored a victory which will likely filter through to non-boxing fans far more than his 2016 world-title win at Goodison Park did.\n• None Bellew: I asked Haye to throw in the towel\n• None Bellew broke his hand in early rounds of Haye bout\n• None Listen: 'I’ve beaten the best cruiserweight this country has ever produced'\n\nAnd the bitter war of words leading up to the fight ended with Bellew helping a limping and exhausted Haye back to his corner.\n\nThe two embraced and the beaten, humbled Haye asked for a rematch during a lengthy post-fight interview before heading off to hospital to have surgery.\n\nHow the fight played out\n\nThe first round had those in the O2 Arena intrigued. A hate-fuelled slug-fest or artistic boxing?\n\nThe latter won the day, with Bellew happy to see Haye jump in while he fired off solid replies in-between darting out of trouble.\n\nAnd so established a pattern, Haye taking the centre of the ring, Bellew nearer the ropes.\n\nAs the established heavyweight stalked his man, often they stood statuesque for moments as Bellew looked for Haye's trigger - his own prompt to counter.\n\nBut slipping shots can be a dangerous game and a straight right to Bellew's jaw in the fifth was audible ringside, though nothing could be heard in the sixth as the Arena screamed at the drama.\n\nBoth men went down - Haye twice - though neither faced a count as their falls to the canvas were deemed slips but the sheer punch volume from Bellew then legally felled Haye, who looked stunned and shattered in answering a nine count.\n\nBellew, who stressed his rival would start tiring after four rounds, was then able to dominate, dictating the pace and notably throwing everything at Haye in the seventh in attempt to bring an end to proceedings.\n\nHaye's low blow in the ninth summed up his increasing desperation and, two rounds later, his brave resistance was ended moments after a barrage of punches sent him sprawling through the ropes.\n\nHaving clambered back into the ring, finally his camp threw in the towel, signalling the third defeat of a 31-fight career.\n\n'I've beaten one of the best'\n\nBellew, speaking to Radio 5 live: \"He's probably the hardest puncher in the world, and he's so quick early on, he's like a sprinter. He can really hit but he can also take a few himself.\n\n\"In my eyes I've beaten the best cruiserweight this country has ever produced and one of the best heavyweights. I am honoured to fight in the same ring as him. I've looked up to him.\n\n\"He made the same mistake everybody else does. He underestimated me. Watch me on tape and I'm terrible but in the ring I'm harder to hit than you think.\"\n\nDavid Haye, also speaking to Radio 5 live: \"I've knocked out guys a lot bigger and stronger but he has the heart of a lion.\n\n\"I gave it my best and it wasn't good enough. He was by far the better fighter tonight. He dug deep and took my best shots and put me down.\n\n\"I would love to do it again, I have never been in a fight like that. If the fans want to see it again I would do it again. We'll do it on his terms, in his town - he deserves it.\"\n\nOn his injury he said: \"The ankle was just one of those things. The better man won on the night.\n\n\"It wasn't my night. I didn't land the good shots, I was in good shape but his game was better than mine.\n\n\"It felt like a Rocky movie and I was one punch away from knocking him out but I couldn't quite do it.\"\n\nWhere next for David Haye?\n\nHaye's graphic descriptions of his hopes of damaging Bellew in the run-up to the fight prompted concern from boxing authorities and undoubtedly turned some fans against him.\n\nBut the bad blood meant the contest was expected to sell between 500,000 and 700,000 buys on pay-per-view.\n\nEddie Hearn, Bellew's promoter, believed anything other than an explosive knockout would be a \"disaster\" for Haye, who will now have to either retire or embark on rebuilding his in-ring reputation.\n\nThe 36-year-old will win plenty of plaudits for courageously battling on. But he was unable to land anything too meaningful prior to the critical sixth round.\n\nWith this latest injury added to the reconstructive shoulder injury he received in 2013, have we seen the last of a fighter who once unified the cruiserweight division, won a heavyweight world title and of course took Wladimir Klitschko 12 rounds in defeat?\n\nA rematch with Bellew would be a money spinner, although many will call for retirement instead.\n\nPromoter Eddie Hearn on Radio 5 live: \"We've got to go after a heavyweight world title for Bellew now. I am so pleased for him. He's secured the future for his family and they can live a wonderful life.\n\n\"He is everything you would want in a man, he has a big heart, never gives up, has a wonderful family and I am so happy for him.\"\n\nBellew's jump in weight to claim victory is perhaps even more impressive considering he has had just eight fights at cruiserweight, spending most of his career two divisions lower than the one he competed in in this exhilarating affair.\n\nHe was an English champion at heavyweight at amateur, following in the footsteps of the ringside Frank Bruno, but few gave him hope - and those who did emphasised the survival mission he had on his hands in dodging Haye's early power.\n\nBut he did, the 13 fights he has had since Haye briefly left the sport providing a sharpness his opposite number simply lacked.\n\nRoared on by the likes of Wayne Rooney and AP McCoy in attendance, he shone in a cauldron atmosphere, boxing admirably to complement his reputation as a power puncher.\n\nBellew's stock has never been so high. Unification bouts in the cruiserweight division will likely present themselves and his adaptability in stepping up to over 200lbs could open doors in the sport's showpiece division.\n\nHow much of an impact did that injury of Haye's have? I had Haye up four rounds to one going into the sixth but he didn't win a round after the injury.\n\nThat was pure bravery and guts and up there with anything I've ever seen. They went to hell. It was sensational, scary but sensational.\n\nHad David Haye won in the first round or the 11th round, we wouldn't have questioned his eligibility to chase any heavyweight.\n\nBellew didn't mention Anthony Joshua, so go and chase it, put an offer out to Joseph Parker, put an offer out to Deontay Wilder.\n\nIn the summer, at Goodison Park, there will be enough money on the table to get those guys in the ring.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nHarry Kane scored twice and produced another masterclass in centre-forward play as second-placed Tottenham defeated Everton to close the gap on leaders Chelsea to seven points.\n\nThe 23-year-old is now the leading scorer in the Premier League with 19 goals, and has found the net 14 times in 12 league and cup games in 2017.\n\nHe gave Tottenham the lead in the 20th minute when he unleashed a venomous strike from 20 yards that beat Joel Robles at his near post.\n\nThe England forward's second came after the break. Belgian Mousa Dembele caught French midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin dawdling on the ball, allowing Dele Alli to poke a pass through to his team-mate. The Spurs striker then applied a sidefoot finish past the Spanish keeper.\n\nIt wasn't a competition between the strikers today\n\nKane's opposite number Romelu Lukaku had struggled for service up until the 81st minute when he scored with the Toffees' second effort on target.\n\nKevin Mirallas played a pass to the Belgian, who was given a clear sight on goal after Jan Vertonghen slipped. Lukaku kept his composure to slot in.\n\nA frantic finish saw both tiring defences exposed. First, Alli ghosted past his markers to poke in Harry Winks' free-kick and make it 3-1. And with seconds remaining, Everton substitute Enner Valencia beat the offside trap to tap in Ross Barkley's set-piece from the right.\n\nSpurs survived the remaining moments to secure their 16th league win of the season. The Toffees remain in seventh.\n\nChelsea will re-establish their 10-point lead on Monday if they defeat West Ham at London Stadium.\n\nAnalysis: Why Dele Alli gets the best out of Harry Kane\n\nKane v Lukaku: England forward comes out on top\n\nBoth strikers went into the game with 17 league goals and four assists apiece this season. Yet on Sunday, one forward dominated.\n\nThe heatmap above shows Kane's positions, on the left, and Lukaku's on the right. Lukaku is clearly the focal point for Everton's attack; his Tottenham counterpart moves around more freely.\n\nHowever, the rigidity of Lukaku's positioning was easy to read for his markers. And when he did manage to lay a pass to his attacking foils Barkley and Tom Davies, they were repeatedly hounded off the ball by the diligent and dogged tracking of midfielders Dembele and Victor Wanyama.\n\nIf you are asleep and you eat and you forget to train, maybe you are fat, like me! And you cannot run.\n\nKane's positioning was less predictable. For his opener, he was deep on the left before moving forward and striking that sublime effort. And for his second, he was out on the left again but away from the action until Alli played him in.\n\nLukaku did manage to breach the Spurs backline in the final few moments, but he was aided by Vertonghen's unfortunate slip.\n\nTottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino said that Kane's good form is down to hard work.\n\n\"I think he is fresh because he trains a lot. He makes a lot of double sessions and he is very professional,\" said the Argentine.\n\n\"If you are asleep and you eat and you forget to train, maybe you are fat, like me! And you cannot run. I think it's about being consistent and training.\n\n\"He is very focused now in training and in taking care of himself and you can see how he is.\"\n\nTottenham's defence had a very comfortable afternoon up until the final 10 minutes, but they might have faced a stiffer test had Everton manager Ronald Koeman opted for a more attacking set-up.\n\nThe Dutchman chose to start with 36-year-old defensive midfielder Gareth Barry rather than 19-year-old forward Ademola Lookman. It would have been seen as the perfect tactical switch had Barry blocked Kane's 20-yard strike that resulted in the opener, rather than make a half-hearted attempt.\n\nVeteran Barry, and Barkley, lost the battle in central midfield against the more energetic pairing of Dembele and Wanyama. Lookman's addition might have given that duo a tougher time.\n\nTottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino on his side's chances of catching Chelsea: \"The most important thing is to show the belief on the pitch and today I think we showed that.\n\n\"More than talk and more than speak outside, it is better the team show their performance because I think (regarding) belief the answer is very easy.\n\n\"We need to be there, it's not up to us of course, but it's up to us to be ready if they fail.\"\n\nEverton manager Ronald Koeman: \"Lukaku showed again today, he's so strong and dangerous and if he gets a chance it's a goal. It wasn't a competition between the strikers today - but he and Kane both showed their quality of finishing.\n\n\"It was emotional until the last second. We started really well and made it tough for Tottenham to create space between the lines. But our mistakes were punished.\n\n\"Tottenham have had two or three years in a row with the same players. It's all about time which is what we need to have. If we get the time to improve, that's the next step for the club.\"\n• None Spurs coach Mauricio Pochettino recorded his 100th win in English football as a manager (77 wins in 150 games for Tottenham and 23 wins in 60 games for Southampton).\n• None Tottenham have won nine consecutive Premier League home games; their longest winning run in the competition.\n• None Spurs are unbeaten in their first 14 home top-flight league games of a season for the first time since 1964-65.\n• None Romelu Lukaku has scored more Premier League goals for Everton - 61 - than any other player.\n• None Lukaku has scored 18 Premier League goals in 26 games this season, equalling his tally from last season (18 goals in 37 appearances in 2015-16).\n• None Since the start of last season no midfielder has scored more Premier League goals than Dele Alli (23).\n• None Kevin Mirallas has provided more Premier League assists for Lukaku than any other player has for the striker (10).\n• None Harry Kane has scored 14 home league goals this season, the highest number ever recorded by a Spurs player in a single Premier League campaign.\n• None Kane has netted 14 times in 12 competitive apps in 2017 for Spurs.\n\nSpurs are at home to Millwall in the last eight of the FA Cup next Sunday (14:00 GMT), before they are back in league action the following Sunday, at home to Southampton (14:15 GMT).\n\nEverton are back at Goodison Park next Saturday for the league game against West Brom (15:00 GMT).\n• None Ashley Williams (Everton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 3, Everton 2. Enner Valencia (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ross Barkley following a set piece situation.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 3, Everton 1. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Harry Winks with a through ball following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "BBC Sport looks back at a busy weekend for Premier League referees Anthony Taylor and Kevin Friend after they were involved in incident-packed games following their return from a mid-week trip to Marbella for Taylor's stag do.", "It's 26 years since I set off to try my luck as a journalist in Moscow. I had a rucksack, a Russian phrasebook, and the expectation of adventure. What I hadn't anticipated was… pets.\n\nWithin a year there was an insistent scratching sound on my apartment door. I opened it to find a scrawny stray ginger cat.\n\nGrace strolled in from a dark, pungent stairwell and declared (in that blank, unimpressed way that Russians often have with strangers) that this would do just fine.\n\nOh, and she was pregnant.\n\nAfter that, Grace left our flat just once - slipping on an icy windowsill and falling three storeys.\n\nOn the phone, the vet loftily declared that she'd be fine: \"Only falls of between five and 10 storeys are fatal here. Anything higher or lower is perfectly safe.\"\n\nBesides, it was winter. Plenty of snow.\n\nNearly 10 years later - still serenely unimpressed by life - Grace, and one of her sons, flew with us from Moscow to Nairobi.\n\nKenya meant good weather, the unfamiliar pleasure of friendly strangers, birds big enough to grab an inexperienced cat, and a house with a garden.\n\nSuddenly a dog seemed possible. Maybe even necessary.\n\nLike most of our neighbours in Nairobi, we had a night guard who wandered around the garden holding a big stick until we were asleep and then settled down on two chairs to snore his way through the rest of the night. Perhaps a dog would help.\n\nWe found Lily in languid, rural Karen, on the edge of the Rift Valley. She'd recently been born to Tamu and General Gordon - a Labrador retriever couple.\n\nOthers in the same litter ended up with Nairobi diplomats and soon grew uncomfortably plump on the crust-less sandwiches they sourced at garden parties.\n\nLily quickly made it clear that guarding was not in her skill set. She enjoyed eating unfamiliar objects and playing with our young children - but she was understandably terrified of Grace the cat, and equally scared of the dark. And of strangers. And of wildlife.\n\nNot that it seemed to matter. In much of Africa dogs are not generally perceived according to their breed or temperament. They are simply dogs. Things to be wary of. Things that police and guards tend to set on people.\n\nSo it's possible, I suppose that blonde, enthusiastic Lily may inadvertently have given a few Nairobi burglars second thoughts.\n\nEither way, four years later, we moved to Singapore. Small, safe, steamy.\n\nThe immaculate kennels where Lily served her three months of quarantine even offered air conditioning.\n\nWe had a garden, once again - now frequented by large snakes, and by larger monitor lizards with their wide, grotesque mouths.\n\nLily stayed indoors. Grace too. And over time I became properly acquainted with the complex, haphazard, expensive world of international pet transportation.\n\nMoving around the former Soviet Union had been rather easy. Vets, for instance, were often happy to backdate or forge whatever certificates seemed appropriate. Bribery wasn't just an option, it was an integral part of the process.\n\nIn Singapore, then Thailand, then briefly in France, and now in South Africa, it's a more unpredictable affair.\n\nNine years ago, I sat with Grace on my lap, in a Bangkok vet's office, quietly pleading with him to put her down. She was 18 years old, had days to live, and was in obvious pain. The vet nodded, smiled sympathetically, and then explained that that wasn't part of Thai culture.\n\nI took Grace home. She died. And a week later she was given a proper send-off at a local Buddhist temple - one catering specially for pets. I like to think she would have been unimpressed.\n\nThen, of course, there's the paperwork, and what I've discovered to be the fundamental, immutable law of pet migration.\n\nThe stricter and more extensive the requirements ahead of travel - for passports, jabs, microchips, special crates, transit fees and all the rest of it - the bigger the smiles of the customs officials at the destination airport, as they wave away your dossier full of hard-won paperwork without a glance, and crouch down to stroke the new arrival.\n\nLast week I took Lily to the vet here in Johannesburg. She's 16 now - Lily, that is - and getting a little unsteady.\n\nShe's also quite happily deaf, which means the summer thunderstorms here no longer send her frantic with fear.\n\nUnlike their Thai counterparts, South Africans vets always seem to be offering to put pets down. It's as if they have a quota to fill. But all Lily needed was her nails clipping.\n\nShe's sitting with me here as I write this at home. Her large ears lifting inquisitively. An elderly, cosmopolitan Kenyan.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSergio Aguero scored his fifth goal in his last three games to help Manchester City back into third place in the Premier League and keep Sunderland rooted to the bottom of the table.\n\nThe Black Cats had defended doggedly before a swift City counter attack ended with Aguero prodding in Raheem Sterling's low cross from close range.\n\nThe visitors then clicked into gear as David Silva fed the explosive Leroy Sane for the Germany winger to double their lead after the break.\n\nJermain Defoe did find the net in a rare Sunderland attack late on, but his header was ruled out for offside.\n\nThe result could have been more comfortable for City, but Sunderland keeper Jordan Pickford saved well from Aguero.\n\nFor all City's possession, it was the hosts who threatened first, Defoe hitting the post with a bouncing effort from outside the box that had Willy Caballero beaten.\n\nFabio Borini headed wide from the rebound, and any hopes David Moyes' side had of taking three points seemed to evaporate with that miss.\n\nCity still fighting on three fronts\n\nWith Chelsea not in action until Monday, Manchester City took the chance to move within eight points of the runaway leaders with a confident performance at the Stadium of Light.\n\nPep Guardiola will hope this victory, and an earlier win for second-placed Tottenham, may see Antonio Conte's side begin to feel the pressure.\n\nIt was a fourth league win on the trot for Guardiola's outfit, who are building momentum and can continue to crank up the heat up on their title rivals when they face Stoke in a game in hand on Wednesday.\n\nBut they are fighting on three fronts, with this routine victory marking the start of five games in 15 days that include a Champions League last-16 second-leg trip to Monaco and a FA Cup quarter-final at Middlesbrough.\n\nIt is a problem Guardiola will welcome, but does the Spaniard's squad have the depth to cope?\n\nHe made five changes to the side which thrashed Huddersfield 5-1 in midweek and could afford to drop Kevin de Bruyne for Silva, whose incisive passing helped unlock a resilient Sunderland.\n\nSo what about Aguero? The Argentine's future was thrust into the spotlight after he lost his place to 19-year-old Gabriel Jesus last month, and he admitted this week his position at the club was unclear.\n\nGuardiola can be ruthless when he feels a player does not fit into his system, just ask Joe Hart, but a metatarsal injury for Brazil forward Jesus appears to have offered Aguero a lifeline.\n\nThe 28-year-old has now scored five goals in his last three games in all competitions for City, having gone six games without finding the net before that.\n\nGuardiola is building a team spearheaded by youth, and Aguero's poacher-like presence was complemented once again by the creativity of Sterling and Sane.\n\nSterling's trickery proved a constant threat down the right and Sane's sheer speed gave City an outlet on the opposite flank, gliding beyond his marker to finish left-footed past Pickford for the visitors' second.\n\nSunderland have become masters of beating the drop when appearing dead and buried in recent seasons, but they may have left the escape act too late this time around.\n\nSitting six points from safety at the bottom of the Premier League, the Black Cats' fate lies out of their hands.\n\nAnd with relegation rivals Crystal Palace, Swansea and Leicester enjoying a recent upturn in form, David Moyes needs something of a miracle if his side are to spring a late recovery.\n\nMoyes' side have taken points off Liverpool and Tottenham at home since the turn of the year, and did frustrate City for long spells in the first half, but once the visitors found a breakthrough they were able to keep Sunderland at arm's length.\n\n'I don't like to defend a result at 2-0'\n\nSunderland manager David Moyes speaking to BBC Sport: \"I don't think you can fault the players for any of that. We lacked quality at times though. They did all they could to try to get something out of the game.\"\n\nOn the team: \"When you're in it every day you see the levels go up. We've got games coming up - we don't have to show it, we have to do it.\n\n\"We tried to make chances. The one that hits the post and comes out maybe that'll hit the inside of the post and go in next time.\n\n\"I hope our players understand the position that we're in, but we're not panicking.\"\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola speaking to BBC Sport: \"We are so happy. We played good. We expected aggression and intensity. It was a very good first goal. It was important to go into half-time 1-0 up. If they were winning with the amazing atmosphere it would have been difficult.\n\n\"Leroy Sane is every day getting better. He has gaps to improve but he's only 21. He's an intelligent guy and a very nice guy. We are here to help him become what he can be.\n\n\"We were passing the ball between ourselves in the last 25 minutes. I don't like to defend a result and be near our box. It is OK if you're 3-0 or 4-0 up but not 2-0.\"\n\nAguero hits 50 on the road - the stats\n• None Manchester City have won 10 away league games this season - they've never won more in a single Premier League campaign (also 10 in 2011-12, 2013-14 and 2014-15).\n• None Only Man Utd in 1993-94 and Chelsea in 2004-05 (both 11) have won more of their opening 14 away games in a single Premier League season.\n• None Sergio Aguero became the 21st player to score 50 Premier League goals away from home.\n• None Sunderland have failed to score in five of their last six Premier League games, the exception being a 4-0 win at Crystal Palace.\n• None David Silva has provided 62 assists in the Premier League since his debut, at least 11 more than any other player in that time (Wayne Rooney, 51).\n\nManchester City host Stoke on Wednesday, kick-off 20:00 GMT, before visiting Middlesbrough in the FA Cup on Saturday (12:15).\n\nSunderland are not back in action until Saturday, 18 March, when they welcome Burnley to the Stadium of Light.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Bacary Sagna.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Leroy Sané.\n• None Attempt saved. Nolito (Manchester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt missed. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Leroy Sané.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Offside, Sunderland. Lamine Koné tries a through ball, but Jermain Defoe is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Lamine Koné (Sunderland) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Wahbi Khazri with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Julia says her current job is a good opportunity, but on a previous flower farm she was sexually harassed\n\nFemale flower pickers in Kenya can face many hardships in their work - often finding themselves victims of sexual harassment or earning a wage so low they struggle to get by - but initiatives are in place to try to improve the workers' rights.\n\nAs Julia prepares for the start of the working week, a discarded pile of jumpers and jeans are flung from a wire rack on to a sunken mattress on the floor. She has a busy day ahead, picking roses on the local flower farm, and she wants to impress her new manager.\n\n\"It was an opportunity I couldn't refuse,\" she explains, ushering the youngest of her five children out the door. \"Regular work, a school nearby and a new home. Here in rural Kenya, there isn't anything else for women like me.\"\n\nGlancing out of the window of the minibus as it skirts around the shores of serene Lake Naivasha, 100km (62 miles) north of Nairobi, she points out the rays of sun bouncing off calm waters. It's easy to see why families flock here during the harvesting season.\n\nBut beyond the vibrant fields of freshly cut roses and chrysanthemums, it's claimed that workers' rights are being exploited on an industrial scale, with allegations of low pay, unfair dismissals and sexual harassment of the predominantly female workforce.\n\n\"Men complain that when we wear skirts, they feel like having sex with us. We have to be careful,\" says Julia. \"That's why it's important that I am dressed appropriately.\"\n\nJulia, who does not want to give her last name, recently left a role on a farm nearby after she refused to have sex with her male supervisor. She is hopeful that her new job on a farm certified by Fairtrade International will offer more protection.\n\nFairtrade Africa says female workers need to be empowered\n\nAware of the frequency of incidents of sexual assault, Fairtrade has set up a gender committee on each of its 39 flower farms in Kenya, which encourages women to report violations.\n\nTsitsi Choruma, global gender adviser and chief operating officer for Fairtrade Africa, believes these structures are necessary to ensure harassment is reported.\n\n\"We need to build confidence - the softer skills mean these women are able to talk. We must build the power within them. We also need to involve men to enhance equality and empowerment.\"\n\nBut for the remaining 60% of flower farms in Kenya that do not have the Fairtrade reporting structures in place, holding perpetrators to account is complex.\n\nAndrew Odete, regional project manager at Hivos International, a Kenyan human rights organisation, says that more needs to be done to address the sexual harassment of female staff.\n\n\"Many women live in fear of losing their marriages if they are accused of being complicit in that act. Because of power relations, if it is the director or the manager accused of a violation, the choice as to who must leave is an easy one for many farms.\"\n\nSome workers say they don't earn enough to sustain themselves\n\nLow pay is also rife across the horticulture sector in Kenya. On average, a harvester earns between $60 to $120 per month, falling far below what workers require to sustain themselves.\n\nAt a farm on the southern shores of Lake Naivasha, flower harvester Daisy shuffles languidly towards the bus stop at the end of her shift. She says that she is concerned her salary is not enough to support her family.\n\n\"I earn around $50 per month. That money is too small. It's not enough to feed myself and it's much too little to provide food for my children.\"\n\nWhile discussions about a minimum wage are continuing within the horticulture sector, Stephen Oburo from the Federation of Kenyan Employers, an affiliate of Kenya's Labour Ministry, claims that the onus should be shifted to employees rather than employers in order to exercise fair workers' rights.\n\n\"If these women can't even inform union leaders or the Ministry of Labour about their wages, they are doing a disservice to themselves and this country,\" he states. \"Do they want us to put a policeman on each farm to make sure these violations don't happen? We don't have the resources to do that.\"\n\nFor many flower harvesters, safeguarding their rights is primarily managed by trade unions and local non-governmental organisations (NGOs).\n\nJane Ngige, chief executive of the Kenya Flower Council, says that supporting farms to come up with innovative answers to old problems will be the next step forward.\n\nJane Ngige says new initiatives are having a big impact on workers' lives\n\n\"When women get their wages, they lose their money to thieves. They are often attacked on the way home, or their husbands find 'better ways' for them to use that money. In response, the farms installed ATMs. These women are now running bank accounts and you cannot imagine what an impact that has had on these workers.\"\n\nThe role that consumers in Europe play can also make an impact, Andrew Odete from Hivos says.\n\n\"We have found that there is a willingness by the consumer to pay 35 euro cents (30p) per bouquet of flowers in order that that money comes back upstream and translates into a liveable wage for a worker on the farms of Lake Naivasha.\"\n\nBut for women like Daisy without the reporting structures in place to address violations of workers' rights, she hopes that this role will be a short-term fix.\n\n\"When I get a better job, I will go. I don't mind where. Anywhere would be better than here.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fed up with what she felt was mismanagement at her hospital, gynaecologist Homa Amiri Kakar had walked out of her job in a remote part of Afghanistan and returned to the capital. But just a week later she agreed to go back, guilt-stricken about the women she had deserted, as the BBC's Sarah Buckley and Asif Maroof report.\n\n\"I am deeply unhappy that I left behind patients, especially female patients in remote villages - they are not in a condition to explain all types of their sickness to male doctors - so it would be very difficult without a female doctor,\" she says.\n\nReligious and cultural mores mean that women rarely visit male doctors for any condition, never mind a gynaecological one, and Dr Kakar, 39, realised that leaving her post in Paktika province left her patients dangerously vulnerable.\n\n\"Many times if there is not a female doctor many symptoms will remain untold by females and could cause a big problem, and even lead to their deaths,\" she told the BBC.\n\nDr Kakar (R) had told the health minister Ferozuddin Feroz (L) she was not happy with her working conditions\n\nIf the patient's husband, father or other male relative cannot or will not find a way of transporting her to an area where there is a female doctor on hand, then she will simply not receive treatment, says ex-health minister Soraya Dalil, now Afghan ambassador to Switzerland.\n\n\"In Afghanistan the decisions are usually made by men... if they are a female patient then it depends on the male member of the family if they want to take the female to the doctor, or to take her to another area of the country where there is a female,\" she said.\n\nOne woman on the other side of Afghanistan - in Herat province - told the BBC a neighbour died in childbirth before her eyes because she needed medical help and there were no female doctors available in her district. Her husband was too poor to arrange transport to a hospital which did have a female doctor.\n\nBBC 100 Women names 100 influential and inspirational women around the world every year. We create documentaries, features and interviews about their lives, giving more space for stories that put women at the centre.\n\nOther stories you might like:\n\nAnd in Paktia province a six-year-old girl narrowly escaped the same fate, Dr Kakar says. The girl had been married by her family to a 45-year-old man and sex with him had caused her to bleed and develop an infection. Because there was no female doctor in the area where she lived no-one could examine her and work out what was the matter.\n\nIt was only after severe bleeding that her father eventually took her to a hospital some distance away that did have a female medic on hand. The authorities intervened and separated her from her husband and she is now living in a shelter.\n\nWhilst there is a lack of female doctors, there has been a major push in recent years by NGOs and health officials to train up more midwives.\n\nA report by UNFPA and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2002 found that for every 100,000 live births, some 1,600 women died from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth.\n\nBut according to the UN, this has now fallen to 396 per 100,000 women. By contrast, the UK rate is 9 per 100,000 women.\n\nThere has been recent investment in midwifery care in Afghanistan\n\nThe Afghan government says this success is due to a concerted training programme for midwives - which have increased from 437 in 2002 to 4,600 last year.\n\nHowever Dr Kakar says that there is still insufficient midwifery presence in the province she works in because hospitals are not recruiting them - instead midwives are encouraged to make home visits.\n\nBut she says they need to be under the authority of a hospital where they can receive proper mentoring by doctors.\n\nShe also said that all too often unqualified unofficial midwives are operating in the community - offering women medicine without prescription, sometimes with fatal results.\n\nElyas Wahdat, the governor of the province Dr Kakar has returned to, says they need more women doctors.\n\n\"We have many facilities and equipment but unfortunately the female doctors are not coming to Paktika,\" he said. Decades of under-developed female education means there are not many women doctors available in the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Now the residents are being persuaded to send their girls to school - this year is the first year we graduated girls from school, and they are due to sit their exam for entering the university - but still we need another five years until they graduate [from university],\" he said.\n\nUnder the Taliban, girls were almost completely excluded from school and university but according to the Afghan Ministry of Education today there are more than 9 million students enrolled in schools, 40% of whom are girls.\n\nMany schoolchildren learn outside in dangerous circumstances\n\nBut according to the Brookings Institute only 21% of girls finish even primary education, due to factors such as cultural barriers, early marriage, a lack of female teachers and long and dangerous routes to school.\n\nIn its annual report on Afghanistan, the UN said that as a result of ground fighting between militants and troops in civilian areas 3,498 civilians were killed and 7,920 wounded in 2016, a 3% rise on 2015. The number of children killed or injured jumped by a quarter to its highest level to date.\n\n\"The other element is providing sufficient equipment for their education so the family should realise that if they send their girls to schools there is good equipment and teachers there so it's not a waste of time,\" says Soraya Dalil.\n\nDr Kakar is clear that Paktika province needs her.\n\n\"I strongly feel that it's better for a female doctor to be there, that's why I accepted the request by the minister to go back.\"", "It's no secret that the Russians have long tried to plant \"sleeper agents\" in the US - men and women indistinguishable from normal Americans, who live - on the surface - completely normal lives. But what happens when one of them doesn't want to go home?\n\nJack Barsky died in September 1955, at the age of 10, and was buried in the Mount Lebanon Cemetery in the suburbs of Washington DC.\n\nHis name is on the passport of the man sitting before me now - a youthful 67-year-old East German, born Albert Dittrich. The passport is not a fake. Albert Dittrich is Jack Barsky in the eyes of the US government.\n\nThe story of how this came to be is, by Barsky's own admission, \"implausible\" and \"ridiculous\", even by the standards of Cold War espionage. But as he explains in a new memoir, Deep Undercover, it has been thoroughly checked out by the FBI. As far as anyone can tell, it is all true.\n\nIt began in the mid-70s, when Dittrich, destined at the time to become a chemistry professor at an East German university, was talent-spotted by the KGB and sent to Moscow for training in how to behave like an American.\n\nHis mission was to live under a false identity in the heart of the capitalist enemy, as one of an elite band of undercover Soviet agents known as \"illegals\".\n\n\"I was sent to the United States to establish myself as a citizen and then make contact, to the extent possible, at the highest levels possible of decision makers - particularly political decision makers,\" he says.\n\nThis \"idiotic adventure,\" as he now calls it, had \"a lot of appeal to an arrogant young man, a smart young man\" intoxicated by the idea of foreign travel and living \"above the law\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This kind of double life wears on you\"\n\nHe arrived in New York in the Autumn of 1978, at the age of 29, posing as a Canadian national, William Dyson. Dyson, who had travelled via Belgrade, Rome, Mexico City and Chicago, \"immediately vanished into thin air\", having served his purpose. And Dittrich began his new life as Jack Barsky.\n\nHe was a man with no past and no identification papers - except for a birth certificate obtained by an employee of the Soviet embassy in Washington, who had kept his eyes open during a walk in the Mount Lebanon cemetery.\n\nBarsky had supreme self-confidence, a near-flawless American accent, and $10,000 in cash.\n\nHe also had a \"legend\" to explain why he did not have a social security number. He told people he had had a \"tough start in life\" in New Jersey and had dropped out of high school. He had then worked on a remote farm for years before deciding \"to give life another chance and move back to New York city\".\n\nHe rented a room in a Manhattan hotel and set about the laborious task of building a fake identity. Over the next year, he parlayed Jack Barsky's birth certificate into a library card, then a driver's licence and, finally, a social security card.\n\nBut without qualifications in Barsky's name, or any employment history, his career options were limited. Rather than rubbing shoulders with the upper echelons of American society, as his KGB handlers had wanted, he initially found himself delivering parcels to them, as a cycle courier in the smarter parts of Manhattan.\n\nThe young KGB agent arrived in New York in the late 1970s\n\n\"By chance it turned out that the messenger job was actually really good for me to become Americanised because I was interacting with people who didn't care much where I came from, what my history was, where I was going,\" he says.\n\n\"Yet I was able to observe and listen and become more familiar with American customs. So for the first two, three years I had very few questions that I had to answer.\"\n\nThe advice from his handlers on blending in - gleaned from Soviet diplomats and resident agents in the US - \"turned out to be, at minimum, weak but, at worst, totally false\", he says.\n\n\"I'll give you an example. One of the things I was told explicitly was to stay away from the Jews. Now, obviously, there is anti-Semitism in there, but secondly, the stupidity of that statement is that they sent me to New York. There are more Jews in New York than in Israel, I think.\"\n\nBarsky would later use his handlers' prejudices and ignorance of American society against them.\n\nBut as a \"rookie\" agent he was eager to please and threw himself into the undercover life. He spent much of his free time zig-zagging across New York on counter-surveillance missions designed to flush out any enemy agents who might be following him.\n\nHe would update Moscow Centre on his progress in weekly radio transmissions, or letters in secret writing, and deposit microfilm at dead drop sites in various New York parks, where he would also periodically pick up canisters stuffed with cash or the fake passports he needed for his trips back to Moscow for debriefing.\n\nHe would return the to the East every two years, where he would be reunited with his German wife Gerlinde, and young son Matthias, who had no idea what he had been up to. They thought he was doing top secret but very well-paid work at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.\n\nBarsky's handlers were delighted with his progress except for one thing - he could not get hold of an American passport. This failure weighed heavily on him.\n\nOn one early trip to the passport office in New York an official asked him to fill out a questionnaire which asked, among other things, the name of the high school he had attended.\n\n\"I had a legend but it could not be verified,\" he says. \"So if somebody went to check on that they would have found out that I wasn't real.\"\n\nTerrified that his cover might be blown, he scooped up any documents with his name on them and marched out of the office in a feigned temper at all this red tape.\n\nThe real Jack Barsky is buried in a Washington DC cemetery\n\nWithout a passport, Barsky was limited to low-level intelligence work and his achievements as a spy were, by his own account, \"minimal\".\n\nHe profiled potential recruits and compiled reports on the mood of the country during events such as the 1983 downing of a Korean Airlines flight by a Soviet fighter, which ratcheted up tensions between the US and the Soviet Union.\n\nOn one occasion, he flew to California to track down a defector (he later learned, to his immense relief, that the man, a psychology professor, had not been assassinated).\n\nHe also carried out some industrial espionage, stealing software from his office - all of it commercially available - which was spirited away on microfilm to aid the floundering Soviet economy.\n\nBut it often seemed the very fact of him being in the US, moving around freely without the knowledge of the authorities, was enough for Moscow.\n\n\"They were very much focused on having people on the other side just in case of a war. Which I think, in hindsight, was pretty stupid. That indicated very old thinking.\"\n\nThe myth of the \"Great Illegals\" - heroic undercover agents who had helped Russia defeat the Nazis and gather vital pre-war intelligence in hostile countries - loomed large over the Soviet intelligence agencies, who spent a lot of time and effort during the Cold War trying to recapture these former glories, with apparently limited success.\n\nBarsky later found out that he was part of a \"third wave\" of Soviet illegals in the US - the first two waves having failed. And we now know that illegals continued to be infiltrated in the 1980s and beyond.\n\nHe believes about \"10 to 12\" agents were trained up at the same time as him. Some, he says, could still be out there, living undercover in the United States, though he finds it hard to believe that anyone exposed to life in the US would retain an unwavering communist faith for long.\n\nHe is scathing about his KGB handlers, who were \"very smart\" and the \"cream of the crop\" but who seemed chiefly concerned with making his mission appear a success to please their bosses.\n\n\"The expectations of us, of me - I didn't know anybody else - were far, far too high. It was just really wishful thinking,\" he now says of his mission.\n\nOn the other hand, the KGB's original plan for him might actually have worked, he says.\n\n\"I am glad it didn't work out because I could have done some damage.\n\n\"The idea was for me to get genuine American documentation and move to Europe, say to a German-speaking country, where the Russians were going to set me up with a flourishing business. And they knew how to do that.\n\n\"And so I would become quite wealthy and then go back to the United States without having to explain where the money came from. At that point, I would have been in a situation to socialise with people that were of value.\"\n\nThis plan fell through because of his failure to get a passport, so the KGB reverted to Plan B.\n\nThis was for Barsky was to study for a degree and gradually work his way up the social order to the point where he could gather useful intelligence - a mission he describes as \"nearly impossible\".\n\nThe degree part was relatively straightforward. He was, after all, a university professor in his former life. He graduated top of his class in computer systems at Baruch College, which enabled him to get a job as a programmer at Met Life insurance in New York.\n\nLike many undercover agents before him, he began to realise that much of what he had been taught about the West - that it was an \"evil\" system on the brink of economic and social collapse - was a lie.\n\nBarsky (fourth right) felt at home with co-workers at Met Life\n\n\"There was a way to rationalise that because we were taught that the West was doing so well because they took all the riches out of the Third World,\" he says.\n\nBut, he adds, \"what eventually softened my attitude\" was the \"normal, nice people\" he met in his daily life.\n\n\"[My] sense was that the enemy was not really evil. So I was always waiting to eventually find the real evil people and I didn't even find them in the insurance company.\"\n\nMet Life almost felt like home, he says, \"because it was a very paternalistic, 'we take care of you' kind of a culture\".\n\n\"There was nothing like we were taught. Nothing that I expected. I wanted to really hate the people and the country and I couldn't bring myself to hate them. Not even dislike them.\"\n\nBut he was keeping a far bigger secret from his KGB bosses than his wavering commitment to communism.\n\nIn 1985, he had married an illegal immigrant from Guyana he had met through a personal ad in the Village Voice newspaper - and they now had a daughter together.\n\nHe now had two families to go with his two identities, and he knew the time would come when he had to choose between them.\n\nIt finally happened in 1988, when after 10 years undercover he was suddenly ordered to return home immediately. Moscow was in a panic, believing the FBI was on to him.\n\nTo do anything other than run as ordered - grab his emergency Canadian birth certificate and driver's licence and get out of the US - would be potentially suicidal.\n\nHe dithered and stalled for a week. Could he really leave his beloved baby daughter Chelsea behind forever?\n\nBut the KGB was losing patience. One morning, on a subway platform a resident agent delivered a chilling message: \"You have got to come home or else you're dead.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Americans producers: 'Here was someone who lived it'\n\nIt was time for some lateral thinking.\n\nFrom discussions with his handlers in Moscow, Barsky had come to believe the Soviet hierarchy feared three things about America.\n\nHe already knew about their anti-Semitism and their fear of Ronald Reagan, who they saw as an unpredictable religious zealot who might launch a nuclear strike to \"accelerate\" the Biblical \"end times\".\n\nBut he also remembered their \"morally superior\" attitude to the Aids epidemic - their belief that it \"served the Americans right\" and their determination to protect the motherland from infection.\n\nBarsky stalled a bit more and then hatched a plan.\n\n\"I wrote this letter, in secret writing, that I wouldn't come back because I had contracted Aids, and the only way for me to get treatment would be in the United States.\n\n\"I also told the Russians in the same letter that I would not defect, I would not give up any secrets. I would just disappear and try to get healthy.\"\n\nTo begin with Barsky lived in constant fear for his life, remembering that threat on the subway platform. But after a few months, he began to breathe more easily.\n\n\"I started thinking 'I think I got away with this.' The FBI had not knocked on the door. The KGB had not done anything.\"\n\nHe gradually let his guard down and settled into the life of a typical middle-class American in a comfortable new home in upstate New York.\n\nWhile he had fallen for the American Dream and the trappings of the consumer society, he still had some conflicting feelings.\n\n\"My loyalties to communism and the homeland and Russia, they were still pretty strong. My resignation, you can also call it a 'soft defection' - that was triggered by having this child here. It was not ideological. It would be easy to claim that. But it wasn't true.\"\n\nPlaying at the back of his mind was always the question of whether his past would catch up with him. And, finally, one day, it did.\n\nThe man who exposed him was a KGB archivist, Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin, who defected to the West in 1992 - after the fall of communism - with a vast trove of Soviet secrets, including the true identity of Jack Barsky.\n\nThe FBI watched him for more than three years, even buying the house next door to his as they tried to figure out whether he really was a KGB agent and, if so, whether he was still active.\n\nIn the end, Barsky himself gave the game away, during an argument with his wife, Penelope, that was picked up by the FBI's bugs.\n\n\"I was trying to repair a marriage that was slowly falling apart. I was trying to tell my wife the 'sacrifice' I had made to stay with Chelsea and her. So in the kitchen I told her, 'By the way, this is what I did. I am a German. I used to work for the KGB and they told me to come home and I stayed here with you and it was quite dangerous for me. This is what I sacrificed.'\n\n\"And that completely backfired. Instead of bringing her over to my side, she said: 'What does that mean for me if they ever catch you?'\"\n\nIt was the evidence the FBI needed to pick him up. In a meticulously planned operation, Barsky was pulled over by a Pennsylvania state trooper as he drove away from a toll booth on his way home from work one evening.\n\nAfter stepping out of his car, he was approached by a man in civilian clothes, who held up a badge and said in a calm voice: \"Special agent Reilly, FBI. We would like to talk with you.\"\n\nThe colour drained from Barsky's face. \"I knew the gig was up,\" he says. But with characteristic bravado he asked the FBI man: \"What took you so long?\"\n\nHe kidded around with Joe Reilly and the other agents who interrogated him, and tried to give them as much information about the KGB's operations as he could. But inside he was panicking that he would be sent to jail and that his American family, which he had been trying to hold together, would be broken up.\n\nIn fact, luck was on his side. After passing a lie-detector test he was told that he was free to go and, even more remarkably, that the FBI would help him fulfil his dream of becoming an American citizen.\n\nReilly, who went on to become Barsky's best friend and golfing partner, even visited the elderly parents of the real Jack Barsky, who agreed not to reveal that their son's identity had been stolen.\n\n\"I was so lucky and so was my family that the decision-makers were nice enough to say, 'Well, you were so well-established, we don't want to disrupt your life,'\" he says.\n\n\"It required some interesting gymnastics to make me legal because one thing I didn't have was proof of entry into the country. I came here on documentation that was fraudulently obtained, so it took 10-plus years to finally become a citizen. And when it did, it felt good.\"\n\nBarsky is now married for a third time and has a young daughter. He has also found God, completing his journey from a hardline communist and atheist to a churchgoing, all-American patriot.\n\nHe has even managed to reconnect with the family he left behind in Germany, although his first wife, Gerlinde, is still not speaking to him.\n\n\"I have a very good relationship with Matthias, my son, and his wife. And I am now a grandfather. When we talk about things like Americans playing soccer against Germans, I say 'us'. I mean the Americans. I am not German any more. The metamorphosis is complete.\"\n\nThe final act in his story came two years ago when he revealed the secret of his extraordinary double life on the US current affairs programme, 60 Minutes.\n\nHe had long wanted to share his story with the world, but his bosses at the New York electricity company where he worked as a software developer were less than impressed to find they had a former KGB agent on the payroll, and promptly fired him.\n\nBarsky says he has no regrets. He knows how fortunate he has been.\n\n\"This kind of double life wears on you. And most people can't handle it. I am not saying that I lived a charmed life but I got away with it.\n\n\"I am in good health. I have had some issues with alcohol that I have overcome and I got another chance to have a good family life. And another child. And I am finally getting to live the life that I should have lived a long time ago. I am really lucky.\"\n\nPerhaps the supreme irony of Jack Barsky's story is that he was only able to complete the mission the KGB had set him - to obtain an American passport and citizenship - with the help of the FBI. He cannot resist a smile at the thought of telling his KGB handlers that he has not been such a failure after all.\n\n\"I wouldn't mind meeting one or two of those fellows I worked with and saying 'Hey, see I did it!'\"\n\nDeep Undercover - My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America, by Jack Barsky and Cindy Coloma, is published next month\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United boss Jose Mourinho says he and Zlatan Ibrahimovic will not go \"crying to the media\" about the two controversies involving the Swede in the 1-1 draw with Bournemouth.\n\nBournemouth defender Tyrone Mings, 23, landed on the United forward's head with his studs, but said afterwards the collision was \"unintentional\".\n\nMoments later, Ibrahimovic caught Mings in the face with his elbow at a corner.\n\n\"He jumped into my elbow,\" said the former Paris St-Germain striker, 35.\n\nBoth players could face retrospective action if referee Kevin Friend says he did not see either incident.\n\n\"We are from that generation of street football and football for big guys. We are not the kind of generation who goes to the media and cries about what happened.\n\n\"What counts is the result. Nothing else matters for us.\"\n\nListen: My son was shocked to see Zlatan's elbow - fan calls 606Relive the 1-1 draw at Old Trafford\n\n44 mins: Mings slides into a tackle on Wayne Rooney, also taking out Ibrahimovic. The Bournemouth defender gets to his feet and then hurdles Ibrahimovic, landing on the Swede's head with his right boot.\n\n45 mins: United win a corner which is swung in to the far post where Ibrahimovic and Mings challenge for the high ball.\n\nIbrahimovic catches Mings with his right elbow after winning the header, the Bournemouth defender going down to the ground clutching his head.\n\nBournemouth skipper Andrew Surman pushes Ibrahimovic in the chest, earning a second yellow card from Friend.\n\n45+1 mins: The referee has a conversation with Ibrahimovic and United skipper Rooney, then sends off Surman before restarting play after a lengthy delay.\n\nWhat happens now?\n\nReferee Friend will send his report of the match to the Football Association on Monday.\n\nPlayers can be charged only if a referee says he did not see an incident.\n\nDeliberate elbows and stamping are both red card offences, so would result in three-match bans if either Ibrahimovic or Mings were charged and found guilty.\n\nBournemouth assistant manager Jason Tindall said his players felt Ibrahimovic had elbowed Mings, although he had not seen the incident.\n\nIbrahimovic disagreed: \"You have the TV, you can see the images. I jump, I jump high and I protect myself. Mings jumps into my elbow.\n\n\"I'm not someone who attacks someone off the field. It is not my intention to hurt someone.\"\n\nFormer Ipswich defender Mings was making only his fifth Premier League start after suffering with injuries since joining Bournemouth in an £8m deal in July 2015.\n\nAnd he said he was relishing facing former Barcelona, Inter Milan and Paris St-Germain striker Ibrahimovic before the game at Old Trafford.\n\n\"It was a good battle, you know what you're going to get playing against him. I enjoyed the battle all day,\" said Mings, 23.\n\n\"What he possesses in height, in strength, I also possess. We had to ride a lot of storms but we stood up to the test very well.\n\n\"I've watched him growing up through his career and dreamt of days like this.\"\n\n\"I don't think the referee has seen Tyrone Mings try to stamp on Zlatan's head. I was right there,\" said the England international, 31.\n\n\"That's wrong in football. Everyone likes tackles in the game but to try to stamp on a player's head - there's no room for it.\"\n\n\"Zlatan Ibrahimovic is insulting people's intelligence when he says Mings jumps into his elbow.\n\n\"I think that comment is going to get people at the FA's backs up. He shouldn't have said anything.\"\n\n\"When Ibrahimovic jumped up for that header he was looking at Mings and not the ball.\n\n\"He's led with his elbow and he knew exactly what he was doing. The referee has made a complete mess of that.\"", "England survived a mid-innings wobble to beat West Indies by four wickets in the second one-day international and win the series with a match to spare.\n\nLiam Plunkett took 3-32 as West Indies, despite 50 from Jason Mohammed, were bowled out for 225 in 47.5 overs.\n\nJason Roy (52) put England on top but home spinners Ashley Nurse (3-34) and Devendra Bishoo (2-43) hit back.\n\nHowever, Joe Root (90) and Chris Woakes (68) put on an unbeaten 102 to see England home with 10 balls left.\n\nBatsmen needed to play patiently on a slow wicket at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium - the same one used in the first match on Friday - but only new Test captain Root and all-rounder Woakes really mastered the conditions.\n\nRoot's typically composed innings, which featured just three boundaries in 127 deliveries, and Woakes' more adventurous 83-ball knock guided England to an 11th win out of their last 12 completed ODIs against West Indies.\n\nRoot was named man of the match but Woakes was perhaps equally deserving of the award having also recorded figures of 0-26 from eight accurate overs with the ball.\n\nEoin Morgan's team, who won the first match by 45 runs, will seek to make it 3-0 in the final match in Barbados on Thursday.\n\nWhat they said - Morgan praises Woakes\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"I thought the bowlers did an outstanding job again, building on what we did on Friday. In the field we were a bit sloppy and the chase wasn't ideal, but we knew it would be tough.\n\n\"Jason Roy played well at the start but where we lost a few wickets was a bit of a concern. But the partnership of 102 between your opening bowler and best batsman - you have to take your hat off to them.\n\n\"Woakes is a guy who keeps giving to the team and a man who often goes without the majority of the praise and that's just his character. We don't want to rely on him too much but he is a luxury down the bottom of the order.\n\n\"We want to win all three games, we will be putting out our best 11 in Barbados.\"\n\nEngland's reply got off to a poor start when Sam Billings, facing his first ball and the second of the innings, was caught at first slip.\n\nRoy was almost out to a sensational diving catch by Carlos Brathwaite and then survived a close review for caught behind.\n\nThe Surrey opener brought up his ninth ODI fifty from 46 balls, before off-spinner Nurse had him caught on the boundary for the first of his three wickets.\n\nAfter a shaky start Root started to find the gaps but West Indies' slow bowlers brought their side back into the match with four wickets for 16 runs.\n\nMorgan, who made a century in the first ODI, fell leg before for seven, Ben Stokes was caught behind for one, Jos Buttler departed for a seven-ball duck and Moeen Ali was bowled for three.\n\nRoot and Woakes' sensible stand regained control, although Woakes - who hit five fours and two sixes - was dropped on the boundary on 42 and then again on 58.\n\nAfter being invited to bowl first, pace bowler Steven Finn took two wickets and became the third-fastest Englishman to reach 100 one-day international wickets.\n\nHe reached the feat in his 65th match, with only Darren Gough and Stuart Broad getting there faster (both taking 62).\n\nMaking the most of some uneven bounce, Finn surprised left-handers Evin Lewis and Kieran Powell to create easy catches.\n\nStokes then had Shai Hope caught behind but jarred his finger when he made a mess of a high but simple chance to dismiss Kraigg Brathwaite.\n\nBrathwaite looked dangerous before departing for 42 after being stumped off Moeen. Mohammed, though, played fluently on the way to his second ODI half-century.\n\nBut having reached it from 71 balls by pulling Stokes high over midwicket for six, he chipped a routine catch to Adil Rashid at mid-on off Plunkett.\n\nPlunkett did the trick again, with another variation slower delivery, when Jonathan Carter (39) skied a catch to Rashid.\n\nRashid held his third successive catch when he took a swirling caught-and-bowled after Jason Holder became the next to mistime an attempted big shot.\n\nThen Carlos Brathwaite fell to an excellent catch on the long-on boundary by Billings, and Plunkett bowled Nurse as the innings ending tamely with the last three wickets falling for six runs.\n\nFurther reaction from the players\n\nMan of the match Joe Root: \"It was about being patient and accepting the odd over where you might only get one or two runs.\n\n\"I thought Chris played exceptionally well. He took a lot of pressure off me at the other end. I think that's a sign of good side, where you don't just rely on one player.\"\n\nWest Indies captain Jason Holder: \"It's a disappointing feeling, getting so close. We dropped chances, that's one area we need to improve. In batting, we need some partnerships to set us up nicely. We need to adjust and go forward from here.\n\n\"We just have to know when it is time to seize an opportunity. We had some opportunities but we turned them down, and there were some soft dismissals.\"\n\nFormer England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent: \"England were not as clinical as they were in the first game but they put on a good fight and showed how deep they bat, with Woakes coming in and playing with freedom.\n\n\"Well done to England, this is what good teams do - even if you have that wobble, you are able to rebuild and go again.\"\n\nFormer West Indies pace bowler Sir Curtly Ambrose: \"You have to think about batting all 50 overs. It doesn't matter if you only score 10 or 12 runs in those three overs. It is not good cricket on the part of West Indies to not bat to the end.\n\n\"There were a couple of good partnerships. Mohammed played well, but gave it away. Carter played well, but gave it away. This is international cricket and you must be able to assess situations quickly and most of the batsmen haven't done that.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nBritish tandem pair Sophie Thornhill and Corrine Hall won their second gold medal at the Para-cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles.\n\nThornhill and her sighted pilot Hall added the kilometre time trial title to the pursuit crown they won on Thursday.\n\nThey led a British clean sweep ahead of Aileen McGlynn and Louise Haston with Alison Patrick and Helen Scott third.\n\nJon Gildea and men's tandem pair James Ball and Matt Rotherham claimed their first World titles.\n\nIt takes GB's gold medal tally to five with more medal chances to come in Sunday's final session.\n\nThornhill and Hall finished in a time of one minute 9.552 seconds to beat 43-year-old McGlynn, who is in her first GB outing since 2012, and Haston by 1.537 seconds.\n\nParalympic triathlon silver medallist Patrick, who is making her debut in international track cycling, and Scott were a further 0.026 seconds back.\n\n\"To stand up there with our team-mates was brilliant. I've never experienced that before,\" Thornhill told BBC Sport.\n\nHall added: \"More GB riders coming through is good; it pushes us along and keeps the competition high.\"\n\nBall and Rotherham were the penultimate pair to ride in the men's event and after clocking 1:00.727 seconds. They watched on as Commonwealth Games champions Neil Fachie and Craig Maclean failed to better their time [1:02.39).\n\n\"It's one of the greatest feelings I've ever had,\" said Welshman Ball, who finished fifth with Maclean at the Rio Paralympics\n\n\"I'm really happy with how it turned out and I'm hoping for good things on Sunday in the sprint.\"\n\nGildea's success in the C5 4km pursuit comes off the back of missing out on selection for Rio 2016.\n\nAfter qualifying second behind Lauro Cesar Chaman of Brazil, the 38-year-old from Sale, who became eligible for Para-sport in 2013 after breaking his leg badly in a mountain bike accident, dug deep in the final to beat his rival by 1.985 seconds.\n\n\"It's nice to come back and get a world champion's jersey. That's the starting point for getting on my way to Tokyo,\" he said.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nJermain Defoe scored in his first international appearance since 2013 as England took another comfortable step in their qualifying campaign for next year's World Cup with victory over Lithuania.\n\nGareth Southgate's first game at Wembley since succeeding Sam Allardyce on a permanent basis provided few alarms as England remain firmly in control at the top of Group F.\n\nSunderland striker Defoe, 34, justified his call-up with a typically clinical finish after 21 minutes and a lively performance that suggested he still has a part to play under this manager.\n\nAnd when Southgate needed someone to break Lithuania's stubborn resistance after the break, substitute Jamie Vardy obliged from close-range in the 66th minute, converting a subtle touch from Liverpool's Adam Lallana inside the area.\n\nBefore kick-off there was a minute's silence inside the stadium for the victims of last week's London attack. There was also a tribute paid to former England manager Graham Taylor, who died in January.\n• None Quiz: Can you name England's oldest goalscorers?\n• None What is Southgate's best England XI? Pick your own side\n\nEyebrows were raised in some quarters when Southgate recalled Defoe to the squad having last represented his country against Chile at Wembley in November 2013.\n\nDefoe's inclusion, however, represented perfect sense with a record of 14 Premier League goals and two assists in a Sunderland side propping up the table and England's main striker Harry Kane out injured.\n\nAnd so it proved as he pounced in trademark fashion for his first England goal in four years and four days since scoring in an easy win against San Marino, clipping a clinical finish high beyond Lithuania keeper Ernestas Setkus after 21 minutes from Raheem Sterling's delivery.\n\nDefoe had already brought one crucial block from the keeper earlier as he stole in on Lallana's pass. He looks like a player full of hunger who has lost none of his predatory, goalscoring instincts.\n\nEngland will face stubborn opposition again before this World Cup qualifying campaign is over and a poacher like Defoe may well come in very handy for Southgate as he plots his route to Russia next summer.\n\nEngland's friendly against Germany in Dortmund on Wednesday was effectively a testimonial for veteran striker Lukas Podolski on his international farewell - with an atmosphere to match in the normally thunderous Signal Iduna Park.\n\nWembley was also on the subdued side because World Cup Qualifying Group F is a hard-sell in terms of excitement for England's fans, who understandably expect Southgate's side to dismiss opposition such as Lithuania with the minimum of fuss.\n\nEngland fulfilled those requirements comfortably in the face of stubborn opponents who sat back and invited them on in the early phases, then seemed intent on damage limitation and no more as any hope of getting a return from this qualifier evaporated.\n\nThere may be more of the same in the remaining home qualifiers against Slovakia and Slovenia but England, once again, are getting the job done as they move closer to reaching the World Cup.\n\nThe old lingering fear remains that the real measure of how far England are progressing under Southgate will come at a major tournaments, where their limitations have been exposed regularly.\n\nSouthgate can be satisfied from what he has got from England's international double header, with a creditable performance in defeat against World Cup holders Germany and victory here against Lithuania.\n\nIf he has a complaint, it could be that England need to be more ruthless in front of goal, paying for wasted opportunities in Dortmund and also missing chances to make this a more convincing margin of victory.\n\nEngland will not find this failing too expensive in a friendly or against mediocre opposition - but it could cost them if the flaws are on show against higher-class in a competitive environment.\n\nIt is why Defoe's marksmanship is currently required and why the return of a fit and in-form Harry Kane will be so welcome.\n\n\"I thought it was one of those afternoons where it's job done.\n\n\"I am not going to eulogise over the performance, but the overall week I think has been really positive in setting the tone of how we want to work.\n\n\"The players have got a good feel about them, a spirit and they see the direction we want to head. For sure, we'll play better than we did today.\"\n\n\"I am very proud of my team because we have been tested by a tremendously strong team - probably the strongest team we have faced until now.\n\n\"We will take a lot of positives from this loss, to see what targets can be set because what we witnessed today in the first half was unbelievable how skilful all those attacking players are and what amount of pressure we were put under.\"\n• None England are the only team to have kept a clean sheet in each 2018 World Cup qualification game so far.\n• None Vardy's goal was his first touch of the match.\n• None Lallana has been directly involved in four goals in his last five England appearances (three goals; one assist).\n• None Defoe is the 22nd player to reach the 20 goal landmark for England.\n\nEngland next qualifier is against Scotland at Hampden Park on Saturday, 10 June.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Arturas Zulpa (Lithuania) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Ryan Bertrand (England) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (England) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Dele Alli.\n• None Attempt missed. Dele Alli (England) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Marcus Rashford with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (England) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dele Alli (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.\n• None Attempt missed. Eric Dier (England) header from very close range is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Marcus Rashford with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dele Alli (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.\n• None Attempt missed. Jamie Vardy (England) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Marcus Rashford with a through ball. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nJermain Defoe's return to the England squad is a \"great story\" according to manager Gareth Southgate after the striker scored in Sunday's 2-0 World Cup qualifier win over Lithuania.\n\nThe Sunderland forward, 34, made his first England appearance since November 2013 and marked the occasion with the opening goal in the 21st minute.\n\n\"I'm pleased for Defoe he got the goal,\" said Southgate.\n\n\"The bigger picture for us was his contribution throughout the camp.\"\n\nEngland created few clear-cut chances after Defoe's opener, but managed to breach the last line of defence once more in the 66th minute when substitute Jamie Vardy scored with his first touch.\n• None Quiz: Can you name England's oldest goalscorers?\n\nSouthgate added: \"I'm pleased for the two lads who have got the goals, a great story for Jermain and I felt Jamie added something to us.\"\n\nI had to keep my emotions in at the beginning with little Bradley with me\n\nWith Tottenham's Harry Kane almost certain to be part of the 2018 World Cup squad, if England qualify, Southgate will have to decide who else will fill the other forward berths.\n\nJamie Vardy, Daniel Sturridge, Wayne Rooney, Andy Carroll and Marcus Rashford will all be vying for a spot, along with veteran Defoe, who will be 35 by the time of next summer's tournament in Russia.\n\n\"I think we've got to look every time we get together as to who is in form,\" Southgate said when asked if the striker was a realistic proposition.\n\n\"I don't know if we can have a distinct pecking order because players that are playing well deserve the opportunity.\n\n\"If he is scoring goals in the Premier League and playing as well as he has this season, then there's absolutely no reason why he couldn't.\"\n\nIt was a memorable day for Defoe, who led out the team with Bradley Lowery, the terminally-ill five-year-old who calls the Sunderland striker his \"best mate\".\n\n\"It's good to be back,\" said the Black Cats striker.\n\n\"Just to win the game was important and we did that. It's hard to put in words really to be back.\n\n\"I had to keep my emotions in at the beginning with little Bradley with me. You can imagine how I felt doing that having done it with my club as well. Just to be back playing with the lads felt good.\"\n\nSubscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nScotland boss Gordon Strachan praised substitute Chris Martin after he shrugged off being booed to score a late match-winner against Slovenia.\n\nMartin came on to jeers with eight minutes left and the Scots' World Cup qualifying hopes hanging by a thread.\n\nBut an 88th-minute winner from the striker, who is on loan at Fulham, lifted Scotland to within two points of second-placed Slovakia.\n\n\"It was a sweet moment for him and the players,\" Strachan said.\n\n\"Everybody knows we deserved to win that game tonight.\n\n\"Kenny Dalglish used to get booed. Alan Hansen used to get booed. Gary McAllister used to get booed. It is a great club to be involved in, If you can line up with those guys, then fantastic.\n\n\"Everyone here understands what he [Martin] brings to a team. Some people can't see it, which is understandable.\n\n\"I don't understand cricket too much. But if you don't understand the game, then you have a problem understanding what players are all about.\"\n\nMartin started last Wednesday's friendly against Canada but was replaced up front against Slovenia by Leigh Griffiths, who hit the bar and post in the first half before being forced off injured early in the second.\n\nSteven Naismith came on for Griffiths, but it was Martin, 28, who fired home a dramatic left-foot winner to raise Scotland spirits before they host group leaders England at Hampden on 10 June.\n\n\"I'm not going to tell [the fans] what they should be thinking or how they should be feeling,\" Martin said.\n\n\"Hopefully they enjoy the three points tonight and there's a bit more optimism heading into the England game now.\n\n\"We always work hard for the manager and for each other and the country. The manager has shown faith in just about every single one of us.\n\n\"We knew it was a must-win game and in the circumstances I think it was a very good performance.\n\n\"This can be a real turning point for us. We're right back in the mix, a couple of points off second place, and there's no better game next up.\"\n\n'They pushed themselves to another level'\n\nStrachan acknowledged the first-half performance was \"probably\" the best Scotland have played under him, and described Celtic midfielder Stuart Armstrong's display as \"the best Scotland debut I have ever seen\".\n\n\"He did well but there were other guys who were special as well,\" added the head coach.\n\n\"We had to have special performances because we played against a very good, physical side, and the stress that goes with it as well.\n\n\"The players did everything they were asked to tonight. They pushed themselves to another level there. I was calm enough, thinking 'what will be, will be'.\n\n\"I was enjoying their performance - technically, fitness wise and their mental strength.\n\n\"The points were the most important thing and the performance and everything else helps as well.\n\n\"The players have got a feeling they can go and match quite a few international teams now.\n\n\"They detached themselves from the emotion of the game to produce things.\n\n\"When you are smaller, as we are, you have to be really brave on the ball when you are up against people five or six inches taller than you. So I was really pleased with that. It was a proud performance from us all.\"", "Britain's Lewis Hamilton says he is confident he can beat Sebastian Vettel to the world title this year despite defeat at the Australian Grand Prix.\n\nHamilton finished second to the German in the season opener in Melbourne after losing the lead following pressure from the Ferrari driver's superior pace.\n\nHamilton said: \"It is going to be a close race. I truly believe we can beat them. It's great to see Ferrari there.\n\n\"It's good we had this close battle. I'm looking forward to the next.\"\n\nHamilton led from pole position but struggled for pace in the opening laps and after an early pit stop was held up by Red Bull's Max Verstappen, allowing Vettel to get ahead.\n\nHamilton said: \"I wouldn't say I'm happy. But all things in perspective. To see where we have come from, with massive rule changes and to come here and be battling so close for a win and missing out marginally, there are a lot of things to be proud of.\n\n\"We could have won the race but I gave it everything I could and you can't do more. Take the strength of the weekend.\"\n\nVettel said of his title chances: \"There is a long, long way ahead. We have a lot to prove still but for now we are just happy.\n\n\"It is March now. I know people start to get excited but it is our job to work and I am much happier if we are working now and not talking.\"\n\nHamilton said he was looking forward to a close battle with Vettel throughout the year.\n\n\"This year we have the best drivers at the front,\" said Hamilton. \"Of course it would be great to have Fernando [Alonso of McLaren] up there but it doesn't look like it is going to happen any time soon.\n\n\"But Sebastian has four titles and he will continue for many years to come. I am really grateful to have that fight with him. It's great.\"\n\nHamilton defended Mercedes' decision to bring him in for a pit stop earlier than Vettel.\n\n\"My strategy was to stop on lap 19 and I think I stopped on lap 18. I had nothing left in my tyres.\n\n\"I was catching some back markers and the car started to slide around a lot and the gap was reducing behind me and I was like, 'Guys I have to come in now or I'm probably going to get overtaken on track.'\n\n\"I pitted not knowing the gap between the other cars. I came out behind some other cars which I couldn't get by. I said to the team I had to come in because the tyres were dead.\"", "Qatar's investments in the UK include the Shard skyscraper in London\n\nOne of the largest investors in the UK has committed £5bn of new money to invest in transport, property and digital technology.\n\nThe Middle Eastern state of Qatar said that it was optimistic about the future of the British economy.\n\nIt made it clear that the UK leaving the European Union had little bearing on its decision.\n\nQatar has already invested £40bn in the UK - it owns Harrods and a 95% stake in the Shard in London.\n\nIt also has a stake in Canary Wharf in the capital's Docklands, as well as an interest in the Milford Haven liquefied natural gas terminal in South Wales.\n\nIt also bought the Olympic Village following the London 2012 Olympics.\n\n\"Currently the UK is our first investment destination and it is the largest investment destination for Qatari investors, both public and private,\" Ali Shareef al Emadi, the country's finance minister, told the BBC.\n\n\"We have more than £35bn to £40bn of investments already in the UK.\n\n\"We're announcing an additional £5bn of investment in the next three to five years.\n\n\"Mainly this investment will focus on infrastructure sectors, technology, energy and real estate.\"\n\nMr Al Emadi will join International Trade Secretary Liam Fox in Birmingham on Tuesday where UK firms will showcase projects, including in sport, cyber-security and healthcare.\n\nThe government relies on foreign investment to support infrastructure projects such as the new high speed rail link between London, Birmingham and Manchester - HS2.\n\nAlthough no final decisions have been taken on the Qatari investments, Mr Al Emadi did not rule out putting money into HS2.\n\n\"We will look at those deals; we will look at electricity, roads, bridges, railways,\" he said.\n\nThe announcement of the Qatari investment is likely to be welcomed by Number 10.\n\nIt comes two days before the triggering of Article 50, the official process for leaving the European Union.\n\nTheresa May has made it clear she believes the British economy remains a positive place to invest and the Qatari announcement follows UK-focused investment decisions by Sir James Dyson, Google and Nissan.\n\nThe decline in the value of sterling has made UK assets more attractive to overseas investors - though many economists argue that leaving the EU will damage trade with Britain's largest market and therefore damage growth.\n\n\"We always like the UK market, it has always been a good market,\" Mr Al Emadi told me.\n\n\"The way we look at our investment in any market, and especially in the UK, it is a very long term investment, so we don't look at any cycles up or down\n\n\"So if you are talking about Brexit, I can go back to the financial crisis and tell you the same stories.\n\n\"We will do what we think is good for us, it is commercially viable, it has a good vision and a good impact.\"\n\nQatar is also the owner of Harrods department store\n\nI asked him whether the UK economy outside the EU was likely to be stronger or weaker.\n\n\"It is a lot to do with the policy the UK will take, but I think, knowing the UK market, I am very confident they will have a good future,\" Mr Al Emadi answered, saying that it was important that Britain was welcoming to high skilled foreign workers and students from Qatar and elsewhere.\n\nQatar has faced controversy over a fundraising for Barclays Bank at the time of the financial crisis and - more recently - allegations that poor labour conditions have marred the preparations for the 2022 World Cup which is being held in the country.\n\nMr Al Emadi said that Qatar had supported job creation in the UK.\n\n\"If you look at what we have done here, it has always been a win-win situation, whatever investment we do in the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"When you talk about labour in Qatar, I think a lot of these things have been taken out of proportion and [are] inaccurate news.\"", "\"Dad, what happens when you die?\" \"I don't know, son. Nobody knows for sure.\" \"Why don't you ask Google?\"\n\nOf course, Google isn't clever enough to tell us whether there is life after death, but the word \"google\" does crop up in conversation more often than either \"clever\" or \"death\", according to researchers at the UK's University of Lancaster.\n\nIt took just two decades for Google to reach this cultural ubiquity, from its humble beginnings as a student project at Stanford University in California.\n\nIt is hard to remember just how bad search technology was before Google. In 1998, for example, if you typed \"cars\" into Lycos - then a leading search engine - you would get a results page filled with porn websites.\n\nWhy? Owners of porn websites inserted many mentions of popular search terms such as \"cars\" in tiny text or in white on a white background.\n\nThe Lycos algorithm saw many mentions of \"cars\", and concluded the page would be interesting to someone searching for \"cars\". In the Google era, this seems almost laughably simplistic.\n\nBut Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were not, initially, interested in designing a better way to search.\n\nSergey Brin (L) and Larry Page (R) were trying to map the credibility of academic papers when they devised Google\n\nTheir Stanford project had a more scholarly motivation.\n\nIn academia, how often a published paper is cited is a measure of its credibility, and if it is cited by papers that themselves are cited many times, that bestows even more credibility.\n\nMr Page and Mr Brin realised that if they could find a way to analyse all the links on the nascent world wide web, they could rank the credibility of each web page in any given subject.\n\nTo do this, they first had to download the entire internet.\n\nThis caused some consternation. It gobbled up nearly half of Stanford's bandwidth. Irate webmasters showered the university with complaints that Google's crawler was overloading their servers.\n\nBut as Mr Page and Mr Brin refined their algorithm, it became clear they had discovered a vastly better way to search the web.\n\nPorn websites with tiny text saying \"cars cars cars\" don't get many links from other websites that discuss cars. If you searched Google for \"cars\", its analysis would be likely to yield results about… cars.\n\nMr Page and Mr Brin quickly attracted investors, and Google went from student project to private company. It is now among the world's biggest, bringing in profits by the tens of billions.\n\nBut for the first few years, Mr Page and Mr Brin burned through money without knowing how or if they would make it back. They were not alone.\n\nDuring the dotcom boom, shares in loss-making internet companies traded at absurd prices, in anticipation that they would eventually figure out viable business models.\n\nGoogle found its model in 2001: pay-per-click advertising. Advertisers pay Google when someone clicks through to their website, having searched for specified terms. Google displays the highest-bidders' ads alongside its \"organic\" search results.\n\nFrom an advertiser's perspective, the appeal is clear: you pay only when you reach people who have demonstrated an interest in your offering.\n\nIt is much more efficient than paying to advertise in a newspaper.\n\nNewspapers have seen a significant decline in display advertising\n\nEven if its readership matches your target demographic, inevitably most people who see your newspaper advert won't be interested in what you are selling.\n\nNo wonder newspaper advertising revenue has fallen off a cliff.\n\nThe media's scramble for new business models is one obvious economic impact of Google search.\n\nBut the invention of functional search technology has created value in many ways. A few years ago, McKinsey tried to list the most important.\n\nOne is timesaving. Studies suggest that googling is about three times as quick as finding information in a library, even discounting the time spent getting there.\n\nLikewise, finding a business online is about three times faster than using a printed directory such as the Yellow Pages.\n\nTraditional directories such as the Yellow Pages have struggled to compete with online search tools\n\nMcKinsey put the productivity gains of this into the hundreds of billions.\n\nAnother benefit is price transparency - economist jargon for being able to stand in a shop, take out your phone, google a product you're thinking of buying and seeing if it's available more cheaply elsewhere, then using that knowledge to haggle - annoying for the shop, helpful for the customer.\n\nThen there are \"long tail\" effects. In physical shops, it makes no sense to display aisle after aisle of obscure products that will be bought only rarely - they focus on a limited range of bestsellers instead.\n\nBut a decent search facility makes it easy to find a needle in the product haystack, and that has enabled the rise of online shops offering more variety.\n\nCustomers with specific desires are more likely to find exactly what they want, rather than settling for the nearest thing available in the local supermarket. And entrepreneurs can launch niche products, more confident they will find a market.\n\nThis all sounds like excellent news for consumers and businesses.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations that have helped create the economic world.\n\nGoogle dominates the search market, handling close to 90% of searches worldwide. Many businesses rely on ranking highly in its organic search results.\n\nAnd Google constantly tweaks the algorithm that decides them.\n\nGoogle gives general advice about how to do well, but it is not transparent about how it ranks results - not least because that would give away the information necessary to game the system. We would be back to searching for cars and getting porn.\n\nGoogle explains how its search works in principle but guards the details of its all-important algorithms\n\nYou don't have to look far online (thanks, Google) to find business owners and search strategy consultants gnashing their teeth over the company's power to make or break them.\n\nIf Google thinks you are employing tactics it considers unacceptable, it will downgrade you.\n\nOne blogger complains that Google is \"judge, jury and executioner\".\n\n\"You get penalised on suspicion of breaking the rules, [and] you don't even know what the rules are,\" they say.\n\nTrying to figure out how to please Google's algorithm is rather like trying to appease an omnipotent, capricious and ultimately unknowable god.\n\nYou may say as long as Google's top results are useful to searchers, it's tough luck on those who rank lower - and if those results stop being useful, then some other pair of students at Stanford will spot the gap in the market and dream up a better way. Right?\n\nMaybe - or maybe not. Search was a competitive business in the late 1990s. But now, it may be a natural monopoly - in other words, an industry that is extremely hard for a second entrant to succeed in.\n\nThe reason? Among the best ways to improve the usefulness of search results is to analyse which links were ultimately clicked by people who previously performed the same search, as well as what the user has searched for before.\n\nGoogle has far more of that data than anyone else. That suggests the company may continue to shape our access to knowledge for generations to come.", "\n• None Preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4. Lightly butter two loose-bottomed 20cm/8in sandwich tins and line the bases with baking paper.\n• None Put the butter, sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder and orange zest in a large mixing bowl and beat for 2 minutes, or until just blended. (An electric mixer is best for this, but you can beat by hand using a wooden spoon).\n• None Divide the mixture evenly between the tins. Level the surface using a spatula or the back of a spoon.\n• None Bake for 25 minutes, or until well risen and golden. The tops of the cakes should spring back when pressed lightly with a finger. Leave the cakes to cool in the tins for 5 minutes, then run a small palette knife or rounded butter knife around the edge of the tins and carefully turn the cakes out onto a wire rack. Peel off the paper and leave to cool completely.\n• None Choose the cake with the best top, then put the other cake top-down onto a serving plate.\n• None Beat together the filling ingredients and spread on one side of the cake, put the other cake on top (top upwards) and spread the rest of the orange cream on top. Decorate with spiralled orange zests.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland Under-21s continued their preparations for this summer's European Championship with a convincing victory over Denmark in Randers.\n\nRuben Loftus-Cheek scored twice, and Solly March and Cauley Woodrow were also on target, as England swept aside another team to have qualified for June's tournament in Poland.\n\nIt followed Sunday's underwhelming 1-0 loss against Germany.\n\nEngland face holders Sweden in their tournament opener on 16 June.\n• None Podcast: 'Rashford would learn more playing for Under-21s'\n\nChelsea midfielder Loftus-Cheek, a second-half substitute against Germany, was the central figure against the Danes.\n\nHe opened the scoring by slotting in Jacob Murphy's low cross, and completed the rout by finishing off a pass from Jack Grealish.\n\nIn between, March curled in a superb left-footed strike from the corner of the area, and Woodrow turned in Kortney Hause's knockdown.\n\n\"I didn't underestimate the opposition,\" coach Aidy Boothroyd told BT Sport. \"They are at the European finals so it makes it even more special to get the result we did.\n\n\"Ruben was terrific. But the reason he was terrific is he had 10 other players who worked really hard for him.\n\n\"He still has things to do in certain aspects of his game, but they all do.\"\n• None Joseph Gomez (England U21) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Kasper Junker (Denmark U21) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Mikkel Duelund.\n• None Attempt missed. Lasse Vigen Christensen (Denmark U21) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Mikkel Desler.\n• None Attempt missed. John Swift (England U21) left footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Demarai Gray.\n• None Ruben Loftus-Cheek (England U21) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Christian Nørgaard (Denmark U21) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Demarai Gray (England U21) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is too high. Assisted by Will Hughes. 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. Rio Ferdinand opens up about his wife's death\n\nFormer England captain Rio Ferdinand has told the BBC that his children would not talk about the death of their mother.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 live, he said his children would \"shut me down\" when he asked them how they were feeling.\n\nHe said he did not know the best way to talk to his three children, now aged 10, eight and five.\n\nFerdinand's wife, Rebecca, was 34 when she died of breast cancer in May 2015. The couple got married in 2009.\n\nThe ex-Manchester Utd defender was speaking to 5 live ahead of a BBC One documentary about grief on Tuesday at 21:00 BST.\n\nHe told 5 live's Emma Barnett: \"I didn't know any techniques to speak to the children. I didn't know what buttons to push.\n\n\"I'd been starting conversations with them to try and get how they were feeling out, and they would just shut me down, walk away, close the conversation down completely.\"\n\nIn the BBC One programme, Ferdinand starts a memory jar for the family, enabling the children to talk about the happy moments when their mum was alive.\n\nHe said: \"It kind of opened everything up and it was a beautiful moment just seeing them talk happily and being joyful about their mum rather than it being sad and negative moments.\n\n\"It switched it from dark to bright.\"\n\nFerdinand also said that, in the wake of Rebecca's death, he now understands why people contemplate suicide.\n\nHe told 5 live: \"When you come into this situation you understand suicide, you understand people who do that and have those thoughts.\n\n\"I didn't think about it myself but I understand now how people get to that situation.\n\n\"I can't judge people like that now, whereas before I'd be sitting there, probably with Rebecca, saying that guy is so ignorant and selfish how has he just done that - left three beautiful kids.\n\n\"Now I could say I understand how he got to that point. I wouldn't do it, but I understand how he's there. You do get to those levels - and so it's a work-in-progress.\n\nRio Ferdinand and Rebecca Ellison got married in 2009\n\nFerdinand said: \"At the beginning I'd sit and think how am I ever going to be happy?\n\n\"I can't see a point where I'm ever going to be able to smile, because I can get happy over here, but then I look at my children - and that brings you right back into sadness again because they haven't got a mum.\"\n\nThroughout Tuesday's programme, he meets other widowers and talks to them about rebuilding a life and moving on.\n\nBut he would not be drawn on his own relationships, saying he was \"disappointed\" that there had been speculation about his private life, after recent photos in a tabloid newspaper linked him with a reality TV star.\n\nHe told 5 live: \"That's disappointing... protecting my children is always the biggest thing for me... and that's what I'm fearful of with things being in the press.\n\n\"But the documentary has taught me there isn't a right time for anything like that, for if you're going to move on in a relationship... there is no right time.\n\n\"The only person who knows the right time is the person in those shoes. I've never spoken about my relationships in the past, in the public eye, and I'm not going to start talking about relationships or potential relationships that people are reporting on.\"\n\nCommenting on how long it takes to recover from bereavement, Ferdinand said the government was \"wrong\" to cut back on the length of time widowed parents can receive a benefit.\n\nFerdinand retired from football at the age of 36 in May 2015, the same month his wife died\n\nChanges mean that from 6 April 2017, bereaved parents will only receive payments for 18 months. Previously, the payment lasted until children were 16 years old.\n\nHe said: \"If I'm honest, I don't understand how the government can actually say there's a timescale on it because there is no timescale on anything to do with bereavement - every individual is different.\n\n\"One person may take six months another person may take 10 years. There isn't a time when you can say, 'Yeah I'm over it'. Putting a number on it is the wrong thing to do.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions said the Bereavement Support Scheme was designed to help protect families from sudden financial difficulties.\n\nHe said: \"We are updating an old system that was based on the outdated assumption that a widowed parent relied on their spouse for income, and would never work themselves. This does not reflect people's lives today.\n\nHe added: \"Once the payments come to an end, there are means-tested benefits which can continue to support the bereaved, especially those who are bringing up children.\n\n\"The new payment is easier to claim, won't be taxed and does not affect the amount received from other benefits, helping those on the lowest incomes the most.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "ECB chief executive Tom Harrison tells BBC sports editor Dan Roan the proposed city-based Twenty20 competition featuring new teams, which is due to begin in 2020, will \"future-proof\" county cricket, and denies \"bullying\" took place during negotiations.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nA new eight-team, city-based Twenty20 tournament could \"absolutely rival the Indian Premier League\" says England and Wales Cricket Board chief Tom Harrison.\n\nThe competition, proposed to begin in 2020, moved a step closer on Monday as further details were revealed.\n\nECB chief executive Harrison said it was \"not a gamble\" for the 18 first-class counties.\n\n\"What we are doing here is future-proofing county cricket,\" Harrison told BBC sports editor Dan Roan.\n\n\"I don't think it's so much a gamble, it's about saying, 'What do we want our business and our game to look like?'\"\n\nThe IPL - and Australia's Big Bash tournament - enjoy huge success, attracting the world's best limited-overs players and drawing large crowds.\n\nA referendum is expected to be dispatched on Tuesday inviting stakeholders to sanction a tournament including eight teams, rather than the 18 counties who traditionally contest the main competitions domestically.\n\nOn Monday, the ECB presented a detailed overview of its proposals for a new Twenty20 competition to its 41 members. These included:\n• None Eight new teams playing 36 games over a 38-day summer window, with four home games per team\n• None No scheduling overlap with the existing T20 Blast competition\n• None An Indian Premier League-style play-off system to give more incentive for finishing higher up the league\n• None A players' draft, with squads of 15 including three overseas players\n\nWhy does the ECB want to change?\n\nIt says cricket has the chance to be part of \"mainstream conversation\" and believes the new competition can make the sport \"relevant to a whole new audience\".\n\nFollowing a period of consultation including more than 10,000 interviews, the ECB decided on three key principles:\n• None To have a major positive impact on driving participation\n• None To focus on recruiting the next generation of fans, in particular promoting attendance to a diverse, young, family audience\n• None To ensure complete differentiation from existing cricket tournaments to protect and support the future of the county game\n\n\"What we absolutely need to do, is start appealing to a younger audience,\" said Harrison.\n\n\"We know that by doing things differently, by building new teams, we can be relevant to a whole new audience and bring this very diverse, multicultural Britain in to our stadiums in a way perhaps we haven't been successful in doing.\"\n\nIs this the end of county cricket?\n\nThis will be the first time in the history of domestic cricket that first-class counties are not represented, hence the need for a change to the ECB's articles and constitutions.\n\nIt was confirmed on Monday that all 18 clubs have signed \"media rights deeds\" to allow the governing body to include the new Twenty20 in their forthcoming broadcast portfolio.\n\nAsked if the move to a city-based format signalled the end of the county system, Harrison said: \"Not at all. I think what we are doing here is future-proofing county cricket.\n\n\"Cricket has been a sport which has always had the ability to evolve and change where it's needed to, and its shown itself to be incredibly adaptable.\n\n\"We are the sport which came up with short formats through T20, and other sports have been trying to find the T20 equivalent of their own.\n\n\"So we have demonstrated we are capable of it, we've got the format, we now just need to create the competition which enables these new fans to get involved.\n\nThe ECB says the proposed competition can rival the incredible success of the Indian Premier League and Australia's Big Bash, which draws average crowds of more than 28,000.\n\nQuestions remain around where the tournament will fit into the schedule, and which of the world's best players will be available.\n\nThe ECB insists it will not impact on the T20 Blast, which last season featured the likes of West Indies star Chris Gayle and New Zealand's Brendon McCullum.\n\n\"We think there's a lot of room for growth in the Blast,\" said Harrison. \"It's done a tremendous job at bringing in a county cricket audience.\n\n\"But the evidence we have suggest cricket exists in a bubble and we've got to get outside this bubble.\"\n\nThe ECB's aim for \"significant\" free-to-air coverage is an \"aspiration which reaches at the heart of our proposition going forward\", according to Harrison.\n\n\"We are hoping very much as part of that is a whole new calibration of our reach, so a whole new way of looking at access to our sport whether that's digitally whether it's through social media or whether it's through traditional TV channels,\" he added.\n\n\"But we also understand it has to be the right mix of revenue and reach and promotion of the game which is ultimately what we're searching for.\"\n\n'It will be a roaring success' - analysis\n\nCricket needs that moment in this country that changes the way we talk and think about the game. It's got to be good for the game.\n\nThe key to the Big Bash is being seen. Every single person in Australia can see every single ball. Cricket is now the number one sport in Australia.\n\nWhere the Big Bash has had huge success is they make sure the fan experience is key, and almost the cricket is secondary. The fans, and it's about 50-50 between men and women, and the kids, they all go home having had a great time.\n\nThe only thing in terms of a county perspective is this new tournament will be a massive juggernaut, get loads of marketing and the county game may say: 'Why didn't we get that support?'\n\nThis board of the ECB, I feel, are very visionary. You are going to get some terrific teams. I believe it will be a roaring success.\n\nIt would make a huge difference. I think it's very important that the public are given an opportunity to see cricket on a national level on free to air TV so it will be interesting to see how things pan out and what decisions are made.\n\nI think it's a very good idea. It's great to see it's been given some thought. You look at other competitions around the world and they've been very successful so we'll wait to see what happens in the coming months.", "If you walk down Whitehall in central London, you cannot escape reminders of wars fought and empires run from this small district on the north bank of the Thames. There are memorials to the fallen, statues of field marshals and even a Turkish cannon captured in some long-forgotten conflict.\n\nYet the civil service that once gloried in its global administrative stretch is now the smallest it has been since World War Two. And with the government launching the British state on its greatest administrative, economic and legal reform since it committed the nation to total war in 1939, there is a simple question: is Whitehall up for Brexit?\n\n\"It's been a scramble but the ducks are in a row,\" one Cabinet minister told me confidently.\n\nFor the scale of the challenge is immense.\n\nThousands of civil servants to be mobilised and retasked, thousands of laws and regulations to be rewritten or rejected and thousands of people trained and employed to do the many things currently carried out by the European Union.\n\nThis endeavour is not only about the two years of initial negotiations with 27 EU member states that will shortly begin, it is also about the mammoth preparations the UK must make for leaving the EU whatever the outcome of the negotiations.\n\n\"The challenge of Brexit has few, if any, parallels in its complexity,\" says Sir Jeremy Heywood, the Cabinet Secretary. \"Its full implications and impact on the political, economic and social life of the country... will probably only become clear from the perspective of future decades.\"\n\nSir Jeremy Heywood, the Cabinet Secretary, believes Brexit has \"few, if any, parallels in its complexity\"\n\nPerhaps the greatest challenge the civil service has faced was its utter lack of preparation for the British people voting out in the referendum last June. They were expressly forbidden from drawing up any plans by David Cameron's administration and have been playing catch up ever since.\n\nMinisters say the civil service has responded well, creating two new government departments from a standing start. The Department for Exiting the EU (DExEU) has something north of 320 staff, the Department for International Trade, several thousand.\n\nBoth departments, along with the Foreign Office, have been given an extra £400m by the Treasury over the next four years to pay for their work on Brexit. There were some initial turf wars but officials now say there is greater singularity of purpose.\n\nMuch work has been done analysing options, quantifying markets and assessing laws. Huge volumes of paper have been landing on DExEU desks looking at the impact of Brexit on every aspect of the economy.\n\nThe aim is to allow David Davis, the Secretary of State for Exiting the EU, to draw up an a la carte menu for the prime minister, setting out potential options and costs so that she can navigate the negotiations ahead.\n\nFor there is no doubt that these will be Theresa May's negotiations. The main negotiating team will include Mr Davis, his permanent secretary, Olly Robbins, and Sir Tim Barrow, the UK permanent representative to the EU.\n\nBelow them will be civil servants from all affected government departments, summoned in to work on specific \"chapters\" of the negotiations, on everything from fish to agriculture to financial services. They will be the team dealing with the European Commission negotiators on an almost daily basis.\n\nYet above them will be Mrs May who will have to drive the talks and make the big calls. But such is the size of the task that even the prime minister will struggle to retain her usual iron grip.\n\nOne minister told me: \"This is the first big test to see if she can delegate. This is so big that No 10 cannot control it, they cannot be on top of all the detail.\"\n\nTheresa May has made it clear that she will drive the UK's Brexit negotiations\n\nNot all are so sanguine about the preparedness of Whitehall. The National Audit Office says in a new report that, while 1,000 new roles have been created in the civil service to deal with Brexit, a third remain unfilled and most of the new appointees have simply been transferred from other parts of government.\n\nAnd the Institute for Government warns that departments such as the Home Office and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs are underfunded, cannot afford more staff and will be forced to drop non-Brexit work.\n\nOther insiders warn that, although much work has been done setting out options, less thought has been devoted to how the negotiations will progress themselves and how the government should organise itself. Officials talk of not knowing precisely for what they are preparing because Downing Street refuses to reveal its negotiating plans.\n\nThe process, inevitably, will begin with negotiations about the negotiations. Who will talk to whom, about what and in what order? The UK government wants to discuss its divorce from the EU at the same time as its future trade relationship. The EU says the two issues must remain separate.\n\nUnstitching the UK from EU laws will be an intricate process\n\nThen will come the exit agreement itself. Much will be visceral and hard-fought. Protecting the rights of EU nationals in the UK and vice versa sounds easy as both sides say they want this to be resolved early on and want to keep the status quo. But the hugely complex detail will be hard to agree.\n\nYet sorting that out might be easy compared to agreeing how much money, if any, the UK will owe the EU when it leaves. The government says nothing, the EU is hinting at £50bn. And all this is before any negotiations about any future trade arrangement between the UK and the EU and any transitional process that may be needed.\n\nWhile this will generate a huge amount of work for some in the civil service, many other officials will be focused instead on preparing the UK for leaving the EU come what may.\n\nMuch of this will focus on Westminster. There is the Great Repeal Bill to be written and passed through Parliament to ensure that all EU law is transferred automatically into UK law the moment we leave. The aim is to ensure there is no legal chaos and to allow Parliament all the time it needs gradually to unstitch the UK from four decades of EU legislation.\n\nThis will be a massive piece of legislative work that will require officials to re-examine huge swathes of UK law. They will have to decide which bits of EU law to return to Westminster and which bits are devolved, a tricky issue in light of Holyrood's demand for a second independence referendum. The Institute for Government warns there might be a need for further 15 separate Brexit Bills.\n\nThe UK will have to forge a new trade relationship with both the EU and the WTO\n\nIn the short term, there are a huge number of separate parliamentary inquiries into Brexit - 55 in all - being carried out by various committees of MPs and peers. Ministers have to reply to each one within 60 days and officials are struggling to meet that deadline.\n\nThen there is the process of the UK re-establishing its status at the World Trade Organization (WTO), something that will be needed even if we get a new trade deal with the EU.\n\nThe government hopes to transfer its current EU tariff rates into a new UK-specific schedule of trade commitments. But such a \"copy and paste\" arrangement will be complicated and will almost certainly face challenge from other WTO members. UK diplomats in Geneva, where the WTO is based, have a hard job of reassurance ahead of them.\n\nAnd then there is also the process of creating new organisations that will fill the gaps in our national life left as the EU tide ebbs from our shores. Officials will need to set up new customs and immigration systems, neither of which will be simple or easy.\n\nSo, as the phoney war ends with the triggering of Article 50, Whitehall is facing perhaps its greatest challenge in a generation.\n• None Brexit triggered: What happens now?", "Khalil Rafati's life had been destroyed by drug addiction\n\nAs Khalil Rafati overdosed on heroin for the ninth time the paramedics frantically tried to save his life.\n\nA drug addict who slept rough on the streets of Los Angeles, he eventually regained consciousness after the medical team used a defibrillator to give him an electric shock.\n\nThis was back in 2003, when Khalil was 33 years old. Also addicted to crack cocaine, he weighed just 109lb (49kg), and his skin was covered in ulcers.\n\n\"I was arrested more times than I can remember [for drug offences],\" says Khalil. \"I was completely messed up... I was always in so much pain that I couldn't sleep.\"\n\nWhile Khalil had tried and failed to get clean before, he says that after his ninth overdose he finally realised that he had to change his life in order to save it. So he spent four months in a rehab centre - and has been drug-free ever since.\n\nThrowing himself into healthy living, Khalil has been so successful in rebuilding his life that today he is the millionaire founder and owner of fashionable Californian health food business Sunlife Organics.\n\nKhalil has transformed himself since 2003\n\nWith annual sales of more than $6m (£4.8m) from its six outlets - which combine juice bars and cafes, and also sell the firm's clothing line - and via its website, the company is preparing to expand to 16 other US states and into Japan.\n\nNow aged 46 and accustomed to travelling by private jet, he's come a long way since his days of sleeping on the streets.\n\nIn fact, Khalil's life story could be the plot of a Hollywood movie.\n\nBorn in Ohio in the US Midwest, he is the son of a Polish Jewish mother and a Muslim father.\n\nA troubled childhood saw him leave school without any qualifications, and get arrested for vandalism and shoplifting.\n\nIn 1992, aged 21, he moved to Los Angeles with dreams of becoming a movie star.\n\nThe business sells a range of fruit and vegetable juices\n\nWhile the acting career never really took off, he started playing in local bands, and made a good living cleaning cars for Hollywood stars including Elizabeth Taylor and Jeff Bridges, and Guns N' Roses lead guitarist Slash.\n\nHowever, he soon slid into drug addiction, and his life spiralled out of control. Eventually he was sleeping in cardboard boxes beside other junkies, and dealing drugs to help fund his own habit.\n\nThen after that fateful ninth overdose Khalil's life completely changed for the better. After successfully quitting drugs he kept himself busy by juggling several jobs.\n\nIn addition to working at two rehab centres in Malibu he washed cars, walked dogs and did gardening work.\n\nThe company is due to expand to 16 other US states and into Japan\n\n\"I was able to save money,\" he says. \"I worked hard, seven days a week, 16 hours a day.\"\n\nKhalil also started to become obsessed with making his own vegetable and fruit juices after he met an old friend from Ohio.\n\n\"He was a little bit like a hippie, and started teaching me about vitamins, organic food, super food,\" says Khalil. \"At that moment I was looking for anything that would make me feel better.\"\n\nIn 2007 Khalil rented a house and opened his own rehab centre, Riviera Recovery, for clients who would pay $10,000 a month to stay at the facility.\n\nKhalil now treats himself to travelling by private jet\n\nFor these residents, Khalil would make exotic juice blends such as one he called Wolverine - a mix of banana, maca powder, royal jelly and pollen.\n\nEventually the reputation of these drinks spread beyond the building, with people calling in to buy them.\n\nHis old self was often arrested\n\nRealising that there was enough demand to set up a separate business, in 2011 Khalil launched Sunlife Organics, together with his best friend and then-girlfriend.\n\nFunding the business from savings, the first branch opened in Malibu. Khalil says it was an instant success, with sales of $1m in its first year.\n\nToday the business employs more than 200 people across its six outlets. In addition to juices, it now sells a range of food and clothes, such as t-shirts and hoodies.\n\nRob Nazara, an analyst at Deutsche Bank in New York, says Khalil's story shows real strength of character. \"No matter what the educational or professional background someone may have, the success of an entrepreneur is driven by grit, determination and ambition,\" he says.\n\nBesides Sunlife Organics, Khalil still runs Riviera Recovery and owns a yoga studio in Malibu. He also made time to write his autobiography, I Forgot To Die, which was released in 2015.\n\n\"I don't consider myself super intelligent,\" says Khalil. \"But I have a hunger for life, and put all of myself into something when I decide to do it.\"\n\nFollow The Boss series editor Will Smale on Twitter @WillSmale1\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Single mothers have often been stigmatised and denounced. Cherry Healey explains why she's proud to be one.\n\nI'm a single mum. I'm glad I live in an age and a place where it's OK to admit that.\n\nWe have moved on so much, so fast. Once, Margaret Thatcher deemed a single parent family so bad for a child that she felt it was better for the mother and child to be removed and placed within a religious group.\n\nWhen I first heard that, I felt such unbelievable pain and heartbreak for all those young mothers that were pressured into following this advice.\n\nAnd it would have had many ripples of pain for the family as a whole.\n\nThe judgement of others is a powerful thing and people will do unfathomable things to avoid bringing shame onto themselves and their families.\n\nAnd this is the judgement that I want to see gone. Completely.\n\nYes we have progressed - but even today there is such an insipid, damaging view of single parents that we need to keep revisiting it until single parents feel free of useless, ignorant judgement - and instead receive respect as parents and support if they, and therefore their child, needs it.\n\nSadly, even in 2017 I felt the cold wind of judgement when I became a single parent. It's hard to know whether the judgement I felt comes from society or whether it comes from myself. I think it is a bit of both.\n\nI hate to admit this, but I had a negative view of single mums before I became one. As I grew up I heard, read and watched society's depiction of The Single Mum, and it certainly wasn't positive.\n\nComedy sketches depicting single mums smoking cigarettes and drinking cider in the park while neglecting their babies, endless newspaper stories about single mothers on benefits draining the system, statements from politicians about the connection between \"Broken Britain\" and one-parent families - all fed my prejudice gremlin until one day, I too was a dreaded single mum. And I began to question everything I'd ever consumed about this subject.\n\nI was happy to discover that I was the same person. I was a good parent as a married woman and I was a good parent as single mother.\n\nMoney was tighter but my ability to maintain order at home, get homework done on time and love my children had not changed.\n\nSeparating and re-establishing my life was difficult but I felt so hugely grateful that at least I was able to pay the bills thanks to my job - and it made me realise that there is so much stigma attached to being a single mother. At exactly the time when the single parent needs support and help, they are stigmatised and judged.\n\nIt also made me realise that for many of us there is a strong, not very flattering stereotype of The Single Mum. And so I wanted to break free from that and give a voice to some single parents that haven't been heard before.\n\nAnd I'm glad to say that any prejudice, both conscious and subconscious, was gradually eroded.\n\nI spoke to Kirsty, a single mother with a terminal illness, who smashes the traditionalist's argument that it's better to stay in an unhealthy marriage, regardless of the circumstances. Even though she was suffering and weak from cancer, she did not regret leaving her relationship and was happy that her daughter's environment was at least peaceful.\n\nShe acknowledges that it was hard caring for her daughter alone: \"I definitely still have guilt over it. There are times at bedtime when she'll cry for her daddy.\"\n\nBut she still feels it was the right decision. She is now able to co-parent with her partner in a more harmonious way. Her message that together is not always best for the child, even in such a challenging situation, was powerful.\n\nI also spoke to Meena, whose story moved me profoundly.\n\nKnowing that she would be disowned by her family, Meena made the decision to leave her husband as the environment had become so toxic that social services had been involved.\n\n\"I come from an Asian background so divorce or separation - that's a no-no,\" she tells me.\n\n\"I was expected to remain in the marriage and make it work and just put up with it,\" she says.\n\n\"If I go to a family function I get looked at like a demon with two horns.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Hart: 'They were all shocked when I said I was keeping the baby'\n\nI was given, and desperately needed, a huge amount of emotional and logistical support from my family during my separation, and it's hard to image the impact the removal of that would have had on my mental state and therefore the indirect impact on my children.\n\nWithout financial, emotional or logistical support, Meena began a new life with her child, with the help of her flexible work shifts as a train driver.\n\nThe resilience was startling but the grace was profound. Even after being rejected by her family, at exactly the moment she and her daughter needed care, she was still working towards a reconciliation for the sake of her daughter's future.\n\nWhen I think about the negative single-mother narrative in the 90s and subsequent reduction of support, and increase in single-mother stigma, it made me feel extremely angry that as a society we leave incredible mothers like Meena fighting against such a huge tide.\n\nAnd for others, the term single parent felt like a strange fit. Rupa (not her real name), an accident and emergency consultant, had decided to go it alone and conceive via a sperm donor. There was nothing \"broken\" about it, a term often placed on to a single parent. It had been carefully considered and planned for.\n\nRupa recalls: \"We met once before the first insemination, and then the next time he came round and donated, and then showed himself out while I was just chilling out in my own bedroom, playing music, and you know he left me a little pot on the stairs and showed himself out.\"\n\nI spent the morning in her house watching her beautiful, happy daughter play and cuddle her mother.\n\nAgain, I struggled to understand why anyone would assume single mothers can't offer as much love and security to a child as a two-parent family.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Before the war: Mai (left) and her sister look out across the Sanaa skyline in 2009\n\nIt is two years since the start of the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen in support of the government ousted by Houthi rebels. In that time, thousands of civilians have been killed, parts of the country devastated and Yemen left teetering on the brink of famine.\n\nHere the BBC's Yemen-born Mai Noman, who has returned to her homeland to film short documentaries, reflects on what has become of her country.\n\nIt's been over two years since I was last here. The only place I call home.\n\nA lot has happened and much has changed. It's hard to keep my feelings in check.\n\nBeside the physical destruction, memories of what once was are buried under the heavy weight of emotional rubble.\n\nMai and her brother grew up in Taiz\n\nAs a Yemeni journalist working in international news, I have had to monitor every twist and turn of the civil war in my country, even when I wanted to look away.\n\nTruthfully, the thought of coming face-to-face with the new reality shaped by the furious conflict in Yemen has terrified me.\n\nBut living through the war from outside Yemen was isolating.\n\nAs we make our way to the capital, Sanaa, on a rugged 10-hour car journey from Aden, I think back to the number of times I quietly broke down after hearing news coming out of Yemen. Working in a newsroom, this happened often.\n\nThis trip takes me from the south to the north - two parts of a country divided by more than mere miles.\n\nIn simple terms, the south is under government control, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, and the north is controlled by the Houthi rebels. But the reality is more complicated.\n\nI've imagined arriving back home hundreds of times in the last few years. But on the day I was totally unprepared for what I found.\n\nUnlike the southern city of Aden, where life seems to be at a standstill, waiting in fearful anticipation of more fighting, Sanaa - apart from the obvious damage - appears the same as ever.\n\nSome beautiful buildings in Sanaa have escaped unscathed\n\nI can feel the rain approaching. After London that should make me shudder, but it somehow feels welcoming.\n\nThe jagged mountains which encompass the city slowly fill with clouds transforming the sky into a splendid portrait of misted rocky peaks. All at once telling me I'm home.\n\nThe Yemeni capital has suffered like other parts of the country, but life there goes on\n\nThere are more restaurants in town than I recall, and many are over-flowing with people.\n\nFor a moment I forget there's a war raging across the country. But then Sanaa can be deceptive.\n\nI feel exhausted by the time we arrive at my cousin Mona's house.\n\nI knock on the door in a typical Yemeni manner - very determinedly. Mona's youngest child, Abdullah, opens the door to greet me.\n\nMai's aunt's car sits where it was hit by a falling missile in the garden of her home\n\nIt's quite quiet here. A minute later I hear Mona making her way down the narrow stairs at the back of the house.\n\nWe embrace with joy. She holds my face to see what's changed.\n\n\"You're still you,\" she says. A lot kinder than comments I receive later about how my hair is too short or the few extra pounds I've gained.\n\nMona is just as beautiful but her voice has changed, she's gone through a lot in the last few years.\n\nThree years ago she lost her father suddenly. She had been very close to him and facing life without him, amid ongoing uncertainty, is hard.\n\n\"He was the biggest support I had,\" she tells me, breaking down in tears.\n\nLife hasn't been kind to her and the war has now brought with it seemingly endless questions.\n\nWould her family be able to leave if it had to? Is it better to be stuck inside surrounded by conflict, or outside separated from relatives and friends? Are Mona's children safe at school or sleeping in their beds? How many more funerals will she have to attend?\n\nEven with the most difficult issues I face in my own life, the choices are never so bleak.\n\nOur lives have become more different than ever.\n\nOver the course of three weeks in Yemen, I reconnect with old acquaintances and hear stories of separation, loss and incredible examples of the tight bonds that keep a community together.\n\nBut something else weighs heavily on my heart. There is one place I wasn't able to visit.\n\nIt's the place where I was born and where a more utopian notion of Yemen was engraved in my mind.\n\nBut sadly my grandmother is no longer with us and Taiz today is unrecognisable, sitting as it does on the frontline of the conflict. I wonder if I'd even know the house.\n\nThe fighting on the ground is brutal, the bombardment by the Saudi-led coalition is relentless and the siege on the city by the Houthis continues.\n\nIt's painful trying to accept the way things have become, one where precious memories have no place among the hardship of this grinding conflict.\n\nTo me, Taiz is where the heart of home is, and there's nothing harder than losing one's home.\n\nWhen I set off for Yemen it was with a mixture of dread and trepidation at what I might find after years of bombardment and fighting.\n\nOn arriving I fell into a false sense of relief that the people were still here; home was, in some form, still here.\n\nIn the days which followed though, it became clear that war damage isn't just the craters and the bombed out buildings.\n\nIt is the suffering of a population watching helplessly as their lives are being torn apart.\n\nThinking of the time I spent fearing what I'd find when I returned home, I know that regardless of the pain of seeing my country at war, the sense of longing to be part of Yemen, for good or bad, will always draw me back.", "Ellie Downie rounds off a successful weekend by winning gold on the bars at the British Gymnastics Championships in Liverpool.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChris Martin scored late on as Scotland saw off Slovenia to keep their slim hopes of reaching the World Cup alive.\n\nThe home side produced an excellent first-half showing, with Leigh Griffiths hitting the bar then post.\n\nThe visitors improved after the break but substitute Martin's left-foot finish with two minutes left won it.\n\nScotland, whose head coach Gordon Strachan had described this match as a must-win, are now fourth in Group F, two points behind Slovakia in second.\n\nEngland are top of the table on 13 points after their 2-0 win over Lithuania earlier on Sunday.\n\nStrachan picked Kieran Tierney, Celtic's teenage left-back, at right-back and turned to Griffiths as his main striker.\n\nWith their backs to the wall, Scotland came out fighting with an intensity that set Slovenia rocking.\n• None How the players rated with Billy Dodds\n\nThe game was only a minute old when keeper Jan Oblak dived away to his right to keep out a Russell Martin volley from a Robert Snodgrass corner, but the siege on the Slovenian penalty area carried on and on.\n\nMartin caused more bother a few moments later when he headed home from another Snodgrass cross, but the big defender was done for a push. Then it was Griffiths' turn, his angled header, after excellent work from the terrific Stuart Armstrong, drifted wide.\n\nThis was a different Scotland and a jittery Slovenia. Defensively, they were an unadulterated mess. Offensively, they scarcely existed save for one effort from Roman Bezjak that Craig Gordon dealt with.\n\nTowards the end of the opening half, Scotland upped the ante and came painfully close to scoring. James Morrison thundered a shot just wide, then it became the Griffiths show, a mini soap opera amid a major drama.\n\nA fine Scottish move saw the splendid Andy Robertson put Snodgrass away down the left side of the penalty box. The West Ham midfielder clipped a precise cross towards the back post where Griffiths was lurking. The Celtic man had to score, simply had to. Instead, from point-blank range inside the six-yard box, Griffiths smashed his volley onto the crossbar.\n\nIt was a miss that shocked Hampden. There was a small crowd in the old place, but their groans were almost deafening in that moment. A minute later, though, Griffiths had another chance when a great surge and nice delivery from Armstrong presented another chance to the Celtic striker.\n\nThis was considerably harder, and he made a good fist of it, steering his right-foot shot off the inside of Oblak's left-hand post. The ball rolled across goal and was hoofed clear. Griffiths was desperately unlucky.\n\nIn this mad flurry, there was another Scottish opportunity. A further minute on from Griffiths' second chance, Morrison had a looping header cleared off the line by Valter Birsa. All this good stuff, all these chances and nothing to show for it was torture for the hosts.\n\nGriffiths took a dunt from Oblak in the dying minutes of the opening half and he was replaced by Steven Naismith in the opening minutes of the second half. Scotland lost their edge as the game wore on, though.\n\nThey had huge amounts of possession but not enough accuracy and nothing like the chances they had earlier in the game.\n\nThere was one, however. A good one. With 15 minutes left, Ikechi Anya replaced Snodgrass and within seconds, more slapstick Slovenian defending created an opportunity for the substitute. With time and space, he tried to curl his shot around Oblak, but didn't get nearly enough on it. Oblak made an easy save. Hampden held its head in its hands again.\n\nStrachan brought on Chris Martin in a frantic attempt to salvage the victory they desperately needed. And what a twist he served up. Martin was booed on to the field by sections of the home support, but with two minutes left, more clever work from Armstrong set up the striker, who hit his shot low past a stunned Oblak and in off his left-hand post.\n\nIt was a thoroughly deserved winner on a dramatic night. Scotland found their best performance of the campaign and get to dream on. Strachan, meanwhile, lives to fight another day.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Jasmin Kurtic (Slovenia) because of an injury.\n• None James Forrest (Scotland) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Miral Samardzic (Slovenia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Scotland 1, Slovenia 0. Chris Martin (Scotland) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong.\n• None Scott Brown (Scotland) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Steven Naismith (Scotland) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Chris Martin. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "It is understood Khalid Masood's phone connected with messaging app WhatsApp minutes before the attack\n\nThe home secretary's broadside over encryption is only one part of a wider struggle with technology companies. The power of the companies has grown enormously in recent years and officials believe they have a responsibility to play more of a role in the fight against terrorism.\n\nLast year's row between Apple and the FBI, in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting, was ostensibly about access to a specific encrypted phone used by an attacker.\n\nBut US law enforcement had long been gearing up for a battle over the issue, looking for the right moment to challenge Apple.\n\nSome suspect the UK authorities of doing the same in the wake of the Westminster attack. If there is an issue that the government wants to press the companies on though, it is the hosting of extremist content rather than encryption.\n\nIt is not clear there is a problem getting hold of the communications of Khalid Masood in this case. But a wider principle is at stake, in which government is unhappy at the spread of end-to-end encryption.\n\nCompanies like WhatsApp will say they are providing law enforcement with assistance but they have designed their systems with end-to-end encryption, which means they are not in a position to provide the content of any communications (although the metadata, if available, can still be very useful).\n\nIn reality, the government knows that outlawing end-to-end encryption is not going to be as easy. It has just passed new legislation in the Investigatory Powers Bill and revisiting the subject seems unlikely.\n\nA further problem is that many of the tech companies are not UK-based and the government's leverage over Silicon Valley firms has its limits.\n\nThe government may be hoping the new US administration will at some point make pressuring the companies a priority, but predicting when or how the Trump administration will act is not easy.\n\nMany of the new, smaller companies providing encrypted services are not based in America either. Telegram, for instance, provides encrypted communications but its founder Pavel Durov is thought to be based in Europe.\n\nLarger companies point out that if they were banned from offering end-to-end encryption then their customers (and the targets of law enforcement investigation) would simply move to these smaller providers, who, they argue, are even less likely to provide assistance to governments.\n\nThey also point to all the stories about hacking and criminal theft of data as to why encryption is so valued by them and their customers.\n\nIn the UK, the responsibility of companies in counter-terrorism hit the agenda when Facebook faced criticism after it was claimed it could have done more to spot communications by one of the men who killed Lee Rigby.\n\nThat spoke to a different issue from encryption - how far should companies be monitoring the material on their sites? And when is this helping to fight terrorism and when is it spying on your own users?\n\nThe tide of propaganda created by so-called Islamic State in the last few years has pushed more attention onto what can be found on websites. Counter-terrorist officials place a high priority in restricting this content, since in their view, extremist material does not just have a radicalising effect but is directly involved in inciting acts of violence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amber Rudd: \"Intelligence services need to be able to get into encrypted services like WhatsApp\"\n\nA meeting on extremist content had been previously scheduled for this Thursday, and comments by the home secretary and foreign secretary prioritised this issue (including the company Telegram again, which is seen as a distributor of content).\n\nOfficials want two things from the companies - a greater prioritisation of the issue and a more proactive rather than reactive stance.\n\nYouTube says it rapidly reviews content flagged to it in order to see if it violates the company's community guidelines which prohibit things like gratuitous violence or inciting others to commit violence. But while companies maintain they do remove extremist content when it is reported to them, officials say it is not good enough.\n\nThe police run a counter-terrorism internet referral unit in which officers have the difficult task of scouring extremist sites for videos of things like beheadings and then flagging them to YouTube and others for removal.\n\nThe companies concur with almost all of their referrals. But officials ask why it is that the police are having to do this and not the companies themselves?\n\nThey point out that the companies are huge, rich enterprises full of clever people and ask why they only assign small teams to work on this subject. They want more resources both in terms of people and technology to be assigned to the task.\n\nCompanies point to the sharing of 'hashes' between platforms which relates to material they are removing so that other companies can see if similar images are also present on their sites. They have, in the past, always stressed that such activity is not automated but subject to human review.\n\nThe companies claim it is technically difficult to scan for extremist content in the same way they do for things like images that show child sex abuse. Officials say that companies that pride themselves on their cleverness should be able to find new - possibly automated - tools.\n\nBut one of the concerns of companies is that they will be seen as spying on their users. Scanning everybody's posts or messages for extremist content risks making them look intrusive.\n\nThe reality is, though, that they already scan and mine their user's data for advertising since that is primarily how companies Google and Facebook make their profits.\n\nBut the Edward Snowden revelations highlighted that co-operation with governments can lead to a backlash. The companies additionally are increasingly global rather than national. They fear precedents being set in one country being used in others.\n\nWhat if other countries also demand extremist content is taken down but define extremist in a different way - perhaps targeting domestic political opposition? China poses a particular dilemma for the tech companies.\n\nApple is in the China market but it is not entirely clear what kind of data it provides to the state. Facebook is keen to get in.\n\nEdward Snowden, a former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, revealed extensive internet and phone surveillance by US intelligence\n\nAlthough they have not ruled it out, politicians in the UK know that legislation is unlikely to be the answer to these problems. Their best bet is try to put pressure on the companies through public opinion since they are the users the companies rely on.\n\nThis tussle has been going on for years but the balance has been shifting in recent months. The fact that they have not paid much tax has helped turn public opinion against companies.\n\nRecent revelations that they have placed advertising next to extremist content has also put them on the back foot. The companies say they are not complacent and have indicated they are willing to be more proactive and use technology in new ways. But they also will know that the pressure is mounting.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The jacket and briefcase were precious possessions of two refugees\n\nThese are two unremarkable items with a remarkable story: a traditional embroidered jacket and drab, brown leather briefcase.\n\nThey belonged to a man and a woman who lived in Punjab in undivided colonial India, had been introduced to each other by their parents and were to be engaged when violence broke out in 1947.\n\nThe troubled subcontinent was lurching towards a bloody partition as it split into the new independent nations of India and Pakistan. Communal violence erupted, leaving between half a million and a million people dead and displacing millions of people.\n\nPunjab was divided - western, mostly Muslim parts went to Pakistan and eastern, mainly Hindu and Sikh parts, went to India. The newly-engaged man and woman were Sikhs living in what is now Pakistan.\n\nThe jacket and the briefcase were their most valuable possessions as they fled their homes to escape death as communities butchered each other in a prolonged frenzy of religious rioting.\n\nThree of Bhagwan Singh Maini's brothers had already been slaughtered in the violence, so the 30-year-old man stuffed his certificates and property claims in the fraying briefcase and fled his home in Mianwali.\n\nMore than 250km (155 miles) away, in Gujranwala, Pritam Kaur's family slipped out of their house and put her on a train to Amritsar.\n\nMs Kaur, 22, travelled across the blood-stained border with her two-year-old brother on her lap. In her bag was her most precious possession, the phulkari (embroidered) jacket, a reminder of happier days.\n\nBhagwan Singh Maini and Pritam Kaur reunited in a food line at a refugee camp and got married\n\nTorn apart by what turned out to be one of the greatest mass migrations - or transfers of population - in human history, the two landed up in teeming refugee camps that dotted Amritsar city. They were among about 12 million people who had crossed the new borders.\n\nOne day, in the food line, a miracle happened.\n\nBoth Mr Maini and Ms Kaur had joined the queue of bedraggled, hungry refugees. There, they met again.\n\n\"They exchanged notes about their tragedies, wondering if it was destiny that had brought them together once more. Their families, or whatever was left of them, also reunited in due course,\" says Cookie Maini, daughter-in-law of Bhagwan Singh Maini.\n\nIn March 1948, the two got married. It was an austere ceremony; both families were struggling to pick up the pieces.\n\nMs Kaur wore her favourite jacket. Mr Maini got together his certificates and papers from his briefcase to start a new life: he joined the judicial service in Punjab, got a small house in compensation and moved to Ludhiana with Ms Kaur.\n\nThe couple had two children, who both served as civil servants. Mr Maini died some 30 years ago; Ms Kaur died in 2002.\n\n\"The jacket and the briefcase,\" says Ms Maini, \"are testimony to the life they lost and found together.\"\n\nThe couple reunited in line in a refugee camp at a time when millions were crossing the new borders\n\nThey now survive as two of the most valuable possessions of India's fledgling Partition Museum, which opened in Amritsar in October.\n\nBy early next year, the museum, housed in the magnificent and restored Town Hall, will showcase photographs, letters, audio-recordings, belongings of refugees, official documents and maps and rare newspaper clippings relating to the event.\n\n\"This will be the most comprehensive archive on the partition, and the only museum of its kind in the world,\" says Mallika Ahluwalia, chief executive officer of the two-floor, 17,000 sq ft Partition Museum.\n\nThere are the stark black-and-white pictures of the never-ending caravan of Hindu and Muslim refugees, trudging wearily to what will be their new homes. Bullock carts overflow with sparse belongings and withered humans. Millions of refugees were on the move; one single convoy was reported to have stretched for 10 miles.\n\nTrains awash with the blood of murdered refugees steamed across the new borders. Too few police and soldiers were deployed to check the ensuing violence. Historian Ramachandra Guha says the \"protection of British lives was made the first priority\". Women bore the brunt of the violence: tens of thousands were abducted. Many, but not all, were eventually recovered.\n\nTent cities sprouted all over the country to house the displaced farmers, artisans, government workers, traders and labourers. By 1950, there were some 200,000 refugees in squatter colonies in the eastern city of Calcutta alone.\n\nRefugees abandoned millions of hectares of their own farm land and many received scant compensation: a widow who lost her husband's 11,500 acres of land in two districts which went to Pakistan was given 835 acres in a village in Indian Punjab.\n\nThe bloodbath continued months after the event\n\nMonths after the event, the bloodbath was still continuing. The front page of a Punjab-based newspaper in October paints a picture of utter despair and anarchy in the state.\n\nArmed mobs were attacking villages, towns were plunged into darkness, there is a story about the \"moon coming to the rescue of millions\" after a power outage as well as accounts of a cholera outbreak, floods and details about millions of people stranded in refugee camps awaiting evacuation.\n\n\"Life here continues to be nightmarish,\" wrote India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in October 1947. \"Everything seems to have gone awry\".\n\nUntil you hear - and see evidence of - stories of hope and redemption, of lives lost and recovered, as in case of Bhagwan Singh Maini and Pritam Kaur.\n\nWith these stories and more, the museum in Amritsar hopes to remind people of an event which author Sunil Khilnani described as \"the unspeakable sadness at the heart of the idea of India\".\n\nPioneering Indians is part of the India Direct series. It looks back at men and women who have helped shape modern India.\n\nOther stories from the series:", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Johanna Konta rediscovered her best form as she thrashed Pauline Parmentier of France in straight sets to reach round four at the Miami Open.\n\nKonta, seeded 10th, took charge from midway through the first set to win 6-4 6-0 in 63 minutes.\n\nShe next faces Lara Arruabarrena in the last 16 after the Spaniard upset eighth seed Madison Keys 7-5 7-5.\n\nRafael Nadal celebrated his 1,000th Tour match with a 0-6 6-2 6-3 victory over German Philipp Kohlschreiber.\n\nIn the men's doubles, Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares beat Paolo Lorenzi and Joao Sousa 6-0 6-3 in round two.\n\nKonta, 25, had struggled for form since reaching the Australian Open quarter-finals in January, and had needed two hours and 40 minutes to beat qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich in her opening match in Miami.\n\nIn less windy conditions on Sunday, the British number one found the rhythm on both serve and return that has seen her rise dramatically up the rankings in the last two years.\n\n\"I'm happy to have come through that,\" Konta said.\n\n\"Although the scoreline doesn't show it in the second set, I still had to work hard within every single point. I really tried hard not to take my foot off the gas and stay focused on what I wanted to achieve.\"\n\nThe first six games went with serve as Parmentier's big serve kept her in touch, but when Konta converted her third break point for a 4-3 lead it sparked a brilliant burst of form from the Briton.\n\nKonta dropped just five points in the second set, and only seven points on serve in the entire match, as she powered through.\n\nShe is now one win from at least matching last year's run to the quarter-finals, where she lost to Victoria Azarenka.\n\nWorld number one Angelique Kerber came back from a break down in each set to beat American Shelby Rogers 6-4 7-5.\n\nThe German will next play Japanese qualifier Risa Ozaki, after the world number 87 saw off Kerber's compatriot Julia Goerges 7-6 (7-5) 6-3.\n\nWorld number 31 Kohlschreiber was superb as he took his first set against Spaniard Nadal to love in just 21 minutes.\n\nIt was the first time Nadal had failed to win a game in the first set of an ATP Tour match since 2008 but the 30-year-old produced a typically gutsy comeback to claim his 822nd career victory.\n\nHe becomes the 11th player to compete in 1,000 Tour matches - a group led by American Jimmy Connors (1,535).\n\n\"One thousand matches is a lot of matches. Obviously that's good news because that says I am having a long career,\" said 14-time Grand Slam champion Nadal.\n\n\"During a lot of years, I heard that I'm going to have a short career, so it's something important for me. I remember the first match very well because it was at home in Mallorca. It was my first victory on the ATP and was a great feeling.\"\n\nIn the men's singles, second seed Kei Nishikori of Japan beat Spanish 25th seed Fernando Verdasco 7-6 (7-2) 6-7 (5-7) 6-1.\n\nCanada's third seed Milos Raonic withdrew before his match against American Jared Donaldson with a recurrence of a hamstring injury, saying: \"It was not possible to compete today without putting myself at significant risk.\"", "Not for the first time time, McLaren-Honda had reason to be grateful to Fernando Alonso at the Australian Grand Prix.\n\nUntil a late-race car problem forced him to retire, the Spaniard was on course to secure an unlikely point for a team that, even some insiders will admit privately, is in crisis at the start of the 2017 Formula 1 season.\n\nPre-season testing had gone so badly for McLaren that it looked like they would struggle not to be on the back of the grid. After some hasty work on reliability by Honda and improvements to the car, Alonso qualified 13th.\n\nFor much of the race in Melbourne, he was in 10th place, valiantly holding off Esteban Ocon's Force India, which had a 27km/h advantage on the straight. McLaren racing director Eric Boullier described Alonso's drive as \"prodigiously impressive\".\n\nThe same could be said of many of his races in an under-powered McLaren over the last two years - such as his fifth places in Monaco and the USA last year, or his drive to seventh from last on the grid in Belgium. Results that helped McLaren secure sixth place in the championship.\n\nIn two separate news conferences over the weekend, Lewis Hamilton expressed his regret that Alonso was not racing at the front, saying he \"deserved it\", as one of the best drivers on the grid.\n\nAs Hamilton said: \"It would be great to have Fernando up there but it doesn't look like it is going to happen any time soon.\"\n\nIndeed it doesn't. While Alonso's achievements at Albert Park amount to positive progress in the context of McLaren-Honda's dire pre-season, they are a long way from the ambitions of this once-great team and its still-great number one driver.\n\nWhat has gone wrong?\n\nThis was the year the McLaren-Honda alliance was supposed to finally hit its stride after two difficult seasons. Alonso spent much of last year saying how the change in regulations gave McLaren a chance to close the gap on Mercedes, and Honda promised it would make a big step forward with its engine.\n\nEven as recently as the launch of the McLaren car in late February, Honda F1 boss Yusuke Hasegawa was expressing his hope that the redesigned Honda engine would match the performance of Mercedes' 2016 power-unit by the start of the season.\n\nIt has not worked out that way. Pre-season testing was beset by difficulties, Honda getting through at least five engines in the course of eight days. Alonso said the engine had \"no power and no reliability\".\n\nThere were several problems, but a couple of fundamental ones: a major vibration that was either breaking the engine, or damaging ancillaries enough to make it shut down; and less power than last year's engine. Informed estimates put its deficit to the new Mercedes engine at somewhere between 120-160bhp.\n\nThe vibration problem is severe enough that Honda should, in one way, be applauded for the progress it made in enabling Alonso, at least, to run a pretty much normal weekend. The same could not be said for his new team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne, but that's another story.\n\nBut while the engine ran relatively reliably, it still badly lacked performance, and it is clear that patience is running out, the partnership close to breaking point.\n\nWhat does Alonso think about this?\n\nWhile expressing the need for improvement, Alonso was mostly sanguine about the situation in his public appearances over the course of the weekend. But there were still glimpses behind the mask.\n\nHe sat stony faced in the team's post-qualifying news conference, until the question of how he motivated himself to go through another season like this was brought up. Where's your head at, he was asked?\n\n\"I expect a big change in the team, a big reaction,\" he said. \"We will not be 13th all season. Or I will not be.\"\n\nThe message was clear. Sort it out, or I'm off.\n\nThe big question is what happens next. BBC Sport revealed two weeks ago that McLaren had made an initial approach to Mercedes about a potential engine supply in the wake of the problems in testing. This despite a \"multi-year contract\" with Honda.\n\nIt was notable at the Australian Grand Prix that when asked about this development, McLaren racing director Eric Boullier neither denied it, nor made any attempt to play down the potential of the team splitting with Honda.\n\n\"Obviously we are looking at every option to recover and catch up,\" Boullier said, \"because we are definitely not in the position that we were expecting to be and we want to be.\"\n\nHasegawa admitted: \"We are having a strong pressure from the team and from the drivers. We try to keep improving.\"\n\nSelf-evidently, McLaren's decision to talk to Mercedes, even if only briefly, means the team's senior management are considering whether they should try to get out of their contract with Honda. Which means they must have doubts about whether the Japanese motor giant will ever be able to provide a competitive engine during the life of their partnership.\n\nHonda contribute something in the region of $70m a year and free engines to McLaren - close to a net $90-100m when the cost of buying a customer engine is added. Asked how it felt about the team talking to a rival, Hasegawa said: \"This is just a rumour.\"\n\nChallenged that it was a fact, he said: \"I don't know. I don't care about that. The thing we have to do is keep concentrating.\"\n\nOn the subject of potentially changing engines, Boullier said: \"I am not going to comment on these kind of discussions. It is a private discussion we have with Honda to recover, considering all options.\n\n\"We are responsible for McLaren and Hasegawa-san is responsible for Honda. As partners we try to help each other and support each other because the key secret is to be as integrated as possible.\"\n\nHis answer did little to diminish the belief that McLaren are at least considering trying to find a way out of their contract with Honda.\n\nThe question is why they would think that was a good idea.\n\nOn the face of it, it sounds like one. On a simplistic level, it would seem logical that if a Mercedes engine was plugged into a McLaren, the car would be much more competitive.\n\nBoullier claimed during winter testing that McLaren would win if it had a Mercedes engine. On a simple calculation of the minimum power deficit, a Mercedes engine might potentially make the McLaren in the region of two seconds quicker. Alonso was 3.2 seconds off the pace in qualifying.\n\nSo changing might - at best - put McLaren about sixth or so on the grid. But there are wider considerations than that.\n\nFor a start, where would the missing money come from? McLaren are run by very rich men - the Bahraini royal family is a 50% shareholder and 25% shareholder Mansour Ojjeh is a billionaire.\n\nThey could easily fund the shortfall if they wanted to - but that situation is sustainable for only so long.\n\nMcLaren's new executive director Zak Brown is the best sponsor-finder in the paddock. But in a difficult market, finding income worth $70m a year for a team struggling to score a point, even if he can sell it on the idea of switching to Mercedes is not going to be easy.\n\nBeyond that, customer Mercedes engines is not a long-term strategy. Red Bull buck the trend, but it is widely accepted in F1 that if a team wants to win the title, it has to have a works engine partnership. And no other Mercedes customer team are close to the factory outfit's performance, despite the regulatory requirement to provide identical engines.\n\nThat's because F1 cars are complex pieces of machinery. The Mercedes car is designed around the Mercedes engine, which is built after conversations between the two arms of the team. The customers get what they are given and do not have the same opportunity for integration.\n\nThen there is the question of how McLaren would get out of its Honda contract. Honda is showing no signs of wanting to quit. It sees F1 as a long-term project.\n\nIf McLaren sought a way out, Honda might acquiesce. But the company would be highly unlikely to pay any money in the form of compensation. It might even take offence, and sue McLaren. A case Honda has vastly more resources to fight than the team.\n\nOnce out of its Honda contract, McLaren would then need to look for another works engine partner. Yet not only are no other car companies expressing an interest in F1, but any approached would surely look at the way McLaren have treated Honda and wonder whether they were a team with which it was wise to get involved.\n\nThe perceived risk in persevering with Honda is that it might never manage to produce a competitive engine, and that by the time it realises this and pulls out of F1, McLaren will be in such dire straits that the company would be on its knees.\n\nBut McLaren already have a relatively limited sponsor portfolio, with Honda providing the bulk of their income beyond official prize money. And if Honda did quit in, say, three years' time, the rules mean that one of the remaining engine companies would be obliged to supply McLaren then - so it is arguable they would be no worse off than they are now.\n\nThe alternative ending is that McLaren use this situation as an opportunity.\n\nThey can hope that their public flirting with Mercedes wakes Honda up to the need to do a better job. They could apologise privately, express their commitment to the partnership's success, and offer to work ever more closely together with Honda reach the standards required. And they could redouble their collective efforts to making it so.\n\nWhether Alonso would hang around in that scenario is another question. But, brilliant though he is as a grand prix driver, McLaren have much bigger problems than that right now.\n\nThe Bahrainis, Ojjeh and Brown have some serious thinking to do. And any decision they make requires wisdom and long-term strategy, not short-term tactical opportunism.", "Spare a thought for those who are bestowed with troublesome names. That can happen anywhere, of course. But, in Zambia, Chris Haslam came across some very surprising choices.\n\nUnder a darkening sky on a dusty, potholed track in eastern Zambia, a small boy is struggling to push a large, Chinese bicycle. Its handlebars, crossbar and panniers are stacked impossibly high with yellow jerry cans, firewood and a sack of rice. Because the boy needs both hands to keep the bike upright, he can't sweep the flies from his eyes. But this seven-year-old is labouring under a much heavier, but less visible burden.\n\nHis name is Mulangani. It's a Nguni word meaning \"punish me\". Or \"he who must be punished\", if you want to get formal. Who, I asked my driver Mavuto, would give their child such a horrible name?\n\n\"Maybe his grandfather, maybe the chief,\" he shrugged, explaining that across Zambia and neighbouring Zimbabwe, it is common for parents, especially in rural areas, to invite community elders to choose the name of a newborn.\n\n\"Sometimes the chief wants to punish the family,\" says Mavuto. \"Or he may think this new child is too much for the family to bear.\"\n\nWatching the boy's Sisyphean progress towards his distant home, that name suddenly seems disturbingly apt, but he's not the only one cursed with a dismal name. In later days, I meet Chilumba - \"my brother's grave\", Balaudye - \"I will be eaten\", Soca - \"bad luck\" and Chakufwa - \"it is dead\".\n\nI also meet Daliso, whose name means \"blessings\" and Chikondi, which means \"love\". Maybe it's me, but they do seem happier.\n\n\"In African culture, there is a trend of naming children according to the circumstances surrounding their birth,\" says Clare Mulkenga-Chilambo, a care worker at SOS Children's Villages in Zambia. \"It's good for those born at bright and merry moments but unfortunate for the others.\"\n\nAnd there are a lot of others. HIV and Aids have ravaged Zambia, and although infection rates are now falling, 55,000 adults and 5,000 kids became infected in 2015. Countrywide, an estimated 380,000 children have been orphaned by Aids and 85,000 are living with HIV.\n\nAsk Massiye, or \"orphan\", or Chisonis - \"sadness\", or the sad-eyed Chimwamsozi, whose name means \"drinker of tears\". Or nine-year-old Komasi, whose name means \"kill him\", and his little brother Komaniso, aka \"kill him also\".\n\n\"Most Zambians have several names,\" says Kangachepe Banda. His name means \"well off\" or \"richness\", and as a safari guide he's doing OK.\n\n\"You're talking about the first one. It's called the zina la bamkombo- or the name of the umbilical cord. After a birth, the mother and child hide away until the cord drops off. On that day, the baby is presented to family and neighbours, and the person honoured with choosing the name makes his decision.\"\n\nUse of this name is supposed to be limited. It's supposed to be kept between the namer and the named - a dark reminder to the growing child that one person saw into his or her soul at birth.\n\nThe church, says Clare Mulenga-Chilambo, offers deliverance. \"Most people turn to Christianity and on baptism, they are given Christian names,\" she says. \"This gives them the opportunity to give up their traditional name, which is often seen as the cause of whatever misfortune they could have been facing in their lives\".\n\nBut there are some here who see opting for the homogenised anonymity of John, James or Mary as a dereliction of tradition. Others feel that the names must be kept not just out of respect to elders but also as a guarantee of ancestral protection.\n\nIf the name maketh the man, then surely Zambia's notoriously grim prisons are full of unfortunates who've been saddled with names like Chidano, Mapenzi and Chananga - that's \"hatred\", \"trouble\" and \"wrongdoer\" respectively?\n\n\"It's possible,\" concurs Muvato. Growing up, he knew a kid called Chiheni, which translates as bad boy, or thug.\n\n\"He ran away from home when he was 12,\" he says. \"He is in prison in South Africa for the attempted murder of a security guard.\"\n\nMeanwhile, little Mulangani - he who must be punished - has scrounged a lift in the back of our pick-up to his home. It's a tin-roofed hut with a neat vegetable patch patrolled by bickering chickens and a dog called Imbwa. Which means \"dog\".\n\nSometime soon, says Mulangani, I'm going to be baptised. My new name will be Emanuel. It means God is with me.\n\nAs we drive away, there's a storm brewing in the west. The potholes are getting deeper and the clutch is playing up. As the first fat raindrops splatter the dusty windscreen, it suddenly strikes me that I haven't asked Mavuto what his name means.\n\nHe grimaces as he struggles to find third gear.\n\n\"It means problems,\" he says.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nNorthern Ireland remain on course for a World Cup play-off spot thanks to an impressive qualifier win over Norway.\n\nJamie Ward's strike put the hosts in front inside two minutes and Steven Davis set up Conor Washington to fire in the second on 33 at Windsor Park.\n\nAlexander Soderlund hit the crossbar in the first half but it was a disappointing start to Lars Lagerback's managerial reign with the Norwegians.\n\nNorthern Ireland are two points clear of third-placed Czech Republic.\n\nWorld champions Germany beat Azerbaijan 4-1 in Baku on Sunday to remain five points ahead of Michael O'Neill's side in Group C.\n\nThe Czechs earned a 6-0 win over bottom-placed San Marino on Sunday, with Azerbaijan a further point back and the Norwegians surely out of contention 12 off the pace following their defeat at Windsor Park.\n\nWard's strike gave Northern Ireland the perfect start as the Nottingham Forest striker justified his return to the starting line-up by arrowing in his shot from 20 yards.\n\nIt set the tone for a dominant first-half display from O'Neill's team although Norway provided a rare threat when Soderlund's dipping volley crashed off the woodwork.\n\nThe lead was doubled on 33 minutes with a pinpoint through-ball from skipper Davis sending Washington clear and the striker slotted in from 10 yards.\n\nNorway improved after the interval but they struggled to carve out clear-cut openings.\n\nNorthern Ireland keeper Michael McGovern did make a good save to keep out a long-range Havard Nordtveit free-kick but it was mostly huff and puff stuff from the visitors.\n\nMichael O'Neill's first game in charge of Northern Ireland was a 3-0 defeat by Norway in February 2012. How times have changed.\n\nFresh from guiding his team to the Euro 2016 finals, he has fashioned a superbly drilled unit boasting relentless energy and confidence.\n\nO'Neill made four changes from the 4-0 win over Azerbaijan in November, with a new strikeforce of Ward and Queen's Park Rangers forward Washington while Craig Cathcart's return saw a switch to a back three.\n\nDespite a new system and forward line there was a fluency in Northern Ireland's play and O'Neill has instilled a work ethic in the players exhibited by constant pressing of the opposition.\n\nNorthern Ireland fans will hope their manager will remain at the helm and take them to the finals in 2018, but O'Neill is increasingly catching the eye of ambitious clubs in England and Scotland.\n\nAnother majestic performance from the Northern Ireland skipper, who makes the game look so simple as the heartbeat of the team.\n\nHis through-ball to Washington for the second goal was a highlight in a display of calmness and class.\n\nThe 32-year-old Southampton midfielder was always available, always in the right place and led by example.\n\nNorthern Ireland are next in qualifier action in Azerbaijan on 10 June.\n\nO'Neill's side have a home friendly against New Zealand eight days prior to the Baku contest.\n• None Attempt blocked. Oliver Norwood (Northern Ireland) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Matthew Lund.\n• None Attempt saved. Niall McGinn (Northern Ireland) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Offside, Norway. Even Hovland tries a through ball, but Mats Møller Dæhli is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Joshua King (Norway) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Håvard Nordtveit.\n• None Attempt saved. Håvard Nordtveit (Norway) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nManchester City Women will host Liverpool Ladies in the Women's FA Cup semi-finals, while Chelsea are to visit Birmingham City.\n\nBirmingham, winners in 2012, knocked out holders Arsenal on Sunday in the last eight, while Chelsea beat fellow top-flight side Sunderland.\n\nCurrent league champions Man City, who have never reached an FA Cup final, earned a late win at Bristol City.\n\nBoth semi-finals are scheduled to take place on Monday, 17 April.\n\nLiverpool have never won the competition but have reached the final on two occasions, in 1995 and 1996, and beat Notts County Ladies 2-0 at home in the quarter-finals.\n\nThis year's final on Saturday, 13 May, will be held at Wembley, where it has been staged since Chelsea beat Notts in the 2015 final.\n\nMan City and Chelsea, the top two sides in the league for both of the past two seasons, had been drawn to face each other in the FA Cup semi-finals in each of the past two years.\n\nThe draw for the last four - carried out live on BBC Radio 5 live - guaranteed that the 2017 final cannot be a repeat of any previous final, as Birmingham met Chelsea in the 2012 final.", "Little chance of a quiet cuppa in some Beijing cafes\n\nThere are some societies where people are expected to avoid being noisy in public and they behave accordingly. Then there's China.\n\nThis country that I love is many things, but quiet is not one of them.\n\nThere are plenty of bustling cities - rammed with millions of people - where you could be frowned upon for disrupting others with a raised voice: Seoul, London, Tokyo… especially Tokyo.\n\nChina does not have those cities.\n\nThe word most often used here to describe a great restaurant is not \"moody\" nor \"intimate\" nor \"tasteful\" but \"renao\". To be 热闹 is to be bustling with noise and excitement.\n\nAfter all, who'd want to go to one of those fussy, dull joints where you couldn't bring kids or laugh too loud or spill a beer?\n\nLaughter is often part of the noise\n\nNow, given that I've lived in Beijing for 12 years, you would think that outbursts in public would be as nothing to this hardened correspondent, fully enmeshed in the ways of the Middle Kingdom, yet China can always turn on a surprise.\n\nSo there I am at a cafe nearby, feeling all urbane with a light caffeine buzz on: newspaper; some other reading material; Chet Baker's mournful trumpet floating around the room at just the right level; I can't help noticing a smart-looking beautiful woman across the other side of the room talking to her friend and…\n\nSomebody starts a phone call at the top of their voice in full-flight pirate-sounding Beijing dialect. Anyone who has heard a Beijing taxi driver on the phone to the family at home will know exactly how this sounds.\n\n\"Naaaarrrrrr? Bu shirrrrrr baaaaa.\" [Where? No it isn't.]\n\nA cafe in Japan on the other hand, is likely to be an oasis of calm\n\nAt this point a Chinese farmer walks in carrying the fake and/or stolen watches he's been selling on the street.\n\nHe's carrying his flask of tea, has no intention of buying anything at the cafe and sits on a stool with best view out of the window, next to his mate who also has no intention of buying anything but is very interested in showing the purveyor of watches an awesome new video game on his phone.\n\nWoooshhhh! Bam! Bam! Ba-doing!!! The two of them crack up laughing and they keep playing.\n\nJust as the first conversation is getting heated, a young convert to Christianity sits down next to me and starts praying before diving into her diary-style, each-day-a-new-lesson, introduction to Jesus.\n\nMany countries are densely populated but they respond to the squeeze in different ways\n\nGame, argument, praying, talk, game, laughter, talk... \"Look at the stars… Look how they shine for you…\"\n\nA hippie looking Chinese bloke has booted up his laptop and Coldplay starts belting out of the speakers.\n\n\"And everything you do. Yeah they were all yellow.\"\n\nHe has his eyes closed and is gyrating in the seat as he sings along to himself.\n\nI look around the cafe and, amidst this cacophony of chaos, nobody but me has reacted as if this is anything but completely normal. Some people are chatting amongst themselves, others reading or sending messages on mobile phones but they've not even glanced up to pay attention to the activities around them.\n\nThe Big Apple - and unlikely ally to China when it comes to bustle\n\nThe other place in the world I've seen this phenomenon is New York.\n\nI went to a diner there once which had an open plan kitchen. It was packed for the morning rush hour. I was preparing to take in the New York Times over breakfast when one of the cooks started ribbing his workmate and the tension was building. At least I thought so.\n\nThen the cook being hassled turned to the other and said in a pretty menacing tone: \"Yeah keep talkin' funny guy!\" At this point I was considering the possible uses of a spatula as a weapon.\n\nThen the diner owner called out at the top of his voice from the payment counter by the door: \"Heh, Pauly, go downstairs and get me some of those ******* strawberries!!!\"\n\nThe whole country feels like it's on the move\n\nThere is something incredible about the way in which societies, cities, subcultures find their level in terms of acceptable public volume.\n\nIf a megacity has its own disruptive sound maybe you have to speak up to get over it? But with what noise does a Chinese farmer have to compete in the field?\n\nMaybe you have to speak up in order to be heard amongst a huge population? Yet most Chinese people in recent years grew up with no brothers or sisters and had only their parents at home for evening conversations.\n\nBack in the cafe, Mr Coldplay has packed up his laptop, the game boys have gone and only the first woman is still speaking on the phone… but now much more quietly: she's crying.\n\nHer call has been more important than I had given her credit for.\n\nLoudly playing Coldplay songs in public does not go down well everywhere\n\nI can remember being in London many years ago on a backpacking trip when I got the news that a good friend, a brilliant young doctor, had died back in Sydney.\n\nI didn't know what to do so I went to a cafe and wrote her a letter to say goodbye.\n\nI was crying my eyes out in a public place and people were looking at me but not disapprovingly. They just didn't know how to take it.\n\nWhen I told a BBC colleague I was going to write this piece she laughed: \"What? An Australian talking about noisy people?\"\n\nMaybe we are. I hadn't thought about it.\n\nIs that why I fit in here?", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Rugby\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio Scotland 810MW, plus live text commentary via the BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app\n\nFull-back Stuart Hogg says it should not be considered a shock if Scotland secure a Six Nations victory over England at Twickenham on Saturday.\n\nThey have not beaten England since 2008 and not won at Twickenham since 1983.\n\nBut Hogg, who has scored three tries in the campaign so far, says this side is capable of reclaiming the Calcutta Cup.\n\n\"We're no longer a team that just turns up, lies down and allows our bellies to be tickled,\" said the 24-year-old. \"We're more than capable of winning.\"\n\nWith Wales beating Ireland in Cardiff on Friday, England will clinch a second straight title if they beat the Scots on Saturday, with a tilt at a second straight Grand Slam in Dublin on Saturday, 18 March to then round things off.\n\nBut a Scotland victory would catapult Vern Cotter's side into title contention, with their final game at home to Italy.\n\nWho can still win the Six Nations?\n• None If England beat Scotland on Saturday they will retain the title\n• None Victory for Scotland could send them top of the table with a game to play\n• None If France beat Italy and England lose, mathematically five teams would still be in with a shout\n• None There is one final round of games after Saturday's two matches\n\nHogg has been in fine form during the Six Nations, and having been named player of the tournament last season he is among the leading contenders to claim the award this time around.\n\nOne area of Hogg's game that has come under scrutiny, however, is his defence. The Glasgow Warriors full-back says he expects England to try and put him under pressure.\n\n\"Defensively I think I will be challenged,\" he said.\n\n\"There will be high balls from George Ford, Owen Farrell, Mike Brown, they'll stick them on me. I'm fully aware of what's coming. It's just about being mature about the situation and dealing with it.\n\n\"You're never going to be the complete player. There are always going to be weaknesses in your game and you could say defence is one of mine.\n\n\"When things are going well there is always going to be someone to put you down. I'm fully aware that my defence isn't the strongest but I'll continue to work on it.\"\n\nVictories over Ireland and Wales have seen Scotland rise to an all-time high of fifth in the world rankings.\n\nHogg feels teams are now taking notice of Scotland's improvement and is relishing a crack at Eddie Jones' side.\n\n\"Slowly but surely we are gaining more respect from teams,\" he added. \"We'll just continue to work hard and hopefully wins will come our way.\n\n\"I love playing at Twickenham. Unfortunately we've not been able to get the win here.\n\n\"The last time we played here [a 25-13 defeat in 2015], we were winning at half-time and going off the pitch to [the fans singing] the Flower of Scotland. As a proud Scotsman that was terrific.\n\n\"Here's hoping there will be a big support down here that will be singing again. We're going to do everything we possibly can to make that happen.\n\n\"We're very much in a position to come down here and win, and nothing is going to come in our way.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBrighton eased to victory against out-of-form Derby to move level on points with Championship leaders Newcastle.\n\nWinger Anthony Knockaert fired the Seagulls ahead early on, with a low 20-yard effort into the corner.\n\nSam Baldock slotted the ball in to double the lead just before the break.\n\nMatej Vydra headed against the outside of the post for Derby, before Glenn Murray bundled in his 18th goal of the campaign from Knockaert's cross to seal Brighton's 14th home win of the season.\n\nThe Seagulls remain second in the table with an inferior goal difference to Newcastle, but now have a nine-point buffer to Huddersfield in third - albeit the Terriers have two games in hand.\n\nOf their nine matches left, seven are against sides in the bottom half of the table as they look to return to the top flight for the first time since 1982-83.\n\nFollowing a trip to play-off chasing Leeds next Saturday, April's fixture list is kind to Chris Hughton's men with home games against Blackburn, Birmingham, Wigan and Bristol City.\n\nTheir outstanding frontline of Murray, Baldock and Knockaert have now scored 42 Championship goals between them this campaign, and gave Derby's defenders a torrid time with their pace, movement and clinical finishing.\n\nFormer Leicester forward Knockaert was instrumental in most of Brighton's attacking play, bending home a superb effort to open the scoring and seeing Scott Carson tip over his fierce second-half strike.\n\nThe Rams started with former England pair Darren Bent and David Nugent up front, but Brighton's defence were rarely troubled in keeping their 19th clean sheet of the season.\n\nDerby, who are 10th and 10 points behind sixth-placed Sheffield Wednesday, have now only picked up six points from their past nine matches and their play-off hopes appear to be over for another season.\n\nBrighton manager Chris Hughton: \"We now have 77 points and there is no points target from our last nine games.\n\n\"We've got some tough games coming up and everybody is fighting. But we're on the back of a really good performance against a really good side tonight. We were very good from start to finish.\n\n\"The timing of the first goal was pivotal, the second just before half-time lifted us and we were able to take that on in the second half.\"\n\nDerby County boss Steve McClaren: \"It was a lesson for my team and this showed how far Brighton have come. They are going up for certain. Murray was a great signing and Brighton are a team that are going up. The gap showed.\n\n\"It was a reality check for us. We have played three games in a week and we couldn't deal with the physicality of that.\n\n\"That is the benchmark of where we need to go. In the 16 months I was away teams have really kicked on in terms of physicality. The league has kicked on. We need to learn the lessons and kick on ourselves.\"\n\nMcClaren on his future at Derby: \"I am confident I can take it on, absolutely. We need to take the club on to the next level and from one day we knew that.\n\n\"The chairman wants Derby in the Premier League. We have all the resources and don't need to panic. We need to prepare to face Forest on Saturday and then take this club on.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Baldock (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tomer Hemed with a through ball.\n• None Beram Kayal (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Attempt blocked. Tom Ince (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Brighton and Hove Albion 3, Derby County 0. Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt saved. Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Anthony Knockaert.\n• None Jiri Skalak (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This year's South by Southwest (SXSW) has a lot of focus on artificial intelligence (AI)\n\nWhen I think of having an assistant, I'm always drawn to that slightly Hollywood portrayal of a top chief executive, pouring himself a stiff drink, leaning back in his leather chair and pressing the intercom.\n\n\"Mary,\" he'll say. \"Please handle my calls. Only disturb me if it's urgent.\"\n\nIt's a bygone era, sure - and a gender stereotype, no doubt - but that dream of having an assistant, one that truly helps you out with daily tasks, is still prevalent. In fact, we're told it's the future of computing - with all the top companies firing up their research divisions to work on the concept. So far, it's Siri, Alexa, Google and Cortana leading the way.\n\nBut none of those assistants actually assist you, do they? Not in a \"take this load off my mind\" kind of way, at least.\n\nThis week I'm lucky enough to be at South by Southwest - SXSW - a three-part festival that deals with tech, music and film. Much of the focus this year will be on artificial intelligence - AI - and how it needs to evolve to become more useful and accepted. The sessions will look at how AI can be smart enough to help us achieve more and more.\n\nBut really, all I want is for new tech to help me do less.\n\nHave you ever counted how many notifications you get on your smartphone on a typical day? I have. It's horrifying. More than 100 interruptions a day from Facebook likes, Instagram comments, tweet replies, news alerts, text messages, WhatsApp messages, Slack messages… oh my. I can't get a word in edgeways round here, and it's all my fault.\n\nOr is it? I may have sleepwalked into this notification hell, but I was having my hand held throughout it all by the companies desperate for my attention. Every social network, large or small, is after for one thing: engagement. More users, more of the time. And notifications is their surefire way of dragging you back into their apps, time and time again.\n\nIt's a lucrative strategy - part of Snapchat's popularity with investors right now is not because of how much money it's making (none) or how many users it has (not that many), but because of incredible statistics that show the average Snapchat user opens the app at least 10 times a day.\n\nApps can end up sending dozens of notifications a day in an attempt to get users attention\n\nAnd it's no fluke. In the dark arts of nudging users to breaking point, Snapchat is the Grand High Witch. By default, not only does it tell you when you have a message, it also tells you when you're about to be sent one. \"Dave is typing…\" it will beep - as if being up-to-date these days requires you to know about messages before they even exist.\n\nNaturally, you open the app; up goes their engagement, and down goes your concentration, your focus, your social etiquette.\n\nSnapchat isn't the only one, of course, and you can turn off notifications manually should you want. But it's at this point your sense of FOMO - Fear Of Missing Out - goes into overdrive. It's a deliberate, emotional tug pulled by app makers, and many push you into a choice between getting all notifications, or none.\n\nOf course one solution to this overwhelming feeling is what people like to refer to as a \"digital detox\" - a clumsy, cliched term most often pushed by PR companies trying to get clients on to morning radio shows or, worse, from journalists sorely lacking in ideas.\n\nI've always found the outcomes to be pointlessly predictable. You gave up Facebook for a week, you say? Big whoop. Have a sticker.\n\nBut this week I read a refreshing view on this issue from Alex Wood. Alex's approach was not to go cold turkey, but instead to implement a few tweaks here and there to regulate use. I'd suggest reading his piece if you want to learn what software he used and other interesting tips.\n\nSnapchat is popular with investors because of how much users open the app\n\nBy the time he concluded his piece, he'd managed to disconnect himself sufficiently to feel liberated - but not to the point of being cut off from his friends or profession.\n\nIt's an issue also dealt with by another reporter, Kristen Brown, who last year held a panel at an event organised by Fusion, the tech news and culture site that has recently (sadly) been swallowed up into Gizmodo.\n\nOne of her suggestions was to hide all the apps on your smartphone into a big folder, so the only practical way to access the was to use the search function. This added step in theory made you focus on what you really needed to do - and put an end to that habit of just idly tapping from app to app.\n\nBut what stood out - for both Kristen and Alex - was how difficult the process was. Given technology constantly provides us with smart user interfaces and automation, turning off notifications remains a frustrating manual task - an intentionally fiddly process of ducking through menus, and then, assuming you want them back at some point, going through those menus once again, hopefully remembering what exactly it was you turned off.\n\nIf digital assistants go the way of notifications, we're in even more trouble. Notifications won't just be buzzing our pockets, but filling our air with noise.\n\nThere is value in that, but after pondering the struggle Alex went through to temporarily silence his digital life, I feel a truly intelligent assistant would be more like Mary, the Hollywood chief exec's assistant.\n\nWhy can't I tell Alexa that I want to focus right now, and it should instruct my social networks to chill out - notifications will stop, messages will be reduced.\n\nDave Lee hopes to find a company to make his life easier at SXSW\n\nToday, asking Siri to \"handle my calls\" prompts it to bring up a call history. Perhaps instead it should be able to intercept my incoming calls, ask the caller if it's urgent, and only then disturb me if needed.\n\nThe iPhone already has a Do Not Disturb function, but it's a bit of a blunt instrument when it comes to filtering out - or letting in - things that are truly worth your time. There are a smattering of apps that help you regulate your time on networks or websites. But it's too cumbersome, and only gets the job half done.\n\nSadly, it's not in any tech firm's interests to lessen the amount of time you spend interacting with your technology - so progress in this area may be slow. But as I take on the corridors of SXSW this week, I'll be cheering on any company that wants to genuinely make my life easier.\n\nFollow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook. You can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Brian Vigneault had been playing for more than 20 hours continuously when he died\n\nThe death of a prominent gamer has led to a debate about whether gaming marathons are hazardous to health.\n\nBrian Vigneault was a 35-year-old father of three from Virginia, USA who gamed under the alias Poshybrid. In February he took on a 24-hour-long gaming marathon, playing World of Tanks to raise money for charity.\n\nThe marathon was streamed to a live audience on the website Twitch, which describes itself as \"the world's leading video platform and community for gamers\".\n\nTwenty two hours in, Vigneault reportedly went outside to take a cigarette break. He didn't return to the screen - and later died.\n\nVigneault's exact cause of death has not yet been established, or conclusively linked to his streaming marathon. But his friend Jessica Gebauer, who spoke to him on the night he died, told BBC Trending that he looked \"extremely tired\" and was falling asleep during the stream.\n\nSince Vigneault's death, Gebauer, who is a fellow streamer, says she has questioned the health implications of continuous live-stream gaming. She is not the only one.\n\nHear this story in full on the BBC World Service, or download our podcast\n\nJoe Marino is a \"professional\" Twitch user, who makes money from subscriptions to his gaming channel. He told BBC Trending that he thinks all streaming platforms should set up limits on how long streamers can stream.\n\nMarino, who says he developed Type 2 diabetes after spending a year streaming on Twitch 12 hours a day, seven days a week, said: \"The reason you don't move around on Twitch is because you're live, so if you get up and move you've potentially lost a portion of your audience.\n\nFollowing the death of Vigneault, Marino penned a warning article warning about the health risks of his streaming career. It received comments from gamers who said they too experienced health issues following marathon gaming sessions.\n\nJoe Marino in front of his gaming setup\n\nFounded in 2011 and bought by Amazon in 2014, Twitch is a huge community of gamers and game watchers. The company estimates that each day close to 10 million people visit the site to watch fellow gamers and talk about video games, and users can also donate money to more than 2 million streamers.\n\nTwitch and other similar sites host tournaments where seasoned players stay continuously online for several hours - or longer - and gaming marathons are becoming more and more common.\n\nWell-known streamers such as ManVsGame have frequently taken part in marathon streams exceeding 24 hours - and in 2015 he spoke about taking drugs to supplement his marathon sessions.\n\nWhile deaths as a result of video game streaming are incredibly rare, there have been other incidents including the death of a 24-year-old man in Shanghai 2015 who died after playing World of Warcraft for 19 hours, and the death in 2012 of a teenager in Taiwan who reportedly died at an Internet cafe playing Diablo 3 for 40 hours straight.\n\nTwitch is a live streaming social video platform for gamers. The site say they have more than 9 million daily active users\n\nCam Adair, who is founder of Game Quitters - the largest online support community for people with gaming addiction - says Twitch and other streaming platforms have a duty of care to their users: \"I'm not saying that companies need to be policing their users, but they could simply reach out and say 'Hey, I've seen you've been playing 15 hours today which is different to what was going on before. Are you OK?'\"\n\nHowever, for professional Twitch streamer Ben Broman, who has taken part in 11 24-hour gaming marathons, imposing health guidelines on Twitch streamers would be too restrictive.\n\n\"Twitch, much like any other creative career, involves risk taking and any artist will tell you that it's very important for them to be able to go about creating it in whatever way they see fit,\" he told BBC Trending.\n\nAnother streamer on Reddit said: \"Not intending to speak ill of the dead, but he made the choice to do this... I understand there is pressure to produce, but obviously some things come before that. I don't think we should impose restrictions.\"\n\nTwitch said they are \"greatly saddened\" at the passing of one of their users, but the company has not responded to suggestions that they should be taking a more active approach in ensuring the health of their users.\n\nNext story: The 'robot lawyer’ giving free legal advice to refugees\n\nA technology used to fight parking fines is now helping asylum seekers apply for emergency housing. READ MORE\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 Badminton\n\nChris and Gabby Adcock produced a stunning comeback to defeat the Olympic champions and reach the All England Badminton semi-finals in Birmingham.\n\nThe married pair lost the first set 16-21 to Indonesia's Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir but levelled in a gruelling 21-19 second set win.\n\nThey then powered to a 21-12 success in the decider to reach the last-four.\n\n\"The crowd played a massive part in helping us turn that around,\" Gabby Adcock told BBC Sport.\n\nChris Adcock added: \"They are the best pair in the world at making you feel like you're not playing well and it was a real struggle for us to begin with.\n\n\"We could have easily crumbled and been out of here, going home, so I'm really pleased with how we responded and how the crowd helped us.\"\n\nThe Adcocks, who are seeded seventh, will face fifth-seeds Kai Lu and Huang Yaqiong on Saturday.\n\nThe Chinese duo secured a surprise win over London Olympic bronze medallists Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Christinna Pedersen from Denmark.\n\n\"We've played the Chinese a few times and know what we're going to get from them, so we'll rest now and come out fighting again tomorrow,\" said Gabby Adcock.\n\n\"We reached the semi-finals last year and wanted to improve on that, so we're on course and have come here to win.\"\n\nFind out how to get into badminton with our special guide.", "Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez is given space by Lincoln City to run towards goal and bend a brilliant strike deep into the far corner in the FA Cup quarter-final.\n\nWatch highlights of the FA Cup, Saturday 11 March, 23:05 GMT on BBC One and the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Sports\n\nElise Christie became the first British woman to win a World Short Track Speed Skating Championships title with victory in the 1500m in Rotterdam.\n\nThe 26-year-old Scot had previously won eight other world championship medals but clocked two minutes 54.369 seconds, to win the title, 0.12 seconds ahead of Canada's Marianne St-Gelais in second.\n\nShe also reached the 500m final, but finished last of the four competitors.\n\nChristie has the chance of another gold in the 1000m on Sunday.\n\n\"I never expected to win the 1500,'' said Christie.\n\nThe world title represents an impressive resurgence from Christie, who said she was considering her future in the sport after being disqualified from all three of her events at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.\n\nLivingston-born Christie has been focusing on the shorter distance events this season and has already set a new 500m world record of 42.335 seconds.\n\nIn the 1500m final, South Korea's Shim Suk-hee was third with her compatriot and defending champion Choi Min-jeong a distant fifth.\n\nChristie was unable to challenge in the 500m final, recording a time of 43.835 seconds, with China's Kexin Fan winning in 43.605.\n\nMeanwhile at the World Freestyle Ski and Snowboard Championships, Zoe Gillings-Brier finished ninth in the snowboard cross.\n\nShe only gave birth to a daughter last August and missed out on a chunk of pre-season training.\n\nGillings-Brier, who does not receive UK Sport funding, told BBC Sport: \"I loved every minute of it. Back on a big course with all the best competitors. Hopefully I'll get some great training in the summer.\"\n\nAmerican Lindsey Jacobellis landed her fifth world title in a photo finish with France's Chloe Trespeuch.\n\nOn her first appearance in the competition, 19-year-old Welsh competitor Maisie Potter went out in the snowboard cross quarter-finals.", "Pep Guardiola said his first season as Manchester City boss will be considered a failure if he does not win a trophy.\n\nGuardiola arrived last summer following success with Barcelona and Bayern Munich, but his current side trail Premier League leaders Chelsea by 10 points with 11 games remaining.\n\nCity are, however, still in the FA Cup and Champions League.\n\n\"If I have no silverware, I will not be here for a long time,\" said the 46-year-old Catalan manager.\n\n\"No silverware - it will not be a good season,\" Guardiola added. \"I knew that in August. Being a manager depends on results.\n\n\"I know what my standard was in the past and I know what is on my shoulders. I have to handle that.\n\n\"But I know we will be judged on the titles we have won. My period in Munich was judged like a disaster because we were not able to win the Champions League. I won three leagues in a row, we won two cups from three, we arrived every time in the semi-finals and finals but it was a disaster.\n\n\"I have to handle that but what I can say is try to play better, better, better than the previous month. That's what I want to see for the next year - be better.\"\n\nCity travel to Middlesbrough in the FA Cup quarter-finals on Saturday before heading to Monaco for the second leg of their Champions League last-16 tie on Wednesday. They then face top-four rivals Liverpool the following weekend.\n\nGuardiola said: \"It is an important week. We have done a good job in the past - especially in two competitions and we are doing quite well in the Premier League as well - but this week is so, so important. These three games will decide what's going to happen in the next two months, definitely.\"\n\nGuardiola said captain Vincent Kompany is now back in training and the defender could be in contention to return at Middlesbrough.\n\nAnalysis - not everything has gone well\n\nPep Guardiola knows his time as Manchester City manager will be judged on the trophies he wins.\n\nThe former Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach has brought his distinctive possession-based style to the Etihad Stadium.\n\nAt times, beating Barcelona 3-1 [in the Champions League] and West Ham 5-0, [in the FA Cup] it has been mesmeric. But Claudio Bravo's troubles as a ball-playing goalkeeper is proof that not everything has gone well.\n\nYet Guardiola feels assessments on style are irrelevant compared to results.\n\nWith Chelsea 10 points clear in the Premier League and the EFL Cup already won by Manchester United, it puts extra emphasis on City's FA Cup sixth-round tie at Middlesbrough on Saturday.", "Coverage: Live on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio Scotland, plus live text commentary via the BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app\n\nIt might sound a curiously mealy-mouthed thing to say about a team that have won their past 17 matches and sit atop the Six Nations table with consecutive Grand Slams a genuine possibility, but England's rugby team might have a problem.\n\nIt's clearly not the results. Beat Scotland at Twickenham on Saturday and they will have matched New Zealand's all-time tier one record for consecutive victories. It's not the way they finish games; under coach Eddie Jones, they have scored a cumulative 102 more points in the final quarter of matches than their opponents.\n\nIt's what's been happening at the other end of the games that is raising eyebrows among critics and hopes among their opponents.\n\nScoreless at home against Italy after 20 minutes, struggling to kick from hand, giving away set-piece penalties; 9-3 down to France, with a man in the sin bin; 10-0 down to Australia last autumn after 17 minutes, their opponents with 97% of the territory and 87% of the possession.\n\nIt goes further back. Down against South Africa earlier in the autumn, six penalties conceded in the first 21 minutes. Two tries conceded in the first 20 minutes in the third of the summer Tests against the Wallabies, 10-0 down after 15 minutes of the first.\n• None Could the Twickenham crowd turn on England?\n• None Finn Russell column: 'We can't wait to get stuck into England'\n\nYou might say it doesn't matter. All those games were won. Against Wales in Cardiff England led 8-3 after the first quarter, with 74% of the possession. How could anyone complain when England have won their past 10 Six Nations matches, and are about to take on a team who haven't won in south-west London in 34 years?\n\nJones, all those years of international coaching with four different nations whirring away in his brain, thinks otherwise.\n\nPart of that is about standards. This is a team he wants to win the next World Cup in 2019. Give the All Blacks a head-start and you are unlikely to catch them. Part of it is much more short-term: Scotland's revival in Vern Cotter's last year in charge is genuine. They are outsiders once again this weekend, but seldom in those 34 barren years have they travelled in such form.\n\n\"Mate, if I knew I'd fix it,\" Jones said when asked this week if he had worked out what was going wrong in those opening exchanges. \"And I haven't been able to fix it, so I don't know.\"\n\n\"It's something we have been mentioning over the last few weeks,\" winger Jack Nowell told BBC Sport. \"We've got ourselves out of jail a few times now - it is about a fast start, and putting our game on them first.\"\n\nEngland's replacements - the finishers, as Jones likes to call them - have done that jail-breaking to perfection. According to Opta, the men off the bench have created more tries than those of any other nation (three scored, two assisted), made more carries, conceded the fewest turnovers and shipped only one penalty (Scotland's replacements have conceded six, France's seven).\n\nIt's a wonderful asset for the coach to have. With a bench on Saturday that includes both Vunipola brothers, Jamie George, the returning Anthony Watson and the thundering Ben Te'o, it could be decisive once again this week.\n\nIt does not mean the starters cannot be expected to match those same standards. Dig a hole often enough, and one day you might not be able to climb out of it.\n\n\"It becomes a case of, are you riding your luck?\" says Paul Grayson, the former England fly-half who is part of BBC Radio 5 live's commentary team at Twickenham this weekend.\n\n\"The Italy game was as bad an opening quarter as we've seen from an England team under Jones - and that was nothing to do with 'ruckgate' (when Italy's tactic of not committing to rucks befuddled England). They were just nowhere near it mentally.\n\n\"Maybe that's a timely wake-up call, because when winning becomes supposedly routine, even if you get away with a couple, you've still got to find a way to motivate yourself. If England are not quite there mentally, they look ordinary, and at some point soon they will lose.\"\n\nWho can still win the Six Nations?\n• None If England beat Scotland on Saturday they will retain the title\n• None Victory for Scotland could send them top of the table with a game to play\n• None If France beat Italy and England lose, mathematically five teams would still be in with a shout\n• None There is one final round of games after Saturday's matches\n\n\"England need to start fast,\" former British and Irish Lions winger Ugo Monye told 5 live's Rugby Union Weekly podcast this week. \"They need to get the crowd on their side - three points, six, nine, score a try, shut out Scotland, and put a seed of doubt into their minds.\n\n\"Scotland come down here with their fanfare and the bagpipes and their confidence, and everyone is aware of their threat, and if it's a close game you might just have the Twickenham crowd turning on their players a little bit.\"\n\nJones has been in ornery form this week, irascible in his media conferences, hard-nosed with his players on the Pennyhill Park training pitches.\n\n\"We're preparing to start well,\" he said irritably when announcing his selection. \"We're not preparing not to start well.\n\n\"It's an 80-minute game. We've got to be ahead at the 80-minute mark, and that's what we're aiming to be against Scotland.\n\n\"It's like starting a 100m race. You can be ahead at the 10m mark, but you've got to be ahead at the 100m mark.\"\n\nJones, a self-confessed cricket nut, might enjoy another analogy: a pair of opening batsmen playing and missing on the first morning of a Test match, the opposition fast bowler fired up and the new ball seaming and bouncing past the outside edge.\n\nWhat does it matter if they are 80-3 at lunch if by the close they have put on 300 for the loss of only one more wicket?\n\n\"Ian McGeechan, when he was coaching Northampton and telling us how he wanted us to play, brought up the example of Wigan's very successful rugby league team,\" remembers Grayson.\n\n\"Every team that played Wigan wanted to beat them. They would be totally up for it, and they would go toe-to-toe with them. They got to half-time, and it would be 10-8, or 6-6, or they would only be four points down.\n\n\"Then they would get into the second half, and as that effort left them tired and weakened, they would roll over and Wigan would score 40 points.\n\n\"I used to think, what does a game look like after 20 minutes? If I can get some points on the board, great; if they've thrown a few shots and we've had to defend for a while and they haven't got much out of it, no problem, we'll see you in the last 10 minutes of the first half and the last 15 minutes of the contest.\n\n\"The opposition are always going to be at their most obstinate and most up for it in that period. Yet, barring the Wales game, England haven't had too much flow in attack in the early part of their games. It's always difficult, but if you're the best side in the world, you do it. The All Blacks always manage to come out of the blocks.\"\n\nSuch has been the impact of England's replacements that the impression is that Jones has enviable strength in depth. He does - at prop and hooker, at scrum-half, on the wings.\n\nWith first-choice lock George Kruis out injured and his preferred partner Maro Itoje shifted to six, stand-in second rows Joe Launchbury and Courtney Lawes have arguably been England's most effective players.\n\nBut it is not true throughout the team. England's Test cricket team often find themselves early wickets down because they have struggled to replace Andrew Strauss alongside Alastair Cook. They can struggle on turning pitches because no-one who has come into the team has been able to match the impact of world-class spinner Graeme Swann.\n\n\"Nathan Hughes looks like the Billy Vunipola of three years ago,\" says Grayson. \"Likely to last 50 minutes or do 30 minutes off the bench, do two or three good things but also disappear for a while.\n\n\"And that makes a massive difference. Take Lawrence Dallaglio out of England's World Cup-winning team and put in another number eight, and what do they look like? They're just not quite as big or powerful or dominant or vocal.\n\n\"When Dallaglio wasn't playing, England weren't quite the same. And I think that Vunipola is at that point. He's an 80-minute player heading to world class. And they just haven't got that otherwise.\n\n\"Billy has been out and with Chris Robshaw being out, that's two-thirds of your first-choice back row. That's a huge loss to England, because they don't have that many great back-row players.\"", "Earlier this month, a relic from World War Two intruded into daily life in north London. A 500lb Luftwaffe bomb was discovered by builders excavating in the leafy suburb of Brondesbury.\n\nLocal homes were evacuated, local train services were closed down. Eventually the weapon was made safe and finally removed to be detonated on an army range.\n\nThis relic of a war that ended more than 70 years ago set me thinking.\n\nWorld War Two - just like the Great War that preceded it - was a total war. The fates of all the countries involved were in the balance. Ordinary soldiers were largely not professionals but were conscripted citizens. The whole of society - its energies and industrial might - were mobilised for the conflict.\n\nOnce the war was over, many of its constraints inevitably lingered - the rationing of food, for example. War-ravaged cities also bore their scars.\n\nAs a child I remember the temporary homes - the rectangular \"prefabs\" or prefabricated houses - that dotted many of the bomb sites in east London near my grandparents' home.\n\nMy childhood was dominated by films and documentaries about the war. I lose track of the number of plastic Spitfire model kits I must have built to battle with their Messerschmitt equivalents.\n\nBut whatever the memories and cultural obsessions, the conflict was definitively over. There was, in short, a clear distinction between war and peace.\n\nThankfully the so-called Cold War of the 1950s and 60s remained just that: in Europe, at least, it never went hot. War and peace were two separate states of affairs.\n\nFast forward to today. This week, in London, a memorial was unveiled to the service personnel and civilians who lost their lives in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. On the government's own website it is described as the Iraq and Afghanistan Memorial.\n\nIn the West, at least, the Cold War never became hot\n\nIn the lengthy press release that follows there is no mention of the word \"war\", except to say that the new memorial stands close to monuments to World War Two and the Korean War.\n\nThere is rightly, of course, mention of the lives lost and the medals won. There is, too, appreciation for those who \"put themselves in harm's way\" - an Americanism that has intruded itself into the public debate on armed conflict.\n\nBut there you have it. These were undoubtedly armed conflicts far from our shores. But in what sense were they wars? Well of course they were, I hear you say, this is all semantic argument.\n\nWell, they were certainly wars for the Afghans and the Iraqis who were in some cases willing, and in many cases, unwilling participants in the struggles.\n\nThey were certainly wars for those actually engaged in combat. From my very limited experience under fire, it matters little if it is a skirmish or a fully-fledged battle if it is you on the spot where the bullets are flying.\n\nThe Queen unveiled the Iraq and Afghanistan memorial in London\n\nBut were Britain, the United States or their many allies who have contributed troops to these conflicts really \"at war\"? To what extent were their societies adapted or mobilised for the struggle? In some senses, very little. But in others, perhaps, more than we would like to admit.\n\nNone of their economies was on a war footing and the fighting was done largely by regular professional troops or volunteer reservists. Boots on the ground were combined with the signature style of the modern Western military campaign: lashings of air power along with the use of sophisticated armed drones.\n\nParadoxically, the primary impact of these wars was on the home front: the political obsession with terrorism which has had an impact on policing, community relations and security legislation and created an atmosphere in which debate about \"fear of the other\" has become an increasingly important factor in democratic elections and referendums.\n\nIt has also led increasingly to a militarisation of foreign policy - the idea that the military has an answer for most of the world's problems.\n\nAnd, in the midst of this, the former US Pentagon official and academic Rosa Brooks has mused eloquently on this theme in a book cogently titled How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything.\n\nHer message, that the blurring of the boundaries of war and peace has consequences for all our lives, is one that seems to resound with ever more people around the globe.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nFrance ended their dismal Six Nations away form with a bonus-point win against Italy in Rome.\n\nItaly skipper Sergio Parisse scored the quickest try of the 2017 tournament, but Gael Fickou's score helped the visitors lead 16-11 at the break.\n\nVictor Vakatawa, Louis Picamoles and Brice Dulin also crossed, with Camille Lopez kicking 20 points, as France avoided a sixth straight away defeat.\n\nBut their slim title chances were ended by England's win over Scotland.\n\nFrance, who host Wales in Paris next Saturday, must now concentrate on finishing in the top three for the first time since 2011.\n\nItaly produced encouraging displays in gallant defeats against England and Wales, holding half-time leads in both matches before fading away in the second half.\n\nAgain, the Azzurri ran out of steam.\n\nThey have 'lost' the second halves of their four matches this year by a combined 115-12, compared to a 57-38 first-half deficit.\n\nConor O'Shea's side made the perfect start when the talismanic Parisse powered over from close range after three minutes, but they were unable to replicate the defensive resilience shown against the English and Welsh.\n\nThe Italians had 53 missed tackles, culminating in a tackle percentage of just 66%, and it was exploited by the French attack.\n\nLes Bleus took the lead midway through the first half when Fickou dummied his way through the Italian defence to score and, although Carlos Canna's penalty reduced the gap to 13-11 shortly after.\n\nItaly crumbled after the break as they headed towards an 11th successive Six Nations defeat, although Angelo Esposito's try in the last play of the game avoided a scoreless second half for the hosts.\n\nHowever, it was little consolation for a side consigned to the wooden spoon for the third time in four years.\n\nReplacements: D'Apice (for Ghiraldini 63), Panico (for Lovotti 64), Chistolini (for Cittadini 40), Biagi (for Fuser 50), Mbanda (for Favaro 51), Bronzini (for Gori 51), Benvenuti (for Campagnaro 65), Sperandio.\n\nReplacements: Tolofua (for Guirado 54), Atonio (for Baille 54), Ben Arous (for Slimani 54), Jedrasiak (for Le Devedec 54), Le Roux (for Picamoles 72), Dupont (for Serin 72), Trinh-Duc (for Lamerat 69), Huget (for Vakatawa 63).", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nGoals from David Silva and Sergio Aguero gave Manchester City a deserved win over Middlesbrough and earned Pep Guardiola's side a place in the FA Cup semi-finals.\n\nSilva scored just three minutes in from six yards out after Pablo Zabaleta had time and space to cross low from the right.\n\nMiddlesbrough goalkeeper Brad Guzan produced a number of fine saves to deny Silva, Leroy Sane and deflect an Aguero shot on to the post.\n\nBut Aguero finally made the result safe for the visitors when he converted from Sane's low cross to earn his side a Wembley semi-final.\n\nCity have reached the last four of the FA Cup for the first time in four years as Guardiola aims to win some silverware in his first season in English football.\n\nThe Spanish manager also had the luxury of taking off Sane and Aguero before City play the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie in Monaco on Wednesday. City hold a 5-3 lead after a thrilling first leg.\n\nCity had defeated West Ham, Crystal Palace and Huddersfield Town so far in the competition and completely dominated against Middlesbrough.\n\nThe visitors had 69% of possession and 10 shots on target compared with only three from the hosts at a packed Riverside Stadium.\n\nCity's movement off the ball was excellent as they repeatedly carved open a Boro defence that could not cope with the visitors.\n\nPoor marking enabled Zabaleta to get free early on and his low cross was missed by Raheem Sterling before Silva lashed City ahead.\n\nOnly an outstanding performance by Guzan kept his side in it as he produced a number of saves to frustrate the visitors.\n\nAguero, who had earlier hit the post, got a goal he deserved when he finished well from the delivery from the excellent Sane.\n\nFor Middlesbrough, 18th in the Premier League, it was another afternoon to forget.\n\nNot only were they outclassed, they also suffered two injuries to key players as forward Rudy Gestede and defender Bernardo limped off.\n\nGestede had two attempts - heading just over and also having a header cleared off the line by Pablo Zabaleta - before going off after only 26 minutes with what appeared to be a lower back injury.\n\nBoro have scored the fewest goals in the Premier League - 19 in 27 matches - and may now be without a striker who only joined them in January in a £6m move from Aston Villa.\n\nDefender Bernardo also went off early in the second half with 19-year-old centre-half Dael Fry coming on to make only his second appearance of the season.\n\nBoro, against the run of play, had a late chance to score but John Stones cleared off the line after goalkeeper Claudio Bravo had parried Fabio's header.\n\nWith 11 Premier League games left, Boro can now focus their attentions on trying to stay in the top flight.\n\nIt's not all about the FA Cup, they need to survive in the Premier League too, but Middlesbrough really couldn't have done much when City are in this form. They have had a football lesson.\n\nCity were always going to win this, we knew that when we saw the team sheet. They had put the big boys on the pitch.\n\nFull credit to Middlesbrough. They are an honest, genuine side but were just lacking in a class finisher. It was 2-0 but it could have been a lot, lot more.\n\nI do fear for Middlesbrough. They have got to be more adventurous against teams in the bottom half - the ones you think they should beat.\n\nThey are currently playing a counter-attacking game and, apart from Adama Traore, they don't have the legs to get forward quickly.\n\nAnother semi-final for Guardiola - the stats\n• None Manchester City have reached the FA Cup semi-finals for the third time in six seasons (also in 2011 and 2013).\n• None City boss Pep Guardiola has now reached a semi-final in all eight of his seasons in club management.\n• None David Silva has been directly involved in five goals in his past five FA Cup appearances (two goals, three assists).\n• None Silva's goal was the earliest Manchester City have scored this season and the quickest Boro have conceded.\n• None Middlesbrough have failed to score in five of their past six matches.\n• None Boro have failed to score in 14 games this season, with seven of those coming since the turn of the year.\n\nWhat the managers said\n\nMiddlesbrough manager Aitor Karanka, speaking to BBC Sport, said: \"It is easy to say that the best team won, but I am really proud of my players - they made an amazing effort.\n\n\"This is the way we need to keep competing because we will win more than lose. The past two games were awful for us so I was a bit concerned about the atmosphere when they scored the first goal so quickly, but they keep going, with high pressure, trying to win back the ball.\n\n\"As a coach you can't be more proud of your players. I have told them now that I take much more positive things than negative.\"\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"We were outstanding from the beginning. We have now played three teams from the Premier League and one from the Championship.\n\n\"We played a good performance and were there from the first minute. We have missed a lot of chances throughout the season and the game should have been over 30 minutes before. We need to improve that, but I am happy and we can play Monaco.\n\n\"When you attack good, you defend good. We want to play in this way. Claudio made a good performance and that is why we were able to have another clean sheet. I like to work with these guys. I'm so happy.\"\n\nManchester City are back in Champions League action against Monaco on Wednesday (19:45 GMT kick-off).\n\nBoth City and Middlesbrough are next in Premier League action on 19 March. Middlesbrough entertain Manchester United (12:00) before City play at home against Liverpool (16:30 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by David Silva.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gaël Clichy.\n• None Attempt missed. Álvaro Negredo (Middlesbrough) with an attempt from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Gastón Ramírez with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt blocked. Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Marten de Roon (Middlesbrough) 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 Welsh Rugby\n\nBy Richard Williams BBC Wales Sport at the Principality Stadium\n\nWales survived an Ireland fightback to claim a pressure-relieving win and hand England a chance to clinch the Six Nations title against Scotland.\n\nWing George North scored two tries as the hosts opened up a nine-point lead early in the second half in Cardiff.\n\nIreland, inspired by Johnny Sexton, almost turned the game on its head.\n\nWales repulsed waves of attacks before Jamie Roberts clinched the victory with a 78th-minute try after Taulupe Faletau's charge down.\n\nThe defeat handed a potentially fatal blow to Ireland's championship challenge with England able to secure the title if they beat the Scots at Twickenham on Saturday at 16:00 GMT.\n\nWho can still win the Six Nations?\n• None If England beat Scotland on Saturday they will retain the title\n• None Victory for Scotland could send them top of the table with a game to play\n• None If France beat Italy and England lose, mathematically five teams would still be in with a shout\n• None There is one final round of games after Saturday's matches\n\nJoe Schmidt's Ireland side paid a high price for a yellow card handed to Sexton which saw Wales score 10 points in six minutes either side of half-time.\n\nAnd, after a week which saw Wales coach Rob Howley talk about redemption, North in particular answered criticism with his best performance for Wales in some time.\n\nIreland contributed much to a brutal encounter, but could not cross Wales' try-line despite long periods of pressure.\n\nAnd a mistake by centre Robbie Henshaw at a driving maul which handed Wales a penalty when they looked certain to concede a try effectively ended Ireland's hopes.\n\nNorth looked like a player rejuvenated in the opening stages, clattering through Rob Kearney and looking a threat whenever he received the ball.\n\nHis endeavour was rewarded in the 19th minute when Rhys Webb and Scott Williams combined before the scrum-half's long pass found Leigh Halfpenny who fed North.\n\nFaced with three defenders, the Northampton wing blasted through them to score with a bellow of delight. It was like 2012 all over again.\n\nSexton's ability to pick off Dan Biggar passes was a problem for Wales who were also second best in the aerial battle.\n\nHalfpenny and Paddy Jackson - on briefly for a dazed Sexton - exchanged penalties as Wales reached half-time ahead and with the busy Sexton in the sin-bin for Ireland.\n\nIreland found themselves nine points behind within four minutes of the restart as Webb fed an unmarked North for a second try, which Halfpenny converted from the touchline.\n\nSexton's return marked a change in momentum, and his second penalty threatened another second-half heartache for Wales after losing leads against England and Scotland.\n\nBut they withstood immense pressure in a tumultuous Principality Stadium with Ireland just failing to turn a number of dangerous aerial bombs into points.\n\nAnd when Henshaw's rush of blood let Wales off the hook they forced Ireland back and it was another attempted Sexton kick which replacement Faletau charged down to let fellow substitute Roberts crash over at the posts and almost raise the closed roof.\n\nReplacements: Roberts for S Williams (67), S Davies for Biggar (80), G Davies for Webb (67), Smith for Evans (67), Baldwin for Owens (72), Lee for Francis (70), Charteris for Ball (63), Faletau for Moriarty (67).\n\nReplacements: Bowe for Kearney (70), Jackson for Sexton (19), Marmion for Murray (46), C Healy for McGrath (59), Scannell for Best (80), J Ryan for Furlong (80), Henderson for Toner (63), O'Mahony for Stander (63).\n• None Get all the latest Six Nations news by adding", "What would you do if your child was a heroin addict suffering from acute withdrawal symptoms - disintegrating in front of your eyes - while waiting for rehab treatment to start? One mother from a village in the south-west of England describes how she ended up driving her daughter to town, and paying for her to get a fix.\n\nShe was pouring with sweat, vomiting, crying, hysterical, shaking - just desperate, feeling desperately ill. I felt like I was trapped in a corner and that there was nothing else I could do. So I said to her, \"Is there any way we can do this - on the street?\"\n\nShe spent a good hour and a half ringing around, and people could only offer her heroin, not methadone.\n\nThat's how we ended up in the middle of a local town with me handing over my hard-earned money to buy a drug.\n\nThe problem really started five years ago, when she was 18. She had some life changes in terms of friends going off to university and changes in a long-term relationship that she had been happy in, and then it had gone wrong. Her behaviour, her personality, started to change.\n\nBefore she had been hard-working, she had loved her horse and would ride, and all these things started to fall by the wayside. She slept a lot in the day. I kept saying to her, \"What's wrong with you?\"\n\nAnd then she started hanging around with people that we knew were not a good influence - older people who were using drugs. And it started to sort of click into place.\n\nListen to the daughter speaking to BBC Radio 4's iPM programme on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nYou can also hear the mother's account in audio here.\n\nWe were driving back from somewhere one day and I asked her again what was wrong with her.\n\nAnd she said, \"Imagine the worst thing it could be.\"\n\nI said, \"Are you pregnant?\" - which, when I think about it now would have been nothing. It would have been fantastic in a way if that had been the answer, because the answer was: \"No, no mum. Think of the worst. Worse, much worse than that. Think of the worst thing.\"\n\nI said, \"Are you a drug addict?\" And she said, \"Yes.\"\n\nThen she broke down, and it was heartbreaking. It was the worst day of my life.\n\nWe talked about how to stop it there and then - how to bring it to a stop as soon as possible. We talked about it as a family, and there was a bit of shouting. You had different emotions - one minute you are shouting and angry, the next minute you are upset.\n\nMy husband's brother had been a drug user and had died through depression, when he was trying to come off them. I think my husband thought it was a waste, that his brother could have been a really valuable part of our family life and our society. And I think he felt the same way about our daughter - that she had so much to offer, and he didn't want her to make the wrong choices.\n\nOur daughter at that point didn't feel it was a problem. She kept saying, \"It's just fun, OK? It's just fun.\" And that would be interspersed with periods of depression and it not being fun, but her not being prepared to admit that. And as time went on we gave her an ultimatum. Looking back I don't know whether it was the right decision or not, but we said, \"If you continue to use drugs, you can no longer live at home.\" And we kicked her out, because she continued.\n\nThen her drug use got worse, and her friendship groups deteriorated more and more.\n\nI hated her. I hated her so much.\n\nI felt that she had all the power to stop it - and she didn't. Nothing your children can do will stop you loving them, but the hatred was enormous. I was just desperately angry. I wanted to pick her up literally by her shoulders and shake her like a doll and say, \"For goodness sake! Look at what you are doing!\"\n\nI had always been a very controlling mum when they were younger. They had set bedtimes and they ate their vegetables and all that. And I felt very out of control. I couldn't say, \"No you're not going out. You need to come home and stay home and sort yourself out.\" Because she would say, \"I'm an adult, I can do what I like.\"\n\nI was disappointed. Very disappointed, because I had great expectations of what she could achieve. She wasn't managing to achieve anything at that point, although things did change briefly when she started to realise she wasn't happy.\n\nShe applied to the army, to the military police, and she did her basic training really well and got a good job in the military police. We thought she had kicked her drug habit and turned her life around, and we were just immensely proud. I remember thinking, \"Oh my goodness, she's done it. Not only has she done it, she's done it big time - she's got a really good job.\" We didn't know there was still a problem.\n\nShe was earning good money but after about a year, at the end of every month, we started getting phone calls. She kept saying, \"I don't know where I spend all my money mum, it just goes. At the end of every month I'm left with nothing and I've got no money for food and stuff.\"\n\nSo we would forward her a sub for the next month. We weren't actually giving her money, we were subbing her until her next pay packet.\n\nAll the way through she had a problem, which she was hiding because she was ashamed, I think.\n\nShe would come back and associate with the same people, so we would see her very little at weekends, and then she would go back to base on the Monday.\n\nBut I think it started to impact on her ability to work. She was getting exhausted, you could tell. She was tiring of partying all weekend and then holding down a full-time job in the week. When you haven't slept from Thursday night until you go back to bed on Monday evening after work, you're very exhausted, and it started to catch up with her. I think her colleagues and her boss started to see there were changes, because we started getting phone calls from the army.\n\nOne day she drove back on the Monday, having not slept for days, and smashed her car into the central reservation on the motorway. My husband and I realised that if we didn't stop her, she would kill herself, or someone else. And when the army rang me in the week I said, \"You should know, I think my daughter takes drugs at weekends, and she needs to be drug-tested.\" So that's how she lost her job.\n\nI am sure she resents me for doing that, but I feel that I saved her life, or someone else's, because it was only a matter of time before she didn't smash into the central reservation, but smashed into someone else. That would have been on my conscience forever.\n\nAfter that, she just sofa-surfed really. She would go from sofa to sofa, drug place to drug place. She had lost her driving licence for drug-driving so she went from being independent, having a car, having a career, to having nothing essentially. At one point one of the houses that she was staying in burned to the ground - luckily, when she was not in it - so she lost all her possessions as well, literally everything she owned.\n\nEach time we saw her, a lot would depend on her state of mind, and on where we were in terms of our ability to accept her for what she was and what she was doing, and love her regardless. But at a certain point we argued, and she said she didn't want contact any more. So we didn't speak for three months.\n\nThen finally she rang and said it was not helping. I think she thought not having contact would help her feel better, mentally, because we were a constant reminder that her life was going down the pan - no-one else was saying that to her, but obviously we were.\n\nSo we got back in contact and we had a Christmas meal, which stands out in my memory because she had obviously been using drugs through the night and could no longer stay awake. She fell asleep with her face in the Christmas dinner - just asleep in the plate. It was an indicator of how bad things had become.\n\nInitially my daughter would say taking drugs was fun, just really good fun. After about five years of quite heavy use, she would say it numbs emotion and numbs you to real life, so you don't have to worry, and you don't have to think or care. So at this stage she didn't get an awful lot of enjoyment out of it, if any. I don't think she trusted many people, including me, because you become suspicious of everything and everyone.\n\nNobody can help. Nobody knows what to say. Everyone's desperate for it to be good news. They say, \"How are things getting on?\" And if it's good news, they're like, \"Oh brilliant, brilliant!\" But nobody really wants to hear that it's still the same, or worse. And there is very little professional support unless you're prepared to pay for it.\n\nAt times we saw counsellors privately. We had lots of conversations with her about planning for the future - \"If you do this and this, then maybe you can move on from drugs…\" We even got to the point where we locked her in her bedroom. My husband boarded the windows and locked the door, but it wasn't successful because the person has to want to do it themselves, and she didn't. In the end, one of her companions, who she would be using drugs with I believe, came to the house, threatened my husband and barged in to let her out.\n\nEventually our daughter got caught stealing from her employer to fund her addiction.\n\nShe had also stolen a cheque from the back of my chequebook, written out a cheque for just over £1,000 and cashed it. And we pressed charges.\n\nWe had tried everything else that we could. We have a very strong moral compass, and we have two younger children looking at our behaviour and looking at our decisions, and we wanted them to see that you don't steal from your family, and that's the end of it.\n\nWe personally took our daughter to court and sat with her and supported her and said, \"We are here for you, but you are not going to do this - you are not allowed to steal from us.\"\n\nAnd the court issued a drug rehabilitation requirement, which means she has to be tested twice weekly, commence a methadone programme, and receive counselling in group sessions at a specific place for people with addiction problems. She also has a tag for three months, which means she has to be in our house between the hours of 7pm and 7am - which we thought was the best scenario, because we didn't want her to go to prison. We just wanted her to get help, and we just didn't seem to get help from anywhere else or in any other way. So we thought this was the best possible outcome.\n\nWe walked out of the court at about 2.30pm or 3pm, and I said to the solicitor, \"When does this start?\"\n\nAnd I said, \"So we have to go home to the family?\"\n\nHe said, \"Yes, because the people who do the tags can turn up any time from seven o'clock onwards.\"\n\nAnd I said, \"Well, what about our daughter's drug use? You know, she can't just suddenly stop here, now. What's going to happen? She's going to immediately fail. She's going to run because the desperation to get drugs is so huge that we won't be able to keep her home.\"\n\nAnd he said, \"Well go to the GP.\"\n\nSo we went to the GP and the GP said, \"We no longer prescribe methadone, you need to go to Turning Point.\"\n\nAnd they said: \"Oh sorry, we're not an emergency service, you'll have to contact the GP.\"\n\nAnd I said, \"We've been to the GP and the GP said we have to come to you.\"\n\nAnd they said, \"Well, we can't do anything today. She won't actually die from this withdrawal.\"\n\nAnd I was shocked at how nobody was taking responsibility and the whole burden was placed on us, as the parents. \"It's your problem, now she's tagged to your house she has to be there.\" You cannot live with someone who's withdrawing from a £100 a day habit, who's going to be kicking off and screaming and crying and vomiting and probably smashing stuff in a few hours, because she's so frustrated and panic-stricken. But nobody wants to know. A&E don't provide methadone. You're absolutely stuck.\n\nI didn't personally buy the heroin. I just drove my car to the area and she went off, injected herself, and came back, but somehow it felt like we had taken a step into a different place - like I was a different person. I had done something that I never in my entire life have done, and never thought I would do.\n\nBut my husband felt utterly betrayed. It was something he felt very, very strongly about. He was very upset. He felt I'd betrayed him by going out and buying drugs off the street because one of the things we'd agreed years ago, right at the beginning when our daughter admitted a drug problem, was that we would provide all the support we could whenever we could, but we would never buy her drugs. We would never give her money or presents, knowing that she would sell them to purchase drugs.\n\nWhen I got home and told my husband what I had done, he was so distraught... for days. I had not realised at the time, but he emailed the BBC: \"Our heroin addict daughter was given a drug rehabilitation requirement, a 7-7 curfew with tag as long as she moved back to our family home. Still unable to get methadone prescribed. My wife has taken her to try to buy some off the street (it's midnight now).\"\n\nI promised him I would never do that again. And he made it very clear that if I did I may be dealing with this on my own, because he couldn't stand the betrayal - my having gone against his wishes.\n\nHe has a very black-and-white attitude to life, as I think a lot of men do. And if there is something I've learned from this situation over the past eight years, it's that there is no black and white. There's a massive area of grey in between. We've had long conversations about it since. I wouldn't do that now. I think I would go to A&E and insist she was given some sort of strong sedation.\n\nShe is now on a prescribed methadone programme, which means she has a set amount of methadone that she collects once a day in the morning from the chemist, swallows it in front of the chemist, then comes home. She doesn't have any of the withdrawal symptoms, and she doesn't have the high. It doesn't make you feel good, it just stops the sickness, and she is functioning during the day. She's helping clean the house and cook the tea. And slowly she will take less and less each day, with the aim of being off methadone altogether in six months.\n\nBefore we went to court she had said to me, \"I've just had enough. This is awful.\" She had a couple of suicide attempts, one very serious one that resulted in liver damage. But you have to really show willing to be put on a methadone programme. You don't just go in the door and say, \"I've had enough of being a heroin addict, I want to go on methadone.\" You have to go for about two weeks' worth of meetings at least, and you have to be attempting to come off heroin yourself before they even start you on a methadone programme. It's a real Catch 22 situation, because she wanted to come off it by that point. She was hating her life. She was obviously extremely depressed, because she was trying to take her own life. She was becoming very thin and she'd stolen off her sister, who was, or is, her best friend. There were no positives in life.\n\nBy ordering a methadone programme to proceed, the court forced the hand of the local drug help centre. They then had to start her on the programme sooner rather than later.\n\nWe are taking one day at a time. It has taken five years to get to this point, so it's not all going to turn around and change within five minutes. Our daughter now has her own accommodation, which is part of our house, but we have sort of made it so that she has her own access and we have to knock to get into her bit of the house. So this is her own home now. She has got her dog back, which the dog is chuffed about, and she is too. So it's small steps like that, remembering that you are loved, remembering that there are people back at home who are still there waiting and wanting you to recover.\n\nI know it's boastful, but she's absolutely beautiful looking and very intelligent. I think she could have been anything. She is so massively into animals that she used to talk about being a vet, so years ago I guess we used to dream about that. And it's so far away from the reality of what her adult life became. Now the dream is very different. It's just, \"I want her to be drug-free and happy.\"\n\nI feel 50% responsible because I think all mothers do. Some days I think I've done everything for the right reasons, even though she may not see it like that, and I'm proud that I am still here and sane and standing. But then on another day I get up and I think this is all my fault. Perhaps if I hadn't kicked her out in those early few months when she refused to stop using drugs… It's hard to know.\n\nCurrently I trust her totally not to steal. I leave my handbag lying around. I don't worry about it. I don't entirely trust her not to contact the wrong people, because it's a slow process. Initially, in the first days she was back, I'm sure she didn't trust me. I'm sure she knew that I was going in her room, just having a look around and checking there wasn't any drug paraphernalia - because that's what you start doing, as a parent you start searching out the equipment and the stuff that they're using. But I've stopped doing that now, and she has had clean tests for nine weeks, so I suppose the trust must be building.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nNon-league Lincoln City's astonishing run in the FA Cup came to an end as Arsenal remain on course for a 13th title by reaching the semi-finals.\n\nLincoln, 88 places below their Premier League opponents, held their own for much of the first half and even went close to scoring when Petr Cech saved Nathan Arnold's curled effort.\n\nHowever, Theo Walcott's deflected strike gave the Gunners the lead on the stroke of half-time and Olivier Giroud put the hosts in control with a clinical strike just after the break.\n\nLincoln's dreams of a fight back were dashed when Luke Waterfall scored an own goal, turning in Kieran Gibbs' cross.\n\nAlexis Sanchez added a brilliant fourth, expertly placing the ball beyond Lincoln goalkeeper Paul Farman's reach, before Aaron Ramsey completed the win when he tapped in from Sanchez's cross.\n\nIt was ultimately a routine victory for Arsenal and perhaps eased some of the pressure on Arsene Wenger, who is bidding for his seventh FA Cup triumph as Gunners boss.\n\nA protest was held before the game by around 200 fans urging the club to not give the 67-year-old a new contract when his current deal expires this summer.\n\nLincoln have undoubtedly been the story of this season's FA Cup. They came through eight games, beating Premier League Burnley and Championship high fliers Brighton along the way to become the first non-league side to reach the quarter-finals of the competition in 103 years.\n\nAgainst an Arsenal side that had reached the semi-finals 28 times previous, few would normally have given Lincoln a chance.\n\nBut a run of just two wins in their last seven games, coupled with the discontent felt by some Arsenal fans towards Arsene Wenger, gave the minnows reason to believe an upset could be achievable.\n\nThe club's fans clearly felt that to be the case as they travelled in huge numbers to the Emirates, and for large periods of the first half their voices were the only ones that could be heard.\n\nThe dream was alive. For 44 minutes\n\nOn the pitch, Lincoln were impressive, sticking to a game plan that limited Arsenal to only one real chance in the first half half hour, when Walcott hit the post.\n\nThere was a momentary silence around the ground when Lincoln threatened to snatch the unlikeliest of leads as Arnold's smart footwork left Laurent Koscielny on the floor, and he took aim at the far corner - but Cech managed to stretch across to make the save.\n\nA goalless draw at half-time would have been a deserved reward for their performance, but Walcott's strike appeared to knock their confidence and in the second half it looked every bit the tie involving a Premier League side and a team four divisions below them.\n\nThe FA Cup dream may be over for Lincoln but they could yet walk out at Wembley this season. They are in the semi-finals of the FA Trophy and now switch attention to their first-leg tie at York on Tuesday.\n\nProtests again but players step up\n\nArsenal could still finish the season with silverware, but success in the FA Cup is no longer enough for a sizeable number of Gunners fans.\n\nThey are out of the Champions League and a top-four finish is far from guaranteed as they currently sit fifth, two points behind Liverpool.\n\nThose fans who feel Wenger has taken the side as far as they can go made their feelings known before the game with a protest - their second in a week after around 200 supporters expressed their frustration before the Champions League last-16 second leg tie with Bayern Munich on Tuesday.\n\nBut there was support for Wenger inside the ground as some fans held 'In Wenger we trust' banners, while on the pitch his players stepped up after a slow start.\n\nMesut Ozil was particularly influential after his 27th minute introduction and Sanchez, whose long-term future at the Emirates is reportedly in doubt, impressed with a fine goal and an assist.\n\nWhat they said\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger: \"There was always a level of anxiety because these boys are unpredictable. They knocked out Burnley, Ipswich and Brighton, so we have to respect them.\n\n\"It was all us in the second half but you have to congratulate Lincoln for what they have achieved in the FA Cup.\n\n\"We have been short of confidence after some disappointing results recently. When the confidence was there in the second half the quality came back.\"\n\nLincoln manager Danny Cowley: \"I thought we did really well for the first 45 minutes. It is very hard to get negative against them because they have such world-class players. At 45 minutes I thought we had limited them in chances and we were hoping to get in 0-0 but they got the goal.\n\n\"Arsenal were frightening in the second half and for us it was a pleasure to see world-class players first hand. It felt like Arsene Wenger had brought 15 players on. If we can learn from this experience today and throughout this FA Cup journey we will be better players and better people.\n\n\"The best [in this run] was at the end, sharing a moment with our supporters. Our supporters were world class. They were brilliant. We are winners and don't like losing but when we can draw breath we will be proud.\"\n\nFormer Arsenal and England defender Martin Keown on Match of the Day\n\nLincoln revitalised the FA Cup, their run was magical. Arsenal came in wounded, there was a lack of confidence early on, but the goal just before half-time was perfect and settled them down. Them needing that goal to settle them down was some compliment to Lincoln, but the Gunners played with a swagger in the second half. Still, Lincoln can hold their heads very high.\n\nFormer England winger Trevor Sinclair on Match of the Day\n\nA National League team getting to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup? It is a fantastic achievement. I am sure everyone at the club will be so proud, and it doesn't happen by accident. They kept Arsenal at bay for 45 minutes.\n\nThe players and fans will remember it for the rest of their lives.\n• None This was Arsenal's 300th competitive fixture at the Emirates.\n• None The Gunners registered their 200th win in competitive games at the Emirates (D61 L39).\n• None Lincoln City failed to find the back of the net in an FA Cup game (excl. qualifiers) for the first time in nine games, since losing 5-0 to Plymouth in November 2013.\n• None Arsenal have reached the last four of the FA Cup for the third time in the last four seasons.\n• None Theo Walcott has scored 17 goals in all competitions this season; only in 2012/13 did he score more for the Gunners (21).\n• None Alexis Sanchez has had a hand in 35 goals this season (21 goals, 14 assists), more than any other PL player in all comps.\n• None In his last 20 games in all competitions, Sanchez has either scored or assisted 22 goals (13 goals, nine assists).\n• None Olivier Giroud has bagged four goals in total in his last four FA Cup starts.\n• None Arsenal's games this season in all competitions have produced a total of 145 goals (95 scored, 50 conceded), more than any other Premier League side.\n• None Mesut Ozil registered his first assist for Arsenal in any competition since January 22nd (vs Burnley), after a run of five games without one.\n\nArsenal are back in Premier League action as they travel to West Brom on Saturday, 18 March (12:30 GMT) looking for their first league win since 11 February. Lincoln, meanwhile, face York in the FA Trophy on Tuesday.\n• None Attempt missed. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.\n• None Sean Raggett (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucas Pérez.\n• None Attempt blocked. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey.\n• None Attempt saved. Alan Power (Lincoln City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nathan Arnold.\n• None Attempt missed. Adam Marriott (Lincoln City) 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", "Want a headline from two weeks of Formula 1 pre-season testing? Here it is: Ferrari look like genuine challengers to world champions Mercedes. They might even be faster.\n\nTwo weeks before the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, that is the inescapable conclusion from the best evidence after eight days of testing at Spain's Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.\n\nThe usual caveats apply - it's very hard to determine an exact competitive order from testing because the teams do not reveal the specifications their cars are running in, and variables such as fuel load and engine mode make a huge difference to performance.\n\nBut while there is inevitably a margin for error in every assessment made on the basis of testing, some things are clear - the Ferrari looked good out on track, and its lap times were genuinely impressive. Even Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton said so.\n\nHamilton and Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel each said that the other's team was probably in the best shape.\n\nFor leading F1 drivers, kidology is part of the job description. So who is closest to telling the truth?\n\nFerrari's Kimi Raikkonen set the fastest time of the winter on the final day of testing while doing a qualifying simulation run on super-soft tyres.\n\nThe best Mercedes lap of the winter was 0.676 seconds slower. According to the official timing, even Mercedes' best 'perfect' lap — i.e. with all the best sectors a driver achieved on a given day added together - was 0.406secs off Raikkonen's time.\n\nNow let's see if we can get behind those lap times a little. First of all, the list of absolute fastest times by each team over the two weeks of testing:\n\nThat list does not take into account any number of potential variables, one of which is the fuel loads in the cars.\n\nIt is possible to eliminate the fuel variable to a degree by correcting for the length of the run, and therefore the minimum amount of fuel the car must have had.\n\nThen, look beyond each team's absolute fastest to other times set on other tyres, and correct the times to ones for a 'soft' tyre, which is the quickest one that will be used at the Barcelona race, and the list of fastest times each team achieved looks like this:\n\nInterestingly, Ferrari's advantage grows under this comparison - and it's now so big that it surely cannot be real. More of which in a moment.\n\nBut the bottom line is that Ferrari look very strong, that the headline lap times were highly impressive and their long runs were equally good.\n\nThe general conclusion from asking around among the teams is that Ferrari are at least level with Mercedes and possibly slightly ahead.\n\nWhy do Ferrari look so quick?\n\nAt least some of Ferrari's apparent strong form might be coming from the fact that Mercedes are still not consistently comfortable with their car.\n\n\"We have had so many different upgrades,\" Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas said. \"And, OK, yes, maybe some of them haven't been perfect. Some have been over-performing, some have been maybe slightly under-performing.\n\n\"It's been affecting the car balance, things like that. Once you put new stuff into the car, it's not like it's suddenly better. There's some things that we definitely need to unlock.\"\n\nUntil Ferrari's pace is revealed in actual competition, there will inevitably be scepticism about what they can achieve, given their record of underachievement in recent years.\n\nLast season, for example, Ferrari looked to be about 0.3secs behind Mercedes in testing - and Hamilton was 0.8secs quicker than them in qualifying at the first race in Melbourne.\n\nThe balance of evidence over the last few years is that Red Bull and Mercedes run their cars heavier on fuel in testing than Ferrari - perhaps by as much as 30kg.\n\nThis is what Vettel was referring to when he said on Thursday: \"If you look at the amount of laps Mercedes has done, if you look historically how slow they go in the testing, how much they were able to ramp it up for the races, it's clear. They're very fast if you look at their long-run pace. They're the ones to beat.\"\n\nIf there was a 30kg difference in the fuel weights of the Mercedes and Ferrari at all times, that would suggest the cars are pretty equal, since 10kg of fuel equates to 0.35secs a lap at Barcelona.\n\nIf that's the case, Ferrari have made an almighty leap from a 2016 in which they did not win a race and seemed in disarray - and there have been too many false dawns at Maranello for anyone to get carried away right now.\n\nOn the other hand, the basis of this car was laid down before the team split with former technical director James Allison in July last year. So it's not impossible Allison - who is now in the same role at Mercedes - led the design of a fundamentally good car, and a restructured team has since added the finishing touches.\n\nFerrari are said to have made a significant step forward in engine performance over the winter, too.\n\nEqually, perhaps Mercedes have been caught out a little by the new rules - including a clarification over the winter on the use of clever hydraulic suspension systems that help keep the cars stable in cornering and on which they led the way.\n\nWhatever is behind it, so far the evidence adds up to the likelihood of a genuinely competitive start to the season.\n\nRed Bull had looked in the ballpark with Ferrari and Mercedes until Thursday this week, when Daniel Ricciardo was out on a race-simulation run at the same time as Vettel. The Australian's average lap time was a massive one second slower than the German's.\n\n\"We certainly have not showed Ferrari's pace yet,\" Ricciardo said. \"So if you were going to put some markers down tonight you would say Ferrari at the moment are their [Mercedes'] closest challenger. That is fair.\n\n\"At the moment they look like they are pretty close to Mercedes pace, if not on it. So it is going to make Melbourne interesting, and I think we will get there.\"\n\nRed Bull very rarely look especially strong in testing - even through their dominant era in the early years of this decade you had to look very hard for evidence of the car's pace in the winter.\n\nAdd in that Red Bull looked stronger again on the final day, and the belief that they have a big update package coming for the first race of the season, and no-one is counting them out yet.\n\nRed Bull's biggest concern may well be a reliability problem in their Renault engine, which was running detuned in testing.\n\nOverheating of the MGU-K, which recovers energy from the rear axle, caused failures for all three of Renault's teams - Red Bull, Renault and Toro Rosso - over the course of testing and must be a concern for the first race, regardless of the fact that they say they have a fix for it.\n\nBehind Red Bull - quite a long way behind them - the midfield battle looks tight.\n\nWilliams appear to be at the front of it, with the biggest performance leap from the works Renault team, who look to have moved up after their dismal 2016.\n\nMcLaren-Honda entered this season hoping the change in rules, and an engine redesign, would allow them to make ground on Mercedes. But their pre-season has been a horrendous catalogue of reliability failures.\n\nSo frail has the Honda engine been that it has proved impossible to get any read on the car's potential competitiveness.\n\nMcLaren executive director Zak Brown denied in an interview during the final test that the team was facing a crisis - a description used by this writer last week, and by others since.\n\n\"Clearly we have problems,\" he told Sky. \"But crisis is a bit strong.\"\n\nIs it? Crisis is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as \"a time of intense difficulty or danger\" and \"a time when a difficult or important decision must be made\". Which sounds about as accurate a description of McLaren's situation as you could get.\n\nThis is the third year of Honda's return to F1 and it promised that by the start of this season it would at least have matched the power produced by the Mercedes engine last season.\n\nBut they are miles away from that. And even if the power was close, reliability is shocking.\n\nThe car only did more than 50 laps in a day once this week - and only three times in eight days. Mercedes were routinely doing 150+ in a day. The most flying laps the McLaren ever did in a row was 11. Yes, 11. That's one-sixth of a race distance.\n\nMcLaren and Honda have a 10-year contract, but right now it is hard to see how the relationship can run that long.\n• None Who are the fastest and slowest teams in 2017?\n• None How the final day of testing unfolded\n\nThere is no evidence that Honda knows how to get out of this situation. And while the Japanese company provides a huge amount of budget to McLaren - close to a net $100m compared with buying a customer engine, when everything is taken into account - how long can McLaren let it continue before it does serious damage to the team?\n\nAs for lead driver Fernando Alonso, one can only imagine what is going through his head right now.\n\nThe two-time world champion left Ferrari at the end of 2014 because he had lost faith - after five seasons in which he made them look better than they really were, including two title near-misses - that they would ever be in a position to enable him to win another title.\n\nSo far, he has been able to console himself with the thought that he was right.\n\nWhen he made his decision to leave, he had a contract to the end of 2016, but Ferrari had offered him an extension, which he turned down.\n\nSo imagine the purgatory Alonso will be in if this is the year Ferrari finally deliver on their promise, while a man who has won 32 grands prix and is unarguably one of the finest drivers in history is still wasting his time towards the back of the grid.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSubstitute Oumar Niasse scored two goals as Hull City secured a potentially crucial victory over fellow Premier League strugglers Swansea.\n\nThe 26-year-old, on loan from Everton, had only been on the pitch six minutes when he latched on to Abel Hernandez's pass and slotted past Swans keeper Lukasz Fabianski.\n\nThe Senegal forward's second came just nine minutes later, with a close-range finish from fellow substitute Ahmed Elmohamady's cross.\n\nIt was a nervy finish at the KCOM Stadium, as Swansea defender Alfie Mawson pulled one back in injury time.\n\nThe Swans had enjoyed the better chances earlier in the game, but struggled without top scorer Fernando Llorente, who was forced off with an injury at the end of the first half.\n\nThe Tigers remain in the bottom three, one point from safety, but moved to within three points of Swansea, who remain in 16th.\n• None Relive the action from the KCOM Stadium\n• None Reaction from all of Saturday's Premier League matches\n\nHull were bottom of the table and three points from safety when former Sporting Lisbon and Olympiakos boss Marco Silva was appointed in January.\n\nThe 39-year-old Portuguese's first game in charge resulted in a 2-0 win over Swansea in the FA Cup third round.\n\nFast forward nine weeks and the Tigers are within one point of safety with 10 games still to play after Silva's second win over the Swans.\n\nSilva's decision to replace Alfred N'Diaye with Niasse proved to be a masterstroke, as the substitute showcased his potential when it really mattered.\n\nHull's home form will be vital in their survival, with all three of their Premier League victories under Silva coming at the KCOM, the same number they had won in their previous 16.\n\nWith relegation-threatened Middlesbrough and Sunderland still to play at home, Silva can still believe he has a chance of keeping Hull in the top flight - a task many thought was impossible when he took over.\n\nSwans hit by injuries at the wrong time\n\nInjury problems are coming at the wrong stage of the season for Swansea, with boss Paul Clement forced to make two changes before the end of the first half.\n\nTop scorer Fernando Llorente limped off after a Tom Huddlestone challenge left him with a dead leg just before half-time.\n\nSwansea clearly struggled without the in-form Spaniard, who had scored three goals in his previous two Premier League appearances, and managed just three shots on target in the match, compared with Hull's seven.\n\nTheir first real chance of the game fell to Wayne Routledge after Eldin Jakupovic's spilled save fell perfectly into his path, but somehow the 28-year-old blasted his effort over the bar from 10 yards out.\n\nRight-back Angel Rangel, who started in place of the injured Kyle Naughton, was forced off midway through the first half after twisting his ankle in an attempt to tackle Kamil Grosicki.\n\nHowever, Hull have had injury problems of their own and Marco Silva has been without key players Moses Odubajo, Will Keane, Markus Henriksen, Ryan Mason, Michael Dawson and Dieumerci Mbokani.\n\nFormer England defender Martin Keown on Match of the Day\n\nWhen Marco Silva changed Hull's formation and brought Oumar Niasse on, that made the complete difference. Niasse came out with a point to prove and boy has he proved it. They were two massive goals he got for his team today.\n\nWhat they said\n\nHull City manager Marco Silva: \"We got three important points, of course I am happy. It was a tough, tough game. We improved in the second half and after that we controlled the game.\n\n\"I'm not happy with the last five minutes to give gifts to the opponent. The game only finishes when the referee gives the sign.\n\n\"In the first half we had chances, and in the second half we improved our attitude and scored two goals. It is a fair result for us. We work two systems and the players know what we want.\n\n\"We need to take points away from home as well, it is difficult.\"\n\nSwansea City boss Paul Clement: \"The way we defended was not good enough. For long periods we looked like we were in control of the game and we were creating opportunities on the counter-attack.\n\n\"Two injuries in the first half have hurt us and in the second half we were limited to what we could do. Martin Olsson got hurt and we had to play with an injured player for the rest of the game. Overall we have to be disappointed with how they scored and how open we were.\n\n\"Fernando Llorente has been a key player to us recently and gives us lots of different threats, I don't think it is serious, I think he has a dead leg, Angel Rangel's is an injury to the ankle, I'm not sure how serious that one is. Martin got a knock on his ankle, he was not 100% but was able to continue.\n\n\"There's a lot of football to be played. I didn't think we were anywhere near safe and we are not anywhere near safe now. We have 10 games to go and have to bounce back next week against Bournemouth.\"\n• None All three of Oumar Niasse's Premier League goals for Hull City have been as a substitute.\n• None The Swans have lost their past three visits to the KCOM Stadium, each in a different competition.\n• None Swansea have now conceded 61 goals this season. No side to have conceded 60 or more goals after 28 games of a Premier League season has stayed up.\n• None Swansea have now conceded more goals in the final 30 minutes of games than any other Premier League side this season (29).\n• None Gylfi Sigurdsson has provided more assists than any other Premier League player this season (11).\n• None Offside, Hull City. Oumar Niasse tries a through ball, but Kamil Grosicki is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. David Meyler (Hull City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ahmed Elmohamady.\n• None Goal! Hull City 2, Swansea City 1. Alfie Mawson (Swansea City) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Gylfi Sigurdsson with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Jordan Ayew (Swansea City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Hull City. Eldin Jakupovic tries a through ball, but Oumar Niasse is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Oumar Niasse (Hull City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Kamil Grosicki.\n• None Offside, Hull City. Oumar Niasse tries a through ball, but Andrew Robertson is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Hull City 2, Swansea City 0. Oumar Niasse (Hull City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ahmed Elmohamady. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland can \"achieve greatness\" by completing a second straight Grand Slam against Ireland next weekend and breaking New Zealand's record of 18 consecutive wins, says Eddie Jones.\n\nEngland thrashed Scotland 61-21 at Twickenham on Saturday to retain the Six Nations and coach Jones says his players want more success.\n\n\"How many times in your life do you get to be great? It's exciting,\" he said.\n\n\"They're in the dressing room now talking about it. They want to do it.\"\n• None Analysis: Are England on the All Blacks' level?\n• None Relive how England won the Six Nations\n\nNew Zealand's record run of 18 consecutive victories was ended by Ireland in Chicago just last autumn, and Jones believes that Joe Schmidt's side will prove tough opposition in Dublin next Saturday.\n\nFrance were the last team to win back-to-back Grand Slams in 1998, with England achieving the feat in 1992 - both before Italy joined the tournament and the number of nations increased from five to six.\n\n\"We've got a fantastic opportunity,\" said Jones. \"It would mean for the players they've achieved greatness.\n\n\"Our focus is purely on Ireland - back-to-back Grand Slams has never been done in the history of the Six Nations.\n\n\"Ireland, psychologically, are in a very strong position,\" he added. \"They're beaten, they're out of the tournament and they love spoiling parties.\n\n\"And the party they'd love to spoil the most is the England party.\"\n\n'We want to be number one in the world'\n\nEngland's haul of wins has lifted them to second in the world rankings, behind World Cup holders New Zealand, and Jones has set his sights on toppling the All Blacks.\n\nJones has not faced New Zealand since taking charge in 2015.\n\nHe said: \"[The half-time message was] that we were ruthless and behaved like the number-one team in the world. The number-one team in the world goes on and finishes that off.\n\n\"We're not beating our chests and saying we're the number-one team in the world, but we aspire to be the number-one team in the world.\n\n\"We're one year into a four-year project. We've done reasonably well in the first year.\n\n\"We want to be the number-one team in the world but we're not, so we have got to get better.\"\n\n'It doesn't feel like we have won'\n\nEngland captain Dylan Hartley said that the players haven't allowed themselves to celebrate with one game still to come, and described winning the championship early as \"weird\".\n\n\"If we want to kick on as a team the next challenge is Dublin next weekend,\" he said.\n\n\"The team delivered, we don't need to fill newspaper columns and I'm happy with how the team conducted themselves. We were clinical, ruthless.\n\n\"It feels a bit weird - we have retained the Six Nations but it won't feel like it until we win next weekend.\n\n\"It's not a dead rubber - it's another step for the team to get better.\"\n\nCyprus won 24 matches in a row between 2008 and 2014 but they are not a tier one nation and not a full member of the International Rugby Board. England's best run before Eddie Jones took over was a streak of 14 consecutive wins between 2002 and 2003 - which ended just before their World Cup winning campaign.\n\nIt still feels surreal to compare this England team to an All Blacks side that won a third World Cup eight games into their own run, whose march included 41-13 and 57-15 wins over the Springboks, the latter away from home, as well as a 62-13 victory against France and five over Australia.\n\nBefore this week, England felt like a good team with a great record, rather than a great team or a team of greats.\n\nThe World Cup-winning All Blacks side contained arguably the two finest ever in their positions, fly-half Dan Carter and flanker Richie McCaw, as well as other superstars in Ma'a Nonu and Conrad Smith. They were the first team in history to retain the Webb Ellis trophy, like the Brazil side that won football's World Cup in 1970 at a sanctified level, taking their sport to heights that none before had touched.\n\nWhen McCaw and Carter stepped away, the team continued to develop rather atrophy. The XV that set the original 18-match mark with the 37-10 Bledisloe Cup win over the Wallabies contained eight players who would make most critics' fantasy world team: Ben Smith, Julian Savea, Beauden Barrett, Dane Coles, Brodie Retallick, Sam Whitelock, Jerome Kaino and Kieran Read.\n\nAnd so there is a gap, even if Billy Vunipola is fast becoming a totemic figure, even as Owen Farrell continues to raise his standards - 26 points on Saturday, 11 successful kicks from 12, his only miss a penalty from inside his own half - even as England's power and pace off the bench continue to flatten tired northern hemisphere defences.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritish number one Johanna Konta beat her compatriot Heather Watson 6-4 6-4 to reach the third round of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells.\n\nKonta, ranked 11th to Watson's 108th, struggled for rhythm in the first set but dominated the second to lead 5-1.\n\nWatson served nine double faults before fighting back but Konta came through.\n\nIn the men's event, Kyle Edmund beat Portugal's Gastao Elias 6-1 6-3 to set up a second-round meeting with world number two Novak Djokovic.\n\nBritish number three Dan Evans registered a 6-1 6-1 win over Germany's Dustin Brown in just 53 minutes.\n\nHe will face Kei Nishikori, ranked fifth in the world, in the second round on Sunday while Konta goes on to face Caroline Garcia in round three..\n• None Murray has work to do in 2017\n\n\"It was definitely a brilliant experience for both of us as Fed Cup team-mates and I am very happy to have come through it,\" said Konta, who was playing her first match in a month after a foot injury.\n\nIt was the first meeting on the WTA Tour between Britain's two leading women.\n\nTheir only previous contest was at a second-tier tournament in Barnstaple in 2013 when Watson retired after losing the first four games.\n\nWatson broke serve first but then gifted the advantage back as she made three double faults in the third game.\n\nWith both players making errors, the pair traded serves again before Konta, who received a bye in the first round, struck the decisive blow by winning the ninth game.\n\nShe went on to hold her serve to love to take the first set.\n\nKonta won eight points without reply at the start of the second set and looked on course for a quick victory.\n\nWatson, who threw her racquet in frustration after making three more double faults in the sixth game, found herself 5-1 down before she rallied.\n\nKonta served two double faults in the seventh game and won only two points as Watson, 24, won three consecutive games.\n\nBut the 11th seed composed herself to seal her place in the next round after 94 minutes.", "When soldiers went searching for militants in Myanmar's Rakhine state last October, the result for members of the Rohingya minority was disastrous. Villages were burned, men were killed, women were sexually abused. And when one woman complained of rape, she was accused of lying by the office of the country's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and hounded by vengeful soldiers.\n\nSitting cross-legged on the floor, 25-year-old Jamalida Begum tells me what happened in the days after her husband was shot dead in the village of Pyaung Pyaik, north-western Myanmar.\n\nJamalida fled with her two children and watched from a distance as the army set houses in the village on fire. Satellite images confirm that at least 85 buildings were destroyed.\n\nFive days later she returned with some of her neighbours to find her belongings and home destroyed. They sheltered together in one of the few homes that had survived - but at dawn the next day the soldiers came back.\n\n\"They chose 30 women. Half were young girls aged between 12 and 15,\" says Jamalida.\n\nThe soldiers took them to the village school.\n\n\"Then they chose four from among the 30,\" Jamalida says.\n\n\"It was me and three teenage girls. Then we were separated. The army took me to the east of the school near the pond. Another seven soldiers took the other three girls to the hill to the south of the school.\n\n\"They shouted at me to open my shirt and my thami (wrap-around skirt). When I refused they started beating me, grabbed my clothes and pushed me to the ground. Three soldiers raped and tortured me for an hour. Blood came out of my lower part and my legs got cramped. They punched me into the eyes saying I was staring at them. It turned my eyes red like fire coal. They left me bleeding and drove away in their Jeeps.\"\n\nThe soldiers were sent into northern Rakhine state to conduct \"clearance operations\" after militants from Jamalida's ethnic group, the Rohingya, launched an attack on three Burmese police posts on 9 October last year - killing nine officers and seizing guns and ammunition.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Myanmar: Who are the Rohingya?\n\nA wave of reports of human rights abuses followed, including scores of allegations of rape.\n\nFor weeks Myanmar's human rights icon turned leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, denied the allegations, insisting soldiers were adhering to the law, while at the same time refusing to allow independent journalists or observers to access the area.\n\nBut as the outcry grew she set up an investigation team, and on 11 December it reached Pyaung Pyaik.\n\nThough initially reluctant, Jamalida was persuaded to speak by the only woman on the team, Dr Thet Thet Zin, the chairman of Myanmar's Women's Affairs Federation.\n\n\"She said we won't harm you, bring us the raped and tortured women,\" Jamalida says. \"So I went there and told her everything and they recorded it.\"\n\nJamalida's interaction with the investigation team was filmed and several minutes of it broadcast on television. It is extraordinary footage, not just because of the way Jamalida is browbeaten by the translators, but because the Burmese state broadcaster didn't translate what Jamalida is saying to the investigators in the Rohingya language.\n\nOnce fully translated, it's clear that Jamalida is describing strong circumstantial evidence that rape has taken place. She tells them she saw three young Rohingya women being taken off into the bushes by soldiers.\n\n\"Did you see if those women were raped or not?\" the translator asks.\n\n\"So, it isn't true,\" the translator fires back.\n\n\"Yes and no,\" Jamalida says. \"They were bleeding directly from here\". She points between her legs.\n\n\"Don't say that, don't say that, don't say that they are bleeding, just say whether you've seen rape or not,\" the translator replies.\n\nThe translator tells the investigators that Jamalida did not see the women being raped.\n\nJamalida is also asked directly whether she herself was raped. She tells the investigators that soldiers took her away, stripped her naked and molested her, but says it was \"hands only\" and not rape.\n\nThe translator says: \"She wasn't raped.\"\n\nTen days later Jamalida is filmed again. This time, a group of handpicked journalists have been brought by the government to Pyaung Pyaik.\n\nInitially none of the Rohingya want to speak to them so someone goes to get Jamalida. She tells the journalists the same story of army abuse again, except this time it changes and she says she was raped.\n\nThis discrepancy, between being stripped and molested and being raped, was immediately seized on by Aung San Suu Kyi's office, which was at the time running an aggressive campaign rubbishing foreign and social media reports of atrocities in Rakhine State as \"fake news\".\n\nJamalida's face was suddenly on Burmese television and state media once again, now paraded as a liar.\n\nAung San Suu Kyi's Facebook page called her story an example of \"Fake Rape\" in a big picture banner.\n\nBanner on the Facebook page of Myanmar's State Counsellor, Aung San Suu Kyi\n\nSo what's the truth? When I speak to Jamalida her testimony is detailed and convincing. It matches what she told the journalists and what she said to the investigators apart from that one detail. I believe her when she says she was raped.\n\nI ask Jamalida about the difference in her accounts 10 days apart. She insists that she did tell the government investigators she was raped but that one of the translators was shouting and threatening to beat her. If she did tell the investigators this, it's possible Burmese TV chose not to broadcast this part of her testimony.\n\n\"I know they told everyone we weren't raped, tortured or anything,\" says Jamalida. \"We do not have justice in our own country.\"\n\nThe promise made by Thet Thet Zin that no-one would face reprisals for speaking out, turned out to be hollow.\n\nWhen soldiers came looking for her, she fled to a different village. Then, after speaking to the journalists, she realised it was not safe even there.\n\n\"The military were searching for me by getting all the women together in the yard and then showing them my picture,\" says Jamalida. \"I was so scared I hid in the jungle.\"\n\nUnable to take it any longer, the young widow fled across the River Naf into Bangladesh - one of more than 70,000 Rohingya to have arrived in the last few months.\n\nI spoke to Thet Thet Zin on the phone. She said that although she couldn't remember meeting Jamalida, the soldiers must have been searching for her to protect rather than harass her. She added that she had seen no conclusive evidence of rape and that she doubted it had happened, as it went against Buddhist culture and tradition. (While the Rohingya are Muslim, most of Myanmar's soldiers are Buddhist.)\n\nBangladesh is now the best place to go to learn what is happening in northern Rakhine state, which is closed to journalists. Even the UN's special rapporteur for human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, has had very limited access.\n\n\"I didn't think that I would say this out loud, that it's crimes against humanity,\" she says, when we meet in the airport at Cox's Bazaar.\n\n\"I think that the military needs to bear [responsibility] but at the end of the day it is the civilian government that has to answer and respond to these massive cases of horrific torture and very inhumane crimes that they have committed against their own people.\"\n\nOn Monday Yanghee Lee will urge the UN Human Rights Council to set up a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the abuses against the Rohingya.\n\nAs dusk began to fall at the Kutupalong refugee camp, where I met Jamalida Begum, I ask her what she thinks of Aung San Suu Kyi.\n\n\"She is doing nothing at all for us,\" she says. \"If she was good, we wouldn't have to suffer so much in that country. Since she is in power Myanmar is hell for us.\"\n\nSuu Kyi's power to stop the army abuses is limited, under the terms of the constitution drafted by the military. The spokesman for her party told me the UN claims were \"an exaggeration\" and the Rohingya issue was \"an internal affair\".\n\nBut Aung San Suu Kyi hasn't been to northern Rakhine State, and has never visited a Rohingya camp. In short, Myanmar's Nobel peace prize winner has given no indication to the Rohingya that she really cares.\n\nJonah Fisher's report was a joint investigation by Our World and Newsnight\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United striker Marcus Rashford will be named in Gareth Southgate's England squad on Thursday.\n\nThe 19-year-old was initially expected to feature for the England Under-21 side in friendlies against Germany and Denmark next weekend.\n\nBut with England forwards Harry Kane and Wayne Rooney both ruled out through injury, Rashford will be called up.\n\nEngland face Germany away in a friendly before a World Cup qualifier against Lithuania at Wembley on 26 March.\n\nRashford made a goal-scoring debut for England in a 2-1 win over Australia in May last year and has collected six senior caps.\n\nHe was a late inclusion for Manchester United in their 1-0 FA Cup defeat by Chelsea on Monday, having been omitted from the initial squad due to illness.\n\nEngland captain Rooney was ruled out of Manchester United's trip to the capital with a leg injury sustained in a training ground collision.\n\nAnd Tottenham striker Harry Kane went off with an ankle injury against Millwall on Sunday.\n\nSpurs said the injury is similar to the one Kane picked up against Sunderland on 18 September.", "If it was designed to grab headlines it certainly did that. Nicola Sturgeon slammed the ball into Theresa May's court on the question of another independence referendum.\n\nThere were accusations on both sides yesterday. The first minister accused the prime minister of \"intransigence\", of being a \"brick wall\". The PM accused the Scottish government of \"playing politics\" (yes that old chestnut) and Secretary of State for Scotland David Mundell said Ms Sturgeon was \"obsessed\".\n\nThe first minister has turned up the attacks today, questioning the prime minister's mandate for governing, in this tweet.\n\nForget about the political verbiage between the two for a second though. What might Theresa May's options actually be?\n\nIs there actually going to be a second independence referendum vote, when it is the last thing that Number 10 wants to happen?\n\n1. She could say 'No' immediately: This is extremely unlikely. Both sides know this would likely give the SNP a big bump in the polls and wouldn't remotely take the issue off the table.\n\n2. Say 'Yes' immediately: This is also extremely unlikely. Number 10 doesn't want this vote to take place and backing down now is almost unthinkable for a prime minister whose first visit was to Scotland, making it clear preserving the union is near the top of her list\n\n3. Say 'Not now, but not never': This is basically the position the government has taken so far, as David Mundell suggested yesterday. Westminster does not want to make it easy for the Scottish government. And what they won't agree to is the SNP's timetable of holding a vote before the Brexit negotiations are done.\n\n4. Play it long: This seems to be the second part of the strategy. Don't allow Nicola Sturgeon to set the terms of the narrative. She did yesterday, but with Theresa May holding off from triggering Article 50, the next fortnight could leave Nicola Sturgeon twisting in the wind, looking as if she moved too fast. While trying to avoid accepting a referendum, the Tories will try to keep the arguments focused on why they believe a vote should not take place. The SNP, however, may equally try to make this look as if Westminster is ignoring their demands, which of course, strengthens their case still further.\n\n5. Do a deal behind closed doors: This isn't the official position and no one on either side would acknowledge such a thing. But there are whispers that this has already happened. The theory goes that the UK government has accepted the inevitable and will allow the referendum to go ahead, but only on the basis that the agreement to do so includes a \"sunrise clause\" - so Nicola Sturgeon wins the right to hold the vote but in law, can't do so until the UK has left the EU. There's even a suggestion Westminster may stipulate that the second vote can't take place until after the next Holyrood election. That would be fiercely resisted by the SNP who could argue their victory in 2016 gave them a clear mandate for a second vote.\n\n6. Call Ms Sturgeon's bluff: Theresa May could suddenly suggest that despite the frustrations of their talks so far, that there could be a different deal for Scotland, and she will appeal to the EU Commission on Scotland's behalf to pursue that path. If Number 10 explored this publicly, it would be much harder for the Scottish Government to make its case. One SNP insider said it would \"shoot our fox\". But a UK government source downplayed the possibility of doing so. It would be a significant change in the UK approach and could open the door to complicated concessions and demands on many different fronts.\n\nLet's be clear, Theresa May really doesn't want to have a referendum. Senior SNP figures insist that Nicola Sturgeon, as she said yesterday, is completely serious about still being open to compromises if they can be made.\n\nBut with the political temperature already at boiling point, it's hard to see how they can find a solution that works for both sides.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nCoverage: Watch live on the BBC, BBC Sport website and the sport app, listen on Radio 5 live and Radio 5 live sports extra\n\nMasters champion Danny Willett says Muirfield voting to admit women members for the first time is a \"great thing\".\n\nMembers at the privately owned golf club voted 80.2% in favour of updating its membership policy on Tuesday.\n\nGolf's ruling body, the R&A, removed Muirfield as a host venue for the Open Championship after it chose to maintain the ban in 2016.\n\n\"It shows how times have changed, it shows golf has changed,\" said Englishman Willett.\n\n\"When the vote was passed that females weren't going to be allowed and they were going to be taken off the Open rota, it was not only a blow for a lot of other things, it was a blow for us golfers who think that golf course is one of the best Open courses.\n\n\"It's a great thing that they've done.\"\n\nWillett, 29, will defend his Masters title at Augusta between April 6-9.\n\nLast April, he claimed his first major by three shots on five under par, becoming the first British winner since Sir Nick Faldo in 1996, but has struggled recently and says his form is \"nowhere near\" what it was.\n\nHe does not expect a backlash from American fans after he was forced to apologise last September for an article written by his brother, Peter, in which he called American Ryder Cup fans a \"baying mob of imbeciles\".\n\nEurope went on to lose 17-11 at Hazeltine.\n\n\"I've been in America and played a couple of events and the American fans have been great as you'd expect,\" added Willett.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nCoverage: Commentary on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, live text coverage on the BBC Sport website and app\n\nSecond favourite Buveur D'Air, ridden by Noel Fehily, stormed to victory in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham.\n\nThe Nicky Henderson-trained six-year-old, a 5-1 shot, came home ahead of My Tent Or Yours (16-1) and Petit Mouchoir (6-1).\n\nIt was Fehily's second Champion Hurdle victory, and owner JP McManus' 50th winner at Cheltenham.\n\nYanworth - the 2-1 favourite - never settled and placed seventh.\n\nHenderson's sixth winner makes him the most successful trainer in the history of the race, following successes with See You Then (1985, 1986, 1987), Punjabi (2009) and Binocular (2010).\n\n\"It's fantastic. To win one was great, to win two is special,\" said Fehily, whose first Champion Hurdle win came on Rock On Ruby in 2012.\n\n\"I was very happy with him. My worry was if he would travel well enough down the hill but he travelled well and jumped well - it was a great performance.\"\n\nPetit Mouchoir, trained by Henry De Bromhead, led with two jumps to go but was hauled back by the two Henderson horses.\n\nThe 66-year-old also trains My Tent Or Yours, who finished second for a third time, having fallen just short in 2016 and 2014.\n\n\"I just know he's a very talented horse,\" Henderson said of Buveur D'Air.\n\n\"He'd won two novice chases and I just knew there was more there. You just felt there was unfinished business.\n\n\"It was very open - you could have had any sort of winner. I was happy with the ground, it hadn't dried like people thought it would. I knew it was safe enough and I thought it would suit him.\n\n\"All records are there to be broken. It's the horses and the people that make it. It's rather surreal really. Of course it's special, it's just fun. When this thing happens it's even better fun.\"\n\nThough the past two champions - Annie Power and Faugheen - weren't present because of injury, and their fans are sure to have a view on how they'd have fared against Buveur D'Air, you have to say the new champ took the crown in fine style.\n\nTaking over the lead as he headed towards the last hurdle, the only six-year-old really asserted, with a three-time runner-up four and a half lengths away in second.\n\nTrainer Nicky Henderson is superb with these top hurdlers, and he enjoyed a memorable day with Altior taking the Arkle Trophy, though how big a battle he'd have had if Charbel - who fell in the lead at the second last - stood up we'll never know.\n\nIn the first of Tuesday's races, 17-year-old jockey Jack Kennedy claimed a stunning victory on Labaik, a 25-1 shot who had refused to run in several of his previous races, in the Supreme Novices' Hurdle.\n\n\"It was brilliant, a dream come true. The horse can be very quirky but it all worked out well,\" Kennedy told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"I don't really come from a racing background, My mother's grandfather might have had a pony or something, that's about it.\n\n\"My father is a welder and my mother is a child-minder, but my older brother had a few ponies at home. I started pony racing when I was nine and that was it.\"\n\nLabaik's trainer Gordon Elliott had three wins - a 1,988-1 treble - in total over the day, with Lisa O'Neill steering 16-1 shot Tiger Roll, the 2014 Triumph Hurdle winner, to victory in the National Hunt Chase on her first ride at Cheltenham, and Apple's Jade (7-2) triumphing in the Mares hurdle.\n\nApple's Jade was previously trained by Willie Mullins, the leading Festival trainer for five of the past six years, but owner and Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary switched to Elliott following a row.\n\nThere was another victory for Henderson in the Arkle Challenge Trophy Novices' Chase, as Altior came in ahead of Cloudy Dream and Ordinary World - the trainer's sixth win in the race.\n\nLeader Charbel fell at the penultimate fence, leaving Altior clear to claim a victory which netted one punter £100,000 from a £400,000 bet.\n\nIn the Ultima Handicap Chase, Un Temps Pour Tout claimed a second successive victory, with Singlefarmpayment second and Noble Endeavour third.\n\nThe final race of the day, the Novices' Handicap Chase, won by Tully East, was delayed because of an injury to Edwulf in the previous race.\n\nBBC Radio 5 live sports extra reported that buckets of water were thrown over the JP McManus-owned horse after it collapsed and was removed from the track.\n\nThe horse was attended by vets, who arranged for him to be transported to the racecourse stables for further assessment.\n\nBefore the day's racing began, 20-time champion jump jockey Sir Anthony McCoy saw a statue put up in his honour at the racecourse.\n\n\"I can only say a huge thank you to Cheltenham,\" said the jockey, commonly known as AP.\n\n\"It was 20 years this week when I won the Champion Hurdle and Gold Cup and I had my first ride here in 1994. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would have a statue put up in my honour.\"\n\nMcCoy, 42, rode 31 winners at the Festival, including two Gold Cups and three Champion Hurdle successes.\n\nWhat to watch on Wednesday\n\nThe Queen Mother Champion Chase leads the billing at Cheltenham on Wednesday.\n\nThe Willie Mullins-trained Douvan is the overwhelming pre-race favourite to add to two previous Festival wins, having landed the 2015 Supreme Novices' Hurdle and the 2016 Arkle Trophy.\n\nDouvan's nine rivals include Special Tiara, who finished third in the past two years, and Fox Norton and Sizing Granite, both trained by Colin Tizzard.\n\nTop Gamble, Garde La Victoire, Traffic Fluide, Gods Own, Simply Ned and Sir Valentino complete the 10-strong field.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTottenham striker Harry Kane has suffered ligament damage to his right ankle - but it is not thought to be as severe as the injury that sidelined him for seven weeks earlier this season.\n\nThe England international was replaced after seven minutes of Sunday's 6-0 FA Cup quarter-final win over Millwall.\n\nHe was hurt when defender Jake Cooper blocked his shot close to the byeline.\n\nSpurs said the injury is similar to the one Kane picked up against Sunderland on 18 September.\n\nThe 23-year-old missed five Premier League games and two EFL Cup matches after twisting his ankle tackling Sunderland's Papy Djilobodji.\n\nKane is likely to miss England's friendly in Germany on 22 March and a home World Cup qualifier against Lithuania four days later.\n\nIt is not clear if the top flight's joint leading scorer with 19 goals will be available for Tottenham's FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea at Wembley on the weekend 22-23 April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emilian says he feels \"like a prisoner\" in his cab\n\nLorry drivers moving goods in Western Europe for Ikea and other retailers are living out of their cabs for months at a time, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nSome drivers - brought over from poorer countries by lorry firms based in Eastern Europe - say their salary is less than three pounds an hour.\n\nThey say they cannot afford to live in the countries where they work. One said he felt \"like a prisoner\" in his cab.\n\nIkea said it was \"saddened by the testimonies\" of the drivers.\n\nThe drivers the BBC spoke to were employed by haulage companies based in Eastern Europe, which are paid to transport Ikea goods.\n\nRomanian driver Emilian spends up to four months at a time sleeping, eating and washing in his truck.\n\nHe moves goods for Ikea around Western Europe, and had been in Denmark most recently.\n\nHe says the salary he takes home is a monthly average of 477 euros (£420).\n\nA Danish driver can expect to take home an average of 2,200 euros (£1,900) a month in salary.\n\nEU rules state that a driver posted temporarily away from home should be ''guaranteed'' the host nation's ''minimum rates of pay'' and conditions. But companies can exploit loopholes in the law.\n\nEmilian's colleague Christian prepares dinner in the back of the truck\n\nEmilian is employed by a Slovakian subsidiary of Norwegian trucking company Bring, and is being paid as if his place of work is Slovakia - even though he never works there.\n\nHe shows us where he sleeps - a sleeping bag in the back of his cab.\n\nAccording to EU law, drivers must take 45 hours weekly rest away from their cabs, but governments have been slow to enforce it.\n\nHe says he cannot afford to sleep anywhere else - he receives around 45 euros (£40) a day in expenses, which is meant to cover all hotel bills and meals.\n\nZoe Conway was reporting for the BBC's Today and Victoria Derbyshire programmes.\n\nDuring the working week, Emilian cooks and eats at the roadside. He says conditions have left him feeling \"like a prisoner, like a bird in the cage\".\n\n\"It's not good for drivers, it's not safe for other people on the road... it is possible to [cause an] accident,\" he says.\n\nOne driver's belongings, as he waits to board a minibus home for the first time in months\n\nAsked if he has a message for Ikea, he says: \"Come and live with me for one week. Eat what I eat. See what is happening in reality with our lives.\"\n\nAfter a few months on the road he will board a minibus back to Slovakia.\n\nHis Slovakian employer, Bring, says Emilian is responsible for taking his rest breaks, and can return home whenever he likes.\n\nEmilian is not alone. We have seen the contracts of drivers working for some of Ikea's biggest contractors - each paid low Eastern European wages while working for months at a time in Western Europe.\n\nIt is clear this way of treating drivers is widespread. It is not just within the Ikea supply chain, but also in those of several other big, household names.\n\nIn Dortmund, Germany - outside the biggest Ikea distribution centre in the world - truck drivers are drying their clothes. One is making his mash potato on a fuel tank.\n\nThere is no toilet, no running water.\n\nDrivers from Moldova say they receive an average monthly salary of 150 euros (£130) from their employer.\n\nLegal action is now being taken against some of Ikea's contractors.\n\nIn the Netherlands last month, a court ruled that Brinkman - which delivers Ikea flowers to the UK and Scandinavia - was breaking the law.\n\nThe court found that drivers' pay was \"not consistent\" with Dutch wages law.\n\nThe judge described conditions for drivers as an \"inhumane state of affairs'', and contrary to EU law.\n\nEdwin Atema, of trade union FNV, says he believes Ikea must have known of the conditions in which drivers are living.\n\n\"The Ukrainian, Moldovan, Polish guys remove the furniture from Ikea, they touch the furniture,\" he says.\n\n\"Ikea is the economic employer of all these workers here. They have so much power. Ikea has the tool in hand to change the business model with an eye blink.\"\n\nOne union, the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), met Ikea several times last year to discuss the issue - but talks ended in November.\n\nIkea said it takes what drivers have told the BBC \"very seriously'' and are \"saddened by the testimonies\".\n\nIt said it puts ''strict demands'' on its suppliers concerning wages, working conditions and following applicable legislation, and audits them regularly to check compliance.\n\nIncreasing numbers of foreign haulage companies are now moving goods in Britain.\n\nThey are working for hundreds of different companies, including Ikea.\n\nAt a lorry stop in Immingham, Lincolnshire, one anonymous Polish driver explains: \"We spend a lot of time living in lay-bys where there are no toilets, no showers, no facilities.\n\n\"The work is paid a bit better than what I would get in Poland, but this life is not good. I do it for my family.''\n\nBritish haulage companies are nervous that they will be undercut by companies that could be breaking the law.\n\nJack Semple, from the Road Haulage Association, says: \"We are seeing far more foreign lorries that are frankly less compliant with drivers' hours and road-worthiness regulations.\n\n\"There is a road safety risk, and the Treasury is losing a fortune in tax revenue.\n\n\"They have to get a grip on this because big, well-known UK retailers and other companies are making increasing use of these firms because they don't cost very much.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRoger Federer and Rafael Nadal have set up a fourth-round tie at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells - a re-run of this year's Australian Open final.\n\nSwitzerland's Federer, who won his 18th Grand Slam title with a five-set victory over Nadal in January, beat American Steve Johnson 7-6 7-6.\n\nNovak Djokovic beat Juan Martin del Potro, while Angelique Kerber, who is set to become world number one, is out.\n• Live commentary of Federer v Nadal on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra from 00:00 GMT, Thursday\n\nThe German, who is guaranteed a return to the top of the rankings on Monday following Serena Williams' withdrawal from Indian Wells and the Miami Open, lost 3-6 3-6 to Russian Elena Vesnina.\n\nSerb second seed Djokovic was hugely impressive as he won the deciding set 6-1 against Argentine Del Potro and he will play Australian 15th seed Nick Kyrgios, who earlier beat 18th seed Alexander Zverev of Germany 6-3 6-4.\n\n\"That's why I came here, to play against guys like Rafa,\" said Federer, 35, before a 36th meeting with Nadal, 30. \"I'd better be excited now otherwise I came for the wrong reasons.\n\n\"I try to see it really as another opportunity to build upon something for the rest of the season.\n\n\"So regardless of Australia, winning or losing, I'm going to try to go out there and play free again. I think it's really important.\"\n\nIn earlier matches, unseeded American Donald Young beat French 14th seed Lucas Pouille 6-4 1-6 6-3 in the men's draw, while Japan's fourth seed Kei Nishikori swept past Frenchman Gilles Muller 6-2 6-2.\n\nAmerican 17th seed Jack Sock edged a third set tie-break to beat Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria 3-6 6-3 7-6.\n\nIn the women's draw, American 12th seed Venus Williams beat Peng Shuai of China 3-6 6-1 6-3, and Czech third seed Karolina Pliskova led Timea Bacsinszky 5-1 when the Swiss retired.", "The war has devastated large parts of the country, and countless lives\n\nThe fighting in Syria is entering its seventh year, with no real end in sight.\n\nWhat began as calls for change on the streets swiftly became a multi-national battleground, which has left more than 300,000 people dead and millions displaced.\n\nHere are six decisive phases which have shaped the course of the conflict to date:\n\nDeraa was one of the first places to see anti-government protests in early 2011\n\nThere were almost 18 months between the outbreak of peaceful protests in February 2011 and the point - in July 2012 - that Syria was declared by the Red Cross to be in a state of civil war.\n\nOver this period, the international narrative shifted from one that framed events within the context of the Arab Spring's search for accountability and reform to one of a protracted military conflict.\n\nThe Syrian opposition that emerged in this period reflected, and continues to reflect, a broad movement and not a cohesive force.\n\nThe government resorted to increasingly violent crackdowns, prompting the establishment of a growing number of armed opposition groups. The Free Syrian Army (FSA) began to form in the summer of 2011, while the key Islamist and jihadist groups such as Ahrar al-Sham and al-Nusra Front were formed in late 2011 and early 2012, respectively.\n\nWhile the West hesitated over which groups to support, a chaotic influx of funds ensued from regional powers and individual donors in the Gulf and the Syrian diaspora.\n\nThe US failure to forcefully respond to chemical weapons attacks disappointed the opposition\n\nUS President Barack Obama had declared in 2012 that the US would punish any use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government.\n\nBut when the government was reported to have launched a chemical attack in the Ghouta agricultural belt outside Damascus in August 2013, the US did not intervene and instead accepted an offer from Russia to get Syria to dispose of its chemical weapons.\n\nThe Obama administration continued to insist that the deal with Moscow was a better outcome. But on the ground it served to embolden President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies, as it appeared to legitimise the use of non-chemical weapons.\n\nThese events shattered any hopes the opposition and its regional backers had of direct US military intervention. They would also undermine potential US leverage in peace negotiations, as the government and its international backers henceforth operated with little fear of US sanction.\n\nFollowing President Obama's decision not to enforce his red line on chemical weapons, Western support for the \"moderate\" armed groups was eclipsed by the support of Islamist groups by regional powers Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.\n\nEven prior to this, some FSA groups had begun adopting a more religious image in order to attract Gulf funding, while some fighters had defected to better-equipped Islamist rivals.\n\nJihadist groups skilfully sought to exploit the weakness of other groups to increase their power and influence within the rebel movement, sometimes targeting FSA units. Paradoxically, by 2015 this made moderate groups increasingly reliant upon jihadist groups on the battlefield.\n\nThe growth of radical groups was further facilitated by the government's battlefield alliances with Hezbollah and other Shia militias, which reinforced the sectarian narrative of Sunni jihadists.\n\nThe advent of IS changed the dynamics of the war in Syria\n\nIS entered the Syrian conflict by setting up al-Nusra Front, before announcing a merger with the group in 2013 that was rejected by al-Qaeda. The Syrian government's focus on military efforts against the moderate opposition groups afforded IS room for manoeuvre.\n\nIn June 2014, IS announced the formation of its so-called \"caliphate\", encompassing areas of Syria and Iraq. Defeating IS would soon become the priority in Iraq and Syria for Western powers, leading the West to subordinate the peace process in Syria to an \"IS first\" policy imperative.\n\nIn September 2014, the start of air strikes on IS positions in Syria demonstrated that the West was willing to intervene directly to counter the jihadist group, but not to protect civilians in opposition-held areas from the government's barrel-bombs.\n\nThis fuelled a deep sense of betrayal within the Syrian opposition and communicated the prioritisation of a military solution to one of the products of the conflict over the search for a peace settlement that would tackle its drivers.\n\nThe Russian offensive managed to turn the tide in favour of Assad\n\nFollowing a string of rebel victories in early 2015 - most notably in Idlib - President Assad was forced to admit that manpower shortages had made ceding territory necessary. Russia calculated that the Syrian government required direct material support to guarantee its survival.\n\nIn September 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the deployment of Russian forces to Syria. The intervention surprised the international community and immediately tipped the military balance in the government's favour.\n\nMoscow declared its intervention to be aimed at listed terror groups such as IS and al-Nusra Front, but it overwhelmingly targeted more moderate groups, including those receiving US support.\n\nRussia has subsequently become the main arbiter in international peace talks, effectively sidelining the UN and making the US a junior partner in the process.\n\nThe Russian intervention has also upped the ante for any form of future Western intervention, as this would bring a real threat of direct combat with Russian forces.\n\nEastern Aleppo was the rebels' last major urban stronghold until it fell to the government\n\nThe recapture of rebel-held eastern Aleppo by the government and government-aligned forces in December 2016 was the most significant victory for President Assad in the conflict to date.\n\nThe loss of Aleppo appears to illustrate that the rebels' hopes of overthrowing the Assad regime militarily are at an end. But the government also lacks the capacity to control the whole of the country, meaning that victory will prove a relative term in Syria.\n\nInternationally, events in Aleppo cemented Russia's role as the main external actor in the Syrian conflict. They also resulted in Turkey replacing the US as the key interlocutor with Russia in the last days of the Obama presidency.\n\nWith the US and its Western allies having ceded the initiative, it now appears Western marginalisation in Syria could leave Russia and Iran to negotiate with Turkey an eventual settlement to the war.\n\nTim Eaton is a research fellow with Chatham House's Middle East and North Africa Programme. He manages its Syria and its Neighbours Policy Initiative and is a co-author of the Chatham House report Western Policy Towards Syria: Applying Lessons Learned. Follow him on Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nA bid from UK cities to jointly host the 2022 Commonwealth Games would be considered by Games chiefs.\n\nBirmingham, Liverpool, London and Manchester have expressed interest in staging the Games in place of Durban.\n\nDurban was due to be the first African city to host the games but was stripped of the right on Monday.\n\nCommonwealth Games Federation chief David Grevemberg said officials were looking to make a decision quickly and would consider a joint bid.\n\n\"We are interested in looking at different delivery models and part of our strategic plan is to look at more affordable and appealing structures for hosting major events,\" said Grevemberg.\n\n\"There is a possibility in the future that we could look at combined events but at this point in time we are trying to ensure we deliver the best possible Games in the best possible city.\n\n\"Right now we are not speculating on any specific candidates over another.\n\n\"We really need to look over the context, time available, infrastructure, what is the resourcing base and ensure that we are able to have a good fit and a good partner.\"", "TV's most socially-awkward sitcom character, The Big Bang Theory's Sheldon Cooper, is getting his own spin-off series.\n\nThe eccentric Sheldon, played by Jim Parsons, has been at the centre of America's most popular comedy show since it started in 2007.\n\nEarlier this week, CBS confirmed that The Big Bang Theory's new spin-off, Young Sheldon, will be a prequel focusing on the character's early years.\n\nBut will it work? Some spin-off shows have been hugely successful - but there have also been quite a few flops.\n\nHere's a round-up of some of the best and worst:\n\nFrasier is one of television's most successful spin-offs.\n\nIt lasted for 11 seasons and notched up 264 episodes - just behind its predecessor Cheers, which managed 270.\n\nThe Kelsey Grammer sitcom continued the story of radio psychiatrist Frasier Crane. Digital Spy's TV editor Morgan Jeffery thinks the change in tone contributed to its success.\n\n\"Frasier had a different style and sense of humour to Cheers,\" he says. \"A spin-off needs to look and feel different. A lot of bad spin-offs are just watered down versions of the original.\"\n\nThe change certainly worked wonders for Frasier - the sitcom broke an Emmy Awards record, winning 37 over the course of its run (although the record was later beaten by the pesky Game of Thrones).\n\nWhile Breaking Bad centred on characters played by Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, corrupt lawyer Saul Goodman (played by Bob Odenkirk) developed something of a cult following.\n\nBetter Call Saul, which began in 2015, was created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, the brains behind Breaking Bad.\n\nThe Times's TV critic Andrew Billen thinks focusing on a less prominent character can often make a spin-off more likely to succeed.\n\n\"Most shows are not Marvel Comic universes, they're built around one or two heroes,\" he says. \"But if you take a minor character, there's more chance of succeeding. Then you're into something much nearer to a Hollywood franchise.\"\n\nJeffery agrees: \"Angel is a good example of a character who maybe wasn't getting the screen time when he was on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, so he was given a show where there was more space to explore that character.\"\n\nHappy Days and its seven spin-offs\n\nHappy Days certainly knows a thing or two about spin-offs - it had seven. Seven!\n\nThe most successful were Mork & Mindy, which starred Robin Williams; and Laverne & Shirley, which was fronted by Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams.\n\nThe latter, which first aired in 1976, focused on two single room-mates (who had been friends of Fonzie's in the main show) who work as bottlecappers in a Milwaukee brewery.\n\nIt ran side-by-side with Happy Days, and by its third season had become the most popular TV show in the US.\n\nThe show was cancelled in 1983, but it still managed an impressive eight seasons.\n\nAs one of the most successful sitcoms in television history, Friends was ripe for spin-off when it ended in 2004.\n\nOnly Matt LeBlanc stuck with the character that made him famous, and Joey was launched that September.\n\nBut it didn't go down well with fans, and viewing figures were low. It was cancelled after two seasons, with the final eight episodes not even making it to air.\n\n\"Matt LeBlanc was fantastic in [Friends] but he was playing a caricature,\" Billen says. \"I'm not sure there was enough complexity to Joey as a character, he was more of a clown, and it's difficult to build a show around that premise.\"\n\nJeffery adds: \"I don't feel there was a clear creative vision behind Joey, they just wanted to keep the Friends train going for a few more years.\"\n\nThe Mary Tyler Moore Show and its three spin-offs\n\nWhen it comes to spin-offs, Billen describes The Mary Tyler Moore Show as \"the mother of them all\".\n\nHe explains: \"It was so successful, the best friend Rhoda, played by Valerie Harper, got a spin-off. And the neighbour and landlady Phyllis also span off, but the really significant one was Lou Grant.\n\n\"In the original show, Mary Tyler Moore's character worked in a TV station in the newsroom, and the news editor [Grant] then span off into a drama series. It ran many seasons, and was a post-Watergate view of investigative journalism.\"\n\nIncluding the original, that totals an impressive four shows in the Tyler Moore universe.\n\nOnly Fools and Horses and Green Green Grass\n\nAsk a British sitcom fan what their favourite shows of all time are, and it's likely Only Fools and Horses will figure highly on their list.\n\nIt's slightly less likely they'd choose The Green Green Grass, the Fools spin-off that began in 2005 and focused on Boycie and his wife Marlene\n\nIt managed 32 episodes but was cancelled in 2009 after continuing negative reviews from critics.\n\nCSI: Crime Scene Investigation began in September 2002 and was hugely popular with audiences.\n\nSo popular, in fact, that it sparked CSI: Miami, CSI: NY and the more recent (and less successful) CSI: Cyber.\n\nJeffery says the CSIs \"work on a business level because you're giving people more of what they enjoyed before\".\n\nJeffrey thinks it could be just the right time for The Big Bang Theory to get the spin-off treatment.\n\n\"I believe it's close to being renewed again but it doesn't feel like it's got too much life left in it,\" he says. \"It's probably got a couple more seasons before the cast try and shoehorn themselves out of the show.\"\n\nThe Guardian's Stuart Heritage put it slightly more bluntly, writing that the announcement of Young Sheldon means \"The Big Bang Theory has officially started its death spiral\".\n\nBig Bang may well be ripe for a spin-off, but its makers will have to tread carefully.\n\n\"There's absolutely no guarantee a spin-off will work better than any brand new comedy or a brand new programme,\" cautions Billen.\n\n\"It will give you ratings for the first couple of episodes, and after that it sinks or swims on its own merit.\"\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\nA week after Jose Mourinho criticised their pitch, the Russian Premier League has \"banned\" FC Rostov from hosting league games due to \"shortfalls\" in the playing surface.\n\nManchester United drew 1-1 at the Olimp-2 Stadium in their Europa League last-16 first-leg tie last Thursday.\n\n\"It's hard for me to believe we are going to play on that field, if you can call it a field,\" Mourinho had said.\n\nRostov now have until 24 March to bring their pitch up to standard.\n\nThe pitch was dry and bobbly, and after the match Mourinho said the conditions made it \"impossible to play a passing game\".\n\nThe Russian Premier League told BBC Sport that Rostov will have their pitch inspected again on 24 March, with their next home game on 31 March against FC Krasnodar.\n\nUefa had deemed the pitch playable for the Europa League game, but the Russian Premier League say they have different regulations in place.\n\nUnited and Rostov play the second leg at Old Trafford on Thursday.\n\nLike Rostov, Rubin Kazan's Central Stadium has also been banned by the Russian Premier League.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nFormer world champion Stuart Bingham faces a disciplinary hearing after it was found he has \"a case to answer\" in relation to betting on snooker.\n\nBingham admitted to breaking World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) rules on betting on matches involving other players.\n\nThe world number three is now awaiting the conclusion of the investigation before he discovers his penalty.\n\n\"This was just a case of me not being clear on the rules,\" said Bingham.\n\n\"I did not know I was not allowed to bet on other players' matches. I thought it was just my own I could not bet on, and I have never done that.\n\n\"I have nothing to hide on the matter and have co-operated fully with the investigation and I now await the outcome.\"\n\nThe WPBSA confirmed that there was \"no suggestion of any match manipulation or corruption in this case\".\n\nBingham was informed in December that allegations were being investigated by Nigel Mawer, the chairman of the WPBSA's disciplinary committee.\n\nAnd in a follow-up meeting with Mawer in January, Bingham confirmed he had placed accumulator bets on the outcome of other matches, stating he did not know it was against the governing body's rules to do so.\n\nA WPBSA statement said: \"Following an investigation into an alleged breach of the WPBSA betting rules by Stuart Bingham, a decision has been taken today that there is a case to answer.\n\n\"The matter has now been referred to the WPBSA disciplinary committee where a formal hearing will take place at a venue and date to be confirmed.\"\n\nIt is unlikely that the hearing will take place before this year's World Championship, which gets under way on 15 April, due to the length of the WPBSA's disciplinary process.\n\nBingham, 40, won the world title in 2015 and claimed his first victory since that Sheffield triumph at last month's Welsh Open.\n\nIn January, Alfie Burden was given a six-month ban - suspended for a year - and fined £5,000 for placing bets totalling £25,000 on matches including his own.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City are out of the Champions League after Monaco struck late to seal a thrilling away-goals victory, which ended 6-6 on aggregate.\n\nThe English side were 13 minutes from a place in the quarter-finals after clawing themselves back into a second leg their hosts had dominated, but slack marking from a set-piece allowed Tiemoue Bakayoko to head home the decisive goal.\n\nHaving won the competition twice in his time at Barcelona, this is the first time in manager Pep Guardiola's career that he has gone out at this stage.\n\nMonaco lost 5-3 in an extraordinary first leg in Manchester but dominated the first half at the Stade Louis II and opened the scoring through the excellent Kylian Mbappe's poked finish from close range.\n\nThe Ligue 1 side, who had scored 123 goals so far this season, deservedly doubled their advantage on the night, punishing City's sluggish start through Fabinho's crisp strike.\n\nCity failed to muster any sort of shot in the opening 45 minutes and it took until the 65th minute for Sergio Aguero to call goalkeeper Danijel Subasic into a sharp save.\n\nThey forced their way into the game - and back into the aggregate lead - as Leroy Sane swept in when Subasic parried Raheem Sterling's low strike, but their defence could not hold out.\n\nThe result leaves Premier League champions Leicester City as the only English team in the last eight.\n\nMonaco join the Foxes, holders Real Madrid, last year's runners-up Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Juventus in Friday's draw.\n• None 'I couldn't convince them to attack' - Pep says he takes the blame\n• None Listen: 'Man City have failed to live up to expectations' - Phil Neville\n\nHaving gained a two-goal advantage at home, City boss Pep Guardiola had vowed his side would go on the attack in order to finish the job.\n\nBut while the Spanish coach can boast the best record of any manager in Europe after 100 games, he opted to start with only Fernandinho in the middle of the park against the aggressive and youthful French side.\n\nFive attack-minded players were deployed in front of the Brazilian midfielder, while Yaya Toure was left on the bench, and it proved a costly move as City were overrun by sharper opponents.\n\nAlthough they pulled a goal back on the night through Sane - putting them briefly back in front in the tie - the English side never recovered from their poor first-half showing.\n\nBig-money signing John Stones struggled again and Monaco's winning goal epitomised the fragility of the visitors' defensive backline, as the impressive Bakayoko was allowed a free header eight yards from goal.\n\nGuardiola has said his maiden City season will be a failure if he cannot deliver a trophy, but barring a dramatic Chelsea collapse in the Premier League, the Spaniard's only realistic hope of silverware is now the FA Cup.\n\nThe City boss made some unwelcome history in France as his side became the first team to be eliminated in a Champions League knockout tie after scoring five goals in the first leg.\n\nThe Ligue 1 leaders were missing star striker Radamel Falcao, who had failed so spectacularly in England with loan spells at Manchester United and Chelsea.\n\nBut the home side took the game to City, allowing them little time and space on the ball, forcing errors and taking their chances superbly. Although they began to tire in the second half, the 2004 runners-up managed to edge through.\n\nEighteen-year-old striker Mbappe - who has earned comparisons to retired France great Thierry Henry - found the net after just eight minutes for his 17th goal of the season, fed by the brilliant Portuguese midfielder Silva.\n\nBenjamin Mendy caused all sorts of problems by bombing on from full-back, but man of the match Bakayoko deservedly took his side through with the winning goal.\n\nThe towering France Under-21 international controlled the midfield and gained possession nine times - more than any team-mate.\n\nThey have been two brilliant football matches. City lost it in the first half when they were outplayed, outfought and were bullied.\n\nThey got back into the game and they thought they were through. But their Achilles heel was a sloppy goal. Another year has failed to live up to expectations.\n\nI am not so sure the signings over the last five years have been that good, but when Leroy Sane scores, Pep Guardiola is thinking 'this is perfect, we can control the game from here'. Then they concede.\n\nGuardiola doesn't go out there and spend the bulk of his money on defenders. He will be thinking if they had put one of those chances away they would be in the next round.\n\n'Sometimes you have to be lucky'\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola, talking to BT Sport: \"We played exceptional second half but we forgot to do that in the first. We wanted to defend aggressively. We were better in the second but it wasn't enough.\n\n\"Normally we play to a good level but here we didn't. We will learn. The team does not have a lot of experience.\n\n\"The second half we had the chances and we didn't take them and that is why we are out. And set-pieces are so important at this level. Barcelona and Real Madrid scored from them last week. We were not there and we were not there in the first 45 minutes.\n\n\"We will improve but this competition is so demanding. Sometimes we have to be special and be lucky. We were not.\"\n• None Monaco have progressed from all four of their Champions League knockout ties against English teams.\n• None David Silva played his 50th Champions League game, becoming the 25th Spaniard to reach that milestone in the competition.\n• None Kylian Mbappe has scored 11 goals in his past 11 games in all competitions.\n• None Bernardo Silva has provided an assist in each of his past three games for Monaco in all competitions.\n• None City are without a clean sheet in their past 11 away games in the Champions League (excluding qualifiers).\n• None The English side failed to muster a single shot in the first half of a Champions League game for the first time.\n• None Fabinho has had a hand in three goals in two Champions League appearances versus Manchester City this season (one goal, two assists).\n• None Leroy Sane scored with just his 11th shot on target for City this season (all competitions).\n• None Thomas Lemar (Monaco) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Valère Germain (Monaco) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Valère Germain (Monaco) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. David Silva tries a through ball, but Leroy Sané is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Leicester City delivered a new entry into their list of unlikely success stories with a stunning victory over Sevilla at the King Power Stadium that takes them into the Champions League quarter-finals.\n\nThe club and team that makes a habit of turning logic on its head did it again as high-flying La Liga side's 2-1 advantage from the first leg was overturned amid an atmosphere of passion and emotion that evoked memories of last season's Premier League title win.\n\nIt was made all the more remarkable by the fact that three weeks ago, after that first game in Spain, Leicester sacked Claudio Ranieri, the man who masterminded that title triumph, amid tales of dressing-room discontent and fears of relegation.\n\nHow have they undertaken this transformation? And how far can they now go in the Champions League?\n• None Leicester beat Sevilla to reach Champions league last eight\n• None Foxes 'achieved the impossible again', says Morgan\n\nFrom dreading the Championship to dreaming of Champions League glory\n\nWhen Leicester sacked Ranieri on 23 February, the Champions League was an afterthought set alongside fears the Foxes were on course to drop into the Championship.\n\nThey had dredged a creditable 2-1 loss out of a performance that was the final curtain for the popular Italian - but it was wider concerns that led to his dismissal.\n\nThe club's Thai owners needed someone to rediscover the element that had been lost in the nine months since Leicester lifted the Premier League trophy in one of the greatest sporting stories ever told. They needed someone to keep them up, with any success in the Champions League falling into the category of added bonus.\n\nThey turned to Craig Shakespeare, who came to the club with Nigel Pearson and stayed on to ride shotgun to Ranieri in that dream season.\n\nAnd, in an instant, the dial has been turned back. Shakespeare has restored this Leicester team to default, title-winning settings - and the transformation has been remarkable.\n\nWho's through to the last eight?\n\nShakespeare, in charge until the end of the season, has won three out of three. Impressive wins against Liverpool and Hull have soothed relegation fears but this win over Sevilla is the most compelling vindication of his methods. It was the kind of victory on which reputations are made and, in the case of Leicester's players, revived.\n\nHe effectively restored the title team, with the obvious exception of Wilfred Ndidi for the departed N'Golo Kante, and ordered them to play in the same intense, counter-attacking manner - using the pace of Jamie Vardy and the creativity of Riyad Mahrez - that brought that success.\n\nIt was a move that now has self-belief sweeping through the club, players and supporters, like a tidal wave. To watch the Foxes hurry Sevilla out of their stride was the equivalent of being transported back to last season.\n\nShakespeare has gone back to improve the future. Leicester have returned to the uncomplicated success of last season, banishing the mediocrity and lacklustre performances of the early months of a season that threatened to be the biggest anti-climax of all.\n\nWhen they lost 2-0 at relegation rivals Swansea on 12 February, a result that helped to seal Ranieri's fate, they were in 17th place with 21 points from 25 Premier League games. This was a club in freefall.\n\nShakespeare's approach has been simple but very specific. Leicester have returned to what they do best and what opponents dislike most.\n\nAnd in doing so, the King Power Stadium is back to the imposing arena it was last term.\n\nTuesday's win was driven by passion, noise and raw emotion. When the board went up to signal four minutes of stoppage time, a huge roar rippled around the stadium - a roar of inspiration, not fear.\n\nThose closing stages were pure theatre as the clock ticked down in an electric atmosphere. All the ingredients that made Leicester such a success story last year were back.\n\nThere was still plenty of criticism of the club's players on social media on Tuesday from those who believed they downed tools under Ranieri only to pick them up once he was gone, but no-one seemed to care inside a thunderous King Power Stadium.\n\nThis beating of Sevilla was the most emphatic justification of the events of the past few weeks.\n\nLeicester's Thai owners were painted as heartless, ruthless and almost the enemies of decency and manners when the dignified Ranieri was shown off the premises nine months after bringing them riches they could only have dreamed of.\n\nIt was significant that when Leicester made their post-Ranieri return with a 3-1 win at home to Liverpool on 27 February, there was a march of thanks to the departed manager and many banners of appreciation, but little acrimony or open criticism of the club's hierarchy.\n\nThis may have been a signal suggesting that, while their fans may have found the decision to remove the Italian uncomfortable, particularly given his obvious warmth and decency, they had been watching a floundering team and realised emergency action was needed.\n\nThe club's decision-makers made the move with a heavy heart but without sentiment. Relegation was the fear and it needed to be avoided - and it is unlikely supporters would have thanked them for being sentimental all the way into the Championship.\n\nThey have not looked for vindication or justification - remaining silent for the most part - but the performance against Sevilla and the securing of a place in the last eight of the Champions League is evidence that, no matter how unpalatable their sacking of Ranieri may have been to some, it was the right move.\n\nMatch of the Day presenter Gary Lineker, a former Leicester and England striker, tweeted that the decision was \"inexplicable, unforgiveable and gut-wrenchingly sad\". And there were many who shared his view.\n\nResults since, and the celebrations at the final whistle on Tuesday after another moment of Foxes history, give further credence to what many regarded as a cruel move.\n\nThe Foxes' owners have a track record of taking the right decisions - and they look to have done so again.\n\nThey kept faith with former manager Nigel Pearson through a period of struggle and he mounted an unlikely survival campaign to stay in the Premier League. And when he was sacked, the appointment of Ranieri - greeted with widespread scepticism - was a masterstroke.\n\nFormer England defender Danny Mills, watching as a BBC Radio 5 live analyst on Tuesday, offered his support to the club's owners as he said: \"It's just a different Leicester from what we have seen this season.\n\n\"All those fans who thought it was a disgrace that Ranieri was sacked have got to eat some humble pie.\"\n\nIt still would have tasted sweet to those who questioned that decision as they made their way out into the streets around the stadium amid scenes of wild celebration.\n\nHow far could they go?\n\nIt is surely stretching the credibility of even Leicester's scriptwriters to suggest they can win the Champions League - but who is to say they cannot make even more waves after Sevilla, Europa League winners three seasons in succession and third in La Liga, were beaten?\n\nThis was a fully deserved win against a side rated as potential dark horses in the competition and comes on the heels of an impressive dismissal of Liverpool.\n\nThe Foxes will be rank outsiders against Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Juventus - or anyone who is pitted against them in the last eight.\n\nHowever, they will not shy away from any challenge, especially not at home and especially not if this arena is the stage for the second leg.\n\nThere was a real air of intimidation, noise and theatre in the stadium against Sevilla and Leicester's fans are starting to dream again after the dark months between August and February.\n\nUnder Shakespeare, they are playing in a manner designed to unsettle any side who takes the measured approach - and they will do it backed by a 90-minute wall of sound.\n\nAll the odds suggest this latest great adventure should end at the next stage - but since when did the odds or logic come into this club's calculations?", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nRory McIlroy has continued his criticism of Muirfield despite the club voting to admit women members for the first time this week.\n\nMcIlroy slammed Muirfield last year when it was removed as an Open venue after choosing to maintain the ban.\n\n\"I still think that it got to this stage is horrendous,\" said McIlroy.\n\n\"We'll go back and play the Open because they'll let women members in, but every time I go I won't have a great taste in my mouth.\"\n\nMembers at the privately owned golf club voted 80.2% in favour of updating its membership policy on Tuesday.\n\n\"I mean, in this day and age, where you've got women that are leaders of certain industries and women that are heads of state and not be able to join a golf course - I mean, it's obscene.\n\n\"It's ridiculous. So th-ey sort of saw sense.\"\n\nOn the nearly 20% who voted to maintain the ban, McIlroy said: \"It's horrendous. I mean, I just don't get it.\n\n\"So anyway, we'll go back there for the Open Championship at some point and I won't be having many cups of tea with the members afterwards.\"", "It is perhaps the most beguiling irony of our age that a new class of super-rich that has emerged on America's West Coast has its moral, intellectual and even spiritual origins in the anti-materialistic radicalism of 1960s counter-culture.\n\nSilicon Valley is what happened when the flower power generation sobered up.\n\nSteve Jobs was a Buddhist, though to what extent has been the subject of much debate.\n\nAnd the zealous mission on which Facebook is embarked - to create a more open and connected world, smashing barriers instinctively - owes a substantial debt to the baby boomers and their own particular doctrine, (John) Lennonism. When Mark Zuckerberg speaks, I always hear the lyrics to Imagine.\n\nPerhaps it is this moral component to what Silicon Valley's biggest companies do that has, for the most part, protected them from what I had long considered inevitable: a monumental backlash.\n\nI call this the tech-lash, and thought it would have two main components.\n\nFirst, anti-capitalism: the hostility toward plutocracy shown by groups such as Occupy Wall Street would, eventually, take aim at the astronomical wealth of tech billionaires - especially once it dawned on these protesters, and society at large, that compared to the industrialists of old, these companies don't actually employ many people.\n\nAs a result, of the vast capital they have amassed, a disconcertingly small amount actually makes it to the labour force.\n\nThat smells like trickle-down economics - without the trickle down.\n\nThe second component of the tech-lash would arise from concerns about privacy, fuelled not least by the revelations from Edward Snowden.\n\nIt is hard to get your head around just how much data companies such as Google and Facebook hold, and how much information they have about us - most of it voluntarily given over.\n\nIf the civil liberties brigade ever needed a cause around which to rally, this could well be it.\n\nTogether with disgust at how little taxes these companies pay, you have the elements of an almighty revolt.\n\nAnd yet, it hasn't really come: partly, I imagine, because of that sense of moral purpose; and partly because of the fact that these brilliant and uniquely innovative companies have improved our lives without asking us to pay a penny.\n\nYour appetite for being horrible toward Google is neutered when you use Gmail to rally comrades to a cause, and Google Maps to get to a protest.\n\nThis, then, was the tech-lash that wasn't. Until now.\n\nTwo stories this week suggest that the mood is changing.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Home Affairs Select Committee gave a ferocious grilling to senior executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter.\n\nThe Daily Mail is usually a good indicator of which way the wind is blowing; its front page headline on Wednesday was \"Shaming of the web giants\".\n\nThe next story that showed public feeling might be turning was on the front of another British newspaper - the Financial Times.\n\nAnd yet the story wasn't about Britain. The splash headline was: \"Berlin plans €50m [£44m] fines for hate speech and fake news\".\n\nThis is a remarkable story: the German government is drafting legislation that will aggressively target internet companies, including social media giants, if they don't do enough to stop the spread of socially corrosive material online, particularly by giving users tools to flag such material.\n\nGermany is uniquely susceptible to the spread of fake news.\n\nAngela Merkel's hugely controversial refugees policy, the rise of the nationalist Alternative for Germany party, the constant threat from neo-Nazis, upcoming national elections, and the staid media landscape - staid compared with Britain's raucous tabloids, for instance - all make conditions ripe for exploitation.\n\nBut Germany is now leading the fight-back. Germans have a very different approach to the state to that which is fashionable on America's West Coast.\n\nThe new tech giants are often libertarians who believe that innovation and technology can solve social problems much more effectively than government.\n\nThey are diametrically opposed to what you might, crudely, call the Teutonic faith in regulation: many Germans - and indeed all those I spoke to while reporting there - believe that a smart, enabling state can, through effective legislation, mitigate social ills.\n\nIf the much heralded tech-lash is finally upon us, it is the Germans who hold the whip hand.\n\nIt isn't hatred of plutocracy, or love of privacy, that finally turned the temper of a people against tech giants: it is the threat of election, and legislative power falling into the hands of nasty forces, that has prompted action.\n\nMoreover, it took the German faith in the efficacy of regulation to confront those giants with the threat of punitive action.\n\nIf the German proposal becomes legislation, it will offer a template that could be rolled out elsewhere.\n\nWhether this is the beginning of a tech-lash - a concerted effort by societies and government to, ahem, take back control from tech companies - or just an incremental development in a constantly maturing new world of law and power, is unclear.\n\nI would hope, whatever the regulatory fallout of the fake news phenomenon, the likes of Facebook and Google continue to earn immense respect for being better at providing exceptional services to customers than most companies in history.\n\nDoes that include the British? Yes, basically: our political class reveres Silicon Valley and hopes to replicate its success over here.\n\nBut my conversations in Westminster lead me to believe that, in Theresa May, we have a leader who is not far off the pragmatic, populist patriotism of Mrs Merkel; that, like the German chancellor, our prime minister is a provincial Tory who believes in the good that government can do.\n\nTheresa May admires the pragmatism of her German counterpart, Angela Merkel\n\nGiven her one-nation rhetoric, Mrs May will be conscious that fake news - which Facebook is taking very seriously - does potentially pose a threat to the social solidarity.\n\nThe prime minister and her most senior lieutenants are very close observers of German affairs, and there are people close to the top of British government who are wondering what they can learn, and imitate, from this week's German proposal.\n\nIn recent years, the moral fervour of those sons and daughters of the 1960s who have come to dominate Silicon Valley, and all our lives, has forged an alliance with wealth and power of a kind most of us can't imagine.\n\nWhat happens when it clashes with the alternative worldview of people in faraway lands who have elections to win, and hatred to silence, will determine much of this, the first truly digital chapter in history.", "The view from the presidential palace in Damascus is the brightest it has been since the war in Syria started.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin's decision at the end of 2015 to increase enormously the support he was giving to President Bashar al-Assad has transformed the war in the regime's favour.\n\nThe fall of the eastern side of Aleppo in 2016 was a hammer blow to the armed rebels who once had hopes of toppling the regime.\n\nPresident Assad has not won the war. But it is hard to see now how he can lose it, without an equally decisive intervention against him by an outside power.\n\nThe jihadist group Islamic State was incubated by the war. It started as an offshoot of al-Qaeda in Iraq.\n\nWhen it was driven out it was able to regroup and transform itself in Syria, taking over territory that the central government lost.\n\nThe first peaceful demonstrations against the regime in March 2011 seem a world away. Change seemed to be sweeping the region.\n\nPresident Assad had talked endlessly about reform of the system in Syria since he inherited power from his father in 2000.\n\nHe admitted there was corruption. He did not talk about the well-documented brutality of the security services.\n\nBy the standards of the leaders of authoritarian Arabs he seemed relatively open to new ideas, but he never translated talk into action.\n\nThe immediate assumption in 2011 was that Bashar al-Assad would go the way of the leaders of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.\n\nBut the Syrian regime, unlike those in Tunisia and Egypt, was well constructed to resist rebellion, around a core of Alawites from the president's own minority sect.\n\nUnlike Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, Syria's president never lost the loyalty of his armed forces, or of his key foreign allies.\n\nHe also had real support from important sectors of the population, without which he would not have survived.\n\nSyria has been caught up in the tide of sectarianism that has ripped across the Middle East since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.\n\nMost of the rebels were Sunnis: Sunni governments in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar supported different groups.\n\nThe dominant Alawite minority in Syria is a branch of Shia Islam; the regime's biggest supporters outside Russia are the Shia regime in Iran and Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia movement.\n\nBy 2012, the violence had escalated and the country had descended into civil war\n\nThe first generation of rebels begged Western powers, and sympathetic Saudis and Qataris, for military support. It arrived, but not on the scale that Russia gave President Assad later in the war.\n\nIn Libya, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi would probably have regained his grip on power had the UK, France and the US, and allies from Nato and Arab countries, not provided the rebels with an air force. Nothing like that was attempted in Syria.\n\nGenerals from Nato countries say that early in the war they had credible plans that could have ended the Syrian war.\n\nBut they did not have political leaders who were prepared to take the considerable risk of intervening - and in the White House, President Barack Obama was determined not to repeat the mistakes of his predecessor George W Bush by getting involved in another big Middle Eastern war.\n\nWestern powers blamed the government for a deadly chemical weapons attack in 2013\n\nThe crucial turning point came in August and September of 2013, after an attack using chemical weapons on rebel-held areas in the suburbs of Damascus.\n\nPresident Obama first threatened force against the regime, then changed his mind.\n\nIn wars, hard power is decisive. Without it, Western countries could only huff and puff against President Assad.\n\nWestern countries never decided what they wanted in Syria, beyond saying that Mr Assad had to go.\n\nPresident Putin knew exactly what he wanted - to preserve a friendly regime and show his supporters and the wider world that Russia was back on the world stage. He made it happen.\n\nBarack Obama's decision not to forcefully respond to the 2013 attack angered the opposition\n\nFrom the very beginning, President Assad and his people have presented the war as a foreign conspiracy intended to destroy secular, multi-cultural Syria.\n\nThe choice, he said, was stark - the regime or Islamist, terrorist extremists, and he made no distinction between different kinds of armed opposition.\n\nThey were all terrorists, all enemies of the Syrian people and therefore were legitimate targets.\n\nThe Syrian armed forces, President Assad has said throughout, are the protectors of the people.\n\nGovernment forces have regained control of many areas of the country since late 2015\n\nEarly in the war, if you crossed the line from regime held areas to ones controlled by rebels, as I was able to do several times, the message was very different.\n\nMany said they were local men who had taken up arms against a cruel dictator. Some were migrants from the countryside who had suffered badly during years of drought that had been handled badly by corrupt and inept administrators.\n\nBut that relative simplicity became muddled as the war developed layers of conflict, as rebel groups changed, sometimes self-destructed, fought each other as well as the regime, and were kept under constant pressure by the Syrian military.\n\nThe city of Homs, dubbed \"the capital of the revolution\" suffered widespread destruction\n\nHalf lost their homes, and either left the country as refugees or were displaced, often many times, within Syria.\n\nThe Syrian armed forces used siege tactics against enclaves controlled by rebels, sealing them off, stopping food deliveries, and shelling and bombing from the air.\n\nAll the available statistics, denied by the regime, say that the biggest killer of civilians has been the Syrian armed forces.\n\nMore children died in 2016 than in any other of the previous five years of civil war\n\nI have interviewed the president, and had many conversations with Syrian officers about the scale of killing by the military.\n\nThey deny it has happened, and speak passionately about their desire to protect Syrians from religious extremists.\n\nBut the tactics they have used against areas controlled by rebels and with large civilian populations guarantee that many will die.\n\nBarrel bombs are an indiscriminate weapon, and artillery and air strikes have laid waste to huge areas.\n\nI have seen the damage myself in areas recaptured from rebels.\n\nIn many parts of east Aleppo, which was pounded by the regime and by the Russians, it is hard to find buildings that are undamaged. Entire districts were levelled.\n\nRebel groups have also used indiscriminate force, but they have a fraction of the firepower of the regime and its allies.\n\nRebel fighters and allied jihadists are estimated to control about 15% of Syria\n\nStatistics are unreliable in a country that has been in chaos, with many areas impossible to reach. But they give an idea of what has happened.\n\nThe Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is a monitoring group based in the UK using sources in Syria, says 321,000 people, including 96,000 civilians, have been killed in the war. Another 145,000 are missing, it says.\n\nSo many foreign powers, Western as well as Middle Eastern, have intervened in Syria that it became a mini world war.\n\nThe regime is secure, but it does not control large areas of the country. Civilians continue to suffer.\n\nMore people are going to die in a war that has changed but not ended.", "This image of a nude protest by a group of Indian mothers and grandmothers stunned the world 13 years ago.\n\nDefying all stereotypes, the 12 women challenged the security forces and paved the way for real change on the ground in the north-eastern state of Manipur.\n\nEleven of the mothers regrouped in the state capital, Imphal, recently to speak to the BBC about their unconventional protest. The 12th protester died five years ago.\n\nIn a large bare hall, they sit on floor mats, many of them in their sunset years. Many are frail and have failing eye sight, one is accompanied by her daughter as she cannot walk unaided.\n\nAs they start telling me about that day, it's hard to imagine these women carrying out that act of protest.\n\nPioneering Indians is a series looking back at men and women who have helped shape modern India. Other stories from the series:\n\nManipur has struggled for decades with an insurgency involving several militant groups, and the Indian military has for more than half a century had sweeping shoot-to-kill powers under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (Afspa).\n\nThe mothers regrouped in Imphal to speak about their unconventional protest\n\nManorama was gang-raped and killed in July 2004\n\nThe security forces were often accused of rights abuses, but it was the gang-rape and murder of a 32-year-old woman in July 2004, allegedly by paramilitary soldiers, that set the state on the edge.\n\nManorama was picked up from her home at midnight on 11 July by soldiers from the Assam Rifles, a paramilitary force deployed in Manipur to fight insurgents. A few hours later, her mutilated, bullet-riddled body was found by the roadside. It bore tell-tale signs of torture and rape.\n\nThe Assam Rifles denied any role in her death, but the state witnessed unprecedented anger and at the centre of that was the \"mothers' protest\".\n\nThe grannies in front of the Kangla Fort where they had staged their famous protest\n\nThe women were all housewives, mostly from poor families, and many did small jobs to supplement their family incomes. The oldest was 73, the youngest 45. Between them, they had 46 children and 74 grandchildren. They were also activists (called Meira Paibis, or torch-bearers). They knew each other, but belonged to different organisations.\n\nSome of them visited Manorama's family and the morgue where her body was kept.\n\n\"It made me very angry. It was not just Manorama who was raped. We all felt raped,\" says Soibam Momon Leima.\n\nLourembam Nganbi (left) arrived in Imphal a day earlier from her home in Vishnupur, 30km away\n\nThe idea of a nude protest was first discussed on 12 July at a meeting of the All Manipur Women's Social Reformation and Development Samaj, but it was thought \"too sensitive and radical\", says Thokchom Ramani, who was 73 at the time.\n\nBut at a meeting later in the day of different women's groups, Ms Thokchom mentioned it and believing that \"desperate times call for desperate measures\", it was agreed that a small group of women would attempt to strip in front of the iconic Kangla Fort, the Assam Rifles headquarters.\n\nOn the morning of 15 July, the day of the protest, Laishram Gyaneshwari left her home at 5:30am.\n\n\"I didn't tell my husband or children that I was going to take part in this protest. I had no idea how it would go, I knew I was putting my life in danger and I knew I could die that day. So I touched my husband's feet, sought his blessings and left,\" she told me.\n\nThokchom Ramani, at 73, was the oldest protester\n\nLourembam Nganbi arrived in the city a day earlier from her home in Vishnupur, 30km away. Because of a government-imposed curfew in many parts of the state, there were no buses so she hired a private taxi to reach Imphal and walked the last few miles to the home of Haobam Ibetombi, another of the protesters.\n\n\"There, we removed our inner garments and just covered our bodies in the traditional Manipuri sarongs so that we could strip easily,\" she says.\n\nJust after 9am, a van began ferrying them to Kangla Fort - it made three trips, carrying the protesters and volunteers, depositing them not at the fort but near enough to get there quickly.\n\nManipuris accuse the Indian army of misusing the sweeping powers given to them under the special law\n\nThe women were all housewives and mostly from poor families\n\n\"We were crying even before we left. We are women, all we have is our honour. And Manipur is a traditional society, we don't show our bodies. We are uncomfortable even showing our ankles,\" Mrs Laishram said.\n\nThe authorities had somehow got wind of their protest and a large number of police, some of them women, were beginning to gather outside the fort.\n\nAt 10am, the rag-tag bunch walked in twos and threes to the fort gate and before anyone could realise what was going on, the mothers stripped. They threw off all their clothes, beat their chests, rolled on the ground and wept.\n\nThe women carried banners that read \"Indian army, rape us\" and \"Indian army, kill us\". Even though Manorama had been taken away by members of a paramilitary force, most Indians don't know the different branches of the security forces, and so army is used as a loose term to describe them all.\n\nNine women were accused of arson and waging war against the country and were sent to jail\n\nAlthough there were no leaders, Mrs Lourembam shouted the loudest, chanting slogans in English \"because we wanted to shame them in a language they and the rest of the world understood\", she said.\n\n\"I was thinking their action must stop, they must be punished. Women should not be raped anywhere in the world.\n\nThe women tried to storm the fort, but the soldiers locked the gates. \"Two sentries pointed their guns at us. We dared them to shoot us and they lowered their weapons. I think they were ashamed,\" says Mrs Laishram.\n\nSoon, a large crowd gathered and Mrs Thockchom says most people, including many police personnel, were crying.\n\nThe protest continued for just 45 minutes, but those 45 minutes have had a lasting impact on the lives on the 12 women and the story of Manipur.\n\nLaishram Gyaneshwari did not tell her family that she was going to take part in the nude protest\n\nThe mothers became celebrities who were feted at neighbourhood receptions. But they were also harassed by an embarrassed government which began a systematic destruction of their offices and organisations.\n\nNine of the women were accused of arson and waging war against the country and were sent to jail for nearly three months.\n\nTheir protest, however, did have the intended impact of putting the spotlight on the Manipur problem.\n\n\"The mothers' protest came too late for Manorama, but it played a crucial role in forcing the Assam Rifles to vacate the fort four months later, for the first time since they occupied it in 1949,\" says Babloo Loitongbam of Human Rights Alert.\n\nManipur is one of India's most restive states\n\nIndia also promised to look at the demand to repeal Afspa and then prime minister Manmohan Singh promised a \"healing touch\" to the Manipuris.\n\nThirteen years later, though, Afspa remains in large parts of the state and reports of rights abuses by security forces still come in, but campaigners feel the situation has improved.\n\nAlong with the 16-year fast by the state's most celebrated activist Irom Sharmila, the mothers' protest has entered the history books.\n\n\"We are still naked,\" Mrs Laishram tells me. \"We will believe the government has clothed us only on the day Afspa is removed from the whole state.\"", "Oil was previously used sparingly in cooking\n\nA teaspoon of oil, measured out with precision, is how Professor Tim Benton remembers his mother preparing items for frying.\n\nWhen he was growing up in the 1960s, vegetable oil was still a precious commodity and used sparingly.\n\nFast-forward to today and oil is now so abundant and cheaply available that most of us use it liberally in our cooking - chucking it in anything from salad dressings to deep fat frying.\n\nIt's not only in our home cooking, oil is also an ingredient in most of the items we buy from the supermarket.\n\nIn fact, vegetable oil, specifically soy bean oil and palm oil, are two of the eight ingredients, alongside wheat, rice, maize, sugar, barley and potato, that are now estimated to provide a staggering 85% of the world's calories.\n\nIncreasingly, no matter what country we live in, we all eat similar diets which are heavy in calories and low in nutrients.\n\nIt's a development that Prof Benton, a strategic research dean at the University of Leeds specialising in food security and sustainability, links directly to global trade.\n\nThe production of vegetable oils and oil crops have both increased considerably over the past three decades.\n\nThe rise has been driven by a combination of trade agreements, which have made it cheaper and easier to export and import oil, and various government policies. Policy incentives in countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia, aimed at ramping up production for export, have helped to lower the cost of vegetable oil, for example.\n\nObesity levels around the world have more than doubled since 1980\n\n\"Competing in a global market requires a highly efficient production process driving scale and cheapness. Now we have a food system built on incredibly cheap calories,\" says Prof Benton.\n\nOf course, this food trade has in many cases helped reduce famine and, as Prof Benton points out, means the \"poorest of poor have access to cheap calories\".\n\nBut he says this trade - which means more people are eating less healthy imports, rather than what is locally available - may also have helped to make us fatter.\n\nOver 50% of the world's population is not of a \"healthy weight\", according to Prof Benton's recent report on food production. And worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980.\n\n\"The poorest anywhere still struggle to get sufficient calories and are underweight, but in our rich countries, poverty often does not stop people being able to eat (and drink) calories, but it does stop them having a nutrient-rich diet,\" the report says.\n\nProf Corinna Hawkes, director of the Centre for Food Policy at City, University of London, says the greatest increase in sources of calories since the globalisation era began, has come from oil crops.\n\n\"There was a very sudden and marked increase in the availability of soybean and palm oil and that to me is directly related with policies that made it easier to trade,\" she says.\n\nThe quinoa question - has globalisation disproportionately benefited those who are already advantaged?\n\nOilseeds are now among the most widely traded crops, and most processed foods contain either palm oil or soybean oil, which can help extend shelf life, she says.\n\n\"Because it became much easier and cheaper for the processed food industry to import it there was no disincentive for using it,\" she says.\n\nA small amount of fat is an essential part of a healthy, balanced diet. But fats are high in calories so eating a lot can increase the risk of becoming overweight or obese. Saturated and trans fats are also associated with heart disease.\n\nProf Hawkes says that the low cost and availability of oil has meant some countries' cooking habits have changed. In China, for example, food is deep fried in high quantities of oil and in Brazil, people use larger amounts of oil in traditional dishes.\n\nBut alongside the increased trade of oil crops, she says, it's important to note that trade in fruit and vegetables has also increased, meaning many people's diets have actually improved.\n\nThis discrepancy is what Prof Hawkes calls the \"quinoa question\". Increasing western demand for the so-called \"superfood\", which has been grown high in the Andes for thousands of years, has been blamed for its skyrocketing price and unavailability for people in the countries it first came from.\n\nThe question goes to the heart of the controversy surrounding globalisation: that its rise has disproportionately benefited people who are already advantaged.\n\nSo while people clued-up on nutrition and health may be getting healthier thanks to global trade, those without this knowledge have seen their diet deteriorate.\n\nWe can now work, shop and socialise from home whilst barely moving\n\nHowever, the findings of a recent study by the London School of Economics (LSE), which looked at 26 countries between 1989 and 2005 when globalisation dramatically expanded, contradict this.\n\nThe research concluded that \"social globalisation\" - changes in the way we work and live - was what was making us fat, rather than the wider availability of cheaper and more calorific foods driven by global trade.\n\nBasically, the fact that we are are now increasingly able to work, shop and socialise whilst barely moving a muscle is to blame, says study author Dr Joan Costa-Font.\n\n\"Our food intake is driven towards meeting the needs of a pre-global [socially speaking] world, where people would have to walk to places, and where there would not be as many energy-saving activities as today. Individuals would have closer personal social contacts, and would cook and spend more time on daily chores,\" he says.\n\nDr Costa-Font says the research suggests that once people adapt their diet and lifestyle to these changes - basically move more and eat less - more normal weights will again prevail.\n\nHe points to the US as an example. While obesity levels are alarmingly high at almost 35%, he notes that this level has stayed pretty much the same over the past decade.\n\n\"That's good news. That's already something.\n\n\"It may be that the US is beginning to start to learn how to eat and adjust its lifestyle to a global one. The hypothesis is that this rise in obesity is only transitory.\"", "It's a conundrum. You might expect a less corrupt exam system to allow ability to shine through regardless of the economic status of the students.\n\nBut research into an ostensibly successful anti-corruption campaign in Romania has revealed that one of the consequences is precisely the reverse of its aims: that poorer students actually performed worse in the cleaned-up exam.\n\nThe research was carried out by a team of three economists including Dr Oana Borcan of the University of East Anglia, who herself had witnessed this corruption as a final-year high school student in Romania in 2006.\n\nThe corruption became apparent as she prepared to sit the all-important Baccalaureate exam which determined whether or not students could progress to elite universities. The cheating, Dr Borcan said, was \"blatant\". Much of it happened \"in plain sight\".\n\n\"The morning before the exam, students would go around collecting some money, a little contribution to give to the invigilators... some would pay, some would not, it was voluntary.\n\nCCTV cameras were used to detect and discourage cheating in exams\n\n\"I remember seeing students who I knew had low marks in general get top scores… this left a very strong and long-lasting impression.\"\n\nSo strong, in fact, that it played a part in the direction of Dr Borcan's subsequent career.\n\nThe Bac cheating reached a peak in 2010, when hundreds of students submitted identical answer-sheets.\n\nThis time, whistles were blown, and the ensuing media storm led to high-profile prosecutions. As a result, the government introduced tough anti-corruption measures for future exams.\n\nCCTV monitoring systems were to be installed in exam halls, and a range of severe punishments were given maximum publicity to deter would-be cheats.\n\nThese ranged from fines and loss of jobs to prison sentences; students caught cheating would be banned from re-sitting the exam as a minimum sanction.\n\n\"There were many prosecutions,\" Dr Borcan said.\n\n\"Based on reports by the Anti-Corruption Directorate, between 2010 and 2013, 280 teachers and students were prosecuted, 99 of whom received a prison sentence of between six months and five years.\"\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\nAll the signs were that the anti-corruption campaign was working. By 2012, the average pass rate had almost halved compared with 2009, from over 80% to 43%. The previously soaring average scores had plummeted and stabilised.\n\nThe overall findings were widely welcomed. However, Dr Borcan and her co-authors Mikael Lindahl and Andreea Mitrut of the University of Gothenburg, wanted to find out exactly how effective the different aspects of the campaign had been. They used rigorous statistical analyses of data from each of Romania's 42 counties.\n\nOther potential factors affecting the scores were eliminated by using control groups, and by comparing results in different areas where, for example, CCTV was introduced in different years.\n\nOverall, they found that the cameras were responsible for up to 50% of the overall drop in pass rates. But it was the combination of this monitoring with the real threat of punishment, plus heavy media coverage, that made the campaign so effective.\n\nRomania had taken radical steps to tackle concerns about corruption in education\n\nThey also compared the findings with those from a similar anti-corruption drive in Moldova, which had comparable problems of cheating, as well as in Cambodia and India.\n\nThe bombshell in this research, however, was revealed when they analysed the impact in terms of students' socio-economic background. The pass rates of poorer students - those in receipt of financial assistance payments - fell by 14.3%, compared to 8.1% for better-off students.\n\nTheir overall marks also decreased disproportionately.\n\nAs a result, the researchers conclude that \"the anti-corruption campaign resulted in increased inequality between poor and non-poor students\" - and that it \"significantly reduced their chances of entering higher education\".\n\nThe researchers admit they were surprised by the finding and looked hard to isolate possible reasons.\n\nThe most likely culprit, it emerged, was that the \"collective\" and \"petty\" forms of corruption, as witnessed by Dr Borcan herself, had a curious effect: they might be paid for chiefly by well-off students bribing invigilators, but everyone benefited. It gave the poorer students \"a free ride\" to higher marks.\n\nThe research raises questions about how exams are used as the entry point for universities\n\nIt also meant that when cheating was removed, the academic advantages of wealthier students became even more apparent. Cheating it seemed had provided a kind of levelling effect.\n\n\"There's a silver lining to all this,\" she said. \"When corruption was widespread, we couldn't know the true scale of inequality… Our findings have revealed just how much greater the equality gap is.\"\n\n\"Once we know the true gap in attainment, the government can tackle the source of the inequality.\"\n\nThe authors also see wider implications for their findings, for example, about the wisdom of such heavy reliance on a \"high stakes\" exam for university entrance.\n\nAlthough she has not had any direct response from the Romanian government so far, she was hopeful that a new government, and a new education minister, would take notice and act.\n\n\"I am hopeful they'll have the right dialogue and we will be able to raise the questions that the authorities need to look at.\"", "Associating someone with Nazis - as in this Turkish TV broadcast - is unlikely to win any logical arguments\n\nLabelling an opponent as \"worse than Hitler\" or saying a policy is \"like Nazi Germany\" is hardly new.\n\nBut recently, it has crept into political discussion on an international scale.\n\nAs a row between Turkey and the EU deepened in early 2017, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused both the Germans and the Dutch of using Nazi tactics.\n\nSimilar comparisons plagued the 2016 US presidential election, and they can be found in every medium, from Twitter to national parliaments.\n\nSo why is it so widespread?\n\nThe answer, according to America's Anti-Defamation League (ADL), is simply that it is the \"most available historical event illustrating right versus wrong.\"\n\nWhen an argument descends to such fundamentals, the comparison inevitably turns up.\n\nBut \"misplaced comparisons trivialise this unique tragedy in human history,\" the ADL's national director Jonathan Greenblatt says, \"particularly when public figures invoke the Holocaust in an effort to score political points.\"\n\nA German float in the Rose Monday parade declaring \"blonde is the new brown\" referenced the brownshirts - Nazi paramilitaries\n\nMr Greenblatt made those comments during the US presidential election, at a time when Donald Trump's policy announcements had led to comparisons to Adolf Hitler.\n\nYet Trump has done the exact same thing himself - comparing the US intelligence agencies to \"Nazi Germany\".\n\nJohan Franklin's election message went viral - though he admits it's a \"pretty crude\" comparison\n\nIn fact, comparing someone to Hitler to invalidate their point is so popular it's been given its own fake Latin name, the reductio ad Hitlerum - a play on the very real logic term reductio ad absurdum. It's mostly used to point out the fallacy of comparing almost anyone to Hitler.\n\nEven the German man who posted a viral image comparing Mr Trump to Hitler during the election acknowledged the comparison was \"pretty crude\".\n\nOf course, nowhere are Nazi slurs more numerous than on the internet - and it's always been that way.\n\nIn 1990, an American lawyer named Mike Godwin noticed that arguments on early internet forums would constantly resort to calling the other side a Nazi.\n\nAnd so Godwin's Law - that if an online discussion goes on long enough sooner or later someone will make a comparison to Hitler - was born, and became a \"rule of the internet\".\n\nBut Godwin originally coined the phrase to point out how ridiculous the comparison always is.\n\n\"I wanted to hint that most people who brought Nazis into a debate... weren't being thoughtful and independent. Instead, they were acting just as predictably, and unconsciously, as a log rolling down a hill,\" he wrote in an opinion column for the Washington Post.\n\nIn some parts of the internet, the appearance of Godwin's law was seen as a sign the discussion is over.\n\nBut the recent spate of high-profile spats proves that it hasn't reduced spurious Hitler references in real life.\n\nWhen Turkey's President Erdogan levelled accusations of Nazi practices against Germany, it made international headlines.\n\nBut for Germans, it's treading old ground in a country which has strong laws against Holocaust denial or glorifying Nazi activity.\n\n\"I don't think that most Germans are too fazed about this type of comparison,\" said Professor Christoph Mick, a historian from the University of Warwick.\n\n\"They are used to it, and find it just bizarre that the most democratic and most liberal state in German history is compared to the Third Reich. These comparisons say more about those making [them] than about today's Germany and its politicians.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSo - if a Nazi reference trivialises the Holocaust, is widely acknowledged as a logical fallacy, is ridiculed online, and ignored by the Germans - it must have some persuasive power to have stayed around so long - right?\n\nNot so, according to the English Speaking Union, an educational charity that promotes clear communication and critical thinking.\n\n\"Wielding accusations of fascism as an insult doesn't help to get your audience on side - instead, you raise the stakes of the debate, forcing a polarisation between 'good' and 'evil' into a discussion that may have reasonable positions on both sides,\" says Amanda Moorghen, the group's senior research and resources officer.\n\n\"Most of the time, people call others 'Nazis' because they think it will grab the attention of the audience.\n\n\"This is a big mistake, because any attention they do get will be drawn to the use of that word, rather than to the nitty gritty of the topic at hand.\"\n\nAnd the secret to real success?\n\n\"It's far better to save strong words for the argument itself, rather than attacking the people you're arguing with,\" Amanda Moorghen says.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nShashank Manohar, the chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC), has stepped down after eight months in the role.\n\nThe 59-year-old was elected as the body's first independent chairman on a two-year term in May last year.\n\nManohar, a two-time president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), said the decision was because of personal reasons.\n\n\"I hope the ICC achieves greater heights in future,\" the Indian added.\n\nThe ICC confirmed it had received Manohar's resignation on Wednesday, adding that it would \"assess the situation\" before making any further announcements.\n\nManohar had previously sought to reduce the power of England, Australia and India - the so-called Big Three - on the ICC's decision-making executive committee.\n\nSpeaking in February 2016, he stated: \"No member of the ICC is bigger than the other.\"\n\nA final decision on a new governance structure was due to be taken at a meeting in April.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nCoverage: Commentary on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, live text coverage on the BBC Sport website and app\n\nSpecial Tiara won the Queen Mother Champion Chase but 2-9 favourite Douvan struggled in a major shock on day two of the Cheltenham Festival.\n\nThe 10-year-old Special Tiara (11-1) finished a head clear of Fox Norton (7-1) with Sir Valentino (33-1) third.\n\nIt was jockey Noel Fehily's second big-race victory of the Festival following Tuesday's Champion Hurdle success.\n\nDouvan, ridden by Ruby Walsh, jumped poorly and was never in contention, finishing seventh.\n\nA post-race examination by a veterinary officer found Douvan to be lame behind.\n• None Listen: 5 live podcast reacts to Day Two at Cheltenham\n\nFehily told BBC Radio 5 live: \"[Special Tiara] felt great and never missed a beat. I have been second in this race a few times so to win one is brilliant.\"\n\nUnbeaten in 13 previous starts for trainer Willie Mullins, Douvan's defeat was described by BBC horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght as \"one of the biggest upsets in Cheltenham Festival history\".\n\nDouvan, who was the subject of a £500,000 bet at odds of 1-5, which would have produced winnings of £100,000, had never looked himself, and afterwards Mullins suggested the seven-year-old may have pulled something during the race.\n\n\"We are all a bit gobsmacked I think, he didn't jump as well as we had hoped with his usual fluency,\" Mullins told 5 live. \"Usually you find something wrong when that happens.\n\n\"He probably pulled something, a muscle, a ligament, hopefully something that will come right straight away.\n\n\"Over the first two fences, I thought he would have to be a super horse to win this, you don't get away with that in the Champion Chase.\n\n\"I'm hoping he could be one of the best horses I have ever trained. Today clearly was not his day. That's the way it is.\n\n\"We are all disappointed that this happened, now my main job is to find out what is wrong and how long it will take to fix.\"\n\nThe defeat of Douvan has to rate as among the biggest shocks in Cheltenham Festival history.\n\nIt's not just the odds, but since joining Willie Mullins this horse has been winning with an authoritative flamboyance that meant that practically everyone thought his opponents had the proverbial Everest to climb to beat him.\n\nAnd Douvan's defeat continued a challenging time for the normally rampant Ricci-Mullins-Walsh team and their expensively assembled string.\n\nBut good for Special Tiara, a real trooper, in the race for the fourth time and just holding on to make the ever-reliable Noel Fehily a double championship-winning jockey this week. And he's on the favourite in Thursday's feature race too.\n\nSpecial Tiara's trainer Trainer Henry de Bromhead said: \"He seemed in great form coming into it, but it was hard to believe we could win with Douvan and everything else - Douvan had looked so good.\n\n\"For our lad, he just tries his heart out and no-one deserves it more.\"\n\nFehily, 41, added: \"I didn't think we'd beat Douvan, but I thought I had a great chance of being second. I got over the last and was surprised something hadn't come to me, but I knew he wasn't stopping.\"\n\nThe rest of the day's action\n\nAfter three wins on the opening day, trainer Gordon Elliott claimed another double when Cause of Causes (4-1) won the Cross Country Chase before the fast-finishing Fayonagh (7-1) took the closing Champion Bumper\n\nBoth were ridden by experienced Irish amateur Jamie Codd, who also had a Festival double in 2015, and who was full of praise for Cause of Causes.\n\n\"He's run at four Festivals now, been second once and won three times,\" he said. \"He's a great little horse and he's been marvellous for my career.\n\n\"He's an idle little horse but quick when you need him to be.\"\n\nThe most dramatic finish of the day saw the 7-2 favourite Might Bite beat his Nicky Henderson-trained stablemate Whisper (9-2) by a nose in the RSA Chase.\n\nMight Bite, ridden by Nico de Boinville, was comfortably ahead but made a mess of the last fence and then started to hang badly to his right.\n\nWhisper and Davy Russell saw an opportunity and got past the struggling Might Bite on the run-in, but de Boinville managed to correct his path with the aid of a loose horse and after the pair went past the post together, Might Bite was announced the winner.\n\nThere were also first festival winners for trainers Ben Pauling, after Willoughby House (14-1) beat Neon Wolf in the opening Neptune Investment Management Novices Hurdle, and for Nick Williams after the 33-1 chance Flying Tiger took the Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle under champion jockey Richard Johnson.\n\nAnd on Ladies Day, Jessica Harrington claimed her ninth Festival winner when Supasundae (16-1) took the Coral Cup.\n\nHowever, there was some sad news from the day's racing after Consul De Thaix suffered a fatal fall during the Novices Hurdle.\n\nHis jockey Mark Walsh was treated for what was described as a \"concussive head injury\" and has been ruled out for the remainder of the Festival.\n\nWhat to watch on Thursday\n\nAfter his wins in the Champion Hurdle (Buveur D'Air,) and the Queen Mother Champion Chase (Special Tiara), Unowhatimeanharry could give Noel Fehily a third big-race win in the Stayers' Hurdle, the feature race on day three.\n\nThe nine-year-old is unbeaten in his last eight starts, including in the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle 12 months ago, and is likely to be sent on his way at very short odds - but he likes very testing ground and the drying conditions may not be to his liking\n\nCole Harden won the race two years ago and is back again for the Warren Greatrex team.\n\nThe Jessica Harrington-trained Jezki is one of six Irish declarations, with Willie Mullins responsible for Clondaw Warrior, Nichols Canyon and Shaneshill.\n\nSnow Falcon (Noel Meade) and Dedigout (Gordon Elliott) have also made the journey across the Irish Sea.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PC Kelly Ellis says her friends have dubbed her Lara Croft\n\nPC Kelly Ellis has her finger hovering over the trigger of her Heckler and Koch G36 rifle.\n\nShe has a split second to decide whether to open fire on a man who appears to be drunk and suicidal and is holding a shotgun, pointing it at the ground.\n\nHer colleague is calmly - but firmly - explaining the right thing to do is to put the weapon down.\n\nBut what if he does not? What if he raises the barrels? What then?\n\nWelcome to the firearms training school.\n\nOver three months, the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme had unique access to some of the new recruits being assessed in Cheshire.\n\nThese are the scenarios - the life and death decisions - that any British officer who wants to carry a gun must go through.\n\nAnd if they make the wrong decision - pull the trigger when there was no need, or pull it when it is too late - then they are out. They will not make the grade.\n\nBy the end of next year, the UK will have about 7,500 armed police officers, after the government reversed a fall in their numbers since 2010.\n\nOfficers with years of firearms experience had been leaving their forces as police budgets were cut.\n\nNow the numbers are rising again because security chiefs want more firearms teams available to counter any attempted Paris-style attack on the streets of Britain.\n\nBut given that the job requires volunteers - and those volunteers may one day be accountable for their actions before a jury - have the new recruits got what it takes?\n\nWhile her friends have dubbed her \"Lara Croft\" - after the Tomb Raider action hero - PC Ellis says her parents were \"apprehensive\" when she first told them she wanted to train as a police firearms officer.\n\nHowever, she says: \"I tried to explain to them that the training we get, the weapons we are carrying, that actually I'm going to be more protected than I am now as a regular officer out on the streets.\"\n\nShe says the course is \"easily the hardest thing I've ever had to do\".\n\n\"It's just a lot to take in and a lot to remember. It's exhausting really.\"\n\nWatch Dominic Casciani's full film on firearms training on the Victoria Derbyshire website.\n\nAnd she says the possibility of coming face to face with an armed situation is now becoming more of a reality.\n\n\"Sometimes I go home from here of an evening, and you see what's going on in the news and you just think, 'In a few months' time, if I pass this course, that could be me, going out to that job, first on the scene, having to discharge a weapon.'\"\n\nShe adds: \"It is about putting your life on the line, but that's what I want to do.\n\n\"I get a massive sense of achievement from doing it, as well.\"\n\nSafety: Officers are first taught how to handle a weapon...\n\nThe firearms centre in Cheshire trains officers from all over the country.\n\nWe watched 15 recruits being taught how to:\n\nAnd that includes saving the lives of people they have just shot: according to the programme, they are trained to incapacitate a threat - not to kill.\n\n... and also how to save lives\n\nDid they pass? Well, watch our fly-on-the-wall film to find out.\n\nWithout giving too much away, what I and my colleagues John Owen, producer, and Martin McQuade, camera, witnessed was an awful lot of hard work.\n\nThere were some moments where recruits got a dressing down by their trainers for failing to learn fast enough.\n\nThe point was repeatedly made to them that if they were slow in making the right decision, the consequences could be fatal.\n\nAnd they also needed to learn when to use words, rather than bullets, to stop a situation spiralling out of control.\n\nOfficers practise how to contain vehicles carrying armed suspects\n\nSir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the recently retired Metropolitan Police Commissioner, warned that his force was recruiting from a very shallow pool of officers willing to carry a gun.\n\nThat, he says, is because many don't want the risks that come with the job - not necessarily the risk of being shot, but of ending up in court or under investigation for years.\n\nDespite the political and media focus being on terrorism, the reality is that most of armed response policing work is unchanged from year to year.\n\nSometimes they'll be called to an armed robbery - less often than they used to be.\n\nBut most of the time they'll be dealing with extreme domestic violence situations, organised gang crime incidents and, sadly, mentally unwell people capable of doing themselves, or others harm.\n\nSo were the trainee officers I saw up to the task? Watch the film and decide for yourself.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out: \"It's my one shot\"\n\nThe actor at the centre of a debate about the casting of British black actors in the US has spoken about how being black has lost him roles.\n\nDaniel Kaluuya, who was born in London, leads the cast of Get Out - a searing racial satire about contemporary America.\n\nReleased in the UK this week, Jordan Peele's horror film has already been a massive hit at the US box office, making more than $100m (£82.5m).\n\nBut the film hit the headlines last week after actor Samuel L Jackson criticised Hollywood for casting black British actors in films about US race relations.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Skins star Kaluuya said he was proud to be in the first lead role of his career.\n\n\"You do stuff, people make decisions and it goes out there and people have opinions. And everyone's entitled to their opinion,\" he said.\n\n\"I love all my black brothers and sisters worldwide, and that's my position.\n\n\"All I know is this my first ever lead role in a film and I've lost out on a lot of roles because I'm black.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's my one shot. I'm going to come through it and do my thing and go home.\"\n\nHe went on to describe Jackson as a \"legend on and off screen\".\n\nDirector Jordan Peele is the first African-American to earn $100m with his debut feature\n\nIn his original radio interview a week ago, Jackson said he wondered what Get Out would have been like with a US actor in the lead role.\n\n\"Daniel grew up in a country where they've been interracial dating for 100 years,\" he said.\n\nClarifying his remarks later in the week, he said his criticism was not of other actors, but of the Hollywood system.\n\nOther actors have joined the debate, with Star Wars actor John Boyega tweeting that it was a \"conflict we don't have time for\".\n\nIn an article for The Guardian, Homeland actor David Harewood argued that Britons may be better suited to some parts because they are not burdened by \"what's in the history books\".\n\nIn Get Out, Kaluuya plays Chris, an African-American photographer who goes with his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) to visit her parents at their country home.\n\nChris is worried because Rose has not told her family she has a black boyfriend.\n\nMeet the parents: Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford (on the left) with Allison Williams, Betty Gabriel and Daniel Kaluuya\n\nHe initially receives a warm welcome - if a bit odd at times - but as the weekend progresses, Chris discovers Rose's parents have a very different agenda.\n\n\"Jordan wrote this as a response to the idea that racism was 'solved' because Obama was president,\" Kaluuya said.\n\nPeele has admitted he had not wanted to cast a British actor, but that Kaluuya had won him over during an initial audition.\n\n\"We spoke on Skype,\" Kaluuya confirmed. \"He was very wary because it's an African-American specific experience, but then we had a chat about what it's like being black worldwide and being black in London.\"\n\nThe film's success has made Peele the first African-American writer-director to earn $100m with his debut movie, according to The Wrap.\n\nHow much did Kaluuya identify with the film's themes?\n\n\"There are an uncountable amount of instances when I've been paranoid,\" he said.\n\n\"I did a shoot in Lithuania when I was 17. Everywhere I went people were pointing and staring.\n\n\"Or when I go to Lidl and I get followed by security guards. Is that because it's me, I'm black or what I'm wearing?\n\n\"It's every day, navigating your life, getting stopped by police, I've had it all.\"\n\nKaluuya is currently filming Ryan Coogler's superhero film Black Panther in Atlanta, US.\n\n\"It's a life-changing experience for me,\" he said. \"I can't wait to finish filming so I can watch it.\"\n\nGet Out is out in the UK on 17 March.\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\nLeicester City \"achieved the impossible again\" according to captain Wes Morgan, after a stunning win over Sevilla sent them into the Champions League quarter-finals.\n\nThe Foxes won 2-0 at the King Power Stadium on Tuesday to progress 3-2 on aggregate.\n\nIt continues a fairytale 12 months for Leicester following their Premier League triumph last season.\n\n\"I'm not sure if it will happen again but we did it,\" Morgan told BT Sport.\n\n\"We proved a lot of people wrong and pulled off the impossible again.\"\n\nWho's through to the last eight?\n\nLeicester, who are still battling for survival in the Premier League despite successive wins under new boss Craig Shakespeare, now go into Friday's quarter-final draw.\n• None Champions League dream - could Foxes defy logic once again?\n• None Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight\n• None We want to avoid Leicester - Juve keeper Buffon\n\nBarcelona, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Juventus are among the teams they could play for a place in the last four.\n\nJuventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon said after his side sealed their place in the last eight by beating Porto on Tuesday that Leicester are the team to avoid in the next round.\n\n\"We will take whoever comes,\" added Morgan.\n\n\"It is a fantastic night for Leicester. We still need to concentrate on the league but we will enjoy this moment.\"\n\n'We could be the surprise team'\n\nThe 53-year-old Englishman stepped up from his role as Claudio Ranieri's assistant following the Italian's sacking on 23 February - after the first leg of this tie - and has now led the Foxes to three straight wins.\n\nShakespeare, who has been made permanent Leicester manager until the end of the season, believes the win ranks alongside the biggest in the club's history.\n\n\"It has to stand up there with all the achievements, because of the quality of the opposition,\" he said.\n\n\"We know there's going to be some terrific teams, as there were in the previous round. We're in there on merit. Make no mistake about that.\n\n\"It will be memorable for everyone at the football club. We might just be the surprise team.\"\n\nShakespeare was keen to highlight Ranieri's part in the club's success in Europe.\n\n\"Claudio will always be fondly remembered by everyone at this football club for what he achieved and helped us achieve,\" he added.\n\n\"The performance in the first leg when Claudio was in charge, that gave us the springboard for the result tonight.\"\n\nFrom League Two to Champions League quarter-finals\n\nAlmost seven years ago to the day, goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel was playing in League Two for Notts County as they drew with Bournemouth.\n\nOn Tuesday, he played a crucial role in securing Leicester's place in the Champions League last eight, saving Steven N'Zonzi's late penalty that could have taken the game to extra time.\n\n\"It is a great feeling to help the team progress,\" said Schmeichel.\n\n\"We have gone out and played more like we did last season and we are reaping the rewards of it now.\n\n\"A lot of us have come a long way. I've been all the way down in League Two and to be standing here in the Champions League quarter-finals is incredible.\"\n\nFoxes midfielder Marc Albrighton, who scored his side's second, added: \"I'm a bit lost for words.\n\n\"I think we thoroughly deserved the victory. We pressed them from the first whistle to the last and rode our luck at times, defended triumphantly, and to get the two goals against such a good team and keep a clean sheet is fantastic for us.\"\n\nLike Leicester of old - analysis\n\nFormer Leeds United and Manchester City defender Danny Mills told BBC Radio 5 live: \"It's just a different Leicester from what we have seen so far this season.\n\n\"All those fans who thought it was a disgrace that Ranieri was sacked, they have got to eat some humble pie.\n\n\"There had to be something wrong there.\"\n\nEx-Leicester manager David Pleat: \"They looked so fluid and had such amazing passion and determination. It has been such a fantastic time for them over the past few years, which is why we love the game.\n\n\"You have to beat your opponents over the course of 180 minutes, which makes the win even more impressive.\n\n\"Who would have thought they would win the title last year so whoever they face, who knows? I don't think they would want either Real Madrid or Barcelona in the quarter-final. Perhaps Monaco if they make it through against Manchester City tomorrow.\"\n\nSunday Times football correspondent Jonathan Northcroft added: \"It reminded me of last season so much. It just had that epic quality. Everything was the same as last year tonight, except the man in the dugout.\n\n\"But you have got to be honest, this is not the set-up Ranieri would have chosen - they would have had different instructions.\n\n\"This was back to basics for Leicester tonight and that is what the players wanted - that's what got them success last year. It's a pretty simple blueprint but they do it so well.\"\n\nWhat the papers said", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC One Wales & S4C, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru & BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app, plus live text commentary.\n\nWales have named an unchanged side for the third consecutive game when they play France in the Six Nations in Paris on Saturday.\n\nHooker Ken Owens will win his 50th cap as coach Rob Howley sticks with the 23-man squad that beat Ireland 22-9 in Cardiff last Friday.\n\nHowley has resisted calls to include inexperienced players, saying the team deserves a vote of confidence.\n\n\"I was delighted for the players at Friday's performance,\" he said.\n\n\"They deserve the opportunity to build on that in our final Six Nations encounter.\"\n\nScarlets hooker Owens, 30, has won 31 of his 49 Test caps off the bench, but has started in all four of this season's Six Nations matches and is being tipped as a potential British and Irish tourist for the summer tour of New Zealand.\n\nHe lines up alongside Tomas Francis and Rob Evans, while the back row of Sam Warburton, Justin Tipuric and Ross Moriarty is retained with Bath number eight Taulupe Faletau on the bench.\n\nFaletau's Bath team-mate Luke Charteris is also among the replacements, with Jake Ball retaining his second-row place alongside captain Alun Wyn Jones in the starting line-up.\n\nWales could finish as high as second in the championship if they beat France and other results go their way.\n\n\"The experience we showed and the intensity we brought to the match was hugely important and that will be just as important as we face a good France team,\" said Howley.\n\n\"For us there are areas of the game we want to work on from Ireland and we have an opportunity to do that on Saturday and finish the campaign with another quality performance.\n\n\"The players who took to the field at Principality Stadium deserve the opportunity to start and we were pleased with the impact from the bench so will be looking for the same this weekend.\"\n• None Follow the 2017 Six Nations across the BBC\n• None Wales will not host Friday night Six Nations games in 2018 or 2019\n\nWales in the 2017 Six Nations", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEverton striker Romelu Lukaku has turned down the most lucrative contract offer in the club's history.\n\nThe Premier League club had been confident the Belgium international would sign a new five-year deal thought to be worth around £140,000 a week.\n\nThe 23-year-old's agent, Mino Raiola, had said his client was \"99.9%\" certain to extend his stay at Goodison Park.\n\nHowever, Lukaku has told the Toffees he currently has no desire to extend a contract that has two years to run.\n\nLukaku has made no secret of his desire to play in the Champions League and has been linked with a return to former club Chelsea, from whom he joined Everton for £28m in 2014.\n\nEverton's contract offer remains on the table and still hope further negotiations could end in an agreement.\n\nFor now, however, Lukaku is not willing to agree terms and the Toffees would demand a fee in excess of £60m for a player who has scored 19 goals this season.", "On 12 December 2015 a man's body was found lying on the ground on Saddleworth Moor. He had died from poisoning.\n\nHe became known as the Body on the Moor. And the struggle to identify him became one of the strangest mysteries.\n\nNo mobile, no identification of any kind. No family or friends came forward.\n\nOne of the few people with any insight into the puzzle behind the man's death was Maureen Toogood.\n\nMaureen had a relationship with a man starting in the late 1960s. They didn't marry and she ended up marrying someone else but they stayed friends. For 40 years they saw each other regularly - she helped him in his garden and around the house.\n\nThen in 2006 he simply vanished from Maureen's life - upped sticks and left the country.\n\nAll of the interviews here are taken from the new episode of the World at One's Body on the Moor podcast series by Jon Manel.\n\nMaureen believed he had sold his home and emigrated to California.\n\nThe first she heard was when she received a call from his neighbour. She was told he was going to the US the following day.\n\n\"I was very hurt by this,\" she says. She was unable to contact him because his phone had been disconnected. Since then, she says, she has thought about him often.\n\nEleven years later she got another phone call. This time from the police.\n\nThey had finally identified the body on the moor. They were calling because it was David Lytton, her friend.\n\nThey knew little of his life and Maureen was able to fill in some of the gaps.\n\nBefore he left in 2006, David had lived an apparently unremarkable life in south-west London, working as a croupier, a taxi controller for a mini-cab company, a baker and a train driver for the London Underground.\n\nMaureen says she met David in 1968. She was suffering from flu at the time but had ventured out to Finchley in north London to buy a stereo. It was the Last Night of the Proms and she wanted to enjoy listening to it at home.\n\n\"I didn't feel very well. I was on my knees, and I was collapsing. There was a young man who went 'Oh, hang on, hang on I'll come over,'\" she remembers.\n\n\"He walked home to my flat and he made me a nice cup of tea. We hit it off. He made me some toast - I hadn't had any breakfast and he stayed with me until my flatmates came home.\"\n\nThe following day, she says, he was back on her doorstep.\n\n\"'Hello, do you remember me?' he said. And he kept coming round every day. He didn't leave me at all. We would even meet in the launderette round the corner and do our washing together.\"\n\nShe describes him as a gentleman who liked to take care of her. He treated her to haircuts in fashionable Mayfair, where he was working as a croupier.\n\nBut, although he was happy to treat his girlfriend, there were few extravagances for himself.\n\nHis house in Streatham was sparsely decorated. There was no bed, just a piece of foam and a three-piece suite from a second-hand shop. Two items do stand out, though. Korans, one for upstairs and one for downstairs, she says.\n\nThere was nothing in the kitchen - no fridge, no kettle, no food.\n\n\"He said he wasn't entitled to comforts. Where he got that I don't know,\" she says.\n\nThe police went on to discover that David ate all his meals at the same local vegetarian restaurant at the same time each night.\n\nHe dressed smartly and was very particular and precise. Maureen says she could have predicted the clothes that he would be wearing the morning he was found: \"M&S socks, white Jockey underwear, white vest, a singlet, cord trousers - navy blue, and round-neck sweater and an old mac that he probably had 30 or 40 years.\"\n\nHis luxury was a pair of shoes made by the Swiss designer Bally.\n\nDavid grew up in the north London suburb of Finchley. He was born David Keith Lautenberg on 21 April, 1948 to Sylvia and Hyman Lautenberg. He was Jewish, his family having originally come to Britain fleeing from Europe. At some time, his immediate family changed their name from Lautenberg. He changed his name to David Lytton in 1986.\n\nMaureen and David met not long after he left Leeds University. He had gone to study psychology and sociology but, according to the police, he suffered from hypothyroidism and found it difficult to sleep at night. Instead, he slept during the day and didn't get the grades he wanted. When he returned to London he fell out with his family and moved out of his home.\n\nMaureen describes David as a \"strange\" man with some \"quirky ways\".\n\n\"But I did like him,\" she says.\n\n\"He was very particular, very precise and a gentleman. He was a lovely, lovely man.\"\n\nHe didn't have any hobbies or particular interests that she knew of. But the police have discovered that David had an interest in different religions, including Buddhism and Islam.\n\nHis last job was as a driver for the London Underground, one which he was well-suited to, says Maureen. \"He enjoyed that - he liked his own company. He was a loner.\"\n\nMaureen and David had a pregnancy which ended in miscarriage. She says he changed greatly after that, he became withdrawn and quiet.\n\nUnbeknown to Maureen, David put his house up for sale in 2005. It sold on 4 October 2006, and he left for Pakistan on 6 October - not California as Maureen had mysteriously been told.\n\nHis departure, it seems, was part of a plan - not a sudden disappearance.\n\nFor Detective Sergeant John Coleman, this was one of the hardest cases of his career. He never dreamed it would remain unsolved for so long. Early in the investigation, he believed a titanium plate that had been fitted during an operation on the man's leg would provide the answer. This type of plate is only used in Pakistan, so police only needed to track down the surgeon. After months of searching, they drew a blank.\n\nBut as the anniversary of the death of the man on the moor was approaching, there was a breakthrough.\n\nInitial inquiries had also focused on Ealing in West London, as it was here that the man was caught on CCTV.\n\nBecause of the Pakistan connection and the fact that he had been seen walking from the direction of South Ealing, which is a few stops along from Heathrow Airport, DS Coleman had a hunch.\n\nHe asked for all the passenger lists from Pakistan to be examined from the days before he was first spotted on CCTV in London. The task was to find someone who fitted the profile of a white male between 65 and 75, possibly travelling alone.\n\nAt first, the person asked to do this failed to find a match. But as the anniversary approached, he revisited the case.\n\n\"That's a hell of a piece of work. Thousands and thousands of people. The tenacity of that officer,\" he says.\n\nA match was found. The man was British, so police contacted the UK Passport Agency and obtained a copy of his passport photograph. Although the picture was 10 years old, there was a resemblance.\n\n\"You can imagine the excitement in Oldham CID,\" says DS Coleman. CCTV images from Lahore airport came through on the anniversary of the death. The police had found their man.\n\nA DNA sample from a family member was needed for confirmation.\n\nPolice checked the electoral roll in London. When this failed to turn up any leads, they turned to genealogy records. Eventually, they found David's mother Sylvia, who suffers from dementia and lives in a care home in London.\n\nThe trail led to Maureen, who telephones the care home to check up on her former friend's mother every day.\n\nFrom David's visa for Pakistan, the police have been able to fill in some blanks.\n\nThe found out that he set up home in an area called Hassan Town in Lahore.\n\nNeighbours say he kept himself to himself. One said he used to read all the time and visit the local internet cafe.\n\n\"He never bothered anybody, though local lads teased him at times,\" one told the BBC.\n\n\"He was nice to his neighbours and ate food sent by his next door neighbours. You would see him going for a walk in the morning, dressed in a tracksuit.\"\n\nAnother recalled him returning from the hospital after he had the plate fitted.\n\n\"His friend requested me to arrange for his food while he was on bed-rest,\" said Ejaz Ahmad.\n\n\"So my family looked after him, our children used to bring him fruit and go to the bakery to buy him cake or pastry. So he was in bed for 15 to 20 days and then he started walking slowly.\"\n\nAnother said that he was a Muslim and that David told him that he had converted in 1996.\n\n\"Now, I don't know whether he said this in view of the treatment meted out to Christians here, as they are made to eat in separate pots from us, Muslims, but he definitely told me that he was a Muslim.\"\n\nThe police say there is no evidence to suggest that he had converted to Islam.\n\nOn Thursday 10 December, David Lytton sat in seat 25C on a Pakistan International Airlines Flight from Lahore arriving at London Heathrow at 15:30.\n\nHe was met at the airport by a friend, who he had known for some 35 years. They ate a meal before the friend dropped David off at the Travelodge in Ealing.\n\n\"His friend indicated that since David had not been in the UK for some time, he wanted to spend some time - weeks or months travelling around and seeing the sights,\" says DS Coleman.\n\nAlthough he booked into the hotel for five nights, David only stayed one.\n\nAnd in keeping with the mysterious nature of this story, police have been unable to locate the 18kg suitcase that he brought with him from Pakistan.\n\nAnd what about the \"why\". Why did David Lytton travel to Manchester, and then out to the renowned beauty spot?\n\n\"I've got all the GP's records - I have records from university - there is no connection to Dovestones,\" says Detective Sergeant Coleman.\n\nAt the inquest in Manchester, Coroner Simon Nelson said Mr Lytton \"died of his own hand\", but he couldn't be sure whether Mr Lytton had intended to take his own life.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola has eclipsed Louis van Gaal as the most successful manager in European club football after 100 games.\n\nThe ex-Barcelona boss lost his 100th match on Wednesday in the Champions League last-16 second leg with Monaco.\n\nBut his European record stands at 61 wins, 23 draws and 16 defeats.\n\nThat puts him marginally ahead of former Manchester United boss Van Gaal, who also won 61 of his first 100 games in Europe, but drew 22 and lost 17.\n\nTitles won by managers with five best 100-game records in Europe\n\nCity won the first leg of their last-16 tie 5-3, but were beaten 3-1 in Monaco and went out of the competition on away goals.\n\nFormer Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez, now in charge of Championship leaders Newcastle, has dropped from second to third on the list. He won 60, drew 22 and lost 18 of his first 100 games in European competition.\n\nSir Alex Ferguson, who won the Champions League twice with Manchester United, is 12th (W49; D32; L19), while current United boss Jose Mourinho is ninth (W54; D25; L21).\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger sits 27th on the list after winning 42 of his first 100 games in Europe, drawing 29 and losing 29.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is the minister leading the UK's Brexit negotiations? Nicholas Watt reports\n\nUntil well into the 1980s, Tory grandees tended to show interest in new MPs only if they had aristocratic heritage or were a waspish intellect in the mould of Chris Patten.\n\nThe odd exception was made. Sir John Major was eventually admitted into the Blue Chip group of Tory MPs first elected in 1979, though only when it became clear he was racing to the top.\n\nDavid Davis, the Brexit Secretary, who was elected to Parliament a generation ago, in 1987, is neither an aristocrat nor a whimsical intellectual.\n\nHe had a troubled upbringing and is more of an intellectual bruiser dating back to the time when he stood up to his bullying stepfather.\n\nBut Mr Davis marked himself out to Tory grandees after accepting a dare.\n\nOver dinner hosted by the late Alan Clark at his medieval Saltwood Castle in Kent, Mr Davis agreed to walk along the \"black\" route, the crumbling ramparts overlooking the ruins of a chapel.\n\n\"[He] did the 'black' route without turning a hair, then retraced his footsteps, hands in pockets - first time that's ever been done!\" Clark wrote in his diary.\n\nMr Davis' training in the SAS (Reserve) regiment - which helped fund his way through university - had paid off.\n\nNonchalantly completing the black route cemented Mr Davis' reputation among Tories as a fearless hard man.\n\nBut it also illustrated another character trait that gives an insight into his approach to the Brexit negotiations.\n\nMr Davis is prepared to take risks but never in a reckless way, and only after a careful calculation of all the options in front of him.\n\nMr Davis' belief in taking calculated risks explains one of the central decisions Theresa May has taken in her approach to Brexit.\n\nThis was her declaration, outlined in her Lancaster House speech in January on the Brexit negotiations, the UK was prepared to walk away from a bad deal.\n\nMr Davis had advised the prime minister the EU would take the UK seriously only if it showed it was unafraid of no deal.\n\nLord Howard of Lympne, the former Tory leader, who had difficult relations with David Davis in his days as shadow home secretary, wholeheartedly endorses his approach.\n\n\"Obviously it would be better place for the EU and the UK if a sensible constructive deal is struck,\" Lord Howard told the BBC's Newsnight programme.\n\n\"But if, for whatever reason, they don't want to do that, we'll be fine without a deal.\n\n\"We can manage without a deal - better with one, fine without one.\"\n\nThe confidence that led Mr Davis to advise the prime minister to think nothing of calling the bluff of the remaining EU member states has won him an admiring band of supporters on the Tory benches. But, to some, his confidence can border on cockiness.\n\nOne Tory grandee told Newsnight: \"He is the only man I know who can swagger sitting down.\"\n\nMr Davis later admitted the use of T-shirts emblazoned with his 2005 leadership campaign slogan, \"It's DD for me,\" had backfired\n\nAndrew Mitchell, the former cabinet minister who ran Mr Davis' unsuccessful campaign for the Tory leadership in 2005, told Newsnight: \"He is an extraordinarily optimistic and self-confident person.\n\n\"I remember one of the Cameroons saying to me in exasperation that he was the only person he knows who did not go to Eton but has the same level of self-confidence you get from an Eton education.\"\n\nMr Mitchell became firm friends with Mr Davis when they both worked in the bruising battleground of the Tory whips' office in the 1990s, pushing through the Maastricht treaty.\n\nThere is something of an irony that the man who enforced the integrationist treaty - which pushed many Tories into outright opposition to Brussels - is now leading the UK out of the EU.\n\nLord Howard, believed to be one of three Eurosceptic cabinet ministers at the time of the Maastricht battle dubbed \"bastards\" by Sir John Major, sees no contradiction.\n\n\"I suppose you could say we've all been on a journey,\" he told Newsnight.\n\n\"Maastricht was a long time ago. The EU has become much more integrationist since then, and the flaws in the project more apparent.\"\n\nDavid Davis did not get on with David Cameron\n\nMr Davis had a mixed career after the Tories lost power in 1997.\n\nHe loved hounding civil servants as chairman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee between 1997 and 2001.\n\nHe put down a marker when he emerged as the dark horse candidate in the 2001 Tory leadership contest, making him the favourite in 2005 until he was upstaged by David Cameron during the party conference.\n\nThe boy from the south London council estate and the Etonian never hit it off.\n\nMr Cameron regarded Mr Davis as vain and self-aggrandising when he triggered a by-election over civil liberties, which he won, in 2008.\n\nThis paved the way for nearly a decade on the backbenches as a serial rebel, where he repeatedly clashed with Mrs May over civil liberties.\n\nThen, last summer, in his late 60s, he was finally asked to join the cabinet, by Mrs May, as one of three Brexiteers.\n\nAnd Mr Davis, unlike Liam Fox and Boris Johnson, who are seen as sources of trouble, has won the trust of the prime minister.\n\nMr Davis (l) has won the trust of Mrs May\n\nNo 10 sources say Mr Davis has come into his own on Brexit, and is even turning into something of an elder statesman.\n\nJust down the street, in his office at No 9, Mr Davis puts his success down to two factors: silence and what he calls proximity.\n\nHe has avoided talking out of line and has made a point of squatting in the building next to No 10 to ensure he can easily wander up the street if problems arise.\n\nMr Davis, who will celebrate his 70th birthday a few months before the Article 50 negotiations are due to end, in March 2019, says he has one shot at making a success of Brexit, which he is determined to achieve.\n\nHe hopes to retire a happy man at that point, although he appears not to have ruled out another challenge.\n\nMr Mitchell told Newsnight: \"I don't know if this is last hurrah or not. The extraordinary thing about politics [is you] never know what's round the corner.\"\n\nA man who can saunter along the ramparts of a medieval castle is no doubt capable of springing surprises.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger spoke on the BBC's Newsnight\n\nAn international project featuring a rapist discussing his crime on stage has drawn both condemnation and support. So should a perpetrator be given a platform to share his experience?\n\n\"There's a rapist in the building,\" the protesters shouted as they briefly blocked the entrance. \"Get the rapist out.\"\n\nTheir banners and loudspeakers were an unusual sight outside a venue better known for world-class concert performances than controversy.\n\nThe anger at London's Royal Festival Hall at the Southbank Centre on Tuesday evening was over South of Forgiveness, an event that would see a woman inviting the man who raped her to discuss the impact of his actions.\n\nThe discussion between Thordis Elva, from Iceland, and Australian Tom Stranger had already been dropped from a women's festival at the weekend following pressure from campaigners.\n\nBut it was rescheduled after organisers of the Women of the World (WOW) Festival said the debate was too important to silence.\n\n\"Rape is one of these critical issues and we need to shift the discourse around it, which too often focuses on rape survivors rather than rape perpetrators\", Jude Kelly, artistic director of the Southbank Centre, said in a statement.\n\nDiane Langford, one of the protesters waving placards on the banks of the River Thames, condemned the decision.\n\n\"I'm here because I feel a rapist is profiting from his rape,\" said the 75-year-old, herself a survivor of rape.\n\n\"I don't believe there can ever be impunity for a rapist.\"\n\nDiane Langford, left, was at the protest with her daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter\n\nThordis Elva was 16 when she was raped by her then 18-year-old boyfriend, Tom Stranger, after a Christmas party in her hometown in Iceland.\n\nAfter years of turmoil she decided to get in touch with him. And to her surprise, he replied with a confession and an offer of \"whatever I can do\".\n\nBy then it was too late for her to press criminal charges. Instead, they wrote a book together about what happened.\n\nA TED talk they filmed last October has been watched by more the 2.7 million people and the pair have since taken part in a handful of stage appearances.\n\nTheir London fixture prompted a petition by campaigners who warned it would be a \"trigger\" for sexual assault survivors - bringing back painful and dangerous memories - and could \"encourage the normalisation of sexual violence instead of focusing on accountability and root causes of this violence\".\n\nThey said it risked \"suggesting that standing on a platform alongside one's rapist is a model approach to addressing sexual violence\".\n\nThe debate comes amid continued concern about the number of victims who report rape to police, both in the UK and around the world.\n\nThe BBC has previously covered cases - for example in Colombia and Myanmar - where women have been attacked and even raped again for speaking out against sexual assault.\n\nElva, who now lives in Sweden with her husband and son, insists she is not sharing a set of recommendations for others.\n\nInstead, she wants to shift the focus of responsibility for sexual violence to the perpetrator rather than the victim, and bring about what she calls the \"demonstrification\" of attackers.\n\n\"Demonisation of perpetrators in the mainstream media got in the way of my recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"The fact that Tom wasn't a monster, but a person who made an awful decision, made it harder for me to see his crime for what it was.\"\n\nWhen it was Stranger's turn to speak at the Royal Festival Hall on Tuesday, his words appeared very carefully chosen and he still seemed to have some difficulty getting them out.\n\n\"I'm not up here as some form of punishment... or searching for some kind of questionable redemption,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not trying to benefit my profile or my bank balance. It would be disrespectful for me to do so.\"\n\nOrganisers of the event said Stranger would not be paid for his appearance and he has vowed to donate any profits from the book to charity.\n\nHe is being held up as the first and only confessed rapist to speak out publicly and internationally about his crime - without being identified by a court. So there is no guide on how to deal with these sensitivities.\n\nBut the attempts to make Stranger's involvement more palatable have failed to pacify some activists and victims.\n\n\"Even if he's not getting paid, he will benefit from the cultural capital and the media buzz. He will continue to use his position of the vocal rapist to be protected,\" Liv Wynter, an artist, activist and survivor of rape, told the BBC.\n\nIn a comment piece published before Tuesday's event, Wynter argued that rapists should not be applauded for purely admitting their crime, and worried that such a discussion could encourage other perpetrators to contact their victims.\n\nNo-one involved in the event encouraged this. But any possibility - however slight - that rapists might be somehow persuaded to contact their victims \"would undoubtedly be concerning\", says Katie Russell, a spokesperson for support group Rape Crisis.\n\n\"If there is any rapist reading about this who is considering doing so, we urge them not to; it's not your right or your decision,\" she says.\n\nRape Crisis as well as The Survivors Trust stress that, while they support Thordis Elva's process of recovery, her approach will not be right for everyone.\n\n\"We welcome the debate with caution as each experience is unique,\" says Fay Maxted of The Survivors Trust.\n\nCampaigners, meanwhile, have questioned how far Tom Stranger will go now to challenge other men who have perpetrated - or could perpetrate - sexual violence.\n\nHe told the audience in London he would be \"deeply invested in listening to other men\" and encouraged more men to take part the debate about sexual violence and responsibility around the world.\n\n\"I recognise I'm a problematic individual. But I think there's a hunger for this discussion and it is high time.\"\n\nHis involvement in the talk was broadly welcomed by those in the audience on Tuesday - perhaps unsurprisingly as they had devoted the time to listen.\n\n\"It was still her story\", said Karla Williams, 34. \"He didn't try to hijack anything or make it about himself.\"\n\n\"If you never hear from men, then how is anything ever going to change?\" added her friend Simran Chawla, 41.\n\nA handful of the men in the audience also shared their reactions in follow-up discussions after Elva and Stranger's talk. \"I think what they are doing is extraordinary. I'm really pleased this is happening,\" one man said.\n\n\"Tom did something quite brave and courageous\" in speaking up, said another.\n\nBut the small number currently engaging in the debate soon came in sharp focus. It emerged that a separate men-only discussion after Elva and Strange's event only attracted two participants.\n\n\"It seems men here weren't ready to have the conversation with themselves,\" one of them said.\n• None 'Why I wrote a book with my rapist' The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"Screech!\" The tyre marks must be visible on the tarmac, the smell of burning rubber hanging in the air over Downing Street.\n\nAlmost exactly seven days later to the minute, the prime minister and chancellor have dumped the most controversial part of their Budget, scrapping the planned rises to National Insurance.\n\nA U-turn so fast, so blatant, so complete, it's hard to think of recent examples that are so overt. Why?\n\nNumber 10 and Number 11 were worried about the fact they would have been breaking a manifesto promise to carry the measure through.\n\nTheir complicated excuse just didn't wash. Some Tory backbenchers were so unhappy about it that they had gone into overdrive trying to change the chancellor's mind. And in the end ditching the plan, while politically costly, doesn't cost that much money in the longer term, in the context of the whole government budget.\n\nIt undermines the credibility of the chancellor, an admission at the very least, that his political antennae have gone wonky.\n\nSecond, it questions the extent to which the prime minister is willing to back him.\n\nRelations between the next door neighbours are businesslike and between their operations certainly frosty - and this will not have improved things at all.\n\nIt also tells us that although polling suggests the prime minister is strong in the country, she's simply not that strong in Parliament.\n\nA firm nudge from backbenchers, and they shifted.\n\nOne Tory MP told me he was \"livid… a little bit of difficulty and they give way?\"\n\nGiven the complexities of what the government hopes to achieve in the next four years, for ministers to cave so quickly on this is worrying for some of their supporters.\n\nHowever, whereas in traditional times, a reversal like this would have been a disaster for the Prime Minister, instead, by the end of today's Prime Minister's Questions Theresa May was leaning back and grinning, with the chancellor appearing relaxed alongside.\n\nYou could see from the faces of Labour backbenchers, Jeremy Corbyn was unable to land any blows.\n\nWho would have thought it?\n\nA giant, embarrassing reversal from the government, a gift for the opposition, but the Labour leader instead was the one looking uncomfortable by the end of his weekly clash with Theresa May. A bad day at the office for them both.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sgt Blackman's murder conviction has now been reduced to manslaughter\n\nAs the conviction of Sgt Alexander Blackman for shooting an injured Afghan fighter in 2011 is reduced from murder to manslaughter on the grounds of his mental illness, Royal Marines who fought alongside him have spoken for the first time - offering new insights into the killing.\n\nIn interviews for BBC Panorama, the men from 42 Commando said they wanted the insurgent dead and their comrade \"took one for the team\" when he faced a court martial.\n\nHis colleagues said they also suffered from post-traumatic stress and one marine believes such incidents occurred elsewhere during the conflict.\n\nThere is much public sympathy for Blackman, 42, but few people who have watched the full video of the killing - recorded by another marine's helmet-mounted camera - would describe him as a hero.\n\nThe footage has not been made public but Blackman can be heard trying to cover up his actions, making sure a helicopter above is out of sight before he delivers the fatal shot.\n\nPerhaps more understandable though is the sympathy of the men who fought alongside him and endured the same hardships.\n\nColleagues suggested there were other pressures on Blackman, who was known as Marine A during the original trial process and was only fully identified when he was convicted.\n\nRob Driscoll, who was at a nearby patrol base at the time of the killing, told Panorama: \"Everyone that was speaking on that radio was sending out a signal to Al... everyone wanted that guy to be dead.\"\n\nHe said no-one would have wanted to send out a medical team to help the insurgent because the ground could have been littered with roadside bombs, while a helicopter might have been targeted in the air.\n\nThey would have done it for one of their own, but risking British lives for a wounded Taliban fighter \"who has been shooting at them for the last four months\" was less appealing, he said.\n\nThe helmet-mounted camera of another marine filmed Blackman (pictured) shooting the prisoner\n\nSam Deen, who was on the patrol, said: \"I do remember saying, 'yeah I would shoot him'... and I do think I influenced what happened\".\n\n\"A few of the other lads said that,\" Mr Deen said.\n\nThe killing, on 15 September 2011, took place after a patrol base in Helmand province came under fire from two insurgents.\n\nOne of the attackers was seriously injured by gunfire from an Apache helicopter sent to provide air support, and the marines found him in a field.\n\nThe footage from the helmet-mounted camera showed Blackman shooting the Afghan prisoner in the chest at close range with a 9mm pistol.\n\nBlackman, from Taunton, was convicted of murder in November 2013 and jailed for life. He lost an appeal in May of the following year, but his 10-year minimum term was reduced to eight years.\n\nFive judges at the Court Martial Appeal Court in London have now ruled the conviction should be manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility, not murder.\n\nA further hearing will now decide what sentence Blackman should serve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Extract from helmet camera recording of incident in Helmand, Afghanistan\n\nFilmmaker and anthropologist Chris Terrill was embedded with Blackman's unit at the time of the shooting.\n\nHis film for Panorama tries to look beyond the narrow focus of the helmet camera that led to Blackman's conviction and questions whether, in the slow attrition of war, they began to think as a pack and lose their moral compass.\n\nSpeaking about Blackman's decision to kill the insurgent, Sam Deen says: \"I do think he took the responsibility for the younger lads… he thought it was his responsibility to do it, and then move on.\"\n\nRob Driscoll admits to some sleepless nights but adds: \"I'm glad Al did what he did because all my guys went home\".\n\nLouis Nethercott, another Royal Marine on the patrol, tells Panorama: \"I think it was just another day in Afghanistan and that's the way it goes out there.\n\n\"And none of us got hurt so it was a successful day as far as I'm concerned\".\n\nChris Terrill asks another Royal Marine who was on that tour whether he thought this was the only time such an incident occurred during the Afghan war.\n\nPanorama, Marine A: The Inside Story will be on BBC One at 22:50 GMT, and available later on iPlayer.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nCarli Lloyd's first goal for Manchester City Women ensured they took a lead into the second leg of their Women's Champions League quarter-final against Danish champions Fortuna Hjorring.\n\nLloyd's first-half header was the only goal of the first leg in a game City were unlucky not to win by more.\n\nThe USA midfielder rose unmarked to meet a Jane Ross cross on 30 minutes.\n\nLucy Bronze was denied in either half with a volley off the crossbar and a header just wide in the closing stages.\n\nCity are appearing in the last eight of the competition for the first time.\n\nThe two sides will meet in the return leg at Manchester's Academy Stadium on 30 March.\n\nThe winners will face one of last year's finalists - Wolfsburg or holders Lyon - in the semi-finals in April.", "The appointment of Alastair Campbell seems to point towards a growing pro-Remain confidence\n\nAlastair Campbell is returning to British newspapers as editor-at-large of The New European.\n\nAlmost a quarter of a century after he left the Daily Mirror to work for Tony Blair, Campbell will write regular columns and, like all editors-at-large, become an ambassador for the product, I have learned.\n\nHe will also commission pieces.\n\nIt was Campbell who persuaded Blair to write a high-profile front-page story for the paper.\n\nCampbell already has a regular slot, whether a column or interview, in GQ magazine and also the International Business Times.\n\nLast circulation figures for the weekly The New European suggest it sells more than 20,000 copies\n\nThe most interesting thing about this story isn't what it says about Campbell, who chose the paper to serialise his recent memoirs, but about the growing confidence, impact and viability of the so-called pop-up paper for the 48% of Britons who voted Remain.\n\nThe paper's editor, Matt Kelly, is winning plaudits all over the place for turning a frankly quirky experiment after last year's referendum into a print product whose subscriber base is growing as it approaches its first birthday.\n\nKelly won special recognition at last week's Press Awards (full disclosure: I was one of the many judges involved in the awards).\n\nKelly, who looks like Al Capone after a stint with Slimming World, and talks in a thick Scouse accent (he grew up in Formby) that doesn't smack of metropolitan elite, is also chief content officer of Archant, the family-owned publisher founded in 1845.\n\nLatest circulation figures for The New European suggest it sells more than 20,000 copies. Its 48 pages are put together by a staff of about five in Norwich.\n\nI suspect Campbell's 370,000 followers on Twitter will be hearing plenty more about The New European.\n\nHe and Kelly both know that if even one in 100 of them took out a subscription, that would be transformative for this brave little title.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The export market is very important to our organisation,\" says cattle rancher Coleman Locke\n\n\"Tremendously important\" is how rancher Coleman Locke describes the role of international trade to his cattle business.\n\nThe 72-year-old has worked on his family's 10,000-acre ranch on the Gulf Coast of Texas for his whole life and has seen his fair share of struggles in the industry, including droughts and disease.\n\nBut now he is gearing up for a new threat - the potential loss of trade deals that could cut off a huge slice of his ranch's yearly sales.\n\n\"In 2016, 25% of the breeding stock that we sold here at this ranch went out of the United States, it's a tremendously important market for us,\" says Mr Locke.\n\nColeman Locke has worked on the family ranch his whole life\n\nHe's not alone. Last year the American beef industry earned over $6bn (£4.9bn) from overseas sales. Among the biggest purchasers are Canada and Mexico, partners with the US in the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta).\n\nPresident Trump's promise to renegotiate Nafta and possibly place tariffs on Mexico or other US trading partners has the industry worried.\n\n\"Nafta is extremely important to us. It's one of the biggest trade deals that agriculture has ever had,\" says John Robinson from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA).\n\nThe beef industry is already reeling from the loss of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which President Trump withdrew from in his first week in office.\n\nThe free trade agreement with Pacific Rim countries, including many in Asia, was set to expand America's export market for beef. By some estimates, it could have added $400m in sales each year.\n\nThe US beef industry is already reeling from the loss of the Trans-Pacific Partnership\n\n\"It makes the market very nervous when they hear we aren't going to do the TPP and we are going to change Nafta,\" says Jennings Steen, a cattle dealer based in Austin.\n\nMr Steen says he and his partner have been fielding dozens of calls since President Trump's election, from ranchers desperate to know how changes to trade deals could affect their businesses. They are concerned about prices and hesitate to make long-term plans.\n\nAmerican suppliers particularly wanted increased access to Japan's home market, where high tariffs on US beef have made it hard to compete with suppliers from Australia who can sell beef into Japan at lower rates.\n\nBut President Trump's supporters say his experience in business will allow him to negotiate better deals for the US, focussing on bilateral agreements rather than bigger deals involving several countries.\n\nAccording to Texas agriculture commissioner Sid Miller, after 22 years Nafta is in need of a \"facelift\".\n\nMr Miller was an outspoken and early supporter of President Trump. But since the election, he has spent a lot of time reassuring the ranching community that trade with Mexico won't disappear and new trade options will be opened up under the Trump administration.\n\nTexas agricultural commissioner, Sid Miller, sat down with the BBC's Michelle Fleury in his Austin office\n\nMr Miller says he takes \"a softer kinder approach [than Donald Trump],\" stressing that Texas needs trading partners like Mexico, but also that it needs new deals with countries like China and better deals with its existing partners.\n\nPresident Trump's vision for changes to Nafta has focused on ensuring more products are made in the US and he has called for tariffs on manufactured goods imported into the US from Mexico.\n\nBut such tariffs could result in retaliatory charges on US products sold into Mexico - including agricultural goods like cattle and beef.\n\nMr Miller is unshaken by this prospect, though. He acknowledges that US farmers produce more than the country can consume - including beef - but sees this as giving the US leverage over other trading partners.\n\n\"Agriculture is a good bargaining tool,\" he says. \"People have to eat, they don't have to buy manufactured goods.\"\n\nPresident Trump's relationship with the cattle industry though isn't as simple as a beef over trade.\n\nRural communities voted overwhelmingly in support of Mr Trump. Beef and cattle producers, like other members of the agricultural industry, would like to see the rollbacks on regulations that President Trump has promised.\n\n\"I think cattle producers and rural America, in general, are optimistic about the Trump administration,\" says the NCBA's John Robinson.\n\nWithin President Trump's first month, there were regulatory rollbacks that Mr Robinson calls \"very encouraging\". But he says he hopes the beef industry is given an equal seat to manufacturing when it comes to renegotiating Nafta.\n\nThat seat is crucial because the US produces more beef than it consumes. Without international markets, suppliers will have to reduce production or see a significant drop in prices, as the market is flooded with local beef.\n\nThere is no guarantee either that the bilateral deals President Trump has promised will be better than the ones he has walked away from.\n\nAs a part of TPP, US beef producers who currently face import duties of up to 38.5% on fresh and frozen beef entering Japan would have seen those tariffs phased out over 16 years.\n\nWithout that deal, many worry competition from countries that remained in TPP, like Australia, will increase.\n\nFor Coleman Locke on his ranch in Texas, it's too soon to worry. No deals have been struck yet and business is still good.\n\nBut if President Trump wants to claim his title as America's dealmaker in chief he's going to have to be sure he doesn't trade away this rancher's livelihood.", "If you want a clear explanation of what's wrong with the retail sector, read Next's results statement.\n\nNot a recommendation you'd hear very often, frankly, about most companies' financial reporting.\n\nBut rather than seeming designed to confuse and mislead, Next's report crisply spells out the challenges it's facing.\n\nAnd of course it's not just Next that's up against it, it's the High Street as a whole.\n\nA stark reminder of the difficulties came just yesterday when \"value\" shoe retailer Brantano went into administration, its pricier sister company Jones Bootmaker is up for sale.\n\nOne of the administrators said the fall in the pound and a change in shopping habits were key factors.\n\nNext's results reflect these trends in spades. Its annual profits have fallen for the first time in eight years and it doesn't seem in the mood to pull any punches.\n\nThe most obvious challenge is the continuing gravitation to online shopping. Next Directory sales have been rising every year for the past 10. This time they rose by 4% to £1.7bn but sales in the stores - pretty much flat for the past 10 years - fell by nearly 3% to £2.3bn.\n\nIt's still a significant chunk of business, and as Next points out in its statement, it's still opening new shops.\n\nHowever, it concedes that with increasing amounts of business being transferred online \"it is legitimate to question the long term viability of retail stores and whether the possession of a retail portfolio is an asset or a liability\".\n\nIts conclusion is that the stores are indeed \"valuable\" assets which will remain profitable \"even in very difficult circumstances\".\n\nNevertheless it has painstakingly worked through a scenario of what would happen if retail sales continued to decline at \"high rates\" for the next decade, and it says the stores could be \"managed down profitably\".\n\nAnother issue which leaps out from the pages of Next's statement is the change in what the UK consumer is prepared to spend money on.\n\nA new dress or pair of shoes is no longer the go-to quick fix of choice, it seems.\n\nInstead Next quotes Barclaycard figures which show the growth in spending on pubs, restaurants and entertainment, compared with High Street clothing in the last three months of 2016. \"We believe that these numbers demonstrate the continuing trend towards spending on experiences away from 'things',\" says Next.\n\n\"Shifts in consumer spending patterns are not unusual and we expect that the trend will stabilise and reverse at some point,\" it continues.\n\nIs it all gloom for Next's stores?\n\nAs if the fickleness of shoppers were not enough, of course, consumers have finally woken up to the fact that higher inflation means their money spreads more thinly.\n\nThe fall in sterling since the Brexit vote has pushed up the cost of imports for the likes of Next, although it says it doesn't expect price rises to be any worse in the second half of the year, and \"they may be a little better\".\n\nNevertheless, it doesn't see inflationary pressures easing until the second half of next year.\n\nMeantime, it says, inflation is \"slowly rising to the level of general wages growth and look set to continue to do so for the remainder of the year, we therefore expect a continuing squeeze on real incomes in the year ahead\".\n\nAdded to this Next has is own internal problems which it's dealing with, including taking its eye off the ball in terms of stocking its \"heartland\" products. That is \"easy to wear styles that can be delivered in large volumes and great prices across several colours\".\n\nIn short, Next reckons the year ahead looks \"tough\" with a \"combination of economic, cyclical and internal factors working against us\".\n\nBut it's worth remembering this is not the first time Next - or retailers in general - have confronted such a mountain of adversity.\n\nBack at the start of the financial crisis in 2008, the number of retailers exiting the High Street seemed unstoppable. Woolworths went, and that was the last time Next saw profits drop.\n\nAs chairman John Barton points out today \"by the following year our profits had started to grow again and our share price recovered strongly in the following years.\n\n\"I believe that by focusing on our core strengths as we did during 2008, we will see Next emerge from this period stronger than before\" he adds.\n\nInvestors may well agree. Next's shares were up following the release of the results, and not just because they were a textbook example of how a company should get its message across.", "Afghan forces have been under intense pressure from the Taliban in Helmand\n\nThe Taliban's capture of the strategically-located Sangin, once considered the deadliest battlefield for US and British troops in Afghanistan, will increase the group's mobility in the north of the province and give it control of an important supply line with the provincial capital Lashkar Gah\n\nThe Taliban has already captured a few of the 14 districts of Helmand, which borders Pakistan. According to some estimates, the insurgent group now controls more than half of the province, which produces the bulk of Afghanistan's lucrative opium crop.\n\nReports say that the Afghan security forces pulled out overnight from the district headquarters and the main bazaar, after the Taliban launched a major attack.\n\nThe Taliban insurgents had been trying to capture the Sangin headquarters for two years.\n\nThe Afghan soldiers and police who had been fighting hard to repel the repeated attacks by Taliban fighters, at times complained about not receiving reinforcements and being short of ammunition and food.\n\nThe fall of Sangin, one of the most heavily-populated districts in Helmand, also indicates the Taliban's growing strength in the south, and has a symbolic significance for the US-Nato led mission in Afghanistan.\n\nSangin district was perhaps the most dangerous and deadliest for all sides involved in the war in Afghanistan.\n\nBoth the US and UK lost more soldiers in Sangin than in any of around 400 other districts in Afghanistan.\n\nOf the 456 British lives lost in Afghanistan since 2001, most of them - more than 100 - were killed in Sangin over a period of four years.\n\nBritish forces were deployed in Helmand province in 2006 to secure it and prepare the ground for good governance and reconstruction.\n\nAlthough some progress was made by the more than 10,000 British troops based there, the fighting soon intensified, resulting in the death of many Afghan and British forces as well as civilians.\n\nBritish troops pulled out of Sangin in 2010\n\nBy 2009, the then Afghan president Hamid Karzai and American officials expressed dissatisfaction with the British performance.\n\nIn 2010, thousands of US Marines were deployed to replace British troops and responsibility for security was transferred from the UK to the US in several areas of Helmand, including Sangin, Nawa, Garmsir, Marjah, Khanshin and Nawzad.\n\nWithin the first 90 days of their deployment, around 20 US Marines were killed in Sangin.\n\nSince responsibility for security was handed over from international forces to the Afghan government in 2014, hundreds of Afghan forces have lost their lives defending Sangin.\n\nThe fight to capture Sangin also took the lives of more Taliban fighters than any other battle for territory in Afghanistan.\n\nAfghan forces say they have made a tactical retreat from the centre of Sangin, which has been fiercely fought over for more than a decade.\n\nThe Taliban's capture of Sangin will also have a destabilising effect on neighbouring Kandahar, a province of huge strategic and political significance, and whose capital is Afghanistan's second-largest town.\n\nThe fall of Sangin is an indication that this year's fighting season might be even tougher as the group is planning to push even harder to expand its footprint throughout the country.\n\nThe Taliban now controls more territory than at any point since the US-led invasion in 2001 which toppled its regime.\n\nHelmand governor Mirza Khan Rahimi had insisted that the Taliban would be beaten back\n\nThe loss of Sangin underlines the challenge facing the Afghan government and its Western allies, who, according to US military officials are in a \"stalemate\" with the Taliban.\n\nThe new US President Donald Trump has yet to announce his Afghanistan strategy, but it is likely to involve sending a few thousand more troops to help the approximately 13,000 personnel from Nato allies and partner countries currently based in the country.\n\nThere are two possibilities now.\n\nThe Afghan forces, with the help of US Special Forces and aerial bombing, might try to recapture the district as seen in some other parts of the country.\n\nOr the government will leave it to the Taliban, as they have done in a few other districts in Helmand, and focus on defending Lashkar Gah.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"We will never give in to terror\"\n\nThe terror attack in Westminster will not stop Britons from going about their lives and such attacks are ultimately \"doomed to failure\", the PM has said.\n\nTheresa May said the \"sick and depraved\" attack in Westminster, in which five people died, would not stop people going to work as normal or Parliament from sitting on Thursday.\n\nValues of freedom of speech, liberty and democracy would prevail, she said.\n\nShe praised the \"exceptional bravery\" of the police officer who died.\n\nSpeaking outside No 10, Mrs May - who earlier chaired a meeting of the emergency response committee Cobra - said her thoughts were with the officer's relatives and those others who had been killed and injured in the \"appalling incident\".\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers go out to all who have been affected - to the victims themselves, and their family and friends who waved their loved ones off, but will not now be welcoming them home,\" she said.\n\n\"For those of us who were in Parliament at the time of this attack, these events provide a particular reminder of the exceptional bravery of our police and security services who risk their lives to keep us safe.\n\n\"Once again today, these exceptional men and women ran towards the danger even as they encouraged others to move the other way.\"\n\nWhile the details of the incident - in which a single alleged assailant in a car struck a number of pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before stabbing a police officer at the gates of the Palace of Westminster - were still emerging, she said, the UK would not be cowed.\n\nConfirming that the terror threat level would remain at severe, she said it was no accident that Parliament had been targeted in the incident.\n\n\"These streets of Westminster - home to the world's oldest Parliament - are ingrained with a spirit of freedom that echoes in some of the furthest corners of the globe,\" she said.\n\n\"And the values our Parliament represents - democracy, freedom, human rights, the rule of law - command the admiration and respect of free people everywhere. That is why it is a target for those who reject those values.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn: My thoughts are with the victims\n\n\"But let me make it clear today, as I have had cause to do before, any attempt to defeat those values through violence and terror is doomed to failure.\"\n\nParliament, she insisted, would meet \"as normal\" on Thursday and the British public would \"come together as normal\".\n\n\"And Londoners - and others from around the world who have come here to visit this great city - will get up and go about their day as normal.\n\n\"They will board their trains, they will leave their hotels, they will walk these streets, they will live their lives. And we will all move forward together. Never giving in to terror. And never allowing the voices of hate and evil to drive us apart.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has also paid tribute to the police and emergency services for their response to Wednesday's attack.\n\n\"Lives have been lost and people have been seriously injured,\" he said.\n\n\"I want to thank the police and all the security services who did so much to keep the public, those who work in Parliament and MPs safe.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with those who suffered loss and those that have seen terrible injuries this afternoon.\"\n\nLib Dem leader Tim Farron said it had been an attack on British democracy, while the Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has spoken of a \"sense of solidarity\" felt in Scotland for people in London.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBehaviour of a section of England fans in Germany was \"inappropriate, disrespectful and disappointing\", says FA chairman Greg Clarke.\n\nEngland lost 1-0 to Germany in Dortmund on Wednesday night, but a section of England supporters booed the German national anthem and sang chants referencing World War Two.\n\nIt is understood that the FA is trying to gather footage of the behaviour.\n\nIf found to be involved, supporters could be banned from attending games.\n\n\"The FA has consistently urged supporters to show respect and not to chant songs that could be regarded as insulting to others,\" said Clarke.\n\n\"Individuals who engage in such behaviour do not represent the overwhelming majority of England fans nor the values and identity we should aspire to as a football nation.\n\n\"We are working with the England Supporters Travel Club and speaking with the Football Supporters' Federation to come together to address this issue.\n\n\"Everyone involved in the game has a responsibility to ensure that attending a football match is a safe and enjoyable experience for all.\"\n\nThe FA part-fund the Football Supporters' Federation (FSF). This includes funding for an annual supporters' summit to discuss fan issues.\n\nAn FSF spokesperson said: \"Over the last 20 years, English football fans have built a worldwide reputation for our passionate support and the vocal backing we give to our teams.\n\n\"Unfortunately little of the wit and imagination that goes into our club football songs is reflected at England games.\n\n\"England's travelling support is made of people of all ages from a range of clubs, many of whom have worked hard in recent years to improve our standing abroad and have expressed concern to us about these chants.\n\n\"We don't want to regress to a situation where that reputation is tarnished by the actions of a minority.\"", "The attack on the British parliament building was stopped quickly, and security forces locked down the area within minutes.\n\nBut the attacker still managed to enter Westminster and fatally wound an unarmed police officer, before he was shot.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has said police are now reviewing security, \"as is routine\".\n\nSo what is security like in other national parliaments and seats of power, and how do other countries balance safety against accessibility?\n\nBerlin's Reichstag has fences in front of the building where the main entrance is, but it is relatively accessible to the public and there are no fences on other sides. Admission to the building's glass dome on the rooftop is free, but you do need to register in advance.\n\nThere is even a rooftop restaurant - the only parliamentary building in the world with one, it claims - but it requires the names and dates of birth of guests 24 hours in advance, and you must bring your passport or ID with you.\n\nDespite its open-plaza appearance, the building is encircled by low concrete blocks.\n\nThey provide no obstacle to pedestrians, but are a significant impediment to vehicles - and they dot the roadside all around the building, the park, and the German Chancellery nearby.\n\nThe Reichstag was famously set alight in an arson attack in 1933, for which a young Dutch communist was sentenced to death - something the Nazi party then used to vilify communist opponents, resulting in electoral gains.\n\nA bridge linking buildings runs over a road in at the European Parliament\n\nThe Brussels headquarters of the European parliament is part of a large, modern complex - and so is significantly different from the historic buildings used by many countries.\n\nIt's also decentralised, with many of the plenary sessions taking place in France, and some administration work in Luxembourg. But it's the Brussels headquarters that is most iconic.\n\nIt is easily accessibly by road or on foot, protected by low steel bollards on the roadside.\n\nAccess to the buildings themselves requires a national ID card or passport, plus \"airport-style security checks\", but when parliament is in session, it's possible to slip in as an observer on the day without advance notice.\n\nThe nearby Maelbeek metro station was one of the targets of the 2016 Brussels attacks - but the EU buildings themselves were untouched.\n\nIt later emerged that one of the attackers had worked in the European parliament briefly during two summers.\n\nThe National Assembly faces the Place de la Concorde over a long straight bridge\n\nThe French National Assembly's grand front gates directly face a bridge of the river Seine, offering a straight-line view to the iconic Place de la Concorde.\n\nBut, like the German Reichstag, concrete bollards set in front of the gates prevent any high-speed ramming from that long straight road.\n\nThe Senate, meanwhile, meets in the Palais du Luxembourg. While one exterior wall by the roadside is solid stone, the remainder lies among public walkways in a park of the same name.\n\nTourists and locals alike can stroll up to a waist-high gate separating them from the building's many windowed doors - although the area is patrolled by heavily armed police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Reynolds: \"The government has suggested that that deployment to protect people is open-ended\"\n\nIn contrast, the Elysee Palace, home to the French president, is a fortress of high walls, steel fencing, traffic restrictions, and armed patrols. It lies a short distance from the Champs-Elysees, one of the country's main tourist areas.\n\nGroups wishing to visit either the National Assembly or the Senate need the sponsorship of a senator - but because of security measures in effect in France, individual visits are suspended for both.\n\nMore than 230 people have died in terror attacks in France since January 2015 - but none have targeted the Paris political strongholds.\n\nThe US Capitol building is guarded by heavily armed officers\n\nThere are two main centres of power in the centre of Washington DC: the Capitol building and the White House.\n\nThe grounds around the Capitol building are open to pedestrians, but vehicle traffic is cut off by traffic barriers - only allowing those with permission in.\n\nThe main entrance for visitors to the Capitol building is through a visitors' centre, where security is extremely tight - much like airport security. No liquids, food or pointed objects are allowed.\n\nThe guards throughout the area and at several important nearby buildings are very well armed.\n\nA counter-sniper team member of the Secret Service on the White House roof, 2013\n\nThe White House is perhaps a more popular symbol of American power, and has a myriad of myths about its security - thanks in large part to Hollywood films.\n\nIt is enclosed on all sides by steel railings several feet high, which are in turn encircled by steel bollards and chains. The mansion itself is quite distant from most of the railings, giving Secret Service plenty of time to pick up any fence-jumpers caught by the constant close surveillance - although one man, carrying a knife, made it into the building in 2014.\n\nThe closest point from a public area to the mansion is on the North Lawn, a well-known viewpoint of the White House exterior. But security there is especially tight, with armed guards, and gatehouses which protect the entry points.\n\nAnd then there's the Secret Service and high-tech defences - including sniper surveillance, radar technology on the rooftop, and, of course, the \"bunker\" of the emergency operations centre under the building.\n\nWestminster lies by the water next to a public square, and is a popular tourist spot\n\nThe BBC's Home affairs correspondent, Dominic Casciani, has written about \"the attack that security chiefs have been preparing for\". Here's what he had to say about the UK parliament:\n\nThere is a ring of steel around the Palace of Westminster - but the attacker was able to enter into Parliament's grounds through the gates to New Palace Yard, which is below Big Ben.\n\nThe entrance is guarded by armed officers but, unlike other parts of Parliament, there is no elaborate chicane.\n\nThere will be inevitable questions about whether this entrance was appropriately protected - but given the rudimentary nature of this man's murderous plan, it would not have stopped him trying.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nElite footballers' \"abuse\" of legal painkillers risks their health and could \"potentially\" have life-threatening implications, says Fifa's former chief medical officer.\n\nAbout half of players competing at the past three World Cups routinely took non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen, claims Jiri Dvorak.\n\nHe says it is still an \"alarming trend\" among players, including teenagers.\n\n\"It has become a cultural issue, part of the game,\" said Professor Dvorak.\n\n\"It is absolutely wrong,\" added the Czech, who left Fifa in November after 22 years.\n\n\"For me it's clearly abuse of the drugs - that's why we use the word alarming.\"\n\nHowever, the Professional Footballers' Association - the players' union in England - said misuse of painkillers was \"not a major issue\" among its members.\n\nBBC pundit and former England defender Danny Mills says painkillers in football have always been widespread - \"and always will be\".\n\n\"I've been in many dressing rooms where I've seen other players pressured into playing with painkillers,\" he said.\n\nHe added players at the top level of the game did not see them as an issue because they were legal and often monitored by health professionals - but he felt some players lower down the league ladder might suffer problems without that safety net in place.\n\nProfessor Dvorak spoke to the BBC as part of State of Sport week, which on Thursday examines the balance of athlete welfare against a winning-at-all-costs culture in sport.\n\nA government-commissioned review into safety and wellbeing in British sport, headed by 11-time Paralympic champion Baroness Grey-Thompson, is due to be published imminently.\n\nIt is expected to recommend significant reforms designed to improve the way athletes are treated by governing bodies.\n• None Dan Roan: Should welfare come before winning?\n\nProfessor Dvorak collected data about the intake of medication by all players at every Fifa tournament between 1998 and 2014, discovering almost 50% took 'everyday' anti-inflammatory drugs and painkillers that are available over the counter.\n\nHe says some clubs prioritise success over player welfare, leading to players feeling \"pressured\" into taking medication to overcome minor injuries and play in important games.\n\nProfessor Dvorak previously raised these concerns when he was employed by Fifa, but claims the world governing body has still not addressed the issue appropriately.\n\nFifa says its stance on the issue has not changed since Dvorak first warned about the long-term implications of players misusing painkillers in 2012.\n\nThe misuse of legal medication could \"potentially\" have life-threatening implications for players, claims Professor Dvorak.\n\n\"We have to make a strong statement for the players: wake up, and be careful,\" he said. \"It is not that harmless and you can't think that you can take them like cookies. It has side-effects.\"\n\nNot a major issue for us - PFA\n\nOnly one footballer based in England has raised concerns about the misuse of painkillers directly to the PFA in the past decade, according to head of player welfare Michael Bennett.\n\n\"It was an individual with a back problem and he was taking ibuprofen tablets to get through games and training with it,\" Bennett told BBC Sport.\n\n\"The issue arose more when he left the game, when he realised he was still taking them and it was a continual problem for him.\n\n\"He addressed the issue by going to see his personal GP and decreased the medication he was taking, and coming off it.\n\n\"In my time of working in this field, about eight or nine years, that is the only person who has had an issue with painkillers.\n\n\"It is not a major issue for us.\"\n\nBBC pundit Danny Mills made more than 320 appearances for sides including Manchester City and Leeds United in a 14-year career that ended at the age of 32 through injury. He saw painkillers as part and parcel of football and thinks players are unlikely to see them as an issue as a result.\n\nWhen you're talking about painkilling injections, painkilling drugs, anti-inflammatories, it's widespread in football. Always has been, always will be. As a player the first thing you ask is, \"Is it legal?\" and if it is, fine. Is it going to help, is it going to get me through a game? If yes, then generally, without too many questions, without too much concern, you take what's being offered.\n\nMost professionals are dictated to now by physios, by doctors, and things are monitored, so they do not see it as a huge issue.\n\nI've been in many dressing rooms where I've seen other players pressured into playing with painkillers. Myself as well, I had pain-killing injections in a broken toe for six months - one before the game, one at half-time. I'd wake up at midnight screaming in agony as it wore off but it was my choice, I wanted to do it. Was it good for me long-term? Probably not.\n\nBut players will always look for the short-term fix. Most players would take the attitude, 'it's painkillers, it's legal, it's monitored'. There are times when it might not do the injury any good, there's a good chance you might make it worse but you take that risk. Sport is all about risk and reward. As long as there is that reward, people will always take risks. You're going to win a medal, you're going to get three points. Ultimately it has to be down to the individual to make up their mind. But would I do it again? Yes.\n\nCase studies: 'My body could not cope'\n\nThree former Premier League footballers have blamed the overuse of legal anti-inflammatory drugs and painkillers on health problems.\n\nThese include over-the-counter pills, such as ibuprofen and vitamins, as well as stronger pain-relief injections like cortisone.\n\nAgger, 32, retired from competitive football when his contract expired at Brondby in June 2016.\n\nFifteen months earlier he collapsed in the dressing room after being substituted just 29 minutes into a game against FC Copenhagen.\n\nHe was an injury doubt and, in a desperate bid to play, had taken more than the recommended maximum dose of anti-inflammatory drugs in the week leading up to the game.\n\n\"The body could not cope with it,\" he told Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in July 2016.\n\n\"I have taken too many anti-inflammatories in my career.\n\n\"I know that full well, and it sucks, but I did stop it [in the end]. I am not gaining anything personally from saying this but I can only hope that other athletes do.\n\n\"It could be that others take a pill or two less.\"\n\nKlasnic, 37, suffered kidney failure while playing for German club Werder Bremen in 2007.\n\nHe blamed team doctors at Werder Bremen, saying they failed to diagnose his problem in time and continued to prescribe painkilling medication to him which can be very damaging to kidneys.\n\nThe doctors at the club say the problem was caused by genetics and not painkillers.\n\nHe was left critically ill in September after his body rejected a transplanted kidney provided by his mother.\n\nMatteo, 42, said he took painkilling injections \"for years\" during a career spanning more than 350 appearances, and had to have spinal surgery two years after he retired in 2009.\n\nHe added he thought under-pressure managers did not consider the long-term effect of players having this treatment and then taking part in games.\n\n\"I took painkilling injections to play football when my body was telling me to do otherwise,\" he said in a 2011 interview.\n\n\"Even though the operation was a success, I don't think I'll ever be completely fine but hopefully I'll be able to lift my kids again.\n\n\"This problem all dates back to when I was at Liverpool and I had injections to play games. Then, after Liverpool, when I was at Leeds nothing changed; I'd get an injection every Saturday just to play.\"\n\nLast week, British cyclist Josh Edmondson told the BBC he broke the sport's rules by secretly injecting himself with a cocktail of vitamins when riding for Team Sky.\n\nThe 24-year-old, who was on the team's books in 2013 and 2014, also said he had severe depression after independently using the controversial painkiller Tramadol.\n\nSpeaking to BBC sports editor Dan Roan, he said he risked giving himself a heart attack by self-administering the medication secretly at night.\n\n\"In 2014 I was under a lot of pressure, not just from the team but from myself,\" said Edmondson.\n\n\"You want to renew your contract for one thing, and for me the bigger thing was not letting anyone down - this team had given me a chance by signing me.\"", "Donald Trump Jr is now executive director of The Trump Organization\n\nPresident Donald Trump's son has come under fire for criticising London's mayor, shortly after a terror attack on the UK capital killed three people.\n\nDonald Trump Jr tweeted an article written last year, in which Sadiq Khan said terror vigilance had become \"part and parcel\" of life in a global city.\n\nMr Trump quoted the headline and tweeted: \"You have to be kidding me?!\"\n\nHe angered many Britons who accused him of exploiting the tragedy and implying the quotes were made after the attack.\n\nDozens were hurt in Wednesday's attack, when an assailant drove a car through pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and then fatally knifed a police officer who tried to stop him entering the Houses of Parliament. He was then shot dead.\n\nTwo hours later, Mr Trump tweeted an article from the Independent newspaper in September 2016.\n\nIn the article, Mr Khan was speaking shortly before a meeting with New York Mayor Bill De Blasio, on the day after three bombs exploded in New York City and nearby towns, wounding 29 people.\n\nThe attacks had given him a sleepless night, he said, as he pondered the dangers faced by big Western cities like New York and London.\n\n\"Part and parcel of living in a great global city is you have to be prepared for these sorts of things, you have to be vigilant, you have to support the police doing an incredibly hard job, you have to support the security services,\" he said.\n\nOn Wednesday, after the attack in Westminster, the mayor said that Londoners \"will never be cowed by terrorism\" and that the city stood together in the face of those seeking it harm.\n\nMr Trump's tweet incensed many British people on Twitter, including MP Wes Streeting, who called him a \"disgrace\" for exploiting the tragedy.\n\nOthers accused him of implying that Mr Khan's comments were made after the attack.\n\nMr Khan, London's first Muslim mayor, has previously clashed with Mr Trump's father, in January denouncing the US president's travel ban as \"shameful and cruel\".\n\nLast year, he accused the then-candidate Trump of being \"ignorant\" about Islam.\n\nMr Trump responded by challenging the mayor to an IQ test.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sadiq Khan: \"We won't be cowed by terrorists\"", "It is all change in Formula 1 in 2017.\n\nThe cars are different - faster, better-looking and much more demanding. There are new driver line-ups - and new drivers. The sport has new owners, with big plans for the future. And it looks like Mercedes might not find things as easy as they have in recent years.\n\nSo let's ponder what will be the main issues of the year.\n\nFerrari look like they might just have designed a properly competitive car. Not before time, it should be said - it would be the first in nine years.\n\nThe SF17 not only features obvious innovations after years of Ferrari being behind the curve in Formula 1 design, but in testing it has been going like stink.\n\nIt is not the first time that a Ferrari has looked quick in pre-season. Usually, they have then fallen away when the competition proper started. But this year it appears to be different.\n\nNo matter who you talk to, or how you do the numbers, the Ferrari looks genuinely quick. So much so that Lewis Hamilton said they were \"possibly the favourites\".\n\nFerrari have flattered to deceive so many times in recent years - their inability to produce a car that could compete with the best drove Fernando Alonso to distraction so much that he took the otherwise inexplicable decision to join McLaren-Honda.\n\nInevitably, then, many in F1 are having difficulty believing that this time it could be real.\n\nMelbourne and the rest of the season may yet prove it not to be, but right now it looks like it is. And if Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen are genuinely in contention it will be something to see.\n\nAt the same time, Vettel's contract runs out this year. Will he sign another? Or might he be tempted away by Mercedes? Stability has rarely been a Maranello strong point.\n\nCan Bottas get near Hamilton?\n\nLewis Hamilton has a new team-mate this year after Nico Rosberg decided the only way was down following his title win in 2016.\n\nThe latest man set the task of competing with the fastest driver in the world is Finland's Valtteri Bottas.\n\nMercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff prised the 27-year-old out of Williams - at the cost of a lot of money among other things - because he saw him as the closest he could get to a like-for-like replacement for Rosberg.\n\nThat means someone quick enough to keep Hamilton on his toes, and a team player who will not rock the boat.\n\nBut three years alongside Felipe Massa at Williams have proved little about Bottas' ultimate ability to compete at the very top of F1.\n\nBottas comfortably beat the Brazilian - but his superiority over Massa was nowhere near as great as was Alonso's when they were team-mates at Ferrari. Which doesn't necessarily tell you anything, but might.\n\nSo will Bottas be another Rosberg - quick and dependable, talented enough to run Hamilton close but only good enough to beat him occasionally? Or another Heikki Kovalainen, Hamilton's McLaren team-mate in 2008 and 2009 - decently talented but hardly ever anywhere near Hamilton's level? Or better than both of them?\n\nIf he's Rosberg, things at Mercedes will continue much as they have for the last few years - and Bottas will almost certainly be retained for 2018.\n\nIf he's Kovalainen, the atmosphere in the team will be a lot more comfortable than it has been, but Mercedes might find Hamilton even more 'superstar-y' than he can already be from time to time - and Wolff will be looking for a new driver.\n\nAnd if he's better than both, things could get really interesting, really quickly.\n\nDaniel Ricciardo v Max Verstappen was already a compelling watch in 2016, and it is only likely to get better this year.\n\nThere is more hype around 19-year-old Verstappen than any young driver since Hamilton. And by and large he has lived up to it.\n\nA maiden win in his debut race for Red Bull last May was pretty spectacular - even if he was helped by the team inadvertently strategising Ricciardo out of the way.\n\nBut even that paled into insignificance compared with his stunning drive in the wet in Brazil, a performance that drew legitimate comparisons with Ayrton Senna.\n\nThe fly in the Verstappen ointment, though, was that over the season Ricciardo was the more impressive performer. He out-qualified Verstappen more often than not, and he out-scored him comfortably, too. In fact, Ricciardo was arguably the best driver on the grid last year.\n\nBut neither that nor a controversy over his defensive driving tactics did anything visibly to dent Verstappen's sky-high self-confidence, and the Dutchman did seem to develop a momentum in the latter stages of the year, more frequently out-qualifying Ricciardo as the races went by.\n\nRicciardo is a potential champion in his own right, but if Verstappen is to live up to expectations, he will have to start establishing himself as the faster and better driver this season.\n\nVerstappen will be as determined to do that as the feisty Ricciardo is to stop it - and don't be fooled by the Australian's sunny demeanour; he is as hard as nails underneath the smile.\n\nIf Red Bull are contenders for regular wins - as many expect them to be - this one could go nuclear.\n\nOh Honda. What now?\n\nIf they repeat the form showed in pre-season testing, McLaren-Honda will be struggling to get off the back of the grid in Australia this weekend.\n\nThat's with one of the cars being driven by Fernando Alonso, one of the greatest Formula 1 drivers of all time; and the other by a novice who shows every promise of being a star himself, Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne.\n\nThe McLaren chassis does not appear to be anything special - although it is hard to tell, because the fundamental reason for this is the catastrophic performance of Honda's redesigned engine.\n\nAfter two difficult seasons since the start of their relationship with McLaren, Honda has effectively built a Mercedes engine this year, in the sense of copying their design philosophy. The problem is it doesn't go like one. In fact, it hardly goes at all.\n\nWill Honda have solved in the two weeks since the last test problems that stopped the car running more than 11 laps at a time, and left it nearly 30km/h slower than the best on the straights? Unlikely.\n\nCan they, ever? That's the bigger question.\n\nBBC Sport revealed last week that McLaren have already sounded out Mercedes about a future engine supply if the Honda relationship cannot be made to work.\n\nThat will have come as a shock to Honda, but the question is, how do they respond? If there is as little evidence this year as there has been in the last two that the Japanese giant knows how to make a competitive F1 engine, then the writing could be on the wall.\n\nAlonso's future is also bound up on this. The Spaniard's contract with McLaren runs out this season, and he has already indicated that the new cars are enough of a step forward in terms of challenge for him to want to stick around.\n\nBut if McLaren cannot find a decent engine, he will be looking for a new employer. Even if it is not immediately obvious who that could be.\n\nHe's unlikely to want to return to Ferrari - and they may not want him back, although if Vettel left that could change things. Red Bull is a non-starter. One suspects Alonso might have Wolff on speed dial.\n\nHow will the sport change?\n\nOne of the big questions heading into 2017 is how the new cars work, both in terms of challenging the drivers and improving the spectacle, and how the races might change.\n\nHot on its heels is when new owners Liberty will start to make changes and what they will be.\n\nSome of this is known - Liberty have made it clear they want to make a bigger promotional impact with grands prix themselves.\n\nBeyond that, the shape of the calendar will change sooner or later. Liberty is keen to establish new races in the Americas - north and south - and Asia. And less enamoured of what might be called 'propaganda' races such as Azerbaijan, where a grand prix is held in a country for no obvious reason other than to give its regime a cloak of respectability.\n\nEqually, former Mercedes team boss Ross Brawn has been charged with making the sport \"purer and simpler\".\n\nThe controversial DRS overtaking aid is in his sights. But he will be looking far and wide - at how to change the design of the cars to make racing closely more feasible; at what the engine formula should be post-2020.\n\nWhile all this is going on, Liberty has to begin negotiations with the teams over new contracts - all but one of them are committed to F1 only as far as 2020.\n\nUp for discussion? A more equitable balance of payments. Ferrari's $100m bonus for, well, being Ferrari. And the political and decision-making structure of the sport itself.\n\nIt's going to be an interesting year, all in all.", "Defending champion Jason Day broke down in tears after withdrawing from the WGC Match Play in Texas to be with his mother, who has lung cancer.\n\nThe Australian, 29, was three down after six holes of his opening match against Pat Perez when he conceded, prompting speculation he had suffered another injury.\n\nBut Day said he had found it impossible to focus on golf because of his mother Dening's illness.\n\n\"It's been very emotional,\" he said.\n\n\"It's been really hard to play golf this year.\n\n\"My mum's been here [the United States] for a while and she has lung cancer. At the start of the year she was diagnosed with 12 months to live.\n\n\"The diagnosis is much better being over here, she's going into surgery this Friday and it's really hard to even comprehend being on a golf course right now because of what she's going through.\n\n\"She had all the tests done in Australia and the docs said she was terminal and she only had 12 months to live and I'm glad I brought her over here because of it.\"\n\nFormer world number one Day, whose father died from lung cancer when he was 12 years old, added: \"I've already gone through it once with my dad and I know how it feels and it's hard enough to see another one go through it as well.\n\n\"As of now I'm going to try and be back there with my mum for surgery and make sure everything goes right with her.\n\n\"Emotionally it's been wearing on me for a while and I know my mum says not to let it get to me but it really has, so I just need some time away with her to make sure that everything goes well because this has been very, very tough for me.\n\n\"I'm going to do my best and try and be there the best I can for her because she is the reason that I'm playing golf today.\n\n\"I've obviously pulled out this week because of my mum going into surgery to try and get rid of this three or four centimetre mass that's in her lungs. I'm just hoping for a speedy recovery for her and we can get this behind us and she can live a long life.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nIt was goalless after 90 minutes and Syria's dreams of qualifying for their first World Cup were fading fast.\n\nThen Omar Kharbin converted a bold, Panenka-style stoppage-time penalty to earn victory over Uzbekistan and make an appearance at Russia 2018 a realistic goal.\n\nSyria, in fourth, move within one point of their opponents in Asian Qualifying Group A. The top two qualify automatically, with the third-place side advancing to a continental play-off.\n\nAs we reported in Syria: Football on the frontline on Wednesday, the Syrians are playing their home fixtures at neutral venues, and Malaysia has been their \"home\" since last September.\n\nBBC Sport's Richard Conway travelled to Hang Jebat Stadium in Malacca to watch the game...\n\nWith the hopes and dreams of a nation resting on his shoulders, Omar Kharbin opted to hit a Panenka-style penalty.\n\nIt was a truly bold decision given the risk and stakes involved.\n\nBut in a way it is entirely in keeping with the spirit and ethos of this Syrian team.\n\nThey believe they are playing for a higher purpose than simply qualifying for the World Cup, with the players determined to cast themselves as a symbol of unity.\n\nIt is, they feel, about giving the Syrian people something to cheer about as the war that has engulfed their country enters its seventh year.\n\nThe emotion poured out on the final whistle and the head coach, Ayman Hakeem, broke down in tears in the post-match press conference. Choking on his words he said this was a victory for the Syrian people.\n\nThe team will now fly to Seoul to take on South Korea on 28 March with renewed belief that the dream to make it to Russia 2018 can become a reality.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Eiffel Tower turns off its lights\n\nLeaders of countries affected by recent terror attacks have voiced solidarity with the UK after the deadly attack near the Houses of Parliament.\n\nA lone attacker was shot dead after he used a car to run down pedestrians, killing two, and stabbed a police officer to death outside Parliament.\n\nLeaders of France and Germany, which suffered deadly vehicle attacks last year, offered the UK their support.\n\nThe US president offered condolences and praised UK security forces.\n\nThere is a mixture of nationalities among the dead, police say, and 29 people have been treated in hospital, of whom seven are critically injured.\n\nAmong those injured by the car on Westminster Bridge are three French schoolchildren and two Romanians, while five South Koreans were hurt in the chaos that followed the attack.\n\nIn Paris, the lights of the Eiffel Tower went out from midnight (23:00 GMT) in a tribute to the victims.\n\nPresident Francois Hollande expressed his \"solidarity\" with the British people, saying \"terrorism concerns us all and France knows how the British people are suffering today\".\n\nEmergency response workers continued to work at the scene into the evening\n\nIn July last year, a man drove a lorry into pedestrians in the southern French city of Nice, killing 84 people. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country saw a lorry attack in December that killed 12 people in Berlin and was also claimed by IS, said her thoughts were \"with our British friends and all of the people of London\".\n\n\"I want to say for Germany and its citizens: We stand firmly and resolutely by Great Britain's side in the fight against all forms of terrorism,\" she added.\n\nUS President Donald Trump spoke by phone to British Prime Minister Theresa May to offer his condolences and to praise the effective response of UK security services.\n\nMr Trump pledged the \"full co-operation and support\" of the US government in bringing those responsible for the attack to justice, the White House said in a statement.\n\nBelgium's prime minister sent a message of support as his country marked the first anniversary of the suicide bomb attacks on the Brussels airport and underground system, which killed 32 people.\n\n\"Our condolences are with those who mourn and all who are affected in London,\" Charles Michel tweeted. \"Belgium stands with UK in fight against terror.\"\n\nEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said in a statement that the people of Brussels and Belgium had \"suffered a similar pain and felt the support of your sympathy and solidarity\".\n\n\"At this emotional time, we at the European Commission can only send that sympathy back twofold.\"\n\nPeople in Brussels made a heart sign with their hands to remember the victims of the attacks there a year ago\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin also sent condolences by telegram to Mrs May, expressing support for the bereaved and wounded.\n\n\"The forces of terror are acting more and more deviously and cynically. It is clear that, in order to counteract the terrorist threat, all members of the global community must combine forces,\" he said.\n\nBut not all international reaction was so reserved, with some right-wing politicians suggesting that controls on immigration - or even all Muslims - was the way forward. It has subsequently emerged that the attacker was born in Britain.\n\nThe leader of Australia's One Nation party, Pauline Hanson, announced her own personal hashtag..\n\n\"It's #Pray4Muslimban. Put a ban on it, that's how you solve the problem, and then let's deal with the issues here,\" she said.\n\n\"We've got real problems... make sure that we do not have this religion which is really an ideology that is going to eventually cause so much havoc on our streets, not only for ourselves, but for future generations.\"\n\nIn France, National Front leader Marine Le Pen, who is campaigning for the French presidency, said the London attack showed the need for borders to be protected.\n\nShe told French media that security measures needed enhancing amid a rising threat from \"radicalised personalities who act alone without networks\", and urged countries to co-operate with each other on sharing intelligence.\n\nPoland's Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said the London attacks justified the country's policy of refusing to take in refugees.\n\n\"I hear in Europe very often: do not connect the migration policy with terrorism, but it is impossible not to connect them,\" she told private broadcaster TVN24.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nA \"medal at any cost\" approach created a \"culture of fear\" at British Cycling, says former rider Wendy Houvenaghel.\n\nThe Olympic silver medallist accused the organisation of \"ageism\" and having \"zero regard\" for her welfare.\n\nShe is the latest high-profile cyclist to come forward after Jess Varnish, Nicole Cooke and Emma Pooley criticised the World Class programme.\n\nHouvenaghel told the BBC she felt \"vindicated\" by a leaked draft report detailing British Cycling's failures.\n\nThe report said British Cycling \"sanitised\" its own investigation into claims former technical director Shane Sutton used sexist language towards Varnish, who went public last April about her treatment.\n\nBritish Cycling subsequently admitted it did not pay \"sufficient care and attention\" to the wellbeing of staff and athletes at the expense of winning medals, an approach Houvenaghel attested to in her BBC interview.\n\nBoth Sutton and predecessor Sir Dave Brailsford have now left British Cycling.\n\nHouvenaghel, 42, spoke to BBC Sport during its State of Sport week, which on Thursday examines the issue of athlete welfare versus a win-at-all-costs culture.\n\nA government-commissioned review, headed by 11-time Paralympic champion Baroness Grey-Thompson, into safety and wellbeing in British sport, is due to be published imminently.\n\nIt is expected to recommend significant reforms designed to improve the way athletes are treated by governing bodies.\n• None She felt \"oppressed\" by both Sutton and Brailsford, describing the training environment as \"horrid\".\n• None Sexism and \"ageism\" were prevalent at British Cycling.\n• None She put up with the situation because \"if you rocked the boat, you were out\".\n• None She was \"discarded\" by British Cycling after London 2012 despite six years of \"constantly\" winning medals at major championships.\n\nBritish Cycling said it \"has acknowledged and takes very seriously previous cultural and governance failings in the World Class Programme\".\n\nIt said it has accepted the draft report's findings and already put into a place a 39-point action plan to \"systematically address the cultural and behavioural shortcomings\".\n\nThe statement added: \"Our new chair Jonathan Browning has apologised for instances where we have fallen short in our commitment to athlete welfare and has offered to meet with anyone who can help improve British Cycling.\"\n\nWho else has spoken out?\n• None Varnish spoke about the culture she experienced within British Cycling, after she was dropped from the elite programme last April.\n• None She claimed Sutton used sexist language towards her.\n• None The Australian, who quit in the wake of Varnish's allegations, was found to have used the word \"bitches\" when describing female riders.\n• None British Cycling was run \"by men for men\" and its attempts to stop doping were \"ineffective\".\n• None saying \"a fish rots from the head\".\n\nHouvenaghel won silver in the individual pursuit at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, and gold in the World Championship team pursuit in 2008, 2009 and 2011.\n\nShe retired in 2014, aged 39, after withdrawing from the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with a back injury.\n\nHouvenaghel was critical of both Sutton and her team-mates in the aftermath of the London 2012 Olympics, where she was left out of all three team pursuit races as Dani King, Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell-Shand won gold in a world record time.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport this week, the Northern Irish rider said that experience was \"very traumatic\" and she felt \"torment\" at having \"no explanation\" for her last-minute omission.\n\nAt the time, Brailsford, then performance director, defended the selection saying they had to \"take the personal element out of it, and look at the data and be professional\".\n\nHe added: \"I think when a team steps up and makes six world records on the trot and a gold medal, then I don't think you can argue with that.\"\n\nBritish Cycling reiterated that point on Thursday, adding it was \"proud to support Wendy in what was a wonderfully successful cycling career\" and she was \"part of a pioneering generation of riders who set new standards of excellence\", but was dropped in London 2012 \"based on her performance\".\n\nOther elite cyclists, including King and Roswell-Shand have praised the leadership at British Cycling.\n\nAsked whether she was simply not good enough for the 2012 team, Houvenaghel replied: \"It was definitely not about performance. I don't think the fastest team on the day were permitted to race.\n\n\"There are certain chosen riders on the team who will not have experienced the culture of fear and will not have been on the receiving end of that - the bullying, the harassment, being frozen out of opportunities.\n\n\"It was horrid - it was not the training environment I expected. There was no choice. If you rocked the boat, you were out. There was no alternative.\n\n\"Medals at any cost, that's how it was whenever I was there, certainly in 2012.\"\n\nHouvenaghel said she also witnessed the sexism that has been highlighted by other female riders, and also claims she was discriminated against because of her age.\n\n\"I can certainly relate to the bullying,\" she said. \"For me personally, I felt it was more ageism - being a little bit older than my team-mates, it didn't seem to be something that the staff necessarily wanted for our team in 2012.\n\n\"They didn't care about what happened to me afterwards. I never heard another thing from them.\n\n\"After six years of constantly medalling at World Cups, World Championships, nationals, both on the track and on the road, they discarded me in a very undignified way from the team, which I don't feel was right.\"\n\nFourteen-time Paralympic gold medallist Dame Sarah Storey told BBC Sport that elite level sport in Britain is \"cut-throat\" but there are \"no excuses for crossing that line\" into bullying.\n\nAsked about the balance between winning and athlete welfare, the 39-year-old replied: \"It's a really difficult question because you have to be a human being, you have to allow for people to make mistakes. But the currency is race wins, the currency is gold medals.\n\n\"It's not an excuse but you have to have a thick skin in sport, you have to be able to take the rough with the smooth because of the racing that you go through.\n\n\"But there are no excuses for crossing that line, and if those lines have been crossed they will be found out and they'll be dealt with.\"", "This Zara dress had been to at least five countries before it ended up on a shop hanger\n\n\"Made in Morocco\" says the label on the pink Zara shirt dress.\n\nWhile this may be where the garment was finally sewn together, it has already been to several other countries.\n\nIn fact, it's quite possible this piece of clothing is better travelled than you. If it was human, it would have certainly journeyed far enough to have earned itself some decent air miles.\n\nThe material used to create it came from lyocell - a sustainable alternative to cotton. The trees used to make this fibre come mainly from Europe, according to Lenzing, the Austrian supplier that Zara-owner Inditex uses.\n\nThese fibres were shipped to Egypt, where they were spun into yarn. This yarn was then sent to China where it was woven into a fabric. This fabric was then sent to Spain where it was dyed, in this case pink. The fabric was then shipped to Morocco to be cut into the various parts of the dress and then sewn together.\n\nAfter this, it was sent back to Spain where it was packaged and then sent to the UK, the US or any one of the 93 countries where Inditex has shops.\n\nFrom dresses to t-shirts and trousers, most items of clothing sold around the world will have had similarly complicated journeys.\n\nIn fact, they're likely to be even more convoluted.\n\nMost Inditex garments are made close to its Spanish headquarters or in nearby countries such as Portugal, Morocco and Turkey.\n\nThis is what helps the firm achieve its famously fast reaction times to new trends.\n\nMost of its rivals' supply chains are far less local.\n\nRegardless of where they're based, most factories are not owned by the fashion brands that use them. Instead, they're selected as official suppliers. Often these suppliers subcontract work to other factories for certain tasks, or in order to meet tight deadlines.\n\nYour cotton top may well have started out in a field in Texas before criss-crossing the globe\n\nThis system can make tracking the specific origins of a single item difficult. I contacted several big clothing brands including H&M, Marks and Spencer, Gap and Arcadia Group last week to give me a sample example of the journey of a t-shirt in their basic range from seed to finished product.\n\nOnly Inditex was able to respond in time to meet the deadline for this article.\n\n\"I imagine companies don't want to respond because they have no clue where the materials they buy come from,\" says Tim Hunt, a researcher at Ethical Consumer, which researches the social, ethical and environmental behaviour of firms.\n\nThe difficulties were highlighted devastatingly by the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster where more than 1,100 people were killed and 2,500 injured when the Bangladesh garment factory collapsed.\n\nIn some cases, brands weren't even aware their clothes were being produced there.\n\nThe #whomademyclothes campaign encourages customers to put pressure on fashion firms to be more open about their suppliers\n\nAccording to the \"Behind the Barcode\" report by Christian Aid and development organisation Baptist World Aid Australia, only 16% of the 87 biggest fashion brands publish a full list of the factories where their clothes are sewn, and less than a fifth of brands know where all of their zips, buttons, thread and fabric come from.\n\nNon-profit group Fashion Revolution, formed after the Rana Plaza factory collapse, is leading a campaign to try to force firms to be more transparent about their supply chains.\n\nEvery year, around the time of the disaster it runs a #whomademyclothes campaign encouraging customers to push firms on this issue.\n\nFashion Revolution co-founder and creative director Orsola de Castro says the mass production demands of the fashion industry and the tight timescales required to get products from the catwalks on to the shelves as quickly as possible means the manufacturing processes have become \"very, very chaotic\".\n\n\"The amount of manpower which goes into the production of a t-shirt - even at the sewing level, it goes through so many different hands. On their standard products most brands wouldn't know the journey from seed to store,\" she says.\n\nWhile newer and smaller fashion brands are creating products with 100% traceability, she says it's a lot harder for the established giants.\n\n\"It's a big and complex issue to turn around and would require a massive shift in attitude.\"\n\nPietra Rivoli travelled from the US to China and Africa to track the journey of a single $6 t-shirt\n\nYet just over a decade ago, Pietra Rivoli had no problems tracking the journey of a single $6 cotton t-shirt she'd picked out of a sale bin in a Walmart in Florida.\n\nStarting with the tag at the back of the t-shirt, she tracked its journey backwards from the US \"step by step along the supply chain\".\n\n\"A shoe leather project,\" is how Prof Rivoli describes her journey, which resulted in a book, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy.\n\nAs a teacher of finance and international business at Georgetown University in Washington, Prof Rivoli wanted to investigate her assumption that free trade benefited all countries.\n\nPietra Rivoli says the current backlash against global trade is linked to political interference\n\nHer travels took her from the cotton-growing region of Lubbock in Texas to China, where the t-shirt was sewn together. Eventually, she ended up in Tanzania on the east coast of Africa, which has a thriving second-hand clothing market.\n\nHer assumption was that the complicated supply chain was driven by cost and market forces.\n\nShe concluded that a lot of brands' decisions about where to buy supplies and make their clothing was actually driven by politics. She cites US agricultural subsidies for cotton growers and China's migration policies encouraging workers to move from the countryside as examples.\n\n\"Rather than a story of how people were competing - how do I make a faster T-shirt, a better T-shirt, a cheaper T-shirt - what I found is that the story of the T-shirt and why its life turned out the way it did was really about how people were using political power,\" she says.\n\nThe current backlash against global trade is a direct result of this kind of political interference, she believes.\n\nThis kind of consumer anger could eventually drive change among fashion firms, she says. Prof Rivoli notes that many firms now list all their direct suppliers and she says there is a move towards developing fewer, longer term supplier relationships.\n\n\"There might be a little less hopping around,\" she laughs.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The claim: The increase in women working in their 70s is because some of them can't afford to retire.\n\nReality Check verdict: Although some women keep working out of choice, it is also likely that others are doing so because increased life expectancy and an inadequate pension pot means they don't have enough money to retire on.\n\nThe proportion of women working into their 70s has doubled in the past four years, to 11%, according to official figures.\n\nThat works out as about 150,000 women still working into their mid-70s.\n\nAlthough the growth has been strong, there is still a higher proportion of men working into their 70s, at 15.5%.\n\nBut are some women continuing to work later in life because they want to, or because they cannot afford to retire?\n\nLife expectancy has been steadily climbing in the UK, and a woman who was 65 in 2015 could expect to live a further 20.9 years, on average, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nA longer life expectancy is, of course, good news, but also means this generation requires a higher level of savings to cover living expenses, not to mention possible care costs.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation puts the minimum income standard for pensioners at £186.77 a week - the equivalent of £9,712 a year.\n\nBut a pensioner retiring after April 6 this year and relying purely on their state pension will have an income of £8,300 per year - £1,400 less than the Joseph Rowntree estimate.\n\nThis means retirees also need to have built up their own pension pot.\n\nA survey from the pension provider Aegon suggests the average woman has less than half of the retirement savings an average man has.\n\nIt also indicated the average woman hoped to retire at 64, compared with 65 for men.\n\nThere are a number of factors behind this disparity.\n\nWomen have a higher life expectancy than men, and on average earn less over the course of their working lifetimes as they are more likely to have taken time out from work for caring responsibilities.\n\nWhat's more, one in three women currently earns less than £10,000, which is the threshold at which they are eligible for automatic enrolment into a private pension scheme.\n\nChanges to the state pension age have also played a part.\n\nUntil 1995, women expected to draw their state pensions at 60; men at 65.\n\nBut changes made by the 1995 Pensions Act meant the pension ages of both men and women would be 65 by 2020.\n\nIn 2011, this changed again, meaning some women born between April 1951 and 1960 are now facing a pension age of 66.\n\nThe Cridland Report on the state pension age is due out on Thursday.\n\nAction group Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) was set up to campaign for transitional arrangements for women born in the 1950s who have been negatively affected by changes in state pension law.\n\nThe group says hundreds of thousands of women are suffering from financial hardship as a result of the changes, with not enough time to re-plan for their retirement.\n• None The women still working into their 70s\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nBritish Swimming is conducting an investigation after multiple bullying claims were made by Paralympians about a coach, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe sport's governing body began an internal review after several Para-swimmers made complaints.\n\nThe complainants are understood to include Rio 2016 medallists.\n\nSwimming was ParalympicsGB's most successful sport in Rio, winning 47 medals - 16 golds of 152 available - and setting eight world records.\n\nBut it has now emerged the team, which is based at the Manchester Aquatics Centre, has been embroiled in a bullying controversy for the past two months.\n\nBritish Swimming has appointed investigators to look into the allegations.\n\nUK Sport said it was aware of the internal review and \"disappointed\" to hear the claims.\n\nA parent of one of the complainants told the BBC that swimmers were \"belittled and criticised\".\n\n\"We were told elite sport was not about the welfare of athletes but the pursuit of medals. There was a culture of fear,\" the parent said.\n\nIn a statement, British Swimming told the BBC: \"Whilst some athletes have expressed some concerns, we have immediately undertaken an independent fact-finding investigation into these.\n\n\"The investigation remains ongoing and, until it is completed, we do not propose to make any further comment.\"\n\nUK Sport said: \"While we are disappointed to hear of these allegations, we are reassured that athletes feel able to challenge any behaviour that they are uncomfortable with and that British Swimming are investigating.\n\n\"As part of our action plan following the independent review into British Cycling, we will be looking at sharing learnings and best practice across the entire high performance system to ensure we continue to support our best athletes to reach their full potential within a positive performance culture of the upmost integrity and ethical standards.\"\n\nA British Paralympic Association statement added: \"We understand that some athletes have raised concerns with British Swimming, their national governing body. Athlete welfare is of the utmost importance, therefore it is quite right that British Swimming have undertaken an independent fact-finding investigation into the matter, which remains ongoing.\"\n\nThe revelations come amid mounting concern over the culture of high-performance programmes at British sports, and whether medal success has come at the expense of athlete welfare.\n\nTeam GB and ParalympicsGB both came second in their respective medal tables in Rio.\n\nBritish Cycling apologised last month for various \"failings\" after an independent investigation into allegations of bullying and sexism.\n\nA leaked draft version of the report, due for publication, found there was \"a culture of fear\" in the national velodrome, and \"cracks in terms of the climate and culture… were ignored in pursuit of medal success\".\n\nSeveral former riders and staff have complained about the way they were treated, with track cyclist Jess Varnish saying she was \"thrown under the bus\" and the victim of a \"cover-up\".\n\nFormer technical director Shane Sutton has always denied any wrongdoing.\n\nBritish Cycling has introduced an action plan of reforms dedicated to improving training, governance and welfare.\n\nLast year, British Rowing coach Paul Thompson was cleared of bullying following an investigation.\n\nFormer GB rower Emily Taylor had claimed Thompson was \"a massive bully\". A review concluded more care needed to be taken of athletes' wellbeing and the culture at British Rowing was \"hard and unrelenting\".\n\nMeanwhile, in 2016 the government asked former Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson to conduct a comprehensive 'duty of care review'.\n\nPublication of her report is imminent. It is expected to recommend significant reforms designed to improve the way athletes are treated by governing bodies.\n\nLast month, UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl told BBC Sport there is \"no excuse for not putting athletes first... there probably hasn't been enough attention in sport about how they do things.\n\n\"There's a lot of focus on operational delivery, probably not enough on leadership management and communication.\"", "Bear Grylls might be confident about climbing mountains, wrestling alligators and challenging the wilderness to do its venomous worst - but there's one thing that fills him with horror.\n\n\"We all have fears. People say, 'You can't have any fears', but I'm scared of so many things,\" says the man who has what must be the best ever job description, of \"adventurer\".\n\n\"I'm really bad at cocktail parties with lots of people I don't know. I really genuinely am.\"\n\nMaggots and steep rock faces are less daunting to him than unarmed combat with canapes and small talk.\n\nSpeaking at an international education conference, Grylls says he lacked confidence as a youngster and describes his own approach to tackling fear and those nagging self-doubts.\n\n\"I've learned that the best way over our fears is right bang through the middle. It really is. The only way you don't see the fear is when you're right on it.\n\n\"I've learned this the hard way. It's how I deal with it now,\" he said at the Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai.\n\nClimbing Everest became a focus for the adventurer's recovery from back injuries\n\nHe says he is also \"really nervous\" of jumping out of aeroplanes, which is understandable since in his 20s he broke his back in three places in a parachuting accident in Africa.\n\nHis recovery from this injury became the springboard for his later ambitions - setting the target of climbing Everest and giving him the fire in his belly to make the most of this \"second chance\" in life.\n\n\"It was definitely a dark time after that accident.\n\n\"My over-riding emotion was that I really have got lucky. I should either be dead or paralysed. There's got to be some purpose behind this. Life has given me a second chance.\n\n\"I might be a bit crook and a bit scarred, but I'm OK and I'm really going to claw my way back - and I really want to do something with my life.\n\n\"Sometimes in life it takes a knock to remember what we really value.\"\n\nThere probably isn't a pamphlet in the careers office for people wanting to become adventurers.\n\nBut Grylls has a straightforward explanation for the path he took - and the occupational hazard of constantly putting himself in danger.\n\n\"It's the only thing I'm good at. I'm not saying that out of modesty, it really is. It's my job, it's what I really love. It's what over the years I've become half-decent at.\"\n\nAnd he says the parachute accident was another spur to improve and get things right in split-second decisions.\n\nWhen his parachute was failing to function properly and he was spinning to the ground, he says he wasn't thinking about his life flashing before his eyes - instead he was trying to sort out the parachute.\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 he \"ran out of time and hit the ground very hard\" and says that, in retrospect, he should have used those seconds to use the reserve chute.\n\n\"I made a promise to myself on that hospital bed that I was going to become the fastest-thinking, the quickest-reaction dude out there. Now I really take pride that I'm good in those moments. But these are skills we develop.\"\n\n\"Sometimes in life it takes a knock to remember what we really value\"\n\nHe is famous for his survival skills. But he says the first inhospitable terrain he had to conquer was his own lack of self-confidence.\n\n\"I wasn't very good at school - and I struggled a lot with confidence,\" says the Eton-educated adventurer.\n\nBut he says such early struggles can be better preparation than success coming too easily.\n\n\"The great people I know in life often struggled at school, because it was the struggle that developed their strength.\"\n\nHis descriptions are also punctuated by an awareness of the small margins between success and failure - and life and death.\n\nWhen he talks about the last exhausting phase of climbing Everest, he describes coming across the body of another climber he had known, Rob Hall, who had died on the mountain two years before.\n\n\"I remember just sitting next to Rob, still perfectly there, his hair blowing, as if I could nudge him and he'd stand up and be fine.\n\n\"I desperately needed something to give me strength - and he is such a hero of mine. I just remember this panic filling me - there are a lot of bodies on the mountain, but this was different - we were so close, but now so far away.\"\n\nHe pushed on and became one of the youngest climbers to get to the summit of Everest.\n\nAnd he says he brought back some snow from the summit and kept it as a liquid symbol of conquering his self-doubt.\n\nBear Grylls says young people need some risk in their lives\n\nGrylls's popularity as a TV presenter has been based on his Boy's Own adventures in the world's wild places. It's in contrast to the worries about young people spending too long in front of screens, missing out on exercise and stressing over social media.\n\nHe says young people need to see the outdoor world and to experience risk in their lives to build a spirit of adventure and curiosity.\n\n\"If you strip risk out of young people's lives, you kill that spirit. Risk is all around us - and you empower kids if you teach them how to manage that risk.\"\n\nAnd he says it's the shy and under-confident youngsters he wants to encourage most.\n\n\"The rewards in life don't always go to the biggest or the bravest, the cleverest, or even the best,\" he tells them.\n\n\"The rewards in life go to the dogged and the determined, to the tenacious, those who get back on their feet when they get kicked.\"\n\nHe's prepared for numbingly cold temperatures and the threats of hungry predators.\n\nJust don't try and ambush him with a cocktail sausage and a conversation about the traffic.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nDavid Haye has been called before boxing authorities to explain his behaviour in the build-up to his heavyweight bout with Tony Bellew.\n\nHaye graphically described injuries he hoped to inflict on Bellew in the run-up to last month's stoppage defeat.\n\nThe former world heavyweight champion must appear before the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) on 12 April.\n\nThe BBBofC believes Bellew's behaviour improved after both fighters were warned days before the bout.\n\n\"Mr Haye was told to behave himself but the board have called him,\" the board's general secretary Robert Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"He will now be given the opportunity to come and explain his behaviour.\"\n\nThe BBBofC condemned the actions of both fighters during a fight week which included a boisterous news conference in Liverpool and a media event in London.\n• None Bellew v Haye - in their own words\n\nAccording to records on the BBBofC website, Haye, 36, made a donation and apologised for his behaviour to the Southern Area Council at a meeting three days before the bout.\n\nBellew, 34, was handed a four-month suspended suspension by the board in December as a result of his ringside behaviour when he called Haye out following victory over BJ Flores in October.\n\nFurther misdemeanours could have seen his licence withdrawn before the meeting with Haye.\n\nAfter his 11th-round stoppage win, an emotional Bellew told reporters: \"What we have done for boxing tonight is put it on a pedestal.\n\n\"Two men fought their hearts out. The board can't say nothing to me and if they do, I will go and get a licence somewhere else.\"\n\nHaye said after the fight that he expected to be fined for his pre-fight comments.\n\nThe ex-WBA heavyweight champion has said he intends on returning to the ring after recovering from Achilles surgery.", "Ferrari are favourites to win the Formula 1 world title as the new season starts in Australia this weekend, says three-time champion Lewis Hamilton.\n\nHamilton's Mercedes team have dominated for the past three seasons but pre-season testing suggested Ferrari have bounced back from a winless 2016.\n\n\"I see Ferrari being quickest,\" he said. \"They are definitely favourites.\"\n\nBut Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel said Mercedes were the team to beat, adding: \"We are doing our best to catch up.\"\n• None Will changes make F1 better?\n\nThe new cars that will race at Melbourne's Albert Park and for the rest of the season will be considerably quicker than last year's after major rule changes aimed at making them faster and more demanding.\n\nBut Vettel said that made no difference to Mercedes' position after three dominant seasons, since the introduction of turbo-hybrid engines in 2014, in which Hamilton won two titles and Nico Rosberg the other.\n\nVettel said: \"Mercedes have been very strong and even if you change the rules if a team is strong they will build a strong car.\n\n\"Looking at the performance of the cars, it was expected to be a big step up. And that's what we all said when we got out for the first time.\n\n\"I think they will be the fastest cars we have ever driven. it is nice to have that. Competitiveness? We are all here to find out.\"\n\n'I have never seen the fans so excited'\n\nThe season starts without the reigning champion on the track for the first time since 1994, when Alain Prost retired after winning his fourth title. Following Rosberg's retirement, Finn Valtteri Bottas will partner Hamilton.\n\nHamilton, 32, said: \"It doesn't make any difference to me. Every year is a brand new challenge. You just want to beat whoever it is you're up against and the bigger the fight the more satisfying it is.\n\n\"I have never seen the fans as excited [as they are] about this year, not knowing where the cars and teams are. More of these changes would be welcome. Maybe they should shorten the time between rule changes.\"\n\nHamilton said he would relish a fight for the title with Vettel, who won four consecutive championships with Red Bull from 2010-13.\n\nAnd the Briton added he would like to see old rival Fernando Alonso back in a competitive car, which seems a forlorn hope given a dire pre-season for the 35-year-old Spaniard's McLaren-Honda team.\n\n\"I have not had a lot of battles with Sebastian on track, and I would love that and the fans would too,\" Hamilton said. \"And we need this guy [Alonso] to have a good car so he can get up there and fight with us as well - before his time is up. I feel we're yet to see the best of Fernando. The sport needs that and he deserves to be able to show that. You want to be racing against the best. That's what the fans want to see.\"\n\nHamilton added he was also wary of the threat from Red Bull drivers Daniel Ricciardo, 27, and 19-year-old Max Verstappen.\n\n\"I am very keen to see what Red Bull bring because they were quite far behind in testing compared to Ferrari,\" Hamilton said.\n\n\"I didn't see many upgrades and I am excited to see what they bring here.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nIBF world welterweight champion Kell Brook will defend his title against American Errol Spence Jr at Bramall Lane in Sheffield on Saturday 27 May.\n\nBrook, 30, has not fought since he was defeated by middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin in September - his first professional defeat in 37 fights.\n\nBrook claimed the IBF belt beating Shawn Porter in August 2014 and will be aiming for his fourth title defence.\n\n\"I'm so excited about this fight and to make history in my city,\" said Brook.\n\n\"It's long been a dream of mine to fight outdoors at Bramall Lane and I'm pleased to do that in the biggest fight in the welterweight division.\n\n\"All I've ever wanted to do is to give the fans the fights they want and they have it right here on May 27.\n\n\"I'm going to show the world that I'm the best welterweight on the planet and I'm going to do it right before my people's eyes.\"\n\nAfter jumping up two weight divisions to face Golovkin, Sheffield United fan Brook has elected to return to welterweight and face mandatory challenger Spence, 27.\n\nAmerican Spence, unbeaten in 21 professional bouts with 18 knockout victories, said: \"I'm happy I'm finally getting an opportunity to accomplish a lifelong dream of becoming a World champion.\n\n\"This is one of the best and biggest fights in world boxing and I am 100% focused and determined to bring the belt back home to the USA.\n\nBrook's promoter Eddie Hearn called it \"one of the best fights in world boxing\".\n\nHe added: \"It's 'The Special One' vs 'The Truth', a historic event at Sheffield United's Bramall Lane - we are planning an unforgettable night.\"", "Two bodyguards keep a close eye on a victim of domestic violence in the centre of Bilbao\n\nWhen Ana reported her male former partner for an assault at her home in Spain she thought she would be protected.\n\nIn fact she ended up living as a prisoner alone in her own house, afraid to go out in case she was confronted by her aggressor once more.\n\n\"I was living in terror. The only thing the police gave me was a special kind of telephone to call if he turned up. But I didn't feel safe.\"\n\nAna went online to contact women's support groups and was put in touch with Carolina, a former police bodyguard now using her skills and training to keep women safe from violent men.\n\nCarolina had guarded public figures in the years before Basque separatist group Eta declared a halt to its bombing and assassination campaign in 2011.\n\nShe launched private association Edemm in response to cases just like Ana's. Women who had gone to the police but were left unprotected by the judicial system. Some were murdered by husbands or former partners.\n\nEdemm describes itself as a Basque association for investigating men who mistreat women\n\nThe organisation offers 24-hour protection free of charge, helping vulnerable women to shake off the paralysing effects of fear and to face the world.\n\n\"We are talking to the Basque regional authorities and political parties. I want this to become standard, to be rolled out across the country and we are training more female bodyguards for this work,\" she explains.\n\nCarolina lived with Ana for two weeks before the assault trial last year and remains on hand for moments when she needs company.\n\n\"I was wasting away and totally depressed,\" says Ana.\n\n\"I stayed in bed, I had stopped eating, lost 12 kilos and couldn't go out to work. Every time I heard a car outside, I felt panic. I did not go outside even to walk the dogs.\n\n\"She came and listened and said she was going to be with me. I wanted to hug her there and then but I thought it might not be ethical.\n\n\"I began to cook again, something simple like an omelette. She opened the windows and the blinds. She listened to me and I felt better every day. I could sleep properly again as I knew she was a professional bodyguard and I was protected.\"\n\nA widow living on the outskirts of a village in Spain's Basque Country, Ana started what turned out to be a toxic relationship in early 2015. \"Now I know he was a classic abuser,\" she says.\n\nShe describes being humiliated in front of her friends and psychological attacks that undermined her confidence. \"He would say that it was my awful character that had killed my husband, and that I was ugly.\"\n\nThe psychological abuse became so bad at times that she called the police four times during the 18-month relationship. But she was told that she could only get help and protection if she formally reported her partner for an offence.\n\nEventually she ended the relationship in September 2016 when she caught him chatting with other women online. But, she says, he would not accept it.\n\n\"He kept calling, sending WhatsApp messages and SMS, some of which tried to be loving and others threatening, saying: 'I am coming to see you; you'd better be nice.' He used to spend hours outside my house, with me inside with the lights off and the blinds pulled down.\"\n\nOne night in mid-November, Ana relented and let her former partner in after he had been kicking at the door.\n\n\"He said he wanted to talk and would leave afterwards. I heard him out and said nothing had changed for me. I got him as far as the doorway and he struck me across the face with his hand.\"\n\nWhen she came to, Ana took the step of calling the police. But her problems got worse.\n\nAt a preliminary hearing the day after the assault she was given a seat close to her former partner who, she says, tried to intimidate her.\n\nA social worker sent to visit her listened to her story and said they had both behaved like \"a pair of 15-year-olds\".\n\nMost of Edemm's bodyguards are women but it also employs men\n\nAna reckons she has had to repeat her version of events six times to the various legal and judicial authorities before the trial found her abuser guilty only of \"harassment\", for which he was sentenced to 20 days of community service.\n\nA six-month restraining order was imposed on him but Ana says it still has not been confirmed by the court bureaucracy and is therefore not effective.\n\n\"Luckily, I always have this woman I can call. Had I known her before, I wouldn't have spent so many nights stuck in my house while this man was prowling outside.\"\n\nAll names in this article have been changed to protect identities.\n• None Should a rapist be given a platform?", "Bruce Turner's mum Tina was diagnosed with depression in 1990 and was hospitalised many times throughout his childhood. Now, at 20 years old, he still struggles to understand her condition.\n\nIf you met my mum you would think she was the life and soul of the party. She's confident, full of energy and charisma, but she lives with depression and when it hits she is none of those things.\n\nIn those times she becomes scared and fragile, sees the worst in situations, and her ability to love and show compassion is taken away. She'll shut herself off from the world and won't get out of bed or speak to anyone for weeks.\n\nIt strips her of emotion - so if someone knocked on the door and told her she had won the lottery or her children had died in a car crash, her reaction would be the same.\n\nI've been surrounded by mental illness my entire life and, though I still live at home with my parents in Wilmslow near Manchester, I still can't get my head around it.\n\nThe first time mum's depression affected me was when I was about nine, but it was hidden quite well from me, my twin sister Millie and my younger brother, Jake.\n\nMum was admitted to hospital. Dad told us she was poorly but we didn't understand what was happening. He cried, which was a real shock, and when she returned he told us to be quiet around the house.\n\nShe looked and acted differently. Normally mum was very glamorous but she became a shadow of herself, she stayed in her bedroom and was always in night-wear. Mum has since told me it took all her willpower to even go to the toilet back then.\n\nIt was a shock to see her so vacant and she was scared of the people she loved the most. When her three children were laughing, it would send her into a panic and sleep became the only time the demons disappeared. She often hoped she wouldn't wake up.\n\nAs children we went to youth club every Friday. Mum would never take us because she wasn't \"well\" so we would always go with friends.\n\nOne Friday night, after she was discharged from hospital, she came to pick us up. It was amazing. I looked at her and thought she was back to normal again, but it was only the beginning of her recovery.\n\nShe says she dreaded doing the pick-up and it took a huge amount of courage that night.\n\nAs we grew up our grandparents kept family life as normal as possible. Millie now plays football for England and Bristol City WFC and my younger brother, Jake, 18, is a goalkeeper for Bolton Wanderers.\n\nDespite everything, they never missed a training session. Mum has said if she thought her illness had affected us in any way it would have made her battle worse.\n\nMum has long periods of wellness but, when I was 16, the depression returned and I found it harder to cope with.\n\nThis time I knew what was coming but the more I understood, the more I worried, and I was fearful that other people wouldn't understand.\n\nI put a brave face on at school and whenever anyone asked I would say mum was \"fine\" or cover the truth by saying she had a physical illness.\n\nAt that age I found it hard to understand the situation and I was angry. She was admitted to hospital again and again and there was something about not being able to see anything physically wrong with her that made me question whether it was really there at all.\n\nI thought: \"What has mum got to be depressed about? She lives in a nice house with a nice family and is financially stable.\" I didn't understand how \"being sad\" could be an illness and would make flippant remarks about how she should just \"pull herself together\".\n\nThe triggers for mum's depression are difficult to understand. She lost a few close family members which she thinks affected her, but she also says one major episode came after watching the film Ray, about the blind rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. It sounds surprising that she could be affected by a film like this, but she said it broke her heart and tipped her over the edge.\n\nThe pain caused by depression within a family is tremendous, but it's brought us closer.\n\nIt has made me appreciate every opportunity I receive, although I also live with the constant worry of when or if she'll have another episode.\n\nMum, who's 49, is currently well and we hope it remains that way for as long as possible, but the dread of its return never goes away.\n\nThe rapid disappearance of the person you love can be painful and frustrating. It's the fact they are facing the darkest battle and there is nothing you can do.\n\nI think the stigma surrounding mental health needs to be improved and it should be considered like any physical illness. Ignorance can't be acceptable for an illness where suicide could be the ultimate trauma.\n\nIf depression affects someone you should surround them with love, appreciate the struggle and be there for them. Send them a \"get well soon\" card to let them know you're thinking about them.\n\nAfter 20 years of living alongside mum's battle, I still don't completely understand depression, but I'm getting there.\n\nFor more Disability News, follow on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast.", "A recent court case in Nigeria has highlighted concerns that locally made soft drinks may be considered unsafe for human consumption elsewhere, as Ijeoma Ndukwe explains.\n\nThere has been uproar in Nigeria after it emerged that the company that manufactures Fanta and Sprite, the Nigeria Bottling Company (NBC), has been ordered by a court to place warning labels on its products, stating that they are unsafe when consumed alongside vitamin C.\n\nThe drinks are said by critics to contain high levels of the preservative benzoic acid and the colouring sunset yellow.\n\nThe case has caused deepening concern in a country where Fanta, Sprite and Coca-Cola are probably the most widely consumed soft drinks.\n\nBarbara Ukpabi owns a grill restaurant which serves local food in Oniru, Lagos. She says she might stop buying Fanta and Sprite for the restaurant and also has concerns about giving the drinks to her children.\n\n\"I was thinking of reducing how much I drink of it. I'll be thinking of drinking less of it or going to other substitutes like juice.\"\n\nAlthough like many Nigerians, the habit is hard to break.\n\n\"I just had my lunch and I had Coke and water.\"\n\nSecurity guard John Uloko didn't see the reports about the soft drinks in the newspapers but heard about it via WhatsApp and hasn't drunk any since.\n\nThe ruling was the result of a nine-year-long court battle initiated by Nigerian businessman Fijabi Adebo.\n\nIn 2007, Mr Adebo shipped Nigerian-made Fanta and Sprite to the UK to sell at his chain of shops in Manchester.\n\nHis shipment was confiscated by UK customs, originally because of concerns about the authenticity of the beverages.\n\nBut when the UK health authorities tested the products, they were declared unsafe for human consumption and destroyed.\n\nMr Adebo sued NBC, Coca-Cola's franchise owner in Nigeria, which had sold him the products.\n\nThey had refused to take financial responsibility for the incident.\n\nHe later extended the case to include the food standards agency Nafdac, on the grounds that it had allegedly not performed its duty.\n\nLast month - nearly 10 years after he filed his case - a Lagos high court ruled against Nafdac and ordered the Nigerian Bottling Company to place written warnings on its Fanta and Sprite bottles.As NBC is appealing, the labels have not yet been added to the bottles.\n\nMr Adebo told the BBC: \"Initially they were flexing their muscles, which dragged [out] the process. I went to court to compel Nafdac to do its duty.\n\nThe warnings have not yet appeared as the ruling is being challenged\n\n\"We shouldn't have a product that is considered substandard in Europe.\"\n\nHis viewpoint is echoed by many, angered that products considered unsafe for consumption in the UK are legal in Nigeria.\n\nThe case has prompted discussions about accepted standards in the country.\n\nAlthough benzoic acid is widely used as an antibacterial and antifungal preservative in acidic foods and beverages to extend their shelf life, studies have shown that the chemical can cause health problems in certain circumstances.\n\nA scientist based in Nigeria, who has dealings with Nafdac and asked to remain anonymous, says some human toxicity studies have shown that benzoic acid may react with ascorbic acid (vitamin C) in soft drinks, forming benzene.\n\n\"While benzoic acid itself is relatively non-toxic, when benzene is formed in the presence of ascorbic acid in foods it is particularly dangerous, as benzene is widely known to be toxic and linked to many forms of cancer. These include leukaemia and other cancers of the blood,\" the scientist said.\n\nThe secretary-general of the Nigerian Medical Association says it is impossible to make a judgement about acceptable levels of benzoic acid without conducting a local study looking at health implications over a long period of time.\n\nSoft drinks may need more preservative in hotter countries\n\nDr Yusuf Sununu Tanko says there are a number of examples where evaluations are different between countries because of differences in physical constitution, diet and environment.\n\n\"Each country has its own acceptable value of what is considered normal for what is fit for human consumption,\" he says.\n\nNigeria's health ministry published a statement in response to the public outcry, reassuring Nigerians that the drinks are safe for human consumption.\n\nHowever, the ministry advises that medicines are taken with water to help \"prevent unexpected drug-food interactions\".\n\nAlthough the government has not spoken of enforcement, it \"encourages\" all bottling companies to include advisory warnings on all relevant products.\n\nThe Nigerian Bottling Company has appealed against the court ruling. It says the levels of benzoic acid in its soft drinks are \"well within the levels approved\" by both the national regulator and Codex Alimentarius, an international food standards body.\n\nThe company also says the ingredient levels set by countries for their food and beverages are influenced by factors such as climate, with drinks in hotter countries needing higher levels of preservative.\n\nIt also says there was \"no proven case of negligence\" or finding that the company had breached its duty of care to consumers.\n\nThe government's Consumer Protection Council has formally requested documents from the Nigerian Bottling Company ahead of an independent inquiry.\n\nWith an appeal in motion and a government inquiry under way, this case is far from over.\n• None Can Nigeria clean up its dirty air?", "The tagua seed reaches 9cm (3.5 inches) in length, and can be carved like ivory\n\nOnno Heerma van Voss jokes that he never intended to be a conservationist, but he is helping to save the African elephant.\n\nNumbers of elephants in the wild are still falling; it's estimated 100 of them are killed by poachers every day for their tusks to meet the continuing demand for ivory.\n\nThere are now only around 415,000 African elephants across the continent, down from as many as five million a century ago, according to global campaign group WWF (formerly known as the World Wide Fund for Nature).\n\nWhile the worldwide sale of new ivory was outlawed in 1989, the animals are still being slaughtered to fuel an illegal trade led by continuing demand in China.\n\nSo what exactly is Mr Heerma van Voss, a 48-year-old Dutchman, doing to help protect the African elephant? He sells seeds.\n\nOnno Heerma van Voss had never heard of tagua before he moved to Ecuador\n\nYes, you read that correctly, but these aren't any old seeds, they are instead rather special ones from South America called tagua.\n\nThey are the off-white coloured seeds of six species of palm trees. They can reach up to 9cm (3.5 inches) in length and when dried become very hard indeed. So hard in fact that they are also known as \"vegetable ivory\".\n\nAnd like ivory, tagua can be polished and carved, and turned into ornate carvings or jewellery.\n\nFrom his base in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, Mr Heerma van Voss's company Naya Nayon has been exporting tagua for 16 years, and he says that sales are booming.\n\nTagua has a very similar feel to ivory, but is a fraction of the price\n\nHe now sells to 70 countries, including China, Japan and Singapore, as tagua grows in popularity as an alternative to ivory.\n\nAnd with China pledging to end its domestic trade in elephant tusks by the end of this year, Mr van Voss is hopeful that demand is going to jump even further.\n\nUsing tagua as a substitute for ivory is nothing new. Indeed exports to Europe began in the 19th Century in order to meet the demand for an ivory-like raw material. This was used to produce ornamental items such as buttons, chess pieces, and decorative handles for canes.\n\nIn fact, the scientific name for the six species of palm trees that produce tagua is Phytelephas, which means elephant plant, a nod to the ivory-like quality of the seeds.\n\nThe white flesh of the tagua seed becomes exceptionally hard once it dried\n\nHowever, tagua fell into obscurity, so much so that Mr Heerma van Voss had never heard of it when he first visited Ecuador in 2000.\n\nVery much liking the country he decided to stay and set up a business, launching Naya Nayon to make and export wooden furniture. Then a year later he had a phone call.\n\n\"In the beginning of 2001, a France-based British lady contacted me if I could supply hand carved tagua figurines,\" he says.\n\nThe seeds are harvested from six species of palm trees\n\n\"Anyhow, you listen to clients to make a company work. So I did it, and I started to like the tagua and slowly it took off.\n\n\"I always joke that I am a forced ecologist, but I actually really like this product.\"\n\nTagua seeds - which have a brown outer husk - can be dried in the air, or in an oven\n\nMr Heerma van Voss now sells $200,000 (£160,000) worth of tagua per year that he buys from farmers. He and his four members of staff dry and slice the seeds ready to be turned into jewellery, with France being his largest market.\n\nThe sliced tagua typically retails for $30 a kg, while the raw seeds sell for $6 a kg. By contrast, a kilogramme of ivory is worth as much as $1,100 in China.\n\nWhile Mr Heerma van Voss is preparing for a big upturn in exports to China, tagua does face two hurdles in the country.\n\nThe seeds can be dyed into any colour required by a jeweller\n\nFirstly, even the longest tagua seeds are much shorter than the average elephant tusk, which limits the size of the ornaments that can be made from the material. And secondly, it lacks ivory's exclusivity.\n\nHongxiang Huang, a Chinese journalist and anti-ivory campaigner, explains: \"As people become wealthier they want to buy luxury items, and ivory is one of the many things that people desire. This is the situation in China.\"\n\nFor buyers wanting an alternative to elephant ivory that still comes from a mammal but is ethically sourced, the answer comes from under the frozen Siberian tundra in the north east of Russia.\n\nIt may sound bizarre, but the tusks from woolly mammoths that died tens of thousands of years ago are mined on a regular basis. While official figures are not available, an estimated 60 tonnes of mammoth ivory is harvested each year.\n\nMammoth tusks can be used as a substitute for elephant ivory\n\nMammoth ivory sold for an average $350 a kg in 2014, according to the charity Save the Elephants. This is about a third of the price of elephant ivory, but giant mammoth tusks in good condition can fetch far more.\n\nJohn Frederick Walker, an expert on ivory, says: \"Master carvers tend to prefer elephant ivory because fresh elephant ivory is easier to carve.\n\n\"But in fact, you can make wonderful things from mammoth ivory.\"\n\nYet with tagua far easier to get hold of than mammoth ivory, and considerably cheaper, it is the South American seeds that is increasingly being used by jewellers, and not the Siberian tusks.\n\nDemand for tagua in China is expected to rise after the ivory ban comes into place\n\nMarion Andron is co-owner of French jewellers Nodova, which sold more than 300,000 euros ($320,000; £256,000) of tagua jewellery last year.\n\nMs Andron, 27, travels to Ecuador twice a year to oversee the production of the tagua that is done by seven local women at a cooperative.\n\nWhile Nodova's largest markets are France and the UK, it sells to stores across Asia and Ms Andron says that the forthcoming blanket ban on ivory sales in China offers a huge opportunity.\n\n\"I think tagua has helped diminish the demand for animal ivory, and I honestly don't think someone today can be ignorant about the slaughter of elephants with all the media coverage,\" she says.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland used to be \"like a rugby\" team but have a brighter future because they \"play more football now\", says former Germany forward Lukas Podolski.\n\nPodolski, 31, retired from international duty after his stunning strike helped Germany beat England 1-0 in Wednesday's friendly in Dortmund.\n\nUnder boss Gareth Southgate, England used a three-man defence for the first time since a loss to Croatia in 2006.\n\n\"They have a good team, a good manager,\" said Podolski.\n\n\"Before it was a like a rugby style, now they have good guys, good characters - they were physical but they play more football now.\n\n\"When they go to a tournament they are always nervous, they always play too much under pressure [but] I will be watching England at the [2018] World Cup.\"\n\nA 3-4-2-1 formation also saw Dele Alli impress in a more attacking role along with Adam Lallana, who said the 20-year-old Tottenham midfielder could be a \"special\" player for England in future.\n\n\"I love the way he goes about his business - no fear, he's brave,\" said Liverpool midfielder Lallana. \"He is unique and a special talent.\n\n\"But people still need to be patient with him. He is still a young boy and performing how he does is way above his years - it's important we don't get carried away.\"\n• None Listen: Why Spurs had to sign Alli - Pleat\n\nGalatasaray striker Podolski was given a presentation, delivered a speech and received a standing ovation after being substituted on his 130th and final appearance for Germany.\n\n\"It's like a movie. Of course, it was the perfect end,\" said the former Arsenal player.\n\nPodolski believes England captain Wayne Rooney deserves a similar send-off for his last international match.\n\nRooney, who is England's all-time record scorer with 53 goals in 119 caps, has previously stated his intention is to retire after the 2018 World Cup in Russia.\n\nThe 31-year-old Manchester United striker was left out of Southgate's squad for Wednesday's friendly and Sunday's World Cup qualifier against Lithuania as he recovers from a leg injury, coupled with a lack of recent playing time for his club.\n\n\"I don't know if it's traditional in England to give someone a farewell game, but when I am England boss or the president I will say: 'Wayne, next week you've got a game,'\" said Podolski.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has expressed her concern for those caught up in the terrorist attack at Westminster.\n\nShe spoke of a \"sense of solidarity\" felt in Scotland for people in London.\n\nFour people have died after a car was driven at pedestrians near the UK parliament before the occupant jumped out and stabbed a police officer.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament suspended a debate on an independence referendum following the attack.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"My thoughts, as I'm sure the thoughts of everybody in Scotland tonight, are with people caught up in this dreadful event.\n\n\"My condolences in particular go to those who've lost loved ones.\n\n\"My thoughts are with those who've sustained injuries and we all feel a sense of solidarity with the people of London tonight.\"\n\nShe said Scotland would consider whether there were any wider lessons for public safety.\n\nThe first minister added: \"I convened a meeting of the Scottish Government's Resilience Committee to review what is currently known about the incident at Westminster and also to review any implications for Scotland.\n\n\"(But) it is important to stress that there is no intelligence of any risk to Scotland.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ken Macintosh: \"The fact that our sister parliament has had a serious incident is affecting this particular debate.\"\n\nThe Scottish Parliament had been close to concluding its debate on a call for a referendum on Scottish independence when Presiding Officer Ken Macintosh announced that the sitting would be suspended.\n\nHe said the incident in London was affecting the contributions of MSPs, and that the debate would resume at another time.\n\nA vote had been due to be held at 17:30, but politicians including Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson called for the session to be suspended.\n\nThe London attack is currently being treated as a terrorist incident\n\nPoliticians and staff immediately left the chamber once the debate had been suspended\n\nParliament officials initially ruled that the debate should continue as planned, before Mr Macintosh decided that it should be halted.\n\nThe presiding officer said: \"The fact that our sister parliament has had a serious incident is affecting this particular debate, and is affecting the contribution of members. And so it is for that reason we are deciding to suspend the sitting.\n\n\"We will resume this debate and we will be able to do so in a full and frank manner, but I think to continue at the moment would not allow members to make their contributions in the manner they wish to.\"\n\nThe debate is expected to continue next week, with a decision due to be made on Thursday morning.\n\nConservative MSP Fin Carson tweeted ahead of the presiding officer's ruling that he had left the parliament chamber, saying: \"I can't understand how this debate can go on. At least a suspension would have shown some respect.\"\n\nHowever, some politicians were unhappy about the decision to suspend the debate.\n\nLiberal Democrat MSP Mike Rumbles was among those to argue it was a \"mistake\", telling BBC Scotland that had huge sympathy for those affected by the attack, but that: \"We should not be giving in to terrorism, and I believe we've done that\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham was also unhappy with the decision - but was later said to agree entirely after learning the full details of the London attack.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon had been expected to win the backing of a majority of MSPs for her plan to ask the UK government for a section 30 order, which would be needed to hold a legally-binding referendum on independence.\n\nThe UK government has already said it will block the move, and will not enter into any negotiations until after the Brexit process has been completed.\n\nSecurity has been increased around the parliament building\n\nSeveral MSPs called for the debate to be suspended out of respect for those affected - but some argued it was \"giving in to terrorism\"\n\nAn increased police presence could be seen in and around the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nAn email to MSPs, staff and Holyrood pass-holders from the Scottish Parliament chief executive's office said: \"While there is no intelligence to suggest there is a specific threat to Scotland, Edinburgh or Holyrood, we have increased security with immediate effect at the Scottish Parliament as a precaution.\"\n\nPolice vehicles were seen outside the parliament building, with a spokesman for Police Scotland saying the force was \"liaising with colleagues in London and will ensure appropriate safety and security plans are in place based upon what we know\".", "Gareth Southgate's first game as permanent England manager, following a four-game spell in interim charge, ended in defeat - but it was a loss with honour here in Germany.\n\nThe 46-year-old is charged with shaping the new era that was meant to be Sam Allardyce's province, but which ended after one World Cup qualifying win in Slovakia when the now Crystal Palace manager was caught in a newspaper sting.\n\nSouthgate ended his run in temporary charge undefeated, but this was the start of the serious business as he prepares his plans to take England to the World Cup in Russia next year.\n\nSo what can be taken from the 1-0 loss in Dortmund's magnificent Signal Iduna Park before Sunday's World Cup qualifier against Lithuania at Wembley?\n\nSouthgate has cut an impressive figure in his early days as England manager, and certainly here in Germany. He was calm and measured throughout, firm in what he demanded in his pre-match media briefing in Essen and cautiously optimistic post-match in Dortmund.\n\nHis insistence England must \"get off the island\" in a football context struck a chord, and it is clear he wants to embrace tactical flexibility and the factors that have made so-called rivals so much more successful.\n\nHe experimented with a three-man defensive system England last used in defeat by Croatia in October 2006, a 2-0 loss that exposed the first cracks in the Steve McClaren regime.\n\nSouthgate chanced his arm in circumstances that suited experimentation - this was effectively a testimonial for Germany striker Lukas Podolski, who scored the winner on a night when he was lavishly feted before, during and after (seemingly endlessly) by the home fans.\n\nAnd, while placing it in this context, it worked well enough and integrated the excellent Michael Keane to such an extent it certainly gave Southgate food for thought.\n\nTo add extra lustre to this new era of open, non-island thought from Southgate and the Football Association, it was announced before kick-off that a memorandum of understanding has been signed with the DFB, German football's governing body, to share ideas about coaching, youth development and administration.\n\nIt was signed by FA chairman Greg Clarke and chief executive Martin Glenn in Dortmund and will run for two years, with DFB president Reinhard Grindel saying: \"Both parties have a tremendous amount of expertise and it only makes sense to connect and share this knowledge.\"\n\nCynics may suggest World Cup holders Germany's record of regular success, consistent excellence and history of developing world-class young players makes this potentially a very one-sided arrangement.\n\nWhat is does mean is the FA and Southgate flew out of Germany with tangible evidence of the determination to embrace a wider culture and a performance that at least illustrated the new manager's willingness to carry it through.\n\nAnd so he would, say those used to the years of under-achievement, unfulfilled promise and now the acceptance of England as a strictly second-tier football power following the embarrassment of defeat by Iceland in the last 16 at Euro 2016 that led to Roy Hodgson's resignation as manager.\n\nThe debacle of Allardyce's 67-day reign only increased the feeling that England, as a football nation, was born under a bad sign.\n\nSouthgate has to start somewhere and, even though this was his first defeat, he was well within his rights to suggest there were at least some shoots of recovery.\n\nHe proved he is prepared to extend his net beyond the established order with the selection of Burnley's Keane, who did so well in testing circumstances, and West Bromwich Albion's Jake Livermore, who may not have been as eye-catching but did himself no harm.\n\nEngland's performance must be framed by the fact they were playing a second-string Germany who were effectively staging a testimonial for Podolski and rarely went through the gears - but it was still a display laced with promise.\n\nTottenham midfielder Dele Alli confirmed he has all the tools to be an international player while Liverpool's Adam Lallana demonstrated the energy and creation that now makes him an automatic choice for England.\n\nYes, England lost, but there was enough to suggest Southgate and his players deserved a break from negative reflection on this 90 minutes.\n\nAnd the positives don't end there...\n\nEngland were missing key players who will improve them, and give Southgate even further room for optimism.\n\nTottenham striker Harry Kane was a very obvious absentee from the squad to face Germany and Lithuania, perhaps more significantly than England's all-time record goalscorer Wayne Rooney, with the sense growing that the Manchester United man's international career is more or less over.\n\nKane, sidelined with an ankle injury, has 19 Premier League goals this season and, while he has had a dip in form at international level, the 23-year-old has the quality to be a centrepiece for Southgate for years to come.\n\nLiverpool captain Jordan Henderson will add his growing authority to midfield when fit, while Tottenham's Danny Rose has matured at left-back.\n\nElsewhere, Manchester United teenager Marcus Rashford, who featured briefly in Dortmund, is a shining light for the future in attack while Southampton's James Ward-Prowse and Nathan Redmond got a taste of the action on their debuts on Wednesday.\n\nJohn Stones only emerged in the final seconds but most shrewd judges see the Manchester City defender, still only 22, as a fixture in England's defence for years to come.\n\nEverton's Ross Barkley is in the form of his life at 23 after some big-stick cajoling from manager Ronald Koeman, and even 22-year-old Raheem Sterling's fiercest critics accept he is improving under Pep Guardiola at Manchester City.\n\nIt is the hope that has made life such a misery for England before - but Southgate was right to fly out of Dortmund in optimistic mood.\n\nWill Rooney get the Podolski treatment?\n\nPodolski scored his 49th goal for Germany, in his 130th and last appearance. This whole night was dedicated to this hugely popular and fun-loving 31-year-old.\n\nHe gave a speech before the game that delayed the kick-off as a mosaic was formed in his honour at one end of the ground and, after scoring the winner, he departed to a standing ovation and the music from Gladiator.\n\nAt the final whistle, he was joined by his Germany team-mates in a celebration of his career before embarking on a lap of honour that seemed to end when only stewards and those others in place to keep order were left.\n\nPodolski's farewell was loud, long, heartfelt and a tribute to a player who served his country so well, including in Germany's World Cup win in 2014.\n\nIt was brilliantly stage-managed to pay full tribute - so will Rooney get something along similar lines from the FA and England?\n\nHis England career may yet be over. Who knows? But, if he comes back, can he expect the Podolski treatment?\n\nAfter all, Manchester United's all-time record goalscorer has a better record than Podolski. He is also 31, and his 53 goals in 119 games for England mean he has eclipsed the great Sir Bobby Charlton for club and country.\n\nRooney, out injured, was restricted to sending a \"good luck\" message to his England colleagues, and he has been given no guarantees by Southgate either as player or captain.\n\nGermany and the DFB gave Podolski the most spectacular send-off, and he left the field to a prolonged standing ovation.\n\nBut will Rooney get the same treatment, or even the chance to say goodbye, after an England career that stretches back to his debut against Australia aged just 17 years and 111 days?", "Last updated on .From the section English Rugby\n\nEngland will not face New Zealand this year after a game between the All Blacks and the Barbarians at Twickenham on 4 November was confirmed.\n\nThe Rugby Football Union (RFU) was understood to be interested in a fixture between the world's top two sides before the end of the year.\n\nHowever, England and New Zealand will not now meet until autumn 2018.\n\nThe Baa-Baas match against New Zealand replaces one previously announced against Australia.\n\n\"The entire Barbarians Committee would like to thank the RFU for approving this fixture against New Zealand,\" said John Spencer, chairman of the Barbarians.\n\n\"For the record, and contrary to some recent media reports, the Barbarians have a strong and very collaborative relationship with the RFU, and any suggestion that the RFU has not acted correctly in any part of the discussions around staging this fixture is unfair and wrong.\"\n\nThe Barbarians are next in action against England at Twickenham on Sunday, 28 May, before returning to Belfast's Kingspan Stadium to play Ulster on Thursday, 1 June.\n\nEngland's record of 18 consecutive wins, equalling New Zealand's record total, came to an end at the weekend in the final Six Nations match against Ireland in Dublin.", "Owen Lambert said he was \"battered and bruised, but doing fine\"\n\nFour students from a Lancashire university were among the 40 people injured in the Westminster attack.\n\nEdge Hill University students Owen Lambert and Travis Frain, were hit as a car drove along the pavement on Westminster Bridge as the attack began.\n\nMr Frain is having surgery to his leg, the university said.\n\nUniversity Pro Vice Chancellor Lynda Brady said of the remaining 12 students, three were back home and nine others were returning.\n\nThey were part of a group of 13 students - with a lecturer - on a visit to the Houses of Parliament.\n\nMr Lambert, 18, from Morecambe, is understood to have required stitches to a head wound. Two other students needed treatment for lesser injuries.\n\nQuoted in the Lancaster Guardian, Mr Lambert said he was \"battered and bruised, but doing fine\".\n\nHe also thanked police and hospital staff \"for helping me through this ordeal\".\n\nThe students are studying at Edge Hill University on Ormskirk\n\nDr John Cater, vice chancellor of the university, told BBC North West Tonight the students were on the first day of a two-day visit to London. They had been inside the House of Commons watching Prime Minister's Questions two hours before the attack.\n\nHe added: \"Our assumption is that they were either knocked over by other people or struck by the vehicle.\n\n\"Obviously all of them will be somewhat traumatised by what they have seen.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Of the main players in the Inspector Morse stories by Colin Dexter, one remains - the city of Oxford. The character died in The Remorseful Day, published in 1999. John Thaw, the actor synonymous with the role of the curmudgeonly detective, died in 2002. And Dexter himself died earlier this week.\n\nAs the Lord Mayor of Oxford once said: \"In his novels Colin Dexter has shown our city as having a distinct and separate identity from its famous university.\"\n\nThe \"dreaming spires\" and attendant well-to-do academics and eccentrics were important factors in the books, but so were the lanes round the city centre, the arterial Iffley and Cowley roads, the north Oxford suburbs of Jericho and Summertown, and the railway station.\n\nDexter himself was well aware of the city's allure for readers and viewers. When the first episode of the television series was broadcast in 1987, he said: \"The huge value for me as a writer is that, even if people haven't been to Oxford, they would love to be in the city.\n\n\"I think if the story had been set in Rotherham or Rochdale no-one would be particularly interested to see the streets and side streets, but so many people outside Oxford are delighted to see the High Street, St Giles and the colleges.\"\n\nJohn Thaw, who played Inspector Morse in the television adaptation, pictured with Colin Dexter in 1999\n\nThe Randolph Hotel featured prominently in both Dexter's and Morse's lives. Morse was often to be found pondering cases while enjoying a real ale or red wine there, while Dexter's favoured drink in later life - he gave up alcohol for medical reasons - was tonic water.\n\nStaff at the hotel said the writer would often visit various rooms around the hotel to help him get details for a storyline.\n\n\"He continued to be a regular at the hotel bar and was so loved by staff, that we renamed the bar after his most famous character - Morse. He was very much part of this hotel and we will miss seeing him perched at the end of the bar or reading a book by the fireside, sipping his drink.\"\n\nFamous haunts from the books and television series, such as the Ashmolean museum and the Bodleian library, have expressed sorrow at his death. But, perhaps more significantly, so have lesser-known Oxford institutions, demonstrating Dexter was very much a man of the people - and a man of the real city.\n\nThe writer shared his hero's affection for good beer, classical music and cryptic crossword puzzles, but by all accounts lacked his spiky nature.\n\nAlcock's Butcher and Fishmonger in the Summertown area has a blackboard outside saying \"Mr Dexter, you will be sadly missed\".\n\nPaul England from the shop said: \"He was a lovely guy. Always used to see him early in the morning.\n\n\"He used to walk down and get his paper and then he always used to come in for a pork pie and a chat. He used to tell us some good stories and jokes, which I think we'll always remember. We just knew him as Mr Dexter who bought his pork pie from the butcher.\"\n\nColin Dexter was often to be found enjoying a drink at the Randolph Hotel in Oxford - as was Inspector Morse\n\nChristiane Fagan fondly remembers him \"sitting quietly in the The Dew Drop Inn in Summertown. Such a lovely man\", while Carol Maling remembers chatting to him on a bench outside the old Radcliffe infirmary when he was waiting for his wife Dorothy to finish work.\n\n\"We used to share biscuits and chocolate,\" Ms Maling said.\n\nAlthough he claimed to know very little about actual police procedure, Dexter was a welcome visitor at Oxford CID. Former police officer Dermot Norridge was a detective in the city between 1986 and 2003.\n\nHe said whenever he and his colleagues were investigating any incident related to one of the university colleges, they would say they were \"having a Morse moment\".\n\nMr Norridge claims the irascible character even had an influence on the sounds heard floating through the corridors of the police station: \"There were certain offices where the radio was retuned to Radio 3 or Classic FM. The officers involved may well have been aware of classical music before Morse, but I'm completely convinced this listening to it was down to the influence of the programme.\n\n\"I met Colin a few times - he used to come with the crew to the station, and once he was invited to our annual dinner to give a talk. If I had to sum up my memory of him, it would be 'a complete gentleman'\".\n\nSue Howlett remembers the author hopping on the bus from Summertown, and always saying hello, while Sue Parsons said she \"used to know him years ago when he would to come in to order stationery from Colegroves in Turl Street. Such a lovely man always having a laugh and a joke\".\n\nBob Price, the leader of Oxford Council, says the city will always feel the impact of Dexter's work: \"The television programmes, and the way they were filmed, made a huge difference. They really drew people to Oxford.\"\n\nIn his 13th - and final - book Dexter says:\n\n\"Morse had never enrolled in the itchy-footed regiment of adventurous souls, feeling little temptation to explore the remoter corners even of his native land; and this principally because he could imagine few if any places closer to his heart than Oxford - the city which, though not his natural mother, had for so many years performed the duties of a loving foster-parent.\"\n\nHe said of that paragraph: \"For 'Morse,' read me\".\n\nColin Dexter is not the only author to have a strong link with a specific city. Here are a few more literary locations and their fictional dwellers\n\nThe The Inspector Rebus novels are mostly based in and around Edinburgh and take in such landmarks as Arthur's Seat and Holyrood Palace, as well as Rebus' flat.\n\nThe novels are characterised by the stark and dark depiction of a city characterised by corruption, poverty, and organised crime. Rebus bends the rules and ignores his superiors while battling his own personal issues. But he does solve the mysteries.\n\nYou can explore the key locations online.\n\nJoyce once claimed of his book Ulysses that if Dublin \"suddenly disappeared from the Earth, it could be reconstructed from my book\".\n\nPublished in 1922, Ulysses focuses on the stream-of-consciousness wanderings through Dublin of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom. Ulysses has been summarised as: \"Man goes for a walk around Dublin. Nothing happens.\" The novel is seen by many as one of the most influential works of the 20th Century.\n\nThe Assembly Rooms are the setting for many of the evening balls depicted in social satire Northanger Abbey and melancholic love story Persuasion, while the Pump Rooms were the place to mingle with during the day to give off a fashionable air of importance.\n\nMilsom Street, Bond Street (now New Bond Street), George Street and Edgar Buildings are all mentioned in the books.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nGareth Southgate suffered his first defeat in charge of England as Lukas Podolski's spectacular second-half winner provided a fitting farewell to his Germany career in Dortmund.\n\nSouthgate had been undefeated in four games as interim manager following Sam Allardyce's abrupt departure from the England post after one match - and he will feel this loss in his first match in permanent control was harsh on his side after a creditable performance against the World Cup holders.\n\nAdam Lallana struck a post and Dele Alli saw a shot blocked at point-blank range by Germany keeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen in the first half as England were superior for spells.\n\nIt was almost inevitable, however, that former Arsenal striker Podolski, given a hero's reception before, during and after the game, made the decisive contribution with a rising left-foot drive from outside the area after 69 minutes that gave England keeper Joe Hart no chance.\n\nGermany's reshaped side had the same experimental appearance as England's but there was still plenty to satisfy manager Southgate in a losing cause.\n\nThe result will hurt because for a large portion of this game England were the more creative, threatening and energetic side.\n\nSouthgate, though, will reflect on a three-man defensive system that worked effectively - although it was not put to the test too often by a Germany team who rarely went through the gears.\n\nBurnley's Michael Keane made an assured debut, almost scoring in the opening minutes, and while the attacking system occasionally left Jamie Vardy isolated it did allow Alli and Lallana to flourish and advance into dangerous positions.\n\nEngland looked effective in possession and nothing that happened here will damage the confidence Southgate is looking to rebuild and put in place after his appointment as permanent successor to Allardyce.\n\nIt was a qualified satisfaction because this was nowhere near a full-strength or full throttle Germany.\n\nBut Southgate will still have plenty of plus points to take forward into Sunday's World Cup qualifier against Lithuania at Wembley.\n\nAlli shows his class - with one regret\n\nDele Alli gave a man-of-the-match performance when England beat Germany in a friendly in Berlin almost a year ago and this was another display that will have impressed the knowledgeable observers here at Signal Iduna Park.\n\nAlli showed some sublime touches in a system that suited him and brought the best out of his natural creative instincts, making chances and also acting as a goal threat as Southgate looks to find the new way forward for England.\n\nHe had been the game's best performer before he was replaced by Jesse Lingard with 20 minutes left - but he will have departed with one major regret from what was an otherwise excellent night's work.\n\nAlli was guilty of missing that great opportunity in the first half when he was played in by Vardy, who had earlier had a penalty appeal turned down.\n\nAlli only had Ter Stegen to beat but shot straight at the German keeper with a surprisingly poor finish for someone of his calibre.\n\nIt was a blemish on his efforts - but not enough to disguise the great talent that is at Southgate's disposal.\n\nThis friendly international carried the air of a testimonial for long periods - and in many ways it was as Germany striker Podolski bade farewell to the international stage.\n\nThe 31-year-old striker was ending his career after 130 caps, 49 goals and a World Cup win in 2014, a goodbye said in some style even apart from his spectacular final goal.\n\nPodolski was given a presentation and delivered a speech that delayed the kick-off by several minutes while Germany fans unveiled a celebratory mosaic to a hugely popular figure in this country.\n\nIt may well have accounted for the flat atmosphere in the first half and a German performance to match on a night that almost seemed more about paying tribute to one of their great sporting servants than learning lessons from playing England.\n\nThe match-winner exited the stage a few minutes before the end, accompanied by a standing ovation and dramatic music. This was a night dedicated to him.\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate on BBC Radio 5 live: \"We have to reflect on a very good performance - a new system that I felt worked well and allowed us to control possession of game but also create chances.\n\n\"They've scored a fairytale goal, but I've got to be proud of what the players have done.\n\n\"I thought we were the better side up until their winning goal. That was a good learning experience for our young players who made their debuts.\n\n\"All that was missing was the finish to get the winning goal I felt we deserved.\"\n\nGermany goalscorer Lukas Podolski: \"It was like in a movie, dear god gave me a strong left foot and I used it tonight.\n\n\"It was a great game, a great result and a great way to say goodbye. That gave me goosebumps to get a reception like that.\"\n\nGermany manager Joachim Low: \"It was noticeable that England were playing more intensely, much more vigorously in the tackle especially in the first half.\n\n\"It took us a while to get used to this and slowly but surely I think our players got used to our rhythm.\n\n\"I think it was a very good game in the end. It was good to play against opponents that really gave us a run for our money.\"\n\nBoth countries return to their World Cup qualifying campaigns on Sunday, when England host Lithuania and Germany are away to Azerbaijan.\n• None Offside, Germany. Mats Hummels tries a through ball, but André Schürrle is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Leroy Sané (Germany) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Emre Can.\n• None Attempt missed. Mats Hummels (Germany) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Toni Kroos with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. André Schürrle (Germany) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jonas Hector with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Thomas Müller (Germany) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Leroy Sané.\n• None Offside, Germany. Thomas Müller tries a through ball, but Leroy Sané is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nThe wait is almost over.\n\nOne hundred and 17 days after the curtain came down on the 2016 campaign at Abu Dhabi, Formula 1 is back as the new season gets under way in Australia this weekend.\n\nWith new rules and new era cars, it is a step into the unknown. Mercedes might be the favourites once again, but they could well have a real fight on their hands this time.\n• None Will changes make F1 better?\n• None What to look out for in 2017\n\nWhere are we?\n\nThere will always be excitement about the start of a new season - the anticipation, the element of the unknown and the hope that this one will be even better than the last - but there is something about having Melbourne as the setting for the opener that makes it even more special.\n\nWith the city's shiny skyscrapers on one side and sailboats and surfers at St Kilda beach on the other, the Albert Park circuit offers a unique setting, winding its way around a glistening lake in idyllic parkland.\n\nThere's a real buzz about the place as fans turn out in big numbers, eager to see the new cars first hand, and that buzz extends to the paddock as team personnel and media meet up, often for the first time since the end of the previous season.\n\nWhat are the main changes?\n\nThe cars are wider, more physically demanding to drive and much faster than last year, with lap times expected to drop by up to five seconds.\n\nBigger cars and extra downforce is, however, expected to make overtaking more difficult, with several drivers reporting after testing that it is difficult to follow another car closely.\n\nMore durable Pirelli tyres could also lead to more one-stop races.\n• None McLaren are the most successful constructor in the history of the Australian Grand Prix. They have 11 wins and 26 podiums.\n• None Their last podium was in 2014, when Kevin Magnussen finished second.\n• None The Australian Grand Prix has been won from pole position on nine occasions. The lowest position a driver has won the race from is 11th - Northern Ireland's Eddie Irvine achieving that in 1999 for Ferrari.\n• None The winner in Melbourne has gone on to win the drivers' championship 13 out of 21 times.\n\nHow to follow on the BBC\n\nBBC Sport will have live coverage of all the season's races on BBC Radio 5 live, BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, plus live online commentary on the BBC Sport website and mobile app - including audience interaction, expert analysis, debate, voting, features, interviews and video content.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nTeam Wiggins say they are \"surprised\" and \"disappointed\" after being excluded from next month's Tour de Yorkshire.\n\nThe team, founded by five-time Olympic champion Sir Bradley Wiggins to develop young British talent, was omitted from the race which runs from 28-30 April.\n\n\"It's very disappointing and it is very much a surprise,\" said the team's sports director Simon Cope.\n\nRace organisers said the event was oversubscribed and \"unfortunately someone had to miss out\".\n\nA total of 49 teams applied for 36 slots - 18 in the men's race and 18 in the women's.\n\nThe decision on who was included was made between Welcome to Yorkshire and cycling event organisers ASO, who jointly run the event.\n\nA Welcome to Yorkshire spokesman said that Team Wiggins were welcome to apply for any future editions of the race.\n\nBut Cope told Cycling Weekly that he believed the team, who are the only British third-tier UCI Continental outfit not included, could have made an impact in the race.\n\n\"Good or bad press at the moment, there's a percentage of the UK population who will be going to the race who want to see (Team) Wiggins there,\" he said.\n\n\"You would have thought that we would have got in, but the organisers have made their selection and that's it, we can't do anything about it. We will have to go and find another bike race to do.\"\n\nAn investigation by UK Anti-Doping is currently ongoing into allegations of wrongdoing in cycling involving Wiggins - who retired in December - and Team Sky.\n\nCope, who used to work for Team Sky, was questioned by MPs earlier this month about the contents of a medical package he delivered to Wiggins when he was racing at the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine in France.\n\nTeam Sky have admitted \"mistakes were made\" around how medical records relating to the package were kept but deny breaking anti-doping rules.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mobile phone footage by Monmouth MP David Davies captures the panic inside the Houses of Parliament\n\nA Welsh MP has told of hearing shots outside Parliament, following a terrorist attack which left five people dead and at least 40 injured.\n\nOne was a police officer who died after being stabbed, another was his alleged attacker who was shot by armed police.\n\nMonmouth MP David Davies told BBC Wales: \"The shots started, I was with other MPs, we immediately dropped to the floor and then hid behind pillars.\"\n\nIt came after a car crashed into several people on Westminster Bridge.\n\nScotland Yard confirmed there was a \"firearms incident\" on Westminster Bridge at 14:40 GMT on Wednesday following a car crash.\n\nAt least one woman is known to be among those killed, with many of the 40 injured being struck by a car on Westminster Bridge.\n\nThe police officer killed in the attack has been named by Scotland Yard as PC Keith Palmer.\n\nThe 48-year-old husband and father was stabbed by his attacker, who was then shot dead.\n\nActing Deputy Commissioner and head of counter terrorism at the Metropolitan Police, Mark Rowley said they believed the attacker was inspired by Islamist-related terrorism.\n\nHe also said police believe they know the identity of the man.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister was in Parliament at the time but had been taken back safely to Number 10.\n\nStaff inside Parliament were told to stay inside their offices as proceedings in the Commons were suspended and they were later evacuated to Westminster Abbey.\n\nMr Davies told BBC News he had been walking with fellow Conservative MP Grant Shapps at the time of the incident.\n\n\"We were in New Palace Yard. We heard a load of shouting - I thought it was protesters,\" he said.\n\n\"The next thing there was at least one shot, I think I looked around and thought 'that can't be for real, can it?'\n\n\"And then more shots - I can't remember exactly, but I shouted 'get down', or 'everyone get down on the floor'.\n\n\"People started moving backwards, I waited for the shots to stop.\n\n\"I was behind a pillar, and I just took a chance and ran back to Portcullis House - I just didn't know what was going on.\"\n\nWelsh Secretary Alun Cairns, who was in a meeting with the Prime Minister and cabinet members at the time of the incident, described it as a \"tragic attack at the heart of democracy\".\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers are with those who were tragically killed and injured and my undiluted gratitude goes to the police, house staff and emergency services for keeping us safe. I will be forever grateful,\" he added.\n\nMontgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies said MPs had been voting at the time of the incident, and there was a \"lockdown\" of Parliament as police checked the area.\n\n\"We're a bit shaken as the reality of the attack sets in,\" he said. \"My thoughts go out to anyone who's been injured.\"\n\nSeveral Welsh MPs used social media to let family, friends and colleagues know they were safe before MPs were allowed to leave Westminster Abbey at about 19:30 GMT.\n\nAmong them was Rhondda MP Chris Bryant, who paid tribute to security services saying they had done an \"amazing job\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Nothing will stop British democracy\" says Chris Bryant MP\n\n\"We're just constantly aware that people put themselves in harm's way to protect us and to protect our way of life,\" he said.\n\n\"My heart goes out to the people who have lost people.\n\n\"The idea that completely innocent individuals walking past - who have absolutely nothing to do with political life - might have lost their life is obviously very distressing.\"\n\nMr Bryant added he hoped Parliament would be open on Thursday.\n\n\"We need to be able to show that nothing will stop British democracy,\" he said.\n\nProceedings at the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff were suspended on Wednesday afternoon in the wake of the incidents, and following the suspension of proceedings in the House of Commons and the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe presence of armed officers around Welsh Assembly buildings and in the surrounding area has been increased as a precaution, presiding officer Elin Jones said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elin Jones suspended proceedings in light of the \"serious terrorist incident\" in London\n\nInterrupting a debate, Ms Jones said: \"We are aware of the disturbing events at Westminster.\n\n\"I have spoken to our security personnel here in the Senedd and we are taking appropriate steps.\n\n\"I will be keeping this matter under review as the business of the afternoon progresses.\n\n\"I'm sure all our thoughts are with our colleagues and all involved at Westminster at this very difficult time.\"\n\nFirst Minister Carwyn Jones tweeted: \"Disturbing images emerging from Westminster. This is a terrible attack at the heart of our democracy; thoughts are with all those affected.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police assistant chief constable Richard Lewis said additional security was being taken at key locations as a \"sensible precaution\".\n\nBut he said there was no intelligence of a specific threat to locations in south Wales.", "The roads around the Houses of Parliament are choked with traffic and tourists at the best of times but on Wednesday there is an extra buzz about the place for Prime Minister's Questions at midday.\n\nIt is the best day to see your MP, as they are nearly all in the building. Queues to get into Parliament start forming early in the morning. The protests in Parliament Square seem noisier and more colourful than normal.\n\nThings start to wind down after the main event but there is still a festive atmosphere in nearby pubs, as people from all parts of the UK - down in London for the day to lobby their MPs - swap stories and buy drinks.\n\nNow the wide roads leading in all directions to the Houses of Parliament are silent and empty, blocked off by police tape, following a deadly terror attack. The police cordon covers an area of a few square miles and keeps being extended.\n\n\"You are now in the de facto press pen,\" shouts a police officer as we are moved back further down a side road behind a more distant line of tape. \"I have to make this road sterile.\"\n\nThe incessant clattering of helicopters overhead and the occasional police siren have replaced the roar of traffic.\n\nForeign TV crews mill about at the police cordons, their mobile phones clamped to their ears as they explain to their editors why they can't get near the scene.\n\nA few locals chat to the reporters. The mood is calm and almost resigned.\n\n\"It was a matter of time I suppose,\" says one man. \"I'm old enough to remember the IRA days. I remember them saying 'we only have to get lucky once'.\"\n\nFather Giles Orton, a Church of England curate from Derbyshire, in London to shop for \"ecclesiastical supplies\", says he is \"just shocked and saddened\".\n\nBut he adds, we \"should be grateful\" that it had not been worse.\n\nConstantine, a 23-year-old student, says he was near Trafalgar Square when news of the attack broke.\n\n\"I saw the police start shutting everything off. I heard a lot of people talking. I have a cousin who works in Parliament and I live in Soho and I am a little worried about safety. Particularly LGBT safety which I am heavily involved with.\"\n\n\"I heard one man say 'this is why we need Donald Trump' which annoyed me,\" he adds.\n\nSome MPs were earlier evacuated from the Palace of Westminster to nearby New Scotland Yard and Westminster Abbey, while others had to remain in the Commons chamber.\n\nPupils from Westminster School, next door to the Abbey, were in high spirits after being sent home early, although others said they had been in a state of shock when news of the attack broke.\n\nSome of them wondered aloud why the school wasn't put on lock down like most of the other buildings in the area, including both House of Parliament and St Thomas's hospital on the other side of the Thames.\n\nA man from Merseyside, visiting his daughter, who is a teacher at the school, said he was in the National Gallery when she texted him about the attack.\n\n\"It happens in any big city now,\" he says, \"and any small city. I am not really surprised.\"\n\nOn Birdcage Walk, at the rear of Downing Street, civil servants were streaming out of imposing government offices after being sent home early; heads down, chatting to colleagues, refusing to chat to the media.\n\nThey trooped off towards Trafalgar Square in search of an alternative route home since Westminster Underground station was closed, melting into the crowds at Charing Cross and Embankment.\n\nBeyond the police cordons and the TV crews it felt like any other day.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nMcLaren have suffered a dire start to pre-season testing, with a second consecutive day hit by major problems with Honda's new engine.\n\nBelgian Stoffel Vandoorne completed only 40 laps - just 11 more than team-mate Fernando Alonso on Monday.\n\nWith a quarter of pre-season testing gone, McLaren have completed 69 slow laps. Mercedes have done more than 300.\n\nKimi Raikkonen's Ferrari was fastest on Tuesday, from Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes and Max Verstappen's Red Bull.\n\nVandoorne finished the day 10th fastest of 11 drivers and 4.6 seconds off the pace.\n• None Day two of pre-season testing as it happened\n\nHonda has introduced a new engine layout for this season, following the design philosophy used by Mercedes since the start of the turbo hybrid formula in 2014.\n\nHonda F1 engine boss Yusuke Hasegawa said at the launch of the McLaren car last Friday that he believed the Japanese company could match by the start of the season the power levels achieved by Mercedes at the end of 2016. Mercedes are understood to have made another step since then.\n\nBut the technology involved is complicated and Honda has so far not managed to make the engine work in the car.\n\nOn Monday, Alonso's problem was caused by a new oil-tank design that was not scavenging the oil effectively.\n\nVandoorne completed 29 laps on Tuesday morning before another engine problem kept him in the pits for several hours.\n\nHe returned to the track for the final hour but did just 11 laps. One was enough to move him off the bottom of the time sheets.\n\nHonda has not yet said what the problem was with the engine Vandoorne used on Tuesday.\n\n\"We would have liked to put in more laps,\" Vandoorne said. \"Hopefully overnight we can analyse what went wrong and come back with a reliable car tomorrow.\n\n\"This was my first day of testing, Fernando didn't get many laps in yesterday, so tomorrow and after tomorrow are going to be important days for us.\"\n\nWhile McLaren toiled, Mercedes and Ferrari continued their impressive starts to their 2017 campaigns at Spain's Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.\n\nHamilton was fastest in the morning, when he completed 66 laps - the length of the Spanish Grand Prix.\n\nTeam-mate Valtteri Bottas took over the car in the afternoon and completed the first full race-simulation run of the winter.\n\nBut it was Raikkonen who set the pace, with a lap in one minute 20.960 seconds - 0.023secs quicker than Hamilton.\n\nRaikkonen was using the 'soft' tyre when he set his lap and Hamilton the faster super-soft. But Hamilton lost 0.3secs in the last sector of the lap compared to his best time on the soft tyre, which suggests he could have gone faster.\n\nIt is in any case unwise to use headline lap times in testing as a guide to form as it is impossible to know the fuel loads of the cars, how hard the engines are being pushed or the specification they are running in.\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen was third fastest, ahead of the Haas of Kevin Magnussen.\n\nWilliams rookie Lance Stroll had a difficult start to his 2017 campaign, spinning at Turn Nine after just 12 laps.\n\nThe 18-year-old Canadian damaged the front wing and that ended his running for the day as Williams needed to send back to their factory in Oxfordshire for replacements, which will not arrive in Spain until Wednesday morning.\n\n\"It is unfortunate,\" he said. \"One front wing, a spin, a little winglet [damaged], but that is Formula 1. The car is very complex. There is not a lot of room for error.\n\n\"I'm just getting to grips with the car. A little spin. I drove back to the paddock. Sometimes these things happen, but no, not a dent in the confidence.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nBarcelona boss Luis Enrique will step down at the end of the season, saying he needs to \"rest\".\n\nThe 46-year-old, in his third season in charge of Barca, was speaking after their 6-1 win over Sporting Gijon.\n\nHe won the Champions League as part of the treble in his first year and led them to a domestic double last season.\n\nBut they are on the verge of elimination from the Champions League after losing 4-0 to Paris St-Germain in the last-16 first leg.\n• None 'Writing was on the wall for exhausted Enrique'\n• None 'Everton's Koeman could be Enrique successor at Barcelona'\n\n\"It is a difficult, measured and well thought-out decision and I think I have to be loyal to what I think,\" said Enrique, who will leave at the end of his contract this summer.\n\n\"I would like to thank the club for the confidence they have shown in me. It's been three unforgettable years.\n\n\"It's about how I live with my profession, with a never-ending quest for solutions and to improve my team. That means I have very little time to rest, very few hours to disconnect.\n\n\"I think it will be good for me at the end of the season, because I need to rest. That's the principle motive.\n\n\"The most important thing is we have three exciting months left in all three competitions. In one of them, we are in a difficult situation but if the stars align, we will have a chance to turn it around.\"\n\nBarca's win over Sporting took them to the top of La Liga, one point clear of Real Madrid, who have a game in hand. They face Alaves in the Copa del Rey final on 27 May.\n\nFormer Spain midfielder Enrique featured for Barcelona between 1996 and his retirement from playing in 2004.\n\nHe then coached their B team from 2008 to 2011, returning to the club as first-team boss after spells managing Roma and Celta Vigo.\n\n'Thank you for all he has done'\n\nFormer Barca coach Pep Guardiola paid tribute to his ex-Nou Camp team-mate.\n\n\"I have two reactions, as a supporter,\" Guardiola said after his Manchester City side's 5-1 FA Cup win over Huddersfield.\n\n\"I am sorry it is the club of my heart. I am so sad because we will miss the perfect trainer for Barcelona, from his personality and his character.\n\n\"His three years he played unbelievable football, with unbelievable players. I am like a fan with a membership of Barcelona. I can say thank you for all he has done in his three years at my club.\"\n\nClub president Josep Maria Bartomeu said: \"Luis Enrique has brought us great success and he can still bring us more. The players are motivated to do it.\n\n\"We accept Luis Enrique's decision. He has been a great coach. Now it is time to end his spell in the best possible way.\"\n\nAnalysis - Koeman or Laudrup for the job?\n\n\"This could be a good moment - it could be a stimulation for the team, a release. When we are watching Barcelona we are watching a team that is losing its essence. Luis Enrique is losing control of the team - the midfield especially. What remains of Pep Guardiola's team seems smaller and smaller every day.\n\n\"Barcelona is a big club and I'm not sure Enrique was a coach for many, many years. He's explosive. He expends a lot of energy.\n\n\"Jorge Sampaoli has brought something exceptional to Sevilla, but I don't think he is the appropriate man for the club because he doesn't know FC Barcelona. A Ronald Koeman or a Michael Laudrup would be more appropriate because they know the philosophy of the club.\"", "Huddersfield's Harry Bunn gives his side a surprise lead away against Manchester City in their FA Cup fifth-round replay.\n\nWatch all the best action from the FA Cup fifth round here.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "There is a quiet revolution happening in the NHS in England. It's under the radar and has been little commented on till now.\n\nDetails of the potentially radical changes will emerge at the end of March.\n\nThere is, apparently, no need for new legislation.\n\nIn effect, the controversial health reforms of 2012 will be bypassed in some parts of England.\n\nSimon Stevens, head of NHS England, will unveil his thinking in late March but he has given some clues to MPs on the Public Accounts Committee.\n\nHis aim in some areas is to abolish a fundamental feature of the structure of the NHS in England - what's known as the purchaser/provider split.\n\nHealth reforms by the Conservative government in the early 1990s created a divide between \"purchasers\", which have evolved into the current Clinical Commissioning Groups, and \"providers\", which are the hospitals and other trusts.\n\nPurchasers control budgets allocated by NHS England and commission care on behalf of their local patients. Providers deliver that care in return for a fee known as the tariff.\n\nThe theory was that the split would deliver value for money with purchasers shopping around for care provision.\n\nBut critics now say that there are tensions which impede an efficient use of resources.\n\nSimon Stevens has signalled the end of the purchaser-provider split\n\nHospitals, so they argue, are incentivised to get as many patients through their doors as they can to generate income. This pulls against moves to treat more people outside hospitals.\n\nMr Stevens wants to see local health economies run as single entities with no purchaser/provider split.\n\nThe pioneers will be the most successful Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs).\n\nThese plans have been put together in 44 areas of England involving health and social care chiefs trying to work out the best use of their joint resources in the face of rising patient demand.\n\nHalf a dozen, or possibly more STPs, which have already started evolving into management bodies, will be unveiled as the first of this new breed of health organisations, which will both set local health priorities and manage local services.\n\nJoined-up care will be the mantra. Crucially they will be given so called \"capitation\" budgets. This will be a set sum per person in that area, regardless of whether they need care or not.\n\nThis model is used in parts of other countries, including Valencia in Spain.\n\nTo use another piece of jargon, there are \"accountable care organisations\". A key feature is the built-in incentive to keep people out of hospitals.\n\nIf managers are receiving the same amount of money each year for every local resident whatever their state of health, so the theory goes, they will be more inclined to treat people away from hospitals where possible.\n\nThe Clinical Commissioning Groups, a key part of the structure set up by the then Health Secretary Andrew Lansley in 2012, will, in effect, be sidelined in these new local care models.\n\nDecision-making power on health spending, covering hospital and community care, will be concentrated in single organisations.\n\nThe leadership of NHS England, it seems, is confident these changes can be implemented within the existing legal parameters.\n\nNo big bang new legislation will be required. So the health service in parts of England will look very different from how the NHS works in others.\n\nThe idea is that the fastest ships in the convoy will lead the way and other areas can catch up when appropriate.\n\nMinisters, I am told, are ready to go along with this process as long as it can be shown to work effectively.\n\nThere are no ideological hang-ups in government, it seems, and pragmatic moves to make health and social care work better are the priority in Whitehall.\n\nWhat we don't know is how MPs will react when it becomes clear that such important changes are happening without full parliamentary debate.\n\nSome on the left of the health debate believe that accountable care organisations are a Trojan horse for privatisation.\n\nThey argue that the process will lead to further fragmentation of the NHS. There has already been opposition to the STP process, seen by some as a cover for cuts.\n\nIt may all sound rather technical and interesting only to policy wonks.\n\nBut this is potentially the biggest change of its kind in a quarter of a century. Watch this space at the end of March.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nFerrari impressed for the second day running at the first pre-season test in Barcelona, Spain.\n\nMercedes driver Valtteri Bottas set the pace with the fastest time of the week, but Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel was only 0.247 seconds behind on a slower tyre.\n\nBottas' time was set on the fastest ultra-soft tyre, Vettel's on the soft, which is two grades more durable.\n\nVettel was 0.155secs faster than Bottas managed on the same tyre. Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was third fastest.\n• None Day three of pre-season testing as it happened\n\nVettel's performance came after team-mate Kimi Raikkonen set the pace on Tuesday, again using a harder tyre than the one Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton used to be second fastest.\n\nIt is notoriously difficult to form an accurate indication of form from pre-season testing times, as it is impossible to know the specification each car is running in.\n\nFactors such as fuel load, engine mode, track conditions, time of day, car set-up and a myriad other variables all affect a car's performance.\n\nBut observers from rivals teams are impressed by Ferrari's performance and say that initial indications of the car's performance are good.\n\nThe car stopped on the straight with a few minutes of the day's running remaining.\n\nFour-time world champion Vettel said: \"Car feels better than last year but I think everyone is saying that.\n\n\"It is quite a bit faster due to the new regulations. Different car to drive, different tyres. It is a good combination.\n\n\"Everybody [at Ferrari] is pushing like crazy. We have had a good three days, did a decent amount of laps. We have a lot of stuff we know we need to improve.\n\n\"I didn't really pay much attention to what the others are doing. It is very difficult to read.\"\n\nRicciardo was 1.2secs behind Vettel, but Red Bull are known to be running their Renault engine in a detuned mode and to have a number of new aerodynamic parts scheduled to appear next week.\n\nBut Mercedes continued to run reliably and quickly and undoubtedly have more performance to come.\n\nHamilton took over the car in the afternoon and concentrated on a race run, ending the day with eighth quickest time.\n\nWilliams novice Lance Stroll continued his difficult start to his Formula 1 career with two off-track moments in one day to add to the crash he had on Tuesday.\n\nThe second, in which the 18-year-old Canadian hit the wall at Turn Six, ended the team's running for the day with 90 minutes still to go.\n\nIt was the second time in less than two days he had damaged the car and raises questions about how much running Williams will be able to do on the final day of the test on Thursday.\n\nThe team had to fly out a second front wing overnight for Stroll after he damaged the first on Tuesday and are likely to be facing a parts shortage.\n\nIt was a better day for McLaren in terms of reliability, with Fernando Alonso at least able to do some fairly consistent running after the team's first two days were hit by major reliability problems with the Honda engine.\n\nBut while the car was able to run and McLaren gain experience, it was painfully slow for a team with aspirations of winning races.\n\nAlonso's fastest time was 2.893secs slower than Bottas and his fastest time on the soft tyre was 3.374secs slower than Vettel's.\n\nAt this stage, McLaren appear as if they might be the slowest team of all.\n\nRacing director Eric Boullier said: \"We had many issues. I think none is obviously fundamental. All of them are fixable. I am not sure we know all of them yet.\n\n\"Today, finally, we can run, so have some other glitches, the usual ones you get on day one. But we have them on day three.\"\n\nHonda F1 chief Yusuke Hasegawa said: \"Obviously we are not happy to have trouble, but this is a test - and we are feeling sorry for both drivers,\" he said. \"So, we need to find out what has happened in the day two engine especially.\"\n\nall others set on medium tyres", "Hamilton moved up to ninth in the Premiership with victory over Aberdeen.\n\nAccies took the lead when Mikey Devlin stole in ahead of Ash Taylor to divert Danny Redmond's free-kick into the net from close range.\n\nAdam Rooney almost brought the Dons level, his glancing header from Niall McGinn's cross coming back off a post.\n\nSubstitute Miles Storey had a goal ruled out for offside as Accies held on for the win despite a late red card for midfielder Darian MacKinnon.\n\nThe defeat sees Aberdeen remain nine points clear of third-placed Rangers having played a game more. Hamilton move off the bottom of the table and above Inverness CT, Motherwell and Ross County.\n\nHamilton stunned the Dons after just nine minutes with Devlin's first goal of the season, the defender getting a foot on the ball as the Aberdeen back-line hesitated and allowed him to prod the ball home.\n\nAberdeen started without Johnny Hayes, a shock absentee whose hamstring problem could also keep him out of the weekend Scottish Cup tie against Partick Thistle.\n\nBut they responded in positive fashion. Rooney rattled Gary Woods' left post with a header, McGinn flashed a shot across the goal and the same player landed a free-kick on top of the net.\n\nDespite being a goal down they dominated play throughout the half, but just couldn't get the ball in the net.\n\nThe pressure on Hamilton was incessant but what you do have to say is that their defending was courageous.\n\nAnd their spirits were lifted by the appearance off the bench of their marquee player Ali Crawford after a five-game absence through injury.\n\nDevlin made an incredible goal-saving header over his own bar before Rooney failed to put away a Kenny McLean cross. Still the Alamo-like performance by the home team went on.\n\nEven when sub Storey had the ball in the net Accies were saved by the offside flag.\n\nAnd then Hamilton's luck seemed to change.\n\nTwo yellow cards within a minute meant a red for MacKinnon - the second a particularly reckless challenge - and suddenly for the last six minutes the home team were down to ten men.\n\nBut incredibly, despite conceding 20 corner kicks and winning not a single one themselves, they held out for a quite astonishing and vitally important win.\n\nHamilton manager Martin Canning: \"Obviously in the first half we get our opportunity and we take it. Probably in the game we had four or five breakaways when we could have done better with the final pass.\n\n\"In the main it was backs to the wall, Aberdeen are a top team, so we knew they were going to be on the front foot. But with the situation we are in, everybody's got to fight, they've got to brave and throw their bodies on the line. Everything I'd want to see from the team, and I have seen it all season to be honest, was there tonight.\n\n\"Yeah, we rode our luck, Aberdeen had a lot of opportunities to put the ball in the box but I don't remember too many clear cut chances.\n\n\"A lot of it was balls into the box and Michael Devlin was outstanding. I've never mentioned it to the media before but it's something we've mentioned behind closed doors here. When you go back a couple of months ago when Scotland were playing, people were saying there are no young Scottish centre backs about and nobody even mentioned Michael, and he's captaining a Premier League team at 22.\n\n\"That's in the future and I think he's got the capabilities to go there but he just has to keep his head down and keep working hard and keep on performing like that, because Aberdeen are a top team and you're competing against the best in the country. All round I thought he was fantastic.\"\n\nAberdeen manager Derek McInnes: \"A lot of pride in the performance and pride in the response, dealing with the situation, players taking real responsibility.\n\n\"I didn't think it was a difficult game for us, coming here we normally find it a bit more difficult than it was tonight. I thought we dominated the game and some of our play was excellent. We can be critical of the goal we lost and the amount of crosses in their box and how we've not converted chances.\n\n\"Kenny McLean was a Rolls Royce tonight, he was absolutely everywhere. The high quality of his crossing, his possession and his work rate. He was in good company with a lot of good performances in the team, but sometimes you don't get what you deserve.\n\n\"It was total dominance, the game was played in their final third. We tried to be as positive as we could and we didn't panic. We just never had that final pass or shot in us tonight. Everyone could see how eager and determined our team was tonight to make the game go our way. While we lost we can still have a lot of pride in our performance.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Substitution, Aberdeen. Anthony O'Connor replaces Ryan Jack because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Academical) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.\n• None Second yellow card to Darian MacKinnon (Hamilton Academical) for a bad foul.\n• None Darian MacKinnon (Hamilton Academical) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Ash Taylor (Aberdeen) header from the centre of the box is too high. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Trudy and Barclay Patoir met during World War Two at a time when mixed-race relationships were still taboo. More than 70 years later they reveal the obstacles they had to overcome to stay together.\n\nWhen Trudy Menard and Barclay Patoir told friends and family they were going to get married, no-one thought it was a good idea - because Trudy was white and Barclay was black.\n\n\"When I told them at work they thought I was daft marrying a black man. They all said, 'It won't last you know,' because it was a mixed-race marriage,\" says Trudy.\n\n\"I think some people thought I was marrying beneath myself.\"\n\nWhen the couple had first met, a year or so earlier, Trudy admits she too had been uneasy.\n\nBarclay (bottom right) with fellow volunteers in the US en route to Britain\n\n\"I had been working at Bryant and May's match factory, but it got bombed in the Blitz,\" says Trudy, now 96.\n\n\"I needed a new job and was told they wanted girls at the Rootes aircraft factory in Speke. We were paired up with engineers and they told me to go with Barclay. I said, 'I'm not going with a coloured man. I've never seen one before.' But they told me if I didn't I'd be sacked so I just got on with it.\"\n\nBarclay, 97, was an apprentice engineer who had travelled to the UK from British Guiana in South America, now known as Guyana.\n\n\"There was a shortage of engineer skills in Britain in World War Two so young men from the Caribbean volunteered to help the mother country,\" he says.\n\nBetween 1941 and 1943, 345 civilians from the Caribbean region travelled to Liverpool under a scheme to increase war production. Barclay was assigned to work on Halifax bombers at the factory in Speke and Trudy was chosen to work as his assistant.\n\nBarclay (left) pictured with the Duke of Devonshire at Downing Street\n\n\"He stood on one side of the wings with a drill and I stood on the other side with the dolly. I was frightened to death of him - I'm not frightened of him now!\" says Trudy, laughing.\n\n\"We didn't speak for a while and then he started to bring me a cup of tea, and then he started bringing me sandwiches.\"\n\nOver time the pair became firm friends.\n\n\"We used to talk about Liverpool and history. And she was very inquisitive about Guiana,\" Barclay says.\n\n\"The others at work used to say, 'They're never going to come down now, they're talking too much,'\" Trudy adds.\n\nThe couple worked together on the wings of Halifax bombers\n\nThey went out for the first time when production at the factory slowed down and staff were given a chance to take time off.\n\n\"I took him to Southport on the train. We got some dirty looks then. I could tell some people were talking about us on the train but we took no notice, did we dear?\n\n\"When we got there we had something to eat and on the way back we went to his place, the hostel, for a cup of tea. And all the lads were so happy to meet me,\" Trudy says.\n\nLiverpool had the longest-established black community in the country, however racism was still very much apparent in the 1940s. A study of West Indian workers' experiences in Liverpool found that while many white women would talk to black colleagues at work, they would ignore them in public. They feared \"the attitude their friends or their family would adopt if they found out that she had been out with a coloured man,\" writes the author of the study, Anthony Richmond.\n\nIt was a prejudice that Trudy and Barclay were all too aware of.\n\n\"I didn't tell my mother when I was going to see Barclay,\" Trudy says.\n\n\"She thought I was going in to town to meet the girls. She had noticed I was very happy but she didn't know why.\n\n\"When she did find out she threatened to throw me out the house.\"\n\nTrudy and Barclay went to watch the Austrian tenor, Richard Tauber, perform\n\nThe couple would go to tea rooms and sit in the park together. One special date was to a concert by the Austrian tenor Richard Tauber, who was touring the country.\n\n\"We saw him at the Empire Theatre. He sang 'My heart and I.' That's our song,\" Trudy says.\n\n\"I knew then that I couldn't live without Barclay, but I didn't dare tell anybody for months.\"\n\nEventually, in 1944, after they had known each other for about a year, Trudy decided she was ready to take the plunge and told Barclay she would like to marry him.\n\n\"He said to me: 'It's going to be very hard, you know that don't you?' And I said: 'Yes, I know.'\"\n\nTrudy was keen to have a church wedding but the priest at the local Catholic church in Liverpool refused to perform the service.\n\n\"He said, 'There's so many coloured men coming over here and going back home leaving the women with children. So I'm not marrying you.' We were upset about that,\" says Trudy.\n\nHowever, they were determined to marry and settled for a brief ceremony at the Liverpool Register Office.\n\n\"Only Barclay's friend and one of my sisters went. The four of us went for a meal afterwards,\" Trudy says.\n\nShortly afterwards they decided to leave Liverpool.\n\n\"I had a friend who told me: 'Come to Manchester. It's more hospitable and there aren't as many racial problems,'\" Barclay says.\n\n\"But it was difficult to find accommodation because nobody would have you if you were a mixed marriage.\"\n\nThey eventually got a room in a boarding house where Barclay's friend lived.\n\n\"The landlady had lodgers in but she took us in anyway and gave us her big front room,\" Trudy says.\n\n\"She was a prostitute herself but what a good woman she was.\"\n\nBarclay continued to work in Liverpool, returning to Manchester at night. When the war ended he took the option offered to volunteers from British colonies to remain in the UK. However, it took him some time to adapt to his new home.\n\n\"You've got to have a good mentality to survive. I missed my family for about 10 years - I used to dream about them. And I found the freezing cold hard. I was used to a tropical climate,\" he says.\n\n\"He had more clothes on in bed than he took off!\" Trudy adds. \"He couldn't get warm in bed at all.\"\n\nBarclay missed the family he left behind in Georgetown, British Guiana, pictured here in 1941\n\nBarclay found it difficult to find a new job and ended up walking the streets of Manchester looking for work. He was eventually hired by the Manchester Ship Canal dry dock.\n\nThe couple settled in to their new life in Manchester. They joined the local sports club, where they played tennis.\n\n\"We won a set of cutlery in the doubles,\" Barclay says.\n\nThe local Catholic priest agreed to perform a second wedding ceremony for them in his church. Two daughters - Jean and Betty - followed, and the young family were desperate to get a home of their own.\n\n\"The priest mentioned that they were building houses in Wythenshawe,\" Barclay says.\n\n\"Nobody from Manchester wanted to live there, as there we no shops, just fields.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trudy and Barclay on the secrets of a happy marriage\n\nTrudy went to have a look at the new housing development.\n\n\"There was thick mud everywhere and I had a baby in my arms as I stood looking at the place. I couldn't get inside to look but I didn't care. I couldn't live in one room any more.\"\n\nShe went straight to the Town Hall and told them they would take one of the new houses.\n\n\"We were jumping for joy when we got the key,\" Trudy says.\n\nJean and Betty Patoir. Trudy made sure her daughter always looked neat and tidy\n\nThe Patoirs were one of the first families to move into the area.\n\n\"We were the only mixed-race couple there but we didn't have any trouble in the community,\" Trudy says.\n\n\"When this place filled up everyone loved our girls.\"\n\nHowever, their daughter Jean did encounter bullying on her first day at primary school.\n\n\"The teacher sent her home and asked me to keep her home while she had a chance to talk to the school about how God loved all his children. Jean didn't have problems after that,\" Trudy says.\n\nTrudy's mother Margaret also changed her attitude towards Barclay after her granddaughters were born.\n\n\"She would come every weekend to stay - she loved seeing the girls,\" Trudy says.\n\nTrudy and Barclay celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary in September 2014. They received congratulations from the Pope (above)\n\nBoth Trudy and Barclay think attitudes to mixed-race relationships have improved dramatically over the decades.\n\n\"Before people would stop and watch you, or whisper and laugh as you passed and now they're not bothered,\" Barclay says.\n\n\"People don't walk on the other side of the street like they used to,\" Trudy adds.\n\nBarclay has been very active in the community over the years. He has been president of the local social club, a school governor and sat on the local hospital board. He got involved in local politics after he stopped working at the dry dock in 1979.\n\nThe couple now have two children, three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.\n\n\"It's hard to keep track of them all,\" Trudy says.\n\nThey received congratulations from the Queen and the Pope on their 70th wedding anniversary in 2014.\n\n\"We discuss things if we don't agree. We never really had a big argument,\" Trudy says.\n\n\"We're so used to each other, we don't aggravate each other,\" Barclay agrees.\n\nWhile Trudy says she \"can't put her finger on\" what she loves most about Barclay, her husband has a ready answer.\n\n\"Trudy is genuine, she's a partner,\" he says. \"Every morning I wake up I thank the Lord for having such a good wife.\"\n\nTrudy and Barclay have lived in the same house for 70 years\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAustralian Open champion Roger Federer suffered a shock defeat by Russian qualifier Evgeny Donskoy in the Dubai Championships second round.\n\nFederer had three match points in the second set, served for the match at 5-3 in the third and led the deciding tie-break 5-1 but Donskoy fought back brilliantly.\n\nThe world number one, 29, is playing his first tournament since his fourth-round defeat at the Australian Open in January.\n\nMurray, who won in one hour and 12 minutes, will face Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber in the last eight.\n\nBritish number two Dan Evans was beaten 6-4 3-6 6-1 by fourth seed Gael Monfils of France.\n\nThe 26-year-old, at a career-high ranking of 43, lost the opening set but levelled as Monfils held serve only once in the second set.\n\nBut Monfils raced through the decider to complete victory in one hour and 35 minutes.\n\nFind out how to get into tennis in our special guide.", "Last updated on .From the section Swimming\n\nMichael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, believes he never raced against a completely clean international field.\n\nThe American former swimmer, 31, wants US lawmakers to push for global anti-doping reforms.\n\n\"I don't believe I've stood up at an international competition and the rest of the field has been clean,\" he said.\n\nPhelps was giving evidence at a US House of Representatives hearing into improving anti-doping measures.\n\nThe US government helps to fund the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) and the committee could recommend giving more money to the organisation.\n\nPhelps, who won 23 Olympic gold medals, added: \"Throughout my career, I have thought that some athletes were cheating and in some cases those suspicions were confirmed.\n\n\"Given all the testing I and others have been through, I have a hard time understanding this.\"\n\nPhelps spoke out against drugs cheats at the Rio Olympics.\n\nWhen asked about Russian Yulia Efimova, who won Olympic silver after two positive tests, he said dopers returning to elite action \"breaks his heart\".\n\nA report commissioned by Wada and written by lawyer Richard McLaren claimed in December that more than 1,000 Russian athletes benefited from a state-sponsored doping programme between 2011 and 2015.\n\nTravis Tygart, the chief executive of the US Anti-Doping Agency, also addressed Tuesday's hearing at the House of Representatives. He told politicians the International Olympic Committee had let down clean athletes after opting against a blanket ban of Russian athletes at Rio 2016.\n\nThe IOC instead allowed individual sports to decide their own policy.\n\n\"At least two Olympic Games were corrupted and, at the Rio Games this past August, scores of Russian athletes were allowed to compete without credible anti-doping measures,\" said Tygart.\n\n\"When the moment came, despite mountains of evidence and vocal opposition from anti-doping leaders and clean athletes from around the world, the IOC chose to welcome the Russian Olympic Committee to Rio.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied government officials were complicit in doping the country's athletes.\n\n\"In Russia we never had, don't have, and I hope won't have a state-sponsored doping programme. On the contrary, there will only be a fight against doping,\" he said in a television broadcast.\n\nHe added a new doping control system was being put together.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump: \"What we are witnessing today is the renewal of the American spirit\"\n\nAt least for one night, Donald Trump put aside the bombast and bellicosity of a campaign that seemed to bleed into his presidency. On a presidential stage, he acted and sounded not unlike presidents of the past. Presidential, even.\n\nIn his first address to a joint session of Congress, after a tumultuous first month in office, Mr Trump delivered a conventional speech in a conventional manner. That it was unexpected, and that the bar for success was knee-high at best, is life in the age of Trump.\n\nYes, much of the content was the same - the calls for a border wall, the (unfounded) allegations that undocumented immigrants are prone to crime, the full-throated exposition of an \"America first\" economic nationalism and the warning that US allies must pay their fair share - but the delivery was smooth and polished.\n\nThere was a moment before the speech when cameras captured Mr Trump in his armoured limousine, rehearsing his lines. Practice, it seems, made good, if not perfect. For once, Donald Trump's delivery was spoken, not shouted. He appeared poised, not petulant; forceful, not forced.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump: \"Real and positive immigration reform is possible\"\n\nAs this was largely a traditionally crafted speech, there were some painful cliches and political pabulum to which a typical politician might be prone, of course.\n\nThe line \"we just need the courage to share the dreams that fill our hearts, the bravery to express the hopes that stir our souls and the confidence to turn those hopes and dreams to action\" likely induced cringes from high-school English teachers across the nation.\n\nAlso typical of such addresses was a text light on policy, touching on most of Mr Trump's agenda in vague generalities. There were several key moments that defined his speech, however, which could have a lasting impact.\n\nAfter spending a few paragraphs blasting Obamacare, including motioning directly at the Democrats during his sharpest condemnations, the president laid down a few markers for what he wanted to see replace the current system.\n\nAmericans with pre-existing medical conditions should be able to get coverage. The transition from the current government-exchange system of insurance for those who don't have employer-based health insurance must be \"stable\". Insurance subsidies should be morphed into tax credits and health savings accounts, which let Americans put aside tax-free dollars for medical expenses.\n\nDemocrats in Congress were not impressed by Donald Trump's healthcare reform ideas\n\nStates need the \"resources and flexibility\" to provide insurance for the poor. Drug prices must go down, and doctors should have greater legal protections. Provisions preventing the purchase of insurance across state lines - which allow places like California to more stringently regulate their insurance industries - should be repealed.\n\nAll of those provisions will be resisted by Democrats. A few will be questioned by some Republicans. For the first time, however, the president has staked out ground in the fight.\n\nIf his detailing was productive, it was somewhat undermined by a final, typical Trumpian flourish of pie-in-the-sky rhetoric.\n\n\"Everything that is broken in our country can be fixed,\" he said. \"Every problem can be solved. And every hurting family can find healing and hope.\"\n\nJust a few days earlier, the president had remarked that \"nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated\". Now he's promising rainbows and unicorns.\n\nThe Republicans in Congress have their work cut out for them.\n\nIt was easily the most moving portion of evening. It may also end up being one of the most contentious.\n\nThe president, toward the end of his speech pointed to Carryn Owens, the widow of US soldier Ryan Owens, who was killed during a commando raid in Yemen just days after Mr Trump took office. As the Congress applauded the grieving woman, Mr Trump said her husband's \"legacy is etched into eternity\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carryn Owens, the widow of fallen Navy Seal, Ryan Owens, is brought to tears\n\nAs a standalone moment, it was powerful. Viewed in the context of an ongoing controversy over the overall success and wisdom of the raid, which resulted in 25 civilian casualties including nine children (one of whom was a US citizen), the moment becomes infused with politics.\n\nMr Trump quoted his Defence Secretary, James Mattis, as saying the raid produced \"vital intelligence\" - although earlier news reports indicated that was not the case.\n\nArizona Senator John McCain has called the operation a failure, and the slain soldier's father, William Owens, refused to meet with president and called for a formal investigation into the incident. Earlier on Tuesday, Mr Trump appeared to lay the blame for Owens' death at the feet of the military.\n\n\"They came to see me, and they explained what they wanted to do,\" he said. \"My generals are the most respected that we've had in many decades, I believe, and they lost Ryan.\"\n\nBy highlighting the raid, and putting a spotlight on Carryn Owens, the president has offered a high-profile response to the criticisms.\n\nThe move may only lead to greater scrutiny and sharper questioning, however.\n\nDuring his 1996 State of the Union Address, Bill Clinton asserted that the era of big government was over.\n\nToward the end of his speech on Tuesday, Donald Trump said it was the \"time for small thinking\" that was over.\n\nBig government, it seems, is making a comeback.\n\nDefence spending, as promised last week, is headed for a $54bn boost. Now Mr Trump has revealed the size of his planned infrastructure programme, and it's a whopping $1 trillion.\n\nAlthough he said that some of the amount would be funded by \"private capital\" (an idea that has some Democrats fearful of corruption or abuse), the goal is still remarkable and the impact on the public purse will surely be sizeable.\n\nThrow in Mr Trump's promise of a \"great, great wall along our southern border\" - with estimates starting at $12bn - and \"massive tax relief for the middle class\", and the price tag for his speech proposals is on an express elevator to astronomical.\n\n\"Cures to illnesses that have always plagued us are not too much to hope,\" Mr Trump said. \"American footprints on distant worlds are not too big a dream. Millions lifted from welfare to work is not too much to expect. And streets where mothers are safe from fear - schools where children learn in peace - and jobs where Americans prosper and grow - are not too much to ask.\"\n\nNowhere in the president's speech, however, was there mention of how these programmes would be financed. While the Trump officials spoke of cuts to federal agencies and departments last week, talk of \"tough choices\" was notably absent on Tuesday night.\n\nThe only reference to the national debt - the reduction of which was once a top priority for Republicans of all stripes - was a passing mention of the subject during a litany of Barack Obama's economic failings.\n\nBack in the early days of the George W Bush administration, Vice-President Dick Cheney memorably said \"deficits don't matter\". After an eight-year absence, those days are here again.\n\nBack in the early hours of 9 November, as he took the stage to claim his improbable presidential victory, Donald Trump issued a call for national unity and healing.\n\n\"Now is the time to bind the wounds of division,\" he said. \"I say to Democrats and Republicans it is time to come together as one united people.\"\n\nSince that moment, Mr Trump has seemed more attuned to the needs and desires of his core base of supporters, and less interested in reaching out to Democrats and independents.\n\nIn his inaugural address, the new president railed against the establishment, many of whom were seated uncomfortably behind him.\n\nIn his first month in office, the president has been mostly confrontational in word and deed.\n\nThen, on Tuesday night, his November rhetoric resurfaced at last.\n\n\"Democrats and Republicans should get together and unite for the good of our country, and for the good of the American people,\" the president said.\n\nPerhaps it's a reflection of a change in strategy. Perhaps it's a recognition that he will need at least some Democratic support in Congress if he wants to pass the more ambitious portions of his legislative agenda.\n\nOn immigration in particular, the change of tone was jarring, even from within the speech itself. Amidst warning of the threats posed by illegal immigration to jobs and safety, the president seemingly extended an olive branch to his opponents.\n\n\"I believe that real and positive immigration reform is possible, as long as we focus on the following goals: to improve jobs and wages for Americans, to strengthen our nation's security, and to restore respect for our laws,\" he said. \"If we are guided by the well-being of American citizens, then I believe Republicans and Democrats can work together to achieve an outcome that has eluded our country for decades.\"\n\nEarlier in the day Trump himself had told journalists - on background - that he was open to providing normalised status for undocumented immigrants who had committed no serious crime, which would represent a significant reversal from past statements. He didn't go nearly as far in his speech, but the door was opened.\n\nIt could, of course, slam shut tomorrow, and all the talk of unity could vanish in a flurry of tweets.", "Artwork: The Earth's magnetosphere protects the planet from a continuous flow of cosmic radiation\n\nWhat does a sensational scientific discovery about a solar storm in the Earth's magnetic field have to do with old, recycled steel pipes which lay buried for more than a decade under a now-defunct gold mine in India?\n\nMore than 3,700 such pipes are actually at the heart of a most significant scientific finding.\n\nA team of Indian and Japanese scientists recently published an internationally-feted paper which recorded the events that unfolded after a breach in the Earth's magnetic shield.\n\nUsing the GRAPES-3 muon (a sub-atomic particle) telescope - the world's largest of its kind - at the Cosmic Ray Laboratory in Ooty, a hill station in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, the scientists recorded a two-hour burst of galactic cosmic rays that invaded the atmosphere on 22 June 2015.\n\nThe magnetic field breach was the result of charged particles from the Sun striking the Earth at high speed.\n\nSolar storms of such high magnitudes can knock out satellites and aircraft autopilots, cause catastrophic power outages, and take us, according to one of the scientists leading the research, Dr Sunil Gupta, \"back to the Stone Age\".\n\nAuroras are one of the consequences of geomagnetic storms\n\nThe world's largest and most sensitive cosmic ray telescope located in Ooty is made up of four-decades old recycled zinc-coated steel pipes.\n\n\"Necessity is the mother of invention. When you don't have the money to buy new, expensive stuff, you look within the system to find out your own solutions to reduce costs. India's scientists have mastered the art of recycling and coming up with their own inexpensive solutions,\" Pallava Bagla, India correspondent for Science magazine, told me.\n\nA notable example: India's 2014 operation mission to Mars, cost the exchequer 4.5bn rupees ($67m;£54m), almost 10 times less than the American Maven orbiter. (This prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to quip that India's real-life Martian adventure cost less than Hollywood film Gravity.) The Ooty laboratory's annual budget is about $375,000.\n\nThe zinc-coated steel pipes once lay under one of the deepest gold mines in the world\n\nThe 6m (19.65 ft) long pipes, which acted as sensors in the telescope, lay in underground caverns below the centuries-old Kolar Gold Fields in southern Karnataka state, home to one of the world's deepest gold mines, for nearly two-decades.\n\nThe pipes were imported from Japan - where they are normally used at building construction sites - to help a team of Indian and Japanese scientists examine neutrinos, sub-atomic particles produced in high energy interactions in the galaxy and beyond. The scientists had laid them 2km (1.24 miles) below the earth for their experiment.\n\nWhen gold prices fell to unprofitable levels and the fields began shutting down in the early 1990s, authorities planned to remove the pipes and dispose them off as scrap. \"We said we want to re-use them for our experiments,\" Dr Gupta told me.\n\nEventually, some 7,500 of the pipes were transported by truck to a hilly 100-acre campus that the laboratory shares with a radio astronomy centre. The place skirts a forest populated by deer, bison, tigers and wild boars. Recently, CCTV cameras captured a tiger strolling past the sensors at night.\n\nWork on recording cosmic rays in Ooty began in right earnest in 1998, when the scientists began making muon sensors from the discarded pipes to research high energy cosmic rays.\n\nThe Sun periodically ejects vast clouds of charged particles into space\n\nMohammad Haroon, a gardener at the facility, has learnt to weld the old pipes\n\nToday, 3,712 steel tubes, stacked up against layers of concrete, are housed across 560 sq m in four squat brown-and-white colour buildings, home to the world's largest such muon telescope. There are a couple of dozen such telescopes in the world, but none as powerful as the one in Ooty.\n\nAt the laboratory, a small group of scientists and assorted helpers - local gardeners and carpenters, for example - continue to recycle the old pipes, so that they can be used as cosmic ray detectors.\n\nTo do this, they open the pipes and clean them with high pressure water jets. They insert a 100 micron - as thick as a strand of human hair - tungsten wire into the pipe and anchor it at both ends with hermetic seals. The pipes are then filled with a gas comprising methane and argon and an electric potential run through it to enable it to become an effective sensor.\n\nFinally, they are laid out in rows - below two metres of concrete, which act as absorbers - to become a muon telescope.\n\nThe fabled jugaad - an Indian colloquial word that means ingenious improvisation in the face of scarce resources - extends to using the pipes as sensors.\n\nWhen the scientists at the laboratory wanted to make doubly sure that the old pipes were not leaking, they modified a helium spray gun by attaching a 7-cent injection syringe needle to the nozzle of the gas jet to help them to carry out the precise leak tests.\n\nA cosmic ray signal captured on an oscilloscope at the laboratory\n\nThe opening in the magnetic shield was detected with the GRAPES-3 muon telescope\n\n\"Every day, we make 10 such recycled pipes ready for our experiments. The plan was to make very sensitive sensors to detect the weakest of signals. We wanted to measure cosmic rays with higher sensitivity than ever done before\", says Atul Jain, a scientist at the facility.\n\nThe laboratory itself is a shining example of home-grown innovation. The majority of the electronic equipment is designed, assembled and manufactured in-house. The software for the computer programmes is locally made.\n\nThe 40GB of raw data from cosmic rays that it generates every day is stored and processed by a cluster of computers which has been largely assembled in-house, cutting costs and saving hefty maintenance fees. Old computers are stripped for parts. A locally developed cooling system using fans saves electricity and protects the computers.\n\nA spray gun modified in house for the precise locations of leaks by attaching a syringe needle\n\nAt the moment, the scientists plan to pore over 17 years of data on cosmic rays recorded by the lab's sensors to find out whether they offer more clues about forecasting space weather and advance warnings about solar flares. They say there have been some 38 severe solar storms in the past 17 years.\n\n\"We should be able to sift through our data to find out more about them. For us, they are a gift from the Sun, because they add to our knowledge on space weather,\" says Dr Gupta.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City cruised into the FA Cup quarter-finals after fighting back to beat much-changed Championship promotion hopefuls Huddersfield in their fifth-round replay.\n\nAfter a 0-0 draw in the original tie, the visitors led when Harry Bunn's shot went through Claudio Bravo's legs.\n\nBut tap-ins from Leroy Sane and Pablo Zabaleta, with Sergio Aguero's clinical penalty in between, turned the replay in City's favour before half-time.\n\nAguero swept in Raheem Sterling's cross at the near post for City's fourth, before substitute Kelechi Iheanacho poked in with the last kick of the game.\n\nCity's reward is a quarter-final trip to Premier League rivals Middlesbrough on Saturday, 11 March (12:15 GMT).\n\nPep Guardiola arrived at Manchester City last summer with the clear remit from owner Sheikh Mansour to take the club to \"a new level\".\n\nWhile that demand is largely thought to mean success in the Champions League, the City hierarchy will also want to see the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach deliver domestic trophies.\n\nWinning the Premier League looks to be a uphill task with Chelsea 11 points clear, while Manchester United took the season's first silverware by claiming the EFL Cup.\n\nBut they have moved into the last eight of the FA Cup for the first time in four seasons after overcoming an early scare against Huddersfield.\n\n\"Seeing their biggest rivals United bag the first trophy of the season means City will be thinking 'we want a piece of that',\" said Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer.\n\n\"I think this is their best chance of silverware this season.\"\n\nNot a Bravo performance - or was it?\n\nDespite the relative ease of extending their unbeaten run to eight matches, there were still some concerning sights for Guardiola. Namely more uncertain goalkeeping from the returning Bravo.\n\nGuardiola reiterated his confidence in the former Barcelona keeper before the replay, despite trusting Willy Caballero instead in City's past four Premier League matches and the Champions League last-16 win against Monaco.\n\nHowever, he watched the Chilean make another error to gift the opening goal to former City youngster Bunn.\n\nThe 33-year-old stopper, who was dropped after conceding 16 goals from the previous 24 shots on target he had faced in the Premier League, let Bunn's low strike through his legs in Huddersfield's first effort on target.\n\nThat led to ironic applause from the home fans when Bravo blocked Huddersfield's second shot at goal shortly before half-time.\n\nGuardiola did not appear pleased, turning around to glare at the supporters behind him.\n\nAfterwards the Spaniard described Bravo's performance as \"top\", adding \"his performance with the foot helped us build up\".\n\nAll not lost for promotion-chasing Town\n\nHuddersfield had lost only one of their previous 18 games in all competitions, putting them third in the Championship and in the thick of the promotion race.\n\nPlaying in the Premier League for the first time is clearly their priority.\n\nHead coach David Wagner, sat in the stands after being given a two-match touchline ban, made nine changes to his regular team - but it hardly showed in the opening 20 minutes.\n\nBunn's opener sent the 7,200 travelling fans into delirium and, although the Terriers could not sustain the same level as the game wore on, credit must be given for the way they continued to try to attack after the break.\n\nJoe Lolley wasted an excellent chance for Town to get back in the game when he headed over the bar from close range, while away fans hopefully demanded a penalty when Collin Quaner fell in the box under the lightest of challenges from John Stones.\n\nWhile the scoreline ended heavily in favour of their opponents, Huddersfield will return to their promotion challenge full of heart before what could be a memorable run-in.\n\nAguero's future has been subject to much speculation after he was dropped by Guardiola last month, with leading European clubs said to be expected to bid for the Argentina international this summer.\n\nHere he showed the City boss exactly what he can offer: movement, energy, tenacity - and goals. Guardiola was suitably impressed, praising the striker's performance as \"the best I've seen from him\".\n\n\"Even in the moment (when we conceded) we were playing quite good, we made good things against a good team.\n\n\"We are happy because we're in the quarter-finals. I was impressed with Huddersfield in both halves - they have good quality players. We missed a lot of the last passes. But OK - we knew how tough it could be and we play in a good performance.\n\n\"It's the best Sergio Aguero ever. Today the performance was amazing. The runs were at the right moment and the right tempo. His performance was top - the same with Claudio Bravo, his performance with the foot helped us build up.\"\n\n\"Of course the start was positive because we went in front but we were not at our best, performance-wise.\n\n\"We have shown too much respect, unfortunately, against a very strong Manchester City side.\n\n\"Congratulations to Pep. The result was fair. We made too many easy mistakes when we had the ball and when we defended we were not aggressive enough.\n\n\"When you play against Manchester City you have to be very aggressive.\"\n\nBoth sides go back to the pursuit of the top two in their respective leagues.\n\nCity travel to relegation-threatened Sunderland on Sunday (16:00 GMT), while Huddersfield host leaders Newcastle in a promotion clash on Saturday (17:30 GMT).\n• None Goal! Manchester City 5, Huddersfield Town 1. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jesús Navas with a cross.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Attempt missed. Collin Quaner (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jack Payne (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Collin Quaner.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Martin Cranie (Huddersfield Town) because of an injury.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Kelechi Iheanacho tries a through ball, but Raheem Sterling is caught offside.\n• None Fernandinho (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 4, Huddersfield Town 1. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Offside, Huddersfield Town. Jon Gorenc Stankovic tries a through ball, but Collin Quaner is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Huddersfield Town fan Sir Patrick Stewart narrates the inspirational poem Thinking, by Walter D. Wintle, before his team's FA Cup fifth-round replay against Manchester City at Etihad Stadium on Wednesday.\n\nREAD MORE: Pep Guardiola: Man City boss will make Joe Hart wait on his future\n\nWatch all the best action from the FA Cup fifth round here.", "When the Sousse terrorist attack took place in June 2015 the Tunisian authorities had almost no effective counter-terrorism capability.\n\nStill coping with the aftermath of the Arab Spring revolt, they had little to no idea who was posting extremist material online, who they were in contact with, nor even who was professing a desire to carry out violent jihad.\n\nTunisia's shared border with Libya, already by then a haven for extremist Islamist militants, was as porous as a sieve.\n\nA lot has changed since then.\n\nAlthough Britain initially upset Tunisia by changing its travel advice to warn against all but essential travel to the country, hurting the tourist industry by effectively advising British tourists not to go there, it has put enormous efforts into helping Tunisia improve its security.\n\nUnder a scheme run jointly by the Foreign Office and the Home Office, a team of police officers has been deployed from National Counter Terrorism Police headquarters, including specialists in the protection of airports, hotels and resorts and other tourist locations.\n\nTogether with a team from France, the British experts have been focussing on aviation security, visiting seven Tunisian airports that have all had direct flight connections to the UK, looking at ways to improve security, notably passenger and cargo screening.\n\nAlongside the French, Britain's policemen have also been \"training the trainers\", helping Tunisia to set up its own cadre of trainers, teaching them current best practice on how to react to bomb threats or a marauding firearms attack similar to those suffered by Tunisia in 2015.\n\nAn overseas training film on how to respond to a terrorist attack is now being distributed, similar to the one issued by the police here entitled \"Run, Hide, Tell\".\n\nA Whitehall official told the BBC that the aim was to improve the way people respond to an attack, including not just the police and military but hoteliers and other staff at resorts.\n\nSince the Sousse attack Tunisia has built a 125-mile border wall with Libya, known as a \"berm\", to try to prevent jihadists crossing over from so-called Islamic State and other training camps.\n\nThe US and Germany have been the lead advisers here but the UK has provided CCTV equipment and training.\n\nBritish cyber analysts have also been advising the Tunisian authorities on how to find and take down extremist content online.\n\nBritain's efforts are part of a G7-plus international initiative to help improve Tunisia's security.\n\nIt involves all the G7 nations as well as Spain, Belgium, EU, Switzerland and Turkey.\n\nIn December 2016 Tunisia's minister of the interior came to London and signed a comprehensive memorandum of understanding with Home Secretary Amber Rudd on counter terrorism and counter extremism.\n\nForeign Office Minister, Tobias Elwood, said today: \"It is in the West's interests to help Tunisia boost its security and we have stood by our friend.\"\n\nDiplomats point out there has not been a significant terrorist attack in Tunisia in over a year.\n\nYet no one is being complacent.\n\nIt was not until 2013 that the Tunisian authorities even acknowledged they had a security problem, and despite a massive improvement in their capability there remain concerns about porous borders and infiltration by extremists coming from Algeria and southern Libya.\n\nThere is also the question of returning IS fighters from Syria and Iraq, an area Britain is advising on.\n\nTunisia has one of the highest per capita ratios of fighters going off to join IS.\n\nAs with Britain, many will now be looking to come home.", "Tanveer Ahmed claimed that he murdered Mr Shah as he had \"disrespected\" Islam\n\nWhen Tanveer Ahmed was sentenced to a minimum of 27 years in jail for murder last August, Judge Lady Rae said he had committed a \"brutal, barbaric and horrific crime\".\n\nAhmed stabbed to death Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah - who belonged to the persecuted Ahmadi sect - because he believed he was committing blasphemy by uploading online videos in which he claimed to be a prophet.\n\nBut in Pakistan, Ahmed is developing a growing number of supporters who see him as a \"defender of Islam\" for having killed someone they believed to be disrespecting the Prophet Muhammad.\n\nOn Monday evening, about 400 gathered outside his family's home in the city of Mirpur, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir for a rally in his honour. The crowd chanted slogans praising Ahmed as \"brave\" and \"courageous\".\n\nOne man attending said: \"Because of what he did, the whole of Pakistan knows who he is.\"\n\nSupporters champion Tanveer Ahmed for killing a man they accuse of blasphemy\n\nAnother speaker told supporters Ahmed could help mediate their prayers.\n\n\"You should close your eyes, raise your hand towards the sky and pray, making Ghazi [warrior] Tanveer your representative,\" he said.\n\nThe event was organised by the anti-blasphemy religious lobby group Labaik Ya Rasool Ullah (Here I am present, o Prophet of Allah).\n\nThe same group has championed another killer - Mumtaz Qadri - who in 2011 shot dead a high profile Pakistani politician for trying to reform the country's blasphemy laws.\n\nMumtaz Qadri on the day of his arrest in 2011 - he was later executed\n\nBlasphemy is an emotive issue in Pakistan, where it is legally punishable by death.\n\nAfter Qadri was executed last year, tens of thousands of his supporters attended his funeral, and a shrine housing his tomb has been built in Rawalpindi.\n\nHardline cleric Khadim Rizvi is one of the leading figures in Labaik Ya Rasool Ullah, and is the most prominent supporter of Tanveer Ahmed.\n\nAs well as images of Mumtaz Qadri, Rizvi now uses images of Ahmed to promote his rallies and talks.\n\nAhmed had cited Qadri as his inspiration for killing his victim, and their supporters often compare the two killers.\n\nIn a BBC interview Rizvi said support for Ahmed was not as widespread as that for Qadri - but that Ahmed was held in particularly high esteem for having killed someone accused of blasphemy in a non-Muslim country.\n\nAhmed's image is now used alongside Qadri to promote the rallies\n\nOver the past few months a Facebook page run by Rizvi's followers has released a number of audio messages from Ahmed whilst in jail. The messages included Ahmed justifying his own actions - and repeating slogans that \"the penalty for blasphemers is for their heads to be cut off\".\n\nRizvi was prevented from attending the rally in Mirpur by police, but I met him earlier this month after another rally.\n\nHe said that until recently he would talk to Tanveer Ahmed on the phone \"every couple of weeks\", and that he was proud of his friendship with him.\n\n\"I'm proud of the fact that we are in contact - and this pride will remain until the day of judgement and beyond.\"\n\nRizvi added that his conversations with Ahmed included discussions on the topic of blasphemy, and chants in support of the Prophet Muhammad.\n\nAfter a BBC report in January 2017 on Ahmed's audio messages from jail, the Scottish Prison Service banned him from using the phone.\n\nKhadim Rizvi said \"real Sufis\" cannot simply allow insults to the Prophet\n\nRizvi said since the ban he had not spoken to Ahmed - but was confident they would resume contact.\n\n\"God willing it won't change anything - phonecalls have been banned - letters haven't - he will write to us.\"\n\nRizvi, Ahmed and Qadri all come from the Sufi Barelvi sect of Sunni Islam, one normally associated with more spiritual interpretations of the religion.\n\nRizvi, for example, is vocal in his condemnation of recent attacks in Pakistan, and of militant groups like the so-called Islamic State.\n\nBut in Pakistan, Barelvis have been at the forefront of anti-blasphemy campaigns.\n\n\"A Sufi is someone who devotes his life to the Prophet Muhammad - if someone insults the Prophet and they just let it go - they are not a real Sufi,\" Rizvi said.\n\nOther Sufi Barelvi scholars strongly disagree with Rizvi's position - but he is an influential figure in Pakistan.\n\nAt the mosque in Glasgow that Asad Shah used to attend, there is concern at how hardline views on blasphemy from Pakistan are being spread in the UK.\n\nAbdul Abid, former president of the Scottish Ahmadiyya community, said: \"Pakistan has got a problem - and this problem is being exported outside of Pakistan.\"\n\nNow it seems Tanveer Ahmed - from a jail cell in Scotland - is helping strengthen the anti-blasphemy movement back in Pakistan.", "In a note that she titled \"Needs to be said\", South Indian actress Varalaxmi Sarathkumar opened up on Twitter, about the issue of sexual harassment within the film business.\n\nVaralaxmi, who works in the Tamil film industry, wrote that in a recent working meeting she had been propositioned by a programming head of a leading TV channel.\n\n\"Towards the end of the half hour meeting, he asked me, 'So when can we meet outside?' To which I replied, 'Regarding some other work?' He said, 'No... for other things',\" she said in a post that has been liked thousands of times.\n\nShe declined the offer, writing: \"I didn't come to the industry to be treated like a piece of meat.\"\n\n\"Women in the film industry have accepted the fate of the 'casting couch',\" Varalaxmi told BBC Trending, referring to the widely alleged practice whereby actresses are given parts in films in return for granting sexual favours.\n\n\"They act like it's like normal,\" she says.\n\n\"So when I spoke to people about my experience they said, 'But, the film industry is this way, why did you enter it?'\n\n\"But I and the other actresses in the industry have entered it because we're passionate about acting. I don't think it means if you're passionate about acting you have to sleep with someone.\"\n\nThe actress didn't reveal the identity of the alleged harasser, but said the incident was only the \"tip of the iceberg\".\n\nVaralaxmi's words received support from many on social media - including from fellow actress Rupa Manjari.\n\nThe post was published two days after the alleged abduction and rape of a fellow popular Indian actress in the southern Indian state of Kerala. The actress, who has not been named, told police that she had been attacked inside her car by three strangers who flagged down her vehicle as she was being driven to work.\n\nThe news sparked outrage on social media, as well as at a rally attended by some of the most prominent members of the Indian film industry, demanding that more be done to protect women.\n\nFellow South Indian actress Manju Warrier expressed her outrage on her Malayalam Facebook page, saying \"I pray to god that it doesn't happen to any other girl.\"\n\n\"It's very unfortunate what happened to her. No woman should be violated the way she was,\" Varalaxmi says. \"But there is hypocrisy within the film industry, because while we condemn the act, people are reluctant to say that part of the industry is also like this.\n\n\"When something happens to a celebrity, justice is immediate,\" Varalaxmi tells Trending.\n\n\"The police find the culprits immediately, the verdicts are passed really, really fast. But if it happens to a laywoman, it takes twice as long.\"\n\nLaljy.K., the Assistant Police Commissioner of Ernakulam, near where the alleged rape took place, told BBC Trending that Sarathkumar's assertion was mistaken, and that police in the region were committed to the safety of all women.\n\nHe added that an anti-harassment help number had been opened and more police cars assigned since the incident, in order to assist all women.\n\nSarathkumar's campaign to help the Indian women who are subject to harassment is called Shakti, meaning \"to be able\"\n\nVaralaxmi is also campaigning, organising her own rally in Chennai on 8 March, International Women's Day, in order to raise awareness and demand for tougher punishments for those who harass women in India.\n\n\"Probably abroad women are taught to be a little more liberal, but down in India, although we say we're liberal, we're not there yet,\" she says. \"Women are taught that if anything goes wrong, we are supposed to feel ashamed of it.\n\n\"It's the mindset that we have to change.\"\n\nVaralaxmi and her actor father Sarathkumar are prominent members of the South Indian film industry\n\nVaralaxmi, whose father Sarathkumar is also a prominent actor, adds that her family's standing and security meant she could say no. But she tells BBC Trending she's aware that is not a privilege afforded to other actresses.\n\n\"I was fortunate that I could say no, but there are other women who may have to give in to the request, because they come from backgrounds where you need the work.\"\n\nBut how big a problem within the film industry is this?\n\n\"It happens all the time, but we've been conditioned not to talk about it. We are taught to feel shame if it happens to us.\n\n\"I'm not playing victim here. I'm just speaking out about my experience in order to stand up for all the women who can't stand up for themselves.\"\n\nNext story: Transgender dolls and all that Jazz\n\nWhat has been described as the first transgender doll has gone into production in the US. READ MORE\n\nYou can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.", "Ed Sheeran: \"I think this year is going to be a high point.\"\n\nIn the first instalment of an exclusive online two-part interview, Ed Sheeran takes BBC Music reporter Mark Savage behind the scenes of his third album, ÷ (Divide).\n\nIn the lobby of Atlantic Records in West London, a poster of Ed Sheeran's massive face peeks out from behind a chandelier, smiling beatifically at you.\n\nAs you get in the lift, there he is again. And when you walk past the boardroom, he's present in puppet form - the marionette from his Sing video is stood upright in a glass presentation case.\n\nWe're ushered into the press office, where Ed's magazine covers have all been framed and hung on the wall. There's the NME, Q magazine, Rolling Stone, Billboard... and someone has stuck googly eyes on them all.\n\nIt encapsulates him perfectly: Ed Sheeran is pop's most self-deprecating megastar.\n\nAccording to film director Sharon Maguire, who shot his cameo in Bridget Jones' Baby, \"the more insulting we made it, the more he loved it\".\n\nAnd when he sold out three nights at Wembley, he delighted in the Big Issue's description of him as \"the world's first stadium busker\".\n\n\"I didn't have a guitar case in front of the stage, though,\" Sheeran laughs. \"Although that probably would have been fun.\"\n\nWhen he arrives, Sheeran saunters into the room in regulation scruffy jeans and a hoodie, his mop of ginger hair squashed haphazardly under a baseball cap.\n\nThe scar on his cheek, a result of Princess Beatrice slicing him open with a sword while pretending to knight fellow pop singer James Blunt, is much deeper than it appears in photos.\n\nThe star released two singles simultaneously to announce his comeback - but he has more up his sleeve\n\nBut he's not here to talk about that. There's the small matter of his third album, ÷ (Divide). Already tipped to be one of the year's biggest sellers, it finds the singer-songwriter in a new position: having to live up to expectations.\n\nAfter his unassuming debut, Sheeran's second album, 2014's x, was a revelation: from the Pharrell Williams produced beats of Sing to the heart-melting ballad Thinking Out Loud, it was the sound of a writer flexing his muscles and realising he could punch above his weight.\n\nThe album sold 13 million copies worldwide - but if there was pressure to follow it up, Sheeran took no notice.\n\n\"I felt that with the first album,\" he says. \"I remember thinking I would never write a song as good as A Team. And then Thinking Out Loud came, and I was like, 'Oh, OK, well maybe it's not impossible.'\n\n\"So going into this album, there was no worry at all because I knew I'd done it before. It's not like Thinking Out Loud will be the peak of my career. It's definitely happened on this album. There's definitely one that's better.\"\n\nThe song he's referring to is Perfect. A swoonsome waltz-time ode about his \"beautiful and smart\" girlfriend, Cherry Seaborn, that's guaranteed to soundtrack thousands of first dances before the year is out.\n\nHe says the song was inspired by \"being in love\" - but then he gives a glimpse of his alter-ego: the ambitious and astute music industry businessman.\n\nThinking Out Loud, he points out, was co-written with folk singer Amy Wadge, \"and if I had another song as big as that, I wanted it to just say my name on the credits\".\n\n\"So I did a lot of solo writing, and that was one of the things that came out of it.\"\n\nElaborating on the theme, he explains how the entire album was constructed according to a blueprint.\n\n\"I had in my mind what sound should be on what song, and which subject matter would be on which song - so I'd write 10 songs for that [idea].\n\n\"So there's six or seven songs about Suffolk, but Castle On The Hill was the best one. And then there was a bunch of wedding songs, I guess, and Perfect was the best one.\"\n\nHis approach impressed one of pop's most seasoned writers.\n\n\"Ed is super-intelligent and he's savvier than just about anyone I've ever met,\" says OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder, whose hits include Beyonce's Halo and Adele's Rumour Has It.\n\nTogether, Tedder and Sheeran wrote more than two dozen songs during the ÷ (Divide) sessions.\n\n\"We'll do, like, 15 or 16 in a day,\" says Sheeran. \"We might do one finished song, and then we'll put loads of ideas down - because we've got so many ideas, it doesn't make sense to spend five hours working on just one.\"\n\nWhile the album contains only one of those songs, a ballad called Happier, Tedder isn't worried.\n\n\"I have all these voice notes of different songs with him that, if I was smart, I would be pitching to Justin Bieber,\" he laughs.\n\nThe singer frames Sheeran's success in the context of Malcolm Gladwell's theory that genius takes at least 10,000 hours of hard work.\n\nHe says: \"Ed said to me, 'Look, all things considered, you and I both know people that are more talented than us, but you know what they say about 10,000 hours? How many guys do you know that have put in 30,000?'\n\n\"There aren't a lot of us. We both are obsessed.\"\n\nSheeran was the first artist to headline Wembley Stadium solo, without a backing band\n\nIt sounds like incredibly hard work - but Sheeran's songs never come across as tired or forced.\n\nTake his U2-style stomper Castle On The Hill.\n\nThe lyrics effortlessly evoke his childhood in Framlingham - \"Fifteen years old and smoking hand-rolled cigarettes, Running from the law through the backfields and getting drunk with my friends\" - but he didn't spend hours labouring over them in a notebook.\n\n\"I never write anything down,\" he says. \"That was literally just done line by line, just then and there with a microphone. I put down things that rhyme in my head, and then it forms into a song.\n\n\"Listening back to it, I was like, 'Oh wow, it actually makes a lot of sense.' But that isn't how I approached it at all.\"\n\nCastle On The Hill was released on 6 January, at the same time as the more up-tempo, BBC Radio 1 friendly Shape Of You.\n\nBoth records have dominated the charts since, shifting two million copies.\n\nShape Of You has been at number one for the duration; so did Sheeran know in advance which would do better?\n\n\"I've always said Shape Of You is going to be the biggest now, but Castle On The Hill is going to be the biggest in 20 years,\" he states matter-of-factly.\n\n\"Castle On The Hill is a heritage song that I'll be remembered for.\"\n\nSheeran has sold more than 22 million albums worldwide\n\nThe new album splits between these two extremes - slipping smoothly between beat-driven pop hits and acoustic stadium anthems.\n\nIf, as is rumoured, he headlines the third night of Glastonbury this summer, the tracks have already been road-tested with his trusty loop pedal; meaning he'll continue to play solo, armed with nothing more than his travel-sized guitar.\n\n\"I don't feel like if I suddenly got a band, everyone would go, 'Wow,'\" he says. \"I actually feel it'd take away from me.\"\n\n\"When you've got a band and it's quite rehearsed, it can get quite monotonous night after night.\n\n\"Whereas with a loop pedal, you're on edge the whole time because it might go wrong in front of 87,000 people - so it makes it more exciting.\"\n\nAs you might have worked out by now, Sheeran is supremely confident. Yet he never betrays the sort of ego that derails other artists.\n\nThis is evident in his songs, too, remaining relatable even when he sings about visiting \"four cities, two planes, the same day\".\n\nThat lyric is from Don't - a song which, like the rest of his previous album, he described as being about \"drunken regret\". On ÷ (Divide), there's no such theme.\n\n\"At first, it was a really happy album,\" he says, \"then I thought it was too happy so I took some of the happy songs off it.\n\n\"So it's just a well-rounded view of me right now. Not drunken regret. There's actually no drunken regret on it at all.\"\n\nHas he stopped drinking, then?\n\nEd Sheeran's album, ÷, is released on Friday, 3 March by Atlantic Records.\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 Golf\n\nWorld number three Rory McIlroy says he was \"taken aback\" by the extent of the criticism he received for playing golf with US President Donald Trump.\n\nMcIlroy, who returns to the PGA Tour in Mexico this week after nearly two months out with a rib injury, says he was called \"a fascist and a bigot\".\n\n\"It's not as if we were talking foreign policy out there,\" said the Northern Irishman. \"We were talking golf.\"\n\nMcIlroy also met Tiger Woods, and said the American was \"in a good place\".\n\nFormer world number one Woods has been plagued by injury in recent years, and has not played since pulling out of the second round of February's Dubai Desert Classic because of back spasms.\n\nMcIlroy said the 41-year-old could still play in the Masters - which he has won four times - in April.\n\n\"It's a possibility,\" said McIlroy, who had lunch with Woods last week. \"Mentally, he's in a good place.\n\n\"He struggled with his body over the past couple years and it's unfortunate because it just won't allow him to do what he wants to do.\"\n• None Iain Carter analysis: McIlroy's clubs need to do the talking\n\n'I was just doing what I felt was respectful'\n\nMcIlroy was speaking at a news conference streamed on the PGA Tour's Facebook page.\n\nAsked about his round with Trump at the president's Trump International course in Florida last week, he said: \"I was just doing what I felt was respectful.\n\n\"The president of the United States phones you up and wants to play golf with you. I wasn't going to say no.\n\n\"I don't agree with everything he says but it is what it is. I'm not an American. I can't vote. Even if I could vote I don't think I would have.\"\n\nMcIlroy said he had a \"good time\" and seeing \"30 secret service and 30 cops and snipers in the trees\" was \"a surreal experience\".\n\n'It's been a little tough for me'\n\nMcIlroy is preparing to compete in the WGC-Mexico Championship, which begins on Thursday.\n\nAnd he hopes his injury lay-off is actually \"a blessing in disguise\".\n\nThe former world number one, who won the last of his four majors in 2014, said: \"I feel like I'm probably stronger now than I was in November, December last year.\"\n\nMcIlroy can reclaim top spot in the rankings if he wins at the Club de Golf Chapultepec and Dustin Johnson finishes in a two-way tie for third or worse.\n\n\"I don't think we make too big a deal of it,\" he said. \"It's not as if I earn any more money as the world number one, it's just nice to be able to say you're the best in the world at what you do.\n\n\"It's been a really great group of guys that have won the last few weeks and it's been a little tough for me.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nMohamed Diame and Ayoze Perez scored in the last 10 minutes as Newcastle came from behind to snatch a dramatic victory at Brighton and move back to the top of the Championship.\n\nThe Seagulls looked set to open a four-point lead over the Magpies at the top thanks to a penalty from Glenn Murray.\n\nBut Diame equalised when Christian Atsu's shot looped up off his boot.\n\nAnd then Atsu crossed from the left for substitute Perez, who had only come on seven minutes earlier, to fire home.\n\nThe victory moves Newcastle two points above Brighton as they attempt to return to the Premier League at the first time of asking.\n\nThe Seagulls were fired up for this top-of-the table contest and made a terrific start, camping in the Newcastle half and forcing Karl Darlow into two saves before he was beaten by the spot-kick from Murray.\n\nBut the penalty was controversial, with Murray and Ciaran Clark appearing to wrestle each other, but Bobby Madley pointed to the spot.\n\nSoon after, left-back Sebastien Pocognoli was forced off with an injury to be replaced by Chelsea loanee Fikayo Tomori and Newcastle took advantage of the disruption.\n\nThey started to dominate possession with Atsu looking dangerous on the right, but failed to really trouble David Stockdale until first-half stoppage time when the Brighton goalkeeper had to deny Matt Ritchie and Atsu.\n\nAlthough Paul Dummett brilliantly cleared off the line from Lewis Dunk at the start of the second half, Brighton became careless with Yoan Gouffran failing to capitalise on mistakes by Steve Sidwell and Stockdale.\n\nBrighton had their moments but Newcastle looked the more dangerous side, even though they were let down by poor finishing, before they finally broke through.\n\nNewcastle manager Rafael Benitez, involved in some dramatic comebacks during his career, masterminded another one with his two late substitutions.\n\nThe first replacement, Daryl Murphy, had already become the latest player to be denied by Stockdale when the Magpies finally equalised with one of the most bizarre goals of the season.\n\nAtsu, who had been a constant menace to Brighton all night, tried his luck from the edge of the area and the ball ricocheted off not one, but two colleagues, Diame being the second, before finding its way into the roof of the net.\n\nA minute later, Benitez threw on Spanish striker Perez for the wasteful Gouffran, and within seven minutes he had hit the winner.\n\nAtsu led the defence on a merry dance once again, after a superb sweeping 60-yard pass from Matt Ritchie, before crossing firmly from the left for Perez to slam home from close range.\n\nGiven their next few fixtures, it could be a vital victory for Newcastle as they face every other team in the current top seven in the next few weeks.\n\nThey travel to third-placed Huddersfield, who now trail them by eight points, on Saturday and then go to Reading next Tuesday. By the middle of April they also have to face Fulham, Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds.\n\nBy contrast, Leeds, Derby and Norwich are the only other sides in the top half of the table who Brighton will face in their remaining 12 games.\n\nThe Seagulls are trying to return to the top flight for the first time since they were relegated in 1982-83 after missing out so cruelly last season. Having been pipped on goal difference by Middlesbrough to finish third, they then lost to Sheffield Wednesday in the play-off semi-finals.\n\nWhat the managers said\n\nBrighton manager Chris Hughton: \"Was it [the equaliser] a sickener? Yes, and I don't think it was a result we deserved.\n\n\"I've seen the penalty and there is no doubt Clark has his hands all over him. The referee was in a good position to see it. I think it was a penalty.\n\n\"But then it's one of those really unfortunate goals. I wondered at the time how it had gone in.\n\n\"But that gives Newcastle momentum going into that last period. I didn't think we were at our best today but I still thought we would go on to win.\"\n\nNewcastle boss Rafael Benitez: \"It was difficult when you play against a good team and with the advantage of goal from penalty that wasn't, it was more difficult.\n\n\"Watching the replay of the penalty he was pushing our player. But the reaction of the team was good.\n\n\"We were creating chances and you have to be pleased with the performance of everyone, on the pitch and off the bench.\n\n\"We created a lot of good situations before we got a little bit lucky. And Ayoze was calm and composed for the winner.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Paul Dummett.\n• None Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Brighton and Hove Albion 1, Newcastle United 2. Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Christian Atsu.\n• None Attempt missed. Daryl Murphy (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez.\n• None Goal! Brighton and Hove Albion 1, Newcastle United 1. Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Daryl Murphy following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Atsu (Newcastle United) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Daryl Murphy (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Matt Ritchie with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Daryl Murphy (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Matt Ritchie with a cross. 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. Watch: Why 5G could be ready to deploy by 2020\n\nThe hot topic at Mobile World Congress this year is not a new phone - apart from the Nokia 3310, they all look the same.\n\nNor is it a new technology like virtual reality - compared with last year, there seem to be fewer VR headsets around.\n\nNo, the biggest thing in Barcelona is something invisible that doesn't yet exist, 5G.\n\nThe hype about the potential of the next generation of mobile networks has reached new heights, with every major company exhibiting here eager to explain how it will be at the cutting edge of the coming 5G revolution.\n\nMobile World Congress offers industry insiders a chance to see new technology and strike deals\n\nGovernments too have decided it is now technologically correct (can I coin the term TC?) to rave about the importance to the economy of being 5G-ready.\n\nOn the UK stand, the Trade Minister, Greg Hands, told me funds would continue to pour into 5G research post-Brexit.\n\nOver at the Intel stand, they had gone as far as to build a prototype 5G network to give us a feel of what this new connected paradise would be like.\n\nThere was an autonomous car, a connected home, and a smart lamppost all talking to the network at breakneck speed.\n\nVisitors were invited to don a Microsoft HoloLens headset for an augmented reality display of seas of data flowing round the stand and up into the sky.\n\nMicrosoft is betting that computer users will want to see graphics superimposed over real-world views\n\nIt was easy to forget there was still no agreement on exactly what constitutes 5G, and most countries still had to work out what spectrum would be needed and how they would allocate it.\n\nMore important, perhaps, there is no sense that consumers know anything about it or have any sense that they want it - in fact my sense is that most would prefer to see a bit more of the 4G vision realised before the next revolution comes along.\n\nBut Intel's Aicha Evans did a good job explaining why we should be excited about the promise of 5G.\n\nShe told me: \"Think about what was life like without smartphones - start there,\" and then explained that just as that revolution had connected people, so this next one would allow everything else to get connected, enabling all sorts of advances in the way we live.\n\nNow, Intel is a hardware company that stands to benefit as the telecoms industry has to retool for 5G, but I came away from the exhibit almost convinced.\n\nBut then I ran into two 5G sceptics.\n\nThe first was a senior executive at one of the world's biggest mobile operators, who took a very cynical view of his industry's current state.\n\n\"Who's going to pay for it?\" he asked me, adding operators were already seeing their margins squeezed, as they battled with nimble newcomers such as WhatsApp, and had little appetite to pour money into 5G without seeing much of a return.\n\nCars, robots and other electronics could all benefit from access to 5G data\n\nThe second was a chief technologist at a major networking equipment company - one that could stand to benefit from the 5G rollout.\n\nBut he described the hype around the technology as \"irrational exuberance\" - the same term used by an economist warning in the late 1990s about the dot-com bubble.\n\nHe believed that current advances in 4G - what's known as Gigabit LTE, which enables much faster data rates over existing networks - offered a more practical and affordable solution.\n\nSamsung also discussed its 5G plans at its MWC press conference\n\nNevertheless, he said, there was such a head of steam behind 5G that it was likely to happen, just as the dot-com bubble had led to vast and unaffordable investments in fibre networks.\n\nBut the result was likely to be another radical reshaping of the telecoms industry,\n\nSo the 5G revolution is coming.\n\nBut who will benefit and who will end up going bust as a result of it is far from clear.", "Sergio Aguero slots home from the penalty spot to put Manchester City ahead against Huddersfield Town in their FA Cup fifth-round replay.\n\nWatch all the best action from the FA Cup fifth round here.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "The decline that is on the horizon for the Bridgend engine plant is the latest phase of a shift in gear that has been going on since the early 1990s.\n\nThe change in emphasis goes back to 2008 and the \"one Ford Plan\" - the decision at Ford HQ in Dearborn in the States to \"go global.\"\n\nThis meant operating as a global company and no longer having Ford UK and Ford Europe making different designs of cars compared with the USA and rest of the world.\n\nIn contrast it would become a more centralised global operation with the same models selling across the world and investment going to the plants that can prove they are the most efficient.\n\nFor Wales, and the Bridgend engine plant, that meant it would not just have to compete to be more efficient than Ford's engine plants in Valencia and Cologne - which it had done successfully for decades - it would in future have to compete globally.\n\nBridgend is one of a number of plants in Ford's European operations\n\nWhen Ford decided to cease car assembly in the UK, that made the landscape more challenging for Bridgend.\n\nThe Halewood plant in Liverpool stopped assembling cars for Ford in 1997 and concentrated on Jaguar and later vehicles for Jaguar Land Rover. Ford also stopped assembling cars at its Dagenham plant in Essex in 2002, concentrating on engines instead.\n\nIn 2013, the Transit van factory in Southampton closed, marking the end of Ford making vehicles in the UK.\n\nNow engines made in Bridgend are shipped all over the world to be put into cars before being sent back to showrooms in the UK . You may well be driving around Wales in a Ford car with a Welsh engine but the car will probably have been built in Germany.\n\nWith Ford's European car assembly also based in Romania, Russia and Turkey, it is now a long and less efficient way of supplying engines to production lines.\n\nWith Brexit now on the agenda and the possibility of trade barriers, duties - taxes in effect being put on UK products entering the EU and also goods flowing from the EU to the UK - factories making engines here will have to be even more efficient to be kept open by Ford.\n\nFor the Bridgend engine plant all these factors coming together is increasing the pressure.\n\nIf an engine entering Valencia had a tariff added to its cost only to be then shipped back to the UK with another tariff put on it then it is easy to see why Ford might consider in the future using engines made in Valencia in cars assembled in the same plant.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story behind how the Ford engine plant in Bridgend was built between 1977 and 1980.\n\nHOW FORD CAME TO BRIDGEND\n\nFord chose Bridgend for its new engine plant in the summer of 1977 after competition from elsewhere in Europe, chiefly from Ireland.\n\nThe company had gone back to the Welsh Development Agency, which it impressed despite rejecting deals for two smaller projects. It needed an engine for its new model - code-named Erika - which was designed to rescue the company from the doldrums, especially in Europe and America.\n\nThe car became the next generation Ford Escort, and would be built at Halewood on Merseyside and at Saarlouis in Germany from 1980.\n\nThe Ford factory being built in the late 1970s\n\nThe mark III Ford Escort - which was nearly called the Ford Erika after its development name\n\nThe American company looked at sites in Briton Ferry, Shotton and was close to choosing Llantrisant before opting for development land in Bridgend.\n\nThe deal was finalised after the then Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan - also a Cardiff MP - entertained the Ford Europe chairman at Chequers and then also invited Henry Ford - the grandson of the company's founder - to lunch at No 10.\n\nThe firm had concerns about strikes and Britain's industrial relations record.\n\nBut the deal was worth £36m in government money out of the £180m total cost - although there was also investment at other plants in the UK tied in. The grants for buildings and equipment also included £1m towards a new rail link to the plant.\n\nBy the mid 1970s and the fuel crisis, Ford was adapting its cars to be economical and for the family\n\nThe promise was 2,500 jobs but by the time it opened in May 1980, Ford had decided to take on only 1,400 workers.\n\nSome of the work had already been switched to Valencia. The new Escort would have three different sized engines, not all made at Bridgend. Some would also go into the smaller Ford Fiesta. Executives had also been to Japan to see production techniques and the same number of engines could be produced there by just 800 workers.\n\nBut with industries like steel and mining in difficulty, there was still a big response in south Wales - 22,000 people applied for the new jobs and it would become one of the most important employers along the \"M4 corridor\".\n\nThe \"Erika\" and her successor would by the end of the 1980s be arguably the UK's most popular car with more than 1.6m models on the roads.\n\nWhen Ford announced in 2015 that Bridgend has secured investment for the next petrol engine project called Dragon it said 250,000 engines would be made a year.\n\nThe plant has a capacity for three times that and at the time there were those who were concerned that this signalled the start of a run down of the plant.\n\nAt the moment 1,850 people work at Ford Bridgend making the Sigma engine and also engines for Jaguar. It has planned to cease making engines for Jaguar in 2019 - the same year as production of the Sigma engine for Ford is due to end.\n\nIt is hard to see how Ford can retain anywhere near the existing level of workers when it is no longer making engines for Jaguar and with a relatively small turnover of new Dragon engines.\n\nBut it is not just the size of the workforce that could become unsustainable; the site is massive and it would become increasingly hard for local managers to argue the case that the plant makes economic sense to global Ford.", "Liverpool's Pier Head hosted the opening stage of the Tour of Britain in 2014\n\nLiverpool has offered to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games after hosts Durban admitted it might not be able to afford it.\n\nSouth Africa's sports minister Fikile Mbalula said the government had been forced to have a rethink due to financial restraints.\n\nLiverpool, which is bidding to host the 2026 games, has now offered to step in if Durban cannot host.\n\nThe Commonwealth Games Federation will make the final decision over Durban.\n\nLiverpool Mayor Joe Anderson has written to Sports Minister Tracey Crouch to express the city's interest after Commonwealth Games officials hinted another host might be needed.\n\nA Liverpool City Council spokesperson said: \"Liverpool is interested in hosting the games in 2022.\n\n\"We had heard rumours that Durban might be unable to deliver the Commonwealth Games in 2022 and have already indicated to the government that we are very willing to host them instead.\"\n\nDurban was awarded the Games in 2015 after being the only city to make a confirmed bid.\n\nBut the South African government has been unable to come to agreement with the Commonwealth Games Federation over paying for the tournament.\n\nMr Mbalula said: \"It does not look like we will find each other.\n\n\"We have given it our best shot, but we cannot live beyond our means.\"\n\nBirmingham is also bidding to host 2026 but as yet has not offered to stage the games in 2022.\n\nCllr Ian Ward, deputy leader of Birmingham City Council, said: \"We are aware of the comments coming from Durban.\n\n\"Here in Birmingham we are producing a feasibility study on what would be needed for a 2026 games in the city.\n\n\"That is due to be completed in April, at which point we will be in a position to decide what we want to do.\"\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. Meet Allen Pembroke, the British holidaymaker who went back to the beach\n\nAllen Pembroke has had the same nightmare 50 times. So far.\n\nIt is late morning on 26 June 2015. He is on the beach in the Tunisian resort of Port El Kantaoui near Sousse.\n\nThe Islamist gunman Seifeddine Rezgui is in the midst of his shooting rampage targeting British and other European holidaymakers at the Imperial hotel.\n\nMr Pembroke is trying to comfort a badly-injured British woman, when suddenly he realises Rezgui has returned to the beach and is standing behind them, about to open fire.\n\nSomehow he manages to grab the high-powered assault rifle and turn it so it is pointing into the air.\n\nIt is then that Mr Pembroke wakes up in a sweat after lashing out. Sometimes he throws punches in his sleep.\n\nAlmost two years after the attack, which he and his wife witnessed close-up, they are still struggling to overcome the trauma, despite destroying all photographs, documents and other memorabilia from the trip.\n\nThirty of the 38 people killed by a gunman on a Tunisian beach were British\n\n\"It's had a massive impact,\" says Mr Pembroke, 62, who works as a service manager at a car company in London.\n\n\"It's never going to go, and unfortunately since that day there've been several other terrorist incidents.\n\n\"With each incident, it's recall, we re-live the day.\n\n\"Even the start of the inquest... it just re-opens the wound.\"\n\nWhile many caught up in the attack ran for their lives when the shooting began, Mr Pembroke did something very different.\n\nAfter hearing the first shots on the beach, he and his wife ran to their room a few metres away in a hotel next to the Imperial.\n\n\"While I am dragging her to the room, I could hear rapid gunfire, screaming, and bullets flying overhead,\" he said.\n\n\"I took her to the room and said, 'Stay there, please don't open the door, stay away from the window and lie on the floor.'\"\n\nMr Pembroke then ran straight back to the beach towards the sound of the gunfire.\n\n\"I just wanted to help… I couldn't just secure myself in the room. I would have felt cowardly because I'd seen people go down, there was screaming.\n\n\"I thought, I've got some basic first aid skills, so let me see what I can do.\"\n\nAmong the sun loungers close to the water's edge, he found people lying in pools of blood with injuries so horrific he did not want the details to be repeated.\n\nHe also found Cheryl Mellor, still alive after being shot in the leg and arm, drifting in and out of consciousness.\n\n\"I asked her if she was English and she replied that she was. So I said, 'My name is Allen and I will do what I can to help.'\"\n\nHer hand had been blown off by the impact of a high velocity round from Rezgui's Kalashnikov rifle.\n\nMr Pembroke grabbed a scarf and tied it around her arm as a makeshift tourniquet and then used a towel to stem the bleeding from her leg.\n\nBut the most difficult task was yet to come.\n\nMrs Mellor wanted to know what had happened to her husband, Stephen, who was lying nearby with severe wounds to his chest.\n\nMr Pembroke checked his pulse but there was nothing.\n\n\"Do you really want to know?\" Mr Pembroke asked.\n\n\"Yes,\" she replied. She passed out when he told her that her husband was dead.\n\nLater he offered to carry her to safety but she insisted on staying next to her husband, saying she would play dead if the gunman returned to the beach.\n\nHe did, but she survived.\n\nMr Pembroke spent 20 minutes on the beach comforting Mrs Mellor and checking to see if any other holidaymakers who had been shot were still alive.\n\nHe says he was alone and no one else was helping.\n\n\"I saw no military or medical staff and it's only in recent reports that I found out that the police waited, they fainted, they hid.\n\n\"That's unforgivable, they need to be accountable for that.\"\n\nBy the end of the attack 38 people, including 30 Britons, were killed.\n\nRezgui was later shot dead by police.\n\nAlthough still haunted by what he saw on that day, Mr Pembroke has tried to resume a normal life.\n\nBut he has taken on another job as well.\n\nHe is now a trained community first responder for the voluntary organisation, St John Ambulance.\n\nHe also remains in regular contact with Mrs Mellor, so they can help support each other.\n\n\"It gives me some peace,\" he added.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nA 'mystery' medical package, a courier, a doctor, a world-famous rider and a ground-breaking cycling team. It's a story of many parts.\n\nAs MPs again look at the circumstances surrounding a jiffy bag delivered to Sir Bradley Wiggins in 2011, we look at the background to the inquiry.\n\nRead more: No medical records for 'mystery package'\n\nHow did this issue arise?\n\nTeam Sky came under pressure to reveal the contents of the 'mystery' package following a Daily Mail allegation in October 2016.\n\nThe newspaper claimed a jiffy bag was delivered to Team Sky on the final day of the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine - which Wiggins won - by Simon Cope, a former professional rider then working as a coach for British Cycling's women's teams.\n\nCope reportedly made the trip at the request of the team and Dr Richard Freeman, then a medic at Team Sky who now works with British Cycling.\n\nHe was said to have flown into Geneva Airport, driven for two hours to France to deliver the package before driving back to Geneva, where he was accompanied by the team's former head coach Shane Sutton, and flew back to the UK.\n\nUK Anti-Doping (Ukad) then began an investigation into the contents of the package.\n\nTeam boss Sir Dave Brailsford was already facing questions after Wiggins' use of a banned steroid before races was leaked by hackers Fancy Bears.\n\nWiggins had sought therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) for the anti-inflammatory drug triamcinoclone, for allergies and respiratory issues before the 2011 Tour de France, his 2012 Tour win and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.\n\nBrailsford defended the five-time Olympic champion and insisted the team \"do not cross the line\" on performance-enhancing drugs.\n\nWhat was in the package?\n\nIn an interview with Cycling News, Cope said he did not know what was contained in the package he was asked to carry.\n\n\"It was just an envelope, a jiffy bag, a small jiffy bag,\" he said. \"As far as I know it could have been pedals in there.\"\n\nWhen Brailsford faced the Department for Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) hearing into doping in sport in December, he said he had been told by Freeman that \"it was Fluimucil for a nebuliser\".\n\nSutton confirmed the package was for Wiggins, who won the event.\n\nFluimucil is a decongestant which is used to clear mucus.\n\nIt is legal in sport and Brailsford said it was \"administered on a regular basis\".\n\nFormer Olympic champion Nicole Cooke, who has been critical of Cope's role in the matter, was unhappy with Brailsford's testimony, pointing out Fluimucil is available freely over the counter in France, costing 10 euros (£8).\n\nShe also said there were eight pharmacies located within 5km of where the team bus was parked in France going into the final day of the Dauphine.\n\nWho else was unhappy at Brailsford's testimony?\n\nDavid Kenworthy, the outgoing chairman of Ukad, told the BBC the answers given by figures within British Cycling and Team Sky to the DCMS committee were \"very disappointing\".\n\nKenworthy said: \"People could remember a package that was delivered to France, they can remember who asked for it, they can remember the route it took, who delivered it, the times it arrived. The select committee has got expense sheets and travel documents.\n\n\"So everybody can remember this from five years ago, but no-one can remember what was in the package. That strikes me as being extraordinary. It is very disappointing.\"\n\nWhen asked about Brailsford's explanation, Kenworthy said: \"Well that's what Dave Brailsford came out with at the hearing. But actually, if you recall, he didn't say: 'I know that's what it was.' He said: 'I have been told that's what it was.'\"\n\nCommittee chairman Damian Collins MP said: \"There is a considerable public interest in Ukad's investigation and it is also important to our inquiry into doping in sport to understand what they have been able to determine from their investigation.\n\n\"The committee has been told by both British Cycling and Team Sky that they have supplied all the information they have relating to this investigation to Ukad.\n\n\"However, we need to know if they have received documentary evidence which confirms what was in the package that was delivered by Simon Cope to Team Sky.\n\n\"Without this evidence, I am concerned about how it is possible for the anti-doping rules to be policed in an appropriate manner, if it is not possible to review the records of medicines prescribed to riders by the team doctors.\"\n\nWhat was Brailsford's reaction to the criticism?\n\nBrailsford has admitted to handling the crisis \"badly\", after providing initial explanations for the delivery to the Daily Mail that later turned out to be wrong.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC in January, Brailsford insisted Team Sky can be trusted \"100%\".\n\nWhen Kenworthy's quotes were put to him, he answered: \"The only extraordinary thing I could see was that he actually commented on the whole process himself.\n\n\"There is an open investigation that is still ongoing.\"\n\nBrailsford refused to confirm or deny whether he or anyone else at Team Sky had been able to provide paperwork to prove the package contained Fluimucil.\n\n\"I will give what I have got to Ukad,\" he said. \"I said what I had to say in the DCMS and I am leaving it there. I am leaving it to the right people so they can analyse it and go through the right process. We are contributing everything we have got to the process.\n\n\"I can't talk on behalf of British Cycling.\"\n\nBritish Cycling says it cannot comment while a Ukad investigation is ongoing.\n\nTeam Sky have said they are \"confident\" no wrongdoing will be found when the inquiry is concluded.\n\nTrack cyclist Jess Varnish, 26, was dropped from British Cycling's elite programme last April, after which former technical director Sutton was found to have used sexist language towards her.\n\nSutton was later cleared of eight of nine allegations.\n\nBritish Cycling found he had used the word \"bitches\" to Varnish, but the rest of her allegations - including a claim he told her to \"go and have a baby\" - were not upheld.\n\nSutton resigned after being suspended pending the investigation, but has always denied wrongdoing.\n\nBritish Cycling is preparing to brief riders and staff about an 'action plan' of reforms following concerns over the culture at its performance programme.\n\nAfter Varnish's claims of a 'culture of fear' were supported by other former riders, British Rowing chair Annamarie Phelps was asked to lead an independent investigation into claims of bullying, favouritism and sexism.\n\nHer report - described by one senior source as \"explosive\" - is due to be published in the next month.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPremier League champions Leicester have held informal talks with former England boss Roy Hodgson about him becoming their new manager.\n\nHowever, it is thought the 69-year-old was just one potential candidate spoken to in the search for Claudio Ranieri's replacement.\n\nAnd acting boss Craig Shakespeare could stay in charge until the end of the season if results continue to improve.\n\nRanieri was sacked on 23 February, nine months after winning the title.\n\nThe Italian departed with the Foxes just one point above the relegation zone.\n\nShakespeare's first match as caretaker manager resulted in a 3-1 victory over Liverpool on Monday.\n\nDefender Danny Simpson said Shakespeare is a \"top coach and a top guy\".\n\nHe said: \"He has kept it simple and told us what he wanted to do, which was simple and basic, and we've done that so let's hope we can carry it on for him.\"\n\nHodgson has been out of work since resigning as England coach after they lost to Iceland at Euro 2016.\n\nBut his former goalkeeping coach Dean Kiely says Hodgson should be a leading contender for the Leicester job and the public perception of the veteran manager is \"totally wrong\".\n\nKiely, who worked under him at West Brom, said: \"I can see why he's on anyone's shortlist.\"\n\nHodgson, who has been managing for more than 40 years, guided Fulham to the Europa League final in 2010 and had spells in charge of Liverpool and West Brom before he got the England job in 2012.\n\nHe took the Three Lions to the quarter-finals at Euro 2012, but two years later they were eliminated at the group stage of a World Cup for the first time since 1958.\n\nHodgson's team won all 10 matches in qualifying for Euro 2016 but he quit after a 2-1 defeat by Iceland in the last 16 left him with a record of three victories from 11 games in major tournaments.\n• None Hodgson 'can only be a benefit for Leicester'\n\nFormer Republic of Ireland goalkeeper Kiely told BBC Radio 5 live: \"The public perception is totally wrong to how he is as a person and how the players react to him, which is only positive from my point of view.\n\n\"The end of his England reign was quite negative but shouldn't wash away all the good work he had done in the campaign leading up to that and also his club management career, certainly at West Brom.\"\n\nKiely said Hodgson \"brought stability\" when he succeeded Roberto di Matteo at The Hawthorns in February 2011.\n\n\"He was great,\" said the former Charlton goalkeeper. \"He just wants to be out on the training ground, with tracksuit on and coaching the players.\n\n\"I was fortunate to go in for England training when Roy invited me in. On the grass, he comes alive and the best thing for me was the players responded great to Roy.\n\n\"He's a fantastic fella away from football also, very engaging, and the time I spent with him was excellent for me. I learned a lot.\"", "Theresa May watched the opening stages of the Brexit debate in the Lords\n\nIt's not that peers are trying to block Brexit. They have been adamant, time and again, that's not their game.\n\nBut tomorrow they are voting on a change they are trying to make to the government's Article 50 law (the legal process that will start Brexit), by pushing the government to give guarantees about the future of the three million or so people from other countries in the EU who live here.\n\nTime and again Theresa May has said that she wants them to have \"reciprocal rights\" - to be allowed to stay and live as they wish - as long as Brits abroad get the same entitlements.\n\nAnd time and again, she has said she wants to settle the issue early in the Brexit negotiations, and is hopeful of doing so.\n\nMinisters have stopped short of giving a firm guarantee though. That's what peers want, and a Labour amendment tomorrow with support from peers from all parties will push for exactly that. And it seems there is enough support in the House of Lords to back the plan. That means defeat for the government, and embarrassment for Theresa May.\n\nThis afternoon, the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, has written to all members of the House of Lords in an effort to reassure. In the letter, she says that \"nothing will change for any EU citizen, whether already resident in the UK or moving from the EU, without Parliament's approval\".\n\nThe letter is not that different to what was sent to MPs previously to try to ease their minds, as the Article 50 legislation made its way through the House of Commons. It does though appear to kill off the idea that Theresa May will arbitrarily set a cut off date for EU immigration without having to get MPs or peers onside first. But it is unlikely to spare the government's blushes tomorrow. Without a further more dramatic concession, they are set to lose.\n\nThat will set in train the first 'ping' of the potential 'ping pong' - the Parliamentary process where the Lords reject something in the red chamber, sending it back down the corridors to the green benches - daring, imploring perhaps, backbenchers to join with them and push back at the government.\n\nThere is no sign at the moment that ministers want to budge on this issue. There's frustration that they have so far not been able to resolve it with their EU counterparts.\n\nOne cabinet minister told me it's \"the Germans standing in the way\". They are refusing to discuss anything at all until the formal process is underway.\n\nA senior EU source though suggested this could have been dealt with already if Number 10 had played it differently. They argued, if Theresa May had tried to resolve the issue first with European Council president Donald Tusk on behalf of the whole of the EU, there could have been an early deal.\n\nBut by going to Germany first, seeming to try to deal country by country, it would never have been possible for Frau Merkel to agree. The source suggested this was an example of how Number 10 is yet to understand fully how much the dynamics of the EU dictate that the other 27 will try to stick together. Better handling of that could, perhaps, have avoided tomorrow's likely defeat.\n\nYet a predictable loss in the Lords may in one way be no bad thing for the government at this early stage of the whole process. The Lords aren't going to block Brexit, but they do want to make their voices heard.\n\nAnd a source suggested that tomorrow's defeat \"is not that bad for either side\". Once the legislation makes it back to the Commons, if there are only a handful of Tory backbenchers who pile in on this issue, the government may well be able to ride it out. But that is a big if.\n\nMinisters are well aware that tomorrow's defeat may well be the first of many. For a long time there have been warnings that Brexit is going to get pretty bumpy for the government in Parliament.\n\nIt's true that Theresa May has had to give a few concessions here and there to avoid defeat but tomorrow, for the first time, the government is likely to be beaten over Brexit. Not by MPs, but by the House of Lords. Sources tell me they don't just expect ministers to be beaten, but for the opposition to \"win handsomely\".", "The Hammonia Grenada was sold for scrap at the start of this year\n\nIn January 2010, the container ship Hammonia Grenada was delivered from a Chinese yard to its new owners, reportedly priced at about $60m (about £37m at that time).\n\nJust seven years later - at the start of this year - it was sold for scrap. The price: an estimated $5.5m (£4.4m today).\n\nIt's not the only vessel to suffer this fate. Last year container ships were sold at rock-bottom prices for scrap in record numbers.\n\nThe simple reason is that there are too many ships for too little cargo.\n\nThe most dramatic casualty was South Korean group Hanjin, which collapsed last August weighed down by debts.\n\nThe container shipping industry, and Hanjin in particular, has been spectacularly wrong about the financial crisis - twice.\n\nThere was not one but two waves of container ship ordering in 2010, and then again in 2013-14. Interest rates were low and money was cheap. The result - a massive oversupply of vessels.\n\n\"The attitude in the industry was when you were not making profits the best thing to do was to cut costs, and the best way to cut costs is to increase scale, buying bigger and more fuel-efficient ships,\" explains Rahul Kapoor, director at shipping consultancy Drewry Financial Research Services.\n\n\"Before 2008 and 2009 the world had been growing consistently, and after 10 years of growth no-one in the shipping industry expected demand to shrink so fast.\n\n\"To start with they thought it was just a blip. But in reality it was structural, and they totally missed the structural problems.\"\n\nAnd there was another reason to buy - and to buy big: the Panama Canal.\n\nLast year it got a serious upgrade. The old locks could take container ships up to only 5,000 TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit, roughly one container). These are known as Panamaxes.\n\nBut the new locks, with gates weighing 700 tonnes or more, are designed to take so called Neo-Panamaxes. These are giants, equivalent to the width and length of three football pitches laid end to end, and can carry about 13,000 TEU.\n\nThe new lock gates on the Panama Canal weigh up to 700 tonnes and measure almost 30 metres high\n\nSo shippers looking to carry cargoes from Asia to the American east coast ports, can now take Neo-Panamaxes through the new canal - and sell off their smaller Panamaxes.\n\nThat's why Panamaxes like the Hammonia Grenada are going cheap - in fact, they're going nowhere. If you want to charter one, according to research group Clarksons, it will cost you less than half of what it did a year ago.\n\nAndrew Scorer of S&P Platts says: \"You have a steady trickle of ships going to the scrap yard under the blowtorch, but you have these bigger TEU ships with bigger capacity, and they're going to be ruling the waves for now.\"\n\nMeanwhile, ports are modernising to take the bigger cargoes. Baltimore, Charleston, Miami, New York and Savannah are all updating facilities to accommodate the Neo-Panamaxes.\n\nFor instance, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey plans to spend $2.7bn on enlarging its terminals and shipping lanes, and a further $1.3bn to raise a bridge by 20 metres to get the monsters through.\n\nBut the fundamental problem of oversupply has not gone away.\n\nAccording to Clarksons, the global fleet of all types of commercial shipping is 50% larger than it was before the financial crisis.\n\nIn contrast, the World Trade Organization says growth in global trade has been much smaller, creeping up from $14.3 trillion in 2007 to $16.7tn in 2015, an increase of just 15%.\n\nIt's not necessarily all doom and gloom. In fact, Drewry's latest Shipping Outlook suggests the market could actually be at a turning point.\n\nIt believes the problem of too many ships for too little cargo is now set to improve, and forecasts global freight rates will increase by 12% this year after four years of decline.\n\nContainer ships may not be so relevant in an electronic world\n\nBut the reality is that the slowing in global trade may have more profound causes - not to do with shipping or economic growth, but to do with how and what we consume.\n\nLast year, Mr Kapoor wrote a report for Drewry's using the example of his son's excitement at buying the Pokemon Go app and comparing his own habits 15 years earlier.\n\nWhile his son was happy to buy something electronic, back in Mr Kapoor's youth he would have bought something physical that may well have been shipped in a container from Asia.\n\n\"In an increasingly knowledge based and services driven global economic expansion, the trade expansion is stagnating,\" he wrote.\n\n\"The global manufacturing engines, world trade, credit driven GDP growth model is being increasingly challenged and world trade seems to be stuck in a time warp, barely growing.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nA doctor who received a 'mystery package' for Sir Bradley Wiggins in 2011 has no record of his medical treatment at the time, MPs have heard.\n\nIn 2014, ex-Team Sky medic Dr Richard Freeman had a laptop containing medical records stolen, the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee were told.\n\nTeam Sky and British Cycling's record-keeping was questioned in the hearing.\n\n\"No one has any recognition of what was in the package,\" UK Anti-Doping chief Nicole Sapstead said on Wednesday.\n\nThe select committee is conducting an inquiry entitled 'Combatting doping in sport', while Ukad has been carrying out its own investigation into the contents of the jiffy bag package.\n• None The cycling inquiry as it happened\n\nReferring to Team Sky's incomplete records, Sapstead described it as \"odd\", adding that she thought a team founded on the premise of racing cleanly would have evidence \"to demonstrate any inferences to the contrary\".\n\nCommittee chairman Damian Collins MP said after the hearing that the \"credibility of Team Sky and British Cycling is in tatters\".\n\nHe added: \"How can you say British Cycling is the cleanest and most ethical in the world when there are no records to substantiate what the doctors are giving the cyclists?\"\n\nCollins told BBC Sport the hearing had been \"a damning indictment of the way things have been run\" at both organisations.\n\nDr Freeman, who received the package from then-British Cycling coach Simon Cope on the final day of the Criterium du Dauphine in France in 2011, missed the hearing because of ill health.\n\nCope described himself as a \"gap filler\" for British Cycling and Team Sky and told MPs he did not ask what was in the package.\n\nIn December, Team Sky boss Sir Dave Brailsford told the committee that Freeman had said the package contained an over-the-counter decongestant, Fluimucil.\n\nBut Sapstead said Ukad still does not know for sure if Fluimucil was in the package because there is no paperwork.\n\n\"We have asked for inventories and medical records and we have not been able to ascertain that because there are no records,\" she said.\n\nWhat do Team Sky and British Cycling say?\n\nTeam Sky said they had \"co-operated fully\" with Ukad's investigation and denied any wrongdoing.\n\n\"Team Sky is a clean team,\" the statement said. \"We abide by the rules and we are proud of our stance against doping.\n\n\"We believe our approach to anti-doping is rigorous and comprehensive.\"\n\nBritish Cycling, meanwhile, acknowledged \"serious failings in our record-keeping at the time\" but said they would review and make changes to their processes.\n\n\"We are wholly committed to clean sport and I want to assure athletes, fans and all other stakeholders that this commitment is unwavering,\" said British Cycling chair Jonathan Browning.\n\n\"It is not enough to just be clean, we must also be able to demonstrate that we are clean.\"\n• None Cope said he had no reason to be believe there was anything \"untoward\" in the package\n• None He said he does not believe there is any cheating in British cycling\n• None Asked if he felt \"stitched up\" and \"left to dangle\" because of the ongoing inquiry, Cope said \"yes\".\n• None Sapstead said a UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) inquiry had been hampered by incomplete or non-existent records\n• None She said: \"Team Sky did have a policy of keeping records, just not everyone was adhering to it\"\n• None Freeman could potentially face investigation by the General Medical Council for his poor record-keeping\n• None Wiggins said he was treated with Fluimucil but was unaware of the jiffy bag contents\n• None Orders of the anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone were enough for more than one cyclist\n• None There was no evidence of a cover-up or tampering of evidence, said Sapstead\n\nIt is the team which championed its use of marginal gains. But Team Sky, together with British Cycling, are now embroiled in a monumental mess.\n\nThe evidence provided by Nicole Sapstead, and in a different way by Simon Cope, has damaged the reputations of both organisations which have preached a commitment to keeping cycling drug-free in recent years.\n\nThe lack of effective auditing and the claimed \"resistance\" to investigators are problematic enough.\n\nWhat will require a more rapid response is the assertion by Sapstead that records show British Cycling's medical store held a significant amount of triamcinolone, with suggestions it was being used by more than one rider.\n\nFinding answers to that however would require access to every rider's medical files - a problem given the overriding requirements for doctor/patient confidentiality.\n\nThe implications of this long-running and ongoing affair could therefore be wide ranging.\n\nWhat did anti-doping chief tell committee?\n\nSapstead said Ukad has interviewed 34 current and former riders and staff members at British Cycling and Team Sky in an investigation that has taken up more than 1,000 man hours.\n\nShe described the confusion of how Freeman, who was effectively working for both British Cycling and its road racing off-shoot Team Sky, ordered and stored medicine for riders at the governing body's Manchester headquarters, with no clear separation between which drug was for which outfit.\n\n\"It's very clear from our investigation that there is no audit trail of what is going in and out of a comprehensive supply of medical products,\" she said.\n\nSapstead was asked why Dr Freeman could not produce any evidence.\n\n\"He kept medical records on a laptop and, according to Team Sky policy, was meant to upload those records to a dropbox that the other team doctors had access to,\" she said.\n\n\"But he didn't do that, for whatever reason, and in 2014 his laptop was stolen while he was on holiday in Greece.\"\n\nSapstead said Ukad contacted Interpol to check if this theft was reported at the time but has not received any confirmation it was, although Freeman did report it to British Cycling.\n\nWhat did courier tell committee?\n\nCope said he was asked by his then-boss Shane Sutton to pick up a package from the National Cycling Centre in Manchester on 8 June, 2011 and take it out to French ski resort La Toussuire, where the Dauphine [won by Wiggins] finished on 12 June.\n\nHe told MPs he considered this to be a routine request and common in cycling.\n\nQuestioned on why he did not ask what was in the package, he said: \"Why would I question it? Why would I question the integrity of our governing body? I just didn't ask. You may think I'm stupid.\n\n\"It must have been something medical, because it was for Dr Freeman, but I had no reason to doubt it. Throughout my career, I've looked up to our governing body. We've done so well and with a zero-tolerance stance [on doping].\"\n\nWhen pointed to the fact he was taking medical products overseas, Cope - who now manages Wiggins' professional road-racing team - said: \"I probably should have asked what was in the package but the other day I travelled down to Spain with 40 boxes in the car. I didn't check every box, but I presume they were helmets.\"\n\nCope was asked to explain a discrepancy between his recollection of his movements that week and the expense claim he submitted to British Cycling.\n\n\"I might have been trying to fiddle them. We all do that, don't we?\" he said.\n\nHow did we get here?\n\nWiggins is a five-time Olympic gold medallist and in 2012 became the first Briton to win the Tour de France.\n\nHe and Team Sky boss Brailsford have come under scrutiny since information on the rider's authorised use of banned drugs to treat a medical condition was released by hackers.\n\nWiggins, an asthma and allergy sufferer, received special permission to use triamcinolone shortly before the 2012 Tour as well as the previous year's event and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.\n\nHis TUEs were approved by British authorities, and cycling's world governing body the UCI. There is no suggestion either the 36-year-old or Team Sky broke any rules.\n\nWhat the papers said", "Joseph Ombimbo Nyakwaka and his wife Beatrice used their cash transfer to buy seeds and improve their home\n\nWhat is the best way of ensuring aid money is used effectively and efficiently? In Kenya, charities are experimenting with direct cash transfers, allowing individual recipients to spend the money on whatever they like.\n\nThousands of groups spend billions of dollars every year helping tens of millions of people.\n\nWhether it's a response to a humanitarian crisis or trying to lift communities out of poverty, aid accounts for a hefty chunk of the budgets of governments, UN agencies and international organisations.\n\nIt takes many different forms: sacks of grain delivered to hungry people, tents provided to the homeless or displaced, and increasingly it's cash - delivered electronically to a phone or credit card.\n\nSome cash comes with conditions - allowing the bearer to buy only certain things for example, but there's a surge of support for unconditional direct cash transfers, because the research shows it can be incredibly effective.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happens when aid is given in cash? How would you spend $1,000?\n\n\"Cash transfers are one of the social programmes that have been most extensively studied and we know that they can be very effective,\" said Francesca Bastagli from the Overseas Development Institute, which published a detailed report on the subject.\n\n\"Cash transfers increase people's income, people's consumption, particularly food consumption, but also improve dietary diversity.\n\n\"We find strong evidence linking cash transfers to increasing school attendance, health care visits, household savings, and increasing investments in productive assets.\"\n\nIn Kisumu, western Kenya, a charity called GiveDirectly has spent more than five years giving out large lump sums of money.\n\nWith the strapline \"We aim to reshape international giving\", it was started by a group of Harvard and MIT economics students and its impact has been closely researched.\n\nEach recipient is sent about $1,000 (£800) in two or three instalments and they can spend the money on whatever they like.\n\n\"We find strong evidence linking cash transfers to increasing school attendance, health care visits, in household savings, and increasing investments in productive assets.\"\n\nA new roof was a popular purchase in Kakojo village two years ago when the cash popped up on the phones of those selected.\n\n\"We use a variety of different indicators like asset ownership, the size of the house, the number of kids, that kind of thing,\" said Will Lee, the charity's country director for Kenya.\n\nEmily Aeino Otieno's new tin roof not only helps her collect runoff water when it rains, but it saves her the money she was using to repair thatch twice a year.\n\n\"I'm happy because I'm not using any more money on my roof,\" she said.\n\n\"I can use that money to buy my clothes, food, pay school fees and other expenses.\"\n\nAnd she also has a little business buying cooking fat in bulk and selling it off in small packets.\n\nJoseph Ombimbo Nyakwaka and his wife Beatrice bought some seed and fertiliser and were harvesting maize to eat and sell.\n\nThey also paid for two cows and two calves as an investment, some wooden beams to improve their home, school fees for one of the children and even had some left over to pay a dowry - more than 30 years after they were married.\n\nGiveDirectly claims 91% of the money people donate goes directly to those in need - taking out many of the overheads.\n\nAnd it's not just charities or non-governmental organisations which are increasingly turning to the direct payment route.\n\nThe UK government's Department for International Development (DfID) funds them elsewhere in Kenya - in the drought-hit counties in the arid north and north-east.\n\nIn Wajir County, the cattle graze on whatever scraps of grass they can find as they plod through sand under a burning sun.\n\nThe pastoralists here are mainly nomads, leading their cattle, sheep, goats and camels to the water holes, but struggling to find them pasture.\n\nAbdullahi Haji Abdi used to have 100 head of cattle, but the last big drought took many of them, and now he's trying to hold on to the few he has left.\n\nThe UK's Department for International Development has experimented with cash transfers in some parts of Kenya affected by severe drought\n\nWhen times are tough the animals are sold to pay the bills - often when the price is at its lowest - and when the rains return the assets are gone and people just get poorer.\n\n\"If it wasn't for these cash payments I'd have to sell the livestock to pay for school fees, food for the family and the basic things,\" he told me.\n\nWhen the credit is remotely added to his plastic card he pops it into one of those machines that normally takes debit card payments, and the teller checks his identity by scanning his fingerprint.\n\nShe then hands over the $25 or so he receives each month from a black plastic bag full of cash.\n\nIt's called the Hunger Safety Net Programme and provides regular payments to more than half a million people - 34% of that money was provided by Kenya last year, the rest funded by DfID.\n\nThe Kenyan government's National Drought Management Authority also makes payments to hundreds of thousands more people when drought starts to bite - all that money is provided by UK taxpayers.\n\nIn the UK, there has been criticism of government aid payments - especially in relation to direct cash transfers - with suggestions people would waste it or abuse the system.\n\n\"There is no evidence that recipients of cash transfers are using this cash on goods such as alcohol or tobacco,\" said Ms Bastagli from the Overseas Development Institute.\n\n\"There's a common claim that cash transfers can make people lazy or make them work less, but there's no evidence to suggest cash transfers lead to a reduction in people working.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nRaith Rovers had plenty of ways to sign a new keeper rather than use midfielder Ryan Stevenson in goal for their 1-0 loss to Ayr United, according to the Scottish Professional Football League.\n\nRovers manager John Hughes said the governing body should be \"embarrassed\" by its decision to reject his club's request for a postponement.\n\nHis club had no fit goalkeepers.\n\n\"Raith Rovers had a number of options open to them once their only fit goalkeeper was injured,\" said the SPFL.\n\n\"They could have brought in an under-21 goalkeeper, or an out-of-contract goalkeeper of any age, in each case without any permission from the SPFL board.\n\n\"They could also have sought permission from the SPFL board to bring in a goalkeeper of any age on an emergency basis.\n\n\"All of these options were explained to Raith Rovers, who chose to do none of these things and instead requested a postponement on the day of the match.\"\n\nThe Kirkcaldy club, who have Kevin Cuthbert and Aaron Lennox recovering from injuries sustained earlier this year, had gone without a goalkeeper on the bench for their previous three matches.\n\nThen Conor Brennan injured a foot in Saturday's defeat by Queen of the South and a deal to sign Celtic goalkeeper Logan Bailly on an emergency loan fell through late on Monday evening.\n\nHughes hit out at the SPFL after Farid el Alagui's header moved Ayr, who are second-bottom of the Championship, to within one point of his eighth-placed side.\n\n\"It's just making a mockery of it, isn't it?\" he said. \"They need to have a right good look at themselves. I hope they're embarrassed.\n\n\"The guys that sit and vote and put their hand up for it to go ahead, half of them couldn't kick the blankets off the bed, never played football. That's the problem - they don't know what it's all about.\n\n\"Maybe for the best of Scottish football, we'll take the hit, but this can't happen again in Scottish football.\n\n\"We've got four loans in, so we'd have to try to get someone to go back to their club before we could [sign a goalkeeper on loan].\n\n\"We'd be looking at someone who is under 21 for the loan and, if we'd brought in a young keeper, I don't think he'd have done any better than Ryan Stevenson.\n\n\"He had a great save in the first minute. He acquitted himself very, very well.\"\n\nWhile Ayr manager Ian McCall believed his side were on a \"hiding to nothing\" because of the \"whole circus\" surrounding the game, he felt it did not affect the outcome.\n\n\"It didn't really influence the game,\" he said. \"He had no chance with the goal and he made a couple of good saves.\"\n\nStevenson, 32, played in goal for the final five minutes of Partick Thistle's 4-0 defeat by Hearts in October 2015 after Ryan Scully was sent off with the Jags having used all of their substitutes.\n\nBut he wants his stint in goal on Tuesday to be his last.\n\n\"It was a strange experience,\" said Stevenson, who revealed he was wearing gloves belonging to Dundee United goalkeeper Cammy Bell.\n\n\"I didn't want to let the boys down and I suppose it's something I can tick off the bucket list.\n\n\"I think that's the gloves hung up now. I've got them in the bag and I'll get the shirt framed.\n\n\"It's not something you'd have thought you'd have to do in a professional game.\n\n\"Hopefully, it's something I'll not be repeating again.\"", "The claim: 60% of self-employed people will pay less National Insurance as a result of these changes.\n\nReality Check verdict: 60% of people according to Treasury estimates will pay less, but only if you combine the abolition of Class 2 National Insurance contributions, which was announced in 2016, with the increase in Class 4 contributions announced on Wednesday. Nobody will pay less National Insurance as a result of the changes announced in Wednesday's Budget alone.\n\nChancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond was on the BBC's Breakfast programme on Thursday, talking about the changes made in his Budget.\n\nHe said that 60% of self-employed people would pay less National Insurance as a result of the changes.\n\nWhat changed on Wednesday was that in April 2018, Class 4 National Insurance contributions will rise from 9% of profits earned between £8,060 and £43,000 a year, to 10%.\n\nThe following year it will rise again to 11%.\n\nNational Insurance of 2% will still be payable on earnings above £43,000.\n\nGeorge Osborne announced the previous year that Class 2 National Insurance contributions, which are paid at a flat rate of £2.80 a week by self-employed people earning profits of more than £5,965 a year, would be abolished from April 2018.\n\nMr Hammond was keen to combine the effects of these two changes, describing the net effect as raising £145m a year by 2020-21.\n\nThe Budget documents predict that just raising Class 4 contributions will raise £495m in 2020-21, with the measure raising a total of just over £2bn over the next five years.\n\nIf you look at the two changes together, the Treasury says that 2.6 million people will be better off by an average of £115 a year, while 1.6 million people will lose out by an average of £240 a year.\n\nThe latest labour market figures estimated that there were a total of 4.8 million self-employed workers, but some of them will be earning less than £5,965 so will be neither better off nor worse off, which means the total is feasible.\n\nFrom those figures, it appears that 60% of self-employed people could be paying less in National Insurance.\n\nBut it would be a bit surprising if all self-employed people looked at it like that.\n\nThey were expecting a tax cut in April next year, and as a result of this Budget, 40% of them will now face a tax increase instead.\n\nIt will be the higher-earning, self-employed people who lose out.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal studies has worked out that anyone earning profits of less than £15,570 a year will be better off, while the maximum loss will be £589 a year.\n\nUPDATE 15 March: More figures emerged in the following days and the policy was reversed a week later. Find more details in this Reality Check.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio Scotland, plus live text commentary via the BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app\n\nEngland prop Mako Vunipola believes he and brother Billy can come back better than ever after their injury lay-offs.\n\nThe pair were outstanding for England throughout 2016, but both missed the first part of the Six Nations with knee problems.\n\nMako made his return off the bench against Italy while number eight Billy will face Scotland this weekend.\n\n\"The challenge is not to be reaching the same levels, it's to go higher,\" Mako told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"Billy has come back in and trained well, and his knee is looking good. He actually looks a lot better than me, so fair play to him.\"\n• None Listen: Could the Twickenham crowd turn on England?\n\nMako says the brothers' Tongan heritage means staying in good physical shape while injured is a challenge.\n\n\"It's probably the gene, being Tongan doesn't help,\" Mako explained.\n\n\"It's always a thing with me where I have to keep on top of my diet, and I am getting as much help as I can.\n\n\"We have [England rugby nutrition consultant] Graeme Close who keeps a close watch on me.\n\n\"Definitely with age it's got better, but it's definitely still a work-on for me. I have given up chocolate for Lent, chocolate is probably one of my guilty pleasures.\"\n\nBilly made his return for Saracens three weeks ahead of schedule, playing more than 70 minutes in Sunday's win over Newcastle.\n\n\"He was a bit grumpy when he was injured, so it's good for him to get back in the mix,\" Mako said of his brother.\n\n\"He was always confident he was going to come back quicker, but I was worried he was going to push himself too much.\n\n\"But his knee is looking good, it doesn't look like he has missed much. He has a smile on his face.\"\n\nListen to England v Scotland on BBC Radio 5 live, 16:00 GMT on Saturday, 11 March.", "The hackneyed cliché of white stilettos is a thing of the past\n\n\"Essex girls\" have long been mocked as thick, promiscuous and lacking in class. But a campaign to turn the hackneyed clichés on their heads is fast gathering pace. The BBC's Jodie Halford asks whether being from Essex is a disadvantage in modern life?\n\nA few years ago, I was talking to a colleague over the phone when he asked me my name.\n\n\"Wow, that's an appropriate name for someone from Essex,\" he said. \"Conjures up images of white stilettos and fake tans.\"\n\nIf I had hailed from elsewhere in England, I am confident he would not have made such a remark. But then, \"Essex girls\" have come to expect a certain amount of sneering when our origins are discovered.\n\nIt is all the fault of a decades-old stereotype which is so ingrained in British culture that it has its own entry in the dictionary.\n\nThe origins of this label possibly lie with the concept of Essex man - that almost forgotten relative of the Essex girl - which reared its head in the early 1990s.\n\nJournalist Simon Heffer used the term to denote a new type of Conservative voter who was \"young, industrious, mildly brutish and culturally barren\". Such men were typically self-made and had benefitted from the policies of Margaret Thatcher, he said.\n\nThe county's women were soon to be stereotyped too.\n\nAn article in The Independent from November 1991 related the recent \"craze\" for Essex girl jokes.\n\nThey often went something like this: \"How does an Essex girl turn on the light afterwards? She kicks open the car door.\"\n\nThe newspaper said the jokes had been imported from the United States, where they had originated as \"blonde\" jokes before being adapted for a British audience.\n\nAdd to that shows like Birds of a Feather - and later The Only Way is Essex - and the reputation of the county's women was firmly cemented.\n\nDr Terri Simpkin said Essex girl's negative meaning was developed in the 1980s and 90s\n\nDr Terri Simpkin, a lecturer in leadership and corporate education at Anglia Ruskin University, said the term Essex girl was first recorded in 1892 but its modern connotations date from the late 1980s.\n\n\"There's that connection between post-war migration out of London into the new towns and elsewhere with the decline of manufacturing and the rise of professional occupations,\" she said.\n\n\"Essex became a corridor between dormitory towns and London, so we saw a rise in people having social mobility.\n\n\"Out of that came a level of snobbery and a disparaging view of people who had become more aspirational and affluent.\n\n\"But with women, there was gender discrimination as well, because so-called Essex girls weren't wilting wallflowers - they were more overt as sexual beings, they took control of their own sexuality.\"\n\nSouthend-on-Sea playwright Sadie Hasler says the Essex girl stereotype is \"utterly moronic\"\n\nSadie Hasler, 36, a playwright and columnist from Southend-on-Sea, has encountered her fair share of Essex girl prejudice.\n\n\"The most common thing when you mention where you're from to people who aren't from there is that initial glimmer in their eyes,\" she says.\n\n\"You can't hear the word Essex without having a cognitive flash of all the stereotypes. It's part of the battle, all those years of history behind the word.\"\n\nMs Hasler, who has worked as an actor and comedy performer, said she moved away from the industry because her accent and age meant she was being given a narrow range of roles where she was \"asked to wear PVC catsuits, go topless, always be sexual\".\n\n\"If I'd been from another county, I don't think that would have happened,\" she said.\n\n\"When I was touring, and doing lots of character comedy, I saw more Essex stereotypes far more widely in other parts of the country than in Southend.\"\n\n\"Travelling into London, people are always surprised to learn I have a brain,\" she adds. \"It's almost like they're saying: 'Well done, you've escaped Essex!'\n\n\"It makes no sense for people to feel that way - it's utterly moronic, in fact.\"\n\nEssex is about more than just stereotypes, as this image of Landermere Wharf in the Tendring district shows\n\nLast autumn, Essex girls were splashed across newspapers and television screens once more, when two bloggers started a petition to remove the definition from the dictionaries.\n\nThe Oxford English Dictionary refers to her as \"unintelligent, promiscuous, and materialistic\", while Collins adds \"devoid of taste\" to the mix.\n\nJuliet Thomas and Natasha Sawkins, from Motherhub, decided to do something about it.\n\n\"We asked the dictionary if there was another example of a stereotype defining someone from a particular area,\" Ms Thomas said. \"There wasn't.\n\n\"It's not for us to define what it means, but people have started to reclaim it and give it a far more positive meaning - it's just that there's currently no alternative definition.\"\n\nJuliet Thomas and Natasha Sawkins are campaigning to change or remove the dictionary definition of Essex girl\n\nThe Essex Girl petition was run alongside a social media campaign with tweets from hundreds of women who wanted to reclaim the term.\n\nGreat British Bake Off winner Jo Wheatley, writer and vlogger Giovanna Fletcher and Olympic sailor Saskia Clark were among those who threw their support behind #iamanessexgirl.\n\n\"We didn't feel successful women in Essex were being talked about enough, with most of the focus going to the lazy stereotypes,\" said Mrs Thomas.\n\nAnother organisation celebrating the county's women is the Essex Women's Advisory Group (EWAG), a charitable foundation set up to \"challenge negative stereotypes by promoting the confidence and achievements of Essex women and girls\".\n\nIts chair, Juliet Townsend, said she had heard of young women pretending they were from elsewhere when going for jobs outside of the county.\n\n\"They're not confident to say they're from Essex, or they feel their accent or what they wear is the subject of ridicule,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm so proud to be an Essex girl. Silly jokes about it are really boring, and make me judge whoever who cracks them.\n\n\"But there are so many people who don't have that confidence to brush off the comments and jokes - we want to empower those people to have the confidence not to feel that way.\"\n\nShows like The Only Way is Essex were criticised for playing up to the stereotype\n\nSo what does it really mean to be an Essex girl in 2017?\n\nShe grew up in Ilford - part of the London borough of Redbridge since 1965, but still considered Essex in many people's hearts.\n\n\"I left home at 21 and moved to Manchester,\" she recalled, \"and I was embarrassed to tell people where I was from. The stereotype had informed how I felt.\n\n\"But the older I got, the more confident and proud I became to tell people. We're strong minded, strong willed - and we know how to have a great time.\"\n\nMrs Thomas and Mrs Sawkins - who were born outside of the county but have lived there for a number of years - simply want people to continue to \"reclaim the term\" and give it a more positive meaning.\n\n\"We knew getting the dictionary changed wouldn't happen overnight - it wasn't about that,\" said Mrs Sawkins. \"It's about bringing it to people's attention, and celebrating the success of women from Essex - real women doing amazing things\".\n\nThe Essex Way runs from Harwich (pictured) to Epping\n\nWednesday was International Women's Day and Ms Townsend, from EWAG, said she planned to raise awareness of her campaign through a sponsored walk along the Essex Way - an 81 mile (130km) trek from Epping to Harwich.\n\n\"My version of being an Essex girl can be completely different to someone else's,\" she said. \"There's no right or wrong way of being an Essex girl.\n\n\"It's important to remember the cliché, the heightened version, exists because Essex girls can be proud of looking good while having brains.\"\n\nPlaywright Ms Hasler believes work should be done in schools in the county to give pupils, both male and female, a degree of assertiveness, and to teach them \"it's ok to challenge the stereotype.\"\n\n\"If you could take every negative stereotype about Essex girls, and turn them into positives, it would be amazing to see Essex girl come out and say love your body, make the most of what you've got, own it, don't take lip from anyone, say what you think, defend yourself and don't be a wallflower,\" she said.\n\n\"The thing about Essex girl is she actually represents lots of positive messages for women - but they're currently dressed up in the most hideous way.\"", "Sofia was with her parents in a popular restaurant when a shootout between the police and a suspected criminal erupted\n\nOn a summer night in January, Sofia's family took her to a restaurant in Iraja, a suburb of Rio, where she could use the play area outdoors. It had a big, colourful slide, where children could climb up some stairs and come out through a tunnel to the ground.\n\nFrom inside the restaurant, Sofia's parents watched their two-year-old daughter. The play area was protected from the street by a gate so, in a city with shocking levels of crime, families felt the children were relatively safe there.\n\nBeing safe in Rio is always a top concern. Iraja, a busy middle and lower middle-class neighbourhood of around 100,000 people in northern Rio, is surrounded by some of the city's most violent areas, and criminals are quite active there.\n\nLike on that Saturday night. Police were sent to the streets next to the restaurant to investigate a car robbery, something frequent in that area: an average of four cars a day were robbed there in 2016.\n\nPolice officers had set up a barricade after identifying a suspect, but the man did not obey calls to stop and, according to reports, tried to escape.\n\nSofia's parents described her as a \"smart\" girl who loved to enjoy herself\n\nSofia's father, Felipe Amaral Fernandes, said she was especially happy on that night. \"She had told my wife: 'Mummy, I'm very happy today'. She didn't even want to eat.\"\n\nHerica, the mother, was proud of her daughter, who could already count from one to 10 in English. Sofia also enjoyed dancing to music clips in front of the television, and was in love with the pink, purple and blue scooter \"Papai Noel\", or Santa Claus, had given her last Christmas.\n\n\"She was smart, intense. Sometimes she didn't even want to sleep because she only wanted to enjoy herself,\" Ms Fernandes said. One time, she said, Sofia was asked about what she loved the most in her life. Sofia replied: \"Enjoy myself\".\n\nSofia was playing on the slide when the police chase neared the restaurant. At around 22:00, a shooting started.\n\nThe sound of gunfire was loud and close, and the families who were in the restaurant went to the play area to pick up their children. Sofia's parents, now also outside, waited for her to come through the slide. \"I screamed 'Sofia, Sofia!',\" Ms Fernandes said. But her daughter did not answer.\n\nSofia's father looked inside the tunnel, but she was not there. He went to the other side of the slide, and climbed it. \"That's when I saw my daughter up there, motionless, bloodied. I broke into the toy, took her from there and ran.\"\n\nSofia had been shot in the face.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia is one of 31 children who have been killed by stray bullets in Rio, activists say\n\n\"I got desperate seeing my little daughter there. I felt impotent,\" said Mr Fernandes, a police officer. \"I'm used to violence around me but I never thought this was going to happen to my daughter. When it happened I thought: 'My goodness, not with me'.\"\n\nHe carried Sofia in his arms. People in the restaurant stopped a police car that was passing nearby, and it took father and daughter to the hospital. The crowd watched in disbelief.\n\nShootouts are part of life in Rio.\n\nDespite Brazil's tight gun laws, rights groups say millions of weapons are in the hands of criminals. Tougher regulations were approved in 2004, banning the carrying of guns in public and controlling illegal ownership. But activists say they are incapable of curbing illegal gun trade and that bandits have been largely unaffected.\n\nThe reasons for shootouts vary. Some are the result of clashes between rival criminals; others, of armed robberies, like the one in Iraja. But rights advocates say they mainly occur during police operations against heavily armed drug gangs in impoverished neighbourhoods, where some groups are the de-facto rulers.\n\nAnd civilians often find themselves in the crossfire. \"These police operations are badly planned. In many times they happen at daylight, in densely populated areas, with war weaponry being used,\" said Antonio Carlos Costa, president of Rio de Paz, or Rio of peace, a local human rights group.\n\nShootouts between the police and criminals often happen during the day\n\nLast year, researcher Cecilia Oliveira, who works with rights group Amnesty International, was looking for reliable data about shootouts in Rio. But numbers were hard to come by as there were no official statistics.\n\nSo last July, she helped create Fogo Cruzado, Portuguese for \"crossfire\", an app for people to report gunfire in their neighbourhoods. Between its launch and January this year, according to Amnesty, 50,000 people downloaded it.\n\nThe numbers gave a sense of the fear that millions of people live in: there were 2,517 notifications, an average of almost 14 a day. The reports included 539 deaths and 570 injured.\n\nMost alerts came from poor neighbourhoods and shantytowns, or favelas, places notorious for their violence. \"I was shocked by the numbers. This level of violence is alarming for a city that is not in a war zone. And civilians are the most affected, their freedom and human rights are systematically violated,\" Ms Oliveira said.\n\nShe too blamed poor police operations against criminals for most of the shootouts. Interestingly, the data showed that the hardest-hit areas shared a common profile, she said. \"It's very clear that the people being affected by this violence are young and black. You don't see this type of police operation in neighbourhoods that are not favelas.\"\n\nNotifications made on Fogo Cruzado app show the number of shootings in Rio between July of last year and January\n\nRio's military police rejected the criticism towards its operations, saying they are all \"meticulously planned\" to avoid casualties among civilians.\n\n\"In order to prevent criminal actions, systematic operations are needed in places where the criminal wave is more recurrent. And shootings against policemen when they enter these areas, in many cases, result in victims on both sides,\" they said in a statement to the BBC.\n\nMany shootouts take place in close proximity to civilians\n\nLives are often put on hold, as basic services such as electricity, water and transport are frequently interrupted by shootings.\n\nRio's train operator said last year it was planning to stop services on one line indefinitely because of gun violence next to the tracks.\n\nShops and hospitals are also forced to shut. In 2011, a suspected drug trafficker who was exchanging fire with police stormed a public health clinic in an attempt to hide himself, terrifying patients inside - he was later arrested and nobody was hurt. The clinic then temporarily suspended works due to insecurity.\n\nSchools and universities in dangerous neighbourhoods have often cancelled classes, sometimes for days, affecting thousands of students. In some areas, teachers and children were being taught at school how to look for cover in the case of gun fights.\n\nTwo years ago, shootings around some schools in Mare, one of Rio's most violent areas, were so frequent that teachers decided to cut the classes short: they would start later, at 08:00, and finish one hour earlier, at 15:30. That, they said, was because shootouts often occurred at 07:00, when police officers changed shifts.\n\nIn many neighbourhoods of Rio, criminal gangs are the de-facto rulers\n\n\"Civilians in Rio's favelas end up in the crossfire, being victims in their own houses. They are forced to live under these circumstances, which is absurd,\" said Ivan Marques, executive director of human rights group Instituto Sou da Paz.\n\n\"The anti-drug policy in Brazil chose this wrong option, of militarising the issue. You have an enemy, not a criminal. And this is the collateral effect of this war between police and the organised crime.\"\n\nAnd then there are the stray bullets.\n\nIn 2003, Luciana Novaes was in the canteen at her university in a neighbourhood in northern Rio next to a favela, when a shootout erupted between drug traffickers and police. Shops nearby had closed because of the violence, but the university had not.\n\nIt was around 09:00. Ms Novaes, who was 19 at the time, was in a break between exams when a stray bullet hit her in the jaw. She said she could not miss the exam because of the scholarship she had from the university.\n\nThe bullet went on to injure her vertebrae, leaving her quadriplegic. \"It's a very difficult situation. There is no day, no time, no place. I was inside the university when it happened. People usually avoid getting out at night, but it's risky at anytime,\" Ms Novaes said.\n\nThe police say all operations are \"meticulously planned\" to avoid casualties among civilians\n\nShe spent a year and a half in the intensive care unit of a hospital, where doctors had put her chance of recovery at 1%. If Ms Novaes managed to survive, they said, she would be in a vegetative state for the rest of her life.\n\nThat did not quite happen. She slowly recovered her speech and the ability to eat. She is still dependent on mechanical ventilation and on two nurses, day and night. She also undergoes two physiotherapy sessions every day and two speech therapies a week - the university was forced by the Brazilian justice system to pay for her treatment.\n\nAnd last year, at 33, she was elected the first ever paraplegic councilwoman for Rio - it was such a novelty that the historic building had to be adapted to her needs.\n\n\"What we're living in is calamity,\" Ms Novaes said. \"People are crying out for help.\"\n\nMany favelas are dangerous - but children still find the space to play\n\nHers is a remarkable case of overcoming the odds, but it is an exception. Brazil was the country with the largest number of deaths by stray bullets in Latin America and the Caribbean between 2014 and 2015, according to a United Nations report.\n\nThe study, which looked into online media reports, said there were 197 incidents, 98 dead and 115 injured - someone is considered a victim when they had no involvement or influence in the shooting.\n\nNothing new to the people of Rio. In the 1990s, incidents with stray bullets were so frequent that then-Mayor Cezar Maia famously said in a newspaper interview that the city had become a \"tropical Bosnia\".\n\nRio's geography, as Ms Novaes' case shows, is an unexpected contributing factor. Numerous favelas have been built on the hills that overlook the city, meaning that the violence up there, where many of the shootings take place, is felt by those sometimes in neighbourhoods metres away.\n\nThe most recent official statistics about stray bullets publicly available are from 2011, when five people died and 41 others were injured. But Rio de Paz, the NGO, has documented incidents involving children: in the past ten years, 31 died in the city, 18 of them between 2015 and 2017 alone.\n\nActivists say the worst affected are often black and young people who live in poor neighbourhoods\n\n\"The shootings have a devastating impact. This is a generation that lives under threat, under fear of seeing themselves in the crossfire,\" Mr Costa, from Rio de Paz, said.\n\n\"And this tragedy has colour and a social component: it often affects the poorest. The society ignores it because it happens, by and large, away from the richest regions.\"\n\nSofia arrived at the hospital already dead.\n\nThe senselessness of her death caused an outcry even in Rio, where residents have become so used to crime that they rarely react to violence.\n\n\"But this is not an isolated case,\" said Mr Costa. \"We live in an environment of fear. Families live in constant mourning, looking at the picture of the victim hanging on the wall, with the face of a child that will never be seen again.\"\n\nHis group organised a demonstration remembering the victims of stray bullets, and signs with the names of the 31 children killed were put on Copacabana beach in January.\n\nThe car being chased by police that night in Iraja stopped only when it flipped on the street. The suspect was arrested and officials seized a gun.\n\nPolice said they were investigating how the shootout unfolded and, almost two months on, it was still unclear where the shot that killed Sofia came from.\n\nBut activists say many cases end up unsolved, with those responsible for the deaths rarely identified or punished.\n\nIn many neighbourhoods, shootouts have become a part of daily life\n\nSofia's parents are now trying to resume their lives. \"We live surrounded by violence. We see it in newspapers, on television. It's a calamity,\" her father said.\n\n\"We don't want this to happen with anyone else, a child or an adult.\"\n\n\"But we're sure that our daughter is in a place better than ours. She was too good to be in this world.\"", "In January, a painting showing Donald Trump and singer Madonna went viral. But who is artist Michael Forbes and why did he paint it?\n\nThe painting, called Not My President, was made in the days leading up to Mr Trump's inauguration as the 45th president of the USA.\n\nIt depicts the billionaire businessman as King Kong sitting on the head of Madonna. The superstar singer is portrayed as the Statue of Liberty, holding up a placard protesting against his election.\n\nMadonna, a critic of Trump, posted an image of the painting to her Facebook and Instagram accounts. The posts soon gathered thousands of \"likes\".\n\nThe US singer is a fan of Forbes, who exhibits artwork at a gallery in Manhattan, New York City, and whose other celebrity supporters include Monty Python's Terry Gilliam and comedian Ricky Gervais.\n\nHis work has referenced women's rights campaigns, featured \"mash ups\" of glamorous Hollywood icons, also past US presidents such as Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln as well as bears wearing sunglasses.\n\nBut Forbes was born and brought up far from the glamour - and occasional controversy - of the subjects of his paintings.\n\nMichael Forbes sits among some of his Pop Surrealist artwork\n\nThe son of a mechanic, Forbes was born in Dingwall in Easter Ross and he grew up in the area surrounded by peers who joined the Armed Forces after leaving school.\n\nBut he was drawn in a different direction.\n\n\"I grew up in a world without 'art',\" says Forbes. \"There were no trips to museums or art galleries. I didn't know any artists and I remember at 15 having not even taken art in secondary school.\"\n\nLater he was given a harsh lesson that carving a successful career in the Arts would not be easy.\n\nForbes says: \"I was once stopped by someone taking a survey on Inverness High Street. I agreed to take her survey as she said no-one had stopped.\n\n\"I had some time to kill before catching my train. Her first question was 'what is your occupation? I said 'artist'. She went through her whole list of occupations but couldn't find 'artist'.\n\n'It's not there,\" she said. \"Can I put you down as unemployed?'\"\n\nThe Pop Surrealist turns out the occasional Highland cow painting, including The Coo's Lick\n\nForbes, who still lives in Easter Ross, says his love of drawing and for films were what led him to a career in art.\n\n\"I was passionate about fantasy films, my favourite being Jason and the Argonauts, which I saw at a young age,\" he says.\n\nForbes was captivated by visual effects artist Ray Harryhausen's stop-frame monsters in the movie from 1963, including its army of sinister skeletons that burst up from the ground armed with swords and shields.\n\nMonty Python, as well as Python member and film-maker Terry Gilliam's 1985 surrealist nightmare, Brazil, have also been hugely influential.\n\n\"Perhaps I might have gone into film production if those options were open to me,\" says Forbes.\n\nBut his artistic style and the themes he was interested in proved to be a good fit for the genre of Pop Surrealism.\n\nHe says: \"I discovered it while I was already making my art.\n\n\"A friend gave me a copy of Juxtapoz magazine and I was like 'wow there are like-minded people out there doing what I'm doing'.\n\n\"It was a real epiphany. It was exciting. \"I was like 'Ooh family'.\"\n\nThe artists says his ideas come from 'sucking up pop culture'\n\nForbes adds: \"Unfortunately these artists were mostly all based in America. But over the years I've reached out to a lot of them and what I love about the internet is it allows you to engage with people around the planet in a way never before possible.\n\n\"I've chatted with most of the big name pop surreal artists and exhibited with a lot of them in mixed shows in galleries around the world.\n\n\"The internet has allowed me to play a small role even if I'm tucked away in the Scottish Highlands.\"\n\nForbes' chosen genre has also allowed him to meet his idols, including Gilliam.\n\n\"Terry has been kind enough to buy a few paintings over the years and the Gilliam family has been very supportive of my work,\" says the artist.\n\n\"His daughter Holly and I have put on a couple of pop-up exhibitions, one of which was at the Ivy in London. Terry came along and a fellow Python collaborator Neil Innes was there and sang a song from The Holy Grail to me. I was in heaven.\n\n\"I tried to keep a lid on my fanboy geek, and the temptation to quote Python every two minutes was torture.\n\n\"I was on my best behaviour and tried not to be a 'very naughty boy'.\"\n\nAnimals, such as this bear with sunglasses in Hugs, often pop up in Forbes art\n\nEarly on in his career, Forbes was also an apprentice of the late Pop artist and acclaimed sculptor Gerald Laing, who was a close friend of artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein,\n\nNewcastle-upon-Tyne-born Laing set up a family home in Kinkell Castle on the Black Isle, not far from where Forbes grew up.\n\nWorking with Laing, who died in 2011, left a lasting impression on Forbes.\n\n\"Gerald used to say 'they will grow to love it'. He had made art throughout his life that at the time was either ignored or not thought well of,\" says Forbes.\n\n\"But years later he saw it was popular. He saw that time would be kind to what he was doing. Probably because he was running so far ahead of it.\"\n\nLaing's artwork includes Lincoln Convertible, the only known contemporary painting of the assassination of John F Kennedy.\n\nForbes says: \"Gerald painted the JFK assassination painting only months after it happened, a subject his peers dared not go near at the time.\n\n\"So he worked with a self belief in what he was doing was of value. If not appreciated now then he knew they would catch up.\n\n\"I try to do the same. I try not to be too concerned about the viewer looking over my shoulder when I'm working.\"\n\nFreedom For All features past US presidents Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln\n\nForbes describes himself as \"Highland as a black-face sheep standing in the middle of a west coast single-track road\".\n\nBut he says his art is not about Scotland - though he has turned out the odd painting or two of Highland cows.\n\nFans of the Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival will be familiar with its posters featuring Forbes' Heilan' coos flying through the air wearing psychedelic sunglasses.\n\n\"My work is pop surrealism which is populated by mainly urban living artists. I suck up pop culture. I drink it up through a TV tube. It's my interpretation regurgitated, mashed up and twisted into a version of reality.\" says Forbes.\n\nHis paintings have featured music artists David Bowie, Frank Zappa, John Lennon and Madonna, film stars Clint Eastwood and John Wayne, comic book superhero Superman and Adam West's 1960s portrayal of Batman.\n\nHowever, he has found a recurring theme lately.\n\nForbes says: \"I keep an ideas book and note down my thoughts as sketches for possible paintings. It's a flow of thought that has a recurring character lately - Trump.\n\n\"Now we are actually living in 'Trumpworld' it seems inevitable that themes appear that are connected to him, either directly or indirectly.\"\n\nForbes says artists can offer an alternative view to those of President Trump and his administration.\n\nBefore creating Not My President, Forbes was an opponent of the US billionaire businessman.\n\nThe artist protest against the building of Trump's golf resort at the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire. He painted a mural on a barn of a farmer, also called Michael Forbes, who refused to sell land to Trump for the golf course.\n\n\"I think artists can play a role in the health of society by making cathartic images that allow a release of frustration though imagery,\" says Forbes.\n\n\"The Madonna painting was just that for myself and, as it turned out, for Madonna, and the thousands of people who 'liked it'.\"\n\nSo Trump is likely to pop up in Forbes' other work over coming year when he will also be exhibiting work in Manhattan and at a gallery in Canterbury in England.\n\nHe says: \"I struggle like all artists to make a living, it's a tough game, but its not about money.\n\n\"I remember sitting in Gerald's garden in the Highlands and he swept his arm across the landscape in front of us. He said: 'Look at this, we are all already millionaires.\"\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 says he has \"work to do this year\" after falling \"behind\" six other players over the course of 2017.\n\nThe rankings are calculated over a 12-month period but six of Murray's rivals have accrued more points this year.\n\n\"When we start on 1 January, it's back to square one,\" said the Briton, who is in Indian Wells having won his first title of the year in Dubai last week.\n\nThe 29-year-old beat Fernando Verdasco to win the title for the first time.\n\nBut a fourth-round defeat by Mischa Zverev at the Australian Open in January means Murray has ground to make up on Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Grigor Dimitrov, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Dominic Thiem and David Goffin in the 2017 rankings.\n\nHe is, however, likely to retain the number one ranking until at least the French Open.\n\n\"I felt like I wasn't a bad player just because I lost a match at the Australian Open,\" he told BBC Sport after a 16-hour flight from Dubai to Los Angeles.\n\n\"Australia wasn't my tournament but I took a break after that, chatted to my team about things that I needed to work on, worked on them, and got to Dubai early.\n\n\"I played some good stuff where I hadn't played well in the past. So that gave me a bit of a boost coming here, which is also a place where I haven't played my best.\"\n\nMurray was the runner-up to Nadal at Indian Wells in 2009, but in the past six years has suffered early defeats at the hands of Donald Young, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez and - in last year's third round - Federico Delbonis.\n\nThe thin desert air makes the ball fly and jump off the court, and last year played havoc with the Scot's serve. He held back, for fear of missing, and was beaten in the second match he played.\n\nHis preparation had also been far from ideal. On the Sunday before an event due to be staged outdoors in 30C desert heat, Murray spent four hours and 54 minutes beating Kei Nishikori in the Davis Cup on an indoor court eight time zones away in Glasgow.\n\nHowever, this year's warm up in Dubai was much preferable and Murray was enthusiastic when talking about Great Britain's Davis Cup quarter-final in France.\n\nThat tie was secured in February when Britain beat Canada 3-2 without their leading player and will be held after the Miami Masters, which follows Indian Wells.\n\n\"It will have been a long stretch, but to get matches on clay is a positive thing - and my team are more pro it,\" Murray said.\n\n\"If I'd gone to Canada, it would have been bad news because physically I was not ready. I was struggling a little bit with the illness so it was a good thing I didn't go.\"\n\nHaving overcome shingles, Murray now has the awkward desert conditions to overcome, but has been given a favourable draw in Indian Wells.\n\nWhile his quarter is far from treacherous, the bottom quarter includes Novak Djokovic, Nadal, Federer, Juan Martin del Potro, Nick Kyrgios and Alex Zverev.", "French voters are choosing a new president - amid considerable political uncertainty in Europe and the world following the British vote for Brexit and the election of Donald Trump as US leader.\n\nThere are five leading candidates - from across the political spectrum - who will contest the first round of voting on 23 April and unless one candidate wins more than 50% of the votes, the two leading contenders will then go through to a second round on 7 May.\n\nSo who are the candidates and what are the issues likely to decide this election?\n\nOn the far right, the National Front's Marine Le Pen appears to have achieved more electoral success since distancing herself from some of her father's more extreme xenophobic policies.\n\nLatest opinion polls show Ms Le Pen is ahead of the other four candidates in the first round - though a long way short of 50% - and is therefore likely to get through to the run-off.\n\nIn 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen got through to the second round, but lost to Jacques Chirac.\n\nOpinion polls currently suggest Marine Le Pen would be defeated in the second round by Emmanuel Macron. Without the backing of a traditional political party, the former economy minister, who has never held an elected office, is standing as a centrist candidate.\n\nThe previous front-runner, centre-right Republican Francois Fillon, has lost support over allegations his wife and children were paid public money for jobs they never had.\n\nProsecutors have launched a full judicial inquiry into the affair but he has survived an attempt within his party to replace him as candidate.\n\nSocialist and former education minister Benoit Hamon, with a reputation as a left-wing rebel, has a plan to introduce a universal income which would be rolled out initially to those on a modest income, being expanded to all French citizens some time after 2022.\n\nFar-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon has the backing of the French Communist Party and stood unsuccessfully for the presidency in 2012.\n\nOne of the overriding issues facing French voters is unemployment - with at least one in four people aged under 25 unemployed.\n\nThe national rate stood at 10% in the last quarter of 2016 and according to the French official statistics office, Insee, it fell over the year by just 0.2%.\n\nLatest unemployment figures for the European Union show France had the 8th highest jobless rate out of the 28 member states in December - and more than double that of Germany and the UK.\n\nLast year's slight fall in the jobless rate came too late for President Francois Hollande, who had staked his reputation on creating more jobs during his time in office. Faced with very low ratings in the polls, he pulled out of the election race - the first French president not to run for a second term in modern history.\n\nThe problem of reducing unemployment will now fall to his successor.\n\nThe French economy is the second-biggest in the eurozone - but its recovery from the financial crisis of 2008 has been slow.\n\nOne of Mr Hollande's key policies was a new labour law, intended to help boost the economy by giving firms greater freedom to increase regular working hours, reduce pay and lay off workers.\n\nBut measures were watered down to get the bill through and the hoped-for improvements in the economy have not yet materialised.\n\nFrance's economy, measured in terms of its Gross Domestic Product, has continued to lag behind its closest European neighbours, Germany and Britain.\n\nAll the leading candidates have argued that deep changes are needed in the French economy.\n\nSecurity and immigration are also high on the agenda in this election.\n\nFrance is still in a state of emergency following a number of terror attacks, including 14 July last year when 86 people died as a lorry ploughed into a crowd in Nice celebrating Bastille Day.\n\nMore than 230 people have died in terror attacks in France since January 2015.\n\nHundreds of young French Muslims are known to have travelled to Iraq and Syria to fight for so-called Islamic State. Interior ministry figures say almost 700 French citizens are still in the region - although numbers have dropped off in the past year.\n\nSome of the perpetrators of the Paris attacks in November 2015 are known to have travelled to Syria - French officials fear others who have been radicalised may now return to France to commit further atrocities.\n\nTens of thousands of migrants have arrived in France as a result of the crisis which began in 2015, largely as a result of people fleeing the conflicts in Syria and Iraq.\n\nFrance received more than 85,000 applications for asylum in 2016 - more than 5,800 came from Syria. Although the figure has been rising steadily, the number of asylum-seekers applying to stay in France is lower than other European countries like Germany.\n\nOfficial figures from 2014 show 8.9% of the 65.8m French population were immigrants. The figure has risen by 0.8% since 2006.\n\nThere is no official breakdown of the figures, as it is illegal in France to collect data on race and religion, but there are thought to be about five million Muslims living in France, the biggest Muslim population in the EU.\n\nThe majority of France's Muslim population live in the poorer suburbs of big cities like Paris, Marseille and Lyon, where unemployment is much higher than the national average.\n\nThe National Front has made treatment of immigrants one of its key policy issues - saying jobs, welfare, housing and school places should go to French nationals before \"foreigners\". A Pew Research Center survey in 2016 indicated that 29% of French adults viewed Muslims unfavourably.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Rugby\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio Scotland, plus live text commentary via the BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app\n\nHead coach Vern Cotter has brought Edinburgh flanker Hamish Watson into Scotland's starting XV for Saturday's Calcutta Cup match against England.\n\nIn the only change to the team, the back-rower replaces club-mate John Hardie, who is injured, while Cornell du Preez comes on to the bench.\n\nIt means the backline is unchanged for the trip to Twickenham, a venue where Scotland have not won since 1983.\n\nAli Price again deputises at scrum-half for injured skipper Greig Laidlaw.\n\nHe and stand-off Finn Russell are likely to be key figures as the Scots seek a third win in this year's championship following Murrayfield successes against Ireland and Wales.\n\nWhile Scotland seek their first Triple Crown since 1990, England are aiming to equal New Zealand's record of 18 straight Test wins for a tier-one nation.\n\nWatson started the first two matches of the campaign and, to earn his eighth cap, replaced Hardie in the first half of the game against Wales when he damaged his knee.\n\nGlasgow Warriors provide the entire Scotland front row of Gordon Reid, Fraser Brown and Zander Fagerson, backed by locks Jonny and Richie Gray and with captain John Barclay and number eight Ryan Wilson completing the back-row.\n• None Listen: Could the Twickenham crowd turn on England?\n\n\"There's a lot to play for and several reasons why we should be able to get up for this game,\" said Cotter in his penultimate match as head coach.\n\n\"We've rested, recovered and prepared as best we can for this game. We've asked some questions of ourselves and the areas we think we can improve and we're confident we can play better as a team.\n\n\"The challenge is for us to combine the best parts of our performances so far in this campaign in to one excellent performance at Twickenham this Saturday.\n\n\"We'll need that to put us in a position to win this game and will enjoy the challenge of doing that against an England team that hasn't lost in a while.\"", "Arsene Wenger stood in isolation and desolation in his technical area as the pain he suffers this time every year nagged away at him once more - but now it was accompanied by an inescapable feeling of finality.\n\nAs his Arsenal side dissolved and were brutally dispatched by Bayern Munich - once they awoke from 45 minutes of complacency - Wenger will have felt every goal, every added humiliation, like a blow to the solar plexus. Five second-half goals. Five more questions to ponder.\n\nA proud man, Wenger will have surveyed the thousands of empty seats that increased in number at Emirates Stadium with every Bayern strike on the way to a humiliating 10-2 aggregate loss and surely questioned what more he can do at Arsenal.\n\nThe Gunners were out of the Champions League at the last-16 stage for the seventh successive season. However, few nights could have been more chastening than this one for the man who has known such glory, but who now may be contemplating the end of the road.\n\nOnce the German champions were prodded into life by a generous penalty award and a red card after Laurent Koscielny fouled Robert Lewandowski, they delivered a ruthless verdict on just how far Arsenal have been marginalised from the elite European group they once occupied with style and with regularity. It underscored a dramatic fall from grace.\n\nWenger was not subjected to widespread rebellion or mutiny inside the stadium, but there were ominous signs that can often be used as indicators that a manager's future has reached its defining moment.\n\nA group of Arsenal fans, not huge in number but noisy, led a protest march on Emirates Stadium from their old Highbury home, brandishing banners that read \"Enough Is Enough\", \"No New Contract\", \"All Good Things Come To An End\" - and what looked like a rather hastily assembled affair that read: \"Stubborn. Stale. Clueless.\"\n\nThey chanted \"Arsene Wenger - You're Killing Our Club\" - harsh and heartbreaking words aimed at a man who, whatever even his fiercest critic will say, loves Arsenal and has done so much to enrich them.\n\nIt was strictly a minority. But an even more significant indicator may have been the large number of empty seats inside the Emirates. It was announced that 59,911 tickets had been sold - but it was fair to say 59,911 had not pitched up, many clearly deciding they had better things to do despite having shelled out hard-earned cash.\n\nArsenal equipped themselves well for 45 minutes, but the whole night and performance had the stench of too little, too late - and there is no good news, no consolation, no hard luck story about successive 5-1 defeats in the Champions League.\n\nThe manner in which Arsenal collapsed once Bayern equalised was an alarming barometer of fragile confidence, belief and morale. It was understandable heads would go down as hope was snuffed out, but the manner in which they were picked apart was horrendous. Players were stretched hopelessly out of position and Bayern almost scored at will.\n\nAlexis Sanchez was even robbed by Arjen Robben, hardly a tackling heavyweight, on the edge of his own area for one goal in an incident that summed up the Chile forward's night after the controversy of his exclusion at Liverpool.\n\nSanchez was a central figure amid stories of training ground unrest but he was restored here as Arsenal went in search of a miracle.\n\nHe was greeted warmly by Arsenal's fans when his name was announced, but he was not able to make a point to Wenger or anyone else on this night and his wave as he was substituted late on could even have been construed as the start of a long farewell between now and the end of the season.\n\nAfter taking his seat on the bench, Sanchez was pictured chuckling briefly, something that riled some supporters on social media, despite it being impossible to determine precisely what he had found humorous.\n\nThe backdrop to this dead rubber - there was never any realistic chance of this Arsenal side in their current condition reviving it even when they took the lead on the night - was a cloud of uncertainty over the club that is becoming increasingly toxic.\n\nThere are no guarantees about the future of arguably the three highest-profile figures at Arsenal, a state of affairs creating a mood of chaos around Emirates Stadium.\n\nWenger is giving no clues as to whether he will sign a two-year deal that is on the table, amid mounting criticism of his methods. Sanchez looks certain to depart in the summer as his relationship with the club fractures. And Mesut Ozil's stock has fallen as his own contract situation is shrouded in mystery.\n\nThis would be a situation to prey on the nerves and frustrations of Arsenal's fans even before it is set alongside a team that look further away than ever from a Premier League title challenge and now suffering from one of their most humiliating, harrowing Champions League experiences.\n\nThe double figures aggregate loss actually might have been worse and this latest last-16 exit is made even more painful by being cloaked in the feeling of an end of an era after a Champions League story that has increasingly become one of diminishing returns for Wenger and Arsenal.\n\nThey were made to look light years away from Europe's elite by Bayern. Wenger may have cursed the luck of the draw once more - and even the officials - but there was no escaping a seventh straight exit at the last-16 stage.\n\nThe Gunners are the first side to lose five consecutive home knockout ties in Champions League history. Arsene Wenger's side suffered the joint second heaviest aggregate defeat in Champions League history (2-10), and the highest for an English team. This is the first time Arsenal have conceded five goals at home since November 1998 (against Chelsea in League Cup - a 5-0 loss).\n\nAs Arsenal fans gathered on Holloway Road and around Emirates Stadium before kick-off the pervading emotion was gloom. There was no sense this Arsenal could frighten Bayern in the same way they frightened AC Milan here almost five years ago to the day, when they had the Italian giants rocking at 3-0 down after losing the first leg 4-0.\n\nAnd so it proved. Not this time. Wenger's Arsenal, in this Champions League context at least, now find even a gallant near-miss beyond them.\n\nIf there is the growing sense that this is Wenger's final fling, there was also an ominous feeling of an extra layer of fear to add to the frustration of Arsenal's supporters. Is this finally the time they end up without Champions League football for the first time this century?\n\nWenger's sense of pride would be damaged enough by an elimination as wounding as this, an exit that left no room for debate about Arsenal's reduced status. It might hurt even more if he had to start life outside the European footballing environment that has become his and Arsenal's natural home.\n\nThe Gunners have always managed to find a place in the Premier League's top four but this now faces its most serious threat, with Chelsea the champions-elect and Tottenham, Manchester City and Liverpool (and arguably even Manchester United) all looking in better shape.\n\nWenger, who wrote about \"our pride and our honour\" being at stake in his match notes, might have to swallow his own pride should Arsenal end up with only a Europa League place at the end of this season. There was no pride or honour to take away from this night.\n\nWould Wenger, at 67, have the desire to effectively start again and rebuild in Europe's second-tier tournament, or would that be a timely cue for him to step aside for a successor?\n\nThere is still time for Wenger to salvage a measure of success and respectability from Arsenal's season and either stay or go on a high of sorts.\n\nArsenal will be overwhelming favourites to reach the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley with a last-eight tie against non-league Lincoln City awaiting them this weekend, while there is still the top-four place on offer.\n\nThe FA Cup has been the only silverware sustaining Wenger and Arsenal in the barren years since the title triumph of \"The Invincibles\" in 2003-04.\n\nIf - and it is still a big \"if\" - he wins it, it will allow Wenger, Arsenal and their supporters a celebration. But even that may not prove to be enough to soothe the atmosphere of unease in this part of north London.\n\nChastening nights like these, when the cavernous gap between Arsenal and those they wish to challenge was cruelly exposed, may carry more weight when it comes to Wenger's verdict on his own future and that of the supporters on him.\n\nWenger was spared at the final whistle, with only a few jeers to be heard because so many had left. It looked and felt like a lonely existence for Arsenal's manager.\n\nHe simply shook his head, a mixture of disappointment at the result and what he later said he felt was an injustice at the hands of officials - which carried a note of desperation and straw-clutching when examined through the prism of both legs.\n\n\"Every Good Story Has An Ending\" read one large banner being paraded outside the stadium before kick-off.\n\nAnd as Wenger headed down the tunnel and Arsenal's fans headed out into the night, it was hard to escape the growing belief that this one is moving towards its final chapter.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nHeather Watson came from a set down to win her first round tie against Nicole Gibbs at Indian Wells Heather Watson set up an all-British second round tie against Johanna Konta by beating American Nicole Gibbs at the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells. Gibbs took the first set 6-4 before Watson won the next two sets 6-2, including 10 of the final 12 games. Friday's match will be the first meeting between world number 11 Konta and Watson on the WTA Tour. Their only previous match was a second-tier event in 2013, when Watson retired after losing the first four games.", "Sheila Ferguson made her name singing in The Three Degrees in the 60s and 70s. She's one of eight famous people who went to Kerala to film the TV programme The Real Marigold Hotel, which is designed to make people think about growing old in India. She says the experience completely changed her life.\n\nI went to India as a sceptic. I'd never been there before. I did some research, saw that they've got arranged marriages, they've got snakes, they've got mosquitoes and I thought, \"What the hell do I want to go to India for?\"\n\nBut I believe in the philosophy that you should try everything once, to see if you like it. So I found myself in Kerala riding sleeper trains - which I will never do again as long as I live - and living in a communal home with seven other OAPs. I got more than I bargained for.\n\nThe first thing that struck me was how busy it was. The city was crowded and smelly but there wasn't as much poverty as I expected from watching the film Gandhi! It turns out that there's a good quality of life in Kerala. When we first got there I was behaving like the problem child, I was a real handful. I even asked Bill to swap rooms and he was gentleman enough to agree.\n\nThe Three Degrees in 1974 - Sheila Ferguson with Valerie Holiday and Fayette Pinkney\n\nBut that didn't last too long. I met some fascinating people and got some valuable perspective on my life back home. India entirely changed my attitude towards my life.\n\nUntil I went to India I never realised that I was lonely. I thought I was just fine. But living with seven other people communally in India held a magnifying glass to how solitary my life actually is.\n\nIn some respects, I've not had human contact for years. It's really the emotional and mental stimulation of talking to other people that I'm missing.\n\nI live on my own, one daughter's in Dubai, one's in England and I'm in Majorca. My partner Jon died in 2010 and it's time I got the hell out of here!\n\nMy social life really dips in the winter because everybody hibernates. My cleaner comes to my house on Thursdays but other than that, I could go all week without seeing another soul.\n\nI could fall down on the steps in my house, or in the swimming pool and nobody would know for a week. I think my family are concerned about me living alone, but I never thought of it until now. Now I understand their worry.\n\nResidents of The Real Marigold Hotel: Amanda Barrie, Paul Nicholas, Bill Oddie, Lionel Blair, Dr Miriam Stoppard, Dennis Taylor, Rustie Lee and Sheila Ferguson\n\nIn The Real Marigold Hotel, eight celebrities visit India to see how retiring there would differ from growing old in the UK.\n\nYou can watch the programme on BBC One at 21:00 on Wednesday 8 March or catch up later online.\n\nIn India, at the dinner table the seven of us would be talking, Bill Oddie telling us about his grandchildren, Paul Nicholas showing pictures of his daughters and his wife. I would be thinking, \"They all have families to go back to and I'm going back to an empty house.\" That's when it really sank in. If I'm not careful I will end up sitting alone, at the head of my 14-seater dining table in a wedding dress, like Miss Havisham.\n\nWhen my daughter, Alex, came out to visit me in India from her home in Dubai I realised just how much I missed my family. I want to see them more and now, thanks to my time in India, I am ready to find a new love.\n\nI hadn't been on a date since Jon died so I was shocked to be asked out by a gentleman at a drinks party in Kerala. Usually I'm the one asking a guy out, so when he just came out with it at first I thought it was a joke, I thought that the crew had put him up to it! He was very upfront, no nonsense. It's been so long since anyone has said things like that to me, it was really lovely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSince then I have been on another date in England. I think once you open up inside, your aura looks different to other people, so it may be that I was blocking myself off before.\n\nI have been threatening to move back to England for the past four years. Soon after Jon died, I realised I didn't suit living alone but I didn't do anything about it. I kept putting it off, procrastinating. Probably because I wanted to stay here in Majorca in memory of the life I had built with him.\n\nI threw myself into work. But this year, because of my trip to India, I am putting my house on the market so that I can move back to England in the spring. My two daughters grew up in Berkshire and I love it there. I'm really looking forward to being near my friends and family again.\n\nIn India, families are a close-knit unit, they do not disown their elders as we do in Western culture. They take responsibility and take care of one another. India has also helped me to become more understanding and patient with my mother, who turns 95 this year.\n\nIt calmed me down too. I've always been hyperactive and my work requires constant energy and enthusiasm - live now, sleep later. Being in a more spiritual place, where I had to give up control to others, helped my mind to open and to realise that the small things don't matter so much.\n\nI found that when I was rehearsing a panto in Ipswich everything was going awry, everything was late, it was a tech rehearsal, we opened the next day and everything was a mess. I just sat there and looked and said, \"Well OK they'll get it together. I know my lines.\" And I just calmly went back to my dressing room. Any time before India I would have thrown a fit and I'm known for it.\n\nThe Marigold Hotel changed me and I've carried that lesson into my everyday life.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio Scotland, plus live text commentary via the BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app\n\nOwen Farrell should be fit for England's Calcutta Cup meeting with Scotland at Twickenham on Saturday despite injuring his leg in training.\n\nThe 25-year-old centre left training early on Thursday, but is expected to feature in Friday's captains' run.\n\n\"He ran into someone at training, simple as that,\" said head coach Eddie Jones, who initially joked Farrell had collided with the Australian's dog.\n\n\"He's in doubt but we will see. He should be right.\"\n\nVictory for England over Scotland would give the defending Six Nations champions a record-equalling 18th consecutive win and put them one win away from a second straight Grand Slam.\n\n\"It's the oldest international fixture and it means a lot to both countries,\" said Jones.\n\n\"I feel honoured and humbled to be part of such a historic occasion. I treasure the experience.\"\n• None Listen: Could the Twickenham crowd turn on England?\n\nNumber eight Billy Vunipola has been named on the bench against Scotland after making his comeback from a knee injury last weekend.\n\nNathan Hughes will continue in the position in an unchanged England pack.\n\nThe backline shows three changes, with scrum-half Ben Youngs, centre Jonathan Joseph and wing Jack Nowell returning.\n\nLoose-head prop Joe Marler will lead the team out on his 50th cap, while fit-again wing Anthony Watson also returns to the matchday squad.\n\n\"I congratulate Joe,\" Jones added. \"I've coached a lot of good players and he is certainly one of the best. He is an honest and committed team man and a fine individual.\"\n\nOn Vunipola, he explained: \"He's one of our best players, but he's not ready to start yet.\"\n• None Vunipolas to 'aim higher' on return from injury\n\nEngland's replacements have repeatedly salvaged games so far in the Six Nations and Jones admits he is unsure why his side have yet to start well.\n\n\"If I knew, I would fix it,\" he said. \"But we have been ahead in the 80th minute - and that's all that counts.\"\n\nAfter the fitful display against Italy, Jones says England have prepared to deliver their best performance of the Championship against Scotland.\n\n\"We have varied [the preparation] up a bit, we have changed the way we have trained considerably,\" he said.\n\n\"The intensity of training has improved, we are moving towards our best performance. We are in excellent condition.\"\n\nListen to England v Scotland on BBC Radio 5 live, 16:00 GMT on Saturday, 11 March.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC One, S4C, Radio 5 live, BBC Radio Ulster, Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru, plus live text commentary via the BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app\n\nIreland visit Wales on Friday knowing anything less than victory could signal the end of their chances of securing a third Six Nations title in four years.\n\nJoe Schmidt's men are second in the table, three points behind unbeaten England, having beaten Italy and France after an opening defeat in Edinburgh.\n\nFourth-placed Wales are out of title contention after back-to-back defeats by England and Scotland.\n\nBoth sides have named unchanged starting XVs for the game in Cardiff.\n\nIreland can set up a title decider with England in Dublin on 18 March with victory in Cardiff.\n\nLeaders and defending Grand Slam champions England host Scotland in the Calcutta Cup in Saturday's second game (kick-off 16:00 GMT), while Italy and France meet earlier in the day (13:00 start).\n\nIreland coach Schmidt is known to value continuity and the tournament's leading try scorers - they have 13, four more than the second most prolific team, England - have used just 19 players in their starting line-up so far.\n\nThe previous time he was able to field the same side in the Six Nations was the third round in 2014.\n\nThe only change in the match-day 23 is winger Tommy Bowe's recall for his injured Ulster team-mate Andrew Trimble.\n\nSchmidt has stuck with exciting young centre Garry Ringrose, as there were doubts over the fitness of the more experienced Jared Payne.\n\nNumber eight Jamie Heaslip will make his 100th Test appearance on Friday as he wins his 95th Ireland cap in addition his five appearances for the British and Irish Lions.\n\nWales coach Rob Howley's selection of an unchanged match-day 23 was more of a surprise, with Wales in danger of losing three matches for the first time since the 2010 tournament.\n\nIt has fuelled claims of a conservative attitude in the Wales camp from pundits and on social media.\n\nNumber eight Taulupe Faletau and lock Luke Charteris remain on the bench and Dan Biggar retains the number 10 shirt despite pressure from his Ospreys team-mate Sam Davies.\n\nWing George North, singled out and criticised by defence coach Shaun Edwards over his defensive display against Scotland, is also retained in a team given a chance to atone for the second-half capitulation at Murrayfield last time out.\n\nConfidence is high in the Irish camp following their workmanlike 19-9 victory over France, but Schmidt believes the Welsh team's disappointing results will have them highly determined.\n\n\"They are so used to competing on the last day of the championship to win or lose the championship,\" said the Ireland coach.\n\n\"So for them not to be in that position will certainly provide extra motivation.\"\n\nWales forwards coach Robin McBryde believes there will be more pressure on Ireland under the closed roof in Cardiff.\n\n\"They've had a great season, beaten the All Blacks in Chicago and pushed them at home as well,\" he said.\n\n\"They've got aspirations for the title - they've got a big finish against England next week.\n\n\"We have to be be at our best in whatever they throw at us.\n\n\"If we can match that and build on our experience against England we won't be far off.\"", "England goalkeeper Joe Hart says he is \"surplus to requirements\" at Manchester City and does not see himself playing for the Premier League club again.\n\nThe 29-year-old added that he saw the Spaniard's decision to drop him coming.\n\n\"If you're not going to win there is no point in fighting, especially someone as powerful as that,\" Hart said.\n\nHowever, Hart believes the decision was \"nothing personal\" and said he respected Guardiola's honesty.\n\n\"He didn't do it to ruin my life, he did it because he thought that was what was right for him to win as a manager,\" he told the BBC's Premier League Show.\n\nGuardiola was asked about the situation at his Friday news conference, but reiterated his stance that no decision had yet been made.\n\n\"I have said many times, at the end of the season we will see which players are happy or unhappy,\" the manager said. \"He is a Man City player. We will decide at the end of the season.\"\n\nHart's 33-year-old replacement, Claudio Bravo has been criticised for his performances since his £15.4m arrival from Barcelona in August, with Willy Caballero, 35, preferred in the Premier League and Champions League since 21 January.\n\nGuardiola has said he will not make a decision on Hart's future until the end of the season - but it is expected the keeper will leave the club for good in the summer.\n\nHart, who has 68 England caps, has been linked with various Premier League and European clubs but said he has had \"no communication with anyone\" about a transfer after his loan spell at Torino ends in May.\n\nWhen asked about a return to the Premier League, Hart replied: \"I know it really well but I wouldn't say it was top of my wish list.\n\n\"Top of my wish list is to play for a club that wants me to be their goalkeeper.\"\n\nHart on Man City, England and the future\n\nMatch of the Day commentator Steve Bower: How difficult was it to discover Pep Guardiola didn't want to make you number one and you would have to go somewhere else?\n\nJoe Hart: I want to say it was really bad but it wasn't because I saw it coming.\n\nSB: From the moment Guardiola walked through the door?\n\nJH: No but you just pick up vibes and it certainly wasn't a surprise to me. It was something that I wanted to change and felt I was more than capable of changing - but to get results he needed to have a team he felt comfortable with and a team he wanted.\n\nI didn't fall into that category and that's no problem. I'd have loved to have stayed and fought and shown what I can do, but I don't have that time. You don't have that time to do it - especially as a goalkeeper. You can't come off the bench for 10 minutes and prove your worth - it's either you're in or you're out.\n\nI'm up for a fight - I'll fight my corner all day - but if you're not going to win then there is no point in fighting, especially someone as powerful as that at Manchester City.\n\nI know it's nothing personal on me, he's not that kind of guy.\n\nSB: Do you respect his honesty?\n\nJH: Yes of course. He did what he had to do, he did what he felt was right. He didn't do it to ruin my life, he did it because he thought that was what was right for him to win as a manager. So I had to look elsewhere and here I am.\n\nSB: What did you say when your agent said Torino were interested?\n\nJH: I said, 'look into it'. I didn't have many options - things happened very late with Manchester City. For a goalkeeper that's difficult, everyone is pretty settled with goalkeepers, it's an early bit of business and there is only one spot.\n\nMy name wasn't necessarily out in the transfer market because people probably presumed that I would be at Manchester City - like I did. But I wasn't going to play at Manchester City, that was pretty obvious - I was third, if not fourth choice at the time so I wanted to play football and Torino gave me the opportunity and I just thought, 'I'm going to go for it.'\n\nSB: There will be Manchester City fans thinking, 'Will you ever play for our team again?'\n\nJH: I'd say I'm pretty much surplus to requirements at my parent club at the moment.\n\nSB: Do you see that changing?\n\nJH: Not really. I've got to be realistic. I love that club and I've always said that as long as they wanted me, I would be there.\n\nBut I was always cautious when I said that because I'm aware that at the big, big clubs stuff can change quickly, as can opinions and people in charge. Not everyone is going to like you, not everyone is going to want to play you and that's the business side of it, which I've grown into and I'm certainly not going to take personally.\n\nI want to play football, I love to play football so if that opportunity is not going to be given there then I'm going to have to look elsewhere and may have to make somewhere else my home.\n\nSB: Where you at in terms of a transfer at the moment?\n\nJH: It's frustrating to see my name thrown around so much when I'm just trying to get on with what I'm doing for now and then whatever needs to be taken care of will hopefully be taken care of one way or another.\n\nI've still got a parent club that I need to respect and I need to work with. I understand that's the football business now - everyone has got an opinion, a small comment can be used in an article. I don't know where my future lies - I've certainly had no communication with anyone.\n\nThe best thing I can do is work hard, be ready to train every day, do my best for Torino, do my best when I represent my country and then hopefully the rest will take care of itself.\n\nSB: How important is it for you to be playing regular football next season to keep your position as England goalkeeper?\n\nJH: [England boss] Gareth Southgate is not the kind of guy to say: 'You need to be doing this or that or you're out.' He's such a positive, interesting person. He came to see me out here, which was good of him, just for an afternoon, just to check in and he wants what's best for the country. The only way I can be a part of that is if I'm playing well, playing regularly and improving.\n\nWe've got some really good, strong English keepers at the moment. I'd like to think we're pushing each other and if my levels drop then I'm gone and I understand that. I don't need any threats, I know how the game works as I've been a part of it for a while now.\n\nSB: As a goalkeeper do you have to wait for someone to leave a club for a place to go?\n\nJH: Yes, unfortunately. Especially the top teams because every top team has got at least one top keeper. You need people to move, managers to change. You need something to happen for something to happen. You can't just charge in somewhere.\n\nSB: Would returning to the Premier League be top of your wish list?\n\nJH: I'm open. I love the Premier League, I absolutely love Premier League games. Removing myself a footballer, I watch the Premier League. It's a great league, fantastic football is played in it.\n\nI know it really well but I wouldn't say it was top of my wish list. Top of my wish list is to play for a club that wants me to be their goalkeeper.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester United were held to a draw by FC Rostov in the first leg of their Europa League last-16 tie in Russia.\n\nOn a challenging pitch at the Olymp-2 Stadium - which was criticised by United manager Jose Mourinho before the match - midfielder Paul Pogba miscued from inside the box early on.\n\nBut United grabbed a vital away goal through Henrikh Mkhitaryan's close-range finish following excellent work by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.\n\nThe Swedish striker shot over the crossbar in the second half, before Rostov forward Aleksandr Bukharov latched on to Timofei Kalachev's pass for the equaliser.\n\nAleksandr Erokhin stabbed a shot wide for the hosts from a promising position and United's Marouane Fellaini headed straight at the goalkeeper from a corner.\n\nThe return leg takes place at Old Trafford next Thursday (kick-off 19:45 GMT).\n\nThe Red Devils faced a difficult 3,750-mile round trip for the game in south Russia - and they were cheered on by 238 travelling supporters, who each had their visas paid for by the club and were given blankets on entering the ground.\n\nMourinho set up with three centre-backs and Ashley Young and Daley Blind acting as wing-backs in a change of formation for the Premier League side.\n\nThe Portuguese manager spoke before the game about deploying a more \"direct\" approach because of the dreadful pitch, but he may also have had Monday's FA Cup quarter-final against his old club Chelsea in mind.\n\nAs well as a dry and bobbly surface, the stop-start game - which had a total of 38 fouls - made for a poor spectacle. However, Mourinho will surely be confident his players can go back to Old Trafford and complete the job next week.\n\nFor their goal, Fellaini held off a home defender before feeding Ibrahimovic, whose quick feet allowed him to poke the ball into team-mate Mkhitaryan's path and the Armenia international struck for the third time in this season's competition.\n\nRostov entered the Europa League after finishing third in their Champions League group behind Atletico Madrid and Bayern Munich. In fact, they managed to beat the German champions at home - though that was their only victory from six games.\n\nA team without any household European names, they struggled to impose themselves against far superior opponents in the opening period.\n\nBut on 53 minutes, Kalachev's raking pass sailed between defenders Phil Jones and Chris Smalling and Bukharov calmly controlled the ball on his chest and slotted in.\n\nSkipper Aleksandr Gatskan struck a long-range shot straight at Sergio Romero late on, but the draw meant Rostov have lost just one of their past eight games at home in Europe.\n\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho, speaking to BT Sport: \"It was a very good performance in relation to the conditions. It was impossible to play better, impossible to play a passing game.\n\n\"We played what the game demanded and we played well. We made one defensive mistake.\n\n\"l remember as a kid some matches like this in Portugal - non-league and amateur pitches. To see my players coping with it and the humility to fight for every ball is a good feeling for me.\n\n\"We have an open result for the second leg with a little advantage for us. There are no injuries.\"\n\nManchester United goalscorer Henrikh Mkhitaryan, speaking to BT Sport: \"It does not matter if you are leading 1-0, you have to be ready for everything.\n\n\"We conceded the goal and there was a mistake - but we have a second game to come.\"\n\nRostov are back in league action when they take on Terek Grozny on Sunday, while Manchester United visit Chelsea in the FA Cup quarter-final on Monday (kick-off 19:45 GMT).\n\nReferring to the cup game against his old club, Mourinho said: \"Monday we don't go with a Nicky Butt [head of youth academy] team. We cannot go with Nicky Butt's team.\n\n\"Manchester United is too big. Manchester United is the winner of the competition.\"\n• None Manchester United have drawn four of their five away trips against Russian opponents in Europe.\n• None Jose Mourinho's sides have scored an away goal in the first leg of a European tie in 11 of the 13 games he has overseen.\n• None Aleksandr Bukharov's 53rd-minute strike was the first goal United have conceded in 443 minutes in the Europa League.\n• None The Red Devils recorded their lowest pass accuracy of the season in this match (61.17%).\n• None Henrikh Mkhitaryan is the first United player to score in three successive European games since Wayne Rooney in March 2010.\n• None The Armenian has been directly involved in six goals in his past seven appearances for the club (four goals, two assists).\n• None Zlatan Ibrahimovic provided the assist for the first goal - he has been directly involved in 40% of Manchester United's 82 goals this season.\n• None Attempt missed. Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Antonio Valencia with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Anthony Martial.\n• None Attempt saved. Aleksandru Gatcan (FC Rostov) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Sardar Azmoun.\n• None Timofei Kalachev (FC Rostov) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, FC Rostov. Denis Terentjev tries a through ball, but Sardar Azmoun is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nAlex Hales and Joe Root struck stunning centuries as England steamrollered West Indies by 186 runs in Barbados to complete a one-day series whitewash.\n\nThe pair put on a record 192 for the second wicket, with Hales the more aggressive of the two and Root happy to play the anchor role.\n\nWest Indies were never in contention and meekly surrendered with the bat - being bowled out for just 142.\n\nLiam Plunkett and Chris Woakes took three wickets apiece with the ball.\n\nTwo teams which are worlds apart\n\nIf the West Indies showed glimpses of ability in the first two matches of the series, there was very little of it on show at the Kensington Oval.\n\nThe gulf in class between the two teams was striking.\n\nWhile England's batting order is rich in both talent and depth, the Windies' top order gifted their wickets with a succession of dolly catches offered up to close fielders.\n\nIt was a similar story from a bowling perspective as England's pacemen bullied and harassed. The hosts' options lacked penetration in the absence of the injured Shannon Gabriel and proved to be cannon fodder for the likes of Root, Hales and Ben Stokes.\n\nEngland's morale will be boosted by such victories, but it should be tempered with the realisation their opponents have failed to qualify for this summer's Champions Trophy and now face an uphill challenge to earn automatic entry to the 2019 World Cup.\n\nBoth opener Hales and number three Root can lay genuine claim to being among the world's leading top order batsmen in this format of the game.\n\nTheir respective innings were poles apart in style, but almost identical in terms of both runs scored and balls faced by the time they returned to the pavilion.\n\nHales - back in the team after injury - began how he so often does, in a circumspect manner. He nudged the ball into gaps before exploding into life once the spinners were introduced to the attack.\n\nFour of his five sixes came off the slow bowlers, who went for a combined 60 runs in 48 painful deliveries.\n\nThe Notts right-hander, who successfully overturned an lbw decision when he was on 93, was particularly strong on the leg side where he scored 73 of his runs.\n\nRoot was his usual busy self at the crease and almost paid with his wicket early on, only to be dropped when he had made both 1 and 12.\n\nOnce set, however, he dropped anchor and finally registered three figures after eight half-centuries in his previous 11 ODI innings.\n\nPlatform laid, England were pushed beyond 300 by Stokes. The Durham all-rounder was reminiscent of former South Africa all-rounder Lance Klusener as he time and again cleared his front leg and muscled the ball to the boundary in his 20-ball 34.\n\nFaced with a strip much quicker than the one which the two teams duelled on in Antigua, England's quicker bowlers relished the extra pace and bounce.\n\nPitching the ball just back of a length, they induced some horrible dismissals from the West Indies top order.\n\nOnly Jonathan Carter (46) offered any real resistance and backbone as the England quicks left their opponents battered and bruised - both in a mental and physical sense.\n\nPlunkett finished the three-match series with 10 wickets at less than 10 runs each, ensuring his name will remain prominent in the selectors' minds when Mark Wood, Jake Ball and David Willey regain full fitness.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Test Match Special, former West Indies fast bowler Tino Best said the collapse to 45-6 had been \"embarrassing\", adding: \"It's quite disappointing the way the guys have been dismissed. We call it primary school dismissals.\n\n\"Guys have to go back to their hotel room and reflect. Do you want to be an average player or do you want to be a superstar?\"\n\nEngland have just two ODIs against Ireland before opening their Champions Trophy campaign against Bangladesh at The Oval on 1 June.\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"I'm extremely satisfied. Over the course of the series we have displayed different skills. Root and Hales put on an outstanding partnership and our bowling performance was outstanding.\n\n\"It's a great position to be in. We had guys coming into the side who maybe didn't expect to play and made big contributions, match-winning ones.\n\n\"It was an outstanding effort from Alex Hales. A bit of time off has done him the world of good.\"\n\nEngland all-rounder Chris Woakes - the man of the series - is asked which part of his game he is most pleased with: \"Ball, I suppose. It's always nice to contribute with the bat when required but bowling is my primary skill.\n\n\"The more you play and gain experience in international cricket, the more you feel at home. We've got some great players in the team and there are always players pushing for places.\"\n\nWest Indies captain Jason Holder: \"Our performance wasn't up to scratch, we gifted a lot of free runs - although the bowlers were decent - and then we didn't put up a good fight with the bat at all.\n\n\"I'm frustrated, I thought we were moving in the right direction. We've got to be lot sharper in the field and take our chances, we didn't do that throughout the series.\n\n\"This group of players is what we have, I'm comfortable with what we have, we have a lot of talented players in the squad but it's about making the most of it.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLA Galaxy have told Zlatan Ibrahimovic they are prepared to make him the highest paid player in Major League Soccer history if he joins them from Manchester United this summer.\n\nIbrahimovic only joined United on a one-year deal last summer.\n\nThere is an option for the Swede to stay longer but while the club are desperate to keep him, the 35-year-old is yet to agree.\n\nIbrahimovic has scored 26 goals for United this season.\n\nHe will start Thursday's Europa League last-16 first-leg tie with Russian side Rostov but is about to serve a three-match domestic ban after accepting a charge of violent conduct for elbowing Bournemouth's Tyrone Mings in the face at Old Trafford on Saturday.\n\nIn 2016, Brazilian forward Kaka was the highest paid player in MLS, with a published annual salary from Orlando City of $7.167m (£5.89m).\n\nLA Galaxy paid former England midfielder Steven Gerrard $6.1m (£5.01m) last season. He has since retired.\n\nSources have told BBC Sport that Galaxy see Ibrahimovic as having the potential to make as big an impact on soccer in the United States as David Beckham did when he joined the club from Real Madrid in 2007.\n\nIt is not known what contract length Galaxy - winners of three out of the last six MLS titles - would be willing to offer Ibrahimovic but the club feels it has a realistic chance of signing the veteran frontman.\n\nWith his contract expiring in the summer, LA Galaxy could sign Ibrahimovic in advance of a move to MLS during the July transfer window. That is what they did with Beckham in 2007, a signing that was announced in the January prior to his Real Madrid contract coming to an end on 30 June.\n\nHowever, United will almost certainly have other ideas.\n\nFollowing their EFL Cup final win over Southampton, when Ibrahimovic scored United's late winner, manager Jose Mourinho said that while he would not beg the forward to stay at Old Trafford, he thought United fans would be willing to camp in the striker's garden in an attempt to persuade him.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger says the opinion of fans will influence his decision over whether to remain in charge next season.\n\nA group of Arsenal supporters protested after Tuesday's 5-1 Champions League home defeat by Bayern Munich.\n\n\"It will not be the most important factor but you consider it, of course,\" Wenger said of the fans' reaction.\n\n\"I worked very hard for 20 years to make our fans happy and when you lose I understand they are not.\"\n\nIn a statement released on the club website, Arsenal chairman Sir Chips Keswick echoed those sentiments but was non-committal on Wenger's future.\n\n\"We are fully aware of the attention currently focused on the club and understand the debate,\" he said.\n\n\"We respect that fans are entitled to their different individual opinions but we will always run this great football club with its best long-term interests at heart.\n\n\"Arsene has a contract until the end of the season. Any decisions will be made by us mutually and communicated at the right time in the right way.\"\n\nWenger, who has been Arsenal boss since October 1996, is expected to announce in the next month whether he will stay on next season, but denied he had already told the players of his decision.\n\n\"My decision is to focus on the next game and be absolutely sure we respond well on Saturday,\" the 67-year-old said.\n\nArsenal are currently fifth in the Premier League, 16 points behind leaders Chelsea, and host non-league Lincoln in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup this weekend.\n\nEngland international winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, 23, is one of several Arsenal players reported to be unhappy, with suggestions he could leave this summer.\n\n\"I haven't seen that,\" Wenger said of the reports. \"I'm surprised by that because I believe he is developing well and has been given his chance.\n\n\"I wish that he stays at the club, he is a very promising player and has the values we rate at this club.\"\n\nRecord signing Mesut Ozil has reportedly rejected an improved contract offer and Chile international Alexis Sanchez was left out of the starting XI at Liverpool last weekend following a reported row with Wenger, which the manager denied.\n\nForward Theo Walcott hinted at disharmony in the ranks when he revealed \"things had happened\" between the players.\n\n\"They need to stay in the dressing room and the players and staff need to sort it out. We are in it together. We can't be fighting each other,\" the England international added.\n\nBut Wenger countered: \"We have a good united group, determined group and when you have disappointing results you always have disagreements.\"\n\nWenger presided over two league and cup doubles within the first six years of his Arsenal reign, but his team have not won the league title since 2004 and two FA Cups represent their only major silverware in the last 12 years.\n\nWhen asked by BBC sports editor Dan Roan whether staying at the club would taint his legacy, the Frenchman said: \"I don't work for my image I work for this club, with full commitment.\n\n\"How I will be judged in one way or the other is not my problem. I love this club, I am loyal to this club and I make the right decisions for this club and I will continue to do that.\"\n\nThe humiliating 10-2 aggregate defeat against Bayern Munich saw Arsenal eliminated at the last-16 stage of the Champions League for the seventh successive season.\n\nWhen asked about that record, Wenger responded: \"In the last nine years only once have we been the worst performing English club in the Champions League.\"", "\"I've had a samurai sword to my throat, a knife in my groin, stripped naked at gun point.\" For 14 years, Neil Woods infiltrated UK drug gangs for the police, at great personal risk.\n\nPosing as an addict to infiltrate some of the UK's biggest drug gangs is not for the faint-hearted.\n\nIt takes resolve, courage, and an ability to think on your feet in the most high-pressure of environments.\n\nBut for Neil Woods, it was not a life calling that led him to devote 14 years to this cause, but a failure to perform in his normal role.\n\n\"I wasn't a very successful uniform cop,\" he tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"I struggled, so I got an attachment with the drugs squad. They suggested trying one of the undercover jobs of buying crack cocaine.\"\n\nIt was 1993, and this form of undercover work was rare in the UK.\n\nFor Mr Woods, however, it was a niche that played to his strengths.\n\n\"I really enjoyed the work, I found I was good at it,\" he says.\n\n\"I was developing the tactics for it - such as building a cover story, but not acting. Learning to play a different version of yourself.\n\n\"It all relies on empathy - 'weaponising' empathy to get close to them.\"\n\nA shot of Neil Woods undercover, in around 1995\n\nMr Woods admits he had a \"completely prejudiced view\" of drug users when he first took the job, but as he began to meet addicts, he saw a different side to those who had been caught up in that world.\n\n\"Beforehand, I saw them as people who had made the wrong decision, who didn't have willpower. I thought that it was their fault,\" he says.\n\n\"But then you start to realise some of their life stories - that they had been self-medicating for child abuse, for example.\n\n\"Two-thirds of heroin users have a history of abuse.\"\n\nAt the time, however, this did not alter his approach to work.\n\n\"I still carried on manipulating them,\" he says.\n\n\"They would get wrapped into the investigation and end up in jail.\n\n\"I justified to myself that the end would justify the means.\"\n\nThe reason for this becomes clear when you consider the type of gang members he was looking to put behind bars.\n\nIn 2004, he helped bring six members of the notorious Burger Bar Boys to justice.\n\nThey operated in the Birmingham area, and were \"horrendous criminals\", according to Mr Woods.\n\n\"They were raping people as punishment for drug debt,\" he says.\n\nMr Woods worked across inner cities around the UK, and often found himself in dangerous situations.\n\n\"I've had a samurai sword to my throat, a knife in my groin, stripped naked at gun point,\" he says.\n\n\"Once, my hidden camera was found by a particularly vicious gangster.\n\n\"He brought two mates to a meet-up who didn't know me.\n\n\"They searched me and found the camera.\n\n\"I had to react quickly, I just launched into a torrent of abuse.\n\n\"It created confusion so I could escape.\n\n\"Then they came after me in the car and they tried to run me over.\n\n\"I later learned that they had a gun in the car.\"\n\nMr Woods says his work has led to more than a combined 1,000 years of jail time for the criminals he helped to lock away.\n\nWhen he became a father, however, he says he found it difficult to juggle his job with his family life.\n\n\"I would do this work in the week, then at the weekends be a dad. I would go swimming with my kids,\" Mr Woods says.\n\nEventually, after 14 years, he decided to leave the profession.\n\nHe came to see his work as futile, given the greater picture.\n\n\"I interrupted the drug supply for no more than two hours in any city. So what's the point?\" he says.\n\n\"Some of those arrested were organised criminals - but many were just victims of the 'war on drugs', the vulnerable problematic users.\"\n\nFor several months, he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of what he had seen undercover.\n\nMr Woods is in favour of Durham Police's plans to provide heroin to addicts in medically supervised conditions\n\nDespite leaving the police, however, he still feels \"duty bound\" to continue to stop the spread of drugs on UK streets.\n\nMr Woods is now the chairman of Leap UK, which campaigns for drugs policy reform.\n\nIt supports Durham Police's plan to give heroin addicts the class-A drug in supervised \"shooting galleries\" in a bid to tackle drug-related crime.\n\nOpponents say trials suggest such initiatives do not have significant, long-term benefits, but Mr Woods argues the move will enable police to \"get a grip on heroin, get it away from criminals\".\n\n\"The drug supply is currently in the hands of organised criminals,\" he says, \"it's so dangerous.\"\n\nIt is very different from his former job, but - as he explains - his time undercover has made a lasting impression.\n\n\"I have this unique experience,\" he says. \"Now, I just use it in a different way.\"\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 Football\n\nManchester City's title hopes suffered a potentially-decisive blow after they were held by a resolute Stoke side and missed the chance to cut Chelsea's lead at the top of the table.\n\nA win for City would have moved them above Tottenham and into second place but they could not find the attacking spark required to break down a well-drilled Potters side.\n\nCity boss Pep Guardiola had said before kick-off that his team could not afford any more slip-ups in their pursuit of the leaders, who remain 10 points clear of the chasing pack with 11 games left.\n\nGuardiola's side were sluggish before the break and, although they improved when David Silva came off the bench in the second half, he could not make the difference.\n\nSilva had City's best effort when he drilled a low shot a fraction wide after a one-two with Fernandinho but, despite a flurry of late chances, Stoke keeper Lee Grant's only save came from a first-half free-kick by Aleksandar Kolarov.\n\nCity are still, in theory at least, chasing silverware on three fronts and head to Middlesbrough in the FA Cup on Saturday before travelling to Monaco in the Champions League on Wednesday.\n\nIt is a pivotal week in Pep Guardiola's first season in English football, but this result means it has started in frustrating fashion.\n\nThe attacking verve that had carried City to four straight league wins and seen them hit five goals past Monaco and Huddersfield in the last month was, initially, nowhere to be seen.\n\nToo many misplaced passes meant Stoke were under little pressure for much of the match, and City's finishing was also wide of the mark when they did create chances late on.\n\nSergio Aguero had scored five goals in his previous three games but did not find the target with any of his three efforts.\n\nLeroy Sane flashed a shot over the bar, Nicolas Otamendi headed over from a corner and City's last chance came and went when Kelechi Iheanacho met an inviting cross at the near post but steered the ball wide.\n\nRaheem Sterling was not involved while Guardiola opted to start with both Silva and defender John Stones on the bench.\n\n\"The rotations are good when you have a successful result but, when they are not, always we miss those people,\" said the City boss.\n\n\"It is almost impossible to play the same 11 players. When you have one game a week you can play the same 11 players no problem. We have a lot of games, we have to make a rotation - if not it will be so difficult.\"\n\nThe Potters are still to beat a top-eight Premier League team this season but the performance that earned them this point deserves plenty of credit.\n\nMark Hughes said before kick-off that his side would be less open than normal but although they were indeed extremely disciplined at the back, they did more than defend in numbers.\n\nThe outcome could have been worse for the home side had Mame Biram Diouf not scuffed an early shot from close range following Gael Clichy's slip.\n\nBruno Martins Indi and Saido Berahino also had sniffs of goal when City left space at the back, but Stoke's main aim appeared to be a clean sheet and they accomplished that comfortably enough.\n\nThey were helped by City's lack of spark for much of the match, but this was still a significant defensive improvement on their last trip to play one of the top four, which ended in a 4-0 defeat at Tottenham last month.\n\nThe commitment and industry of Stoke's entire side stood out but their defensive masterclass was superbly marshalled by Ryan Shawcross, who was a rock at centre-half and helped keep Sergio Aguero, among others, quiet.\n\n'The gap was big and is still big' - manager reaction\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"They defended deep and it was complicated to find the players between the lines. We were there in the last minutes. I don't have regrets about how they ran, how they fought.\n\n\"We created a lot of situations for the last pass and sometimes we missed it. When you analyse the chances we had, I don't really remember more than one Stoke chance.\"\n\nOn the title race: \"The gap was big and is still big. We have to focus game by game.\"\n\nStoke boss Mark Hughes: \"Not many teams come here and restrict Manchester City to so few chances.\n\n\"We didn't rely on luck. We made our own luck and were difficult to break down. You can see what it meant tonight and that shows the honesty of the group.\"\n\nAnother clean sheet for Caballero - the stats\n• None Willy Caballero has now kept one more clean sheet for Man City this season (7) than Claudio Bravo (6) despite playing eight games fewer (17 v 25).\n• None This was the first time Pep Guardiola has drawn a Premier League game 0-0 and his first in league competition since Dortmund 0-0 Bayern in March 2016.\n• None In fact, this was the first time that Manchester City have failed to score at the Etihad Stadium under Pep Guardiola in all competitions (19 games).\n• None Manchester City mustered just one shot on target in this game - their lowest tally in a competitive home game since April 2016 v Real Madrid (Champions League).\n• None Stoke City have scored just one goal in their nine Premier League visits to the Etihad Stadium to face Man City.\n\nCity's FA Cup quarter-final with Middlesbrough is on Saturday at 12:15 GMT, then they head to Monaco for the second leg of their Champions League last-16 tie on Wednesday (19:45 GMT). They hold a 5-3 lead from the first meeting in Manchester.\n\nThis game was originally scheduled for the coming weekend, so Stoke do not play again until Saturday 18 March, when they host leaders Chelsea (15:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt missed. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.\n• None Ramadan Sobhi (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Gaël Clichy with a headed pass.\n• None Jonathan Walters (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Jonathan Walters (Stoke City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Phil Bardsley with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by David Silva with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. David Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Bacary Sagna. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A technology initially used to fight traffic fines is now helping refugees with legal claims.\n\nWhen Joshua Browder developed DoNotPay he called it \"the world's first robot lawyer\". It's a chatbot - a computer program that carries out conversations through texts or vocal commands - and it uses Facebook Messenger to gather information about a case before spitting out advice and legal documents.\n\nIt was originally designed to help people wiggle out of parking or speeding tickets. But now Browder - a 20-year-old British man currently studying at Stanford University - has adapted his bot to help asylum seekers.\n\nIn the US and Canada, it's helping refugees complete immigration applications, and in the UK, it can aid asylum seekers in obtaining financial support from the government.\n\nBrowder developed the chatbot through the help of lawyers from each of the countries.\n\n\"It works by asking a series of questions to determine if a refugee is eligible for asylum protection under international law,\" he tells BBC Trending, \"for example: 'are you afraid of being subjected to torture in your home country?'\n\n\"Once it knows a user can claim asylum, it takes down hundreds of details and automatically fills in a completed immigration application. Crucially, all the questions that the bot asks are in plain English and artificial intelligence generated feedback appears during the conversation.\"\n\nThe bot suggests ways the asylum seeker can answer questions to maximise their chances of having applications accepted, for example: \"The best answer for your situation will include a description of when the mistreatment started in your home country.\"\n\nIn addition to a completed application, a refugee also receives location specific submission instructions, details of additional documentation needed and resources for further help.\n\nCurrently, the lawyer bot is available via the Facebook Messenger app, making it accessible to Android and Apple device users. Browder says that he hopes to roll the service out to more languages and apps in the future, including Whatsapp.\n\nDoNotPay got plenty of attention after it was first launched in March 2016, and Browder says hundreds of thousands of people have used the app to challenge parking tickets. His own brushes with traffic police inspired him to create the bot.\n\n\"When I started driving at 18, I began to receive a large number of parking tickets and created the the service as a side project,\" he says, \"I could never have imagined that just over a year later, it would successfully appeal over 250,000 tickets.\"\n\nHe expanded the service to help with emergency housing in August of last year.\n\nDoNotPay creator Joshua Browder says he was moved to work on legal advice for asylum seekers because his grandmother was a refugee from Austria during the Holocaust\n\nHowever, some tech industry experts say that Browder's creation may struggle to achieve the same level of popularity with asylum seekers.\n\n\"Browder's chatbot is a great example of tech to help those in need,\" says Oliver Smith, senior reporter at tech and business site The Memo. \"However, as refugees are often among the least internet-connected groups in society, a Facebook chatbot may not be the best way to help them.\n\n\"While governments moving their services online and into digital formats is a boon for people living in a country with consistent wifi or internet-connected smartphones, those who have fled their home countries often struggle to get online in refugee camps or when travelling across countries.\"\n\nThe UN has said that for refugees, connectivity is \"as vital to them as food, water, or shelter\", but just 39% have mobile internet access.\n\nNext story: The Swedish Trump fans who secretly record journalists\n\nA far-right Swedish website is secretly recording phone calls with journalists and academics - and then posting the edited versions online. READ MORE\n\nYou can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.", "The Lib Dems want to stop primary school tests narrowing learning\n\nIs there such a thing as a \"curriculum for life\" ?\n\nThat's what the Lib Dems want to offer for children in England.\n\nIf you have a child at school you'll know how much what they learn is already changing.\n\nThe end of primary school tests known as Sats have been made tougher, with more complex grammar and maths among the changes.\n\nAnd if your household is going through the agony of GCSE revision, you'll know this is the first year of the new English and maths exams which are also designed to be more challenging.\n\nThere has been so much change that schools have been complaining they can barely keep up.\n\nThe unglamorous, but important issue of what children learn at school rarely features in election campaigns.\n\nYet subjects matter because it influences the choices your child can make about their future job, or what they want to study at college and university.\n\nSo it's striking that the Lib Dems have chosen to make the subjects taught in schools, the curriculum, a large part of their education election offer.\n\nTheir manifesto says this would mean a shorter list of core subjects all state funded schools would have to teach.\n\nBut they also want learning about money, and mental health to be included alongside age appropriate sex and relationship lessons.\n\nIt is only weeks since a change in the law to make sex and relationship education compulsory for all secondary schools in England, with primary schools teaching just about relationships.\n\nThere is a promise too to protect creative subjects like music, art and drama amid concerns that tightening budgets and a focus on results are squeezing them out.\n\nQuite how they would be protected isn't clear, although the party is likely to argue that promising extra money will help.\n\nSo should politicians be deciding what your kids learn at school?\n\nAn interesting question as some recent Education Secretaries have had very definite views.\n\nThe Lib Dems are making a bid to take the politics of changing governments out of these decisions.\n\nThey want to set up what looks like a new quango - an Educational Standards Authority - which would bring in changes after consulting teachers.\n\nBut in the end, when there are issues in schools, just like in hospitals, the buck stops with politicians.\n\nVoters tend to have little time for a senior politician trying to outsource the blame for any decisions.\n\nSo, as the Lib Dem manifesto delicately puts it - there would have to be some way of retaining \"legitimate democratic accountability\".", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nBarcelona made Champions League history by becoming the first team to overturn a first-leg 4-0 deficit as they knocked out Paris St-Germain to reach the quarter-finals for the 10th successive season.\n\nThe Spanish champions were 5-3 down on aggregate in the 88th minute, but scored three goals in the final seven minutes in one of the greatest European ties of all time.\n\nNeymar's free-kick and penalty followed by Sergi Roberto's 95th-minute winner sealed victory on an incredible night at the Nou Camp.\n\nBarcelona had led 2-0 at the break courtesy of Luis Suarez's header after just three minutes and Layvin Kurzawa's own goal.\n\nAnd they added another shortly after half-time when Neymar fell over Thomas Meunier in the box and Lionel Messi converted the penalty.\n\nEdinson Cavani lashed home for PSG on 61 minutes and the quarter-finals looked beyond Barca, but they obviously had not read the script.\n\nNeymar curled a sumptuous free-kick into the top corner before Suarez won a controversial penalty and gave it to the Brazilian to convert - which he did, leaving Barca with one goal to find in injury time.\n\nAnd Neymar, who delivered a stunning performance, turned provider for substitute Roberto, who poked home his first goal of the season as the Nou Camp exploded.\n\n'Deep, instinctive passion at its most authentic and unrefined'\n\nAll around me, people were hugging, jumping, screaming. Grown men were crying and strangers were leaping into each other's arms.\n\nUnlike so much of modern sport, there was nothing contrived or orchestrated about those celebrations, about that moment.\n\nThis was deep, instinctive passion at its most authentic and unrefined. Just pure, wordless, thoughtless exhilaration. And it is surely for moments like this, which come along once every few years if you're lucky, that sport is so compelling.\n\nFrom a personal point of view, being there was a privilege. Two decades of attending sporting events in a professional capacity have hardened me, to the extent that I thought nothing can move me.\n\nRead more from Andy here\n\nGreatest European comebacks of all time - the stats\n\nDoes anything compare to Barca's achievement on Wednesday night?\n\nTheir exploits at the Nou Camp surpassed the previous best second-leg comeback in Champions League history, which was achieved by Deportivo La Coruna against reigning champions AC Milan in 2004.\n\nTrailing 4-1 from the first leg of their quarter-final tie, Deportivo raced into a 3-0 lead in the return leg and, with 14 minutes remaining, clinched a 5-4 aggregate win when Fran volleyed in the Spanish side's fourth goal of the night.\n\nA four-goal first-leg deficit has been overturned in other Uefa competitions by three other clubs:\n\nReal welcomed Borussia Monchengladbach for the second leg of a third-round Uefa Cup tie after the German side had won 5-1 at home, and the Spanish club secured a thrilling 4-0 victory to advance to the last eight.\n\nLeixoes were crushed 6-2 at La Chaux-de-Fonds, but the Swiss side buckled 5-0 at the Estádio do Mar in the return leg.\n\nQPR won the first leg 6-2 - which was played at Highbury as they couldn't use the plastic pitch at Loftus Road - but lost 4-0 in Belgrade and went out on away goals.\n\nPSG stunned Luis Enrique's men in the first leg as they completely outplayed the Spanish champions - 16 shots on goal with 10 on target as they inflicted a 4-0 defeat.\n\nAngel di Maria, Cavani and Julian Draxler were in superb form as manager Unai Emery masterminded his first victory over Barca in 23 attempts.\n\nBut their attacking threat from three weeks ago was replaced by a nervous and clumsy defence as PSG looked resigned to a night of toil from the off.\n\nThe defence were a shambles - Marco Verratti and Marquinhos let the ball bounce for the first goal, Marquinhos again failed to deal with the second, and Meunier got in the way of Neymar to concede a penalty for the third.\n\nPressed back to the edge of their penalty box, they were unable to assert any dominance in midfield and with Di Maria on the bench, still feeling the effects of an injury, there was no outlet for the passes.\n\nCavani, in prolific goalscoring form, gave his side a hope of holding on in the 62nd-minute, but will inevitably face criticism after missing vital chances to put the tie to bed.\n\nEmery, who led Sevilla to three consecutive Europa League titles from 2014-2016, got his tactics very wrong in what was a disastrous result for PSG.\n\nThe domestic title is far from safe - they are three points behind Monaco in Ligue 1 and will need to recover quickly to keep up their challenge for a domestic double.\n\nThey have lost in the last eight in each of the past four years of the Champions League, but did not even make it that far this season thanks to Barcelona's brilliance.\n\nHe curled in a free-kick and scored a penalty when Barcelona looked dejected and out.\n\nThen, with time slipping away and the clock on red, he clipped a superb ball into the box for Sergi Roberto to toe into the net and send his team into the quarter-finals.\n\n'It was a horror movie not a drama' - what the managers said\n\n\"It is a difficult night to explain with words. It was a horror movie, not a drama, with a Camp Nou that I have seen very few times as a player or coach.\n\n\"What defines this victory is the faith that the players and fans had.\"\n\n\"The truth is we have let a huge opportunity get away and we are aware of that. In the last two minutes we lost everything we had recovered in the second-half.\n\nBarcelona are capable of this in their stadium. In the last few minutes they played all or nothing and they have beaten us.\"\n• None Goal! Barcelona 6, Paris Saint Germain 1. Sergi Roberto (Barcelona) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Neymar with a through ball following a set piece situation.\n• None Marco Verratti (Paris Saint Germain) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Gerard Piqué (Barcelona) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Samuel Umtiti.\n• None Goal! Barcelona 5, Paris Saint Germain 1. Neymar (Barcelona) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Marquinhos (Paris Saint Germain) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Penalty conceded by Marquinhos (Paris Saint Germain) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Goal! Barcelona 4, Paris Saint Germain 1. Neymar (Barcelona) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Neymar (Barcelona) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "You can now do an MBA in horseracing\n\nSteve Gibson says he has made it clear that people should never approach him for any betting advice.\n\nThe 36-year-old does, however, often get asked for tips because of the university course he is enrolled on - an MBA (Master of Business Administration) in thoroughbred horseracing industries.\n\nLaunched in 2015, the two-year course at Liverpool University has been specially designed for people who want to take up a senior administrative or leadership role in the sport.\n\nA sister MBA at the college is called football industries.\n\nWhile the two courses sound like a most enjoyable way to spend your time at university, they are in fact part of a growing trend - the rise of specialised MBAs.\n\nMBAs have long been considered a must-have for ambitious young people seeking a fast-tracked and successful career in business.\n\nThe celebrated post-graduate qualification is supposed to teach you all you need to be a future company leader, and places on MBA courses at the world's most prestigious universities are highly sought after, and therefore very difficult to get accepted on.\n\nMr Gibson is juggling the MBA with working for the British Horseracing Association\n\nYet while it used to be the case that having a standard MBA was all you needed, such has been the rise in the number of colleges offering them, and people gaining the qualification, that specialised MBAs are now being increasingly offered with the aim of giving people an advantage in the industry they wish to join.\n\n\"Specialisation gives universities and students a way to stand out,\" says Anke Arnaud, associate professor of management at Embry-Riddle Aeronautics University in Florida.\n\n\"If everyone is offering an MBA programme, you have to find a way to differentiate, to innovate.\n\n\"It starts with attracting lecturers who have a depth of knowledge, and courses that are hip, in the now, and sexy.\n\n\"There's a need to offer something different to cater to specific careers.\"\n\nAt Liverpool University the horseracing MBA includes the study of marketing, sponsorship, the media, sports law, regulation, and horse welfare, explains the head of the course, Neil Coster.\n\nStudents also go on a number of field trips, including seeing behind the scenes at a race day at Haydock Park, near Liverpool, and a visit to the UK's National Stud in Newmarket, in the east of England, the country's centre of racehorse breeding.\n\nThe idea for the course came from industry bodies the British Horseracing Authority and the Horseracing Betting Levy Board.\n\nMr Coster says: \"They saw a need for a master's level education programme that would assist people already working in the industry to prepare and upskill for senior management positions, and help career changers to facilitate a move into the industry.\"\n\nNeil Coster, left, says the horseracing MBA covers all aspects of the industry\n\nThose enrolled on the football MBA at Liverpool get to visit the headquarters of European football governing body Uefa, which is based in the Swiss town of Nyon.\n\nAnd if that wasn't prestigious enough, last year they also visited nearby Tranmere Rovers.\n\nLiverpool's football MBA is in fact one of the oldest specialised versions of the qualification, and is now in its 20th year.\n\nThe football MBA can be a big help in the big business world of football\n\n\"There was clearly a need for graduates with an excellent knowledge of management disciplines and their applications to football,\" says Babatunde Buraimo, a senior lecturer on the course.\n\nThe football MBA takes one year to complete full time, and costs £15,000 for UK nationals, or £21,500 for overseas students. The horseracing qualification costs from £7,500 per annum for two years.\n\nMarie-Pierre Serret says she knows all about the value of a specialised MBA because without one she had struggled to secure a fulfilling job in the aviation industry.\n\nDespite having a masters degree in international business and marketing, the 43-year-old Frenchwoman says she spent a number of years being bumped from job to job, including working as a flight attendant and a check-in clerk.\n\nMarie-Pierre Serret says the aviation MBA helped her secure a good job\n\nSo a few years ago she sold her house and enrolled on an MBA in aviation management at Florida's Embry-Riddle Aeronautics University. It wasn't cheap, costing £33,000 for the course, which takes between one-and-a-half and two years.\n\n\"This specialised MBA is the missing link,\" says Ms Serret, who now works as a research assistant for an Embry-Riddle aviation business professor. Projects she has been involved in include working out the marketability of an aeroplane prototype, and advising the Puerto Rican government.\n\nSome 1,200 miles (2,000km) north of Florida, Schulich Business School in Toronto, Canada, offers a 16-month MBA in global mining.\n\nMarcia Annisette, associate professor of accounting at Schulich, says: \"A cookie cutter MBA is so popular now that there's a push to have a strong subset of skills.\"\n\nDespite the rising popularity of specialist MBAs, they do have their critics, who argue that as so much time is dedicated to focusing on the specific industry, not enough hours are dedicated to teaching business fundamentals.\n\nSchulich Business School says the mining industry asked for its specialist MBA\n\n\"With only so much classroom time, taking a focused MBA would lead one to miss valuable lessons,\" says John Paul Engel, lecturer of entrepreneurship at the University of Iowa.\n\nMeanwhile, Michal Strahilevitz, marketing professor at Duke University in North Carolina, cautions that she has seen scores of individuals who have pursued specialisation only to then discover that the specific profession wasn't quite for them.\n\nOthers warn that holders of specialised MBAs may struggle to secure the really senior jobs because the qualifications don't yet have the kudos of a general MBA.\n\nMarlena Corcoran, chief executive of Athena Mentor, an international university admission counselling company, says: \"A person with a specialised MBA is likely to wind up working for a person with a [general] MBA.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Laura Marling's latest album was recorded in her adopted home of Los Angeles, so coming back to London to promote it in mid-February has been something of a rude awakening.\n\n\"I stupidly got on my bike this morning and got the sleet right in my face,\" she winces.\n\nHaving dried off and freshened up, she settles down to chat. Marling has a reputation for being a shy, sometimes reluctant interviewee - but LA clearly has rubbed off on her.\n\nShe chews gum as we talk, laughing bawdily as she discusses her penchant for dating drummers. (\"What do they bring to a relationship? Rhythm!\")\n\nThe 27-year-old also reveals her mum keeps a \"very meticulous scrapbook\" of her career, and admits to cooking up her own brand of Halloumi cheese.\n\n\"I'm aiming for direct competition with Alex James,\" she says, referring to the cheese-making Blur bassist. \"But bloody hell, what a boring thing to talk about\".\n\nMarling released her first album - Alas, I Cannot Swim - in 2007\n\nSo instead we circle back to that new album.\n\nIt's her sixth, and possibly best, record since she emerged at the age of 17 as part of the indie folk movement that also spawned Mumford and Sons, Lucy Rose and Noah and the Whale.\n\nSumptuous and sensual, Semper Femina adds a hint of West Coast sheen to her delicate, acoustic melodies. Marling generously credits her band and producer Blake Mills for the progression.\n\n\"All of the musicality of the album is down to them,\" she says. \"I wanted to be in the middle of it, but for someone else to be painting the picture around it.\"\n\nIf you don't have a Latin textbook to hand, the album's title is taken from a line in Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid.\n\nThe line is \"varium et mutabile semper femina\", which translates as \"woman is always fickle and changeable\". \"I thought that was very jolly,\" says Marling, apparently without sarcasm.\n\nShe came across the phrase years ago and had a truncated version - \"Semper Femina\", or \"always a woman\" - tattooed on her leg when she was 21.\n\nThe singer has Virgil's phrase tattooed on her leg\n\nIt's a fitting title for a record that explores femininity in all its forms, from the archetypal wild teenager to the artist's muse, while reflecting on female friendships and betrayals.\n\nMarling prompted a lot of speculation when she announced in a press release that the album was written during a \"masculine time\" in her life, after she had \"gone on this trip of abandoning any sexuality\".\n\nShe clarifies that today, saying she was simply trying to write about women from a \"neutral perspective\". But she admits LA prompted a period of androgyny.\n\n\"People there are just a bit more far-out,\" she explains. \"Nobody's got a job, they can dress however they want. A lot of my friends are queer or gender-fluid. So I was picking up on that.\n\n\"Then there was also my natural relationship with [womanhood]. I'm unsure. I'm unsure of my own femininity or masculinity.\n\n\"There are some circumstances in which I employ more of a masculine approach in order to protect myself; and there are circumstances where I indulge in my more feminine side because that vulnerability seems more important.\n\n\"I'm interested in the differences between men and women, of which there are plenty, and they need to be understood better.\"\n\n\"Well, I was talking to my producer, Blake, and he said he started playing guitar to impress girls. I think when I started playing guitar, it was to impress my dad.\n\n\"So Blake's relationship to his instrument is very different to mine and his reason for writing songs is very different to mine but, at the same time, he is extraordinary. And so those differences can be great.\n\n\"You can reduce it down to an Eastern idea that men expend energy and women are self-perpetuating.\"\n\nOne of the album's big themes is how women are observed - both by men and each other.\n\nOn Wild Fire, Marling talks about a friend who keeps a \"pen behind her ear\" and constantly jots down her thoughts in a notepad.\n\n\"Of course the only part that I want to read is about her time spent with me,\" the singer drawls.\n\n\"Wouldn't you die to know how you're seen? Are you getting away with who you're trying to be?\"\n\nThat's a perennial question for a performer - especially one who seems so cautious of the limelight.\n\n\"Would I die to know how I'm seen?\" she asks herself, when the lyric is brought up. \"I don't know!\n\n\"I'm aware, obviously, that I'm looked at and considered and reviewed and criticised. But I'm pretty good at steering pretty clear of those [articles], unless they're delivered to me by my mother.\"\n\nOn Nouel, she turns the tables - objectifying one of her real-life friends as a classic muse.\n\n\"Oh Nouel, you sing so well / Sing only for me?\" Marling pleads, going on to compare her friend to Gustave Courbet's Origine Du Monde - an 1866 painting of a woman sprawled naked on a bed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Marling performs Nouel, from her new album Semper Femina, for BBC Radio 4's Mastertapes.\n\n\"I was interested in what it is like to be made a muse,\" says Marling. \"Nouel is a person who exists, a visual artist I know in Los Angeles, and I took her essence and I exaggerated it into a fantasy.\n\n\"She [Nouel] was very flattered by it - but then again she was able to remove herself from it.\n\n\"It's her but it's not her. I haven't painted a picture of her - it's my projection of my feelings about how extraordinary I feel she is.\"\n\nIn black and white this all seems very intellectual and, well, pretentious.\n\nMarling is quite aware of how it comes across, poking fun at the \"pseudo-science\" and \"pop psychology\" she espouses.\n\nOn the album she even sings, \"Lately I wonder if all my pondering takes up too much ground?\"\n\nBut the music breathes warm life into these high concepts, resulting in a romantic, confessional suite of songs.\n\nBy the last track, Nothing Not Nearly, Marling has put all the contemplation aside to observe: \"Nothing matters more than love. No nothing. Not nearly.\"\n\nIt reflects her current, contented state of mind.\n\n\"I'm loving my late twenties,\" she says. \"The closer I get to 30, the more at ease I feel with myself.\"\n\nEach of her albums has contributed to that sense of self, she continues.\n\n\"This one was about understanding femininity and masculinity. The last one was understanding solitude.\n\n\"Before that was heartbreak, before that was freedom and before that was anger. It's like I'm tackling the world one emotion at a time!\"\n\n\"Possibly. Or fear, given the era that we're seemingly stepping into,\" she says. \"It's not been good.\"\n\nMarling won a Brit award for best British female in 2011\n\nShe talks about the \"horrifying but unbearably addictive quality\" of President Trump, saying she's constantly checking her phone for the latest update.\n\nWhile the Trump era has already prompted a surge in political protest songs, Marling has trouble viewing this as a positive.\n\n\"I don't think anyone would wish that on the world for the sake of writing a good song. That's not the purpose of art - to encounter animosity for the sake of having something to do.\n\n\"A singer, who's now a big singer, once said to me: 'It'd be so cool to be really heartbroken because it'd be good for my songwriting.\"\n\n\"I was like, 'You silly, naive wally!' Never wish that on yourself. It's unbearable.\"\n\nSemper Femina is out on 10 March. Laura Marling is currently on tour around the UK.\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.", "Nicola Sturgeon has hardly made a secret of her belief that Scotland's different attitude to the EU possibly justifies a second independence referendum.\n\nAt Westminster and Holyrood in recent months there's been a building sense that she has made up her mind to call a vote.\n\nThose close to her are careful to emphasise that there is no final decision. She, herself, is at pains to say she has not reached a conclusion. But even if it's still an \"if\", she seems clearer on the \"when\".\n\nIn a documentary tonight, the first minister told me the \"common sense time\" for such a vote would be in autumn 2018. Others have speculated as much, but she is in charge. And her more explicit remarks display how expectation is building.\n\nIf Ms Sturgeon is now willing to discuss the timing of a second vote in public, consideration of another independence referendum is far beyond the hypothetical.\n\nThe crucial facet of that calculation is that the SNP believes its best chance of winning is before the EU negotiations are complete.\n\nSenior sources suggest Theresa May will be at her most vulnerable when the UK government is consumed with the Brexit negotiations, and that if Scotland is to be offered independence again, that choice must be made before the UK has actually left the European Union.\n\nThere is though not just the problem that just as her supporters may be enthused, many other Scots will be enraged by being asked to go there again.\n\nJust as the first independence referendum galvanised Scottish politics, for others it was divisive, even distressing.\n\nBut also, it's up to the Westminster government to permit another referendum.\n\nThere are huge risks for them in denying it, but ministers in London certainly would not grant a vote at the time of the SNP's choosing without a fight.\n\nMy interview with Nicola Sturgeon will be broadcast on Britain's Biggest Deal on BBC 2 at 21.00 GMT. I have also spoken to Boris Johnson, David Davis and Tony Blair among others.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs Theresa May arrived at her last Brussels summit before pushing the button on Brexit, it is enough to give you a splitting headache.\n\nNot just the complexity of actually getting a deal done, but the ceiling of the brand new European Council HQ in Brussels, decked out in a crazy patchwork of rainbow colours.\n\nThe architect told the BBC he hopes his design will lead to \"joyful meetings\" in a space \"where politicians' deep talents can be expressed like poets\".\n\nHarsh words and hard bargaining are more likely to be a feature of the next two years despite the architect's dreams.\n\nEven if there is goodwill on both sides, as British ministers increasingly hope, the technicalities of doing a deal are impossible to dismiss.\n\nFirst off there's an exit process to negotiate, with a likely exit bill of as much as £50bn.\n\nMinisters have been careful so far not to say too much.\n\nBut Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told me Britain has an \"illustrious precedent\" and should reject the demands - just as Margaret Thatcher did at the fabled summit in 1984 when she wielded her handbag and didn't just ask for money back, she threatened to walk out if she didn't get her way.\n\nHe told me: \"We have illustrious precedent in this matter... I think you can recall the 1984… summit in which Mrs Thatcher said she wanted her money back and I think that is exactly what we will, we will get.\"\n\nA rather more provocative way of telling the rest of the EU that the contentious demands expected to be made just aren't going to happen and - by mentioning the Fontainbleu incident - implying at least that it is possible the UK could walk out over the cash.\n\nThat's before we start to untangle four decades when our countries, laws, rules and regulations have been becoming more and more enmeshed.\n\nThen there are the prospects of getting a deal on the future of our relationships done.\n\nWhat happens to security arrangements, information sharing, rules and regulations, our entire legal system, our future immigration system, fishing, farming, air traffic control, water quality rules, Europol, continent-wide arrest warrants? The list goes on and on.\n\nTheresa May has arrived at her last Brussels summit before pushing the button on Brexit\n\nThen, as our interview with Nicola Sturgeon makes plain, the constitutional implications at home are only starting to be understood.\n\nThere are fights too for powers in Northern Ireland with risks of destabilising the peace process, argues Tony Blair.\n\nAnd if those two nations are fighting for more powers as control returns from Brussels, can Wales sit and just play along?\n\nThe hardest solutions to find though are on trade.\n\nIt's true that those who were ardent Remainers now in government say privately they are more hopeful.\n\nA senior figure told me: \"It's like a divorce. At the start you say, I hate you, I never want to see you again. Then you say, I still don't like you, but we need to talk about the kids.\"\n\nThere is no question that, in Westminster at least, the expectation is that individual members of the EU are softening their resistance.\n\nThat's why part of the UK government's strategy is unquestionably to divide and conquer.\n\nBut there isn't much sign of any softening, or at least anyone willing to say so in public.\n\nThat's why, despite their optimism, there is a realism in government too, and they are preparing to think about having to walk away, with the Brexit Secretary David Davis admitting to me, he is very hopeful of \"Plan A\", but that ministers \"have to do the work for the so-called Plan B or C\".\n\nHe also reiterated the government's position that there is no way they will agree to a deal on EU citizens in Britain without agreement from the other side of the table.\n\nHe claims the \"highest probability\" is of getting a deal done.\n\nFor the many ministers and officials we've spoken to, they believe - for some of them it's more accurately a hope - that a good deal can be reached because in the end, money talks.\n\nJust as Vote Leave argued, the belief at the highest levels of government is that whether it's German cars or Italian prosecco, European politicians will come willingly to an agreement because they rely on the buying power of the British consumer.\n\nThat is the argument that's continually cited and the ultimate irony.\n\nBritain's politicians are relying on the EU to put economics before politics.\n\nOne of the reasons Britain chose to leave the EU is the perpetual frustration felt on our side of the Channel that continental politicians are incapable of doing just that.\n\nIt's a gamble perhaps that Theresa May didn't have much choice but to take.\n\nBut if she's wrong, the government, arguably the country, will need Mr Davis' Plan B. And the dreams of an architect might in fact be the start of a nightmare.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsene Wenger will announce \"very soon\" whether he will remain at Arsenal after reaching a decision on his future.\n\nThe Gunners boss was speaking after a 3-1 Premier League loss at West Brom, a fourth league defeat in five matches.\n\nThe loss increased the pressure on the beleaguered Frenchman and left Arsenal facing the prospect of failing to finish in the top four for the first time since he joined the club in 1996.\n\n\"I know what I will do,\" said Wenger. \"You will soon know.\"\n\nThe 67-year-old continued: \"Today I do not necessarily worry about that. We are in a unique bad patch we never had in 20 years.\n\n\"We lose game after game at the moment and that for me is much more important than my future.\"\n\nWenger's contract expires at the end of the season but he has been offered a new two-year deal.\n\nAnalysis - 'My reading is he'll go'\n\nFormer England striker Alan Shearer on Match of the Day\n\n\"From that, I read that he is going to go. He looks a broken man.\n\n\"There's been a lot of chat from the media and the pundits about Arsene Wenger. There hasn't been a lot spoken from his players. His players spoke today in that game.\n\n\"Judging by that performance and their recent performances, they don't want him in that job. They lacked heart, they lacked fight, they lacked direction. Every player other than Alexis Sanchez, I thought, was pretty embarrassing.\"\n\nWenger has come under increasing pressure in recent weeks, with fans responding to defeats in the Premier League, and the 10-2 aggregate loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League, by calling for him to leave.\n\nMore anti-Wenger banners were held aloft by Gunners fans in the closing stages at The Hawthorns, while in the first half two planes pulled banners overhead - one criticising the Frenchman and the other supporting him.\n\n\"We've never had this before,\" he said about his side's run of form. \"We face big problems to regroup and find resources to sort the problem.\"\n\nAfter the international break, Arsenal's next Premier League game is against Manchester City, the side they face in next month's FA Cup semi-final.\n\nWenger told Sky Sports. \"I think we have a hell of a task to fight back but we need to regroup and focus on the games coming up because we have many big games.\n\n\"Even though it is a disappointing result, everybody goes away now to recover and prepare well.\"\n\n'We face some serious challenges'\n\nArsenal went down on Saturday to two Craig Dawson headers following corners and a goal from substitute Hal Robson-Kanu, scored with only his second touch.\n\nThe Gunners did rally quickly after falling behind, Alexis Sanchez's 18th league goal of the season pulling them level, but that was overshadowed by their vulnerability at the back.\n\nTheir problems were compounded by injuries to goalkeeper Petr Cech in the first half and forward Sanchez in the second.\n\nWenger said Cech was forced off with a calf problem, while Sanchez was substituted with possible ankle ligament damage.\n\n\"It was a typical Premier League game. A team that likes to play and a team that defends well,\" Wenger told Match of the Day.\n\n\"It was a tough performance. They caught us on set-pieces and one break and that made the difference.\n\n\"We were a bit naive, maybe, on the corners. Then we were punished. It's a shame. We looked in the second half to take completely over.\"\n\nWenger admitted his side had not created enough chances, particularly in the second half.\n\n\"We lost Sanchez in the second half, he was very dangerous in the first,\" he said.\n\n\"We face some serious challenges. The City game at home is a big game for us.\"", "It was the place to be in 19th Century Paris - the city's most successful political and literary salon, where the great and good of French society would gather. And it was run by a remarkable Englishwoman.\n\nFor 250 years Paris was renowned for its literary and political salons, and for the fashionable women - the salonnieres - who guided discussion among the eminent figures of the age.\n\nIn much of the 19th Century, one of the most influential of the salons was held at 120 Rue du Bac in the Saint-Germain district. Here gathered writers and thinkers like Victor Hugo and Alexis de Toqueville, politicians like the Adolphe Thiers, the future president, painters like Eugene Delacroix, historians, orientalists, economists.\n\nAnd presiding over them all was an Englishwoman.\n\nClarkey was her nickname. Madame de Mohl became her formal title. Mary Clarke was how she was born in 1793 in London.\n\nOver the next 90 years, Mary Clarke Mohl lived an extraordinary life at the crossroads of French and British culture and society. Nearly all of it was spent in Paris, where she saw three revolutions and was on friendly terms with so many of the great names of the day.\n\nBut she never lost her attachment to Britain and in the Rue du Bac she offered a home-from-home to William Thackeray and Elizabeth Gaskell, the Brownings and the Trollopes, as well as to many aristocrats, diplomats and politicians. She was also one of Florence Nightingale's closest friends and provided vital encouragement to launch her career in nursing.\n\nMuch of what we know of Clarkey comes from other people's memoirs in English and French. But she also wrote hundreds of letters, many to her husband, the German orientalist Julius Mohl, and these were collected and published after her death.\n\nShe had an unusual start in life, one which goes a long way to explaining the unconventional course it was subsequently to take. At the age of eight she left for France in the sole company of her mother and grandmother, and apart from annual trips she never lived in England again.\n\nBoth her guardians were strong and independent-minded women. Her Scottish grandmother had hobnobbed with thinkers like David Hume and Adam Smith in Edinburgh and before the French Revolution lived in Dunkirk. Mary's mother Elizabeth was a progressive free thinker.\n\nLater, when they lived through the July 1830 uprising in Paris, Mary remembered scrambling through the barricades to get back home.\n\n\"Mama said: 'Tell me the news, for Heaven's sake - I have been quaking in my shoes.' I said, 'But I told you I would take care.' 'Oh,' she said, 'It was not you I was worried about; it was the common people!'\"\n\nLiving in Paris under the restored Bourbon monarchy after 1815, Mary Clarke came to know Juliette Recamier, who was the great salonniere of the time (we know her through her famous painting by Jacques-Louis David). Through her, she met literary greats such as Stendhal, Hugo, Prosper Merimee and Chateaubriand. Chateaubriand - author of Memoirs from Beyond the Grave - was by now a grumpy old man, but he cheered up when entertained by \"la jeune anglaise\".\n\nBut by 1838, Recamier's rule was coming to an end. So Clarke - still with her mother - moved into the third floor apartment at 120 Rue du Bac (above Chateaubriand) and set about the task of becoming her successor.\n\nSeen from the distance of 150 years, Clarkey comes across as the most splendidly original and sympathetic of characters.\n\nAppearance was a clue to her very British eccentricity. She was small with a turned-up button nose and a mass of frizzy curls. The future prime minister Francois Guizot used to say that \"Madame Mohl and my little Scotch terrier have the same coiffeur\".\n\nIn a description given by Henry James, \"Mme Mohl used to drop out of an omnibus, often into a mud-puddle, at our door, and delight us with her originality and freshness. I can see her now, just arrived, her feet on the fender before the fire, her hair flying, and her general untidiness so marked as to be picturesque.\"\n\nHer at-homes were on Friday evenings and Wednesday afternoons. Guests were welcomed into two adjoining drawing-rooms filled with sofas and arm-chairs, with two windows looking out over gardens that belonged to the Catholic Church's Foreign Missions, as they still do today.\n\nThe rules were simple. According to Kathleen O'Meara, a contemporary memoirist and Paris correspondent for The Tablet: \"You were expected to contribute to the general fund either by talking or listening, but you must not be bored.\n\n\"You were not allowed to sit staring at the company through an eyeglass; anyone who offended in this way was pounced upon at once… Another unpardonable offence was making tete-a-tetes in corners or chatting about the room in duets or trios when conversation, real conversation was going on.\"\n\nNo opinions were barred - save, from 1850 to 1870, any mention of support for the emperor Napoleon III. Madame Mohl abhorred the man, referring to him contemptuously as \"celui-ci\" (this one) with a thumb jabbed back over her shoulder. She far preferred the bourgeois domesticity of the previous King Louis-Philippe, who was ousted in 1848.\n\nMary Clarke Mohl saw herself as standing in a long line of great French women, starting with Madame de Rambouillet in the early 17th Century, who had wielded their intellect and charm in the service of culture, politics and reason. Often she drew comparisons with the fate of women in the UK, who she felt sorely lacked the freedom offered in France.\n\nIn a letter written in 1862 she laments how in England, \"The men talk together; the lady of the house may be addressed once in a way as duty, but the men had all rather talk together and she is pretty mute… They have no notion that a lady's conversation is better than a man's.\"\n\nHer own conversation - according to the memoirist Mary Simpson - was \"spontaneous, full of fun, information and grace of expression. She spoke French and English with the fluency and accent of a native, yet with the care and originality of a foreigner. And when there was no word in either language to fit her thoughts, she would coin one for the occasion\".\n\nShe could also be alarmingly rude - especially about women who she thought were failing to exercise their brains correctly. According to O'Meara: \"It was a source of genuine astonishment to her that women were so addicted to idle gossip. 'Why don't they use their brains?', she would ask angrily.\"\n\nIndeed, as a young girl Clarkey had been told by her grandmother that she was \"as impudent as a highwayman's horse\" - apparently a reference to the way highwaymen's horses would stick their heads into carriages as the hapless victims surrendered their purses.\n\nThough to call her feminist would be inaccurate, she was one of a generation that laid the ground for the changes that followed in women's lives. From their letters, we know that she was a rock-like figure for Florence Nightingale, persuading her to stick with her vocation despite the horrified opposition of Florence's family. On her way to Crimea in 1854, Florence came via Paris where Mohl helped with her arrangements.\n\nClarkey lived so long she spanned the ages. Born in the aftermath of Revolution, she died almost in the modern era. As a young woman she had been in love with the handsome historian Claude Fauriel, but that came to nothing, so in 1847 she married the charmingly donnish Julius Mohl, who was seven years her junior.\n\nAnthony Trollope's brother Thomas described Monsieur Mohl as so absolutely surrounded by books \"built up into walls around him, as to suggest almost inevitably the idea of a mouse in a cheese, eating out the hollow it lives in\". But the couple were devoted to each other, and when he died in 1876 Mary was said to be like \"a lost dog going about searching for its master\".\n\nSeven years later, Clarkey herself died and was buried next to him in the Pere Lachaise cemetery.\n\n\"Where she entered, dullness and ennui fled,\" said another memoirist, Grace Anne Prestwich, in an article written after her death.\n\nConversation, said Madame Mohl, was not the same as talk. The English talked, but the French knew that conversation was \"the mingling of mind and mind (and) the most complete exercise of the social faculty\".\n\n\"Society is a necessity to me,\" she said on another occasion. \"We all depend dreadfully on each other. We live in a world of looking-glasses, and it is the mind - not the face - which is given back to us by the reflexions.\"\n\nMary Clarke Mohl mixed English and French customs in a way that few have done before or since. She was entertaining, provocative, unpretentious, rude, generous and loving. She saw no reason why women could not hold their intellectual own.\n\nThe salon tradition died out around the end of the 19th Century. Clarkey was a fitting and original last champion.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nSir Mo Farah and Kadeena Cox were named sportsman and sportswoman of the year at the 2017 British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards.\n\nFarah won gold in the 5,000m and 10,000m at the Olympics in Rio last year, while Cox won cycling and athletics gold at the Rio Paralympics.\n\nThe special lifetime achievement award went to 2003 Rugby World Cup winner Jason Robinson.\n\nBrighton boss Chris Hughton was named England coach of the year.\n\nThe third BEDSAs were hosted by British comedian Sir Lenny Henry in London on Saturday and are supported by Sport England, UK Sport, the Football Association, the Tennis Foundation, Youth Sport Trust, England Athletics, the British Army, Mind and Spirit of 2012.\n\nThey are organised by Sporting Equals, whose chief executive Arun Kang said the purpose of the awards was to \"celebrate diversity at both an elite and grassroots level\".\n\n\"It really means a lot to be named as your sportsman of the year,\" said Farah. \"And congratulations to my fellow nominees as well.\n\n\"It's so great to see everyone come together this evening to celebrate the incredible achievements of our diverse sporting communities.\"\n\nCox said: \"I'm very honoured to have won this award and would like to give a massive thanks to Sporting Equals for all the work they do in BAME (Black, Asian and minority ethnic) communities.\"", "What happens when you have a name that seems perfectly reasonable in your home country, but raises a sympathetic smile when you're abroad? BBC Europe Correspondent Kevin Connolly has been finding out the hard way.\n\nThere is a theory called nominative determinism, much beloved of students of literature and other idlers. It holds that your character will come over time to match your name.\n\nSo if you are called Max Power or Chuck Handgrenade then you are predestined to life as a man of action - and if you're called Ray O'Sunshine or Sunny B Happy then you will be lovability incarnate.\n\nI'd never expected to find myself touched by the theory personally, being equipped as I am with a wholly unremarkable name. I wasn't even given a middle initial on the utilitarian grounds that they're only useful to professional cricketers and American politicians.\n\nThat all changed when a colleague drew my attention to an article in a French magazine called The Curse of Kevin.\n\nIts point was that, in the French-speaking world, that Christian name - my Christian name - more or less predestines you to being considered an idiot. And not necessarily a particularly lovable idiot either.\n\nThe city of lights. Not of Kevins\n\nMy Irish mother would have been mortified to hear this.\n\nTo her, Kevin was a respectable saint's name and added the music of alliteration to the prosaic sound of Connolly.\n\nI've never been entirely persuaded myself - Kevin was a curmudgeonly hermit celebrated for pushing a woman who made overtures towards him into a bed of nettles.\n\nIf he were alive today I can't help thinking that Kevin would be receiving court-ordered counselling rather than the prayers of the faithful. But of course I had no say in the matter.\n\nAnd the name wasn't always a curse in the Francophone world either.\n\nWhen I lived in Paris in the 1990s, I wouldn't say it was enjoying a vogue exactly, but it was experiencing a kind of blip of recognition.\n\nWe even settled - in our office at least - on an agreed pronunciation of K'veen. It broke the rules of French phonetics a bit - it should surely be Ke-van - but people had at least heard of the name.\n\nIt was never quite clear why it suddenly surged briefly from obscurity, but we know that in 1991 a total of 14,087 French children were given the name Kevin - and no reason to doubt it was a winning ticket in the lottery of life.\n\nWe were never sure why. There were the Hollywood Kevins of course - Costner, Bacon and Spacey - but none of them seemed well-known enough individually to explain the phenomenon. Perhaps, we theorised, when you added them together they achieved a kind of critical mass - like a celebrity nuclear reaction.\n\nWe need to talk about Kevins\n\nRival theorists suggested that the name was copied from members of boy bands, or even, God forbid, from the American film Home Alone, in which the geeky super-child at the heart of the story is also called Kevin.\n\nAnyway, our moment in the sun was brief indeed.\n\nThe number of new Kevins in France has slowed to a dreary trickle these days, with potential parents frightened off, perhaps, by the trenchant manner in which French sociologists analyse such matters.\n\nKevin, they say, simply was popular with the lower classes and Kevin was never well-perceived by his betters.\n\nKevin, in short, is an oik, shown in surveys to have as much as a 30% lower chance of being hired when compared with Philippe, or Jean-Luc or Vincent.\n\nThe online discussion that followed the article did not contain, as it might in Britain or America, an angry rejection of this tendency to isolate and marginalise the Kevin, although it did include a handy list of other, equally cursed names, including Brian, Brandon, Jessica and Dylan. It didn't discuss whether this varies according to whether you're named after the American singer or the hippy rabbit from the Magic Roundabout.\n\nAnyway, a novel has now been published in French which tells the story of how a young man improves his chances of being accepted into the intellectual salons of Paris by changing his name from Kevin to Alexandre.\n\nI'm not sure my own disqualification from those salons was ever entirely down to my name but it all feels like a timely reminder of the exclusion which now appears to be part and parcel of the life of a Kevin in the Francophone world.\n\nI'd like to say that I just don't understand it. But then, of course, that's the curse of nominative determinism. Anyone called Kevin is destined to not quite understand anything.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "In the Afghan capital, Kabul, there's still widespread shock and anger at the brutal militant attack last week on the city's main military hospital.\n\nThe authorities have acted swiftly, sacking the deputy interior minister and arresting 24 hospital and military officials, including an army general.\n\nBut for many Kabul residents it feels too little, too late.\n\nA local man interviewed on the street this week by state TV spoke for many.\n\n\"If this government can't fulfil its responsibilities, someone else needs to take over,\" he said.\n\n\"People have had enough of this situation.\"\n\nOfficials put the death toll at 50, with 31 injured - though these figures are disputed\n\nThe 400-bed Sardar Daud Khan hospital is set in extensive grounds in Kabul's diplomatic district, not far from the US embassy, Nato headquarters and the Afghan state television building.\n\nPeople are demanding to know how such a supposedly secure defence ministry facility could be so vulnerable to attack.\n\nThe issue has been furiously debated in parliament and continues to be a key subject of conversation on social media.\n\nSmoke billowing out during the attack at Sardar Daud Khan Hospital\n\nAt a hastily arranged press conference this week, defence ministry officials presented their initial findings.\n\nBut their version appeared to contradict the accounts of some eyewitnesses and Afghan politicians, and many key questions remain unanswered.\n\nOne of the biggest is how the attackers were able to get into what was supposed to be a heavily-guarded compound.\n\nA medical technician who has worked at the hospital for almost a decade told the BBC that security was always very tight.\n\n\"Everyone entering the building, including staff, is frisked and their bags are checked,\" she said.\n\nSo did the attackers have help from inside?\n\nDeputy Defence Minister Gen Helaludin Helal briefed reporters about the attack on Wednesday\n\nThe defence ministry says five people were involved and that they entered the compound in a car with fake number plates.\n\nOne blew himself up at the hospital gates and the others ran inside.\n\nBut eyewitnesses, including one who spoke to the BBC, reported hearing gunfire in the hospital corridors at exactly the same time as the blast at the entrance - suggesting at least some of the group could have already been inside.\n\nOne eyewitness who spent three hours hiding inside the cardiology department told the BBC that a colleague had seen men in white coats opening fire on people in the corridor.\n\nAhmad Nesar Hares, a member of the Afghan Senate Committee investigating the attack, told a heated Senate debate this week that according to his information as many as 17 militants were involved and that they had been let in by \"an enemy who worked in the hospital for three months\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Special forces were involved in an operation to stop the hospital attackers\n\n\"He transferred weapons, guns and ammunition to the hospital and nobody caught him,\" the senator said.\n\nIn a similar vein, some media reports have quoted hospital staff as saying two of the people involved in the attack were interns who had been working there for several months.\n\nThe defence ministry says it has no evidence so far that the attackers were helped by medical staff but investigations are ongoing.\n\nThe attackers were eventually killed after several hours of fighting\n\nOne thing that is not disputed is the brutal nature of the attack.\n\nThe defence ministry said the attackers were armed with AK47s, grenades and military issue knives. They also confirmed reports circulating locally that patients had been shot and stabbed to death in their hospital beds.\n\nThe exact death toll continues to be disputed.\n\nThe defence ministry revised its official figure up to \"around 50\" with 31 people injured. However, some hospital workers quoted in local media reports insist it was much higher.\n\nThe eyewitness who spoke to the BBC said the corridor outside her ward had been full of people when the attack started.\n\nShe described watching a scene of horror unfold with her patients, who were finally rescued by Afghan commandoes.\n\n\"There were bodies lying everywhere,\" she said. \"Patients, doctors, people I knew and worked with. It was terrible. I will never ever forget it.\"\n\nIt's still not clear who exactly carried out the attack.\n\nThe Afghan defence ministry says that both Afghan and foreign nationals were involved, but has dismissed social media speculation about their identity.\n\nIt is still not clear who was behind the attack\n\nWhile the violence was still going on, so-called Islamic State (IS) issued a statement via its Amaq news agency claiming responsibility.\n\nHowever Afghan security experts have questioned whether a group still thought to be relatively small in Afghanistan could be capable of planning and carrying out such a large scale operation.\n\nAfghan fighters who have declared allegiance to IS are thought to control just a handful of villages in eastern Nangarhar province.\n\nSome eyewitnesses have told local media that the attackers were shouting slogans in support of the Taliban.\n\nOne patient who spoke to the BBC said he saw men he described as \"Taliban\" shouting Allahu Akbar (\"God is greatest\") and throwing grenades in the corridor.\n\nIt's been widely reported that the wards containing Taliban patients were left untouched.\n\nThe defence ministry confirmed that injured Taliban fighters were being treated in the hospital but said they were in locked wards with barred windows, and that they were not involved in the violence.\n\nThe ministry has asked for patience as it continues to investigate what it said was \"a complex case\" and has pledged to share more information in the coming weeks.\n\nSyed Anwar and Jenny Norton contributed to this report.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United moved up to fifth in the Premier League as Middlesbrough's first game since the departure of manager Aitor Karanka ended in defeat.\n\nAshley Young's deep cross found Marouane Fellaini at the back post to head past Victor Valdes, before Jesse Lingard's terrific strike doubled United's lead after the break.\n\nBoro, with head coach Steve Agnew in charge, were invited to apply pressure and when Chris Smalling made a mess of an easy clearance in the box, substitute Rudy Gestede pounced.\n\nBut former United keeper Valdes slipped in stoppage time and Antonio Valencia's tap-in secured the three points.\n\nJose Mourinho's side leapfrog Arsenal and Everton into fifth, while Middlesbrough remain 19th in the table and are five points from safety.\n\nHaving parted ways with Karanka on Thursday, Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson charged Agnew with helping the Riverside club avoid the drop.\n\nBut the former assistant manager was unable to inspire his side to a fifth Premier League win this season despite dominating possession for large periods of the game.\n\nAlvaro Negredo looked isolated up front before Agnew introduced Gestede on 67 minutes, and with two in attack Boro looked capable of drawing level.\n\nBut United, showing seven changes from their Europa League win over FC Rostov in midweek, ground out a tricky three points.\n\nThis was Manchester United's 600th victory in the Premier League - making them the first side to reach the landmark.\n\nAnd while this was a notable moment for the club, their manager will surely be more concerned with their rise up the Premier League table and their ability to grind out a win without suspended top scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic and injured record signing Paul Pogba.\n\nUnited finish the day inside the top five of the Premier League table for the first time in 184 days.\n\nAnd they are also on an 18-game unbeaten run in the competition stretching back to a 4-0 loss to Chelsea in October, but have only moved up two places, from seventh to fifth, during that spell.\n\nThey have finally moved away from sixth spot - a position they have made their own this season - and are now in a position to challenge for the top four.\n\nNew boss, same old Boro\n\nMiddlesbrough dominated possession in the first 15 minutes as they started the game on the attack.\n\nBut the lowest scoring team in the Premier League, with just 20 goals, once again failed to turn pressure into points.\n\nFresh from taking over from Karanka, Agnew made four changes, three of them in attack, from his side's FA Cup defeat by Manchester City.\n\nGaston Ramirez, Stewart Downing and Alvaro Negredo replaced Adama Traore, Gestede and Cristhian Stuani - but Ramirez was the only player to force a save from United goalkeeper David de Gea in the first half.\n\nAnd once Fellaini found the back of the net on 29 minutes, the stats looked even more grim for Boro.\n\nBoro have gone behind 16 times this season, and only picked up two points from a losing position.\n\nAnd the last time United lost a Premier League game having taken the lead was away at Swansea in August 2015.\n\nAgnew's side did produce a response once 2-0 down, with Gestede netting Boro's first goal in eight and a half hours of football, but a lack of clinical finishing once again proved to be their downfall.\n\nGestede's impact on the game also included a clash with United defender Eric Bailly which prompted a mass confrontation between the two sides, while the ill-feeling appeared to continue as the players headed for the tunnel after full-time.\n\nWhat they said\n\nMiddlesbrough head coach Steve Agnew: \"If we show that commitment and that sort of intensity until the end of the season then we have a real chance of staying in this league.\n\n\"It is a relief to get a goal and I felt that when we got that goal, we had Manchester United defending in the box for their lives and again we didn't quite get the bounce of the ball to get the equaliser, which on the balance of play I thought we deserved.\n\n\"I know that we will take that fighting spirit for the rest of the season.\"\n\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho: \"[I applaud] our attitude and desire and our way of thinking. We don't have plan B, C, D, E, F and G - but we have M, N, O, P and S.\n\n\"It is fantastic because we manage in the same week, to go to the quarter-finals of the Europa League which is an important target for us.\n\n\"At the same time, we got these three points that keep us in the race for the fourth position so we still have two doors for Champions League football next season.\n\n\"These guys gave everything, we started the game really well. Valdes made three fantastic saves before our first goal. We controlled everything until our second goal.\"\n\nThe Premier League takes a break for the next round of World Cup qualifiers, after which both Middlesbrough and Manchester United face hectic April schedules.\n\nMiddlesbrough have six games in the packed month, but the next two games could define their season.\n\nOn Sunday, 2 April (13:30 BST) they travel to relegation rivals Swansea before another away trip to Hull City three days later (19:45 BST).\n\nSwansea sit five points above them, just outside the relegation zone in 17th, with Hull in 18th, two points adrift of Middlesbrough.\n\nUnited host West Brom in the Premier League - the first of eight fixtures in April as they chase Europa League success and a top-four finish.\n\nMourinho criticised the Premier League during the week, bemoaning their fixture schedule and reluctance to aid clubs competing in Europe.\n\nBut United are no strangers to a busy back end of the season.\n\nBoth the 2008-09 and 2010-11 campaigns, under Sir Alex Ferguson, also featured eight April fixtures.\n\nThey lifted the Premier League title in both seasons, despite two semi-final exits in the FA Cup and losses to Barcelona in Champions League finals.\n\nAnd back in 1999, 14 games in 54 days were the climax to the most successful season in their history as United secured the FA Cup, Champions League and Premier League Treble.\n• None This was Middlesbrough's 1,000th top-flight league defeat; the 14th team to reach this tally.\n• None Lingard scored his fifth Premier League goal for United - still one fewer than he has collectively in other competitions (one in the Community Shield, two in Europa League, one in EFL Cup, two in FA Cup).\n• None United have scored more goals from outside the box in the Premier League this season (six) than they did in 2015-16 (five).\n• None Fellaini's strike ended his run of 30 Premier League appearances without a goal.\n• None Thirteen of Fellaini's 33 Premier League goals have been headers (39%).\n• None Gestede's goal was the first Middlesbrough have scored in the Premier League in 509 minutes of action.\n• None This was the first time Mourinho has started a league game with a three-man defence since 15 May 2011 (Villarreal 1-3 Real Madrid in La Liga).\n• None Goal! Middlesbrough 1, Manchester United 3. Antonio Valencia (Manchester United) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Álvaro Negredo (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rudy Gestede with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Álvaro Negredo (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Substitution, Manchester United. Anthony Martial replaces Jesse Lingard because of an injury.\n• None Delay in match Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Chuck Berry's trademark four-bar guitar introduction and quickfire lyrics reflected the rebelliousness of the youth of the 1950s.\n\nHe was one of that exclusive group who took rhythm and blues from its black roots and \"crossed over\" to make it part of most teenagers' lifestyle.\n\nHe influenced generations of succeeding rock stars, most notably the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys.\n\nYet he faced major financial difficulties through mismanagement and had frequent brushes with the law.\n\nCharles Edward Anderson Berry was born into a middle-class family in St Louis, Missouri, on 18 October 1926.\n\nAs a teenager he began playing concerts in his local high school but his education was curtailed after he was convicted of armed robbery and spent three years in a reformatory for young offenders.\n\nHe had one of the first rock and roll hits\n\nOn his release he made a living as a hairdresser, playing in a trio in the evenings with Ebby Harding on drums and Johnnie Johnson on piano. Johnson would remain with Berry throughout his career\n\nHe was influenced by blues heroes such as Muddy Waters and T-Bone Walker, as well as white country and western music, though his singing style owed much to the clarity of Nat King Cole.\n\n\"My music is simple stuff,\" he once said.\n\n\"Anyone can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.\"\n\nHis recording career began in 1955 with the legendary Chess label in Chicago, where his first release Maybellene became one of rock and roll's first hits.\n\nIn the next few years, he scored a succession of hits, all aimed at an adolescent audience, including Roll Over Beethoven, Sweet Little Sixteen, Carol and the classic Johnny B. Goode.\n\nHis music transcended the colour bar that plagued many contemporary black artists as affluent white teenagers in Eisenhower's America reached out for something new.\n\n\"I play the songs they want to hear,\" he said.\n\n\"That makes them feel they're getting what they came for.\"\n\nHe appeared in several rock films including Rock, Rock, Rock and Mr Rock and Roll, both from 1957; Go Johnny Go from 1959; and Jazz on a Summer's Day in 1960.\n\nIn 1962 he was charged with transporting a minor across state lines for immoral purposes.\n\nThe girl in question was a 14-year-old from Texas who he claimed he had brought to Missouri to check hats at his St Louis nightclub.\n\nAfter he fired her, she complained to the police. In court, the judge's summing-up was blatantly racist and the trial was eventually declared null and void.\n\nHis conviction at a second trial and the resulting two-year sentence left him embittered.\n\nHis release coincided with the rhythm and blues revival in Britain. With his material being covered by bands like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, his work was discovered by a new generation.\n\n\"If you tried to give rock and roll another name,\" John Lennon famously said, \"you might call it Chuck Berry.\"\n\nOn stage with Keith Richards at a 60th birthday tribute\n\nSuccessful tours followed. He scored a few more hits with No Particular Place to Go and Memphis, Tennessee. His biggest hit came later in Britain with the atypical 1972 novelty record, My Ding-a-Ling, replete with double entendres.\n\nWhen he wasn't churning out the hits, Chuck Berry was thrilling audiences with his live performances. His trademark became his duck walk, a crouching movement across the stage made during his guitar solos.\n\nOffstage, he could be a prickly character, exemplified in the 1987 film Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll which featured a tour with a backing band organised by devotee Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones.\n\nIn the same year, he published an explicit autobiography genuinely penned by himself.\n\nBerry's attitude to money was notorious. He demanded cash upfront for many of his concerts and in 1979, he served a 100-day jail term for tax evasion.\n\nThere were further brushes with the law. In 1988 he settled a lawsuit from a woman he allegedly punched in the face.\n\nTwo years later he was sued by a group of women after it was discovered that a hidden camera had been placed in the toilets of his restaurant in Missouri.\n\nStill on the road at the age of 87\n\nHe also received a suspended jail sentence for marijuana possession.\n\nDespite the advancing years, he continued playing one-night concerts and embarked on a European tour in 2008 at the age of 82.\n\nIn January 1986, Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with a citation that summed up his contribution to popular music.\n\n\"While no individual can be said to have invented rock and roll, Chuck Berry comes the closest of any single figure to being the one who put all the essential pieces together.\"\n\nBerry himself had a simple explanation for his success.\n\n\"It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew who I was. I was going to be famous if it killed me.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nSix Nations officials are reviewing events in the closing stages of Wales' 20-18 loss to France, including an alleged bite on wing George North.\n\nWales coach Rob Howley was left to \"question the integrity of our game\" after France replaced Uini Atonio with Rabah Slimani during the 20 minutes of added time that were played.\n\nFrance's team doctor said Atonio needed to go off for a head injury assessment.\n\nNorth, meanwhile, said he was bitten in the build-up to France's final try.\n\nReferee Wayne Barnes asked television match official Peter Fitzgibbon to check the incident, but he could not find any clear footage so the game resumed without action being taken.\n\nSix Nations Rugby said an independent citing commissioner would review \"all relevant incidents\" and raise any issues in due course, normally within 48 hours of the end of the match.\n\nIt added it was \"aware of concerns\" about the head injury assessment in added time and \"is looking into the matter\".\n\nSpeaking after Saturday's game, Howley said: \"In terms of the process, I think we have reason to complain.\n\n\"You can hear Wayne Barnes ask him if he is OK. He said he had a sore back, but that he was OK. And then the doctor comes on, and he goes off.\n\n\"I've no issues about the result, it's just about the process.\"\n\nFrance coach Guy Noves said his medical staff told him Atonio was injured.\n\nHe added: \"We will do a medical check-up. I hope the injury is not too serious, and he will be able to play again soon.\"\n\nWales led 18-13 at the end of the 80 minutes but Damien Chouly drove over for the try that brought France level, and Camille Lopez's conversion was decisive.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWest Ham winger Michail Antonio has withdrawn from the England squad because of a hamstring injury.\n\nThe uncapped 26-year-old reported the injury after Saturday's 3-2 Premier League defeat by Leicester City.\n\nAntonio was able to complete the 90 minutes at London Stadium, but West Ham manager Slaven Bilic indicated afterwards that he was a doubt.\n\nEngland face Germany in a friendly on Wednesday before hosting Lithuania in a World Cup qualifier on Sunday.\n\nAntonio's absence further weakens the attacking options of England boss Gareth Southgate.\n\nForwards Harry Kane, Daniel Sturridge, Danny Welbeck and Wayne Rooney are all out through injury, while Theo Walcott was left out of the squad.\n\nIn addition to Antonio, West Ham lost centre-back Winston Reid to a leg injury, while midfielder Pedro Obiang was taken off on a stretcher after rolling his ankle.\n\nOn the injuries to Antonio and Reid, Bilic said: \"Hopefully, they will be fit after the international break.\"", "Is Chuck Berry's only number one also his worst song?\n\n\"My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, I want to play with my ding-a-ling.\"\n\nChuck Berry had many hits, but this one, to the chagrin of some of his fans but apparently not Berry himself, was his only number one single in the United States and UK.\n\nRolling Stone once listed it as one of 22 \"terrible songs by great artists\".\n\nThe ditty, replete with double entendre, was recorded in the UK in 1972. Berry was performing in Coventry as part of the Lanchester Arts Festival.\n\nPlaying at the Locarno Ballroom, the rock and roll legend cajoled the audience to sing the song's chorus. The women sang \"my\" and the men sang the \"ding-a-ling\" refrain.\n\n\"I want you to play with my\", the women continued, \"ding-a-ling\", the men finished. It was juvenile stuff, but Berry was clearly delighted. He apparently was unaware that the show, which was followed by a Pink Floyd gig, was being recorded.\n\nThe song was released as a single at about four minutes in length, and later appeared on the album The London Chuck Berry Sessions at a whopping 11 minutes.\n\nWhile it may make diehard fans cringe, Berry considered it to be as good as any of his other songs. It fit with his performing philosophy of giving \"people what they want\", he told Rolling Stone in a 2010 interview.\n\n\"I'm searching for who is attentive out there in the audience. I can look around and be singing My Ding-A-Ling and stop and sing 'The Lord's Prayer' because some people will be sitting out there looking like they're from church,\" he told the magazine.\n\nAnd the financial rewards from the number one hit pleased a man with a notorious attitude to money. \"Made a lot of money: a $200,000 cheque. I'll never forget that cheque. And it's all dirt. Nice, cleeean dirt!\" Rolling Stone quoted him as saying.\n\nBut the song, despite cloaking its sexual references in metaphor, caused consternation in some quarters.\n\nIn 1973, the conservative activist and campaigner Mary Whitehouse wrote to the BBC director general to complain after a performance of the song on Top of the Pops.\n\nA teacher had written to her National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, she said, complaining that she had found a class of young boys \"with their trousers undone, singing the song and giving it the indecent interpretation which - in spite of all the hullaballoo - is so obvious\".\n\nThe BBC's then-director general Charles Curran replied that he believed that \"the innuendo is, at worst, on the level of seaside postcards or music hall humour\".\n\nClearly the public agreed. The single reached number one in Britain, too.", "Joe Gordon likes to climb mountains. Among his conquests is Mount Teide, a 12,000ft volcano in Tenerife.\n\n\"I like to walk up hills and mountains,\" he says. \"I am a big fan of a healthy body and a healthy mind.\"\n\nIt is perhaps just as well that he has a head for heights.\n\nBecause, just 24 months after getting his first job in banking, he is now the boss of telephone and online bank First Direct.\n\nAt the age of 33 he is one of the youngest people ever to have made it to the top of the UK banking industry.\n\nIt is Joe himself who greets us at the reception of First Direct's steely grey office block in Leeds.\n\nDespite having 2,900 employees in the building, he speaks to both the receptionist and a server in the cafe by name.\n\nThis weekend marks the end of his first month in the job, which he got two years after joining First Direct's parent company, HSBC.\n\nWhile he admits he hasn't been in banking very long, he does have plenty of experience of handling customers.\n\n\"I've worked in customer service since day one. Ultimately what we're trying to achieve is great customer service. So if somebody comes in who can deliver customer service, I think that's a bit of credibility for me.\"\n\nBut in an era when 90% of his customers bank on the internet, personal contact has become harder.\n\nIt was all so different when First Direct launched in 1989 as the UK's first telephone bank, pioneering banks without branches.\n\nJoe's formative experience was in the grocery section of Sainsbury's, where he worked as a graduate trainee.\n\n\"You step in there with bravado, and the first thing they said to me was: 'You're on the carrots, mate,' which was a great grounding.\n\n\"Some well-to-do women educated me on the difference between chicory and endive. That's where I first got involved in customer service. And that's where I first started to think: how do you improve things, how do you make it better for people?\"\n\nBut the boss of a bank also needs to be good with numbers.\n\nSo a later stint in the forecasting department, where he had to predict how many Easter eggs the supermarket would sell, probably helped.\n\nLawrence Christensen, a Sainsbury's director at the time, remembers him well.\n\n\"He's very good at IT, and a very quick learner. But his ability to integrate into a team, build a team and run a team would be his greatest strength.\"\n\nJoe went on to work for BT, on its fast-track programme, where he visited call centres in India no fewer than 22 times.\n\nTop of Joe's to-do list is keeping pace with technology.\n\nFirst Direct customers can already use a voice recognition system to log in to their accounts, or a fingerprint system on the app.\n\n\"I like fingerprint and voice ID, because it speaks to technology solving problems,\" he says.\n\n\"There is a problem with passwords - and if you forget your password, your memorable word, and your inside leg measurement when you were five. But actually technology can solve that.\"\n\nTo make sure it keeps up-to-date, the bank is now studying possible applications for artificial intelligence.\n\nHowever, there are other issues on the horizon that are harder to foresee.\n\nLast summer the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) heralded the era of so-called open banking.\n\nThis will allow third-party providers - with our consent - to access our banking details, and recommend where we should go for the cheapest loan, the best mortgage or the highest savings rates.\n\nWhen it starts to take effect from 2019, it could turn the banking industry upside down.\n\nBut Joe believes it is a positive development.\n\n\"This, for us, is a massive opportunity, and an opportunity we will relish.\"\n\nHowever, the future of banking still has many unknowns.\n\n\"In a world where the biggest taxi firm doesn't own any cars, where the biggest accommodation provider doesn't have any real estate, and where the biggest news website doesn't own any content - we want to play a part in shaping what banking will look like in that world.\n\n\"Can you paint a wildly dystopian future? Yes, but you can also paint a reality where we've got a very real part to play.\"\n\nFirst Direct already faces serious competition.\n\nBack when it started, it was the lean kid on the block, without the expense of branches to maintain.\n\nBut put against the new internet-only banks such as Atom, Tandem and Starling, which employ a handful of people, its wages bill is considerable.\n\nOther challenger banks are also in attack mode. In 28 years, First Direct has acquired 1.35 million customers. Yet after just seven years, Metro Bank has already acquired 915,000.\n\n\"Anywhere where disruptors, or fintech, or challenger banks will come in is where they see gaps,\" says Joe.\n\n\"It's for us to make sure we don't leave those gaps.\"\n\nIn the meantime his personal life is also going to be busy. He and his partner have a baby on the way.\n\nAnd he is planning more expeditions.\n\n\"I would like to do Kilimanjaro,\" he says, adding after a pause, \"or maybe next year.\"\n\nWith so many mountains in Joe Gordon's future, he will certainly need his penchant for altitude.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Knowing that a tornado is coming your way doesn't mean it won't blow your house down.\n\nOnce again England came to Dublin with a Grand Slam in their sights. Once again they were overwhelmed by an Ireland team playing with a pace and intensity they could not match. A team of champions engulfed in unfamiliar panic, a side untouched in 18 matches turned over by one unbeaten at home for three rollicking years.\n\nEngland have made unprecedented strides under Eddie Jones, been transformed from the nearly-men of the Six Nations and the never-weres of the 2015 World Cup to back-to-back title winners and joint world record holders.\n\nThis soggy Saturday evening exposed just how far they might still have to go. Jones, his ultimate target the next World Cup in 2019, had wanted to see what his side were like under World Cup-like pressure. The answer was as clear as the skies overhead were murky.\n• None We'll have more setbacks, warns Jones\n\nAll great teams have phases of development. The All Blacks that won their home World Cup in 2011 had processed the lessons of their own shortcomings four years earlier, when a sudden collective brain-freeze had done for them against France in Cardiff.\n\nEngland's champions of 2003 held strong in the last critical moments of extra time in Sydney in part because they had failed to do so at Lansdowne Road, Murrayfield and Wembley in decisive battles that came before.\n\nMaybe this England side will be the same. Better for it to happen here than in Japan in three years' time, came the co-ordinated message afterwards.\n\nThat's the hope, for the white-shirted supporters who came across the Irish Sea with great expectations and left with familiar regrets, if not always the logic.\n\nThere is no golden sporting treaty that painful defeats must automatically be followed by redemptive triumphs. England's team that won a title but lost a Slam in Ireland six years ago stumbled out of the World Cup in the quarter-finals five months later, undisciplined and unloved. The side that went to Cardiff in 2013 with the same clean sweep in their sights were taken apart that night and then collapsed again in the crunch contests in the ill-fated autumn of 2015.\n\nFor all that Jones has done, for all those wins that piled up, this was a chastening way for his own first epoch to close.\n\n*both New Zealand and England's 18-Test winning runs were ended by Ireland\n\nThe 2013 loss in Cardiff, Dublin defeats of 2011 and 2001, and the Slam successes in Paris a year ago and here in Dublin in 2003, all illustrated how important it is to win the opening exchanges of these deciders. It sets the tone. It quietens the crowd. It calms your fears and sets doubt loose among your opponents.\n\nMike Brown comfortably caught the first two high balls, aimed his way, his opposite number Jared Payne spilling the first of his. That was as good as it got for England.\n\nTwenty minutes in, Ireland had almost 75% of both territory and possession. England were playing as if in a daze, second best at the breakdown, slow with ball in hand, caught out by a plotline we have all seen several times before.\n\nIreland, two defeats in four coming into this, were ferocious, relentless, fast up out of defence, all teetering kicks and battering runs. Of course they were. It's how they were in 2011 and 2001, how they were always going to be when an English party is there to be pooped.\n\nIt had rained all morning. It blew all day. Everyone saw the tornado coming.\n\nAnd yet England could do little about it, in that opening quarter, as knock-ons followed burgled line-outs followed kicks put out on the full. In the closing moments, when they were still within four points and had an attacking line-out on the Irish 22, man of the match Peter O'Mahony stole it from Maro Itoje's fingertips. At the death, Brown spilt the final pass in the championship's final seconds.\n\nToo many of their big hitters were unable to get off the ropes: Itoje and Billy Vunipola nowhere close to their buccaneering best, their ball-carriers too often taking the ball stationary and unable to dent the gain-line, the George Ford-Owen Farrell axis starved of quick ball and precious time.\n\nOnly when Farrell's hurried pass hit Brown on his right shoulder with Elliot Daly overlapping down the left at the very start did they look like scoring a try. Only when Jones threw on his finishers did they gather any momentum, and familiar old memes like the Irish choke tackle and grubber kick soon slowed that down to an exhausted crawl.\n\nIt has been a chaotic championship. Scotland beat Wales, who beat Ireland, who beat England, who beat everyone else. It is arguably tighter in this oldest of competitions than ever before; take a punch-drunk Italy out of it, and the only away win in the competition was England's late, late show in Cardiff.\n\nEngland should still have anticipated the green-shirted bedlam that came their way on Saturday. They should also have coped with it better when it blew in and found solutions more quickly than they did.\n\n\"In a World Cup you have to win seven games in a row,\" said Jones afterwards. \"You have to deal with teams coming at you. That was like a World Cup final out there, and we weren't good enough.\"\n\nJones, as canny as they come, will use this defeat to drive his charges on. While he was quick to take responsibility in public - \"I didn't prepare them well enough, I'll prepare them better next time\" - behind closed doors he will be brutally honest about what must come next.\n\nThe All Blacks side whose record-breaking run was ended by Ireland in Chicago in November have continued to develop despite that reverse. A few days later they gained rapid revenge over Joe Schmidt's men; should the rumoured rejig of this autumn's fixtures come off, a game against New Zealand will provide the next benchmark for the Jones project.\n\n\"We're all human beings, we're not perfect,\" said the Australian, still grinning the same laconic grin that has greeted win after win and now a first defeat.\n\n\"We're 14 months into a four-year project. Realism shows us we still have a lot to do. We'll have more setbacks on the way to the World Cup.\n\n\"We're batting at a pretty good average. Even [legendary Australia batsman] Don Bradman got a zero in his last Test. It's not the end of the world.\"\n\nNot the end of the world, but the end of something special, even if it could also be the start of something even bigger.", "When Kyzer Gayle died in 2005 he was little over a year old. But it would be 10 years before the authorities knew about his death and longer still before they discovered what had happened to the boy from north London.\n\nWhen asked about the whereabouts of her son, Victoria Gayle, 32, told different tales to different people. Friends and family heard that the boy - Kyzer Gayle - was with his dad. A London man who believed himself to be the child's father thought Gayle had custody. Some official agencies were informed that Kyzer had been fathered by a traveller who took him away at a young age. But the stories were false.\n\nKyzer died in 2005 when he was 13-15 months old and his mother hid the fact for more than a decade. Despite asking Gayle questions, no-one had tested the truth of her replies by establishing where her son really was.\n\nA police investigation was triggered only by the accidental death of Gayle's two-year-old daughter, Ava, in 2015. Medical treatment was sought when Ava became ill, but her condition deteriorated and she died. A subsequent inquest - recording a verdict of accident - determined that she had swallowed a tiny battery, causing fatal internal injuries.\n\nKyzer Gayle was born in Northwick Park Hospital in February 2004\n\nFollowing the tragedy, local investigators in Barnet, north London reviewed what was known about Kyzer. Finding themselves unable to account for the child, the case was referred to Scotland Yard. Beyond 2004, the year of his birth, there appeared to be no record of Kyzer being seen by anyone in authority. No attendance at school. No GP visits. No registrations with public bodies.\n\nInquiries revealed that some people who had met Kyzer as an infant were under the impression that he lived with his father in north London. Police traced the man, but he had not seen Kyzer for more than a decade. He said that following a brief relationship with Gayle in 2003, she later made contact to say he had fathered a son called Kyzer.\n\nHe told detectives he then had occasional contact with the child until, on one occasion when Gayle brought Kyzer to his home, she left and did not return. The man said he cared for the child for about five months until Gayle suddenly reappeared and demanded Kyzer back, which he felt he had to accept. He never saw the boy again.\n\nOther witnesses described seeing a baby fitting Kyzer's description at Gayle's north London flat. These are thought to be among the last sightings of the boy.\n\nGayle has been described as a hoarder and the child was said to have been seen in a buggy in a junk-filled room.\n\nPen Mehmet, Victoria Gayle's former neighbour, reported her concerns to the authorities\n\nPen Mehmet, a former neighbour, told the BBC that Gayle was a \"compulsive liar\" whose flat was so packed with rubbish that \"I couldn't tell you where her kitchen was\".\n\nShe said Gayle had claimed in recent years that Kyzer \"lives with his dad\" and \"that was the best way because that's how the dad wanted it\". Ms Mehmet says she became so troubled by elements of Gayle's behaviour that she reported her concerns to the authorities.\n\nDuring contact with Gayle, some official agencies did ask about her son's whereabouts. She told them the boy's father was a member of the traveller community and had taken responsibility for Kyzer at a young age. The claim appears to have been accepted and no-one ever sought out the boy.\n\nA photograph of the shed where the baby was found, taken after the police had removed the body\n\nWhen Gayle was later evicted from her home, she stored some of her possessions in the garden shed of her mother and step-father who lived nearby, which was where detectives eventually found Kyzer's remains.\n\nLead investigator Det Ch Insp Noel McHugh told the BBC: \"Within the shed we found a box. Within the box was what can best be described as a cocoon of gaffer tape, which concealed a cut-down buggy and in there was the clothed skeletal remains of the child we believe to be Kyzer.\" A bandage had been applied to the entire length of one leg. Gayle's mother and step-father denied knowing what had been stored on their property.\n\nBefore the discovery, Gayle had repeated to detectives the story about Kyzer's traveller father taking him away. Once his remains had been found, she admitted the story was untrue. But she denied harming Kyzer and claimed she had simply found him dead in his cot one morning - to which her reaction had been shock followed by denial. She said that recent internet searches for sulphuric acid had nothing to do with attempts to cover up the death.\n\nGayle said that, until the eviction, Kyzer's body had been kept in her home and she had covered up what happened because she was afraid of being judged and blamed for it. The passage of time means that experts have been unable to establish a cause of death, although there was evidence of malnutrition and arrested growth. Tests showed the north London man who looked after Kyzer for several months was actually not his father, although detectives eventually identified someone who was.\n\nVictoria Gayle outside Kingston Crown Court in December last year\n\nAt Kingston Crown Court last December, Victoria Gayle pleaded guilty to preventing Kyzer's lawful burial. She denied charges of perjury and perverting the course of justice, which have been left to lie on file. She has been sentenced to 21 months in prison with the judge criticising Gayle's \"web of lies\" and saying the the full truth of her son's \"sad and short life\" will never be known.\n\nA serious case review is investigating potential failings by Barnet Council and other official bodies. In a statement, the council said: \"The death of any child is tragic and we are working with Barnet Safeguarding Children's Board to provide information for their serious case review and to establish any learning from our involvement with the family.\"\n\nThe Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has also opened an inquiry - currently on hold pending the serious case review - into potential police deficiencies. An IPCC spokesperson said it was \"a complex case spanning more than a decade, and we now know the family of the child had significant contact, not just with the police, but also with other agencies\".\n\nNoel McHugh led the investigation that discovered the child's remains\n\nDetectives are still making inquiries and Det Ch Insp McHugh told the BBC he was appealing for people to come forward who knew Gayle around 2004, when Kyzer was born. Police are also particularly interested in the period between 2007 and 2013, and are asking Gayle's former partners if she had any pregnancies or births police do not know about.\n\nJon Brown, from children's charity the NSPCC, says he finds it \"deeply disturbing\" that a child can \"go missing for a decade\". He told the BBC there were \"a number of significant and important questions that are going to need to be addressed by the serious case review and by the IPCC investigation\".\n\nPen Mehmet, Gayle's former neighbour, agrees and says she is angry and bewildered that Kyzer's death could go unnoticed for so long. \"I think it's absolutely disgusting because this child's been missing and nobody knew.\n\n\"How can nobody know? I don't understand, how can nobody know?\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City and Liverpool had to settle for a point apiece as they battled out a thrilling draw at Etihad Stadium.\n\nA hugely entertaining game was littered with talking points, astonishing misses and a sense of injustice for both sides as they felt they were on the receiving end of debatable decisions from referee Michael Oliver.\n\nJames Milner put Liverpool ahead against his former club with a penalty six minutes after the break, after Gael Clichy was penalised for a raised boot on Roberto Firmino.\n\nSergio Aguero scored against Liverpool for the fifth successive Premier League game at Etihad Stadium from Kevin de Bruyne's perfect cross after 69 minutes - before both sides wasted glorious opportunities to secure a vital win in the race for top-four places.\n\nAguero was particularly culpable, stumbling at the vital moment after his superb approach play had fashioned a clear chance eight yards out. After he fluffed his shot, De Bruyne hit the loose ball against the post.\n\nAdam Lallana produced a candidate for miss of the season when he somehow failed to tap Firmino's pass into an empty net before, in stoppage time, Aguero volleyed over the sort of chance he normally takes with comfort.\n• None One of my most special days in management - Guardiola\n\nThe scoreline only scratches at the surface of a game that was enthralling from start to finish, illustrating the strengths and weaknesses of both sides, who possess verve in attack but frailty in defence.\n\nCity and Liverpool both created and missed the sort of chances that could have turned one point into three and made life a little easier in the closing stages of the season.\n\nCity's Raheem Sterling could not find the final touch to David Silva's cross in the first half, with Fernandinho missing a presentable finish standing behind him.\n\nThe second half was when the real gifts were passed up.\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp threatened to rip his cap off in a mixture of shock and disgust when Lallana, the ball presented on a plate by Firmino for what should have been a formality, somehow contrived to fail with his connection and the ball rolled apologetically away.\n\nSterling then lobbed Liverpool keeper Simon Mignolet but the ball drifted wide - with City's real opportunity coming deep into stoppage time when Aguero sent a volley off target at the far post from another superb De Bruyne delivery.\n\nBoth sides had to settle for a draw - but both know it could have been so much more.\n\nThe life of a referee was summed up by the sight and sound of Michael Oliver incurring the wrath of both sets of players at various points throughout a chaotic 90 minutes.\n\nLiverpool felt they were denied a penalty when Sadio Mane tumbled under a challenge from Nicolas Otamendi in the first half, although the striker also inadvertently made contact with his own leg as he shaped to shoot after escaping the City defender with embarrassing ease.\n\nYaya Toure was perhaps fortunate to only receive a yellow card after a wild lunge on Emre Can caught the Liverpool midfielder in the chest, while City were furious their penalty claims were ignored as Sterling went down under a challenge from Milner as he closed in on a finish in the six-yard area.\n\nCity's players were furious after Liverpool's penalty award - many continuing the discussion with Oliver long after Milner had completed the formalities - but Oliver got this big call right.\n\nClichy's foot was dangerously high on Firmino as he raced in on goal and Oliver had no hesitation in pointing to the spot.\n\nIt was a tough afternoon for the official as the big decisions came thick and fast.\n\nCity boss Pep Guardiola and counterpart Klopp were both delighted with the performance from their teams - but the body language in the technical area also revealed huge frustration.\n\nVictory for either man would have been a crucial psychological blow as they fight for a place in the top four but both saw their teams waste the sort of chances that could have secured what they craved.\n\nGuardiola and Klopp were both animated in frustration in the first 45 minutes, especially at one point when they were united in mutual dissatisfaction in the technical area, the Catalan racing towards his opposite number for an exchange that concluded with a flamboyant high five.\n\nKlopp was leaping around in frustration, threatening to throw his cap to the floor as Liverpool squandered good positions, while Guardiola almost slumped to the turf in anguish after Aguero's later miss.\n\nCity remain a point ahead of Liverpool in third with a game in hand as Klopp's side lay fourth - while the result suited Manchester United best of all as they are now four points behind the Merseysiders with two games in hand after their win at Middlesbrough.\n\n'One of the happiest days of my career' - what the managers said\n\n\"Congratulations to Liverpool and Manchester City. It is one of the days I am proud the most.\n\n\"I have not had a long career as manager and it is one of the most special days of my life.\n\n\"The Champions League defeat was so tough for us and we recovered today with our mentality and attack, but we could not attack more because Liverpool are a top team.\n\n\"I want to stay here and help this club make a step forward and the battle to qualify for the Champions League will go until the last day.\n\n\"We played three days after going out of the Champions League. How the players suffer and fight to qualify against Barcelona, Borussia Monchengladbach, how we play in the second half against Monaco, to be out was so tough for all of us.\n\n\"The players in training did not speak. How they reacted against Liverpool means a lot.\"\n\n\"Our players did really well. I struggled on the final whistle to be really happy but it's a success to get a point at City and to play like this.\n\n\"It's more than OK what we did but we needed a bit more luck.\n\n\"The Sadio Mane situation - it was a red card and a penalty. In a game like this, it would've killed them.\n\n\"But maybe they could've and should've had a penalty too. 1-1 is better than nothing.\n\n\"They are too good to always defend perfectly. When we started playing football in the game, it was really difficult for them.\n\n\"Between 50 and 65 minutes we could have decided the game and we didn't.\n\n\"We can't speak today about faults and mistakes. Before the game, if someone told me I would get a point at City, I would have taken it.\"\n• None City have gone seven consecutive games without defeat in the Premier League (W4 D3 L0), their longest streak in the competition under Guardiola.\n• None Liverpool have won more points in 10 games against the top six this season (20) than they have in 10 games against the bottom six (19).\n• None Milner has scored seven penalties in the league this season - only Steven Gerrard (10 in 2013-14) has scored more for Liverpool in a Premier League campaign.\n• None Milner now holds the record for the most Premier League games scored in without losing (47 games: W37 D10 L0).\n• None Only Gylfi Sigurdsson (11) has made more assists than De Bruyne (10) in the Premier League this season. The Belgian has assisted Aguero more times than any other player this term (3).\n• None City have failed to keep a clean sheet in each of their past 13 games in all competitions against Liverpool, shipping 24 in the process (W2 D5 L6).\n\nManchester City have another crucial period coming up after the international break which could decide their top-four status.\n\nFirst they travel to the Emirates to face Arsenal on Sunday, 2 April (16:00 BST) and three days later they face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 5 April (20:00 BST).\n\nLiverpool's next Premier League fixture is not an easy one either - they host Everton in the Merseyside Derby on Saturday, 1 April (12:30 BST).\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.\n• None Sadio Mané (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by David Silva.\n• None Attempt missed. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Sadio Mané following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by David Silva with a through ball.\n• None David Silva (Manchester City) 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\nTottenham overcame the absence of leading scorer Harry Kane to secure a hard-fought win over Southampton that ensures they remain second in the table heading into the international break.\n\nGoals from Christian Eriksen and Dele Alli - the latter a penalty - in an effective display underlined that Spurs are more than just their talismanic 24-goal striker.\n\nThe win extends Tottenham's club-record run of successive home Premier League wins to 10, the same number of points by which they trail leaders Chelsea.\n\nSouthampton lost in-form striker Manolo Gabbiadini to injury in the first half but gave a good account of themselves in the second, at the start of which James Ward-Prowse scored from close range.\n\nBut they were unable to gain parity as Tottenham's stubborn backline and industrious central midfield held them at bay.\n\nDefeat leaves the Saints 10th in the table and needing an improbable 30 points from the 33 available to them to match last season's tally of 63.\n\nWith Chelsea in superb form, this season's title race is unlikely to go as deep into the season as the last campaign, but Tottenham will be hopeful of improving on their third-place finish by at least one spot.\n\nNo Kane, but Spurs remain able\n\nPrior to Sunday's match, Spurs had won just three of nine top-flight games without Kane this season, during which they had managed just eight goals.\n\nHowever, one of those victories was the impressive 2-0 triumph over Manchester City in October, illustrating there are goals elsewhere in this talented side - a fact Eriksen and Alli demonstrated on Sunday with their 10th and 17th goals of the campaign respectively.\n\nEriksen's strike was powerful, low and accurate to find the bottom corner of Fraser Forster's net, while Alli's penalty was efficiently dispatched after he had been fouled in the box by Steven Davis.\n\nSpurs boss Mauricio Pochettino had urged summer signing Vincent Janssen to step up in Kane's absence, but opted instead to start Son Heung-min, who scored a hat-trick in last weekend's 6-0 FA Cup win over League One Millwall.\n\nThe South Korean had two good chances to carry on Kane's good work but failed to convert either as Forster turned away his shot in just the third minute before his sluggishness in the box allowed a tackle to deny him once more.\n\nHe was replaced by Harry Winks as Spurs were forced into a more conservative approach in the second half, while Janssen was handed a late cameo that saw him draw a good save from Forster with a powerful drive.\n\nSouthampton have beaten Tottenham just once in their past nine league meetings and have enjoyed just three victories in 17 Premier League visits to White Hart Lane.\n\nTrailing 2-0 at the break, having lost the exciting Gabbiadini during a largely passive first-half display, it looked like being a miserable afternoon all-round for Southampton.\n\nHowever, they came out with renewed vigour and intent in the second half and immediately got themselves back into the game through Ward-Prowse's goal, set up by a low cross from Ryan Bertrand that evaded Jan Vertonghen.\n\nTottenham, though, have conceded just seven goals in 14 matches at White Hart Lane this season and their three-man defence of Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld and Eric Dier, shielded by the hard-working Victor Wanyama and Dembele, wrestled back control of the game and saw it out.\n\nHaving lost 4-1 at home to Pochettino's Spurs in December and 3-0 at Ronald Koeman's Everton the following month, Southampton will be glad to see the back of sides managed by their former bosses for this season.\n\n'We were better and deserved to win' - What the managers said\n\nTottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: \"To get three points you need to work hard. It was difficult. In the end we were better and deserved to win.\n\n\"First half we played very well. Second half we conceded a goal with our mistake and we allowed Southampton to score. It is another victory, we keep our position second and we have reason to be happy.\n\n\"The aim is the next game. We have 10 days without our players we hope nothing happens and all will arrive in good position.\"\n\nSouthampton manager Claude Puel: \"It was strange. In the first half without pressure we took two goals and it is difficult to accept this.\n\n\"In the second half we came back with good attitude and scored quick. At 2-1 there was a possibility to come back. In the end a draw would have been normal. It is disappointment. It was difficult for us but also for Tottenham.\"\n\nSpurs eye unbeaten home season - the stats you need to know\n• None Spurs have now won 10 successive league games at White Hart Lane - their longest run since October 1987 (14 in a row).\n• None The only previous top-flight season that Spurs have remained unbeaten at home was 1964-65 (21 games, 0 defeats).\n• None Alli has scored in three successive league appearances at White Hart Lane for the first time in his career.\n• None Alli is the third Spurs player to score a penalty in the Premier League this season (after Kane & Janssen). Only in one previous Premier League season have Spurs seen 3+ players score a penalty for them - 1993-94; Sheringham (4), Barmby (1), Hazard (1) & Gray (1)\n• None James Ward-Prowse has scored three goals in 21 Premier League appearances this season; the same tally as he had scored in 107 Premier League appearances before 2016-17.\n\nAfter the international break Tottenham have successive away games at Burnley on 1 April and Swansea four days later. Southampton are at home against Bournemouth on the Saturday and at St Mary's again on the Wednesday when Crystal Palace are the visitors.\n• None Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Oriol Romeu (Southampton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Southampton. Oriol Romeu tries a through ball, but Shane Long is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Sofiane Boufal (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by James Ward-Prowse.\n• None Attempt saved. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Mousa Dembélé.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jay Rodriguez (Southampton) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Cédric Soares.\n• None Sofiane Boufal (Southampton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Southampton. Steven Davis tries a through ball, but Shane Long is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola and Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp share their admiration for their counterpart's coaching philosophy before Sunday's Premier League meeting at Etihad Stadium.\n\nListen to live coverage of Manchester City v Liverpool on BBC Radio 5 live, Sunday, 19 March from 16:30 GMT.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nWales coach Rob Howley was left to \"question the integrity of our game\" after a controversial end to his side's 20-18 Six Nations defeat by France.\n\nFrance replaced tight-head prop Uini Atonio with Rabah Slimani 11 minutes into the 20 minutes of added time that were played at the Stade de France.\n\nSlimani had earlier been replaced, but France's team doctor said Atonio needed to go off for a head injury assessment.\n\n\"In terms of the process, I think we have reason to complain,\" said Howley.\n\nFrance coach Guy Noves said his medical staff told him Atonio was injured.\n\nHe added: \"We will do a medical check-up. I hope the injury is not too serious, and he will be able to play again soon.\"\n\nRugby's rules allow replacement props to be substituted if they are injured, or if they need a head injury assessment - a series of cognitive, balance and memory tests given to any player who has a suspected concussion.\n\nHowley said: \"What happened in the last 10 minutes of that game should never happen again on the international rugby field.\n\n\"You can hear [referee] Wayne Barnes ask him if he is OK. He said he had a sore back, but that he was OK. And then the doctor comes on, and he goes off.\n\n\"I've no issues about the result, it's just about the process.\"\n\nWales led 18-13 at the end of the 80 minutes but Damien Chouly drove over for the try that brought France level, and Camille Lopez's conversion was decisive.\n\nIn the build-up to France's final try, Wales wing George North claimed he had been bitten as he made a tackle.\n\nBarnes asked television match official Peter Fitzgibbon to check the incident, but he could not find any clear footage so the game resumed without action being taken.\n\nHowley said: \"Ultimately they've made a decision on that and it's absolutely fine. I am 100% behind that decision in terms of the pictures they saw.\n\n\"There's evidence on George's arm to suggest something did happen and ultimately you trust and believe your players.\"\n\nAsked about the incident, Noves said: \"I am sorry, I haven't seen, so I don't know.\"\n\nLeigh Halfpenny had kicked six penalties - three from more than 50 metres - as Wales fought back after Remi Lamerat's early try.\n\nBut defeat ended a tournament in which they beat Italy, then lost to England and Scotland, before victory over Ireland last week.\n\nHowley added: \"The players were unbelievable in the last 10-15 minutes of that game.\n\n\"We put a great effort in and unfortunately we weren't rewarded for that and it's hugely disappointing.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nFrance snatched a dramatic and controversial Six Nations win over Wales in an extraordinary encounter.\n\nTrailing by five points with the clock ticking past 100 minutes, Damien Chouly drove over from close range and Camille Lopez's conversion clinched the win.\n\nLeigh Halfpenny had kicked six penalties - three from 50 metres-plus - to cancel Remi Lamerat's early try.\n\nBut the match will live long in the memory for the 20-minute added-time barrage on the Wales line.\n\nReferee Wayne Barnes issued a yellow card to Samson Lee in the 82nd minute and had to deal with a claim of biting on Wales wing George North in the face of a tumultuous home crowd at the Stade de France.\n\nThe television match official Peter Fitzgibbon could not find any clear footage so the game was allowed to continue.\n\nBarnes also allowed France to replace tight-head prop Uini Atonio with Rabah Slimani who had earlier been replaced, with the France team doctor insisting Atonio needed a head injury assessment.\n• None Was this the day rugby lost its head?\n\nLee had returned to bring Wales back up to 15 men before Chouly claimed the decisive score after a series of penalties near the Wales line.\n\nIt was a remarkable end to a difficult Six Nations campaign for Wales which sees them finish fifth and with three defeats for the first time since 2010.\n\nFrance moved onto 14 points and second place before Ireland denied England a Grand Slam in Dublin to finish second behind the visitors.\n\nRob Howley's Wales finished one place above winless Italy after securing two tournament triumphs - against Italy and Ireland - and following defeats by England and Scotland.\n\nThe incredible finale followed what had been a low-key match until the 77th minute, with French indiscipline allowing the immaculate Halfpenny to wipe out an early 10-point deficit with a flawless display of place-kicking.\n\nBut Wales rarely threatened the French line, and struggled throughout at the scrum.\n\nThey were also hampered by injuries to second rows Alun Wyn Jones and Jake Ball, with Taulupe Faletau pressed into duty in the boiler house and replacement hooker Scott Baldwin playing in the back row.\n\nFor their part, France's forward dominance eventually paid dividends with the immaculate Louis Picamoles and Kevin Gourdon carrying powerfully.\n\nAnd Wales flanker Sam Warburton will no doubt regret the rush of blood to the head which saw him kicking the ball long downfield after turning over possession during a France attack.\n\nThe ball went from Wales' 10-metre line and over the French dead-ball line - allowing the home team to set up the bridgehead which eventually led to their winning score.\n\nFrance started brilliantly and were ahead within seven minutes when Lopez chipped the ball over the onrushing defence for Lamerat to beat his team-mate Gael Fickou to the ball and touch down.\n\nLopez increased the lead to 10 points before referee Barnes intervened to send Virimi Vakatawa to the sin-bin for a deliberate knock on.\n\nHalfpenny's angled penalty calmed Wales nerves and by half-time the full-back had struck twice more - one from more than 50 metres - and the French were left wondering how their dominance had resulted in just a one-point interval lead.\n\nAfter the break Halfpenny drilled two long-range kicks to give Wales a five point lead, which he then restored after Lopez kicked one of his own.\n\nBut that was before arguably the most thrilling, nerve-shredding, energy-sapping finish in the tournament's history.\n• None Get all the latest Six Nations news by adding\n\nFor the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nCeltic moved to within one win of their sixth straight Scottish Premiership title with victory at Dundee.\n\nThe hosts frustrated Celtic for most of the first half, Dedryck Boyata's header cleared off the line by Paul McGowan.\n\nBut Jozo Simunovic's flick towards goal deflected off Kevin Gomis to creep in, and Stuart Armstrong headed in a James Forrest cross to double the lead.\n\nMarcus Haber missed two good chances for Dundee, but Faissal El Bakhtaoui's 25-yard stunner ensured a nervy finale.\n\nUltimately though, Brendan Rodgers' side extended their unbeaten domestic run this season to 36 matches.\n\nWith a 25-point lead over second-placed Aberdeen and nine games left, Celtic could clinch the title in their next Premiership match against Hearts at Tynecastle on Sunday, 2 April, although they would already be champions if the Dons fail to secure at least a point at Dundee on 31 March.\n\nPaul Hartley's side remain in eighth place, four points off the top six.\n\nWe have witnessed many different types of performances from the Celtic juggernaut as it rolls relentlessly towards six titles in a row. This was a mixture of the good and the ugly - there is rarely bad.\n\nWhen things are not going their way, they simply put their heads down and grind away at teams until they finally buckle.\n\nIt's not always pretty but it's usually positive, and so it was in the first half against a very well organised Dundee side determined to change their fortunes after two straight defeats.\n\nCeltic dominated but despite trying to progress down both flanks and through the middle, and enjoying set-pieces galore, Dundee stood firm and looked likely to head into the break all-square.\n\nBut the buckle came just seconds before the whistle when - moments after McGowan cleared Boyata's header off the line - Simunovic fired in at close range, with a little help from a deflection off the back of Gomis.\n\nThe goal certainly fired Celtic up and took some of the wind out of Dundee's sails.\n\nRodgers' side flew at the Dark Blues from the restart and doubled their lead via a 12th goal of the season from Armstrong, who flicked his header expertly past Scott Bain after a fabulous run and cross from Forrest.\n\nMost observers of Celtic this season would have bet their mortgage on that being game over. Ultimately that proved correct but the thanks for that went to the defence.\n\nHartley's side went into this fixture having failed to pick up a point or score a goal in March, following a productive February that featured an impressive 2-1 win over Rangers.\n\nThe same spirit was evident at the start and end of this match as Dundee fought, pressed and harried Celtic all over the pitch and made life difficult for the visitors' flair players such as Moussa Dembele and Scott Sinclair.\n\nHartley once again showed his tactical prowess when he changed things in the second half and watched his side claw their way back through a spectacular solo effort from El Baktaoui.\n\nThe Moroccan striker came off the bench and skipped through the Celtic midfield before firing into Craig Gordon's top right-hand corner. It was simply stunning.\n\nHaber should have scored before that but screwed his effort wide. It was a defeat for the Dee but far from a demoralising one.\n\nDundee boss Paul Hartley: \"I felt, especially in the second half, we were excellent.\n\n\"We knew they would have a lot of possession but even in the first half they never really cut us open, and it was a bit of sucker punch with the opening goal, where they got a bit of fortune.\n\n\"We conceded a poor second goal but we changed the shape to 4-4-2, Marcus Haber had an excellent opportunity and we scored an excellent goal. I'm pleased with the players' attitude - they never gave in, they kept believing.\n\n\"El Bakhtaoui has that in his locker, but he has just not been consistent enough. He has jumped up two leagues (after scoring 30 goals for Dunfermline in League One last season), and we knew it was never going to be easy for him. But he just needs to produce it more often.\"\n\nCeltic boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Dundee have picked up of late, they make things very difficult and we knew it would be a tough game.\n\n\"But we deserved the victory, even if it was a bit closer in the end than it should have been.\n\n\"At times we played some fantastic football and had chances to make it more comfortable but we didn't make the final pass, and we gave away a poor goal on the defensive side, although it was a great finish.\n\n\"Then we had to show we could stand up to a lot of high balls coming into our box, but the players did magnificently to defend that.\n\n\"There is a different competition in itself, to see who can maybe be the first (domestic) team to beat Celtic. But we can only apply ourselves as well as we possibly can. I've told the players not to worry about headlines in terms of 'invincibles' or 'trebles'. My worry is just to play the best football we can, and if we do that, we will win games.\"\n• None Kevin Holt (Dundee) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Craig Wighton (Dundee) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Marcus Haber (Dundee) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Dundee) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Goal! Dundee 1, Celtic 2. Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Dundee) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Kevin Holt.\n• None Eboue Kouassi (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Jocky Wilson prepares to throw a dart during the British Open in 1984\n\nIn the days when darts players chain-smoked and drank pints of lager between trips to the oche, Jocky Wilson was one of Scotland's most unlikely sporting heroes.\n\nWilson, from Kirkcaldy in Fife, only turned professional at the age of 29, after winning £500 in a tournament at Butlins holiday camp in Ayr.\n\nThe tiny, overweight Scot with the distinctive throwing action and toothless grin quickly became a household name as darts gained massive popularity on terrestrial TV in the UK.\n\nHe was world champion twice, in 1982 and 1989, but walked away from darts in the mid-90s when he was diagnosed with diabetes and his drinking began to catch up with him.\n\nHe lived his final years as a virtual recluse on disability benefits in a council flat in Kirkcaldy.\n\nWilson died five years ago, at the age of 62, and there were tributes from many who had played against him, including his great rival Eric Bristow, \"the Crafty Cockney\", whom he beat in the 1989 final.\n\nWilson's story is now the subject of a new play by sister and brother team Jane Livingstone and Jonathan Cairney.\n\nLivingstone said his rise and fall meant that some people saw him as a great Scottish hero but others were a little embarrassed by him.\n\n\"He's a great Scottish character and he's also from Fife, as are we, and we saw this as a great opportunity to get a Fife character on the stage,\" she said.\n\n\"He's someone we were always aware of and impressed by his achievements.\"\n\nFloral tributes outside Kirkcaldy crematorium following Jocky's funeral in April 2012\n\nCairney says the play, which will be performed at Oran Mor in Glasgow, is \"imagined\" but it is based on a real-life incident early in his career.\n\n\"One story we really picked up on was when he was over in America for an exhibition match,\" said Cairney. \"[He] missed his lift to get to the next destination and he ended up trying to hitchhike 400 miles across the Nevada desert.\n\n\"We thought that would be an ideal setting to place him in that difficult situation and see how he reacts to it.\n\n\"He's such a warm character, people root for him. He's the classic underdog.\"\n\nIt's true that Wilson defied the odds to become world champion.\n\nJocky Wilson was world champion twice but gave up darts in 1995\n\nJohn Thomas Wilson spent years in an orphanage after being rejected by his parents and joined the Army at a young age.\n\nDespite working as a coal delivery man, a fish processor and a miner, he struggled for money and was unemployed when he decided to try his hand at darts professionally.\n\nWithin three years he was world champion and a folk hero.\n\nHis gestures to the crowd, face-pulling and pint-swilling made him one of the most recognised personalities in sport.\n\nHis picture even ended up on Top of the Pops behind Dexys Midnight Runners when they sang Jackie Wilson Said, a song about the famous soul singer.\n\nKevin Rowland from the band later claimed that he had put the picture up as a joke because their names sounded so similar, but there was no doubt that most of the audience in 1982 would have known who the darts player was.\n\nActor Grant O'Rourke, who plays Wilson in the production, says the man had \"an unbelievable will to win\".\n\n\"He had an amazing amount of determination to succeed and become world champion.\"\n\nThe actor confesses to not being good at darts but gets away with it in the play because not a single arrow is thrown.\n\nHowever, O'Rourke says he watched lots of videos of Wilson to give him an idea of the way he held himself and moved.\n\nHe says: \"It has given me a new respect for darts. To be able to throw a dart from 8ft away into a target that is about a centimetre wide, often with thousands of pounds hanging on one throw, the pressure is incredible.\"\n\nAnother Scottish darts world champion, Gary Anderson, told BBC Scotland he was \"disappointed\" that he never met Jocky.\n\n\"I think he finished just as I started in the BDO but I've heard plenty of stories about him,\" he said.\n\nDespite being 20 years younger than Wilson, Anderson, from Eyemouth in the Borders, says they share a similar \"working class\" approach to the sport.\n\n\"I'm probably still like what Jocky was. I still like a good laugh and a bit of carry-on but some of the youngsters now are darts and darts-only.\"\n\nAnderson, who won the PDC world championship in 2015 and 2016, says that despite the huge crowds that watch darts now the characters of the past are hard to shift from the public's mind.\n\n\"You meet anyone now and talk about Scottish darts players and Jocky Wilson is always the first name they come out with.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The singer started learning violin as a child, but decided to become a singer-songwriter\n\nBeware of Frances: She's on a one-woman mission to force all the water in your body out through your tear ducts.\n\nNominated for the Brits critics' choice award and the BBC Sound of 2016, the singer has a knack for achingly beautiful ballads that tug at the heartstrings.\n\nSongs like Let It Out and Say It Again have earned her more than 50 million streams on Spotify - and top 10 singles around the world (although not at home, thanks to the current state of the UK singles chart).\n\nBorn Sophie Frances Cooke in Berkshire, she was an aspiring violinist when her teacher sent her to see a film composer for career advice.\n\nOn a whim, she played him a pop song she'd written for fun - and moved him to tears.\n\n\"It was a bit awkward,\" she recalls. \"I was like, 'Are you ok?' and he said, 'Yeah. But you need to do that. You have to do that for the rest of your life.\"\n\nShe took his advice - choosing to attend the pop-focussed Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts instead of her original choice, the Birmingham Conservatoire.\n\nBy the time she reached her third year of studies, she'd already been signed by a record label and moved to London.\n\nHer debut album, Things I've Never Said, comes out this week. A warm and wistful collection of perfectly-crafted piano pop, it has already won the singer comparisons to Adele and Carole King.\n\nMeanwhile, her single Grow has been selected to soundtrack a new campaign by Refuge, the charity supporting female victims of domestic violence.\n\nThe 23-year-old sat down to tell the BBC about that video; the perks of fame; and what it's like to get school lessons from Paul McCartney.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHello Frances... Or should I call you Sophie?\n\nI'm Sophie to my family and friends - but I once thought, \"If I'm going to be an artist, my name's got to look good on a piece of paper\". Sophie is very curly, it looks very young, whereas Frances is a lot more angular. So it just kind of stuck.\n\nBut then up until the age of 16, everyone called me Cookie. So anything goes.\n\nIt's been three years since your first single - you must be relieved the album is finally out?\n\nI'm so excited. It's definitely been a while. I wrote some of these songs when I was 18 or 19, and so they've literally been with me for five years.\n\nIt's unusual for people to stay fond of the songs they wrote in their teens.\n\nActually, at the time, I didn't think much of them! But they made it through all the label cuts and slashes. They stood the test of time.\n\nWhat are the oldest ones on there?\n\nI wrote Drifting and Sublime in my room at LIPA - the performing arts school up in Liverpool.\n\nThat's the one that Paul McCartney founded, right? Did he ever show up?\n\nA couple of times. He'd come in to do little Q&As.\n\nHe was really nice, if you saw him walking past, you could just say \"hi\" and he was always really sweet.\n\nWhat's the best advice you got from him?\n\nHe said that when he and John [Lennon] were writing, they didn't have anything to record what they were doing… Whereas now, if I'm writing in a session, I've got my phone there recording everything. And so if I forget something I can go back and find it.\n\nBut he said, \"We didn't have that luxury. So if we forgot something, it wasn't good enough and we didn't use it.\"\n\nI was like, \"Oh my God, that's so true.\" Because if you've written something and 10 minutes later you don't remember it, then it's not good enough.\n\nDo you stick to that advice even now?\n\nNo, because my memory's terrible!\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch an excerpt for Frances' video for Grow\n\nOne of the first songs you released was Grow... and that's now being used in a very powerful video for Refuge.\n\nIt's amazing. It's about a woman called Melanie Clark, who had a terrible time, a really abusive partner, and she managed to get out of it by seeking help from Refuge.\n\nThey've animated her story. It's basically about her feeling invisible until one woman, who represents Refuge, notices her for the first time. It's a campaign to encourage victims of domestic abuse to seek help. We want people to realise they are not alone.\n\nThe original song isn't about domestic abuse at all. Were you surprised by how well the words and the images complement each other?\n\nIt's weird how the lyrics make so much sense alongside the story. I just hope it will resonate with people all over the world. It's an amazing animation and everyone's done it for free.\n\nThe singer has collaborated with Disclosure and Spice Girls writer Biff Stannard - but is keeping those songs for a later record\n\nWould it be fair to say you've always wanted to play music?\n\nAbsolutely. My best friend's parents were professional violinists. When I was about eight, I went round to her house, picked one up and fell in love with it. Then her dad taught me all the way up 'til I was about 16 or 17.\n\nWhat was your exam piece?\n\nI did a kind of a gypsy piece called Csardas. It's so fast - and it speeds up towards the end, as well. And then I started the piano when I was 10 - but I only got to grade six. I couldn't be bothered to do scales any more.\n\nDo you remember your first stage performance?\n\nI was three, dressed as an ice cream in a production of The Hungry Caterpillar at the Royal Festival Hall! And then throughout school, I was always on stage, playing violin or piano. And I played in the Berkshire Youth Orchestra.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Frances performs Grow at the BBC Introducing SXSW showcase in 2016.\n\nYou sound like a high achiever. Were you good academically, too?\n\nI was quite lucky at school. I had this little charm - I could not do my homework and somehow get away with it.\n\nEveryone knew I worked so hard at music. I was doing stuff after school every day, so the teachers were quite lenient.\n\nAnd then you went to LIPA...\n\nActually, I didn't get in the first time. They put me on their foundation course, which cost like 10 grand or something. My parents, bless them, scrambled together every penny we had and I worked at Waitrose trying to get money to go.\n\nI put a song called Coming Up For Air on SoundCloud in early 2014. It was quite calculated - because at the time London Grammar were really big, so I thought, \"OK, I'm going to write something like that, so all the blogs listen and pick up on it\". Eventually, a few started writing about it and then Tom Robinson from 6 Music played it which was really cool.\n\nAfter that, we ended up having a meeting with [boutique record label] Kitsuné, and released a single.\n\nDon't Worry About Me was a big breakthrough for you. How did that come about?\n\nOne of my friends was quite ill - and I wrote the song to say, \"look after yourself and I'll be here for you\".\n\nI wrote it really quickly. I was just getting off the bus on Kilburn High Road when I came up with the phrase, \"I'll feel the fear for you, I'll cry the tears for you, don't worry about me.\" I ran home thinking, \"I need to get to a piano quickly, I don't want to lose this.\"\n\nI think because I wrote it so quickly. I was thinking about my friend and the lyrics just came out.\n\nThe star has been compared to Adele and Carole King\n\nDon't Worry About Me has been played nine million times on Spotify. How do you wrap your head around that?\n\nI don't really. I always said that if I won the lottery, I'd be more excited by £100,000 than I would with £1m because I can't understand a million pounds. I've never seen that. I can't quantify it. Whereas a hundred grand, I can think, \"ah, that's a really nice car\".\n\nIt's a weird period for music at the moment… You can have all those plays, and millions of people know your song, but it hasn't troubled the charts in the UK.\n\nIt's a really weird time. In Belgium, Don't Worry About Me was in the top 20 for 10 weeks and that's mainly because in Belgium the singer-songwriter world is their Radio 1. In Australia, it hung around the chart for ages. In the UK, I've just come out at a really funny time. There's a weird limbo.\n\nBut I'm so proud of my album. I know it's not going to sell 20 million copies but that's OK. I want to be an artist that's going to be around for 20 or 30 years.\n\nIn a strange way, you're famous to the people who know you and nobody else.\n\nIt's actually lovely because I can walk down the street and not be bothered. Apart from in John Lewis once, where the manager recognised me while I was buying a sofa.\n\nHe was like, \"Excuse me, can I ask you a question?\" and I thought, \"Oh no, my card's been rejected\" but he was like, \"Can I get a picture with you?\"\n\nAnd I think he paid for my sofa because I took out finance and I haven't paid a penny yet.\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.", "Is Kim Jong-un rational? The new US ambassador to the United Nations thinks he is not. Nikki Haley said after North Korea's simultaneous launch of four ballistic missiles: \"This is not a rational person.\" But is she right?\n\nKim Jong-un may have many flaws. He is without doubt ruthless - the bereaved relatives of the victims of his regime, including within his own family, would testify to that. He may have driven through an economic policy that keeps his people living at a standard way below that in South Korea and, increasingly, China.\n\nAnd he seems to have personal issues, such as eating a lot - photographs show his bulging girth - and being a fairly heavy smoker.\n\nBut whatever these failings and foibles, is he actually irrational - which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as \"not logical or reasonable, not endowed with the power of reason\"?\n\nScholars who study him think he is behaving very rationally, even with the purging and terrorising of those around him. Prof Andrei Lankov of Kookmin University in Seoul told the BBC: \"He is perfectly rational. He sometimes overdoes it. He sometimes tends to apply excessive force. Why kill hundreds of generals when dozens will do?\n\nKim Jong-nam, Kim-Jong-un's half-brother, was killed while in Malaysia in February 2017\n\n\"Most people he kills would never join a conspiracy but he feels it's better to overdo it. It's better to kill nine loyal generals and one potential conspirator than to allow a conspirator to stay alive.\n\nProf John Delury of Yonsei University in Seoul said that even having his half-brother killed (as the allegation is - denied by Pyongyang) would be a rational act; not nice but rational.\n\n\"A sad fact of history is that young kings often kill their uncles and elder brothers. It may be cruel, but it is not 'irrational'. If you don't take my word for it, read Shakespeare.\"\n\nOn this assassination of Kim Jong-nam, allegedly at the hands of agents of the regime, Prof Lankov says it is similar to the Ottoman Empire, where concubines of the Sultan had countless children, any of whom had a bloodline that might one day legitimise a claim to the throne.\n\nProf Lankov thinks that Kim Jong-nam was, accordingly, a threat, probably not that great a one but still intolerable: \"Probably he was not that dangerous but you never know. He was definitely under Chinese control.\"\n\nProf Delury said that there was nothing irrational about Kim Jong-un's drive to obtain credible nuclear weapons: \"He has no reliable allies to guarantee his safety, and he faces a hostile superpower that has, in recent memory, invaded sovereign states around the world and overthrown their governments.\n\n\"The lesson North Koreans learned from the invasion of Iraq was that if Saddam Hussein really possessed those weapons of mass destruction, he might have survived.\"\n\nCould Kim Jong-un's drive to achieve a nuclear capability safeguard his regime's future?\n\nThis was compounded by the lesson of Libya, according to Prof Lankov: \"Did American promises of American prosperity help Gaddafi and his family? Kim Jong-un knows perfectly well what happened to the only fool who believed Western promises and renounced the development of nuclear weapons. And he's not going to make that mistake. Once you don't have nuclear weapons you are completely unprotected.\n\n\"Did Russian or American and British promises to guarantee Ukrainian integrity help Ukraine? No. Why should he expect American, Russian or Chinese promises to help him stay alive? He is rational.\"\n\nIf he is rational, what does he want? On this, scholars are divided. Prof Brian Myers of Dongseo University in Busan in South Korea said that Kim Jong-un wants security but also a united Korea as the only way he and the regime can survive in the long term.\n\n\"As every North Korean knows, the whole point of the military-first policy is 'final victory', or the unification of the peninsula under North Korean rule.\"\n\nA credible nuclear force would give him the ability to pressure the United States to remove its troops from the peninsula.\n\n\"North Korea needs the capability to strike the US with nuclear weapons in order to pressure both adversaries into signing peace treaties. This is the only grand bargain it has ever wanted,\" said Prof Myers.\n\nSome analysts believe North Korea's strategy aims to see the US withdraw from South Korea\n\nAnd once the US troops had gone, on this argument, North Korean rule would be unstoppable.\n\nProf Lankov doesn't agree with the emphasis. He thinks survival is by far the most important motive behind Kim Jong-un's actions: \"Above all, he wants to stay alive. Second, economic prosperity and growth - but it's a distant second.\"\n\nSo what's to be done? Prof Lankov sees no good options: \"I don't see any solution right now.\" He thinks the best option is to persuade North Korea to freeze its development of nuclear weapons at a particular size of arsenal \"but it will be very difficult and North Koreans may not keep their promises\".\n\nAnd money would have to be paid. \"But this deal isn't good from an American point of view because it means paying a reward to a blackmailer, and if you pay a reward to a blackmailer once, you invite more blackmail.\n\n\"The second option which might work is a military operation but that is likely to trigger a second Korean war and will permanently damage American credibility as a reliable ally and protector.\n\n\"Worldwide, a lot of people would see that it's better to have enemies than such friends.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEddie Jones said England will \"have more setbacks\" after his side's hopes of a second straight Grand Slam and a world-record 19th Test win were ended by Ireland on Saturday.\n\nJones' side had already retained the Six Nations title before their campaign ended with a 13-9 defeat in Dublin.\n\nThe Australian said England are \"14 months into a four-year project\".\n\n\"It would have been great to be Grand Slam champions and world record holders but it wasn't our day,\" he added.\n\nThe defeat means England's winning run ends on 18 Tests, level with New Zealand, who saw their series of victories also ended by the Irish, in Chicago in November.\n\n\"To win the World Cup you've got to win seven in a row, you've got to cope with that pressure,\" added Jones.\n\n\"How many teams average a 90% win rate? Not many, only the All Blacks.\"\n\nJones said the hosts used the conditions \"superbly\", adding: \"Full credit to Ireland, they were brilliantly coached and executed their plan well.\"\n\nBut he said England did not play to their potential and that he would take full responsibility for the defeat.\n\n\"We knew it was going to be a tough, physical game, we just weren't good enough today. I didn't prepare the team well,\" he said.\n\n\"We're all human beings, we're not perfect, and that's why world records finish at 18 games because it's hard to keep [winning].\n\n\"The next Test we play I'll prepare them better. I'm human like everyone else, I make mistakes. Even [legendary Australia batsman] Don Bradman got a zero in his last Test.\"\n\n'This will keep us grounded'\n\nEngland captain Dylan Hartley said his team had \"big lessons to learn\" from the defeat.\n\n\"We set out to win the tournament and we've done that. Obviously we're disappointed not to win this final game because we had high hopes, we had high expectations of ourselves,\" added the hooker.\n\n\"Credit to Ireland. We seemed to back up every error with another error. We are not the finished article. This will keep us grounded.\"\n\n'I can't wait to play New Zealand'\n\nThe British and Irish Lions will travel to New Zealand in June looking for a first Test series win there since 1971.\n\nEngland are not due to face the All Blacks until 2018, but Jones hopes the Rugby Football Union (RFU) can secure a fixture against the world champions in November.\n\n\"I expect at least 15 of our guys to go on the Lions tour, I'd be disappointed if we don't have that many guys in,\" said Jones. \"And I think they'll have a massive shout [of winning the Test series].\n\n\"New Zealand, as Ireland have shown, are there for the taking.\n\n\"I can't wait for us to play them either. We're very keen to play them, I've had a discussion with Ian [Ritchie, RFU chief executive] and we're raring to go.\n\n\"There's a lot of discussions to go. A lot of discussions with New Zealand and within the rugby community, there's still a lot to go.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nZlatan Ibrahimovic has accepted a three-match ban for violent conduct for elbowing Bournemouth's Tyrone Mings during Saturday's 1-1 draw at Old Trafford.\n\nThe Manchester United striker will miss Monday's FA Cup quarter-final at Chelsea and Premier League games against Middlesbrough and West Brom.\n\nMings was also charged with violent conduct by the Football Association.\n\nBut Bournemouth have said they will appeal against the defender's charge.\n\nIbrahimovic, who is United's leading scorer this season with 26 goals, is eligible to play in the Europa League tie against Rostov in Russia on Thursday. He is due to return in the Premier League against Everton on 4 April.\n\nMings, 23, landed on the United forward's head with his studs before Ibrahimovic, 35, caught his rival in the face with his elbow at a corner.\n\nThe players were given until 18:00 GMT on Tuesday to respond to the charge.\n\nDeliberate elbowing and stamping are both red card offences. However, the FA suggested Mings could face an increased ban for his offence.\n\nAn FA statement said: \"The FA has submitted a claim that the standard punishment that would otherwise apply for the misconduct committed by the Bournemouth defender is 'clearly insufficient'.\"\n\n\"Off-the-ball incidents which are not seen at the time by the match officials are referred to a panel of three former elite referees.\n\n\"Each referee panel member will review the video footage independently of one another to determine whether they consider it a sending-off offence. For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.\"\n\nWhat they said\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after the match, both Mings and Ibrahimovic denied any intent in their actions.\n\nMings said: \"It was a good battle, you know exactly what you are going to get playing against him. There will be things highlighted more than others, but I enjoyed it.\"\n\nIbrahimovic said Mings had \"jumped into\" his elbow.\n\n\"In my situation, I jump up, I jump high,\" the Swede said. \"At the same time I protect myself and unlucky he jumps into me. Many times this occasion happens.\"\n\n44 mins: Mings slides into a tackle on Wayne Rooney, also taking out Ibrahimovic. The Bournemouth defender gets to his feet and then hurdles Ibrahimovic, landing on the Swede's head with his right boot.\n\n45 mins: United win a corner which is swung in to the far post where Ibrahimovic and Mings challenge for the high ball.\n\nIbrahimovic catches Mings with his right elbow after winning the header, the Bournemouth defender going down to the ground clutching his head.\n\nBournemouth skipper Andrew Surman pushes Ibrahimovic in the chest, earning a second yellow card from Friend.\n\n45+1 mins: The referee has a conversation with Ibrahimovic and United skipper Rooney, then sends off Surman before restarting play after a lengthy delay.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBritain's Laura Muir and Asha Philip won gold at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Belgrade.\n\nMuir, 23, gained her second gold of the championships with victory in the 3,000m on Sunday following her 1500m win the previous day.\n\nThe Scot eased away from the rest of the field to break the championship record in eight minutes 35.68 seconds.\n\nPhilip, 26, set a new British record to win the women's 60m final in a time of 7.06 seconds.\n\n\"I was not doubting myself,\" Philip told BBC Sport. \"I knew I had it in me and the confidence took me through the race.\n\n\"When I crossed the line, I could feel the girls on my left and I wasn't sure - the camera came to me and I was like: 'I don't believe it unless you say my name.'\"\n\nMuir's team-mate Eilish McColgan won bronze in the 3,000m, while Shelayna Oskan-Clarke was edged into silver by winner Selina Buchel of Switzerland in a thrilling women's 800m final.\n\nRobbie Grabarz took silver in the men's high jump after losing a jump-off for gold against Sylwester Bednarek of Poland, with Lorraine Ugen also winning silver in the women's long jump.\n\nEilidh Doyle, Philippa Lowe, Mary Iheke and Laviai Nielsen took silver in the women's 4x400m relay behind Poland, who won four golds in total on the final day to top the medal table ahead of Britain.\n\nMuir won her second major title in as many days by again setting a new championship record, having also beaten Dame Kelly Holmes' British record in her 1500m victory on Saturday.\n\nShe became the first British athlete since Colin Jackson in Paris in 1994 to win two gold medals in individual events at a single European Indoor Championships.\n\nThis victory also makes Muir the first runner to win the 1500m and 3,000m double since Poland's Lidia Chojecka at Birmingham 2007.\n\nAfter keeping pace with Can out in the front for most of the race, Muir surged clear with just under two laps to go to win by almost eight seconds.\n\n\"It was my first time doubling up so I didn't know how my body would cope - I was just hoping I could deliver and I'm delighted,\" Muir told BBC Sport.\n\nMcColgan, 26, passed Maureen Koster of the Netherlands in the final stages to win her first senior medal, while team-mate Steph Twell finished fifth.\n\n\"Laura is so much better than the rest of us - I knew gold was gone, but it's my first medal so I'm really chuffed,\" said McColgan.\n\nWith an athlete as confident as Laura Muir is, as in the groove as she is, she wasn't going to settle for just winning.\n\nThis is a new Laura that we're witnessing - a couple of years ago she was in tears wondering why she was making those mistakes.\n\nBut now her running is stunning - the strength, the power, the endurance and the confidence. She has no fear.\n\nWith Jessica Ennis-Hill retiring, we've been wondering who would take on that mantle of the queen of British athletics and Laura is that person.\n\nFor Eilish McColgan, her body dictated the change from steeplechase to 3,000m - she was spending more time on the physio bed than she was racing.\n\nSo to have a good winter and then come out to win her first medal makes me delighted for her - and I hope it's the start of good things to come.\n\nPhilip set the fourth-fastest time in the semi-finals but stepped up for the final, setting a new European-leading mark this season.\n\nHer victory completes a British double in the 60m following Richard Kilty's gold on Saturday.\n\nShe is also the first British winner of the women's 60m title since Beverly Kinch at Gothenburg in 1984.\n\nUkraine's Olesya Povh took silver, 0.04 seconds behind, with Ewa Swoboda of Poland in third.\n\nPhilip's gold medal stood after a Swiss protest against her victory was turned down.\n\nMarathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe paid tribute to the winner, saying: \"Asha Philip personifies that tactic we need more of - bringing youngsters to championships like this and letting them take the step up, because it gives them a big boost going into the outdoor season.\"\n\nOskan-Clarke, 27, battled with reigning champion Buchel throughout the 800m final, often clashing elbows, but failed to get round the Swiss athlete on the line.\n\nThe Briton set a new personal best time of 2:00.39, just 0.01 seconds behind Buchel in a photo finish.\n\n\"I was trying to be brave but it was probably a bit silly to go round the outside whereas if I'd sat behind I might have had that bit at the end - it's just annoying,\" Oskan-Clarke told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I am happy but to be so close to the gold, it is a bit disappointing.\"\n\nPoland's Adam Kszczot took gold in the men's 800m, with the Polish team also winning the men's 4x400m relay in the final race of the championships.", "The search for solutions to the threat of polluted air is generating ideas that range from the modest to the radical to the bizarre.\n\nA London primary school may issue face-masks to its pupils. The council in Cornwall may take the extreme step of moving people out of houses beside the busiest roads.\n\nFour major cities - Paris, Athens, Mexico City and Madrid - plan to ban all diesels by 2025.\n\nStuttgart, in Germany, has already decided to block all but the most modern diesels on polluted days.\n\nIn India's capital, Delhi, often choked with dangerous air, a jet engine may be deployed in an experimental and desperate attempt to create an updraft to disperse dirty air.\n\nThe World Health Organization calculates that as many as 92% of the world's population are exposed to dirty air - but that disguises the fact that many different forms of pollution are involved.\n\nFor the rural poor, it is fumes from cooking on wood or dung indoors.\n\nFor shanty-dwellers in booming mega-cities, it is a combination of traffic exhaust, soot and construction dust.\n\nDelhi is one of the most polluted cities in the world\n\nIn developed countries, it can be a mix of exhaust gas from vehicles and ammonia carried on the wind from the spraying of industrial-scale farms.\n\nIn European cities, where people have been encouraged to buy fuel-efficient diesels to help reduce carbon emissions, the hazard is from the harmful gas nitrogen dioxide and tiny specks of pollution known as particulates.\n\nThe first step is to understand exactly where the air is polluted and precisely how individuals are affected - and the results can be extremely revealing.\n\nScientists at the University of Leicester are trialling a portable air monitor to gather precise data at a personal scale.\n\nWe watched as volunteer, Logan Eddy, 14, carried the device in a specially adapted backpack that recorded details of the air he was exposed to.\n\nExactly where he walked was then displayed as lines on an electronic map, the colour of those lines conveying how unhealthy the air was at different points.\n\nThe monitor gives a readout of pollution during a journey\n\nIt was much worse than WHO guidelines where he had waited to cross a busy junction, strikingly cleaner in a side-street but then almost off the scale in a sheltered spot beside an arcade of shops where a car was parked with its engine idling.\n\nSeeing a graphic display of how pollution can vary so dramatically changed Logan's view of air, and his friends adjusted their behaviour immediately.\n\n\"The people who found out have stopped waiting right near the buses after school for their friends,\" he says.\n\n\"They've been waiting… further away from the buses.\n\n\"It's obviously had an impact on them.\"\n\nThe personal monitor is one of a range of devices being deployed in Leicester to build up a detailed picture of where pollution hotspots form - and when.\n\nIn many cases, they can be short-lived, appearing during rush-hours when traffic jams develop.\n\nFor Prof Roland Leigh, of Leicester University, understanding precisely where and when vehicles slow to a crawl or stop will help manage the flow of traffic in a way that minimises the impact on the most vulnerable people - the young and the elderly.\n\n\"One of the things we can all do is to improve our transport systems so that our congested traffic is not queued up outside of primary schools and old people's homes but instead is queued in other parts of the city where there's going to be less harm,\" he says.\n\nBut what about tackling one of the main sources of the problem in the first place, the vehicles spewing out the pollutants?\n\nIn Europe, under pressure from regulators, the manufacturers have progressively cleaned up their engines over the past few decades - first to trap carbon monoxide and unburned fuel, then particulates and most recently nitrogen dioxide.\n\nThe latest European standard, Euro 6, requires vehicles to emit far less pollution than older models, but trust has inevitably been eroded after the car giant VW was caught cheating - using software that activated the emissions controls only during tests.\n\nAt Bath University, engineers use a \"rolling road\" and a robotic \"driver\" to put cars through realistic simulations of how they are normally used, to find out exactly what's released from the exhaust pipe.\n\nThey are also working to understand the trade-offs involved in cleaning up an engine.\n\nFor example, adding more pollution-trapping devices can add to fuel consumption, which means increased emissions of carbon dioxide, undermining efforts to tackle climate change.\n\nAnd however good the latest standards, they still leave vast numbers of older vehicles out on the roads.\n\nHence the idea of a national scrappage scheme - to provide incentives to drivers to switch to a cleaner model.\n\nIt's attracting growing support from an unlikely coalition including the Federation of Small Business, London First, Greenpeace and the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association.\n\nThe challenge, as ever, is to find the money to make this happen and to agree who should pay - taxpayers through government incentives or the vehicle owners themselves.\n\nProf Chris Brace, an automotive engineer of Bath University, says; \"Whichever way you approach it, you are asking people to spend more in taxation or more to buy new vehicles, and we need to decide whether that's something we're comfortable with as a society.\"\n\nWill the parents of an asthmatic child dig deep in their pockets to switch to a cleaner car?\n\nWill new housing developments include charging points for electric cars?\n\nWill the money saved from a fuel-efficient diesel be seen as worth sacrificing for the sake of better air for everyone?\n\nAnd bear in mind that these are \"First World\" questions.\n\nIn the rapidly growing cities of Africa, and many parts of Asia, there is hardly any monitoring of pollution at all, let alone political will or money to tackle it.\n\nA week of coverage by BBC News examining possible solutions to the problems caused by air pollution.\n• None WHO estimates of pollution in your city The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nAlexis Sanchez had an angry exchange with Arsenal team-mates after leaving training mid-session in the build-up to Saturday's defeat at Liverpool.\n\nThe Chilean forward, 28, was confronted by team-mates on their return to the changing room and one of them had to be held back as tempers flared.\n\nSanchez was left out of the starting line-up at Anfield but came on in the second half as Arsenal lost 3-1.\n\nArsenal boss Arsene Wenger said it was a tactical decision to omit Sanchez.\n\nWenger brought on his top scorer at half-time, with his side 2-0 down, and he provided the pass for Danny Welbeck's goal.\n\nHe has been directly involved in 26 goals in his 26 league games this season, scoring 17 and assisting nine.\n• None 'I'd leave Arsenal if I were Sanchez', says Wright\n\nHowever, Wenger said he had decided to start Welbeck and Oliver Giroud instead to provide a more direct attacking threat.\n\nThe defeat was the Gunners' third in four league games and saw them drop out of the top four.\n\nFormer Premier League goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer on BBC Match of the Day 2 Extra:\n\n\"I think Alexis Sanchez, and a number of players, are waiting to see what Wenger does. If Wenger stays on, I think we'll see a large turnover of players coming in and players leaving.\n\n\"If he leaves then it depends who comes in and replaces him, what his ideas are, and that will determine whether players like Sanchez and (Mesut) Ozil re-sign.\"", "Tarik Hassane: One of the most recent and dangerous plotters\n\nAssistant commissioner Mark Rowley, of the Metropolitan Police, the UK's most senior counter-terrorism police officer, has used a speech to make a renewed call for public help to counter threats.\n\nHe says there have been 13 disrupted terror plots since 2013.\n\nIt's a complex figure because there haven't been 13 specific trials before the courts in which individuals have been shown to be involved in attack planning. That doesn't, however, mean the figure is wrong - far from it.\n\nIt's all to do with the difference between criminal evidence, leading to a conviction, and secret intelligence that the police and others can use to stop something from happening.\n\nNadir Syed used encrypted online chats to share gory videos from so-called Islamic State\n\nThere are prosecutions where it's really obvious what has been going on, but every now and then I and colleagues see cases where there's a whiff of something spooky in the background that we can't get to the bottom of.\n\nThose cases are usually the ones where it starts to become clear that the security services thought they were on to something but the secret intelligence assessments - perhaps from a hacked device or credible informant - couldn't be supported in open court by evidence.\n\nSometimes the police intervene early in a case out of fear of losing track of a target. In these cases, the conviction on a lesser offence isn't regarded as a failure - it's still a \"disruption\" - and that's sometimes the most they can hope for.\n\nSo, in the absence of an official list, here are some of the cases that have most concerned the police in recent years:\n\nNadir Syed, 23, of west London, was convicted of preparing to carry out an attack in 2014 inspired by the self-styled Islamic State group, which evidence suggested would have targeted a poppy seller or someone else linked to Remembrance Sunday.\n\nThe same autumn saw the arrest of two students from west London who were later jailed for plotting to kill police or soldiers in a drive-by shooting using a moped.\n\nWe also saw the conviction of a delivery driver from Luton who planned to run over a member of the US military outside one of the two air bases used by its air force in Suffolk.\n\nBoy S, who cannot be identified, was sentenced to life in prison at Manchester Crown Court.\n\nOne of the most serious recent cases led to Britain's youngest ever convicted terrorist - \"Boy S\", from Blackburn. When aged 14, he had attempted to incite a man in Australia to kill soldiers.\n\nIn March 2015, a teenager who planned to behead a British soldier was jailed in a case that highlighted the speed of his radicalisation.\n\nOther less complex cases included a 19-year-old jailed for grooming a vulnerable young man to kill UK soldiers and a returnee from Syria whom the Crown Prosecution service said was \"preparing or planning an act of terrorism\".\n\nThree operations involved intelligence that indicated either substantial research and collection of materials required for bomb-making - or testing of a potential device.\n\nA further two were complex operations in which the suspects talked about high-profile targets.\n\nAnd all of these cases exclude the activity of members of Northern Ireland paramilitary groups - the threat from those individuals is officially classed as \"severe\".\n\nAnd, separately, there is increasing concern from police in some parts of the country about the rise of extreme far-right/neo-Nazi grooming for violence.", "Kwei-Armah appeared in Casualty from 1999 to 2004\n\nYou may know Kwame Kwei-Armah best as the paramedic Finlay Newton in the BBC's Casualty.\n\nBut it's 13 years since he left the television series and since then he's carved a hugely successful career in the theatre.\n\nHis new stage show is about the reggae legend Bob Marley. But he insists, it is \"absolutely not\" a jukebox musical, where the songs take precedence over the plot.\n\nKwei-Armah, the writer and director of One Love, The Bob Marley Musical, says it is not \"sing-a-long-a-Bob\", but \"a play with music\".\n\nHe admitted though that it was a \"delicate\" balancing act trying to keep in enough songs the audience will recognise.\n\nSo hits including No Woman No Cry, Jamming, Three Little Birds and Redemption Song are among 30 tracks that feature in the show.\n\nRehearsals are taking place for the show, which opens on 10 March\n\nBut One Love is not your usual musical hero, womb to tomb story.\n\nInstead it focuses on just three years in Marley's life and career, which Kwei-Armah says are \"very significant\" in \"understanding the hero's journey of the man.\"\n\nFollowing an assassination attempt in 1976, the singer left his home in Jamaica and went to live in London in self imposed exile.\n\nWhile in England he recorded two of his biggest albums: Exodus and Kaya.\n\nKwei-Armah said he wanted to get inside the mind of the man at that time and \"show a side of Bob that we don't often speak about.\"\n\n\"Bob being a political songwriter, I wanted to look at what were the years when he was tested. What were the years when he might have doubted himself? And I found these years to be that.\"\n\nMarley died of cancer in 1981 at the age of 36.\n\nBob Marley's Facebook page has more than 70 million followers\n\nBut interest in him shows no sign of diminishing. It is estimated he has sold more than 50 million albums around the world. Time declared Exodus the best album of the 20th Century in 1999. The same year the BBC named One Love the song of the millennium.\n\nHis Facebook page has more than 70 million fans - and Marley is in the top 15 most popular pages on the social media site.\n\nFor many, Bob Marley is an idol - a civil rights activist who spoke up for the poor and oppressed.\n\nBut he was not a saint. And Kwai-Armah says he does not gloss over Marley's womanising and drug use.\n\nHe says he portrays him \"warts and all\". He adds: \"I don't need any hero to be an angel.\"\n\nThe singer Mitchell Brunings is playing the title role.\n\nBorn in Surinam, but raised in The Netherlands, he was a backing vocalist in a Marley tribute band, before entering the Dutch equivalent of the television talent show, The Voice.\n\nHe sang Redemption Song and his performance went viral on YouTube.\n\nAs a result, Kwai-Armah cast him in the lead role. It is his UK stage debut and he is feeling the pressure to do Marley justice.\n\n\"He has a very big following, a lot of his followers are fanatical about their devotion to him, which I understand because I am one of his followers myself. I don't want to do anything to damage his image.\"\n\nKwai-Armah says Marley is portrayed \"warts and all\" in the show\n\nMarley's family has already given the show their blessing.\n\nHis daughter Cedella has said: \"Birmingham is a natural place for its UK premiere. With its great mix of cultures, it's a city where my father performed to audiences that were captivated by his presence.\n\n\"We have no doubt that telling the story through music to a new generation in Birmingham will be part of his continuing legacy.\"\n\nOne Love: The Bob Marley Musical opens at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 10th March.\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 Athletics\n\nBriton Laura Muir's double gold at the European Indoor Championships has convinced her to race in both the 1500m and 5,000m at the World Championships in London this summer.\n\nThe 23-year-old Scot won her first senior medals in the 1500m and 3,000m in Belgrade at the weekend.\n\n\"We went for the double to see how the legs coped with a lot of rounds in a short period,\" Muir told the BBC.\n\n\"Hopefully, come London, I'll double up and do the 1500m and the 5K.\"\n\nThe Kinross athlete regards the shorter distance as her \"main event\" in August but said she was pleased that the schedule for the heats and finals \"work really well to double up\".\n\n\"I'd love to get on the podium,\" she added. \"That would be my first global-level medal.\"\n\nTimings, however, were not on her side in Belgrade when it came to celebrating her British record-breaking 1500m triumph on Saturday.\n\nAn official repeatedly thwarted her attempt to do a lap of honour before Muir eventually gave her the slip.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 live: \"They were saying they were behind on the programme, but the athletes were out on the track so I thought, 'ach, I'm just going to go'.\"\n\nMuir is juggling her record-breaking athletics career with her veterinary studies.\n\n\"Athletics is quite an individual sport so I can fit everything around it,\" she said.\n\n\"I just go for runs in the morning before I head to lectures, and do runs in the evenings when I get back. It is tough and my recovery is not as great as other athletes' but veterinary always came first for me.\"\n\nMuir revealed she felt motivated to \"work even harder over the winter\" after her disappointment at finishing seventh in the 1500m final at the Rio Olympics.\n\n\"I wanted to race as best as I could throughout 2017 and it's gone pretty well so far,\" she said.\n\n\"I just seem to be getting faster and faster and it's brilliant.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nBBC Sport has secured the rights to broadcast the 2019 Women's World Cup which will be held in France.\n\nExtensive coverage of every game at the tournament will be provided across television, radio and online.\n\nThe 2015 competition was also shown on the BBC, when the England team reached the semi-finals.\n\n\"We're delighted the BBC will bring the biggest tournament in women's football to the widest possible audience,\" said director of BBC Sport Barbara Slater.\n\n\"Women's football has grown significantly over the last few years and we are proud of the contribution we have made.\n\n\"France 2019 promises to be another fantastic showcase for the sport.\"\n\nFifa secretary-general Fatma Samoura said: \"The seventh edition of the Fifa Women's World Cup in 2015 reached record-breaking numbers of TV viewers and social media clicks, underlining global interest in the world's biggest single-sport event for women.\n\n\"As excitement grows around the eighth edition of the competition, we are delighted to work with the BBC to broadcast the ultimate event in women's football to even greater audiences in the UK via the BBC's TV, radio and digital platforms.\"", "Back in September 2013 I interviewed an emotional Thomas Bach in Buenos Aires a few minutes after the German had become the most powerful man in sport.\n\nThe newly elected International Olympic Committee (IOC) president confidently told me that after a successful reign by his predecessor Jacques Rogge, the Olympic movement needed mere evolution.\n\nBut as we approach four years of Bach's leadership - and with fresh hosting, doping and corruption controversies affecting confidence in his organisation - the demands for an Olympic revolution are growing louder by the day.\n\nThe recent withdrawal of Budapest's bid to stage the 2024 Games - the fourth city to pull out of the race - is highly embarrassing for the IOC and seems to have left the Olympics at a crossroads, in desperate need of a new vision.\n\nAnd the knock-on effects of this latest blow to Bach could be extremely significant: a possible double announcement of hosts for both the 2024 and 2028 Games; and perhaps making it more likely that the IOC takes the unprecedented step of banning Russia from the next Winter Olympics, if that is deemed necessary to restore credibility at this critical time.\n\nDespite reported opposition from within the IOC, it seems increasingly likely that when its members meet in Lima in September to decide which of the two remaining bidders, Los Angeles or Paris, is awarded the Games, the loser will be told it can host the following edition four years later.\n\nThis assumes the runner-up for 2024 will actually want to play host in 2028 of course - or indeed be able to. Neither is certain. Plans and partnerships for both bids are based on the cities hosting the event in 2024, and delaying these by another four years may not be possible. But with the IOC now admitting that without recent reforms it could have suffered the ignominy of having no bidders, it seems sensible to try to strike some kind of two-Games deal.\n\nSo, why are potential host cities turning their backs on the Games, and how much jeopardy is the Olympics really now in?\n• None Hamburg says 'no' to Olympic bid\n\nIn 2014, after six cities had decided not to bid for the 2022 Winter Games - leaving just Almaty and Beijing to choose from - Bach hailed his Agenda 2020 reforms as the answer, designed to encourage flexible and cheaper bids from more potential hosts.\n\nYet three years on, here we are again, with just two bidders left for the 2024 summer Games. Earlier this month, a referendum in the Swiss canton of Graubuenden, which contains the cities of Davos and St Moritz, ensured there would be no bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics.\n\nThe recent bleak images of Rio's abandoned and crumbling Olympic venues already falling into disrepair, just a few months after they hosted the city's iconic but chaotic Games, has reinforced fears that the size and cost of the global mega-event is out of control and places too great a burden on host cities.\n\nAt the same time, in London, an investigation is now under way into the spiralling costs of the 2012 Olympic stadium, now approaching £800m.\n\nMeanwhile, in Tokyo, there are renewed concerns that the budget for the 2020 Games could leap to £21bn, four times the initial estimate, despite recent effort to rein in costs, with the city's governor, Yuriko Koike, admitting she had no idea how much money will eventually be spent on the event.\n\nNo wonder, perhaps, that Boston, Hamburg, Rome and now Budapest have all rejected the chance to stage the 2024 Games.\n\nThe IOC has blamed local politics for the withdrawal of the Hungarian capital, although Bach will hope to turn it to his advantage and use it to strengthen his case for more reforms.\n\nBach's latest idea is a change to the rules to allow cities bidding for the second time to pay less than those making their first attempt. Bach told German magazine Stuttgart Nachrichten that it was unfair to judge Rio's Olympic legacy so soon, and urged critics not to underestimate the transport and environmental benefits the Games had left the Brazilian city, while also reminding them of the regeneration of east London in recent years.\n\nSo as they enter the final crucial few months of campaigning, which of the two remaining candidate cities are most likely to benefit from Budapest's withdrawal and get to run the first leg of a possible 2024/2028 relay?\n\nSome observers believe it has merely reinforced Paris' status as favourites. Given just how hard it clearly now is to attract bidders from Europe, sponsorship expert Tim Crow argues that it is easy to see why the IOC would be loathe to risk further alienating more potential candidates by rejecting the iconic capital for a third consecutive time - especially for 2024, which will mark 100 years since Paris last hosted the Games.\n\nAdd to this the obvious consternation caused in some Olympic circles by US President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric - and his recent travel ban - and Paris seems a logical choice.\n\nOthers disagree, however. Journalist Alan Abrahamson argues that the IOC must now turn away from government-backed bids based on large infrastructure or regeneration projects, where taxpayers often end up paying the price when budgets spiral out of control, and instead go for privately funded alternatives.\n\nAnd that, he insists, means Los Angeles. Unlike in Paris, where 1.5bn euros of public investment is being spent on the construction of an athletes' village and a new aquatics centre, 97% of the American city's major facilities are already built, the kind of sustainability that Bach's Agenda 2020 is meant to be encouraging more of.\n\nIt has also not escaped attention that Etienne Thobois, the head of the Paris 2024 bid, was a key consultant for Tokyo 2020 - a bid whose original cost estimates now appear wildly optimistic. And at a time when the IOC is desperate to tackle ageing audiences, become more relevant among younger sports fans, and reboot the troubled Olympic brand, California's global reputation for digital technology and enterprise could make sense. It would also please the IOC's most lucrative broadcast partner, NBC, and its sponsors, most of which are based in the US.\n\nIn what is becoming a fascinating dilemma for the IOC, there are various other factors at play.\n\nThere is the possibility of anti-American resentment from some in the Olympic community at the US Anti-Doping Agency's (Usada) criticism of the IOC's failure to ban Russia from the Rio Games for state-sponsored doping. Usada is now one of the leading voices pushing for an overhaul of the anti-doping system, demanding a better resourced and independent World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) with real sanctioning powers. A US congressional hearing recently questioned the IOC's medical and scientific director Richard Budgett on anti-doping, with some wondering if the scrutiny could harm Los Angeles' chances.\n\nBut could all that be offset by the possible election of far-right politician Marine le Pen in the French presidential election in May? And could the continued threat of terrorism in France also damage Paris prospects?\n\nWhat next for Russia?\n\nAll will be revealed in Lima in September. But before then, an even bigger decision must be taken by the IOC - on Russia. Despite recent admissions from Wada that there may not be sufficient evidence in last year's damning McLaren report to bring sanctions against certain Russian athletes, and the slow progress of two separate IOC investigations into the scandal, many want the IOC to now do what they failed to do last summer and ban the entire Russian team from Pyeongchang 2018.\n\nMy understanding is that despite the obvious threat of a major rift with Russia if such a step is taken, the argument is finally gaining traction among the upper echelons of the IOC, and there is a growing acceptance that it could help demonstrate some leadership at a time when it desperately needs to restore credibility.\n\nThe samples of more than 100 athletes from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 have now shown up as positive in retesting, and dozens of medals have been stripped. The IOC is trying to show it has teeth after all, and it may conclude that banning Russia would be the ultimate way of proving the point.\n\nAll this comes at a crucial time for the IOC, a time of both opportunity and challenge.\n\nOn the one hand, it appears in rude health. Despite continuing concerns over China's human rights record, Bach recently hailed the signing of a ground-breaking six-Games partnership worth a potential $1bn with Chinese conglomerate Alibaba, another major boost to its constantly growing revenues.\n\nThe Olympic channel has now been broadcasting for several months, signing deals with 47 federations to televise their sports. Last week, the Sports and Rights Alliance welcomed the IOC's decision to incorporate human rights principles in its revised host city contract.\n\nOn the other, however, Bach has faced scrutiny for his organisation's role in the alleged ticket-touting scandal that saw Irish IOC executive Pat Hickey arrested in Rio and detained for five months.\n\nAnd now an IOC ethics committee is having to look into allegations that vote-buying helped secure the 2016 Games for Rio after a French newspaper reported that a Brazilian businessman made payments to Papa Massata Diack, son of disgraced former IOC member Lamine Diack, just before the crucial vote in 2009, and that current IOC member Frankie Fredericks also received money.\n\nFrederick denies wrongdoing, while Diack Jr has refused to comment. But with French police already investigating payments made by the Tokyo 2020 bid to an account linked to the Diacks, the list of Games tainted by allegations of corruption is growing.\n\nIt is against this backdrop that the IOC is now operating - and being judged.\n\nBudapest's withdrawal from the race to stage the next Games is far from being the only headache it has to contend with right now. But at a time when the IOC's reputation is on the line, the ramifications of this latest snub could be felt well beyond its headquarters in Lausanne. And especially in Los Angeles, Paris and in Moscow.", "Robert Wang and a friend came up with the idea for the product\n\nRobert Wang was hoping to make it easier for people to make a decent meal, but didn't expect his new product to attract a cult following.\n\nLast summer on Amazon Prime Day, the online retailer's global 24-hour annual sale event, one of the top-selling products in the US was a multi-function electric cooker.\n\nThe item in question is called the Instant Pot, and more than 215,000 of them were snapped up in the US on that single day.\n\nThe fact that this countertop appliance was outselling TVs and tablets may come as a surprise to many people, but not to its legions of dedicated fans, who express unabashed adoration.\n\n\"If you look at the Amazon reviews, one common word is 'love',\" says Mr Wang.\n\n\"Americans are very open with their emotions. Love is all over the place. Another one is that 'Instant Pot changed my life'.\n\n\"That's actually rewarding to us - understanding that we have created value for society.\"\n\nThe Instant Pot has built up an online fanbase\n\nFirst available to buy in 2010, the Instant Pot has become a veritable craze, a success built through social media word-of-mouth instead of traditional TV or print advertising.\n\nToday, the official Instant Pot Facebook group is nearly 398,000-people strong, and there are thousands of other online enthusiasts. Fans share recipes online and tips for making everything from soups, stews and chilli, to poached eggs, popcorn and cheesecake in the appliance.\n\nMr Wang says that from the beginning the intention was to let the product speak for itself, and build up sales thanks to customer recommendations rather than pay for advertising.\n\nHe describes this as the \"build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door\" marketing strategy.\n\nThe Instant Pot is the brainchild of Mr Wang and his friend Yi Qin, who are both veterans of the Canadian technology sector. Mr Wang had worked for the now-defunct telecoms group Nortel, while Mr Qin had been employed by Blackberry.\n\nThey were brainstorming ideas for a new project in 2008 and realised people were searching for the same solution they were - a way to cook healthy meals for a family quickly and affordably.\n\nFans of the Instant Pot post recipes and photos online\n\nThat was when their attention turned to kitchen appliances and rebooting the pressure cooker.\n\nThey came up with the idea for the Instant Pot, which is a pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer, saute pan, yogurt maker, warming pot all-in-one unit.\n\nTogether with three other partners, they set up a business called Double Insight in Ottawa, the Canadian capital, and the first version of Instant Pot was born in 2010.\n\n\"We have tried to automate cooking as much as possible and tried to simplify the cooker,\" says Mr Qin, who is the firm's vice president of product management. \"One press of the button can cook the meal for the family.\"\n\nYi Qin says that from day one they wanted the product to be as easy as possible to use\n\nThe product was, however, not an immediate success. Mr Qin says that one problem was the \"stigma\" surrounding one of the Instant Pot's main functions: the fact that it can be used as a pressure cooker, which had long since fallen out of favour in North American kitchens.\n\n\"Most people have some concept of urban legends of exploding pressure cookers in their grandmother's kitchens,\" says Mr Qin.\n\nHe says they addressed the issue by making product safety a design priority, and making the Instant Pot as foolproof to use as possible.\n\nThanks to word of mouth, sales were growing well by 2013 when Amazon started to sell the product, and sales shot up further.\n\n\"Amazon is a very practical company,\" says Mr Qin. \"They didn't approach us until they saw that the [upward sales] trend had already formed.\"\n\nThe online buzz surrounding the Instant Pot has been helped by food bloggers enthusiastically talking about the product, and sharing recipes, with their followers.\n\nSome of these bloggers buy their own Instant Pot, while Double Insight gives the cookers to others to test out.\n\nOne early challenge was convincing customers the Instant Pot was safer than their grandmother's pressure cooker\n\nLaura Pazzaglia, from website Hip Pressure Cooking, says that she is not surprised by the gadget's success.\n\n\"Everybody who has an Instant Pot, they tell three friends about it,\" she says. \"If you keep going like that, obviously you can't help but succeed.\"\n\nToday Double Insight remains a small business with just 25 employees, contracting out the manufacture of the product to a factory in China.\n\nWhile the Instant Pot is facing increasing competition from rival products made by much larger appliance companies such as Breville and Black & Decker, Ms Pazzaglia says that Instant Pot's early start and vast online following gives it an edge.\n\nZeynep Arsel, associate professor of marketing at Montreal's Concordia University, says that the Instant Pot resonates with the trend towards healthy but uncomplicated food, and is boosted by \"a textbook perfect buzz marketing campaign\".\n\nShe adds: \"Cooking is a social and emotional practice that creates a lot of meaning in our lives.\n\n\"So a product that takes centre stage in cooking practices also creates a sense of attachment by being an agent in our social and emotional lives.\"\n\nWith the Instant Pot now on to its fourth iteration, its design development has been led by feedback and ideas submitted by users. With prices starting from $80 (£65) for the most basic model, the top-of-the-range $180 version can be controlled remotely via your mobile phone.\n\n\"This is not so much an Instant Pot story per se, this is every user's story,\" says Mr Qin. \"Whenever you have an Instant Pot product, you have a story to tell.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This week's Budget will be Philip Hammond's first\n\nClear your diary, get the popcorn in, check you are sitting comfortably - it is almost time for one of the biggest political moments in any year.\n\nLike every year, decisions the chancellor makes will have an immediate impact on people's lives and livelihoods.\n\nTweaks to the new system of business rates will soften the impact to some firms who are hit by the steepest rises.\n\nAn expected top up of a billion or so pounds for the social care system could help alleviate the worst pressure on the service that is struggling in many parts of the country.\n\nThe announcements already made about money being allocated to technical education could have a significant impact on millions of young people, in the years to come.\n\nBut decisions that the chancellor does not make - continuing with planned cuts and benefit freezes for example - will also affect millions of people.\n\nThis Budget is also special because it is the last Spring Budget of its kind, and the chancellor's first.\n\nPhilip Hammond is moving the main Budget to the autumn.\n\nThere will no longer be two big fiscal events every year - no more Autumn Statement and spring Budget, just a major autumn Budget.\n\nAnd sources close to the chancellor suggest this Budget is not the place to look for big moves, big changes, or big radical changes.\n\nOne minister told me: \"It won't be a show fest.\" Another said: \"It's a smaller Budget, although smaller Budgets are actually harder.\"\n\nPhilip Hammond has no intention of flashing any cash, even though the levels of borrowing are expected to be slightly less scary than predicted at the Autumn Statement.\n\nTreasury sources are more optimistic now of being able to do a Brexit trade deal than some months ago.\n\nBut there is still a view in Number 11 that the journey to the exit could involve economic headaches, so it makes sense not to allocate every potentially available penny - in case money is needed to ease the pain later on.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFootball Association plans to boost the diversity of its leadership are \"wishy washy\" and \"won't make any difference\", says a leading equality campaigner.\n\nThe FA announced the proposed reforms after criticism over the way it is run.\n\nThey include more women being added to its board and 11 new members joining the FA Council to \"better reflect\" the diversity of English football.\n\nHowever, Lord Ouseley, chairman of diversity campaign group Kick It Out, says the changes are \"superficial\".\n\nA former chairperson of the Commission for Racial Equality and a current Institute of Race Relations council member, Lord Ouseley told BBC Radio 5 live: \"It won't add any additional power and involvement in leadership roles for black and minority ethnic people.\n\n\"In fact, there's no representation for disabled people, LGBT communities - it's very superficial.\n\n\"While it will look good and it is to be welcomed as some change, it won't make any difference about where the power is, where the control is, and quite frankly it's a bit wishy washy.\"\n\nGordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), was also critical of the reforms, saying they showed \"a complete disrespect for key stakeholders\" such as players, managers, referees and fans.\n\n\"We are referred to as 'not aligned' to The Professional Game or National Game, which shows a complete lack of understanding and respect for the very people who provide their income,\" he said.\n\n\"Such proposals do nothing to bring us in line with the rest of the world or alter the perception of lacking inclusion and being disconnected 'dinosaurs'.\"\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\nIn February, MPs warned they could legislate to force the FA to reform if they had \"no confidence\" that the organisation would do so itself.\n\nSports Minister Tracey Crouch has said the FA could lose £30m-£40m of public funding if it does not modernise.\n\nFA chairman Greg Clarke reiterated that he will quit if the plans for reform do not win government support.\n\n\"This is a transformational leap forward and if the government don't accept this, I'm not sure what else we can do,\" he told BBC Sport on Monday.\n\n\"If government don't want to accept it, who am I to argue but, of course, I will resign.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent Richard Conway asked Clarke why there were no plans for dedicated black, Asian and minority ethnic background representation on the proposed new 10-member board.\n\nClarke replied: \"What I would like to see is a path to make sure that not only are we gender diverse but ethnically diverse. What I don't want this to be is empty words.\n\n\"I want to find a way to achieve it and be accountable. I just need a bit more time to get there.\n\n\"It's really important that the FA is representative to society. Throughout the business world, diverse boards make better decisions. I think that's true in football too.\"\n\nThe FA is effectively run by its own parliament, the FA Council, which has 122 members. Just eight are women and only four are from ethnic minorities. More than 90 of the 122 members are aged over 60.\n\nWhat are the planned reforms?\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\nThe reforms still have to be approved by the FA Council, which will debate and vote on the recommendations on Monday, 3 April.\n\nIf they receive majority approval they will be taken forward to a vote of the shareholders at the FA's annual meeting on 18 May.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger says reports of a training ground row between Alexis Sanchez and his team-mates are \"completely false\".\n\nSanchez is understood to have had an angry exchange with fellow players after leaving training mid-session prior to Saturday's loss at Liverpool.\n\nHe was confronted by team-mates on their return to the changing room as tempers flared.\n\nBut Wenger said: \"I'm not aware, nothing happened.\"\n\nSanchez was left out of the starting line-up at Anfield but came on and set up a goal for his side in the second half as Arsenal lost 3-1.\n\n\"I explained after the game I decided to go for a more direct option - that was the unique reason for my decision,\" said Wenger.\n\n\"He is a committed player and sometimes with excessive behaviours but you have had that many times in the history of every squad.\"\n\nWenger was speaking before the second leg of his side's Champions League last-16 tie on Tuesday at home to Bayern Munich, who lead 5-1.\n\nAsked about his relationship with the 28-year-old, the Frenchman said: \"Honest and normal like with every single player.\"\n\nSanchez took a full part in Arsenal's training session before the game.\n\nAfter training a picture was posted on Sanchez's Instagram page with the message: \"The true warrior fights not because he hates the ones in front of him, but because he loves those behind him. Let's go Gunners. 'The only failure is not trying.'\"\n\nSanchez has been directly involved in 26 goals in his 26 league games this season, scoring 17 and assisting nine.\n\nFormer Arsenal striker Ian Wright said he would \"probably want to leave\" the club if he were in the Chile international's position.\n\nBut Wenger said: \"Alexis Sanchez has 15 months on his contract so the decision will depend on Arsenal Football Club, not on anyone else.\"\n\nArsenal captain Per Mertesacker insists he and his team-mates are behind Wenger.\n\n\"It's not always the manager. It's hard for him now to select, he does it with his best knowledge and we trust him. He has got a lot of options now,\" he said.\n\n\"We have shown on many occasions that we can turn it around and we are happy to play for him.\"\n\nMertesacker sat beside Wenger for Monday's news conference and said the team spirit was \"tense\" when asked about Sanchez.\n\n\"It is not going to be about one single player and all these questions about one player is very disruptive to our team,\" he said.\n\n\"Tomorrow we have got a game to face that is really important to our team, not to one individual player.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nTony Bellew says he is considering retirement following his surprise victory over bitter rival David Haye at London's O2 Arena on Saturday.\n\nBut the Liverpudlian, 34, admitted that an offer for one further fight could be too lucrative to turn down.\n\n\"I don't know how many times more I can put my body and family through this,\" Bellew told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\nAsked whether the Haye bout would be his last, he added: \"It's an option. It's something I'm thinking about.\"\n\nWBC cruiserweight champion Bellew defied most predictions to beat Haye - who was affected by a torn Achilles tendon - on his heavyweight debut, and he now has 29 wins and a draw from 32 fights.\n\nPromoter Eddie Hearn said on Sunday that representatives of American WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder and WBO champion Joseph Parker of New Zealand had contacted him about a potential fight.\n• None Listen: 'I’ve beaten the best cruiserweight this country has produced'\n\nBellew told BBC One's Breakfast programme: \"I have a lot of options. If people want to come and talk to me... I don't know what's going to happen, but it will have to be something special.\n\n\"I am the best heavyweight in the world outside the champions, and none of them have a name like David Haye on their record, so what does that mean?\n\n\"David Haye was like the bogeyman of the division. Nobody wanted to fight him but the fat cruiserweight did. And you know what? He beat him too. Just let that sink in.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Haye says his surgery to reattach his Achilles has been a success and that the surgeons are \"very confident of a 100% recovery back to full fitness\".", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nDiego Costa and Eden Hazard scored as Chelsea beat West Ham to extend their lead at the top of the Premier League to 10 points.\n\nIt was the Blues' 21st victory of the league season and another big step towards winning the title in Antonio Conte's first season as manager.\n\nThe Italian was once again spot on with his tactics - nullifying the predictable aerial threat of the Hammers' 6ft 4in frontman Andy Carroll early in the match.\n\nAnd then in the 25th minute his attackers cruelly exposed the hosts' defence with a devastating counter-attack.\n\nN'Golo Kante read a pass from Robert Snodgrass deep inside the Chelsea half on the left and played the ball to Hazard. The Belgium winger drove forward, played a one-two with Pedro and then shifted the ball past keeper Darren Randolph before slotting home.\n\nThe Blues doubled their lead after the break when Hazard's corner from the left was turned in with his thigh by Costa - the Spain striker's 17th league goal of the season.\n\nThe Hammers came close after Costa's strike when Sofiane Feghouli's low drive was brilliantly saved by Thibaut Courtois. Chelsea wing-back Marcos Alonso then appeared to block Manuel Lanzini's half-volley with his arm moments later - but referee Andre Marriner deemed it to be accidental.\n\nWest Ham finally pierced the last line of defence in stoppage time. Carroll robbed Cesc Fabregas and fed Andre Ayew, who squared for Lanzini to fire in.\n• None Chelsea must keep feet on the ground - Conte\n\nNo doubt there were West Ham supporters who would have fancied their team's chances of causing an upset on Monday.\n\nThey came into the match having lost only one of their past six league games, picking up three wins. And one of the Blues' four defeats came at London Stadium in the EFL Cup earlier this season.\n\nBut perhaps what gave those fans greatest belief of a win was the return of Carroll, back after a month out with a groin injury - and the big striker was central to the Hammers' tactics.\n\nIn the opening 20 minutes, both Snodgrass and Feghouli provided the ex-Newcastle and Liverpool forward with high lofted balls. Unfortunately for Hammers manager Slaven Bilic, Chelsea had done their homework as their defenders repeatedly prevented Carroll from having an effort on goal.\n\nHe became a peripheral figure in the second half as West Ham looked for a new way of breaching the visitors' defence.\n\nThey managed to do so through Lanzini in the dying seconds, but there was too little time to find an equaliser.\n\nNot even an intruder who made his way towards the Chelsea players after Hazard's goal could nudge the visitors off their stride. He, like West Ham's attack, was quickly contained.\n\nChelsea's attack then demonstrated why they are top of the table - the opening goal was a delight.\n\nKante, who as a defensive midfielder made the second-highest number of sprints on the night - 77 - darted back to cut out Snodgrass' ball. It was then over to Hazard and Pedro, with the Belgian having the confidence and composure to take the ball past Randolph before tucking in.\n\nIt was not as good as his Match of the Day goal of the month against Arsenal on 4 February, but impressive nonetheless. Costa, who had a quiet game, then added a simple second after the break.\n\nThe Blues did lose their concentration on two occasions: once when Courtois made a great save to block Feghouli's low drive, and then in stoppage time when the Belgium keeper was beaten by Lanzini.\n\nBut those mistakes have been few and far between this season.\n• None Chelsea have enjoyed 118 Premier League London derby wins, more than any other side (one more than Arsenal).\n• None West Ham have won only two of their past 22 Premier League clashes with Chelsea, losing 16 and drawing four.\n• None Chelsea are the seventh side to accrue 66-plus points from their first 27 games of a Premier League season, having done it themselves twice before (69 in 2005-06 and 68 in 2004-05). All six previous sides have gone on to win the title.\n• None Chelsea scored the opening goal of the game for the 21st time this season in the Premier League, four more times than any other side.\n• None Chelsea are the only side to use all three substitutes in all of their Premier League games this season.\n• None Lanzini has scored in eight of his 12 Premier League London derby appearances.\n\nChelsea have an FA Cup quarter-final against Manchester United coming up on Monday, 13 March (19:45 GMT) and then it is back to league action the following Saturday when they travel to Stoke.\n\nWest Ham are away at Bournemouth in the Premier League on Saturday, 11 March (15:00 GMT).\n• None Goal! West Ham United 1, Chelsea 2. Manuel Lanzini (West Ham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by André Ayew.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. Kurt Zouma tries a through ball, but Diego Costa is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Willian (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by César Azpilicueta.\n• None Attempt missed. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Willian.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro Obiang (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Robert Snodgrass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nGreat Britain won three more golds on the final day of the Para-cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles.\n\nMirroring Saturday's efforts, Sophie Thornhill led a GB one-two-three in the tandem sprint, in front of Alison Patrick and Aileen McGlynn.\n\nJames Ball again beat his team-mate Neil Fachie to gold in the men's event, while Jon Gildea claimed his second world title in the C4-5 scratch race.\n\nGB took its tally to eight golds, four silvers and two bronzes at the event.\n\n\"We'd joked about doing the treble before coming here but to actually do it is unbelievable,\" Thornhill, who won three golds with pilot Corrine Hall, told BBC Sport.\n\nGildea crossed the line second in the scratch race before being upgraded to gold after Brazil's Lauro Cesar Chaman was relegated from gold to bronze for an illegal move in the race's latter stages.\n\nThe title was his second of the week after he won the individual pursuit on Saturday.\n\n\"It's not the way you'd want to win it and it feels slightly strange but I'll take it,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm 38 now but hopefully this is the first step to getting to the Tokyo Paralympics in 2020.\"\n\nBall, along with pilot Matt Rotherham, beat Fachie and Craig Maclean with one race to spare in the sprint final.\n\n\"I still can't put it into words. That wasn't in the plans to come out here and win two golds,\" said Ball.\n\n\"We just wanted to come out here and see how we'd get on as a pairing but we knew we were going quick so I'm really happy it's all come together.\"\n\nAs well as medals, the championships in the USA served as a vital ranking-points event for tandem riders hoping to qualify for the 2018 Commonwealth Games.", "It's 26 years since I set off to try my luck as a journalist in Moscow. I had a rucksack, a Russian phrasebook, and the expectation of adventure. What I hadn't anticipated was… pets.\n\nWithin a year there was an insistent scratching sound on my apartment door. I opened it to find a scrawny stray ginger cat.\n\nGrace strolled in from a dark, pungent stairwell and declared (in that blank, unimpressed way that Russians often have with strangers) that this would do just fine.\n\nOh, and she was pregnant.\n\nAfter that, Grace left our flat just once - slipping on an icy windowsill and falling three storeys.\n\nOn the phone, the vet loftily declared that she'd be fine: \"Only falls of between five and 10 storeys are fatal here. Anything higher or lower is perfectly safe.\"\n\nBesides, it was winter. Plenty of snow.\n\nNearly 10 years later - still serenely unimpressed by life - Grace, and one of her sons, flew with us from Moscow to Nairobi.\n\nKenya meant good weather, the unfamiliar pleasure of friendly strangers, birds big enough to grab an inexperienced cat, and a house with a garden.\n\nSuddenly a dog seemed possible. Maybe even necessary.\n\nLike most of our neighbours in Nairobi, we had a night guard who wandered around the garden holding a big stick until we were asleep and then settled down on two chairs to snore his way through the rest of the night. Perhaps a dog would help.\n\nWe found Lily in languid, rural Karen, on the edge of the Rift Valley. She'd recently been born to Tamu and General Gordon - a Labrador retriever couple.\n\nOthers in the same litter ended up with Nairobi diplomats and soon grew uncomfortably plump on the crust-less sandwiches they sourced at garden parties.\n\nLily quickly made it clear that guarding was not in her skill set. She enjoyed eating unfamiliar objects and playing with our young children - but she was understandably terrified of Grace the cat, and equally scared of the dark. And of strangers. And of wildlife.\n\nNot that it seemed to matter. In much of Africa dogs are not generally perceived according to their breed or temperament. They are simply dogs. Things to be wary of. Things that police and guards tend to set on people.\n\nSo it's possible, I suppose that blonde, enthusiastic Lily may inadvertently have given a few Nairobi burglars second thoughts.\n\nEither way, four years later, we moved to Singapore. Small, safe, steamy.\n\nThe immaculate kennels where Lily served her three months of quarantine even offered air conditioning.\n\nWe had a garden, once again - now frequented by large snakes, and by larger monitor lizards with their wide, grotesque mouths.\n\nLily stayed indoors. Grace too. And over time I became properly acquainted with the complex, haphazard, expensive world of international pet transportation.\n\nMoving around the former Soviet Union had been rather easy. Vets, for instance, were often happy to backdate or forge whatever certificates seemed appropriate. Bribery wasn't just an option, it was an integral part of the process.\n\nIn Singapore, then Thailand, then briefly in France, and now in South Africa, it's a more unpredictable affair.\n\nNine years ago, I sat with Grace on my lap, in a Bangkok vet's office, quietly pleading with him to put her down. She was 18 years old, had days to live, and was in obvious pain. The vet nodded, smiled sympathetically, and then explained that that wasn't part of Thai culture.\n\nI took Grace home. She died. And a week later she was given a proper send-off at a local Buddhist temple - one catering specially for pets. I like to think she would have been unimpressed.\n\nThen, of course, there's the paperwork, and what I've discovered to be the fundamental, immutable law of pet migration.\n\nThe stricter and more extensive the requirements ahead of travel - for passports, jabs, microchips, special crates, transit fees and all the rest of it - the bigger the smiles of the customs officials at the destination airport, as they wave away your dossier full of hard-won paperwork without a glance, and crouch down to stroke the new arrival.\n\nLast week I took Lily to the vet here in Johannesburg. She's 16 now - Lily, that is - and getting a little unsteady.\n\nShe's also quite happily deaf, which means the summer thunderstorms here no longer send her frantic with fear.\n\nUnlike their Thai counterparts, South Africans vets always seem to be offering to put pets down. It's as if they have a quota to fill. But all Lily needed was her nails clipping.\n\nShe's sitting with me here as I write this at home. Her large ears lifting inquisitively. An elderly, cosmopolitan Kenyan.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSergio Aguero scored his fifth goal in his last three games to help Manchester City back into third place in the Premier League and keep Sunderland rooted to the bottom of the table.\n\nThe Black Cats had defended doggedly before a swift City counter attack ended with Aguero prodding in Raheem Sterling's low cross from close range.\n\nThe visitors then clicked into gear as David Silva fed the explosive Leroy Sane for the Germany winger to double their lead after the break.\n\nJermain Defoe did find the net in a rare Sunderland attack late on, but his header was ruled out for offside.\n\nThe result could have been more comfortable for City, but Sunderland keeper Jordan Pickford saved well from Aguero.\n\nFor all City's possession, it was the hosts who threatened first, Defoe hitting the post with a bouncing effort from outside the box that had Willy Caballero beaten.\n\nFabio Borini headed wide from the rebound, and any hopes David Moyes' side had of taking three points seemed to evaporate with that miss.\n\nCity still fighting on three fronts\n\nWith Chelsea not in action until Monday, Manchester City took the chance to move within eight points of the runaway leaders with a confident performance at the Stadium of Light.\n\nPep Guardiola will hope this victory, and an earlier win for second-placed Tottenham, may see Antonio Conte's side begin to feel the pressure.\n\nIt was a fourth league win on the trot for Guardiola's outfit, who are building momentum and can continue to crank up the heat up on their title rivals when they face Stoke in a game in hand on Wednesday.\n\nBut they are fighting on three fronts, with this routine victory marking the start of five games in 15 days that include a Champions League last-16 second-leg trip to Monaco and a FA Cup quarter-final at Middlesbrough.\n\nIt is a problem Guardiola will welcome, but does the Spaniard's squad have the depth to cope?\n\nHe made five changes to the side which thrashed Huddersfield 5-1 in midweek and could afford to drop Kevin de Bruyne for Silva, whose incisive passing helped unlock a resilient Sunderland.\n\nSo what about Aguero? The Argentine's future was thrust into the spotlight after he lost his place to 19-year-old Gabriel Jesus last month, and he admitted this week his position at the club was unclear.\n\nGuardiola can be ruthless when he feels a player does not fit into his system, just ask Joe Hart, but a metatarsal injury for Brazil forward Jesus appears to have offered Aguero a lifeline.\n\nThe 28-year-old has now scored five goals in his last three games in all competitions for City, having gone six games without finding the net before that.\n\nGuardiola is building a team spearheaded by youth, and Aguero's poacher-like presence was complemented once again by the creativity of Sterling and Sane.\n\nSterling's trickery proved a constant threat down the right and Sane's sheer speed gave City an outlet on the opposite flank, gliding beyond his marker to finish left-footed past Pickford for the visitors' second.\n\nSunderland have become masters of beating the drop when appearing dead and buried in recent seasons, but they may have left the escape act too late this time around.\n\nSitting six points from safety at the bottom of the Premier League, the Black Cats' fate lies out of their hands.\n\nAnd with relegation rivals Crystal Palace, Swansea and Leicester enjoying a recent upturn in form, David Moyes needs something of a miracle if his side are to spring a late recovery.\n\nMoyes' side have taken points off Liverpool and Tottenham at home since the turn of the year, and did frustrate City for long spells in the first half, but once the visitors found a breakthrough they were able to keep Sunderland at arm's length.\n\n'I don't like to defend a result at 2-0'\n\nSunderland manager David Moyes speaking to BBC Sport: \"I don't think you can fault the players for any of that. We lacked quality at times though. They did all they could to try to get something out of the game.\"\n\nOn the team: \"When you're in it every day you see the levels go up. We've got games coming up - we don't have to show it, we have to do it.\n\n\"We tried to make chances. The one that hits the post and comes out maybe that'll hit the inside of the post and go in next time.\n\n\"I hope our players understand the position that we're in, but we're not panicking.\"\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola speaking to BBC Sport: \"We are so happy. We played good. We expected aggression and intensity. It was a very good first goal. It was important to go into half-time 1-0 up. If they were winning with the amazing atmosphere it would have been difficult.\n\n\"Leroy Sane is every day getting better. He has gaps to improve but he's only 21. He's an intelligent guy and a very nice guy. We are here to help him become what he can be.\n\n\"We were passing the ball between ourselves in the last 25 minutes. I don't like to defend a result and be near our box. It is OK if you're 3-0 or 4-0 up but not 2-0.\"\n\nAguero hits 50 on the road - the stats\n• None Manchester City have won 10 away league games this season - they've never won more in a single Premier League campaign (also 10 in 2011-12, 2013-14 and 2014-15).\n• None Only Man Utd in 1993-94 and Chelsea in 2004-05 (both 11) have won more of their opening 14 away games in a single Premier League season.\n• None Sergio Aguero became the 21st player to score 50 Premier League goals away from home.\n• None Sunderland have failed to score in five of their last six Premier League games, the exception being a 4-0 win at Crystal Palace.\n• None David Silva has provided 62 assists in the Premier League since his debut, at least 11 more than any other player in that time (Wayne Rooney, 51).\n\nManchester City host Stoke on Wednesday, kick-off 20:00 GMT, before visiting Middlesbrough in the FA Cup on Saturday (12:15).\n\nSunderland are not back in action until Saturday, 18 March, when they welcome Burnley to the Stadium of Light.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Bacary Sagna.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Leroy Sané.\n• None Attempt saved. Nolito (Manchester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt missed. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Leroy Sané.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Offside, Sunderland. Lamine Koné tries a through ball, but Jermain Defoe is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Lamine Koné (Sunderland) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Wahbi Khazri with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Fed up with what she felt was mismanagement at her hospital, gynaecologist Homa Amiri Kakar had walked out of her job in a remote part of Afghanistan and returned to the capital. But just a week later she agreed to go back, guilt-stricken about the women she had deserted, as the BBC's Sarah Buckley and Asif Maroof report.\n\n\"I am deeply unhappy that I left behind patients, especially female patients in remote villages - they are not in a condition to explain all types of their sickness to male doctors - so it would be very difficult without a female doctor,\" she says.\n\nReligious and cultural mores mean that women rarely visit male doctors for any condition, never mind a gynaecological one, and Dr Kakar, 39, realised that leaving her post in Paktika province left her patients dangerously vulnerable.\n\n\"Many times if there is not a female doctor many symptoms will remain untold by females and could cause a big problem, and even lead to their deaths,\" she told the BBC.\n\nDr Kakar (R) had told the health minister Ferozuddin Feroz (L) she was not happy with her working conditions\n\nIf the patient's husband, father or other male relative cannot or will not find a way of transporting her to an area where there is a female doctor on hand, then she will simply not receive treatment, says ex-health minister Soraya Dalil, now Afghan ambassador to Switzerland.\n\n\"In Afghanistan the decisions are usually made by men... if they are a female patient then it depends on the male member of the family if they want to take the female to the doctor, or to take her to another area of the country where there is a female,\" she said.\n\nOne woman on the other side of Afghanistan - in Herat province - told the BBC a neighbour died in childbirth before her eyes because she needed medical help and there were no female doctors available in her district. Her husband was too poor to arrange transport to a hospital which did have a female doctor.\n\nBBC 100 Women names 100 influential and inspirational women around the world every year. We create documentaries, features and interviews about their lives, giving more space for stories that put women at the centre.\n\nOther stories you might like:\n\nAnd in Paktia province a six-year-old girl narrowly escaped the same fate, Dr Kakar says. The girl had been married by her family to a 45-year-old man and sex with him had caused her to bleed and develop an infection. Because there was no female doctor in the area where she lived no-one could examine her and work out what was the matter.\n\nIt was only after severe bleeding that her father eventually took her to a hospital some distance away that did have a female medic on hand. The authorities intervened and separated her from her husband and she is now living in a shelter.\n\nWhilst there is a lack of female doctors, there has been a major push in recent years by NGOs and health officials to train up more midwives.\n\nA report by UNFPA and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2002 found that for every 100,000 live births, some 1,600 women died from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth.\n\nBut according to the UN, this has now fallen to 396 per 100,000 women. By contrast, the UK rate is 9 per 100,000 women.\n\nThere has been recent investment in midwifery care in Afghanistan\n\nThe Afghan government says this success is due to a concerted training programme for midwives - which have increased from 437 in 2002 to 4,600 last year.\n\nHowever Dr Kakar says that there is still insufficient midwifery presence in the province she works in because hospitals are not recruiting them - instead midwives are encouraged to make home visits.\n\nBut she says they need to be under the authority of a hospital where they can receive proper mentoring by doctors.\n\nShe also said that all too often unqualified unofficial midwives are operating in the community - offering women medicine without prescription, sometimes with fatal results.\n\nElyas Wahdat, the governor of the province Dr Kakar has returned to, says they need more women doctors.\n\n\"We have many facilities and equipment but unfortunately the female doctors are not coming to Paktika,\" he said. Decades of under-developed female education means there are not many women doctors available in the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Now the residents are being persuaded to send their girls to school - this year is the first year we graduated girls from school, and they are due to sit their exam for entering the university - but still we need another five years until they graduate [from university],\" he said.\n\nUnder the Taliban, girls were almost completely excluded from school and university but according to the Afghan Ministry of Education today there are more than 9 million students enrolled in schools, 40% of whom are girls.\n\nMany schoolchildren learn outside in dangerous circumstances\n\nBut according to the Brookings Institute only 21% of girls finish even primary education, due to factors such as cultural barriers, early marriage, a lack of female teachers and long and dangerous routes to school.\n\nIn its annual report on Afghanistan, the UN said that as a result of ground fighting between militants and troops in civilian areas 3,498 civilians were killed and 7,920 wounded in 2016, a 3% rise on 2015. The number of children killed or injured jumped by a quarter to its highest level to date.\n\n\"The other element is providing sufficient equipment for their education so the family should realise that if they send their girls to schools there is good equipment and teachers there so it's not a waste of time,\" says Soraya Dalil.\n\nDr Kakar is clear that Paktika province needs her.\n\n\"I strongly feel that it's better for a female doctor to be there, that's why I accepted the request by the minister to go back.\"", "Former Arsenal striker Ian Wright says he would \"probably want to leave\" the club if he was in current forward Alexis Sanchez's position.\n\nThe Chilean was left out of the starting line-up at Anfield but came on in the second half as Arsenal lost 3-1.\n\n\"It's not looking good for Arsenal and him. I believe his agent is probably on the phone to people now,\" said Wright.\n\nIn the incident which occurred in training before the visit to the Reds, Sanchez left training mid-session and was confronted by team-mates on their return to the changing room, with one of them having to be held back as tempers flared.\n\n\"These things happen. It's when you're united as a team that it doesn't come out,\" added Wright, speaking on BBC Radio 5 live's 606 programme.\n\nSanchez has been directly involved in 26 goals in his 26 league games this season, scoring 17 and assisting nine.\n\nHe set up Danny Welbeck after coming on at Liverpool as Arsenal made it 2-1, but the Gunners could not prevent a defeat which saw them drop out of the top four places, which provide Champions League qualification.\n\n\"It's a shame simply because he is Arsenal's best player. He is a player that Arsenal need desperately to be there,\" said Wright.\n\n\"I'm not sure if money is going to keep him there at the moment because if he's storming out of training and not playing in games... it doesn't seem to be a problem for him when he does come on because he still performs to the best of his ability.\n\n\"If I was him, I'd probably want to leave as well because what's happening with Arsenal right now is not what he came to Arsenal for, especially not being in the top four.\n\n\"Everything points towards that he's unsettled, he's unhappy and it seems to me like he wants to go.\"", "Emma Watson's decision to expose part of her breasts in a Vanity Fair photoshoot has sparked a fierce debate on social media about what it means to be a feminist.\n\n\"She complains that women are sexualised and then sexualises herself in her own work. Hypocrisy,\" said radio presenter Julia Hartley-Brewer on Twitter.\n\nWatson said she was \"confused\" by accusations she is \"anti-feminist\" and there was a real \"misunderstanding\" about what it actually means.\n\nSo can you bare your breasts and still be a feminist?\n\nWomen should be united in the fight for equality more than ever, says Victoria Jenkinson\n\n\"Emma Watson has done more for women and for young girls than most of us put together,\" says Sam Smethers, chief executive of the Fawcett Society, which campaigns for gender equality and women's rights.\n\n\"So I don't really see that just because she's made that decision, any of us should be criticising her.\n\n\"She's an empowered woman who is posing for a very tasteful image. She's not being exploited, she doing it in a controlling position. It's a positive use of her body.\"\n\nSexist News, the team behind the campaign for the Sun to stop using topless models on Page 3, said it loved that the former Harry Potter star was \"exploring and championing feminism having grown up in the public eye\".\n\nIt believes the row created by the photoshoot is \"daft\", adding: \"It is not a debate that we have about men's fashion shoots, regardless of the amounts of nipple-grazing crochet they wear.\n\n\"While no woman gets to dress herself outside of our society's patriarchal bubble, this example just shows that someone like Emma Watson is going to face an even more impossible standard than many other women.\"\n\nVictoria Jenkinson, 20, a member of Girlguiding, believes the shoot has been used as a opportunity to \"stir up a frenzy\" around Watson and \"undermine\" her work promoting women's rights.\n\n\"The shoot doesn't suggest hypocrisy nor does it undermine her work as a feminist and we as women should be united in our fight for equality more than ever before,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't understand why people have an idea they can tell a woman what she can and can't do and I agree with Emma that critics have missed the point.\n\n\"A woman should be able to choose what she wants to do. This is what feminism is all about in 2017.\"\n\nBut Dr Finn Mackay, a feminism researcher at the University of West England, rejects the view that feminism is about giving women \"choice\" and says it is a social justice movement.\n\n\"Emma's saying feminism is about choice and the choice to do whatever you want, but that's a nonsense,\" she says.\n\n\"Some women choose terrible things, some women choose to work for parties that deny women access to abortion, access to healthcare or mothers access to welfare.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emma Watson responded to claims she is anti-feminist by saying she was \"confused\" by the comments\n\nHowever, she does not believe that Watson's pose for Vanity Fair means she is not a feminist.\n\n\"If she self identifies as a feminist and believes in promoting women's rights, her doing her job doesn't necessarily have to undermine that.\n\n\"I think if she's trying to say being in a photoshoot and getting your breast out is a feminist act, that's a different matter.\"\n\nBut Dr Mackay believes promoting feminism is more effective through the voice and not the body.\n\n\"The most radical thing that women can do in this culture is keep their clothes on and open their mouths and make political points,\" she says.\n\nThe controversy surrounding Watson's magazine shoot has brought into question what it means to be a feminist.\n\nBut equality groups and feminists say the debate should be focused on female objectification and inequality.\n\nMs Smethers says: \"The real issue about all of this is the pressure on young women to look a certain way, to be judged on their appearance so if we are going to focus on anything that's what I would be more concerned to be prioritised.\"\n\nDr Mackay questions why the debate has been reduced to a celebrity exposing her breasts rather than issues such as women's economic positions and cuts to women's services.\n\n\"A Hollywood celebrity flashing a bit of boob is really the least of my worries,\" she says.\n\nCampaigners marched for women's rights at a protest in London in January 2017\n\n\"It's interesting that people only speak about it now and their real motivation seems to be to want to have a dig at feminism rather than to talk about the overall problems Hollywood has with objectifying women.\"\n\nSexist News adds: \"We really need to examine why on earth this one fashion image has caused such outrage. This is not to say that images of fashion or celebrity are unproblematic, quite the contrary.\n\n\"As ever the focus is on what a woman should or shouldn't be doing and not on how our culture presents, polices and consumes women's bodies and condemns their actions.\n\n\"We need to challenge these things, not the individual women stuck in the system.\"\n\nAre you a feminist? Has someone challenged whether you are a feminist because of something you've said, done or worn? Tell us about your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk with your stories.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Georgina Tomassi: \"I'm 18 and in a class with 15-year-olds\"\n\nAlmost 80% of pupils in England who do not achieve a C grade in GCSE maths or English fail to attain this mark during their resits. It is leaving hundreds of thousands of students stuck in a cycle of exams.\n\n\"I've failed my maths GCSE four times. It's horrible because you feel like you're stupid.\n\n\"You feel like there's something wrong with you. I'm 18, and I'm being put into a class with 15-year-olds,\" Georgina Tomassi tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\nShe is desperate to achieve a grade C in maths, after missing out by just a few marks on more than one occasion.\n\nIn 2013, the government introduced a policy that said students in England who fail to get a grade C or above in GCSE maths or English should carry on studying the subject, or subjects, until the age of 18, with the aim of achieving this mark.\n\nIt means hundreds of thousands of pupils like Georgina - who is also studying for A-levels in drama and health and social care - are taking resits up to twice an academic year.\n\nFigures from the Department for Education show that 77.3% of students in England do not attain a C grade in English or maths when they resit the exam post-16.\n\n\"You've got to keep going because I need it to get a job and get into university,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm so close and it's so frustrating.\"\n\nAt Tolworth Girls' School's sixth form, in Kingston upon Thames in south-west London, Georgina and her friends are taught resit classes, but the teachers' busy timetables mean they are limited to just a couple of hours per week.\n\nChloe Gatt, the school's head of English, says budget strains mean it is difficult to find enough staff to cover those teaching the extra lessons.\n\nWere she not teaching the resit class, she would probably be with her Year 7 or 8 pupils, or her A-level students, she says.\n\nAt City College Norwich, just under half of all new students arrive without a C grade in maths or English.\n\nThe college's head of school for GCSEs, English and maths, Ray Cameron-Goodman, says it has seen a 440% rise in the number of students taking a GCSE in the past few years.\n\n\"In terms of staffing resource, that comes to many hundreds of thousands of pounds every year,\" he explains.\n\nThen there is the amount spent on entering each pupil for their resit exam - usually more than £30 per paper - and extra, hidden costs.\n\nBecause it has so many pupils retaking exams, City College Norwich has to hire Norfolk Showground, one of the largest indoor spaces in the county.\n\nThe college hires Norfolk Showground for pupils to take exams\n\n\"The cost of the showground alone is about £50,000 - then there's the cost of the transport, the first aiders, the catering,\" Mr Cameron-Goodman explains.\n\nThe Association of Colleges says that in England last year, one in five colleges planned to hire external venues to cope with the numbers.\n\nTwo-thirds of colleges were forced to take on extra short-term staff to teach those taking resits, it adds.\n\nColleges say there is no additional funding from the government to cover such costs.\n\nJosh wants to become a bricklayer\n\nFor some pupils, the resits can feel like an unwelcome distraction.\n\nCity College Norwich offers many vocational subjects, such as cooking, photography and hairdressing.\n\nJosh Bennett, 16, is retaking English. When he leaves education, he hopes to work as a bricklayer.\n\n\"I'm more of a hands-on sort of person. I've got eight out of nine distinctions in this course so far.\n\n\"I find it very difficult sitting behind a desk and doing something like [studying Shakespeare]. I'd rather be outside and laying bricks, laying concrete - and I'm good at it.\"\n\nRyan Eves, aged 20, has taken his English GCSE five times without achieving the elusive C grade.\n\n\"It's almost a slight bit of torture. They know that some people just don't get English.\n\n\"I've tried so hard just to get a letter on a piece of paper.\"\n\nRyan has now been offered an unconditional place at university, and no longer needs a C in English - a fact he describes as \"annoying\", having spent so much time on the subject.\n\nMr Cameron-Goodman says the government's policy is \"a fantastic thing in principle\", but is calling for an alternative set of GCSE qualifications to be made available to students who are consistently unable to reach the required C grades.\n\nRay Cameron-Goodman says the exam system is not designed for every pupil to achieve a C grade\n\nHe says it is wrong to expect every pupil to achieve this mark, as the exam system is not built in this way.\n\n\"There is an expectation by the exam boards themselves that a number of students will not pass the examination, and will not pass the examination no matter how many times they resit that examination, so the two things aren't sitting well together.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said it was \"developing credible, high-quality options for students through reforming Functional Skills qualifications in maths and English, to make sure that they deliver the knowledge and skills that employers need, and consequently have credibility and prestige in the jobs market\".\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 Football\n\nMore women will be appointed to the Football Association's board as part of proposed reforms revealed on Monday after criticism over the way it is run.\n\nIn December, five ex-FA bosses asked the government to intervene and change an organisation they described as being held back by \"elderly white men\".\n\nIn February, MPs with \"no confidence\" the FA would reform itself warned they could legislate to force it to.\n\nOnly one woman sits on the current 12-member FA board - Heather Rabbatts.\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\nThe reforms still have to be approved by the FA Council, which will debate and vote on the recommendations on Monday, 3 April.\n\nIf they receive majority approval they will be taken forward to a vote of the shareholders at the FA's Annual General Meeting on 18 May.\n\nSports Minister Tracey Crouch has said the FA could lose £30m-£40m of public funding if it does not modernise.\n\nFA chairman Greg Clarke reiterated that he will quit if the plans for reform do not win government support.\n\n\"This is a transformational leap forward and if the government don't accept this, I'm not sure what else we can do,\" he told BBC Sport on Monday.\n\n\"If government don't want to accept it, who am I to argue but, of course, I will resign.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent Richard Conway asked Clarke why there were no plans for dedicated black, Asian and minority ethnic background representation on the proposed new 10-member board.\n\nClarke replied: \"What I would like to see is a path to make sure that not only are we gender diverse but ethnically diverse. What I don't want this to be is empty words.\n\n\"I want to find a way to achieve it and be accountable. I just need a bit more time to get there.\n\n\"It's really important that the FA is representative to society. Throughout the business world, diverse boards make better decisions. I think that's true in football too.\"\n\nThe FA is effectively run by its own parliament, the FA Council, which has 122 members. Just eight are women and only four are from ethnic minorities. More than 90 of the 122 members are aged over 60.", "The shadow chancellor has issued an \"open invitation\" to MPs\n\n\"We have begun our tea offensive.\"\n\nSo say the team around the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, as they emphasise the need for \"unity\" in the Labour Party.\n\n\"The biggest fear the Tories have is a united Labour Party,\" a source close to Mr McDonnell said.\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn could be the most transformative Labour prime minister since Clement Attlee.\"\n\nThe shadow chancellor addressed Labour MPs at their weekly meeting in Parliament earlier on Monday.\n\nSources said he showed \"contrition\" over an article he wrote suggesting there was a \"soft coup\" under way designed to topple Jeremy Corbyn.\n\n\"We must focus on unity,\" he told Labour MPs, singling out for praise previous critics of Mr Corbyn such as Rachel Reeves and Angela Eagle.\n\nJohn McDonnell has issued \"an open invitation to anyone\" in the Labour movement who would like to talk to him and have a cup of tea, but sources wouldn't say if they were dispatching invitations directly, or merely accepting requests to meet him.\n\nBut not all MPs in the room were convinced.\n\nOne told me he asked Mr McDonnell, in a reference to Sir John Major's speech about Brexit: \"Why is a former Tory Prime Minister more effective at attacking a Tory government than a Labour shadow chancellor?\"\n\nAnother walked out 15 minutes before the end muttering \"they'll still be droning on this time tomorrow\".\n\nMr McDonnell used his briefing to Labour MPs to set out what his priorities will be in response to Wednesday's Budget.\n\nLabour will have four themes they will question the government on: what they see as \"chronic low pay;\" a \"rigged economy in favour of the privileged few;\" social care, where \"one million people are going without the care they need\" and \"ensuring the economy works for women.\"\n\nReferring to Mr Corbyn's recent publication of his most recent tax return, a source said Mr McDonnell \"has a genuine worry for democracy in this country\" since \"the prime minister and chancellor have still not published their tax returns.\"\n\n\"You have a level of transparency at the top of the Labour Party that you don't have in government.\"", "England survived a mid-innings wobble to beat West Indies by four wickets in the second one-day international and win the series with a match to spare.\n\nLiam Plunkett took 3-32 as West Indies, despite 50 from Jason Mohammed, were bowled out for 225 in 47.5 overs.\n\nJason Roy (52) put England on top but home spinners Ashley Nurse (3-34) and Devendra Bishoo (2-43) hit back.\n\nHowever, Joe Root (90) and Chris Woakes (68) put on an unbeaten 102 to see England home with 10 balls left.\n\nBatsmen needed to play patiently on a slow wicket at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium - the same one used in the first match on Friday - but only new Test captain Root and all-rounder Woakes really mastered the conditions.\n\nRoot's typically composed innings, which featured just three boundaries in 127 deliveries, and Woakes' more adventurous 83-ball knock guided England to an 11th win out of their last 12 completed ODIs against West Indies.\n\nRoot was named man of the match but Woakes was perhaps equally deserving of the award having also recorded figures of 0-26 from eight accurate overs with the ball.\n\nEoin Morgan's team, who won the first match by 45 runs, will seek to make it 3-0 in the final match in Barbados on Thursday.\n\nWhat they said - Morgan praises Woakes\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"I thought the bowlers did an outstanding job again, building on what we did on Friday. In the field we were a bit sloppy and the chase wasn't ideal, but we knew it would be tough.\n\n\"Jason Roy played well at the start but where we lost a few wickets was a bit of a concern. But the partnership of 102 between your opening bowler and best batsman - you have to take your hat off to them.\n\n\"Woakes is a guy who keeps giving to the team and a man who often goes without the majority of the praise and that's just his character. We don't want to rely on him too much but he is a luxury down the bottom of the order.\n\n\"We want to win all three games, we will be putting out our best 11 in Barbados.\"\n\nEngland's reply got off to a poor start when Sam Billings, facing his first ball and the second of the innings, was caught at first slip.\n\nRoy was almost out to a sensational diving catch by Carlos Brathwaite and then survived a close review for caught behind.\n\nThe Surrey opener brought up his ninth ODI fifty from 46 balls, before off-spinner Nurse had him caught on the boundary for the first of his three wickets.\n\nAfter a shaky start Root started to find the gaps but West Indies' slow bowlers brought their side back into the match with four wickets for 16 runs.\n\nMorgan, who made a century in the first ODI, fell leg before for seven, Ben Stokes was caught behind for one, Jos Buttler departed for a seven-ball duck and Moeen Ali was bowled for three.\n\nRoot and Woakes' sensible stand regained control, although Woakes - who hit five fours and two sixes - was dropped on the boundary on 42 and then again on 58.\n\nAfter being invited to bowl first, pace bowler Steven Finn took two wickets and became the third-fastest Englishman to reach 100 one-day international wickets.\n\nHe reached the feat in his 65th match, with only Darren Gough and Stuart Broad getting there faster (both taking 62).\n\nMaking the most of some uneven bounce, Finn surprised left-handers Evin Lewis and Kieran Powell to create easy catches.\n\nStokes then had Shai Hope caught behind but jarred his finger when he made a mess of a high but simple chance to dismiss Kraigg Brathwaite.\n\nBrathwaite looked dangerous before departing for 42 after being stumped off Moeen. Mohammed, though, played fluently on the way to his second ODI half-century.\n\nBut having reached it from 71 balls by pulling Stokes high over midwicket for six, he chipped a routine catch to Adil Rashid at mid-on off Plunkett.\n\nPlunkett did the trick again, with another variation slower delivery, when Jonathan Carter (39) skied a catch to Rashid.\n\nRashid held his third successive catch when he took a swirling caught-and-bowled after Jason Holder became the next to mistime an attempted big shot.\n\nThen Carlos Brathwaite fell to an excellent catch on the long-on boundary by Billings, and Plunkett bowled Nurse as the innings ending tamely with the last three wickets falling for six runs.\n\nFurther reaction from the players\n\nMan of the match Joe Root: \"It was about being patient and accepting the odd over where you might only get one or two runs.\n\n\"I thought Chris played exceptionally well. He took a lot of pressure off me at the other end. I think that's a sign of good side, where you don't just rely on one player.\"\n\nWest Indies captain Jason Holder: \"It's a disappointing feeling, getting so close. We dropped chances, that's one area we need to improve. In batting, we need some partnerships to set us up nicely. We need to adjust and go forward from here.\n\n\"We just have to know when it is time to seize an opportunity. We had some opportunities but we turned them down, and there were some soft dismissals.\"\n\nFormer England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent: \"England were not as clinical as they were in the first game but they put on a good fight and showed how deep they bat, with Woakes coming in and playing with freedom.\n\n\"Well done to England, this is what good teams do - even if you have that wobble, you are able to rebuild and go again.\"\n\nFormer West Indies pace bowler Sir Curtly Ambrose: \"You have to think about batting all 50 overs. It doesn't matter if you only score 10 or 12 runs in those three overs. It is not good cricket on the part of West Indies to not bat to the end.\n\n\"There were a couple of good partnerships. Mohammed played well, but gave it away. Carter played well, but gave it away. This is international cricket and you must be able to assess situations quickly and most of the batsmen haven't done that.\"", "Westminster attacker Khalid Masood had a history of violence, but how typical is his past of those who go on to carry out acts of terror?\n\nMasood, 52, who has been claimed by so-called Islamic State as a \"soldier of the Caliphate\", had spent time in prison for offences including violent assaults and possession of offensive weapons.\n\nIn one instance, when in his mid-30s, Masood slashed a man's face with a knife following an argument in a pub, for which he served two years.\n\nWhile this criminal past may contradict stereotypes of those involved in religious extremism, Masood is only the latest manifestation of a criminal-turned-jihadist.\n\nThroughout Europe, there has been a pattern of criminals being drawn to violent jihad.\n\nThose who travel to Syria as foreign fighters are typically already known to police for something other than extremism.\n\nKhalid Masood had been jailed for violent crimes\n\nIn Germany, two-thirds of foreign fighters had criminal records and more than half of those from Belgium and the Netherlands had a similar background.\n\nAmong perpetrators of terrorist attacks, criminal pasts are also common.\n\nBerlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri had convictions for theft and violence, and had sold cocaine in the months before the attack.\n\nAmong the perpetrators of the November 2015 Paris attacks, a number had previous convictions for robberies and drug dealing.\n\nThis is no mere coincidence, as the extremist narrative often resonates with criminals.\n\nAt the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) in King's College London, we recently published a report analysing the criminal backgrounds of European jihadists and found their radicalisation is often linked to their criminality.\n\nIndeed, jihadism is sometimes used to legitimise further crime against \"non-believers\", with some extremists stating that crime and violence is permissible when living in the West.\n\nThey also claim that jihadism offers redemption from previous sins, the search for which typically comes after a period of crisis in the perpetrators' lives.\n\nThat crisis is often prompted by criminality - such as being imprisoned - but it need not be.\n\nMasood crashed his car into railings outside Parliament\n\nHowever, it is striking that Masood does not fit the typical profile of a criminal-turned-jihadist, simply due to his age of 52.\n\nOlder jihadists are usually more involved in extremist support networks - as radicalisers and recruiters, rather than as attackers.\n\nWhile Theresa May said Masood had been investigated in relation to concerns about violent extremism, he was considered a peripheral figure and was not part of current investigations into extremism.\n\nIn one crucial respect, however, Masood does fit the picture of the criminals-turned-jihadists that we have examined - he was familiar with violence.\n\nIf a terrorist has a criminal background, it is very often a violent one.\n\nStabbings, assaults, and violent behaviour are recurrent patterns amongst perpetrators of terrorist attacks with existing criminal records.\n\nThis violent group is disproportionately represented when compared with those convicted of non-violent crimes.\n\nFor Masood, this familiarity with personal violence may have made the \"jump\" into ideologically motivated violence that much smaller than it would otherwise have been.\n\nRajan Basra is a Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, in the Department of War Studies, at King's College London. Follow him @rajanbasra\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton said he was surprised how good his Mercedes felt during Friday's practice at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.\n\nHamilton was 0.547 seconds clear of the field after a dominant performance and looks a strong favourite this weekend.\n• None Driver battles, failing engines and moustaches - what to look out for in 2017\n\n\"I am on it and I plan to keep it that way, Hamilton said. \"It is a wonderful feeling to have the car so strong coming into a new era.\"\n\nHowever, Hamilton cautioned against writing off Ferrari so early.\n\nThe Italian team impressed in pre-season testing and the former world champion labelled them as favourites going into the weekend.\n\nFerrari's Sebastian Vettel was second quickest and he did beat Hamilton's team-mate Valtteri Bottas by 0.009secs.\n\nHamilton said: \"It feels amazing and that is surprising. I didn't know how it was going to be.\n\n\"The test was not spectacular so coming into today it was quite refreshing to have the car right where I needed it.\n\n\"I felt good in the car and I didn't even notice the cars being more physical, which is also a positive because I have trained so hard to be ready for this season.\n\n\"The Ferrari is obviously very strong and fast, they might not have the power turned up or whatever and we will see tomorrow, but it seems we are as strong, if not a bit stronger than them.\"\n\nF1 has introduced new rules this season aimed at making the cars faster, more demanding and more dramatic.\n\nThe cars have met those targets but the competitive order appears not to have changed a great deal at this early stage.\n• None Champs and chumps: Your (and our) season predictions\n\nAsked whether the gap between himself and Hamilton was representative, Vettel said: \"I hope not. Overall it has been OK. The car doesn't yet feel as good as it should and it can so I am confident we will find something overnight.\n\n\"We were very happy in testing and the times look good but it doesn't mean anything.\n\n\"I am not that happy overall. The balance is not yet where I want it to be. It is not bad but I think we can do better.\n\n\"We see where it takes us on Saturday when everyone shows what they can do. Today it is still difficult to say. We had a mixed day but the team is doing well and there are lot of things we can improve.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nCarli Lloyd's first goal for Manchester City Women ensured they took a lead into the second leg of their Women's Champions League quarter-final against Danish champions Fortuna Hjorring.\n\nLloyd's first-half header was the only goal of the first leg in a game City were unlucky not to win by more.\n\nThe USA midfielder rose unmarked to meet a Jane Ross cross on 30 minutes.\n\nLucy Bronze was denied in either half with a volley off the crossbar and a header just wide in the closing stages.\n\nCity are appearing in the last eight of the competition for the first time.\n\nThe two sides will meet in the return leg at Manchester's Academy Stadium on 30 March.\n\nThe winners will face one of last year's finalists - Wolfsburg or holders Lyon - in the semi-finals in April.", "The officer appeared to be overcome with emotion as he climbed onto his leader's back\n\nNorth Korea's test of a rocket engine last weekend was accompanied by the usual state media propaganda - but one image of its leader celebrating stood out in particular. What is the likely explanation?\n\nThe engine test was claimed to be a success, a \"new birth\" for North Korea's rocket industry. Kim Jong-un was certainly happy.\n\nIn pictures released by state news agency KCNA, he was seen watching the missile from afar; grinning in a control centre; shaking hands with jubilant officers - then, giving an elderly man a piggyback.\n\nWho would leap onto the back of a dictator such as this, and why?\n\nObservers say the mysterious man is not a known figure in North Korean politics. He is thought to have played a key role in the engine test, and most likely interacted with Mr Kim previously.\n\nNorth Korean observer Michael Madden says his uniform's insignias indicate he is a mid-level officer of the KPA Strategic Force, which is in charge of missile forces used for offensive attacks.\n\nWhile the image was almost certainly stage-managed, \"it wasn't completely machinated or fabricated\", says Mr Madden, who is with the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University.\n\n\"It was more a signal of allowance and encouragement than something completely machinated by an image maker.\" North Korean propaganda films have in the past shown citizens being allowed to approach Mr Kim.\n\nThe main purpose of the picture would be to burnish Mr Kim's domestic image as a jovial man of the people.\n\nWhile Mr Kim tries to project a \"recalcitrant and uncompromising\" image internationally, at home \"it is a different story\", notes Professor Jae-Cheon Lim, of the Korea University in Seoul.\n\n\"We know he is very strict with elites when they don't obey his orders. But in general towards the people his propaganda image is friendly and convivial.\"\n\nIn another photo released by KCNA, the same officer was seen embracing Kim\n\nIt stands in stark contrast to his predecessors, who sought to be feared more than loved. \"Nobody would dare piggyback his father or even his grandfather,\" says Mr Madden.\n\n\"But this fits into the image [Kim] Jong-un has tried to cultivate - that he is more open, on an interpersonal basis, than his father.\n\n\"It conveys a certain sense of political confidence in his rule and leadership of the country. If he didn't feel secure, then he wouldn't allow these images to be disseminated - he would need to appear distant and cold.\"\n\nMr Kim was also photographed joking and laughing at the engine test site\n\nThe image also suggests that Mr Kim is, for now, in good health.\n\nHe was spotted limping and using a cane in 2014, leading to speculation that he had gout, and limping again as recently as late 2016.\n\nPiggybacking after a win may be more commonly seen on football pitches rather than in North Korean propaganda pictures, but Mr Kim is known for taking a sports management approach to his weapons development programmes.\n\n\"When a test is conducted, civilian and military personnel [are told they] should regard it as a sports competition - they win some, and lose some,\" says Mr Madden.\n\n\"They won't 'win' or meet technical specifications all the time, and when they 'lose' they study their performance and what happened.\"\n\nBut for all its contrived spontaneity, it does not mean that Mr Kim is not genuinely happy in the photo.\n\nProf Lim points out that he had good reason to celebrate, with an apparently successful rocket engine test putting him one step closer towards his nuclear goals - and sealing his legacy.\n\n\"In the propaganda annals, his grandfather was the liberator of Korea through its anti-Japanese guerrilla war. His father succeeded in maintaining the regime even under economic poverty.\n\n\"But Kim Jong-un became leader quickly and has no significant achievements to point to so far.\n\n\"If North Korea becomes a nuclear state, it becomes his achievement.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nBritain's Lewis Hamilton put in a scintillating performance to set the pace in second practice at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.\n\nHe was 0.547secs clear of Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in second, who was just 0.009secs quicker than Hamilton's Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas.\n\nHamilton's margin over Bottas will raise questions over whether it is car or driver that has the advantage.\n\nRed Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was fifth, behind Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen.\n• None Driver battles, failing engines and moustaches - what to look out for in 2017\n• None F1 is sexy again, but will it be better?\n\nThis is Bottas' first race for the Mercedes team after replacing world champion Nico Rosberg, who retired at the end of last season, and on the evidence of the first running of the new season the Finn is struggling to get on terms with Hamilton. The three-time world champion was also fastest during the first practice session.\n\nFerrari impressed sufficiently in pre-season testing for Mercedes to believe that the Italian team were at least on their pace, if not slightly quicker.\n\nThat Ferrari speed has not so far been in evidence this weekend, and the red cars were if anything even further off the pace of Mercedes in the race-simulation runs on heavy fuel loads later in the session - Raikkonen was a second off Hamilton's pace.\n\nHowever, the cars will not be seen in their ultimate quickest trim until qualifying on Saturday.\n\nRed Bull expected to be the third quickest team this weekend, and that is the way it is panning out so far, with Ricciardo 0.5secs quicker than team-mate Max Verstappen, who lost what would have been his quickest lap with an nerve-wracking off-track moment at the 150mph swerves of Turns 11 and 12.\n\nToro Rosso's Carlos Sainz headed the midfield runners in seventh place ahead of the Haas of Romain Grosjean and Renault's Nico Hulkenberg.\n\nThe German's team-mate Jolyon Palmer ended his session in the wall at Turn 16 after losing control on the way into the quick right-hander and smashing the car badly before coming to rest in the middle of the track and bringing the session to a temporary halt.\n\nFernando Alonso had a better day than many were expecting in the McLaren-Honda, setting 12th quickest time, albeit 2.4secs off the pace.\n\nThe Honda is still carrying reliability concerns as a result of a vibration, which appears to be the cause for a nasty grinding sound that can be heard from the car as the driver changes up through the gears.\n\nAlonso was 0.6secs and five places ahead of his highly rated rookie team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne.\n\nFirst and second practice - full results", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jean-Claude Juncker: EU will negotiate in 'friendly and fair way'\n\n\"It's like musicians in their bow-ties playing on board the Titanic,\" remarked a friend of mine as I was talking to them about the EU's 60th anniversary celebrations in Rome.\n\nA mild exaggeration, shall we say - but the image sticks in my mind.\n\nBecause as the leaders of the EU's 27 countries clink champagne glasses in plush, security-tight surroundings on Saturday - all is not well in the Europe outside their gates: youth unemployment persists (especially in the south), terror attacks, illegal migration, inequalities in the Eurozone, Brexit and a tide of anti-establishment populist nationalism across much of the bloc.\n\nTo name a few of the challenges. Not to mention \"strongmen\" Presidents Trump, Putin and Erdogan who all eye the EU with suspicion and some animosity.\n\n\"Yes,\" conceded European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker to me in an exclusive interview. \"We are not in the best form and shape we could be in.\"\n\nBut, he insisted, the EU was still young, adding that what the bloc had achieved in six decades was remarkable - Europe is now a continent of stability and peace.\n\nBut that was the vision, the goal after World War Two, I countered.\n\nSurely there's a need for a new vision? Something to capture the public imagination. To re-enchant the disenchanted?\n\nThe EU marks its birthday on Saturday, while the UK will trigger Article 50 on Wednesday\n\nMr Juncker recently published a White Paper on the future of the EU. where he explored five different scenarios - from increased union to paring pooled powers back to the common market only.\n\nIn between, he breathes life into the old idea of a \"two-speed Europe\" - where some countries share more sovereignty for example over defence or migration, while others opt out.\n\nThat proposal appears to be the most popular amongst politicians and civil servants, but to me it sounds like an open admission that there is, in fact, no common EU vision - with everyone doing different things at different times.\n\nAll this at a very sensitive moment - when one of the EU's biggest and most influential members, the UK, is about to walk out of the door.\n\nAnd unity amongst the remaining 27 countries is key for Brussels - to prove to the outside world that the EU still stands strong.\n\nTheresa May's absence at the 60th birthday bash on Saturday will be screamingly noticeable.\n\n\"Of course we will miss her,\" President Juncker told me.\n\n\"I am everything but in a hostile mood with Britain. Britain is part of Europe, and I hope to have a friendly relationship with the UK over the next decades.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWell, that of course will depend on what kind of future relationship the UK and EU can hammer out during Brexit negotiations.\n\nI wondered how the EU would balance the competing desires to keep the UK close yet not give it too good a deal so as to avoid the risk of other EU countries walking away?\n\nMr Juncker admitted he did not want any more \"exits\": Nexit, Oexit, Dexit, Frexit or otherwise.\n\nThat would be the end, he said, if three, four or five more countries left. The EU would collapse.\n\nBut he doesn't believe that will happen.\n\nThe EU and the Commission, he said, would negotiate with the UK in a friendly way - fair but never naive.\n\nInteresting choice of adverbs there. Echoed precisely in a speech delivered on Thursday by the EU's chief Brexit negotiator - Commission man Michel Barnier.\n\nNow, does that refer to talk of the UK aiming to cosy up to individual EU countries (like the Baltic nations with promises of security co-operation) to cajole them into pressing for a good trade deal for Britain?\n\nOr does it perhaps allude to the government rejecting the idea of an \"exit bill\" as part of the EU divorce?\n\nIt's an invoice that Mr Juncker insists must be paid.\n\n\"You cannot pretend you were never a member of the union,\" he practically spluttered.\n\n\"The British government and parliament took on certain commitments as EU members and they must be honoured. This isn't a punishment or sanctions against the UK.\"\n\nDespite mutterings about the Commission drawing up a £50bn ($63bn) bill, Mr Juncker said the precise amount remained to be \"scientifically calculated.\"\n\nBut one thing he insisted that could not be haggled over was the fate of the 4.5 million EU citizens living in the UK and British citizens currently living across the EU.\n\nPresident Juncker said no-one had a right to eject them from their homes and jobs.\n\n\"This is not about bargaining,\" he insisted. \"This is about respecting human dignity.\"\n\nAs they mark the EU's anniversary on Saturday, the bloc's remaining leaders will look with furrowed brows towards the future.\n\nBut they may well take heart in a new trend emerging.\n\nWhile populist nationalist, anti-establishment candidates enjoy strong followings, at the same time unashamed Europhiles like the youthful leader of the Netherlands Green party, the French presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron and the German candidate for Chancellor Martin Schulz resonate with the large sections of the public too.\n\nBut Mr Juncker and others I've spoken to in the lead-up to the EU's anniversary, like his Vice-President Frans Timmermans and Antonio Tajani, the new President of the European Parliamant, all believe this is no time for complacency.\n\nIn just a few days' time Britain will deliver a letter to Brussels, officially triggering the countdown to Brexit.\n\nHow will Mr Juncker feel that day, I asked.", "If you want a clear explanation of what's wrong with the retail sector, read Next's results statement.\n\nNot a recommendation you'd hear very often, frankly, about most companies' financial reporting.\n\nBut rather than seeming designed to confuse and mislead, Next's report crisply spells out the challenges it's facing.\n\nAnd of course it's not just Next that's up against it, it's the High Street as a whole.\n\nA stark reminder of the difficulties came just yesterday when \"value\" shoe retailer Brantano went into administration, its pricier sister company Jones Bootmaker is up for sale.\n\nOne of the administrators said the fall in the pound and a change in shopping habits were key factors.\n\nNext's results reflect these trends in spades. Its annual profits have fallen for the first time in eight years and it doesn't seem in the mood to pull any punches.\n\nThe most obvious challenge is the continuing gravitation to online shopping. Next Directory sales have been rising every year for the past 10. This time they rose by 4% to £1.7bn but sales in the stores - pretty much flat for the past 10 years - fell by nearly 3% to £2.3bn.\n\nIt's still a significant chunk of business, and as Next points out in its statement, it's still opening new shops.\n\nHowever, it concedes that with increasing amounts of business being transferred online \"it is legitimate to question the long term viability of retail stores and whether the possession of a retail portfolio is an asset or a liability\".\n\nIts conclusion is that the stores are indeed \"valuable\" assets which will remain profitable \"even in very difficult circumstances\".\n\nNevertheless it has painstakingly worked through a scenario of what would happen if retail sales continued to decline at \"high rates\" for the next decade, and it says the stores could be \"managed down profitably\".\n\nAnother issue which leaps out from the pages of Next's statement is the change in what the UK consumer is prepared to spend money on.\n\nA new dress or pair of shoes is no longer the go-to quick fix of choice, it seems.\n\nInstead Next quotes Barclaycard figures which show the growth in spending on pubs, restaurants and entertainment, compared with High Street clothing in the last three months of 2016. \"We believe that these numbers demonstrate the continuing trend towards spending on experiences away from 'things',\" says Next.\n\n\"Shifts in consumer spending patterns are not unusual and we expect that the trend will stabilise and reverse at some point,\" it continues.\n\nIs it all gloom for Next's stores?\n\nAs if the fickleness of shoppers were not enough, of course, consumers have finally woken up to the fact that higher inflation means their money spreads more thinly.\n\nThe fall in sterling since the Brexit vote has pushed up the cost of imports for the likes of Next, although it says it doesn't expect price rises to be any worse in the second half of the year, and \"they may be a little better\".\n\nNevertheless, it doesn't see inflationary pressures easing until the second half of next year.\n\nMeantime, it says, inflation is \"slowly rising to the level of general wages growth and look set to continue to do so for the remainder of the year, we therefore expect a continuing squeeze on real incomes in the year ahead\".\n\nAdded to this Next has is own internal problems which it's dealing with, including taking its eye off the ball in terms of stocking its \"heartland\" products. That is \"easy to wear styles that can be delivered in large volumes and great prices across several colours\".\n\nIn short, Next reckons the year ahead looks \"tough\" with a \"combination of economic, cyclical and internal factors working against us\".\n\nBut it's worth remembering this is not the first time Next - or retailers in general - have confronted such a mountain of adversity.\n\nBack at the start of the financial crisis in 2008, the number of retailers exiting the High Street seemed unstoppable. Woolworths went, and that was the last time Next saw profits drop.\n\nAs chairman John Barton points out today \"by the following year our profits had started to grow again and our share price recovered strongly in the following years.\n\n\"I believe that by focusing on our core strengths as we did during 2008, we will see Next emerge from this period stronger than before\" he adds.\n\nInvestors may well agree. Next's shares were up following the release of the results, and not just because they were a textbook example of how a company should get its message across.", "Jenna Cook puts up a poster to try and find her birth family\n\nWhen Jenna Cook went back to China at the age of 20 to search for her birth parents, she knew she was unlikely to succeed. What she didn't expect was that she would meet dozens of families who desperately hoped she was their lost child.\n\nNear a busy bus station in the Chinese city of Wuhan, on 24 March 1992, someone left a baby to be found. It's quite likely that they watched and waited from a safe distance until the girl was spotted. She was picked up and taken to the Wuhan Children Welfare House, close by. There she was given a name, Xia Huasi, meaning \"China's\", and assigned a birth date chosen at random by the director of the home.\n\nChina's one-child policy meant that families faced heavy fines for having too many children. But it was also - and still is - illegal to give up unwanted children. There was no formal adoption process.\n\nBut just days later China passed a law allowing foreign nationals to adopt, and at the end of June an American primary school teacher, Margaret Cook, came to collect Xia Huasi. She renamed her Jenna and took her home to Massachusetts.\n\nJenna was one of the first wave of about 200 Chinese babies to go to American families. Many others followed - an estimated 80,000, mostly girls, have now gone to live in the US, and an additional 40,000 to the Netherlands, Spain and the UK.\n\nJenna always knew that she was adopted. \"We would talk about adoption just like we would talk about what's for dinner. It never felt like something that was a big deal,\" she says.\n\nNevertheless, she sometimes wondered where she came from.\n\n\"Even just looking at your own belly button, you think to yourself: 'Oh, I used to be attached to another human being. That's the body I came from, but who is that? Does that person even really exist?' It all seems so abstract. It sometimes just feels like you appeared on the planet.\n\n\"Most people are just born into the families they're born into and they never think twice about it. Whereas for adopted people there is always this possibility of another life.\"\n\nJenna and her sister, who was also adopted from China, grew up in an area where very few people looked like them. Their mother, Margaret, did what she could to maintain a connection to her daughters' country of origin - the girls learned Mandarin at school and they socialised with other families like theirs.\n\nWhen Jenna was a teenager she was one of four Chinese adoptees to feature in the acclaimed 2011 documentary, Somewhere Between. Director Linda Goldstein Knowlton had adopted a baby from China herself and wanted to document the lives of these young women - drawing the title from something Jenna said: \"I don't think that I could ever consider myself fully Chinese or fully American - I'm always going to be sort of somewhere between.\"\n\nThe 15-year-old Jenna captured in the film is a hard-working, high-achieving A-grade student. She is successful and loved, but haunted by a nagging doubt. Why did her parents give her up? Had she done something wrong? It's partly what drives her to be a perfectionist. In a moving moment in the film, Jenna speaks at an event for prospective adoptive parents and breaks down when she is asked how she feels about the word \"abandoned\".\n\n\"There's definitely a part of me that wishes I'd never heard the word 'abandonment',\" she says.\n\nOver the course of the film, Jenna delves deeper into her past and ends up volunteering for summer work at the very Chinese orphanage that took her in as a baby.\n\nJenna Cook visits the orphanage where she stayed in 1992\n\nNot all of the participants in Somewhere Between have a desire to return to China or find their birth families. In any case, adoptees are warned that attempts to trace birth families are unlikely to succeed. There is often very little information available, as birth families had to hide their identities for fear of punishment. And the records that existed in the 90s, when international adoption began, were badly kept. Add to this the sheer size and population of the country and it is a daunting task.\n\nBut miracles do happen. Haley, one of the four girls featured in Somewhere Between, goes back to the village where she was found. While putting up posters she is recognised by a woman who immediately runs to fetch her family. The next thing Haley knows, she is being hugged and kissed by a man who says he is her father. An emotional family reunion follows in which Haley meets her mother and sisters - surprisingly, she has more than one. Everyone looks shell-shocked by the experience.\n\nIn the West, adoptees searching for their birth parents can usually afford to take things slowly. But international adoptees don't have that luxury. They can probably only afford one such trip in their lives, says Bea Evans from the specialist company, Adoptive Family Travel. For more than 20 years she and her colleagues have taken internationally adopted children and their families to 18 countries including China, Guatemala, India and Korea (the Korean War led to the first wave of international adoptees in the US).\n\n\"Almost all international adoption has started in response to some kind of upheaval, whether it was political or financial or a policy like China's one-child policy,\" she says.\n\nThe company organises visits to orphanages - or social welfare institutes, as they are known in China - and occasionally assists with family searches and reunions. Evans says there is an increasing amount of \"search and reunion\" taking place in South Korea. Could this also take off in China? \"I do wonder what will happen as more and more young [Chinese] women get to that age where they are saying: 'We want more information,'\" she says.\n\nThe documentary maker Changfu Chang, who specialises in Chinese adoption stories, hears about successful searches almost every month. So how does he explain it? \"Chinese society is a connected society, you do not really have many secrets,\" he says. \"As long as you get into that particular village or neighbourhood or community others will help to provide that information.\"\n\nBut Jenna was found near Hongji long-distance bus station, where 12,000 travellers arrive in Wuhan from all over the countryside every day. This made the search particularly challenging.\n\nA busy day at the bus station in Wuhan\n\nWhen she was 20 and studying at Yale University, Jenna was given a grant to travel to China to begin her own search. It was partly an academic exercise - she hoped her experience could help some of her fellow 80,000 Chinese adoptees in the US. But of course it was also deeply personal, and she asked her adoptive mother, Margaret, to accompany her.\n\nJenna had printed flyers with pictures of herself at different ages and what little she knew about the circumstances in which she was found. She began handing them out to people in the streets of Wuhan, many of whom shared their own experiences. \"Oh, I had a neighbour once who had a daughter in a similar situation,\" they told her. Or \"I had a cousin who once gave up their child but I don't remember if it was in '92 or '93.\"\n\nJenna found this fascinating. \"I was pretty amazed that people were even paying attention to me, because I felt like I'm just one story in a huge migration of children from China,\" she says. \"I felt like I was just one raindrop in the puddle.\"\n\nBut people were interested in her story, and a week after she arrived an article about her search appeared in the local paper. It was short and tucked away on page five, but the headline tugged at the heartstrings: \"Dad, Mom: I really hope that I can give you a hug. Thank you for bringing me into this world.\"\n\nIt had a huge impact. In the weeks following the publication of that article on 25 May 2012, Jenna's search went viral. Hundreds of messages started coming in via social media.\n\n\"Their reactions were really polarised,\" says Jenna. Some people said: \"This is fantastic that you're searching and I hope that you're able to find your parents and that your dream comes true.\" Others would say things like: \"This is such a big mistake, you're wasting your time and energy.\" And: \"You're so ungrateful to your American family, you need to go back to America right away.\"\n\nAmong the tide of messages there were genuine responses from people who thought they might be Jenna's parents. She narrowed it down to 50 birth families, each of which had left a baby on the same street in Wuhan in March 1992.\n\nThe implications of this are vast, says Jenna. What about other streets in the same month? What about other months? What about other years? What about the families who chose not to come forward? When she spoke to people who had worked at the bus station at the time, they said babies had often been left there.\n\nBut as well as being shocked by the sheer numbers, Jenna was surprised they were willing to come forward. After all, it is against the law to abandon a child - and after the publication of the newspaper article Chinese television had started filming her search. \"Here are these people who have technically committed a crime and they're willing to come forward on national television. It was just unthinkable,\" she says.\n\nThe article about Jenna in the Chutian Metropolis Daily\n\nJenna and her mother arranged to meet the 50 families they thought could be a match. Some mothers and fathers came alone, but others brought the entire family, including grandparents. What surprised Jenna was that, far from being one-child families, often they had more than one daughter. What tended to happen was that they would keep their first daughter, and try again for a son. With each child they would incur penalties. Eventually, after having several daughters, they would decide to give one up, in the hope of saving a place in their family for a son.\n\nJenna initially approached the meetings from an academic standpoint. She told herself she was there to collect stories. \"If I had gone into every meeting thinking: 'Maybe this is the one,' I would have been totally exhausted by the end of the day,\" she says.\n\nBut she still had to steel herself. \"Especially for the first few meetings I was really nervous,\" says Jenna. \"I was really worried about what they would think of me. I was really worried that maybe I had done something wrong, and that was why they had abandoned me - I worried that they would be angry at me.\"\n\nJenna thinks this is because she had unconsciously absorbed some of the prejudices that surround the issue. \"In the US there is this dominant narrative that the reason why Chinese parents abandon children is because they don't like girls, and maybe they don't even remember them,\" she says.\n\nBut she found this not to be the case at all. \"They all remembered their babies forever - it was this experience that they really regret and that they would never forget.\"\n\nOne woman brought a piece of delicate red-and-blue cloth that she had carefully kept - it was the material she had made her baby's suit out of. \"She had kept these scraps for 20 years like a memory of her daughter. And she always dreamed that when they would meet her daughter would have the clothes and she would have the scraps - kind of like a lock and key.\"\n\nSadly, Jenna did not recognise the material. \"I just remember shaking my head, I had never seen it. And the poor mother just collapsed. She was so devastated.\"\n\nAnother man she met, a long-distance bus driver, had spent a lot of time searching for his daughter. Whenever his bus route took him into the city he would go back to the area where they had left their baby and ask for her. They had left her with a note so she would grow up knowing her name.\n\nEach family approached Jenna as if she were their daughter. For a brief moment, they represented the other's missing part. One mother even began brushing Jenna's hair. Mostly, they wanted to know if she was OK - like people emerging from a disaster and wondering if the other side had also survived, says Jenna.\n\nThey would ask: \"Is your adopted mother good to you or does she hurt you? Does she give you enough food to eat?\" Jenna would reassure them that she was well looked-after. \"They would just be so happy to know that I hadn't been suffering all this time.\"\n\nIn turn, she asked them: \"Was it something about me that made you relinquish me long ago? If I had been more beautiful or if I had been more obedient and had cried less would that have changed your decision?\" And they were able to reassure her. \"The parents just remembered their baby girl in such a loving way,\" says Jenna.\n\nBut there was also the business of verification. Having established that the facts matched, they would look for a physical resemblance - things like height, or foot-shape or hand-shape. Sometimes they would want to check for birth marks. Then, if they felt that there were enough similarities, they would go ahead with a DNA sample. In the end, 37 families opted to do DNA.\n\nSadly, all of the tests came back negative. It was a real blow.\n\n\"I think another reason why it was hard seeing all of the negative DNA results come back was because I sure wished I could be the daughter to every one of those families,\" says Jenna.\n\n\"To be the person that could help relieve their suffering - who wouldn't want to be that person?\"\n\nDespite this, Jenna feels the experience has helped her.\n\n\"Before, there was always a small part of me that felt like there was something I could have done 20 years ago to have changed my fate and then I wouldn't have been relinquished by my family,\" she says. \"But after meeting the birth parents I realised it was really out of my control.\"\n\nAs an academic, it has changed her outlook completely. \"It's a totally different experience to read in a history textbook about the one-child policy and read that parents abandoned their children or committed infanticide,\" she says. \"But to meet people who have really lived that experience, and to see their great regret, and their great love for this baby - it's just something that's indescribable.\"\n\nJenna spent last summer working in China, but is no longer actively searching.\n\n\"I would love to have the chance to reunite with my birth family someday,\" she says. \"But I can't say that will happen.\"\n\nJenna Cook appeared on Outlook on the BBC World Service. Listen again to the interview on iPlayer or get the Outlook podcast\n• None The father searching for his abducted son", "Afghan forces have been under intense pressure from the Taliban in Helmand\n\nThe Taliban's capture of the strategically-located Sangin, once considered the deadliest battlefield for US and British troops in Afghanistan, will increase the group's mobility in the north of the province and give it control of an important supply line with the provincial capital Lashkar Gah\n\nThe Taliban has already captured a few of the 14 districts of Helmand, which borders Pakistan. According to some estimates, the insurgent group now controls more than half of the province, which produces the bulk of Afghanistan's lucrative opium crop.\n\nReports say that the Afghan security forces pulled out overnight from the district headquarters and the main bazaar, after the Taliban launched a major attack.\n\nThe Taliban insurgents had been trying to capture the Sangin headquarters for two years.\n\nThe Afghan soldiers and police who had been fighting hard to repel the repeated attacks by Taliban fighters, at times complained about not receiving reinforcements and being short of ammunition and food.\n\nThe fall of Sangin, one of the most heavily-populated districts in Helmand, also indicates the Taliban's growing strength in the south, and has a symbolic significance for the US-Nato led mission in Afghanistan.\n\nSangin district was perhaps the most dangerous and deadliest for all sides involved in the war in Afghanistan.\n\nBoth the US and UK lost more soldiers in Sangin than in any of around 400 other districts in Afghanistan.\n\nOf the 456 British lives lost in Afghanistan since 2001, most of them - more than 100 - were killed in Sangin over a period of four years.\n\nBritish forces were deployed in Helmand province in 2006 to secure it and prepare the ground for good governance and reconstruction.\n\nAlthough some progress was made by the more than 10,000 British troops based there, the fighting soon intensified, resulting in the death of many Afghan and British forces as well as civilians.\n\nBritish troops pulled out of Sangin in 2010\n\nBy 2009, the then Afghan president Hamid Karzai and American officials expressed dissatisfaction with the British performance.\n\nIn 2010, thousands of US Marines were deployed to replace British troops and responsibility for security was transferred from the UK to the US in several areas of Helmand, including Sangin, Nawa, Garmsir, Marjah, Khanshin and Nawzad.\n\nWithin the first 90 days of their deployment, around 20 US Marines were killed in Sangin.\n\nSince responsibility for security was handed over from international forces to the Afghan government in 2014, hundreds of Afghan forces have lost their lives defending Sangin.\n\nThe fight to capture Sangin also took the lives of more Taliban fighters than any other battle for territory in Afghanistan.\n\nAfghan forces say they have made a tactical retreat from the centre of Sangin, which has been fiercely fought over for more than a decade.\n\nThe Taliban's capture of Sangin will also have a destabilising effect on neighbouring Kandahar, a province of huge strategic and political significance, and whose capital is Afghanistan's second-largest town.\n\nThe fall of Sangin is an indication that this year's fighting season might be even tougher as the group is planning to push even harder to expand its footprint throughout the country.\n\nThe Taliban now controls more territory than at any point since the US-led invasion in 2001 which toppled its regime.\n\nHelmand governor Mirza Khan Rahimi had insisted that the Taliban would be beaten back\n\nThe loss of Sangin underlines the challenge facing the Afghan government and its Western allies, who, according to US military officials are in a \"stalemate\" with the Taliban.\n\nThe new US President Donald Trump has yet to announce his Afghanistan strategy, but it is likely to involve sending a few thousand more troops to help the approximately 13,000 personnel from Nato allies and partner countries currently based in the country.\n\nThere are two possibilities now.\n\nThe Afghan forces, with the help of US Special Forces and aerial bombing, might try to recapture the district as seen in some other parts of the country.\n\nOr the government will leave it to the Taliban, as they have done in a few other districts in Helmand, and focus on defending Lashkar Gah.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTottenham midfielder Dele Alli has been banned for three European matches after being sent off against Gent at Wembley in the Europa League in February.\n\nAlli was dismissed for a challenge on Brecht Dejaegere in the 2-2 draw.\n\nShould Spurs secure a top-three Premier League finish, Alli would miss half of their Champions League group campaign.\n\nMeanwhile, Arsenal have been fined £4,300 after some of their fans ran onto the pitch during the 5-1 Champions League home defeat by Bayern Munich.\n\nUefa has also fined Bayern Munich £2,600 after their supporters delayed the tie at Arsenal's Emirates stadium by throwing rolls of paper onto the pitch in protest over ticket prices.\n\nSaint-Etienne, meanwhile, have been fined £43,000 after their fans set off fireworks and threw objects during their Europa League encounter against Manchester United at Old Trafford last month.\n\nSpurs, who went out of the Europa League against Gent, are second in the Premier League with 10 games to play.\n\nAlli also missed the final three games of last season's Premier League after admitting a charge of violent conduct for punching West Brom's Claudio Yacob in the stomach.", "The attack on the British parliament building was stopped quickly, and security forces locked down the area within minutes.\n\nBut the attacker still managed to enter Westminster and fatally wound an unarmed police officer, before he was shot.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has said police are now reviewing security, \"as is routine\".\n\nSo what is security like in other national parliaments and seats of power, and how do other countries balance safety against accessibility?\n\nBerlin's Reichstag has fences in front of the building where the main entrance is, but it is relatively accessible to the public and there are no fences on other sides. Admission to the building's glass dome on the rooftop is free, but you do need to register in advance.\n\nThere is even a rooftop restaurant - the only parliamentary building in the world with one, it claims - but it requires the names and dates of birth of guests 24 hours in advance, and you must bring your passport or ID with you.\n\nDespite its open-plaza appearance, the building is encircled by low concrete blocks.\n\nThey provide no obstacle to pedestrians, but are a significant impediment to vehicles - and they dot the roadside all around the building, the park, and the German Chancellery nearby.\n\nThe Reichstag was famously set alight in an arson attack in 1933, for which a young Dutch communist was sentenced to death - something the Nazi party then used to vilify communist opponents, resulting in electoral gains.\n\nA bridge linking buildings runs over a road in at the European Parliament\n\nThe Brussels headquarters of the European parliament is part of a large, modern complex - and so is significantly different from the historic buildings used by many countries.\n\nIt's also decentralised, with many of the plenary sessions taking place in France, and some administration work in Luxembourg. But it's the Brussels headquarters that is most iconic.\n\nIt is easily accessibly by road or on foot, protected by low steel bollards on the roadside.\n\nAccess to the buildings themselves requires a national ID card or passport, plus \"airport-style security checks\", but when parliament is in session, it's possible to slip in as an observer on the day without advance notice.\n\nThe nearby Maelbeek metro station was one of the targets of the 2016 Brussels attacks - but the EU buildings themselves were untouched.\n\nIt later emerged that one of the attackers had worked in the European parliament briefly during two summers.\n\nThe National Assembly faces the Place de la Concorde over a long straight bridge\n\nThe French National Assembly's grand front gates directly face a bridge of the river Seine, offering a straight-line view to the iconic Place de la Concorde.\n\nBut, like the German Reichstag, concrete bollards set in front of the gates prevent any high-speed ramming from that long straight road.\n\nThe Senate, meanwhile, meets in the Palais du Luxembourg. While one exterior wall by the roadside is solid stone, the remainder lies among public walkways in a park of the same name.\n\nTourists and locals alike can stroll up to a waist-high gate separating them from the building's many windowed doors - although the area is patrolled by heavily armed police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Reynolds: \"The government has suggested that that deployment to protect people is open-ended\"\n\nIn contrast, the Elysee Palace, home to the French president, is a fortress of high walls, steel fencing, traffic restrictions, and armed patrols. It lies a short distance from the Champs-Elysees, one of the country's main tourist areas.\n\nGroups wishing to visit either the National Assembly or the Senate need the sponsorship of a senator - but because of security measures in effect in France, individual visits are suspended for both.\n\nMore than 230 people have died in terror attacks in France since January 2015 - but none have targeted the Paris political strongholds.\n\nThe US Capitol building is guarded by heavily armed officers\n\nThere are two main centres of power in the centre of Washington DC: the Capitol building and the White House.\n\nThe grounds around the Capitol building are open to pedestrians, but vehicle traffic is cut off by traffic barriers - only allowing those with permission in.\n\nThe main entrance for visitors to the Capitol building is through a visitors' centre, where security is extremely tight - much like airport security. No liquids, food or pointed objects are allowed.\n\nThe guards throughout the area and at several important nearby buildings are very well armed.\n\nA counter-sniper team member of the Secret Service on the White House roof, 2013\n\nThe White House is perhaps a more popular symbol of American power, and has a myriad of myths about its security - thanks in large part to Hollywood films.\n\nIt is enclosed on all sides by steel railings several feet high, which are in turn encircled by steel bollards and chains. The mansion itself is quite distant from most of the railings, giving Secret Service plenty of time to pick up any fence-jumpers caught by the constant close surveillance - although one man, carrying a knife, made it into the building in 2014.\n\nThe closest point from a public area to the mansion is on the North Lawn, a well-known viewpoint of the White House exterior. But security there is especially tight, with armed guards, and gatehouses which protect the entry points.\n\nAnd then there's the Secret Service and high-tech defences - including sniper surveillance, radar technology on the rooftop, and, of course, the \"bunker\" of the emergency operations centre under the building.\n\nWestminster lies by the water next to a public square, and is a popular tourist spot\n\nThe BBC's Home affairs correspondent, Dominic Casciani, has written about \"the attack that security chiefs have been preparing for\". Here's what he had to say about the UK parliament:\n\nThere is a ring of steel around the Palace of Westminster - but the attacker was able to enter into Parliament's grounds through the gates to New Palace Yard, which is below Big Ben.\n\nThe entrance is guarded by armed officers but, unlike other parts of Parliament, there is no elaborate chicane.\n\nThere will be inevitable questions about whether this entrance was appropriately protected - but given the rudimentary nature of this man's murderous plan, it would not have stopped him trying.", "After two decades of development and \"heartbreak\", scientists are on the verge of sending missions to explore the ocean world of Europa. Could this be our best shot at finding life elsewhere in the Solar System?\n\nOrbiting the giant planet Jupiter is an icy world, just a little smaller than Earth's moon.\n\nFrom a distance, Europa appears to be etched with a nexus of dark streaks, like the product of a toddler's chaotic scribbling.\n\nClose up, these are revealed to be long linear cracks in the ice, many of which are filled with an unknown contaminant that scientists have dubbed the \"brown gunk\". Elsewhere, the surface is tortured and irregular, as if massive slabs of ice have drifted, spun and flipped over in slush.\n\nJupiter's immense gravity helps generate tidal forces that repeatedly stretch and relax the moon. But the stresses that created Europa's smashed up terrain are best explained by the ice shell floating on an ocean of liquid water.\n\n\"The fact that there's liquid water underneath the surface which we know from previous missions, in particular from the magnetometer observations made by the Galileo spacecraft as it flew past [in the 1990s], makes it one of the most exciting potential targets to look for life,\" says Prof Andrew Coates of UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory in Surrey, UK.\n\nEuropa's dark, briny deep might extend 80-170km into the moon's interior, meaning it could be holding twice as much liquid water as there is in all of Earth's oceans. And while water is one vital prerequisite for life, Europa's ocean might have others - such as a source of chemical energy for microbes.\n\nArtwork: Europa Clipper will make at least 45 flybys of the jovian moon during its primary mission\n\nHowever, the ice shell that surrounds the ocean is thought to be tens of kilometres thick. On the face of it, this might make any notions of exploring Europa's watery depths seem like a far-off fantasy.\n\nLuckily, scientists think there are a number of ways for the ocean to communicate with the surface. For example, the physical process of heat transfer known as convection may cause warm blobs of ice located deep within the shell to travel upwards to the surface. So studying the moon's outer face could provide clues to what's going on far beneath it.\n\nNow, Nasa is priming two missions to explore this intriguing world. Both have been discussed here at the 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in Houston. The first is a flyby mission called Europa Clipper that would likely launch in 2022. The second is a lander mission that would follow a few years later.\n\n\"We're really trying to get at Europa's potential habitability, the ingredients for life: water, and whether there's chemical energy for life,\" he tells me. \"We do that by trying to understand the ocean and the ice shell, the composition and the geology. And mixed into those is the level of current activity at Europa.\"\n\nClipper carries a payload of nine instruments, including a camera that will image most of the surface; spectrometers to understand its composition; ice-penetrating radar to map the ice shell in three dimensions and find water beneath the ice shell; and a magnetometer to characterise the ocean.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Andrew Coates explains why Europa is a good place to look for life beyond Earth\n\nHowever, since the Galileo spacecraft provided evidence for an ocean in the 1990s, we've learned that Europa isn't one of a kind.\n\n\"One of the most amazing and significant discoveries of the past decade or so in planetary exploration is that you can't swing a dead cat in the outer Solar System without hitting an ocean world,\" says Clipper's programme scientist Curt Niebur, from Nasa headquarters in Washington DC.\n\nAt Saturn's moon Enceladus, for example, ice from a subsurface ocean gushes into space through fissures at the south pole.\n\nThe saturnian satellite could also get a dedicated mission in the 2020s, but Dr Niebur believes Europa stands out: \"Europa is much larger than Enceladus and has more of everything: more geological activity, more water, more space for that water, more heat, more raw ingredients and more stability in its environment.\"\n\nIn Europa's rocky interior, heat is probably generated by tidal forces and by the decay of radioactive isotopes. Scientists think the heating may drive volcanic vents on the seafloor - an important point in favour of the moon's habitability, since terrestrial vent systems support a wide array of life forms.\n\nBut there's something else that marks the moon out: its neighbourhood. Europa's orbital path takes it deep into Jupiter's powerful magnetic field, which traps and speeds up particles.\n\nThe resulting belts of intense radiation fry spacecraft electronics, limiting the durations of missions to months or even weeks. That said, this radiation also drives reactions on Europa's surface, yielding chemicals called oxidants. On Earth, biology exploits the chemical reactions between oxidants and compounds known as reductants to supply the energy needed for life.\n\nArtwork (not to scale): Europa in cross-section, showing processes from the seafloor to the surface (Europa Lander Study 2016 Report)\n\nHowever, the oxidants made on the surface are only useful to Europan microbes if they can get down into the ocean. Fortunately, the process of convection that pushes warm blobs of ice upwards might also drive surface material down. Once in the ocean, oxidants could react with reductants made by seawater interacting with the rocky ocean floor.\n\n\"You need both poles of the battery,\" explains Robert Pappalardo.\n\nFor scientists like Bob Pappalardo and Curt Niebur, the impending missions are the realisation of a two-decades-long dream. Since the first Europa mission concepts were drawn up in the late 1990s, one promising proposal after another has been thwarted.\n\nDuring the noughties, the US and Europe even pooled resources on a mission that would have sent separate spacecraft to Europa and Jupiter's larger ice moon Ganymede. But the plan was cancelled amid budget cuts, with the European part evolving into the Juice mission.\n\n\"I don't think there's been a Europa mission over the past 18 years that I have not either had my fingers in or has not passed under my eye,\" says Curt Niebur.\n\n\"It's been a long road. The road to launch is always a rocky one, and it's always full of heartbreak. We've experienced that more than most on Europa.\"\n\nExploring Europa is costly - though no more so than other Nasa \"flagship\" missions such as Cassini or the Curiosity rover.\n\nFour views of Europa's surface from the Galileo mission, clockwise from top left: (1) disrupted ice crust in the Conamara region; (2) crustal plates, which are thought to have broken apart and \"rafted\" into new positions; (3) reddish bands; (4) an impact structure about the size of Hawaii\n\nThere are inherent engineering challenges, such as operating within Jupiter's radiation belts. Spacecraft instruments need to be shielded with materials such as titanium metal but, says Dr Pappalardo, \"you can only shield them so much because they have to be able to see Europa\".\n\nSo to keep Clipper safe, Nasa is going to stray from the rulebook somewhat. \"The assumption always was: Galileo flew past Europa, so the next mission has to be an orbiter. That's just how we do business,\" says Dr Niebur. But rather than orbit Europa, Clipper will instead reduce its exposure to mission-shortening radiation by orbiting Jupiter, and make at least 45 close flybys of the icy moon over three-and-a-half years.\n\n\"We realised we could avoid those technical challenges of orbiting Europa, make the mission much more achievable and still get the science we want if we fly past it a lot,\" says Clipper's programme scientist.\n\nThe strength of sunlight near Europa is about a 30th of what it is at Earth. But Nasa decided it could power Clipper with solar panels rather than the radioactive generators some other outer planet missions have used. \"All those years of study forced us to burn away our pre-conceptions and get us to really focus on reality, not on our wish-list... to focus on the best science,\" says Curt Niebur.\n\nIn 2011, a National Research Council report re-stated the importance of exploring the icy moon. Even so, Nasa remained wary because of the cost.\n\nArtwork: Nasa's Europa lander could determine whether there was or is life on the jovian moon\n\nBut the support on Capitol Hill has been pivotal. A Europa venture has bipartisan backing, and in Republican Congressman John Culberson - the chair of the particular House Appropriations Subcommittee with jurisdiction over Nasa's budget - the mission has had a unique champion.\n\nThe 60-year-old Texan lawmaker has been entranced by Europa ever since observing it through the Celestron 8 telescope he bought himself as a high school graduation present. Over the last four years, the subcommittee he chairs has channelled money to scientists working on Europa, even when the space agency's chief wasn't asking for it.\n\nGenerous investment means that much more of the technical work has been completed on Clipper than is normal for a mission at its stage (phase B) in the Nasa project cycle. The lander is at an earlier stage of development, called pre-phase A, but a report on the mission's science value was discussed at a workshop here at the LPSC.\n\nThe lander has received no funding in the President's 2018 budget request for Nasa. But Dr Jim Green, director of planetary science at the agency, tells me: \"That mission in particular is tremendously exciting, because it tells us the science we have to do from the surface of a moon that's really hard to get to.\n\n\"We still have quite the process to go through, do the due diligence, understanding the kind of measurements we need to make. Then we'll work with the administration in the future at the right time to see if, budgetarily, we can move forward with it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Geraint Jones explains how to punch through the hard icy surface of Europa\n\nSome innovative Europa lander concepts have been proposed over the last two decades, reflecting the scientific bounty to be had by touching down. Dr Geraint Jones of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory has worked on one concept called a penetrator.\n\n\"They haven't been flown in space before, but it's a really promising technology,\" he explains. A projectile deployed from a satellite hits the surface \"really hard, at about 300m/second, about 700 miles an hour\", exposing pristine ice for analysis by onboard instruments, which could be designed to withstand the impact.\n\nBy contrast, Nasa's forthcoming lander would put down softly with the help of the Sky Crane technology used to drop the Curiosity rover safely on Mars in 2012. During the touchdown, it will use an autonomous landing system to detect and avoid surface hazards in real time.\n\nClipper will provide the reconnaissance for a landing site. \"I like to think of it as finding that right oasis, where there might be water close to the surface. Maybe it's warm and maybe it has organic materials,\" says Bob Pappalardo.\n\nThe landing craft would be equipped with a sensitive instrument payload and a counter-rotating saw to help get at fresher samples below the radiation-processed surface ice.\n\n\"The lander is all about hitting the freshest, most pristine sample possible. One way to do that is to dig deep, another way is going to where there is some kind of eruption on the surface - like a plume - that's dropping very fresh material onto the surface,\" says Curt Niebur.\n\nArtwork: The Hubble telescope has seen possible evidence of geysers on Europa\n\nLife teems around hydrothermal vents on Earth; but what's going on in the depths of Europa's ocean?\n\nIn recent years, the Hubble telescope has made tentative observations of plumes of water-ice erupting from beneath Europa, much as they do on Enceladus. But there's no point in the lander going to the site of a decades-old eruption; it would need to visit the location of a much more recent plume.\n\nSo scientists need to understand what's controlling these geysers: for example, Clipper will determine whether the plumes are correlated with any hot spots on the surface. The lander's arm could even reach out to sample the mysterious \"brown gunk\" which might, according to one idea, represent radiation-baked sea salt.\n\nEarth's seas are teeming with life, so it can be hard for us to contemplate the prospect of a sterile, 100km-plus deep ocean on Europa. But the scientific threshold for detecting life is set very high. So will we be able to recognise alien life if it's there?\n\n\"The goal of the lander mission is not simply to detect life [to our satisfaction], but to convince everyone else that we have done so,\" Dr Niebur explains. \"It does no good for us to invest in this mission if all we create is scientific controversy.\"\n\nThus, the lander's science definition team came up with two ways to address this. First, any detection of life has to be based on multiple, independent lines of evidence from direct measurements.\n\n\"There's no silver bullet; you don't do one measurement and say: 'aha, eureka we've found it'. You look at the sum total,\" says Dr Niebur. Second, the scientists have come up with a framework to interpret those results, some of which might be positive, while others negative: \"It creates a decision tree that marches through all the different variables. Following all these different paths, the end result is: yes, we've found life, or no we haven't,\" he says.\n\nAt the lander workshop here at the LPSC, Nasa's Kevin Hand described the process as \"biosignature bingo\". Now, the team will have to see if the scientific community is persuaded.\n\nCurt Niebur explains: \"I want to have that discussion now, today, years before we launch so that we can all be focused on analysing the data once we land.\"", "Claressa Shields said she knew when she was 15 years old that she was going to be the best female boxer in the world.\n\nTwo years later, when the American won middleweight gold at London 2012, she proved it.\n\nAt Rio 2016, she became the first American boxer to successfully defend an Olympic title and achieved another milestone this month when she was the first woman to headline a boxing show on a premium network in the United States.\n\nAs part of the BBC's State of Sport week, she told Ade Adedoyin that boxing saved her life.\n\nI was born in Flint, Michigan in 1995, but I didn't start talking until I was five.\n\nBy then, my father had been in prison for three years for dealing drugs. I wouldn't meet him again for another four.\n\nI'm not going to say my mum didn't care for us, but she left us to fend for ourselves. She abused alcohol and didn't know how to control it.\n\nThere were times my little sister and I would walk around looking for mum for days on end.\n\nI'd have to go out and get food and whatever food we got I would always give to my younger siblings. If there were two packs of ramen noodles, my little sister ate one, my little brother ate one and I didn't eat.\n\nWe would sleep on the couch or the floor - and more than likely my sister or my brother was on the couch, so I would be on the floor.\n\nGrowing up and going without instilled an independence in me. I learned if anyone's going to take care of you, it's going to be you. You don't get upset about things, you just get used to it.\n\nBut you learn ways around it. You learn how to do little jobs for money - walking to the store for people and grabbing their groceries will get you about two dollars.\n\nIt was at this time, though, that I was raped. It happened every day for about six months by a person known to the family.\n\nMy aunt had never seen me cry. I was always a good, quiet child - but she saw fear in my eyes.\n\nI couldn't speak well as a child - I had a speech impediment - so when she asked me what had happened, I wasn't able to say it. She gave me a doll and I was able to show her everything he had done to me.\n\nI was kind of terrified of men for a while and my anger was really bad.\n\nI was really quiet, smart and very skinny, but I got bullied when I was seven or eight. People would copy my work and make fun of me all the time because of my stutter.\n\nOne day I was at my desk and a girl walked past, said something and pulled my hair. I didn't do anything, just put my head down - but then this girl walked past and pulled my hair again. So I got up and I punched her. The feeling was one of relief.\n\nI was kicked out for a couple of days, but when I came back to school nobody messed with me. So from that day, anybody who messed with me, I fought them.\n\nMy dad had been out of prison a couple of years by then and getting to know him definitely helped me understand things about myself.\n\nI didn't know why I was easily angered before, but his temper is way worse than mine. In the same way, I didn't know why I laughed so loud, but he laughed just as hard as me.\n\nOne day we were in the city and he was very stressed out. He had been in prison for so many years and was trying to change his life, but wasn't getting any jobs or opportunities.\n\n\"If I stuck to what I was passionate about, I wouldn't be in this situation,\" he said.\n\n\"What were you passionate about?\" I asked.\n\n\"Boxing,\" he replied. \"They used to call me cannonball because my fist was hard and I was fast as lightning.\"\n\nHe said he thought some of my cousins would take up the sport, but none did.\n\nHe mentioned that of Muhammad Ali's nine children only his daughter Leila Ali took up boxing - and when he said that I thought he was asking me to take after him, so I headed to the gym at Berston Field House in Flint.\n\nAfter about three days down there my coach Jason said my parents had to sign me up.\n\nMy dad said: \"No! Boxing is a man's sport and you're too pretty to box.\"\n\n\"What the hell are you talking about?\" I said. \"I'm not going to be a model. I'm not going to be a singer. I'm going to be some type of athlete - and I want to be a boxer.\"\n\nA few days later, I went to his house and it was like an intervention. Him, his wife and her three kids were sitting at this table in the dining room and they all voted on if I should box or not.\n\nEverybody else said yeah, he said no. That was my first victory. I beat my dad, majority decision.\n\nHe said that once he signed me up and paid my $60 membership, I couldn't quit boxing for a year.\n\nMy dad will tell you today that was the best $60 he ever spent.\n\nSix years later, I was going to London 2012.\n\nI was a 25-1 shot and they are not good odds. I heard some commentators say that, at 17, I would be lucky to get a bronze medal.\n\nI watched the Russian Nadezda Torlopova win her semi-final and thought there is no way she can beat me. They always say the Russians are strong, though, and I felt like the female Rocky.\n\nWhen the announcer said \"the winner, from the United States\" I just remember being calm.\n\nI felt vindicated. I had told people and I had shown people.\n\nI held in how much I wanted to celebrate 2012 for four years. I didn't go to the club or celebrate with friends. I was back in the gym three months later.\n\nBefore Rio 2016, I kept hearing that no American boxer had ever defended an Olympic title.\n\nNot Joe Frazier, not George Foreman not Pernell Whitaker, not Oscar de la Hoya, not Leon Spinks - but I would say: \"Well, I ain't them.\"\n\nReporters would comment on how confident I was, but if you believe in yourself and work hard, how can you not be confident?\n\nI worked harder than anyone around me, and I worked alone a lot. I didn't care about accolades or people saying you're working really hard. I did it for myself.\n\nI knew I had checked my boxes. All of them. I knew I had it in the bag, it was just about going out there and doing it, those last little 10 steps.\n\nI made the final fight look so easy. I was so calm and so dominant all fight.\n\nWhen they announced the result, I grabbed the flag and just ran around screaming. My mind kind of left my body.\n\nAfter all the things I had been through in my life, I just looked out on where I was. I was able to make it. It didn't stop me.\n\nThe last time I saw the man who raped me was when I was 16.\n\nHe was walking his dog. He looked at me and I looked at him.\n\nThank God he did have the dog. If he didn't I would have beaten him up and would have probably been in jail before I got a chance to go to the Olympics.\n\nBut you can't let something someone did to you - something that made you feel so worthless - stop your life.\n\nI'm not going to let a man that evil and foul have control over me. I'm not going to let him be the decision-maker.\n\nI could have made bad choices in life, but I was still in school, still boxing and still winning.\n\nIt didn't stop me from being great.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFariha remembers the exact moment when Islamic State fighters shattered her life in Palmyra.\n\n\"It was a quarter to five in the morning. We were asleep and heard a knock on the door,\" she tells me as we sit on thin, grey mattresses in an abandoned school in Homs, 160km (99 miles) from her home.\n\nThis makeshift shelter, in the ruins of a Homs neighbourhood, is a refuge for her and five children, as well as 29 other families, who fled the brutal rule of so-called Islamic State (IS).\n\n\"They shouted at me to cover myself then entered my house, weapons in hand, and took away my husband and niece,\" she recalls as her little ones huddle close, listening, wide-eyed and silent.\n\nHer 15-year-old nephew and her brother-in-law were also taken at that fateful time when IS first stormed Palmyra in 2015. They had their throats cut.\n\n\"They killed a lot of young men,\" Fariha adds, in her softly-spoken story of unspeakable savagery.\n\nAs IS loses ground in northern Syria, more and more gruesome accounts are emerging of their catalogue of crimes.\n\nIS militants have destroyed large parts of the historic site\n\nDamage to the Roman-era theatre is clear to see\n\nFamilies like Fariha's suffered twice over when IS lost, and then recaptured, the Roman ruins of Palmyra and the adjacent city.\n\nNow, after a second occupation, lasting only three months, the area was seized a few weeks ago by Syrian forces, bolstered by the blistering firepower of their Russian and Iranian allies.\n\nPalmyra's deserted buildings now yield evidence of its dark chapter.\n\nIn the blackened basement of one villa, Syrian soldiers show us what they describe as a makeshift court room.\n\nMounds of blue files strewn across the floor are a measure of IS's scales of justice.\n\nOn one file after another, there's the same small word scribbled in Arabic: \"qatl\" - executed.\n\nIt was the fate of a woman named Farizha for \"spreading corruption on earth\".\n\nMarwan met the same end for \"turning from Islam\".\n\nTwo men, both named Ahmed, were sentenced to be \"thrown off the top of a building\". No reason is listed on their joint file.\n\nA sheet of paper taped outside the door, stamped with an IS seal of authority, notifies \"everyone who lives in this state that they must enrol in a course to learn about Sharia law\".\n\n\"Everyone who doesn't will be punished.\"\n\nIS rule is over here. But with homes destroyed, and without electricity or water, Palmyra still isn't a place fit to live in, or safe to return to.\n\nNow both ancient and modern Palmyra are ruins.\n\nThe modern part of Palmyra is also in ruins\n\nWhat was once a vibrant community of 75,000 is now an eerie ghost town. Charred buildings peppered with bullet marks and gaping holes scar every street.\n\nPeople fled not just IS persecution but an urban battlefield including ferocious bombardment by Syrian and Russian warplanes, which flattened multi-storey buildings into stacks of concrete pancakes.\n\nPalmyra's pain did not start or end with IS occupation. Its prison, known by the city's Arabic name Tadmur, was a symbol of torture and summary executions long before Syria's uprising began six years ago.\n\nSyrian soldiers now go house-to-house searching for explosives and booby traps. Russian troops, camped on the outskirts of the city, are helping to demine the area.\n\nThe site of the ancient Roman city nearby stands as a stark tribute to Palmyra's survival.\n\nDespite the destruction of iconic structures such as the 2,000-year-old Arch of Triumph, Palmyra's elegant colonnaded street and striking symmetrical designs are still breathtaking.\n\nThe legacy of IS in Palmyra casts a long shadow\n\nIS's return had bestowed a second chance to destroy more precious world heritage, but much of these monumental ruins still stand.\n\nThe circular Roman theatre was their prime target in January. Its imposing centrepiece, a carved facade, was smashed, leaving a jumble of jagged stone boulders on its ancient stage.\n\n\"This was their revenge for the concerts staged here by Russia's Red Army Orchestra as well as Syrian orchestras,\" explains a government official, who accompanies us to the site.\n\nA dusty pile of glass candle holders wrapped in netting, and red plastic roses caked with dirt, are still tucked in some corners - mementos of the triumphal events in May 2016 when IS was defeated here the first time.\n\nThere is still evidence of the celebrations after the first defeat of IS\n\n\"Recapturing Palmyra the second time was relatively easy,\" says Syrian officer Colonel Malik who fought in both rounds. \"The battles were more ferocious the first time.\"\n\nPalmyra last fell into IS hands in December as the Syrian military was distracted by the last stages of the brutal battle for Aleppo and IS's ranks were reinforced by fighters fleeing frontlines in Mosul, crossing the border from neighbouring Iraq.\n\n\"I don't think we face the threat of losing Palmyra again,\" Colonel Malik tells me confidently as we stand outside the walls of the grand theatre.\n\n\"We've retaken the military airport nearby and the mountains, a space of nearly 70 sq km in less than a month, which proves IS is weakening now.\"\n\nBut harder battles, including an assault on IS's self-declared capital in Raqqa, still lie ahead.\n\nConfronting IS in their Syrian lair, closer to the Turkish and Iraqi borders, takes the fight onto messier and potentially dangerous political turf.\n\nHundreds of American special forces, backed up artillery and airpower, recently moved into this theatre of war to bolster an array of Syrian Kurdish forces, as well as Arab fighters.\n\nTurkish troops are already on the battlefield, playing key roles over the past year in attacks on other IS-held towns.\n\nAll these commands face a common enemy, but also deep seated rivalries and shifting alliances.\n\nThe new US administration is still weighing how to balance a vital relationship with Turkey's President Erdogan while still making use of valuable Syrian Kurdish fighters Turkey sees as its enemy.\n\nTurkey moved closer to Russia over the past year, but they're still on opposite sides of this war with Ankara insisting President Assad's continuing rule is what's fuelling this conflict.\n\nThe biggest question is whether President Trump's team, for whom fighting IS is the main goal, will now co-ordinate with Russia, which would end up strengthening President Assad's axis including Iran.\n\n\"The Syrian government's decision is to take back every inch of Syrian soil,\" insists Col Malik.\n\n\"Those criminals who infiltrated our country were supported by foreign countries like the US and the UK,\" he says, repeating the government's refrain that all rebel groups are creations of Western and Arab states. \"They're supporting, not fighting IS.\"\n\nThe same accusation is levelled against President Bashar al-Assad by the Syrian opposition and its allies who charge him with turning a blind eye to IS's advance to bolster his narrative that this is a global war against terrorism, not a fight for political change.\n\nThe days of IS occupation may be counted, but its legacy casts a long shadow over a punishing war whose end is still nowhere in sight.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWales' hopes of World Cup qualification look increasingly remote following a goalless draw against the Republic of Ireland, whose captain Seamus Coleman suffered a broken leg after a wild tackle that led to Neil Taylor being sent off.\n\nThe hosts seemed content to play for a draw as their deep-lying and stubborn defence shackled Wales - and the visitors' lack of creativity and incision contributed to an underwhelming encounter.\n\nGareth Bale twice went close for Wales, but their task became a daunting one after 69 minutes as Taylor was shown a straight red card for his lunge on Coleman, who was carried off on a stretcher and taken to hospital.\n\nThat incident lit the fuse for a tempestuous atmosphere that appeared to inspire the Republic, but despite their push for a late winner, Martin O'Neill's side had to settle for a point and second place in Group D.\n\nThey lost top spot after Serbia's victory in Georgia earlier on Friday but remain four points ahead of Wales.\n\nFor Chris Coleman's side, a fourth successive draw of the campaign is another setback in their stuttering bid to qualify for next year's World Cup in Russia.\n\nWales boss Coleman had been careful to avoid using the phrase \"must win\" for this fixture but, with the Republic four points in front, the visitors could ill afford anything other than three points from Dublin.\n\nRather than emphasise the importance of this result, Coleman had said he and his side were driven by a \"desperation\" to replicate last summer's run to the Euro 2016 semi-finals, a hunger to qualify for a second successive major tournament after an absence of 58 years.\n\nThe enormity of the occasion made for a tense and disjointed start to the match, with all 11 home players regularly in their own half as they sought to contain their opponents.\n\nWales' inability to unlock the dogged defence before them was a familiar failing, as they had struggled similarly in their home draws with Georgia and Serbia, as well as their last-16 triumph over Northern Ireland at the European Championship.\n\nBale and Aaron Ramsey, usually their most potent attacking weapons, looked off the pace having both returned from injury relatively recently.\n\nBale sprung into action early in the second half with a dipping free-kick straight at keeper Darren Randolph and a swerving shot that went narrowly wide - but his frustrating evening was capped by a yellow card, meaning he will be suspended for June's trip to Serbia.\n\nThe match was played with a ferocity most would expect from relatively local rivals and two teams comprised of several Premier League club-mates.\n\nBut the physicality spilled over after 69 minutes. With the ball running loose, Wales left-back Taylor lunged recklessly at Coleman, who was clearly in great pain as he was taken off the field on a stretcher.\n\nRoared on by a vociferous home crowd, the Republic sought to exploit their one-man advantage with a frantic late push forward - but they were thwarted by some stubborn Wales defending.\n\nThe hosts were also arguably paying for their earlier pragmatism and unwillingness to attack.\n\nWhere as Wales had some catching up to do with their group rivals, the Republic could afford to sit back and wait for their opportunity to pounce - even though they had been overtaken at the top of the table following Serbia's victory.\n\nWith a home encounter against the group leaders to come later in the campaign, O'Neill's side seemed to consider this fixture a chance to consolidate, rather than significantly improve, their position.\n• None Listen: Taylor's tackle on Coleman 'out of character'\n• None Attempt saved. Jeff Hendrick (Republic of Ireland) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Shane Long (Republic of Ireland) header from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Aiden McGeady with a cross.\n• None Aiden McGeady (Republic of Ireland) is shown the yellow card.\n• None Attempt missed. Gareth Bale (Wales) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Aiden McGeady (Republic of Ireland) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by James McClean.\n• None Attempt missed. Gareth Bale (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Sam Vokes.\n• None James McClean (Republic of Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Chris Gunter (Wales) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Shane Long (Republic of Ireland) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Glenn Whelan with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Game faces on: The drivers are gearing up for the new season\n\nMuch has changed in Formula 1 since Lewis Hamilton took the chequered flag at last year's season finale in Abu Dhabi.\n\nThe reigning world champion, Nico Rosberg, has walked off into the sunset. The cars have evolved, with new rules allowing them to become bigger, faster and more aggressive-looking.\n\nBut the most significant transformation has taken place behind the scenes.\n\nFormula 1 is under new ownership. Control has passed from private equity firm CVC Capital Partners to the US group Liberty Media.\n\nAs a result, former chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, the man who is credited with turning F1 into one of the world's most lucrative sports, has finally stepped down at the age of 86.\n\nThe new chief executive is Chase Carey, a veteran of the US media industry and a former associate of Rupert Murdoch. He has already suggested that F1 \"needs a fresh start\".\n\nSo what might actually be changed?\n\nIn commercial terms, Formula 1 is a curious beast. It is certainly lucrative. In 2015, its revenues reached $1.7bn, according to motorsport analysts Formula Money. Yet teams towards the back of the grid often struggle to make ends meet.\n\nFerrari is well-funded under the current system\n\nEarlier this year, the Manor team finally closed down after several years of financial problems. Its collapse followed those of HRT and Caterham, who folded in 2012 and 2014 respectively.\n\nAnd even as revenues have been rising, TV audiences have been falling.\n\nThe sport claimed 400 million viewers in 2016, down from a peak of 600 million in 2008. That may be partly due to a shift towards pay-TV in major markets such as the UK, Italy, France and Spain.\n\nFormula 1 is an expensive business: even the smallest teams employ about 200 people, and it costs at least $100m just to get on to the starting grid. Remaining there, however, is the biggest challenge.\n\nSmall squads that don't win races and that don't get much television airtime often struggle to raise the sponsorship they need.\n\nAnd although roughly half of F1's revenues are distributed among the teams, they are not divided equally.\n\nPart of this is merit-based. The higher you finish in the World Championship, the more money you get. But some teams get extra bonuses, irrespective of how well they perform.\n\nSmaller teams like Sauber want to see F1 revenues distributed more evenly amongst the teams\n\nFerrari, McLaren, Red Bull, Mercedes and Williams all get extra funding. And Ferrari gets more than $60m simply for turning up, because of its place in the sport's heritage.\n\nThe smaller teams think this is deeply unfair and argue that because in F1, success is heavily linked to financial resources, it distorts the competition. In 2015, the Sauber and Force India teams lodged a formal complaint with the European Commission.\n\nSauber team principal Monisha Kaltenborn says she hopes matters will change under Liberty Media.\n\nTalks so far, she says, have been \"very encouraging\". Although altering the way payments are made would inevitably mean some of the larger teams getting less, she thinks they will co-operate.\n\n\"Why shouldn't it happen?\" she says. \"The big teams know that the show has to be a healthy show.\n\n\"If viewing figures continue to go down and we don't have that 'aha effect', sponsorship will go down and they will suffer equally, probably more, because they need more money to keep their operations going.\"\n\nGraeme Lowdon, a motor racing entrepreneur who helped to found the Manor team, agrees that a more level playing field is needed,\n\n\"What people want to see in F1 is a sport where skill is rewarded,\" he says.\n\n\"The sports that have grown in the past few years are the ones that are focused on parity, such as the NFL.\"\n\nNico Rosberg retired days after winning his first F1 world title\n\nAnother area where change may be needed is in how F1 reaches out to its fanbase.\n\nIn recent years, the sport has focused on maximising its revenues, but despite expanding into new markets, it has arguably failed to attract a new generation of enthusiasts.\n\nRaces have been held in countries with little or no F1 heritage or established audiences, but where governments have proved willing to pay ever-higher sanctioning fees in exchange for the glamour associated with hosting a grand prix.\n\nAt the same time, fewer events have been held in the sport's European heartlands, where organisers are less willing to pay more than $30m for the privilege.\n\nLiberty Media appears keen to reverse that trend and introduce new races in the United States, in an effort to broaden the sport's appeal.\n\nChase Carey has taken over at the helm of Formula 1\n\nThat could mean getting rid of lucrative but controversial events like the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, which Liberty Media's chief executive Greg Maffei recently said \"does nothing to build the long-term brand and health of the business\".\n\nHowever, according to Formula Money's Christian Sylt, that strategy may not work if F1 wants to keep its revenues at their current level.\n\n\"I do not believe there is a 'big ticket' alternative revenue stream to race hosting fees\", he says.\n\nBut perhaps the biggest challenge of all is to bring in a new generation of enthusiasts.\n\n\"We need to do something to connect with younger fans,\" says Sauber's Monisha Kaltenborn. \"You know, we don't want people who are just 40-something watching the sport. We have to go into digital media and social media far more.\n\n\"That's not a question about instantly making money, but it's about positioning yourself towards young people, so that tomorrow they'll come and watch a race.\"\n\nCan F1 under Liberty Media succeed in attracting younger fans?\n\nFormer Jordan team commercial manager Ian Phillips puts it even more bluntly. \"At the moment Formula 1, it hurts me to say it, is just not that exciting,\" he says.\n\nThe problem, he thinks, is cost. Champions Mercedes spend upwards of $400m a year on their cars, and other teams simply can't compete. So the racing becomes boring.\n\n\"I have a 13-year-old son who just watches the first lap, then he goes away,\" he says.\n\nSo wealthy F1 may be - but if it can't attract the kids, it may well find itself overtaken by other, more appealing sports before long.\n\nYou can hear more on this story on Business Daily: Financing Formula 1", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nBritish Swimming is conducting an investigation after multiple bullying claims were made by Paralympians about a coach, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe sport's governing body began an internal review after several Para-swimmers made complaints.\n\nThe complainants are understood to include Rio 2016 medallists.\n\nSwimming was ParalympicsGB's most successful sport in Rio, winning 47 medals - 16 golds of 152 available - and setting eight world records.\n\nBut it has now emerged the team, which is based at the Manchester Aquatics Centre, has been embroiled in a bullying controversy for the past two months.\n\nBritish Swimming has appointed investigators to look into the allegations.\n\nUK Sport said it was aware of the internal review and \"disappointed\" to hear the claims.\n\nA parent of one of the complainants told the BBC that swimmers were \"belittled and criticised\".\n\n\"We were told elite sport was not about the welfare of athletes but the pursuit of medals. There was a culture of fear,\" the parent said.\n\nIn a statement, British Swimming told the BBC: \"Whilst some athletes have expressed some concerns, we have immediately undertaken an independent fact-finding investigation into these.\n\n\"The investigation remains ongoing and, until it is completed, we do not propose to make any further comment.\"\n\nUK Sport said: \"While we are disappointed to hear of these allegations, we are reassured that athletes feel able to challenge any behaviour that they are uncomfortable with and that British Swimming are investigating.\n\n\"As part of our action plan following the independent review into British Cycling, we will be looking at sharing learnings and best practice across the entire high performance system to ensure we continue to support our best athletes to reach their full potential within a positive performance culture of the upmost integrity and ethical standards.\"\n\nA British Paralympic Association statement added: \"We understand that some athletes have raised concerns with British Swimming, their national governing body. Athlete welfare is of the utmost importance, therefore it is quite right that British Swimming have undertaken an independent fact-finding investigation into the matter, which remains ongoing.\"\n\nThe revelations come amid mounting concern over the culture of high-performance programmes at British sports, and whether medal success has come at the expense of athlete welfare.\n\nTeam GB and ParalympicsGB both came second in their respective medal tables in Rio.\n\nBritish Cycling apologised last month for various \"failings\" after an independent investigation into allegations of bullying and sexism.\n\nA leaked draft version of the report, due for publication, found there was \"a culture of fear\" in the national velodrome, and \"cracks in terms of the climate and culture… were ignored in pursuit of medal success\".\n\nSeveral former riders and staff have complained about the way they were treated, with track cyclist Jess Varnish saying she was \"thrown under the bus\" and the victim of a \"cover-up\".\n\nFormer technical director Shane Sutton has always denied any wrongdoing.\n\nBritish Cycling has introduced an action plan of reforms dedicated to improving training, governance and welfare.\n\nLast year, British Rowing coach Paul Thompson was cleared of bullying following an investigation.\n\nFormer GB rower Emily Taylor had claimed Thompson was \"a massive bully\". A review concluded more care needed to be taken of athletes' wellbeing and the culture at British Rowing was \"hard and unrelenting\".\n\nMeanwhile, in 2016 the government asked former Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson to conduct a comprehensive 'duty of care review'.\n\nPublication of her report is imminent. It is expected to recommend significant reforms designed to improve the way athletes are treated by governing bodies.\n\nLast month, UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl told BBC Sport there is \"no excuse for not putting athletes first... there probably hasn't been enough attention in sport about how they do things.\n\n\"There's a lot of focus on operational delivery, probably not enough on leadership management and communication.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton led a Mercedes one-two in first practice as a new era of Formula 1 started in familiar fashion at the Australian Grand Prix.\n\nThe talk before the weekend in Melbourne had been about the step forward made by Ferrari over the winter but their fastest driver Kimi Raikkonen was down in fifth.\n\nHamilton was using faster tyres when he set his fastest time, but the Mercedes appeared quicker on the same tyres, too.\n\nHamilton's team-mate Valtteri Bottas was second ahead of the two Red Bulls.\n\nLocal hero Daniel Ricciardo, who has had a busy week crammed with promotional appearances, was third fastest, 0.36 seconds quicker than team-mate Max Verstappen.\n\nBottas, in his first appearance for the Mercedes team, was a chastening 0.583secs behind Hamilton.\n\nThe Ferraris, with Sebastian Vettel one place and 0.092secs behind Raikkonen, were more than a second slower than the Mercedes.\n\nRaikkonen and Vettel used the super-soft tyre to set their fastest lap while Mercedes were on the ultra-soft.\n\nBut the Mercedes also set a faster time than Ferrari's best when using the super-soft - Bottas was 0.23secs quicker than Raikkonen's best.\n\nRed Bull entered the weekend expecting to be the third quickest team and talking up the progress Ferrari had made over the winter but, on the same tyre as Ferrari, Ricciardo was 0.486secs quicker than Raikkonen.\n\nMcLaren-Honda had a better time of it than in their dire pre-season testing programme, which was beset by reliability problems, but even so two-time world champion Fernando Alonso was 14th fastest and 2.896secs off the pace, also using the super-soft tyre.\n\nHis team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne was 20th and last after a problem-affected session.\n\nBritain's Jolyon Palmer also had a troubled 90 minutes, 19th fastest and needing to end his session early because of a transmission problem.\n\nFirst and second practice - full results", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nDate:Venue:Kick-off:Coverage: Listen on BBC Radio 5 live or follow live text commentary on the BBC Sport website.\n\nMiddlesbrough defender Ben Gibson has been called up to the England squad for the first time.\n\nThe 24-year-old will join up with Gareth Southgate's squad for Sunday's 2018 World Cup qualifier against Lithuania at Wembley.\n\nThe centre-back has been drafted in following an injury to Chris Smalling.\n\nThe Manchester United player has returned to Old Trafford while Chelsea's Gary Cahill, who is suspended for the game, has also left the camp.\n\nGibson will join the squad on Friday afternoon and take part in a training session on Saturday.\n\nTottenham midfielder Eric Dier said Gibson is already well known by many in the England squad.\n\n\"He's a very good player getting a lot of praise for how he's playing this season,\" said Dier.\n\n\"A lot of people have played with him in younger age groups so it'll be quite easy for him. I'm sure he'll be just fine.\"\n\nEngland were beaten 1-0 by Germany in a friendly in Dortmund on Wednesday in Southgate's first game as permanent England manager.\n\nThey go into Sunday's game unbeaten in qualifying and are top of Group F on 10 points.", "Serving cakes to patients in the afternoons was a welcome move at Kingston Hospital\n\nPatients at Kingston Hospital, in south-west London, used to say the food was a major disappointment.\n\nWhen patients were asked for feedback, the poor quality of hospital meals was mentioned more often than anything else.\n\nSo Duncan Burton decided to do something about it - starting with the breakfasts.\n\nOut went the limp bread and plain cereals and in came scrambled eggs, toast, porridge and fruit during the week, with sausages and bacon on offer at the weekends.\n\nDespite the challenges of providing toasters around the hospital and not setting off fire alarms during the toasting process, he knew the extra hassle would be worth it.\n\n\"You can't have breakfast without toast,\" he says. \"It's more reflective of what people have in their own home.\"\n\nMr Burton, who is director of nursing and patient experience at the acute hospital, where there are about 520 beds, knew that good nutrition and appetising food was fundamental to patients' healing and recovery.\n\nHe also knew it had an impact on general wellbeing.\n\nWith a high proportion of elderly in-patients, including many with dementia, Duncan and his team started reworking the menu with them in mind.\n\nThey were helped in their task by dieticians, caterers and patients themselves - but perhaps the most useful input came from hospital volunteers who sit with patients and help feed them.\n\nFinger food is an alternative to hot meals for any adult patients who want it\n\nThey suggested finger food for those who wanted to eat only small amounts and for dementia patients because it was easier for them to eat.\n\nSo instead of being faced with an off-putting plate of non-descript meat, veg and mash, they are now given small bite-sized items such as small sandwiches, grapes, cucumber sticks and quiche slices.\n\nThat way, patients can eat a little and often, grazing throughout the day.\n\nRather than being offered an orange or an apple, which can be awkward to get into, they are given apple slices or a soft satsuma.\n\nThere are also new light meal options including homemade soups, omelettes, sandwiches and salads.\n\nAnd there's a recognition that patients may not want to eat only healthy food.\n\n\"You're not going to change people's eating habits when they are not feeling well,\" Mr Burton says.\n\n\"If you can get them to eat a piece of cake, then fine... at least it is some nutrition.\"\n\nAnd the introduction of freshly baked cakes served to patients in the afternoon has been a triumph, particularly when the aroma reaches patients before the cakes do.\n\nAs well as finger food, Kingston Hospital has brought in food packs for people who are discharged and live on their own.\n\nThese packs contain milk, bread, butter and tea-bags - the basics that can help vulnerable and elderly people through the first day or so back at home.\n\nDuncan Burton helped to bring in a new-look menu for adults and children\n\nIn maternity wards, a plate of hot food is on offer 24 hours a day \"because babies arrive at all times of the day and night\".\n\nThe menu for children was revamped too, with the help of local school children and paediatric patients.\n\nChildren are now offered a finger box of crackers, cheese, fruit, sandwiches, cucumber sticks and biscuits or a hot meal option from a choice of meatballs, tuna pasta bake, fish fingers and vegetable curry.\n\nThere are still challenges however - providing more healthy food for more than 3,000 staff and contractors who work at the hospital is next on the list.\n\nThe menu changes, which were first discussed in 2014, were achieved without any extra funding for food, but the meals are brought in and \"regenerated\" on site rather than being cooked freshly in hospital kitchens.\n\nAnd that's down to space - or the lack of it, Duncan Burton says.\n\n\"Some trusts do have that space, but it's not something we can do.\n\n\"Instead, catering staff are on site and are able to heat food up and serve it. Some fresh food is still made on site.\"\n\nKingston is not the only hospital in that position.\n\nIn a recent report from the Campaign for Better Hospital Food, which surveyed 30 London hospitals, only 30% cooked all food freshly on site.\n\nThe campaign group also said half of hospitals surveyed were failing to meet basic food standards set down by the NHS.\n\nBut in this south-west London hospital, patient feedback shows little criticism of the food any more and there is evidence of a reduction in patients with pressure sores and ulcers - a sign that they are eating better and recovering more quickly.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nDavid Haye has been called before boxing authorities to explain his behaviour in the build-up to his heavyweight bout with Tony Bellew.\n\nHaye graphically described injuries he hoped to inflict on Bellew in the run-up to last month's stoppage defeat.\n\nThe former world heavyweight champion must appear before the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) on 12 April.\n\nThe BBBofC believes Bellew's behaviour improved after both fighters were warned days before the bout.\n\n\"Mr Haye was told to behave himself but the board have called him,\" the board's general secretary Robert Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"He will now be given the opportunity to come and explain his behaviour.\"\n\nThe BBBofC condemned the actions of both fighters during a fight week which included a boisterous news conference in Liverpool and a media event in London.\n• None Bellew v Haye - in their own words\n\nAccording to records on the BBBofC website, Haye, 36, made a donation and apologised for his behaviour to the Southern Area Council at a meeting three days before the bout.\n\nBellew, 34, was handed a four-month suspended suspension by the board in December as a result of his ringside behaviour when he called Haye out following victory over BJ Flores in October.\n\nFurther misdemeanours could have seen his licence withdrawn before the meeting with Haye.\n\nAfter his 11th-round stoppage win, an emotional Bellew told reporters: \"What we have done for boxing tonight is put it on a pedestal.\n\n\"Two men fought their hearts out. The board can't say nothing to me and if they do, I will go and get a licence somewhere else.\"\n\nHaye said after the fight that he expected to be fined for his pre-fight comments.\n\nThe ex-WBA heavyweight champion has said he intends on returning to the ring after recovering from Achilles surgery.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nBritish Olympic and Paralympic sport must improve its athletes' welfare, says Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.\n\nThe 11-time Paralympic gold medallist has authored a forthcoming report into the subject, which has been brought into sharp focus by recent claims.\n\nBritish Swimming is the latest body to investigate claims of \"bullying\", while several ex-riders have spoken of a \"culture of fear\" at British Cycling.\n\n\"We must prove we can win medals with a duty of care,\" Grey-Thompson said.\n• None State of Sport - catch up on a week of in-depth journalism from the BBC\n\nSpeaking at a debate organised by the BBC as part of its State of Sport coverage, she added: \"We've proved we can win medals. I don't think having a duty of care diminishes our chances of winning.\n\n\"We can't make it all warm and cuddly - because that is not what elite sport is. But it is about getting the best talent and not leaving athletes broken at the end of it.\"\n\nGrey-Thompson's report - due for publication \"imminently\", she said - was commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.\n\n\"There are some really good sports out there; there are sports that need to do much more,\" she added.\n\n\"My report doesn't mention a sport in particular, it doesn't mention a particular person in it. It's about the principles of how sport should be as we go forward.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Wendy Houvenaghel became the latest high-profile cyclist to come forward with criticisms of British Cycling's World Class programme - following Jess Varnish, Nicole Cooke and Emma Pooley.\n\nHouvenaghel said a \"medal at any cost\" approach created a \"culture of fear\" at the organisation, which she accused of \"ageism\" and having \"zero regard\" for her welfare.\n\nLater on Thursday, BBC sports editor Dan Roan exclusively reported on British Swimming's investigation into multiple bullying claims made by Paralympians about a coach.\n\nSwimming was Britain's most successful sport at the Rio Paralympics. The British team won 47 medals - 16 golds of 152 available - and set eight world records.\n\nAlso speaking at Friday's debate, UK Sport chief executive Liz Nichol described the athletes' testimonies as \"a wake-up call for sport\".\n\n\"We have to be much more aware of responsibilities, beyond the responsibility of helping athletes achieve what they all aspire to,\" she said\n\n\"It's clear it can be better, and it will be better. This is a big step-up for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics cycle.\"\n\nUK Sport is the funding body for Olympic and Paralympic sports in Britain.\n\nWhen Nichol was asked whether linking funding to medal targets might have a negative effect on athlete welfare, she replied: \"We don't reward success, we invest in potential.\n\nSpeaking about British Cycling's 39-point action plan response to failures identified in a leaked draft report into its World Class Programme, Nichol added: \"This is something that is very significant.\n\n\"Every sport can learn from it and every sport should be looking at the cycling plan and checking to see if they are doing things properly.\n\n\"Yes it is uncomfortable, but it is right that athletes are speaking out. And it is right that we all acknowledge that something has got to change - and it will change - over this next cycle.\"\n\n'It's not an issue of welfare or medals'\n\nHelen Richardson-Walsh, who starred as Great Britain won Olympic hockey gold in Rio, said she had seen \"big changes\" in athlete welfare over her career.\n\n\"Gone are the days where you would get shouted at on the sideline at international level. I don't think that's acceptable in society any more and it is kind of being phased out in sport,\" the 35-year-old said.\n\n\"What we developed as a team in the last two Olympic cycles was so far removed from that old fashioned in your face coaching and we were more successful.\n\n\"You don't need to go down that route to win. It's not an issue of welfare or medals.\"", "Bruce Turner's mum Tina was diagnosed with depression in 1990 and was hospitalised many times throughout his childhood. Now, at 20 years old, he still struggles to understand her condition.\n\nIf you met my mum you would think she was the life and soul of the party. She's confident, full of energy and charisma, but she lives with depression and when it hits she is none of those things.\n\nIn those times she becomes scared and fragile, sees the worst in situations, and her ability to love and show compassion is taken away. She'll shut herself off from the world and won't get out of bed or speak to anyone for weeks.\n\nIt strips her of emotion - so if someone knocked on the door and told her she had won the lottery or her children had died in a car crash, her reaction would be the same.\n\nI've been surrounded by mental illness my entire life and, though I still live at home with my parents in Wilmslow near Manchester, I still can't get my head around it.\n\nThe first time mum's depression affected me was when I was about nine, but it was hidden quite well from me, my twin sister Millie and my younger brother, Jake.\n\nMum was admitted to hospital. Dad told us she was poorly but we didn't understand what was happening. He cried, which was a real shock, and when she returned he told us to be quiet around the house.\n\nShe looked and acted differently. Normally mum was very glamorous but she became a shadow of herself, she stayed in her bedroom and was always in night-wear. Mum has since told me it took all her willpower to even go to the toilet back then.\n\nIt was a shock to see her so vacant and she was scared of the people she loved the most. When her three children were laughing, it would send her into a panic and sleep became the only time the demons disappeared. She often hoped she wouldn't wake up.\n\nAs children we went to youth club every Friday. Mum would never take us because she wasn't \"well\" so we would always go with friends.\n\nOne Friday night, after she was discharged from hospital, she came to pick us up. It was amazing. I looked at her and thought she was back to normal again, but it was only the beginning of her recovery.\n\nShe says she dreaded doing the pick-up and it took a huge amount of courage that night.\n\nAs we grew up our grandparents kept family life as normal as possible. Millie now plays football for England and Bristol City WFC and my younger brother, Jake, 18, is a goalkeeper for Bolton Wanderers.\n\nDespite everything, they never missed a training session. Mum has said if she thought her illness had affected us in any way it would have made her battle worse.\n\nMum has long periods of wellness but, when I was 16, the depression returned and I found it harder to cope with.\n\nThis time I knew what was coming but the more I understood, the more I worried, and I was fearful that other people wouldn't understand.\n\nI put a brave face on at school and whenever anyone asked I would say mum was \"fine\" or cover the truth by saying she had a physical illness.\n\nAt that age I found it hard to understand the situation and I was angry. She was admitted to hospital again and again and there was something about not being able to see anything physically wrong with her that made me question whether it was really there at all.\n\nI thought: \"What has mum got to be depressed about? She lives in a nice house with a nice family and is financially stable.\" I didn't understand how \"being sad\" could be an illness and would make flippant remarks about how she should just \"pull herself together\".\n\nThe triggers for mum's depression are difficult to understand. She lost a few close family members which she thinks affected her, but she also says one major episode came after watching the film Ray, about the blind rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. It sounds surprising that she could be affected by a film like this, but she said it broke her heart and tipped her over the edge.\n\nThe pain caused by depression within a family is tremendous, but it's brought us closer.\n\nIt has made me appreciate every opportunity I receive, although I also live with the constant worry of when or if she'll have another episode.\n\nMum, who's 49, is currently well and we hope it remains that way for as long as possible, but the dread of its return never goes away.\n\nThe rapid disappearance of the person you love can be painful and frustrating. It's the fact they are facing the darkest battle and there is nothing you can do.\n\nI think the stigma surrounding mental health needs to be improved and it should be considered like any physical illness. Ignorance can't be acceptable for an illness where suicide could be the ultimate trauma.\n\nIf depression affects someone you should surround them with love, appreciate the struggle and be there for them. Send them a \"get well soon\" card to let them know you're thinking about them.\n\nAfter 20 years of living alongside mum's battle, I still don't completely understand depression, but I'm getting there.\n\nFor more Disability News, follow on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast.", "A rally for two young people detained by immigration officials in Vermont\n\nThe Trump Administration's immigration enforcement priorities have revived deportation orders ignored during the Obama Administration.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Trump criticized local law enforcement agencies for refusing to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) to detain and deport people living in the US illegally.\n\nThe administration started publishing a weekly \"Declined Detainer Outcome Report\", which calls out local agencies that ignored orders to detain undocumented immigrants arrested for unrelated crimes. The report names the immigrants in question and lists \"crimes associated with those released individuals.\"\n\nDespite promising to focus on violent criminals and gang members, President Donald Trump's executive orders on immigration and his executive memo to the Department of Homeland Security empowers Ice to deport virtually anyone living in the US without documentation.\n\nOnly one clear exception exists, for people with active Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) status.\n\nHere's a look at some of the most recent immigration cases across the US.\n\nBeristain, in blue, has been in the us for 19 years\n\nIn 1998, Mr Beristain came to the US to visit an aunt and decided to stay.\n\nIn 2000, he and his wife, a naturalised US citizen originally from Greece, accidentally crossed the Canadian border while sightseeing at Niagara Falls. When they crossed back into the US, border patrol agents detained Mr Beristain.\n\nA judge initially issued an order mandating that Mr Beristain voluntarily return to Mexico. When Beristain declined to leave, the order reverted to a final order.\n\nInstead Mr Beristain's lawyer convinced Ice agents to grant him leniency due to his family ties in the US and lack of criminal records.\n\nThe agents helped Mr Beristain obtain a driver's licence, a work permit and a legal Social Security Number, and Mr Beristain went to work in the restaurant business. He is now co-owner of Eddie's Steak Shed in Granger, Indiana.\n\nMr Beristain had to check in with Ice agents every year. This February, agents at the Indianapolis Ice office took him into custody.\n\n\"Trump says we're deporting bad hombres. Roberto is the farthest thing from a bad guy,\" said Jason Flora, who served as Mr Beristain's attorney until Saturday. \"You ask 100 people to paint a picture of a bad guy, not one would draw something remotely resembling Roberto.\"\n\nHis wife supported Mr Trump because of his immigration programmes, and thought her husband - a businessman and father - would be spared.\n\n\"We don't want to have cartels here, you don't want to have drugs in your high schools, you don't want killers next to you,\" Helen Beristain told Indiana Public Media earlier this year.\n\n\"You want to feel safe when you leave your house. I truly believe that. And this is why I voted for Mr Trump.\"\n\nBecause of the deportation order from 2000, Mr Beristain could be deported as early as Friday without a hearing before an immigration court.\n\nPolice arrested Henry Sanchez-Milian and another undocumented teenager, Jose O Montano, 17, on charges of sexual assault after they allegedly trapped a fellow Rockville High School student in a school bathroom and raped her.\n\nMr Montano is being charged as an adult.\n\nMr Sanchez-Milian has lived in the US for only eight months, after fleeing Guatemala. He had been awaiting a hearing with an immigration judge.\n\nBecause he is considered a serious flight risk, he will likely remain in jail until a he's brought before a criminal court, said Montgomery County Assistant States Attorney Rebecca MacVittie.\n\nWhen an undocumented individual is convicted of a serious crime, standard procedure is to allow them to serve their prison sentence in the US and then transfer them to Ice custody to initiate the deportation process.\n\nIt is unclear whether Mr Sanchez-Milian will be deported before a trial. Ice has issued an order for local law enforcement to keep him in custody.\n\nThe case has been referenced by members of Mr Trump's administration as reason for Mr Trump's \"crackdown\" on immigration.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Martinez-Morales was pulled over for a broken tail light, at which point officers identified him as an undocumented immigrant.\n\nHe had lived in the US for nearly 20 years. He married a US citizen and has four American-born children under the age of 12.\n\nIn 2004, Mr Martinez-Morales returned to Mexico to see family. Upon his return, he was arrested for crossing illegally at the Texas border, which set in motion his deportation order. Mr Martinez-Morales returned to the Houston area, and lived there without incident until this month.\n\nThe Obama Administration's immigration priorities that allowed people living in the US illegally with no criminal record to stay in the US, even if they had a deportation order that predated 1 January 2014. Under the Trump administration, individual with a deportation order is a priority for removal.\n\n\"There has been a total change with this new administration,\" says Raed Gonzalez, Mr Martinze-Morales' attorney. \"This is a sharp shift in policy.\"\n\nMr Martinez-Morales was deported one week after his detention.\n\nMr Carrillo, Mr Balcazar and Ms Rodriguez are activists who belong to a Vermont-based immigration rights advocacy group called Migrant Justice.\n\nIce agents arrested Mr Carrillo-Sanchez on Wednesday, as he was arriving to a court hearing for a misdemeanour charge at the Chittenden County courthouse.\n\nTwo days later, Ice officials stopped a car that Mr Balcazar was driving, with Ms Rodriguez in the passenger seat, as they were leaving the Migrant Justice office. Both were detained by immigration officials, according to the organisation.\n\nAlex Carrillo (left) with daughter and wife at a rally to free Victor Diazz\n\nMembers of Migrant Justice said that they view their detention as a sign that immigration officials are targeting activists and community leaders.\n\nMigrant Justice members have had run-ins with Ice in the past. Two other members, Victor Diaz and Miguel Alcudia, were detained last year, but were both released and had their deportation proceedings halted after public outcry.\n\nMr Carrillo-Sanchez and Mr Balcazar both immigrated to the US from Mexico. Ms Rodriguez is from Peru.\n\nBorder Patrol agents from the Casa Grande Station in Arizona arrested Aaron Sarmiento-Sanchez for entering the US illegally.\n\nHe had previously been deported in April 2013.\n\nWhen officers ran a background check on Mr Sarmiento-Sanchez, they found a 2006 conviction in Salinas, California, for \"lewd or lascivious acts with a child\". Mr Sarmiento-Sanchez was sentenced to six years in prison for that crime.\n\nMr Sarmiento-Sanchez faces federal charges for re-entering the country illegally and will remain in detention until a judge rules on those criminal charges.", "The tagua seed reaches 9cm (3.5 inches) in length, and can be carved like ivory\n\nOnno Heerma van Voss jokes that he never intended to be a conservationist, but he is helping to save the African elephant.\n\nNumbers of elephants in the wild are still falling; it's estimated 100 of them are killed by poachers every day for their tusks to meet the continuing demand for ivory.\n\nThere are now only around 415,000 African elephants across the continent, down from as many as five million a century ago, according to global campaign group WWF (formerly known as the World Wide Fund for Nature).\n\nWhile the worldwide sale of new ivory was outlawed in 1989, the animals are still being slaughtered to fuel an illegal trade led by continuing demand in China.\n\nSo what exactly is Mr Heerma van Voss, a 48-year-old Dutchman, doing to help protect the African elephant? He sells seeds.\n\nOnno Heerma van Voss had never heard of tagua before he moved to Ecuador\n\nYes, you read that correctly, but these aren't any old seeds, they are instead rather special ones from South America called tagua.\n\nThey are the off-white coloured seeds of six species of palm trees. They can reach up to 9cm (3.5 inches) in length and when dried become very hard indeed. So hard in fact that they are also known as \"vegetable ivory\".\n\nAnd like ivory, tagua can be polished and carved, and turned into ornate carvings or jewellery.\n\nFrom his base in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, Mr Heerma van Voss's company Naya Nayon has been exporting tagua for 16 years, and he says that sales are booming.\n\nTagua has a very similar feel to ivory, but is a fraction of the price\n\nHe now sells to 70 countries, including China, Japan and Singapore, as tagua grows in popularity as an alternative to ivory.\n\nAnd with China pledging to end its domestic trade in elephant tusks by the end of this year, Mr van Voss is hopeful that demand is going to jump even further.\n\nUsing tagua as a substitute for ivory is nothing new. Indeed exports to Europe began in the 19th Century in order to meet the demand for an ivory-like raw material. This was used to produce ornamental items such as buttons, chess pieces, and decorative handles for canes.\n\nIn fact, the scientific name for the six species of palm trees that produce tagua is Phytelephas, which means elephant plant, a nod to the ivory-like quality of the seeds.\n\nThe white flesh of the tagua seed becomes exceptionally hard once it dried\n\nHowever, tagua fell into obscurity, so much so that Mr Heerma van Voss had never heard of it when he first visited Ecuador in 2000.\n\nVery much liking the country he decided to stay and set up a business, launching Naya Nayon to make and export wooden furniture. Then a year later he had a phone call.\n\n\"In the beginning of 2001, a France-based British lady contacted me if I could supply hand carved tagua figurines,\" he says.\n\nThe seeds are harvested from six species of palm trees\n\n\"Anyhow, you listen to clients to make a company work. So I did it, and I started to like the tagua and slowly it took off.\n\n\"I always joke that I am a forced ecologist, but I actually really like this product.\"\n\nTagua seeds - which have a brown outer husk - can be dried in the air, or in an oven\n\nMr Heerma van Voss now sells $200,000 (£160,000) worth of tagua per year that he buys from farmers. He and his four members of staff dry and slice the seeds ready to be turned into jewellery, with France being his largest market.\n\nThe sliced tagua typically retails for $30 a kg, while the raw seeds sell for $6 a kg. By contrast, a kilogramme of ivory is worth as much as $1,100 in China.\n\nWhile Mr Heerma van Voss is preparing for a big upturn in exports to China, tagua does face two hurdles in the country.\n\nThe seeds can be dyed into any colour required by a jeweller\n\nFirstly, even the longest tagua seeds are much shorter than the average elephant tusk, which limits the size of the ornaments that can be made from the material. And secondly, it lacks ivory's exclusivity.\n\nHongxiang Huang, a Chinese journalist and anti-ivory campaigner, explains: \"As people become wealthier they want to buy luxury items, and ivory is one of the many things that people desire. This is the situation in China.\"\n\nFor buyers wanting an alternative to elephant ivory that still comes from a mammal but is ethically sourced, the answer comes from under the frozen Siberian tundra in the north east of Russia.\n\nIt may sound bizarre, but the tusks from woolly mammoths that died tens of thousands of years ago are mined on a regular basis. While official figures are not available, an estimated 60 tonnes of mammoth ivory is harvested each year.\n\nMammoth tusks can be used as a substitute for elephant ivory\n\nMammoth ivory sold for an average $350 a kg in 2014, according to the charity Save the Elephants. This is about a third of the price of elephant ivory, but giant mammoth tusks in good condition can fetch far more.\n\nJohn Frederick Walker, an expert on ivory, says: \"Master carvers tend to prefer elephant ivory because fresh elephant ivory is easier to carve.\n\n\"But in fact, you can make wonderful things from mammoth ivory.\"\n\nYet with tagua far easier to get hold of than mammoth ivory, and considerably cheaper, it is the South American seeds that is increasingly being used by jewellers, and not the Siberian tusks.\n\nDemand for tagua in China is expected to rise after the ivory ban comes into place\n\nMarion Andron is co-owner of French jewellers Nodova, which sold more than 300,000 euros ($320,000; £256,000) of tagua jewellery last year.\n\nMs Andron, 27, travels to Ecuador twice a year to oversee the production of the tagua that is done by seven local women at a cooperative.\n\nWhile Nodova's largest markets are France and the UK, it sells to stores across Asia and Ms Andron says that the forthcoming blanket ban on ivory sales in China offers a huge opportunity.\n\n\"I think tagua has helped diminish the demand for animal ivory, and I honestly don't think someone today can be ignorant about the slaughter of elephants with all the media coverage,\" she says.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland used to be \"like a rugby\" team but have a brighter future because they \"play more football now\", says former Germany forward Lukas Podolski.\n\nPodolski, 31, retired from international duty after his stunning strike helped Germany beat England 1-0 in Wednesday's friendly in Dortmund.\n\nUnder boss Gareth Southgate, England used a three-man defence for the first time since a loss to Croatia in 2006.\n\n\"They have a good team, a good manager,\" said Podolski.\n\n\"Before it was a like a rugby style, now they have good guys, good characters - they were physical but they play more football now.\n\n\"When they go to a tournament they are always nervous, they always play too much under pressure [but] I will be watching England at the [2018] World Cup.\"\n\nA 3-4-2-1 formation also saw Dele Alli impress in a more attacking role along with Adam Lallana, who said the 20-year-old Tottenham midfielder could be a \"special\" player for England in future.\n\n\"I love the way he goes about his business - no fear, he's brave,\" said Liverpool midfielder Lallana. \"He is unique and a special talent.\n\n\"But people still need to be patient with him. He is still a young boy and performing how he does is way above his years - it's important we don't get carried away.\"\n• None Listen: Why Spurs had to sign Alli - Pleat\n\nGalatasaray striker Podolski was given a presentation, delivered a speech and received a standing ovation after being substituted on his 130th and final appearance for Germany.\n\n\"It's like a movie. Of course, it was the perfect end,\" said the former Arsenal player.\n\nPodolski believes England captain Wayne Rooney deserves a similar send-off for his last international match.\n\nRooney, who is England's all-time record scorer with 53 goals in 119 caps, has previously stated his intention is to retire after the 2018 World Cup in Russia.\n\nThe 31-year-old Manchester United striker was left out of Southgate's squad for Wednesday's friendly and Sunday's World Cup qualifier against Lithuania as he recovers from a leg injury, coupled with a lack of recent playing time for his club.\n\n\"I don't know if it's traditional in England to give someone a farewell game, but when I am England boss or the president I will say: 'Wayne, next week you've got a game,'\" said Podolski.", "Coverage: Live on S4C, live commentary on BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru & BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app, plus live text commentary\n\nIt is considered a virtue in football not to look back - players and managers are often reluctant to reflect on achievements or to dwell on the past.\n\nSometimes, however, it is essential.\n\nChris Coleman says he and his Wales side will be driven by \"desperation\" when they face the Republic of Ireland on Friday - a desperation to succeed but, more specifically, a desperation to repeat the success of their recent past.\n\nAbsent from major tournaments for 58 years, qualifying for Euro 2016 - and then reaching the semi-finals - gave Wales a taste of what they had craved for generations.\n\nAnd as they prepare for Friday's crucial World Cup qualifier in Dublin with their hopes of getting to next year's competition in Russia in the balance, it is a taste they are desperate to sample again.\n\nFor Coleman, that feeling is particularly acute, as he has said this will be his final campaign in charge.\n\nHe cannot bear to think about a future when he will no longer lead his country and, for him to step aside satisfied with his legacy, he must replicate the sensation he felt in France last summer.\n\n\"I do think about Russia. Just because we went to France, it doesn't mean Russia is less important,\" he said.\n\n\"If you see the film [Don't Take Me Home, the Wales Euro 2016 documentary], it gives you a taste for it again. You want to be back in that environment so I'm desperate to do it again. Desperate. It's the only word I can use.\n\n\"I'm desperate to go back, be in the middle of that type of pressure. I can't describe to you how that felt. I absolutely want that again. I do. That's all I think about.\"\n\nColeman and his players have openly admitted how difficult they found the aftermath of Euro 2016, plunged into an emotional comedown after the searing highs of France.\n\nThey re-watched goals and games, text messaged each other occasionally - all to try and reproduce the magic of that summer.\n\nThat is the aim of this World Cup qualifying campaign but, with four points separating Group D leaders Ireland and third-placed Wales, Coleman's men travel to Dublin in need of victory.\n\nColeman has previously said he would consider his position if Wales were out of contention after five games.\n\nWith four matches gone, however, he is putting that discussion to one side.\n\n\"I think until it's mathematically impossible, I'll always, and we've always, got to look at it and go: 'We've got a chance',\" the 46-year-old adds.\n\n\"So unless we can't finish top and we can't finish second, if that happens, then I'll see how I feel and Wales will see how they feel, I imagine, because it is my last campaign.\"\n\nWales' match against the Republic of Ireland has the ingredients of a titanic battle - a big and noisy crowd, two teams familiar with each other from countless Premier League skirmishes, and the significance of precious qualifying points to play for.\n\nThere are echoes of Wales' Euro 2016 group meeting with England - their only defeat in France before losing to Portugal in the semi-finals - and Coleman hopes his team will have learned from their mistakes in Lens.\n\n\"We went 1-0 up and then we wished our life away, rather than just enjoying those moments,\" he explains.\n\n\"It's the same for the Republic of Ireland - 50,000 people in the Aviva Stadium, they're top, everyone is billing it as a must-win game for us. But the game will come and go. It only lasts 90 minutes.\n\n\"The build-up beforehand goes on a lot longer than the game itself. I think you forget sometimes when you're in it that you've got to enjoy it, the players have got to enjoy it on the pitch, and they'll do that if they do what they're good at.\n\n\"We can't miss the game - we did that I think against England. We were disappointed after the England game because it was a British derby and there was so much surrounding it, and we got sucked into that.\"\n\nColeman admits he was crestfallen after the England game, so much so, he broke one of his own rules.\n\n\"It was a dry camp, we were together seven weeks. No alcohol - staff or players. But I had a double whiskey by myself, a sneaky one out on the balcony,\" he confides.\n\n\"As a manager you have to look at yourself and I thought I was preaching all the time, don't get sucked into this game to England.\n\n\"So I was devastated, not because it was England, but we are at a tournament, it is the second game, we had a point in the bag and with four points we were going through really. But we let it slip.\n\nColeman hopes it will be a different story this time.\n\n\"It's all about us, not worrying about ifs and buts and what happens if we don't do this,\" he says.\n\n\"It's all about preparation, sticking to our game plan - if the players stick to that and we lose it's my fault. Nine times out of 10 our boys have produced.\n\n\"We've just got to go into this game not worrying about the outcome. Enjoy it. Meet it. Let's have a right go. It's going to be a great atmosphere.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nAn amateur jockey who slowed down and lost his lead in the final stages of a race has been banned for 28 days.\n\nJames Ridley, riding Lookslikerainted, appeared to mistakenly think he had already crossed the finish line, allowing two horses to pass.\n\nThe Hunters' Chase at Newbury was eventually won by Triangular, closely followed by Ballytober.\n\nLookslikerainted, a 33-1 outsider trained by Martin Wilesmith, finished in third.\n\nAt the resulting inquiry, Ridley said the half-furlong pole caused the problem. Stewards ruled he was guilty of failing to ride out on a horse that would have finished first.\n\n\"Obviously I'm a little upset but compared to what happened in Westminster the other day it is absolutely nothing,\" Wilesmith said, after the attack in central London on Wednesday in which four people were killed and 50 people injured by Khalid Masood, who also died.\n\n\"I'm thrilled with the horse and just looking forward to when we can run him again now. We'll just look forwards. James has apologised.\"", "Of the main players in the Inspector Morse stories by Colin Dexter, one remains - the city of Oxford. The character died in The Remorseful Day, published in 1999. John Thaw, the actor synonymous with the role of the curmudgeonly detective, died in 2002. And Dexter himself died earlier this week.\n\nAs the Lord Mayor of Oxford once said: \"In his novels Colin Dexter has shown our city as having a distinct and separate identity from its famous university.\"\n\nThe \"dreaming spires\" and attendant well-to-do academics and eccentrics were important factors in the books, but so were the lanes round the city centre, the arterial Iffley and Cowley roads, the north Oxford suburbs of Jericho and Summertown, and the railway station.\n\nDexter himself was well aware of the city's allure for readers and viewers. When the first episode of the television series was broadcast in 1987, he said: \"The huge value for me as a writer is that, even if people haven't been to Oxford, they would love to be in the city.\n\n\"I think if the story had been set in Rotherham or Rochdale no-one would be particularly interested to see the streets and side streets, but so many people outside Oxford are delighted to see the High Street, St Giles and the colleges.\"\n\nJohn Thaw, who played Inspector Morse in the television adaptation, pictured with Colin Dexter in 1999\n\nThe Randolph Hotel featured prominently in both Dexter's and Morse's lives. Morse was often to be found pondering cases while enjoying a real ale or red wine there, while Dexter's favoured drink in later life - he gave up alcohol for medical reasons - was tonic water.\n\nStaff at the hotel said the writer would often visit various rooms around the hotel to help him get details for a storyline.\n\n\"He continued to be a regular at the hotel bar and was so loved by staff, that we renamed the bar after his most famous character - Morse. He was very much part of this hotel and we will miss seeing him perched at the end of the bar or reading a book by the fireside, sipping his drink.\"\n\nFamous haunts from the books and television series, such as the Ashmolean museum and the Bodleian library, have expressed sorrow at his death. But, perhaps more significantly, so have lesser-known Oxford institutions, demonstrating Dexter was very much a man of the people - and a man of the real city.\n\nThe writer shared his hero's affection for good beer, classical music and cryptic crossword puzzles, but by all accounts lacked his spiky nature.\n\nAlcock's Butcher and Fishmonger in the Summertown area has a blackboard outside saying \"Mr Dexter, you will be sadly missed\".\n\nPaul England from the shop said: \"He was a lovely guy. Always used to see him early in the morning.\n\n\"He used to walk down and get his paper and then he always used to come in for a pork pie and a chat. He used to tell us some good stories and jokes, which I think we'll always remember. We just knew him as Mr Dexter who bought his pork pie from the butcher.\"\n\nColin Dexter was often to be found enjoying a drink at the Randolph Hotel in Oxford - as was Inspector Morse\n\nChristiane Fagan fondly remembers him \"sitting quietly in the The Dew Drop Inn in Summertown. Such a lovely man\", while Carol Maling remembers chatting to him on a bench outside the old Radcliffe infirmary when he was waiting for his wife Dorothy to finish work.\n\n\"We used to share biscuits and chocolate,\" Ms Maling said.\n\nAlthough he claimed to know very little about actual police procedure, Dexter was a welcome visitor at Oxford CID. Former police officer Dermot Norridge was a detective in the city between 1986 and 2003.\n\nHe said whenever he and his colleagues were investigating any incident related to one of the university colleges, they would say they were \"having a Morse moment\".\n\nMr Norridge claims the irascible character even had an influence on the sounds heard floating through the corridors of the police station: \"There were certain offices where the radio was retuned to Radio 3 or Classic FM. The officers involved may well have been aware of classical music before Morse, but I'm completely convinced this listening to it was down to the influence of the programme.\n\n\"I met Colin a few times - he used to come with the crew to the station, and once he was invited to our annual dinner to give a talk. If I had to sum up my memory of him, it would be 'a complete gentleman'\".\n\nSue Howlett remembers the author hopping on the bus from Summertown, and always saying hello, while Sue Parsons said she \"used to know him years ago when he would to come in to order stationery from Colegroves in Turl Street. Such a lovely man always having a laugh and a joke\".\n\nBob Price, the leader of Oxford Council, says the city will always feel the impact of Dexter's work: \"The television programmes, and the way they were filmed, made a huge difference. They really drew people to Oxford.\"\n\nIn his 13th - and final - book Dexter says:\n\n\"Morse had never enrolled in the itchy-footed regiment of adventurous souls, feeling little temptation to explore the remoter corners even of his native land; and this principally because he could imagine few if any places closer to his heart than Oxford - the city which, though not his natural mother, had for so many years performed the duties of a loving foster-parent.\"\n\nHe said of that paragraph: \"For 'Morse,' read me\".\n\nColin Dexter is not the only author to have a strong link with a specific city. Here are a few more literary locations and their fictional dwellers\n\nThe The Inspector Rebus novels are mostly based in and around Edinburgh and take in such landmarks as Arthur's Seat and Holyrood Palace, as well as Rebus' flat.\n\nThe novels are characterised by the stark and dark depiction of a city characterised by corruption, poverty, and organised crime. Rebus bends the rules and ignores his superiors while battling his own personal issues. But he does solve the mysteries.\n\nYou can explore the key locations online.\n\nJoyce once claimed of his book Ulysses that if Dublin \"suddenly disappeared from the Earth, it could be reconstructed from my book\".\n\nPublished in 1922, Ulysses focuses on the stream-of-consciousness wanderings through Dublin of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom. Ulysses has been summarised as: \"Man goes for a walk around Dublin. Nothing happens.\" The novel is seen by many as one of the most influential works of the 20th Century.\n\nThe Assembly Rooms are the setting for many of the evening balls depicted in social satire Northanger Abbey and melancholic love story Persuasion, while the Pump Rooms were the place to mingle with during the day to give off a fashionable air of importance.\n\nMilsom Street, Bond Street (now New Bond Street), George Street and Edgar Buildings are all mentioned in the books.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nThe wait is almost over.\n\nOne hundred and 17 days after the curtain came down on the 2016 campaign at Abu Dhabi, Formula 1 is back as the new season gets under way in Australia this weekend.\n\nWith new rules and new era cars, it is a step into the unknown. Mercedes might be the favourites once again, but they could well have a real fight on their hands this time.\n• None Will changes make F1 better?\n• None What to look out for in 2017\n\nWhere are we?\n\nThere will always be excitement about the start of a new season - the anticipation, the element of the unknown and the hope that this one will be even better than the last - but there is something about having Melbourne as the setting for the opener that makes it even more special.\n\nWith the city's shiny skyscrapers on one side and sailboats and surfers at St Kilda beach on the other, the Albert Park circuit offers a unique setting, winding its way around a glistening lake in idyllic parkland.\n\nThere's a real buzz about the place as fans turn out in big numbers, eager to see the new cars first hand, and that buzz extends to the paddock as team personnel and media meet up, often for the first time since the end of the previous season.\n\nWhat are the main changes?\n\nThe cars are wider, more physically demanding to drive and much faster than last year, with lap times expected to drop by up to five seconds.\n\nBigger cars and extra downforce is, however, expected to make overtaking more difficult, with several drivers reporting after testing that it is difficult to follow another car closely.\n\nMore durable Pirelli tyres could also lead to more one-stop races.\n• None McLaren are the most successful constructor in the history of the Australian Grand Prix. They have 11 wins and 26 podiums.\n• None Their last podium was in 2014, when Kevin Magnussen finished second.\n• None The Australian Grand Prix has been won from pole position on nine occasions. The lowest position a driver has won the race from is 11th - Northern Ireland's Eddie Irvine achieving that in 1999 for Ferrari.\n• None The winner in Melbourne has gone on to win the drivers' championship 13 out of 21 times.\n\nHow to follow on the BBC\n\nBBC Sport will have live coverage of all the season's races on BBC Radio 5 live, BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, plus live online commentary on the BBC Sport website and mobile app - including audience interaction, expert analysis, debate, voting, features, interviews and video content.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nRepublic of Ireland skipper Seamus Coleman suffered a broken leg during his side's goalless draw with Wales at the Aviva Stadium.\n\nThe Everton defender, 28, was given oxygen before being carried off following the challenge with Neil Taylor, who was sent off.\n\nThe incident happened midway through the second half of the World Cup qualifier on Friday night.\n• None Listen: Taylor's tackle on Coleman 'out of character'\n• None 'All our thoughts are with Seamus' - Wales boss Coleman\n\n\"Seamus has gone to hospital, it's been confirmed by a doctor that he has broken his leg,\" added O'Neill.\n\n\"Obviously, it's a real blow to him. He's having the season of a lifetime at club level. He's a big player for us, a great captain and a great character.\n\n\"It's a big loss to Everton, a big loss to us. But he'll fight back I hope. It puts things in perspective.\"\n\nWales manager Chris Coleman said defender Taylor was \"despondent\" following the game.\n\n\"First and foremost, the most important thing is Seamus Coleman,\" he said. \"We are told that it is not so good, which we are sorry for.\n\n\"Neil Taylor is not really that type of player, but it's a tough one for Seamus. Our thoughts are with him. I have not seen it again.\"\n\nEverton return to Premier League action with the Merseyside derby against Liverpool at Anfield on Saturday, 1 April.\n\nEverton midfielder James McCarthy was scheduled to start for the Republic, but was withdrawn from the team-sheet before kick-off because of a hamstring injury.\n\n\"He thought he was going to be OK with the couple of days training he had done,\" added O'Neill. \"He was feeling it and I just didn't want to take any chances.\"\n\nThe draw in Dublin meant the Republic missed out on returning to the top of Group D, after Serbia beat Georgia earlier on Friday, with Wales four points behind in third.\n\nGareth Bale twice went close for Wales from long range, but the visitors had to withstand a spell of heavy pressure following Taylor's sending off.\n\nWales will also be without Real Madrid forward Bale when they visit Serbia on 11 June after he was booked for a foul on John O'Shea.\n\nThe Republic's next Group D qualifier is at home to Austria, also on 11 June.\n\n'Get well soon, Seamus'\n\nColeman's Everton team-mate Ramiro Funes Mori: Devastated of what happened. Hope you have a speedy recovery my friend, best wishes for you. You will come back even stronger!!! SeamusColeman.\n\nArsenal right-back Hector Bellerin: Get well soon @seamiecoleman23!! #RightBackUnit\n\nIrish 20-time champion jockey AP McCoy: Gutted for Seamus Coleman. Hopefully he'll have speedy recovery\n\nActor and television presenter James Corden: Stay strong Seamus Coleman. Every true football fan wishes you a strong recovery x", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nMaria Sharapova's wildcard entry to April's Porsche Grand Prix is \"disrespectful\" to other players, ex-number one Caroline Wozniacki says.\n\nThe Stuttgart event starts two days before the Russian's 15-month doping ban ends and she will not be allowed to attend until the day of her match.\n\n\"Obviously rules are twisted and turned in favour of who wants to do what,\" Dane Wozniacki, 26, said.\n\nSharapova, whose main sponsor is Porsche, has won the event three times.\n\n\"I think everyone deserves a second chance... but at the same time, I feel like when a player is banned for drugs, I think that someone should start from the bottom and fight their way back,\" world number 14 Wozniacki said.\n\nFive-times Grand Slam winner Sharapova will return to tennis on 26 April without a ranking after serving her suspension for testing positive for meldonium.\n\nThe 29-year-old was given a two-year ban in March 2016 but her suspension was then reduced in October following an appeal.\n\nShe has also been given wildcards for May's tournaments in Madrid and Rome.\n\nWozniacki said Sharapova should not be allowed to compete at Stuttgart because she is still banned when it begins on 24 April.\n\n\"I think it's very questionable allowing - no matter who it is - a player that is still banned to play a tournament that week,\" she said.\n\n\"From the tournament side, it's disrespectful to the other players and the WTA.\"\n\nWozniaki was speaking after a 6-3 6-0 win over Polish qualifier Magda Linette in the second round of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells.\n\nThe Dane's comments echo those of men's world number one Andy Murray who said wildcards should not be given to players returning from doping bans.\n\nEarlier this week, US Open champion Angelique Kerber said it was \"a little bit strange for the other players that somebody can just walk on site Wednesday and play Wednesday\".\n\nHowever, Romanian world number four Simona Halep thinks Sharapova's past achievements justify the wildcards.\n\n\"She was number one in the world and won Grand Slam titles,\" Halep, 25, said on Thursday. \"But even without wildcards she could come back easily. Her return is good for tennis.\"", "Son Heung-min deftly scores his second goal with a lovely volleyed finish in Tottenham's FA Cup quarter-final against Millwall.\n\nWatch all the best action from the FA Cup here.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nCraig Shakespeare has been appointed Leicester City manager until the end of the season.\n\nThe 53-year-old has been in caretaker charge since Claudio Ranieri was sacked on 23 February, nine months after winning the Premier League title.\n\nShakespeare, who has never managed full-time, was Ranieri's assistant after being brought to the club by the Italian's predecessor, Nigel Pearson.\n\nLeicester have won both of their games with him in charge.\n\nFoxes vice-chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha said: \"We always knew the team would be in good hands when we asked him to take charge a fortnight ago.\n\n\"He has initiated the type of positive response that we hoped change would bring, showing great leadership qualities and composure under considerable pressure to produce two very important results.\n\n\"We have asked him to continue to lead the team this season and we are very happy that he has accepted.\"\n\nShakespeare's first match as caretaker manager was a 3-1 league victory over Liverpool, and they beat Hull City by the same scoreline.\n\nThe Foxes are three points clear of the relegation zone in 15th.\n\nLeicester host Sevilla in the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie on Tuesday. The Spanish side won the first leg 2-1.\n\nThere are interesting challenges ahead of Shakespeare now - trying to get into the quarter-finals of the Champions League while trying to stave off Premier League relegation.\n\nHe made no bones about wanting the job. The players and the fans, in a local newspaper poll, were overwhelming in favour of him getting the job until at least the end of the season. So let's see what sort of fist he makes of it.\n\nHe knows very well that stepping up from the number two role is light years away from letting someone else take the unpopular decisions and determine the tactics.\n\nSo will he manage to step back from his previous, harmonious working relationship with the players and show a tougher edge?\n\nWill Shakespeare make the grade, so he gets the job beyond this season, or will he be another Sammy Lee or Brian Kidd?\n\nHugely respected, acknowledged as a fine coach, but ultimately an assistant?", "Little chance of a quiet cuppa in some Beijing cafes\n\nThere are some societies where people are expected to avoid being noisy in public and they behave accordingly. Then there's China.\n\nThis country that I love is many things, but quiet is not one of them.\n\nThere are plenty of bustling cities - rammed with millions of people - where you could be frowned upon for disrupting others with a raised voice: Seoul, London, Tokyo… especially Tokyo.\n\nChina does not have those cities.\n\nThe word most often used here to describe a great restaurant is not \"moody\" nor \"intimate\" nor \"tasteful\" but \"renao\". To be 热闹 is to be bustling with noise and excitement.\n\nAfter all, who'd want to go to one of those fussy, dull joints where you couldn't bring kids or laugh too loud or spill a beer?\n\nLaughter is often part of the noise\n\nNow, given that I've lived in Beijing for 12 years, you would think that outbursts in public would be as nothing to this hardened correspondent, fully enmeshed in the ways of the Middle Kingdom, yet China can always turn on a surprise.\n\nSo there I am at a cafe nearby, feeling all urbane with a light caffeine buzz on: newspaper; some other reading material; Chet Baker's mournful trumpet floating around the room at just the right level; I can't help noticing a smart-looking beautiful woman across the other side of the room talking to her friend and…\n\nSomebody starts a phone call at the top of their voice in full-flight pirate-sounding Beijing dialect. Anyone who has heard a Beijing taxi driver on the phone to the family at home will know exactly how this sounds.\n\n\"Naaaarrrrrr? Bu shirrrrrr baaaaa.\" [Where? No it isn't.]\n\nA cafe in Japan on the other hand, is likely to be an oasis of calm\n\nAt this point a Chinese farmer walks in carrying the fake and/or stolen watches he's been selling on the street.\n\nHe's carrying his flask of tea, has no intention of buying anything at the cafe and sits on a stool with best view out of the window, next to his mate who also has no intention of buying anything but is very interested in showing the purveyor of watches an awesome new video game on his phone.\n\nWoooshhhh! Bam! Bam! Ba-doing!!! The two of them crack up laughing and they keep playing.\n\nJust as the first conversation is getting heated, a young convert to Christianity sits down next to me and starts praying before diving into her diary-style, each-day-a-new-lesson, introduction to Jesus.\n\nMany countries are densely populated but they respond to the squeeze in different ways\n\nGame, argument, praying, talk, game, laughter, talk... \"Look at the stars… Look how they shine for you…\"\n\nA hippie looking Chinese bloke has booted up his laptop and Coldplay starts belting out of the speakers.\n\n\"And everything you do. Yeah they were all yellow.\"\n\nHe has his eyes closed and is gyrating in the seat as he sings along to himself.\n\nI look around the cafe and, amidst this cacophony of chaos, nobody but me has reacted as if this is anything but completely normal. Some people are chatting amongst themselves, others reading or sending messages on mobile phones but they've not even glanced up to pay attention to the activities around them.\n\nThe Big Apple - and unlikely ally to China when it comes to bustle\n\nThe other place in the world I've seen this phenomenon is New York.\n\nI went to a diner there once which had an open plan kitchen. It was packed for the morning rush hour. I was preparing to take in the New York Times over breakfast when one of the cooks started ribbing his workmate and the tension was building. At least I thought so.\n\nThen the cook being hassled turned to the other and said in a pretty menacing tone: \"Yeah keep talkin' funny guy!\" At this point I was considering the possible uses of a spatula as a weapon.\n\nThen the diner owner called out at the top of his voice from the payment counter by the door: \"Heh, Pauly, go downstairs and get me some of those ******* strawberries!!!\"\n\nThe whole country feels like it's on the move\n\nThere is something incredible about the way in which societies, cities, subcultures find their level in terms of acceptable public volume.\n\nIf a megacity has its own disruptive sound maybe you have to speak up to get over it? But with what noise does a Chinese farmer have to compete in the field?\n\nMaybe you have to speak up in order to be heard amongst a huge population? Yet most Chinese people in recent years grew up with no brothers or sisters and had only their parents at home for evening conversations.\n\nBack in the cafe, Mr Coldplay has packed up his laptop, the game boys have gone and only the first woman is still speaking on the phone… but now much more quietly: she's crying.\n\nHer call has been more important than I had given her credit for.\n\nLoudly playing Coldplay songs in public does not go down well everywhere\n\nI can remember being in London many years ago on a backpacking trip when I got the news that a good friend, a brilliant young doctor, had died back in Sydney.\n\nI didn't know what to do so I went to a cafe and wrote her a letter to say goodbye.\n\nI was crying my eyes out in a public place and people were looking at me but not disapprovingly. They just didn't know how to take it.\n\nWhen I told a BBC colleague I was going to write this piece she laughed: \"What? An Australian talking about noisy people?\"\n\nMaybe we are. I hadn't thought about it.\n\nIs that why I fit in here?", "This year's South by Southwest (SXSW) has a lot of focus on artificial intelligence (AI)\n\nWhen I think of having an assistant, I'm always drawn to that slightly Hollywood portrayal of a top chief executive, pouring himself a stiff drink, leaning back in his leather chair and pressing the intercom.\n\n\"Mary,\" he'll say. \"Please handle my calls. Only disturb me if it's urgent.\"\n\nIt's a bygone era, sure - and a gender stereotype, no doubt - but that dream of having an assistant, one that truly helps you out with daily tasks, is still prevalent. In fact, we're told it's the future of computing - with all the top companies firing up their research divisions to work on the concept. So far, it's Siri, Alexa, Google and Cortana leading the way.\n\nBut none of those assistants actually assist you, do they? Not in a \"take this load off my mind\" kind of way, at least.\n\nThis week I'm lucky enough to be at South by Southwest - SXSW - a three-part festival that deals with tech, music and film. Much of the focus this year will be on artificial intelligence - AI - and how it needs to evolve to become more useful and accepted. The sessions will look at how AI can be smart enough to help us achieve more and more.\n\nBut really, all I want is for new tech to help me do less.\n\nHave you ever counted how many notifications you get on your smartphone on a typical day? I have. It's horrifying. More than 100 interruptions a day from Facebook likes, Instagram comments, tweet replies, news alerts, text messages, WhatsApp messages, Slack messages… oh my. I can't get a word in edgeways round here, and it's all my fault.\n\nOr is it? I may have sleepwalked into this notification hell, but I was having my hand held throughout it all by the companies desperate for my attention. Every social network, large or small, is after for one thing: engagement. More users, more of the time. And notifications is their surefire way of dragging you back into their apps, time and time again.\n\nIt's a lucrative strategy - part of Snapchat's popularity with investors right now is not because of how much money it's making (none) or how many users it has (not that many), but because of incredible statistics that show the average Snapchat user opens the app at least 10 times a day.\n\nApps can end up sending dozens of notifications a day in an attempt to get users attention\n\nAnd it's no fluke. In the dark arts of nudging users to breaking point, Snapchat is the Grand High Witch. By default, not only does it tell you when you have a message, it also tells you when you're about to be sent one. \"Dave is typing…\" it will beep - as if being up-to-date these days requires you to know about messages before they even exist.\n\nNaturally, you open the app; up goes their engagement, and down goes your concentration, your focus, your social etiquette.\n\nSnapchat isn't the only one, of course, and you can turn off notifications manually should you want. But it's at this point your sense of FOMO - Fear Of Missing Out - goes into overdrive. It's a deliberate, emotional tug pulled by app makers, and many push you into a choice between getting all notifications, or none.\n\nOf course one solution to this overwhelming feeling is what people like to refer to as a \"digital detox\" - a clumsy, cliched term most often pushed by PR companies trying to get clients on to morning radio shows or, worse, from journalists sorely lacking in ideas.\n\nI've always found the outcomes to be pointlessly predictable. You gave up Facebook for a week, you say? Big whoop. Have a sticker.\n\nBut this week I read a refreshing view on this issue from Alex Wood. Alex's approach was not to go cold turkey, but instead to implement a few tweaks here and there to regulate use. I'd suggest reading his piece if you want to learn what software he used and other interesting tips.\n\nSnapchat is popular with investors because of how much users open the app\n\nBy the time he concluded his piece, he'd managed to disconnect himself sufficiently to feel liberated - but not to the point of being cut off from his friends or profession.\n\nIt's an issue also dealt with by another reporter, Kristen Brown, who last year held a panel at an event organised by Fusion, the tech news and culture site that has recently (sadly) been swallowed up into Gizmodo.\n\nOne of her suggestions was to hide all the apps on your smartphone into a big folder, so the only practical way to access the was to use the search function. This added step in theory made you focus on what you really needed to do - and put an end to that habit of just idly tapping from app to app.\n\nBut what stood out - for both Kristen and Alex - was how difficult the process was. Given technology constantly provides us with smart user interfaces and automation, turning off notifications remains a frustrating manual task - an intentionally fiddly process of ducking through menus, and then, assuming you want them back at some point, going through those menus once again, hopefully remembering what exactly it was you turned off.\n\nIf digital assistants go the way of notifications, we're in even more trouble. Notifications won't just be buzzing our pockets, but filling our air with noise.\n\nThere is value in that, but after pondering the struggle Alex went through to temporarily silence his digital life, I feel a truly intelligent assistant would be more like Mary, the Hollywood chief exec's assistant.\n\nWhy can't I tell Alexa that I want to focus right now, and it should instruct my social networks to chill out - notifications will stop, messages will be reduced.\n\nDave Lee hopes to find a company to make his life easier at SXSW\n\nToday, asking Siri to \"handle my calls\" prompts it to bring up a call history. Perhaps instead it should be able to intercept my incoming calls, ask the caller if it's urgent, and only then disturb me if needed.\n\nThe iPhone already has a Do Not Disturb function, but it's a bit of a blunt instrument when it comes to filtering out - or letting in - things that are truly worth your time. There are a smattering of apps that help you regulate your time on networks or websites. But it's too cumbersome, and only gets the job half done.\n\nSadly, it's not in any tech firm's interests to lessen the amount of time you spend interacting with your technology - so progress in this area may be slow. But as I take on the corridors of SXSW this week, I'll be cheering on any company that wants to genuinely make my life easier.\n\nFollow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook. You can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Brian Vigneault had been playing for more than 20 hours continuously when he died\n\nThe death of a prominent gamer has led to a debate about whether gaming marathons are hazardous to health.\n\nBrian Vigneault was a 35-year-old father of three from Virginia, USA who gamed under the alias Poshybrid. In February he took on a 24-hour-long gaming marathon, playing World of Tanks to raise money for charity.\n\nThe marathon was streamed to a live audience on the website Twitch, which describes itself as \"the world's leading video platform and community for gamers\".\n\nTwenty two hours in, Vigneault reportedly went outside to take a cigarette break. He didn't return to the screen - and later died.\n\nVigneault's exact cause of death has not yet been established, or conclusively linked to his streaming marathon. But his friend Jessica Gebauer, who spoke to him on the night he died, told BBC Trending that he looked \"extremely tired\" and was falling asleep during the stream.\n\nSince Vigneault's death, Gebauer, who is a fellow streamer, says she has questioned the health implications of continuous live-stream gaming. She is not the only one.\n\nHear this story in full on the BBC World Service, or download our podcast\n\nJoe Marino is a \"professional\" Twitch user, who makes money from subscriptions to his gaming channel. He told BBC Trending that he thinks all streaming platforms should set up limits on how long streamers can stream.\n\nMarino, who says he developed Type 2 diabetes after spending a year streaming on Twitch 12 hours a day, seven days a week, said: \"The reason you don't move around on Twitch is because you're live, so if you get up and move you've potentially lost a portion of your audience.\n\nFollowing the death of Vigneault, Marino penned a warning article warning about the health risks of his streaming career. It received comments from gamers who said they too experienced health issues following marathon gaming sessions.\n\nJoe Marino in front of his gaming setup\n\nFounded in 2011 and bought by Amazon in 2014, Twitch is a huge community of gamers and game watchers. The company estimates that each day close to 10 million people visit the site to watch fellow gamers and talk about video games, and users can also donate money to more than 2 million streamers.\n\nTwitch and other similar sites host tournaments where seasoned players stay continuously online for several hours - or longer - and gaming marathons are becoming more and more common.\n\nWell-known streamers such as ManVsGame have frequently taken part in marathon streams exceeding 24 hours - and in 2015 he spoke about taking drugs to supplement his marathon sessions.\n\nWhile deaths as a result of video game streaming are incredibly rare, there have been other incidents including the death of a 24-year-old man in Shanghai 2015 who died after playing World of Warcraft for 19 hours, and the death in 2012 of a teenager in Taiwan who reportedly died at an Internet cafe playing Diablo 3 for 40 hours straight.\n\nTwitch is a live streaming social video platform for gamers. The site say they have more than 9 million daily active users\n\nCam Adair, who is founder of Game Quitters - the largest online support community for people with gaming addiction - says Twitch and other streaming platforms have a duty of care to their users: \"I'm not saying that companies need to be policing their users, but they could simply reach out and say 'Hey, I've seen you've been playing 15 hours today which is different to what was going on before. Are you OK?'\"\n\nHowever, for professional Twitch streamer Ben Broman, who has taken part in 11 24-hour gaming marathons, imposing health guidelines on Twitch streamers would be too restrictive.\n\n\"Twitch, much like any other creative career, involves risk taking and any artist will tell you that it's very important for them to be able to go about creating it in whatever way they see fit,\" he told BBC Trending.\n\nAnother streamer on Reddit said: \"Not intending to speak ill of the dead, but he made the choice to do this... I understand there is pressure to produce, but obviously some things come before that. I don't think we should impose restrictions.\"\n\nTwitch said they are \"greatly saddened\" at the passing of one of their users, but the company has not responded to suggestions that they should be taking a more active approach in ensuring the health of their users.\n\nNext story: The 'robot lawyer’ giving free legal advice to refugees\n\nA technology used to fight parking fines is now helping asylum seekers apply for emergency housing. READ MORE\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 Football\n\nClint Hill's late equaliser denied runaway Scottish Premiership leaders Celtic a fourth victory of the season over city rivals Rangers.\n\nRangers, with caretaker Graeme Murty in charge for the last time and new manager Pedro Caixinha in the stand, started the game impressively.\n\nBoth sides had chances before Hill prodded in with three minutes left to deny Celtic an 18th straight win.\n\nAnother win would have made it 23 in succession in the league for Brendan Rodgers' side, but Rangers become the first side to deny them victory since Manchester City in a Champions League game in December.\n\nAnd, with Aberdeen having beaten Motherwell on Saturday, third-placed Rangers are eight points adrift of the Dons, who themselves are 25 behind the champions.\n\nArmstrong's goal - his 11th of the season - was a combination of resourcefulness and power.\n\nJason Holt contributed to Celtic's opening, since he clumsily failed to clear with his weaker left foot, but when the ball was worked to Armstrong on the edge of the area, it was not a clear scoring opportunity.\n\nHe has been dismissing expectations all season though - and, after turning towards goal, he rifled a low, hard shot into the near corner of the net.\n\nMore illustrious players - Moussa Dembele, Scott Sinclair, Scott Brown - have hogged attention for Celtic this season, but Armstrong has purposefully and, with growing assurance, built a growing reputation.\n\nRodgers urged him to play at a higher tempo, to understand the need to forage and hustle as well as being accomplished on the ball.\n\nArmstrong responded and he has become an integral figure for Celtic - and likely a fixture now in the Scotland squad.\n\nHe might have scored at other moments in the game, with his first-half free-kick tipped on to the upright by the diving Wes Foderingham and the goalkeeper pushing away two fiercely struck efforts after the break.\n\nThe visitors did not have an individual player to match the calibre of Celtic's various potential match-winners - and the Rangers bench contained only one player, Josh Windass, who has impressed this season.\n\nYet their positional discipline and work-rate was designed to limit Celtic and provide the means for Rangers to try to be proactive.\n\nThe shape was 4-4-1-1 when Rangers were without the ball, as Kenny Miller dropped off the front to close down Nir Bitton, Celtic's holding midfielder.\n\nJames Tavernier tucked into a central midfield role when Rangers had possession, allowing Miller to join Waghorn and the ineffectual Barrie McKay up front.\n\nWith passing angles closed down and a disciplined press, Rangers earned a foothold in the game.\n\nIt also delivered a breakthrough when Miller flicked a high ball on to Waghorn, who was left one-on-one with Gordon.\n\nThe striker was not clinical enough, though, and the Scotland goalkeeper saved with his legs.\n\nThe scoreline was 0-0 at the time and there was a key moment after the break also.\n\nHaving been caught by Gordon as the goalkeeper punched a cross clear, Waghorn was left upfield unmarked as he recovered.\n\nWhen a counter-attack broke upfield, Waghorn found himself onside and in the penalty area, but Gordon blocked his first-time shot.\n\nCeltic have been more dominant in games this season, but they would have felt that their command of the scoreline was enough in this game.\n\nDembele, who was otherwise unusually quiet, almost scored late on, but his left-foot effort flashed across the face of goal.\n\nThe closing stages, though, were mostly about Rangers pushing and probing for an equaliser.\n\nThat told of their determination, and Holt caused a flash of alarm for the home side when his curled effort bounced just wide.\n\nThe pressure eventually paid off, though, when Hill was the first to react after Gordon pushed Hyndman's shot away and the defender turned the ball into the net at the back post.\n\nThe drama was not over though as, moments later, Leigh Griffiths felt he should have been awarded a penalty under a Hill challenge inside the area and then had a shot headed off the line.\n• None Attempt blocked. Callum McGregor (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, Rangers 1. Clint Hill (Rangers) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner.\n• None Emerson Hyndman (Rangers) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Jason Holt (Rangers) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. James Tavernier (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEmre Can's fourth goal of the season ended Burnley's stubborn resistance as Liverpool claimed an unconvincing win to strengthen their bid for a top-four finish.\n\nThe Reds were far from their best and fell behind when Ashley Barnes turned home Matthew Lowton's brilliant defence-splitting pass.\n\nLiverpool equalised on the stroke of half-time with their first shot on target when Georginio Wijnaldum poked in at the second attempt.\n\nCan then secured a second-successive victory for Liverpool with a long-range effort into the bottom corner.\n\nBurnley threatened to snatch an equaliser late on but Lowton hooked over from close range.\n\nIt was a game of few memorable moments but the win means Jurgen Klopp's side, who remain fourth, are now five points clear of fifth-placed Arsenal.\n\nBurnley, who are yet to win a game away from home in any competition this season, are 12th.\n\nLiverpool beat Arsenal 3-1 earlier this month to continue their impressive form against their top-six rivals - they are yet to lose to any of them this season.\n\nBut as impressive as the Reds have been against those teams around them, they have struggled against sides lower down the table, with all five of their defeats prior to Sunday's game against sides in the bottom half.\n\nBurnley beat Liverpool at Turf Moor back in August and initially had the measure of their opponents in this encounter, although they were aided by a lethargic display by the hosts.\n\nLiverpool did not create a single chance in the opening 30 minutes but their first shot on target resulted in the equaliser and their second produced the winner.\n\nIt was ultimately a clinical display by Liverpool but too many players had off days. They needed Philippe Coutinho to be at his creative best to unlock a disciplined Burnley but the midfielder rarely made a telling pass while in attack Divock Origi failed to manage a single shot on goal.\n\nThe win may not have been pretty but that is something Liverpool have struggled to do this season and Klopp believes a corner may have been turned.\n\n\"It's the first ugly game we've won,\" he said.\n\n\"In the end I liked it - this is the kind of game we haven't won and we did.\"\n\nWill Burnley ever win away?\n\nFor 44 minutes, it was the perfect away performance for Burnley.\n\nThey got an early goal and then successfully nullified Liverpool to the point that a frustrated home crowd started to turn against their side.\n\nBut a one-goal lead meant they were always susceptible to getting caught out and the Clarets need to learn to kill off a game - only once have they scored more than one goal in an away game this season.\n\nBurnley's home form is likely to ensure they are in the Premier League next season - they are seven points above the relegation zone with 10 games remaining.\n\nHowever, a return of just two points from a possible 42 on the road this season will be of major concern for manager Sean Dyche.\n\nWhat they said\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: \"Burnley were always in the game, it was intense and we had to fight. We had some moments, it was not only luck that we scored before half-time and it was a wonderful goal from Emre Can.\n\n\"It is clear we have to do a few things better. We were not at our absolute best but we fought. I liked it, it is this kind of game we haven't won until now. It feels kind of strange a little bit. Not the most memorable game but a very nice three points.\"\n\nBurnley manager Sean Dyche: \"It's a tough one to take, because everyone gave a really good account of ourselves and went up with a sublime goal, but it's a tough place to come.\n\n\"Their first was a soft one to concede before half-time, and the second one we're disappointed with but we gave a really good account of ourselves. We just needed a scratch of luck along the way.\"\n• None Liverpool have now won 16 Premier League games this season; equalling their tally of wins for the entire 2015-16 season.\n• None Liverpool have won 14 points from losing positions in the league this term; a joint-high with Tottenham.\n• None Ashley Barnes (10) is now just one goal short of tying with Danny Ings (11) for the most Premier League goals for Burnley.\n• None Liverpool conceded inside the first 10 minutes of a league game at Anfield for the first time since August 2015 (v West Ham, Manuel Lanzini).\n• None All 16 of Georginio Wijnaldum's Premier League goals have been scored in home matches (five for Liverpool, 11 for Newcastle).\n• None Since Jurgen Klopp's first game in charge, the Reds have scored more Premier League goals from outside the box than any other team (21).\n\nIt's a big game for Liverpool in the battle for a top-four finish as they travel to Manchester City on Sunday, 19 March (16:30 GMT). Burnley head to struggling Sunderland the day before (15:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Ben Woodburn (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucas Leiva.\n• None Attempt missed. Matthew Lowton (Burnley) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Michael Keane with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt saved. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Emre Can with a through ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ben Woodburn (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Robbie Brady (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nWorld number one Andy Murray made a shock second-round exit at the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells, losing 6-4 7-6 (7-5) to qualifier Vasek Pospisil.\n\nThe Briton, who had a first-round bye, was sluggish throughout the match against the Canadian world number 129.\n\nMurray, 29, was broken four times as he struggled with Pospisil's serve-and-volley style.\n\nIt was the first victory for Pospisil, 26, in five meetings with Murray.\n\nAlthough he is a qualifier here, Pospisil has been ranked as high as 25th in the world and beat both Kyle Edmund and Dan Evans in Britain's Davis Cup victory over Canada in February.\n\nAfter Murray took a 4-2 lead early on, the Canadian hit back to win six successive games, claiming the first set before finally winning the second 7-5 in a tie-break, hitting a cross-court winner on his fourth match point.\n\n\"It was obviously a disappointing one as I had opportunities in the first set but I didn't serve well enough,\" Murray told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I served a few double faults, especially in the first set at important moments, which didn't help things.\n\n\"He definitely started to play better in the second set, he was being aggressive and coming to the net and played some great reflex volleys at important moments and deserved to win.\"\n\nMurray claimed his maiden Dubai Championships title last week, but defeat here continues a poor run for the Scot at Indian Wells, having lost in the third round last year. His best result at the tournament was when he was runner-up to Rafael Nadal in 2009.\n\nHowever, he remains in this year's doubles alongside fellow Briton Evans as they face Dutchman Jean-Julien Rojer and Romanian Horia Tecau in round two.\n\nEvans plays Japanese fourth seed Kei Nishikori in the singles later on Sunday.\n\nPospisil faces Dusan Lajovic in the third round of the singles after the Serbian qualifier upset 30th seed Feliciano Lopez of Spain 6-2 4-6 7-6.\n\nElsewhere, French seventh seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was beaten by Italy's Fabio Fognini but there were wins for third seed Stan Wawrinka, 10th seed Gael Monfils and 11th seed David Goffin.\n\nWorld number one or not, Murray has often struggled in the desert. His serve let him down - he hit seven double faults and was broken four times in a row - and was ultimately second best to a man who is having a great year against the Brits.\n\nPospisil may be a qualifier ranked 129 in the world but his serve-and-volley game is mightily effective, as Dan Evans and Kyle Edmund learned to their cost in last month's Davis Cup tie with Canada.\n\nUnusually for Murray, he is now out of the singles but still in the doubles so he will stay in Indian Wells to partner Evans and to spend \"lots of time\" on the practice courts.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City are facing a week that will \"define our season\", according to manager Pep Guardiola.\n\nCity, who reached the FA Cup semi-finals with a 2-0 win at Middlesbrough on Saturday, take a 5-3 lead to Monaco for the return leg of their Champions League last-16 tie on Wednesday.\n\nGuardiola's side, third in the table, then host fourth-placed Liverpool in the Premier League on Sunday, 19 March.\n\nCity are 10 points behind leaders Chelsea with 11 matches left.\n\nGuardiola's most realistic chances of success in his first season in charge of City are in the FA Cup and the Champions League.\n\n\"The Monaco game and against Liverpool before the international break will define our season,\" Guardiola told BBC Sport.\n\n\"Every game you play, you have to play well, try to win and show the opponent you are there to win.\n\n\"It's the only way you can improve as a club with a good mentality, and that is what I am going to try in my period here.\n\n\"It doesn't matter the competition, no complaints, no regrets. Go there and try to win the game.\"\n\nCity's scheduled home league match with West Brom on 22 April will have to be rearranged following their latest FA Cup win.\n\nThe FA Cup semi-finals are scheduled to take place at Wembley on 22-23 April.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritish number one Johanna Konta is out of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells with a 3-6 6-3 7-6 (7-1) third-round defeat by France's Caroline Garcia.\n\nMeanwhile British number three Kyle Edmund lost to defending champion Novak Djokovic 6-4 7-6 (7-5) in round two.\n\nIt ends British interest in the singles after Andy Murray and Dan Evans lost.\n\nKonta, seeded 11th, broke Garcia in the fourth game but the 21st seed levelled the match and dominated the third-set tie-break, winning it 7-1.\n\nGarcia, who was once described by Murray as a future world number one, showed impressive resilience to recover from a set down against Konta and sealed her win and a place in the last 16 with a powerful cross-court backhand.\n\n\"There were a number of shots that let me down. Quite honestly, I don't know why, but I'm keen on improving and doing better next time,\" said Konta.\n\n\"I didn't do enough with the opportunities that I did get. Some of the break points, she served well, and others, I wasn't brave enough. I don't think I did enough to really take them. I was a little too passive in parts.\"\n\nEdmund lost the first set in 42 minutes against Serb Djokovic but won the first three games of the second and served for the set at 5-3, before the five-time champion fought back to seal the match.\n\n\"I think I played very well in the first set,\" said Djokovic. \"Second set was obviously up and down. But credit to Kyle for playing some really aggressive tennis.\n\n\"He made a lot of winners in the beginning and midway through the second.\"\n\nThe world number two will play former US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina in the third round.\n\nAustralian Open champion Roger Federer needed only 52 minutes to reach round three with a comfortable 6-2 6-1 win against France's Stephane Robert.\n\nWorld number six Rafael Nadal secured a third-round tie against fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco with a 6-3 6-2 victory over Guido Pella of Argentina in one hour 20 minutes.\n\nKonta played without her usual fluency and, although she served better in the final set, she could not take any of the three break points and was outplayed emphatically by Garcia in the tie-break.\n\nThe best part of four weeks off tour resting a foot injury may explain some of the rustiness, and - like Andy Murray - Konta now has virtually two weeks of practice stretching ahead of her before she plays her first singles match in Miami.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Sports\n\nElise Christie became the first British woman to win a World Short Track Speed Skating Championships title with victory in the 1500m in Rotterdam.\n\nThe 26-year-old Scot had previously won eight other world championship medals but clocked two minutes 54.369 seconds, to win the title, 0.12 seconds ahead of Canada's Marianne St-Gelais in second.\n\nShe also reached the 500m final, but finished last of the four competitors.\n\nChristie has the chance of another gold in the 1000m on Sunday.\n\n\"I never expected to win the 1500,'' said Christie.\n\nThe world title represents an impressive resurgence from Christie, who said she was considering her future in the sport after being disqualified from all three of her events at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.\n\nLivingston-born Christie has been focusing on the shorter distance events this season and has already set a new 500m world record of 42.335 seconds.\n\nIn the 1500m final, South Korea's Shim Suk-hee was third with her compatriot and defending champion Choi Min-jeong a distant fifth.\n\nChristie was unable to challenge in the 500m final, recording a time of 43.835 seconds, with China's Kexin Fan winning in 43.605.\n\nMeanwhile at the World Freestyle Ski and Snowboard Championships, Zoe Gillings-Brier finished ninth in the snowboard cross.\n\nShe only gave birth to a daughter last August and missed out on a chunk of pre-season training.\n\nGillings-Brier, who does not receive UK Sport funding, told BBC Sport: \"I loved every minute of it. Back on a big course with all the best competitors. Hopefully I'll get some great training in the summer.\"\n\nAmerican Lindsey Jacobellis landed her fifth world title in a photo finish with France's Chloe Trespeuch.\n\nOn her first appearance in the competition, 19-year-old Welsh competitor Maisie Potter went out in the snowboard cross quarter-finals.", "Last updated on .From the section Badminton\n\nChris and Gabby Adcock missed out on becoming Britain's first All England Badminton Championship finalists for a decade with an agonising defeat by China's Lu Kai and Huang Yaqiong.\n\nThey held match point in the third set of their mixed doubles semi-final, but Chris Adcock suffered a broken string and they eventually lost it 22-20.\n\nThe Adcocks had taken the opening set 21-19, but lost the second 21-12.\n\n\"It's so tough to have been so close,\" Gabby Adcock told BBC Sport.\n\n\"We were quite a way down in the third set and fought back up to get the match point and then for that to happen to Chris is really, really unlucky.\"\n\nFind out how to get into badminton with our special guide.\n\nThe Commonwealth champions - who also reached last year's semi-finals - were bidding to become the first British finalists in the event since Anthony Clark and Donna Kellogg in 2007.\n\nTheir defeat comes just weeks after British Badminton failed to overturn UK Sport's Olympic funding cut.\n\nBadminton England's chief executive Adrian Christy said on Thursday that the loss of around £1.25m per year in financial support would mean players and staff would now have to leave the programme.\n\n\"As you can imagine the atmosphere has been a bit flat at our training centre with the situation and it's a sad time for badminton,\" said Gabby Adcock.\n\nBadminton England hopes to raise around £600,000 per year in order to help provide some funding support to the Adcocks and Olympic bronze medal-winning pair Chris Langridge and Marcus Ellis.\n\n\"It's been a tough patch, but we've shown how resilient we can be on and off the court,\" Chris Adcock told BBC Sport.\n\n\"We really believe we've still got the ability to win majors as well as world and Olympic medals so we'll fight through and no doubt we'll be able to prove a lot of people wrong.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSon Heung-min scored a hat-trick as Tottenham Hotspur reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup with an easy win over League One Millwall but lost striker Harry Kane with an ankle injury.\n\nEngland striker Kane was replaced after being hurt when Lions defender Jake Cooper tried to block his shot after seven minutes.\n\nChristian Eriksen, Kane's replacement, opened the scoring with a finish into the bottom corner after Dele Alli's chest down before Son scored either side of half-time.\n\nAlli tapped home the fourth with substitute Vincent Janssen adding the fifth - his first from open play for Spurs - before Son completed his hat-trick with virtually the last kick of the game after a mistake by keeper Tom King.\n\nSpurs join Premier League rivals Manchester City and Arsenal in the semi-final draw, which takes place at Stamford Bridge on Monday after the final quarter-final between Chelsea and holders Manchester United.\n\nWhether Kane will be back in time for the semi-final on the weekend of 22-23 April remains to be seen.\n\nBut the sight of the Premier League's joint leading scorer disappearing down the tunnel in pain is a huge blow for boss Mauricio Pochettino.\n\nThere was no blame attached to Cooper as Kane fell awkwardly inside the Millwall penalty area with the game goalless.\n\nPochettino opted for Eriksen instead of Janssen - the only striker on the bench - as Kane's replacement and the Dane broke Millwall's resolve with a first-time strike into the far corner after 31 minutes.\n\nSon added the second shortly before the interval, the South Korea international cutting in from the right to score soon after Victor Wanyama had headed against the bar.\n\nKieran Trippier's excellent pass was volleyed home by Son to make it 3-0 before Alli tapped home after Eriksen's pass.\n\nOne of the biggest cheers of the game greeted Janssen's goal, a first-time shot inside the area after another assist by Son, before the latter completed his hat-trick after a terrible fumble by King.\n\nSpurs will be hoping for a change of fortune at Wembley as they look to win a major trophy for the first time since 2008 when they won the League Cup.\n\nThey have lost their last six FA Cup semi-finals - against Arsenal (1993, 2001), Everton (1995), Newcastle (1999), Portsmouth (2010) and Chelsea (2012).\n\nThey will also have to overcome their poor record at Wembley, scene of this season's failed Champions League and Europa League campaigns.\n\nSpurs lost to Monaco and Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League at the national stadium before going out of the Europa League after drawing 2-2 with Gent at Wembley having lost the first leg 1-0.\n\n\"It is another opportunity to make Wembley home,\" said Pochettino, whose side is set to play their home games at Wembley next season while work continues on their new ground.\n\n\"It will be different, it is the FA Cup semi-final, but it is a good thing for us because we are thinking next season to maybe play all our games at Wembley.\"\n\nThis was a hard lesson for Millwall as Spurs cruised to victory in their final FA Cup tie at the ground that has been their home for the past 118 years.\n\nThey had been seeking a fourth Premier League scalp in this season's competition having beaten Bournemouth, Watford and Leicester.\n\nSteve Morison went close from 25 yards when the tie was goalless but Millwall never recovered once they fell behind.\n\nKing will have nightmares about Son's hat-trick goal - the ball somehow squirming under his body.\n\nDespite this result, Millwall's season is far from over.\n\nNeil Harris' side are six points off automatic promotion in League One and the Lions boss will be hoping his players can put this heavy defeat behind them as they look to secure a place in the Championship.\n\n'We lost our way'\n\nTottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino: \"The performance was fantastic. It was very important for us to play well and score goals, so we are very pleased.\n\n\"A hat-trick from Son and Janssen scored....the team was good. We need to congratulate them, they were waiting for the opportunity and they took it and stepped up.\n\n\"In football you always need to be ready. Not only him [Janssen] but different players too will have the opportunity to play more and they need to be ready.\"\n\nMillwall boss Neil Harris: \"It was disappointing to concede the goals we did. I thought we lost our way in the last 20 minutes but there is no getting away from what a good team Tottenham are.\n\n\"We are disappointed because we have been beaten 6-0 at Spurs. This is the quality you are playing against. If we can use this experience then the standards are there that we need to set, individually and collectively.\"\n\n'Six of the best' - the stats\n• None Spurs have won an FA Cup game by a six-goal margin for the first time since January 1973 (v Margate).\n• None This was Millwall's first defeat in 18 matches in all competitions.\n• None Dele Alli has scored in three consecutive appearances at White Hart Lane for the first time.\n• None Son Heung-min is Tottenham's leading scorer in the FA Cup this season with six goals in four appearances.\n• None Christian Eriksen has scored nine goals in all competitions this season, surpassing his tally from 2015/16 (8).\n\nPochettino's former club Southampton visit White Hart Lane in the Premier League next Sunday, 19 March (14:15 GMT). Millwall resume their League One promotion push at home to Bury next Saturday, 18 March (15:00 GMT)\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 6, Millwall 0. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a cross following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Winks (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Moussa Sissoko.\n• None Attempt blocked. Moussa Sissoko (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Christian Eriksen.\n• None Attempt blocked. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kieran Trippier.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Winks (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Son Heung-Min following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Son Heung-Min.\n• None Attempt saved. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jan Vertonghen.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 5, Millwall 0. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Son Heung-Min.\n• None Attempt missed. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ben Davies. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "\"We're one year into a four-year project. We've done reasonably well in the first year.\"\n\nIt sounds like something a college lecturer might say to a room of young undergraduates, or the owner of a small tech start-up to his three staff after filing the company's first year-end accounts.\n\nIt is not the sort of thing you expect to greet a world record-equalling victory, one that puts your team alongside arguably the greatest outfit ever to play your sport.\n\nSomewhere under that roguish grin, England coach Eddie Jones must surely feel like skipping around the Twickenham turf, throwing in the occasional giddy cartwheel.\n\nSince taking over, he has seen them win 17 matches in a row, storm to their first Grand Slam in 13 years, complete a series whitewash in his native Australia and secure back-to-back Six Nations titles, with another Slam shot to come against Ireland in Dublin on Saturday.\n\nIt is success beyond imagining, not least for a team that had just been knocked out of the World Cup they were hosting a mere three games in. Allied to the dead-rubber win over Uruguay at the fag-end of that sorry month, it means England, with their 61-21 hammering of Scotland on Saturday, have now equalled New Zealand's tier-one record of 18 Test wins on the spin.\n\nFor Jones, history is not enough. Seven tries against Scotland, three of them the sort of high-speed deception and sleight of hand that wins over the unconverted and makes weary old cynics purr, and he spoke almost entirely of the next challenge against Ireland.\n\n\"This game has given us the opportunity to play well in that game,\" he said on Saturday, the noise from partying England supporters echoing around just outside. \"It's all about what we do next.\"\n\nHe is probably right, as he has been through so much of his reign. Should England lose to Ireland, the record is unlikely to offer consolation to his players or their travelling support. When those same players step away from the game and assess the impact they made upon it, it is the trophies and medals they will cherish above the statistics.\n\n\"It means the players would have achieved greatness,\" said Jones about the prospect of a second successive Grand Slam, something that has never been done in the Six Nations and only four times in the Five Nations that preceded it. \"And how often in your life do you get the chance to achieve greatness?\"\n\nIt takes something for Jones to use a word as emotive as that, and he immediately qualified it. \"We want to be number one team and we're not, so we need to do better.\"\n\nThis may have been a record points tally in the Calcutta Cup and matched the mark for the biggest margin of victory in this oldest of internationals, but it came against a Scotland side who only played when they had already handed the match away.\n\nHad you told Scotland coach Vern Cotter in advance that his side would score three converted tries, he might have dared dream that his penultimate game in charge might see that horrible 34-year winless streak at Twickenham come to a beautiful end.\n\nInstead, with three players lost to head injuries, the replacement for one of them carried off the field and his scrum-half forced to play most of the contest on the wing, he saw misfortune married to ineptitude, his team outwitted in defence and unable to unleash their attacking potential until it no longer mattered.\n\n\"We've been trying to move away from being plucky losers,\" said skipper John Barclay, \"but that wasn't plucky today. That was useless.\"\n\nAnd so it still feels surreal to compare this England team to an All Blacks side that won a third World Cup eight games into their own run, whose march included 41-13 and 57-15 wins over the Springboks, the latter away from home, as well as a 62-13 victory against France and five over Australia.\n\nBefore this week, England felt like a good team with a great record, rather than a great team or a team of greats.\n\nThe World Cup-winning All Blacks side contained arguably the two finest ever in their positions, fly-half Dan Carter and flanker Richie McCaw, as well as other superstars in Ma'a Nonu and Conrad Smith. They were the first team in history to retain the Webb Ellis trophy, like the Brazil side that won football's World Cup in 1970 at a sanctified level, taking their sport to heights that none before had touched.\n\nWhen McCaw and Carter stepped away, the team continued to develop rather than atrophy. The XV that set the original 18-match mark with the 37-10 Bledisloe Cup win over the Wallabies contained eight players who would make most critics' fantasy world team: Ben Smith, Julian Savea, Beauden Barrett, Dane Coles, Brodie Retallick, Sam Whitelock, Jerome Kaino and Kieran Read.\n\nAnd so there is a gap, even if Billy Vunipola is fast becoming a totemic figure, even as Owen Farrell continues to raise his standards - 26 points on Saturday, 11 successful kicks from 12, his only miss a penalty from inside his own half - even as England's power and pace off the bench continue to flatten tired northern hemisphere defences.\n\n\"We're not the number one team,\" Jones said flatly. \"Look at the rankings. There's a gap between us and number one. We aspire to being number one.\"\n\nYet the aspiration no longer seems impossible, as it did in that warm autumn of 2015, when a gulf existed between New Zealand and England that seemed unbridgeable. If England were to end this four-year project with a World Cup of their own, only then do you sense Jones will be truly satisfied.\n\nNew Zealand's record-equalling run (ended by Ireland in November 2016)", "Earlier this month, a relic from World War Two intruded into daily life in north London. A 500lb Luftwaffe bomb was discovered by builders excavating in the leafy suburb of Brondesbury.\n\nLocal homes were evacuated, local train services were closed down. Eventually the weapon was made safe and finally removed to be detonated on an army range.\n\nThis relic of a war that ended more than 70 years ago set me thinking.\n\nWorld War Two - just like the Great War that preceded it - was a total war. The fates of all the countries involved were in the balance. Ordinary soldiers were largely not professionals but were conscripted citizens. The whole of society - its energies and industrial might - were mobilised for the conflict.\n\nOnce the war was over, many of its constraints inevitably lingered - the rationing of food, for example. War-ravaged cities also bore their scars.\n\nAs a child I remember the temporary homes - the rectangular \"prefabs\" or prefabricated houses - that dotted many of the bomb sites in east London near my grandparents' home.\n\nMy childhood was dominated by films and documentaries about the war. I lose track of the number of plastic Spitfire model kits I must have built to battle with their Messerschmitt equivalents.\n\nBut whatever the memories and cultural obsessions, the conflict was definitively over. There was, in short, a clear distinction between war and peace.\n\nThankfully the so-called Cold War of the 1950s and 60s remained just that: in Europe, at least, it never went hot. War and peace were two separate states of affairs.\n\nFast forward to today. This week, in London, a memorial was unveiled to the service personnel and civilians who lost their lives in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. On the government's own website it is described as the Iraq and Afghanistan Memorial.\n\nIn the West, at least, the Cold War never became hot\n\nIn the lengthy press release that follows there is no mention of the word \"war\", except to say that the new memorial stands close to monuments to World War Two and the Korean War.\n\nThere is rightly, of course, mention of the lives lost and the medals won. There is, too, appreciation for those who \"put themselves in harm's way\" - an Americanism that has intruded itself into the public debate on armed conflict.\n\nBut there you have it. These were undoubtedly armed conflicts far from our shores. But in what sense were they wars? Well of course they were, I hear you say, this is all semantic argument.\n\nWell, they were certainly wars for the Afghans and the Iraqis who were in some cases willing, and in many cases, unwilling participants in the struggles.\n\nThey were certainly wars for those actually engaged in combat. From my very limited experience under fire, it matters little if it is a skirmish or a fully-fledged battle if it is you on the spot where the bullets are flying.\n\nThe Queen unveiled the Iraq and Afghanistan memorial in London\n\nBut were Britain, the United States or their many allies who have contributed troops to these conflicts really \"at war\"? To what extent were their societies adapted or mobilised for the struggle? In some senses, very little. But in others, perhaps, more than we would like to admit.\n\nNone of their economies was on a war footing and the fighting was done largely by regular professional troops or volunteer reservists. Boots on the ground were combined with the signature style of the modern Western military campaign: lashings of air power along with the use of sophisticated armed drones.\n\nParadoxically, the primary impact of these wars was on the home front: the political obsession with terrorism which has had an impact on policing, community relations and security legislation and created an atmosphere in which debate about \"fear of the other\" has become an increasingly important factor in democratic elections and referendums.\n\nIt has also led increasingly to a militarisation of foreign policy - the idea that the military has an answer for most of the world's problems.\n\nAnd, in the midst of this, the former US Pentagon official and academic Rosa Brooks has mused eloquently on this theme in a book cogently titled How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything.\n\nHer message, that the blurring of the boundaries of war and peace has consequences for all our lives, is one that seems to resound with ever more people around the globe.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSteve McClaren has been sacked as Derby County manager for a second time, five months after he was reappointed.\n\nDerby, 10th in the Championship, said they acted following a \"significant, unexpected and persistent decline in results, team unity and morale\".\n\nRams chairman Mel Morris said: \"We need a manager who shares our values and who is prepared to develop the team.\"\n\nThe club said they expect to make an announcement in relation to McClaren's successor \"in the next few days\".\n\nAssistant manager Chris Powell and technical director Chris Evans have also left.\n\nFormer England boss McClaren, 55, was reappointed by Derby in October 2016, 17 months after he was sacked.\n\nHe returned to replace Nigel Pearson, who left by mutual consent after less than five months.\n\nDerby lost 3-0 away to second-placed Brighton on Friday and are 10 points off the play-off places.\n\n\"The Brighton game was so far from what we expect to see from those wearing a Derby County shirt,\" added Morris.\n\n\"To ensure we are on the right path, it is important to put the building blocks in place so we can develop a team we can all be proud of.\"\n\nMcClaren was in charge for 26 Championship games during his second spell at Derby, winning 12 and losing eight.\n\nDerby have won just one of the past nine league games.\n\nThey first appointed McClaren in September 2013 on a two-and-a-half-year deal after sacking Nigel Clough.\n\nHis contract was terminated in May 2015 following \"a thorough review of the 2014-15 season\".\n\nIn between his spells at Derby, McClaren managed Newcastle between June 2015 and March 2016, when he was sacked.\n\nSo the Derby players escape responsibility while the manager who has been at the club five months carries the can.\n\nSteve McClaren had an immediate effect last autumn, taking the club out of the bottom four and impressing with his acknowledged coaching skill, but the players shrivelled in the face of promotion expectations.\n\nMcClaren had set in place a major overhaul of the dressing room this summer, aware that he had been undermined by some malcontents speaking to club owner Mel Morris, a micro-manager who demands success and is not known for his patience - four managers in just over a year testify to that.\n\nBut it is his club, his £100m-plus investment, and he will run it his way.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nGoals from David Silva and Sergio Aguero gave Manchester City a deserved win over Middlesbrough and earned Pep Guardiola's side a place in the FA Cup semi-finals.\n\nSilva scored just three minutes in from six yards out after Pablo Zabaleta had time and space to cross low from the right.\n\nMiddlesbrough goalkeeper Brad Guzan produced a number of fine saves to deny Silva, Leroy Sane and deflect an Aguero shot on to the post.\n\nBut Aguero finally made the result safe for the visitors when he converted from Sane's low cross to earn his side a Wembley semi-final.\n\nCity have reached the last four of the FA Cup for the first time in four years as Guardiola aims to win some silverware in his first season in English football.\n\nThe Spanish manager also had the luxury of taking off Sane and Aguero before City play the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie in Monaco on Wednesday. City hold a 5-3 lead after a thrilling first leg.\n\nCity had defeated West Ham, Crystal Palace and Huddersfield Town so far in the competition and completely dominated against Middlesbrough.\n\nThe visitors had 69% of possession and 10 shots on target compared with only three from the hosts at a packed Riverside Stadium.\n\nCity's movement off the ball was excellent as they repeatedly carved open a Boro defence that could not cope with the visitors.\n\nPoor marking enabled Zabaleta to get free early on and his low cross was missed by Raheem Sterling before Silva lashed City ahead.\n\nOnly an outstanding performance by Guzan kept his side in it as he produced a number of saves to frustrate the visitors.\n\nAguero, who had earlier hit the post, got a goal he deserved when he finished well from the delivery from the excellent Sane.\n\nFor Middlesbrough, 18th in the Premier League, it was another afternoon to forget.\n\nNot only were they outclassed, they also suffered two injuries to key players as forward Rudy Gestede and defender Bernardo limped off.\n\nGestede had two attempts - heading just over and also having a header cleared off the line by Pablo Zabaleta - before going off after only 26 minutes with what appeared to be a lower back injury.\n\nBoro have scored the fewest goals in the Premier League - 19 in 27 matches - and may now be without a striker who only joined them in January in a £6m move from Aston Villa.\n\nDefender Bernardo also went off early in the second half with 19-year-old centre-half Dael Fry coming on to make only his second appearance of the season.\n\nBoro, against the run of play, had a late chance to score but John Stones cleared off the line after goalkeeper Claudio Bravo had parried Fabio's header.\n\nWith 11 Premier League games left, Boro can now focus their attentions on trying to stay in the top flight.\n\nIt's not all about the FA Cup, they need to survive in the Premier League too, but Middlesbrough really couldn't have done much when City are in this form. They have had a football lesson.\n\nCity were always going to win this, we knew that when we saw the team sheet. They had put the big boys on the pitch.\n\nFull credit to Middlesbrough. They are an honest, genuine side but were just lacking in a class finisher. It was 2-0 but it could have been a lot, lot more.\n\nI do fear for Middlesbrough. They have got to be more adventurous against teams in the bottom half - the ones you think they should beat.\n\nThey are currently playing a counter-attacking game and, apart from Adama Traore, they don't have the legs to get forward quickly.\n\nAnother semi-final for Guardiola - the stats\n• None Manchester City have reached the FA Cup semi-finals for the third time in six seasons (also in 2011 and 2013).\n• None City boss Pep Guardiola has now reached a semi-final in all eight of his seasons in club management.\n• None David Silva has been directly involved in five goals in his past five FA Cup appearances (two goals, three assists).\n• None Silva's goal was the earliest Manchester City have scored this season and the quickest Boro have conceded.\n• None Middlesbrough have failed to score in five of their past six matches.\n• None Boro have failed to score in 14 games this season, with seven of those coming since the turn of the year.\n\nWhat the managers said\n\nMiddlesbrough manager Aitor Karanka, speaking to BBC Sport, said: \"It is easy to say that the best team won, but I am really proud of my players - they made an amazing effort.\n\n\"This is the way we need to keep competing because we will win more than lose. The past two games were awful for us so I was a bit concerned about the atmosphere when they scored the first goal so quickly, but they keep going, with high pressure, trying to win back the ball.\n\n\"As a coach you can't be more proud of your players. I have told them now that I take much more positive things than negative.\"\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"We were outstanding from the beginning. We have now played three teams from the Premier League and one from the Championship.\n\n\"We played a good performance and were there from the first minute. We have missed a lot of chances throughout the season and the game should have been over 30 minutes before. We need to improve that, but I am happy and we can play Monaco.\n\n\"When you attack good, you defend good. We want to play in this way. Claudio made a good performance and that is why we were able to have another clean sheet. I like to work with these guys. I'm so happy.\"\n\nManchester City are back in Champions League action against Monaco on Wednesday (19:45 GMT kick-off).\n\nBoth City and Middlesbrough are next in Premier League action on 19 March. Middlesbrough entertain Manchester United (12:00) before City play at home against Liverpool (16:30 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by David Silva.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gaël Clichy.\n• None Attempt missed. Álvaro Negredo (Middlesbrough) with an attempt from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Gastón Ramírez with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt blocked. Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Marten de Roon (Middlesbrough) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "England retained their Six Nations title and equalled New Zealand's world record for consecutive Test wins with a seven-try demolition of Scotland at Twickenham.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nNon-league Lincoln City's astonishing run in the FA Cup came to an end as Arsenal remain on course for a 13th title by reaching the semi-finals.\n\nLincoln, 88 places below their Premier League opponents, held their own for much of the first half and even went close to scoring when Petr Cech saved Nathan Arnold's curled effort.\n\nHowever, Theo Walcott's deflected strike gave the Gunners the lead on the stroke of half-time and Olivier Giroud put the hosts in control with a clinical strike just after the break.\n\nLincoln's dreams of a fight back were dashed when Luke Waterfall scored an own goal, turning in Kieran Gibbs' cross.\n\nAlexis Sanchez added a brilliant fourth, expertly placing the ball beyond Lincoln goalkeeper Paul Farman's reach, before Aaron Ramsey completed the win when he tapped in from Sanchez's cross.\n\nIt was ultimately a routine victory for Arsenal and perhaps eased some of the pressure on Arsene Wenger, who is bidding for his seventh FA Cup triumph as Gunners boss.\n\nA protest was held before the game by around 200 fans urging the club to not give the 67-year-old a new contract when his current deal expires this summer.\n\nLincoln have undoubtedly been the story of this season's FA Cup. They came through eight games, beating Premier League Burnley and Championship high fliers Brighton along the way to become the first non-league side to reach the quarter-finals of the competition in 103 years.\n\nAgainst an Arsenal side that had reached the semi-finals 28 times previous, few would normally have given Lincoln a chance.\n\nBut a run of just two wins in their last seven games, coupled with the discontent felt by some Arsenal fans towards Arsene Wenger, gave the minnows reason to believe an upset could be achievable.\n\nThe club's fans clearly felt that to be the case as they travelled in huge numbers to the Emirates, and for large periods of the first half their voices were the only ones that could be heard.\n\nThe dream was alive. For 44 minutes\n\nOn the pitch, Lincoln were impressive, sticking to a game plan that limited Arsenal to only one real chance in the first half half hour, when Walcott hit the post.\n\nThere was a momentary silence around the ground when Lincoln threatened to snatch the unlikeliest of leads as Arnold's smart footwork left Laurent Koscielny on the floor, and he took aim at the far corner - but Cech managed to stretch across to make the save.\n\nA goalless draw at half-time would have been a deserved reward for their performance, but Walcott's strike appeared to knock their confidence and in the second half it looked every bit the tie involving a Premier League side and a team four divisions below them.\n\nThe FA Cup dream may be over for Lincoln but they could yet walk out at Wembley this season. They are in the semi-finals of the FA Trophy and now switch attention to their first-leg tie at York on Tuesday.\n\nProtests again but players step up\n\nArsenal could still finish the season with silverware, but success in the FA Cup is no longer enough for a sizeable number of Gunners fans.\n\nThey are out of the Champions League and a top-four finish is far from guaranteed as they currently sit fifth, two points behind Liverpool.\n\nThose fans who feel Wenger has taken the side as far as they can go made their feelings known before the game with a protest - their second in a week after around 200 supporters expressed their frustration before the Champions League last-16 second leg tie with Bayern Munich on Tuesday.\n\nBut there was support for Wenger inside the ground as some fans held 'In Wenger we trust' banners, while on the pitch his players stepped up after a slow start.\n\nMesut Ozil was particularly influential after his 27th minute introduction and Sanchez, whose long-term future at the Emirates is reportedly in doubt, impressed with a fine goal and an assist.\n\nWhat they said\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger: \"There was always a level of anxiety because these boys are unpredictable. They knocked out Burnley, Ipswich and Brighton, so we have to respect them.\n\n\"It was all us in the second half but you have to congratulate Lincoln for what they have achieved in the FA Cup.\n\n\"We have been short of confidence after some disappointing results recently. When the confidence was there in the second half the quality came back.\"\n\nLincoln manager Danny Cowley: \"I thought we did really well for the first 45 minutes. It is very hard to get negative against them because they have such world-class players. At 45 minutes I thought we had limited them in chances and we were hoping to get in 0-0 but they got the goal.\n\n\"Arsenal were frightening in the second half and for us it was a pleasure to see world-class players first hand. It felt like Arsene Wenger had brought 15 players on. If we can learn from this experience today and throughout this FA Cup journey we will be better players and better people.\n\n\"The best [in this run] was at the end, sharing a moment with our supporters. Our supporters were world class. They were brilliant. We are winners and don't like losing but when we can draw breath we will be proud.\"\n\nFormer Arsenal and England defender Martin Keown on Match of the Day\n\nLincoln revitalised the FA Cup, their run was magical. Arsenal came in wounded, there was a lack of confidence early on, but the goal just before half-time was perfect and settled them down. Them needing that goal to settle them down was some compliment to Lincoln, but the Gunners played with a swagger in the second half. Still, Lincoln can hold their heads very high.\n\nFormer England winger Trevor Sinclair on Match of the Day\n\nA National League team getting to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup? It is a fantastic achievement. I am sure everyone at the club will be so proud, and it doesn't happen by accident. They kept Arsenal at bay for 45 minutes.\n\nThe players and fans will remember it for the rest of their lives.\n• None This was Arsenal's 300th competitive fixture at the Emirates.\n• None The Gunners registered their 200th win in competitive games at the Emirates (D61 L39).\n• None Lincoln City failed to find the back of the net in an FA Cup game (excl. qualifiers) for the first time in nine games, since losing 5-0 to Plymouth in November 2013.\n• None Arsenal have reached the last four of the FA Cup for the third time in the last four seasons.\n• None Theo Walcott has scored 17 goals in all competitions this season; only in 2012/13 did he score more for the Gunners (21).\n• None Alexis Sanchez has had a hand in 35 goals this season (21 goals, 14 assists), more than any other PL player in all comps.\n• None In his last 20 games in all competitions, Sanchez has either scored or assisted 22 goals (13 goals, nine assists).\n• None Olivier Giroud has bagged four goals in total in his last four FA Cup starts.\n• None Arsenal's games this season in all competitions have produced a total of 145 goals (95 scored, 50 conceded), more than any other Premier League side.\n• None Mesut Ozil registered his first assist for Arsenal in any competition since January 22nd (vs Burnley), after a run of five games without one.\n\nArsenal are back in Premier League action as they travel to West Brom on Saturday, 18 March (12:30 GMT) looking for their first league win since 11 February. Lincoln, meanwhile, face York in the FA Trophy on Tuesday.\n• None Attempt missed. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.\n• None Sean Raggett (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucas Pérez.\n• None Attempt blocked. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey.\n• None Attempt saved. Alan Power (Lincoln City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nathan Arnold.\n• None Attempt missed. Adam Marriott (Lincoln City) 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", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland retained their Six Nations title and equalled New Zealand's world record for consecutive Test wins with a seven-try demolition of sorry Scotland.\n\nA hat-trick of tries for Jonathan Joseph, and one apiece for replacements Anthony Watson and Billy Vunipola and two for Danny Care put the visitors to the sword at Twickenham as Owen Farrell kicked 26 points.\n\nIt was England's highest score in this oldest of international fixtures and equalled their biggest winning margin against Scotland as the Calcutta Cup was retained with style and swagger.\n\nIt means England face Ireland in Dublin next weekend with both consecutive Grand Slams and a world record of 19 Test wins in their sights.\n\nIt was a chastening afternoon for Scotland despite them scoring three converted tries, their hopes of a first Triple Crown since 1990 wrecked by a dismal first-half performance.\n\nThey lost both Stuart Hogg and his replacement Mark Bennett early and were forced to play the majority of the contest with scrum-half Ali Price on the wing, their winless run at Twickenham now stretching past 34 years.\n\nThere has been much debate about England's form this Six Nations despite their long unbeaten run.\n\nBut in front of a celebrating capacity crowd they cut loose, running in three tries as they scored 30 points in a one-sided first half.\n\nFour more tries and thirty-one more points followed in the second period as they established an unassailable lead atop the Six Nations table.\n\nNever before have England scored more than 44 points against the Scots, and only once before won by the 40-point margin.\n\nTwo tries from Huw Jones were scant consolation for Scotland coach Vern Cotter, his team only offering any sort of threat when the match was gone.\n\nAfter struggling to start well so often under Eddie Jones, England had come storming out of the blocks to bring Twickenham exploding to life.\n\nWith Fraser Brown in the sin-bin for lifting Elliot Daly above the horizontal in the tackle, England attacked at pace and with the Scottish defence stretched, Joseph ghosted between his opposite centres for the first try.\n\nAfter 10 minutes England had 92% possession, Farrell landing two penalties to add to the conversion, and it only got worse for the visitors.\n\nWith star full-back Hogg off with a head injury, his replacement Bennett was carried off with a hamstring injury, forcing Price to switch to the wing.\n\nAnd with Joseph dancing past four static defenders on 24 minutes from George Ford's lovely delayed pass, they were 20 points down with just 25 minutes gone.\n\nProp Gordon Reid burrowed over from close in after Scotland kicked a penalty to the corner, but another blistering England attack off quick line-out ball let Farrell free Joseph, Watson appearing on his outside shoulder to dash in unopposed.\n\nScotland strike back, but too little too late\n\nJoseph ran on to Ben Youngs' short pass to complete his treble and make it 35-7 just after half-time, and while Huw Jones squeezed through Joseph and Jack Nowell for a second Scottish try, Eddie Jones then threw on his bench as England went hunting for more.\n\nVunipola, on as a replacement after returning from injury, battered over from a driving maul and the stage seemed set for white-shirted carnage.\n\nBut Scotland refused to roll over and as the game became increasingly unstructured, visiting centre Jones side-stepped his way into the left-hand corner.\n\nHowever, replacement England scrum-half Care nipped over with nine minutes remaining, and relentless English pressure and possession with time up saw him cap the romp with a celebratory dive over the line.\n\nCyprus won 24 matches in a row between 2008 and 2014 but they are not a tier one nation (the premier sides in the game). England's best run before Eddie Jones took over was a streak of 14 consecutive wins between 2002 and 2003 - which ended just before their World Cup-winning campaign.\n\nWhat is the players' view?\n\nScotland captain John Barclay: \"We just didn't show up. We got off to a bad start and continued, our discipline was very poor and we gave away soft tries.\n\n\"You don't win however many games in a row without being a good side so good luck to England. We are trying to move away from the tag of plucky losers but that wasn't even that. We were useless.\"\n\n\"Coming back into the team, scoring a hat-trick and winning the Six Nations means it has been a great day.\n\n\"We focused on starting each session very well and you could see we did that today. The set piece was unbelievable and what we did on the back of that was very good.\"\n\nWhat did the pundits make of it?\n\n\"If England are going to play like that next week, I don't know how Ireland are going to win that game.\n\n\"Eddie Jones has created so much pressure on this side over the past few weeks and this has been their response, a 40-point whipping of Scotland.\"\n\n\"My goodness me, England were imperious. They will be very pleased with that, but it was an armchair ride they had for most of the afternoon.\n\n\"Scotland and their supporters will be bitterly disappointed, they just did not turn up. England were thoroughly deserving of the manner of their victory.\"\n\nReplacements: Te'o for Joseph (59), Watson for Daly (16), Sinckler for Youngs (61), M. Vunipola for Marler (59), George for Hartley (52), Care for Cole (61), Wood for Lawes (67), B. Vunipola for Hughes (52).\n\nReplacements: Bennett for Hogg (17), Pyrgos for Bennett (21), Weir for Seymour (45), Dell for Reid (44), Ford for Brown (44), Berghan for Fagerson (61), Swinson for J. Gray (75), Du Preez for Wilson (62).", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal boss Arsene Wenger felt his side showed against Lincoln City that they have their confidence back, following a heavy defeat by Bayern Munich in the Champions League.\n\nThe Gunners beat the non-league side 5-0 at Emirates Stadium on Saturday to reach the FA Cup semi-finals.\n\nIt came after they lost 5-1 to Bayern Munich at the same ground on Tuesday.\n\n\"We have been short of confidence after some disappointing results recently,\" said Frenchman Wenger.\n\n\"When the confidence was there in the second half, our quality came back.\n\n\"It was all us in the second half but you have to congratulate Lincoln for what they have achieved in the FA Cup.\"\n\nLincoln, 88 places below their Premier League hosts, were the first non-league side to reach the quarter-finals of the competition in 103 years.\n\n'We had to respond'\n\nThis was a much-needed win for Wenger after a difficult couple of weeks for the 67-year-old.\n\nArsenal had lost five of their seven games prior to the visit of the Imps - including 5-1 defeats home and away to Bayern Munich and a 3-1 loss to Liverpool in the Premier League.\n\nWenger's long-term future at Arsenal is uncertain, with his contract due to expire this summer, and there were protests calling for him to step down prior to Saturday's game.\n\nArsenal initially looked nervous against Lincoln before Theo Walcott opened the scoring just before half-time.\n\nOlivier Giroud put the hosts in control with a clinical strike, with an own goal from Luke Waterfall and goals from Alexis Sanchez and Aaron Ramsey completing the win.\n\n\"We were a bit nervous because your confidence drops when you don't have the results,\" added Wenger.\n\n\"The team was unjustifiably criticised for our last game against Bayern Munich because we had an outstanding game.\n\n\"The game was killed not by the fault of the players but we have to look at the bigger perspective.\n\n\"Overall, we had to respond and that's what we did.\"\n\nDefeat for Lincoln brought to an end their historic FA Cup run.\n\nAbout 9,000 fans made the trip south to cheer on Lincoln, and boss Danny Cowley praised their \"world-class\" support.\n\n\"We need to learn from this journey, not just from today but this journey,\" he said.\n\n\"And if we can really, really learn and take something from playing against world-class players then we will be better footballers and players as a result.\n\n\"I did our fans a massive disservice in the week because I said they were Premier League. They were much, much better than that.\n\n\"You saw world-class players play today in the Arsenal team but you also heard and witnessed world-class supporters because that's how good they were.\"\n\nFormer Arsenal and England defender Martin Keown on Match of the Day\n\nLincoln revitalised the FA Cup, their run was magical. Arsenal came in wounded, there was a lack of confidence early on, but the goal just before half-time was perfect and settled them down. Them needing that goal to settle them down was some compliment to Lincoln, but the Gunners played with a swagger in the second half. Still, Lincoln can hold their heads very high.\n\nFormer England winger Trevor Sinclair on Match of the Day\n\nA National League team getting to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup? It is a fantastic achievement. I am sure everyone at the club will be so proud, and it doesn't happen by accident. They kept Arsenal at bay for 45 minutes.\n\nThe players and fans will remember it for the rest of their lives.", "Questions remain about Liverpool's performances against lesser teams despite Sunday's win over Burnley, but I could tell from talking to Jurgen Klopp how important the result was to him.\n\nI was at Anfield for Match of the Day 2 and the Reds manager came to speak to us on the show after the game.\n\nHe called it an \"ugly win\". He was exactly right and he was also correct that it was a very good sign.\n\nI could tell from Klopp's entire demeanour that he saw it as a massive result in his side's season, and it was fascinating to talk to him about how he thought his side played.\n\nWhen he answers your questions, he gives you everything. He kind of looks at you as if to say 'well you have watched the game anyway, so I am not going to come out with any rubbish'.\n\nI think that is why football fans like to listen to him - I do. He does not just talk openly, he is convincing when he explains things too.\n\n'Liverpool unhinged and could not impose themselves'\n\nI said before Sunday's game that I thought it held huge significance for Liverpool's bid to finish in the top four, even more so than last week's win over Arsenal.\n\nKlopp's side started 2017 so badly and suffered some poor defeats against teams from the bottom half of the table. It was vital that did not happen again.\n\nGoing back further, we saw in August when the Reds lost at Turf Moor how they struggle to break down teams even when they dominate possession.\n\nI was expecting this game to follow a similar pattern, but Burnley did far more than just defend in numbers.\n\nThis game was completely different to what happened at Turf Moor because this time Burnley caused Liverpool lots of problems too, especially in the first half and not just on the break.\n\nWhen the Clarets were on the ball they looked more dangerous and that was in terms of territory, because they saw more of the ball than Liverpool in the right areas.\n\nIt looked like they targeted the little corridor between Liverpool's left-sided centre-half Ragnar Klavan and their left-back James Milner, and it seriously worked.\n\nIt unhinged Liverpool for the first 20 to 25 minutes and, even after that, the Reds did not impose themselves on the game or get their short passing going.\n\nBurnley were playing with two centre-forwards to stop Liverpool building from the back. It meant they were playing more long balls instead, and Michael Keane and Ben Mee can deal with those all day.\n\nThe home crowd were getting frustrated because Burnley's gameplan was working. When Georginio Wijnaldum equalised in first-half injury-time, it was with Liverpool's first shot on target.\n\nThere was no dramatic difference in Liverpool's play in the second half either - yes, they were better, but that wasn't difficult.\n\nAny improvement was minimal - they just found a way to pinch the win despite a poor performance. They had to, really.\n\nDivock Origi started up front, which is his best position, but he had a bad day and Klopp did not have many attacking alternatives on the bench - just youngsters in Ben Woodburn and Harry Wilson.\n\nKlopp gets criticised for not having a 'Plan B' but part of that is down to a lack of options. At 1-1 he brought on Woodburn for Philippe Coutinho, which shows he is not afraid to change things if they are not working.\n\nCoutinho is Liverpool's best player when he is on form but he was another one having an off day so Klopp gave a kid a chance.\n\nThat shows how limited Liverpool's squad is, when you compare it to the rest of the top six. On Wednesday night, for example, Manchester City brought on David Silva in the second half to try to change the game in their draw against Stoke.\n\nYes, Emre Can scored from long range seconds after Woodburn came on but that does not hide the fact that the Liverpool bench on Sunday was short of the experience they need.\n\n'This can be a launchpad for the rest of Liverpool's season'\n\nBeforehand I saw this game as the launchpad for the rest of Liverpool's season. The result still means it might be.\n\nThat is the big positive, but the worry would be that they have still not shown that they are capable of rolling any of the lower teams over.\n\nTheir next game, away at Manchester City next Sunday, is obviously important as well.\n\nBut it is against another top team, and we know what they are like against those sides - they have not lost against anyone else in the top six all season.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSubstitute Oumar Niasse scored two goals as Hull City secured a potentially crucial victory over fellow Premier League strugglers Swansea.\n\nThe 26-year-old, on loan from Everton, had only been on the pitch six minutes when he latched on to Abel Hernandez's pass and slotted past Swans keeper Lukasz Fabianski.\n\nThe Senegal forward's second came just nine minutes later, with a close-range finish from fellow substitute Ahmed Elmohamady's cross.\n\nIt was a nervy finish at the KCOM Stadium, as Swansea defender Alfie Mawson pulled one back in injury time.\n\nThe Swans had enjoyed the better chances earlier in the game, but struggled without top scorer Fernando Llorente, who was forced off with an injury at the end of the first half.\n\nThe Tigers remain in the bottom three, one point from safety, but moved to within three points of Swansea, who remain in 16th.\n• None Relive the action from the KCOM Stadium\n• None Reaction from all of Saturday's Premier League matches\n\nHull were bottom of the table and three points from safety when former Sporting Lisbon and Olympiakos boss Marco Silva was appointed in January.\n\nThe 39-year-old Portuguese's first game in charge resulted in a 2-0 win over Swansea in the FA Cup third round.\n\nFast forward nine weeks and the Tigers are within one point of safety with 10 games still to play after Silva's second win over the Swans.\n\nSilva's decision to replace Alfred N'Diaye with Niasse proved to be a masterstroke, as the substitute showcased his potential when it really mattered.\n\nHull's home form will be vital in their survival, with all three of their Premier League victories under Silva coming at the KCOM, the same number they had won in their previous 16.\n\nWith relegation-threatened Middlesbrough and Sunderland still to play at home, Silva can still believe he has a chance of keeping Hull in the top flight - a task many thought was impossible when he took over.\n\nSwans hit by injuries at the wrong time\n\nInjury problems are coming at the wrong stage of the season for Swansea, with boss Paul Clement forced to make two changes before the end of the first half.\n\nTop scorer Fernando Llorente limped off after a Tom Huddlestone challenge left him with a dead leg just before half-time.\n\nSwansea clearly struggled without the in-form Spaniard, who had scored three goals in his previous two Premier League appearances, and managed just three shots on target in the match, compared with Hull's seven.\n\nTheir first real chance of the game fell to Wayne Routledge after Eldin Jakupovic's spilled save fell perfectly into his path, but somehow the 28-year-old blasted his effort over the bar from 10 yards out.\n\nRight-back Angel Rangel, who started in place of the injured Kyle Naughton, was forced off midway through the first half after twisting his ankle in an attempt to tackle Kamil Grosicki.\n\nHowever, Hull have had injury problems of their own and Marco Silva has been without key players Moses Odubajo, Will Keane, Markus Henriksen, Ryan Mason, Michael Dawson and Dieumerci Mbokani.\n\nFormer England defender Martin Keown on Match of the Day\n\nWhen Marco Silva changed Hull's formation and brought Oumar Niasse on, that made the complete difference. Niasse came out with a point to prove and boy has he proved it. They were two massive goals he got for his team today.\n\nWhat they said\n\nHull City manager Marco Silva: \"We got three important points, of course I am happy. It was a tough, tough game. We improved in the second half and after that we controlled the game.\n\n\"I'm not happy with the last five minutes to give gifts to the opponent. The game only finishes when the referee gives the sign.\n\n\"In the first half we had chances, and in the second half we improved our attitude and scored two goals. It is a fair result for us. We work two systems and the players know what we want.\n\n\"We need to take points away from home as well, it is difficult.\"\n\nSwansea City boss Paul Clement: \"The way we defended was not good enough. For long periods we looked like we were in control of the game and we were creating opportunities on the counter-attack.\n\n\"Two injuries in the first half have hurt us and in the second half we were limited to what we could do. Martin Olsson got hurt and we had to play with an injured player for the rest of the game. Overall we have to be disappointed with how they scored and how open we were.\n\n\"Fernando Llorente has been a key player to us recently and gives us lots of different threats, I don't think it is serious, I think he has a dead leg, Angel Rangel's is an injury to the ankle, I'm not sure how serious that one is. Martin got a knock on his ankle, he was not 100% but was able to continue.\n\n\"There's a lot of football to be played. I didn't think we were anywhere near safe and we are not anywhere near safe now. We have 10 games to go and have to bounce back next week against Bournemouth.\"\n• None All three of Oumar Niasse's Premier League goals for Hull City have been as a substitute.\n• None The Swans have lost their past three visits to the KCOM Stadium, each in a different competition.\n• None Swansea have now conceded 61 goals this season. No side to have conceded 60 or more goals after 28 games of a Premier League season has stayed up.\n• None Swansea have now conceded more goals in the final 30 minutes of games than any other Premier League side this season (29).\n• None Gylfi Sigurdsson has provided more assists than any other Premier League player this season (11).\n• None Offside, Hull City. Oumar Niasse tries a through ball, but Kamil Grosicki is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. David Meyler (Hull City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ahmed Elmohamady.\n• None Goal! Hull City 2, Swansea City 1. Alfie Mawson (Swansea City) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Gylfi Sigurdsson with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Jordan Ayew (Swansea City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Hull City. Eldin Jakupovic tries a through ball, but Oumar Niasse is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Oumar Niasse (Hull City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Kamil Grosicki.\n• None Offside, Hull City. Oumar Niasse tries a through ball, but Andrew Robertson is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Hull City 2, Swansea City 0. Oumar Niasse (Hull City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ahmed Elmohamady. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland can \"achieve greatness\" by completing a second straight Grand Slam against Ireland next weekend and breaking New Zealand's record of 18 consecutive wins, says Eddie Jones.\n\nEngland thrashed Scotland 61-21 at Twickenham on Saturday to retain the Six Nations and coach Jones says his players want more success.\n\n\"How many times in your life do you get to be great? It's exciting,\" he said.\n\n\"They're in the dressing room now talking about it. They want to do it.\"\n• None Analysis: Are England on the All Blacks' level?\n• None Relive how England won the Six Nations\n\nNew Zealand's record run of 18 consecutive victories was ended by Ireland in Chicago just last autumn, and Jones believes that Joe Schmidt's side will prove tough opposition in Dublin next Saturday.\n\nFrance were the last team to win back-to-back Grand Slams in 1998, with England achieving the feat in 1992 - both before Italy joined the tournament and the number of nations increased from five to six.\n\n\"We've got a fantastic opportunity,\" said Jones. \"It would mean for the players they've achieved greatness.\n\n\"Our focus is purely on Ireland - back-to-back Grand Slams has never been done in the history of the Six Nations.\n\n\"Ireland, psychologically, are in a very strong position,\" he added. \"They're beaten, they're out of the tournament and they love spoiling parties.\n\n\"And the party they'd love to spoil the most is the England party.\"\n\n'We want to be number one in the world'\n\nEngland's haul of wins has lifted them to second in the world rankings, behind World Cup holders New Zealand, and Jones has set his sights on toppling the All Blacks.\n\nJones has not faced New Zealand since taking charge in 2015.\n\nHe said: \"[The half-time message was] that we were ruthless and behaved like the number-one team in the world. The number-one team in the world goes on and finishes that off.\n\n\"We're not beating our chests and saying we're the number-one team in the world, but we aspire to be the number-one team in the world.\n\n\"We're one year into a four-year project. We've done reasonably well in the first year.\n\n\"We want to be the number-one team in the world but we're not, so we have got to get better.\"\n\n'It doesn't feel like we have won'\n\nEngland captain Dylan Hartley said that the players haven't allowed themselves to celebrate with one game still to come, and described winning the championship early as \"weird\".\n\n\"If we want to kick on as a team the next challenge is Dublin next weekend,\" he said.\n\n\"The team delivered, we don't need to fill newspaper columns and I'm happy with how the team conducted themselves. We were clinical, ruthless.\n\n\"It feels a bit weird - we have retained the Six Nations but it won't feel like it until we win next weekend.\n\n\"It's not a dead rubber - it's another step for the team to get better.\"\n\nCyprus won 24 matches in a row between 2008 and 2014 but they are not a tier one nation and not a full member of the International Rugby Board. England's best run before Eddie Jones took over was a streak of 14 consecutive wins between 2002 and 2003 - which ended just before their World Cup winning campaign.\n\nIt still feels surreal to compare this England team to an All Blacks side that won a third World Cup eight games into their own run, whose march included 41-13 and 57-15 wins over the Springboks, the latter away from home, as well as a 62-13 victory against France and five over Australia.\n\nBefore this week, England felt like a good team with a great record, rather than a great team or a team of greats.\n\nThe World Cup-winning All Blacks side contained arguably the two finest ever in their positions, fly-half Dan Carter and flanker Richie McCaw, as well as other superstars in Ma'a Nonu and Conrad Smith. They were the first team in history to retain the Webb Ellis trophy, like the Brazil side that won football's World Cup in 1970 at a sanctified level, taking their sport to heights that none before had touched.\n\nWhen McCaw and Carter stepped away, the team continued to develop rather atrophy. The XV that set the original 18-match mark with the 37-10 Bledisloe Cup win over the Wallabies contained eight players who would make most critics' fantasy world team: Ben Smith, Julian Savea, Beauden Barrett, Dane Coles, Brodie Retallick, Sam Whitelock, Jerome Kaino and Kieran Read.\n\nAnd so there is a gap, even if Billy Vunipola is fast becoming a totemic figure, even as Owen Farrell continues to raise his standards - 26 points on Saturday, 11 successful kicks from 12, his only miss a penalty from inside his own half - even as England's power and pace off the bench continue to flatten tired northern hemisphere defences.", "When soldiers went searching for militants in Myanmar's Rakhine state last October, the result for members of the Rohingya minority was disastrous. Villages were burned, men were killed, women were sexually abused. And when one woman complained of rape, she was accused of lying by the office of the country's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and hounded by vengeful soldiers.\n\nSitting cross-legged on the floor, 25-year-old Jamalida Begum tells me what happened in the days after her husband was shot dead in the village of Pyaung Pyaik, north-western Myanmar.\n\nJamalida fled with her two children and watched from a distance as the army set houses in the village on fire. Satellite images confirm that at least 85 buildings were destroyed.\n\nFive days later she returned with some of her neighbours to find her belongings and home destroyed. They sheltered together in one of the few homes that had survived - but at dawn the next day the soldiers came back.\n\n\"They chose 30 women. Half were young girls aged between 12 and 15,\" says Jamalida.\n\nThe soldiers took them to the village school.\n\n\"Then they chose four from among the 30,\" Jamalida says.\n\n\"It was me and three teenage girls. Then we were separated. The army took me to the east of the school near the pond. Another seven soldiers took the other three girls to the hill to the south of the school.\n\n\"They shouted at me to open my shirt and my thami (wrap-around skirt). When I refused they started beating me, grabbed my clothes and pushed me to the ground. Three soldiers raped and tortured me for an hour. Blood came out of my lower part and my legs got cramped. They punched me into the eyes saying I was staring at them. It turned my eyes red like fire coal. They left me bleeding and drove away in their Jeeps.\"\n\nThe soldiers were sent into northern Rakhine state to conduct \"clearance operations\" after militants from Jamalida's ethnic group, the Rohingya, launched an attack on three Burmese police posts on 9 October last year - killing nine officers and seizing guns and ammunition.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Myanmar: Who are the Rohingya?\n\nA wave of reports of human rights abuses followed, including scores of allegations of rape.\n\nFor weeks Myanmar's human rights icon turned leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, denied the allegations, insisting soldiers were adhering to the law, while at the same time refusing to allow independent journalists or observers to access the area.\n\nBut as the outcry grew she set up an investigation team, and on 11 December it reached Pyaung Pyaik.\n\nThough initially reluctant, Jamalida was persuaded to speak by the only woman on the team, Dr Thet Thet Zin, the chairman of Myanmar's Women's Affairs Federation.\n\n\"She said we won't harm you, bring us the raped and tortured women,\" Jamalida says. \"So I went there and told her everything and they recorded it.\"\n\nJamalida's interaction with the investigation team was filmed and several minutes of it broadcast on television. It is extraordinary footage, not just because of the way Jamalida is browbeaten by the translators, but because the Burmese state broadcaster didn't translate what Jamalida is saying to the investigators in the Rohingya language.\n\nOnce fully translated, it's clear that Jamalida is describing strong circumstantial evidence that rape has taken place. She tells them she saw three young Rohingya women being taken off into the bushes by soldiers.\n\n\"Did you see if those women were raped or not?\" the translator asks.\n\n\"So, it isn't true,\" the translator fires back.\n\n\"Yes and no,\" Jamalida says. \"They were bleeding directly from here\". She points between her legs.\n\n\"Don't say that, don't say that, don't say that they are bleeding, just say whether you've seen rape or not,\" the translator replies.\n\nThe translator tells the investigators that Jamalida did not see the women being raped.\n\nJamalida is also asked directly whether she herself was raped. She tells the investigators that soldiers took her away, stripped her naked and molested her, but says it was \"hands only\" and not rape.\n\nThe translator says: \"She wasn't raped.\"\n\nTen days later Jamalida is filmed again. This time, a group of handpicked journalists have been brought by the government to Pyaung Pyaik.\n\nInitially none of the Rohingya want to speak to them so someone goes to get Jamalida. She tells the journalists the same story of army abuse again, except this time it changes and she says she was raped.\n\nThis discrepancy, between being stripped and molested and being raped, was immediately seized on by Aung San Suu Kyi's office, which was at the time running an aggressive campaign rubbishing foreign and social media reports of atrocities in Rakhine State as \"fake news\".\n\nJamalida's face was suddenly on Burmese television and state media once again, now paraded as a liar.\n\nAung San Suu Kyi's Facebook page called her story an example of \"Fake Rape\" in a big picture banner.\n\nBanner on the Facebook page of Myanmar's State Counsellor, Aung San Suu Kyi\n\nSo what's the truth? When I speak to Jamalida her testimony is detailed and convincing. It matches what she told the journalists and what she said to the investigators apart from that one detail. I believe her when she says she was raped.\n\nI ask Jamalida about the difference in her accounts 10 days apart. She insists that she did tell the government investigators she was raped but that one of the translators was shouting and threatening to beat her. If she did tell the investigators this, it's possible Burmese TV chose not to broadcast this part of her testimony.\n\n\"I know they told everyone we weren't raped, tortured or anything,\" says Jamalida. \"We do not have justice in our own country.\"\n\nThe promise made by Thet Thet Zin that no-one would face reprisals for speaking out, turned out to be hollow.\n\nWhen soldiers came looking for her, she fled to a different village. Then, after speaking to the journalists, she realised it was not safe even there.\n\n\"The military were searching for me by getting all the women together in the yard and then showing them my picture,\" says Jamalida. \"I was so scared I hid in the jungle.\"\n\nUnable to take it any longer, the young widow fled across the River Naf into Bangladesh - one of more than 70,000 Rohingya to have arrived in the last few months.\n\nI spoke to Thet Thet Zin on the phone. She said that although she couldn't remember meeting Jamalida, the soldiers must have been searching for her to protect rather than harass her. She added that she had seen no conclusive evidence of rape and that she doubted it had happened, as it went against Buddhist culture and tradition. (While the Rohingya are Muslim, most of Myanmar's soldiers are Buddhist.)\n\nBangladesh is now the best place to go to learn what is happening in northern Rakhine state, which is closed to journalists. Even the UN's special rapporteur for human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, has had very limited access.\n\n\"I didn't think that I would say this out loud, that it's crimes against humanity,\" she says, when we meet in the airport at Cox's Bazaar.\n\n\"I think that the military needs to bear [responsibility] but at the end of the day it is the civilian government that has to answer and respond to these massive cases of horrific torture and very inhumane crimes that they have committed against their own people.\"\n\nOn Monday Yanghee Lee will urge the UN Human Rights Council to set up a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the abuses against the Rohingya.\n\nAs dusk began to fall at the Kutupalong refugee camp, where I met Jamalida Begum, I ask her what she thinks of Aung San Suu Kyi.\n\n\"She is doing nothing at all for us,\" she says. \"If she was good, we wouldn't have to suffer so much in that country. Since she is in power Myanmar is hell for us.\"\n\nSuu Kyi's power to stop the army abuses is limited, under the terms of the constitution drafted by the military. The spokesman for her party told me the UN claims were \"an exaggeration\" and the Rohingya issue was \"an internal affair\".\n\nBut Aung San Suu Kyi hasn't been to northern Rakhine State, and has never visited a Rohingya camp. In short, Myanmar's Nobel peace prize winner has given no indication to the Rohingya that she really cares.\n\nJonah Fisher's report was a joint investigation by Our World and Newsnight\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United striker Marcus Rashford will be named in Gareth Southgate's England squad on Thursday.\n\nThe 19-year-old was initially expected to feature for the England Under-21 side in friendlies against Germany and Denmark next weekend.\n\nBut with England forwards Harry Kane and Wayne Rooney both ruled out through injury, Rashford will be called up.\n\nEngland face Germany away in a friendly before a World Cup qualifier against Lithuania at Wembley on 26 March.\n\nRashford made a goal-scoring debut for England in a 2-1 win over Australia in May last year and has collected six senior caps.\n\nHe was a late inclusion for Manchester United in their 1-0 FA Cup defeat by Chelsea on Monday, having been omitted from the initial squad due to illness.\n\nEngland captain Rooney was ruled out of Manchester United's trip to the capital with a leg injury sustained in a training ground collision.\n\nAnd Tottenham striker Harry Kane went off with an ankle injury against Millwall on Sunday.\n\nSpurs said the injury is similar to the one Kane picked up against Sunderland on 18 September.", "Theresa May has declared \"now is not the time\" for Nicola Sturgeon to call for an independence referendum\n\nTo govern is to choose. The prime minister has now chosen to exercise her power over the constitution, reserved to Westminster under the Scotland Act 1998.\n\nThis is about competing power, competing mandates, competing interpretations of the verdicts delivered during the European referendum last year.\n\nTheresa May accords primacy to the Brexit negotiations. She says she does not want even to contemplate the prospect of indyref2 during that period. That means she will not countenance a transfer of powers under Section 30 of the Scotland Act, again at this stage.\n\nNicola Sturgeon accords primacy to the impact upon Scotland of the Brexit process. She says it is undemocratic for the PM to refuse to give Scotland a meaningful choice - that word again - within a suitable timescale, proximate to the Brexit plans. It is sinking the ship and puncturing Scotland's lifeboat.\n\nBut this is also about political confidence. Political calculation. Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Conservative leader, plainly calculates that she will have Scottish public opinion on her side. Or, more precisely, a sufficient quotient of public opinion.\n\nThe Tories in Scotland have been through a period where they were the party which dared not speak its name, the toxic party. They now reckon those days are behind them. And why? The Union, post-2014.\n\nTheir calculation - and it is an arithmetical sum - is that they can corral behind them the supporters of Union in Scotland. That, just as in the past, in the 1950s for example, they can draw backing from a relatively wide range of Scottish society, predicated upon concrete support for the Union - and fixed opposition to the SNP.\n\nIt worked, to a substantial degree, in the last Holyrood elections when they became the largest opposition party. Their calculation is that it will work again, this time.\n\nNicola Sturgeon is likely to press ahead with a Holyrood vote calling for a Section 30 order\n\nWill there be anger in some quarters at the Prime Minister's decision? There will indeed. Stand by for demonstrations to that effect at the SNP conference in Aberdeen.\n\nBut the calculation by the Tories - and this is less quantifiable, but a calculation nevertheless - is that sufficient numbers of the populace in Scotland will be relieved that they do not have to decide on independence in the next 18 months to two years.\n\nThe Tory leadership insists that they are not blocking a referendum entirely. That was Ruth Davidson's answer when she was reminded that she had told my estimable colleague Gordon Brewer in July last year that there should not be a constitutional block placed upon indyref2.\n\nThe argument was that they are merely setting terms: evident fairness and discernible popular/political support for a further plebiscite.\n\nHowever, these are not absolute, they are open to interpretation. It would seem to be that the verdict on these factors would also lie with the Prime Minister. Such is the nature of reserved power.\n\nBut, again, the Tory triumvirate - PM, secretary of state, Scottish leader - stress that a referendum might be feasible once Brexit is signed, sealed and settled. David Mundell seemed particularly keen to stress that point.\n\nHowever, if they won't contemplate Section 30 meantime, then the time needed for legislation, consultation and official preparation would suggest that - by that calendar - any referendum would be deferred until 2020 or possibly later. Possibly after the next Holyrood elections.\n\nOptions for the FM? She could sanction an unofficial referendum, without statutory backing. Don't see that happening. It would be a gesture - and Nicola Sturgeon, as the head of a government, is generally averse to gestures. Unless they advance her cause.\n\nShe could protest and seek discussions. Some senior Nationalists believe this to be a negotiation ploy by the PM, the prelude to talks.\n\nWill the first minister proceed with the vote next week at Holyrood, demanding a Section 30 transfer in which the Greens are expected to join with the SNP to create a majority? I firmly expect her to do so, to add to the challenge to the PM.\n\nBeyond that, expect the First Minister to cajole, to urge - but also to campaign. To deploy this deferral of an independence referendum as an argument for…an independence referendum. She will seek public support, arguing that Scotland's interests have been ignored. Just as Ruth Davidson will seek public support, arguing that she is protecting those interests.\n\nFinal thought. One senior Nationalist suggested to me that delay might, ultimately, be in the SNP's interests: that people were already disquieted by Brexit and would prefer a pause. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps, to quote the old song.\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. Emilian says he feels \"like a prisoner\" in his cab\n\nLorry drivers moving goods in Western Europe for Ikea and other retailers are living out of their cabs for months at a time, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nSome drivers - brought over from poorer countries by lorry firms based in Eastern Europe - say their salary is less than three pounds an hour.\n\nThey say they cannot afford to live in the countries where they work. One said he felt \"like a prisoner\" in his cab.\n\nIkea said it was \"saddened by the testimonies\" of the drivers.\n\nThe drivers the BBC spoke to were employed by haulage companies based in Eastern Europe, which are paid to transport Ikea goods.\n\nRomanian driver Emilian spends up to four months at a time sleeping, eating and washing in his truck.\n\nHe moves goods for Ikea around Western Europe, and had been in Denmark most recently.\n\nHe says the salary he takes home is a monthly average of 477 euros (£420).\n\nA Danish driver can expect to take home an average of 2,200 euros (£1,900) a month in salary.\n\nEU rules state that a driver posted temporarily away from home should be ''guaranteed'' the host nation's ''minimum rates of pay'' and conditions. But companies can exploit loopholes in the law.\n\nEmilian's colleague Christian prepares dinner in the back of the truck\n\nEmilian is employed by a Slovakian subsidiary of Norwegian trucking company Bring, and is being paid as if his place of work is Slovakia - even though he never works there.\n\nHe shows us where he sleeps - a sleeping bag in the back of his cab.\n\nAccording to EU law, drivers must take 45 hours weekly rest away from their cabs, but governments have been slow to enforce it.\n\nHe says he cannot afford to sleep anywhere else - he receives around 45 euros (£40) a day in expenses, which is meant to cover all hotel bills and meals.\n\nZoe Conway was reporting for the BBC's Today and Victoria Derbyshire programmes.\n\nDuring the working week, Emilian cooks and eats at the roadside. He says conditions have left him feeling \"like a prisoner, like a bird in the cage\".\n\n\"It's not good for drivers, it's not safe for other people on the road... it is possible to [cause an] accident,\" he says.\n\nOne driver's belongings, as he waits to board a minibus home for the first time in months\n\nAsked if he has a message for Ikea, he says: \"Come and live with me for one week. Eat what I eat. See what is happening in reality with our lives.\"\n\nAfter a few months on the road he will board a minibus back to Slovakia.\n\nHis Slovakian employer, Bring, says Emilian is responsible for taking his rest breaks, and can return home whenever he likes.\n\nEmilian is not alone. We have seen the contracts of drivers working for some of Ikea's biggest contractors - each paid low Eastern European wages while working for months at a time in Western Europe.\n\nIt is clear this way of treating drivers is widespread. It is not just within the Ikea supply chain, but also in those of several other big, household names.\n\nIn Dortmund, Germany - outside the biggest Ikea distribution centre in the world - truck drivers are drying their clothes. One is making his mash potato on a fuel tank.\n\nThere is no toilet, no running water.\n\nDrivers from Moldova say they receive an average monthly salary of 150 euros (£130) from their employer.\n\nLegal action is now being taken against some of Ikea's contractors.\n\nIn the Netherlands last month, a court ruled that Brinkman - which delivers Ikea flowers to the UK and Scandinavia - was breaking the law.\n\nThe court found that drivers' pay was \"not consistent\" with Dutch wages law.\n\nThe judge described conditions for drivers as an \"inhumane state of affairs'', and contrary to EU law.\n\nEdwin Atema, of trade union FNV, says he believes Ikea must have known of the conditions in which drivers are living.\n\n\"The Ukrainian, Moldovan, Polish guys remove the furniture from Ikea, they touch the furniture,\" he says.\n\n\"Ikea is the economic employer of all these workers here. They have so much power. Ikea has the tool in hand to change the business model with an eye blink.\"\n\nOne union, the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), met Ikea several times last year to discuss the issue - but talks ended in November.\n\nIkea said it takes what drivers have told the BBC \"very seriously'' and are \"saddened by the testimonies\".\n\nIt said it puts ''strict demands'' on its suppliers concerning wages, working conditions and following applicable legislation, and audits them regularly to check compliance.\n\nIncreasing numbers of foreign haulage companies are now moving goods in Britain.\n\nThey are working for hundreds of different companies, including Ikea.\n\nAt a lorry stop in Immingham, Lincolnshire, one anonymous Polish driver explains: \"We spend a lot of time living in lay-bys where there are no toilets, no showers, no facilities.\n\n\"The work is paid a bit better than what I would get in Poland, but this life is not good. I do it for my family.''\n\nBritish haulage companies are nervous that they will be undercut by companies that could be breaking the law.\n\nJack Semple, from the Road Haulage Association, says: \"We are seeing far more foreign lorries that are frankly less compliant with drivers' hours and road-worthiness regulations.\n\n\"There is a road safety risk, and the Treasury is losing a fortune in tax revenue.\n\n\"They have to get a grip on this because big, well-known UK retailers and other companies are making increasing use of these firms because they don't cost very much.\"", "The latest hijacking off the Somali coast could mark the return of a lucrative business\n\nThe hijacking of a merchant fuel tanker by pirates off the Somali coast this week has sent shockwaves through parts of the shipping industry.\n\nIt is the first successful hijacking of a major commercial vessel in the Somali Basin since 2012 and is prompting debate over whether shipping companies have become complacent about the risk of maritime piracy.\n\nThe MT Aris 13 was travelling from Djibouti to Mogadishu on 13 March when, instead of giving the Somali coast a wide berth as advised, it took a short cut between the tip of the Horn of Africa and the Yemeni island of Socotra.\n\nSomali pirates then ambushed the vessel just 11 miles (17km) from shore with two fast speedboats, known as skiffs, while aiming their weapons at the crew.\n\nThe vessel and its crew of eight Sri Lankan seafarers have now been seized by the pirates and are being held pending either ransom negotiations or a rescue attempt by the regional Puntland authorities. This brings to 16 the number of seafarers currently being held by Somalia-based pirates, the remaining eight being Iranians.\n\n\"For a vessel passing that close to the coast of Somalia without armed guards shows a level of complacency,\" said a spokesman for Neptune Maritime Security, which is currently running armed protection teams on around 70 vessels this month as they pass through the area of the western Indian Ocean known as the High Risk Area (HRA).\n\nEmploying armed teams, usually former servicemen, is seen by many shipping companies as prohibitively expensive. Shipping industry analysts say many vessels, especially those with a high freeboard (the vertical distance between the surface of the sea and the deck) have simply been speeding up to avoid capture. This is part of what is known as Best Management Practice, or BMP4.\n\nAlthough pirates have, in the past, been incredibly adept at scaling the sides of big ocean-going vessels while in motion, this becomes very hard to do at speeds of 15 knots or more, especially if the captain takes evasive action, creating an unpredictable bow wave that can sink the pirates' skiffs.\n\nA protection team scan the southern Gulf of Aden for pirates while passing through the High Risk Area\n\nThe EU anti-piracy naval force off the coast of Mogadishu in 2013\n\nIn recent years the European Union and other nations, including China, have mounted naval patrols to deter Somali piracy and escort convoys along the coast of Yemen. But the area is so vast that their ships were rarely able to reach a vessel in distress in time. Once pirates were onboard it became a hostage situation which most naval vessels' rules of engagement prevented them from getting involved in.\n\n\"The navies' presence is good,\" says John Steed from the seafarers' welfare group Oceans Beyond Piracy, \"but the primary factor in deterring Somali piracy has been the presence of armed guards onboard, along with best practice like speeding up,\" he added.\n\nThe ship that was captured on Monday had a low freeboard and was travelling so slowly that it was, he says \"almost a sitting duck\".\n\nSo will this latest hijacking be a wake-up call that prompts more precautions being taken at sea or will it signal the start of a new wave of piracy?\n\nWorryingly, the factors that drove many Somali coastal fishermen to become pirates nearly a decade ago are still there. Somalia is currently in the grip of a famine and poverty is widespread; there are few employment options for young people.\n\nThere is massive and growing local resentment at the poaching of fish stocks off the coast by Asian trawlers. According to Oceans Beyond Piracy, some foreign vessels have \"dubious\" licences issued by officials in Puntland, but the local people never get to see any benefit from them.\n\nThe high point in Somali piracy came in 2010, both in terms of vessels hijacked and the number of seafarers taken prisoner for ransom. Soon after that, shipping companies began placing armed guards onboard who would \"show weapons\" to circling pirates and if necessary fire warning shots to ward them off.\n\nThis effectively broke the pirates' business model as, until then, they had been able to approach a ship, often at dawn after a night of chewing the narcotic qat leaf, open fire on the bridge to scare the captain into slowing down and stopping, and then they would board it using ladders.\n\nThey would then hold the vessel, its crew and its cargo for ransoms of millions of dollars.\n\nAfter 2010 they were no longer able to do this with impunity. But now that news will have spread that many vessels are not carrying that armed protection there are concerns that the lucrative business of Somali maritime piracy may be set to return.", "Nuclear threats, contested territory, and a looming trade dispute await the new secretary of state in Asia\n\nThe new US secretary of state is heading off on his first trip to Asia, where diplomatic tensions run high.\n\nRex Tillerson, who has no previous political experience, will be visiting countries in the shadow of North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nGlobal superpower China may be the key to that problem, and to stability in the region, but relations with the US are strained at the moment, partly over comments Mr Tillerson himself has made.\n\nHis first true test as a diplomat is a potential powder keg. So is the former oil boss up to the task?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tillerson's folksy introduction to his department: 'Hi, I'm the new guy'.\n\nRex Tillerson has kept a remarkably low profile in his first month or so in office, giving no press briefings in six weeks, and sticking to prepared statements.\n\nAny hopes that reporters might see him in action on this Asia trip were dashed, however, when it emerged he wouldn't be bringing the state department press corps along.\n\nInstead, Mr Tillerson will be taking a single reporter from a conservative website, the Independent Journal Review - because of the small plane being used, the state department said. The journalist, Erin McPike, recently wrote about Tillerson in a piece on \"Exxon Mobil's special treatment from the White House\".\n\nThe trip is seen as important because Mr Tillerson will be trying to conduct high-level diplomacy in a region shaken by his president's public comments.\n\nDonald Trump has tweeted that China needs to be \"taken on\" and decried the country's \"military complex\" in the South China Sea. The president has said that South Korea \"makes a fortune on us\" while the US defends it, and has accused Japan of \"currency manipulation\".\n\nSuch remarks have led to uncertainty in the region about the direction of US foreign policy, something Mr Tillerson will have to deal with.\n\nMr Tillerson's trip starts with Japan, which is likely to be the easiest leg of the journey. He is scheduled to meet the foreign minister, as well as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe - who Trump has already met, and \"had a great time\" with.\n\nBut the military threat from North Korea is likely to dominate the discussion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do you solve a problem like North Korea?\n\nThe secretive isolationist nation has continued its development of nuclear weapons despite sanctions and threats from the international community. Two nuclear explosion tests and more than 20 missile launches in the past year have increased tensions.\n\nBoth Japan and South Korea, which are US military allies and host US troops, are within missile distance of North Korea.\n\nBut it is China, as North Korea's only ally on earth, which holds the power to affect change.\n\nDonald Trump has accused China of ignoring the North Korea situation, and essentially allowing it to worsen.\n\nBut Beijing has taken relatively strong steps in recent weeks. Early in March, it asked Pyongyang to stop its missile tests to \"defuse a looming crisis\", and earlier dealt its ally a severe economic blow by banning coal imports.\n\nMr Tillerson is likely to urge China to do even more. But at the same time, he'll have to smooth over another row that the US is involved in.\n\nThe United States has deployed the Thaad missile defence system (that's Terminal High Altitude Area Defence) in South Korea to defend it from nuclear attack.\n\nUnfortunately, the missile defence system's radar is extremely long range, extending into China.\n\n\"It's incredible the speed with which China's leaders can just switch on anti-South Korea sentiment here,\" the BBC's China Correspondent, Stephen McDonnell, said in a blog post this week.\n\nChina's development of artificial islands with defensive capabilities in the South China Sea is deeply controversial.\n\n\"We're going to have to send China a clear signal that first, the island-building stops and second, your access to those islands also is not going to be allowed,\" Mr Tillerson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January, likening it to Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.\n\nChina says its building is legitimate and its military facilities are for self-defence\n\n\"They are taking territory or control or declaring control of territories that are not rightfully China's,\" he said, in remarks that might be welcomed by Japan and others who contest China's territorial claims.\n\nBut it makes the delicate negotiation with China that much harder.\n\nFor China's part, state-controlled media warned Mr Tillerson that such actions could cause \"devastating confrontation\" or even \"a large-scale war\".\n\nA rather more emollient foreign minister told his annual news conference in Beijing that Mr Tillerson \"is a person who is willing to listen and is a deep communicator.\"\n\nEven if Mr Tillerson can bring calm to the South China Sea dispute and persuade Beijing to step up sanctions against Pyongyang, there's still one more problem - an economic one.\n\nOne of President Trump's first actions was to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would have opened up trade with Japan and 11 other nations by reducing tariffs. That's good news for China, which saw the TPP as an effort to contain its economic might, but means Japan needs to start over.\n\nAnd China has its own problems with US trade policy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump is likely to tear up the old rulebook of how trade deals are done, says Anthony Scaramucci\n\nDuring the election campaign, Mr Trump floated the idea of a 45% tariff on goods from China, and in January, a senior academic adviser warned the current trade deal was \"more favourable to China than us\".\n\nAnthony Scaramucci told the BBC a trade war is \"going to cost them way more than it is ever going to cost us, and I think they know that.\"\n\nAnd while the relationship with South Korea may have long been stable, the country is in the depths of a major political crisis following the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye.\n\nShe had been a long-time supporter of US foreign policy in the region, particularly when it came to isolating North Korea.\n\nBut the current frontrunner to replace her, Moon Jae-in, has suggested a new approach might be required in handling North Korea - and has voiced concern about the US deployment of the Thaad defence system in the South.\n\nWith so many competing interests in economic and territorial disputes, and a looming military threat, Mr Tillerson will have to thread the diplomatic needle carefully - weighing each nation's goals against the desire of the US, and everyone else involved, for regional stability.", "Office space: Our correspondent assesses conditions at the Colosseum\n\nIt is a pretty tempting job. The successful applicant will be in charge of preserving the site of one of the world's most iconic monuments.\n\nThat person may as well be me.\n\nThe job advert asks for at least five years' experience managing archaeological sites.\n\nWell, I have five years experience visiting sites. If outsiders with little experience can be elected to lead countries, why can't they also be chosen to run ancient monuments?\n\nThe first thing to do is come up with a pitch.\n\nOne potential idea is to rebuild the entire Colosseum.\n\nThe pyramids in Egypt have not fallen down. So why should Rome have to live with half a Colosseum?\n\nMy first campaign stop is with tourists visiting the site.\n\n\"Don't touch anything,\" warn Jocelyn and Tamaya, students from North Carolina.\n\n\"Don't you want to see what it would have looked like?\" I ask.\n\n\"There are digital models online which show what it would have been like. So just keep this,\" they instruct.\n\n\"Do you not think it's iconic to leave it as it is?\" asks Stan from Manchester. \"It's like when we went to Egypt, they were redoing the Sphinx. In some ways it spoils the effect of what it should be.\"\n\nSo rebuilding turns out to be a bad idea. I change my job pitch from rebuilding to listening.\n\nWhat needs fixing at the Colosseum?\n\n\"The process of entering through security can be slow and occasionally discourteous,\" says tour guide Agnes Crawford. \"The turnstiles very often don't work properly. The people who are manning the turnstiles have the patience of Job because it's a thankless task with a lot of slightly cross people.\"\n\nOpera singer Andrea Bocelli cheered everyone up when he sang at the Colosseum. The turnstiles were probably working that day.\n\nAndrea Bocelli performed at the Colosseum in 2009 in aid of the earthquake-ravaged city of L'Aquila\n\nAnother idea has caused something of a controversy: renting the site to private firms.\n\n\"When one considers that the Colosseum saw 450 years of people being killed, I think the occasional corporate dinner seems fairly small beer in comparison,\" says Agnes Crawford.\n\nItalian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini will have the final say over the Colosseum's new director.\n\nNerve-wrackingly, my final appointment is with him.\n\n\"We're looking for people with a strong background - archaeologists, art historians, architects, who also have experience managing a cultural site or a museum,\" he tells me.\n\n\"Naturally, if you want to manage the Colosseum and the Imperial Forum, which receive six million visitors a year, you need the scientific knowledge but also the management experience.\n\n\"I think in the art world nationalities don't really count. The director of the National Gallery is an Italian, who arrived there from El Prado in Madrid. The director of the British Museum is German. So it's normal that what counts are the CVs, not the nationalities.\"\n\n\"Minister, you've opened this up to outsiders, a lot of people will put in applications coming in with new ideas, I will put an application as well. Are you open to hearing from outsiders?\"\n\nThere is a slight pause before he answers.\n\n\"Well, we have job requirements to be admitted for the selection. When we recently chose the directors of the 20 top museums in Italy we received 400 applications. The selection did more than 100 job interviews. It will be similar this time. So you can definitely apply, but to win you need to fulfil the requirements.\"\n\nIt was an elegant way of saying \"don't give up the day job\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sgt Blackman's murder conviction has now been reduced to manslaughter\n\nAs the conviction of Sgt Alexander Blackman for shooting an injured Afghan fighter in 2011 is reduced from murder to manslaughter on the grounds of his mental illness, Royal Marines who fought alongside him have spoken for the first time - offering new insights into the killing.\n\nIn interviews for BBC Panorama, the men from 42 Commando said they wanted the insurgent dead and their comrade \"took one for the team\" when he faced a court martial.\n\nHis colleagues said they also suffered from post-traumatic stress and one marine believes such incidents occurred elsewhere during the conflict.\n\nThere is much public sympathy for Blackman, 42, but few people who have watched the full video of the killing - recorded by another marine's helmet-mounted camera - would describe him as a hero.\n\nThe footage has not been made public but Blackman can be heard trying to cover up his actions, making sure a helicopter above is out of sight before he delivers the fatal shot.\n\nPerhaps more understandable though is the sympathy of the men who fought alongside him and endured the same hardships.\n\nColleagues suggested there were other pressures on Blackman, who was known as Marine A during the original trial process and was only fully identified when he was convicted.\n\nRob Driscoll, who was at a nearby patrol base at the time of the killing, told Panorama: \"Everyone that was speaking on that radio was sending out a signal to Al... everyone wanted that guy to be dead.\"\n\nHe said no-one would have wanted to send out a medical team to help the insurgent because the ground could have been littered with roadside bombs, while a helicopter might have been targeted in the air.\n\nThey would have done it for one of their own, but risking British lives for a wounded Taliban fighter \"who has been shooting at them for the last four months\" was less appealing, he said.\n\nThe helmet-mounted camera of another marine filmed Blackman (pictured) shooting the prisoner\n\nSam Deen, who was on the patrol, said: \"I do remember saying, 'yeah I would shoot him'... and I do think I influenced what happened\".\n\n\"A few of the other lads said that,\" Mr Deen said.\n\nThe killing, on 15 September 2011, took place after a patrol base in Helmand province came under fire from two insurgents.\n\nOne of the attackers was seriously injured by gunfire from an Apache helicopter sent to provide air support, and the marines found him in a field.\n\nThe footage from the helmet-mounted camera showed Blackman shooting the Afghan prisoner in the chest at close range with a 9mm pistol.\n\nBlackman, from Taunton, was convicted of murder in November 2013 and jailed for life. He lost an appeal in May of the following year, but his 10-year minimum term was reduced to eight years.\n\nFive judges at the Court Martial Appeal Court in London have now ruled the conviction should be manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility, not murder.\n\nA further hearing will now decide what sentence Blackman should serve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Extract from helmet camera recording of incident in Helmand, Afghanistan\n\nFilmmaker and anthropologist Chris Terrill was embedded with Blackman's unit at the time of the shooting.\n\nHis film for Panorama tries to look beyond the narrow focus of the helmet camera that led to Blackman's conviction and questions whether, in the slow attrition of war, they began to think as a pack and lose their moral compass.\n\nSpeaking about Blackman's decision to kill the insurgent, Sam Deen says: \"I do think he took the responsibility for the younger lads… he thought it was his responsibility to do it, and then move on.\"\n\nRob Driscoll admits to some sleepless nights but adds: \"I'm glad Al did what he did because all my guys went home\".\n\nLouis Nethercott, another Royal Marine on the patrol, tells Panorama: \"I think it was just another day in Afghanistan and that's the way it goes out there.\n\n\"And none of us got hurt so it was a successful day as far as I'm concerned\".\n\nChris Terrill asks another Royal Marine who was on that tour whether he thought this was the only time such an incident occurred during the Afghan war.\n\nPanorama, Marine A: The Inside Story will be on BBC One at 22:50 GMT, and available later on iPlayer.", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nA bid from UK cities to jointly host the 2022 Commonwealth Games would be considered by Games chiefs.\n\nBirmingham, Liverpool, London and Manchester have expressed interest in staging the Games in place of Durban.\n\nDurban was due to be the first African city to host the games but was stripped of the right on Monday.\n\nCommonwealth Games Federation chief David Grevemberg said officials were looking to make a decision quickly and would consider a joint bid.\n\n\"We are interested in looking at different delivery models and part of our strategic plan is to look at more affordable and appealing structures for hosting major events,\" said Grevemberg.\n\n\"There is a possibility in the future that we could look at combined events but at this point in time we are trying to ensure we deliver the best possible Games in the best possible city.\n\n\"Right now we are not speculating on any specific candidates over another.\n\n\"We really need to look over the context, time available, infrastructure, what is the resourcing base and ensure that we are able to have a good fit and a good partner.\"", "On election day last year, American voters gave the Republicans a powerful gift - unified control of the presidency and Congress for the first time in a decade. But turning a governing majority into enacted policies is proving to be a challenge for a party that spent the past eight years throwing political bombs from the sidelines.\n\nSpeaker of the House Paul Ryan took to the lectern for a press conference on Thursday morning facing a crisis. The healthcare reform legislation he has tried to shepherd through Congress is in serious peril.\n\nConservative members of his chamber, like Dave Brat of Virginia, were savaging the legislation for not fully dismantling the existing Obamacare system.\n\nModerates and even some middle-of-the-road Republicans, like Florida's Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, said they could not support it because cuts to the Medicaid programme for the poor were too severe.\n\nMr Ryan has been forced to walk a political tightrope, balancing the competing and often conflicting interests in his caucus in an attempt to get the first step in a multi-part reform effort through the House.\n\nIt is a feat that will require a combination of diplomatic finesse, political muscle, relentless focus and more than a bit of luck.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThat's not what reporters wanted to talk about, however.\n\nInstead, the first question was about Donald Trump's allegation - and continued insistence - that his communications had been monitored by Barack Obama's White House during the 2016 presidential campaign.\n\nAnd therein lies the heart of the problem facing conservatives just a few months into the Trump presidency. At a time when a concerted political effort on the part of Republican leadership in Congress and the White House is essential to the success of a key part of their agenda, distractions and dissent rule the day.\n\nWhile Mr Ryan is undertaking his juggling act, the president seems intent on throwing baseballs at his head.\n\nTime and again the president has undermined Republican political priorities with off-message comments and tweets.\n\nBehaviour that helped throw opponents off-balance and demonstrate his unorthodoxy during the campaign are proving less helpful when conducted from the confines of the White House.\n\nMr Trump's remarks about wiretapping and earlier allegations of widespread voter fraud, wholly unnecessary given his victory last November, have forced the White House to scramble with after-the-fact explanations and thrown unwelcome obligations on congressional Republicans to conduct investigations.\n\nOn Wednesday, a visibly frustrated Devin Nunes, chair of the House Intelligence Committee and Trump ally, straight-up said Mr Trump was \"wrong\" about the surveillance.\n\nThe Senate Intelligence Committee would later issue a statement that they found \"no indications of monitoring Trump Tower by any element of the United States government\".\n\nMr Trump's own words, as well as statements made by his advisors since inauguration day, also helped torpedo the president's second effort at instituting a travel ban on some majority Muslim nations.\n\nHouse Intelligence committee chair Devin Nunes (foreground) and the committee's ranking Democrat, California's Adam Schiff, said there was no evidence of Trump's wiretapping claims\n\n\"The record before this court is unique,\" wrote the federal judge who suspended the travel order on Wednesday. \"It includes significant and unrebutted evidence of religious animus driving the promulgation of the executive order and its related predecessor.\"\n\nEven without the travel ban and wiretapping controversies roiling Washington politics, Republicans were going to have a challenge transitioning from being the party of opposition, intent on thwarting the efforts of the Obama administration, to the party of action.\n\nWhile it was easy for the conservatives in Congress to pass straight-up Obamacare repeal legislation when they knew Mr Obama would veto it, crafting legislation that the party has to stand behind - and explain to voters in coming elections - is much trickier.\n\nDuring a Wednesday night televised town hall forum on healthcare there was a telling moment when Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price listened to a cancer patient lament that he would lose his medical coverage under the Republican plan.\n\nMr Price's response was to criticise past Democratic promises on healthcare.\n\nThe questioner wasn't buying it. Republicans have to come up with solutions now, not just identify problems.\n\nAs any Democrat in office during the past eight years will explain, saying \"our plan is less bad than the existing system\" isn't a recipe for political success.\n\nYes, it's still the first few months of the Trump presidency, and the drive to pass something, anything on healthcare after eight years of promises will be strong.\n\nMr Trump could find new focus and use some of his much-advertised dealmaking acumen to pull competing factions within the Republican Party together. His party has the votes in Congress to get things done, and with a bit of positioning he could put significant pressure on Senate Democrats up for re-election next year in states he carried in 2016.\n\nTrump back in rally mode, this time with the seal of the president\n\nThen again, Mr Trump has shown few signs of easing back on his social media rants.\n\nHe says he will hold large public rallies every few weeks, where his unscripted comments often set off new controversies.\n\nThere also may be powers within the White House - such as senior advisor Steve Bannon - who would be happy if the Republican congressional agenda comes crashing down, bringing the remnants of the party's establishment with it.\n\nFor Republican congressional leadership, healthcare reform is only the first piece of the legislative puzzle. The longer that takes, the less time will remain for comprehensive tax reform, which has its own sticky political issues.\n\nA massive budget fight, with the threat of a government shutdown, also looms on the horizon.\n\nMr Trump's aggressive funding priorities are already coming under fire. Democrats are digging in to defend social programmes on the chopping block.\n\nSome Republicans object to billions of dollars for Mr Trump's border wall and sharp reductions in foreign aid and agricultural subsidies.\n\nIf negotiations over healthcare reform go south, Republicans in Congress will be less inclined to give Mr Trump the benefit of the doubt in the coming days. Democrats will smell blood, and the subsequent political lifts will be all the more difficult.\n\nDemocrats like Senator Elizabeth Warren have attacked the healthcare bill\n\nBy next year members of Congress will be focused on the coming midterm elections and less inclined to take risks on big legislative actions with uncertain prospects.\n\nThere's already evidence of a time bomb underneath the Republican Party. Polls show uneasy independents and near universal opposition to their agenda from Democrats, but for the time being their supporters held firm.\n\nIf those numbers dip, however, and enthusiasm diminishes, it could spell ruin for congressional Republicans in 2018.\n\nEver since Mr Obama swept to power with Democratic congressional majorities in 2008, Republicans have been promising their voters that real conservative change is just an election away.\n\nYes, they won the House of Representatives in 2010, but they still needed the Senate. Yes, they won the Senate in 2014, but the presidency was in Democratic hands.\n\nNow they have Congress and the presidency, leaving few excuses. After two months of intra-party bickering and a president who can't keep his hands off his Twitter account, it may only be a matter of time before their base gets restless.\n\nConservative humourist PJ O'Rourke once quipped that \"Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it\".\n\nFor the past few months that line has seemed less of a joke than a prophecy.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City are out of the Champions League after Monaco struck late to seal a thrilling away-goals victory, which ended 6-6 on aggregate.\n\nThe English side were 13 minutes from a place in the quarter-finals after clawing themselves back into a second leg their hosts had dominated, but slack marking from a set-piece allowed Tiemoue Bakayoko to head home the decisive goal.\n\nHaving won the competition twice in his time at Barcelona, this is the first time in manager Pep Guardiola's career that he has gone out at this stage.\n\nMonaco lost 5-3 in an extraordinary first leg in Manchester but dominated the first half at the Stade Louis II and opened the scoring through the excellent Kylian Mbappe's poked finish from close range.\n\nThe Ligue 1 side, who had scored 123 goals so far this season, deservedly doubled their advantage on the night, punishing City's sluggish start through Fabinho's crisp strike.\n\nCity failed to muster any sort of shot in the opening 45 minutes and it took until the 65th minute for Sergio Aguero to call goalkeeper Danijel Subasic into a sharp save.\n\nThey forced their way into the game - and back into the aggregate lead - as Leroy Sane swept in when Subasic parried Raheem Sterling's low strike, but their defence could not hold out.\n\nThe result leaves Premier League champions Leicester City as the only English team in the last eight.\n\nMonaco join the Foxes, holders Real Madrid, last year's runners-up Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Juventus in Friday's draw.\n• None 'I couldn't convince them to attack' - Pep says he takes the blame\n• None Listen: 'Man City have failed to live up to expectations' - Phil Neville\n\nHaving gained a two-goal advantage at home, City boss Pep Guardiola had vowed his side would go on the attack in order to finish the job.\n\nBut while the Spanish coach can boast the best record of any manager in Europe after 100 games, he opted to start with only Fernandinho in the middle of the park against the aggressive and youthful French side.\n\nFive attack-minded players were deployed in front of the Brazilian midfielder, while Yaya Toure was left on the bench, and it proved a costly move as City were overrun by sharper opponents.\n\nAlthough they pulled a goal back on the night through Sane - putting them briefly back in front in the tie - the English side never recovered from their poor first-half showing.\n\nBig-money signing John Stones struggled again and Monaco's winning goal epitomised the fragility of the visitors' defensive backline, as the impressive Bakayoko was allowed a free header eight yards from goal.\n\nGuardiola has said his maiden City season will be a failure if he cannot deliver a trophy, but barring a dramatic Chelsea collapse in the Premier League, the Spaniard's only realistic hope of silverware is now the FA Cup.\n\nThe City boss made some unwelcome history in France as his side became the first team to be eliminated in a Champions League knockout tie after scoring five goals in the first leg.\n\nThe Ligue 1 leaders were missing star striker Radamel Falcao, who had failed so spectacularly in England with loan spells at Manchester United and Chelsea.\n\nBut the home side took the game to City, allowing them little time and space on the ball, forcing errors and taking their chances superbly. Although they began to tire in the second half, the 2004 runners-up managed to edge through.\n\nEighteen-year-old striker Mbappe - who has earned comparisons to retired France great Thierry Henry - found the net after just eight minutes for his 17th goal of the season, fed by the brilliant Portuguese midfielder Silva.\n\nBenjamin Mendy caused all sorts of problems by bombing on from full-back, but man of the match Bakayoko deservedly took his side through with the winning goal.\n\nThe towering France Under-21 international controlled the midfield and gained possession nine times - more than any team-mate.\n\nThey have been two brilliant football matches. City lost it in the first half when they were outplayed, outfought and were bullied.\n\nThey got back into the game and they thought they were through. But their Achilles heel was a sloppy goal. Another year has failed to live up to expectations.\n\nI am not so sure the signings over the last five years have been that good, but when Leroy Sane scores, Pep Guardiola is thinking 'this is perfect, we can control the game from here'. Then they concede.\n\nGuardiola doesn't go out there and spend the bulk of his money on defenders. He will be thinking if they had put one of those chances away they would be in the next round.\n\n'Sometimes you have to be lucky'\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola, talking to BT Sport: \"We played exceptional second half but we forgot to do that in the first. We wanted to defend aggressively. We were better in the second but it wasn't enough.\n\n\"Normally we play to a good level but here we didn't. We will learn. The team does not have a lot of experience.\n\n\"The second half we had the chances and we didn't take them and that is why we are out. And set-pieces are so important at this level. Barcelona and Real Madrid scored from them last week. We were not there and we were not there in the first 45 minutes.\n\n\"We will improve but this competition is so demanding. Sometimes we have to be special and be lucky. We were not.\"\n• None Monaco have progressed from all four of their Champions League knockout ties against English teams.\n• None David Silva played his 50th Champions League game, becoming the 25th Spaniard to reach that milestone in the competition.\n• None Kylian Mbappe has scored 11 goals in his past 11 games in all competitions.\n• None Bernardo Silva has provided an assist in each of his past three games for Monaco in all competitions.\n• None City are without a clean sheet in their past 11 away games in the Champions League (excluding qualifiers).\n• None The English side failed to muster a single shot in the first half of a Champions League game for the first time.\n• None Fabinho has had a hand in three goals in two Champions League appearances versus Manchester City this season (one goal, two assists).\n• None Leroy Sane scored with just his 11th shot on target for City this season (all competitions).\n• None Thomas Lemar (Monaco) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Valère Germain (Monaco) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Valère Germain (Monaco) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. David Silva tries a through ball, but Leroy Sané is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nRory McIlroy has continued his criticism of Muirfield despite the club voting to admit women members for the first time this week.\n\nMcIlroy slammed Muirfield last year when it was removed as an Open venue after choosing to maintain the ban.\n\n\"I still think that it got to this stage is horrendous,\" said McIlroy.\n\n\"We'll go back and play the Open because they'll let women members in, but every time I go I won't have a great taste in my mouth.\"\n\nMembers at the privately owned golf club voted 80.2% in favour of updating its membership policy on Tuesday.\n\n\"I mean, in this day and age, where you've got women that are leaders of certain industries and women that are heads of state and not be able to join a golf course - I mean, it's obscene.\n\n\"It's ridiculous. So th-ey sort of saw sense.\"\n\nOn the nearly 20% who voted to maintain the ban, McIlroy said: \"It's horrendous. I mean, I just don't get it.\n\n\"So anyway, we'll go back there for the Open Championship at some point and I won't be having many cups of tea with the members afterwards.\"", "British cyclist Josh Edmondson has told the BBC he broke the sport's rules by secretly injecting himself with a cocktail of vitamins when riding for Team Sky.\n\nThe 24-year-old, who was on the team's books in 2013 and 2014, also said he had severe depression after independently using the controversial painkiller Tramadol.\n\nEdmondson said the pressure of his selection for a major race in 2014 led to him breaching the UCI's 'no-needle' policy \"two or three times a week\" for about a month.\n• None Listen: a BBC Radio 5 live BeSpoke special looks at the issue\n\nTeam Sky say legal vitamins and a needle were found in Edmondson's room, but they did not report the incident because he denied using them, and over concerns he \"could be pushed over the edge\".\n\nEdmondson says he confessed to Team Sky at the time but there was \"a cover-up\" by senior management.\n\nTeam Sky are renowned for their robust, no-needle, no-Tramadol stance.\n\nIn a wide-ranging and emotional interview, Edmondson told the BBC:\n• None He travelled to Italy from his training base in Nice to purchase a variety of legal vitamins and intravenous equipment.\n• None He risked giving himself a heart attack by self-administering the medication secretly at night.\n• None He independently took powerful opioid Tramadol during the 2013 Tour of Britain. Team Sky say this was given to him without their knowledge by the race doctor, rather than their own team doctor.\n• None He didn't leave his house for two months because of severe depression partly caused by using Tramadol.\n\n\"In 2014 I was under a lot of pressure, not just from the team but from myself,\" said Edmondson.\n\n\"You want to renew your contract for one thing, and for me the bigger thing was not letting anyone down - this team had given me a chance by signing me and a bigger chance by letting me go to a Grand Tour [the Vuelta a Espana].\n\n\"I think it was just before the Tour of Austria, I went to Italy to buy the vitamins that I was going to later inject. I brought them all back to Nice. I bought butterfly clips, the syringes, the carnitine [a supplement], folic acid, 'TAD' [a supplement], damiana compositum, and [vitamin] B12, and I'd just inject that two or three times a week maybe. Especially when I wanted to lose weight, I'd inject the carnitine more often because it was very effective.\"\n\nThe vitamins Edmondson bought are legal, but the UCI - the sport's governing body - brought in rules in 2011 banning cyclists from using needles.\n\n\"It dawned on me while I was doing it how extreme it was, putting the needle in and making sure there are no bubbles because if there is air in it, it can give you a heart attack and people can die from that,\" he said.\n\n\"It is a very daunting thing to be doing, especially as I was sat in a room in a foreign country alone at night. It's just a very surreal thing you do. It's not something you take lightly. You're doing it out of necessity really.\"\n\nEdmondson admits he was tempted to dope, adding: \"But this was my way of closing the gap a little without doping. Some people think there is a grey area, and that's why there is a no-needle policy, but people across sport have been injecting vitamins for years and it is an alternative to doping.\n\n\"It's not the same - if you were doping, you are getting massive gains. This is just freshening what you do naturally.\"\n\nEdmondson says he is prepared to now talk to the anti-doping authorities about his past.\n\nWhile Edmondson was racing at the Tour of Poland, his secret was exposed when a team-mate took photographs of the vitamins and equipment he had bought, and reported it to team management.\n\n\"I got back from that and noticed all the vitamins which had been hidden in my room were on top of this chest of drawers - and I realised I'd been caught out,\" said Edmondson.\n\n\"At that point I was panic-stricken. I'd never known anything like it. You just go weak and I had no idea what to do.\"\n\nEdmondson said Team Sky's then head of medicine, Dr Steve Peters, informed him of the discovery of the evidence.\n\n\"He said 'there's been an incident' and I broke down. I was crying, I was in shock. And he said, 'somebody has sent us some photos of this intravenous equipment and the vitamins'.\"\n\nDr Peters confirmed to the BBC that a member of Team Sky who shared a house with Edmondson had found \"a needle and some vials\", and had taken a photograph of the evidence.\n\nBut Team Sky say the incident was not reported, after Edmondson told Dr Peters via Skype that he had not used the equipment.\n\n\"He fell apart at the seams quite dramatically. A number of things I asked him during that interview really alarmed me,\" said Dr Peters.\n\n\"I was now in a position where I can say the welfare of the athlete was number one. Obviously, I'm working with the team and anti-doping is a secondary issue but a really important one, and we have to address it, so Josh explained that he had never used needles before.\n\n\"He was in a very stressful situation. He was aware that his role in the team was in jeopardy. We sent off the vials, there was only one that was open, the rest were sealed. They turned out to be vitamins which you can buy over the counter, so I asked him 'why on earth would you?' And he had not done any injection, he said he did not know how to use it. All he said was: 'I did not know what to do so I left it.'\n\n\"This didn't quite ring true to me. I felt this is very odd from what I've experienced in the past when I've been involved with anti-doping issues. So I said to the team: 'I want to stop here.'\n\n\"Wearing my hat as a doctor, for somebody to be culpable they cannot be ill and I suspect he was ill. If he's not able to give informed consent to what he is doing and say, 'I understand this', then in my world, as a psychiatrist, you are not culpable, because your illness is talking.\n\n\"The second point from me is, let's say we went ahead at that point because obviously I do not want to cover anything up - there is no way I'm going to do that. But what is the consequence of him suddenly being exposed if I'm right and he's not well? The reason I stopped it in its tracks is my concern has always got to be for the welfare of the individual.\"\n\nDr Peters said he then met Edmondson on 2 September 2014, when supervision and a behavioural programme was set up until the end of his contract.\n\n\"Once a week he reported to one of the team managers, and she would check on how it was going. She would report back to me, because I can't forcefully get people to speak to me. I don't know what happened to him after that because he did not want to engage with us.\"\n\nTeam Sky say they took legal advice at the time of the incident and say that, although Edmondson had been in breach of team rules by possessing the equipment, they were under no obligation to report the case to the authorities.\n\n'It was a lot of agonising'\n\nAsked whether Team Sky should have handled the case differently, Dr Peters said: \"We could have reported it. We could have made a different decision. We'll never know in hindsight. I suppose if I'm looking at safety issues I did think there was a really big risk this lad would be pushed over the edge. I stand by my decision.\n\n\"I think I'd definitely have told them if I thought this young man was trying to cheat, but I don't think he was doing that. I think it was a panic reaction. He is making very poor decisions because he is not well, and therefore we need to treat him first of all and then get to the bottom of it. But actually to put him through some kind of investigation or disciplinary at that point could've been very serious and damaged this lad's health.\n\n\"I'm not saying that we shouldn't have reported him. We had to make a judgement call which was difficult. I don't think you could go back and think maybe we should've done it and took that risk. I don't think it was easy and I think the problem is if you look at it in black-and-white terms it makes it so that there is a right and a wrong.\n\n\"There are shades of grey. Let's be honest, none of us were comfortable but we had a lot of discussion around this and one thing we could say was he violated our rules. On the UCI technicality, he had not violated because he told us very clearly at the time that he had not done the injection because he did not know how to use the needle. This is what he told us at the time.\"\n\nWhen asked if there were members of Team Sky's senior management who wanted to report it, Dr Peters replied: \"Yeah. We had a lot of debate and discussion. It wasn't just something we decided that we won't bother saying anything. That did not happen. It was a lot of agonising.\n\n\"We've got this in the minutes. I'm named as the person saying: 'Please stop until I make sure this young man is OK.' I was involved right from the beginning and I'm trying to explain it is a difficult one. We could have judged differently. I could've done it. I'm saying take it to me, not the team.\n\n\"We did it on good faith and decided on two counts. One, we didn't think he'd violated any rules and second and, most important, he was not in a good place.\"\n\nEdmondson now claims he did tell Team Sky's senior management he had self-injected at the time, but that there was a \"cover-up\".\n\n\"I think that would have meant a bigger admission for them,\" he said.\n\n\"They'd have had to say publicly a kid was injecting. Injecting anything's bad. It's not like they were banned substances but injecting is against the rules - to self-administer anything, I believe.\"\n\nTeam Sky firmly deny the claim. Dr Peters said: \"It's not a cover-up. Once you use that word you are saying there was an intent behind us to conceal and that was never the case.\"\n\n'I felt like someone had thrown me down stairs'\n\nEdmondson also told the BBC he had severe depression after independently using controversial painkiller Tramadol.\n\nHe said: \"I was depressed sometimes, because if you use it in a race and you come out of the race afterwards you're just absolutely battered.\n\n\"Tramadol makes you feel 'dead' the next day. I felt hungover. The withdrawal from the Tramadol made me feel depressed. It feels like you're hungover, so you need to to just get through and I think the withdrawal from that... just immediately after a race, I was just depressed. I felt like someone had thrown me down some stairs for a few days.\n\n\"The dangerous thing about it is you don't know when you're coming to your limit. It's not a performance-enhancing drug, it doesn't make you any better, you're not getting any more from your body, you are just pushing yourself a bit harder.\n\n\"When you're young and you are facing some kind of depression and it might be linked to some sort of drug you are definitely in denial about what that problem is - I just saw it as the stress of doing that job and training hard. I wouldn't have ever acknowledged that Tramadol was doing that.\n\n\"It was a serious problem for me especially towards the end of 2014. I didn't leave the house for two months. It doesn't get much worse than that.\"\n\nTramadol has been blamed for causing crashes in cycling by making riders drowsy, and there are concerns it may have addictive side-effects. The Mouvement pour le Cyclisme Credible, and both the UK and US Anti-Doping Agencies have called on the World Anti-Doping Agency to ban it.\n\nIn 2014, former Team Sky rider Michael Barry said he and some of his team-mates had used Tramadol between 2010 and 2012.\n\nTeam Sky responded by saying: \"None of our riders should ride while using Tramadol - that's the policy of this team. This has been our firm position for the last two seasons.\" The team have also called for it to be banned.\n\nWhen asked why he chose not to tell Team Sky about his difficulties, Edmondson said: \"I was just really worried how it would look and it was a naive thing to do because I know now that if I'd gone to someone, like Dr Freeman or Wiggo [Bradley Wiggins] or anyone really, someone I'd trusted, they would have helped me, and there'd have been no problem.\n\n\"It just seemed at the time that if I'd gone to them and told them, 'I'm having this too much, I might be abusing it a little', I didn't think they would help me, just see it as a negative thing.\n\n\"I'm not trying to pass the buck. I realise I made that mistake. It was something I was doing and I don't want to be that guy moaning about how they didn't pick up on it, but if there was another rider in that position now I would want to help them and I would want there to be a system in place to help someone like that. You'd have thought there'd be a system in place to pick up on someone who's depressed, regardless of drug use.\"\n\nIn a statement, Team Sky said: \"We are confident we have mechanisms in place which encourage a rider to bring any issues they may be experiencing to staff in confidence.\n\n\"We are also satisfied that staff are equipped and able to raise any concerns they may have regarding a rider's welfare, and for the team to offer support.\"\n\nLast year, former Team Sky rider Jonathan Tiernan-Locke told the BBC he had been offered Tramadol at the 2012 World Championships in the Netherlands when riding for Great Britain.\n\nHe retired recently after serving a two-year doping ban for a biological passport infringement prior to his spell at Sky.", "It is perhaps the most beguiling irony of our age that a new class of super-rich that has emerged on America's West Coast has its moral, intellectual and even spiritual origins in the anti-materialistic radicalism of 1960s counter-culture.\n\nSilicon Valley is what happened when the flower power generation sobered up.\n\nSteve Jobs was a Buddhist, though to what extent has been the subject of much debate.\n\nAnd the zealous mission on which Facebook is embarked - to create a more open and connected world, smashing barriers instinctively - owes a substantial debt to the baby boomers and their own particular doctrine, (John) Lennonism. When Mark Zuckerberg speaks, I always hear the lyrics to Imagine.\n\nPerhaps it is this moral component to what Silicon Valley's biggest companies do that has, for the most part, protected them from what I had long considered inevitable: a monumental backlash.\n\nI call this the tech-lash, and thought it would have two main components.\n\nFirst, anti-capitalism: the hostility toward plutocracy shown by groups such as Occupy Wall Street would, eventually, take aim at the astronomical wealth of tech billionaires - especially once it dawned on these protesters, and society at large, that compared to the industrialists of old, these companies don't actually employ many people.\n\nAs a result, of the vast capital they have amassed, a disconcertingly small amount actually makes it to the labour force.\n\nThat smells like trickle-down economics - without the trickle down.\n\nThe second component of the tech-lash would arise from concerns about privacy, fuelled not least by the revelations from Edward Snowden.\n\nIt is hard to get your head around just how much data companies such as Google and Facebook hold, and how much information they have about us - most of it voluntarily given over.\n\nIf the civil liberties brigade ever needed a cause around which to rally, this could well be it.\n\nTogether with disgust at how little taxes these companies pay, you have the elements of an almighty revolt.\n\nAnd yet, it hasn't really come: partly, I imagine, because of that sense of moral purpose; and partly because of the fact that these brilliant and uniquely innovative companies have improved our lives without asking us to pay a penny.\n\nYour appetite for being horrible toward Google is neutered when you use Gmail to rally comrades to a cause, and Google Maps to get to a protest.\n\nThis, then, was the tech-lash that wasn't. Until now.\n\nTwo stories this week suggest that the mood is changing.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Home Affairs Select Committee gave a ferocious grilling to senior executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter.\n\nThe Daily Mail is usually a good indicator of which way the wind is blowing; its front page headline on Wednesday was \"Shaming of the web giants\".\n\nThe next story that showed public feeling might be turning was on the front of another British newspaper - the Financial Times.\n\nAnd yet the story wasn't about Britain. The splash headline was: \"Berlin plans €50m [£44m] fines for hate speech and fake news\".\n\nThis is a remarkable story: the German government is drafting legislation that will aggressively target internet companies, including social media giants, if they don't do enough to stop the spread of socially corrosive material online, particularly by giving users tools to flag such material.\n\nGermany is uniquely susceptible to the spread of fake news.\n\nAngela Merkel's hugely controversial refugees policy, the rise of the nationalist Alternative for Germany party, the constant threat from neo-Nazis, upcoming national elections, and the staid media landscape - staid compared with Britain's raucous tabloids, for instance - all make conditions ripe for exploitation.\n\nBut Germany is now leading the fight-back. Germans have a very different approach to the state to that which is fashionable on America's West Coast.\n\nThe new tech giants are often libertarians who believe that innovation and technology can solve social problems much more effectively than government.\n\nThey are diametrically opposed to what you might, crudely, call the Teutonic faith in regulation: many Germans - and indeed all those I spoke to while reporting there - believe that a smart, enabling state can, through effective legislation, mitigate social ills.\n\nIf the much heralded tech-lash is finally upon us, it is the Germans who hold the whip hand.\n\nIt isn't hatred of plutocracy, or love of privacy, that finally turned the temper of a people against tech giants: it is the threat of election, and legislative power falling into the hands of nasty forces, that has prompted action.\n\nMoreover, it took the German faith in the efficacy of regulation to confront those giants with the threat of punitive action.\n\nIf the German proposal becomes legislation, it will offer a template that could be rolled out elsewhere.\n\nWhether this is the beginning of a tech-lash - a concerted effort by societies and government to, ahem, take back control from tech companies - or just an incremental development in a constantly maturing new world of law and power, is unclear.\n\nI would hope, whatever the regulatory fallout of the fake news phenomenon, the likes of Facebook and Google continue to earn immense respect for being better at providing exceptional services to customers than most companies in history.\n\nDoes that include the British? Yes, basically: our political class reveres Silicon Valley and hopes to replicate its success over here.\n\nBut my conversations in Westminster lead me to believe that, in Theresa May, we have a leader who is not far off the pragmatic, populist patriotism of Mrs Merkel; that, like the German chancellor, our prime minister is a provincial Tory who believes in the good that government can do.\n\nTheresa May admires the pragmatism of her German counterpart, Angela Merkel\n\nGiven her one-nation rhetoric, Mrs May will be conscious that fake news - which Facebook is taking very seriously - does potentially pose a threat to the social solidarity.\n\nThe prime minister and her most senior lieutenants are very close observers of German affairs, and there are people close to the top of British government who are wondering what they can learn, and imitate, from this week's German proposal.\n\nIn recent years, the moral fervour of those sons and daughters of the 1960s who have come to dominate Silicon Valley, and all our lives, has forged an alliance with wealth and power of a kind most of us can't imagine.\n\nWhat happens when it clashes with the alternative worldview of people in faraway lands who have elections to win, and hatred to silence, will determine much of this, the first truly digital chapter in history.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nMiddlesbrough have sacked manager Aitor Karanka after three and a half years at the club.\n\nBoro are winless in their last 10 Premier League games and currently sit in the relegation zone, three points from safety with 11 games remaining.\n\nThey are also the league's lowest scorers with just 19 goals and were knocked out of the FA Cup by Manchester City last weekend.\n\nAssistant head coach Steve Agnew will take control of the first team.\n\n\"This club will always hold a special place for me,\" said Karanka, 43.\n\n\"I'd like to thank Middlesbrough for a wonderful opportunity and the players, staff and all the people at the club who I have worked with.\"\n\nThe former Real Madrid assistant manager took over at the Riverside in November 2013 to become Middlesbrough's first ever non-British boss.\n\nBoro secured automatic promotion to the Premier League last season.\n\nThe club met with Karanka and following discussions, Boro said it was in their \"best interests\" to make the change.\n\nFormer Leicester manager Nigel Pearson is the early favourite to succeed Karanka.\n\nBoro had a solid start to the season including a 1-1 draw at Manchester City, but their form dipped over the winter and without a win since 17 December, they dropped into the relegation zone on 4 March for the first time.\n\nKaranka has won just 15% of his games in the Premier League, with four wins, 10 draws and 13 defeats. His win rate in the Championship was 52%.\n\nGoals have been hard to come by, despite the £7m signing of Aston Villa striker Rudy Gestede in January and they have scored just three goals in their last 10 league games.\n\nIn addition to scoring the fewest goals in the league this season, they have also attempted the fewest shots on target with just 65.\n\nBut they do have the joint fifth best defence in the league, better than Arsenal and Liverpool, with only 30 goals conceded.\n\nThey have also conceded 31 fewer goals than Swansea, who are in 16th place.\n\nBoro spent over £20m in the summer, as they brought in midfielder Marten de Roon for £12m, along with wingers Adama Traore for £7m and Viktor Fischer for £3.8m.\n\nThey also signed former Manchester City striker Alvaro Negredo on a season-long loan from Spanish side Valencia.\n\nIt was reported that Karanka walked out of the Riverside last March following a row, but returned a few days later.\n\nThis season he criticised the board over a lack of January signings and also hit out at the fans' behaviour after a 3-1 defeat by West Ham in January, saying the players deserved more respect.\n\nIt has also been reported that he had training ground rows with Stewart Downing and then omitted the former England winger and January signing striker Patrick Bamford from his matchday squad that lost to City on Sunday.\n\nThe Boro boss later said he did not pick the pair because he wanted \"18 fighters\".\n• None Fewest touches inside the opposition box - 392 in 27 games, an average of 14.5 per game.\n• None Fewest shots from outside the box - 16 in 27 games.\n• None Scored one goal from outside the box, another Premier League low.\n\nAnd history is not on their side...\n• None In 15 of the 25 Premier League seasons since 1992, the lowest scorers have been relegated.\n• None Since 1992, only 14 other teams have scored 19 goals or fewer after 27 Premier League games. Only five of them have stayed up.\n\nThe departure of Aitor Karanka won't come as a massive shock to some Boro fans, many of whom have been calling for change for a number of weeks now.\n\nThe same can't be said for Karanka, who just last week declared \"I'm not a quitter\" to the press, as well as suggesting he had the backing of chairman Steve Gibson.\n\nHowever, that's not to say the signs weren't there. Just last week BBC Tees Sport learned of a training ground bust-up between Karanka and Stewart Downing, who was frustrated at not being selected for the trip to Stoke.\n\nThat was the latest in a long line of fall-outs, from criticising the fans to the board and just last weekend Karanka said Downing, and new signing Patrick Bamford, lacked \"fight\" after leaving them both out of the match-day squad.\n\nKaranka will always be remembered as the manager who got Boro promotion back to the Premier League after seven years in the wilderness.\n\nHowever in the end it seems Karanka had lost the dressing room, as well as large section of the supporters, and this time the rifts were too big to mend.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nCoverage : Commentary on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, live text coverage on the BBC Sport website and app\n\nNichols Canyon was the big winner as jockey Ruby Walsh and trainer Willie Mullins claimed four races on a day dominated by the Irish at Cheltenham.\n\nNichols Canyon shocked odds-on favourite Unowhatimeanharry to win the Stayers' Hurdle, after Yorkhill won the JLT Chase and Un De Sceaux landed the Ryanair Chase.\n\nWalsh completed the first Cheltenham four-timer for a jockey on Let's Dance.\n\nIrish-trained horses won six of the day's seven races, with the four wins for Walsh and Mullins coming in at combined odds of 179-1 which cost bookmakers an estimated £10m.\n\nMullins and Walsh came into Thursday without a win to their names at this year's Festival but started the day with victory thanks to the 6-4 favourite Yorkhill in the Novices' Chase, before Un De Sceaux won in thrilling style in the Ryanair Chase.\n\nSuccess there will have been sweet for Mullins, who saw Ryanair owner Michael O'Leary remove 60 horses from his stables last September.\n\nJockey Noel Fehily was looking for a big-race treble on Unowhatimeanharry after winning the Champion Hurdle on Tuesday and Wednesday's Champion Chase, but despite being well placed coming off the penultimate fence had no answer to 10-1 shot Nichols Canyon's kick for the line.\n\nIf Wednesday will live long in the memories of Walsh and Mullins for the wrong reasons after Douvan's shock defeat in the Queen Mother Champion Chase, Thursday was a swift and spectacular return to form.\n\nYorkhill won by a length in the day's opener before Walsh let Un De Sceaux go ahead after just five fences of the Ryanair - and he never looked back.\n\nWalsh admitted he \"was just a passenger\" as Un De Sceaux powered to victory to give Mullins his 50th Cheltenham win as trainer.\n\nAnd after Nichols Canyon stayed well placed throughout the second half of the Stayers' Hurdle, Walsh rode him home to deny Lil Rockerfeller victory.\n\nMullins said: \"I wouldn't like to tell you what was going through my mind on Wednesday night, but on the other side of that coin, when we analysed all the runners, apart from Douvan we didn't have any other runner that should have won.\n\n\"People expect us to have winners here, we just hope to have winners here and have huge respect for the place.\"\n\nWalsh added: \"What a day. The horses ran well the first two days, they just weren't winning.\n\n\"Everything can't go your way all the time and you have to prepare for that.\n\n\"It's been a tough year for Willie but he's taken it great. I've worked for him since I was 17 so could eulogise about him all day.\n\n\"In previous years we were front-loaded and this year we were back-loaded. We knew we had great chances today and we think we have a couple on Friday.\"\n\nSix out of seven for Ireland\n\nWith Presenting Percy a fine winner in the Handicap Hurdle for Davy Russell and Patrick Kelly, the Festival was set for a day of all-Irish winners with three races remaining.\n\nAnd Road to Respect made it five out of five for Ireland with a win in the Brown Advisory & Merriebelle Stable Plate Handicap Chase.\n\nA sixth Irish win - and a fourth for Walsh - was sealed as Let's Dance comfortably came away to win the Mares' Novices' Hurdle.\n\nAn Irish clean sweep - or 'green sweep' - was prevented when Gina Andrews steered Domesday Book to a surprise 40-1 win in the day's final race, the Kim Muir Challenge Cup.\n\nTwo horses had to be put down after suffering injuries - Toe The Line after a fall on the flat in the early stages of the penultimate race, and Hadrian's Approach who fell in the final contest.\n\nI said the other day that a successful Cheltenham Festival for Willie Mullins and team after a tumultuous season would read like a movie plot.\n\nEven more so now after they bounced back from the gloom with a sparkling third afternoon here.\n\nTo these eyes, the highlight was Un De Sceaux's win, as breathtaking as Douvan's day-two defeat was surprising, though only just ahead of the masterful rides given by Walsh on, particularly, I thought, Let's Dance.\n\nLet's Dance, quiet as a mouse at the back until scything through her opponents, was a joy to watch.\n\nMore success for Mullins on Friday?\n\nCue Card will bid to make amends for a late fall last year when he lines up for the Cheltenham Gold Cup on Friday.\n\nThe popular steeplechaser, under the guidance of trainer Colin Tizzard, will have stablemate Native River among his rivals.\n\nA strong Irish challenge includes the two-time runner-up Djakadam who bids to secure a first win for trainer Willie Mullins.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nCoverage: Commentary on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, live text coverage on the BBC Sport website and app\n\nSpecial Tiara won the Queen Mother Champion Chase but 2-9 favourite Douvan struggled in a major shock on day two of the Cheltenham Festival.\n\nThe 10-year-old Special Tiara (11-1) finished a head clear of Fox Norton (7-1) with Sir Valentino (33-1) third.\n\nIt was jockey Noel Fehily's second big-race victory of the Festival following Tuesday's Champion Hurdle success.\n\nDouvan, ridden by Ruby Walsh, jumped poorly and was never in contention, finishing seventh.\n\nA post-race examination by a veterinary officer found Douvan to be lame behind.\n• None Listen: 5 live podcast reacts to Day Two at Cheltenham\n\nFehily told BBC Radio 5 live: \"[Special Tiara] felt great and never missed a beat. I have been second in this race a few times so to win one is brilliant.\"\n\nUnbeaten in 13 previous starts for trainer Willie Mullins, Douvan's defeat was described by BBC horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght as \"one of the biggest upsets in Cheltenham Festival history\".\n\nDouvan, who was the subject of a £500,000 bet at odds of 1-5, which would have produced winnings of £100,000, had never looked himself, and afterwards Mullins suggested the seven-year-old may have pulled something during the race.\n\n\"We are all a bit gobsmacked I think, he didn't jump as well as we had hoped with his usual fluency,\" Mullins told 5 live. \"Usually you find something wrong when that happens.\n\n\"He probably pulled something, a muscle, a ligament, hopefully something that will come right straight away.\n\n\"Over the first two fences, I thought he would have to be a super horse to win this, you don't get away with that in the Champion Chase.\n\n\"I'm hoping he could be one of the best horses I have ever trained. Today clearly was not his day. That's the way it is.\n\n\"We are all disappointed that this happened, now my main job is to find out what is wrong and how long it will take to fix.\"\n\nThe defeat of Douvan has to rate as among the biggest shocks in Cheltenham Festival history.\n\nIt's not just the odds, but since joining Willie Mullins this horse has been winning with an authoritative flamboyance that meant that practically everyone thought his opponents had the proverbial Everest to climb to beat him.\n\nAnd Douvan's defeat continued a challenging time for the normally rampant Ricci-Mullins-Walsh team and their expensively assembled string.\n\nBut good for Special Tiara, a real trooper, in the race for the fourth time and just holding on to make the ever-reliable Noel Fehily a double championship-winning jockey this week. And he's on the favourite in Thursday's feature race too.\n\nSpecial Tiara's trainer Trainer Henry de Bromhead said: \"He seemed in great form coming into it, but it was hard to believe we could win with Douvan and everything else - Douvan had looked so good.\n\n\"For our lad, he just tries his heart out and no-one deserves it more.\"\n\nFehily, 41, added: \"I didn't think we'd beat Douvan, but I thought I had a great chance of being second. I got over the last and was surprised something hadn't come to me, but I knew he wasn't stopping.\"\n\nThe rest of the day's action\n\nAfter three wins on the opening day, trainer Gordon Elliott claimed another double when Cause of Causes (4-1) won the Cross Country Chase before the fast-finishing Fayonagh (7-1) took the closing Champion Bumper\n\nBoth were ridden by experienced Irish amateur Jamie Codd, who also had a Festival double in 2015, and who was full of praise for Cause of Causes.\n\n\"He's run at four Festivals now, been second once and won three times,\" he said. \"He's a great little horse and he's been marvellous for my career.\n\n\"He's an idle little horse but quick when you need him to be.\"\n\nThe most dramatic finish of the day saw the 7-2 favourite Might Bite beat his Nicky Henderson-trained stablemate Whisper (9-2) by a nose in the RSA Chase.\n\nMight Bite, ridden by Nico de Boinville, was comfortably ahead but made a mess of the last fence and then started to hang badly to his right.\n\nWhisper and Davy Russell saw an opportunity and got past the struggling Might Bite on the run-in, but de Boinville managed to correct his path with the aid of a loose horse and after the pair went past the post together, Might Bite was announced the winner.\n\nThere were also first festival winners for trainers Ben Pauling, after Willoughby House (14-1) beat Neon Wolf in the opening Neptune Investment Management Novices Hurdle, and for Nick Williams after the 33-1 chance Flying Tiger took the Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle under champion jockey Richard Johnson.\n\nAnd on Ladies Day, Jessica Harrington claimed her ninth Festival winner when Supasundae (16-1) took the Coral Cup.\n\nHowever, there was some sad news from the day's racing after Consul De Thaix suffered a fatal fall during the Novices Hurdle.\n\nHis jockey Mark Walsh was treated for what was described as a \"concussive head injury\" and has been ruled out for the remainder of the Festival.\n\nWhat to watch on Thursday\n\nAfter his wins in the Champion Hurdle (Buveur D'Air,) and the Queen Mother Champion Chase (Special Tiara), Unowhatimeanharry could give Noel Fehily a third big-race win in the Stayers' Hurdle, the feature race on day three.\n\nThe nine-year-old is unbeaten in his last eight starts, including in the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle 12 months ago, and is likely to be sent on his way at very short odds - but he likes very testing ground and the drying conditions may not be to his liking\n\nCole Harden won the race two years ago and is back again for the Warren Greatrex team.\n\nThe Jessica Harrington-trained Jezki is one of six Irish declarations, with Willie Mullins responsible for Clondaw Warrior, Nichols Canyon and Shaneshill.\n\nSnow Falcon (Noel Meade) and Dedigout (Gordon Elliott) have also made the journey across the Irish Sea.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRoger Federer played superbly to claim a third straight win over Rafael Nadal for the first time in his career and reach the last eight in Indian Wells.\n\nThe Swiss, 35, won 6-2 6-3 to follow up his Australian Open final victory over the Spaniard two months ago, when Federer won his 18th Grand Slam title.\n\nHe will next face Australia's Nick Kyrgios, who upset world number two Novak Djokovic 6-4 7-6 (7-3).\n\nSvetlana Kuznetsova was the first player into the women's semis.\n\nThe eighth seed saw off fellow Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-3 6-2 and will meet Czech third seed Karolina Pliskova, after she beat Spain's French Open champion Garbine Muguruza 7-6 7-6.\n\nIn the pair's 36th meeting - and first before the quarter-finals of a tournament since their initial meeting in Miami 13 years ago - Federer notched his 13th victory and third in a row.\n\nNadal, 30, had built his success against Federer over the years on attacking the Swiss player's backhand, but Federer turned his weaker wing into a weapon in the Australian Open final, and if anything was even more aggressive in Indian Wells.\n\nFederer crunched six backhand winners to none from Nadal as he played a flawless opening set, taking it in a little over half an hour.\n\nNadal might have hoped to profit from a surface markedly slower than that in Melbourne but it did nothing to curb Federer's aggressive intent.\n\nAnother early break in the second set had Federer within sight of the finish line and he raced through with four breaks of serve to none to win in 68 minutes.\n\n\"I did very well today, I'm so pleased I'm able to step into the court and play super aggressive,\" said Federer. \"Coming over the backhand has been part of that.\n\n\"It's a nice feeling to win the last three, I can tell you that. But most importantly, I won Australia. That was big for me.\n\n\"For me, it was all about coming out and trying to play the way I did in Australia. I didn't think it was going to be that possible, to be quite honest, because the court is more jumpy here so it's hard to put the ball away.\"\n\nKyrgios, 21, gave further evidence that he is now a force to be reckoned with as he blunted the Djokovic return game with another magnificent serving performance.\n\nDjokovic, 29, was on a 19-match winning streak in the Californian desert, and bidding for a fourth consecutive title, but Kyrgios took their personal head-to-head to 2-0 as he repeated his victory in their first meeting in Acapulco 12 days ago.\n\nJust as he had in Mexico, Kyrgios gave the Serb nothing to work with as he powered through without facing a break point in nearly two hours.\n\nThe Australian grabbed the only service break of the match in the opening game, which proved enough to take the first set, and clinched the second after racing into a 3-0 tie-break lead.\n\n\"I am serving really well, that is creating chances for me to put pressure on their service games,\" said the 15th seed.\n\n\"My mentality is improving and I am trying really hard to fight for every point and just compete.\"\n\nDjokovic praised the Australian's serve, adding: \"Nick, again, as he did in Acapulco, served so well. I just wasn't managing to get a lot of balls back on his serve, first and second, as well. That's what made a difference.\"\n\nJapan's fourth seed Kei Nishikori swept past American Donald Young 6-2 6-4, while on the other side of the draw Spanish 21st seed Pablo Carreno Busta and Argentine 27th seed Pablo Cuevas progressed to the quarters.\n\nAustrian eighth seed Dominic Thiem eased past France's Gael Monfils 6-3 6-2. Thiem will play Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka, after the three-time grand slam champion, laboured for two hours and 13 minutes to get past world number 70 Yoshihito Nishioka, winning in three sets 3-6 6-3 7-6.\n\nFourth seeds Jamie Murray and Brazilian Bruno Soares made it through to the doubles semi-finals with a 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 win over Dutchman Jean-Julien Rojer and Romania's Horia Tecau.\n\nAnd despite his absence following a shock early exit, Andy Murray saw his position at the top of the rankings enhanced after Djokovic's defeat.\n\nThe Serb lost 990 points as he fell well short of defending his title, while Murray's relatively modest record in Indian Wells meant his early loss only cost him 20 points.\n\nDjokovic will also be defending a title later this month in Miami - another tournament where Murray lost early in 2016.", "A leading African writer has transfixed the internet with her comments on gender - but fellow Nigerians say they feel hurt.\n\nTransgender women in Africa have benefited from \"male privilege\" because they grew up as men. With this argument, writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie kicked off a vexed discussion, trending everywhere from Facebook to Teen Vogue.\n\nBut a less noticed discussion has been the pained one among gay and transgender Nigerians. BBC Trending has been speaking to the leading voices.\n\nIt all began last weekend when Adichie, a best-selling Nigerian novelist and outspoken feminist, was asked in an interview with Channel 4 News whether a transgender woman was \"any less of a real woman.\"\n\n\"I think if you've lived in the world as a man with the privileges the world accords to men, and then switched gender, it's difficult for me to accept that then we can equate your experience with the experience of a woman who has lived from the beginning in the world as a woman, and who has not been accorded those privileges that men are.\"\n\nThe interview has sparked a passionate online debate around the world. But specifically among Africans, one of Adichie's most vocal critics is London-based, Nigerian transgender model Miss Sahhara, who runs an online support community for transgender women called transvalid.org.\n\nMiss Sahhara says transgender women in Nigeria rely on online communities for support\n\nWriting on her Facebook page she said Adichie - who has written several essays and given a viral TED talk on feminism - was divisive in her comments.\n\n\"Ahhhhh, I am fuming, these TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist) feminists always think they are above all women who don't fit into their narrative of what a woman should be.\"\n\n\"What happened to being inclusive and tolerant of all women, no matter their life histories?\"\n\n\"I get a lot of online messages from Nigerian trans girls who are there now and they find it so difficult. A nightmare,\" Sahhara told BBC Trending, \"there's no male privilege for trans women in Africa.\"\n\nGrowing up in rural northern Nigeria, where homosexual activity can be punishable by death (although no executions by law for homosexual activity have been verified), Sahhara says that it was \"obvious to all\" that she was \"a girl in a boy's body\".\n\nNigeria is one 34 African countries that outlaws same-sex relationships, and since the Nigerian government tightened its anti-gay laws in 2014, punishments have become much harsher.\n\n\"My uncles beat me up for the way I behaved,\" Sahhara says. \"It's the way it's done in Africa.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSahhara moved to the UK 13 years ago, but is in close online contact with the LGBT community in Africa.\n\nShe says that social media is a vital lifeline for the transgender community there, who often live in secret. Sahhara lives openly as an LGBT activist in the UK, and many of these women get in touch with her through her Facebook page.\n\n\"I've had transgender women from South Africa get in touch with me and ask what hormones I recommend,\" Sahhara says, \"or women from Nigeria saying 'listen sister, a friend of mine has been locked up, can you raise awareness online?'.\"\n\n\"They communicate with me on my Facebook page, or secretly through private digital groups I refer them to\".\n\nMike Daemon (not his real name) who runs an LGBT advocacy website called No Strings Nigeria told BBC Trending: \"Africa's transgender women rely on a secret digital life involving Whatsapp groups and closed Facebook groups.\"\n\n\"People are added through referrals and recommendations when they are trusted.\"\n\nHowever he reflected the nuanced response Chimanda Ngozi Adiche's comments. Many of those commenting acknowledged Adicihie's feminist contribution and that the issue is complex. Daemon said Adichie was being \"realistic\" and that trans women and biologically born women have \"different journeys.\"\n\nMiss Sahhara, for her part, is hesitant when BBC Trending asked her if she identifies as a feminist.\n\n\"I believe in equal rights and pay for women,\" she says but, \"when I start hearing the ladies from the TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist), it discourages me from wanting to be part of feminism. We are fighting for equality and yet you say other women are not equal because you don't feel comfortable with who they are or who they used to be.\"\n\nChimamanda Ngozi Adiche, a vocal advocate of LGBT rights in Africa, declined an interview with BBC Trending and referred us to her statement on Facebook.\n\n\"I think the impulse to say that trans women are just like women born female comes from a need to make trans issues mainstream,\" she says there. \"Because by making them mainstream, we might reduce the many oppressions they experience. But it feels disingenuous to me. The intent is a good one but the strategy feels untrue. Diversity does not have to mean division.\"\n\nNext story: The mysterious death of a live-streaming gamer\n\nBrian Vigneault had been playing for more than 20 hours continuously when he died\n\nThe death of a young father leads to a conversation about marathon gaming sessions. READ MORE\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 Football\n\nManchester United \"are not ready to be a dominant force\" and fans should forget about a return to the days of Sir Alex Ferguson, manager Jose Mourinho has told BBC Sport.\n\nUnited won 13 Premier League titles under Ferguson, but Mourinho says it is now impossible to be so dominant.\n\nAsked if he could return the club to its former greatness, the Portuguese said: \"Forget it.\n\n\"Don't try to go 10, 20 years ago because it is not possible any more.\"\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with Gary Lineker for the Premier League Show, Mourinho also said:\n• None United do not need to qualify for the Champions League to attract top players.\n• None He would not have sold forwards Angel di Maria, Javier Hernandez and Danny Welbeck had he been United manager.\n• None It has not been easy for midfielder Paul Pogba to adjust back to English football.\n\n'We are not ready to be Manchester United'\n\nMourinho, 54, signed a three-year contract last May to replace Louis van Gaal, who was sacked despite winning the FA Cup.\n\nThe Red Devils have finished seventh, fourth and fifth in the three full seasons since Ferguson's retirement, and have been in sixth place since 6 November.\n\nMourinho does not believe a return to winning the Premier League every year is close, but does not want the season to peter out after winning the EFL Cup last month.\n\n\"We are not ready to be Manchester United,\" he said.\n\n\"We are not ready to be a dominant force. We are not ready to try and win everything.\n\n\"Because of the nature of the club, and of myself, we are ready to fight for every game, every point. But there is a space between the general ambition of such a giant club and what we are in reality.\"\n\nMourinho said United - who beat Premier League champions Leicester City in the Community Shield in August - had won \"one and a half\" trophies this season.\n\n\"Many other teams in England are going to finish the season without a trophy,\" he said. \"But we have to fight for the top four, we have to fight for the Champions League. The cup is not enough to say that the season is over.\"\n\nSince Mourinho took charge, United have spent an estimated £150m on midfielders Paul Pogba and Henrikh Mkhitaryan and defender Eric Bailly, and brought in striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic for free.\n\nBut the Portuguese said the club's previous transfer dealings caused him concern.\n\nHe named three forwards - PSG's Angel di Maria, Bayer Leverkusen's Javier Hernandez and Arsenal's Danny Welbeck - as players he would not have sold.\n\n\"I found a sad club,\" he said. \"Manchester United sold players that I would never sell, bought players that I would never buy.\"\n\nMourinho would not name the players he would not have signed, but in January he allowed midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin and forward Memphis Depay to leave for Everton and Lyon respectively.\n\nHe has largely frozen out former Germany captain Bastian Schweinsteiger and has handed just seven league starts to left-back Luke Shaw, who cost £27m from Southampton in 2014.\n\nMourinho said he was not worried about attracting players if United fail to qualify for the Champions League, pointing to last summer as proof the club can still sign the best players.\n\n\"Manchester United is very powerful, it doesn't need to be in the Champions League to attract the best players,\" he said.\n\n\"Zlatan could still be in Paris. Mkhitaryan could be at Borussia Dortmund. Pogba could be at Juventus. We were able to attract the players because they know that Manchester United sooner or later will get there.\n\n\"If any player decides not to come because of that, then I am happy that they are not coming.\"\n\n'Pogba doesn't disappoint me at all'\n\nPogba, 24, has scored seven goals since joining United for a world-record £89m last summer, but has been criticised for a perceived lack of impact in matches.\n\nMourinho says the France international will improve.\n\n\"It isn't easy for Pogba,\" he said.\n\n\"The country is so different to Italian football. It is hard for him. I'm not disappointed at all. The most important thing is his personality. He is professional and he will improve for sure.\"\n\nMourinho also praised the contribution of 35-year-old Ibrahimovic, who has scored 26 goals this season.\n\n\"Zlatan is not a surprise for me,\" he said. \"I know the personality, I know the body, I know the ambition that brought him here.\n\n\"Could he do it in the best league in the world? He has done it everywhere else. He's doing amazingly well.\"", "Pep Guardiola says his failure to convince his Manchester City players to attack in Monaco is the reason for their Champions League elimination.\n\nLeading 5-3 from the first leg of their last-16 tie, City fielded an attacking XI in the second leg on Wednesday but lost 3-1 to go out on away goals.\n\n\"I tried to convince them in all the meetings we had to come here, try to attack and score,\" said Guardiola.\n\n\"My mistake was being not able to convince them to do that.\"\n• None Football Daily podcast: Man City have failed to live up to expectations\n\nThe Spaniard added: \"I did [convince them] in the second half but it was too late.\n\n\"All managers make mistakes but I don't think it was down to a tactical mistake.\n\n\"It's simple. The difference was between the first and the second half. In the second half we tried to win the game, we tried to play. I did it all my career in that way. But the problem was the first half. We weren't there.\"\n\nCity were overrun and sloppy at the back as they conceded twice in the first half.\n\nThey were much improved in the second 45 minutes and looked to have saved themselves through Leroy Sane's 71st-minute strike, but further defensive frailties were exposed as Tiemoue Bakayoko headed in a decisive third for the home side.\n\nGuardiola continued: \"It's not about the defence. Today was not about that. Why was the second half a problem with the defence?\n\n\"Our strikers have to be aggressive and pick the ball up, but we didn't at this crucial time. That's why we are out.\"\n\nThis is the first time that a side managed by Guardiola have exited the Champions League at the last-16 stage.\n\nBut he was adamant his players would learn from the experience and come back stronger next season.\n\n\"I came here to win the Champions League. I tried, I tried - and I will try again,\" he said. \"Playing like we have done this season, like in the second half, would have been enough.\n\n\"The competition is so demanding. Hopefully we are going to learn so that, next season, we can come back here and make the same performance we did at the Etihad for the whole 90 minutes.\"\n\nFormer Manchester City winger Trevor Sinclair on BBC Radio 5 live: \"I thought Kevin de Bruyne, David Silva and Fernandinho didn't take responsibility on the ball. They looked shell-shocked at the start by Monaco. From the first kick of the second half they went long and the gaps appeared. They needed to realise that sooner. In the first leg, Yaya Toure did that. It happened too late here.\n\n\"There was a lack of leadership on the pitch and a lack of bravery. Take John Stones out of that, who was excellent tonight. There was too many players who underachieved and didn't take responsibility.\"\n\n\"Looking at the game management, Pep may feel let down by his players. They didn't have the footballing IQ to know they had to play some long balls in, to recognise the scenario of the game. It took Pep to tell them at half-time. That is basic football.\"\n\nFormer Manchester United defender Phil Neville on BBC Radio 5 live: \"They have been two brilliant football matches. City lost it in the first half when they were outplayed, outfought and were bullied. They got back into the game and they thought they were through. But their Achilles heel was a sloppy goal. Another year has failed to live up to expectations.\n\n\"I am not so sure the signings over the last five years have been that good. But when Sane scores I think Pep is thinking 'this is perfect, we can control the game from here'. Then they concede.\n\n\"Pep Guardiola doesn't go out there and spend the bulk of his money on defenders. He will be thinking if they had put one of those chances away they would be in the next round.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United edged a nervy encounter with Russian minnows FC Rostov at Old Trafford to reach the Europa League quarter-finals with a 2-1 aggregate victory.\n\nJuan Mata got the decisive goal for United when he stabbed in from Zlatan Ibrahimovic's flick, but Rostov threatened to take the game to extra time and Sergio Romero made two good saves late on.\n\nThe United goalkeeper first kept out Sardar Azmoun's flicked header before thumping away Christian Noboa's free-kick.\n\nIt was a largely frustrating night for United, who dominated for large periods without really threatening and also lost midfielder Paul Pogba to a hamstring injury.\n\nTheir best chances before the goal came in the first half, when Henrikh Mkhitaryan shot wide when one-on-one and Ibrahimovic twice hit the post.\n\nUnited will find out on Friday who they will play in the quarter-finals, with the draw taking place at 12:00 GMT.\n\nWho is into the last eight?\n\nCan United go all the way?\n\nThe Europa League is the only major trophy that has so far eluded United, but winning the competition is not just about collecting another piece of silverware.\n\nWith a guaranteed place in next season's Champions League for the winners, United, who are sixth in the Premier League, would not have to rely solely on finishing in the top four.\n\nMourinho showed he was in no mood to take any chances by naming a strong side against Rostov, with Ibrahimovic - who is serving a three-match domestic ban - reinstated.\n\nThe Swedish striker, absent from Monday's 1-0 FA Cup quarter-final defeat at Chelsea, looked fresh and hungry from the outset, hitting the post from close range early on before cracking another effort against the upright before the break.\n\nThose chances aside, United struggled to find a way through a packed Rostov defence and it looked as though they would have to rely on the goal they scored in Russia to scrape into the quarter-finals.\n\nAn inventive bit of skill by Ibrahimovic helped make the breakthrough in the end, but United know they will need to improve if they are to go all the way in the competition, with better sides than Rostov waiting.\n\nIt was a victory that came at a cost for Mourinho as he lost Pogba and Daley Blind to injury.\n\nMidfielder Pogba has come in for criticism recently, but Mourinho clearly sees the £89m midfielder as a crucial part of his side.\n\nThe France international was making his 41st appearance of the season for United but has rarely dominated a game, and he was largely a peripheral figure here before pulling up with an apparent hamstring injury early in the second half. He will miss Sunday's Premier League game at Middlesbrough.\n\nMourinho was then forced into another change, and a reshuffle at the back, when defender Blind went off midway through the half with suspected concussion.\n\nWith a congested fixture list caused by United battling for Europa League success and a place in the Premier League top four, Mourinho will hope neither player is out for an extended period.\n\nWhat they said\n\nManchester United boss Jose Mourinho, speaking to BT Sport: \"We were afraid of extra time. It was a difficult game.\n\n\"We have lots of enemies. Normally the enemies should be Rostov but we have a lot of enemies. It's difficult to play Monday with 10 men, it's difficult to play now, it's difficult to play 12 o'clock on Sunday. We have a lot of enemies.\n\n\"A lot of people might say we should have scored more goals. But a lot of things are going against us. The boys are amazing boys. We will probably lose the game on Sunday. Fatigue has a price.\n\n\"I will remember forever when I spoke to the Uefa delegate in Rostov. He told me if any of our players gets injured, the insurance paid. Whoever decided the Monday and Sunday games probably thinks the same way.\"\n• None Mourinho has won each of his past eight European home games (Chelsea 3, Man Utd 5), his teams scoring 21 goals and conceding just two.\n• None In fact, Mourinho has not lost a home game in European competition since a 3-1 semi-final second-leg loss to Atletico Madrid in April 2014 (W10 D2).\n• None The Red Devils are now unbeaten in their past 16 European matches at home (inc qualifiers, W13 D3), last losing in March 2013 to Real Madrid.\n• None Since the start of 2015-16, Russian clubs have faced English teams eight times in European competition and have not won any of those matches (W0 D3 L5).\n• None Man Utd's goal was Mata's 10th of the season, equalling his highest tally from the previous two seasons for the Red Devils (10 goals in each).\n• None Ibrahimovic has been directly involved in a goal in each of his four Europa League appearances at Old Trafford this season (4 goals, 2 assists).\n• None Ibrahimovic has provided 17 assists in European competition since Aug 2011; only Cristiano Ronaldo (20) has provided more.\n\nUnited are next in action when they travel to Middlesbrough in the Premier League on Sunday (12:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt saved. Christian Noboa (FC Rostov) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Antonio Valencia.\n• None Aleksandr Bukharov (FC Rostov) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Marcos Rojo tries a through ball, but Juan Mata is caught offside.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Manchester United) because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "David Cameron gets on the Conservatives' 2015 election battlebus\n\nMoney and politics. Put them together and the mix can be toxic.\n\nAfter long running investigations and digging by Channel 4 News and the Daily Mirror, rumblings over how the Conservative Party used cash in the General Election campaign in 2016 have burst into the open with a record fine from the Electoral Commission.\n\nSeventy thousand pounds is a lot of money, but in the context of a political campaign where millions of pounds are spent, it's not exactly going to break the Tories' bank. But the political cost of what MIGHT happen next is much higher.\n\nThirteen police forces are now looking at whether the mistakes made might constitute criminal offences. If that was to happen, there could be by-elections in seats around the country, that could seriously affect the PM's unhealthily slim majority in Parliament.\n\nAnd the whiff of financial wrong-doing is an odour no political party wants. But how likely is that actually to happen?\n\nOn the central charge laid at the Tories' door - were they deliberately trying to channel national cash into local campaigns to get round the spending rules, the Electoral Commission report is not completely conclusive.\n\nThey've found no direct evidence of intent to fiddle the system, but the message is essentially, that the party should have known better.\n\nSenior Tory sources tell me they think it's unlikely the mistakes, and there were plenty of them, will reach the hurdle for the prosecution. The CPS has to believe there is a good chance of a successful conviction, and while this is speculation, senior Tories don't believe in most of the cases that's likely.\n\nWhen it comes to South Thanet however, the seat where the Conservatives were desperate to hold off Nigel Farage, Tory insiders fear the situation may be more fraught for them.\n\nThe discrepancies may be more serious, the amounts of money more significant, and therefore, potentially, this could bring a lot more trouble in the coming months.\n\nThe Tories aren't the only party to have messed up their election expenses, both Labour and the Liberal Democrats have also been fined. But it's most serious for the Tories and could, hypothetically, cause a significant amount of political pain.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru & BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app, plus live text commentary.\n\nTeenager Ben Woodburn has received a first call up to Wales' squad for their World Cup qualifier against the Republic of Ireland on 24 March.\n\nThe 17-year-old has made seven appearances for Liverpool this season and become their youngest scorer.\n\nThe Chester-born forward qualifies for Wales through his maternal grandfather and has already played at under-16, under-18 and under-19 level.\n\nGareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey are also included after returning from injury.\n\nManager Chris Coleman's side are third in Group D, four points behind Martin O'Neill's Republic of Ireland, who are top.\n\nForward Bale, 27, has featured in five games for Real after recovering from ankle injury which kept him out of action for three months.\n\nMidfielder Ramsey was sidelined for a month by a calf injury but has played in Arsenal's last two matches.\n\nColeman has also included striker Tom Lawrence, who has scored 11 goals during a season-long loan at Ipswich Town from Leicester City.\n\nThe only other uncapped player in Coleman's squad is MK Dons defender Joe Walsh, although uncapped Barnsley winger Marley Watkins is named on a stand-by list as Wales have a couple of minor injury concerns.\n• None Wales will not rush to cap teenager Woodburn\n• None Wales and England set for 'war over Woodburn' says Evans\n\nColeman says Woodburn's inclusion is not a spur of the moment decision and is not about keeping him away from England.\n\n\"Everyone got excited about Ben when he burst into the Liverpool side and said 'we should be looking at Ben Woodburn', but we've been excited about him since he was 13 years old,\" Coleman said.\n\n\"He's been in our system for five years, so we know all about him; he's done well this season. We are looking forward to having him on board.\"\n\nColeman rejected suggestions England were a factor in the decision to pick Woodburn.\n\n\"Absolutely not, that is not the case,\" he said. \"If we want to put him on for tactical reasons, it would be for that, but not because we are worried about anyone else looking at him.\n\n\"He has been part of the Welsh set-up since he was a young boy. There will be no knee-jerk reaction to cap him.\n\n\"If Ben wanted to go and play for England, there is absolutely nothing we can do about it.\n\n\"None of our players belong to us. They aren't contracted to us. But he's earned this call-up.\n\n\"If I thought it was too early I wouldn't call him up because this game is massive for us.\n\n\"It's not about what game is good to get him in, it's the best squad. He's a Welsh international, he's played for us since a young boy and this is a the natural progression for him.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSunderland striker Jermain Defoe has been recalled to the England squad.\n\nThe 34-year-old won the most recent of his 55 England caps against Chile in November 2013.\n\nUncapped Southampton duo Nathan Redmond and James Ward-Prowse are also selected, as is 19-year-old Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford.\n\nGareth Southgate's side face Germany away in a friendly on 22 March before a World Cup qualifier against Lithuania at Wembley on 26 March.\n• None 5 live Football Daily: Jenas feels Defoe is \"as sharp as he's ever been\"\n\nCaptain Wayne Rooney is absent as he recovers from a leg injury, while Tottenham striker Harry Kane is missing after injuring his ankle against Millwall on Sunday.\n\nWest Brom midfielder Jake Livermore, who made his sole international appearance against Italy in 2012, returns to the squad.\n\nBurnley defender Michael Keane and West Ham winger Michail Antonio - both of whom are uncapped - are also selected.\n\nSouthgate has also called up Manchester United left-back Luke Shaw, who has made two appearances since December, and Everton midfielder Ross Barkley.\n\nDefoe has scored 19 times for England since making his debut against Sweden in 2004, and has 14 Premier League goals this season, the second most by any English player behind Kane (19).\n\n\"You can have the young players who are hungry and the old players who are hungry as well,\" Southgate told the England website.\n\n\"I think we can't just look at young players all the time. I think we have to get results now and also plan for the future.\"\n\nSouthgate said there was \"a chance\" Rooney would be fit for Manchester United's Premier League game against Middlesbrough on Sunday.\n\n\"The injury, coupled with the fact he's not really had a lot of game time recently and others have, has sort of determined my decision on that one,\" said Southgate.\n\nHe added: \"There are some very good players and it's a battle to get in this squad.\n\n\"Wayne totally understands that. He's the most realistic senior player I think I've dealt with in terms of how he views the game.\n\n\"He doesn't have any expectations of being treated differently or treated in a special way.\"\n\nLiverpool striker Daniel Sturridge is also absent through injury, while Arsenal forward Theo Walcott has not been selected.\n\n\"I've got to say [Walcott] wasn't chuffed to bits to get the call this morning and I understand that,\" said Southgate.\n\n\"Quite rightly, he said: 'I'm one of the leading goalscorers in the league.' I don't mind being challenged on that at all. I totally respect that. I don't expect him to be happy.\n\n\"But I've got to make decisions and I think it was the right thing to call him to talk that through, even though the timing probably wasn't great.\n\n\"He's a player I still like. I've said to him I'm not ruling out, but in terms of just having him as a squad player, I think it's a better opportunity for me to look at one or two others and see what they can do.\"\n\nHarry Redknapp, who managed Defoe at Tottenham, believes the forward will believe he has a chance of playing at the 2018 World Cup.\n\nRedknapp told BBC Radio 5 live: \"Jermain is a fantastic professional and good to have around the place. I'm sure he'll be a big influence on the younger players.\n\n\"He really does take care of himself and spends time on the training ground when everyone else is finished.\n\n\"He's never short of confidence and he'll be eyeing the next tournament with relish. He will feel he has a chance.\"\n\nSubscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "On 12 December 2015 a man's body was found lying on the ground on Saddleworth Moor. He had died from poisoning.\n\nHe became known as the Body on the Moor. And the struggle to identify him became one of the strangest mysteries.\n\nNo mobile, no identification of any kind. No family or friends came forward.\n\nOne of the few people with any insight into the puzzle behind the man's death was Maureen Toogood.\n\nMaureen had a relationship with a man starting in the late 1960s. They didn't marry and she ended up marrying someone else but they stayed friends. For 40 years they saw each other regularly - she helped him in his garden and around the house.\n\nThen in 2006 he simply vanished from Maureen's life - upped sticks and left the country.\n\nAll of the interviews here are taken from the new episode of the World at One's Body on the Moor podcast series by Jon Manel.\n\nMaureen believed he had sold his home and emigrated to California.\n\nThe first she heard was when she received a call from his neighbour. She was told he was going to the US the following day.\n\n\"I was very hurt by this,\" she says. She was unable to contact him because his phone had been disconnected. Since then, she says, she has thought about him often.\n\nEleven years later she got another phone call. This time from the police.\n\nThey had finally identified the body on the moor. They were calling because it was David Lytton, her friend.\n\nThey knew little of his life and Maureen was able to fill in some of the gaps.\n\nBefore he left in 2006, David had lived an apparently unremarkable life in south-west London, working as a croupier, a taxi controller for a mini-cab company, a baker and a train driver for the London Underground.\n\nMaureen says she met David in 1968. She was suffering from flu at the time but had ventured out to Finchley in north London to buy a stereo. It was the Last Night of the Proms and she wanted to enjoy listening to it at home.\n\n\"I didn't feel very well. I was on my knees, and I was collapsing. There was a young man who went 'Oh, hang on, hang on I'll come over,'\" she remembers.\n\n\"He walked home to my flat and he made me a nice cup of tea. We hit it off. He made me some toast - I hadn't had any breakfast and he stayed with me until my flatmates came home.\"\n\nThe following day, she says, he was back on her doorstep.\n\n\"'Hello, do you remember me?' he said. And he kept coming round every day. He didn't leave me at all. We would even meet in the launderette round the corner and do our washing together.\"\n\nShe describes him as a gentleman who liked to take care of her. He treated her to haircuts in fashionable Mayfair, where he was working as a croupier.\n\nBut, although he was happy to treat his girlfriend, there were few extravagances for himself.\n\nHis house in Streatham was sparsely decorated. There was no bed, just a piece of foam and a three-piece suite from a second-hand shop. Two items do stand out, though. Korans, one for upstairs and one for downstairs, she says.\n\nThere was nothing in the kitchen - no fridge, no kettle, no food.\n\n\"He said he wasn't entitled to comforts. Where he got that I don't know,\" she says.\n\nThe police went on to discover that David ate all his meals at the same local vegetarian restaurant at the same time each night.\n\nHe dressed smartly and was very particular and precise. Maureen says she could have predicted the clothes that he would be wearing the morning he was found: \"M&S socks, white Jockey underwear, white vest, a singlet, cord trousers - navy blue, and round-neck sweater and an old mac that he probably had 30 or 40 years.\"\n\nHis luxury was a pair of shoes made by the Swiss designer Bally.\n\nDavid grew up in the north London suburb of Finchley. He was born David Keith Lautenberg on 21 April, 1948 to Sylvia and Hyman Lautenberg. He was Jewish, his family having originally come to Britain fleeing from Europe. At some time, his immediate family changed their name from Lautenberg. He changed his name to David Lytton in 1986.\n\nMaureen and David met not long after he left Leeds University. He had gone to study psychology and sociology but, according to the police, he suffered from hypothyroidism and found it difficult to sleep at night. Instead, he slept during the day and didn't get the grades he wanted. When he returned to London he fell out with his family and moved out of his home.\n\nMaureen describes David as a \"strange\" man with some \"quirky ways\".\n\n\"But I did like him,\" she says.\n\n\"He was very particular, very precise and a gentleman. He was a lovely, lovely man.\"\n\nHe didn't have any hobbies or particular interests that she knew of. But the police have discovered that David had an interest in different religions, including Buddhism and Islam.\n\nHis last job was as a driver for the London Underground, one which he was well-suited to, says Maureen. \"He enjoyed that - he liked his own company. He was a loner.\"\n\nMaureen and David had a pregnancy which ended in miscarriage. She says he changed greatly after that, he became withdrawn and quiet.\n\nUnbeknown to Maureen, David put his house up for sale in 2005. It sold on 4 October 2006, and he left for Pakistan on 6 October - not California as Maureen had mysteriously been told.\n\nHis departure, it seems, was part of a plan - not a sudden disappearance.\n\nFor Detective Sergeant John Coleman, this was one of the hardest cases of his career. He never dreamed it would remain unsolved for so long. Early in the investigation, he believed a titanium plate that had been fitted during an operation on the man's leg would provide the answer. This type of plate is only used in Pakistan, so police only needed to track down the surgeon. After months of searching, they drew a blank.\n\nBut as the anniversary of the death of the man on the moor was approaching, there was a breakthrough.\n\nInitial inquiries had also focused on Ealing in West London, as it was here that the man was caught on CCTV.\n\nBecause of the Pakistan connection and the fact that he had been seen walking from the direction of South Ealing, which is a few stops along from Heathrow Airport, DS Coleman had a hunch.\n\nHe asked for all the passenger lists from Pakistan to be examined from the days before he was first spotted on CCTV in London. The task was to find someone who fitted the profile of a white male between 65 and 75, possibly travelling alone.\n\nAt first, the person asked to do this failed to find a match. But as the anniversary approached, he revisited the case.\n\n\"That's a hell of a piece of work. Thousands and thousands of people. The tenacity of that officer,\" he says.\n\nA match was found. The man was British, so police contacted the UK Passport Agency and obtained a copy of his passport photograph. Although the picture was 10 years old, there was a resemblance.\n\n\"You can imagine the excitement in Oldham CID,\" says DS Coleman. CCTV images from Lahore airport came through on the anniversary of the death. The police had found their man.\n\nA DNA sample from a family member was needed for confirmation.\n\nPolice checked the electoral roll in London. When this failed to turn up any leads, they turned to genealogy records. Eventually, they found David's mother Sylvia, who suffers from dementia and lives in a care home in London.\n\nThe trail led to Maureen, who telephones the care home to check up on her former friend's mother every day.\n\nFrom David's visa for Pakistan, the police have been able to fill in some blanks.\n\nThe found out that he set up home in an area called Hassan Town in Lahore.\n\nNeighbours say he kept himself to himself. One said he used to read all the time and visit the local internet cafe.\n\n\"He never bothered anybody, though local lads teased him at times,\" one told the BBC.\n\n\"He was nice to his neighbours and ate food sent by his next door neighbours. You would see him going for a walk in the morning, dressed in a tracksuit.\"\n\nAnother recalled him returning from the hospital after he had the plate fitted.\n\n\"His friend requested me to arrange for his food while he was on bed-rest,\" said Ejaz Ahmad.\n\n\"So my family looked after him, our children used to bring him fruit and go to the bakery to buy him cake or pastry. So he was in bed for 15 to 20 days and then he started walking slowly.\"\n\nAnother said that he was a Muslim and that David told him that he had converted in 1996.\n\n\"Now, I don't know whether he said this in view of the treatment meted out to Christians here, as they are made to eat in separate pots from us, Muslims, but he definitely told me that he was a Muslim.\"\n\nThe police say there is no evidence to suggest that he had converted to Islam.\n\nOn Thursday 10 December, David Lytton sat in seat 25C on a Pakistan International Airlines Flight from Lahore arriving at London Heathrow at 15:30.\n\nHe was met at the airport by a friend, who he had known for some 35 years. They ate a meal before the friend dropped David off at the Travelodge in Ealing.\n\n\"His friend indicated that since David had not been in the UK for some time, he wanted to spend some time - weeks or months travelling around and seeing the sights,\" says DS Coleman.\n\nAlthough he booked into the hotel for five nights, David only stayed one.\n\nAnd in keeping with the mysterious nature of this story, police have been unable to locate the 18kg suitcase that he brought with him from Pakistan.\n\nAnd what about the \"why\". Why did David Lytton travel to Manchester, and then out to the renowned beauty spot?\n\n\"I've got all the GP's records - I have records from university - there is no connection to Dovestones,\" says Detective Sergeant Coleman.\n\nAt the inquest in Manchester, Coroner Simon Nelson said Mr Lytton \"died of his own hand\", but he couldn't be sure whether Mr Lytton had intended to take his own life.", "Headlines questioning Prince William's work ethic have dominated the tabloids after he was pictured on a ski holiday while other senior royals attended a service with Commonwealth leaders.\n\n\"Throne Idle\" and \"Ice work if you can get it\" were among the newspaper puns to greet the future king as he returned to the UK, having missed the Commonwealth Day events.\n\nWhen he's not dad-dancing in Verbier or spending time with his young family, the Duke of Cambridge splits his time between royal duties, a part-time job as a pilot and his charitable work.\n\nSo far this year, the 34-year-old has attended royal engagements on 12 days, including a trip to south Wales, a gala dinner and an investiture at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe record of these attendances is detailed in the Court Circular, which was last updated on 10 March and does not specify the hours of each event.\n\nNor does it take into account behind-the-scenes activity or preparation for royal events.\n\nSince 2015, the prince has worked as a helicopter pilot for the East Anglian Air Ambulance Service. There, he works 9.5 hour shifts, clocking up an average of 20 hours per week - the salary for which is donated to charity.\n\nBased on these hours and the royal engagements, Prince William will have worked the equivalent of 34 of the possible 53 working days in 2017 so far.\n\nEarlier this year he announced he would be leaving his ambulance job in the summer to take on more royal duties.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at a service of commemoration earlier this month\n\nThis is not unfamiliar terrain for Prince William or indeed for his family.\n\nTo be found wanting in the eyes of the tabloids is an occupational hazard that has dogged them for decades.\n\nWhen the prince decided to ski with his mates rather than leave early and attend a church service that mattered to his grandmother, he could have predicted that he would be judged to have made an error of judgement.\n\nIt was an error that he can regret at leisure.\n\nBut what he couldn't necessarily have predicted was that he would have remained headline news for so long. The future king is wary of the media. The newspapers are increasingly concerned at his attempts to bypass them and use social media instead.\n\nThe next test will come in the autumn when he becomes a full-time senior royal.\n\nIf by then there isn't a noticeable increase in his royal workload, there's a risk the tabloids will once again sit in judgement and once again find Prince William wanting.\n\nIn 2016, Prince William clocked up 80 days of royal engagements - well behind the busiest member of the royal family, Princess Anne, with 179 days of engagements.\n\nPrince Charles, 68, came second with 139 and the Queen, 90, matched her grandson with 80 days.\n\nDespite denouncing the work-shy claims as \"absolute rubbish\" and \"grossly unfair\", royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams said the headlines were \"irresistible\" for the tabloid press.\n\n\"It's an unfair perception that the photographs reinforce,\" he said.\n\nPrince William has said criticism of being work-shy was not something he ignored, but not something he \"took completely to heart\" either.\n\nPrince William works about 80 hours a month as a co-pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance\n\nPrince William is patron or president to 23 organisations, including the Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.\n\nNot all the work he does to fulfil these roles is classed as a royal engagement.\n\nCentrepoint - the youth homelessness charity of which the Prince has been a patron since 2005 - said the royal visits hostels publicly and privately, volunteering alongside staff and regularly meeting with the Centrepoint parliament.\n\nChief executive Seyi Obakin, said: \"Within the last three months, he has publicly and actively supported our plans to create a national helpline for homeless young people.\n\n\"Last month, he launched with us the Centrepoint helpline.\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry race during the Team Heads Together London Marathon Training Day in February\n\nPrince William has also campaigned vigorously against animal poaching. At an international conference in November he called on the UK government to pass a total ban on the domestic ivory trade.\n\nThis week, the Cambridges are visiting Paris and in July, the royal couple are due to make an official visit to Germany and Poland, at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.\n\nKensington Palace declined to comment when contacted by the BBC.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nWarrington Wolves' losing start to the season stretched to five straight Super League defeats as Leigh Centurions earned a deserved win in an electric atmosphere at the Leigh Sports Village.\n\nTries from Gareth Hock and Ben Crooks gave Leigh a 12-2 half-time lead.\n\nAdam Higson and Hock extended the hosts' advantage after the break before Tom Lineham crossed to give Wolves hope of a comeback that never looked likely.\n\nBen Reynolds missed three conversions but his late kick capped a big win.\n\nWarrington managed the first win by an English club over Australian opponents since 2012 when they beat Brisbane Broncos in the World Club Series in February - after a 2016 season in which they enjoyed a +250 points difference. This season they remain rooted to the bottom of Super League without a point.\n\nBy contrast, newly promoted Leigh have already earned more points this term than in any previous Super League campaign in their history.\n\nHock showed his strength to cross early on and Reynolds added the conversion before Crooks raced over to make it 10-0, Reynolds striking the post with his kick.\n\nThe teams traded two-pointers before the break to maintain Leigh's 10-point lead.\n\nBoth sides were temporarily reduced to 12 men in the second half as first Leigh's Glenn Stewart saw yellow for a high tackle on Kevin Brown, and then Wolves' Lineham was binned for lashing out at Ryan Hampshire.\n\nHandling errors let Warrington down and enabled Leigh to withstand heavy pressure when they were a man down before sealing victory with further unconverted tries from Higson and Hock, to move up to fourth in Super League.\n\n\"It was a real tough opening six games and to get 50 percent of them as wins is a real credit to the boys. We're finding our feet, we're getting battle-hardened.\n\n\"It's a cauldron here. We're starting games well but we're also finishing them strong so we're getting some consistency.\n\n\"Our defence was outstanding. Warrington are a class side and we did a real good job to put them under pressure,\n\n\"It never looked in doubt. I was disappointed with the try we conceded at the end but I can't complain too much.\"\n\n\"They out-enthused us. Both teams made a reasonable amount of errors in the first half and we gave away too many penalties.\n\n\"There was an amount of self-inflicted pain again. My players are trying hard but just coming up with wrong options and it's hurting us.\n\n\"Once we start making better decisions, we will come out the other side and get on a roll.\n\n\"We will re-group. We'll get in tomorrow into some hard work and fix it up. We'll have Stef Ratchford back next week but we've got to get some the people who are already out there back in their best form.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nNumber eight Billy Vunipola and wing Anthony Watson return to the starting XV as England aim to win the Six Nations Grand Slam against Ireland.\n\nVunipola replaces Nathan Hughes and Watson comes in for Jack Nowell in the two changes to the side that thrashed Scotland to win the Six Nations.\n\nElliot Daly is fit to start on the left wing after a head knock.\n\nEngland are chasing a record-breaking 19th straight win, while victory will also secure back to back Grand Slams.\n\nFlanker Tom Wood is set to win his 50th cap from the bench.\n\nVunipola made his comeback from a knee injury against Scotland, while Watson returned following a hamstring problem. Both scored tries from the bench in the Calcutta Cup match.\n\nDaly was forced off in the win over Scotland after an illegal tip-tackle that earned Scotland hooker Fraser Brown a yellow card, but has been declared fit to play after tests for a possible concussion.\n\n\"We're very excited ahead of a huge opportunity,\" said England head coach Eddie Jones. \"It's going to be quite an occasion in Dublin so we understand we have to be prepared emotionally, physically and mentally.\n\n\"Ireland not having anything to play for means they have the courage to fail which frees them up mentally.\n\n\"We are a little bit vulnerable because we have already been crowned the Six Nations champions and we had a big win against Scotland, so for us it's getting the right mind-set for the game.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLeicester striker Jamie Vardy says he has received death threats and his family have been targeted since Claudio Ranieri was sacked as manager.\n\nThe 30-year-old blamed \"hurtful\" and \"false\" accusations he influenced the club's decision to sack the Italian.\n\nRanieri left in February, nine months after winning the Premier League, with the club 17th in the table. His successor, Craig Shakespeare, later denied reports of a player revolt.\n\n\"It is terrifying,\" Vardy said.\n\n\"I read one story that said I was personally involved in a meeting after the Sevilla game when I was actually sat in anti-doping for three hours.\n\n\"But then the story is out there, people pick it up and jump on it and you're getting death threats about your family, kids, everything.\"\n\nVardy said he was able to \"get on with it\" but added: \"When people are trying to cut your missus up while she's driving, with the kids in the back of the car, it's not the best.\"\n\nVardy is in Dortmund with the England squad as they prepare to face Germany on Wednesday in a friendly.\n\nHis international manager Gareth Southgate said he understood why the striker had chosen to discuss the matter publicly.\n\n\"It's a very serious subject, we're very supportive of him and I know the club are,\" said the England boss.\n\n\"The authorities are well aware of what's going on. There's no problem with his focus on the game.\"\n\nBBC Sport understands some Leicester players were summoned to meet the club's chairman after a 2-1 Champions League defeat by Sevilla, and Ranieri's fate was sealed by the negative reaction.\n\nWith Shakespeare in charge - first as caretaker and later on a deal until the end of the season - the Foxes have won four successive matches, moving up to 15th, six points above the relegation zone.\n\nThat run includes a 2-0 victory in their last-16 second leg with Sevilla which leaves them as England's only representative in the quarter-finals.\n\n\"If there was an issue, you went and did it in the gaffer's office or you went and did it on the tactics board, because he was happy for you to come in and put your opinion across,\" Vardy added of Ranieri's time in charge.\n\n\"The stories were quite hurtful to be honest with you. A lot of false accusations were being thrown out there and there was nothing we, as players, could do about it.\n\n\"We just had to put it to the back of our minds and concentrate on the football.\"", "Shipowners and traders meet in shipping agency Lloyd's of London's coffeehouse in 1863\n\nAlmost a decade ago, I tried to place a bet with a leading UK betting shop that I would die within a year. They should have taken the bet - I am still alive.\n\nBut they will not gamble on life and death. A life insurance company, by contrast, does little else.\n\nLegally and culturally, there is a clear distinction between gambling and insurance. Economically the difference is less visible.\n\nBoth gambler and insurer agree that money will change hands depending on what transpires in some unknowable future.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world we live in.\n\nGambling tools such as dice date back millennia - perhaps five thousand years in Egypt. Insurance may be equally old.\n\nThe Code of Hammurabi - a law code from Babylon, in what is now Iraq - is nearly 4,000 years old. It includes numerous clauses devoted to the topic of \"bottomry\", a kind of maritime insurance bundled together with a business loan.\n\nA merchant would borrow money to fund a ship's voyage, but if the ship sank, the loan did not have to be repaid.\n\nMany of the provisions of the Code of Hammurabi - as seen on this stone stele - deal with matters of contract and trade\n\nAround the same time, Chinese merchants were spreading their risks by swapping goods between ships. If any single ship went down, it would contain a mix of goods from many different merchants.\n\nBut all that physical shuffling around is a fuss. Much more efficient to structure insurance as a financial contract instead, something the Romans did a few millennia later.\n\nLater still, Italian city states like Genoa and Venice developed ever more sophisticated ways to insure the ships of the Mediterranean.\n\nThen, in 1687, a coffee house opened on Tower Street, near the London docks. Run by Edward Lloyd, it was comfortable and spacious, and business boomed. Patrons enjoyed the fireside tea and coffee, and - of course - the gossip.\n\nThere was much to gossip about: London's great plague, the great fire, the Dutch navy sailing up the Thames, and a revolution which had overthrown the king.\n\nBut above all, the inhabitants of this coffee house loved to gossip about ships: what was sailing from where, with what cargo - and whether it would arrive safely or not. And where there was gossip, there was an opportunity for a wager.\n\nLloyd's patrons were happy to speculate on the likely death of Admiral John Byng, who was shot in 1757\n\nThe patrons bet, for example, on whether Admiral John Byng would be shot for his incompetence in a naval battle with the French. He was.\n\nThe gentlemen of Lloyd's would have had no qualms about taking my bet on my own life.\n\nEdward Lloyd realised his customers were as thirsty for information to fuel their bets as they were for coffee, and began to assemble a network of informants and a newsletter full of information about foreign ports, tides, and the comings and goings of ships.\n\nHis newsletter became known as Lloyd's List.\n\nLloyd's List was published daily until 2013, when it became online-only\n\nLloyd's coffee house hosted ship auctions, and gatherings of sea captains who would share stories.\n\nIf someone wished to insure a ship, that could be done too: a contract would be drawn up, and the insurer would sign his name underneath - hence the term \"underwriter\". It became hard to say quite where coffee-house gambling ended and formal insurance began.\n\nEight decades after Lloyd had established his coffee house, a group of underwriters who hung out there formed the Society of Lloyd's.\n\nToday, Lloyd's of London is one of the most famous names in insurance.\n\nLloyd's is not an insurer: it is a marketplace in which multiple financial backers, grouped in syndicates, come together to pool risk\n\nBut not all modern insurers have their roots in gambling. Another form of insurance developed not in the ports, but the mountains.\n\nAlpine farmers organised mutual aid societies in the early 16th century, agreeing to look after each other if a cow - or child - fell ill. While the underwriters of Lloyd's viewed risk as something to be analysed and traded, the mutual assurance societies of the Alps saw it as something to be shared.\n\nAnd when the farmers descended from the alps to Zurich and Munich, they established some of the world's great insurance companies.\n\nRisk-sharing mutual aid societies are now among the largest and best-funded organisations on the planet - we call them \"governments\".\n\nGovernments initially got into the insurance business as a way of making money, typically to fight a war in the turmoil of Europe in the 1600s and 1700s.\n\nInstead of selling ordinary bonds, which paid in regular instalments until they expired, governments sold annuities, which paid in regular instalments until the recipient expired. Easy to supply, and much in demand.\n\nAnnuities are a form of insurance: they protect an individual against the risk of living so long that all their money runs out.\n\nProviding insurance is no longer a mere money-spinner for governments. It is regarded as a core priority to help citizens manage some of life's biggest risks - unemployment, illness, disability and ageing.\n\nFaced with these deep pools of risk, private insurers often merely paddle.\n\nAt least, citizens in richer economies expect insurance from their governments. In poorer countries, governments are not much help against life-altering risks, such as crop failure or illness. And private insurers tend not to take much interest, either. The stakes are too low, and the costs too high.\n\nThat is a shame, because there is growing evidence that insurance doesn't just provide peace of mind, but is a vital element of a healthy economy.\n\nA recent study in Ghana showed that farmers were being held back from specialising and expanding by the risk of drought - a risk against which they couldn't insure themselves.\n\nSome small scale farmers in Ghana previously struggled to insure themselves\n\nWhen researchers created an insurance company and started selling crop insurance, the farmers bought the the insurance and expanded their businesses.\n\nToday, the biggest insurance market of all blurs the line between insuring and gambling: the market in financial derivatives.\n\nDerivatives are financial contracts that let two parties bet on something else - perhaps exchange rate fluctuations, or whether a debt will be repaid. They can be a form of insurance.\n\nAn exporter hedges against a rise in the exchange rate. A wheat farming company covers itself by betting that the price of wheat will fall.\n\nThe ability to buy derivatives lets companies specialise in a particular market. Otherwise, they would have to diversify - like the Chinese merchants four millennia ago, who didn't want all their goods in one ship. The more an economy specialises, the more it tends to produce.\n\nBut unlike regular insurance, for derivatives you don't need to find someone with a risk they need to protect themselves against. You just need to find someone willing to take a gamble on any uncertain event anywhere in the world.\n\nIt is a simple matter to double the stakes - or multiply them by a hundred. As the profits multiply, all that is needed is the appetite to take risks.\n\nBefore the international banking crisis broke in 2007, the total face value of outstanding derivatives contracts was many times larger than the world economy itself.\n\nThe real economy became the sideshow, the side bets became the main event.\n\nThat story did not end well.", "George Osborne will take over as editor of the London Evening Standard\n\nEditing a newspaper is an extremely rewarding and tough job, probably harder these days than a few decades ago, because of scarcity of resources and the demands of the internet.\n\nBut being an editor isn't just an editorial job.\n\nThe editorial side of it is the most fulfilling and intellectually stimulating part, but it is only a part.\n\nThere are also huge commercial responsibilities - how do we make money and save money? - and leadership and management duties.\n\nLeadership is about creating a moral vision for where you want to take a team; management is the daily activity of getting them there.\n\nIt has always seemed to me that in rich newspapers, the editor gets to focus on editing, while other people think about the commercial and managerial side of it.\n\nFor instance, the Daily Mail has several busy managing editors, whereas the Evening Standard has only one.\n\nAt organisations that are strapped for cash - and the Standard is facing big commercial challenges - editors have to spend relatively more of their time thinking about commercial and managerial obligations.\n\nAnd all of that is hugely time consuming. It leaves less time than you would like for the really exciting bit: editing.\n\nEditing is an exercise in selection and judgement: what to put in and - just as important - what to leave out.\n\nWhich pictures, campaigns, and above all stories to run? What's the best headline on that front page splash? Shall we give this or that person a kicking in the sports pages? And should our cartoonist really depict Nigel Farage as an amphibian yet again?\n\nWhen making these decisions, based on your judgement, which is in turn informed by your values and experience, an editor has three sacred loyalties - in my view, in no particular order.\n\nFirst, to the truth; second, to the reader; and third, to the integrity and reputation of the newspaper.\n\nSome would argue that there are other loyalties.\n\nAn editor of The Catholic Herald might think they had a duty to God, for instance; an editor of Country Life might feel they had a duty to England's enchanted land; and all editors are likely to feel a duty to those paying the bills.\n\nBut those earlier loyalties are supreme.\n\nThey are very different to the loyalties required by political parties.\n\nI have never been a member of a political party, but I suspect those who have would say their loyalties aren't primarily to truth, readers, or newspaper reputations.\n\nA political party is an institution that organises its members to acquire and exercise legislative power.\n\nIts members have loyalty above all to that task. If they are committed, they wake up every day thirsting for power.\n\nOnce they have acquired it, fidelity to their tribe makes them determined not to relinquish it.\n\nQuite aside from the sheer practical workload, it is not easy to see how the loyalties required by editorship and the loyalties required by membership of a political party can be reconciled.\n\nThe latter long to inhabit the corridors of power. The former want to throw grenades at it.\n\nJournalism, at its best, is about the ferocious scrutiny of power.\n\nThat requires a certain distance from it. Of course, there are different types of journalism.\n\nI can see how it might be feasible for a theatre critic to be group secretary of his local Socialist Workers Party.\n\nI can also see how a brilliant football correspondent could be a member of the neo-Nazis.\n\nBut an editor, who has to conduct daily combat with politicians?\n\nIn being a member of the Conservative Party and, soon, editor of the London Evening Standard, George Osborne faces both practical and philosophical problems.\n\nThe practical one is when to sleep. The philosophical one is how to reconcile his clearly divided loyalties.\n\nWhich of his constituents matter most - those in Tatton, or his near-million readers at the Standard?\n\nHow does he cover, say, a Budget: as a loyal Conservative MP, or as a fearless editor?\n\nIt is hard enough to see how you reconcile being a member of a political party with being a journalist, let alone being an editor.\n\nHowever, being not only a member of a political party, but a sitting MP and a recent chancellor, as well as someone who retains political ambitions, is much tougher still.\n\nAnd that's before we even consider BlackRock. How can you cover the world of asset management while being paid £650,000 by it?\n\nThe idea that Mr Osborne could recuse himself from stories about that industry, or indeed the City pages altogether, strikes me as sub-optimal, to put it mildly: it would be bizarre to have a former chancellor as editor, only for him to have no involvement in business coverage.\n\nThese conflicts of interest are untenable, and so - as I said on Friday - I can't see it lasting.\n\nGiven his sources of income, he's much likelier to give up being an MP before he gives up having lunch at BlackRock.\n\nWhether it happens when Tatton disappears as a constituency, or before, I suspect he will be editor of the London Evening Standard after he is an MP in Cheshire.\n\nAs I mentioned in my previous posts, his task at the paper - setting out a clear strategy, improving the product, raising its profile, and turning the business around by finding new revenue streams - is one for which he has relevant experience and connections.\n\nThat said, it strikes me as a full-time job. Perhaps, therefore, Osborne hasn't fully grasped the function of an editor.", "BBC Sport looks at the future of Arsene Wenger at Arsenal after his side lost 3-1 away against West Brom - a fourth defeat in five league games.\n\nWATCH MORE: Wenger will reveal decision on his future 'very soon'", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City have been fined £15,573 by Uefa for incidents in the home leg of their Champions League last-16 tie with Monaco on 21 February.\n\nEurope's governing body said the fine related to a pitch invasion, objects being thrown and a late kick-off.\n\nCity won the match 5-3 at Etihad Stadium but lost the return 3-1 and went out on the away goals rule.\n\nMeanwhile, City have accepted a Football Association charge relating to Sunday's league game with Liverpool.\n\nThey were charged with failing to \"ensure their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion\".\n\nIt followed an incident \"in or around the 50th minute\" of the 1-1 draw, when referee Michael Oliver gave the Reds a penalty, penalising Gael Clichy for a raised boot on Roberto Firmino.\n\nThe case will be heard by an independent regulatory commission.\n\nJames Milner scored from the spot, giving Liverpool the lead, but Sergio Aguero ensured City took a point from a thrilling draw at Etihad Stadium.\n\nBoth Clichy and David Silva were booked after Oliver pointed to the spot.\n• None Watch Manchester City v Liverpool highlights on Match of the Day 2 on iPlayer", "Jessica's own troubles inspired her to set up a business to help others in a similar situation\n\nJessica May was moving quickly up the career ladder until she was tripped up by mental illness.\n\nFollowing the birth of her first child, Jessica developed a problem with her thyroid gland that greatly exacerbated her pre-existing anxiety disorder.\n\n\"I've had anxiety my whole life,\" says the 36-year-old from Canberra, Australia. \"The [thyroid] condition meant that my anxiety got out of control.\"\n\nThis was back in 2012, and Jessica decided to return to her civil service job sooner than originally planned, after she and her doctor agreed that getting back to doing the work she loved would keep her focused and hopefully mitigate her anxiety.\n\nBut Jessica, who had to reveal her mental health problem to her employers to receive the flexible schedule she needed, claims that her managers and colleagues started to make negative assumptions about her capabilities, and began to exclude her from projects.\n\n\"Because of how I was treated... I didn't really get better,\" she says.\n\nHaving previously managed 17 staff, Jessica says she felt disheartened and devalued.\n\nHowever, the bad experience did ultimately have a positive impact - it made Jessica determined to help other people with mental or physical disabilities, and gave her the idea for setting up a business to do this.\n\n\"I knew there needed to be something for people with disabilities who just need a little bit of flexibility from their employers,\" she says.\n\nSo she decided to quit her government job and launch Enabled Employment, a recruitment consultancy that helps people with a disability find paid work.\n\nToday, the Canberra-based company helps thousands of people find work at more than 400 businesses in Australia, including accountancy giant PricewaterhouseCoopers, taxi hire service Uber, and even the Australian Defence Force.\n\nTo help get Enabled up and running, Jessica successfully applied for a small entrepreneurship grant from the Australian Capital Territory government.\n\nShe left her civil service job one Friday in December 2012, and started work at Enabled the following Monday, with help and support coming from a local start-up support initiative called the Griffin Accelerator. The number of people and companies using the business then slowly started to grow.\n\nThe business is similar to a regular recruitment agency, in that it maintains an online listing of available jobs, and acts as a mediator between would-be employees and hiring managers.\n\nHowever, Enabled also offers what it calls \"accessibility brokering\", which means that it works to ensure that businesses are able to offer employees the working conditions they need to perform at their best. This includes checking on flexible working hours and ensuring that offices have disabled access and toilets.\n\nJessica is keen to stress that the company is not a charity. Instead it is a for-profit business.\n\nShe believes that charities that pay businesses to take on disabled staff can reinforce negative stereotypes about disabled people.\n\n\"It really devalues people with disabilities who are totally capable,\" she says. \"We don't want anyone to feel like a charity case.\"\n\nInstead, Enabled charges companies, typically a one-off fee equivalent to 10% of a person's annual salary. By contrast, people who use Enabled to find work don't have to pay it anything.\n\nThe late Australian comedian Stella Young (centre) was an Enabled Employment ambassador\n\n\"There's 4.2 million people in Australia with a disability. Many of these people are very competent, it is really about trying to break down their barriers to work,\" says Jessica.\n\n\"We charge businesses for our services because you should be paying for amazingly qualified people, and you should also be paying for the diversity that it brings.\"\n\nEnabled is valued at more than six million Australian dollars ($4.6m; £3.9m), and has expanded its services to include military veterans and indigenous Australians.\n\nSuzanne Colbert, the founder of the Australian Network on Disability, says that Enabled has \"freshened up\" the Australian job market's otherwise \"stale\" attitude towards hiring people with disabilities.\n\nShe adds that Enabled has allowed employers to \"tap into new sources of talent\".\n\nWhen it comes to its own staff, Enabled practises what it preaches. Four of its seven full-time employees have a disability and work within a schedule that accommodates them best.\n\nJessica balances her work with looking after her two young children\n\nThe company and Jessica have also won a number of Australian awards, including start-up of the year in 2015, and a National Disability Award for community accessibility.\n\nLooking ahead, Jessica says she plans to expand the business in Australia before considering any moves overseas.\n\nBut for now, she says she is \"the happiest she's ever been\".\n\n\"I still have anxiety. It doesn't ever go away, but I can definitely manage it with the flexibility that we have at Enabled.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alan Shearer and Danny Murphy join Mark Chapman on MOTD3 to discuss the \"superb\" 1-1 draw between Manchester City and Liverpool, and explain why the match proved these two sides will not win the Premier League title this season.\n\nWATCH MORE: Is it the end for Arsene Wenger at Arsenal?", "Tottenham showed in Sunday's win over Southampton that they can cope without the injured Harry Kane - and England should do the same this week.\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate has named three strikers in his squad for Wednesday's friendly against Germany and Sunday's World Cup qualifier against Lithuania - Jamie Vardy, Marcus Rashford and Jermain Defoe.\n\nThe Lithuania game is the more important one, but it should not make any difference which of them starts it. Whoever plays, we should have enough to beat them.\n\nBut I think it tells you where English football is right now that we have got to call up Rashford - a teenager who has hardly played as centre-forward this season - and Defoe - a 34-year-old who has been around for years and has not been in the squad since 2013.\n\nYes, Wayne Rooney and Daniel Sturridge are both injured too, but it is not exactly a position of strength.\n\nRashford represents the future - and Defoe deserves his place\n\nEngland are top of Group F and in a strong position to reach Russia but, as long as they get there, what happens in friendly games and qualifiers does not really matter.\n\nWe have reached the finals of major tournaments before after being undefeated in qualifying - for the 2014 World Cup, for example - and been absolutely hopeless once we got there.\n\nEngland will need a fit and in-form Harry Kane to make an impact on the World Cup next summer but I think they could get there without him, if they had to, even with such a shortage of options.\n\nThere are different arguments for Vardy, Rashford or Defoe to lead the attack against Lithuania.\n\nFor the vast majority of the season, Vardy has been poor. It's only in the past five games, since his goal in Sevilla, that he has found any real form. In the past three-and-a-half weeks he has been brilliant.\n\nRashford is playing more for Manchester United, and in a central role, at the moment because of Zlatan Ibrahimovic's suspension.\n\nI know he didn't score for United against Middlesbrough but he played well, looked dangerous and had chances, just like he did against Chelsea in the FA Cup last week.\n\nAt 19, Rashford represents the future - a player we will look to for the next few years, not just this week.\n\nDefoe isn't the future - but he has scored goals in a struggling side for Sunderland this season, with virtually every chance he has had.\n\nHe deserves to be in the squad on current form and I think Southgate was right to leave Theo Walcott out too.\n\nWalcott has scored 15 goals in all competitions this season, only the second time since he has managed that since he joined Arsenal in 2006, and is on course to beat his best total of 21 goals in 2012-13.\n\nEven if this turns out to be his best season ever, I am still not convinced by Walcott as a centre-forward. He still needs to do more, and I would not say he is the answer for England.\n\nSpurs can keep winning without Kane\n\nWithout Kane, Tottenham can turn to either Vincent Janssen or Son Heung-min to lead their attack. I don't think Janssen is good enough, and they look a better team with Son leading the line.\n\nSon gives them great energy and makes runs in behind defences. As we saw against Southampton, that can and will create chances for the likes of Dele Alli and Christian Eriksen.\n\nSpurs boss Mauricio Pochettino has called on Son and Janssen to step up while Kane is out but Alli and Eriksen did that against Saints, and both found the net.\n\nEriksen was excellent again, and is having a really good season. In the first half in particular on Sunday, I thought he was superb.\n\nAlli has now scored in four straight games and you can tell how hungry he is for goals. Once the referee had awarded Spurs a penalty against Southampton, I saw him go chasing after the ball.\n\nHe was the only guy who wanted it, and he tucked it away very confidently.\n\nTheir goals meant Tottenham already have one win in the bag without Kane this weekend, and I don't see his absence being a huge issue for them over the next few weeks either.\n\nThey will need him in their FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea on 22 April but, looking at their next four Premier League games - against Burnley (a), Swansea (a), Watford (h) and Bournemouth (h) - they should be able to win those without him too.\n\nHopefully the reports that Kane's ankle injury is not as bad as first feared are true, and he will be back in action in another month or so rather than missing any more of the season.\n\nIf that is true, it won't be an issue for them at all. The title looks beyond Tottenham now, but I still fancy them to finish inside the top four.", "What happens when you have a name that seems perfectly reasonable in your home country, but raises a sympathetic smile when you're abroad? BBC Europe Correspondent Kevin Connolly has been finding out the hard way.\n\nThere is a theory called nominative determinism, much beloved of students of literature and other idlers. It holds that your character will come over time to match your name.\n\nSo if you are called Max Power or Chuck Handgrenade then you are predestined to life as a man of action - and if you're called Ray O'Sunshine or Sunny B Happy then you will be lovability incarnate.\n\nI'd never expected to find myself touched by the theory personally, being equipped as I am with a wholly unremarkable name. I wasn't even given a middle initial on the utilitarian grounds that they're only useful to professional cricketers and American politicians.\n\nThat all changed when a colleague drew my attention to an article in a French magazine called The Curse of Kevin.\n\nIts point was that, in the French-speaking world, that Christian name - my Christian name - more or less predestines you to being considered an idiot. And not necessarily a particularly lovable idiot either.\n\nThe city of lights. Not of Kevins\n\nMy Irish mother would have been mortified to hear this.\n\nTo her, Kevin was a respectable saint's name and added the music of alliteration to the prosaic sound of Connolly.\n\nI've never been entirely persuaded myself - Kevin was a curmudgeonly hermit celebrated for pushing a woman who made overtures towards him into a bed of nettles.\n\nIf he were alive today I can't help thinking that Kevin would be receiving court-ordered counselling rather than the prayers of the faithful. But of course I had no say in the matter.\n\nAnd the name wasn't always a curse in the Francophone world either.\n\nWhen I lived in Paris in the 1990s, I wouldn't say it was enjoying a vogue exactly, but it was experiencing a kind of blip of recognition.\n\nWe even settled - in our office at least - on an agreed pronunciation of K'veen. It broke the rules of French phonetics a bit - it should surely be Ke-van - but people had at least heard of the name.\n\nIt was never quite clear why it suddenly surged briefly from obscurity, but we know that in 1991 a total of 14,087 French children were given the name Kevin - and no reason to doubt it was a winning ticket in the lottery of life.\n\nWe were never sure why. There were the Hollywood Kevins of course - Costner, Bacon and Spacey - but none of them seemed well-known enough individually to explain the phenomenon. Perhaps, we theorised, when you added them together they achieved a kind of critical mass - like a celebrity nuclear reaction.\n\nWe need to talk about Kevins\n\nRival theorists suggested that the name was copied from members of boy bands, or even, God forbid, from the American film Home Alone, in which the geeky super-child at the heart of the story is also called Kevin.\n\nAnyway, our moment in the sun was brief indeed.\n\nThe number of new Kevins in France has slowed to a dreary trickle these days, with potential parents frightened off, perhaps, by the trenchant manner in which French sociologists analyse such matters.\n\nKevin, they say, simply was popular with the lower classes and Kevin was never well-perceived by his betters.\n\nKevin, in short, is an oik, shown in surveys to have as much as a 30% lower chance of being hired when compared with Philippe, or Jean-Luc or Vincent.\n\nThe online discussion that followed the article did not contain, as it might in Britain or America, an angry rejection of this tendency to isolate and marginalise the Kevin, although it did include a handy list of other, equally cursed names, including Brian, Brandon, Jessica and Dylan. It didn't discuss whether this varies according to whether you're named after the American singer or the hippy rabbit from the Magic Roundabout.\n\nAnyway, a novel has now been published in French which tells the story of how a young man improves his chances of being accepted into the intellectual salons of Paris by changing his name from Kevin to Alexandre.\n\nI'm not sure my own disqualification from those salons was ever entirely down to my name but it all feels like a timely reminder of the exclusion which now appears to be part and parcel of the life of a Kevin in the Francophone world.\n\nI'd like to say that I just don't understand it. But then, of course, that's the curse of nominative determinism. Anyone called Kevin is destined to not quite understand anything.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola said his side's performance in the 1-1 draw with Liverpool gave him \"one of the most special days in his life\".\n\nGuardiola has won two Champions Leagues, six domestic titles and four cups in his stellar career.\n\nBut he said he took as much pleasure from the way City responded to the \"sadness\" of their midweek Champions League exit in Monaco.\n\n\"I am so proud,\" he said. \"This is one of the most special days of my life.\"\n\nHe added: \"We lived a tough two days after being out of Champions League. We were sad.\n\n\"Liverpool had all week to prepare and they always fight until the last moment.\n\n\"That is why I am so happy. More than ever I am willing to help the club take the next step forward over the next years if they want to stay with me.\"\n\nThe 46-year-old refused to say whether that meant he would be prepared to extend his contract, which still has over two years to run.\n\nHis side had to respond after falling behind to James Milner's 51st-minute penalty.\n\nAguero equalised on 69 minutes when he turned home Kevin de Bruyne's low right-wing cross from six yards.\n\nIt was the Argentina forward's 25th goal of the season and Aguero could have had another in the final minute when he volleyed over from the edge of the area.\n\nCity captain David Silva and makeshift right-back Fernandinho wasted good opportunities, although none was as good as the chance Adam Lallana missed 10 minutes from time after Roberto Firmino left him with only goalkeeper Willy Caballero to beat.\n\n'With all his mistakes, I love Stones'\n\nFormer Everton defender John Stones produced one of his best performances since his £47.5m move to City last summer.\n\nBut Guardiola insists he has never lost faith in the 22-year-old Yorkshireman.\n\n\"John Stones has more personality than anyone in this room,\" Guardiola told a post-match media briefing.\n\n\"I am delighted to have him. He has been under pressure. The people criticise him. But it is not easy to play central defence with this manager. I don't want long balls and passes down the channel. I want him 40 metres back to build up the play.\n\n\"With all his huge amount of mistakes, I love him.\"\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was amused by his counterpart's comments on the significance of City's performance.\n\nKlopp said: \"He is Spanish. They are a little bit more emotional than Germans.\"\n\nBut the Reds boss could offer no explanation for Lallana's miss and defended the England international, who apologised in the dressing room.\n\nKlopp said: \"Adam is one of the best technical players I ever worked with.\n\n\"These things can happen. He said sorry afterwards. I said why? His performance was outstanding.\"\n\nThe top-four battle goes on\n\nThe result did not make a major difference to the battle to finish in the top four.\n\nCity are now two points behind second-placed Tottenham, with Liverpool a point further back in fourth, having played a game more.\n\nManchester United are in fifth with 52 points, four behind Liverpool, but with two games in hand, while Arsenal and Everton, who go to Anfield for the Merseyside derby immediately after the international break, are level on 50 points.\n\nKlopp said: \"We are still in a battle and our next game is not only a derby, it is a really important game.\n\n\"There is one outstanding side this year. All the rest must fight with everything they have until the end of season.\"\n\nBoth Manchester City and Liverpool had big chances to win it but a draw was probably a fair result. City could not afford to lose this game, partly after what happened against Monaco. They needed a reaction and performance\n\nI am not sure it is Pep Guardiola's proudest performance after what he achieved as a coach and player. He was pleased with the commitment and passion of his players. It was a strange thing to say.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nGhanaian referee Joseph Lamptey has been banned for life by Fifa for what it calls \"match manipulation\".\n\nThe ban results from a penalty he awarded to South Africa in a 2-1 win over Senegal in a 2018 World Cup qualifier in November.\n\nHe penalised Kalidou Koulibaly for handball, but replays showed the ball hit his knee.\n\nFootball's world governing body says it will give more details \"once the decision becomes final and binding\".\n\nLamptey can now appeal to Fifa and the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\nOne of his assistants, David Laryea, also from Ghana, had charges against him dismissed by Fifa's disciplinary committee.\n\nThe win for South Africa left them in second place in the four-team group after two matches, with Senegal in third.\n\nLamptey, who also officiated at the Rio Olympics last year, declined BBC Sport's invitation to comment, saying he would do so later.\n\nThe Senegal Football Federation (FSF), who made a complaint to Fifa over Lamptey, is happy with the decision.\n\n\"Today there are many reasons to be happy about this decision - a decision that will be remembered as being significant but will also warn everybody that they are being watched,\" FSF vice-president Abdoulaye Sow told BBC Sport.\n\n\"All cheating and stealing will be punished according to its gravity.\n\n\"Fifa has clearly struck a big blow and has promised in its decision to talk again about the match when the decision is final and binding.\"", "After seven weeks, 15 matches, 653 points and many more hours of discussion, the Six Nations is done for another year.\n\nIt was a tournament full of intrigue.\n\nEngland retained the title, but ended on a flat note as a repeat Grand Slam proved out of reach in Dublin.\n\nIreland's rousing final-day performance hid disappointments on the road and a failure to fulfil their favourites' tag.\n\nScotland won three matches for the first time since 2006, but suffered a record-equalling defeat by the Auld Enemy.\n\nWales finished fifth, but were just a few minutes and seconds respectively from victories over England and France. That would have given the table a very different look.\n\nBut what does it all mean? Fortunately, former Wales scrum-half Mike Phillips, ex-England centre Jeremy Guscott and Ireland legend Keith Wood are here to help unpick it.\n\nThe trio have handed out their Six Nations awards before trying to get their head around who should follow in their footsteps and represent the British and Irish Lions on the summer tour of New Zealand.\n• None 'Echoes of the past as England are blown off course'\n• None Was France v Wales the day rugby lost its head?\n\nMike Phillips: For me, it has to go to a guy who has won the tournament, and Owen Farrell has been outstanding. His distribution skills at inside centre have given England an extra dimension, his kicking has been immaculate and defensively he is never going to let you down.\n\nJeremy Guscott: Joe Launchbury might not have been one of England's first-choice second rows at the start of the season, with Saracens pair George Kruis and Maro Itoje in harness, but he has pushed his way in. He is just 100% commitment, there is no halt to his work-rate. He is an all-action, in-your-face player, making a tackle one moment and a carry the next. It takes a huge amount of fitness for a man that size to soak up the hits, get off the floor and keep getting through the work.\n\nKeith Wood: Notwithstanding the final-round defeat against Ireland, where it was difficult for any of the England backs to get going, Owen Farrell has been excellent.\n\nMike Phillips: Elliot Daly only made his first England start in November but has really taken the chance to make himself a first-choice pick on the wing. He has backed up every great performance with another.\n\nJeremy Guscott: All I want as a back is for my scrum-half to provide whip-fast service and Baptiste Serin has come in and delivered that for France to get their backline moving. He focuses on that part of his game, but can make a break as well.\n\nKeith Wood: There has been a sense of joy every time Serin has got his hands on the ball. That is something that has been missing from French rugby for a while.\n\nTry of the tournament\n\nMike Phillips: I think you have to look at the opposition and the way Wales cut through a strong Ireland team with Scott Williams barrelling through midfield, Rhys Webb and Leigh Halfpenny linking up and then George North finishing out wide was sensational.\n\nJeremy Guscott: England wing Elliot Daly's decisive try at the death against Wales was just so well executed. The passes from George Ford to Owen Farrell and then Farrell to Daly were pinpoint. Daly still had to burn off Alex Cuthbert and the whole thing came together in a magical 10 seconds or so.\n\nKeith Wood: The same for me. It was not so much Daly's involvement but the two passes beforehand were perfection. And you very rarely get anything in rugby that is perfect.\n\nMike Phillips: Wales' 22-9 win over Ireland was a great way to bounce back from the defeats by England and Scotland in the previous two weeks. There was a lot of pressure on the lads and, as a Welshman, it was great to see the guts they showed.\n\nJeremy Guscott: That Wales win over Ireland was the most gladiatorial, intense game of rugby that I have seen live and up close in a long time. It was bruising, brutal and brilliant. It reminded me of the battle scene that was the British and Irish Lions' second Test defeat by South Africa in 2009.\n\nKeith Wood: Ireland's win over England was the first Six Nations match I have attended as a fan rather than for work - either as a player or in another role - since 1992. I went with my wife and children and to have that victory out of the dirt and murk of Dublin was the perfect family day out.\n\nMike Phillips: When I switched on the television midway though the match, expecting to find England 30 or 40 points up against Italy at Twickenham. Instead, Italy were leading, with their 'no-ruck'tactics creating chaos. It was so unexpected, so innovative and such a talking point. I thought we would be spending the next week at Sale trying to work out how to counter it!\n\nJeremy Guscott: When England captain Dylan Hartley and team-mate James Haskell asked for clarification about Italy's tactics and referee Romain Poite delivered that brilliant line: \"I am a referee, not a coach.\" To deliver that in the middle of the hurly-burly was exquisite. It showed the game's human side.\n\nKeith Wood: The fact the clock stopped at 99 minutes and 55 seconds, after very nearly 20 minutes of added time, in that France v Wales game was just odd on every single level. I was at the Aviva and just couldn't understand what was happening in Paris. With the allowance that the organisers make to ensure that the games don't overlap, it just didn't make sense to me.\n\nMike Phillips: Some form of relegation has got to come in for me. Italy have improved since their introduction in 2000, but the prospect of dropping out would spur them on again. They are too comfortable, knowing their place in the tournament is assured ever year. The prospect of Georgia potentially coming in would be exciting as well.\n\nJeremy Guscott: It was an excellent tournament - I think the performance has stepped up from where it has been in previous years. There is nothing that I would especially change.\n\nKeith Wood: I have not been a fan of how replacements are used for a long time. If there were fewer of them, I think you would get lighter weight guys with more stamina who could last 80 minutes. You wouldn't get that situation where a team have worked hard to get on top over their opposite numbers only to see them replaced by fresh legs.\n\nI understand you have to have cover for safety reasons in the front row but perhaps you could limit the replacements to a front row, a utility back and a utility forward.\n\nAnd now for the Lions...\n\nMike Phillips: It was tough on the wing, but I think the Scots need to be rewarded for their campaign and that edged Tommy Seymour ahead of Elliot Daly. Sam Warburton might well go as captain and first choice under Warren Gatland, but, for me,Justin Tipuric just edges it at open-side flanker. It is very close, though.\n\nJeremy Guscott: My selection is based purely on form. If we had to play the All Blacks this week, and everyone was fit, this is what I would go for. Justin Tipuric gets very close to earning a spot in the back row, but is just edged out by the combined excellence of team-mate Sam Warburton and Ireland's CJ Stander.\n\nKeith Wood: At this moment I just can't pick a Lions XV. We are in the middle of March and the first Test is not for more than three months. There are so many factors to consider.\n\nYou have the alchemy of how different combinations work together, how players have done against New Zealand in the past and there will always be a bolter. There is always a player who comes on the tour and is expected to be a bit-part player but makes a huge leap in performance surrounded by great players.", "In the Afghan capital, Kabul, there's still widespread shock and anger at the brutal militant attack last week on the city's main military hospital.\n\nThe authorities have acted swiftly, sacking the deputy interior minister and arresting 24 hospital and military officials, including an army general.\n\nBut for many Kabul residents it feels too little, too late.\n\nA local man interviewed on the street this week by state TV spoke for many.\n\n\"If this government can't fulfil its responsibilities, someone else needs to take over,\" he said.\n\n\"People have had enough of this situation.\"\n\nOfficials put the death toll at 50, with 31 injured - though these figures are disputed\n\nThe 400-bed Sardar Daud Khan hospital is set in extensive grounds in Kabul's diplomatic district, not far from the US embassy, Nato headquarters and the Afghan state television building.\n\nPeople are demanding to know how such a supposedly secure defence ministry facility could be so vulnerable to attack.\n\nThe issue has been furiously debated in parliament and continues to be a key subject of conversation on social media.\n\nSmoke billowing out during the attack at Sardar Daud Khan Hospital\n\nAt a hastily arranged press conference this week, defence ministry officials presented their initial findings.\n\nBut their version appeared to contradict the accounts of some eyewitnesses and Afghan politicians, and many key questions remain unanswered.\n\nOne of the biggest is how the attackers were able to get into what was supposed to be a heavily-guarded compound.\n\nA medical technician who has worked at the hospital for almost a decade told the BBC that security was always very tight.\n\n\"Everyone entering the building, including staff, is frisked and their bags are checked,\" she said.\n\nSo did the attackers have help from inside?\n\nDeputy Defence Minister Gen Helaludin Helal briefed reporters about the attack on Wednesday\n\nThe defence ministry says five people were involved and that they entered the compound in a car with fake number plates.\n\nOne blew himself up at the hospital gates and the others ran inside.\n\nBut eyewitnesses, including one who spoke to the BBC, reported hearing gunfire in the hospital corridors at exactly the same time as the blast at the entrance - suggesting at least some of the group could have already been inside.\n\nOne eyewitness who spent three hours hiding inside the cardiology department told the BBC that a colleague had seen men in white coats opening fire on people in the corridor.\n\nAhmad Nesar Hares, a member of the Afghan Senate Committee investigating the attack, told a heated Senate debate this week that according to his information as many as 17 militants were involved and that they had been let in by \"an enemy who worked in the hospital for three months\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Special forces were involved in an operation to stop the hospital attackers\n\n\"He transferred weapons, guns and ammunition to the hospital and nobody caught him,\" the senator said.\n\nIn a similar vein, some media reports have quoted hospital staff as saying two of the people involved in the attack were interns who had been working there for several months.\n\nThe defence ministry says it has no evidence so far that the attackers were helped by medical staff but investigations are ongoing.\n\nThe attackers were eventually killed after several hours of fighting\n\nOne thing that is not disputed is the brutal nature of the attack.\n\nThe defence ministry said the attackers were armed with AK47s, grenades and military issue knives. They also confirmed reports circulating locally that patients had been shot and stabbed to death in their hospital beds.\n\nThe exact death toll continues to be disputed.\n\nThe defence ministry revised its official figure up to \"around 50\" with 31 people injured. However, some hospital workers quoted in local media reports insist it was much higher.\n\nThe eyewitness who spoke to the BBC said the corridor outside her ward had been full of people when the attack started.\n\nShe described watching a scene of horror unfold with her patients, who were finally rescued by Afghan commandoes.\n\n\"There were bodies lying everywhere,\" she said. \"Patients, doctors, people I knew and worked with. It was terrible. I will never ever forget it.\"\n\nIt's still not clear who exactly carried out the attack.\n\nThe Afghan defence ministry says that both Afghan and foreign nationals were involved, but has dismissed social media speculation about their identity.\n\nIt is still not clear who was behind the attack\n\nWhile the violence was still going on, so-called Islamic State (IS) issued a statement via its Amaq news agency claiming responsibility.\n\nHowever Afghan security experts have questioned whether a group still thought to be relatively small in Afghanistan could be capable of planning and carrying out such a large scale operation.\n\nAfghan fighters who have declared allegiance to IS are thought to control just a handful of villages in eastern Nangarhar province.\n\nSome eyewitnesses have told local media that the attackers were shouting slogans in support of the Taliban.\n\nOne patient who spoke to the BBC said he saw men he described as \"Taliban\" shouting Allahu Akbar (\"God is greatest\") and throwing grenades in the corridor.\n\nIt's been widely reported that the wards containing Taliban patients were left untouched.\n\nThe defence ministry confirmed that injured Taliban fighters were being treated in the hospital but said they were in locked wards with barred windows, and that they were not involved in the violence.\n\nThe ministry has asked for patience as it continues to investigate what it said was \"a complex case\" and has pledged to share more information in the coming weeks.\n\nSyed Anwar and Jenny Norton contributed to this report.", "An alternative look back at the final round of the 2017 Six Nations, as Ireland are too hot for England, France win in the 100th minute against Wales and Scotland cane Italy.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Diamo Parvez was born with cerebral palsy and died from complications when he was nine years old. During his life his parents were constantly struggling to get him the braces and splints he needed to support his body - and have channelled the pain of their loss into the search for a new, fast way of making them.\n\nDiamo's arms and legs were paralysed and he had very little control of his head. He needed a back brace, hand splints and ankle splints - technically known as orthoses - to prevent him suffering pain.\n\nThe main problem, says his mother, Samiya, is that when a muscle isn't used it shrinks and tightens.\n\n\"Diamo's muscles were so tight they were pulling his hips out of his joints,\" she says. \"The orthosis stretches the muscles and helps to hold the body in the right posture, and avoids the need for surgery.\"\n\nGetting an orthosis, though, is a drawn-out process, involving different appointments, at different locations. And there is one \"horrific\" stage, Samiya says, when children have to remain absolutely still for up to an hour as a plaster of Paris mould is made of their body.\n\nSamiya and Diamo's father, Naveed, would often have to resort to restraining their son to keep him from moving.\n\nA child being held in plaster, as seen in a video on the Andiamo website\n\n\"We saw how much our son hated being pinned down for the plaster - he would scream and scream and it was a real struggle,\" says Samiya.\n\n\"I know kids who break down and start crying if their parents even drive past a hospital because they think they're going to get a plaster cast.\"\n\nNext comes a wait for the brace to be created from the mould - and then a trial-and-error process of fitting and refitting.\n\n\"Sometimes it would be ever so slightly out and cause him to have sores and bruising so we'd have to start again and hope to keep him still enough for the mould to be accurate,\" Samiya says.\n\nThe whole process could take as long as six months - by which point Diamo had inevitably grown. Throughout his life, Diamo would go through the casting process at least eight times per year his parents say. And that was just for the back brace.\n\nWithout a back brace, Diamo would slip out of his wheelchair, so there were periods between outgrowing the old one and a getting a new one when he would be unable to go to school.\n\n\"For a good three weeks we were housebound as a family because we couldn't put him in the wheelchair to be able to go out,\" says Samiya.\n\nShe even knows of children who can walk but have had to use a wheelchair while waiting for a new orthosis.\n\nDiamo died five years ago this month. Less than a year later, Naveed attended a tech conference and saw someone making 3D scans of old steam trains in order to reproduce parts with a 3D printer.\n\n\"The new parts were so accurate that the scratches in the paintwork of the original were perfectly reflected in the print,\" he says. He began to think about how that technology could translate into making orthoses.\n\n\"I had a lightbulb moment - not just because of the technology but because of the realisation that all that pain could be turned to good,\" he says.\n\n\"We were grieving - we still are - but then it was very raw and I thought that this is something Diamo could leave behind.\"\n\nWithin a year they'd created a prototype and with help from a charity, the Nominet Trust, they set up a health technology company, Andiamo.\n\nSamiya with Naveed (right) and Andiamo co-founder Lee Provoost\n\nAndiamo does not use plaster casts. Instead, a 3D scanner is swept over the child's body for between 60 and 90 seconds. Inside the scanner a number of high-speed cameras take photographs from different angles and these images are then digitally stitched together to make a 3D image, which can be fed into a 3D printer.\n\n\"These children are already stressed and in pain, coming to appointments is never fun - but we have been able to turn some of that experience around and get the children excited about the 3D printing,\" says Samiya.\n\nAnd the aim is to reduce waiting times from months to 48 hours. So far they've got it down to two weeks.\n\n\"We could have avoided so much pain in our lives if that technology had been available to us,\" says Samiya.\n\nThe high-accuracy scanning system produces orthoses that are a better fit, and this combined with the use of lighter, stronger materials results in a finished product that is less bulky and less than half the weight of traditional orthoses, Naveed says.\n\nFourteen-year-old Sahara - one of Andiamo's first clients - can attest to this. She has cerebral palsy which affects all four limbs but can stand up and bear down on her feet with some support. From the age of two she has worn ankle-foot orthoses - known as AFOs - to hold her ankle in the right position and keep her controlled and grounded when she stands.\n\nThe Andiamo AFO \"feels great, very lightweight\", she says, compared with her old one, which now feels \"thick and heavy\" by comparison. Lifting her feet is now easier - and as a result it's also easier for her to keep her balance.\n\nSahara's mum, Salome, used to take the old AFO out with her when shopping for shoes, to see which would be big enough to accommodate its cumbersome shape.\n\n\"Children with traditional AFOs have that Frankenstein appearance - skinny legs with massive feet because they're made to be very big and bulky with extra room for the foot to grow,\" she says.\n\nThis is another problem Andiamo may help to fix.\n\nSince seeing its first patient in December 2014, the Andiamo team has been working with 16 patients to develop the technology, and is now ready to see more.\n\n\"We have been focusing on ensuring the devices fit, are comfortable, and have a level of quality we are happy with,\" says Naveed.\n\n\"It is easy to do a one-off. It is much harder to have a consistent approach that allows you to scale.\"\n\nThe plan is to see at least 100 patients in 2017, to make more than 40,000 orthoses over the next five years, and to open a permanent clinic in London after a crowdfunding campaign in the near future.\n\nOrthoses make a big improvement to the wearer's quality of life, Naveed says, \"but they aren't sexy, they don't make a lot of money and they don't come with huge research and development budgets so they've been overlooked.\"\n\nThe extra accuracy of the orthoses should also result in less time being wasted by patients and medical staff at appointments.\n\nFive years after his death, Diamo remains sorely missed.\n\n\"He was a happy, very relaxed kid who would only cry when he was in real pain,\" says his mother. \"He really enjoyed food and especially loved dark chocolate mousse.\"\n\nAnother passion was the music of James Blunt, which came about after the chance discovery by his carer, Carolina, that it would instantly relax him.\n\n\"It was painful,\" Samiya says. \"Why did it have to be James Blunt? I even had to suffer through one of his concerts!\"\n\nDiamo and Samiya at the James Blunt concert\n\n\"People make real assumptions about children with a disability\" says Naveed, \"but they get obsessed with stuff, just like other kids do. In Diamo's case, it was James Blunt.\"\n\nAndiamo, which means \"let's go\" in Italian, is named after him.\n\n\"Although I don't have the same pain any more,\" says Naveed, \"if we can reduce another family's and make life a bit better for someone else, it's worth it.\"\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 Welsh Rugby\n\nSix Nations officials are reviewing events in the closing stages of Wales' 20-18 loss to France, including an alleged bite on wing George North.\n\nWales coach Rob Howley was left to \"question the integrity of our game\" after France replaced Uini Atonio with Rabah Slimani during the 20 minutes of added time that were played.\n\nFrance's team doctor said Atonio needed to go off for a head injury assessment.\n\nNorth, meanwhile, said he was bitten in the build-up to France's final try.\n\nReferee Wayne Barnes asked television match official Peter Fitzgibbon to check the incident, but he could not find any clear footage so the game resumed without action being taken.\n\nSix Nations Rugby said an independent citing commissioner would review \"all relevant incidents\" and raise any issues in due course, normally within 48 hours of the end of the match.\n\nIt added it was \"aware of concerns\" about the head injury assessment in added time and \"is looking into the matter\".\n\nSpeaking after Saturday's game, Howley said: \"In terms of the process, I think we have reason to complain.\n\n\"You can hear Wayne Barnes ask him if he is OK. He said he had a sore back, but that he was OK. And then the doctor comes on, and he goes off.\n\n\"I've no issues about the result, it's just about the process.\"\n\nFrance coach Guy Noves said his medical staff told him Atonio was injured.\n\nHe added: \"We will do a medical check-up. I hope the injury is not too serious, and he will be able to play again soon.\"\n\nWales led 18-13 at the end of the 80 minutes but Damien Chouly drove over for the try that brought France level, and Camille Lopez's conversion was decisive.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWest Ham winger Michail Antonio has withdrawn from the England squad because of a hamstring injury.\n\nThe uncapped 26-year-old reported the injury after Saturday's 3-2 Premier League defeat by Leicester City.\n\nAntonio was able to complete the 90 minutes at London Stadium, but West Ham manager Slaven Bilic indicated afterwards that he was a doubt.\n\nEngland face Germany in a friendly on Wednesday before hosting Lithuania in a World Cup qualifier on Sunday.\n\nAntonio's absence further weakens the attacking options of England boss Gareth Southgate.\n\nForwards Harry Kane, Daniel Sturridge, Danny Welbeck and Wayne Rooney are all out through injury, while Theo Walcott was left out of the squad.\n\nIn addition to Antonio, West Ham lost centre-back Winston Reid to a leg injury, while midfielder Pedro Obiang was taken off on a stretcher after rolling his ankle.\n\nOn the injuries to Antonio and Reid, Bilic said: \"Hopefully, they will be fit after the international break.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger is like \"an uncle who doesn't want to leave the party\", says former Chelsea striker Chris Sutton.\n\nWenger, in charge since 1996, said he will announce \"very soon\" whether he will remain with the Gunners, after reaching a decision on his future.\n\nArsenal are in danger of ending a second straight season without a major trophy, and Sutton said he should go.\n\n\"It's a dictatorship and he surrounds himself with yes men,\" Sutton added.\n\nWenger's contract expires at the end of the season but he has been offered a new two-year deal.\n\nThe Frenchman, 67, has come under increasing pressure in recent weeks, with fans responding to defeats in the Premier League, and the 10-2 aggregate loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League, by calling for him to leave.\n\nMore anti-Wenger banners were held aloft by Gunners fans in the closing stages of last Saturday's 3-1 defeat at West Brom, while in the first half two planes towed banners over the ground - one criticising the manager and the other supporting him.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 live's The Monday Night Club, Sutton, a Premier League winner as a player with Blackburn Rovers in 1995, added: \"He's been selfish. I'm surprised Steve Bould [Wenger's assistant] doesn't get hold of him and say this is the reality.\n\n\"He's taking the club backwards. They have just accepted mediocrity.\n\n\"His work in the transfer market has been a failure lately.\n\n\"Do the right thing and if you're not going to do the right thing then tell us.\"\n\nArsenal, sixth in the table, are 19 points behind leaders Chelsea in the Premier League and their last realistic chance of winning a trophy this season is the FA Cup.\n\nThey face Manchester City in the semi-final at Wembley on Sunday, 23 April (15:00 BST).\n\nArsenal striker Olivier Giroud said the club's players supported Wenger and wanted him to stay and \"continue his adventure\".\n\n\"We hope we can win the cup and that Arsenal qualify for the Champions League,\" the France international told Canal Plus.\n\n\"We want Arsene Wenger to renew his contract, to continue his adventure, because we support him.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nTwo-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova has spoken of her determination to return to tennis following a knife attack at her home in December.\n\nThe Czech, 27, has regained the use of her racquet hand after being stabbed by an intruder in her home in Prostejov.\n\nShe still has no comeback date but said: \"I can tell you that tennis is a huge motivation for me.\"\n\nKvitova's last appearance on court was against France's Caroline Garcia in the Fed Cup final on 12 November.\n\nIn a post on her Instagram page on Tuesday, she said: \"I realised while I've been away how much I like challenges.\n\n\"My perspective on life has changed a lot and I am doing everything to give myself a second chance to be back on the court.\"\n\nKvitova added: \"I'm working really hard on my recovery.\"\n\nSurgeons spent almost four hours repairing tendons and nerves on Kvitova's left hand - her playing hand - following the attack on 20 December, in which she struggled with an intruder who was attempting a burglary.\n\nDoctors initially said the 2011 and 2014 Wimbledon winner would be unable to compete for at least six months.\n\nHer spokesman, Karel Tejkal, told AFP on Monday: \"Petra's recovery is continuing as planned, but everything is up in the air as to her return.\"\n\nTejkal said Kvitova's psychological recovery had been \"very encouraging\" and that she had been fitness training in the Canary Islands.\n\n\"Petra uses her hand without problem for daily activities. Of course, the hand is weakened but at first glance you can't see that she was injured,\" he added.\n\n\"But at the moment no-one can give a concrete date.\"", "Is Chuck Berry's only number one also his worst song?\n\n\"My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, I want to play with my ding-a-ling.\"\n\nChuck Berry had many hits, but this one, to the chagrin of some of his fans but apparently not Berry himself, was his only number one single in the United States and UK.\n\nRolling Stone once listed it as one of 22 \"terrible songs by great artists\".\n\nThe ditty, replete with double entendre, was recorded in the UK in 1972. Berry was performing in Coventry as part of the Lanchester Arts Festival.\n\nPlaying at the Locarno Ballroom, the rock and roll legend cajoled the audience to sing the song's chorus. The women sang \"my\" and the men sang the \"ding-a-ling\" refrain.\n\n\"I want you to play with my\", the women continued, \"ding-a-ling\", the men finished. It was juvenile stuff, but Berry was clearly delighted. He apparently was unaware that the show, which was followed by a Pink Floyd gig, was being recorded.\n\nThe song was released as a single at about four minutes in length, and later appeared on the album The London Chuck Berry Sessions at a whopping 11 minutes.\n\nWhile it may make diehard fans cringe, Berry considered it to be as good as any of his other songs. It fit with his performing philosophy of giving \"people what they want\", he told Rolling Stone in a 2010 interview.\n\n\"I'm searching for who is attentive out there in the audience. I can look around and be singing My Ding-A-Ling and stop and sing 'The Lord's Prayer' because some people will be sitting out there looking like they're from church,\" he told the magazine.\n\nAnd the financial rewards from the number one hit pleased a man with a notorious attitude to money. \"Made a lot of money: a $200,000 cheque. I'll never forget that cheque. And it's all dirt. Nice, cleeean dirt!\" Rolling Stone quoted him as saying.\n\nBut the song, despite cloaking its sexual references in metaphor, caused consternation in some quarters.\n\nIn 1973, the conservative activist and campaigner Mary Whitehouse wrote to the BBC director general to complain after a performance of the song on Top of the Pops.\n\nA teacher had written to her National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, she said, complaining that she had found a class of young boys \"with their trousers undone, singing the song and giving it the indecent interpretation which - in spite of all the hullaballoo - is so obvious\".\n\nThe BBC's then-director general Charles Curran replied that he believed that \"the innuendo is, at worst, on the level of seaside postcards or music hall humour\".\n\nClearly the public agreed. The single reached number one in Britain, too.", "Last updated on .From the section Northern Ireland\n\nNorthern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill has led the tributes to Derry City captain Ryan McBride, who has died at the age of 27.\n\nDefender McBride was found dead at home on Sunday, a day after he led his side in a 4-0 League of Ireland win over Drogheda United.\n\nThe cause of death is not yet known but a post mortem is being carried out.\n\n\"He epitomised everything about our club and our city,\" said Derry City chief executive Sean Barrett.\n\nMcBride's funeral will take place on Thursday at 10:00 GMT at St Columba's Church in Derry, after which the player will be buried in the city cemetery.\n\nThe league game between Derry City and Limerick, due to take place on 21 March, will be rescheduled.\n\nMcBride's death is the latest tragedy to befall the club following the death of striker Mark Farren and the Buncrana pier tragedy, which claimed the lives of members of winger Josh Daniels a year ago.\n\n'He led boys to become men'\n\nNorthern Ireland manager O'Neill was manager of League of Ireland Premier Division side Shamrock Rovers when McBride joined Derry six years ago.\n\n\"When I first saw him play, I remember thinking, 'what a fantastic young defender'. He was strong, physical and hugely committed.\n\n\"His leadership qualities were evident even at such a young age and it was no surprise to me that he became such an inspirational player for his hometown club.\"\n\nDerry City manager Kenny Shiels said the death was \"hard for everybody to take\" and that he was \"the perfect example to any young player coming through\".\n\nAnd chief executive Barrett added: \"Of the words that have been thrown around probably my favourite one is 'warrior'.\n\n\"He led boys to become men and he was a man. He was everything that is associated with Derry City Football Club and, indeed, the whole city.\"\n\nThe Irish Football Association tweeted: \"Thoughts tonight with the family of Ryan McBride and everyone involved with Derry City FC.\"\n\nDerry City released an official statement on Monday afternoon saying the team will \"miss his inspiration and his leadership\".\n\nThe statement went on to say: \"In the hearts and minds of all of us, and long into the future, Ryan McBride will be remembered as one of the greats of Derry City Football Club.\"\n\nPhil O'Doherty, Derry City Football Club chairman, said the team was \"devastated\" at the loss of a \"leader on and off the field\".\n\n\"He was incredibly respected. He was an ideal captain,\" he told the BBC. \"He was from the Brandywell area and he walked across the road to his home after every game.\"\n\nThe CEO of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), John Delaney, said Irish football was in mourning.\n\n\"Ryan's passing has left a deep shock throughout football,\" he said. \"We will remember Ryan with a tribute at Friday night's World Cup qualifier against Wales.\"\n\nSince his debut in 2011, McBride had not only become a mainstay of the club's defence, but a fans' favourite.\n\nHe made more than 170 appearances, with more than 50 as captain after he took over the role permanently two years ago.\n\nA self-professed quiet man off the pitch, McBride said it was a \"different story\" on it. \"I switch on and then I'm in game mode,\" he said.\n• None Read more on 'the bravest I've ever seen on the pitch'\n\nRepublic of Ireland footballer James McClean, a former team mate of McBride at Derry, said he was \"a warrior that literally would throw his body on the line when he pulled on that Derry City jersey, a club that meant so much to him\".\n\nHe said that McBride was a \"big gentleman off the field\", adding: \"Sleep tight big man. May God bless you and your family.\"\n\nIreland manager Martin O'Neill has said West Brom's McClean will be permitted to leave the camp before Friday's game with Wales should he wish.\n\nFormer Derry City striker Liam Coyle said: \"My brother phoned me to tell me and I was in total disbelief.\n\n\"I played football with Ryan's father and Ryan was always a rising star. Derry City has lost the best centre half in Ireland.\"\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster tweeted: \"My deepest condolences to the family and all Derry City FC as they mourn the loss of the talented Ryan McBride. Such devastating news.\"\n\nArchbishop Eamon Martin said: \"Sad news from Derry. Praying for the family and for his many friends and supporters who will miss him. Lord have mercy. RIP.\"\n\nThe President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, tweeted: \"Along with all those who support Irish football, I express my sadness and condolences to the family of Derry City Football Club captain Ryan McBride.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe extent of doping in amateur sport - revealed by a poll for the BBC - is a \"concern\", says sports minister Tracey Crouch.\n\nA BBC State of Sport investigation found more than a third (35%) of amateur sports people say they personally know someone who has doped.\n\nHalf said performance-enhancing substance use is \"widespread\" among those who play competitive sport.\n\nCrouch said doping was \"absolutely unacceptable in any level of sport\".\n\nShe added: \"I think there is still more that sports governing bodies can do on this front, working alongside UK Anti-Doping, to help promote clean sport.\"\n\nThe investigation into doping in UK amateur sport also found 8% of amateur sports people said they had taken steroids, while 49% thought performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) were \"easily available\" among people who play sports regularly.\n\nNicole Sapstead, chief executive of UK Anti-Doping (Ukad), the body responsible for protecting clean sport, had earlier described the figures as \"incredibly alarming\".\n\nShe called for more resources to tackle doping, saying it was \"fast becoming a crisis\" at all levels of sport.\n\nCrouch added: \"These findings from the BBC are a concern.\n\n\"It is important that all involved in sport play their part in educating participants about the dangers of doping, both in terms of the damage it does to sport's integrity but also the health risks to individuals as well.\"\n\nWould more testing help?\n\nUkad has an annual budget of about £7m, which is mainly state funding. A single drug test costs about £350.\n\nUkad directs the vast majority of its testing to elite sport and does not \"have the resources\" to test at lower levels of sport, says director of operations Pat Myhill.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the research was \"robust\" and added: \"We see lots of young people, young men in particular, who choose to use these substances for image enhancement, but this creeps across into sport as many of them will be involved in amateur sport.\n\n\"I don't think it's helpful to criminalise amateur sports people whatsoever - the way forward is to tackle the supply of these substances and take action against those who profit and make criminal money by supplying them.\"\n\nMichele Verroken, who ran the UK's anti-doping organisation between 1986 and 2004, said she was concerned the BBC Sport research could be \"turned into a plea for more money\" for anti-doping, arguing testing is \"quite limited in its effectiveness\".\n\n\"Do we want to extend testing down to an amateur level so we could actually be dissuading people from getting involved in sport?\" she said on the Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"It would be inappropriate in a society where we have an obesity crisis and a concern with lack of physical activity that we suddenly start testing at an amateur level.\n\n\"We don't know at elite level how much is enough. We tested Lance Armstrong and Marion Jones extensively and never tested them positive. We need smarter testing.\"\n\nAmerican cyclist Armstrong, 45, was stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles and banned from sport for life in August 2012 for what the United States Anti-Doping Agency described as \"the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen\".\n\nCompatriot Jones, 41, won gold in the 100m and 200m at the 2000 Olympics but was sentenced to six months in prison in January 2008 for lying about steroid use and involvement in a drugs fraud case.\n\nKieran, 30, took steroids for a two-month period when he was an amateur bodybuilder and boxer about 10 years ago.\n\nHe says it caused extra male breast growth and is now recovering after breast-reduction surgery two weeks ago.\n\n\"I was naive, uneducated, and these tablets were going around the gym,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live's Your Call programme.\n\n\"In all honesty it was a cheat and something to get ahead of the other guys in the gym. I looked around the gym and the other guys were getting ahead of me and I wondered why. Peer pressure was one of the reasons I took them.\n\n\"The side-effects have been everlasting. It destroyed my life.\n\n\"Because I was putting so much testosterone in my body, my own oestrogen counteracted with it. I couldn't wear certain clothes because, even though I was still training, no matter what I did exercise-wise I could not get rid of these male breasts.\n\n\"I went through living hell - the psychological effects were worse than the physical effects.\"\n\nAn amateur cyclist, who also called the programme, described injecting performance-enhancing drugs.\n\n\"I know from within my team it was quite common,\" he said. \"It was talked about quite openly. It was just the way it worked. It's what was done.\n\n\"I was in a whole world of trying to be a better cyclist. All the choices I was making in my life were about trying to be faster. I would do anything to be faster.\"\n\nProfessor Ellis Cashmore, sociologist at Aston University, told BBC Breakfast he thinks doping should be made legal as \"we will never rid sport of it\".\n\n\"You can test over and over again and you can punish violators but you cannot actually control doping,\" he said.\n\n\"Anything that confers a competitive advantage, athletes will take.\n\n\"That leads me to the logical conclusion that maybe we should accept it, that it is part and parcel of modern sport and somehow monitor it to try to regulate it, but not penalise athletes who do dope.\"\n\nHave you ever taken a performance enhancing substance? Does your sport have a problem with doping? Get in touch using this link.", "The crisis is over. At least that is how it seems on the eve of arguably the most important Formula 1 season for a long time.\n\nAfter three years in which the sport agonised over declining television audiences, a lack of competition on the track, uninspiring cars and an apparently large number of disgruntled fans, F1 seems to be back on track.\n\nThe cars that will race for the first time in Melbourne on Sunday are an attempt to put visceral thrills back in a sport many felt had lost its way.\n\nThe rule-makers had a simple target - cars that were up to five seconds a lap faster, that tested the drivers to their physical and technical limits, which they could drive flat out most of the time and which looked, well, sexy again. At the same time, overtaking should not be any harder than it already was.\n\nThe message from two weeks of testing in Spain was the goals have been achieved. Except maybe the last one.\n\nAnd - whisper it for now - more than one team might even be able to win.\n\n\"The car is amazing in terms of the speed we carry through the corners,\" three-time world champion Lewis Hamilton said of his Mercedes. \"It is definitely the fastest I have ever been in F1.\"\n\n\"They look cool,\" says Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo. \"They look pretty mean. And low and fat. Kind of old-school. It is going to be fun.\"\n\nWhy have the cars been changed?\n\n\"It all started because the drivers were not happy with the grip levels,\" says Alexander Wurz, chairman of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association.\n\nThe route to F1 2017 began two years ago, when drivers finally began to give organised voice to a dissatisfaction with the cars that had been growing since Pirelli became the sport's tyre supplier in 2011.\n\nTyres that could not be pushed hard lest they irretrievably lost grip meant drivers had to lap seconds off the pace in races to eke out predetermined ideal stint lengths.\n\nInitially, the sport's leading bosses - on the strategy group - thought drivers were saying the cars were not difficult to drive. Eventually, they realised the message was the cars were \"not physically demanding and cool\", as Wurz puts it, \"and there was a need for something mega\".\n\n\"You can see from the tests that the new rules are back to a ratio of power and grip and lap time where a race driver is not always easily at the limit of the car,\" says Wurz, who is also an adviser to the Williams team. \"He also has his own limits, which are physical, concentration, respect. That's a good success for the whole industry.\"\n\nOr as Ferrari's four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel puts it: \"From a driver's point of view, it's better pretty much everywhere. Braking is better, cornering is better, you've got much more grip.\n\n\"Then in low speed, where arguably downforce effect is less, you have wider tyres so the grip from them, it works pretty much like an aspirin, it fixes everything. It's difficult to compare. It's a different animal, a different beast.\"\n\nWurz adds: \"The new rules are such a massive step forward and that's why they will be successful despite having potential issues with overtaking which we can address later.\"\n\nThe cars may well be spectacular to watch and fantastic to drive for the first time in almost a decade but will the racing be good?\n\nHamilton is one of the many drivers who have said they believe the huge increase in aerodynamic downforce will inevitably make passing more difficult.\n\n\"Following is not good,\" he says. \"It is worse to follow another car. I don't know how that will work out in a race.\"\n\nThe issue here is downforce, and specifically how that downforce is created.\n\nAn F1 car needs clean airflow to work at its best. Put it in turbulent air - such as that created by another car - and the finely tuned airflow that starts at the front wing and cascades backwards over all those pieces of bodywork along the sides of the cars is disturbed. And the downforce is dramatically cut.\n\n\"Now the turbulence is easily twice as powerful coming out the back of a car,\" Hamilton says. \"It magnifies the issue we had before. Let's hope the racing is fantastic, but don't hold your breath.\"\n\nThere is another aspect to the potential effect on the show, too.\n\nThe new tyres Pirelli have produced are vastly improved in terms of allowing drivers to push hard for long periods. But this has been achieved by, among other things, making them harder. That means they last longer, which almost certainly means fewer pit stops, at least in the first few races for which the tyre compounds have already been chosen.\n\nThe season-opening race in Australia, for example, is already expected by engineers to feature only a single pit stop for each car. Most races will almost certainly have one fewer pit stop than last year.\n\nOvertaking and, to a lesser extent, the number of pit stops, are issues about which many fans get very worked up. And yet so is a device that was introduced seven years ago to make overtaking less difficult - the drag reduction system (DRS). This is not the paradox it at first seems.\n\nThe DRS is a flap on the rear wing which the driver can open at a designated point if he is within a second of another car. It increases top speed by well over 10km/h and has led to what has become a rather denigrated feature of F1 - the so-called 'DRS pass'.\n\nThis is when a driver has such a speed advantage as a result of DRS that he simply drives past his helpless rival on the straight. That has rather diminished what is supposed to be one of the highest levels of skill a racing driver possesses - the ability to overtake a rival.\n\nHamilton describes DRS as \"a bit like a Band-Aid for the wrong rule changes in terms of the way the cars are designed and built\".\n\nWurz says: \"Authentic is the biggest word here. In the mid-2000s, there was less overtaking than at any point in F1 history but currently the biggest hype is about that period of time. It's because the product was fit for how people felt.\n\n\"Since then, it has been diminished to be an artificial show to achieve overtaking. They maybe achieved it, but it wasn't authentic or heroic. It was too much, too easy and the consumer understands that because no-one will ever scream about an amazing DRS overtaking manoeuvre.\n\n\"If there is just one amazing overtake in a race, that delivers much more energy and emotion to the consumer than five DRS fly-bys.\"\n\nWhat to do about it\n\nF1 is a restless beast. It's part of what makes it a success; the constant drive to be better, the refusal to accept that something is good enough.\n\nIt is unsurprising, then, that before these new wider, faster cars have even raced, the thoughts of the sport's power brokers are already turning to what's next.\n\nF1 is under new ownership this year and Ross Brawn, the former Mercedes team boss now in charge of shaping the sport's future direction, has said he wants to get rid of DRS.\n\nBut that is one tiny part of negotiations, that are just starting, about what F1's future might look like. Overtaking will be part of those conversations. For Wurz, the issue is less overtaking per se, more whether the design of the cars allows for close racing.\n\n\"Some say overtaking is so important for fans to be attached to F1,\" he says. \"From the beginning, I have said - and I believe - that is not the answer. It is maybe not even true.\n\n\"Generally, I believe the most important thing is competition - and not just between two team-mates but between a few teams - and that the races are close. So I think it is fundamental that the aerodynamic philosophy should change so it is not so sensitive driving behind each other. And that can be achieved.\"\n\nNot only is Wurz the GPDA chairman and a former F1 driver, he is also a two-time winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours and spent the last few years of his career in the World Endurance Championship.\n\nThe cars he raced - the so-called Le Mans Prototypes from Porsche, Toyota and, until last year, Audi - had even more downforce than F1 cars, but can be raced close together without problem.\n\n\"In a Le Mans car,\" Wurz says, \"following someone in a 150mph corner, never at any point do you have to think you have to keep your distance because otherwise you are going to slide wide without control.\n\n\"You almost touch his bumper and your car will generate the same grip as when you drive by yourself. So all your focus can be solely on the guy in front, to find a little gap or a little mistake and you are close enough to strike.\n\n\"In an F1 car, when you go behind someone, you are always thinking: 'OK, I am that close, so I must enter the corner a little bit slower because otherwise I am going to slide too wide in the mid-corner and apex and I am going to lose too much time or even make a mistake.'\n\n\"Unless you have much fresher tyres or he makes a mistake, you cannot think: 'OK, I am that close now, I will strike.' And by nature in F1 not too many people make mistakes.\"\n\nThe explanation for this is to do with how the car generates its downforce.\n\nAn F1 car's aerodynamics are focused on the front wing. Even the airflow through the diffuser - the back of the car's floor, which is so crucial to overall performance - fundamentally comes in from the sides of the car having been accelerated around it in a process that starts at the front wing.\n\nIn an LMP1 car, the downforce is generated almost entirely under the floor - just as was the case with F1 cars when the era of aerodynamics properly started back in the late 1970s and early 1980s.\n\nTake a look at a car from, say 1982, and you'll either see no front wing, or a very small one used only for fine-tuning. Like WEC cars, IndyCars in America use this philosophy now, so cars can race closely at 220mph and more on oval tracks.\n\nChanging this philosophy in F1 would not be easy - there would inevitably be resistance from the leading teams who best exploit the current rules, even though, as Wurz puts it, \"if you're the best before, you'll be the best after\".\n\nRight now, this discussion, as much as it has started, is revolving in public only around the potential difficulty of overtaking. It is yet to move on to what to do about it.\n\nBut if Hamilton's fears are borne out, it is not hard to see how it could.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City and Liverpool had to settle for a point apiece as they battled out a thrilling draw at Etihad Stadium.\n\nA hugely entertaining game was littered with talking points, astonishing misses and a sense of injustice for both sides as they felt they were on the receiving end of debatable decisions from referee Michael Oliver.\n\nJames Milner put Liverpool ahead against his former club with a penalty six minutes after the break, after Gael Clichy was penalised for a raised boot on Roberto Firmino.\n\nSergio Aguero scored against Liverpool for the fifth successive Premier League game at Etihad Stadium from Kevin de Bruyne's perfect cross after 69 minutes - before both sides wasted glorious opportunities to secure a vital win in the race for top-four places.\n\nAguero was particularly culpable, stumbling at the vital moment after his superb approach play had fashioned a clear chance eight yards out. After he fluffed his shot, De Bruyne hit the loose ball against the post.\n\nAdam Lallana produced a candidate for miss of the season when he somehow failed to tap Firmino's pass into an empty net before, in stoppage time, Aguero volleyed over the sort of chance he normally takes with comfort.\n• None One of my most special days in management - Guardiola\n\nThe scoreline only scratches at the surface of a game that was enthralling from start to finish, illustrating the strengths and weaknesses of both sides, who possess verve in attack but frailty in defence.\n\nCity and Liverpool both created and missed the sort of chances that could have turned one point into three and made life a little easier in the closing stages of the season.\n\nCity's Raheem Sterling could not find the final touch to David Silva's cross in the first half, with Fernandinho missing a presentable finish standing behind him.\n\nThe second half was when the real gifts were passed up.\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp threatened to rip his cap off in a mixture of shock and disgust when Lallana, the ball presented on a plate by Firmino for what should have been a formality, somehow contrived to fail with his connection and the ball rolled apologetically away.\n\nSterling then lobbed Liverpool keeper Simon Mignolet but the ball drifted wide - with City's real opportunity coming deep into stoppage time when Aguero sent a volley off target at the far post from another superb De Bruyne delivery.\n\nBoth sides had to settle for a draw - but both know it could have been so much more.\n\nThe life of a referee was summed up by the sight and sound of Michael Oliver incurring the wrath of both sets of players at various points throughout a chaotic 90 minutes.\n\nLiverpool felt they were denied a penalty when Sadio Mane tumbled under a challenge from Nicolas Otamendi in the first half, although the striker also inadvertently made contact with his own leg as he shaped to shoot after escaping the City defender with embarrassing ease.\n\nYaya Toure was perhaps fortunate to only receive a yellow card after a wild lunge on Emre Can caught the Liverpool midfielder in the chest, while City were furious their penalty claims were ignored as Sterling went down under a challenge from Milner as he closed in on a finish in the six-yard area.\n\nCity's players were furious after Liverpool's penalty award - many continuing the discussion with Oliver long after Milner had completed the formalities - but Oliver got this big call right.\n\nClichy's foot was dangerously high on Firmino as he raced in on goal and Oliver had no hesitation in pointing to the spot.\n\nIt was a tough afternoon for the official as the big decisions came thick and fast.\n\nCity boss Pep Guardiola and counterpart Klopp were both delighted with the performance from their teams - but the body language in the technical area also revealed huge frustration.\n\nVictory for either man would have been a crucial psychological blow as they fight for a place in the top four but both saw their teams waste the sort of chances that could have secured what they craved.\n\nGuardiola and Klopp were both animated in frustration in the first 45 minutes, especially at one point when they were united in mutual dissatisfaction in the technical area, the Catalan racing towards his opposite number for an exchange that concluded with a flamboyant high five.\n\nKlopp was leaping around in frustration, threatening to throw his cap to the floor as Liverpool squandered good positions, while Guardiola almost slumped to the turf in anguish after Aguero's later miss.\n\nCity remain a point ahead of Liverpool in third with a game in hand as Klopp's side lay fourth - while the result suited Manchester United best of all as they are now four points behind the Merseysiders with two games in hand after their win at Middlesbrough.\n\n'One of the happiest days of my career' - what the managers said\n\n\"Congratulations to Liverpool and Manchester City. It is one of the days I am proud the most.\n\n\"I have not had a long career as manager and it is one of the most special days of my life.\n\n\"The Champions League defeat was so tough for us and we recovered today with our mentality and attack, but we could not attack more because Liverpool are a top team.\n\n\"I want to stay here and help this club make a step forward and the battle to qualify for the Champions League will go until the last day.\n\n\"We played three days after going out of the Champions League. How the players suffer and fight to qualify against Barcelona, Borussia Monchengladbach, how we play in the second half against Monaco, to be out was so tough for all of us.\n\n\"The players in training did not speak. How they reacted against Liverpool means a lot.\"\n\n\"Our players did really well. I struggled on the final whistle to be really happy but it's a success to get a point at City and to play like this.\n\n\"It's more than OK what we did but we needed a bit more luck.\n\n\"The Sadio Mane situation - it was a red card and a penalty. In a game like this, it would've killed them.\n\n\"But maybe they could've and should've had a penalty too. 1-1 is better than nothing.\n\n\"They are too good to always defend perfectly. When we started playing football in the game, it was really difficult for them.\n\n\"Between 50 and 65 minutes we could have decided the game and we didn't.\n\n\"We can't speak today about faults and mistakes. Before the game, if someone told me I would get a point at City, I would have taken it.\"\n• None City have gone seven consecutive games without defeat in the Premier League (W4 D3 L0), their longest streak in the competition under Guardiola.\n• None Liverpool have won more points in 10 games against the top six this season (20) than they have in 10 games against the bottom six (19).\n• None Milner has scored seven penalties in the league this season - only Steven Gerrard (10 in 2013-14) has scored more for Liverpool in a Premier League campaign.\n• None Milner now holds the record for the most Premier League games scored in without losing (47 games: W37 D10 L0).\n• None Only Gylfi Sigurdsson (11) has made more assists than De Bruyne (10) in the Premier League this season. The Belgian has assisted Aguero more times than any other player this term (3).\n• None City have failed to keep a clean sheet in each of their past 13 games in all competitions against Liverpool, shipping 24 in the process (W2 D5 L6).\n\nManchester City have another crucial period coming up after the international break which could decide their top-four status.\n\nFirst they travel to the Emirates to face Arsenal on Sunday, 2 April (16:00 BST) and three days later they face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 5 April (20:00 BST).\n\nLiverpool's next Premier League fixture is not an easy one either - they host Everton in the Merseyside Derby on Saturday, 1 April (12:30 BST).\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.\n• None Sadio Mané (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by David Silva.\n• None Attempt missed. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Sadio Mané following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by David Silva with a through ball.\n• None David Silva (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "'The best centre half in Ireland': Ryan McBride achieved his dream and became a hero to Derry City's fans\n\nWhen Ryan McBride was appointed captain of his hometown club Derry City in 2015, his modest reaction helps show why he was beloved by the club's fan base.\n\n\"Other footballers have dreams of going across the water and playing for Man United and Celtic,\" he told local newspaper the Derry Journal.\n\n\"But my dream as a boy was to play for Derry City and that came true.\"\n\nOn Sunday, many of those same fans gathered in shared grief at the player's home, just a kick of a ball from the club's Brandywell Stadium, after hearing of his sudden death aged 27.\n\nJust the day before, McBride was leading the team in a 4-0 league victory against Drogheda United. Another win and clean sheet in Derry's impressive 100% start to the League of Ireland season.\n\nThat success now feels empty and void in the wake of an event that has devastated the Irish football world.\n\nDerry City players emerge from a press conference after the death of captain Ryan McBride\n\nThe club's scheduled game against Limerick on Tuesday has been postponed, while the Football Association of Ireland has announced that Friday's World Cup qualifier against Wales in Dublin will feature a tribute to the defender.\n\nIt is the also the third tragedy in just over a year to hit Derry City.\n\nThe club's record goalscorer Mark Farren died in 2016 after being diagnosed with a brain tumour, while a year ago to the day winger Josh Daniels lost family members in the Buncrana pier tragedy.\n\nSince his debut in 2011, McBride had not only become a mainstay of the club's defence, but an adored hero of Derry City's Red and White Army - an embodiment of the local football ideal.\n\nHe made more than 170 appearances for the club, with more than 50 as captain after he took over the role permanently two years ago.\n\nDerry City updated their social media pages with this illustrated image of Ryan McBride\n\nA self-professed quiet man off the pitch, McBride said things were a \"different story\" on it.\n\n\"I switch on and then I'm in game mode.\"\n\nDerry City watchers might describe that as understated - McBride's volume on the pitch was thunderous, whether vocally organising the defence, launching into tackles or winning headers.\n\nIt wasn't just his ability that made McBride a crowd favourite, although he had no shortage of talent. \"Derry City have lost the best centre half in Ireland,\" club legend Liam Coyle said on Monday morning.\n\nIt was the number five's fearless attitude and commitment to the club's cause that secured his place in the hearts of the Derry City faithful.\n\nStephen Kenny was the manager who gave McBride his debut in 2011.\n\n\"A ferociously brave player, the bravest I've ever seen on a football pitch,\" he told RTÉ.\n\n\"He (McBride) just launched himself into every challenge. Aggressive in the air and brave to a fault nearly, which endeared him to everybody.\n\n\"He was every fan's favourite player and a great captain of Derry City.\"\n\nRyan McBride was 21 when he made his league debut off the bench in a 1-1 draw against Bray Wanderers on 20 May 2011.\n\nThat season was an unexpected success story for Derry. After being promoted to the League of Ireland's Premier Division, they made an unlikely bid for the league title.\n\nIt was a talented team too - James McClean, now of West Brom and the Republic of Ireland, was on the wing, while Sheffield United's Danny Lafferty and Southend United's Stephen McLaughlin were also key members.\n\nBut, it was Ryan McBride who made the biggest breakthrough.\n\n\"He was playing for a Saturday morning league team, Brandywell Harps, which was a massive jump to go from there to the first team,\" said Kenny.\n\nIn July, his second League of Ireland start was in a crucial televised game against Shamrock Rovers.\n\nMcBride starred in Derry's 1-0 win and while their title ambitions ultimately fell short, the centre half was well on his way.\n\nHe picked up two man-of-the-match awards and signed a new two-year contract, all in the space of a few weeks.\n\nMore success followed - McBride played and won in the 2011 League Cup final and was a substitute in Derry City's FAI Cup win in 2012. He went back to the final in 2014 and played, but lost out to St Patrick's Athletic.\n\nWhile the club's fortunes fluctuated, McBride continued as an ever present in the side before becoming the club's captain in 2015.\n\nThis League of Ireland season was one that had started promisingly for Derry and their captain - four wins from four games, with McBride scoring twice.\n\nNow, it's a season left shattered by his loss.", "In college, Tameka Stigers wore her hair in thin locks that looked so attractive, parents at her church wanted her to fashion their young daughters' hair.\n\n\"They said, 'Can you do it like yours?'\" Stigers recalled. She wore her hair in Sisterlocks, hundreds of tiny locks that allow women with coarse, tightly-wound hair to wear almost any style - from ponytails to braids, curly or straight.\n\nShe enrolled in a short training course in order to master the technique of creating Sisterlocks - a trademarked technique - with nothing but her two hands, a comb and small elastic bands. She registered as a Sisterlock hair braider online and requests from other people in the St Louis area poured in.\n\nTo meet the demand, Stigers needed to move her business out of her home. That's where her hair braiding business hit its first snag.\n\nStigers knew that hair salons were regulated by the Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners, but she wasn't sure that her business, which doesn't use any chemicals, heat or scissors, would also fall under the board's purview.\n\nShe phoned the board to ask if she would have to pay upwards of £8,189 ($10,000) and spend thousands of hours in cosmetology school in order to open up a hair braiding shop. Initially, Stigers said she was told that the regulations wouldn't apply to her.\n\nThe board later reversed its course. In mid-2014, Stigers started pursuing a lawsuit against the board after it told her that she and any other hair braiders running businesses in Missouri would need to get a full cosmetology licence, which requires courses at a registered cosmetology school - courses that Stigers said don't teach any natural or African hair braiding skills at all.\n\n\"Hair braiding is an art really,\" Stigers said. \"It's something that if I went to cosmetology school today, I couldn't learn how to do braiding.\"\n\nStigers joined another braider, Joba Niang, in a lawsuit against the board of cosmetology and barber examiners, seeking reprieve from the regulations.\n\nA judge ruled against Stigers in September, 2016, but her lawyers finished filing briefs to appeal the case last week, just as Stigers settled into a new, larger storefront to accommodate a growing number of customers.\n\nStigers didn't get a licence to braid hair, and many of her braiders lack licences, though her business partner does have a cosmetology licence to run the spa area in her new salon.\n\nThus far, the Missouri Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners has declined to enforce its rules while Stigers lawsuit is active, allowing Stigers and other braiders to continue working until the courts resolve the case.\n\nIf she loses, Stigers and other hair braiders will face the choice of getting the expensive cosmetology licences or closing up shop.\n\nWomen who run hair braiding salons in up to 21 states face similar regulations.\n\nCosmetology classes mostly focus on how to cut hair, safely dye hair, and treat hair chemically to permanently curl or straighten strands. Hair braiders don't do any of that. The small amount of training that does touch on styling typically does not go into African-style hair braiding, though a few cosmetology textbooks do nod to the techniques.\n\nOther professional hair braiders, like Pamela Ferrell, in Washington DC have won in similar cases\n\nThe Missouri Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners does not comment on ongoing court cases, and could not discuss the regulations surrounding hair braiding. However, board members on cosmetology boards in other states have cautioned against loosening regulations because of concerns over sanitation and safety.\n\nJeanne Chappell, a board member on the New Hampshire Board of Barbering, Cosmetology and Esthetics told the Associated Press that diseases can be passed through the tools used during braiding and that licensing would allow the board to monitor and enforce against salons that don't use safe practices.\n\nPamela Ferrell, owns a braiding salon in Washington, DC, and successfully fought licensing regulations. She thinks racial biases and gaps in cultural knowledge play a role in the debate.\n\n\"It's a constant attack against our hair, our beauty standards, all under the guise of occupational licensing,\" Ferrell said. \"It's culturally disrespectful. They're using irrelevant occupational laws to put this bias on a particular group of people.\"\n\nWhile Stigers and her attorneys wait on a judge to set a date for the oral arguments Missouri is working to pass a bill that would make the lawsuit moot by deregulating hair braiding and imposing a simple £20 ($25) fee to register the business.\n\nGovernor Eric Greitens, a Republican, specifically called out Stigers' case as \"burdensome\" in his January state-of-the-state address.\n\n\"We need to end frivolous regulations like these so that our people can start their own businesses and create jobs,\" he said.\n\nStigers may have found a political ally in new Missouri governor Eric Greitens\n\nThe conservative political powerhouse run by Charles and David Koch has also taken a stand against the licensing regulations as part of a £737,280,000 ($900m) campaign for a free market that encourages small business growth.\n\nFormer President Barack Obama issued a call to action to cut down on the state licensing regulations that require nearly one in four American workers to obtain an occupational licence - a huge increase from the 5% who had to get licences in 1950. His administration also allocated federal funds for states who reformed licensing regulations.\n\nStigers works a lot. She has to carve out time to testify in court and in front of the Missouri state legislators. She just expanded her salon to a new storefront that fits ten braiding booths and a full spa with manicure stations and a soon-to-come sauna.\n\nWhen she's not braiding a client's hair, she's running to the bank, buying supplies, or discussing business with the eleven other women her business employs.\n\n\"It's a constant attack against our hair, our beauty standards, all under the guise of occupational licensing,\" says braider Pamela Farrell\n\nStigers said she hopes her lawsuit will help other women realise their dreams of opening a hair-braiding salon.\n\n\"I am excited because it's something that, the other native African hair braiders, they see me moving and expanding and they don't have to be afraid of being out in the public eye,\" Stigers said.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nOne Premier League defender celebrates an unusual goalscoring record, Riyad Mahrez and Jamie Vardy's vital statistics show a sharp upturn under Craig Shakespeare and could Romelu Lukaku be the new Gary Lineker?\n\nBBC Sport takes a look at the most interesting facts and figures from the weekend.\n\nIn January, we told you Liverpool midfielder-turned-left-back James Milner had equalled the record for most games scored in without his team losing.\n\nWell now he's out on his own.\n\nThe Yorkshireman netted his seventh penalty of the season as Liverpool drew 1-1 against his old club Manchester City on Sunday to extend his unbeaten streak of goalscoring appearances to 47 games.\n\nThe run stretches back to the start of his career at Leeds in 2002-03, followed by moves to Newcastle, Aston Villa, City and Liverpool.\n\nLeicester have won all four games since Craig Shakespeare took charge as manager following the sacking of Claudio Ranieri, and much of it owes to the improvement of key players Riyad Mahrez and Jamie Vardy.\n\nPFA Player of the Year Mahrez has contributed two goals and one assist under the new boss, having provided just five goals and three assists in his 32 previous games in all competitions.\n\nThe average number of chances created by the Algerian is also up from 1.62 to 1.86, while he is attempting more dribbles per game (7.43) than under the Italian (6.19).\n\nEngland striker Vardy, who scored 24 league goals last season, has played the same number of games as his team-mate but has performed even better under Shakespeare.\n\nVardy has scored three times and provided two assists in his past four games. Under Ranieri this season, he scored four times in 32 games and had not contributed any assists.\n\nThe chances created by the former non-league striker are up from 0.92 to 1.56 per game, the number of touches in the opposition penalty area have increased from 3.88 to 7.02 and dribbles attempted have gone from 1.79 to 3.12.\n\nThose Atletico Madrid defenders will be quaking in their boots come the Champions League quarter-finals.\n\nSkipper Wes Morgan played every single minute last season as the Foxes claimed a sensational Premier League title triumph.\n\nAlthough this league campaign has not quite gone to plan, the Jamaican defender has remained a mainstay in the side... until Saturday.\n\nMorgan's 87-game top-flight run ended after a back injury kept him out of the win over West Ham. Impressive, you may think, but it is nowhere near the record for an outfield player.\n\nThat accolade goes to recently retired midfielder Frank Lampard, who appeared in 164 games in a row for Chelsea from October 2001 to December 2005.\n\nNot bad, but former goalkeeper Brad Friedel takes the crown for most games played in a row in the Premier League.\n\nThe American began his run for Blackburn in 2004, going on to play an astonishing 310 consecutive games for Rovers and Aston Villa, before his run ended at Tottenham in 2012.\n\nNow that will take some beating.\n\nMost consecutive games played in the Premier League\n\nIf you have more of the ball, the opposition have less chance of scoring.\n\nArsenal's tumultuous season hit a new low on Saturday when they were beaten 3-1 by West Brom at The Hawthorns, despite holding 76.86% possession in the fixture.\n\nThe Gunners made 750 passes, compared to the opposition's 219, yet still went home with nothing. #WengerIn or #WengerOut, Arsenal fans can't decide whether they want the Frenchman as manager or not.\n\nThis will make them feel a little better...\n\nEarlier this season, Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool side went to Turf Moor and dominated a match in which they had 80.38% possession and 26 shots. The final result? Burnley scored with both of their shots on target to claim victory.\n\nOn the other hand, Crystal Palace beat Watford on Saturday without having a single shot on target. Troy Deeney's own goal gave Sam Allardyce's side a 1-0 victory.\n\nSince the 2003-04 season, the Eagles became only the fourth side - after Middlesbrough's victory over Manchester City (November 2003), Sunderland beating West Brom (January 2006) and Watford's win over Hull (October 2016) - to win a top-flight game without a shot on target.\n\nThere's something in the Merseyside water\n\nRomelu Lukaku's two goals in Everton's 4-0 thrashing of Hull on Saturday allowed him to become the first Toffees player to score 20+ league goals in a season since Gary Lineker in 1985-86, when the Englishman scored 30.\n\nThe Belgian's tally stands at 21 - the highest in the league - so he has nine games remaining to overtake the Match of the Day presenter's haul.\n\nLukaku also became the first foreign player to score 80 or more goals in the Premier League before turning 24. Former Liverpool strikers Michael Owen and Robbie Fowler, as well as ex-Everton frontman Wayne Rooney, also achieved the feat.\n\nThe offer of a new £140,000-a-week contract has not been enough to tempt Lukaku to remain at Goodison Park, but the deal remains on the table.\n\nThey may want to double the money to get him to stay.\n\nThe East Midlands, signposted: 'Managers enter at your peril.'\n\nSaturday's Championship game between Nottingham Forest and Derby - which ended 2-2 - was the fifth successive match between the sides with both teams being led by different managers.\n\nIt was the fifth successive match between the two sides with BOTH teams being led by different managers.\n\nSo that's 10 new managers for two teams across five fixtures.\n\nTake a look at the most recent meetings:\n\nWho will be in the two hot seats next season?\n• None Head here to read five things you may have missed from the EFL", "Jocky Wilson prepares to throw a dart during the British Open in 1984\n\nIn the days when darts players chain-smoked and drank pints of lager between trips to the oche, Jocky Wilson was one of Scotland's most unlikely sporting heroes.\n\nWilson, from Kirkcaldy in Fife, only turned professional at the age of 29, after winning £500 in a tournament at Butlins holiday camp in Ayr.\n\nThe tiny, overweight Scot with the distinctive throwing action and toothless grin quickly became a household name as darts gained massive popularity on terrestrial TV in the UK.\n\nHe was world champion twice, in 1982 and 1989, but walked away from darts in the mid-90s when he was diagnosed with diabetes and his drinking began to catch up with him.\n\nHe lived his final years as a virtual recluse on disability benefits in a council flat in Kirkcaldy.\n\nWilson died five years ago, at the age of 62, and there were tributes from many who had played against him, including his great rival Eric Bristow, \"the Crafty Cockney\", whom he beat in the 1989 final.\n\nWilson's story is now the subject of a new play by sister and brother team Jane Livingstone and Jonathan Cairney.\n\nLivingstone said his rise and fall meant that some people saw him as a great Scottish hero but others were a little embarrassed by him.\n\n\"He's a great Scottish character and he's also from Fife, as are we, and we saw this as a great opportunity to get a Fife character on the stage,\" she said.\n\n\"He's someone we were always aware of and impressed by his achievements.\"\n\nFloral tributes outside Kirkcaldy crematorium following Jocky's funeral in April 2012\n\nCairney says the play, which will be performed at Oran Mor in Glasgow, is \"imagined\" but it is based on a real-life incident early in his career.\n\n\"One story we really picked up on was when he was over in America for an exhibition match,\" said Cairney. \"[He] missed his lift to get to the next destination and he ended up trying to hitchhike 400 miles across the Nevada desert.\n\n\"We thought that would be an ideal setting to place him in that difficult situation and see how he reacts to it.\n\n\"He's such a warm character, people root for him. He's the classic underdog.\"\n\nIt's true that Wilson defied the odds to become world champion.\n\nJocky Wilson was world champion twice but gave up darts in 1995\n\nJohn Thomas Wilson spent years in an orphanage after being rejected by his parents and joined the Army at a young age.\n\nDespite working as a coal delivery man, a fish processor and a miner, he struggled for money and was unemployed when he decided to try his hand at darts professionally.\n\nWithin three years he was world champion and a folk hero.\n\nHis gestures to the crowd, face-pulling and pint-swilling made him one of the most recognised personalities in sport.\n\nHis picture even ended up on Top of the Pops behind Dexys Midnight Runners when they sang Jackie Wilson Said, a song about the famous soul singer.\n\nKevin Rowland from the band later claimed that he had put the picture up as a joke because their names sounded so similar, but there was no doubt that most of the audience in 1982 would have known who the darts player was.\n\nActor Grant O'Rourke, who plays Wilson in the production, says the man had \"an unbelievable will to win\".\n\n\"He had an amazing amount of determination to succeed and become world champion.\"\n\nThe actor confesses to not being good at darts but gets away with it in the play because not a single arrow is thrown.\n\nHowever, O'Rourke says he watched lots of videos of Wilson to give him an idea of the way he held himself and moved.\n\nHe says: \"It has given me a new respect for darts. To be able to throw a dart from 8ft away into a target that is about a centimetre wide, often with thousands of pounds hanging on one throw, the pressure is incredible.\"\n\nAnother Scottish darts world champion, Gary Anderson, told BBC Scotland he was \"disappointed\" that he never met Jocky.\n\n\"I think he finished just as I started in the BDO but I've heard plenty of stories about him,\" he said.\n\nDespite being 20 years younger than Wilson, Anderson, from Eyemouth in the Borders, says they share a similar \"working class\" approach to the sport.\n\n\"I'm probably still like what Jocky was. I still like a good laugh and a bit of carry-on but some of the youngsters now are darts and darts-only.\"\n\nAnderson, who won the PDC world championship in 2015 and 2016, says that despite the huge crowds that watch darts now the characters of the past are hard to shift from the public's mind.\n\n\"You meet anyone now and talk about Scottish darts players and Jocky Wilson is always the first name they come out with.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nDrug use at every level of sport is \"fast becoming a crisis\" according to UK Anti-Doping - responding to a BBC poll into doping in amateur sport.\n\nIt found more than a third (35%) of amateur sports people say they personally know someone who has doped, and 8% said they had taken steroids.\n\nHalf believe performance enhancing substance use is \"widespread\" among those who play sport competitively.\n\nUkad chief Nicole Sapstead described the figures as \"incredibly alarming\".\n\nA BBC State of Sport investigation into doping in UK amateur sport also found that 49% thought performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) were \"easily available\" among people who play sports regularly.\n\nWhat do the statistics say?\n\nAccording to figures from UK Anti-Doping (Ukad), the national body responsible for protecting clean sport, there are currently 52 athletes and coaches serving bans.\n\nOf these, only 12% are professional sports men or women; 62% are amateurs, 21% are semi-professional, and 5% are coaches.\n\nOf the 186 sanctions handed out across 22 separate sports by Ukad since it formed in 2009, 46% have been rugby union or league players - mainly at amateur and semi-professional levels.\n\nWhat does the poll tell us?\n\nReacting to the ComRes poll for BBC Sport of more than 1,000 men and women who are members of sports clubs and teams, Sapstead said: \"Certainly the figures as regards the prevalence of performance-enhancing substances at an amateur level are incredibly alarming.\n\n\"That said, it does confirm what UK Anti-Doping has long suspected and also seen through some of our intelligence-led testing.\n\n\"I don't think any sport can say that they don't have a problem at an amateur level.\n\n\"I think now is the time for everybody to sit up and acknowledge that this is a reality in every single sport and that you can't just be washing your hands of it or hoping that someone else will address it.\"\n• None Ukad needs an extension of powers and extra cash from individual sports governing bodies to \"address what is fast becoming a crisis for sport\".\n• None There is a \"woeful lack of education\" at amateur level about the health risks of doping.\n• None There is a \"robust\" anti-doping programme in the UK, but it faces \"challenges\".\n• None Ukad works with police forces to target suppliers of drugs to amateur dopers.\n\nOf the 79 people interviewed who had specifically taken anabolic steroids, 41% said improving performance was the main reason for taking them, followed by pain relief (40%) and improving how they look (34%).\n\nHowever, when this is widened out to include those who admitted taking other performance-enhancing substances, boosting results was no longer the primary reason.\n\nOnly 25% of users overall claim they have taken substances with the intention of improving performance.\n\nOver half say they were primarily used for pain relief, while 17% say they were used to improve looks.\n\n\"I think there are clearly a group of individuals seeking to enhance their performance by taking prohibited substances,\" said Sapstead, \"and then there are others who were taking these substances because they have a body image problem, or actually because they think it's the done thing.\"\n\nYounger people are the main users of anabolic steroids in amateur sport, according to the poll for BBC Sport.\n\nAmong sports club members aged 18-34, 13% say they have taken steroids to support performance or recovery while playing. Not one interviewee aged 55 or over said they had used anabolic steroids.\n\nHowever, users aged between 35 and 54 are significantly more likely than those aged 18-34 to say pain relief is among the main reasons they have used steroids or other sports supplements.\n\nBut there is hardly any difference in gender, with 9% of men admitted taking steroids, compared with 8% of women.\n\nAnd 71% of all those polled said they would not know where to get hold of anabolic steroids.\n\nUsing steroids for image reasons is a \"worrying\" problem among young people in Wales, according to the nation's social services and public health minister Rebecca Evans, who said in January: \"It's not just a problem in sport - it is a wider societal issue.\"\n\nMore than 50 types of anabolic steroids are banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada), the independent body responsible for the list of substances prohibited in sport. The possession of steroids, which are class C drugs, is not illegal under UK law as long as they are only for personal use. It is illegal, however, to supply them to other people.\n\nWhat else are people taking?\n\nAccording to the poll, a wide range of substances - both legal and illegal - are taken by amateur sports men and women to support their performance or recovery.\n\nPerformance-enhancing substances can also include recreational drugs and prescribed medications:\n• None 26% of amateur sports people say they have taken prescribed medications such as cortisone injections or asthma inhalers.\n• None 14% say they have taken recreational drugs such as cocaine, MDMA or cannabis.\n• None 8% say they have taken anabolic steroids such as nandrolone, testosterone or HGH.\n\nWe also asked people about other substances they consumed while playing sport, including: energy drinks (68% had), pain-relief gels (60%), over-the-counter anti-inflammatory medicines (59%) and protein shakes (46%).\n\nFormer amateur cyclist Dan Stevens was banned after refusing a test in 2014. He turned whistleblower but labelled Ukad's handling of his information \"a catastrophic failure\".\n\nResponding to the BBC Sport poll, Stevens, 41, said: \"I think it is widespread in all ranks. I think it is widespread in celebrity, I think it is widespread in the beauty industry; I think it is certainly widespread in the sports industry.\n\n\"I also think it is just a way of modern day life - we are living in a pharmacised world.\"\n\nStevens said he took thyroxine and testosterone on prescription, and EPO out of \"curiosity\".\n\n\"I'd always been a clean athlete and this situation happened to me when I was 39 years old. That was enough to see a huge, huge gain.\n\n\"But the real thing for me wasn't really about racing - I didn't do a lot of racing on these substances. The main thing was curiosity.\n\n\"I don't think in the amateur ranks it is about winning. You've got a situation where someone is overweight, a little bit fat, need to lean down, get in shape. And they get in shape.\n\n\"They then get railroaded into doing a marathon or a long bike ride or some kind of competitive event and they improve their fitness levels again and they become a healthier individual and become more body conscious and more health-orientated.\"\n\nWhich sports are most affected?\n\nWhat is the 'gateway hypothesis'?\n\nMore than a third of people (36%) who report consuming recreational drugs to support their performance while playing amateur sport have also taken steroids.\n\nDr Lambros Lazuras, an assistant professor of social psychology at Sheffield Hallam University who studies doping behaviour, told BBC Sport that there is a \"pill-taking culture\" in amateur sport and general society, which can act as a \"gateway\" to stronger substances.\n\n\"There are people who engage in stacking practices, using as many as 10 substances at the same time,\" he explained. \"For these people, it's not what they use anymore, it's what they want to achieve.\"\n\nSo what are the health risks?\n\n\"The use of steroids, for example, has been associated with problems like heart disease, kidney failure and even sudden death,\" said Dr Lazuras. \"You're not just cheating, you're putting your life at risk.\n\n\"This is an emerging public health issue,\" claimed Dr Lazuras. \"You're using substances that are meant to treat diseases, and you're actually misusing them without any prescription.\n\n\"We push people into exercise because we want to promote the health benefits. We forget that people in most exercise settings might consider using substances.\n\n\"This is actually the dark side of exercise. You don't care about your health anymore. You care about your performance and how you look to other people - or yourself.\"\n\nCase study two: 'You have to dope to be a good weightlifter'\n\nA British weightlifter who has served a doping ban told BBC Sport steroid abuse is rife at all levels in his sport and that the culture starts at amateur level.\n\n\"It begins in the gym,\" the weightlifter, who wishes to remain anonymous, said. \"In weightlifting it gets to the point where you're not growing anymore. You can train, train, train and not get anywhere.\n\n\"Every weightlifter will take steroids. Some of them are taking light stuff and some of them are really heavily using steroids - it all depends how much money you have.\n\n\"Is it easy to buy bread in the shop? That's how easy it is to get steroids in the UK.\n\n\"If you're not taking steroids, basically you're nowhere in the competition, you're not going to get anywhere really.\n\n\"I'm really proud of how they fight steroids in England. But the problem is, why are England losing? England won't cheat.\n\n\"I've been caught because I didn't think that somebody would come to my house. I left taking steroids one month before competition and I never ever thought somebody would come to my house and test.\"\n\n\"I can't do something that I really love. Only because I've been cheating with steroids, come on. It's like I killed somebody. I'm not even an Olympic sportsman.\"\n\nLewis Conlin, 32, a publisher from Buckinghamshire, used a supplement containing the banned substance DMAA when he started weight-training in his early 20s.\n\nDMAA is an amphetamine-derived substance banned from sale in the UK and named on Wada's prohibited list.\n\nIt has been linked with high blood pressure, tightening of the chest, stroke, heart attacks and even death, according to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.\n\n\"In terms of the energy and focus that I got, it was the best pre-workout supplement I'd ever had,\" Conlin, who was weight-training four or five days per week with friends, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"You felt invincible, you felt you could do anything, you were just completely zoned out. You'd stare at a weight and go and lift it. That was great. Afterwards wasn't so great.\n\n\"About three hours later you would have a crash and you'd have a real comedown. I'd be depressed and I'd be ratty, happy just to keep myself in isolation and then later on that day I was getting chest pains.\n\n\"I would have trouble sleeping and would have heart palpitations - but that didn't actually stop me from taking it the next day. The training I was doing was so high and so intense I just wanted to have that every day.\n\n\"Had I known at the time exactly what DMAA did to your blood pressure and your heart rate then there is no way I would have carried on taking it.\"\n\nShould there be more testing in amateur sport?\n\nMore drug testing among amateur sports people is a \"waste of time\", according to one amateur cyclist who received a two-year ban for missing a post-race drugs test.\n\nIt would cost too much money and detract from focusing on drug use in the professional ranks, he added.\n\n\"I don't see the point at all,\" said the Briton, who asked to remain anonymous.\n\n\"What effect is it going to have on anything, unless it is something like a national championship where people can move on in the professional ranks and actually earn a living from it? It is a problem then because you're actually affecting people's lives.\n\nIn my opinion more testing would be just a waste of time at low level sport\n\n\"How far do you go - do you want to test people for doing a fun run? It's up to them if they want to do whatever they want to do, in my opinion,\" he said.\n\n\"If you want to catch someone then catch the right people - like the people that win the Tour de France and get away with it.\n\n\"But then that's too much politics and money involved. They would rather get someone that doesn't mean anything because it is easy.\"\n\nHow much does testing cost?\n\nUkad has an annual budget of around £7m, mainly state funding. A single drug test costs around £350.\n\nUkad directs the vast majority of its testing to elite sport, with Sapstead saying: \"I would love to able to address the issues that we see at an amateur level, but the reality is we just don't have the resources to do that.\n\n\"I strongly believe a further investment needs to be paid from sport, whether that's from a levy on ticket sales - some contribution into a greater integrity pot of money, that's distributed not just to anti-doping, but anti-corruption bodies.\n\n\"Someone somewhere needs to put their hand in their pocket and their money where their mouth is, and start to help pay for us to do this job, and do it as effectively and efficiently as possible.\n\n\"Cheating impacts against the people you are competing against. So it doesn't matter if you're an Olympian, or a Paralympian, and it doesn't matter if you don your trainers at a weekend for a fun run.\n\n\"Actually, you're competing, and therefore it absolutely matters that everyone is toeing the line and playing a fair game.\"\n\nHow the poll was done\n\nBBC Sport - using ComRes to conduct the poll - interviewed 1,025 British adults, who are members of sports clubs, teams or gyms, online, between 27 and 31 January 2017. The data was drawn from a nationally representative sample of British adults aged 18 or over and the full tables are available here.\n\nAll sports played by those interviewed are regulated by UK Anti-Doping, apart from gyms.\n\nHave you ever taken a performance enhancing substance? Does your sport have a problem with doping? Get in touch using this link.", "On the Falls Road, heart of Republican Belfast. there's a new sense of purpose. Sinn Fein pulled the plug on Stormont, did well in the elections and are now, like the Scottish government, demanding a referendum on their future destiny.\n\nBrexit - rejected by 55.8% of voters in Northern Ireland - is seen as just the latest imposition by England.\n\nIt has given a new momentum to their whole reason for existing: the belief the island of Ireland should be one country.\n\nEverywhere down the Falls there are reminders of those who killed and died for a united Ireland: here a mural of a young man with a rifle, there a huge sepia portrait celebrating the provisional Irish government set up in 1922.\n\nBut there are new signs too, lots of them. Sinn Fein's latest posters say West Belfast stands against Brexit.\n\nThe referendum has changed politics here, as all over the UK, even on party night.\n\nThe West is gyrating in a sea of joyous green on St Patrick's Day. The social club on the Falls Road in Belfast is packed full of people dancing and drinking.\n\nTheresa May has said the time is not right for a poll on Northern Ireland's border\n\nSome merely wear a token green T-shirt or badge, but several women are in elaborate emerald dress, men in bowlers or stetsons of the appropriate shade: any culture you like as long as its Irish. Inevitably one man is dressed as that most emerald of animals, a crocodile.\n\nHere even the plush is political. It's the greatest day of the year, says one woman: about Irishness, about all of Ireland. Does she feel British at all, I ask .\n\n\"Not at all, definitely Irish.\"\n\nBritish as well as Irish? I ask another reveller.\n\nAnd another tells me: \"Irish 100%.\"\n\nWhat Mrs May calls the UK, the \"precious union of nations… the most successful the world has ever known\", is seen very differently here.\n\nThey are in no doubt about Brexit, either - they are against it, unless you mean exiting from Britain, casting off what they see as the last shackles of the English Empire.\n\nThere are concerns on both sides of the border over the possible effects of Brexit\n\n\"We're not the UK, we're Ireland. We should have the right to vote. Theresa May is a fascist,\" one man tells me.\n\nThey fear a return to a real border between the Republic and Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Borders! Nobody wants 'em. We're nationalists here. Loyalist don't want it. Business people don't want it.\"\n\nHence the renewed demand for an all-Ireland referendum is being made by Sinn Féin as they look to exploit their success in the recent elections.\n\nYou can believe they pulled out of Stormont in a row over an obscure environmental scheme if you want. But the real story is deeper. Martin McGuinness resigned as deputy first minister over the handling of the botched energy scheme that could cost £490m. But others forces were also in play.\n\nSinn Fein activists were increasingly feeling they got little out of devolution, that their partners in government, the DUP, were treating them without respect. So they brought the whole thing crashing down.\n\nIf they do not do a post-election deal in the coming weeks then there will have to be new elections or London will take over: that's called \"direct rule\". The prime minister appears to have ruled that out.\n\nThe negotiations are a poker game but Sinn Fein has little to lose by blinking first. Their supporters want real movement on issues dear to their hearts, and a re-run of the election might see them increase their vote.\n\nDUP's Nelson McCausland says Brexit \"puts a stop\" to the promotion of cross-border harmonisation via the EU\n\nThe real thorny issues are old ones, about the role of the Irish language and what are known euphemistically as \"legacy issues'': whether people should face criminal prosecution for what they did during the Troubles.\n\nThe DUP's Nelson McCausland, who lost his assembly seat at the recent election, say this is not an opportunity for Sinn Fein, but a full stop.\n\n\"There has been over a number of years within Sinn Fein a concern they had not delivered on their united Ireland dream. What they have used over the years is the European Union and European harmonisation to promote the idea that we are being harmonised with the Republic. Brexit puts a stop to that.\"\n\nUnionists hardly need to argue against the call for a referendum. The British secretary of state only needs to agree to one if, in the words of the act \"it appears likely to him that a majority of those voting\" want a united Ireland. Pretty hazy. And not a single opinion poll or commentator suggests there is that majority.\n\nBut the next day I return to the Falls and find a different picture at a language school from the hard line espoused by some of those at the West social club. Five people and their teacher sit around the table practising their Irish conversation. Among them, Linda Ervine who's been learning the language for six years.\n\n\"Because I am from the Protestant community I never had the opportunity to engage with the language and I fell in love with it.\"\n\nShe says there are many links with her own heritage. \"We've been very separate, British identity, Irish identity but in the last few years a Northern Irish identity is coming through more and more. For me I see myself as Irish and British, I don't see that as a contradiction.\"\n\nAnd there's the flood of people - including many Unionists and Protestants - applying for Irish passports in the wake of Brexit. The Belfast Newsletter newspaper's Sam McBride sees big changes under way.\n\n\"Unionism is facing a crisis at the moment, a seismic change.,\" he said. \"The fundamental question is that there is a significant number of Catholics who support the union with the United Kingdom - why are they not voting for unionist parties? I think the answer is the trappings of Orangism and Protestantism put those people off.\"\n\nThere are straws in the wind across the border too. The cabinet in Dublin decided that eventually all Irish passport holders, including in the North, will be able to vote in presidential elections. The opposition party Fianna Fail is preparing is own white paper on plans for a united Ireland.\n\nBut Republican commentator Chris Donnelly, like most observers on both sides of the divide, thinks there will not be a referendum, and it couldn't be won because many from that tradition feel more economically secure in the North.\n\n\"I think Sinn Fein know in their heart of hearts they are 20, 25 years away from when a border poll could actually have a credible chance of being won. It's an example of \"Hail Mary\" politics. It's a lottery move, its not going to happen but it is keeping the issue alive at the centre of political discussions.\"\n\nWhile we all get used to all new politics of identity, it has been the language of debate in Northern Ireland for centuries.\n\nBrexit has muddied the political waters. And a new political space may be up for grabs.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nBarcelona boss Luis Enrique will step down at the end of the season, saying he needs to \"rest\".\n\nThe 46-year-old, in his third season in charge of Barca, was speaking after their 6-1 win over Sporting Gijon.\n\nHe won the Champions League as part of the treble in his first year and led them to a domestic double last season.\n\nBut they are on the verge of elimination from the Champions League after losing 4-0 to Paris St-Germain in the last-16 first leg.\n• None 'Writing was on the wall for exhausted Enrique'\n• None 'Everton's Koeman could be Enrique successor at Barcelona'\n\n\"It is a difficult, measured and well thought-out decision and I think I have to be loyal to what I think,\" said Enrique, who will leave at the end of his contract this summer.\n\n\"I would like to thank the club for the confidence they have shown in me. It's been three unforgettable years.\n\n\"It's about how I live with my profession, with a never-ending quest for solutions and to improve my team. That means I have very little time to rest, very few hours to disconnect.\n\n\"I think it will be good for me at the end of the season, because I need to rest. That's the principle motive.\n\n\"The most important thing is we have three exciting months left in all three competitions. In one of them, we are in a difficult situation but if the stars align, we will have a chance to turn it around.\"\n\nBarca's win over Sporting took them to the top of La Liga, one point clear of Real Madrid, who have a game in hand. They face Alaves in the Copa del Rey final on 27 May.\n\nFormer Spain midfielder Enrique featured for Barcelona between 1996 and his retirement from playing in 2004.\n\nHe then coached their B team from 2008 to 2011, returning to the club as first-team boss after spells managing Roma and Celta Vigo.\n\n'Thank you for all he has done'\n\nFormer Barca coach Pep Guardiola paid tribute to his ex-Nou Camp team-mate.\n\n\"I have two reactions, as a supporter,\" Guardiola said after his Manchester City side's 5-1 FA Cup win over Huddersfield.\n\n\"I am sorry it is the club of my heart. I am so sad because we will miss the perfect trainer for Barcelona, from his personality and his character.\n\n\"His three years he played unbelievable football, with unbelievable players. I am like a fan with a membership of Barcelona. I can say thank you for all he has done in his three years at my club.\"\n\nClub president Josep Maria Bartomeu said: \"Luis Enrique has brought us great success and he can still bring us more. The players are motivated to do it.\n\n\"We accept Luis Enrique's decision. He has been a great coach. Now it is time to end his spell in the best possible way.\"\n\nAnalysis - Koeman or Laudrup for the job?\n\n\"This could be a good moment - it could be a stimulation for the team, a release. When we are watching Barcelona we are watching a team that is losing its essence. Luis Enrique is losing control of the team - the midfield especially. What remains of Pep Guardiola's team seems smaller and smaller every day.\n\n\"Barcelona is a big club and I'm not sure Enrique was a coach for many, many years. He's explosive. He expends a lot of energy.\n\n\"Jorge Sampaoli has brought something exceptional to Sevilla, but I don't think he is the appropriate man for the club because he doesn't know FC Barcelona. A Ronald Koeman or a Michael Laudrup would be more appropriate because they know the philosophy of the club.\"", "Large rallies by security forces have been held in Xinjiang recently\n\nChina is in the midst of what it calls a \"people's war on terror\" in its far west. What sparked this latest campaign was a knife attack.\n\nAfter five people were killed on 14 February in Xinjiang, home to China's Muslim Uighur minority, Beijing began an \"all out offensive\". It flew in thousands of armed troops to hold mass police rallies and deploy columns of armoured vehicles on city streets.\n\nXinjiang's Communist Party boss Chen Quanguo urged these forces to \"bury the corpses of terrorists in the vast sea of a people's war\".\n\nJudging from the reaction on Chinese social media, at least some people approve.\n\n\"Terrorists will never be stamped out unless we weaken Muslim religious forces,\" urged one post on China's Twitter-like Weibo.\n\nThen on Monday the so-called Islamic State released a video, which appeared directly to threaten China and which showed Uighur fighters training.\n\nBut the ethnic Uighur population of Xinjiang has no discernible voice. In the midst of an \"all-out offensive\" it is dangerous for them to speak up, unless to echo the government's message.\n\nOne contact in Kashgar told the BBC that the situation is \"hypersensitive\", with all business in the city closed down by night. He said members of his family are summoned to weekly meetings to demonstrate political allegiance.\n\n\"We are reliving the Cultural Revolution\", he said.\n\nSo what lies behind China's biggest show of force in Xinjiang in nearly a decade?\n\nThe incident in Pishan on 14 February is the only deadly attack to be reported this year. Details are still scarce but there is no suggestion of the kind of outside involvement or large scale co-ordination which might explain such an enormous response.\n\nInstead, unofficial reports suggest the trigger for the attack may have been something far more personal: the police punishment of a Uighur family who held a Muslim prayer meeting at home.\n\nThis is surely not the kind of scenario which requires the deployment of thousands of paramilitary reinforcements.\n\nBut the state controlled Xinjiang Daily newspaper has urged security forces to prepare \"for a battle between good and evil, lightness and dark\" and the region's Communist Party boss warned of \"grim conditions\" in the fight against terrorism.\n\nAs well as the firm hand of Beijing, Uighurs are involved in the running of their semi-autonomous region\n\nSo are conditions really grim?\n\nNotwithstanding the video threat, outside Xinjiang, there has been no significant terrorist attack in China since 2014 and reported attacks in the region have been sporadic and small-scale.\n\nBy contrast, France has seen numerous terror attacks in recent years, including several major atrocities. But the French government did not declare a frontline, fly in thousands of troops or mount mass armed rallies on city streets.\n\nIt's hard to escape the conclusion that China is wielding a hammer to crack a nut. But Xinjiang's security forces are already well armed with every form of \"nutcracker\", including highly trained manpower, rapid response units, mobile police stations, surveillance cameras, helicopters, drones, satellite tracking of vehicles, biometrics and grid style management of every community right down to the individual household.\n\nPolice control and public surveillance is on the rise across China\n\nSo what explains the force?\n\nIt's possible that the current security situation in Xinjiang is worse than appears and that there are many attacks going unreported.\n\nOr that China has a very different risk calculus from other countries and feels a hammer is the appropriate response to every nut.\n\nA third possibility is that warning of \"grim conditions\" in counter-terrorism serves an unrelated purpose and the nut must be redefined as an existential threat to justify the hammer.\n\nMy feeling is that all three explanations play a part.\n\nThe first is the least significant.\n\nIt's hard to verify occasional unofficial reports of small scale attacks in remote parts of Xinjiang because it's extremely difficult and dangerous for local Uighurs to contact foreign reporters. But it's unlikely that the authorities could cover up a major atrocity even if they wished to.\n\nThe risk calculus is a much bigger factor. It's a sweeping generalisation unsupported by hard evidence, but in my experience Chinese citizens are risk averse.\n\nThey have a higher expectation than, for example, British citizens, that their government must keep them safe.\n\nChina's growing authoritarianism means there is no vocal constituency arguing that civil liberties are worth a certain price in national security. Besides which, low trust in official news sources makes Chinese society susceptible to rumour and panic.\n\nSo China's leaders have to be risk averse when dealing with a high density population, which is only grudgingly loyal in the first place and unlikely to be resilient to terror or tolerant of failure to prevent it.\n\nIn Xinjiang, recent attacks may be small, but Beijing needs to show its public that it is doing something about them, even if that something is ineffectual or worse, counter-productive.\n\nThe region's security forces are already well trained and armed\n\nTurning to the third possible motive for an \"all-out offensive\" against scattered enemies armed only with knives, China has powerful vested interests whose objectives are advanced by talking up the security threat.\n\nThe politicians involved want to strengthen their hand before a crucial Communist Party Congress in the autumn, the security services want to expand their bureaucratic empire, and the businesses producing surveillance equipment and software have money to make.\n\nEthnic riots in 2009 left nearly 200 dead and led to mass arrests, against which these women protested\n\nDespite China's best efforts to cut off the routes of escape via Central and South East Asia, more than 100 Uighur fighters have made their way to Iraq and Syria. And now, IS is using footage from Xinjiang in its propaganda videos.\n\nIt's impossible to judge how far this would have happened without policies of religious and cultural repression in Xinjiang.\n\nBanning beards and head scarves in public places, forcing Muslims to break their rules on fasting, demolishing mosques, micromanaging religious education, exacting outward shows of ideological loyalty serves to alienate Uighurs in Xinjiang.\n\nSome Uighurs feel their distinct culture is under threat\n\nIn many countries terror triggers the impulse to repress and punish the community which appears to harbour the \"terrorist\". But other societies debate the dangers of alienation and the risk that those criminalised may become even more vulnerable to exploitation by extremists.\n\nIn 2014, making the case for an honest appraisal of the dangers of repression earned the Uighur academic Ilham Tohti a life sentence in prison.\n\nThe risk of demonising such mild dissent is to leave China's Uighurs only the voice of the separatist, the \"terrorist\" or the religious fundamentalist.\n\nDespite relatively moderate activism, Uighur academic Ilham Tohti was jailed for life\n\nAt present, the cost of this silence is experienced only by Uighurs and by Han Chinese who live and work in Xinjiang. But this may change.\n\nAlready the technologies of an Orwellian police state are advancing across China. Security services have no inhibitions about accessing social media accounts and private financial records to build an increasingly complete picture of the lives of persons of interest.\n\nA vaguely worded new anti-terror law and accompanying narrative of foreign threats justify every constriction of civil liberties and detention of human rights lawyers, labour activists, religious believers and feminists.\n\nMost of the Uighur ethnic minority, which makes up about 45% of Xinjiang's population, practise the Muslim faith\n\nOccasionally the Chinese public pushes back with complaints on social media about aggressive policing or miscarriages of justice.\n\nAnd China does have traditions of soft power as well as hard - strains of Confucian paternalism in which a benign emperor rules through wisdom and natural authority, not through fear.\n\nBut in 2017, these strains are absent in Xinjiang. There's no significant pushback to the Communist Party message that the security of the state trumps the liberty of the citizen.\n\nSo China will go on failing to win the battle for hearts and minds in Xinjiang, and failing to convince the outside world that its offensive there is a clear-cut battle between good and evil.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nIAAF president Lord Coe says that the Russian authorities have \"grasped the enormity of the challenge\" as they tackle doping in the country.\n\nAthletics' governing body has banned Russian athletes from all competition over reports of state-sponsored doping.\n\n\"The tough decision we made is starting to bear fruit,\" he said.\n\nThe World Anti-Doping Agency says it has been \"encouraged\" by Russian President Vladimir Putin's admission his country's own system \"didn't work\".\n\nWhile denying allegations of a state-sponsored programme of systematic cheating, Putin said his country should acknowledge its anti-doping failures.\n\nCoe confirmed that \"there is a real possibility\" of Russia being reinstated to international athletics, as expected, in November, after August's World Championships in London.\n\n\"The new federation is populated by people who I do genuinely think have grasped the enormity of this challenge,\" Coe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"We should acknowledge the progress that is being made.\n\n\"We need to make sure that we continue to do everything we can to get clean Russian athletes back into the international fold.\n\n\"That was always the task once the federation had been suspended.\"\n\nThe Wada-commissioned McLaren report claimed in December that more than 1,000 Russian athletes had benefited from state-backed cheating between 2011 and 2015.\n\nThat followed the suspension of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency by Wada after it was declared \"non-compliant with immediate effect\" in November.\n\nOn Monday, Alexander Zhukov, the head of the country's Olympic Committee, dismissed the McLaren report, telling Russian state TV channel Rossiya 1 on Monday, it was \"clear that the serious evidence in the report does not exist\".\n\nWada has said that it has full confidence in the report, despite discrepancies in the supporting evidence.\n\nPresident Putin struck a more conciliatory tone as he promised to move responsibility for anti-doping to an autonomous body - a key part of the requirements set out for its readmission by Wada.\n\n\"We will transfer this system from the sports ministry to an independent organisation, as has been done in many countries in the world,\" he said, adding that a new testing facility would be built at the Moscow State University.\n\nBoth the International Association of Athletics Federations and Wada have drawn up conditions that Russia must meet to be re-admitted to their organisations. The IAAF's list includes an \"appropriate official response\" to the points in the McLaren report.\n\n\"Wada is encouraged by this sign of progress,\" said president Sir Craig Reedie.\n\n\"This public admission is an important step in the right direction.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Why I quit my dream job as a police detective'\n\nThe lack of police investigators in the UK is in crisis, according to a new report. Former detectives have told BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme why they have quit their jobs.\n\nBeing a police officer was Angelina Dawson's dream job. It was \"all I ever wanted to do\", she says.\n\nA police officer who won commendations, she was \"dead chuffed\" when she finally became a detective helping to solve some of London's most serious crimes.\n\n\"I loved the challenge of trying to work out what happened and putting the pieces of the puzzle together and getting the result, getting to court when people are being convicted of terrible things,\" she says.\n\n\"You really feel you've made a difference. It was worth all of those long hours.\"\n\nHowever, in February - after 10 years as a Metropolitan Police officer and having become a detective - she decided to walk away from the police.\n\n\"I decided it's not good for me, it's not good for my health. It is so pressurised now. There just isn't enough of us,\" she says.\n\nA shortage of detectives in the force meant some officers were having to investigate up to 20 crimes at once, she says.\n\nAngelina at her passing out parade, in 2007\n\n\"That is a massive workload, that's a minimum of 20 victims, a minimum of 20 suspects,\" she says. \"There just isn't enough hours in a day to do everything.\"\n\nEventually, she says, the job began to harm her health, at which point she decided to leave it behind, albeit with a heavy heart.\n\n\"I would often wake up with headaches because I wasn't having enough sleep,\" she says.\n\n\"No matter how much you try to be organised at work and keep on top of everything, there was just more and more and more and there just wasn't enough of us to cope with what was coming in.\n\n\"I just ended up thinking I can't do this anymore. It made me feel a bit of a failure to be honest, that I couldn't stick at it. It made me sad.\"\n\nSimon Davison says he quit the police rather than move to another team for a promotion\n\nSimon Davison, another former Met Police detective, says the workload in some CID units in the capital had become \"insurmountable\" before he left.\n\nLast month, he resigned as a detective in the Met's \"flying squad\" - a unit that investigates serious organised crime.\n\nHe says he would have had to move away from his specialist unit in order to win a promotion.\n\nHowever, he took the decision to quit the force altogether rather than transfer to one of London's 32 borough constabularies, where he says numbers have been \"decimated\".\n\n\"They've often got one detective sergeant and a trainee detective and that's it for the borough,\" he says.\n\n\"It only takes a couple of serious incidents and they are completely stretched.\n\n\"So I certainly noticed that going into the CID offices, that they just had very few numbers and you could sense the morale was quite down.\"\n\nThe seemingly glamorous lure of becoming a police detective and catching some of London's most fearsome criminals has also diminished, according to Mr Davison.\n\n\"The mystique of the CID has gone,\" he says.\n\n\"It used to be something that you aspired to but now I think something where you are either put or it is seen as the easy way out.\n\n\"I've seen departments with very few people.\n\n\"The experience has gone, and they just have an insurmountable work load.\"\n\nThe Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) report on police effectiveness describes the shortage of investigators - including detectives - as a \"national crisis\", calling for a UK-wide response.\n\n\"Some crimes are apparently being shelved without proper investigations taking place,\" the report says.\n\nInspectors say the Met Police is currently short of 700 detectives, and they are \"very concerned\" that too often officers without the right skills and experience are investigating crimes.\n\nThe Police Federation, which represents rank and file police officers, says the overall number of officers in London has not reduced.\n\nInstead, the organisation says, cuts to civilian staff numbers have piled more pressure on officers, while there are also fewer people coming forward to join CID.\n\nIt is urging forces to make the role of a detective constable more appealing.\n\nThe Met said in a statement that \"detective recruitment and retention is being addressed as a priority\".\n\n\"In an organisation as large and complex as ours, ensuring we have the right people in the right roles to deal with an ever changing pattern of demand will always be very challenging, even more so in the current financial climate,\" the force said.\n\nIt added: \"The Met has more officers than ever before taking the detective exam.\"\n\nThe Home Office said in a statement: \"We have protected police funding through the 2015 Spending Review, and the public should be in no doubt that forces will continue to have the resources they need to cut crime and keep our communities safe.\"\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 European Football\n\nAtletico Madrid say striker Fernando Torres is \"stable, conscious and lucid\" in hospital after suffering a head injury in the 1-1 draw with Deportivo.\n\nThe ex-Liverpool and Chelsea striker fell heavily in an 85th-minute aerial challenge with Alex Bergantinos.\n\nThe Spain international, 32, will have more tests on Friday, but Atletico confirmed scans showed he has \"no traumatic alterations or injuries\".\n\nTorres said: \"It was just a scare. I hope to come back very soon.\"\n\nPlayers from both teams immediately rushed to Torres and called for medical help.\n\nHe was assisted for several minutes by doctors before being taken off on a stretcher and transferred to a hospital.\n\nSpeaking at his post-match news conference, Atletico coach Diego Simeone said he was \"worried and nervous\" when the incident happened.\n\n\"We heard the blow from the bench, we saw how he fell and we were afraid,\" he said. \"We didn't know if that noise was Fernando's neck or not.\"\n\nAtletico finished the game with 10 men, having used all three substitutes, but earned a point thanks to Antoine Griezmann's stunning 30-yard strike.\n\nDeportivo had taken an early lead in Pepe Mel's first game in charge when Florin Andone capitalised on a poor Jan Oblak goal-kick.\n\n\"Everybody was speechless in the dressing room because of what happened,\" said Griezmann.\n\n\"In the end I do not care about the result. I just want to know what's up with Fernando and hopefully he's fine. And he gets back to us soon.\"\n\nAtletico left-back Filipe Luis added: \"It's very ugly to see it, we were all scared but at least the news we have received so far is good and the most important thing is that Fernando is well.\"\n\nThe draw leaves Atletico fourth in La Liga - 11 adrift of leaders Barcelona - while Deportivo are now 17th.\n• None Offside, Atlético de Madrid. José Giménez tries a through ball, but Diego Godín is caught offside.\n• None Yannick Carrasco (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Fernando Torres went off injured after Atlético de Madrid had used all subs.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Álex Bergantiños (Deportivo de La Coruña) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Delay in match Fernando Torres (Atlético de Madrid) because of an injury.\n• None Juanfran (Deportivo de La Coruña) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "No matter how much you warn visitors to Cuba that they'll be offline during their stay, they often won't believe it until they actually arrive in Havana.\n\nOn arrival, they find their iPads and smartphones suddenly only serve for taking photos which, to their dismay, can't be immediately posted to their Instagram or Facebook accounts.\n\nWhether Snapchat-obsessed millennials or email-addicted workaholics, they stare at their phones in disbelief, waiting in vain for the familiar \"4G\" symbol to appear, as the realisation dawns that an enforced digital detox is upon them.\n\nConversely, plenty of travellers to Cuba relish the chance to disconnect from the office emails and the constant barrage of WhatsApp alerts and tweets.\n\nYet what for the tourist is either a temporary inconvenience or a welcome offline breather is a very different reality for ordinary Cubans.\n\nFor years, it felt to many on the island like the internet was something happening elsewhere, to other people.\n\nPeople use public wi-fi to connect their devices in a street in Havana\n\nRecently though, it is easier, and cheaper, to get online in Cuba than it used to be.\n\nThere are now more than 240 public access wi-fi spots dotted around the country and the price for an hour of internet access, while still expensive by international standards, has dropped by more than half, to $1.50 (£1.20) for an hour.\n\nIt is now a common sight to see people sitting with their laptops or phones in parks and public plazas connecting with their families abroad via video-chat technology.\n\nIn the latest development, the state telecommunications company, Etecsa, has installed internet connections in around 2,000 homes in the capital's colonial district, Old Havana, as part of a two-month pilot scheme.\n\nAmong the lucky few is Jose Antonio Ruiz.\n\nHis modest apartment in one of the neighbourhood's newer buildings is part of the government's domestic online experiment. As a private business owner who rents rooms to tourists, Mr Ruiz has found the new \"luxury\" helped him in two main ways.\n\nFirst, he says, he can advertise his apartment more easily on popular accommodation websites like Airbnb, and answer his clients' emails much more promptly than before.\n\nGuesthouse owner Jose Antonio Ruiz says internet access has benefited his business\n\nSecondly, he can offer his guests a unique service giving him a competitive advantage over other guesthouses.\n\n\"The guests are really pleased when you tell them we have internet,\" Jose Antonio explains. \"They relax as they know they can check their flights from here, read their emails or contact their families.\"\n\nDuring the pilot, the connection is free but once it's over the government is expected to publish prices, so users can choose whether to keep the service or live without it.\n\nIt hasn't yet been confirmed but it is believed it will cost around $15 (£12) for 30 hours at the slowest speed of 128 kilobits per second, and up to $110 (£90) for the fastest - two megabits per second.\n\nWith the average wage in Cuba about $25 (£20) a month, those prices would be prohibitively expensive for many Cubans.\n\nJose Antonio's connection is not fast enough to stream video, for example. Still, it is an improvement on the dial-up connections that some state employees have at home and he says he'd pay to keep it as it's enough for what he needs.\n\nOne day, though, those needs could change, says Cuban youth blogger Ariel Montenegro.\n\n\"The digital transformation of a country is not just giving people the internet, but giving them services on the internet, Cuban services,\" he explains at a public access wi-fi point in the Vedado neighbourhood of Havana.\n\nIncreased connectivity provides a boost to businesses like property rental companies\n\n\"Like banking or paying your bills or buying tickets for the movie theatre or applying to college. When those kinds of national services start to happen online then people will naturally become more impatient.\"\n\nSuch a move will take time, he thinks. However, much has already happened in a relatively short period.\n\n\"If you compare it with the rest of the world, of course we're still behind,\" admits Mr Montenegro. \"But it's progress. When I started college, although we had the internet, it was really, really, really slow. You could barely do anything.\"\n\n\"In five years' time, I believe that at least every university will have a really fast internet connection as well as in libraries, in schools and more public wi-fi spots.\"\n\nThe Cuban government's position on the internet is twofold.\n\nFirst it blames the US economic embargo for the lack of information technology in Cuba, saying that many of the major IT firms around the world fear running foul of Washington's strict rules on trading with Cuba.\n\nVice-President Miguel Angel Diaz Canel is believed to be open to greater online access\n\nSince the bilateral thaw of December 2014, that has been harder to argue, of course. Last year Google reached an agreement with Etecsa on storing its online content, such as YouTube video and Gmail, on servers inside Cuba to improve local access. Google executives are also keen to provide further internet-based solutions to challenges on the island.\n\nHowever, there is also a lingering official distrust of unfettered internet access.\n\nWhether stemming from an ill-advised USAid-run programme intended to undermine the Castro government via a text message-based form of \"Cuban Twitter\" called ZunZuneo or a broader suspicion of social media as a tool of dissent, the authorities have traditionally been wary of the net.\n\nFollowing his meeting with Raul Castro last year, the then British Foreign Secretary, Phillip Hammond, told the BBC that the 85-year-old Cuban president \"clearly understands the power of the digital economy to drive growth\" but had also raised his concerns over \"the negative aspects of the internet from online radicalisation to child sexual exploitation\".\n\nMr Castro has a little under a year to go before he steps down from the presidency. His expected successor, Vice-President Miguel Angel Diaz Canel, is thought to be receptive to greater online access after he once publicly defended a group of young bloggers who had posted relatively critical material online.\n\nAs the home internet pilot scheme draws to an close, the Cuban government must next decide whether to shut it down or roll it out across the island.\n\nDepending on the price, many thousands of potential users are ready to connect.", "Seventeen British citizens or residents were detained by the United States at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. But who are they, how did they come to be there and what became of them following their release?\n\nBorn Ronald Fiddler to a Christian Caribbean family in Manchester, he converted to Islam and changed his name to Jamal al-Harith before eventually dying as a so-called Islamic State suicide bomber in Iraq, under the alias Abu Zakariya al-Britani.\n\nHe was seized by US forces in Afghanistan, transferred to Guantanamo Bay in February 2002 and released just over two years later.\n\nAl-Harith was paid compensation by the government in order to prevent an expensive class action by former detainees.\n\nThe BBC has seen registration papers signed by al-Harith in April 2014, when he crossed into Syria and joined IS.\n\nHis wife told Channel 4 News he may have used some of the compensation payout to fund his trip.\n\nShafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Rhuhel Ahmed became known as \"the Tipton three\" - friends from the West Midlands who were among the first detainees sent to Guantanamo Bay, in early 2002, after being handed over to American forces in Afghanistan.\n\nTheir lawyers filed a habeas corpus suit in 2004 that led to a landmark ruling by the US Supreme Court allowing detainees the right to legally challenge their detention.\n\nThe three were released and returned to the UK in March 2004, where they were interviewed by police but never charged.\n\nThe men regularly spoke out about their alleged mistreatment.\n\nTheirs were among the first accounts of alleged mistreatment by their American captors and included claims of collusion by the British state.\n\nRhuhel Ahmed claimed that during MI5 interrogation sessions in Afghanistan, there had been \"a guy standing on the backs of my legs and another holding a gun to my head\".\n\nMr Ahmed, who trained as a plumber when he got back to England, told the BBC: \"I don't really care if people think I'm a terrorist or not.\n\n\"They've let me go, and that's good enough for me.\n\n\"I want to move on in my life.\"\n\nAs with all of those from Britain held in Guantanamo, the men were paid compensation by the British government.\n\nEthiopian national Binyam Mohamed spent six years in US detention after being arrested in Pakistan in 2002.\n\nHe was accused of being a would-be bomber - but, in a series of seminal court hearings, his lawyers alleged he had been tortured in Pakistan, Morocco and Afghanistan.\n\nThe Court of Appeal ordered the release of documents that confirmed Washington had told London of the ill treatment.\n\nMr Mohamed was released from Guantanamo in 2009 and returned to his family.\n\nThe former bookseller from Birmingham spent almost three years in US detention, in Afghanistan and then Guantanamo, accused of being an al-Qaeda operative.\n\nSince returning to the UK in January 2005, he has become the most outspoken opponent of British and US counter-terrorism policies of those Britons held at Guantanamo.\n\nHe has always denied the allegations.\n\nAn attempt to prosecute him in the UK for terrorism dramatically collapsed in October 2014 after police and prosecutors were handed secret intelligence material.\n\nOutside prison Mr Begg said: \"Little has changed since the beginning of the early days in the war on terror.\"\n\nOmar Deghayes came to the UK as a refugee from Col Muammar Gaddafi's Libya.\n\nHe was held at Guantanamo for five years, accused of training in terror camps, and was mistakenly said to have been photographed on jihad in Chechnya.\n\nHe has always denied he was a fighter, claiming to have travelled to Afghanistan to see first-hand what the Taliban were doing.\n\nHe says he lost sight in an eye following mistreatment by a guard in Guantanamo and described the camp as \"a very black page in American history\".\n\nSince his return to his home on the south coast of England, Mr Deghayes has campaigned for the release of the remaining detainees in Guantanamo.\n\nThree of his nephews left their home in Brighton to fight jihad in Syria.\n\nTwo of them have been killed.\n\nBisher al-Rawi is an Iraqi refugee who settled in London and was held at Guantanamo for four years.\n\nHe came to the attention of MI5 because of his friendship with the radical Palestinian-Jordanian cleric Abu Qatada.\n\nHaving been tipped off by MI5, American intelligence detained Mr al-Rawi and his travelling companion, Jamil al-Banna, on a business trip to Gambia.\n\nThe pair were put on a rendition flight to Afghanistan before arriving in Guantanamo in 2003.\n\nIn a rare TV interview, Mr al-Rawi told the BBC he had fought an internal battle to control his anger over how he had been treated.\n\n\"I thought if you go down that road, you will destroy yourself,\" he said.\n\nLike many of his fellow detainees, Tarek Dergoul has suffered from bouts of depression since his release from Guantanamo, in 2004.\n\nFive years later, he told me it had taken until then \"to get back into the groove\".\n\nMr Dergoul lost an arm after being hurt in a US missile strike on Afghanistan after 9/11.\n\nOver the years, he has refused media requests to discuss what he was doing there\n\nHe was accused of having links to al-Qaeda, but he was never charged or put before a military tribunal.\n\nHe once told me that Guantanamo had tested him.\n\n\"I like to think I did OK… but it's not over until it's over,\" he added.\n\nIn 2011 Mr Dergoul was convicted of assaulting a traffic warden whom he thought had been spying on him.\n\nMr Dergoul has not replied to the BBC's attempts to contact him.\n\nA Jordanian refugee from London, Jamil al-Banna was on the same trip to Gambia as his friend Bisher al-Rawi.\n\nHaving been tipped off by MI5, American intelligence detained the pair, putting them on a rendition flight to Afghanistan before transferring them to Guantanamo in 2003.\n\nMr al-Banna was released four years later, when he returned to England and a daughter born soon after his detention.\n\nFollowing a Spanish extradition request, he was arrested, but the charge was dropped in 2008.\n\nHe has stayed out of public life since then.\n\nBorn in Uganda, Feroz Abbasi moved to Britain with his family when he was eight and settled in Croydon, south London.\n\nFollowing his conversion to Islam, the troubled teenager fell into the orbit of the radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, who, it was claimed, dispatched his young charge to the terror training camps of Afghanistan.\n\nMr Abassi was detained by US forces, who accused him of being a member of al-Qaeda who had volunteered to carry out a \"martyrdom mission\".\n\nOne of the first detainees sent to Guantanamo, he was released without charge in January 2005.\n\nHe has refused to grant press interviews since then but has done some work for the controversial campaigning group, Cage.\n\nMartin Mubanga is a joint Zambian and British national seized by US intelligence in Zambia in 2002.\n\nAccused of having received terror training in Afghanistan, he was sent to Guantanamo.\n\nThere, the Joint Task Force claimed, he had admitted being a member of al-Qaeda and been assessed as \"high risk\".\n\nBut he was later cleared for release and returned to London in January 2005.\n\nHe joined other former detainees in successfully seeking compensation from the British authorities.\n\nHis lawyers argued that papers disclosed during the civil claim showed the British government could have prevented his transfer to Guantanamo.\n\nIn a newspaper interview soon after his release, he said: \"The authorities wanted to break me, but they strengthened me.\n\n\"They've made me what I am - even if I'm not quite sure who that person is.\"\n\nRichard Belmar is a west London convert to Islam sent to Guantanamo in October 2002 after allegedly being captured in an al-Qaeda safe house in Pakistan.\n\nHe was released in January 2005, when he told a newspaper he had been beaten and sexually humiliated in US detention.\n\nIt's not known where he currently lives.\n\nAbdenour Sameur is an Algerian army deserter who came to Britain in 1999 and was later granted refugee status.\n\nHe was arrested in Pakistan, accused of attending terror training camps linked to al-Qaeda, and sent to Guantanamo in June 2002.\n\nHe was released along with Jamil Al-Banna and Omar Deghayes in December 2007.\n\nIt isn't known what he did afterwards.\n\nAhmed Errachidi is a Moroccan who came to London in the mid-1980s, where he worked as a chef.\n\nHe was detained in Pakistan in 2002, for allegedly attending an al-Qaeda training camp, and sent to Guantanamo.\n\nHe was released in May 2007 after his lawyers proved he had been working in London when he was accused of being at a training camp.\n\nHe returned to his family in Morocco and has since written a book about his experiences in captivity on the Cuban island.\n\nAhmed Belbacha is a former footballer from Algeria who came to Britain in 1999.\n\nHe was detained in Pakistan and accused of being sent to Afghanistan by the radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri for terror training.\n\nHe was transferred to Guantanamo in early 2002 and, despite being cleared for release five years later, freed only in 2014.\n\nMr Belbacha was returned to Algeria after his lawyers received assurances he would be treated fairly and humanely.\n\nOriginally from Saudi Arabia, Shaker Aamer was the last British resident to leave Guantanamo, having being held there without trial for 13 years.\n\nHe was accused of being an associate of Osama Bin Laden.\n\nHis lawyers say the case against him came from unreliable allegations extracted during torture.\n\nHe was repatriated to the UK in 2015.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, he said the the best thing about being free was \"just to wake up and know that nobody's going to tell you what to do\".\n• None What does the future hold for Guantanamo?", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City cruised into the FA Cup quarter-finals after fighting back to beat much-changed Championship promotion hopefuls Huddersfield in their fifth-round replay.\n\nAfter a 0-0 draw in the original tie, the visitors led when Harry Bunn's shot went through Claudio Bravo's legs.\n\nBut tap-ins from Leroy Sane and Pablo Zabaleta, with Sergio Aguero's clinical penalty in between, turned the replay in City's favour before half-time.\n\nAguero swept in Raheem Sterling's cross at the near post for City's fourth, before substitute Kelechi Iheanacho poked in with the last kick of the game.\n\nCity's reward is a quarter-final trip to Premier League rivals Middlesbrough on Saturday, 11 March (12:15 GMT).\n\nPep Guardiola arrived at Manchester City last summer with the clear remit from owner Sheikh Mansour to take the club to \"a new level\".\n\nWhile that demand is largely thought to mean success in the Champions League, the City hierarchy will also want to see the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach deliver domestic trophies.\n\nWinning the Premier League looks to be a uphill task with Chelsea 11 points clear, while Manchester United took the season's first silverware by claiming the EFL Cup.\n\nBut they have moved into the last eight of the FA Cup for the first time in four seasons after overcoming an early scare against Huddersfield.\n\n\"Seeing their biggest rivals United bag the first trophy of the season means City will be thinking 'we want a piece of that',\" said Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer.\n\n\"I think this is their best chance of silverware this season.\"\n\nNot a Bravo performance - or was it?\n\nDespite the relative ease of extending their unbeaten run to eight matches, there were still some concerning sights for Guardiola. Namely more uncertain goalkeeping from the returning Bravo.\n\nGuardiola reiterated his confidence in the former Barcelona keeper before the replay, despite trusting Willy Caballero instead in City's past four Premier League matches and the Champions League last-16 win against Monaco.\n\nHowever, he watched the Chilean make another error to gift the opening goal to former City youngster Bunn.\n\nThe 33-year-old stopper, who was dropped after conceding 16 goals from the previous 24 shots on target he had faced in the Premier League, let Bunn's low strike through his legs in Huddersfield's first effort on target.\n\nThat led to ironic applause from the home fans when Bravo blocked Huddersfield's second shot at goal shortly before half-time.\n\nGuardiola did not appear pleased, turning around to glare at the supporters behind him.\n\nAfterwards the Spaniard described Bravo's performance as \"top\", adding \"his performance with the foot helped us build up\".\n\nAll not lost for promotion-chasing Town\n\nHuddersfield had lost only one of their previous 18 games in all competitions, putting them third in the Championship and in the thick of the promotion race.\n\nPlaying in the Premier League for the first time is clearly their priority.\n\nHead coach David Wagner, sat in the stands after being given a two-match touchline ban, made nine changes to his regular team - but it hardly showed in the opening 20 minutes.\n\nBunn's opener sent the 7,200 travelling fans into delirium and, although the Terriers could not sustain the same level as the game wore on, credit must be given for the way they continued to try to attack after the break.\n\nJoe Lolley wasted an excellent chance for Town to get back in the game when he headed over the bar from close range, while away fans hopefully demanded a penalty when Collin Quaner fell in the box under the lightest of challenges from John Stones.\n\nWhile the scoreline ended heavily in favour of their opponents, Huddersfield will return to their promotion challenge full of heart before what could be a memorable run-in.\n\nAguero's future has been subject to much speculation after he was dropped by Guardiola last month, with leading European clubs said to be expected to bid for the Argentina international this summer.\n\nHere he showed the City boss exactly what he can offer: movement, energy, tenacity - and goals. Guardiola was suitably impressed, praising the striker's performance as \"the best I've seen from him\".\n\n\"Even in the moment (when we conceded) we were playing quite good, we made good things against a good team.\n\n\"We are happy because we're in the quarter-finals. I was impressed with Huddersfield in both halves - they have good quality players. We missed a lot of the last passes. But OK - we knew how tough it could be and we play in a good performance.\n\n\"It's the best Sergio Aguero ever. Today the performance was amazing. The runs were at the right moment and the right tempo. His performance was top - the same with Claudio Bravo, his performance with the foot helped us build up.\"\n\n\"Of course the start was positive because we went in front but we were not at our best, performance-wise.\n\n\"We have shown too much respect, unfortunately, against a very strong Manchester City side.\n\n\"Congratulations to Pep. The result was fair. We made too many easy mistakes when we had the ball and when we defended we were not aggressive enough.\n\n\"When you play against Manchester City you have to be very aggressive.\"\n\nBoth sides go back to the pursuit of the top two in their respective leagues.\n\nCity travel to relegation-threatened Sunderland on Sunday (16:00 GMT), while Huddersfield host leaders Newcastle in a promotion clash on Saturday (17:30 GMT).\n• None Goal! Manchester City 5, Huddersfield Town 1. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jesús Navas with a cross.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Attempt missed. Collin Quaner (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jack Payne (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Collin Quaner.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Martin Cranie (Huddersfield Town) because of an injury.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Kelechi Iheanacho tries a through ball, but Raheem Sterling is caught offside.\n• None Fernandinho (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 4, Huddersfield Town 1. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Offside, Huddersfield Town. Jon Gorenc Stankovic tries a through ball, but Collin Quaner is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Gordon Brown has called for the second part of the Leveson Inquiry to go ahead - and said the majority of press abuses in recent years were from the Murdoch press.\n\nSpeaking to the former prime minister for Thursday's BBC News at Ten, I asked him why we need it, given the criminal trials that followed the first part and high cost to the public.\n\n\"There are so many unanswered questions about what the Murdoch News International group did… blagging, impersonation, email interception, breaches under the law itself... that unless there is a full and proper inquiry we'll never be able to clear the air,\" he said.\n\n\"And we'll always have suspicions about how the media was acting for a whole decade at the start of the 21st century.\"\n\nAs things stand, there is a judicial review into the terms of a government consultation into both whether the second part of Leveson should happen and also if Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (which imposes costs of legal actions against publishers on to those publishers if they don't sign up to an approved regulator) should be implemented.\n\nThe second Leveson Inquiry was to look specifically at allegations of unlawful or improper conduct within News International, other newspaper organisations and, as appropriate, other organisations within the media,\n\nMost of the people I speak to in Westminster think it is unlikely that a government so focused on leaving the European Union will want the distraction of another inquiry.\n\nFor Brown, that is not good enough - and the fact that David Cameron promised it would happen counts for plenty.\n\n\"Leveson himself said this was only the first part of his inquiry, Mr Cameron when prime minister said there had to be a Leveson Two, the House of Lords has looked at this and agreed there has to be a second inquiry,\" he said.\n\n\"Mr Cameron said that was to happen when he was prime minister. It does seem strange that we're now not going to have it unless we keep pushing for it.\n\n\"Leveson One could only deal with part of the problem. The whole of the problem has to be dealt with, including the way Murdoch newspapers impersonated people, including the way there were breaches of the law, including also how email interception might have happened, as well as telephone interception. And the media itself should want an inquiry to clear the air.\"\n\nBrown believes there is fresh evidence that has not been sufficiently raked over. And it was clear in speaking to him how personally he was affected by press intrusion.\n\n\"There is fresh evidence. We have the Daniel Morgan murder inquiry and that is revealing fresh evidence almost every month. We have the statements made by people who were in police at the time that have been sent to [Culture Secretary] Karen Bradley as a reason for taking action.\n\n\"We have the evidence that people like me have that I was impersonated, that my bank account was broken into, that my lawyer's office was besieged by calls impersonating me from the Murdoch newspapers.\n\n\"These are all things that happened and have not been properly accounted for by the Murdoch empire.\"\n\nI asked Brown whether, as many of his critics contend, this was really the vendetta of a wronged man.\n\nHis response was: \"I can only explain what happened to me. I know I was impersonated. My lawyer's office received questions by impersonation. My bank accounts and mortgage accounts were broken into.\n\n\"I am in a position to defend myself. There are thousands who don't know what happened to them. People who have less power to defend themselves than me deserve this inquiry.\"\n\nMurdoch, with whom Brown was thought at one point to have developed a trustful relationship, deserted Labour at the 2010 election, endorsing the Conservatives in a manner timed to inflict maximum damage on Brown's ambitions.\n\nThe bid by 21st Century Fox for the 61% of Sky it does not already own is imminent. It is currently being bounced between Fox and the European Commission as part of what are known as \"pre-notification talks\". They are a formality.\n\nVery soon, Fox will formally notify Karen Bradley of their bid and she will have 10 days to decide whether to refer the bid to telecoms regulator Ofcom.\n\nJames Murdoch gave evidence to the first Leveson Inquiry\n\nI asked Brown specifically whether he thought that the Murdochs, and James Murdoch, were fit and proper to hold a broadcasting licence.\n\n\"Before you make a decision about the ownership of a very important media organisation, you should know all the facts.\n\n\"Because we haven't had Leveson Two there is always going to be doubt as to whether we know what is happening in this organisation, whether we know whether there are fit and proper people governing this organisation.\"\n\nI asked him finally why he seemed to be targeting Murdoch particularly. After all, it was not just the Murdoch press that did wrong. But that is not really how Brown sees it.\n\n\"All the major instances of abuse that merit inquiry in recent years have come out of the Murdoch press. We have the fake Sheikh, we have the telephone hacking, we have issues about email hacking.\n\n\"Most of them resolve at least in the main around the Murdoch media and that's where the inquiry has got to start.\"\n\nNews UK declined to comment on these assertions. Their position is simple and has been made publicly many times: there have been extensive criminal trials into many of these accusations, with several journalists in the dock.\n\nWe don't need yet more flagellation of the press.\n\nWatch the interview on BBC News at Ten at 22:00 GMT on BBC One on Thursday or on iPlayer for 24 hours afterwards.", "When a German Chancellor feels the need to explain the refugee convention to an American president, the speaker of British House of Commons says the leader of its closest ally is not welcome to address parliament, China positions itself as the grown-up in the room by chiding him for his blunt Twitter diplomacy and the botched travel ban is denounced not just by US adversaries, such as Iran, but allies, such as France and Canada, is it not time to sound the death-knell of American exceptionalism?\n\nThat is, the credo pushed by successive presidents that the United States is a beacon of democracy, an exemplar of human rights, an indispensable country imbued with special values and beliefs that grants it the moral authority and national self-belief to influence and admonish other countries, friend and foe alike.\n\nDonald Trump, rather than being heralded as the leader of free world, has been pilloried. By protesters who took to the streets - and snow - from Australia to Antarctica as part of more than 600 protests worldwide on the first weekend of his presidency.\n\nBy satirists who came up with the \"Netherlands Second\" viral video - and all its other cheeky iterations - in response to Trump's \"America First\" doctrine.\n\nBy models at Milan Fashion Week who paraded on the catwalk wearing the now iconic pink pussy hats that first appeared on the Washington Mall at the massive women's march.\n\nBy graphic designers who have created a gallery of scolding magazine covers, including, most shockingly, Der Spiegel's depiction of the US president holding aloft the severed head of the Statue of Liberty.\n\nWhen Jimmy Kimmel joked during his Oscars opening monologue that Donald Trump had made 225 countries hate America, he was exaggerating. As with all well-aimed satire, however, it contained more than a kernel of truth.\n\nIt is a measure of Trump's unpopularity that George W Bush, the last US president to attract such international ire, is being rehabilitated in the global mind as a cool-headed statesman and staunch defender of American press freedom.\n\nLast year, at the height of the presidential campaign, a Pew Research Center poll suggested that 85% of Europeans have \"no confidence\" in Donald Trump to do the right thing as president.\n\nA poll conducted by Gallup International Association suggested that, were the US election to be held in 45 foreign countries, Hillary Clinton would have won a landslide victory in every single one, with the sole exception of Russia. The French President Francois Hollande even said the brash billionaire made people \"want to retch\".\n\nThough international leaders are now more respectful, few could be described as being genuinely admiring. It will take more than his speech before the joint session of Congress, in which Trump sought to stabilise his presidency, to assuage global concerns.\n\nDuring his inaugural address, Donald Trump paid lip service to the notion of American exceptionalism, though he did not use the phrase.\n\n\"We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example,\" he declared. \"We will shine for everyone to follow.\"\n\nBut rather than painting a picture of sunny American uplands, his inaugural address sketched out something darker and more dystopian: a country marred by poverty-stricken and crime-ridden inner cities and \"rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape\".\n\nThe speech will be remembered not for his brief invocation of American exceptionalism, but rather his depiction of \"American carnage\" and his pledge to put \"America First.\" It was bunker America rather than beacon America.\n\nIn his speech to the joint session of Congress, there was another perfunctory acknowledgment of exceptionalism thinking when he said the \"torch is now in our hands. And we will use it to light up the world.\"\n\nBut although softer in tone than his angry inaugural, Tuesday night's address was stridently nationalistic nonetheless. \"My job is not to represent the world,\" he affirmed. \"My job is to represent the United States of America.\"\n\nDonald Trump has already signalled he believes that America can be great without it being exceptional. In a jaw-dropping interview with Bill O'Reilly of Fox News broadcast on Super Bowl Sunday, Trump seemed to reject the central tenet of exceptionalist thinking: that American values are the global gold standard.\n\nAsked why he favoured closer ties with the Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom O'Reilly characterised as \"a killer\", Trump responded: \"There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so innocent?\"\n\nFor critics, it implied a moral equivalence between the United States and Russia, a country that in recent years has annexed Crimea, been accused of murdering internal opponents, allegedly committed war crimes in Syria and severely curtailed LGBT rights.\n\nDonald Trump also appears to set more store in hard power, the use and threat of force, than soft power, the use of more subtle forms of suasion such as diplomacy and international aid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump addressed Congress for the first time.\n\nJust look at this week's budget proposal, which calls for an almost 10% splurge on defence spending to be paid for in part by cuts to State Department funding and international aid. Promoting human rights abroad, a central tenet of the exceptionalist creed, no longer appears to be an urgent priority.\n\nThe United States is even said to be considering withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, partly because of what it perceives as UN bias against Israel.\n\nActing on another exceptionalist impulse, America has traditionally championed press freedom around the world. The First Amendment resonates way beyond these shores.\n\nBut with Donald Trump continuing to rage against the US media in an attempt, seemingly, to delegitimise it, America's clarion voice on press freedom has at best been compromised and at worst been rendered mute.\n\nRather than wanting America to be emulated, it would appear that Trump prefers it to be feared. And although local criticism, from media organisations like the New York Times, lays bare his thin skin, international criticism seems almost to have an emboldening effect.\n\nIf other countries are railing against him, it is a sign he is doing his job and delivering on his campaign promises.\n\nIt brings to mind the famed chant heard from the stands of Millwall FC, one of the least fashionable clubs in the English football league: \"No-one likes us, we don't care.\"\n\nRight now, it's American adulation that he seems to crave more than global admiration.\n\nTo many international ears, American exceptionalism has long sounded like bogus boosterism, a vain conceit.\n\nWhat right did a country that countenanced slavery and the racial apartheid of Jim Crow have to lecture others?\n\nEven in World War Two, when America became the \"arsenal of the democracy\" in the defeat of fascism, it was a segregated US military that took to the battlefield.\n\nVietnam, Watergate, Guantanamo Bay, the Iraq war and electronic eavesdropping. To foreign critics, American exceptionalism doubles as American hypocrisy.\n\nBarack Obama sought to revive the concept after the Bush years, when America's global stock was low, and regularly spoke of exceptionalism. Under his presidency, however, it continued to have negative connotations. America was exceptional because of its high rates of gun crime, its multiple killings and its racial flare-ups.\n\nRebels in Syria wondered why the Obama administration wasn't doing more to help it oust a murderous despot like Bashar al-Assad. Moreover, Guantamano Bay, a US landmark that loomed larger in the post-911 era than the Statue of Liberty in many Muslim countries, remained open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Pannell reports from the city of Baltimore: \"Hope has given way to despair\"\n\nUS democracy was also widely seen as falling into disrepute, because of the dysfunction in Washington, the rise of hyper-partisan oppositional politics and the anger that poisoned the entire polity.\n\nThe 2016 presidential campaign, pitting two such deeply unpopular candidates against each other in a hugely uninspiring contest, presented an ugly shop window. The Electoral College, for those unversed in its intricacies and anomalies, also seemed demonstrably undemocratic.\n\nHow could Donald Trump emerge the victor, they asked, when Hillary Clinton received almost three million more votes?\n\nAmerican exceptionalism was looking shaky even before Donald Trump took the oath of office.\n\nA key difference is that Barack Obama continued until his final days to talk of building a more perfect union, an aspiration that sprung from his exceptionalist ethos, while Donald Trump continues to talk of building that wall along the Mexican border.\n\nOver the centuries, what has set US global leadership apart from the European powers that used to dominate the world is a fundamental difference in national mindset: America came to believe it was born to lead rather than born to rule.\n\nHaving won its independence from an imperial power, it sought to colonise the planet with its values and ideas rather than building a territorial empire.\n\nEver since Franklin Delano Roosevelt brought America into the war, the assertion of global leadership, and the promulgation of its ideas that goes with it, has been deemed central to the national self-interest.\n\nBut Trumpism, with its narrower homeland focus, looks like making a definitive break from this past.\n\nHis planned wall could end up serving as the metaphor for his presidency.\n\nTrump's America might end up being a forcefully protected citadel, but will it be a city on a hill?", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nThe head of British Cycling has apologised for \"failings\" following accusations of bullying and sexism against top-level cyclists.\n\nChairman Jonathan Browning said the governing body will be making changes to be more caring to riders.\n\n\"Where there are failings we apologise,\" Browning told BBC sports editor Dan Roan.\n\nHe added the organisation would also address concerns raised by MPs at a select committee hearing into doping.\n\nAn investigation into the culture at British Cycling was launched last year after ex-riders complained about their treatment.\n\nA report on the findings of the investigation is imminent.\n\nBut the governing body says work on an action plan to address any \"failings\" is already under way.\n\n\"Athlete and participant welfare is our highest priority,\" said Browning.\n\nHe said the organisation had achieved \"remarkable success\" in not only winning races, but bringing new people into the sport.\n\nHowever, he added: \"We deeply regret any instance where we have failed to deliver.\"\n\nHe accepted there had been \"well reported\" incidences where behaviour had been \"unacceptable\" and needed to be addressed.\n\n\"My ambition for athletes is anyone leaving the programme says 'I would recommend it to my younger brother or sister',\" he said.\n\nBrowning said British Cycling was now \"committed to implementing the recommendations of the independent review in full\" to ensure the best possible environment in which its athletes could flourish.\n• None Providing \"whole life\" development opportunities for every rider and supporting those who leave the programme\n• None Developing a \"refreshed set of values, behaviours and leadership principles\" by which British Cycling will operate\n\nThe independent review was commissioned last April by British Cycling alongside UK Sport, which provides elite funding to the organisation.\n\nIt came after former technical director Shane Sutton, who was was later cleared of eight of nine allegations, was found to have used sexist language towards cyclist Jess Varnish.\n\nUK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl says the independent review has \"identified valuable lessons\" both for British Cycling and other sports it funds.\n\nThe organisation set out its own action plan to help British Cycling, which includes \"placing more emphasis on the importance of culture and duty of care\".\n\nBrowning added: \"Athlete development has been and will continue to be the key to our success at the highest level.\n\n\"This is not about complying to protect funding, this is about running and leading our organisation in a way that is consistent with our ambition to be a world-class governing body and a great place to work.\"\n\n'We need to show we are clean'\n\nThe release of British Cycling's action plan comes a day after MP Damian Collins said the body's credibility was \"in tatters\" following a separate inquiry into doping.\n\nMPs heard \"some detailed and worrying\" evidence from former British Cycling coach Simon Cope and UK Anti-Doping chief Nicole Sapstead, covering poor record-keeping of riders' medical details to the mysterious contents of a jiffy bag delivered from British Cycling to Team Sky at a race in France.\n\nBrowning, who only took on the role of chairman last month, said he had been left \"really disappointed\" by the hearing, adding: \"We're still looking for clear answers. Not only do we need to be clean but we have to be able to demonstrate it.\n\n\"I've not come across any evidence of cheating. I've found an organisation that's changed quickly and needs to reset its priorities - it's something we are going to fix.\"", "Travel experts began warning even before the 2016 election that Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric could cause a decline in tourism. So has the so-called \"Trump slump\" arrived?\n\nStephen Mumford, a professor of metaphysics at Durham University in north-east England, had some money to burn thanks to a large research fellowship grant he was awarded in October 2016. Always eager to travel to other countries and present his research, he began making arrangements for trips to several academic conferences in the United States.\n\nIn his first month in office, the Trump administration imposed a travel ban on seven majority-Muslim countries, and empowered US Customs and Border Protection agents to enforce immigration laws more assertively at ports of entry.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters gather at Dulles airport: \"Welcome to the USA!\"\n\nMumford started to hear stories he didn't like - like the British Muslim school teacher who was separated from his students and removed from a flight bound for the US, or that incoming travellers were being asked to turn over their mobile phones and social media passwords.\n\nLast month, Mumford made what he says was a difficult decision: to cancel all his planned travel to the US.\n\n\"I don't want to go to a conference if other people are excluded simply because they belong to a particular group,\" he says.\n\n\"I don't feel I can just walk in and think, 'I'm OK', and forget the guy behind me can't come in just because he's a Muslim. That's being a party to the unfairness.\"\n\nThousands of professors around the globe have pledged not to travel to the US.\n\nA growing list of Canadian schools who once made regular trips across the border for sports, music and other educational events are cancelling their journeys for fear that foreign-born students could be singled out.\n\nIn Philadelphia, at least one large conference worth an estimated $7m in revenue to the city has been cancelled, and the tourism board of New York City recently reversed its pre-election projection that the city would see an increase of 400,000 international travellers in 2017.\n\nThe board now predicts 300,000 fewer foreign tourists will visit the Big Apple this year than did in 2016.\n\nAnecdotes like these are the worst fears of travel industry analysts, who've been warning for weeks that the US could be entering a tourism \"Trump slump\".\n\nThe online booking site Kayak reported that searches by UK citizens for US destinations had \"fallen off a cliff\", and that hotel prices in cities like San Francisco, New York and Las Vegas dropped between 32-39%.\n\nHopper, another travel site, released data showing that searches for flights to America had dropped globally an average of 22%.\n\nBy contrast, the online travel agent site Tripsta reported a spike in one-way flights from the UK to the US in January and February of 2017, but hypothesised the cause could be \"the return of non-US nationals concerned about restrictions to international travel\".\n\nThe Global Business Travel Association estimated that for the week Trump's travel ban was in effect, the US lost $185m in travel bookings (£150m).\n\nA Syrian refugee family who was previously banned by Trump's executive order celebrate their entry into the US\n\nBut the president can't shoulder all the blame.\n\nAdam Sacks, president of Tourism Economics, characterises the slowing of tourism interest as a \"trifecta of travel hindrances\": a weak global economy, a strong US dollar and the \"falling favourability\" of the US in the eyes of the international community.\n\nInternational travel was already down in 2016 by about 0.9% compared to 2015. Travel to the US from Canada was down 1.4% in December 2016 compared to the previous month, but overall, 2016 was the third consecutive year that fewer Canadians went to the States.\n\n\"We expected 2017 to be a fairly subpar year in any case - very modest growth,\" he says. \"[But] this couldn't come at a worse time.\n\n\"The US is an expensive destination, we have a muted global economy and now we pile this on - that's why the impacts are as significant as they are.\"\n\nHis firm projects a loss of 6.3 million visitors by next year, which translates into $10.8bn in lost revenue, including what Sacks calls \"Trump-induced\" losses.\n\nHenry Harteveldt, an analyst with the Atmosphere Research Group, says the US tourism industry has probably already bounced back from the immediate impact of the blocked travel ban. However, industry insiders are anxiously awaiting the language of the new executive order to replace it.\n\n\"There are a lot of unknowns. The travel industry, which is already a discretionary industry, hates uncertainty,\" he says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Iraqi Fuad Suleman, who was turned back in Cairo, says he and his family had been preparing to emigrate to the US for two years\n\nHarteveldt points to a survey his firm conducted weeks before the executive order took place, which showed that in 15 countries around the world about 20% of the respondents reported that as a result of the presidential election they were either somewhat or highly unlikely to travel to the US or had actually cancelled a planned trip.\n\n\"The fact that in 15 countries so many people had either cancelled trips or had such an unfavourable view of the United States was really alarming to me as an analyst,\" he says.\n\n\"Events that transpired during the presidential election just created a very bad impression of the US in many people's minds.\"\n\nTrump's travel ban inspired protests around the globe, including this one in London\n\nLori, a mother of two boys in Edmonton, Alberta, says they used to make regular trips to the Twin Cities in Minnesota. After Trump's executive orders on immigration, her sons urged her to cancel a trip in March.\n\n\"For our oldest, it was out of outrage: the majority of his friends are either visible minority immigrants/refugees, or the children of immigrants or refugees; some of them are Muslim,\" she wrote in an email.\n\n\"For our 11 year old, it was fear: he equates the word 'America' with violence and discrimination against innocent people now.\"\n\nAlthough some of the frenzy over President Trump may cool in the coming months, Sacks says that international travellers are booking their spring and summer holidays now.\n\n\"This is a massive negative economic impact that's at stake here. It will result in appreciable declines in tax revenues, and will affect household income and also employment and profitability for the industry,\" he says.\n\nHow much it will hurt will be more apparent later, once the high travel seasons of spring and summer arrive, and after publicly held airlines, hotels and travel agencies file their earnings reports in mid-April.\n\nThe US government also has not yet released this year's visa-entry figures, which will also reveal more about how travel has been affected.\n\nMumford says that though his decision not to attend a prestigious conference in California could hurt him professionally, he can't put aside his unease over the changes he sees happening in the US.\n\n\"I've got the travel money, and if I'm not wanted or regarded suspiciously, then I'll go elsewhere,\" he says.\n\n\"I feel I'm showing solidarity with my friends in America by this minor protest.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nFerrari set the fastest lap for the second time in four days as the first pre-season test came to an end.\n\nKimi Raikkonen was 0.897 seconds quicker than Red Bull's Max Verstappen at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.\n\nLewis Hamilton did not run after Mercedes discovered an electrical problem with the car, while team-mate Valtteri Bottas was eighth-fastest.\n\nWilliams were unable to test because of damage done to their car in a crash by rookie Lance Stroll on Wednesday.\n\nA chassis needed repairing after the 18-year-old Canadian spun into the barriers in his third off-track moment in two days.\n\nWilliams said they \"aimed to be back on track\" for the start of the second and final test on Tuesday.\n\nMercedes were afflicted by reliability problems for the first time in what has been an otherwise impressive first test, with the team stopping Bottas early when it discovered an anomaly in the computer data.\n\nEnglishman Jolyon Palmer continued what has been an encouraging first test for Renault with the third fastest time.\n\n\"I am driving with such a big smile on my face because the car feels so nice to drive,\" Palmer said. \"Everything at the moment is pointing in a good direction.\"\n\nRead more: 'I am like a kid on a rollercoaster ride' - drivers love 'fastest ever' new F1 cars\n\nThe final day of the first test was intended for teams to try out a new range of wet tyres designed by Pirelli after criticisms last year.\n\nDrivers had asked for changes to the 'extreme' tyre, used in the heaviest rain, because it was too prone to aquaplaning.\n\nHaas driver Romain Grosjean said there had been \"a lot of progress made from last year\" but said the 'intermediate' tyre \"got destroyed a bit too early, so some work is to be done\".\n\nStroll, who is making his debut in F1 this season, is bringing considerable financial backing to Williams - said to be at least £20m this year.\n\nThat is in addition to a similar amount last year, when the team provided him with an extensive test programme in a two-year-old car at circuits around the world to prepare him for his debut.\n\nBut he has had a torrid introduction to F1 in Spain this week.\n\nOn Tuesday, his first day in the 2017 Williams car, Stroll crashed at the high-speed Turn Nine after just 12 laps and damaged the front wing.\n\nWilliams had to stop running for the day while the wing was sent back to their base in Oxfordshire for repairs and a new one was flown out for Wednesday.\n\nStroll then completed 100 laps before crashing again at Turn Six.\n\nWilliams engineering chief Rob Smedley said Stroll had been caught out by the lack of grip on cold tyres.\n\n\"Lance was out on cold tyres, on an out-lap with a lot of fuel in the car, and the tyre stepped away from him,\" Smedley said.\n\n\"He was an innocent victim of that happening and what should have been an innocuous sideways moment brought him around into the barrier and did some damage. That happens and we expect it to happen, there is no blame on his part.\"\n\nThe second and final pre-season test runs from 7-10 March, with the first race of the season in Australia on 24-26 March.\n\nFastest times on day four of testing\n\nToro Rosso's Carlos Sainz, Williams' Felipe Massa and Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton did not run.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nThe International Olympic Committee has warned it will move the Tokyo 2020 golf event from its current venue if it does not admit women.\n\nThe Kasumigaseki Country Club does not allow women to become full members or play on Sundays.\n\n\"I respect it's a private club but our position is clear. We will only go to a club that has non-discrimination,\" said IOC vice-president John Coates.\n\n\"At some point there has to be a cut-off.\"\n\nHowever, Coates added that he did not expect to have to find another host for the event.\n\n\"It's possible to go elsewhere but I think this is going to work out,\" he added.\n\n\"My understanding is as recently as this week there have been more discussions with the club, that it's heading in the right direction for them to have a non-discriminatory membership.\n\n\"It would appear that we should be able to have this resolved by the end of June.\"\n\nIn February, club chairman Kiichi Kimura described the controversy as \"annoying\" after initial internal discussions had not resulted in any decision on Kasumigaseki's membership policy.\n\n\"We are baffled,\" he said.\n\n\"We agreed to host at their request, but we never made a bid.\"\n\nWorld number one and Rio 2016 silver medallist Lydia Ko has said that she wants to see the bar to women at the club lifted , while the Japan Golf Council - a group aimed at modernising the game - has sent the IOC a letter recommending an alternative course.\n\nRio 2016 was the first time golf event had been part of the Olympic programme since 1904. South Korea's Inbee Park won the women's title, with Great Britain's Justin Rose securing the men's.", "Chinese Super League clubs \"fell in love\" with striker Andy Carroll when scouting the Premier League this season, says manager Slaven Bilic.\n\nBut Bilic says there was \"no way\" West Ham were going to sell the 28-year-old in the January transfer window.\n\nThe former Newcastle and Liverpool striker has scored six times in 12 Premier League appearances for the Hammers despite an injury-hit campaign.\n\n\"He is one of our best players and we want to keep him,\" said Bilic.\n\n\"Chinese clubs send their representatives over to investigate. They were watching other players, but they fell in love with Andy. The club didn't try to sell him.\"\n\nBilic says Carroll heard about the interest and was no doubt \"flattered by it\", but that it had not been discussed.\n\nBilic 'not bothered' by new contract\n\nFormer Hammers defender Bilic rejoined the club as manager in 2015 and has 18 months to run on his current deal, but cited ex-Leicester City boss Claudio Ranieri as an example when suggesting he was not stressing about his contract at the minute.\n\nHe said: \"The way I see it. I'm very happy. I have a contract and I am very happy. I don't think that much about it.\n\n\"I wouldn't lie, yes, it would be nice but I have a year-and-a-half contract and there's no difference when you consider what happened to Ranieri. The biggest one and the best one.\n\n\"Who has the safest job? We would all say Ranieri. Everyone would have said that. Ranieri. And then what happened with that? So I'm not that bothered about that to be fair.\"\n\nWest Ham finished seventh in Bilic's first season in charge, but a move to London Stadium and the loss of influential playmaker Dimitri Payet to Marseille have contributed to a difficult second term.\n\nBilic said: \"Well it was a hard season, but every season is hard. I consider this season as a great season for me individually for the team and club.\n\n\"This season we experience negative things, we moved the stadium, the training ground, a very strange pre-season. And then we were hit of lots of injuries, some positions we didn't have any players.\n\n\"To come out of that in such a good way, of course we want to improve but it looks pretty good now. It makes you stronger. It's different if you are eighth, ninth and 10th and stay there. This way you enjoy it and it gives you more experience for the future.\"\n\n'Chelsea can still slip up'\n\nWest Ham face Premier League leaders Chelsea on Monday, having knocked them out of the EFL Cup in October. And Bilic is a fan of Blues boss Antonio Conte.\n\nHe said: \"I'm surprised how good they have been. I was expecting him to have a strong impact because he had it at Juventus.\n\n\"I watched Juve quite a lot and I was studying his game. I didn't know because no-one knows.\n\n\"I expected him to do great long term and it is a surprise they are 10 points clear. Conte is a great manager, he done it at Juve, he done it with Italy. A brilliant manager of course.\n\n\"It [the title race] is still very open. Many, many points. If they slip up, which you can in every game, other teams need to be ready.\"", "Andy Murray saved seven match points in a 31-minute second-set tie-break before beating Philipp Kohlschreiber in the Dubai Championships quarter-finals.\n\nThe world number one needed eight set points to edge the German 20-18 in the tie-break and level the match.\n\nNo men's tour-level match has featured a tie-break with more than 38 points since 1991 - six have finished 20-18.\n\nMurray then raced to victory in only 30 minutes in the final set to win 6-7 (4-7) 7-6 (20-18) 6-1.\n• None Djokovic knocked out by Kyrgios in Mexico\n\nThe Briton, who said he had \"never played a tie-break like that in my life\", will face number seven seed Lucas Pouille in the last four on Friday.\n\nFernando Verdasco and Robin Haase will meet in the other last-four tie.\n\nMurray, who is playing his first tournament since his fourth-round defeat at the Australian Open in January, looked out of sorts in the first set and served two double faults as he lost the tie-break 7-4.\n\nThe 29-year-old broke early in the second and seemed to be cruising, but Kohlschreiber, who was scoring consistently with his forehand, had other ideas and broke back as the Scot served for the set.\n\nIt was the German who faltered first in the tie-break and Murray had four set points before Kohlschreiber went ahead at 9-8.\n\nA stubborn Murray played some inspired tennis to stay in the match, including a stunning cross-court drop shot to save the first match point, while the German sent numerous groundstrokes wide on further chances to secure the match.\n\nIn the end Murray was able to capitalise on Kohlschreiber's wastefulness to level.\n\nKohlschreiber capitulated in the final set as Murray broke twice to race to victory in a set that lasted a minute less than the second set tie-break.\n\n\"I've never played a tie-break like that ever, not in juniors, nothing has been close to that,\" said Murray. \"I'll probably never play another one like that again. I've been playing on the tour for 11, 12 years now and nothing, nothing's been close to that.\"\n\n'It was a special match to win'\n\nMurray lost to world number 50 Mischa Zverev at the Australian Open having been beaten by Novak Djokovic in the final of the Qatar Open at the beginning of January.\n\nThe three-time Grand Slam winner said the manner of his victory over Kohlschreiber would give him \"a lot of confidence\".\n\nHe said: \"They can be very important matches to get through. I could have easily lost tonight, but the way I played when I was behind will give me a lot of confidence after what was a tough start to the year. I want to keep that going now, it was a special match to win because of how it went.\"\n\nIn a tie-break players must change ends every six points, but Murray, Kohlschreiber and the umpire forgot to do so at 15-15.\n\nMurray added: \"I realised at 16-16, the umpire said he forgot and the machine didn't recognise it, I do not know if the machines are made to go that high, it doesn't happen every often.\"\n\nKohlschreiber said: \"Of course losing is always disappointing, but I'm not sad. I think I played great tennis, one of my best matches. You can be thinking about one or two shots, but it was just a great match. It's well-deserved, he's a great fighter, he never gave up.\"", "Double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee says he may not return to triathlon for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.\n\nThe World Triathlon Series starts in Abu Dhabi on Friday but Brownlee, 28, is not racing as he prepares to step up to the longer half-Ironman distance.\n\nThe Yorkshireman claimed triathlon gold at Rio 2016, defending his title from London 2012.\n\n\"There's a chance I could never be at an Olympic Games again but to say I'll never do it is impossible,\" he said.\n\n\"The Olympic Games are just fantastic and I'd definitely love to be there but the course in Tokyo is going to play a big part in terms of whether I feel I can go there and win.\n\n\"It's going to be a case of sitting down at the end of 2018 and weighing it up - am I enjoying the long distance stuff? Am I still able to be competitive enough to win a medal in Tokyo?\"\n\nBrownlee will once again look to win the Leeds leg of the World Series on 11 June, but that is his only confirmed race so far this season, while brother and Rio silver medallist Jonny begins his campaign from the second race in the Gold Coast on 8 April.\n\nFor the rest of the year, Alistair Brownlee will combine standard Olympic length events - 1.5km swim, 40km on the bike and 10km run - with half Ironman distance competitions, also referred to as Ironman 70.3 in reference to the total number of miles covered.\n\nHe added that the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in September is an \"obvious\" target as he builds up to the full Ironman distance, which he says has always been on his \"bucket list\".\n\n\"Ironman has got to be one of those things you always want to do - it's like the London or Boston marathon of triathlon,\" he added.\n\nThe two-time gold medallist added that his Rio 2016 win was slightly marred by the absence of long-term rival and London 2012 silver medallist Javier Gomez, who withdrew from the Games after breaking his elbow in a cycling accident.\n\n\"It definitely took a bit away from my gold in Rio that Gomez wasn't there,\" said Brownlee.\n\n\"You want to be there in your best shape and race the best athletes in their best shape - we were fortunate to have that in London and it would have been fantastic to have had that in Rio as well but what happened happened.\n\n\"But on that day, on that course, I'm fairly confident I'd have had him anyway.\"\n\nWith Gomez, 33, back from that injury, Brownlee expects the Spaniard to challenge for the World Series title, alongside compatriot and current champion Mario Mola, 27.\n\nAnd the older Brownlee expects Jonny, 26, to complete the podium and says his brother could claim the title with \"a bit of luck and a fair wind behind him\".\n\nAlistair Brownlee says he may have been \"bored\" returning to World Series racing, having experienced the \"same kind of racing against basically the same people for the last 10 years\".\n\nHowever, he adds that he is motivated by his new goals, which could include competing in 10,000m running races and the marathon.\n\n\"I now have an opportunity to try these other things without hurting my chances if I do decide I want to compete in four years in Tokyo,\" he said.\n\n\"I thought about a lot of things after Rio. I definitely want to run a marathon and that might be in the not too distant future.\n\n\"The other obvious thing is cycling and trying to make a wholehearted jump into being a professional cyclist but although that's possible, I'm very aware that in that arena and in running, I can be good and get to a level where I could be professional, but never to a level where I can win stuff.\n\n\"I still feel like I want to be the best at what I'm doing so that's why I'm choosing things I feel like I can win.\"", "David Haye says he will provide \"a real destruction job\" against Tony Bellew on Saturday, who says he wants to win \"by any means necessary\".\n\nListen to live coverage on BBC Radio 5 live on Saturday 4 March from 2200 GMT.", "The claim: Failing police forces have \"no excuse\" because their budgets have been protected.\n\nReality Check verdict: Overall the police budget in England and Wales has been protected in real terms, but not every individual force will feel the benefit because the money is being targeted at specialist areas of policing. This relatively small funding boost comes off the back of five years of deep cuts.\n\nIn 2015, the government announced that overall police budgets would be protected. This meant the amount of money the police receive from the government would increase each year in line with inflation for the following five years.\n\nThe Minister for Policing, Brandon Lewis, flagged this in response to a report by the independent inspector of police forces, which found a \"worrying\" variation in the quality of policing across England and Wales, despite improvements overall.\n\nPolice funding in Scotland is devolved and Northern Ireland has different funding arrangements so they were not included in the report.\n\nThe report was compiled by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) and Mr Lewis said: \"This Government has protected police funding, through the 2015 Spending Review.\n\n\"There can be no excuse for any force that fails to deliver on its obligations - those identified as inadequate or requiring improvement must take HMIC's findings very seriously and I expect to see rapid improvements.\"\n\nThe inspectorate had warned that some police forces were \"struggling to respond to shrinking resources\".\n\nIt is true to say that the overall policing budget was protected in real terms in 2015 but this figure disguises some regional variation. Part of the £900m extra funding over the following five years is going on specific areas of policing like cybercrime and tackling child sexual exploitation which are often dealt with regionally, so not every individual force will see the benefit of this uplift.\n\nA Home Office statement at the time of the announcement said that it would provide funding to maintain individual police force budgets at current cash levels. Not every police force will necessarily receive enough money to keep up with inflation.\n\nSpending on policing had been rising steadily for at least 15 years until austerity cuts began to kick in from 2010. It rose particularly rapidly in the 10 years to this date, going up by more than 30%.\n\nFollowing the 2008 crash and the swathe of cuts to public spending that followed, the part of police forces' budgets that are paid for by central government shrunk by 22% on average.\n\nBefore the 2015 announcement there was already regional variation. This is in large part because of the two main ways policing is funded: through a grant from central government and council tax.\n\nDifferent areas rely to different extents on the central government grant; for example last year Northumbria and the West Midlands police forces raised 12% of their revenue through council tax while Surrey raised almost half (49%) of its revenue in this way.\n\nThis often corresponds to how well-off an area is - generally poorer areas have lower tax takes and rely more on government grants. As these grants have reduced, a larger proportion of budgets is coming from council tax. Since the grant was cut by the same percentage around the country, areas that lean most heavily on central government money, and are the least able to raise money through council tax, will have felt those cuts most sharply.\n\nYou can see this in the real-term reductions to funding in different police forces. Between 2010 and 2016 Northumbria suffered a 23% cut while in Surrey it was only 12%.\n\nThe areas that raised funding by the smallest amount during the previous good years have also experienced the biggest cuts in the lean years.\n\nHowever, it is also worth noting that the variation in quality raised in the HMIC report does not correspond directly to how much budgets have been cut. Bedfordshire, the only force to be rated inadequate, experienced a cut over the last five years that was about average for the country - a 17% fall compared with a fall of 18% across England and Wales.\n\nDurham, the only force to be rated outstanding, suffered an above average 20% cut.\n\nOf course, simply comparing budget cuts to performance does not take account of demographic differences and crime levels.\n\nSo while it is true to say that policing is being protected at least to some extent, this comes off the back of five years of deep cuts - cuts which feel larger relative to large increases in spending in the preceding years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nCoverage: Ball-by-ball Test Match Special commentary on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, Radio 4 LW, online, tablets, mobiles and BBC Sport app; live text commentary on the BBC Sport website\n\nEngland all-rounder Ben Stokes says he has grown up as his side prepare to start their one-day series against West Indies in Antigua on Friday.\n\nStokes, 25, was ruled out of the 2014 World Twenty20 after punching a dressing room locker in Barbados.\n\nHe was hit for four sixes in the last over of last year's World Twenty20 final as West Indies won the title.\n\n\"I'll still have that same desire and hunger and want to get into people's faces,\" he told Test Match Special.\n\nStokes was named vice-captain of the Test team under Joe Root last month, after deputising during England's one-day tour of Bangladesh in October.\n\n\"I like to think I've grown. I think that's just from playing more and getting a few demerit points and a few tellings-off after games,\" he said.\n\nBut the Durham man, who famously clashed with Marlon Samuels during England's Test tour of the West Indies in 2015, and again during the World T20 final, added: \"That's what makes me the cricketer I am and I don't want to lose that.\n\n\"I'm probably going to have to take maybe a step back a few times.\"\n\nRead more: Stokes on reaction to IPL deal and England team news\n\nStokes is playing in his first series since he became the Indian Premier League's most expensive foreign player in February.\n\nHe was the subject of a bidding war between five IPL sides before Rising Pune Supergiants bought him for £1.7m.\n\nStokes says his England team-mates have joked about the fee paid for him.\n\n\"I found it tough to talk about but the group that we have, it's funny to be around them because it's just taking the mickey out of everyone,\" Stokes said.\n\n\"Everyone gets brought back down to earth. It's just the way we operate, which is why it's such a good environment to be in at the moment.\"\n\nEngland have won nine of their past 10 ODIs against West Indies and secured a 25-run victory when the two sides last met at the same venue in 2014.\n\nWest Indies are ranked ninth in the world in 50-over cricket, a standing that denied them a place in this year's Champions Trophy, and will field an inexperienced side after changes to national selection.\n\nPlayers can only appear for the international side in limited-overs cricket if they have played the relevant format domestically in the Caribbean since 2010.\n\n\"We can't be going into this game thinking it's just going to be a walk in the park,\" Stokes added.\n\n\"We know how talented the West Indies team are - their batsmen can hit the ball out of the ground whenever they choose to and they've always had good quick bowlers.\"\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan confirmed that fast bowler Steven Finn will start Friday's match in place of Jake Ball, who suffered a knee injury in a warm-up game on Monday in St Kitts, and ahead of recent call-up Tom Curran.\n\nSam Billings is also expected to open the batting alongside Jason Roy, with Alex Hales not yet match-fit despite joining up with the squad after recovering from a hand fracture.\n\nMorgan said his side \"have one eye on the Champions Trophy\" on home soil in June but added that West Indies could prove as tough a challenge as the 2-1 series loss in India in January.\n\n\"The way we play, aggressively and positively, isn't the easiest to adapt to West Indies conditions with slow, turning wickets,\" he said.\n\n\"The wickets here will be more challenging here than in India - those wickets were a lot more batter-friendly than we thought they were going to be.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nA doctor who received a 'mystery package' for Sir Bradley Wiggins in 2011 has no record of his medical treatment at the time, MPs have heard.\n\nIn 2014, ex-Team Sky medic Dr Richard Freeman had a laptop containing medical records stolen, the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee were told.\n\nTeam Sky and British Cycling's record-keeping was questioned in the hearing.\n\n\"No one has any recognition of what was in the package,\" UK Anti-Doping chief Nicole Sapstead said on Wednesday.\n\nThe select committee is conducting an inquiry entitled 'Combatting doping in sport', while Ukad has been carrying out its own investigation into the contents of the jiffy bag package.\n• None The cycling inquiry as it happened\n\nReferring to Team Sky's incomplete records, Sapstead described it as \"odd\", adding that she thought a team founded on the premise of racing cleanly would have evidence \"to demonstrate any inferences to the contrary\".\n\nCommittee chairman Damian Collins MP said after the hearing that the \"credibility of Team Sky and British Cycling is in tatters\".\n\nHe added: \"How can you say British Cycling is the cleanest and most ethical in the world when there are no records to substantiate what the doctors are giving the cyclists?\"\n\nCollins told BBC Sport the hearing had been \"a damning indictment of the way things have been run\" at both organisations.\n\nDr Freeman, who received the package from then-British Cycling coach Simon Cope on the final day of the Criterium du Dauphine in France in 2011, missed the hearing because of ill health.\n\nCope described himself as a \"gap filler\" for British Cycling and Team Sky and told MPs he did not ask what was in the package.\n\nIn December, Team Sky boss Sir Dave Brailsford told the committee that Freeman had said the package contained an over-the-counter decongestant, Fluimucil.\n\nBut Sapstead said Ukad still does not know for sure if Fluimucil was in the package because there is no paperwork.\n\n\"We have asked for inventories and medical records and we have not been able to ascertain that because there are no records,\" she said.\n\nWhat do Team Sky and British Cycling say?\n\nTeam Sky said they had \"co-operated fully\" with Ukad's investigation and denied any wrongdoing.\n\n\"Team Sky is a clean team,\" the statement said. \"We abide by the rules and we are proud of our stance against doping.\n\n\"We believe our approach to anti-doping is rigorous and comprehensive.\"\n\nBritish Cycling, meanwhile, acknowledged \"serious failings in our record-keeping at the time\" but said they would review and make changes to their processes.\n\n\"We are wholly committed to clean sport and I want to assure athletes, fans and all other stakeholders that this commitment is unwavering,\" said British Cycling chair Jonathan Browning.\n\n\"It is not enough to just be clean, we must also be able to demonstrate that we are clean.\"\n• None Cope said he had no reason to be believe there was anything \"untoward\" in the package\n• None He said he does not believe there is any cheating in British cycling\n• None Asked if he felt \"stitched up\" and \"left to dangle\" because of the ongoing inquiry, Cope said \"yes\".\n• None Sapstead said a UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) inquiry had been hampered by incomplete or non-existent records\n• None She said: \"Team Sky did have a policy of keeping records, just not everyone was adhering to it\"\n• None Freeman could potentially face investigation by the General Medical Council for his poor record-keeping\n• None Wiggins said he was treated with Fluimucil but was unaware of the jiffy bag contents\n• None Orders of the anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone were enough for more than one cyclist\n• None There was no evidence of a cover-up or tampering of evidence, said Sapstead\n\nIt is the team which championed its use of marginal gains. But Team Sky, together with British Cycling, are now embroiled in a monumental mess.\n\nThe evidence provided by Nicole Sapstead, and in a different way by Simon Cope, has damaged the reputations of both organisations which have preached a commitment to keeping cycling drug-free in recent years.\n\nThe lack of effective auditing and the claimed \"resistance\" to investigators are problematic enough.\n\nWhat will require a more rapid response is the assertion by Sapstead that records show British Cycling's medical store held a significant amount of triamcinolone, with suggestions it was being used by more than one rider.\n\nFinding answers to that however would require access to every rider's medical files - a problem given the overriding requirements for doctor/patient confidentiality.\n\nThe implications of this long-running and ongoing affair could therefore be wide ranging.\n\nWhat did anti-doping chief tell committee?\n\nSapstead said Ukad has interviewed 34 current and former riders and staff members at British Cycling and Team Sky in an investigation that has taken up more than 1,000 man hours.\n\nShe described the confusion of how Freeman, who was effectively working for both British Cycling and its road racing off-shoot Team Sky, ordered and stored medicine for riders at the governing body's Manchester headquarters, with no clear separation between which drug was for which outfit.\n\n\"It's very clear from our investigation that there is no audit trail of what is going in and out of a comprehensive supply of medical products,\" she said.\n\nSapstead was asked why Dr Freeman could not produce any evidence.\n\n\"He kept medical records on a laptop and, according to Team Sky policy, was meant to upload those records to a dropbox that the other team doctors had access to,\" she said.\n\n\"But he didn't do that, for whatever reason, and in 2014 his laptop was stolen while he was on holiday in Greece.\"\n\nSapstead said Ukad contacted Interpol to check if this theft was reported at the time but has not received any confirmation it was, although Freeman did report it to British Cycling.\n\nWhat did courier tell committee?\n\nCope said he was asked by his then-boss Shane Sutton to pick up a package from the National Cycling Centre in Manchester on 8 June, 2011 and take it out to French ski resort La Toussuire, where the Dauphine [won by Wiggins] finished on 12 June.\n\nHe told MPs he considered this to be a routine request and common in cycling.\n\nQuestioned on why he did not ask what was in the package, he said: \"Why would I question it? Why would I question the integrity of our governing body? I just didn't ask. You may think I'm stupid.\n\n\"It must have been something medical, because it was for Dr Freeman, but I had no reason to doubt it. Throughout my career, I've looked up to our governing body. We've done so well and with a zero-tolerance stance [on doping].\"\n\nWhen pointed to the fact he was taking medical products overseas, Cope - who now manages Wiggins' professional road-racing team - said: \"I probably should have asked what was in the package but the other day I travelled down to Spain with 40 boxes in the car. I didn't check every box, but I presume they were helmets.\"\n\nCope was asked to explain a discrepancy between his recollection of his movements that week and the expense claim he submitted to British Cycling.\n\n\"I might have been trying to fiddle them. We all do that, don't we?\" he said.\n\nHow did we get here?\n\nWiggins is a five-time Olympic gold medallist and in 2012 became the first Briton to win the Tour de France.\n\nHe and Team Sky boss Brailsford have come under scrutiny since information on the rider's authorised use of banned drugs to treat a medical condition was released by hackers.\n\nWiggins, an asthma and allergy sufferer, received special permission to use triamcinolone shortly before the 2012 Tour as well as the previous year's event and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.\n\nHis TUEs were approved by British authorities, and cycling's world governing body the UCI. There is no suggestion either the 36-year-old or Team Sky broke any rules.\n\nWhat the papers said", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nCeltic have paid tribute to Lisbon Lion Tommy Gemmell, who has died aged 73 following a long illness.\n\nFormer Scotland defender Gemmell scored in the 2-1 victory against Inter Milan in 1967 when Celtic became the first British club to win the European Cup.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Mary and Tommy's family and friends at this very difficult time,\" Celtic said.\n\nClub chief executive Peter Lawwell expressed sadness at the loss of \"a true Celtic giant\".\n\nGemmell also scored in the 1970 European Cup final, which Celtic lost 2-1 to Feyenoord. He spent 10 years at Celtic, between 1961 and 1971, making 418 appearances and scoring 63 goals.\n\nThe right-footed left-back also won 18 Scotland caps, making his debut against England in April 1966 and playing in the famous 3-2 victory over the world champions at Wembley the following year.\n\n\"Everyone at Celtic is deeply saddened by the loss of Tommy, a true Celtic giant and a man who gave the club so many years of his life in an illustrious football career,\" said Lawwell.\n\n\"Tommy was a Celtic great, one of football's greats and I know he will be so sadly missed by everyone who knew him.\n\n\"He was a man of huge stature in the game and someone who made such an important mark on Celtic football club.\n\nListen: Jim Craig explains what Gemmell was like as a player\n\n\"In this particular year [the 50th anniversary of the Lisbon Lions' European cup win] it is so very sad to lose such an important figure. While we mourn his loss, I am sure all our supporters will also celebrate the life and the wonderful achievements of the great Tommy Gemmell.\"\n\nFellow Lisbon Lion Bertie Auld says his late team-mate viewed himself as an entertainer.\n\n\"Tommy actually thought he was [the actor] Danny Kaye,\" Auld told BBC Scotland. \"He looked like him, but he believed he was.\n\n\"And he was, in every degree, because he was an entertainer.\n\n\"He was the best left-back in the world at that time - without fear of contradiction.\"\n\nFormer Celtic player Murdo MacLeod said it was \"very sad news\" and described Gemmell as \"one of the greats\".\n\nMacLeod, who also had a spell as assistant boss at Celtic, told BBC Scotland: \"I know he had been struggling over the last few months. Just really sad news.\n\n\"He's obviously been one of the greats at Celtic Park to be part of the European Cup-winning side.\n\n\"A top player, one of the first defenders getting forward all the time. [It's] just so sad. 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